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      Emigration to the TJmted States . —Protection of the Pooa Emigrants acaiks- the " w "_ es xsa 5 bato »" of the Emigration Shakes . —Though we never have advised Emigration , we have deemed it our duty to publish all information for thense of Emigrants that has fallen in our way ; and particularly that sort of information calculated to guard them against the heartless frauds committed by the sharks who beset the path ofthe inexperienced and the simple , chousing them Ont of their means by every species of low trickery and cunning . To this end we inserted the Journal of 3 Sr . Ktfcethly , containing notes aad observations suggested by his journey ' to the United States : and we have more than once called attention to his recommendation that agencies should he established in Liverpool and Emigration to the Vsked States . —Pbotecxion of

      3 Jew York for the transmission of Emigrants by parties who would be content with a fair and honourable profit on their transactions , and who would make such arrangements as should protect the Emigrants from every attempt at extortion . "We know that Mr . Pitlethly has not been content with barely giving such recommendation ; hut he has tried to induce parties , of whom he had a knowledge , to take the matter np , and accomplish his desire . His efforts have been crowned with some success ; for Br . Smiles , of Rochester , is engaged in perfecting arrangements on the other side ef the Atlantic , -which will enable the Emigrant Sere to know the exact cost of transmission to almost any part ofthe United States , and to secure his passage ifcrouoli , free of all other demands or bargainings , by

      payment of the stipulated sum to the Liverpool agent . From a recent letter from Dr . Smiles to Mr . Ktkethly , we give the following . It shows the necessity of some such scheme as above indicated to protect the wanderer from heartless robbery : — In regard to the price of passage from New York to BuSato , as forwarded to you in my last , and now again sent for publication , 1 beg to assure yon that it Is extremely low , indeed considerably more so than it has heen on an average for years past , and nearly 2 s . 6 < L sterling under the sum charged by Harnden and Co . last year . It is true that rich forwarding merchants nave some years undertaken to carry passengers at the price yon speak of \ hut this is invariably done for a sinister nurpose . It is always the result of a

      combination among the rich to break down and ram tlie poorer forwarders , who have heen doing business at lower prices . It is in this way that a monopoly is ultimately secured to Uieavaricions rich . This sort of competition is very common in this country , and in the absence of spedalprivileges it is the natural result of associated wealth , whose insupportable tyranny cannot hear restraint or dictation . Companies will associate together , to 1 > reak down any angle individual who may have temerity sufficient to disregard their ordinary terms of doing business . On fheSorth river ( the Hudson ) the usual price is two dollars from Xew York to Albany , in stecm-boats ; hut frequently , in order to ruin some enterprising competitor , who wonld he content with less profitthe old rich companies will manage to run down

      , the fare to half a dollar , and one year they actually carried passengers for a short period for nothing . In this way all competition was speedily "broken down , and for theremainder of the year the charge was raised to three dollars . Thus , in the end , they lost nothing , while they secured a monopoly of the business . Last year , there was an association among the forwarders on the canal aotto carry passengers below a certain price . This was Aiery favourable to Harnden and Co ., who thereby were enabled to defy competition . This season Colonel AUen w 31 have nothing to do with any association ; and as his house is one ofthe oldest and mostresp ectable in the business , no attempt can he made to dictate terms to him or break him down . You may rely with the utmost confidence on the integrity and kindness , not

      only of himself , hut of aU his suhorcfinates ; as he will suffer no deviation by the latter from the strict line of duty pointed out to them , in their treatment of passengers consigned tofhem . But a general agency such as tob contemplate is , notwithstanding , of greatimpotteute , as the following case will clearly show . A year or two ago , 1 was called upon by a gentleman to heroine bail for one of my native countrymen , who had heenconagnea to acommon gaol under circumstances most afflicting . He was a middle-aged man , with a large Saaalv , < rahis way iolhe veet Some of the land sharks of New York had got hold of him on his arrival there , cozenedhim with wonderful tales of their abilities to get him forwarded cheap and comfortable to his place of destination . The poor man was induced to make a

      hargain , and pay his money in advance . On reaching Albany , he and his family were consigned to an overcrowded host , and stowed away in the hold . This he pat np with , hut he was annoyed in every conceivable ¦ wav . ^ ater wasthrown downnpon him andlik family before they were up in the morning , by the hands carelessly washing the decks . No heed was paid to his remonstrances , and his son , while seconding him , was , without provocation , pushed by the Captain into the canal , and whilein the water struck down by a handspike . The father , of course , roused by such brutality and injustice , endeavoured to defend his son , and this , Try merely laving hold of the handspike which was in the hands of the brutal Captain . On tins , the latter turned upon him and heat him , so that his eyes were bniiseSuch

      hmc kenec ^ andliisoodyotherwise severdy u . crying injustice aemanded redress , if redress could he possibly had . At theinstigation , therefore , ofsomeof the passengers , the poor man complained to the authorities on his arrival in this city . What satisfaction did he » et do yon suppose ? The Captain was bomid over to he tried for assault and battery , a month or two afterwards ; the poor man to appear against him as witness . To do this he must be detained—a thing impossible , as delay woifldbe iuin to him . But not content with the punishment he had wantonly inflicted on an innocent man , meinfamous Captain turned round and swore an assault and battery against his victim . He , a stranger jn a strangeland , couldnotfindbaU , andhe was thrown into prison to await his trial ; his wife and family left

      meanwhile to distraction , and probable beggary . The moment the matter was explained to me , I hurried to the boat , made inquiries of the passengers into all the circumstances , and found that the Captain had perjured himself lhadhiminmiedia telyapprehendedonacliarge ofperinrv ; hronghtup thepassengerstoprovethefalsity of what he had sworn to againstthe man he had abused aaajnaltrcated ; and , alter a tedious examination , had him bouDdoverin heavy hail to answer for this , a States prison offence . He got fiightened at the thorough exposure of his vHlany , and was glad tosettlethe matter hy paying the poor man fifty dollars , and all expenses . Ho doubt , although this is the only case of the kind that _ ne within my knowledge , many such occur , and the

      necessity therefore of an Emigrant agent , who will see kindness extended , and contracts fulfilled to the letter , must he apparent , not only to yon , but to every reflecting mind . In this instance , had I not visited the city that day , and just at the time I did , the boat and Captain would have left for the west , and the poor man had his inanifold injuries unrequited . S . S ., ADFC-m—There is a society called the " Heir-at' law Society" somewhere in London ; hut what reVance is to he placed on ithy parties who have last estates of landed property , is not for us to say . Our correspondent had l > ett « v nsake inquiries , on « l j ^ ge for himself . Jamee Babhett , Hoixowsfixi .. —We are sorry that it is not in our power to aid him . Should we hear of any--finBg likely to suit , we win communicate iiie

      info—nation . G . C _ EiMUSGBAM . —Give orders to Mr . Guest or to Air . Clark , who will procure the portraits for ^ ou . John Thompson , Sheffield . —We see nothing to hinder him from completing the purchase and entering on possession , hut would recommend him , before he does so , to seek the advice of his attorney . White Slayebt . —The London Deess-maeiks akd MnxtsEES . —Tfa * * £ Uswivis letter appeared in the Times of Wednesday : —Sir , —Your powerful advocacy has brought to public view the wretchedness and destitution of the poor ncedlc-womeu of this great metropolis : permitmetoimploreyonrkindconsiderationand

      sympathy for a class of young women to which 1 belong—the mulincrs , dressmakers , aud improvers , attending the various houses in London . The slavery -we endure is beyond credibility . Some of our parents have « -iven large gratuities to enable us to perfect ourselves in our professions , with a promise of early hours . In the house to which I unfortunately belong , the order of the day recently issued in the work-rooms has been — " that the young ladies commence work at seven o ' clock in the morning , and continue till twelve at night , invariably in the season ; and those who do not approve of these rules toleavc the house . " I am , Ac , " A MittrsEB ,

      Scotulxd . —Jfe . il'GBATH's Tora . —All places in Scot , land wishing to avail themselves of Mr . 21 'Grath's ser . ¦ rices , are requested to immediately correspond with Mr . Smith , 29 , Itotten-row-street , Glasgow . Ub . O'Co- v - nos and Me . Coofib . — -Asa ««» to the explanation of a late misunderstanding , we insert the following , which wc Have received from Mr . Cooper : — " It shall never be said that I stand in the way of peace , or reject a spirit of kindness , when it is manifested . 1 have fek too much , aud suffered too deeply in my own mind , during my imprisonment , from all I can learn relative to the present state of Chartism , to be willing to Muffle more quarrels , or to desire that ahuhbub should be raised t . n account of any little injury I may recave . On co & fi-. ioithereforethat Mr . O'Connor fulfils his

      _ , promise to' meet me atthe door of my prison , '' to make hisperamal apology , ' by nine o ' clock on Saturday morning , the third of Mav , and goes icith me whither I intend tha l ^ ytogolvcrlumsap)—! accept his ' atonement , ' although , in tendering it , I must confess 3 tr- O'Connor remindsme of the surgeon who broke the head of his apprentice in a passion , and then offered to repair the injury by applying a punster to the lad ' s elbow . Such a phrase as ' the final overthrow of O'Connor'I never used—such a conception never entered my mind . The other charges were as unfounded as this , but I scorn to "P up the old wound , since O'Connor expresses his Borrow * in a way that 1 think is worthy of him . Belife that

      sides , thuugh I never wrote a letter in my hreathed , malignant spirit , ' yet I candidly own I am , when I & , - „_ 1 am insulted or injured , as hot and waspish as here and there one ; and thus I can the more readily _ cuse the heat and ' wtispishness of others under supposed insult or jujurv There is but one subject Connected With ihis Stile unpleasantness that IfflUSt charge Mr . O'Connor ta r . ass once more throug h the sieve of Lis memoir . He observed at Manchester , in answer to the question , whether he knew my handwriting ? « Tes : I have had so many letters for money , & c Mow , whether that is some mistake of the reporter or printer , it is not for me to say ; hut if Mr . O'Connor jvifl urn over in his mind the various references to

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      money transactions made in our letters or convcrsations , he wiU find me right , when I say that lUunmr had one farthing from Ids personal pocket for mv personal benefit . Knowing that to be true , I have no doubt Mr . O'Connor will value my attachment the more highly : that attachment he shall have , most unshrinkingly , most heartily , as long as I retain thebelief which Ihave retained of him from the first moment I knew him that he is a most sincere and sternly incorruptible advocate ofthe People ' s Charter . Yet that shall not prevent me exercising the right which Mr . O'Connor recognises—the right to tell him when I think he is going wrong—a right which we all have in respect to each other . In conclusion , I beg to observe that I disdain to receive any man ' s money who thinks my money transactions made in our lftttpro nr mmw ...

      soundness as a Chartist any way suspicious . I am in rags — am pennyless — agonised with rheumatism , arising from the damp , and of which I suppose I shall never he quit as long as I live—I have caught a severe cold hy trying to economise my coal , because I had nomoney—I have no home when I leave prison , and cannot see my wife ( who has taken refuge with her relatives in Ltacolnshire ) till 1 have found something to depend on for bread in London , where I hope to find it—I have a large debt to meet , contracted hy giving away bread and money to the starving poor , by maintaining lecturers , and hy a general support of Chartism , law expenses for trials , & c . ; and yet , if I do not receive one farthing to procure me clothes , or in any other way to help me , when I leave this gaol , where I shall have passed , altogether , two years and eleven weeks of my life , I shall proclaim the People ' s Charter

      as fervently as ever . And if I have to beg my way up to London , I shall hasten to register my name in the roll-hook of the Old Ship—which I do not intend to quit as long as a plank remains in her . —Thomas Coofee . " I ha ve not one word of repl y to make to any portion of the above , further than to mention the question of " money , " which Mr . Cooper refers to my memory . I dare say he does not consider his two newspapers , to which I advanced liberally , were any " personal benefit ; " I do not regret the donations ; yet they were " money given , " and it was to those donations that I referred . I shall certainly meet Cooper on the 3 rd of May , if living ; but I do not pledge myself to go whither he chooses to lead me . As to the " plaister to the elbow , " I have often had sore bones from others , and been compelled to find my o «» i plaister . — Feabgus O'Cosxob .

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      MiftCB 8 , 1845 . " THE NORTHERN STAR . 5 ""' ' ' ' ! " 1 i " ¦¦ - - /

      Monies Received By Mr. O'Connor. Fob The...

      MONIES RECEIVED BY MR . O'CONNOR . FOB THE EXECUTIVE . £ S . d . From a few friends at Braintree and Socking .. 113 6 From Derby o 10 0 From Dundee ( Donation ) o 13 0 From Todmorden , levy of sixpence 2 16 0 CAEDS . From Braintree o 13 0 ' SUBSCRIPTIONS . From Tillicoultry * o 1 6 From John Sidaway , Rouen , France .. .. 0 5 0 From Thomas Sidaway , ditto 0 5 0 From Dundee .. - .. 040 HASWEM , COIX 1 EEY . Trom a few friends at the Nailers' Arms , Rouen , France , per John Sidaway o 14 o VICTIM FUND . From Dundee 0 3 8 * In the Star ofthe 8 th of February , 1845 , the sums announced as being received from " KUhcouty , " should have been acknowledged as " Tillicoultry . "

      RECEIPTS PER GENERAL SECRETARY . SOBSCBIPTIONS . £ s . d . S . d . Glasgow .. .. 10 1 6 Bri ghton .. .. 038 Crown and Anchor 0 4 0 Nottingham , Seven Camberwell .. .. 0 1 C Stars .. .. 0 7 G Saffron-Mil .. .. 040 Ditto , Byron Ward 0-50 Merthyr Tydvil .. 050 Newcastle - upon-Northampton ( old Tyne .. .. o 4 o locale ) .. .. 026 Penzance .. .. 058 HAND BOOKS ASH CASUS . Littietown , hand Cleckheaton , hand books .. .. O 3 « books .. .. CI 10 Ditto , cards .. .. 010 Wakefield , ditto .. 018 DONATIONS . City of London .. o 0 10 Mr . Heaton , Clithe-Gilbert Ashtoa , roe 2 6 Oveuden .. .. 0 1 C

      KYT . -r ferthyr Tydvil , Dewsoury .. „ 010 0 first collection .. 068 Littietown .. .. 090 Halifax .. .. 076 Birstall .. .. 036 Plymouth .. .. 100 Greenwich .. .. 0 12 C Wakefield .. .. 0 12 6 wrvravusi ) . Brighton 0 3 0 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 0 3 0 MISEBS . Brighton 0 I C na . h ' douaix . Brighton ( balance in hand ) 0 17 SHIS . ELLIS . Mr . Colquhoun , Glasgow „ ,, 010

      The Executive return their sincere thanks to the men of Glasgow and other places for the exertions they are making to place the cause in that prominent position which it merits , and their own interests so imperatively demand . THOMAS MARTIN WHEELER .

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      Melaschoi.Y Accrmeot.—On Thursday Mornin...

      Melaschoi . y AccrmEOT . —On Thursday morning about nine o ' clock , an accident , by which one man unfortunately lost his life , occurred in the river nearly opposite Dcptford , under the following circumstances : —A sailing barge was coming up the river , with rather a fresh breeze , whilst a coal barge , manned by the deceased and another labourer , was drifting down with the tide , both men guiding her course by means of oars ; when , through some cause , both the vessels came into violent collision , and the deceased , who stood upon the gunwale , was pitched overboard by the concussion , and although every exertion was made to save Mm when he rose to the surface , he was earned by the strength ofthe tide under the sailing-barge , and was never afterwards seen .

      Shaftesbubt Election . —On "Wednesday , Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Esq ., was elected as representative for this borough . The new member is a professed Whig , but is in favour of the present Com Laws , and opposed " to the present Poor Law . Extensive Robberies is SnnnEr . —For many months past the gentry , farmers , and others of Surrey , especially in the neighbourhood of Woking , have suffered severely from depredations committed by an apparently organized gang of thieves . Sheep , poultry , implements of husbandry , timber , and other articles have been missed in large quantities . The South-Western Bailway Company were also sufferers to a great extent . Every mode has been adopted by the local and railway police to detect the offenders , but

      until recently their efforts were nnavauing . Within three miles of the town of Woking is the village of Perliglit . On the further side of the village , going from London , is a large extent of waste land , on which a number of poor people , and many suspected characters , have erected huts . One of these huts was occupied by a man named Wells , who professed to follow the business of a wheelwright . He had been previously convicted of felony . " On the 20 th ult . a quantity of elm planking was stolen from'the wharf of Mr . Marshal ] , a timber merchant at Woking . A sawyer named Luxford gave Mr . Marshall information wMch induced him to suspect Wells and a man who occasionally worked for that person , and he communicated with Mr . Mcddlicombe , the chief

      constable of Godalming . This functionary arrived with a search warrant , proceeded to Wells ' s house , and found it to be almost filled with stolen property . The officer found five elm planks and a clump of wood corresponding with the kind of timber taken from Mr . Marshall ' s , a sheep net forty yards in length , a quantity of tools which had been stolen at different times from off the railway , farming implements , < fec . Theofficer afterwards searched the house of Chapman , Wells' labourer , and there found , under the flooring of the sitting and bedroom , several pieces of timber , which were afterwards identified as Mr . Marshall ' s property . Mr . J . B . Dafey , superintendent of the Soutii-Weslero Railway police , afterwards went to Chapman ' s house and asked his wife for some nails

      which had been missed off the tine . This woman said there had been some nails in the house , but fearing she should get into trouble , she put them outside the house , and somebody had taken them away . The officer , not satisfied with this statement , proceeded to search the place , and discovered a few in a deal box , and also in a pocket usually worn by the woman Chapman . Mr . l 5 alby afterwards had a heap of fagots which were in the garden removed , and when-the ground was opened upwards of 3 , 000 nails were foundlconcealed there . These nails were all made of galvanised iron , and exclusively manufactured for the erection of the galvanic telegraph on the South-Westcrn Railway . These nails had been stolen since last ^ November . Many other

      articles of stolen property were found in this house . The prisoners Charles Wells and William Chapman were apprehended ,- and after undergoing a short examination , were remanded uutil Saturday last . Tlie netwas proved to be the property ofthe Earl of Lovelace , the Lord Lieutenant of the countv , who resides at Audrey , and many of the other articles were identified . On Saturday the Earl of Lovelace , Mr . Mangles , M P ., and some other magistrates , met at Guildiord , and the prisoners underwent a final examination . The proceedings excited great interest , and the large room at the hospital , where the examination took place , was crowded . The , charges of stealing the timber and the nails belong mg to Messrs . Cook and Wheatstone , patentees of the oalvanie telegraph , were taken and completed , and

      the prisoners were committed for trial . . Numerous other charges could have been preferred , but the noble chairman suggested that indictments could be preferred at the assizes . The pvisonerWells was" tried and convicted two years since for uncoupling a truck from the luegagc-train on the South Western Railway when itwas in motion , and stealing two chests of tea and other valuable property , aud on that occasion received sLtmontlis' imprisonment . Eight Pimso . vs Drow-sed . —On Saturday evening , about six o ' clock , an accident occurred " on Lough Ree , near Athlone , by which eight persons lost their lives . A new quarry was lately opened at- Coorsm Point , near Hare Island , for the purpose of supplying stone for the new docks about to be erected at Athlone , and after the workmen had closed their labour fot _ he day somehad to cross the ferry to their homes .

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      Nine men and two women ^ ot into a boat for that purpose , and were not more than a few yards from the shore when the boat upset , and eight of the men were drowned . There were numbers of persons on shore , but they could give no assistance to those in the water , which was very deep at the point where the calamity occurred . One of the women owed her escape to a bag of bran which was fastened on her back and kept her afloat , and the other wonum supposes that she was kept afloat by her clothes , for she has no recollection of having seized hold of any timber . They were taken up by a boat which came to their aid after a delay of several minutes . Lord Castlemaine happened to be one of the spectators of this calamity , and he did all in his power to procure aid for the sufferers , but it came too late for the great bulk of the party . w ; - _ » ,.-. ... i . _ . ¦• , ..,. .. _ -.. * ...-H .-1

      • . Fatal Boilee ExptosiON . —FouR Men Killed . — Another of those fatal occurrences , the details of which are so extremely distressing as to produce the most painful excitement as to the cause of such awful consequences , took place at the factory of Mr . Saiuuda , engineer , in the vicinity of Biackwall , by which three poor fellows were killed on the spot , and a great many others most seriously injured . The name of Samuda will naturally bring to remembrance the lamentable occurrence on board the Gipsy Queen steam-boat , in November last , when , under similar circumstances , as respects the testing of machinery , Mr . Samuda ' s brother and others lost their lives . The number of unfortunate sufferers on the present occasion appears to be as many as those who received

      injury on board the Gipsy Quceil , but . although we have to record the death of four , we trust the effects will not prove so fatal . From the most authentic sources we learn that on Wednesday morning , as usual , the machinery at the factory , situated in Orchard-street , near the East India Docks , was put in motion by the engines , to generate the steam , for which the boiler was placed in a brick house adjoining . This boiler is said to have been nearly U 6 W and to have been constructed' by Messrs . Fairburn ,. of Millwall , forNo . 11 Waterman , but not being foundto answer the purposes for which it was required , the boiler was sold at an auction about a month ago , and transferred to the yard of Messrs . Samuda . It is also said the boiler , which was on the tubular principle , had

      beenpreviouslytested , and thatitwas capable of enduring apressure of COlbs . to the squareinch ; and that at the time it ay & s feeding the engines there was not a greater pressure than Mbs . on ; but this statement , which was made by one of the labourers , who was slightly wounded , may not be correct . But another of the sufferers subsequently stated , and whose evidence will , no doubt , be taken on the inquest , that at the same time they were working at 40 lb . pressure he was ordered to go and nail down the valve , which order he obeyed . However , a short time after tlie steam had been got up and the engine set in motion about ten o'clock ) , and while the men were engaged in their respective occupations , the boiler burst in a most awful explosion , scattering death and

      destruction all around , and engul p hing the poor fellows amidst the heap of ruins which it instantly made . As may be easily imagined , the sudden explosion created the greatest dismay in the works , and the utmost consternation in the vicinity . Recovering from the confusion , the workmen of the premises were immediately engaged in extricating their fellows from the smoking mass , sickening at the appalling sights of scalded heads and mangled fimbs . Within half a dozen yards of the fractured boiler lay the mutilated dead bodies of two labourers , Wright and Chapman , "doubled" up , the bowels of tlie latter actually protruding . The dead disfigured corpse of another labourer was found on the opposite side ofthe river Lea , called Bow Creek , a distance of about

      ISOyards from the factory . This man was called TVright , and was also a labourer . He was sitting on the boiler putting down some tow , and was seen from the river shot up into the air at an elevation of 100 feet . These three were beyond all hope of relief in tliis world , and they were soon removed to the dead-house at Poplar . The other sufferers , of which eight were most severely Injured , were the immediate objects of care and attention . All , more or less , were scalded , and had their limbs and joints fractured and their bodies contused , presenting a most piteous spectacle . Dr . Bain , the nearest medical man , was soon administering his relief , and a van was procured , and some were conveyed in it to the London Hospital , while four of the number were

      taken onboard the Flirt , Greenwich steamer , to the Dreadnought Hospital . Mr . Lowe , the manager , who so providentially escaped on board the Gipsy Queen , by running up the ladder the moment before the bursting of the pipe , was severely injured , and was taken to his own residence , as were many others who received bruises . By this explosion the whole of the engine-house has been levelled to the ground , the broken tiles and bricks of which are thickly strewn over the whole of the area . A large glasshouse adjoins the premises , in the whole of which the windows were entirely destroyed , breaking at least 1000 panes of g lass , as also the windows ofthe private houses in the immediate neighbourhood . The boiler was rent into three distinct pieces : one portion of

      which , weighing about seven cwt ., was blown over the houses , and fell into Orchard-street , distant about 300 yards , striking in its descent the door-post and wall belonging to Messrs . Turner , tar-manufacturers . The second portion , weighing about five cwt , was likewise blown over the houses , and fell in an adjoining field , at a distance of about 100 feet . The third portion of the boiler , containing the tubular pipe . ? , remains in the yard of Messrs . Samuda . At the London Hospital , the sufferers received that kind attention which the medical gentlemen are so prompt in affording ; but we fearsome of the cases are beyond the skill of the most experienced . On board the Dreadnought the four poor fellows conveyed thither were most carefully provided with every remedy

      that could tend to alleviate their severe sufferings and preserve life ; and Captain Sanders and the surgeons of that excellent institution spared no exertions to effect their object . But Smith , the boiler maker , never rallied , gradually sinking , and expired about twenty minutes to nine p . m . He had a compound fracture in the left arm , a compound fracture of the jaw , and severe internal injuries . He was , in general , sensible , but incoherent at times . He was thirty-three years of ago , resided at Deptford , and has left a wife and seven children , the eldest under thirteen years of age . William Neal , an engineer , is still living , but in a sad plight . He has several ribs fractured , and is

      otherwise injured . Both their eyes were full of mortar . Charles Phillips , another at tlie Dreadnought , was injured in the legs , which on bein » dressed he left the ship . Another man , who was taken in hand , had a severe contusion on the shoulder dressed , and he also departed . The following is a list of the sufferers : —Dead : Thomas Wright , aged thirty-six , labourer ; left a wife and one child ; Richard Grimes , labourer ; Janies Chapman , labourer ; Jonathan Smith , ooiler-niaker . Injured severely : James Harrison , boiler-maker ; Joseph B . iddon ^ Smith ; Thomas Whiteombe , engne-driver ; William Ingledue , labourer ; George Neal , engineer ; Alexander Mahoney , labourer ; Joseph Vincent , labourer .

      Ixqjjest ox the Bodies . —On Thursday , at two o ' clock , an inquest was impanelled by Mr . Baker , coroner , at the Royal Mason Inn , Sophia-street , East India-road , to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Thomas Wright , Richard Grimes , and James Chapman , who were killed by the explosion of the steam-boiler , at the works of Messrs . Samuda and Co ., at Biackwall , on Wednesday morning . —The jury having been sworn , the coroner suggested the propriety of adjourning from that place to the Town Hall , Poplar , as he understood that arrangements had been made for their accommodation . The jury accordingly adjourned to the Town Hall ; and on their way thither visited the dead-house , where the bodies had been deposited in shells , and

      were lying in the state m which they were iouud immediately after the disastrous explosion . They presented a repulsive and ghastly appearance , especially the body ofthe unfortunate Grimes , which was dreadfully mutilated , the bowels actually protruding through the trousers , besides frightful contusions about the face and other parts . Many persons from the neighbourhood pressed forward to see the melancholy spectacle , and gave Vent to their feelings in suppressed and mournful exclamations . James Cole , the foreman ) identified the bodies , and said that the deceased ' s death was caused by the explosion of a boiler at the works of Mr . Joseph Samuda . It was a steam-boiler , and attached to an engine . After the explosion . Wright , used 30 , was found near the

      place of accident quite dead . Grimes , aged 29 , was on the top of the boiler when it exploded , and his body was afcrwards picked up on the other side of the Creek , in the county of- Essex , a distance of between two and three hundred yards . He was not quite dead when found , but died before he could be removed . Jas . Chapman , aged 26 , also mot with death from the explosion , and was quite dead when ftnwd .-Mr . Braithwaite was then sworn : He belonged to the firm of Messrs . Braithwaite and Co ., New-road , Fitzroy-squarc , and had'brought the plans and drawings of the boiler which had exploded . . It was manufactured by Mr . W . Fairbairn and Co ., of Mill-wall . Itwas intended to drive a pair of 25-horsc low pressure engines , and had been used some ten or twelve times , but as there was a very great insufficiency ot steam it had been taken out , not to be again

      employed fer engines of that power . Some months ago the boiler was at Mr . Fairbairn ' s manufactory , and he ( Mr . Braithwaite ) had lately lost sight of it altogether , until he saw it after the explosion . He was certain it was the same boiler , as the three pieces exactly corresponded with the drawings made of it . It had been made about eighteen months , and was" built under the direction of Mv . Milner aad His brother , and they were entirely responsible for it . It was generally worked at lOlbs . to the square inch , but Mr . Fairbairn had told him he had worked it with a pressure of 401 ba . to the square inch . Witness could not swear that the valve had been loaded atone time on board the steam-boat as high aslSlbs . Some discussic-n ensued with regard to the necessity of visiting tlie premises where the explosion took place , and it was subsequently agreed that the inquest should be adjourned until Monday morning next , meanwhile the jury would avail themselves of the

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      opportunity to inspect tho ruins . The sufferers now lying m the London Hospital are going on favourably , and may with certainty be pronounced out of danger . The same may be said of the man Neal , who was taken to the Dreadnought Hospital-ship ; ne is in a fair way of recovery . Ireland . —Another Fatal Accident nv Dnowx-INQ ~~ "EVERAL Lives Lost . —An accident occurred on Monday night at Longford , by which , it is supposed , irora . six to ten persons have lost their lives . A crowd ol emigrants came into Longford on Mondav , and made application for their passage to Dublin in tlie canal-boat . They were told that as about fortv places were already secured , the whole party could not be accommodated as they desired . They were however , determined toleavc by the boat , mid near ! V an bom * before the ordinary time of sailing they crowded on board in a body , and took possession of all parts in spite of the boatmen and the uolicc on «™„ _„ _ . _ ...- .. ; .. „ _

      duty . The master remonstrated with them about the impropriety of their conduct , and threatened not to leave the harbour with them . They then cast oft the warps and pushed the boat into deep water , and a number of them being attracted to one side , the boat lurched , tlie water flowed over her side , and in an instant she sank . The confusion and excitement which ensued may be imagined . Every exertion was made by all on the shove to relieve these people , and , considering the great number who were in the boat and very few being able to swim , it is considered most providential that so many escaped with their lives . The number actually submerged is variously estimated MtafOM hundred to one hundred and fifty persons , ihe bodies of six persons had been taken out of the water when the last account left , and it was then apprehended that four more remained .

      ExiExsivE Co . vjxagbatio . v . — Information was received on Monday of the outbreak of a most disastrous fire at Peterborough , which terminated in the loss of property to the amount of two thousand pounds . . It appears that the fire originated in the candle-house belonging to Mr . Vergette , grocer and tallow-chandler . The premises arc of considerable extent , and at the time , independently of the stock-in-trade , there was ns less than 2 , 0001 bs . oi mould candles , and a vast quantity of dip-lights . The fire extended to the adjoining houses , the whole of which were most severely injured by fire , water , and removal .

      Double Execution . —The man named Rc-ugiev , and the woman Auga , both condemned to death foi poisoning—the first his wife , and the other her 1 msbanu- —were executed on Tuesday , at VendOlUC Rougier had sunk into such complete insensibility , that it was necessaiy to cany him up to the platform 01 the scaffold . On being informed that his hour was come , he first uttered dreadful cries , but afterwards became calm , and said , " I shall not suffer so much as my poor wife ! " The widow Auga , on the contrary , showed great firmness , and even made some resistance when the executioner laid his hands upon her . An immense crowd was collected to view this sanguinary spectacle . —Gdlianam .

      Charge op Manslaughter against a Policeman at Liverpool . —On Saturday last , a coroner ' s inquest was held on the body of Thomas Matthews , nineteen years of age , who , according to the evidence , was in October last struck with a stick , by police-officer No . 638 , Roger Charnley , during an angry altercation with the deceased and two other young men who were at the time more or less intoxicated . In a few davs after , the young man was attacked with a swcllingin the left thigh ; he was taken to the Northern Hospital , and died there on Thursday last . The jury , after a brief consultation , returned a verdict of " manslaughter" against officer 538 , who was accordingly committed to Kirkdale to take his trial at the ap ' - proaching" assizes .

      Suicide at Clakemont . —On Thursday morning week , Edward Story , keeper ofthe lodge atthe principaV . entrance at Clavemont , belonging to the King of the Belgians , committed suicide by cutting his throat . After breakfast , apparently quite well , he took hot water into his bed-room for shaving ; in a few minutes his wife hoard a noise overhead as of some one Stamping , and on running up stairs she found her husband on the floor in the agonies of death , having out his throat with a razor so as almost to separate the head from the body .

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      HOME CIRCUIT . Hertford , Mirch 1 . —The Damnable Game Laws . —Stephen Boswell , 21 , George Warboys , 22 , and Frederick Jeans , 10 , were indicted for being unlawinlly , in the night-time , armed with guns and other offensive weapons , upon certain enclosed land belonging to _ the Marquis of Salisbury . It appeared from the evidence that , on the night of the 10 th of December , one of his lordship's gamekeepers , named Noah Waller , was on duty in a wood belonging to the noble marquis , called Howick ' s Wood , but which is in the occupation of Mr . C . Dimsdale . At a late hour ofthe night the keeper heard the report of fire-arms , and shortly afterwards he saw the prisoners Boswell and Warboys , and two other men , come into the wood , one of them carrying a gun . He saw one of them discharge the gun , and a bird fall , which was picked

      up ; and all the men then went out of the wood . Ihe keeper followed them , and was shortly afterwards joined by his father , upon which the prisoners said thatthejr should call their "mates ; " aud one of them whistled , when two more men , one ofwhom was the prisoner Jeans , came up . The keepers continued to follow the men , and as they were passing a pond , the poachers threatened that if they did not go aw » y they would throw them in . They did not , however , commit any violence , and upon the keepers going towards a farmhouse to call for more assistance , the \ all ran off , and the prisoners were not apprehended until some time afterwards . The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Boswell and Warboys , and acquitted Jeans . The prisoner Boswell , who had , it appeared , been several times before in prison , was sentenced to twelve , and Warboya to six months' imprisonment and hard labour .

      WESTERN CIRCUIT . Winchester , March 1 . — Manslaughter . —John Holden was indicted for the manslaughter of Benjamin Shaw . It appeared that the prisoner and the deceased were convicts on board one of the hulks at Portsmouth , - the prisoner having been sentenced at one ofthe Wiltshire quarter sessions to be transported for ten years for stealing a watch . On the 10 th ol December a convict , who was called as a witness , stated it was his duty to man the ladders for breakfast , which the convicts did by turns . Having done this he went into his ward , followed by the deceased . The prisoner was there , and was accosted by the deceased , who said , " What ! You here again ; whv , you , you are always skulking your work . " To this the prisoner made some ansry reply , and the deceased then went up to him . took him bv the cellar

      of his coat with both hands , and shook him . The prisoner offered some resistance to this , when the deceased put his hand to the back of llis head , and pressed his head down . The pr isoner then made a violent push at the deceased in the lower part of his person . Deceased let go his hold , staggered back to bis locker , and exclaimed he was stabbed . A surgeon was sent for , and found that the man bad been stabbed in the groin , and that an artery was severed . The mate ol * the hulk deposed that he was called to the spot , and took the prisoner into custody ; and from his manner , and what he saw and heard at the time , lie had no doubt it was an accident , and that the prisoner , when he made the push , had no intention of stabbing the man as he had done . Guilty . — - On Monday the prisoner was brought up for judgment , when Mr . Justice Erie sentenced him to be imprisoned for one month .

      OXFORD CIRCUIT . Reading , March 4 . —The Tiiatcham Murder . — Thomas' 3 e » mng &\ vasindieteu for the wilful murder of his child , Eleazer Jennings , in the parish of Thateham , Berks . Francis Hams , examined by Mr . Sclfe , deposed : I am constable at Thatcliam . The prisoner was gamekeeper to Mr . Tull . He is a married man , and in last December had four children , I believe . On the 24 th of last January , in obedience to a warrant , I exhumed the body of one of them , Eleazcr . It was taken into the belfry . I sent for the prisoner , who stated the child to be his . Mr . Alexander , the coroner , was present . I observed that it was a singular thing respecting the last child ' s being poisoned , and had strong suspicion that the

      other was . He replied , " There is no more poison in them young ones than in me . " On Tuesday , Jan . 26 , 1 went with Mv . Cave to the prisoner ' s house . 1 saw him coming up with the sexton from Thateham . He said that he had been to tell Mr . Clcmenti , the clergyman , that he had some arsenic on a shelf in his house , which he had forgotten . In the course of the day I went , with Mr . Cave and the prisoner to his watch-house zn the wood . I asked if he had any arsenic there . He said , "No ; that some stale arsenic had been buried , and that he had given a bottle of fresh arsenic to John Mace , Mr . 'lull ' s hardener . We all three went into the house . I asked where he used to keep his arsenic . He showed me . In a hole of the thatch I found a vial , containing something white , which I gave to Mr . Cave . Wc then went to Milson ' s public-house , where we had a quart of beer . Mr . Cave and prisoner were alone a

      short time , when the former called me , and said that Jennings wanted to make some statement . I told him I did not want to hear anvthing . He said it was his particular wish to have It off his mind , and asked Mr . Cave to take it down , which he did ) and afterwards read it over in my presence to the prisoner who said" That is quite correct , " and put a cross to it . Mr . Uaye and I signed it . Mr . Cave has it still , I believe . Pne statement referred to was to tlie effect that he had incautiously left a bottle containing arsenic in his house , and he supposed that in the absence of himself and wife , tho children by some means had got possession of it and swallowed a portion . Several witnesses were examined , amongst them tlie niece ot the prisoner , Maria Carter , who said I am 12 years old , and niece to the prisoner . Last Christmas I was living with him . I used to mind the children , lhere were four children . My uncle and auntwere the only other people in the house . Eleazcr was the third child . lie died on Christmas-day . On

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      the previous Sunday we had suet pudding , potatoes , and bacon for dinner . Eleazcr dined with us . On Monday morning my aunt left home about eight in tlie morning , and did not return till six in the evening . We dined on that day between twelve and one . We had bacon and potatoes . Eleazer did not take salt from the salt cellar . My uncle got up and wont into the pantry . He soon came back to the table , and sat down next to Eleazcr . He then « ave him salt , but I did not see him take it out of the salt cellar . He put it on the plate witli his finger and thumb but I did not see where he got it from . It looked wliite . The salt cellar was on the table near me within reach of my unele . Had he taken what he put on the p late out of it I should have seen it Elcnzer put his potatoe to it , and then ate ifc up . in the afternoon , about half an hour after dinner , he complained of his belly . He slept with his brother James . Next morning he complained again , and was

      sick about ten o ciocK . At nignt lie said'h e was very thirsty . He slept with mo . I gave him ' soiue white mint tea , which his mother made for him . He got worse . My uncle went for a doctor about night , but he died before they came back . My aunt wished my uncle to go . He went as soon as she asked him . I had never seen my uncle give anything to the children out of the pantry before . —The learned Judge summed up the evidence to the jury , who , after deliberating about three minntes , broughtin a verdict of Guilty , accompanied with a " recommendation to mercy !" His Lordship then , putting on the black cap , proceeded in the most impressive manner to pass sentence of death upon the prisoner , to whom he held out not the slightest hope of mercy . Tlie prisoner , who had frequently shed tears during the trial , now exclaimed that he was innocent , aud that his Me had been falsely sworn away . He was then removed from the dock .

      CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . Mosdas , March £ . —Burqlary . —Thomas Howell , aged 21 , cabinet-maker , Frederick Smith , aged 31 , printer , and Robert Franklin , aged 23 , tailor , who stood remanded from last sessions , were indicted for feloniously and burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of George Warrencr , situate in the City of London , on the night ofthe lOtli January last , and stealing therein two rings , value 5 s . It was fully proved in evidence by the housemaid ofthe prosecutor , the proprietor of tli e G eorge and Vulture Hotel , George-yard , Lombard-street , that about ten o ' clock on the night in question she proceeded to the bodroom of M . Gatayes forHhe purpose of lighting tllC lire , and to her surprise she found that the door ,

      which was usually kept locked , was on the occasion open . On entering the room she discovered the two prisoners , Howell and Smith , standing between the lied and a chest of drawers . She immediately cried " Murder , " and rushed down stairs , followed by the two prisoners , who seized her by the neck , and put their hands to her mouth to prevent her cries being heard , which was , however , ineffectual , for her master hearing them , secured the two prisoners until the police arrived . On being searched at the station-house there were found upon Howell , secreted between the lining of his coat , five keys , one of which was found to open tlie bed-room door , where they were seen by the housemaid . Keys were also found upon Svaitli capable of opening almost anv lock .

      The property named in the indictment was found missing from the table where it was placed by M . Gatayes . It was further deposed by a cabman , named Henry Taylor , that about half past nine o ' clock on the before-mentioned night , he was called from the ranks in St . Paul ' s Churchyard by three persons , one of whom he was quite positive was the prisoner Franklin , the other two he believed to be Howell and Smith . He was ordered to drive them to Georgeyard , Lombard-street . On arriving there two of the party got out and went up the yard in the direction of the George and Vulture Tavern ; the prisoner Franklin remained behind in the cab . In about

      twenty minutes Franklin got out and went in the same direction , but almost immediately returned , and said that he was sorry that tho witness had to wait SO long , but he would see that he was paid for his time . He again went away and did not return . Witness after waiting two hours went to the police station to complain , and there saw Franklin and the other two prisoners in custody . It was further proved by the waiter of the tavern , that Franklin was seen walking about the servants' hall . The jury , after a lengthened interval , found all the prisoners Guilty of burglariously breaking and entering the dwellinghouse of the prosecutor . Sentence deferred .

      Tuesday , March 4 . —Escape from Pnisos . — Lawrence Phillips was placed at the bar , charged with the misdemeanour of escaping from custody and being at large , before the expiration of the sentence passed upon him according to law . The prisoner in August last was convicted , in this court , of picking pockets at Waltbamstow , in Essex , and sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Ilford House of Correction , from which place he effected Ma escape on the 10 th of October . He was missed by the governor of the gaol from the infirmary , in which place he was confined , being unwell at the time . In a few days after his escape the governor received back the prison dress by railway , and until the 17 th of February last nothing was seen of the prisoner ; at which time the governor recognised him in Whitechnpel . The prisoner , seeing Mr . Anderson ( the governor ) , ran away , but was pursued by the latter , and was captured and taken back to the Ilford gaol . The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty . Sentence respited for the present .

      Reoeivisq Stoles Property , —Robert Carpenter , Aged 23 , and Anne Fybua , aged 30 , were indicted for telomously receiving eight silver spoons and other property of value , the property of Isaac Fordhani , well knowing them to have been stolen . Tliey were also indicted for receiving a razor and waistcoat , the property oi William Fordhani , with a guilty knowledge . The prosecutor stated , that he resides at Ilatton-garden , and is an emery paper-maker . He went to bed at ten o ' clock on the night of the 2 Gth of January . The lower part of the premises was securely fastened . On getting up the following morning , he found that the house had been broken into , and every article of value that could be come at was taken away . Amongst the articles stolen was a

      cashbox , which was afterwards found at the house which was occupied by the prisoners . The cash-box produced is the same , and is the propertv of witness . The articles belonging to his son had fiecii removed from his desk , which had evidently been unlocked , for no marks of violence were found on it . When the woman was taken a key was found , on her , which exactly fitted the desk . Thomas Key stated , that he is an accountant , residing in Church way , St . Pancras . About a fortnight previous to tlie commission of the robbery the two prisoners came to his house and hired apartments . They lived US matt and Wife . They were at home on the night ofthe burglary , but were visited very late

      by two men . Witness heard a hammering soon after they came ill . It sounded as if they were trying to open a tin box . He also heard a jingling as if some metal was thrown upon a table , and a female voice said , " Well , T « m , now it is all over . I suppose vou will go to Portsmouth ? " The answer was , " No , I shall go to Brighton . " The men then left , and witness , considering there was something wrong , opened the window and called a policeman , who catered the house and found all the property in the prisoner ' s room . The property was then produced , and sworn to by the prosecutor as his own . The jury returned a verdict of Guilty . Carpenter was sentenced to seven years' transportation , and judgment was respited on the woman .

      Wednesday , Mamh 5 . —Richard Elliott , aged 34 and Richard Vincent , aged 42 , both described as omnibus drivers , and remanded from the last session were placed at tho bar , Elliott standing indicted for house-breaking , and Vincent with feloniously receiving stolen goods . The jury acquitted Vincent , and found a verdict of Guilty against Elliott . Mr . Justice Patterson sentenced the latterto fifteen year transportation . Attempting to Murder an Infant , —Ann Wilson , alias Sarah Briden , aged 29 , spinster , was placed at the bar on the charge of feloniously attempting to drown a male infant with intent to murdcrandsuftbcate . From the facts of tlie case elicited in evidence it appeared that upon the 8 th of February last , abotr . the hour of three o ' clock in the afternoonthe

      , prisoner was seen by a cabman , of the name of Landell , at the edge of a piece of water called Bariw-Iull Pond , " holding the child by the leg and attempting to immerse it in the water . Landell gave the alarm , and a man named Kitson , who was collecting ice at tlie time , ran with the first witness to the prisoner , who , perceiving that she was discovered , took the child up in her arms and attempted to escape , but was secured by Kitson , upon which she tlll'CW tllO child down on the ground . It was taken up and put into a horse-cloth , and was together with tlie woman , brought to the Salisbury-street stationhouse , and there given into custody of Inspector

      Furlow , who lost no time in procuring a warm water bath and other restoratives tor the unfortunate child , at the same time sending for Mr . Lcroux , a medical man , who deposed that the child was quite black , indicating congestion ofthe lungs , which he thought likely . to be caused by immersion . The child , whi « h was only two months old , under the treatment pursued , ultimately recovered . The prisoner , on being questioned at the station-house , stated that she was the mother ofthe child , and had only come to town that morning from Hertford . The jury returned a verdict of Guilty . Sentence , fifteen years ' transportation .

      Robbery . —Thomas Andrews , aged 24 , a printer , was found guilty of stealing five gold rings , value £ 6 , the property of Frederick Folkard , pawnbroker , Blackfriar ' s-road . The prisoner effected tlie robbery by putting Ms lingers through a broken pane of glass in the shop window . Sentence , ten years' transportation . A Heartless Robbery . —Daniel Henry Donnoy , aged 24 , described in the calendar as a glass-cutter , was convicted of stealing a box and some wearing apparel , the property of Mary Beckworth , a simplelooking country girl . The prisoner became acquainted with the prosecutrix through a cabman who was in the habit of driving out her mistress on Sundays ,

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      i She was induced to go into a public-house Uy mis person and the prisoner , and after partaking of some liquor , which she believed to . have been drugged , she became insensible . On recovering , she found herself in bed with tho prisoner , at No . 3 , Little Exmouth-street , Ilampstcad-rbad , where he . had taken a furnished room . Tlie girl lived with the prisoner for a fortnight , he representing lier as his wife , and she , acting under his . advice , represented him as her husband to her parents , who are holiest " and . industrious working people living at Richmond , Ilojvever , at the expiration of that period he forsook her , and carried away the little property which she possessed , ' consisting of trifling articles of female apparel ,-r . portion of which he nledired . ami the rest was fiwiid in .-.-... .- ,,. .

      his possession when taken into custody ; .,.. A few days after she met him , and on her threatening to give Mm into custody ho swore lie would blow out her brains with a pistol and stab her with a sword , ¦ articles Which she knew he possessed . However , ' she carried her threat into execution . —He was also convicted of stealing three shirts and other articles , value 15 s . ; the property of John Brite ; five pair of stockings ; value Js the property of Catherine Fair ; and two towels , value 2 s . the property of Ann Fair , from a house in which he had lodged last year . —Ik- had also been frequently convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment in that court andeLoewhere for offences of a similar nature . —The Common Serjeant , in passing sentence , said a more atrocious case never came before that court . It was not the intention of

      the court to pass any sentence upon him ' for the second offence , but solely on the first . A worse ease than that could not bo conceived . He not only used every mode towards the unfortunate girl which the most depraved mind could have used for the basest of purposes , but threatened to shoot her when she said she would give him into custody on the charge . It was also his belief that he obtained his living by robbing tho public . He was seldom called upon to pass the sentence he was about to pronounce , but the case before tlie court was one of that nature which called for such a sentence—which whs that he be transported for fifteen years . —The Common Serjeant directed the constable who had the management ofthe case to see that Mary Beckworth was conveyed to her parents free of expense to herself .

      Piiuksday March 6 . — The Bethnal- Green Murder . —James Tapping , aged 25 , tallow-chandler , was indicted for the wilful murder of Emma Whiter , by shooting her in the neck with a pistol , on the night of the 27 th of January last . The prisoner , when placed m the dock , exhibited much lirmness . He is a short stout young man , with a rather unmeaning face , and certainly has nothing in his features to exhibit deep-seated passions of anv kind . Mr . Doane attended to prosecute , and Mr . Clarkson was engaged for the defence . — Avanchc , who lives in Waterloo-town , Bcthnal-green-road , said that between twenty minutes and a quarter to one o ' clock Oil tho morning of the 2 fth of January , his attention was directed to something smouldering on the ground .

      He saw that it was a bonnet and a ribbon , and , on looking about , discovered the girl lying in the street with her face downwards . She was not dead , for ho found some sensation in her pulse . She was conveyed to the London Hospital . John Harvey and Edward Backhouse gave similar evidence , and said that a pool of blood was discovered on the spot where she had Jain . Wm . Whiter—I lire at 10 € > . Bricklane , and I am brother to the deceased , i ' did not know that the prisoner and my sister kept company . I never saw them together . I recollect the night of the 27 th of January ; my sister came into my house about a quarter before ten o ' clock that night ; the prisoner came in a few minutes afterwards . I took her into the parlour . Tlie prisoner went into the tap-room . During- the time they remained they

      did not speak to each other . Mv sister went away at twelve o ' clock . The prisoner met her at the door , and they went away together . —By Mr . Justice Williams : They appeared to go away on good terms , and shook hands with me before they left . William Slater , a weaver , stated that he lived at No . 4 , South Conduit-street , Betbnal-grecn-road . I know the prisoner , and I also knew Emma Whiter . Whilst I was standing at my father ' s door , about half-past twelve o ' clock on the night of the 27 th of January , I saw the prisoner and the deceased pass , and go towards King-street . He had his arm round her neck . I then went up stairs to bed . About six or seven minutes after I heard the report of fire-arms ; the sound came from the back of our residence . I looked out of both the back and front windows , but I saw

      nothing . The spot where the deceased was found is about thirty-five yards from my residence " .--Richard liunn , a weaving-machine maker : 1 was in a publichouse called the Rising Sun , in Sail-street , Waterloo Town , between one and two o ' clock on Tuesday morning , ; and the house is within a quarter of a mile from the place where the deceased was found . The prisoner ' s brother was there ; tit eve were about twelve there altogether . The prisoner came in about one o ' clock . He appeared in a very deranged state . Ue sat down on the corner of the tabic , and spoke ta llis brother . A person named Capes was there . Tlie prisoner said , Tlie deed is done , and cannot be undone . His brother did not do anything . I said , Jem , what is tlie matter with you ? * llis replv was What ' s the matter , indeed

      ?" The sun shines bright , And the moon shines clear . " I said , Will you go with me '{ He said , Yes , I will go with you anywhere , as you never led me into any hami . He said , You go up the court , ; md I will meet you at the other end . 1 heard the prisoner say to Capes , Capes , I want no more to say to you , for you have been the cause of this destruction . I went round the court and joined again with the prisoner . I asked him to go home with me to have supper , but lie declined . He said , Why should I go to supper with you ? Go in doors , and I'll go una see how the young children are , meaning his brothers and sisters . I went with him . He sat down on a chair behind the door and placed his hands on the back of anothw .

      chair , his head resting on them . I then left him . It was past two o ' clock when I left Tapping . I then went to deceased ' s father ' s house . When I went back to prisoner ' s house I heard the father of deceased ask Tapping , Where is my daughter ? He answered , Yes , 1 have been with your daughter all the evening at your son ' s . —Thomas Whiter : I live at No . 20 , North Conduit-street , Bcthnal-green-road . I am father of the deceased . On the morning of the 28 th . of ' January I wont to prisoner ' s house , and found him sitting on a chair with his head resting on his hands , flc was rather paler than usual . I asked him if he bad seen my daughter ? He said , No , not this night , nor yet the night before . I asked him if he had heard anything of her ? lie then said they both had been

      together that evening at her brother ' s . He said he had left her well and hcartv at a quarter-past twelve o'clock at tlie corner of Mape-strect . Then I left . — Police constable Johnson , 200 K : On the night of the 27 th . of January I went with the last witness to Tapping ' s house , and inanswer to a question from the father the prisoner had left the deceased in the Bethnal-grecn-I'Oad . Examined the room , and found a pistol , — William Crispin : On tlie morning of the 28 th ot January I was in the parlour ofthe Rising Sun , when the prisoner came in , aud I observed that his hand was bleeding . On my observing it to him , he said he had cut his finger . After some time , he said the deed was done , and could not be undone , and it would be a mystery to all . Tlie brother 1 lenrv said , "

      strike me dead , you have shot your woman ! " I then left and went home . —Thomas . Perkins , gunniaker : The prisoner brought me a pistol on Saturday , the 20 th of January , to get the tap repaired . I did so , and took it to the Rising Sun , where i gave it to the prisoner . Saw him on the following Sunday to further repair the pistol . Hid so , and gave it ' to him . —Thomas Capos , of Rethnal-groen : Knew that tlie prisoner was paying his addresses to the deceased . on the night of the 27 th , thi > prisoner and deceased wore at the bar of the Kising Sun . The prisoner paid some attention to two young girls there , which excited the anger of the deceased , who struck one of them . Prisoner interfered and separated them , They then returned to the dance , and continued there

      till twenty minutes to one o ' clock . 1 went with the deceased to Lower Conduit-street , as she said she was frightened of " the girls with whom she hwx quarrelled . ' We stood standing at Conduit-street , waiting for the prisoner's coming up ; he came up , aud struck Iter with his right hand in the face . He gave no reason for it . I told him not to strike her . He struck her again , I returned for her bonnet , as they appeared to have made it up , and were again friendly . I was never in tlie company of the deceased , except at the ball . Serjeant Sliaw was next examined , after which Mi * . William < ' ummings , asivrgeon at the London Hospital said , soon after one o ' clock , on Tuesday morning , the 28 th of January , tlie deceased was brought into t jc 3 io . spit . il—she was quite

      dead . J . here was a black patch on the left side of her neck . It appeared to have been caused by a pistol shot . There was a great deal of blood on her clothes . Her hands were slightly smeared , as if they had been touched with bloody fingers . " I afterwards made a post mortem , examination , and found a wound in this black patch , which proceeded upwards to the top of the . spine . I extracted two bullets and some wadding , and have no doubt that they wore the cause of her death . These are the bullets . —Mr . Cl & rkspn , then addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner . - ^ - Mr . Baron Parke afterwards summed up , and recifci pitulated the evidence already given by the different witnesses . The jury having consulted for two or , three minutes , returned a verdict of Guilty . Thfi

      learned Judges having put on their black caps , Mr . Baron Parke proceeded to pass sentence ou the prisoner in the usual form , concluding as follows — ' All that now remains for me to do is to pass upoii you the sentence of the law for the crime you have committed—That for this crime you be taken from , hence to the place from whence you came , and from thenee to the place of execution , there to be hanged by the neck tiD you are dead , your body then to be taken down and to be buried within the precincts of the gaol : and may God have mercy upon your soul . ( The learned Judge , while delivering the sentence was so xleeply attected , that at times , he was quite inaudible The prisoner , who , during his lordship ' s teehng . address , had listened .. with the most earnest attention at the conclusion bowed profoundly , and was toenJed from the bar . ) , ;" , ^ . ';"; ' ' " -

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 8, 1845, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_08031845/page/5/