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      Fi The Northern Star. July 19, 1§51.

      fi THE NORTHERN STAR . July 19 , 1 § 51 .

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      Health Or Losbon.—The Official Report St...

      Health or Losbon . —The official report states tbat ib ? public bealtb now presents a more favourabe aspect . In ihe week ending last Saturday tbe number of deaths registered from all causes declined to SSL In the ten con esonnding weeks of 1811—50 the average number was S 77 ; but as population has been growing throughout that period and up to the present da c . an average mortality corrected for the rate of increase may be estimated at 965 , compared wi . h which she deaths of last week exhibit a decrease of 54 . Tbe progress of the summer months in reducing ibe mortality is perceptible in all tho ^ e cl-i-ses of disease which make the principal contributions to the aggregate amount , with the exception of thc class of epidemics in which ihere now appears some disposition to increase . In the preceding week ( ending Ju ' y 5 ; this class numbered 214 deaths , it has now risen to 224 ; but the tubercular cbiss , the most important of which is pethisis , has fallen from 202 to 103 . Ph < hi-is or consumption

      number- * * bis week 12 " , which ia less than the corrected average . Sraall-pos is recorded as having been fatal to 27 persons , all of tbem children except one . Three died in tbe Small-pox Hospital © f " .-mali-pux confluent ; nnproteeted ; and among . t these a labourer , aged 27 years , , from iiermond < ev . The registrars mention particular families which hive suffered extensively , and lament m such cases that vaccination , which might have prevented the spread of the disease or its fatal results , had been neglected . Kanhosa , which was fatal in the previous week to 23 persons , marly all children , has suddeniy increased , and last week carried off 53 of whom 44 were youn « persons , 3 were of middle age , and < j had reached sixty years or upward * . Besides these , 8 cases were registered , in

      ¦ which the cause of death is described as " cholera infantum , " or " English cholera , " a-id one in ¦ which o is stated as Asiatic cholera . The particulars of these ca- < es , all with one fxcepiion amongst children , are an follows : —Iu Kensington , at Jenning ' sbuildings , on Gib Ju ; y , the daughter of a spinster , a « ed one year , died of " cholera infantum . " In Kcnsingion . CouperVgardens . on Gth July , the daughter of a hib-urer , aued 6 years , "cholera infantum . " In Marylebone , St . John ' s , at 4 , "Vicfciria-terrace , on tiih Julv , the daughter of a gardener , aged i years , " English cholera . " In Cripplegate , at 10 , AdeUide-pldce , on 10 th July , the son of a police cmstable , aged 7 months , " cholera infantum ( 5 days ) . " In nVthiiahsreen , at 13 , Bedfordrow , on ti-h July , the daughter of a woodcutter , aged 4 months , " English cholera ( 4 days ) . In Bethnalgreen , Town sub-district , at 31 , Thomas-street , on Dlh July , the wife "fa sc * le and beam maker , aged fiixiv-efeht years , " cholera Asiatic 36 hours ) . "

      Jii GoodmanVfields , at 8 , Everard's-place , on 4 th Julv , the daughter of a tobneeonist , aged four months "English cholera ( 3 days ) . " In St . George ' s-in-the-Ea-t , at 21 , Cross-street , on 8 ih Julv , the son of a mariner , asred 2 years , " cholera infantum ( 7 days ) . " I" St . Saviour , at 23 , Zosrstreet , the son of a cellarman , aged 2 years " English cholera ( 14 davs ) . " The births of 700 boys and 640 girls , in all 1346 children , were registt-red last week , l'ne average number of six corresponding -weeks in 1 S 45-50 was 1 , 227 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , ttw mea-i height of the bavtneter in the week was 23 . 777 in . The mean temperature of the week was 59 ' 6 deg ., or about 2 deg . below the average of the same week in ten y ^ ars . On IVedn-rday , Tnnrsday , and Friday the daily mean teas ab ut 6 « leg . lelow the average of the respective davs . and «< n Saturday it rose nearly 4 deg . above it . The wind generally blew from the west , but on Tuesday and the two following days it blew occasionally irom the northeast and north-west .

      attempt to Fire a Warehouse at Lo > n s 35 b . ioqr . —On Sunday the warehouses of Messrs . Barber , called Chamberkin ' s Wbarf , and situated near St . Oku e's Church , Smitbwark , just below London Bridge , narrowly escaped destruction by fire . The buildings are ne -rly two hundred years old , and are buin of wood excepting the south part facing the yards in Tooley-s'reet . and the whole of the north part towards the river is covered wrh pitch and tar to preserve the wood . The warehouses are filled chiefly with flour and merchandise from the north of ^ England . A number of vessels lie at tbe wharf , the crews of which pass through the yard to the street . On Sunday evening the watchman suddenly perceived a smell of fire , and entered the building to discover the cause . On arriving at the first lanning next the river , he discovered an immense quantity of smoke pouring out of a lumber room on the right hand side .

      The - atchman . being terror-struck at the sight of so anuch smoke issuing trom a portion of the building tvhere such a quantity of inflammable matter is kept , xau out and called to his assistance tbe crews of the Vessels lying at the wharf , and de * p ' atched messengers for the fire engines but before the arrival of the latter all danger wag removed . On forcing their way into the lumber room , they discovered the- fire orignated from tbe nearest corner to the entrance , among a quantity of baskets containing straw and cooking utensils which had lain there some time . There were also two bags of charcoal in the midst of the rubbish , and from the situation in which they were all dis covered , there is a supposition that fire had been introduced in two places . The baskets were partially desi royeJ , and one of the bags of charcoal was ignited , and in a few minutes the fire would bave communicated wlui ihestraw , when the loss of property must bave been frightful to consider . Had the watchman

      remained at the gate instead of returning to the wharf , the flames -would have communicated with tbe building and being all wood , it would have been almost impossible for tbe firemen to have saved any portion . Shortly after , Mr . Uraidwood , the superintendent of the Fire Brigade , was on the spot , and examined the premise * . He is clearly of opinion that the fire was the work of an incendiary , and such information was immediately forwarded to Messrs . Barber and Son , who called in the assistance of the police to unravel the mystery . On Monday , Inspector Barry , of the M division , wag engaged the whole of the day in carrying on a sfrict investigation into the affairs of Messrs . Barber , but nothing has transpired at present to show who the guiby party is .

      The Stkpxet Annucno . v Case . — It will be recollected that at the May session of the Central Criminal Court , a young man named William D . y , "was convicted under the Bishop of Oxford ' s Act of the abduction of a young woman named Harriet 3 » ewraan , whose statement was a very extraordinary one . He was sentenced t' » twelve months' bard labour ; but since the conviction took place a statement of facts has been laid before Sir George Grey , through the exertions of Mr . Field , of the Society for the Protection of Young Females , and the right honourable baronet advised her Majesty to grant the prisoner a free pardon . He is now at liberty .

      Extensive CoxriAGRATioxs . —On Sunday afternoon a fire broke out on the premises belonging to Messrs . Drew , Wayward , and Barron , wool- sale druggists , Bush-lane , Cannon-street , City . In a comparatively short period there were upwards of a dozen brigade engines on the sp » t , and owing * o the indeiattgable exertions of ad parties engaged , the fire was ex'inguished by seven o ' clock , ; ut not until a considerable portion of ihe upper floors , probably extending over five or six houses in Bush-lane , and two or three at the hack of Scott ' s yar-i . had been burned

      ont , and the contents either wholly consumed or considerably damaged . The total loss is roughly estimated at £ 5 , 000 .- —Another fire broke out at the game time on the premises of Mr . Downing , a bonnet maker and milliner , 2 io . 13 , Cross street . Blackfriars-road . Before the conflagration could be extinguished the premises were gutted , and thjse adjoining seriously damaged by water , and the furniture broken by removal , and four children nearly perished in the last named nre . Poitunately the sufferer was insured .

      Fatal Sleep-walking . —On Monday Mr . H . M . "Wakley lwld an inquest in tbe University College Hospital , on Samuel Shilton , aged forty-eight . It appeared from the evidence tbat deceased , who was in the habit of walking in his slfcp ,: ind was engaged mowing for Mr . Daniel How , of E'tgware , had , with other mowers , gone , according to their custom , to sleep on a rick twenty feet high . During the night he got up in his sleep , and before his companions could stop him , he walked to the edge of the rick , whence he fell to tbe ground , breaking his neck , Verdict— " -Accidental death . " The Royal Visit to the City . —Her Majesty hag been graciousiv pleased to accept " a- « mcmoria of her visit to the ' City on tbe 9 th of July , " the very beautiful dessert plates and wine-glasses prepared for the entertainment at Guildhall , which have been presented bv Mr . Staples to her Majesty .

      Killed in a Crowd . —Benjamin Hill , who was trampled on bv the crowd on Wednesday week last , on her Majesty ' s visit to the City , died on Sunday , irom the injuries he had received .

      The Law Of Staaiped Pubucatioss.—Mr. B-I...

      The Law of Staaiped Pubucatioss . —Mr . B-iron T / arke l . as announced in the Court of Exchequer , that the opinion of the Court being divided iu the case of the Attorney-General and the publishers of the Household Ximtive , it must stand over till next te ™ ; . To some exeel . ' ent remarks onthehistorv of this .-. fti . r , the Dail y MWS adds :- " Matters standing thus , it is with no small surprise that we have heard the rumours that are abroad as to the conduct of those members of the committee of the House of Commons ou the taxes on knowledge whn arc under : toyd U » represent the viewS and wishes of government . It is reported that they are strenuously exerting themselves to cram down the throat of the committee a report deprecatiue , or rather denouncing , any change in ^ he law imposi ng ttxea upon newsp . i i ers . "While one ofthe Supreme Courts at WV . -ttoinsttr m pretty unequivocally declaim " th-it -. he law is unintelligible—in other words , that it is full of traps ant pitfalls , for hi .-uest and independent men—our liberal and reforming

      government i- strain :-::: « -very nerve to keep this law unaltered ; and its law oifijers nre endeavouring io txact pinalres bv : n * . -js < » f it . "

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      Convictioh Of Three Notorious Thieves.—A...

      Convictioh of Three Notorious Thieves . —At the Ipswich Sessions , on Fr : dav last , three welldressed men , named William Diivis , aged 34 , John Hodgson , 30 , aud Henry Griffiths , 00 , who are said to be well known in London as of the " Borough gang'' of sharpers , were tried for burglariously entering the counting-house of Mr . Joseph Fis-n , the proprietor ofthe steam flour mills , and stealing therefrom an iron cheat and divers monies aud securities amounting in value to £ 3 , 000 . The case excited much interest in consequence of the daring character of the robbery , and the belief that the prisoners were implicated in other burglaries which have been committed in the neighbourhood . Counsel appcare i for the prosecution and defence . The

      I systematic manner in which the prisoners arranged their plans for the robbery showed that they were I no novices in the art . About the 10 th of February Hodgson and Griffiths took up their abode in the town . They occupied different lodgings , The prisoner Griffiths passed under the name of Lee , and resided within sight of the flour mills . Towards the close of the month , Griffiths visited the mill , and stated that he would take it as a particular favour if he could be accommodated with £ » worth of silver for gold . Mr . Fison complied , and so the prisoner ascertained tbe whereabouts of the iron chest . It was also shown that he was » ften on the " move " about the premises . During their stay in the town they represented themselves as travelling cutlers . Tbey left on the 17 th Of April , and

      nothing was seen of them until the 23 rd , when Davis made bis appearance with them . They came in a light cart , with a grey horse , from London , as it was subsequently traced along the road . They put up at a public-house in the outskirts of the town , and at ten o ' clock Davis proceeded with tbe vehicle to the mill , and there had the boldness to stop it almost in front of the premises . Previously Griffiths and Hodgson had been lurking about , and the landlord of an opposite public-bouse thinking their movements strange , was induced to look out , when Davis , in order to draw his attention off , coolly walked over to the house " and called for a shilling ' s worth of brandy-and-water . This enabled Griffiths and Hodgson to effect an entrance into the counting-house , but the noise of their footsteps

      alarmed a labourer who slept on the premises . The fellows had succeeded in forcing out the safe with an iron bar , and had placed it in a sack , preparatory to its being placed in the cart , a practice which « as generally so successfully carried out by the Hackett gang of burglars . The sudden approach of the labourer causea thc thieves to make a precipitate retreat . They were seen to dart out of the mill and jump into the cart , which was driven furiously along the London road , and was soon lost sight of . The sack and safe were found near the counting-house . The police immediately worked the electric telegraph , with a view of capturing the fellows , and about four o ' clock they were found

      near vvitham , returning to London , a bountiful supply of beer , pipes and tobacco being ; in the vehicle . Counsel having addressed the jury for the prisoners , it was urged that Davis was a highly respectable man , and kept an omnibus and eight horses in Southwark . He stated that he had been engaged to drive Hodgson and Griffiths down from London , and he called several parties living in Newingtou to prove tbat be was the individual he bad represented . It was his ostler who was supposed to be implicated in the burglary at Bexlev . — The jury found all the prisoners Guilty , and tbe Recorder , after expressing his concurrence in the verdict , sentenced them each to be transported beyond the seas for the term often years .

      Charge op Fobgebv aoaisbx a Merchant . — On Friday last , June the 11 th Gloucester was thrown into an unwonted state of excitement , in consequence of the sudden disappearance of Mr . William Henry Barrett , an extensive miller and corn merchant of the city , and the owner of some coasting vessels ; and the circumstances under which he has disappeared leave no doubt as to the crime of forgery having been committed . The fugitive was engaged in extensive mercantile transactions , and last year he discharged the honourable duties of Sheriff of Gloucester . The fact of his

      absence was not made known until some days after he had left home , and it is feared that he may have made bis escape to the Continent ; but on it becoming known that he had left Gloucester without any intimation as to his intention , inquiries were made into his affairs , which eventually led to an announcement , offering' £ 100 for bis apprehension , and if he has not yet left tbo country there is little doubt he will soon be captured . When his disappearance was first made known it was not expected that he had been guilty of anything beyond defrauding bis creditors of their due , although it was discovered that he had taken with him a large

      sum of money , which ought in justice to have been divided amongst them . On a strict investigation into his affairs being instituted , however , it was ascertained that he had put iu circulation a number of bills , to which were attached the forged accept mces of a number of Gloucester merchants , and others of distant towns , with whom he had had dealings . Several bills of this kind have lately turned up , and upon tbem warrants bave been issued for Mr . Barret ' s apprehension on charges of forgery . It is said that already eight or ten forged acceptances bave been brought to light . Several of th ^ se are for large sums . On one of them £ 3 oQ had been obtained .

      Fatal Accident on the Tostop aud Shields Railwat . —On Saturday afternoon last , about two o ' clock , an accident , attended with loss of life , happened on this railway at a place called Eden-hill , about sixteen miles west of South Shields , and about six west of Chester-le-street . A locomotive was running along an embankment , when in consequence of a rail jumping , it was plunged over the embankment , a distance of fourteen feet . There were sis men on the engine at the time of the accident , two of whom , the fireman and a man of the name of Swinburne , were thrown into a field

      and escaped comparatively unhurt , the other poor fellows were buried beneath the engine , which rolled over upon them . In consequence of the weight of the engine , it was two hours before they could be extricated , when it was found that the enginewan , John Mann nnd William Richardson , a man employed at the incline , were both crushed to death . George M < ffk , a young man , an enginowright , and another person , a pitman , were badly injured , and though much exhausted there are some hopes of their recovery . The engine , a new one , is broken to pieces .

      Three Suicides at Brighton . — A respectable widow at Brighton committed suicide on Saturday last by cutting her throat . Her husband , who died five years ago , left her in comfortable circumstances ; her children were all remarkably steady and wdlcouducted . No cause whatever could be surmised for so dreadful an act . On the previous Monday James Wady , aged fifty-five , drowned himself , because his elder brother , who was seventy-three , bad married a girl of eighteen , and had thus extinguished his hopes of succeeding to a trifling property . The third suicide was Thomas Whitwell , a stranger from

      Shoreham , who lodged on Friday , Saturday , and Sunday nights at a beer-shop in Gloucester-lane , Brighton , and on Monday evening was found hanging in an outhouse , quite < iead . Tbe evidence at the inquest shewed no other cause for bis evident insanity than the eating of opium . In his hat was a Prayer-book , on a blank page of which was written — " Whoever finds my body , I will thank them to convey this book to Jane Nye , 23 , Marine-parade , Brighton . Give her my dying love . " Jane >" ye was a , servant girl , whom he had known four months .

      Dari . vg Highway Robberies Near Carlisle . — About nine o ' clock on Saturday Morning last , Robert Bowman and William Gibson , two farmers , were coming together with a cart and horse to market , and on going along the high road between Cumwhiiiton and llarraby toll-gate , about two miles from Carlisle , a man rushed out of the hedge , sefeed the horse by the bridle , and presented a sixbarrelled revolver pistol , demanding their money or their lives . They di-llvered up all the valuables they had—a watch and some silver—and the robber disappeared as quickly as he came . Not a hundred yards behind rode a woman in a cart and horse , who saw the whole transaction- The highwayman wore a mask or piece of crape , but this covering fell off , bv which the farmers were enabled to see hs

      features . He is a man between twenty and thirty years of age , five feet eight inches in height , fair complexion , has light hair , thin face , Roman nose , and was dreised in a bottle-green sqnare-tailed jacket , moleskin trousers , and cap . Soon after tbe news <•! this affair reached the town information of a second robbery in the same vicinity arrived at the policeffice . Mr . Backhouse Myers , a commercial traveller , Irom Xewcastle-upon Tyne , was driving in a gig , between Scotby and Carlisle , when close to Calderbridgeaman seized the reins , and holding the horse back with one hand , pre-euted a six-barrelled revolver pistol at Mr . Myers with the other , exclaiming " lour money or your life , and be quick

      about it too . The traveller drew out his pur .-e , containing two sovereigns , which he was taking out to give tbe fellow , when the latter hearing the sound of an approaching vehicle , impatiently cried out " Come , come , money and purse and all , or I'll fire ! Do you think I ' ve time to wait whilst you ' re fiddling there ? " The commercial traveller was only too glad to escape s » cheaply , as he had between iC-SuO and £ 000 in the gig ; so he threw him the purse and the money , whereupon the fellow relaxed his hold of the reins , and Mr . ilyers drove off . In this instance also the highwayman had crape over : his face , and was dressed in a green shooting-jacket , ! moleskin trousers , and hat .

      Capture op the Carlisle Highwaymen' . —The cool oesperadoes who have recently been casing such consternation in Cumberland , by their audacious pranks , have atlengthWen captured . By the sudden Uisnp .. earance of two quegtionab'e characters from in .. r lodgings „ i Botcbergate , suspicion immediately

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      fell upon them- One ot them , named Thomas Tiuyon , a weaver by profession , but a poacher in practice , is well known in Carlisle , especially to the authorities of the » aol ; the other , Hugh Monteith , about twentytwo vests of age , has been occupied at one time as a gardener in the neighbourhood of the town , but was ( lismbsed by his last emplnvers for dishonesty . The capture was rather neatly effected . Police-constables Snowden and Anderson setoff from Carlisle on Sun-. 'ay afternoon , in a gig , dressed in plain clothes . They had previously ascertained that Monteith ' s father lived at Gretna , so they called there on their way , and contrived to find out tbat both he and Tinyon were in Maxwelltown . Thej proceeded at once to Alaxwelifown , and at half-past one in the morning , with the aid of a constable from Annan ,

      ihey succeeded in capturing both prisoners , though in d fferent bouses of tbe same street . Each bad a female accomplice , but the police came upon thstn so unexpectedly that they had notion- , for resistance . Monteith made an effort to reach the six-barrelled revolver , which was near the bed , whilst one of the constables was securing his clothes ; but a second officer seiied him and prevented mischief , for all the barrels of the pistol were loaded with powder and ball , with a cap on each nipple . In Monteith ' s pockets were found tbe watch st len from the farmer , and a guinea which the commercial traveller had thrown to him with the other money in his purse . Tinyon had a brace of pisiols loaded , and two boxes containing bullets and caps . Monteith , when frustrated in his attemp' to reach the pistol , said with an oath to Anderson , that had he known

      it was them , he would haveseiit three bullets through i heir bodies . However , both prisoners were secured and carried to the county police-sta'ion for the night , and last Tuesday morning they were brought on to Carlisle , where they will undergo an examination before the magistrates . _ lt is seawly possible to estimate the -atisfaction which is on all hands expressed at the timely capture of thesedaring highwaymen . The Murder near Holkham —The Norwich ifercuni contains a long account of an inquiry into the murder of John Ayton . manager ofthe Holkhtun brickyard , a report of the circumstances attending which , with the apprehension of Henry Gn > "m , a discharged labourer , on suspicion of having perpetrated the deed , has already appeared in the Star . After a very patient investigation of tbe evidence , Henry Groom was committed for Wilful Murder .

      Fatal Accident at thb North Sidb Colliery Bedminstkb , near Bristol . —Since the late accident at the North Side Colliery , by which nearly fifty men were so long imprisoned under ground and were at last so providentially rescued , workmen have been employed in repairing the damage then dme . At half-past twelve o ' clock on Sunday night a bucket , containing three of the men so engaged were lowered into the pit . The names of these men are W " . Boult , Edward Gibbons , and Jonathan Burton . At halfpast four on Monday morning the alarm bell was heard to ring violently , and on the bucket being drawn to the surface of the pit it was found that some portion of tbe air shaft had fallen on the bucket , and completely crushed the bead of VV . Boult , tbe other two men being very much injured . Boult , who was quite dead , was one of tbe men who were mos' active in their exertions to liberate the imprisoned colliers on the occasion of the late disaster . lie has left a familv of eight children and a widow far advanced

      in pregnancy . Folkestone . —On Saturday morning , as Captain Win gfield , of the South Eastern Company's boat Lord Warden , was walking on the pier , ho was suddenly observed to stagger and fall ; he was immediately lifted into the porter ' s lodge by Mr . Cub len , custom-house agent , and medical aid sent for , which promptly arrived , but the vital spark had fled . The deceased was well known , and universally respected , by English and Continental travellers , Dabino Leap or a Burglar from a Railway Train . —A very powerful man , named George Fisher , aud who was until recently a member of the Cardiff police force , from which he was discharged for misconductj made his escape on Monday from a carriage on the Birmingham and Bristol

      Railway by leaping from it while the train was in motion , and where he was in the custody of an officer upon a charge , or rather several charges , of burglary . The police officer instantly jumped out after him , hut falling on the rail he severely bruised his shoulder and was unable to pursue Fisher , who having run through the engine-house of the Great Western works , succeeded in climbing the bank and escaping into the wood at Brislington tunnel . FlBE AT SOTSFORD VALE , -NEAR MANCHESTER . — Nutsford Valo , situated between the villages of Gor . . ton and Longsight , was , on Monday , the scene of a destructive fire , which broke out about nine o ' clock in the morning on the premises of Mr . John Scott , and destroyed a considerable portion ofthe buildings before it could be extinguished . The business

      carried on at these premises comprised silk printing and rope making . The materials in the building when the fire broke out burnt with inconceivable fury , and the heat was so intense that the wheels of the machinery were fused and ran together in masses . It was one o ' clock before the flames could be got under , and at this time only a small portion of the walls of the building in which the fire commenced was left standing . The flames had swept off the roofs of the engine house , tar house , dressing rooms { destroying in the latter also the dressingframes and a considerable quantity of hemp ) , and leaving only the cottages , silk-mill , and stabling untouched . Some valuable blocks for printing silk handkerchiefs , which were in tbe dressing room , were saved . The worm is destroyed , and though

      the sill on being gauged after tbe fire was found to contain about 100 gallons of oil unconsumed , it is believed to have been fractured inside the brickwork with the great heat to which it was subjected . The premises were not insured . Fatal Accident at Sheffield by the Escape of Steam . —On Tuesday morning a most frightlul accident occurred on the premises of Mr , John Davenport , saw manufacturer , of Rockinghamstreet , Sheffield . —The firm has in use a steamengine of about thirty-horse power , chiefly for the purpose of grinding saws . On Tuesday morning the engineer discovered something the matter with the safety-valve . On his going to screw it down ,

      to prevent an accident ( the steam being then at its highest pressure ) , the screw was suddenly forced away , when the steam began to escape to buch an extent as literally to parboil the men in the room ; Richard Robertshaw being dead before he could bo extricated ; and a blade-grinder named Green , although got out alive , was so dreadfully injured that he died at twenty minutes before three o clock the same afternoon at the Infirmary . A file-grinder was also dreadfully scalded , but the poor fellow is still alive , and slight hopes are expressed that his life may yet be spared . Others were more or lesn injured . A coroner's inquest on the bodies returned a verdict of Accidental death .

      AiABMiNo Accident to a Railway Train . —An accident of a very alarming kind , and which at one time threatened to be attended by most serious consequences , occurred on Monday to the mail train of the Bristol and Exeter Railway while on its way from the latter to the former city . The train took its departure from the terminal station at Exeter at about the usual time , and proceeded without any particular occurrence , beyond a little loss of time , until it had arrived at a distance of between one and two miles from the terminus at Temple Meads , Bristol , when the utmost consternation and alarm was excited among the passengers in consequence of its becoming known that one of the carriages was on fire . Efforts were made to signal the engine driver for a time ineffectually , as the train was

      carried full a mile before it was pulled up . Fortunately it was nearing the city , and had to pass through a densely populated district , and the inhabitants of the houses skirting the line gave the alarm as it passed tbem , which drew attention to the accident-It appears that one of the iron tiers of a wheel of one of the second class carriages broke in two , probably from its having been imperfectly welded , and the increased friction consequent , on the irregular motion ignited to the wood work . The passengers were at first alarmed by the smoke and sparks which flew off from tbe burning materials ; but at length a piece of the iron work was struck against the bottom of the carriage with such force as to break in a portion of the flooi . The flames now forced their way into tbe carriage greatly alarming and perilling the passengers ; but it is gratifying to be able to state that the train was stopped in

      sufficient time to prevent any very serious consequences . Fatal Boat Accident on Windermere . —A sad accident took place on Sunday morning last , the 13 th inst ., about ten o'clock , to a party of four young men who started for a sailing excursion from Waterhead , Windermere . They had proceeded about two miles down the lake to nearly opposite Calgarth , when a sudden squall struck the boat which caused her to fill and go down instantly , engulfing in the deep and boisterous lake the four unfortunate occupants who altogether disappeared in a moment , and it is said that nothing was seen afterwards of the boat and its crew , but a helpless hand which was for a while held up . A few loose things belonging to the boat bave since been washed ashore . The young men were all joiners at Waterhead , named Walker , Thompson , Tyson , and Garnett .

      Narrow Escape . —On Saturday last a labourer named Charles Musty , accompanied by a lad named John Powell , proceeded to a well at about half a mile from Painswick , for the purpose of getting up a bucket which had fallen to the bottom from the breaking of the rope . He was lowered down the well , which was about forty feet deep , by a rope round his waist . On getting to the depth of about thirty feet he placed his foot on a projecting s-tone for the purpose of taking the necessary means to get the bucket , when the stone gave away , tearing with it a number of others , and immediately the walls of the well , which were built of large loose stones , collapsed around him , and he was completely buried in the stones and rnbbisb , a- small space only being left above bis fce . id , from several large stones lying across ? srt o : h » r . The hoy

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      above on seeing tho well give way , immediately ran back to Painswick , and gave the alarm , though not with the remotest idea of saving the poor fellow the whole mass of earth and stones , thirty ' feet in depth , having closed above him . From sixteen to twenty men got to work to die through the mass of earth , it being necessary , from the nature of the ground , to work upon a large surface . About one o ' clock on Sunday morning , one of the two men who were at work in the well ( there not then being room for more ) was relieved , and another went down in his place bat immediately afterwards , from unmistakeable sign below , they were pulled up again , and instantly a large quantity of the earth gave way and to a great extent closed up the space the previous labourers had effected . Men again set to work but their operations were necessarily slow from the large stones they frequently encountered ,

      one of which weighed five cwt ., and to remove which a triangle bad to be erected ; and it was about eleven o'clock on Sunday morning before they got down to where their tools had been previously buried . Shortly after this another fall took place . On getting down about sixteen feet the poor fellow below was heard to speak in reply to questions put to him . The whole of his body was fixed in the earth and stones , there being only a small space above his head , which enabled him to breathe . The men continued their labours , and between five and half-past on Sunday afternoon the man was drawn from bis subterranean prison , where he had been fixed without nourishment for thirty hours . He was carried in a sheet to a house near when it was found he had sustained no material injury , his legs and wrists only being badly cut , and parts of his body bruised . —Qlou'ester Journal . '

      AmwBBii Election . — , On Wednesday the election ot a representative for the town of Arundel , on the acceptance by the Earl of Arundel and Surrey of the Chilteru Hundreds , took place at that town . The occasion excited little notice , not more than one hundred persons having assembled to witness the proceedings , Mr . Halliday proposed , and Mr , Marshall seconded , the nomination of Edward Strutt , Esq ., of Kingston Hall , in the county of Nottingham , as a fit person to represent the borough . No other candidate being proposed , the Mayor declared Mr . Strutt to be duly elected . MANSlAuOHTfiR AT MANCHESTER . —On Tuesday a charge of manslaughter , committed under circumstances marked by great brutality , engaged the

      attention of the magistrates . The prisoners were two young men named" William Crank , or Grounds , and Thomas Price . A mere boy named Moores , was also charged as an accessory . The name of the man whose death they were charged with , was Wiliam Grounds , step-father to Crank . The statement of the witnesses was to tbe effect that the prisoners were standing in Cumberland-street , where they resided , about twelve o ' clock on Saturday night , and were singing and amusing themselves , when Grounds ( tbe deceased ) who was in a state of intoxication , and annoyed with their behaviour , attacked his step-son , and threw him down in the street . Grounds fell upon his stop-son , and they struggled together on the ground for some time .

      The Step-son was tbe first to get upon his feet , and calling the prisoner Price , to his assistance , they both kicked the old man severely . A witness of the disgraceful scene states that he saw the step-son kick the old man upon the ri ght temple , after which lie groaned , and appeared to become insensible . Some bystanders interfered . Tha wife of the deceased asked them to carry him into the bonne , which they did , and ho was then found to be lifeless . The boy , who appeared to be ten or twelve years old only , also attempted to kick tbo old man , but did not succeed . The magistrates committed the prisoners Crank and Price to the assizes for manslaughter . The boy was remanded , and ultimately discharged .

      Shipwreck . —On Sunday last , the Joseph Anderson , of Plymouth , a vessel belonging to tbe Devon Coal Association , was lost on the Culver sands , near the Steep Holme , aud had her captain and four of her crew drowned . The vessel left Newport on Saturday night laden with coal , and was proceeding on her voyage to Bristol , when on Sunday morning xhe got on tho sands , and after beating for some time went to pieces . Only two of he * hands were saved . Matthew Crake , a seaman , and Charles Sweet , an apprentice . One of them lashed himself to a studding sad boom , and the other to two boatoars , upon which tbey floated about till picked up hy the Gannymede , a boat belonging tO Weston-Super-mare . The captain , Richard Holtin , has left a widow and eight children . The others drowned were John Tope , mate , William Shepherd and Francis Drake , seamen , and a boy name unknown .

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      most cheering accounts have reached from Cork , Limerick , Water ford , Clare , Gal way , the midland counties , and Monaghan , With respect to the cereals the reports are precisely similar to those of the potato cop . With one exception , the prospect of an abundant yield is apparent everywhere , but in the county of Kilkenny it seems the blight has partially shown itself in the wheat crop It is , however , satisfactory to learn tbat there never was so little of this grain sown there , so that let what will come to pass , the loss cannnot be very sensibly felt . Poor ' s Rates in the West . —An estimate has been struck of the raie required from the 25 th of March last to the same date in the ensuing year for the support of tbe eighteen electoral divisions composing

      Harvest Prospects . —With one exception , out of a large mass of country intelligence of Monday ' s date , all tbe accounts of the potato crop are as favourable as could be desired , the exception being in the county of Donegal , where , according to the authority of a correspondent of the Nation , the . blight has made its appearance . The communicant of this news went to see the fields where it was said to have set in , under tbe impression tbat it might be the effects of wind ; "but the report , " he says , " was too true ; it was unmistakably the old disease . " As a set-off to this solitary complaint , the

      th-- union o' Roscommon , varying in amount from 12 s . 6 d ., the maximum , to 29 ., the minimum figurerhe average being about 5 s . One of the guardians ( Mr . Corr ) demurred to this high rateage , observing that tbe prospect at present of a plentiful harvest eave every hope tbat 500 of the paupers would not remain in tbe house during tbe next half year , and it would , therefore , be monstrous to impose a rate grounded on the present numbers , for whose support it wuld be unnecessary to tax the ratepayers . He suggested that a rate for six months only should be collected . The suggestion , however , did not appear to find general favour , and the subject dropped . Emigration from the South . —According to the Limerick Reporter , the tide continues to flow just as

      steadily as ever . The only surprise is where the numbers come from . " At this rate a census taken ten years hence will find the population of Ireland no greater than tbat of Scotland : — " The remnant of tbe substantial farming classes are evidently those who are now on the move—those who bave bravely fought against accumulating difficulties for the last six years , but jtho now , under the irresistible pressure of that atrocious system to which evil landlordism and a vicious government adhere with a withering and fatal pertinacity , are compelled to see that there is no prospect of amelioration in the distance as long as they remain adscripti glehas in the old country , and who trust in Providence that removal to America will improve their condition . We

      have never seen the quays of Limerick so busy with emigrants of the respectable classes as tbey were on Saturday last . The magnificent ship Lydia , for New York , has completed ht-r numbers , which amount to 231 . The Medium is also rapidly filling up : Already we hear on good authority that even for the saving of the approaching harvest it will be very : difficult to obtain hands in several rural districts ? What will it be nest year ? What the year after ? Where is the drain to stop ? What can justifya public journalist just now in telling the Irish farmer that he ought at all hazards to remain at home ? Where is landlord encouragement afforded—where the hope that the cruelties and horrors of the Poor Law system , and the drain it is on

      every energy and resource of the people , will terminate , even in the next decade of years , if matters be permitted to progress as they are now going on ?" Decrease or Chime in the South . —Mr . Sergeant Hawley . ^ who is acting as Judge of Assize for the Munster circuit , in opening the commission at Ennis , on Friday week , congratulated the grand ] ury on the stale ofthe county of Clare , as evidenced by the lightness of the criminal calendar . There was . in fact , but one . serious charge on the face of it , as all the others , amounting to but thirty , were of the most ordinary character . The serious case referred to is that of Mr . "William Blood Smith , J . P ., Castlefergus , against whom bills were found at the last assizes for conspiracy , with two other persons , to murder his mother .

      Transatlantic Pacset Station . —The Weekly Freeman of Saturday last announces , on the authority of a letter from London , the formation there of an influential body of capitalists to promote the longdesired object of Transatlantic communication between Galway and Halifax , and the subscription of no less a sum than £ 50 , 000 as the first step towards the attainment of that end . Arrangements , it seems have already been entered into , and orders absolutely given to the two most eminent Engineering firms in England for the construction of two PteameiB Of power and speed superior to anything hitherto known on the Atlantic , to run the "ferry" between the Irish and American ports . The Messrs . Millar , 0 f Black wall , and Messrs . John Fenn and Son , of Greenwich , are thc persons ens-ased to build the vessels A prospectus for the issue of shaves will shwrt . lv appear " under such auspices as must command support . " Aiathew Colgan , of Springfield , in the Queen ' s County , a man m comf ortable circumstances , has

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      been committed for trial at the ensuing assizes on a charge of attempting to poison his wife . Tbe body of his infant child , which died six weeks since , has been exhumed for the purpose of having the stomach analysed ! some suspicion , it would appear , exis ing that hs death was produced by poison . Charles ,, Brown , late quarter-maiter-sergeant of tbe 32 nd regiment , shot himself through the bead in Limerick on the 10 th inst . No cause for the act has been assigned . A boy . aged twelve years , the son of a Mr . Henry , the coroner at Krady , in 'he county of Armagh , fired in joke at a young man with whom he was playing , on the Ctli inst ., and killed him on tbe spot . Anniversary of the Boynk . —The celebration of the 12-h of July in tbe north has passed over without the slightest interruption of public peace .

      Tenant Le AG oe Meeting . —The Aggregate tenant Right meeting at the Boyne on Monday appears to have met all the wishes of its promoters . The weather was not very propitious for an out-door demonstration , the rain having fallen heavily in the early part of tbe day , but a considerable mass of yeople nevertheless congregated , and everything seems to have passed off satisfactorily . The meen ' ng was held <> n an eminence overlooking the river , and within a short distance of the obelisk commemoratina the famous victory of William III . A large banner displaying the colours of orange , green , and blue , was unfurled , and tbe Protestants and Catholics who were assembled j ined very cordially in their cheers for the common o'gect they had in view . The meeting was presided over by the Very Reverend Archdeacon Fitzgerald .

      The Lord Mayor - After a warm and protracted discussion on Monday the corporation rescinded its recent vote , raising the salary of the present and all future Lord Mayors , fr-m £ 1 000 to £ 2 , 500 a year . However , the Assembly decided upon fixing the salary at £ 2 , 000 . The Irish Exiles . —Escape of Mr . M'Makvs . —The news of tbe escape from Van Diemen's Land of M'Manus , one of the Irish political convicts , has just been communicated here in a letter from John . vlitchelto Dr . Gray , the editor ofthe Freeman '« Journal . As tbe writer of the letter supposes the circumstance to be known in detail through the medium of newspapers , which , however , have not been received , he only mentions it in the following postcript : — " P . S . 1 bethink me ( hat I ought to tell you

      how it fell out that M ~ vianus found himself at liberty to make his escane . Of course , when the governor took him into custody , and revoked his "ticket of leave , " his parole wa-i at an end , and it would re quire a new ticket of leave and new promise io revive it . In O'Doherty ' s case , after his month ' s hard labour , his ticket of leave was restored , and a new parole required of bim . Not so M'Manus : he was not set at liberty again by tbe governor , but in spite of the governor , by the intervention of another power , the " Supreme Court . " And , far from giving htm back his " comparative liberty , " or taking a new parole , the governor sent him orders at once to report himself at a " hiring depot . " But it was too late—M'Manus had a clear day or two , and good friends ; a ship was ready to sail , and so he went off . —J . M . "

      Captain Wtnne against Lobd "Westmeath . —The tedious case of Captain Wynne against the Marquis of Westmeath terminated on Tuesday , after a trial of eight days , in the discbarge of the jury without agreeing to a verdict . This is the third trial that has been had in this case , and each occupied the court for eight days . In the first the jury , as at present , disagreed ; in the second , a verdict was given for the plaintiff with £ 2 , 000 damages ; and after the close of the proceedings on Tuesday is was rumoured in the hall that tbe

      juriors were unanimous ns to finding for the plaintiff , but disagreed as to the amount of damages , eleven being for £ 500 , and one for a farthing . The plaintiff , it will be recollected , was the late inspector of the Carrick-on-Shannon Poor-law Union , and sought to recover damages from the defendant for the publication of libellous matter charging the plaintiff with immoral conduct in the discharge of his public duties . The details of the case were of such a nature that they bave been excluded from all the Dublin newspapers .

      Representation of Limerick . —The Roman Catholic electors of Limerick bave signed a requisition to the Earl of Arundel , inviting him to stand for their borough . A meeting has been held for the purpose , and Mr . John O'Connell has recommended his constituents , in-the strongest manner , to select Lord Arundel as their representative , Fevbh . —The Cork Examiner has the following statement : — " We regret to learn that fever has broken out amongst the crews of the Retribution and Sidon , war steamers , recently arrived at Queenstown , for the purpose of shipping troops to the Cape . Both vessels now lie at anchor at the Queenstown station , Tbe Odin , screw steam-frigate , has arrived in place ofthe Sidon . " Vagrants . —The Inspector-General of Constabulary has issued an official notice to the police calling upon them to use active exertions for the suppression of vagrancy .

      Loss op Lhje snoit Accihestai Poisosino . —A deplorable loss of life , arising from partaking of poison mixed in bread made for the purpose of killing rats , took place on Tuesday at Limerick , the victim being a respectable man of the name of Lambert , who had been for many years a sergeant in the city militia , and who , up to the period of his death , was on the staff of the regiment . It appears that his son wanted a gun to shoot crows or gulls , and his daughter , who had tbe key of the cupboard up stairs , sent the key to her father , in order that , he should take the gun from the place in which it was . On opening the cupboard Sergeant Lambert perceived the cake , and not suspecting that it was

      saturated with poison , he ate of it heartily , not having , it appears , partaken of breakfast in the morning . Soon afterwards he experienced the usual symptoms arising from active poison , a burning pain at the atom » cb , In a few hours death put a period to his sufferings ; and it was not till a short time before he breathed his last that the cause of death was discovered . The remnant of the cake was immediately discovered and handed over to the physicians , who on analysing its contents found a large portion of arsenic mixed with the flour . On Wednesday the coroner held an inquest on view of the body of deceased , and a verdict in accordance with the facts was given ,

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      MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . The July adjourned session commenced on Tuesday morning , at Clerkenwell , before Mr . Sergeant Adams , Assistant Judge , Mr . Witham , Mr . Buchanan , Mr . Warner , Mr . Archer Burton , and Mr . Whiskin . There are sxty-five case of felony and seven of misdemeanour for trial , — The learned judge gave the grand jury some brief instructions as to the duties they were summoned to perform . Robberv , —James Ballard , whose real name was William florton , was indicted for having stolen seventeen cwt . of lead , the property of George Edward Delaforce and another . —Mr . Ballantine appeared for the prosecution ; Mr . O'Brien for the prisoner . —The circumstances of this case were

      singular . The prosecutors were wine merchants , and in May last the prisoner went to Mr , Delaforce and , representing himself as Mr . James Ballard , a cashier in the Bank of England , stated that he wished to take a house Mr . Delaforce had to let iu Westmoreland-street , Marylebone . Believing him to be a respectable man and what he had re presented himself to be , Mr . Delaforce let him the house , No . 7 , Westmoreland-street , on agreement for £ 60 a year . Adjoining the house was a warehouse , which the prisoner was allowed the use of , until it was required by the firm , and on the 19 th of June it was discovered that the

      wboleof tbe lead had been removed from the roof , and replaced with zinc ; but the value of the zinc laid down was about one-third that of the lead which had been removed . The prisoner sold the lead to a marine store dealer for £ S 10 s „ and Mr . Jatnea Ballard , a cashier in the Bank of England , proved that he was the only person of that name holding tbat position in the Bank . He had been in thc Bank fifty years , and knew nothing of the prisoner . —Mr . Delaforce distinctly denied that the prisoner had the slightest authority to remove the lead , but admitted that he had painted the front of the house , adding that he bad not yet paid tho

      person whom he employed to do it . —The defence was that the prisoner had done no more than WaB required to put the bouse in a good state of repair and that it was a question of right between him and Mr . Delaforce , and not a felony . —The iury found the prisoner Guiity .-Mr Field , an officer belonging to the Society for the Protection of Your ? Females stated that the prisoner had been conv . cred at the London Sessions of brothel keeping and was under a recognisance of £ 100 to appear to "W frit Jfu wel > kn 0 w tothesociety . bird labour 8 eDtenCed the pMSOner to six » onthV The Chinese JuNK . -Caroline Wilsted . a woman of good address , and * ho stated that she haTbeeS l . ^ d ^ i ™ '" dieted for bavin * stoler ! I irom

      v ™ , ««» e os ., the person of William Kin * the master of the band of the Chinese "SS -The prosecutor stated tbat on the momiiS f f hursdav last , he went into a public house for the purnose of procuring change to pay the musicians ? whSnerformed under him on the Chinese Junk , whence "Rt'SJSS ? ? who ' . C 08 ted him - SdVlSkS metJndS £ \ LfcV ? had m his scarf - Whil 9 t K , a , ^ ' sue WKrt H out of the found h nd C n r ealed i her Daraso 1 . ** ere it was wasL / n T ° - fficep in H whos ° ° * odyBhe w ^ t wlftTr ? r , ao , ' 1 D her def «»* . said she w ? L * " tW 0 female friends t 0 * V"Wc house where they were treated . She certainly made a ^ T ? ? n the , pin the P'oaeeutor had in his scarf and it mU 8 t have fallen into the parasol . She c . tiiect two witnesses to character . —One of these stated that he kept a chandler ' s shop , which tbe prisoner dealt . She alwavs paid for - *> hat she had ,

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      and therefore he considered her to be of a very good character . The other was the landlord of the house in which she lived , and he considered her to be of a gooii character because she paid her rent , IM learned jur i go asked ' questions of these witnesses with tbe view of ascertaining whether the prboner was not a woman of the town . They denieJ that she was to their knowledge . —The prisonerMid she was not a prosdtute , but had been unfortunate . She then mentioned the names of a cn ' onel and a captain under whoso protection she b * d lived , and sifted that she was well known to a » eminent barrister , whom she also named . She was once robbed of £ 900 . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty . — The learned judge said the Chinese Junk was now a great public nuisance , as tb « y kept up music and danein . s ; at all hours of tbe flight , and the managers had better benefit by a warning , as they might be indicted . —The prisoner was sentenced to six months' hard labour .

      Labcent . —Ann Ascall , a , dissipated looking woman , who was convicted of larceny at the last session , was brought up for judgment . —The prosecutor was a person named Spicer , who lived at 9 , Evans' -buildings , Lower George-street , Chelsea , and he and bis wife being ill with fever , the prisoner was sent from St . Luke ' s workhouse to act as nurse until tbey got better . She availed herself of the opp » rtunities afforded her whilst she was in the house in that capacity to steal a variety of articles , which she pawned in order , as she said at the trial , to procure food , but in reality to procure drink . — One of the prison officers having communicated something privately to the bench when the prisoner was placed at the bar , the learned judge said such a communication certainly ought to be made public , disclosed of misconduct

      as it a piece great On the part of the relieving officer of St . Luke ' s , Chelsea , who appeared to bave sent this prisoner , whom he knew to he a dissipated drunken woman , to nurse two poor persons who were ill with a severe fever . She was an inmate of the workhouse , her habits must have been known , and she was sent merely because she was to receive but six shillings a week . It ran t have been known that the prisoner would pilfer whatever she could to procure drink , it wag a most improper thing to send her , and the relieving officer ought to be sent to prison as well as she . He wished some ofthe parish authorities were present to hear what he had said , but as bo had said it publicly , it would no doubt come to their knowledge . —The prisoner was sentenced to three months' hard labour .

      Pocket Picking . —Christopher Kein , 21 , was indicted for attempting to pick , pockets at the Britannia Saloon . Three several attempts were proved against him , and ho was found Guilty . — The court sentenced him to four months' hard

      labour . Committal of Witnesses . —At the rising of the court two persons who had been committed to custody , one on Tuesday , and one on Wednesday , were brought up . Tho former had given a prisoner a good character , knowing at tbe same time that he had been three times in prison , and it turned out that he himself was known at the House of Correction . The other deposed to facts , and the learned judge believing he bad perjured himself , committed him . They were discharged after a severe admonition .

      Central Criminal Court.

      Central Criminal Court .

      Arson.—-Emma Pennington, .9, Was Indicte...

      Arson . — -Emma Pennington , . 9 , was indicted for feloniously and wilfully setting fire to tho dwelling house of Charles Wood , with intent to injure him , —The prosecutor was a printer , residing in Pen « tonvilie , and it appeared that the prisoner had been in his service for six wei-ks at ihe time the fire happened , which was on the 29 th of June . On the evening of that day the house was left in the solo charge of the prisoner , and very soon afterwards smoke was observed to issue from tbe Upper part of the premises ; and a young gentleman named Lloyd , who appeared to have acted with a great deal of judgment and presence of mind on the occasion , knocked at the door , and receiving no answer , he made his way into tbe house by th © window , and succeeded in putting out the fire , bat not before property to the value of about £ 80 had

      been destroyed . The evidence against the prisoner was entirely circumstantial , the main points being that , in tbe first place , the fire was evidently a wilful one , and that th re was no one else in the house hut the prisoner who could have occasioned it ; and the other suspicious circumstances were , that she did not open the " door when Mr . Lloyd knocked at it , and that she refused to render any Assistance to extinguish the fire ; and when the policemMi put some questions to her , she told him that she understood that her master was insured for the lower part of the house , but not for the upper ; and it was suggested that she bad committed the act from a feeling of revenge against her master in consequence of his having rebuked her a short time nefore for allowing her brother to visit her during the absence of the family . The jury , without hesitation , returned a verdict of " Guilty , " and she was sentenced to be transported for seven years .

      Fobgerv . —Herman Law , 84 , merchant , who had pleaded Guilty to forging an acceptance to a bill for £ 1 , 250 , with intent to defraud Conrad J . Thurn , was brought up for judgment . —Mr . Gurney , in passing sentence , said the prisoner had tried to get into circulation the bill in question . Inquiries had satisfied bim that this was not a single instance , but part of a system , and he should therefore order the prisoner to be transported for ten years . TunBAiBNiso Letter . —William Lacey , 32 , wan indicted for feloniously sending a letter to Thomas Bate , threatening to murder " him . The prisoner was employed at the new works at

      Billingsgateraaiket . and the prosecutor , who was one ofthe foremen , had discharged him for some mirtconduot . This excited the anger of the prisoner , who wrote a letter to him , in which be threatened " thathe would stick a knife into him the first opportunity he had , and be hanged for him . " The prisoner , it appeared , was not taken into custody for nearly a month after writing the letter . —The jury found him Guilty . The Recorder ordered the prisoner to be kept to bard labour for one year , and at the expiration of tbat period to enter into his own recognisance in £ 100 to keep the peace for twelve months .

      The Westminster Bank Robbery . — "William Cauty and John Tyler , who had pleaded guilty to a char to of stealing a cash-book from tbe London and Westminster Bank , were brought up before Mr Justice Wightmau to receive sentence—His Lordship said it was perfectly clear from the manner in which this robbery was committed , that the prisoners were most expert , daring thieves , and he therefore felt it his duty to sentence then to transportation . Any sentence of that description to persons of their time of life—over 60—must of necessity he tantamount to transportation for life ; but the Court had no alternative , having regard to its duty to the public , but to pass such a sentence . He then ordered the prisoners to be transported

      for ten years . —The prisoner Cauty , before he left the bar , begged to be allowed to state that he felt it right to say publicly that none of the young men belonging to the bank were in any way concerned in planning the robbery . Bigamy . —William Gordon , who had been found guilty of bigamy , was brought up for sentence . — The Recorder , before whom he had heen tried , said the case was a very aggravated one . The prisoner had , ten years ago , down in Devonshire , married a woman , by whom ho had two children , and she seemed to have borne an irreprochablecharacter , and was now in respectable service , supporting herself

      and children . He had deserted her , and been abroad for some years , and upon his return became a theological student at the King ' s College , where he became acquainted with the daughter of a law stationer , whom he had persuaded into a clandestine marriage , and was unfortunately pregnant , His following a religious profession was an aggravation of his offence , as he must be a hypocrite , and could have no true religion in him . ' However , as transportation was the highest penalty for those class of cases , and there were more atrocious ones , he should not go to the full extent , but order him to be imprisoned for eighteen months .

      Forgeht . —Mary Elizabeth Johnson , 28 , spinster , was indicted for uttering to Frank Senior threo forged promissory notes , for the sums of £ 6 , £ 20 , and £ 40 , with intent to cheat and defraud him . — The prisoner , a delicate ladylike looking young woman seemed quite unconscious of the nature of the proceedings that were going on , and remained seated the whole time the trial was proceeding . — Mr . Parry said that the prisoner was a person oi literaiy attainments and of high family connexions , and the question they would have to decide was

      whether she had not been imposed upon by some one in having the bills passed off on her as genuine , or whether she was a person of sane mind ? for ho knew that would be the defence set up . One or the Other of those issues would , he felt convinced , be the true one , as also did the prosecutor—and , therefore , he was not at all anxious to press the charge vindictively , but tbat it should be fairly investigated . —After hearing ^ the eviden ce , the jury said they were quite satisfied , and returned a verdict oi Not Guilty , on the ground of insanity . Thisbeing the last case , the courts were adjourned until Monday , the 18 th of August .

      Sale Op Rare S-Hupfs.—Tuesday Being The ...

      Sale op Rare S-hupfs . —Tuesday being the seventh day of the sale of the effects of the lato Earl of Harrington , the large and curious colleition of snuffs , of which it is known the deceased peer was a connoisseur , was brought to the can > mer . The stock comprised about 2 , 000 lbs . of the most various kinds , including all tho choicest descriptions , and was offered in 250 lots . Some of tbe rare snuffs fetched £ 2 10 s . per lb ., and one lot of the "Earl of Harrington ' s Evening Mixture " was sold for ISs . per lb . The property realised about £ 1 , 000 ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 19, 1851, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_19071851/page/6/