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      Health of Lokdos _Dchiso toe Week . —( From the _Regutrdr-GeneraVs Report ) -Th e public health , aa indicated bv unusual- lightness of tbe bills of mortality , bears at the present time a favourable appearance .: The mortality is low , not as compared with that which prevails in places of better sanitary condition , but with what has been commonly observed in London at tbe same period of former years . The deaths registered in the week ending last Saturday , were-736 ; in the twentysecond week ofthe ten years 1340 9 , they rose from 760 , wbich was the lowest number and o < curred in 1842 , to 960 in 18 i 7 ; the average was 860 , or il corrected for increase of population , 938 , the present decrease on wbich therefore amounts to 202 . The deaths from disease of the respiratory organs _; exclusive of consumption , were only 105 , against 138 in the previous week ; the average is 113 . Consumption carried off 103 persons , the corrected average being 153 , and the lowest number in any corresponding week having teen 118 . The deaths enumerated in the class Pf zymotic or epidemic diseases were only 130 , against 156 of the week previous ; the corrected average of ten _correspondins weeks is 190 . Six children died of small-pox , 11 c _' aitdrenand a private ofthe Grenadier Guards _ased _? 3 vears , of measles ; 17 children of scarlatina , 28 of hooping cough , and 26 persons of typhus , all of these epidemics showing a decrease _. _fspecialiy the

      three first mentioned . Diarrhoea was fatal to lo persons , 9 of whom were children , the average being 10 ; this is the only epidemic amongst those that frequently prevail to a considerable extent , which does not show a decrease on the returns of corresponding weeks . Two persons died of influenza , and two , both adults , of purpura . At 11 , Brown ' splace , Shacklewell , the son of a plasterer , aged 3 years , died of " scarlet fever , aggravated by effluvia from certain cesspools which they were emptying . " An inquest was held on this ease , the child having had no medical attendance . Mr . Martin , the registrar for St James , Bermondsey , states that "he never knew his locality so healthy as at present ; the mortality has been very low for several months ;

      no zymotic diseases prevail ; the drainage is improved , the pavement in excellent condition , and cleansing has not been interrupted . But the tidal ditch is the great plague spot of the district , and last week men have been casting the decayed vegetable matter and surface mud on the banks , from which arises effluvium the most disgusting , and especially dangerous under the temperature whicli prevails at the present time . The process cannot Be completed for some treks , persons residing on the banks are already suffering , aud it is intended to cart tbe noxious slime to a dust heap nearer the city . " A cowkeeper , aged -47 years , died of " delirium _, tremens ( 10 days ) convulsions from

      arachnitis ( 0 days . )'' " It is stated tbat this person was habitually intemperate , and frequently drank a quart of spirits Io a day . A woman about 50 years of age also died of _apoplexy , when intoxicated . On the 23 th of May _. 'in Princes-street , St . Anne ' s Westminster , the daughter of a watch-case maker , aged 13 years , died of " cholera . " The death of-a woman of 63 years , who suffered from disease ofthe thorax and defective circulation , is stated to have " been accelerated by an execution for rent . " It is further reported thata man of 36 years , who had disease ofthe heart , was fishing in the New River , and captured "a jack ; " and that the excitement attending his success caused a St of apoplexy , from -which he never recovered . The classification of

      deaths in public institutions shows th . it the deaths of So persons were registered in workhouses , 48 in hospitals , II in lunatic asylums , and 8 in the Royal Hospital , Greenwich . The mean daily reading of the barometer at the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , was above 30 in . on Wednesday , Friday , and Saturday , on which last day it was o 0 l 79 io . ; the mean ofthe week was 29-895 . Tha mean temperature in the week was 5 S deg . 2 min ., rather higher than in the same week on an average of seven years . On Thursday it was lower than the average , and on the two following days it was respectively 5 deg . and 2 deg . above it . The births during the week numbered 1 . 374 .

      Fatal Accident . —On Sunday evening , between five and six o ' c _' ock , a boat containing five persons was capsiz d off Millbank , and the entire party immersed . Three of the party were rescued in a very exhausted state : bu _» . Mr . _Wethrrell , _residing at No . 125 , _Princes-roud _, Lsmbetb , and bis grandson , aged five rears , were drowned . Drugs were used for some time , fait the bod es were not recovered . Determined Suicide . —On Saturday last a jury was empanelled before Mr . II . M . Wakley , in tbe bnard-ro'im ot the Middlesex Hospital , _respecting the death o _*' Mr . Robert _Daodas Jones , aged thirty _, thre _^ , a _solicitor , who destroyed himself by swallowing a quantity of essential oil of bitter almonds , under tiie following extraordinary _circumstances : Mr . Hobler , soicitor , was present to watch the

      _proceedings on the part of the deceased ' s relatives , who are highly _respectable ; in fact the deceased was related to the _Dundas family . —Mr . Thomas Walton , of No . 7 , Castle-street East , Oxford-street , deposed that the deceased , who was a solicitor , had occupied apartments in his house for the last nine month *; of late he had shown strangeness of manner , and frequently left the house without his hat 9 and coat , and with bis shirt sleeves tucked up . On the prt-vious _Thursday morning he left home about II o ' _clock , and did not return until half-past six o ' clock in the _evening . He appeared in a very excited state , and , on being let in , he _inquired of witnessif ; here were _a-iy letters for him Witness replied inthe _nesative , on which deceased ran

      upstairs immediately , and Inched himself ia bis room . In about a quarter of an hour afterwards , Mr . Hurst , a lodger in the same hoase , informed witness there was a lond moaning noise in the _deceased ' s apartment . He knocked at the deceased ' s io m door , but was unable to gain admission from the room door _>> eing locked in < ide . After some time he called in a police constable , and the door wjs broken op-n , when he found the deceased bing on his back ou the floor close to tbe bed , iu a state of insensibility . He was removed in a cab to the above ho-phal _, where , on being examined by the house surgeon , he was pronounced to be quite

      dead . Itappeared that the _deceased had been the _draper of several bills < if exchange , which were alleged to have been accepted by his brother , who is a clerk in the For- ign-offico But this the brother denied in an action which took place before the sheriff . The consequence was , that the holder of the bill of exchange c » ns _* nted to be nonsuited , and determined to take op the deceased upon a charge of forgery . This led to ihe deceased committing the act whicli deprived him of life . The jury returned the _followuu verdict , " That the deceased destroyed himself by swallowing essential oil of bitter almonds , bat what state of mind he was in at the time there was not sufficient evidence to prove . "

      Fatal Accident is Farringdon-stbeet . —On Saturday last an _inqa- « t was held by Mr . W . Pavne , at St- Bartholomew ' s Hospital , on the body of William _Toddled sixty-five . —John _Smi'h—who is out on bail , in two saret es of £ 100 each , and himself in £ 200 . on a charge of furious driving—was returning on ihe previous Wednesday from the *• berby , " with a phaeton and pa < r , bavin ? been engaged as a postilion to drive a party to Epsom and back . One of the horses became , on several _occasions , exceedingly restive , one moment" gibbing " and the next plunging forward , to the imminent danger of tbe lives of those in the c _Triage . __ On reaching _Baiham-hili , the horse showed every _disposition to remain there , by lying down , much to the inconvenience ofthe defendant , who was _ri-iing __ it . He however , after some difficulty , succeeed ia getting tbe horse up , and

      inducing it to proceed on its journey . Whi ' e driving _abmg Bridge-street , Btacfcfriars , the horses broke their breechings . and became unmanageable , and defendant found it necessary to apply the whip to make tliem cross the end of Fleet-street at a rapid pace in order to escape the vehicles which were _passins to and fro . _Th-j horses immediately on feeling the whip , > 'asbed forward at a furious rate , and ran right into the cab rank in _Farringdon-street , knocking down William Todd , an old waterman , belonging to tbe stand , _whereby he sustained such severe injuries that ii was found necessary to convey him to St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , where it was ascertained that Lis arm . jaw-bone , collar-bone , and several of his rib * were broken , and he was otherwise verv ser " ou *! y injured . The deceased expired on the 31 st nit . The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death . "

      DisoRACEFOt Conduct op Medical Students . —On Monday , at noon , an inquest was taken by Mr H . M . Wakley , at the University College Hospital ) on tlie bo -y of Ana Truscott , aged twenty-three , a _ai gle woman , late servant in the family of Mr Edwards , chemist and _drnsgist , No . 63 . Great Rus 8 eII-s » reet , Bio msbnry , who destroyed her life with arsenic During the examination of the witnesses a number of medical _s'udents entered the inquest room and behaved in such a disorderly manner , that the coroner was obliged to send for the police to clear the apartment . Before their arrival , however , Dr . Cleaver , the house physician , succeeded in inducing the whols < _-f the * tttdents to leave . The police sub-SMmenOy made their appearance , bat supposing that the disturbance was at end thev did not remain .

      They had scarcely left the precincts of the hospital when tbe students made a determined entrance into the inquest ro » m , and a repetition of _theformer scene took pi -ce . The coroner upon this adjourned the investigation till the evening , remarking , that in the _meanwhile he would communicate with the authorities if the hospital on the subject . On the reassembling of the jury—at which time there were _ab < ut twenty students ia the . room—the coroner , before receiving the evidence , desired all strangers to leave the room . Upon this intimation from the cower , the students gradually left , but only to _commence a fenh source pf annoyance , for almost _immediacy afwr a large bell which was in the room , and which _earamunicated with the front door of the hospital , was kept e instantly _rfngin _? . Most discordant B 0 _JSPJff # 8 _Pttered mine ball adjoining the inquest

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      wo _^ _. wbicb interrupted ths pMe 6 edina 8 _.--A'pol {« wspecpor of tbeE division , with some of his men , were m the street , but tbeir appearance had no effect , as the disturbance lasted tilUhe conclusion of the inquiry ; Verdict— " That the deceased destroyed herself with arsenic , but there was not sufficient evidence to show her state of mind ; and the jury cannot separate without expressing their great disapprobation of the gross conduct of a number of the students of the 'University College Hospital : and the jury farther wi > h that this fact should be made known lb the heads of the institution , by the coroner . ?—The coroner said that he should certainly act in compliance with tbe wish of the jury .

      Shocking Child Murder . —On . Tuesday , Mr . H . if . Wakley held an inquest at the . Lord Hill , North Wharf-road , Paddihgton , on view of tho body of a child , about ei & Mteen months old , which was discovered murdered on the Great Western _Bvulway On the 29 th of October , 1848 , a deal box , about fourteen inches square , and ten and half inches deep , sewed up in a piece of canvass , and which had the direction on it , "Mr . Watson , passenger , Exeter , Devon , " was found on the platform of the Slough station by one of the porters . As no one applied for it , after a few weeks it was brought _uj . to London , and placed in the lost . property department . It was there till Saturday last , the 1 st o ! June , that being the annual day when lost nroDertv

      is _exanrned . Mr . Bailey , the superintendent of that department , opened the box , and then discovered the body of the deceased , which was carefullv folded up in a piece of calico . It had all the appearance of a mummy , having been evidehtlv pressed down in the box . A cambric handkerchie ' f Was tied tightly round its throat . There were cuts about the arms and legs , showing that there had been attempts to sever the limbs from the body . Mr . Collard , superintendent of police , and Mr . Sey > mour , manager to the company , bave been attempting to discover the perpetrator of the murder , but without effect . ~ Dr . Thorn , surgeon , Harrow-road , said that the body was covered with flannel clothing .

      There were four teeth in the upper and two teeth in the lower jaws . Over the shoulder joint of the right arm he found two deep cuts close together , showing that a blundering attempt had been made to remove the arm at the socket by some one unacquainted with anatomical principles . The left arm and both thighs had been cut in a similar , manner . He was pf opinion tbat the child was from fifteen to eighteen months old . He had not the ; least doubt but that death was the . result of strangulation . Verdict , " Wilful murder against some , person' or persons unknown , " and tbe , coroner directed Mr . Collard not to relax his exertions iu order to discover the guilty parties , which he promised to do . ;

      Suicide at Westminster Hospital . —On Wednesday an inquest was taken by Mr . Bedford , at Westminster Hospital , on view of . the body of Thomas Couthard , aged forty-eight , who precipitated himself from a window of a corridor , on the third story , at the Westminster Hospital . The deceased , . who was a woodcutter ,, lived at Crossfield-place , Deptford , was , on the previous Friday admitted into th < - institution suffering from a dislocation of the thumb . Deceased was progressing favourably under the treatment of the surgeons till Monday _nisiht till about half-past eleven o ' clock , when an attack of delirium suddenly came on . lie then started out of bed and began to dress himself . The nurse of the ward endeavoured to quiet him , when he observed

      that he was not goimr to stop in the hospital to be hacked about , aRd that he would go home . that night . Sbe called up the house surgeon , who attempted to calm the deceased , but he ran away into the corridor adjoining , lie was followed by the surgeon , who , thinking he ' was going into a lower corridor , proceeded down stairs to meet bim . Deceased , instead , rushed into the one above , from whence he flung himself out ofa window , falling , a height of between forty and fifty feet . He was taken up in an insensible condition , bleeding from the mouth and nose , and both ankle 3 were broken . He died in four hours from the shock to the system . Verdict— " Temporary insanity . " Destructive Fire ih _Lambi-. th . —On Sunday morning , shortly before two o ' _clock , afire brofee out

      in the premises belonging to Mr . Belton , bread and biscnit baker , at the corner of Agnes a'd Cross Streets , Waterloo-road . The _discovery was made by one ofthe constables ofthe L _division , whilst patrolling his beat . Smoke which he saw issuing from the lower part of the premises convinced him that the place was on fire ; he therefore raised an alarm , and , after repeatedly knocking at the doors , succeeded i . < arousing the inmates , consisting of Mr . and Mrs . Belton , their son , and two female _lodgers . By the time , however , that they were made sensible of their danger the whole of the basement was one immense body of fire , and the flames had ex'ended half way up the staircase . Finding it _impo-sible to escape down stairs , the two female lodgers leaped nut of the top window , and Mr . and Mrs . Belton were obliged t

      resort to the dangerous expedient of first throwing their child out of window and afterwards jumping out themselves . Mr . Belton was very Severely hurt about the feet , but the other parties fortunately received no injury of any importance . The West of England engine arrived , followed hy several beloueing to the London _Brigade . Unfortunately during the excitement which prevailed the turncock had not been called , and the consequence was , tbat although the engines were all ready to be worked , not a drop of water could be procured , and the house , with all it contained , was soon reduced to ruins . At length the turncock having been apprised of trn » mi-fortune _, attended immediately , and a plentiful supply of water was then obtained . The whole of Mr . Belton ' s stock in trade , furniture , and weiring apparel were destroyed , and £ 500 in bank notes consumed .

      Partial Destruction by Fine -p the East London Water-works . —On Monday a fire t » oh place at the extensive works of the _Ea-t Lond"ii Water Company , situate on the banks of tbe river Lee , Old-ford , near Bow , Middlesex . At a few minutes before three o ' clock in the morning , a policeman saw a great light in the interior of the engine-house , a lofty , red brick building , some seventy feet in length and thirty in breadth , lie knocked up the resident engineer , who resides on the premises , when , on the doors of the engine-house being forced , the place was found in a complete blaze . The interior contained an en-ramus sttam engine , 1 , 000 horse power , reaching almost to the roof , while numerous _gilleries and staircases

      extended round tbe four walls . The cimpmy , it appears , supply the mains by water torced into them by this engine and others in other parts of the works _, having no high pressure _resourc-. _'s .. By some accident the engine got out of order in . the course ot Sunday , and was not at work on Sunday night , and the place being , locked up will account for the fire gaining so great an ascendancy before it was discovered ., The . fire gained progress rapidly , and shortly burst forth from the roof , eventually destroying the whole of the interior and roof . The machinery ofthe engine sustained very considerable injury , partly by . the action of the fire and partly from the roof falling upon it . Singular Fbeak . — On Saturday morning last ,

      about two o clock , a scene took place which gave rise to a great deal of merriment . A thick-set , middleaged man , in the garb of an engineer , from some strange cause or other , took it into his head to close Temple-bar , and with a strength and adroitness that was perfectly marvellous , he , with , a single swing at each , drew both the ponderous doors under that noble and expansive arch closely together , and thereby prevented all ingress or egress to or from the citv . The police who assembled with much difficulty sue _ceedediu forcing open the half-dnor on the north side , bnt that on the south side baffled a 1 their exertion and strength . They could not move it an inch . The wag who had called forth this exertion had managed to get away , and might have got clear off , but , for some cause or other , he returned ' and his loud

      laughter at their perplexity caused the police to suspect him , and a city constable , who , no doubt _, thought the act was an insult , offered tp . the Lord Mayor or the city police , instantly seized him , and was in the act of removing hini to the station , when the fellow asked , 'if in the event of his performing tbe task of putting back tbe half gate , he _wonl-t be allowed to go about bis business ? The constable hesitated , when several persons who ; had heard the _proposition thought it a very fair one , and expressed their opinion to that effect , and the result was that the offer was accepted . The man , with a tact which evidently proved he knew what he was about , took the gate in his hands , and gaveit two or three shakes , after which he pushed it back with the greatest ease , and walked away , amidst loud cries froni the crowd of " Bravo , old fellow ! " _¦*¦•¦ ¦ ¦

      Review of the Enrolled Pensioners .- In consequence of an order issued from the Adjutant-General ' s ofiice , appointing a review of the enrolled Che ' sea pensioners ofthe metropolitan districts , it too ' * place on Saturday last , in Hyde Hark . The number of pensioners present amounted to . 7 , 800 rank and file ; At half-past ten o ' clock the line was formed , and soon after the Duke of Wellington , Prince Leiuingeu . Lord Gough , Lard Fitzroy Somei \ 2 " _'^ secretary ) , and several general and staff officers arrived , and were received with ' tlie customary _^ military honours , the bands playing the national

      anthem As soon as Lord Gough was recognised a simultaneous cheer arose from the assembled veterans , and wbich they prolonged for some time . The line having been minutely inspected by the general officers , grand divisions were formed , and the battalions marched past in slow and quick time . Several evolutions were then performed with great precision , subsequent to which firing commenced by single file , platoon , sections , _sub-divisians , divisions , and volleys by grand divisions . To conclude the pageant , the line was again formed , when another general salnte having been given , the men were marched to their respective quarters .

      Tub _llovsEitoiv _Tnoors . —An inspection of ' tho Coldstream , Scots Fusilier ,: and Grenadier Guards tooK place on Wednesday mornin g on the Grand Parade feeing the Horse Guards . Shortly after ten o ' clock the ground was taken , and the troops were minutely inspected by the Colonels of the different regiments . The _inspection was ordered to afford

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      _ithe-lfepauhwe _Princes-an _oprwrtunity-bf _wTtneusmg tho appearance . of the British trppps in review order . His ' _Highness the . Nepaulese General was delig hted with the appearance ofthe Guards ,- and , atthe _. cpp : elusion of , the . _inspection ,. desired- . hi s thanks ' to be conveyed tothe officers for their , _kindneBS , arid his admiration at the . precision . with which the _weni went throughtheicmovemehts _., ; . ; .. ;; ., ; . . ' Vicissitude V of Fortune ' . —Every one ! who , has passed _, through St . ' Paul ' s Ch ' _urchyardtoCheapBide on a rainy day , when birch brooms arc , very much in requisition , _miist have noticed' the . well-known Hindoo crossing sweeper ; who hiis for years past regularly stationed himself at thenorth-east _angieof the CathedraK A day or two ago he was ! at his post as

      usual , when the attention of tho Jfapaulese Ambassador , who was passing at the timo , was attracted towards bim / His Excelierioy ordered the carriage to atop , and entered into conversation with-him ; the _resalfc of whioh was that he threw his broom with desperate eagerness over , the railings of the burial-ground , and then scrambled into the carriage and took his seat by tbo side of his Excellency , who immediately drove off with _Wb _siiigulariyraoquired companion . We understand that pur eX _: Cr 088 ingsweeper ia engaged during his Excellency ' s _stay-m this country , which will probabl y be about two months , to act as'interpreter to lntri and his suite . He now appears in the carriage of his _^ Excellency every morning arrayed in a new and superb Hindoo

      costume , and is not too proud ; to ; recognise his old acquaintances and friends ofthe broom . — Times . Embankment of _inE Thames . —Sewerage and Water Supply . —On Wednesday evening Mr , ' , IV . II . Smith , C . E ., exhibited , at the Society of Arts , John-street , Adelphi , a plan for embanking the Thames , by which he proposes to combine a system of sewerage with a pure supply of water tothe metropolis . There was a large number of scientific persons and _supporter of sanitary reform present . The chair was occupied by . Mr . Ricaido , M . P ., It appeared from the statements which were mado , that three several objects are proposed to be accomplished . In the first place , twelve feet above high « ater mark there is to be a terrace ; exclusively . f p ' r the use of tho public , by means of which the rivet traffic will be facilitated , and the a ' nDroacbesto the

      Thames _inoreased _;; The proposed , _esplanado is ; to be sixty feet , andiin some places upwards , in width ; and it is to be connected with all the great thoroughfares . On its margin shops and warehouse ' s are expected to be raised . Underneath there is to be a railway tunnel , connected with all the existing lines of railway , through which passengers J ean be-conveyed from one end of the metropolis to the other . Then itis proposed to carry the sewerage twenty miles down the estuary , and to convey back a _plen- _; ' tiful supply of pure water , ' properly filtered . The embankment and tunnel are' to commence—should

      the plan be : adopted—at-Vauxhall-bridge , and are to be extended aB far as the West India Docks ; and the _supposed'expense of thei works is estimated at £ 300 , 000 per mile , '< _ir £ 3 , QQ 0 , 000 fo .. theraggregate . Mr . Smith , ; who , wo understand , is : to have an opportunity of again bringing forward ! his i ingenious plans and models at Lord _Rosae'snextconversazione explained bis views in detail , apparently to the satisfaction of the audience . The _plaa of carrying off and deodorising the-sewerage , _according to Messrs . Stoddartand Boccais ' plan ; was afterwards explained , and the meeting separated with the usual vote of thanks tothe chairman . r ¦ ' _' .: '"' :

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      Thb _Smooglinq Cases _atv _Bbistoi _,. — The three men- apprehended at _Briatol ;— _Rickwds , _Spnigue alias Attwell _. and Barrett—upon a charge of b _^ _inii concrned in an extensive smuggling of contraband tobacco , have b _^ en examined before _tlmiriagistratesf'ir that city upon charges preferred against then by the customb' authorities ; and a man named John Attwell . the fatter of- the second named ' _prisoner , and who carries on the business of a farmer in the n' -ighbourhood of G » sport was _likewi-e charged

      with , einvr _engaged in the same illegal transaction . Mr . H . Palm > rappeared for the crown ,- and Mr . Ayre defended three prisoners , and a gentleman froni Ports ; _iiouth the fourth . A number of witnesses were examined . It was farther shown that the ' waggon and horses seized belonged to the elder Attwell , and that the prisoner Barrett was a carter in his service . The two _Attwells and Barrett were fined £ 100 each , and ordered to be imprisoned till paid , andthe younger _attwell was likewise sentenced to six months'imprisonment , with hard labour , for resisting the . revenueofficers . . ¦¦ _' ¦¦ - " ¦

      The Suspectbd . Poisoning at i Clavering . — The adjourned _inquxft at the above village onthe budyof Richard _Chesham . supposed to havedied cf prison , was resumed on the 31 st ult ; Wbat gave increased suspicion to the cose wrs the fact of bis wife being the person who two years ago was tried for the supposed murder of her-two children . A communication having been received from Professor Taylor , stating that he had detected arsenic in the stomach , hut had not concluded the analysis , the inquest was against adjourned .

      Collision in the British Channel . — The Brilliant steamer , whicli arrived at Bristol on the night of the 3 Ut ult _fronvHnyti , brought ' mtelliceuceofa serious _collision _having occurred inthe British Channel , off Lucy _I-land . The _PutwaVd-Ixic ' nd barque Ceylon from Uardiff came in collision with a _homeward-biiund barque from Cuba , the ¦ ame of which is not given . The Cuba Bhip , wbich was heavily laden , went do « n ,- and two of her crew lo-t their live . The Ceylon received injuries which disabled her , and she was obliged to be taken in tow by some boats .

      . Dudley . —Murdkrof a Child bv its Mother . An inquest was held , _before Mr . Robinson _^ 'the coroner ; at the White Swan Inn , New Dock , on the 31 st ult ., on the body of a male child , only a few weeks old ; who was savagely murdered by its mother , i married woman , named Elizmetb The * . — Tbe first witness was William Smart , a shoemaker , who worked in th « house where the _prisoner lived . He recol'ected Wednesday last ; when he saw the de-. _cessed ' s mother wi h the child at her breast . Her husband was there then , bat went out soon aftorw _rds to _buv some leather About seven o ' clock

      the same evening the female told witness she was _noing out to see her sister , and requested him * . o tell lirtr husband where sbe had gone to when he returned home . —John Williams proved seeing a woman walk to and fro along the railway leading to Blackwell ' _swharf the _sflme-evening . Sbe had a child with her , and when any one approached her she walked away , Joseph Timmihs said to him : he thought she meant some mischief . She at length approached within two or three yards ofa pit shaft , and threw tbe child headforemost down , and then ran away . A man named Merrill foil- wed her . —Abraham Hills

      _, - < aid , on hearing what bad taken place , he was lowered into the pit by means of a mpe . _ilavihg-: a candle wiih him , lie saw tlie deceased at tbe bottom , witji bis bead broken-to pieces , Hud the brains scattered about . _. He was drawn up ,. and took the child to the above house . Life was extinct , but thVbody i _va _* V- ite warm . —GearcpMerritt , proved having followed the mother , after >> he threw the child into the pit , to ber bouse , in _Ttiirtei-n House-row . He never lost _siglit o' ; her . —Superintendent : jewkes said , that from information which he received he went to the _i-risoiier _' _s house ,, but fund neither . at home . He then wem to the female ' s parents , , and found Th ' e ' w

      and his wife there , both of- wh » m he took in custody . The female , on his _speaking to ber , sa'd , " I did it ; I was drove to it" Whilst proceeding to the station-house she said , "I told my mother-in-law ¦ a week ago what I should do with the child , '; ' and she said , _'; ' You may do _» hat yon like with it , for I won't have it here " ., She also said that she was walking ab ut the pit fbr more than an hour before sbe threw the child d wn , and had her mother-in-law told her not to have don _« it , she ahould not . — The ; medical evidence having been given , the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against Elizabeth Thew , " who was cimniitted on the coroner ' s warrant .:

      . SUDDEN DkATH OF A nBTIRED MILITARY Officer , at Bolton . —On Saturday morning a gentleman , who had taken lodgings as a commercial traveller at the Swan'Hotel , on the previous evening , was found dead in bed . : It is supposed that he had died of a disease of tho heart , having previously complained of being so _afflcted . He was of gentlemanly appearance , dressed iii black , but no papers were found in his _possessi-in from which his name prtliat of any of hie friends could be gathered . His hat had the initials _MG . L . M . " written inside , and the makers name was Kisbey , Waterford . A commercial traveller has since recognised him as ft np . raon

      whi a few days previously _lfft the Macclesfield Arms , vlacclesfield _, _unabk to pay his bill ; and he had been stated that he formerly held a commission in an Irish regiment as major , but sold out . It is said that lie bad also residtd at various hotels in Manchester , vierimi ' sing the landlords . Ue was there known as Major Lister . ! Glanders . —Mr . Garfit , landlord of the Sack Tavern , Waterside , Lincoln , died last week of the above dreadful complaint . Ho lingered in great pain for a period ot about , eight weeks , having taken tlie disease from a horse which was lodged in his stables by some boatmen .

      _V-M 0 iidbr , Wilb Out . "—Stephen _Carliti _, beastjobber ,, from near . Skipton , was last seen alive ' at Pateley-bridge _, in company with his partner ( a cousiii ) eleven or twelve years ago . _Uis cousin said that ho had gone , to America , but foul : play was always suspected ; and on the 2 oth ult ., a digger of peat on _Riiggin-muor , five miles from Pateley-bridge , fpmid ihe body of the missing man , a few feet below the surface , in such a state of preservation ( owing to the _a'lti-eptic nature of the soil ) that it was readily identified . The tailor , too , knew the olotbes to be Carlin ' s ; and a married , woman , whom be had wooed in her maidenhood , recognised as her property a hand ? kercliief ' and comb that were found in the pockets . The . cousin , Jonathan Bland , was apprehended at _Skiptopla 8 tweek . . '• • ..- _Muapga at BirkeNiibad . —Oh- Saturday night last a must brutal . murder was perpetrated in Conwsy _^ treet , _Birkenbead , the victim being a-navvy

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      of 3 o _^ l _»^™ _rSi md _the'Bnppo _8 _cd _% _ttW'rer'fl-man _ofsimilar calling . _L-tateiat night twp _^ _meUi pamed Sennett , and . jCpi _,, were , drinking , together : at , baL tnW 8 be _^ _rhouTO , ia _Bapk . _Clw _^ r . _stteet _, « nd _« lwK twelve o'clock they _prdceedeil in the'direction of Con * By _« street ' . ' Shortly afterwards a young woman ; resident in the neighbourhood ; was _pas-ing along the road , when she _. _discnyerrd the ' body _pfi a _i roan Ijmg across the _. foothpath , and apimrently dead . On the ohpo ? itb side of . the road . die saw another , man standing against the Scotch Church as if endeavouring , to conceal himself ; This man , as it afterwards 'turned ' out ; w * _s'Co x , and- the other ,- who was lying across the path ,, was Sennett . ; Gunning , ' the ; pfficer ; . Pn t ' _re

      beat , was informed of the _cirl-pmstanco , ! ana . immediately _proceedjed to the spot _aridfoiinditjie . man lying as described ;' . ' _Deceawd had sustained two _wbuuds _. ' one of muVh severity on the temple and the other at the hack of the skull ,- both evidently in « Aided by a stone , many of _whiclivwere lying near ; but there was ne blood upon _themj .. The body ya » conveyed to the dead house at the dispensary ,, ard Police-constable Bifnie apprehended . Cot at his own house ,. where the deceased ' s hat ; which had Been missing , was also found , ' ' On b > ing- confronted .. with the young woman alluded to iCox / was at once . _identified as tho _. nian who _wbb standing iu _. _ithe . , rba , d , . and Iie , admittedthathe had beenln cimpany with the mprdered man , ' but s ml that ' the act -was committed by some men whom they hud met , but who ' _harf- ' _made their escape . —The inquest was held on Mbrtday

      afternoon , before-II . Churton , Esq . In addition to the evidence adduced ¦ before the , _magistrates ,, Mr . Macdougal stated that , the wound on the _. head of the deceased , which caused death , might , have been produced by a fall . It was also shown that _the'deceased and Cox , the person in custody , left the bouse of Mr . Salmon , in Back Chester-street ; at half-past - _* ten . That on their way . home they called at the Conway Arms tap , Conway-street , and were _drinking there until twelve o ' clock , when they left in company with other persons , two of whom stated that . they went along . Gonway _^ _street with them ' , to near the Scottish kird ; . that at that . place , which was near , where the body was found , there were five or six , men standing , makitig ' a ' noisei : ' thnt Cox , " the , man in cus tody , said

      to the deceased , ' " Let ' s go across and raise a row jr " that Cox crossed the street tothe five or six men , | _followed . by the deceased , nnd a row commenced : but the two men , finding that they were likely ; to be attacked ,. ran home . Under these circumstances the jury , _afterhearingthficoroner ! _s summing . upj _. fpund the . following " verdict : — " That the deceased was found dead ih ¦ Conway-street , that his death wus ' the result of a wound upon the left temple , but ' _aa to how that wound was inflicted no evidence appeared before thejury . _Jf ,. , ;; , ; _;¦; _: •; - _-uiZl i _¦; - ' . ' A Man summoned for not _mai-taining a Wifb and '< " Six ; Chiu > ren on 7 s . a Week .. —A poor man , with the appropriate name of Bones , ' wris summoned for allowing the guardians of the'WpYiti ingford lirnbn to mnintain ihre ' e children of bis ' wife

      by . a former husband . In defence , the man said that his earnings , were only-7 s . a week , and he _fyund it impossible to maintain eight people on that sum .: lie had been nearly _Starved in the attempt , andat'Iast took three of the children to the union and left them there . " The . _workhnuse , had been offered to _himself and family , tut be declined jp go info it . / The -Rev . J " . ' R . Smythies said * . bat the parishioner * of _Worm-, ingford ought to pay better wages than thos _^ bf any other parish because the land in it was so superior . The fact of the man having a dislike to go into the union , was a . proof to him ( Mr . S . ) that he was an honest and industrious man ; as to his supporting _eiiiht people on Vs . a week , it could not be done , and he would never sign the man ' s conviction except ubon

      mandamus . —The case was then dismissed , i V _CoiusioN and' Destruction of two Vessel '? , —A collision , involving the loss of at least a - doz _^ n lives , and which took place offthat part of the coast knpwn as Blackballs , has just been reported at 3 ea ? ham . The Harriet Emma , Mr . Lundie , _master , be ' longing to . aiid bound for Wisbeach ,. left Sunderland harbour on Wednesday the 29 th , ult . ; She proceeded out tp sea _as ' _usual , and early in , the . morning of the following day . the weather . ! thickened , to a fo 2 _i the wind setting in rather strong from" ihe N . and N . N . E . She was about wearing off on a starboard tack , when a large schooner , apparently heavily laden , painted black , with the bust of a female for figure head / was seen besting towards her , . and before there was time

      to wear off they , came in fearful contact with each other . On the-vessels striking , Mr . Luridie , the master of the . Harriet ; Emraa , with , his mate and apprentice , clambered on board the schooner ,: lpaving the two survivors behind in their own ship .: It was soon discovered that the schooner was rapidly filling ; ahd ere tbey ; could adopt means apparently _^ of preserving themselves , she foundered with -every soul- on board , ber own crew and the three , including , Mr . Lundie , of the Harriet Emma ., The two men left on board the latter vessel met with a , more fortunate fate . " Finding she was settling down they energetically set to work in getting the boat which stood on the deck clear , and having launched ber , thevgot from the wreck just before she lurched and went down

      also . ; After being buffeted about in the npen . boar sometime , tbey were picked lip by the Prince Albert , " of _' Jersey , and . landed near Hartlepool . The number who , perished is thought to be about a dozen / and none ofthe bodies bave been recovered . ; . > : r , AUBGKD FoKGRBY ¦ AND EmBEZZKBMENT BV . AN Assistant ; _Oversekb . —At the Watford petty , sessions , last week , Mr . John Parker _^ assistant overseer of Abbott ' s Langley , and who had al-o held for several years the' offices of schoolmaster , and parish clerk , was charged with embezzling " monev and with forging the name of a Mr . J ; Evans ., The allegations against the prisoner , whose duty it was to make out the books ,, were as follows : — A rate was made in , October , ' 1845 , amounting , according-to . the , rati '

      book , to £ 729 lis . 6 d ., butin the receipt and payment book it appeared as £ 629 , lis . 6 ( 1 ., showing a difference of £ 100 ; and , as regards the latter amount the figure six had been erased , and the figure seven substituted . Also , as respects the rates made the 23 rd of-April and 28 th of July , 1849 , they stood respectively in the rate books for £ 132 0 s . 3 d ; , while in the receipt books they were only stated as £ 702 0 s . 3 d ., making £ 30 difference in . each rate , ; the lesser sums having been thus allowed by the auditor . The charge of forgery , as alleged , is the signature of the principal overseer , Mr . 'J . Evans , to the rate book for 1850 . : On these allegations the prisoner was remanded on bail , until the whole of the accounts since 1843 bave been submitted to a thorough

      examination . A . Change of Fortune . —About eight years ago , a man of foreign aspect , clothed in rags , went into the shop of an individual ; inthi 3 town , and representing himself as a Hebrew merchant from Berlin , in deep distress , applied to him , as one ofthe- wardens ofthe Jewjsh . congregation , for relief _;> . The request was not only generously complied with , but the shopkeeper procured for the stranger a passage to America . A few days ago the mercha ' nt again presented himself to his astonishedbenefactor , not , however ,. as a suppliant for relief , but . to thank him for his exertions on his behalf , exertions which bad been instrumental in transforming him from a . dep ' enderit upon charity into a wealthy man . Soon

      after the arrival of the Hebrew emigrant in America , the gold mines of California were-discovered , and the enchanting stories of the boundless wealth of the region attracted him thither . The result was , that in a brief space of time he became , the possessor , according to our informant , of immense wealth , and he has now returned tpEurope to visit his friends . The ' shop of , Mr . —r . — -, in Castle-8 tr ' oot , wtwno doubt one of the first places at which Ke call ' od ' on landing in-Liverpool , and having in vain tried to induce the gentleman to accept an acknowledgment of his services , ho placed in his hands ten guineas to be distributed in offices of charity , such as . those which . had paved tho , way in his case to ! tho acquisition ofa fortune . —Liverpool Mercury .

      . Destruction of FabM PRpDnoB . — On Tuesday afternoon afire broke out upon tho premises of Mr . G . Little , Farcet . Fen ( where a steam-thrashing machiho was being used ) , five miles from Peterborough , . ¦ ind . fiyejarge stacks . of oorn , three of whea ' t ,, and two of beans , were consumed .. The property was insured inthe Sun Fire-office . ' ¦ _•¦¦ .-, . A , CaiLb Starved to , Death . —On Tuesday . last , and two days ofthe previous week , an inquest , was held before J . Harnett , Esq ., oh the body of Maria nbolf , si little child , about , four years of age , who had been ; for the last two years , the victim bf revolting cruelty on the part of the fatliovand a woman who is the sister of his deceased wife ! The oaso was brought before . the coroner ' s notice by

      the Rev . George Charles Hall , the rector of the parish , who , from circumstances which had como tb his knowledge , refused to perform tho burial service oyer the body until _, an inquest had been holden . ' The father of the deceased , Ilicbard Hook , is a woodcutter , and lives at the village of _Ilirdwpod , about six miles from Gloucester , on the Uoss road . Ho has " fov years rented a cottage on _thoestatebf Richard Hodges Carter , Esq ., b » _'' _» ster , of Gloucester , and being a good workman , has for many years been in constant emplovment , earning , _n-ith two of his , children , from 18 s . to 21 s . per week . About two years ago his wite died , ; leaving liim with fivei children , the youngest of whom was tlie subject ' of tho present investigation . Almost immediately after his wife ' s death , ' ho took her .

      sister ; ' a Mrs ; Bubb _, to lire with him . Airs , _llubb was 'hci'solt ' a widow , with three , or four . _children , and from tlio moment of her coniing to manage the , house , the neighbours observed a marked difference between her treatment of her own children and thoso ofher deceased , sister . To the former : she afforded every indulgence and au abundance of food , while the latter wero- ill-treated and neglected , and kept on a bare allowanc e of dry broad , Tho youngest of the Hooks , in particular , was illtreated worse than either of the' others ; it was kept with only a . bumlle of rags tied about it , and constantly crying for food . In ' such' a wretched condition did it crawl about ; that the neighbours who frequently supplied it with food , called ' it by tho name of theimn £ skeleton ; arid it died onthe morning of tho , 24 th ult , ; On , _tho- _'body bein « wowed by the ¦ coroner _, and ' _jurj-j the most dis-

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      _trensing-Bpectaole -presented-itself _.- _^ The'body , if body it . cpuld ibe palled , ; was literally , nothing _? but a bundle pf ; bbnes _,, whioh were in . many places prpr trading _tKrpughthe skini ' r atid yet _. ' this spectacle of _siarvptibh' _ocou _rVed' _in' _/ _aibbuso "in " which two flitches of bacbh 'were ' -hanging > at- the - 'time , and where anabundance of-thei necessaries of-life was _everywhere ,-to be found . ; ;> On being ; examined ; by the ' _surgeoni the .. body . of ; this , child , four -years of ago , was found to . ; be barely _Ofba . _' . iii' weight , the average weight of a healthy cliild , ' at the , moment Pf birth , being " olbsi and a _>' quarter .- On making the ; internalexaminationfth ' esurgeon found similar evidences _, of : _staryation-r-the lungs , ¦ heart , and

      viscera , were healthy , but there ; was a total absence ofnburishment in ; the intestines , . ' on which also there was ' nbt a particle of , fatty matter ; and / the unhesitating _opinioribf the medtcarbfficer was that the child had died bf starvation , _^ accompanied and preceded _, by long-continued neglect , and ill-treatment . A number , of witnesses _, were examined , of whose evidence the foregoing statement is a summary . The jury , returned a verdict of _"Manslaushter ' * against r Richard Hook and 'Elizabeth _BuDb _; whowfre both committed under the coroner ' s warrant to Gloucester : Ga . ol . They were removed in custody , without , manifesting the . least sign of feeling . ; The other children were , by the direction of the coroner , immediately taken charge of by

      thV parish authoritips . ' ' - _nW . _Tdbewall ' s _BANKBUPTor . —A meeting un » der the fiat of bankruptcy issued against William Threlfall , of Addingham , cotton-spinner , was held on Tuesday , in , the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy , before Mr . Commissioner Ayrton . Mr . Oxley , of thefirnr of _Mesr-rs . W . W . Brown and Co ., bankers , Leeds , and Mr . Joseph Lang ton , the public officer Of the Bank of Liverpool , were appointed , without opposition , the . trade assignees . The amount of debts proved the same day by three banking firms and an eminent London firm of money-dealers againBt the bankrupt ' s estate was

      £ 33 766 . The bankrupt , it will be remembered by our readerB , wa 8 lately , examined at Liverpool , and committed for trial at the ensuing assizes at that town on several p harges of forgery .. : Britannia ¦ BRib _pE . —The operation of floating the third great tube' across the Straits to its position between the . towers of . tbe bridge is to take place on Monday , the . _dOth inst ,, the next : spring tide . The pontoons _,. used in turning , the tube ,,. still . remain in _their places-beneath , rcady ; tp ,. cpnvey , their . _pon' d ' _eroiis burden to ' its'dcs ' tina'tipn , when the . signal iihall be given ., 'A host of workmen , were actively employed in clearinir the rock and rubbish from under the foui'th and Hast tube to be floated .

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      artic-e on the present unhappy relations between the owner and . cultivator of the soil , in the course of which it observes . _- r _^ " 1 he awful occurrence whicb lias just taken place in the neighbouring county of Armagh , comes in to read a terrible lesson upon the _siibjeci nf the relations between landlord and tenant . In , this state of affairs the case was such is no tenant right principle seems , to bave . affected . It was a case which presented , ou _thftMve si & k , _atovifsc of landlord misconduct and barsbness almost _surpassing belief , and ' on the other & misery and blood-Btained _barbarism whioh we contemplate With dismay and horror . Thedet _< ils ofthe inquest , with other particulars already _published , have presented a picture of he most revolting kind ; but it is deepened and

      _renr The ' EncuuberrP Estates . —Dublin . —Tbirty : four additional petiti _/ _'ps for sales were lodged in the court last week , making a grand total since October of no less than 876—a 'large '' proportion ' ' out of the whide body of Irish' landlprds _.-arid a ' very visible symptom , whether for better or worse , of a not disr taut change in the proprietary of the soil .: The name of the _Ettr . i . cif Gtengall appears in- the last list , the petitioners inthe matter being the Right Rev . Dr . Foran , the _Roraiin Catholic Bishop of Waterf » rd ; andario her . ' ' - ' ' ¦ Z ' , " _^ Relations bbtween-Landlord . " -and Tenant . — The Northern Whig , yot Saturday last , has a sensible

      dered more horrible by the narrative _whb'h the coroner ,- Mr . Magee bas ; -somewhat _unprofeswnally , but most properly , taken care to bring before the British public . This is a case which ' sows , ss it were , the seeds of murder abroad .. Ejectments were brought , and a ; multitude of wretches ' were—or thought they were to be-rcast out , ' perhaps to perish _; and they coolly delibera : ed h"w they wet ' e to prevent _thisi They did nor go deeply into the matter , but took the ostensible "head and front of the offending "—the agent * , and with the cognizance , and , no doubt , in view of numbers , tbey seized him , and beat in his skull with many blows . The medical _witness said , ' . I found his skull a masv of fractures' There had heen a _desperate struggle _forlite ; . but there was no

      chance of escape to the man who fell a victim to a course of _mismanauemeriti neglect , and blind oppression , not of his making , butwh'ch , _nevertheless , at this moment is pleading throughout the United Kingdom in _extt-riua'ion of the shocking murder . It is vain to attempt to gloss over this fact—for a faot it is Let us rather raise our voices against the double _crirae-rthe , crime _. _orVbarbarisin _^ ihe _miserable district , and the crime of the awful murder . If adequate punishment could fall upon the . real criminals on both sides it would be _simple'justice . Who or _lmwrnany may have beenignilty of making the very

      name . of landlord an abomination in the district we kcow not j and except by that deterioration 1 of property , _whivh they have so richly earned , they are not likely tp suffer . That the prime murderers are known is probable , and that they may be _brought to justice we earnestly hope ; but happen wha' may with respect to either party , an awful _wArnim * has heen given , which , we trust , will not be _desnined either by the Legitilature or by those men of influence in Ireland who _oiiuht to . know that they cannot wrong or , n . eg / ect thoso dependent npon them without prep'ring for themselves a day of retribution and calamity . "

      Representation of Droohbdji . — Mr . J . M . Cantweli , in anticipation of a vacancy by the elevation of Sir . W . Someryille to the Upper House , has addressed the electors as a Repealer , and an advocate of tenant-right . ' ; . . The Oppice op Lord _Mavor , —A very stormy meeting of thecorporation was held on Saturday , to take int' » consideration ' he mandamus issued by the Court of Q , ueen ' s Bench , in _ri'tVrence to the office of Lord May _« _-r ;' and , af er _^ _cnrsiderable discussion , a resolution was adopted by a _larue majority , to the effect that the * law' agents be . directed , to prepare , a _return'to the order ef the court ? under the advice of _couDselj-nwd that the council could not proceed to hold an elpction of Lord Mayor , as the ofiice was already _. filled . ¦ '• ... . " .., - " ¦ ; ¦ i

      A rule nisi _wjas obtained in the Queen ' s Bench on Saturday , f-r a criminal information a «» inst Charles G » vin Duffy , the edi ; or and proprietor of the Nation , on the part of Mr . Durham Dunlop _, formerly editor of a paper called the Monitori In the . Nation newspaper of the 25 th of May . last , two publications appeared , which Mr . Dunlop c ; iraplained of as intended for himj as libellous , and as calculated to do hm very great injury with thei ublic at'large . One was contained in an article headed , "Mr . Leyne ' s case-Supplementary Statement . "

      The _IrMnion did not make its appearance on Satnrday last . The i _. roprietor declared in his last number that he would resume the publication if he obtained 3 , 0 " 0 quarterly subscriptions in advance . ¦ W ; S . 0 * _Brien . —The _tf « _twnof _{" _atttTday contains an appeal to the country on behalf of Mr . . William Smith O'B'ien , who is _stated to be subjected to _« uch severe treatment in the penal settlement of Maria Island , that both his reas h and his life are in imminent-danger . The _iartie ' e is headed , "The Murder of Smith O'Brien , " 'and purpurts to be written on private information . -

      Hahvkst _Prwpkcts —The . fplendid and seasonable weather bas given an appearance of remarkable luxuriwe to the growing crops—wheat , pits , potatoes / tu ' nips , and flax Vegetation has received a wonderful stimulus , and upon all sides there is the fairest promise of abundance . ' Re-adju _* tment op Rents . —Hitherto the _reductions generally mad « have been merely temporary ; but several extensive proprietors are row making _arrangementsforare-adjuBtmnntof a more permanent cliaracter , grounded upon new . vdoations

      prepared for the purpose . Ihe Right Hon . W . F . Tighe , who has large and well managed estates in the c unties of Kilkenny . and Carlow , has made reductions ranging t ' rorn twenty to thirty per cent , and has given substantial _encouragement in various ways to his tenantry , since the commencement of the famine . The poor rate in the Woodstock electoral division—chit fly the property of , that genilenian—is so lov as fivepence in the oound . The Newry Examiner states that the Eari of Koden is about to make a permanent n duotion of the rents of all tenant 8-at-will .

      Sailing op the Steamer " Viceroy , " , from Galway . —The Viceroy , got under weigh from Galway roads ,: at a quarter to ten ! o ' clock on Saturday _forenoon , amidst the hearty cheers of crowds assembic-ilfrom the surrounding couritrv , to witness the novel spectai'le 0 ' a steam ship starting from that western purt'for America . —The pilot . who took the Viceroy out of Galway Buy states , that she steamed the first twenty-styen miles , from the roadstead to the North Sound of Corran , in two hours ten minutes and had then got fairly under weigh , with almost a _perfeotcalm . she carries thirty-three passengersnot twenty-eight as stated—and rather a large mail .: _^ _Scversl incendiary _oirrages are reported in the provincial papers . Tipperary , . Kikenny , and Derry , being the scenes of tne > e unfortunate results of misrule . *

      Representation op Cork . —Quito unexpectedly , Mr . William ' . Pagan ,- one of tlie members for the city of Cork , has announced his , internum of vacating his seat upon tho first opportunity that arises after the Irish Franchise Bill beoomos Jaw . : in the course Of ah address t ; o his' constituents the hon . gentleman " _assigns " -tlio following reasons for the adoption' of this 8 tep _:-4-. f'Had my , exporienoo in Parliament induced me to believe that my continu-

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      ing in the representation would h _» Te , w _^ _i slightest , advantage , on my fellow chi , . country ,, ; I would ' ,. willingly , have _s _^ _W years longer tp the personal _sacriaees _Iv _** _W Biit ; alas ! the truth is , that neither _gt _, _TNv _* individual as I am , nor any _M other Iri » _h _^ can do anything in Parliament single _nL _}^ hoof any . value _; you _mnst _' either supnon _Vv _ei . } ter in all his measures , and then you Vv ¥ crumbs of patronage for your constitne „ i » _k must join cordially the 'O pposition . y _« - , ( i ' l long tp one or other ; bf the Parllamenta _^ 'k The Irish members can never form a du , ? N _* _;• .. _*! ... Unn ... _Thara io „„ __ : __; . ¦ . " _'• _UlllSf .. ' _^ iuwic _iwuoo _j _^

      - , uv .. a , uu . ( _JVinClpie of Wi amongst them ; and when they enter _pJ- % they instinctively , with few exceptions fill _^ i ranks at either side of the Hous e . The fl "" ° t |» pendent member , acting without _conT _^ others , can do nothing , and if he were fa » " 4 sacrificing health and fortune to the end f _% istence . he would effect no good at all com ' "' 'i to his own personal sacrifices . " _^ _"JinjJ _RerEAi _. Association . _^ Mr . John _o'rweekly " services were on Monday »/ mi » ij "llfi sum of £ 10 8 s . Cd ., being nearly double J _" % of the previous week ' s fees . The threat J l % i up _> _as "told" for about the sixth timSS resuscitation ofthe association under ttai , tK 1

      of the member for Limerick . "' '" _« r !! ij j Thb mansion of Mrs . Wolsley , at Sandvm near Dublin , was destroyed by fire on Sunday I ?? ! The insubordination of the paupers in v _3 _s continues to . give a good deal ol trouble _thorp _^ Tub Queen ' s Couijoes . —We have gri 0 , j » rity ( says the Freeman ) for stating that his _p the Primate has recently received a most _\^ tant and decisive letter from Rome on the si ?* of the government colleges . We have been _o to . understand , that according to the _internreu _? this letter gives to the late rescripts , _Catholi _^ r gymen cannot hold office in , or o therwise hir strumental in advancing the project of the q 2 _S ' colleges . We believe its contents are to be _»« _cially . communicated to the Irish bishops , and th _t those bishops are to instruct the laity against _serit

      _inrt f . _lioii * _rnnfh fin- aAi _. _nnii * _... _** .. i- '' 1 * coflegef ° Uth f ° r edUCati ° the V * 5 _p TnE Potato CROP .-Specimens of early of excellent quality , are increasing ; andhS small supplies begin to appear in the Cork mar ? The Land Question -The Banner of w ££ . - 'There _« re usually ( it _secmsVupon estates _^ tain functionaries called 'law agents , ' and in » _£ out processes for arrears of rent ' , these _centS have a choice of proceeding either in the AjsS Barristers Court , or- in the superior courts i ! Dublin .. When the arrears exceed a certain amon . the latter form of proceeding is imperative Z very often it is a matter of pure choice on the _tari of the ' law agent , ' himself ,- and therein consistsftS special evil referred to . In the Assistant Batri , ter _' _s Court the law agent ' s' bill of costs' _hmfo

      _. rate , rarely exceeding . £ 1 or 30 s ., at the _miM _, whereas , in the superior courts , it amounts to foil / five , or even six times that sum , or probably toi great deal more . The ' ordinary herd of serf / % if sued in an expensive _formj would realise only th _. proverb made and provided' in the case of all ' beggars , ' are brought under the _barriater ' _n jurjs . diction , and snug pickings are frequently made of it , as it is a practice upon' some estates to have whole batches of decrees against poor wretches re . gularly put through the court , as well as still larger batches of notices periodically served upon them , and all this for the sake of the atto ' _rney ' a costs , which are an invariable condition of their

      settlement , either in or out of court . An enormous tax is thus levied upon the 'miserable tenants , 'for the enrichment of the 'law agent , ' who , if he be hot an exceedingly , conscientious man , can usually create at pleasure a tolerable business for himself _. In the case of tenants of a richer order than { hose supposed , who , if they sometimes want ready money , have either value for it at home , or credit amongst their neighbours , the superior courts are the law . agent ' s favourite resort . In these courts the expenses are extravagant , varying from £ 12 to £ 15 , or probably near £ 20 , for each writ that may be issued , of which expenses the estate attorney

      pockets a handsome proportion , ' and soon rises to the dignity of a landed proprietor on his own account . Even the very bailiffs , in imitation of their own superiors in office , are in the habit of levying the most oppressive exactions upon the poorer classes of tenantry , while the latter dare not complain , lest they should be reported to the agent as troublesome characters upon tbe estate . The bailiff usually possesses the agent ' s confidence , as the agent . himself possesses that of his own master , and between these two classes of gentry the peasant masses of Ireland are exposed to a system of oppression , which , in any other country of _Europe , would produce worse consequences than agrarian crime , bad as the latter is . "

      Middlesex Sessions. Jones V. A Convictio...

      MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . JONES V . A CONVICTION O _? P . BINGHAM , ESQ , This was an appeal by James Jones ,, described as a coal-merchant , residing- at Kb . 2 , Pembroketerrace , Caledonian-road , against a conviction by Mr . ' Bingham , the police magistrate , under which he was fined £ 10 , for having unlawfully acted as doorkeeper at . a common gaming house , No . H , _Jermyn-street , St . James ' s . —Mr . Clarkson and Mr . Huddleston appeared for the appellant ; Mr . Bodkin and Mr . Ballantine in support ofthe conviction . —The counsel for the appellant submitted that the conviction was bad , inasmuch as the magistrate

      hadnopower to inflict a penalty , and direct _imprisonments in default , in one judgment . He was authorised to inflict a fine not exceeding £ 100 , or to commit tb prison for a term not exceeding six months ; but in the case of a fine being inflicted , that fine was only recoverable by a distress warrant under the hand ofthe magistrate . —The Court held that under this particular statute , when the magistrate adjudicated the infliction of a fine , his _powr was exhausted , and that when he made the second adjudication of imprisonment , the conviction became bad altogether . —Conviction quashed _.

      : _DBALB v . a . conviction op P . BINGHAM , ESQ . This was an appeal against a _convictioa by tho same magistrate . The appellant was fined £ 3 for knowingly permitting prostitutes to meet together in a place of public resort , known as the " _Ptodilly Saloon , ' _^ Piccadilly . —Mr . Clarkson and Mr . Pashley . wore : for the appellant ; Mr . Bobkin and Mr . Ballantine for the respondent . —The Court said the statute . did not make any distinction _betwew disorderly and orderly prostitutes , and the question was , did the evidence show that the appellant had sufficient grounds for concluding that the wcmen . frequenting his saloon , _vere prostitu _' -cs . The Court thougbt the evidence did sho v that , ana the conviction must be confirmed . —Confirmed itcordingly . W . DUDGALB THE EIDER , ASD H . MAT , V . C 0 SWC « 0 >» ¦¦¦¦¦

      ¦¦ d . ; ardine , esq . ;¦ . These wero two appeals against . convictions f « the exposure of indecent prints iu shop windows in Holywell-street , Strand . — The evidence given in support of tbes ' o convictions was ofa character !)" fit to be detailed _.--The Court quashed the _conation _agninsfc May , and confirmed that against W dale , who was committed to prison to undergo tw punishment specified in tbe conviction , i . e . _tww months ' - imprisonment . — The learned Judge reserved in Dugdale ' s case , for subsequ ent consider _^ tion , a point as to whether it was sufficient to W duco a copy of a print exposed in a window . , A Notorious Pickpocket . —The June g « _ier »' session of the peace for the county of MW _«^ commenced on Tuesday morning at the Sessw HouseClerkenwellThere wero sixty-six cases o ' _tlUUOU _\*^*¦ ui _^ t _Clival _* liviu —

      , . _) _y »» . »» _u . v __ _w" «» j . Vf . felony , and four of midemeanor , for trial .- _« i ° " " Wilson , 19 , a " well known thief , was . indicted w stealing the sum of Is . 8 d . from the person of . W Dixon , and also for assaulting and _wounding Michael Haydon , a police-officer , in tbe _execution of his duty . —Haydon , the well known City detective officer , who had bis arm in a sling in M > fl «' quence ofthe injuries inflicted upon him by the pr '' soner , stated that on Sunday evening , the 2 nd m he was on board a penny steam-boat , running _< j _\ tween London-bridge and Hungcrford-pier , and ura prisoner was pointed out to him ,. amongst theF ' songers , by a police sergeant , who _fcokT . him _tV _* he was a noted pickpocket and accordingly _^ ( Haydon ) watched him narrowly . ' The pri sont *

      got out at Ilungerford , and whilst he was standi" ? on the pier , he put his hand into a lady's pocket , . ' "; the crowd was so great that he ( Haydon ) lost _si . _^ of him for an instant or two afterwards ., The pf *' soner then went up to Mrs . Dixon , tho _prosecutn-i and witness distinctly saw him pick her pot *'' Having ascertained that Mrs . Dixon bad lost is . v from her pocket , he went and told the prisoner he was in custody upon n cbargo of . robbing try „ the person , upon which ho said , " Oh , very and immediately ho drew a purse from his P * J and threw it into the river . He was about repeat this with another purse , when -witness tlir . him . down , and took from one of bis ll 0 cK rt , £ l . 16 s . . 6 d . The prisoner kicked a"a , . _^ _sistcd with extreme violence , and witness _v _hia _tmnnlinnri . ' lint . that , the _ni-isoner wrested » , „

      him . Still hekepthis hold , and got him to _^ j ' th ' o slops loading from the dummy to the ww _* when tho prisoner placed one of his legs ue | _"i" | those of witness ,, and - in endearouring to tn him , forced him up against tho balustrade . Z ness ' s right hand was at liberty for a moment . * the prisoner seized it , and taking hold ofthe fo » .. . finger , he , by a sudden jerk against the >; ' A beiifc it double backwards , completely sovernv . js bono noiir tho knuckle ; : Witness still retain ? ll , _- hold of the prisoner , but the latter _suceeedea throwing him down the steps , anil , seizing hv » the cravat , attempted to choke him . jle * _jl upon him , and kept him almost immovable , - he was _securedby the piormnn , ' just as he _w » . _^ the act of taking hold of the hair of his be »| . _^ the . view , of beating it against the steps .- _^ tfftS carried p ' ff to the . statioii-hbuse , and witness

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 8, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_08061850/page/6/