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      Lted The The J ^^ 25,1851. ¦ ¦;- ¦ . . ....

      lted the the j ^^ 25 , 1851 . ¦ ¦; - ¦ . . .. .. - THE ^ QRTHERN STA-n 7 « . .

      Gg Sewer Accident At Islington..Fondav A...

      gg SEWER ACCIDENT AT ISLINGTON . . fondav an inquest was held before Mr . W . * " the vestry room of St . Magnus ' s Church , S * . ^ jidgei onthe bodies of George Ellis and ^ « Birling . who lost their lives by the break-^ f { be bed of ihe KewBiref-, on the 17 th inst ; , & % . deceased were engaged in constructing a ^ nto the main sewer recently eonstructedl > y ^ min isaoners 0 f Sewers in the Lower-road , e ^ T The bodies of both the deceased were Sf . Jje month of the sewer at London-bridge , s * s LgSi drifted to that point by the force of tbe ' ^ that of Ellis on Saturday , and that of Bir-? sjlndav night . Mr . Prank Forster and Mr . ' wh on the part of the commissioners , were t * W '^ g ju rv having been sworn , viewed the *? \ nd evidence was called to prove their

      , W , r ' , i « i Be " * lab 0 ™ *' ' of the Pancras-road , HL Jtbat hc was at work in the heading upon ® f anernoon , about three o ' clock , when theac'HP - vnrrcd . Mr . Kesteven had employed him W , drainfrom Mr . Cox ' s cellar at the King ' s Wrtto the new sewer . Witness had contracted W > - i for Mr . Kesteven , and commenced a fort-1 . tL last Saturday . He began at the cellar , IS : ; T-jmk a shaft sixteen feet deep , and he then W A to drive a heading from the bottom of the S ? a wards the sewer . He had driven this head-W ^ nt twentv-flve or twenty-six feet , and the Pfrwas thirty-four feet from the shaft , the tunnel W \ p \ ew River being between the sewer and the Eft " " The heading was ahaut three feet bigb , and Si teen inches wide . > "o part of it bad been Sr iie < Lthe intention being to carry earthenware 5 * 5 thronnb . Believed he had got his heading iSion d the tunnel of the New River . Did not know

      Inself the depth of the tunnel from , the road , but jfceard that it was twelve feet six inches . For j , c iaew he might have run right into it . On Fri-- * eek l « t , after working at the heading , he found [ or sis feet of water standing in the shaft . He > ceased working at the heading until Monday , tn Lc shored the shaft in order to prevent its £ from breaking in . The shaft had not been exited since , but he had filled it up . The heading o t e had filled up . Did not give any information Z the matter to the commissioners , but understood * : Jlr . Kesteven had been to them . On Friday , Sscen eleven and twelve o ' clock , Mr . Cox told * , Kesteven to go to Mr . Johnson' 5 office for leave g jo into the sewer , and before he came back wit-Si went down into the sewer along with two other

      Sp , to try to make a hole through to join the Eding that he had previously made . Nobody told fen to go . They began to start a heading about STarae size as the other . He had a very imperfect S '! 0 n of taking levels ; it was all guess work . He ma ased an iron searcher , about the thickness of SjSMcr , to find out how they were with reference ffifae position of the other end of the heading , and jgLai ' iiot put in above three inches when the water : § pn to come in with great force and rapidity . sftaess was carried about forty feet by the strength gjtie water , and he ultimately escaped up a shaft . « e two deceased men were not employed in the wlhig , but had merely come down to look on ; § 13 ihey were lying upon some struts at the time men ihe water broke in .

      | BIr . Gotto : Upon tbe 3 rd January I gave leave , Papa the application of Mr . Kesteven for Mr . Cox H & oke a six inch drain from his premises into the VSgiT . Mr . Kesteven , however , was bound to give gBice of bis intention to commence the work , and gp he bad not done . Had he done so , a competent iscer would Lave been appointed to watch its pro * [ « S 5 . It was improper , moreover , for him to have rSje any work in the commissioners' sewer , and he | £ no authority to work from that sewer , and I did 13 know that " the work was going on by Mr . i & teven . | « ome further evidence having been adduced , § Bir Fobsteb said be should characterise this ca--jjtrnplift more as tbe result of accident than

      negligee . mhc Coboxer said , that being so , the Commis-¦ tcra of Sewers being the persons who would St damage from the stoppage of their works , & c , 3 they not suggesting that blame attached to any 9 , possibly the jury would be of the same opi > n , and think that this was an accident . Sue Jury concurred in this view and returned a miict of " Accidental Death . "

      «£ Dckfield Burglary—Apirehex J» 8ion Of...

      « £ DCKFIELD BURGLARY—APIREHEX j » 8 ION OF ANOTHER OF THE GANG . She six men and the woman , alleged to have been iScerned in the above burglary , were re-examined aKatcrday last at Tunbridge . A man named Ed-3 rls and his wife , charged as receivers , were also Sed in the dock with them . It appears that § mer having given her address to the police , when ISjag on her brother , one of the prisoners , at Tnuwge , Dadson , an officer , proceeded to her resijSce , and in a plantation close by , where the jSfclars had gone to overhaul their booty , he found ; flf boxes which had contained the jewellery taken ^ jSn the Misses Parneombe's house , and other por-JmEs of the property . He further found in the Hse of Edwards , where Oliver lodged , a cart load Bferoperty , consisting of silk , cotton , and calico ¦ Bos , together with other articles , evidently the Hceeds of a rubbery of soma draper ' s shop . Mrs .

      IBcards was then taken into custody , and shortly gfircaTds her husband , in whose possession was SSid a watch . Subsequently Oliver was secured , §| L on being searched , there was found suspended pip her waist , under her clothes , a cloth containing gmral watches and seals , £ 17 in gold , and other fjgfces of value , which were proved to be part of g fiproceeds of the Uckfield burglary . Two watches nra from Oliver have proved to be the produce SSti'er burglaries ; and two found on Edwards begged to the Rev . 0 . E . Tidal , whose residence , at imiuton , Sussex , was broken into , in September IS Other articles answer the description of those Men from the house of the Rev . J . H . Stewart , JBaagfield . East Grinstead , on Monday fortnight . jjB police are now engaged in active search for two 8 gbe burglars who are missing , aud who are wanted Hi for an extensive robberv at Farnham some tune

      K . They and the gang generally are also sns-¦ ned of two other burglaries in the neighbourhood nonbridge Wells . As an indication of the mode by Men the prisoners obtained tbe information necesijnrto carry on their operations , it may be menjaBed that , in a box belonging to Brooks , one of the anting burglars , and which was found at Edwards ' s fSps , were found a number of small bills , headed jjHSfce best price given for umbrellas , rags , broken Hgl" & c ., for which it was stated " D . Hayler " PHd call in two hours . This person proves to have $ 3 k Brooks , and the opportunities of investigation |& B afforded to him would unquestionably be of the

      IpSEest service . The whole of the prisoners were t ^ tmitted for trial . p || lioliier man , who is concerned in the recent bnr-< jgSfie < at this part of the country , has been appresiwlt-d . Ife was taken into custody at a barn be-SSJjingtothe Hon . James Norton , of Woodhams , gMg _ Cherts » y . He gives the name of W . Brooks , | i ^ E 5 said to " ba one of the most daring of the gang , eifiprboner Brooks had adopted the most cautious S * K arr measures to avoid detection . A clue , PjjBever ' to Lis whereabouts was obtained by Morj ^ jjgmd Badson , oa Saturday , January II . Ihey ^^ g d that he had been at a beer-shop at Bagshot , jgjgrey . and traced him thence to another house of HgfSime description still nearer the borders of ^ Knsiiire T and a well-known resort for thieves . Isgiad , however , departed from the latter place f jmre the arrival of the officers at that time , and 9 Stk-ftno clue bv which he could be followed . It

      jjgfcpposed that he took his departure w the dead ^» be night . Having peremptory business at Tun-ISfee Wells , the officers left two auxiliaries in the fjgphy , with bistructions as to the course they Sgp ' " ] pursue to recover the lost track . The plans agpied were successful . On the return of Morten ^ g Padsou from Lewes on Friday , the 17 th , where f ggfod been to fetch the other nine prisoners for f ^ anamination , they received a telegraphic message ?^ e ® - > ct 'Da * a man answering Brooks's descrip-| ^ g Lad been seen between Woking and Chertsey . Iggiiig taken the precaution to attire themselves S ^ 2 arb of gipsies , they started at once by train Jll ^ oildford , and , after some inquiries , proceeded ^ SFokin ? , where thev made an active search in all

      Ig Sj low beer-houses in the neighbourhood . This ilffed ineffectual , and then tbey began a minute laft stigaiion of all the outbuildings in tbe district , HSJ there was tbe remotest chance of the ruffian j | 5 gg concealed . Lodges , barns , stables , and pig-S ^ es underwent the closest scrutiny , and at hist JJHP" efforts were attended with the success tbey §| lB"e d . They came to the barn already men-| 3 SM , about eleven o ' clock , and during the examifflH of it , ihey perceived , by the aid of a light Wm in a dark lantern , that a -piece of ^» d ta d recentl y been torn from the side giHthe barn , causins an aperture sufficiently iSfa for a mau to ^^ P throu gh . The meam £ fc ° f the officers were promptly taken . They Igp e the hole larger , and both of them entered . A . | » ch ensued , and the prisoner was found cond under

      fgp some straw . Knowing something of i g c haracter with whom thev had to deal , the iS ^ presented each a loaded pistol to him , with ^ ffptimat ion that an offer of resistance would re-^ in L i ? death . Having effected his capture , they ( SPjefled in the straw , close to where he had Iain , gR ^ mves , disposed iu such a way as to leave no ^ g of his intention as to bow he would have « P _ them if he had got the chance . On his person SRWnnd a knive , since identified as part of the MPnceofthe Chailey burglarv , and , as a further « connecting j , ^ wi t ] ^ ^^ u wm oe re . ^ Pbered [ that in the possession of the female pri , agp' Oliver , with whom Brooks has for many HP . Cohabited , was found a . watch , which was jSfHfiedby Mrs . Hurst as a portion of the progft . ^ o'eo on that occasion . The officers conm ? v their priioner from Woodhams to Woking

      «£ Dckfield Burglary—Apirehex J» 8ion Of...

      S £ ^ Ste ^ ? mi of mair train , and took their places in it for London . Jw « M «» d ay ? ? g the office " proceeded to mn ™ . S ^ the | ruo ner 8 ' Smit Hamilton , SSSn ^ i . Br 00 ks ' 01 irer . and Morgan During the first part of the journey the fellows behaved very ojuetly ; but the van in which they were conveyed had scarcely passed Crowborougn neiore th « y became exceedmgly violent , and most grossly insulted every one that passed , declaring that tbey anticipated a « rescue . " Upon remonstrating with them upon such behaviour , Brooks , who appears to be amostunmitigated ruffian , raised his heavily-ironed hands , knocked off the hat of

      Dadson , and entreated the other prisoners to throw themselves out of the vehicle . Hillyer immediately dashed his handcuffs against the aide of tbe van , apparently with the intention of snapping them ; but not succeeding in that , he attempted to throw himself into the road . By this tune , however , the officers , seeing how the case stood , became most determined in then * manner , and having presented their fire-arms , threatened to shoot the first man that moved , which had the effect of quieting them , Before their arrival at Uckfield , the prisoners raised such an intolerable noise by hooting and yelling , that a horse which was being led by a boy took fright , and started away at a most terrific rate . "What became of it we have not yet heard .

      The Murder Near Mottram. On The Evening ...

      THE MURDER NEAR MOTTRAM . On the evening of the 16 th instant a diabolical murder was committed at a farm-house at Hattersley , near Werneth , Lancashire . It appears , that the house in which the above deed was done is known as Rose Fold , and is situate in the township of Hattersley , in a lonely place , and was occupied by the deceased , Mary Kindar , aged seventy-eight years , two daughters ( maidenladies , ) a man-servant , and a female servant . On tbe above evening the daughters and man-servant were from home on some business , and a little after six o ' clock , the maid-servant went to the sbippon , about forty yards from the house , to milk two cows , which occupied a very short time , and she returned to the house for the key of the dairy , bnt did not see the deceased , or anyone else . She strained the milk , and again returned to the house , the whole of the time she was absent not being more than half an hour . Not seetug her mistress , she says she went to look for her ,

      and found her lying on the floor in the parlour , in the midst of a large pool of blood , and quite dead . She immediately gave an alarm , and Mr . John Sidebottom , surgeon , of Mottram , was seat for , who , on examining , found a very large wound on the left temple , the skull being fractured , anda portion of the same and the brains scattered about the floor . Death must have , therefore , been instantaneous . At present there is no clue to the murderer or murderers . It appears the abject sought after was cash , as tbe drawers and other places have the appearance of having been ransacked , but no money was found . The search had not been very strict , as a small bandbox , which was untouched in one of the bedrooms , contained £ 1410 s ., but this appears to have been overlooked . On Monday an inquest was held at the Stamford Arms , Hattersley , Cheshire , before Mr . Hudson , one of the coroners for the county , on the body .

      Eliza Kinder , a daughter of the deceased , stated that her mother was in her seventy-eighth year , and was the widow of George Kinder , a farmer at Matley , who died eight years ago . The deceased soon afterwards came to reside at Hattersley with her family . This witness stated tbat she and her sister went to spend the day with a sister at Armfield on Thursday ; On their return home in the evening , they were informed of the tragical occurrence . The servants were trusty and confidential , and took their meals with the family . After a careful search , two purses were found to be missing ; but whether they contained money or not , she was unable to say . Sarah Fox , tbe servant , then gave the following evidence : —I am twenty-three years of age , and unmarried . I have lived in Mrs . Kinder's house for the last five years and a half . We usually milk the cows between six and seven o ' clock in the evening .

      As I left tbe house to go to the " shippon I found my brother near the pigcote opposite . My brother had taken three cans from tbe slop-kitchen . I went out of the back door to the shippon , on the opposite side of the road . I took away the clothesmaiden by the front-door , and that was the last time I saw Mrs . Kinder alive . She was then seated in a rocking-chair in tbe front kitchen . I cannot say whether she was smoking or not . I cannot say what time it was when I went to the shippon . When I got to the shippon my brother was there . My brother bad a lantern with him , and a lighted candle in it . There were three cows to be milked . I milked two , and my brother milked one . He had finished before me . After he had done he did not go out of the shippon till I had done . When we had done milking I went up to the house with tbe milk , leaving my brother iu the shippon . I carried the milk to the bench-stone in the kitchen . I went

      into the house by the back-door . I went into the front kitchen or house-place for a light . That was the place where I had left Mrs . Kinder , I got a light from the fire . I had not left Mrs . Kinder with a candle burning . Mrs . Kinder was not then in the room . Tbe rocking-chair was in its place . The front-door was shut . The door leading into the front parlour was partially shut . I went and sieved tbe milk , and then locked up the dairy . I then returned tothehousebytheback-door . Iputtbemilkcans in the little kitchen or house-place . As I did not see Mrs . Kinder there I went into the parlour to look for her . ' I had a candle in my hand . The parlour doorwas a little bit open . I pushed itopen and saw Mrs . Kinder lying on the floor . She was

      lying on her face with her feet towards the door . I thought she bad fallen in a fit . She bad done so before . I put the candle down on the table against the wall and tried to help her up . Her face was all over blood , and on the floor where her face lay there was a large quantity of blood . She was dead , but her body was warm . I put the body down again , ran to the shippon , and called for my brother . I found my brother in the shippon . My brother followed me to the house , and afterwards brought the next neighbour , Mrs . Williamson . When she came Mrs . Andrew , another neighbour , was there . While Mrs . Andrew was there Mrs . Williamson and I lifted up the deceased . Mrs . Andrew said the deceased had not done it herself . Witness , accompanied by Mrs . Andrew , went up

      stairs and found the door of the room open where the woman slept ; the drawers were open , and clothes and other articles were pulled out of them . When I began to milk the cows my brother went out and said that he was going to put the horses in the stable . I cannot say that I heard him putting them in tbe stable . I should think he was not above two minutes out of tbe shippon when he returned , and commenced milking a cow . There was a dog at the bouse , but I did not hear it bark that night . Mr . Samuel Sidebottosi , and Mr . R . Sideboiioji , surgeons , of Mottram , described tbe wound which caused the death . - It was a fracture on the left side of the head , five inches long by three broad , the wound must have been caused by an instrument having a broad surface . The wound was a lacerated one . After such a blow death would be

      instantaneous . Several other witnesses were examined , after which the Coroner briefly summed up , and the Jury found " that the deceased had been wilfully murdered by some person or persons unknown . " The inquiry lasted from about ten o'clock in the morning till half-past five o ' clock in the evening .

      The Esgush Press Is Russia.—A Gentleman,...

      The Esgush Press is Russia . —A gentleman , last week , who has recently returned from Russia , exhibited at the reading-room of the Mechanics' Institution in Ipswich , copies of English newspapers which had been forwarded to him during his sojourn in that country . They bore upon them palpable marks of the rigid censorship exercised by the officials of the Czar over the English press . The ban is not confined to criticism on Russian politics , but extends even to the slightest allusion to the domestic intelligence of the country . The process of obliteration is accomplished at . the Postoffice , where tbe papers upon their arrival , are narrowly scanned , and any article or paragraph considered objectionable is at once most effectually defaced , by having a band of black glutinous composition , the width of the column , spread over it . The papers exhibited consisted of two copies of BdFs Weekly Messenger , published in tbe months of

      October and November last , and they certainly presented a singular appearance to an English eye , the broad patches of impenetrable black imparting to them quite a pie-bald aspect . Fortunately a file of tbe Messenger is kept at the Institution , and the curiosity of those present , as to tbe nature Of the offending articles , was speedily gratified . One was an article , a column and a quarter in length , headed , " The Conspiracy of Russia and Austria against the Liberties of Germany . " As this article commenced the second page , the whole of the first column was—for the sake of convenience , we suppose—cut away , and in this mutilated condition the paper reached its destination . Another condemned portion included a series of extracts from an article in the limes upon Russian farming ; a third was an account of the Polish ball at Guildhall ; another an announcement of the state of General Bern's health ; and a fifth a paragraph of a fire in

      a forrest in Poland . A Ltvek aw ) Stomach Cowlalst of loso Stasdisg Gotm bt HetiowAT ' s Fnis . -Sergeant TOtoa , late of tbe Honourable East India Company '! ternee ^ and for nearly twentj-five years employed on * *^ ^* j " mem " suffered most intensely from an «« wh « « ™ liver , indigestion , and sickness of thesstomactf ^ cb ap . " eared to be rapidly undermining A * <» ns ^^ " * ; Standing the treatment of some of the most enuaent * £ * oTediral profession . On Lis return to thu conntiy fewa ' ^ aSto ^ Holloway'srffis , ^ dt Ms superior mJSda * &>* ******* si" * P" *** * ' *""* T £ r i * 3 M *» t W * * wre of his former apparently hopeless cas ^ I

      Middlesex Sessions. The January Adjourne...

      MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . The January adjourned general quarter sessions , for the trial of prisoners for the county of Middlesex , commenced on Tuesday . Swisses OH PlCKPOCKETS . _ Henry Jones , a prisoner convicted at the last sessions of pickme pockets , and remanded , was brought up for iudgment . The officers proved that he had been before convicted more than once , and the court sentenced him to be transported for seven years * v He -2 L i , man ' conyioted of picking pockets af the Paddmgton terminus of the Great Western Railway , was brought up for iudgment , and sentenced to six months' hard labour .

      Largest . —An elderly man named Cross , convicted , at tbe last session of larceny , was also brought up for judgment . —The prisoner was a person of some notoriety , from his great eccentricity of manner in tbe streets , from being almost continually intoxicated , and from the fact of his being a perambulating teacher of the French language . Formerly he had been an assistant surgeon in a regiment serving in Portugal . The officers proved that tne prisoner had been convicted three times summarily , and a doubt having been expressed , as to his sanity , a certificate of Mr . Wakefield , the prison surgeon , was put in to show that he was not of unsound mind . He was sentenced to threemonths' hard labour . —Prisoner : My lordthreemonths . ' Can't

      , I be flogged , or something of that sort ? I'd muoh rather that than go to prison , I would indeed ( Laughter . )—The learned judge said he could not comply with the requestof the prisoner .-Prisoner : Well , I ' m sorry for it , my lord , for I assure you I d rather J / e hung , flogged , or anything else , than go to prison . Anothing but prison for me . ( Loud laughter . ) The prisoner was then removed , Robbert . —George Luck , 20 , George Sands , 23 , Thomas Cox , 21 , and Henry Cooper , 10 , were indicted for a robbery upon Thomas Howell . —On the Jnd inst ., the prosecutor was at the Griffin public house at Whetstone , where for three or four hours he was regaling himself and other persons with

      beer , and thougn the prisoners were not there when he first went into the house , they subsequently formed part of the . company , and the prosecutor " tossed " them for beer . Having spent all his silver money he obtained change for a sovereign , and immedhtly afterwards some of tho prisoners eliallenged him to toss for money , which he declined , though afterwards he tossed for more beer . One of the prisoaers tauntingly told him , that the reason he did not toss for money was , that he had no moaey to toss with , upon which he took out ofhis pocket the change he had received , and held it out in his hand . The prisoner Luck then struck his hand , and tbe money was scattered about the floor , and a general scramble took place . The case

      against the prisoners was , that they were all parties to this transaction , and that they each had an intention to possess themselves of the prosecutor ' s money . In cross-examination the prosecutor said he went out on the night in question to enjoy himself , the period ( 12 months ) for which he had taken the pledge as a teetotaller having expired the preceding day . —The learned Judge summed up for an acquittal aud the iury found the prisoners " Not Guilty , " Thief Traisikg . —The Thieves' » Kitchen . "William Bristol , 28 , a desperate looking fellow , was indicted for a misdemeanour in having attempted to steal from the person of a man whose name was unknown . —Archer , a detective officer , deposed that on the evening of Saturday , the 11 th inst ., he was on duty with Fisher , another officer , in Gray ' sinn-lane , when he saw the prisoner , who was in company with a well known thief and prostitute , lift up the coat-tail of a man who was just by

      Foxcourt , a notorious spot , and put his hand into it , but before be had time to take out anything the pocket might have contained , the woman called out " Here ' s tbat Archer and Fisher in plain clothes , " whereupon they all ran away rapidly . Witness followed the prisoner , whom he captured in a tobacco shop . —The prisoner , in answer to the charge , said be was quite innocent , and tbat the evidence of the officer was quite false . —Archer said that tbe prisoner , had been convicted of felony at Guildford Assizes , and sentenced to nine months' hard labour . A short time ago Mr . Yeomans , gun contractor to the East India-Company , was robbed of nine muskets and bayonets , aud soon afterwards he ( witness ) apprehended two persons for being unlawfully in possession of some of the property . On searching the prisoner ' s house one of the bayonets was found , and there was no doubt ofhis being concerned in that robbery . The witness added that Fisher could inform the court what sort of

      character the prisoner was . —Fisher then made a statement similar to that which appeared in our Police Report last week . —The learned Judge said he most sincerely regretted tbat the court had not the power of passing such a sentence as would rid the country of the prisoner , and he might think himself fortunate in having . been convicted of misdemeanour only . For tbat misdemeanour the court could not sentence him to transportation , and the sentence was that he be kept to hard labour for eighteen calendar months .

      Charge op Robbin g a Sailor , —Philip Barker , aged 30 , the chief mate of the brig Delta , of Stockton-on-Tees , was charged with having robbed John George Hancock , a seaman , of nine sovereigns , four half-sovereigns , and ten shillings . —From the testimony of the prosecutor it appeared that he belonged to the brig Mandingo , now lying at the London Dock buoy , and that between ten and eleven o ' clock on the night of Friday last , as he was making his way to his ship , he was accosted by a " lady , " who at once placed her hand upon his breast in such a manner as to induce him to push her away . He pursued hig way , but discovered that he was being followed not only by the woman , but by two men who were with her . One of these men

      he could swear was the prisoner . The woman again accosted him , and while she kept him in conversation the two men passed and repassed several times . Eventually he felt a hand forced into his right-hand trousers pocket , when he instantly put his own hand down , and laid hold of the hand , which proved to be that of the prisoner then at the bar . He thereupon seized the prisoner by the breast , but he broke from him , andran away . Hepursued , and soon overtook him nearto a public-house . The prisoner then turned upon him , and , forcing bis fingers in between hiscravatand his throat , nearly strangled him as he dragged him violently along towards the public house , into which he succeeded in pulling him . Just prior to the prisoner ' s hand having been forced

      into his pocket his purse , containing £ 11 10 s . in gold and some silver , was safely there , but wheu the hand was withdrawn upon his laying hold of the intruder , he found that the purse had been taken . It was , of course , unnecessary to add that he had never seen either purse nor money since . When they were in the public house a policeman was sent for , and upon his arrival the prisoner wanted to give him into custody upon a charge of attempting to steal his watch . The prosecutor , however , explained the transaction to the policeman , and , making a charge against the prisoner of having robbed him of his money , that functionary at length took the prisoner into custody . —A number of witnesses were then called , when it appeared from their statement that as the Delta was to weigh anchor at an early hour on the following morning , the

      prisoner was with several of them that night taking his grog at the Swan public-house . Among the company was his brother , and he left the room soon after eleven o ' clock , the prisoner accompanying him part of his road . The latter , however , on his return to the Swan , was collared by the prosecutor , who said he had robbed him . The prisoner's ire rose at this unfounded accusation , and he therefore dragged him to the Swan for the purpose of seeing who he was . In the struggle the prosecutor laid hold of the prisoner ' s watch-guard , and , therefore , when the policeman came , he charged him with an attempt to rob him of his watch ; It was further proved , that the prisoner had not been absent from the Swan more than three minutes . —The learned Judge having summed up the case , the jury Acquitted the prisoner , stating , that in their opinion the prosecutor was mistaken as to tbe identity . .

      Charge op Stealing Boots . —Joon Turner , a respectable looking young man , was indicted for stealing a pair of boots , value 3 s . 6 d ., the property of John Millwood . —A" woman named Jacobs , deposed that she saw a person take a pair of boots from a shop door in Knutsfdrdford-place , and she swore that that person was the prisoner . —Mr . Payne , for tbe defence , urged tbat this was a case of mistaken identity and called evidence , which showed that he was a man of excellent character , a tailor by trade , and in constant and respectable employment . —Acquitted .

      A Youxo Thief . —Benjamin Crutchley , a boy eleven years of age , pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a scarf , the property of Henry Paacoe . — The prisoner bad been summarily convicted four times , and he was taken into custody upon the prosent charge with two more prisoners , who were convicted , but he contrived , it was stated , to escape from the person who took him into custody . —The learned judge said this case illustrated the working of the Larceny Act , the evils of which were palpable to ail save members of the House of Commons . The prisoner was sentenced to nine months' hard labour .

      Ihcome Tax.—It Is Not Generally Known Ho...

      Ihcome Tax . —It is not generally known how small a portion of the people pay the property-tax . Mr . William Ray Smee says ; in his pamphlet on the income-tax , that out of the twenty millions of which our population is composed , only 500 , 000 pay this impost . The same writer remarks that the houses charged with the window-tax are only fourteen per cent , on the total number ; and that were the malt-tax taken off , the ale now sold at Gd . might be retailed at 2 d . a quart . These facts are startling and suggestive to a Chancellor with a surplus revenue . The consumption of cotton , in the last year , at Manchester , it is stated was upwards of 770 , 000 , 000 lbs ., or" about 1 , 000 tons per day .

      ' ' - J * — - B I L Rfwn. E T^ Ueet 0f T...

      ' ' - j * — - B L rfwn . T ^ UEET 0 F THE POLISH AND COMMITTEE METR 0 P 0 LITAN TRADES ' From Sept . 12 th , 1850 , to Jan , 12 feb . 1851 .

      bl \ * „ RECEIPTS . £ B . d Sept . 12 . —From the City of London Ladies' Shoemakers , per Mr . Green slade ... ... ... 10 0 » —Collected in the parlour of the Bull and Bell , per Mr . Greenslade 0 6 0 » . „ —Ditto in the Committee-room 0 10 lo . —Collected by Messrs . King

      and Antill 0 10 G »» ~ 5 ? Subscri ption Books ... 0 15 6 22 .-Ditto 0 5 4 29 .-Ditto 0 10 2 Oto . 0 . —Proceeds of a Prize Shoe by „ S etter 119 i' —Sy Subscription Books ... 0 2 0 13 . —Second subscription of the City of

      London Ladies' Shoema . kers ' , per Mr . Greenslade ... 2 0 0 „ —From the City of London Boot Makers , per Mr . Stevenson 2 0 0 » "" 5 y Suba cri £ . tion Books ... 0 8 0 20 . —Ditto .. / 0 8 4 xx * l—Wi * ° 3 " Nov . 3 . —Ditto 0 9 0 4 . —From Box ' s Society of Ladies ' Shoemakers , per Mr . Burn 10 0 10 . —Second subscription of the . Bull and Bell parlour , per Mr . Greenslade 0 3 G „ —First division of the City of London Bootmakers , per Mr . Ladd 0 7 0 „ —Second ditto per Mr . Wynn ... 0 10 1 „ -Fourth ditto ditto ... 0 2 6

      ,, —From the Progressive Society of Carpenters , per Mr . Ferris 0 7 8 „ —Harmonic Meeting , Rising Sun 0 8 7 „ —From tho Borough of South-. wark Boot Makers , per Mr . Cambridge ... ... ... 0 10 0 „ —A Friend per ditto ... 0 0 3 ,, —By Subscription Books .... 0 11 2 17-Ditto , ditto 0 12 3 j 24—Harmonic Meeting , Rising Sua 0 3 2 „ —From Mr . Harney , per the Red Republican ... ... 3 3 7 „ —By Subscription Books ... 0 2 10 Dec . 1 . —From the Progressive Society of Carpenters , per Mr . Ferris . 040 „ —Fourth Division of City of

      London Bootuiakers , per Mr . Mahoney 0 4 4 ,. —Harmonic Meeting ; , Rising Sun 0 2 10 { „ —By Subscription Books ... 0 5 6 „ 8 . —Second Division of the City of London Bootmakers ... 0 7 0 „ —From Mr . Harney , per Bed Republican 19 2 ,, —Harmonic Meeting , Rising Sun 0 2 . 2 „ —From tho Borough of Southwark Ladies' Shoemakers , per Mr . Fox 0 9 0 „ —By Subscription Books ... 0 2 7 „ 15—Harmonic Meeting , Rising Sun 0 17 „ —Second Division of City of London Bootmakers , per Mr . Wynn ... ... 0 5 6 „ By Subscription Books 0 4 6 } ,, 22—Harmonic Meeting , Rising Sun 0 3 7 ,, —From tho Progressive Society

      of Carpenters , per Mr . Ferris ... 0 4 6 „ —By Subscription Books ... 0 3 10 ., 29—Harmonic Meeting , Rising Sun 0 1 8 1851 . Jan . 5 . —Harmonic Meeting , Rising Sun 0 2 0 i „ —By Subscription Books ... 0 7 0 J „ 12 , —Harmonic Meeting , Rising Sun 0 1 8 i „ —From the City of Lincoln Boot and Shoemakers ... 0 5 0 „ —By Subscription Books ... 0 2 1 £ 23 0 Sj

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      1850 . EXPBNniTUBB . £ b , d . Sept . 12 . —Two days' pay at 4 d . per day each for 39 men 1 C 0 „ —For wine , for one of the Refugees that was ill 0 10 15 , —Two days' pay at 4 d . per day each for 39 men 16 0 Oct . 3 . —One ditto at 4 d . for 39 men ... 0 12 8 5 . —Two ditto at id . for 39 „ ... 1 6 0 9 . —One ditto at 4 d . for 39 „ ... 0 13 0 10 . —One ditto at 4 d . for 44 „ ... 0 14 8 13 . —Ono ditto at M . for 36 0 12 0 16 . —One ditto at 4 d . for 50 „ ... 0 16 8 17 . —One ditto at 4 d . for 50 „ ... 0 16 8 19 . —Ono ditto at 4 d . for 50 „ ... 0 16 8 20 . —For Subscription Books ... 0 0 Hi J 26 . —One day ' s pay at 3 d . per day each for 54 men ... ... 0 13 6 27 i—For Subscription Books and

      Paper 0 0 9 Nov . 4 . —Ono day ' s pay at 3 d . per day eaohforOlmen ... ... 0 15 3 6 . —One ditto at 3 d . for 66 men .,. 0 16 6 11 . —One ditto at 3 d . for 69 „ ... 0 17 3 13 . —One ditto at 3 d . for 71 „ ... 0 17 9 22 . —One ditto at 3 d . for 73 „ ... 0 18 3 24 . —For printing bills for a Public Meeting ... ... ... 0 2 6 „ —J ?» id one of the Refugees for waiting on Mr . Harney ... 0 1 0 25 . —One day's pay at 4 d . per day each for 53 men 0 19 8 26 . —One ditto at 4 d , for 55 men ... 0 18 4 28 .-Onedittoat 4 d . for 55 ,, ... 0 18 4 30 . —One ditto at 3 Jd . for 55 „ ... 0 16 0 } ,, —Paid Dr . Frith , by the wish of the Refugees 0 10 0 Dec . 4 . —One day's pay at 3 d . per day each for 54 men ... ... 0 13 6 '

      „ 8 . —Paid 6 d . each by 54 men for - washing ... 1 7 6 „ 11 . —One day's pay at 3 ^ d . per day each for 56 men ... ... 0 16 4 „ 9 . —For printing 500 addresses ... 0 5 6 „ 23 . —Paid the Refugees ... ... 0 7 0 „ 24 . —Ditto ... 0 3 6 „ —For postage stamps , Envelopes , and sealing wax for addresses to be sent to the country trades 0 6 0 30 . —Paid the Refugees 0 10 0 " 1851- A „ A Jan . 6 . —Paid to the Refugees ... 0 8 0 „ —For subscription books and paper 0 0 11 £ 22 11 10 j £ s . d . Total Received 23 0 8 £ Total Expended 22 1110 J Leaving a balance in hand of 0 8 10 Wm . H . Bubs , Secretary . John Sootier , Treasurer Committee Room , Rising Sun , Calender-yard ] Long-alley , Moorfields .

      The Am For Pkevsniixo Colheiit Accioents...

      The Am for Pkevsniixo Colheiit Accioents . —Mr . Badger , the coroner , on opening a late inquest , called the attention of the'jury to the act of the last session , instituting an authorised inspection of coal mines in Great Britain , The provisions of this act cannot be too strongly impressed upon all parties connected with the management of collieries , as the history of the ., Yorkshire coal-field abundantly proves . By section 1 power is given to tho Secretary of . State to appoint fit and proper persons for the inspection of coal mines , and lo remove them , notice thereof being given in tbe London Gazette . By section 2 power is given to the inspector to enter mines , at all reasonable times , and to inquire , into the state and condition of the

      mine , the ventilation , the mode of lighting , die .: and if anything is found defective therein , or likely to tendtothe bodily injury of anyperson employed in or about the same mine , the inspector is to summon the manager , who , if ho fail to attend , or do not satisfy the inspector concerning it , the inspector is to serve a notice of the defects on the manager or owner , and report the same to the Secretary of State . The owner , ( section 3 ) when required , is to produce a map or plan of the mine to tho inspector , or if one is not produced , or is found imperfect , he may require one to be made at the expense of the owner , on a scale of not less than two chains to one inch . No land agent or manager of a coalmine ( section 4 ) to be employed to act as inspector .

      Notice ot ail accidents occasioning loss of life ( section 5 ) in any coal mine , is to be sent by the manager or owner within twenty-four hours thereof to the Secretary of State , or , in Scotland , to the Lord Advocate , and he his bound to give any further information relating thereto , that the Secretary oi State may require , under a . penalty of not less than £ 10 , nor exceeding £ 20 . ¦ Section 6 provides for the f iving at least two days' notice to the Secretary of tate of the holding of an inquest in case of death arising from accidents in mines ; and the coroner must adjourn his inquest , if he find that such notice

      has not been given ; and section { f imposes a penalty of from £ 10 to £ 20 on any person obstructing an inspector in his duty . Section 8 provides . for the recovery and application of penalties , and the last three are the customary clauses . —Sheffield Times Cabw . vaz , Wiseman . —It is stated ( says a correspondent ) that the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster has received notice that a bill of indictment for a misdemeanour will be presented against him forthwith . —The Newry Examiner states tbat a certain Major Sterne , of Gola Castle , Fermanagh , " boasts that he has written to Cardinal Wiseman , to say that if he puts a foot in Fort Royal be ( the major ) will shoot him as dead as a gutted herring . "

      National Reform League. The Fifth Quarte...

      NATIONAL REFORM LEAGUE . The fifth quarterly meeting of this body was held at the Eclectic Institution , Denmark-street , Soho , on the 13 th inst ., when a report was read , from which we give the following extracts : — ' Since our last meeting we have added some staunch members to our body . We are promised the accession of several more in a short time . Mr . Hart , Mr . Swift , and Mr . O'Brien , have lectured upon our principles and objects in various parts of the metropolis ¦ and , thougn in consequence of the known political apathy tbat prevails , their audiences were not numerous , the principles of our programme were everywhere well received , and the leading democrats of London have already—almost to a man —adopted our theory of social rights , as laid down in our prospectus , and in tbe seven propositions we have so widely propagated .

      " A still more striking proof of our progress , is the gratifying fact that the new Executive Committee of the National Charter Association has deemed it necessary to recommend , in emphatic tflrms , that in tbe future conducting of the Chartist movement the questions of social rights shall be continually kept before the public . " " Facts like these , your council submits , are unmistakeable evidence that the public opinion is beginning to move in tbe right direction ; and it is an indisputable fact , that great numbers of influential minds amongst the trading and working class , who , not a year ago , would hardly tolerate the mention of social rights , have since come completely round to the principles of the League . " " You are doubtless aware that , some weeks ago

      a Conference of delegates was held at the Johnstreet Institution for the ostensible purpose of amalgamating the various sects of Political and Social Reformers known to exist in this country , and to form out of the whole one single association which , it was hoped , might supersftde all the rest . Your council , at the requpst of its promoters , sent delegates to that Conference , in the hope that a general union of all the democratic and social societies might be thereby promoted , without detriment to the integrity and principles of our own body , which , in accordance with your previously expressed opinions , we were resolved to preserve intact . Iu that hope your council was disappointed . The only terms upon which such an union appeared to us practicable wove rejected by a majority of the Confeieice . "

      " The policy on which the League has acted ia tbat every society , whether political or social , shall be left free to work out its own special mission , in its own way , to the best of its ability ; but that all should invariably act in harmony together io accomplish the one great measure on which all are agreed , namely—a full , fair , and free representation of the working classes in parliament upon the principles laid down in the People ' s Charter . " " Another great fact , which a short time will demonstrate . The hall we are now assembled in is a gratifying proof that obstacles are giving way before our perseverance , and thus one great impediment to our continued progress is removed . "We hope also speedily to be enabled to announce that we have established a newspaper or periodical , by which we can-establish a better communication with

      our brothers in the provinces , and rally the country round the new standard we have raised up . To accomplish this design it is necessary that we should receive the strenuous support of the rank and file of the Association . "

      Mossy Akd Passengers For Inbia.—Amongst ...

      Mossy akd Passengers for Inbia . —Amongst the cargo taken out by the Indus , which left Southampton on Monday with the Indian mail , was specie to the value of £ 300 , 000 , destined for India . This is tho largest quantity over taken out by an Alexandrian steamer . It was contained in 1 , 250 boxes , weighing forty-five tons , and arrived at Southampton on Saturday in clevon railway waggons ; one hundred men were employed in embarking it , who wore guarded by all the officers in the Peninsular fleet in the Southampton docks . A very strong guard was placed over it on Saturday , Sunday , and Monday morning , during tho time the Indus was alongside the dock quay . The specie consisted of gold and silver , but principally silver , a great portion of which was in Indian rupees . Tho Indus took out also nearly 130 passengers , most of them first class . About twenty of tho latter were cadets in the East India Company ' s service . Tbe transit

      of Indian passengers and cargo across tho Egyptian desert , the management of whieh has been in tho hands of the Pacha of Egypt about four years , has just begun to be remunerative to his highness , and the . ' management has never been so satisfactory to the public as it 13 at present . The Nile boats hare been increased in number , and the accommodation on board of them has been much improved . The horses , about 300 in number , employed in drawing the carriages across the desert , are in good order , and are exceedingly well harnessed . Great complaints used to be made by the Indian passengers on account of their being hurried away from Cairo as soon as tbey landed from the Nile , although they bad , perhaps , to wait at tho uninteresting and illprovided town of Suez for the Red Sea steamer . Abbas Pacha has attended to these complaints , and the passengers are now allowed ten hours' stay in Cairo to refresh themselves and see the place before they start for the desert .

      Loss op 7 , 000 Dollars . —The Ripon , which left Southampton with tho Indian mail on the 20 th of December , took out amongst her cargo some specie , a portion of which , consisting of a box of gold , nearly 7 , 000 dollars value , was lost . Tho Ripon returned with tho Indian mail on Monday . She made a rapid voyage from Mafta , and arrived in Southampton Water with the homeward , just as the Indus was preparing to start with tho outward . Indian mail—a rather unusual coincidence . As soon as the Ripon came close to the Indus the yards of each ship were manned , and the crews on board both ships cheered each other immensely . The Ripon then proceeded to the docks ; in tho centre of the docks she laid to , according to secret orders , until

      Captain Engledue , the Oriental Company's Southampton superintendent , returned from the Indus . The superintendent , assisted by all the officers of tbe Peninsular vessels in the dock , rapidly enclosed a space on the dock quay with barricades , and from whieh all but the Post-office and Admiralty authorities were rigidly excluded . The superintendent of police , and some assistants , were secreted in one of tbe dock buildings . The Ripon was then allowed to come alongside . No communication was allowed to take place " between the crew and tbe shore . The erew were mustered on deck , and their clothes minutely examined , aud when this done each man was sent a shore . Every cabin and part of the ship was inspected , but not the slightest traco of the missing iounu

      gow was . Changes in the Patent Law . — The following official orders have just been issued : — " The Attorney-General , with the consent and concurrence of the Solicitor-General , hereby gives notice that from and after the 15 th day of Jan ., 1851 . —1 . Every outline , description , and drawing deposited with the Attorney aud Solicitor-General must be signed and dated by the person applying for the patent , or his agent . 2 . Every person who shall have deposited an outline , description , or drawing of his ' invention shall be at liberty , at any time previously to tho enrolment of the specification , to cancel any portion of such outline , description , or drawing ; and for this purpose to deposit a fresh outline , description , or drawing of his invention , omitting tho cancelled parts . 3 .. Every person who shall have entered a caveat against the granting of any patent , and shall ,, upon the hearing of his opposition ; induce the Attorney or Solicitor-General not

      to make any report upon the application for the patent , shall deposit with tho Attorney or Solicitor-General an outline description or drawing of his invention in respect of which he opposes the granting of the said patent , such outline description or drawing to bo approved by tho Attorney or Solicitor-General . 4 . After the specification shall have been enrolled , any person shall beat liberty , on production of a certificate of the enrolment , or after two days' notice , and payment of one shilling , to inspect the outline , description , or drawing so deposited with tho Attorney or Solicitor-General as aforesaid , of tho invention in respect of which the specification shall have been so enrolled , as aforesaid , and any person shall be at liberty to obtain an . office copy of such outline description from the office of tho Attorney or Solicitor-General , on payment of the accustomed charges . —( Signed ) Joh . t Rouilw . "

      Assassination . —We have received information of the melancholy death of Mr . James Joseph Fryer , of York , under tho following very painful circumstances : —He had gone out to California , and on the 30 th of October last he . was cruelly murdered at a place named Humboldt , having fallen pierced with fourteen wounds by . the Indians . His companion ( Mr . Sproxton , son of the incumbent of Trindon , Durham ) with his own hands dug a grave and buried him . Ho then headed a party in pursuit of the assassins , and poor Fryer ' s murder was avenged by the death of eighteen of his murderers . Mr . J .

      J , Fryer was the eldest son ot tne late Mr , Fryer of this city , proctor . —York Herald . ' Feminine Longevity . —There is now living at Miison , near Cleobury Mortimer , an aged female named Penny , who has numbered ninetv-nine winters , and is now , considering hor age , in good health ; but more singular than this is the fact , that this aged lady has a nieco now living , a Mrs Passey , also in good health , who has reached the patriarchal age of-one hundred and one years . Such a coincidence in a family is surely not upo » record . —WorcWtr Journal ,

      Authorised Bloodshed On Railways. (From,...

      AUTHORISED BLOODSHED ON RAILWAYS . ( From , the Spectator . ) We have awaited in vain the report of the " full investigation" that was to take place into the collision of tbe 4 th inst . at the Boxmoor station of the North Western Railway ; but the Coroner ' s inquest into the accident at the Ponder ' s End Station of the Eastern Counties Railway fully shows that it must be classed among those which might have been foreseen .

      The guard of the special train which slaughtered Lodwick , the night inspector at Ponder ' s End , has been committed to Newgate for heedless driving ; but the verdict of manslaughter against him was accompanied with an expression of censure on the imperfect arrangements and irregular practice of the Company . To us , indeed , it appears that the '' accident" is less fairly ascribable to reckless driving than to the despatch of the special train without adequate precautions .

      The evidence shows tbat the arrangements at the station where the collision occurred were not suffi . cient to secure the safety which they professed to aim at , and that a rigid calculation would have demonstrated their inadequacy beforehand that the arrangements at the station from which the special train was sent were not sufficient lo secure safety in the despatch of that special train ; and also that the arrangements , inadequate as they were in their nature , were not completed even in form by the officer who sent the special train .

      The arrangements at the London station were not sufficient to guarantee safe despatch of the special train . A Hertford goods train had left London twenty minutes too late ; the night inspector of the telegraph department in Shoreditch telegraphed down the line to keep clear ; but it appears that the arrangements for drawing attention at the telegraphic stations are so incomplete that there is frequently great delay in obtaining a response , and frequently no response at all . The telegraph offices of some intermediate stations—Lea Bridge , Waterlane , Marshlane , and Chesunt— " are supposed to be shut up after dark . " Here , then , we find gross unpunctuality in the despatch of an ordinary train ; the delayed train is a slow train preceding a fast train ; the telegraph means for clearing the line are imperfect in their nature and in regularity of attendance .

      Such as they were , the precautionary arrangements were not completed in form . The imperfect working of those means were manifest at the London station ; whether the telegraph night inspector knew it or not , it must have been known to somebody that the Hertford goods train had started late . The telegraph inspector received instructions to " speak" with all the stations between London and Cambridge at only five minutes before six o ' clock , "I first spoke with Tottenham ; ten minutes elapsed , however , before I could attract their attention . Tbe next station I communicated with was Ponder ' s End . It was then about four minutes past six o ' clock ; I continued calling for ten minutes , and , rinding no attention was paid , I called at Waltkam , and there also no reply was given for some lime . "

      The inspector was to announce at these stations that a special train for Cambridge had started ; it had started at ten minutes before six o'clock . The precautions to secure tbe safe despatch of the fast train were not commenced till after the train had started -, and they were no sooner commenced than their total incompetency in the working made itself appear . The arrangements at the station where the accident occurred were in their nature insufficient to secure safety . Now observe what happened at this station . In reading the evidence , the fact first in point of time is , that the

      Hertford goods train reached Ponder's End about six o ' clock ; stopped to leave a truck in the siding ( which would take three minutes ) , and departed " about five minutes past six . "—so says the guard ; but he had sent his watch to London for repairs . The guard ef the Norwich up goods train states that be arrived at his usual time , ten minutes past six o ' clock ; the Hertford train was then partly on the siding and partly on the main dotvu line . As soon as it had completed its operation , the men of the Norwich up train began theirs ; which was to detach a truck and " shunt" it across the down line on to the siding ; it is said to take ten minutes thus to shunt a truck across the line . The Hertford train

      had departed about three minutes when the special train came up , dashed against the truck , which had not yet got clear of tho line , and inflicted those frightful gashes of which Lodwick died . Lodwick evidently knew nothing of the special train ; and , as the driver of the Hertford goods train knew nothing about it until he reached Waltham , it is very probable that if the truck of the Norwich train had escaped , the special train would have overtaken the Hertford train . Such are the facts as they happened ; now what were the standing arrangements at the station ? At four stations on tbe line there is a level crossing ; but of those four Ponder ' s End is the only one where it is necessary to shunt from theup-line across the down line to a siding : " it takes not more than ten minutes" to effect that particular

      sort of shunting . During the night there is only the night inspector at the station ; but as soon as the train arrives the men belonging to it are under the orders of the night inspector . It is his business to attend to the trains , their shunting , the signals , the telegraph , and the gates of the level crossing . It is a rule that when there is an obstruction on the line , a man is to run back six hundred yards behind the obstruction , and to put down a percussion signal ; but as that manoeuvre would take about twenty minutes , and as the stoppages at Ponder ' s end are very short—say five or ten minutes—it is the standing practice to disregard tbat rule . The rule is said to be observed at other stations , but not at Ponder ' s End—tbe only station where there ia a level crossing conjointly with the necessity for a transverse shunting .

      From the facts it appears , that while the telegraph inspector at Shoreditch was engaged in trying to draw the attention of Lodwick , Lodwick was engaged in shunting the truck . It would also appear , that between the commencement of tbe telegraphing to Ponder ' s end station and the actual arrival of the special train at that station , no sufficient time was allowed for a man to be sent back six hundred yards along the line ; therefore , even if Lodwick ' s attention had been attracted at the moment when the telegraphing began , it would have been too late to stop the special train . The simple facts recorded in evidence irresistably establish these conclusions—that the precautions to prevent accidents at Ponder ' s End were incomplete , and in their nature unworkable ; that the precautions available at the Shoreditch station were in

      their nature imperfect ; tbat they were not taken before the special train started , which made it impossible to repair omissions ; and that they were begun absolutely too late to allow time for obeying orders at Ponder ' s End , and therefore too late to prevent that very disaster which was confessedly foreseen when the precautions weie colourably begun . To state the case more simply , the Norwich goods train arrived at Ponder ' s End in the due course of duty , and its arrival about that time should have been foreseen ; the shunting was an operation in the regular course of duty , and should have been provided for into the truck crossing the line the special train was sent to dash without forewarning ; the simplest decree of correctness would have sufficed to prevent the disaster , by ascertaining that the line was not free , aud keeping back the special train until it had been made free .

      We are justified therefore in recKomng the Pon der ' s End slaughter among those which are per formed by authority .

      A Monster Ship.—Wo Learn That Jabex Will...

      A Monster Ship . —Wo learn that Jabex Williams and Son , shipbuilders , of Williamsburg , are to commence early next spring a clipper ship for a mercantile house in this city , engaged in the Liverpool trade , of the enormous size of 2 , 800 tons . Her length will be 230 feet , or seven feet longer than the United States ship-of-the-line Pennsylvania . In this respect , however , her dimensions did not exceed those of the great ship which has just been commenced by William H . Webb for N . L . and G . Gnswold ; but , in consequence of an increasing depth and breadth of beam , she will be some two hundred tons larger . No merchant vessel has ever been built at all approaching her in point of magnitude . She is to have three decks , and will be able to carry a vast number of passengers . — Aw York Journal of Commtree . Representation op GiAMonoAKsmnB . —A rumour

      is abroad to the effect that Mr . Henry Thomas , who for many years has been vice-chairman of the quarter sessions of the county of Glamorgan , will be put forward in the Liberal interest as a candidate for Glamorganshire , on the vacancy occasioned by Earl Dunraven accepting the ChuterB Hundreds . The Emperor of Austria bas raised Charles and Joseph Poniatowski , sons of the Polish Stanislaus Poniatowski , to the dignity of prince * , of the Austrian empire * - ^ I , ¦>

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 25, 1851, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_25011851/page/7/