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      shop , from 20 to 30 Tardsfromtheboder . Sawitabout _sev-moreigktininutK lieforetheemlosion _, bnt did not observe _-m-yining then ; nor did he observe any meoeoi wood with a mulin it placed _againstor under flit * _, handle Eis attention was not particularly d "& dSf to _iiiMam Bain was then called and stated that he -was a surgeon , and waa called to St and Grimes , and George Chapman _^ after the ex-Son . They were all quite dead . Did not _exanune them veiy particularly at the tone , as they _Trere all dead- Had since examined them , and as j _* _-HVJirht , found that he had received a severe

      -fracture of the skull , extending from one ear across the top ofthe head to the other ear ; he bad also received several bruises , especially on the right and lower side of the chest , hut without causing any fracture . There was also a dislocation forwards ofthe right knee . These were the chief external appearances . The brain waa lacerated in different parts , and cflusion of blood between the scalp and the bones of the head . Examined thc mouth and windpipe , and found the lining membrane corrugated as from ihe action of Steam or hot water . Tho other organs seemed healthy . The cuticle waa removed from the whole of the face from the hot steam . These

      injuries were caused by the explosion , and accounted for his _^ death . —James Chettle was again called , and said no other person was near the engine but "Whitcombe , the engine-drivci _* . The other persons were hurt by thc pieccsflying . The Coroner remarked itwas most important to have the evidence of Whitcombc _, as something might have occurred of his doing which might give a different feature to the whole transaction ; and looking at the position in which Mr . Lowe stood , it appeared to him that it would be fairer to Lowe and to the publie that the case should be adjourned until Whitcombe was in a state to give evidence . Mr . Lowe then said he had not the slightest objection to answer any fair question that might be put to hhn , nor did he object to Whitcombc being examined . The Coroner : Perhaps it would be better to have the person here -who was _engaged in driving the enrine . Wc can have no evidence on many points from any person but from

      him and Mr . Lowe , who might be compromised by speaking . There were yet five other persons in the hospital , and it would hardly be fair to Lowe if they were to press on him now for evidence , when they might get it from other persons-who conld speak to thc transaction . He then asked Lowe if there was any other person whom lie would like to call to rebut the evidence which seemed to prats against him . Lowe : Whitcombe was standing with him in front of the boiler . —His ( Lowe ' s ) right side was burnt , and Wlutcombe ' sleft side . For his part , he did not think that Whitcombe knew more about thc matter than himself . He had , however , no objection to Whitcombo being examined . It was accordingly arranged that the inquest should then be adjourned to Thursday at ten o ' clock ; and in the event of Whitcombe ' s being unable to attend , the jury would then go to the London Hospital , and take his examination ihere .

      AntoniKED _Ixqcest . — _Tdursdat . — Verdict of . _Makslai-uuter . — Mr . Baker , the coroner for East Middlesex , and the jurymen appointed to conduct ihe inquiry into the deaths of the men Chapman , Grimes , Smith , and Wright , who were killed by an explosion at the works of Mr . Samuda , at Bow-creek , Blackwall , re-assembled this morning at the Townhall , Poplar . The Coroner informed the jury that another unfortunate man , named Neale , had died on board the Dreadnought hospital ship , and the jury having viewed the body , Mr . Baker informed them that he had received a medical certificate , stating that thc important -witness , Whitcombe , was in too dangerous a state to be removed , and it would be necessary , therefore , that Lis eA'idenec should be taken at the London Hospital , On arriving

      at tho Hospital , the jury were conducted to tic ward where Thomas Whitcombe was lying . He was sworn , and said—I am an engine-driver . I have been engaged at Blackwall since June last . I saw ihe boiler tried on Monday , but the steam would not touch the engine . In oruer to remedy this defect , Mr . Lowe got a cock put upon the steam-pipe , to draw thc condensed water off ; still the engine did not go well . There was nothing done after . The cock was put there on Tuesday night . The steam was got up on _Yi-ednesday morning . We had a great deal of trouble , for the * engine still went at a snail ' s pace . There were a great many men pulling the fly-wheel round with their hands , or tiie engine would not have gone at all . I saw a bit of a stick applied to keep

      the valve partly shut to keep up the power of steam . 1 cannot say who did that , unless it was Mr . Lowe , who was at the safety-valve the whole time . I saw him work the valve -several times , but did not understand the reton of it . The fires -were as low as possible , scarcely any at aU , in fact the bars were quite bare . I let the fire out , because I was afraid something would lappen . 3 "flunk that there were better than CO lbs . of pressure on the square inch on Wednesday . I think there was sufficient water in the boiler . I was under Mr . Lowe's orders the whole time . I cannot form any conjecture as to the cause of the

      accident . I am of opinion that it -was an over-pres sure of steam that caused the explosion . I did not say anything to Mr . Lowe abont there being too high a _' pressure on the boiler . The jury then returned to Poplar , and the coroner summed np the evidence at considerable length . Having concluded , the jury retired to consider their verdict at a quarter to four , and returned into court at six o ' clock . The foreman then announced that the jury had unanimously found a verdict of "Manslaughter" against George Lowe , and they added their opinion that the machinery generally on Mr . Samuda ' s establishment was of a most defective character .

      The Salt-hill McBnEE . —Since the murder of Lord William Russell by "hisvalet , ; Courvoisier , in 1840 , no event of a similar kind has produced so deep a feelingin the public mind as the " Salt-bill murder . " The early history ofthe convict , and the more recent events of his life , throw around the affair an air of romance . Transported npwards of a quarter of a century since for having a forged Bank of England note in his possession , he thus escaped the scaffold for a series of forgeries npon a local bank ; the remarkable feature in that extraordinary incident of his life being , that , though the Bank of England note found in his possession when taken into custody on the more serious charge , was a forged one , yet he was guiltless of knowing it to be forged . It was , however ,

      employed as the mode of extricating- him from thc consequences ofthe capital offence , for _vhich , as the law then stood , and the almost invariable execution of its sentence npon all who were brought within its condemnation , lie would doubtless have been hanged . Tawell was , therefore , only too glad to plead guilty to a charge which involved transportation , to escape the gallows . In the land of his banishment his good conduct attracted the favourable notice of the authorities , and eventually obtained from them a ticket of leave , enabling him to pursue any avocation he pleased for his own benefit , and finally emancipation . He had some knowledge of chemistry , and opened a shop as a chemist and druggist in the town

      of Sydney , combining with the sale of drugs advico as to themode of using them . His trade increased ; and , having - " made some money , " he embarked it in a series of joint-stock trading speculations of a more extensive description , which also succeeded "beyond his hopes . He subsequently purchased some shares in a whaler , and speculated in oil , in all which success crowned lus exertions . After residing in Sydney about fifteen years , John Tawell left the colonywhich he entered as an outcast—a wealthy man . He returned home , and to the neighbourhood in which he resided previous to his expatriation . His original offences against society , if not wholly forgotten , - _vrcrc -well _niwli obliterated from the recollection of those

      who were acquainted with his early history . Such ; thought , and justly so , that the man -who had 1 redeemed Ms character in a penal colony by a course of industry and integrity , and who had returned home -with * the fruits of that industry and integrity , ought not to be placed beyond the pale of respectable society on account of offences for which he had repented , and was willing to atone by a future life of honesty and benevolence . Those who were young at the time of hia departure from England , saw in John Tawell an intelligent , active , and prosperous man ; and knowing nothing which ought to deprive him of their respect they received Mm to their circles , and co-operated with him in those benevolent exertions to wMch he was willing to contribute from his purse ,

      and to aid by Ma personal exertions . One feature in his character at this season is remarkable ; and it seems to have been the clue to , and the ruling desire of his life . Before the forgery on the Uxbridge bank was _discoA'ered , Tawell Avas a member ofthe Society of Friends . He was , as a necessary consequence of Ms detection as a forger , expelled from that respectable and strictlv moral community . Since his return to England his efforts to obtain a restoration to the Society have been incessant . He subscribed to tlieir schools , and to those benevolent objects in wMch the members of that sect are known to take a peculiar interest . He dressed in their distinctive garb ; attended regularly their meetings for worship ; and in every external circumstance sought to be considered as identified with their body . With the characteristic caution of ihe members of that far-seeing sect , John Tawt A was not permitted to be more than an outwardcourt _worsMnner . In this we ofier a willing tribute

      to the prudence , and zeal to preserve their body from " reproach , by wMch the Society of Friends is characterised . Bv their undeviating prudence in such _patters , thev have , to a very considerable extent , ¦ _« en exempted from the pain of seeing their religious c ommunity brought under public odium , however _generous and unfounded , by the detection in their iellowshi p of those who dishonour and disgrace a religious profession by the commission of crime . By Ms firet wife the -wretched man had two 50 ns , both of whom are now dead . Tie eldest , who was married , Practised as a surgeon in London , and after Ms death ms widow was cMeflv supported by the charity of Tawell ; but it _iscuircnfly reported that lately he - _* - * ¦¦ « not been so liberal in Ms alloAvance , assigning the _•"¦ ame reason as itis _supposedhedidto tbe-antortunate Tictim of Ms crudtv , Sarah Hart—namely , the embarrassed state of Ms affaire in Australia . On the death of TaweU' 8 first wife , he took another decided step to evince Ms ardent desire to be yet more closely

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      associated with the Society of Friends . He had been introduced to a lady , a member of that community , by whom the mental _endoAvments and moral qualities wMch constitute the excellences of the female character were possessed in a somewhat extraordinary degree . Mrs . Cutforth was then a widow , having a daughter by her deceased husband of about seven years of age . Mr . Cutforth had been extensively engaged in trade , and was for a considerable time successful . The failure of several firms led eventually to his ruin ; and although no imputation rested on his integrity , and no reproach was cast on his manage ment , his health and spirits had sustained a shock from which they never recovered , and he gradually sank into illness , which terminated in death . HiB

      widow , aided b y friends who knew her in prosperity , and respected her in adversity , opened a school in Northampton-square , St . John-street , for the education of a lew young _ladios , chiefly members of Quaker families . Thcsuccess wMch attended Mrs . Cutforth ' s exertions for the respectable maintenance of herself and daughter , induced her to enter upon a . larger establishment at Berkhampstead , AvMeh she was conducting with advantage when Tawell selected her as thc object of his attentions , and eventually , against the advice and remonstrances ofher best and most judicious friends , obtained her for his Avife . They were married at the registrar ' s-office , Berkhampstead , in February , 1841 , as the Friends refused to grant permission for the marriage to be celebrated

      in their meeting-house ; and the contracting parties not choosing , for obvious reasons , to have recourse to anv other religious body . The immediate consequence of Mrs . Cutforth ' smarriage to Tawell was , as usual in such cases , a "disowning" ofher by a formal act of the " quarterly meeting" of " Friends , " the rules of that body not tolerating a union wMch is not first sanctioned b y its members . Although excommunicated , the lady ( now Mrs . Tawell ) continuedto attend meetings , and visited , and was visited in return , by herformerfriends . The _Bchool was given up . Tawell ' s income was sufficient to maintain an establishment of respectability . They lived in considerable comfort , and in some style . He was active in the parish as a participator in its public business , and as a nromoter

      of objects of benevolence . It was , however , remarked that there was an air of bsutle and self-importance about the man which showed a wish to make himself conspicuous—probably prompted by a self-consciousness that there was something to be done in the eye of man to enable him to secure a position to which Ms right niight be , some time or other , questioned . All this time , and while Tawell was endeavouring to earn back for himself reputation and respect , there ivas a deeply-seated consciousness that lie Avas in hourly danger of being exposed as a hypocrite and deceiver " . During Ins first Avife ' s illness , wMch terminatedin her death , Sarah Hart , a young woman of some attractions , had been her nurse . Immediately

      after , if not before her death , an illicit intercourse had commenced between this woman andher master . It was continued at different places . Two children were its frMts . An allowance of £ l a week seems to have been paid for her maintenance by her seducer . At length , wearied Avith the charge , or more probably prompted by fears ofthe effect upon his domestic peace and social position , should a discovery be made of Ms connexion with tliiswoman , he planned aud perpetrated her murder . This was detected in a manner so sm _* prising , brought home to him by a body of _cu-cumstantial evidence so complete , as to leave no doubt of bis guilt , the atrocity of which removes all sympathy for his fate .

      Atlesbubt , Tuesday . Some discussion has arisen among the authorities as to how he shall fare during the brief period he has to live , and whether he shall be executed in the prison dress or in the Quaker's dress he Avorc at Ms trial . The visiting magistrates mot upon the subject on Saturday , and again to-day ( Tuesday ) . It is decided that the condemned man shall have no restric tions put upon his diet , and that he shall die , as he lived , in his Quaker ' s habiliments . Yesterday he was visited by Ms wife , his step-daughter , Miss Cutworth , and Ms brother , Mr . William Tawell , who is said to be a draper in London . Mrs . Tawell had not seen her husband since Sunday _Aveek last . TMs meeting was thought likely to be amost painful one , and the prisoner had been heard to declare that he dreaded it more than death itself . It lasted for near two hours , after which they expressed themselves astonished at

      the manner in which it had been sustained . They evinced great fondness for one another , and Mrs . Tawell , who mentions him in terms of great affection , does not hesitate to express her firm conviction ofher husband's innocence . Her daughter is of a similar opinion . Ujp to the time of the trial Mrs . Tawell spoke hopefully and cheerfull y , and at times confidently , ofher husband ' s acquittal . Tawell likewise made remarks , from wMch it appears that he felt certain of escape . After the meeting in question , Mrs . Tawell said she felt more reconciled to the fate ofher husband , but his brother was in a state of distraction at the doom Avhich has OAcrtaken one so closely related to him . All alike speak of his kindness as a parent , his affection as a husband , his amiability as a friend , and his constant _benovolonce and unbounded charity . —The day of execution is now fixed fbr Friday , the 28 th instant .

      Atlesburt , _Weuxesdat . It is _cxtraordinaiy with what avidity every morsel of intelligence relating to the murderer John Tawell is sought and snatched up by the public . As may be supposed , many incorrect stories concerning him find their Avay into circulation , but nothing can be more absurd and reprehensible than some of the inventions wMch idle gossip has promulgated . Public _fcelinji is , generally speaking , against Mm ; everyday some fresh amount of crime , in the -way of poisoning , is attributed to him . Sarah Hart is supposed by the credulous to be by no means the only person upon whom he has practised Ms knowledge of chemistry ; and it is suspected that while he kept his druggist's shop in Sydney a wide field Avas open to him for the

      exercise ef Ms skilL His partner at Sydney is said to have died suddenly , leaving him all hor property . His two sons are said to have left this world suddenly . His first wife , it is stated , died suddenly . Sarah Hart had a narrow escape once ; and these circumstances , in connexion with her murder , by no means lessen tlic belief of his guilt . By those who haye any knowledge of the prisoner he is regarded very differently . Everybody who knows the wretched man speaks well " of him , and _eA-erybody Avho has conversed with him has received a favourable impression . Mild , gentlemanly , and unaffected in Ms manner , he listens to whatever is said to him with respectful attention , and converses with all the gerenitv of a martyr . A convict of the gaol remains

      with Mm at Ms request throughout the day , as a sort of attendant , and to this man he is particularly communicative . He received thc visiting magistrates yesterday with great composure , and expressed his thankfulness for the consideration shown to Mm . It was intimated that nobody would be allowed to visit Mm but those whom he expressed a wish to see , upon wMch he observed , that he desired to see nobody but Ms wife , and he looked forward to another interview with her . One of the magistrates suggested to him the propriety of foregoing such a scene , and sparing theieelings of Ms wile in particular , of whom he had so lately taken leave . He , however , persisted in the wish and hope of again seeing her , meekly-alluding

      to the affectionate terms npon which they had lived together . It is remarkable that the culprit has never once complained of the sentence whicli was passed upon him . When the hope of escape ( wMek had been very great within him ) was suddenly crushed , he observed that " thc judge was a just judge , but a stem one . " He has once remarked , with remote reference to his sentence , " that he could conscientiously acquit Mmself of cruelty or treachery to anybody . " But he rarely , if ever , adverts to Ms crime . Mrs . Tawell is known to lurve been aware ofthe existence of such a person as Sarah Hart , and eA _* en of Tawell ' s having children by her ; but she was utterly unconscious of his visiting her , and attributes Mb last visit to purely humane motives .

      Atlesbcrt , _TnunsnAT . Tawell continues to maintain his accustomed meek demeanour , but makes no confession of Ms crime . To-day he has appeared somewhat more cheerful , probably in the expectation of seeing his wife , who arrivedfrom Berkhampstead at two o'clock , and had an interview with Mm . TMs unfortunate lady exMbits great fortitude and resignation , but she is evidently a great sufferer . She is much commisserated and respected here , and remains unshaken in her belief of her husband ' s innocence . The interview was less distressing than might have beenimagined . _AlLESBUEr , _Fiuhat .

      Several Quaker friends-have visited Tawell to-day . It is doubtful whether his wife will visit Mm again or not . The latest account of him went to say that he had evinced signs of contrition , and was perfectly resigned . To show how extremely sanguine were Ms hopes that he should be acquitted , we may give the following incident , Avliich has been related to our informant by one ofthe gentlemen engaged for the defence : —It may be remembered that a man named Wilder was tried and convicted at the same assizes , and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation for a robbery committed at the residence of the Rev . Mr . Luxmore , with whom the prisoner lived as butler , at Eton College . During the incarceration of John Tawell at Aylesbury gaol , Wilder and he werc confined in the same ward , and a sort of fellow-feeling arose between them , Tawell appearing quite certain

      that Wilder would also be acquitted . Tawell took a fancv to Wilder , and actually engaged him as servant , at a ' certain rate of wages , to live with him at Berkhampstead , anditwas arrangedthat , atthe conclusion of the trials , they should return to Ms residence in that town together . Wilder was first tried , and when his conviction was announced to Tawell , he remarked , with evident feelings of alarm and dismay , wMch he attempted to conceal , " WeU , it's very extraordinary ; I hardly know what to tMnk of a _Buckmgliamshire jury after this . " It has been stated that the expenses of the defence of the prisoner amounted to - £ 700 . TMs amount only embraced one portion of thc expenses incurred on Ms behalf . » e have heard from one of the parties retained » y Tawell , that they will fall , in the whole , very little short of £ 2 , 000 . * Independently of his counsel , Mr . Fitzroy Kelly , Mr . O'Malley , and Mr . Gunning

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      ( whose fees were exceedingly liberal ) , he had three solicitors—viz ,, Mv . Bevan , of the Old Jewry : Mr . King , selected for Ms extensive chemical knowledge ; and Mr . C . S . Voules , of Windsor , Avho Avas retained on account ofthe local knowledge he possessed ofthe neighbourhood where the foul crime Avas perpetrated . We may now state , that at the conclusion of the trial it _vras considered by the prisoner's legal advisers that the ill-advised admission he made to the constable , Perkins ( wliile he Avas in Ms custody at Eton , pending the proceedings before the coroner's jury ) , to the effect that wMle he ivas ivith the deceased at her house in Bath-place , Salt-Mil , she poured sometliing out of a small pMal into her glass of stout , and drank it off , and then fell upon the hearth-rug in convulsions , tended very seriously to prejudice liim in the minds of the jury , and to have had an effect the very reverse of _Avhat he had anticipated on the mind of

      the learned Baron who presided ; for it may be recollected that Mr . _Fitzroy Kelly , in his lengthened address to thejury , contended that" there was no proof at all adduced that the woman had died from the effects of prussic acid , " and maintained that there had been nothing shown to prove that she had not been actually suffocated by the very draught of ivater ivhieh was poured down her throat Avhen she was first discovered in the agonies of death , by her next door neighbour , Mrs . Ashley . It is considered that , avIioevcr advised or suggested such a statement to have been made b y the culprit to the constable , it Avas a most injudicious step to have been taken , the more especiaUy after the line of defence Avhich was subsequentl y determined upon by his legal advisers . —The Old Bailey " functionary" has been engaged to perform the last sad office on the day of execution , Friday next .

      Mabch 22, 1845. The Northern Star, 5

      Mabch 22 , 1845 . THE NORTHERN STAR , 5

      The Latb Explosion At Algierb.—The Alger...

      The latb Explosion at ALGiERB . —The _Algerit states , that the day after the explosion of the gunpowder magazine at Algiers ( particulars of whicli wiU be found in another page ) , 135 men did not respond when their names were called ; of these forty-eight are wounded . Tlic number of artillery soldiers kiUed was eighty-eight , and the wounded eleven . The cause ofthe dreadful catastrophe was _stiU unknown . At the bottom of the funnel produced by the explosion , Avas a smaU magazine of ammunition , generally containing empty projectUes , but in wMch were lately stored some powder and loaded sheUs , belonging to the navy . The magazine was hermeticaUy closed by means of four double gates , furnished with new locks . Its walls were extremely thick , measuring seven and a half feet on one side ,

      ana more than four on the other . It had not been entered during a fortnight , and the avenues leading to it were carefully guarded . The singularity ofthe occurrence gave rise naturally to many conjectures ; nevertheless it appeared almost impossible that the disaster could have been the work of malice . The Semaphore de Marseilles ofthe 15 th instant quotes a letter from Algiers , stating that the body of a negro or Moor had been found under the ruins oi ' thepoAvder magazine , who had not been recognized by any ofthe persons belonging to the _naA'al department . It Avas thence believed that he might have been induced to commit " an act of fanatieism , " of Avhich he fell the first victim , but nothing positive Avas known onthe flubject .

      Most Awful Occurkexce at Exeter . —Five Lives Losr . —Monday Afternoon , Twoo'Clock . —We have to record one of the most frightful accidents which has occurred in this city for many years past . At half-past one o ' clock the committee of the Female Penitentiary , _Holloway-street , assembled to transact the usual business , and several tradesmen were in attendance to receive orders . At these times it is customary for the inmates to retire into an apartment provided for the purpose , so as not to see or communicate with any of the male Bex . In the midst ofthe deliberations of thc committee , they Avere aU at once alarmed by the most awful and _hearts rending screams . On folloAA'ing the direction whence they came , they arriA'ed at the door of the room

      before aUuded to , when a scene presented itself sufficiently frightful to daunt the hearts of the boldest , and Avhich defies altogether our poivers of description . It Avas at once evident that the floor of the apartment had given way , and the occupants , twenty-one in number , had been precipitated into a cess-pit which extended underneath to the she of the floor , and was at that time at least ten feet deep . In this awful place were the unfortunate beings straggling for Ufe , and it Avas onl y by the promptest aid that sixteen could be extricated from theii * perilous position . The remaining five were soon after taken out , but Ave regret to say Ufe was extinct . Thetime beingso near the hour of pubUcation precludes our giving any more particulars of this sad affair , nor can avg at present give the names of the sufferers . —Exeter News

      Destructive Fire at Liverpool . — Friday . —A destructive fire occurred in this town yesterday afternoon , which destroyed the valuable and extensive manufactory , or laboratory , in connection with the Apothecaries _' -hall , injured portions of the adjacent property , and , for a time , threatened thc main building ofthe Hall itself , a large and handsome building , the public department of _AvMch is , Ave believe , the finest in the country . The origin * of the fire ha 3 not yet been ascertained . It commenced in the _cefiar of the laboratory , containing oils , and shortly after the whole building Avas involved in flame . Happily the workmen on the premises had time to escape . The building is four stories Mgh , at the corner of Woodstreet , immediately in the rear of the main structure ,

      but separated from it , by Back Colquit-street , which is about eight yards Avide . The fire was first observed by a labouring man named _DUston , about half-past _tM'ee o ' clock . He Avas at Avork in the third story when he observed a dense smoke in the room . Short as was the interval between thc alarm bemg given and the arrival ofthe engines , yet it was found utterly useless to attempt to save the laboratory . The exertions of the firemen were therefore judiciously directed in protecting the premises adjoining . Whilst arrangements were being made and carried out for the preservation of the property of the premises adjoining , the fire itself vras burning with unexampled fury . The story in wMch it broke out ivas fiUed with an immense quantity of castor oil , almond oU , and

      balsam of capcevi , all highly inflammable substances . In the top story there was a large quantity of empty castor oil packing-cases , Avhilst the other stories contained a vast variety of chemicals and drugs more or less inflammable . It need scarcely be AYondered , then , that the flames progressed Avitli the greatest rapidity and intensity . Parties Avho saAV the breaking out of the fire state , that first there issued a dense black smoke , and then , as if by a simultaneous movement , thc flames burst forth from every AA'indow . Almost in a second the wholo building was in a blaze . Those who werc not on the spot AA'iu scarcely creditthe effect of the heat . The eyes of individuals who stood at least forty yards from the building , and in a contrary direction to the Avind ,

      were severely scorched . A better idea of a volcanic eruption , perhaps , could not be given . The roaring ofthe flames as they ascended hundreds of feet above the walls had a most overpoAvering effect upon the spectators , many of Avhom shrunk hack in terror . About a quarter to five o ' clock there Avas a terrific explosion , as of a thousand rockets , and the flames rose Mghcr than ever . Volumes of densel black smoke then made their appearance . This was followed by a second rush of brilliant red flame , and then a third , which Avas succeeded by a discharge of light green vapour . The flames on these occasions reached across Wood-street , and ignited the back of the Bold-street premises , which were at some distance Ladders were immediately raised to the Avails by '

      the exertions of the firemen , and m this direction the fire was soon subdued , although a chimney of one ofthe houses AvMch appeared to have been ignited by some of the flakes of red hot fire wliich Avere floating about in the air , oontinued to bum for some time . The roof stood much longer than could have been anticipated , and the molten lead was seen running from it in great quantities . The warehouse ivas topped by large heavy free-stone cornices . These , by the great heat , were soon cracked , and they fell to the ground with tremendous crashes , greatly endangering the Uves of the officers who Avere standing below . It is a matter of great satisfaction , however , to be enabled to state that not the slightest accident occurred to life or limb . The loss is roughly estimated , including building ,

      stock , and machinery , there being a giinding-mi " and steam-engine on the ground-floor , besides other valuable pieces of machinery , at £ 50 , 000 , and Ave understand that the greater portion is insured in the Manchester , West of England , Phoenix , and another office . The origin of the fire at present remains a mystery . It is stated that , in the tliird story , Avhere the smoke Avas first observed , there had been no fire used that day , notMng but the steam-pipes passing round the budding . Mr . Superintendent Leverett saw the laboratoiy attAventy-ttve minutes after three , and then there Avere no symptoms of fire . It appears to have burst forth instantaneously . The four blackened Avails are now the onl y remains of this fane building , if Ave except the tall chimney used for conveying the smoke from the furnace .

      Great Westers Railwat . —On Friday a poor man , named John Jonathan , a -wireAvorker by trade , proceeded from Bristol to Bath by the -flurd-class ( or cheap ) train ofthe Great Western Railway . The carriages employed in this train , although covered , are exposed at the sides , and in the present inclement state ofthe weather are , if possible , more inconvenient than the notorious second-class veMcleBofthishne . A coroner ' s inquest was held on the body of the unfortunate man ' at the FuU Moon Lin , Bath , on Saturday , when it appeared in evidence that , although the deceased had been for some time labouring under iU health , he left Bristol on Friday morning ? ot

      worse than usual ; that he was ' weu clad , having double his usual quantity of olothes on * , and thatthe cough from wMch he had previously been suffering had been eased by some medicine prescribed for Mm in Bristol . On his arrival at Bath , however , he was unable to get out of the carriage in which he had been conveyed ; he was removed by one of the porters , and assisted out of the station , thence transferred to the care of one ofthe boys who wait about the place , and after staggering a few steps he feU down and expired . He waa conveyed to the shop of Mr . Bright , a ohemist , in the immediate

      The Latb Explosion At Algierb.—The Alger...

      neighbourhood ; two medical gentlemen were immediately sent for , both of whom attended , but their e _™ m t 0 "restore animation were unavailing . Thc above facta having been deposed to by various witnesses , the jury returned a verdict that , "The de-» "Si . j L by the visitation of God , and that his death had been accelerated by his exposure to the inclemency of the weather in one of the third-class carriages of the Great Western RaUway . " Thejury JV appended to their verdict a strong recommenda tion to the Great Western Railway Company to cany into effect the promised alteration of the second and third-class carriages made by the chairman atthe last half-yearly meeting , _ataa early a period as

      Dissolution op the _Kensii-jotos Union . —By an order dated " Somerset House , March _U , 1845 , " the poor law commissioners hare directed the dissolution ot the Kensington Union , which order is to " take eflect upon and after the 25 th day of March instant . " The above order is the first of the kind which has been issued by the commissioners Under the provisions ot the last new poor law , the 7 th and 8 th Victoria , cap . 101 , sec . 03 , which gives power to the poor law commissioners to dissolve unions should they see fit , without the consent of two-thirds ofthe guardians of that union which _avus previously required , the introduction of wliich clause was successfully pressed upon Sir James Graham , Bart ., M . P ., by Colonel Wood , M . P ., and Mr . Wakley , M . P .. at the instance of the

      _conunittec appointed b y the inhabitants ofthe parish of at . Mary Abbot , Kensington , whose » _trenuous exertions to obtain a dissolution of so large and _uiiAvieldy a union deserves the highest praise . By a second order ofthe poor law commissioners , bearing the same date , the parish of Kensington wUl in future have a board of guardians of its oivneighteen in number—the election of Avhom will take place on the 10 th of April next . The parish of Paddmgton . under a similar order , will also in future be governed by aboard of eighteen guardians ; and by a fourth order of thc poor law commissioners the parishes of Hammersmith and Fuiham wUl be joined together , the former haying nine guardians and thc latter eight guardians , making a total offiftv-three for the four parishes , Avhilc the number Avhen in

      union was only eighteen , viz . - --Kensington , six ; Paddington , five ; Hammersmith , four ; and Fuiham , three . The poor law commissioners have also expressed an intention of uniting Kensington with other parishes not yet specified , for the purposes of district schools for . the pauper children , and district asylums for casual poor . With regard tothe district schools , the churchwardens have heen requested to call a vestry meeting for the purpose of memorialising the poor law commissioners against including that parish in a school district , on the ground that the number of pauper children is quite sufficient to form a district school of itself , the parish possessing ample convenience for establishing thc same , and the advantage of certain charitable funds applicable to educational purposes .

      The Hampstead Murdeb . —In addition to the mass of eA'idenec which has already been laid before thc public with regard to the investigations before Mr . Wakley the coroner , and Mr . Rawlinson the magistrate , as to the late horrid murder of Mr . James Delarue , some particulars have been brought to Ught _, having a tendency to substantiate more fully tiie guilt of the accused party . A young man named Thibblewaite , whose father keeps a chandler ' s shop at Einchley , has made the following statement : — " On the night ofthe murder I accompanied the constables towards the field with tho stretcher , but I ran forward , and on arriving at the spot where the body was lying , I saw a man in conversation with Baldock , the officer . I said to the man , ' ft he dead ? ' and

      he replied , ' 0 yes , he is quite dead . I have felt hia hand , and he has no pulse . ' As soon as the stretcher came up the body was removed , and I with the constables proceeded up the field . The young man I have spoken of went Avith us , and lie reqeusted that I would allow him to light his cigar , Avhich I permitted him to do from a lamp belonging to ono of the constables who had asked me to carry it for him . I returned the lamp to the officer , and leaving thc party , turned off to the right : the man went off in another direction , towards thc Swiss Cottage . " TMbblewaite describes the person to whom reference has been made by him , as being about 2 S years of age , and wearing either a eloak or a cape ; he is quite satisfied tliat he should be able to recognise

      him if he were to see him again , as a strong light _AA-as thrown upon his features by the lamp when he ignited therewith his cigar . Thibblcivaitc will , no doubt , have an opportunity afforded him of seeing the prisoner in Neivgate _, and in the event ofthe latter being identified by him , ho ( tho former ) wUl of course be supposed as a witness at the trial . Hooker ' s Defence . —The line of defence that wUl probably be adopted by Hocker on his trial , for the murder of Delarue , seems pointed out by his conduct , and by his anxiety to correct the evidence of thc policeman , who was left in charge of the body in the field whilst the stretcher Avas brought . lie will , most probably , assert that _wlulat waiting by the body , he and the _noliceman _asreed to plunder it . and that

      that was the whole extent of his criminality . Many of the circumstances _Avould bear out such a defence . First , the great improbability that a murderer would revisit the spot so soon afterwards for no apparent object ; secondly , the -withholding by the policeman of the fact that any one had been with him in the field ; and , thirdly , the buttoned-up pockets of Delarue ; as it would not be likely for the murderer to stop and button the pockets of the man he had killed , whose cries , continuing nearly two minutes , would most probably have been heard . Such a line of defence Avould also account for the blood on Hooker ' s clothes , and for the silence he observed on the subject . The presence of the tM _* ee ill-leoking men in different parts of Hampstead , on the day of the

      murder , who Avere last soon going towards the place , aud haA'e not since been heard of , would also afford some countenance to the statement that Delarue had been murdered by them , as originally supposed , and that becoming alarmed they had run aAvay before plundering tho body . Tho fact of the supposed murderous weapon haA'ingbeen discoA'ered before the murder Avas committed , and the _absenw of proof that the prisoner had possessed any other weapon calculated to inflict the wounds on the head of Delarue , are also in his faA'our , so far as negative evidence goes . He _ivould , indeed , have some difficulty in explaining other , though minuter , parts of the evidence against him ; but the Une of defence "wc have mentioned would be supported by several of the circumstances that have been adduced against liim .

      Tragical Occurrekce at Chelsea . —On Wednesday evening , about half-past seA _* en o'clock , Mary Anne Murray , a servant in the establishment of Mr . Blcncoe , of 14 , WMtehead ' s-grove , Chelsea , entered the shop of Mr . Saunders , of 3 , King's-road , East Chelsea , and desired to be shoivn some articles of haberdashery . Shortly _aftenvards she was observed te take a roU of riband from a box , and secrete it about her person ; and , as she was preparing to leavo the shop , the proprietor desired her to walk to the other end of the premises , whilst he sent for a policeman . The woman did so , but on a sudden rushed

      down the stairs , throAvmg the roU of riband away in her progress , and suddenly Beizing a _table-knifo from the dresser , cut her throat in the most frightful manner , literally severing the windpipe . Dr . Warren , of Putney , who was passing at the time , and Mr . Nealc , a surgeon _^ of _Sloane-street _, immediately attended her , but life was extinct . On thc circumstance becoming known , a large crowd assembled , and in the pressure an elderly woman was _suddeniy thrown down , and dislocated her thigh , the fracture being of a compound nature .

      Death op William Howell's Wife . — This unhappy woman , the Avife of WUliam Howell , who was lately executed in this toivn , expired yesterday week at Hidver . Report states that she died of a broken heart . —Ipswich Express . Death of tbe Bisuof oj Ely .- —His lordsMp expired on Thursday , at two o ' clock . His death Avas tranquU in the extremo , and he avus perfectly sensible to the last . Doctor Fisher , tho Downiug Professor'of Medicine in the University of Cambridge , _iras in attendance at the palace with his lordship ' s ordinary Burgeon -when the melancholy event took place .

      Fortuse-Telllng. —At The Borough Court, ...

      _Fortuse-Telllng . —At the Borough Court , Manchester , on Saturday , Anne fjhrimes , a professional fortune-teller , was charged with defrauding several poor simpletons of their money bv pretending to " rule the stars , " tell their fortunes , < fcc . One of them , a widow ofthe ripe age of 60 , being anxious to revisit the shrine of Hymen , consulted the wise woman as to the probability ofher obtaining a second husband , and being promised one by the first of Mav , _paiddd . for the information , receiving , however , 2 d . out , ahd a Quarter of an ounce of tobacco _^ she being veiy poor . Nancy Bradley , a middle-aged married woman , residing at Heaton Noma , consulted the sage about her husband , of whom she vras jealous . She _waS told that four young women had bewitched him , and that if he were not unbewitched he would very soon go off in a _galloninc consumntion . Mrs .

      _Gnrimcs undertook to cure him and make him a good husband for ten _sMllinga , and was so accommodating as to offer to take the money by instalments , stipulating , hoAvever , for a silk handkerchief , or something else belonging to him , as necessaiy for the process of conjuration . She received a shilling b y way of carnest . A young woman , named Ellen Simpson , was offered a charm for her _sAveetheart _, at various prices , from 3 s . to los . each , and told that the Meher the price the more effectual they were , and that the beau ol one of her acquamtance _, who had bought a cl-rm , hadcomo ' ranting" after her , he having previously _ISSf + U _u f _v ] , kcw wooer ft so happened , how-J- _« _E- ii Mei _? _SuMP 801- Avaaalready married , and Wished to consult the stars , not about love matters , out as to the time of hor becoming rich , a process wnicn was not going on so rapidly as sho wished _, ihere were many other cases against the prisoner , ami SHO was committed for three months with liard labour .

      _nJm _?^'" — _* ° _ther Stati £ Pkosecution . — Our ljumin correspondent assures us very positively that tne Irish Government have it in contemplation to institute another State prosecution , and mentions veiy

      Fortuse-Telllng. —At The Borough Court, ...

      circumstantially , tho facts on Avhich the statements rest . The most material are these—namely , that the tAvo Government reporters who attend the meetings of the Repeal Association , and the two poUcemen Avho are also in attendance to identify the speakers and corroborate the reporters , have been sent for to the Castle ; that certain strong passages from the speeches of Messrs . H . Grattan and W . S . O'Brien have been laid before the Irish law officers of the crown ; that , in the opinion of these gentlemen , there are grounds for a prosecution , if not of

      the Association as a _oooy , at least against some of its members ; and that a communication to this effect has been forwarded to the Government in London . All this is very likely , and it is not" less likely that the fighting Attorney-General should wish to try another fallwith the Repealers ; but that Sir Robert Peel AviU hazard another prosecution on the eve of thc Queen ' s visit , unless , indeed , he means to keep her aAvay from Ireland , is most unlikely . We say , _AA'ith cur correspondent—impossible ! absurd . '—Liverpool Mercurif ,

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      HOME CIRCUIT . Lewes , Wedxesdat , March 19 . —CrimixalAssatjlt . —John U p ton , 4 G , described as a buUdcr , and who , it was stated , acted as preacher to a Methodist congregation at Brighton , was charged with an offence of this description upon Elizabeth Mills , a child ten years of ago . The charge , which was accompanied with circumstances of peculiar atrocity , Avas so clearly made out , that Mr . Clarkson , who ivas instructed for the prisoner , said it ivas hopeloss for him to attempt to struggle with the evidence , and he should , therefore , not Avaste . the time ofthe Court and jury by attempting to do so , but he must leave the prisoner to be disposed of as they should think fit . Tho prisoner Avas found Guilty , and the Lord Chief Justice sentenced him to be transported for fife .

      Atrocious Coxduct . —Anne _Leivis , 30 , and Elizabeth Brown , 15 , were indicted for feloniously and maUciously aiding and assisting a man , unknown , to commit a felonious assault upon a child ten years old , named Charlotte Neville . The offence imputed to the prisoners wa <* clearly brought home to them , and it was committed under the most aggravated circumstance ** . It appeared th at the elder prisoner was the keeper of a house of iU-fame at Brighton , and the other , it would seem , Avas a lodger , or , at all events , a

      resident in the house . On the day m question , tho little girl , Charlotte Neville , was sitting on a step opposite the house of the prisoner Lewis , when she beckoned her in , and on her getting inside , the other prisoner took her in her anus , and carried her up stairs to a room Avhere there Avas a man , and there , in spite of her cries and entreaties for assistance , tho offence Avas committed , the prisoner Brown being present aU tfie time , The jury found the prisoners Guilty , and the Lord Chief Justice having commented in indignant and appropriate terms upon the atrocious nature of their offences , sentenced them "iu _iiMUVivu-j uublliuui mcu _uuuiiiiraoumrwu-cu uncial

      , to be transported for life . WESTERN CIRCUIT . DoncnBSTEB _, Saturday , March 15 . —Betsy Christopher was indicted for the wUful murder of her infant oluld at Poole , by stabbing and cutting it on the throat on the 13 th of February . Mr . C . Saunders conducted the case for thc prosecution . He begged the most serious attention of thejury to this case , for the Avord " murder" of itself denoted the importance and solemnity of the inquiry . He would conteni himself with simply detailing the facts , and they would look at them with every tenderness on behalf of tho prisoner , but at the same time Avith that firmness which their duty required . —Louisa HoUand ; I ivaa in the service of Mr . CoUins at Parkstone , and the prisoner was my fellow-servant . She was in the service about

      a fortnight . She Blept with me . On Thursday , the 13 th of February , I aAvoke about fiA'e o ' clock m the morning . The prisoner was then standing by the bed-side . I asked what Avas the matter . She said , "Nothing . " I Avent to sleep again . I awoke again about six and she Avas then in bed . I got up . The prisoner also got up and dressed herself , and _avc went about our work . She came up to the nursery about eight _o'cloek . Sho said she was in very grea _' t pain . I did not observe anything particular about her at that time . I advised her to go to bed , and she AYent upstairs as if for _thatpurpoae . I saw her again in about half an hour . When lAvcnt into her room she was lying on thc bed . She said she ivas very poorly . I left her and returned _acain to her a eood bit

      altcr-Avards but witMn an hour . She was then out of bed . I asked her what Avas the matter ivith her . Sho said nothing more than usual . I saiv blood on the boards ; it was a great deal of blood . I went down stairs again , and remained for half an hour . I went upstairs again to her room ; she ivas still there . Ic about a quarter of an hour she came into the kitcheE and passed through . She had changed her dress . She went out towards the privy . Her apron appeared to be thrown over her arms . She came back again in ten minutes . I then observed blood on her bauds . She asked me to get her some Avater to wash her hands . I got her some water , aud she washed her hands in my presence . She remained in the kitchen about a quarter Of an hour . She said she was better .

      Shortly afterwards she said she felt rather faint , and she would go up to bed , and I went upstairs withher , and _ehe got into bed , and I left her and told my mistress , Avho desired me to take her up some tea and gruel . I took some up , and she was still in bed . I had seen a knife in her possession about a week before ; she carried it about _> vith her . —By the Judge ; I ivas not at aU aware that she was pregnant . I had been twelve months in the service . The prisoner told me she AYas 18 years of age . ( She looked nearly 40 . ) She used to carry the knife in . her bosom . Our bed-room adjoined that of my mistress , and she couid hear any talking in that room . My mistress was in her roomj until I took the tea up to the prisoner . — Mrs . CoUins : My husband had gone out early that

      mormng . My little boy told mo that the prisoner was not well . In consequence of what thc last Avitness told me I Avent into the prisoner ' s room . I asked her what made her shake . She said she was very cold , and she directed my attention to the snow , Avhich ivas falling . I said I hoped there was nothing the matter withher : that she had done nothing AYrong . She said " No , that would be dreadful , _Avouldn't it !" I asked her if she had been ao before , and she said , " Yes , tAvelve months before , when her mother told her she had received an injury . " I think I used the word " miscarriage" to her . —By the Judge : If tho doors ofthe rooms had been open I could have heard a _neAvIy-born child cry , and 1 cannot say but I could have heard it had the doors been shut . There was a

      considerable quantity of blood in tAvo utensils in the prisoner ' s room . I had no idea or suspicion of a birth having taken place . —John ColUns : On my return home that morning , about halt-past nine , in consequence of what I heard I _AA'ent to the privy . I _suav marks of blood there . Upon making a search I found the body of a child with its throat cut . I gave information to the coroner . Mr . West , the surgeon , Avas present when the bod y was taken up . I afterwards asked the prisoner what she had done it Avith , and she gave up akiiitc . with blood on it . She waa asked if it was alive . She said she did not sec it move . I asked if it cried . She said she did not hear it . —John Wickcns West t I am a surgeon . It was a full-grown child . There was no other mark of

      violence except an extensive wound on the throat , I then went to the prisoner ' s room . I asked her if she had been confined , to which she replied , she had not . 1 then examined her , and ascertained that she had been recently confined . She took the knife which has been alluded to from her pocket . I asked her if she had inflicted the wound before or after the death of the child . She said after the death . From thc appearance , in my judgment , thc child was born alive _, flic lungs were incrensedin volume , and were of a colour io show thero had been respiration . I consider that the labour had been rapid . The ' wound in the throat was two inches in length , and an inch and a half in depth ; the head was nearly cut off . I could not _toU whether the wound had been inflicted during

      life or after death . __ Had it been inflicted during life , I thero is no doubt it would haA'e caused death . —By the Judge : Respiration may take place before complete birth . The knife vras produced—it Avas a common penknife . — 'This was the _case'for the prosecution . Mr . Justice Erie then summed up thc case to thc jury . It was most important , if murder had been committed , that publie justice should be done , audit Avas most important , if the guilt was not clear , that they should acquit the prisoner and save an innocent person from suffering the extreme penalty ofthe laAv . The charge was , the murder of a child close at its birth . To constitute tho offence , they must be satisfied that thc child was completely born , and had a complete independent existence of its own , and

      Avhile it was so in life it was deprived thereof by tiie Avound inflicted by the prisoner at the bar . If they wero not satisfied thatthe Around was so inflicted , unquestionably it would be their duty to acquit the prisoner ofthe crime of murder , and then their attention would be directed to the question , Avhethcrthcy were satisfied the prisoner Avas guilty of tho misdemeanour of having concealed the birth of the child . The great question avas Avhether they Avere satisfied beyond that reasonable doubt which humane , sensible , and firm men might entertain that thc prisoner ivas guilty of tho murder with which she was charged . The jury Acquitted thc prisoner of murder , but found hei' Guilty of concealing the birth . She was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years .

      OXFORD CIRCUIT . _Stafjoru , TuEsnAY , March IS . —The Game Laws axd the "PREMiEB . " _-Jamcs Walton , aged 25 , and George Proffit , aged S 3 , two resolute-looking -men , were indicted for having on the night of the 28 tn ot December last , entered certain lands at l _^ bourn , the property of the Right Hon . Sir Robert Peel , with _sereralother pereons unknown , . armed with guns , for the _purpow of destroying game . The preserves of the _Riglit Hon . Baronet had been visited very frequently about _Christmai last , by poachers from Lichfield who , _assembUng in large gangs , rendered their capture by the gamekeepers a matter of great danger , if not of entire impossibility . On the mght of Friday ,

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      the 37 th of December , a party of poachers , -: i med with guns and bludgeons , to the number of fourteen or sixteen , were discovered by four watchers on land of Sir Robert Peel , called Turnabout-field , and subsequently in tho Rough-cover , a favourite retreat for pheasants , in which the Right Hon . Baronet had intended to afford his guests the gratification of a battue on the following morning . In compliance with the orders of t heir master , the watchers made no attempt to capture thc trespassers , and avoided a conflict under such disadi'antageous cireumstahcefl ; but one of them recognised among the party the prisoner Walton , whom he had known as " a Lichfield chap" for five years ; and two other keepers were equally _positiA'o " as to tiie identity of Proffit . A muzzled mastiffwhicli ran from the keepers into the

      , Hough on thc report of guns in that cover , was found dead in the morning , the entire contents of a gunbarrel having entered the body ef the spirited but luckless animal . —Mr . Yardlcy addressed thejury for the prigonors , and on their behalf set up a veiy plausible alibi , but notwithstanding all the skill and cure with which it had been concerted , the attempt to establish it was frustrated by thc searching crossexaminations of the _counsel for the prosecution . —The jury , having consulted for about tv ? cnty minutes , pronounced both prisoners Guilty . A _previousconviction for * similar offence was produced by the governor of the gaol against Proffit , who was sentenced to _st-A-en years transportation , and Walton £ o an imprisonment of two years with hard labour .

      Stafford , Wedxesdat , March 19 . — _Muitm-n John Brough , aged 39 , farmer , was indicted for the wilful murder of his brother , Thomas Brough , at Biddulph , on the 3 rd of January last . ' Thc deceased , a person ofsaA'ing habits , but of passionate temper towards his relatives , resided at lligb . Bent , where he had acquired several small estates , one of which Avas occupied by his mother and her second son , the prisoner . His determination to look after his own interests occasioned tho lamentable catastrophe Avhich produced his violent death by the hand of his brother . A vcar ' s rent , amounting to £ 2 C , was due from his mother for these premises , to recover which debt a distress was put in on the 3 rd of January , when _tivo boxes of wearing apparel belonging to the prisoner and another brother , James Brough , were seized , and carried away to the residence of the deceased b y his bailiff , in spite of tho tears and" entreaties Of tne mother fur _timo and forbear-

      ance . This adverse proceeding appears to have produced a collision between the deceased and the prisoner , a man of mild and affectionate disposition , who had joined in his parent ' s ineffectual appeal for mercy . The two brothers quitted their mother ' s presence together , after thc removal of the boxes , and Thomas was killed , according to the statement of the prisoner , by a blow on the back of the head with a stone hammer , at the distance of 120 yards from the house , where the marks of blood were discovered by several witnesses . Mr . AUen , in a speech which Avas listened to with continued attontion , urged that the evidence for the prosecution Avas more consistent Avith a verdict of manslaughter than murder , Thejury retired at two o ' clock , and returned into court at seven o'clock Arith a verdict of GuUty ; Mr . Baron Piatt passed sentence of death on the unhappy criminal , admonishing him to expect no mercy on this side the grave .

      Stafford , March 20 . —Charge of Murpeh . — William Walker , a labouring man , 29 years of age , was placed at the bar , charged _AA-ith the wilful murder of Wm . Sudbury , on the loth of August last . The prisoner and the deceased were both labourers in the employ of Mr . Thomas Cammack , who keeps the Bassett Pole Inn , in the parish of Drayton Bassett . On the afternoon of theday ou which tho unfortunate affair took place , Walker and the deceased were drinking at that public house . Walker had a sickle in liis hand , and some dispute arose between him and Sudbury regarding meat , wliich the latter accused him of not having paid him for . Walker A _\* ent out , but returned soon after , still holding the sickle . The altercation continued , but whether the

      prisoner actually received a Uoav from thc deceased , as ivas attempted to be sliOAvn for the defence , did not very clearly appear . However , Cammack heard him suddenly exclaim , " What docs he mean ? " and immediately saw him strike Sudbury on the head with the sickle . He fell from the bloiv , and the prisoner made his escape , but afterwards gave himself up of his own accord . Sudbury died in about six hours from the effect of the wound , thc point of the sickle having penetrated the parietal bone , and caused an aperture through which the bram issued . Thejury returned a verdict of manslaughter , and the prisoner , who had previously borne a good character , received a sentence of six months' imprisonment , without hard labour . NORFOLK CIRCUIT .

      Brdfobp _, Tuespat , _Maucii 18 . —Rave on an Inpant . —John Gibbs was indicted for feloniously assaulting and abusing Sarah Gale , an infant , under ten years of age . The prisoner is a labourer , advanced in life , being now ot the age of sixty-four , and lives Ut Patenhall , where also the prosecutrix resides . On the 9 th of October thc latter was sent on a message by her mother to thc shop to buy some plums . On hor way she met the prisoner m a path , and there left him ; but on her return she again encountered him , when he took her basket from her , and accomp lished the offence ivith Avhich he was uoav charged . From the evidence of the girl ' s mother , it appeared that she made no complaint of the man till she was discovered , on the 1 st of November , to bo suffering from great pain , and then , under the tMeat of a flogging , she disclosed the transaction of the 0 th of October , and added also that the prisoner had repeated his offence on the 24 th . The prisoner ivas found Guilty , and sentenced to be transported for the term of his natural life .

      Huntixgdo . y , Thursday . —Impudent and Extensive Robbert . —Sarah Brett , aged 11 , was indicted for stealing a tin box , containing propcrtv in cash , notes , and securities , to the amount of £ 130 , and WUliam Brett , aged 50 , and James Ralph , aged 40 , were charged ivith recei > ing portions of the same feloniously . —This case , from tho magnitude of the sum charged to have been stolen , and the cool impudence with Avhich the robbery was effected , has excited considerable attention in this quiet tOAvn for many a day past . The prosecutor is a surgeon , resid _» ing in the Market-place , where his shop is . The female prisoner is the daughter of the male offender of the same name , and up to the time of the robbery had frequently been seen in Huntingdon and

      _GoumancliGStGr , selling matches . Under pretence of offering these articles for sale , she seems to hare made her way into the shop of thc prosecutor , at twelve o'clock in the day , at a moment Avheu his shopman and assistant were at their dinner , and to have deliberately removed the cash-box in question from its resting-place into her frock , and fortlnvitli to have made the best of her way lo her father at Godmanchester , the _ivholc thing JiaA-ing , no doubt , been planned between them beforehand . As soon aa sho arrived sho and her father and mother ivent up a drove , Avhero the box was broken open and _throAATi under a culi _* ert , but its valuable contents safely divided between Mr . and Mrs . Brett . This done the family nioved off to St . Ives , and then to Wisbech , scattering cash in _cA'cry direction about them . Atthe last place they fell in AA'ith the prisoner Ralph , Avho in his turn stole some of the cash and cheques from the person of Mrs . Brett , and coolly presented ono of

      thc latter at the very bank on which it Avas drawn in that tOAvn . The bankers very prudently stopped both him and thc cheque , and the police being informed of the affair , a clue was soon obtained to the family of the Brctts as the perpetrators of the robbery . A sudden attack av . is thereupon made on their dAvclling _, and Mr . and Mrs . and Miss Brett Aveio taken up , as well as a tiny girl , called Ann Brett , aged seA'cn years only , on whose person , concealed in a most marvellous manner , ivas found a roll of bank-notes , which wore clearly identified as the _propei-t _* .- of the prosecutor . His Lordship , in summing' up the case to the jury , directed the acquittal of Ralph , as it did not at all appear that he had any knowledge of thc bad title of Mrs . Brett to the property of ivhieh he had possessed himself , but thejury found the two other prisoners Guilty , whereupon the father was transported for fourteen years , and the daughter sentenced tobe imprisoned for six months .

      Bankrupts. (From Friday's Gazette, Hard ...

      BANKRUPTS . ( From Friday ' s Gazette , Hard 21 . J William Hone , Reading , _15 erkshive , eoach-pvoprictor—George John Carter , Ilomsey-road , ciir _* . < T . it ; r—Charles Stewart Sweeny , Chester-place , Hyde Parl « _- _(* uare _, apothecary— Philip Ground , Donnington , _Lmuoh-shiro , _talloAV-chandlcr—Henry Turner , Thcohald ' s-iviid , cowkeeper —Baron Ycrncuil de Bcaulieu Loriuri _* . ¦• tlierwiso Baron Vcrneuil de Beaulicu , Regent ' s-terrai-c , Commercial-road East , soap-manufacturer—James lewis Mnchu , Macclesfield , Cheshire , silk trimming-inaiiu !;; _-. turer —Charles Smith and Edward Jolm Chapman , U : .. _if . ird , Yorkshire , and Birkenhead , Cheshire , civil-enginee : r . - Alfred Vincent Fulljames , Bath , auctioneer—Thoniii . ' Mihvard , _Ejiperstone , Nottinghamshire , miller— Thorn :.- Itobinhuii _, Eccle ston , near _Frescot , Lancashire , linii ' _.-. unier— "William Ferguson , Liverpool , draper— William Henry Robinson , Leicester , wine and spirit-merchant- _Kicliard _AVoolfall , AVarrington . Lancashire , butcher .

      Rowland's Macassau Oil.

      ROWLAND'S MACASSAU OIL .

      Pathu -"* Ov Ner Majesty * - , Ms " Nige...

      Pathu _- " * ov ner Majesty * - , ms " _nigeuesu PRINCE ALBERT , tho _ilOYAL FAMILY and NOBILITY , and the several Sovereigns n « d Courts throughout Europe . —This Elegant , Fragrant , audPeUucitt fai OU , _Itspreservativcreitorative _. _aadbeautifynig qualities * Is unequalled over the whole world . It prescrtes and reproduces tho hair , even at a lute period of life ; _prevents it _fi-om faUing of , or ( tcratnt ; _ar _«*/ , * r « tor _« grey hair to iU original colour ; frees it from scurf and dandriff ,- and renders it soft , silky , curly , and glossy . Facts abundantly proved by innumerable testimonial ! , which are open for Inspection at the Proprietors . To CbMm , it i » _w-jiecisilj recommended a 6 forming the basis of A BEAUTIFUL HEAD OF HAIR !!!

      Price Ss . 6 d . —7 s . —FatnUy Bottle * ( equal to 4 Maall ) , 10 s . 6 d . ; and double thftt she , 21 s . CAUTIOlf .- _"C ! ich _genuin-j boVde has tiie word * ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL engraved in two lines OB the Yfrappw , and on tlie _- back of the _Wrapptr n « rlt 1 , 500 times , containing 29 , 026 letters . Sold by the Propr ietors , A . ROWLAND and fiOS , 80 , Hatton Garden , London , and hy Chemists * n & _Ptrfwxrs . *¦** All others are _FRAUDULENT _CQiTHTBRHITS ! _' ! _'

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 22, 1845, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_22031845/page/5/