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      6 The Northern Star. July 5, 1851.

      6 THE NORTHERN STAR . JULY 5 , 1851 .

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      Health or Loxdo-y—In th- ^ week ending last Satin . ' -. ! - the dea lis ivni--e : ed in the ii : «; n « p' > litan districts amounted to 1 , 032 . In 'he ten corresponding wi-cks of the years ISll-a ' the average mi , 'ber —as 'J 2 i ; if , for ihe sa '* e of be't-r coiunaii-o .-, this avrrag ** no raised in tbe raiioof incrt-ase of - npulation { which , during the last fifiy years , was 1 . 773 per t-.-nt . sHin-jally ) , ii will become . 1 , 016 an am uut -which dilf-ia no ; materially ion , ihe m'i W m » - icturii' -d . It will be ob-ei-vc > l tbar tht-n- is an increase of more tl . au 00 < m 'he wei-k nnnvuia'elv preceding , when « hc deaths were OCS . b ' u'tbis excels is not the effret of increast-il m-ri-ni'v : ii is i . ue

      ± - » cz ^ 's wlieie csror . ers have ht-id iuquPMS . in many Of which . llll . U . jil they 0 curie ! a * < -a . lii-rd .-ise . - i ) i < i-ea > irHsi"n had nut bei-n i-omp f-ifd till t In .- < - < i' < < U thf quarter . Sfuddcn deaths , undo which doign .-i'ion arc c-as-. s in which persons ha ^ v lit- n u > u : \ A . '< ad , or have died > ud ieni , and \\\ r l , i ; -. il disc < se ha- no bt > n iiscei iiiiiii-d—; iif . -.-, wlm-h in the j-revious return " Wert- on y * . have rUen last week to - 'H . Hut th « |! r .- ; a sr . ai ri-y of il ^ ilfr'S is ..: i drain * Ir .-m vii > - Jc .-ce , i-nva-mn . i : ;'< -mi > -r ; - * : ' - Ac . * ml in ibis Cb : > tii . ' i : u : iilvr has bi-.-n i » «• = '« " «¦ ' " '' Kt , ' - re-urns aiK've 'he aver .- ! , ! -, in the Ji-rrm-r w-es amouo . ins * ' * - ' - » ' tbe lai > : r to * i l .- < ihe pn-en * list the dcthso ' " 'J -icmuis : ir « asnribrd lo y ? vati ( ii , m ~ "' i ! iK' ! ni > eiaiire , ' 2 to want <> f ' 'le . i-t milk or ii ' . ini-i « ii , $ t (> poison , 7 '<> Sums ad si-.-ilds . 1

      to li'ii . iiii ; or suliucatini-.. IS io _ dmw » in-f , -II to fractures a ~ dc'illusions ( ciii < -flv from < airi-iL' * s and fa : JsJ « id 0 to wountis an : other injury Tiie present . r--: U' '« shoai'S th : it lb-- in-. i- 'ali-y ton , ili-ragrs of ihi : » rua--s of re .-pinHJon continues tot-xc . -fd tinusual am-iuiii at ibis period : the deaths in ibis < -Ia * s -were 1-1 . « iiil- 'he corree'ed avrrace is OS . Phthisis -was fatal to K 5 persons , which e . itiVrs li-ile ••• m 'h > - « 3 ; iu , aic-d ii .. inbT . The fatal ea ^ e * included in the 2 ynuitic or epidemic ela 9 < have ri-pn fr « = n » OO- ^ in the preceding week to 21 S in the last , f-mallpns carried off 21 children , and 3 persons above 15 vear-= ; meases was fatal to 41 children , scariatii >» to K . hoopinit cou . h to 40 . croup to 5 . thrush to 4 . diarriitci to 1 ( 5 children and 3 acini's , lyphus < 0 33 persons- Uut this cl-tse is : o-1 in - he aggregate , abov ,-

      the average , thouuh measles mid hoop'iie i-ou « h are app . - ue . -itly rather prevalent Ii was n : enti'n « l -. hove thai two persons died of privation . The following are the particulars of tbe cases : —At the workhouse , lViiitecbapel , on ihe 21 st Jna--, a lab-nrer , aired 60 yeais , died « f" siarvnuon . " He was brought by the police from Angel-alley . At the London Hospital , on the 21 st June , a labourer , aired 42 years , died a * ' sudden death accelerated by want . "' An inquest —as held in this case . The following are the particulars of a case < -f cholera which was registered last week : —At 54 . lli ; l- * treet Walworth , on 20 tb of June , a carpenter , aged 60 years , died oi cholera ( 14 davs . ) chronic disease of the stomach , 2 years . I Certified bv medical attendant . The births of 716

      -hoys , 723 girls , in all 1 , 439 children , were registered Jast week . The average number in six corresponding weeks of lS 4 b-50 was 1 , 423 . At the K ... yal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean daily readi-ig of the barometer was above 30 in . on every day after Sunclay ; and the mean of the week was 30 . 032 in . I he mean daily temperature was below the averages of corresjioudin ? davs as derived from the observations often yearn , on Sunday , Monday , and Tuesday ; and on the lour remaining day ? wa « successively 2 . 7 deg ., 6 . 6 de .., 07 deg , and 0 deg . above the respective averages . The mean temperature of the week was 62 . 3 deg- The wind was fur the most , part in the north-west on tlu- first three days 5 it then changed io south-west , but was frequently calm during the rest of the week .

      Two Lives Lost os the TUvek . — On Sunday cveuin « a party of five young men were rowing a small wherry on the river , and on nearing Blackfriars Bridge they ran tbe nose of the boat completely under the bows of a steamer , putting in at the steamboat pier . The smaller boat capsized , and the five individuals were immersed . Mr . "Ware , the pier master , immediately despatched a number of his men to render assistance , and owing to their exertions , the whole five were got out of the river and having been landed on the pier , ran of , leaving the boat they had been in drifting about at the pier . The excitement had barely subsided , when two

      youths , named respectively , Bentley and Davies , - who had been witnessing the rescue of the five persons above alluded to , slipped off the edge of the sewer leading from the Fleet ditch , and were forced by the current into the Thames . Xeery , a pierinan . and others were despatched to the spot , and would no doubt have succeeded in saving tbe two unfortunate persons , but just as they were about to lay hold of the hair of their head , the steamboat Citizen E came np and washed both out of the reach of the men . The drags were imroe--diately procured , and the river was dragged for nearly two hours , but without effect .

      Fatax . Occ trhesce is Rottes-row . —On Monday afternoon , Mr . Bedford held an inquest at St . George ' s Hospital , on view of the body of Mrs . Sophia Martin , aged sixty-six , the wife of a retired publican , who died in that institution . —William Urown , a butler , living in Brown-street , Grosvenorsquare , deposed that on tbo evening of the 6 th of June lie saw the deceased , in Hyde-park , attempting to cross Rotten row , but , havingjustgotoff the footpath , she stopped on seeing the approach of a lady and gentleman on horseback . The lady was looking v . deways in the contrary direction to deceased , whom , on nearing , her horse having its bridle loose and going at a smart canter , veered towards her , and , before she cou'd recede , knocked her down senseless . Witness raised her up , aud at

      the same rime calling after the lady , tbe latter , ami the gentleman who accompanied her , came back , when , without making any remark , they turned their hordes * beads , and rode off . Witness , thinking that probably some limb was broken , placed her in a cab and brought her to the hospital . The lady and gentleman alluded to were strangers to him , but wiiiie tbty were viewing what had happened , a gentleman rode up , who made his obeisance to them , which they returned , and that gentleman he recognised to lie " Mr . W . Rrid , of the firm of lleid and Co . ' s , the brewers . —Mr . Murray , house surgeon ofthe hospital , said tbat on deceased ' s admission sin ; had a fracture of the right ankle , which

      after a few days was followed by severe inflammation , ending in » angrene , under which she sank , and die . ! on Friday last . —A friend of the deceased ' s said lie had written by tbat afternoon's post to Mr . Iteid , with a view to ascertain who the lady and gentleman were ; as he thought it cruel of them , after seeing what had happened , to ride away , without giving their cards or names . —The coroner and iurv thought such an act unexplained disgusting and unfeeling - , and the only question being whether there was any criminality attached to the ladj , to endeavour to procure her personal attendance , as well as to obtain other testimony , the inquiry was adjourned for a week .

      Daring Uobbbrt at the Yatjxiuix Railway Station-. —On Tuesday some little consternation was excited in Tauxball by the announcement that during Monday night , or at a very early hour on Tuesday morning , the station ofthe South-Western Railway had t ) e « ii trolien open , and two cash drawers forced , and £ 5 taken from one of them , which had been left on the over nig ht as change for the early down train . The authentic facts of this at present mysterious robbery are . that on Tuesday morning , a little after six o ' clock , Dixon , one of the porters , went to tne station to open it for the day ' s business , kiting himself in by the door on the South Lamb-th ' side of the station , which is ascended by a flight of steps , and is level with the platform ^ and is used during the daytime for the

      exit of the passengers by the Richmond and Windsor lines . On crossing the line , the porter was surprised io find a window communicating with the booking-office wide open ; one of the large and tolerably thick panes of g lass had been starred with a bradawl or a nail at one corner , by which a piece of glass had been taken out , large enough to admit a man ' s hand , and by tbat means the catch of the window was unfastened , and an entry effected There then was no difficulty in unbolting a half door , and so gainisg access to the ca ? h drawers , two of them only being used for receiving money , and both lined with iron , and secured by Bramah ' s patent detector loc '^ s . Both these locks had been literally forced out of their settings , and the one belonging to the drawer in which the cash was had been entirely removed , with the bolt in the position it would be ' when locked , and placed on the counter . 5 o other damage would seem to have been done to the premises , or any other property ,

      consisting of parcels , ± e ., removed ; but a considerable time must have elapsed in effecting this burglary . About one o ' clock the premises were safely locked up , and tbe keys deposited of all the doors ) except the one mentioned , with which all the porters and other partVs employed are supplied , with the porter who slVcps on the premises . From an examination of the premises it is possible for a person to secrete himself under the staircase , and bv climbing tbe railings get on to the platform , and so . by -way of the window alluded to , get into the offi : e . A lad named Cook between eight and ten vears of age was discovered under the staircase , and when found said , If . was not me , I didn ' t do it , " thouch at that time no oneh-id informed him that a robberv had been committed . Ho w . aS taken before Mr TJeadon at Wandsworth police court , when the above facts were briefly gone into bv \ lr R 0 < e the agent , and the porter , Dixon , the * priSone / bein < r remanded for a week , when probably , in the intei ? vd , a party suspected will be apprehended .

      The hts Charge agaisst the Master op St r . \ SCKAS WOKKHOUSE . —DjtATII OF EtlZA Smith . — The unfortunate Eliza Smim , aged sixteen , died on Sunday morning . Mr . Billett , at the meetin" of t ie board of ruardLins , moved that a coroner ' s inqu-st sh . mhl ' be held on the body , when the resoluli-. n wn * carried by a large majority . Sixgllas accidents . —On Monday afrernoon and Tuesday morning the inhabitmts of Ronpeli-street , lii . jtiii , were alarmed owing to the following

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      ncchb-iiTs occurring , o . ve ef which was nearly atte :: ded w . ih disastrous consequences to six or eight children : —It appears tha : whilst a man was engiired painting a . large brick and timber building , wnn-ii extends into the above street , and which is used f"r a stabling and provender store ? , he espcrif'lced n svravi « t « sensation , similar to a vibration of tins cnii ' n . lie at once suspected that tho building was about to fall , which induced him to make a hasty ivtroaf down the ladder . He had just time to gam terra fmna and to remove the children who wer- playing u nder the wall , when the whole buihli „_ f .-li witii a fearful crash . Had it not been for the activitv displayed by the painter , it is quite

      proii , l > le that most ofthe children would have been buried amid . « t the rubbish . As it was about fourn-n cows , that were in the lower floor , were buiied tinccr ihe debris ; hut a number of men bavin " b-i . n <« -t to work , they soon succeeded in rescuin " thi ' iiftV'glited ardmals , some of them being much cm and l . ruiscd by the f . tllen materials , but none - . vi-re ' illed . On Tuesday moi-nii : < r another similar creni-m , but in a more distant . " part of 1 he vard , - »! - <> f .- ! l , bur . fortunate '} - was not attended " with more disastrous results than the first occurrence . The j-iaRiii . of cue of the end walls , it is presumed , ctuscd both buildings to settle , an 1 hence the cause ( if i . ' ie

      liiisehiff-CArrrnE or T-. vo Mcr . nEHr . ns . —On Wednesday , iid ' -. i tiiaiion -. vas received at the be : id police station , Scoi ' and-yard , that James Loynus , who effected his .-. se-ipe after mim ' eiiiig an Austrian sailor , named Giiis . 'ppo S-tmucan , in Whit moor-lane , Cardiff , had b-f- ! i apin-ebc : ided by the Xewhridge p'diee ; and t » at Miry Iloireis , the wretched woman who di-invu" 4 ! um- infant on the 24 tli ult . in a fish-pond -it WiUtone , had been apprehended by the Shropshire eoii .-tabulary , and committed for trial for wil' " u ! murder . Fevi-. r is IIolbos . v Union * . —The number of eases of tvver sent to the hospital fronuhe Holbom Union , during tbe three months , from Lady-day to Midsummer , was : from Pheasant-court , thirty-nine , fifteen of which were from one house ; Georgealley , seven ; Field-lane , one ; from other places , el .-Vell .

      Kr . crji . AR Education . —On Wednesday evening a publto meeting was hold at the Lecture-ball , Yauxhall-bridgc-road , Westminster , for the purpose of forming a people ' s institute , in which the main feature shall be secular education and popular progress . The chair was occupied by Lawrence lleywortii , E ^ q ., M . P ., who in opening the proceedings expressed the sympathy he entertained towards the operative classes , and the anxious desire he felt for t ! i « promotion of all those institutes and objects which bad the welfare of those classes sincerely at heart . Letters of apology for non-attendance , but cxprcssini ; approval ofthe objects ofthe association , were read from C . Lushington , Esq ., M . P „ R . Col-den , Esq ., M . P ., General SirDe Lacv Evans , M . P ., J . Fox , Esq ., M . P ., T . S . Buncombe , Esq .,

      M . P ., Sir Joshua Walmsiey , M . P ., die . Mr . Walford moved tho first resolution , which was to the following effect * . — " That tho meeting deplored the want of secular education amongst tho masses resident in Westminster and Pimlico , and regretted that , so large a district should be without at least one people ' s institute , in which secular education should be a prominent feature , and democratic popular progress should be an ever-prevailing object , and pledged itself to take immediate steps to remedy so glaring and grievous an evil , " —Mr . J . J Lockhart , F . S . A ., seconded the resolution , which was supported by Mr . Lowry , and unanimously

      carried . —The second resolution , which was also proposed , seconded , and carried , was to the effect that as ground suited for the purpose of such an institute was now available in the immediate vicinity of New Victoria-street , the meeting pledged itself to form a company of shareholders , under the name and style of "The People's Institute Association , " for the purpose of raising funds and erecting and conducting sueh institute , and that shares he issued , the instalments on which be payable at not less than threepence per week . The proceedings terminated with the usual vote of thanks to the chairman .

      Pdblic Baths and Wash-houses . —Last week the number of bathers at the Model Establishment , Goutston-square , Whitechapel , was 6 , 978 , being 1 , 577 more than the corresponding week of last year . The excess at St . Martin-in-the-Fielda' establishment is about 350 . St . Marylebone establishment has an excess of 1 , 69 ( 5 , and the St . Margaret and St . John , Westminster , establishment , recently opened , numbered upwards ot 6 , 000 . The total number of persona who availed themselves of tho accommodations provided at the four metropolitan establishments above referred to were as follows : —31 , 381 bathers , 2 , 284 washers ; and the linen of upwards of eleven , thousand persona was washed , dried , and ironed .

      Metropolis Water Bill , — An order of the house , with the consent of the parties promoting and opposing this bill , has been issued for printing de die in diem the evidence taken before the committee . Petitions against the bill have been preserved from the Metropolitan Sanitary Association and from the commissioners for paving and lighting Woolwich ; also from St . Anne ' s , Liuveh'i-i S'i , *« iU one fiom Westminster in favour Foreign Yisitohs to the Tower of London . — The alarm fever has not quite subsided . Will it be bt-iieved , it is now the custom that whenever 300 visitors are in the fortress , the gates are immediately closed , and a pick of thirty men of the Guard are turned out , and remain underarms until the warders report the clearance of the illustrious bearded foreigners ? What a farce this appears to be—why the warders alone could watch the above number . We hope the Govornor will discontinue this foolery , or he will become tbe laughing stock of the whole continent . —United Service Gazette

      Renovation of Temple Bar . —On Monday morning before the general traffic of the day began , a number of workmen arrived at this ancient entrance to the city with scaffolding , ropes , and tools ., and in a short time were seen busily engaged removing the accumulated incrustations of years from its exterior . The stone work is to be scraped and the wood painted so as to present an aspect approximatively clean when her Majesty passes through to the entertainment atGuildhull . The Stkpnet Lectureship . —Much to the surprise of the congregation attending divine service in the parish church of Stepney , the doors of the sacred building were found closed on Sunday afternoon last . The hostility of the rector to the newlyelected afternoon lecturer , and the excitement which on Sunday week attended the attempt ofthe former to obstruct the latter in the exercise of his

      duty , have been already stated in our last week ' s paper . A notice which was posted last Sunday OH the doors , informed the parishioners that the Bishop of London had requested Mr . Poole , the lecturer elect , to abstain from preaching for the present—a request which that gentleman would comply with . Tub Water Question and the ClTT COURT OF Sewebs . —On Tuesday a court was held in Guildhall—Mr . Deputy Peacock in the chair . After several minor applications had been considered , Mr . 11 . L . Taylor said that although it might be out of order , be could not refrain from noticing the bill in parliament on the subject of tbe water supply to the inhabitants of the metropolis—a question in which every individual was most deeply interested , inasmuch as the health , happiness , and comfort of

      the community depended in a great measure upon a proper aupply of the article . He had not yet learned the particulars of the decision to which the City Lands Committee had arrived upon the subject of opposing the measure in parliament , although he had been given to understand that the report was to have been brought up on Thursday last in the Court of Common Council . How , he must say , that a more iniquitous measure was never devised by the perverted invention of man than that most pernicious monopoly . The bill would give a power to the Secretary of State with which no man ought to be entrusted , and fie hoped the community would unite as one man to defeat so

      monstrous and ruinous a proposition . —Mr . Waterlow ( the chairman of the City Lands Committee ) assured Mr . Taylor that , in the bustle of the Court of Common Council , towards tho conclusion of the very busy day , the report alluded to was , in some way or other , overlooked . It was , however , a report he would take upon himself to say , in which every member would concur ; for it condemned , in the strongest terms , the alarming tendencies of the measure in paaliament . The committee agreed unanimously in the document , which spoke , of the bill as the concentration of existing monopolies , as a giant , which , if not crushed at once , would burden the whole community with an expenditure the most oppressive and tyrannical .

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      Famise is ids Highlands . —The Royal Patriotic and Industrial Society of Scotland hare issued a circular describing the deplorable condition of the islands and West Highlands , and earnestly solicit the support of the public . It appears that the consequences of the potato famine of 1816 have never been repaired , a great portion of the population being still destitute . * that the resources on which they had been supported up to last September , at the rate of lib . or ljlb of meal

      per day are exhausted ; and that now thousands are in absolute want , and driven either to beggary or cmi-rratioa , or tempted to steal . They state that , by " helping the poor to help themselves " —that i « , by assisting the industrious with small sums to take plots of ground and cultivate themby employing the able-bodied in model school f-irms , and by other similar economical plans of rural industry , & e ., —multitudes of deserving but needy families may be rescued from penury and starvation .

      " AcQCismvE-NEss" i . vExcEss . —A young woman who had been imprisoned at Bedford for felon ? com not restrain her thieving propensities even in ¦ Mol . when her term of imprisonment expired , she ^ " *?' i ! i * ? i . leftthe i ' «» -. «« l various arucle > , with ( S . oj , „ money , were found upon her , W iidi sue Jiau Stolen Jrom the assistant matron .

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      Fihe at Nottingham . —On Saturday afternoon last a fire broke out in the workshop of Mr . Middle ton , carver aud gilder , AVoolpack-lane , Nottingham . The town engines were , speedily on the spot , but the ilames raged io violently that the most strenuous efforts of the men were unavailing , and in half an hour the floors and roof fell in . The middle shop contained the tnols , and was used as a picture frame manufactorv , and in the top room were the various moulds and the preparations used for guildiiig , together with a number of valuable prints ; the lower floor was occupied as a storeroom . While the flames were raging furiouslv Mr . Middleton , at the risk of his life , rushed into ' the top shop for the purpose of securing some papers and books of importance . Notwithstanding he was much singed about tbo head , he

      would have gone a second time to bring away a < : e k containing some particular moulds , but he was held hack bv his neighbours , who perceived his gr .-at danger . ' Immediately afterwards the floors fell in . ft was soon apparent that the shop could not be saved , and the firemen directed their attention to k .-eping the flames from the surrounding property , in which efforts they were fortunately successful . By six o ' clock the tire was extinguished , but not befon : Uiebuildins : was completely gutted . The calamity originated in the following manner - —A iktle before f ., i ] i- o ' clock Mr . Mithlletmi gave directions to one of his apprentices to sweep up the shavings , in the middle room and burn them in a corner used for

      that purpose . In carrying tins order into effect the lad p iled the shavings too ) ii f , 'li , and on applying u light some of them rolled down on to the wooden fbior and ignited others which lay scattered » b- > ut . He ran for a bucket of water and attempted to extinguish the flames , but , being unable , he cried out for assistance . -Mr . iliddleton holds the premises on a lease , the owner being Mrs . Fowler , of Shirebrook , He had intended to insure the stock and building in a tew weeks . The loss altogether is estimated at nearly £ 1 , 000 , including the building ; had it happened a few weeks ago it would have been considerably more , as at that time the premises were filled with p ictures and frames of great value .

      Chimj Muroer at Liverpool . —On Saturday 1 last an inquest was held before the coroner of Liverpool , on view of the l-ody of a fine female infant , which had been found dead in Falkner-street hy the police on the previous day . The evidence addnee-i was conclusive as to the death having been ociasioned by suffocation , and although no direc * testimony was adduced at the inquest affording a clue to the unnatural parent , so tbat tbe jury were c impelled to return a verdict of "Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown , " the p-lice have since made such discoveries as if substantiated will affect persons hitherto bearing irreproachable cha racters and occupying most respectable positions in society . Tub Feimley Murder —A good many rumours and statements having b « en circulated with regard to the disposal of the accomplice in the above melancholy affair , it may not ho uninteresting to the public to know how the matter really stands . At the

      conclusion of the trial Mr . Baron Parke , who tried the case , signed a . warrant ordering the accomplice to be kept in custody till the next assizes , and at the conclusion of the assizes he was taken back to the county gaol , Horsemonger-latie . He has repeatedly complained of the course adopted by the authorities towards him , and a few days back he requested the attendance of Mr . Neale , tho solicitor who conducted the defence , and that gentleman , at his ( Smith ' s ) request , has addressed a memorial to the Secretary of State setting forth the facts of the case , and requesting Sir George Grey to ful 5 l the conditions under which Smith consented to give evidence , and also claiming a portion of the reward . No answer has yet been received to this memorial ; but it is understood that the intention of the government is to hand over a small sum of money to Smith , and make some arrangements that will remove him from this country .

      Thh BALtor . —The liberals of Bath in consequence of the various cases of intimidation , which came under their notice at the recent election , have drawn up a petition to the House of Commons in favour of the ballot . The petition has been laid down in several parts of the city for signature , and no doubt a large number of names will be appended to it . Kew Air Gun . — -Mr . Arstal ) , of Birmingham , exhibited , on the 27 th ult , to a number of scientific gentlemen in Liverpool , his newly-invented airgun , by means of which fr . un ISO to 200 bullets may be discharged in rapid succession , without other ammunition than a small reservoir of air , carried by the operator , attached by a gutta-percha tube to the stock of the gun . The whole apparatus is lighter than a common musket , and the inventor perforated a thick plank , with some scores of bullets , in a few seconds , indenting a plate of iron at the back by each bullet .

      Charges of Malversation against Public Officers at Liverpool . —Considerable excitement was created here by aome very extraordinary disclosures made last week ia the dock committee relative to aMejed abases aaa \ na \ veTsat \ ons amotig the officers employed in the dock surveyor ' s department . These practices are stated to have been carried on for some years past ; and a sub-comruittee has been appointed to take sueh steps in the matter as may be deemed most advisable . It is stated that the buying and selling of situations has been general j and that pemons have received the full amount of their salaries , in some instances as much as £ 200 a year , although absent from their duties the whole summer ; one man , who died in 1847 ,

      appears in the books as having been fully employed down to 1849 , his widow continuing to receive her deceased husband ' s wages even after she had married a second husband ; another man received wages and sick money , and even his funeral expenses , seventeen months before liis death ; bakers , joiners , tailors , and carters , said to be wholl y unfit and incompetent , have been appointed at high salaries , as foremen and clerks ; and mere boys have been paid 30 s . a week while out on pleasure excursions for several weeks together . The sensation created among all classes in Liverpool by these disclosures is not to be described ; and the most intense anxiety is manifested as to the proceedings which the Town Council will institute when the committee ' s report comes before them .

      Voluntary Surrender or A Sklf-accuskd Murdurer . —A young Irishman , named Eugene Keenan , was brought before Captain Whittaker . at the New Baily county police court , Salford , on Saturday last , on a self-accusation of having poisoned a young man named Francis Connellan , in Dublin , on the fjth instant . Tho soi-disant murderer , who is a slight-made , intelligent-looking young man , about twenty-two or twenty-three years of age , exhibited in his demeanour as he stood in a prominent position in front of the dock an appearance of calm indifference to the consequences of the crime which he persisted in charging himself . The prisoner was ultimately remanded in order that in the meantime the authorities in Dublin may be communicated with .

      Destrucxivb Fire at BMSTo _ - * On Monday a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs . Hunt and Co ., oil merchants , Bristol . The fire was first discovered at about twenty minutes past five o ' clock , but it spread with terrible rapidity , and all efforts to extinguish it proved unavailing until the whole , or nearly the whole , of the valuable stock of oil , rosin , die ., was destroyed . The Norfolk Tragedy . —Norwich . —In addition to the hand , tbe leg , the humerus , and sundry other pieces of flesh found on the Hellesden-road , at Lukenham , near St . Augustino ' s-gate , in Brown'ft " fields , and other places widely separated from each other , there was found at Dereham on Friday , the 27 th ult ., a portion of a female body , with a small quantity of white hair attached . All these parts ,

      which are preserved in spirits of wine , are , in the opinion of the medical gentlemen , belonging to the same body , and tbat the body of a young female . All those human remains are chopped and studiously mutilated , with , no doubt , the vie-v of destroying all chance of identification . As yet nothing has been found in the slightest degree calculated to afford the least idea of the victim who has been so savagely and so mysteriously disposed of . The Mayor , J . P . Money , Esq ., and J . H . Barnard , A . 'fouler , and J . Betts , Esq ., magistrates , are indefatisable in their exertions to elucidate this horrible mystery . From * n early hour in the morning until late at night the Tare was dragged in all quarters , but without succesn . Still the blick-striped waistcoat , the white collar and shirt , smeared with blood , and

      the roller , which have been found near where a portion of the human remains were discovered , will , it is hoped , aid in leading to the arrest of the guilty wretch , who , in his deed of blood , has outrivalled Greenacre , Good , Rush , or the worst murderers who within tbe last few years , have expiated their crimes on the public gibbet . The age of the victim is gupposed to be sixteen , and the murder has not been more than a fortnight perpetrated , according to the opinion of all the medical gentlemen who have examined the mangled remains . It is gratif ying , however , to learn that late on Friday evening Mr . Yarrington expressed his belief , from information which he received , that the ac . ors in this revolting murder would , ere long , be in the bands of justice :

      but that justice would , in all probability , be defeated if be divulged the informati'm which he so received . The following circular has been issued b y order of the mayor : — " Supposed MuitDRR ; Several parts of a human body , belonging to a person supposed to have been recently murdered , and to be that of a young female between the ages of sixteen and twenty six years , having been within the last four days found within the environs of the city of Norwich , information is requested to be given to the Chief Constable , at the Police Office , Guildlnl ! , Norwich , of all females who may have been recently missing , together with any particulars which may lead to the detection ofthe person or persons who committed such supposed murder . The portions of the body already comprise tbe right hand and foot , and several bones ,

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      with numerous pieces of skm and flesh . Further search is making for tbe head and remaining parts of the bo dy . ( Signed ) II . Woodcock , Mayor . "On Monday morning Mr . Yarrington having procured lurchers , bloodhounds , and other dogs of scent , proceeded with a body of constables to seiuch all the fields and hedgt'S in the suburbs of tbe city . The result was the discovery of intestines , lungs , and a portion of the viscera , all of which were immediately submitted to medical inspection . —Ur . Coneman gave it as his opinion that the lungs were those of a healthy pe ' rSnn —During the whole of Mond y and Tuesday pieces of flesh have been brought into the City station home bv persons who are conducting the search , all of which the surg ' . 'oos at once decir . re to be portions of the same boilv . Thev nre placed in spintsof wine

      lor preservation : It has heeuclearly ascertained that t-ie work has not been that of a " resurrectionist , for it is e .-tablished on the best medical testimony that the body has never been interred . It . has also been proved to the s . taction ofthe surgeons , that the nerson—vonions of wlrm have hrentoiind-uied by vio l ence , the Imnds being clenched , and the toe .-i-oniiac ' ed , which would not have been the case in death from natural causey . On Tuesday morning a voutv man was hr-uight before the Mayor , at the City f ' olice court , cb-irg-d with being an accessory iifter Ihe murder . The precise nature of the examiu-Aiiou did not transpire , as 1 he inquiry was of a ptivate character . After hearing the evidence of a man

      to ¦ horn it was alleged the prisoner hud made some statement , the mag istrates did not feel themselves justified in detaining the man . lie was , therefore , disclW .-ed . MuKDBit at Loxotown . —On Friday , the 27 th ult , \ V Orrick , E * q ., coroner , held an inquest at the Bush Inn , Lougtown , on the body of Mr . Thomas Pieiidcrleath , registrar < -f births , deaths , and marria- 'i-s . who had b .-en strangled in a public house by vVilliam Kii'kpatrick , a man well known inLongtown by the co 2 f : i'men ot" the P- ther , " from the fact oi his once being a pedlar—John Ward , a shoemaker , in l . onutown , deposed : I remember tbe day on which this occurrence tO"k place—it was Tuesday , the 10 th ot June . I was at the Bush Inn , with John Graham

      and Willwm KirKpatnck , the accused . After some altercation Ktrk-iatrtck said Pletiderleatk had kept five shillings of his , v-hich he had earned in taking the census for hint . Deceased replied that he had kept back two killings only , but he did not say for what reason . Kirkpatri k then jumped up , took a glass of spirits , aud threw it on Plenderleath ' s breast . He next threw a glass of rum in Plenderleatb ' s face , PlendKrleath did not speak during this time , but just cleaned his face with hishandkerchief . "The Pettier " then > at diwn , and Plenderleath said , "Come and sit beside me 'Pettier , ' and I'll treat you ; if you do not come and sit beside me I'll come and sit beside you . " Deceased then sat down upon part of "the Pether ' s" chair , when "the Peiher" immediately seized him by the throat with both hands—his fingers extending behind deceased ' s cars , and his thumbs pressing against his throat , or windpipe . To all appearance he was using a great deal of force .

      Pfenderleath ' a handkerchief was loose at the time , and Kirkpatrick had hold of his bare neck . I immediately seized Kirkpatrick by the arms and said , " Do not choke the man , " and pulled him off . The landlord seized him either b y the arm or neck , and threw him f > one side . I do not think he had Plendevleath by the throat more than a quarter of a minute . The moment Kirkpatrick ' s hands were loosed deceased's head dropped down , his chin resting upon his breast-His arms fell powerless , and he never spoke after . —Other witnesses proved that Kirkpatrick had used malicious and threatening language towards deceased , and Dr . Lonsdale and Dr . Rome—who had made a post mortem examination of the body—attributed the death of deceased to tbe violence used by Kirkpatrick —The jury retired , and after an hour ' s deliberation returned into court with a verdict o'" Murder " against Kirkpatrick . The foreman added that he had been requested hy the jury to state , that they wished to recommend him to the merciful consideration of

      the court , on the ground that he did not intend to take deceased's life . Serious Churge or Stabbing at Cambridge . — On Monday at the Town-hall , Cambridge , VVilliam Chapman , aged twenty-one , son of the contractor for conveying the mail bags from the Railway Station to the Post-office , was charged with stabbing three men , named Canham , Dunn , and Sheldrick . Sheldrick stated that he was returning fromTrumpington , a village about two miles from Cambridge , between ten and eleven on Sunday ttkht , and that when about half a mile from Cambridge he saw the prisoner and two other men in altercation before him . On his coming up with them Canham exclaimed , " I ' m stabbed , " and Dunn immediately replied , " And so am I ; " and Sheldrick saw that Dunn ' s white trousers were saturated with blood . Chapman ran away

      and Sheldrick followed , and overtook him within twenty or thirty yards , when Chapman suddenly turned round and slabbed him " backhanded " in the breast . Other persons then came up , and the prisoner was secured . Canham and Dunn were conveyed to Addenbrooke ' s Hospital , where they still remain . Mr . Mi'chell , house surgeon to the hospital , stated that Canham had received twostab . iin the ribs and one in the buttocu , and that his recovery was at present very doubtful . Dunn was wounded in the thigh , but his danger was not imminent . Sheldrick's wound was almost , superficial . The prisoner , by the advice of his attorney ( Mr . Ind ) reserved his defence , and was remanded till Friday . The prisoner , who , it should be stated , bears the character of a quiet ,

      peaceably-disposed young man , avers that , as he was walking quietly home with his two sisters , he was suddenly set upon by the prisoners and two others , who , saying "he was the chap who insulted them at Trumpington . " proceeded to maltreat hira , and that he drew the knife in self-defence : his other two asailants , he says , made off on the approach of Sheldrick , who is a tall , powerful man , and was formerly in the Cambridge police force . This statement is corroborated by Chapman ' s sisters . Canbam is a compositor , and Dunn was formerly in the employ of a hatter ; the latter has been convicted of felony . The knife—which was produced in court covered with blood—is a Spanish spring-back knife , with a blade five inches in length .

      A Mbmbf . r op Christ Church Shot at Oxford . —Mr . Ross , a member of Christ Church , was shot under the following circumstances , on the 26 th ult . It appears tbat between one and two o ' clock tbat morning a party of collegians endeavoured to throw into the water the cannon placed in front of the house occupied by Mr . Joseph Caudwell , near Folly-bridge , and while one of the party was fastening a cord round the cannon Mr . Caudwell opened his bedroom window and fired at him . The shots unfortunately took effect , and lodged in Mr . Ross ' s neck and hand , from which the blood flowed profusely . By the assistance of his friends the young man was removed to his lodgings , and medical assistance was immediately obtained . In the course of the day tbe Vice-Chancellor issued a warrant for tbe

      arprehension of Mr . Caudwell , who was taken into custody and brought before the University authorities . The hearing of the case was strictly private , but we understand that the evidence adduced confirmed the above facts . The medical attendant ( Mr . Hansard ) , was examined , and in consequence of his evidence , and tbe state of Mr . IWs , it was deemed advisable to remand Mr . Caudwell for a week , when tbe case will be fully gone into . The same afternoon Air . Caudwell was conveyed to Abingdon gaol , the spot where the firing took place being in the county of Berks , of which county the "Vice-Chancellor is , by the virtue of his office , a magistrate for the time being . In the evening some of the University police were stationed at Mr . Caudwell ' s house , as it was anticipated that a disturbance mifiht take place , and

      it was evident that these precautions were not unnecessary . Mr . Ross is progressing favourably , and it is anticipated that the injuries which he has sustained will not be of so serious a character as was at first feared . On Wednesday Mr . Caudwell was brought up before the vice-chancellor of the Unifersity . Much evidence was gone into , and Mr . Ross was described as considerably improving . It was stated that about an hour after the event some of the collegians went to the house with a view of speaking to Mr . Caudwell as to his conduct , anil , being enraged , broke one of the windows , when Mr . Caudwell again fired the piece , which fortunately did not take effect . At the close of a two or three hours' inquiry the vice-chancellor adjourned the case . The accused considers that the harm and

      injury threatened him justified him in using the gun . Fire at Portsra . —A fire suddenly broke out at four o ' clock on Tuesday morning on the premises in Queen-street , Portsea , occupied by Messrs . Attwood and Co ., grocers . which , from its central situation , might have occasioned very considerable loss of valuable property had it not been for the prompt assistance rendered by the police force of her Majesty ' s dockyard , who , in half an hour , without other help , extinguished ihe fire . The origin of the fire is still a mystery . It broke out in the shop , apparently under the counter , which was entirely destroved , as was also a good deal of the stock kept in the shop , which had been closed for two days prior to the fire —the Sunday ana Monday—the latter day being a general holiday .

      DlSGRACBFOL CONDUCT OP A TRAINING MASTER . — The Leeds Pauper Industrial School which was built by the Leeds Poor Law Guardians , was opened for the educating and training of orphan children ; but since its establishment the want of harmonious co-operation am ngst the officers has been a source of constant trouble to the guardians . Irregularities frnm some cause or other have continued , and on Monday evening the Board of Guardians assembled at the establishment to investigate them . The first thing which occurred on the board assembling was the presentation of a letter of resignation from Mr . Alfred Lesrgett , the . second training master of tile school . Some of the euardians expressed their surprise at this , and having heard some rumours ol misconduct on the cart of Mr . Leggett , they d » termincd to investigate them . The result was the most satisfactory proof that the second master had been guilty ot the mo 3 t grossly immoral conduct , and that he had corrupted the mind Of one of Ihe pauper

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      children , a girl of fifteen years of age . It came out in the course of the investigation that he had taken her wi th him to various places of resort in the neighbourhood of Leeds , and had had frequent interviews with her . At first Mr . Leggett denied the truth ofthe most grove p ; irt of tho charges , but afterwards , thwaSN the chaplain , he made a full confession " of" his guilt . The guardians , after bearing all the circumstances of the case , determined not to acce pt the resignation of the purty implicated , but t . acp ly to the Poor Lnw Hoard to order his dismissal forthwith ; and in the meantime suspended him from office , ordering him to leave the establishment the same night .

      ... DusMow Gammon ov Bacon . —After the lapse of one . hundred years this gammon of bacon has been claimed by a couple iu jiood circumstances , as farmers , at Foisted , Essex , named llurrell , but , failing to obtain it from the lord of the manor , the inhabitants of Duumow have procured one by subscription , which will be presented to them , instead of tin : lord's , on thoir taking the usual oaths , at Ib'ooinhills , near- Duumow , on Wednesday , the IGth of July . The couple will drive on to the around ( escorted by a band of music ) in their own carriage and horses . A largo number of persons are expected to congregate to witness the ceremony .

      A Family Poisoned . —A case of poisoning , which had nearly suev . fieed the lives of eight or nine persons , happened to tbe family of Mr . 11 . Kelsey , of West-wqodside , Lincolnshire , on Sunday . The mother hid g"iie out ami ordered one of her daughters to make some bread . She used for the purpose what she expected was bread powder , hut which proved to be arsenic . All the family partook more or less of the bread , when soon after the usual symptoms of poisoning by arsenic appeared . Medical aid was obtained , and the requisite remedies applied . Mr . Kelsey and one of his daughtcrsareyetsiiffcringfrom the ehvets , but all danger , it is thought , is over . The rest of the family are doing well .

      FataIi Accident at New Brighton , near Liverpool . —On Wednesday morning a fine youth , named Wheeler Roberts , about seventeen years « t aj * e , second ) -on of Mr . Roberts , Seaview . road , Liscard , was unfortunately drowned while bathing near the Red > oses , ou the Cheshire shore . Deceased went to bathe with a companion , and after swimming out a considerable distance it is supposed he was seized with cramp , as he was suddenly observed making violent and convulsive struggles in tho water . A considerable number of people were on the beach , but

      none went into the water to the rescue of the unfortunate young man until a gentleman ( we believe a Mr . Gould ) came up , who without hesitation plunged into the river , and succeeded by his exertions in recovering the bo'ly . A Moderv Goneril . —On Monday , an old man . named Thomas Cross , formerly a farmer , being destitute , went to the house of a daughter at Warton , Westmoreland , to ask for a home under her roof . She refused to receive him , upon which he lefc the house , and drowned himself in a canal over which he had to cross .

      Allboed Poisoning . —At the Sunderland Police Court , on the 26 th ult ., Thos . Wood , Cornelius Lyons , and Thomas Itawlings , were charged with having administered a quantity of nitric acid to a boy named William Taylor , eleven years of age . The prisoners are employed at the Wear Pottery , Sonthwick , where the boy is also engaged . Taylor was frequently in the habit of drinking the ale and porter belonging to the prisoners while they were at work , and on Wednesday last they agreed to give him some physic in the porter iu the way of "a lark , " to prevent him drinking the beer in future . One proposed to give him jalap , but another said he would give him some aqua-fortis , or nitric acid , used by the workmen in the process of "

      lllStenng . The prisoner Wood then mixed a portion of nitric acid with some porter , in the presence of the other prisoners ; ho then tasted the mixture , and said it was so hot that it burnt his lips ; he accordingly put in some more porter , and presented about a gill of the mixture to the boy , telling him it was porter . The boy immediately drank it off , and suddenly became extremely ill ; his stomach was swollen , his lips and face turned black , and he was seized with vomiting . He was taken home in the greatest agony , and was insensible for some time . Mr . Tate , surgeon , having been called in , he was somewhat restored . The prisoner Lyons wept bitterly during tho examination , — . Tho magistrates remanded the prisoners . of

      Rkprts ^ bntation Worcester . —The announcement ofthe failure of the bank of Messrs . Rufford and Biggs , of which firm Mr . P . Rufford , M . P . for the city , is one of tbe partners , has caused some commotion here , but at present no active steps have been taken to fill the vacancy which it is anticipated will be created by the retirement of that gentleman . The local Parliamentary Financial Reform Association however have announced that in the event of a vacancy " they will be prepared

      respectfully to submit to the consideration of their follow-citizms in public meeting assembled a candidate recommended by a variety of concurrent circumstances , and likely to command a majority of toe suffrages of the Liberal party . " The gentleman here pointed at is W . Laslest , Esq ., who resides near the city , and has latterly appeared rather prominently as a Parliamentary and Financial Reformer . Mr . Rufford is a Conservative , and whenever a vacancy occurs a contest will inevitably take place .

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      manslaughter in uardiff . —Last week an Austrian sailor , named Joseph Samucan , went to a low beerhouse in Whitmore-lane , Cardiff , known as the Noah's Ark , kept by a man named Thomas . Two of the deceased ' s shipmates were with him , and in the course of a squabble Samucan was felled to the ground by a bio * from the kitchen poker , aimed at him by a man named James Loynes , and in a abort time breathed his last . Loynes immediately absconded .

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      Determined Suicide . —A determined act of selfdestruction was effected last week by a man between forty and fifty years of age , name unknown , who precipitated himself from the parapet of the Dean Bridge , Edinburgh , and , falling with great violence upon the rooks beneath , sustained injuries of such a nature as to occasion almost instantaneous death .

      Highway Robberies . —On Saturday evening last a man named Wulker , who is in the employment of Mr . Laing , Newabbey , was sent up to Dumfries , for some articles , with a gig or spring cart . Ho had , on hia return , gained the top of the "Whinnyhill , which is a very lonely place , and shaded by wood on each side , about eleven o ' clock , When a man rushed upon him with a double barrelled pistol in his hand , and demanded his money , otherwise he would blow out his brains . "Walker declared he had only twopence , which he gave to the robber , who searched his pockets and found nothing . Ho then ordered him to drive on , which Walker was very glad to do . He had met the man when coming up to town , and can describe him accurately . On Sunday night John Anderson

      -, gar dener , Cargen Ilouse , was returing from Dumfries about eleven o ' clock , on the same line of road "When passing ttedbank he was joined b y a man who entered into conversation , and walked with him as far as Mavis Grove avenue . There the fellow said their roads separated , and suddenly pulled out a pistol with each hand , one of them double barrelled , and demanded Anderson / a -money or bis life . The gardener gave him hia purse , which contained two pound notes and 20 s . in silver . With this booty he marched off , threatening to shoot Anderson if he attempted to follow him . Both parties agree in describing him to be a man between twenty and thirty years of age , about the middle height ; he is slenderly made , and has thin sharp features ; long fair hair ; red whiskers and reddish beard . He

      wears a blue bonnet and a red neckerchief , and his clothes are dark , resembling those worn by Bailors . The description tallies to a nearness with that given by the police officers of Aryshire , of a man named Ross , who committed a similar offence in that county , and escaped from the district . Death bt Drowning . —On Saturday afternoon last a young gentleman lost his life whim bathing in the Clyde , some way above Dalmarnock-bridge Edinburgh . The young man who was a student of divinity , had gone into the river to bathe along with his brother . He was unfortunatel y no awimmer , and was carried away by the current His brother , on observing his perilous position , immediately proceeded to render every assistance but in attempting to sustain him above water he wa « nearly drowned himself . Ho was ultimately com . polled to let go the hold of his brother and * on £ ™ " - \_ f - •""•• e diatel y procured assistance .

      was covered VIT ^ e , apS 0 C \ bef <* e th ° **>«* was recovered . The young gent eman was most respectably connected , and liis untimely c „ d ha cast a gloom over a wide circle of acquaiLnces Fatal Accidknt . -a mournful accident ^ which o ^ TmS-jT '? g , eom over our «»? £ currea on Monday afternoon . Mr . Joseuh Brvden late farmer of Halldykea , but residbg hereEe Whit Sunday accompanied hy a friend went over 11 " :, ? ' Anmm t 0 bath « aW six o ' cTo k p m H would appear that Mr . Bryden , soon after eat-Sot'T , °° l- f 'y de « P ' * 2 Sa edtw ! or ™ , ) mlr ^ ? aird 8 above SWllahill-bridge , got me * .- fn llf ^ W' f ' n 0 t bein « experSwfm ¦ tss Ut u , " ed W bDsan t 0 stru « g and wy for wttnvnff f n \ 8 '" e «< l made two or three praisenZ I ° ' t 0 save hi "'» but failed ; the consequence was that fully an ho ' ur ckpsed before he was VOt out , when hfo was quite extilict > Mr _ B d iiom ins quiet and unobtrusive manners , was highly respected in the dhtrict .-f-ert / is / tire Courier .

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      Bkuiah Si ' a .-The celebrated Beulah Spa . at ivorwood , has been re-opened this summer in all its pristine beauty .

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      The " Catholic TT . vivim-m-K of Irelaxd . "—Tha Culld' project goes on swimmingly . At the monthly meeting , presided over by " his grace , the Primate , " and attended by a trail of bis suffragan bishops , communications according to the report of the proceedings , were received from various parts of Europe , of America , India , and of the Colonies , all vowing fidelity ( 0 the notable schemo for closing the portiiTs of the government colleges . Many of the letters contained " money incIosures , " and from one document it appears that the English Roman Catholics arc coming forward in right earnest to sustain the cause of the Irish bigots . A gum of £ -100 10 s , has been forewarded to the treasurers by the rev . missionary who has been despatched

      hence to London to collect subscriptions there . Among the "faithful "' who have contributed are the Earl of Surrey , £ 100 ; Lord Poire , £ 50 ; Mr . C . Town fey , £ 100 ; Mr . John Simeon , late M . P for the Isle of Wi . L'ht , £ 10 ; and many others of equal note . In addition to this goodly help , the secretary acknowledged the receipt of further aid to the amount of £ 1 , 500 . The undertaking is now in course of preparation to prepare and transmit addresses from the University Committee to England , France , and America . Tho committee have also appointed three clergymen , who will forthwith proceed to America , to receive the subscriptions which are flowing from that continent into tho coffers of tho Irish University treasury .

      Mav . vootii CotLKoiJ . —At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Maynooth College , held this week , a resolution was adopted repudiating certain charges made against a portion of the board by Mr . Anstey in the House of Commons . After enumerating the names of tho Roman Catholic prelates who , with Lord Hollow and Anthony Strong Husscy , Esq ., formed tho board , together with other prelates not members who were present , and attaching the title of a diocese to tho name of each prelate , the Evening Post gives the substance of the resolution as follows , viz .: — " That the Board of Trustees of the Colleg-e of Maynooth , have seen with surprise , in the Dublin Evening Post of tho 15 th ult ., a speech purporting to have been delivered by Mr . Anstey ,

      member for Youghal , m tho House of Commons , on the 14 th ult ., in which the following statement appeared : — ' It was notorious that there hadnot been an annual assembly of Roman Catholic bishops at Maynooth for many years past—he might almost say ever since the passing of tho Emancipation Act —at which some prelate had not endi-avoured to obtain from his assembled brethren a vote against the Maynooth grant . Dr . Macllale had taken thafc course annually—ho ( Mr . Anstey ) had the fact from his own lips—and a very large minority of the Ro « man Catholic bishops had invariably voted with him . ' The resolution of the board proceeds to declare , in the most explicit terms , that this

      statement is altogether groundless , inasmuch as no motion against the Maynooth grant , or any suggestion to that effect , had been made on any occasion at any meeting of the board at Maynooth , or at any meeting of the Irish Catholic prelates , either before or subsequent to the Emancipation Act . " llABVBer Pfiosrucra . —The weather is beautifully fine—rather warm for promenading in the sunshine , but glorious for the farmers . The crops everywhere look well and forward . Potatoes are appearing plentifully in the markets , and cheap , Altogether , the intelligence on this subject , received front all parts of the country , is most cheering .

      Pastoral from Primate Culles . —Lord Culleu has issued a pastoral to his clergy which commences thus : — " Paul , by the grace of God and favour of the Apostolic See , Archbishop , dsc , Primate of All Ireland . To the Catholic clergy and laity of Armagh . " Emigration . — " We regret to state , " says tho Limerick Examiner , " that emigration progresses with the same velocity as before—tbe bone and sinew of the country abandoning our shores , under the fatal influence of injustice and misgovemraent . " Irish Prosperity !—The Customs duties for the week are £ 12 , 442 , viz . . —Tea , £ 5 , 866 ; sugar , £ 1 , 006 ; wine , £ 1 , 2 G 0 ; spirits , £ 427 , - tobacco , £ 2 , 609 ; miscellaneous , £ 1 , 272 ; which show a decrease of £ 1 , 685 compared with the corresponding week last year .

      Progress op Ignorascb The Waierford Chronicle draws a not over-flattering sketch of the march of education in that locality : ¦— " We are in this city absolutely worse off for the means of education than we were fifty years ago . 'Tis an appalling fact that the middling classes have not one school in Waterford where their children can get an education . Is it any wonder tbat everything about us is going to ruin ? > Ve venture to assert that there are not five young lads in our city able to draw a section of any one piece of mechanics ; there are not five mechanics here who know the names or properties of the materials they are using . You will get hundreds to spoilt politics with you ; they will talk of the glorious Hungarians 0 * pugnacious Kaffirs ; they will tell you of California and Cuba . Take down a map of the world and

      ask them to show you any one of those places oa it , and you might as well send them to seek for Sir John franklin in a cockboat . This is a bitter truth , but it is truth . Public institutions where the mysteries of science are unfolded , we have none ; schools where mechanics are taught as a branch of education , we have not one ; the advantages of lectures , the uses of scientific instruments , the opera * tjonsof the laboratory , these are to us only occasional exhibitions , not famibir practices and , in consequence of the want of opportunities for teach * ing our children an education suitable to the requirements of tho age , we can give them but mere rudimentary knowledge , and then send them off on the public streets to waste their youth in idleness or in the acquirement of habits whose pernicious tendencies are blots on their after life . "

      Trk Distressbd Western Unions . —The guardians of the Ballinrohe Union having made a formal application to the Poor Law Commissioners for leave to allocate a portion of the rate in aid to assist in the emigration of some of the inmates of the workhouse , were met by a refusal , on the ground that the commissioners believe that the union" may now be considered as not included ia the number of distressed unions , " a result which is attributed to tho efficiency and good managemen t of the guardians . Murder and Robbebt . —On Saturday night a poor widow woman , named Nancy Molony , was murdered in her bed , at O'Brien ' s-castle , county Clare . Her bed , and some other trilling effects were carried away by the murderers . Tne unfortunate deceased had several daughters at service , and was the only inhabitant of the cottage in whicb her life was destroyed .

      Murder , —It is stated that some persons have been arrested charged with the murder of Mr . Hatch , at Duleek , in the county Moath , committed about fourteen years ago . They aro to be tried at the present assizes , The Mayoralty of Duntw . —On the motion of Mr . Francis Codd , the corporation on Monday resolved to raise the salary of the present and all future Lord Mayors from . £ 1 , 000 to £ 2 , 500 . Mr . Curran suggested , that , as the corporation was heavily in debt , it might be as well to be just before it was generous . Mr . Taggart then moved an amendment : — " That , inasmuch as increasing the salary of the present and future Lord Mavors from

      £ 1 , 000 to £ 2 , 500 would cause the infliction of a borough rate on this already impoverished city , that tho salary do not exceed £ 1 , 000 until the corporation is out of debt . " The amendment was lost , five voting for and twenty-four against it , Mr . Curran said he did not consider £ 2 , 500 too much for the Lord Mayor ' s salary , but he thought It tOO much for the corporation in their present embarrassed circumstances to ba called on to vote ™ y ' fle would , therefore , move that in place of £ 2 , 500 the sum do stand at its original amountviz ., £ 2 , ooo , ( Hear . ) This motion was negatived upon a division by a majority of nine , and tho original resolution was then put and carried .

      Failure of the Transatlantic Bxpbrimbnt .-lhe Irish Journals , of all political shades , are up in arms against the report of the Packet Commissioners and the blow it has given to the hopes of an Irish port being selected as the point of departure for the American mails . Already it has been suggested that funds should be speedily collected here to purchase a first class steam vessel , and that a requisition should be presented to the Lord Mayor to convene a public meeting of tho citizens with a view of showing that Irishmen were about to put into practice the virtue of self-reliance . j Weather . —Between two and half-past three 0 clock on Tuesday morning the city of Dublin was visited by a severe storm of thunder and lightning , which continued with scarcely a minute ' s intermission . The lightninu * was intensel y vivid . The rain fell m torrents all the night , and after partially clearing up at five o ' clock a . m .. it aram name down

      before six , and continued to fall for a considerable time . Riot at Kathkeale Woukhousr . —The Limerick Reporter contains the following account of an emeuU in the Rathkeale workhouse , caused by an alleged deficiency and l : ad quality of the food given to th « paupers : — " Rathkeale , JuneSOth , 1 S 51 : A violent ewettfe and riot took place in the workhouse of Rathkea o on Sunday last . The dietarv , as ifc is called , of that house is on the most reduced scale for breakfast , to able-bodied men , eight ounces of Indian meal in stirabout , and twelve ounces of Egyptian corn and barley-meal mixed in equal proportions lor dinner , and one ounce less , both at breakfast and dinner , for full-crown women . The

      not was at one time extremely violent . In the main workhouse grown men are but a small minoritythat Class , as I said before , are quickly transferred to the hospital , tbe infirm ward , or the two shilling cor on . iho active rioters were mostly women and young boys , who kept up a continued shower of stones on all who approached the workhouse-gate ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 5, 1851, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_05071851/page/6/