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      Health of Losdos _nmixo ihe week . —is . the week ending last Satnrday the deaths registered in the metropolitan districts amounted to 981 . Taking for comparison the deaths of ten- corresponding weeks in tho years lSiO-9 , the weekly average is 1 , 023 , and this , with a certain proportion added for increase of population , becomes 1 , 116 ; the return last week ia , therefore , favourable , showing a decrease of 135 . The present account i 3 for the last week ofthe quarter , and it exhibits a larger contingent than usual of violent and sudden deaths , in consequence of a number of coroners' oases in arrear being now entered in the reg ister-books , vt 71 deaths by " violence , " 7 are ascribed to poison , o to burns and scalds . 13 tb hanging and snflocatton _. _owuci

      20 to drowning , 26 to fractures , wounds , anu injury . Six children were suffocated _m-ow . _W overlaying or other accident ; a man was _jn _* _" _* " _? on a lL & iln ; another by food in a »« _" _§ _" _»» _£ tempt to swallow it . A young man of IS years committed suicide by . loading an _*^ _™ _M discharging it over his stomach . On the _litn ot _SeptemK at 4 , _Goulston-court , _Whitechapel the & hter of a labourer aged i years , died accord ; ing to the return of the jury , a " natural death , which , however , is further described in the verdict as " _brought on by want and privation of necessaries " On the 27 th of September , at tbe Alms-Looses , Clapton , tho widow of a gardener , died from " age and decay , " after a life of 103 years , It is mentioned by Mr . Steib , the registrar , that she had been an inmate of one of Bishop Wood's

      almhonses for 34 years , and enjoyed good health till within a fortnight previous to ber death . She also retained her mental faculties to the last . Last week the deaths enumerated in the zymotic or epidemic clas 3 of diseases were 198 . This is a lower number than in any corresponding week since that of 1846 , when they were only 157 . In tbe same weeks of the three subsequent years tbe deaths in tbis class were 340 , 305 , and ( in _18 i 9 ) 732 . The epidemics incident to childhood prevail less fatally than usual , with tbe exception of hooping-cough , the mortality from which amounted to 23 deaths , and is about the _average . Diarrhoea was fatal in 57 cases , but it does not exceed the average of this period . From cholera A deaths were registered . The births of 750 boys

      and 723 girls , in all 1 ,-473 children were registered in tbe week . At the Iloyal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height ofthe barometer in the week was 29 . 6 S 0 in . The mean daily temperature varied little during the week ; the mean ofthe 7 days was 56 deg . 7 min ., which is 3 deg . higher than the average of the same week in 7 years . The temperature ofthe Thames was about 57 deg . Suicide . —On Saturday last Mr . H . M . Wakley held an inquestatthe Sun , Newman-street , Porfmanmarket , on Richard Pryor , aged forty-eight , who was fonnd suspended by a handkerchief from the ceiling of his back Kitchen , 33 , Newman-street . "Mr . Pell , a neighbour , cut him down , and Mr . Tucker , _suigeon _, was instantly called in , but life was quite extinct . Thomas Nolby stated that the

      deceased was clerk of the works at Lady V ane s , under his coasin , Mr . Arva . On the preceding day Ms suicide deceased was greatly excited in consequence ofa portion of a balcony which he had erected at Lady Vane ' s being several inches too short . He called witness out of Lady Vane ' s drawing-room , and , having bitterly complained of tbe above deficiency , said that he did not know what to do , as he -would lose £ 16 or £ 17 thereby . Then , taking np a penknife , he rushed at witness , exclaiming , " Either you or Mr . Arva must die . " Witness pinioned deceased , who said , "' lc's all right ; it ' s only a flow of blood to the head . " "Witness then brought him home . He had been under Dr . Roe ' s care two years ago for insanity , and was pot under restraint . Since then he placed himself under Dr . Coffin ' s treatment . The jury returned a verdict of " Insanity . "

      Shocking Accident . —On Satnrday evening last Jlr . H . "W . Wakley , depuiy coroner , held auinquesi at the Rising Sun , High-street , Marylebone , on tbe body of Mrs . Jane Ellis , aged twenty-four , the wife of a respectable eating-house keeper , residing at 63 , Paddington-street , who was faurntto death under the following shocking circumstances . —Mr . D . Ellis , the husband of deceased , deposed that on the afternoon of last Sunday week he was sitting in the parlour when the deceased , in passing between a table and the fire-place , set fire to the skirt of a muslin dress

      she had on , and in a moment she was infa blaze from head to foot . Witness caught hold of her and attempted to extinguish the fire , but he did not succeed until the whole of her clothing to her stays were entirely consumed , and her neck , arms , and * lower part of her body were dreadfully burnt . Mr . Adams , surgeon , was called to her , and in three days after the accident she was prematurel y delivered ofa dead child ; sbe never rallied after the accident , ar . d died on Friday evening last . Evidence corroborating the above was given , and the jury returned a verdict of " _Accidental death . " -

      _XATAL _ACCIDEST AT A _JjILK . MANUFACTORY . — On Monday Mr . Baker held an inquest at the London Hospital on the body of James Kayes , aged sixty-two , late foreman to Mr . John Jaehens , silk manufacturer , West Ham . On Friday the 13 ih nit , deceased was in the dress shop , in the act of putting a piece of silk into a machine which is put in motion by steam , in order to have it dressed , when his arm got entangled in the wheel . The alarm bell was rung , and the machine was stopped . Deceased was extricated , and taken to the London Hospital , where he died on Friday the 27 th ult . his arm having been dreadfully fractured , which was the cause of death . Verdict— "Accidental death . "

      DaEADFCi , Accident at Nvsn Ems . —On Tuesday evening Mr . Payne , junior , held an inquest at St . Thomas's Hospital on the body of Thomas Pennythorne , aged thirty-five , a railway labourer , who lost his life under the following _distressing circumstances . It appeared from the evidence of Thomas Sherlock , a porter in the employ of the South Western Railway Company , thaton tbe ith ultimo witness and others were employed at the goods yard , at the Nine Elms-station , in fixing a new crane for raising " heavy goods in tbe trucks , A _iole , twelve feet deep , had been dug to receive the bottom part of the crane , and over tho hole tbe sheer-legs were fixed , with greysiattached , for the purpose of lowering the crane , whieh was in _patts , when in lowering a portion weighing about 500 cwt . Dv means of a Wosk and fall from the sheer-legs , a

      swing was given it to cause it to go into the position it was required , which caused the sheer-legs to cant over , and in felling they struck the deceased ( who was a perfect stranger , but who had just ' eome into the yard to seek for work ) on the breast , knocked him down , and the legs fell on the top of him ; He was raised from tho ground in a senseless state , with an extensive wound on tbe top of Lis head , the skull broken , and the brain protruding . He was placed in a cab , and conveyed to the above institution . Mr . Vane , the house-surgeon , said deceased was admitted with an extensive fracture of the - _sknlli with the bone driven into the brain . Everything that it was possible was done for him , hut he gradually sunk , and died on Monday morning last from the effect of the injury . Verdict , ** Ac 7 cidental death . "

      Dsspsbaxz _CosDmos of a Ship s Crew ox its Passage _ruosi Gambia . —On Tuesday a long investigation was entered into before Mr . Baker , at the Royal Mason , Sherbert-street , Poplar , on view of the " body of Stephen Stendon , aged twenty-eight , who * died on hoard the Lady Sale , merchant brig , ISO tons , of Bristol , on her arrival in the Thames . It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was a butler , in the service of a gentleman at Gambia , and that on tbe 20 th of July last he engaged with Mr . Wilson , of the Lady Sale , to allow him to work his passage to England . The vessel left the River Gambia on the 23 rd of thc same

      month , the crew consisting of eleven men , including the master and mate . The day after its departure it was found impossible to go below deck , in consequence of the steam and heat arising from the ground _cocoa-nnts , and tbe stench from the undried mahogany . The crew -were , therefore , obliged- to remain on deck day and night , and get their berths where tbey could . The effect was , that the whole were more or less attacked with fever . Six of them , among whom was the deceased , were tumble to work the ship . The corned beef vras also so bad as to be unfit for human food . The crew remained thus exposed three parts of the passage . There was no surgeon on board , but every assistance was afforded by the mate and steward , who

      gave the invalids sago , arrowroot , gruel , and jalap . There were only twenty-four bottles of wine in the ship ' s stores , of which but ten were appropriated to the sick . One seaman died on the passage from exhaustion . When the vessel reached Cork , last Sunday four weeks , five sailors were put ashore , and placed in the hospital . In ten days they were thought sufficiently recovered tobe able to continue the passage . In two days after the ship left Cork they :. were again taken ill . Thedeceased soon became delirious , and frequently got on deck nearly naked . He was attacked with dysentery , and tbe forecastle , where his birth was , emitted such an effluvium that no one -wonld enter it . Ob Friday morning , after the ship had gone into tbe West India-Dock Basin , he was found dead in the forecastle . Had the ship been detained bv contrarv

      winds in the Channel , the mate stated hehad no doubt but that all the men who were in the hospital at Cork would have died . Verdict , "Thatthe doceased died of an attack of dysentery , and they regret that better accommodation _^ and attention were not ordered forthe deceased on board the ship . " _EXTKAOKDBMBT ScE _^ IS A CeBOXEE ' s _Counx .-At an inquest held by Mr . William Garter , the coroner , attfie Hampton Court Palace Tavern , _Francisstreet , Newington , as to the death of Mrs . Mary Ann Davies , aged sixty , a most . respectable lady who destroyed herself by taking oxalic acid , the following dialogue took place upon thenames of the jury being called . - A person named Watson , of Francis-street , answered , but refused to be sworn . The Coroner : Upon what grounds ? Are you ot any particular religion ? -Mr . Watson : 2 * 0 . —The

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      Coroh 6 r : What countryman are you ? Mr . Watson -. AScotchman .-The Coroner : Then whi eyou are _inEneland you must abide , by the laws . Are v ol ' o _^ _f any religion ? Mr ., Wats 6 n : _"None .- _^ The Coroner -Do ybu believe in a future _. state ? But £ do you believe in god ?' . Mr . Watson : No-The Coroner : Do you believe in a future state ? Mr Watson : No . . ' i believe in _nothing but what I _see ' _— The Coroner : ¦ You appear an infidel , * find I can commit yon to prison . Mr . Watson : I must abide by it . I am an infidel . —The Coroner : I shall not permit you to be sworn . You may go . —The whole room , coroner and jury included , were astonished at what had passed . ' The evidence was then proceeded with , and the jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity .

      Daring Robbery in St . Pacl ' s Churchyard . — A robbery of a peculiarly daring character , in one of the most public thoroughfares in the City , and close _to-the well-lighted premises of Messrs . Allan and Company , silk mercers , was committed , at the early hour of seven o ' clock in the evening , on Tuesday last , upon Captain Bally , R . N ., of Datchet , Bucks , in Chapter-house-courfc , leading from St . Paul ' s Churchyard into Paternoster-row . It appears that Captain Bally , who is staying atthe Cathedral Coffee-house , St . Paul ' s , had no sooner turned out of St . Paul ' s Churchyard , to proceed through Chapter-house-court into the Row , -when he was attacked and beset' by three weh \ dressed fellows , one of whom tripped him up by the heels , by

      whom he was held while on the ground ; the other two , in the meantime , ransacking his breeches pocket , and robbing him of his purse containing eight sovereigns and some silver , with which they escaped through Ivy-lane into Xewgate-street , and got clean off with their booty . From the strong gaslights which were in the immediate vicinity of the spot where the robbery was so boldly perpetrated , Captain Bally had a clear and distinct view ofthe fellow ' s features , so as to be able to identify the whole ofthe gang should they be apprehended by the _Citjr police , to whom information ofthe outrage was given afew minutes after it had occurred . From the description given by the captain of his assailants , there is very little doubt ( as

      they are supposed tobe well-known thieves , frequenting that part of the City ) that their apprehension will be speedily effected . " A Swindler has lately been attempting to dupe the London brewers and distillers , and has in some instances succeeded . His plan is to fix on some respectable publican residing inthe . vicinifcy of a brewery or distillery and to learn whether , he deals with tbe firm ; if so , the swindler draws a cheque on a London banking-house , forging the publican ' s name on the back of it , and then sending a messenger in the garb of a potboy with a request tothe brewer or distiller , in the name of the publican , that" He would be obliged by cash forthe cheque . " If granted , it soon appears that the bankers have no account with the'drawer .

      A BErriKG-OFncE Keeper . — -At the Westminster County Court , on Wednesday last , an action _was'brougbt by Mr . Appleyard , the news agent , of Dake-street . Adelphi , against the defendant , who described himself as ' managing clerk , to a Mrs . Barnard ; the keeper of a betting _* office at No . 28 , Cranbourn-street , to recover £ 9 for the rent of furnished apartments , at £ 1 ls . per week . It appeared that an order had been made for payment of the amount in a month , so late as June last , bnt the order had not been complied with , and an application had been made to rescind the judgment of the court , which his honour positively refused to en _tertain . Mr . Appleyard now stated that it was a downright fraud on the part of the defendant , who had resorted to aU kinds of subterfuges to evade payment and impose upon the credulity of the court . The fact was that the defendant Campbell and Mrs . Barnard ( as he now called her ) occupied his apartments as husband nnd wife . The defendant st ated

      that he was not in a position to pay more than £ 2 a month . Mr . Appleyard , in contradiction of this statement , read a report from an evening journal , from which it appeared that Mr . Campbell had sworn before . the magistrate at Marlboroughstreet that he was paying a clerk £ 5 a week . The plaintiff expressed a hope that his honour would give effect to the County Court Act , the defendant not only having put him to the expense of £ -4 in this court , but would in all probability , if an immediate order was not made , still laugh art him , as the betting-office would no doubt be closed in a few days . The learned judge considered that the defendant ought certainly to pay a portion : of the claim at once , but after hearing the defendant ' s solicitor , his honour ordered the amount ' to . be paid bv instalments of £ 2 a month .

      Fire at Newixgton . —On Tuesday afternoon . a fire broke out in the premises belonging to Mr , Pinnegar , oil , colour , and Italian warehousekeeper , No . 1 , High-street , _Xewington-butts . The flames commenced in the basement warehouse , owing to Mr . _Pinnegar ' s nephew taking a light to look after some goods in that part of the building . In the course of a few minutes after he had left dense volumes of smoke and a quantity of flame were issuing towards the shop , and forthwith messengers were despatched in every direction for the aid of the engines . The firemen were enabled to subdue tbe flames , but not until considerable

      damage was done to the premises ana stock ih trade . Whilst the West of England engine was proceeding along the London-road to the fire , a girl , apparently about twelve years of age , made an attempt to cross from one side to the other . Ward , the driver , on seeing the danger sho was in , endeavoured to stop the speed of the horses ; but before be could do so she was thrown down between tho animals , and everyone who witnessed . the occurrence expected to find the poor creature crushed to death . The driver , fortunately , had the presence of mind to pall the horses in a zig-zag manner and although the shoes of the girl were trampled by the horses off her feet , she escaped comparatively uninjured .

      The Classification of Prisoners . —The recent order for the appropriation of the prisons to distinct classes of offenders came into operation on Monday _mormng , when aU the female prisoners and all male prisoners under seventeen years of age were removed from tbe House of Correction at Cold Bath Fields to the House of Correction Westminister , and all male prisoners above seventeen were removed from the latter prison to Cold Bath Fields . All prisoners committed under the Hackney Carriage Act , and for want of sureties , were removed from both those prisons to the House of Detention . The total number of prisoners removed was between eight and nine hundred .

      The Attack on Mr . Cureton . —In addition to the sum of £ 50 reward offered by Mr . Cureton for the discovery and apprehension of the persons who made tbe murderous attack upon him , and succeeded in robbing him of a large quantity of ancient coins , the government has offered a further reward of £ 50 forthe apprehension of the offenders . It is supposed that the robbers could not be very well acquainted with the circumstances of the house , or of the habits ef Mr . Cureton , since they left behind tbem a considerable quantity of gold coin and otber valuables , and only took with tbem the old stiver coin and other articles of lesser value , although tbey bad the field all to themselves , after having reduced tbeir victim to complete and utter helplessness .

      The JNepaulese Prince s Valuables . —At the Westminster County Court , on Saturday last a case attracted some attention in consequence of its connection with tbe officers of the Nepaulese _Embassy . The action was in tort , for having unlawfully entered the premises of plaintiff , and demanded property intrusted to his care for repair by the Nepaulese Ambassador . The plaintiff laid his damages at £ 10 . The plaintiff , who said he was a tailor in Windmillstreet , Haymarket , stated that he had been employed by the Nepaulese _Ambassador and his brother to make clothes . He was in daily attendance upon there for some time . The Princes , approving of his work , gave him a cap and belt to repair , but mentioned no particular time for tbem to be returned . These articles were covered with diamonds and other precious gems , and were valued at £ 200 , 000 . It took three

      days to match the Telvet for the belt , from its peculiarity , being composed of different colours , and altogether different from that manufactured in this country . On the day in question ( the 24 th of July ) ho went out in the evening with hie wife , leaving the articles locked up , and upon his return , at half-past _•• leven o ' clock that night , he was surprised to find the defendant , with Inspector Darkin . of the A division , and a person named Morant , interpreter to the _-JJ _$ aulese Prince , in his rooms , on the second floor , where they had been several hours , demanding possession ofthe cap and belt belonging' to the Prince of the plaintiff ' s daughter , but who refused to let them have them . The inspector mentioned his authority for being there , which was in consequence of a charge made at the police station , by Morant . as coming from the Prince ; and witness ( plaintiff ; then said he would let no one have the articles but

      the Prince himself , from whom he had received them , and accordingly went to the Ambassador ' s residence , in Richmond-terrace , where he waited with the articles unty three o ' clock in the morning , when they letaTneu from "WiHis ' _s-rooms ,. and signified , in broken English , that they had given no instructions to the police . The witness next stated that he had been much injured in his _businees and credit by the occurrence . The defendant , in reply to the case , said he had only accompanied the Prince ' s interpreter and the police inspector to point out the plaintiffs bouse , and be waited with him till the plaintiff came in . The learned judge summed up , and the jury , after an hour ' s consultation , found a verdict for the plaintiff , damages £ 5 ,

      FOUNDATION OF A New CONGREGATIONAL , CHAPEL , Pentonville . —The first stone of a spacious new chapel , for the use of the Congregational body of Dissenters was laid on Tuesdav by Mr . D . W . "Wire , in the Coledonian-road , Pentonville . The New _Commandes-ix-Chief roit India . —Sir William Gomm , ' accompanied by Lady Gomm , and Captain Yates , his aide-de-camp , left town en Saturday for India .

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      -Pawnbrokers and _Stomn ' Gqops _. _r _^ Mr , James Webbe , pawnbroker , _Mountpleasant , and Mr . 'Kewley , pawnbroker , Great' Crpsshall-street _" , , both in Liverpool , ' appeared . 'before the police . there , under summons , calling upon them to . produce certain articles stolen from the Orphan Asylum , aiid subsequently pawned at their respective shops . The cases had been brought at the instance of . Mr . Harmood Banner , treasurer of the institution , who appeared in court to conductfthem . The first case taken was that of Mr . Webbe . in whieh the artieles ' pledee ' d

      consisted principally of boys' suits of uniform clothes ; Mr ; Rushtonseverely reprimanded' Mr . Webbe , for his carelessness , and ordered tbe articles to be given up without any fee . ¦ The case . bf' Mi * . Kewley was then taken . ' His solicitor contended that he was not at all to blame , arid after af long investigation , Mr . Kewley offered to return the articles as a donation tb the charity , an offer which was'readily , accepted , by Mr : Banner . ' It appeared thatthe articles had been pledged by a woman named'Margaret Jones ' , who had been housekeeper to the asylum , and who has since absconded . . ¦ ¦ . ' . ¦

      ¦ A _Mabqdis in" Danger . —On Friday night , the 27 th ult ., the Marquis of Hastings , who is an Ensign in the 52 nd Regiment , now stationed at Liverpool , fell into one of the docks in that port , and narrowly escaped drowning . A Desperate Leap . —On Saturday last a half-intoxicated madman _t ' naitied Williamson , threw himself from the roadway of the High Level Bridge ,. Newcastle , into the river _Tynej a height of eighty-six feet , and , strange to relate , he swam about apparently unhurt until picked up by a boat which put off to his rescue . How he managed to undress , and unnoticed accomplish the stupid feat , appears very , singular , as the bridge is generally thronged with foot passengers .

      Extensive Robbery from a Cotton Warehouse at Liverpool '—Oh Saturday last two men , named John Hitchcock and John Woodward , were charged with stealing a quantity , of . cotton and other goods , from the warehouse of Messrs . Daniel Buchanan and Co ., in Neptune-street .: It appears that theprisoners had been suspected by the police for some time , and on Friday they were apprehended , if having . been ascertained that they had disposed of : the stolen property to John Walker and John Newall , who have a store warehouse ih Cheapside . Walker and Newall were also taken into custody charged with receiving the goods . Evidence having been taken to the effect that Hitchcock and Woodward , who were warehousemen in the employ of Messrs . Buchanan , were not authorised to dispose of the goods found at Walker and Newall ' _s warehouse , the whole , of the prisoners were remanded for seven days , in order to afford time for the production of further evidence . . '• :

      The Convict Hannah Curtis . —On the 27 th ult . Captain Mason , the governor of Gloucester County Gaol , received an official communication from the Secretary of State for the Home Department / conveying a conditional pardon , under the hand bf Her Majesty , for Hannah Curtis ; the woman found guilty and left for execution at the last assizes for this county , on a cbafgeof poisoning her reputed husband , Thomas Harris , at Frampton Cotterell . She is to be transported for life . The Rev . Mr . Herschell _, the chaplain of the gaol , in tbe presence of tbe governor , conveyed her Majesty ' s pleasure to the convict , and the communication threw her into a fainting fit , fromwhich she did notrecoverfor nearly an hour . Curtis , expected a free pardon as well as an escape from hanging , and ia therefore rather disappointed with the result .

      The Powder Magazines at Wallasey . —It is understood that a communication has been received from the Secretary of State by the ! Mayor of Liverpool , relative . to the powder magazines at Wallasey . It is believed' to include Colonel _Watars ' s report , and that it is condemnatory of the magazines . Dl _* 9 TauCTlVE Firk IN Leeds . —On Sunday night a fire occurred in Leeds which resulted in the destruction of a scribbling mill , at New Read , belonging to Mr . D' Cooper . The fire wa 3 first observed a short time before ten o ' clock , issuing from the north end ofthe building . The flames from tho moment they were observed spread with extraordinary rapidity . The local fire engines were on the spot with all possible dispatch , but their efforts to arrest the progress of . the lire was . almosl unavailing . To tho adjoining

      property ( several very large and valuable mills ) to which the fire several times threatened to extend , tbey were nevertheless of great service . For about two hours the engine continued to play with an ample supply of water , when the flames considerably abated —not , however , from the drenching ofthe engines ; but froni the coinplefe . exhaustiQn of all combustible materials , either in the composition , the mill itself , its machinery , or stock ; iu fact only tho bare walls , and those in a very skeleton form , remain ; The loss will amount to several thousand pounds , which , we believe , is partly covered by insurance . The flames , when at their height , illuminated the surrounding district for several miles , " tho glare of the fire being distinctly seen at Headingley . The origin of the fire is not known .

      Shipbuilding in Liverpool . —A meeting " was held in . Liverpool on Monday , at which a report was adopted declaring that the ship building trade of the port had suffered diminution from a variety of causes , the chief of which was the great want . of . space and accommodation in the present yards , the higher price charged by . them at the-outports , the insecurity of tenure , which has prevented the erection of machinery , and the continual removal ; of the builders ' yards , and trade combinationsamongstworkiiigshipwrights . The great injury to tbe tradespeople of Liverpool for the want of proper accommodation for shipbuilding , may . be seen in the evidence of Mr .

      M'Gregor , Mr . Kennedy , and Mr . Reston . In the year 1815 these gentlemen employed 2 , 800 men , and paid £ 174 , 720 > in ' wages ; while at . the . present time they employ 800 men , a _< " £ 55 , 536 wages per annum . The number of men employed by them in marine work has decreased from 2 , 090 men , receiving £ 130 , 416 wages , to 210 men , receiving £ 14 , 976 wages ; a decrease in . wages for marine work alone of £ 115 , 440 per annum . For thc restoration of the trade the report recommends the provision of a convenient site for the erection of private yards , and graving docks , and points out the most eligible position for these desirable establishments .

      DEATn IN ATTEMPTING TO SAVE LlFE , AT StOCKton-on-Tees . —A few days since an inquest was held at Stockton , on the body of Edward Havle , painter , aged twenty-two . Harle and another young man were ro ' wuig down the river Tees in a punt , to the regatta at Middlesbrough , on the 21 st ult ., when they observed a coble containing four men upset near Jenny Lind _' s Island . They immediately pushed on to help the men , Who had succeeded in getting upon the bottom of the coble , but on seeing them _approach left the ' coble , and attempted to get on board the punt .. As a matter of course the punt was at once upset , ahd poor Hale immediately sunk : The others were with difficulty saved . Verdict , " Accidentally Drowned . "

      _EXTKN'SIVJE _RoBBKRY OP A JeWEIXEB , AND ReCOvert op _the-Property . _—Jii the month of July last adaring _robbery' _-vas committed in Northgate _, one of the principal streets of Halifax , by a party of very expert thieves ,, . who entered the premises of Mr . Lewis Bale ' rna , watchmaker and jeweller , during the night , and cleared the premises of upwards of fifty silver watches , eleven gold ; watches , 320 fancy gold rings , thirty diamond rings , and an endless quantity of gold and [ silver pencil cases , Bracelets , and other articles of jewellery . A reward of £ 50 was , at the time , offered for the conviction of any ofthe thieves , buthotraceofthem or of the property stolen was gained until Sunday last . On tliat day Mr . Beswick , the chief superintendent of the Manchester detective

      force , received some information which led him to visit a house in Ashley-lane , Manchester , where he found a large box , which had been left there by a woman , who gave the name of Ellen Moult , and who had lived there for a short time . For nine weeks she had riot beeri near the premises , and Mr . Beswick took upon himself to open the box , whicli he found to contain forty-four gold and silver watches , a large number of gold pins and other articles , many of which be recognised as the produce of the Halifax robbery . On Monday Mr . Beswick went to Liverpool , and there discovered that Ellen Moult had been living in _ooiestreet

      Sawney P - , as the wife of a man named Hawkins . She had been arrested on suspicion of felony by the Liverpool police , but no charge being made out against her she was set at liberty . On seeing her , Mr . Beswick at once recognised her as one of the most notorious . thieves in the district , whose real name was Amelia Wade , but who had found it convenient on many occasions to adopt an alias . She was of course taken into custody , and has been sent to Halifax to be examined before the magistrates there . It is believed that three men , who are in custody on another charge at Liverpool , were concerned in the robbery .

      Paoper Eiixed by a _Reiieving-offices ,, — An inquiry took place before the coroner-at Manchester , last week , with a view to ascertain tbo cause of the death of Andrew Murphr , twenty-two years of age , who expired in the workhouse on Sunday last . It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was a tailor , and was admitted into the workhouse on the preceding Wednesday . * It was the ' eustom of the relieving-oificer , Moran , to search each inmato as he came in , in order that if he had . any money , it should be taken care of fov bimuntil he should go out again . Mo . ran , in ibis instance , was _^ _erijployed in tho same

      duty , when thedeceased refused to give up the few halfpence _' he had in his hand , and Moran endeavoured , to , force the fingers back so that he could obtain them . Some angry words ensued between them , when the deceased attempted to strike Moran with a-Wellington boot he _heldin his hand . Moran parried the blow , and accidentally hit deceased on the head . Deceased complained of his thumb bein _^ injured , and went to bed , and : during the nieht ho _Tom i _^ . _^ . _toB . _inor'ojM ae thumb , was swollen and , discoloured . One of . his eyes was also discoloured . He complained of pains at the back of his head . It turned out afterwards that his thumb was

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      dislocated . " "He gradually sunk , and his medical * tttendant _' thoughtTie had died from the effects of vio _*? lenco , producing " ' effusion of 'the' brain . The jury found— " That the deceased died from the effects of a blow of the fist given'by Edward . Moran _/ _Vatid he . was _fcbmmitled t 67 tako 7 hi 3 _utrjaUforjman- ; ' slaughter /"• ' : _'" . " : "" * 7 f _' . f ; . 7 ; -: :- ¦ ¦¦¦ '• Murdek of A ; , _ToLtBAR r pEEPER . —On : Saturday ; morning ' last-it ' was dis covered'that 'the tol . lbai * _between ' ; Todmorden and ; Hebdefri Bridge _^ had _, 'been brokeninto , and'James Smith ' , / from forty , to fifty years of age , who was tbe toll-collector was' found in bed with his throat . cut , and 'quite ., dead ... The drawers had , been ransacked , and blood-was found in several parts o ' f the house . On Sunday morning . _. »• , ; _, _^ v , ' . , y , , . ' .

      a man was ? - taken into custody on suspicion of having committed the murder . 7 On Monday he was taken _' before the magistrates at'Todmorden , and remanded . Smith was a single man , ; and resided by himself at the . bar-house . He bad lately been the _meanspf . gettingthei . prisoner ; fined £ 5 ; , The pri- ' sonei \ hadstatod _he'wouldbeHhe _^ end- of Smith . — , The following are fuller particulars of the , circum- ' stances attending'the awful crime AThe person ; murdered is James "Smith , aged forty-one ' - y . ears . a lame and decrepid man . ' ; Smith ' wfas a bachelor , and sold fruit ' arid confectionary _atf the , toll-gate . He was seen last . alive , by William . Holt , carter ,, who drives a carrier ' s cart between _Heptonatall ¦ and "Rochdale ; and who passed through the toll-gate be- '

      fore named a few minutes before twelve o ' clock p . m ., onhis way ; home , _"atvwhich time Smith was standing at . the door , and remarked to ¦ the carter on his . passing through the gate that he was only just in time , and that had ho been a few minutes later he . would have , been subject * to a fresh toll . The door of the toll-house , it appears , ' is usually fastened inside by an iron bar , and is supposed to have been so fastened on the night of the , murder , and is supposed to have been unbarred by nieans of a piece of crooked wire or iron having been introduced through the keyhole of the door ( which was without lock ) , by which means , it is . likely' the bar * was shot back , and an entrance obtained , after which the murderer proceeded ' up ' stairs , ' where the

      unfortunate man _layj- and " attacked him , itis believed , whilst he was asleep with'soiric sharp instrument , cutting off the bottom partof his , ear , which wound was continued along the left cheek to the under side of the lip in one continuous gash as deep as could be made for the jaw bone . This not having effected the death of the poor , . man , who . was no doubt incapable of resistance ,, the . murderer probably made another cuti-commencing at ; one side of the neck and continuing it across the :. throat to the btlief Bide of _ftheTieck , ' cutting the . windpipe " arid the . carotid ; arteries , and nearly severing . 'the ' head from the body . -In consequenpe of the deceased not making his appearance on-the Saturday morning .... at , .. his usual time to ¦ collect tho toll , two of his neighbours , Mr .

      William Crossley , butcher , and Mr . William Speak , blacksmith , of King-street ,-went to the tolMiou ? e , the door of which was found _shut'but not fastened . They entered and called out , but no one . answered , they sent a boy . up , stairs named , Greenwood , about nine years of age , -who camef in , and who . usually fetched milk for the deceased , froin a neighbouring house , aiid told him to awaken Smith .. . The . boy returned immediately in great fright , saying " Jemmy hadcut his throat . " Crossley and Speak then went up ; stairs ; and found the deceased kneeling with one knee ori the bed and tlie other leg off the side of the bed , the head and upper partof the body hanging over the bed , and the body cold . It does not appear that plunder could bo -the object , of the miscreant

      who' has committed this bloody murder ,, since , the money collected for toll was left untouched , besides some other money , the savings of . the murdered . man . "Various are 'the . reports , current in the neighbourhood relative to the motives actuatingthe murderer to coriimit this horrid crime , but up to . the present ifcis ¦ involved in . complete mystery . .. On Saturday forenoon , county police Sergeant Heap , stationed at Todmorden , apprehended fa man , named . Halllwell , a tailor , at Burnley , who had , been seen in the neighbourhood on Friday evening , and also at an early hour on Saturday , morning . Mr . Brierley , superintendent of the detective police , on the

      Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , apprehended ; a labourer , _naihedlGreenwood , about twenty-two years of age . Greenwood resides in the neighbourhood , arid both men are suspected of being " concerned in the murder . Halliwell ' s cap appears as if it : had been saturated with blood .,. An . , inquestwas held before Mr . J . Dyson , coroner of the district , in the school-room of Mytholm Church , at ten a . m . on Monday , which was adjourned till Monday next , when . it is hoped the authorities" will have been successful in obtaining some clue to the " detection of the riiurdcrer . The instrument with which the murder has been effected , . notwithstanding . diligent search has been made for it , has not yet been

      discovered . . A FAIlMEn"CONVICTED OF _TrESPASSIN'G ON _LiNDS ik ins own OccurATios . — Mr .. ' . Charles Royston was charged , at the recent special sessions at Bromyard , by Jobn James Payne , gamekeeper to William . Barneby , Esq ., and . others , the executors of tho late John Barrieby , Esq ., with having been , on the loth September ult ., iri pursuit of gamo without a license froni the said William Barneby , " Esq . The defendant i 3 a tenant upon the estate , of the complainants . Mr . T . Devereux attended , for . defendant , and stated that he was instructed by him to admit that he ( defendant ) did take a dead rabbit and a live hare out of the traps' whieh had been laid by the gamekeeper ; the hare he set at liberty , and the rabbit he . took home '; defendant was not pursuing game , 'biit going over bis farm , when he found the rabbit and the hare caught , and did not think itany hariri to tako it home . The bench convicted the

      defendant in a nominal penalty and . ten shillings expenses . ¦ ¦ ¦ - --. A . Kovel Mode of Stealing Turnifs . —On . Sunday afternoon , as Mr . George Cole , switchman , on the Eastern Union line , who is stationed at the north end of the tunnel , wasf looking along the line of railway in the direction of Handfield- Hall , near Ipswich , ' his attention was arrested by the actions ofa dog in a turnip field belonging . to the railway company . ' . Seeing a " , dog . hunting about the field in a rather peculiar way , Mr . Cole walked some , little way down the lino to enable him tho more closely to watch the dog ' s movement . Having _wallwd to within one hundred and fifty yards of where the dog

      was , Mi * . Cole distinctly saw him put his head down and draw a turnip from tho field , and carry it immediately to tho lane adjoining , where he noticed three persons standing . The dog having left the turnip with these men , he was again sent over . into the field , and drew another , turnip , which he conveyed to the men stationed in the lane , in the same way as he did the former , one ; . the dog having repeated the act three , or foui \ times successively , each time convoying a turnip to his supposed master and his companions , and they , suspecting Cole was making his way tothe place where they were located , with anintention to tako them-into custody , they ran away as fast as they could , followed by the sagacious animal .

      Liverpool Post-office . —The remonstrances of the merchants of Liverpool have been unavailing . The Lords of the Treasury have fixed . upon the site of the Blind Asylum for the new Post-office . This announcement will be . received with considerable surprise , seeing that up to the ; last moment negotiations were , in progress for retaining the office in its present position at the Custom House . Shocking Death of a Robber . — An awful accident occurred on Tuesday night at the railway station , Derby . It appears that a middle-aged man ; of rather shabby exterior , had been observed in the station-yard in the early part of the evening at various times , and indeed as lato as ten o ' clock . At that time tho yard was clear of strangers . The London mail-train arrived as usual at half-past ten ,

      arid thc stoker imagined ho could detect a slight collision when near a luggage train that had arrived shortly before . Upon . mentioning this circumstance to the oflScials , an examination took place , when the body of the man who had been observedin the ! yard in . tho former part . of the evening was discovered in a shockingly mutilated . condition . The whole of the carriages , had , passed over it . It is needless to add , that tho man was quite dead . Near to the , body were three parcels which he had succeeded in extracting from ilie luggage carriages , and it appeared evident that he was engaged in robbing the carriages when the London train came up . As yet , no clue has heen had as to who the deceased is . Revow of mE Brighton Cabmen . —On Tuesday

      the town of _Brighton was thrown into a stato of commotion hi consequence , of the proceedings of a number of cabmen accustomed to ply for hire at tlie railway terminus . Mr . Steers has lately entered into an arrangement with the railway company for the exclusive privilege of running a certain number of-. en . bs from tho railway terminus . These aro about twenty-four in number ; they are now , well fitted-up vehicles , and the proprietor has made urrangeriierits to prevent the incivility and other faults too frequently manifested among cabmen . The first three or four of these terminus cabs came into work , and the other cabmen were informed that , though there was room enough for all . and

      tnougn an would he at liberty to avail themselves ot the room , yet the new comers muFt , oh all occasions , he allowed to tako precedence . At this information tho old _stngera rebelled , and the result was that at two o ' clock , when . the arrival of the trains from London and Portsmouth was sure to cause a great demand for . cabs , tho whole body of them , to the number of forty or fifty , started from thetermmus with hoots and hisses and with handkerchiefs floating ih the breeze from their whipends , and leaving the . travellers in the lurch . They then went in procession through the town , and the last that was heard of them was that thoy were carousing in a body at tho Rock Inn ,

      _Diabolicaii Conduct . —On Sunday morning tho up-mail train ,, on arriving within two miles of Pdpshurst _, encountered an obstruction on the line , which caused the engine to jump , and made fire fly from tho . wheels . Happily tho train was not thrown off

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      the t rails . v On examination , _^ the remains 'of ft' large g _^^ Tver _^ _foundj _. whio _^ Jiad _^ evidenily -been placed across ' , th ' o . line .,,, ! Ewo ,. men ; _hoppers ,,. having -been ; s 0 on'by ' , Cau _^ about'half-tipsy & b " oui ' thai time , "he _tbok thein in ' custodyjiand-ha ' virig ' coriflned thein' separately , they both . 'confessed having ; placed the gate ori * the line , each ., . charging f tho * -other ' .. with -being - the i chiefi offender . " They were committed-for ., trial-at _the : Quarter Sessions . —Maidstone Journal ? M . * Il _„ _/\_ _—__ _. f 1 * ' ; :. l . _ _- _ !¦_ - _ ¦¦ _» . * . ' ij ., _£ _iiLt IaunA

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      Fivb Men DBOWHE . D . r-About , five . weeks since the end of the Very long wooden bridge crossing the river Wye , ' opposite the" village of _"Glasburyj in Radnorshire , fell down ,, having , been left ' without . repairs for . two _orthreeyears _. while the counties of Radnor arid Brecon were litigating-the ; question ,, pf liability to its ' repair ih the " . Court of , Queen ' a . Benchi arid the question hadonly just'been'decided against _Brecorishire when the bridge felli ;; _i ! _As' a temporary means of crossing , some of the _^ _noighbburirig'magistrates . made , arrangements j for ; ferrying , passengers over ina largo boat , which , was , workedi . bj * , means of a rope arid _pullies , and it answered the purpose very uihu

      wen until Saturday morning last , wnen , ap _« _« condi trip , _theiropeibroke ,-and ono end being still fast , it ; drew : the boat under water , * and . seven men who were ' in . ' it ' , were , left ] to _^ eiinercyj of the flood , which was much swollen by ; _Ihigh rains ; in the , previous night . " Out ' of the seven , two only nncluding the ferryman ) were rescued : - 'Two Of those ., who perished .-were i father arid son ; ' arid the other three have left large , families .,: Two bodies > only _: ; were found up tO'Monday . ; . Thore is much reason to fear that the rope had ' . beeh . ' _^ ai'tialiy cut .. by ysome ; evil 'disposed' miscreant ' but'it , ' is very singular . . that fourteen persons had-just made a safe trip before theaccident . 7 _i ; _; _^ ' * ¦ - _^" * - •' - ' ' [''"' . '

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      , . Weavers ' , Wages . at . * Forfab _. —A few days since a meeting . of the . _operative , , . weavers was . iconvencd by . " , tuck of drum , " , inf ( the Mason , Lodge , to take into consideration tho best means to be . adopted to get an advance of'wagesi' The meeting was well attended , but no . person * , would ' acknowledge being tbe prompter of it ; however ; after , ; soine delay and hesitation , a chaii'man was got , and _business proceeded . ' ' Deputations were appointed . to wait upon afew ofthe leading manufacturers " , andrepresent the wish of the meeting to thein ' , - and to report their answers . ; The most of the parties waited ori gave very distinct answers , which was to the effect that they had no objections to , raise ; the . price of certain

      fabrics ( chiefl y of the thinner sorts ) 6 d ; per . piece ; while others Hesitated . The result _wiis , that those engaged on the thin fabrics havo got an advance of Cd „ or- from ' six ; to seven per cent . The advance is but . very small > and . very ¦ -limited indeed , considering the . demand that ,, at present exists for weavers . 7 In the most palmy days of .. weaving the . demand . could ; not * have been' ' greater . ' "' manufacturers ! not content with what-can' be done : in the town ' ,, are , forming country agencies _itf every direction . ;' _" '" , . Ax extraordinary case was brought to a conclusionbefofe the Presbytery ofDunpon _; on the morning of Saturday _lasf . The Rev . Mr . -Grant , minis * - ter of the parish of , _Kilmodaii , _; or Glendarllel , was Charged with being in a house ' of ill-fame in GJas gow ., onf the-evening of the 2 rid , or earlv in the

      morning of the 3 ra of May , 1848 .: In that ho ' use he was robbed of a sum of money , and he caused the whole of the . inmates to be apprehended , and taken to the _police-offieb ; whore , ' in _entering :-the charge , he called himself John Gordon ; a teacher from Aberdeen . -The factof a person having been robbed in the house in question ,, arid of-having _appeared at : the ' _police-officej and given the : name of John Gordon , was not disputed , , _aad it , was , proved Vy the policeofficers and by ! he books of the police court . ; The question , therefore , ' - which went to proof was , whether the party in question was the Rev . Mr . Grant . Thedefence , set upwas an alibi ; arid four witnesses wero adduced , who swore that Mr . Grant spent the night of the 2 nd and morning of the 3 rd . of May , 18 * 18 , in Greenock , arid that they ., had beenin his

      company there , and'had transacted business with him . In opposition to this , it was proved by no fewer than eight witnesses connected with the police establishment , including the procurator-fiscal and th ' rep of the , superior , criminal ; officers , that Mr . Grant- ( whom they pointed , out in court , _and'fully identified ) was tho party' in question - ' and that it was Mr . Grant who ' entered ' the ' charge at , the police office , and then gave his name as' John Gordon , In addition to this mass of evidence , three other _respectable witnesses deposed that they had been in company with' Mr . Grant , in Glasgow , at the time when : the alibi witnesses said they had been with him in Greenock . At tho conclusion of the proof the Presbytery .: unanimously found Mr . Grant guilty of the _chargo . as . _.. libelled . ; ' Against this decision-Mr . Grant appealed .- — Glasgoiu Courier .

      A ' Publisher ' s Purchase . —The mansion-house and lands of Priorbank , at Melrose , were sold last week by Major Gowdie ' s agents , Messrs . Freer and Dunn ,, to W . Tait , Esq : ; late publisher of Tail ' s Edinburgh Magazine , , for ithosum of five thousand guineas . Priorbank was purchased by General Hugh Gowdie , 7 commander . ofthe forces in India , about forty years ago . —Kelso Chronicle . . ' ¦ A Teacher in the Infant School at Montrose has been sentenced , at Perth , to fourteen years' transportation forsomenameless practices towards his pupils . . - ,,- .,.-

      _-...-iwian . o .-Results of the . Harvest . —Future . Prospects . — Taken altogether , ' the . produce of , the- harvest is most satisfactory , and , in . comparison with . recent years , may be considered abundant .. In most parts of tho . country the peoplo are exhibiting unwonted energy , and in the northern , counties particularly , employmentcontinues veryactive _; ; The Monaghan Standard , for instance , remarks that " there are lots of employment in this district—advertisements posted here and there for 500 weavers—for the same number of needle workers—arterial drainage and harvest work ; all ; those sources of emptying the poor-houses . " The Dublin Mercantile Advertiser thus refers to thb present condition of the country :

      — " The generall y fa vourablo accounts ofthe results of the harvest ' are increasing confidence , and there is a manifest tendency' towards improvement in general business . One good harvest could not be expected . to effect more than ; a _; very partial change for the better , after the tremendous losses and exhaustion since 1846 . But the restoration of hope and confidence has already given a very decided impetus to enterprise ; and peoplo seem' disposed to take a much , more cheerful view of our prospects . " . . ., , . K Crop-Plunder . —Some further , instances ofxropplubder are mentioned in the provincialjournals ; but there is a ' manifest decrease of this system of outrage . 'At Cloneeri , county of Kilkenny , ori ' Sundayjast , a multitude of the peasantry assembled and cut down four acres ; of oats , on a farm upon _* the estate of the Hon .. Mr . _TVYandesforde , which was threshed out and sold on the following day in the ' Carlow market !

      _Tns Late Murder in Westmeath .- —The following account of the inquest on the body of Mr . Korth appears in the Freeman ' s Journal : — " On Tuesday , Marcus Kelly , Esq ., one of the ; coroners of ; Westmeath , proceeded to hold an inquest on the body of ¦ Mi * . North , which was conveyed into the house of a _faumor _' ' nanied Haddibo , who resided a short distance from tho place of the murder . Several of tho most respectable farmers of the locality wero summoned on the jury . Surgeon Berry , of Tyrellspass , made a careful postmortem examination of the body / arid extracted about thirty slugs and small pellets ¦ from several parts of it ; the wounds extended from the right thigh [ up to the temple , arid one ofthe slugs penetrated tho heart , which caused

      instant death . After the jury had viewed the bod y , tho' gun and blunderbuss belonging . to tho Dalys , who wero taken on . suspicion , were produced and examined ; neither of them seemed to have , been recently fired out of . The evidence of the witnesses was principally that tbey ; heard a shot fired , but considered it was from the fowling-piece of a sportsman , that neighbourhood abounding in partridge . One witness stated that lie was speaking to Mr . North on the road , a quarter of a mile distant from tho place where he was shot , twenty minutes before the committal of the murder . Two other witnesses deposed that tbey . were -stacking corn in a field near the . place where Mr . North was fired at , but did not see hirii , rior did they consider that

      any person had been fired . at ; they saw , ' however , a man running across the fields towards'the bog , without his coat , and haviug something in his hand like a gun , but never conjectured that -ho had committed any crime . They did not see his face , and' would not know him again . Up to the present moment no evidence has been produced to implicate any person in tho crime . Dr . Berry said that Mr . Northmust havedied instantly from 'tha' wounds inflicted . Tho ; coroner having summed up tho evidence , the jury returned a verdiot : of " Wilful murder _against some person or persons unknown . " Tho body was afterwards removed to Kilduff for interment . Mr . Wallace and Mr . Pilkin _' gtor i .

      magistrates , attended in Kilbeggan on Wednesday , to hold nn investigation respecting the three brothers Daly , who wero arrested on , suspicion of heing concerned in the murder . ' Several witnesses were brought in from Portrue , " tbo locality ofthe . murder , and near tho Dalys' residence . A portion ofthe wadding supposed to have been used by the assassin was found . near the bod y of Mr . North . It wasa piece of paper , a portion ' of a leafof a printed book ; anda Euclid , ' from which a leaf was torn out , , corresponding ; with the wadding mentioned , was ; ound in the Dalys'house ; Under these circumstances the Dalys were remanded to the 3 rd -of October . No young men could bear a better _cuM-acter . The spot the assassin selected for the

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      ¦ if-. "" . •¦?«< ' i ' _^ _- _'" ;* , _!; _¦'" r _- ' i ' _. y ' _'' " * ' - _¦'"'' ' ¦"'" vi ' < ! l ' * vT Trr : ~~ _commisslon . pf . the deed . was _obe _^ eJy suited , for . th * ' piirjjose' 7 He lay liid in ' the _cOhierfp ' f ' . ' a ditch covered with bushes , in ah angle ' 'ofifthe ' road , and as the victim turned it _^ flred at him . " Election . of . a _Temporal rP _£ EH . _« r-fy ( rit 8 jhave beea _issued-from the ' Hariaper-office" for the election ofa temporal peer of Ireland , " in the room , of the lato Earlof Dunraven . >• ' _-ws _^' -i > •'• ¦ ¦ ' '• - ¦ ''• ¦ ' ' ' ¦ JoHNf MiTCiiEt .-rThe . JV _«'" i <>} i ; says :- ~< J . ! Eli 6 y 0 n ' ng akist ,, _Dowling , who . was , transported"frbm , London in ' 48 , as an _^ Irisli confederate _,,-. has . written to his brother in'Dublin , on'the arrival of _JohniMitchel at Hobart Town ) : ; We are " permitted ' to publish , the _following'extractfrom his letter .- ' _'• Thenews is good and . cheering . . * Of _/ oui * other . exilesr we ; have no _re'AA-mtMina _^ _An * _aV + _Urt < ln _. 'J « .. J . ,. _«*_ . _*** s-tl 1 _MninJ i »

      cent , accounts : — ' f . On the ; ; 5 th , of April . last , the Neptune arrived / here with John Mitchel , / He was kept on board foi * several ' days , arid ho . one was _al"lowed ' togo ' to visit him . _OriTtiesda ' y tHe' 9 thjr I felt very anxious to get a peep at him ' arid ' _- _'''* _# as '; going down . tooonsult O'Doriohoe on . the best-: means . I met . _p'Donohoe : in Elizabeth-street . ; ,-iThefirstword he said was , } ' I am goirigf _. to _. see . Mitcliel . uif . you 'have'tim ' erirtrik ' e you to him . ' I went ' -with him to- a ; stationer ' s shop ,-where ; for'the firsfftime , iny leye _/ rested onithis truly great maik'" " 'I doVt think I should have known him * from * the * , portraits published | of ; , him ; for , although the features-are-like , they , have not" caught the character of his face . O'Doribhop introduced me to '" ' him . ';; "fie shook my hand cordiall

      y ; arid said hehad heard about me . He ' askedmy sentence '; O'Dbriohoe ' said ' onl ylife ;' Mitchel / laughed indignantly , and ' _-said ; . ; 'You were very fortunate that you hadn't to niount the hurdle , like Sir ¦ . William ; Wallace . ' . f We walked about half a' mile , and-he said , in the course of conversation , that the state of things at horiie was . riot to be borne , that we had at least solemnly protested against it , and . . that : at all events we had cleared ourselves of all share in the guilt , of it ; at . another time ; he said he felt a freer man here as a . ticketof-le . Tve iholder , 'than when he was dancing attendance day after day at the Four" Couvt 9 , Dublin . He was obliged _to-leave * this in a ; few . 'hours ; -but he says , in a letter to , 0 ' Donohoe ,: that ! Mr . Martin ( with whom he is located in Bothwell , and who , it appears ; has studied medicine ) has . undertaken to

      be his doctor , and the . first presciption was a ride of . twenty-four miles over 'the bush , with sleet and snow beatingin his face , followed by copious draughts of hot tea , accompanied by an . immense allowance of mutton and ,, ' dampie _, ' a colonial cake ; baked in wood ashes . " He says , " so' successful lias been his leech , th _\* it he never enjoyed better health than he doesonthis ' back of the earth . '" ' ¦ " The _^ Ennisnagg' _Ooteage . —Constable _^ Kelly , con _« trary ; toall anticipations " , still lingers on ; j but there can . be , very little " hope of , bis recovery (' . although he makes wonderful rallies occasionally . . The ., two subcoris ' tables are progressing favourably . ' - We are not informed as- to what' extent o'f success tlie searches after the perpetrators : of the outrage -have been carried , by the : authorities ; _affstriotv secresy . -being : maintained on the subject . —Kilkenny . Moderator . . ;¦ .. .

      Voluntary 7 Arbitration of Rents , —The Dundalk Democrat states that Mr . Thoirias " Fitzgerald has requested' -Mr . M' CiillocH and Mr . James Arthur / of Dundalk ' , and Mr . John Kelly , of Black Rock , to _. valuo the land of somo of his tenants , and fix _aniequitable . rent on their farms . The "Vacant Mitre , —The D ' oitpipatrick Recorder " guesses ' . " as . follows : ' — " A rumour , pre vails that the Rev . Hi * . Hincks , rector _ofdullylengb , is to be promoted to the vacant bishopric of Meath . ' Another rumour is also circulated that the Right Rev . Dr . Knox ,, bishop . of this diocese ,. is : to be . transplanted to the see of Meatb , arid that Dr . Hincks is to be his successor . 'We do not vouch for the ao « curacy of those statements , but give them as rumours . " _..--.- ¦ '• ¦;¦¦ . ' '

      . Romas Catholic university . : — The Freeman s Journal contains the following ,: —• ' _, ' .-We . are ina position to state that , in conformity i ; with- the decision oftheI National . Synod , tlie _arrangements for commencing the formation of the _tfa ' tiorial . Catholic University in Ireland are already in a state of forwardness . The four archbishops , together with tho other bishops and clergy nominated as a-committee of arrangement , will hold their first sitting in Dublin on the 15 th ult ., oh which occasion theJBrsfc act towards the foundation of this great national work will be accomplished . " - Representation of Longford . —It is stated that Major Blackall is to retire from _, this county , and tliat Mr . Hughes , : tbe new Solicitor-General , is to seek the representation . . ' . ¦ . '

      L 6 rd _ Palmerston . '—The Sligo ' Champion states that the' Foreign Secretary is about to visit his estates in thatcourity ,- where he has the reputation of being a very good landlord . Tlie Bight non . R . _L . Sheil _, Master of the Mint , has arrived in'Dublin . Armagh , 'Sept . 30 . —The Lord Primate has returned to the palace , Armagh , where Lord Bather ** ton is on a visit . ' , ¦ Repjeal _.: Association Tho Association met at Conciliation-hall on . Monday—Mr .. Ryan , in the chair . ' The rent for . the week was £ 18 Ss . Id . The Tenant Movement . —Dr . Gray of the Freeman ' s Journal , and his brother , Mr . Wilson Gray , have . retired from the Couneil of the Tenant League , on account of the arrangement for permitting local societies .

      , Death by Drownjng _.-t-Mi " . . Henry Lainfl , eldest sori of H . Lahiff , Esq " ., of Cloori , in ' the county of Galway , went to bathe last week in the Surges , on the shore Spoddal , in spite of the remonstrances of his friends , and was drowned . ,. Tenant-bight . —The first . county organisation meeting which has been held in Ulster , for the purpose of carrying out . the objects of the Irish Tenant League , 'took place on Tuesday at Ballibay _, in the county of Monaghan . In point of numbers and enthusiasm it was a great popular demonstration , and IS described : as . . having exceeded in these respects the _. meetings . of Wexford and Kilkenny . The Kilkenny Journal announces thafc tlie followiug counties are now in the thick of their preliminary arrangements foi * : their county ' meetings : —The counties of Tipperary , Waterford-, Louth , Cavan _; the county , of Down is preparing , itself ; the county of Sligo is likewise engaged . .,

      A Good Landlord . —Mr . Herbert ; M . P . for Kerry , has as usual visited bis Brosna tenants . He pays all the . pooi * rateof those tenants ; he gives them an abatement of rent to the amount of twenty-five per cent . ;; he gives a considerable premium for the best turnips ; the same for the best clover ; he gives one also for the best heap of manure ; and lastly , he insists on cleanliness and order within and immediately about tbeir houses . . Defeat of Crop Plunderers by _inE Peasantry '—On Monday night last , on Lady Frankfort ' s property , near Scari &; a tenant named Daniel Flannery , whose arrears had been remitted , and

      hisaccruing rent abated twenty-five per cent ., as has been done on her ladyship ' s entire estates in this county , assembled a large number of persons to cut and carry a way his crop . The neighbouring tenants having heard of the intended outrage , collected to aid the caretaker , and drove off the depredators , thus testifying those feelings of confidence and goodwill whicli should subsist between landlord and tenant , proving that tenants are . fairly treated , they can and will be grateful . ' In no other part-of tho county was there manifested , last harvest , a more determined resistance to the payment of rents than in this locality .

      The Church . —The Very Rev . Thomas Townsend , lately appointed to the deanery of : Waterford , will be , it is generally stated , be the successor ofthe late lamented Bishop of Meath on the episcopal bench . —Saunders . Tiif . New Colleges . —The Dublin Evening Post persists , on hehalf of " the Castle , " in its belief that the Pope will not denounce the Colleges : — " We repeat it—a full moiety , if not tbo majority , of the Catholic bishops repudiate the . notion that they have denounced the Queen ' s Colleges and system of national education . The lay Catholics of Ireland agree with the Most Reverend the Archbishop of Dublin and the full moiety of tho Catholic prehtes * Tue 1 > 0 l uas _accedetl to the French system , and it is simply ridiculous to pretend that the head of tho Catholic Church will repudiate tho much more Catholic system of Ireland . "

      Singul&R Dei'eifce Or A Plateb. — An Iti...

      _Singul & r DEi'EifCE or a Plateb . — An itinerant player , possessed of moro wit than ' rhoney , was a tew days ago driven by the hard , master , hunger , to commit the high crime of poaching , in the neig hbourhood of Birmingham , and being , unluckily detected in the act , was carried forthwith before a bench of magistrates , when the offence was fully proved . The knight of the buskin , however , heing called upon for his defence , astonished the learned justices by adapting " Brutus ' s speech to the Romans on the death of Caesar" to his case , in the following manner : — ¦• Britons , hungry hien , and epicures ! hear me fsr my cause ; and be silent that your may hear ; believe me for mine honour , ; and have respect for mine honour , that you may believe ; censure me in your wisdom , and awake y 0 UL senses , that you may better judge . If there be , any in this assembly , any dear friend ofthis hare , to less

      him'I say , thata player ' s lovo for hare is no than his . If then that friend demand why a p ayer rose against a hare , this is my answer -. —Not that 1 loved hare less , but that I loved eating more . Baa you _' rather this hare wero living and Ihadi mea starving , than that this hare wero dead , tnat A might live a iollv fellow ? As this hare _waspretty _. I weep for him ; " as ho was nimble , * I rejoice at «» as he was plump , I honour him ; but as lie _^ eatable , I slew him . " Hero tho . gravity oftw Court was obliged to g ivo way ; . prosecutors , spet tators , arid till burst into laughter at the ready w » displayed by the " poor adto _^ _' _- _' _The'infomaJg wii . _Withdi-awn _, and the knight of the sock _^ na buskin left the court with pockets muoh - _fteavw than whenheentered it , with the _intentioniW » ¥ pearing on tho stage the same evening in an _*^ tirely new character . "

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 5, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_05101850/page/6/