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      ' . ikvtn : At . Tn or Losses . —It appears from the return Mie wehe week ending last Saturday , that the mottaoof Locf Loudon is now greater thin is generally ob-? edatt ? dattbis period of ihe year . The deaths , which , liliown fioivn in last report , tad risen from l , Q 3 Q + o 55 , tiatf , have undergone a not very considerable desse , tlise , the total number now beingl . US . In the corn corresponding weeks of lSil-50 , there is no uuee inee in which they equalled this amount , the lhiKluhinlieyt numbers which nearly approach it , hav-33 cciiracc « irred in 1815 and 1819 , when they were rc « iuiveluively , 1 . 133 and 1 . 13 S . Tte average of the resporerpoiiding weeks was 1 , 035 , which , if corrected iiinirejnirease of population , becomes 1 , 129 ; and the i £ deiS deaths of last week show an increase of 19 on

      ! latte latter result . In the zymotic or epidemic class liliseadiseases , the total number of deaths enumerated Ihe i he i re-cnt return is 223 ; whilst the corrected rrage rage is 211 . Small pox was fatal in 10 cases . usles isles ia 30 , scarlatina in 10 , hoopin-i-eough , » : h s ' ch still predominates in this class , and con-; rrahlrrahly exceeds the avera ; e , in 06 . Diarrhoea rnhernhers 17 ; while to fever , which hsppily ha * dei led , led , 31 are ascribed . Two childrsn . three persons tmid < hiiJ < i / e a ^ 'e , aud three who had turned 6 " years , td of d < if influenza ; being more than the usual weekly rabember at this season . Of the 19 cases in which aa ! l-pa ! l-px was fatal , 12 occurred under lo y * ars •»' « , an . and the remaining 7 between 15 and it . It nearaears that in four of the cases rec < rded vaceinatu hai had been performed , and that the a » es of the

      iientients were respectively 13 , 21 . 30 , and it . At 4 , ittagttag .-row , on the 23 rd of February , the servant ia bra bre « er , aged 21 years , died of " confluent small ss ( l « ( 13 days , ) pneumonia ( 16 hours ) . " The regisiradradds , from information given by the brother of :: eas : eased , that "he had been vaccinated when ¦ jogjog , that it took remarkably well , and the cicatrix is stis still visible . " A case of * ' confluent small-pox , i proiprotected , ' * which occurred to » female servant , inn iui Poplar-road , at the age of 92 , proved fatal at le Se Small-pox Hospital , ilolloway . Amongst ihe irtotrtoui kinds of diseases , those which affect the jaujausof respiration continue to be mast couspiiiouaous , and they amount in this table to 2 SI ; iu iiat'atof the previous week to 277 ; whilst the

      cor"ctected average is only 215 . The fatality of bron-: iifoitU has increased from 119 in the preceding week ii 14 131 in the last ; that of pneumonia from 93 » IU 101 . Bronchitis has been much more fatal than l an anv corresponding week , having fluctuated in the i ist isc five years between 71 aud 112 . The mortality of ¦ -ns-nsuraption has been also aggravated in some deretree , and amounts t » 146 , a greater number than has icctccurred in any corresponding week since 1815 . -The ridridow of a soldier died in tlie Charing-cross sub-disr icrict , at the great age of 101 years . " She had be * n uaaiarri-. d three times , and had b > ena widow twenty ris-tan . The births of TS 1 boys and S 07 girls , in all 1 . 51 . 591 children , were registered in the week . The mwrage of six corresponding weeks in 1815-50 was 1 , 4 , 479 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the

      nenean daily height ofthe barometer was abou * 30 in . ) n ) n the last four days of this week ; and the mean of thdie week was 29 981 in . On each day of the week , thtbe mean temperature was below the average of the sesame day in ten years , except on Tuesday , when it revery slightly exceeded it . On the preceding day it hahad beenon ' y 31 deg . 1 rain-, the lowest daily mean of of the week , and G deg . . 1 miu . below , the average . OOn Friday and Saturday it was about 36 deg ., and bebetween 1 de * . and 8 deg . lower than the average TtThe mean of the week was 37 deg . 6 min . The wwiud first blew fronvthe east , and afterwards turned tctowards the north . - Suicide of a Tradesman . —On Saturday , Mr . H . 131 . Wakky held an inquest at the Wrestlers' Arms

      1 'IIighgate , on view of the body of Mr . Perkins , p- > rk hbutcber , aged forty-five , lately carrying on business aat No . 15 , Eversbolt-street , Sinners Town . Deeeeased left home on the previous "Wednesday , without s saying a word when he would return . He wag in the 1 habit of doing so , when his wife has received letters f from hi ¦> dated Liverpool . Bristol , and other places , i in which he stated that she would see him no more , 1 but he has returned almost instantly upon the arrival ( of the letter . On Wednesday evening she received a ] letter from him < lated Uighgate , in which he observed '" by she time you receive this I shall he no more , I go from this to a place of death : There were many Jsh n . 'd like to send my love to . Give my love to Henry -indicthim follow George ' s example " . God bless von . —T . Perkins . " In the afternoon he was

      found suspended from a tree bv a silk handkerchief , near the Wrestlers , by a man named Kempt on , who went to the police station , a distance of a quarter of a mile , fur a policeman , who cat the dece-is < -d down . In his pocket was a piece of paper , on which he had writt-n : — " Since I have last gone down the lanes , and seiD the beautiful things na < ure sends , 1 thought how h * ppy we could he . —T . Perkins" "Verdict , "Fou . ddead . " Suiciok in a Station House . —On Saturday last Mr . Be ' * ord held an inquest at Westminster Hospital , ou the body of John Goodall . Ou the night of the previous Saturday the deceased was noticed by a po ic man to be rolling on the pavement in the front ofthe Nation *! Cillery , in a state of drunkenness , and conveyed him to the lung-street station house ,

      where some money—gold and silver— wastak > n from him , and he was locked np . At mid-day on Sunday Inspector Shepherd offered to liberate him on his own recognizances to appear at the police court on Monday , tint he refused the favour , saving he would rather stay where he was . About a quarter of an hour afterwards the constable in reserve , hearing a man moan in the cells , hastened thrher , and asking , " Who called ?"• ' deceased , who was locked np alone , replied , ** I have stabbed myself wi ' . h a penknife ;*' which was fou :. d to be the fact , the penknife being picked np by his side . He was immediately taken to the ai * ove hospital , where he lingered till Thursday morning , when he dledt previously saying that when he did the deed he was mad from drink . Deceased -was a single man . Verdict— "Temporary insanity . " Death is a Ditch . —On Saturday last Mr . W .

      Carter held an inquest at the Europa Tavern , Church street , RoUierhithe , on the body of Richard Turner , aged twenty-nine , who was found dead in a ditch . Deceased was in the sen ice of Mr . Iltncks , a coal merchant , of No . 69 , Fetter-lane , Holboro , and on the previous Wednesday , as a man named French was going along a field on the Seven Islands , at Rotberhitbe , to shoot a blackbird , he discivered the body of a man lying face downwards in a remote ditch . The deceased was firmly embedded iu the mud , and there was sorcery any water . . The presumption was , that the deceased being found in such a posi-. vm , and on private property , he must have been placed there or have walked there in the dark , and bv some means have fa Ien in . The jury returned a verdict : — "Ihatthe . deceasedwss found dead in a certain ditch , without marks ot violence , but I o v he came there tbey bad no evidence to Drove . "

      Suicide fkom London-bridge . —On Saturday evening last a respectably-dressed female , appa'ently about « hirty years of age , was observed by Cons ' -ab'e Ball ( Thames Police ) to precipitate herself fr » m the third arch on the Middlesex site of the above bridge into the river . The cons'able was proceeding down the river in bis galley , and bad j' -st emerged from under the arch , when the unfortunate female fell within a few inches of the boat which he » as rowing . H < immediately endeavoured to catch her , but the tide running down strongly , it was some time before sh-couli be got oat of the water . She was then alive , but presented a frightful spectacle , her head ( bavins caught the buttress of the bridge in falling ) being completely battered in . With all possible

      speed she was conveyed to the Old Swan Tavern Thames-street . Dr . Groves was then sent for , wh-i having administered all the aid in his power without effect , advised her instant removal to Bartholomew ' s Hospital . On her arrival at the hospital great exer tions were made to alleviate her sufferings , but she expired s ^ me time after her arrival , ia the greatest agony . —On Wednesday Mr . Psyne held an inquest at Su Bartholomew ' s Hospital on the body of the deceased , who was identified as the daughter of Sophia Hall , of Chatham , and that her name was Ann Loader . The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity . " An elderly man , one of the jury , while proceeding to view the body , accidentally fell down some stone steps , and fractured his arm and one of his ribs . He was carried to one of the wards

      where he received medical attendance . Suicide ax Chabikg-cross Hospital—On Sunday aftt \ rao ? H aa appalling act of suicide was committed at Charing-cross Hospital . The unfortunate individual was apeison by the name <> f Samuel Bridges , aged about thirty , and was well known in -the sporting world as a jockey . He had but fe-v friends in town , his moth r and chief friends being in Norfolk . —Mr . H . Lingham , the house surgeon , states that he had been iu the Bow ward of tbe hospital as a p » tient for the last six months , suffering from an abscess in the arm , with pains in the back , but bad nearly recovered , and , in fact , was about being discharged . He was always a well-conducted man . and although he showed considerable despondency of Ia » e , he exhibited no symptoms ofinsanity , or any kind of derangement such as to induce

      the leastsnspicion that be might destroy himself . At the U ual dinner hour he declined tabin- dinner with the other patients , and was observK ° go 0 the window ( on the third floor ) . He then tool off hh CMt , looked into th « street for a minute or two when so no of the patients remarked that he was going to bed again . In another moment thev saw him tdfc ovi-r , and precipitate himself froaT the window , lodging for a fen- seconds oq the abut mint at the second floor windows , and . then fallinon his face into the area on the southern side of the hospital . When picked up there were symptoms ot lite . i > iu ere his leuoval to the ward he gasped and expired . —On Wednesday Mr . Bedford held an inquest at Chariug-cross Hospital on the bodr , when the jury returned a verdict of "Temporary insanitv . "

      SB ' ZOUS ACCIOBSIS FBflX CATXI . E Driving IN THE Msrft' » POLls . —On Monday morning rhe following exemplinci tions of ihe shamefully reckless mat * ncr in which cattle are driven through the streets ot

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      London , took place in Liquorpond-street , near tbe large brewery of Reid and Co . A large herd of cattle were worried through this narrow thoroughfare in the direction of Gray ' s Inn Lane , and , it being market time , and several of the brewhouse drays just loading , as others were discharging empty casks . The greatest confusion ensued . Opposite to Mr . Barret ' s , , the baker , of 18 , Liquorpond-street , a gentleman was so violently crushed against the wall of the cooperage , adjoininK the brewery , as to be unable to proceed , and every spectator thouaht it was most providential that he escaped with his life . Several women aud children were knocked down at the end of Leather-Jane , and seriously hurt . The cattle and sheep were , however , urged forward , and at the corner of Gray's of confusion

      Inn and King ' s Roads the same scene took place . The sheep mingled with the oxen , and their several drovers , in their usual classic language , or rather slang , endeavouring to separate them , apoor bi . y , drawing a truck was overthrown , but fortunately not hurt It is'understood to be the intention ofthe raieptivers of Liquorpond-street , King's-road . and The baid ' s-road . to take immediate steps , for the abatement of this abominable and most d » ngerous nuisance . It is thought that proper hours might be selected for the transit of the cattle , at all events . At present life is hourly endangered , and property grea ' ly deteriorated . One fact was observed by a gentlemen present—that the poor over-driven cattle seemed to possess far more sense and sagacity than , their drovers .

      Death is Life . —On Saturday last Mr . Bedford held an inquest at the Crown and Thistle , Great Peter-street , Westminster , on the body of George Brewer , aced five weeks . It appeared from the evidence of Mary Brewer , the mother of the deceased , that she had been the mother of ten children , and that her husband was transported , since which time she had cohabited with the father of deceased , a man niroed Chester , who sot a precarious living by picking up bones , and when he could , selling things in the streets . She . had not a meal of meat victuals for three

      months , and the deceased , when born , wasa complete skeleton . On the previous Wednesday nightshe went to bed with deceased resting on her arm , and on wak-. inc in the morning found it to be dead . —Mr . Payr e , surgeon , said that on being called in he found deceased quite dead but warm , and on opening the body it was so bloodless that by enwrapping it in a white handkerchief it would scarcely have been soiled . There was great discolouration , and the body was extremely emaciated . —Vei diet , " Accidentally suffocated . "

      DeSTRTJCTIVK FlttE AT DepTFORD . —On Saturday evening last a serious fire broke out in the Lower road , Beptford . Several engines were immediately despatched thither , when the firemen found the premises of Mr- Joseph Connor , a perfumer , & c ., carrying on business at No . 183 . in the before-named thoroughfare , in flames . The engines were set to work , and the fire , although not extinguished , was prevented from- extending to the surrounding property . The flames were eventually extinguished , but not until Mr . Connor's stock in trade was entirely destroyed , and the building extensively burned . Fortunately Mr . Connor was insured in the Sun Fireoffice .

      Finn is Kixg William-street , City . —On Saturday last , at a few minutes before midnight , a fire broke out in the premises belonging to Mews . Hughes and Co ., army and navy outfitters , of No . 76 , King vVilliam-street . When discovered , the flames were raging with great violence in the warehouse , on the ground floor . Plenty of water having been procured the engines were set to work , but the firemen were unable to get the mastery over tbe flames until the valuable stock in trade was nearly destroyed , and the upper part of the premises also much damaged by fire . Tbe cause of the fire is not known . The firm , it is understood , was insured in the Phoenix Fire Office .

      Numerous Fires , and Loss op Two Lives . —A few minutes after three on Monday morning a fire hroke out in the private residence of Mr . It . Mallett , 7 , Belvidere Crescent , Lambeth , which unfortunately resulted in the death of a fine yonng woman , named Sarah Clark , who acted as housekeeper to the owner of the premises . It appears that some of the inmates wereawnke from their slumbers by experiencing a Miffacating sensation . They got up , and the moment they went on to the stairs they found dense volumes <> f .-moke pouring upwards , and when they reached the lower landing they found the unfortunate female crouched up near the kitchen door in a blaze . With

      the assistance of the police and firemen the flames weresubdu"d , hilt the poor creature was burnt as black as a coal , and quite dead . The body was placed in a shell and removed to tbe vaults of St . John ' s Church , to await an inquest . The origin of the fire is enveloped in mystery . Had it not been for the early discovery made by some of the . inmates , it is quite probable that one or two other parties would also have perished . —A short time before this d stressing casualty took place , a fire happened at No . 3 Crown-street , Soho , belonging to Mr . T . Hayne , a pork butcher . It commenced on the first floor , from some cause not clearly ascertained , and , in spite of the exertions of the firemen who attended

      immediately from the contiguous station , a great deal of damage was done before the flames could be extinguished . A female who lived in an adjoining house , and who had been confined only a few weeks previnns ( was so dreadfully excited when the alarm wan g ' ven , that when a person , went to assist her , she fell forward in his arms , and expired . —It is remarkable that a number of accidental fires were raging in various parts of London simultaneously with tho .-e just mentioned . —At the same hour the house , 27 . Olds ' reet Road , was set on fire by the falling spaik of a candle , and considerable damage was done . —Another occurred in High-street , Shadwell , and a fifth in King-street , Cheapsirie , both of which , however , wete extinguished before much damage had been

      done—It was otherwise with a sixth , which broke out in 48 , Aldermanbnry . The flames had already gained a strong hold on the first floor when the fire was discovered , and before the arrival of the engines they had enveloped the upper stories . The first , second , and upper floors , with half the roof were destroyed , and damage was done to neighbouring houses . — A fire , which lasted several hours , broke out nearly at the same time iu No . 4 , Pr ince ' s Row , Newport Market . The ground floor was burned out with the back of the bouse , and the roof was destroyed . CoNFuoR & Tios is Oxford-street . —On Wednesday afternoon a fire , involving a serious destruction of valuable property , broke ont in tbe premises belonging to Mr . Smith , perfumer to her Majesty , Princess-street , Oxford-street . The building , incluling the basement , was five floors high , and

      was adjiined on one side by the magnificent range of premises belonging to Messrs . Thos . and Robert Martyn , silk mercers , which formed the corner building of that portion of Regent-circus . The property of Mr .. Osborne , a jeweller and silversmith , flanked the other side of Mr . Smith ' s establishment , and owing to the large quantity of combustible matter in the last-named place of business , it soon became apparent that a fearful conflagration would be the result . Only three persons were in the premises , who had the greatest difficulty to rush out of the house to escape the ravages of the flames . The engines soon arrived and copious streams of water were scattered over the flaming premises ; but in spite of the indefatigable exertions of the firemen , it was nearly five o ' clock before the flames could be subdued , and not until the whole of Mr . Smith's valuable stock in trade was

      consumed , and his furniture , wearing apparel , and other effects entirely destroyed . The extensive property of Messrs . . Martyn is also severely damaged , the , costly goods in the show-room are either destroyed or materially injured by fire and water . Independent of which , the whole of the ba « k windows are burned out , the various rooms seriously charred by ihe action of the fire , and many of the large plate-glass windows are demolished . The total loss must be very considerable , and unfortunately Mr . Smith was not insured to one-half the extent of his actual loss . Mr . Osborne , the silversmith and jeweller , who has also sustained great damage by water , was uninsured ; fortunately Mr . Martyn ' s were insured in the

      National Mercantile . Fire-office . From the inquiries made on the spot from Mr . Smith it appears that a bottle containing some perfumery spirits had been placed on the mantelpiece , in the counting-house . There being a fire burning in the grate , it is supposed that the heat mast have alteted the temperature of the spirits and made the same expand , for all of a sudden tho bottle burst , the contents ran into th « fire below , and then arose one immense sheet of flame , igniting tho counting-house and every other room in the building in rapid succession . Extraordinary Bdroiart . —On Monday evening , a very extensive , robbery was perpetrated at tbe Surrey Music Hall , Southwark-bridge-road , of which Mr . Richard Preeoe is the proprietor . From

      the statements made by the police , there can be little doubt of its being most extensively planned , although comparatively abortively carried out . It appears that after the performances were concluded , some expert thieves , most probabably belonging to the Mint-street fraternity , secreted themselves underneath tbe stage , and on the lights being put out , and all reported safe , they commenced thpir work of plunder in the dressing-rooms of the numerous vocalists engaged on Mr . Preeee's establishment . Box , drawer , and portmanteau , were ransacked . Theatrical wigs examined as minutely as our own Whigs of St . Stephen ' s , and as scornfully

      flung aside . At lenuth , it seems they stumbled upon a carpet-hag , " This was instantly broken open , but the only property discovered was the ? stage properties " of Mr . Henry Fox , so strewintr the various articles abont the floor , they retained the bag , and dropping upon the portmanteau of Mr . Reuben Hyaras , who , in addition to his profession as a vocalist , is an " inside dealer" in jewellery at the weij-known auctioneers , Debenhatn and istorrs , and consequently thought by the kcen-^ n « , hfn nUeme u V aHnt to be in Possession of iff M V ° tth look ™« afte * - The result - ™* K £ Ji IJ $ t * Wasro , bbedofanew suitofclothes saveral gold rings and trinkets , a silver watch and other property to the extent of nearly S *

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      The property ,: xt is presumed ; was deposited in the carpet-bag belonging to Mr . Foxi ^ An attempt was then made-to force the refreshment bar ofthe Hall ; but itispresuroed the thieves were interrupted , and made , their ' escape by the ; back entrance'to tho stage , opposite to the boundary wall of tho Queen ' s Bench Prison . : An ample reward has been offered by the spirited proprietor , Mr . Preece , and the detective police-of the division are on'the alert . IFriohwox Falling op Hooses in Ghat's InniASB . —It ) appears that in pursuance of the determination , to clear away the abominable rookery of Fox-court , and its adjacent "Thieves ' . Kitchen , " the south corner , together with the houses adjoining . the public house , called the " Guy Earl of

      Warwick , " had already been condemned by tho parochial surveyors . For several days workmen have been employed in the work of demolition . On Tuesday morning , - however ,, shortly before the hour of eight , the whole of the building adioinin ? the "Guy Earl of Warwick , " fell inwards and outwards with a tremendous crash ; leaving the tottering tenement at the corner of Fox-court in such a fearful position , that the police received orders to immediately closo all egress and ingress to Gray ' s Inn-lane . The fallen building was very heavily timbered , and spacious , and was once the town residence of a follower of the Lord Brooke , from whose family both Brooke-street and Oreville-street derive their designation . It being the opinion of the surveyors upon the spot that it would be impossible to pull down the cdjoining ruin by the usual means—scaffold poles were

      variously placed against prominent portions of the wall—with their bases resting against the boundary kerb of Gray ' s Inn . These poles were heavily swayed upon by a number of labourers ; and shortly after the whole frontage of the building gave way , part falling into the road-way , and the remainder inwards . The spectators from the Holborn end of Gray ' s Inn-lane were most abundant , and H was with the greatest difficulty that the police , assisted as they were by strong barriers , could keep back the populace , tlie current opinion . being that the " Thhves ? kitchen" was about to be pulled down . It is much to he regretted that one of the workmen , who has to support a large family of children , was so severely injured , as to be conveyed to the hospital . The remaining corner of this avenue is at the present occupied by the Fox and Peacock , and , from the recent repairs , it bids fair to stand out its term of lease

      Thb Ddkb of Brukswick Balioonix'O . — On Tuesday moraine , between eleven and twelve o ' clock , Mr . C . Green , accompanied by three other gentlemen , one of whom was DukoCharles of Biunswick , mado a very splendid ascent in his Royal Nassau Balloon , with the intention of making an aeronautic voyage to Germany . The car was amply provided with a supply of every necessary viaticum for the voyage , and thirteen welltrained carrier pigeons , accompanied the voyagers . Tho balloon took a south-easterly direction , passing over the counties of Surrey and Kent .

      Thb Chblsea Oct-Pensioners . —On Monday a general order was issued to all the enrolled Chelsea put-pensioners , when they went to receive their monthly : pensions , that they must all muster in Hyde-park , on the morning of the 1 st of April , to undergo a general inspection , as they are to do duty during the Grand Exhibition . Scleral regiments , both cavalry and infantry ,. will be quartered in tbe vicinity of the metropolis on the occasion . The Representation of Grbrnwich . — The

      Kentish Mercury says : — " We understand that during the past week twoprivate meetings had been held at the offices of a legal gentleman in Greenwich , to secure the return of Admiral Dundas , our present member , and another gentleman . The latter is an inhabitant of the . borough , but we refrain from further remark , until another opportunity . " As a matter , of course Mr .. Barnard retires , and it is reported that Mr . Alderman Salomons and Mr . Alderman Wire are to contest the borough against the gallant admiral .

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      A Mas Bubibd Alivb at Rochester—As several labourers were engaged on themorning of the 28 th ult ., in pulling down some bouses in order to dear the ground for making the approaches for the new bridge in course of construction at Rochester , one of the walls suddenly gave way , burying two of the men in the ruins . No time was lost in extricating them , but when found , <> ne was dead , and the other so severely injured , that his life is de .-p » ired of . 'I he poor fellow who met with such an untimely death was a pensioner from the Murines , named Long ,

      living at Chatham , and who has left a wife and six children totally unprovided for , and the poor woman is now near her confinement A Mrthojj op Exposing an Obnoxious Tax . —Dropping into a grocer ' s shop , our attention was drawn to a ream of brown paper by the words , " Tax <> nthisreamof paper , " in-very conspicuous letters . Reading on , we obtained the information that the tax amounted to 16 s . 9 d ., and this oh a single ream of the coarsest paper , fhecost of which , exclusive <> f tbeduty , would be about £ 1 7 s . j so that the duty was , in reality , above sixty per cent . —Preston Guardian .

      Discovery of Buried- Tbkasure . —Dnring the progress of some excavations at Fountains Abbey , Yorkshire , a workman last week brought down what ivas at first thought to have been-a quantity of old glass . To the surprise and astonishment , however , of all present , it turned out to be a number of silver coins , in a most excellent state of preservation . There were , in all , 354 ; three of Philip and Mary , 165 of Queen Elizabeth , 50 of James I .. 129 of Charles I ., and seven-Spanish pieces—date about a . d . 1640 . It will at once be apparent that this buried hoard must have been the property of some one in the troublous times of Charles the First , n hose terror or caution had induced him to hide his money in this sequestered spot ; -

      Serious Riot . —A disturbance which is likely to lead to a legal investigation , took place in tbe town of Eastgrinstead , Sussex , on the 28 th ult . The origin of the affray , as nearly as can he collected from the accounts given by the excited inhabitants , was as follows :- The widow of Mr . Allchin , formerly a respectable farmer in the parish of Eastgrinstead , having fallen into misfortunes , was admitted as an inmate of Sackville College . At her death her daughter ( Mrs . Jenner , a highly respectable person , who now keeps the charity school of Mrs . Hoper , of Thornhill ) , applied to have the body of her mother buried according to the usual customs of the English church ; to this the Rev . Mr . Neale , the warden of the college , objected , and insisted upon the risiht of furnishing a

      peculiarly shaped medijeval coffin , a cutain bier , and a pall bearing the sign of the cross . The relations of the deceased expostulated with the reverend gentleman , and during the negotiations the college was declared in a state of siege . Warders were stationed at every portali and all ingress and egress was denied ; the relations were not even admitted to see theremains of tbe deceased . As the funeral procession moved from the door , a grandson of Mrs . Allchin snatched the obnoxious pall from the coffin , and ihe corpse was carried , amidst a crowd of bystanders , to the Crown Inn , wh « re it wasunscrewed , to satisfy the friends of the deceased that the body was indeed at last in their possession . The funeral service was

      afterwards performed by tbe vicar of the parish , the Rev . J . N . Harward . As night set in , symptoms of riot were perceptible in the town ; the street in front of the college was filled with the inhabitants ; a bier , in imitation of that used in the college , was surmounted with crosses , a scarlet mantle , and the inscription , " No-Pi pery , " and burnt amidst yells and hisses . The mob next penetrated the garden belonging to the warden , where they committed much depreda'ion , breaking the windows and shrubs , and waving torches , accompanying their movements with rough music of various sorts . This scene lasted till a late hour in the night , and it is believed that informations have been laid before a magistrate against several of the rioters .

      Suicide in thb Leeds Gaol . —On Saturday last a prisoner in custody at Leeds destroyed himself whilst labouring under an attack of temporary insanity . His name was George' Midgley , a labourer , twenty-three years of age . -The prisoner was brought up in custody on Saturday on the charge of haying stolen nine sheep from a field at Addle , near Leeds , and the evidence beinjj clear against him , he was committed for trial at the assizes . Soon after his committal his-father aud mother visited him in gaol , and spoke somewhat harshly to him , threatening to discard him for his conduct . In about an hour afterwards the police officer , who was to convey him to York , went into his cell and found him suspended by the neck from one of the window stanchions . Iustead of a rope , he had used a scarf which he wore round big necki The coroner ' s jury expressed their opinion that _ the man had committed the rash act whilst labouring under an attack of insanity .

      Thb Incendiarism at BsESctfim . —On Saturdav last Jahez John Brider , who had been but a few days liberated from gaol , for the 24 th time , was charged belore W . H . Yaldwin , Esq ., with setting fire to a wheat stack the property of William Austin , at Bogs Hole Farm , in the parish of Brenchley , Turn ridge . —W . Willsher , farmer and constable , deposed that he lived about thirty rods from the stack . It was not alight on Wednesday evening at six o ' clock . Shortly afterwards he found that it had been s-et on Bre , and on proceeding to it he found William Friend trying to trace some

      foot-Mirks leading from the stack . He placed a tub over the marks , and set a man to watch . He went in pursuit of the prisoner , and apprehended him at Pembury , and delivered him to Superintendent Gilbert . —Richard S . Gilbert deposed that he received the prisoner from the last witness . Prisoner began to make a statement , when he cautioned him . He said , " I don't care for that ; it was I that did it , aud no one else but me . I came down the road , and went through the gap above the stack . " He said he knew it belonged to some farmer , and he supposed ia one who had opposed him at the board last Friday week , and so he thought he would give

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      him a warming He frsd a black mark near his ear asif scorched ^ by . the fire .-The prisoner saioV he was driven to ' it ; h ° , iad a PP 1 , ed , t 0 ih ° . oa [ 4 ° ^ two Fridays , and they- had refused to relievo him ; he did not know to whom ; the , ; stack belonged , but supposed it belonged to one ' of the guardians ; ho did it from malice . -Committed . fo . r trial . , _ ., , . Extensive Robber * . —On Sunday evening the residence of Mrs . Catharine Rebecca Clarke , in Sheon-atreet , Winslow , was forcibly entered , and a long catalogue of silver articles stolen , besides two

      purses containing £ W in gold , and ; from six to seven pounds in other cash . Suspicion rests on two men and ahoy , strangers . to . Winslow , who the same evening left the town on foot , carrying a carnet bag They were traced to Buckingham , from whence they took a fly'to Wolverton , and , being too late for the last up tram , slept there . On the following morning they left by the first . train for London ; It is clear that the plunderers were conr vevancers from London , who avail themselves of railway travelling into the provinces to carry on

      their vocation : ' . - ' , . . ,. „ Attempted " Garotte" Robbery .-An instance of the new species of daring robbery which has recently beencoinmitted on several occasions , in Manchester and london , took place in Strangeways on Saturday evening last . Miv Joseph Makmson , commission merchant , Lloyd-street , left Manchester shortly before eight o ' clock' on Saturday evening , to return to his residence in Broughton-grove , Bury New-road . When he reached Fairy-lane , ( a short distance beyond Broughton-lane and the brickkilns ) , he was suddenly attacked by three men . The first threw his arm round Mr . Makinson ' s neck , and attempted to disable him by strangulation ; the second struck him two or three violent blows over the head with some instrument loaded with lead ; of

      the life preserver or heavy-headed whip kind ; and the third dragged him from the Bury N ew-road some distance u p Fairy-lane . Although sixty-seven years old , ' Mr . Makmson is strong and active , and struggled so successfully with bis ruffianly assailants as to get near the window of a house in Fairy-lane , occupied hy Me . John Rcdfern , coal merchant , and brickmaker . After another struggle , Mr . Makinson contrived to strike the shutters of the window ; and the blow and scuffle having been heard by Mr . Redfern ' s son , he hastened to open the . door ; the first sound caused by which was the signal for the three thieves to make their escape as speedily as possible ... Mr . Makinson was taken into the house , and shortly afterwards , havingsomewhat recovered , he was " convcyed home by a policeman ,

      Recovery-of StoIeji Property at Liverpool . — On Saturday a man' named Thomas Watson , " the keeper of a beerhouse of , doubtful character , in Hanover-street , . Manchester , and a well known thief named Carney , were broughtup , having been apprehended by Inspector Bates , of the detective force in Liverpool .. The Inspector having reason to , suspect that Watson ' s house was the repository of stolen property , proceeded to Manchester ,, where be obtained the assistance of Inspector M'Mullen , of the Manchester police . In one of the rooms . of this house , which was locked up ,, the , key being in Watson ' s possession , they found-a ' large quantity of property , including a considerable quantity of leather for soles aud " uppers , " twelve barrels of mustard , boxes of

      cayenne pepper , mustard seed , a churn , a bag of glue , some shears , some pewter measures , a number of wire fire guards , several circular saws , a large quantity of new lead piping , some hand saws and planes , several new hats , four silver , watches , " a quantity of twine ; two violoncellos , a quantity of sash cord , two gallon bottles containing whisky , three boxes of collars , and three of worsted cuffs , the rib of a . whale , a large tub , a bngof iron rivets , a garden engine ( Read'spatent ) , fire thermometers , a telescope , a black silk handkerchief , a quantity of spices , a smith ' s anvil , a bag of linseed , some sieves , some scales , a number of blacksmiths' tools , a bag of screws , and some cloth and vestings of which ; Bates' was in search . They' also found a laree book in which were entries of the

      parties from whom all this property had been purchased , with the sums paid for it , and from this , it appeared that the prices paid by Watson for . the ' several lots was not one quarter ol'their real value . lie also appeared , to have done some business as a money lender , for in one ofthe hats was written , "Lent 2 s ., to be paid on the 22 udof February , or ] to become my property ; " and the silk handkerchief was marked 2 s . 0 Jd . The four watches , too , tie said had been left with him a < security for money which he had lent ; but he did not know the parties who had left them . His wile * as seen to hand something to the servant girl , and on examination it proved to be a bag containing twelve sovereigns , and a quantity of foreign coins was found in a room upstairs .. Wats » n was taken into

      custody , and removed by Bates to Liverpool , together with the property supposed to have been stolen from thence . The remainder ofthe property was removed in carts to the Town-hall , Manchester . The prisoner Carney , above , alluded to , was subsequently taken into custody . Inspector Bates , on Saturday , pro duced a quantity of cloth and some waistcoat pieces , part of which was identified by Mr . Swanwickashay ing been stolen from Mr . Earp's establishment , in July last . A waistcoat piece was also spoken to by Mr . Cronshaw . Mr . Clough asked for a remand , stating his conviction that much of the property found in Watson's possession was the produce of robberies in Liverpool , for instance about £ 100 worth of leather was discovered of the same description as some stolen

      in Liverpool some time ago . Mr , Davenport , who defended the prisoners , Eaid that the property had been deposited with Watson by Carney , who lent him £ 5 upon them . rWatson had also lent Carney £ 1 on a chest of drawers . Watson , when called upon to speak for himself , corroborated this statement , and said that on his expressingsurprise that Carney should be in possession of such " stuff , " the latter said it belonged to a friend of his , and that he would fetch it away again in two or three months . Carney , however , was not so judicious in his statement . Turning to Watson , he said , " You said you would lend me £ 5 on tlie property , which you knew very well could not be mine—a working man like me . " Both prisoners were remanded .

      Verdict op Manslaughter against a Magistrate . —On Saturday last Mr . Taylor , deputy coroner , held an inquest ( by adjournment from the 15 th ult . ) nt the Blackers' Arms Inn , Thornhill Lees , near Dewsbury , on the body of a boy named Clegg , aged four years , who , on the 14 th ult , whilst on his way . home from school , was run over by some empty waggons on a tramp-road belonging to Joshua Ingham , Esq . ; chairman of the West Riding magistrates at the Quarter Sessions . There was a compound fracture of each leg of the deceased , and the surgeons who were called in considered it advisable to amputate both legs , but the child died the same evening . It appeared from the evidence that Mr . Ingham has been in the habit of personally superintending his extensive collieries , and that

      coal- had been sent down the tram-road , which crosses the highway on an incline to a canal in waggons , which draw up the empty waggons . When the empty waggons were affixed to the rope at the bottom , a man hoisted up a white signal-board , and then attended to other work . Afterwards , when the loided waggons were attached to the rope at the top , they were all set in motion by means of a large drum / and could not be stopped until they reached the end . No person had been appointed to watch the place were the tramp-road crosses the public road , and there is no protection . The jury , afterdeliberatingaboutthree . quartersofanhour , re " turned a verdict of "Manslaughter" against Mr Ingham , for whose apprehension the coroner issued his warrant .

      Harwich Election , •—The Nomination . —The elevation to the peerage of Sir J . C . Hobhouse has giventhisboroughtheunusualopportunityof making a third selection of one of its representatives within the period of a single session . On this occasion , the announcement of candidates for the vacant seat almost anticipated the issuing of the writ ; and ior the last week Mr . Robert Wigram Crawford , a director ol' the Rank of England , and Mr . Henry Thoby Princep , an East India director , ( the former a supporter of Free Trade , and tho latter a Conservative and Protectionist , ) have been on tbe ground , addressing meetings and canvassing the electors . The nomination took place at noon on Tuesday . The mayor ; F . F . Hart , Esq ., presided . Mr . Thos .

      George proposed , and Mr , Matthew Johnson seconded , Mr . i Crawford ' s nomination , and Mr . Francis Hales , seconded by Mr . Heseltine , Jan ., nominated Mr . Princep . Mr . Crawford then came forward amidst loud cheers from his-supporters . He came before them to solicit their suffrages upon the principles he had laid before them in his published addresses . He denied that he was the nominee of Mr . Bagshaw ( the sitting member ) , ' or of any individual whatever . The grand question at the present time , and one to which all others must succumb , was whether this country should return to the bondage of monopoly , or whether they should enjoy as they ought to do the benefits of that free trade which had been introduced among them .

      When a man of wealth and substance sat down to dinner , the measure of his demand was the size of his stomach , but the measure of a poor man's appetite was the size of his purse —( hear , hear)—and he could tell them if restrictions upon importations should be again sesorted to—if such a thing as a return to Protection was possible—they must make np their minds to pay the old prices , and he had no doubt they would soon learn to appreciate , the difference between them and , those Of the present time . ( Hear , and cheers . ) Mr . Princep next addressed the electors . Ue said he had come down

      there at the request of . two resident voters of the borough who happened to be in London when tbe fact of a vacancy became known , and he denied that he was the nominee of Mr . Attwood . He would receive dictation from no . one , and he hoped they would find him as well able to maintain his own principles as any representative they could select . On taking a show of hands , the Mayor declared it to be in favoiir . of Mr . Princep . ' On behalf of Mr . Crawford a . poll was demanded . On Wednesday the polling commenced , and , at the close , the following was declared :-Prinsep , 135 ; Crawford , 130 . Majority for Prinsep 5

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      The Late Burglary at Wisnson . —Tho medical attendant on Mr . Tucker and : Mrs .. Whittaker , having certified that his , . patients were , sufficiently recovered to' give their ' ; evidence , ' relative to' the cowardly and atrocious attack on- their lives , the magistrates proceeded ^ on Monday to the' residence of Mr . Tucker , in Clarence road , where tho prisoner , Thomas Ash , was brought under custody . of the borough police . —William Tucktr sworn . —Ori Tuesday night , the 18 th of February last , I went to bed at nine o ' clock . The house was all safe About one o ' clock in the night I heard Mrs .: Whittaker screaming "murder . "' I . got out of bed to goto her , and on turning ; round . the , end of . the bed . I was knocked down .. I saw a person first

      striking Mrs . Whittaker , who was in bed bleeding , ' and on seeing mo ' he ' struck moon the head w ' ith a kind of iron chisel , and jobbed it into my ntck three times . The : chisel now produced , is exactly like the one used , ho hit mo with the great end , and jobbed' me with the sharp end ., . I don ' t know that I should know the man . again , Twas so soon down . There was a second' mart at the door with a light when I was knocked down . I got np three times and struggled with the assassin until 1 got him out , and shut the door . The man in the passage with the light went back as I pushed the other out . I did not see the face of the man in the passage ; . when I put the maii out , Mrs ; Whittaker got to the window and called for assistance , and the

      police soon arrived . I have known the prisoner Thomas Ash for . some months ; he has . worked on the premises and in the kitchen . He told me he was a countryman . of mine . About two months ago he asked me * to lend him four pounds , which I refused to do . Mr . Earangey , surgeon , came and bound up my wounds and Mrs . Whittaker's , and I have been under medical treatment and confined to my bed ever since . I am ninety-one years of age . In his cross-examination by the prisoner he ( Mr . ' Tucker ) said , I can swear that you are the man who stood in the " passage . ' with the light . —Mrs . Whittaker , houskeeeperto Mr . Tucker , gave corroborative evidence . V- Charles Todd , khourer , Spital , sworn . —I have known the prisoner about a year .- Three , weeks ' ago he came to my father ' s house , and I went to the Stag ' and 'Hounds to' have some beer with him . After we had been drinking he beckoned me to come out , and I followed him .

      On going down the road , he said I know a gentle- ; man in the cloister . who has . pot plenty of money ; and I know how to get it . ' All 1 want is to engage some one to get the servant maid out ; I know her well ; I have been at work in the house several times . And ho asked me if I . would : get . her out ; He said the best plan for me would be to go and say that some one had sent me to tell her that her brother had broken his leg ; that I was to take her down towards the Little Park , and then give her the slip . I told him I would have nothing to do with it at all , and left him . —Esther Burrett swore to having seen the prisoner with another man , ob the day previous to the robberry , grinding a chisel . —Tho ' prisoner denied , acknowledge of theoutrage , arid said that'during the time it was committed , he was with a woman ' of the town . —He ' was'fully committed to . the county gaol at Reading to take his trial on a charge of Burglary and attempt to murder , and all tho witnesses were bound over to

      prosecute . ., : Arrest of an American Packet . —Accounts from Holyhead state , that the New York'packet-ship Yorkshire has been placed under arrest by authority of a ; warrant issued by the High Court of Admiralty , at the instance of , the City , ' of Dublin Packet and the Chester and Holyhead Railway Companies ; the former claiming £ 10 , 000 for services rendered by the Prince of Wales , in towing the said ' vessel into the harbour , and the latter claiming £ 3 , 000 for similar services rendered by Anglia ; . ,

      Suspected Starvation op a Woman by her Husband . —A few days since we gave the particulars of the death of a young woman , '' named Harriet Sparing , at Bath , from exhaustion produced hy the want ofthe necessaries of life . If , . was also alleged that the' husband's brutal ' . conduct was' tho cause of the woman's deplorable condition , and the coroner , at the adjourned inquest , issued his warrant for the apprehension of Sparing , who ab . scohded' soon after his wife's death . The inquest was resumed on Monday evening . ; , „ but the police have not yet succeeded in apprehending the husband , whose conduct , as deposed to in evidence , has excited feelings of the deepest indignation . Se veral witnesses have been examined whose

      testimony has proved that the deceased previous to her confinement in November last , earned her own living by needlework ; but no sooner was -Mie rendered incapable of this than' her sad privations began . Her husband , who was in a constant situation as groom to a gentleman , from that time to her death seems to have been guilty of the grossest neglect / and the deceafed , who , was frequently without food or fire , according to the united testimony of the witnesses , . was too meek a woman to utter a complaint , but she continued gradually to waste away , and at last died of exhaustion .. The inquest was again adjourned to give thepolicctiuiu to apprehend the husband if possible Fatal ' Colliery Accident in Lancashirb . —A

      shocking accident occurred in the Clifton Hall coal mine , about six miles from Manchester , a fe * days since , by which the lives of two men were sacrificed . ' The two colliers were brothers , Charles Urmston , aged twenty-five , and Thomas tjrmston , aged twenty , and their death mainly resulted from a want of care extraordinary prevalent amongst men subject to so many dangers . In getting coal it is customary for the miners to prop . the roof of the levels driven for that purpose with timber sup . plied bj the owner of the mine . Charles Urmston and his brother worked in the same bay , and thoy had observed the roof giving way the evening before tho accident occurred , for want of props , Thomas went to the eye of the shaft for a piece of

      timber , and after much unnecessary delay returned with it , but refused to go for more . They left work that night , Charles observing , " It will give us a job to-morrow if that roof comes down upon us . " Next morning , as early as nine o'clock , whilst they were at work , the roof came down , and they had only sufficient notice to run a few yards . It is known to all colliers of the least experience that these bays are dangerous after such falls till they havo been ventilated , on . account of the foul air which generally escapes from them in . such cases , yet these men had the temerity to venture hack almost immediately , with naked candles , though Davy lamps were at their Service . Tho result was an instantaneous ignition ofthe explosive gas liberated by the fall of the roof . The two . men were rescued from the place by their fellow-workmen , who

      had run great risk of their own lives by the imprudent act , and carried from the pit so badly 'burnt that they died on Monday . An inquest was held on Wednesday on the bodies . ofthe unfortunate men , when the jury were of opinion that their death was the result of accident , and that no one -was to blame in the matter but themselves . Extensive Robbery on the Liverpool Railway ; —On Wednesday information was received by the metropolitan police that during the passage of the nine o ' clock train between Warrington and Liver-i pool , some daring thief had contrived to get on to the luggage truck and cut open a carpet bag , taking from it £ 120 in £ 1 Irish notes , a £ 30 branch Bank oi England note , £ 55 in £ 10 and £ 5 Bank oi England notes , and £ 220 in sovereigns , getting clear away , and at present no clue exists to the perpetrator .

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      Safety op , a Ship ' s Crew Svppos ' ei ) to havk bern Lost . —Our readers may recollect that , some time ago , we copied from one of our Inverness contemporaries a paragraph stating that the schooner Foam , of Inverness , was given up forlost , not having been heard of for nearly four months , although , when last heard of , she had left Londonderry for the very near port of Adrossan . We are glad to say that news has just been received of the safe arrival of the crew at Brighton , under very peculiar circumstances . It

      appears that , so long ago as the night of the 23 th of November last , the schooner was run ' down in the North Channel by the ship Grace , bound from Ardrossan to Bombay . The schooner had sunk almost immediately ; but the crew had managed to get on board the Grace , which proceeded on her voyage , carrying with her the crew of the schooner . They had spoken no vessel until they were forty-seven days at sea , when they met the- barque Dudbrook , bound from Madras to London . To this vessel the crew of the Foam were transferred , and were safely landed at Brighton last week . —Aberdeen Journal ' ,

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      Catholic and Repeai , Association . —TIio rent was last week declared to be £ 2 lGs . The " star " of O'Connellism is completely obscured . The vote on Mr . Disraeli ' s motion extinguished the last shred of popularity which once attached to tho family name . ¦ Mr . Asstby and his . . Constituents . —The perverse and persevering member for Youghalhas addressed a long letter to the chairman of the

      roqutemonistB , defending his conduct in Parliament as being gmto consistent with the opinions and principles avowed in hi 8 hnstings' speech . All this Mr . Anstey accomplishes to his own perfect satisfaction , whatever his constituents may-think to the contrary . Mr . Chisholm Anstey is not the only member ofthe same political aud religious creed who has forfeited the confidence of his constituents . Dr . Maurice Power , one of the representatives for the county of Cork , stands in the same predicament , and at two meetings of electors regular V natices to quit" were served

      . ; Mr . Anstey and his cohstituents ' are , ' still at issue as to the promised resignation of his seat by the former , in the event of a difference of opinion between them and him .

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      Address : op the Catholic Bisnops . ZlThc " aii ~ dress agreed to at / the . iriectirig of' ( he lloiM ** Catholic bishop ' s 'has been ' issued . ' It bears-th signature ! of the whole existing Roman Ca ' tholi hierarchy of Ireland , two or three of the bishotw who . were not present having signed it by proxv Those who haveyet had an opportunity of s « ein » the address consider that it is couched in much milder language than was expected , ' and th .-it thn feelines of the Roman Catholic population of Iw land are now roused to such a pitch of excitement on this subject ^ that th ' etone of . tho . document m \ l cause some , disappointment . ' It is not likely \ lQJ uuit 10 win

      ever , nave any sucn enect , but on th contrary , the violent speakers throughout th country will find it is quite a sufficient textw their purpose . Tho opinion of counsel alluded tl by the bishops has not yet got publicity , SOm „ delay having occurred owing to the learned l ent ,, man ( Mr . O'Hagan , Q . C . ) who was . consultcd " bmn , on circuit , and requiring to . see a proof sheet ufhS opinion before it was allowed to go abroad it understood that Mr . O'Hagan has expounded «! proposed measure pretty much in the same > cn , » in which it has been understood already by thoT who take the Roman Catholic view of the sulnW The Freeman ' s Journal of Tuesday mornin . ' contains the legal opinion—two columns in lcneth- ^ nf

      Mr . u iiagan , tyu ., on the operation of the Eccle siastical Titles Bill . The case was submitted to counsel on behalf of the archbishops and bishops of the Catholic Church , and if Mr . 6 ' Hagan ' s inter , pretation of its provisions bo correct , it would have made short work with Pope and Popery , or to us « thb words of the Free 7 nan , it would hare dug oufc the Catholic Church as one would dig out a dock or a thistle . ' . , Papal Aggression . —An address , signed by nearly 100 of the clergy of tho united diocese of Down and Connor , was presented last week to the Lord Bishop by the Archdeacon of Down , chairman of the meeting at which the address was adopted .

      , The Catholic Agitation—Tho agitation in favour ofthe supremacy ofthe Pope proceeds apace Among the most remarkable of the recent demonstrations was that at Koils < m Sunday last . Ambn ' e the suggestions made on this occasion was ono to the effect , that tho Iris h members should he pledged ; at the next election , not only to voto against any ministry of Lord John Russell , but against any ministry with which one ofthe name of Russell is connected . The excitement in the provinces is rapidly inireasing , and the recent declarations ofthe ka

      remarkable that up to the present time none of tho Irish grand juries havo taken any notice of the Papal aggressions , while many of them liaTO adopted petitions against the removal of the Lord Lieutenancy , and the centralising policy of the government . The Assizes . —The business of the spring assizes has commenced on all the circuits , but no trial of any public interest has yet taken place . In Clare the trial of Mr . Smith , a mngistrate , foraconspil racy to murder his mother , has been again postponed , and will not take place until next assizer . In almost all the places where the judges have yet addressed the grand juries , they have complimented them on the great diminution of crime . . At the Leitrini assizes , on Saturday last , a man , named . John Moran , was found guilty of an attack upon a house , and sentenced to be transp orted for life ' -.. ' .. - '

      The Vice-Royalty . —Petitions against the abolition of the Vice-Royalty have been adopted by soma of . the fcrand juries at the present assizes ; but on this subject , too , there is a pause in tho public excitement , the opinion having become general that ' the intended abolition , for the present at least , ia shelved . Emigration from Ireland . —Three hundred emigrants embarked on one day last week from . Waterford . This is but a solitary instance of what ia

      going on at every port which affords a facility for departure to the Irish who are bound for America . There is hardly a station along the two great line * of . railway running south and , west which is not crowded by emigrants on their way to Dublin and Liverpool , thence to take ship for their newly * adopted home . Not the slightest check has coma to hinder tho tide outward . It still rolls on as if it were only at its commencement , and the desolation of whole districts tells how warmly the subject of emigration has been taken up by those who are

      most interested in it . Lord Clarendon . —Tho course of events since Saturday last has , it seems , caused a change in the movements of the Court , and it was announced oa Monday evening that Lord Clarendon ! had , for tha present at least , abandoned the design he entertained at the close ofthe last week of resignin" tha office of Lord-Lieutenant . The orders for " packing up , " it is said , have been countermanded , and , . -iccording to general belief , his Excellency will continue at the head of the Irish government for some time longer . The decided failure of the Protectionists to form a Ministry is the reason now as « signed for the alteration in the earl ' s intentions . Borouoh op Dunoarvan . —The Waterford Mail says , that the Hon . Mr . Carew has abandoned the notion of contesting the horoughof Dungarvon , and that Mr . J . P . Maguire will have a walk Over . '

      Representation of County Kilkenny . — Tha friends of Mr . Sergeant Shee , in anticipation of a general election , have commenced an active canvass of the county Kilkenny . Mr . Patrick tt . Welch , one of i the defeated candidates at the last : general election , has addressed the constituency , which will amount under the new franchise bill to upwards of 5 , 000 electors . Mr . John O'CoNNKLL .-Mr . John O ' Connelihas come to the . final resolution of withdrawing from Parliament and

      public life . The universal feeling of indignation expressed by tbe people of Ireland at the conduct of himself and connexions , on the occasion of Mr . Disraeli ' s motion , has led to the most desirable consummation . The Conciliation flail delusion will also be abandoned , Tho Standing cpmmitti'e ( that is to say , Mr . John O'Connell ) ol the above named influential body have given notica by public advertisement that it has been deemed necessary to suspend tho meetings until further orders .

      Reformation in Dublin . —On Sunday four persons renounced and abjured the errors of Popery , under the spiritual direction of the Rev . Thomas Scott , and subsequently received the holy com * munion . in St . Thomas ' s Church . One of the converts had been a student for the Romish priesthood in bt . Jallath ' s College , Tuam , under the auspices of the most Rev . Dr , M'Hale , and is now a postulant for admission to the care of the Priests' Protection Society . —Dublin Evening Mail .

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      Fearful Catastrophe in America . —Our columns have already reported the loss of a steamer on tho Mississippi under circumstances , and with a fatality , recalling the memorable disaster to thd Orion . Wo extract the following thrilling description of the event , from the Cincinnati Commercial of the 4 th ult .: — " The circumstances , as we obtained thfim from Mr . Leonard , the pilot , who was on the watch at the time , are in brief as follows ;—During the evening , and up to ten o'clock , tha weather was misty , with indications of a fog ; but it cleared up , and everything was fine and fair for a run ; so much so , that the captain , Henrv A . Jones , left the dock with the certaihtv that all ' was safe , and that there was nothing to indicate even a

      possibility of danger . But about three o ' clock in the morning , at a distance of about 150 miles from Vicksburg , she struck a " sawyer , " or snng , and immediately commenced filling . The boat wa 9 Imavily loaded , and wag drawing about " ten feet of water . at tho . time . Sho became unmanageable , and notwithstanding the efforts of the pilot to run her on a bar , under a full head of steam , she sunk ia loss than ten second ? , in over sixty feet of water . She went down with a plunge , how foremost , and at such an angle thai , when the pilot ran from hia place , he took a position upon the curve of tllO wheel house n * xt to the deck , which was in almost a horizontal lute . After the bow sf ruck the bottom , the upper works of tho boat were detached , the cabin broke m two , and the chimney passed down through the casing and disappeared . The two

      sections ofthe cabin floated round and formed a V , hufc finally drifted together , and those who were oa tuem , and those only , were saved . ' When the boat struck the alarm was immediately given , and the number of persons , men , women , and children , made their way to the deck , and were thus saved ; but as the warning was short , numbers doubtless perished in their beds , or struggled for life to meet death at last between decks . The engines were heard to work , and tho paddles to beat after the boat had gone down , and they continued until the water , by passing through the scape-pipes , stopped them , The number lost is estimated at 120 . Of the cabin passengers ( about 120 ) , over twenty are known to havo perished ; and of the deck passengers ( 80 ) but two are known to have been saved . Twenty-one of the crew , duck hands and firemen , were drowned . " —American I ' aptr .

      The National Assi . nci . moN ano Lonn Stanley . —A great meeting of the delegates of the Protection Societies from all parts of the country assembled at the South Sea House on Tuesday , when a resolution expressing a determination to " n-verso the free trade policy of the late Sir Robert Peel was unanimously agreed to . Another , resolution , expressing the confidence of the association in tho policy of Lard Stanley , was also adopted , and a deputation was nominated to wait on the noble lord to communicate the terms of the resolution . — Standard .

      Pre Printing Machine of the New York Sun is t " i n gest in the world , and rated to throw off < W , 000 copies per hour . Tlie new vertical machine of the London Times is rated at 12 , 000 per hour .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 8, 1851, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_08031851/page/6/