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      6 The Northern Star. October 12, 1850. -...

      6 THE NORTHERN STAR . October 12 , 1850 . - ¦¦ ¦ - — " * ~ " _^ ' " I \ f ~~

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      Health Cf Losnos Durixg Ihe Week.—The De...

      Health cf _Losnos durixg ihe Week . —The deiths registered ia London inthe week ending last Saturday were S 93 ; In the corresponding weeks Of fen years ( 18 * 10-9 ) the average was 9 ( 0 , vrhicn , if a eertain proportion be added for supposed increase of population , becomes 1 , 058 ; the present rate of mortality , therefore , continues comparatively , low , and the decrease of last week amounts to 105 " deaths . The class of zymotic or epidemic diseases exhibits in this _Tetura 195 fetal cases . This is a lower number than in any corresponding week since that of 1846 , when there were 179 ; in those of the three following years the deaths from epidemic diseases

      were respectively 31 S , 430 , and COS . Last week small pox was fatal in 10 cases ; measles in only 7 ; "hooping cough in 27 ; scarlatina in 31 . A death from the last-mentioned cause occurred in _"Milietreet , St . James , Bermondsey ; and Mr . Martin , the registrar , observes that out of 10 deaths which lie registered during the week , 0 , arising from various diseases , occurred _within a few yards of tlie tidal ditch , Jacob ' s Island , " yet the intolerable nuisance remains unabated . " The mortality from diarrhoea and dvsentery continues to decline ; the deaths which in K week of August rose to lo * have now fallen to -47 . It is worthy of note that 13 deaths occurred in theworkhouso , Whitechapel ( north subdistrict ) all with one exception between the 2 ith

      September and 4 th October ; and of these , 7 were caused bv d _' _arrhcea , 2 by fever , nnd the remaining 4 by various causes . Seven deaths from cholera ( fire of which were among children ) were registered last week , a number which is rather more than has "been usual lately . Besides the ordinary causes of mortality , a few cases of a special character , extracted from the _returns of the week , deserve to be mentioned . Two men and a woman died froni intemperance , besides a case of suicide during insanity , which was tbe result ot tbe same habit . Another case of suicide is reported , in which a boy whose age was only 12 years , hanged himself when

      insane , and was suspended about ten minutes . Death did not ensue till 3 days afterwards . A boy of S months died from _antemia ( 5 weeks ) , following { Hemorrhage from lancing the gums . Vaccination was fatal to a child by producing erysipelas . Two persons died of tic douloureux . The births of GS 0 boys and 722 girls , in all 1 ,-102 children , were registered in the week . The mean height of the barometer in the week at the Koyal Observatory , Greenwich , was 20 . 537 in . The mean temperature was 52 deg ., rather lower than the average of the same week in seven years . In the previous week it was 57 deg .

      Firs in _Lambeth-waik . —On Tuesday _morning , "between two and three o ' clock , a fire broke out on tiie premises of Mr . T . W . Smith , Lion Brewery , Ho . 13 , Lambeth-walk , _Vauxhail . The fire was discovered hy the policeman on duty , who perceived snoke issuing from between the shutters ; he immediately gave an alarm , and in a few minutes the lower part of the house was in flames , and the inmates escaped with great difficulty over the roof The fire was not subdued until the cellar and lower part ofthe premises were completely destroyed , and great damage was done to the brewery . The buildm £ was insured in the London and County Fireoffices .

      Fire at Camberwell . —On Wednesday evening _, _about-iialf past seven o clock , a fire broke out in the premises belonging to Mr . Crawcour , a surgeon dentist , carrying on business in Addington-place , Camberwell-road . At tbe time of the outbreak the only parties in the building were Mr . Crawcour and iis cook _* . The female had her attention suddenly drawn to a strong smell of fire , aud having informed ier master , they proceeded towards the lower portion ofthe house , to ascertain the cause . Having descended a few stairs they found the smoke rolling upwards in such tremendous clouds , as to prevent their descent . They , therefore , retraced their steps as fast as possible towards the upper floor , and got upon the roof . They had not proceeded far , when ,

      owing to _incitement , Mr . Crawcour was seized with a fit , and he fell senseless into the gutter ofthe roof . Assistance having arrived , the two sufferers were pulled out into one of the adjoining houses . An alarm was promptly given , and several engines laving arrived , the fire was extinguished , but not -until the whole of Mr . Crawcour ' s property was destroyed , and some damage done to the premises on either side , by fire and water . Seduction and Suicide . —On Saturday last Mr . H . II . T _* _Ta"kIey held an inquest at the Blue Post-- , Newman-street , Marylebone , on Anne Francis , aged

      _twenty-three , a servant to Mr . Lendskay , No . 11 , Kewman-street It appeared that deceased formed sa affection for a young man named Kelly , whose mother resided in the same house with deceased , where she had been a servant five years , and was highly respected . On the previous Wednesday she received a letter from Kelly , in which he stated that he intended sailing by the Ocean Queen to New York , in consequence of her having said she « as pregnant by him . The following morning she was mund by a fellow-servant in the kitchen , hanging by a rope from a clothes peg , and dead . Verdict"Insanitv . "

      A Fatal _Sailing-boat Accident . happened on Saturday last on the river . The Messrs . John and William Montford , of Islay House , Brompton , and Mr . W . Farley , of Faversham-terrace , Brompton , -were beating up Woolwich Reach in their yacht , the _Taiiy Queen , when a sudden squall of wind upset the Boat . Mr . W . Montford and Mr . Farley saved themselves by clambering up the keel , but Mr . John Montford was drowned . Som > : amboi . ism Extbaordikary . —Shortly after two o ' clock on Sunday morning the pedestrians of the New-road and the neighbourhood of West-street , were thrown into a state of great excitement and surprise by tbe extraordinary freaks of a female somnambulist , who was parading-, dancing , and act- j

      ing in the middle of the road , with nothing on but her chemise . Miss Mary Ann Evans , a young girl , residing at 40 , West-street , had from her infancy heen troubled with somnambulism bnt her walks were generally confined to her sleeping apartment , though at times she would make the circuit of the house in whicb she might be staying . It appears that on Saturday evening she was accompanied by 2 gentleman of the name of Davonport , to Sadler ' s "Wells Theatre , who , after seeing her safely home , hade her adieu . A female friend , who was sleeping in the same apartment , affirms that she was undressed and ia bed about ten minutes , and then she rose and went down stairs . The young lady not being acquainted with the fact that her friend was a somnambulist , took no notice of her quirting the room , but

      some thirty minutes passing away and Miss Evans not returning , she was induced to go down stairs also , when to her astonishment she discovered the str eet-door wide open . Search was made for the nussing young lady , and in about a quarter of an hour afterwards she was brought back in the care of one of the constables af the G division , who had kindly divested himself of his great coat to cover the somnambulist with . From his statement it appears that a long distance down theNew-road he saw something white flitting about tbe road , and hastening to see what it was , discovered Miss Evans acting before an astonished audience of some fifty persons in tbe most tragic manner , and at intervals exclaiming , " * My own Davonport—he or his life I will have , " and it was with the greatest difficulty that she was awakened , and the _moment she became conscious she burst into

      * fit of crying , which lasted several hours . Fatal Accident at Woolwich . —About half-past twelve o clock on Wednesday last , a boat belonging tothe Dolphin revenue cutter , containing five men , one a Custom-house officer , and four rowers , when leaving a brig they had boarded opposite Woolwich dockyard , cast off at the moment the Sylph Woolwich Company ' s Steam Packet was approaching , and before the boat could get ont of the way , and the steamer eased , it was cut in two , and the whole ofthe men went under the wheel ofthe steamer . Four ofthe men were saved , with the assistance of the boat belonging to her Majesty ' s dockyard lighter , the Ann , and taken on board tbe Lightning steam vessel . One of the men , named Manning , was drowned , and another severely hurt . The drowned man has left a wife and three children to lament his loss , and the body has not yet been fouad .

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      Lamestable Railwat Accident . —On the 4 th inst . a very lamentable accident happened on the "Bury S . Edmund ' s branch line of the Eastern Union Railway , by which two officers of the company lost their lives . The unfortunate event occurred between Thurston and Elmswell . In consequence of some defect to the engine attached to the train which should have left at ten minutes past eight in the morning . Mr . Gideon Ilatchwell , the respected station-master of this place , despatched a messenger to Haughty for another engine , and in the mean time directed the train to be drawn forward by horses . Mr . Hatchwell rode on the top of one oi the carriages , and on tbe train reaching Thurston , Mr . James "Walton , the master of that station , climbed-npon the carriage where Mr . Hatchwell

      • was ,-and took his seat beside bim . Soon after leaving Thurston the engine from Haughby came ap , aud was accordingly hooked on to the train , and it then renewed its journey as usual . Here it seems that both the unfortunate men shifted their , positions , 80 as to be seated higher oh the luggage . It should be mentioned that Baldry , a porter in the service of the company , joined them when the train h alted at Thurston , and on seeing them change their _geafr _" , be cautioned them as to the danger they -were placing themselves in . Unhappily , however , they naid ho attention to the warning , and as the train swept under the next bridge , the fourth from the Thurston _. station , at the rate of fourteen miles an hour , their heads came in contact with the arch of the bridge , and both were killed instantaneously , Jfr ; Haiehwell alone being thrown off ihe carnage . _B _^ diy _, the porter , immediately called to the driver ofthe eughiefadd the train was stopped as quickly

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      as possible . They were ootfi about _thirty-thfeo years of age . At _half-pafifc two o'clock in the afternoon Mr . Partridge , the deputy coroner for the district , opened an i _^ h _uH'y at the Fox and Huunds Inn . -near the s _*^ ba The jur having viewed the mutilated _% _maihs William Beldry , the porter , was _<* and examined : ; Lleft Bury _stationlhis morn'is with the 8 . 10 a . m . train , and rode on the roof of one of the _carriage . Mr . Hatchwell . was . on the roof of another carriage , sitting , on part of the luWc , butnot onthe top of it . The top ofthe carriage is not the p lace to ride ; their directions were to ride in the break or in one of the carriages . At Thurston Mr . Walton got upon the roof with Mr . Ila _' chwcll . and I also joined them on the same

      _carriage . Mr . Hatchwell and Mr . Walton got higher upon the luggage than where the former had been previously sitting . I cautioned both of them as to the danger they were in . They were sitting with their face to the engine . As the train was passing under tbe fourth bridge from the Thurston station , their heads caught against the arch . Mr . Hatchwell was knocked off , and Mr . Walton fell on the luggage . He b _. eathed once or twice , and expired . I stopped the train , and went back and picked up the body of Mr . Hatchwell . —By the Juror : Two boxes of _luggage were added at Thurston station , and ii was upon these the _deceased men were

      sitting . There was sufficient room for the luggage to pass under the bridge . —Samuel Sadler , a labourer onthe linp , deposed to seeing the train passing under the bridge , and seeing the bridge strike the heads of the deceased . He picked up the body of Mr . Ilatchwell , —Mr . Bruff , the engineer of the line , informed the jury that neither of the deceased had any business on the root * of the carriage . It was a breach of discipline , and both of the unfortunate men had subjected themselves to dismissal for leaving the stations without order . After a short consul'a tion thc jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death . "

      Scicidb at Gravesend . —An inquest was held on the 4 th inst , at Gravesend on the body of Mr . John Ren Gatley , formerly a surgeon , but lately a spur manufacturer at 161 , Piccadilly . The deceased was found dead in bed , having bled to death from a wound inflicted by himself in the right s roin . The jury returned for their verdict that " The deceased had put an end to his existence , being at the time of unsound mind . '*' Escape of Two Convicts from the Leeds Borough Gaol . —On Saturday last it was discovered that two government convicts had escaped from the Leeds Boroug h Gaol . One is Richard Harrison , a man who was convicted of felony at the Yorkshire assizes last year , and sentenced _ to seven years' transportation ; and the other is Robert Shenton , aged 27 , who was convicted of felony at the Stafford sessions , and sentenced to ten years transportation . The former is 33 years of age , five feet six inches high , with red hair and fresh com

      plexion ; the latter is 27 years of age , five feet nine inches high , with hair inclined to be sandy , and is a native of Cheadle , near Manchester . The escape iu both instances was effected by pulling out the windows of their cells , and cutting away the stonework into which the inn bars outside were secured . Boih cells are in the upper story of the building , from which the prisoners lowered themselves down by means of ropes . The stone was cut away by a sort of needle usfd in mat-making , which is as thick as a small chisel , with a sharp point at thc end ; and the ropes used were a part of what they were employed in working up into matting . A very active search has been made by the governor and his _assi-tants all round the country , and a reward of £ 20 has been offered for the recapture of the runaways , but up to Monday afternoon nothing hadbeen heard of them . Both these convicts escaped in their prison dress—a kind of grey friezed cloth ; so that unless they can contrive to change it they will easily be _recognised .

      A Female Swindler . —About a fortnight ago a short-set pock marked female , pretty respectably attired , and , according as she alleged , of Welsh extractiop , called at the goods' department in Charles-Street , to inquire after a quantity of missing luggage , which she pretended had been sent , and not reached her , from London . She gave her name as Ellen Green , and said she > vas nurse in the family of Charles Heaton _. Esq ., Golden-hill-place , Blackheath ' , ' road , London , son of Colonel Charles Heaton , of the 45 th Regiment of Foot , who was serving on the coast of Africa . The purpose for which she had come to Preston was to see her sister , a Mrs . Jones , but this Mrs . Jones having left the town , she bad found Mrs . Jones of the Temperance Hotel , _Lune-street , who had accommodated her with apartments , together

      with bed and board , on exceedingly reasonable terms . Day after day did Ellen Green , bringing with her each time Mrs . Jones , of the Temperance Hotel , apply at the goods' office for her missing luggage , giving in a list of the following articles , addressed to Ellen Green , to be left at the Prestion station till called for : —Three sailors ' chests five feet long and two feet six inches by two inches , painted , rope handles , six sacks tied on the top of two , and three sacks on the top of the other ; two clothes' trunks , covered with black leather and brass tacks ; one basket ( reticule , ) with black _oilcake over , large size ; one carpet bag , red and blue , locked with small padlock ; one brass bird-cage , with marble bottom , containing a golden parrot and a white cockatoo . In

      one of tbe chest *] were several gold watches and a number of deeds . The corresponding clerk at the office ( Mr . Mewis ) wrote to the various stations on tbe line , respecting the property . Nothing , however , was heard of it . She then wished him to proceed with her to London in seirch of them , ' offered to pay his expenses if he would do so , and a reward of £ 25 if the luggage were found . It was therefore agreed that they sbould start by the express train on Saturday last , and Mr . Mcwis called at the Temperance Hotel on that day for his compagnon de voyage , but the bird had flown , and forgotten to pay her bill ! It is evident that the whole affair was a irick on the woman Green ' s part to throw dust in tbe eyes of Mrs . Jones , and live at a cheap rate at tbe Temperance Hotel .

      Skeletons found in a Lead Mine . —Some miners were engaged last week in erupting out an ancient mine shaft near the Noon Nick mine , in the parish of Bonsall , when , at a considerable depth , they came upon a number of human bones , partially intermingled with the old mine rubbish . As they proceeded with their work , many more bones were discovered , amounting in the aggregate to as many as would , if re-articulated , form three human skeletons , the skulls of each being in a tolerable state of preservation , and many of the teeth particularly so . The conjecture is that the bones are all that remain of three unfortunate miners , who were killed by the " running in" of the shaft . A Scene at the Consecration of a Church . —On Saturday last the iiew district church of St .

      Peter ' s at Plymouth was consecrated by the Bishop of Exeter . Some days before the consecration the incumbent , the Rev . G . R . Prynne , issued notices stating tbat admission would be by ticket . Upon this application was made by Mr . Isaac Latimer , the editor of the Plymouth Journal , for a ticket , which Mr . Prynue , who had recently prosecuted Mr . Latimer for a libel at Exeter , and been defeated , refused , alleging that he felt a solemn duty to protect the worshippers and communicants of St . Peter ' s Church from the . idle and profane gsze of a mere spectator . The ticket was consequently withheld , and Mr . Latimer wrote to the Bishop of Exeter , who , however , has taken no notice of his letter , although hia attention was called to the fact that he had before deprecated this system of packing a

      church by admitting by ticket . Such being the state of things , Mr . Latimer determined on trying his right to admission ; and , accordingly , about twenty minutes to eleven , he went to the church door , where he was stopped by _ three policemen and a clergyman , and refused admission on the ground that he had no ticket . Mr . Latimer loudly protested against the course that bad been adopted of packing the church , and claimed his right to admission into the church without a ticket . The noise that this scene occasioned brought the curate , the Rev . G . Iletling , tothe door , and he again said that there should be no admission without a ticket . Mr . Latimer said he would insist upon hia right to enter the church without a ticket , upon which Mr . Hetling replied , tbat if he created a disturbance he would give

      him in charge . Mr . Latimer defied him to give him iu charge , asserting that at a time of public worship he had as much right to be in the church as he ( the curate ) had , and that right he would maintain at all cost . He also defied the police to take him into custody , and called upon Mr . Gibbons , tbe superintendent , to show by what authority he presumed to act or to attempt to prevent a parishioner and a peaceable citizen from entering a church at the time of public worship . Mr . Gibbons said that he was authorised by the mayor of the town to . act under the instructions of Mr . Prynne . Mr . Latimer said that the mayor had no right to delegate his magisterial authority to any clergyman , and that he should , in spite of tbat delegation , insist upon his rig ht to enter , and defied the police to interfere . Their duty was only to prevent a breach of the peace and not to carry out illegal and unconstitutional orders given to them by men of straw . Mr .

      Hetling said that Mr . Latimer should not enter till the bell rung , and then ordered the bell to be rung , and told Mr . Latimer he might pass in . The door was then thrown open , and Mr 7 Latimer entered , and immediately walked through the aisle and took His place close to the chancel . The scene was one of great excitement . At the time all the pews were filled , and the whole of the people had risen inconsequence ofthe altercation that waa going on at the doors . It is a strange fact that all the other representatives of the local press not opposed to Tractarianism were admitted . Shortly afterwards the Bishop of Exeter made his appearance , and the work of consecration went on with great pomp . COMPLICATION OF _ACCIBENTS AHD OFFENCES . — Last Saturday , as Mr . J . J . Kemp , of Kemp-street , Bnghton , was driving to Lewes in a dog-cart with a lady , the horse took fright shortly after passing the Ashcomb toll-gate , and dashed off at full speed . * It

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      had not gone far , however * , before Mi ; . Kemo was thrown out , and as he had held the reins nil command of the animal was now lost .. The lady ; terri-. fied at her position , endeavoured to get biit of the vebicl _& bebjnd , but in doing so she fell , * h _; , foot and ancle were seriously sprained , and the _f , tnall . boDe of her leg . was also fractured . Passers by _soonfassemb ! ed , and Mr : Kemp leaving- the ' iady in their charge sot off for Lewes after the , hor _^ e ; which ; never checking its furious speed ; entered St . Ann ' s , and proceeding down the _High-street , came siifely into the centre of th © town , nearly opposite Messrs . , XoVdell and Grantham ' s . At this _place'stood' several ' vehicles , wliich the animal attempted to avoid ! but at length it came into violent collision with the Hailsham carft ! . * . __ - "I .- /* _¦»» _-W- _*

      rier ' s cart knocking the horse completely over , and breaking the shafts of the dog-cart . Leaving these behind , and now freed from all incumbrance , it . galloped down Market-street until it was stopped near the King ' s Arms Inn . The carrier ' s horse was slightly injured , but the cart was soon put to rights , _andiho broken dog-cart conveyed to Mr . Lenny ' s , the coach builder . The accident had , of course , attracted crowds to the spot , and as they were entirely ignorant of the origin of the accident , great curiosity prevailed on the subject , but at length Mr , Kemp appeared on the scene , bavins ridden in as fast as he could . He immediately ordered a fly to convey the lady home , but in dismounting he was pitched from the horse ahd received a severe contusion on the leg . To return to the lady , whom we left on the _Brighton road , she was not more fortunate than the gentleman in escaping without further misadventure . "Un able to proceed farther than the bank on the roadside , a young woman said to have the , appearance of a

      gipsy , had first come to her assistance . Shortly afterwards twoyoune men from Lewes came up , and they forming what children usually term a sedan chair , carried her to tlie house usually known as the Hbpein-the-Valley . Here every attention was paid to her , and the lady having partially recovered , missed her brooch , and almost immediately discovered that her purse was gone . It was then remembered that the young woman who had first assisted the lady had long ago left the spot , and , suspecting her of stealing the articles , one ofthe young men started in pursuit . He speedily overtook her and recovered the brooch , which she had really taken advantage of the lady ' s situation to abstract , but stout _ly denied having the purse . It was thought prudent to examine the spot where the lady had been seated prior to her removal to the Hope . in-the-Valley , and there lay the lady ' s purse . Very shortly after whioh the lady waB removed to Brighton , in a fly , and so ended this complication of " accidents and offences . "

      A Captain ' s Wife and Ship ' s Crew seized bv Arabs , —A ' painful interest * was felt in Blyth last week , on receipt of the intelligence of the loss of the Tyne brig Mary Florence , Captain Christopher Short , onthe coast of Africa , and the subsequent seizure and detention ofthe captain ' s wife and six of the crew , by the Arabs . ' Captain Short and his wife are natives of Blyth , and much . " respected * Mrs . Short , who has for several years accompanied her husband on his voyages lo different parts of the world , is a daughter of the late Captain William Smith , of Blyth , tbe most intelligentand adventurous

      seaman Blyth has produced . His name was brought very prominently before the public about thirty years since , while captain of the William , of Blyth , as being tbediscoverer of the New South Shetland Islands , a notice of which appears in the Penny Cvclopwdia , vol . 16 , article " New South Shetland . " The mate ofthe Mary Florence , who is also one of the . captives , is married to a daughter ofthe late Mr . Wm . Handyside of Blyth . " We hope that every effort will be made by the Bombay government to rescue the unfortunate captives from the savages , and restore them to their afflicted friends . - — Newcastle

      Guardian . ¦¦ - . Death of Miss Biffin . —On the 2 nd inst ., Miss Sarah Biffin , ' the celebrated miniature painter , who was born without hands or arms , died at her , lodgings in Duke-street , Liverpool , at the age of sixtysix . The deceased was born at East Quantoxhead _, near Bridgewater , Somersetshire , in the year 1784 . She manifested in early life the talent for drawing and painting which she afterwards cultivated to so extraordinary an extent * , and she was initiated in the first rudiments of the art by a Mr . Dukes , to whom she bound herself , by a written agreement , to give the whole of her time and exertions , and for that purpose to remain for a terra ot years in his house . Some time after this engagement had been

      contracted , the late Earl of Morton became acquainted with , and so much interested in Miss Baffin , that he caused herto be further instructed by Mr . Craig , a gentleman of great eminence in his profession as a miniature painter . Under his skilful tuition , she attained to an almost miraculous 'degree of perfection ! so much so , indeed , that in the year 1821 this "Society of Arts and Commerce Promoted , "for one of her . pictures , presented her with a prize medal , through their president , his Royal Highness the late Bake of Sussex . The Earl of Morton also made liberal offers , but unavailingly , to Mr . Dukes , to induce him to relinquish his claims upon Miss Biffin ; and although she was assured by professional gentlemen that the agreement was not legally

      binding , she refused to avail herself of the circumstance , and she remained with Mr . Dukes for nearly sixteen years . During the whole bf this time she resided with Mr . and Mrs . Dukes , as one oftheir family , and was treated by them with uniform kindness , but it will scarcely be believed , although such is wi _' doubtedly the fact , that in " compensation for this exclusive sacrifice of the best part of her life , Miss Biffin , at no time , received from Mr . Dukes , in moro money than £ 5 per annum . Miss Biffin was patronised by their late Majesties George the Third , George the Fourth , William the Fourth ; by the Queen Dowager , by her present Majesty , by Prince Albert , and by a host bf the . nobility , and

      other distinguished persons . For many years she supported herself by miniature painting ; but after the death of her noble benafactor and ever kind friend , the Earl of Morton , there was no one , like him , ready to assist her in obtaining orders for picturers , or in disposing of such as she was enabled to complete when not otherwise employed ; and as ago grew upon her she became much reduced in circumstances . A few years ago she came to Liverpool , where she made an ineffectual attempt to support herself by her own exertions . Our benevolent townsman , Mr . Richard Itathbone , took a great interest in her welfare , and it was princicipally by his exertions that a short time ago a small annuity was purchased for her by

      subscription . Charge of Attempted Poisoning by a Soldier . — At the Town-hall , Dorchester , last week , William Dowling , a private of the 8 th Hussars , was charged with an attempt to poison Corporal Michael Riley , of the same regiment . The following are the details ofthe case , as deposed to by Riloy . I am a corporal in the 8 th Hussars . It is my practice to put away the over-night a basin of tea for the next morning , which I kept in a black bottle , on a shelf over ray bed , but the tea was . not in the bottle at the time this drug was put into it . On the night ot the 24 th I came in out of the town at nine o ' clock , when I told a private of the name of Lennon to put my tea in the bottle . I cannot swear which of the

      men it was who told me my tea was in the cupboard . The prisoner was in bed at this time . The two private soldiers , Walker and Lennon , assisted to put the , tea into the bottle , the one . holding the bottle , the other pouring it in . I went on undressing myself ,-and presently asked Lennon whether he had put the tea into the bottle ; and upon his saying he had , J told him I wanted some then . Upon this he poured a part out , some of which I drank , and the remainder of that which was poured out Lennon drank . After , we had drunk this portion of the tea I put the bottle on the shelf . In the morning , about five o ' clock , when I awoke , I felt a violent pain in ray stomach and head . I had slept sound all night , and was not sick when I awoke . Lennon , who had

      drunk what I left in the basin , complained of the same sensation as I felt . I don't recollect making any complaint then ; and went to the stablos as usual . When I came to my breakfast , about seven o ' clock , I was going to warm this tea for my use , when private Divett told mo he had seen the prisoner put bomething in it , and told me not to drink it . I then directly locked the bottle up in my box , and between eight and nine o clock the same morning I gave the bottle to Corporal Chadwicke , and requested him to take it to Mr . Panton , surgeon , for the purpose of having tho contents examined ; the bottle was precisely in the same state when I sent it to Mr . Panton as when I took it from the shelf at seven o ' clock in the morning . the hour of five until in the

      From seven morning , during which time I was absent at stables , I do not know who might have entered the room . Before I sent the bottle by Chadwicke to Mr . Panton I charged the prisoner openly , in the room before the men , with having put something into the bottle . He denied having done so , and threatened to report me for having , made such a charge against him . I replied , if there was anything in the bottle'it would turn the case . quite a different way . When I came in from exercise I was informed that the bottle contained a quantity of sitgar of lead . I said nothing more afterwards , and _Doling was made a prisoner directly ; I have never ha Amy altercation with the prisoner that I recollect , and never brought him to the notice ofthe

      Sergeant-major , orany other of his officers ; the prisoner Ts an older soldier than I am myself considerably . I have been five years in the regiment . I believe the prisoner has always borne a good character . I wish to state that shortly , after coming in from . exercise in the morning I made an examination of . the cupboard in the sick ward , which is near to my room , and to where the prisoner had access , : the prisoner up to within : two or three days of this occurrence having been in ill-health . On looking into the cupboard ! found several bottles and things with the prisoner ' s name on them . As I was going away a sick corporal named Hanrahan , who lies in the room , told me to try the upper shelf , as hehad seen Dowling place things up there . On doing so , I found a paper , on . which was written . " Sugar of lead — poison ; " and the . paper contained a quantity ofthat

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      substance , audhauDowlinp _' _sa & _faetipOnlt _. An officer named Ser _^ _int-Majorlviarriott was present m the room " **; _uenl took the paper from the shelf , and I handed it to him . —John Chadwicke , also a _. covporal inthe regimetit ' , "depbsed " as follows :- —Iani a corpo ral . in the _. _Sth . Hussars . . '¦ On the morning of the 25 th of _Beptemboiv IfrGoeived a bottle containing , i sonie liquid from . Corporal Riley , which he _askedf me _. tp take to . Mr . Panton , for the purpose . offhaying its contents analysed , as somebody , he said , had , put something into it . ; I saw Mr . Panton , and delivered the bottle into his bands in the same state in which .. 1 . _«* » . m » t A — -JXl

      I received it from Riley . . I . , told him at _thesame time that Corporal . Riley wanted the _contents analysed . Mr . Panton said it , would take ; _somV hours to analy se the contents , and then he toolt out the cork and tasted it , and be immediately , said that there was sugar of lead in it . IIo told me to desire Riley to report the matter to the _. commanding offiT cer . Mr . Panton gave me back the bottlej . _yhich I carried b ack to the barracks , and gave to ' the sereeant-major , in whose possession it has been , ever since . —On the advjee of his solicitorj the prisoner reserved his defence , and . was remanded . ( .

      Colliery Accidents . —A . few . days ago the first instance of a rope breaking when regularly , at work with the Fourdrinier safety apparatus attached tothe cage occurred at the Belmont colliery , * ' owing , however , totheapparatus , anyaccidentwas , fortunately prevented . It would appear that the , tubs , not having been properly secured in : the , cage , came in contact with one side of the framework of the shaft in their descent . The rope and one guide was thus broken at a distance of five fathoms from , the bottom . By this derangement of the one side of the framework in the Bhafc the apparatus had only one guide to act upon , and it was a source of satisfaction to all parties that the apparatus held the cage firmly in its ' position until afresh rope was attached to the cage , when it was immediately lowered into the pit without any injury to the cage or _apparatus , although called into operation under very unfavourable circumstances —Sunderland Herald .

      Murder at Watlington , —Considerable , excitement has been caused in the . usually quiet villagetown of Watlington , Bince . Saturday , last , in consequence of an . aged woman named Ann Lambourn hiving been brutally murdered by her husband , John Lambourn . An inquiry was held before Mr .-John Henry Cooke , one of the coroners for Oxfordshire , at the'Hare and Hounds Inn , Watlington , on thebody of the unfortunate woman , when it appeared from the statement of the neighbours who live inthe adjoining cottagesat Watlington , that Lambourn and his wife had ; long lived uuhappily , and violent altercations were often heard to take place between tbem ; that the wife was seen in perfect health on _Saturday _, last , in the afternoon , and at eleven o clock that night was

      found lying dead in the garden near her cottage doorf One of the witnesses examined , named Moses Robinson , a labourer , 'deposed as follows : —'' Last Saturday night I was at my brother William ' s ; John Lambourn came into my brother and said , ' . Will you comedown along with me , for I think Nancy . lies dead in the garden ? ' I went down with Lambourn to his house . She was lying on her back , - with her head about six inches from the wall , * and her amis by her side . As soon as we had got . a light . I ; took her np , but she was as cold as a clod , and her clothes were quite damp . Her bonnet and cap were saturated with blood , and underneath her head was a quantity of congealed blood . Her cheeks were bloody and her fingers drawn up . I carried'her upstairs ,

      and remained with her . until Mr . Dixon , the surgeon , came . Lambourn never expressed any regret . or sorrow " , all he said was , * I think the poor old . creature ' s dead , fori touched her , and she was ascold as clay . " * —Evidence was given by Mr . ' _Dixonj ' surgeon , of Watlington' as to the injurie 3 discovered about the body of the deceased , and also by four labourers ,: as to the violent threats used at various times by . Lambourn against his wife . —The coroner ; shortly , summed up , and the jury , after a short consultation , returned a verdict of '' Wilful murder against John Lambourn , her husband . " The coroner then mads out his warrant" for the committal of the prisoner to the county gaol , where he will await _his ' trial on the capital charge at the ensuing Lent Assizes .

      Suicwe and Murder . — A ' most melancholy , event has just happened in Leigh . Thb following are brief particulars . On Tuesday morning , a young female , named Elizabeth Eaton , committed the double crimo of murder and suicide by leaping into the Leigh and Wigan Canal with her child . The spot she selected for her purpose _isfclosef to the Leigh Bridge , crossing the canal , near the centre of the town , and it is a , matter of surprise how she should have accomplished tho deed withoutj detection , as it is supposed that she must have jumped into the water about five o ' clock , an hour when many operatives are beginning ta proceed to their employment . A youth in the employment of Messrs . Farnworth , named Peter Speakman , was passing the spot at twenty minutes to six , and saw something dark floating on the water , which he mistook for the body of a man . He went and awakened ; Mr . Higgins , at the Bridgewater Canal office , who got

      up and fetched a shaft , and , with the assistance of Richard Wilkinson , pulled the body of the unfortunate woman on the banks of the canal . . Immediate information was given to the police , and they removed the body to the house of Mr . Thomas Greenough , Boat House , where it was shortly , afterwards identified by the woman with whom the deceased lodged at Thorpe's Houses , near the Wesleyah chapel , and the body was conveyed to her lodgings . It was then discovered that the child was missing , and a search was commenced for the body in the canal , where it was found in the course of half an hour by a man named James Duke . The woman was only partially dressed , and the child was ih its night clothes . The child was an illegitimate oiie , and was about three or four months old . Its maintenance had much embarrassed the mother , although she had recently affiliated the child upon its putative father . The woman waa a silk weaver in the employment of Messrs . Walker .

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      Fire-Damp Explosion And Loss Op Life At ...

      Fire-Damp Explosion and Loss op Life at Coed Peeth Coal Pits . —On Saturday last the men engaged at these pits went , down to their work as usual , and becoming conscious of the presenoe of fire-damp , they immediately endeavoured to effect their escape ; before this could be accomplished an explosion took place . Three men wero killed , and two others are in a hopeless state . None ofthe sufferers were burnt , as is usually tbe case in these accidents , but were evidently suffocated . The coroner , B . H . Thei well , Esq ., and a respeotable jury , held an inquest on Monday last , and after a lengthened inquiry into the melancholy affair ,

      returned a verdict of " Accidental death . " They also recorded the fact , that no blame could be attached to the proprietor , Mr . Burton , or to the manager of the pit ; it being found , on examination , ventilated in the usual way . During the examination of one of the witnesses , it transpired that the pit in question was much more subject to sulphur than any other pit in that part . The coroner drew the attention of all present to the importance of using the safety lamp , The men in reply , said that it gave so imperfect a light that they could not get near as much coal with the safety lamp , as they could with a candle . The coroner oontended that was a _trirftinj consideration , compared with the misery entailed by these dreadful accidents ; not to mention the great increase in the poor rates , in the parishes where suoh accidents occur .

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      Tne Airdrie Colliert Explosion.—Trial Of...

      TnE Airdrie Colliert Explosion . —Trial of _inE Lessees for _Culfahle Homicide . —This trial took place on the 2 nd and 3 rd inst , before the Lord Justice Clerk , at the Glasgow Court of Justiciary . James Sneddon , or Sneddon , coal master , near Airdrie , and John Sneddon , or Snedden _, son of the aforesaid , was placed at the bar , charged with the crime of culpable homicide , as also culpable neglect of duty , by persons carrying on or superintending the works of a coal pit , whereby any of the lieges are deprived of life , in so far as they , being lessees of the coal pit known as No . 2 Pit , Common head , near Airdrie . and , having had the

      superintendence of tno said pit irom danuary to tne end 01 July , and , in particular , for the period betwixt 12 th and 23 rd of July , and it being their duty to secure safe and proper ventilation , bo as to prevent the undue accumulation of gas , for which purpose they ought to have kept closed by an air-tight brattice , or seen that there was so kept , a communication by the down-cast vent or compartment of the _Kiltongue coal seam , to a wrought out waste lying above it ; as also to have caused to be maintained and preserved due air-courses down the said vent , to the whole of the workings , in an air-tight manner , and in particular so to keep the throughers , or open spaces between two pillars of coal , adjoining two levels , or passages leading in opposite directions along the lower dip of the said seam ; as also to erect andjeeep trap-doors on all roads or openings conneoted with the said leadings

      in a secure manner ; as also to provide at the bottom of the up cast vent of the shaft a proper and sufficient furnace or cube , and to keep a sufficient fire burning in the said furnace while the workings are going on ; and it being also their'duty to prevent the miners going down when the mine had been unwrought , or without having with them safety lamps—they culpably neglected to take the above necessary precautions , in consequence of which , on the 23 rd of July last , an explosion of fire-damp took place , and _^ eighteen miners lost their lives . At the conclusion of the defence the judge summed up ; and the , jury , after rather more than half an hour ' s deliberation , returned a verdict of Not Guilty against the father , ahd a similar verdiot against the son , but only , by a majority , oi one . The prisoners were discharged amidst some signs of approbation from the persons assembled in the court . . '' . ' _" ¦

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      Ballinasloe Fair.—The Great Annual Fair ...

      _BallINAsloe Fair . —The great annual fair of Ballinasloe commenced on the 4 th Jnst . with the sale of sheep . ' The number oh the green was"from' 10 , 000 to 12 , 000 , _lesB . than ; the-average , of previous years , _i which is accounted for by the great quantity of land converted frpm tillage to grazing throughout the _West , and the _neoessity of stooking those lands with , ' store sheep . . ; The * number ; . of sheep in ithe country is fully . large as ever ; but they are scat * - tored oyer _, ' agreater ] area , aridthe graziers at a distance frpm _BaliinaBloe buy and , sell in , the _fairsy adjacent to their own lands . In a year or two , owing to ; the . extent of . breeding , the supply will . be vastly

      augmented . At the fair there was a . great number of buyers , and . prices generally were _. very high , par-Sicularly . for store , wethers and ewes .. ' _, _iOhe . letter , from an extensive Meath grazier , who went to _. _Ballinasloe to purchase store , sheep for , fattening on his rich pastures , says , "the low-priced wethers and ewes were from five _, to eight shillings . _oyerlast year ; the fat _sheepimuch about , the same price ; in consequence , I had to limit my purchases .,, Iri fact , the prices were fully equal to , the average of highpriced years under Protection . " ' Some of the , southern fairs show equally high prices as Ballinasloo , with a great demand for cattle as well as , sheep .. At the fair of Cullohill , county of Kilkenny ' horned cattle broug ht full prices . The

      Kilkenny Moderator remarks : _—|* There were very fine lots of sheep ,, biit'ewes being in great demand , were so dear that . Mr . , Flood and other gentlemen expressed a determination to send to Falkirk , _* . in Scotland , for them . " The great demand for breed : ing ewes , at all the fairs , jb caused hy the , anxiety , tp devote unoccupied lands to grazing . 7 > . Symptoms , , of , Improvement . —Several ., letters , from Various parts of the country ; refer to . the , decided improvement in general , business .. '! As . a sign of reviving ' trade , the Cork Emminer says _.:- ' . _* The Nimrod steamer landed this day on our quay , from Liverpool , over 300 bales of manufactured goods ; the greater part of which were , for one leading wholesale house ' in this city . " . ' . ' Whilst cargoes of

      foreign corn are , arriving , the . export of our own cereal produce continues . 'On . Monday , last four vessels left Cork for , England _^ laden with ' homegrown oats . ' . The Albatross steamer left Dublin for Liverpool one day . ' last week , with the enormous number of 550 head of cattle , - iii addition to a general cargo . . . ' ., ; ' ; . '_ 7 ., 7 77 - ¦'¦ , ' ¦ . .. - . ¦' _CuwivAMOKOF FtA 3 t . 7-Archdeacoh Keating , of Limerick , in a letter to the Royal Agricultural . Society , says : _—«| It is the intention of several influential persons " in this f district of . the country to form an . association , to be called , ' . The , Southwestern _Sbciefiy for ' Encouraging the Cultivation of Flax , and Promoting Agricultural Improvement . '" '

      Reductions of Rent '—The Marquis of Ormonde has issued a circular to . his tenantry inKilkenny and Tipperary ; proposing a reduction . jn , tho rents for tho present year , varying from twent _^ five ' to ten per cent ., according to circumstances , and declaring his determination to enter upon a re-valuation ' : of . his estates . Lord Ormonde ' s rents' are already more moderate than those of most other proprietors . " . ' ' 7 77 7 , 7 . A Good LANDLbRp . —John 7 Campbell , Dicker , Esq ., the present _, proprietor of the Gleneask estates , , in the county of Sligo , is at present on a visit to his property ., Glerieask , lately held by the Irish Waste Land Improvement Society , is now in the hands of this gentleman , who has . arrived from London for the purpose of personally examining

      into the condition Of the tenantry , He has minutely and carefully considered each ; individual case , ' and hasreduced the rents brie-half from the 21 st of September last . " Besides making other liberal' allowances , he has reduced the last half year ' s rent iri all cases where he _, thought the' rents too high' , The Irish Waste Land Improvement . Society had those lands let at , very reasonable rates , arid this further reduction ought to be very encouraging to the tenantry , as' well as affording a good example to others . Mr . Dicker has also effected an arrangement with the Roman Catholic curate , of Kilmactigue , whereby divine service will be regularly

      performed in . the chapel ' already , built on the property . Seeing the destitute state of many of the poor people , "he * has given the means of purchasing clothing for themselves , arid their families . f Since the month of May he has provided on the property employment for all the tenantry who chose to avail themselves of it , or who could spare the time from their own holdings . We also understand that he is about opening extensive works ori the estate , which will be the means of giving general employment to the people , and of circulating among them the cash of which they , stand so much in need . — -Tyrawly Herald .

      Reproductive Labour . —The Rev .. Cornelius Corkran , P . P ,, of Tracton ( Cork ) , had an interview on Friday last , at the Castle , with Sir Thomas Itedingtonj on the subject of reproductive labour , or the obtainmenfc of some equivalent for poor rates in his parishes . He proposed to cut away the b ' av atthe mouth of Ringabella Creek , in the barony of Eenelea , and thus give the sea sand and oar weed an inland determination , to deepen the bed of the river , and create a navigation of seven miles , intersecting five parishes . The rev . gentleman demonstrated the vast importance of this project , not only in ' an agricultural , but commercial , View ( this county abounding , with slate _quarries ofa superior kind ) . He offered to collect himself the poor rates lately assessed . on the five parishes which would be most benefited by the work ( and which mbnev . he

      knew , would he promptly and gladly paid ) ; also to colled contributions from the landed proprietors ( which he also knew would not be refused ); also to keep away from the poor-house every pauper belonging to these parishes until the work was finished , if the government gave him any reasonable assistance from any fund within its _eoritwil . Tho Under-Secretary , without ariy lack of courtesy , entered into the views of thefrev . gentleman , commended their soundness , and applauded their enlightenment , but " regretted there were no means for reproductive labour outside the Drainage Act , and no relief for an able-bodied pauper _outside . the workhouse , under the control off government . " The application of the rev . gentleman . on behalf of the most : smitten district in the south of Ireland to the Board of Works had a similar . result . —Cork

      paper .,. _....,, - , . _,,, ,. , Agrarian Murder in the _Countt . of Down . — The _Belfast News Letter contains the following "It is with the , most painful emotions , that we announce the perpetration of a murder , in the most peaceable and prosperous district , of the north of Ireland , as cold-blooded as any that ever stained the annals ofthe south , and that the odious crime had its probable origin in agrarian discontent . Shortly after dusk on Wednesday evening , a weaver named M'Cormick , who resided at Cormoss , on the Hillsborough-road , within a short distance of Ballynahinch , and about two miles beyond the Carryduff hou whil

      Meeting- se , , e sitting , at his loom , was shot at by a miscreant who had introduced the muzzle of his gun through an aperture made in the window pane . The . bullet , entered the heart of the poor victim , and after passing through his body lodged in the framework of the loom . It is unnecessary to savthat he expired instantaneousl y . M'Cormick has left behind him a widow and five children to deplore his untimel y fate . We regret to state that the perpetrator is at present unknown ; but we trust that , by the vigilance of the police , he will soon be brought to justice . The only cause that -can be assigned for the murder is that M'Cormick had taken a small farm , and was care-taker for another from which the ' previous tenants hadbeen evicted . He had received several threatening letters , _durinir

      tne last two months , calling upon him to give up possession , or take the consequences . An inquest was held on the 4 th inst ., atthe scene of ithe murder . The evidence tended to implicate a man named M'Hveen , for whose apprehension a warrant * _H _*\ . ? _S lssued " I 4 - a eared from the . _^ vidence that _M'llyeen , some time previously , _had-evirced symptoms of _jealousy towards deceased , for sunnosed intimacy with hia wife , and that he bore a _grudge towards him on that account' One of the witnesses , theRov . Mr . Blakely , stated that he looked upon M'llveenas insane and had , previous to the murder , spoke about having him placed in a lunatic we ek ' 1 D Wa 8 ad J ourned ' Uutil Monday An exceeding _^ acrimonious controversy onthe subject of m , Xed education and the new colleges is being carried on by various clerical writer . _^/ _iJf

      C Mr mT Tn f _* ' A f 6 W day 8 ' sin <> e the in ?! ' tT ' _« Ia n er ° u Carlow made an attack on the ate Dr . . Crolly , the predecessor of Dr . Cullen in the Roman Catholic primacy , for havin " c _! _un-AriaSd _^ _- _* " _* f _^ « _iT ° with i ? Arian and Sooiman . professors ; and ,, in the Post li hiir _^ _- ' the D , ephew of the _deceased a _chbishop , who is a professor of theology in Maynooth tence of his uncle ' s character , and makes a furious onslaught on Father Maher . Bank Defalcation . — Informations have been sworn against Mr . C . Clarke , late cashier in the branch bank of New Ross , charging him with haying embezzled £ 78 4 s . lljd . from the money entrusted to his care . The case was investigated on Monday last before a bench of magistrates at New Ross , and Mr . Clarke was admitted to bail himself in £ 500 , and two sureties in £ 250 eaoh , to stand his trial at the next assizes .

      _ARcnmsflop Slattery . —The Most Rev . Dr Slattery , Roman - Catholic Archbishop of Cashel ' has addressed a letter to the Freeman ' s Journal in whioh he . says :- "Jt appears that my humble name has been dragged before ' the public , durine the course of this week m _^ the pagesof some of vour contemporaries , for what purpose I am at _»]«« to concei ve , unless it were to draw me into a news paper controversy ona v tally _important nn » o _?* upon which the highest authS _Khe q SS r * church has already pronounced . If _BSh S tb object those parties U in _vievT _/ they _willfinYthem

      Ballinasloe Fair.—The Great Annual Fair ...

      selves grievousl y disappointed . Let others act as they may in this respect , for my part I will not compromise the dignity , of the high station which I so unworthily occupy . ' ' I may be taunted _^ I maV be sneered at , and insulted ; but no _attacKhat _^ can * be made upon me shall ever induce me _, to forget fpr a momerit the respect I owe to iny " own character as a , prelate and * as a gentleman . " -Tri : af note ' appended to _thejletter -Dr . Slattery says _;—^ I waa not « , a sizar of Trinity ,. Collegp /—L . was , not , * , fed and educated there gratuitously . ' -- _^ I was ' , not . ' taught astronomy ' by Dr . ' Magee , ' nor *• Greek by _j ) Graves , ' nor history by Dr . Miller . _¦•' ¦ - _ _- I _ _ ¦ 1 . . . . _ . . "

      7 _Convection of 'CropfLifters . —At the _Maries sessions On the 4 _th'insti' before Mr . * Walter Ber . wick , the Assistant Barrister , three men and Uo women , all of one famjly , named Hoare , were indicted for a riot onthe 2 nd . of September last . ; The facts ; of the case , as stated by the 'Crown solicitor , were briefly these : — " Mr ., ' Creagh was appointed receiver by the Court of Chancery over certain lands in the Riding , called _ClaShabee . One of'the traversers , at the bar , thewidow . Ellen Hoar , . was tenant to a portion of thesef lands Hand paid rent to Mr . Creagh since his appointment , her husband having'been previously tenant to these lands up to his death . Mr . Creagh interferedwith * theMaster in the cause 'M'Leod against O'Callaghan , ' in which

      he was so appointed receiver , and _ob tained for her a remission of . the arrears then due , and a reduction of 25 per cent . On the existing rent . It was necessary to draw the attention of tbe jury to ¦ some changes which had taken place in the . law of landlord and tenant within a . short time past . He presumed that previously , to . the charge to , which ho alluded they _ysjere aware that landlords were empowered to distrain ; growing crops ; 'but _sipce the enactment of the late statute'they were deprived of that power , and he regretted to say the good intention ofthe Legislature had not been met in a corresponding spirit by . the . tenant , In the present instance the individualscbarged chose for their' purpose the

      Sabbath—a day of all others which ought to be held sacred ; and oii which it would not be lawful to make ; any _idistraint for , rent—to assemble a large body of persons consisting at least of ninety-four and ,, cut do wri . her crop . of oa ts before it was thoroughly ' ripe , having it removed as fast as it was cut to an adjoining farm , held under a different landlord ; - ' Mr . " Creagh ' s : bailiff having seen this , renionstrated- with them , ' watched the corn and proceeded the next day to distrain , on-which occasion tho not occurred which , would be now detailed to _. them in evidence . " After a long charge from the Assistant Barrister , the jury returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners .

      • , English Settlers in the West . —It is stated that several private tenders have been forwarded to the Encumbered Estates Commissioners by English capitalists for some of the lots of the Martin estate in Cqnnemara . During the past month that estate was visited b y some English agriculturists , At the fair of Ballinasloe , now in progress ? , there were many more English and Scotch' visitors than heretofore , some actuated by mere curiosity , * but there are others who had gone down to . the west with the view of judging for themselves as to , the expediency of a permanent location as owners or renters of tracts of land ; The sales in the Encumbered Court re-commence on Thursday , the 16 th inst . ; and it appears to be the general opinion that in future sales there will be much more of English competition than heretofore .

      . Horrible Cruelty and Neglect . —A correspondent of tbe Clare Journal , writing from Milltown Malbay on the 4 th inst ., says that on the preceding Monday 100 boys , whose ages averaged only nine years , were sent from the auxiliary workhouse there to be inspected at the parent house in Ennis , and , being allowed to return the same evening without having received any food during the day , the greater number of them unable to walk , lay about the ro & d during the night , which happened to be a most inclement one , and one of them was found dead in the morning with his head quite battered from falling against the walls . The verdict bf the coroner ' s jury very properly attributed the'deatb . to the neglect of the poor-law officers and the guardians of the _Ballynaughen-union .

      State of the Country . —The following is from the Tudm Herald : — " By a kind of : apathy not very intelligible , the agitation seems to be taken up rather slowly in his locality . And surely if there is one other spot on the face of the habitable globe in which protection for tenant property and tenant right is more required , we should be glad to hear of it . On every side ofthis town , and all over the province , the eye of the traveller rests upon the bleak walls of roofles cottages , whose former occupants have long since become the victims of eviction and death . We could point out whole villages thus cleared away ; - In fact , it is useless to deny , nor does any body attempt to deny , the horrid barbarities which are being daily practised upon the

      tenant classes . And this system of cruelty is going on with undiminished vigour . Even a few daya ago we were informed ofa large village of upwards of forty families being dispossessed oftheir holdings in this neighbourhood , the particulars of which we will not detail until we can satisfy ourselves by minute and accurate inquiry . In " one word , the eviction of whole _townlands'is now becoming matter of such ordinary occurrence as to create no particular sensation or bring -any particular amount o £ popular odium upon the actors' in these tragic doings . The legislature , with its usual . inertness , is slow , arid even _unwilllirig- to brovide a remedv

      for these : _cvils . Hence it becomes a duty upon the friends of the people to combine together , and with energy and vigour to agitate the country from every side , in order to put a stop to those cruelties . The address of the Ulster Tenant Right Provincial Committee intended to have been presented to his Kxcellency the Lord-Lieutenant during his late tour to the north , has along with tha Earl of Clarendon ' s reply , made its appearance in the Belfast Danner of Tuesday . The address , ' which occupies a column of space , is drawn upon up with considerable skill , and is remarkable for its moderate tone . :... _- .

      The Tenant League . —Mr . Nicholas Mayer , one of the members for Tipp erary , and a large landed proprietor in that county , and the Hon . Cecil Lawless , member for Clonmel , and son of Lord Clonourry _.-have g iven in their unconditional allegiance to the principles of the Tenant League . Both gentlemen have _, promised . to attend the forthcoming monster meeting to be held in Ti pperary on the 14 tn instant . Mr . Scully , the other member for the county , has also " pronounced" in favour of the League .

      Mr. Smith O'Brien In Exile. The Followin...

      MR . SMITH O'BRIEN IN EXILE . The following letter appeared in the Times of Tuesday , together with one from Mr . B . HAWEg , stating that it had been received from the Colonial Authorities open , _according to the usual regulations in such cases : — ° ' Darlington Probation Station , Maria Island , Van Diemen ' s Land , Feb . 28 , 1850 . My Dear Potter , —I would , have written tb - yoa sooner if I had anything agreeable to communicate , but I have been unwilling to grieve you , by telling you that your worst anticipations , with _respecttathe sort of treatment which I mi _ghttfossibly experience in this colony , have been realised _? During a period of about two months' * suffered as * much as | the

      inhuimariity of the Governor , Sir Williatn Denison , aided by the Comptroller-GeneraC Dr . Hampton ; could inflict . My health at length began to give , way so rapidljrunder thesolitary confinemehtto _^ which , _durinirjthis period , I was consigned ,, that-the doctor of _tftestation becameseriously alarmed , and his representations produced such a . relaxationU ) f , the restrictions under which , I . was placed , _ashas-had , the effect _oftrestoring my strength , tl _shallfabstaiibfrom « _distressmgjyou with a detailed _narraSvetfofftny . experience of the magnanimity of British _jtfunctionaries _. _aas _lllutoteib y my treatment in _this-island . _TW _^ hall rathedtimpress _^ you with a persuasion—happily-welli 0 Unded-7 _that- lbear with wonderfubfcheerf ulnesslall theprivations to which Iyam _^ subject . . Every ; other

      source of suffering appears . toimeto _^ befcoyinsignificant , - compared with-thatSof _^ separation from - my family , that I reconcile-myselfi _* to the > minor- ' vexations incidental to my position , asfjto _inatters-bf comparative indifference . Yet ; thou gh' _1-cbuld'terininate "• the pains ofthis . separation ; by allowing Mrs . O'Brien to come to'Van Diemen ' s ; Land , _; I feel more strongly than _' _everthat it would be . the greatest injustice to ray children jto . bring them to a country , the present _conditioivof which I will not trustSnyself to describe . I , _therefore , can . see no definitive termination of the calamities , of my lot except that which you . and other friends took so much pains to avert- _the'fali vera nee that will be effected by death ; and , I confess , tbat I deliberately thinkthat my _^ death would be more advantageous to my _' _childreu / than that thev should follow me to this colony . I am afraid that some of my . _fellow-exiles ; though enjoying the comparative _lihpriu" nbi _^ h « _tinkpt of

      leave confers , find their . lot little more enviable than . inine _. and the more I reflect upon the circumstances Oftheir position , the more do I rejoice that I have _«? P _Pyself unfettered by any-engagement , even though my resolution in this regard very nearly cost me mv life . Considered as a prison , Maria Island is as little objeotionable as any other spot that could be chosen . The scenery is very picturesque , and the local offioers have been as kind as they could venture to be , under the inhuman regulations laid down for their guidance by the Comptroller-General . l am , therefore , rather sorry to learn that this station will soon be broken up . Upon the abandonment of this Station , I shall probably be removed to Port Arthur , a change which will , 1 fear , be productive of nei ther benefit nor satisfaction tome . , Tell my Limerick friends that my recollection oftheir kindness is as vivid as if I were : still their representative ; ' and believe me vour very obliged and attached friend , -... 7 .-. _-,... ; . ¦¦ : WaLUMS . O'BR IBN .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 12, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_12101850/page/6/