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      Exalte op Losdos p asaa ran Week . —The _mortality in London is still increasing . Tbe deaths registered in the last week were 997 , while the deaths in the four preceding weeks were 181 , 803 , 893 , 917 . The increase iu the time exceeds 200 a week . The deaths are , however , below the average of the _eairesponding weeks of 1840-9 ; after correcting for population , and excluding the corresponding fifed week of 1849 , when the deaths wero 1 , 909 , and S 33 persona died of cholera . The corrected average is 1 , 019 , while the actual deaths were 997 . Small-pox was fetal last week to 15 persons , measles to 13 , scarlatina to 21 , hooping-cough to 25 , typhus to 35 , aad erysipelas to _ _Kine deaths from child Ditto , were registered . The deaths from diarrhoea were 152—namely , 124 children , under the age of 15 , 9 _adults between the age of 15 and 60 , and 19 per- MOm of ages over 60 . Of cholera 12 children and 3

      adii-is died . The number exceeds the deaths from - cholera , in the corresponding weeks of _1840-O , but is -less t ' _oan those in the _corresponping weeks of 1 S 16-J , ¦ when ST . 16 , 19 . and 823 deaths were ascribed to _fliav malady . There is nothing to indicate the presence ofan epidemic either in the number of deaths from cholera , or in tho character of the cases _retried ; * but the mort ality from diarrhoea is aa un-¦ -toward symptom , which deserves the attention of those who have the power to adopt precautionary _-measures . The barometer at the Boyal Obser-Yatofj _" . Greenwich , was low during the week ; the corrected arerage reading was 29 * 651 inches . The mesa temperature ofthe air in the shade was 64-2 4 e _ , ; or 2 * 7 deg . above tbe average temperature of the - ¦ _» eek . The temperature of the Thames ranged _from t 33 deg . to 63 deg . The air was dry , showed little electricity , and passed over the Observatory at the average rate of 120 miles a day .

      _Fsxmruh Occpskbsck ox the South _Easiebk ¦ _BiiuriT . —Ou Saturday last an investigation was gone into before Mr . "W _* _. Carter , at tbe Railway -ravers , Sew-cross , on the bod y of John Burns , aged _^ _* _- - !\ , _^ deceased was io the employ of the South Eastern Railway , and was , with others , at wori at the honse attached to the Cold Blow 'Station , near New-cross , Deptford , when he suddenly crossed the line of the railway , for the purpose as was supposed , of going to a shed on the opposite side for some took . As he did not return for _sr . _ e time a search was made for him , and he was fosfid lying doubled up between the rails , a _shori distance from the Cold blow Station . —The left , . vrm was cut off , and lying by his side ; one of his hit was also nearly separated from the leg , and

      fhe _iiody and head altogether so crashed and muti' late J that those who went to look for him only _fcnev . " aim by hisclothe 3 . The jury returned a verdict of _Accidental Death . It appeared that the jwor feiiowcrossed the line at the moment when the Cro" son np-train was Just below , and the Tnnbridge express train approaching New-cross . _Siicics of a Stooeoh . — -On Saturday last Mr . Wm- Baker , " on ., held an _inquest at the White Barr Turner-street , Commercial-road , relative to the death of Mr . William Wheatley , aged fortyfive , £ surgeon , who committed self-destrnction by shof-. ; _n-r Mmself with a pair of small holster pistols _throi-gG the heart , at No . 13 , Turner-street . Dr . Tho--vis _liobertson , Mile-end-road , _sureeou . stated

      thai he S- _"vw deceased a few minutes after the melan Choiy _ocearrence . He found two perforations near _each- ' iher , under the left nipple . The shot had not pass-: d through , his body . He felt one of them close to tbe spine . He had known deceased intimately for _t- ? c- hit twenty years . He was for many years in ik _? 5 ? rv " ee of the Queen of Spain . About two moral's 2 go he returned to England from South _Australl-r He had been a medical officer on board the Kate , which had taken some emigrants to _Sidiiff , forwarded there by government . A charge was iaeu preferred against him for neglect of duty ,

      that- he allowed the men to go into the berths ofthe _sin _^ ' e women . An investigation took place at Sidney _.-: he _effect of which was , that fie lost a gratuity he _r-yM have had of £ 69 , and he wa 3 prevented firom ever again having a government appointment in thai capacity . —By the Coroner : Deceased protested his ' innocenceof the charge , and said that it was when the women -were unable to come on deck for _vatcr , owing to the weather , he allowed the men to take water to them . That was no charge against his n * oral character . Had no doubt but the impntit _' _on on his character affected his mind . Verdict , •* Temporary Insanity . "

      _Svf-Tiss Death is the Wesimmsteb Swimming Bat ; : ? .-Ob Sunday afternoon the bathers in the _"Wes _liainster Swimming Baths were thrown into a state ofthe greatest consternation by the occurrence of the following melancholy event : —Between [ two and ihvee o ' clock , a youn g man , a master tailor , an Turbine of these swimming baths , entered the place . Just before entering the water he had been beard to remark ihat he had better wait a little , as he had hutiun dined . Being unable to swim he generally _enter-jd the water sten bv steo instead of ulunsip "

      in . He was at length observed to stand upon the second step of the ladder leading into the water , and - . hen all in a moment to fall in with a loud gphnb . His friends -sraiied for a few seconds , expecr . ; i- _£ to see him rise , but having waited forsome fifteen " _sKonds and not seeing him appear , " fth ' ey wen : io ihe spot , and , to theirhorror , saw _thefufifortcaatc man lying atthe bottom . An ahrm _' was _'Instantiy raised , and every assistance given . The hodj w : ; _s taken out and a medical man sent for , but on his arrival he pronounced life quite extinct , and attrioutsd the cause to a fit of apoplexy .

      Seockiso Dsasb ov a Yooso _Laot . —An inquest was held on the 9 th inst ., on ths body of Miss Sophia Beard , aged thirty . The deceased was on a visit _sritli the family of Mr . Gunthorpe , a retired medical practitioner , of Newington-place , Kenniog ' _jn . She slept in a back room , on the first floor . Cn Thursday morning she was found dead in her night dress on the stone pavement of tbe _gardsa , under her window , wbich was open . Her skull wns fractured hy the fall from the window Mr . Ganthorpe ' s opinion was that she had not thrown herself ont , bnt that leaning too far forward to attend to some creeping plant , she had fallea out head-foremost . Verdict , "Accidental deafo . _"'

      _VcacsTAUT Starvation to avoid _Thansporta-H 05 . —On Tuesday Mr . H M . Wakley held an inquest ia-rfie House of Correction , Goldbaih-Belds , CierV < = _ritrell , on George Smith , a _^ ed 21 , a notorious character , who had been sentenced to ten years _transporbr . on . In consequence of an industriously but false !* ' spread report , that deceased had been starved to de-i £ h by the prison authorities , the inquiry excited great interest . The coroner and jury having viewed the body , which is a mere skeleton , several witnesses were examined , from whose statements it appeared that ; .- _!' , e deceased had been committed to orison a great number of times for various offences , and white _onder _- 'oing punishment had always behaved inoffensively until subsequently to the last sentence passed

      npon aim . On the 5 th instant he began to act in an _-ontri _^ eous and extravagant way , and it was found nece _^ ary to use a straight waistcoat , in order to prevent _!< iia from hurting himself or others . He obstinately persisted in refusing to swaH > w any solid f » od , and i > o expired suddenly on the 10 th instant Mr . Wakefield , house surgeon , said he watched the case dosei r and with cariosity , for be was of opinion that _dece-= _' < -

      "when he struck right and left at them , so tbat be hail again to i » _e put under restraint They had-not the digh ' _-e' _^ idea of deceased ' s approaching death . _Witnesses _performed a post mortem examination . The tody * rase naciated , but he could not discover _internalls - ? r externally the cause cf death . AU tbe organs _* : « _-e healthy . In his opinion deceased voluntarily _starved himself to death . Every possible effort was rr _. 2 d » ia _sive his life . The jorj _returned the _following verdict : — " Deceased died from the efftcts of _cxdtemect and exhaustion , from the want of proper _Bonri' _-hment ; which exhaustion was produced by _-deceji-id ' s refusing to take the food and nourishment _| n * OVidi . d for him . To which the jury added their _appnw . _-.-rimi of the kiai treatment which deceased _experienced in the prison .

      _WiLfci . _DESTHCCrroH of the Ohdnance Maps OFTI _. e _Metropoutan Commission of Sewers . — A mcft _fra « rant act of wilful destruction of a considerable portion of the Ordnance maps of the Metropolis _, bas recently come to the knowledge of the Metropo i ' _sn Commissioners of Sewers . After the necessary i-: veis and other information had been taken by _theoScrs ofthe Ordnance , they were regularly deposited st the District Sewers Office , in Hatton Garden , under the superintendence of Mr . Joseph Smith , who hid been taken as a serjeant from she corps of _Sappers aad Miners , for that pnrpose . From the _infor >? Jition SO obtained , Mr . Snvth ordered the maps tobe _ilrawii preparatory to their befog engraved , aud 6 _evera ! " ef them for the more crowded districts of the metropolis were completed , and sent to the clref office in Greek-street . On th * dsy the maps were so _removed , several ofthe officers of the establishment

      saw them _;>' aced in drawers wita great care , wish the exception of same that were already in large tin cases- _'fiiere being some occasion shortly afterwards to refer to them , on opening the drawers they _foumi the _grtater . part of them saturated with some uo « erfal liquid , so much so , that a good deal of the work _was _completely illegible . An immediate investigation _was'hsn made of those in the tin cas ?* , and these appeared to have been injured in a similar manner . The appointment of -Serjeant Smith to this situation appeared to have given great offence to one or two parti-. * , which had manifested itself on mmy occasions , hy a _disiaclination to obey his iustructions . _ he commissioners , therefore , with the ' view to a thorough iovesUgafion of the facts , placed the matter in tb . "; hands of Air . Field , ofthe detective police . Nearly twenty of the officers have beet _^ . strictl y " , examined _as to the c _^ _unistances-inaWe ' rcsult tends to fit the eomaisriorfof _toactapoa two parties who - . - * « . ; ' . p- - ¦ ¦ _¦ . - . •'

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      c had been previously suspeoted . An analysation o the liquid used has been made by Mr . Parry , of the Polytechnic Institution , who declared it to be nitrate _ofsilver . . n m Patai , _Samso Boat _Acciuent . — On Tuesday evening , between six and seven o ' clock , the Gabriel a sailing boat of _sixions , belonging to Bobert Owen , Esq ., of Maida House , New Cross , Greenwich , was beating up the reach , from "Woolwich , having a party of six gentlemen on board , when , in ticking from the north to the south shores , a sudden gust of wind laid the vessel on her beam end 9 . The water poured into the main batch , almost instantly turning the yacht keel upwards , and immersing the entire party . The crew of a barge which was at hand succeeded in rescuing those who were clinging to the bowsprit and the keel , but unhappily two of the party , sons of Mr . Bobert Greena way , of Eennington-road , were drowned .

      _IiAtrscff at Greenwich . —On Saturday afternoon last , a new iron steam-ship , buiit for the Commer cial Steam Navigation Company , and intended to ply with passengers and goods between London and Boulogne , was launched from the premises of Messrs . William Joyce and Co ., of th <* Greenwich _irou-works . It is worthy of remark thafc this is the first iron steamer ever built at Greenwich ; and as it is considered the precursor of similar works , creating a new and important branch of industry in that town , a large assemblage of the inhabitants were admitted by tickets to the yard ofthe builders to witness the interesting ceremony . Crowds also collected outside on every spot commanding a favourable view . The day was beautifully fine ; flags

      flaunted gaily from tne Messrs . Joyce s iron works ; whilst tbe launch itself from stem to stern , shone resplendent with fluttering bunting . The usual preparations being all effected by three o ' clock , the noble vessel / which bad just before been christened "the City of Paris , " in due form by Mrs Hopkinson , the wife of one of the owners ) , glided gently and smoothly into the river _amidst the pealing of eannon _, and tbe . enthusiastic huzzas of the spectators . The " City of Paris" is constructed from the design of Mr , Oliver Lang , and the opinion of competent judges is , that she will prove herself rra admirable specimen of the skill of that

      _distinguished naval architect . She is to receive her engines at the works of the Messrs . Joyce . They are to be on the direct action principle , and ofthe collective power of 120 horses . The burden of the vessel is 425 tons : her length between the perpendiculars is 165 feet ? her breadth of beam , 23 feet ; depth of hold , 14 feet ; and her draught of water , 6 feet 6 inches . Alter the ceremony was concluded an excellent luncheon was given by the builders to a select circle oftheir friends , when- tbe health of thedesigner and builders having been drank , * * Success to the City of Paris" was received with the greatest cordiality . '

      Tbb _Cbstraii Gas- Consumers'' <> b » FAHV . have offered a reward of £ ffl- for the . apprehension of a miscreant who had removed some of the bolts of the principal rafters of the Iron roof of'tiie works on the night of the 7 th inst . DzaTg of the _Vice-Chauceixoh- of _Broianb . — The Bight Hon . Sir Lancelot Shadwell . ' vlce-Chancellor of England , expired on Sunday morning , at his residence , the Barn Elms , Patney .. The event was hourly expected from Friday afternoon , when

      the symptoms of the paralytic attack ,, under which he laboured for the last month ,, became painfully al _.-irmrag . The death of so good and able a man will be greatly lamented ; He presided over a branch- of the Court of Chancery sinoe the year 1827 , aad secured the entire respect of the * profession hy the general soundness and invariable impartiality of his judgment , by the regula ** it _*" - of his attendance in his court , and his untiring assiduity in the disposal of his business . Sir Lancelot Shadwell was the son of a barrister well known in his

      day in the courts of law . He was born- in . 1770 , and was educated at St . John ' s College ,. Cambridge , at which University he took a harab _' e-degree as seventh wrangler and junior medallist . lie subsequently obtained a fellowship , and in 1808 was called to the bar at Lincoln ' s-inn . In 2821 he Was appointed a King ' s counsel ,. and in IS _^ ho obtained a seat in Parliament for the-borough of Itipon . As already" stated , Sir Lancelot was made Yice-Chancellor in 1827 . In 1835- he became- one oi the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal , and he

      again held that office m the present year . He died in the 71 st year of his age ,, leaving sever . it children . Under the act 5 th Victoria _^ , chap . 5 , the successor of the Vice-Chancellor of England will receive a diminished salary ; it being enacted by the 37 th clause that no such officer should henceforward receive more than £ 5 , 000 a year , or a retiring pension of larger amount than £$ , 500 a-year . Mr . Page Wood is mentioned as likely to succeed , the late Sir Lancelot Shadwell , it being understood that the Attorney-General will not accept the office .

      _Scddes Death of the Recorder ov the Cm of _Loxdos . —Intelligence was received at the Mansionhouse on Tuesday morning , of the death of the Right Hon . Charles EwauLaw , Q . C _., Recorder of the city of London , which took place rather suddenly , at his residence at Eaton-place . The hon . gentleman bad been ailing for some few days , but his illness was not of that character to cause alarm to his family . He was the second son of the first Lord Ellenborough , and was about fifty-eight years of age . He served the office of Common Sergeant from 1830 to 1832 , when he was elected Recorder . By his death a vacancy occurs in the representation of Cambridg e University , in Parliament . Mr . Russell Garner , Judge of the City Sheriff ' s Court , is spoken of in the City as a likely candidate for the vacant Recordership .

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      Infant focsd borikd Alive in the Sand at Southpobt . —A report of this case appeared a short time ago in the JVbrtAcm Star , since which the child has died , and at the inquest the surgeon , who had made a post mortem examination , deposed that the result was occasioned by inanition in consequence of the absence of proper nourishment , and hy exposure . A verdict of wilful murder against Aim Ball , the mo _' . her , was recorded , she having confessed thaton the day ofits birth , which took place in au outhouse , she had taken the child and placed it in the sand where it was found , dreading to take it home , in consequence of tbe threats used by her motner .-rCommitted for trial .

      A Goon Time Coming fob _BiBKBNHBAn . —A general revival of trade is gradually taking place in _Birkenheid , which has been so long suffering under a pressure of evils which entailed ruin upon many of its earliest fouuders and benefactors . Mr . Wilsons ship-yard will soon give constant employment to hundreds of hard-working artisans , whose permanent residences and weekly earnings will much benefit the shopkeepers and owners of small property in the township . Daring the past week Mr . Wilson ' s men have heen busy in . excavating a portion of the gronnd _borderins on the shore , preparatory to laying down the keel of a large steam-frigate , which event will take place during the present week . The docks _already made are full of shipping . The steam coal trade h becoming of considerable importance , in proof of wbich we may state that Mr . Hamilton Laird is _loadine six ships , and the Brymbo Company fonr .

      A further dock space is to be opened next October , and the contractor will lose £ 1 , 000 per month if a great portion ofthe large float is not ready for mercantile use by the 1 st of July , 1851 . A Rbspitb . —William Chadwick , convicted capitally as au accessory before the fact for the murder by poison of his wife ' s unele , at the Stafford assizes , before Mr . Justice Williams , has been respited daring pleasure—a course of proceeding which is virtually tantamount to a commutation ot the extreme punishment into transportation for life . There is no instance , we believe , of the extreme sentence being inflicted after a respite during pleasure . The execution of Chadwick had been fixed fur Saturday , tbe 17 th inst ., * but we believe that the case admitted of sufficient doubt to hive satisfied the learned judge that a different verdict might possibly have been come to , or , at all events , that there was sufficient doubt to incline to the side of humanity .

      The Pali , of a Conos Mm . at Stockport . — The inquiry into the cause of this fatal accident has terminated by the jury unanimously returning the following verdict : — "This jury find , after mature consideration , that the deceased , Wright Barker and others , came to their deaths accidentally , through the _p-irtAal falling of the floors of the Briuksway _Fasten * _, belonging to Mr . Cephas Howard , whiclrwere supported by a cast iron beam of an imperfect construction , and of an improper calculation , considering the weight it bad to bear . " Sentence of Penance . —In the Consistory Court of the diocese of Ripon an action for libel andslander wai last week brought by Miss C . Mary LuisFer-| naudes , the second _daughter of Mr . J . L . Fernandes _,

      of Sandal , near Wakefield , against Mr . Joseph Horner the elder , of Wakefield , corn-miller , and a member of the Town Council of that borou .-h , for certain slanderous reports which had been circulated by the defendant , tending to prejudice the character and reputation of the plaintiff , and reflecting upon her virtue . The Chancellor , tbe Rev . John _Ileadlam , decided that the defendant" ought to be duly aud csnonically corrected and punished , " and that he be compelled "to perform a sniutaryand suitable penance , aeewding to his demerit , for his excess aforesaid . " The act of penance enjoined is accordingly to be performed bv the defendant , in the parish church of Wakefield , on the 25 th of August , immediately after the morning service . . > .

      , Cholera at Chatham . —The cholera has appeared in this town , and two deaths have taken place . _Ona of the patients died on the Brook , and the other at the lower part of the High-street , and near to the _Mefway Union Workhouse . The neighbourhood in wliich these deaths have occurred is not qu _' . y dirty , hut there are foul , ditches near , which or _, _ghtj to'be purified , especially at this season of the J ' _jar . ; ; ' ' . i ' The Loss _oFtb _# ' _Pbince AfeTHtrB . —The adjourned inquest on the two firemen drpwried in endea-Touring to reach tho land fromthi * * vessel ,: was to-

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      sumed on the 9 th inst ., when a verdict bf ** Accidental death" was recorded . The jury accompanied their verdict with , a recommendation that the Board of Trade should be requested to institute a searching inquiry into matters connected with the culpability of the owner and captain , for not having the necessary appliances on board to _saTOthe lives of the passengers in case any accident occurred . It was also recommended that the same board should consider the propriety of buoying the tew channel leading to Southport Roads . The coroner having promised tbat the recommendations of the jury should be attended to , the inquiry terminated ... _-..

      Thb iatb Apprehension of _Smuggleiis at Bristol — On Saturday last , Thomas Julius , the master of the barque Wave , of Aberthan , and Benjamin Cook and Henry Cook , the proprietors of " Cook's Coal Yard , " inthe Hotwell-road , Bristol , were proceeded with before our magistrates by the Custom House authorities for having been engaged , so long ago as the 2 nd of May , in some smuggling transactions which the late seizures iu the British channel have brought to light . Mr . Henry A . Palmer appeared to conduct the prosecution , which seemed to excite a good deal of interest ; and Mr . F . Short attended as legal adviser of the defendants

      Cook . The information against them contained two counts . In the first , the defendants were charged wiih having , on the 2 nd of May , illegally unshipped 8 , 0001 b . weight of tobacco packed in illegal packages , and upon which the duty had not first been paid . The second count charged them with having carried , conveyed , and concealed , and assisted in carrying , conveying , and concealing , the same quantity of tobacco . Mr . Palmer said he had deemed it ad _» _tisable to charge tbe prisoners under the two counts which he had read , in order that the whole of them might be brought within the penalties of the statute ; but it was not his intention , as the tobacco referred

      to in both counts was the same , m the event of a conviction on one count to press for a further penalty under the other . The defendants—upon king called upon to plead—all pleaded Guilty , and the magistrates fined them severally £ 100 each , and ordered them to bs imprisoned till it was paid . Mr . Palmer said had tbe parties adopted another course , so as to have permitted him to-call his evidence , he [ should have exposed a system Of frauds on the revenue more extensive than the magistrates had any conception of , and one too implicating many parties . •—At tbe Bristol Police-court oa Monday Jean Louis | Belin , the captain , and Andre Adolphe Mallard , Ii . _I'Pi D . Fromont , and Louis N . Brittel , three of the crew of the _Freaeb vessel Henri , of Cherbourg ,

      cap-I tured on the 7 th- instant by the revenue officers of the port of Bristol , under circumstances-which haye been already detailed ,, were brought before the magistrates in custody , upon- information laid by order of the Commissioners of Customs . Mr . Ht A . Palmer appeared on the part o the crown to conduct the proceedings , which appeared to have-eseited much interest , the court being crowded in every part . The _nrstrcasc proceeded ' with was that of the captain , Jean Louis Belin , who was charged with _having been found on the high seas , on the 7 th of August last , on board a vessel wliich was liable to forfeitEre ,. because she , _beingia foreign vessel ,, was found withihone league of the coast of this kingdom having then' on board a large-quantity , co wit 6 , 5001 bs . wefaht of tobacco ,

      such tobacco not being in packages eontaining each 3001 ba-. weight ; for which offence he-was liable to be imprisoned in the house of correction and kept to hard labour for a period of not less than _sia nor more than nine calendar months . The accused pleaded guilty , and , notwithstanding it was represented to him that his so doing would not affecft the nature of the sentence to be imposed on him , ho- persisted in bis plea . The other men were then- severally arraigned ; and all admitted the offence ,, but urged that Ihey were merely men on hoard the vessel , having been engaged for the-voyage . —Mr . Palmer said the crown had no desire to press for tbe imposition of any

      greater than the minimum amount of punishment prescribed by the acb of parliament , but he felt it his duty to state to the bench , that the vessel on board of which the prisoners were captured h was a regular French clipper , _and-had evidently been engaged inthe smuggling trade , as-en board of her were found _stoae sinkers ready to sink ; the bales of _tobacoo in ths event ofa chase . Indeed j . to the experieneed eyes of the revenue officers she- presented every appearance of having been regularly employed in the prosecution of a contraband trade . The magistrates then sentenced all the parties to six mouths ' * imprisonment , with hard labour .

      _MtjRDSR at Stourbridge , —A man named George Clarke , and Ann Curtis , his niece , have been twice examined , on-a charge of murder ,, before- the magistrates at Stourbridge . The murder is alleged to have taken piaee on the 22 nd of June , under the following revolting circumstances : —The murdered man is-tbe _husband of Ann Cnrtjs , with whom he had lived very unhappily , the wife having in fact deserted liim and gone , to live with her uncle , the prisoner Clarke , with whom she cohabited . Clarke , _however , was some months ago committed to prison for some offence , and during his incarceration the woman went to live with her lawful husband . On Clarke ' s release , however , sbe again went to live with him . The principal witness examined before the magistrates was John Martin , who met the prisoners and the deceased , John Curtis , on the night iq question near a ceal-pit by the roadside at Brierly Hill . A fourth party named Cowell was present .

      They were quarrelling with the deceased , and the witness saw Cowell knock him down . Curtis afterwards got up , when his wife knocked him down with something whicli she had in her hand . Cowell and Clarke then seized him and carried him to a pit or iackey hole , a small reservoir forthe reception of superfluous water , and thrust Curtis ' s legs through a hole . His body did not easily follow , and the prisoner Clarke then jumyed upon him until he had forced the body into tbe pit . Martin was beaten savagely by Cowell for interfering . Another witness , named Morris , corroborated the statement , and spoke of the finding of the deceased in the pit . He was suspended by a hook which had caught in the waistband of his trowsers , and his head was downwards , the body being half immersed in water . When extricated he breathed once or twice and expired . A surgeon deposed that deceased had died from suffocation _, _nis ribs were broken .

      Mewing Dow . v Old Iko _*' . —Last week a singular accident occurred at the Iron foundry of Messrs . Knight and Camming , Maidstone . A bombshell had been purchased amongst the old iron , which exploded in one of the furnaces , blowing down about two feet of the lining in the vicinity of the blast pipe . The explosion appears to have resulted from the expansion of tbe inclosed air , the bomb being _plunged . Hid it been loaded with the usual explosive material it would probably have destroyed the building . _Sisoular Adveniuhes in Quest of a Thief . — Early in the spring of the present year , Mr . Sayhor , superintendent of the C division of the Manchester police , was made aware of the arrival in Manchester of a man named Mark Booth ( well

      known to the police , ) who , it was reported , had just returned from America , enriched with the proceeds of a robbery which he had thero committed . Mr . Saynor wrote to the authorities in tho United States to ascertain particulars ; but beforo his letter could be replied to , Mr . Beswiek , chief superintendent of our police , received a letter from a Mr . Stephen Cropper , a gunsmith , Into of Birmingham , who had recently voyaged to the United States , and had settled in Philadelp hia as a gunmaker . In this letter Mr . Cropper stated that _scou after his landing he had met with a man named Mark Booth , who had just arrived from Manchester , England , and whom he had taken into his service Booth and he were thus in frequent communication

      with each other , and this gave the former an opportunity of learning that Cropper kept his money in a carpet-bag , deposited in tho bedroom at his lodgings . To this room Booth , on some pretence , during the absence of Cropper , obtained access , and , cutting the bag open , possessed himself of the sum of £ 480 , and forthwith absconded . The date of this transaction was the 22 nd of February , but it was not till tho 29 th of A p ril that Cropper ' s letter reached Mr . Beswick , in Manchester . It subsequently turned out that Cropper , after settlingin Philadelphia , had sent for his wife and five children , whoso arrival in America , however , happened to occur just two days after the robbery , so that Cropper at that time was penniless , and hut

      for the assistance of persons in that nei ghbourhood tho family must have starved . In reply to Cropper ' s letter , Mr . _Beswiok wrote to say that Mark Booth ( whose identity was fully confirmed by a Talbotype portrait sent from Philadelphia , ) was in Manchester , and had set up a beerhouse ; and that if the necessary warrants were forwarded , the man could be apprehended . Soon , afterwards a warrant came over , signed by Joel Jones , mayor of Philadelphia , and William Peter , Esq . consul , certifying that a robbery had been committed , and requesting that its perpetrator might be arrested . Owing , however tofsomo informalities in the document , it could not be acted upon ; and word was sent to Cropper by Mr . Beswick to that effect . A fortnight ago , Mr . Cropper himself arrived in Manchester , bringing with him a certificate signed by the consul , and a second one signed by the chiot

      justice of Philadelphia , certifying tho genuineness of the warrants , and was at once referred by Mr . Beswick to ' Lord Palmerston , as it was requisite , to obtain from'the Foreign _Secretary a certificate which would enable a justice in the metropolis to issue si . warrant upon which Booth could be arrested . This ? certificate was at last obtained , and the chiof magistrate at _Bow-streefc was applied to for . a warrant ; but unfortunately , on examination , it turned but ' that the warrant brought out by Cropper from the States charged Booth with committing a larceny , whereas , no ' such .- term was used in Lord _Ashburtoh ' s international treaty which oulviS poke of robbery . Tho _magistrate , on this , technical obieotion , refused to grant the process whichMr . Cropper . had applied for ; and Mr . Maudo , when Cropper returned to Manchester , followed the example , and thus Cropper was _unaWa _legally to apprehend the man who had robbed Wm ' He- afterwards ,, returned . t 0 Manchester \ : hut

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      meanwhile , Mr . Wood , hatter , ofthe Market-place , having heard of Cropper ' s arrival in thia country , called to mind that that gentleman bad left a large bill , whioh was still in his ( Mr . Wood's ) books , un paid ; ahd hetherefore obtained a judge s order , proceeded to the Blackamoor ' s Head , and put nis debtor under arrest .. Mr . Cropper , therefore , now lies at Lancaster gaol , in tbeenjoyment of abundant leisure to reflect upon his remarkable adventures in search of stolen property . —Manchester Examiner . Dartmoor . —Government agents , are at lengtn , busily employed in preparing the prisons of war at Princo Town for the reception of convicts , it is expected that the first arriwl of prisoners will be in ahmit two months , if the place can be got ready

      for them so soon . Mr . G . Fowler , who bad done so much to reclaim the moor , and to give an impofcus to cultivation there , long sinco expressed an opinion of fcho desirableness of the experiment now _SutTbemndebythe Government . Heisstrongly mpressed with theW tbat . if the cultivation of the moor is carried on by convicts under judicious management , the prison may be made , in five rears , a self-supporting establishment . The moor SSnypresen _' sa va st field for enterprise . Wo may remark that the crops on Mr . F 6 wlev ' s , farm at Prince Hall arc promising beyondall reasonable calculation . Good judges have said that he may challenge the whole country for oats , turnips , and _grass The potatoes are much better than of late years _) though they are not free from diease . — Western Times .

      _Tns Potato "Disease , we are sorry to say , has made its appearance again in this district . In many instances , where the tubers are not apparently affected at all , the potatoes are all diseased , and in other instances it is vice versa . It prevails to a greater extent than last year , and not less than two bushels out of four are affected by it ; it is not confined to erne locality or class of potatoes , not to one description of culture , but _thoae set under tho most favourable circumstances and attention , equally with those more exposed , have felt its influence . The corn crops are beginning to partake of the yellow hue , _fndicating the coming harvest , and look well . Pease in many instances are afailure . — Oxford Chronicle . ,

      EscArE AND RZCAFTURE OP CONVICTS ' ,- —TWO C 0 nvicts , one named John Purvis and the other James Blamir , between two and three o ' clock on Monday afternoon , succeeded in climbing over ther walls of the yard and the wooden fence of Commodore Hf Eden's garden into George-street , Woolwich . Two police constables frorathe dockyard gate- immediately gave chase , and they were both captured near the Marine Barracks , rmd within twenty minutes were returned on boarethe Warrior convict hulk , TnB Mats of Messrs . Fielden , of-Todmorden , which havo for a lengthened period been running short time ( about forty hours per week ) either have or aro immediately ahoat to go on full _time-again . — Liverpool Mercury . Dreadful Thumders'eobsi and Loss of Jams at

      HAMFMr ,. —On the 8 th mat ., this . town was visited by a most awful storm- of thunder and lightning , accompanied by heavy rain , . Unfortunately , the storm did riot pass over without loss of life ; a little boy ,, named William Lambert , aged twelve years , son of Daniel Lambert , delver , Upper-lane , Kbrthowram , having been struck dead , by lightning . It appears that , about a quarter past eight o ' clock inthe evening , rile mother of _the-littJe lad was sitting in the House near the fire _^ deceased being sat in a , chair near the out wall

      and the wall of the adjoining house ; a little-girl being sat at a short distance , from him _and-riose to the chimney . Tho door of the house was thrown open , and also a window _up-stairs . A little above the head of the deceased a' pair of tongs were hung upon- the wall , as customary in many cottage houses . The thunder at this time wasloud-and terrific , and the vivid flashes of Ijghtning succeeded each _othesin rapid succession , until at length there came one brighter than the rest , and which rendered the- mother of the _deeeased insensible for

      somo moments . Upon consciousness returnmg _^ the little girlsereamed out , " Mother ! _Willey's dead !" The distracted mother ran towards her child ) , who sat motionless in his little chair , with his hea & upon his breast and His arms hanging by his side . She spoke to him , but he answered not ; and calling in her neighbours , the little fellow , who but a moment or two wa » . full of life aad vigour , was found to be a coypso . Not a single mark was found 1 upon his body , except a very slight discolouration Of tKe chest . Afew yards above where he was sitting the plaster was knocked off the wall to the extent of about twelve inches in length and one in breadth ; and

      tho middle nob of the ornamental work at the head ofthe cloek , which stood in the opposite _eouner of the house , wa 3 knocked off .- There . was _alsoa rent in the ffoor above the clock , and the posts of the bed were found to be sli ghtly damaged- In the bedroom a small piece ef plaster was also taken out ofthe wall above the fire-place , but neither the tongs before alluded to-nor the fenders or fire-arms had apparently beeen moved . It would appear that the lightning had descended the chimney , through the room floor above the clock , and , _being attracted by the tongs on the' other corner of the house , expended itself upon the unfortunate child sitting beneath .

      An Infant _kiixed . by its Mother . — -The excitement caused in Gravesend by the fire of Sunday had scarcely , subsided when a shocking occurrence took place , which has occasioned a most painful sensation in the town . A woman named Amelia Georgiana _Snoswc-l ) , aged twenty years , who resides with ; her mother in Parrock-street , destroyed the life of one of her ohildren on Tuesday , night last by cutting its throat . She was brought up for examination on Wednesday at the-Town-hall ; Gravesend . Tho first witness was Sarah Cooper , who said that she was the wife of George Cooper ,, and resided in Eden-court , Gravesend . The prisoner at the * bar was her sister . Last night ( Tuesday ) she was on a visit at her house . At that time she had a child aged 13 months , named Alice , alive . About nine o ' clock tho child was put to bed , and shortly afterwards the prisoner . went into the bed-room , and when she came back witness saw her with a

      knife covered with blood in her hand . Witness took a candle into the room , and found the infant on the bed with its throat cut and quite dead . She cried out . "Ihave killed my child and made it happy . " After that she said , " Give me my child . " During tho last few days the prisoner has complained of pains in her head , and has . appeared very low-spirited . This statement was ; corroborated hy other witnesses , who expressed a belief that the prisoner was labouring under mental aberration . At the close of the surgeon ' s evidence the prisoner was duly cautioned by tho benob , arid thon asked whether she had anything to say , when she replied , "Not unless you wish it ; " but she afterwards said , " I acknowledge that I have killed Alice . " Tho _prisoneriwas fully committed to take her trial at . the next assizes for wilful . ' murder , ' and she was removed to Maidstone Gaol . _-, ' .

      PATAii _BoUiBR Explosion at Oldham . — . On Monday , the 12 th inst ., , an explosion took pliice at the mill of Messrs . Lees and Mills , Waterhead ' Mill ; This explosion has caused the death of Mr . George Pox , boiler maker , of Newton Moor ; and two other persons have been severely , scalded , but hopes are entertained , that they will recover . The . real cause ofthe accident is as yet unknown , but it is supposed that the explosion arose from the giving way ' , of a defective plate in the flue tube . In the building there were two boilers , one of which was undergoing some slight repair , and upon this boiler four of Mr . Pox's men were at work . Inconsequence of this boiler being out of use for the day , tho looms , throstles , and dressing frames had been stopped , so that the explosion does not appear to have arisen from over-pressure . , On examination

      there appears to be a rent , about eighteen inches long , in a tube , whero the rivet holes have been torn out . When this took placo the' water , which was high around tho tube , rushed into the fire , the steam forcing the _massivo doors and framework to a distance of twelve feet , and throwing down all the brickwork in front of : the boiler .. At tho moment Mr . Vox was passing in front , to give some instructions to his men , he encountered the whole force ofthe scalding steam . As soon as possible ho was removed to a neighbouring cottage , ahd medical aid _iras obtained , but ho died about , two o ' clock on Tuesday . morning . . The . / boiler-house , is on , the ground-floor , and above it there are three storeys filled with machinery . Had the boiler burst when this machinery , was at work , it is fearful to contemplate what tho effects might have been .

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      Fatal Accident Is Wales.—-On Monday Morn...

      Fatal Accident is Wales . — -On Monday morning last , Mr . Longbourne , agent to . Lord _Milfoi'd , loft his residence at Bonville ' s Court , near Saundcrsfoot , accompanied by his servant , in a phaeton , to attend Maenclochog fair , and after transacting _, his business there , ho returned home in the afternoon , and in order to _sh ' orton the . distance to the extension of about half a _milej he determined to cross the river Cleddy , by a ford near Egremont , aboutfivemiles from _Narbertlvinstead of , going round byway of _Lougridge-bwlge . Inconsequence , however , of the heavy rains which foil oh the night of Sunday and ¦ '

      on Monday morning , the river was much swo _) en and Mr . _laugbowne was warned by several old inhabitants ; before crossing , iti that it weuld . be dangerpurj . to do so < : ( Biit > ha v ing . Jcrossed I Jy wf } _¥ . , 0 M , ln g <» _i his ; way , to , the _, fiiir , he , replied that he thought thero was no danger , ' aiid accordingly pursuod his course int ' of the stream ; aere , however , ho found'the-flood ' _raucly heavier and stronger than he anticipated , _' ahd so great' was Us force ; that the horse wag ' -unable'to ' . resist it , and having been carried- nparly ,:, a quarter ofa mile , commenced p lunging ,, * _ . ' . consequence , of whic h and the rapidity , ofthe _current _^ shafts Qf the vobicle broke , when Mr : Ldiigbdiirne , seeing I ihe 'imminent danger- whibhoithr ' eatened ; bim , _Ijumped-lnto the wator with _^ tho _. iihtentibnof j swim I ming _aohoro , _iwhilst his ' servant _clttRg to thehorse , '

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      and thus gained the-land in safety ; not so , however , his _unfortuuatemaster , who , unable to stem the torrent , was carried away by the Btream . Mr . John Thomas , f ' of Egremont-houso , a neighbouring farmer , and another person , seeing the accident , immediately ran to the spot , and , after going n , little way . down the stream to a shallow part which afforded a better chance of rendering assistance , they picked up . Mr . . Longbourne ' s hat , and immediately . afterwards his driving-box , containing money and papers , after which they succeeded in rescuing the body of the unfortunate gentleman , which was taken ashore perfectly lifeless , . It was at once convoyed to . the nearest house , and means were promptl y , adopted to restore animation , but without success . This melancholy event has created _considerable excitement in the neighbourhood , and of course has thrown the family of the deceased into the deepest grief .

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      The Orion.—The Trial Of The Officers Of ...

      The Orion . —The trial of the officers of this illfated ship has been appointed to tako place at Edinburgh on Thursday the 29 th of August . The persons to be indicted aro Henderson tho captain Langlands the first mate ; and Williams the second mate . The precognition or preliminary inquiry has been the largest ever taken in Scotland . The surviving passengers were principally examined befoie leaving Portpatrick , but the precognition as to what should have been the proper mode of aavigating the Firth of Cl yde , under the circumstances in whieh the Orion was placed , has been taken in Glasgow .

      The Procurator-Fiscal has been engaged six weeks in this work , during which almost all the steamboat captains and mates navigating the Clyde have been examined , with the view of fixing where the bkme really lay . A beautiful model of tho Orion has been made in Greenock and will be used at the trial , on which the most eminent , men , on both sides , of the Scottish bar will be engaged . The officers are out on bail . It is barely possible tbe trial may be delayed a day on account of Her Majesty ' s expected arrival in Edinburgh ' on theaOth . _KMtwAY Accideht at Perth . —A serious accident happened on the . 8 th inst . to a young gentlemen named Naismith , son of Lady _JSaismith , who has been residing in the town for some time . Mr ,

      Naismith is employed in the engineer s office at the works ofthe Central Railway Company , and having been at the general terminus , was returning to the works upon an engine which was ; moving slowly down the lino . When he arrived at his , destination , he leaped froni the engine , but ; unfortunately did not clear the wheel , which caught his Ieg , fand carried him _^ round several times before he could be extricated , wliich was not done till screws were got and thewheels of the engine raised . The sufferer was taken tothe infirmary , when the leg was found to be broken , and it was amputated the same evening a little-above the knee , while the patient was under the influence of chloroform . By the last accounts he was getting on favourably .

      . , Thb _QuBzif ' s Visit to Berwick . —Mr . Leeman , of York , was _; in Berwick on Monday , with the view of making arrangements for , the ceremony of the opening of the railway bridge over the Tweed by her Majesty and Prince Albert on the 29 th , and these we' understand the directors of the railway have resolved shall be on ¦ the most , magnificent scale . Their , desire is that her Majesty will , accept of luncheon here , and should she assent to this , a splendid _martiuee is to be erected on tbe site of the ancient castle ; A triumphal arch is to be erected in the centre of the bridge . Mr . Leeman and the mayor of the borough met Sir George Grey at Alnwick on Tuesday , to obtain information respecting the royal intention . —Berunek Advertiser .

      Prikcb Aubsrt and the Freemasons . —We understand that the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Scotland has come to the resolution ' that the different lodges cannot walk in procession at the laying of the _foiMidation-sfccne on the Mound , on the 30 th , Prince _AJbert . not being one of the craft , and having scruples about being initiated . Thus , one ofthe greatest features of the Queen ' s visit of 1850 will be done away with . The brethren , however , are to dine at their respective rendezvous on the evening in question . —EdinburghiNews . Frightful . _AcemENT . —Oh the & tb inst . Mr . J . Gillies , the tacksman of Northfield quarry , near Denny , Stirlingshire , lost his life under the following _, painful circumstances : —He was engaged in Masting apisce of whin rock , and as the powder did not immediately . ignite , he incautiously stooped down to examine the cause . He had ho sooner done

      so , 'however ; than the explosion took place , and he was literally blown to atoms , the limbs and other portions of . the body being scattered about on every side . Mr . . Gillies was a young man highly respected in the neighbourhood . % Extraordinary Steamboat Disaster . — On the afternoon of Friday , the Oth inst ., the Shandon steamer , _( the property of Messrs . Burns , of Glasgow ) , was on hev voyage from the west end of the Crinan . Canal to Ooan , with the passengers for the north , and whon navigating the narrow straits which separate Easdale from Seal Island , a lady ' s dress became en tangled with the chain which moves the rudder .. From this trifling cause , which partially tore the lady ' s gown from her person , the

      steamer was driven out of her course , and before the engines could be reversed she struck upon a sunken rock , to the alarm and horror of all on board . The passengers were numerous , including Lord Gough , the hero of Goojerat , and many other distinguished ; persons , who , ' with their families , were proceeding northwards to tbeir shooting quarters , & c . In spite of every effort to get her off , the Shandon remained fast on the rock by _thejbow or stem j and as there was a heavy swell in this landlocked _passsage , she rolled so violently from side to side that it was scarcely possible fer the crew or passengers to keep , their feet . As ; the extent of the damage could ' not bo ascertained , the utmost alarm prevailed , especially amoncst

      the ladies , who were terrified lest the bow would open up , ' and involve all in in a similar catastrophe to that of the ill-fated Orion . Happily there were . several boats within hail , which . immediately proceeded to the help of the . steamer , and in , a few minutes the ladies , and children were safely removed ., Truth C 0 mpel 8 US to State that several of the . _gentlemen passengers , some of them valiant-looking men , , with a large breadth of moustache , exhibited symptoms of most painful trepidation , and the veteran Lord Gough distinguished , himself . by urging ,, if not commanding , these , timid gentlemen to give precedence _toj the ladies ; and children in the boats , Not a few 6 f

      them , however , Mowed the ladies in double quiekftime . The Shandon , being thus much lightened , gradually worked off the rock 3 , and concontrary : to expectation , it was happily found that she made very little . water . . Tho . passengers who had been token off by . the boats were recalled , much tothe joy'bf all , for the ladies and children thus rejoined their male friends , who had remained by the steamer ; She then ' , went on to Oban , after the delay of less than two hours , and the passengers for the north were , transferred to the Dolphin . The Shandon was beached at Oban , in order that the trifling injury she had sustained might be repaired . ' ' Some , bf the passengers suffered ' considerably afterwards . from the effeets of their fright arid consternation . The officers of the Shandon behaved themselves admirably on _^ the

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      The Tekaxt Conference. A Long Discussion...

      THE TEKAXT CONFERENCE . A long discussion took placo at the Tenant Conference held in tho "City Assembly House on Wednesday , on the principle of a compulsory valuation . The following resolutions were affirmed * . — {' " That the valuation , when once made , shall be permanent . " That every seven years there may , on tbo demand of either landlord or tenant , be a readjustment of the rent , payable under the valuation , according to the rise or fall of the prices of agricultural produce . " ' A resolution for a compulsory valuation , _nronosed

      by afresbytenan clergyman , the Rev . Mr . Bell , at the morning sitting , was after ' much discussion , withdrawn on the evening sitting , and the question was left open . ¦ ¦¦¦ ••'•• " _" ¦ ¦¦• . ¦ The chair on Thursday was taken by the Rev Dr . Kenny , a B . oman Catholic clergyman : and the report of the committee appointed on the previous evening having been adopted with some slight alterations , Mr . Lucas of the _Tabfo , read the two following clauses of the report of the' revision committee as amended , and submitted them for the consideration of the conference l' | That the valuation shall be spade by tribunals which shall unite as far as possible tho advantages of impartiality between _landlojd and tenant , cheapness accessibility , and nomination by the parties interested

      . i " That these advantages may heBecured to a _rea- _\ _sonable degree-first , by . local tribunals , consisting ortwo valuators , one appointed by the landed proprietors and the othojfby the tenant farmer of the poor law . union ; secondly ,, hyhaving these vahnv tovs bound , to value , according to instructions embodied in the ' lav , ; , arid thirdly , ' by having attached to each , local tribunal a , registrar or . secretary , whose duty H shall be to register all the proceedings of the valuators , arid , to keep them .. informed and reminded of the requirements of the iastructiphbsunder whioh , thoy . act . '' , _< ; . <• ' , ' ' Tho resolutions passed unanimously . ' . "' . Mr . 'Lucas said that . the fourth section having been referred to the , counoil ofthe League , they now would proceed to . consider , the fifth section , and having read the first branch of tho resolution .- as follows moved its adoption .:-- ,

      „ . . . . " ARREARS of rent . „• : _" 1 .. That in any : valuation . which shall "be made before , the 81 st of / December ,.. — . , theTaluatrir < i shall ,, on the demand of ; either landlord or SS inquire into the arrears of ml dm by the tenant

      The Tekaxt Conference. A Long Discussion...

      shall estimate the amount which daring th _' e famine years would have been due and payable for rent under a Taluation---if such had been made accordin g to the prices and circumstances of same years , ana also the amount wbich during tho _samtf period has actually been paid for rent to the landlord—shall award thebalance , if any , to be the arrears then duo , and that the amount so awarded for arrears should bo payable by instalments at such period as shall be fixed by the valuators , and shall be recoverable in all respects as if it were rent . " The motion , having been seconded , was put from theohair . After som discussion , tbo section was referred for consideration to the Council ofthe League . There being now no other question in the report of the revision committee to be considered .

      The Chaibman called upon Mr . ( jibwood , one of the secretaries , to read over the different items tbat had been passed , in order that they might be put lo the meeting and adopted as a whole . Mr . Girdwood _didso accordingly , and it was adopted unanimously , amid loud and long continued cheering . The Rev . Mr . _Rsntodi . then saio \ be rose to give one cheer from the north , which was responded to in a most enthusiastic manner . Mr . Macgoire gave one from the south , and there were then others from the east and from the west , and finally one from all Ireland . Mr . P . _O'Higoins then moved the warmest and most sincere thanks of the conference to tbe Presbyterian clergy of the north , for their most active and praiseworthy exertions to promote a speedy and satts « factory adjustment of the tenant question in Ireland . The motion was carried by acclamation .

      RUXK 8 OP TUB LEAGUE . The Secretary then read the resolutions , and the conference proceeded to the consideration of them in detail , The first and second resolutions , which were as follows , were put and carried unanimously : — " li . That an association , to be called the Irish Tenant League , be formed on the principles and subject to the rules hereinafter expressed , and that such league be hereby established accordingly . " 2 , That the sole objects of the Tenant League are to protect the tenant , and to procure a good landlord-and-tenant law , by the legal co-operation of persons of all classes and of all opinions ou other subjects . " . The following rules were then read and adopted : —

      " 1 . Every person who adopts the rules of the League , approves the fundamental principles of an improved _landtotd and tenant law aa adopted by tbe conference , and subscribes to the funds ofthe League not less than Is ., shall be competent to be a member of the Tenant League . [ The consideration of 2 postponed . ] " 3 . No subject shall be discussed or entertained at any meeting of the . League , or of its council or committees , except such as directly bears on its objects ; and the chairman of any such meeting shall stop and prevent the introduction of any other subject . _B-ule 3 was then read by the secretary , as follows " 3 . The affairs of the Tenant League shall be managed by a council , which shall consist of ¦ .. ' Fifteen elected members from Dublin and its vicinity . ..

      "Forty elected members from the provinces , taking ten from each province . '' Clergymen of every denomination , who are members of local tenant associations , if ihey are also members of the League . "The secretaries of local tenant associations , if they are also members of the League . " And the editors of provincial journals who are members of local tenant associations , if they are also members of the League . 'And the council so constituted sbatt have power to add to their numbers-persons so added being subject to ihe approbation of the next general meeting of the Lea » ue . " Dr . _M'Knight proposed as an amendment , the omission of the passage referring to editors of journals , with'a view to avoid the danger of any collision with , or infraction of , the law as recently decided in this city ..

      The resolution was adopted , with some alterations considered necessary for the safety of the League . Close op the Conference . —The conference was closed by the first meeting of the Irish Tenant League , which took place on Friday evening , in the Theatre , Lower Abbey-street . There was a full attendance of the Presbyterian and Roman Catholic Clergymen , and the laymen of both denominations who had taken part in the proceedings of the conference , besides a considerable number of citizens . The speakers , chiefly clergymen , delivered speeches

      much tlie same in tendency as tho ? e usually spoken at the tenant right meetings in Ihe north and south . It ' was a general topic of congratulation that sectarian differences are forgotten on the neutral ground chosen by the advocates of tenant-right and an equitable settlement of the land question . The propositions sanctioned by the couference were adopted in the resolutions of the League , which is to agitate unceasingly , by all legal means , to carry out its objects , aod a fund , in the shape of a voluntary assessment on the poor-law valuation , is to be raised by the Council of the League , to provide in the first instance a sum of £ 10 , 000 .

      Cuffe-stbeet _Savi . vos Bank . —On Wednesday Mr . John Emanuel _Hugea " was brought up in custody before the magistrates of tbe'head police ofiice , charged with having embezzled ; in July 1847 , the sum of £ 730 , Is . 8 d ., from the savings bank , ia _Cuffe-street , of which he . was a cashier . The informations on which a warrant had been granted under which the prisoner was arrested were read . From these depositions , two of which were sworn by David Martin , Esq ., and Samuel C Warren , ; Esq ., who bad been appointed by . the Chancellor of the

      Exchequer to investigate the accounts of the savings bank , and the third by Thomas Dodd Smith , Esq ., one of the trustees of the bank ; it appeared that the sums received , by the prisoner on the date at which the act of embezzlement was laid as having taken idace , amounted to £ 1 , 151 3 s ., but as a sum of £ 421 Is . 4 d ., for which credit was given by the Bank of Ireland , where deposits were lodged in the name of the trustees of the savings bank , might have formed part of the whole amount , the sum unaccounted for by the prisoner was charged as £ 731 Is . 8 d . .

      Thb King ' s County Chronicle states that two men have been arrested on suspicion for the murder of Mr . Pike , the agent , near Birr . The Roman Catholic Synod . — The Limerick Reporter announces , on the best authority , ' that the National Synod ( to be held at Thurles College ) has been adjourned from the loth to the 22 nd inst The illness of the Roman Catholic Primate , or the necessity of affording further time for _communications from Rome , might have been the cause of this postponement .

      Committal of a _MAGISTRATE . — Tl _\« Limerick Reporter says— " Mr . Smith , J . P ., of Castlefergus , county of Clare , who is accused of having conspired to snoot his mother , and who had beenhherated after a recent investigation by Mr . Maloney _} of Kiltannon _. and Mr , O'Brien , R . M ., of TuWa , has been again arrested , by order , we understand , pf government , and lodged in . Ennis gaol . The depositions in the case are voluminous and strange . The rumour is that the arrest has been ordered oh the information of an insurance ofiice , in wbich a policy had been effected on the life of the late Mrs .- Smith . Mr . Smith is a gentleman about 56 . years of age , and hasbeen generally , if not always , a resident at Castlefergus . " Sale op Encumbered Estates . —The _O'Connell property , situate in the county of Kerry , was submitted for sale in twenty-four lots , on Thursday last

      allot which were , sold but two . The quantity of land held in fee , and on leases for lives renewable & r ever ; or for along term of years , was 13 , 123 aotes , producing an aggregate \ eatly rent of £ _2 , % Ufwm which are to be deducted * the two lots adjourned * containing 509 acres , producing a rent of £ 371 > . leaving the quantity sold = 12 , 614 acres , with a _rsntal of £ 2 , 590 . whicli was sold for £ 30 , 395 , at rates pf purchase varying , at every intermediate figure , from eleven to twenty-three years' purchase , according as the lots seemed desirable for investment . At first , although the court was crowded , there seemed to be great langour in the comrjetition ; but after the sale of afew lots the- _bidding proceeded with much animation all through . The average rate of . purcbasa on the whole of the O'Connell property is about fifteen and a half _yetr . rs . The sale was considered a very good one .

      , Mr . lieogh , tho member for Athlone , was entertained at a _publ _' . c dinner by ' his constituents , on Thursday last . The " rector of the parish occupied the chair ,, and the parish priest thb -vice-chair , exhibiting no . bad histauco of the union which » rapidly extending _Hs-elf in this country among _yarties who have hhber ' io heen separated by sectarian differences . NLr . Kebgh thus pledged himself on the « n P ° vtt « v _*; question of tenant-right _*^ - " 1 say that God and nature intended that the . soil should grow and _increase in cultivation , and that tho man who by his labour and hia capital increased tho value oi the _isoil should havo a property in that _increased val ue . That is the inalienable right of the . tenant . ( Cheers . ) That Is tenant-right —( hear)—and that I unhesitatingly promise jbu rwiUlabonr . to obtain ( for him . ikon these , topics we are air united .

      { Loud _oheers . * Let . whatever party come into power , upnn , the questions of free , trade and the rights of , tho tenant , my opinions aro unchanged and unchangeable . . ( Cheers . ) _^ Curious Statistics about the Potato Blioht . — » _mist somo letters express a belief that the blight has ceased _/ for tbe present , at least , strange state-* mwtt , s are given b y provjnoial journals regarding new developments connected with the disease . Tho most singular of these is the following account of & woman burnt by the" potato bli ght , " which appears in the Galway Vindicator * . — •• The following fact , in connexion with the potato blight , may throw _stme hgbt : on that , mystorious subject . A woman named Mary _M'Donoueb , aged thirty-three , and from Oramnoro electofial division bf this anion , was brought a _fewdayiagQ 6 a » m \ o \ U work

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 17, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_17081850/page/6/