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      HEAvrn or London _Dumxe the "Webk . •—On Tuesday tlie Reg _istrar-General ' s report was issued for the week ending May 26 . The public health , as Shown hy this present return , exhibits a decided improvement . The 897 deaths are fewer than in ihe corresponding -week of any former year since 184 C . The mortality , which has suddenly increased by 76 deaths above the average in the preceding week , has now fallen as much below it . As compared with _, that week the decrease is most apparent in thc deaths arising from consumption and inflammation of the lungs . Prom the former disease there died in the last week 103 persons , ( the average being " 145 ) , while in the previous week the B-ainhcr was 133 . From the latter disease ( or

      pneumonia ) 61 died , being exactly the average ; of theso Si were children who had not completed their second vcar , while in thc previous week the deaths -which occurred at the same age were 57 . In this return the mortality from bronchitis still exceeds the _avi-ra « -e by IS deaths . The only epidemic which now prevails to a marked extent is hooping cough , from which the deaths were 60 , or 24 more than the averaee _; hut diarrhoea appears to he on the increase . Cholera was fatal in 5 cases ; but in two of these which occurred to infants the . disease is reivmed . is » _uLwrhrea . cholerica . " Mr . Butterfield , the registrar of Islington East , reports that the _deaths of two young children at Albany-place , Hornsi'y-road , caused by rubeola and cachexia in

      one ease , and fever in the other , were accelerated by the defective sewerage and damp state of the house . The deaths of a man of 43 years , and a -woman of 30 , were hastened by intemperance . According to the return of a coroner's jury , a girl of 15 months died from " swallowing forty-four percussion gun-caps containing poison . " Her illness lasted two days ; and an examination was made _2-ost mortem . The mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 * 818 in . On Thursday it was _30-Oli The temperature of the week was highest on Thursday and Friday , and on the Litter day the highest reading in the shade was 70 deg . 6 min . The mean of the week was 56 deg . 9 min ., showing an increase of eleven degrees on that of

      the week ending May 12 . The births numbered 1 , 311 . _Robi ' ery at Judges' Chambers . — On Saturday last considerable surprise was occasioned amongst the members ofthe legal profession , in consequence of a report that the Exchequer Chambers in Clifford ' s Inn had been broken into , and a quantity of money and other property of some value stolen therefrom . From inquiries instituted by the police authorities , it appears that some person well acquainted with ihe premises must hare secreted himself in some part of the building , and during the night succeeded in forcing open the various desks , drawers , and other depositories , from which about eight pounds in silver was taken , together with the coats and other property _belongine to the fudges

      and clerks . The whole of the official seals and documents were untouched . - * The Whttsux Holtoats . — The nnpfopitious ¦ weather on Monday considerably damped the ardour ofthe holiday makers . Vast numbers , however made their way to the different spots of suburban amusement . The chief point of attraction , as usual , was Greenwich . Here the railway and numerous Steam-vessels continued throughout the day to land crowds of pleasure-seekers , tbe numbers increasingas occasional cessations of the rain gave promise of fairer weather . Richardson ' s and the Crown and Anchor booth occupied their usual ground , and the

      caterers lor public amusement iouna to their cost that their speculations bad been on the losing side . At Stepney , Ghalk Farm , Battersea , and Wandsworth , similar preparations were attended with a Jike result . The British Museum and _National Gallery did not receive one-half the usual amount of patronage , the number of visitants averaging only two hundred per hour . The Tower , thc United Service Museum , St . _Taul's Cathedral , the College of _Surgeons , and the other scientific and popular places of research and amusement , though not absolutel y deserted , were considerabl y thinned of their customary holiday frequenters .

      The "Whitsbshdk Excursion * Trains . —From Saturday last np to Tuesday evening , tbe holiday excursion trains in and out of Eondon , and throughout the country , were on an extraordinary scale . The influx at the Euston station of tbe London and _Iforth Western , brought up from the manufacturing districts by several special trains , rendered additional arrangements necessary ; annual excursion trains , coming in from Liverpool , Birmingham , and other places , allowing passengers ten and sixteen days in London , at twenty-five shillings and twenty shillings the trip . In the much talked of Paris excursion-train there were only twenty-one passengers ; and , as tlio net receipt _would not amount to more than £ 50 , insufficient to pay for the engine , they

      "were taken by the ordinary trains . Among other excursion curiosities and novelties was a tram from Dublin to London and back , taking passengers at two guineas each ; another train from Birmingham to Hull , the surplus profits to be devoted to the Birmingham Hospital ; " school trains" on the Lancashire and Yorkshire , conveying Sunday-school children , with their tutors , at sixpence : i head , from ihe mills and manufactories to the outskirts , and upwards of 3 , 000 children in 100 carriages went in one day . A large number of persons availed themselves of single fares for the double journey on the < Jhester and " jHblyhead to see the stupendous tubebridgesnow erecting over the Mcnai Straits . On Tuesday the trains on the Greenwich Kailway ran every five minutes each way until twelve o ' clock , and carried several thousand persons .

      _INSOLVENT Post-office Officials . — The Postmaster-General intends issuing a notice tliat persons in the employ of tbe post-office will be dismissed if they take the benefit of the Insolvent Act . In peculiar cases , however , where a person has become insolvent through sheer misfortune , or the treachery of others , the Postmaster-General reserves to himself a power to reinstate such a person in office . Thisnotice lias been rendered necessary in consequence of the frequent appearance of the clerks at St . Martin ' s-le-Grand in the insolvent courts , and the almost perpetual bloek-ide of the points of ingress and egress of the General Post-office by sheriffs' officers . Some of the stratagems to elude the -vi gilance of the blockade arc exceedingly comic , and are oftentimes very effectual , owing to the numerous avenues to the interior of StrMartin '

      s-lc-Grand . Closing a _Gkaveyaro . —In consequence of representations made to the Bishop of London by the inhabitants of St . Martin ' s respecting the crowded state ofthe Russell-court graveyard , and the horrible effluvium issuing from it , a proclamation has been issued by the bishop , directing the churchwardens of the parish to prevent any more graves being ing , or bodies being buried within tliat yard -until further orders . The Eleciric Light : —On Wednesday evening Mr . Staite again exhibited to the public generally the unrivalled brilliance of the new light . His apparatus for this occasion was carried tothe summit of one of ihe p ' _crs of _Hunsjerford _Suspension Bridge ,

      that , namely , on tbe Middlesex shore , and theme he threw the radiance ofhis magnificent discovery now along the bridge to the multitudes that watched from the Surrey shore the effects of the iiluminati n . now upon the buildingv which form _Hungerford Market and now upon the water front of Somerset House , and upon Waterloo Bridge and the steamers pa-singnp the river ; but-wheresoever it ligh'ed , the beam dazzled the beholder , whilst it _disc-vercd to th'ise who controlled it . the minute characteristics both of dre ? s and of architecture . The power o _' the light , however , is well known , but _wh-t is interesting to all who desire tbe progress of scientific discovery , and the application of it to the uses of socictv , " is , that Mr . Staite lias been most successful

      in electing and maintaining the relative adjustment ofthe two points , or opposite poles , which occasion the luminosity . - This has been one grand desideratum , which we believe he has attained through means ofthe electric current itself , so that it is self-acting , and by apparatus even more economical of mechanic contrivance than we have had tbe opportunity of witnessing . His efforts are now turned towards _making his discovery _economica-iy applicable , and they have hitherto been most successful . It may be interesting to those who saw the brilliance of his light collected as it was into one focus by a reflector thrown behind , to know th-. t the power of it is estimated at 750 candles . His _apparatus constructed for domestic use gives a li g ht equal to from eight to forty candles , with tbis singular advantage , that the

      blaze can be produced and retained under an airtight glass shade , so as to prevent the possibility of ignition . _Hw-gerfoki ) MAnKST Compa-nt . — The halfyearly general meeting of the proprietors was held on Wednesday . Martin Stutelv , Esq ., in the chair The rep rt of the directors slated , among other m- _* tte-s , that the new Fish Market was completed and occupied , _presentins a most attractive appearance , and by the accomodation afforded to th ? - public , calcinated to improve the trade of the market . The report was received and adopted . The retiring directors were re-elected ; and af ter passing a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors the meeting separated with evident feelings of satisfaction at tbe manner in which the affairs of the company were condue ' ed .

      INQUESTS . Fatal _Accrosxr ox tub Direct _JTorthers Rail wat . —On Saturday , before Mr . Payne , at St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , on the body of W . Wiggett , aged 22 , a driver on the Direct _Northern Railway . It appeared from the evidence , that on the 5 th of April last , about half-past four o ' clock in the niorningi deceased was employed in raising the viaduct at Hoiioway to form part of the Jforthern Kailway . He was running by the side of a four-wheeled waggon which was on a tram-road drawn bj one horse , and filled with earth , and on the animal being unhooked from the waggon , the _deceased fell over a sleeper , and the two near wheels went over Ms legs . He was "taken _t- > St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , _wlura amputation of both legs took place . In a fortnight ' s

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      time lock-jaw ensued , and the poor man died on Friday week . Verdict , "Accidental death . " Fatal Accident on the Derbt Day . —Before Mr . Bedford , in the Westminster Hospital , on the bod y of Nathaniel Rice , aged eleven years , who was killed under the following circumstances on the Derby day . .: It appeared from the evidence that it has been the custom for a number of boys to assemble on the days ofthe Epsom races at the JMillbank side of Vauxhall bridge , and to run after the carriages returning from the Downs , for the object of obtaining money , which is often thrown from the windows , or by the riders in cabs . On Wednesday evening , about half-past seven , Captain George Gardner , R . X ., and Captain Jones , a member ofthe Conservative Club , arrived in one of Hansom ' s patent cabs at Vauxhail-bridge , from the races , and when the

      vehicle had turned towards Millbank , the deceased , in company with many other boys , ran after it , and importuned the gentlemen inside for some halfpence . The driver , in order to get away from them , pulled to the offside , and the deceased , by some means , fell over a stone and was thrown under the near wheel , which passed over his head , and literally crushed it to pieces . He wa 9 taken to a surgeon , and afterwards to the hospital , where he died the same ni g ht from the effect of the dreadful fractures . —Captain Gardner stated , that the cab was not going at a rate of more than five miles an hour , and that the driver was perfectly sober . _Neither he nor Captain Jones had thrown out any money to the boys . —The coroner , having deprecated tho dangerous practice of throwing about money on such an occasion amongst crowds of boys , the jury' returned a verdict of " Accidental death . "

      Suicide thoji Excessive Drinking . —On Monday before Mr . Baker , at the Adelaide public house , Hackney-road , on the body of Elizabeth Taylc . aged thirty-three . It appeared that the deceas was the wife of a cab proprietor , and unfortunat ;' addicted to very intemperate habits . _Jler-favou _/ liquor was gin , and she was in the practice of dri ing halfapmt ofthat spirit every morning bi ' , ' ; . ' breakfast , and as much as ten half pints during ; . "' . " day . On Friday last she returned home in a . sta te of intoxication , and about two hours afterwards she was discovered lying in bed apparently in a dyirig condition . On the table was found a pliial , labelled ' ¦ laudanum , poison , " which was quite empty . Mr . Langley . a surgeon , was- called in , and recognised

      the deceased as having purchased laudanum at his shop that morning . —Verdict , " Temporary insanity from excessive drinking . " Asiatic Cholera in _Paddixgion Workhouse . —On Tuesday , before Mr . Wakley , jun ., in the Paddington Workhouse , Harrow-road , on James Taylor , aged twenty-four . The jury haviug been sworn and directed to view the body , a juror said ( addressing the coroner , ) "We understand the deceased died of cholera , and therefore object to view tlie body as the disease is contagious . " Another juror : " Certainly , we have no right to expose ourselves to so dangerous a disease . ' A third juror : " 1 shall not run the risk . " Several jurors : " It is most unjust to call upon us to go into the room where the body

      is ; is there _anvnecessity for our viewing the body V ' Coroner :. " You must see the body , otherwise the inquisition would be invalid . " A juror : "Have you seen the body yourself ? " Coroner : "Ye 3 , aud minutely examined it . That is the third cholera body I examined this dav . " The jury continuing in their refusal to inspect the body , Mi-. Adhouse , the master , assured them that , both in this country and during nine years' residence in India , he saw thousands on thousands attacked with cholera , and yet he never found it contagious , in fact he knew that ft was not so . The jury ultimately , but most reluctantly , proceeded to view the body , which presented a most awful spectacle , it being nothing but

      a mere skeleton , yet fast hastening to corruption _, ifr . Adhouse stated , that between eight and nine o ' clock on Friday _moraine deceased was found hy the constable on duty , dying from starvation , on the North Wharf road . The police conveyed him on a stretcher to the workhouse , where he was instantly pi iced in a warm bath , and had everything done that cither humanity or skill could suggest . At twelve o ' clock he was seized with unmistakable Asiatic cholera , of which he died in a lew hours afterwards . Dr . Mackenzie , physician to the workhouse , said that it was a decided case of Asiatic cholera in its worst form . He scarcely ever left deceased from his first attack until he died . —Verdict , " Deceased died of Asiatic cholera produced by starvation . "

      Death from Starvation is a Cheap Lodginghouse . —On Wednesday Mr . Payne held an inquest at the Bed Lion , Fleet-lane , Farringdonstreet , on the body of John Sellers , aged 30 , who died from want and destitution . —Robert Barton , servant at a lodging-house for vagrants and tramps , at 2 fo . 7 , Field-lane , said that the deceased came to the house , and engaged a bed . "Witness observed that he was very ill and sick } but lie had no _feai'S for his life . The next morning , however , he found him in bed in an insensible state , and not wishing him to die there , he got some men to assist in carryat

      ing him out , and leaving him on the pavement the corner of West-street . —The Coroner said he had never heard of such cruelty as to carry a helpless man out into the streets , and leave him there to die . —The witness said he thought he had done the best : it was better for him to die in the streets than in the house , where the lodgers would be put to inconveni ence . —Two witnesses gave evidence as to finding the deceased in West-street , and carrying him to the workhouse , where he died the next day . The surgeon ofthe workhouse said that he was suffering from low fever . —Verdict , " Died from low fever , induced by extreme destitution . "

      Mysterious Death of a Young Female . —On Wednesday , before Mr . Wakley , at the Lord Hill , Paddington on Margaret Fitzgerald , a dressmaker , aged 24 . —Mrs . Charlotte Gor « on said that deceased , who assisted her in the military business , left her residence in North-street , Lisson-grove . to visit some friends in Queen-street , Edgeware-road , on Friday evening . She did not hear of her afterwards until the following dav , when she heard that she had been killed near Maida-hill . Constable Monerty , 191 D , was on duty at Maida-hill between eight and nine o'clock en Saturday morning , when he observed a cab , with deceased in it , turning into Edgewateroad . She was disputing with the cabman about the fare—the latter complained that he had been driving her about all the morning , and that she would neither pay him nor say where she lived . He then drove

      on , and in a few minutes afterwards witness heard a scream , and looking towards Maida-hill , saw deceased lying on the road , while tho cab drove on . When he went up to deceased , she was quite insensible . Hc stopped the cab , and had her removed to Dr . Gurwood ' s . The driver's badge was numbered 462 , and his cab 2 , 248 . Southern , the summoning office ' , said he could not get the cabman ' s address , as the badge-office was closed on Saturday and Monday . Dr . Stevenson _attended deceased the moment she was picked up . She was insensible and speechless . She never rallied , and died at half-past three on Satu-day evening . He examined the body after death , and there were several wounds below the left knee , and above and below the left ear . The skull was also fractured . The inquiry was adjourned , to euable the police to produce the cabman .

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      RoBBEnT of Plate . —On Sunday morning , during tbe absence of tbe family at church , thc house ol Mrs . Musgrave , widow of the late Alderman _Musgrave , in Park-square , Leeds , was entered by means of false keys and robbed of from seventy to eighty pieces of silver plate , comprising forks , table and tea-spoons , & c , besides twenty-five sovereigns , which the thieves found on ransacking the drawers , and with which they got clear off " . A person who lives in the neig hbourhood observed two men enter the house , one having his hat off , and the other a glove in his hand , and a woman was also observed patrolling in front for some time . In the course of the day two men , who gave their names Wm . Burns hlf

      and Benjamin Woolley , and a woman calling erse Mary Lucas , were apprehended in a public-house , on suspicion of being the guilty parties . Burns at first said that the woman was his wife ; but she herself said that she was the wife of "Win . Lucas , and that she had left Liverpool by the eight o'clock train that morning , in search of her husband , who , she had heard , was at Leeds , but she did not know what time she arrived . On searching her thirty-lour sovereigns , twelve shillings in silver , a gold watch , and a costly diamond ring were found , but no trace of tbe stolen property . They were on Monday _ex-, amined before the Leeds magistrates , when a policeman said he had seen all the three together before and after the time of the robbery on Sunday . They were , in consequence , remanded for further

      examination . Destructive Fire at _Thorveeton . —The farmhouse and a considerable part ofthe extensive outbuildings at Chapel St . Martin , in the parish of Thorverton _, the property of that enterprising agriculturist and cider merchant Mr . Thomas Kingdon , has been destroyed by fire , which broke out about eight o'clock on the night of Friday the 25 th ult . The flames spread with a fearful rapidity , extending tothe adjacent thatched buildings , and thence to the dwelling house , which , with many outbuildings and much valuable property , is destroyed , a portion only ofthe furniture being saved , and much of this more or less damaged . The origin of this

      destructive fire is not known . Manslaughter by a Quack . —On Saturday an inquest was held upon the body of Ann Flannigan , a young woman , who had died from a poisonous medicine administered to her by an Irish quack doctor the previous week . She had for some months laboured under a scrofulous sore on her hand , about half an inch square , but wliich did not prevent licr from following her usual , occupation . The jury , after hearing the evidence , returned a verdict of "Manslaughter" against Francis Daly , alias Murp hy , who is described as a roan about five feet six inches , and a hawker of brushes , but occasionally practising quackery . The police are making active inquiries in order , to ascertain Ms whereabouts ,

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      The Doxmow _Fibks . —The late fires , which havo caused so great a sensation in the place , have heen marked with quite as extraordinary a result . From circumstances that have transpired there appear to be very strong grounds of suspicion , at any rate as regards the one on the premises of Mr . _Catcs , ofthe Saracen ' s Head Inn , that the author was not of the usual class of incendiaries—not an unemployed and half-starved labourer or mechanic —but actually one of tlie force employed for the prevention of such and all other offences against tlie law , viz ., a police officer . On Tuesday week Charles Drake , one of the county constabulary , was apprehended , and , after an examination before the Rev . _H . L . Majendie , the ease was remanded for further hearing .

      HOODLESS , THE HORSE-SWIMMER OF LINCOLNSHIRE . —Some months ago , it will be remembered , we gave in our supplement a very interesting account of Richard Hoodless , a farmer on the Lincolnshire coast , having saved the lives of several shipwrecked persons by acts of almost unparalleled daring . The account was copied from Chambers ' s-Journal . A few days ago Hoodless called upon us with the information that the British and JFbreign Sailor ' s Society had presented him , through Messrs . W . and R . Chambers , with a ten-pound note , as a mark of their especial estimation of his brave philanthropy ; Since the account we copied from Chambers's Journal was inserted , we understand Hoodless has been instrumental in saving several more lives . — IMl Packet .

      Apprehension op Burglars . —On Saturday night last , as Mr . Benjamin Gill , stonemason , was returning home with Mrs . Gill to his residence'in Ca ' nkei _' - well-lane , Leeds , he observed a strange man leave his premises , whom he thought fit to follow , but had not gone far before thc man , seeing that he was tracked , leaped a Avail and began to run , followed Mr . Gill , and was eventually arrested in his pro-. '" . ss . He gave his name Henry Pcake , from Hull , ' " _*' ; . was eventually _conveyed to prison . Whilst ' was going on , Sirs . Gill approached her dwelling , and , to her surprise , saw a man through the window in the house . As the house had been locked up safely early in the evening an alarm was given , and the " door was held to prevent the man escaping

      till a watchman arrived , when the man , who gave his name Wm . Kaye , was taken into custody . When asked what he was doing there , he said that he had been invited by a man to go in and take a glass of wine . He was likewise conveyed to prison . In the room where Kaye was found , there was also found a bundle of wearing apparel belonging - to Mr . and Mrs . Gill , which had evidently been packed up for the purpose of being conveyed away . During the pursuit of Peake a noise was heard , as pf the falling of a bunch of keys , and , on searching along the route he had taken , a couple of picklocks wore found , as well as a pah * of stockings which had been taken from Mr . Gill's house . On Monday the two

      men were examined beforethe Leeds magistrates , by whom they were committed for trial for the burglary . Beating a Child to Death . —A labouring man , named Hoiioway , living in Kingsland-place , Southampton , has been taken up for beating his child ( a boy about ten years old ) to death , on Saturday last . Thevboy had been guilty of some very trifling offencefand his father beat him with a strong buckle and strap , and kicked him until he died . When the poor , child was dead , the brute took the body to tho baek of the house and poured water on it , in the hope of bringing it to life again . The . man is a drunken , bad character , and has been in the habit of using his wife and child very cruelly .

      AxoinEB Man Poisoned bv his Wipe . _—Oonside-r rable . consternation was caused in Nuneaton , last week , in consequence of a report being freely circulated that another husband had been secretly poisoned . by his wife . The circumstances connected with the ease , a 9 far as they have yet transpired , appear to be as follow : For some timepastthe _deccawhose name was Thomas Ball , and his wife Mary , had led an unhappy life , owing to her alleged unfaithfulness to him , and this only can account for the atrocious act now imputed to her . On Friday , the ISth ult , the deceased went out fishing , wliich gave great offence to his wife . The rain coming on , he caught cold , arid became otherwise indisposed . Having returned home , the wife , under the plea of

      kindness , persuaded tho deceased to go to bed ami take a basin of hot gruel , which he readily consented to do . His wife , it appears , prepared the gruel , of which he partook , but shortly afterwards he was seized with violent sickness , purging , and thirst , the usual characteristics ofa party suffering from poison . The poor fellow continued in the most excruciating agony for two days , when he expired . The suddenness of the attack , and the extraordinary manner of the death , led to a determination on the part ofthe friends to have the body opened for the purpose of ascertaining , if possible , the precise cause of death . Accordingly a post-mortem examination was made , the result of which proved tho presence of arsenic in the stomach , a fact which at

      once gave rise to suspicion against his wife , which stimulated further inquiry , when it was speedily found out that she , accompanied by another female , bad purchased some arsenic atthe shop of Mr . Iliffe , a druggist . A coroner ' s inquest was called , when , after a protracted investigation , during which thc above facts wore elicited , the case ' was adjourned . Disclosures about -a Murder committed Thirteen Years ago . —For thc last few days the little village of Knottingley , near Wakefield , has been disturbed in consequence of certain circumstances coming to the knowledge of the authorities calculated to throw some light on a most brutal murder which occurred at Knottingley in the year 183 C . For the information of our readers we may state

      that in November , 1836 , the body of a young woman , named Ann Horsfall , or Hassall , wns found in the Goole canal at Knottingley , and from the marks on her bod y and other corroborative circumstances , thc unanimous opinion was that she had met her death by unfair means , and had been after-Wards thrown into tho water , whoro she was found on the morning after she had been missed . A few days before this young woman had thus untimely come by her death the landlady of tlie beer-house where the girl lived as domestic servant , had lent her own brother a sum of £ 7 in the presence of a gang of notorious poachers and other loose characters who at that time frequented the house . One , or possibly more , of these fellows , were at that time

      keeping company with the deceased girl , and it has always been supposed she was in the tap-room when these ruffians robbed the old man , then asleep , of the money . However , the money was taken from his pocket , and several ofthe party in the houso at the time were apprehended , and the poor girl , in spite of intimidation and throats from their " accomplices , declared that when the day arrived for her to go before the magistrates , sho would speak the truth and nothing more . The day for thc investifation before the bench , at Pontcfract , was fixed for aturday . On the previous Wednesday evening the deceased was sent out about half-past eight to a shop near the canal bridge for some pipes and tobacco , but did not return , though it was

      ascertained , and in fact admitted by one of the party at the time suspected , that sho had been with him in the back premises of the Red Lion , on the opposite side of therbad r and close to the canal side . In the premises in question the pipes were found in a broken state , and from the general appearance of the road to'the canal it was the common impression that a struggle had ensued between human beings . This very naturally threw suspicion on the parties implicated in the robbery of the landlady ' s brother , and some nine or ten , among whom was the girl ' s own brother , were apprehended . A prolonged adjourned inquest was held for several days , but nothing was elicited calculated to bring the charge of murder home to any of the suspected parties . Five or six

      of this gang have since been transported for other offences , and one or two of them have in the meantime died . The brother of the deceased girl , however ( who has always been suspected witli having been privy to the murder ) , has on several occasions made some singular statements , and displayed indications of being oppressed with unpleasant reflections . On Monday evening the 21 st ult ., this man was in thc Red Lion , at Knottingley , though quite sober , and there made a statement which induced the persons in company to send for the constables , who , from statements made in their presence , retained Horsfall in custody , and in consequence of what had fallen from him two women , named Hannah A skum and Sarah Downey were also apprehended , they having

      been companions or paramours of this gang of notorious characters at the time of the murder , though sinco married . On Tuesday all three of the parties were privately examined , and from what then transpired all were ordered to appear at Pontcfract for further examination on Saturday to whieh place Joseph Horsfall was removed in custody . The two women were liberated on bail until that day . Joseph Horsfall is a marine , living at Knottingley , and has lost one leg . This tragedy promising to come to light after all inquiry being baffled so artfully for such length of time , has caused all the old rumours in connexion with it to be revived , and imparted a degree of interest to the otherwise not very buoyant circles of Knottingley . Outrage _jj * f a . CfcfiRGTMAN , —More than ordinary excitement was created in Lock , Staffordshire , last

      week , by the figuring of the Rev . Edward _Powyss , the rector of Bucknall andBognallfwhoselivingproduces a yearl y income of more than £ 1 , 000 ) at the borough police-court on Wednesday week , on a charge of having committed a cruel assault ori u poor woman named Ann Clowes , aged 64 . The rev . defendant , who is well known in the district , and is possessed of great wealth , was defended by Mr . Cobbett , a barrister , of Manchester . From the evidence it appeared the defendant was the owner of the tithes at-Bucknall . Tho husband'df" complainant vented a small farm in the _village at a yearly rental of £ 50 , subject- to tithes . Thev resided there for six years , but left in April last , " and theynow _^ nayls . 2 d . a week for the cottage they live in . The tithes were paid in kind , the defendant taking every tenth strike of corn . Four _ycare back the tithes wore commuted , and the sum the hus-

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      band had to pay was £ 17 s . yearly ,. and she had paid the defendant thc rent _charjje in full , without deducting tho property tax . It was usually dofrayed by the tenant , and afterwards deducted from the amount due to tho owner . On the 8 th of May the defendant called for his year ' s tithe . She asked him to step in and wait while she got some change . He said , " I have had no dinner , " and jumped on his horse and rode off . She then had the money . On the 11 th he sont two of hia servants , hut she did not pay them , The rev . defendant shortly afterwards came and said that he had heard she was going to America , but that he had stopped her . The poor woman denied ever having had such an intention . The rev . gentleman then demanded his tithe . She said , " I hope you have no objection to paying me the Queen ' s tax . He asked for her receipts for that tithe . She showed him them , as also

      three receipts which he had given for the tithe before . He put them in his pocket , and refused to return them . Sho begged of him to give her the papers back , and she would pay him the tithe in full , whether he deducted the Queen ' s tax or not . He still refused , and she , thinking that he would come upon her for tho three years tithes , the receipts of which he had got , again begged their return . He swore by his God that he would not , and that he would return them to London . She got to the door so as to prevent him leaving with the receipts , when ho struck her on tho arm a violent blow with a large walking-stick . With pain and fear the poor old creature began to cry , and she went to him with a view of getting the receipts from him . He said— " I swear by my God I'll not give them back . " He then raised the stick and struck her over the head . She fell to the ground insensible , and remained in that state several hours . Blood

      flowed _ovei * her head , and Mr . Laste , a surgeon , on examining her , found a wound on her head of about half an in inch in depth . The scalp was separated to the extent of half an inch . After . a lengthened examination the Rev . S . Sneyd , the chairman , said it was clear that a gross assault had been committed upon the woman , and one perfectly unjustifiable , and the bench considered it a St case to inflict the heaviest fine allowed by law , viz ., £ 5 and costs . ( Loud applause followed the decision ofthe court . ) A Good Example . —The Hon . Newton Fcllowes has given orders to have a great quantity of his coppices and brakes , in thev neighbourhood of Eggcslord and _ChawU-igl * _-, cleared and broken up for tillage , which is now affording a large amount of labour

      to the poor ; immense tracts , winch but a few years sinco were planted with furze , for the purpose of affording shelter for the foxes , are now undergoing that change whieh will soon , we hope , repay tho owner a better return . —Western Times . The Murder at _Banrury . —Mrs . Layton died on Tuesday evening , after three weeks' suffering . An inquest is to be held on the body , when the prisoner Layton will doubtless be committed to Oxford Castle for the wilful murder of his wife . Mrs . Layton having lingered so long , hopes were entertained that _sl ' e might ultimately recover , though Dr . Wise , her medical adviser , always considered that serious consequences might suddenly supervene from the pistol wound , which had produced

      compound fracture of the skull . Wilful Damage to the Electric Telegraph . — The first instance of malicious injury being done to the electric telegraph has just occurred on the London and North Western Railway , between Clifton Bridge and Rugby , by thc twisting ofthe wires and by w _* hich the communication was broken off between London and Rugby down , and Liverpool . Manchester , and Birmingham up . Accident ox the Great Western * Railway . —On Wednesday an inquest was held at the Lamb and Lark Inn , Keynsham , on the body ofa labouring man , named Thomas Dolman , whose death was occasioned by an accident on the Great "Western Railway . It appeared that on Monday evening the

      deceased and five other men were employed in the long tunnel at Brislington , near the Bristol end of the line , in repairing the ballasting . While they were at work , the down luggage train from Paddington was signalled , and upon receiving tne word , they all got upon the up line , but had scavcely done so eve they heard tlie whistle of the 4 30 up passenger train , which was close upon the tunnel . The five companions of the deceased immediately got up out of the way , and one of thorn , ft man named Lacy , seeing the danger of Dolman , called out to him , and failing to arouse his attention screamed " murder . " It is supposed that the unfortunate man was paralysed by the apprehension of danger , for nothing seemed to arouse hia attention , and the train knocked him

      down and killed him in tho tunnel , mangling his body in a shocking manner . He was a wcll-conducied man , and has left a wife and six children . The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death . " Four Persons drownkd whilst boating . — On Sunday last six persons were amusing themselves in a boat on the river running through Norwich . They went up to the head of the river to the mill pool , and rowed the boat in sport into one ot the flushes , then running very strong , They tried this a second time , when one of the party ( Thos . Lane ) was jerked overboard ; another of thc men in tlie boat leaned over to catch hold of his companion , and the other parties likewise leaned over thc same

      side with the same intention , when the flush filled the boat and she immediately sank . Four of the parties sank and were drowned—their names , Thos . Lane , 16 ; Robert Browne , 28 ; Henry Lane , 23 ; and Frances Breeze , a very fine young woman , aged 19 . The two latter were to have been married on the following day . Inquests wero held by W . Wilde , Esq ., the coroner for the city , and verdicts of " Accidentally drowned" returned . The coroner observed that , had the party really wished , and intended to have been _, drowned , they could not have taken more certain and effectual moans . It was a most dangerous place for such sport , the flushes running very rapidly , and the water being from fourteen to _sixteen feet deep .

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      Cautio.V To Masters Or Vessels Bringing ...

      Cautio . v to Masters or Vessels bringing Passengers from Ireland . —Tho Card iff Guardian says _i—Jasper Tvavers , master of the James , of Kinsale , appeared on Thursday the 24 th ult ., at the Town-hall , Newport , before the Mayor , and T . Hughes , Esq ., to answer an information for having carried forty passengers more than allowed by his license from Cannasnery , in Ireland , to that port . — Richard Trew , assistant tide-surveyor of the customs , proved that defendant's vessel arrived on the 22 nd ult ., witli 119 adults and seventy-eight children—passengers on board ; and also sixteen horses and thirty sheep—all confined together in the hold , the vessel being only seventy-eight tons

      register !! She was much over-crowded , and m a very offensive state on her arrival . Witness said he pever saw such starved and miserable looking beings in all his life . The defendant ' s licence allowed him to cany only ninety-eight passengers ; and calculating the children as three for one adult passenger , he had on board forty-seYen more thin the number allowed . —Mr . Frost , tide-survey r , produced the vessel ' s register and tho lieoi . ee he received from the defendant ; also his cargo-book , in which he had entered only sixty-one passengers-. — The defendant said he did not know the number he had on board , and produced Nicholas Welsh , one Of the passenger "* , to prove that he ( Welsh ) had smuggled two friends on board . — The case being clearly proved , Travers was fined £ 200 , being £ o each for forty passengers ; in default of payment he was committed to Usk house of correction for two

      months . Irish "Vagrants . — Carmarthen was last week literally swarming with Irish vagrants , who were landed at Milford or some part of the coast in the neighbourhood early in the week , and who , to the number of 400 , of men , women , and children , have appeared in crowds in the streets . They say that the parish officers paid 2 s . a head for their passage to this country . Surely the government ought to adopt some measures to adopt such wholesale migration ; the inhabitants of this country are sufficiently burdened with the support of their own . poor without having such hordes as these as a continual burden upon them . —Carmarthen Journal . The Latter Day Saints and California . —The

      CarnarvdiuHerald says : — " This _neighbi u : _'hood has been _favoured with a visit from a number of itinerants , of a questionable character , professing to be preachers in the doctrine of the Latter Day IS ; i : ts , who havo of late become so notorious in the principality by their impostures . These devout personages hold forth almost daily in the open air , and in the dwelling-houses of their brethren , to crowded _jaudiences of the lower order , to whom tho novelty _Tias proved a source of great attraction . It appears tliat the unremitting exertions of the saints , and their false representations , have gained for them a goodly number of converts in the town . This is evidenced by the regular nocturnal ' dippings ' which take place in the river Scionct , at which it is not an unfrequent occurrence to see four or five at a time receiving the rite of baptism . The manner'in which this ceremony is performed is disgraceful , and altogether unprecedented , common decency not

      oemg oDservea . ino saints , however , are always desirous , were it possible , of keeping the place of meeting secret ; but the gamins of Carnarvon will not allow this , haying always been accustomed to be present—treating the poor follows to frequent volleys of hard stones and missiles and keeping up such a continual uproar , so that the . solemn performance can scarcely bo got through . The power of working miracles forms a prominent feature of their doctrine , and this imposition our visitors have laboured hard to establish in the minds of the peoplo , using every means that their cunning and craft could devise for that purpose ; unfortunately , however , for them and their cause every essay made in this direction has proved au entire ' failure . Their character assumes something of the enthusiastic madness of Peter the Hermit , in tho time ofthe crusades aud thoir mission' bears a striking similarity , being to make proselytes , for emigration to the golden regions of California , whioh they repre-

      Cautio.V To Masters Or Vessels Bringing ...

      sent as the 'landof promise , ' where a new _Jeruginated with the gold mania and takes wondcrfu with the ignorant who eagerly seize the _© PPW _*™ JJ Of' going tO the _divings * anyhow . The company are to set sail for their destination as soon as the number of converts reaches a certain point . » e have been informed that some ofthe sect are alreadv on their way to the _^ acramento from the parisn oi Llanfrothen in Merionethshire . " Death of a Mormon _niRouon refusing . medical Aid . —A man named John Pugh , belonging to t he sect of Latter-day Saints , was seriously burned at the late colliery explosion at Aberdare . Ills brother === _^ - _—fy-. _iinyo n now

      Jerusaints refused to let any medical man come neai him , and he died in consequence . An inquest was held , at which two of " the saints" were examined . They gave the _following evidence : —James Jones ( Jim Pontypool ) was called , who stated that he was a saint , and according to their creed no one should send for a doctor , but rely on the ordinances of their church for cures in all cases , and had it not been for the weakness of John Pugh ' s faith , he would have been cured immediately . Having made several other most , contradictory statements , several of the jurors said they could not believe him on his oath . With this the deputy coroner quite agreed , and he was dismissed without _beins sworn . —Wm .

      Sims was next called , who also stilted that he was a 8 aintand an elder in the Church of Christ . On the day John Pugh met with the accident he was sent for . He went and anointed him with oil , and administered the rites ofthe Church of Christ . He was perfectly sure had John Pugh ' s faith been good he would have cured him that instant . He tried him again several times , but the deceased ' s faith was too weak each time . He knew that Dr . Evans had offered his services to attend the deceased , but that John Pugh wished to try the ordinances ofthe Church of Christ , and if that fnilcd he would have a medical man . Though I failed to cure him , I did not advise the propriety of having ii doctor . It is my duty , as an cider , to exhort our people to trust

      to the ordinances of the church for cures in all cases , and not to medical men , Still we would not exclude any one from having a doctor . He knew that deceased was delirious for several days before he died , still he took no steps to have a proper medical man to see him . I do most solemnly declare that if all the flesh were burnt off my hand this moment that my blessing would cure it in an instant . I have cured myself many times . I have cured my wife frequently , and I have performed instantaneous cures upon my children by my blessing only , and had John Pugh ' s faith been good , I would have cured him like putting , one hand into the other . The jury returned tho following verdict : — "Wo find that the deceased , John Pugh , died from thc effects of an accident caused by an explosion of firedamp at Risca Colliery , May 8 th , and the culpable

      neglect of his attendants , who were members of a certain society called the Latter-day Saints , in refusing to permit a medical gentleman to attend to his case . The jurors beg , in the strongest language , to censure thc conduct of these deluded people , and caution , them not to repeat their foolish practices in future . " Tlie verdict was read in open court by the deputy-coroner , who advised the saints , and said that the jury had been exceedingly lenient , and that the verdict was a very merciful one . He fully expected to have had to commit several of them for manslaughter , but as it was they had a most narrow escape this time , and he trusted that thc serious caution of the fury would have due weight with them . Had tliey not put the fault upon the poor man now dead , nothing could have prevented them from being sent to another tribunal .

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      Execution At Pesm.—Tho Execution Of John...

      Execution at PEsm . —Tho execution of John Kellocher , who was convicted at the last circuit court of the murder of Janet Anderson , an old woman residing at Buttergask , near Blackford , took place at Perth on Tuesday morning . About 5 , 000 persons were present . On coming upon the _scaffold thc prisoner walked forward with a firm step , and , with the exception of the ashy paleness of his features , gave no indication of fear . During the reading of the service he repeatedly lifted his hands as if in the act of earnest devotion . On being left alono

      , however , ho trembled slightly , and continued to hold the signal for about two minutes , ere he allowed it to drop . At last it fell , and the strong man , after a few convulsive struggles , hung a motionless corpse . At nine o ' clock the body was taken down , and soon afterwards interred . Kellocher was a native of Ireland , and from the county of Clare . lie was twenty-seven years of age . On Monday night he gratified the authorities by making an ample confession of his guilt , exonerating the witnesses in reference to all that they had s ; ud on his trial , acknowledging the justice of his sentence , and expressing contrition for his crime .

      A Boy Killed by Axotiier _keak _AnnnoAiii . — On Saturday week as a coal-hawker was delivering some coals to a family residing at Friockheim , a boy threw a stone at liis horse , which , being observed by another boy who threatened to inform the carter on his return , he was struck tothe ground by a stone thrown at him hy the challenged party , who advanced and ordered him to rise . The hoy feebly replied that he was not able , when his adversary ( about ten years of age ) kicked him in the breast and belly , and the little suftercr almost immediately expired .

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      An Eviction Scene. (From The Tipperary V...

      AN EVICTION SCENE . ( From the Tipperary Vindicator ) It was a piteous spectacle on Thursday , in the midst of the pouring rain , to see children led by their parents out from their houses into the street , to see mothers _knt-el down on the wet ground and holding their children up to heaven , beg relief from the Almighty , and stren _g th to endure their afflictions . The erics of bereaved women and nieri running half frantic through thc streets , or cowering from the rain and wind under the shelter of their poor furniture , piled confusedly about , were affecting in the extmne . To see , amid all this misery , ten or twelve burly _rufiiaus from Nenagh , assailing the houses with crowbars , and to hear their cries of exultation as a wall yielded to their assaults , or a roof tumbled down with a crash , the spectator should be callous that could avoid being greatly affected . It was altogether as deplorable a spectacle as I have ever beheld . But let me give you a detailed account of the day ' s proceedings .

      Having h ? ard that the work of tjectment was again put _off-from Wednesday , 1 proceeded from Nenagh at an early hour on _Thursday morning , and arrived in Toomevara at nine o ' clock . The cub-sheriff ' s de puty , Mr . Samuel Gason , was there before me , and Air . Charles 0 Dell , ofthe police , withabout forty of the constHbulary . The scene , as I passed through the western end of the village , will not soon be effaced from my recollection . The entire range of houses from the cross at the Rev . Mr . Meagher , P . P . s house , to Mrs . Hill ' s _caach-ofRce , had been tumbled down , and all were roofless with the exception of three . The wretched creatures who had inhabited them were sitting on the ground alongside their Utile effects , or were busied erecting huts w . th the timber of the roofs against the ditch at the

      opposite side ot the raid . Some of these huts , or shanties , were erected , and here tluy were huddled in groups . Beds , bedclothes , pots , boxes , chairs , and tables lay scattered about in dire confusion . It was _scircely possible for one to pass without being blinded by the clouds of soot and dust . Heaps of soatv black straw _ob-tiucted the way , and several small cars were loading with the timber on the roofs , whilst others were _I'olhug away indifferent directions . The inhabitants of this part of the village , I understood , were tenants of a Mr . Long ,, and had thrown down then ; houses by arrangement , in anticipation of the sheriff s arrival , as I heard they were promised the timber and thatch . Passing on through the village reached the upper end , or Clmrch-streefc . where the sheriff s sub-deputy , some police , John Donohue , the driver on the estates , and a posse of bailiffs , had

      already commenced the work of ejecting the wretched people trom their houses . Only two houses were _t-ken down in this street ; twelve families were turned out , and the doors secured by driving staples into the jambs . The way was covered with _^ furniture and beds ; and many of the wretched creatures , as they staggered about the road , poured out sad lamentations , and showed feebleness and extreme misery . They made loud complaint of want to the sheriff ' s man . Mr . Gason , by whom they were referred to the relieving officer , Mr . _OLeary _. wh q was present , and who , is stated , should relieve their wants , or get them shelter in the poor-house , if they could find no other place of [ _" $£ _-Parsing out of Church-street , thc party of bailiffs entered what is called the Main-street , where , haying gone through the usual legal formality ol taking possession of some untenanted houses .

      still more pitiable scenes were presented than I had witnessed in either of the two former localities : home ofthe bouses in this street contained four and five families _^ all in great destitution ; thoy were scarcely _half-clad , and many of them had apparently got up from their miserable pallets of straw ditoh _T , 1 0 nth _* r adand 1 their Ws in the ditch . _Ju one instance-a Wretched lookin _g creature named _Gleeson , with gaunt and _fleshlessjaws _, 2 eyesofmosfc unnatural _si 2 e and hideous _Cldne ? was pushed from the house by the bailiffs , Sly " devouring sorae repuHve _, J fe . an 8 _^ _efg _i- _'VuescntaUoti ot Kins _F _^ minB' \ "Vhi ' p _Mu-iHrpd in _^ possessing the tenants _SS _^ _E _^ _kPA 1 *

      up wW 7 _befe gof _windows was heard higher ff tW * Z V bai -- had not V _^ arrived . X repaired i « , _hlt POt U 6 M 01 S 6 e _^^ ed from , and perceived lrt _)?? J ? , d -fmfortabIe _tookmj ' n _* iu Wying n _. I _, rfi fUrmtu V 0 ? ufc of » house which waspainted neatly , and presented an air of comfort in comparison

      An Eviction Scene. (From The Tipperary V...

      with the other houses in the village . The man stood , and looking around at the furniture ' piiC _(* outside tbe door , he caught up a hammer , and co menced smashing the windows , from whi h _, ho * ever , he desisted on the coming up of Mr . Ga Son and the attendant b liliffii . He cried bitterly , and turning to the crowd made a lamentable compiai , He held a bake-house , and six acres of land , ani said he was doing well in the world . While speak . ing he was struck a blow on the mouth by a butcher named Donohue , for whom his house , I understand , was intended . A shout was then raised , several men rushed forward , on both sides , and the conflict was Hkely to terminate disastrously were it not for the interference of the police . A little beyond this with the other houses in the village . The n ,.,

      , at the house of a man named Brislane _, _aatillmnre affecting scene took place . The house was a comfortably slated one of two stories high , the wind ows well glazed and large . Brislane and hi * wife both StOOd outside the door in tears . The woman held a child in her arms , and a little girl near her lulJ another . The children also cried bitterly . As the bailiffs approached Brislane pulled off his hat , and , throwing himself on his knees , exclaimed , while the tears coursed rapidly down his cheeks , and his breast heaved with sobs , " M _* y the malediction of heaven fall "—here his wife threw her arms around him , entreated him not to curse , and kneeling down herself on the wet ground , and holding her child up towards heavenshe said" No . Jim , do not curse

      , , but let both of us and the children pray to the great God to forgive them . " I saw on many rough visages the traces " of deep emotion . Brisiane was running about in a state of distraction , bitterly complaining . None of the houses from the corner of this house of __ _fcrislane's were levelled ; but a little beyond Bris ane ' s Fethard-street _comm-nees , and as soon as the party entered on the street a body of twelve bailiffs fr > m Nenagh , who had been in a house up to this period , come up , each carrying a crow . bar , and the work of levelling here commenced , with an extraordinary coolness on the part of the bai'iffs . Tin ee or four of them would collect at a corner of a house , and by a few well-directed strokes of a crow dislodge a quoin , when the wall

      generally tumbled in an exceedingly brief short space of time . Their faces , when they were a short time at work , became so begrimed and bku kcned with the dust , that they looked quite horrible . Four houses at the commencement of Fethardstreet were razed in an incredibly short space . Ano _» ther house remained to _ba demolished , and the bailiffs were about applying crow bars to the walls , when it being said tbat a wre'ehed man named Booth was inside unable to leave his bed , Mr . Gason entered , and a sight of the most harrowing description _presfeuted itself to his eyes . The poor creature lay on a wretched straw pallet in the corner , liis face and limbs were swol _' en , and he was scarcely able to articulate a word from excessive debility . Mr . Gason gave him a ' shilling , and appointed him " care-taker' * of the house for aweek , perceiving that the inevitable conseqnence of throwing him out , would be instant d < _-ath . Here the rain , which had been falling all

      day , increased violently . I left the scene for a short time to see the condition of thc people in other parts of lhe village . It was heartrending , absolutely terrific . To describe the contrivances resorted to in order to ward off the " pelting of the pitiless storm , " would be an endless task . Chairs were _arranged in squares , quilts , sheets , and pieces of old canvass were stretched on po ' es ; wigwams were thus formed under whose covering the poor creatures were seated , completely saturated witli the rain which fell through the flimsy awning overhead nearly as plentifully as it did from the _. skies without . Ass ' s cars and turf baskets were also upturned , and gave shelter to scores of half-clad wretches . I again proceeded to Fethard-street . The bailiffs had gone up on the east-side , where they were at my departure , and having demolished two or three houses , were now engaged at the opposite side , I subjoin the names and families of tiie persons evicted . I could not ascertain the exact amount of those whom it is

      intended to furnish other dwellings to ; but I am told on good authority that selections have been made which give occasion to very bad feelings . Anxious to do my duty impartially and with candour to all parties , 1 made the most rij . id inquiries on this head , and am assured by most reliable authority that the persons to be taken in must be considerable less than thirty fami ies . ( The rep rter here gives a list of the names , the numbers of each family , ifcc , evicted—the aggregate amounting to five hundred and eight human beings . He then proceeds , and , describing a particular locality called Pound-street tavs )—

      " In this street a great many more persons were rendered houseless than appears by the report . I could get no accurate account of the names of the lodgers in each house , but was told that at least one and sometimes two families , along with the nominal occupant ' s family , resided in each . Beyond the ond of I ' ound-street , on the road leading to _Graune . some eight or ten houses , inhabited by some families of the Ryans , were also , I am told , demolished . But I had not time to proceed to the spot , and make personal observations . Taking into consideration the number of lodgers which the houses contained in addition to the recognised tenants , and of which I could get no accurate return , I should suppose that the entire number turned out of their houses on

      Thursday would reach 150 families , of 600 individuals . Of this number , I could learn that about thirty families , or , on an _average of four to _eich family , about 120 persons , were to be allowed other _dwellings in the _vi'lage . So that 4 S 0 persons or 120 families would thus appear to be thrown on the " waves ofthe world , " as some of the unfortunate people themselves stated it . I have now only to add that in the drawing up cf this report , and in collecting the facts I have herein stated , I was influenced solely by a desire to do even justice to all parties . Before I close this lengthy report , I deem it only due to Mr . Denis M'Carthy , the middle land ' ord of Church-street , Main-street , and a treat

      part of Fethard-street , to state , that on his appearance among his f . rmer tenants , the protestations of gratitude the poor creatures _poured out to him were unbounded . I saw several kneel on the wet street and call down blessings on his head for the indulgence he had shown while exercising the functions of lindlord over them . _Night was falling as the sheriff ' s deputy , with his attendants , had taken _possession of the last house in I _' ond-street . I won ' t attempt to describe what was indescribable—the soul harrowing condition of the poor wretches in the wigwams at the time Iwas _leaving To mievara ( eight o ' clock in the evening . ) No pen could portray in its true colours the fearful hr . rrors ofthe picture . "

      Dublin , _Saturday , May 26 th . —The southern journals generally contain further most afflicting accounts of the increase of destitution . The Cork Examiner says : — " The affairs of the hapless anion ot Bantry are come to a crisis—to a dead lock . In misery , suffering , and bankruptcy , Bantrv is the twin of Skibbereen . " In the midland counties , also , destitution is increasing . At the meeting of the Carlow Board of Guardians , on Wednesday , Mr . Pishbouiiie announced that before a month they would have claims from no less than five hundred persons from the Queen ' s County ; and that in tlie barony of _Siievemarguy many of the people are now living on weeds . The state of Clare continues to be truly fearful ; twelve deaths by starvation in two davs . Capt .

      Kennedy , the Poor Law Inspector , is malcing extraordinary exertions , which have won him much praise . Ia one townknd there have been ejected by the landlord sixty families . _JJECRi-T Societies . —The Kilkenny Journal contains a letter from Dr . Cane , who had taken a leading pare in the Young Ireland movement of last year , expressing alarm at the increase of seciet societies . Dr . Cane Miys : — " My object is to call your attention to the sad fact that secret associations and _swearing in for some political purposes have reached our county and city and are progressing amongst our people . I have become fully and satisfactorily cognisant of the truth of this statement with a depression of spirit which far outweighs anything 1 have felt in by-gone suffering ; and I address ihese hurried lines to you , asking that the press and the _clerg _)' would combine their united influences to _dissuade from so ruinous a movement the mi-guided men who are falling into the _sna-e . "

      Harvest Prospects . —The provincial journals received this morning give the most cheering accounts of the progress of thecrops of all kinds . 'l ' he potatoes , in all directions , present a healthy and luxurious appearance , and those early planted at * M advanced in growth , Fatal Conflict with the Police .-Thc Z _*'** _" ** nek Reporter , of yesterday , says : — " A correspondent informs us tbat on Wednesday last a conflict took place between the conntrv people and tiie _poHce m the neighbourhood of Hospital , in this county , when one of the people was killed and several , it is feared , mortally wounded . It is stated that a _mw ° of cattle , seized—but whether under civil bill decree or habere our correspondent does not mention-h _^ been impounded in _Hospital on _Tuesday , and on « ie same night , the pound having been broken _of"i

      every beast was driven off . Next day the _po' _^ j having been informed of the transaction , _procee _^ to where the cattle were , and were actually en _^ _fj driving them tothe pound again , having alsoarre _^ the parties primarily conceraed in the rescue . «» The Leinster Express says , " Doubtless you a . aware ofthe military preparations here , for * j la j the information the authorities have received . ' the band ofthe & 2 nd Regiment quartered h _& _6 > ) _„ served eat on the 20 th * alt .. with musket * an _« _•*' _- _£ rounds of ball cartridge ; the convalescen t P _£ L , the hospital have also been served with the - * _^ There is a company at all times kept in th % _^\ _l the to be ready at tim'e minutes' notice , " j .. /« _asftldievs were celebrating the Queen ' s _btrtW _^ turday ) , not _apolieeman was allowed to _h _* . * . ur town . Meetings have been held in the _"fr ' nug hood of Carriok-oh-Suir , under the name ot a q _, matches : such is the cloak . There is n ° _"S _^ any contemplated attsck outwardly , still tne _^ j _^ ties have such information as leads them _* " >• , thes . e preparations , as being absolutely usees- ** . ¦

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 2, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_02061849/page/6/