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      Health os London durixg ihe Week —The return for the week ending last Saturday exhibits a considerable increase on the mortality of previous weeks In the first three weeks of October the deaths registered were successively 839 , 860 , and 845 ; in tho last week thev rose to 945 . In the ten _corresponding weeks of-1310-9 they fluctuated between 813 and 1 . 115 , aad were onthe average 959 . But this average , if allowance be made for supposed increase of population , becomes 1 , 046 ; on which the present return shows a decrease of 101 . The increase of fever has been already remarked , and the observation is still borne out by the number of fatal cases under this head ; the deaths from fever , which iu the two

      previous hills were 54 and -49 , rose last week to 65 . __ Scarlatina also appears to make some progress ; it was fatal iu 41 cases , and seams to prevail iu some parts of Walworth and Camberwell . Last week smallpox carried off 7 children and 2 adults ; measles 21 _culdren , hooring cough 20 , and croup 8 . Erysipelas numbers' ? _fatelcasis ; and of 10 _woment who died after childbearing , 7 sank under puerperal / ever . Ihe further decline of _diarrhea _^ _W _^"*™* ' the deaths from those complaints in the last three weeks , hi which the _numbera have _lieen successively 37 , 30 , and 22 , which last is above the average of ten _corresponding weeks . Last week 3 deaths from cMera were returned , but none of the cases had assumed'the malignant form of the disease . ——At the

      Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 * 625 in . The temperature-rose gradually and almost continuously during the vreek . The daily mean , which was 40 * 2 deg . on Suuday , was 56 deg . on Saturday ; and the mean ofthe week was" 46 _' 3 deg . The mean temperature was below the average of the samedays , derived from seven years , till Thursday . On the last two days it was from 7 deg . to 10 deg . above it . Death or a Female Miser . —On Saturday last Mr . 11 . M . Waklev , deputy coroner , held an inquest at tfie Three Kings' public honse , Clerkenwellclose , oil the body of Ann Cutler , aged _seventythrc :, a maiden lady , of eccentric and misery habits , who died ' under extraordinary circumstances . —Ann

      Kinch . 9 , _Clerkenwell-close _, the wife of a printer , Stated that the deceased bad occupied a small back room in the same house for some years . She was of very eccentric habits , and would never allow any one ia the _hbuseto enter her room , in which she had not had a fire for upwards of two years . She was in _independent circumstances , and on several occasions deceased * said to her ( witness ) that she was afraid her mon « -- _sould not last her out her life , and she sbould com ' to want . _Deceased had gone without food for days together . - As she had not seen or heard thedeceased for several days , on the 31 st ult ., witness went to Ser room door , which was fastened on the inside . After repeatedly knocking , and being unable to make" any one hear , she became alarmed , and eventually her room door was burst open by the noli- e . The room was in a most filthy condition , -and aad * 'more the appearance of a marine store _deaWs'than a human habitation . Deceased was

      diso > v _: red lying on the floor lifeless , with an old quik around her . —Mr . M . Austin , Red Lion-street , sure _^ au , _" said he had known the deceased nearly fifty veafs , and spoke to her eccentric and _parsimonious habits . At the witness' request , the deceased ' s ¦ w ill , which appointed him the exeemor , was read by the coroner . In it she bequeathed £ 100 to the _Soei-nv tor Promoting Christianity among the Jews ; _£ 100 to the London Missionary Society ; £ 100 to tbe Spitalfields Ophthalmic Hospital ; and £ 100 to Lid-. Huntington ' s College : Mr . Austin , her executor- £ 1919 s . ; and after enumerating various sums to _private individuals , she left tbe residue of her pro - _-:-rty to the Aged Pilgrams' Asylum , for the erection - > f _almshouses . There were also directions in her vnll , that her body should be enclosed in a coffin havisi a spring lid , as she always had a dread of bein- buried alive . —After some further evidence the jury returned a verdict of " _Na ' ural death . "

      _MslascholyDeath ot a "Waterloo _Vbtesas . — On 7 _uesdav afternoon an _icquest was held oy Air . H . M . Wakley , at the Britannia , Camera-street , Kim . - ? road , Chelsea , on the body of John Randall , agedV _' _^ hiy-four , a Peninsular and Waterloo veteran . For s . inef years past the deceased had lived under his son s ronf , in Camera-street , Chelsea , on a pension of one _tUillihgper diem , and for Ihe last four months he iad _-wn " suffering from an attack of paralysis , which _COUfiued him to his room . On Sunday evening an alarm " _* "as given that theroom was onfire , and . on his son _earing the place , he found the unfortunate _decease' Jymgon the floor , close to the fender . The flame- ware extinguished as quickly as possible , but _notbrf _.-rethe deceased was frightfully burnt . He filed early the following morning . It was e . _DJecturfd that in bis attempt to stir the fire , thc chair on which he was leaning upset , and he fell against the bars of ihe grate ; Yerdict , " Accidental death . "

      A > Infuriated Ox . —About four o clock on Hon-iay evening as a man was driving , up King ' sload . St . ' Pancras , from Smithfield , a number of oxer . one of the animals became infurated , and dan _' f rom the herd attacked two men . whom it so _wonted , that they were carried insensible to their homes . After having exhausted its rage upon the _jnenbv goring them to thc extent mentioned , it turnts " into Chapel-street , Somers Town , where it rushed at ; a poor woman named Margaret Carron , _whohrtdheriafantinher arms . The beast butted the . reman most frightfully , tearing her leg open right * - « P to the hip . As soon as the ox was got away from _apr _/ she was placed insensible and apparentl _y dying , in a hackney coach , and conveyed to the University' College Hospital , where the house physi

      dan _cronounced her wounds to be most dangerous . _Strafe to say the infant escaped uninjured . After quitting the woman the _animal rushed at a boy whom it likewise severely lacerated . Ultimately , a brav < - _< : ab ' mau mounting his cab , headed the crowd that _pursued the ox , and succeeded in driving it within the railings in the front of Mr . Skadiug ' s -the parish" solicitor , where it was secured by ropes , and carried off by the people , aided by the police , to a yard in . the neighbourhood , where it will be kept nntil its owner is found out , which will be a rather difficult matter , as after tiie damage done , few would incur the heavy responsibilities in which that damage must involve them . The driver went on withthe remaining oxen very coolly , remarking that he would tell his master what occurred .

      Expwsion at Dat . asd Mabtis s _Bracking _FACTORr .- _^ _-On Monday morning , shortly after three o ' clock , considerable confusion was caused in High Holborn , tin consequence of an explosion of an alarming character taking place in the premises belonging to Messrs . Day and Martin , the blacking manufacturers , of 97 , in that thoroughfare . The accident arose from some of the workmen belonging to the Erick-lane'Gas-works having left one ofthe pipes in an insecure state , after removing the meter . This Mused the gas to flow from the mains into the cellar , which accumulated so rapidly-as to fill the apartment onthe basement floor , and eventually the

      'vapour rose so high as to come in contact with the lamp over'the door . The consequence was , that in an instant afterwards a loud explosion ensued , which blew the ceilings in the cellars down , forced the partitions away , and tore the cellar doors off their hinges . At the same time the flooring and passage leading to the counting-house were demolished , and a gr & _s : quantity of glass destroyed . The watchman , who was on duty at the time of the disaster , had the presence of mind to rush forward and turn the gas ol at the main , and by so doing the eutire destructiou ofthe building was prevented . The property was insured iin the Westminister and Globe Fire-r * tfice . 7

      The _BuBt & ABY akd Outrage . —George Rouse was oa Monday placed at tho bar of the Marylebone Police-court for final examination , charged with a burglary at the house of Mr . Seaton , the Dublin Castie , Pork-street , Camden-town , and stealing from thence about £ 26 in gold , silver , and copper monies , his' ( Mr . Seaton ' s ) property . He was also Charged with inflicting several wounds with a knife upon Godwin , 53 S , by whom he was secured with the stolen property in his possession . The particulars of all that transpired have already appeared in onr paper . The only additional evidence now was that of Mr . Collins , the surgeon , who deposed that Godwin had received a wound ia the cheek an inch lone , limited in depth by the cheek bone resisting

      the knife . There were two or three small wounds ob the upper part of die nose and another on the lower angle of the ear / he ( the officer ) had had a tery narrow : escape of his life . Witness did not OOnsider him now to be in any danger . The prisoner , who had nothing to say , waB folly committed to Newgate for trial . . Attempted Suicide . —On Monday morning one of the labourers in tiie employ of the Waterloo Bridge Company , on going down the steps leading to the pier , found a man lying upon the bottom step , completely insensible , and much mutilated . The man waa removed without delay to the Charing-cross Hospital , audit was found that both his legs were fractured in several places , and his skull was also

      fractured . On regaining his senses and being questioned bs to how he met with the injuries , he refused to reply . He said iiis name was Hennessey , bat refused to give his address , or tell where his friends resided . He was dressed in the garb of a plasterer , and appeared to be , abont thirty years of age . On being searched there -was found in his pocket a trowel , the point of which had entered the hip-joint . A duplicate -was also found , which referred to a trowel which had been pledged , _; He is not expected to survive . The unfortunate man must have thrown himself from the parapet facing the steps leading to the pier , and , instead of falling into the water , as he anticipated , he fell n the steps . 7 7 7

      pon , The _MiSSCtO _POBI-Lmra _IssP"SCT 0 B . --In the course of Saturday afternoon last a _commtmication was made to- the : Observer , to the effect that Mr . Joseph Hani , _theonussing _^ sp _^ F ; « J _"gfi in ScolUnd , W in health , and in the highest spirits . _.,, _* _:-- - ... ¦ , Fire at Bi & HbirasHT .-On Sunday night a fire broke out in the premises belonging to Air . been Bsck , a surgeon , carrying on business at J > o . U ,

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      _Conrthorp-terrace , Bermondsey New-road . Th flames originated in the back surgery , owing tothe breakage ofa bottle filled with spirits of wine . The flames were eventually extinguished , but not before the whole of Mr . Beck ' s valuable stock m trade was destroyed , and the premises seriously burned . Fortunately no one was in the upper part of : the building wben the fire commenced ; if there had been , owing to the density of the smoke , great difficulty would have been experienced in making an _e-cape . Mr . Beck was insured in the Phcenix Fire-office .

      , Rbgbki ' s Park . —Itis understood that the Commissioners of Woods and Forests have at length determined that this park shall be properly drained , and Mr . Hamilton Fulton , the engineer , has been instructed to report as to the practicability and expense of such an undertaking , The works are to be forthwith commenced on a comprehensive scale , and when completed will doubtless increase the health of this locality by destroying the damp exhalations from thiB large area of cold clay , and thereby greatly promote the growth of vegetation .

      _Shockisg Accident . —On Wednesday morning , ahout half-past ten o ' clock , as a gentleman , whose name has not transpired , -was proceeding ou horseback through Broad-street , Bloomsbury . his horse took fright , and , before he could be reined in the animal camo into violent , collision with one of Messrs . Soulsby ' s coal-waggons , which was crossing from Drury-lane to Museum-street , the gentleman was thrown en the top of his head , which was lacerated in a dreadful manner , aud before the waggoner could stop his horses , one of the fore-wheels had passed over the gentleman ' s' thighs and over the unfortunate animal , which lay in tho most excruciating agony until the arrival of a veterinary surgeon who put an end to his misery . The gentleman was taken to a surgeon's , when it was found that no bones have been broken .

      Fire through Fireworks . —On Wednesday morning , between one and two o ' clock , afire broke out at the residence of Mr . J . Olney , 9 , John's-terrace , Rhodeswell-road , Mile-end . It appears that on the preceding evening the children had pinned a Catherine wheel to the door onthe first floor and some sparks must have fallen into some of the crevices . The fire was discovered by the inmates , who were aroused by the smoke . The engines were quickly on the spot , but the fire wa 3 not extinguished until considerable damage was done .

      ExTRAORDISARV ScBSB AT Si . SAVIOUR ' S CHURCH . —On Tuesday evening after the service appointed for the anniversary or the gunpowder plot was performed at St . Saviour's , Southwark , thc organ began to play the air of the national anthem , upon which tbe whole congregation suddenly commenced the words , and sung two verses with great enthusiasm . Mr . Curling then succeeded in procuring a pause , and remarked that as somo expressions in the remaining verses were not quite befitting the sanctity of the edifice they had better substitute the _doxology . The organ began to play the " Old Hundredth , " and thc people sang " Praise

      God for whom all blessings flow , ' _* with a fervour and universality that evinced their cordial concurrence in the suggestion of their pastor . The ini menso concourse then separated . , The Robbery op Plate asd _Jeweixerv in the Strand . —On Wednesday the examination of Daniel James Shaw , James Badcock , John Gardner , Mary Anne Chernneau , alias Leohord , George Buncher , Mary Anne Buncher , ( his wife , ) Charles Clinton ( an errand boy , ) and Charle 3 Kelly ( aporter , ) who appeared on his recognizances , was resumed . at Bow-street . The evidence was devoid ef interest , and the prisoners were remanded for a week .

      Commission op Lunacy . —On Wednesday a commission de lunatieo was opened at the Cadogen Hotel , Sloaue-street , Chelsea , hefore Mr . Commissioner Winslow and a special jury , to inquire into the state of mind of Mr . Wiliam Lee , of No . 17 , _Chesham-street , a gentleman of large and independent property . The commission was instituted at the instance of three married sisters ofthe lunatic . Mr . _Baeon , Q . C ., appeared in support of the commission , and Mr . Elmslie was instructed on the other side . Mr . Bacon addressed the court at considerable length j indicating the nature ofthe delusions , which , though extremely peculiar , appeared to be perfectly harmless , at least as far as others were concerned . Mr . Lee fancied that nothing that

      he saw or heard was real . All his friends were changed , and though he was quick in distinguishing the voice , he could not recognise the appearance of his nearest relative . He thought also that his food was poisoned , and that every person was engaged in a conspiracy against him . Another of his peculiarities was , that , though neither a sordid nor a poor man , h * could not be persuaded to part with any money for the payment of his servants or any accounts whatever . From June , 1849 , until May ofthe present year , his affairs had been managed and his debts discharged by Mrs . Coulthard , one of his sisters . In May last , however , it was thought desirable to leave bim to conduct his own affairs ,

      and from that period to the present he had never paid a single bill nor drawn a single cheque , although he had a large balance in the hands of "Messrs . _Cduf-is , his bankers . This statement was borne out by the evidence of Dr . Sutherland , Dr . Watson , who had been a fellow student with Mr : Lee , at Cambridge , thirty-five years ago , Dr . Southey , and Mr . Coultharn , the * brother-in-law When the jury had returned from seeing the alleged lunatic at ' his residence in Chesham-street , after a few words from Mr . Elmslie , and a brief summing up by the learned Commissioner , they unanimously found that William Lee was of unsound mind , ahd incapable of conducting his own affairs , and that he had been so since the 18 th of June , 1 S 49 .

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      Ths L . vib Fire at Graybsekd . —Samuel Marder , who has been twice remanded upon the charge of having set fire tothe house . No . 5 , in the Crescent , at the top of Harmer-street , Gravesend , was , on the 1 st inst ., again placed at the bar before the magistrates at the police court , for examination . The prisoner was committed to take his trial upon the charge of arson . Application was made to admit the prisoner to bail , which was refused . _Mtbtbriotjs Disappearance . —The neighbourhood of Blockley and Moreton-in-Marsh , in Worcestershire , and on the borders of _Oxfordshireand Gloucestershire , is in a state of considerable excitement in consequence ofthe sudden disappearance of Mr . Geo . Gardiner , who for the last fifteen years has held the

      responsible situation of bailiff , or steward to Lord Northwick ., At first it was feared that his disappearance had been involuntary , and accompanied with violence , but after inquiry there is found to be too much reason to believe that he has premeditately decamped , with a large sum of money belonging to his noble employer . It appears that on the last day on which he was seen in the neighbourhood he called upon Mr . Kettle , an attorney , of Chippen Campden , near Blockley , and delivered into his hands a packet , desiring him to keep it in safe custody for a short time , until he saw him ( Gardiner ) again . At the time of his disappearance Lord Northwick was staying at Cheltenham , and on being communicated with he went over to Blockley , and then the rumour of the

      steward ' s absence came to the ears of Mr . Kettle . That gentleman at once proceeded to have an interview with his lordship , taking with him the parcel which had been left in his care , and which on being opened was found to contain his books of account of farming transactions , sales of stock , & c , as between Gardiner , and his lordship . It appeared by these books that all entries of sums received by Gardiner , for farming produce , die , ceased with the month of April last , and as the transactions have been considerable , the defalcation ofthe absentee is estimated at between £ 2 , 000 and £ 3 , 000 . The police have not yet succeeded in tracing the fugitive further than Warwick , where he arrived in a gig on the day on which he gave the parcel into the care of Mr . Kettle .

      An Anjs-Malthusian . —A short time ago Robert Howe , one ofthe Brighton police , accompanied his wife to London on a visit to his father , who is a warden in the Tower . Leaving his wife at the Tower , he returned to his duties ; and last week he received a letter from his father , announcing tbe premature confinement of his wife with four children , two boya and two girls . They were all born alive , but one of them died shortly after birth .. The mother was as " well as could be expected ! " . Thb Convict Establishment at Dartmoor . — The * prisons at Dartmoor are in such an advanced state of preparation as to be fitted for the reception ofa limited number of prisoners . On the lst inst . the mail train brought down to the station , near Ply .

      mouth , a party of sixty convicts . They were received by a party ofthe 4 th Regiment , under the command of Ensign Hal ) , and were transferred in large covered vans , by the contractor , Mr . Peter Blatchford , by the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway to Princetown , and thence a distance of two miles to the prisons . They are to be employed first in completing the works on the prisons , and then in agricultural operations on a part ofthe moor _. The lam : Cutting asd Maimihg Cask at Bath . —The prisoner Ogle Wallis was brought op before the magistrates at the Guildhall , Bath , for final . examination on Monday last . Mr . Coplestone , who appeared very weak , and was accommodated with a chair while giving his evidence , gave a detail of the facts ofthe case as they have already appeared . At

      the conclusion bf his evidence , Mr . Helltngs , his attorney , said he should not press the ease of cutting and wounding , but go simply for the common assault , nor should he call any other evidence . The magistrates therefore at once adjudicated upon the case , and Sued the prisoner £ 5 , which was paid . A suspicion that a compromise had been made , created great dissatisfaction out of doors with this decision . The _Burglary at the West Surrey Bank . — Epsom , Monday . —The two men , George Roberts , and CharlesDowe , charged with , breaking into the West Surrey Branch Bank , in this town , were brought up for re-examination this morning ,. before the bench of magistrates , Bitting at Careless ' s Coffeehouse , in _High-Btreet , The evidence havin been

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      taken proving the circumstances already detailed , the prisoners having been duly , cautioned by the chairman , were asked if they wished to say anything to the charge made against tbem : . Roberts _saidirYcs , sir , I do . I was at Guildford on the 31 st of October , and while on my way to Epsom , or , more properly speaking , to London , I met my fellow prisoner . We came on together , and on our way through this town we sees a parcel tied up in a handkerchief . We took it up and carried it behind the engine house , where we opened it . I thought it might have been a child .

      When wo see what it contained , Dowe put on tbe coat and put some things in his pockets ; I put some in mine , and a 9 the things was found bo I found ' em in the parceK—The chairman : Is that your statement ?; Roberts : Yes . —The coolness with which the prisoner made his extraordinary explanation excited some risibility in the ' court . —The prisonerDowe ' bad nothing to say . —The chairman then told the prisoners they stood severally committed for trial for burglary -...-and warrants have been placed in the hands of the _proper-officers , the accused were removed in custody . . * . _r ,

      ' Somnambulism .-An extraordinary and distressing occurrence took place on Sunday morning , at the house of Dr . Eccles , in : _Newhall-hall-stieetj Birmingham . Itappears that Mr . Blurton , brother of Mrs ! Eccles , has been in the habit of rising from bed-and walking in a state of somnambulism , but no ill consequences resulted from his infirmity until Sunday morning , when he left his bed about a quarter past five o ' clock , opened the window ofthe attic room in which he usually slept , and precipitated himself to the ground . In his descent he fell against the dining room window , which to some extent broke the , fall , but he nevertheless came with fearful violence against the spiked railing in front of the house , and was dreadfully injured . Two policemen who were oh duty

      in . the neighbourhood heard the noise occasioned by the _faiU andon proceeding to ' the . spot raised Mr . Blurton , and conveyed him to the house ; the injuries received were of a most frightful character ; for many hours the cries of the unfortunate man alarmed the whole neighbourhood , and up to Monday evening he continued in a " state of extreme danger . The Frimley , Murderers . —On Friday evening , the 1 st inst ., Hiram Smith , _aftai'Richard Trowler , Levi Harwood , and James Jones ; three of the men committed by the coroner and the magistrates of Guildford , arrived at Horsemonger-lane , in charge of Mr . W . _Keene , the governor of , Guildford , House , of Correction . They were immediately handed ; oyer to Mr . J . Keene , the governor of the County Gaol ,

      under warrants charging theni with burglary and the murder of the Rev . Mr . Holiest ! at Frimley , in the county of Surrey 7 Smith was handed out of the conveyance first , and after being strictly-searched" , was takeu to one of the cells near where Manning was confined . He seemed very much dejected when placed ' in thecell . The other men were placed in separate cells , and a strict watch was directed to be kept on ; their movements . Both Harwood and J ones maintained the same dogged demeanour , but the former seemed more ' thoughtful during the whole of Saturday . ; They will have to remain in the county gaol until the end of March , when they will be removed to Kingston to be tried at the spring assizes , which will be held ih that town . ; On Sunday they

      attended divine worship in the prison chapel , but were kept at a distance from each other . The chaplain , the Rev , Mr . Rowe , delivered an excellent sermon , which seemed to be listened to attentively by the _prisbners , although at ; times they seemed to be very uneasy . It is expected that the visiting justices will give directions for extra men to be employed to watch the prisoners both day and night . Daring Bubglart at , Manchester . —An extraordinary and , daring burglary was effected at Mosslane , Hulm ' e , Manchester , last week , whiob , except that it was not , attended with murder , was almost the counterpart , in some of its leading features , of the one at the Frimley Parsonage . Mrs . Rebecca Codling is a lady living at 93 , Moss-lane ;

      having Only one domestic in her service—a girl who usually sleeps inthe same room with her . On the night of the 31 st ult . she had gone to bed , fastening the outer " doors of the house and the windows , but haying no fastening on her bed-room , door . About three o'clock ; she was awoke , ' and , perceiving a faint light inthe room , supposed the girl had left tho room for some purpose . She called her by name ( " Sarah ?) , and put one hand involuntarily to one side of the bed , where it rested on something which the moment afterwards she discovered te be the back of a man . She then . saw that there were two men in the room , their faces partly covered with black crape , and , greatly terrified , she screamed for help . The men told her if

      she made any further noise thoy would murder her . After this she screamed , and one of the men struck her across the forehead with a heavy iron bar , about fourteen or fifteen inches long , which for a time deprived her , of consciousness . ' When she came to her senses again , the men were still in the room , andone—a very tall , powerful man—told the other to strike her again unless she gave them her money . ' Upon this she took from under the bedclothes a pocket containing from twenty , to thirty shillings in silver , and gave it * them ' - 'They then left thohouae . - It appeared that they -had sheen ih the place sometime before she awoke ,-for they had broken open the drawers , boxes , and cupboards , up stairs and down , and had taken some silver plate

      and _' othei * valuables . As soon as they had left the house , she and her servant g irl went down and gave an alarm , but not in time to have any of the burglars traced . -. Mr . _Superintendent Beswick , however , has succeeded not- only in discovering the whole plot of the robbery , but in securing all conneted with it . . On Saturday last he apprehended a man named George Gregory , at Bolton , whom they had employed to sell the plate ; and on Saturday , at midnight , he seized in their own houses or lodgings the other two-burglars—two having gone into Mrs . Codling ' s room , and one having kept watch , outside . Tho names of the other men are James Holland and Thomas Brooks . With- Brooks , it seems : a female cohabited , ' named Jiine

      Carruthers _, whose mother has long been employed as a charwoman by Mrs . Codling , and from whom there is reason to believe the burglars had got to know this lady's habits and the defenceless state of tho house . They had broken into the house by scaling the wall , of a backyard , and having stuck a plaster of treacled paper to a pane of the back window , were enabled to force out the glass without unfastening the window inside . In Brook's bedroom was found the iron hat * with-which Mrs .-Codling was struck . On . being taken into a room where the prisoners were standing along with other persons , Mrs . Codling immediately identified Gregory as the man who . struck her with the iron bar , arid Holland as the one who told him to do it . The prisoners were

      brought before the Manchester magistrates on Tuesday , when they were remanded till Monday _^ in expectation that further : charges will bo brought against them . Mrs . Codling is suffering very severely from the effects of the blow on her forehead . Disputed Possession . —Notley Farm , in the parish of Goodley , Devonshire , has for tbe last six or seven years been occupied by a man named * John Fisher . About a twelvemonth since lie got into arrear , and a distress was made _upon the premises . The landlord , however , allowed the tenant to retain possession for another twelvemonth j provided he signed an agreement to submit to summary ejectment at the end of that time , in the case of bis not quitting voluntarily . . He was summarily ejected last week , and the bailiffs of Barnstaple put in possession .

      On Monday a man named Shapland , of Landkey , who lays claim to the premises , assisted by Fisher , turned the bailiffs nut , and placed the farm in the hands of about twenty armed men . Intelligence hating been conveyed to Wrey Harding , Esq ., a magistrate of Devon , on the following dav , that gentleman , accompanied by the magistrates clerk , the landlord ' s agent , and about thirty-two assistants , acting under the authority of ah act of parliament passedso early as the reign of Richard the II ., proceeded to the farm , and demanded possession . A fierce contest was expected by all iri the village ; but the presence ofthe magistrate intimidated tbo ruffians m the ' house , and whilst Mr , Ilardirig and his company were being admitted at the' front door .

      the valiant troop inside were making off _acrosslrtho garden at the back as fast as their legs could carry tbem . Had it not been for , the presence of the magistrate , a brutal struggle would no doubt have taken place between the parties , for the gang of intruders had armed themselves with old bayonets , bludgeons ; and huge stones , to defend themselves in their retreat . _CwstjccbssfulChasbatMarYpokt . —Aslopshpemaker froin the Emerald Isle , named Skillcn , a fellow with a light heart , dean heels ,, infinite humour ; - and a thin pair of breeches , this ; week baffled the vigilance ahd activity " of the Maryport policeman , Mr . naugh , in a style that seemed quite refreshing to all save the said official . It appears this Skilltn

      had lately been'convicted of a common assault ; and his term of imprisonment ( two months ) terminated last week . ; During his temporary absence , his wife had been rather , summarily put out of the house to make roomfor another tenant , and immediately on the liberation of . this little son of Crispin , he sailed forth to thrust out the big Scotchman who had _presumed to intrude upon hiB domicile . A warrant was issued ; and put into the hands bf the policeman for his apprehension . At . a foot race , Mr . Haugh felt he had no _chtlUCC ; he therefore saddles a horse , arid gives ; chasei a second time , when Skilleh crosses a river , and both the horse and the rider agreeing not

      to follow suit , a round turn is made to the bridge . SlrilJen waiting on the opposite embankment , and beckoning to his pursuer . In , the next heat , when the constable was within a few yards of his man , and tried in vain to hit him with his stick , he again made his escape over a thorn hedge , and ascended Moat Hill with all the ' alacrity of a monkey ; here he sat down , laughing and grinning at the baffled and chagrined officer . All thought of a capture was now abandoned ; the police charger was duly _stabledand groomed ; when on the fall of the evening the hunted badger was observed among a little group of vulgar admirers of a modern Jack Sheppard , when the officer expected to hem him in by _surpiae , for there

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      1 was now no way of escape but the harbour , and this " was taken with all i the sang froid of an otter . The [ tide being out , " rendered the harbour very difficulty of navigation for predestrians : the thick mud and irregularity of depth deterred Mr . ' Haugh from a further pursuit , till chafed by the cefendant striking the water in his face . This was the signal . _forv the commencement of a mud race , thau which no one ever witnessed anything more exciting . The mixture of hard and , soft bottom , and _consequently gaining and losing ground , ' alternately falling into pits and sticking in the mud , _created a scene of merriment 16 the * beholders , calculated to bring all authority into contempt . ¦ Finally , after repeated burrowings : in the mud _/ the chase was abandoned and the supple hero escaped by the outer pier . — Carlisle Journal .-., _* _.,.-,. - _^ •• ¦ AM _ .... . . ....

      • The Late , Fire at . _^ ickh . Hali ,.- ~ AppREhension of the _Supposed IscWDiARias . —In the early part of last April , a fireoccurred on part of tlie Wickhani'iiall Farirf , known as the " _Ragged House Barns , " ending in the total destruction _^ of some extensive premises , and'also in the destruction of a deal of live stock and other property . * Directly after the fire , a man named 'B enjamin Wager , who . was known frequen tly , to seek refuge in j some part of the premises , decamped , and frpm . _this and other circumstances suspicion fell , on him ; but , although every exertion was made to find him , he had eluded apprehension until the evening of Monday the 28 th ult ., wheri one of the men in the employ of-Mr . Smith , the tenant of the farm , saw him at Hatfield Peverel ,

      and invited him to hiscottage , where he was directly afterwards apprehended . On Wednesday morning _, he was brought up before W . W . Luard , Esq .,-together with a man named Ewers , who from information . wln _\ _ih 7 had reached the police since Wager ' s apprehension , was also ' supposed to be concerned . In order to give time for the * collection of further evidence the prisoners _wereTemanded until Saturday morning . On that day , the evidence was gone into before W . W . Luard , Esq :, and" the' Rev . John Bramston , wheh Wager was fully committed to the Assizes on the charge , but there not being ° strfficienfc evidence against Ewers ho was discharged . V : Attempt to ' Murder at _Wednesburv , . _Staffordshire . —On' Sunday evening last ,- about ten

      minutes past seven o ' clock , a * daring attempt was made upon the life ofa ser rant girl in tlie employ of a mechanic of the name- of J . Gregory ' , whose house is situated neai * : James-bridge , in this parish . The girl , whose nameis Martha Davis , and'who app eared to be about seventeen years of age , stated m evidence that on Sunday last her . master / mis _^ tress ,, and a young man named James Bird ; left home about _midday with a horse and cart . Near to the house at t hat time she saw the prisoner , whose name is Thomas Butler , and to whom'Bird ; who was in the cartj passed the time bf day . About five o ' olock in the afternoon she-saw the prisoner pass the house again . ¦ Soon after seven o ' clock the ( login the yard made a great n 6 ise , andshe _, tvent

      out , taking a candle with her . When sho had driven the dog . into his kennel , and was returning into the houso the prisoner jumped over the _pailings ; and caught hold of her , by the _^ air of her head with ¦ his lefthand . . She was , about to , make an alarm _, whenhetbokalargeknife '( _such ' aii one as is used _. by butchers ) out of hia pocket , arid . Baid he . would kill her . ; The dog kept jumping up against the prisoner at _thatitime .-The ' prisoner cut her across the throat , inflicting a " wound about * two anda half inches in length ; While he was in the act she extricated herself from _^ his grasp , and got out ofthe yard into the road ,, and made an : alarm . Her ories were heard by soriie persons residing in a house a short distance off , when assistance was procured ;

      arid the prisoner was apprehended immediately . The prisoner is one of a class which thia neighbourhood is infested with , ' who are known by tho name of Rodneys , "whogo about without ariy settled ' _residence , ; and who never work , but live by robbery , and " sleep , by the coke and engine fires , which are numerous in this mining district . He is a dreadful character , having been convicted of felony and other offences a great number . of , times ,, and about four years ago made a s'imilar ' a ' ttempt upon _^ the lifo of a person at Da ' rlaston , a place adjoining the scene Of this transaction ! The prisoner , was brought up beforeine county magistrates at the Towri-hall _. in this town , on Tuesday last , and committed to take his trial at the next Stafford assizes for the offence :

      Ltnoh Law in Newcastle . — -Last week a shoemaker ' of the name of Tweedy was committed to the House of Correction for . one . month for starving his two childrento such an extent as , to , reduce them to mere skeletons . ' The stepmother of tho children who was in custody , was discharged , thero being no law to reach her ; but she was not fallowed to escape punishment ; for on leaving-the court , her _neighboura who had assembled in largo numbers to testify tKeir abhorrence of her inhuman conduct , followed : her through tho streets , and taking the law into their own hands , chastised . her most severely . ; I On her arrival at home , the door ofher house was broken open , and had it not been , for the expeditious arrival ofa body of police , her property

      would have . been destroyed , and her life placed in imminent danger ; She ' was carried away through the crowd by the police , who sought out a hidingplace for her , where she is still concealed . Her house is locked up , and the neighbours as soon expect to hear of Haynau ' s , revisiting London as of the return of . the Tweedys to Piper _' _s-entry , Newgate-street . . Highway' Robbery near Wigan . —A most bare faced and cool robbery ( took place on Tuesday night last _riearflindley . A little after ten o ' elook Mr . Thomas : Sergeant , a respectable man living at ' Hindley , _' was returning home from Wigan fair , and when about forty yards from the railwav bridge , on

      _Amberswood Common , five men emerged from the railway slope near the bridge , where they must have been hiding , and attacked him * One asked him to give up his money ; fbuthe replied that he had none , arid the _Irobbers immediately took hold of him and threw him down t , arid while one or two of them held him , the others rifled his pockets , and took eleven half crowns , two _Shillings , and fivepence in copper . Mr . Sergeant bit one of the men on the arm , and the villain got up , loosed him , and kicked hiin severely inthe ribs . Thethieves then madeoff ; and though exertions have been made to discover the perpetrators of the outrage , no clue has yet been obtained likely to lead to their detection .

      TnE Poisonings , in Lincolnshire . —Surgeon Clegg , of Boston , writes a letter , referring to the case of fifteen ol' sixteen farmers' labourers , who were seized with symptoms of poisoning by arsenic after drinking ale supplied to them by their master . Mr . Clegg states that the circumstance was purely accidental . " An arsenical solution , " he says , " was used ih dressing certain kinds of seed , and by an accident , some portion of the poison gained access to the pitcher which contained the ale supplied to the labourers as their morning ' s allowance , "

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      The Ute Mtjudbb At Havrrfobdwest.—A Rewa...

      The ute _MtJUDBB at _Havrrfobdwest . —A reward of £ 50 has been offered ( with a promise of her Majesty s free pardon to any accomplice , not being the actual murderer ) , to any . person who shall give such information as will lead to the conviction of the murderer , or murderers of the old woman ' , Elizabeth Barnard , who died at Haverfordwest , on the 8 th of October . _; The magistrates ofthe town are now engagedIm prosecuting a rigid inquiry , in which it is hoped the reward will assist them .

      Mink Accident and Loss of Lives at Fkong och Lead _Minbs , _# ear _Abebvstwyth . —On the 29 th ult . seven miners , about dawn of day , reached the works ; for the purpose of going on with " their stem . ' While in . the act of undressing themselves tor their work , one of them put a lighted pipe down trom his ' mouth upon a parcel which contained gunpowder , which immediately ignited , arid set the wholepowder that was allotted to the poor fellows in ablaze . Lamentable to record , the life of one man was _instantaneously sacrificed . Two others soon ex ** PJ _? d . and , the remaining four are in a dreadfulstate : and not likely to survive .

      ; HiaHWAY RoBBEnT . _^ Mr . ' William , Ellis , ofBrithdir , a respectable farmer , when returning home from Bangor fa , ir , , about half-past eight o ' clock oni > the evening of Monday last' , was waylaid and robbed near the gate which leads from the public road to a farm called the Wern . The spot selected is about a mile and a half from Bangor , andabout half a mile from his own house . The road at this place passes alongside an alder brake . Mr .: Elliswas walking quietly Up'tlie road , when , just as he ; heard some noise on the hedge side , ' he received a blow on the ; temple , which stunned him , and before he could recover

      himselt , he recjeivcd another on the back of the head , which knocked him down quite disabled on his facj into the ditch at the side of the road ; Iwb if the robbers then fell upon liimyand laid hold of hini in such a manner as to prevent him from either seeing or calling out , whilst the other or otheis beat him most cruelty . When they had made him quite helpless from abuse and suffocation , they searched his pockets and robbed him of his purse , containing two sovereigns , arid three pounds two shillings in silver and a pocket book containing some farm , and other accounts . Mr . Ellis believes , from what took place amlwhat he heardthat there

      , were three persons , if not four concerned in the robbery . Although he heard the _mme of their feet when running towards Bangor he was too much exhausted by the cruel treatment ho hadexperiencedto pursue ; them . It appeared that the weapon made use of to knock him down with was a heavy rail , wrenched off a gate near the spot where te ' r , ? , 1 _- _^ , at _? d ' Ifc is a niercy that Mr _hlhs was net . killed _yith the first blow he received In _onecud of the rail , which was _subsequenthfouiid on he road , there wa a nail which inflicted _awcS on h head , and he is only indebted for life to the Sicu arlv _* Cff 6 Ct latmlly inst d of

      Per-An ,. American paper says , tho expenses of the note Soveranient thjs _^ ear will amount to two ! 2 _df \ fl _S \ . _?^ * rc _^ ry raan * w _>«> an , and child , in the United States hond or free _.

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      Re-Abjostment Of Runts.— The Continuance...

      Re-abjostment of Runts . — The continuance ol emigration on a vast scale , even in the winter , is likely to induce many landlords to ¦ consider the expediency of a re-adjustment of the rents of their tenantry . The provincial journals contain further notices of reductions of rent , generally in the shape of : temporary abatements , but in somo cases the scale of reduction has been fixed upon as a permanent arrangemerit 7 " . ' . , 7 '" . ' . ' 7 Plunder of Crops . —From- Oavan , Louth , and other northern bounties , _Tthe ' re are accounts of the flight of tenants ; after disposing of their crops , or removing them out of the reach . of the landlords . The Evening _Mait'has a letter from Bailieborough , describing some " Sittings" in that neighbourhood . The _samo journal has ai report of a case in the office of Master Murphy , in Chancery , in . which ihe .. _receiveriof a property in _Lotith applied for adyice

      and assistance under circumstances of , great _ur-, gency . ; The receiver had distrained the corn of two tenants ; who were about to desert their farms near Ar des , but a crowd assembled with horses _aRd , cars , and removed the grain ; a warrant was granted by the resident _hiagistrate _, but tho small police yariy considered it unsafe to proceed . , iii takirig back the produce , even if they had had cars and horses , which . could not be obtained at any price ; : Master Murphy direoted the receiver to make an immediate representation of the circumstances to Sir Thomas Rpdingljon , the under-secretary _, who would provide an adequate force for the protection ofthe civil power and the vindication of the law . The receiver mentioned that the person to whose farm the corn had been removed was the head bailiff of Sir Wm ; Somerville ; and Master Murphy observed that that circumstance rendered it the niore necessary that no timeshould be lost in laying the case before the government . 7 . "¦ ¦ ' 7 , " '•• • ¦ ¦ """ ' " 7

      Galwat Queen ' s College . —At the recent examination fifty-one scholarships were conferred upon pupils'in this college ; " 7 The new Parliamentary Franchise . —The number of qualified votes for the county of Fermanagh under ! the . new act . as appears by the Clerk of the Peace ' s books , amounts to 4 , 000 ,. and 217 for .. the borough of _Enniskilleri . ' This * enormous increase to the county constituencies can scarcely fail to effect ari important change , whether for better or for worse , in the Irish representation whenever a dissolution , of the present parliament * shall" give the electoral body an opportunity of exercising , their newly-abquired rights . Iri ' mostof the large towns , too , the numbers will be vastly augmented , ' ' but in

      some of the _^ smaller boroughs the addition to the registry-roll will be but comparatively trifling . In reference to the new constituency of the " county of Cavan , the Anglo-Celt says : —" The riuriiber of electors in this county has been increased by the new franchise bill from 180 * to -5 , 000 or thereabouts . According to the return furnished by the- Clerk of the peace , * in pursuance with tlie provisions of the statute ,- there were only' 180 names on the roll of persons entitled to vote for Parliamentary representatives for the ' eountyprior to the £ 12 franchise bill coming into force ! Of theso-many were 'dead _or-. had emigrated . * Just think "bf legislators and others advocating the continuance of' a systein which only gave the franchise to 180 individuals ,

      and these almost all of one political way of thinking , but of a population of 243 ; 158—being only ' one elector to every 1 ; 352 individuals , ' or 270 families ; averaging five persons in each family ? ' - ¦ - ¦ _- ¦ Election Preparations . —Fresh candidates ' are springing-up for the vacant seat in the county of Limerick ; -Amongst the latest tire Mri Fitzgerald , a barrister , Mr . Martin Burke , arid " an anonymous "Catholic gentleman of great ' wealth and high position , who is ready to come forward , provided the electors are determined riot to' place themselves at the beck of landlord influence . " ; Mr . Wyndham Goold has commenced his canvass , and from that gentleman ' s extreme popularity with all sects and classes , founded upon his , high reputation as , one of the most liberal and improving proprietors in the

      south of Ireland , he will no doubt prove a formidable antagonist to the host' of rivals already announced . to take the-field . It being generally understood that Mr . J . O'Connell has no intention of ever again taking his seat in the " Imperial " Parliament , Mr . W . Barrington , son of Sir Matthew Barrington , Bart . ; means to offer himself to the constituency . The appointment of Mr . Sheil to the Embassy of Florence leaves , of course , a vacancy in the representation of the Duke of Devonshire ' s borough of Dungarvon . It is not improbable that tho newly-appointed Solicitor-General ( Mr . Hughes ) will fight the battle with Mr . John Francis Maguire , proprietor- of the Cork Examiner , who is in a manner pledged to a contest since the-last general election , when he so nearly succeeded in defeating the Master of the Mint .

      Court of Queen ' s Bench . —On Saturday last , shortly after twelve _olcloolt , Judge Crampton came upon the bench ; and the grand juries for the county and city of Dublin having been sworn , the learned judge addressed the city grand jury at great length in reference to the change which would be effected under the Municipal Reform Act , by which , in future , the grand juries of the city of Dublin would be empannelled by the 'Lord Mayor . He said he was sixteen years a judge ofthat court , and having experienced the results under which the system in ftat court had worked ; he had ' only to hope that , under the new . order of things , the administration of justice and the general working ; of the system would work as well .

      The Trades' Unions , —This body have completed their arrangements for the resumption of public meetings and' the despatch of business . Some of the matters to which they mean to aoply _theiriselves areas follows :- _^ - "To use every exertion to establish 39 numerous a constituency aspossible under the new franchise bill . It should be borne in mind that it _wasthrough the exertions of this body an extensive constituency was established in the passing of the Parliamentary Reform Bill , by which they were enabled to return O'Connell arid Ruthven with an overwhelming majority ' of 1 , 549 , . in . the teeth ofan Orange corporation anda hostile government . . To concentrate public Opinion , so as to give every possible opposition to the removal of £ he

      Lord Lieutenant , as also to the general centralising scheme of the Government . To try and have the guilds re-established , ' with the right of sending one representative from each guild into the new corporation _^ each member , to have the right of voting for their respective representative ; as also . to enjoy the Parliamentary franchise , hut without the right of descent , by either birth or marriage—in fact , none to be in tlie _. guilds but the bona fide operatives and employers of the different trades forming their guilds . To . render every assistance to the , teriatit-right ' question . To bring publio opinion to bear upon the Cemetery Committee , with the view of causing . them to render an account to the public of the large sums of money

      that have comejnto their , hands : also , to ascertain why the O'Connell . monument is not proceeded with , even with the £ 4 , 500 in hand , so as to give employment to a _nuriiber" of artizans . They intend paying their respects occasionally to the new corporation , with a variety of other matters .. There is another question of vital importance ' which they intend to apply themselves to most sedulouslythat is , to try and soften down the . asperity that exists between the two parties that have split the Liberal interest . It is , however , their determination not to allow any reference to bo made to cither party ' at any of their meetings , whether

      public or in committee , under pain of expulsion . " Tenant-right Movement . —The meeting of the tenant farmers of the county of Waterford was held on the lst inst .,. on the hill of Ballybricken , in the suburbs of the city . The . numbers who thronged thc spacious area iri front of the platform might be estimated at night to ten thousand . The men from the barony of Gaultier , as they came in procession towards the hill , headed by their clergy presented a fino and respectable array .. The chair _vfas taken ( by , tho Rev . Thomas Flynn , P . P ., Passage ; The business of the meeting passed off with perfect harmony , _cordiality , arid good feeling . — Freeman's Journal . ' . " " . " .. ' . '

      ' , ' Emigration _j _* rou the South , and West . —The _emigration goes on as rapidly up to this , the first day bf the winter quarter , asitdid in March or April last .: On Monday a crowd of peasants passed through Athlonb on their way to the New World . The looal paper states that they came from the village of donoron , about two miles distant , and hadbeen but a few days previously _. ovioted from their holdings .. 7 While _going through the town they were cheering and shouting ,, and appeared in the best possible humour . On inquiry as to the cause oftheir unusual mirth , it , was ascertained to have arisen' froin the circumstance of their having received a large' sum of money from their friends in

      America , which came to hand on tho very morning they were ejected from their cabins . Emigration from the county of Kerry is , I am informed , proceeding on a monster scale . The failure of the potato orop in that quarter , of which there can be no doubt , has created a panic among the peoplv , who are flocking to all the seaport towns in the south , for the purpose of securing , at any sacrifice , a passage to the United States .. Many of theBe poor creatures { ire , all but penniless . : Emigration , —On a property near this town there were early _thiB'harvest no less than eleven tenants and . thoir families ;" now ouly one . remains , the rest are gone to America , taking off their crops and tho rent .

      Firing into a Dwelling . —A shot was feloniously fired into tho kitchen of John Smart , residing at Whitefield , near Templemore , and a Rockite notico posted on the gate bf the yard , informing hinv that if he did not forthwith quit Mr . Rudd ' s employment ho would fall a victim to assassination . lNCENDURisM .-On the 28 th ult . twoout-houses , the property of , Mr . Robinson , residing near Lorha _1 _' ipp . erary , were maliciously set onfire and totally consumod . A police patrol having observed the fire at a distance proceeded to thespot , and by their

      Re-Abjostment Of Runts.— The Continuance...

      exertions , which were aided by some of the neigh . _, bours , prevented four , stacks of , corn and a rick of hay from taking-fire . —rA correspondent _informs _ug that , on Saturday " night last , a large Stack of flax containing seven pecks , the property' " of Mr . j ] Nixon , of Drumrankin , near Ahoghill , was set fire to and destroyed ; No clue has , been obtained to lead to a discovery of . the incendiary . —Banner , of Ulster . :. Z "' . [ . [[' , . 7 _, _v . ' ¦ _...- ' - ' _•„ . ' . ' ¦ - ¦ Sale in tub Incomdered , Estates Coi / Rr . _-i-Thg estate of the late Robert Dillon Browne , M _/ P . f 0 P Mayo , wasthe : first ; of / five properties , the Bale , of which was fixed for Tuesday in this court , and , fromthe well-known political * position of the lata exertions , which wero aided bv soma of tha na '» i .

      proprietor ; the sale ' attracted more than ordinary interest . The property-was divided into seven lots . Tho first lot was purchased by Mr . ; Campbell fop £ 1 , 650 being at the rate of about eleven years * pur . _chased _The . lot was _^ purchased . intrust for , Mr . Browno _' s ' _siiccessof in the representation of Mayo , Mr . ' Ousely Higgirigs . "The comiriissioners then adjourned the sale of the ' other lots , the biddings for which wereonly from five to eight or nine years * purchase on the present estimated yearly value . ¦ _Tabbert a Boabdin g Station . —A general order of the commissioners appoints Tarbert to be tho boarding station for the port of Limerick , in lieu of Soattery Roads ' . : ' ¦ ¦ l ¦ ¦ '• ' ! [ '" ¦

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      Outrage Near Edinbuhoh.T-A Dastardly Out...

      Outrage near Edinbuhoh . _t-A dastardly outrage was committed on Saturday cvening'last _, ' by a pavty of Irish labourers , at . Newmiltbn , about seven mileg from Edinburgh , 'On two officers of the county police _^ by ' which their lives have been placed ia danger . ' It appears that Saturday was pay-day oa some of the works now in progress in the Grawley springs , for the Edinburgh Water Company , when the _¦*¦ navvies" held the debauch customary on the occasion at Newmilton . a . place consisting of about two dozen of cottages' ! _The district officer at Peni « cuik , named Mitchell , had proceeded to Newmilton , as he usually did ; on : the pay-days at the * works ,. to _assl-it his fellow officer , of the name of Macfarlan , in . u- _~ _- _~ * : « .. -ye * v _;« _H . ' . i . i : _« _« _nnn _» - \ _rA . u : _« _M i _,

      occurred during the day to render their interference necessary ; and _' about eleven o ' clock in the evening the two constables were partaking- of tea iri Macfarlan ' _g house , preparatory ; to the other officer re _« turning to . . Penicuik , when a neighbour , named Mrs . _Buchah ,. entered with ' the complaint that a navvie , named Peter Campbell , was breaking down the door of her'house , arid had smashed a pane o £ glass . The ; officers'immediately proceeded to the woman ' s cottage , . which she occupies as a lodginghouse , ' and Macfarlen charged Campbell with the offence . The . fellow denied . having damaged tha door , and refused to pay for the broken , pane o £ glass ; when Macfarlan took him into custody . Campbell , it is stated , having struck the officer , and

      made some resistance , Mitchell stepped forward to the assistance of his fellow constable , and between theftwo the delinquent was conveyed on his way to _MacfarianV housi _/ as a _prisorier .- The distance was scarcely a dozen , yards ,-and the party were about half-way , when constable Macfarlan was knocked down by repeated : blows from _^ behind . Mitchell shared a similar , fate ;• and their prisoner , in consequence , effected his escape . From the absence of . witnesses , it ia impossible to describe the nature of the . outrage , or whether the officers were struck while ' on the ground ; but they we ' rendered quite insensible by the suddenness and violence of the attack , Some of the neighbours , it appears were present shortly afterwards to assist in tbe removal

      of the officers , and in procuring medical assistance . Macfarlan sustained three severe wounds on the head ; arid Mitchell has no fewer than six . They appear to have been inflicted by a poker or some other lethal weapon j and both , men are considered to be in great danger . . The origin of the matter seems to have been the disorderly conduct of Campbell while in the lodgihg-hbuse , which had led to his ejection by his companions : He attempted to regain _admission by kicking at the door , and had also broken the pane of glass with the same view , when the interference of the police was requested . No doubt is entertained that the cowardly assault upon the officers was committed by some of his comrades .

      who had shortly before relieved themselves of his society ; but in the present absence of testimony it is impossible to identify the guilty parties . Some suspicion is entertained of the outrage having been the result of premeditation , the district constable ( Macfarlan , } it . is alleged , having given offence to some of his neighbours , who are said to have adopted this mode of revenge . On Monday , Mr . Sheriff Arkley , Mr . Lothian , _Precurator-Fiacal _, and Mr . List , superintendent of the county police , visited the locality , and were engaged a considerable time in an investigation . of the circumstances of the outrage . Campbell , ' who effected his escape , has not yet been recaptured , but the police are in pursuit of him .

      Outrage On A Magistrate And His Daughter...

      OUTRAGE ON A MAGISTRATE AND HIS DAUGHTER . On Saturday last at the Borough Court , Stockport , three men named Thomas Curley , John Riley , and Henry Dawson Temple , were " charged with the following brutal and wanton outrage upon Mr . Baker , one of the borough magistrates , aud his daughter . —Mr . W . ; H . Ashton appeared on the part of the prisonors .- ' -Mr , Baker stated that , on the previous Thursday night ; he was at an evening party at the house of his son , on Dodge-hill . He was returning home , about two o ' clock in the morn « ing , accompanied by his daughter , in one of _Messr ? _t Hulme and Shuttieworth ' s carriages ; and when passing along Cbestergate , he suddenly heard a

      shout ; and directly after , several stones were thrown , and the windows of the carriage broken The horse then began to rear backwards , and the doors of the carnage flew open . The witness andf his daughter then got out , and were immediately surrounded by from forty . to sixty men , armed with bludgeons . Some ofthe mob were beating tha horse , and Hammond , the coachman , whom they dragged off the box . Witness asked whether they meant to rob and murder , and told them that he was a magistrate ,, and was . returning with his daughterfromaparty . They , however , continued to surround witness and his daughter , flourishing their staves as if they were about to strike him . ¦ W itness called out to know if there was any one

      who would protect him and his daughter , and a watchman then came up and said thathe would _** Witness ahd Miss Baker took his arm and crossed the street , followed by the mob . Witnes asked tha watchman whether he knew any of the men , on which another shout was raised . The watchman then stepped back , and , while speaking to some of the mob , was felled to the ground with a bludgeon . Witness and his daughter wore immediately 9 ur rounded , arid witness again called out for assis ' tanca A man then came from the crowd and said he would protect them .. They took his arm and walked to the Wellington Bridge ; when he said that he could go no further . * Thoy then walked towards home ,

      and shortly after met a coach , in which they drove to witness's house . In his cross-examination by Mr . Ashton , Mr . Baker said it was the eve of the elections , but he had not attended any of the committee meetings , neither had he taken any part whatever in tho elections . — Mr . W . Sleddon , a surgeon , residing in Chestergate _, said that between six and seven o ' clock on Thurs « day evening , ' he saw the prisoners , Curley and Rdey ,- coining down the street with Mr . Ilenry Lee , who was walking between them . As soon as they got opposite the Wheat Sheaf , Mr . Lee left them , and they continued to walk up and down from John Lee ' s coiner to the Wheat Sheaf until

      halfpast two o ' clock in the morning . , Witness observed the prisoners from his bedroom window , aud saw them stop every coach that passed . Soon after two o ' clock he heard a coach coming down the street . A loud and peculiar whistle was then given , and he heard Curley shout ,, " Stop the coaeh ! Smash the windows ! " Witness immediately got up , opened the window , and saw a coach standing in the road , surrounded by a mob armed with staves _Jand other weapons . Thoy were beating the horses and driver . Curley was one of the principals acting in the mob . —Sergeant _Longson and Thomas Wor 3 ley corroborated the evidence above given , and identified tbe prisoners as being the most active of the rioters . — The witnesses were cross-examined by Mr . Ashton at considerable length , with a view to show that the attack on Mr . Baker had _arison in . mistake ; and that , as it was the eve of the election , tho prisoners _rtf _Aft _% ' _»* _> l Ait ii \ r % « M _rvalue # - _ J I . - J / ) funder the that

      _** . . , were impression- the carriage contained a '' bottling party , " who were conveying away some ofthe voters . —After somo consultation the case was adjourned . Tho prisoners were again brought up on Monday , when several witnesses corroborated the evidence a ? to the prisoners being armed with sticks , and picketing in Chestergate on Thursday . —Hammond the coachman , was . also examined , and corroborated the evidence of Wovsley , as to tho attack upon the coach . In his cross-examination he admitted that on Thursday night , he had taken two persons from the Wheat Sheaf who hadbeen "bottled , " to different parts of the to wn . —The Mavor said , the bench "were of opinion that tho prisoners hadbeen guilty of a very aggravated assault . They should fine Curloy arid Riley £ o each , and Temple £ 2 , and should also order them to find sureties to keep the peace for _tnclro months ,

      Railway.Communication.—Kilkenny -?. At -...

      Railway . Communication . —Kilkenny - ? . at - » _"S * connected by rail , with Dublin . The line Will UO open for general traffic early this month . Well was itsaid by Dr . Jehnson _, ' that the inventor-ofa cure for the gout _oui-ht to have a monument raised to m » memory as high as St . Paul ' s , and as wide as _«« _" _*>*» . _butluhUdayapei'sotiso afflicted had to bear his ago'i until natural ehauges might abate tlie _innammatory . w tion , art being then ineffective . Happily m our doj « e inflammatory -action is not ouly quiekl _? aUa _/« _Mf J ' _^ vented from taking placo by a few doses of Blair si > out and Rheumatic Pills being taken on the approach of the first symptoms . * >'¦•¦ •*"¦'

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 9, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_09111850/page/6/