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      _Drath from Drinki . no Abdekt SFiBirs . -Earlyon Sunday morning last , as one of the _pj" » j of Leeds was on bis beat in the _n" _* ™ . _™^^ the town , he discovered three men ly ing » _'»** . £ _Stfe _^^ of « hich had _contained whisky . He also found an iL implement called a jemmy , commonly u ed by housebreakers , and he therefore deemed it _^ hia dutv t , convey the rarty to ' prison Having _torim & A two of them who were less inebriated than the other man be procured assistance , and the third man was The t h

      removed in a wheelbarrow . wo men wo were most sober cave their names as William Harrison , need IS and Robert Farness , aged 23 ; and the most drunken man was stated to be George Greenwood , aged 23 , who up to about a fortnight previous , bad been for some _vears in service a * groom to Mr Simpson , _tobacconist . During the removal of Greenwood to the police offiee . a change was observed to take place in his condition , whicii led the police to-call up Mr Clavton . a surgeon , whose door they had to pass , in order that he might examine him . Mr Clayton on seeins _; him pronounced the man dead . His body was , _h-wever , cani _,-d to the police office , where a post _vmrttm examination was made : and on opening tne

      bend the vessels of tbe brain were found much gorged , and smelt of whiskv . On Monday morning the otter two men ( tlarrWand Farness ) were brought up lor examination at the court house , when it was stated that on the night of Saturday last the Leeds Public Fever _H-spital had been robbed of several bottles ot Marsala wine and two hottles of whisky , by some _thioves , who had entered _{ _hrough a window grate , and hid left behind them a mason ' s chisel and a bat . An inqup « t was held on Monday afternoon on We body of Greenwood , when a verd : ct was returned ot * Died bv excessive drinkine . '

      WARWICKSHIRE . .. _Thivxiv lcciDM _* w . * -On Saturday , a fngntfui accident occurred at the Midland Railway station , Birmineham , by which one of the guards came by lib-death . It appears that the sufferer ( named _Jacfcsonlwas to have _accompanied the four o ' clock tram to Derbv . and had made the necessary preparations for tbat purpose , but unfortunately he delayed a short time in taking his place upon the train . The usual signal having been giveH the train moved , and just as it was set in motion , Jackson attempted to get on the carriage step . His foot , however , unfortunately slipped , and he fell under the wheels and and the

      wss crushed . The train was stopped , guard taken up and conveyed 10 the General Hospital , where itwas ascertained that both his legs were all but severed fron his body . He expired in about an hour after . He was _tweuty-six years of age , and lived at Derby Almost at the same hour another accident , which had nearly been attended with similar fatal results , happened at the Camp-hill station , balonc _' ing to the Birmingham and Gloucester Railwav Company . A man named Evans , was engaged with two other porters moving some carriages , when he _unfortuna _' ely got between the buffers , and was dreadfully bruised .

      SUFFOLK . " -I :. ; Ax Attempt to burx bowx a Prixting Office is thus reported in the Ipswich _Ext / rkss of Monday ' : — ' We noticed the calamity by fire which had occurred to Mr Piper ' s premises . As if the loss sustained _^ on that occasion was not sufficient , an attempt hassince been made to fire the premises from end to end . On Monday morning , at a little past seven o ' clock , a Jad _belonging to the place went to the premises and found the back printing office door wide opes . On entering he discovered the office to be fiilcJ with smoke , and in one portion of it flames were _burstlmj forth . He immediately carried away gome burning papers , and found woodwork below them in a blaze , which he succeeded in extinguishing by throwing water upon it . Other persons were then called , and on a seirch being made it waa found that some villain had endeavoured to fire the premises in nine different places on the lower floor . In three places wire files , full ot papers , and

      had been hun _^ under light wood-work then fired , burning valuable documents to ashes , and igniting the wood , which fortunately in each case burnt out without doing serious damage , in consequence of being saturated with wet . The front counting house ( a small room filled with paper and shelving ) was set on fire in four different places , and a mass of burning papers falling on the floor burnt it through over a space exceeding a square foot ; brickwork underneath and tbe damp state of the wood alone _prevented a general conflagration . Two attempts had been made in the newspaper printing office ; one was an attempt to fire a wooden-framed press , bv means of papers attached to it , but wbich did not succeed ; the other was more successful , although the damp state of the frame asd the timely ar rivalof the lad prevented much _damage . Inquiries have been made as to the causes of the first fire , but without success ; the conclusion now arrived at is , that it also was the act ot an incendiarv '

      _CAHBRIDGESHIBE . The IIaddenhah Burglary . —On Wednesday , at Ely , J and T . Hart , and M . and L . Jeffreys , " were examined on the charge of robbing and ill-treating Mr Mitchell , of Dairy-house Drove , near Haddenham . The accused are reported to have birne themselves throughout the examination with the greatest _eSVon-ery , frequently interrupting and calling the witnesses _opprobious _namea , and breaking at inter * Tals into bursts of unseemly laughter . They were identified as a gang of midnight disturbers who have _loag infested the neighbourhood . They were fully committed on this charge . The same prisoners

      were then arraigned for a _burglary committed under exactly Eimiltr circumstances , in Wisbech Fen . They were aU distinctly sworn to by Mr Foster , and some property carried from his house was also found npoa them at the time of their apprehension . _Ilaving been committed for this second offence , the prisoners _, who also stand charged with the commission of a burelary at-Mrs Turner ' s , of _Uileay , Norfolk , beim : asked if they had aught to say , Luke Jeffrey replied , * It don't signify what we say ; things have teen sworn to : hut I can prove that _twa false oaths have been taken . ' They were conveyed to Cambridge gaol .

      KEST . Ths Convict Establishment at Woolwich . —Aix _t » r Love : —a day or two since a convict _belonging to _theJustitiaconvicthulkar , Woolwich , named Warren , who had been removed from Millbank Penitentiary about a Fortnight since , attempted to perform a feat which bearssoraeanalogy to thatof Leander _. of classic memory , on the Hellespont . A number of female c _-nvicts had . been brought down from Millbank prison , fin- _removal on board the Eliza and Henry , a hired transport ship , lying off the Royal Arsenal , and amor . cst them was a female with whom Warren had

      formerl ? cohabited . The prospect of thirteen _thousand miles between him and his' Hero * was too much for the poor fellow , aad after one or two lingering longing looks atthe vessel , he sprank from the d « ck of the _Jjstitia , a height of between 30 and _iO feet , and _plunged into the stream . From his powers as a swimmer , there is no doubt he would have reached _theE'iziand Henry , but a boat rowed by another convict , named Fletcher , pursued him , and he was _brought back to the hulk , to endure a separation which mast last either ten or seven years , the period for which his lady love and _himaerf are respectively sentenced .

      somersetshire . The Dtjsdry _Mceder . —Further Disci / _webes . — The inquest on the body of Mr _Walsingham Hazell was this week brought to a conclusion . In addition fo the facts previously deposed to some circumstances were detailed calculated to strengthen the suspicion previously existing a * gainst the nephews of the deceased . The witness Capel ( who , it will be remembered , waa at work in the _birn on the Monday , and saw his master at the colts * house with the prisoners ) was recalled , tc ipeak to a material fact , which at his formerexammation he had omitted to mention . lie was in the habit of keeping an old coat at the farm to work in , and his usage was to take off his other coat when he came to his labour ,

      hang it up m the stable , and resume it when he left in the evening . He should , in the usual course , have gone into the stable on the Monday evening to fetch his coat , but be found that some person had _brought it out and thrown it across the door of the barn , so that it was unnecessary for him to do so . Mary Stallard . a connexion of the deceased , stated , that on the Friday after the prisoners were in custody she was at the Carpenters' Arms public-house , at Dundry , and saw James Hazell there , in conversation with his sister . She heard hira say it was not he who did it , and also heard hiin exclaim , * 1 wish that Benjamin had never come here . ' A youth named Pritchard deposed , that on Tuesday evening , while the search for Mr Hazell was going on , he went

      to the premises , and asked the prisoners if he _misht not have got into the old well . They did not offer to search it , but said they did not think he could be there . Josiah Sampson deposed , that in the search for the deceased a person named Rees took an active part . Witness heard the prisoner Benjamin say to his brother , 'Here ' s that old Rees again . He ' s been bothering here several times , and wants a bit of the skin knocked off his head . A man named Marshall _depased that , on the Tuesday after Mr _Hazell disappeared , he saw the prisoners and the servant man Vowles in the stable . Vowle * who was _tipsj . lean- d against tbe minger , and said , * Oh , III

      die , I * il die . ' Benjamin Hazell inquired , What , _bsi'ar , thee going ; to die instead of thee master ?' The Ashton constable , Young , deposed , that while the prisoner James was in custody a conversation took place about the umbrella . The prisoner said no one could have put it into the stable , as he had _-rL _¦?• . _^ es also heard him say , 'I wish that _SS _^? ™ ? d nevar come OP at Christmas . ' The _^ n _^^ naVln _^ - EIllnnied a ? Ae evidence , the jury _Sl y S T of' ' murder against _BenffibwrfiS _?™ " Haze 11 _* ' _^ understood

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      Chautisu Akd Its Okatons—The Young Irela...

      _CHAUTISU AKD ITS OKATOnS—THE YOUNG IRELANDHnB . — -ALABMISO STATE OF THE PEASANTRY . —FAMINE AND DEATH . —TUB * COKCILIATORS . ' —THE SPECIAL COMMISSION . — TICTIMS OP THE GALLOWS AKD THE FEVER . ( Frem w turn _Correspondent . ) Dublin , 7 th February . The proceedings at tbe Soiree in the National nail , High Holborn , on the 2 nd inst ., were the most interesting which we have read for many a day , and will ba heard and spoken of with delight by every genuine friend of liberty throughout the empire . Chartism may justly be proud of the orators to which it has given birth , and of "the soul' which it has brought into Britain . The speech of Mr __ Julian Harney was one of the most brilliant of the times in which ' wa live . ' whilst ita 6 re and beauty were

      eclipsed by its philosophy—its _earnestness—its manliness—and the healthy tone of practical eo d sense which runs through its every sentence . The speech of Mr Jones , teo , though too short , was , as far as it went , not less deserving of praise tban that of his co-labourer , Mr Harney . To Irishmen in particular Mr Jones ' s address must te peculiarly _gratifying , and thousands of Milesian hearts must beat high with pride , aad hope , and exultation , _whea they read the glowing prophetic words spoken by that accomplished peet and orator , in alluding to our unfortunate country . Bravo , Mr _Jonea , longraay you liTe to labour for your oppressed fellow-subjects , and may your rare talents and interesting toils meet their reward in seeing 'abridge of love and fraternity spanning the blue waters' which separate our _bleedin" island from your happier shores , where both nations _Bhall meet _^ half-way , mingling their cries

      of' England for the English ! ' and' Ireland for the Irish ! ' for indeed , in verity , 'the tyrants of the one are the oppressors ef the other \ ' and whilst the one sister is poverty-stricken , starring , and miserable , the other cannot be happy , or _prosperous , or contented . Mr O'Connor ' s speeeh on that occasion , also , was such as one always expects from the great English-Irish leader . But as we cease to wonder at his talents and almost super-human exertions , so wo feel half disposed to wi ihhoJd " onr admiration ahd " our thanks from that' bravest of the brave ' -O'Connor . And why ? One cannot reply to this query , but our noble-hearted countryman has now travelled SO far on his glorious mi 68 ion , un ! j been bo long ' in tbe field ' against the enemies of liberty and justice , and with tbe

      has identified himself so prominently leaders of reform and progression in every civilised land , that he cannot—even if he would—retrace his footsteps ; he cannot now blench ; como what may , he must press forwards—his course is onwards—he muBt lead to combat , and must ' do or die . ' And do' he will . The people of England are _opening their eyes to tbeir true interests . They begin te find how they have been fooled , and betrayed , and plundered . They see also how puny , how despicable , how powerless , is that class of rogues and Bcoundrels —tha' higher orders ' —to which they have bo long been blind slaves and gravelling dupes . They now discover that there is no power on earth bnt in ' the people ; and they have been successfully catechised in the sound moral doctrine , ' that the much-despised ,

      long-insulted 'lowerorders are , in reality , 'the people . ' They respond lustily to the trumpet-voice which summons them from the lethargy of ages ; they start simultaneously at that potent ' cry ; ' tbey shout for the Chaster ; they swear they must have Justice ; and when a nation mils it she must be Fkee . Every day brines fresh evidence that the mighty movement directed bj the Member for Nottingham is growing in strength and new life , and the time is not far distant when thoso croaking birds of ill-omen , who sneered at Mr O'Connor and his ' plans , ' and who prognosticated the worst results from his ' schemes , ' will find their prophecies' false ' as those who spoke them , and see the Chartist Chief and his followers crowned with success , and _enjoying the full reward of virtue , and perseverance , and patriotism .

      But alas for poor , wretehed , _ill-fated Ireland ! The curse of disunion and treachery is still upon her , and sbe seems as if doomed fer ever to groan from the depths of her degradation . Look at the proceedings last week in the Dublin Rotunda . Look there , ant ) see what hope there is for poor Erin ! See those men who were to ' work miracles , '—who were sworn to stand by each other and be true te their cause—fo devote their ; lives to the working eut of Ireland ' s redemption , and spill their hearts' ' yonng blood' to make her ' what she ought to be , '—see these men torn into rival and contending factions , impeaching each ethers motives—condemning each ethsra policy , —one party _holdingjertuthe other aB _eowards , recreants , jobbers , huxters , and cheats , _—thosa again retorting on their assailants , and representing them as traitors te Ireland , insane , rabid , sanguinary butchers , who , for personal motives , would drive tbe

      starving peasantry into reckless insurrection , and dye the green vales of Ireland with human gore ! Here is hope for Ireland ! see here how we manage matters of _life-and-death importance—bow Irishmen carry on the war against the tyrant and the oppressor ! Won't the Saxon tremble when he reflects on the'doings' in the Rotunda !—won ' t he yield from very good nature and eratitude at the gentle , pacific notes of Smith O'Brien ! or crouch with terror at the war-whoop of John Mitchel and Thb United _Irishman ! Oh 1 Ireland , Ireland ! wilt thou always be _unfirfcansrie ? Will yonr children always fee slaves— 'hewers of wood and drawers of water '—in tbeir native isle ? Will disunion , falsehood , and treachery , always be your curse * Will those who enlist themselves beneath your drooping bannerwill tbey still 'learn to betray _. ' or will you and yours never cease to be the laughing-stock and by-word ol civilised climes ?

      Last week , indeed , will be long memorable in the history ot this ill-fated couatry . Melancholy days were those of Wednesday , Thursday , and Friday io the _by-ione week . The 'work' of' England against Ireland' was ' well done' in the Dublin Rotunda , and the foes of the latter country may fairly exult at the disgraceful fends raging at present between every section of Irish popular parties . For my part , I am net surprised at these occurrences . Whilst totally condemning the poltroonery of Conciliation Hall , I never had the slightest confidence in' Toung Ireland . ' In many of my communications to The Northern Star , I told what I thought of this party ; and though many readers of this jonrnal bave , of course , taken offence at my statements , aad imputed

      wrong motives to my plain-dealing , _outspoken con . duct , time has ; now proved that I did not err in my judgment ; and the events of the last month , and particularly of the last week , demonstrate that I had not miscalculated in my estimate of the New Confederation . I knew the men who were at the head of that organisation . I knew ( and my readers will recollect that I often said ) those young fellows , though having—some of them—considerable talents and a great deal of confidence , were not possessed of the prudence and experience or good sense necessary to qualify them for the teachers or leaders ofa great and ' growing people . Rash , vain , arrogant , and jealous of each ethers pretensions , they were the very worst bands into which tbe cause and hope of a nation could be committed . The Roman Catholic

      clergy , —with the exception of about a dozen curates in all Ireland , —were utterly hostile to them , and after all , without . the co-operation of the Catholic priests no popular party can be popular in this country . The Protestant landlords and capitalists were against them . As muoh as they hated O'Connell and his old-fashioned agitation—though they knew he was a red-bot papist , and a little of a bigot —still they knew he was a' man of peace '; but they fanoied ' YbungJ Ireland' a hobgoblin , whose playthings were pikes and dead men's skulls , and whose aliment was Protestants' entrails and Saxon blood ! Hence outside their own narrow circle , { and , in all Ireland , the Confederation did not reckon 50 , 000 members , ) the men constituting the heads of'Young Ireland' were regarded with hatred and suspicion .

      Anticipating that the Star will furnish sufficient details ef this singular debate , I decline giving any lengthened report of tha' Three NightB Meeting in the Rotunda . The principal speakers on tho ' _Feace-Preservation' side were Smith O'Brien , Mr Michael Doheny , of Cashel . barrister ; Mr Ross , of _Bladensburgh ; Mr J . B . Dillon , and Mr Duffy of the Nation . The ' leaders' on the' Opposition' or ' sword ' _sida were Mr Mitchel , Mr T . D . Reilly , Mr Martin of Loughorne , and Mr John Fisher Murray . The debate was carried on with much warmth and animation on both sides , whilst the interest which it excited amongst the respective partisans of either side , was only equalled by the indignation and derision of the _O'Coanellites , who still form a strong muster in Dublin . The proceedings of Friday night did not

      terminate until after two o ' clock on Saturday morning , when thb protracted ' war-council' was at length brought to a final termination . The show of hands being in favour of the' Olive branch , ' Mr Mitchel demanded a poll ; on which it was found that of tho entire assemblage , 18 & were raised up for ' armed opinion , ' or « war' on the Saxon , whilst 317 were for the ' j _' moral . force-amended '—or Paddy . _be-aisy —line of operations , for which the late Mr O'Connell was abused and spurned by Smith O'Brien , 0 . G . Duffy , and the quondam Saxon-slayer the Natiow . Thus , for the present , the peace of Old Ireland is secure ! Yet tbe United _Irishman will' shoulder his pike' oa next Satarday , in _Trinity-street , and Mr Mitchel , nothing daunted at the ' flooring' he got in the' Pillar Room , ' will never be ' aisy' until the' 'ruction' is up . and Paddy wearing' a goold or a wooden leg . *

      In the meantime , whilst feuds and animosities distract our couatry , the situation of the peasantry ib every hour getting more alarming , and the scenes ef _18 i 7 are again becoming terribly familiar . Upwards of fifty deaths from hunger have occurred in the various counties within the last fortnight , whilst hundreds of thousands are represented as dragging _« n a wretched existence on a single meal a day of * turnips and salt . ' There have been no agrarian murders last week , though not a night passes without fresh perpetration of outrage , assault , firing of _shats , and house-breaking . The meeting - at Conciliation Hall have been better attended these last five or six weeks than , they were

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      for many a month previously . The 'Rent , ' also , is setting up , and the Repeal ' rocks' are clapping their wings in anticipation of replenished ' boxes , ' snd a fresh system of hoaxing . It will not do , however . O'Connell is gone , aad with all the faults with which be stands impeached , those he left at the councils of Burgh Quay must never hope to ' look on bis like again . ' The latter reaction is owing principally to tho famous letters of Dr M'Hale _. Dr Waginn , ar . d oper Irish clergymen , who , in self-defence , have ' taken up the cudgel , ' and laid many a calumniatorsfrom

      ' welt' on tbeir Saxon — the paltry Lord Shrewsbury , wbo vilifies for a 'leetle consideration , 'to tbe scribblers of tho Tory press , who do it more respectably ' on system . ' The ' split' iH ' Yonng Ireland , ' too , has materially contributed to this flowing ofthe Burgh Quay tide ; bnt my readers may take my word that The Loyal National Repeal Association , 'like the ' Toung Ireland' Confederation , will never be looked on by the great mass of Irishmen , but as ' a mockery , a delusion , and a snare . ' It will go down , as it should have gone down long ago ,

      Unwept , unhonoured , and unsung . This week several of the unfortunate wretches convicted at the late Special Commissions , will be ' hung by the neck' in the different _giols of Munster The Limerick hangman , ' from what motive , I cannot say , has ' sbyed . ' and refuses to 'do the job' on any conditions ! The sheriff had , therefore , no alternative but to ' geta loan ' of our metropolitan ' ketch , ' who , I am told , has taken his departure to ' finish' the law , and the wretched victims of the law , in 'Merrie Limerick . ' I will not wish ' that be may crack hia own neck' before he returns , but I say fervently , may heaven be more merciful ' to tbe _posr fellows than were their fellow-men whether the landlords and agents who tortured them into the commission of crime , or the dispensers of the law wko exhibited such vampire thirst for their unhanov victims' blood . vv }

      _, Fover and dysentery are doing the work of death in the provinces . In many districts the mortality exceeds the devastations of last spring and summer whilst famine , as 1 said before , is knocking down scores who escaped ia 3 t year . Several of the landlords are making arrangements for wholesale clearances , ' and are about to transport their _auperabundant pauper tenantry to America , or anv where , —anywhere , out of—Ireland ! Only wait a bit ! If _^ e don ' t- do well- yet in Ireland , 'tis a queer thing ! Between the Special Commissioners , the' hangman , ' the famine , the fever , the ' thrust-out' landlord and tue _ lazaretto , if the Irish peasantry be not duly * thinned , ' nabockliskl And , then , when the poor 'mere Irish ' are all provided for I' Why , the Saxons and the landlords will have' fair play '—that ' s all !

      Def1niti0n 0f Tenant Right. Mr Sharman C...

      DEF 1 NITI 0 N 0 F TENANT Right . Mr Sharman Crawford , tbe undisputed hero of tenant right agitation , has been fstarine it in the north . Dinners have been given to the hon . gentleman in Derry , Coleraine , and Downpatrick : at the latter place the member for Rochdale , in the course of a long address , gave his definition of tenant right m the form of fifteen propositions , and they are :-1 . That land is a trust to bs administered for the public good . 2 . That tha land In Irelnad is to the unemployed working man a necessary of life ; end , consequently , the taker ef such land is not in the position of a free agent In dealing with tho owner of it . 3 . That , therefore , he has ' ust claim to that protection against extortion , which in other like cases , is _secared by the 1 _» wb of the State .

      i . That , as the State gives extraordinary advantages to tha owners of land In various ways , and extraordinary powers for the receiving of rent , the State has a just claim to Interfere in the regulation of rent . 5 . That the unjust relationship of the interests of landlord and tenant has been the chief source of the present evils of Ireland . 6 . Tbat the ejectment laws hava been most oppressively enforced—as , for example , by the last official return ia 1848 , 31 , 471 persons were _nerred with notices of ejectment ia that year , over Ireland , involving an amount of population equal to 73 , 080 individuals . 7 . That an industrious cultlvatar and improver of tbe soil is oae of the greatest benefactors of tbe com . munity . 8 . Th » t such a person has a tested inttrerit in the income created by his labour and capital , after the payment of tbe landlord ' s rent .

      9 . That labour is the source of all capital , and that if the rights of labour are not protected there can be no security for any other kind of property . 10 . That the landlord ' s Interests would be equally benefitted with the tenant ' s by a proper security for labour . 11 That no just claim of tenant right can exist except it be founded oa industrial occupation ; because the absence of industry is an injury both to landlord and to the State . 12 . That In all cases of _lettlnga from year to year , or for limited terms , the relationship of landlord aad tenant

      should be considered as a partnership—tho one putting in land , the other labaur , and each enjoying a fair proportion of the net profits ( all expenses being Sr « t divided ) , according to the value put in by _esob ; and the rent either falliog or rUing with tbo ohanges in the value of production , er other causes , aa tbe ease may be . IS That the tenant's proportion ot tbe net profits , being an overplus income created by the action ot the labour , science , and capital of the tenant on the soil , la the real property , and is , tberefere , a marketable commodity , wbich the tenant has a right to sell , and of which he should not be _dopmed without being paid for it .

      14 . That justice and policy alike demand the establishment of this right by legal enactment , 15 . That any principle of compensation which wonld not acknowledge and secure the claims of tenants for improvemente heretofore made and now existing on the soil , or , which would extinguish the tenant ' s right to compensation for his beneficial interest at the cloie of a certain term of'Occupation , would be inconsistent with his just claims , and ought not to be accepted as' tenant right . '

      SPATE OF THE POOR . The Limerick _Examiner _pives a farther most aSicting account of the condition ofthe poor of that quarter . That journal says : — 'Some unaccountable fatality _ratuat attend the deliberations ofthe Limerick board of guardians . It comprehends men of undoubted intelligence and great personal humanity , and yet ita measures are defective aud abortive : the depopulating process thrives under it as well as under the most landlordridden board in Ireland . Within the workhouse the deaths for the last week were thirty-three ; and without , the number , pieventible by a proper application of the poor law , must amount to twice as many more . In this union perhaps one hundred

      graves are filled every week by the defective operation of the poor-law . A bill of £$ b was recentlypaid one party for the conveyance of patients from the workhouse to Barrington ' s Hospital , and some of these ill-fated beings were taken from their beds in the very crisis of their _sicknesB , trundled into a ' covered ' car , carried through populous streets , and dropped at Barrington ' s , where , before they could be removed farther than the entrance hall they perished . In one day , nine children , pulled from their beds , in measles , in which exposure to cold is fatal , and conveyed to Barrington ' s , dropped dead in the hall , one after another . ' , There are some further accounts of deaths from starvation in Kerry , Limerick , and King ' s County .

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      MAKSlOK HOUSE .--The Cm of London Union . —Rose Merris and fire other young women , who wero proved to have frequently received relief atthe City of London Union , were brought before the Lord Mayor , charged by Mr Lloyd one of the assistant relieving officers , under the _fjllowing circumstances . —J , Lloyd , of No . 5 , _Northumberlaad-alley , said that on the preceding day , a « ho was going to the union , he saw at the corner of Northumberland-court , tbe six defendants . He _aslssd them waettier they wanted relief , and Hose Morris and two of the others said , Tou imprisoned us for three months ; and we are come to pay you off , and are determined to do it . ' They then struck at him with their fists , but a policeman came up at the moment , and he

      charged his assailants , having good reason to fear the worst from their _jv ' olence and vengeaace . —The Lord Mayor : What sort of relief do you give these females !—Witness : We give them an order fer one night ' s lodging at Feckham , and seme bread when they get there . — . The women said the whole of the statement made by the relie » ing officer waB false . Two of them had , they said , been standing at tho cornsr of the alley when the other females were about to apply , and being aware of the cruel nature of the _unian relief which consisted of a long journey to Feckham , a piece of bread , and A turn out next morning after a tumble-down upon a filthy bed they bad no notion of making any application _thimselvea _' . The moment Mr Lloyd saw them , he gave them into the custody of the police , without having received the

      slightest provocation ; but certainly , as he had struck and kicked one of them , the blow was _returaed , Mr Lloyd denied these statements . —The Lord Mayor : I cannot help _saving _tbatthesystem pursued by thaClty of _London Union must be a very bad one , for the complaints made to me against it by the poor are ten times ns numerous as those against _aay of the other unions . —Mr Harvey ( the City Police Commissioner ) said , ' This case is of greater public importance than the facts stated upon it aro capable of _diseloBing . I have reoeived many appli . cations from bankers and merchants far protection _agalnat the growing system of window breaking , and I

      have been roost anxious to traco the cause of such outrages as have been dally occurring . Yesterday I visited all our station-houses ; upon arriving at tbat in Bow-lane I [ heard great noise and confusion , which I was told proceeded from six women who bad been placed in charge by one of the officers connected with the _Cannon-street Union , and who wero so outrageous and furious that tho policemen were obliged to put handcuffs upon one of tbem , and to threaten to restrain the rest of them in like manner . I considered it to be my duty to see the women , and I spoke to them upon tbe subject , and waa listened to with quiet and respectful attention . My conviction is ,

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      that If these poor creatures were kindly treated , your lordshi p would not bo bo much annoyed by the complaints against ihe City of London UoioB and tbe outraces described as having occurred would no longer be _nprnetrated The real cause of tha en ! I must say 1 can trac to nothing but the conduct of the officer , cf the unions , particularly of the City of London _Snion , for when the unfertunate creatures go to the relieving _officors fer relief , they do not receive the order of admission till an advanced hour of the day , and then they are obliaed , _exhau « ted and worn out , to walk a distance of four miles to Feckham before they get a morsel of bread In fact i the office " oi the City ot Lon < lon Union do all tbey can to abate the number of applications bv rendering them as disagreeable as possible to tbe - _..-,. _, _ . _ . _

      persons making them , and throw all the _onua ond trouble on the police . —Mr Lloyd remarked that ho was under distinct orders which those who employed him would not permit bim to deviate from . He uniformly granted orders to the female applicants without delay . The defendants eaid the relieving officer had refused th 0 m repeatedly and most offensively . —One of _thepollce stated that he bad frequently been present when Mr Lloyd _refuned to give order * . —One of the women accused was then charged with having kicked one of the police in a most dangerous manner while he was conveying her to tbe station . —The Lord Mayor required tFat each of the defendants should find ball to the amount of £ 5 the relieving officer having sworn that he

      apprehended danger to his life from their violence ; and direeled tbat the City Solicitor should prosecute Mary Phillips the woman who kicked the policeman . His lordship concluded by emphatically calling upon the au . _thoritios of the City of London Union to remedy , without further delay , an evil which they had allowed to reach a fearful magnitude—When tbe six females were ordered to be taken back to prison , they turned upon the police , and a violent _scuffla teok piste in the narrow bar of the ' _justlco-room between the constables and their prisoners ; nnd long after the latter wero lacked up in the cage , they continued to scream and bellow through tho building , and W curse the _magfstrat _« g , and the police , and the poor-laws , in language the most

      revolting . GUILDHALL . —A _Hopeidl Son . —J . Moule and O . Hooker were charged , the first ( who has already been _Qinminadli with robbing- hia mother , and the »« oond with being nn accomplice after the fact . Mrs Moale bad stated that bo had taken & 1 and some odd shillings , and he stated that a person named Hookorhad bought a donkey _TPith it , The mother » f Hooker now stated that Moult , came to her and said that he had found £ 10 . She fluked him questions as to whether he hod any father or moo ther , and ho replied that he had not . Moule then took several lads to the theatre , and bought them clothes and boots , as well as for himself , and meeting with her son , asked where ho oould find a lodging . Her son told him , and on Ms saying he should like to do something , she

      fited him at the _oorner of _Fann- _» tre _« t to sell oranges . He bad previou » ly bought the donkeyt having borrowed 33 . from her eon , he ( Moule ) only having 12 s . in his possession On tho Alderman asking Hooker what he had to say , he replied that he bad lent Monle Ss . towards purchasing tbo donkey , and that bis _fellow-prisoner spent a great part of hio money in tossing with other in . dividuats . — Aldermaa Johnson remarked that Mrs Hoeker wan much to blame throughout . Her eon ' s cha . racier was none of the best . —Mrs Hooker , with the greatest apparent Innocence , said that she knew nothing abaut the money , and that her soni were lads brought up honestly to get their living is the streets . ( Laughter . ) — Alderman Johnson thought it was no recommendation ,

      the earning a living ia the _streets . _—Mrs Hoeker ( turn _, ing round to the prisoner Moule with an air of injured innocence , ) ' Why don ' t you tell the truth , and not cast aspersions like these on honest people ?—MoHle , who waB evidently ratbe * timid , said In a low voice to the assist _, _ant-gaoler ( Chambers ) , ' 6 ho told me th » t other boys were in the habit ef bringing silk handkerchiefs to her , and lhat sbe had ten or eleven in her box . ' The Alderman requested to know what Moule had said , and on Chambers repeating the words , Mrs Hooker raised her eyes in the utmost astonishment , and exclaimed , 'Oh ! aint It a wicked boy , to tell suoh stories . ' ( Laughter . )—Alderman Johnson ultimately decided on t emending tbe prisoners until Saturday , but bound Mrs Hooker on her own _recogaisances to appear on that day _.

      LAMBETH , _—Chaboe of Stealing a _Hojsk and Chaise . —On Monday , Drjdoa _Elstob , ft young man , who , It was said , is respectably connected , was charged with stealing a horae and chaise , the property of Mr Tucker , _livery-stable keeper , in Hart-street , Long-acre . From the evidence it Appeared that on Wednesday last the prisoner hired a horse and chaise to tako him to Richmond and back at the stables of Mr Tucker , and , as the servant of the prosecutor was to accompany hira , there wss no scruple made about letting him bave them . He had not gone far when he changed bis mind , and instead of proceeding to Richmond he drove into Essex . At the end of _Upton-lane he painted out to the servant of Mr Tucker , who accompanied him , a _fana-home , and deiired him to stop there and borrow from Mr How , its occupier , two sovereigns on his account . The servant

      proceeded towards tbe farm-house , as directed / but , while doing bo , he looked back , and found that the _prisoner had driven off with the horse and vehicle a « fait as the former could go . Information of tho robbery wan given to the police , and it was discovered that the prisoner bad , left the _horas and vehicle at the Three Mackerels _public-houfle , ia the Mile End . road , having first endeavoured to borrow thirty shillings on tbem . The prisoner himself hod not been heard of until Sunday evening , when , from ' his description , he waB taken at _Ptckbam , by George Quennier , an active officer of the P division of police . —The prisoner , ia reply to the charge said it was a mere drunken lark . —Quennier informed * the mag istrate that the prisoner had acknowledged to him that he had deserted twice from the 3 rd Dragoons , while _stationsd at barracks in tha city of Cork . Tbe prisoner waa remanded .

      THAMES , —A Bbotal Outrage . — O . Barrell was oharged with violently assaulting Sarah Lloyd , a dressmaker , who stated that about three years ago she became acquainted with the prisoner who made honourable proposals to her , whioh were accepted . Before tho . time appointed for their marriage the prisoner effected her ruin , and then , _up-m various pretences , he continued from time to time ta put off the wedding day , but on hia making the most solemn protestations of his intentions to make her his wife , she lived with him for throe months / when _sba importuned him to fulfil his promise , and ke again published tha banns ; tke ring waB purchased , and a day appointed for the marriage ceremony to take place , but on arriving at the ohuroh the heartless fellow gave hia bride the slip , and was not heard of for several weeks _afterward . The young woman

      _subsequtmtly gave birth to a obild , and bas ever since con . tinned to support herself and her offspring by her own industry . The prisoner , not content with the misery and anguish he had brought upon her , has since frequently annoyed her , and because shohaB refused to renew the intimacy , he has more than once threatened her . He oame to ner mother's house on Saturday night , while he waa in a » t » , t « of intoxication , and on her refusal to walk out with him , ho _Btrucfe her several blows on the head and face , and knocked her down . She was carried to the hospital Tha prisoner , in defence , pleaded intoxication . —Mr Yardley fined the prisoner £ 5 ., and In default of payment committed him to the House of Correctlon for two months , A communication would be made to the govornorof the gaol respecting the prisoner , for tbe purpose of ascertaining whether he really was in a sound state of mind or not .

      Guess _PaajnaT , — Jane Andrew * , alias Darby , appeared to on assault warrant issued at tho _instanda ef Mr James Morris , proprietor of the Star and Garter Tavern , Arbour-square , Stepney . Some time since the complainant was charged at this court with having assaulted a daughter of tha man Darby , and committed to trial on the charge , principally on the evidence of the present defendant , who then swore that she was Darby ' s wife , though itwas subsequently proved that she swore falsely . From tho manner in which she gave her evidence atthe Old Bailey , the jury at once _acquitted Mr Morris . On Monday mora'ng the prisoner went to the Star and Garter , where she abused tbe complainant , and threatened both Wm and ' his family . His object in coming to this court was , to protect himself in fatuie

      from such visitations . —Tke defendant _dealed bavins used any threats , and said she went into tha Star and Carter to got somo clothes belonging to the girl Darby , wbo had boon servant to Mr Morris , and also some shillings that were due to her . She did so by the advice of the police , —Mr Yardley : The police ? What policeman could advise you to such a course t—Prisoner ( after some hesitation ) : Serjeant Forke , Serjeant Bartlett , Mr Day , ond others . —Mr Yardley : You should not ' have adopted such advice , and if you had tho slightest _Bense of decency after what had occurred , you should not have gone to the complainant's . It is not to be wondered at that your appearauce there should

      have provoked him . Why did you swear in this court that you were Darby ' s _wlfa!—Prisoner : It was a mis . take sir . —Mr Yardley : A mistake ! I wish I had discovered tho mistake when the present complainant was brought up befere this court , I sheuld not have called upon him to find bail . —Inspector Holmes begged to inform the magistrate that since what had previously occurred in this court had been reported , the man Darbj bad been dismissed from the force . —Mr Yardlej : I am glad to hear that . He and this woman swore that they were man and wife , tke facts being otherwise . Such a person is a most unfit person to be a _csnstable , The prisoner was then discharged , with a caution not again to disturb Mr Morris .

      MARYLEBONE _Kobbeey . in a _Dwelmno-hodse . —J . O'Connell and J . Martin wero charged with having entered _thehottse of Mr J . Payna , 19 , _Hlgb-Btreet , adjacent to the ceurt _, and stolen property to a considerable ampunt . The prisoner O'Connell , who had escaped from the house by jamping from a first-floor window , and who had thereby been severely cat upon the head , _tvas _estremrly faint and weak from loss of blood . —Miss Caroline Payne , daughter of Mr J . Payne , said that on the previous evening , at a quarter past seven o ' cloek , she

      went _up-stairs to her bedroom on tho third floor , and close to the door she Baw O'Connell , with a largo bundle close to him . She asked him what business he had there , _wlun , without making any answer , he knocked the candleout of her hand , and pushed hor violentl y into an adjoining room . The force used towards her caused her to fall down , pd he ( O ' Connell ) full over her . She jumped up and screamed , and rushed down stairs * followed by a man whom she saw make his egress by the private door . —Mr Payne , jun ., ( brother of the first witnessj stated that , _belug alarmed by the screams of his

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      sister , and hearing the banging of the private . door , he went out , and saw _theprisaher Martin running at full speed . Witness followed , crying Stop thief , ' and he ( Martin ) was shortly afterwards captured . —Many other witnesses were examined , from whose evidence it appeared that O'Connell bad , npon the _nlarm being gives by Miss Payne , Jumped from the upper part of a shop front , two doors from Mr Payne's , and that in falling upon the pavement he had _rezeived a severe wound upon the head . He got up bleeding profusely , and through the instrumentality of Mr Sergeant , a pork . butcher in High-street , he was arrested and given up to the _polico . The prisoners had ransacked the drawers , & c . in Vilss Payne ' s und her brother's bed-room , and two large bun-. ; . » . _> „„ , _i _» , „„ ,. : n ,- _\ , „„„ ir . _™ „ e _»^« T . vi » at « door , hei

      dles ready to be carried off had been packed up ; tbey contained property of different _deicrlptionsto the amount of from £ 10 . ta £ 50 . On the corner of _Mlsa Payne ' s dressing-table weru some marks of green wax , and upon one of the bundles being examined a green wax taper was found . It was also prove . * that Martin , on _fiafiing _thatba was hotly pursued , threw away a bos of _luoifer matches . —Policeman West said th « t Martin , wbo was better known to the police by the name of John Smith , bad suffered transportation for burglary , and bad also been summarily convicted at _Bow-street and _Marlborough-gtreet police-courts . —O'Connell bad nothing to say , and Martin denied all knowledge ef the robbery — Thev stand committed for trial .

      CLERKENWELL . — Nuisance . —Mr John _Langilon , the owner of some houses in _Lamb's-aquare , _Clerkenwell-green , which are tonanted by the very lowest order , waa summoned under the recent Sanitary Aet _, for suffering a nuisance . The premises , it appeared , were in n most filthy and unwholesome Btate , and unfit for human habitation . —Mr Bartholomew , solicitor and clerk to tbe Paving Board of Commissioners of St James ' s , Clerkenwell , said that the defendant had recently purchased the property , and tbo tenements wero inhabited by _Btreeps and _costermongors , & e „ who were all huddled together with their _doakeys , and the place was in a horribly

      nauseous and filthy condition . There were eleven houses in this condition , which had been examined by medical gentlemen , who pronounced thera to bo dangerous to the health of the public , and calculated to breed fever . — Defendant said he was using every effort to get rid of the filthy persons inhabiting the place , and he waB about to prjll ttiem down and have them rebuilt , He said it was impossible te keep sweeps clean , and if tbey would not leave he must apply to the law to eject them , —Mr Coombe made an order for the removal of the nuisance , Another case of a similar description in the immediate vicinity of the above wan brought forward , and a similar orderwas _madf _.

      MARLBOROUGH STREET . —Attmctt at Rescdb . —John Burke , a thief , was charged with picking the pocket of Sarah _Kempshall . — The prosecutrix was standing before a print shop in St _Marttn'u-Une , when tbe prisoner went up to her and adroitly eased her of her purse . The prisoner ran off ; but Ms proceedings having attracted the notice of a person named John Harnett , an inquiry wag made of the prosecutrix if she had lost _anything , and on being informed that she bad lost her purse he Instantly set off in pursuit ofthe prisoner , and overtook bim near Aldridge ' s Repository . He bad no _sooner stopped the prisoner , than he was surrounded by half a dozen thieves , evidently associates of the prisoner , who . attacked bim and bit bis hands _goverely , in order to induce him to release the prisoner . Harnett , however ,

      kept his bold , and teok tbe prisoner towards Bow-street _pollce-ceurt . On the way the prisoner offered to pledge his coat , and return the lady the money , if he was released , The case being in the district of Marlborough . street it was sent there . While tbo parties were on the road , a gang of the prisoner's companions surrounded the prosecutrix , and attempted to intimidate ber from appearing against the prisoner . Tbe parties were followed through the Seven Dials by hundreds of bad characters , to whom the prisoner appeared to be familiarly known , —The prosecutrix proved tbe loss of her purse , wbich contained a few shillings , —The purse had not been found . —Tho witness Harnett said he saw tbe pri-6 ontr give the purse to one of his companions , who made his escape wltn the booty . —The prisoner was fully commltted .

      _WESTMINSTER . —Evading ToLt . —MrH . _SmaHbone was charged with attempting to evade payment of toll . —Mark WebsUr , _toll-collector at _Vauxhall-brldea , whose face _* as dreadfully lacerated , _otated he was on duty at the Middlesex gate at a little before eight on Sunday evening , when defendant , who was driving a chaise cart , passed through tbe gate without paying tbe toll . Witness called out to him to stop , but instead of doing so tbe defendant immediately flogged tha horse . Witness ran behind ths cart and caught hold of it , when a man who was in the cart with defendant said , ' Give it to him , ' meaning that he was to flog the horse again . Witness continued bis hold of the tail of tbe cart , and was dragged about two hundred yards , when he pat his foot on the top ofthe spring , and leaning over the tall-board , took

      defendant ' s frlona ' _s hat off . In getting down witness ' s foot got between the cart and tbe spring , and he was dragged a great distance , first with his bead on the ground , and then with his arms . He contrived ta clear himself from tbe cart , but after doing so was almost insensible , Tha horse was stopped by defendant within 20 yards of wit . _ness . and driven back to him , when defendant ' s companion said , My man , you ' ve got my bat . ' Witness replied that he had , when defendant ' s companion offered to pa ; the toll , adding , ' Never mind ; my friend is drunk . ' Witness called 'Police , ' when defendant ' s Mend offered to pay any _sam if he abstained from doing so . In concluding his Statement , complainant _declared that he w as very sore all

      over , and that the medical gentleman who had attended him said be ought not to _leava bis house for a week or more . —J . Banks , another toll collector et the bridge , proved that complainant called upon defendant and his friend to pay , at tbe time tbey passed through the gate , and that they afterwards whipped the horse repeatedly . He « oald not tell which used the _^ yhip , —Mr Broderip observed tbat this case was of by far too 6 erious a nature for bim to deal with summarily , aad be should therefore send it for trial at the sessions . —Defendant expressed bis deep regret at what had occurred . —He was ordered to find bail , himself in £ 60 , and two sureties in £ 40 each , to answer the charge at the sessions . —Bail was immediately pat in .

      WESTMINSTER . — _McaMEOcs Assault . — T . Ingram was charged with feloniously assaulting and _wounding Elizabeth Harris . — Charlotte Smith stated that the injured woman and the prisoner were in company with two or three friends at the Cheshire Cheese , _Grosvenor-place , Pimlico , on _Miyiday evening . At . about ten ot night something was said by prisoner shout seeing Elizabeth Harris home , wbich sbe did not approve of , when he suddenly seized tbe poker wbich was in the firepiece , and struck her several blows , two of which were on the bead . —Policeman T . Bentley said tbat when he was called to the house , he found the injured woman

      sitting in a chair , and a doctor dressing ber wounds , She was subsequently conveyed to the hospital . The policeman produced a very heavy kitchen poker , with sharp edges , with which tbe blows had been _inflioted , and also tbe bonnet the poor woman wore at the time , which was saturated with blood . A certificate was handed to _therflagtetrate from St George ' s Hospital , stating tbat tbe woman was Buffering from two wounds in the bead snd other injuries , which would . disable her for some _dsvs , and prevent her leaving the institution . — Sir Broderip remanded the prisoner for a week , without taking any bail .

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      THE MURDER IK ST JAMES'S PARK . Annette Myers , a native of Belgium , 26 years of age , and described aB a servant , residing at 40 , Albion-street , Hyde-park-gardeRS , was charged with firing a pistol , loaded with ball , end thereby _aausiag ths death of Henry Ducker _, a private in tho 5 th company of the 2 nd battalion of the C « ld 6 tream Guard * , agad 21 , ia _Bittfeagewalk , St Jaraes ' s-park , on Friday evening . The prisoner was breught to the Bow-street police court before ten o ' clock from _ftardiner ' _s-laue station , Westminster , in a cab . While in the cell at the place meniioned she continued sobbing all night , and refusing any refreshment , with the exception [ of _semo tea , —Mr Henry asked the prisoner whether sbe was a foreigner or an Englishwoman !—Tbo prisoner , in a faint Toice : I am a foreigner . —Mr Henry : Do joa _nnderstand Ehglish ?—Prisoner ; I do , —Iu answer te another _question she said she was brought up in Brussels . The first wit . _aess was then called .

      Sarah Sextan , said : I was walking along _Birdcngewalk , towards Storej ' s-gate , at twenty minutes before five o ' clock , on Friday , when I saw tho prisoner at the bar fire a pistol at a soldier . She was going towards Buckingham Bale . ce , o . u . 4 6 . 5 the _wsldUr ' _fc back wa * turned to her 6 he raised her band to within two yards of him , or it might be rather leas , and fired with her right hand . I did not notice her particularly before this occurrencc , nor did I perceive the pistol until I heard the report , at ivhich time it was presented at the soldier . He fell directly , and the prisoner threw the pistol down at his side . I was at that time four or five yards from her , and I did not hear her make , use of any expresion .

      The soldier did sot utter a syllable . I was the first person who came up to the prUoner . After throwing _awny the pistol sbe went en in the direction of the palace , at a quick pace , and I waa so frightened that I did not try to 6 top her , but she was arrested by a man be-Fore she had _ganc very far . —Mr Henry : Were the pri . soner nnd soldier in conversation before you heard the report ? Witness : I cannot say . Mr Henry : Bid either of them appear ia any degreo welted ?—Witness : I did not perceive that they were . —Mr Henry inquired whether tbe pr ' woner wished to ask the witness any questions {—Prisoner : I have none to ask ; but I did not run away , I gave myself up _.

      Henry Killlngtou said : I was inside the enclosure in aline with Birdcage-walk , aud as I was going towards Buckingham Palace I heard a report of a pistol . Deceased had his back te tbe . prisoner , and lie fell on kU face , upon whioh she threw the pistol down close t « his feet , and then turning round walked away , not very quickly , towards the palace . I then ran out of the enclosure , and the prisoner being stopped by an officer in plainclothes , who asked her to come back , she said , ' I did it , ' or words similar . There was a gate leading out of tho enclosure a few yards from me , through which I went when the pistol was fired , —Mr Henry ( to prisoner _); Have you ony questions to ask this witness ? _PrisaHer : The pistol went off before I fired it , and I did not throw it down ; it fell from my hand .

      John Garwood , a private in tbe 2 nd battalion of Coldstream _Gunrds , said : I left the Wellingtoa Barracks , last evening about _fivemiuutes _btfore the deceased and was in advance of him about fifteen yards going ia the

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      . direction of _Storey-jugate . The _ first thing which at . fc . t ' racted'rKy notice was a report of fire arms , just as tY passed theentraace to _Queen's-square , and on _turning round I saw deceased fall on his face . I did not at the a moment observe tha woman . I ran ap , and a gentleman pointing to the prisoner said , That is the woman The deceased stretched out his hands and arms as if f anxious to speak , but never uttered a word . The pistol I produced ( a large horse pistol ) was in the hand * 0 f tl _^ s gentleman . When I left the barracks the prisoner was s standing near the railings , and a private in the regiment as he went ont , observed to me , ' Tbnt ' _is Henry Ducker '} _^ direction of Storey ' 8-Bato . The first _thincrtiViini , _-x _.

      _s mistress . ' I have seen them walking together on leveret I occasions within the past mooth , and when I was o » i pi « met guard last week I saw them walking together la k tha barraek passage , but I cannot say whether they r were on bad terms . On seeing her at tbe railings l [ thought she had a downcast look , and was out of spirits a circumstance which was remarked by others as well an ¦ myself . When I saw them on ether occasions they ap-. peared on excellent terms . Mr Henry : Oaa you 88 y ] whether the prisoner and deceased ever had a quarrel I together S—Witness : Not at ell ; nor can I tell why _sb _© , appeared so desponding .

      Joseph Mills , another private in tbe same corps , _saij be waa near deceased whan he fell . Witness did not : boar any conversation between prisoner and deceased before he heard tho report of a pistol . He was then about twenty _jarda distant . He had never seen _prf . saner . Christopher Hedges , a policemen , said he nas on data at twenty minutes before fire o ' clock , and was speakltMr to another constable , when be heard the report of fire . , arms _closa by . He turned round and saw the amoks and then perceived that the deceased had fallen oa his '

      face and bands . Witness went ap r _» hia , and saw that he was bleeding from the back ofthe head . He then heard some one cry out , ' Stop that woman , the was with bim , ' in consequence of wbich be followed her and teok her into custody . She was tben walking , about thirty yards off , towards the palace . She did not speak , but looked as If she was joins ; to faint , He then left her in _charga of constable 80 A while be went to look ajter tba pistol . —Mr Henry : Am I to understand that yoa did notknow by whom tbe pistol was discharged IWitness : —I did not ; and while I was looking for it , constable $ o _tWk Me prisoner te the _fltationihonae .

      Mr Jaaes Beattie , _gonmaker , of 205 , Regent-Street , stated tbat tbe prisoner came to bis shop on Thursday evening , at eight o ' clock , when sbe said , ' I wish to pur . chase a pistol , to "hoot a Newfoundland dog . Be IS 8 very savage brute , _havlsg bitten two of my friends , aad I _wisb it was destroyed . ' Ha told ber be had not an odd pistol in the shop , except such as were very expensive , but on looking over bis stock be found one he thought would do to shoot a dog as well as a bettor , the 9 rice of whieh was Its . Ha than advised that one of his men should go to shoot tbe animal , to whioh sbe re *

      plied it woe too far , as she resided at Hackney—that it was _acuriovs thing for a female to purchase , but that her brother was lame and could not eeme _, although he was quite capable of shooting tha dog . She requested witness to load the _piatsl far her , whioh he did with _povrdev and ball , telling her to be careful of it , and he put tbe pistol into a bag , tying down tbe hammer and the lock , to prevent any accident occurring . She seemed quite collected , making _abserva tions about the time ; and ! having paid tke demand , she went away . The pistol was the same new produced _.

      Pay-Sergeant Love , ofthe _samebattallaa as deceased , proved that he Was going out of the barracks abaut a quarter to five , when ho heard the pistol discharged , and ou going to _Queen-sqoaregate , where a _crowd _ivafl aollected , saw deceased lying on tbe ground . He remained _eear tbe body until it was placed on a stretcher , and then he accompanied it to the barrack _guard-bouse _* where It at present remained , He _faund certain _papara bearing tbe signature of ths prisoner among the articles belonging to the deceased . —Mr Henry said , there was ne use in reading such documents , as there was no persoe present who could prove the prisoner ' s handwriting . In answer to questions from the magistrate , the inspeetor on duty said , that when he read the _charge to the prisoner she replied , ' I did it , ' at the same timo giring him three letters ( produced ) , requesting he would read the large one , It being hers to the deceased , a copy of which he took . It was as follows : —

      Monday evening . —My Dear Henry—I take my pen in hand to write these few lines te tell yoa my mind . I must say there is semetbing tbe matter with you , as Sunday afternoon you did not as much as offer me your arm , but walked as if we did notknow much of one another . People must have thought so to see us . It was an unkind thing for you to tell me you wonld go and see that young woman , and vou would get some money from her , aa I would not give you some . But I do not like such ways ; sod you say if she had not got any money she would lend her things—more fool she ! No young man would wish me to do such things , except it was far some good matter ; hut 1 think if emy man wishes a young womam well , and his meaning good to her , he will not wish anything af that kind of her . Henry , for yoa

      or any other yaung man , I would not do soch a thing . Look back since Chr ' _stmai _horrtauch yon had frem me ; so if that Is all tha love you have far me , I . do not care for such-love . I know you do care more for that yaung woman than you do for me , because she can give yoa more money thaa I can . She gets it easier than I can ; and she does not get it in Sirviee , You know very Well tbat no other man but yoa had my company ; bat yoa please yourself . Go and see her or any other yonng woman that can give , you more than I can . But please to give me what jou bave of mine—two books and tbe pencil _yau have ; but I think to see you once more te part friendly . Henry , do not be afraid to face me for the last time , and write here . I hope she will ba more kind to you than what I have been . One day you had

      the face to tell me I had done nothing : to- what _eema had , I hava done « U that lay in my power , and I am not going to do what they do to get you somo money . I did not like to let tou do what yon like with me , because I thought of getting some money , but it was becauBe I kindly loved yon ; and what did yoa say to mt in the park last evening ! Henry , I little thought then I should have to write such a letter to you as this . Henry , our case will be a _warning for others . Ton will see what kind love means soon , Henry ; hut do not be afraid . I am not going to do anything to vou . All I wish from you is to see you ones more . When I asked

      you on Sunday if I should see you next Sunday , you said . ' It all depends . ' but you did mot say what ; but I can think what . If you like to come next Sunday at half-past six o ' clock , I should be able to go oat . We can make it the last time to see one another ; but _pleasa to let _sse know , as I may tell mistress in time that 1 want to go out then , and If you have net got a penny , as you 6 ay , you can send without paying for it , I hepe I have said enough for you to think what jour meaning it to me , No more . God bless you . Do fiot forget what I told you . I will still remain yours till we part next Sunday , or before , it you wish to come down . — am yours _affectioaately , — _Akkeitb _Mieks .

      The Inspector said the lady who resided at Albionstreet , aad was mistress of the prisoner , was not in at * tendance , although _s _* be had promised to be . Mr Joseph Skelton , surgeon of tbe 2 nd battalion of Coldstream Guards , said be was called upon and met the police carrying the body of Ducker to the guardhouse , where he made an examination , which was merely superficial at the time , as the saan was quite dead _. There was a wound near tbe eye , and another on the lower part ofthe back of tbe head , on tbe same tide , such as would be caused by a bullet shot from a pistol , which was quite sufficient to cause instant death .

      Subsequently a witness , named Samuel Rennie Fulcher , belonging to the same battalion as the deceased , and who had been sent for to give evidence , having been previously absent , deposed that he knew the deceased p « fectiy well , and left th _« barracks with him shortly before five o ' clock oa Friday afternoon , As they left the barrack yard witness saw the prisoner standing near the entrance gate . She followed them at a distance of about fifteen or sixteen yards . The deceased must have seen her as they oame eut , but witness did not know they were acquainted , and was certain they did not speak to each other . On arriving at the Queen ' s _, square gate witness left deceased and turned up towards Queen ' _s-square . He had arrived nearly at the Broad . way when ho heard the report of _firs-nrmB , but having no suspicion of anything wrong he did not turn back . Mr Henry inquired whether the deceased ' s age was known .

      Sergeant Dove replied , that he wss 31 years of age . it for a long time . U he dead ? ' Witness told her she was very foolish to talk so , and added he believed tho soldier waa dead , to which 8 _* ae made no reply . Tho evidence of _Fulcher was aaded to the depositions , and he was bound over , with the other witnesses to appear and give evidence at the trial . '

      THE INQDEST . On Monday morning , at eleven o ' clock , Mr Bedford the coroner for Westminster , aud a highly respectable jury , assembled at the Artillery Arms Tavern , Rochester _, row , to investigate tbe circumstances connected with tho death of Henry Ducker , aged tweaty , a private in the Coldstream Guards , who was shot on Friday afternoon by Annette Myers in St _James's . park . The jury ; having been sworn , proceeded with the coroner to view the body of the unfortunate deceased , which was lying on a _tableiu an outbouBe of tbe Military Hospital , in Vincent-square . It was in precisely the same state as when picked up ia tbe Birdcage-walk . The front of his coat aad trousers were covered with mud from his falling forward on his face . His _faea was smeared with blood . His left eye was shot out , and there was a large wound immediatel y under the left from

      ear , whence the bullet passed through the head and out of the eye . Upon the return of the jury to the inquest room , evidence waa _givea a 9 t 0 _tfce identity of the _Acaated _, and of his having , when alive , belonged to the 5 th company of the 2 nd battalion of Co _dstream Guards . A _numWr of witnesses were then called , whose testimony wu 8 exactl y similar to that given at the police court on Saturday . The only incident worthy of mention , in addition to what has already appeared , is a reply of Mr James Beattie ef 205 Regent street , who sold the pistol , and loaded it for the prisoner . -Ou a question of the jury , Mr Beattie said that the woman could not hav e been more composed at tho time she bought the pistol , and that ladies often cam * ia their carriages to buy pistols of him .-On the foreman _askiag if It was usual for them to have tbem loaded , he replied that it was not .

      The coroner having shortly summed up the jury almost _Immee-iatdy returned a verdict of' Wilful murder against Annette Myers , ' and the coroner made « ut his warrant , which he _placed in the hands of the _inspector of police _.

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 12, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_12021848/page/6/