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      Songs For The People. So. Arv. Forget No...

      SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE . so . _arv . FORGET NOT THB PIELD . Aie— " The Lamentation ofAughrhnP Forget not the field where they perish'd , Tbe trnest , the last ofthe brave , All gone—ind fhe bright hope we cherisu'd 6 oHe " with fhem _, and quench'd in their grave Oh ! could we from death but recover Those hearts as they bounded before , Iu the face of high heav _' n to fight over That combat for freedom once moro

      ;—Could the chain for an instant be riven Which tyranny flung round us then , Oh ! 'tis not in man nor in heaven , To let tyranny bind it again I Bui 'tis past—and though blazon'din story The name of our victor may be , Accurst is the march of tbat glory "Which treads o ' er the hearts of the free . Far dearer the grave or the prison , Illumed by one patriot name , Than tbe trophies of all who bave risen On liberty ' s ruins to fame . Moose .

      So. Xvi. On The Polish Insurrection Sobi...

      SO . XVI . ON THE POLISH INSURRECTION Sobieski ! thou art gone ; Kosciusko * thoa art fallen ; Bnt tby spirits are npon , Poland ' s land tyrants appalling . Oh 1 shall Poland once more be , A rallying watchword for the free : Or shall she tamely sink beneath Austria and Russia ' s demon breath f No ! for in her armed might , AU her sons are gathering ; _BaUying they Join the fight ,

      "Who wonld in such a cause be waTenug ? The block , the gibbe _^ or the knon t _, May soak their gore ; yet who can doubt Their blood shall still plead for the free , Aud light the world to liberty . Prom Cracow fhe prophetic doom , Ofthe slave system is spoken , "Visions of the future loom ; Of tyrants fallen , fetters broken . Of a nation , hand in hand , Owning Man ' s right to the lane * . _Oe'r the earth with _thonderToice , "Democrats , aid and rejoice .

      Speed the cause of freedom ; heaven Alike in every land and dime , "With life's breath spread freedom's leaven , let who -will count It a crime . Speed _itquick , as lightningglances , "When from the thunder cloud it dances , If it be crime to hope for all ; "Who would uot be criminal ? ALFBED rEN 5 EI . Ii .

      G Rolmtts, #Fece£, & Inquests*

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      Sisgclab Discoveer Of Three Dead Bodies....

      Sisgclab DiscovEEr of Three Dead Bodies . — Daring the last two or three days there has been much excitement in the immediate -vicinity of the Camden station of the London and Birmingham Railway , in consequence o f the unexpected discovery of three human bodies , under the following Tery singular circumstauces . It appears that , about two years ago , Messrs . Chaplin and Heme , the _railiray carriers , received at their warehouse in Liverpool , amongst other packages , a large square box or packing-case , addressed to a Dr . Hunter of London . The carriage "was duly paid , and the "box was in regular course brought up by one of tbe goods trains to town . After repeated search , however , the identical Br . Hunter could cot be found , and tiie package ,

      after being advertised , was removed back to the depot belonging to Messrs . Chaplin and Home , at the goods department of the Birmingham Railway , _Gamden-town . At this place it has remained undisturbed until within the last few days , when , in congeauence of some alterations about to take place in the building , it became , necessary to remove the various packages . On coming to tke large box , the workmen , by order of the manager of the goods department , opened it to ascertain its contents , On doing so , a mo 3 t unpleasant odour was emitted , and io the astonishment of all present three dead bodies were presented to their view . They consisted of those of a grown male and female , and a child , aud in each case the bodies are so shrivelled up , that the

      flesh appears to be a perfect horny substance . _Infenuation having been forwarded b y Messrs . Chaplin and Home to Liverpool , an investigation has taken place there , but nothing further has been ascertained than the mere entry ofthe package in their books on the date , corresponding with that on the box . On being apprised of the discovery , Tiffin , the constable of the district , immediately forwarded information of the occurrence to Mr . Wakley , the Coroner , and circumstances have transpired which have led that functionary to issue a warrant to Mr . Erasmus Wilson , the anatomist , to make a minute _examination of the remains , with a view , it is understood , to the Coroner holding an inquest upon them .

      Further _P-iBTiccLABS . — On instituting inquiries at the Camden-town station of ihe London and Birmingham Railway , itwas ascertained that no cine had as yet been obtained to tke parties who had brought the case containing the remains of three human beings . By the courtesy of Mr . Jones , Messrs . Chaplin and Home ' s superintendent , the reporter was permitted a view ofthe remains ofthe bodies , and to collect the following additional particulars : — The outer case in which the bodies were contained is that ofa common packing case , bat it was lined with tin , and , until opened , was perfectly air-tight . From _ullappearanees tke general _impression which prevails e , that the remains are those of American Indians . The man ' s head , and some portions of tbe other

      bodies have , it is said , "been removed by Air . Mills , _iheDeauty-Coroner , for _med-cal examination ; but tke scalp of the woman is loose on tbe top ofthe mass , and has the hair , which is of a very dark brown , neatly platted . The other parts of the bodies , in consequence of the removal , _LaTe fallen to pieces , and become jumbled together in an almost _undistinguiskablemass . What confirms thc belief that they are the remains of American Indians is the factthat they are surrounded by Indian matting , and packed up wilh a very curious description of grass . The bodies have evidently been buried and exhumed , and there are here and there particles of dry earth attached to

      them . It appears that a mistake was made _m _setting tbat the case containing the bodies had been deposited in Messrs . Chaplin and Home ' s warehouse , Camden station but two years . The date , as it appears on the books ofthe firm , and corresponding witb the date on ike case , is as follows : — " October , 31 , _ISfi-Xo , 1 , 021 . Dr . Hunter , London : l _§ cwt . 215 > 3 . " Ike charge was Cs . 9 d ., which has never been paid ; and although the package was sent to five or six Dr . Hunters in London , none wouid receive it , Mr . Wakley , the coroner has not yet _issued his warrant for holding the inquest , and , * in consequence of the belief that the remains are such as have been described it is doubted whether he will do so .

      Fire rs the Loxdox Docks . — On Wednesday j morning , between eight and nine o ' clock , a considerable alarm was created in tbe immediate -vicinity ofthe London "Docks , by the circulation of a report that a fire had broken oat iu tbat establishment . Information having reached the various fire-stations with all possible expedition , Mr . Braidwood , the superintendent of thc London Brigade , started to thc scene with tke engines from Watlinf-strcet , Jeffrey and _Wcilclose-sauares , and Farringdon-street stations . The West of England engine , and Mr . Connorton , were also early in arriving . It was then ascertained that a vessel , termed the Granville of

      Jersey , lying near the wooden jetty of the Docks , had taken lire . It appears that some carpenters had been working in the forehold nnder the forecastle , during the morning , and that when they weut to breakfast they imprudentl y left a candle burning in the vesseL Shortly after they had left smoke was to be seen issuing forth in thick volumes from the vessel , which satisfied the authorities that the same was on hre . The engines of the Dock were instantly set to work , aud after considerable trouble thc flames were extinguished , but not before the vessel was severely burnt about the hold and under the forecastle . The cargo _consisted of sheet-iron and cleverseed , which is _severely damaged bv water .

      Two Childkes "Burs t to Death . —On Wednesday evening _. _^ Mr . William Payne , City Coroner , held two inquests in St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , on the bodies of children , who had been burnt to death . The first was concerning the death of Sarah Bonney , aged 12 years , whose parents reside at 17 , Warwick ' s-place , St . Luke ' s . Tke mother of tke child said the deceased told ber , whilst ia the hospital , that she fell asleep on the stairs , and that she left alighted candle at ber side , which must have set fire to her clothing . She died in thc abaveinstitution from the effects of the injuries received . The second inquiry was touching the death of William Anderson , aged 7 years . h

      _JosepAjidereon , of 10 , _Camden-passage , Islington green , said that thc deceased was his son . On the morning of Sunday last , witness heard aloud shriek iu his room , and oa looking rouud , saw the deceased running about the room with his clothes on fire . "Before witness had time to get up to the child it bounded oat et tke room and inn down stairs , the flames at the time were ascending over its head . Witness was of opinion that the draught ofthe chimney had drawn the child ' s clothing against the grate . The deceased was removed to the above hospital , _wnere it died from tke effects of tic indea _^" * iTCd ' YcnUet m each casc _» "Accidental

      Sisgclab Discoveer Of Three Dead Bodies....

      Execution of a Female SLAVE . —The slave Fanline was executed on the 21 st ef A pril , at half-past 12 o clock , at the parish prison , in accordance with the sentence of the court , lor cruelty to her mistress . The spectacle was , as all such spectacles _arej horrid ; and yet tie street in front ofthe prison was _thronged with the populace , who gathered at an early Lour to see a human being launched into eternity . There were men and boys , and women , too , with infants in their arms , -who , wkile tkey uttered exclamations of pity , stood still and gazed . Here and there were carriages filled with female spectators ; and all were stretching their necks , _Istanding [ on tiptoe , pushing and jostling each other , that tkey might get a good sight The coarse joke and brutal _lavsh mieht be

      heard , too , as if hanging was quite a pleasant aud laughable _affiur—a sort of cheap amusement for the _SS ??? _^ - ey 8 eemed so jovial and jocose about it . While this scene was going on without , everything was _prepanng-witkin . Shortly before 12 o ' clock tke sheriff waited upon the unfortunate culprit , who had been in company with Priest Louis in her cell , and announced that all was in readiness . She was then dressed in a long -white robe , ker arms bound with a black cord , tke white cap placed upon her head , and walked , accompanied by the priest , sheriff , keeper of the prison , and officers ofthe Criminal Court , to the gallows , wkick was erected upon a platform between tbe two prisons , fronting on Orleans Street , screened by a donble sate . She was perfectly firm , and

      apparently indifferent to her fate . After praying with the clergyman upon the gallows , the crucifix was placed upon ker neck , and a wkite pocket handkerchief in her left hand , —the rope was _adju-ted on her neck by one of the convicts , wkose face was blackened , and she took her seat upon the bench erected upon the platform . The gates were then opened , and a loud murmur ran through tke populace at the sight of the wretched woman . The party on tke platform Juncovered , —the cap was pnlled over the culprit ' s eyes , and the gallows was slid ont so that it projected a few feet into the street . In a few seconds the drop platform fell , —the seat upon which she sat gave way , and she dangled in tke air . It was painful , terrible , to see the struggles ef the dying woman , for it was several minutes before all was over , as her neck was not broken by the fall , and she died from

      strangulation . At the expiration of about twenty minutes she was taken in and pronounced dead by tke physician . As she was taken in , and the gates were closed , a sort of ill-suppressed shout rose from a portion ofthe crowd , and gradually the whole assemblage broke up and went away . "Upon this tke Lexington True American makes the following comment : — "We give in another column tke execution of Pauline , as related in tke New Orleans Picayune . Here is a woman bung for doing what may be done with impunity "by tbe whites to any one of our 3 , 000 , 000 of southern blacks . Justice , in vain , has been in all ages represented blind , for she _looksupon a black skin and uses tke cord ef death , when , if the culprit were white , it would be an act neither condemned or punished , if not sanctified by the gospel of Christ "

      _Outracb os Two _Feua _*^ . —Benjamin Painter , of the parish of Astley Abbotts , near Bridgnorth , was brougkt np on Saturday the 9 th inst ., before W . W . Brown , Esq ., on a charge of having committed a rape on tke persons of Sarah and Kenzia Higgins , two females of weak in ' ellect , on tke 4 th of May last . Jemima Higgins , sister of the complainants , stated that on Monday , May 4 th . she saw the prisoner Painter skulking about _herkouse . She had occasion to leave home , bnt on leaving , she gave ker sisters precaution to fasten tke door if they saw Painter coming to the bouse . Sarah Higgins stated that Painter entered the house before they saw Mm , he _caueht hold ef her , and threw ker with great violence on the sofa , where he effrcted his purpose . That heremained in the house and prevented either of the two

      females giving an alarm . After remaining in tke house a short time , he commenced on Kezia with great violence also , and after a severe struggle , he threw her down on the sofa and effected his design . He then left the house , telling them he hoped they would not tell any one about it . When Jemima returnedhome , they informed her ofthe circumstance , she sent for a woman , Mrs . Hay ward , residing in the neighbourhood , who examined them and found some marksofviolenceontheirbodiesfromthe brutalattack ! of tbe prisoner . Painter pleaded guilty ofthe offence , and hoped the magistrates would look over it ; he was committed to take his trial at the next Shropshire assizes . This distressing event kas occasioned great excitement in tke neighbourhood of Astley Abbotts , owing to the whole of the parties being of unsound mind .

      Destructive Fire at _Ashtoi _^ tj-sdek-Lwe . — On Saturday last a most disastrous fire took place at tke cotton-factory known as the Black Rock-mill , about one mile from tke town of Stab / bridge , and two and a half miles from Ashton , whieh destroyed the whole ofthe machinery , and left the property a complete mass of rains . The milk which formed a sort of half square , was a stone _building , four stories in height . The fire was first discovered in the second story nn the south side , about three o ' clock in tbe morning . As to the cause ofthe fire several very singular reports , which will cause some inquiry , are in circulation ; no person , however , speaks definitely upon the matter . It is stated hy some that a large quantity of greasy waste was left in the warehouse , and that

      probably it ignited by spontaneous combustion . Case of Child Murder at Newcastle . —Tbe adjourned inquest on the body of the male child of Isabella Curry , found with its threat cut , in the house of Mr . S . "Nesham , surgeon , of Newcastle , was resumed on Monday , at Mr . Pentland's Hotel , _Blackett-street . in that town , when Mr . - Carr , the surgeon , who had made a post mortem examination of the body , gave evidence which left no doubt on the minds of the jury of the ehild having been born alive . After a brief deliberation they returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against the mother , Isabella Gurry , " who was thereupon committed on the coroner s warrant for trial at tke ensuing _assizes . Immediately after the adjournment of the inquest on Friday , thc mother , Curry , was taken into custody .

      Fatal Tall tbom a _We-dow . —On Tuesday evening Mr . Bedford held an inquest atthePrince ' s Head , Buckingham-street , upon the body of Catherine Watts , aged 36 , late a servant at the Red Lion . Windmill-street . From the evidence of Mr . "R . Westley , house-surgeon , it appeared that the deceased was bronght to _Charing-Cross Hospital on the morning of last Saturday , labouring under compound fracture of the cranium and clavicle . It appeared from the evidence , that deceased had been hanging clothes on a pole suspended from the window , and it is supposed overreached herself , and fell into the yard below . Wken she was discovered , blood in torrents was flowing from her month , and in half an hour after admission at the hospital she died . Verdict , " That deceased died from a fractore of tlie brain , but how caused there was no sufficient evidence to satisfv the Jury . "

      Alleged Death from Improper medical Treatment . —On Wednesday , a long inquiry tonic place before Mr . Bedford , the coroner , at the Falcon Tavern . Lisle-street , Leicester-square , respecting the death of Elizabeth Patten Croll , aged eight years , who , it was alleged , had died from improper medical treatment . It appeared from the evidence , which was exceedingly voluminous , that thc deceased was tke daughter of respectable parents , residing at No . IC , Leicester-street , Leicester-square . On Tuesday morning , the 21 st ult ., the child was seized with vomiting , and complained of a sorethroat . The mother , feeling alarmed , proceeded to the shop of Mr . Keally , a chemist and _druppist , carrying on _business in Little Newport-street ,

      Newport-market , whom she previously supposed was a | surgeon . She described the symptoms under which i the child was labouring , and he prescribed for it as suffering from scarlet fever , for which malady he had visited other branches of the family . He sent some medicine and powders , a portion of which were ordered to be administered immediately . On the following Thursday Mr . Keally al tended , and saw the child , who was ordered an emetic , and another mixture . The throat was very much swollen and sore . He then advised a blister and leeches to J be applied to the throat , and subsequently sent eight _powdei- ? , whieh were to be placed at certain inter-I vals on deceased's tongue . The child got con-I siderably worse , when the parents discovered ' that Mr . Keallv was not a qualified medical man . Mr . Edward _ltu-hards , a surgeon , was then called j in , who found the deceased in a very exhausted and i dying state . He examined one of the powders , and

      expressed his astonishment at the description of medicine the child bad been taking . The deceased remained under his care until Thursday last , when rhe died . Mr . Keally , having been duly cautioned by the Coroner , stated that he had never used mercury in any ofthe medicines sent to the deceased . He had attended other children connected with the family , and always gave great satisfaction . He acknowledged that he wasa _chemist and drugg ist , and was likewise a student of St . Thomas ' s Hospital . Other evidence having been taken , the Coroner remarked at great length on the various important points of the case , after winch the Jury returned thc following verdict , ' * That the deceased died from natural causes ; at thc fame time they expressed their strong disapprobation that any person should practice without a legal qualification , and in consequence of the evidence against Mr . Keally , they had the utmost difficulty in coming to a conclusion . "

      Barnsley Fatal Accibest . —A mannamed David _Abtot , employed atthe Darieymain Colliery , near 15 « rn 5 lcy , was working last Tuesday , near the railway , which conveys the coals from the pit to the river where the boatsi are laden , by somef accident , h . s foot slipped , and he fell onfto ihe rails where two caives of coals passed over him , and nearly severed his head from his bod y . y r _»>!! _ff T GHTER A l - _^ ICE 5 TE" _.-0 n Thursday last , Caiks Jones a cab-driver , was returning to Leicester with his vehicle and on passing through the _Thur-Hftnn ' 1 - " _' i ar 1 W , le f tley * tLe keeper ! demanded _iM _' h 5 wh -i t 1 ie , _cab matl _^ used to pav , stating that he had paid when he went through with his fare but a short time previousl y . The toll-keeper insisted ,

      Sisgclab Discoveer Of Three Dead Bodies....

      and seized the reins to prevent the driver proceeding , when Jones dismounted , and ajscufile ensued . Not succeeding in making Wheatley release the horsej he grasped the thong end of his whi p and inflicted a severe blow in the centre of Whealtey ' s forehead , which felled him to the ground , and in a few minutes heexpired . The driver ofa waggon who witnessed " the transaction , informed the borough police at Leicester ofthe affair , and Jones was traced to a publichouse in Belvoir-street , in a stable connected with which they apprehended him . He was at once conveyed to the eounty police-office to await the result ofa coroner s inquest . Thurmaston toll gate , where the deed was perpetrated , is about two mile ' s from the town of Leicester , on the road to Melton Mowbray .

      _Hesthucitoi ? of Machinery . —On Tueseay evening between 200 and 300 workpeople in tke employ of Messrs . Mellors , cotton-spinners , of Ashton were for a time , thrown out of employment , consequent upon the breaking into fragments of a large fly . wheel attached to the steam-engine connected with the extensive spinning and weaving mill adjoining Old-street , It appears that the accident occurred a short time previous to the usual period of leaving work and was caused by some ofthe hands in the dressing-room suddenly stopping their machines , thus causing the power to be taken off the eng ine , which , as a necessary consequence , commenced _working at a .

      tremendous speed . Some idea may be formed of the velocity of the wheel , when we state that it broke in two the strong iron entablature beam ofthe engine , tore up theengme-housefloor _. broketkrougkthesecond floor , * , afterwards forced its way through the roof of the building . Most fortunately there are no rooms _aboye the engine-house , as in some establishments _, or there is little doubt but the accident would have been attended with far more serious and perhaps fatal consequences . The engineer , a man named John Holland , on hearing the engine going too fast , ran towards the engine-house , and just as he was entering the doorway he was knocked down , but escaped withoutinjury .

      Suicide by a Female . — On Tuesday Mr . Baker held an inquest at the White Horse , Bow , Middlesex on the body of Mary Ann Dixon , a widow , aged 42 . The deceased lost her husband in June last , and at times was low spirited , and would occasionally get intoxicated . On Sunday morning she washed " and dressed her nephew and sent him to school , and soon after she was found hanging by a rope from a beam in the hack kitchen . She was cut down apparently lifeless _^ and a medical gentleman sent for , who succeeded in partially rallying her ; but she remained in a comatose state until four o ' clock in the afternoon , wken she died . The jury after much deliberation , returned a verdict "That she had destroyed herself , but there was no evidence to show in what state of mind . "

      Determined Suicide bt a Cripple . —About nine o ' clock in the forenoon of Tuesday a man named Norman Rumblow , forty seven years of age was found dead in his apartment , a back room on the ground floor of No . 3 , Jamaica-street , Commercialroad East . The wretched man contrived to effect his death with great determination . He in the first instance fastened a piece of jack-line to one of thc iron spikes upon which the canopy of his bedstead rested , and then took two or three hitches round the rail , to secure it from slipping off . Having fastened the noose round his neck , he must have thrown himself forward , and effected his object by strangulation _, as he could have regained a firm footing , if he had been so inclined , the height from which he was

      suspended being no more than four feet It seems thc poor _rellow had been for a long time in a desponding state , owing partly to his infirmity , and partly to the fact of his being wholly dependent on his sister , the wife of a sea captain , in whose house he lived , and who was invariably kind to kim . When about fourteen years old he sustained serious and complicated injuries by plaeingkis feet _against a cask of pork , which was rolling on the pavement in Ratcliff-highway . The impetus , however , was too great for his resistance , and his back , as well as one of his thighs , was broken . Since then he was compelled to go upon crutches , dragging the iniured limb after him : and the shock producedsucii a derangement of the whole system that his mind has ever since been more or less affected ,

      Suicide in _GnTSPUR-STBEET Compter . —On Tuesday , a long inquiry took place in the Governor ' s room of the Compter , on the body of Mrs . Jane Roworth , aged thirty-four , who committed suicide in that prison on Sunday morning , A great deal of evidence was then given , and from which it appeared the unfortunate woman was the daughter of a very respectable tradesman in Hounsditch : but had married a baker , very uracil against her father ' s wish . They were both frequentl y intoxicated , by which he lost his situation , and she was taken home by her father . The deceased soon after worked at bonnetmaking for Mr . Gammage , of 11 , Charterhousestreet ; but here her habits were dissipated . On Saturday she was paid her wages , and , it would seem , had met her husband . She had not been seen alivi _* by her friends since Tuesday , and probably , the loss of her situation and a periodical complaint in her head , led to the rash act . Verdict , " Temporary insanity . "

      A Drunkard ' s Career . —On Monday Mr . Wakley M . P ., held an inquest at the Crown and Anchor , King Street , Seven Dials , on the body of Mr . James Thorn , aged 58 , formerly a clergyman , but of late a portrait painter , whose confirmed habits of dissipation lost kim his gown , which he unsuccessfully endeavoured to retrieve , and , from his peculiar taste for drawing , he subsequently became a portrait painter , in which _undcrtakina he thrived for a time , but , in consequence of his continued profligate ways , he ultimately broughton pecuniary embarrassments , and had it not been for the occasional remittances of an opulent brother in Scotland , he must have suffered the utmost want . The deceased was also , naturally , a very eccentric character , and for some time past it

      was difficult to know who he was , although his peculiar ways had attracted the _a-tention of many . He had no regular place of abode , frequently sojourning at a tavern one day , and in a totally different quarter the next ; his chief whereabouts , however , was in the neighbourhood of . Rathbone Place . He was removed from a coffee house in High Street , St , Giles ' s , on thc night of Friday last , in a most deplorable state of drunkenness , to St . Giles ' s workhouse , whe e , _notwithstanding his extremely destitute appearance , upwards of 15 s . and some coppers were found upon him . During the same night delirium tremens came on , and about ten next morning ( Saturday ) he expired . Thc jury eventually returned a verdict of " Natural death . "

      T The Self-Accused Tiiief And Murderer. ...

      t SELF-ACCUSED TIIIEF AND MURDERER . At Hammersmith Police Court , on Monday , Henry Norman , the man who recently accused himself of having committed numerous atrocities too great for belief , was placed at the bar for examination , _having been brought up from Liverpool , where lie was apprehended . The greatest curiosity was manifested to behold him , and the Court was in consequence crowded . The _offcHce of which he was first accused was the robbery of Mr . Hoof , builder , in whose service the prisoner was as clerk when he absconded , about three weeks since , with , upwards of 501 . The prisoner was most respectably dressed . lie is about five feet six inches high , dark hair and eyes , pale thin face , and took his station quite unconcerned at the serious situation in which he was placed . A solicitor said he attended on the part of Mr . Hoof , to prosecute in liis case . He then called

      Mr . Wm . Apps Smith , who deposed that lie was chief clerk to Mr . Hoof , and lived in Brown ' _s-buildinjjs , High-Street , Kensington , Knew the prisoner , Henry Norman , who , up to the 18 th of April last , was also a clerk in Mr . Hoof's service . On that d _; _-. y ( the IStli of April ) , about eleven o'clock in the forenoon , witness gave the prisoner 52 * . in gold and silver moneys , with _directions to go as he had before , with . it to the Equitable Gas Company ' s works , at Stanford-bridge , King's-road , Fulhain , and pay the foreman , and with liim the other men in Mr . Hoof ' s employ . "Witness believed he gave the prisoner i 5 l . in gold and 11 , in silver , and he was to pay the foreman twenty-five shillings , and jointly with him the other men . "Witness had not seen the prisoner since , until he saw bim at the bar .

      George Arnold deposed that he was foreman over Mr . Hoof ' s men at the Gas factory . On the forenoon of Saturday , thc 18 th of April , he saw the prisoner between ten and eleven o'clock . He saw the prisoner in Mr . Hoofs oflice at Madeley House , Kensington , since wliich time he had notagnin seen him until in that Court . The prisoner did not on that day bring witness any money , neither did he pay any of thc men at thc factory . Mr . Give here asked Inspector Havill if the case was quite complete for the depositions to be taken . Inspector Havill said , Mr . Hoof ' s case was fully complete , but he had to apply that the prisoner might be re . manded , as he had reason to believe that , if time were given , other charges of a most serious character woulii be brought forward agaiust the prisoner . 3 Ir . Give asked the prisoner if he wished to say anything at that stage of the inquiry . The prisoner said he had nothing at present to say on the subject .

      Mr . Give then said , sufficient evidence had been taken to warrant him in remanding the prisoner for u week .

      Murders By Poison. Nobth Waisham.—Nothin...

      MURDERS BY POISON . Nobth _WAISHAM . —Nothing can exceed tbe sensation and painful alarm that prevails in this portion of the county ef Norfolk , consequent on the recent discovery ol a system of wholesale poisoning , by which six persons arc already known to have perished , and the bodies of olliers are now being exhumed for the purpose of examination , it being supposed that they bave come by their deaths from the same cause . It appears that Mr . John Ball ; living at the village of _Happisburgb , a few miles distant , his wife , and four grand children . having died within a very short period , and in a very sudden manner , suspicions were excited , and a communication was forwarded to Mr . Pringle , one

      Murders By Poison. Nobth Waisham.—Nothin...

      of the coroners for the county , who promptly issued his warrant for holding an inquest , and directed that two of the bodies ihould be exhumed . "This w _.-is accordingly done , and on their being subjected to a post mortem _examination by . three experienced medical gentlemen -of the neighbourhood , they declared that each body contained as mueh arsenic as would poison the inhabitants of the whole parish . The coroner , on hearing the result of the medical examination , issued instructions to the parochial officers for the disinterment of the other bodies . This has been carried into effect , and tbe cause of their death ascertained to be arsenic . Several witnesses have been examined by the coroner , and their testimony goes far to implicate several parties in the commission of this dreadful tragedy . Until the facts are more satisfactorily proved , it is cons ' _, dcred best for the ends of justice to omit mentioningtheir names . The parties suspected are known tohave purchased arsenic at different places about the time of the deaths of the deceased ,

      During the last twelve weeks several relatives of Ball have died in a mygterioug manner , and the elimination of their bodies having been determined upon , the inquest is adjourned . Property is the only thing which could have actuated the commission of so dreadful a transaction .

      FURTHER PARTICULARS . The investigation concerning the recent wholesale murders by poisoning in this village , was brought to a close last evening b y Mr . Pilgrim , one of the Norfolk County Coroners at the _Haresborough-hill House . There are circumstances attached to the affair , which from its extraordinary and mysterious character , are necessary to be detailed , prior to entering into the evidence , in order that It might be perfectly understood The village of _Hqppisburgh is situate on a cliff overhanging the sea , thirty miles from Yarmouth , and fifteen south of Cromer . It is better known as ilasborough , from its contiguity to the two famous ligh thouses of that name , and is probably one of the most picturesque and secluded villages along the coast . Th « population amounts to not

      more than 200 or 808 . In the parish lived an old couple , named Jonathan and Elizabeth Balls , the former 77 and the latter 83 . They were supported by paroohial relief . The woman had for several years been bedridden . They had three daughters married , who had had a number of children , and it is the sudden and suspicious death of several of them that gave rise to the rumours of their being poisoned , and hence arose the Coroner ' s inquiry . Three years ago an infant nine weeks , ¦ old , named Ann Elizabeth Festle , a grandchild of Balls , died , and Was buried in Hasborough Churchyard , within a few hours . The next was a boy , Samuel , of the same parents , whOBe demise took place under precisely similar circumstances as the girl's in last September , and was interred by the side of his sister . Three months afterwards two

      more deaths in the family occurred , namely , Balls' wife and another of the grandchildren , Elizabeth Ann Pestle , and were buried on one day . Although the sudden charaeter of their deaths excited much sensation in the parish , yet nothing of a _suspitioasfeeling seemed to exist . The death of Balls , however , _occurring on ihe 20 th ult ., after being attacked in a _fimjlar way aB the other deceased members of the family , many rumours got afloat in the neighbourhood , that his death , like the others , was the result of poison . Notwithstanding these reports the corpse was buried , a large number of villagers attended the funeral . In all these very mysterious cases not the slightest notice of them was forwarded to the Coroner by the parochial authorities ; but the public feeling having become so strong on the subject , and numerous

      communications having been sent to the Coroner , this gentleman at length took the matter up . He issued a summons to the authorities for the disinterment of Jonathan Balls and Ann Elizabeth Pestle , the little girl , who was buried on the day his wife was , and the empannellirig of a Jury to inquire into the cause of their death . At the first meeting of the Jury , the Coroner , iu consequence of some private information he had received , to the effect that the deceased ' s death had really taken place from poison , the extraordinary preservation of both bodies indicating the fact , refused to swear Anne Festle , the _mothur of the child , who , it was understood , was the Only witness that could really throw any light upon the affair , Thi 3 course it appears was adopted , from the circumstance of her having some 12 years ago bought arsenic for

      tbe purpose of destroying rats . Being desirous of affording all the information she could , she stated that her childhad certainly died suddenly , as well as her father ; but she had not the slightest reason to suppose that they had died from poison . That of her child she attributed to sore throat , and her father to old age . The Jury , on viewing the remains of Balls , were surprised on finding in the coffin two walking sticks , one oh each side of the body , an iron poker , several pocket-handkerchiefs , and a piece of plum cake in each hand . The inquiry was adjourned , in order to afford a post mortem examination of the bodies being made , and on the Jury reassembling , the Coroner informed them tbat he should again adjoutn the inquiry until Monday ( yesterday ) with the view of having the other

      bodies lying in the churchyard exhumed , and examined , as the medical gentlemen had satisfactorily ascertained that the death of Jonathan Balls , and his grandchild , Ann Elizabeth Pestle , was produced by arsenic , and ( hey had every cause to believe that the rest of the deceased family had been disposed of by the same means , andfrom what he had heard from other quarters , he feered there were casus of as suspicious a character at East Preston , an adjacent village * . This announcement , although it created the deepest sensation amongst the inhabitants , only bore out the truth of their suspicions , and which they had entertained for so long a period . The villagers for miles round crowded the churchyard , and in order to secure the due preservation of the sacred premises , the police wero obliged to be called into requisition .

      In accordance with the adjournment , Mr , Pilgrim , the Coroner , arrived from Norwich at nine o ' clock at the Harcsborough-hill House , to prosecute the inquiry . On the'Jury being called over , they proceeded to view the bodies , which had been ordered to be exhumed at the previous inquiries . The Rev . Mr . Birch , the Vicar of the parish , file Churchwardens , and several officers attached to the neighbouring coast guard station , were present during the proceedings . William Pestle , a labouring man , said—I am the

      sonin-law of the deceased Jonathan Balls . I have seen the bodies exhumed this morning . Tliey are those of Elizabeth Balls , my mother-in-law , Ann Elizabeth and Samuel Pestle , my children . My mother has been dead 19 weeks . Was not at her death , but saw her a few days before she died . She appeared to be very quiet , as if asleep . No surgeon attended hor , and she had been bedridden for tbe last four years . There were in the bouse at the time of her death , my wife , Mary Green , and Elizabeth Peggs , married women ; her daughter , Mary Haughter ; Sarah Kerrison , the servant , and old Jonathan Halls .

      Coroner . —Do you know anything about what they had taken ? AVitness . —No , Sir ; I don't know anything about "tliat . " Coroner . — " That ? " "What do you mean by that ? "Witness . — "Why that I _den ' t know anything about the poison they are said to have had . I do not know anything _abaut poison having been purchased by my wife _, nave heard her say that thirteen or fourteen years ago she wrote a note for arsenic , and sent it with a little girl , for the purpose of killing rats . My master , Mr . Pye , suggested that poison , but I never saw any of it in the house . Coroner . —Do you know what became of it %

      Witness . —Only that it was laid for rats in the coalhouse . She told me that she had got some as soon as she got it . Never heard of any poison being purchased just before Mrs . Balls ' s death . The first time I heard anything ofit was yesterday fortnight , I was told of it by John Wright about a week after Jonathan Ball's death , He told me that he had been to Mr . Ileckley _' ii , a druggist , of Salham , and purchased some arsenic to kill rats . My wife did uot know that until I told her . My children were first attacked with sickness , at least so my wife informed me . ' I thought it strange that they should have died so suddenly , but I never thought they were poisoned . My boy Samuel was subject to stoppage , and I considered that was the cause of liis death . Did not _linow that my _fathfcr ' s house was infested with rats , but have heard him sHy it was . I am sure there were rats in my own house . My master , Mr , l ' ye , showed me some in the barn that had been poisoned . Never heard my father quarrel with his wife , they seemed to live on the best of terms .

      Mr . _G-. W . Frith , surgeon of Norwich—I assisted Mr Clowes in the post-mortem examination ofthe bodies that have been exhumed this day . Wc first examined the infant . It was so much decomposed that its various parts could not be distinguished , and therefore we have been unable to trace poison . It is possible that it may contain it . We have looked for arsenic , and have applied the usual tests , but a more elaborate aud prolonged " examination might detect it . We next examined the hoy , Samuel rcstle . Thc internal _organs were in a remarkable stale of preservation . We found some small ulcers in the stomach , which were coated with a brilliant yellow

      matter . These yellow appearances , we suspected , were a decomposition of the white arsenic . "We cut out one of these yellow spots , and succeeded in reducing thc metallic arsenic from it , and applying other tests , which proved beyond all doubt arsenic . We conclude , therefore , that it caused death . We then examined the old woman . The stomach was quite empty . We examined some of the coating of the stomach and a portion of the liver . In each found distinct truces of arsenic . _"Findin-i arsenic in such a substance as the liver , leads me to suppose it must have been taken in a large quantity to so absorb , and consequently to produce death . I have nu doubt about it .

      Mr . R . Clowes , surgeon , of Salham , fully corroborated tlie testimony of Mr . Frith . The three daughters of Bulls , Mrs . Pestle , Green and Peggs , were then called in . The Coroner then proceeded to sum up the evidence in a very clear manner , ne thought the facts did not fix upon any party so as to warrant them in sending the case to another tribunal . If any one was inculpated , the linger of suspicion must certainly 1 ) 8 pointed to the deceased il onathan Balls , and he was beyond the reach of thc law . no recommended them to return such a verdict as would enable the officers to have the mnttcr further inquired into , should sueh circumstances arise as required it . It was a . ease of great suspicion , The Jury tlien found , after Iialf-an-hour ' s consultation , that the _deceased Jonathan 'Jails , Elizabeth Balls , Samuel Pestle , and Ann Elizabeth Pestle , died from the effects of poison , but how administered there was no evidence to show . The inquiry did not terminate until half-past five o ' clock . .

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      _' ¦ — . " .,, ., _; , _s" " _s" ""' _- ' _- "' _- _'' ? . ; _~ - A •¦ _Geni " . —At the Marylebone Police office on Monday , a respectable-looking man named James Dickenson ; was charged , by Brooks , 169 S , who said — "Please your worship , at two o ' clock yesterday morning I found this ' gent' drunk , in Park-road , and took him into custody . "—Mr . _Rawlinson : Who do you say you found drunk ? —Constable : This " gent , " your worship . —Mr . Rawlinson : What do you mean by gent ; " there is no sueh word in our angunge . I hold a man who is called a " gent" to be the greatest blackguard there is ?—( To the prisoner ) : What do you say-I hope you are not a gent ? —Prisoner : I am not Sir , and I think that

      l . Kiiow tne distinction between a " gent" and a gentleman . "—Mr . . Rawlinson : 1 dare say you do Sir , and I look upon the word " gent" as one ofthe most blackguard expressions that ean be used . The prisoner was fined 5 s ., which he directl y paid . Assault on Captain Wemyss , M . P . _ We regret very much to learn that a violent and very dangerous looking assault was made upon the person of our county member , Captain Wemys ? _, on the evening of Friday last . He was , it appears , riding near Wemyss WeBt Lodge , when his attention was aroused by the sight ofa boy of about ten years of age trespassing on a lield where a good number of pheasants werehatching . -The child , on spying the captain , jumped over a hedge , when the captain rode after him at full speed and overtook him , nnd attempted to strike

      him for his trespass , Upon this , between one and two hundred ofthe people at Boreland Colliery , men and women turned out upon the captain , some of them with stones and sticks in tbeir hands , and attached him in a most riotous , disgraceful manner some seized his horse , others took him by the less and tried to capsize him : while others threatened him with stones m their hands , and others again swore with the most horrid oaths that thev would knock the brains out of him . _Othei-s , still moro insolent , told him that he ought to be at his duties in Parliament instead ot watching pheasants' eggs and terrifying children . At last three of the captain ' s armed keepers came to his rescue and , by threatening to hre upon the mob , got them so far quieted that our

      member was onabled to escape their clutches . —Fife _fire Journal . [ Most likely the captain did not get half his deserts . His cowardly brutality in assaulting a child deserved to be severely punished . We are glad that the people of Boreland Colliery had pluck enough to resent the ruffianism of this " insolent" _land-robber . The "insolent" slave of the Fifes / are Journal deserves ducking in a horsepond for bis abuse of the poor people , who we hope will serve him out if they catch him . ] Balioon Ascent . —On Monday evening , Mr . C . Green ascended once moro with his magnificent balloon , the Albion , from the grounds of the Royal Standard Tavern , at Hoxton , although evidently

      suffering from the effects of the severe and nearly fatal accident which he met with last week in Suffolk . The weather was most unpropitious _forsuolian exhibition , and so boisterous during the evening , that the balloon heaved and bounded from side to side at a fearful rate , frequently bowing down to the ground , and sweeping the heads of the spectators , and then rebounding with such violence as to snap many of thc cords by which it was restrained . Several men , holding the guide lines , were seen with their hands cut and covered with blood . # Tho ascent took place about twenty minutes before eight , when the balloon , bearing the veteran , and his brother , Mr . 11 . Green , being released , rose in good style , and went off with great velocity towards Hertfordshire .

      Serious _Robbert . —On Monday a robbery of very serious amount was committed upon the premises of Mr . Sawyer , a livery-stablekeepcr , in the Curtainroad , Suoreditch . On inquiry , it appeared that he placed a bag containing £ 69 in bank notes and £ 40 in gold and silver in a cupboard in his countin " - house , and another bag containing £ 7 10 s . in a desk , with directions to his foreman to take the larger amount to the banker ' s in the course of the day . Both cupboard and desk were locked , as was also the counting-house door ; but , about two o ' clock in the

      afternoon , when the foreman went to execute liis commission , lie discovered that the place had in the meantime been entered , and the desk and cupboard broken open , and the two bags containing upwards of £ 107 stolen . Information was immediately given to the police , and the officers , upon inspection , had no doubt that the robbery had . been committed by some person well acquainted with the premises . Boz Axioxosi the Turks . —Charles Dickens has left tho Daily News , and , together with his wife and family _^ is preparing to wing his way to the neighbourhood of Constantinople .

      Don Antonio _Zumalacarueouy , brother of the celebrated Carlist chief of that name , died at Madrid on the 2 nd . Visit of General Tom Thumb to the St Katherine ' s Docks . —A few davs ago , much amusement , was caused in the St . Katherinc _' sDockby the visit of General Tom Thumb . lie was driven to the dock in a cab , and was smuggled in , unknown to the gatekeepers , by him conductor , who , in the first instance , conveyed him on board the large New York packet Ship Prince Albert , when he went through part of his performance , to the great delight of the crew . One of the sailors , however , gave much offence to the General by taking him up and putting him in his pocket . He next visited the packet-ship Westminster . It soon became known that the "

      General was in the dock , and people flocked from all quarters to catch a glimse of him . His conductor at last put him under his cloak and proceeded to the principal entrance , where ho was stopped by a Custom-house officer , who ordered him to _tlnw his cloak aside . Tom Thumb ' s conductor did so , and exhibited the little fellow , who was allowed to pass duty free , although certainly a " contraband article not specified in the new tariff . " Miraculous Escape . —A few days ago an accident happened to a workman employed in the repairs now going on in the Preston theatre , which might have been attended with fatal consequences , and it is

      indeed wonderful how the man escaped injury . He was at the time employed in repairing the " ceiling , and was situate immediately in front of the gallery , from which was projecting a bar of iron , when a portion of the scaffolding gave way , and he was immediately precipitated from the ceiling to the pit , falling with his head downwards . During the fall his head came in contact with the bar of iron in front of the gallery , which it broke , aud also in the pit the poor f ' ellow ' s head again struck upon and went through a temporary . wooden step in front of thc centre box ; but fortunately , he was not hurt beyond a few bruises , and is now at work again .

      The Cholera . —1 he journals of Eastern Prussia state that this dreadful disease has made its appearance at St . Petersburg . Her Majesti * s Birth-day . —Her Majesty ' s birthday this year , in consequence of the near approach of an interesting event , will be celebrated on Tuesday , the 9 th of June , instead of _tkeS'ith of May . —Morning Paper . Warning to _Nhwspaper _Scribblers . —If some of thc numerous writers who are impatient to see their crude and hasty scrawls in thc Tribune should happen to read the following paragraph from the Providence

      Journal and discover ils applicability to themselves , it would not occasion us the slightest grief : — " Persons who write on both sides of the ' paper must not complain if they never hear of their manuscripts ; it is always inconvenient to publish articles so written . As for those—and we have many such correspondents —who write illegibly , incorrectly , and withoutregard to punctuation , they only waste their paper . We will not take the trouble to correct any " man s bad English or to spell through any man ' s illegible writing _. Such manuscripts we invariably * file for insertion ' —in tlie stove . "—New York Tribune .

      American Iti ! MS . '— ihe editor of the Sandusky Clarion thus heads the prospectus of his paper , and holds forth the following liberal offer as one of his standing terms : — "To such ; as are unable to take the paper at these prices , wc will read it whenever they will assemble in companies of fifty or more , in front of our office , on a warm day , free , gratis , for nothing ! Any of our present subscribers may avail themselves of these rates of paying arrearages . "—The slave trade appears to be brisk in South Carolina ! no less than 849 human beings having been recently advertised for sale in a single paper in Charleston .

      " Iiie Light of other Days has Faded . "— Thc Era , a sporting newspaper , announces its " retirement from the ropes of the prize ring , " the editor ' s opinion being " against thc continuance of thc profession as at present continued . " Tho editor observes : —" 'With sorrow have we seen the gradual decline of British boxing into English _pugilism . Looking upon sparring as a noble manly , and invigorating exercise , wc have regarded with regret its gradual degreib . tion to the purposes of a disgusting pursuit ; and well assured as we are , that the best friends of boxm

      Great National Fainting . —A New lork paper states that a young artist of Louisville , Kentucky , if engaged on a picture whicli , when completed , ' will cover upwards of three lineal miles of canvas ! It is , in fact , a panoramic view ofthe Mississipi and Ohio rivers , commencing with the latter at _Petersburgh to its junction with the Mississipi , at Cairo ; and then " the great father of waters " from the mouth of thc Missouri to the gulf ot" Mexico—a continuous line of scenery of mere than three thousand miles in extent ! Architectural Congress . —The architects from all parts of the world talk of holding a general congress of architects once every three years , tho lirst to take place at Athens .

      Literary Secrets . —Douglas Jerrold is " off " Punch ; and the presiding genius of Bradbury and Evans ' s famous periodical is Mr . Thackeray , the Michael Angelo _Titmarsh of Fraser . Washington Irving has just completed a " Life of Mahomet . " The principal scene of Dickens ' s new story is laid in the West of England .

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      Elopement . — -Within the last few days acorisiilerable sensation has been excited in the little _Yi'lte _geoi Wadworth , near ; Doncasfer , by the _eloncmeKt dfa rich farmer ' s daughter , in her eighteenth year , with a young man ofthe neighbourhood , rather in -humble circumstances . The "happy pair , " it seems , ftedto the town of Nottingham , where an incident occurred which led to the discovery of their hiding-place and put a period , at least for the present , to"their _mari nago . Aftcrappearingb ' efor _ethevicarofSt . Mary ' s , a surrogate , resident in the town , and making the usual affidavit , the bridegroom inproRncct hWed

      with a certificate to the office of the registrar for a licence , where his manner , dialect , and bumpkin appearance , led to a suspicion in the mind ofthe clerk that the man had been guilty of misrepresentation , On inquiry , it turned ont that , with his fotomled spouse , he had only reached Nottingham flie previous evening , instead of having resided there , as he had sworn in his affidavit , for fifteen days . A letter was ' sent to Wadworth , and the . grand secretbeingknown _, a chaise and pnir quickly brought the rich oh « farmer to Nottingham , from whence , on Thursday last , ho cenveyed his daughter , to remain for a little time longer under her paternal roof .

      Dissipation and Suicide . — On Saturday , Mr . Wakley , M . P ., held an inquest at the Elephant and Castle , King ' s-road , Camden-town , on the body of Andrew Tate , aged 30 . The deceased was a journeyman baker , latterly in the employ of Mr . Glcndinping , Charlotte-street , _Fitzrey-sqnare , and was veryintemperate . On Monday "last he absented liiuiseb from his work , and nothing more was known of hini till Wednesday , when he was found floating in the St . Pancras docks of the ' Regent ' s Canal , near to CounsellorAgar ' s mansion . Thejury , in the absence

      ot any direct testimony as to how thc deceased enme into the water , returned a verdict of " Found drowned . " Caution Against Lending Newspapers for Hire . — -This custom having become very prevalent to the serious injury of newspaper proprietors , we recommend to the notice of persons so offending the following clause from the 29 th Geo . Ill ,, c . 50 , sec . 9 : — "No hawker of a newspaper , or other person , shall let out a newspaper for hire to any person or different persons , ' or from house to house , on pain of forfeiting five pounds . "—Bristol Journal .

      Thu Rev . J . R . _Stm-huns . —This gentleman , who figured _botbrc the public a few years ago with so much effect as a Chartist speaker , and as an earnest advocate of the separation of the Church from the State ( for urging which he was expelled from the Wesleyan Methodist Connexion ) is now settled down as a farmer between Ashton and Oldham , and wason Wednesday last sworn in as head-constable ofthe township in which he resides , before James Joweit , Esq ., the magistrate who signed his committment to jail , four or five years since , on the charge ofa political offence at Hyde , for whicli he was tried at Chester , before Mr . Justice PattieBon , and convicted . — Manchester Times .

      Death op Sib Wiixjam Miller , Bam . —We haveto record the death of Sir William Miller , Bart ., better known as Lord _Glenlee , who expired on Saturday week last , at Barskiming , Ayrshire . The deceased baronet was in his 90 th year . " He was a good man , and greatly beloved by his tenantry and neighbours . May his successor tread in his footsteps . The Master Boot and Shoemakers of Sheffield have agreed to close tlieir shops every evening at eight o clock , for the future , all the year ' round . Sudden Death . —On Saturday , Mr . Baker held an inquest at the City Arms , Oity . road , on the body of

      Mr , Isaac Hmde , a cheese merchant , lato of City Garden-row , St . Luke ' s . The deceased had been an inhabitant of the parish twenty-seven years , anil was much respected for his liberality and kindness . Thursday was the anniversary of his wedding-day , and at night he retired to bed in good spirits and apparent health . Two liours afterwards Mrs . llinde heard a rattling in his throat , and being unable to arouse him , she gotup and struckalight ; but before she could afford him any aid he was a corpse . Medical evidence was given , showing that the deceased died from natural causes , and a verdict to that effect was returned .

      _BlRTna _ExTnAOnDiKAmr On _Monday _oftornnon , a poor woman , named Mason , living near the Rose and Crown , Bromley , Middlesex , wns safely delivered of four fine boys . They were christened by the Rev . Mr . Boyle , curate of the parish , by the names of Matthew , Mark , Luke and John . Her husband is a verv hard-working man , employed by Mr . Ratford , the extensive market-gardener , at Bromley , Middlesex . The medical attendant was Mr . Gardener , jun . Tlie mother and children , according : to tke accounts last evening , were all going on well . The Parisian Punch , "Le Charivari , " has been , by superior order , prohibited from being read in Vienna ; all copies destined for that capital being seized in the frontier post-offices .

      The Swell Mob . —On Saturday morning , as a merchant was leaving the branch bank of England , Liverpool , one of the London swell mob took a pocket-book , containing £ 260 , out of his pocket . Fortunately the thief was discovered , taken into custody , and in the course of an hour , was committed for trial . A New Trick . —An impudent fraud , by which many of the respectable inhabitants of Coventry and its neighbourhood were completely swindled out of their money , was successfully practised in that city on Friday se ' nnight . It appears that a concert , under royal patronage , was advertised to take place in St . Mary ' s llall on the evening of the above day . The artists _announced were the veteran Braham ,

      Mr . C . Bland , Miss Romer , the Misses Smith , Signor Sivori , and in thft whole ahmfc fifty performers Admission was to be by ticket only , 5 s . each , to be had at the hall , from twelve till three o ' clock . The scheme was a most attractive one , and thc tickets were in great demand . One of the parties engaged in the hoax remained at his post until four o ' clock in the afternoon , when he left , as it was thought * for the purpose of completing the necessary arrangements for the performers , having previously taken care to have the music-stands placed for them in a proper position . At the hour named for the doors to be opened , the purchasers of tiekets flocked for

      admission * but there was no one to receive the tickets , and they walked into the hall and quietly took their seats . After waiting long past the hour announced for the commencement of the concert , the audience retired from the hall , much chagrined at their disappointment , and some not a little enraged » t haying been swindled out of their money . There were three actors in thi-disgraceful affair , the principal of whom went by the name of Ilaydon , alias Proctor , and another of the gang is known by the name of Chadwiek . The name of the third has not transpired . Two of these worthies , it is stated , fanned part of a company of theatricals latelyjperfonning at Gloucester .

      _LosDOiV Pi ; ace Society-. —Last night a crowded meeting of thc friends of universal peace was held in Finsbury Chapel , Finsbury-square , Charles llindley , Esq ., M . P ., the President of the Society , presided . The Rev . JonN Jefferson , the secretary , read the report , from whicli it appeared that during the past _, year the principles maintained by the society havemade greater progress than in any previous year since its commencement , in 1 S 29 . A strenuous effort had been made , within the last few months , in

      opposition to thc threatened embodiment of the militia force of this kingdom . 560 , 000 tracts had been distributed during thc movement ; 22 , 000 letters had been sent by post to Peers , Members of Parliament , and other influential parties throughout the kingdom , and to Paris , the West Indies , and America . Many books and publications had been sent , all of wliich wei-c in advocacy of thc princip les of universal peace . During the year , tho subscriptions and donations , with . the total receipts , had amounted to 2 , 8 ill . 10 s ., and the expenditure to 1 _. 1 SSI . 0 s . Id .

      Enormous Cod Fish . —Mr . J . Andrew , oi" Whitby , fishmonger , had in his possession last week , a most extraordinary cod fish , in fact , one of the largest that has been caught along this coast for a great number of years . The following are the particulars : —Weight , 3 stone , 7-4 lbs . ; length , i feet 0 * inches , * circumference , 2 feet Gi inches . Death FnoM a Pea . —A boy , two years of ape , the son of Charles Stewart M'Fale , who lives at llazlebottom , was on Tuesday playing with a few peas which his mother had given to him , when he suddenly

      began to gasp , as if choked . IIis alarmed mother ran to inform her husband , and a crowd collected . Mr . _Jticfccs _, surgeon , of CruniproU , was riding by , ard thinking that the child was labouring under suffocai . ion , he rode home for his instruments , returned , made an incision in the windpipe , and introduced a silver tube , in order that the child might bieathe . It died , however , at half-past seven in the evening . On the following day Mr . Juekes made & post mortem examination of the body , and found a pea firmly lodged in the larynx . This , of course was the cause of death .

      The Late Fight between Gill and Noiilet . —< The winner of this light ( Gill ) has been _bonml _, himself in £ S 0 and two sureties in £ _'ln each , to appear at the next Oxford sessions , to answer a charge of committing a breach of ths peace in this last pugilistic conflict IIlOIIWAY E . _011 I 5 _ERY AND CURIOUS DETECTION . — Archibald Eisin , a discharged soldier from the Foot Guards , was on Monday brought before the County Magistrates at Rochester , and committed for trial at the next quarter sessions at Maidstone , on a charge of robbing a man named Bradd y , on thc Dover road , between Sittiii gbourne and Chatham , on Saturday ,

      the Olh instant . Prosecutor had been to Sitfingbourno to sell cast-off clothes , and about midnig ht was returning home to Chatham , when he was met by the prisoner between Newington and Ilartlip _, _wl-o , pretending that he was a policeman belo / H- _dmi to ihe station in that neighbourhood , searched his bundle , and helped himself to a pnir of tiwscrs am * two pair of shot's , lie then rifled his pocket of n kni _' e and five shilliuc-s in silver , and decamped . Nothing further was kcard of thc fellow until the following Tuesday , when , at a skittle ground in Chatham , lie unsuspectingly offered the stolen property to the son of thc _prosecutor , and was , in conscQuence , apprehended .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 23, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_23051846/page/3/