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      IKq-KSTS . _* _A-. _ _ACCTOKST AX THB SotJTH _W-8 TKRS _RaU-* S TeBMrans . —Before Mr W . Payne , st St T _ oni-ss Hospital , on the body of Charles _Kni _? - _* _- , aged nineteen , employed on the Sonth Western Railway . George Carpenter said that on Saturday aftenioon last , he was at -work with the deceased at the South Western Railway Terminus , _Nine Elms , shifting the bodies of some carriages . The body of a _seeftii .-clas 3 carriage was npon tressels , but was not sufficiently high to get a little machine nnder it with much it was to be removed . The deceased got under it to raise it by means of a " screw jack , " when the trees . " , or supporters gave way , and the . carriage , with almost its whole weight , fell on _his _. headaBd shoulders . He was immediately carried to the _hospital , where the surgeon said that the _^ deceased died . bout half an honr after his admission , f . om fracture of the skull and laceration of the brain .

      Several other witnesses _trere examined , but none of -them eould tell from what cause the tressels gave _•* r _ y . Verdict , "Accidentaldeath . " S _ jc _* d _ ur _ras M-Ubask Pm _ o 3 r . —On Tuesday % Mr Bedford , at the Millbank prison , on the body -of T . Parry , aged 24 , a prisoner therein , who com-• _xaitt _. d self-destraction . The deceased , who was bv trade . 1 plasterer , wag convicted at the Liverpoo " ' 'Session * -, on the 15 th of March last , of _stealing a _aheet , and sentenced to seven years ' transportation He was received into the above prison on the 6 th _zinstant and placed in separate confinement , durin _* - which time he appeared [ in good health , but c __* _ces ° - _fflvdy dull and desponding . He was seen as _ _snal ¦ _Jrytnc _carder , _oaretinngtorest , at nine o ' clock on Sunday night lastand on his unlocking the cell at _vvHIIIb

      , « , _. — _» — -- — —— VAA . _V * VVll Ut - . twenty minutes past six o ' clock on Mo nday mornine ihe discovered the deceased suspended by his pocket and neckerchief tied together , and fastened to the _gaspipe between the cell door . He was cut down . immediately and Mr Davey , the resident surgeon ¦ was promptly in attendance , who pronounced life to have _hwn extinct more than two hours . Yerdict , < _Teu-. . rary insanity . " ' _ltsLi _> CHOLTD _ ATH wa _BiTH—On Tuesday , by _MrJ W . Payne , at the Queen ' s Arms Taver _, St _Jtarkn s-le-grand , pa the body of James Unwin , aged twen y ,-an apprentice to Mr Child , surgeon , of _Fore-Btreet , _ _-nsburv . The deceased not being able to mm , and having _beenfadvised to learn that art , went _s _^ ut three o ' clock on Monday afternoon last to tne liatb - __ Bath-street _New-afe * _... _'* - _-: n _. __ -. - _„_

      _. . shown she cold plunging bath heinquired the dentlf and was told five feet ten inches in the centre , and - {? , f * ne 8 ° onld commence a quarter ' s subscription _, rie W -sleftalo _ e , __ dinabont twelve minutes . afterwards , on the assistant returning to the bath , _he conld not see the deceased , bnt observed foam on the water at the end of the bath ; being an unusual ttung he went to the spot , and saw the deceased iyine on his back at the bottom of the bath . An alarm -was wised ' and the body was got out immediately . Medical aid was seHt for and quickly attended , aud used the vwions methods to restore animation but without- _effect , life being quite extinct . It was the ppmion st the medical man that he died of apoplexy induced by the coldness of the bath , and not from drowning ; , yerdict , '' Died from apoplexy , induced by caia _Utbing , " and the jury recommended thatfor the f aa-re when a single person is bathing the assistant remain iu view of the bath .

      Faxa- Accid _. st os _ h _ _Nobth-Wssieb . _ -U _ - * wax . —Oa Tuesday by Mr Mills , at the University -Eft-spit * - ! , on the body of Demy Harman , - aged thirty , a servant in the employ of the North "W ester . ; ft „ ilw _ y Company . The deceased * , on Saturday morning last , was inthe actoftefci ___' t _ e hind Limp off a train that had just arrived from = . Kugby at _Euston-square , bat instead of standing « n vthe steps 01 the carriage to unhitch the lamp he venture _, spon the line , when another train , from-A

      _viesuury , nacKed in , and before tho deceased- could get ont of the way , he was crashed by the buffers of each tram pressing against his back and stomach . He was extricated as soon _ 3 possible , _and-removed tothe above hospital , where he shortly afterwards atpired from the effects of the injuries * received . The deceased had been in the employ of tbe company only a few months , and one of the witnesses stated th : * . _she was so thoughtless tbat _hehsd'hsd two or iaree norrow escapes before lo _ ing . h _ i-life . Vernier , ' - Accidental death . "

      , _*** t > "s-ro _ -t _Mother . —Before Mr _Wakleyv at the -ihddleton Arms , _Canonbury-squarej Islington _, on the hrr . y of Emma Gobey . Sarah Stone said , " that about five weeks since themother of thecbitd } whoa _, she _. _* d not know , called oa witness and left the deceased with her , agreeing at the time that she v * _. _uldgive 39 . per week for bringing it up . Thsrmother called _tiric-e tosee the ehild after she left _ikbat had ; not baen to witness ' s for nearly a month . She did . all she caaid for _decease .,, but on _Thursday-morning it wai taken ill , and died at fonr o ' _cleck-tha same cay hom internal nlceratioa _.. Witness haditwo other children t _© aorse , one wasberowndaughter _' _s-Child . _Y-rdict , " Natural death *

      D _ r £ -. \ -- _ - _ mcn >_ . —On Wednesday _. information was received at the CoronetrVofiJce , Westminster , of ; the death ef Mr _WiUiamSendrick , aged _presiding : l at Wo , 1 , Upper _Ranel __ gh- __ treet , _Belgrave-sqijare . j __» deceased waa a married many and weR known in . the sporting circles , bnt having test largely at the Newmarket Spring Meeting , which he had been unable to settle , he had been in a very tow ., and desponding state for several days past , and . n . Wednee--day _luurnuig after taMii _^ breakfast , he went into bo"bed-room to dress , and shortly afterwards , his wife _hearing a Leavy fall in hds-room went to ascertain the cause * , and . on entering discaveredthe _dsceased-ly ing on the Sow with his head nearly severed from his . body , and a razor covered with Wood , lying by his _eide .

      S . p _** - _* . „ d Suicide moa a Deix _* s ? -. _Dbe'i » , o _? _Fx-e . _—O-i Wednesday Mr W . Payne held an adjourned inquest at the Newcastle Tajern , St . _Maryat-hlll , . '' . ii the body of Mrs Charlotte Conor ,, aged 5 ., widow , lately residing at No . 2 » _Sedcross-ireet , _Borougli , wko is supposed to have committed 8 _ ki .. under tit . following _circamatancesv The _ev-deace proved _ ht . t the decease-, who was in the receipt of asm _. _U anti _- ity , had for some time past exhibited a _ aitfl £ \ 7 ; ii _*' . l _* _-ringin her mind , and laboured nnder the _ e * _ de . i that her neighbours would destroy her

      'by _guBpov ? . ier _, besides whichshe had amostinsuper- ] able dread of fire . She wonld frequently go and -wanier thc -streets inorder to avoid the parties whom she iaacie . contemplated her destruction ; yet , on the _Cv-aticry _, she experienced the utmost kindness from all . ' .-J neighbour ., and , in fact , every one who tae- ** her . On Monday week she went out in the evening , and nothing more was heard of her until the fo _ . o-. vi-i * -lorning , about five o clock , when she was . - found -. oaiiag inthe water , at the foot of Billings-- gate _suiirs , the supposition being that she had either - fallen or iu a paroxysm of excitement rushed into the water , bit , in the absence of more conclusive _testi _* _ aonyr a verdict of "Found drowned" w _ 3 recorded

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      • Pis-Lie 5-f __ - __ a * H . —¦ Workmen are busily engaged _ np !* - _' _-ir _* s up poles and other erections for the perfor- i _% \ _tcci-i _4 ym _ a-iticexQrclse-ona similar plan and -scale _Tidupt .- . at many of our barracks , in Victoria Park , nil the margin ofthe ornamented waters near the _.. tira-c . from Bethnal-green . The two cricket * _grouU'Is , _wliich bave now been open for some weeks , are tbe-dally resort of numerous persons for indulgence in that game , by whom the greatest propriety 13 observed . Viscount Morpeth , M . P ., to whom the public is indebted for these addition , to the pari , was amongst- the visitors laat Snnday . _Fouuos Gsus . —Thir ty-seven vessels arrived in ¦ the rim- Titames on Monday , from ports in Europe , -which , wiih the exception of one or two that had

      ¦ other kinds of provisions on board , . were entirely 'laden with grain , the produce of Mecklenburg , PrusrfSs % , _D-aot-rk , Sweden , Hanover , Oldenburg , Nor--way , ani Russia , respectively . The greater _proportion oi them were from Denmark and the Hano-¦ _veriaa _du-iinions , only one arrival being from _Rus-_ ia . ; u a-idition to the above , the American Eagle , tucket ship , arrived on the same day from . New York , - _•¦ rin _ i _ g 26 casks , 13 tierces , aud 330 barrels of be-s _? , 2 , 774 bags of corn , 1 , 261 bags , and 9 , 100 bash-k of oats , 329 packages of flour , 164 of corn meal , 200 of rice , and various other articles . Health of ihb M _ . _ q . oli .. —The number of deaths _roistered last week was 987 , namely , males , 436 ; f . m _% ! e * _,-01 ; being an excess of 13 , or about 14 per eeut . over the ordinary Spring averages . Thia excess , u _. wever , is wholly assignable to the class of

      sporadic diseases , the zymotic ( or epidemic , endemic , and contagious ) class of diseases being below the average . This is attributable to the lowness of temperature prevailing during the past week , which , while favourable to the development of the former , is _omavtiurable to the latter . The number of deaths by typhus were -- —average of five springs , 34 . The number of births registered last week were—males , 652 ; females , 607 ; total , 1 , 259 . The following ia from the return of meteorological observations taken at the Koyal Observatory , Greenwich , for week endin g May 8 : —Barometer , mean height , 29 584 -, thermometer , highest , 62 . 5 ; lowest , 37 . 7 ; mean , 491 ; direction ofthe wind variable , but generally S ., with a maximum presiure of . lbs . on the square foot ; mean amount of cloud , 8 . 2 ; sum of rain , 0 . 54 inch . '

      Thk S _ nT ___ n _> _Notswcb . —In consequence of the Smithfield drovers commonly using the streets and _thoroughferes ofthe adjacent parish of St Sepulchre , Middlesex , to separate the flocks that become intermixed in their egress from the market , tothe great annoyance of the inhabitants and the serious injury of their trade and property , _noticej were compelled to be issued warning them that all beasts thus found wonld for the future be impounded for the penalties incurred .

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      Good News fob tub "Bor _. _!"*—A vessel has just arrived in London from China , having on board only £ -0 , 200 can _ .. - _Swa-sb-. —In Swansea Mr Vivian is all-powerful , Throagheut the tributary boroughs the liberal party holds the predominance , so that it would be abaoateiy futile to attempt to oust Mr . Vivian ,

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      T 0 BK 3-I .-. Bb _ m ? or-. —Factor . Gm _» . __ The committee for improving the condition of the factory girls of Brad _, ford have fitted ftp the first of their intended lodgine houses . Should _' the trial prove _snecp-sfal others I ' _* " P" > P--red ' The house is situated in _TimbfiJ . street , Thornton-road . It _oonsists of four cottages , two in front and two at the back , thrown into one , and thus forming a comfortable and compact dwelling for the purpose intended . The situation is extremely healthy . Mrs Richardson , a widow , bas been appointed to be the matron of the establishment _, ine terms for lodringaro la . a week . The beds , bedsteads and clothing , are all new and good . At the worst and dirtiest _Jodgiug-bouses in the town Is . 6 d . a week is charged for Jodgine these girls , and I i

      the committee in thus charging only ls . a week for clean , comfortable , and first-rate lodgings , are determined to offer a strong inducement tothe _eirls to change tbeir present squalid and immoral abodes . There are already beds fitted no for 20 persons ; the house is capable of lodging 30 eirls . There are jhree pleasant sitting-rooms , capable of accomodating ten persons each . The honse has been ready about a week , bnt as yet there is only one lod _. er , and everv endeavour has bees used to induce her not to go . It is said that tho lowest lodging house keepers are trying every artifice to cause the plan to be unsuccessful , as they well know that if it succeeds their occupation will be gone . The committee intend - - ¦ h en a sufficient number of lodgers havebeen obtained _, to find them with good meat dinners at a cost not exceeding what the _fact-ry girls give for tea and coffee slops , on which they principally live .

      _HODDERSFI--D . ITnusiTT as . ihe Gmu . Ukpato . — Messrs Bower and _Rohinson , of Marsden , were gammoned bv Mr Bates , _sob-inspector . tor * breaches of the Factories' Regnfatron Act . The first charge against them was for enrploying a child under ten years of a . e , named William Marsden , from the 19 th tothe -2 nd ult ., without having his name entered on the _resister of workers ? This being admftted , the _mftfeated penalty of 20 . and costs was inflic % d . A second cfraree was brought against the parties / or not having a _saraeon ' s certificat .-f 6 r thesame chil-l which was _* _also admitted and * r smrifar penalty inflicted . A third _charse against t _ em was that they Bad worked the same child both morning and afternoon of the same day . Mr Bates said' this was tbe moot glarine and scandalous case he- Bad ever heard in the whole of his thirteen years' experience . This calld had )

      been worked full time _fartwen-y-. i _- ht consecutive days , having worked at cne- •• KBy" in the fore part of the day , and at another in the after part . The magistrates coinciding in opinion with the inspector , convicted * the defendants fa-the Ml penalty of _ 3 _ nd costs . A' fourth charee was * Tor nob schooling tho anniebny _.-nd a fine of 20 s and' casts was inflicted . The father * of the lad , _J . h ' n Marsden , was t _ . ff brought np for suffering and' allowing his child to work both parts of the day , and _alio for not _sendfif - the boy to _scirool ; some domft ' arising in the minds of _themagistrates as to the meaning ofthe wordingof the 38 th-and 39 th clauses : "A _ y parent who receives direct benefit from the wages of any young person , & c . - "" Bnt ft . being proved that the father had ' never received any benefit;—the lad although * - worked twenty-eight d ays had never received a penny for wages—th ' _O'magisfarates therefore dismissed the father . i

      ! lAStUSfflBB . . _Wioajt . — - _" _- _iiuo - . _'Fi-B—LastTreek an alarmingfire broke ont on the pr _eraises of'Mr John Riddlesworth , bobbSr-turner _, 'Queen-street which , in fhe ( course of an hour , en .-h . ly destroyed the enginehouse _, roomsfdr _ ryr __ 2 r timber , and _thewholeofthe machinery and bhirdtn ?* known _as-the bobbing-turning manufactory . ' The fi re originatecFin the dryingroom , which _was-im-jediitely overthe boiler-house , and it is supposed ' to have been caused by the flames from a damaged part oi one of the 3 _ es communicatine ; to the timber above . _LivT _*; i ? . ot . _*^ _E _* in *_ i _ iT _ ON . _*—During the past week the influx of Irish into this port _has-hen as follows : — Monday , 1 . 035 "; - Tnesday , 677 ; Wednesday , 825 ; _ThurscAy , 1 , 103 = * Friday , 1 . 010 ; Saturday , 667 ; Sunday , 2 , 4 _ 5 . Total , in seven days ,-7 * 76 _ . * M __* NCH _ BT _ R .

      ; Exn t _ 0 Rnr . vARP R _ i _ _wat _Acc-bes _.: _*—A dreadful _iaccideu t happened on Wednesday morning , between [ twelve and one o'clock , at _Patricroftj awing to the _irhsaae folly of a * passenger . The express train from jPrestoi _twasat _* _ at time _camine in , . when one ofthe ' aeeond- class passengers , an Irishman . * put his head l out oft the window , probably with _aviewto ascertain j what pi lint the train had reached . In so doing his _jhatfeJl off , and-tbongh the train was then going at * i _* ordi inary speed , perhaps about thirty miles an -honr . t' he unthinking Irishman immediately opened jthe _. ' _st _> r ofthe carriage and jumped - oat to recover . His let t head covering . The madness was at once ivisiH- . The man fell , his head came _violently in

      • conhw t with some stones , his skull was dreadfully { _fV-efcir red . and his brains scattered * on the . round . . Tb - - . ead _b-idy-was carried away by James Barlow . _IpoVtes constable , and others ; and according tothe j of 5 e _ f ' s statement , the head and face of the man iwe » so hideously mangled , that he could not tell jwhe _* . ner the unfortunate victim of almost inconceivl able : rashness was young or old ; Inthe pockets of ¦ _Xhe-i eceased there were found £ 4 ' - _ _s . and a silver \ wait b , as well as a piece of paper showing that the _f-wato _: h had been recently repaired at Wigan , from _> " _¦ _ . eh it _ J inferred thatthe maa . came frem that itow n .

      J j * m _ ATi __ M _ ci-TosHWATBi _> _Roo- ? Fabric Makuta _> _CTonr . —About twenty-five minutes to five o ' clock on Snnday morning , the policeman-who was on duty is . _Cambridge-street , discovered a , Ste proceeding ft _. m the lower part nf the cellar of Messrs Macintosh . and Co . ' s waterproof fabric works in that street . In ** _-timation ef . his fact was conveyedby him to the -b > tfoa ; and _3 , Tr T . Rose , accompanied by his fatherr the whole of the fire brigade , and' four engines , at ono j proceeded to the works . On arriving there , . it was-, found' that the India rubber stored in a vault _cosamnnicating with the cc-ar- was on fire , and tbat several ofthe men in the employ , of Messrs

      _Mackmto 3 h and Co . had _attached * . pipe-to their own forcepump , and ! were pouring water on the flames . T * ro engines were speedily geared and got into play , aad , after three-quarter , of aa honr " . exertion , _tW-Bre _was completely extingnished . withont having-extended beyond the vaulb . Tbe damage , it _is-sapposed , will amount to about £ 1 _ 0 or £ 200 . Thaoverflow af the Medlock is saidto have beea the cause of this fire . The water , having forced its way into the lowest part of the premises , came into contaei with some * ehemical substance or liquid used in the preparation of the waterproof fabrics , causing ignition , and the flames spread-to the India rubber , _* , of which _several tons were ___ _, the vault .

      A SxBions F __ oo _3 , occurred at Manchester on Sunday last , on the banks of the river MedWak . Owing ito heavy falls of rain both the Irwell _aadf the _Med- j Hook were _mnchawoUen , on the _morning-o . that day , ibut not more than , thsy have _frequently been nithout much mischief resulting . Owing ta a quantity of timber being floated down the _Medfoek , howevetv against some flood gates , they were partially stopped ap , and the- water overflowed the banks into a part of the town chiefly inhabited by the poor Iri . _ , _caQed Little Ireland . The houses were in a short -time from four to five feet deep in _. ater . Some boats were taken to the spot by the police , and the inhabitants were all saved , buta goo & deal of their property was _fitted off or destroyed . Mes 3 t __ _Birleys' mackintosh mill was also much damaged . It is said they wiU . suffer to the amount of - ., 000 . In a few hours the timber which blocked np the river being removed the water was drained from the houses , bat they are yet in a very unfit state for habitation .

      . Str . o .-- for Work .- —A riot of a most serious character has taken place at Walsall , wbich from the numbers and determination ofthe persons concerned j in it , gave rise to serious fears for the safety of the town . The disturbance had its origin in the great numbers of Irishmen who have located there , working , it is alleged , for less wages than the ordinary labourers . The consequence was , that the labourers employed about the numerous collieries and railways felt aggrieved , and with them the miners made common cause in an attempt to drive the poor Irishmen , with their wives and families , from the town . Monday is generally kept as a holiday by the miners , and accordingly large bodies of them , to the number ofabout _. _OOor 1 , 000 , met in various parts ofthe town . As the forenoon advanced they armed themselves with bludgeons , and as if by preconcerted

      arrangement , proceeded to ail the new bniidings in course of erection , to the collieries , furnaces , brickyards , and railways , driving _awav _^ every Irishman employed npon them . On returning to ttw » they increased to between 1 , 500 and l , 800 , and then passed along the streets threatening violence to all who wonld oppose them . The police could do nothing , as the force numbered only nine men , nnder chief constable Rolfe . As night came on affairs were becmingmore threatening , and tho mayor and some of the magistrates endeavoured to induce the starving people to disperse , but they were not listened to . There is reason to believe that this is but one of a series of outbreaks contemplated in the mining district of Sonth Staffordshire , as at Wolverhampton and at Bilston the last few days , similar proceedings , although ofa less violent and extensive character , have taken place . Great excitement exists in the whole ofthe district .

      SOmNOB-USHIRB . State of Nott _ soiiam —The stagnation in trade and the high price of provisions have induced a dig . tnrbed state of public feeling which has not been equalled for many years past . At half-past four in the afternoonjof Monday , alarge _concourse assembled in the market-place , to listea to addresses commenting upon the great distress the working classes are suffering under . On the meeting separating a number of individuals attached themselves to a waggon which had served as a platform , and , followed by a large _* , Qb _, drew _tta _VoJucle throu _^ l _; tie streets ,

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      entering every , baker . 8 hop , _„ provision warehouse , and respMUWe tr _ desman _s dwelling , soliciting bread , food , and money . Three men were in the waggon , who , as loaves of bread were given , deposited them in the waggon , till it was more than half filled . This visitation very much terrified the shopkeepers and the inhabitants generally , '* . The men did not enforce , but asked for bread , consequently the police did not interfere , but the magistrates assembled atthe police-office , and took precautionary steps in case of any violation of the public peace . Some fears were entertained of an outbreak late in tho evening , but , happily , none occurred . __ r . BS . B-S-IBE . I

      Sotcidh _T-itotrc - Fbar . —An inquest was held on Satnrdav last , before Mr J . Gregory , coroner for the southern division of Leicestershire , on view of the body of William Moore , who came by his death under the following circumstances . _^ The deceased was a young man , carrying on business at Gilmorton , near Lutterworth . On Monday a sumrooBS was served upon him , requiring him to attend at the Tewn-hall , Lutterworth , on Thursday , and answer to a charge of assault preferred against him by John Cooke . After th . service ofthe summons _thedeceased became excited , and expressed his determination nottb appear , "he . would sooner shoot himself first ! " _Nonotico waij taken of this observation at the time , but it was afterwards ascertained that the _decsased had borrowed a gun at one place , some percussion caps at another , and powder and shot at a third . ' Having secreted these article , in bis _sleeping room , the

      deceased left home , and passed the principal part of his time at the _public-house ? , drinking to excess , up to Wednesday night , when be returned home and went to bed . About _eicht o ' clock on Thursday morning he aro 3 e , shortly after whioh Mrs Moore was _aftrrraed at hearing the report ofa gtsr . She iramedi _ t . * y ' proceeded flip stairs , and was there _horrer-strnck at finding her husband extended _oathe floor j weltering in blood . Medical assistance wa . obtained as quickly as possible . w _ en it was found that the content , of the gun had _entered at the left _sitibaind passed out * _, the right , a little below the _shooi-fer , inflicting twofrightfully lacerated aud extensive woands , and exposing the lungs ' . Notwithstandiate these injuries the deceased survived nntil one q ' _cwofc in theafternoonof the followhig . day . The jury ratirrned averdict , "That the deceased _destroyedah-self whilst labouring under an attack of temporary insanity . "

      j _SBWOLK . ' . Kobe Poisoning . —Afamilyofthenaifle . fRowse wa * very nearly poisoned in Bury St Biftmiii- '_ , 1 from' partaking of bread which was _afte-WAt _* -. found to-contain arsenic . The bread , it appears , was b _ Ued'in the house , part * . !* by the mother aad'partly bytHo daughter , but -OWthe arsenic was i _ _fchjdaped hat not been ascertained * . Luckily a surgeon was called in in timo to save * the sufferers , who , however , are stiiriabourin _. underthe-effects of tho po * _ f- _* nv _Ipe-moBi—Elizabeth _/ ager ; a ( German _mkattrel _, about fifteen years of age , died'on Monday _lastr irom the _efiEctrof a blow inflicte _. _' wift . a stick by _arrnm named B _. rfter . The unfortunate girl had _nieS'h-im at the Rainbow _public-hotr _*? , ' at Si Matthew ' 3 , otfthe

      night in question , and he afterwards accompanied 1 her to herlbdgings in a place'called St Margaret ' s Ditches . _Gh- their way _Bar-ertoo * from her a _stfdl _* which supported her instrument ' wben being played ' , _j _snd on resetting the lodging shi _** -t ( iempted to snatch ** St from him ** when he raised it'with > tbe power of both . * lis hands antl'dealt a severe blow-on the face of the poor girl , fronrthe effects of _wb-jh * -she shortly after --* wards-e-pired ! He was _immedmtely arrested , a _ djtaken _before-the coroner and _jni-y * on the following _, . nay ; and ' at the close of the _proseed-rag _. was removed _jto-the DOTC _ Err ? aoI . The next' day when the . jury met , the _poHce-fntimated to _t-h-coroner that the [ prisoner hsd ' nmde his escape . _Bariy tbat morning i _behadbeen ta „ en into what _is-termed the airin __

      yard _. _and'directly the turnkey had ' turned his back _heeealedthe-w-tll of the yard and- _'dropped into the prison garden- There he obtained - a _^ pair of steps which enabledhira to reach the _topioftfte outer wall , _and-thenj-mped to the ground ,-depth of 18 feet . Here Le met'with a female , at whom _* _-he shook his ffstf and threatened her injury if .-. made any alarm —he-then mad . off . The escape of ' so notorious a character created * much indignation- ' amongst . tbe juryi'who expressed an opinion thab the gaol authorities hhd been guilty of the most cttlpabte neglect . The inquest was "resumed , and a-verdict of wilful _nurder was recorded against George-Barker , and thc coroner issued'hi . warrant for the apprehension and commital of Barker to the county gsto \ . Since tho above was written' , ft has been _sstisfactorily _ascertaihed that the prisoner is again in custody .

      ESSEX . Mtj „ de _ aki _»» _HisnwAT RoBBE-.. _v—A'tt' inquiry bas been held * _ d the union . workhouse * , Rochford town , before Mr W . Codd , toucln ' ng'the death of a _labourer named Jdhh Terry , aged 73 _T-who was brutally attacked and plundered bj ; a highway robber known bjvthe name of * Jdmes Willsmore . I . appeared that the attack was made abont eleven ' o ' clook in the morning of the 38 th ult ., in a bye * lane between Roohford and Canewdon . The _deeeased-was met by a-man , who inquired the time of __ y > ho pulled out his watch to tell him * , and almost immediately _afterwards he received- _ severe blow cn _* _thC-hea __ with a hoe or a _bill-hoebk Hewas rendere _^ _inuenaiWe and

      remained so till discovered by a passer-by , when it was found he _had-been robbed of his _>* wato-, is . ( 3 d . , _a-khife , a key , and a ba _» . Jo _ m > P _ tteh > a police oenstable , ' said * thai on the apprehension of Willsmore he took him to the _union-h-use where the deceased lay . -fa-eased was then qqite- sensible , and ' on seeing _Willsmere , he remarfced . _' . " * I 1 _ at is the man who was with me when I was robbed . " Defeased _identifieddthe watch as being his property , he had it with Mis when he was scoosted . by . Willsmore . p ther corroborative evidence _beiag adduced , the jury returned a verdict ef wilful murder , _* _ nithe prisoner , who is stated * 0 ' _ b only 18 _yea- » of . _* age > was committed for trial on the capital charge .

      SUSSEX . BrIOHTOI - _*—AoeiDEST BT A RtKAVWl . E . OISE ON thb _Bbio _ 5 »** * _Rai _ wat . —Shortly . after six o ' clock on _Saturdaf-raerninglast , an _etttraordinaryaccident took place _» t ± h « -terminus ofthe London , Brighton , and South _OOast-Railway , in-, this town , by which several carriages-were _demolishnd , and . considerable damage _doae to . the station .. A * traits of luggage waggons having , been backed i _ toa 6 iMi _ g , the engine No .. _ was- detached , and the . engine driver proceeded with , it through _tha-points- oa to tbe main . down line , o-iheLondo- _. _WftoCth-caoipany ' sworks , about _sitebondbed yards from the terminus . There , for some reason as yet unexplained ; ,- ; was left on the line , _wtbile . the e _ _gine-driwr , _and . __ j _ : er attended to

      _trifling-b-sines 8 in the engine-house . According' tbtheir statemeat they left 6 he gear- eff the engine i--, __ -. _propar-and'Eecure state , _bnt < _this seems somewhat irapaobablav for in a few minutes st was observed : in . _moiu ' _bnj bearing down the line in the direction _oftthe terminus ,. The engine-driver _anol stoker ran to over _^ tak _8-it ,. aa __ many othew joined ! in the chase , __ utiit gaihediBpeed every moment ,, and rushed into the terminus at the rata- of about twelve or fourteen miles an iour . The porters looked aghast at the approaching locomotive , _andf a collision to _& v tb . _earriages that were standing at the rails at theend [ being- inevitable , they , mad * a basty retreat-. Im--mediately afterwards the , engine dashed into the 'Oarriages with terrific force , and hurled them almost

      to pieces , the fragments or which struck the front of the parcels' office , and past of the refreshment' room with such violence as to shatter them completely in . Tbe engine , however * strange to say , maintained its equilibrium , although it had been t __ rown off the rails , and , with the exception ofthe front buffers , it seems not to bave sustained any injury , . In all probability , had the carriages not been on the- line , it would have swept through tho termi-Us , Had it occurred when the passenger trains were in thi * . station , the consequences would have proved vesy disastrous . The directors have since ordered the driver to be taken into cuBtod _** , be having acted contrary to the rules and regulations ofthe comp-Jiy , which states , * that engines must not be left oathe line unguarded .

      Mtst-RIo . s Robber , at- ihb Railwav Ts _« uu _* i _* s . —A robbery under very mysterious circumstances has been discovered . On opening the safe between £ 200 and £ 300 deposited in it on the previous night was missed * Thero were no indications of the office having been broken iuto . The money stolen was in gold , with the exception of about £ 30 in notes , and the numbers and dates of the notes are not _knewn .

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      OLABQOW . Pbevalbncb op Fever . —We are sorry to learn that fever is still increasing its ravages int _ e . 't * y . About the Wynds , we understand , it is spreading tb a fearful extent . In one of the eastern districts , wc are informed that there are no fewer than 200 cases ; and that in many ofthe houses in the Wynds six or seven human beings labouring under this scourge arc lying on the hard floor , many of them in a dying state . The immense influx of Irish immigrants tends most materially te perpetuate and increase tbe disease . One ol the district surgeons

      lately died , and several of them , along with the visitors of tho parochial board , have caught the infection . We trust that some effective measures will be adopted to stop the _ravages of the pestilence , and to secure the health of the city . Edinburgh . —Messrs Greenhill and Roberts , two of the Union Canal Company ' s officers , presented Mr Murdock , licentiate ofthe Royal College of surgeons . 54 , Fountain Bridge , with £ 2 12 s ., which was contiibtted by several of tho company's servants and a low of the traders at Port Hopetown , in token of their admiration of the ability Mr Murdock dis , played , and for the laudable exertions made hy lur a in endeavouring to roauscitate John Robertson , _)' ag . gage boat driver , wbo was drowned in the oap ' alon t the morning of the 25 th April .

      The Crime Of Sheep Stealing Has Lately B...

      The crime of sheep stealing has lately becom very prevalent in Somersetshire , and the offendoi are believed to com pose _» formidat ) l ** i gang , whin fans hitherto escaped _dewotw _** . _.

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      _SWTB OF THE _COTOTRT . Popular F _ bi , ino . — The accounts from the country represent the progress of popular resistance . In Galway bands of fabottrers have been parading the town with flags bearing " Bread or Employment . The procession was harmless . Beyond the Shannon , the proceedings were more violent . At Ballingarry , about twelve miles to tbo southeast of Limerick , the p _easantry collected on a lofty hill , with a flag of distress flyin _*; . Proceeding through the country , they stooped the men employed on the _drainage works , whom they compelled tb fall in . They soon mustered 3 , 000 , well armed with guns and oiitlases . The Roman Catholic curate assuaged them ,

      andcompelled the surrender ol 50 head of cattle , which they seized en foray , and were driven before thera , like marchmen of the Borders . . Carls ef flour and Indian meal—one { rain , reckoning 26 care—were taken , nothwithstanding the resistance of the police . The county of Limerick appears to be in a very disorganised condition . Emioratio . _v . —The activity ofthe agricultural and mocha-ic-l clauses to escape from tho scene of de-o-Ution with which they have been familiar in the _provincesis every day on tbe increase . Durin g the month of March one vessel weekly sailed direct from Dublin for New York or Quebec ; early in Ap ril two

      Vessels sailed weekly , then three—four , and lately , down to the present , a first class sailing packet clears out every day from _Dablin with emigrants for the United States : or the British Colonies . This week the enormous number of 2 , 000 persons sailed from the Custom-house-quay _ r / eet to Quebec or # ew York , and next week that numfcer is likely to be ihcreased .- 'f he great majority of t _. ose go on their _own _* account , and ! take with thera lots 1 of money ; the remainder are provided by their _land ! l . rds on thesame , or similar terms to those awarded by Lord de _Vesci and Mrs _Kemttrfs . The South _Cart-tina is advertised to sail off the 22 nd of this month ' .

      In Leitrim _Ifist Week an attack was * made on Mr Slack , of Anna-hie , a . he was passing through the j plantations near Drihey-house , the _reaiideneeofMr ! Fey ton . Mr Sla _«& was going his _accuatome- rounds , accompanied by police , wben a violent pair and sickness-compelled bin * to haft within a short distance of Litrown residence . He remained forthe night in the beuse- where he had alighted , and unfortunate _^ _dism-fted . he policemen-. Ait an early hour r * _3-t meming he started again fstrhis own house , and _had'procee-. __ _-as far as Annw _ * la _ - » tion , when , _as-herv-Jates-six" men with blasboned faces jumped ! out ! 071 the i-c __ d > , and seized hie horse ' s-head , firing _a-pistre ] at _the-oame time without effict ? they then _diragged him - own from his seat , , and after seizing _the-b-izr

      _contaiiK-g ; money to the amount of * 350 _, _theywere about to _ t _* part , when _one-oP ' _the-sealled out— " '_> _. _ui shan't foil , wus , " and deliberately shot him through theleg _» b __ vin « - _previouslygairgedl _iim by _tying-his _driving-whip'i- his mouth , _toistihg : the lash roundhis head . 1 Shipowners are playing pr-fltablertricks onemi * _- I grants , notwithstanding the * activity * of emigration ' : officers . One case , which _has-j iist'come to light , will 1 _^ _sh ow the frauds * which are ¦•• - ry ' generally practised ) I though not easily detected . Kieutenarst Stark cora _» _- plained of t _ 9 _* m _ ster of the Sophia' before the Sear * _jsionB Court 06 Belfast on the following . rounds . Tbs .-ivessel cleared out of Liverpool with " 23 _/ passengers _,. Lind if there be nott 30 on board the- provisions of tha * jP ' _-Ssenger Act do not apply . A \ the Sophia ' s complement was bel . w the number ., ' the'amount of her sea stores could' not be regulated ! the whole

      controlling power being left with _the-master . While she Win the _Mersey two additional passengers were _pafen on board / and , being forced' _into-B . lfast by stress of _weathert the emigration , agent discovered ihe fraud . _Thecoptain was _ codl £ . fl' besides the costs of prosecution . Another- case occurred in Limerick in wbioh . t _ es _ _ipbroker-w _ _s-order * d topay _kiO _' eacli * to several parties for passage-subsistence pnd _compi-nsatiommeney . ! The official retains of the numberof ships and passenger , which sailed from Limerick * sinoe the commencement . of the _. eason gives 36 _" ves 3 . l _ , an-io . _* 537 passengers . ; _distribated as follows _ul-itoiNeWSork , wrth . & 13 pi S 8 en _? erfl- _' : lito Baltimore , _wit-jO- _^ .-ahd _theremainii ng _shipj-to the British . olonie .,. chiefly to _djeb _' ec , wit h the remaining passengers . The passage _mo-e- * to At aerica from-Limericki _ _- ; 85 ' per head—in ordihapy se ison . a _< prohibition *; but ,, at present , tickets for ti iat amount are held at a premium * .

      G _ i _ fat . — _-EvitKaooRK—On Monday all . the-la- * _bourers who had been . employed on the publie works for _a-circuit of five- miles around ; this town ,, and who had beei 1 dismissed in obedience tothe command of the commi _ssionere-, marched through the streets off hia town . The number has been , variously estimated „ - © m oi ight hundred , to five hundr _<* -d'able < . G _. ied vaeui : Havin g proeeededtto the house of _Mrllenly , _theengineer in charge ,- they threatened-to tea ** ' him to pieces , unl ess they , were speedily , employ .. ! ,. By fa ;* --hegreate _stportaon'Startedfoi : _thocomrmssariat store ; -which is _Isspt * in the _eoixvt-house ; * The

      front . door wa s _partly-open _. andnaving forced . the remaintiof , the y brolp-own some temporary _totures inside ,, draggi id out one bag of meal , all that was * in store at the . ime , _ _nd < divid . d the spoil , " share and _sh-re _' _-alike , " in the centre off the square „ and ! quite at theft * , _ieisu re . After the committee had . assured ) thom _.-that th ey would' write- immediately _to-government aad ur go the necessity of providing further employment for them ,, tiie unfortua . tcs separated'witho _ -doi _ gfui . _' theriBJjiry .. The men who have been disemployed are complaining bitterly—they . say . they must rob b _ : ore they . starve . "

      ISBEaT . — At _Killorglin ,. the laboureM ,. to- the amount of s everal t _ c _ sands > . were calling- out- for employment or _Hosdi . A large police ? _tbrce-from Tralee has to _attendito-preser . ve the peace .. _^ . _eatpo- pular _dlssattsfacKon has also . been . _ s * bibited at Listowel , atthe stopping of the-works * . _T-A-KE . _*—Apprehensions * or _disturbaaces-wereentsrtained in Tralee , * jt having been _rumora-ed tha _& a _laKge-body of the-disemployed labourers-from , the country districts were to- os > ngregate in . the town . iUappily , _howevesvjthe day passed over * without _vio-. nce , and the tow _ . _ 4 s-. uice _continued- _* _qN ' et } .--eept

      that on Thursda . ys- a . few wretches went into some bakers' shops and' lielpe _^ themselvoa-. to as * much _bcead as would satisfy their present h-egeri .-) Cobk . —A _vnaioat pi «» 3-. e- in tbis town , to the _efiect that a ser »_ _s _* . rio _ had taken place om Thursday at C-istlemartyri . when , if the report was to be credited , a _largft-boayiofr persons weak to . the Sari of Shannon ' s and' demanded food . The police were ealled out _i-i-ttha _Riott Act read . This , it ' s stated , ! was followed by , t _ e discharge of a . _showeo-ef stones 'by the _peoplej . whea- the police fired , , an _ i _3 hot four Imeu .

      TirpBR-R _ _, _-- _^ U _., S ! a »* rick . on-S _ ir . a . _stroag disposition to outbreak w _ s _ Muifested * . t __ ere . The chapel bell at _'Car-sekbeiit was rung by . some mischievous boys , _andUadiheeleet ofcongiegatinga _multitudeof people ia . a , ve _* rj » short time .. The _awny and po-. lice were unmedla-ely on the alert to . prevent any attack on . the bakers and _sh _ pkeepess ; and tip to the time that * out- informant left ,, though nuiaerous groups ofiReople were to be seen in-carious parts of the town , noacfc of outrage was _attempted .

      _App-egnjsN-wa Riox at _B-nrfljsaiUiB . —At tWs town * eighteen miles and a half from limerick , riots an . expected } and , at the requiaition _. of the magistrates , the General commanding ; the district ordered _ 5 . i men , accompanied by trao . _gunsin-n . Limerick garrU sonh to proceed thither .. _Awi __* Mi ? _-AtMuimEi- -.-- _^ B _* m )_ , S . M „ _recej--e <_ word at Limerick , a s _ ort _titoe before the starting of tke mail for Dublin , that a pay officer of the Board 06 Works , belonging to . the Seariff district , v * _aa . sh _! t at on Saturday , in open day .

      1 Aimmpt at M _ _i _» RBv ~ The Clare _/ _oiimcAQeataii-i Ithe lollowing : — "On , Saturday , about tho . hoax * t f _twelve o ' clock , while Mr Thomas Harvey _^ soaofiy _j r Jobn Harvey , of _Rsthkerry , was engaged vhr _^ h 1 _, az some land _frotawWoh a tenant had bceaejjects __ £ ' Uf men , each & vmi with a pistol , entered ! th . deld I Two of the _yarty took deliberate aim at the , ' horse ! worth , we understand , £ 20 , and hating -a > ortally i wounded ihe animal , the others took ee , __ . ' deliberate aim at Mr Harvey . The ball ot _i one _tooic effeot , having gone through his batat the ) _jj-ok par { of the head , raising the flesh , but going o _ t towards the top of the head , inflioting a serious r l 0 Un ( _j but wo understand , not a _dangeroue on » The men _werefstrangers , but Mr Harvey coa _^ eni he will be able to identify them . They were y ithout any disguise whatever .

      PROGRESS 0 * pJ ? -V _ B Cowt ..-Up to the middleof last' _^ ek there was no city in the empire in whioh there C 8 U i , i befound more poverty , hunger , and disease tb / iu in that proverbi . ally charitable _citr of _( Jork . Dr Conrtenav , of Dublin , the medioal inspector fw the Middleton and the Cork and Kintsale _Vm M miet tue Board of Health , states that in . the , Middleton Union , comprising an area of twenty . aeren gquare miles , there were , on Wednesday las' 1344 c _ g es of dysentery , and 853 of fever . Thr . num ber of fever cases in the North Infirmary , Cat _port Hospital , the Old

      Barrack , and the Fever Hospital , was 000 , and there are out of t _ eho 3 _pitaV _, at least 000 poor fever patients , without any ohar . ee of their being admitted to hospital troatmojat , until such time as fever sheds are built _according / te the powers given by the amended fever act , _an- ' _a that aot is in full and fair operation . The chars / j ter of the fever prevailing in Cork is endemic , _rather than epidemio , land it is much more virulent' than in the rural districts ; this being partiottuvjy the case when it attacks persons moving in the *_ pper oircles . Amongst them in almost two out of- ' three cases it has proved fatal , It is having a _similar result in Bandon , Bantry , and the western

      towns . Several peraons in affluent eirc _ msta _ . es have died here within the last four days , and in Great George-street—one of the best streets in the city—a Catholic priest , the Rev Mr Hayes aud his clerk , are now lying dangerously attacked with fever . I have read very bad accounts to-day from , Bandon a „ d Bantry . -fhe _afluent there are falling frequent ' victims to a disease that is raging with equal _vigour in tho south , tho centre , and tho north of Ireland . Money _« go m < i 9 _^ _^ _, lw _^

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      I not be paid , and demands for repayment p _fcapital ' advancedare looked upon as perfectly ridiculous . Trade , generally speaking , is paralysed , and laat week as many beggars as buyers entered the shops . Speculation and business done in corn and meal would be surprising for their extent in ordinary times , but really in Ireland now nothing is looked upon as in any way wonderful . Bad has been , and is , and people seem to have prepared their minds for much worse . Death oi ? Tnu Rev . S . Nelson , or Pinnae . — The Rev . Simon Nelson , Presbyterian minister of Pottigo _, has fallen a victim to fever after a short but severe illness . 1 I

      Dbath of thb Very Rev . Dr Macoknws , P . P ., V . G ., Clones-l'he Very Rev . Dr Macgenuis , parish priest of Clones , in the diocese of Cloaher , has fallen a victim to typhus fever , . caught in the discharge of his sacerdotal duties . He died at his residence on the 5 th instant , after an illness o f only a few days . Dr Macgennw was formerly professor of theology in Maynooth College . Sligo . — The fever hospitals arc full , and from fifteen to twenty new applicants are . refused daily at the hospitals . In ono miserable cabin , upon the mail conch road in this town , sixty persons have died frora fever within the last three months . This cabin was a lodging-house , in which strange beggars took un

      their residence . The proprietor and his successor both fell victims to the disease , and ,, although there is now no owner for the house , it continues crowded with raiser-hie objects , in various stages of typhus . In tbis place a man died seven day . ago and his body has not yet been removed . A cofiJn was procored from the Board of Health , into which the corpse was placed ; but as no persons have been employed to dig graves , it bas been permitted _to'rem . in unbnried . How ean any hope to escape _dtsease if ! this awful state of things be permitted to continue ? j Fever and tub _Eiseno * _-. _*—We have heard it caU ciliated that the constituency of this county has been reduced hy half jfhrough death , emigration ' , , and ' lapsed Qualification . j

      Tbe reports ofthe progress-of * pestilence and faraine arr _ . ite heartrending , and , _nrfmthslandtng all the _imports-of food _. and tlio immense extent nf relief i _«< food and money , great _destitution' still prevails , and ' the markets at e advancing . All accounts concur _ini showing , that the mortality _is-stilll vary considerabls-.. According to some _calcul-tions ,- the population has . already been _. _iminished to theextent of nearly onemillion from _< deaths and emigration . The system of relief ie * working , if it be _aaid'towork at all , most unsatisfactorily in the rural districts * . Such is the state of the _pssple in fc „ e barony of Corkaguiny that hundreds of them- are pulling up the corn s-wmon' potato land , 'h . orderto get at any young potatoes _whsch may be _ftiiprogress of vegetation .

      | : The Catholic clergy of this county have been obliged to suspend 1 their usual monthly conferences in ' consequence oPtheir inability to attend ! owing to the heavy duties * tot ; devolve on thennin . their respective Iparishes in these times of famine andid _ at _ . ' : KBRRT . _—The'Iter . D . M'Carthy _. P . _'P , Ballylengifbrd and Tarbert , reports that 780 * deaths * occurred inihis parishes-for six months , from'Oct . I \ 18 i 6 , to _A-prii 1 , 184 * 7 : Over half of those diedtof the effects of famine . As-compared with the mortality of the same period ofthe preceding year , t _ is-list * shows an increase of _overSCO'percent . ! There- has- been no -migration from this district for wanfeof -iea » s ; and the same cause- has kept tillage very backward .

      In-¦ deed , the Rev . Mr _M'Oarty states that on- the 29 th jofi' April , _nineteen-tweatieths of the usual tillage [ landiwill remain untitled among the _staall farmers . From Liselton _pawshj the Rev . James Walsh-. P . P ., reports the number of deaths for the six . months alluded to as hSOn of" whom 80 died of starvation . The deaths for _the-same period of last _yearamo _. nted to 26 ) This gives an increase of little short of 500 per cent . _Tillage is * most backward . T __ e Rev . John Long , _P- P _^ of Meenhir , reports ! _. 0 » deaths , eselusive of forty children , out of a population of _£ . 00-persons . Ofthe a _ _ults , 105 owed their deaths to the effects of famine . During the same period last year the moritality was 40 , showing an increase of _ 5 _. 'per cent .

      THE L- ! ti >_ ORSS AND IHEIR SLAVES * . Early , in the month , of February last a- , memorial wa . presented to * the- Lord-Lieutenant , from the parishiof Eenneigh . aadtownl . nd of East and- West Monagaffi ' in the baron ** of West Divisioun of East : Garbery , setting forth , the destitute condition of its j people- and pray ing for- some relief . A * few days _lago one of the _mem-ers- of the relief committee of that place made an . application to his worship the j Mayor _fOr-such . relief ae . it might be in hi 3-power to 'bestow _^ as the committ ee had learned that a . vessel , ' laden with . food ,, had been sent from A-tertea for ' _gratuitous distribution ! here , and consigned to him . | i In the application was enclosed a copy of the

      _me-, morial alluded to < above _» and we quote a few * of the _i facts given thevein to show how the landlords-of that j district have perfbrme - tbeir duty in this hour if : need .. The _mernorial states that there are 11 , 880 I ; acres of land in the district , valued at M 0 _» GS 5 per ' annum—that it comprises a population of _TjOOO inj _dh-iduals , 3 * 000 ' of whom are starring : ( this was at ithe latter end of J ! anua . y )—that the subscriptions for ' the relief of the-poor amounted to £ 1-80 / . of which _: only £ 41 wao subscribed by the landlords , and- of this [ _£ _ -, £ 20 ' was given by the Duke of _Deyo-shire , who _; has but a small property in that district ; . leaving : the munificent sum . ot- ' £ 21 subscribed _by-. tha . _lendlorda ' . of Kenneighand _Mlenagaff for the * relief of 7 , 000

      persons . Mr James O'Cbnaell threatens tc * . distrain'the Tralee workhouse forthe ground-rect-due last March . I _** tW >' BOlIAt * - _0-. HOLIO _BISHOK'OaGOBK . Father Mathew is likely to be the new * Bishop of Cork , in the room ofthe late Right-Rev . Br Murphy . The Cork- Eicanmett says— " 0 _* _ Wednesday , the election _wasenteredon in the _Ca 1 __ i-4 ral ,. by the prelates of the province , and the parishi priests of the diocese of Cork . 'She Most Rev .. Dr Sl __ . » _kery , arch _, bishopoft Gi »_ eh , presided . The proceedings occupied three __ ot _ -s ,. w __ en , after a -crt'tiny of the votes , the three-following names _wera-electedias having the largest number of vote * : _—lst _* . onithe Mat—Very Rev . j T . Mathew , ( Cork ; 2 nd . Vary Bifiv . W . DelanyJ _Baadon' , 3 td \ Very Rev . T _. Barry , Bantry . The ! ap _* poTOtme _ fc oE one of those _ mec now rests with his * , ___ li * nes 3 Mue-IiX . ar . d the Propaganda .

      0 _ D AN D _YOUt'S . __ EU . NO . _Ailengtshyreport . fa •• Coofetence _ofRepealers _, _" which took . _glace a few days since , with a viewoS "eft .. ting , if possible , a reconciliation , " _betwaea Old and _-ouag Ityjiand , has been published . Mv J . _WGbnnalU MJP . _^ was the leador on one side , an _4 Mr S-mikh O'i - 'ien , M . P ., on the other . _Theupshpais , that ihe partie _. did not agree npon terms , _ant \ mat * tiers remained 9 _s before .

      - . ' _iSTR _. _CHOS 0 ? COR nOQS . One of the relief committees of the union , © f Mullirsg . arhav . c / , _me to a unanimous resolution not to _gVvegw-to-ite us relief to any poor person keeping a dog ; the-eo ' asequenceis , that all the cur and other dogs ii . thr . county are being killed by their owners .

      THK CROPS . © obs . May 10 . —Several gentlemon _^ who have _tnvellietJ _, in the ' last week from Limwiok to Cork , hA * te eo- _iveyed to us the pleasing intelligence that , " _ " _v " _" ' exPer'enee- _^ ney uevev saw a greater breadth off tan * d occupied by more apparently flourishing er _sfij'than everywhere on the line presented itself . w _«» . in the last few days , however , field labour has _ferer . suspended , owing to the continued wetness of -tlw weather ; but on return of sunshine and genial " ** rmth , immediately now to be looked for , there can V i no doubt that the aspect of affairs will warrant 1 1 certainty of a mo it plenteous and abundant harvest . The Dublin Evening Post contains the following : — After a winter of extreme severity , followed by a very ungenial apti _. _j ' _. v . ehave , at length , Indications of . _ -. mer weather . Tbe change , which took place since Saturday , has been most fortunate . Vegetation , which bas been

      much retarded , is now making fair progress , aud we may , we hope , _calculflto upon far better accounts as to the ap * pearance of the young corn crops . Indeed , there aro already some evidences of improvement , whilst the accounts show t __ t lb . _. rM-Hh of wheat , oats , ana green crops planted is , generally speaking , considerably larger than usual , and that tbe cultivation has been more carefully attended to . Tho following cheering announcement appears in the J * _imisJ _.-i ! i «» . / woniole , received this morning : — "The spring work is nearly completed in _this county . The grain crops are nearly double what tbey usually were . Potatoes have beau planted pretty generally , but , ef course , not to anything like the e-tent of former years . The young shoots are very promi _. _l _. g , but this cannot be considered , Indicative of the plants _^ ia « tofe \ h _, f _^' The grain crops _promlsa to give an abundant yield this season"

      . .. There are _. _weiegvet to say , some districts , especially in the western counties , and somo parts ofthe south , where spring sowing is even still very backward . But , in general , the reports are highly _favourable . A much larger quantity of potatoes than could possibly have been expected has been sown , and we . are assured that the ; promise well . Tn _ Crops in Suoo . —The crops within the last few days have undergone a deplorable alteration . Wheat has turned out very badly . Mr Wynne , of _llazslwood , sowed a large quantity of this grain , and we understand that it at present presents a wretohed

      appearance . Mr James Wood , of Woodville , has fourteen acre 3 of wheat down , that looks so unpromising that he is hesitating whether he will plough it up , and set barley or not . Mr Vernon , of _Einisklin , is about to rc-set his wheat land with barley . And the wheat crop , every place we have had an opportunity of witnessing it , seems to be burned up ; it is yellow , red , any colour but green . The disease has re-appeared in the potatoes . If the failure of both the wheat and crops , so apparent about Sligo , should prove general , we have the sad prospect of another year of famine before us . ]

      The U Charleston Gazotte" States That A ...

      The Charleston _Gazotte" states that a man was lately lm _-i ? at Darlington , in South Carolina , for having stolen a slave . , A calculation has been made , that in England . QH _9 death in _eis ia caused hy cona _^ _uiption . -

      [ - - Central Criminal Courrt^ 1 Emotzz-...

      [ - - CENTRAL CRIMINAL _COURrT _^ Emotzz-BMBM . —• George Eaiery _ , „ , clerk , was placed ot the bar Mr Clarkson i _^ » was instructed to defend the prisoner »! , * _-9 _charged with embezzling several sums of _' mnn . __*** Iongirg to his employer . He felt that it _m *; '' _*' sible to offer any defence to the charge , and . ? _^ " his advice , the prisoner would retract ' hia _« i „_ er " Not Guilty . " He was instructed to nige " {?*? court , as matter of extenuation , that the prisow had borne a very high character for integrity ? . J having been for two years , unfortunately out of em _ploy-ment , previous to his being admitted into tb serr ' _ce of the prosecutor , lie became involved an ! this had induced him to commit the offence . j / e _u lieved witnesses were in attendance wbo would riva the court information respecting the previous conduct of the prisoner , and he trusted that his _lordjuin

      would award as lenient a sentence as tns _joatjeeof thecase would warrant . —Mr Robinson , _v-bo p _** _,,, _^ _cuted , said he thought it right to inform the court that the prisoner was employed in a _canBdenti- _*' capacity by the prosecutor , and had been in hi » » cr ? i three years . Wis salary was £ 150 a year , which » aj increased £ 10 each year . The Recorder inquired tha amount of the prisoner , defalcations ?—Mv _RoEin . son said thej amounted to nearly JE 300 , but the entire extent was not known , ( - . cause the prisoner himself had not given any information , and the only means they possessed of arriving at the fact , was by continual _production of receipts in the prisoner ' s handwriting for sums of money which had never been accounted for by him . —Mr Clarkson said „ s

      had not been made aware that the loss was to this extent . —Mr Robinson said he bad one account in his hand , by which it appeared that lot ? Si . had been embezzled . He ha . no desire to press the case vin * _. ictively against the prisoner , but he thought it right ' that the court should be put in possession of the real facts . Several highly respectable witnesses were called to speak _to'tHie conduct and character of the prisoner in former life , , and they all eoneurred in speaking in the highest terms of his integrity . — Mr" Clarkson the ® proposed to call the B _* M--r-h > law of the priaoror ; . to show that he had been for two * years out of employment , and that * this had placed him in a _positfon'ofgreatpecuniary difficulty , which- was tbe _reaseni of his committing the _s & ence

      —The Recorder thought such evidence _ow-lit not to Ue received , because the principle involved wonld be , that no man in _fotorewould be safe _who-g-ve agood . it _ ation to a _msfl'Wholiad previously been io _difficulties , it that circurastenco was to be _ratdeaoy e _ . us 6 far his robbing _-carto-pay his incumbrance ? ,, instead of devoting the monies irom his income to * Slat' purpose—Mr Lew ' s- Bimger , tho prosecutor _, was them _questioned by tiie'Recorder , and he stated that theprispner came intohis service in 1 M . _I an £ the first embezzlement appeared to have taken place about'a-year afterwards , an _ i continually from-that time d 6 vm > to the period of the prisoner ' s apprehension ; . __ c amount already discovered to have been ' misappropriated by the prisoner was between . two

      [ and twee 'hundred pounds . —Tiie Recorder , in passing sentence , told the prisoner that if the courfcon-| suited » rely its own priv _ t- _* -feelings , it would _* wili lingly _passes ' lenient one ; but'it was a duty it owed . ' to the-p-Wic , to take care that where persons were cenviete-tof so serious an _effsnee as this , that the * infliction 'of too lenient a punishment did not have the _efiSct _' of * reducing other parsons to commit a _* li _ e act , and-take-that no idea _shouldf-irevail that persons in the position of lite of the prisoner were dealt with _differently- _or-received less punishment , than others of a _lovrercl-ss of society .. T _ e Secretary of State had the power of reviewing the case , but the court ' must do their duty upon the facte as they appeared before tbem ; and they felt that duty _reouired him

      to pass a sentence of _transportation . He then sentenced theprisoner to be transported for seven years ; Ro _ B 3-Vi—John Marsh Edward Stokes _( 26 }> surveyor , was indicted for stealing , aa engineering i _* _ - p _' ement , called a dumpy level , the property of Chas . William _\^ 6 od . It appeared thht the prosecutor-is an optician , jcarrying on _businesi in Bishopsgate * street , and it seemed that the > prisoner , who * was stated to be the son of a _clergymos , and respectably connected , . was known to hie . as- having been con > cerned in engineerine pursuits , and on 13 th of March he was induced to let him havo . the level in question upon his _TtpresentaUon that be wonted to showifj to a friend .. The . instrument was never restored , and it

      appeared that tne prisoner _pleajjed it almost immediately _afteriii came into _his-poseession . The jury found tho prisoner guilty . # There _wereothsr charges of a similar character against'him , and it appeared he had obtoiae _. valuable instrsments from several _tradesreemby similar representations . It was stated that the pawnbrokers did not-tfee _) very desirous to give ' upjthb ppoperty . —The Recorder wished t _ _* knov who made the objection ? -One _* of the pawnbrokers got into , the box , and , addressing the learned -judge , said , _""Ifi yotHf lordship wishes * it "—The Recorder , interrupting him , " 1 do not wish it—I order ib , and when tee-property is given uojit wili be timcenough for yoato apply for your _epsenses . "—The _p-fiaoner was then ordered to be _transpeirted for sevennyears .

      Ri _ 8 __ -a .. T _* -- Changes . —Joseph _Devine , aged 25 , William > iK-ight , aged 25 , andi George Smith , aged 23 , were-indicted for obtaining 10 s . by false pre * tences frem . Rebecca Atki _. son . The act i » puted te the prisoners by this _iridict-meat was that-which ispretty well , known as * -ringing the changes . " The prisoners went to the Six Balls publie house at Ham- * _meramUh ,. and called for _ _tpot of half-and-half , ten- _, deruigi _* _ia . _** merita good _. _Bowereign . The . landladyhanded back to Knight the change , all _iaailver , ant - he then aslsed her to let kiia have half-a _ overeign ir __ lieisofithat amount of silver , and she gave him ono * _whiehishfrknew to be a . genuine coin .. Knight , thai -monem . be received it , . said it was ligjit _, and on an _o-ltfrrbsingmade to % we him silver , _ha-handed baci

      a counterfeit half-sovereign instead oi > the genuine coin . The fraud was discovered , an _.-on the _prisonorg-. _i-g taxed with _itj . Snight _place _^ iwbat appeased toibe-a _half-soveieigii _^ n his mouth ,, and taking a gulp , of the beer , swallowed it . Tho * prisoners were toh . aint ' 0 custody , and as they were-being conveyed to . the police _utatio-j . Devine was . seen to _swallow another half-sovereign , and Smith was _observed to : pia «» five shillings , separately _inta his mouth , and _js-wallow the whole of thera . Theprisoners w __ re _conv icted , and _senteaced to _imprisonment and hard labour forayear _^ , Bioamt . —George Addison , _laie in the police , was ¦ indicted for big . _ s __ y . The _evidence showed that , in 11830 , tho prisoner was _marriad at the parish church of St John ' s ,, Sethnal Green , to Harriet Hannah

      Ives , who was . the daughter ofhis _step-father , and with whom he lived some time ; bus they parted under a deed of separatism , _occasioned by the prisoner ' s ill-treatment . On the 22 nd July , 18 i % ho was married to Hannah Louisa _Fonter , with whom he lived ahout eight months , and he then told her he was married to Harriet Ives , who was living , and they parted . The prisoner was taken to a policestation on some charge , when the police discovered that ho had engaged a passage on board an emigrant ship , and was about to sail for Q , uebec . The police , it ! was said , instituted the present proceedings , much

      against tbe wish ofthe two wives and their friend ., who evidently were unwilling witnesses . The first wife was now in court . —Mr . Ballantine , for the defence , contended that there was no strict legal proof ofthe first marriage , as the clerk could not identify the parties . He ( Mr Ballantine ) complained that the police should hunt out cases for the sake of costs , and said the interests of society would have been best consulted if they had let the prisoner proceed quietly to Quebec * , for it was evident neither of the wive 3 wished for him , or thought bim worth the trouble of a prosecution . Verdict , " Guilty . " Sentence , six months' hard labour .

      Associaten Boards Cx Ii_A_Th.--The Annua...

      _AssociATEn Boards cx II _ a _ th .--The annual meet ing of tbis Association was held in the Directors '* room ofthe Stockport Board , St Peter ' s-square , en the 1 st instant . Mr William Crawford in the chair . The chairman briefly opened the proceedings , and Mr James Webb , the corresponding secretary , ( and principal originator of these societies in this part of the country ) , read the proceedings ofthe last annual meeting , together with the accounts for the preceding twelve months , which were received and adopted . After which , the various delegates gave in a report from eaoh board , showing the great good their respectiveboards have effected durin ; ' the past year , by which it appeared , that at Stalybridge board tho number of patients visited at their own homes durin _?

      the twelve months was 1 , 350—out-patients , 1 ,-770 midwifery cases , 93 . At Ashton-under-Lyne , ttu homo patients visited were 596—out-patients , 3 , 626 . and midwifery cases , 8 __ . The returns from Stock ' port and other places were similar to the foregoing . It is now upwards of seven years since the self-sup * porting societies were first established in these localities , and the great benefits that have resulted therefrom in the various towns where they exist are well known . It appears that each member contributes ene halfpenny per week for medicine and attendance , ( which includes attendance in all cases of midwifery , ) and an average of from twopence to threepence per quarter tor incidontal expenses , and the supplying of leeches to such as may require them . The delegates assembled ou the above occasion expressed a desire 1 that societies of a similar description sbould be esta *

      Wished in every town and village in the kingdom , and pledged themselres to assist , by every means in their power , any effort that was made in any locality for tbat purpose , and instructed their corresponding secretary , ( Mr James Webb , of Hyde , ) to communicate with them immediately should any applicatii a be made , and ts render the applicants all the assistance in his power . A vote of thanks was awarded i O the officers for tho past year , and also to the _obar . * man of the day , after which the meeting separated . A Hungarian newspaper states that the market * town of Great Szalonta , in the district of Bihar , caught fire on tholtth of April , and _one-iifth of it was laid in ashes . The protestant church , the school , the glebe-house , the town hall , and the district magazine , fell , a prey to the flames , and niar . y lives were lost , th _, Qugi _* . ihe number is & s ye * Ml ' _kmrnUi

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 15, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_15051847/page/6/