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      Health ob Losdon During * _t Wls _^* " ~ * , { Jie week ending last Saturday ; the deaths of 1 . 124 persons were registered in the metropolis ; this number allowing only » small decrease on the return of the previous week , though , the latter was unduly swelled by an extraordinary influx of coroners' cases . Ia corresponding weeks of 10 previous years ( 1840 , 9 ) the average number of deaths was 918 , which , if corrected for increase of population , becomes , 1 , 001 ; ibe excess ia last week amounts _therefore to 123 . The following series exhibits the deaths registered weekly since the beginning of March ; they were 875 , 967 , 1 , 026 , 1 , 107 , aud in the last week 1 , 124 . The present return , as compared with that of the

      _preceding week , show a decrease in the epidemic class of diseases , an increase in the tulercular , and in diseases of the brain and nervous system ; but in complaints affecting the respiratory organs the two returns are almost the same . As compared with the corrected average of 10 corresponding weeks , the present return shows a decrease in _enidemio diseases , but a considerable increase m diseases of the respiratory organs . Bronchiti' was fatal last week to 119 persons ! pneumonia to 80 ; asthma to 23 ; laryngitis , pleurisy , and other complaints of the same class to 25 ; the deaths in the age- egate from these causes being ; 253 , whereas the corrected average is only 166 . Consumption destroyel 134 persons , nearly the _ayerar-e number . Two bovs and three girls died of laryngimus stridulus . " In the epidemic class , small-pox was fatal to

      4 persons , measles to 16 , scarlatina to 17 , hoopingcough to 27 , croup to five , influenza to 8 , diarrhoea to 15 , ervsipelas to 15 , typhus to 34 , the mortality being less than usual from all these causes , except typhus , which is abont the average , influenza , _diarrhosa _, and erysipelas , wliich are above it . A death from cholera occurred on the 31 st of March , at 4 , Phoenix-street , North St GHes-in-the-nelds . The deceased was the daughter ofa beer-shop keeper , of the ago ef 7 years , and died from the " English cholera /' afier 16 _h- _» urs illness Mr . Simpson the _Registrar , mentions that " the medical attendant , before certifying the eau-e of death , called OU him to explain that if the late epidemic had prevailed __ at the present time , he wonld have considered it right to return the case as ' -Asiatic cholera . '' The disease commenced with excessive sickness and diarrheas _.

      and the latter speedily assumed the appearance of rice * water purginz , attended with cramps . The father of the child died of 'Asiatic cholera' during the late ¦ visitation . Ko other person is now ill in the house . '* Two _persons are reported this week as having died of intemperance , or of disease engendered by it . On the 9 th of March , at Bethnal-green workhou 3 e , a female servant died at 28 years of age , of " bilious cholera ( after an illness of two days ) . " The daughter of a weaver , aged 14 years , died at 9 , Rose-street , Bethnal-green , of " cholera . " A child of 22 days , on

      whom an inquest was held , died ia Farringdon-street of " inflammation of the peritoneum from exposure to cold . " . Four children were accidently suffocated in bed . The births daring the week were 1 , 343 . Atthe Royal Observatory , Greenwich , ihe mean height of the barometer in tbe week was 29 . 363 in . The mean temperature was 49 . 9 deg ., higher by 4 . 5 deg . than the average of the same week in seven years : and no loss than 13 . 7 deg . higher than in the week immediately preceding . On Monday and Tuesday it was respectively 6 deg . and 7 deg . higher than the average .

      The Coxdeh *>* ed Cokvict rx Horsemoxgsr-lane Gaol . —Thomas _Denisy the young man who was condemned to death at Kingston-upon-Thames , on the 2 nd inst ., for kibing his illegitimate offspring , at Ewell , with an awl , was immediately after his conviction removed to _IIorfemonjeHane Gaol , when he was placed by Mr . Keene , the governor , in tbe cell so httly occupied by Manning , the _inur-. _derei- of O'Connor . lie _seeili 9 very much to fed bis _a-vful situation , and cried the whole of the night , fie now and then protests that he is innocent , and that Eliza . Tarrant , the mother of the infant , committed ihe murder . Shonld no respite be received , the _unhappy man wiil be executed at _Hors-monger-lane Gaol , on Monday morning , the 22 d inst .

      Detebmixed Suicide . —Au inquest was held on Saturday last , by Mr . Bedford , at the Queen ' s Head , _Sherrard-street , Golden-square , on the _body of Mr . Robert Wilkin Tabor , aged 07 . a master plumber and painter , carrying on business at No . 10 , Lower James-street , Golden-square . It appeared that ihe deceased had been in a low and desponding state for s _.-me time past , arising from the fact of bis bnsine _> s having fallen off , _together "with disappointment and some family afflictions . Oa Friday morning last ihe deceased appeared unusually dejected . He left home on some business transactions , and returned about e _' even o ' clock ; in about half an

      lour afterwards the report of a pistol was bea _^ d in the direction of the deceased's bedroom , and shortly afterwards the deceased was _d-scovered sitting on tbe seat of the water-closet adjoining his bedchamber , quite dead , with a pistol-shot wound ia his right _tern-de . Sir . Chilcote , a surgeon , said that the bail had pene rated the brain , producing instan taneous death . Two pi-tols which had been in the deceased ' s possession for some years , and were kept loaded in his bedroo _. n _, were found lying on the floor of the closet , one of which had recently been discharged , and the other had missed fire . Verdict , " TemDWary insanity . "

      Daring Robbery of a Gexeeal Postman .- — On Monday morning , shortly after nine o ' clock , a most adroit robbery of a fjeneral pos ' mun was effected at the corner of Leadenhall and Gracechurchstreets . It appears thatW . Peckhara , the Leadenhall '' walk '' _le'ter carrier , was in the habit of meeting his assistant ( a junior postman ) at the door of the establishment of Messrs . Mayne aud Re'd , the large floorcloth manufacturers , where they opened a large letter bag , containing the letters forthe whole of the walk . These letters were tied in bundle . * , assorted for delivery . Peekham , that morning bad a very large number , and while he was dividing one of the bundles , he pat the tag upon the flonr near to the shop door , when three men rushed up to the doorway , and in a moment the bag and the remaining bundles of letters were gone . The matter has caused the greatest sensation throughout tbe City , and the an _' . horittea ai the Post-office are now

      actively engaged in making the necessary inquiries for the purpose of detecting the highwaymen . Impoktaxt to Householders . —In a recent case "heard before F . Bayley , Esq ., the judge of the Westminster Connty Court , it was decided that although a Are had occurred in a chimney the day after it had been -visited by the servants of the Ram-neur Company , the plaintiff could not recover any damage * , inasmuch as the company only _undertook to " _swet = p " the chimney , and not to " scrape " it .

      Fibe asd Loss © f Lifb . —On Tuesday evening , between six and seven o ' clock , the immediate neighbourhood of Park-street , Bankside , South--wark , was alarmed-by ~ a . fire breaking out in the premises belonging to Mr . Carpenter , situate in _3 loss _' s-alley , in the before mentioned street , which , itis to be regretted , was attended with fatal results to the wife of the owner of the property . It appears that some of the " neighbours whilst passing the "building were astonished by hearing loud screams proceeding from one of the apartments on tlie first floor . A dense body of flame being seen shining through the front windows , clearly indicated that a fire had broken out . The policeman on the beat therefore sent a messenger to call the firemen . In

      the course of a few minutes Mr . R . Henderson , the chief officer ofthe D district of the London Brigade attended with an engine and his firemen , lie then found the bed , bedding , and furniture on the first floor iu a blaze . The firemen and inhabitants , after much trouble , succeeded in getting the flames subdued , when a most pitiable scene presented itself , for Mrs . Carpenter , the wife of the owner of the property , was found to be so dreadfully burnt that the flesh , when touched , peeled off her body . A medical gentleman was instantly sent for , who , upon inspecting the calcined remains , pronounced life totally extinct . The origin of the calamity , notwithstanding that a diligent inquiry has been made by the officers of the Brigade , remains at present a mystery . .... . . ' * ' ' _ .

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      _EttBBZZtEHENT OF £ 2 , 000 BY A DlSSESTING PasiCHEB . — The magistrates of Ipswich have issued a warrant for the apprehension of the Rev . Thomas Smeaton , chirged with the _embezzlement of £ 2 , 000 belonging to the shareholders of the Suffolk Building Company . _in connexion with which he held a responsible situation . _IsSUBOBDINATlOI * ON A CONVICT HULK . — A somewhat serious case of insubordination ha * occurred on board one ot the convict hulks in Portsmouth harbour . A telegraphic despatch from the Admiral Superintendent of the dockyard at Ports ;

      month , was received on Saturday last , soon after eleven o'clock , announcing tbat the convicts on board the Stirling Castle , moored near the entrance of the harbour of Portsmouth , had been in a state of insubordination during the whole of Friday night ; which still continued . Sir George Grey immediately despatched Mr . Vonles _, superintendent of convicts , in Portsmouth , to investigate the circumstances attending this proceeding , happily so nnfrequent . The convicts on board of this hulk are those condemned to various terms of transportation , and are placed t " iere to undergo the preparatory stage of their disciplined labour , before they are selected for transmission across the seas . The complement onboard tte Stirling Cast _' e is from 400 to 500 .

      ¦ The Late Case op _Poisomj-g is _Cambhidce-SHIre . — Although several petitions have been presentedi praying for a mitigation of the sentence of _iuas Lucas and Mary Reeder , the two persons now - _Midersenteaee of death lying ia the county gaol , no _notice has been _takenof them , ana * - - i 3 _, ? ' cted \ at the two culprits will suffer the extreme _penally the law on Saturday { this day . ) Since the conjssion of the female criminal she has appeared per-

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      fectly tranquil , and seems fully prepared for her fate . Lucas algo evinces much penitence ; he has made no direct confession of his guilt , although He repeatedly says he deserves to be hanged , and that he has brought it all ou himself . It . is a remarkable fact , that a relative of the female , named William Reeder , was executed in 1830 , ' in company with two other men , for arson , onthe same spot where tne culprits will suffer . . ' _.-, ' .... . Murder _nuar Newport . — A murder , still involved in mystery , has been discovered in theneighbourhood of Newport , Monmouthshire . Ihe murdered _nerson is a female , named , Lewis , who resided _siueoi

      atBarAalleg , a small village on _theJUacnan the Tredegar Park , and distant about three miles from Newport . Mrs . Lewis left her home on Wednesday , for the purpose of going into Newport to make purchases , and not returning atthe hour she had stated , her family began to feel uneasiness , _although no _apprehensiens of anything serious having occurred were entertained until nightfall , when it was supposed that something wrong had happened , and au investigation was commenced . __ The search continued through Thursday the 4 th inst , but nothing was discovered of the fate of the missing woman until the night of that day , when her body was discovered in a wood at no very great distance from

      the village of which she was a resident , and so frightfully mangled as to leave no doubt than she was waylaid on her road cither to or from her home and brutally murdered . The head was shockingly disfigured , the eyes being driven in as if the head hal been battered by some heavy instrument , and the clothes were saturated with blood . The person who found the body ( the son , of the unfortunate deceased ) gave immediate information to the police , who at once repaired to the spot and conveyed the remains on a hurdle to the nearest public house . As yet no idea can be formed as to the person or retreat of the murderer or murderers . On Tuesday morning the

      superintendent of the Cheltenham police arrived in Bristol en route for Monmouth , with two persons whom he apprehended on the previous night on a charge of murder . The prisoners are Maurice Murphy , aged 21 , a native of Blarney , county of Cork , and Patrick Sullivan , aged 22 , a native of Minchurston , county of Cork . On _information being given to the police of the murder of Mrs . Lewis , and in consequence of the prisoners' speedy disappearance ; they were suspected , and information sent to the several police depots in the district , which led to the prisoners' apprehension . Their clothes were very much stained with blood . On the prisoner Sullivan - were found a small iron crowbar and a razor .

      Great Ems at Cottenham . —Fomy Farm 9 BDRNT .- —The village of Cottenham was , on Thursday night , the 4 th inst ., the scene of one of the largest conflagrations that has ever been known in Cambridgeshire . The flames were distinctly visible for miles round . Soon after eight o'clock two farms adjoining one another , _belonging to Mr . Gonde and Mr . Graves , were discovered to be in flames , and a strong breeze blowing from the west , speedily , fired the adjacent property . The villagers adopted every me ins to arrest the progress of the destructive element , but the trifling means at their command had but little effect in checking the flames . Farm after farm became fired , and the lured glare in the heavens which lighted up the country for miles round , led to

      engines and other assistance being despatched from Cambridge , _Cliesterton , St . Ives , & c . Towards four o ' clock in the morning tbe conflagration was mastered . As may be supposed the loss is very' great . According to ihe report furnished to the Fire-offices , the follo _wing are the principal sufferers :-Mr . F . Goode , farm destroyed , with dwelling ; Mr . T . Graves , house and farm burnt ; Mr . R . "Watson , residence and farm consumed ; Mr . J . Rapworth , farmer , aU burnt ; Mr . T . Ivatt , farmer , whole ofthe farm destroyed ; Mr . T . Morling , gardener , house _, lodges , & c , burnt ; Black Horse , Mr . J . Chivers , brewer , consumed ; Mr , J . Chivers , blacksmith , destroyed ; Air . Collins , farmer , premises destroyed * , Mr . R . Newman , brewer , except house , all destroyed ,

      with 100 barrels of beer ; White Horse , Mr . Norman , consumed ; Mr . Haird , auctioneer , destroyed ; Mr . J . Todd , fanner , all burnt , except house ; Mr . 3 . Watson , farmer , all burnt ; Mr . W . Papwortb , farmer , all consumed ; Mr . J . Everitt , farmer , except house , all consumed ; Methodist chapel , consumed ; Mr . T . Gaw ' rey , farmer , dwelling-house saved , farm destroyed ; Mr . E . Ivatt , farmer , destroyed ; Waggon and Horses , Mr . Norman , destroyed . Total Joss nearly - £ 100 , 000 . Besides there are between forty and fifty cottages destroyed . The losses will fall heavy on the Norwich Union and the Farmers' Fire Insurance Offices—to the amount of about - £ 14 , 000 . The space traversed by the fire was enormous . It seemed ss if half the village had been laid in ruins ; and yet the fire had been capricious in its course , for here and there was to be ssen a house standing almost uninjured , in the very midst of black and smoking ruins . The labourers worked _wi'lingly and well , so

      long as a chance of doing any good remained ; but their efforts , aided as they were before long by gownsmen from Cambridge , were so manifestly unavailing , that people at la ? t stood by in helpless and despairing inaction . Farm after farm , and cottage after cottage , fell before the flames , and by three o ' clock in the morning , when further immediate danger might be said to be over , the awful destruction was completed . Happily , however , no human lives were lost ; nor did any horses or cattle fall victims to the flames . A vast quantity of poultry aud _ph-eons , and a good many pigs were destroyed ; but all the horses and neat stock were removed out of harm ' s way . Of course , numbers of poor families have been rendered homeless , and many of them have lost all their little store of furniture : we need hardl y say that these have been cared for by their more fortunate neighbours , as will as circumstances would allow .

      Stbire op AoBicnLTDRAi , LABOUREns . —Nearly the whole of the farm labourers in the parish of Cotgrove , seven miles from Nottingham , still refuse to take the reduced wages offered by their masters , this making the eighth week of their strike . To support themselves and families they depend on ihe benevolence ofthe public , taking different circuits in groups , asking alms . Itis said they raise as much as keeps them and their children from starving . On the 9 ; h of February last the masters met , and then determined to reduce the wages from 10 s . ' to 9 s . per week , and in a few weeks they were to ho only 8 s . This the workmen refused , and on the following Monday _mornin- ' they all struck work unless 10 s . per week was promised them . Hence the unfortunate differences now existing between the masters and their labourers . Tke chief part of the land in the parish belongs to Earl Manvers .

      Threatening Letters . —For a considerable time past a gentleman of some eminence in Manchester has been annoyed by the receipt of anonymous letters of a threatening character , and latterly they have * assumed a deeper dye , and rendered it necessary to the gentleman ' s health and peace of mind that measures should be taken to prevent the annoyance , by discovering the author . It was therefore _arranged , with the concurrence ot the Post-office authorities , that an officer ofthe detective police should be placed on the watch , with instructions , on a signal being given frora within , to apprehend the person who had _dropped the last letter into the letter-box . This

      has led to the detection of the dastardly author . A few days ago the Post-office clerk appointed to watch the letters as ihey dropped through the box discovered the well known superscription on a letter , and instantly gave the appointed signal , when the police officer outside seized the gentleman who hnd posted the letter , informing him that he was arrested on the charge of sending threatening letters to Mr . ——* -. Tlie captured coward , terror stricken , exclaimed , " Then I am detected . " Great efforts are being made , it is said , to induce the injured person to forego the prosecution and exposure . The delinquent is an attorney in Manchester , connected with a firm of long standing in that town .

      The Poisoning at Stow . —It appears that there is every reason to believe that the melancholy event of which we lately gave the details was entirely accidental , that the poison ( arsenic of which Mr . Page used a quantity for sheep-washing , & c ., ) was laid in a closet io the kitchen , where the tea things used to stand , and thus became , probable , mixed with the sugar , the packet being disturbed in looking for something else . A packet of arsenic , which Mr . Page ' s shepherd had given to his master in October last , was found in this closet . Providentially , there havebeen no more deaths . _Incekdiart Fire . —On Saturday morn ing , between twelve and one o ' clock a . m ., a destructive fire broke out at Barge Farm , near Maidenhead , in the occupation of Mr . George Cross . -From the _circurnstauee that the premises appear to have been lighted at more places than one , there is no doubt of'its having been a most determined and diabolical act

      of incendiarism . The fire was at first discovered by the occupier of . the farm , when it was found that two large barns and the adjoining ricks were in flames . He immediately summoned his labourers to tbe spot , and soon afterwards t * o engines arrived , but water could be obtained only at a considerable distance , by causing , one engine to play into the other . The flames h ? d inthe mean time quickly extended along the range » f _farmsbuildings , owing to the wind blowing strongly at the" time , and a considerable while wpsidbefore they : wereSubdued ; -From the

      contiguity * bf-the ricks to the burning premises it wasimposs' - ble" for them to escape destruction . The property'burnt consists of two large barns—one filled with unthrashed vats , and the _othercontainiug about twenty-five quarters of wheat , and a considerable quantity of barley—an extensive wheat-rick , a hayrick , and two other , ricks , besides agricultural machines and implements . The buildings are insured in tbe County Fire office , and the other property is insured in the _lloyal _Exchange office . The large reward of £ 2 o 0 is offered for tbe detection ofthe offenders .

      _ExTRAonniNAur Fbat .-A few days ago , at _Uxbndge , a youth under twenty years of age , walked twenty miles _m le * than three hours . For the first 300 yards tke ground had a slight ascent , and thereafter a uniform level . The road waa in good order ; and the youlh , who weighed some 8 st . 91 b ., and measured five feet six inches , started oa his arduous

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      _nndertaWngiyThe weather _••*•« -favourable , sate * scowl of cloud jn the nineteenth and twentieth miles , and the mode m which the walker won may be best gathered from , the time : t-2 miles , 15 minutes 58 seconds ; 4 miles , 32 minutes 47 seconds ; 6 miles , 49 minutes 55 seconds ; 8 miles , 1 hour 7 minutes 39 seconds J 10 miles , 1 hour 25 minutes S seconds " 12 miles , 1 hour 43 minutes 6 seconds ; 14 miles , 2 hours 21 seconds ; 16 miles , 2 hours 18 minutes 17 seconds ; 18 miles , 2 hours 37 minutes 48 seconds ; 20 miles , 2 hours 58 minutes 17 seconds , Thus winning by 1 minute 43 seconds , much distressed .

      Apprehension op the BinDa . —Bird and his wife , were apprehended on the oth inat . at Coleridge , near Bideford , on a charge of having assaulted and otherwise maltreated Mary Ann Parsons . They were examined on Saturday beforo the mag istrates . During the proceedings the female prisoner was taken so ill that her removal became necessary , and thc further proceedings wero adjourned to Monday . She became rapidly worse after her removal , and , notwithstanding medical assistance was promptly rendered , she became ; delirious , and continued in that state when the accounts left Bideford on Sunday .

      Brutal Murder . —On Monday last two men , named Edward Craine and Thomas Gill , proceeded to a hill-side on the estate of Renabb , parish of Maughold , for the purpose of procuring a bundle of heather for the making of brooms ; while thus engaged the proprietor of the premises observed them , and remarked that he should quickly make them remove their quarters . In accordance with this determination , he at once set fire to the dry furze and heather , directly under the place where ' the poor men were engaged , as above stated . The fire spread with great fury , and it was only by rolling himself down the brow ofthe hill , and falling over tbe edge of the precipice into the river underneath , that Gill escaped , whilst his unfortunate companion , who was a pensioner , aged eighty years , and quite a cripple , was left in his helpless state a prey to the devouring element . After the flames had subsided Gill ' went

      in search of Craine , whom he found burnt to a cinder . The proprietor of the heath has been apprehended . —Manx Liberal A troublesome Present . —A man , habited as a gentleman ' s servant , knocked at the door of the mansion of Catchfrench , in the parish of St . German , on Tuesday night , about nine o ' clock , and left a large basket tied down - with cord , with the iwo female servants , saying it contained some things for the Misses Granville , the ladies of the house ; he then departed , saying he was going to look after his gig , which he had left in tne _neighbourhood , and would be back again shortly . The girl who took the basket , said , as the man would soon be back she would defer taking ii to her mistresses till his return , but on setting it down rather hastily she was astonished to hear the shrill tones of an infant voice issuing from . it . In the utmost surprise and alarm the servants ran to acquaint their mistresses ,

      whose consternation maybe easily imagined on finding the nature of the present they had been favoured with . After due deliberation , however , the basket was opened , and was found to contain a fine male child apparently about a fortnight old , nicely dressed and deposited with every care for its comfort and convenience . There was also a note written in a good hand , addressed to the Misses Granville , informing them that the parents of tho child were unable from the pressure of tbe times to bring him up as respectable as his ancestors , and therefore hoped that they would take compassion and adopt him . No clue has yet been obtained ofthe actors in this strange and unusual proceeding . It is needless to say the man did not return , but it has been ascertained that he came in a gig and passed through the neighbouring toll-bar . The infant will most likely be placed in tho St . Germans Union workhouse . — Cornwall Gazette .

      Essex , — "Wreck op the Royal Adelaide . —Information having been communicated to Mr . Codd , oovoner , thatthe body of a woman had beeu found on tho Maplin Sands , in the parish of Foulness Island , that gentleman summoned a jury for Friday last , when it appeared that she was found by a man named Belton , and carried to an outhouse attached to the King ' s Head public houso in Foulness ; that on searching her he found in the pocket of her gown several letters , two of which were dated respectively the 7 th and 10 th of March , 1850 , from Warley Barracks , commencing "My dear wife , " and signed " John Harrington ; " also , a pair of child ' s socks and a string of _bc-ida . Mr . Miller , thc surgeon , stated that he had mado an external examination of the body of the deceased , and found a wound upon her right temple , which

      was then still bleeding , and a bruise upon her right le *; both had been received during life , and were of a trivial character ; tbat he believed from her appearance she was an Irish woman , and about 35 years of age . lie was inclined to think , from the manner in which she was dressed , that she bad been lost from some vessel and washed overboard whilst in the act of dressing . Verdict , " Found dead . " Since the inquest information has been received of other bodies having been washed upnamely , that of a- man with a cork jacket , at Harwich ; a woman at Great Holland , a child at Little Holland , and a child at Frinton ; but as there can bo no reasonable doubt under the circumstances that they are . the bodies of parties drowned at sea , and probably belonging to the Royal Adelaide , Mr . Codd has declined holding inquests upon the bodies .

      Strike of Agricultural Labourers . — -A movement took place last week amongst the agricultural labourers of _Slisted , which , but tor the wise discretion with which it was met , might have led to seriou 3 consequences ; and wo regret that a very exaggerated account of the matter has been published , charging upon the gentlemen who interposed the failure of their exertions , and upon the labourers the commission , of personal violence , neither of Which has the slig htest foundation in fact . It appears that the wages of the labourers having been reduced from 8 s . to 7 s - on the Saturday night , a party of them assembled on Monday morning and proceeded from farm to farm , persuading others to join them , thus gathering as

      they went till they collected a body of about 200 , some of whom had sticks . They presented rather a formidable appearance ; but » ' beyond a little rough language to the farmers , who endeavoured to prevent their going upon their land , they committed no outrage , and on the arrival of a body of police they dispersed . The next morning , however , they mustered again in increased numbers ; Captain M' Hardy had taken the precaution of having a body of men near at hand , but it was resolved to try persuasion rather than force , aud accordingly Mr , O , S , Onley and the Rev , C . Forster proceeded with him to the throng , and

      their conciliatory and judicious words , deriving weight from the desire they have ever shown to promote tho comforts of the poor , calmed the storm of discontent ; the men dispersed , and the next morning returned peaceably to their employment . As not the slightest injury was done to person or property , no further steps , we learn , will ho takon in the matter ; it is not true that warrants have been issued against some parties , and it has been wisely , we think , resolved , since the men seem by their return to order and industry sensible of their indiscretion , to _pasB over without further notice the heedless , and happily harmless , outbreak . — Essex Herald .

      _Axotiier Fatal Wreck . —Letters received on Tuesday at Lloyd ' s , state that the loss of the barque Emma , Captain Christie , master , belonging to Dundee , on her passage from Newcastle to Montreal , on one of the Orkneys . On the morning of the 1 st inst ., at daybreak , tho vessel was observed oil St . Margaret's , at anchor , about half a mile from tho _shoie . the wind at the time blew tremendously from the S . E . Amidst the fury of the gale tho ship was discovered adrift . Those on board managed to make sail on her , and she stood to the eastward ,

      and then tacked and stood to tho north , when she drove and struck on the tocks with terrible force . Her fearful position was seen from the shore , but it was uttterly impossible to render any assistance to the crew . The poor fellows took to the rigging , and their cries and gestures for help were _truty heart-rending ; their , sufferings , however , were but for short duration , for within half-an-hour the masts were carried away , and : the whole of the unhappy creatures met a watery grave , The hull ofthe ship was . shortly broken up into a thousand fragments .

      Cowes Isle op Wight , Ap ril 6 .-The Phoenix pilot-boat , of this port arrived here last night with the captain , crew , and passengers of the American bri . g Lincoln of Boston , United States , who were taken out ofthe German ship Maria Christina , of Altona , Voss . master , off Portland , bound up Channel to Hamburgh . The master ofthe Lincoln informs us thathe sailed from Boston for California on the 29 th of January last , and pursued his voyage under favourable circumstances until he had reached the latitude of 4 N ., and longitude 2 _o W ., when at 10 . 30 p . m . of March 2 nd , during a heavy shower of rain , and without any menacing sign of lightning , the vessel was struck with the electric fluid which shivered the mainmast and found its

      way into the hold . On opening the scuttle , volumes of smoke were emitted ; and , finding it impossible to extinguish the fire , they endoavoured to stifle it by closing every aperture . In this state they remained for nearly four days , with tho fire burning in the hold , when they were relieved from their perilous situation by the providential appcaranco of the M . _iria Christina , and taken on board . Previous to leaving the ill-fated brig tho hatches were opened when the flames burst forth , and in thirty minutes afterwards the mainmast fell over the side . Captain Averill is very anxious to publish to the world the very kind treatment that he and his unfortunate crew and passsengers received from Captain Voss , who did everything in his power to comfort them ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦

      in their distress . ' ' < The Minis '" Districts . —We ( North _] British Mail ) regret to learn that the greater part of the miners employed i n ¦ - the mining districts around Airdrie , including thoso working at tho Dundyi / an and

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      Gar tsherrie pits , have ; since ' . Saturday . week , been out ' oriV , ' *' strike , " This ' . unfortunate circumstance is occasioned , we understand , ' by a resolution adopted by the employers to reduce the wages of the miners to 2 s . 6 d . a day . For a few months past they have received 3 s . a day , the advance of 6 d . per diem having reoently been conceded by the masters , who now wish to bring wages back , to the old standard . The men have , as yet , manifested a steady determination to resist the reduction . Meetings have already been held , attended by large numbers , at one of whieh , held at Clarkston during the week , there could not have been fewer than 5 , 000 present . We trust this unfortunate misunderstanding between tho masters and their workmen may be amicably adjusted . Indeed , we understand the miners themselves have expressed a strong desire to have the matter settled , if possible , by the arbitration of the sheriff of tho county . , ,, _„ ,, . ¦ .. , .. ; : : _, ; _^ .. 'r

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      Tenant Movement In Leinsran. —Heretofore...

      Tenant Movement in LEiNsran . —Heretofore the tenant movement has been confined to the north and south , but arrangements have commenced for holding meetings in the midland counties . A preparatory meeting was held on the 3 rd inst ., at Mullingar , the Rev . Dr . O'Rafferty , Roman Catholic Vicar general , in the chair , when the following resolution wa 9 adopted : — '' That , alarmed at the gradual annihilation of landlords in this county , owing principally to the continuance of high rents , entirely _disproportioned to the price of produce , we hereby pledge ourselves to use every constitutional exertion to secure a reduction of rent , and a fair adjustment of the relations between landlord and tenant . "

      It was also determined that a meeting of the oounty of _Weatmeath should be convened by public requisition , and a central committee was appoint _* d to make the necessary arrangements . The Rev . J . Savage , one of the Roman Catholic clergymen of the district , in a letter to the Freeman ' s Journal , says . *—"The free trade principle has given a large loaf to tho poor , and brought everything to its fair and natural value except the land . The landlords are determined to perpetuate the crisis , and to cling with the convulsive grasp of hands and ' eeth to the old rents , as Satan clings to his victims , " The tenant movement is also in active operation in the connty of Cork and the Roman Catholic clergy are taking a leading part in the meetings' _ . . . . _

      _Reiiep Advances . —The guardians of the Waterford Union are still remonstrating against the order of the commissioners for the immediate payment of £ 4 , 000 towards tbo liquidation of the Treasury advances , made during the famine . Sir II . W . Barron , M . P ., presided at a meeting of the guardians on Thursday , the 4 th inst ., when a memorial to the Lord-Lieutenant was adopted , containing a description ofthe exhausted condition of all classes , stating that large numbers of farms are untenanted and abandoned—that in the towns of the union the same distress prevails—that "inthe city of Waterford large numbers of the best houses are untenanted , and £ 5 , 000 per annum of the rateable _property is insolvent , " and praying his _Excellency ' s interposition with the Poor Law _Cimmissionersforan extension of the time of repayment as promised by the First Minister of the Crown . "

      The Capfcquin Insurgents . — The _Watetford Acws states that the four men sentenced to transportation at the last assizes , for attacking the police barracks at Cappoquin _, have been transmitted to Spike Island . Encumbered Estates Commission . — -Eighteen more petitions for the sale of estates have been filed in the Encumbered Commission Court . 'Ihe total number is now 658 . The principle of the Bill of Sir J . Romilly , which is to be re-introduced into Parliament , is now earnestly advocated , even by those journals whicli have most vehemently opposed the measure on its first announcement . Some ofthe northern journals advocate the bill , as affording facilities to tenant-farmers to acquire ultimately the feesimple of their holdings . The Banner of _Ulstev

      remarks , that " no man is able to buy the lowest tenant-right of a farm can , under the provisions of this bill , it we rightly interpret its meaning , experience any serious embarrassment in securing a complete perpetuity , provided only that he and a sufficient number of his neighbours will organise among themselves a joint stock association for making the required purchase at the Commissioners ' sale ; and provided also that they will take care to have legal arrangements in readiness , so as to obviate future difficulties in regard to regular payments of interest , _together with fixed suras for the _progressive extinction of the capital amount originally borrowed . "

      A reprieve has been received from the Ca 3 tle of Dublin , by Captain Henry Bolton , _hiuh sheriff of this city , to stay the execution of the two men named Dowling , convicted at last assizes of the murder of a bailiff named Hogan , near Clonea . It is expected that a commutation of the sentence to transportation for life will immediately follow . Oi'kration of the Poor Law . — Mr . Tufnell , one ofthe secretaries of tlie Treasury , returned to Dublin on Saturday afternoon , from Cork and Limerick , in which p laces , during a hasty visit , he had visited the workhouses , and made as much personal inquiry as time permitted respecting the condition of those unions and the working of the poor-law . Tlie official inquiry in the Kilrush Union has been brought to a close . It appears that the mortality in thc workhouses of that union has been considerable , amounting to one hundred and four deaths in the fortnight ending on the 31 st of March last . The

      affairs of the Kilrush Union are still attracting much attention , and some members of the House of Commons have been making inquiries there during the recess . The Limerick Chronicle states that Mr . Loch , member for Wick , was in Kilrush on Thursday last , and " commended highly the workhouse management , thc condition of the inmates , and the care taken of the hospital patients . " Although out door relief has been generally discontinued , the system still prevails pretty extensively in a few of the unions . In Newcastle ( county of Limerick ) , according to the last return , the inmates of the workhouses amounted to 3 , 820 ; and the number on the out-door relief waa 7 , 700 . In Ennis Union the _persons receiving out-door relief amounted to 0 , 435 . The Kuard ' ans ofthe Newcastle Union have applied to the Poor-law Commissioners for liberty to institute proceedings in the superior courts , against landlords who owe large arrears of poor-rate .

      Evictions . —A correspondent of the . _Freeman gives the following particulars of recent " exterminatinn" in Tipperary : — "On Monday , March 25 th , the sheriff ' s duply , accompanied by Captain Bradshaw , of Pegsboro ' , and a party of police , proceeded to the lands of Newtown , parish of Donohill , tha property ofthe Rev . Benjamin Bradshaw , where seven tenants were dispossessed . Four of the houses were levelled to the ground , and three others locked up after every article of furniture had been removed ... The sheriff s representative was then met by Mr . T . Scully and conducted to a property belonging to Yincent Soully , Esq .-,. Q . C . i-Dublin . One house was levelled in Ballyneal , and three families were turned out in Pallas Dourhill , also the property of Mr . Vincent

      Soully—fifteen other families having been evicted ' from the same townland , and their houses levelled within a year . The party next proceeded to Kilpatrick the property of Lord Hawarden , and under the direction of Mr . Stewart , the land agent , dispossessed fourteen families . These poor people , some of them rather comfortable farmers , derived Under a middleman , and many of them produced their receipts for the November rent . Still , amid the showers of snow and the piercing cold of that day they were turned out , and actually driven off the lands , as they were told his lordship wanted their farms for a sheepwalk . Since then most of them are squatted in sandpits and the ditches of

      the neighbouring townlands . The aggregate meeting of tho citizens of Dublin , convened in pursuanco of a requisition to the Lord Mayor , to petition the Legislature against the contemplated abolition ofthe office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , was held on Monday in the round room of tho Rotunda . Admission to the platform and reserved seats was by ticket , the price to the former heinir half-a-crown , and to the latter , one shilling ; but shortly after the commencement ofthe _proceeding the whole ofthe edifice was crowded _almosti to excess , tho audience including some ladies in the _reserved places . Tho chair was taken by the Lord Mayor . Resolutions condemnatory of the intended abolition of tho vice-regal court wero adopted .

      Tub Pomticai . Exiles . — In the list of guardians of thc Limerick Protestant Orphan Society appointed for the ensuing year at the annual meeting last week appears tho name of Mr . William Smith O'Brien . It was but a few months since that the same gentleman was re-elected a member of a literary institution established in Limerick , and his health toasted " with all the honours" in the presence of an assemblage composed of men ot very possible creed , political or religious . LbnD _. "VVestmkath on the Poor Law . —In reply to a vote of thanks passed to thc Marquis of "Westmeathby the guardians of tho OaiTick _» _on-Shannon union , his Lordship observes— " Tho selfish motives which have caused the bringing into parliament , and the passing of laws , inexcusable in many

      respects , have been well shown up , and put in proper contrast , by your patient endeavours , at every personal sacrifice , to execute tho provisions of tiiis deservedly odious code . You have been largely the victims of an unconstitutional and tyrannous system / crushing the industry of the country on all hands . Tho Unions of Mohill and Roscommon , and the property of them which . _touchjtheir borders , have boen victimised in like manner—so our story is not a singular one . Depend on it , as all human crime has its limit , and its retribution , the time is not far distant when tho people of Great Britain will understand that the ruin of this country , under the name of charity , will not have advanced tho ends , either avowed or concealed , for which they were undertaken . " ; The Repeat-, Association The usual weekly

      Tenant Movement In Leinsran. —Heretofore...

      irieeting ' _bf the ; Repeal Association was held at Conoiliation'Hall oa Tuesday . " _¦ There was a very small attendance .: Mr , Rafferty occupied the ' chair . ' Mr . John 0 " Connell announced the rent for . the week to be £ 4 , and stated that if the country did not come forward to support the _association , it would be _im-Sossible for him to keep the doors of Conciliation [ all open much longer . The Lord Matoe or Dublin . —At a meeting of the corporation on Tuesday , it was resolved that the Lord Mayor should present the memorial ofthe corporation to the Queen , against the removal of the viceregal court , and also tho petition to the House of Commons for the same" purpose . A tremendous row ensued , and Mr . Walker brought for « -v- , _ r _«« ; _•¦" .. » - ' _» . v .-.-. .. .... --. ,-..- _ . :

      ward his resolution , declaring that Mr . Reynolds had continued to hold the office of Lord Mayor illegally since his name was struck off the burgess roll , and that it was expedient , that the council should immediately proceed to elect a fit and proper person to fill the office . —Mr . Hamilton moved an amendment . —The Lord Mayor then read the opinion obtained from the English Solicitor-General on the question of the Dublin mayoralty , and which was to the effect that Mr , Reynolds could only be removed from his office of Lord Mayor , under all circumstances ol the ease , by means ofa quo warranto ; that he did not consider he would be liable to more than one penalty for his official acts , and that he might legally appoint a locum tenens whose acts would !)© valid , and who would not be

      personally liable to any penalty . An opinion of Sergeant Greene , the late Attorney-General for Ireland , was also read , and according to it , a mandamus would be required to enable the corporation to tako any step prudently for the removal of Mr . Reynolds from his office . —Mr . Walker intimated that if he had been aware of the existence of those documents he would not have persevered with his notice . —A division , however , was taken on Mr . Hamilton ' s motion , and the numbers were—twenty-four forthe resolution , and only four against it . An inspector of police , who was called up to the chair by tho Lord Mayor during this disturbance , remained near him , and it was expected every moment that a serious row would have taken place . There wero also several polico constables in the room , and waiting below stairs to obey any orders they might receive .

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      Gloucester. The Cheltenham Poisoning Cas...

      GLOUCESTER . The Cheltenham Poisoning Case . —The prisoner , Emanuel Burnett , was charged with the wilful murder of Elizabeth Gregory , at Cheltenham , by the administration of arsenic . The case occupied from nine o ' clock in the morning until ton at night . —Mr . Greaves and Mr . Huddleston prosecuted ; Mr . Symonds and Mr . Powell defended the prisoner . —Several witnesses were examined , who stated the various circumstances bf the case , ' which ; have already been detailed in our columns , nnd the jury returned a verdict of "Not Guilty . " —The prisoner was then indicted for the wilful

      murder of Samuel Gregory , but Mr . Greaves declined to offer any evidence on this charge , and the prisoner was acquitted , and left the court with his friends . Perjury . —Sarah Peters , a respectable-looking _ttavwed woman , with an infant at hor breast , wag indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury . —Mr . Skinner was counsel for the prosecution , and Mr . W . II . Cooke for the prisoner . —Ifc appeared that on the 25 th October , at a Tolsey Court , holden at Bristol , an action of debt for goods sold and delivered was tried , in which the husband of tbe prisoner was the plaintiff , and a person named Milward the defendant . On that occasion the prisoner , who had been married to the plaintiff since tho cause of action arose , was tendered and gave evidence as a witness

      forthe plaintiff , in the course of which she swore , upon cross-examination , that she was not related to the prisoner ; that she was a-widow , that she was a perfectly disinterested witness ; and that she was not married to the plaintiff . Tlie verdict was , upon her evidence , given in favour of tho plaintiff , and it turning out that all her statements as to her interest in the case were false , the present prosecution was instituted against her . Notwithstanding a very ingenious defence , in the course of which the prisoner ' s counsel _illustwited practically how even experienced witnesses might state that which was untrue when confused by cross-examination , tho prisoner was convicted , and sentenced to a fine of Is ., and to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour .

      CHESTER . _FoncERt . —Thomas Walker , aged ii , was indicted for having forged , at Frodsham , in this county , a promissory note for the payment of £ 90 , with intent to defraud the legatees of Daniel Erie . —It appeared that the prisoner was a man in very good circumstances , and with the prosecutor , Joseph Dutton , was entitled to a large sum of money under the will of the late Daniel Erie , of . Frodsham , who died several years ago . On the death of thc testator , the parties concerned under the will were desirous of bringing matters to a settlement , and amongst other things , it was considered desirable to sell a portion of the testator ' s landed property at Frodsham to the parish

      authorities . The prisoner , who was an executor as well as legatee under the will , at a vestry meeting of the parishioners of Frodsham , objected to the sale of the property until a promissory note , which he alleged he held from Mr . Daniel , was acknowledged and payment promised by his co-executors and legatees . After considerable delay , tho prisoner produced the note at the office ofa solicitor , named Purcell . It then purported to bear the signature of the testator , and to have been witnessed by William Walker , the brother of the prisoner . The promissory note was alleged to have been given about fifteen years ago , but the prisoner was informed by Mr . Purcell that it was worthless , as there waa no indorsement of interest on . the back of it . The prisoner said that , was of ho

      consequence , as ho had memoranda of payment of interest at home . It appeared that no steps were taken either , by the prisoner , as the holder of the alleged promissory note , or by the legatees under the will , to prove that it was a forgery , for a period of four or five years , until a few weeks ago , when the production of tho note was required , and it was then given up by the prisoner , annpurported to be attested by his brother , William Walker , and also to have several indorsements of the payment of interest on the back of it . A few days before the note came into tbe possession of the constable , the prisoner had given notice of aotion to his co-executors , for the recovery of £ 90 , the amount of the note in question . It was shown that when tho note was at Mr . _Purcell's office there were no indorsements

      upon it . Witnesses were called , who expressed their conviction that the signature of " Daniel Erie" was not in Mr , Erie ' s writing , and the brother of the prisoner proved that his signature as attesting witness to the note was a forgery . —M . M'lntyre , who appeared for the prisoner , contended that the promissory note was a genuine one , and thatthe present indictment would not have been preferred had not notice of action been served for the recovery of the value of it . —Tho jury found the prisoner " Guilty , " and he was sentenced to seven years' transportation . Manslaughter by a Gamekeeper . —John Woodfine , aged 39 , was indicted for the manslaughter of George Moulton , on the 28 th of November last , at

      Coddington . This case excited considerable interest . It appeared that on the night of the 2 Sth of November last there were six poachers engaged in an affray with tho gamekeepers of J . _H . Lecue , Esq ., of Carden Hall , and R . Aldersey , Esq ., of Aldersey , three of whom are in custody on a charge of poaching , two of whom escaped , and the sixth was the deceased George Moulton . Early on the morning in question , Woodfine , the prisoner , who was gamekeeper to Mr . n . Leche , was out watching in the viomity of the hall in company with a watcher , when they heard the report or guns , which they thought : proceeded from a wood called Barton Plantation . They went there , but found no poaohers . While in the wood they heard firing in

      the direction of Aldersey , and Woodfine proposed to go and call up George Lightfoot , Mr . Aldersey ' s head gamekeeper . The party accordingly went to Lightfoot ' s house , and knocked him up , and having heard firing again went towards a wood known as the Sobbercroft Plantation . The plantation i 9 a short one , abutting upon a lane called the Dog-lane , and terminating in the fields . The firing now became so distinct that the keepers were satisfied poachers were in the plantation .. When the keepers got near tho spot where the poachers wore , the latter made off towards Chester , nnd the keepers pursued them until they very nearly reached them . Wooilfine and Lightfoot were armed with guns , and Moulton with a cudgel . Woodfine then called out

      to the poachers to ' stand . " One of them replied , " Go to the devil with you . " The keepers again shouted , " Stop , for we are determined not to be humbugged . " The poachers then turned round and faced the keepers within a very few yards , some of whom wero armed with guns , and the rest with bludgeons . The poachers gradually retired when Woodfine , wbo was a little in advance of his companions , called out to them , ¦« Now , lads , let ' s in to them . " Woodfine first sprang forward with his gun up , and struck ono of the poachers on the head , receiving a severe blow in return ' . Another blow was levelled at him , but before it descended Foviuesht

      ton had knocked the man down , a desperate fig ensued , in the course of which both parties were severelv beaten , and one or two of the poachers knocked senseless into a ditch . The prisoner stated that during the fight one of the men came towards him with his gun presented , and which he belioved would have shot him had he not como up and struck the gun on ono side , which immediately exploded , : and George Moulton was seen to fall immediately . The fig ht continued ; for some time longer , but two of the-poachers having fled , and two others being senseless on the groundj the rest were easily secured , and the deceased carried to a farmhouse in the neighbourhood , where he died . A suv

      Gloucester. The Cheltenham Poisoning Cas...

      geonjvho was calledinproved the _^ w _^ _^ to have _beenbaured _VygSoi' _t _„ eath _ofW having entered the lo _4 f _* S _» ffS compfetely ; destroyed a port & m of «? *» n n ) viscera .-Mr . Townsend " qT lj \ ahfiS soner , and the learned _JudgVhS _** the _« theuase , m the course of which fe _^«/ condemn the practice of sending ouul _^ Cn with deadly weapons for - the _ntW _Wes a ?"" thejury found - _^ _Fr i _^^ _fjg * a , J } NORWICH , y ' " Af / SAbLT . —Robert WilJemonf _, _» _^ dieted for wounding _JaSfSS . S _? _, . * _*»* cut on of his duty a ! a poll e _25 / •<* _Jfr of January , 1848 . —Mr . Poww «! le » 0 I - ft William Cooper defendedl fil 5 j _«« _15 j that the prosecutor and anotner _,-r _pS Garrod , were intrusted , in 1847 _£ ; . L _Wtna W apprehend tho prisoner _mZ _$ _^*! _t _& that . T . _hftv _iwnivs' _4-n -LI- . .. o Ot fnU- " ' A . _^

      past eight o ' clock on the St „ f S _?*»» t _^ January , 1848 , and finding tS \ , the _KHT [ ocked , they climbed « m _\ li _^ l _& the house door , which was aim \ ra _PDeT _" some little interval old Mr . _C _^ 5 chamber window , and asked who vfi $ L ° P * % was wanted . Ems replied « t , _^ _an- _lvf * Robert ; " but being politely ' toldX _\^ W _? S ? and be _ _ShouldSott _' _,, ' he " *! night , " the policeman insisted on * , ® * i ? _"" ir _, had a warrant , and would show _K _^ i ft if they would come down and see it _l •• " _•« _£ hen withdrew his head , and the nfR _^ fair waited patiently for _somA _»„ _J ? _« of i >

      receiving no answer , broke openl tff _^ ff rushed upstairs . As soon as thev « J" _^ t J ' the father standing with a hW I ? _v * l % S inside the door , a _/ d a b _^^^ _fJa way up the stairs with a stick . EmflSonef U latter , and just as he reached the _landhw l _^ H h a tremendous blow on the head from + V ' H who laid about most vigorously with o Iu- _?*• _- _* _% stick . The effect of this wound was _{ _- _*{¦ _- * < and as tho prosecutor , was _sta-ff-erinn _.,, _^ _^ _- "" . prisoner's brother knocked _himX S toftf * '* with his stick . Thia done the whole tt - _^ seem to have decamped , _leavintr n , J !? 7 _* _«« _rJi

      his disabled companion to Norwich _»« _. _„;? i c ?*"? he might-Mr _/ Cooper , in _ZtnS ll _?^ echoed the statement of the prisoner who i 7 » was taken on this charge , denied all _knowlli * the prosecutor , and asserted thathe tookWnT *• housebreaker rather than an officer of- 3 charged to keep the _peaet . —Mr . Justice " ffiJlf - left it to thejury to say whether they attached " credit to this statement , and they _havine _fnnnS _«' prisoner " Guilty" of the whole charge , hisZS v * sentenced him to be transported for ten years 7 offence appearing to him to be one which called f the m ost severe punishmen t . **• The Diss Bank . RoBBEm ? . —The prisoners R _" and Senior , who had confessed themselves _onik oi uiss uanic

      me roODery , were _Drough t _upE the Lord Chief Baron to receive jud gmeut . _- * Lordship , in addressing ihe prisoners , said-. jj ? field John Rix and Henry Senior , you stand _«¦ victed upon admissions made by yourselves on to * trial , that you were guilty of the offence _cliarw upon you- You were , however , at the _veryac _^' of your confession , or the admission on your _pjj " strongly recommended to mercy by the prosecute who professed to have no ill will towards _either you , but professed to haVe been—up to a certain m riod—faithfully served by both * of you , and . _fe whom , as well as from the counsel , I collect thatvet had before , and up to that time , enjoyed a goodre ' tation . You appear to have moved in a societ y |{ j would make any punishment of any sort to _vniiw .

      of considerable severity , and in considering ft punishment due to this offence—presented _ta & without any circumstances of aggravation , a » _dapearing nakedly before me , as it hag done ' , cow "' also with the recommendation on the part of ft prosecutor—I think I may well listen to suggestion of mercy as would naturally occur even to my on mind , and especially with reference to thestation i life that you have filled—a station whicli rank every hour of imprisonment one of great suffer-in-, coupled as it must be with all the restraints , _ati all the penal consequences , of such a _punisbDieti and which might make life intolerable if you we n visited with that severity which the law might _»

      quire , if it appeare _d that there were any davfe , _anj bad and wicked features in the offence beyond thos which the indictment discloses . Under tho circuit stances , therefore , of-your being strongly recort mended to mercy by the prosecutor , I leel _mrsei justified in passing upon you , John Blofiold Rii the sentence of imprisonment for eighteen calende months , and upon you , Henry Senior , that you b imprisoned for the space of twelve calendar montlis and that you both be kept to hard labour durin » _tb periods of your respective imprisonments . —Our * - ceiving this sentence , the elder prisoner , ltix , af peared , as he had hitherto done , perfectl y _uumOTri _, but Senior seemed much affected .

      SnOOTIXG WITH INTENT TO MoitDEB . —John Thittr blethorpe , aged 21 , was iudictcd oii the charge of having , on the 26 th of July last , at Griston , fired i gun at Susan Lingwood , single woman , with interto murder her . Having heard tho evidence adduce ' , thejury deliberated one hour and a half before tta | agreed . They then acquitted the prisoner . Desperate Affray with Poacuers on the Eia of Leicester's Estate . —J . Flofrsr , 26 , C . Fie- * , 28 , J . Frary , 23 , C . Magnus , 22 , W . Copes , 25 , aid R . Wright , 28 , were indicted on the charge-f having , on the night of the 2 < kli Decemte to , armed with guns , stones , and bludgeons , entered certain land , called the Ash Car , at Wighton , in the occupation ofthe Right Hon . tho Earl of Leicester ,

      for tho purpose of taking game . Several witnesses were examined , after which his lordship summed up , and the jury consulted in the box for about half an hour , when the foreman announced that they were not likely to agree for some time . They were accordingly locked up , and , it being seven o ' _cloc _"; , the court adjourned until half-past nine , when his lordship returned , and the jury having returned * verdict of " Guilty , " Charles Plegg was sentence " to six months' imprisonment with hard labour , and all the rest to twelve months , the last week to te solitary . In addressing tho prisoners , his _Ioi-J-d' * censured the conduct of the keepers _to-var « Charles Flegg as wholly unjustifiable , and very brutal .

      _KINGSTON . Wheeler v . the Bishop of Winchester .- ' ' ' '! 1 ' case occupied the court nearly four days . Th * •"* ' tion was brought to try the right to certain waste hinds , and whether they belonged to the plain ' " * claiming as lord of the manor of Churt , or to tM defendant , who is lord of the manor of FarntoB . A great many witnesses were examined on botn sides , but it appeared to be pretty clearly made oni on the part of the right reverend defendant that _w such manor as Churf had ever existed , and that « was only one ofthe _tithinssof the manor of Farnnaffl . Tho jurv stopped his lordship while ho was m tne course of summing up the case , and said they ha * made up their minds , and they at once returned * verdict for the defendant .

      Loss Of Thb-Packet-Ship Joh.N* B. Skiddy...

      LOSS OF THB-PACKET-SHIP _JOH . _N * B . SKIDDY . The following letter , from Captain Shipley , ff an account of the loss of his vesssel , a "" " _" ' rapacity of the wreckers on the coast of _Wesforii Salirc , Gorey , Ai _mli It has become my melancholy duty to inform JOU J " " ? total loss of the ship John II . Skiiidy on _Glasearn _*^' ( county of Wexford ) on tlio night of the 1 st of ' Apw _' _i a L quarter past eleven , l ) _eiiig very thick and rawing *' time , and having mistaken the light on _ArMo-v-b : >* % Tusher . I had seen Bnrdsey Islam ! at nine oc _fL _$ same morning , and steered a coursp that 1 « _^ carry me about midway between the Smnlesanu _w . _^^ but , by some unaccountable menus , tlie ship was <» verT materially out of her course by thc tides . lam n _« 1 {

      to inform you that the passengers and crew were "*>" _"' } . safety , also the greater part of tlie baggage in good M » J and we shall probably save tlie remainder iu a _daiii'S _^ condition . I have also saved : tho sails , spars , and *»•' . the stores . The ship lies within 20 U yards oflhetw-j bilged nnd very quiet , the water over , the lower deA the weather should * ltoop moderate , some part ofthe W may ba saved , in a damaged state . I have abandoned b Khip to Lloyd's agent , who has men now employed IB jr bending sails , _< tc . 1 think the natives ofthitjJ'" ' ° ! _L country the most abandoned set of villains it hat _ever'w my misfortune to faU in with : they commenced roD _° '" and plundering the moment they came on board , an boat-load of luggage or stores landed , Uicy were _'*" :. » tely seize * on by the lawless _viUnins , »> dt n _*" - ' coast guard and police .

      Taim Iuli.Wa**S. -"We {Hull Adverser) Im...

      _Taim IUli . WA ** s . - "We { Hull _Adverser ) Im ' C _Jj week witnessed , at Mr . CrosskiU _' s A gn «««« , Machine Works , Beverley , two sets of farmra" . in working order , with turn tables , points , _siu _^ « tc , connected with portable moving rails . were shown , upon what Mr . Crosskill _ealls his ¦ ton rail , four _wagons , each loaned with ono ' and a half of soil , aud one with straw , 'f hey % managed by ono horse and two men , eTi _«» proving that manure can be put on and vl 0 \\ taken off the land by thoso railways . <* n 0 SL _\ peculiarity in tho use of this rail is that roa _^ labour is so much cheaper than with ordin »"')' L t iis ' ono'horse , Avith two won , wiil do mo ** - _^ than four horses and four men by tho proscj _" _l . _^ Whilst arfmirine- the evid . _mf ; _sti _* i > n . » th of t' 16 ... it

      and convinced by what we witnessed of _^ iLti permanent saving in the number of men aWf " _^ which the use of those rails would effect , ' _^ c 0 lt , not forgetful that , after all , its princip _^ mendation . would bo its cheapness . Wc _w _^ prised to learn that their cost would not » ° than 5 s . per yard . ¦ ' _, ,. ebe" ' Illness op _' _-nm Poet Moore . — LcUers na > I- \ _••; received from Sloperton , g iving a most _P-m _" , [() 0 i _* , count of the decaying health of the _pW _® - _^ whose death was " daily apprehended , toi _^ months ; past Mr . Moore had not left his wot altogether his condition was considered _wpw

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 13, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_13041850/page/6/