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      _Heaith or Loxdox Doiuxg ihe "Week . —The lotal number of deaths registered in thc metropolitan districts , in the week ending last Saturday , was 845 . This number is lower than in any of the corresponding weeks of ten years ( lSiO-9 _) , except those of ISil and 1315 , when the deaths were less than 800 ; and it is much lower than in the same week of 1 S 43 and 1 S 4 S , when they roseabove 1 , 100 . The present return shows a decrease on the average { corrected for increase of population ) bf 171 deaths . Taking the three classes of maladies , w-icn together destroyed more than half of theS- h ) persons who died last week , namely the epidemic , the tubercular , and those which affect the « sj _^ tory it that though there is a decrease m

      organs , appears each of them ! it is still most remarkable n the epidemic . In this Class the deaths enumerated are 183 ( of which 137 occurred amongst children ) , whilst the corrected average is 250 Four children and an adult died of small-pox , 21 children of measles , 24 of _ioopias-consh . 5 of croup , i of thrush 32 persons of scarlatina , 30 of diarrhoea and dysentery and 49 of typhus . Small-pox continues to exhibit much less than " the usual amount of fatality ; most" of thc other complaints mentioned are near tbe averagetyphus a little exceeds it . In St . Mary , Paddington , at S 3 . Harrow-road , the wife and daughter of an eating-house keeper , aged respectively 50 and 19 years , died , the former on the 22 nd , the latter on the 21 st of October , of ' bilious fever ( 3 weeks ) .

      peritonitis ( in one case 4 days , in the other 4 or 5 days ) . " The continued decline of diarrhoea and dysentery is shown by the returns of three weeks , in which were successively registered 57 , 37 , and _30 deaths . Last week three deaths were recorded from cholera . Intemperance was fatal to two men ; in one case , by means of injury received in a state of intoxication ; in the other , by generating disease . A wine-broker ' s clerk , who lived at 1 , Marshall _' sbuilding , Shoreditch , and died on the 12 th of Oct ., at the age of 40 years , sunk under starvation , as appears Irom the coroner's return : " natural death , accelerated hy privations from want and destitution . " It deserves to be noticed that on " the 13 th ,

      ISth , and 23 rd , of October , three infants , in _different houses , were found dead in bed , or died suddenly in bed , all of them the children of single women . The births of 693 boys and CG 9 girls , in all 1 , 362 children , were registered in the week . The average derived from the returns of corresponding ¦ weeks in five years ( _lSi-5-9 ) is 1 , 320 . At the Royal Observatorv , Greenwich , the mean reading of the "barometer m the week was 29-519 in . The mean temperature was 42 * 3 deg ., being lower by 3 deg . than that of the same week on an average of 7 years . Since Saturday it has been lower than the average on every day ofthe week ; and on Thursday , when it was lowest , was 6 * 5 deg . below the average ofthe same dav . The wind blew generally from

      northeast . A Pleasure Van * os Fire . — On Sunday afternoon a pleasure van , returning from Hampton Court with a party of men and women , eighteen in number , in passing through Turnham-grcen , was discovered to be on fire ; the loose straw at the "bottom of the vehicle blazed up so fiercely that the women ' s dresses were ignited , and some of them were severely burnt . The flames spread to the awning , and before the fire could be put out , the van was a complete wreck . Mrs . Short , of Charles-street , Drury-lane , the wife ofthe proprietor of the van , was so severely injured that she Iiad to be taken to the hospital . The disaster was occasioned by some one of the party smoking and dropping his light .

      A Max Fouxd Dead is a Railway Statiox . — On Snnday night , about nine o'clock , tbe officials at the Eastern Counties Railway Station at Stratford found lying in the station the dead body of a man , aged about sixty-five , dressed in black , and having on his person a silver watch and 3 s . in silver . The body was removed to the Blue Boar public-house , Stratford , for a coroner ' s inquest , and to he identified . - Daeixg Bubglabt axd Atiemft to Murder a Policeman . —On Monday morning , about half-past three o'clock , as police-constable Goodwin , S 5 S , -was on duty in the Challcott-road , Primrose-hill , he observed a man , who on coming up to him ( the constable ) asked the way to Gloucester-road .

      _Goodyin told him that he was walking away from it . He then asked the man what he had in his hand , seeing that he was carrying a bag which appeared to contain a heavy bulk . He replied that it was his own properly and that he had worked for it . Goodwin remarked that he did not believe him , and that he must go to the station-house . The man walked a short distance , when he suddenly inflicted a wound with a knife upon the policeman ' s face , which caused the blood to flow . Goodwin grasped hold of the fellow , who attempted to stab him in the abdomen , but was prevented . They struggled and fell , and while down he stahhed the policeman twice in the face . They got np , and a desperate struggle again ensued , the policeman being nearly exhausted from loss of blood and over exertion .

      He called ont loudly for assistance , npon which two of the policemen on the North Western line went to him , when , by their united assistance , the man was taken to the station-house in Albanystreet _^ where he gave the name of Williams . In searching him was found £ 25 in silver and copper , consisting of crowns , half-crowns , shillings , & c . Inquiries were instituted , when it was discovered that the money was the property of Mr . G . Seeton , landlord ofthe Dublin Castle , Park-street , Camden Town , who had deposited the money in a cupboard in the bar parlour and in the till . It is supposed that the thief must have concealed himself in the taproom . The knife ( a table knife ) with which he stabbed Goodwin * was Mr . Seeton _' s . Goodwin is under the doctor ' s hands .

      Frightful Accident axd Loss of Life at _Griffdc _' s ( the Lord Matou ' s ) Wharf . —On Tuesday afternoon a very melancholy ocenrrence took place at Griffin ' s wharf , in Tooley-street , the property and place of business of the present Lord Mayor , by which one man lost his life , and another is so seriously injured that it cannot be said he is out of danger . It is usual at this and other wharfs to have a large dram wheel for the purpose of raising or lowering heavy weights from the wharf to the barges below it ; and this is worked by men in the inside of it , especially considering the weight that is to be raised _, and by their treading the weight can either be hoisted up or lowered down . On Tuesday some casks of cocoa nut oil were being lifted from a barge to the

      -wharf , wbich at the state of the tide was a height of about sixteen feet . The casks , or ' * legers , " as they are technically called , weighed upwards of a ton each , and six men , of the names of Hurley , Callaghao , Hayes , Looney , Crawley , and Neeve , who were occasional labourers at the wharf , were engaged on the wrork , which they had been at some little time , who , on hoisting one of the legers to within a foot of the top of the wharf , one of the men , and it cannot be ascertained « hich , called out , "high enough , " wbich was a signal for them to stop . Hayes , Looney , Crawley , and Neeve , then jumped out , and the consequence was frightful . The weight of the other two , Hurley and Callaghan , of course , not being able to

      support the leger , it descended hack to the barge with great velocity , while the two poor men within the ¦ wheel were thrown about in every direction in the 41 drum , " until it stopped , and the two unfortunate persons were taken out . Hurley , on being conveyed to Guy ' s Hospital , was found to be qui'e dead from injuries to the head and ribs ; and Calagban has many severe scalp wounds , besides internal injuries , tbe result of which may be fataL It is a singular fact that Hurley was first engaged to load gome sacks of tares , hut not liking the work , he had exchanged with a man at the wheel ; and it may he mentioned that such an , accident has never taken place at the wharf before .

      Danger op _UapthaLami * 3 . —On Tuesday _evening Mrs . Lambert , coal dealer , 3 , Parker-street , _Drury--lane , was in the act of trimming a naptha lamp , -when the spirit ignited . Mrs . Lambert in her alarm dropped the lamp , and her clothes were saturated -with the naptha , and instantly she was in a blaze from head to foot . The unfortunate woman rushed into the street , the fames rising high above her head , and made her way into a butcher ' s shop in Drury-lane , the dames igniting a quantity of loose paper that was lying about , and nearly set the shop on fire . Some persons at length extinguished the fiame 3 by roUing her on the ground . Mrs . Lambert was so dreadfully burnt that the flesh came off her hands and hody . She was taken to King ' s College Hospital . She is not expected to survive . A little girl , aged ten years , daughter of Mrs . Lambert , was also seriously burnt _.

      Tun Recext Steamboat Accident on tiie River . —On Tuesday afternoon , Mr . W . Carter opened an inquiry at the Angel , Rotherhithe , respecting the death of Charles Cook , aged 26 , a labourer employed at the Wylam Fuel Works , Greenwich , -who with three others . was drowned in the river , hy a boat which they were in being upset by the imprudent navigation , as ifc was alleged , of the Hake of Cambridge ( Dublin ) steamer . Mr . Pelham , jun ., the solicitor , attended to watch the _proceedings for the relatives of the deceased . It may be briefly stated , that on the morning of Thursday the 17 th instant , between nine and ten o ' clock , a boat containing the deceased persons and a lad named Iteid was being rowed up the river about

      midchannel , nearly opposite the City Canal , when the Prussia Eaola ( Cork ) steamer passed , and the boat was _rollingln the swell left by that vessel , when the Duke of ' Cambridge was seen coming down , and the party on the paddle-box beckoned to them to g"Jt OUt Of the way . They endeavoured _w do so , as the survivor alleges , but the steamer continued her course , and did not stop until within six or seven yards of the boat . The result was , that the latter -was turned over in the _sorf , and the lad escaped by clinging to the bottom , and eventually to the paddle-wheel of the Duke of _Cambridge , when he 'was taken on board and put ashore . The body of the deceased , the first recovered , was dragged up on Friday -off Cuckold ' s "Point , not far _fipm the

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      scene of the accident . The coroner having alluded to the importance of the inquiry , adjourned the proceedings , in order thatthe pilot who had charge ofthe steamer , the captain and others , might attend . Fire is the Cixt-road . —On Monday morning at an early hour a fire was discovered on the premises belonging to Mr . Frederick Field , a grocer and cheesemonger , 15 , Brittania-street , City-road . Tho firemen , in spito of their exertions , were unable to subdue the _conflagration until the upper part of the premises was destroyed , and the remainder EeriouBly damaged . The fire was caused from a spark of a lighted candle falling upon some wearing apparel . Mr ?* " Field was insured in the Legal and Commercial Fire-office .

      A Child Burnt to Death . —On Wednesday evening Mr . H . M . Wakley held an inquest , in _. 'tho University College Hospital , oa Cornelius Marlow , aged four years . Deceased , during his mother's _temporary absence , attempted to get the lu _* i V matches from the mantel piece , and in the attempt fell into the fire , on wliich it lay until its screams alarmed the inmates , who forced open the door and found the little sufferer lying across thefire half roasted . Ho was instantly conveyed to this hospital , where he died in tho greatest agony . The jury , who severely censured the mother for having left the deceased by himself in the room , returned a verdict of " Accidental death . " Roman Catholic Preaching in TnE open Air . —

      For the last few evenings the neighbourhoods of Iligh-street and Union-street , in the Borough , havo been kept in continual excitement , owing to the extraordinary conduct of some Roman catholic priests and their assistants , who have been performing religious services and preaching sermons in the open air ; conduct which has naturally caused the gathering together of all the refuse of the low courts and alleys with which this neighbourhood abounds , thereby causing a serious obstruction to the thoroughfares , and the business of the respectable inhabitants of the district . Tho present theatre of these extraordinary exhibitions is Maypole-alley , situated near the Borough Town-hall , and running in a somewhat oblique direction from High-street to Union-street , which is almost entirely inhabited by the lower orders of the Irish . On each evening during the week , the windows of

      the respective occupants of the different rooms have been illuminated with candles , and a priest standing on a chair , dressed in canonicals , and having a somewhat rudely executed crucifix held behind him , so ns to give the interior of the court as nearly as possible the appearance of a Roman Catholic Chapel during mass , ' has held forth to the surrounding multitudes , on the doctrines and progress now said to be making in England of the Roman Catholic Religion . The discourse , which has heen couched in the most intempe * _£ e language , has principally referred to the late assumption of spiritual power in this country by the heads of the Roman Catholic Church , deductions being drawn therefrom that the Established Religion of this realm will he shortly overthrown , and the Roman Catholic Religion assume its place . —Daily News .

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      "Wholesale _Swinhlixg at Bath . —George Rowland Hill , who had succeeded , by false pretences , in obtaining goods to a very large amount from several of the most respectable tradesmen in Bath , was , on Saturday last placed upon his trial at the quarter sessions , held at the Guildhall , before David Jardine , Esq ., the Recorder . The first . case proceeded with was that of Messrs . Reynolds and Holman , linendrapers , from whom the prisoner wa _= _i charged with obtaining , by fraudulent pretences , carpeting , & c , to the value of between £ 70 and £ 80 . The evidence was very voluminous , but the following are the particulars of the case . The prisoner , in the latter part

      of 1319 , came to Bath , and opened shops in Bnllamestreet , as a cabinetmaker , where he employed several workmen , and appeared to be carrying on a flourishing business . Having thus succeeded in making himself known , in the early part of June , in the present year , he went to the shop of Messrs . Reynolds and Holman , and represented that he had been employed to furnish a house for the Rev . William Dangerfield , at Stroud , in Gloucestershire . lie said the job would amount to between £ 500 and £ 600 , and that he was to be paid as soon as the work was finished , which would be in five or six weeks' timo . He then told the prosecutors that he should require carpets and druggets , window curtains , & c , to the amount of £ 60 _for £ 70 , and asked to be allowed to

      have such goods as he might require , to be paid for as soon as the Rev . Mr . Dangerfield discharged his account . Upon the representations made by the prisoner Messrs . Reynolds and Holman allowed him to select at that time carpeting to the amount of £ 22 . In two or three days afterwards a letter bearing the Stroud postmark was received from Hill by the prosecutors , in wh ' ch he stated that the carpeting was not sufficient for his purpose , and he must have some more of the same pattern , or , if they had not more of that , he must have the required quantity in a new pattern , and he would send back that first had . Having no more carpet of the first pattern , Messrs . Reynolds and Holman sent a whole bale of carpeting of another pattern , hut that first sent was

      never returned , and subsequently other goods were obtained by the prisoner upon similar pretences , amounting _altogether to between £ 70 and £ 80 . From Messrs . Gully , Hayden . Clement , and other tradesmen , the prisoner succeeded in obtaining goods to s very large amount upon the same representation of having to furnish a house for the Rev . Mr . Dangerfield , and very ingeniously contrived to make his victims references , by which he became enabled to obtain tbe property of others . Suspicion was at length excited , and in July Inspector Dunne , of the Bath police force , went to Stroud to make inquiries , and the nature and extent of the fraud became at once apparent . _Ko such person as the Rev . Mr .

      Dangerfield existed , and the prisoner himself occasionally went by the name of Dangerfield in order to carry out the cheat , lt was also discovered thathe had sales at Tetbury and other places for the disposal of furniture . On proceeding to Cheltenham the officer discovered a large quantity of furniture of every description , including a great portion of that obtained from the tradesmen of Bath , and between £ 100 and £ 200 worth besides not identified . At the railway station were several articles directed in the prisoner ' s handwriting to persons of different names , and to be left there till called for . The jury found the prisoner Guilty ; whereupon an arrangement was entered into between the counsel on each side that

      he should plead guilty to the other charges , so tbat restitution of the property fraudulently obtained might be made to the owners , without entering upon the charges , the prosecuting counsel thereupon engaging not to press for judgment in respect to them . The prisoner was sentenced to be transported beyond the seas for the term of seven years . A true bill has been returned -by the grand jury against the prisoner , hia wife , and brother-in-law , Windon , for conspiracy . The Frmlev Murder . —On Saturday last , at eleven o ' clock , the examination of the prisoners in custody charged with the double crime of murder and burglary at Frimley was again resumed before the magistrates at Guildford . The evidence adduced

      possessed no great novelty or interest , being to some extent a repetition of details which have already been made public , and where fresh facts were adduced , they were merely such as supplied blanks in the indirect proof of guilt . "When the prisoners were one hy one brought into the court-room , their appearance was narrowly watched , but indicated no material change . Samuel Harwood's face looked paler on entering , and became -Hushed , as if with strong excitement , as the inquiry proceeded . Levi Harwood also , though the confident daring reckless ness of his manner and expression had suffered no visible abatement , seemed to be more thoughtful and concerned about himself . His complexion had acquired a less healthy hue , and the muscles of his face

      and throat were in constant motion . Jones looked quite as well , if not better than at the previous examination ; aud Smith , the approver , -appeared to be more at his ease , though his eyes were still for the most part bent timidly on the ground , and he never once directed them to where his _compsnions ih guilt were standing . This man has quite the slim active figure ofa burgler , while all the rest in build and expression look like footpads . A curious piece of pantomime occurred during the proceedings onthe part of the prisoner Jones , -which , singular to say , was only observed by one or two people in the crowded room . The accuBedwere drawn up in a semicircular form at the entrance end of the courtroom , a turnkey being placed between each of them

      to prevent communication , During ' a pause in the proceedings , Jones , who had managed to fall behind a little , caught Levi Harwood ' s eye unobserved , and clenching his fist at the same time , and slightly raising it , with a motion of his lips , and a glance at Smith , he very significantly conveyed the kind of treatment the approver would receive if an opportunity ever offered . The only other point worth noticing in the conduct of the prisoners was the manifest delight with which they heard some of Mrs . Seabrook _' _a replies to the interrogatories of the chairman , Mr . Best . The prisoners were remanded . —Close of the Coroner ' s inquiry . — Verdict of Wilful M urder . —The inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of the late

      Rev . G . E . Holiest , was on Tuesday resumed and cone uded at the White . Hart , Inn , Frimley . Several witnesses not previously examined before the coroner were called . All of them _repgated the evidence they had given before the magistrates at Guildford , which having been published , it is wholly unnecessary to repeat . —Before closing the inquiry , the coroner and jury proceeded to the vicaragofor the purposeof re-examining Mrs . Holiest , the widow of the deceased , on the subject of the penny token found upon the prisoner Jones , and also as to her recognition of Levi Harwood ' g voice , neither of which points were touched upon in this lady ' s previous examination before the coroner . Mrs . Hollest's evidence on each was of the most satisfactory character , and upon the return of the jury to the in

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      quest-room , the Coroner summed up . The room was then cleared of strangers , and the jury remained in consultation for a few minutes . On the doors being re-opened , the Coroner announced that the jury had agreed to an unanimous verdict of "Wilful murderageinst Hiram Smith , Levi Harwood , and James Jones . " And in returning their verdict , the jury desired to express their opinion that the evidence laid before them was not sufficient to justify a verdict of" Wilful murder" against Samuel Harwood . The jury also declared that there had been no evidence adduced be . _rs them to show by which of the three other prisoners the fatal shot had been fired . —Warrants of committal were placed in the hand 8 of superintendent Biddlecombe by the coroner , with instructions to lodge them with the governor of the Guildford House of Correction , where the prisoners are confined .

      Collision on the South Western Railway . — On Sunday night an accident of an alarming character occurred on the South Western Railway , near the Richmond station . The 6 . 30 train from Waterloo to Windsor having left at the usual time , proceeded as far as Richmond without interruption , and shortly afterwards a train of empty carriages from Twickenham came along the same line of metals . Owing to the damp state of the weather , aad the great quantity of leaves which had fallen from the trees and settled upon the rails , made the latter extremely slippery , so that the Windsor train found some difficulty in getting up the incline over the river , and the consequence was that the Twickenham train overtook the preceding one on the

      incline . The force of the two trains meeting caused great alarm amongst the passengers in the Windsor carriages , and in an instant a horsebox and carriage truck were completely thrown over the wall , and they fell into the park below . At the same time a break van was shattered to nieces , which , of course , interrupted the due course of the traffic on the line for some time . Although the passengers of the Windsor train were greatly terrified , no one sustained personal injury . Incendiary Fire in Essex and Apprehension of the Incendiary . —On the 25 th ult ., a stack of barley , containing about thirty quarters , standing on an eminence near the mansion of George Collyer , Esq ., army agent , of Craig ' s-court , London , but whoee country residence is at MascalPs , South Weald , near Brentwood , was discovered to be on fire ; An Irish lad , who had just been discharged from Ilford gaol , overtook a carter coming from

      London to Brentwood , and told him he was going up to Collyer ' s to endeavour to get some " grub ;" it appears he did not go , but went and wilfully set the stack on fire , which was in the course of a few hours entirely consumed . From the description of him by the carter , he was immediately taken into custody by the police . He was very saucy , and said he did it expressly for the purpose of being transported out ofthis country , as he was heartily tired of it . The Plate _RonnEniEs at Liverpool . — Last week , Joseph Wolfe , a watch jobber , was placed in custody beforo Mr . Rushton , at the Police-court , Liverpool , on suspicion of receiving watches , knowing them to have been stolen . The prisoner was remanded until Thursday next . The watches were subsequently identified as having been stolen recently from the following persons : Mr . Keightley , Mr . Leadley _, Mr . Jackson , and Mr . Corlett .

      Alarm op Cholbra . —An alarm exists at the Eresent time leBt there should be an epidemic outreak of Asiatic cholera in the town of Hull ; The disease first appeared among tho shipping , and has since attacked a number of localities in Sculcoates , Witham , and Drypool . From the end of August up to the present time upwards of thirty deaths from Asiatic cholera and about twenty-five from diarrhoea have occurred—about sixty in all , and this only in one portion ofthe borough . It is stated that since the disease made its appearance during the present outbreak , there have nearly 100 deaths taken place from all gradations of the disease . The deaths from cholera have lately been seven or eight a week , but in one day no fewer than fourteen persons died of cholera and diarrhoea . Fatal cases have also occurred in other towns .

      Burglary at Bristol . —On Sunday evening last during the temporary absence of the family , the house of Mr . W . Turtle , Old Park , Bristol , was burglariously entered , and a large quantity of wearing apparel and other property was taken off . The police suspected a man named Hayne . " , whom they captured , and in whose room they found all the property , with other stolen articles , and a complete set of burglars' implements . He was brought before the magistrates at Bristol on Monday , and remanded .

      Highway Robbery near , Maidstone . —On Sunday last , as Mr . Hooker , of the firm of Syckelmore and Hooker , curriers , Gabriel ' s-hill , Maidstone , was proceeding on foot towards Maidstone , at the distance of two miles from Chatham , he was suddenly , attacked from behind with the stroke of a large stick , which almost felled him to the ground . Recovering in some degree from the stunning effects of the blow , he grappled with the villain , and after a severe struggle both _canrn to Ihe ground . The robber eventually succeeded in snatching his watch , which had been secured by a strong guard wbich he broke , and also in abstracting the contents of one pocket—some loose cash , a latch-key , and a small

      box-key . Mr . Hooker s cries for help attracted a man to the spot , whereupon the scoundrel decamped into the wood . Mr . Hooker was very roughly handled ; and from his hat and clothes heing very much { spotted with blood in some places , which could not have come from his own person , it is pretty certain the fellow must have bled freely . He appeared about thirty years of age , about five feet five inches in height , and rather stout ; wore a dark round frock and dark cap . The watch was a silver one , stop and second , * maker ' s name Solomon . Canterbury . On the case thereof was engraved "T . Jones , 1814 , " and its number was either 1 , 709 or 1 , 007 , he is not certain which .

      Robber y _, op Jewellery at Hull . —Mr . Richard Beswick , chief superintendent of the Manchester police , received information on Monday afternoon , of a serious robbery of jewellery at Hull , and having sent Mr . MacMullen , one of his active detective officers , upon what he considered to be a likely track , the thief was actually discovered , upwards of 100 milesfrom the place where the robbery was committed , in not more than two or three hours . MacMullen visited the house of a Mrs . MacLean , in Silk-street , Oldam-road , where he found an almost interminable stock of jewellery , consisting of brooches , breastpins , hair-pins , gold and silver pencil cases , gold snaps , silver knives , gold chains , seals , keys , & c . They are in the possession of a man named James Campbell , who at once confessed having committed the robbery . He , together with a woman named Buckley , upon whom property of similar description was found , were sent , in custody to Hull .

      Death from a Boiler Bursting . —verdict op _Manslaughter—An inquest was held on Monday , at Manchester , before Mr Edward Herford , the coroner , on the body of an engine-driver , named Charles Carlisle ( in the employ of Mr . Charles Porley , Bradford-road ) , who had been killed by the bursting of a steam-boiler . The explosion took place about a fortnight ago , and the poor fellow was so shockingly scalded that he died on Saturday last . It appeared that the boiler waB oracked for the length of three or four inches , and the deceased had frequently told Mr . Smith , the overlooker , that it

      was unsafe . Smith , however , persisted in having it patched up with a screw patch and some cement , although he knew that not three months previous one of the adjoining boilers , which was in a similarly dangerous state , had burst , and killed one person besides wounding others . Indeed , ten days bofore the accident , a boiler-maker , who was sent to examine it , told Smith that it was unsafe , and left him with the distinct understanding that it should not he worked again until it had undergone proper repairs . He was committed to the assizes , to answer for his gross and culpable negligence .

      Incendiarism bt Children . —At the Liverpool Police Court on Monday two children , named Charles Bell and Thomas Makin , were brought up on a charge of applying a lucifer match to a haystack belonging to a Mr . Johnston , lime burner , of Hatton-garden , Liverpool . It appeared that tho flames raged with considerable fury , and had not the fire brigade arrived the entire stack , valued at £ 40 , would have been entirely consumed . Mr . Johnston , very considerately refrained from _bringing forward any specific charge , and thus procured tho dismissal of tho children upon payment of less than one-third of the actual damage , for the payment of which he allowed the parents a considerable time .

      A Wedding Tragedy . —John _Ranson , blacksmith , and William Mason , pitman , both of Willington , were at a wedding in Newcastle , on Saturday last ' . In the evening , they left that town by train , to go to the wedding supper at Earsdon . Ranson , who was not sober , got out of the carriage , near to tho Percy Main station , where they were to leave the North Shields line , and stood upon the step . A gate-post caught him whilo tho train was in motion , and he was thrown under the wheel , which passed over his legs . Mason went back from the station , and found his comrade sitting upon the . line , with his legs fractured the left leg , indeed , was crushed to pieces . He had him taken back to Newcastle by the next train going east , and placed in the

      infirmary , where he received every attention ; but at one o clock on Sunday morning he died . Aninquest was held on Monday ; verdict , "Accidental death . " Deceased was twenty-eight years of age . ' Alarming and Destructive Fire iK York . —On the night of Tuesday last the ancient city of York was visited by a dreadful conflagration at the extensive premises of Mr . Cattley , raff-merchant , in Skeldergate , and it is estimated that £ 3 , 000 will not cover the loss sustained . Shortly after eleven o ' clock flames wero seen isBuing from the roof and windows of the saw-mill , a large building on the right hand side of the raff-yard . An alarm was , as a matter of course , instantly raised , and in a few minute "} multitude of persons were on _| he spot

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      ready to render assistance in counteracting the destructive element . After a little delay two engines arrived , and a plentiful supply of water being at hand , vast masses of the opposing element were brought into requisition , but all efforts on the part of the firemen seemed abortive for several hours , as the fire raged with as much fury as ever . Between four and five o ' olock noxt morning , however , the flames became so far subdued , as to dissipate all fears of their spreading any further . The saw mill , whicli is entirely gutted , the burnt walls only remaining standing , was a valuable building containing a large quantity of machinery , worked by steam power , for sawing timber of all kinds , cutting _venpors . and wood turnin g generally . The machinery ' ¦ ,.- r- _*___ 'j— _~** _- , _atnn _» n _i' _^ ,, n > nr ! i < _-. Mnir the

      deis rendered useless , and now lies scattered about among huge masses of charred beams and ashes . It may be observed that the raff-yard belonging to Mr . Cattley covers a considerable area , and was surrounded by sheds and dwellings . One shed , whioh contained a quantity of mahogany , is . entirely . destroyed along with its contents ; another shod is half burnt , and two houses , where some of Mr . Cattley ' s workmen resided , have been gutted by the flames . It is satisfactory to state that no life has been sacrificed , neither has there been any accident to a single individual engaged at the fire . Nothing definite is known respecting the origin of the conflagration , but it is supposed that some saw-dust had ienited in the saw-mill , and hence the great

      destruction of property which we have mated . In the raff-yard and the buildings adjoining , it is estimated that there was wood and other property worth not far short of £ 10 , 000 , consequently , considering the combustible naturo of the materials which the fire had to play upon , it is fortunate that the damage is less than the value of one-third of the timber destroyed . Mr . Cattley is insured in tho Yorkshire Insurance Company to the extent of £ 1 , 000 only , and if he should not be insured in some other office , his loss will be a serious one . During the greater part of Wednesday the fire engines were , at intervals , in operation , as the conflagration was

      not totally extinguished . Thb Rum-cask Broaching at Wallasey . —On the 25 th ult . another man , living in the neighbourhood of Wallasey , died from the effects of drinking too large a quantity of the contents ofthe puncheon which was washed up to the head of the Wallasey embankment on the _previous Wednesday afternoon . This makes the third victim whose lifo has been sacrificed through this unfortunate affair . The lives of many were almost despaired of , some having remained in an unconscious state for fifteen or twenty hours . One man had pumped from his stomaoh nearly a quart of raw Bpirits . —Liverpool Mercury .

      Another Case op Stabbing at Manchester . — A man named John Bott was on Monday taken before the magistrates at Manchester , charged with stabbing , It was stated that the prisoner was fighting with another man , named Thomas Fergan , in Great Bridgewater-street , on Saturday evening , when Fergan suddenly called out that he was stabbods A policeman was then called and seized Bott , asking him where the knife was that he had used . The reply was , " Oh , it ' s in my pocket—all blood . " Fergan is in the-Infirmary , too badly wounded to give evidence at present , and the prisoner stands remanded for a week . Fergan is wounded in three places ; having two stabs in the left side and one in tho left wrist . One of the wounds in the side was so large that the bowels protruded , and some fears are entertained for his life . Thc prisoner Richards , who stabbed a man named Bradburn in Salford last week , and also brutally beat Bradburn _' s wife , has been committed for trial at the next Liverpool

      assizes . Fatal Accident in Harwich Harbour . —On Monday some workmen were employed in lifting an anchor from a boat to the deck of a dredging machine in the harbour , at Hawick , when the anchor became so entangled with the boat as to upset it , plunging three men into th 8 __ water , one of whom was rescued in time to save his life , * but before assistance could be rendered , tbe other two , named Wells and Warwick , had sunk to rise no more . Their

      bodies have not yet been recovered . Loss of the Tug Steamer Powerful . —This steamer which has been for a long period engaged in towing lighters , Ac ., about Harwich Harbour , being required at Dover , was steaming her way thither under the charge of a Dover pilot , when , under circumstances not yet elicited , she struck upon the Long Sand , and ultimately sunk in deep water , at about nine p . m . on Saturday last . The crew were picked up on Sunday morning and taken into Shoreham * _J Rent .

      Thb Bequest of the late Mr . Hartlet , to the town of Southampton , for scientific purposes , has now been converted into English securities , and has realised £ 82 , 500 . This bequest , the amount of which has been thrown into Chancery , will , ina few weeks , be the subject of investigation before that court . Thb Case of Cruelty to Lascars at Southampton . —The coroner of Southampton has received instructions from the Secretary of State for the Home Department , to furnish him with the evidence adduced at the inquest on the bodies of the two Lascar seamen who died on board the ship , New Liverpool , in Southampton Docks , and for whose deaths a verdict of manslaughter was returned last week against the captain of the ship .

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      _Robbert at the South Wales Railway Station , Newport . —2 fEwroRT , Monday . — Last night , or early this morning , the South Western Railway station was broken into , and a considerable robbery effected , evidently by some ono who had a _thorough acquaintance with the private business of the office . The latest train up from Swansea through Newport comes in at about half-past nine at night ; and the earliest , or mail train , down from Gloucester in the morning , comes into Newport at half-past five , so that the robbery must have been effected in the interval . When the elerk and porters came

      into the office to receive the mail train this morning they found that one of the octagonal windows , looking out on the platforn , had the top and bottom squares of glass broken in the corners next to the slides ( which were let into the Bash , and wero not easily discernible . ) The slides were open , and the windows slightly ajar . This of course awakened instant suspicion , and on looking round it was discovered that a drawer , in which theclerks kept the keys of the iron safe , had been forced open , and the keys were gone . This led the way to the room in which the safe was deposited—a small private room on ; the platform side of the station . Here they found the office door unlocked and open , and within the safe was discovered to have been opened in the ordinary

      way by keys , and rifled ofits contents , which amounted to about £ 45 . The usual practice was to make up the receipts of each day , and send -them to the terminus at Chepstow every succeeding morning ; but tbis was never done on Sunday mornings ; and this the men , therefore , who effected the robbery must have been perfectly cognizant of . There are other circumstances which sanction suspicion , among which is the fact that the thief , or an assistant , placed a detonating signal on the line some miles up towards Chepstow , so that any special train which might by some possibility be coming down at the time the robbery was

      being effected might thereby be stopped . The guard of the mail train hearing this signal explode immediately caused the mail train to be stopped and had to walk down to the Newport station to ascertain the cause . There , of course , he was speedily acquainted with the reason of the delay . All the facts of tho case point to some one who had a thorough knowledge of the premises and the routine of business at the station ; and the active police force of the borough are on a train of suspicion which will probably lead to the capture of the robbers , The superintendent of the borough force , in the course of his investigation , found the leathern bag , marked in brass " S . W . R ., " ripped open and the contents gone , in a field called Baneswell-field , through which a pathway leads through the station aa a public road .

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      County Tyrone Tenant-Right Meeting . —The tenant-right meeting of the county Tyrone was held in a park adjoining the town of Armagh , on the 24 th ult . Mr . Thomas Montgomery presided . Several Roman Catholic and _ Presbyterian clergymen attended . The resolutions were tbe same as those adopted at the other county meetings , and the sum agreed on as the contribution of Tyrone tothe League Fund was £ 010 ,

      Actions againsi tee Loud Mayor of Dublin . —Two-notices were served on the Lord Mayor , on the part of a person named George Powell , intimating the intention of the latter to bring actions against hia lordship to recover two sums of _4 > 50 , as a penalty for acting in the capacity of Lord Mayor , after hh name had been erased from the burgess roll . In the Court of Common Pleas , on the application of Mr . M'Kenna , Judge Jackson granted a conditional order to stay the proceedings in a former action , brought

      by Powell , against the Lord Mayor , until the plaintiff gave security for costs . Sale of _Encumbereu Estates . —Seven estates were submitted for sale on Friday , comprising feesimple and leasehold interests in the counties of Dublin , Kildare , Limerick , Clare , Galway , Waterford , Tipperary , Antrim , and Queen ' s County . The court was full , but there was a lack of animation among the bidders , and the prices obtained were far from encouraging , with the exception ofa small property in Ulster . .

      Cultivation of Flax . —The provincial journals contain most gratif ying reports of the efforts of the resident landlords to promote the growth of flax , by their tenantry . In Cork , Waterford , Limerick , and Louth , Where wheat failed to some extent , this year a very fair _proOt has been realised by those who had given their attention to flax . The Lord Mayor ' s Municipal Franchise The claim of _tfce Lord Mayor to remain upon the

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      municipal roll of the city of Dublin , which haa led to such protracted discussions in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , was decided in his favour in the Revision Court , on Saturday last . At the close of the arguments ,-which occupied two days , Mr . Blake , the Revising Barrister , before whom the case of tbe Lord Mayor was argued , in giving judgment , reviewed tbe evidence pro and con , and referred to the clauses in the Municipal Act at great length , and with considerable perspicuity , and having summed up , he declared the name of the Right Hon . John Reynolds , Lord Mayor ofthe city of Dublin , should remain on the burgess roll . ( Loud cheers . ) He further said that , if any objection would be raised to his decision , municinal roll of the citv of Dublin , which hauled to

      he would give the parties an opportunity for further arguments on the subject , by bringing the case before the fifteen Revising Barristers sitting in court . Mr . Lynch said , that after the decisionjust pronounced , he , on the part of those for whom he acted , _would not pursue the subject further . The Lord Mayor said , that such was tbe high opinion he entertained of the legal ability of the learned gentleman who had pronounced his decision , and such was the high re-Bpect in which he regarded him , that had the decision beea adverse , and had Mr . Blake decided that his ( the Lord Mayor ' s ) name should be struck off the burgess roll , he would not appeal against his decision .

      Murder of A Bailiff . —The Emerick Chronicle contains the following account of a most shocking murder : — " Last week a bailiff named Aridey , was shot dead at Newtown , near Pallasgreen . He went to serve an order from the Tipperary Bank on Luby , a farmer , who , on seeing the bailiff enter , deliberately laid hold of his gun , and advancing to within two or three yards of him , fired , and literally tore open the belly and side of the unfortunate man . It is needless to say he died instantaneously , " Assault and Violation ! — At College-street police office , on Saturday , William Dunne and Patrick Dolah , described as hackney cab drivers , were brought up in custody , charged with being

      accomplices in a gross and felonious outrage on two young and respectable females . The prisoners were given in charge at the _prosecution of . Eliza Purser and Mary Purser , both young and respectably-dressed young females , who were represented to be proper and well-conducted young persons , following the business of dress makers , and residing at 37 , Exchequerstreet . The circumstances of the case , as reported in evidence before the magistrates , involved details of daring and aggravated outrage . The prisoner Dunne was stated to be the son ofa car owner , of which he was the licensed driver . The other prisoner , Polan ; had been a car driver , but has not been licensed lately . The magistrates directed informations to be taken , and both prisoners were fully committed for trial at the next commission .

      Tenant League . —Mr . Underwood , the secretary to the recent tenant-right meeting in Tyrone , is reported to have used the following rather strong language , his speech appearing for the first time in , a supplemental account of the proceedings in the Freeman , of the 26 th ult . Speaking of the titles hy which tbe present race of landlords hold their properties , he said : — "But your landlords are not even Saxonised _chieftians . They were _maraudersfrom the first—they had a people's curses in the beginning—let them win blessings in the end . Less than the total prostration of the Moloch of tyranny will not content us , being at length one people . There is not a tenant in Ireland who has not a better title than his landlordwere that title the invention of 130 years ago , or of

      yesterday , a manacle forged by a De Lacey ' s sword , Ollara Fodla , or Baron Richards . Cromwell made titles , William made titles , and so did Charles the Second ; and the justice of making such is as good this day as it was in their day , or as it was two thousand years ago , ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) Sir , this is something worse than compulsory valuation ; by this might the pestilent oppressor and his assassins have degraded our countrymen to the last stage at which human nature can arrive , before the individual is lost in the terror of his affliction . The right they exercise is the robber ' s right—their strength is their justice , their will , their honour . Let us reconcile this with natural liberty , with the original right of the individual , with his duties to the state , and ask ourselves what has the state done to defend the weak ,

      and crumble the might of the oppressor ? * * We are not ofthe tyrant class , but of the merciful . ( Loud cheers . ) Reason is our guide ; justice , tempered by mercy , our sword ; and union our banner . ( Cheers . ) Every nation in Europe has found that forced titles are bad titles . France learned it _underthe virtuous Neckar , and the wretched Louis ; Prussia , when the eagles of the republican floated over the imperial throne of Frederick William . All that we wish is ,, that the government should , as it has done in some degree , at several times suit itself to the altered circumstances of the age . ( Hear , hear , and loud cheers . ) For , be it remembered that the Flemish provinces acted on this principle when they shattered the Spanish yoke . So did the American colonies when they achieved tbeir independence . "

      Thb emigration mania continues as brisk as ever . Each paper from the ports in the south and west reports its progress , and those from the interior bring similar details . The Westmeath Independent says : — "Although the favourite time for travelling the " broad Atlantic" has passed for this year , still the current of emigration flows on increasingly . Speak to whom you will ofthe mechanic or peasant class , the desire is to emigrate . Nothing seems to stop them but the want of moneyif they have the passage money , which they struggle to obtain , they are content . And the desire to emigrate from this unfortunate country abates notnay , it increases , and we wonder where comes the means . But this wonderment ceases when we

      recollect that not ah American mail arrives without bringing with it money letters to the friends of those who have long since sought a home in the far-off West . We see nothing to arrest the progress of this self-expatriation—it increases and will increase , in spite of everything , Here there is no employment—there , there is , for those who will work . " Roscommon . —A gentleman who has travelled through a considerable portion of this county , tells us of the lamentable condition to which it is being reduced , and of the unceasing stream of emigration going on from this part of the country . "I have witnessed , " says our informant , " the greater

      portion of the inhabitants of what were once thriving villages preparing to leave their native land , themeans of accomplishing which has in many instances been sent from relatives already adjourning in the great republic of the west . It is a race with the peasantry who will be the first to reach the emigrant ship . lam convinced , if the tide of self-expatriation proceeds as it is doing at present , the rural population will be extinguished , and of the ' bold peasantry , their country ' s pride , ' not a wreck will be left behind . Four miles as I went along the land was almost waste and uncultivated , presenting a wild and desolute appearance . "—Athlone Sentinel ,

      The . Queen s College , Cork . _—Inauguration op the second _Sessiok _.- —Cork , Oct . 25 . —Notwithstanding the fulminations of his Grace of Tuam , aided by the modern Ptolemy , Primate Cullen , the second sessional course for 1850—51 was inaugurated to-day , under auspices the most favourable . The ceremonial was opened- with much pomp and circumstance , the students , professors , and alumni in general , appearing in their collegiate costume . A still more convincing proof of Catholic sympathy than the mere thronging of the curious to witness a ceremonial of an imposing and attractive nature , is adduced by the important fact , that some thirty out of fifty additional students matriculated for the present session are of the Roman Catholic persuasion . The Land

      Question . —The Newry Telegraph ( Protectionist ) , referring to the rumoured conference of certain of ths Ulster landlords , with a view of submitting an equitable basis for the settlement of the land question , speaks in favour of the movement , and thinks that if , in the deliberations , practical men of broad and comprehensive views took part _, it is possible that good mi ght come of Buch a conference as is thus spoken of . The Telegraph fairlv admits the necessity for legislative action towards the final ad justment of the unhappy relations at present existing between the owner and cultivator ot the soil ; and it is further announced that to the _Sffi * ° J _* « ch a __ . 1 _enefici _» l _meagre an accomplished and influential member of the Legislature thoroughly conversant withthe subject , has applied

      Repeal _AssociAiioN . -There was a decrease in _™ n _$ _?™ _^ Bu _3 h 1 uay on Monday , and a corresponding falling off in the number of idlers present at the hall . The rent stood at £ 5 lis . The Clearance System . —The provincial journals contain some further accounts of evictions and house levelling . At tho Galway Quarter Sessions an action was brought under the llth and 19 th Vic . Chap ., 57 , by the guardians ofthe Tuam Union ,, against C . St . George , Esq ., M . P ., to recover a penalty of £ 20 , for the eviction of a tenant of his , named John Mullens , from hia holding , without serving tho notice required by the act on tho relieving officer of tho electoral division wherein the premises were situated . A decreo for £ 20 was pronounced against the defendant . Condition of the Countrt . —In the addresses of several of the assistant barristers to the grand luries at the quarter sessions now in progress there are expressions of congratulation on account of thA _cioea

      ue aecrease oi _tnose crimes that had prevailed during the famine . r _^ _antm Attempt to Murder in _Westupatw _—a _^ _x-u night ofthe 25 th ult ., an attempt was m » d 7 2 ? the dertwo men in tho villag _^ oi _BXSwn th " facts are as follow :-Betw een the S _™^ h ° and eight , two men in the empbvmen nf ° M SeVen sons executing tho drainage TS ? n « _, _% T bourhood , were seated in tie _hEM _«« s _i _wSKL Ki ' _Vft _^' _wTriirg which one of the men . Thorn ™ TVii „ fi , _„„™„ i mason was severely wounded " n th Vd ~ ntho h _, _7 _Tn- T I *? _living a few pilots in tho hat . _Balhnahownis four miles distant from Athlone , and although situated in the county Westmeath , tho near proximity of the King ' s County has rendered it famous for' 'dark deeds" for many years . Tho only fault to bo found with the unfortunate men

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      seleotedfor the assassin ' s aim on this occasion ia thafc they discharged some idlera from the draina _?* work . The wounded man is getting on favourably and one ' personhas been arrested on suspicion . ' The Municipal _Coxstituehcv of _Dratis . _^ -. n Municipal revision for this city has terminated , jn accordance with ; the new Corporation Act . Tho number of qualified burgesses on the role is ba , tween six and seven thousand—above double tha number / of the old constituency . It appears to ba tho general impression , thafc the new Town Council will be very differently constituted from that now seleotedfor the assassin ' s aim on this _occaainn _.-.

      in existence . Several of the merchants and other leading citizens aro candidates . The elections aro to take place on the 25 th , of November next . The new corporation will commence its functions on New- Year's day J Ennisttmon Union—Dismissal op the Master , —At a meeting ofthe guardians of this Union , oii Friday , a sealed order was received from the Commissioners , directing tho dismissal of the master of the workhouse , in consequence of the late investigation held before Mr . Lynch into the causo jf the death of the pauper boy Kerin .

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      Strike of Tobacco-pipe Makers at Glasgow * . —The strangest strike that we bave had for many years ( says the Glasgow Daily Mail ) has existed for three weeks or more in this city . The affair wilt immediately become serious to the tobacconists . Between the dearth of the leaf in Virginia and the stoppage in the supplj * of pipes in Glasgow , smoking must come to a conclusion . The parties at present out on strike are tobacco-pipe makers , who say that they number 150 persons , who , with their families , are de « prived of bread by , in the first place , their own voluntary act ; but this act , they say , is caused by the determination of the employers to take twenty per cent , from their wages , on the ground that provisions are now cheapened by free trade , and wages therefore should be reduced .

      Forgery Case at Glasgow . —On the 25 th ult . Murdoch _Fraser , who was so cleverly apprehended at Liverpool on the previous day on suspicion of forgery , was examined at the Central Police Court on the charge , and remanded till further inquiry be made into the case . It seems that about three months since Fraser negotiated a bill for £ 100 in the Union Bank here , the document bearing a signature as that ofindorser , whicli was pretended to be , and passed for , the name of Mr . Readman , the treasurer of the River Trust . The only connection , we believe , which Fraser had with the trust existed some two or three years ago , when he contracted for a small portion o £ the earthwork connected with one of the new quays . As the bill was approaching maturity , he called at

      the bank on Tuesday week , and desired cash for a new bill of £ 100 , with whieh to retire tht f old . This bill also purported to be indorsed by Mr . Readman , but when the two were compared , the signatures were so dissimilar that it was quite apparent one or both had been forged . Instead of retaining him , however , Fraser was told by the cashier to retire and come back in an hour ; and meanwhile it was definitely ascertained from Mr . Readman that a forgery had been committed in both cases . After some delay , the police were made acquainted with the circumstances ; but the man was now out of the way , and no trace could be got of his house or whereabouts . At length , inthe course of Wednesday , some clue was found to a black box , said to belong to him , which had been sent to the Broomielaw for shipment by the Commodore steamer for Liverpool . Acting on tha reasonable presumption tbat the man himself would

      be near his property , the telegraph was had recourse to . A description of his perion was transmitted , with instructions to apprehend him . Immediately upon the receipt of the message at the Liverpool police-office , an active and intelligent officer had the case entrusted to him . He forthwith hied to the quay , where the accuracy of the conjecture that had been formed was at once verified . The Commcdore , with _^ _Fraserj ' on board , was just gliding up to her berth when he reached it . Among the throng that crowded the deck eager to step on shore , he was at once recognised , and separating him from his neighbours , he had , to his infinite bewilderment , the intimation communicated to him that he was a prisoner . He was forthwith brought back in custody of the officer by whom his arrest was effected . He stoutly avers that he is unable to write , and that he must , therefore , be innocent of the crime of which he is accused . —Glasgow Daily Mail .

      Steam Boat Collision on the Clyde . —On Saturday last a steam boat collision occurred on the Clyde , nearly opposite the Cloch Lighthouse , which occasioned the most lively apprehension among the parties who were exposed to danger , though fortunately no personal injury was sustained . It appears that about twelve o ' clock on the Saturday , while the Duntroon Castle , from Skye , was steaming up the Clyde , she was met by tbe Duke of Cornwall , on its way to Campbelton . From the course the latter was shaping , the fears of the passengers on board the Duntroon Castle were instantly excited , but they had hardly time to express their alarm when the vessels ran into each other with a fearful crash , the Duntroon Castle striking the Duke on the starboard paddle box .

      The consternation among the passengers on board both vessels may be conceived , every one expecting , from the violence of the shock , that the sides of the steamers had been stove in . This , happily , was not the case ; but such had been the momentum with which they came in contact , that they remained firmly wedged together for nearly two hours , acd might have continued much longer in the same unpleasant and dangerous situation had not the steamers Celt and Lady Kelburne come to their aid . By their assistance the vessels were , with some difficulty , dis ** entangled from each other , though , the damage

      received by the Duke of Cornwall in particular , wag such that she had to put back to Greenock in a very leaky state . The Duntroon Castle was also considerably damaged about the bows , but was able—though she , too , put back into Greenock—to proceed up the river in the course of the afternoon . Of course an accident ofthis nature could not have occurred without gross negligence on the part of those in command of one or other of the vessels . The weather was fine , though slightly hazy , while the water was perfectly smooth . In these circumstances , and with a channel so wide as it is at the Cloch , how a collision should have occurred is quite unaccountable .

      Penalties for Overcharges by Railway Companies . —The Commissioners ofclnland Revenue have fined the Dundee and Abroath Railway Company in £ ioo _, for overcharges on Parliamentary , or third-class passengers , besides taxingthe whole ofthe money paid by the passengers at the rate of five per cent ., as if it had been paid by first and second class passengers . Similar overcharges made by the Stirlingshire Midland Junction are to be dealt with in the same way , under the General Railway Act . Water-rate Riot at Glasgow . —On Monday five persons were summarily tried at Glasgow , on a charge of mobbing , rioting , assault , and deforcement of sheriff ' s officers in the execution of their duty . The case arose out of an occurrence which

      took place , on the 8 th of October last , in Dempster-street , when several of tho Water Company ' s officers were executing a _warra-at of distraint on a defaulter to the rates of tbe Water Company . The names of the parties charged were —> William _M'Lachlan , Robert Bannerman , tobaccopipe makers ; Katherine Fullerton or Wilson , Elizabeth Conway or Osborne , and — Lyle or Williamson . From the evidence givon , it appeared that several sheriff ' s officers and their concurrents had , on the 8 th ult ., proceeded to a house in Dempsterstreet to distrain for the water rate , and that , finding the premises locked up , in virtue of the powers of the warrant under which they acted , they forced the door , and , in tho absence of the occupants , carried off a chest , a table , two chairs , and a bird

      and cage . On bringing the articles into the street , the officers were mobbed and assaulted- by a crowd of the inhabitants , among whom a number of women took a very active part . The proceedings of the mob seem to have been very disorderly and ludicrous , Tho officers were pelted by them with potatoes , turnips , mud , and other missiles , their hats were knocked over their eyes , and other indignities puf upon them , and tho chest in their charge carried off in the melee . The females were charged with having heen more particularl y concerned in tho riot , while the male prisoners were spoken to as having encouraged tho proceedings , and assisted in the rescue of a prisoner . At the conclusion of tho evidence for the prosecution , the charge was withdrawn in the case of the female prisoner Lyle . Each of tho parties was fined in £ 3 , and failing payment , to eight days' imprisonment .

      Zoological Curiosities. —Galiqnani's Par...

      Zoological Curiosities . —Galiqnani ' s Paris Messenger says :-Tho Jardin des Plantes at present possesses two animals which are altogether out of the common palo of zoological classification . One is an hermaphrodite ass , and the other a calf with two heads . The former is a native of Africa , of small stature , grey in colour , and timid ' of character ; the latter is a stout healthy animal of a black colour , having affixed to his regular neck a long , thin , cordlike appendage , in which an artery is felt to beat , and which terminates in a sort of fleshy hall , divided at the end , and having two jaws and a sort ot tongue , the latter al way s in motion . Both of theso animals may bo seen in the largo rotunda in whien the zebras are placed . _ ., _EXTltiCI SrBClBS OF Ox , —A fine specimen of tno hnnrl and _hm-ns nf n . oricrnnt . _in _sneoies of OX , _WulCU

      formerly inhabited _thelscotch forests , was found 1 m the tilo or marine clay near Rothesay , by Dr . -w rrain . This animal , which in size exceeded _tuw greatest of existing races , was formerly a nativeI W Europe , but like that curious bird thei Dodo , _nas become extinot . It was known to _^ _\^ , ( i . found it in the forests of Germany , and _descrihea _^ iu undor the name of _Bovus , It became extinct d urwg the sixteenth century , when it was mentioned _ig Habersteen , who saw it alive in Russia . _u » . _^ rain ' s specimen , along with another found oy - " Smith , of Jordanian , are deposited in the _Anuwav . nian Museum .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 2, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_02111850/page/6/