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      DREADFUL _BAILWAI _AUUUHin _TS . gEARFUL COXLISIOtf OS THE EASTERN _CODA

      . TIBS RAILWAY . A frightful collision , hy which , _numhen of persons have teen seriously injured , occurred on Saturday at tbe Stratford station of the Eastern Counties Hallway . The Stratford station ( Colchester branchy is situated about three and a half miles from the London terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway at Shoreditch , and about five hundred ystri * below that portion oi the railway where the Gambridgeline diverges . Io tbe immediate vicinity of the itation the railway is on a level , but a few yards farther east it enters a shallow _catting about half a mile in length . A bridge in thrown across the line at the commencement of this cutting and wituiu a few yards ofthe station , immediately after passimr whicli , the _rail-¦ _way makes a curve . At a distance of ab > ut tbree hundred and fifty yards further Sown , another bridge is thrown across therailway , but the latter _bridge is not risible from the Stratford station . Between these two bridges ( about 1 * 50 paces from the _secno-l one ) a signal _.

      on _Ha'le's principle , is erected , aud is imeuded « s a guide to the drivers of all engines on the up line . Halle ' s signal cou ? _istsofanupwrightpost , to the upper purtiou . < f -which is affixed a species of fau . consisting of four distinct compartments , which can be raised or lowered at pleasure . When the fan is wholly lowered h resembles a quarter of a circle , and this is a signal thatthe driver of anv approaching train is to stop instantly . The first _COmparnnentof the fen , _wx ., the division next the post , -When tally _extended Is _paifltid JMllOW , _thefieCOUd gMtUl . and the two lower compartment * a _bright red . On all occasions the three upper divisions ( the yellow , green , and Srstred compartment ) are kept lowered to warn the drivers that they are _nearing the Stratford station , ind are required to proceed with caution . The signal may be seen by drivers of up trains about fifty yards before _reaching the second bridge from the station , but thc station itself is not visible until some distance on the Iiondon side ofthe signal , nor any _trainstatiouary thereat from the point previously _referred to .

      The accidentoccurredbetweenfour and fire o'clock en Saturday afternoon . The up traiu from Ipswich , due at Stratford at 3-56 , did not arrive at ihat station untU twenty minute ! after its proper time . Several p . _-. _ssengers nnd alighted , others were entering carriages , and the engine driver was takingin asuppiy of water , when a train was observed passing the signal post before alluded to , aud comingrapidly towards the station . Mr . Richardson , the station-master , was on tho platform superiu-• Jendin j tue despatch of passengers & e ., for London . * The noise Of the Bpproaching train attracted his attention , aad he at once saw the imminent danger in which the passengers in the stationary train was placed . He immediately ran towards the engine , intending to induce the driver to go on with the train then at the station , but

      before he had time to explain his object the _coliiiioa took place , and atcene ensued which almost baffles description The train , which but for a moment previously had con . _sisted of seven or eight first and second class Carriages and t > ro horse boxes , now presented but little more than a mass of broken fragments and rubbish . A second class carriage , which had been attached to the train at Bomford , and placed in the rear of the two horse boxes , was completely smashed , and the passengers which it had contained wero seen bleeding and wounded lying about the railway in various directions . Two other second cla _^ s carriages were so crashed as to he rendered entirely -useless , and although the horse boxes were in the same condition , the horses were uninj ured . The passengtrs in the rear carriages were all more or less injured and contused .

      When the first momentary shock had subsided , the station master , with what assistance he could procure , proseeded to collect the wounded persons and assist them into the passengers' waiting room . Medical aid from Stratford was at the same time sent for , and in a few minutes Messrs . Elliot , Vallance , Vincentand Kennedy , _ all surgeons , residing at that place , were on the spot vying with each other in their attention to the wounded parties . The more serious cases having been temporarily attended to , were forwarded with as tittle delay as possible in omnibuses to the London Hospital , and others , also very seriously injured , being medically attended , were sent by their own desire to their respective residences . The following is a list ef the sufferere , to for as can at present be ascertained : — William Millwood , bandbox maker , "Bethnal-green—The large toe of the left foot eut off , and foot otherwise mutilated .

      Henry Olive , a porter in the employ of the company—A fracture of the right leg . John Smith , a constable belonging to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals—Several ribs broken , fracture of the sternum , and other injuries . William Prentice , porter—A very bad fracture of the leg . Ur . Hiram Morris , landlord ofthe Hoop-inn , Deptford —The left foot partly cut off , the right jaw much injured . Mr . Richard Murphy , solicitor , Hendon , Middlesex—Contusf' 1 left leg . Mr . " Wiiliam _Rseler , publican , _"Westnall—A fractured collar hone . James Stone , gentleman ' s servant—Severely contused face . All tbe obeve were removed from Stratford direct to the London Hospital , bnt Messrs . Heeler , Murphy , and Stone were subsequently sent to their own _houseg .

      The following persons were sent to tbeir own residences , after having been attended to by the medical gentlemen ai the station ;—Mrs . Payne , of Ilford , Essex—A _comminated fracture ofthe two bones of the left leg , below the knee . Mrs . Widdenhall of Chig well , Essex—A supposed fracture of the left thigh . Mrs . Bromley—A contusion . A Gentleman residing at Chelmsford—Leg seriously iBJared . A Gentleman _living at "Victoria "Villas , Dalston—Concussion of the brain .

      It is a somewhat extraordinary circumstance in connection with the accident , that none of tbe carriages whicb retained their wheels , nor the engine which caused tbe accident , were thrown off the rails , nor were the rails themselves injured in the slightest degree . The engine , after staking the hut carriage of the passenger train , mounted on its rums , and remained in this posit ion nntil forcibly removed , when it fell over . It was , however , again placed on the rails aad removed without farther difficulty . Information of the disastrous occurrence having been

      forwarded by special engine to the Shoreditch station , Mr . Moseley , chief of the trafiic department ; Mr . Samuels , tho resident engineer * _, and . Mr . Kitson , the chief of the locomotive department , were soon on the spot , rendering every assistance in their power . Mr . Honey , the secretary of the company , happened to he at Cambridge when the accident took place , but intelligence of the fact having been communicated to him by electric telegraph , he immediately left that place in a special train , and arrived at Stratford between six and seven o ' clock .

      Mr . Honey ' s first act was to commence an investigation into the origin of the accident . "With that view he summoned together all such persons os , from their respective duties when the _coUiauratook place , were likely to know any thing of the circumstances . At the close of the investigation , Mr . Roney announced that William Clare , the driver of the truck train , W . Quenlin , the Stoker , Thomas Green , the signal man , and an under fireman named Nicholson , who was riding _tipen the engine of the truck train whsn the collision took place , had all been given into custody , as it appeared they were the persons through _whese negligence the accident had occurred . Tha secretary subsequently stated that Green having acted under the orders of the station master , wonld probably be released .

      -fiXAMINATIOS OF THB ENGINE DRIVER AND OTHERS IN CUSTODY . On Monday forenoon , at ten o'clock , Wm . Clare , who was _tlesir . oed in * the police , charge _^ as an engine-fitter , but who , it appeared , had been the driver " of the engine that had caused the serious consequences ; William Quinlan , who was also described as a labourer , but who , it _seemed , acted as stoker ; Thomas Nicholson , an engineer ; and Thomas Green , a signalman and pointturner at the Stratford station , and whohad been brought from the station house at Bow , under the escort ofthe X . divsvision of metropolitan police , were brought before Mr . Wiliiam Davis , Mr . Octavius _Masbtter , aud Mr , John Gnenipy Fry , magistrates for the county of Essex , atthe spacious room appropriated to the Visiting Justices at the Ilford _linage of Correction .

      Mr . **> t »« n said , that on Saturday evening , he was pureuin _* his nsual avocations at the Stratford station of the Cambridge line , when , from what he waB * informed , he _tiMStmi-d to tbe Stratford station of the Colchester line . Oa reaching that place , he saw the engine of an _up-paiseng-jr train standing about _twsnty yards on the ZoTidon fide ofthe Water-crane , and had been informed that it had wken in water . Observed that the buffers of a first-clas « carriage had driven _against a second-class _carriage . There did not appear to bare been anything thc Di . _ttu with the first-class _carriages of the passenger traiu . He rau to the extreme eud of the train , and there _Joun _3 a _*< :. ; ,. nil-class seriously injured , In fact , dashed

      _almost to pieces . There were _alsv three horse-boxes , in two of which there were horses ; and though the boxes tb . eiasi . jve : were much injured , the horses escaped unhurt . The first of the injured _passtnittrs to which his attention km directed , was a respert * ble-looking female , -who was King between the rails completely covered with the broken fragments of the _carriage , and exclaiming . "Oh . my child , my child ! where is my child ! " And he rescued h « _-r from tiiis situation » s soou as he could . Mi - _3 > avi * . —Was this female much hurt ! _W-itucs _* . —No , Sir , She did not _appear very much hurt , tail seemed very anxious _abou * . her child . Mr . ti"t : s . —Then what became of her child ?

      _Vitntsi . —I understand , Sir , it had been found on a _niei'C of wood , a part of tho _frapineiit of thc carriage , unhurt , but I am not aware of the fact myself . The _-witii' -= then proceeded to say that he saw a number of _perr-ot .- - _» ho had been apparently seriously injured , and he _calti-1 at the Company ' s offices at the station , and _requested tbey would afford every assistance , and procure medical _si-v . gtance . He then looked out for the _driver of the _engine that had caused tho mischief , and saw him _standing _° n his engine . Witness found the prisoner Clare ou bis engine , and addressing him , " Clare , what have you been doing I" aad his repl y was , that he did

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      net know , or words to that effect . _» _*^" _- _* _rrftaS * how it was he had paid no attention to « ie _. _££ , _fa ding to the signal between the _^ . _^^ _JJSriK _thestation _^ d he _^ I _^^^ r _^^ _eg , rf _" d £ wasup . There were several persons so seriously Clare the engine-driver , and Quintan , engine-fireman , into custody . Had no conversation with , the prisoner Quinlan before giving him into custody . In bis Cross-examination by Mr . Bawling .- * , the witness said that tho prisoner Clare had been employed in the

      sbed atthe Stratford station ofthe Cambridge line as au engine-fitter , and had also been accustomed to drive ballast-engines . Witness had seen Clare drive engineB both on the Cambrid ge and the Colchester lines . He could speak from his own knowledge to having seen him at least three or four times for the nine months , he ( Mr . Ketson ) had been in the service of the company . Quinlan was a labourer at the shed , and he could not take upon himself to say that he had sot seen him act as a stoker or fireman on thc engines . Clare , ha believed , had been driving an engine regularly from the month of November last until February . Engine-drivers' were supplied with books containing the rules by which they

      were to be guided , but could not say whether the prisoner Clare had been so supplied or not . Theprisoner Green is the signal man , but understood that a boy employed at the station attended to the signal on the occasion of the accident . Did not know that fact of his own knowledge , but it was known to the clerk at tbo statian . houso . He did not know that the boy frequently attended to tbe signal , but knew thatit was done when he ( witness ) reached the station just after the accident . Was not present when the engine driven by the prisoner Clare had been taken from the shed , nor aid he Jknow of the prisoner Nicholson ever having driven an engine ; he is merely employed in the shed as a fitter . The prisoner was somewhat agitated when he spoke to him . He was then standing in his proper place on the engine , and the place where _enginedrivers usually do , and he did not notice any other person on the engine , though he understood there were two or three others there .

      George Blatchford , one of the chief guards in the Company's employment , was examined at very considerable length , and gave a detailed account of the pa » iage of the train from Ipswich till it arrived at the Stratford station . The train consisted ot two first and fire secondclass carriages , with a luggage van and three horseboxes , two of which had horses in them . The last of the second-class carriages was smashed to pieces , and several p _< rsons were hurt . Tbe horse-boxes were also much Injured , hut the horses were not much hurt . He was put on the point of starting , and heard Ur . Richardson , the station clerk , exclaim , "Look out , " and taking this to denote danger , he ( _witness ) looked from the back of the train , and saw an engine coming towards the back of the train , and on the same line of rails as those which the the passenger-train was then on , and in an instant it ran into the second-class carriage . The collision destroyed the carriage , and seriously injured a great number of the passengers .

      Mr . Davis . —Did you hear anything Immediately before the accident to denote the near approach of danger ? Witness . —Not at all , Sir . Mr . Fiy . —Where were you standing when you saw the close approach uf the engine ! . _.,. Witness . —At the end of the train , close to the secondclass carriage which had been destroyed . I opened tbe door of that carriage , so that the persons inside might get out , and had just time to fall hack on tbe platform to save niYsell . Mr . Davis . —Did any one get ont after you opened the door ? Witness . —No , Sir , it was Impossible , they had not time ; the collision took place ia an instant after I opened the door .

      Charles Tomlin , a smith , in the company ' s employ , said that on Saturday he came up from Romford by the train of trucks of which the prisoner Clare was driver , and Quinlan the fireman . Oa reaching the second station at Stratford , he saw the signal down , and Quinlan got hold of the break , and witness assisted him , but seeing the _passenger-train so near , they both threw themselves down in ths bottom of the tender , Clare had shut off the steam , and reversed the engine , but the accident he attributed to the rapid manner in whicb the train was proceeding . Mr . Richardson , the clerk at the station , was examined at considerable length . It was clear , from his testimony , as well as that of the other witnesses examined , that the prisoner Clare had not luuuded . the whistle on approaching the station , as he should have done .

      Mr . Samuels , the resident engineer at Stratford station , said that , since the accident , he had examined the engine Firefly , and found the truck in perfect order . He had also measured the distance from the station-house at Stratford to the signal , and found it to be 250 yards , and from the -ignal to where it could be at first perceived was 259 J yards ; so that with such a day , and reversing the engine , there was abundance of space to stop the engiae and prevent the collision . Mr . Hunter , an engineer at the Company ' s works at Romford , wan called and examined aB to the fact of anv test being applied as to the efficiency and competency of engine-drivers before entrusting them to so important a situation as that of having the care of the lives and limbs of so many of her Mnjesty ' s eul _jects , and it appeared - that in the present instance there was none applied .

      Mr . Davis _thought this an omission . If he . for instance , was about to engage a schoolmaster , he would require a specimen of his writing , < kc . In a like manner , the qualifications of the engine drivers ought to be tested , Their power of vision he ( Mr . Davis ) thought of some impjrtance . _Itjhould be here stated , that the prisoner Clare was blind of one eye , and appeared somewhat weak of vision in the other . Mr . Graven , another ef the Company ' s engineers , was called , and he in tbe frankest manner admitted he had sent the prisoner Clare out with the engine , and said he considered him competent to its management . He could not have _accounted for the unfortunate accident , except tbat he was going at toe great a rate , and could not controul it in the space .

      It was stated that the maximum wages of engine-feeders was 6 s ., while that of the _eugine-driver was 7 s . 6 d . a day . Mr . Whitticomb admitted there was no evidence to justify the Bench in t ! _-e detention ofthe prisoners Greeii or Nicholson , but as the persons at the hospital , or at least two of them , were still in danger , he bad to apply to the Bench to remand the other two . Mr . Rawlins addressed the Magistrates at some length , and in the course of his observations made some commentaries on the conductor those ofiieers ofthe Company who _employed such persons as his clients to discharge such important duties ; and attributed the unfortunate accident to those persons themselves ; and , under all the Circumstances , expressed a hope tbat , if the Beach thought there was anything in the case , they would dispose of it summarily . The Magistrates retired , and after an absence of some time , returned into Court , when Mr . Davis said they had made up their minds to commit tbe prisoners Clare and Quinlan for trial .

      Mr . R-awlins applied to have the prisoners admitted to hail , but the Magistrates refused to comply with the request . Ths investigation occupied the Magistrates-upwards of seven hours , and the Court was much crowded all the time . Another Accident . —On Sunday a man who was cleaning an engine accidentally turned one of the guage taps , by which he was severely scalded , and now lies in the London Hospital suffering dreadfully .

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      Lamentable Accident On The Midland Railw...

      LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT ON THE _MIDLaND RAILWAY . We regret to have to record a fatal accident which took plack on Wednesday week , near the Barnsley station , whereby one man , John Salter , aged 29 , a clothdresser in the employ of Messrs . Gott , at Bean Ing , in tbis town , was killed on the spot , and Mr . Robert Neale , ofthe Bull and Mouth Tap , Briggate , received such severe injuries as to since caase his death . The deceased , John Salter , along with Mr . Neale and other friends , left Leeds -with tlie first of two special trains , conveying the members and friends of the Leeds Mechanics' and Literary Society , on a pleasure excursion

      to Wentworth Ilouse , the seat of Earl FitzwiUiam . Salter , shortly before the accident , was standing upon the nd ofthe centre seat of the carriage ( a third class one ) , Mr . Neale being immediately behind him , with this back to the end ofthe carriage , and as the train _wasapproaching tbe Barnsley Station , near ten o ' clock in the forenoon , the steam being turned off to slacken the speed , caused a sudden jerk of the carriages one against the other , which threw Mr . Neale backwards , and in his endeavours to recover himself , he caught at Salter , and pulled him over the end , both falling between the

      carriages . Salter , who was killed on the spot , was mutilated in a very dreadful manner , several carriages passing over his body , inflicting various bruises aud cuts on the back ofhis head , tearing the skin and flesh very much irom the right shoulder , down the right side to his hip . The skin of his right arm was aUo completely stripped off , aad the flesby part laid open . He likewise reeeived a deep cut on his throat , and other serious injuries , which must have instantaneously caused his death . Robert Neale _received several severe bruises on the

      back of his head , and it is most miraeulous how he escaped instant destruction ; he was taken to the house of Mr . _Angtll , the superintendent of tho Barnsley stiition , where he has received every attention . Mr . Wilson , sur . geon , of Monk _Rri-tt-n , was immediately sent for , and Mr . Charles Loe , _» f North-street , and Mr . R . Q . Horton , of Park-place , in this town , surgeons , who were in the second traiu going to Wentworth Ilouse , stopped at Barnsley , and rendered valuable services to the sufferer . We regret to add tbat Neale died on Friday , at three o ' clock . S liter ha « left n wife and ono child , and Mr . Neale , who was a widower , has left two children .

      Fatal Accident Ii The Blackwau, Iiailway...

      Fatal Accident ii the Blackwau , _IIailway Station . —An accident , unhappily attended with fatal _consequences , occaired at the Black wall _station of _thU railway on Saturday night , at a quarter past ten o ' clock , to a gentleman oi the name of Charlcsford . It appears he had with a friend come down by the previous tr & in from

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      London , and had gone on the pier to ascertain if a vesse from Rotterdam had arrived , when hearing the last train depart , he '"' imprudently ran through one of the side platform doors ( without a ticket ) , although cautioned by his friend not to do ao , and before the company ' s servants were aware of his presence , endeavoured to jump on to the train whilst in motion , but unfortunately missed his step and fell between two carriages , whereby he was frightfully crushed ; medical aid was promptly on the spot , but he expired on being removed from the platform ,

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      THE DIABOLICAL AND FATAL MILITARY FLOGGING AT HOUNSLOW . The inquiry , adjourned from Wednesday last , was re . sumed on Monday morning at nine o ' clock , before Mr . Wakley , tho coroner for Middlesex , at the George the Fourth , Hounslow Henth . It will be remembered that the investigation originated inconsequence of the death of Frederick John White , a private in the 7 th Hussars . who died , as it is has heen alleged , from punishment inflicted by thc lash , a few days since . Upon the opening of the Court the Coroner car « _tnlly laid before the Jury the evidence given upon the previous occasion when they attended before him ; at the same time he hoped that they would dismiss from their minds all they had heard upon the subject , and confine their attention solely to tho evidence which might bofurnished on that occasion . On behalf of the regiment a gentleman of the n . ime of Clark , solicitor , attended to watch the case .

      The Brat witness culled was Henry Potter , ono ofthe Serjeants of ths 7 th Hussars , of which deceased was _n private . He deposed to the state in which White ' wax when brought int-. the Hospital , and to the treatment he experienced whilst there , The evidence of several other partieB watt to tho same effect as the statements already published . After the examination of Mr . Day , the surgeon , Serjeant Potter ' was recalled , and minutel y questioned with reference to the entries in the books of the medical officer , from day to day . It appeared from the books that from the date ofthe admission ofthe deceased into the

      hospital , to tha end of June , the treatment was us usual in such cases , and attended with satisfactory results . He perceived that on the 1 st of July tbe medical order pro . vided for the application of poultices to the bolls whieh had made thoir appearance upon the back of the patient . The poultices were provided and put on hy the orderly , Riley . They wero sufficiently large to cover the whole of the places . No medicine was ordered to be _tiiken ai that time . Oa the 2 nd of July tho medicine entered in the day-book was as follows : —One scruple of powdered scammony and two ounces of distilled water to be administered occasionally *

      By the Coroner . —When is the next entry!—On the 6 th of Jnly . Have you no entry of treatment from the 2 nd to the 6 th of July ?—Not one in this book . By the Deputy-Coroner . —What have you then ?—Ifiml on the 6 th of July this memorandum , one ounce and a half of camphor mixture to be taken three times a day ; and on the following day two pills ofhyoseyamus mixed with a minute quantity of cardamoms to be taken twice aday . On tho Oth an _erTervescing ' draught was prescribed , with medicine compounded of three drachms of salts and _half-a-drachm of sweet spirits of nitre , to be taken every two or three hours , till the boils were healed . On tho 10 th thefollowing was prescribed ; Camphor mixture , 1 } oi ; sulphuric mixture , tmlf-a-drachra ; spirit of ammonia , 20 drops ; mustard poultices to the feet . On the 11 th , Camphor mixture and sulphuric ether every three hours , also wine and arrow-root . This was the day deceased died .

      By the Coroner . —Did White paita & e of the wine and arrow-root ?—He took part of it . What was applied to his hack after the 2 nd of Jul y t—Could not speak positively . Was not spermaceti ointment applied t—Believed It was . Was it mixed with anything else It—With extract of lead he believed . In what proportions f—One drachm of extract to 3 ois ofthe ointment . Who ordered this mixture for ointment !—Dr . Warren , the regimental surgeon . Witness used it , and continued to do so until White died . By the _Depaty-Coroner . —Have you anything in the register-book with respect to this easel—Believed there was . The Coroner . —8 xamine the hook and _soe whether such a case is reported ?—It is . Sir . What do you call that book 1—The " Medical Register Book . "

      The Deputy-Coroner . —Are the entries made from day to day !—They appear to be . The Coroner . —Then please to read them to tbe Gentlemen of the Jury . —I find on the 15 th an entry , thai the deceased was admitted into the regimental hospital on the 15 th of June , 1816 , he having received 150 lashes as a punishment , his back at thu time being a good deal lacerated and swollen , and covered with blood . Who made that entry ?—Dr . Warren . Did you see tbe entry made ? - - ! was present at the time ; indeed I was with Dr . Warren when the patient was received into the hospital . What is the date of the next entry , and what is there stated ?—The next entry is dated June 19 .

      Rvad—Witness , reading , " S-veiling and inflammation on the _b-ck subsided ; discharge profuse , bowels open . " On the 22 nd , " Continued to do well ; back healing . " 25 th , "Number of small boils broke out on the back of the patient , which are very painful , but in other respects doing _trcll ; towels open . " 28 th , "Back cleansing and discharging , but much inflamed ; bowels to be well purged . " July 1 st . " Back nearly well ; a quantity of small boils not quite cicatriced over ; the pustules remaining open . " July 4 th , " Back now altogether well , and the patient will be fit for duty in the course of

      tomorrow . " July _Cth _, *• Patient complained this morning of pain in the region of the heart ; most severe during respiration ; pulse full at eighty , anil expand _, ing ; tongue clean ; no thirst ; bowels rather confined . " Have the goodness to turn to the day-book , and read the entries of treatment for the 8 th and 9 th of July . — The witness turned to the entries , and read as follows : — - July 8 th , Wednesday , two grains of the infusion of senna with Epsom salts , and a drachmoftlnctureof cardamom . July Oth , ** Effervescing _draught with sulphate of magnesia , tbree drachms , a half a drachm of spirit of sweet nitre three times a day . "

      Now what have you in the other book »—Witness turning to the Medical Register , I find here on tbe 7 th July , " Pulse of patient seventy-eight ; some thirst ; skin as before ; urine scanty and light in colour . " Gth . ' * Scrobiculous cordes ; pulse ninety , hard and full . Pains extending to the back and left shoulder ; respiration hurried and painful ; bowels moved thrice yesterday . Thirty-two ounces of blood lost , and blister applied to the back . " On the 9 th tbree trains of calomel and three of St . James ' s powder were administered every three or four hours . A solution of tartaric antimony was also provided ,

      to be used _thrCe times a day ; He ( tho patient ) was much relieved by the blister , but there was exhibited a slight tendency to delirium . Pulse ninety-five ; skin puffed considerably under the operation of cupping ; twelve ounces of blood drawn by that process . On the 11 th his appetite became much impaired ; pulse ninety-five , small and irregular ; he seemed gradually to get worse , his senses failing htm , and eventually he died , being before insensible to objects around him , and covered by a cold clammy sleep . The staff surgeon flail arrived shortly afterwards , but the patient was arttculo mortis .

      What was the treatment the patient received as entered in that book on the day of his death ' —Camphor and sulphuric ether . When did the discharge on his back first begin to small ! —After his death ; not before , to my knowledge . John Thomas Matthewson , private in the 7 th Hussars , after being sworn , deposed that on the 22 nd of June last he was admitted asa patientinto the Regimental Hospital , at Hounslow . He slept after his admission in tl > e next bed to the deceased . On the Saturday week after he ( witness ) was admitted , _deceased complained of having a pain in his Ride . He said it was a singular pain , and extended to his chest and back .

      By tho Coroner . —Was present when the deceased described the pain to be * ' singular . " He said it was differ _, ent to any thing he had ever felt before . Deceased said this on the Wednesday , and died on the Saturday following . The surgeon of the regiment came into the room and said , ' How aro you , White ! " to which ' deceased made no answer . The doctor then said , itwas no disgraceful crime for wbich you wero punished . " White then said " It is through my back my _illnesshas been caused . " The doctor replied " I know it is . " He ( the doctor ) said this several times . By the Coroner . —What did you understand Wliite to mean when he said , "It is through my back my illness has been caused 1 "—I understood him to mean that the lash had caused his _illimss and pain .

      Examined by the Deputy Coroner . —The doctor then went away and got some medicine . The man at this time had got his shirt off . The doctor looked at him , and then said , " This Is through the other ; " meaning , as witness supposed through tlie wounds from thc Hogging . The medical officer used no instrument , nor did he put his ear to the side of the patient , nor did he tap him . _Wituess was sure of this , as he was present all the time . Deceased was _ble'l in the morning of that day , and again in the evening . The doctor only looked at deceased j of that witness was quite sure . Deceased was then sensible , but he had been unconscious . Thu medical officer saw him again about one on tlw following morning . By the Coroner . —What did the doctor say to him on the following morningf—He said , " Cheer up „ never mind ; you will be a gomi soldier yet . " The doctor came again in tho evening , and used similarly _encoura-Klnit laniruagc to the deceased . Did lite deceased ninn make any observation to you ab » ut the cause of his Illness \—Did not exactly re .

      member . Did he say , " I think I shall die 1 "—Thought he mndo some such observation . _Diil he cat with 'nuuh appetite latterly 5—lie ate his allowam-e mi the _Saturday _bel ' orchis death ; On tlieSun-< lay _hc-tf-a potatoe , and on the Monday a small bit of toast Wi ; ni > gs told this doctor himself of tho deceased ' s want of 'lupetite , but no extra s or nourishing food was _providt-il ihat witness was aware of . Bj the Deputy Coroner . —Did deceased say anything to yoa as io the state of . his health at thc time ho was punished 1— 'He did .

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      Th » Coroner . —What did he say f—He said he wa _» not fit to be punished , and after the flogg ing that his illness arose from injuries done to his back . Witness believed deceased had been under the doctor ' s care , but not recently before the time of his punishment . When the regimentlay at Brighton deceased was a longtime under the hands of tho doctor . Deceased roceived 150 lashes , he was not allowed to keep his stock on while he endured the whi pping , Witness had seen punishments in other regiments but he never saw a man have his stock taken away beforeundergoingthe lash , except in the 7 th Hussars . The Doctor ( Warren ) and the Colonel ofthe regiment ( Whyte ) were both present , and within five yards of the man during his punishment , the Doctor was at hn left and the Colonel at his right hand . By the Deputy Coroner . —Did White make any remark

      during bis punishment t-He only said , " Strike lower . The Coroner . —Why did he say this {—Because tbe lashes were taking effent ou his neck . I noticed Mie akin puff up immediately after the blow had struck bim . The Coroner ( to witness ) . —Look at those _cat-o ' . nin .. tails , and say whoiher they are the kind of whips used to punish the men in your regiment— The "lash " to which the worthy enroner pointed , several of which lay upon the table for the inspection of the jury , were formidable looking whips , the thongs of which aro made of strongly twis'ed cord , closely knotted , attached to stout itandles , about 18 inches iu length . Two or three of tiiem _wsro at thu uncle , » _atoat ( jd with Wood ., exiftently recently shed . ]—the witness identified the " cats , " and said , taking up on" of them , that he believed that was tho very one with which he had been punished .

      _Hafejou ' i _Mattlicwnon , _nny _objoction to jour nam e appearing In the paperB as _hnving suffered tho penalty of _fliiggtng *—Not any objection , Sir , I wish the matter to be mode public . Then state why you were punished ?—I will , Sir . I wn » iu ihe stable , attending to ray duty , and some one called " Matthewson , " through the window . I replied , thinking it was one of my mates , "Holloa . " Immediately afterwards Serjeant Temple came to me , and said " Ib that the way you speak to your serjeant V I replied that I waB not aware the serjeant called , or I would net have answered in any such manner . With this the serjeant did not appear satisfied , and I said , " Do you want are to go down upon my knees to you ! " For this I waf

      put on " fatigue , " and seven days' solitary confinement . Eventually a court martial was held , and I was sentenced to receive 100 lashes . —( Cries of " Shame" in the oourt , whieh were not easily suppressed . ) Prom half-past 12 o ' clock until half-past 10 _ o ' clock the next day no _sureerm came to me . Up to that day his hack was not well . He had had boils upon him ; and at that moment he bad pains in each side . They first hurt him in the ehest , now in the sides . White told him he should havo such pains after heing flogged . He never had such sin . _cular pains before in any part of his body . He was ordered , before being flogged , to take off bis stork . The adjutant ordered bim , and he did so . When beaten , the lash cut him quite up to the roots of bis back hair , and as low as the bottom of the ribs .

      At this stage of tbe proceedings the coroner inquired of Mr , Horatio 'Day , surgeon of Isleworth ( Ihe gentleman who had been applied to to make a postmortem examination of the body ) , whether he bad specially ex . amined the spine % Mr . Day said he had not paid very special attention to that part ; he . however , had obtained sufficient evidence to account for death internally . ¦ ' The eoroner would leave it with the jury to decide whether titty were satisfied with the examination whieh _ha-d ' been made . He ( the coroner ) might be medically satisfied , but judicially he was not . The room was then cleared , and after a private interview with the jury of about twenty minutes , the _deor was opened , and the coroner declared the inquest adjourned until Monday next .

      The investigation , which lasted nearly seven hours , appeared to excite the liveliest interest , the inquestroom being inconveniently crowded throughout thc whole of the day .

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      Night An Inquest Was Held Before Mr. Bed...

      night an inquest was held before Mr . Bedford atthe Plough Tavern , Caroy . street , Lincoln ' _s-inn-fields , du the body of David Roberts , aged twenty-nine . The deceased was a leather tanner , in tbe employ of Messrs . Essex , curriers , of Stanhope-street , Claremarket _, and on the afternoon of Monday week the deceased was working at a bark mill , turned by steam power , when , in turning to speak to a fellow workman , he inadvertently placed his right hand

      on two wheels termed breakers , revolving at full speed , and before he could get his hand away again , it waa drawn into the machinery aa high aa the shoulder . Tbree quarters of an hour elapsed before the mutilated limb could be extricated , and even until Monday afternoon last , when secondary hem & rraae occcurred from an artery , which was stopped , but on Thursday afternoon the artery again burst out bleeding , from excitement , and he expired in ten minutes afterwards from loss of blood . Verdict , " Accidental Death . "

      Fatai . Occurrence at Battle Bridge . —On Saturday Mr , Wakley held an inquest at the University College Hospital , on the body of Mark Sinoott , aged sixty-six , a watchman , _iirthe employ of Messrs . _Marston , the sewer contractors . Charles Farran'ler deposed that about ten o ' clock * on thc evening * ofthe _IStli instant , while standing atrthc corner of Maidenlane , Battle Bridge , he saw a _four-horce waggon coming from tho railway , when he heard a fall accompanied by groans , and on proceeding to the spot , he discovered that two men bad heen knocked down and run over . Assistance wa _^ procured , and the doceased was taken to the hospital , where he died at six o ' clock the following morning . He repeatedly blamed the dm or of tho waggon , and said it was

      entirely his own fault . The _olhor man who was knocked down is still lying in a very dangerous state . The deceased had stated that he heard the cries ol the other watchman , named Syne 3 , who had been knocked down by the v . n belonging to the Messrs . Crowley , the railway carriers , and on going to the spot he had requested the driver to stop , but he toolno notice of what was said , and flogiccd the horse ? on , threw liim down , aid drove over his chest . The driver was taken up before a police magistrate on Friday , and is now out on bail , He had acknowledged having driven over the _decoased . Tho

      Coroner briefly addressed the Jury , and adjourned thc inquest for a few days to have the driver identified . Child Murder . — * The corpse of a male child , less than a month old , was yesterday washed up on tbe Gosport shore , at the Phoenix wharf . It was in a state of great decomposition , and had evidently beer murdered , as its _akull was fractured ; it was wrapped up in Hannel , and then tied in a thin black apron , made of woollen and silk . An inquest was held today , before C . B . Longcroft _, Esq ., but not the _slighest evidence could be afforded to the Jury aa to the matter , and a verdict of "Wilful murder against some . persons unknown , " was returned .

      Tub Dagenham Murder . —It is now confidently believed that in a very brief space of time the perpetrator of this brutal murder will be arre « ted . A chain of circumstantial evidence has broken ont which leaves no doubt that the guilty party will shortly be in the hands ofjustice . Joseph Shackel ) , superintendent of the detective force , has heen most active during the past week , in a minute _investigation of the faots . Sergeant Shaw and another officer have been sent to "Woburn and the village of Eversham , where the young woman resides whom Clnrke was about to marry , for the purpose of ascertaining if there was any rival in thc love affair , who might , under feelinps of jealousy , have been prompted to commit the deed of violence . The result of their _investigationhowever , goes to establish the belief that

      , the track pursued by Shackell in Hie neighbourhood of tbe murder is the right one . It would be unwise at present to say more , aa it might be prejudical to the ends ofjustice ; tbat be was not as _assinated J > y any of the " notoriously bad characters" with which the neighbourhood is represented to abound is p _> ' < _-tty clear , from the fact that the silver watch , four halfcrowns , and four shillings , which he had in his possession , were not disturbed . Jealousy and revenge , not pluniler . it is quite evident / actuated themurderer . On Saturday afternoon , a Government reward of £ 100 was offered for the discovery of tbe murncrer . A free pardon is also offered to any but tbe actual murderer , on condition that tliey make thc _netcssary disclosures .

      Supposed Suicide of a Boy from _lix- 'l rkatmbnt . —An inquest was held on Monday evening , before Mr . Payne , at the Wheatsbeaf , Bomugh Market , on the body of Jeremiah Doyle , ased fifteen . John M'Gragh said , that he knew the deceased , who resided next door to him in Grange-walk , Bermondsey . On Saturday night last , witness met him in the streets crying , and on asking him what was . the matter with him , he answered that his mnthesf had beaten him with a poker and kicked him for bavins hit _hi- sister . Witness saw tliat his ear was bleed

      ing . George Ware said , that he found the body o the deceased _flsatsng in thc river near th ® steps o ' London Bridge- on Sunday morning . Maria Doyle _, the mother ofthe deceased , denied that she had beaten tbe deceased in th © manner stated , and sairi thac she merely gave bim two or three slaps . II <• was a veEy sulky boy . The Coroner said , thai though the deceased mi « ht have drowned himself _inconsequence ofthe bcatin ! : he bad received from his mother , she would not be responsible for bis death . The Jury returned a Verdict ef "Found drowned . "

      The Russiah Polks Abro 4 D . —Tho _Itrissian _government has just issued an order , coiunutndine : its Polish subjects travellinir in foreign countries , to return home . This order is given in a manner alto gether _oaptlous . " You are permitted , " it says , " t > - retiira to jour own country ; " and a postscript adds . " If , within tho space ofa week , you do not present yourself to the Russian embassy to take your _purport , your property shall be confiscated . " In addition to thia , the Secretaries of Embassy arc to ash each person if ho is well pleased ta return homo . Without doubt , an ambiguous reply vvuld be considered as a revolutionary manifestation , and would cause the ruin of the person so interrogated . Tht greater number of travellers who have returned iu Polaud , although quite unconnected with •* ny _politi-, _cal movement , have been arrested at tho frontier , I and _ixistillin prison .

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      Insanity And Murder. Robert Znowlson, Ag...

      INSANITY AND MURDER . Robert _Znowlson , aged 88 , was Indicted for the wilful murder of his own father , at Eirk Bramwitb _, in the "West Riding , on the 5 th of May last . Mr . _Aspinall examined _AnnKnowlson , widow of the deceased . —My daughter Nancy and the prisoner lived in the house with my husband and me . Be was a wheelwright , and tbe prisoner helped hira in his trade . The prisoner on the 4 th of May broke Same pots _. and hl » sister and he had some words . During the nigbt I heard bim talking to himself ; them was no one to talk to . The following morning my _husbnnd went down stairs early to go to his work . I heard something break , and my husband say , « Robert , art thou going to break all the things in the house ! ' After that I heard him shout " murder , " I went to the window and called out . I was not dre » 8 e „ , and therefore did not go down for a quarter of an hour . I then sent far a

      surgeon . Hy husband died on the following Wednesday . Mary Singleton examined . -I know the prisoner I heard Mr . Chapman ( sister of prisoner—the Nancy men tioncd ¦ sliout out of the window for my husband toewne ' I called him up , and then ran into the street a short dlst » nce towards _Knowlson's . The door was open , and Robert was standing undressed , with his back turned towards the door . He was striving at something . I could not see what it was . I think I sow him strike two or three times . I then went back . Cross-examined by Mr . Overend for theprisoner , at the request ofthe Judge I went afterwards into the house . I did not sea theprisoner again 1111 I saw him up stairs breaking tbe window . Hebroku the frame and all out . He also threw a large looking-glass out . He attempted several _ti-nes to jump out . I had known him 12 or 13 years . In his manner

      of behaving he was not like oth « r men , He was always _tnlklnn to himself , and sometimes laughed very loud He was quite deranged ; quite in an insane state of mind . Ha had always been in that state , since I have known him ; sometimes better and sometimes worse . He said nothing , only shouted . Other witnesses were examined . Tke Learned Judge , addressing the Jury , said I should think your minds must he made up by this sort of evidence . YOU have a great body of evidence to prove thai the prisoner was not at the time of this sad occurrence in a state of mind to make him responsible for his acts . If you have come to that conclusion you will acquit the prisoner , and say that you do so on the ground of insanity . The Jury considered a moment , and then returned a verdict to that effect , which will of course have the effect of confining him for life .

      Shooting With Intent To Kill. At The Che...

      SHOOTING WITH INTENT TO KILL . At the Chelmsford Assizes on Friday , George May Smith , 18 , a genteel-looking hid , was indicted for feloni . ously and unlawfully shooting at Thomas Woodcock Warner , with a loaded gun , with intent to murder him . In other counts , the intent of tbe prisoner was laid to be , to do him grierous bodily harm , Mr , _Charoock _, who _appenred for the prisoner , said that with the permission of the Court , he was anxious to retract his idea of not guilty , aud to plead guilty to the count on the indictment _invputingtohim the intention to do grievous bodily harm . M- _* . Baron Parke then directed the plea of guilty to ha

      recorded . The prosecutor was then called into the _witness-box , and in answer to questions put to bim by the Learned Judge , he said that the prisoner had been in his service , but he had discharged him a short time before this transaction , and in consequence of his misbehaviour , he refused to give him a character . On the day mentioned in the indictment he was near his own house , when the prisoner _deliberately discharged a gun at him . The gun burst and iDJuredthe prisoner a good deal , and tbe prosecutor fortunately escaped with a very slight wound . The Learned Judge sentenced theprisoner to be transportrd fer seven years .

      Poisoning. At The York Assizes On Friday...

      POISONING . At the York Assizes on Friday , John Rodda was indicted for poisoning his child , aB infant only twenty-one months old , at Stepton , on the 19 th of last April . J , Bentham , surgeon , at that place , said he had prescribed for the child , which was , he thou-rht _, ill from t > ething . nnd gave its mother a powder containing two grains of antimonial powder and one of calomel , to be given to it , and its feet was tobe bathed in hot water , This was on the 16 th of April . On the Sunday night after , he was sent for , and found the child lying in the mother ' s lap , constantly vomiting a dark frothy substance which rose to its mouth . The appearance ot the tongue , lips , and chin , was remarkable , and he detected strong acid in tbe vomit . The child ' s pinafore was eaten into holes and stained a dark colour . Went home and got some magnesia , of whicb I gave the child a _teaspootrful . The vomiting

      soon after ceased . Tbe pulse was too quick to be counted . The hands and feet were cold . I went away , and on returning found the violent vomiting had returned . _Mag _> _nesia being given again the vomiting once more ceased . The child was easy and dozed , hut about eleven that night it died . On a postmortem examination tbe tongue , onouth _, and gullot appeared to be parboiled , the stomach _completely destroyed and bo pulpy that it could be smashed as easy as wetted paper . I thought oil of vitriol had been given to the child from the first . Oil of vitriol is a deadly poison . In this case it had been given undiluted , and it operated immediately on the parts appearing to be effected , I said the child had taken oil of vitriol . The mother said nothing had been given it in liie way of physic but the powder 1 ordered on Thursday ,

      And there were no drugs in the house . So said the prisoner again and ajL'ain . I could not tell at tbe examinn . tion how much of the vitriol had been introduced into the . child's stomach , but there had been at least a tablespoonful given to it , —Mr , Bell , who assisted the last wit > iiess at the post mortem examination , corroborated his evidence , —Mrs . Cooper , who kept a druggist ' s shop , said the prisoner came to her shop for a pennyworth of oil of vitriol on Saturday before the child died . He had a tuule spoonful . After hearing other corroborative _evidence and the defence , the judge charged the jury , who retired for two hours , and found the prisoner Guilty of . Warder . The Judge pronounced the sentence ofthe law , that he be hanged , and the prisoner left the dock in great n Miction .

      Setting Fire To A Workhouse. At The Hunt...

      SETTING FIRE TO A WORKHOUSE . At the Huntingdon Assizes , on Friday , Ann Peacock , a girl of the age of 20 , who has already been punished more thrn twenty times for acts of violence and insub . ordination in the workhouse of the Huntvas , _don "Onion was indicted for Betting fire to a dwelling-house , one William Gomme and others then being therein . Early » n the morning of the 17 th of May , the prisoner was _ordered to clean out oue ofthe women ' s apartments in tbe Huntingdon Union , of which she was an inmate . About ¦ a quarter past nine an alarm of fire was given ; smoke « ns observed to proceed from the room which the prisoner had been ordered to clean ; and , on its being en . _tisred by the master and some other _persons , four of the beds were found to be on fire , burning coals were lying strewed on the floor , and the prisoner , who was there ,

      said , " I told y _« u I would do it , because you stopped my dinner yesterday . " Mr . Woriedge , who conducted the prosecution , having proved these facts , had some diffi . eulty in eliciting any direct evidence that any portion of the floor , which was the only part of the house itself that had been injured , had ever been on fire , or heated to a red heat , wliich is the least proof that will satisfy the law . The testimony of tlie master of the workhouse , Mr . Goinine , however , tended to show that ihe surface of the flooring , to the extent of about two inches in length by one in brea ith , was so charred that it must have been heated to a red heat . Thereupon the case was left to thejury , who at onee returned a verdict of Guilty . Judg ment of death was recorded , with an intimation from the judge that it would be commuted to transportation , and uot for a very long time .

      Crim. Con. Rnodes V, Atkinson, — Yobtr, ...

      CRIM . CON . RnoDES v , Atkinson , — YoBtr , _Satcbd > _v . — Mr . Knowles , Mr , Ceasby , and Mr . Atherton were for the plaintiff ; and Mr . Sergeant Wilkins and Mr . Wilde for tbe defendant . This was an action brought to recover _dnmages in _coropensntion for the _seduc-llon ot tne plaintiff ' s wife by the defendant . The _pl-iintiff _, Mr . Henry Rhodes , a wine and spirit merchant at Huddsrsfield ; and the defendant , Mr . Richard . Atkinson , son ofa gentleman formerly a merchant of the same place , is now a _comiaiision agent . From the statement of the plaintiff ' s counsel , and the evidence oi the witnesses called by him , it appeared that the plaintiff was married to his wife in 1837 . She- is now between 27 and 28 years of age . Her maiden name was Peacock , and she is . of the family of the late Mr . Caisar Peacock , who was twice Lord Mayor ofthe city of York .

      Mrs . Anna Ma » ia Wilson , wife . of John Wilson , was the j _f : rat witness cnllen . She is sister of the _pliuatiff _, and she , ) l _»* r husband , and Miss Isabella Rhodes , another sister of ] the p laintiff , proved tbe marriage of the latter with Miss . I Peacock , niK * that so far as they could _pi-rceive , the plainr j tiff and bis . wife had lived on terms of affection from the ' •• ate of the union up to January 10 , in the present year . Mrs . Rhodes bas three little children , all girls . According tf ) tlie testimony of Mr . and Mrs . Wilson and Miss _Rhodes . thoy had no _intinintiou of Mrs , Rhode ' s misconduct pre-« i « us to January . 0 _& the 19 th , however , those two ladies wi . r « engaged to visit at the plaintiffs , where ; they had hefore been in the hibit of coming , as Mrs . Rhodes had of going to the Wilsons ' . Then , for the first time , they found ih . it Mrs . Rhodrs was addicted to drinking to intoxication , and at the _saiuo time one of the female servants communi .

      cited to the young lady , Miss Rhodes , that they , the j sirv _.-nits at the plaintiff ' s house , had observed improper 1 •' _umlliaritieB between Mrs . Rhodes , and the defendant , j J _. K . Rhodes was then sn tipsy as not to bo able to enter-1 tain her visitors _SVik _s-. \ s in l \« r room , lying on the bed , \ with nothing but _hi-ruppi-v _gavment on , swearing , and helinving herself "" violently that it was necessary to nvnt hoi wilh _rasii-aiut Mrs . Wilorm did not go up to see her . but Miss Rlunl . s iUil . Mrs . Rhodes was locked up in the beriro mi , and the window was nailed down , in order or her safety . Th « (* _< -fi ! _ndanl had long been on very _intimiito and familiar terms with plaintiff , who , from the nature of his _oeuiipatitin , _luu \ occasionally to leave his house fur two ov three ila . \ s together when he travelled on bust u bs . When ut Yi . imu he vised frequently to bring hii friend , tho defendant , io dinner at an early hour , and th . two used to go away from tlio house ; but it someti » B

      Crim. Con. Rnodes V, Atkinson, — Yobtr, ...

      I _happeaed that * the defendant returned to the hon \ the plaintiff alone ; and upon these occasions used _toV' ' company with Mrs . Rhodes . Sarah Kilburn _, Mary n . & Eliza Rayner , Sarah Prierley , and Martha Clay , Qom' ° _?> servants , had all lived with Mrs . Rhodes during ttBpe ' . " - from May , 1844 , to January . They were called for ' if * plaintiff , and their evidence went to show that the pi ., tiffs wife had been given to drink mere or less from _jj ?" to last January , _whea , as It was alleged , the report . , her infidelity first reached the ears of her husband , The young women all concurred t » a certain extent as to act of familiarity between the defendant and their _mistm The first of them asserted that on one morning * u _, '' 1844 , she had occasion to go into the parlour to take ! 0 _/' glasses there , and on entering the r-om , the door J whieh was unfastened , she saw her mistress and the i

      , fendant both together on a reclining chair , and deicriy their situation as one presenting the strongest proof nt tbe defendant ' s criminality . She said , nothing , _hotve _^ _, either to her mistress or her master , but did mention ; 1 to her fellow servant , Rayner , who was then the nurse in the children , and Rayner now confirmed her in that lai , ter statement . Kilburn admitted that when about to leave Mrs , Rhodes' service , her mistress had search- ' her box , accusing her of theft , but she denied havigg taken anything . When so accused she had not told Mn , Rhodes what she , the witness , had before seen betwee t hemnaMr . Atkinson , and said nothing of her drinking , This witness admitted also that she had two children oj her own , by different fathers , though she never had _beej married . Dyson , the other principal witness of the da . _fentfanfs conduct toward * the plaintiff ' s wife , bad a ! M

      One lllrintimate Child . The eVlde » 6 * of these women which was very circumstantial , showed that the defen ! dant and Mrs . Rhodes had been behaving with gros , familiarity on several occasions . It appeared that Mr Atkinsonhad more than once slept with Mrs . Rhode , _durlna- the absence of plaintiff . Once , on-his c omingintj the house , and the eldest ehild having gone to tell her mother that Mr . Atkinson was there , he and * Mrs . Rhodes mat in the passage , and he had kissed her within si »* rt of the servants ,, and said " bless thee I » within their hearing . It was endeavoured tobe shown that her drink _, ing was altogether consequent upon the defendant ' s con ' duct , that he had seduced her before she contracted Hia habit of intoxication , and that sbe was led to drink from nothing but remorse . But the evidence proved that he had long been aware of her propensity to drink , and had locked up the spirits to keep them out of her reach .

      Mr . Serjeant Wilkins made a strong appeal to the _Jurr again it the probability of the plaintiff ' s case . He con . tended that a large part of the statements weie utterl _y false , and , therefore , he sought a verdict , not of small damages , but forjthe defendant . It waa impossible , at all events , tbat the plaintiff could , according to the Innguage ofhis own declaration , have sustained any loss ia the society , aid , and comfort of his wife , whom he must havo felt to have been a very worthless woman , and 6 f whom , because of her wretched drunken habits , he wai now trying to rid himself by an accusation against the defendant which was unworthy of belief .

      The Jury retired from the box for nearly aa hour and a half , and finally gave a verdict for the plaintiff—Da . mages £ 10 .

      Trial- For Bigamy. At The Lincoln Assize...

      TRIAL- FOR BIGAMY . At the Lincoln Assizes on Monday , James Hindley was charged with having , on the 17 th day of March , 1845 , at Stie-kney , in this county , married one Sarah Laban , wi . _dsw , his former wife , Elizabeth Hindley , beiug still alive . The prisoner , who is an Irishman , formerly resided at Bedford , where , as far back as 1836 , he contracted _sa acquaintance with and married his present wife . The marriage did not turn out to be a happy one , and they separated , the wife remaining at Bedford , whilst the pri . soner eventually came to reside at Stickney , in Lincoln _, shire , where he kept a house . Sarah Laban , the second wife , went to lodge with the prisoner in the month of October , 1844 , and in the March of the following year they were married . The case was clearly made out , but there were extenuating circumstances , and the Learned Judge sentenced the prisoner to six months' imprison _, ment .

      Charge Of Murder. At The Dorchester Assi...

      CHARGE OF MURDER . At the Dorchester Assizes on Monday , James French was indicted for the wilful murder of JohnSteeis , at Lyme Regis , on the Oth of the present month . The pri . soner , who is thirty-five years of age , was formerly t baker ; the deceased was an old man ninety-three year ! of age . On the nigbt of the 8 th of July they ikpt In the same room a _> a lodging-house at Lyme Regis , but in separate beds . The house was kept fcy a _petsonofthe name of Jackson , and two of his children slept in the tame room as the prisoner and the deceased , Tlw people of the house were alarmed by the cries of " Fire * and' Murder" about half-past twelve o ' clock on the night in question . Jackson immediately got up , and went into the room where the prisoner and the deceased were . As soon as he _entered , the prisoner jumped out of bed in a perfect state of nudity , nnd began striking the old man in the most violent and extraordinary manner with his

      fists , but , during all the time he was doing this , he him . self kept crying "Fire" . "Murder" Ac ., with all his might . Upon Jackson endeavouring to stop this con . duct on the part of the prisoner he knocked him down _, stairs . The noise nil this made brought a person ofthe name of Hodder into the room , and he succeeded la taking the prisoner from the old man ' s bedside . French then said that be had made a mistake ; he had thought it was another man , and he hoped ho had not hurt liim , The persons who had assembled then took the prisoner _iato custody , and conveyed him down-stairs , when he asked for a glass of water . This , however , the people would not let him have . Theprisoner complained of this , and said , "Surely you can't refuse me a glass o ( water ? " Jackson did not sent for a surgeon till eight o'clock in the morning , when he sent for Mr . Marder , » surgeon of the town . The old man died about four o ' clock the same afternoon . The constable who had ths

      prisoner in custody asked him how he eould think of beating a poor man in that way , upon which the prisontt said , that there were many people about him , and hi thought they were going to murder him . Some of them were dressed like warriors , and had moustachois and carried swords ; and he was not going to be murdered , and therefore he tool * his own part . The constable asked him if he had ever quarrelled with the old man , and he said he had never had an angry word with liim in his life . The constable said he had known the prisoner for many years , and for at least ten years he had believed him to be more or less insane . The prisoner l )» d been brought before the magistrates some time since on

      a charge of ill-treating his wife , when a discussion took place as to whether he should be sent to » lunatic asylum or imprisoned . Upon a post mortem examination of the head of the deceased , there was an _immsnse quantity of extravasated blood found on the brain , and the surgeon stated that he believed the old man ' s death was caused by congestion of the brain , produced by b 1 o _«« and violence which he externally received . Tlie injuries to the face and head of the deceased were very severe ; but at the same time , having known the prisoner for a very considerable time , he was decidedly of opinion that Ue was insau « . The Jury upon tbis Acquitted the prisoner , upon the ground of insanity , and he was directed to . be confined during her M ajesty ' s _pleausre .

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      un luesuayme speed oi the \) h . 50 m .. and aim m . 50 m , trains , both from Croydon to Forest-hill , wets taken , and the maximums were found te be respectively 56 . 25 and 64 . 28 miles per hour 1 The second train ran the- distance , which is nearly fiw miles , including the-time loat in getting up and reducing speed when departing from Croydon and arriving at Forest-bill , in 6 min . 4 S 8 ec , or at the rate of about 43 milesper hour from platform to platfoiUi and a distance oi two miles out of the five were per * formed at the rate of 62 miles per hour . The pistons attached to both tbe above trains entered the tube two minutes after tbe pistons of the down train tad

      left . Drinking _BIb-ince Albert ' s _Hi-atii . —At a meetin _* ofthe Liverpool Total Abstinence Society , held on Monday evening last , a resolution was unanimously adopted , deeply deploring " the increased amount o _< drunkenness whieh w \ ) \ probnUv be caused by drinking Prince Albert ' s health in intoxicating beveragfSi and with a view of averting this result , adopting an address-to his royal highness . " Dreadful Affair at Palmira ( TJ . S ) .-Wecop ? the te _^ lowmg from the St . Louis Republican , ofthe Stb r _^„ _Trnl uded a few days apo to a difficulty bet _^ \\ _i - Bm < 1 ' of Hannibal , and John L . _TnJmr , ot r _- almyra , resulting in a <> . hnllpnjrn _?« f . ukt '

      ane , and the rejection ofthe terms proposed bv the challenged party . That affair has led to a wif dreadful result , in the death ot the seconds , « liit occurred on Saturday evening last , at Palmy * About So clock Mr . George W . Buckner , met Mr . Joseph W . Glover , at the spring in or at _Palnnrt . ihe meeting was accidental-Glover armed . wi * six-barrel revolving pistol , Buckner without Jtf means of defence . An altercation took place between ! them , the tenor ofiwhich we are not informed , _wli-f , Glover drew his pistol and shot Buckner , the If t passing just above the hip , and coming out at _» J I n _u- _^ "cl < ncr thns wounded , immediately _s « j the pistol from _Glovor ' _shands and fired It—tlie ** ( passing directly through the latter's heart . W ¦ ptred immediately . Buckner died yesterdav _nu'i- '

      me . 1 he parties to this dreadful conflict are _tt ¥ table men , and we understand that there had I * - * prior to the above duel , no difficulty whatever bet * - ? them . Mr . Buckner was the circuit attornev for '; , district tending at Bowling-green , aiul Mf _. GW _* a student at law in Palrayra . ~ . _dmencan _Pape _* A Jolly Good Toast . —The other dav a conn" - ; man gave the following truly philosophical _^ - Here ' s _tiv uz all ! May we nivvur want ho ** Hor neebody else , nor me nowthcr . " „ ; VEsiivius .-Lcttcrs from Naples , of June 27 , % that Mount Vesuvius was in full eruption , ;'' : _cj mituig forth masses of lava with great noise . J " v ' the night thc flames presented a masmlic * _- ; ' _' _^ taele . The heat was 24 degrees of R " _( SG Fahrenheit . ) -, i j Light _CLoiniso . —The last summer _^\ ° _tfi > i ¦ Georgia consist of a shirt collar anil ap >» ' _° I ' '

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 25, 1846, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_25071846/page/6/