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      Of —W——¦—¦——¦—¦ ——I^——A October 5, 1850 ...

      October 5 , 1850 _. THE NORTH 1 RN _STAR 7

      '""^Ck Of The ^Cmrb ' Steamer. The Loss....

      _'"" _^ CK OF THE _^ _CMRB _' STEAMER . The loss . Of life consequent upon the . wreck of this _steaCeT is greater than has yet been stated . It _^ fas supposed , in the first instance eleven persons had perished , hut npon a comparison of the passenger list , which we extract from the Jersey Press and publish below , we find that at least seventeen persons have been lost , leaving , if the list he correct , three or four persons still unaccounted The persons saved Tire John Treryandson ; J . Bamel , of St . fMalo - , Achille _queru , of Argentan ; George _Bowerm-m , of Jersey ; Dr . Harral : Emue Peiguey _, of . Paris ; Le Gros , of St . Malo , bootmaker : John Currier , of _Birmmgham ; Benjamm Johnson , of London ; Kobert T . Monteith ; Caroline Hambly ; Charlotte Maule ; Charles Bastm , of Paris G . Pinch , of London ; Ellen Willie , of

      London , whose uncle arid sister were drowned ; Alfred de Baillieul , of St . ' Servan ; J . B . Hamilton , wife , two children , arid nurse , of London ; Mrs . Mormon and daug hter ; James Harris , Jersey ; Henry _Lojjjas ; the Stewardess : John Frost ; Joseph Johnson , eng ineer ; John Steward , seaman ; John Belot _, gtewardi Priaulx captain ; Fleming , mate ; Charles _Anrf , seaman _: Phillip Cumming , carpenter ; Mollet , seaman ; Gandhi , second mate ; _William Cox ; -Kkboiis du Pont , of Guernsey , pilot , thirty-eight in all . _ja addition to the list of persons drowned , are _ile following : —Mr . Willis and niece , Mr . Pinson , _^ _s . Baker and child ( bodies found , ) and a person from Gorey ( name unknown . ) Hie latest estimate ofthe nnmber of passengurs OB board the Superb , states the Jersey Press makes jt 42 or 43 , and of the crew 15—57 * or 5 S in all . prawned 17 , saved 3 S , unaccounted for 3 or i . The Superb , which was left high and dry on the rocks by the receding tide , after the accident , ha . * now disappeared , having sunk in deep water . of

      The Jcr _^ Press _containsa report the coroner ' s inquest , which was commenced oa Wednesday , on the bodies otilr . Isaac _Hilgrove Gossett , and Julia "Sicoll his wife , who met a watery grave inconsequence ofthe steamer having struck . The Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General were present at the inquiry . The jury having been sworn , proceeded to examine the bodies ofthe deceased iri one of the offices of Philip Winter _iicoll , Esq ., who identified ihe aaii bodies . The body of Mr . Gossett was found about aa hour after the accident , and was brought to Jersey by thef cutter Jupiter ; tbat of Mrs . Gossett was found on the day following at sea , and was conveyed to La Rocque _, Grouville , " and from thence to St . Helier . The jury then returned to the Court-house , when the following witnesses were heard : —

      Joseph Johxsox . —I was engineer on board the steamer Snperb . _Nothing particular took place between leaving St . Mado and the time we struck . We were steaming at the rate of fifteen miles an hour with the tide in onr favour . It was about a quarter before ten when the vessel struck on the larboard paddle-box . It was a pointed roc ! . The steamer canted over and filled immediately . She fell over some lower rocks . This took place eastward of Maitrelle , abont a mile and a half from it . We had never passed so close before I do not know why she was taken by that _tassage . I was on deck near the engine . The captain , John Priaulx , was on the _Iarboai'd paddlebox . The mate , Johu Plenum * -, was at the wheel .

      I heard the captain cry out " port" before she _strnck . He did not speak in a louder tone than usual . As soon as the vessel struck , myself , the captain , aud two or three others , put tbe boat out forward . The people rushed in so that she got full . The boat made away round-the stem ofthe vessel to got on the rocks ; about five minutes after sbe must bave swamped . He did not see it . All th e passengers were clinging io each other in the water . There must have been ten in her . The stern of the steamer was under water . The cutter Jupiter , was about eight miles off when the steamer struck . We made an alarm for the cutter . She then came towards us . She sent her boat . Six or seven ladies and the stewardess got down in

      her bv a ladder , and were taken on board the Jupiter . " When the boat returned she took back to the Jupiter the remainder of the passengers in two irips , and afterwards the luggage . The captain , deponent , and crew remained with the Superb . I cannot say whether the captain was on board the whole of the time . We began to save our „ things , and _** ot what we could out ofthe steamer . We continued till the evening to carry the things to the cutter . We came offfor Jersey about seven o ' clock inthe cutter . We reached St . Ilelier ' s harbour about ten o ' clock . The body of Mr . Gossett was onboard . When the vessel struck I did not hear anv orders g iven by the captain . When they left for Jersey in the cutter , the captain went off with two fishermen in a boat towards the vessel . The boats were of an ordinary size ; one could contain

      twelve , the other eight . When the steamer strnck she remained hard and fast on the roek ; about thirty feet of the stern were under water , and the water came nearly as far a § the chimney . I did not seee the captain go into the boat . I do not know the exact number of passengers that were on board . The list of them was washed overboard , as also the cash box . If all Lad stopped in the vessel , the whole of the passengers would have been saved . 1 heard the captain say on board the Jupiter that he trasted to thc mate . The mate afterwards said that the captain gave tbe orders how to steer , and he obeved the orders . When the captain said the above , " he _was speaking to the crew and the passensers of the Jupiter . lie trusted , he said , to the mate who he thought knew the passage , hut ( he added ) , it can't ba helped , the vessel is now lost . _

      PmUP Amt : I was a sailor on board the Superb . I was at the wheel . About ten minutes before we struck , Mr . fTeming came to replace me at the wheel . He told me then that he was going to pass through the rocks , as he had passed there several times in the Cataila . Captain Priaulx cried out twice " port . " Mr . Fleming did not obey the word . He cried out once more " port , " which word was obeyed , and the steamer struck on the rock . He could not see the rock himself . James Harms . —Was on board the steamer ; he was in tiie saloon taking refreshments with three or four more—heard a crash , and exclaimed " Good God I what ' s that ' —she ' s struck I" Got into the boat with others ; it was upset ; he managed to climb up the vessel ; the captain left the wheel into the hands of his mate , who assured him he conld take him through . - The captain had never been there himself . .....

      Philip _Moixet , a seaman , deposed as follows : — When the Superb struck on the rocks she immediately filled with water behind . I helped to lower the small boat , and jumped into her . All the passengers immediately rushed forward to jump into Was well ; but I told them not to crowd so much . Ten or twelve persons g-it into the boat , and pushed ( . 2 from the steamer . Wckad neither planks nor oars and she sank when about one hundred yards iroEi the steamer ; every one fell into the water ; he saw ci « ht or nine sink around him . I and a Scotch gentleman ( Mr . Monteith ) were three hours on the water before we were p icked up ; there were in the boat , Palmer ( fireman ); Belot ( cook ); William Crenev ( cabin boy ) , all belonging to the Snperb ; Hr . Jackson , his _daughter and son ; Miss Price and another gentleman whose name I did not knowwho were all drowned . A boat from St . Clement ' s

      belonging to Hamon Brothers , of the Hocq , picked up the Scotch gentleman and myself , and also the body of Mr . Gossett , and soon after also saved Philip Cunning , carpenter of the Superb ; tbe body of Mr . Gossett was found at fonr miles distance from the Snperb , and he had not been dead more than a qnarter ' of an hour . I had never gone by tbis _pas > - _* a _* ebeiOTe and heard on board that this course had _kra taken to show the passengers where the Polka lad been lost ; but it was after I was saved that I ieard this . I did not hear it from either the captain crtLemate . I was forward , _and-cned out "Rocks !" * Wie captain , who was talking with Mr . Gossett _tethebridee , cried out , "Port I" butit wastoolate -the vessel was coins on the rock at a great speed .

      I heard the captain tell the mate , Fleming , to ta £ e iMs _course shortly before the vessel struck . There is a smaU canal between Maitrelle and the rock on "Klach the boat struck , and had it been high water , "" le would net bave struck ; but the tide had been felling about two hours , and , in consequence , it was _*^ t prudent to pass that way . The passage is as large as the _Rojal-square . Sot a minute elapsed between the order g iven by the captain and the time "ihe struck . Captain Priaulx told me on board the _Jn-jiiter , that he depended on Mr . Fleming ; but list it was a bad job . In general , we took three boats in the Snperb , and it was the first time that " _» e had left one at Jersey . The boat left ashore _* as from ei « ht to ten feet lon < r , and conld contain

      ten or twelve persons—the other , four or five . _Edwaito _Gaumx , second mate of the Snperb , Sad : _ 1 was below when the steamer struck . 1 ran up ; all was confusion .. The water was running into the vessel , and Mr . Mollet and the brother of tie steward were getting down the small | boat . 1 ran to help to set thc long boat down . Between 3 lr . Johnson , Mr . Fleming , Mr . Amy , and I , the Ion ? boat was got into the water , when I descended into it with Mr . Amy . Mr . Fleming , and two or three ladies also descended , and we thrust out a little behind the wheels , where two gentlemen and a lady waited to get at a boat . The boat was at tbat

      njo acnt so loaded that we could take no more , and 1 pushed out , intending to land the passengers on alar <* e rock which was by . But as we left , Capt . _Priaulx "jumped over into the water , and , striking _tte boat " caused it to capsize . We were all thrown _h-to the water , and I , with Amy , swam again to the ste amer Cant . Priaulx cried , "For God ' s sake av ! " Amy sprang towards him , and caught huu by the coat , and saved his life . I saw two fe"Qales carried away by the current . There were hova fifteen to _eighteen of us in the boat , and I JJ » nk that , had noif Capt . Priaulx capsized our boat , ¦ _** e whole number would have been saved . Our boat

      '""^Ck Of The ^Cmrb ' Steamer. The Loss....

      had ho ping , bnt I placed my foot over the hole , and waB keeping out the water . I know not why we went by that way ; the , vessel had never been navigated over those rocks before : After wVhad struck , Capt . Priaulx sud there was no passage among those rocks . Mr Fleming said there was , and added that he would any day take a vessel over not drawing more water than the Superb , the sea being of the same height as at present . ' I think there was great imprudence in attempting tO pass that way . No instructions were given out to the passengers when the vessel had struck . Mr . Fleming had no authority to give orders except under

      tne captain . Had the passengers been ordered to the front , I think all might have been saved ; but I will not say positively , as we expected to see the steamer roll over tbe rock as soon as the sea should have left her . With order and a little patience , I am sure all might have been saved in a quarter of an hour . The sea was perfectly calm . We had three lanterns on board . I heard Mr . Fleming say to Capt . Priaulx , " "We were in a good _^ course if you had not cried ' port ;'" but I do i not believe it . Besides , the channel is not strai g ht , and there was no reason for entering its sinuosities . [ The fishermen who came said there was no passage there .

      Mr . Thomas Hamos , ( fisherman , ) said—We were about two leagues from the steamer when she touched . As wenearedher we saw pieces ofthe wreck drifting before the tide , and heard cries of distress . I said to my comrades , " We must cease to make for the steamer , and proceed in the direction of the cries . " We advanced , and heard cries from several distant parts . I directed the boat towards the voice which seemed feeblest and most exhausted , and presently saw two men en chemise , whose heads were above water . We took them in , and afterwards picked up another , named Cumming . I then picked up another , a French gentleman , quite dead . Cumming said he had talked

      with him a quarter of an hour before . This was just at midnight . We went to the Jupiter steamer , and deposited the body ; it was that of Mr . Gossett . I have known the rocks thirty years . The place is not in the least practicable for a steamer . There are two tracks tolerably practicable ; one about half a mile to the right . I bave never seen steamers pass over those rocks . I think it just possible for the vessel to pass , but it is the most dangerous passage of all . Captain Priaulx told me that he should not have gone , but to show the passengers where the Polka was . He added , that he had asked Mr . Fleming if he could take the ship through , and the latter said " Yes . " That he then asked

      Fleming to take the helm , but seeing a rock at the head of the boat a few minutes after , he cried "Port , " and the same instant the ship struck . Had they escaped the rock on which the ; struck , and another by its side , I think they would have been safe . Tho passage , such as it is , is zig-zag , and cannot be made in a straight line . In certain parts it is not more than twenty-four feet in width . The channel is dangerous for two miles . Mr . James Harris said—When the boats had been let down I saw Fleming and the captain in one . The first said , " Let us go back to the steamer . " The captain said "No , push out ;" but as a lady and two children were crying on the steamer , Fleming insisted upon returning , and at that moment several persons jumped into and upset the boat . I saw the captain in the boat , and heard it said , " For shame , captain ; save the ladies and children . "

      Philip _Cujqiisg said—After the ship had struck I jumped Overboard , and at tbe end of half an hour was close to Mr . Gossett . We talked a good deal ; he said when we were about three or four miles from the steamer , "Mydear fellow , think you there is any chance of our being saved ? " I said , "I do not see any . " He answered , "lam very much fatigued ; I do not think I shall be able to hold out much longer . " Ten minutes after , I saw him change his place , and heard him cry . I believe he was praying . I saw a boat coming , and cried for help , and the men , who were fishers , came and saved me . Afterwards they picked up Mr . Gossett . I suggested to them that he might not be quite dead : we tried to recover him , but he was gone .

      The inquest was adjourned at the close of this witness ' s evidence . The captain of the Jupiter , the proprietors ahd agents of the Superb , and probably Mr . Fleming , were then to have heen examined . The funeral of Mr . and Mrs . Gossett took place on Friday at Jersey , amid a concourse of sorrowing _ralatives and numerous friends . The Polka steamer wreck has been sold for £ S 0 to Mr Philip _Xicoll , of Jersey , who hopes to raise it . Parts of the wreck of the Snperb are being saved almost every day .

      Dreadful Murder Of A Clergyman At "Fbutl...

      DREADFUL MURDER OF A CLERGYMAN AT _"FBUTLEY GROVE . Feimlet , Tuesday . —This usually quiet and sequestered village has been thrown into a state of great alarm and excitement during the past fortyeight hours by the occurrence of a daring burglary , which has unfortunately terminated in the violent death of a venerable and much respected clergyman , the Rev . George Edward Holiest , who has held the perpetual curacy of this hamlet during the past seventeen years . The village of Frimley Grove is situate about one mile and a half from the Farnborough station of the South Western Railway , in tbe centre ofthe hop country . It consists of not more than forty or fifty straggling houses , and the parsonage houso is at the western extremity of tbe hamlet . It is an

      old-fashioned brick residence standing on its own grounds , but not more than one hundred yards removed from other houses on either side . The Rev . Mr . Holiest was a married man , his household consisting of himself , his wife , a man servant , two maid servants , and on Friday last , his two sons , youths of fourteen and fifteen , were at home , having arrived from school the same afternoon to pass the Michaelmas vacation with their parents . On Friday night , the family retired to rest at their usual hour shortly before eleven o ' clock . Mr . and Mrs . Holiest slept on the first floor in a room overlooking the lawn ; the two boys occupied an apartment on the same floor ; the man servant slept at the top of tbe house , and a room adjoining formed the sleeping

      apartment of the two maid servants . It appears that it was Mr . Hollest ' s custom , when his children were at home , to leave the door of his bedroom ajar in order that he mig ht overhear them in the event of their requiring anything , and he seems to have done so on Friday last . After retiring to rest , both himself and his wife fell into a sound sleep , from which they were together awakened about three o clock on Saturday morning by a sudden increase of lig ht in their apartment and a noise of footsteps . On looking up they saw two masked figures standing at the front of their bed , but so little suspicion of danger had the reverend gentleman , tbat his first impression was that his sons were playing him a trick , and in playful terms he chided

      them , and told them to begone to bed and not play jokes with him at that hour of the night . Mrs . Holiest , with a quicker perception of danger , at once saw the dreadful truth , and screamed aloud . The miscreants instantly seized Mr . and Mrs . Holiest , and with pistols pointed at their heads , declared that if they made the slightest noise they would blow their brains out . Mrs . Holiest notwithstanding the imminent peril she was . in struggled hard , and at length succeeded in slipping out of bed and seizing a hell rope , npon which her assailant rushed round to the side of the bed and threw himself upon her with such force as to snap the bell rope asunder . The fellow continued to stand over her with his pistol pointed to her face , and she

      states that she fully expected to be shot dead-every moment . Mr . Holiest , who although fifty-four years of age , was a very strong and active man , on discovering how matters stood , struggled with the villain , who stood over him , and at length got out of bed , and was in the act of stooping down to reach the poker from the fireplace , when his assailant fired at him and wounded him in the abdomen . The unfortunate gentleman was not aware at first that he had been strnck , and continued to grapple with the fellow , endeavouring by every means in his power to prevent Ins escape . The report of the pistol at this moment appears to have alarmed the miscreant , who was standing over Mrs . Holiest , and he left her

      for a moment , and joined his companion . This courageous woman , nothing daunted by the fri ght she had undergone , on finding herself released rushed to the fire place , and seizing a large hand bell swung it to and fro several times . This had the effect of alarming the bnrglers , who almost immediately left the apartment , and descending the staircase ran out of the house by the front door . Mr . Holiest , as soon as he was released from his assailant , ran into an adjoining apartment and snatched up a gun which he always kej . t loaded . Descending the staircase with the gun m his hand , he distinctly saw three men running across the lawn , and , without taking any direct aim , he fired amongst the group , and it appears , without effect .

      Returning to his bedroom he now first discovered tnat ne was wounded in the abdomen , and having endeavoured to allay the fears of his wife , he got into bed aud _oxuered his man . serf ant " , who bad only just awoke and descended from his room , to send for the constable as a protection to his family , and then to fetch a doctor for himself . The man called up the Tillage constable , and tben proceeded to summon Mr . Davies , the medical attendant of the lamdy , who resided about a mile and a half distant . On the arrival of the constable , an examination of the premises was made , and it was ascertained that an entry had been effected at the rear of the premises , through the scullery window , the burglcrs having first broken a pane of glass , to enable them to open the window , and then cut . _awav the

      _wnndworK , into which so iron bar was fixed . From the _SSlw *? _?? th ? kitcheD _™ _s effected by the removal of _onebolt , which appears to have been

      Dreadful Murder Of A Clergyman At "Fbutl...

      done ma Very , business-like manner , indicating that _the-vulams were no riovioesin ' criine . 'Having once gained _anentry , they-appear to have set open all the doors in the hottseV so as to afford speedy egress , in case of alarm ' or discovery . '' The front door was Sropped open by a mat , and two or three other dors were fouud fixed on their hinges by the insertion of knives in the crevices . From the positive testimony Of Mr . Holiest their appears to be no doubt that three men were engaged in tho attack , and the amount of property carried off seems to corroborate the unfortunategentleman ' simpression . The cool determination of the rascals may be gathered from this fact _^ that within half a mile of the spot a quantity of bread and meatwith two or

      , three half empty bottles of wine , stolen from the personage house , and evidently forming the debris of a meal made by the miscreants , have been discovered . On the arrival of Mi * . Davies , the family surgeon , he found Mr . Holiest in very good spirits , and sufficiently collected to detail the circumstances of the attack . On an examination of the wound , however , Mr . Davies formed an unfavourable opinion , the correctness of which was soon made manifest by the unceasing pain and uneasiness which Mr . Holiest suffered . After the first two or three hours the pain the unfortunate gentleman suffered became _sointense that hope of his being able to survive the injury was at an end . His two brothers , who reside in the neighbourhood , were immediately sent for ,

      and admitted to an interview with their afflicted relative . During Saturday the unfortunate gentleman continued to grow worse , and on Sunday at noon all hope of saving his life being at an end , the fact was communicated to him ., He received the melancholy intelligence with Christian resignation , arid having taken an affectionate leave of his family and servants , he declared that he freely forgave his murderer , and that he hoped God would forgive him . He added that he died in peace with all mankind . . He then expressed a desire to partake ofthe sacrament , which was administered to him by a clerical friend aud neighbour , aud alter lingering in great suffering , he expired in a state of almost unconscious exhaustion at twenty minutes after eight

      o ' clock on Sunday evening . Intelligence' of the melancholy event had been forwarded ' to London before it fatal termination was known , and Sergeant Kendall , of the Detective force , was sent down to Frimley on Sunday night to assist the local police in investigating tne affair . The most active exertions were made , and the result of inquiries set on foot was the " apprehension , on Sunday evening , at the Rose and Crown beershop in Guildford , of three young men of bad character , two or whom at least are shown to have been at Frimley during the past week , and one of them is known to have had some conversation with the deceased while endeavouring to dispose of some earthenware dishes , The reputed names of these

      men are Hiram Smith , James Jones , and Levi _Harwood . The are all well known to the local police as very expert thieves , and each of them has been several times in custody . During the magisterial inquiry this morning the prisoners were taken into the room where the deceased was attacked and where his body was lying . The conduct of Smith on being submitted to this ordeal is said to have been very remarkable , and strongly indicative of familiarity with the apartment . AU three prisoners are very small men , and two of them scarcely five feet high . They are , nevertheless , most determined-looking men of the roughest cast of character . At the close of the magistrate ' s investigation , the prisoners' were remanded ,

      instructions being given to the police to send ono man to Guildford , another to Farnham , and the third to Godalming , in order to prevent the possibility of communication between them . Sir James Stirling and Mr . Tickell , a gentleman of property resident in the nei ghbourhood , were present during the magisterial inquiry ! The Home Secretary has offered a reward of £ 100 , to which the family ofthe deceased have added £ 50 , for the discovery of the guilty parties . The inhabitants of Farnborough and Frimley , as well as all the surrounding villages , have testified their respect for the deceased by closing their shops , and but one feeling of deep regret pervades all classes at the sad bereavement his family has suffered .

      THE _IXQUEST . Mr . C . Woods , coroner o f the eastern division of the county of Surrey , arrived at Frimley shortly after mid-day , and as soon as the magisterial inquiry had concluded a jury was impannelled at the White Hart Inn , for the purpose of investigating the melancholy affair . The jury accompanied the coroner to . the deceased ' s late residence , where , having first viewed the body of the unfortunate gentleman , they were conducted tothe dining room for the purpose of receiving Mrs . nollest _' s deposition . Mrs . _Holiest said , on Friday night last I retired to rest about five minutes to eleven o clock , my husband having gone to bed previously . About

      three o ' clock on Satnrday morning I heard footsteps in our bedroom and I saw two men at the foot of our bed . One of them put his left hand on my f eet and in his right hand he held a pistol , which appeared to be levelled at my head . One of the men was a little taller than thc other . The tallest seized Mr . Holiest in thc same way and levelled a pistol at him . As nearly as I can recollect , both of them said together that " if we made any noise they would blow our brains out . " That expression was repeated several times . Mr . Holiest at first thought it was our boys playing a trick upon him , and he told them to go to bed . I saw at once the terrible reality , and sprang out of bed on the left hand side to ring a bell , the rope of whicb hung

      down atthe head of the bed . On my doing so one ofthe men rushed towards me and pushed me down with so much force that the bell rope broke in my hand . The man continued to press me down on the floor and held a pistol close to my eyes . While in this position I heard my husband , who had also got out of bed , scuffling with another man on the other side of the room , and presently afterwards I heard the report of a pistol . I struggled hard with my assailant in order to get round to help my husband . I think the man fancied his comrade was shot , as he gave way a little , and I at length succeeded in getting round to the fireplace , and faking hold of a large hand-bell , which I rung as loud as I could . The men at this time left the

      room , followed by my husband . I ran to the window , and throwing up the sash , rang the hand-bell again . While doing so I heard a gun fired from the lower part of the house , and at the same time observed two men run across the lawn . One of the men turned back and looked at me , and I shut down the window immediately . —The Coroner : You saw only two men then ? Mrs . Holiest : I saw onl y two myself , but Mr . Holiest told me he had seen three distinctly . After I had closed my bedroom window I went to my children ' s room , and on the landing I met Mr . Holiest coming upstairs . He said to me "The fellow has shot me , " and at the same time showing tho wound . —The Coroner : What persons slept in the house besides yourselves ?

      Mrs . Holiest : One man servant , two women servants , and my own boys . —The Coroner : Did you see how the men wero dressed ? Mrs . Holiest : They appeared to me to be dressed in light clothes , and to have their hair stuck but at the sides of their heads for the purpose of disguise . Their faces appeared to be covered with linen masks as I could see holes for their eyes . I heard no rustling of paper , and , therefore , I think the masks were linen . —The Coroner Since this occurrence happened have any persons been placed before you ? Mrs . Holiest : Yes . —The Coroner : Are you able to

      identify any of them _"" Mrs . Holiest : I suspect two of them . —Coroner ( to Mrs . Holiest ) : Do you think it possible tbat there were three men inthe bedroom at the time ? Mrs . _HblleBt : Oh , yes , I think it very likely . I did not observe either the man who stood over me or the one who was struggling -with Mr ; - Holiest go to the table where my watch was lying , and as it is gone I think it very probable that a third party may have taken it . The examination of Mrs . Holiest here closed , and the coroner and jury returned to tho White Hart Inn , where the examination of the other witnesses was proceeded with .

      Mr . William Davis , surgeon , described the nature of tbe wound . Tho deceased died on Sunday evening . Had since made a post mortem examination of the body , and found a small grey marble between the bladder and tho rectum . Had no hesitation in stating his death to have been caused by the fwourids described . _TheCohoner ( to the police ) : Do I understand that you have any party here who can depose to having seen the three men in custody on this charge in Frimley village on Friday night ?

      Inspector Hollington : Yes , sir . A young woman in tho service of Mr . Mayberry , a surgeon of this place , has already identified two of the men . She saw three men together in front of her master ' s house about half-past twelve o ' clock on Friday ni ght , and she has identified two ofthe prisoners as being of the party . —The Coroner here desired that the prisoners , who were all _infcustqdy downstairs , should he placed in the tap-room among other parties , arid that the girl alluded to should then be asked if she could point " them out . This was immediately done , and , although the prisoners wore each placed at a-different part of the room , the girl , upon entering , directly pointed out the two men Smith and Jones , The third prisoner she

      could not recognise . The officers having communicated the result to the coroner , _Marv Gouxdstone , the girl in question , was sworn and examined . In reply to the coroner , she stated that she was a nursemaid in the service of Mr . Mayberry , and that on Friday night last , about half-past twelve o ' clock , she was looking out of her bedroom window , Which was on the second floor , and faced the street , when' she saw three men standing on a grass plat nearly in front of her master ' s house . She took particular , notice of them , as she thou _ght one of them appeared to he tipsy . The three prisoners were here introduced , and the witness immediately pointed out the two she had previously identified .

      Dreadful Murder Of A Clergyman At "Fbutl...

      . B « _05 ? _l _^ « B « " _-g the prisoners ) said , ho s _"PP ° f . d hey were- aware - ¦• that a very serious charge had been made against them . The last witnesa nad . declared that she 'had . seen them in Frimley on Friday night , at half-past twelve , and he wished to inform them that they were at liberty to ask any questions if they chose to do so .. ine prisoner Sunn said that he could bring forward , a person to prove that he had not been in Frimley on the aigU in question . Ibe inquiry waa then adjourned for a week .

      FURTHER PARTICULARS . The government has offered a reward of £ 100 , to which is added a reward of £ 50 on behalf of the disconsolate widow , to any person who will give such information and evidence as shall lead to tho _discovei-y and conviction of the burglars . And her Majesty s gracious pardon will be granted to any _J _£ oom P ;' ce ( not being the person who actually fired the shot ) who shall give such information and evidence as shall lead to the same result . Ihere is great reason to hope , in the event of the parties in custod y being guilty , that one of them ma B _* _5 S h hia companions . While at Frimley on Wednesday , Harley is stated to have asked one ofthe officers whether and what rewardhad

      any , , been offered for the discovery of the offenders . Ihe following is a list of the articles carried ofi by the thieves : —A gold watch , No . 1 , 899 , ( maker ' s name James Murray , Cornhill ) , with short chain , key and seal united , and a plain blood stone ; a silver engine-turned hunting watch , ( out of repair ); a small old-fashioned gold watch , with white dial ; a cone-shaped plated sugar basin , a silver antique snutt box , with a device ( figures ) on it , gilt inside , and small holes ; a small ' silver box , with hinge hd : a silver pencil case , ( Mordan ); a gold ring , with blood stono ( engraved in old English "Forget me not J ; an engine-turned silver pencil case , with

      plain oiooa stono ; two rough blue cloth lads' overcoats , with name marked on tape inside ; cup and paton ( pocket communion ) , and silver top to bottle * , a short camlet cloak , dark brown , lined with serge : a black case of silver instruments , with silver edges to lid , engraved " Colin Donaldson , " containing a six-inch rule , a small pair of scissors , knife with plain silver handle , toothpick , and compasses ; an old-fashioned silver table spoon , much worn iri the bowl ; German plate ( King ' s pattern ) knife , fork , and _spoony to fit case ; a _^ _Biiver pencil _caso , with yellow stone , broken at the point ; a gold pin , with cut top ; the silver tops of two scent bottles , and about £ 5 in gold aud silver monies .

      Fatal Railway Accidents. On Tuesday An I...

      FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENTS . On Tuesday an inquest was held before Mr . Herford , at the Royal Infirmary , Manchester , on the body of a man named Allen Ash , of 9 , Sheffieldstreet , aged thirty years . Deceased was a railway guard in the employment of the Manchester , Sheffield , and Lincolnshire Railway Com pan v . About a quarter to seven o ' clock on tho previous evening , deceased was on a luggage train which was moving at about the rate of three miles an hour , on the railway near the Ardwick station . As the

      tram was crossing from the up line to tho down line , the waggon on which deceased was standing went off the rails , and he was seen by a man on the engine tq fall off , with a lamp in his hand . The engine was immediately reversed , when deceased was found lying between the rails . He was quite sensible , but his left thigh was shattered . A surgeon was sent for , who bound up his thigh , and he was then taken to the Royal Infirmary , where he died the same evening from the effects of the injuries he had received . The jury returned a verdict of *¦ Accidental death . "

      On Saturday evening last , an accident occurred to a government train at tho Deep Car station , on the above railway , which has unfortunately resulted in tho death of one of the passengers . It appears that in consequence of the train being driven rapidly up to the station , and then stopped somewhat suddenly , the impulse thus given to the entire train caused the link which secured the carriages to the tender to spring off the hook ; and there unfortunately being no side chains attached at the time the whole line of carriages commenced a retrograde course at the moment the Deep Car passengers were alighting , whereby several of them were thrown down with some force , but without any injury except to one passenger— . a Mr .

      Thoma 9 Wood , of Huntshelf— who was drawn down between the edge of the platform and the train , and his legs falling across the rails , were passed over just above the ankles b y the wheels of two or three carriages , and completely cut in two , except a little of the skin on the under parts . The poor man was removed to his own house , and amputation of the stumps was performed the same night by Mr , Henry Jackson , of Sheffield . The shock was , however , too great for his vital powers , and , after lingering until Monday , death closed his sufferings . Another passenger , a young female , had a most narrow escape , being , like poor Wood , drawn down between the platform and the train , but fortunately escaped contact with the moving carriages .

      Fatal Accident on the _Midland Railway . —On Wednesday morning a man was killed by the mail train from London to Leeds . The train was backing into the station , and the man , heing upon the rails , was knocked down by the carriages , which , with the engine and tender , passed over his body , crushing him so dreadfully that his identity was completely destroyed . From his dress ho is supposed to bo a workman employed in the engine shed . The same train was delayed at Chesterfield b y the breaking down of two carriages in a luggage train which had preceded it upon the line , but no personal injury was sustained by any one ,

      A Dangerous Refugee. —Along With The Ref...

      A Dangerous Refugee . —Along with the refugees from the late Hungarian war , who arrived at Southampton in June last , and were so hospitably received by the inhabitants of Southampton , was one whose dashing appeavance—so different from the care-worn and travel-soiled aspect of his comrades in misfortune—excited general attention . He dressed in an expensive manner , his clothes being so designed as to preserve somewhat of the characteristics ofthe national Hungarian costume , and regularly took equestrian exercise on hired horses . At the civic procession , on the occasion of the Lord Mayor ' s visit to Southampton , tlie Baron Louis Bulow , as he entitled himself , made a conspicuous figure , on horseback , _wearing . a richly

      embroidered velvet coat , trimmed with gold laco . He recently took up his lodgings at the house of Mr . Short , whoso kindness to some ofthe refugees is known tb our readers . A rather awkward circumstance , however , occurred the other day , and somewhat damaging to tho reputation of M . de Bulow . When the Hermann steamer arrived , hero from Bremen , en , route to new York , the _soi-disant baron got acquainted with a German on board , of whom he obtained £ 100 in sovereigns , in exchange , as he said , for a £ 100 note , but as soon as he had got the cash he pretended to have left tho note on shore , and went away for the assumed purpose of procuring it . To assist in the delusion he went to the American Consulate , and took his passage ,

      paying £ 26 for it to Messrs . Croskey and Martineau , but at tbe starting of the Hermann he was not est , A day or two afterwards he called on Messrs . Croskey and Col , arid made some clumsy excuse for his absence , and wanted to get back part of his passage money , in whicli he was not successful . Suspicions being thus awakened , inquiries were made , and it turns out that on his first arrival here he went to Mr . Ketterer , a Gorman , in business in Bridge-street as ' . ' a watch and clock maker , representing himself as the possessor of an estate worth 12 , 000 , 000 . florins , . in Milldorf , on , the borders of Hungary , of which he had been deprived by the late war . Ho begged the favour of a month ' s board and lodging , till he could write , to his friends . Mr .

      Ketterer , on the strength of letters which " the baron" produced , apparently corroborative of the truth of his story , gave . him board and lodging , for eight weeks , supplied him with clothing , and lent him , on fifty-four occasions , in sums varying from 2 s . to £ 12 , the total sum of . £ 120 . During this period he made . Beveral representations to account for his position , and on oho occasion ho produced a letter purporting to be from his brother-in-law , stating that he had sent "the baron" £ 30 , 000 , which he would be enabled to draw at Messrs . Rothschild ' s . Mr . Ketterer , on threo separate occasions , paid the expenses of himself nnd "the baron" to London , and tho latter kept putting hiin off , by stating that Messrs . Rothschild demanded an exorbitant interest , which he would not submit to pay , ahd ' other like excuses . Six weeks ago he went to reside at Mr . Short ' s but still continued

      borrowing cash of Mr . Ketterer , as wo have mentioned , producing various letters , from time to time , with reference to his ' pretehded property . Mr . Vicner , ofthe Temple of Fancy , in the High-street , was also a creditor to the . tune of £ 27 8 S . Od . ; but on his receiving letters on Saturday last , representing "the baron '" ' s a swindler and a thief , he took those letters ; to him , ' . iust " subsequent , as it appears , to . his getting the ' money from the passenger on board the Hermann , and succeeded in getting payment Of his 'debt . Ho afterwards went to Mr . ketterer , and borrowed £ 2 of him , stating that he was suddenly called tb London , and instructing him to follow him thero on the succeeding evening , naming an hotel in Leicester-square as the rendezvous ; but on Mr . Ketterer ' s arrival there ho found no trace , of the fellow , who , wo need scarcely say , has not since been heard of . —Hampshire Lidcpendent ,

      Exhibition * of 1851 . —The Central Committee of Denmark has forwarded its demands for space to her Majesty ' s Commissioners . From this it appears that the Danes propose to exhibit printing machinery , porcelain ( painted and , bisquo ) j shell carving , bronzes , clockwork , rifles , musical instruments , furniture , ivory turniug , jty lograph ' io plates _. Oilcloths , lace , woolriet ' ting ; ' Sanders gloves ( . with leather specimens ) , fur ' _carpets , _fstearine , candles , playing cards , white' glue , arid statuary . , ., ' . . 7 .

      Middlesex Sessions. The September Genera...

      MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . The September general adjourned session of the peace for the county of Middlesex commenced on Monday morning , before tho Assistant judge , Mr . Pownall , chairman of the bench , Mr . Witham , and other magistrates . There were fifty-nine prisoners for trial , fifty-four of whom " were charged with felony , arid fivo with misdemeanour ; forty of them were able to ' read and write imperfectly , eig hteen were unable to do either , and only one was competent to read and write well .

      Robbery prom the Person . —Henry Williams , 32 , Daniel Carty , 17 , and Robert' Backingham , 12 , were indicted for stealing a shilling from the person of Emma Pigott , at a fair which took place in a field near _Westboiirne-grove . The case ' was clearly proved by the evidence of a police-officer , who was on the spot , at the time in plain clothes , and the prosecutrix . —Williams said he was innocent ; he was not at the fair for pocket picking ; be was only there " working" with a pea and thimble . The other prisoners denied that they had any part in the transaction . —Guilty . — __ The police proved the prisoners to be known pickpockets . Williams had been convicted , arid was the associate of returned convicts and the worst thieves of the Seven Dials ; Carty was taken into custody at Barnet Races for pocket picking , and the other had been convicted . —The loarnod _, Judge said it certainly made but little difference in a case where a man was charged

      with theft , for him to avow , by way of excuse , that ho was a thimblerigger . —Williams was sentenced to ten years' transportation , Backingham to eight months' hard labour , and Carty to six months'hard labour . As Williams was conducted from the dock he made a desperate attempt to strike the officer who spoke to his character , and he was only prevented doing so with difficulty . Stealing a Watch . —Zalie Barnet , 3 S , was indicted for stealing a watch , tho property of Simon Lewis , from his person . —The prosecutor , a German , waa at a funeral in North-street , Whitechapel , when the prisoner went up to him , cut his watchguard with a knife , and snatched his watch from his waistcoat pocket . He was at once apprehended , and tbe watch was found , upon him . The knife he had thrown away . —Guilty . —Former convictions were proved , and the prisoner was sentenced to seven years' transportation ,

      : Robberies by Sailors , —James Walus , 25 , a seaman , was indicted for breaking open the chest of Jacob Potter , a messmate , and stealing therefrom five sovereigns , his monies . —Tho prisoner and pro-8 ecutor served together on board the Sir . Harry Smith , and on leaving the vessel they went to live at a lodging-houso for sailors , So . 12 , Wellcloseplace . On the _lGfch of September tho prosecutor left the house in tho morning , at which time the chest was quite safe . . When ho returned the chest had been broken open , and five sovereigns which he

      had left in it , were gone . Ko one had been into tho room hi which the chest was save the _prisonei _* , who in the morning had complained that he had got rid of all his money , whilst in the evening he had several sovereigns , and ho admitted to the officer that ho had broken the chest open , and taken the money . —Guilty . —Six months' hard labour . William Matfield , seaman was convicted of robbing Thomas Airs , a messmate , of a £ 5 note and a sovereign , and sentenced to six months' hard labour .

      John Moriarty , a marine store-dealer , was indicted ; for stealing a wheelbarrow , tho property of Thomas Iteeder . —Tho barrow in question was chained up at the rear of the prosecutor ' s house , and the prisoner was seen by a police constable to unchain it and take it to his own house in the middle of the night . The constable followed hira , and on searching a cellar underneath tho shop found somo copper , lead , & c ., of wliich no account was given in the purchase-book , and ho took both the prisoner and his wife into custody . The latter was discharged at the station-house , and the police took

      possession of tho property in the cellar , and found parties who identified portions of it as theirs , but they declined to prosecute . —The defence was that it was done for a lark , " and the learned counsel commented rather severely upon the conduct of the police in ransacking tho prisoner ' s place , and taking away property which was not the subject of any accusation . Some of the property so taken actually belonged as fittings to the house . —Tho learned Judge thought the police had acted properly nnder the circumstances , there being no account of the articles in the purchase-book . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty , and he was sentenced to three months ' hard labour .

      _: Robbery in a Roman Catholic Chapel . —Mary Finneran , an elderly Irishwoman , was convicted of haviDg stolen a piece of cloth , value 7 s . from the altar of the Roman Catholic Chapel , Duncanterrace , Islington , at which she was a regular attendant . —The learned judge said it was a very bad offence , and sentenced the prisoner to he kept to hard labour for six calendar months , Street Robbery . — Sophia Burton , 35 , Sophia Elliott , 23 , and Mary Ann Wick , wero indicted for robbing a sailor , named Fish , of eighteen sovereigns . Mr . Horry appeared for Burton . —It appeared that the prosecutor met the three prisoners and another woman , who was known to thc police by the name of " squinting Jenny , " in Goswell-strcet , on tho evening of Sunday , the 22 nd of September , and

      having entered into conversation with them , he , at their request , consented to treat them , and they repaired to a public houso called the Maidenhead , where they had some gin . _After this they went to another public-house , where they preferred alo to spirits , and the prosecutor called for a pot of that liquor for which he paid . Immediately after he had drunk a small quantity of it , he became stupified , and the only thing he could recollect was , that after he experienced the stupefying sensations , the women pulled him abont , that they got him into the street , and that when ho recovered he was lying in a gateway , all his money having been stolen from him . From the evidence ofa Jewess , named Isaacs , it appeared that " squinting Jenny , " who had hitherto eluded the vigilance of the police , enacted the part of principal in thc transaction , tho witness

      having seen her take her hand from the prosecutor ' s pocket , and exclaim , 'Come along , l ' vo got the money , " and they ran away . Immediately beforo entering the second public-house the prosecutor counted his money and found it all correct , the prisoners at the time having the opportunity of seeing it . The three prisoners wero apprehended shortlv afterwards . Thoy each admitted having had part of the money , asserting that it was " squinting Jenny " . who had stolen it . —The jury fonnd the prisoners Guilty . The learned judge said there was soriie reason to beliove that it was the fourth woman who had administered the drug to the prosecutor in the ale , and that civuinstance only saved them from transportation , that punishment being inflicted upon all who committed robberies by means of hocussing or by the aid of bullies . —Tho prisoners were sentenced each to nine months' hard labour .

      Robbery in a _IUaci _* ED School . —Timothy Callaghan , 30 , was convicted of stealing a coat and other articles from the " Ragged Dormitory and Colonial Training School , " in St . Ann-street , Westminster . The learned Judge , in sentencing the prisoner to three months' havd labour , remarked that the men who were promoting these ragged schools were performing one of the most Christian duties that could be undertaken , and though they might appear to be sowing seed in an ungrateful soil , it was not so , as tho result would prove . - No class of men were moro useful to society or calculated to confer-greater ultimate benefit upon the community than the promoters and supporters of these institutions .

      Robbery by _"Seggisq _IxirosioBS . — Johanna _Donoghue , Ai , and Johanna Lynch , 20 , wero indieted for stealing a coat valuo £ 2 , -the property of William Clark . Tho prisoners wont to the house No . , 33 , Bloomsbuvy-square , and presented a petition , purporting to be from ono John Wilson , of Little Guilfovd-stvcct , praying fov a letter of admission tothe London Hospital . Whilst the servant went to hand tho petition to her master , the prisoners , or one of them , stolo a coat that was hanging up in the hall , and made off . A description of them was placed in tho hands of Ilorsford _,

      tho officer of the Mendicity Society , who , knowing them from the Description , watched for them , and he succeeded in apprehending them on _Holhornhill . The servant identified both prisoners . Mr . O'Brien , defended Lynch , who was Acquitted , Donoghue was found Guilty . Ilorsford said ho had known Donoghue for nine years , and Lynch for two years , as begging letter impostors . Donoghue was sentenced to six months' hard labour . : ; Tlio grand jury ignored the bill against Fanny Baxter who was charged with forcinp herself into tho sleeping apartment of Colonel W . Macadam , and stealing therefrom a shirt , his property .

      An Isqumy Ou A Very Setuous Enaracter Wh...

      An _IsqumY ou a very setuous enaracter which has been going on for some weeks , into the character of somo of the cadets at tho Royal Military Academy , Woolwich , has at length been brought to a close . In consequence of somo practices too gross and atrocious to be particularised practised by some of the students who had recently joined from the now ; training school at Carshalton , tho Master-General of the Ordnanco ordered a coihmittee of _inouirv to assemble , and investigate the

      circumstances . The first result was thc dismissal of three students from this academy , who had been convicted of these practices . Tho result of the labours of tho committeo has been the expulsion of six more out of tho ten students who had joined tho acaderiiy , making nine in all , and the peremptory dismissal of'twenty-threo scholars from the Car-. _sKivltjon School . The principal off the school , "Br . _Andrews , has also heen dismissed , for neglect of _diitysinnbt taking prompt steps to crush the evil when it first became known to . him . The caitle-bealers and farmers of Glasgow are devising measures to establish a new cattle market beyond the bounds of the municipality .

      —W——¦—¦——¦—¦ ——I^——A Romance Of The Hare...

      _—w——¦—¦——¦—¦ _——i _^——a ROMANCE OF THE HAREM . The Times of-Saturday published , under the above head , the following narrative ;— - A few years ago a Greek girl of uncommon beauty was married to Mr . Melinger _, an English physician residmg ; at Constantinople . Children were born of this marriage , which seemed likelv to continue happy . Mr . Molinger received frequent visits from tho highest dignitaries of tho empire , and among others , from F 6 thi _PaBha , now son-in-law of the Sultan . It would appear that the doctor discovered the existence ofan mtriguo between this gentleman and his wife . Sho soon after obtained a divorce , and abandoned her children and her husband . She shortly accomplished the conquest of Mehemefc

      Pasha , just appointed Governor of Belgrade , and became a Mussulman . Mehemet ' s happiness waa not complete , as there was reason to fear that theh _* - union would be sterile . Accordingly , ho ventured akindofreproachtohis wife , who replied with a smile , "My lord , why did you not mention it sooner ? Would you prefer a boy or a girl ? " "A boy , by all means . " " Ton shall have one . " After a short interval the crafty Greek feigned to be in tho condition her lord desired , whil ? every means wero employed prudently to exile him from his wife ' s apartment . Mehcmet Pasha was recalled to Constantinople , and subsequently appointed Am _« _bassador of the Ottoman Porte in London . Previous to hia departure , he expressed a wish that he might

      havo another boy , a brother and a companion for his beloved Bel grade . As she had done in the first instance , his wife replied , " You shall have one . ' ' At tho end of a month she again declared herself enceinte ; the Pasha was soon obliged to set out for London , and his wife was left at Constantinople to complete hor accouchement . After the lapse of a few days the child fell seriously ill , and was sent | by order of the physicians , to Pera , under the care of its governess , the same woman who had performed tbe office of nurse at- the birth of Belgrade . However , an old black eunuch , who had brought up the . Pasha , possessed his entire , confidence , and could by no means recognise Usnud Bey in the child thus brought back , and in the presence of several slaves said to his mistress" Wellmy lady , if thafc

      , , child be Usnud Bey , ho has become singularly altered by his sojourn at Pera among the infidels , " The mother romained silent , and carried off the child , directing a fierce glance at the eunuch . Doubt _hadlestablished itself , however , in the old man ' s mind . He betook himself to Pera , and proceeding step by step , he succeeded in acquiring positive evidence ofthe death ofthe veritable Usnud Bey , and of the substitution of a child of the same age , purchased of parents in tho lowest grades of life . The eunuch then returned , and , pointing to the pretended Usnud Boy , said to his mistress , "Madam , let mo bog of you to send that child back to his father—Mossul , the fisherman . I know all . " At these words the woman became livid , and left him saying , " It is well . "

      Shortly before tiie time of afternoon prayer sho sent for the eunuch , and was told that he was taking a bath . No sooner did she hear this than her project was immediately formed . The old man , as we have said , was governor of the Pasha ' s household , and as such occupied a sumptuous apartment , to which a bath-room was attached for his private use : it was hero that his mistress sought him out . The eunuch was attended by two slaves ; she dismissed them with an imperious gesture , and remained alone with the old man . " You were determined to find it out then ? " she said . "Yes , and I did find it out . " She then throw a noose round the neck of the wretched old man , and commenced stranglin g him . The eunuch was feeble , and taken

      by surprise , could offer but little resistance . At the vociferations ofthe assassin , and the groans of the victim , one of the slaves returned into the apartment , and at the sight ofthe horrible scone , rushed out , and began crying all over the house . " The Khanum ( mistress of the house ) is strangling the eunuch ! A scene of general confusion ensued . Others hastened to the bath room , and only reached it as the old eunuch , overpowered , was stretched out senseless upon the marble floor . Betraying no alarm at tbe publicity of her deed , the khanum loosened the nooso , and slowly retired between a double row ofher servants , whose imprecations followed her to tho door of her apartment . The eunuch had been kind to tho slavesand they lamented his

      , loss . Ono of them raised him from the ground and discovered that he still breathed . They rubbed him , and a physician was sent fer , but it was too late . The wretched man returned to life for a few moments , and found sufficient strength to denounce the _guilty one , and to give a detailed account of his assassination , but he expired immediately after . All Constantinople was soon thrown into a state of agitation at the news of the crime , which spread with the rapidity of lightning . The CadL arrived , and in spite of the khanum ' s rank , the authorities determined that she should be arrested and conveyed to prison . A courier was tben immediately despatched to London , to apprise Mohemet Pasha of the fatal occurrence . The culprit has already been examined

      several times , and up to the present timo the only defence she has set up is that she possessed a power _[ of life and death over her eunuch , whom she considered as her slave . The affair remains at this stage for the present , and all further proceedings will bo suspended until tho arrival of a communication from London , or of the husband himself . As you may imagine , this mournful event has created a sensation in the hi gher circles of Mussulman society . It is presumed , however , that the Sultan will not be deterred by the rank of the criminal , and that the punishment of tho crime will be si gnal . The Globe of Monday night reprinted the above , and added : — " The parties who figure in this startling account are known to us ; and indeed the Times

      , in which several leading articles have appeared on the subject of Dr . Melingen ' s conjugal wrongs , and the Pope ' s refusal to give him up his children , ought to have recognised in the French misnomer of Melinger , its own quondam correspondent at Constantinople . Dr . Julius Melingen attended Lord Byron in his last illness at Missolonghi , and is the author of a book published in London , in 1814 , called Memoirs of the Souliote Brigade . When we knew him at Pera , in 1839 , he had already got rid of his wife , whom ho had left with her two children at Rome under the care of the Countess Melingen , his mother . The Countess was a Roman Catholic , and dame

      d'honneur to the Duchess of Lucca ; she , of course , brought up her grandchildren in her own creed , and the murderess of the old eunuch , whom we often met at Rome at the Palace delle Stemmate ( the residence ofthe countess ) , also professed herself a Roman Catholic . Sho took some opportunity of doping from Rome , and lived two years at Paris in the Lola Montes stylo ; but still possessed with a lingering for her dear Levant , sho found hor way back to that sunny clime , and the subsequent part of her history is pretty correctly given . We were quite prepared for the tragic finale from a knowledge of hev ungovernable temper . "

      Justice At Damascus.—A Letter From Damas...

      Justice at Damascus . —A letter from Damascus of the 28 th ult . says ;— " On the night of the 2 nd of this month M . Abraham Romano , a Prussian Jew , was awoke by the cries of his neighbours , who had arrested a man when just issuing from the house , after having stolen a gold necklace and some jewels , which Madame Romano had worn the evening before . The court was soon filled with Musselmans , who , hearing that the man in custody was a Turk , pretended that M . Romano and the other Jews had inveigled him into the house in order to murder him . The thief , delighted at this chance of escape , boldly affirmed that such was tlie case . Under the circumstances , the Turks decided that the parties should bo taken before tho Imia . This latter , listening only to _"" "tho Musselmans and to tho thief ,

      ordered the latter to be at once set at liberty , and M . Romano and two other Jews to be bastinadoed . Thc two last , being Turkish subjects submitted to their fate , but M . Eomano protested , and presented to the Kiaia a certificate from the Prussian consul , declaring that he was a Prussian subject . The Kiaia , in a rage , directed a double amount of blows to be given him , and in addition ordered him to be sotit to prison . M . do Wiiztol ,. tha Prussian Consul , heing informed of what had passed , intervened iu favour of M . Romano , and obtained at last that he should bo removed to his own houso , where , however , the unfortunate man expired a few days after , from the sovcro punishment which ho had received . The Consul has addrosscd two notes to Said Pasha , demanding a signal reparation , and that tho Kiaia

      should bo severely , punished , * but no answer has yet been returned . The Consul has just sent in a report on the whole matter to tho Prussian Ambassador at Constantinople , in order that the matter may bo investigated and settled in a manner suichJo to tho dignity of Prussia . " _AiiERNEXus _' s Pile Ointment . —One of the greatest legacies bequeathed tu human kind , by the immortal Aber nethy , was , no doubt , his _wondetful discovery for tlio infallible cure of thatraostloathsome and _painfuUliseiisethe piles . The proprietor of this valuable remedy , though under the treatment of several doctors , suffered intensely formany years with the piles and occasioniu" bearingsdown , ' yet was nothing better , but rather grew worse , * until ho applied to that eminent surgeon , Mr . Ahernethy , whose prescription completely cured him , and has since proved its powers to heal in thousands of cases of piles , _fistulas , ike . In fact the medical profession , always slow and to

      unwilling _ncuhowledge the vivtucs of any medicine not prepared by themselves , are now unanimous in recommending ' The Pile Ointment , ' as prepared from the original prescription of that departed wonder of tho age , Mr . Abernethy . Sold in covered pots at lis ., aud -ts . Ud ., by all respectable chemists nnd dealers in patent medicines in every market town throughout the United Kingdom . The surpassing excellence of _Houcowai ' s Ointment AND _TlLtS IN THE CUBE OF OtD WOUNDS OE SCKOFULOUS SoitES .-Four years since , Thomas Watkius , a _^ "on-spin ner at Manchester , received a severe _^ _"'"Si its earning in contact with the _m _»^{ _"yv . _„^ _monTt the able _timehe wns attended by several _^ . eal mo at : _WO Infirmary , who decided that nothing . _" _^ _» X i _™ _&" man ' s life but _imputation t « . this no _oojec , _uponhewasturned out as _»™|' so _£ e " f _ifolioway's friends - _m _^^ _- _' - _' _^ _' _^ _ffl-s ta a few weeks , _srat , " _^

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 5, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_05101850/page/7/