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      France. The Marriage Question In Spain I...

      FRANCE . The marriage question in Spain Is still the allabsorbing topic for comment in the Paris papers . The Marquis of Normanby , the British ambassador to the French Court , had an interview of nearly an tour's duration on Friday morning , with M . Guizot , at tne Ho tel des Affaires Etrangeres . We understand that his Excellency communicated an energetic protest to the French Government relative to the marriage of the Duke de Montpensier . Tbe protest is founded npon two grounds—first , upon the treatv of Utrecht , by which the branch of the Bourbons at that time reigning in France , and . the head and representative of the Orleans branch of the

      family , renounced all claim to the crown of Spain , and formally covenanted that they themselves , as -veil as their descendants and successors , of whatever sex , should be for ever excluded from that throne , and that any war , having for its object to place any member of the French branch of the Bourbons on the throne of Spain , would be unjust and contrary to the faith of treaties , & c .: and , secondly , upon the agreement come to by the French and English Ministers at the Chateau d'En , an agreement the -more emphatic , as although it was not reduced to -writing , it was concluded not only between the ministers of the two states , bat sanctioned by the ^ presence and assent of their respective sovereigns .

      The French Government has paid domici'la ^ y "visits to a great number of Carlists resident in Paris , And among others to the Marquis de Labrador , who was for many years ambassador to the French Court . Tie only member of the Progressista party who has been honoured with a . domicilary visit is the celebrated General Prim , who has recently arrived in Paris from Brussels . He was visited by tbe agents of police on Friday , and the whole of his papers were carried away . There was nothing in them that in the slightest degree compromised him , but still the papers are retained . The Duke de Montpensier and the Duke d'Aumale took their departure at six o ' clock on Monday morning for Spain .

      Tho Guyenne announces that a strict watch is kept on the movements of General Rodil , and of M . de Santacrui , a former aide-de-camp of TSspartero , new residing in Bordeaux . General Seoanehad succeeded in effecting his escape from that city . It is presumed that he has entered Spain . Vast activity is said to be observable among the police to obviate an insurrection in Spain . An order has been sent to Marshal Bugeaud to proceed immediately to Algeria , to watch the movements of Abd-el-Eader on the frontier of Morocco .

      According to the Jteforme the price of wheat had -of late risen in all the markets adjoining Paris from S 3 centimes to 1 franc per hectolitre . At Orleans the rise had been as high as 2 f . The price of bread -was continually increasing in all the towns of the north , centre , and south , but particularly the east of France , where it was 55 c . and 60 c . per Kilogramme . The Conttitutionnd announces that the price of flour lad again increased at the Corn Market of Paris on Saturday , and that the price of bread would be augmented bv two centimes on the 1 st of October .

      By the Paris papers of Tuesday , it appears , that the French police are worrying the Spanish refugees of all parties , at their depots and residences . Senor Orr an ex-Member of the Cortes was brutally seized at Paris , on Saturday last , despite of his severe illness . The Presse says that General Cabrera , has embarked at Southampton for Gibraltar , under a fictitious name , in one of the Peninsular steamers . The communication as to General Cabreras departure ¦ for Gibralter is stated by another Govercraent print to have been forthwith announced , both to the French and Spanish Governments . Incendiary fires continued to desolate all France , and Burgundy in particular . Seven Tillages of the district ol Morvand had been almost entirely consumed during the last three weeks , and notwithstanding the vigilance of the police and the inhabitants , it bad been imposible to seize the incendiaries . The failure of the harvest is causing much suffering .

      SPAIN . On the afternoon of the 21 st , Mr . Buiwer presented "to the Spanish Government a formal pretest on the part of the British Government against the marriage of the Infanta with the Duke de Montpensier . The journals are almost daily seized with the view of crushing public opinion so strongly expressed a ainst the Montpensier marriage . On the 22 nd , the Espectador , Auetio Espectador , Clamor Publico , and Eco del Comercio were seized . The first of these journals scarcely ever makes its appearance now , and all we get is half a sheet under the title ' of a supplement , with the debates , < fcc ., without any leading article ; the authorities are determined to crush this journal , as being especially supported by the old Progressista leaders , who have subscribed a capital of a million of teals , £ 10 . 000 . for that purpose . Such is the manner in which the government carries out the roya ) intentions of "inaugurating a new era of peace and reconciliation , " & c . & e . I

      On the 23 rd ult ., the editors of the above-named journals published the following joint declaration : — " The whole of the Progresista papers published in Madrid were seized yesterday at the same time . Such an act will be appreciated as it ought by the nation . With the repeated confiscations , fines , and prosecutions suffered each day by the organs of the Liberal party , it is dearly evident that , even under the exceptional regimen to which the press is subjected , we are not permitted to emit our ideas . " In such a conflict we should renounce forthwith the task of writing , were we not persuaded that nothing discredits so much the cause of our adversaries as that furious hostility which proves their fear

      of the revelations of the press . "We shall , then , follow on , writing , not as the present circumstances require , but as the capriceof onr rulers permits ; not as is the custom in countries governed constitutionally , but as can be done in Spain under the coercion of an arbitrary government ; in a word , not as we should do in the enjoyment of a free press , but as we are obliged to do under subjection to an anomalous and violent censorship , and to , exceptional tribunals constituted by Royal orders . " Our subscribers will fill np of themselves what \ we are obliged to cancel . The silence of the pressj will become , in futuie , the most eloquent accusation j that can be launched against the Government . ] H M Eco del Comercio . i

      "El Clamor Publico . " El Nuevo Espectador . " El Espectador . ^ 'Madrid , 23 rd September , 1846 . ElEspanol was seized on the 23 rd , for having published the article of The Times , of the 16 th , on Spain and the Spanish marriages . On the same day the Chamber of Deputies granted ¦ Ministers the required authorization to levy the taxes , by a majority of 134 to 12 . M . Salamanca , who was absent at the moment of the ballot , subsequently asked that bis name might be added to the opponents of the bilL

      PORTUGAL . Advices from Portugal state that theMiguelite in- ' surreetion in that country had assumed a very serious aspect . The Government General , Count das Antas , demands reinforcements and the organisation of pro- ' "vincial battalions . In the province of Minto almost ; all the inhabitants have taken np arms in favour of Don Miguel . THE CAUCASUS . The Germtn Journal of Frankfort publishes a Russian bulletin from the Caucasus , dated the 28 th ult . It gives an account of several engagements between the Russian crops , commanded by Prince Argutinski , and the force under Daniel Bey , which is represented to consist of at least 40 , 000 men . The Russians claim the advantage in all the affairs that took place , but it appears certain that they could not prevent the Circassians from burning several villages before they retreated , The Russians had 200 men killed or wounded .

      CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . Cape of Good Hope papers to the 18 th of July inclusive , have just been received . We take the following extract from the GraJtam ' s Town Journal : — Received the following communication from Fort Beaufort , dated 7 th instant : — Bodies of Kaffirs , consisting of from ten to twenty , -continue to infest this part of the frontier , and whenever they can succeed in driving off flocks or herds by s tealth they do so , avoiding , however , te combat , either to capture of for the protection of what they may have stolen . In these forays several horrible murders have been committed lately by i & eae cowardly assassins , on herdsmen in the viefnity of this place . Last week they shot two lingoes while herding cattle near Macomo ' s Kraaland not

      , satisfied with killing the poor fellows they tormented one of them by flaying his face while he was yet alive . The other escaped from them mortally wounded , but has since died . The day after this field-Captain Loxton was ordered out with his Hottentot corps on escort duty , and on his return home at daybreak on the 2 nd instant , he discovered the traces of a flock of sheep which the Kaffirs were attempting to drive across a drift on the Kat river , near the Blinkwater Post , but who on hearing the approach of his men had taken shelter in the bush -with the sheep . On being followed into the thicket the Kaffirs retreated , leaving 490 sheep in the hands

      of . the pursuing party . From circumstances which have transpired subsequently , it appears that these marauders , after losing their booty , took post during the remainder of the day on a high conical hill , overlooking the spot where the sheep had been taken , watching the herds from the Blinkwater Post , in hopes that chance would afford them an opportunity of repairing their loss at ' the expense of these men * . Unfortunately some straggling sheep being seen near "where these Kaffirs lay In ambush , two of these men fere induced to proceed towards the spot , and were intercepted and fired on—one having his arm shattered , and the other his gun split la two near the

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      lock . Information has been received that a number of Kafiirs have been seen in Vader Kloof ( behind the Kromme Berg ) , and a force was to be sent in quest of them . Received information also of a spirited tffair , on Thursday evening , between a barty ot Fingoes and Kafiirs in the vicinity of Fort Beaufort . It appears that in theaftern oonofthat day , a strong party of Kafiirs suddenly presented themselves , and attempted to . capture the cattle . The Fingoes , however , who were in charge ot them , resisted this with determined bravery , and ultimately beat off the assailants . Five Fingoes were killed in this aflair . and eight Kafiirs , Report received that eighteen head of cattle wese re-captured from the Kaffirs on Thursday , on Driver ' s-hiU , by some persons in the employ of Messrs . Ford and Jeffries . The accounts from the front state that Captain Hegg , with ab » ut SGf ) Hottentots , was to move this morning from Trompetters for the Amotoli , for the purpose , if possible , of surprising Tola ' s Kafiirs , who are said to be encamped in that locality .

      DUTCH VICTORIES IN THE EAST INDIES . Tins Hague , Sept . 26 . —The overl and mail has brought the Java papers of the fth of July , containing an official account of the expedition to Bali , which is published at great length in the Stoats Courant of the 25 th if September . The army of the King in the East Indies has covered itself with glory . Thanks to the valour of our troops by sea aud land , the expedition directed by the Governor-General Rochufen against the Prince of Bali has been completely successful ; 30 , 000 Balinees , a very warlike people , covered behind intrenchments and defended by 60 pieces of cannon , could not oppose the expedition , which consisted only of 2 , 000 men . We remain masters of Billing and of the capital ,

      Singa Radja . The Prince took refuge in the mountains . Some of our troops remain at Bali till the entire payment of the expenses of the war , stipulated by the treaty of peace . This victory cannot fail to have a great moral influence en the population of the Indian Archipelago . The island of Bali is situated in the centre of our possessions in those seas , and not far from Java . In a commercial point of view the result will be equally important , because Bali is very productive and very populous . Hostilities were preceded by the following manifesto , which M . Jft . Mayer , commissioner of the government , was ordered to remit to the Rajah of Bali as the ultimatum of the Dutch government : — " 1 . The prince is accused of having violated the conventions

      signed by his own hand on the 26 th of November , 1842 , aud the 3 rd of May , 1843 , aud of having repeatedly refused to confirm his preceding declarations by which he acknowledged that the empire of B'iling , of which he has the sole and entire government , forms part of the Dutch possessions in tbe Indies , and is consequently under the sovereignty of the Netherlands . 2 . Of not having yet , as he had promised to do , repaired tbe port and the damage done by the population of Gjembruna , in dependence of Billing , who , in January , 1811 , plundered a vessel under the Duteh flag and belonging to a Dutch subject , in the Indies . 3 . Of not having received with due honour the diplomatic agents of the government , and of having treated them , not like envoys of a

      Governor-General of Dutch India , but rather like enemies . 4 . Of not having answered a letter of the Governor-General . Of not having hoisted the Dutch flag at the places and in the manner required . " The following are the conditions which were proposed to the Rajah , and by accepting which tbatprince might have prevented hostilities : — " A . To sign within three times twenty-four hours a new convention , which should leave to him the administration of his dominions on his acknowledging on his part the sovereignty of the Dutch government in the Indies , to put an end to the pillage of shipwrecked vessels , to prevent piracy and slavery , and to protect commerce . B . To engage to pay the expenses of the present expedition , either in money or

      in such productions of Bali as shall be hereafter agreed upon . This payment may be made in the term of ten years . G . To consent that Dutch troops shall remain in bis dominions till the complete payment of the expense of the war . The expense of maintaining these troops is to be defrayed by the Rajah . "—The Sultans Madura and Sumanap , as well as the Regent of Pamakapan , supplied ships for the conveyance of the troops . It is worthy of remark , that in consequence of a desire which had been previously expressed to the Governor- General , a trading frigate- armed as a man-of-war , under the flag of Loonbok , and sent by Prineesof Selaphasang , came to join the Dutch squadron in the hostilities against Bali . The details of the expedition are

      I communicated in seven official reports to the Goj vernor General , < fcc ., < fce ., published in the Java | Courant . Besides these important documents , the I journals of Java bring the following news : —On the ; 9 th of July , 1 S 46 , the Dutch commissioner , con-I eluded , at Beliling , with the Princes of Beliling ! and Karang Assam , treaties , which have already been sent to the Governor-General for his approbation . _ The principal stipulations of these treaties contain besides the renewal of the declaration , that the territory of those two princes forms a part of the Dutch possessions in the Indies , acknowledging his Majesty the King of the Netheriand ' s Sovereign , promising to protect onr commerce , engaging tt oppose piracy , and not only to abolish the custom ol declaring shipwrecked vessels and their cargoes to be good prizes , but in such eases to afford aid and assistance , with a certain rate of salvage , for having taken care to preserve the cargo of the

      shipwrecked vessel ; and lastly , to assist the Dutch Government to the utmost of their pewer in its efforts to put down piracy and the slave trade . The Dutch government engages on its part , that if these princes faithfully execute the conventions made with them , it will not interfere in the internal administration of their country , which is lelt to them without a restriction . By another treaty , the Prince of Beliling acknowledges that he is indebted to the forgiveness and generosity of the Dutch Government for the restoration of his country , of which it had become entirely the maser by the right of conquest , and he engages , in the first place , to pay the expenses of the expedition , as well as those of erecting and maintaining a fort , and of the garrison , which will remain there as a security for the entire payment of the expenses ef the war ; and , in the second , to destroy , in the space of three months , the fortifications which he had erected , and not to cansruct any others in the sam e places .

      BRITISH AMERICA . The Canadian papers , brought by the Britannia , contain long articles on the subject of the navigation laws , on which topic the Abntreal Herald and the Gazette were at issue . With regard to Lord Elgin ' s appointment there was little comment made ; the Courier and Pilot applauded the act , but the Herald would seem to be of a contrary opinion . Sir John Harvey and suite had arrived at-JJalifax , and entered upon his duties as Governor of Nova Scotia .

      UxVITED STATES AND MEXICO . The British and North American royal mail steamship Britannia , Captain Hewett , reached the Mersey at four o ' clock on Wednesday morning . The Britannia sailed from Boston on the 16 th , and Halifax on tbe 13 th , and brings ten days later new » than the accounts which reached us per the Anglo-Saxon last week . The operations on the coast of the gulf of Mexico have been inactive . The return of Santa Anna to Mexico may or may not promote a pacific arrangement with the United States . Overtures to such an end have been transmitted to him from the President of the United States through Commodore Connor , commanding thegulf squadron . Santa Anna reached Vera Cruz on the 16 th of August , and wan

      received with open arms . We have no account yet of his having reached the city of Mexico , but everything there was ready for his cordial reception . The latest dates from Vera Cruz are of the 29 th ult . At that time the dispatches of the President for Commodore Connor had been received , and communication was immediately had vrith Vera Cruz by means of a flag . What the nature of the propositions of this government is , or what the reception they are likely to meet with from Santa Anna , is , as yet , mere conjecture . The United States brig of war Truxton was lost on a shoal off Tuppan , abont 120 miles north of Vera Cruz , on the 14 th ult . Her commander ,

      Capt . Carpcnder , with the majority of his officers and crew , surrendered themselves prisoners to the Mexicans . Lieutenant Hunter , one other lieutenant and fourteen men , escaped to the squadron in a small Mexican schooner , which they captured with one of the boats of the Truxton . Meantime the war on 4 he Rio Grandelanguisbes—the season and the want of sufficient waggon trains alike forbidding active operations . Colonel Harney had marched Irom St . Antonio ( Texas ) , on the 23 d , with 120 United States Dragoons , 500 mounted Texans , and 18 Drfawares , for Mondovia , Mexico . General Kearney ' s command had left Bent ' s Fort for Santa Fe on the 3 d .

      Kearney had lost 100 horses , and the troops were on half rations . A deplorable spirit of insubordination bad appeared in the Irish and other soldiers left in the vicinity of JMatamora , on the retirement of General Taylor and the main body of the army . Fifteen or twenty men were killed or wounded , and eight or ten drowned , during a riot between the Irish and American volunteers near Quinto , on the night of the 31 st August . Eight Illinois volunteers and two officers were severely wounded in quelling the disturbance , and arresting the ringleaders .

      Seizche op California . —The rumour of the capture of Monterey , in California , by the American squadron has been confirmed . The proclamation ol Commodore Sloat , commanding the American naval forces in the Pacific , dated 6 th Julv , has been received . On that day he entered " the harbour of Monterey , and in his proclamation called on the Califormana to remain tranquil , assuring them that he came as a friend to the people , and that California was destined to form part and parcel ot the great

      Amehicak Liberty . —A body of free negroes havo lately been driven out by a mob from a neighbourhood m the state of Ohio , where they had purchased land , and gone to settle ; and the contending fires of epuuoa on tbw inflammable topic are blown into a

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      fierce blaze by the occurrence . A few weeks since a coloured young man , brother of the Governor of Liberia , presented himself at the medical college of Pittsfield , and . sought admission to attend medical lectures . His object was to return and make himself useful in the colony . He was at first received , but on a demur by one of the students ( a Southerner ) the admission was withdrawn , and he wag rejected . There are one or two states wh « re blacks are allowed to vote , but if there were enough of them in the state to oast any weig ht in the electiens it would be overruled . In no free state are they allowed to do military duty . Nowhere can they hold office ^ and in no religious assembly can they sit down with whites . Intermarriage with them were an infamy on which no ene dare venture . The least tinge of their blood in anr part of the north , excludes from society .

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      A Camp is about to be immediately formed at Cannnnville , near Vincennes , and is to be occupied by 40 , 000 or 42 , 000 men for military mannuvreo , under the command of General Tiburce Sebastian ! . This force will include several batteries of artillery . The ' Gaulish in France—On Friday morning domiciliary visits were paid to the Marquis de Labrador and M . de Villafranca , and several other eminent members of the Spanish Carlist party residing at Paris . Their dwellings and papers were most minutely inspected . Exchange or Prisoners . —A letter from Toulon of the 21 st states , that all obstacles to an exchange of prisoners between the French Government and Abd-el-Kader have been surmounted , and that orders have been siven for the embarkation of the

      numerous Arab prisoners in France , who are to be exchanged for the French in the hands of the Emir . Pom Pius and thb Roman SoMiBRs . —A correspondent at Rome writes , on the 16 th ult ., in the Nuremberg Correspondent : — - ¦ ' A soldier lately presented to the Pope a loaf of bread of the worst quality , saying that even the convicts of the galleys had not worse food .. On tbe following day the Pope sent for the Minister of War , and after a conference of a few minutes invited him to breakfast , at which a plate with the soldier ' s bread was set before him . The Minister turned pale and could not touch it . Pius IX . then said to him— ' You do not eat ! You

      find the bread too bad ! And yet it is the same as is given to my soldiers . ' The Minister declared that he was ignorant of . the fact ; to which the Pope replied— ' But I know it . I know that the complaints of the soldiers are not listened to , because the officers are corrupt . ' The Minister withdrew in consternation . An inquiry was instituted . The friend of Count N , who had the distribution of the bread , the ' contractor , and " 'the baker , were arrested and taken to the Castle of Saint Angelo . To-day every soldier had four bajocaa ( 2 d . ) given to him to buy his own bread ; and this is to be continued until further orders . "

      PnoniBiTED Works . —Five new works have been added by Pius IX . to the books forbidden to be read in Universal Christendom , " and which his Holiness damnnt , proscripsit proscribique in indicem li ' brorum prohibitorum . The doomed works are—Les Evangiles , traduction nouvelle , avec des notes et des reflexions a la fin de chaque chapitre , par F . Lamennais ; Gli Evangeli tradotti in lingua Italiana da G . Diodati con Ie riflcssioni e note di Francesco Lamennais tradotte da Pietro Silvestro Leopard ! ; II Veggente in solitudihe , poema polimctro di Gabriele Rossetti ; Historiada Franc Maconaria , on dos pedreiros livres pelo Author da bibliotheca Maconica . [ The railroads and reforms of the new Pope will neutralize his prohibition . Though it is a pity that a man , otherwise apparentl y s-o liberal , should have any tread of the press . ]

      The Mormons have lately organised a regiment of women , who arc in full discipline , and it is said , promise by all appearances , to fight more desperately than their male fellow-soldiers . Female Suffrage . —The appeal of the " women of the state of New York" to the convention ( employed ob the revisal of the constitution ) , claiming female suffrage and female eligibility to all public offices , has found one newspaper editor willing to undertake its advocacy . The appeal found numberless signatures among the sex so peculiarly dominant in this country . Foreign Police Intelligence Extraordinary . — Louis-Philippe Orleans , an old man , with a large head , and a very confident expression , was charged before the bench , Public Opinion , with a most flagitious act of child stealing . The case was very protracted , and involved many statements and counter statements , but may be briefly summed up as follows : —

      It appeared that a Spaniard , named Ferdinand , who had distinguished himself as a man-millinerhaving been specially appointed as petticoat-maker and embroiderer to the Holy Virgin—died some years ago at Madrid , leaving behind him two little infant girls ;" and it was for the crafty abduction of the younger of these children , by name Luisa—a young creature Scarcely marriageable—that the prisoner was brought to the bar . He was an old offender , full of subtleties and tricks , whith he played off under the guise of the most enchanting lonhommie , which , of course , only rendered him the more dangerous . This , however , was the first time he had appeared at the bar of pubic opinion as a child-stealer . It was shown in evidence that the petticoat-maker died very rich : and there was no doubt that the immense

      wealth of the unfortunate Luisa was qne reason for drawing upon her the attention of the prisoner ; who had also—there could be no doubt of it—considerable hopes of obtaining further advantages by meddling in her family affairs ; and further of ultimately obtaining the larger share of the property on the death of her sister , reputed not to be of the most vigorous constitution . It was shown that Orleans had had crafty accomplices in the business . He had introduced into the house ' . of the young Indies a French hair-dresser , named Bresson , who had turned the head of the innocent Luisa with the most glowing description of Orleans , surnamed Montpensier ; a youth with a great precocity of moustache . The hair-dresser Bresson had also contrived to give the young man ' s portrait ( painted for the occasion ) to the

      hapless Luisa ; and the effect of a portrait of a handsome young man upon a girl ot 14 would be obvious . ) Finally , a contract of marriage had been brought about by the craftiness of the hair-dresser ; and the child—however it might be attempted to palliate the circumstances by the forms of law—the child was , in a word , stolen from herself , her country , and her relations , by the guile and avarice of the prisoner at the bar . The Court regretted that it could not interfere in even so flagitious a case . The prisoner must be discharged ; thou eh he must not for a moment suppose that he left the Court with clean hands , Hereupon the prisoner gave a knowing wink , chuckle , and left the court , humming— "Ou peut-on 6 tre mieux , qu ' au sein de sa famille I "Punch .

      By the earthquake in Tuscany , on the 24 th ult ., upwards of eight thousand persons are reduced to beggary , but the Grand Duke has announced that he will rebuild all tbe houses that are destroyed , without making any addition to the taxes . The inhabitants of the small towns of Aniano , Q , uerdinallo , Montescudigo , Lorenzana , Caserta , Rcpubella , Creopick , Patella , Leina , and Regolo , are exempted from taxation until 1848 . The port of Leghorn furnishes the building timber free of duty . A letter from Breslau , says that one hundred acres of the extensive peat ground of Nimkau , which skirt the railroad in Upper Silesia is on fire , sending forth a dense black smoke . All efforts to extinguish the fire had been found unavailing .

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      Nabbow Escapbfhom an Explosion of Gunpowder .

      —Un Lhursday Last Dunblane Was Very Nigh...

      —un lhursday last Dunblane was very nigh being visited by a calamity , the probable extent of which , in the destruction of human life and property , is frightful to contemplate . About nine o ' clock on the evening of that day an alarm of fire was sounded . The children of a sub-contractor on the Scottish Central Railway had set fire to the bed curtains with a candle . The furniture of tho bed was instantly in a blaze , and the apartment being a small attic , situated at the cross , the flames spread with rapidity . As there is no fire-engine in Dunblane the populace mustered and rendered every assistance in their power to extinguish the conflagration . The surprise , indignation , and alarm that took possession of the minds of the multitude may easily be conceived when it was ascertained that in the house adjoining the

      dwelling where the fare « ras raging , and which was occupied by another sub-contractor , and his family , on the same floor with the blazing apartment , and separated from it only by a very thin partition , there was stored nearly half a ton of gunpowder , similar to that used in railway mining operations ! On the first alarm of the fire being given , the proprietor of the gunpowder hastened into the premises , and carried off his family , his money , and the portable valuables which he could snatch up at the moment . When the danger from the gunpowder became known , John Nicholson , a mason , followed by a number of people , rushed up to the apartment , and succeeded in extinguishing the flames . No person was injured but the poor mother of the children , whose hands and arms were dreadfully burned in her attempts vainly to extinguish the fire , by pulling down the blazing furniture . —Stirling Observer .

      Darino Bobberies in Lambeth . —On Tuesday , information was received at the police stations , Lambeth , of the following robberies . On the 22 th inst ., about fifty yards of hemp carpeting was stolen from Mr . Mr . H . Hall , furnishing warehousemen , 70 , Westminster Bridge road . On the same day , a Brussels carpet was stolen from the shop of Mr . Adarason , Clapham Old Town ; and ninety-four yards of cotton tick , from outside the shop of Mr . Watson 7 , Upper Derset-place , Clapham-rood : also , from the shop window of Mr . Ellis , 66 , London-road , cards containing forty-five wedding-rings , about fifty gold keepers , of various pattci ns , and five or silx gold finger rings , with a cluster of pearls and a ruby in the centre .

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      1 J . YEj 1 jA 1 . 11 J , The food riots appear to be extending among the famishing peasantry . The influence of the Roman Catholic clergy hitherto available for calming the excited people seems to fail in this case . The Presentment meeting are the scene of groat excitement , not untrequentl y accompanied by violence . YoroHAi , —The scene at the adjourned extraordinary presentment sessions for the barony of Dacies within Drum , in the county of Waterfoxd , held in Clashmore , about three miles from Youghal , was frightful ; thousands were congregated there , most of them Lord Stuart '• tenants on Slieve Orslne mountains . These wretched

      people have held small patches of tbe mountain at a mere nominal rent , are quite paupers , and have lost their entire supply of food . The people wer « so dense it was almost impossible to get close to the court ; many were clamorous and violent for food , which was supplied to not a few from the shops and bouses of the village , but in such a small place , to so great an assemblage , it was no more than a drop in the ocean . The business of the sessions was dispatched with a good deal of confusion , nearly every work asked for was grantee , to the amount of thousands of pounds . As the proceedings were drawing to a close , it was apparent a bad spirit was abroad amongst tha people . Several expressions of a violent nature were made sespecting Lord Stuart ' s small subscription of £ 5 only to the relief fund , and also as to his having stated from the chair that lOd . a . day wa < ample wages , and that the work could not be commenced in less than ten days .

      When Lord Stuart , who was one of the last of the authorities to leave the Sessions-house , appeared amongst the crowd , their excitement grew to an intense pitch ; menaces , threats , and opprobrious epithets -were showered on him , which was succeeded by attempts at violence , With some difficulty he got into his carriage when immediately his servant put the horses iu a gallop , and flogged them most violently to keep them at the fullest speed . A party of Hussars , who were sent to protect his Lordship and keep the crowd back , were attacked by the mob , and a collision ensued . A ringleader , named Power , was very severely sabred , but was carried off by populace , when their assaults were redoubled ; several of the horsemen were severely hurt , and the force being small , they had to retreat for their lives to Lord Huntingdon ' s farm-yard , which v / at immediately barricaded . The crowd committed no violence on the inhabitants of Clashnwre , and left the place by degrees a « night approached .

      Thursday , a mob of thousands marched down to Mr . Fisher ' s mill at Pill town , just opposite Youghal , on the county of Waterford side , vowing vengeance if Indian meal was not sold for Is . per stone from the mill , and corn ground for Id , per stone ; they then proceeded , armed with stick , stones , spades , hammers ( such as are used in repairing roads ) , an 4 other weapons , to the Ferrypoint , just opposite tbe centre of the town , and considerable apprehension was excited that theymeuntto attack it , The magistrates had the military in readiness immediately to repel them , but they contented themselves with threats of vengeance against the ferrymen and boatmen should they carry corn or provisions over to tha Youghal merchants . Kiots have also occurred at Castle Martyr , and tbe military called in .

      Kilwobth . —On Monday night fires blazed , and horns sounded throughout the districts of Fernioy , Kilworth , and Araglin . Meetings of the relief committees had previously beeen appointed to be bold in Fermoy and Kilworth on the Tuesday . Early in the morning a threatening notice was found thrust under the hall door of the Earl of Mountcashel . Thousands poured into the town armed with weapons of husbandry , and a violent riot ensued , notwithstanding the magistrates had secured the assistance of a party of the 7 th regiment to aid in keeping the peace . Galwav . —The Galway Mercury oi Saturday says : —

      On Wednesday last , a great body of labourers and distressed-looking persons marched publicly , and for tbe most part of the day , through Loughrea . Seldom has it been the lot of this locality to witness such a spectacle of squalid poverty and ragged misery ; they carried in procession a loaf of bread fixed on a long pole . This is an appalling circumstance ; their cry—I must say , their peaceable cry—was for employment . The harvest is now almost gathered in ; there are no potatoes to dijr , which would give both food and employment , and the public works are put a stop to , Under such circumstances ,, it is not surprising that these distressed creatures should make some manifestations of their utter want .

      COUHTT OP WATEBFOKD . The Watcford Chronicle , in noticing the Tramore presentment sessions , says : — " We are happy to be able to state that , although there was an immense multitude of the labouring people outside the Seistons-houso during the meeting , that the greatest regularity and order was ob served , and every one seemed satisfied that tbe gen tinmen who attended the meeting , were anxious to do every thing to lessen their distress ; nevertheless , a company of the 1 st Dragoons , together with a large constabulary force , were in attendance , and paraded the town during the day . COUNTI OF LONGFORD .

      NoM-rATMENT op Rest . —On Sunday night last , an outbreak occurred in the district of country lying botween Grannrd , Arvagh , Ballinalee , and BulUnamuck . Last week , O . Johnston , agent , and George Maconchy , Esq ., arrived in this country , and the tenants were noticed that he would sit in Balriualee on Monday last to receive rent . There has been n general cry out since the failure of the potato crop that no * rent should be paid for this year ; a number of persons , amounting to between 300 and 400 , DO of whom were armed with guns , & c , visited almost every one of Mr . Maconehy ' s tenants' houses , on Sunday night , in the district

      abovenamed , swore some and threatened others that if they paid any rent to the agent , they would again visit them and take their lives . This to many of them , who merepreviously pre-disposed that way , was quite sufficient to prevent them , and consequently Mr , Johnston waited iu vain on Monday , to receive rent , but about 11 o ' clock , a large mob of persons , between 300 and 400 , headed by a man carrying a pole , with a loaf on the top of it , entered the town in a menacing way , and declared no rent should be paid by any one . The aid of the military was called in to disperse the crowd , but before this they had been Induced quietly to leave the town . It doss not appear , however , that the agent got any

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      county op KEitnr . Dingle , Sept 24 . —We had yesterday the whole population of half a dozen parishes parading with black flags , with the following inscription—" Trade , Work , Bread . " They paid Lord Ventry the compliment of tbe first visit , who assured them that every exertion had been made by the committee to give them speedy employment , and that the delay was the fault of the government . Tbaleb , Sept . ' 25 , —On Saturday last we heard persons declare they could not purchase a pound of Hour or oatmeal in the whole town ; and we have just heard that things are in the same state at tho present moment . Towards the evening of the above-mentioned day , crowds assembled at the baker ' s shops , fearful least they should bo disappointed in procuring a portion of tbe bread then in the oven .

      In the very midat of these ominous and afflicting occurrences , untouched by the distress which prevails unawed by the probable consequences , the eviction of tenantry by tho landlords proceeds , Tho Sligo Companion says : — A few days ego about thirty families were turned out by tbe sheriff , on tbe property of Sir HobertGove Booth , atLisadell ; when the sheriff went to execute the habere some of the poor people were , as we have been informed , ljingin fever , but this circumstance did not prevent " tho law-form taking its course , " A few of the families returned to their old dwellings , having no other place on God ' s earth to shelter them from the winds of heaven ; such an infringement upon the rights of property could not be tolerated ; they were summoned before tho magistrates at Teeson Petit Sessions , and on consenting to leave their hovels during the week the matter was . rranged . We are aware that these tenants were in arrear of rent , but was this a time to dispossess them ?

      PROVISION DEPOTS , The government officers have declared their Inability to provide depots in various localities owing to the shortness of their supplies . The importations upon wliich the government calculated are not expected for another month at least . Cr ooxhavbx . —Nothing could exceed the scene of appalling misery exhibited here this morning ( September 25 ) , by the destitution oi the labouring classes , who flocked in masses into tho village of Golen . They came together to proclaim their distress as intolerable , and ns having reached already the utmost limits of endurance . They said they were living in many instances for a long time back on one

      bad meal in the twenty-four hours ; that they vere dropping from hunger ; and that they might die themselves of want sooner than lay hands on their neighbourbour ' s substance ; but they could not bear to see tlieir little ones craving—crying for food , and not a morsel to put in their mouths ; that they were living too long on hope , and that the road relief will come too late , as they will not be able to work . The Catholic clergymen who were returning from stations addressed to them a few words , assuring them that no exertions were spared by the gentlemen of the Relief Committee to make known in the proper quarter their distress , and that in order to its alleviation , they would strive to get some roads opened as soon as possible .

      Emigration to America . —At no former period has emigration to America , especially amongst the class of small farmers , been more extensively prevalent than it is at present . So great is the panic excited by the prospect of approaching scarcity , that almost every taniily amongst the class referred to , who can raise the means of emigration , is removing to America , from every locality in the neighbouring counties . We had expected to be able to give a list of the average number of those who have left our port for the other side of the Atlantic during the last few weeks , but have been disappointed . We arc assured , however , on competent authority , that the number of these exiles has been really immense , while no symptoms of their diminution are jet visible . —Berry Standard , COUNTY OP KERRY . Lisiowbl , Sept . 25 . —The extraordinary aessiona

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      for the barony ot Iraghticonnor re-assembled this day . The court-house and avenues to it were densely crowded , and considerable excitement orevailed amongst the mass of the population . The presentments agreed to amounted to £ 23 ,

      000-AWFuL DISTRESS AND OUTRAGE IN CAttLBMARTTR . Sept . 24 . —To-day , about twelve o ' clock , a large body of men , about 100 , representing themselves as from the neighbourhood of Cloyne and Shangarry , famine and desperation depicted in their countenances , invaded this quiet and unprotected little town , carrying terror and destruction into the bakers Shops , but respecting all other description of property . Dire necessity alone , said they , is our excuse , we prefer to be shot dead at ence rather than encounter the horrors of starvation ; we are willing to work for fair wages , but that alternative is cruelly denied us . The gentlemen , said they , are leaving us to be fed by the government , and the government are leaving us to the gentlemen , who appear to be equally negligentinhasteningtoourrelwf . Employment or food is all we want ; and unless one or the other is speedily provided , we shall be forced by nature ' s first law , to come again , not in hundreds , but in thousands , and when God cannot , man should not , blame us .

      At the weekly meeting in Conciliation Hall , the usual letter from Mr . O'Connell was read , in which he repeated his suggestion of a committee of delegates , from the landlord ' s meeting in Dublin , and abused tbe English press , whose conduct at tbe present moment he described as " fantasticallyatrocious . " The meeting was very thinly attended . Rent £ 98 . ' Dublin , Sept . 27 . YotiNo InftLASJo Meeting this day . —Gubat Excitbment . —In consequence of an ad vei tisement which appeared in the Freeman ' s Journal , announcing a meeting of the friends of "free discussion , " including the seceders from Conciliation-hall , a vast number ol persons congregated about the Victoria Hotel , Bolton Street , long before the hour appointed for the meet

      ing ( half-past two ) . The steps of the ' hotel , ' an unoccupied tenement , was taken possession of by a number of the Old Ireland party , whilst the middle of the street was occupied by a heterogeneous mass of noisy humanity , whose voices certainly were loudest , and , as may be presumed in consequence , most numerous , for the venerable division of Irelandism . It appears that a dancing-master , named Pidgeon , rents the premises in which the intended assemblage was to have taken place ; and , as a ' public character' of this description has no politics , when he ascertained that there was likely to be an unruly assemblage in Terpsichore ' s region , he took to himself the liberty of padlocking the door of the room , which , by-the-bye , had been paid for by a person always looked upon as a " flaming repealer . " As the hour

      approached for the meeting , the crowd became denser , and the cries of the Old Ireland party , wh' > occupied tho steps , and planted thcmaelres against the door , demanding admittance , were met with shouts and jeerings by the juveniles in the street . Among the persons present were a number of Chartists , a very small number , for O'Connell's denunciation , some time ago , reduced them to an extraordinary tenuity . Captain Bryan , of llaheny , one of the late seceders , was to have taken the chair , and arrived amidst a sto- m of groans and hisses from the "Old Irelanders , " and per contra from their opponents . The captain , seeing how matters stood , walked about for a while upon the flags , which , with difficulty , the police kept clear , and , finding there was no chance of Old Ireland giving way ( tbe captain

      all the time unconscious , as were the ethers , that the owner of tbe arena had backed out of his bargain ) , the gallant chairman of Young Ireland departed , Seemingly well pleastd to have escaped the presidency of a meeting which promised so small a share of quietude to the holder of the intended oHice . At a quarter to 3 the crowd became denser and more noisy . And it is curious that the most noisy and energetic amongst the '' Young Irelanders" were the clerks ofan office in which a relative of Mr . O'Connell holds a situation which has been lately , if not now , in the hands ^ of a Conservative member of Parliament . The spirits ol the elders and the juveniles were beginning to effervesce , when a large force of police under Superintendent Ellwood made their appearance , and by their extreme ly good-natured and quiet conduct

      managed ( along with a little wholesome fear of proximate station-houses ) to cool the ardourof the physical force men—many of whom , as could be gleaned from their exclamations , did not ascribe too much " morality" to the occupants of the Old Ireland position . No likelihood appearing of the duor being opened , a step-ladder was hoisted over the heads of the persons on the steps of the "Victoria , " and Town Councillor Sheridan , who , as proprietor of the " Eagle Foundry , " was cheered , in his immediate vicinity , as a " man of mettle , " was called to the—ladder ! Standing upon this simple footing , he addressed the immense crowd , on the outskirts of which there were half-a-dozen orators , and so impartially were the cheers distributed , that none of the speakers had reason to complain on the score of encouragement .

      In the midst of this exhibition , ono- " \ tmng lrelander" dressed perfectly ad unguem , carried away by his enthusiasm , danced madly in the gutter , in order to manifest how " Dan was tripping the polka before the Saxon Victory . " It being totally impossible to hear one word , Town Councillor M'Keuna proposed ( from the steps , ) a vote of confidence in O'Connell . This was hailed with tremendous cheering inside the body of the meeting , and was received with the most unconscious uproar from without . The motion was seconded by a gentleman named Crooke , an extensive auctioneer , as I was informed . Another contest of lungs took place , and , after various essays on the pneumatic organs of each party , Myles Tobyn , Esq ., J . C , proposed , and Mr . Atkins , sword-bearer to the corporation , seconded a resolution condemning

      the ' . conduct of the "Young Ireland party , " who , standing up for " free discussion , " woula not allow arguments to be heard . Several individuals addressed the meeting from the steps , several others addressed them from the streets , but all were equally inaudible . The rain now began to pour down ; and , although the Boston magistrate quelled an Irish row , once upon a time , by letting fly cold water upon them from the fire-engines , the rain had not the effect of totally dispersing the assemblage , until the surcharged umbrellas , appetite for dinner , and the desire to see and hear the pledge administered by the Very Rev . Dr . Spratt , ( local rival of Father Matthew , ) neutralised the ell ' ects of the political fever , to which her Majesty ' s Dublin lieges had been so unexpectedly subjected .

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      LAMBETH . Dabino Hiohwat BouBBBy . —On Monday , Charles M'Donnell was charged before Mr . Elliott , with thb following impudent robbery . Jliss Elizabeth JtoJfte deposed that on the preceding night , about ten o ' clock , while passing through Vine-street , Waterlocroad , with a bundie on her arm , the prisoner rushed out of a court , and pushed against her with such violence , as to knock bur down , and snatching the bundle from her ran away as fast as he could . Witness got up a ? soon as she was able , and followed him . crying out " stop thief , " and be was ultimately captured in Stamford-street . When the police constable had secured and was about to remove the prisoner to the station bouse , a gentlcmiiH came up With the stolen property , and handingit to the constable , said he had picked it up in Frances-street , through which the prisoner had just before ran . The prisoner who refused toglve any account of himself , was remanded for a week .

      Wholesalb Swindling . —Mary Warwick , a middle age « female was charged with being concerned nitli u person named John Gibbs , and others in carrying on a wholesale system ol swindling by obtaining goods from manufacturers iu Birmingham , Wolverhampton , and Other places , and disposing of them the moment they came to bund . Gibbs , it appeared had hired a bouse in Brunswick-street , Camberwell , and the goods were received there by the prisoner , who gave receipts for them , and immediately they were left they were taken away again by Gibbs , The prisoner was remanded to give time to the parties victimized to trace out Gibbs and two or three others in concert with him , who are at prosent out of the way .

      Obtaining Goods undek False Pretences . —George Cuttress , the son of a highly respectable builder , was charged with having obtained from Mr . Alcoek , laths to the amount of £ 30 , under false pretences . The prisoner , who , it was s » id , had committed similar offences , and to a very considerable extent , was remanded for the at tendance of the necessary witnesses .

      WORSHIP STREET . Railwav Telegraphing . — On Monday , Benjamin Duniels , a master Butcher at Norwich , was charged before Mr . Broughton under rather singular circumstances , Mr . Thomas Ashton , ono of the Eastern Counties Railway officers , proved that on Saturday a telegraphic communication was received at the Shoreditch terminus from Norwich , giving an exact description of the prisoner , who was stated to be travelling in one of tho carriages of the train then on its way to London , and desiring that on his arrival he should b « detained , and given in charge to tbe police . The information not being sufficiently precise , the officers of Norwich were asked , through tbe telegraph , tbe nature of the charge for wliich the man was to be detained , and the answer returned

      was that he was charged with stealing £ Zi , and that his accuser was comingby the next train . The interchange of communication between Norwich and London having been efl ' ectcd with lightning-like rapidity , the prisoner was called aside , and told what ke was charged with , lie declared that he had stolen nothing , but made no resistance to his detention . On the subsequent arrival of his accuser , however , it appeared that instead , of hating stolen . £ 34 , he was to be charged with having obtained two b . 11 > cks of that value , with intent to defraud . John Baxte-, a butcher at Norwich , was now sworn , and said he ku w the prisoner there in the same way of business . On Thursday last he sold a live bullock for £ 1 " 7 s . 6 d , to the prisoner , who was to pay him for it on the following day in the Norwich market , but did not do so , Ho after-\ wds sold him tho carcase of another bullock , and on

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      Saturday morning saw and asked him for tho amount , t-H , which the prisoner promistd to pay him at twelva . oiock the same day . He failed in that appointment , ana complainant went fo , his house and saw his wife , wno intimated her belief thathe was gone off altogether , rnmnini P ? clt ? a UP ^ veral shirts and othir things . SS ™^* " ^ - « "ta «» "dth . thc h « l taken hU departure b y the tram to London , went to the Telegraph 0 fl . ee and paid 7 s . 6 d . for tho transmission of themilr-Th ! Z'Z * * ° CCas iT d the P , i 80 ner ' s » PPrehension . The prisoner declared that he had not the slightest in . tsntiun to defraud the complainant , but had the fullest iattmtionto pay him , bat not being , prepared to do so at the appointed time , in consequence of a disappointment he had himsell met with , he was unwilling to uieet him Mr , Broughton siid , that as the matter was now es ^ plained , he found that it was a case of debt , the subject of civil and not of criminal procedure , and not within his jurisdiction . He , therefore , discharged the prisoner out of custody .

      MANSION HOUSE . A reil Irishman , named John Burke , appeared be . fore Alderman Gibbs to give evidence against a fellow named Richard Carter , in appearance a coolwbipper , oa a charge of robbery . The complainant walked into Court in a state of evident astonishmeot , with his hair standing an end , his large neck and chest bare , and hiz eyes staring . He did not seem to understand anything whatever about the business upon which his presence was n quired , until the prayer-book , with the cross upon it , was put into his hand . Charles Everett , brother to a licensed victualler , 31 , Tower-street , stated that on Thursday evening th complainant , who had been hopping in K (; nt , walked into the house with four sovereigns , the fruit of Ins hard labour , stitched up in tho waistband of his brtechec . Witness persuiided him to leave tb « money in care of the house ,

      and next morning tbe prisonar , who had been lingering after the poor man , applied for it , but witness , of course , refurcd to let any one have it but the owner , to whom the snverdigns were delivered , with a caution as to tho person who had so unwarrantably applied f ,. r them . As tho complainant seemed to be rather unacquainted with London life , witness determined to watch him to tlio ¦ learner in which he was abont to depart for Ireland , and had not gone far whon he observed the complainant and the prisoner go into a public-house , where the former laid down upon tbe table the four sovereigns , and the prisoner took up three of them , stating that he would take the owner to Dublin and keep his money safe for him The complainant contentedly pocketed the odd sovereign , a . \ d the prisonar then endeavoured to get away by stratagem , and certainly woul I have escaped if proper means had not been taken to secure him . In the

      stationhouse the prisoner denied that he had the money , but afterwards delivered it up , not , hswerer , without a threat io mark and do for witness when ho should gat out of quod . J hn Burke was ' then called . Burke : Why , then , here I am , sure . —Alderman Gibbs ; Where do you come frnin , my friend ?—Burke : Oh , I came from Castle Carberry : it ' s ov-r in the county of Cork . —Alderman Gibbs : Yeur have been boppinu here ?—Burke : Yes ; I cm hop , and 1 can reap , and I can mow ; sure enough , wasn ' t I bred and born iu it?—Alderman Gibbs : What have ynu to say about the sovereigns you had 1—Burke : Why , 1 have one of them here ( pulling out a sovereign ) . —Alderman Gibbs ; But what have you to say about the other three ?—Burke ( pointing to three sovereigns which had been taken from the prisoner ) : Why , there they are plain enough . ( Laughter . )—Aldermsn Gibbs : Tell me , In your own way , how you got rid of them .

      Burke : Oh ! by my suol , that £ ntleman ( pointing to the prisoner ) can tell you as welt as me . Well , it w > is this way . I had my four sovereigns to go home wid , and I goes into this gentleman ' s ( Everett's ) house to lodge , and he makes me give him the money till morning . Wcl , in the morning he counts out my money to me , and tells me to take care of it , and not to trust it to anybody but myself ; so the gentleman there ( prisoner ) comes up to me ' and towld me there was a steamer going to Dublin , and he'd carry me in it for he was going there too . Well , I shows him the money , and we went and had some beer and backy together , and he let me pay for it . So then , says he , show me the four sovereigns , and I did , and he gave me one of them to piy my passage wid , and he put the other three in bis pocket ; and , says he , they ' re as safe there as in the bank —( laughter)—so bo

      promised to take care of'em , for I tould him to be sure to mind 'urn for me , that I might bring ' em home safe to Castle Cftrberry Alderman Gibbs : How could you expect to get them after thoy got into the hands of such a man as this!—Burke : Eh , why them , God knows I never thought of that—Alderman Gibbs : Did jou know him at all ?—Burke : No ; I never saw him afore .- — Alderman Gibbs : And how could you think of entrust , ing yonr money , after the caution you got from Mr , Everett , to a perfect stranger ?—Burke : Sure , how could I know he was a rogue , when I never set my eyes on him afore ?—Alderman Gibbs : Well , prisoner , what hive you to say to this charge of robbing this poor fellow ?—The prisoner : —I never robbed him , my lord . He gave me the three sovereigns to keep for him , for I saw that he was notable to take care of thtm himself . ( Lauchter . ) I was going over to Dublin myself , aud I thought it a pity to let him be exposed to the thievery of his own countrymen . —Alderman Gibbs : —So you dalervn ' med to save them Ibo trouble 1—BufUe ' . Faith ,

      if it wasn't for this gentleman ( Mi . Everett ) , I don't think that gentleman ( the prisoner ) would be so honest as to give up the money . Upon my soul I don't b'lieve I'd be a farden the btttber for coming over . —Alderman . Gibbs : You ought to hn very much obliged to Mr , Everett , and I have no doubt that yoa are . But for him , your money would havo gone . —Burke : Oh , thin , God knows I thank him , and I'll f-ivehim shares of it if he likes . — Mr . Everett said he would not take the value of a pint of beer from the poor Irishman , whom herejoieed in being able to serve . The prisoner . I assure you , my lord , it ' s all a mistake about me . —Alderman : No ; I'll show you there ' s no mistake at all about you . I'll send you for three months to hard labour in Bridewell , As for Burke , I shall take care that in his way to ths steamer he shall meet no other gentlemen who will volunteer to take care of his mouey . The officer will accompany him to the steamer , and give him his money on board . —Burke Why , thin , good luck to you , and the Lord bless you all but you ' re good people . ( Lsughtcr . )

      SOUTHWARK . A young female attended for the pupose of making au application relative to her desertion by her husband , under the following singular circumstances . She stated that two years ago she married a man much older than , herself , with a grown-up family , and until very recently they had lived as comfortable as possible together . She had now two children by him , and her step-children wero in the habit of ill-using them . She called upon her husband for protection , but instead of taking her part , be had clandestinely left her and her children to starve . Her stepson , a young man about 25 years old ( about her

      own age ) , had bijeii the cause of his leaving her ; in fact , he had forced his father away ; therefore , the purport of her application was to obtain a warrant to apprehend the youn , » man for stealing her husband . ( Laughter . ) Mr . Seeker said the application could not be acceded to . She ought not to have married an old man with a grown-up family , for she might have expected to be aunojtd by them , as they must certainly feel exasperated at his bringing a young wife home to rule over them . The applicant said she did not wish to have her husband » ent to gaol , but the son ; and finding her application was not attended with the success she anticipated , she left : he Court , evidently much diappointed .

      THAMES STREET . Robberies bv a Lodger . —On Monday , two women , named Jane Tver , alias Morris , and Elizabeth Simpson , the wives of marines stationed at Woolwich , were brought before Mr . Ballantine , charged with having stolen a gold watch value £ 21 , a silk scarf , a piece of merino , and other property , valued in all at £ -50 , belong , ing to Mr . George Morgan , landlord of the Sur publichouse , Parson ' Island , St . George in the East . It appeared that the prisoner Tycr oceupiud a room in the prosecutor ' s Loise in May last , and she then represented she was the wife of a sailor . The other prisoner was in the habit of visiting her , and sometimes sleeping with her . After the prisoner Tyer had lift the house , Mr . Morgan missed the gold watch and appendages , with oilier property . He was unable to trace the property or

      the thieves until Sunday night , when Mrs . Simpson called on him in a half-drunken state , with the wife of another marine . She was wearing a searf on her shoulders which Mrs . Morgan identified as her property , and gave Simpson into custody . The prisoner then made a statement that * hc had bought a pawnbroker ' s duplicate re . luting to the scarf , and a piece of merino of the prisoner Tyer , who had formerly passed as Mi-j . Morris , and intimated thnt Tyer knew all about the gold watch , aHd other property , and that she bad made a fine haul while she lived in Mr . Morgan ' s house . In consi-quenre oi this statement , Blake , a police-constable , was sent down to Woolwich , where he apprehended Tyer , who criminated Simpson . The lodging of the latter in the same town was searched , and a pawn ticket relating to a piece of merino , part of the stolen property , was found there . When Blike asked Simpson how she became possessed of the merino , she made the same statement as she had made to Mr . Morgan , that Simpson bad » uld her the duplicate

      of that and other articles pledged at the same time , and that she had redeemed the whole , keeping tin : silk scarf , and pawning tho merino again . The principal witness against the prisoners was another marine ' s wife , named Emma Smith , who said she lived in Woolwich , and had heard the prisoners quarrelling about the property stolen from some tavern in Wapping , where Tyer had bei u lodging . She afterwards saw Mrs . Tyer , who s . iid she had sold a gold watch at Stepney Pair , last Whitsuntide , to a man in a sparring booth lor £ 2 , and that , if Mrs . Simpson did not mind what she said , she would floor her , and she would get killed next Horn Fair at Charlton . Mr . Ballantine : When did she tell you that ?—Mrs . Smith : Last Saturday morning . Mr . Morgan said , that the prisoner Simpson miido u similar statement about the gold watch , which he valued at £ 24 . Mr . Ballantine gave direction to Blake to trace the watch and other pro . perty if he could possibly do so , and remanded the prisoners till Thursday .

      MARVLKBO SE . ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A YouM Fema « - Ann Dunn , a girl about fifteen years ot age , was cha ( red with having attempted to commit suicide ; her clothes were completely Jtuated with water . Mr . Skinner , a surgeon , residhlg at 1 C , Aldenham-terrace , Soraers Town , deposed that on tho same day , soon after one o ' clock , as he was passing by Gloucester-gate , lxegeufs-pwli , ha

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 3, 1846, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_03101846/page/7/