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      . . . ACCinwrrs , OWKKCE 8 , HC . innnnscBDESMD uarAscaow Dune * ih * -Sfits ^ OP B B m * « - ** w"Sf- fiP l ? , BBn Hh Thursday morn . ; : ; M ! S ; Miss Watfeins Mj ter rf lhekte D 0 /™ . e e lane landlady , gomgintoher room between eight and 5 ? ° i ft * 1 ? fouHd her Partially Bitting npin dd , aid , and quite dead . Mr Farqnhar . assistant to Mr t alk < alker , surgeon , Dmry-lane , was sent for ; and he > ht omt only said that she bad been dead tar hoars , but mat slat she had , in bis opinion , died under the most SKUiKtttute circumstances . He therefore felt it to be tsts dos dnly . to give the key of deceased's apartments to lilr Br Baker , the parochial officer . Nothing in the mapeaape of food was found in deceased ' s apartments , ind hid her body was a complete skeleton . Deceased uiadJad formerly occupied 6 , Howard-street , and was icetwtetween sixty and eeventv rests of age .

      El ExtEKSWK ROBBSBT At FlAD 0 KG * S DOTEL . —On ?? atmaturcay a robbery to a coasi'lerahle ameunt was lilucdiscovered to have taken place at Fiadong ' s Hotel , )) xfo ) xford-street . On Frid * £ eveningavery fasbiltiably Hrealressed man , between thirty-five and forty years of Mge , ige , and about five , feet eight inches high , entered i'ba ihe hotel in question , and after . partaking of some nrefrcefreshment requested to be accommodated with a b bed bed ; he retired to rest at ten o ' clock , and at an 3 2 arbarly h-ur in the morning , open one of the servants ;; oircoin . ; down stairs , he found tbat the front door bad bteeiteen unchained and unlocked . Being satisfied that sioraionie one must have made bis egress from the presnisfflises . it was ascertained , on examination , that the " gef gentleman * who had engaged the bed as before

      a allmuaded to , had made hk escape , having left behind i a sra small carpet bag , containing a few articles of bnt llittlittle , if any value . Other apartments were next e seaeearc aed , and it was found that from a bos in ihe ! s ' its ' tt in ? room on the first floor had been stolen , eleven " BaiBsck notes of £ 20 each , a gold watch , a gold snnfi-1 bates , and two foreign notes , one of tbem for 1 , 000 jfrafrancs and the other for 500 francs . Tbe whole oi ' thrthe said property belongs to a gentleman named M : Marsb . who for some days past has been staying at ' thfthe hotel . The outer door of the room lore nomnrks of of violence , but from the appearance of the box . the li < Uid oi it was bejeed all doubt forced open with a eh ehi * cl . Information of the robbery was , in the course of of tbe afternoon , circulated throughout the whole of th the divisions of the police .

      KO . UEST 8 . Death fb < m Batiks Yellow Soap . —Before W . C Carter , E * q ., at the Shard ' s Arms Tavern , O d Kentreread as to the death of Sarah Nawry , aged 23 , which vrivras alleged to have taken place in consequence of ea eating a large quantity of yellow soap . Mrs Norris , el of 1 , Alpha-street , OId Kent road , stated tbat the A > drcsatea wssqaireimbecile . and had been p laced under h-b-r care by ber father , who paid abt shillings a week . 0 Oa Wednesdaymorning , she directed some soap which alehe was using , to be placed in the next room where tl the deceased was sitting . Soon after deceased wa < a a ttacked with a fit , and Mr Lodge saw her . It wa ? fi fou id that she had eaten some of tbe soap ; she t thought about an ounce , or an ounce and a half . The

      d deceased died tho next mornin ; . Mr Lodge , of Rye-1 lane , Peckham , surgeon , § ave it as his opinion that i the deceased died in consequence of the fit , and the t exhaustion brought on by her having eaten the soap . ' . The jury returned a veriict to that effect . AccroKsx ex the Brighton Railway . —Before Mr 1 W . Carter , the coroner , at tie Railway Tavern . New i cross , as to the death ef James Griffiths , ajred 37 , a : fireman on the Croydoa line of railway . W . Mitchell , also a fireman belonging to the company , stated tbat en Thursday evening , about seven o ' clock , be was on the platform at the station at New-cross , Deptford , and the deceased was at his engine , which was going to Croydon , trimming his buffer lamps . He crossed one of tbe lines , apparently to go to a shed on the other side , when at that instant , the Brighton express

      tram came down from London , and the engine struck the deceased and knocked him down on one of the side tables . Tae twin was going at the rate of forty Biles an hour , and did not stop . Upon going to the deceased , he was lying dsubkd np , and his face covered with blood . He was quite dead . He had been In tbe employ of the company about two years , and 0113 b t to have known tbe Brighton express train would be dowB ; but be must have forgotten it , as it arrived at its proper time , bnt no whistle was blows . Mr Anderson , the elation master , said that the deceased had a fracture en the top of the skull , and another on the forehead . The line was quite clearat th « time , and there was no occasion for the whistle to be sounded ; and as the steam was Mowing of ? the deceised's engine , he probably did not hear the train coming . Verdict , * Accidental death . '

      FIRES . Posthax-eo . mbx . —A fire has occurred at 17 , Seymoar-strest , Portman-square . occupied by Mrs A . J . Pocbin , a lady of property . When the police entered they found the whole of the bedding and drapery in tiie second fleer front in flames , and the night clothes ef the unfortunate lady who owned the building were alsobuniimr . Several engines arrived in quick succession , and the firemen having set to work vigsrously they succeeded in getting the mastery over the flaraes . but unfortunately no * until Mrs Pocbin was most frightfully burned . Amedicalmanwaspromptly in attendance . The premises and furniture were considerably damaged . From the fact of a book and candlestick being found in bed itis supposed that Mrs Pochin was reading in bed . asd that she must Lava fallen asleep , and until she became surrounded with the flames was unconscious ef what had happened . __ The escapes of the Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire were very speedily on the snot

      Kbssisgtos-imad . —On Saturday morning absnt four o ' clock a fire , nearly attended with fatal results , brofee oat in the tower part of the premises occupied by Mr E . Low , pastry cook , JVb . 2 , York-place , KenniflRtrn-rosd . When discovered , the cellar and shop were completely in a blazj , and the occupier saved his life by leaping from the top room window . Several engines were soon on the spot , and there being an abundance of water , were set to work and the fire soon extinguished , bnt not before the lower part of the building and lis content- ; were destroyed .

      HISCKIXAKEOUS . Bdbiat , ob the Poor . —Pabkh Disputes—At an inqnestheldatthe Grange , Carey-street , before Mr Bedford , on the body of a man lving in King ' s College Hospital , the secretary of that institution applied to the coroner to make an order upon the parish of St Giles to bury the body . The coroner said he had no power to do so . The secret ary stated that the man was brought from his lodginEs ia St Giles ' s , and on bis arrival was found to be dead . The parish officers

      of St Giles ' s wonld , no doubt , as they bad always done before , refuse to bury tbe body , on the ground tbat it was not in that parish , and St Clement Danes wonld not , as it had been brought there . Under these circumstances , the hospital , therefore , had always to bury the bodies of those who died there , an expense it amid not well haar . The hospital w « s intended to cure people , and not bury tbem . The coroner siid he thought the expense should be borne by one of the parishes , bnt he could give no order on ihssuHect

      ExrmoRDiKAET Reuoyai op Co . wicis . —In consequence of tbe crowded state of Newgate , 130 have leen removed during the session to the Millbank Penitentiary , ss a temporary domicile preparatory to the fiail disposal of them by government . It is not intended that those for seven years should be sent beyond the sea , but to tbe different hulks , and other prisms where they can be pot to beneficial employment . Those sentenced for above that period , will some of them , be draftedte the Model Prison at Pentonville . where tbey wi 1 be taughta trade , andshould their behaviour be of a satisfactory nature , some of them will be sent to Australia or New Zealand as free convicts . The numbers are :-For life , 4 ; 20 years , 2 : 15 years , 3 ; U years , 1 ,-12 years , 1 ; 10 vein , 12 ; 7 years , 117 ; total , 130 . Several have had the original sentence commuted . So great a number havo not been removed at one time during the present ccnturv .

      Opkxko tp ins New ModelPbeos , Cixrkekweh . —Commnnie-tticns have been forwarded to the metropolitan plice magistrates and also the county nvagfct-ates , requesting them on and after the 28 th alt . from whi ch date the New Model Prison , Clerkcnwell , named the Middlesex House of Detention , will be ready for their reception , to commit all prisoners for trial charged with offences in the county of . Middlesex , ai also persons remanded for a further examination to this prison . For the future the Westminster Bridewell , Totuiil-fieltfe , will be exclusively used as a House of Correction . This Model Prison conta'ES 1 000 separate cells , chapel , exercise ground , snd gratings for the reception of visitors , being constructed < m tbe solitary system to prevent the moral cos (? . rnir . sii'ip , and the consequent evil inflicted on society from tbe promiscuous intercourse of the hardened offenders with those comparatively cninilisted in crime .

      The CttiCKsr Steamer . —The engineer , H . R . Heasmao , against whom a verdict of' Manslaughter ' was returned 1-st Friday by tho coroner ' s jury , has eantrived to effect bis escape frwa justice . At his resnjination OB tho last day of the inquiry , he gave bis address at No . 8 , Templc-Iane , Fleet-street , but on Inspector Marsh , F division , into whose hands the warrant was placed for his apprehension by the coroner , proceeding there , he f onnd the witness bad given a false address , no such person being known there . On Friday , the secretary presented to John Connor and Jerry Lcary a fcranzj medal aud three sovereigns e eh . which had been awardtd them by the committee of the Royal Humane Society , for their praiseworthy and successful exertions In having saved six persons from drowning on the recent accident occasioned by the explosion of the Cricket stcam-baat ' s baiter . These men are coal porters , in IfceeaipIoyofMr Bryant , at his wharf , which is O ' OiS to where the occurrence took place .

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      tAKCASHIRE . ; Livsapoot . — Tse Cheat . Damn ? . '—Thai ^ vessel was towed out of Prince ' s Dock . basjn on Friday , by five of the steam-tug company's boats , and conveyed to tbe Coburg Dock , on the south side of whichshe is now floating . The repairs she has . ' undergone hare proved thoroughly effectual in preventing the leakage , tbe quantity of water made up to this time being scarcely perceptible . No orders have yet been given ss to when or where she is to be taken for tbe alteration or restoration of tbe machinery and fittings . ' r . Thb Death on , Boms th * Duchess op Kbst Steiubb . —The inquiry into the circumstances of

      the removal of Michael Duignan , an Irish pauper frem Rochd 8 le , orfered . bythepoor-law commissioners , commenced , after two adjournments , occasioned by ehc delay ofthe authorities in Dublin , in sending the depositions taken at the inquest , on Thursday last , at Rochdale , before Mr Austin , assistant poor-law commissioner . The inquiry « a « resumed on Friday , and again on Saturday . Of course Mr Austin ' s report will net be made known for some time , Jrat the reporters ef the press had admission to the inquiry , and the evidence given by . the surgeon who attended the lad , and of other witnesses , goes to prove that Duignan was sufficiently recovered trom the attacks of fever to undergo an ordinary voyage to Ireland , and that the reason of his removal to the Rochdale

      railway station from the workhouse was not that he was in too weak a state to walk from the fever , but tbat he was a cripple from malformation ofhis feet , and from partial paralysis of bis limbs . It appeared that though he had bad two attacks of fever tbey had both been very slight , and that his recovery in each Instance was the work of a few days . He had been discharged from the fever ward the last time seven days before he was sent to Ireland . He had been well supplied with food on his way to Liverpool , kept from exposure to the weather , and in every way kindly treated . One witness stated that to prevent the natural jealousy which exists amongst the Irish paupers of not being put on an equality with English paupers , and from tbeir being generally more destitute , the allowance to them is somewhat greater , being in the proportion of 4 a- 6 d . to Zi . As one of the Irish members has threatened to bring the case

      under the notice of parliament , the Rochdale board of guardians invited the representative of the borough , MrSharman Crawford , to be present at tbe inquiry . Mr Crawford excuses himself on the sreuod that his health is not equ * l to the crossing ofthe Channel in tempestuous weather like that now prevailing , but expresses satisfaction that the inquiry will take place , because it will be calculated to relieve the public mind in Ireland onthe subject ; and he observes , * You will observe the Irish feel more strongly en any matter with reference to removals from England , because in this country there is no reciprocal power to remove English paupers . ' Through an Irish Catholic priest , resident in Rochdale , a gentleman was appointed to attend the investigation , and watch the evidence on behalf of the Irish jury . The inquiry was adjourned to the follow ing day . .

      TORKSHIBB . Wobsbro—CoAn-Pn AccioiKT . — On Saturday last , at the house of Mrs Ann Fisher , the Gate Inn , Pilley , an inquest was held before Thomas Badger , Esq ., the coroner , on view of the body of Joseph Beaumont , aged 55 years , steward of Messrs Fields , Cooper and Co . ' s coal and ironstone mines , at Worabro' Bridge . It happened that on Thursday the deceased was inspecting the works at one of the pits , near Pilley-lane End , when he was induced , from the state of one of the workings , to draw the attention ef his nephew , John Swift , the underground , steward , to the place . He was standing with Swift upon a stage at the entrance of the workings , and abont eight yards from the bottom of the pit , in the act of pointing out some precautionary steps which ought to be taken to prevent any accident , when a quantity ef foul air from tbe workings below coming in contact with a naked candle , which Swift held in

      his hand , the gaseous air ignited , and a most fearful explosion followed . Beaumont and Swift were , with the wooden stage on which tbey were standing , blown some yards np the shaft , and then dropped to the bottom ofthe pit . The timbers ofthe stage fell with a frightful crash , covering the heads , of Beeumont and Swift , Mr Beaumont ' s head was so severely cut and crushed tbat be must have died immediately . Swift received such injuries that hu > life is despaired of . The explosion was of so fearful a character , that the landing boards , 6 c , at the pit month , a distance of upwards of one hundred yards , were blown np . On the men reaching the bottom of the pit they found Mr Beaumont covered with pieces of timber and quite dead . Swift was also found in a state of insensibility . They were both immediately removed out of the pit and carried to Mrs Fisher's , the Gate Inn , where surgical aid was promptly obtained . The Jury returned a verdict of * Accidental Death . ' -

      Halifax—The becest Railway Accident . —On Friday the Government Inspector of Railways returned from making his official inspection and inquiry into the causes which led to the catastrophe which occurred on this line on Thnreday week . Captain Simons will make his official report in a few days . It does not appear that the accident could in any way have been prevented , especially with an express train , as will be seen by the following account given by Mr Hawkesham , the company's chief engineer . After alluding to the plate-layers , whose duty it is to inspect the line , Mr Hawkesham says : — 'I have no doubt that the last carriage got off the rails at the place where the rail was broken ; it was a little oat of its level , but not out of its place , and the

      carriage having got off the line there , ran along till it struck the ash-pit , which knocked off the wheels . I think the broken rail was quite sufficient to throw ofl the carriage at the speed of an express train . I have not the slightest doubt thatthe broken rail was the cause of the accident . The fracture on the rail was quite fiesh . After the express train passed over it , a goods train also went over it . It h certainly surprising that another train passed over it without getting off the line . A flaw might exist for weeks in iron without being discovered , bnt the moment it is broken it must go down . There being about thirty carriages in a goods train , there would be in succession sixty-eight blows , like those of a

      tilt hammer , striking it , in that one train alone . I should think , however , that it was very likely that an express train broke tbe rail . It appeared to be a very clean fracture ; there was not more than three inches of the rail resting on the chair , so that the other end must go dewn . The express train was the worst tram in such a case . 1 should be glad if the public would be satisfied with a less speed . The fact i ? , the express trains are driven for the public requirements , and not by the desire of the railway comparueBA It ia expected tbat the wrpeDBBSOf this accident will notcost the company leas than £ 10 , 000 a * it is not likely that they can offer Mr Weston ' s family less than £ 5 , 000 , considering the lucrative fi & zatiOB & eheld .

      KOBF 01 K . Jeskt Lum w Nokwich . —Three concerts , at which this extraordinary gifted vocalist has appeared , were given in this city on Wednesday , Thursday , and Saturday last , and caused the greatest excitement . Sfc ' AndreVs Hall was filled on each occasion . On Saturday , when Messrs Hall and Smith reduced the prices of admission to 10 s . 6 d . and & ., more than 2 , 500 persons took advantage ofthe opportunity . The receipts ot the three concerts were abont JE 3 . 500 , out of which there will be about £ 1 , 400 profit . The terms of Mdlle Lind ' s engagement were £ 1 , 000 for the two evenings and £ 200 for the Saturday morning concert . On Mr

      Hall ' s waiting on her with a cheque for the amount she expressed her unwillingness retake it all . She said the prices had been lower than ajs any other place ( which was in consequence of the' representation of some of the patrons . ) and she was sure that they could not make bo much by her as they ought ; and she insisted on returning £ 200 . She would have added £ 50 to this , to pay for the extra expense they had incurred , inconsequence of her not being able to appear at the time announced , but Mr Hsll would not accept it . In addition to this munificence Mdlle Lind left £ 200 . with the bishop , at whose palace she had been entertained , during her stay , tobe distributed amongst the charities ofthe city .

      HEREFOBDSHIBB . Naw Ltoamc Abthih . —The county of Hereford is to naite with the counties of Monmouth , Brecon , and Radnor , to establish a joint pauper lunatic ssylom . A Fran beokb out NBAB Ross afewnights ago , in the farmyard ef Mr Verry . There were fourteen ricksburned altogether—namely , five wheat , one very large barley , and eight of straw and fodder . The number of basflefe of wheat was about 1 , 590 , barley , 1 , 300 , and fodder 100 tons . Two waeeons . two

      carts , and other implements were also destroyed . The buildings were all new . Verry is insured for £ 600 , but ha will yet incur a loss of £ 800 . An investigation into the circumstances was held before the magistrates on Friday , the result of which led to the belief that the fire was occasioned by alv bourer having caused it by a lucifer match or knocking out the embers ? of his pipe near some hay and straw . Mr Verry's farm buildings were a model for erections of that description , and persons were in the habit of coming from distant parts ofthe county to iispectthem .

      Br / CKIKGHUHBIRB . Another Shakpearbas Rklic is about to be destroyed—' Tie Ship , ' at Grendon Underwood , Bucks , where the great poet used to quarter himsell for a few nights at a time , when making his tedious journey from Lendon to Stratford , aud to study bis inimitable characters in the public kitchen . It has fo' many years been discontinued as a public house , and i < now attached to a homestal ] of one of Colonel Jarvis's farms . The building is framed of oak , bricked between , and has a , single gable front . . Its dormer casements have been removed , and the window-frames filled in with plaster , bnt the gable still

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      contains its single loienge-sbaped one , and is an , object arresting the attention . of ; the casual | passenger The interior shows its ancient importance , and has two staircases with oak pillar baluBtrades , ' 'iind the bevelled door-frames and chimney-pieceB are stiU'in good preservation . The . fiqora are the'only parts showing decay . Mr Knight , in his late tract on the life of Shakspeare , states that this place afforded him a character for his village constable , and his Midsummer Night ' s Dream' owes its chief character to the poet ' s acquaintance with the locality .

      HERIFORDSHIBB . ; Attempt to Mbmtcr as ourMiK . —A few nighls since , an old man named Henr / Bodsworth spent his evening at a public-house at Beechwood-green , and on the bouse being closed at the usual hour , either from drinking too much , or from fatigue , he weat into a cart-shed at the back and laid down on some straw . Shortly afkr two men entered , who had been drinking in the same house , and had seen Bodsworth change a sovereign . They immediately assailed him in the most brutal manner with a heavy bludgeon , with which they beat him over the head till the blood issued most copiously , and he was almost senseless . He , however , managed to crawl into a brick-field , about a hundred yards off , where he was attacked for the second time by his assailants . In this field were tnarks ' pf men ' s shoes , and

      about a quart of coagulated blood , between a number of bricks , and the hedge where the old man was thrown , the villains no doubt supposing he was dead . Inspector Good , frem certain information which he had received , apprehended two men , named Thomas Hide ard James Claridge , who were kept apart , one at Whitwell , and the other at Stevenage . Upon examining the clothing of Claridge , marks of tresh blood were found . He accounted for this by saying that his nose had been bleeding . Similar marks were found upon tbe clothing of Hide , and , upon being shown Hide , Bodsworth at once identified him as being the man who inflicted the wound , and he stated that Claridge knelt on his body during the time . Afterso cruelly treating the poor fellow , his assailants took from him all the money ho bad about his person .

      SCBBKT . Ths casb op Stabbing at GoiLnFonn . —Martin , one of the gamekeepers who were stabbed in the preserves of R . Frogley , Esq ,, at West Horsley , Surrey , is going on most favourably f but Targett still remains in danger . Neither of the poachers , who inflicted the wounds , has yet been taken , although £ 100 has been offered for their capture . WruBLEDOir . —R « ilwat Collbioh . —On Saturday morninp , abont four o ' clock , a serious collision occurred between the up-mail train and a portion of the goods train , which resulted in the destruction of three or four trucks of the goods train , and the loss of life ef ene of the guards of that train . The occurrence took plaee about three hundred yards , on the

      London aide of Wimbledon station , at a spot , which , from its low marshy situation , is favourable to fogs , one of which prevailed at the time . From , the inquiries made of the station agent and others , it appears that the up goods train , an unusually long and heavy one , should arrive at Nine Elms terminus between three aud four o ' clock , bat when it arrived at the above spot , from some unexplained cause , the carriages came uncoupled , the engine proceeding on with about three fourths * of the train , and leaving nine or ten tracks and vans behind . By some , parties it is asserted that the engine-driver proceeded straight to Nine Elms before the fact was noticed , while others state that those carriages were necessarily left behind , the eneine not bavins sufficient

      power to propel the entire tram . At nearly four o ' clockthe metropolitan police on duty near the railway , heard a load crash m the direction of the line , followed by shrieks and cries of human beings . Serg . Golding , 30 V , and a body of constables were soon on the ppot , and having roused up the station-agent , policeman , and porter , who were in bed , they hastened to the scene ofthe accident , when it was found tbat the up-mail train , which consisted of nine carriages , propelled by the Hornet , a very powerful engine , had run in upon the vans and trucks with such velocity and force , as to almost double up and crush in the end and two following ones , and strew the line with fragments . Neither the Hornet engine , the driver , the fireman , nor the guards and

      passengers were , singular to state , injured ; but on the vans and trucks being searched by Mr Bradford ( the agent ) , the guard ( William Sawyer ) was found bent double against a chest , with a load of goods bearing him down . The poor fellow had evidently made desperate straggles to extricate himself , but was unable to do so , and was crushed to death . The body was removed to the Dog and Hare , Wimbledon , to await an inquest . The deceased had been a guard about twelve months , and was twenty years of age . Fortunately he is unmarried . Mr Godson , the superintendent of the Nine-Elms terminus , with a body of men , arrived with a special engine a little after six o ' clock , to clear the line , but that had been in a great measure effected by the police .

      HANTS . ChM 8 tchtjroh >—Committal op a Bask Manager onaChabgk op Embbzzwmbst . —There has been much excitement in this place for some days past , in consequence of various rumours affecting the character of the manager of the branch of the Wilts and Dorset Banking Company in this town . All doubts as to the troth of these rumours have now been dissipated by the full committal of Mr Edward Owen Bishop , the gentleman in question , to take his trial at the next quarter session * , on a charge of

      embezzlement . Private examinations took place before the magistrates on Monday and Wednesday last , when it is understood several dear eases were proved against him by the officers and customers of the bank . Bail to a heavy amount was demanded , in default of which he was on Thursday morning conveyed to Winchester . The investigations were said to have been lengand painful ones , and the magistrates , after a lengthened and patient hearing , decided on fully committing hint on all the charges . — Hants Independent .

      DBVOKSHlBB . New Fresco—A fresco has been discovered in the ambulatory of Exeter Cathedral , on the south of the entrance to the Lady Chapel . The greater part has been destroyed by an unsightly monument , but a rich pavement is preserved , on which the lower portion of two figures ( a bishop and a king ) is visible . This curious painting may , perhaps , represent an interview between Thomas a Becket and Henry II . If so , it was most likely executed in the episcopate of Bishop Grandision ( a . d . 1327—68 ) who was a warm admirer of the archbishop , and commemorated him by a boss carved with his martyrdom , and placed it inthe western part ofthe nave ; or the fresco may represent King Edward the Second , with his treasurer and favourite , Prelate Walter Stapleton , Tracings have been made , in case the painting should suffer from exposure .

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      BAVBBFOBDWB 87 . Escaps of Two PaisoirBBS prom Gaol , —The cell from which the escape was effected is considered as strong as any in the prison , and is called the * black hole , ' and is the one in which prisoners for solitary confinement are locked up . It had formerly a win . dow looking ont to the castle hill , but the window is blrcked np by very strong masonry , and two thick iron gratings , so as totally to exclude the light , and to all appearances to render it impossible for any persons to break it open without the aid of powerful tools . But , notwithstanding these precautions , the prisoners , by means of a small piece of iron about a foot long , which they broke from the kitchen firegrate , succeeded in tearing down one ofthe gratings , and digging a hole under tbe other , and tbeir descent was effected by the aid of the counterpanes of their

      beds , tied together and fastened to tbe gratings inside , it is the practice in the prison to let open all the windows and doors of tbe cells for about half-anhour morning and evening , for the purpose of airing them , during which time the prisoners have the range ofthe whole wards ; on those " occasions the black hole door ia also opened for a similar purpose , and it appears the prisoners took advantage ofthe opportunity thus afforded them of going into this cell , and working away . in darkness and silence at their apparently hopeless task . One of the prisoners , named Owen , has been recaptured . He was some time ago committed for trial at the next quarter sessions , for obtaining goods under false pretences . Cannon is a tramper , and also awaited his trial for breakinz and entering a dwelling-hoise , and stealing Is . l | d- .-. ..

      GLAMORGANSHIRE . Oabmfp . —Mubdeb op a Cflitn . —For some days past the magistrates of Cardiff have been engaged in investigating a diabolical case of murder of a young child . Tbe party accused is Catherine Evans , its grandmother . It appeared that the daughter ofthe prisoner , a single woman , bad given birth to a child , and , from some cause which is unexplained , the pri . soner took the child from the bed in which it was sleeping by the side of its mother , and , without making any remark , put " both her hands round its neck and endeavoured to strangle it ; but in consequence © fits not dying fast enough she procured a pan of water , put the unfortunate child into it , and covered it over , where it remained till it was quite dead . The bench remanded the prisoner , in order tbat the child might be exhumed and examined and at the same time ordered the mother to be ap ' prehended .

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      8 TJTHEBLA 5 D 8 HIRB . How do ihb Poor mve ?—The Dake of Sutherland has expended no less than £ 100 , 000 inthe extensive alterations he has been making forsome time paatonDnorobmCasfcic , which is now represented to bo in ite internal arrangements , OR 6 of the most magnificent ducal mansions on either side of the Tweed . There ia a universal impression in the north of Scotland [ that Dunrobin Castle is the place which is destined to be next honoured by the tern-SSfLn ^ f of he ' J ? * ' aid tbat August ^ Ji" / 1 Prob . ? W « ty , bethe period ia which the expected visit win be pay ,

      . ... ; , / lASARSSHlRB . Gryow-ItE ^ wKfl'CAM ' -On We £ # * ° ffi wiSffissfflsarsw the J" * , ?™;" hftt Fay , who is a master shoe-Zwound floo ? in South St Mungo-street , eonsist-Sii . fr pbssessionot these premises , or im >*« y after i & at all events in the montirof May-the SncarUrated his wife m the watercloset , and there she has remained from that period til last £ ht when one of the inspectors of the Town a Bo * ! tal ; having heard a rumour of the circumstance , S defurlher inquiry , procured assistance , and re-Heved tbe unhappy creature . The prison of this poor San was thre £ feet ten inches , by two feet . eleven rncheTSeadth , and wasbetween nine and ten feet Zulu :: The only mode by which the air feund

      admission was by means of a little wicket loowng fSSeSgel focthe door was sol ; opened ^ mere hanonce in thre ; or four days , when ^'" . tossed n Be poor wretch as ^ to a pig , and then it . was mXiately closed and barred on the outside . The Sner waVatmostina state of nudity when d « - coveredi ; she douched amongst a mass 4 straw , and the place itself , as well as her penon , were ma state of indescribable filthiness . From the body being so Ions benfin ' a sitting position the limbs were quite stiffened ; she could not stand upright , and from long suffering the mind had become a wreck as well as tbe body . The poor , creature was taken to the Town ' s Hospital , along with one of her children . Fay was apprehended , and there were also taken into custody two of his workmen and the servant girl .

      The latter handed in the food to her imprisoned mistress , and the shoemakers , while they whistled at their work , heard the moans proceeding from the dreary den . All of them ; therefore , knew the killing , by . inehes which was going on within a few feet of them , and yet none held out a h » nd to save . The man Fay , we believe , admits that he has not looked into his wife ' s prison for a month ; and since it . reeeived its lonely tenant the closet was not entered by any of the family . 'What may have been the reasons , on the husband's part , which prompted this Algerine treatment in a Christian land , we know not : but poverty bad no hand in it , for there were

      found by the police not only a good Block in trade of aho ? 0 , but £ 19 iu casb . The house had been shut up . On Saturday , the man Fay ,, with the servant girl and two of the shoemakers who . lodged in the house , were brought before the sitting magistrate at the central police court , to answer a criminal charge brought against them on account of the treatment the unhappy woman had received . The case , after undergoing examination , was remitted to the sheriff . Fay ' s statement in exculpation is , that his wife had become a troublesome lunatic . previous to his having confined her , aud that she was also much addicted to drinking .

      BEOTRBWaHISB . PaISLRT . —SuRERUiXG EsOAM JROM THB GAOL . — Two accomplished housebreakers who had entered both the post-office and an apartment mistaken for the stamp office , in the course of one night , by means of false keys , have effected their escape from prison in the most surprising manner . On the officers of the prison going about their business at six o'clock in the morning , they were surprised to find the outroost door ofthe prison , and the main gate immediately within it , both open , while the two culprits in question , with another companion , confined in a separate flat from , themselves , were all missing . The names ofthe prisoners who have made SO Opportune an escape are James Campbell and Thomas

      Mackay , indicted for trial , with . William Fox , a convicted housebreaker , who was under sentence , and had but three months of his imprisonment to run . One of the two first named prisoners had been suffering from fever , ef late , and he had been . removed with his associate in crime , as a nurse for him , to ene ofthe large airy front rooms in the south end of the prison . The apartment referred to , though larger than the common cells , is one of a series of apartments constructed with double doors for the security of the most daring prisoners , and the outmost deor is fastened by a strong bar in place of a lock from the corridor of the prison . It was impossible that this apartment could be opened when once fastened up , except from theoutside , either by a false

      key or otherwise . Fox , the other prisoner , was confined in the flat above , the third story ofthe prison , in one ofthe ordinary cells , aud was locked up by a key that fastened twelve rooms . On examining the fastening of all the doors that have been so cleverly opened , there is not the slightest appearance of force or effort havihg been used beyond the application of well-fitted keys , the only change being , 'that the look of the outermost door of the prison appears to have been particularly well oiled to prevent its creaking or making noise during the operation . A warder sleeps on the same , flat in which Fox was confined , and this person did not hear the slightest noise from the proceedings , although the removal of tbe bar and padlock from the cell door in which Campbell and Mackay were confined , ean scarcely be effected even in daylight , and with the greatest caution , without making considerable clanking aud

      noise . The mystery that hangs over this ably-accomplished prison breaking seems principally to be , wfcether Fox had been furnished with the implements for opening the doors , or whether they have been opened by parties entering from the outside , after having scaled the walls into the court-yard , The whole ofthe doors in the prison are of cast iron , and the locks are of the most ponderous and comp'icated description , no expense having been spared in procuring them at its erection , In place of contenting themselves with their own freedom , it is obvious that the prisoners in other eleven cells might have been released also , if those who have Set Off bad been desirous . Tbe only vestige of the flight that has been left is a ladder belonging to the prison , which had been used for scaling the walla , and a piece of the clothes rope belonging to the establishment , which had also been cut down and used for favouring the escape .

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      BABBAM 9 H OP 'Hit RWETBBNTIT CENTURY , Let our readers ponder well on the following , while our Queen is enlarging her palaces , and our Dukes spending £ 100 . 000 on a castle , or outliving their income by nearly £ 2 , 000 , 000 . The following is from the ' Tipperary Vindicator and the Cork Reporter ;—Within tbe last few weeks the work of extermination has been carried on to some extent in the neighbourhood of KdmastuIIa . Sir Edmond Waller has ejected eight

      fanullei , consisting of abont ferty-ieven persons . These mopt wretched beings have , since the period of their eviction , been squatting in dykes and . glens , literally borrowing- in the earth for shelter , victims to every inclemency of the weather , death hourl y staring them . At Parnee , Maryglen , and Moyrath , in the neighbourhood of Keeper Mountain , Lord Bloomfield , who is in St Fetersburgb , through his agent , has been at the same work of ejecmoent . About eight families , consisting of about forty-five persons , have been also sent abroad , without a roof to protect them from the rigours of the weather . Their condition is immeasurably more lament able than we can describe .

      Mobe Uhboofiho . — A Man Shot . —In connection with the subject of uaroofing houses , we have just received the following from a correspondent . It is most melancholy that a life should be thus lost , and lost in putting into execution the illegal commands ofhis superiors . Our correspondent dates from Brownstowa , Sept . 23 : — ' Mr Leslie , agent to Lord Shannon , and seventeen men , went yesterday , at twelve o'clock at noon , to the lands of Kuuckscag * , to execute an habere againt John Norris , a Protestant , when Mr Leslie ordered the men to get en the roof and tear down tbe slates . On the removal of the first slate , horrible to relate , the poor man was shot through the bead and fell dead . Mr Leslie then came into Clonakuty to order the military out to execute the ftaoere . which they did . This part « f the country is very peaceable , but from the . way the poor people are treateo * by certain parties here there will be more di « - asters . The poor people are being ejected ; knocking down their houses , and giving their crops to the

      comingin tenant , ana sending the poor people on the world pennyless , is all the practice here . ' The guardians of Castiebar are ebarged with having refused several persons admission to the workhouse who are begging from door to door . The guardians of Mounttnellick Union are doing likewise , and the greatest misery exists in both places . Fever , as might be expected , increases in such a state of things , and there are loud and general complaints of the heavy rates . The conduct of the Rochdale parish officers , who hurried the boy from the steps of the fever hospital of that town en board a steamer , where he died , was the subject of animadversion not less severe than just ; but see if it be not equalled by the following case , which has been officially brought under the notice of the guardians of the Mountmellich union : — Mr Turpin , a guardian , said his attention had been directed to a most aff licting case , which he considered it bis duty to bring before the board . A family of nine , five of whom were stricken with fever , had been sent from

      Athy iu a cart , and flung in a ditch at the rear of the asylum , about a quarter nf a mile from Haryboro * . After remaining for some time exposed to tbe inclemency of the weather , and without food or drink , they were disco , vered by soma charitable persons , who relieved their wants and alleviated tbeir sufferings . On enquiry they said they were from the neighbourhood of Mountrath ; measures were then taken to have them removed to that district , there tbey were commended to the care ot the rellerihe officer .

      It : happened that at ihat moment the unhappy family was at the door of Mountmellick > Y 0 rku 0 use eight of them were in fever , thrown together in a cart—tho father alone was free from it . He was called before the board and told this tale—that his name was Kaye , and he was a cooper by trade that he travelled about the country with his family that he had been barn and reared at Mountrath , but had last resided fourteen years in Tullamore My family was afflicted with fever at Athy . I was not in a hospital there ; I was in a lodging , and 1 was turned out when it was discovered tbat five of my children were

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      in fever . We then lay down in tbe street . We layabout an hour in it . We were then sent away to Mary borough in a eart employed by rathtrGrMHeaada Mr Pepper , When the man cam * within half a mile of the town he took the tailboard out of the cart and emptied my sick family out of it like so much dirt , ¦ , Kaye being further questioned , said that the man who brought him in the cart from Athy ; did hot give birn . up to any one ; -he rolled them out , and made away with himself . It was some distance from ' the town , and he could not leave the children to go look to any one for help . He was-discovered by a man who was minding potatoes . Mr Cannon , the resident magistrate brought relief to bim ; on the second night he erected a shed over hira . Only for Mr Cannon his family would have perished ;

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      GUILDHALL . — Nuisances . —The ^ Commissioner ! of Sewers , by their solicitor , Mr Tyrrell , brought two cases of dangerous nuisance under tbe notice of the court , —Mr Havocs , of Belgrave-place , was summoned in respect to four houses Jn Swan-lane , Thames-street . One of the tenants appeared on behalf of the landlord to state thathe was quite willing to remedy the evil by opening a communication from tbe cesspools to the sewer ; the experimen t bad been tried at one of the houses with the result that at high water the Thames flowed up the sewer into the cellar , till the depth of the . water was sometimes three feet . This annoyance must be removed by tbe commissioners before they could expect a communication to be opened to the other the

      houses . The nuisance had been abated by removing soil . —Alderman Johnson observed that the evil com . plained of could be remedied by placing a trap at the mouth of the sewer . The commissioners would readily do this . An order was made for tbe abatement ofthe nuisance , to besuspended till the parties could petition the Court of Commissioners , —Mrs Webb , of Park place , Islington , was summoned in'respect to a cesspool in Windsor . itreet , Bishopsgate . street . A gentleman , who appeared in her behalf , said he was ready to amend the matter complained of . She bad expended £ 10 in openfng a communication to the common sewer ; but it was discovered that the opening was made at a point seven feet above the bottom of the cesspool . An order was made to enforce compliance , if there should be any disposition to evade the prompt application ofthe proper

      remedy . Rauwat Booxs . —Mr Marriner , the secretary of the North Wales Railway , was summoned for the fourth time , for refusing to show the books to Mr Archer , o shareholder . Mr Marriner did not appear , and the summons could not he shown to have reached him . Mr Cbadwick , the chairman , was however present , and explained that Mr Archer wanted to see the names of the persons to whom £ 30 , 000 had been loaned ; This wag the surplus , after paying preliminary charges of advertising , survey , ing , and getting a bill . The information was refused , as it would damage the credi t of the borrowers , who who would rather return tbe money at once than have their names exposed . Mr Cbadwick considered it a sort of bubble company , and that the sooner the shareholders got back theresidue of tbeir money the better . He pro : powd to divide , and wind up ia a month . Mr Archer expressed a doubt if he should get anything , and persisted iu requiring the information . The magistrate was unable to force any disclosure , and the matter

      dropped . - Railway Booking . — A few days since a hawker of low-priced pictures in frames , named Johnson , complained to Sir Peter Laurie that he had booked a packnge-of pictures at Pickford ' s warehouse , in Lad . hne , to go to Aylesbury . It was to remain at the station there till he called for it . He waited at Aylesbury , seven - days , calling daily , but still he got ne tidings . As his whole capital , about 30 s , was vested in these pictures , and the hawking of them was his only means ef living , he walked back to London iu great distress . At Piokford ' sihe was told his parcel had been transferred to Chaplin and Home ' s , at Camden . towh station , as the place was in tbeir district . And at Chapliu and Home's they appeared to know nothing

      about it , As he booked tbe parcel at Pickford ' e inthe City , he claimed of them to restore tbe parcel to him or pay bint the value . Mr Swan , a solicitor , on behalf of Pickford and Coi , denied the right of the magistrate to interfere between the parties , and treat it as a case of detention of goods of the value of less than £ 15 . If tbe poor man had a remedy it must be in the county ceurt . Mr Alderman Johnson and Sir Peter Laurie determined to take the opinion of ibe City solicitor on tbeir power in such cases , as the complaint was one likely to be often repeated . Mr Martin , from the City solicitor's offce , now Stated that as the case was met by showing a delivery ot tbe goods to another carrier out of the City , it couU sot he treatsd as detaining it in the city , and the com . plainant only had a civil remedy against Messrs Pickford . Railway companies , when tbey undertook to

      carry goods , were , in tbe eye of thelaw , subject to all tbe responsibilities of common carriers . Mr Swan stated tbat since the previous hearing the goods had b « en found and offered to the complainant , on paying the carriage to Aylesbury and back . The magistrate thought thb might give them jurisdiction , bat it appeared that the goods had not been brought back into the City . They were offered to him in Great Arthur-street , Golden-lane , with notice that they would lie at the Camden . town station till he cleared them , both places being out of tbe City . Sir Peter Laurie strongly objected to tho poor man being charged one farthing for carriage , after put . ing him to so much inconvenience , by neglecting to send tl e package as directed in reasonable time . He recommended the complainant to apply to an attorney , if Messrs Pickford did not arrange with him immediately . Here the matter dropped .

      WESTMINSTER . — Unfounded Accusation . — O . Owen , a very respectable-looking man , was charged with stealing an earthernware jug . — J . M / Carthy , who gaid he was a wine-merchant , hut , vrhtn questioned by the magistrate , said he bad no place of business , de . posed that as be waa removing bis things from tbe prisoner ' s house , where he lodged , he saw tbe jug inthe parlour , and gave the prisoner into custody . —Tho accused said thatthe jog , of which the spout was broken , and which was worth abont 3 d , had been lent to bim by tbe prosecutor , and had been used by his family for fire weeks before . The prosecutor was leaving the bouse without paying tbe rent , and the prisoner refused to allow him to do so ; at that moment the jug happening to be brought into the room , the prosecutor immediately accused him of having stolen it , and gave bim into custody;—The magistrate observing , so impudent a charge had never before been brought under his notice , immediately discharged the accused .

      CITY POLICE COMMITTEE . —Dogs and Pewca . men . —Mr Loader , a cabinetmaker , on Moorfields-pavement , was summoned before Aldermen Hooper and Hughes for allowing a Newfoundland dog to beat large unmuzzled , to the great danger other Majesty ' s subjects . By the testimony of a City police-constable , it apperared that the dog , for some offence or other , has considerable antipathy to the police officers on duty in tbe neighbourhood , No sooner do tbey pass ( he door of the proprietor's residence than out bolts the beast and makes vigorous efforts to grab at their legs . Defendant denied it . The dog was a quiet , harmless , inoffensive creature if not teased , O & cer . r-Ue la quarrelsome to

      everybody , your worship . Defendant . —Is he , though 1 I'll settle that your worship , [ Defendant here gave a loed whistle , and in rushed a large noble looking brute , who , apparently conscious of what was going on , dodged around the lega of every one in Court , and was on the best of terms with all , even the stern justice on the Bench ] There now , your worships , here's the beast . He has been in the Guildhall all the morning , and seen plenty of policemen ; but I arasurehe has not touched one of them . Mr Alderman Hughes said the dog had some antipathy to the officers of tbe peace , and he should recommend it to be muzzled for their safety . Defendant answered that he would do so , and paying the cost of the summons , departed with tbe dog .

      CLERKENWELL . —Thi Police Again . —Mr Henry Mitchell , proprietor of the Rose and Crown public house , in Allen-street , Clerkenwell , was summoned for having bis bouse opea for the sale of exciseable liquors on Sunday , the 19 th , during the hours of divine service . In . epsetor Pennv stated that on the day named , at tbe hour of twelve at noon , be saw a boy about fourteen years of age , come out of defendant ' s house , He approached him , and while he was descending tho steps leading to the street , witness laid hold of him and asked him what he had got , when he produced from his pocket a bottle containing half a pint of gin —Mr Buncombe : Will you swear it was not eye water ?—( A laugh . )—Witness : STo ; but I would rather swear it was gin . —Mr Dun- * combe : How do you know tbat it was gin ; did you

      taste it!—I did not . Ho told me that the bottle con . talntd gin . —Mr Duucombe : Did you not seize bim vio . lently and take it out of his pocket f—Witness : I did not . He pulled it out of his pocket , but I should hare done so had he not . —Mr Duncombe : Indeed ! Are you not aware tbat the lad , who is only about ten years of age , is the defendant's son ?—Witness : I ha ^ e & vnce un . derstood that to be tbe case . —Mr Duncombe ; Was ha not terribly alarmed when you caught hold of him , and did he not cry f—Witness : Why , as to that , he tried to cry . —Mr Duncombe : I am informed that you went into my client ' s house afterwards . Inform the Court what you saw . The witness admitted that everything W 8 B quiet and orderly , and that be had no furtber evidence

      to give . Mr Duncombe then addressed the Magistrate He said , of all the most extraordinary ease she had evtr heard , or been concerned in , the present beat all- nnd if such a state of things were permitted , every individual coming out ef a pubUchouw would in tbe end be seized and searched . Hehad avery high resp ect for his friend , the inspector ; but in this case he had no hesitation in saying behadexcesdedhis duty . The worthy gentle man proceeded to urge tbat there was not a title of «! deuce to support the charge , as alleged in tbe informa . ton , wheahewasatoppedby Mr . Tyrwhitt , who said In tbat respect I fully agree with you , and aismws th ^ ^ formation . ' Mv Buncombe thanked his mmfclp . a „( retired with the defendant and his friends .

      Mr ^ WUHftra Bulkely , WeUs-street , Gray's Inn-road was charged by Ellen May , a young woman , his servant with having assaulted her , with intent , & c The com plain ant deposed that she was servant to the defendant and she left him on Friday last . Oa Thursday fortnigh she first entered the servi ce , having" been engaged h Mrs Bulkcley , at Thompson ' s Registry Office . Witnes ' caHiofromBoreham , Essex , On last Sunday monvinj week , defendant entered the back kitchen to wash him elf , and witness generally took' seme water to bim . Hi

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      called her to come in , and on going in he ' asked her to wash his back for him . He was naked wiA tbetxeep tion * bf We trousers ? " * fle ' tbfd neirTto baa ' gooa' glrl ' tobta Jittio boy and he would take osre ef her , and irhsstbe wanted any money she ' should have it , and , to put her faith and confidence In him , to mind what be said tmi not to tell hcrmis tress ; no more passed until last Thursday . Mr Tyrwhitt : Did you wash hit back . Witness : I did . Mr Tyrwhitt : Did you ever wash it before ? Witness : No ; I had r eceived instructions from my mistress to da every thing he asked me to do , as he was more like ah old bachelor than anything else . Thursday evening , at half-past seven o ' clock , he came home and went to his bad-room lu the front of the house . My mistress said they had not slept together for some time . Mrs Bulkelj

      slept to a room on the same floor . Witness took him up his slippers , and he ashed her to take him up a basiu of gruel in one hour and a half . She took up the graet and he told ber to shut the door , which she did , and laid k on tbe bed . He told her It was too hot , and to lay it on the table , . She did , when he caught hold of her while he was lying on the bed , and pulled her to him , but she got away . Further evidence being given , tbe charge was denied . Mr Tyrwhitt , who evidently watched the case with great attcntieu , said that he had his doubts in such a ticklish case ; and , after the evidence and other cfrcum . stances , he could only decide on dismissing the charge and Mr Bulkely was liberated , when he quitted the court with his solicitor and a host of respectable friends , to whom the result of the Investigation gave great smU .

      faction ; SOUTHWARK . — Hobbid BaurAttTY ,-Henry James Levtig , in tho employment of a wharfinger , at Horsely . down , was charged with committing a violent assault on Margaret Bowler , bis mother-in-law , and breaking one of her arms . After hearing evidence , tbe complainant and her daughter interceded for the prisoner , but Mr Cottinghara said that it was so gross a case of assault , a man of the prisoner ' s strength lifting an old woman seventy years of age , and throwing her withibrutal violence to the ground , and that woman his own motherin-law , that it would be absurd in him ( tbe magistrate ) to dispose summarily of such a charge by the infliction of a £ 5 penalty , so utterly inadequate as a punishment for such an offence . Under all the circumstances , there , fore , he should commit the prisoner for trial .

      WANDSWQRTH , —Thomas Badcock , Henry Badcock , and Henry Driver , three powerful young men , were charged before Mr Paynter , with the following attack on two labourers , working on the Richmond railway . It appears tbat these two men , whose names are James Smith and Jesse Haydwn , went on Saturday night'into the tap-room ef the Rose and Crowh . and had hardly been there a minute ^ before Heiary Badcock knocked Smith down , and kicked him , Hay don picked hit companion up , when he iras struck and knocked down . With considerable difficulty they got out of the bouse , and proceeded towards home . In passing up'flarrett-lane they were met by the prisoners , Thomas Badcock aud Drives , who attacked them with the ferocity of wild beasts , they felled them , and then in the most cowardly and brutal manner kicked them with their nailed and plated shoes over the face , head , and body . The poor fellow Smith

      became insensible , and the moans of Haydon were distinctly heard 300 yards distant . Their cries of' murder * brought police-constable Webb 13 * 7 to the spot , and tho prisoners then made off , but were apprehended la the course of that night and Sunday . When found by the police the navigators were lying in a pool of bloefl , Smith ' s frock being completely saturated . Both men exhibited such marks as proved they had been most Illtreated , while their assailants were without a scratch ;—MrPaynter said theassault whichbadheen committed on the unoffending men was one of the most brutal be had ever had to adjudicate upon . But tbat tbe injured parties were poor and could not afford the cost of going to the sessions , he would have sent the piitonera for trial Thomts Badcock and Henry Driver , would pay - £ 5 each , or be committed for two months , and the other prisoner would pay a fine of £ i , ir . be committed / or one

      month . WORSHIP-STREET . —Chakoe of Felont against a Ls . DY Mis Anne Quinn , the wife of an opulent tradesman at Poplar , was charged with having stolen a gold pearl-mountcd ring , at the shop of Messrs Walker aud Co ., jewellers and silversmiths , in the Whitechapelroad . —H . Perkins , shopman to the prosecutors , stated tbat on the preceding afternoon tbe prisoner entered the shop and requested him to show her some fancy rings which were exhibited in tbe window . He accordingly placed one of the cards before her , but she objected to the rings as being too expensive , and desired to be shown some wedding rings . While trying them on , he saw the prisoner attempt to substitute a thick brass finger ring she bad with her for one of those upon tbe card . Not

      succeeding in this , she looked at some ether fancy rings , which she returned to him without selecting ene ; but notwithstanding tbe strict vigilance he exercised , be found , upon looking at the card that one of them bad disappeared ; he asked the prisoner if she had teen it ; she said sbe bad not ; and having purchased a weddingring for 3 s Sd , immediately left the shop . He informed bis employer , who overtook her and gave her into custody ; but upon beinr searched at the station tbe mission ring was not discovered , aud only three sixpences and tbe brass ring before referred to were found in ber possession—In answer to the charge the prisoner warmly asserted her innocence , and said that . she only entered the shop with the intent / on of purchasing a cheap

      wedding ring , as ber own had been accidentally broken , and tbat tbe production of the more valuable ones was tbe spontaneous act ofthe shopman . —A professional gentleman who happened to be in court upon other business assured tho magistrate that the prisoner was a person of unexceptionable respectability , who , he felt convinced , was wholly incapable of committing such an act , and tbat if tbe magistrate considered it bis duty to detain ber upon the charge , be trusted tbat bail would be accepted for her future appearance , which would be tendered to any amount . —Mr Hammill oipresscd an opinion that a strong prima facie case had been established against her , but consented to take ball for her appearance , herself in £ 80 , and tero responsible sureties in £ 40 each . The bail was found .

      WESTMINSTER . —Geosb Misconduct op an Offices at the MitiBARK Penitentiaet ;—T . H . Bird , a warder at the Millbank prison , was charged with carrying in tobacco to the convicts contrary to the regulations , Capt . Grove , governor of the prison , said tbat there had been an enquiry on the previous day before the inspectors of prisons with regard to tobacco having been taken into the prison at Millbank , Witness spoke to the defendant about it , when ho at first denied that he had taken tobacco in to the convicts , but subsequently , on being confronted with the mother of a prisoner named Briton who said in his presence that he bad taken tobacco in to her son , and had received 5 s . and a handkerchief for so doing , he admitted it ; but said he had done no more than other officers in the prison . , Witness

      told him that if he would let him know the names of the other oncers to whom he had alluded he would use his influence for him not to be prosecuted , but only dismissed . It was part « f defendant ' s duty to watch and see that no such article as tobacco was brought into tbe prison . Defendant contented himself by saying that the governor bad told bim that if he would answer the question put to him , he would use big Influence to prevent him being prosecuted . Capt . Williams , one of the inspectors of prisons , said , that in eonsequence of the governor having promised to use his influence in defendant's behalf , and the latter having made some disclosures , he hoped the magistrate would inflict as slight a punishment as ho consistently could . Mr Broderip could not feel himself justlfiedin imposing a less penalty than £ 3 , which was immediately paid .

      MARYLEBONE . —Uobbem op Watches , & c —C . Silvester was re-eiaminod , charged with having coml mitted a robbery in the daytime at the the ' shop of Mr Morris , watchmaker , MargareUerrace , Harrow-ioao , The evidence given oh the first examination , was to the effect that on Tuesday , the 21 » t ult ., while Mr Morris was diningbelow stairs , the prisoner , probably by the aid of a picklock key , effected an . entrance into the premises , and on Mr M , goipg up , the prisoner , who was then iu tho parlour , struck ac him twice , and escaped by the frtnt door into th « street . He went up to a chaise which ' was standing a short distance off , nlth another man in it , and taking from liis pocket a handful of watches threw tbem towards the vehicle in question , and made off ; three watches and a gold case were found In the chaise and in tho road , and in an instant tbe man who was seated in the vehicle jumped out , saying that he would endeavour to capture the thief . The prisoner was followed to a murine store shop , and was seen to thrust

      three other watches and a chain beneath a quantity of rags . His friend got clear off ; tho horse and cart were taken eare of by the police , A charge of plate robbery at tbe residence of tho Rev Mr Burton , Harrow-road was next gone into . —Charlotte Houiton , one of the ser vama , deposed that on Tuesday , the 14 th ult atabnnf then on a stand in the hall ; but thinking it was bet oTifa r tl r f - 5 Dgi !! shetwk " * S ? 5 £ of it at the moment ; ra ashort time she heard the front beIkved to be the prisoner running up the road hecot into a chaise , in v , hich was another man , and they w ! r seven silver forks and eight silver t able spoons .-The pntouer , who , by tbe advice ofhis solicitor , said he r 2 lu f / f V- Y ' s def : ? cefor a fctnro occasion , was cowmmeu for trial upon Mr Morris ' s charge , but will bo brought up again on Tuesdav . ..

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      wT ° ? » l D lKCE ! i ^ 8 M— On Monday night Eobeifc braith , f carrier , from Gillingham , was passing the farmot ' . Mr W . Putcher , of Fovant , when he discovered a blaze at the end of a large barley rick , which in a few minutes increased to an alarming de-8 u i * l i s ? istance TOS 0 " the spot as quietly as possible , butm the short space of one hour there was nothing to be seen but the smouldering ashes and rums from a large barn , which had contained at least 50 loads of wheat . In addition , barley richs , stacks of fine hay and sainfoin , sheds , stables , hovels , piggeries , and every other building around , were destroyed . The horses , pigs , poultry , die ., were saved . Mr Futcher , it is said , is fully insured to the amount ofthe loss . Before Smith , the carrier perceived the fire , he observed a man cross in front of the horso , apparently in great tremor and hnrw

      running ufrom the farm-yard , evidently , by bis haviwr asmock-frock on , an agricultural or other labourer , and from the description given by Smith the county police apprehended atn & n on suspicion A locust was causht a few days sin ' -o in a Seld near Basmgwold , in Yorkshire .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 2, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_02101847/page/6/