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      Mansion-House. Destruction Of Plate Glas...

      ' ^ nc HnThis absence , and that all the drawers arid boxes in his bedroom d beS been forced open and completely ransacked of the most valuable rtioi rtion of their contents , comprising nearly the whole of his wearing nart narel , together with numerous gold rings , pins ; and other articles ff Sew ? ewellery and personal ornament . He immediatel y gave informant in of the ungrateful robbery to the police , and the prisoner was hWior tly after traced and taken into cusiody .-He was full y committed 3 Ijr lrijr triaL LAMBETH . Cff CHii » - M 1 JK 1 > EK ' ~ Merby Steer ' a you » g vyoman seventeen years

      . If a f a * e , and evidently labouring under severe indisposition , was Zomor ^ ht ia the cust ody of Mr . May , the superintendent of the Pet-Lj \\ oj & division of police for the county of Sussex , and placed before iliir lit Elliott , charged with the murdor of a female child of which she Sad tjad been delivered , and with its subsequent mutilation . To complete Ihc the deposi tions it was found to be necessary to have the evidence of Mr . ' Mr . Flower , the police-surgeon , who had examined the body , and for that hat purpose the prisoner was remanded to a future day .

      SOUTH WARK . 11 Housebreaking . —John Flower , a well-dressed man , was charged wiuVith bieaking into the house of Mr . Joshua Hains , a tradesman ressidisidingm Thornton-street , Horsleydown . —The prisoner , who declined . gayjayini anything iii answer to the charge , was committed to the ( CeiCentral Criminal Court . i Street Robbery .-Ann Smith was charged with stealing a sovereiireign and two half-crowns from a man in the public streets . The prcprosecutor said , on Saturday night he was proceeding home with his wawases , consisting of a sovereign and two half-crowns in a leather bag , an and that was deposited in his trousers pocket . While passing up "W "Winchester-street , Soulhwaik , the prisoner accosted him , and asked

      hi : him to treat her . He put his hand in his jacket pocket , and gave he her ail the coppers he had , when she suddenly put her hand into , his tr trousers pocket , and stole his money , and he saw her throw the bag ot on the pavement . He immediately seized hold of her , and demanded h : his money , when she put something in her mouth , which he knew was his money from the sound and glittering appearance . He Strugg gledvery hard with her to prevent her getting way . A policeman c coming up secured her . —In defence , the prisoner said the prosecutor a acted improperly with her , and gave her a few coppers . As for the c other money found on her , it was her own , having been given to her 1 by a friend to purchase some clothing . Mr . A'Beckett committed her i for trial .

      THAMES . The Fraud on the Earl of Zetland—The notorious beggingletter impostor , Thomas Thompson , alias Spaw , alias Hailes , alias Scott , with many other aliases , who has imposed on so many benevolent noblemen and gentlemen in the course of the last ten years , was brought up on remand before Mr . Yardley , on charge of attempting to obtain money , by false pretences , from the Earl of Zetland . —Mr . Yardley commented with great force and effect on the

      incalculable mischief such impostors as the prisoner were likely to effect . He was surprised that anyone should be so shallow-brained as to be imposed upon by such letters , but the feelings of some persons were so acute that they believed in the possibility of anything . The prisoner was one of ihe worst class of impostors , for he imposed on the best feelings of our nature . It was impossible to trace all the mischief done by such persons . He sentenced the prisoner , as a rogue and a vagabond , to three months' imprisonment and hard labour .

      Garotte Robbery . —Mary Ann Kirwan and Mary "Wernham were charged with aiding two men not in custody in committing a garotte robbery . —Captain East , a powerful man , stated that he was passing along the Minories , on the way to his ship , at a late hour on Monday night , and was accosted by the prisoners ; who entered into conversation with him , and he walked a short distance with them on to Tower-hill , where ihey were accosted by two men , one of whom struck him a violent blow with his fist , and the other , at the same

      moment , seized him by the neck , compressed it tightly with his hands so as to nearly produce suffocation , and flung him right over on his back . He struggled hard to get away , but the fellow held him down by the neck , while the other villain was kicking his hat along . The woman Kirwan made a snatch at his watch directly he was held down , detatched it from the guard , and ran away , with it . By a powerful effort he released himself from ihe grasp of the ruffian , threw him d ¥ , and called out " Police" as loud as he was able . The two women ran away and he pursued them , and overtook . them twenty or thirty yards from the spot where he was attacked , and save them into custody . The watch was afterwards found in the mud . Witness was quite sober . —the evidence being confirmed ,

      the prisoners were committed ior trial . Murderous Assault . —James Cunningham , an Irish labourer , aged forty-three , was brought uv on remand before Mr . Yardley , charged with assaulting and wounding several persons . —John Sanders , police constable , No . 294 K , said , I was about half a mile from Alfred-street on Saturday night , on horseback , and I heard the people calling out " Police I" and " Murder ! " I rode as hard as I could to the street , and when I reached it I saw a large mob assembled , and among them we-re several men who complained of being hurt . One man ' s face was all over blood , streaming from a wound in his head : another lay on the ground bleeding and wounded ,

      and a third , who was bleeding , was supported by two men . I also saw a woman , whose arm was hurt , and she was bleeding . The mob collected round the prisoner ' s door , and some of them said , " Take care , there are two men with pokers inside . " That was said after the door was opened . I entered with my sabre drawn , but did not strike any one with it , and brought the prisoner out A man , who was ? hurt very much , and appeared to have been knocked down , was called upon to identify the prisoner , and he said he was the man who struck him with a poker and knocked him about . —The prisoner was committed for trial .

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      The Australian Screw Steamer Melbourne.—...

      The Australian Screw Steamer Melbourne . —The Australian mail packet Melbourne left London for Plymouth the latter end of September . She experienced considerable damage and delay in going down the Channel , and could not start from Plymouth with the- mans at the proper time . After she had been repaired , and was leaving Bymouth to proceed on her route , she met again with some damage in that harbour , which caused some further delay . At length sne finally left Plymouth on the 16 th of October , but she had not been two days at sea before she became dismasted and leaky , and her screw became entangled . For two days she was scarcely manageable , ana * as knocking about at the mercy of the waves , hbe had about l »» &

      ™ , i __ j _„ j . it . _ - n ^ Tn-mnJa + itm now hecame execrable . passengers on board , and their accommodation now became execrable . At length the Melbourne scrambled into Lisbon , where her passengers and cargo were landed . It is not expected that she wuT ever be ht , to proceed on so long a voyage as that to Australia . The Melbourne * as a Queen ' s ship called the Glasgow , and was purchased of the government by the Australian Company . It would appear that the Glasgow wi never a first-rate ship . The government inspection of the Melbourne must have been very loosely performed previous to her departure with the mails , as she became leaky m almost smooth water , and when she became dismasted the weathor was not very tempes-¦

      tuous . . , . . .. . International Telegraph . — Direct ^ telegraph communication is bow established between London and Paris .

      The Australian Screw Steamer Melbourne.—...

      dZfn ^ T Ma Elect .-Ou . ^ sday , Mr . Alderman Challis S ^ resfn ce of * he Lord Chancellor , in order to receive his lordships s approbation of his . appointment . The ceremony did not occupy many minutes . a mZ ^ Tf ? toEY . _ M . Boichot , the sergent , who was a member of the French constituent assembly which sprang- out of the revolution of 1848 , has taken up his residence in Jersey M SchrS cher , the writer whose work has recently given such offence to the trench President , was recently a resident of Jersey .

      M ? f P £ % E ?™ ™*™ GiTr of London Charities .-Mrs barah Hardwicke , the daughter of a citizen of London , died , in the 73 rd year of her age , on the 25 th of last July , bequeathing of the uty ot London , a sum of money exceeding £ 20 , 000 . The Giraffe—The fine female giraffe , which has been so much atonred by the visitors to the Zoological-gardens , where she has resided for nearly thirty years , has just died . She was the parenttothe hue giraffes now at the gardens , and some of her young have been sold to other proprietors at good prices .

      The Australian Aborigines . —By the last accounts from Australia the abori gines had become troublesome to the settlers in the interior in consequence of the number of nen who had gone to the Sold diggms and left their wives and families in an unprotected state ; The latter were falling back on the towns and villages for security . The London University . —A correspondent says that as soon as parliament meets , the members ofthe senate , who constitute the ruling body of the London University , purpose to renew their most strenuous efforts in order to obtain one representative at least for this great educational community .

      City Militia . —On Monday , the men belonging to the London militia assembled for the first time in the Artillery Ground , City-road , for the purpose of training . Several of the passers by , attracted to the spot , were rather free in their remarks on the aspiring soldiery , and the gates had finally to be closed on the leering eyes . The recruits were for the mast part young and active looking men , and they came forward quite as numerously as their officers expected they Would . New Burial-ground for Maryiebone . —On Saturday , at the meeting of the Maryiebone vestry , a notice of motion was given by Mr . Clement George , for a special vestry on the 10 th of November , to adopt the provisions of the New Burial Act , and to provide a new burial-ground for this parish .

      New Cotton Field in South America . —Some samples of cotton have been exhibited this week on the Manchester Exchange , of a very good and useful quality , from the Biver Plate . Five bales of it had been transmitted from Buenos Ayres to a Liverpool house , with advices to the effect that it was a sample of cdttdii growing wild on the west bank of the Parana , in the district of Tucumana . It is said that " any quantity" may be had forgathering , the thinly scattered natives , from indolence and ignorance of its value , allowing it to rot on the ground every year .

      The Crystal Palace or 1851 . —The ploughman is busy at work in Hyde Park , where the palace stood , preparing the ground for grass seed , which will be sown in a few days . Except some pillars of granite and lumps of coal , upon which the ominous word " Lot" may be seen , nothing remains ofthe structure or its contents . Funeral of the late Vincent Dowling , Esq .- —The remains of this gentleman , who for a great number of years edited " Bell ' s Life in London , " with great ability and integrity , were interred in Brompton Cemetery on Saturday .

      Mr . Macatoay , M . P ., at Edinburgh . —Edinburgh , Nov . 2 . — Mr . Macaiday addressed here to-day about 2 , 500 persons . He keenly criticised the inconsistencies of the present ministry , aiid recommended the people to insist on a strict maintenance of free-trade principles . He advocated a liberal enlargement of the franchise , and hoped ere long to see a liberal government in power again . He stated , however , that he would not himself again take office . Launch of the Screw Steamer , Bengal . —There was launched

      oh Saturday afternoon , from the building-yard of Messrs . Tod and Macgregor , the largest iron steamer ever constructed by the hands of of Glasgow engineers . She is named the Bengal , and is intended to augment the steam fleet of the Peninsular and Oriental Company in the Indian seas . This magnificent ship is 10 feet longer than the Great Britain , but ; having less depth and breadth of beam , she has not , of course , the same amount of tonnage as the latter . The Militia in Flintshire . —there is little likelihood of the

      requisite number of militia-men being obtained in this county without . recourse being had to the ballot . The Dissenting ministers , whose influence over their flocks in North Wales is almost unbounded , have been for some time engaged in dissuading their hearers from volun-• teering to serve . The Peace Society has also striven with great energy for the same object * and placards have been issued in great huriibers drawing attention to the fact that corporal punishment will be retained even in the militia . Sii Stephen Glynne , Lord Lieutenant of the county , has intimated his intention of having recourse , if necessary , to the ballot , and that in such case all bounty will be withheld from those on whom the lot falls .

      The Drainage oe Lambeth . —On Tuesday a deputation , consisting of Mr . W . Williams , M . P ., Mr . Murrough , M . P ., Messrs . Taylor and Sewell , churchwardens , Mr . Denyer , overseer , and the surveyors of highways in the borough of Lambeth , waited upon Mr . Walpole , the Home Secretary , to represent to him the great deficiency of drainage in the borough , and the fact that though they had paid heavy sewer fates , these were not applied to improve the sanitary condition of that part of the metropolis . Mr . Walpole expressed his readiness to back up a memorial to the Commissioners of Sewers embodying the wishes of the inhabitants of Lambeth .

      Austria and the German Press . —The chronic anxiety of the Austrian government to extend its power through postal , customs , and similar administrative unions over the whole of Germany , is well known . A case has just transpired in which Austria takes upon herself to decide what newspapers Bavarians may read . The Nuremberg Correspondent of the 27 th ult . says : — " Instead of yesterday receiving our number of the " Kisorgimento" of Turin we received the following notification from our agent at Augsburg : — ' The Bisorgimento de Turino is prohibited iii all the Austrian states , so that it can no longer be sent to you . ' Thus , by the prohibition of a journal for Austria , the other states , even those of the Anglo-German postal union , cannot receive the said journal , and have no other alternative than of getting it by some circuitous route .

      JouRNALisjf in Hesse . —Electoral Hesse is a model of the state of restored Germany . On the 20 th ult . the troops in and about Cassel were to execute certain manoeuvres at which the Elector and his staff were to be present . An officer named Schirmer holds the post of censor of the newspaper press in addition to his military appointments . On the day abOve-mehtioned Schirmer had no time to revise the journals before going to the review . The post-office was in a difficulty , and , not knowing what to do , refrained from distributing the journals until next day ;

      The Militia . —The Royal North Glocester . Militia are making considerable progress in their training , and the last fortnight has made an astonishing change hi their appearance and efficiency . They muster twice a day on Cecily-hill , and are marched into the park , where there is ample range and scope to . put them through their facings , ano \ teach them the " quick march / ' & c £

      The Australian Screw Steamer Melbourne.—...

      Marriage Extraordinary . —One of the most singular cases of what may be termed " matrimonial good luck" that we ever heard , of , occurred at Earsdon on Sunday . A respectable old lady , named Baxter , whose age is 73 , was united in marriage hy the Eev . H . Workman , in the parish church , to a gentleman named Lee , whose age was equal to the lady ' s , —this being the ninth time that the venerable bride has vowed "to love , to honour , and to obey , " before the altar . It is twelve months since her last husband died ; but on leaving Church last Sunday she seemed in hi gh spirits , and observed with great glee to the gallant bridegroom , who had mentioned that he had got her umbrella , that "it did not matter now which umbrella he had got . "

      Munificent Bequests . —The late Mr . J . Terrett , formerly a prosperous and industrious cotton hosier at Tewkesbury , Glocestershire , but who retired . from business a quarter of a centuary ago with a competency , and died a fortnight ago , aged 84 years , has , by his will , bequeathed the following sums to public charities ' , subject to the life interest of his sister in the property : — Church Pastoral Aid Society , £ 1 , 000 . ; Church Missionary Society , £ 1 , 000 . ; Glocester Infirmary , £ 1 , 000 . ; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , £ 500 . ; Society for the Propagation ofthe Gospel in Foreign Parts , " £ 500 . ; Deaf and Dumb Asylum , Birmingham , £ 500 . ; Malta Protestant College , £ 500 . ; Friends of the' Clergy Society , £ 500 . ; Medical Practice Fund £ 500 .

      •' . Duke of Wellington ' s Funeral Car . —The car of imposing dimensions , being twenty-one feet in length by eleven in breadth , the largest size which would admit of its passage through Temple-bar . Six massive bronze wheels will be intersected with six panels of the same metal , which , descending from the platform , will reach almost to the axles . These panels , which will each in form resemble a shield , will be richly ornamented , and have painted on them allegorical allusions to the late Duke ' s triumphs . A second platform , rising two feet above the first , will have its sides divided into compartments , upon which will be inscribed the names of the Duke ' s principal victories , and at the corners will be heraldic bronze figures . Ornamental

      arrangements of military weapons surmounted by the ducal coronet , will surround the bier , which will be nearly ten feet high . Above all will be a canopy of rich gold tissue supported upon halberts , so arranged as not to conceal from view the coffin underneath , the weight of such a structure , all of solid bronze , and reaching altitude of twenty feet , will not be less than eight or ten tons , to remedy the inconvenience that might arise from having to lower the coffin from its great height , the bier will be so constructed as to be removeable to a smaller carriage , upon which it will be drawn along a stage to the exact spot over the permanent resting-place . At the proper moment the coffin will sink through the bier into its last resting-place by the side of Nelson ' s remains .

      A very Old Woman . —A short time since a very old priest , residing in a commune in the Dordogne , having fallen ill , sent for a woman who had been his nurse to attend on him . She came every day to attend oh her petit until his death , and for this purpose she walked several miles . The good woman is not less than 114 years of age . Slie has witnessed the following forms of governments : —Louis XV ., Louis XVL , the first Republic , with its three or four metamorphoses , Napoleon ,. Louis XVIII , the Hundred Days , the second Restoration , Charles X ; , Louis Philippe , and the present Bepublic .

      Iscariot Bonaparte . —The title chosen by Louis Napoleon is triple , if not as modest , as the shamrock . Emperor of France—King of Algiers—and Protector of the Holy Places . Think of the last . The Perjurer of the 2 nd of December Protector of the Holy Places ! Another miracle ! For it is not as if Judas Iscariot , cut down , became a Watcher at the Sepulchre ?—Douglas Jerrold . The Ministerial Crisis in Piedmont . —A letter from Turin of the 29 th ult . states that Count Cavour having failed to form a Ministry , the King had commissioned Count Cesar Balbo to undertake the task , who had made overtures to Generals Lamarmora and Dabormida . The latter had refused , and the Ministerial crisis still continued .

      France and Ecuador . —Count Charles de Montholon , French Charge d' Affaires to the State of Ecuador , has arrived in England in the Magdalena with his family and suite , having been forced by a succession of insults to abandon that State , and seek redress from his own Government . A number of persons who were presented by Urbino ' s Government as adherents of General Flores took refuge at the French Legation , and the French Charge d' Affaires refused to deliver them up . Several articles accordingly appeared in the papers , accusing the Count of being a friend of General Flores , and of improperly using the boats of the French men-of-war as a means of correspondence between General Flores and his adherents in Guayaquil ,

      against which publication the Count protested , and demanded satisfaction , which was not given . On the 3 d of August , after a Democratic banquet , which was given in Guayaquil , a procession was formed , including several members of the Ecuadorian Government , headed by a band of music , and , when in front of the French Legation , the music stopped , and loud cries of " Muera Montholon 1 " " Mucran los Franceses ! " and other insulting language . The Count immediately applied for his passports , and repaired on board the frigate Penelope , and , ho satisfaction being forthcoming on the Commodore ' s demand , it was agreed between the Count and the Commodore to refer it to the French Government .

      New Public Hall at Wisbeach . —There was a grand demon- - stration at Wisbeach oh Wednesday , on the occasion of the opening g of the new Public Hall . The want of such a building as this has . s been long felt at Wisbeach , and a number of gentlemen accordingly y combined to raise the present building by shares . It is situate in n Hill-street , and is in the Italian style , the architects being Mr . lit- ; - ting , of Wisbeach , and Mr . Pilkingtoo , of Bourne , Lincolnshire . The ie building contains a large room , estimated to seat one thousand per- i > sons , a lecture-room over , with class and committee rooms , and subsi- Idiafy offices of every necessary description . Government Activity in the Mediterranean . —The Trieste He

      Gazette of the 28 th ult . says : — "An English courier , who arrived ed here yesterday a few hours after the departure of the regular steamer , er , immediately engaged a special boat of the Austrian Lloyd , at a costost of 8 , 000 florins , to continue the voyage to Patras . This is the thirdird courier who has arrived here within the last few days .

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      Le Beadledom C'Est—The Pay! It Was Obser...

      LE BEADLEDOM C ' EST—THE PAY ! It was observed that the Beadle , in drinking the health of the company , did didl so in an imperial measure . The fact was significant , and the effect was excellentlent ; Some difference of opinion is said to exist as to the title by which the Beadle-wile-. - dom is to be made hereditary . It has been stated that the style intended to btto bet assumed will be that of Bumble II ,, Beadle of the Arcade , and " Protector o : or o > the Lowther Bazaar , " but as this would imply a disposition to an extension otm oil ! territory , it has been objected to as offering unnecessary provocation to foreigrreign powers . It is true that little resistance could be anticipated from Exefeweterr whose tenantry seem to have resigned in a body , and to have vacated their offi > ofili ces . The Beadle of Exeter is thus thrown upon his own resources , which com com sisted , -when he saw him last , of a pennyworth of walnuts . —Punch .

      Ak AwicwAun Predicament . —Some of the stories told by Mr . St . John bhn ii his " Village Life in Egypt ' ' recall the grim story of some French Antiquarieuariee who , having crawled and wriggled their way into the heart of one of the pyrs pyra mids , and having set about to return , were stopped by the stoutest of their numbeumbee who crawled first , sticking fast in the passage . He could neither advance mice run retreat , nor could they help him , and they finally decided that the only means cans i saving the lives of the rest of the party was to cut the unfortunate man in an inn quarters . And this they had resolved to do ; hut the horrible idea , when imen irr parted , acted so violently upon the poor fat man that he made fi desperate eflcte efl'c ' c and got through ?

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 6, 1852, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_06111852/page/7/