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      HISCILLIKEOOT . The Cosviers Sale asd M'Cot . - These two wretched men , who are ordered for execution on next Monday , had , asfar as H'Coy was concerned , nearly presented a different termination , in eonsequeneeof a most , murderous attack having been made on him by his equally guilty companion . M'Coy , it will be recollected , m * de s . confession , and which it appears created ft deep feeling of revenge in tha mind ofthe other . From what has transpired , it appears that a few dayssraee , and previously to the execution being fixed on , Sale , on leaving his cell , had by immense exertion forced out of the place in which he was locked up & portion of aa iroa bar , which , he secreted about kis person , and with this deadly weapon be

      • went to the day-room . Shortly after M'Coy was brought in , and while he was in the act of washing himself , Sale west behind him and struck his companion a terrific blow on the head , which instantly felled him , and before the turnkey could render the elightest aid he waa Knocked down . Fortunately the turnkey was enabled to cry out murder , and ring the bell , which brought some of the other turnkeys to bis aid . Sale swore that he would murder the first that attempted to seize him , and that he was determined to have M'Coy ' s life . The men , however , rushed oe him , and after a short but severe struggle

      they overpowered Sale , and he was placed under control ; on examining his cell , to ascertain how ke had obtained the piece of iron , it was discovered that he had , in the course of the night , forced it out of the wall near the cupboard , and bad succeeded in removing some of the bricks , no doubt , under the impression that he should hava been enabled to effect his escape . Since the time of the order to carry the law into effect they had been placed in different rooms , and six men—namely , one in the day and two of a night . —are in constant attendsnce . and will continue so until they are delivered up by tha governor into the hands of the sheriffs on Monday moraine next .

      Robbekt o ? Plats at Mr Fakeek ' s . —Oa Saturday information was given that the residence of Mr W . Farren . the comedian , in Brompton-street , Brompt'JB , had on the previous evening been robbed ef a basket of plate of the value of 450 , consisting of silver spooBS and forks , sauce ladles , a silver teapot , and cream-jug , & c . The servant had carelessly left the area gate and kitchen-door open , and the robbery appears to have been committed by two young men , who were calling at the house on preteKce of purchasing hare-skins .

      A Thief killed while cmmittixg a Robbert . — On Saturday morniue , the body of a man about thirty years of age , was found in the basement story of a new building in Upper East Smithfield , in the parish of Aidgate . He appeared to have been dead several hours , and the body was quite cold . The back and neck of the deceased were broken , and he had received several contusions . On the body being discovered an investigation wa . s made by the police , and it seems that he was in the act of stripping some lead off the roof of the building , which is only partially covered in , and while doing s-d the rafters gave way , and he was precipitated to the ground , a height of fifty feet , and must have been killed ) n the sonf .

      Mrs Taweu ; . —Messrs Bevan and Goodeve received on Saturday a letter from the Solicitor ofthe Treasury , to the effect that the grant restoring the property of her late husband , the murderer , John Tawell , which had been confiscated to the Crown trustees , is-now signed . Lvcrea'bopMortautvik jh £ Metropolis . —The hopes excited by the registrar ' s return for tbe week , which ended on Christmas-day ( when the deaths numbered no more than 201 above the average ) , have not been supported by the subsequent

      statementihnt for the week which terminated oa Saturday last . The-total casualties during tha past week were 1 , 599 , or 553 above the average ofthe corresponding season during the last five years . In the columnof ' Causes of death , * we find the greatest number of ¦ fatalities recorded against'diseases of the longs and the other organs of respiration , 'being 497 , oi 16 i above the average . The influenzt has been fatal in 127 cases ; while the average deaths from this cause during the past five years have been only three ;

      INQUESTS . Startatios . —In the committee-room of Lambeth workhousp , before Mr William Carter , touching the death of Mary Joyce , aged four years and a half , who died from want and exposure . Upen the return of the jury to the inquest-room , from viewing the body , Dunn , the ofiicer , informed the coroner of the ' death of another child belonging to the same family . —Caroline Jennings stattd that she was in the employ of the guardians as a paid nurse to the sick ward for females . Tbe deceased when admitted was literally starving for want of nourishment . She was much attenuated and weak of body . Witness conveyed the deceased , with the mother and two smaller children , to the ward , where the former was placed in

      bad , beiKg previously washed by the mother . When the mo ; her applied for a night ' s shelter , she had the three children at her back , fastened to her by means of a leathern strap . —Mr Duke , the surgeon , ordered the deceased beef tea , wine , and new miik . The deceased was sren twice on the following day , when she died—The Coroner : What condition was the mother and other two children in when first admitted ?—Witness : They were very emaciated and dirty . Their clothes were scanty and thin . —Mary Joyce stated that she was the wife of J « hn Joyce , a . labourer . The two deceased children were her daughters . Her husband left ; her six weeks since to seek work in Cheltenham on the railways . When he left London , witness was living in a lodging-house at Garret-lane , Wandsworth , which she was compelled to leave owing to her distress . On Tuesday night last witness came

      *«» tho workhcuss for relief , as she and her three children were starving with hanger and cold . —The Coroner : Where have you slept daring the time your husband was away ? Witness : I have not been in a bed for six weeks , hut I and my children have been sleeping under the hedges and in sheds at night , and begging by day . Our chief support was a little dry bread ; sometimes we had water , and at others we managed to getsome teafrom a benevolent individual wb-i happened to take compassion on us . I gave my children as much as my means would allow me under my distressing condition . —Other witnesses were examined , whose testimony was merely confirmatory , ¦ when the learned coroner having summed up , the jury , after a few minutes' consultation , re'urned the following verdict—* That the deceased died a natural deilh , arising from the want of nourishment and exposure to the cold . '

      Suicide of a tradeeiias asd his Wife . —On Saturday it W 33 d scovered that Mr A . T . Williams , lirisg in Cleveland-street , Fitzroy-square , and Mrs Williams his wife , had committed suicide , the former by hanging himself , and the latter by cutting her throat with a razor . Mr Williams was at one period a ser ^ e in t ia a foot regiment , and was subsequently a constable in the E division of police , and was considared a _ meritorious officer ; about ten months ago he quitted the force , and with his wife , a young woman of respectable f . imil y , entered upon tbe occupancy of the Star Coffee-shop at the above sddre .-s , in which they seemed to have every prospect of success ; it does not appear that at any time the panics had bztn known w quarrel , but for some

      time past Williams bad been been m ire depressed in spirits than nsual , and his friends had made many remarks upon his altered and dejected appearance ; the house was kept open as usual until twelve o ' clock on Saturday nUht , and at half-past twelve Mr Williams retired to his bedroern . A quarter of an hour afterwards , his wife went up , and after knocking several times and receiving no answer , she burst ooen the door , and found her husband suspended from the bedstead ; she screamed ont loudly , and Mr Matthews , a lodger , hastened to the room and cut down'tho body , which was then warm . He then went in search of Mrs Williams , who , on

      discovering the deed committed by her husband , had made her way down stairs in a state of mind boreerins epon madness . After some search he found her with her throac cut , lying with her head on a mat in the coffee-room below . Dr Hattfield , of C e elaHd-street , booh arrived , when he pronounced the man te- be dead ; the woman had inflicted a large and deep wound in her throat , which completely severed the windpipe and gullet , and expired in less than b lf « i « "bonr . A razor was found by her side . "Ka reason whatever can , asyet . be assigned for the commission of the suicide of Williams , the discovery of which nodonbt caused that of his wife .

      The ihqaest was held before Mr Wakley , in the Fitzfoy Anns , Clipstone street . The deceased Imd on the most affectionate terms . It appeared that the husband had been subject to headache since his return from India , where he served some time in the army . He was about to advertise his business for sale tfeis week , ia consequence , as a * = ¦•' . ;; ¦ . - .., said , ofthe hardness ofthe times . The Liiisa waa closed at . twelve o cleckon Saturday night , and- nothing was , up to that time , observed peculiar in his manner . At a quarter to one , Henry Matthews ,- a carpenter , who lodged in the house , was attracted to the bedroom of the deceased by the Kreams of the wife , and seeing the body of a man hanging , be made an alarm , which brought a policemas and ethers to his assistance . The body was tikendown , and whilst Mr Hatfield , the surgeon ,

      with Matthews and the policeman , were engaged ih endeavouring to resuscitate the still warm body , other . persins found Mra Williams in the shop with her throat cut , and a bloody razor lying near her , She was still living- , and seemed to possess her senses . She nude a gurgling noise , attempting to speak , and straggled up on herfeet , when she instantly fell forward and expired . Mr Hatfield left the husband's bsdy wnerr he _ heard of her case , and proceeded to s *~ up the gun _ , when he found that life was extinct . S ^ T & Wrt * ' Alesander Wilh-macommitted S hKS Sl / - Wa 8 SS evidences * to the state of his mind at the time . That Susanna Williams committed suicide . being at the time in a state of delirium , occasioned by the shock which she received K ^ m ! ' y ° " er hUSband sas P ^ d 1 nEe

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      CUHBEBLAHD . Mysterious Appaib . — Some short time ago , a daring attempt waa made to set fire to the new hotel at St Bees , which waa at that time in nrocess of building . As this was not the the first malicious act towards Mr Tyson , the proprietor and builder of the hotel , he offered a reward of £ 20 ., but was unable to obtain sufficient information to lead to a conviction . A short time previous ! to thia attemptto destroy the hotel some malicrous persons so far injured and undermined the shed under which the workmen pursued their labours , that it suddenly fell with B tremendous crash ; but it fortunately happened that the workmen were all absent at the time ,

      otherwise the most . fatal consequences must hive ensued . Malignant , however , as the conduct of the perpetrators of these injuries was , it bears no comparison to the attempt made on Tuesday night week to effect the entire destruction of the above named hotel . Itappears that on Tuesday evening , about nine o ' clock , -a violent knocking was heaid about tho hotel by a person who lives near it , of which , ho sever , no notice was taken at the time . About eleven o ' clock the hotel w * s discovered to be on fire by a gentleman who lives in Lonsdale-terrace , andwho was about retiring to bed . This person immediately gave an alarm , when a great number of the villagers were presently on the apot , and exerted themselves with laudable zeal to extinguish the fire . The lower part of the house and staircase ,

      which is completely destroyed , were both enveloped in nimes , and the heat became so intense that the glass in the lower windowsibroke , when a free current of air was admitted , and the flames were ascending by the staircase to . the [ upper part of the building with fearful rapidity . By perseverance and great exertion , the fire was subdued ; after which several persons proceeded up stairs to ascertain whether any damage had been done to the rooms above , when a scene of almost indescribable villany presented itself to the terrified inhabitants who had laboured so laudably in extinguishing the flames . From the aaloon . to which the flames had already reached at the time of their extinction , to the breakfast room , an immense train of blasting powder had been laid , connecting as it were , the two rooms , in each

      of which , at the two ends ofthe train , a quantity of blasting pawder , to the extent of two or three pounds was deposited , independent of that portion which composed the connecting train . Had this powder become ignited , and it must have been within a hair ' s breadth of doing so—the whole building would have been blown to atoms , and the unsuspecting persons who were so nobly engaged in extinguishing the flames would have been buried in the ruins . This fearful calamity , however , was most providentially averted , and the diabolical intentions of those who fired the building have been in a great measure frustrated , if injuring Mr Tyson was their object , as the loss sustained , which is estimated at £ &) . to £ 100 ., is fully covered by an insurance effected shortly after the previous attempt had been made to destroy the building . It appears that the villains had effected an entrance into thebnillding by breaking through the

      outward wall , where a door case iad been left , and having got into the house , they had collected together all tho combustibles they could find in the place , upon which they poured about four or five gallons of turpentine , belonging to the painters who were at work in the house , and had then set the whole on fire . It is generally believed that the incendiaries had not left the house at the time when the people of the village entered it , as they had evidently made their escape from the front door , which could only be opened on the inside , and from which three men were observed to make their escape in the direction of the road leading to the village . Mr Goodman , superintendent of police , has been on the spot , and every exertion is making to discover the villanous perpetrators of this infameus act ; and we are happy to learn that hopes are entertained that the villains will be brought to justice .

      LANCASHIRE . Liverpool . —Mobe Highway Robberies . —On Monday evening last two gentlemen were robbed by seven highwaymen on the West Derby road , very near the scene of the former robbery . All the money they had was taken from them . On the same evening a gentleman was robbed of £ 7 . by three footpads on the Old Swan road , on bis way home from town , Oldham . —Accident prom Fike-arhs . —On Sueday , a young man named Seville . lodged at a public house near Oldham , kept byD . Chadwick , finding a loaded pistol in his chamber , was apprehensive that

      ahoy residing in the house might get hold of it and thereby do some mischief . To prevent this he fired it through the window , when the contents lodged in the body of a girl twelve years of age , who was passing along the main road at a distance of about thirty yards . The sufferer was immediately removed to her parents' house , « lien Messrs Fawsitt and Nield , surgeons , succeeded in extracting the ball . The girl is still in a very dangerous state . The young man who unintentionally caused the accident was taken before tbe Oldham Magistrates , when he was re manded to await the issue of the girl ' s illness Bail

      was refused , Bort . —A Mancfactubbs Committed for obstructing a Railway . —Mr Thomas Parkinson , a cotton manufacturer , and John Pilling , a railway porter , have been committed for trial at the next Salford sessions by the magistrates of this town , for an obstruction ofthe East Lancashire Railway , and for having'done certain acts whereOy the lives and limbs of persons passing along the said railway were endangered . ' Air Parkinson has a mill at Ewoodbridge ( a part of the railway where there is only one 1 ne of rails ) and on the morning ^ of the 17 th nil . had

      four waggons containing goods belonging to aim removed from a siding , upon the main line , between five and six o ' clock in the morning , and drawn by horses half a mile along the main line . He had no light attached to the waggons , and they were left standing on the line till eight o ' clock , when the first passenger train from Rawtenstall came up , and the points being still unlocked the train ran into the siding . Tfee train was fortunately going slow , and nothing serious occurred from the course taken . After a lengthened examination a committal against the defendants was made out .

      Buky . —A 'Ladvs' Mohalitv . —The gossips ef this town have had their suspicions greatly excited by the mysterious birth and burial of an illegitimate child , the offspring of a lady of fortune , named Miss Mosely , residing at No . 45 , Westgate-street . At length the rumours of foul play , which were rife in every direction , reached the ears of the coroner ( H . Waymaa , Esq . ) . and the body being exhumed , an inquest was held on Friday , at the Coach and Horses Inn . Henry Lomax , the gravedigger , deposed that on the night of the 8 th of November , a woman named Clary brought a box , which she said contained a still-born child , and the fee being Is . 6 d ., gave 5 s ., in order that nothing might be said about it . Witness ' s family had held the office of aravedigner for upwards of a hundred years , and still-born children had always been hurried in that way without inquiry or certificate . Mr James Clary confirmed this statement and said : — * My daughter and my son are now living in the service of Miss Moseley—the latter in

      the capacity of page—my daughter aa servant . I was requested by Miss Moseley to get the child buried , who said , ' Don ' t spare any expense , but have it laid comfortably . ' She gave me a sovereign , and said if the gravedigger required more than 5 s . give it to him . I was not in the house when the child was born ; no one was . On the morning after the birth , about ei & ht o ' clock , I went and saw Miss Moseley , who was very bad , and she said she thought she should die . She said that she had been confined three or four hours , and that the child was still-born . In the afternoon she gave me directions about the burial . My son , who lives with Miss Mosely , is dressed in livery . He is now in mourning for Miss Moseley ' s father , who died from an accident in this town about twelve months since . Mrs Josiah Clary deposed—I have known Miss Moseley ever since she first came to Bury . Some time last spring she removed to her present residence in "Westgate-street . Before she was confined I fancied she was in the

      family way , and often joked her about it and a gentleman whoused to pay frequent visits to the house . She never either admitted or denied the imputation . On the morning of the 8 th of November I went as usual to the house , when Miss Moseley called to mo , and inquired if I were alone ? I said 'Yes . ' She replied , « It's all over . ' I said I dare not go op . Sfce said , ' That ' s very silly , and you are very unkind ; ^ here ' s nothing to see , for the baby is dead . ' Shesaid she was taken before she could * send for any one . Mrs Calfe , a nurse , stated that Miss Moseley had informed her she had had two children beiore this , and that with one she was confined in a housoof ill fame in London ; and had taken enough stuff to kill a horse , which had been given her by the father . The surgical evidence went to shonr that tfee child was

      not born alive , but 'died in trmsilv , just at the moment of its entering the world . ' It was very much congested , but whether that arose from suffocation or decomposition was uncertain . The coroner said , with this evidence it wasjneedless to attempt to carry tbe case any further , as it was quite evident the child was still-born . There were so many circumstances of grave suspicion about the case that he felt he sheuid not be discharging his duty had he not held an inquiry into the case . Addressing Miss Mosely , he said— ' The evidence which has been disclosed today is sufficient to convince any one of a most frightful history of crime , debauchery ! and immorality nnm

      mitted by yourself . You came to this town with a highly respectable parent , who , as far as I had the means of judging , was respected in both his public and private capacities , It is , therefore , the more painful tome , and lam sure it is to the jury , to see his daughter sunk to the lowest depths Of crime ; indeed , you are , by the evidence given to-day , no better than a murderer . There is every suspicion attached to you that you have been the mother of three illegitimate children . [ Miss Moseley : That I deny . ] All of whom , have been still-born . This circumstance , combined with what we have heard to-day , leads to the inference tiat they were put out of the way .

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      The fact of your partner in this last affair being a married man doeu not lessen your crime , although it sadly reflects on him . I hope this public osposure before a jury of married and single men may shame you into a better course of life . There ia no stain so deep but it may be wiped away , both here and hereafter . ' Go and sin no mere , jest a wors evil com © unto thee . '

      LlHCOLHBHIRB . Food tor Scpbrbiition . —A very remarkable circumstance has just come to light connected with the Jato horrible tragedy , which we should certainly have felt inclined to discredit , were it not proved most indisputably to be true . It appears that a person named Whelpton , well acquainted with the murdered man ( Copeman ) had , some weeks ago , a most remarkable dream , in which he thought he saw Mr Copeman returning from Kirton , late at night , and that between Kirten and Grayingham he wag attacked and murdered . Tho dream made a great impression on his mind , and he , therefore mentioned it to a friend , who strongly urged him to go to Mr Copeman and tell him of it . After much persuasion he did bo . but Mr Copeman only laughed at him for his

      fears . Not long after Mr Whelpton had the same dream again , and he again consulted the same party as before . It had so taken hold of his mind as to render him very unhappy , and he again after much pressing , waited upon Mr Copeman , to inform him of it . The repetition of the dream evidently effected the unfortunate gentleman , and he solemnly promised his kind monitor never to be again so late in returning home from Kirton as had been his practice . That promise he faithfully kept until the day when the dream was fulfilled , and he met with the awful fate with which the country is familiar . | We trust coincidences which are sure & ometimes to occur among the millions of events taking place every moment , will not encourage feelings of superstitions on our readers . When a dream comes true , we hear of it : we never hear of those which do not come true . ]

      CAMBRIDGESHIRE . WisBtACH . —Robbery . —in a lane leading from Wisbeach to Peterborough , near to Thornley toll-ban in Wisbeach Fen , there is situated a retail beer house , the sign of Speed the Plough , occupied by William Foster and his aged partner , and this house waa early on tho morning of Sunday last thescene of a daring robbery . About two o ' clock on that morning / the inmates were aroused by a lend knocking at the door . ¦ Thinking that it was a neighbour , the old man descended by a ladder from a trap-door in the floor of the bed-chamber , and on his opening the door , three excavators rushed in , and immediately commenced an attack on Foster , forcing him up into the chamber , where they secured the aged couple by tying them to the bedstead with ropes . After securing the trap-door above alluded to , thieves ransacked the premises , taking possession of £ 7 . a silver watch , and a large hoard of farthings . ftegaled themselves with the viands in the house , and then decamped .

      WILTSHIRE . Lahdlorbb and Farmers . —The Hon . Sidney Herbert , M . P ., has agreed to advance to his tenants money on interest ( after the plan of Sir R . Peel ) , to enable them to improve their farms by way of drainage . He allows them also to destroy a great portion of the games . This example he is setting in Weshford , South Newton , and Chilharapton , where he is also 'improving the habitations of'the labourersnot before it was wanted—the old cottages being a disgrace to the county , they bein ? only worthy ofthe name of hovels . The new cottages are about fifty yards front the turnpike roadside , so as to allow of good gardens in front . Two cottages are built together , each cottage having three good bedrooms , two down-stairs rooms , with a wasbhouse ; there is an extra building fitted np as a bakehouse , with an excellent oven , which is to serve two families ; there is alse every other convenience , with good water

      supplied from pumps . The gardens are more than a quarter of an acre in size , besides a considerable piece of land at the back of each dwelling . The plan seems to be similar to that adopted by C > B . Wall , Esq .. of Norman Court , at East and West Titherly , and Broughton . Besides this desire to improve the condition of the agricultural labourers on the Pembroke estates , the hon . gentleman is adding to the number of allotments at Wilten , where that plan has been found to work so well ; he is also increas ingthe number of labourers in Wilton Park ; there are now mare than sixty hands constantly employed , and all of them in receipt of wages from ten shillings to fourteen shillings tier week . This , at a season like the present , and when the Wilts , Somerset , and Weymouth Railway works are completely stopped , is of great benefit to the poor around . Mr Herbert has also a model farm near Wilton Park , called the Hare Warren , after the plan of the Rev . Mr Huxtable , of Sutton Waldron , near Shaftesbury ,

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      DEsiauctrvE Fire in Edinbdegh . —Last Friday , about half-past four o'clock , a fire broke oat in the engine-house in connexion with the extensive printing establishment of Messrs A . Fullarton and Co ., publishers , Stead's-place , Leith-walk . In anticipation of the new year , the whole of those employed in the establishment were granted a holiday in the afternoon , so that the premises were closed fully an hour and a half previous to the breaking out o { tho fire . At the outset it did not present a very alarming appearance , and it is said that it might easily have been subdued had there been a sufficient quantity of water and persons numerous enough to assist

      m its extinction . F-om the inflammable nature of the materials the fire soon , however , assumed such a mastery that all attempts to confine its ravages to the place in which it was first discovered became impracticable . The fire continued to wax stronger as it went upwards , until it reached the third story , which was used as a warehouse for the storage of printed books in a finished and unfinished state , when it burst forthwith great fierceness and intensity , illuminating the hnrizm for miles around . Through the energetic efforts ofthe fire-brigade , the fire was eventually subdued about eleven o ' clock , but not until the second and third stories of the extensive building were completely swept by its ravages . In the second story , which was used as a composing room , the fire progressed but slowly , so that time was afforded for the removal of the greater quantity

      of the cases and type ; and as the lower story escaped with comparatively little injury , the printing presses and machinery will be saved . In addition to the loss sustained by the destruction of books in a finished and unfinished state , a number of valuable copper and steel plates have been destroyed . Altogether , the damage done must amount to several thousands , but the Messrs Fullarton are insured to an amount that will go far to cover the most of it . It has not been ascertained how the fire originated . Scarcely had tho alarm created by the above conflagration subsided , until a report was communicated to the police that another fire had broke out in the workshop of Messrs Hay and Addis , plumbers and brass founders , Ilill-street-lane . A large quantity of lead and other materials have been destroyed , and as for the building itself none of it remains except the bare walls .

      Orknbt . —Disastrous Shipwrecks . Great Loss of Life —On the night of the 9 th ult . the schooner Williim , of Newry , from Newcastle to Dublin , got embayed and came ashore about seven miles nor $ h of Hoy Sound , and through the exertions of the master , the crew , with the exception of an apprentice , got on shore , much bruised . The vessel soon became a wreck , and the remains were sold two days afterwards . Early on Sabbath , the 20 th ult ., during a tremendous gale , the brig Violet , of Belfast , Capt . Holmes , came ashore at Gait , Shaplnshay , a few miles from Kirkwall ; Before being driven ashore five of the men were washed overboard—the mate and four of the crew . Those saved were much exhausted , and were unable to manage the vessel . The

      vessel is a wreck , and the part of the crew that were saved , three in number , lost all their clothes , & c . Captain Holmes reports that a fleet of about 250 vessels left Elsinore five days previously ; and bad accounts from the North Isles are looked for , as many of them must have been offthe Orkney coast at the time the storm broke , out . On the same morning , about eeven o ' clock , the brig Adela , from Marseilles , was driven in upon the rocks near Stewshead , on the south-east side of South'Ronaldshay , and the wind blowing very strong at the time inshore , with a tremendous sea running , the vessel very soon became a total wreck . There were eleven of her crew on board , eight of whom were saved with great difficulty , and three drowned . The boy , when

      picked up , was completely exhausted , but after being put into a warm bed , and rubbed for a considerable time , he recovered . Several of those saved had nothing on them , with the exception of their shirts ; and before they reached the shore their legs and feet were a good deal bruised . One of the bodies of the drowned men has since been found . I ara sorry to add , that the natives of South Ronaldshay acted on the occasion in a most disgraceful manner , stealing right and left , even in the very face of a justice of the peace and other respectable persons present . The captain lost his gold watch , a gun , and a bag of silver ( 800 francs)—all stolen in the most barefaced manner . The poor Frenchmen saw them stealing , but could not speak a word of English to make

      themselves understood , and give information against them . Several persons , men as well as women , were detected in the actof carrying off things , and their names banded to the procurator-fiscal , who has got a sheriff's warrant to cearch and prosecute immediately . On the same Sunday morning , the Henrietta , of Sunderland , was driven ashore at StartPoint , Sanday , when she was entirely lost . The captain or strne one respectably dressed , was found dead ; in a sitting posture , ntar the high water mark , as . if he had swam ashore and died aiter . Eight bodies were thrown ashore , besides the above .. The vessel appears to be a barque , and was timber laden . She was a total wreck before anything was known of her , and there is non e saved to tell themelanchol r tale .

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      Last week , as seven men were descending the shaft of Mr Hardcastle ' s coal-pit , at Uarwood , near Bolton , ' the rope broke , and three ofthe men were killed .

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      THB NEW YBAK-SOBSfiS X » SHB ' WtBR I 0 R-THB AWASBHtKG OF PHA 9 A » TaY—ALLEOBD ORAKGB CONBPIRAOY-IHB SPECIAL COUUISSION-IHE DUBLIN ELECTION—DOIHGS IH DDBLIH . ( From ow euw Contspondent J " biJBLiN , Jak . 3 rd , 1843 .

      How happy , would ! be , were it in my power to congratulate ray unfortunate .. countrymen orrthe arrival of another ' new year , ' or cheer them with a promise ef "better days' than those which have departed irith that memorable year , now for ever buried in the devouring grave of time . What a delishtfoltask' were mine , could I announce to . the neonleof Great Britain , that tho gloom which sat on my ill-fated country , . waa at length beginning to banish , and that with tbe dyine winter , Ireland i woes were growing lees-rthat with the coming spring tlmp Ireland ' s hope . and happiness would resusoi

      tate and that the green and glorious summer woum find us © neemore ajoypus . atranquil . and contented nnonle Happy indeed wou ' d I be in making this to be the herald of even tho . Taintest whisper of consolation at the chill hearth-stone ofthe poor Irish neasant ; and ah ! how lightly would I trip over niSe ing threshold , could . I . without feeling , rcy words a' mockery and a deluoion ' -say to the shiver . ing inmates ,- ' Cheer up . friends ; be merry with the new-born year ; your , trials have been bitter and without number , but the worstis past you ; a brighter day is dawning ; your , sufferings , are nearly terminated ; rejoice , and , with bounding spirits , welcome the adyent of 18 * 8 r

      But alas , and again alas ! I cannot bring these sounds of blessing and of joy . Iconldnot utter these words without doing violence to my judgment and to the convictions of mj heart—therefore , I will not join in any effort to delude my" wretched fellowcountrymen by holding out hopes which cannot be realised , or mock their misery by endeavouring to heal their bleeding wounds with a balm which has no existence , er lull their frenzied passions with a sedative , unknown and undiscovered . I ee ' e np hopeno chance for the immediate relief of my exhausted countrymen . Ourrulera have no sympathy for us . Like the tiger in the jungle , yelling with savage joy oyer his writhing victim , our Saxon oppressors and their hireling ' abettore clap their hands with

      exultation at our prostrate condition , Our poverty , bur persecutions , our dissensions , and—oh ! ' must I say it ? —our national treacheryfand hereditary cowardice . And can we reasonably blame them ? We cannotfor ourselves' are our worst foes ! To be sure , the parent | is bound to see tbat ' '__'* cbildren do not want , and the * rulers of states and empires are also bound to minister fairly and impartially to the welfare of all the subjects of that etate—butfwben the parent is too neglectful or too vicious to perform his duty , the child-is bound to'lookto himself— and when kings and rulers are like unto the bad parent , the people of those mis-geverned states are-the-veriest dolts and cowards in creation , if'they 'Ao not « come to the rescue , ' and fling off tho trammels of slavery , and persecution and degradation . We have not done this . ' And yet we might have done it . But

      four short years ago , and we were the mightiest power in the ^ British empire—ay , ; perhaps fin Europe . Four J ycaraago , and v ? e were eight mil . lions—vigorous , hardy , active , full of hope and spirits , and dashing enthusiasm—all of one mind , combined for the attainment of the noblest prize beneath the heavens—the redemption from bondage of our fatherland , the rescue ot eight millions of a fine peoplefrom the horrors of tyranny and misgovernment . SVe had thesyrapathy and respect of Europe —the world sat watching our motions with admiration , and with their best blessings . France would rejoice at our success ; -and America would aid us to the last drop of her heart ' s blood . Bnt tbe tempter came ! The Whig displayed his gold and his patronage r _ the bait was glorious to behold—it was snapped at with avidity , swallowed greedily—Ireland waa BdW-and now . LOOK AT HER !!!

      -Ay , ' look at her , —the spectacle is a . liarrowirig one , yet we must gaze on it , thoufh we madden at the sight . Look at Ireland , and look with rueful eyes at the situation of her ill-starred children , trampled on , insulted , derided—andlook againbehold us robbed , stripped of every earthly goodcold , perishing , pining with want , dying with hunger , destitution , and disease . And , take another view —see the wealth and property of the country borne away by the English steamers

      and packets—our ' leaders' and brawlers and patriot traitors looking smilingly on , whilst the angel of destruction is sweeping their native land from shore to shore . Bat 1 sicken . I must not dwell on this revolting theme , lest I impugn , the justice of Providence or give way to maledictions against those who have now proved more fatal enemies to Ireland than Saxon or Cromwellian , or Whig or Tory , or any other foe , who have raised their hand against us since the day that the first British helmet glittered on the shores of the Bag-and-Bun .

      I was down in the interior of Ireland for two or three days in the last week . But how shall I describe the miseries which I saw and encountered during ;; my melancholy , visit , ? . My tale would be scarcely credible to Englishmen . Ruin is absolute mistress of the inland portions of Ireland , I thought that the poorer people of Dublin had arrived at the ne pltts ultra of human misery , but their condition is a happy one , when compared with that of the peasantry in the interior of this island . I travelled several milea of the country on an open car . I entered , perhaps , a hundred cabins and hats during my peregrinations . Wherever I cast my eye , no scene—no object but of desolation met my gaze , and not one of those to whom I spoke , but told the same

      monotonous , ^ soul-harrowing tale of misery and despair . Even the very fields , and hills , and meadows look as if stricken by some malignant influence ,, for they seemed to me , at least , to have lost that cheerful , verdant , inspiring ; appearance , so peculiar to the rural landscapes of the green isle . The people wander about like idiots , —idle , naked , careless , and shameless . They look like the denizens of some unknown land—savage and uncivilised . They do not retain the features and contour of a people belonging to an European state—were it not for their language , and the whiteness of their skin , one might fancy himself amongst the miserable beings , who tenant the frozen zone , or those neglected creatures who , travellers inform us , drag out a wretched exister . ee

      in some of the inner regions of Africa . There is no energy , no industry , no spirit , no exertion , to be found amongst the Irish peasantry at the present day . Pale , cadaverous , attenuated , —they roam listlessly about the fields and highways , perhaps with s . gun on the arm , or a horse-pistol in the pooket , chewing a raw turnip , stolen from tbe field of a neighbouring farmer , cursing the thrailors who ' sould them in the house , ' or hatching the murder of some * exterminathor' or rack-renther . ' I asked several of the most intelligent-Iookingof them what they thought about the late proceedings in Parliament , and all unanimously pronounced curses * loud and deep" on ' the Judhases' who betrayed ' ould Ireland , 'for the ' filthy goold of the Saxon . ' I asked them , did they

      hear of the magnanimous exertion of Feargus O'Connor in their behalf ? They replied in the affirmative , adding that they were the more astonished at that , aa they had for many years been led to believe that ' Farghus O'Connor' was a * traithor' to his country , and the leader of the Chartists , who were represented as worse than the devils in hell . I then inquired-if they knew what Chartism was , or if they would wish to be properly enlightened as to the cause why Daniel O'Connell and Feargus O'Connor were politically hostile to each other for the last ten or fifteen years ? The reply was— ' That they knew nothing about Chartism , only tbat the Repeal Wardens and O'Connellito newspapers represented it as worse than heresy or infidelity ; and Farghus , a worse thraithor

      than Jemmy O'Brien , and a greater monster than Sir Charles Coote , or Raw-head-and-bloody-bones . 4 But , ' added they , ' we would he happy to hear proper instruction , as to how we may be rescued from the ruin which surrounds us , and Mr O'Connor ought to enlighten us on his views and principles , and vindicate his name with the Irish peasantry , by a full detail ofthe sp lit between himself and O'Connell . ' I replied , that Ireland had not on earth a more faithful friend than O'Connor ; that he was always the friend of Irishmen , and that ' through good report and evil report , ' through ' death and through danger , ' he would fight her battles without fearor emolument , without 4 rent' or' tribute , '' and , I also took the liberty to state to them , that I felt convinced

      Mr O'Connor would avail himself of the earliest opportunity to instruct hia countrymen about the objects and principles of- Chartism , and , also , that he would be glad to set them right about the rupture with O'Connell , and the causes which led to his long exile from his beloved native country . ' They appeared well-pleased with my discourse , and finally assured mo that they were disgusted with the old system of dodging agitation ; that they had no confidence in either ' Young Ireland' or ' Conciliation Hall , ' and that they would be glad to be united with the working classes of Englishmen , in an earnest and practical and sensibly-cenducted struggle for their mutual benefit , and for fair laws and govemnent in both countries .

      ' An eye for an eye , and a tooth for a tooth , ' said the Mosaic dogma— ' Blood for blood , and a priest ' s life for that of every Protestant landlord , tenant , or clergyman , ' is the Shibboleth of the Irish Orange - men at the present momenti It appears that the villanous statement , made by certain parties in Parliament , and re-echoed by the Orange press of Ireland and England , has had its due influence on . the bigotted , low , Orange rabble . in this country ; and that , imprtssed with the wicked idea . that Irish , priests foment discord , and encourage the murder of Protestants , they are determined to retaliate , not ou the ac tual murdereiv , but on ' the priest of the parish in which a murder of a Protestant will be in future committed . ' The letter , of which the following is a literal copy has been posted . a few days ago in Dublin , and addressed to the Catholic pastor of Mountrath , in tho Q ueen ' s County . It is one of thv

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      moat viilaaaai documents w _ tch , e ? firjmet the public aaie i— : ' .. « V ' ; . Deesmbsr lath , 1847 . Riv . Siu . —I am directed ! to enclose a resolution of a body of Protestants . . Resolved , —' . That since wo perceive government , bo , backward in defending the Uvea of its prasent Protestant landlords , tenants , and clergymen ,, we do form . ourselves into a body , and awoar' by a crucified Christ , ; thatfer the . life of every Proteitant landlord , tenant or clergy ? man w » will take the life of the parish priest where the deed was committed . "And this we swear to . do by ths truth of the flfoepel throughout tho counties ' of Ireland , we being determined to see what effect the leaving a few parishes eooant will have . '

      To Ror . P . Fitzpatbick , P . P . N . B . f We would request of you to make ,, this known also to your curate , the ; Rer ; ' John terUabon . ' . ; Well , now this is an atrocious document truly , but lor my part I am not 'disposed to attach much \ mportance to it . I know very well that in the country districts .. of Ireland the Protestants of every grade are very much 'alarmed , and in hourly terror of assassination . They are taught to believe that the priests encourage the murder of Protestants for their own private ends , and they , also believe that thej always absolve the murderer of a Protestant on easier terms than they would the shooting of a wild duck . Hence some ignorant hair-brained young vagabond may think himself doing . a piece of service to

      Irish Protestantism , by concocting such a letter aa the foregoing . ; . But certainly no right-minded , sensible Protestant would be guilty of it ; , foij besides the outrage he would commit on God and man , he would well Know that such ' a system of fiendish , retaliation could not be ., carried ' on in Ireland , and that if it were attempted , every family in the more lonely districts of the island would be massacred indiscriminately and the ; whole Cduntry become one wide scene of murder'and disorganisation . ; I say , again , I attach no importance to this . letter at all , ; though the Dublin , libbral press are ringing the changes over the Orange priest-killing conspiracy , and trying to persuade people that the combination Against the Catholic Church and Catholic Clergy is , not the act

      of one or a few misguided fanatics , but widely spread and deeply ramified in , every class and section of Irish Protestants ! Thia is all trash , however , and I will be bail that no matter , what may be tho creed 'of ' landlord , tenant , or clergyman' who may happen to be murdered ; in Ireland ,, there is not the slightest danger of any- ' P . P . ' ; or C . C being immolated on thea ^ Ur of © range re taliation . , Lord Chief J Justice" tUackburne and Chief Baron Pigott are , leaving Dublin on thia day to open the Special-Commission in Limerick to-morrow . They are to travel ; by tho 'Great Southern and Western Railway as , far as the Jftqscrea Station , at Bally

      brophy , and thence escorted with a military guard from town to town until , they reach Limerick . They will have apretty good ' job of it , a * the calendar of that unhappy , county presents a long and revolting array of crime and insubordination . However , their lordships having to visit other favoured localities , will : lose no time unnecessarily at Limerick ; they do not intend to ' nurse the jobs / but acting on the suggestion contained in the old proverb , — ' Many hands make light work , ' both will sit at the same time in separate portions of the court house , and do their business , as expediously as possible . The following calendar , however , will show that their office in Limerick will be so sinecure .

      FOR TEIAi . Males ifeFeaales , Wilful murder ... ... . „ ... 21 Harbouring murderers ... . „ ... 3 ' Abduction ... ... ... ... ' 6 For various , offences , but particularly for shooting at the person , burglaries , robbery of arms murderous attacks on house and person .. ; ... "' 89 Total „ . lid ' ..

      In my last I mentioned a rumour being afloat that Mr Fagan , the member for Cork , was about , to resign his seat : in parliament . Since that , I have learned that such is not his intentibn . However , it appears that , though the hon . gentleman is resolved once more to' bravo the battle and the breeze' on the stormy atmosphere of . St Stephen ' s , he is tired , of journalism , as I see his paper , the Southern Reporter , of which he is the proprietor , advertised for the ' best bidder * in the Dublin journals .- There is ' no mistake here , ' as the showman says , at . all events ;

      I believe poor John Reynolds will have a ' walk out' from the representation of this city , after all . His friends had high hopes , latterly , that , on account ofsome fancied informality in the petition of his rival , the matter would be dropped without the fatiguing and expensive-process of parliamentary scrutiny . However , it seems such is not the case , and honest John must trust the issue of a trial by committee . This will involve him in enormous expenses , but his constituents appear determined to support him scathless , and it is even said that they will seek the aid of every corporation in the kingdom for his support against his enemies . Mr Reynolds , indeed , enjoys the confidence of Ireland , and if he be unfortunately ousted from his chivalrously-won seat , it wiil be a national calamity : -

      Christmas day and New Year ' s day were , observed here with the accustomed honours . The , bells of all the different cathedrals and Catholic churches rang forth their joyful anthems , and the religious ceremonies of the season were performed with increased pomp and magnificence . The Lord Lieutenant gave an ox and 200 loa . vea of bread to tbe mendicity , and Mr Staunton , our late Lord Mayor , munificently sent large supplies of bread and meat to all the various Protestant and Catholic Charitable Institutions of the City .

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      The Clonmel papers contain an account ' of a mUf der in the south riding of Tipperary ' . ' The Tipperary Thug is not to be intimidated by milk-and-water acts of Parliament . The murder was perpetrated on Tuesday ' nightlast , between the hours of eight and nine o ' clock , at Baliydihe , within four or five miles of Cashel . The victim was a small farmer of the name of Thomas Brown . He was shot dead within a few yards of his own house , on the high road . He received five pellets in the breast , and his death was instantaneous . The causes assigned are— 'That some few months ago Brown got married , to tbe discomfiture ofsome rivals , and with bis wife obtained a sum of money and a few acres of land . Suspicion has fallen on ' some of the rejected lovers , but we have not learned that any person has been arrested for this diabolical crime . '

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      EXTRAORDINARY MURDER . •— - » On Stturdaylast , an Inquest was held at West Town , Somerset , on the body of John Wall , who was shot , apparently in sheer wantonness , on the- 18 th of December , It appeared , that the deceased lived in a cottage , situated in the midst of some garden ground , and at about threequarters of a mile from the Nailsea-road station of the Bristol and Exoter Railway , no other house being near it . On the day tn question , the wife of deceased was from home , and he was superintending tome food which w « 8 boiling for his pigs . Suddenly he heard one of the windows break , and , on turning his . head , waa alarmed by the sight of a gun-muzzle pointed at him through a fractured pane , and within three or four feet of his person . He immediately jumped up , and almost instantly the gun was fired , and he received the charge in hie

      thigh . He cried out and ' looked towards the window , when he saw a mas , habited in dark clothes and wearing a cloth cap , looking through the glass to see what effect the shot had taken . Tne features of the fellow were of a marked character , and it being daylight the wounded man was enabled to recognise them , and to observe a peculiar mark over tho right eye , which subsequently led to a euepiclon ofthe man . Wall , upon seeing bim , called out , '; Ah 2 thee hasn ' t done it ; upon hearing which , and seeing him make for the door , the villain ran off , and , upon getting into his garden , Wall saw him and some others making their wav across the fields , in the direction of the Bristol arid Exeter Railway . Having no means of sending for surgical assistance , and as any at tempt at raising an alarm would be futile , the poor fellow staunched the bleeding in the best way he could

      and resolved upon making an effort to reach'West Town , where his usual medical ' attendant , Mr Masey , resided . In the lanes he met with a farmer , with whose aid he reached , with much pafn and difficulty , Mr . Maxey ' a ' resioence . That gentleman wos unfortunatel y absent " , but a surgeon named Brodle ' was fouud , who dressed the . wound , and the injured man was sent back to his dwell , ing , where Mr .. Maxey afterwards attended him . The description given by Wall lod to suspicion of a jouhg man named Charles Manfleld , and the inquiries which were instituted con 6 rmed the suspicion . It was found that at about the time of the crime , Manfield , with a brother and a half-brother , named Robert Jakeways , hod been seen going towards Wall ' s cottage with a gun , and that some time afterwards they had been observed crossing the fields in a direction leading from the spot , A . warrant was issued ) , and Charles Manfield , ( all of them haying decamped from the vilage , ) was capturid by a Nailsoa constable , who also found the gun , and trac ' ed'it to his possession ,- Upon being takun into tho presence

      ofthe djing man ,. Maafiold was at once identified as the one who had beciueen by him looking through- tha window ; and theattenelance of a magistrate being obtanted , a sworn deposition to that effect was taken . The prisoner did not deny tbathe was one ofthe party whohad shot Wall , but said he ought not to suffer alone , as'it was Jakeways who said to bim , ' -Let us go and sHont the old follow , ' and who afterwards fired tho gun . He ( Manfield ) looked through the window , and , as Jakoways could not run as fast as ho could , he took tha weapon from him afterwards aa ' they were crossing the grouh' 5 . His brother Anthony wa ' snot present when tho murder was perpetrated . In order to have the place clear the ; sent him into an orchard to pick some misletoe , telling him , in order that he might not be alarmed at the firing ofthe gun , that they were going down to a drain by Wall ' s house to try and shoot a wild duck . Soou after he had identified Manfield , the wounded man was seized with lockjaw , and on Wednesday evening he breathed hia last . Anthony Manfield Mid Jakswajs were yet at large . The coroner adjourned the Inquiry ,

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      GPILDHALL . t-AHiHtTofraB Lovwa or SausmkT —OaMoadaytwoefflesrsbf tha City police aisde tb « following ; application to Sir Chapman Mawhall J--3 T « w stated that while he aad hij . brother officer nerTon doty In Smltbfield-mark » t , about half-pMt 0 t § o ' ^^ thaft morning , they observed a eart driving to Cow . crw « Itw » i driven by a wan naroid Andrews , whowas ia the employ of a person ll » ing in Bishop Stortford , They fol lowed the cart until it arrived at the gata of a Mr Law ! downej damage-maker , in Sharp ' s ^ alley , when the driyer knocked at the gate , at the same time calling to tome one . It was opened by Mr Lunidowaq , jun ., and the c « t was . entering , when they walked forward to , loipect tho meat or whatever it contained , open which Mr tans , down , jun „ told the man that the earoases ( two cows and a hoiso , in a most dreadful , state , so much ta that

      the it « ncb was almost unbearable ) were not for him and that he must have made e mistake . They took the carcases to the green-yard , and the prisoner Andrews be » fore the magistrate at Clerkenweli , who remanded the case till Thursday , at the some time tailing tbe officers to hare the animals examined by some slaughterer in the meantime , Kow , they wished to know , as they had called on several parties who appeared to be reluctant to come forward , as they were friends to Mr lansdownc , and who , if compelled ; might , give such favourable evl . denoe as to defeat the ends ef Justice—whether , tbe worthy alderman wonM moke an order for the City veterinary surgeon , Mr Naas , to see the cattle , and give evidence on Thursday next before the magistrate at Clorkenwell . —Sir C . Marshall said that he would grant the order , although the county ought to have gone to tho expense . ...

      WESTMIKSTER -. THB Mubper or Ma Bkwchah . bsbs . —Eliza Bastings , tha titter of George If'Coy / who it at present in Newgate , under the sentence of death for the murder of Mr Bellebambers , was charged with at . tempting to . commit snielde .- —j „ Buchanan , a policeman of the B division , stated that between . two and three that morning he saw the defendant , who was intoxicated , attempting to- get on the parapet of Westminster-bridge . He deairad her to go away , whan she went a'iew paces and then made a second attempt to get to the water . She had thrown : a portion of her clothing into , the Thames , when he secured her and took her to tha station , —Mr DoBAgan , an inspector of ths B'division , hiring informed . the magistrate that the was M'Coy ' e lister , and appeared i ' . o'bein a ' -very distressed state of mind—Mr Brodtrlp observed . that he should remand the unfortnnate creature fore , day , and directed the police to endeavour to ascertain whether the had any friends who would tate charge of her .

      THAMES . —Smogoliho . —T . Prater , a ' seaman belonging to the New T 4 rk packet-ship Prince Albert , in the London Dock , was charged with smuggling ou board th & t vessel 6 Slba . of Cavendish tobacco . —R . Keefe , o tlde-surrejor , went on board the Prince-Albert toon after her arrival in the dock on Saturday evening , and saw'the prisoner with' his ' hand on a bag in the act of fastening It . The prisoner , supposing the officer to be a confederate , exclaimed , ' Is it all right V The officer said it was , and at the same time seized thebag , which contained 661 bs , of Cavendish tobacco , and told Fraaer he was bit prisoner . - The tame officer found 201 bs . more of tobacco in the poitesiiqn of another teaman , who has absconded . —< Mr Yardley sentenced the prisoner topay a fins of £ 108 , aad in default committed Mra to the House of Corraction for six mouths .

      Siskins a Motdari—Qeorco Fielder was charged with striking and . otherwise ill-using hia own mother , Elizabeth Fielder . For many years the defendant , who lived with her , had been constantly ia the habit of grossly ill-using her , and he had even been brought . before this court on two occasions , and bound over to beep the poace . On Wednesday-last , ho knocked her down several times , and on Friday evening he struck her a violent blow in the face , which almost stunned her . He also kicked her severely , and she was still suffering severely from the injuries she had received . —Mr Yardley said his conduct was of a most gross and disgusting nature in striking a woman , and that woman hia own mother . He should punish him with some severity , and ordered him to pay a fine of £ 5 , or be imprisoned for six weeks . —Ho was locked up in default .

      WANDSWORTH . —One Wax to cube Leunkin . nsss , —Police-constable 118 Y , accompanied by a woman named Burchell and her daughter , lolicited'tha advice of-Mr Beadon under the following circumstances : —Last Friday fortnight , Charles Burchell , ton of the female applicant , with hit sister Emma , the young woman present , and Thomas Clifford , a fellnw-workman of Harebell ' s , were drinkin j together at several public-houses , and they at last went iuto the Chelsea Pensipnere , where Emms Burchell became very ill . Clifford undertook to make her well , and procured what is believed to have been ammonia , of tbe use of which drug he told tbe druggist he had perfect knowledgo , as he had made tons of it . Thie druggist cautioned him that he must not administer more than twenty drops in a dilated state . Clifford used the liouid ih its genuine state , forced some of it up the girl ' s nostrils , and dropped some into her mouth and throat , causing an intense burning sensation nnd a feeling of strangulation , tbe blood flowing copiously from the nose . Clifford still wished to administer mere

      of the drug , but was prevented ; and the girl was taken home , where she continued in strong fits upwards of three hours Clifford said she-was overcome by drink , and wanted to apply some more of the stuff ,- bnt the mother would not let him . Clifford then said he would go and fetch Charles Burchell , whom he had left in the Swan , Battersea-bridge . It appeared tbat Clifford purchased some more ammonia in the Bridge-road , and administered three or four doses to Burchell , whom he found asleep . He forced Burchell ' s head back , and poured some ofthe liquid into his nostrils and into his throat . The yaung man appeared to Buffer great pain , and foamed at the mouth . Clifford was remonstrated with by all parties present , but he said he knew what he was about , and he would cure him . Burchell , it seemed , staggered home and went to bed , but could not sleep , and after being very restless for two or three days , he

      returned on tho next Wednesday from a quarter of a day ' s work in an evidently deranged state of mlad . Mr Sbaw , a medical man , was sent for , and soon afterwards the man became raving mad , and he was removed , by Mr Shaw ' s directiens , to Mr Tow ' s private lunatic asjlum , where he at present remains a hopeless : maaiac , —Mr Beadon said the circumstances detailed were most lamentable as regarded Burchell , but there appeared to bean absence of any criminal intent on the part of Clifford . Whatever he had done was with an apparently good motive , and it was not feasible to presume tint ho woald have sought to take another man ' s life' in the presence of bo many people . —Inspector Snsaln subsequently bad a lengthened private interview with tbe magistrate , the result of which was understood to be , that if Burchell- died Clifford was to be apprehended ; or , if tbe surgeon ' s certificate declared the symptoms of a fatal character ; a warrant might be applied for . :

      SOUTHWARK Fnk ' ious Dbivinc—Mr W . J . Daley was charged with furious driving , and endangering the life of a young woman named Hodnett . —Sergeant Bowles , L division , said that on Saturday evening ho saw the defendant in a gig driving along the New-cut at the rate of fifteen or sixteen miles an hour . Apprehensive that some accident would occur he proceeded ia the direction the defendant had taken , aad on arriving at the corner of Charlotte-street , Biaekfriars . roiid ,. he found a crowd round a young female , who was lying on the ground , } bleeding profusely from a wound on the head . She was taken to Guv ' s Hospital in a . state of utter insensibility , and pronounced to havo raceive'd a concussion of tho brain , and still remained iu that institution in a very precarious condition . The sergeant

      added , that when the dfendant first passed ho was jerking the reins , as if to urge on the horse . He was under the influence of liquor . —Hannah Foster said she saw the young woman knocked down by the defendant ' s hbrso at she was crossing theBlaekfriars-road . ' She observed that as the defendant approached that part of the road where the young woman was crossing he pulled back the reins of the horse , and did all he could to avert : the accident . The animal , however , proceeded forward , and after the accident galloped along until out of sight . — -J . Blackmore , a workman in aa ornery manufactory , stated that on the evening in question , as he was ttan ° d « in Union-street , the defendant passed in his gig . at a

      gallop , when the wheel caught a wheelbarrow-close " to where he was standing , ' and knocked him . down , severely injuring his legs . The prisoner ' s servant boy , who wai in the gig at tho time , said that the horse started off , and bis master had no control over him ;—The prisoner denied the imputation o ? his being at all intoxicated * et the time of the accident . His horse started ; , off , and although he used every exertion in his power to p ' iill him up , he failed . He deplored the accident , * and felt sincerely for tbe misfortune that happened , but ho whs willing to tender every pecuniary assistance tnat was considered just and fair , in order to alleviate-the sorrows of those whom ho had unintentionall y injured . — The prisoner was remanded on bail .

      soUTHWARK .-BiMHr , —T . Phelps , one of the porters of St Thomas ' s Hospital , was charged with bigamy . The prisoner ' s second wlfa said that in the month of Augmt last the prisoner introduced himself to her as a widower , alleging that his wife had been dead six years . He afterwards paid his addresses to h « r , and they were married the latter end of August at St George ' s Church In the" Borough of Southwark , Soon after the nuptials he began to llltreat her , and she ascertained that he had another wife living at > Gloucester , The parish clerk of Gloucester church- produced -the certificate ofthe prisoner ' s first mrrritige , which took place in tbe month of August , 1825 , and stated that he saw his first wife at Gloucester that morning beforeho

      set out for London to attend the present examination . He added , that although-he was present at the solemnization of that msrriage it had occurred so many years ago that he could not identify the prisoner - as the bridegroom . The prisoner said that he and hia first -wife separated seven years aao by mutual ' consent , and-not having heard any tiding * of her , he believing she-was dead , contracted the marriage with the second wife thinking it was not-illegal . He added , ' that in tho agreement drawn up betwei-n him and bis first wife . it was expressly stipulated that either party was at liberty to act according to their inclinations as to whether or not they might get married . — The prisoner was committed .

      A School For The Education Of The Childr...

      A school for the education of the children of Wesleyan missionaries engaged in- the South Sea Islands is being formed at Auckland . in New Zealand .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 8, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_08011848/page/6/