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      :: 7 .- - : 7 .- - ^ Jf ™* manxa the Week .-T 1 ic moritit ) . « t } . ram cholera has rapidl y declined . The deaths nmalimaU causes registered in * Londo „ i „ the three m « ec « ending September 22 , were 3 , 160 , 2 , 843 , and S 3 i- Si * jhe decrease has been exclusively in the * wa > . era deaths , which wcre 2 , 02 G , 1 , 688 , and 839 in s ; tW three weeks . The deaths from cholera , which <« . "e « . ue first -week of September were 300 and vvatVa-dajr , fell m the 19 th to 110 , and have since ttexct exceeded 123 . SSrsrSrsriciocs Death is Hxde-Paril—About halfsst tivst live o ' clock on Sunday morning , a lad , while sssuijssuig through Hyde-park , discovered a man ' s itit out outhe south , bank of the Serpentine , near to one ^ the i the seats directly opposite to the receiving-house '' ' the Royal Humane Society , on the north bank , to hlikh hich place the lad immediately proceeded and gave f formformation of the circumstanca . The officers of the

      ccieticiety with the greatest promptitude instantly aaiui « iiuied one of the boats and rowod across to the Kiot , not , where , on throwing ia the drag close to the wiorcjiore , the body of a man was got up and placed in mebaeboat and conveyed to the receiving-house and iitmitm ahot bath , but life was found to be quite cctinatinct . On an examination being made of the >> dy jd y the deceased was found to he about fifty years '' " ago , and that his face was covered with bruises , uereiere being also a large wound over the left eye , rom ora which fresh blood was still flowing . The deliaseiased was dressed in a dark dress-coat , silk waistmt , ) at , and dark buckskin tronsers with a check n a tha the cloth , white cotton stockings , and low shoes , eearlearly new . On both legs , from the feet up to eearleady the knees , were large scars , covering nearly no lae iront of his legs . On his person were found a a ur air or silver spectacles , a pair of wire spectacles , a

      jBnnsnniute , a half-crown and a sixpence in silver , and ureareepence halfpence in copper , but nothing whatsrcrrcrto lead to his identity . The body was subsemenuenuy removed to the dead-house of St . Alar , i arearei ' s ; Westminster , at Knightshridge , where it \ wr :. wr :. - . * coroner' simplest . Ti Tus McBDER is Lambeth . —On Monday afteroo :-oos 3-i inquest Avas held at the George Tavern , - amamhoih , by Mr . Garter , the Coroner for Surrev , n t n The body of Louisa Charlottee Watson , an infant , irhorho * -: ts drowned by her father in the water-butt > > n jn Irursday week . The facts of the case , as ali eaueadr stated , were clearly proved , and , under the I lireSrecrion of the Coroner , the jury returned a ver-I lictlict <> f " Wilful Murder" against Henry Watson , Ihehefaiher . There is , however , no doubt that the afouvii unate man was insane at the time that he

      ottomiintted the act , though that question is , of ouour ? e , reserved for another tribunal . B Bvicide ix Farbixgdox-stbeet . — On Monday fttfteinoon , shortly before two o ' clock , a person tanamed James Powell , formerly secretary to Esiariarrero , but latterly acting as waiter at the Druids ' JalalJ , Farringdon-street , committed suicide . He reireni out in the course of the day , aud returned hohortJy afterwards without his coat , and seemed xtxtrer oely dejected , so much so that his Avife deemed fcpfcpi'udcnttoask Mr . Taylor , the hatter , who occuiie > ies the shop tinder the hall , to go Upstairs and pepeak to hhn . Mr . Taylor did as requested , and , staving inquired what was the matter with him , the uunforfonate man turned round and looked him fall

      a in tho face . Mr . Taylor laid his hand on his shoulder , vhvhen all of a sudden he heard the click , of a pistol , ffiffid in an instant the poor fellow reeled round three frames and fell to the ground a corpse . Medical aid ffwas instantly sentfor , and it was found that the Ideceased had shot himself through the heart . The nnnforiunate deceased , when he went out in the mmornrng , pledged his coat at a pawnbroker's , and mrith the money advanced on it bought a pistol . ] "" An irinquest was held on the body before Mr . W . Payne , afet the Rose Tavern , Farringdon-street , when the jqury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity . " Suicide from Starvation . —On Tuesday an inqquest was held before Mr . F . S . Langham , deputyccoroner , at the Aran Arms , Xew Bond-street ,

      toucnmng the death of John Jenkins , aged thirty-seven , aa gentleman ' s coachman , who destroyed himself raander the following very melancholy circumstances . IFrom evidence deposed * to by the witnesses it apipeai ed that the deceased lived at Xo . 17 , Lancashire-court ; he had been out of employment since IMay uii , and was reduced to very great distress , 1 and in want of the common , necessaries of life . All liis and his wife ' s wearing apparel had been pledged ito obtain food , and for several days last week they : had no coals to make a fire or any food to eat . It preyed very heavily on deceased ' s mind , who

      refused ui allow his Avife to apply to the parish . The deeettsed had not tasted anything for several days , and his mind appeared to be aiiected . He remained in bod , and never spoke to his Avife or children . On Sunday last he got up and went down stairs ; shonly afterwards his wife discovered that he had hung himself with his child ' s skipping rope , to the area railings . One of the jurors remarked that one of tiie deceased ' s children came into his shop on Saturday last , and asked for some bread and butter , and = aid his mother was crying at home and had nothing to eat . He said he had not tasted food for two days . Terdict" Temporary insanitv . "

      Ax Ixcokkioible CoxvicT . —On Tuesday an inquest was taken b y Mr . Langham , deputy-coroner , at the Mfllbank prison , on A * iew of the body of John Smiik , _ aged tirenty-three , a convict . It appeared ironi tho evidence ihat deceased was originally a collier , and that he entered a regiment of the line , while iu which he was flogged seven times for bad conduct . He was afterwards convicted four times for theft , for the last of which he was sentenced to seven years' transportation . He was admitted into the prison on tbe 17 th of June , 1 M 7 ; be was then suffering from an internal scrofulous disease , on account of which he was immediately placed in the infirmary , where he remained till * Saturday last , when he died . While in the infirmary he made frequent attacks upon the officers of the ward . Heath "was the effect of the disease he Avas labouring under upon his admission . Verdict , " Xatural death . " It was stated that there was not a single case of cholera in the prison .

      Gas Exrwsiox at Greexwich . — On Mondaynight an explosion of gas took place at the residence of W . Matthew , Esq ., of the firm of Messrs . John Pennand Co ., engineers , situated at Xo . IS , Valentine-place , Blackheath-road . Mr . Matthews Avas sitting busily engaged with tools and instruments used in engineering , when a strong smell of gas annoyed him . He rose from his seat , and with a lighted paper got on the chair to discover from Avheuce ihe escape of gas had taken place , and then

      in an instant a very loud and alarming explosion ensued , driving out the two window sashes into the street , and demolishing upwards of fifty large squares of glass . It is singular to remark that glass was broken in every room in front of the premises . A large leaden jar was blown from the table into the road , and mnch of the broken glass driven nearly to the opposite house . Mr . Matthews , we are sorry to say , was much , burned about his face and hands , and one female servant suffered by being scorched on the neck .

      EsciSE os a Coxvici Texas , ms Gaxg at Woolwich , axd Recapicre of uisi . —On Wednesday , a convict named Henry Connolly , while employed xvith several other convicts at the saw-pits near the ¦ west end of the yard , managed to hide himself and leave his clothes , after substituting a canvass dress , the same as is generally used by " the painters and others employed in working Avith pitch . The convict had been missed before he was absent many minutes , and an alarm given at the gates to be particular as to every person the constables ailoAved to go out of the yard . Every exertion was made at the same time by the police to find out his hidingplace , but he managed to elude them . When the men left work at half-past five o ' clock the gates

      were only partially opened to admit of every ono being more minutely examined , as it is now more difficult to know the convicts from labourers since their whiskers have been allowed to be cultivated as they choose . Several of the guards of the convict ship were also present to aid in detecting the convict if he should attempt to pass out with the workmen , as the convict Wood must have done . After six o ' clock sentries of the Royal Marines were posted outside the dockyard Avail , and every precaution taken that the convict should be captured . Policc-eonsfables were also stationed in various parts of the yard ; and about eight o ' clock p . ni . police-constable 20715 , James Witlis , observed a

      person pass across nearly opposite the slip , under which the Xankin ( fifty-gua frigate ) is building , at the east end of the yard , and gave the alarm , Avhen the slip was surrounded , and after a considerable time spent iu searching for him with lanterns , ho was found lying Hat on his face on a coil of rope , and taken to the convict-ship . Had it not been for the exertions made by all parties to capture him , he would have eSbcted Ma escape during the night , and had evidently made his way from the west end of the yard to the easiest phiccfor throwing a rope over the wall and letting himself down at the outside w . ' : m ho found that , owing to tho precautions taken at the gate , he could not pass oat with the ATorkuica .

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      Tns Bttvasu . Associatiox axd the Abamxcemext of Sciexce . —Sir David Brewster has been elected President of the Association for next- year . Mr . J . Taylor was re-elected Treasurer ; Professor Phillips , Assistant-secretary ; and Professor Royle was appointed Assistant-general-sccretary with Colonel Sabine . The next meeting is to be held at Edinburgh . The closing meeting Avas held on Wednesday last . Tu ; . Mien that inhabit some small chinks inavast buildkig i . ' - 'ithcr know whether the building is eternal , wlio is the architect , nor wherefore it has been built by that architect ; they endeavour to 5 reserve life , to people their holes , and to fly the estrnctive animals by which they are pursued . Such mice are we ; and the divine architect who lias built the universe has neYCr yet , to my knowledge , revealed his secret to any mouse among vs . —letter of Voltaire to Frederic the Great , Auqust 26 th , 1736 , ¦ - - - ¦ •• . » - ,

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      Four Children Poisoxed . —One of tho most diabolical attempts ever made to destroy human life by poison was perpetrated in Nottingham on the evening of Friday week . About five o ' clock , a young man residing near the house , occupied by a hawker named Burke , a Avidower , in Eve ' s-yard , Narrowmarsh , discovered that the poor man's children had been suddenly taken ill in the absence of their father , and proceeding to render them assistance , found that they had been vomiting dreadfully . At first it was thought that they had heen seized with cholera , but a cup containing some suspicious-looking ingredient being found upon the table , a number of the neighbours were called in , and the whole family , with tho cup and its contents , were instantly carried off to the General Hospital , where restoratives being promptly applied , the two vounwest were soon pronounced out of danger .

      Their names are-Mary , aged 11 ; Thomas , O ; Catherine , 4 ; and Sarah , 2 . On Saturday , the the eldest , Mary , was sufficiently well to make a statement from which it appeared that having gone out to buy some small articles of grocery , she was met on her return by a woman who asked her if her name was not Burke . The girl replied in the affirmative , and was asked if she would like some good stuff . The Avoman then gave her a paper containing a quantity of white powder , telling her it was magnesia ; that she must pour hot water upon it drink some of it , and give the rest to her brother and sisters . She did so , and they all became very sick . The liquid in the cup and the contents ot tiie children ' s stomach ' s Avere found to be strqng ' y impregnated with arsenic . The father has since retained . Xo certain clue has as yet been discovered to lead to the detection of the woman .

      Destructive Fikes . —On the 20 th instant , about two o ' clock in the morning , a long wooden building at Harbnry , near Southam , for the accommodation of the men working there , Avas burnt to the ground ; providentially no lives were lost . A servant-man , who was the only person up at the time , stated that he upset ajar of turpentine , and dropped into it accidentally a piece of lighted candle , which ignited it . As he has since , however , given a different account of the affair he has been lodged hi gaol for examination before the magistrate . About the same hour on Friday morning the mill at Southam was found to be on fire , owing , as is stated , to some bags which were ignited by the over-working of the machinery . At four o ' clock the roof fell in with a crash which was heard at a distance of a mile and a half . More than 100 bags of wheat were consumed in this conflagration ,

      mostly the gleanings of the poor . The property was not insured . The ExTEXsrvE Railwat . Robberies at Hajd DEnsFtBLD . —The whole of the fifteen prisoners concerned in the robberies ( including Joseph Taylor , Court Leet , constable of Golcar , the last apprehended ) , appeared before tho Huddersfield magistrates on Friday Last . The proceedings occupied from half-past nine in the morning until seven in the evening . Joseph Wood , tbe elder , Walton Wlriteley , J . "W . Ramsden , David Hellawell , Joseph Wood , jun ., and James Bailey , were all committed for trial at the next Yorkshire assizes , several of them on three or four distinct charges . Joseph Taylor , who had been apprehended on suspicion of beingreceiver of the stolen property , was discharged , the evidence not proving him to have had a guilty knowledge . Cooke , previously discharged , was again in custody , and , with the other prisoners , was remanded for further examination .

      Leigh . —Marriage of Uxcoxfirmed Persoxs . — The bans of John Williamson and Mary Ann Kcarsley were published for the third time on the 9 th inst ., at the parish churches of Lowton and Leigh . It was resolved that the parties should present themselves for marriage at the latter church , and thus test the vicar ' s resolution , and , in the event of his refusal , the legality of his conduct . Accordingly , the following notices were prepared and personally served upon the vicar by the parties : — " I , the undersigned Mary Ann Kearsley , of Twist-lane , in the township of Pennington , in the county of Lancashire , and I , the undersigned John Wilkinson , of the parish of Lowton , in tho county of Lancaster , do hereby acquaint you , James Irvin ,

      clerk and vicar of Leigh , in the county aforesaid , that it is our wish and intention to be joined together in holy matrimony , and that we shall present ourselves for that purpose at your parish church at Leigh , on Saturday , the 15 th day of September , in the year of our Lord , 18 i 9 , at eight o ' clock in the morning , or at any other hour you may appoint as most convenient , provided , notwithstanding , so that marriage may be solemnized between us in your parish church at Leigh , aforesaid , before the hour of twelve o ' clock of the said day . —Dated this 14 th day of September , 1819 . —Mart Ax . v Kearslev , her X mark , Jonx Williamson . Witness , John Taylor , " "I , James Ivearsley , weaver , of the parish of Leigh , in the county of Lancaster , do

      hereby express my full and entire consent to the marriage of my daughter Mary Ann with John Williansom , of the parish of Lowton , as Avitncss my hand this Hth day of September , 1849 . James Eearslet . Witness , John Taylor . " "We , the undersigned , John Williamson and Betty Williamson , of the parish of Lowton , in the county of Lan ^ caster , do hereby express our full and entire consent to the marriage of our son John with Mary Ann Kearslev , of the parish of Leigh . Dated this I 4 tli day of September , 1849 . John Wiluamson , Betit Williamson , her y , mark . Witness John Taylor . " A certificate that the bans had been published at Lowton was also given to the vicar . The parties

      stated that the vicar said "he would not marry them , " and that" his curate had no power to do so , " and that he was glad they had taken that course . The parties said , however , that they Arould come in the morning . Accordingly they did so , and no further obstacles were offered , but they were married by tho Rev . J . Brame , vicar of West Leigh , and stepson to the vicar , who read the full marriage service , including the exhortation at the end . The Kearsleys have never presented themselves for instruction in the church catechism in compliance with the citations of tho vicar , and it yet remains to be seen whether they will be excommunicated at the end of the month alloAved them .

      Daring the past Aveek two or three publications on rubrical matters have been circulated in the parish , and considerable excitement prevails . Poisoxixg at Cheltexham . —Sett . 20 . —The death of two persons here in a very sudden manner , after eating a dinner of cucumber , bread and cheese , and apple dumpling , has excited an unusual sensation . At first the parties were supposed to be labouring under an attack of cholera , but subsequent inquiries led to the conviction that they Avere poisoned—it is supposed by arsenic administered in the apple dumplings . The family , consisting of six persons , had partaken of four-cucumbers , the remains of a portion of one of them arc quite rotten and full of offensive liquor ; but it is proved by the medical

      attendant that the symptoms under which the deceased and the other parties who partook of the dumplings laboured , were not those of cholera , but rather of an irritant poison , such as arsenic . The matter has now been for two days under investigation before Mr . S . Mayer , the local coroner , and stands adjourned to Friday morning . From the depositions of the several witnesses examined upon theuiquiry up to this time , ayc take the following brief summary of the circumstances attending this mysterious occurrence , Mrs . Gregory , a widow , lired with her family at 13 , Chapel-street , a labouring man named Bamett lodging with them . On Friday , the parties dined on bread and cheese , four cucumbers in an adA'anccd stage of decomposition ,

      and offensive to the smell ( the four had been bought for a penny ) , and some apple dumplings , for which the flour had heen provided by Barnett . While yet at dinner the whole of the party were seized " with , violent retching and spasms , and the two deceased , Elizabeth Gregory , aged twentyone , and a younger brother , were the worst . They remained in this state complaining of burning in the throat and acute pain in the bowels , accompanied by vomiting , until seven o ' clock in the e \ ening , Avhen Dr . Brookes was sent for . He found the whole family vomiting , and Elizabeth Gregory was in a state of collapse . He considered the cucumber shown to him likely , if eaten at the present period , to produce diarrhoea ,

      vomiting , and probably death . He prescribed for the family , and gave a decided opinion that tho disorder was not cholera , but considered the symptoms more like those produced by an irritating poison . It Avas observed at dinner that some of the dumpling tasted hot , as if cayenne pepper had been sprinkled over them . The girl { Elizabeth Gregory ) died on the same night ' at ten o' clock , and her brother on Sunday , after excruciating suffering . The eontents of the stomachs uf the deceased have been forwarded to Mr . Hcrapath , of Bristol , the celebrated chemist , for analysation , and the result has been the apprehension of Barnett , who is now in gaol , pending the verdict of the coroner ' s jury . Harnett ' s wife ( a cook at the Cheltenham Training School ) has also heen apprehended . —The jury assembled at ten o ' clock on Friday morning , and there was a great number of the medical profession

      present . Mr . Hcrapath deposed that he bad subjected the stomach , the contents of the stomach , the portions of flour , dumpling , aud paste , forwarded to hiw by Dr . Brookes and the police authorities , to a careful analysis , and he discovered in them the presence of arsenic in A-ery large quantities . A very small quantity of the dumpling , taken into tho human sytem , would be sufficient to destroy life . Mr . Hcrapath added , he had not the slightest doubt that the deceased parties came by their deaths from taking arsenic . A great number of witnesses Avero called , but their testimony threw no additional light on this mysterious transaction , and in no way tended to criminate the accused parties , further than that the flour came from the hands of the male prisoner . The coroner determined , under these circumstances , to adjourn the inquiry in order to enable the police to prosecute their enquiries still further . The suspected parties , Barnett and his wife , still remain

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      in custody . —The investigation-was resumed at elevenp ' clock on Wednesday morning . —Mr . Brooks , snwreon , stated the result of a post mortem e ' s & mma .-fioti which he had made of the body of Elizabeth pLcrory . Ho made the . examination sixteen h ours ^ Ver her decease . He found the body presented e xternally a healthy appearance , but the brain was cliwhtly congested . The stomach contained about Evolve ounces of fluid , and the mucous coats were m ,, ch inflamed in two patches . He described tho condition of other parts of the body , and said that with the exception ef the inflammation on the coats of the st omilca t ' iere ime no traces of poison , but this was n ot all unusual in cases of poisoning by arsenic . Caroline Gregory , sister to tho deceased , stated

      that when the deceased , bamuei wcgovy , came in to dinner , he said he did not like cucumber and bread and cheese , on which Barnett said to his mother " Give him a dumpling , and take one Toursdf . " Accordingly Mrs . Gregory gave the poor boy a dumpling , and he ate part of it , when he became ill . This Avitncss also stated that when the dumplings were made by her deceased sister some of the nour brought by Barnet was put into a teacup and reserved . When the surgeon camo he asked for the remaining dumpling or some of the flour , and on going to tho cupboard for it , witness discovered that it had been taken away . Did not know who put itaway . Barnet and Avitness ' ssister had had some slight quarrels . Barnett ' s room was

      kept locked by him when he was at work . The Inquest on the bodies of James Baker , the contractor , and one of his Avorkmon , — - Warren , who were killed by the falling in of a tunnel , in making a sewer at Colchester , was held on Monday , when a A'erdict of " Accidental death" was recorded , the Coroner observing that from the manner in which Baker had conducted the work in the tunnel , it amounted to almost a suicidal act , but no one was to blame but tho parties themselves . It was given in evidence that Baker ' s brother had refused to continue working in consequence of his apprehension of such a result as that which ensued from a want of a move perfect system of protection in passing through a stratum of sand .

      Determined Suicide . —Oa buuday morning , » young man was taken into custody at Coavcs , by the police , on the charge of having robbed a fellowservant of a great coat , which , it appears , he had stolen on the previous day , and sold to a sweep for 4 s ., in order to satisfy an inordinate propensity for drink . On being taken to the police station , the usual precautions of searching , 6 ic , Avere adopted , and he was then . locked up in his cell . Shortly after he asked for water , which was supplied him , and about a quarter of an hour after , Avhen the door of the cell was opened , to the horror of the policeman he was found suspended by his neckcloth to the bars of the cell window , and though he was still warm , and bled freel y on the application of the lancet , yet strangulation had done its work , although every effort vras made by the medical

      gentlemen , avIio Avere in instant attendance . A jury being empannelled , a verdict of " Temporary Insanity" was returned . , . sixgulak death . — On Saturday last an inquest was held by Mr . James Lewis , coroner for Rochester , on board her Majesty's ship Fioyal George , lying in Saltpan Reach , between Chatham and Sheerness , te inquire into the cause of death of George Brown , a lad nine years of age , son of Mr . Hudson Brown , a warrant officer in charge of the above ship , whose death was occasioned in the following singular manner . '—Deceased whilst walking from the wardroom to the cabin , for the purpose of cutting a candle , carrying with him a pair of scissors , tripped and fell , when the point of tho scissors pierced the jugular vein just under the jaAVbone , Avhich caused almost instantaneous death , — Verdict" Accidental death . "

      , PomsMonm , Sepi . 24 . — Storming a Stockade . —An experiment to illustrate the practicability of destroying stockades without such fearful loss as characterised the taking those of the New Zealand chiefs two or three years since , was made yesterday on an island in Portsmouth Harbour , off the Victualling Yard , by the officers of her Majest ' s ship Excellent , and the Royal Engineers , in the presence of a large assemblage of spectators , chiefly naval officers of tho ships in commission and the officers studying at the College . The stockage was erected out of the hroken-np timbers of a sloop-of-war , and was apparently about two hundredfeet in extent ( square ) entrenched , & e . This was erected under the superintendence of Captain Savage , instructors in fortification and mechanical drawing at the Royal Naval College , and Avas a very complete model work of the kind . To destroy iter make a practicable

      breach seemed tho object of tho experiment . To endeavour to compass this a bag of 51 bs . of powder Avas laid at tho foot of the timbers forming tho stockade , and exploded , but without accomplishing tho end sought ; another charge , of double the quantity , Avas then tried , fixed or suspended midway up the stockade , which Avas also discharged Avithout effect ; but another charge of powder laid at the foot of the stockade , covered by a . large sand bag , had a more fortunate issue , as some portion of the stockade Avas blown away . The timbers were scattered about to a distance of upwards of 100 yards from the spot , one of which struck in its flight Captain Hewlett , tho second officer of her Majesty's ship Excellent , so violently on the thigh as to render him insensible . Ho was immediately taken on board his ship , and medical assistance instantly obtained , with Avhat result wo were unable to learn . This unforeseen catastrophe ended tho experiments on the island suddenly . —Times .

      Detershxed Suicide . —A most determined act of self-destruction was committed on Saturday last at Everton . The person who has wilfully put a period to his existence is a young married man , in independent circumstances , of the name of Kidd . He resided at 3 , Victoria-street , Everton , with his young wife and one child . It appears that the deceased was addicted to habits of intemperence , and that while so indulging Avas subject to fits . About ten o ' clock on the night in question he Avas seen in a beer-shop in the neighbourhood of his residence . Shortly after this ho returned home , and , upon his wife retiring to rest , Avas left in the kitchen smoking a pipe . Mrs . Kidd had occasion to return to the loAver part of the house in a short time , and it was

      then that tho discovery of the dreadful act was made . She found her husband seated on a chair near the door , strangled . The mode in which the ill-fated man had carried out his dreadful object is so singular , and evinces so great a degree of resolution , not to say ingenuity and calculation , that it deserves particularising . He first fastened one end of a clothes-line to the handle of the door , then dreAV the rope over the "jamb , " contrived a noose , which , upon being placed round the ' neck , left a knot directly in front of the throat , and having made a slip noose at tho extremity , placed his foot in it . Ho then deliberately seated himself , and aerated

      the result of his contrivance . Death must have been produced by a sudden and violent effort of the foot , stirruped as stated above . The striking out of tho foot would , by a jerk , contract tho noose round the neck , and forcibly press tho knot upon the throat . Deceased , besides one child , leaves a Avidow in a condition which promises soon to contribute another being to mourn over a father thus consigned to a premature grave . It is said that in the course of a few months Mi * . Kidd Avould have come into possession of a considerable sum of money , on the interest of which he had latterly subsisted . —Liverpool Standard .

      Daruco Burglar ? at Worcester . —A most determined burglary was committed early on Tuesday morning in one of the principal streets of the city , at tho shop of Mr . Gwynne , pawnbroker , Highstreet , from which goods to the value of £ 200 or £ 300 Avere stolen . The thieves effected an entrance into thopremises , first by picking the lock of the passage door of the house adjoining Mr . Gwynnc ' s ; and secondly , by breaking through a lath and plaster wall which separates tho passage from the shop . Amongst the gold and silver goods stolen were the following : —a silver tankard and goblet , fourteen gold watches , twenty silver Avatches , about 100 wedding-rings , and about 150 fancy and mourning rings , six dozen of silver tabic spoons , twelve dozen of desert and tea spoons , five dozen of desert and tabic forks ( all silver ) , a largo silver candlestick , silver salt-cellars , and a variety of other

      articles . It is an extraordinary fact that the house was broken into , the wall broken down , and the above and other valuable booty stolen , Avithout any person living in tho house hearing tho burglars , or Avithout their being observed by the police , who must have passed the door while tho thieves avcto in the house . The police , however , are now on tho alert , and two men have already been taken into custody on suspicion of being ' concerned in the burglary . The city aud neighbourhood of "Worcester have for some time past boon infested by a gang of daring characters . This is not the first time that Mr . Gwynne has had his shop broken into and robbed . A reward of £ 20 hos been offered by him for the recovery of the property and detection of the thieves , and it it supposed that this reward will be increased by tho authorities , should they remain long undiscovered .

      Witchcraft axd Superstition at Henton . — There is in tho neighbourhood of Henton and its vicinity a population of about 200 , in which it is asserted that there are nineteen witches ; and curious enough it is to hear tho different tales of the people of the pranks played by this wonderful class of beings . Some of the inhabitants sit up by night , three or four together , for several nights following , using some peculiar charm , instructed , they say , by the wise man of the Avcst . There they

      sit praying to themselves , they must not hear each other speak , that the witch may not any lon « cr have power to scratch the children , as they do " by some invisible means ; and about midnight they generally hear some terribly unearthly noises , OllC person haa even attempted suicide under fear some , they say , aro hag-ridden ; others dream wonderful dreams , and have cramps , all of Avhich arc attributed to tho same cause . One person assorts that she actually , at night , saw one of those wonderful beings como into her room three times .

      Four Children Poisoxed.—One Of Tho Most ...

      LiscoLXSHiRBSuPERsrirm xs .-Whenabrideleaves the house to be married they Avash the flags at the entrance of the house , and the first single lady who enters afterwards will be the next married . At all weddings and funerals they give a piece of the wedding-cake or funeral biscuit to the bees , informimr them at the same time of tho name of the party married or dead . If the bees do not know of the former , they become very irate , and sting every body within their reach ; and if they are ignorant of the latter they become sick , and many of them dio . ....

      -Cotlanu.

      -cotlanu .

      Two Men Suffocated I-Y A Coal Pit. —An A...

      Two Men Suffocated i-y a Coal Pit . —An accident of a melancholy nature occurred at the Garallan coal-works , parish of Cumnock , on the 18 th instant , by which John Miller and William Hastings lost their lives . They were engaged , along with several others , in drawing the pumps out ot a coal-pit . Miller was lowered down tho pit on a scaffold suspended bv a rope , for the purpose ot screwing off a joint . Ho was heard to give a heavy groan , and one of tho men asked if anything was the matter ? He received no answer—and Hastings , »^ * 1 > * wnnnlcn nf flin mnninnt aVtd llilMSfllf ( ldll'll DV Ull line iii / / jiuiiiwi —

      |[ wu > vu , unu . »> , "" - « ....---- , S the rope to seeif anything was wrong . He reached the scaffold in safety , but did not return , any answer to the inquiries of those on tho pit-head regarding Miller , and immediately after Hastings was observed to fall powerless from off the scaffold into the water below . It was then observed , for the first time , that the pit was charged heavily with carbonic acid gas , —or , as colliers term it , " chokedamp , "—and this fact at onco accounted for the accident . They then commenced to pull tho scaffold ( with . Miller on it ) cautiously up the pit , and despatched a messenger to Cumnock for medical assistance . Mr . Sharps was in attendance at the nit-mouth before Miller was got out , but human

      skill was of no avail . There being at that time about fifty feet of water in the pit , the body of Hastings was not got out till the following morning , after measures had been taken to clear the pit of gas . Both of tho deceased were married , and havo left wives and families to lament their untimely fate . Rape and Murder at Aberdeen . —On the 19 th instant , the trial of James Robb , an agricultural labourer , indicted for tho crimes of rape and murder , took place in tho High Court of Justiciary , before their lordships , Lord Moncrieff and Lord Cockburn . On the night of the Oth of April last prisoner entered the house of a female named Mary Smith , in tho parish of Auchterlon , Aberdeenshire , obtained admission by descending the chimney ,

      perpetrated with great violence the outrage described in the libel , and eventually suffocated her . The jury , after half-an-hour ' s consultation , returned an unanimous verdict of" Guilty . " Lord Cockburn then sentenced tho prisoner to be executed at Aberdeen on the 16 th of October next . _ Supposed Murder . —On Sunday evening , a number of Irish reapers in the town of Dunse quarrelled among themselves , and either on that night 01 ' cany on Monday morning , a murder seems to have been committed , as the body of a man—one of the reap ers—was found yesterday , terribly mangled , in a field near the Preston station . At present , howover , we can furish no additional particuiavs . — North British Mail .

      Smalts.

      smalts .

      State Of This South.—Tbe Insurrectionary...

      State of this South . —Tbe insurrectionary effei'A ' escence appears to have subsided in the counties of Tippcravy and Waterford . Pacts are coming to light Avhich " prove clearly that the insane outbreak at Coppoqutn , and the partial organisation amongst some small portion of the peasantry and the town population , were produced by the machinations of emissaries more or less connected with the movements of last year .

      Reduction of Rent , —A movement is commencing in various parts of the country for low rents , and all the attention of the small farmers vxA peasantry in some parts of the south is given to reduction in the prices of land . The landlords must find a lower depth still , and some of them who hoped to weatherthe storm must sell their estates . A noble carl , whose family have been seated in Munster for two centuries , is now living in a tmall house in the outskirts of an English watering-place , while grass grows in the courts of his splendid ancestral mansion . A near relative of the noble earl , who was recently in public consideration a first-class commonncr , has left the country never to return , intending to live abroad for the rest of his life , and to sell

      his estates without delay . The difficulty of getting money where it is due is very great , the agricultural interest here is in a miserable plight , and we have no great manufacturing interest to sustain u ? . Many are settling down into a gloomy despair . One thing only is plain , that all political movements arc at an end . The evictions are numerous in tho south and west , and simultaneously secret societies are , it is said , springing up in various directions The prospects of the country for the approaching winter are certainly gloomy , and the private accounts are worse than much of what appears in the journals , —It is believed by many . ihat the conspiracy against rents is part of a very widely spread system in which there is more design than was at

      first surmised . I know from private sources of a very extraordinary case which occurred last week in the county of Clare . A gentleman put in a distress upon some tenants , who pretended to come to terms , with him , and agreed that the corn should be conveyed by the bailiffs for sale to a market town , twenty miles off . The gentleman fell into the snare laid for him , as the tenants had legal advice that the corn x , ould not be carried beyond the nearest pound , and on arriving at tho market town the- corn was seized by a score of peasants , sold to tho highest bidder and the money given io tho tenants , who Avent off to America . The gentleman having counted to have the corn sold at the county town ( reported to be the dearest market ) , made in point of law a Avaiver

      of tho distress , and he is tricked out of his rent . But tho point worthy of notice is , Ihat in a distant part of the county the defaulting tenants should have found such ready assistance . — " Who'll buy the Irish estates V—and "where ate purchasers to be looked for ?"—are questions asked in all quarters . The Potato Ckop . —Coxwtios of the Country . —The accounts show that the blight is extending , but less rapidly ; whilst in some places the injury is not yet very serious , mid hopes are expressed that a considerable portion of the crop may be saved . The Nation , sounds tho alarm about " anew famine . " ., Mr . Duffy says : — "The Potato Crop has failed once more . It is in A'ain to attempt

      disguise or evasion . A blight as sweeping , rapid , and destructive as that of 1 S 46 is in full progress . In some counties there is not one field untainted . The farmers are digging and selling in a panic . The price of potatoes has fal'on one-half during the last week , and within a few hours journey of Dublin . The disease is still at its height , blighting new districts every day . A correspondent who has driven through Wicklow since Saturday last , assures us that the fcYOpVn that entire county already lies a mass of putrefaction in the earth , lie has spoken with practical farmers at Bray , Ashford , Newtownmountkennedy , and Glendalough , and they report more than the half of the tubers irretrievably lost . The provincial papers bring similar tidings . "

      Mr . Duffy infers from all these accounts that" the potato is lost , and an appalling famine inevitable ;" and he proceeds to argue that there is no hope of remedy from " public works , " " grants from the British Parliament , " " emigration , " " the liberal bounty of the rich , " or "the charitable aid of foreign countries . " He says : — " The charity of England , of Europe , of the world , maybe excited for our imminent distress ! Oh yes . we may beg . Ireland may beg . Let her once more become the pauper of the universe . Let her whine be heard at the gateposts of the nations , and the provinces , and tbe dependencies—for none are too low to do her service . Send her begging-box round the earth with the circling sun ;—tender it for the golden bezants of the Grand

      Turk by the waters of the Bosphorus , and rattle it for the greasy cents of the negro by the Mississipi , St , Petersburg will take pity upon us again ( seeing that we are still slaves and beggars ;) the free blacks of Hayti will send another donation to the white slaves in Ireland ; Australia and America will-freight new fleets to carry corn to our shores ( as if the fresh soil of Ireland were a barren rock ) and the parliament of Barbadoes ( of Barbadocs , smaller than our smallest county ) and the parliament of the penal colony of Bermuda will vote new supplies for the seven millions of Irishmen without a parliament . But while you beg , know this fact , that the contributions of the universe in its first generous gush of pity , liberal as they were , did not furnish supplies for one week of the famine of ' 47 . "

      He then proceeds to explain his remedial policy . He says : — " The first step towards helping themselves is to understand clearly whence the hurt comes . Now this is the state of the case . " 1 . There is food in this present harvest , ripened on Irish soil , sufficient to feed the entire Irish population ; ieaving a largo surplus . But it is proposed to give up this harvest exclusively to a few thousand landlords , on the pretence of rent , and arrears of rent , calculated at a scandalously fraudulent rate ; and if honestly calculated not due until after the husbandman is fed . It is proposed to giA e the harvest up to these proprietors , leaving three millions of

      peasantry—men , women , and children—to rot of hunger and dysentery , or to be supported by a ' rate in aid' on the earnings of the industrious commercial classes . " 2 . There is profitable employment for every unemployed man in Ireland in draining land , subsoiling it , growing food upon it , in deepening rivers for needful navigation , in reclaiming wastes , and bringing back to cultivation the artificial ' exterminated' wastes of the last three years . But it is proposed to leave tbe people idle , to throw them a burthen upon the industry of the country , to turn the famine into a massacre , because a few thousand bankrupt propria tors are too deepl y involved in ' personuldiffitvrtties to

      State Of This South.—Tbe Insurrectionary...

      encourage enterprise , and too selfish and dishonest to grant tenures that wonld protect it . " This is the proposition-the peasantry must starve or rot ; the citizens must pay or fly ; but the landlords —famine or no famine , beggary or no beggary , massacre or no massacre—may carry off the harvest , and do what they like with their own in the pleasant places of the Avorld . "A proposition which the industrious classes in Ireland had better consider of , or prepare themselves in good time for the poor house and the envgrant ship . " Kmv Colleges . —The Limerick Chronicle states that the Lord-Lieutenant will be Chancellor of the Queen ' s College at Cork , which his Excellency will open in person on the loth Of next JUOntb . Mr . MitcheLi—The Limerick Examiner has the . . , ... „ io „ i , „„ J Jidmnnet-

      following paragraph about John Mitchcl , furnished apparently on good authority : — ' The friends and family of John Mitchcl have , we are informed , received notification from tbe English government to the effect that they ( the government ) have taken into consideration the condition of John Mitchel ' s health , have granted him free leave and liberty to go wheresoeA'er he pleases , subject to no such restraint , with the exception , that he shall not return to or settle in any portion or colony of the United Kingdom . The distinguished exile proposes , as we are told , to proceed to Germany , for the purpose of trying the effects of the spas in tlm restoration of his health , [ lis wife and family still remain in this country . The children , who are under the care of the Rev . John Kenyon , P . P ., Templederry , will leave to join their father , as soon as he shall be settled in any eligible locality . "

      Value op Labour nr Ireland . —The Westmcath Independent narrates the following lamentable instance of the depreciated value of labour in " one of the richest portions" of that county ; but , bad as the case is , there are worse , and of no uncommon occurrence , in districts even more favourably circumatauced than Westmeath . A gentleman who had been recently visiting the north of Irelrnd fell into conversation with several intelligent farmers of the better class—men wearing broad cloth , and employing labourers under them-and from these he learned to his great surprise , that many of the " fine strapping" fellows , these at work in the fields before him , were paid no wages whatever—that they were glad to accept employment for their " meat "—and this

      during the busiest time of harvest , when wages range between IOd . and Is . 3 d . a day , according to the locality , besides substantial meals . By " meat , " too , it is not to be understood that these poor men contemplated the luxury of beef , mutton , or bacon ; but a sufficiency of stirabout , made of Irish meal , which in the north is dignified by the abovenamed tempting term : — " On Wednesday , 19 th inst ., at petty session of Glason , ( one of the richest portions of the county of Westmeath ) , a young able lad about twenty years of age , summoned a wealthy farmer named Coloe . for £ 4 odd , the value of his services as

      a farm labourer , at the rate of sixpence per week with his board . It appeared on evidence that he was engaged last autumn at this rate , and remained some months , when he left in hope of better earnings , and after a short period returned and engaged again , Coloe asserted , at threepence per week and his diet , and added that he could get hundreds of men at the same rate all last year . The plaintiff claimed sixpence a week , but was unable to prove any new agreement ; and as it appeared he was paid the threepence a week , and some counter charges of theft being made ,- the magistrates dismissed the case . ' '

      The Linen Trade . —The Banner of Ulster says : — " The home trade continues active , but the exports during the past week were inconsiderable , only 413 packages having been shipped from this town . The demand for yarn continues good . " Proposed Palace for the QuEEff in Ireland .-"We mentioned a few weeks ago that it was in contemplation to erect for her Majesty a marine residence on the Irish coast , at or near Killiney , about seven miles from the metrorolis , and within a mile and half of the harbour of Kingstown . We are now authorised to state that Mr . "William Deane Butler , the eminent architect of Stephen's-green , Dublin , is engaged in the preparation of plans and drawings of the proposed building , and that he Avill shortly arrive in London to submit them for the approbation of her Majesty . —Weekly Chronicle .

      Fatal Accident on a . Railway . —The Newry Telegraph of Monday says : — "We havo just been informed that two men have been killed and wounded by a fall of earth on the railway works south of Killevey , on the junction line midway between Newry and Dundalk . " House Levelling . —The Clare Journal contains the following . — " On Saturday last , at about three o ' clock , an armed party came to the house of a poor family residing at Inchmore , a short distance from Ennis , and after assaulting an old woman , who was the only person in the house at the time , they proceeded to throw down the house by the aid of crowbars and other implements which they brought with them , and continued until they had totally

      demolished it . Me have not been able to learn any cause for this daring outrage , nor have we heard that any of tho party have been arrested , though active search ia being made for them by Ihe police . " English Colonisation . —Couxtv Roscommon . — We cannot , indeed , well express our surprise at finding it stated , not only our metropolitan papers but even among the English press , " that the plantation of Ireland has ctmmenced-that already extensive settlements have been made in Roscommon by English settlers . " Now , we would beg to assure our contemporaries , both of this and the other side of the channel , that Roscommon this moment is as innocent of English plantations as any other part of Ireland . We believe one Enclish gentleman has taken a firm from Pakenham Mahon , Esq ., and for whom he is

      building a house , but unless this solitary case is a plantation of the entire county , we could hear of nothing to warrant so groundless a rumour ; and right sure are we that landlords will get no English tenants to offer them anvthing like the terms they were accustomed to extract from their Irish serfs , who could live like beasts to enable them to comply with them . 'Tis true we have large tracts wasted , and the gentleman who has already given accommodation to one English farmer could give it to a hundred , without having now to dispossess a single tenant ; but then English yeomen seem to be a warv set of men , and it will be neccssay for Irish land " - lords to get rid of many of the bad habits dealing with Irish tenants fostered , before they can be qualified to come to an understanding with such unreasonable tenants—Roscommon Messenger . .

      Mr . Redincton , the Under-Secretary , has reduced his rents four shillings per acre . Nothing has yet been done about the Dolly ' s Brae affair , beyond tho investigation . The popular prints continue to attack the government on the subject . State op the South . —The Cork Examiner of Monday contains the f ollowing , from its own reporter . It is dated '' Lismove , Sunday evening . —Since your last advices from this locality nothing of any particular consequence has occurred . In Cappoquin , beyond the arrival of troops and policemen , nothing disturbs the general quiet of that town . Sir Charles O'Donnell , 1 have been informed , arrived there yesterday , with a large number of troops . There were various rumours , on my arrival , as to attacks having been made on several police barracks in the neiglibourhoou of liallinahilt ; but as far as I could learn , and have made

      I the most minute inquiries , they are unfounded . There is scarce a doubt that a system of secret organisation is being carried on to a very large actentm this county ; but what its object is remains a complete mystery . The general opinion prevalent is , that a number of lawless characters have induced an unsuspecting and starving peasantry into associations having for their object the plunder ot the neighbouring towns , and the acquirement of any property which they may grasp in a general » i « ec . Ihat there is anything political or sectarian " } the present secret combination is not even credited by the most credulous . The Very Rev . Dr . l'ogarty addressed a powerful appeal to his parishioners on this morning . It is doubtful whether this will reach you , as every pass between this and Fer-Hvoy is guarded , and the messenger may be arrested on his way to either town . However , I will trust to fortune . "

      : '.Yacht Match Fob £100 A Side.—A Highl...

      : ' . Yacht Match fob £ 100 a Side . —A highly interesting match for the above stakes was too . oii Saturday afternoon last , oft the Isle of Wight , by the cutter yacht Drift , of fifty-five tons , the property of W . C . Hope , Esq ., and the Tartar of thirty-six tons , tho property of W . Dawes , Esq ., of the Isle of Wight . The Drift , it is said , has never been beaten . Ihe race commenced early in the afternoon , each owner being aboard his craft . The course was from Cowcs round the ffablight vessel at Bembndgo , back to tho westward , and round a boat moored oft' "Yarmouth , being "tho Queen ' s

      course . " Tho Drift had to allow half a minute per ton to hw competitor , for difference of tonnaW making nine and a-half minutes to the Tartar , ° to square tho reckoning . The race at Spithead was at its interest , when it was viewed by many hundreds of spectators from the batteries of Portsmouth and the beach . The vessels had rounded the Nab , and were making gallant way with a fine leading wind towards the Solent on the homeward coast , when a melancholy accident on board the Tartar caused that vessel to bear up and terminate the contest prematurely . Some portion of the gear aloft got deranged , to clear which one of her crow , named Bundy , a native of Lymington , was sent up , being called again on deck , he missed his hold and fell , a distance of about thirty-five feet , with frightful violence on the deck . Ho Avas picked ud

      insensible , and the yacht rounded to under tho Storn of tho fiapwfe , 80-gun ship , at Spithoad , and hailed tor the assistance of a surgeon , but no medical officer being on board , the yacht made all sail fov lortsmouth harbour , the man being promptly convoyed ashore to the Islo of Wignt Tavern , w here ho has since lain in the lethargy of death , his brain having received severe conousaion , and . his body whov compound injuries .

      The Cholera, " ^ * Saturday.-Return Of D...

      THE CHOLERA , " ^ * SATURDAY .-Return of deaths from cholera *„ i diarrhoea . London and vicinity ; cholein ™? diarrhoea , 33 . Theprovinces ; cholera , 335 diVvrhi ? 86 . Scotland ; cholera , 21 , -Total ch 0 E $ ' Diarrhoea , 124 . ™ oiera , -yjo , Da ? op Humiliation in Martlebone and St p cuas . —Sunday was appointed as a day oflinmir ' " tion , and collections were made in belmir i !* Ii " sick and destitute poor , " of tho Collection for Sufperbrs by the Chqleri -pl collections in the Scotch National Church 6 ™ court , on Sunday , after the solemn servi / na J u" " day , amounted to nearly £ 100 , which Dr Curnl- announced was to bo divided anion * the mor ? practitioners in the congregation for mstributi i their discretion among families known to thern » K have suffered by tho epidemic . ^ M Manchester . — The epidemic has boon on u decline for several days past , and the deaths in ° been fewer during tho past week b y nearly fift compared with the preceding week . There is I ' doubt the appointment of medical men in tl 10 x ^ f ous districts , and dispensaries for medicine h \™ tended to produce this effect . ' ™ Tllli" fftTATrir .. " ^ —

      Leeds . —We are glad to find that this dreadful pestilence is much less fatal than it was in this town Monday . —Return of deaths from chol era and diarrhoea . The metropolis ; cholera , 122 , * Uinr-ihcoa , 41 . The provinces : cholera , 533 , diari-hm !" 173 . Scotland ; cholera , 21 . —Total deaths from cholera , 676 ; diarrhoea , 214 . Tuesoay . —Return of deaths from cholera and Diarrhosa . The metropolis ; cholera 102 , d iarrhaja 42 . The provinces ; cholera 336 , diarrhoea 70 . Scotland ; cholera 25 . —Total ; deaths from cholera 4 ( 33 , diarrhoea .

      Official Rhturx of the Sanitary State of the Roval Navy a . nd Arsenals . — Great praise is due to the Cnmmissioners of the Admiraltr and tho medical department at Deptford , Woolwich , ' Chatham , Sheerness , Portsmouth , Plymouth , De « vonport , and Pembroke , for the sanitary precautions that have been taken in all the arsenals from the commencement of the breaking out of the present melancholy epidemic . The workshops have been kept constantly well ventilated , and the strictest cleanliness observed in every department , and wherever any stagnant water , or any other matter may have accumulated , it has been instantly removed . The result has been that , notwithstanding that

      cholera and diarrhaa have prevailed iu the neighbourhood to a great extent , there has not been one fatal case in the dockyards . The same satisfactory report was received this morning at the admiralty as regards the crews of her Majesty ' s ships of Avar , either in the Thames , Portsmouth , or Plymouth , in consequence of the rigid regulations as to ventilation in the lo , wer decks , the airing of the hammocks , and cleanliness of the men and the whole ship . The dietary has been particularly attended to , and the water always kept pure by means of a simple chemical process , which destroys all animalcule in the casks or tanks , too frequently on board a ship , where the water is confined and stagnant . —Evening Paper .

      Cholera on Tin : Goodwin Sands . —The follow , ing letter has been addressed to the Board of Health by Mr . Martin , the harbour master of Rams » ate : — " Gentlemen , —The following case I consider it a duty to submit to the notice of those who are anxiously investigating cause and effect relative to the prevailing epidemic . During the heats of the last days of August , having a considerable body of officers and men under my surveillance , I watched their state and habits with great care and anxiety . I knew they were exposed in no common degree " to all the admitted predisposing causes . Some were occasionally at work in a sewer in progress ; others in a cofferdam , surrounded by a fetid blue mud and offensive suillage . All were employed in a harbour

      partially dry at low water , and with a hot sun , liable to exhalations from decomposing marine exuvia , yet to my great consolation , all these poor men thus employed continued well . The exception is extraordinary . The crew of my steam tow ' m « vessel Samson , continually employed in the fresh sea breeze , when at home , living in well ventilated comfortable houses , temperate in their habits , hale and young , and yet they were attacked under the following curious and interesting circumstances . At midnight of the 31 st of August , the Samson proceeded to the Goodwin Sands , AA'here they were employed under , the Trinity agent , assisting in work carried on there by that corporation . While there , at three a . m ., on the 1 st of September , a hot humid haze , with a

      bog-like smell , passed over them , and the greater number of the men there employed instantly " felt a nausea . They were in two parties . One man at work on the sand was obliged to be carried to the boat , and before they reached the steam vessel at anchor , the cramps and spasms had supervened upon the A'omitings ; but here they found two of the party on board similarly affected , and after heaving up the anchor , they returned with all the despatch they could to Ramsgate . Hot baths were immediately put into requisition , and by proper medical treatment they were convalescent in a few days ; Here then is a very matked case , without one known predisposing local cause , while our labourers escaped , surrounded by local and continual disadvantages .

      Doubtless it was atmospheric , and in tbe hot blast of pestilence which passed over them . Is it not probable that the malignant arrow of the air has a powerful affinity for the miasma of hot and stinking breaths in crowded dwellings , in steaming churchyards , or putrescent exhalations from dirty and illventilated neighbourhoods ? Is it not probable , that if this perceptible stream , or current of poisonous air had passed over the labourers at the sewer , in lieu of the labourers at sea , that the whole of tho poor men so employed , would have been visited by the pestilence in a more aggravated form , and perhaps some of them died ? The choleric influence

      appears to pa ? s along tarcugli the atmosphere in streams similar to the currants in the ocean , and to be drawn aside , w diverge to different points , by some mysterious attraction . But one thing is certain—that it is most severe when united with the ma aria of crowded cities , or the already half-poisoned abodes of tiie sickly and indigent . My men were carried home , where every comfort awaited them , and not a member of their families was infected , Excuse this hasty recital , which proceeds from a conviction that it is a sjiered duty to contribute anv information , however slight , upon this afflicting subject . —September 20 , 184 !) . "

      BuiST 0 L .- > Yesterday having been set apart bv the recommendation of the Lord Bishop of the diocese . as a day of fast , humiliation , and of prayer , to Almighty God for the removal from amongst us of the cholera " , the day was observed , ah classes of the citizens abstaining from business , closing their shops and warehouses , and resorting to their several places of worship , at most of which three services were held during the day aud evening . The Society of Friends issued an address , giving " concise reasons" why they did not join in the fasts , which reasons concentrate themselves into this ; that public fasts were not in the nature of the Gospel , but of ths Jewish law . Meanwhile , there is much reason to fear that the cholera itself has been started into vigorous life .

      many persons having been seized with , and some died of it , in seA-eral parts of the city . Wednesday . —Return of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea . The metropolis ; cholera , 79 , diarrhoea , 33 . The provinces ; cholera , 331 , diarrhoea , 141 . Scotland ; cholera . 57 . —Total deaths from cholera , 467 ; diarrhoea , 174 . limroi , Sept . 26 . —We regret to state that this disease has in nowise abated , as shown by to-dav ' s returns . The return from St . Peter ' s Hospital ' is —new cases of diarrhoea , 74 ; approaching cholera , 6 ; cholera , 7 ; deaths , 5 ; in addition to which there arc several deaths in private practice . The return from the Stapletou workhouse gives 3 deaths , in St . Philip and Jacob the epidemic is also prevalent . At Pill tho deaths since yesterday are 5 .

      Day of Humiliation . —AVcdnesday Avas observed as a day of fasting , humiliation , and prayer in Whitechapcl , Mile End , and its vicinity . Every shop and place of business was closed , public and catin « houses excepted . Divine service was performed , iu the different churches and chapels both morning m } e . ven mff » and the attendance was numerous . The shops and warehouses in Aldgate , Hounsditch , & e ., occupied by the Jews , were likewise closed , it being their "day of atonement , " or " white fast . " Gbbbkwicii . —Day or Humiliation ' .-Wednesday was observed m this parish as a day of special supplication and intercession , Curious Circumstance arising out of a Death from Cholera , —On Tuesday an inquest was held

      before tho Borough Coroner under the following peculiar circumstances : —On Thursday last a girl , aged S years , residing with her parents in Sherwood-street , died , and Avas buried in St . Martin ' s Cemetery . It was understood bv tho neighbours that the child had died of cholera ' ; but on naming the matter to the father and mother of tho deceased , they Avere informed that there was no truth in the report of the child ' s death , but that she had gone over to Ireland . One of the nei ghbours being satisfied that the child was dead , and had been buried ia St . Martin ' s Cemetery , instituted an inquirv , and found that the child ' s death had been registe ' red as having been caused by cholera , and the party further learnt that the surgeon Avho certified had never seen tho deceased during her illness . Information

      was then given to tho coroner , who ordered the body to be exhumed , and at the inquest the father of the deceased was examined , when he admitted that he had told the nei ghbours that his daug hter was not dead , but gone from home , aud that ho took tins course , and ordered his wife and chihlrcn . to do the same , to prevent any alarm to the neigh * hours . It appeared also from his evidence that no medical man ever saw the deceased during her illness , and that tho certificate was obtained upon rflpresentations made by him . Mr . Woods , surgeon , was next examined , and stated that he had made a , pott mortem examination of the body , and was of opinion that the deceased had died of cholera . A verdict was therefore returned accordingly . —^ W \ pool Cornier ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 29, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_29091849/page/6/