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      _MoRTAij-rr Et ihe Metropolis . —It is shown by the present return that the public health improves ¦ with tiie progress of the early months , and that the mortality has now fallen to " the rate that prevailed in tho month of October . The deaths in the week ¦ were _VHi , being thirty-one more than the weekly average of five springs , if allowance be made , in estimating the average , for increase of populat ion , which in females was in ten years ( 1831—41 ) 1 * 551 per cent , annually . In the registration returns the spring quarter is reckoned from the 1 st of Ap ril ; and as the rate of mortality falls with the advance of thc season , the return of last week is more favourable as compared with the average than at first sight appears . The deaths from the zymotic or epidemic

      « lass of disease were 221 ; the average is 198 ~ ; those from 'Sections of the respiratory organs , 202—a considerable excess above the average , which is 131 , but augmented by the circumstance already mentioned . The deaths from hooping-cough , bronchitis , pneumonia , were fifty-four , seventy-nine , and eightyseven : the respective averages being thirty-six , thirty-seven , and sixty-one . Consumption exhibits almost as nearly as possible the usual amount of fatality . Deaths from small-pox are still unusually few ; those from measles are on the increase . The mortality from scarlatina and typhus is near the average ; the aggregate from diarrhaea , dysentery , and ehiJera , it is satisfactory to observe , can hardly be said to be more than usual at this time . Only

      five persons died of cholera . A woman in Whitecbapel died , according to medical certificate , of "intemperate habits , and disease of the heart . " According to similar authority , a man of twenty-three years , died in the sub-district of St . John the Evangelist , Westnunster , of " convulsions ( ten days ) caused b y being exposed to the deleterious effects of tobacco , in his occupation at a cigar manufactory . " The j _neaa hei g ht ofthe barometer was 29-468 in . on Tuesday , the _Tvkhest recorded in the week . The temperature ofthe air was highest on Friday , when It was 59 deg . 5 min . The mean daily temperature was highest on the same day , and was -19 deg . 1 min . The Mean temperature of the week was 45 deg . 7 m . Fatal Cases op Cholera registered in the week

      ending Saturday , April 7 . —One is a case in which an inquest was held , the others are certified hy medical » ttendants . _Kessixgtos . —Town : F . 2 S , - " ma ' _i-niant cholera , and not injuries by violence _alk-i-cd to have been done to her . " —Inquest . St . _MAnnx-is-iHE-FiELDS . — Charing Cross : F . 38 , " cholera spasmodica ( 10 hours ) . " Mr . Leonard , the registrar , states that " The deceased was reported as a charwoman , but in fact was an unfortunate female of intemperate habits , brought to thc workhouse at six o'clock p . m . on thc 7 th instant in a state of collapse . The house-surgeon and assistant gave immediate attendance , aud at half-past nine the district-surgeon also . Death occurred at ten p . m . On the morning of Easter Sunday the district

      officer of health visited the house , Xo . 5 , Hanovercourt , Long-acre , and reported it to be a ' house of _accor-iniodation . ' In a small yard about 4 feet by 10 _fe-.-t is a deep cesspool , not sufficiently protected , and very offensive . The under part of the house receives the dust and refuse ; and the drain-water from tlio small yard runs in a pipe into the cellar , and i ? caught in a tub or butt . The rooms , which are two on a floor , are cleanly kept . The two officers of health visited this house on August 26 of last year ; and from notes then taken I find , that over a surface of about 6 , 480 square feet there is no surface drainage , or very insufficient ; that the cesspool ofthe above house had been emptied about the 17 th July ofthe same year , and that there appeared to

      be no drain . The next house has also arrangements of the very worst description . " St . Pancras . — Camden Town : 31 . 34 , "Asiatic cholera , active symptoms ( 18 hours ); continued fever ( 3 days ) . " Dr . Hurt a , medical attendant , states that " all the symptoms of Asiatic cholera were well marked in the _patk-nt , except cramps , which were very partial , and _r- _~ i _** ictcd to the upper extremities . Lips and iacc _blui- and collapse , diarrhoea , rice-water . _Transfusion < _- 'f thirty ounces of blood was tried while in _collapse , which rallied him for a day , but he died _thvea days afterwards of continued fever . " _Gheejjwicr :. —Woolwich Arsenal : In Hoyal Ordnance _Hospit-il M . 23 , " debility ( 20 days ); cholera biliosa ( 13 hours ) . " Greenwich _TVest : In Dreadnought Hospital , M , 14 , " cholera . " P . m .

      INQUESTS . Mysterious Death of as Ixmate or the Tuixm ALM-io * ses . —On Saturday last before Mr . Baker , at ihe Hurl Grey public-house , Mile-end-road , on Thom _.-. _A Davis , aged 72 years . It appeared that the deee .-itt .-d was formerly a pilot , and had been for se-Teral years past an inmate of the Trinity Alms houses in the Mile-end-road . On the previous Wednesday _evening he was seen sitting in his room with three females , and he appeared perfectly sober . About an hour afterwards deceased was Ibund lying with bis head upon the top of the fire , and his body prcs-.-ui-. -d a most horrible appearance . —Mr . Jackson , thc governor of the _alnihouses . stated that tbe deceased had received his _^ quarterly pension on

      Monday lust , amounting to £ 1 Is ., and wnen His clothes were searched all his money was found to be missing . It was proved that the deceased was not subject to fits , but enjoyed tolerably good health . The women seen in his room had frequently visited him , and also the other pensioners . —Stephens , the constable , said Im had made the most diligent inquiries respecting the females , but could not discover who they were . —The coroner said it was quite clear that a felony had been committed , and it was probable that the females had placed the deceased in the position in which hc was found , to screen themselves from discovery . The inquiry was adjourned . The inquest opened on Wednesday evening at the Earl Grey public-house , Mile-end-road , and the three

      women were brought forward by Mr . Stephens , the constable . Their names are Elizabeth Mary Ann Barnes , E . Watson , and H . Calahan . Watson and Calalian swore that Barnes put her hands into the pocket oi the deceased , took out what was in it , and that thoy then left . She then treated Watson and Cakh-iu to a show , and told them she took 10 s . 6 d . from the- old man , though she afterwards said . she only took 10 s . At tbe suggestion of Mr . Baker , who suiid he had nothing to do with the robbery , the jury returned an open verdict , " That the deceased died from mortal burns on thc head , but how caused remaius unknown . " The women Barnes and Watson were then taken into custody by Sergeant Brown , ofthe K _ilivision , to be tried before a magistrate for the robbery .

      Chile- Mokder . —On Saturday last before Mr . Baker , at the Black Horse , Engsland-road , Shoreditch , on the body of a full grown female child , which » -is discovered in the Regent ' s Canal at Hagferston-i _> ridge , with its head nearly severed from the ody . —A youth named Shephard , residing in Tysenstreet , Uethnal-green , proved finding the body about one o ' clock on the previous Wednesday afternoon , floating in the water ofthe canal , near _Haggerstonbridgo . On being taken out of the water , an extensive wound was found in the throat , evidently inflicted by some sharp instrument , and extending

      from e : ir to ear . A second wound crossed the throat , and penetrated the stomach , —Mr , Clark , surgeon , who bail made a post mortem examination of the body , hy order ofthe coroner , stated that the deceased had arrived at tbe full period of gestation , and wa * -: , _inhls opinion , born alive . The woundin the throat was inflicted during life , and was tbe immediate r _* use of death . The police have actively been engag-i ? . in the case since the discovery ofthe body , hut up io the present time noclue whatever has been obtai .: ci to the guilty parties . The jury returned a Terdid of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown .

      Re _* -.- _* rse of Fobtcxe . —On Saturday last , before Mr . Payne , at the King and Queen , Great Distafflane , _Doetors' -cpmmons , on ihe body of Mr . William _Alexsuder , aged 54 , formerly a watch and clock maker in Parliament-street , where he carried on an extensive business for twenty-two years , The deceased , it appeared , became bankrupt three years ago , and was for a long time afterwards out of work , and in _i * ie greatest distress ; but at length he obtained an engagement to regulate the clocks on the Chester and Holyhead Railway . Meeting with an accident on the lute a few months ago , he came to one ofthe London hospitals , from which he was discharged on Tuesday week . At this time he -was utterly destitute , and his wife , who was living with a relative , had no home to take him to . In this condiiion he took a room at the King and Queen , Great Distaff-lane , and died there suddenly from the _Bursting ofa vessel in the lungs . Yerdict , " 2 fatural Death . "

      _SuiauE . —On Saturday last , before Mr . Carter , at tho Mitre Tavern , Broadway , Blackfriars , on the body of Mrs . Sarah Smith , aged 41 , who destroyed herself under the following circumstances : —The deceased was said to be the niece of a well-known baronot , and for fifteen months had lived at Mr . _Boreman's , grocer , Blackfriars-road . On Thursday morning , as his wife had not seen the deceased , she suggested that he should go up to her room , which he did , and found the door locked , with the key inside . Not liking to break open the door , he sent for

      her frionds , and an entrance was then made . Mr . Boreniun found her suspended by a piece of old tape , hich was fastened to a part of her bedstead , and . -he appeared to have been dead for some hours . There " seemed no doubt it was the deceased ' s own act , and that she was under thc apprehension that she should die of starvation in a workhouse . She , however , seemed to have plenty of work to do , not for the purpose of earning money , but to employ her mind . The jury returned a verdict , " That the deceased destroyed herself ia a fit of _monomania . "

      Moxdat . _—Dssimmox . —Before Mr . Pavne , at the Giltspur-street Compter , on the body o _' f Ellen Crimmln , aged 21 , a prisoner . It appeared from the evidence of Ellen Sullivan , a fellow pr isoner that they had both come over from Ireland a few _"wec-k-i since , in the expectation of obtaining situations ia London , but , failing in doing so , they had for the last fortnight been in a starving state , sleeping at nights on the steps of doors . On the 29 th

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      ult . they made application to the relieving officer of the City of London Union for relief , and he offered to send them to Peckham poorhouse , provided they would afterwards submit to be passed to Ireland . To this they objected , and on leaving they committed the act for which the Lord Mayor sent them for fourteen days' imprisonment . —Mr . M'Murdo , the surgeon to the prison , stated that his attention was called to the deceased , and that he found her sufferin < r from extreme debility and low fever , produced by \ vant and exposure to the weather . She was immediately placed in the infirmary , where sho received every attention and nourishment , but she never rallied , and died on Saturday last . Verdict , " _Natural Death . "

      Suicide or as Old Lady . —Before Mr . Baker , at the Old Basing House , Kingsland-road , on the body of Susannah Benson , aged 66 years . It appeared that the deceased was the widow of Mr . John Benson , a horse hair manufacturer , who died suddenly some years since , leaving the deceased an annuity sufficient to maintain her until she was seventy years of age . The deceased enjoyed tolerably good health until within the last three weeks , when she appeared very low and desponding , and complained that her money would not last till she was dead . She was last seen alive on Thursday evening , when she appeared much distressed in her mind , and said " she thought she would die that night . " On the following morning she was found by Mr . T . Guest , the landlord ofthe Old Basing House , suspended by a black crape handkerchief from a rail of her bedstead . She was quite dead , and had apparently been so some hours . Verdict , " Temporary Insanity . "

      Deaths from Suffocation . —Last week we gave an account ofthe deaths of three young women alleged to have died from the inhalation of the fumes of charcoal at Miss Carolino Mann's establishment for young ladies , Liburnia-house , No . 2 , Londonroad , St . John ' s-wood , on the night of Tuesday or morning of Wednesday . On Saturday Mr .. Mills , the deputy-coroner for Middlesex , and a jury of fifteen inhabitants of the Christchuvch district of Marylebone , assembled in tbe coffee-room of the Eyre Arms , for the purpose of investigating the unhappy occurrence . Eliza Griffiths was 15 , Frances Carter 17 , and Eliza Prichett 23 . The facts of th case having been proved by several witnesses , whose examination extended to a great length , the coroner

      summed up , merely observing that the unfortunate deceased persons appeared by the evidence to have gone into the room in question of their own free will ; at least two were proved io have done so . Xone ol them had asked for better accommodation . He would , therefore , leave the matter in their hands , satisfied that the jury would come to a just and proper conclusion from the evidence before them . Strangers were then desired to withdraw for the jury to consider their verdict , and , after a lapse of nearly an hour , on the public being again admitted , tbe coroner said the jury had unanimously agreed to the following verdict : —" That Elizabeth Pritchett ,

      Eliza Griffiths , and Frances Carter were found dead in a small and ill-ventilated room , and that their deaths were caused by the poisonous fumes of burning charcoal , which had been sold at an extravagant price , under the fraudulent name of prepared fuel ; and that these attempts to vend charcoal under the name of prepared fuel to be used in Cannon's or any other such portable stoves , is a scandalous imposition on the public . "The Coroner : Am I to understand you to say , gentlemen , that you attach no blame whatever to Miss Mann ?—The Jury : Most decidedly so , Sir ; not the slightest . The inquiry occupied upwards of four hours .

      Wednesday . —Suicide of a Female _nv Oxalic Acid . —Before Mr . Bedford , at the Rose and Crown , Knightsbridge , on the body of Mary Ann Taylor , aged 42 , who destroyed herself by taking poison . —Mr . Brownlow , of Trevor-square , deposed that deceased entered his service as general servant on the loth of February last . Before engaging her he had understood from her brother , a tradesman in the city , that she was formerly a great drunkard but had reformed . She conducted herself very well for the first fortni g ht , but afterwards she was frequently the worse for liquor , On the Monday and Tuesday preceding her death she was so much in liquor as to be incapable of doing her duties , and on Wednesday morning he told her she must quit her situation on ¦¦

      Saturday ( last ) , adding that in lieu of a month s warning he should pay her a month ' s wages . On Thursday evening he returned home , when , ringing for deceased , and receiving no answer , he went to look after her , and in the water-closet found her crouched up on the floor quite dead . He had since found duplicates of property which she had pledged belonging to him , and in a cujboard in the kitchen was a stone p itcher containing gin . —Mr . W . Martyn _, surgeon , said he was cafled in to see the deceased , who had been some time dead . There were no external marks of violence , but on making a post mortem examination , he found the death to have been caused by oxalic acid . —Verdict , " That the deceased died from the effects of oxalic acid , but how or by whom administered there was no evidence to show . " Destitution . —On Wednesday , hefore Mr . Payne ,

      at Bridewell Prison , on the body of Mary Mahony , alias Quin , aged 30 years . It appeared from the evidence of Capt . Adams , the governor , that the deceased had been admitted twice for fourteen days , during the last six years , for breaking windows and gas lamps . She had only lately arrived from Ireland with a number of other emigrants , and , as might be expected , she was soon left destitute , and the only means of obtaining food was by being sent to prison . When the deceased was admitted the second time , she was very weak and feeble , and said she had scarcely anything to eat since she was discharged the first time . —Mr . Coote , the surgeon , said the deceased died on Tuesday morning from fever , produced by want and exposure . —A juror remarked that there were 1 , 200 Irish emigrants now supported in the West London Union . —The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical

      evidence . Suicide at Vacxhaix-bridge . —On Wednesday before Mr . Bedford , at the Feathers , Dean-street , Westminster , on the body of E . Burford , a farrier , who committed suicide by jumping over Vauxhallbridge into the river . —John Pullingcr , a Thames police inspector , stated on Thursday evening week last , about half-past eight o ' clock , he was in a galley passing under the second arch on the north side of Vauxnall-bridge , when some person on the bridge called out " a man has jumped over , " and at the same moment he heard a splash in the water . He rowed tothe spot whence thc sound proceeded , and picked up a man ' s cap , after which he caused the drags to be put into requisition , but without

      avail . —R . Stradford , a " dredgerman , " proved finding the body of deceased on Sunday morning near the _Horseferry . —Elizabeth Burford stated that on the Thursday evening in question , about halfpast seven o ' clock , the deceased left home , saying that he was going to take a little walk , and should not be long . She never saw him again alive . The deceased had been for eight weeks ill , and on the sick-fund of the " Old Friends" society . On the Thursday night he was apprehensive that his allowance would be discontinued , and lie was consequently very low-spirited , saying that " he was not able to work , and that he did not know how his family would be supported . " The deceased never had threatened self-destruction—Verdict , •¦ Found drowned . "

      Suicide of a Naval Surgeon . —Before Mr . Higgs , at the Spotted Dog , Strand-lane , on the body of Mr . John Acton , aged 30 , an assistant surgeon in the royal navy , lately resident at No . 6 , Surrey-street , Strand . —Jane Brooker , servant to Mrs . Douglas , of 6 , Surrey-street , stated that the deceased had occupied apartments in that house for the last four months . He had been in a very bad state of health for some time past , and for the last eight days had not left his room . Hc appeared chiefly to be suffering from lowness of spirits , great nervousness , and had a very bad appetite . Lately he laboured under tbe delusion that all his friends had forsaken him . Dr . Johnson used formerly to attend him , but lately deceased had prescribed for himself . On Monday

      last he seemed exceedingly restless , and at twelve o ' clock at night asked for writing materials , saying that he wanted to write home to his relations , but when they were brought he trembled so much that he was unable to write . All night long he was heard pacing the room in a very excited state , yet no fears were entertained that lie would do himself any injury , and in the morning , finding he did not answer her knock at the door when" she carried up his breakfast , she imagined he had fallen into a sound sleep after his night ' s fatigue . However , at eleven o _' clock , 'receiving still no answer , the door was forced open , and ho was discovered hanging by a cord which he had taken off one of his boxes to a hat peg by the side of the door . He was instantly cut down , and a surgeon sent for , who said he had been dead five or six hours . —Mm . Douglas said she

      attributed the deceased ' s excited state to the repeated disappointments he had met with in endeavouring to obtain promotion in the rank of surgeon in the Royal Navy . He had been unsuccessful in his applications to the Admiralty . In some conversation she had had with him he told her that he had been twice assistant-surgeon in ships stationed on the west coast of Africa , and that his health had much suffered from the climate . Dr . Bryson , of the Army and _IJfavy Club , visited him on Monday last , and seeing the state of his health wished him to become a patient in the Woolwich Infirmary . Thc deceased , however , had the greatest objection to going to that institution . A card on which the following was written was found on his table : — " Forgive me my friends aud avoid sin . "—Verdict " Temporary Insanity . "

      Fire and Probable Loss of Life . —On Tuesday evening considerable alarm was caused in Poolplace , Mount-pleasant , Clerkenwell , in consequence of aery being raised that the first floor ofthe house numbering 2 in that place was on fire , and that a child about four years of age was burning therein . The parish engine and the Brigade firemen immediately staited for the spot , when , to the surprise of

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      the neighbours , the doors were barred against the admission of the firemen—the inmates ofthe house succeeding themselves in putting the flameB out . The only information that could be learned was , that a bed and bedding was burned , and a child about four years of age was so frightfully burned , that its death was hourl y expected . The premises , which were let out in tenements , were owned by a Mr . Sullivan , who was under an erroneous impression that if he allowed the firemen to enter he would haye to pay for their attendance . The unfortunate child who was in the room when the outbreak occurred was removed to the Royal Free Hospital , where it expired from the effects ofthe burns during tho night .

      Impudent Robbery by Personating the Police . —On Monday evening , a robbery of a most impudent description was committed at the residence of Miss Harams , an aged maiden lady , No . 2 , Yorkrow , Kennington-road , and next door to Lambeth Police-court . Between the hours of eight and nine o ' clock , a sharp double knock was heard _' at the front door , and , on the servant going to answer it , she found three men close to the entrance . The person next to the door , addressing her , said , " We belong to the police ; I ' m an inspector , and we have come to apprehend some thieves who are on the premises , and who have got in the back way . " Tho servant , believing the man ' s statement , admitted him and his companions , and they at once closed

      the door after them . Miss Harams , and Miss Sargeant , her companion , were then a t tea in the front parlour , and the latter , hearing the noise and voices outside , walked into thc hall , when one ofthe men , addressing her , said that there were thieves on the premises , that they had come there to protect them , and the best thing she ( Miss Sargeant ) could do was to remain quiet in tho parlour with the Other lady _. Miss Sargeant acted upon this advice , and the moment she returned into the parlour , one of the fellows , who was armed with a bludgeon , closed the door and remained outside , while the other two , having recommended the servant to go to the kitchen , and keep herself quiet till they called her , went up stairs . . The fellows remained in the

      house from fifteen to twenty minutes , and made their exit by the front door . Miss Sargeant soon after ventured out of the parlour , and sent the servant for Mr . Flowers , the medical attendant on Miss Harams , two doors off , and that gentleman on arriving and _oeing informed of the circumstance , called in the police , when it was found that the front room on the second floor , which has been used for years as a store-room for her property , by Mis 9 Harams , was forced open , the drawers also forced open , and it is feared property to a . considerable extent carried away . Miss Harams had been unfortutately subject to fits , and such was the effect that the presence ofthe thieves and the robbery produced upon her , that she has not been able to state tbe extent of

      her loss . Up to Tuesday evening Miss Harams was not in a state of mind to give a description of tho property stolen . The Convent of _Mekct , Bermondsey . — Taking the Veil . —On Tuesday the ceremony of the reception of a young lady into the order ofthe Sisters of Mercy took place in the chapel of the most Holy Trinity , Parker ' s-row , Bermondsey . Tiie chapel was thronged with fashionably-attired ladies , and several noble lords , members ofthe Catholic church , were also present . The postulant upon this occasion was a Miss Barry , the daughter of highly connected parents , who have only recently returned from India , after a lengthened sojourn . The young lady , who is said to possess a large fortune in her own ri g ht , devotes it all to the service of the order with which she has connected herself . The preliminary services having been concluded , the postulant rose from her kneeling position , and retired with

      the superioress to change her secular dress for that of the order , the choir chaunting tho psalm , In exila Israel , " & e . Upon the return of the postulant there was a breathless eagerness on the part of the secular assembly to observe her countenance after exchanging the hall-room attire for the sombre habit of the Sisters of Mercy . The desire , however , was not gratified , for a large white veil enveloped the head . The celebrant proceeded with the ceremony of blessing the white veil , after which the superioress placed it over the head of tho postulant , who then sang in a clear voice the psalm " Eructavit cor meum verbum bonvm , " to which the choir , accompanied by the organ , responded . The young lady having now gone through all necessary to be received as a sister , embraced her religious companions , and the choir having concluded the psalm , "Ecce quam bonwn , " the sisterhood , preceded by the newly chosen , retired by slow measured steps to their retreat , and the ceremony concluded .

      The State Prisons and New Barracks at the Tower . —The celebrated Beauchamp Tower , which has for a long period been used as a mess-house for the officers ofthe garrison , will shortly be thrown open to the public . The Beauchamp Tower was the prison-house of the unfortunate Lady Jane Grey , the Earl of Essex , Sir William Wallace , the hero of Scotland , and at one period contained two sovereigns as prisoners , viz ., James of Scotland and the King of France . This new and splendid barracks , which have been erected upon the site ofthe disastrous fire which took place some years ago , are now occupied by the men of the 2 nd battalion of the Coldstream Guards . The officers' quarters are not yet completed .

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      MURDER IN BLACKFRIARS-ROAD . On Monday morning the public thoroughfare of Blackfriars-road was the scene of an atrocious murder . Between three and four o'clock the inhabifants were alarmed by hearing loud cries of murder from a female near to Rowland Hill ' s Chapel . The policemen on duty , _ Benjamin Homer , 169 _M , and John Meek , 48 M , immediately ran in that direction , and on reaching the corner of Charlotte-street , they found tbe female whose cries had . attracted their attention , and two men , one of whom was lying on the ground . Upon seeing the policemen the woman

      called out , "This man has murdered my husband , " at tlie same moment pointing to him . Homer immediately seized the man . Meek raised the other man from the ground , and he still exhibited some slight signs of life . Upon opening his dress he was found to be stabbed tothe heart , his under clothing being saturated with blood . A cab was instantly called , and tbe wounded man placed in it , and conveyed to St . Thomas ' s Hospital ( as he still breathed ) , but before reaching it life was extinct . The murderer made no effort to escape , and was conveyed to the Southwark station-house .

      The deceased ' s name is Lambsill ; . 1 biscuit baker in the city , and his assassin is a potman , employed frequently at the Mitre Tavern , in Broad wall , Blackfriars . The murderous act was apparently the result of a quarrel , supposed to have originated in default of tbe payment ofa debt of 5 s . The name of the ' murdereris William Bailey , and he is well known in the neighbourhood as a desperate character .

      EXAMINATION OF TDE rKISONBR . On the same day , W . Bailey was brought before Mr . Cottingham , at the Southwark Police Court , charged with the murder of Henry Lambsill , by stabfing bim through the heart with a penknife in the street . John Meek , a policeman ofthe M division , stated that about a quarter after two o ' clock that morning , while on duty in the Blackfriars-road , he beard a woman call out murder , and exclaim that a man had been stabbed near Rowland Hill ' s Chapel . Observing some persons standing together at the corner of Charlotte-street , near the iron railings which surround the chapel , he hastened to the spot , and saw a man supported in another ' s arms , with his waistcoat unbuttoned , and the front of bis shirt open , and blood trickling down his breast . He ( the policeman ) asked who it was that did it , but the wounded man , although he still breathed , was unable to answer him ,

      and he was then informed that the prisoner , who at the time was leaning against a lamp-post , was the person who committed the deed . Witness then went up to the prisoner , and asked him if be had any weapon about him , and his reply was that he had none ; but , when he examined bis pockets , he discovered a penknife , with a long blade , open , in the breast-pocket of his coat ; he also found another penknife in one of the prisoner ' s other coat pockets . ( Both of the knives were produced . ) The prisoner did not say anything at the time ; and , another policeman coming up , betook him into custody , while he ( witness ) procured a cab , and conveyed the wound ; d man to St . Thomas ' s Hospital . When they arrived at the hospital , the man seemed to be quite dead . Mr . Cottingham examined the open knife which was found on the prisoner , and inquired if there was any blood upon it at the time ? 'The policeman said , that he did not notice any , but he believed riot .

      Mr . Wilson , oiie of the dressers of St . Thomas ' s Hospital , stated that when he was called into the surgery he found thc man quite dead on the floor , and , on examination , he discovered a wound such as might be inflicted with the point of a knife , under his left breast . There was very little blood about the wound , and , although a post mortem examination had not taken place , yet he was of opinion that the point of the instrument had penetrated the heart , and had caused death . Mr . Cottingham now inquired as to whether any persons were in attendance to describe the partieuiars as to the oause of the murder .

      A woman named Mary Taylor came forward , and on being sworn she stated that she lived in Martinstreet , Lambeth , arid that she was acquainted with the deceased ; that at the time mentioned that morning she was standing at the bar ofthe Duke of York public-house in Blackfriars-road , and saw the deceased , the prisoner , and four other men drinking together ; that some words took place between the prisoner and the deceased , after which they all left the house . She ( witness ) was some distauco in the rear , and when the parties arrived at Rowland Hill ' s chapel , she observed that they all made a stop , and when she got Up to them she observed the ; deceased in a man ' s arms and bleeding from a wound in his breast . She called " murder , " and went for a po-

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      liceman , to whom Bhe gave information of what she had seen . ' .... . _GbOBGB _Babti-BTT stated that he was passing on the opposite side of Charlotte-street , and heard a woman exclaim , "That man ( pointing to the prisoner ) has stabbed my husband . Witness immediately went to the spot , and saw the wounded man , and the prisoner standing at a little distance from him , and witness sp » ke'to the latter , and mentioned to him that he must not stir until the policeman came up . The prisoner said that he had no intention to so , and that be should await the result , and witness stood bv him until the policeman came to the spot , searched him , and found the open penknife in the breast pocket ofhis coat . James Pabkmi and other witnesses gave similar testimony _- iV

      . , , , , __ , _ _ Policeman 179 M stated that he had taken the prisoner to the station-house , while Meek , the other policeman , conveyed the deceased to the hospital . But on the way to the station-house the prisoner did not utter one word with regard to the charge , nor did he do so when before the inspector . Mr . Cottingham _(* o the prisoner)—You have heard the evidence . Do you wish to make any statement ? Although none of tbe witnesses have proved that they caw the wound of which the unfortunate man died , inflicted , yet there is very little doubt that yours was the hand that did it . that

      The prisoner said that all he had to say was , he did not commit theoffence ; that he knew the man was stabbed , and that if his was the hand that did it , he would not have stood bis ground , but have made his escape , which he had plenty of opportunity to do if he liked . He added that he always carried knives about him , and might in his hurry have put one away open in his pocket .. Mr . COTIINGHAM said that it would be necessary to have other _witnesses ia attendance , and for that purpose remanded the prisoner . _TuusDAT . T-William Bailey was brought before Mr . Cottingham for re-examination . The court was

      crowded during the investigation ; Mr . Cottingham , addressing George Herriman , tbe man who on the previous day had exhibited a _disinclination to give his _evidence arising from being under the influence ol'liquor , and who was committed in consequence at the time , asked him if he was willing to describe what he saw of the unfortunate transaction , for it was evident ho mustha ? e witnessed much more than he was disposed to divulge , it having been stated by some of the other witnesses tint the murdered man had fallen into his arms when he was stabbed by his assailant .

      Herhiman was then sworn , and his evidence , which is of importance , was then , taken . 'He proceeded to narrate the' circumstances attending thc origin of the dispute between the prisoner and the deceased in the Duke of York public-house , in the Blackfriars-road , respecting the 5 s . which the former lent to the latter , and afterwards wanted back . After tbey all left tbe above house , the prisoner and deceased walked together , and when they got to Surrey Chapel , all in a moment witness heard the deceased exclaim . " Bill , - " ( meaning the prisoner ) " has stabbed me . " Witness , who was near at hand , ran up , but before he got to the parties the deceased fell down on the pavement , and he immediately went and he held up his head , and having unbuttoned his waistcoat , and tore open his shirt , he observed that he hid been wounded in the breast , over the heart ,

      the blood from which was trickling down , and had saturated his shirt and flannel waistcoat . In reply to Mr . Cottingham , the witness said that no person was near the deceased but the prisoner when the former exclaimed that he was stabbed ; that after th _* wound was inflicted witness did not observe the prisoner with a knife , nor did he see him as if in the act of concealing the weapon with which the deceased was stabbed . The latter only uttered the exclamation and afterwards seemed unable to articulate , and his eyes were closed ; but he still breathed . Witness had known the deceased for a long period ; he was a patent biscuit-maker , and about 23 or 24 years of age . Did nut see any blows given by either party previously to the deceased being wounded , and _thoui-lit they were _walking logether in amicable conversation until he heard thc deceased's exclamation of being stabbed .

      Mr . Cottingham asked the prisoner , who leaned forward at the bar in a careless attitude , if he wished to _i-ut any questions to tbe witness ? PitisoNER . —No , Sir , I have nothing to ask him . Eliza Gibbons stated that on the morning in question she was returning home' in company with another woman , and passed the prisoner and deceased , who were walking side by side and laughing and joking with one another . Witness and her companion , however , had gone but a short distance in advance when she heard the cry of " Murder , " and on returning to the spot she saw the deceased in the arms of the last witness , bleeding from a wound in the breast . She also saw the prisoner standing a little way off leaning auain tbe lamp-post near the corner of Cha'lotte-street .

      Mr . Cottingham asked thc prisoner if he had any question to put to this witness ; but he replied in the negative , merely saying that he had no recollection of having seen her on the occasion . M _»" . Cottingham having inquired if there were any more witnesses than those examined on the previous day , and the answer being in the negative , then addressed the prisoner on the serious nature of the offence with which he was charged , and informed him that it was quite optional with him whetherhe would make any statement in refcrerice to it or not , but that it was his duty to caution him at this stage of the proceedings that whatever he did say would be taken down , and used for or against him , as the case might be . "Now , " added the magistrate , " after this necessary caution , you are quite at liberty to make any statement you please . "

      Pbisoner . —I haye nothing to say more than that the deceased and I were always on the best of terms , that wc were in the habit of having our meals at each other ' s ¦ houses , and I never had the least animosity against him . Mr . Cottingham : You had better confine yourself to what passed between the deceased and you on the morning in question . Prisoner . — We had a slight disagreement about a little money transaction in the Duke of York , but when we left that house it was all over , and we walked together down tbe Blackfriars-road , towards Surrey Chapel . Mr . Cottingham —Now , be particular in your statement of what to-k place _between you ?

      Prisoner . —As we walked along deceased exclaimed , " Oh , lam stabbed , " and he fell down on the pavement . I was surprised on hearing him , and bad no idea of such a thing . I am truly sorry for what bas happened to bim . Mr . Cottingham . —Then you assert that you did not perpetrate the offence ? Prisoner .. —I have no idea that I could be guilty of such an ac * , particularly towards a man Iwas well acquainted with , and with whom I was always on the best of terms .

      The dresser at St . Thomas ' s Hospital stated , that a post mortem examination of the deceased's body had taken place since the preceding day , and he then proceeded to _describe with minuteness the appearances of tbe wound , which was inflicted with a knife , such as the one found in the prisoner ' s possession when he was taken into custody . It was an oblique wound , the point of the weapon having entered the pleura , through the pericardium , and penetrated the right vmtricle of the heart , Mr . Cottingham said , that he should commit the prisoner for the murder of the deceased , and , as the Central Criminal Court sessions were now being held , his trial probably would take place in a few days .

      TUB INQUEST . On Tuesday evening , Mr . Payne , the city coroner , held an inquest on the body of the deceased . The jury having been sworn , proceeded to view the body , and having heard the evidence , as given above , returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against William Bailey . The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute _.

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      The Liverpool Morders . —On Saturday last an inquest was held on the body of Mary Parr another of the victims , but nothing new transpired . There is every reason to believe that the prisoner ' s real name is not John _Glceson Wilson , but Owen Morris . A person named Sharps has deposed that he wrote a letter to the prisoner's father some time since at the prisoner ' s request , in which the prisoner spoke of himself as Owen Morris . Tho letter tothe father was addressed " John Morris , blacksmith , Dreol , to the care of the _Itey . Father Ryan , P . P ., Rathkeal , Limerick . " Thc prisoner speaks Irish with great fluency , which is what not an Englishman in a million can do . Tho prisoner himself states that he comes from Limerick . He frequently converses in

      tho Irish language with an officer who acts as mtcrpetrer to the Irish emigrants , and wko is from time to time with him in his cell . During one of these conversations , the prisoner said , " There is no doubt I committed thc murders , * but I will not confess till I get under the drop . The old woman ( Mrs . Henrichson ) being gone , and the servant being out of senses ( insensible ) at the time , she can ' t say I committed the murders . " The prisoner has stated that be bas many things to reveal ; but these he will not make public until he 13 placed under tlie drop , when he will make known all . _Nom-nUMBEM / AND . —ItOBBERT BT _RaII-WAT & . ERKS

      and Ticket Collectors . —On Thursday week at the police court , Newcastle , John Hayes , a clerk at the Newcastle station of the North Shields line ; Robert Bowie , a guard on the line ; Alexander Alexander , a ticket collector at Percy Main ; and Robert Codling , ticket collector at North Shields , were charged with conspiring to defraud the York Newcastle , and Berwick Railway Company . Mr . Newton , of York , who appeared for the company , said the prisoners were charged with being in concert to defraud the company of money received for tickets . It was the duty of the ticket collector , on receiving tickets from passengers at their destina-

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      tion , to give them to the station clerk , and the clerk at each station should send them direct to York , where they were examined and compared with the money , as a check . ; It would be shown by the evidence that a number of the tickets . issued at _Jvewcastle for Percy Main and North Shields , instead of going in this way to York , had been sent to one of the clerks at Newcastle and re-issued , before being sent to York , so that money had only been received by the company for one issue , while two or more issues of the same tickets had taken place . It would bo shown that there had been double issues from Newcastle , that the collectors had been seen , after receiving tickets from passengers , to give them to a guard . Mr . Allnort said the affair had come to his

      ( Mr . Allport ' s ) notice through a person who examines tickets before the trains leave . Tickets were numbered consecutively , and that person had been surprised to find lower numbers issued at a later period in the day than in thc morning . On this being mentioned to the clerk , he 6 aid that he was in the habit of dating some hundreds early in a morning , and putting them into a bowl ; and that , consequently , the lowest numbers , which were put in first , came out last . Another person , however , had been set to watch , and had detected that that was not the reason . The clerk had been searched , and tickets which had been issued by the ei ght and nine o ' clock trains were found upon him at a later

      period . These re-issues had always taken place on the same day , so that there was nothing to excite suspicion at York . The tickets , on being received at York , were always destroyed ; they were never re-issued by the company . Evidence was given of the collector at Percy Main handing tickets to the guard . A policeman deposed to having found upon the guard £ 33 in gold , and at his house a large quantity of silver , making £ 411 in all ; and £ 50 in gold was found upon tho Percy Main collector . The magistrates remanded the prisoners . Mr . Stoker applied to have some ofthe mouey given to the prisoners to prepare for their defence , but the bench refused tho application .

      The Palace " of Jonw 0 ' Gaunt , in Lincoln , has been sold by auction , and it is reported that the building is to be pulled down and the materials sold . It was at one ofthe windows of this guildhall that Lord Hussey was beheaded for taking part in the rebellion against the Reformation ; and the citizens are reputed to havo so far favoured the Catholic movement ; which brought several to tho block and the axe , as to resist as a presumptuous innovation tho injunction that the church services should be read in a language they could understand ! The doomed palace is generally considered to have been built by John O'Gaunt for the summer residence of Katherine Swinford , the sister of Chaucer , the poet . The remains of this lady are interred in the cathedral , near those of Henry of Huntingdon , the historian .

      Singular Fatalitt . —The family of Mary Ann Staight , the poor girl for whose murder Pulley suffered the last penalty ofthe law , lately at Worcester gaol , has been almost destroyed by fatalities . Sarah Staight , the mother of the , girl , was tossed by a cow over a hedge near the spot where her daughter was murdered , and died of the injuries she sustained . This woman had two brothers , one of whom , a gamewatcher on the estates of the late Earl of Coventry , was killed at Pirton by a gang of poachers , some years since . Richard Staight , the other brother , was killed by a wall falling on him . Finally , the murdered girl ' s grandmother died three days before Pulley ' s execution . —Gloucester Journal . W oRCESTEBSiiinE . — A Beggar ' s Crutch and Great Coat . —A short time ago , says the Birmingham _Mercurif , an old beggar , a resident of Dudlev .

      " shuffled off this mortafcoil , " and with it an old crutch and a great coat , wliich he left to his two daughters . After the old man ' s decease the cast-off garment and the crutch were thrown on one side ami almost forgotten , till one day the crutch was called into requisition to punish a refractory cow which had broken into a garden , when lo ! the handle came off , and 350 sovereigns were found enclosed . The other daughter hearing of this golden shower , hastened home , and examined the great coat left by the old man , whoa , much to her astonishment and delight , a similar number of sovereigns were found stitched in old rags in the collar and waist of the cast-off garment . The daughters had not the slightest idea that the old -man , who bad lived in a most penurious manner , had ever possessed such a sum of money as that they now equally inherit .

      Highway Robbery . —Last week a most daring robbery , accompanied by the use of the most brutal violence , was committed on Mr . William _Dawe , a farmer , living at Llangunnider , whilst proceeding on the highway between Ragland and Usk . Mr . Dawe had attended the Ragland fair , which was hold on that day , and was returning thenee when the attack was made upon him . He was assailed by two men and a woman , who , after violently beating him , endeavoured to rifle his pockets " . For some time they were baffled , as Mr . Dawe ' s money was contained in an inner pocket , to which they found difficulty in obtaining access . lie was beaten with a large stick in a violent manner , and the ruffians at length succeeded in taking from him six £ 5 notes , four half sovereigns , and some silver , and then decamped . As soon as Mi . Dawe had

      sufficicently recovered himself , he returned to the Shi p Inn , in Ragland , where he saw one ef the men whom he stated had robbed him . The man was accordingly apprehended , and has been committed to Usk gaol to await a further examination . Mr . Dawe since the occurrence has lain in . a very precarious state from the injuries he has received , " and he will for some time be prevented from attending the examination of the person apprehended . "Burglaries have been very rife at England and its vicinity , within the last five months . The houses of the Rev . James Farquhar , Rev . AY . Powell , Yen . Archdeacon Crawley , AV . M'Allan , Esq ., surgeon , Mr . E . Arnold , farmer , and a small cottage , have all been entered at different times , and articles , chiefly food , liave been stolen . Various other robberies have occurred .

      Execution' or a Murderer at Exeter . —The convicted murderer of Mrs . Grace Holman has finished his career of crime upon the public scaffold . After his condemnation he exhibited great self-possession , wliich only gave way at times to a sense ofhis position ; but he indulged no hope of a commutation of his sentence . He adverted to his past life , acknowledging that from the age of thirteen he had constantly practised theft , sometimes attended with the grave offence of housebreaking . In the exercise of his apparent calling—that of a travelling tinkerhe had opportunity to observe and mark well tho situation of premises on which he designed his depredations , and that circumstance , connected with the fact ofhis seldom , if ever , engaging with

      accomplices , accounts for his only occasionally finding liimseif within the power ofthe law . He had , however , been _triod at Taunton and at Bodmin , and been twice an inmate of the gaol where his body now lies . He attributed his being led into vice by frequenting tvampevs' lodging houses in Tavistock , where he was born , and where his father now lives . He was executed on Monday , at twelve o ' clock , in front of tlie gaol . An enormous crowd had gathered to witness the disgusting spectacle . He died admitting that he put the box and thc chair upon the old woman , but he persisted in saying AVoods ,

      the approver , was the murderer , and expressed himself glad that Mills had got clear , because he was led into it by himself and AVoods ignorantly . There had not been an execution in the county of Devon for nearly thirteen years before , the last having been on the 12 th of August , 1836 , when Thomas Oliver , alias Buckingham Joe , was hung for murdering Mr . Jonathan May , a farmer of Dunsford . It is said that Woods , the approver , was ( present with some women , to witness a scene from which he very narrowly escaped being a principal actor . It is computed 27 , 01 ) 0 persona were present , the majority of whom were women and children .

      The Aoulterated ' Flour at Stourbridge . —The Kidderminster _Messenger states that the numbers injuriously _affecti-d by partaking of the poisonousmixture , before referred to in this paper , have very alarmingly increased , and that several cases are likely to prove fatal . As many as six or seven families , numbering seven , ten , and fifteen members , have been ill in consequence of the poison having been absorbed into the system . The danger only becoming apparent when the symptoms were at thoir height , in many cases medical aid was not

      obtained till the parties were in a very dangerous condition . The following are the numbers of patients suffering severely from the deleterious compound , who are under the treatment ofthe medical gentlemen of thc town : —150 Messrs . Freer , 70 Mr . T . Bancks , 60 Mr . Thomas Cooper , 50 Messrs . Betts and Giles , 50 Mr . Henry Wilson , 30 Mr . Norris , and 90 Mr . Norris , jun ., making a total of 500 cases . The greatest excitement prevails in the town respecting the matter , and notice has been given that a meeting will be held to investigate the subject .

      _Asuton-tjnder-Lyne . —The Factory Question . — Important Meeting of Managers and Overlookers . —The system of working by relays has created great excitement . The workpeople at the firms of Messrs . Wm . Bayley and Brothers , Messrs . Cheetham , and Mr . Leach , during last week , refused to work upon the •' shift" principle ; the conseouence was that Messrs Bayley and Mr . Leach locked up their mills on Ihursday week , and refused to allow he hands to go in until they would consent to work by relays , as they have been dom _* for somo + v _™ past . Upwards of two thousand w ° orkhands have therefore , been walking the _streetlever _EeT It is stated that Messrs . _^ Cheetham and 0 _Srn also purpose closing their mills this week unless the workpeople resume th . fr _employmcnfupon the FriuV woof _2 V ° _? P _^ _Vffifa _5 a ., S excess Mr ' < S _<* the lw _^ * oom > vas CJwde d ' to SBb ;; li Bllel () 1 , Tff ' an overlooker _ofcon-X-T , * ' ? bus . ln < _-ss by alludine to the _subiect

      co Sidovn / _ftf ! * th 0 ni t 0 S _* > 0 IW - wM <* he _consideied of vital- importance to all concerned in cotton mamit actures . The whole question was

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      afterwards fully discussed , and several resolutions , condemnatory of the relay system , were unanimously agreed to . Encroachment of the Sea near _UivERsrov . — During the recent high tides and gales a strip of land , not less than twelve , and in some places twenty , yards broad was washed away along thc west and south coast of the Isle of AAalney . The loss is estimated at about two acres in each half mile ; a serious privation for the landholders and farmers . It is said that encro achments of this description , which are unfrequent , are greatly facilitated by the farmers themselves , who are constantly removing the stones forming the beach , to sell for paving and other purposes , No fewer than - -... ti ?

      fifty vessels have been freighted with these stones , during the last year , for Fleetwood , Liverpool , and other places . Should the inroads ofthe sea extend , the lowlands will shortly be entirely inundated at every spring tide , and the island will then bo divided each time into three parts . Yorkshire . —Strange Appointment . —Miss Tempest , ofthe Grange , near Ackworth ( sister to , Sir Charles Tempest , Bart ., of Broughton Hall , in the county of York ) , has been appointed overseer ofthe poor for the parish of Ackworth , together with John Hagues , cow-leech , also of the parish of Ackworth . The appointment was made at Wentbridge on the 26 th ult ., and is endorsed by " two of her Maiesty ' s justices ofthe peace . "

      HigiiwaV _Roijisert at ' Cambridge . —The inhabitants of Cambridge have of late been frequently startled by audacious highway robberies , and 'another occurred on Friday night week , characterised by great brutality . As Mr . Josephus Glover , B . A ., of St . John ' s college , was returning from Grantchestcr , about ten o ' clock , a tall ruffian , standing by a gate , struck him with g reat violence with % tremendous bludgeon across thc forehead , wliich laid it open ; he seized thc fellow by the throat , but another one , as yet unseen , grasped him by the collar behind , forced his knee in his back , and pulled him in a half prostrate position , while the first one beat their victim with the _bludgeon . He sruarded

      the blows with his arm , which is now for a time rendered useless , and one blow laid his eye open ; thoy then threw him wholly on the ground , tore his watch from his guard , and robbed him of £ 1 2 s He again struggled with them , calling loudly for help . Persons were he _.-ird coming , and the men decamped and escaped . A description of them being given the next morning , two persons were taken into custody , and Mr . Glover immediately identified them . Thoy live at Grantehcster . Their names are Hayes and AVilson ; and a youth who knows them saw them standing near the place where the robbery was committed a very short time before it took place .. Committed for trial .

      Charge of Murder at Glossop . —It will be in the recollection of our readers that an inquest was held at Glossop upon the body of an old pensioner , named Doxey , who was found on the morning ofthe 31 st of December last dead in the bed of tbe river Shelf , close under the Victoria Brid ge at Glossop , having apparently fallen from a height of twenty feet , or having been thrown over the lofty rails , about six feet high , which protect the river at this point . No evidence was at the time produced to implicate any parties , though the rumours were numerous , and the jury returned an open verdict of " Found Dead . " On Friday week , in the course of a quarrel between the son and son-in-law of the deceased , arid another person , a shoemaker , named

      Clough , the latter charged the former with having thrown their father over the rails into the river , and said that he and his wife witnessed the transaction . He adhered to his statement when subsequently questioned , but on Sunday last he absconded . The police at Ashton apprehended him on Monday , and brought him to tho lockups at tho Glossop Town HaU . He told the policeman who had bim in charge that it was nothing against himself , but that he was the principal evidence in a case of murder . The case has caused great excitement in the neighbourhood , as it involves , if true , a charge of parricide ofthe most atrocious and unfeeling character . Attempted Parmcide . —Rotiiebham , Tuesday . — The town of Rothcrham has been thrown into a

      state of intense excitement by a report that Mr . John Bland , the superintendent constable of Rothcrham , and high constable of that district of the West Riding , had been assassinated by his son . It appears that the young man , who is about 22 years of age , is somewhat of a spendthrift , and has been in tho habit ef appropriating his father ' s cash to thc gratification of his own appetite . Latterly , when pilfcrings of this kind have taken place , Mr . " Bland , sen ., has searched his son ' s apartment with the hope of recovering some of the lost valuables , and this has greatly exasperated the young man . Mr . Bland , sen ., having to attend Pontcfract sessions , his son took advantage of his absence to purloin a sum of money . Anticipating the repetition of a

      search on his father ' s return , he spent a large portion ofthe day alone in his bedroom , with the door locked in the inside , and , as disclosed by the result , he planted a pistol loaded with ball in such a manner in one ofthe drawers , that the drawer could not be opened without causing the pistol to explode . He cut away a portion of the front of thc drawer with the exception of the veneer , and placed the muzzle of the pistol within the cavity , the stock or opposite end of the pistol being against the back of the drawers . Tied to the trigger of the pistol was a piece of string , which was passed through the back ofthe drawers , and made fast . Thus it will be perceived that the opening of the drawer would draw back the triggor and discharge the pistol , and the

      contents would pass out through the veneer ; and so it turned out . Mr . Bland , on his return , discovered the abstraction ofthe money , and , liis son being out at the time , went into tlie bedroom of the latter to make a search . The moment he attempted to open the drawer , ho was stunned by the report ofa pistol , and recoiled fromthe shock with a consciousness that ho was wounded , though in ignorance of thc extent of his injuries . In an instant the household were around him in a state of consternation . As soon as tlie panic had in some degree subsided , it was ascertained that Mr . Bland had sustained an abrasion of the skin on the side , and was sliffhtlv

      wounded on the back ofthe hand . Instead of standing in front of the centre of the drawers , it happened that he was near one end , and pulled the drawer open by one handle . Had he proceeded in the usual way , and stood directl y in front , the pistol was so planted that thc ball would have penetrated his face or his chest , according as he had happened to be in an erect or a leaning attitude . Mr . Bland , who is a man of great courage and coolness , was not long inactive , Thc young man was at once taken into custody , and kept in the lock-up until arrangements were completed by which he was sent to London , in order to enrol bim in one of her Majesty's regiments on the eve of _goirg abroad .

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      The Danes And The Prussians In Letin Iia...

      The Danes and the Prussians in _LEtin IIarijour . —The war spirit wliich has of late reigned in Prussia and Denmark has been frequentl y exhibited , on a small scale , near our own doors . On AVednesday week , two Danish sailors wore apprehended on a charge of unwarrantably going on board a Holstein yesse ] , in Leith Dock s , and cutting and tearing down its flag , because it was not a Danish one . On the following Thursday , an Lnglisl _^ sailor was apprehended on the charge of attempting to cut down thc flag of another Holstein vessel , but on the mate taking a gun and threatening to shoot him , he desisted , and came down from the mast . A few days ago all the parties were brought before Baillie Ford , when one ofthe Danes was hned 20 s ., the other one 10 s ., and the

      Englishman os .. ins case being considered less offensive than the others . The fines were paid . The baillie cautioned them that if any such attempt as the above was repeated , a more severe sentence would bo inflicted . In consequence of the illfeeling subsisting between the Danes and the Prussians , whose vessels completely fill _D- _'k " Docks at the present time , the magistrates have doomed it advisable to have an extra police iorcc perambulating the docks . On one or two occasions tho special constables have met and organised themselves in such a way as to be ready af a » 10 " ment ' a notice , should a more serious rup ture between the rival parties take place . —North _ilrihth Mail .

      Riot in Edinburgh ; . —The Cowgato and its neig hbourhood ( which has been unusually peaceful si «« e the new police bill came into operation ) was again the scene of a very disgraceful not on Sunday evening , and in which several police _ctnstables anil others wero seriously injured . The affray arose as usual from drunkenness and consequent excitement-Four or more Irish labourers , who had been sc going out . and in to public houses in the _Cowgajc from four o ' clock , began between six and seven W get noisy and troublesome , and showed a disposition to fight with each other , and annoy those _passms , by . Thoy were warned several times by the constables on tho beat , and once or twice _checkoU » """' - ¦ ' «»¦' , « M 1 U _Ulll / W W H 1 _W" I ,. rioto

      , their ebullitions , but at last becoming so » _s-J inclined , they were apprehended by four _cons' _' _} _^' and _,-v struggle ensued , on which almost the _» _' »' neighbourhood turned out , and thc prisoners , vh rescued by thc overpowering force ot the nuiltii _" _^ The police officers , assailed by numbers Prcss _!"* l ) r j . every sido , made groat efforts to keep their I j soners , who were recaptured and rescued se \ .. ' times , and defended themselves with their l «| ° " . ' long and as well as they could , but three ot tue were flung to the ground , aud kicked ami _»" . - most unmercifully . Tho alarm was iron 1 ? " '; ' ,, conveyed to the police office , and in a few m «« 11 , detachment of about thirty or forty men hasten' - _^ the g pot . By this time thc _Cowrie , fro " i _^ , Horsc-wynd to above George thc Fourth J " _^ WaS 111 n ofnfn / _vf _rvnont _AVAlfc-mont . ! ftWl _^ , t _ j .

      this relief , the consequences to the _constawes there might have been of the most _dangcroua _^ racter . One named Hannowin had _received w d five blows on the head to the effusion ot _ww * '

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 14, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_14041849/page/6/