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      Health of Londos Dureso thb "Week . —A considerable decrease is observed ia the mortality of the week ending last Saturday . The total deaths re gistered in the metropolitan districts , which iu the previous week rase to 1 , 124 , were last week only 803 , whereas the average derived from deaths in ten corresponding weeks of 1840-9 , and raised in proportion to increased population , isl . OOl , and in the last three corresponding weeks , namely those of 1847-9 , the deaths rose to about 1 , 050 and upwards . In last week as compared with that immediately preceding , the deaths classed as having been caused by zymotic or epidemic diseases , are almost' exactly of the same amount ; in this return there are 157 , of which 7 were from small-pox , 15 from measles , 18 from scarlatina , 35 from hooping cough , 4 from influenza , all of which

      diseases are at present less fatal than usual ; there are also 37 from typhus , which is about the average ; and 13 from diarrhoea , 6 from remittent fever , 5 from rheumatic fever ( besides 3 from rheumatism , ) and 8 fr ^ ni erysipelas , from which diseases the mortality is rather above the average . But diseases of the respiratory organs still exhibit a small increase on the average , though comoared with the mortality of this class in the previous week they show a reduction . Bronehills , pneumonia , asthma , and other complaints affecting the organs of respiration ( with the exception of hooping coug h and consumption ) , number 174 , the average being 161 ; their progress during the last six weeks may be traced ia the fo ! lo * ing nura-1

      bfirs :-171 , 182 , 231 , 252 , 253 , and 174 , these fluctuations being nearly coincident with rise and fall otemperature . Phthisis ( or consumption ) was fatal to 103 persons last week , an unusu ally small number ; the year 1843 affords the only example of a corresponding week in which the mor tality from this disease was so low ; the average is about 150 . On the 6 'h of April , in the Maryleboi ^ e workhouse , a widow died , whose age is reported to have been 103 years , she % unk fay •* natural decay . " On the 28 th of March , in Perry-street , Poplar , the ^ daughter of a labourer , aged 3 years , died of privation , or , according to the return made by the coroner ' s jury , from " natural death accelerated by want . " Two men

      and two women are registered as the victims of intemperance . In workhouses , 77 deaths were registered in the week , and in hospitals 58 , of which 35 weir in general hospitals , 8 iu naval and military , and Sin lunatic asylums . The births during the week numbered 1 , 473 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 ' 425 in . The mean daily reading of the thermometer was highest on Sunday , when it was 54 ' 4 deg ., and lowest on Saturday , being 46 ' 2 deg . ; the mean temperature of the week was 49 5 deg ., or 5 dfg . higher than the average of the same week in seven years . The mean temperature was throughout the week higher than the average , and on Sunday was i'kher by 9 ' 5 deg ., and on Monday 8 * 5 deg .

      Suicide bt Poison . — On Saturday last Mr . Payne held an inquest at the White Dart , Fetterlane , on view of the body of Mrs . Eleanor Dandas Pereival , aged thirty-five , a lady of hig h respectability , who committed suicide with morphia at the Hoj * coffee-house , No . 37 , Fetter-lane , where she had taken temporary apartments . —Sophia Cole , a governess , residing at No . 37 , Fetter-lane , said that the deceased had been living at the same house about two months . She informed witness that her relations , who were most respectable , had turned then backs upon her in consequence of her marriage ahout two years ago . "When at the is ' and of Savannah she lost her husband , to whom she had been married nearly twelve months , and who was a captan in the naval service . She at the same time lost

      an infant child . Being left in these circumstances she obtained a situation as governess in the family of iJajor-General Sir Colin Campbell , who was then the Governor of Barl'adoes . Upon her health declining she returned to England in the month of October last . Witness accidentally met the deceased in the beginning of February , near the American Coffee-house , where -witness was applying to obtain a governess ' s situation in one of the colonies . Seot-ased was there for a similar object . She then informed witness that she bad been turned out of an hotti at the West-end , where she had been residing sever al weeks , because she was unable to pay the debt -he had contracted there , and that her boxes , with all her wearing apparel and her other property In them , had been detained by the proprietor of the

      hotel in discharge nf his claim . She was then dresicd in her night clothes . v-Hha gown over them . She also stated that she had lent a sum of money to a fei ; i-. Ie who she supposed was her friend , but who : iad robbed her . Witness had compassion upon her , snd recommended her to engage apartments at the house sbefwitnessj was residing at . She assented , ar . d accompanied witmss there . Deceased had applied to some friend in Gordon-square for assistance , but was " unsuccessful . She ( deceased ) subsequently wrote to Mhs Burdett Coutts , when , a few days ago , a gentleman called on the part of that lady , and paid the rent she owed , amount ing to £ 2 14 s ., and left her 10 a . Deceased for some days past had been in a very excited State . On Thursday evening she went out , and

      returned with a phial in her hand , which contained morphia . There was a direction on iv , that ten drops were to he taken at a dose . Deceased , who was aware of its effects , if taken in a Jarger qusnfity , was in the habit of employing it as a sedative . She went to bed between five and sis o ' clock . Previous to lying d-iwn she s- < . al ! ow , d ten drops of the morphia . Witness went away and returned in about half an hour . Deceased then appeared dying . "Witness , who found that she had emptied the phial of the morphia , alarmed the landlady of the house , upon which Mr- Cooper , surgeon , of Fetter-lane , was sent for . He applied the stomach-pump and other antidotes , but without effect , and she died in a few hours . In answer to the coroner , the witness

      added that deceased had eighty guineas a year while governess in the family of General Campbell . There were numerous letters in deceased ' s apartment * , with other documents . Deceased was the daughter of a clergyman . A letter was produced , written shortly before her death to a friend in Scotland for assistance , in which she observed that she had married a gentleman of the Catholic p--r « uasion—th-. fc she had lost all her friends by marrying him , while he had lost aU his friends by marryi \ g her , she being a Protestant . She then stated the circumstances or his death , and r ? ques * ed relief . There was another paper in which it was stated that she was proficient in tke Latin . French , and Italian languages , and was fully competent to teach music and dancing . Verdict— " Temporary insanity . "

      Melaxcholt Accident . —A lengthened inquiry was held by Mr . Carter on Friday ihe 12 th inst . at the 3 soah " s Aik Tavern . Park-street , Southffavk , respeet * . n <* the death of Miss Mary Carpenter , aged eighty-two , who was burnt almost to a cinder , at a fire xhich occurred at the deceased's residence in Moas s-alley . Baukside , on Tuesday evening . The deceased , who was possessed of several freeho : d houses in the above neighbourhood , was looked upon as being one of the most extraordinary characters probably ever heard of . A few years since fhr had a number of drosses made so short that none of them would reach down to her knees . Part « f her leg was exposed , but the other was encased in white Stockings , tied up with scarlet carters , the ribbons extending to her feet or flying about her person . Ia

      this extraordinary dress si : e would sally forth to market , followed by immeire crowds <; f men and cbiliren . Sis or seven years ago she entirely changed her manner of living , for , instead of continuing the sport of the populace , she shut ln-rself up ia herhouse in Moss ' s-alley , and being apprehensive that " thieves would break in and steal , " she had the windows bricked up . She conti- ued to live in une of the rooms on the ground floor until the memorable high tide occurred , which forced her to leave her dingy apartment for one higher . This room she also had bricked - < p . so that not the least ight could enter fr . sm the otuside . A woman named Fiy un used to attend upon her , and with the excepiiun of her

      COVerttf of rents no one was allowed to enter oii any pretence whatever . On Tuesday Mrs . Flynn left the deceased cooking a mut ; o < i chop for her dinner , aud in two hours after smoke was seen pmiring thr- ugh the apertures in the wali . An alarm being given , the house was broken open , when , on going to the upper floor , the place was found to be full of flam ? , and the deceased lying on the bed enehcled iu fir . ? . The flames having beta extinguished , the deceased was found to he frightfully burnt . There being no doubt in the minds of the jii : y that whilst deceased was cooking her mutton chop lie . r dre ^ s i ecame ignited , they returned a verdict of" Accidental death . "

      Accident in the Thunder Stobm . —The storm of Friday , the 12 th inst ., was extremely destructive . A man , unknown , was sVuck dead by the electric fluid nrar the Nightingale , Lisstm-grove , and removed to the Paddington dead-hou-X ' . A billy-boy , eighty tons burthen , was also struck near to IIuiigerford Suspension-bridge , Mid instantly sunk , the crew , three in number , escaping almost by a miracle . The enormous -hailstones that f 11 have destroyed property to a considerable amount in the . suburbs , more particularly in the nursery grounds ai lulburn , Fuiham , Deptford , Camberwell , & c . MKritop < iUTAX Police —Captain Donslas W . P . Labaluiondiere , is appointed Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police , in the place <> f C' ap'ain Hay , who has succeeded Sir Charles Rowan- as joint commissioner with Mr . Mayue .

      BnuGLAuv aso Robbery . — Saturday morninu last he premises of Mr . Barr , flour-factor and wharfinger , - & F Copenhagen Wharf , on the River 1 >\ Limehouse , were discovered to have been entered , and upwards of £ 30 in silver and copper money ah-, stricted by the thieves . The burglary was effected with considerable skill , the thieves having obtained an entrance at the window , and , as it is supposed , siiordy after dayli ght , so as to throw thV parson s engaged on the premises , looking after the caws aud other stock in . the outhouse * , off their guard . About twenty minutes to nine two men were seen proceeding ia a truck from the direction of the premises , but , as it was not earlier than the ' usual hour

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      for commencing suburban " business , ' iio notice was taken . Suspicion has , consequently , fallen ' on the men who were seen in the truck , neither of whom ha » e , unfortunate ' y , been yet recognised . Burg laries at thw end of the metropolis and its vicinity have been greatly on the the increase lately . ... Shocking Accident . — About ten o clock on Tuesday morning John Jane , omvof the men employed to unload the ice from the Wenham Lake Ice Company ' s stores , near the Waterloo-bridge , met with so serious an accident that his life is despaired of . The blocks of ice arc this year unusually larue , some of them exceeding 5001 b . in weight , and a horse

      is employed , by means of ropes and tackle , to raise them from the barge to a platform , from which they are carted for storage to the ice houses . The unfortunate man was employed to detach the blocks from the ice-tongs , on its reaching the platform . By some means one of the blocks iu its ascent caught the beam which crosses the barge , and the horse , not being * topped in time , palled down the pole to which the tackle was fixed , aud the platform , from which the poor fellow was precipitaied head foremost , and fractured his ikull . He was immediately couveyed in a cab to the Westminster Hospital , aad , from the extent of his wounds , not the slightest ho * es are entertained of his surviving more than a few hours .

      Death of Madame Tussaud . —This well-known lady died on Monday night last , in her 00 th year . She was a native of Berne , but left Switzerland , when but six years old , for Paris , where she became a pupil of her uncle , M . Curtius , " artiste to Louis XVI ., by whom she was instructed in the fine arts , of which hewas an eminent professor . " Madame Tussaud prided herself upon the fact of her having had the honour of instructing Madame Elizabeth to draw and model , and she continued to be employed by that princess until October , 1789 . In 1802 Madame Tussaud left France for England , and from that time to the present—close upon half a century—has exhibited in the principal cities and towns of Great Britain and Ireland her collection of wax figures , to the great gratification of teas of thousands of holidaymaking sight-seers .

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      Oxford . — A notice has appeared in the Oxford Journal of the intended stopping up of no less than forty-six public ways and footpaths , many of them such , no doubt , f > om time immemorial , and leading , by short cuts , across pleasant fields , and along delightful walks . Fearing that this wholesale curtailment of some of the most valuable rights and privileges of the citizens ofOxfotdhas not met with the attention it deserves , we now notice it , in order to check it , if yet possible . The stopping up is announced to take place in August next . Execution at Cambridge . —Cambridge , April 13 th . —It will , probably , be in the recollection of bur readers that Elias Lucas and Maria Reeder were found guilty at the last assizes of tbe murder of

      Susan Lucas , the wife of the male prisoner and the sister of the female . The horrid act was effected by means of poison , and was committed to enable the guilty parties the more fully to indulge in a guilty passion which they entertained for each other . For the commission of this offence Lucas and Reeder were left for execution by Mr . Justice Wightman , and at twelve o ' clock this day they expiated their crime on a gallows in this town . Although immediately subsequent to their conviction they mani Zested complete indifference lo their fate , they yet shortly afterwards exhibited a niost desirable change of conduct , and the girl Reeder very soon confessed that she had mixed some arsenic in a mess of which h ? r deceased sister had partaken . Lucas continued to deny any participation in the crime , but upon his receiving the sacrament last Sunday he confessed to the Rev . Mr . Roberts that he " desired Reeder to

      do it , and to put as much in the mess , as would lie on a shilling . " At the scaffold both convicts manifested the most astounding nerve . At length the usual signal was given , and the next moment the miserable creatures were in the struggles of death . They seemed to suffer but little pain , and within a minute they had lost all symptoms of vitality . At the moment of the drop falling a terrific rush was made for the narrow gateway leading to the road . Through some oversight on the part of the officials there had been no barriers erected at this dangerous part of the ground . A strong body of police was in attendance , but they were of little use in checking the rush of the multitude . A fearful scene ensued , and many persons were seriously , if not fatally hurt , by being trampled upon , the women being the g reatest sufferers . The female prisoner was iu her twenty-first year , and the male prisoner was in his twpnty-fourth .

      New Military Prison at Gosport . —The new military prison at Fortov , Gosport , is completed , and . in about a fortnig ht the establishment now occupying Southsea Castle will be moved over . It consists of a governor , Cap ainJ . Curtin ( late 40 th Regiment ) , a chaplain , the Rev . Mr . Dennis ; a surgeon , Mr . Dowse ; a schoolmaster ( not yet named ); with about seventeen or eighteen warders . The new prison will contain about 150 prisoners , each with a separate cell . The cells are capacious , airy , and well lighted by a small corrugated glass window , p laced high up . The glass admits Haht freely , but is impervious to sight , and a small pane can be opened by the prisoner to admit air , if he , requires it . The cells , and , indeed , the whole building , is kept perfectly ., warm , by hot-air pipes , that run under the floorings . Each cell is provided with a bell-pull , which strikes a gong , and . the . act of pulling the bell throws out an indicator that points to the

      wardor the cell from which the bell has leen rung . . The building is three stories high , the cell doors face each other in three tiers , with iron verandahs running along . The centre or aisle between the doors is lighted from the top by a glass roofing . The lower tier of cells contain the solitary and dark prisons for t'unishment , but these are also warmed by hot-air pipes , and are well ventilated . Four baths for the use of the prisoners also . occupy the basement , and in each there are places for washing , shaving , and a number of water-closets . The food is hoisted ¦ l yfrom the furnace-room through a trap-door in the floor , and a railway then conveys it to the door of each cell- At the back of the prison is a capacious chapel , and underneath the chapel-room is a large se nool-room . The prisoners are generally in three clashes , and within the walls are three classvards . The prison has been erected at the expense of £ 30 . 000 .

      The Newport Moiujek . —The conduct of Maurice >' urphy and Patrick Sullivan , the two young Irishmen charged with the robbery and savage murder of the poor infirm old woman , Jane Lewis , in a wood Rear Bassalleg , has been marked by a degree of Ivvlty extraordinary in their awful position : and this has been especially the case with the prisoner Murphy ; The Catholic clergymen have been unremitting iu their spiritual attention to both prisoners . The prisoner Murphy has . , on one or two . occas ' ons since ins committal , sullenly expressed a determination to destroy himself , if he could procure means . ' However , since the ministrations of the spiritual advisers uave been so earnestly directed towards this unhappy man ' s desire for self-destruction , he has evinced a

      deep sense of its wickedness . Tbe prisoner Sullivan —who has a more stolid and morose disposition than bis partner in sjuilt—befins to exhibit feelings of deep regret for the crimes in whichhe has been engaged ; and he expresses indignation that Murphy should have attempted to charge a third party with the Nan ' . oc murder . He relates that another young man had been in their company for several days -that they had agreed to commit some robberies , but that the third party had expressed a dearee of fear , and that , therefore , on the morning of the . murder ( Wednesday ) they sent him on an errand , and gave him the slip , fearing that his connexion with them would invoke the whole in discovery , lie further says : — li We were by ihe ditch . The other prisoner hit her

      on tbe poll of the head with a stone . Her hand I basket fell down , and some of the things . came out . I took the basket in my hand , and . toi-k itup to the little house . He took the things out , arid gave me a black handkerchief , which I put in my pocket . He told me then to go and watch in the road if any one was coming whre he went down to search her pockets , and I did . Istopped in the road till became out . I asked him how much had she ? He said , ' But - .. lie halfpenny , * and he got the shawl . He went to the pawnbroker ' s with the shawl , and wore the hat at the lime . The woman swore falsely about it . They did not take the shawl because it was too wet ; so we both went up together to that lodging-house , and sold it for Is . ou . Murphy gave her a hick in tbe

      eye with the toe of his boot , aud on the jaw with the heel of bis boot . There is the first and the last of it , whatever Murphy may have said . That ' s how it happened , from first to last . " The prisoners , it will be recollected ,, were apprehended at Cheltenham , and circumstances have transpired which leave no doubt that subsequently to the murder ' of Mrs . Lewis , and while on their road to Cheltenham , they also committed a murderous attack on a gentleman in Piv ley Wood , near Lydney . It appears that the second victim was Mr . Benjamin Meredith , aged seventy-two , a tall powerful person , formerly attached to the excise department at Chepstow , afterwards superannuated , and residing at Aylburton , in Gloucester , hire . The unfortunate gentleman had been to Blakeney , for ^ thepurpose of paying his rent ;

      ana had taken a stamp in his pocket upon which to have a rew-ipt . ^ On returning by Purley Wood , with ihe unfilled stamp in his pocket bonk , not having u > f d it , he must have been attacked a little before six o clock , on a lonely spot , adjacent to the road , and much dreaded in . general' by foot-passengers . Uere he was most brutally beaten—the crown of his head being kicked in , and so relentlessl y was he dealt with tint he was left for dead . The poor old gentleman must have lain in the ditch all " night , and the attemp ed murder must have occurred about six , as be left Blakeney at five , and two co ; i chi' » pass the spot a little after six , nfier- which Umo hB was not seen . It is supposed he recovered liio consciousness in some measure before morning , and crawled towards the high road , where ho was found at about six o ' clock , by domes Davis , a farm servant , who was

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      proceeding to his' work . Mr . Meredith , who was then quite insensible , and apparently dead , was immediately removed to Lydney ; but the surgeon , Mr . J . T . Tockwell , gives no hopes of his recovery . Two more Thug-like cases have seldom stained the annals of crime . . Confession of a Murderer . —A murderj committed twenty years since ; at Laleham , a rural village near Staines and Chertsey , has been brought to light by a voluntary confession , made on Friday afternoon the 12 th inst ., by Charles Ilolden , a labouring man , upwards of forty years of age . —The facts connected with this case will probably be best understood in a narrative form . On Friday afternoon the man Ilolden was in Mr . Mott ' s beer shop at Ashford , when

      police constable Wright , who is stationed in that village , entered the house Holden , who was not inebriated , addressed the constable in a low tone of voice , and said he had a secret to tell him . The constable , supposing that the man was merely joking , told him to speak out what he had to say . He entreated to be taken- into custody , saying that he was a murderer , and tired of his life . The constable apprehended him , and the prisoner made a statement to this effect : —That about twenty years since , on a Friday night , he was in the company of a young woman , about eighteen years of age , named Jane Lewis , with whom he had tramped and lived about two years . This was at the Cricketers , near Chertseybridge . They left that house about twelve o ' clock ,

      and when they hsd got half-way between Chertsey and Laleham they turned into a foot-path across the fields , which was a near cut to the Horseshoes publichouse . Some words arose between them , aud he ( the prisoner ) hit her with his left hand under the ear ; she fell , and expired instantly . The prisoner then went on to state that he took heron his back , and carried her about twenty yards into a p lantation near to the Earl of Lucan ' s mansion . Knowing the place where Lord Lucan ' s gardener kept his tools , he went there , although it was almost adjoining the lodge in which he slept , got ' the spade , and came back with it . He then measured the body , cut aw » y the turf from the same length and breadth of ground , and dug a grave two feet deep . In this he put the woman ,

      dressed as she was , placing her arms across her bosom . He refilled the grave , and replaced the turf , and carried back the spade to the place he had taken it from , and , as the prisoner stated , the whole of these proceedings occupied him only about an hour and a half . The prisoner continued his extraordinary statement , by saying that he had not had any peace of mind since . He knew no more of the young woman than that she was a native of Hertfordshire . When he struck her he did not intend to kill her . ' After the discovery of the skeleton , a few months since , he became still more wretched—the deed preyed on his mind . More than that , it was in every person ' s mouth , and he fancied all that looked at him thought him the murderer . At the time he first heard of the

      skeleton being found he was in Mr . Wooilhouae ' s beer-shop , at Laleham , and lie thought the devil hod caught hold of him . The prisoner made , this statement in a clear , unbroken voice , and when asked if he would point out the spot where he had buried his victim , he consented instantly ., The constable then took him to Charles Hanell , policeman , who does duty at Laleham , and in his presence . the prisoner made the same statement . He afterwards went with the constables to the plantation , aud before starling begged te be handcuffed ,. lest he should lay violent hands on himself . As he approached the spot ho trembled violently ! and when within a few yards of it said , ' I am near the spot—1 can go no further , ' and pointed to it . The skeleton was discovered on the

      30 th of November last , by a carpenter , who was putting up some new fencing , and in making a hole for a post struck against the skull . The skeleton was found entire , and subject to tho rude inspection of every person for several days . The hole , however , was filled in , no further notice being taken of the discovery . The prisoner was conveyed in the afternoon to the police station at Sunbury , when Sergeant M'Intyre , the acting inspector , reduced his statement to writing , and the , prisoner signed it . The prisoner said he felt now comparatively happy—that he knew he should be hanged , but he did not mind that . The statement was read over three separate times to the prisoner , and each time he declared solemnly it was the truth . Oh Saturday last the

      prisoner was taken before Mr . Marnot , one of the county magistrates who resides at Sunbury , for examination . The magistrate having read the statement made by the prisoner , questioned and cross-examined him as to different points , to ascertain if he was insane but there was not the slightest symptom of derangement exhibited . On Monday the prisoner was brought before the' bench of magistrates at Staines Petty Sessions , and police constable Wright and the other witnesses having deposed to the facts above stated , the prisoner , who asseverated that the occurrence was accidental , was again remanded , in order to afford time to the bench to consider the propriety of adding to the depositions the written

      s ' atement purporting to be the prisoner ' s confession . Destructive Fike at Manchester . —On Monday morning ; ahout nine o ' clock , a very alarming fire broke out in the premises of Mr ; Thomas Baxter , cotton-waste dealer , Cross-street , Manchester . The premises are situated in a very closely-built part of the town , and are surrounded by p iles of warehouses , all containing a great amount of inflammable materials , and for some time presented a threatening aspect to " the adjacent property , but , by the exertions of the fire brigade , it was confined to the building in which it Ori ginated—not , however , before damage to the extent of £ 2 , 000 had been caused . The stock and nremises are insured in

      the West of England office . A Waterspout is the Bristol Channel . —One of these singular phenomena of nature , which seldom occur in these latitudes ,- happened on Saturday afternoon last , in the Bristol Channel . As the Fanny and Jane brig , 118 tons , from London to Bristol , with a cargo of wines and general merchandise , was proceeding up channel , when about twelve miles . off Padstow she had her masts , bowsprit , and everything above deck carried away by a waterspout . She was taken in tow by the Alert , of Bridpdrt , and brought into Bristol . Vessels distant from the brig at the time of the occurrence only half a mile escaped uninjured .

      Explosion of Firk Damp . —An inquest was held at the Dinas Works , on the 10 th inst ., before R . L . Reece , Esq ., coroner on the bodies of Idras David ; aged 11 , and Shadrack David , aged 15 , both of whom died from , injuries caused by an explosion of fire damp , at the above works , on the Monday previous . The deceased , Shadrack David , had a partner with him , of the name of Thomas Williams , who , on tho morning in question , placed a chain for safety in arf old windway , in a part of the works . "Williams , not being able to attend to his work shortly afterwards , the deceased , Shadrack David , employed Idras David in his stead . The latter , not knowing where to find the Chain alluded to , went , in company with the other deceased , to

      look for it . In the course of the search , one of the parties took a lighted candle with him into that portion of the pit which had not , been worked for some time past . An explosion immediately took place , which blew tho unfortunate lads 100 yards down the pit . Assistance being procured , they were subsequently discovered lying on their backs , covered with rubbish . Both died in about three hours after the accident . Yerdict— " Died from injuries received from fire damp . " Growing Rhubarb in a Coal-pit . —A collier , of the name of Dearderi , in the employ of Mr . E . Radcliffe , of Woodland Cottage , near Stnnnington , planted a . root of rhubarb on tho 0 th of March , in the pit , thirty-seven yards below the surface , and on the Oth inst ., he cut six or seven stalks , about

      twenty inches in length . This subterranean practice might probably be applied with great success in the production of sea-kale . —Sheffield Times . Fatal Collision at Sea - Plymouth . —Mr . Christopher Brown , master of the ship George Wilkinson , of 391 tons register , belonging to Mr . James Brown , of Liverpool , reports that on Saturday , the 13 tb inst ., she left Weymouth in ballast , bound to Quebec . On Monday morning , at three o ' clock , when the Eddystoue bore north-north-east , distance twenty miles , wind south-south-west , blowing strong , thick hazy weather , the George Wilkinson was on the starboard tack under three single-reefed topsails , foresail , mizen , and topmast staysail . Saw a-head , at say half a mile off , a large shin on the larbo ard

      tack , standing to tho westward or north-west , towards the George Wilkinson , under double-reefed topsails , mainsail , and foresail . She continued her course , and although hailed repeatedly hut without effect , there bnng apparently no lo"k-out forward , struck the George Wilkinson on the larboard side , abaft the fore rigging , carried away her fore topmast and topgallantmast , f » re and main topsail yards , rigging gear , & c , and having hooked her anchor , Captain Brown was obliged to slip the cable attached , and thus lose in addition thirty fathoms of chain . When clear , one fine young man , named Handle , was missing ; he was twenty-five years of age , and belonged to Weymouth , where he was shipped . Ho is supposed to have fallen between the two ships in attempting to board , or , whab is much more

      probable , to have been swept off in the falling wreck of spars , sails , a >\ d rigging , from the topgallant forecastle , where he was on du ty , earnestly , but vainly , endeavouring to alarm the crew of the approaching ship . The stranger proved to be the Harbinger , belonging to Mr . Chapman , of London ,. GOO to 800 tons burden , Captain Sampson , which left Havre on Friday , with 256 German and Swiss passengers , bound to New York ; in the collision she lost jibboom and fore topgallant mast , and had her starboard side grazed by the channel bolts of tho other vessel . The Harbinger came in about four o ' clock on Monday afternoon , and brought u p in the Sound . TliO George Wilkinson , which had lost mbro canvas , followed iu about an hour , went up Catwater , and moored at the tier . . ' < - ' ,

      , . Discovery of Human Remains . —On Friday ,, the 12 th inst .. the workmen on the Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway were sinkingfor ballast gravel , on a piirt of the estate of Mr . T . G . -Parry , at Highnam , near Gloucester , they disinterred twelve skeletons , apparently the remains of full-grown men . Some of

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      the skeletons were lying somewhat confusedly , as if the bodies to which they once belonged had been rather carelessly consigned to their common grave ; but others , and one in particular , hadevidentlybeen respectfully interred , and the coffins , formed of blocks of Painswick stone , had been built round them . It is conjectured that they were the bodies of some of the officers and soldiers who full at the siege of Gloucester , during the civil wars between Charles-I . and his Parliament . " Port of LiVBhPOOL . —The Gazette of Tuesday

      night contains a Treasury Order , dated Friday last , which declares Runcorn no longer a port after the 5 th inst ., and that after the same date the limits of the Port of Liverpool , "shall commence at the termination of the Port of Chester , being a p lace called the Red Stones , in Hoy Lake , on the P > int Wirrall , and so alonij the coast of Cheshire into the river Mersey , . nnd all over the rivers Mersey , ' -Irwell , and Weever , and thence returning along the coast of Lancashire till it meets the termination of the Port of Fleetwood , at a place called the Hundred-end Water . "

      Drbadfux Death . —On Monday an inquest was held at the infirmary oa the body of William Cain , aged 44 , in the employ of Mr . Gibbs , vitriol-works , St . Philips ' s . At half-past eight o ' clock on Saturday morning the deceased was examining tbe interior of a boiler , which contained a quantity of vitriol to the depth of eleven inches . By some mischance he ell into the liquid , and was totally immersed in it . He was almost instantly extricated by a fellow-workman , but he was so seriously injured—the flesh being burnt off his body , and the vitriol having penetrated

      the bones of hia knees and legs—that he died as he was being conveyed to the infirmary . It was stated by deceased ' s wife that he had for some time been suject to fits of giddiness in his head , and it was supposed to have been . owing to one of these attacks that he met with the dreadful accident which terminated his death . Mr . Gibbs said that he was unaware that the man ever suffered from such a complaint ,, or he would not have employed him' in such a dangerous occupation . The boiler into which deceased fell was between two and three feet above the ground . The jury returned a verdictof " Accidental death . "

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      The Expeditions in Search of Frahklin . — The expedition organised at Aberdeen under Captain Penny , consisting of the Lady Franklin , commanded by himself , and the Sophia , Captain Stewart , of Peterhead , left the harbour there on Saturday last , on their perilous enterprise . These vessels have been fitted out at the expense of the Admiralty , and are provisioned for three years . The crew of the Lady Franklin number twenty-five , and that of the Sophia

      twenty , men , all picked seamen , inured to the dangers of the Polar seas . Crowds of persons of all ranks lined the quays and thronged the extended line of pier to witness the moving sight of so many gallant fellows , animated by the most generous mo ; tives , and inspired by the highest hopes of success , leaving all that are near and dear to them , for the regions of perpetual snow . —Captain Austin ' s Expedition . —The Admiralty have taken up the Emma Euijenia , transport , at Deptford , to take out the coals and surplus stores for Captain Austin . Light gutta percha sledges are to be provided for the expedition , on a plan proposed by Lieut . Halkett , R . N .

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      Sale in the . Escumbeed Commission Court . — A sale took place on Friday in the Encumbered Court , under circumstances of a very remarkable kind , the buyer being at once inheritor , petitioner , and purchaser . The property , situate in the King ' s county , held on a lease of lives , and two thousand years , consists of 142 statute acres , with mills and buildings , the estimated annual value being £ 128 . ' Deducting the head rent of £ 24 , there would be a profit rent of £ 104 ; but the estate is charged with a jointure of £ 50 ' . per annum for the residue of the life of a lady aged 72 . The property is mixed up with

      others , and there is some complication in the arrangements . After a very brisk competition between the tenant in possession , the inheritor and petitioner , Mr . Thomas Spunner , and a Mr . Thomas Spunner White , the estate was , sold for £ 1 , 500 to Mr . Thomas Spunner , who has now re-purchased his own estate . It is difficult to ascertain the exact . rate of purchase ; but after the lapse of the jointure of £ 50 a year , Mr . Spunner will have £ 100 a year for £ 1 , 500 . According to one calculation , he has paid eighteen years' purchase . The novelty of this case , however , is the fact that Mr . Spunner petitioned for the sale . of his own property , and has become the purchaser , divesting the estate of all tho mortgages by which it has been encumbered .

      Emiouation and Town Pauperism . —Tho numbers of people daily crowding the quays of Gal way , securing passages across the Atlantic , are described , by the jGalway Vindicator , as exhibiting in their appearance " a degree of comfort and independence hitherto unknown . amongst emigrants . Four hundred emigrants , chiefly of this class , sailed from that port last week ; and four more vessels , for different parts of America , are rapidly filling with passengers . Meantime , there has been an enor : mous influx of paupers to the town from the ad . - joining counties ; and the magistrates and poor-law guardians are preparing for a strict enforcement of ¦ the Vagrant Act .. '" During the ensuing summer , " tho same journal remarks , ; "there would be no

      Jiving in the town if something were not done to remove the sweltering mass of destitution , from which plagueand pestilence unquestionably spring ;" Up to Friday evening 130 vagrants had been convicted before the local magistrates , only fortv of whom were chargeable to the Galway- electoral divUion .. The same state of things exist in Limerick . Since January last , upwards of 5 , 000 persons had left that . city to take shipping at Liverpool , be- sides the multitude sailing directly from the Shannon for America . The Limerick Chronicle remarks ' : —* ' A superior class of persons , in many instances , are leaving the country , consigning to us a miserable lot of beggars , with whom our streets ane covered every hour of the day , importuning relief ,

      or helping themselves by stealth or violence . " The local magistrates are vainly striving to abate the evil by the rigid enforcement of the Vagrant Act . Mr . John Lamb , a Quaker correspondent of the Northern Whig , who has returned from a tour through the midland and southern counties , remarks that " the shrewd , hard landlords of Limerick and Tipperary have been some of the first to reduce their rents , and are , consequently , retaining their solvent tenants ; while the quiet-going landlord , a little dipped , was afraid to commence a reduction , lest he should be left nothing for , himself . Men of this class find their best tenants selling off

      their chatties and emigrating to America . The stream of emigration continues , and has reduced the competition for land ; and in many parts of the south and west there is a scarcity of able-bodied men left to cultivate the land properly . " Mr . Lamb gives a most disheartening account of the condition of several of the landed gentry . In Clare one of them has five thousand acres thrown on his hands—another has thirteen thousand acres . " without a hoof on it , except some deer ; " and he speaks of" more than one family , who formerly kept their carriages and hunters , who are now inmates of the union poor-house . "

      Decay of Orangkism . —The Banner of Ulster has the following remarkable statement from a Stewartstown correspondent : — "It having been arranged by the masters of Stewavtstown Orange district , in the county of Tyrone , that in consequence of a bill having been lately passed against party processions , thev should meet in Stewartstown , for the purpose of destroying the banners and emblems of the Orange Institution of that district , which they had so often hoisted in token of their attachment to the British constitution , and in commemoration of the anniversary of the Boyne , about sixteen masters belonging to the district attended in Stewartstown , on the 8 th inst . j when a bonfire was made in the wwrketsnuare . and fifteen or sixteen warrants belonging to

      tho district were burned ; and it was agreed that the members of the district should henceforth live in peace with thoir Roman Catholic countrymen . " : Execution . —Tho execution of the woman ; Catherine Moore , for the murder of her husband , took placo at Maryborough , on Thursday . Though no : public confession was made bj the culprit , it is understood that the version of the tragedy given by the unfortunate woman , who evinced the utmost compunction , ' was not without some extenuating circumstances , as hoi- husband had lived some time separate from her , and it was , according to her account , in a struggle to defend her own life that sho inflicted a deadly wound on him . ¦ Mukdkr . —The ; Clare Journal gives the following

      account of a barbarous murder committed in the vicinity of ILilrush , on the 9 th inst .: — " Wo deeply regret to have to announce the melancholy fate of Arthur O'Donnol ) , Esq ., of Pickwick Cottage , Knock , ' who was waylaid and brutall y murdered near Ids own residence ., It appears that the unfortunate gentleman was in the habit of going from his dwelling house in tho evening to tho house of his herdsman , and while he was returning from doing so , at about nine o ' clock , ho was attacked b y a party , of whom the names ' or number arc equally unknown ; and killed with a hatchet . Tho deceased was a quiet and inoffensive gentleman . ¦'¦ ¦

      The same journal states that the herdsman of Mr . Scanlan , of Fortune , was murdered on the same night in Maryfort-wood . Seven Churches , Siiannox-bmdge , April 12 —A barbarous murder was last night perpetrated on ' the person of Patrick Egan , a pensioner , residing ' ' on tho townland of Clonasera , the property of a ; Mr Ushcv . The popr man was ailing and in b & d at the time of . the attack , so earl as ei ght o clock , ' Ono of the assassins struck him with a pistolj and then leaped ; so violently on his chest that he expired in ten minutes . It is not known at present what the motivo of tho attack was . Egan was known to havfc a considerable sum of money ,, and also a gun

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      for hia . protection . The latter was . carried off by the villains ; they made no search for the money . This is the third attempt on the unfortunate man . At Glasslough , in the county of Monaghan , a shot was fired on Wednesday night last into : the bedroom window of Mr . John Robertson , land steward to C . P . Leslie , Esq . Letting or Estates . —In the Court of Chancery on Monday , in the case of " The Duke of Leinster v . Ball , " an application was made that the receiver in the causemight be at liberty to re-let portion * of an estate . in Tipperarv , in a more advantageous manner than " tho ordinary . process , by receiving stamped proposals from persons desirous to become purchasers of smalllots , At present ' the tenantry —250 of whom were in insolvent circumstanceshad been served with ejectments , and a large number of the holdings had been given up . The Lord Chancellor granted the application .

      The Repeal Association . —The association met on Monday , in Conciliation Hall . Mr . M . Murphy , who was called to the chair , stated that it was the intention of the committee to close : tho association on that day week if the peop le deserted thorn . Mr . John O'Connell next addressed the very few persons who . were in attendance . He said if they were not relieved b y the country , to enable them to discharge their debts , the doors would be shut . With about £ 1 , 000 he would undertake to work the association efficiently . They should not allow Lord Clarendon , besides carrying off the Viceroy , to bring also the joyful news that the spirit of the people was sunk ; for a few paltry pounds the association must be let down , and the glorious agitation for Ireland ' s liberty abandoned . ^ That shall not be , ( Cheers . ) At the conclusion of the . meeting Mr . O'ConneU announced the rent for the week to be £ 22 Qs . 8 d , and observed that it showed the people were determined that their association should not go down .

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      INDICTMENT FOR X . X 1 UHTINU IVlUflAX 151 lUIlCAIS , —Henry Tiddiman , 24 , omnibus conductor ; John Bennett , 22 , sugar refiner ; William Laidler , 30 , waiter ; John Jones , 24 , labourer ; and John Sullivan , 39 , fancy willower , were indicted for feloniously extorting money and a valuable security , to wit , an I O XT . for £ 50 , from Samuel Wyatt , by a threat to charge him with an abominable crime . The prisoner Tiddiman pleaded guilty to the charge . Mr . Bodkin and Mr . W . Cooper conducted the prosecution . Mr . Woollett defended Bennett , Mr . Parnell defended Jones , and Mr , M . Prendregast defended Sullivan . The prisoner Laidler conducted

      his own defence . The prosecutor is 04 years old , and carried on the business of a tobacconist in Littlo Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-lnn Fields , —Mary Legg ; -. the niece of the prosecutor , deposed that her uncle had . for some time been in ill-health . About last November he appeared very much depressed , and there was a great change in him . Shortly after this she remembered Tiddiman comin « to the shop . It was on the 31 st ot December last She observed him sitting down between the parlour and the shop door . He . had got his hand in his pocket , and ho said to her , uncle , "Kow , this settles it between you and me , " and he then left the shop . —Baron Piatt suggested it would be better to call Tiddiman before this witness was further examined . —Henry Tiddiman was accordingly brought from

      the gaol and sworn . He deposed that he was formerly an omnibus conductor . He had known Bennett three years arid a half . He was formerly checktaker at the Adelphi Theatre . Witness remembered going to Mr . Wyatt ' s shop . He had seen Sullivan and Bennett five or six months before , and had drank with them . Ahout fourteen months ago , he went to tho shop of the prosecutor with Sullivan , and saw Mr . Wyafcfc . Witness asked for a cheroot , and Sullivan said he would have one also , and he then asked for an ounce of birdseye tobacco , and he went away , and said that his friend ( meaning witness ) would pay for it . He was then left alone with . Mr . Wyatt , and he iremained five or six minutes , and then went away , and met Sullivan

      outside . , Sullivan then said to him . " If that is hot an old ——/ my name is not Jack Sullivan ! " Witness toldhim he did not think so ; he did not understand suoh things , and Sullivan said , " Then you should , ; if you come under my jurisdiction I will make your fortune . " Witness passed off the conversation as well as he could , and they separated . The next night he went to the shop again , and smoked a couple of cigars and had some gin and water with the prosecutor , and he gave witness half-a-crown . After he left the shop , he met Sullivan , who said to him , " Ah , you ' ve been into the old man ' s , and got some money ;" and thinking he had been watching him , he said that ho had . Sullivan then demanded half , and he

      gave him a shilling and twopence ; and he said that if witness took his advice , they could make £ 20 or £ 30 out of the old man . Witness replied that he would have nothing to do with it , and Sullivan said if he did not he would have him " nailed . " He made no reply , and went away . About a week or ten days after this he met Bennett , Jones , and Sullivan , near Coventry-street , in the evening , and Sullivan said , "Harry has a good case , which I told him of , and if you pay attention to me , we can make a good thinor of it . " Witness made no answer , and Sullivan then talked apart to Bennett . They all went to a public-house where they had some drink , and then proceeded to the Catherine . Wheel public-house in Windmill-street . They

      afterwards met again , Sullivan , Jones , and witness , and Sullivan said , " Well , have you been to the old man ' s again' ! " and he told him he had not . Sullivan then ' said if he did not he must put up with the consequences ; he had already extorted half-a-crown and he had got him in his power . A fortnight after this ho saw Sullivan , Jones , and Bennett again in Piccadilly , and witness , Bennett , and . Jones went to the prosecutor ' s shop , and saw Mr . Wyatt . Jones asked Wyatt for some , money , and told him that it was no use to hesitate—he knew what it was for ; it was regarding him and Tiddiman . The prosecutor then-gave Bennett some money .. At first he said he had jiot got any money , but Jones said ho must hare some , and Wyatt then went into the parlour

      and fetched the money from a chiffonDierc . The prosecutor appeared very nervous . They divided the money afterwards , and witness received 2 s 4 d . as his share , He met Sullivan again about a month after this , and Sullivan said , " Now , Harry , will you go with me down to the old man , and get some money 1 " Witness hesitated at first , but afterwards complied , and they went together to the prosecutor ' s shop , and he went in and Sullivan stood outside , lie told the prosecutor that he should be obliged to him if he would give him a little money , and he gave him a sovereign . When he had obtained the money he joined Sullivan , who asked him how much he had got , and he told him a sovereign . He replied that he ought to have got more , and he believed he had . . He then gave Sullivan ten shillings . A week or ton days after this ho went to the shop with Jones , and Jones asked

      for some more money , and the prosecutor said he had not got any , and Jones replied that he . must give some money . The prosecutor then gave them a halfsovereign and some silver , and'the amount was divided between them . Witness had known Laidler before these transactions . About the 1 st of March ho was at a ball , and saw Bennett and Laidler there ; and Bennett said , alluding to Laidler , "there is a young man who has no objection to take the part of a solicitor , and we can do the old man out of £ 40 or . £ 50 . Laidler replied that ho would do so , and Bennett said that Jones would act as clerk . . After this had occurred Jones and Laidler went to the prosecutor , and witness remained outside . He had seen Sullivan before this , and he said it would be a very good dodge to get some one to act as a solicitor , as there was a woman in the case . When Jones and Laidler went in Sullivan

      and witness remained outside . Sulliran had previously told Laidler to go in and get some money , arid to mind and not come out without it . When Laidler came out ho produced a sovereign , and said that was all he could get , and they , then went to a public-house and shared the sovereign . Upon the same night Jones , Sullivan , , Laidler , and witness met again / by . appointment , at a publichouse in Long-acre , and it was arranged that they should go again to the old man , and that Laidler was to draw up an 1 O TJ- for £ 50 , in case the prosecutor should not have so much money in house . , An IO U was first drawn up for £ 40 . When they left the public-house thoy went to the pro se ' eutor ' s shop . Sullivan , Bennett , Jones and witness .

      Laidler came b y ( appointment , and he and Jones went in , and witness , Sullivan , and Bennett remained outside . In about ten minutes they came out of the shop , and Laidler told Sullivan that he had told the woman all about it * and then turned to him and said , " Now , Harry , you must come in . " At first'he refused , but afterwards he went in , Bennett accompanied him , Laidler and Jones talked to the woman privately , and ho saw tears in her eyes , and she appeared very much affected . The prosecutor was standing by the counter when this took place' and ho appeared rather nervous . Laidler asked him for some money , and he replied that he had not got any , and Laidler then said ho would draw up an IO U for £ 40 , and ono of the others said it should be for £ 50 , Laidler then drew up an

      I O'U for £ 40 , and Jones ; drew up one for £ 50 . A paper was here produced , and the witness identified it as the TO U drawn up by Jones . A sovereign was then demanded of the proseciitor , and he said he had not got a sovereign , but he would give him some silver . On this same evening the prosecutor gave Laidler a £ 10 note , and they their left theshop , and joined Sullivan outside , and they all went to a coffee-shop , when Jones told Sullivan they had been to the old man ' s and had made him give them an I O Ufor £ 50 , and Sullivan ; - replied , " Then of course I stand in , " and Jones and iLaidler replied / '"Yes . " "' - 'Oh thb following . ' day Jones , .. Bennett , Laidler , Sullivan j and witness . went to the ] prosecutor ' s shop , and Laidler and Jones iwent in , and the others remained outside . When Jones and Laidler camoQut they saidJiiey had gob tvtentw-fiTO altil-i

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      hngs , and -that amount was BhafpilKlr ^ 55 *' They all met after this at Laidler ' s ! ee » \ saw each . other almost every day n * A ' " id f ? was taken into custody , Laidler and Y he m $ the prosecutor ' s , ; and Sullivan , BwnT * * etf ness stayed outside . Jones came « 3 m l * time and-told them they musT com ; ' a 4 money was there read y and waiting 5 ° r i * first refused , but at last he agreed to o tne $ s two others . When they got into tho Jr m "ithi * asked them to walk inVthe lloul ? Kit so . Mrs . I-eggthen said , " HoK'tf " 4 an explanation ¦* the casej whoTs fc' fi and Laidler said ho was . She then 2 iT W

      what demands they had upon her unZ u to them said £ 24 . Mrs . & „> asked & nd his chambers were , and he said t T C St .. Martin ' s . lane . At this moment £ ' \ t came forward , and took them iniV ° C Mary Logg was then recalled , and her lJ , ^ r firmed the statement of the previous ; wi 7 0 llc C tho extortion of money at various tim e * W prosecutor . —Sergeant Thompson nt » J'V of police , deposed that he ami V o li £ < named Brown , concealed themselve s hlv ° " % tain in the parlour of the pros ecutor ' , ? " " hi the night in question , and they Hp-L , % n p lace ; and he confirmed in this 4 Z ? J %£

      given by the last witness . U pon searching Wk » found the IOUfor £ 50 and aktter ?„ IS ^ S As they were going to the atation-hons o T ° - ^ on quired if Sullivan was taken , aadSEL ^ lft f he believed he was . He replied , " I m Z }* % he was the general ; but with all hk „ * % he is taken at last . " He » fterwai £ % * % box at Laidler ' s lodging , and found thVat ! a that had been produced . He had seen tL ^ nt in company together , and had fre quentl * f ^ s nett dressed in different military uniform . ? ^ iconstable proved that he apprehended n «„ ( % thathesafd "he was let into that 8 ecrT ^ l wished he had staid at home . "—Mr Sam . ii ? he the prosecutor , was then called , and hall ?» , avnmino . 1 oa i-r . tha ^;« n .. . n ^ . "« S lih . fli unumiuvu uuh

      un uu VIIUUIIIOlilllUUS UDllOr Xs \' l I first became acquainted with the prisoner Ti tV he Ho also spoke to seeing all the other prison a "> peatedly at his house and to their demw ' money . ~ Mr . Baron PJatt summed up and S •** immediately returned a verdict of " Guiltv" ^ all the prisoners . His lordshi p then addr ew ^ prisoners , and said he would not makeamT' ™ to the disgusting nature of the offence of »?? they had been convicted , and it would be nnit ! ^ ficient for him to say that after a very Ion » Z ' tient inquiry the jury had found them guilty ?! it now became his duty to make such an exam i of them as would , be calculated to deter imscnu of the like kind from levying contributions in f ? upon those who , as in the case of tbe prosecutor ? the present instance , had not the nerve to m such demands in the proper manner . TakiW consideration , therefore , the nature of the % « f uie uiruui coimeciea

      auu an umaiicyy witn it hefe it his duty to order Sullivan , Bennett , JonV i Laidler , to be transported for the term of ' th natural lives . With regard to Tiddiman , con * . ! i ng ? u ^ , at a Iate , 10 Ur > certainly , that he ha & V dered all tbe assistance in his power to furthers ends of justice , and that he had made eomeatcment for his share in the transaction by giving dence and impeaching his companions , the n * ment would not be to that extent . The enk ! of such persons was necessary in some c . w « the ends of justice required that when their evfc was made use of , that some consideration ahoulji shown them . It was utterly impossible howJ

      , to pass over such an offence without adequates ' mshment , and under all the circumstances tho iu , <| ment of the court upon him was that he bo if !* soned and kept to hard labour in the House of & rection for two years . —His lordship then direct-Mary Legg , the niece of theprosecutor . tostandfo ward , and after observing that it was main ; through her that this gang of miscreants had | w brought to justice , and that she had thereby » dered a great public benefit , he directed that A should receive a reward of five pounds .

      The Kiot at Grkswich Fair . — "William La tersby , 21 , Thomas Hart , 2 S , and James Purc £ 29 , marines ; and Henry Taylor , 18 , Mattbi Cowdy , 20 , William Lemon , 22 , Jamep O'Brien , ? Samuel Robinson , 25 , William Jamieson , 21 , En ! Evans , 19 , John Watt , 24 , Thomas Hart , 23 , Jata Purcell , 29 , John Martin , 21 , Kennedy Wilkin ^ 22 , Edwin Grippen , 21 . William Wedd , 20 , May Tipping , 21 , were jointly indicted lor a riot and & sault . The prisoners pleaded " Not guilty . "—Jh N .-lson Lee said he had been most unwilling brought forward , although he would not admit lis any blame was attributable to his clown , and & begged to state that he had been a considerableloa

      by the injury done to his show ; still he had no * a to press the charge . —Tho Eccorder said he fa ! looked over the depositions , but could not find k how the affray first began . —Mr . Kelson Lee n then sworn , and said the first he saw of tte matte was a soldier driving the hat over the eyes of a atlian , who remonstrated , and then some one strasi him , and a general fi ght followed ; and he thiufe that by getting the person into his booth theyimYJ have got' him out another way , and so end iii quarrel . The soldiers then got up the step , si ! beat every one , and-having cleared tbe placocod menced breaking the lamps , and continued lis violence until overpowered by the civilians id police . He did not know if the man who

      wastenetted had given . any offence to the soldier . —Setr ral other witnesses deposed to individual acts of violence on the part of the soldiers , and iievtM Lawson , Rippon , Evans , O'Brien , aud Jamieson . having committed actual assaults , and added W for the three days the ' soldiers had gone in atoly through the fair , assaulting everybody . —Mr . Caltatine and Mr . Parry said those who had been pointed out should plead " guilty , " for though there had been a mutual aggravation , they could not as lawyers justify their conduct . —A verdictof "Gutltr " was taken against the five identified , and an acquittal on the part of the others . —The Recorder then bound the defendants over to keep the peawfor twelve months , and he hoped that for th e futore this would serve as a lesson for them to act flth

      more temperanceand discretion . —The recogni se were then entered into and they were discharged . Bioamt . —John Smith Marl , 38 , carpenter , « a indicted for feloniously marrying Mary Ann Hog , his wife being then and now alive . —Mr , Biillantme defended . —It appeared that tho prisoner was married to his first wife , at Trinity Church , Mary lebont , on the lSth of November , ' 1832 , and bad children W her ; and it did not appear that he was scpirw from her even at the time of his second marriage , which took place at Bloomsbnrv in February last .-The jury found him " Guilty , " and lie was sentence to twelve months' imprisonment . . , Highway Robbery with Violence . —Jane Knigljj

      21 , was indicted for robbing Charles John Co » , upon the Queen ' s highway , of three sovereign s »<> a half , and the indictment alleged that at the t «« of committing the robbery the prisoner struck W ' beat the prosecutor . —The jury found the prise * " Guilty , " and she was sentenced to be transpotf for fifteen years . , Robbebt of Platr . —Edward Dawson , 23 , S' * George Parraty , 22 , were indicted for stealitl quantity of plate , the property of James Miliar Tho prosecutor of this indictment is a physk * * Welbeck-street , and it appeared that on the 2 ^" March , between three and four o ' clock in the a 6 e' ' noon , during tho temporary absence of one oi j £ servants , some thieves contrived to get access tc j pantry from the area , and stole a m & ^ [ l

      plate . The prisoners were met the same aftcrM by a police constable , who , knowing their elmra « ' stopped them , and endeavoured to take tnem " custody . Dawson ran off , but was stopp . another policeman and Parraty , who had tw voured to assist his companion in getting away , also secured ; and upon searching DilffSOIi ; whole of tho stolen property was found uponhW " . The jury returned a verdict of ' * Guilty ajP * both prisoners , and Parraty , who had been &«' convicted , was sentenced to be transported ft ' and Dawson for seven years . .., ; ., Burglary . —R . Newman , 19 , porter , Jane PWr ' IS , spinster , and B . Gardner , IS , smith , wl , n dieted for burglary in the dwelling-h ' euseofW" ' A Cox , and stealing therein a quantity of 1 , o 0 t- , L . shoes . It appeared from the evidence of the p \ - ., Clltor and the nnlinn that , tha nrnspfiillOl' M . _

      boot and shoe warehouse in Field-terrace , Bafe . Wells-road , and on the 5 th of this month the r * constable , observing one of prosecutor s Sh ^ ^ removed and standing near-tho door , WCI , t . % - place , and there found that one of the shop w ¦ had been broken out , and the c ontrivance lorr . ^ venting the noise that would arise . from » ' *• $ out a square of g lass was a novel and n 1051 , ^ one . The squaro intended to be broken nau ^ first plastered over thickl y with mu d , aw covered with several folds of paper , ana a : \ . p so broken out , and was laid down by the »» yltl j | police then roused the prosecutor , who f ° " % t all the property within reach had been tilK ^ , ir ( The officer having seen all four prisoners , * ( ,, < known to him , near the spot where tho rob J * L t < been committed a short time before , ^ . ' . x ^ oeen uuiumincu * ouuii , time u « . » v i ' . inn

      where they all lived in Paradise-street , 6 r » J ' onj road , and , on knocking at the door , heard " , \ i go to the back of the premises . HavM ? e j j they found three of the-parties in the fron t K j ^ and on © coming from the yard . Upon sf a u ( somo of the shoes were found in the p « Ltthe rest had been thrown down the wattf ^ ' ^ e The jury found them all " Guilty . " - . "V said Gardner had been convicted at this t „ , ISIS . They were part of a most desperate M . thieves , and were the terror of the neig hM " . te The prisoner Gardner was then s entence " ^ years' transportation , and-the other three > i « ia i —Morris , upon hearing his sentence , och ^ o raised hU , hand „ to ; his head , and said , " rh [ 5 ft'is my lord , but can't , you make . mine ten ? ^ however , was not acceded to . . ¦ . $ , a This concluded the business of the sc M » y 6 the cour , t stands adjourned until Jionoty

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 20, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_20041850/page/6/