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      Mortality xs London . —The number of deaths registered in London during the week , ending Saturday List , February 3 rd , was 1 , 137 , the average being 1 , 169 . The Registrar-general says that the mortality of London , which was excessive in the second week of January , has continuously declined from that time , as shown by the returns ofthe last three weeks . The 1 , 137 deatlis in the present return are less than the average by 32 , notwithstanding the epidemic class of diseases continue to be unusually fatal , and even show a small increase on the former week , arising from hooping cough and diarrhoea . To the latter disease and dvsentery are ascribed 34 deathsor 20 more than usual at this

      , season ; while hooping cough carried off 73 children , or 31 more than the average . The deaths from cholera were 37 , or nearly the weekly number throughout the month of December before the sud-Sen outbreak of the disease in Surrey HalL The ecreaseof mortality is found in the class of diseases of the respiratory organs , pneumonia and bronchitis numbering 169 instead of 1 S 1 . F ™™ phthisis or consumption there were 116 deaths , the weeklv average being 148 . Mr . Seagravc states , -with regard to a narrow court , Devonshire-place , St . MaryNcwingion , where four deaths of young children had occurred about the same time in nearly contiguous houses , that " it is only eight feet wide , and situated on the bank of an open sewer , which

      overflows after sudden and heavy rain into these and surrounding houses . " Mr . Hall also mentions a bouse where a girl had died of fever , No . 19 , Upper Edmund-street , King ' s-cross , near the gas-work . It contains six rooms ( of which one is converted into a dust-bin ) , and is occupied by four families , or sixteen persons . Moreover , the front kitchen is used for an infant school , to which thirty children resort , and another school takes possession of a room built in the back yard . A drain runs under the house , whence effluvia arise of the most offensive character , increased by the gas water . One or two other children are ill of the fever . At Holland Cottages , St . John the Evangelist , Westminster , two boys in same house , aged respectively 3 and 8 years , died of

      " febris and strumous cachexia , the result of defective drainage , " the former having been ill ei g ht days , the latter a month , the cause of death being wrtified in both cases by lie medical attendant . A girl of 3 years was - " poisoned by sucking lucifer matches , twenty-five in number , " and died on the third day . A woman of 31 years died of " general phlebetis from a poisoned finger , followed by abortion , " after an illness of nine days . And the following verdict was returned on a young man of 26 : — " Died of acute bronchitis ( three days ) accelerated by the severe cold during a journey at night from Liverpool , by railway , in a van not sufficiently protected . " Inquest on Mrs . Turns . —Mr . W . Payne , the coroner , resumed an inquest on Thursday week at St . George ' s workhouse , Mint-street , Southwark , on the body of Mrs . Georgiana Jane Tibbs , aged 24 , wife of Mr . Joseph Tibbs , a banker ' s clerk . Mr-. Paget ,

      of St . Bartholomew s Hospital , said he had made a post mortem examination ofthe body , and analysed the contents of the stomach , aud found not the slightest traces of any poison whatever , and he had no doubt that the cause of death was typhus fever , as stated in the medical certificate . The coroner , in summing up the evidence , said that probably he should not have held the inquest at all , for it was at all times painful to him to disturb a body in its last resting place , had he not received a communication from the Home Office . He now thought the inquiry had terminated satisfactorily to all parties concerned . The jury returned the following verdict : — " That the deceased died from fever ; and the jury consider , from the evidence adduced , that there is no doubt that was the cause of death ; and also that the deceased was invariably kindly treated by her husband and his family . "

      Lvquest . —Alleged Ueolect op ax Idiot is St . Olave ' s Workhouse . —An inquest was held before Mr . W . Payne , in the vestry hall of St . John ' s , Horsleydown , on Friday week , " respecting the death of Ann Gardener , aged 34 , an idiot , who died in the workhouse of St Olave ' s Union . —Mary Ann Ede said that she was an inmate of St . Olave ' s workhouse . Deceased was taken ill about eight weeks ago , and was placed in the sick ward . Mr . Pettigrew , the surgeon , attended her . On the 12 th ult . witness was in the sick ward , when sho saw the surgeon examine the deceased , and witness believed from his manner that he was disgusted at the dirty state she was in . Deceased having been long confined to her bed with fever , large " bed" sores

      presented themselves on her hips . Poultices were ordered , but instead of their being regularly changed at certain intervals , they were allowed to remain on for three or four days together , until the stench became offensive . Since her attack deceased had been unable to get in or out of bed ; she therefore required constant attention . —Bebecca Russell , an inmate of the workhouse confirmed the evidence of the previous witness . —Mary Kdgc , from the sick ward , said her bed was immediately opposite that of deceased , who remained in bed for nearly a week -without being taken out or washed . Mr . Howard , the surgeon , came every day to the ward , and Mr . Pettigrew once a week . The stench was very bad , hut Mr- Howard took no notice of it . When the

      deceased ' s bed was taken off the bedstead , the paint peeled off the iron work , and the steam arose just like it would from a copper . —Mr . Pettigrew , surgeon to the workhouse , said that he never heard of any complaint being made against any of the nurses in the ward . The ^ immediate cause of death was exhaustion from the bed sores . He had known of similar sores in the large hospitals . —On Tuesday the inquest was resumed at the vestry hall , Tooleystreet , Southwark , when Mr . Payne stated that he had requested Mr . Paget , of Bartholomew ' s Hospital , to attend and give his opinion upon the whole ofthe evidence of the case . Bethought this was the fairest mode of proceeding , since the only medical evidence they had had was that of Mr . Pettigrew , the surgeon to the union . —Mr . Paget said , in his evidence , that he did not think it would be

      fair to attribute the cause of death to the inattention spoken of , but , believing the whole of the evidence of the case , he should say that death was certainly accelerated by the neglect on the part of the nurse . The actual cause of death was exhaustion , consequent upon the bed sores . —It further appeared from the evidencc ^ of Mrs . Woodbine , the matron , that Koland had no particular directions given to ber about deceased , but she , and in fact all the nurses , had every facility for keeping the patients clean . They had sheets , & c , in their possession for that purpose . The jury returned a verdict of " Natural death , " adding "that though they could not make the girl responsible for the death of deceased , they thought the patients should be better attended to , and thatthe sick room should be more frequently visited bv the matron . "

      Alarming Cab Accident . —On Friday evening week the horse of a cab , which had been " waiting at the entranccto Somerset House , having takenfright , dashed along the pavementat a furious rate towards Charing-cross . The driver was on the box , but the reins having been hroken , he was unable to arrest the progress of the animal . The vehicle came violently in contact with the iron fencing of the Globe newspaper-office front , destroying a portion of the g lass , aud damaging the grating whicn protects the top of the macliine-room The cab then knocked down Mr . Serle , the dramatist , and seriously injured him . A youth , who was standing near the spot , was also knocked down , and the cab passed over Ms person ; when taken up he was found to be bleeding , and insensible , and was conveyed to the Charing-cross Hospital . The cab , after " flying past the Sun newspaper-office , ran against the shop-front

      of Mr . Stammers ^ the jeweller and silversmith , destroying the sashes and g lass , and scattering the valuable contents of the window in all directions . Some person from Mr . Stammers' shop , fearful , -we suppose , for the plate , would not allow the ¦ wounded people even to lean against the shop front ; they were , however , mostkindlyreccived by the proprietor of the Cigar Divan , and every attention paid to them . A lady was thrown down , and her arm broken in two places . A little further on the cab was turned over by coming in contact with a lamppost . The severity of the concussion drove one of the shafts into the animal ' s breast , inflicting most frightful gashes and lacerations upon its shoulder , ana the horse which was a fine , spirited animal , heuu * thus rendered useless , was conveyed to a knacker ' s , and speedily placed out of its " miseries . "We have not heard what became ofthe cabman .

      DEFICIENCY OP PAROCHIAL MEDICAL OFFICERS IS Lambeth . — On Saturday list , an inquest was held before Mr . W . Carter , at the Dol hin , Union-street , Lambeth-walk , touching the death of T . Waller , aged twenty-two , who , it was alleged , had died from medical neglect whilst labouring under an attack of cholera . — Caroline Madden deposed that the deceased washer brother . About three weeks since he left his wife and child with a relative , for the purpose of going to Australia . He sold his property and started from the London Docks iri the ship Wellington , for Liverpool and when he reached that port deceased and others were so ill from the bad state of the vessel that the commander ordered ashore those who were

      sick . The deceased , on Sunday , the 2 Sth ult ., reached witness ' s house in a most weak condition . On Monday last the deceased awoke witness , and begged of her to fetch a surgeon , as he feared he ^ 2 ^ V ^ f nad artaV . cnofa fcvr cockles for supper , but witness ate some and never felt anv in-SSS ^^/ S * ** . **• S ^ MflaS S . W * ****** and said he ranto ^ . Thomp ^ anoS suS ^ S ste SkhTgS he lSr ^ r PrSd h v ' yhea the siu-geon J ^ STieS ? iff bS poisoned . Medicine was subsequently procured from Mr . Thompson ' s house , and whinadnlakS the deceased vomited very nmcb , SSSEfiS

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      on severely . At an early hour one of the lodgers agaui went to Mr . Thompson ' s residence , hut he had gone to see a patient at Blackbeatb . About eight o clock on the Tuesday moraine Mr . Thomp son , sen ., visited the deceased , and aiter some harsh remarks told witness that , as she had no order , he could not send anv more medicine , nor could he . attend without bein paid for it . Deceased wui then m great . T'onv . Ilia body was quite blue , lus limus were contracted , and Mr . Thompson nevercamc : neai the deceased again , and in the evening deceased expired Mr Thom pson refused to give a certificate without beta paid 7 s . 6 d . for his trouble .-Thc summoning officer was directed to procure the attendance of Mi " . Thompson , hut he sent word that he should not come to the inquest without being summoned , and

      added that tho inquiry was quite unnecessary . —Mr F . Wagstaff , surgeon , said that he saw the deceased on Tuesday evening last ; he had just exp ired as witness arrived . His countenance was livid , his features and limbs were contracted , as if he had died in great pain . Witness was of opinion that . it was a decided case of cholera , no doubt resulting from eating raw cockles . Deceased ' s life might have been saved , if he had had proper and frequent medical relief . He ought not to have been left so many hours without some assistance . The j unagreed to the following special verdict : — " That the deceased died from the effects of cholera , and we ( the jury ) request that the coroner communicate the nature of the case to the guardians of Lambeth

      , with a view of their making more extensive arrangements for the appointment of medical officers , so as to afford prompt and immediate medical attention to the poor . " Determined Suicide . —On Saturday last consider , able sensation was created in Cheyne-walk , Chelsea , and its neighbourhood , in consequence of Mr . John Norton , the landlord of the Yorkshire Grey , committing suicide by shooting himself with a fowlingpiece . The deceased , who was about 35 years of age , was married , and has left a family of four young children . He had been landlord of the above house for about eighteen months . It appears , that neither the landlord , his wife , nor the pot-boy , had been to bed the previous ni ght ; that a few minutes before five o clock , the deceased left his wife in her

      bedroom , and went down stairs , saying that he would shoot himself . He afterwards took down the gun , which was kept in the bar-parlour , loaded it with shot , and , haying taken oft his shoes , sat himself down in a chair , placed the muzzle of the gun beneath his chin , and pulled the trigger with the toes of his right foot . The pot-boy attempted to interfere , but the unfortunate man said he would shoot him if he did so ; and , before he could get assistance , the deceased had committed the act , the front of his cheek being literally blown away , and his brains strewed about the room . An Inhuman Mothed . —On Monday , " an inquest was held before Mr . W . Payne , at St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , on the body of W . Coneland . ae-ed five .

      the son of J . Copeland , who was burnt to death . It appeared from the evidence of several respectable females that ever since the deceased ' s bulb the mother had shown the greatest dislike towards her offspring , by unmercifully beating it without any apparent cause , not giving it nearly sufficient food , as its emaciated condition fully testified , and a short time since she was detected in attempting to suffocate it in a tub of water , but was prevented by some one entering . The . neighbours had frequently remonstrated with her , and informed her husband of her conduct towards the deceased , but their complaints were of no avail . Last Saturday week the mother gave an alarm that the deceased had set himself on fire ; a lodger ran into the room and

      found the deceased with lus clothes on fire , and the mother in the act of extinguishmg the flames . The firo was eventually extinguished , but not before the deceased was dreadfull burnt . Observing not tho least vestige of a fire in the grate , or any wood lyin ' ff about , the mother , who had stated that there had been no candle a-li ght , was asked how it happened ; when sho stated that she hid only left the deceased alone for about two minutes , and on her return she found him in flames . The witness , to make sure about the fire in the grate , put her hand in the centre of it without injuring it in the least . The deceased was conveyed to the hospital , where

      it died on the following day from the injuries by the burns . All the evidence went to show the impossibility ofthe deceased sotting himself on fire , and it was the general impression that tho mother had wilfully set fire to the clothes to destroy him .- ^ -The Coroner , in summing up , remarked that it was very rarely that direct evidence could be obtained as to the commission of such an inhuman act . The circumstances attending the deceased ' s death were very suspicious , and he had a very strong opinion on the matter . The jury , after about half-an-hour ' s consultation , returned a verdict of '' Wilful murder '' against Maria Copeland , who was committed to Newgate on the coroner ' s warrant .

      Fatal Amur . —An inquest was held by Mi * . W . Baker , on Wednesday , at the Black Horse , Kingsland-road , on Edward Rumhold , aged 29 , who was killed on Monday night last , in a pugilistic encounter with two men named Hunt and Hunter , who stand remanded from the Worship-street police court , charged with having caused deceased ' s death . The inquiry was adjourned for further evidence . A Curious Verdict . —An inquest was held by Mr . Bedford , at the Plough , Carey-street ) on Wednesday , on the body of Mr . B . Kakebread , salesman ,

      It having been clearly shown that deceased inflicted a wound in his throat with a razor , and that he had within the last two or three previous days made away with £ 50 just bequeathed to him , the foreman of the jury announced the verdict as follows ; — " We find that the deceased died of temporary insanity , produced by the wound on the throat . "The Coroner : Do you mean that , or thatthe wound was inflicted by himself in a state of insanity , and that it produced his death?—Foreman : That is what we mean . —A verdict was accordingly recorded in somewhat different terms .

      The Siuiufield Nuisance . —On Monday , an infuriated ox , being driven from Smithfield to the Surrey side ofthe river , knocked down , in Farringdon-street , a girl , named Coles , trampled on her , and inflicted very serious injuries . Being further irritated by the occurrence , it became perfectly uncontrollable , and proceeded at a headlong pace towards Blackfiiars-bridge , where the animal was secured , not , however , before it had knocked down and injured several parties . The Tooting Cholera Cases . —Yestrt Meeting

      at St . Pancras . —On Wednesday a meeting of the vestry of St . Pancras was held for the purpose of requesting Mr . Popham , one of the medical officers employed to attend the children in Mr . Drouet ' s establishment at Tooting , to explain his conduct in having attended a meeting at Westminster , and made certain charges against the directors and guardians of the poor . —Mr . Healey , a churchwarden , took the chair . —Mr . T . H . Smith brought the subject forward , and he complained that ( according to the report in the newspapers ) Mr . Popham had stated at the meetings in question that tho guardians , when they visited Mr . Drouet's establishment , paid more attention to the gratification of their appetites by eating and drinking the good things placed before them , than to the condition

      and sufferings of the poor children . —Mr . Popham , In explanation , said that in what he bad stated respecting the guardians he had made no allusion to the authorities of St . Pancras . He had a perfect ri g ht to attend a meeting upon such a subject , but the opinion he then entertained towards Mr . Drouet had since then been very much changed . —After a long discussion upon the alleged misconduct of Mr . Popham ( who it appeared held office under the Board of Directors of this parish ) , Mr . Barnes moved a resolution to the effect that the explanation given by Mr . Popham respecting the statement said to have been made by him on the 31 st January , was unsatisfactory and hig hly censurable . The resolution was seconded hy Mr . Iletherin . oton . An amend * ment was proposed , but tho original motion was carried .

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      A Curate Flogged . —A rather unusual and exciting scene occurred on Friday week last at the adjacent quiet little town of Wilton—the curate of the new church , the Rev . Mr . Jacob , having been publicly assaulted by two gentlemen in the square . From sundry pieces of explanation dropped at the time on the subject , it is accounted for as follows : — It appears that an elderly gentleman living in Leeds has a daughter , between whom and Mr . Jacob an acquaintance has subsisted for some time past , and atthe father ' s house the supposed suitor was fed and lodged for the space of about two years . On obtaining his present curacy , however , it seems he left his lady love to sigh behind , and has altogether f iyen up the connexion . The young lady ' s feelings eing worked upon by this treatment , she became in an alarming state " of excitement , and this exasperating the feelings of her brother and father , they paid a visit to Salisbury , going thence to

      Wilton , on purpose to inflict tho above summary punishment . Post-horses were ordered , with which they reached the Pembroke Arms Hotel ; then , watching their opportunity , a message was forwarded to the curate ' s residence , soliciting an interview on the part of two gentlemen . The unsuspecting man . had reached as far as the square in complying with the request , when the father and son mot him with outstretched hands ( but in them horsewhips ) , and both commenced a course of flagellation . Some bystanders interfered and held back the son , with an idea of fail * play , and when the old gentleman had exhausted his strength by the oxencise , left the place , and immediately returned to London by the next train ; and so the ' matter ended for the present . Since this affair , the father of the curate , who resides in the Isle of Wight , has had an audience with the Bishop of Salisbury on the subject JoaniS recoinm ends a law-suit .- ^ er 6 o „! 6 ti ^ T tUV tk ? l Fathek-Yarm , Sa-IPHDAT . Fbb . S .-Tho mwderorUarauway laboimr ,

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      named George Howe , whose wife died in child-bed on the llth of November last , leaving behind her a boy , aged four years , and the deceased . On the 14 th of November , he and his children went to live with a person named Bray , in this town . During his residence there he was heard to say , if he could get rid of his child he could marry a female directly with £ 300 . A few days back , the father told Mrs . Wood , Bray ' s housekeeper , that he was going to leave , and would send for tho child . Mrs . Wood , not liking his manner from what she had previously heard him say , refused to let the children go until she knew what provision he had made for their comfort . At five o ' clock the same evening , the father came home from work , when he found her feeding the child . Mrs . Wood left the room for a short

      time , taking the child with her . On her return tho father immediately went to bed , and upon her recommencing to feed the child , it rejected its food , andexlubitca symptoms of being in great pain . Mrs . Wood ' s suspicions were immediately aroused , and having called her nephew up , she sent him with the remains of the food to Mn Dale , a surgeon . The child continued in great pain till the following dav , when it expired . The father was given into custody on suspicion ; and on Mr . Dale making a post mortem examination , ho found oxalic acid in the food contained in the child ' s stomach . The father was identified as having , on the evening of the day he wished totakethechildaway , purchased half an ounce of oxalic acid . A bottle of oxalic acid solution was

      found concealed under Howe s bed , and he was forthwith committed to take his trial at the next assizes for the wilful murder of the child . —It is stated that an application has been made for an order to exhume the remains of the prisoner ' s wife , who died some five or six weeks previous , and who , there is reason to suspect , was poisoned . Yorkshire . —The jRecent Colliery Explosion . —Several praiseworthy efforts are being made in and around Barnsley for the purpose of raising a fund for relieving the widows and orphans of the seventy-five unfortunate individuals who lost their lives on the 24 th of January at Darley Main Colliery . . Monmouthshire . — -Attempted Murder and Suicide . —In the village of Usk , on Monday week last ,

      Frederick Williams was apprehended on a charge of felony . The next day he was taken before a mag istrate , and committed for trial . He was placed in the custody of John Morgan , constable , who locked him up in his own house for the night , and the next morning , on leaving for the prison , he was handcuffed by the right wrist to the constable ' s left , and thus they walked for about nine miles . On getting within two or three hundred yards of the gaol , the prisoner made a remark to tho constable , calling off his attention , and having-. previously , without the knowledge ofthe officer , drawn a knife from his pocket , he suddenly made a most ferocious and murderous attack on him , inflicting various wounds , one being a most formidable gash passing through and dividing the ear and reachmg the nose . A person named Churchill , passing by on

      horseback , was horrified at seemg the two men struggling on the ground and covered with blood . He called to the prisoner to desist , but the only reply he got was that as soon as he had done for the constable , he would kill both him and his horse . Churchill then rode off to town for assistance , and having procured some men they returned in a few minutes , but the struggle was then going on . During the time Churchill was away , the prisoner had succeeded in disengaging himself , and had cut his own throat . After some difficulty the knife was taken from Williams , when he and the constable were removed to tho prison . Mr . Greatwood , a surgeon , was soon in attendance , when he found that the officer had received two wounds on the throat , several on the head , and that the right side of his face was cut entirely open . The constable remains in a very precarious state , but nothing fatal is anticipated from the wound in the throat of tho

      prisoner . Murderous Outrage and Robbery at Birmingham . — On Monday week Mr . Enoch Beasley had been out collecting rents , and between ei ght and nine o clock was proceeding towards his residence , carrying with him a bag containing £ 10 in silver . He had got nearly to the end of Cumberland-street , and when opposite a p iece of waste ground , he suddenly felt a hand on his bag . He turned hastily round , and saw a man standing beside him , who made a blow at him with an open knife , and swearing a horrible oath , told him to loose the bag , or he would murder him . Mr . Beasley made an alarm and struggled for his property ; but the fellow had got a firm hold of it , and while he held it with one hand stabbed Mr . Beasley four or five times in the arm and body . In the struggle the ruffian fell , but he recovered himself , and with redoubled fury struck at Mr . Beasley , knocked him

      down , and , leaving him bleeding and insensible on the ground , made off with the money . Shortly afterwards a Mr . Cook , accompanied by his wife , were passing by the spot , when they were alarmed by Mr . Beasley ' s groans . . They hastened to his assistance , and , with the aid of other persons and a policeman who happened to come up , he was conveyed homo . It was then found that he had received several wounds on the arm , inflicted with such force and violence that the knife had penetrated through two coats and his under apparel . Medical assistance was procured , and Mr . Beasley , was speedily so far recovered as to he able to give the particulars of the whole transaction , but no trace has as yet been obtained to the perpetrator of the outrage . Although still suffering from the effects of the injuries ue received , Mr . Beasley is now nearly recovered .

      Confession of Murder . —An extraordinary confession was made on Thursday morning week by a young woman , an inmate of the Kingston poorhousc ( Portsea Island Union ) , of two most cold-blooded and predetermined acts of infanticide committed ten years ago . For some time past tho woman , whose name is Mary Ann Skinner , had been leading a most wretched life from poverty and other causes ; she had latterly become an inmate of the above-mentioned union , where , on Thursday , finding death approaching , she raved and called for one ot the guarcians to come to hev . She called for her sister also , apparently a well-educated and respectable young woman , and then made a statement , which one of the guardians ( Mr . Marks ) took

      down in writing : that she was ' seduced by a gentleman , a member of the legal profession , then and now resident at Gosport ; that the first fruit of their intercourse she , with his cognizance and persuasion , murdered ; that about twelve months afterwards she again became encientc by her seducer , who took her to Portsmouth to a ball , where the pains of labour were brought on ; he took her back to Gosport , where she was confined the same night , and a fine child was born alive ; the child was sent for by the seducer , taken away in a pocket kerchief by his clerk , and disposed of as the first had been ( a skeleton was founu some years after in the very spot mentioned by the woman in her confession ) ; that the man gave her money ( £ 5 . ) to assist her to obtain her wants , and to keep secret the

      transactions . Other circumstances of infamy and atrocity are detailed in the confession , which bears the signature ofthe gentleman who penned it , and six other respectable witnesses . Death terminated the sufferings of the unfortunate woman on Friday afternoon week . The person implicated in these atrocities has hitherto been considered one of the most respectable and honourable inhabitants of Gosport . The confession ofthe woman is very clear in names , dates , and circumstances ; and it is imp ortant to the credence of her statement to add thatmedical testimony pronounces her perfectly sane at the time of making the disclosures . Three Lives were Lost on Saturday last near Leicester by the falling of a quantity of bricks upon some destitute persons who had sought shelter during the nig ht beneath them .

      Bedfordshire . —Murderous Attack upon Two Policemen . —A desperate attack was made on two of the Beds , police about three o ' clock on Thursday morning week , near Stanbridge . Constables Parrott and Clough were directed to watch a certain place on account of suspicious circumstances . They accordingly watched on Wednesday night week , till about twelve o ' clock , when they saw two men leave a house in Stanbridge . The two men , it appears , went towards Egginton , and the police remained on the look-out till about three o ' clock on Thursday morning , when they saw three men return , each having a sack on his back . The police instantly seized them , when a conflict ensued . The thieves at once threw down the sacks , one

      containing fowls , another barley , and the other peas . One of the thieves had a gun , and each alar <» e bludgeon . The gun was fired at Parrott , and tne shot struck him on the left shoulder ; he was also struck with the bludgeon , and very much bruised . He managed to run away a short distance , hut two of the rascals followed him , and recommenced the attack , first beating him over the body , and then giving him one or two blows over the head . One of them then said " We ' ve done for him , " and left him in an insensible state . He lay there for some time , but at length managed to get to E gginton , where the alarm was given , and assistance procured . A

      party then went in search of Clough , who had been similarly attacked by the ruffians , and who in the meantime had managed to get down to Stanbridge , but he was quite incapable of giving any account of himself , and has up to the present time continued in a state of unconsciousness . Great fears arc entertained about his recovery . One of the thieves , it is thought , was shot in some part ofthe body , and another had his head broken . A sack was left , which is marked " W . F . " or " M . F . '' Robberies are continuall y taking place in that neighbourhood . Two men have been taken into custody on suspicion .

      Stabbing . — On Monday , at the Manchester Borough Court , a man named John Uanley was charged with stabbing John Miller , a cab-driver . On Sunday morning Hanley was driving a dog-cart , anil some dispute had taken place between the two men , when the prisoner struck the cabman , who took ofi his coat and prepared to fight . Hanley then took a large clasp-knife from his pocket , and struck vio-

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      lently at Mai 9 r , ' woundihg himBevereIy . Committed * ° o SoQ ^ . - A case of felony of a novel charictlr was preferred at Sheffield on Tuesday week , aSinst a fiSe bull and terrier . dog and . its owner , rCeStaccv On the previous evening , an in-SK amed Stainfoil observed the man and dS near a Shoe shop on Sheffield Moor , and soon Sards he saw master " Pompcy" walk carefu £ S 11 the shop , and emerge thence with a pair of shoes in his mouth , which the dog's master put £ Ids nockot , and ran away . A policeman having W n & SSV the affair , pursued and captured both thief and receiver The biped was committed for trial , and the quadruped was ordered t 0 A LS ° FFioxv bt a CLERK-The magistrates at Bristol , on Tuesday , were occ ^ " ^ ff serious charge of felony againsta ™^ f ££ ' m thn ominent mercantile firm of Miles , Kington , " ^ -

      and Co . The accused , Christopher Matthew onaw West , was charged with stealing a certain valuable 8 ecurtv for £ o 00 . Mr . P . W . S . Miles , M . P . IOT SSlf deposed that he , jointly with his brother , Mr . Wm . Miles , M . P . for East Somerset , was executor of the estate of the late Mr . Philip John Miles , and the accused , Mr . West , was a clerk in their employ . Amongst the effects of the deceased was a loan note ofthe Bristol and Gloucester Railway for £ 500 . This note had been stolen , and in a conversation with witness on the . 16 th of January , tho prisoner admitted that he had deposited it with Mr . Robert Gobs , a sharebroker , as a security for money advanced to h' -n . The prisoner had no right so to deal with the note , and had taken it

      feloniously . Mr . Goss , the sharebroker , stated that some time ago the accused , who was well known to him , asked him if he could get an advance of £ 200 on the note . About the 8 th or 10 th of January he brought it , and on the 16 th , witness advanced the money . Inspector Bosworth proved that he pursued the prisoner to Hamburg , whore , upon the application of Col . Hodges , the British CAarpe d'Affaires , the senate passed a decree for . the prisoner ' s arrest , and he was handed over to witness ' s custody and brought to Ei . gland , The magistrates committed him for trial . Norfolk . —Fatal Accident to M . Beverlet , Esq . of Foncet . —On Friday week this gentleman , who has followed the chace for the past torty years , met with a fatal accident . It seems that Mr .

      Beverley was out with tho harriers , and was about taking a leap , when his horse refused , on which he was violentl y thrown over its head , and fell heavily on bis skull . Some gentlemen made up to him as speedily as possible , but life was extinct . Exeteh . —The Great Western Mail Roddert . —On Tuesday week , Mr . Willesford applied to the bench for the restoration of the property taken from the nrisoners in this case at the time of their apprehension—namely , to Nightingale a gold watch and diamond ring ; and , to Poole , a £ 5 promissory note . The property was required , said the legal crentleman . for the nurnose of enabline them to meet

      the expenses incident to their defence , their being no suspicion that these articles had been surreptitiously obtained . The application was met by . a decided refusal from the bench , one of the magistrates asserting that Poole had a considerable sum in one of the banks in Exeter , and that he had been so informed by one of the bankers . It is stated that Poole and Ni htingale have retained Mr . Cockburn , Q . C ., to defend them . Ipswich . —Death of an Election Character . — On Monday week an inquest was held upon Thomas Harrison , who was generally known by the cognomen of " The Blessed Man . " It was his misfortune

      to be a free burgess of the borough of Colchester , and also of this borough . He was a shoemaker by trade . At every election for the last thirty years , whether it was for members of parliament in Ipswich or Colchester , his bod y was in great requisition by all nartics ; or if an election for chief magistrates , town c . erk , & c , was at hand at Ipswich ( previous to the Municipal Reform Bill being passed ) , tho first question of the partisan on either side was , " Where is the ' Blessed Man V " Great anxiety was displayed to secure him , and send him for weeks to a considerable distance in the country to he taken care of until the day of election . No sooner was his vote recorded , than the individual who had been the object of so much solicitation and tender care , was

      seen walking about the streets on his own account , no one giving * him even a passing smile . The poor fellow was then left to wander about the streets , picking up what pence he could from both parties , as each hoped to have him at the next election . At the inquest , Mary Webb , landlady of the Cow and Gate Inn , said deceased had of late come into the house of an evening , and asked permission to sleep in the stable loft . He-told me no came out of the union house at Tattingstone , on the 2 nd day of last January . I asked him how he lived , when he said he could always live in Ipswich , and he would die in Ipswich . He did not follow any trade that I am aware of , but seemed a quiet , feeble old man . I never saw him the worse for drink . On the

      night of Saturday last , about eight o ' clock , he came into the tap-room , and asked me if he might sleep in the loft as he had done before . I said I dare not have him sleep in the loft , and as he appeared very cold and ill , I said I was afraid he would die there : and I added , " you had better go to the unionhouse . " He replied , he slept there the night before , and that it was then too late to go there that night , but if I would let him sleep on the premises on Saturday ni ght he would go home to Tattingstone the next morning . I told him to come in and warm himself , and that I would direct the ostler to make him a comfortable bed . I left him sitting by the tap-room fire , and shortly after I found the deceased had gone away . He had half a pint of beer when he

      came m on Saturday evening . I asked him if he wanted anything to cat , and he said ho had had something in the morning at the union-house , but he could not eat . He was alone in tho tap-room on Saturday evening , and no one gave him anything . Sunday morning the ostler said , " Tom Harrison laid in the stable very ill . " I went to him , got him up ; he walked into the house , and sat by the fire an hour and half . I gave him some brandy , which he drank and said he was very ill . I sent for Mr . Adams , the surgeon , who came directly , but deceased died just before his arrival . Tho jury returned a verdict of " Death by exhaustion and exposure to the weather , and not from any violence or neglect . "

      Kekt . —An unusual number of sudden deaths have lately occurred in Chatham and its nei ghbourhood . Among others we may mention that of Dr . Curtoise , physician to the forces , who appears to have been only a day or two unwell prior to his decease . Mr . Ranvali , ofthe Mitre Hotel , has lost two sons within one week , and an elderly man named Mallett , a storehouse labourer in the royal dockyard , dropped down dead a few days ago . The village of Gillingham , in the vicinity of Chatham , which lately experienced a severe attack of cholera , is now almost free from it , but a tew cases have occurred in Troy Town , near Rochester . Post-Office Robbery at Carmarthen . —We

      have already reported the fact that one of the daughters of the postmaster at Carmarthen is now in gaol awaiting her trial for stealing money letters . If is now stated that about £ 200 in bank notes were found in the possession of the prisoner , and other property , such as purses , jewellery , and other fancy articles , amounting in value in the aggregate , including the cash , to about £ 000 ; and we have been requested to state that it is 2 'articularly desired that persons who have lost letters , or any other property , will immediately give information to the post-office authorities in London , with accurate descriptions of lost property , so that , if amongst the articles that have been found , all such maybe identified and restored to the owners . —London Daily Paper .

      Burglary . —Plymouth . —On Sunday night the extensive drapery establishment of Messrs . Dabb , llundle , and Brown , was entered , and cash to the value of £ 130 taken . Tho thieves are supposed to have entered by the area grating in Old Town-street . Finding the inner counting-house door locked , they , with some clumsy instrument , cut away a portion of the door jamb , but not being very successful here they abandoned the door for one of the large panes of glass in tho partition window , in which they found a small hole . This hole they soon increased , and quietly extracted every portion of g lass from the frame , Entrance being thus obtained , they broke into the counting-house money-drawer and

      took £ 110 ., principally m Bank of England Notes of tho Plymouth branch , leaving untouched several bills of exchange and checks for a considerable-sum . They then proceededtothe shops , and with gimblets bored down through two mahogany desks upon tho ends ofthe bolts of the cash-drawer locks , but the bolts would not start ; they , therefore , cut away tho fronts of the desks and extracted about £ 20 from the tills , leaving a quantity of postage stamps and one farthing , which happened to bo marked . No attempt was made on any other drawers but those containing cash , and no goods of any ' description are missing . By the deliberate course taken , it appears evident tho thieves were not only well acquainted with the premises , hut also with tho mode

      in which business was transacted m them . Salpord Police . —A London Emigration Agent . —On Tuesday , a man named Samuel Saunders , was brought up under a warrant y charged with dcertiug his family . Mr . Armitt , assistant-overseer , deposed that in March last the prisoner loft his wife and family , and went away with a woman named Smith . In April , Mrs . Saunders became chargeable to the township , and since that time she had received £ 19 12 s . She was now receiving 7 s . per week . Mr . Neale , chief-constable , went to London , and a pprehended the prisoner on Monday , at his office , Theobald-road , Holborn , London . From the papers found in his possession , it appeared that when he left his wife , be wont to America , where he fell in with' several persons belonging to the Society of Friends , who had largo tracts of land to sell , and they authorised him to act as their agent in England for the disposal of the land . In November last , Saunders came back to England for that purpose ' and opened an agency office in Theobald ' s-roacL In

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      some of his letters , addressed to paraonsm London , ne kthnates his intention to return shortly to Amerfj ? having sold tracts of land to between two and fhrWundfed persons ; From . the cow of a letter whSi £ 7 on identified to be in his nandwntmg , , t rnpearithathe has been representing himself as a SSower and soliciting the hand of some lady m London . The prisoner was remanded . Fatal Accident at Compm Chkisti College Oxford .-A . inquest was hold on Tuesday , mthe Old Bursary Room , of Corpus Chnsti College , before G . V . Cox , Esq ., M . A ., University Coroner , and a jury of matriculated citizens , on the body ot Charles Blackstone , scholar of that society , and son of the RevFCBlackstone Vicar of Hcckhcid , * AA ^ n to persons in London ,

      . . . , Hants , who accidentally met with his death from the discharge of a pistol . Evidence was given that Mr Blackstone had hired a pistol , and purchased powder and ball of Mr . Pother , gunmakor , in company with a fellow collegian , for the purpose of shooting a rat which annoyed him very much in his rooms . On the evening of Monday the deceased had been to a friend ' s rooms at Exeter College , and supped with him and twof , others . That lie left about a quarter before eleven o- ' clock , alleging as a reason for not staying later that he wished to he up in the morning to attend chapel . He went direct to the college , where soon after twelve o ' clock he was found by one of his friends lying on the sofa , quite doad with anistol in his right hand which had been

      discharged , the contents having entered deceased s left side , and lodged in the spine , from whence the ball was extracted . Tho report of tho pistol was riot distinctly heard hy any one . It is supposed that decease d , who was perfectly sober , was m the act of watching for the rat , with the pistol cocked , and that from some cause it exploded , and killed him . The jury , after a lengthened investigation , returned tiie following verdict : — " That tho said Charles Blackstone caused his own death by accidentally discharging a loaded pistol which he ( as has been satisfactorily proved to the jury ) had been in the habit of incautiously handling , in his room . Mr . Blackstone , who was in the 23 ra year of his age , was a very talented young man . He obtained the Newdigate prize , "Columbus in chains , " at the recent commemoration .

      Murder hear Brighton . —On Wednesday morning , a little before four o clock , information was given at the Brighton Town Hall by Mr . Hodson and Mr . Kirton , that Mr . Griffith , the brewer , had been murdered . These townsmen had been out on a shooting excursion , and on their way homewards , at a very late hour , they discovered a body lyin * on the road , between Dale-gate and the Plough at Piocombe , which , on investigation , turned out to bo that of Mr . Griffith . It was resting on the back , and life was extinct . The hat of the deceased was picked up a few yards off , his pockets were turned inside out and rifled , and a wound was discovered in the chest , showing that he had been shot through the body by his assailant . A gig whip and part of a rem , cut , were also picked up on the spot , leaving no doubt that deceased had been waylaid by highwaymen . The spot where the murder was committed and

      is immediately under tho South Down-hill , there is only one dwelling near the place , namely , a farm-house in the occupation of Mr . Mannington , and one of Mr . Mannington ' s servants heara the report of a pistol between nine and ten o ' clock in the evening , supposed to have-been the time the murder was committed . Mr . Griffith had been in the country collecting cash , and he arrived at Henfield soon after eight o'clock ; and having baited his horse ho left Henfield at ten minutes Before nine o ' clock , and the spot where ho was murdered was about four miles from Henfield , so that he must have reached tho place where he lost his life at about half-past nine . The horse and gig were found at Poyning , the reins were cut nearly close up to the hand , and it is evident that they had both been cut asunderjby a sharp knife . In January last deceased received an anonymous letter warning him of an attack from rnhhors . The letter was as follows : —'' Sir . —

      Some parties intend to rob you the next time you goes to Horsham , so be on your guard . " The letter bears tho superscription of "Mr . Martin , Griff ' s Brewery , Bri ghton , " and it was posted in Trafalgar-street , Brighton . There is no doubt that the writer of the letter knows the guilty parties , and every exertion is being used on the part of the police to discover the murderers . We understand that the cash deceased had with him did not amount to more than about £ 20 . —Mr . Griffith took two pistols with him , and when his body was discovered one of the p istols was found lying by his side dischaged , whilst the other pistol was found in his pocket loaded . He has left two boys , one eight and the other ten years of age .

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      Coxflict With Poachers.—On Saturday Last...

      Coxflict with Poachers . —On Saturday last G . Laing and John Laing were examined before Sheriff Arkley on a charge of poaching and assault , committed on a plantation on the estate of Rosobery , parish of Temple . It appeared that on the previous evening the prisoners , along with three others , each having a gun in their possession , trespassed on the plantation with the evident design of poaching . The gamekeeper on the estate , having heard the report of fire arms , proceeded to the ground , accompanied by three other individuals . They had not been long there hefore they met the partv of poachers , one of

      whom ( J . Laing ) , within a few yards of them , shot a fine hen pheasant seated on an adjoining tree . The gamekeeper witnessing this , immediately sprang forward and grasped Laing , and at the same moment the forester seized his brother , but the other depredators contrived to make their escape , The two Laings made a desperate struggle to get free , and struck right and left with their fire-arms , and in the serious conflict that took place the gamekeener was thrown down and cut in the head , while severa ^ of the forester ' s teeth were driven out . The prisoners were remitted to a hi gher court for trial .

      Death by Drowning . —On Saturday last Mr . W . B . Mackinlay , ship-broker , of Glasgow , was proceeding across a plank from the North-quay , to the schooner Thomas , of Dundalk , when ho unfortunately missed his footing and fell into the water , between a vessel lying inside the Thomas and the quay . The noise of the fall having been heard by the watchman , Mr . Mackinlay was immediately brought out , and conveyed to the Clyde Police-office , but it was found that life was extinct .

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      Dublix.—The State Prisoners. —Writs Of E...

      Dublix . —The State Prisoners . —Writs of Error . —It is likely that the Writs of Error in the case of Messrs . Smith O'Brien , M'Manus , and O'Donohuc , will be argued before the House of Lords early in the next month . Siorr-AGE of a Mail Coach . —A few days a ^ o the . mail coach which leaves Nenaghfor Templemore every evening at eight o ' clock , p . m ., was stopped outside Moncygall , at a place called Castletown , opposite the sugar loaf moat , by a large barricade of stones , built completely across the road . No person , however , appeared , owing , perhaps , to the presence of Constable Connor , who was a passenger and after half-an-hour ' s arduous exertions the rampart was in part removed , and a passage through cleared for the horses . Constable Connor proceeded to Templemore for the protection of the coach but no other impediment presented itself . Tho down train from Dublin was delayed twent y minutes at the station waiting for tho mail .

      Attack , on a Poor-Hate Collector . —Tho following appears ill tho Kilkenny Moderator ¦ — On Thursday evening week , at about four o ' clock , as Martin Mahcr , poor-rate collector , was roturninofrom Urlingford , he was waylaid a short distance beyond the mill of that village by two men who knocked him and his wife , who was riding behind him , off the horse , and inflicted a severe beating on the former . The perpetrators of the outrage are unknown , but they are believed to be Tippcrary men , hired for that purpose . "

      The Newry Examiner states : — " That on Wednesday night week , as the ballast engine and train of waggons attached were returning from Castleblaney and travelling at a speed of about twentv miles an hour , and when within about six miles of ' this town the engine received a violent shock , and after sevc ^ ral rebounds , it ran off the line , bringing with it tho entire train of ballast waggons . On examining the spot it was found that some miscreants had placed a rail weighing five cwt ., directly across tho line with the intention , no doubt , of sacrificing the lives of many . No lives , however , were lost , although there were about sixty persons on the waggons . A similar attempt was made to upset a tram on the Waterford and Kilkenny railway on Sunday week last , but which was providentiall y discovered before the arrival ofthe train .

      State op Donegal . —A letter was sent last week to a gentleman possessing large property in Donegal and Leitrim , threatening him with death unless he discharged certain servants . Tho gentleman at first laughed at the threat , but when he considered the vast sums he had expended during the last four years m giving employment to the poor , bavins spent his entire rent-roll , together with £ 1 , 000 bo £ rowed from government for draining , > became so annoyed at the ungrateful return he had received that he resolved on advertising his furniture ' farming stock , & c ., for sale , and to leave Ireland of

      Increase CRME . _ The provincial iournals contain numerous accounts of outrages , robberies on the highway and plunder of provision ' s , provhS the increase of disorgan isation resulting from fe destitute condition of tho peasantry . In some inof ? Ss ^ W ^ ?( Ung t f *»»& ^ anCnent of farms , threatening notices are served with a 2 If lm \ da P crs <™ from takmg knd from which others had been evicted ° T ? 5 - Ar ^ MPT T 0 Shoot Ma . ' M'FADDEN .-Michael Frederick Fox was on Friday week brought up to the Henry-street police office on a charge of having SfW . to shoot Mr . MTadden . It appearcS that the prisoner had been a client of Mi-. MTadden

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      for some years , and for some reasons , which did no ** transpiref he had repeatedly-threatened -Mr . M ' Fad den with violence , and . on the previous evening car " ried his threat into execution by firing a pistol ri <» h > f into Mr . M'Fadden ' s face , 4 nd that gentleman had l been so much injured , in the eye that lie was n 0 rt able to attend at the office to give his evidence . The * prisoncrwho . it was stated / is nephew to the lates Judge Fox , of Dublin , was remanded . JEmigjutio . y jo England . —The Waterford C'hro .. nicle of Saturday last contains the following startling r announcement : — "Yesterday tho William Penin sailed from our port to Liverpool , bearing with her upwards of 500 of tho most wretched class of emi-. grants we ever beheld ; they were nearly all younn- *" for some years , and for some reasons , which hu „

      few over twenty , and literally in rags . ° '' On Thursday week last a public dinner was gh- L to Archbishop M'Hale , in Tuam , on his return froni t Rome . Pr , M'Hale propounded his project for thQ , relief of distress and the regeneration of Ireland , as i follows : — " And as the Repeal ofthe Union maynot s yet be deemed sufficiently near or practicable , let ; but tho tenants of Ireland have but the legal pled ges r of a tenure and a enumeration for their outlay ; 1 et ; desolating landlords pay a certain tax for that land I from which they drive out men to make room for beasts ; let the surplus spoils of the useless esta-. blishment that has so long encumbered and on ..

      pressed the country revert to its original and ri ght- - ful trustee—the Catholic Church—in proportion as i the present incumbents fall off , not a farthing of ! whose l ^ e interest I would touch : let this sacred ' ' fund , thus accumulated , again be dispensed , as it ; was once , entirely in works of mercy and of ediica- tion . ( Cheers ) . I will pledge myself that with this ; simple process , which , so far from involving injus- tice , restitution demands , you will see ere long the > . land smiling with the three-fold blessings of cheerful industry , spontaneous . charity , and a religious , because a free and unrestricted , education . ( Loud , cheers . )

      The New Potato Crof . —Potatoes are alread y planted to a . very considerable extent , and pretty generally throughout the country . Irish Whisky for California . —The Clonmd Free Press says : — " Last weekr ten puncheons of whisky wove shipped from a celebrated distillery in this iiei g hbouohood for California . " Dublin , Tuesday . —Poor Laws . —Tenant Right . —Two meetings to deliberate upon the above questions were held yesterday—one in Jfcivan , presided over by the Hig h Sheriff of the county of Meath « the second at Maryborough , in the Queen's county . Among the resolutions adopted at the former the following were the most prominent : — " That from what has already occurred in Parliament , a

      lengthened inquiry , it is to bo feared , is likely to take place , ( on the amendment ofthe Poor Law , ) during which a great breadth of land will be unfilled , and the poor left unemployed ; wc consider that a short act should be enacted , which would make each ratepayer to take credit against his rating according to the number of poor employed by him , who might otherwise become chargeable under the present law , and thus stimulate instant employment . " Another resolution , while it calls for such a mode of taxation as shall stimulate individual exertion , requires that , at the same time , it shall not be such as to encourage or promote the clearance of land . State of Crime in Clare . —The Clare Journal Contains an account ofthe murder of a man named

      Nicholas Scanlan , of Lettermoylan , who , on his return from the fair of Milltown Malbay , on Thursday last , was attacked by six men , who beat him so unmercifully with stones and a tongs that he died shortly after . The same journal states that some sheep have been stolen from off the lands of Dromoland , the property of Sir Lucius O'Brien , Bart , , and contains an account of the plunder of two tons of meal belonging to Messrs . Russell , of Limerick , on its ' passage to Clare . State of Clonmel . —The following account corresponds with others of a similar nature from nearly all parts of tho kingdom ^ The cry of the landlords ,

      because they cannot collect their rents , is much louder , and re-echoed again and again by the press , than any raised in the year 1847 , when so many unfortunate peasants died of starvation . Scarcely a day passes over in and about this neighbourhood that whole families don't give up their lands and quit for America . There never was known to be so much land deserted as at present . In one case the landlord has been forced to take up over 300 acres within the last fortnight , in another 180 , and others ranging from 150 to twenty acres . and in nearly every case at a sacrifice of from one and a half to four years' rent , which has been allowed to lie in arrear . If the owners of the soil

      refuse to take up the land without remitting a portion of the rent due , the tenant will reply , " There ' s your land for you in better order than when I got it ; and if you don ' t like to take it , leave it , but a farthing rent I cannot give—I require all I have to carry myself and my helpless family to the shores of America . " The above words were used to a landlord the other day . Cholera in Belfast , —The following is the official return for Saturday and Monday : —Remaining at last report , 49 ; new cases , 3 rd and 4 th inst ., 20 ; deaths , 4 ; recoveries , 8 ; remaining under treatment , 63 . Total cases since commencement , 273 ; deaths , 07 ; recoveries , 113 ; remaining , 63 . Detention of Mr . Duffy ' s Letters . —" Forthe

      last six months , " says the Freeman , " every letter and newspaper addressed to him ( Mr . Duffy ) as editor of the Nation , has been opened and detained at the Post Office , without the smallest notice to him . " Having heard by accident , at the end of six months , of the practice , he applied for his letters ( which , for aught ho knows , may contain large remittances , or information more important than money ) , and was informed that the letters were actually detained on the plea that there was no editor of the Nation when the paper ceased , and that all the secretary of the Post Office could do in the matter was to refer the question to his solicitor . The government first suppressed Mr . Duffy ' s paper by force , and then seized his property , on the pretence that there was no longer an editor of the Nation , because their police were in possession ol " the premises . The solicitor of tho Post Office has given his answer , that Mr . Duff y ' s letters and papers cannot be given up .

      Dublin , Wednesday . —Trialof Mr . GavanDutfy . —The Commission opened yesterday , before Mr . Justice Ball and Mr . Baron Lefroy , when the fifth bill of indictment asainst Mr . Duffy was sent to the grand jury , who fouud " a true bill on all the counts . " Mr . Duff y will be called upon to plead this day . * State op tub Poor . —Deaths from starvation are still almost daily announced in tho western and southern papers . The Rev . Peter Ward , parish priest of Aughagowor , Mayo , in a letter to thu Freeman ' Journal , gives the details of three case ? , and mentions that the coroner is fully occupied "in holding inquests in the parish of Kilmcena on victims of starvation . "

      Repayment of Treasury Advances . —The CvA Constitution states , that a peremptory order has been issued to the treasurer of the county to issue his warrants to the several baronial constables to collect and pay in to him , before the ensuing assize . * , the sum of £ 16 , 000 , being a moiety ofthe sum lent under the Labour Rate Act . Lycendiatush in Ulster . —This alarming ami mysterious system of outrage still continues . The Northern Whig says : — " On Sundav evening another ot these unaccountable fires took place in the townland of Ballymiscaw , near Dundonald . About four o clock , a hay stack in the yard of Mr . Youmr . a

      respectable farmer , was observed to be onfirc ; ' " the neighbours , ' however , having arrived at once , niul m considerable numbers , the firo was soon put our . lhe police searched the surrounding neighbourhood but were unable to put their hands on any one on whom suspicion could rest . It having been notieeJ , however , that Mr . Young ' s servant , a man naimxl Mullen—the party , who , we are informed , first ir ave the alarm—was absent , the police judged it prudent to await his return . Ho returned during the night , and was arrested and examined beforell . - *¦ Gordon Esq ., » nd Captain Saunders , J . F ., ^ ordered a remand . "

      Kilkenny . —Barbarovs Murder . —On the ni 2 "' of Thursday week , Mrs . Catherine Fitzpatrick , (» widow lady of seventy years , of age , ) of Cooleashmm the barony of Oalmoy , was found lying dead in : ' well near her house . An inquest was held on * body on Monday , when it appeared that the dccca- 'W took her usual walk on the night ofthe murder , hut not returning , a search was instituted , when her body was found in tfca well , in a position she could nflt have placed herself in . The evidence of Dr . Delanf and Dr . Thompson , of Jolmstown , fully coincide" " establishing the fact of tho murder . It m , that there were marks upon the neck , which proven that the deceased had been strangled before she *»» thrown into tho water , and there were also son * b ' « lse 3 upon the head . The jurv returned a vi-r ^ J ot Wiliul murder against some ' parties unkno wn .

      Shipwrecks. Wreck Oi 1 Thk Tigris.—About...

      SHIPWRECKS . Wreck oi thk Tigris . —About 1 , 050 hales off '"' namon and about fifty tons of the cocoa-nu t oj . have been saved from the wreck of tho ship riband a considerable quantity more of the lattc' '' tide is likel y to be safel y brought on shore throiy the exertions of Messrs . Deane and Edwards , W divers , from Whitstablc . Milford Haven . —The transport Diana , boflW from Cork for Bengal , with a division of the ^¦' Foot onboard , has put into this port . It a rT ' that , after leaving Cork , she encountered some j < , severe weather , when she shipped heavy seas , * ' spoiled a large quantity of provisions , and did a ¦ siderable injury to the vessel . The detach "'' consists of Captain Durnford , Lieutenan ts lM- " nan , Wills , Chute , and Crawley , one surgeon , sc ) sergeants , ono drummer , and 130 rank and „ ' , i This force has been landed and billeted in the W ^ of Milford , and will remain there whilst the * ' « is repairing .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 10, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_10021849/page/6/