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      6 The Northern Star* . May 25, Mo. J

      6 THE NORTHERN STAR * . May 25 , mo . j

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      ' isJii ffiitia of London ritmixo ' tubIWsbk . —In ; the reekreek ending last Saturday 830 deaths were regisrare & ered . in the metropolitan districts—a mortality r > hiclffhich is still less than theaverage , corrected for inrreasjrease of population , hut shows a disposition' to hy ireasaease oh the low-rate of mortality that has been ilbseobserved daring the previous three weeks . A gradual dual rise is apparent in recent returns j for since the tbirdthird week of April tho numbers have been succesiivehnvely 803 , 829 , 857 , and 880 . Taking the 10 coreespiresponding weeks of the years 1840-9 , it appears lhat that last week ' s mortality was greater than in any con-corresponding week of 1840-6 , but less than in any if lbf 1847-9 ; and that the actual average of the 10

      rceeftreeks was 868 , or , raised in the ratio of population , 1 * 47 , 947 , compared with which latter numbers the prewntsent decrease amounts to 67 . Of epidemics , smallmox pox and scarlatina were fatal respectively in o and t 6 cl 6 cases ,. and exhibit a low mortality ; measles and uoojhoopmg-cougb , which carried off 21 and 36 children fesprespectively , show nearly the , average amount ITypTypbus is also less destructive than usual ; it was iatafatal in 27 cases , but in the corresponding weeks of 110 j ! 0 years it ranged from 18 to 79 , the average being uboaboutSS . Five children died of infantile and resnitteiittent fever 7 persons of erisipelas ; 11 of diarrbhoxhoea .. At 5 , Tindall' s-buildings , Gray ' s-inn-Jane , ttbetbe wife of a baker , aged 45 years , died on the litb mf : of May of " English cholera . " The place js deistrar large

      SBcriscribed by Mr . Holmes , the Reg , as ' , ropeopen , thickly inhabited on both sides by Irish fami-Uief lies , and having a large sewer at the bottom . It sam appears that sk pereons died in the , Shoreditoh 1 W < Workhouse , Kingsland-road , between the 10 th and 315115 th of May ; and that of these a man sank under tcmcbntlnuedfever , a bbyundertyphus , a woman under < dia diarrhcBa ( 8 days , ) and 2 women , one aged 27 years , tthfthe other 69 , under " constipation and inflammation < ofl ofthe bowels ; " Last week the deaths of 52 persons we were registered from bronchitis , of 63 from pneunnc monia , and of 14 from asthma ; the total deaths in tthfthe class which includes these diseases were 144 , ithfthe corrected - average heirig 124 . Besides these , 92124 persons died of consumption , the corrected avaveraee beuur 154 . At 20 , Martha-street , St .

      ( GeGeorge ' s-in-the-East , a beerseller , aged 39 years , ( difdied of " tuburcular disease and caries in the ] lalungs ( 2 or 3 years . V' Mr . H .-Kees , the medical : m man who certified the cause of death , states that " " this is the fourth case in his own practice of si sadden death from hemorrhage , whilst the patients hi have been apparently improving from taking codli liver oil . " A commercial clerk , of 64 years , died oi of " mental disorder and exhaustion from refusing ti to take proper nourishment . " Ho inquest was held i in this ease . A currier , aged 50 years , died from « " freedrinking and hepatic disease ( 12 months . )" J Another man , who was of intemperate habits and " ssunBred . frorii delirium tremens , fell with an earthe enware nan " and cut his thumb , which mortified

      a and caused his death in four days . Of deaths reg gistered in public institutions , 73 occurred in work-£ houses , 43 in hospitals , 5 in lunatic asylums , and 1 12 in military and naval hospitals . —The mean 1 height of the barometer in the week at the Royal ( rObservatory , Greenwich , was 29-817 . in . ; tbe I mean temperature was 42 * 2 , less than the j average of the same week in seven years by 3-2 . i On three days of the week , namely , Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday , the mean temperatures i were so much as from 6 to 9 degrees below the i -averages of the several days . Sudden Death ot Gsnebal Sib James Sdthebi itsn . —On Saturday last Mr . Wakley , M . P ., held

      an inquest on Major-General Sir James Sutherland , E . LC ., at 3 fo . 8 , Upper Cumberland-street , Mary lebone . The deceased , who was in his 66 th year , and had seen , much service , invited a large dinner and evening party on last Wednesday , in celebration of her Majesty ' s birthday . Some of the company had arrived , and the gallant general was in the act of giving orders respecting the wine to the butler , when he fell insensible to the ground . Dr . Edwards was in immediate attendance , ~ but all efforts to save life were unavailing . -Upon an autopsy ofthe body being made , nine ounces of clotted blood were found in the region of the heart . The kidneys also were diseased . Terdict— . "Deceased died of disease of

      the heart . " Suicide of a Tradesman . —On Saturday last Mr Payne held an inquest at the George , Gracechurch street , on view ofthe body of William Hunter , poulterer , who committed suicide under tbe follow ing melancholy circumstances : —James Yates , late in the deceased' s service , stated that he found the deceased on the previous morning suspended by a cord from tbe balustrades in tbe house where be carried on business , in Ship Tavern-passage , Xeadenhall-market . Deceased was quite dead . About half-past she o ' clock—an hour before he was discovered by witness-he came from lloxton , where he resided . —Peter Davey , deceased ' s clerk , said that on Thursday morning the deceased

      received a letter from Mi . Watt , solicitor to Mr . Flicker , poultry salesman , Leadmhall-market , to whom he ( deceased ) was indebted a sum of £ 147 Ids . 5 d „ requesting that he would pay the amount by two o'clock the following day , adding that other proceedings would be taken if it was not . Witness found that letter on the deceased's table after the body was discovered . —Other evidence being given , showing that the deceased was in pecuniary difficulties , the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity . " . . Fibe and Loss op Life . —On Saturday afternoon last the neighbourhood of Tooley-street , Sonthwark , was painfully excited owing to a fire , which ,

      unfortunately , - was attended with a loss of life , breaking out in the private residence of Mr . H . Bonn , So . 11 , Brook-square , in the before mentioned street . The cause of this fire has been satisfactorily traced to a spark flying from the grate in the first floor front , and setting a quantity of wearing apparel in flames . At that period a boy about four years of age , unfortunately happened to be in the room , and before he could run away , the flames encircled his body , and he fell in tbe midst of them . Several persons , on seeing the smoke issuing from the window , and hearing the screams of the poor child , rushed up to render assistance ; but although they succeeded in confining the fire to the part of the house in which it commenced , the child was burned almost to a cinder .

      The Alleged Chod Murders ax Whttechapel . —On Saturday afternoon last an inquest on Elizabeth Barker ' s child was commenced by Mr . Baker , tbe coroner for Middlesex , at the Golden Lion , Cannon-street , Commercial-road , East . —Mr . Thos . Meares , Brick-lane , surgeon , said he should judge that ihe child had lived two or three days . The face was livid , and the tongue protruded from the mouth , and , on examining the front of ihe throat , he observed distinct marks of pressure , as if from the finger and thumb . Those marks would be sufficient to account for death in a child so young , but he would hot undertake to say that death was so caused . The lungs were slightly congested , and contained a frothy mucus , and on opening the

      head he found extravasated blood pressing on the substance of the train , and the brain generally injected with blood , These symptoms , taken altogether ,, do not . distinctly account for the mode of death , but in his judgment it arose from suffocation ; at the . same time , it was quite possible for death to hare , arisen from natural causes . The stomach and a portion of the ihiestines were in the hands of Br . Iietheby , of the . London Hospital , for analysis . Br . Letheby informed the coroner that he had not had sufficient time to make a complete analysation , but he had seen sufficient to say there was opium iu the stomach . At this stage ofthe proceedings the jury generally expressed a wish to hear the evidence of Mrs . Campbell , the midwife , who is in the custody of the police as an accessory to the murder . —The

      Coroner observed he could not enforce the attendance of this party under the circumstances . All he could do was to write to Sir George Grey , explaining the circumstances to him , and very likely he might direct the police to bring her before them at their next meeting . —The inquiry was then adjourned . In the course of tbe afternoon , Harriet Campbell was brought up on a remand , before Mr . Tardley , at the Thames Police-office , charged with being concerned , with three others no win the Blouse of Detention , with the wilfrd murder of an infant child . Mr , Yardley , after an interview with Br . Godfrey , as to the result of the post mortem examination of the body , refused to take bail for the prisoner ' s re-appearance , and she was accordingly remanded .

      Death of Captain WnrrnscHAir , —Late on Monday afternoon a fatal accident befel Captain Henry Whittingham , of the merchant service , " many years engaged in Baron Rothschild ' s shipping , and for upwards of a quarter of a century in the service of the General Steam Navigation Company . This unfortunate gentleman , it appears , had been transacting some business on Monday at the _ company's offices , in Lombard-street , and was on his way home between four and five o ' clock . On arriving at Thornton street , Bermondsey , his foot slipped off the kerb-stone , and he pitched forward on to the carriageway . At the very moment a heavily laden waggon ,-drawn by four horses , was passing , and , before there was time for the unfortunate gentleman to roll himself out ofthe way , the ponderous

      waggon passed over his body . The driver , it seems , was at the head of the leading horse , and was unconscious of the accident till the shrieks of the unhappy man apprised him of what bad occurred . Medical aid was instantly obtained , but the fearful injuries Captain Whittingham sustained rendered his-case hopeless , and he expired a few minutes after the accident . The deceased was in his 67 th year , and has left a widow and eight children to lament hisiloss . Most of the shipping in the river , as lw * ^ esse l ? fthe General Steam Navigation ££ K * t ? their colours hoisted half-mast JS ^ a «^ ° f ^ ^ > deceased . An in-T ^ Ju K ° ? ' J ^ - yesterday , when a ver SSi . m ^ W ^~ J S ? ' > » re « . Baron SSow ^ dSr l , scripti 011 fOT : ¦« - w -

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      ~^ o ^ M vm ^ o ?^ . MmmM . v ^ ji 3 ji 6 usJi —Mnce- Tuesday afternoott-consideraWeexcitement has been occasioned ftroaghoofctherieigeboaraood of Kensington , it beingstated that * man named -Patnck Barry , , living : in : Jenning ' s-buihlings ; - fligb : street , Kensington , had killed hiswhVMary Barry , by kicking her onthebead . It appearsthatintormfc tion reached the station-house of t « e T ; division , in Church-court , that Barry had Wiled bis wife , «" . which policeman James King , T l ^ rand ^ oloman Gentry , T 243 , were immediately topJ ^ l & S ning ' s-bulldings to ascertain the truth of the . report , when the unfortunate woman was »™* # * ° m * chair at tbe door of her house , surrounded by a num ber of women , and btedng fromjhe ^ tmM 0

      apparently dead . Mr . G «^ rD ^ P tha ^ geon , was ' imaediately sent for , auo >^ the mean time ' the unfortunate r ^ fXCului where r > n « nh onrl ffnKes at the top of tne buildings , wnerc & GmarKomptly saw her ? andjironounced herS We interim police-constable . Sweeny , Tist whileonduty in the High-street , was informed bVKbildren tbata * oman hadMust : bj » nskilled by her husband , and that the murderer had run off up the Qaeen ' s-road , and across the Palace green to the Bayswater-road , on which he - mstantly went in pursuit . Not seeing the man on the Palace green , he suspected he would endeavour to make his way into the London road by the Palace avenue , and immediately ran round , and fortunatel y secured him just as he was making off in the direction of Chelsea . He was instantly taken to the station-house , and shortly before five o ' clock was conveyed to the Hammersmith Po'ice-court , when he was placed before Mr . Beadon , the sitting magistrate . —Sergeant Clark , T

      13 , said sufficient evidence was in attendance to war * rant a remand on the charge of murder . —The following witnesses were then called ;—John Sweeny stated that about four o'clock that afternoon , while on duty in High-street , be was informed by some children that a woman had been just murdered in Jenning ' sbuildings by her husband , Patrick Barry , who had ran off , on which he immediately pursued , and succeeded in capturing him . —Mr . J . B . Guazzaroni , durgeon , stated that he was fetched to see the unfor tunate woman , Mary Barry , whom he found in a room at the Coach and Horses , Jenniiig ' s-buildirgs . On examining her he found her to be quite dead , and had been so some short time ' . He had made no particular examination ofthe body , and could not , therefore , express ah opinion as to the cause of death . —Mf . Beadon , upon that evidence , remanded the prisoner until that day week . ^ - ^ - -

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      Murder at Nkwpobt , Gioucbstebbhirb . — Bebkelkt , Mat 17- —The Coroner for the eastern division of Gloucester , Mr . W . J . Ellis , was engaged the whole of this day , in examining into tbe circumstances whereby Mr . Daniel Knight , a small farmer , residing at Woodford , near Newport , came by his death . It appears that for many years past a benefit club has been held at the Crown Ian , Newport , . near Berkeley and the anniversary of the society , according to ancient custom , was celebrated , on Monday last , and the festivities were protracted till a late hour , not only at the Crown , but at the White Hart , and other inns in the immediate vicinity , a band being engaged and dancing kept up with much

      vivacity . The unfortunate deceased , it seems , had an idiot daughter , named Elizabeth Knight , who formed one ofthe dancing party ^ and notwithstanding the warning of ber father , that he wished her to < be at home , she persisted in remaining . At a late hour her father went for her , and took her forcibly away , and , not contented with her quitting the company , he inflicted summary chastisement upon her by correcting her with a whip . This act , it appears , was witnessed by three men , named Wm . Fetheryi John Nelmes alias Newman , and Wm . Lovell , who , being exasperated by having drank a quantity of beer in the course ofthe day , waylaid Knight , and beat him

      most unmercifully about tbe head , leaving him in a perfectly insensible condition , in which state he was subsequently found by the Berkeley police . Hisskull was completely fractured , and although he lingered till Wednesday he was not able to articulate a distinct syllable . The surgeon , Mr . John Hicks , who made apost mortem examination of the body , clearly proved that death resulted from tbe wounds on the head of the deceased ; there was a great quantity of extravasated blood . After a short deliberation , the jury returned a verdictof " Manslaughter against the three prisoners , " and they were committed to take their trial at the next Gloucestershire assizes . '

      Sodden Death ot a CLSSGYUAv . - ^ Rev . Mr . France , of Cockerbill . near Aghton-under-Lyne , died very suddenly on the 17 th inst ., while attending the Archdeacon ' s visitation in that town . A'dispute of longstanding with his parishioners was decided by the Archdeaoa in his favour . The instant after the Archdeacon bad announced bis decision Mr . France sank down on tbe floor of the church / and expired before any assistance could be obtained . The court was abruptly closed , and a surgeon sent for , but too late . The cause of death is supposed to have been apoplexy . The Foroebv at Liverpool . —Mr . William

      Threlfall , who was lately arrested on the charge of extensive forgery , has been made a bankrupt . ' A messenger from the Leeds Bankruptcy Court ap--peared before Mr . Rushton on Thursday week last , and demanded that all moneys and other property found on the prisoner should be given up to him ( the messenger ) , which'was accordingly done . He then proceeded to the Bank of Liverpool j to get from Mr . Langton any property in his possession which had been found on the prisoner . InceotiaetFikes t 5 Dorsetshire . —The village of Winfrith and the neighbouring hamlet of West Burton were thrown into a state of much anxiety and alarm by three-incendiary fires , which took place consecutively on Thursday , Friday , and Saturday

      nights last . The first was a large dairyhoose and premises , near the Red Lion Inn , Winfrith , occupied by the dairyman of Mr . W . J ; Reader , which was discovered to be on fire about four o ' clock on Thursday morning , and the dairyman , his wife , ' and son liad barely time to escape before the whole premises were in flames ; very few ofthe household goods were saved , and but for the prompt exertions of the neighbours it is probable the opposite and surrounding premises could not have escaped . —On Friday night , about twelve o ' clock , the cottage and premises occupied by the policeman , Forsey , who has been indefatigable in the execution of Ms duties , were ' set on fire , and tbe room in wnicb he and bis wife Slept was nearly surrounded by flames before they were

      aroused by persons from without , and the whole of the premises were in a short time in a heap of ruins . —On Saturday night , about eleven , o ' clock , a hay rick belonging to Mr . Hopkins ( whose house and pre mises were only separated from the policeman ' s cottage by the turnpike road ) , was also set on tire and consumed . The premises above destroyed , in both cases , belonged to Joseph Weld , ' Esq ., of Lnlworth Castle , in the occupation of his tenants . Oh Saturday , inconsequence of some reports which had . been circulated respecting the abovenamed policeman ' s cottage , two idle characters of Winfrith , named Brine and Bowring , were apprehended and taken to Wareham , where they were kept in custody until Monday * when the Rev . G . P . Cambridge attended ; and it

      appeared from the evidence of Robert Trent , that on his return from Weymouth on Friday night , and whilst taking his supper , his son ran iu and gave the alarm of fire , upon which he immediately ran serosa the heath towards the village of West Knighton , believing it to be Mr . Hopkins ' s premies which werc qa fire . As he was approaching he saw two men running away from the fire , and whose persons were distinctly seen between him and the glare of light , which was momentarily increasing . Believing at first that they must be tramps , and had fired the premises , he made towards them ; on' coming up with them he knew and accosted one of the party with

      "Holloa , George , what be you doing here ; . don ' t yon see there is a tire ? " Upon which they replied that they did not , and appeared asH they would still goon . This was talked ofthe next day , and led to their apprehension ; previous to : which some foot marks leading over the garden hedge to the precise spot where the fire broke out , and others again going the same way back , were carefully preserved , and upon the capture ofthe suspected ' parties the marks were found to correspond exactly with their boots . From this and other evidence which came out in the examination , tbey were both committed for trial at the assizes , for having wilfully set fire to the house of the policeman .

      Effects of Nkglbciing Vaccination . —The Liverpool Journal states that serious ravages were making by the small pox amongst a vast number of children in and about St . Helen's . It is attributed to some objections raised against the system by nearly all the mothers , who declined having them vaccinated ; so much so that , during the last season ; comparatively speaking , very few children were vaccinated by those appointed for that purpose . It has been asserted that there were , a few days ago , some twenty children dead in one street in St . Helen's .

      A mas Uvebboabd . —On Sunday afternoon , a marine , named Crawford , belonging to the Victoria and Albert royal yacht , in Portsmouth harbour , while under theinfluence of drink , jumped overboard from the Royal George , hulk to the " yacht , and had sunk twice when Mr . Scaif , clerk . -jumped overboard aud seized him in the act of sinking a third time , and succeeded in keeping hold of the man till assistance was rendered , by a boat ' s crew from the Royal George , when both parties were rescued from their perilous situation .

      Sehokr os Smuggled Tobacco . —Thos . Collinson and Benjamin Shores , two men taken into custody last week , were on Saturday last , brought before the Leeds magistrates on the charge of having been concerned in conveying a quantity of smuggled tobacco , weighing altogether 4121 bs . The charges were taken separately , that against Collinson first ; . The prisoner it was stated had formerly been a commercial traveller . Oue of the cases in which the tobacco had been found was produced , and Mr . Jefferson , a Custom-house officer , of Hull , stated that it was packed so as . to represent glass .. A ( each side of

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      % ST ^ £ Kf ^ S , ^ ut underneath these wKveSdI I Hm ot leaf lobacco . The S / waTver ? clearly pWd , and the prisoner con-S ^« fc't fW ' --ne : « tata KiB ' tttor t ^ Stf ^ ay W finerandwas ^ hen' ^ mitted to SK ?^ -mbrithsri'The cha ^^^ priionerwas withdrawn . . ; , ' . . , ;; > , , _ ' . .. .. ' CKtrktTY to a WonKHOusBjiCHito . —On Wed- ' nesday'Mr . and'Mrs . ' Bd' rehamj a ' mostfe ' speofable farmer and his wife , ' residihg ' at Billericay , whd ^ liad been committed to the Essex ] Sessions , for most inhuman cruelty' to' Eliza Walker ,, a union workhouse child . ' were placed' at the bar at the Town Hall ,

      Chelmsford . Upon the indictment being road , over to them , contrary to' generarexp ' ectation , both' prisoners pleaded guilty . / The' case . ' was one of ' most unusual character , ' the facts being these : —The male prisoner being ' a farmer in a respectable way of business , applied to the guardians of the . Billericay Union atd the little girl , ten years of age , was allowed to'b ' e taken into his service , but . had not been there long when she was ill-treated . ' Ono'hight the prisoner and bis wife were from home late , and came Lome in a-state of drunkenness / The ' poor child worn put with fatigue , had lain down oh a bed and fallen asleep , leaving the candle burnirigv upon which the female prisoner caused the child to strip herself naked , when herself and husband commenced' beating her to such

      an extent that her whole body was one mass of bruises and wounds , and so great waia the injury that for several days the life of the poor child was despaired ; of . The appearance of her body was described as frightful from head to foot , to saynothitig of the attendant indecent and revolting circumstances . The chairman , on the part of themagistrates present , expressed their horror and detestation of the cruelty to which this poor helpless and inoffensive child had been subjected , and should mark their sense of it by fining them jointly in the sum of S . 50 . Britannia Bmdge . —One hundred and fifty extra hands have lately been taken on at these works , in order to expedite the preparations for the floating of the third great tube . -The situation which it now oc

      cupies being at much greater distance down the river than the two already floated , has rendered it necessary , preparatory to being floated between the piers . 'to remove it into the ; basin occupied by the first tube , ' where it will be turned round so as to bring it into the right position to cross the Straits precisely in the same course oi the first tubei parallelto which ' it is to be placed on the Anglesea side .. This more : ment is to take place on the 25 th of the present month , and the / pontoons have , beep already placed underneath the tube' for the purpose . On ; the . 10 th of June ( the . succeeding spring tide ) its' final transit across to its permanent site is to take place . Since the completion of the present tubular passage over the river , circu ' ar windows , four inches in diameter ,

      fitted with " glass , and standing at about twenty feet apart , have been placed along the sides ' . ' .- " . ; ' ,., Another . . Savings ; Bank DEFAUtrisiR . —The Market Weightbn Bank for savings was established in 1833 , as a branch of the Hull Savings Bank ; Mr . Jeremiah Roantree , draper , ah influential member of the Wesleyan society , being a local preacher , class leader and trustee , and a most liberal contributor to all objects connected with the society , ; has been the agent and manager , of the branch establishment for the . last fourteen years , and hjs ^ character was always considered to be . beyond suspioion . The directors ofthe Hull bank , having determined to investigate tbe affairs of all their branches , sent a deputation over to Market Weiehten , oh the 10 th

      inst ., viho stated the object of their visits , when Mr ; Roantree requested them to defer the investigation until after , the fair , the week following . This . they declined to . do . Mr . ' Roantree afterwards acknowledged that there was a serious defalcation , The accounts were examined , and up to the present time it has been ascertained that out of £ 8 , 000 , which has passed through Mr . Roantree ' s . htradSi there , is a deficiency of hot less than £ 1 , 800 / It appears from the books that a system of entering fictitious names and abstracting sums of money has been carried on fromthe commencement of Roantree ' s connection with the branch . . Different sums , varying from £ 31 to £ 85 , had been abstracted at one time . It seems , also , that he had the entire management , and generally sat alone . He used occasionally to call in an old director , upwards of seventy years of age , and has admitted that he was afraid of calling in others lest the errors should bedetectd .

      He had also appointed parties to be directors , and never intimated the fact to them . . The Rev .. John George , Independent minister , bad been so appointed , and never knew he . was a director until he was summoned to meet the : committee of investigation . We understand there is sufficient in the Hull bank to the credit of the Market Weightbn Branch to pay the denositers 15 s . in the pound .. Roantree has conveyed his real and personal property to the trustees , and a party is bound for the sum of £ 150 . It is hoped , therefore , that the depositors will not be serious losers . On the very day the bank closed an application was made for upwards of £ 300 belonging to some orphans , which was due on that day , the regular notice having been given . It is said that a subscription will be . entered into to make up any deficiency . It is reported , that in addition to the defalcation at the bank , Roantree ' s liabilities are nearly £ 3 , 000 .

      Railwav Compensation Case . —At Birmingham on . Tuesday a jury was empanelled to assess tbe amount of compensation due to the owner of a building which had been damaged by the workings on the London . and North Western Extension Railway « Mr . Alexander , Q . C ., officiated as assessor , with Sir Frederick Thesiger and Mr . Self for the claimants ; and the . Hon . John Talbot , Q . C ., and Mr . Mellor for the company . The houses , the value of which formed the subject of this litigation , are situate i » the High-street of Birmingham , and within one foot and a half of a tunnel , ; which the London and North Western Company have made for continuing their main line into the . Stour Valley Railway . ¦ _ By reason of the working and excavation tbe houses

      sank considerably , became dilapidated , and ultimately in part fell , thereby rendering them unprofitable to the owner , a -person named Allen , who thereupon made application to the Court of Chancery for an order to stay the company from going on with their works until compensation to the amount of £ 7 , 000 was made . The Master of the Rolls complied so far as to order the company to deposit the sum named , leaving the amount to be paid to be determined ^ by a jury . The company paid in £ 4 , 500 in liquidation of the damage . On the part ofthe claimnant it was contended that as the property was situate in one of-the beat streets in

      Birmingham , and at its present rental fetched £ 210 per annum , the fee-simple of tbe property was worth a much larger sum , and that a considerable allowance should be made for the forced sale ; Messrs . Edge . Robing , Drury , andHoughton , architects and surveyors , swore that the property was worth £ 7 , 000 , without rating . allowance for the forced sale . On the part ofthe company it was contended that sufficient compensation had been offered , especially as they bad settled with tenants , and had offered to rebuild the house in a style to meet the owner ' s wishes . The jury awarded £ 5 , 700 , which is equal to about twenty-seven years ' purchase . ;

      Outrage at Crbwkerne . — On Sunday afternoon j as Mr : and Mrs . Edgar , a . rather aged couple , who occupy a : cottage at the extremity of the town towards Yeovil , were sitting at tea , they heard a , noise in the room overhead , and on Mr . Edgar proceeding upstairs to ascertain the cause he was assailed with a violent blow on the forehead by a person in the room , who , it appears , must have entered by the window , which is at the top of a hanging roof . Mrs . Edgar , who followed up stairs , was at once knocked down , and left stunned with the blow , . while the villain pursued Mr . Edgar round the room , inflicting yery violent blows about the head and shoulders with a sort of pick with three prongs , which was used to secure the door . : The prongs of the pick

      were broken with the violence , and the villain continued the assualt with the stem , bringing the blood at every blow . Meanwhile Mrs . . Edgar sufficiently recovered to give an alarm , and the ruffian escaped from tbe window . In his descent he was fortunately seen and recognised by tnro boys who were walking on the road . He was taken into custody . Mr . Edgar wasseriously but not dangerously injured , although for some time insensible from loss of blood . ! Darin g Bobglabt . —On Thursday morning , the 16 th inst ., between one and two o ' clock , the family of Mr . Thomas Richbell , of Wickham St . Paul ' s , was alarmed'by the entrance of thieves Into the dwelling house . It appears that two of the burglars forced open the front door of the house , and that of tne Kicttbell

      parlour wnere Mrs . , who is very infirm , slept . Oae of them broke open a bureau with a chisel , by prizing it off the hinges , when a pocket book , containing £ 20 in notes , fell to the ground , but fortunately escaped notice , being hidden by some loose , papers falling on it . The other man was employed in preventing the cries of Mrs . Richell from being heard , by holding his hand over her mouth The servant girl , who slept at the back of the house , hearing anoise , most courageously jumped out of her window , and in her nightdress ran across a field to the nearest cottage for assistance . A labourer of the name of Hume , armed with a poker , returned with her and attacked the burglars , wlio struck him on the arm . Mr . Richbell , who slept upstairs , was in

      Hieact of . getting out of his bed room window for assistance , when one of the burglars , who was on the watch outside , smashed the casement ofthe window to atoms , m attempting to strike Mr . Richbell , with some weapon , but he fortunately escaped unhurt . Ihe men , seeing they were discovered , quiokly decamped . Great praise is due to the servant girl , as , nad it not been for her fearless promptitude in arousing the neighbours , the house might have been ; robbed , and the inmates severely wounded . The girl aeiaelf , it seems , in jumping from the ' window , which is more than twelve feet from the ground , narrowly escaped injuring herself on a waterbutt . Fikb at Clabemont Palace . — Considerable alarm was caused in the vicinity of Clavemont on Tuesday , by the discovery of a fire having broken out \ n the dining-room of the palace , but it was inv

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      mediaVeVextihguiBhed before any material damage Kdtafteni ) lace . ' ' ~ The outbreak 'is' attributed to the [ overheating . of oneof the flues ; -. ¦¦ ¦ ¦ . ?¦ ¦ , -w- < - ; -n ^ '• TheGams Laws ;—A few nights since ; four of the Earl of Derby ' s keepers , ' namely , ' - Henry Tyrer > James- Tyrer ,. Honry'Qreehnall , and JohnMolyneux , proceeded :, | to ; . Tinkle'pigWaa ' e , near , ; the-Maypole , where they we ' re to meet , by , agreement ,. at twelve o ' clock , the keepers of the Earl of Sefton . ' Shortley after their arrival , thoy heard , the sound of persons approaching , and , concluding that they ' . werejtheir expected friends , , weht [ towards , thero .: Instead of meet ^' ing the Earl of Sefton ' s men , they . encountered fourteen or ' fifteen poachers , all armed with deadly . weaT

      pons , and a battle instantly ensued .- The poachers cried , « 'Kill them . !! James ! Tyrer , Henry Tyrer , ' and HenryGreenhali , were , quickly , prostrated , and believing that they had accomplished their . puf pose , thepoachers , drewoff . ; .. J . ; Tyrer .-was so dreadfully beaten that his life-wascphsidefed in danger ,, but he is recovering , as are his . two comrades , who were also seriously injured . ' - ' - Molyneux escaped J " with : B' few slight bruises .. , This : brutal-assault , it . is supposed , was made : in-consequence , of £ poacher / having been recently committed for shooting at one'of . the keepers with intent to kill / him . The Earl of Derby lias offered a reward of £ 50 for the apprehension of any of the'offenders . : ' ; : ' "• • ¦"¦ " ';•

      Coach AccipEftr . —On Monday last ant alarming accident happened to the Gloucester and Malvern coach hythis city ., The coach , on its . arrival from Malvern f'ha ' d'been driven to the railway station , to put down the passengers proceeding by train ; and the coachman , pbrfer , and horse-keeper ,- proceeded to unload it , tho passengers for this city keeping their seats . Suddenly tlie horses , . through some unexplained cause , started off , and tho cries uttered by the coachmah / and others to stop them only in-, creased their speedj' and they broke into a gallop , to the infinite alarm of the passengers , and of persons walking along the footpath . ' Arrived opposite Messrs . barton and Co . ' s , : iron-warehouse , tho horses , dartod . round , the . corner towards . thecity ; biit the sharpness , of the turn upset . the coach , and it fell with a tcvrible crash towards the iron railings in front of the warehouse . There were three passengers in the coach at the time ; one of them , a

      young lady named Devenlle , of Newent , was thrown off , but escaped unhurt ; another , Mrs . I ) avies , ; sister , of Mr . Lqvve > , of iforthgate-stree . tt was ' thrown between the railings and the coach , which . fell . upon her legs , and . it was miraculohs that she escaped inv palement . ; while the third , being inside , was thrpvvn against'the roof of the' coach , and ' re ' eeivedja ' severe blow on the head , ' which ; was ; the " more piiinfulj . as the lady was : at' the time ah' invalid . : Mr , 'OrGlut terbuck , ' surgeon , of this city , having witnessed ' the accident , 'immediately tendered hiai services , which were most reduired by Mrs . Davies , as ; the coach had fallen oh her , and before she cdnld be extrica ' ted it was necessary to lift it . Fortunately , " rib , bones were broken ; although MrsrDayies ' s' ankle is severelysprained '; and she is so , much' cut and bruised that it likely'sM will be confined to her bed for a considerable time . The ' . other passengers were sufflciehtly well to proceed to their destination . ,

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      The Murders near 'Edinburgh . —At the ' -sitting of the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh on the I 7 th inst ., before Lord Monbrieff , Peter Pearsoa was placed atthe bar , charged with the murder of Dr . Wilson and his aged mother , at ^ the village of Juniper-green , 'on = the 17 th : or 18 th -of March * On the 18 thof March last Dr . Wilson , a medical practitioner , residing at Juniper-green , was'discovered in the kitchen of his house , quite' dead ; with his head almost beaten to ajelly ; and in the passage was found Dr . Wilson ' s aged -mother , also quite dead , with wounds of a similar description on her body as on her son , which had been inflicted on both by a poker and tongs . The prisoner was found in bed in the house quite naked ,-having burnt his

      clothes . The prisoner , who is a stout-built man , about 40 years of age , wore a sullen and morose aspect , and manifested little or no interest in the proceedings . —Mr . Robertson , the counsel for the prisoner , 'p leaded insanity , as a bar to " the trial , —Professor Miller was then called , who stated that he had examined Pearson iii March last , at the request of the police authorities who declared him to be perfectly insane . —Dr . Spittal gave similar testimony , — Lord Moncrieff' said he supposed that the court could come to no other conclusion than that the prisoner at the bar was not a proper object for trial , and be therefore moved that he be conveyed to-the general prison Perth , to be detained there subject to future orders of the court . —Lords Cockburn . and Ivory concurring , the prisoner was removed . . ¦ .. - ; : <

      Sir John Ross ' s Artic Expedition . —Laun-ch op the Felix . —The schooner selected by Captain John Ross to proceed to the Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin and companions , was . launched from the ship-building yard of Messrs . Sloan and Gemmell , on the 17 th inst . Sir John will rido at anchor in Lochryau for two or three days , when he will take , bis charts , & d ., on . board , from his residence , the north-west castle , Stranraer . Similar to the last . occasion , when be visited the Artie regions , he thus will sail direct by the North Channel , and the Felix will he taken in tow by © ne . of the Glasgow and Stranraer steamers till that point is reached . It is anticipated that Lady Franklin , will visit Stranraer to be present at Sir John's departure . All the members ofthe expedition—commanders , surgeon , officers , and crew—have arrived iu town , and are busy in making the necessary arrangements to brave the Northern seas . '

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      .Destitution In Clare.—"Whilst The Gener...

      . Destitution in Clare . — "Whilst the general reports describe the gradual improvement of the country and the decrease of absolute destitution , some few districts are still in a deplorable condition , as regards the . state ofthe poor . Kilrush , which had obtained so . much notoriety during the famine for wholesale clearances and deaths from starvation , still continues the scene of abject misery and want ; at a time when food is unusually cheap . and abundant , and the markets of . the districts are crowded with potatoes and other provisions . The . last accounts from that union mention several more deaths from starvation . At three inquests verdicts to that effect were returned . .

      Sales IK the Encumbered Court . —For the remainder of ' the present month / there will be few public sales of . any consequence ; but early in June the estates of Sir James Cotter , Bart ., in the county of Cork , will be offered ; and a number of . small fee-simples are to be sold in the course ofthe latter month . - •• ¦¦¦ The Potato Chop . — The favourable change in the weather has already produced a beneficial effect oh the growing crops , and there are no complaints , or even rumours , of the re-appearance ofthe potato blight . The ; report from Donegal says : —Early sown potatoes are fast recovering from the injury sustained by the frost , and all green crops , are doing well .. Altogether , tho harvest prospects are most encouraging . . .

      ' Reverse of Fortune . — The Nenagh Guardian supplies the following statement : — " A gentleman of highly respectable family and connexions , the owner in fee of different estates not many miles from Newport , in this county , and which , realised until Very recently a rental of over £ 1 , 000 a year , died within the last few weeks a recipient of indoor relief within one of the Dublin workhouses . The father of the unfortunate gentleman referred to had been at one time high sheriff of this county , held

      the commission of tho peace for tho . counties , of Clare , Limerick , and Tipperary , was the possessor in his lifetime of over twenty fee simple and freehold estates , and a courtier in the reign of George IV ,, with' whom he was a close companion and favourite when Prince of Wales . The remnant of the family estates , which are heavily incumbered ; will , wo believe , be put up , for sale in the Incumbered Estates Court in tho month of June , the order for sale having been made absolute some months since . " .

      A fire broke out on Monday night on the premises of Mr . Winter , tallow-chandler , in Grafton-street , and owing to the combustible nature of the materials on which it had to feed , a formidable outbreak was apprehended . The flames , however , were extinguished without much loss of property . The Kanturk tenant-right meeting of Sunday last was most successful as a demonstration of popular feeling . on the landlord and tenant question . , The Cork ; Examiner states that two several speci mens of new potatoes in a most healthy state , and which had been grown in tho open air , were shown at that office . One specimen was produced by Dr . Barry , of Middleton j and the other on the farm of Mr . Kean , of Shangarny . :..

      An incendiary fire took place at Touraneena , m the county of Corkjlast week , when cattle and a quantity of furnituro belonging . to a man named Corbett were consumed . ; , A party of armed men , with faces blackened , hay e been visiting several farming houses in tlm North Riding of Tipperarv in search of fire-arms . It would appear , however , that they have not been successful in obtaining any . ., •' - ¦ .-,. : A few persons in Dublin have , been taking steps during the last week to organise some means for the revival of Irish manufactures and general industrial enterprise in the country .. .. . ,.-. .. ¦

      ¦ Tho local papers continue to . describe tne tairs held throughout the country as tho best for prices that have been known for a long period . Triu Earldom of Roscommon . —The Dublin EveningMail states it to be erroneously , reported that the late earl was the . last of tho ancient lino of the Roscommon family . When the late earl ( Michael James Robert Dillon ) established his claim before the House of Lords , in 1828 , his competitor was a Mr ; Francis Stephen Dillon , who , having fallen into great embarrassments , was at that time a prisoner for debt in the Four Courts Mavshalsea , in this , oity , where he ewa after diqd . There was nodoubt .

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      J ? P . QP-. the _ investigation before the Lords , that he was the next heir .-afterMichael JamesRoberVand jaS ) heihas > died . withoutji 8 sue , ' 4 ho , oldest son of Mr , ¦ Francis Stephen Billon is tbe rightful Earl' of Roscommon . We are " informed , that ; . owing ; to ; his father ' s embarraBsraents ; an'd'beihg disgusp with home , he ' , enlisted as a private soldier , " and went with his-regiment to . North !; America , ! where , * wo belidve , he afterwards settled , and is now residing . Ko property descends with the title . . < The Cleabancb . System . —Evictions continue , on a considerable scale , in various parts of the south and : west . The process of clearing outthe old oc- ' cupiers , and consolidating their farms , is carried on with steadyoperseverance . ^ . Those who . can scrape

      up . the ^ means , emig ^ to ; , hiit . tho , greater ,, part , en-, deavour to | m ' akeouKa temporary liveliboodin some other wayij : or * ' g < 3 into the workhouses . ¦ ""''; ' ' ' ¦ ' ' Enfobobment or PodR-ItAiKs : —In the Islands of Ari'anv . on'the western coast , ' a body ' of poliiie , under tho Command of Mr . J . B . -Kernan , resident magistrate , j ^ re now engaged in enforcing the payment of pobr-rafesfrom . tho islanders , who , it is stated , have no paupers at present in the Union workhouses . TEe Adrhiralty ' steamerLudifer is employed on this duty . - v :- ' . ' ;;• ¦ : ' . ' - ¦ ;¦ ¦ ' ¦ - . . ; The ; Rejpeal ; Association . —At a miserably small attendance of the Repeal Association , on Monday , at Conciliation Hall , the rent was announced to be £ 11 7 s . 4 d .- ' " "" . ' " ' - . ' ' "'

      1 '' HiBEBNiAN BakiOno OoMPiffT . —A regular " row " occurred at the meeting of this company on Monday , when a . proposition was . made to modify some of the clauses in the deed of settlement , respecting the election of directors . A . strprig party , of proprietors opposed any change , and an amendment to ' that effect , propbsed-by'Mr . Reynolds , the Lord Mayor , was carried by a ^ majority of 107 to 145 . There vfasagreat . deal of wrangling and personal altercation ,, ( especially between the Lord Mayor , Sir Timothy . O'Brien , Bart ., Alderman M'Kenna , and bthersi— " While the votes were being taken down , the Lord Mayor called on Alderman Sir T . O'Brien , who stood near the tellers , not to be interfering with . the voting . It was great presumption in him

      to do so . Who cared' about his money ?—Mr . P . O'Brien : That is nice gentlemanly conduct on the part bfithe head of the corporation . —Near the close of thepoli . ri fV the Lord Mayor ,- addressing Alder-M ' -Eenna , ( who was standing behind the chair of o , ne of the , tellers ) said , ' Go ; awayrout of that , sir ; you have uo right to be there . '—Alderman M'Kenna : Si ** , ' you are very impertinent , to ^ speak to me in that manner , you are a foul-mouthed ruffian . — The Lord Mayor : Yoii have ho right to be ' stahding there , v ' You are interfering with the voting" ofthe people . Go . out of thati—Alderman M'Kenna : I will dp no , such thing . You area most impertinent ruffiah . - ^ The Lord-Mayor : May . I ask you / Mr . Ohairman ' ,, . to prevent j this fellow from creating disordln the ? Alderman

      ' er' meeting ( To M'Kennal You haye to right ; to be there , sir . —Alderman M'Kenna :-l have a better right to be here than you . —Lord Mayor : You are afoul-mouthed fellow , but you have no right to interfere with the voting . ^ Alderman M'Kenna : I wont suffer , you to brow beat ; me . —Lord Mayor : Put that person-out . Go'outi of that , sir : —Alderman M'Kenna : 'I will not . —Lord Mayor : Who cares about your foulmouthed language ? , I implore you , Mr . Moylan , to keep order and prevent this person from interfering with the voters . ( Hear , hear . ) . Tho final state of the poll was declared to be as follows ' : — For the ' amendment , 167 ; against it , ' 145 . This result was received -with * repeated ' bursts of applause . from the supporters of the amendment . "

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      " MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . : The May adjourned general session of the peace for the county of Middlesex commenced on Tuesday morning , at the Sessions house , Clerkenwell . There were fifty-eight cases of felony and four of misdemeanour for . trial . —The learned Judge very briefly addressed the grand jury after they had been sworn . A Liberal Jury . —John Turner , 24 , was indicted for stealing two brandy , casks , value 14 s ., the property of William Ginger . —It appeared from the evidence , which was somewhat complicated , that on the 19 th of April the prisoner went to a costermonger named Briant , living in Parks-place , Somers town , and requested the loan of a barrow for a short

      time , at the same time giving Briant 3 d . for the hire of it . Briant consented to his having the barrow , and told an individual named Louis Antonio Desserreau , who was in his employ , to go ' with the prisoner , and take the barrow home when he had done with it . There was another man with the prisoner , and they , accompanied by Desserreau , went to Albany-street , Regent ' s Park , and when they came to the Cape of Good Hope , public-house , kept by the prosecutor , the prisoner got two casks from the railings in . front of the house , placed them on the barrow and told Desserreau to take them to the Adam' and Eve , public house . The prosecutor , however , immediately missed the casks , and on seeing Desserreau going away with them , he went un

      to him and gave him into custody for steading them , but upon hearing the evidence of Briant he was discharged next day by the magistrates . The prisoner and his companion escaped , and nothing was seen of either of them until recently , . when Police Constable 81 Smet the prisoner at-Chalk Farm , and apprehended him . on the charge . ; When on the way to the station the prisoner adroitly slipped out of the officer ' s hands and ran towards the Regent ' s Canal , pursued by the officer and several other persons , who had been attracted by the cry , " Stop thief . " The prisoner reached the canal , and leaped on to some boats that were being unladen , when , seeing that no other chance of escape was left him , he plunged into the canal , and endeavoured to swim

      across , but he failed in the attempt , not being able to prevent : himself , from sinking - . and had it not been for the timely arrival of the officer with a boathook , he would have , been drowned . The officer caught him with the hook , as he was struggling to Erevent himself from , sinking for the last time , and e was dragged ashore more dead than alive , and conveyed to the station . The case depended entirely on the evidence of Desserreau . The prisoner had offered 5 s . t ) Briant to say nothing about the truck . —The prisoner asserted that he was innocent , and that he ought not to be convicted upon the unsupported evidence of Desserreau , ' who had been complicated in tho affair .-i-The -jury found the prisoner " Not Guilty . " -The learned-Jud 2 e .-Wel ) . centle .

      men , the verdict ' s yours , not mine . loan only say that you have let loose again one of the most notorious thieves in London . ' Charge of Fraud , —Sidney Giles , 16 , was indicted for obtaining goods under false pretences . — It appeared that the prisoner's father was in the employ of Mr . Warren , pianoforte manufacturer , Nos . 5 and 7 , High-street , Hoxton , and the prisoner was in the habit of purchasing materials for his father ' s use of the prosecutors , Messrs . Goddiird , ironmongers , of Tottenham-court-road . He had dealt there for eighteen months , always having the bills of what : he bought made out in the name of Mr . Warren , and paying ready money . On the 22 nd of April he went to them , and asked for two

      sets of vest pins , and two sets of basso strings , and asked for credit for them until the following Friday in tho name of Mr , Wavven .. This was acceded to , in the belief that he was authorised by Mr . Warren , and afterwards he obtained £ 9 worth of materials in the sa ' me manner . Mr . Warren had never authorised him in any way to make purchases for him , and this coming to the knowledge ofthe prosecutors , they caused the prisoner to bo apprehended . — The prisoner was convicted , and sentenced to three months'hard labour . Shop Robbert . —Amelia Gill , who was convicted at the last session of stealing from a shop , where she had been giving fictitious orders , and remanded , in order that inquiries might be made as to the state of her mind ( her father having stated that he

      had reason to . believe she was not responsible for her acts ) , was brought up for judgment . —The learned judge said the result of the inquiries that had been made was by no means favourable to her . Her father , it appeared , was a respectable man , and the cause , of her taking to this course of life was attributable to her mother . Unless she . reformed and became . honost , transportation would assuredly be her fate , and he hoped she would hot disregard that caution . —Sentenced to six months ' hard labour . ^ ' -. ' . Pocket Picking . —George Smith , aged 21 , a man who had been convicted at the last sessions for picking pockets , was brought up for judgment , having been remanded on that occasion in order that inquiries might- be made as to the man ' s previa

      oiis character . It was now stated that the prisoner had beeheonvicted at the Central Criminal Court , for uttering base , coin , in the name of George Daniels , and that he had been sentenced for that offence to six months' imprisonment , and hard labour ; that in the month of April , 1849 , he had been again convicted , but in this instance for a felony , at the same court , when his sentence was nine months ' imprisonment and hard labour ; and that he had also been twice summarily convicted . —The learned Judge , remarking that such a man was unfit to remain iii this country , sentenced him to transportation beyond the" seas for ten years . , William Butieb , a hoy of 16 years of aea . with

      one arm , was convicted of picking the pocket ol William Kirkmah pf a handkerchief . —The learned Judge , in sentencing this boy to transportation for seven years , said that although having but onoawn , he was one of tho most expert pickpockets of the day . He had been convicted on a previous occasion at Guildford , where his sentence had been an imprisonment of three months . —The policeman who had taken the lad into custody here stated that the father was a very respectable man , and with the view of fitting his son for a situation where the doprivation of his arm might not interfere with his pursuits , he had kept him at an excellent school for seven years .

      Robbery . —John Williams , aged 18 , and John Davis , aged 10 ( a little child in personal appearance ) , were indicte'd for having stolen two pairs of boots , the property of John Marshall , a shoemaker , in Ox-

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      ford-street .- The child Davis pleaded nV ^ It ' appeafe ' d that the policeman had metti , 0 ' "*•" sonerswalking tdgether , the little boy Davi , M , ing a oag ^ which upon being searched subBeA was : found ; , to contain the property in on H There , being something in the appearance ^ S > meanpur ofthe prisoner Williams which crW S suspicion in the mind ofthe officer , ho at ^ them ; aud'fouhd the boots , which upon furthPl ^ quiry proved to' have been stolen from the ** & of ,, the . prosecutor . —The learned Judge ir ,, > summed up the evidence , as against V 7 iTi ; ., ^ % jury " . Acquitted" , him .-Loekyer , an offili V ^ Westminster House of Correction , anin . u ., . %

      hams had been previously convicted and & Z \ "' '' to six' months' imprisonment , ' and that lm ^ tamed not the slightest doubt but that he » , nt *' was terraedthe -trainer" of tho little chiR ^ That child , too , had been before convicleT ;^ ' ' ' fact , had but just come out from tbe WesuS ; ' *» House of Correction when he was taken m , n ^ N cW .-Tho learned Judge said that thes ? , Vhis the law in respect of young offenders lit l * ° f wretched little child who hi pSJ ZA j * indictment , was nothing less than a Sl ^ civilised / country ike England . The senfenC 8 , ° * that child was six- months' imprisoiTlfr with regard to the older boy , Williams ho Xh ] % direct that he should be detained in custod [^ that the officers might ascertain if there 1 ^** other charges against him . Werc & aj AsSAUM .-Mary Elliott was indicted for w

      aaaauueu uuzaoetn Jilltott , her step-child mVs prisoner was living with her husband , the t ^ J )\ ho prosecutrix , at No 2 , Brill-terrace ? S * town , and the assault charged against her W « * committed-She was sitting in the room haEt and the girl was sitting near her sewing , wS | «^ latter asked her-for some tea , and findingK ° quest disregarded she went up to the fhl re * sipped a little from the prisoner ' s cup T !^ soner thereupon took up the cup and saucer SS threw them at the girl ' s head , winch was bE J consequence and ler neck and shoulders * . ? scalded by the hot tea which fell over her $ prisoner afterwards threw four other caps and 2 ? cers at her , and she was so hurt that tC ' , „ , ¦ ? " , * S ^^ r ^ W ^^ 2 wSSj About three . hours before thii th * n «; . ^ . threatened to cut her throat ^ victed and sentenced to t ^ mSSFSi S ^ SHOrLiFiiKo .-Eliza Connor , a nbbHb * woman said ^ to be well connected , was convicS of stealmgBixteen yards of silk fromthe shop Sd 2 C 4 , Rcgent-3 treet .-This was an ordinary case of shoplifting . The prisoner was sentenced to two months' hard labour . m

      An Uhnatubai , . PARB » r . —Bridget Smith 3 ?' was indicted for stealing twelve pounds of beef the property of Francis Tonnington . —On the mom ' ing of last Tuesday week , at about half-past ten * p clock , tho prisoner went up in front of tha shob kept by the prosecutor , a butcher , in Walker ' s , court , St . James ' s , and stood some minutes exa . mining some pieces of meat , for one of which she eventually made an offer , but such a low one that she must have been certain of its rejection . This evidently was done to divert the attention of the shopman from the operations of her daughter s child ten years old , who had crawled on her hands and knees up under the window , and dexterousl ? whipped the piece of beef mentioned in the indict . ment , from the board . This was observed , how .

      ever , by a person on the other side ofthe thorough , fare , and , keeping his eyes upon the girl , he saw her , pass the meat underneath her mother ' s cloak and the prisoner took , hold of it with one of her hands , which the cloak effectually hid . She thou told the shopman that she was sorry he would not take the price that she had tendered for the meat and went off , followed by tho girl . The person who had seen , this , gave information to the prosecutor and the . woman was shortly afterwards apprehended * but the meat had disappeared . —Mary Smith , the child , said : The prisoner is my mother . She told me to steal the beef , and I did steal it . I don't know what became of it at all .. My mother told ma

      how to steal it , and I did as she told me . —The prisoner , crying , said she was innocent , but it was no use of her saying anything , as her own child was against her . —The jury found her " Guilty . "—Tha learned judge said a more flagrant case of the kind than this had never coroo before that or any other court . ; These were cases rarely brought before the public / but they were by no means so rare in occur . rence as mi g ht thereby be supposed . It was almost incredible the number of parents inLondoa who regularly trained their offspring to be thieves .

      Such was the disgraceful state of the Jaw that had this poor corrupted child been caught and convicted , there would have been no means by which the hypocritical wretch who stood at the bar , protending to cry , could have been compelled to contribute to her support whilst in prison . There where parents who did not care what end their children came to , aud when such cases as the present were brought , forward , it was necessary that tbe court should mark them strongly . The sentence was , that the .. prisoner be kept to hard labour in the House of Correction at Westminster for ona year .

      British College Op Health, New Boas, Lou...

      BRITISH COLLEGE OP HEALTH , New Boas , Loudon . Report of Lfeuteawit John MacKinnon , General Hjgelaa Agent to the British College of Healib , New-road , London . Cape Breton , March 16 tb , 1850 , ¦ TO ME 3 SBS . MOB 1 SON . Dbah Sjes , —I have the pleasure to communicate to ro » that all that my heart could desire has been fully accomplish with respect to my practice as your agent since ! last re . ported ; and it would be tedious , indeed , to give a state . ment in full of the numerous cases of cure and benefits derived from the heaven-blessed medicines of theUritiso College of Health . The decided superiority of thellygeian system of medi . cine to all ordinary medical practice has been recently tested in our neighbourhood , tlie particulars of which I feel bound to communicate to you . We have lately beea visited with a fatal disease termed hy our dectors tvphia fever—and the name of the disease appears to be all thej know about it ; for all tlie patients they took in band woe

      soon hurried to the long home . Among others who fell victims to this dreadful disease was a Mr . Peter Keiiy , ogei twenty-two ; a Miss Mary Musgrave , a blooming youiijp lady of nineteen ; and , 1 have proof that the first doctor employed in this case after administering medicine , and blisterino- and bleeding to excess , declared he bad mistaken herdisorder ! hon-ever , they soon sent her to heraccount among them , Another who submitted herseli to tlie doctor ' s treatment , was a Mrs . M'Kay , a young marritd woman , aged twenty-one , having one child . She too , poor young thing , was soon hurried to the grave . People now began to get out of conceit of the doctors , < md the following individuals placed themselves in my hands to be treated with the Hygeian medicines of Mr . Morison ; and under tha blessing of God the success of your medicines , gentlemen , has , in the whole of these cases , been satisfactory in a l » igk degree , for all my patientshave been thoroughly restored to health . ' Miss Mary Ann Moffatt , same age and related to the departed Miss Musgrave . John Maidore , twenty-four years of age . Afttfi SfnfaM . r tnrdn ^ t . . limn .. nnM n nfn .. n

      The Misses Grant , two sisters , and many others wno had the fever lightly by taking the pills in time ; the name of these I have not mentioned , but those whose names 1 send you I consider were on the brink of eternity , but they are now perfectly recovered , and I have every hope the disease has now vanished . It carried off five members in one family hear Sidney , and the doctors there neither knew the name ofthe disease or how to cure it . I shall only add that I rejoice to know that the system and medicine of the late venerable James Morison are firmly established , and that the honest people who signed the petition to parliament against the use and sale of doctors' poisons are to have their names recorded ; andlfew pride in the reflection that I have done' my dnty in the cause on this side the Atlantic , and have ten children all thoroughly impressed with the soundness of the Morisonian theory . Should I live a few days longer I shall be sixtyfive yenri of age , and I have taken in my time 18 , 925 or your pills ; but during thd past four years I have not taken as many iu twelve months as I formerly tookia one , noritt one month as many as 1 formerly took in one day . lam , Gentlemen , very sincerely yours , Joiw MACKINNON .

      ¦ \Vlsdisq-Cp Of Slock Compasies. —Proce...

      ¦ \ VlSDISQ-CP OF SlOCK COMPASIES . —PROCESS 02 No . v-payment of Calls . —In cases where parties , fixed with liability under the Joint Stock Companies Winding-up Act , neglect to pay tho calls made to discharge liabilities , a peremptory order is issued by the Master in Chancery , notifying to the persons so refusing to pay their liability to be arrested under a writ of attachment , issued by the Court of Chancery , or by the Serjeant-at-Arms attending the court , and also to be liable to have their estate sequestered for the purpose of compelling payment . The official manager , however , has power , with the consent of the Master , to enter into a compromise in certain cases , and to receive payment of tho calls bv instalment ; M

      great difficulty is experienced in ascertaining truly the pecuniary position of the parties , to justify this " departure from the provisions of the winding-up Act . —Joist Stock- Breweries . —The Master " } Chancery , -Brougham , has just made a call of *¦ £ on the shareholders in tho Vale of Neath and Souta Wales Brewery Company , so far as the list has beea settled , and excepting as to those whose liabiW 163 have . been settled , with , a limited quali fieat ^' . Petitions have also been presented for the s « ' « ment and winding-up of the Oundlo Brewery Co wpany , county . of Northampton .-rSnEF « su > *»* Retford Banking Compahs . —A call to defray w « liabilities has been made on the . sharcaoldera to too extent of £ 11 per share , any surplus balance to «

      repaid them . ,, The Value of Publicity . — Whoever won " thrive out of the common course—be his spee'W politics or pills , solids or bubbles—must lverU 8 » himself with indefatigable industry . Half tn secret of success is notoriety . What do tf 10 . ^ lions know ofthe exact merits of Moses or the M » g" > Strop ? Nothing at all , only that they kuoek W against them at every corner , can't look at a de ? £ wall without being invited to "try" them , orjf »^ the . streots without having their greatness tw «™ into their hands . And so Moses and the WSr Strop heap up pyramids of cash , while many Stroj 1 and Moseses are born to starve unadvertised , an " waste their genius in the obscure by-streets au blind alleys of tho bewildering metropolis .- - ""' I Ladder of Gold ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 25, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_25051850/page/6/