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      Ma. Vtiniak Camemte**,—I Have One Questi...

      _trr tatt * Mom _"Cotona" fob Mb , "Wm . _Cabph-nteii so _aSD Hi . _Jom "Wathss , bt thbib "Fu . _iEsn- _* ' asm gyp _pfarfxer , " J- B . O'B . "—As we expected , the "blacking jog brush " has been again in requisition . The thinririi _ridnntd ¦• J . B . O'B . " could not quietl y take the cpithei thets , " IULEXESS , attemper , and OYER-REACHJS ( _JXC . " H <* has , therefore , returned to his old avocation , _ano and mex xdtd his former portraits of his " friends" in the f « U _fuUo _•»^^ _S _& _sIIioI _, Sorr ne "toaehes" poor _WaUunt-¦ n , » ma 3 a * j » t > rflnwjtm «« THIse , dettmr ' 5 dtcttt _^ iMl itf & WB- " roorWatldns ! He was " all in all , " when he he was serving "J . 3 . O' B . f and now to come off iri th sue such sorry " pay- " "Thetaleof thettU" _isnot , howe « ever vet cleared up ; and we suspect we have not yet he ; heard the last about _OVEB-HEACBISG . The revelatsu tiuns of the partnership have yet to come out .

      Meantin time , we niust take what is afforded us , and be content jj , _jier _,.-, -jinn , is tiie last "daub : "—Let not P . S ., of Leeds ( U ( - , { _tlit-rc besuchaperson ) , bedeceivtd . There is not a . a salience of truth or fair dealing in Carpenter ' s stuii _^ ed notice of last week . If he will look over it again , _j c - lci * _, - , mark how dexterously tiie writer avoids repeatin _jj « the facis stated by Mr . O'Brien , or mentioning them in _ii _^ di a * _wy as to bring them before the pnblic . Had hi he < h'H <* this , his impudent denial of our statements v wouM have _hei-i . apparent at once . P . S . will see , for in instance , that he makes no allusion to the Arundel a _< ad Jrcss . Ha ., he done so he conld not have so easily li ii , _* d without « election . And mark the fellow ' s low c _cmiiiiu t « o . Hesays : — " We had no desire to speak t _, m the subject , but it was forced on us "—as if Mr . O'B .,

      a ana not Mr- C _. _-nastheaggj-essor . Sow , let P . S . look _t to ihe insolent , _nlffianlv Utter which Carpenter * _utis . serted in his paper a few weeks ago , signed " An Indef pendent English Chartist : " a letter in which Mr . ( O'Brien is spoken of as preying upon the public and t hnmhusg ing the working classes from week to week , _t when both Carpenter and the miserable atrabilious _t creature who wrote it know very well that Mr . O'Brien i is every week spending the money of his friends , i and sacrifidns his health , time , and labour , to _proi mote the political and social liberty of these same - vorking classes , and that , while such fellows as I Carpenter are sacking their sis ana ten guineas a week for bolstering np the Leaguers , and soaping the usnrions _oiipressors of ihe poor . With the _exception of his exposure of O'Connor ' s land

      humbag ( and we would venture a bet those articles were not wri- ten by Carpenter hinisdO tliere has not appearedanoriginalarticleinhispaperfor three months -tbat is worth an old ballad . Mr . O'Brien was never the origiuator of a quarrel in his life . He never attacks any one , nor wars with an ; , * one , except in self-defence—nor even theu unless thc provocation be great , and involve character . When a man like Cirpenter , whose whole political life has been one career of time-serving apostasy and mercenary plirase-maWi : g , and whose private life is even more _dL-tfeputable _thanhk public life ; ivhen a roan of this stamp—a man who never joins fhe people but in periods of excitement , when radical politics pay , hot who invariably skulks off to pander to the people ' s enemies the moment the excitement is over , sad tint _niiddJe-cl-issitatronascbeconiesagain necessary

      to his subsistence ; when a man of this stamp—A LOW BORN lowbred , yet ak & ogast * fisti . - _* w , eiAploys a poor anonymous Tiling , _uevocbed with bile anu jealousy . to do fur him a dirty job which he has not the moral courage to do himself * , he ought , and he must , and he shall be made responsible . There is one expression in Carpenter ' s notice whicli did not a little amaze us . Of a vcrit v , the man must have what Disraeli calk a most " courageous conscience" to venture upon such an expression as the word " _ovcr-rcacKiig . " Where washis fear of Godand ofhis creditors , when he used that _word?—hux fear of God for wickedly shifting its application from tiie rightful aimer , Iiimsel £ to another and an honest party - , aud . his fear of the triple list of his unfortunate creditors , who will never he able to persuade themselves that they were not thrice " over-reached "

      and victimized when tlieir benefactor did white wash himself at their expense , by the grace of God and a certain actfor the relief of insolvent debtors . Verily , _tfieelTronteryofsoniemtn passethall understanding . A man like this to throw ' poverty' and ' starvation' in tbe teeth of another who might have been rich enough to buy him from the gallows , had he prostituted his talents after his fashion , is one of the moral phenomena of the strange times wc live in . Heaven knows we make no pretension to the world ' s favours . Wc know what it is to be poor and unable to pay one ' s debts . Bat whatever may he fhe fate of our creditors or oar own , tliey shall never , at any rate , have to charge us with ' _orcr-reacBiiy'tliem through the Insolvent Debtors ' Court . _TflE LASH _SOCIETT AHD THE LEEDS MEBCOBT . It

      affords _u-i siucere pleasure in being able to record the fact thatthe Leeds _itferciiri / hss not joined with those portions of the press who have , " without rhyme or refison , " condemned the Land scheme of the Chartists . On the contrary , ihe _Jfcreurj * of the "Kith nit . had the _foUowiugiiaragniph from the pen of a correspondent , setting forth the nature of thc scheme itself and the benefits likely to result from it : — " Our attention has been directed to meetings in several towns in Yorkshire to carry out the plan ofa society , under the above title , mhich has heen propounded to thepublic by the Chartist Association of Great Britain , having for its object the purchasing of land on which to locate such of its members as may be selected for that purpose , in order to demonstrate to the working classes of the kingdom the _ralne of the land as a means of subsistence , and to

      make them in a measure independent of the capitalist . The plan propysed is tliis : to raise a certain sum of mmty , say £ 5 , 000 , in 2 , 000 shares of £ 210 s ., by weekly instalments of 3 d ., Cd ., Is ., or upwards , which is to be applied to the purchase of land . Good arable land may be rented in some of the most fertile parts of the country at the rate of 15 s . per acre , and may be bought at twenty-five years * purchase , that is at £ 18 15 s . per acre , and supposing £ 5 , 000 raised in shares of £ 210 s . each ; this sum would purchase 120 acres , and locate CO persons with two acres each , besides leaving abalance of £ 2 , 759 , which wouU give to ea <* "U occupan * . - Of . 16 s . an . for tbe purpose of bonding a comfortable and commodious cottage on each allotment , and the surplus , if any , towards stock , implements , -tc . These allotments might be leased for ever to the members of

      the society , at an annual rental of £ 3 each , which would be far below the real value ; the gross rental wonld thus amount to £ 300 . This property , if sold at twenty years ' purchase , would yield to thefnnds ofthe society £ 6 , 000 , which sum , if expended in a similar manner to the first , would locate other seventy-two persons , and so on , continuing to increase in the same proportion until the tenth sale , which would realise - £ " 17 , 324 , and locate S 72 | penons . Thus the total number that could be located in ten sales , should the project he taken up with spirit , might he easily effected in four years , would be 1 , 323 persons , iu addition to leaving iu the possession of the society an estate worth , in the wholesale market , £ 37 , 534 , which estate could cither be re-sold or formed into a fund towards _porcb-uiag back the estates prerirmdy disposed of . thereby rendering them freehold ,

      and serve tiie double purpose of ensuring a vote for the county and also of relieving the tenant from the ne-Ces _* -itv of _jeiyiug the _yearljr rent of £ 5 . District committee- ; of this society hare been formed at Leeds , _Hud-lersficld , Bradford , Barnsley , and many other places in Yorkshire and Lancashire , and a great number of working men in each of these towmi hare already taken shares ; and if the plan is properly carried out , there is no doubt it 'rill be an improvement on the allotment _svstem , inasmuch as it will place the occupant of the land independent of the caprice « f his landlord , and whatever improvement he makes on his estate by his industry and perseverance will be for his own benefit , and not subject to any increase of rent for increased value of his laud , the fruits ofhis labour , besides being an honourable and profit-Able occuiiation to himself and family in times of depression of trade , " Mr . _G-tTBAED , the Lambeth District Secretary of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , writes to us as

      follows- —In the copy of my letter which Carpentei refused to insert I said our average weekly income was £ i , and not £ 5 , as the compositor has made it . If anv of Llovd _' s "liners" will call either at my reiiilence on a week day or atthe South London Chartist HaU on any Sunday evening , " ! will show them my books , which win prove tliat since the 26 th of May 110 shares liar * been taken out in my district , and that £ 26 has been paid off those _jhnres .-Yfl-MCM _Bobzbts , Alexandria . " Vale of Leven— ' * J &» - l _& _to & _s-BMrieal Theory-of the Universe" i 3 published by Heywood , * tf _* _. _* - _rnf- _* tt < Tr and may- * - ' _" _™ I * " - " * * . ™ of "Messrs . Cleave , Shoe-lane ; Hetherington , _Holywell-****&; and Watson , Paul ' s Alley . The five shilling _action of "Pomes Complete Works" is published by _P _* _- _" _- _" _*** _3 _** -, 37 , _Holywett-street , Strand , London . Mr . _lVo-re , the Glasgow bookseller , can , if he likes , get both _tiieseworki b y ordering them from his London pub-Jli _** ' T " pr , n , _^" _d w *» n '» avyisfadge . Mr . HoBSo « i being absent from town , several communications await his Mtarn .

      • _fHABESBOBOCCH _WwTtM . _^ _We once more _honest _^ attention of the Trades in general , and the Weavers tooughont the kin gdom in particular , to the case of these men , now engagedia ajust struggle for the means Of subsistence . After all -are have said on this subject , and the appeals which have appeared h , this paper ftwn tha turnouts —( one of these appeals wffl be found in _Oua day ' s _^ _tor , in onr . « Trades lntelligence " J-4 t is « ot _necessary we should say more than that , unless _efiecfive _andlmtwdiate aidis rendered to the Knares"borongh men , they must succumb , let the . Weavers thronghont the _countrylook to this ot once , delay will be tataL All communications _« r monies must be ad-• iJreasedto "Samuel Buck , secretary , Committee-room , Old Elephant and Castle Inn , Market-place , _Knavestocoufih . Torkshire . *

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      "RECEIPTS PER GEHERAL SECRETAllY . 8 _CBSCBIPTION _8 , S . d . _g , d . Marylebone _« » 3 0 Macclesfield u .. 10 0 White Horse „ „ 1 0 Leeds .. .. .. 10 0 Oldham .. .. „ 1 7 _Lamberhead _^ reen ., 2 « Hochdale „ . S 7 T . Salmon .. .. 0 6 Hern-ood 110 W . Salmon .. .. 0 6 Bolton 5 0 Derby . A . Holmes .. 10 Bath , perE . Cottle .. 5 0 _littteborouga .. .. 5 0 _CAona . Westminster .. .. 3 0 Bacnp 18 Bilston 4 8 rr . NCOMBE TESTIMONIAt . Derby _. A . nolraes .. 2 6 Derhv , XV . C . P . S . .. 10 Do ., A . B 10 victim rc _* n > . A Republican .. .. 10 Mr . T . Salmon .. .. 0 6 An Out-and-out Char- T . Vf . Wheeler .. .. 0 6 tist 10 _TnoUAS Marti * WnFF . r . _sit

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      RECEIPTS OF CO-OPERATIVE LAND SOCIETY , PER SECRETARY . IUST INSTALMENTS . £ *¦ * d . £ a . d . * * elby 0 4 0 Barnsley „ .. 012 0 Dewsbury district 0 14 8 Stolejbridge .. 0 13 4 Binnim-htiHi .. 0 12 0 Liverpool .. .. 840 Mr . Waring :. .. 014 George II . Cimtwin 014 Mrs . Livesay .. 014 Rouen , Prance .. 014 0 Manchester .. .. 0 13 4 Mr . Tobin .. .. 014 Todmorden .. 068 Wor » horough Com-Xoraich .. .. 010 8 mon 0 9 4 Corhermouth .. 012 0 _llebdeii . _hriii' -e „ 0 5 0 Carlisle .. .. 100 Mr . U . Smallev , Tiverton „ - 0 13 4 Clitheroe .. ' ,. 014 -South Lond _on .. 0 4 0 Warley .. .. 014 Mr . Corduroy .. 014 Mr . AVy . itt .. .. 014 Greenwich .. .. 200 Tower Hamlets , Boulogne .. .. 0 o 4 Whittington and _Aabtun-under-Lyne S 7 8 Cat 0 16 8 Mr . Frankham .. 014 _SHAHE 3 . Dewsbury district 3 4 . 4 Mr . Tobin .. .. 040 Westminster .. 180 _Rirtmn-ihani .. 0 5 li Mrs . Waring .. 1 IS 8 Liverpool .. .. I 16 0 1 ) . Gover . sen . .. 0 1 0 T . B . 0 . and Sons 3 12 0 D . Gover , jun ~ 0 I 0 Warley .. .. 1 18 6 Mr . Livesay .. .. 042 lineup .. .. 2 17 9 | Leeds 10 0 0 Seth Travers .. 0 3 0 Carlisle .. .. 028 J . _Morgan .. .. 0 3 0 Lambeth .. .. 900 J . Walsh .. .. 0 3 0 Mr . Curuurov { White Tower Hamlets , Horse ) I . .. 140 Whittington _Buiiix-pie ( France ) 1 lo o and Cat .. 1 12 4 Rouen , ditto .. 13 0 0 CAKDS AND BOLES . Bilston .. .. 074 Darleston .. .. 020 Birmingham .. 016 Macclesfield .. 030 Merthyr _TjdvR .. 0 0 8 Nottingham .. .. 068 Manciiester .. .. 130 Mr . Cleave .. .. 014 Do ., per D .. yle .. 0 3 2 Ashton .. .. 0 1 0 Oldham „ _„ 1 7 0 Todmorden .. „ 0 1 lo Cheltenham .. 014 ti ; icu _| i 018 Lambeth .. „ 0 1 0 _H-bden-bridge .. 030 Batli 0 2 o Secretary .. .. 0 1 0

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      In answer to numorous inquiries relative to the advantages of _tafiiii' _* ' two or more shares , and the possibility of those obtainiiij- ; four acres of ground wlio deem two insufficient , I offer the following explanation : —A person _taking two shares will be eligible to obtain two allotments , but as the decision will be by lot it is probable that one allotment might be in Lancashire and the other in Middlesex ; tbe only advantage would then be , that he could place a tenant on one of the allotments , bnt if he was anxious to 1 obtain a four-acre fann , he must not take possession of his first prize , but must bit put on a reserved list until his second share had likewise secured a prize , when he could have a four-acre allotment , and the additional £ 1516 s . 8 d . could either be expended in erecting a larger cottage and outbuilding .-, or could be received iu _casb by the shareholder . The -rent paid tor a four-acre farm would be £ 10 , or at the meeting of shareholders ( which will speedily take place ) it may be decided that persons having paid up for two shares shall be ( on drawing a pr iz ,- ) entitled to a four-acre farm and the additional cash ; but it would not on any account ; oe advisable to extend the size of the farm above four acres . N . B . —Sub-secretaries sending money must not nnany account deduct for _money- ' orde rs or other expenditure , but must send an account " thereof to me , when it shall be settled . AU sub-secretaries are requested to immediately send to me the names of each shareholder in their district , and the total amount each bas paid ; stating , also , the number of shares held by each person . Such returns must be made up to Monday , July 14 th , and forwarded to me iu the same week , iu order that I may be possessed of accurate information to lay _befoTE the General Meeting of Shareholders . Thomas _Martis * Wheeleb , Secretary .

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      Scicrns at Sea bt Capiais Fox of tub Ship Reliaxce . —At an early hour on Wednesday morning a desperate act of suicide was committed by Captain Charles James Fox , aged about thirty-two years , of the ship Reliance , on her _voyage to London from Buenos _Ayrea . Shortly before _eiaht o ' clock Captain Fox had been conversing with Charles Brenc , the ¦ steward of the ship , in his usual way , and subsequently descended into his state cabin . The ship was at this time beating up Sea Reach , several miles below Gravesend . In less than a quarter of an hour afterwards the steward was alarmed by hearing the report of fire-arms which proceeded from the cabin . On _descending with the chief mate ho was horrorstruck at finding Captain Fox stretched on the floor of tlic cabin quite dead . A _large ship pistol was

      tightly grasped in his right hand , and upon examination it was found that he had placed the muzzle of the pistol just above thc right hip , and had then discharged it . Onthe left side were two orifices evident ! v made by that number of balls , which , upon search being made , were found in the adjoining cabin , having passed clear through his body and afterwards perforated the state cabin door . From documents found on board , it would appear that Captain Fox , whilst at Buenos Ayres , haa suspected that another captain of a ship had been spreading some malicious reports respecting his character to a Mr . Charles Ilorne , of Buenos Ayres , who acted in the capacitv of thc ship ' s broker , and that lie hod written to that effect to a Mr . Thompson , of Wapping , the owner . lie was the bearer ofa letter to the latter

      gentleman , from Mr . ilorne , and often expressed a fear to the chief mate of his own ship ( the Reliance ) that he was the conveyer ofhis own downfall . In his writing-desk was found a letter in his own handwriting ( not addressed ) , in which he stated as follows : •—"I have long suffered in health , so much so as to impair my reason at times . In vain I have endeavoured to suppress it , but , alas ! I find it increasing . I shall be but little more use in this world , and hope , therefore , the Almighty will forgive my sinful act _. Take care of my few-effects forthe sake of my poor wife . I trust the Almighty will bless and protect her and all my family , and forgive me . The ship ' s papers you will find in the mid < ue drawer . God bless you all . —Charles James Fox . " Although no perceptible alteration was observable in his conduct during the voyage home , it is imagined that thc circumstances above alluded to had preyed upon his mind , and upon bis near approach to his own country had induced him to commit this rash act .

      Frightful _Acmdk-t lot _Toraro' _Ladt . — On Wednesday afternoon , about three o ' clock , a aerious accident occurred to Miss Matilda Wilkinson , second daughter of Mr . J . GreenWflkin 8 on , ofNo . 39 , 'Wimpolc-strcct . Cavendish-square , and niece of theunfortunate lady Mrs . Round , wife of Mr . Round , M . P ., who was lately , burned to death at the dreadful fire which occurred at _Raggct's Hotel , in Dover-street , Piccadilly . It appears that the young lady had just before thc accident mounted her horse for the purpose of taking an airing in the Regent _' s-park , when the

      animal became restive and reared up ; thinkin g no doubt to check him , fshe _^ suddenly pulled the reins , on which he again reared much higher than before , and losiug his balance tell backward on the unfortunate lady , and rolled upon her for several yards . Her groom promptly , ran to her aid , and with the assistance ofthe butler and several persons who were passing at the moment , conveyed her into the house . Medical assistance was immediately * procured , and on examination it was . declared that -she had received very severe internal injuries , -although it is believed that no bones aire fractured .

      Loss of ihe Gletoowkr . —We regret to state that this fine ship , wiiich , for several years , formed one of the fast _packetfleettradingbetween Liverpool and New York , , was-lost during , the- h « _- _** _y-gafe of wind on _Wedre-sd _fl'mori-img wt _^^ Morfa _^ 6 ntfcc _^ co _JBto £ _Cajiia * _mHii . Atthe _coiameneement ofthe storm , the ship was lying at anchor , off Port Madoc , having a few days previously come round from Liverpool , and was advertised to take her departure for New York on the 10 th instant . During the first few hours , she bore against the fury of the gale admirably , but ultimately the heavy sea from the main ocean drove the ship from her anchors towards the Jiore . Her commander , Captain Parson ,

      seeing her imminent danger , ordered the _masts . to be cut away , which' for a short time had the ' desired effect , but the storm becoming more fierce , she was carried amongst breakers ofthe above place ,. where her destruction and that of her crew seemed . inevitable . The casualty _beins observed by the _lnhajntants of Port Madoc ; hundreds crowded the Bands off wliere tho unfortunate ship laid bumping amongit the rocks . The Ufe-boatfrom _Studwell-roadawas immediately _conre / ed to the spot , and after several attempts gained the wreck , and _aaved every one belonging to the vessel , which appears , a complete wreck . She wasneariyGOO tons burden , and her _Joss isabout £ 7 , 000 .

      Fatal Railway Accidbhi . _—Makchkswb , M _*> _*" _- —On Saturday morning an accident occurred on the Manchester and Bolton Railway , by which one man was killed , and several others severely injured . It appears that one line of the rails have been taken up for repairs , and that the enginea at this particular plane have been driven to and from Bolton on the same rails . This morning a luggage train left Manchester at an early how , and at _Ringley , whore tho rails are taken up , came into collision with a down train with fearful violence . The engineer , ° n perceiving the other train coming down , threw off his steam andjumoed off theengine . Tho fireman , who was on the tender , also jumped off , but by some means missed his leap , and was thrown back under the train and was killed . In the afternoon an inquest was held on the body of the deceased , when thejury returned a verdict of _AccS-fcntal Death . None of the others injured axe . ia a dangerous state .

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      _Soppossd Dkatk bt DrOWKISO op the _Matou or Walsall . —Axotubb Death nr Dnowsixo . —At five o clock on Wednesday morning , as two boys were going to work , tlicy saw lying on a bank , near apool , call the Lakes , situated on the Lichiield-road , some c . otlies , but not seeing any one in or about the water , they became alarmed , and ran to a man named Mallan , whom they met at the top of the lane going to his work . This man fetched throe police constnb . e _.-- , who on examining the clothes found them to belong to John Hyatt Ilarvcv , thc Mavor of the town ( Walsall ) , and on inquirv at that gentleman s house , it was ascertained tliat he liad been missing since nine o ' clock the preceding evening . In Mr . Harvey ' s hat was found his gloves and gold watch , and in his pocket £ 21 in moncvand a

      , brick end ; a towel was also found near to his clothes , and everything would indicate that he had plunged into the water to batlie , as hc had often done before , in tho same place . 'The watch had stopped at five minutes to four o clock . Mr . Rolf , superintendent of police , started off for Birmingham , to procure drags , and on his return , a number of men were employed to find the body of the unfortunate gentleman , but all their efforts were in vain . A boat was then procured , and Mr . Rolf , Mr . Thomas Staunton , Mr . James Oakley , a saddler , and Mr . G . Dutton entered it , and coinmenced dragging , wlicn unhappily their endeavours wcre attended witli tlic melancholy death of onc of the party . It appears that tlic drag became entangled with weeds , or was caught b y a piece of rock . The whole of the ravtv

      immediately began to pull the drag , in order to extricate it , when unfortunatel y it suddenly became disentangled , and the tour men being at the moment upon tlieir utmost stretch , they fell back , the boat turned on its side , the water rushed in , and all four were thrown into the water ; Mr . Rolfe , Mr . Staunton , and Mr . Dutton swam to shore , but poor Oakley was drowned , despite the efforts of a police-constable to save him . It is really impossible to convey a notion ofthe gloom wliich this second tragical event caused throughout the borough . The dragging was for a time discontinued , but was _resumcdTthis morning by Mr . Rolf and others , but up to this time ( Thursday , one o clock ) with no better success . Mr . Harvey was about thirty-five years of age , . by profession an attorney , in partnership with Mr , Cottrill , and ill extensive practice in Walsall .

      MunoEit of Mb . Palmer , _Midshipmak , asd Nise or the Ckkw of H . M . Sloop Wasp , or * , the Coast of Africa . —Plymouth , July 8 . —We have stated the arrival at this port , in her Majesty ' s brig Rapid , of the slave prize crew who are charged with the murder of Mr . Palmer , midshipman , and nine men _belonging to the Wasp , whilst navigating the slaver to Sierra Leone . The prisoners , with the approvers , who came home in her Majesty ' s brig Heroine , were removed to the guard-ship Caledonia , and from that ship were landed uuder the Hoe this morning , and in custody of a scrjeant and a guard oflloy . il Marines were brought up at the Guildhall for examination before the Mayor , P . E . Lyne , Esq ., and several other magistrates . The atrocity of the act with which the prisoners arc charged excited tho strongest feelings of execration , and a very large crowd of persons assembled at the Guildhall both inside and out

      to catch a glimpse of the savage perpetrators . 1 he prisoners are ten in number , of ferocious appearance , and , according to their own statement , eight arc Portuguese and two Spaniard * * . The names werc _tiiven as follows : —Francisco Perierade Santo Servia _, James _Majoural , Manuel Jozc _Alves , Florence Ribercrro , Joze Maria Martuino _, Antonio Jonquini Scbastin de Santi , Manuel Antonio , Joze Antonio . Mr . Eastlake appearcd / or the prosecution , and stated the facts of the case . It appeared that the locus in quo was on the coast of Atrica , at a placo called Lagos , near the Bight of Benin , and the time February last . The details of the entire case were ofthe most dreadful description . It appeared that on the 27 th February the boats ofthe Wasp boarded a suspicious Brazilian vessel , called the Fehcitade , wliich , being found fitted

      for slaves , was taken as a prize . Very soon after , another very suspicious vessel was descried , which proved to be the Echo , having a cargo of -134 ( who had been 48 hours without food ) on board . LicutenantStupart , who was in command , took charge ofthe Echo , and directed Mr . Palmer and nine men to take charge ofthe FeVieitade , into which ship ninefrom the Echo were removed . The next thing that Lieutenants tupart . heard of her was , that she _} iad beea recaptured by those on board , but he little deemed thatthe awful tragedy which would be detailed in evidence had been committed . The Felicitade hove in sight ofthe Echo , and communicated the intelli _« renc » just stated ; but , being a faster sailer , made off . Fortunately , however , the Star within a very short time -recaptured the Felicitade , tiiun sailing under an _assumed name ,

      and the appearance of her decks were such as lolt no doubt that a horrible conflict had recently taken place . About four-and-twenty hours after tho prize hail been taken , three mon _ve-luntoered a statement , to the effect that the slaver was really called thc Felicitade , and had been previously taken by a midshipman and party of nine men , who had all been murdered by tho crow of the slaver . A book was found on board bearing the name of Lieutenant Stupart , of the Wasp , and this left no doubt oftho correctness of the evidence offered by the approvers . As if the tragedy wliich had taken placo was not sufficiently complete , tho gallant officer who was placed in command of the slaver the second time , Lieutenant Wilson , had endured the utmost degree ef suffering . Tho Felicitade , during a most terrific

      storm , was overset , and Lieutenant Wilson , with his men , were twenty days on a raft , exposed to the greatest danger , and momentarily expecting death . He saw no less than five ofhis men fall off thc raft , but was at length providentially picked up by the Cygnet . The gallant officer , though he had been exceedingly ill , was happ ily sufficiently recovered to be present that day . Lieutenant Stupart and Thomas * Lcthbridgc were then examined , and detailed at great length the facts of this shocking case . The inquiry was adjourned to the next day . _Wsosesbay . —The excitement occasioned by the examination of the alleged murderers of Mr . Palmer and the boat ' s crew of the Wasp , has not in the least abated . The vicinity of the Guildhall is crowded , as also the hall itself . Lieutenant Wilson ( late of thc

      Star ) and Lieutenant Hodgkinson ( of the Caledonia ) were examined , after which the captain ot the Felicitade , named Cuquirebio , was next sworn and examined through the interpreter . Wc extract from his evidence that portion -wherein he describes the butchery of the unfortunate Englishmen . He was n prisoner in his own ship when the Echo slaver , beinj : boarded by the English , part of her crew was transferred to the Felicitade . The next morning Serva , captain of the Echo , proposed to the witness that the slave crews should rise against and murder the English . Here is Cuquirebio ' s statement : —The prisoner Serva also said to me , " The Englishmen are not armed ; I have four men lean put confidence in ; we'll kill all the Englishmen , and then we'll go and take the brisantino . " I replied , "Don't you

      recollect there are the British cruisers around us ? The brigs and the steamer are outside , and if we doit we may be taken in the night , and then we shall'beput to death . " Serva told me I had no sense , and . 1 replied , "I will go and tell the officer if you art that way inclined and are so vicious . " Sirva ' s brother-inlaw , who was present , then said to me , "Don'tsay anvthing tothe officer , and I will say no more about it . " Some exchanges took place , and ultimate . */ Mr . Palmer and some Eng lish sailors were left on board the Felicitade . The officer having washed himself , sat down on tho quarter-deck , talking with the quartermaster . I : went to tho head of the vessel and presently , on looking , round I saw Serva looking down the hatchway and calling to tho prisoners to come up on deck . HuServa , said , " Now is our timo to

      , commit the . murder , for tho sentry is asleep ; there are three asieep and two of them are drunk , and now is onr time , for there arc bnt two men awake aft . " On hearing this I ran over to Serva and said " No . " By this time the men were coming up the hatchway , and , finding Serva was determined , I ran to the officer and the quartermaster , and told them by signs what was going on . The quartermaster rose and rantowardathe hatchway . He then took . up . a _handspikeaad struck the men on the head _» n * they came p _^ . _witkaTiewtop-reventtte I thenI Tanto- tho English sailor who waa-atthe , helm , and told him by signs what was going on . Ho left the helm , and 1 took charge of it . This man went forward , and , taking up a handspike , assisted tho niiiirtprfn . _-i-iter . The prisoner Serva then came alt ,

      and called to gome men who were in a boat at tho _sternto come on board , but only one did so . Serva then remained aft , aiid called out to the _pnsoners , " Kill them ! kill them ! kill them ! heave them into the water ! " 1 saw one of the English sailors receive a cut froni ono of the prisoners ; he . fell , and was thrown overboard . He did not fall into the water , bnt seized hold of the shrouds , and then the _priwiner Joaquim cut him over his head and arms , arid cut » ffhis fingers , so that he was obliged to lei go Jim hold . and . ke fell into the gea . ' "While he was being cut he cried out , " Oh , Portuguese , don't kill me _s While . this was going on , all the prisoners now present werc on deck , taking part in killing the sailors . Serva continued aft , and called out " Kill them , kill them'" _Tht prisoners used knives eight or nine inches , long , with sharp points and white handles ; and these were concealed inside the waistbands of their trousers . I saw the prisoner

      Majoural run after the young officer ( Mr . Palmer ) , and run his knife into his . aide ; the officer fell against the bulwarks and Majoural took him up by hu feet and threw him overboard . All this time 1 had hold of tho helm , but did net intcifere for fear of what they might do to . me . The quartermaster fought desperately ; h » struck the prisoner . Alvas on the head , and then pitched him overboard , out no swam round to the boat , and was picked up . The quartermaster struggled forward with the other men , and knocked several of them down . I believe he would have overpowered them all . but some of them got behind him and stabbed hini in the back and side . He then fell , and died on the deck , which was covered with his blood . All the prisoners present , except Serva , were concerned in this . The English sailors , who were asleep , wero slabbed and throw- * , overboard . The two Krooir . cn belonging to U \<> Wasp jumped overboard and swaiu away . Wh *? R it

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      was all over , Serva came up to me and said , " Well , captain , what do you think of it now ? Don't you tliink wo have done the thing that is just , in killing tliese Englishman ? " At the conclusion ' of Cuquirebio s evidence tho inquiry was again adjourned . TiiuiiSDAY . —The Court sat at eleven , and tho prisoners having been placed in the dock , the examination ol a second approver , Emnntiel Francois Rosegres _, servant of Serva , was proceeded with . This man gave his testimony in the French language . His

      evidence was confirmatory of that ot Cuquirebio ' s , but contained nothing additional of any importance . Cuquirebio , through the interpreter , desired to add something to the testimony he hud given yesterday . This was te the eftbefc that when the prisoner Alms returned on boavd the schooner , alter having been thrown overboard hy the quartermaster , he run forward , and , stooping down , he scooped up some of the blood that was on the deck with both his hands and drank it . ( Tin ' s statement occasioned a thrill ol horror throughout the court . )

      1 ' irr is _« oon-sTitEET , Citt . —Tliismoniing , Saturday , July 12 , at two o ' clock , a fire , attended with a considerable loss of valuabUrpropcrty , broke out upon the premises occupied conjointl y by V . _Giary and Co ., French , glove importers ; < L Bennett , wholesale mil _' mer ; and Banbury and Peters , ribbon manufacturers , situate in Wood-street , Cheapside , two doors north of Lad- lane , Tlic fire was got under by three o clock , but the _uamags to tlic premises and the stock is considerable . Suicides , —Mr , Clements , late a partner in the extensive and respectable firm of Messrs . G . Bomfield and Co ., woollen warehousemen , 60 , Graeecbnrchstrcct , committed suicide during the fright of Monday last . He was found lying in a field at _Bartford ,

      Kent , where he had taken up a temporary residence . When found , his throat was cut nearly ftora ear to ear . —On Thursday evening , a few _minntes before eight o clock , a respectably attired elderly individual threw himself off Loudon Bridge into the river . Thc fatal act was * witnessed by many persons , and attempts wcre made to save him , but in vain , Thc body had not leen found ' up to nine o clock on Thursday evening . IIonnmLF . Murpkr , — - _^ _oiiann Iliilcr was charged at the Criminal Tribunal of Tubingen ( where for the first time the proceedings- were open to the public ) with thc murder of his five _shildrcti , at Oberjettingen , on the 5 th of March . Late in the evening of that day the prisoner ' s wife _rctfl-raed home , and on entering the house found the children in bed , * she spoke So

      them , but not being able to arouse them , put her hand on one of them—it was quitie cold and motionless . Suspecting something wrong , she screamed for help , and on the nei g hbours entering with a light , to their horror the children were all _fwran ) murdered , with a deep gash in their throats . _Ssspicion immediately Cell iifBn their father , who had _no $ been seen since the preceding evening . He was _sotagbt out and arrested . On heing interrogated , hc confessed that , being driven to despair by the state of misery he had long been in from want " of work , he had first ! determined on _stiicit ' _a ; but reflecting that that would expose his wife and children to greater _distress , he had resolved to send them to Heaven first . 0 s _» the evening ol tlie 4 thofMarchhehad sold a steel'chain for a few

      pence , and bought some bread and _buanily , and partaken of them with his children ( his wile being absent at a distance ); they soon after fell asleep , and when they were in a profound slumber he cu 5 i their throats with his razor . They made not the ] eae _* 4 struggling or noise , hc said , except a slight rattling _iiaSlie throat . After the perpetration of the horrid deed he Red to Holzloek , a neighbouring village , where he was arrested . His advocate endeavoured to _sltow he was partly insane , and thejury found him guilty of simple murder ( todtschlag ) . He was sentenced t » eighteen years' imprisonment in a fortress . His wife went mad on the discovery of the murder of her children , nnd has not yet recovered her reason . — _{ "teette des Tribumux .

      Dr . Wolff . —Wc mentioned m ft recent paragraph , that Sir Benjamin Brodie had commenced theprocess of extracting the Bokhara worm , termed rishtm _, from Dr . Wolff ' s wrist , by winding it round a picceof paper . Great skill was displayed ir this operation . A . l ' tet no less than eight visits , Sir Benjamin succeeded in extracting the worm entire , and it measured more thnn three feet in length . The names of Prince Albert and Lord Palmerston have been added to the list of subscribers ' for the rov . doctor ' s work on Bokhara , wliich was published yesterday . As Dr . Wolff has got no church in England , he intends , at least for the present , to reside abroad , and will leave London on tlio 15 th instant for Bruges .

      Shocking Occurrence . —Oxford , July 5 . —About twelve o ' clock this morning the inhabitants of this city were _engrossed in lamenting to each other the melancholy death of Mr . Thomas Sheard , grocer , in the High-street , who had committed suicide by throwing himself into the street , and out of a window it is supposed three stories high . During the last week or ten days it has been understood that Mr . Sheard was in pecuniary difficulties , and thc fact being mentioned , it caused fresh expressions of surprise from each person that hoard it , for no man was more looked up to , nor did any possess the confidence of . his fellow-citizens to a greater extent than Mr . Sheard . His difficulties werc no sooner known than _n-anv

      friends rallied round lum , and on examination of his affairs found he would , with time to arrange matters , be able to pay 20 s . in the pound , and were prepared to guarantee the name to his creditors . But the shock had been too much for his over anxious temperament , and it was soon apparent that his situation had had such an effect on his mind as to make it necessar } ' he should be constantly watched . How he eluded thc vigilance ofhis attendants , or whether he threw himself from the window or from the top ofhis own house , is a matter of uncertainty even to those who witnessed his fall into the street . lie died almost before he could be lifted from the ground . He has . we regret to add , left a widow and seven young children .

      Onk _HusmtED People Killed or Wounded dy me Falling in ok a Church Roof . —The commune of Albc ( Rhone ) has been thrown into the utmost distress by the following frightful event . Sunday , June 8 th , being the fete cf St . Medard , the parish church was filled with the inhabitants ofthe village , and the cure had just begun his sermon , when the roof of the church suddenly fell , covering the people as with an iron mantle . The scene was terrible , upwards of one hundred people being hidden beneath the ruins . Fortunately the cure and two other persons at the end of the church had escaped , and they immediately ran to a timber yard close by , and seizing axes , succeeded , by the aid of some other persons , in extricating a number ofthe victims to this deplorable calamity ; many , however , had perished , crushed by the weight , or suffocated by tho pressure , and but few were witliout some injury . The cause of the accident is unknown . —Gazette de France .

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      Mr . Septimus Davis lectured at tbe following places last week;—Monday , June 30 , at Pendleburv ; Wednesday , July 2 nd , Fleece Inn , Bolton ; Thursday , 3 rd , at Dean Church ; Friday , 4 th , at thc house of Mr . Shams , Little Ilulton ; Saturday , 5 th , tho men of No . 2 Lodge at Ringley , had a dinner at the Horse Shoe Inn , Bridge-end , when upwards of sixty of the sons of the Mine , with tlieir wives , sat down , at four o ' clock , to a good dinner . After the dinner an outdoor meeting was held , when Mr . Wm . Cheetham , onc of the travelling committee , was called to the chair . Mr . Davis addressed the meeting on tho benefits of union ; after which the meeting adjourned into the house , where Mr . Cheetham gave some cheering accounts ofthe progress of union in Lancashire .

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      THE SANGUINARY CONFLICT AT BALLIN-.. _IIASSIG . . FURTHER' . rARnCUEABSi—TWO" MORE- DBATHSV It appears irom' the , Cork Constitution that" the number of lives-lost now amounts to ten ; two morcof the country people having died of their wounds since the previous accounts .

      ANOTHER VERSION OF IHE CONFLICT . In strict justice to the police , who arc stated to have submitted to the very utmost provocation before resorting to the last dreadful alternative for the protection of their own lives , it is but fair to give the _CoiiJ'i-u . iWj version of the transaction , which is widely different indeed from that furnished by the Repeal journals : — "The party at the . ' fair consisted of three constables , two acting constables , and thirteen sub-constables , who had been marched in from different stations , and who were under the command of Mr . J . Kelly , first class sub-inspector of Kinsale , who has been but two months in tiie district . The business of the fair proceeded as usual up to four o ' clock , when

      symptoms of hostile significance began to ue exhibited amongst the country people . * * . ** * . The leader of one faction , a man named Sullivan , who is better known by the cognomen of' Ranter , ' threw up his hat in the green , and , whirling his stick , gave the faction whoop , when his friends and adherents immeointely gathered about him _tumultuously . The police , however , interfered , and the men ofthe opposite party , the 'Neills , ' retired from the green . Ranter and his party then left the green , and took a different road from the Neills . In a few minutes tho latter returned to the green to the number of about

      two hundred , and a large body of people mounted the ditches around the cross in expectation of a fray . In a moment after Ranter appeared on horseback ,, and rode furiously down the hill , followed by above three hundred _mwi . When he got to tho middle * _ofr the cross he . _yelled up , and , _mldrcBsiiig his _ownBarty in Irish . _bKvke a new hat which he woro » npon his hor 3 i ?\ head . This . _'n'as thc signal for ' _tt _^ plf . ;; a . _* _wll _Mtowedfi-omthosfc - tti the cross , whic _^ was _aieWjed by another fronu their opponents , on the _gratm . Ilcarutg this yallioi ? defiance , Ran _lenpcd _fjam-his hon _;« . ami _ralftJiliat the ciitniii' _-jiiathegi- _^ _ai . _wliM

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      was a narrow gap . There he was met by the lender of the Neills , a man named Walsh . He grappled him , and when dragging liim into the green , Constables l'i gott and Ilannan dashed through the mob , and laid hold of Ranter , who had his coat off at the time . He struggled for his release , and called upon liis faction to rescue him , but the other policemen having * come up nt tlio moment , he wns _lodged in the dispensary . The crowd then surrounded the house , yelling in a hideous manner , and demanding the release of Sullivan , which was of course refused by Mr . Kelly , who toW them that it was his duty to convcv liim before a magistrate . He implored the people tb be quiet . There was then a cry of biioileidh , which means ' Strike tlinn . ' The attack coinmencedand

      , . stones were thrown .. 'Ihe police then got the order to fix bayonets . T _& y did so , but stones fell upon them so ast that titer" were forced to retreat into tiie house . When inside , "feantcr told tliem that if they did not release- him , cfery one of tliem would be killed . To this Mr . Ke 2 * y replied , that hc must do his duty , and that was to 1 -keep his prisoner . The windows wcre mm * dashed in , ami thc order was _iiven to prime and load . This vfas quickly obeyed , but while the police werc in the act of doing ao nn attempt was made to force the door , with a erv of ' Drag them out . ' The police _afScmptcd to keep ' the door closed , but it was forced , and one fellow * --a _vendible man—caught tin top of it , nnd tried to drag it into the road , so as tc expose the inaiates to the frtrv

      of the mob ; but one of tlte constables drove his bayonet into the desper . _" * xlo ' s breast , ami he fell back . Three others of the crowd then _seted thc door and dragged it into the road . The doorway was now defended by Constables _l'igctt and Ilannan and acting Constable Dawson , while thc number of stcnestlirown increased every moment . A cry was raised amongst the mob , and they were exhorted to tear down the house and kill the police . 3 body of the people then rushed to the back of the house , and with tent sticks began to strip off tlic roof . The police now ,, perceiving that , their lives were in imminent danger , called upon Mr . Kelly to permit them to defend themselves ; but he answered by saying ' No Siring , ' and came to the door to implore ilic ' nconlc to desist .

      but before he hud uttered many words ho _rccclred a blow of a large stone on the rig " * it side of his face , which drove liim back . The rout- ' was now opened , and large stones wcre thrown into tlic house , and the police again called upon Mr . Kelly to give them the order to fire , and he then said , 'Fire , but fire steadily . ' Instantly a fellow rushed at the _dow _* , and threw a large stick at Constable 1 _'igett , wliich struck him on the head ; but the stick had no sooner left his hand than he was shot from the window on _tbe-riglit : and , reeling for a short distance , lie fell , 1 _'hc mob now became more violent , and dashed forward , yelling hideously , and as they closed in at citSer side the ringleaders were shot . The police saw that retreat was their only safety , the-stones fell so ouk'ltlv unoii

      them through the . _* ij ) - _*** iure in the roof , and even Ranter ' s courage left him , for he ran to the windows and implored of his 'friends' not to murder them , and , while doing so , received several wounds * froin the stones . The police then determined on retreating , and acting constable Dawson led ; but no sooner had he left thc threshold than he received the blow of a stone on the mouth , wliich split his upper and lower lips , and knocked out two of his front teeth . He feU , ami his carbine was wrested from hun by a fellow , who struck Dawson with it on thc head while he lay j but this fellow paid dearly for his barbarity ' , fbr a » hot from the window tit thc same moment stretched him alongside his victim . Dawson again got up , and being separated from his comrades bv the

      crowd which surrounded lum , and which had prevented them from leaving the house , staggered along t he road in the direction of Mr . Keller ' s house . He was overtaken , and beaten into the ditch . Dr . Stewart 5 . Tresilian - at that moment came up and cried out , 'Run , run , here come thc Dragoons , ' which caused the fellows to fly from their victim . Dawson then got up , and staggered to the house of a Mrs . Oakcs , but her son drove him off , and he reeled to the house of a man named Barratt . but the door was shut against him . Hc stood there fora moment , but , seeing his assailants returning , he got to thc other side of the road , and went into the house of a man named Lacv . Lacy closed the door , and pushed "Dawson into a pigsty , at thc other end of the house .

      and concealed the aperture . 1 _heinob coming to the door , demanded to have it opened , but there being n moment ' s delay they drove it in , and searched for Dawson . During the search Dawson contrived to force himself through a small hole from the pigsty into Mr . Keller ' s meadow , and crawled through the high grass up to thi house , where hc was secreted by Mr . Keller ' s man in a loft . The mob , finding that Dawson had escaped , wreaked their vengeance upon Lacy , by breaking his windows and door , and beating a woman with stones until they left her apparently lifeless . But to return to the scene at the dispensary . At the moment Dawson was separated from his party , Constables l'igott and Ilannan followed to try to protect him , but were obliged to retrace their steps , and immediately after the entire body were compelled to leave the house , it was so dilapidated , and stones wcre poured into it with such murderous

      determination . The police then left Uig house , and , forming in a body , charged up the lull , in the hope of gaining the police station , which was about a mile off . In the confusion attending this movement , their prisoner ( Sullivan ) escaped . In the course of their retreat they wcre met at all points by dense masses of people , yelling and throwing stones , but wcre fortunate enough to gain the top of the hill alive , though very much bruised . Having got into the station-house ' , they made preparations to defend themselves against any renewed attack , and were shortly after joined by the magistrates . Mr . Meade , fearing an assault upon thc station-house , sent off a special messenger to Cork for a reinforcement . Within two hours from the time the messenger was desp _.-itched , forty police had arrived from the city , in jingles , under the care of Sub-Inspectors Walker and Green , and head constables Condon and Moylan , accompanied bv Dr . Harris , physician to the constabulary ,

      INQUEST ON THE BODIES OF TUB DEAD . _Ballinhassio , July 4 . —The court sat this day at ten o clock . The magistrates present were—Colonel Burke , J . l \ , Captain Atkins , J . P ., Lyttlcton Leicester , J . P ., Daniel Connor , J . P ., J . Moloney , J . P ., Carey _O'Grady , J . P ., J . Biggs , J . P ., W . Meade , J . P ., Captain Roberts , J . P ., M . Roberts , J . P ., and It . Knaresborough , ll . M . Mr . Moloney , J . P ., addressed thc bench and said , as the magistrates werc implicated in the transaction , owing to certain publications that had appeared , he should request that thc court examine him , in order that all impressions might be removed . The Coroner said he would , of course , examine him .

      Doctors Wall , Tresilian , and M'Evcrs , wero then sworn , and the evidence was about being proceeded with , when Mr . Walsh said , that before going Into evidence it might be well if he stated the main facts of the ensn . He thought it _unnecessary before bo intelligent a jury as the present , with so experienced a coroner , to go into the full details of the _oisc . After some discussion as to his right , Mr . Walsh addressed the jury . It was not his intention to go into a minute history of thc painful occurrence from the commencement to the fatal

      termination , or to occupy the time of the court and thc jury with the details of the case as they separately arose . It was clear that the deaths of all , according to his instructions , arose from gun-shot wounds , whicli had been inflicted by a body ofthe constabulary ; and hc then asked the gentlemen on the other side , and thc officer of constabulary present ( Mr . Inspector Percy ) , whether he was to be furnished with thc names and number of the police on duty that night , and he ( Mr . Scanncll ) appeared for the constabulary ?

      Mr . Scannell replied that he could not adopt a course so singular . If thc police wero impeached or included in the inculpation , they were ready to meet the charge ; and according to his instructions they would be able to show that what had been done was inevitable and indispensable . They would proceed in the ordinary way ; and * would' produce foridentifi _* _- cntionthe constabulary ,, if * requircd ; "butrtI _*« r 8 houid declinepointing . outsingle individuals .- * Mr . ; Walsh ' . _—Mfc _Fitsiawms-,: are / . you * -wHb ; Mr Scannell ?

      Mr . _Fitzsimons . —I am not ; I am for a different body of persons altogether . Mr . Walsh . —Then I object to your being heard , a * every man in the crowd could demand a right to be heard as representing a number of unknown persons . Mr . Fit 7 . _simons . —I will be put out of court by main force , or I will be heard . ( Sensation . ) Mr . P . O'Connell . —That is a very _impropiw- nemark to make in this court , and if I were thc soroner I would put you out . ( Increased sensation . ) , Mr . Fitzsimons . —It would not be fair that we should bring men forward who have been _clt-aegodibj a portion ofthe public press with murder . Mr . O'Connoll . —Tho less you soy abouft the- _pwsa the better . We did not charge them with ; shooting the villains down .

      Mr . Fitzsimons . —I think it right _ftsatwosilouiH give the names of the whole body of _polije-undeD-aamw that night . After a few remarks from . Mr . _Waftfy . wis , cod curred in such a lino of proceeding , MK Inspector Percy said , he was there "ia do h » duty , and he was prepared to do ev _« y tiling in a fair and impartial manner , an everythiig ) . iniiaa opinion , should be done fully and _satisfa < t » iulyv He therefore begged to hand in- to the cownor * a list of the names ofthe _constobul ary under _summon the occasion . They were as follow a . —John Dunn ,. Michael Bren nan , Thomas Corcr , ron . BaUviaartk * . William Han

      nany William Cor _, ghlan , _Johni O'Farrell , Thomas Walsh , Ballyfcar'i ; Richard _Kgot , Patrick Carroll , Patrick Sullivai i _Carrigalbne ; Anthony Ryan . Andrew Douglas ,. _% hh "iMv , * Wilton ; _Joha Ryan , Robert _Agar'S _jak _> l « las ; _^ -n _« no thy FogKrty . Daniel Willis , Jar j _* c _6 : _DontdoUtai _. Kenduff ; Denis Dawson , _KaHinb _' _a . _** jig j _ftichapl'l-Jickson , Kinsalo . Dc , M . _'Evew _, examined by Mr . Walsh . —I am a me - ! i <'/ Al doctor ap _d surgeon , and have been connected * ° a length " of time with the South Infirmary . 1 <¦ _xamincil the bodies of the several persons who i deaths are to be inquired iuto . The n 1 _* - _** ' e J '* ' *** ' -

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      Callaghan , John Desmond Maurice Corkornn . Cha * . _M-Cartliv Jcrcntlnh Congblan , Curly lord . l "' o _£ Kerruca . ic . Saw Julia Ch laghtm , Maurice Co horan ami Dcsmord on Tuesday morning , about three o ' clock . I came from Cork to sec the wounded pec pie . 1 saw a man named Congblan m a small house in the village . 1 saw . lulia Callag han on luesday morning dead , at her _liousc , and examined Jim * body . Her death was caused by a gun-shot wound received through her bodv . The ball entered close to the spinal canal near thc back bone through the leftside and through the chest , obliquely escaping in front immediately _unJer thc collar-bone at the right side . That wound occasioned her death . She appeared to be a few hours dead when 1 saw her . She appeared

      to be twenty-six -y £ _* _. vs old . 1 saw John Desmond on that morning alive in his own house , in bed . Was at Desmond ' s House _yi-stcnlny . When 1 saw Desmond hc was wounded in two parts . Saw him yesterday , and can say tliat liis i . V _* ath was caused by one of the wounds . lie found hc 'laboured under two gun-shot wounds . The first ball appeared to have entered his right loin , in the nciglib . w . iood of tho kidney . It ? appeared to have passed forward and upwards _to-, wards the front ofthe body , xhero it was lodged , and from which he extracted it . Jt passed froin ri ght to left , for it was lodged in the _tVWtilagcs of the ribs in * front . I extracted the ball . " U" that _nicniing . T « 0 second wound was on the _sawa * . side ofthe bodyv the ball having entered in the bark part ofthe hips ,

      two inches lower than tlic _uppcj _^ _tortion m _tliaMlip * bone , and passed through the l . * . i _*" 'and tli 5 " * "h , and * made its escape in front , traversing s space of about / live inches . The first wound was _tlnroiuse of _tk-atb , , the second not being a mortal wound- ! - lie wn > nutdying when I attended him on _Tucashly murnkig . lie had no symptoms of immediate tteith . Saw Maurice Corkornn alive on Tuesday _mofrllnig below visiting Desmond . I saw him in bed -if his own house . lie was suffering under a _guii-slioV wound , the ball entering about thc middle of thc- _'lefti side . When hc received it he could not be _staniRn ' g _' _-facimr but rather sideways to the person firing , il _' _passed out in front near the pit of the stomach , and'must have been a mortal wound . That wound was the came of death . Examined the bodv of _GPli-irk-H

      _-M'Carthy yeftenhiy . The e . iuso of his _de-bUii- ** - _^ a gun-shot wound , lirodiicing extensive _injuriij _** . fhe ball having entereu through the left blade bone-behind the shoulder and fractured that bone _aiulUhc ribs beneath , _fracturing two , and passing through the spinal collar , which it fractured also , and contii .-ncd ' its course through the right side of the chest , and ap- - penrcd to have been lodged in the shoulder of that side . That wound was tiie occasion of liis death . The nest body examined was that of Jeremiah Cough--Ian . lie was tho man 1 saw in the village between < two and three o ' clock in the morning of the occur- - fence—on Tuesday morning . He was lying on a heap of potatoes , his head supported by a female , and appeared to have breathed his last as 1 entered the house . I examined the body then und again yesterday . The ball in this case entered thc right side a little behind the buck of the side , and passed forwards and upwards , and escaped at the nipple of the

      same side , destroying tne nipple in its escape . It caused death . The sixth bod y was Cornelius Ford , which I saw yesterday ami examined the body _, lie dicdof a gun-shot wound , the ball entering at tlic left side between the ninth and tenth rib ' s , and passed through the body , escaping at the offside . It then passed through the fleshy part of the arm uear the elbow . It . took a course round thc bone , and wa extracted by his friends above the elbow joint . That caused his death . Fordo must have been standing sideways to the party nh <* fired fVfliti the situation of the wounds . The last body examined was Timothy Ivernicaiie , whose death was caused by gun-shot won mis . Ho was struck directly in front , left of the middle line of the body , close to the chest bone . That wound occasioned his death . The hall passed through the body and escaped behind . 1 was with Drs . Wall and Tresilian at thc examination of all tho bodies except that of Julia Callaghan .

      Dr . Wall examined by Mr . J . F . _Masuire . —I am a medical gentleman and surgeon . I saw the Imdy of Julia Callaghan and examined it . The cause of her death was a gun-shot wound . I saw the hotly yesterday in company with Dr . Tresilian on the inspeetionof thc . bodies by thejury . The ball seemed to have entered nt tiie left side ofthe backbone , and took an oblique course forward , passing through thc _rijht lung and escaped through the right collar fmue . She- Riiist have stood with her back to the person that fired . I saw Jeremiah _Congblan before death . 1 am not sure as to the name of the person , there was sueh confhsion . It liappcnotl that I was at the fair on < e day of tho oeeuri'Oi > eo , and before any . 1 . 4 urbnnc «; too _i . place . The police were there all day . I observed a man in the fair who I heard was called

      Sullivan , but I did not see a man named Walsh there ; I saw a man on horseback , with u pillion behind , who I was told was Sullivan , and who was tipsy , and very much inclined to excite persons to fight with him ; this was about eight o ' clock in the evening , iu the fair field . lie had his hat in his hand , anil striking thc horse violently on the head with the hat and was shotitiiif- ; . He was taken off liis horse by some of his friends , but did not like to be dismounted . The next plnco I saw him was next Connor ' s house , without his hat . That is about fifty yards from where lie _wiir dismounted , and it adjoins the Dispensary . I did uu sec him in contact with another man . A _crowo rushed through thc fair field and lined tho ditches , and there was a crowd about him wliich he seemed to head , huzzaing , and going back .

      Julv 5 . —This inquest will not , it is supposed , bo broueht to a close for several days . A great deal of evidence has been already adduced , and speeches made , and points of practice discussed , from all o _£ which it would * be ilitlieult to make selections calculated to throw any new light upon tlic nniuful occurrence . The witnesses brought forward on tho part of the people , deposed that the police fired upon the crowd without sufficient cause ; while , on the other hand , we lime the doctors swearing that the roof of the _dispensaty , in which the police were posted , was torn away bythe peasantry , who wanted to get at them—that they saw several large stones in the room which had 1 een flung at the police , and from tlieir

      size were calculated to do " grievous bodily harm if they came in contact with the human body . " Nearly the entire of this day was consumed in the cxamina tion of two of the country people—Denis Delany and Patrick Hurley—whose totimony was to Ihe _samo effect as thatgiven by thcwitncsscionthcpreviousday . Delany swore most positively that no injury was done to the back ot his Dispensary until thor * wero three corpses on the road outside ; but _subsequently , on his depositions being road over by the _eorciner , he corrected himself by saying that he had not ., at the time he saw fhe bodies , a view of the bai k of tho Dispensary . Tho inquiry waa then adjf . urncd Monday morning .

      July 7 th . —This inquiry is likely to he - protracted to an interminable period . Witness after witness is produced to prove that they saw a crowd _around _thu police previous to tho firing—that they In ard a noiso —saw a few boys throw stones , and then the general discharge of fire-arms . The morning w as occupied with hearing the evidence of Wm . Re / an , who dcpo-. ed that he saw the police take Sulli" van into _eus--tody—saw thc people rush towards tin police , who . then screwed on their bayonets and _t egan to load . He got frightened , and made his wa ; to a potatoegarden behind thc dispensary , lie tr , eu heard _seve--ral shots fired . Thc people then threw stones towards the police . He then mac c his way to . M Carthy ' s house ; whilst standing at M'Carthy ' ' * door a policeman took deliberate ain i at himself and '

      anothor man named lorde . He em aped , Foide wa * shot . He then took refuge in M'C arthy ' s house , remained at M'Carthy ' _s _housesonii time ; _thoncamoont , and heard the people say th o police wero gone _, homo . Walked about where th * : people were dead and wounded . Saw _Kerrue-iw dend . _Sftir . thewoman dead near the wall . Saw Forde . Saw : M'Carthy wounded , lying on tr . e south _sidoofthaforge on the old Cork road . II 0 since _di-ad and was * buried .. Saw-Cogblan .. lying . w ounded- etwt _< of ; . Gonn _^ _' _s-hoiHev-OB _;* tfoJive-wile b ; * _idgo-roaril Saw _Desnwmi -lyrag _; alongside-the pot ting _pillan before . Gal- ; laghanr _' s . (&« - . lie waa not « J -ad . He > w «» vf « mded ;' He since wan buried . _Wouv J not kr . _*» w . any of thepolice who fired tho shota . At _thn- conclusion , of ffiogan ' s _. - v-xamination , the ir . quest _w-ta-

      _adjourned-JtrtT 8 th . —The coroner : nnd jury -jut- this morning _siftortfy before ten o ' clock . _—Timo-jajfi"M'Carthy _esa _~ _naincd _^—la _;» tailor by trat' le , arid _-. Wkcep . * an eating _iouse-. Whamin h » own house h _c-wd the shots fired ; went te . tha dew to see what was . Hie matter- ; -, _aman ,. whom h _* & M not know , was ( itanding at fee door sow two , _"Wiiiieeiaea level the ' _rr pieces _towands . bat houaa _* , » im . 5 Braaed » tcIy the mu at his ( _M'C . _'wttcf ' a _) _; d ' ow fell shit . " He . fell alor ( _ggitlo tho _cwmtHr-, into nsiy fewc _* _. The- H » n was doi _ug nothing when ho iwcevred the shot . Tlte man wag lying shot in my h « B © , w _" a _« ia _polioemanff ime in , whtm name waa Dawson . When hf enmo i * a he did not say or do anything , buk went _insido u : idor the counter . Ho had his carbine with him at the time . There were a great many in my house at tho time . He was Iving down under the counter when in tiie house . When he went out thero wr / rc persons _oufaide , who said nothing to him , bnt Jie asked meroy from them _.

      which they granted , -and he went up the road , A long time after that , tho same evening I saw other persons dead , besid _« the man in my house , ono a cousin of my own- About fifteen minute * after th » policeman left the , house I yaw the poreom dying . I saw a person uatned M'Carthy lying opposite tha smith ' s forge . I saw Corcoran dying opposite my house upon a , ditch , more inside tho field _tfean'onf ! ' _. It was Forde that fell into my house . Besides _tho-jpersons I saw that _niiflit anothor man _otfihe mill road wouj flded . It was halfway between tho" mill and the bridge . " On his _cross-examination _.-tlus witnesa admitted that the people who wero _Townd _, _theihpflSO when Dawson took refuge therein ware i not quit-is BtJ peaceable ns he had at first represented thom to be . Indeed , stones wcre thrown into tho house , tho raoh also entered it , and he had experienced some loss by money being stolen , and goods trampled on , whilst ihe mob were in possession of tho premises , fonvhioli ' loss lie had claimed compensation of tlte barony " . ' "*

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 12, 1845, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_12071845/page/5/