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      TTE _.-nfrir oT _Loxnox . _*—The returns _rospectini * the health of London during tie past week as reported to the _Registr-iy-General demonstrates the further progress " of the prevailing- disease . The deaths irom all causes , which in the two previous weeks were 10 _f ) and 1309 , rose in the last to 1741 ; a number which exceeds the average of tlie season bv 733 . In the two previous -weeks thc deaths caused "by cholera were 152 and 339 but in the last thev have reached C 7 S , whilst the wcehlv average is only ft Ofthe 673 persons who have ' sunk under the epidemic , 3 o 5 -were males and 323 females , a more equal distribution than u previous weeks . The rate of increase is apparent in the fact that in each of the last two -weeks ' , the mortality fi-om cholera has heen about double that of the week immediately The

      preceding . mortality from diarrhaja and dysentery also increases , the deaths in three weeks having "been 5 V 100 , and 146 ; while the weeklv average of this season is not more than S 4 . The whole mortality irom the three diseases , in last " week , is therefore $ 31 , and gives an excess on the average of 7-32 , which _ahnoslTesactly coincides with the excess of mortality from all causes as above stated . The diarrhoea _tras fatal in a large proportion of cases , to children under two vears of a « e Tbe increase of cholera is observed in each of the five metropolitan divisions except the _Northern which comprises Marylebone , Pancras , Islington Jiackney _, and _Hampstcad ; where the deaths in the week were only 7 . But it is chieflv remarkable on the south side of the river , _tvhere the deaths in the

      last three weeks were successivel y 03 , 192 , and 443 . In _^ ewingtonihey were 53 ; in St . George ' s Southwark , 51 ; in Bermondsey , 64 ; in Lambeth , 106 . In ItotL-erhithe the deaths were 37 , the same as in the previous week . Typhus continues near the average hoophi" cough ahove , scarlatina and small-pox considerably under it Two persons died of privation ; three of _intemperance . The mean readin- _* - of the harometer in the week was 29 . 692 , and lower than in the previous week . The mean temperature was lower than the average , except on Monday and Tuesday . The hi ghest occurred on the former day and was 83 deg . 6 min . The mean of the week was GO deg . 5 min ., less bv 6 deg . than in the previous week .

      Ckauge of _Maxslaucbteh . —An inquest was held on Monday before Mr . Baker ( pursuant to an adjournment ) , at the Mercer ' s Arras , Jubilee-street , Stepney , touching the death of Henry Cowdun , aged sixteen months . It appeared that about three -weeks since a woman , named Esther Ba _<* ro- was engaged by the deceased ' s father , who is a watchman in the London Docks , as a nurse to his wife , and also to take care of thc deceased , who was then suffering from water on the brain . Mr . Cowdun sent the nurse with the child to Mr . Rose , a surgeon , and also gave her money to pay for the medicine . She took the child _tlu-ee times , and it appeared to be improving under the treatment . The father continued to give the nurse money to pav for the medicine each time she was desired to take the child to

      Mr . Kose , but instead of doing so , she applied the money to her own purposes . On Thursday -week last thc infant appeared worse , and when Mr . Rose was called to it he said he had not seen it for a week . The deceased died on the _followin- _** - Saturday . It was afterwards ascertained that tue nurse had charged Mr . Cowdun double the price for the medicine which she had paid Mr . Rose . —Mr . Cowdun said he was constantly giving the nurse money to purchase nourishment for . it , and he afterwards discovered that she kept the money , and never obtained the food . —Mr . Rose , Burgeon , said he had made _ajnst mortem examination ofthe body but the brain was so decomposed that he was unable to state the cause of death . All the other organs ofthe body were perfectly healthy , and the presumption was , that if the child had been properly treated it would have survived . —The coroner said he could not send this case for trial , as the surgeon could not state the positive cause of death . Terdict , " I \

      atural death , which may have been accelerated by neg lect on the part of the nurse . " _Mi-itDEi- of a Child . —An inquest was held on Monday before Mr . H . M . Wakley , at the Elephant and C-istle , Camden-town , on ; the body of a male child found in a field at Kentish-town . —George Weston , a boy living in Ferdinand-place , said he was flyinw his kite on Saturday evening , in a field near the Prince of Wales ' _s-road , when he saw a bundle lying in a drain running from the field into the . road . ** On opening it he found it contained the body ofa child . Two boys , who were there at the time , said they saw a woman cross thc "field with a bundle some time before . He called the policeman , who bronght the child to the workhouse . —Mr . H . C Robinson said he had made a post mortem examijiaiion . The child had been born alive , and the immediate cause of death was congestion of the brain _, and effusion of blood into the pericardium . Terdict , " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown . _- _'

      iSnciDE iv _TicioniA Pjuul—An inquest was held on . Tuesday before Mr . IV . Baker , atthe City of Paris , BonnerVfields _, on view ofthe body of Mary Schooling , aged 68 , the widow of a licensed victualler , who destroyed herself in thc new orna--mcntal waters in Victoria Park . Deceased's husband formerly kept the Hen Jonson public house in Moundsditch , and had been dead about ten years . Since- that time his widow tad resided with her daughter , with whom she lived very uncomfortably in consequence of giving way to habits of pilfering . On Friday last she left for the purpose of going- to

      her son ' s at Yauxb . aH . It was _aftcrwara found that she had not gone there , and she was never heard of "until five o ' clock on the following morning , when she was seen to enter the principal gate of Tictoria Park by one ofthe park-keepers . She went towards tlie ornamental waters , and about half an hour afterwards her body was discovered floating in the water . "When she was taken out life was found to be quite extinct . It was stated that deceased lived very unhappily with he husband through her pilfering habits . —The jury , in the absence of any positive evidence , returned an open verdict of " Found drowned . "

      _Df-A-ni or Mb . _Deouet , of Tootixg . —Mr . Drouet died on the 19 thinst . at JiisresidenceatMarg . -ite , afcer several months' severe illness . It will be remembered that a few months ago Mr . Drouet ' s life was in imminent danger from disease of the heart ; and the painful situation in which he Las been placed since tbe death of Mrs . Drouet , -which occurred in September last s and the subsequent breaking up of lis establishment , have not , of course , tended to alleviate the disorder . The _CoxskHVAOTVEs ayd Bakox KoTnscnn . D . — Several _leadinc members of the Carlton and

      Conservative Clubs have _rormed themselves into a committee for the purpose of prosecuting the petition presented to parliament against the return of Baron . Rothschild . They held a meeting on Saturday at the residence of one of the leading conservative members ofthe House of Commons , and it was avlanged that steps should be taken to prosecute the petition with energy . Funds , it is said , to any extent will be -forthcoming io carry on the contest before a committee ofthe House of Commons . _CoTniT of Aldermex . —On Tuesday , Mr . Alderman Lawrence gave bond to take upon himself the office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex .

      Serious AccinEsi to the _Nassau _Balioox . —On "Wednesday evening the feelings of _Jiundreds , who had , notwithstanding the unfavourable state ef the -weather , assembled in _Viuixhall-gardens to witness the ascent of thc _Nassau , balloon , as well as those of the vast numbers of persons on the outside of the gardens , who had been on thc lookout for the balloon , were for some time kept in a state of painful excitement for the safety of no less than eleven individuals , who had accompanied this immense machine . At seven o ' clock , the balloon having been sufficiently inflated , Mr . Charles Green , the veteran aeronaut ; Mrs . Green , his wife ; Mr . and Mrs . Green , his nephew and his wife ; Miss Green , and ifiss Gascoyne , of Tauxhall-gardens ; Mr . Crayhaw , ihe iron-master ; Mr , Stephens , Mr . Faunce _, Gapt _, Ondre , and Mr . Pierce , making altogether eleven individuals , cot into the car , and the word " all

      light" having been given , the ropes were unfastened and the balloon mounted into the air in -eery good style , and the ascent was considered a very beautiful and successful one . The balloon proceeded in a -north-eastern course , but it was soon observed that it was descending so rapidly that it was generally thought that a considerable leakage ofthe gas must have taken place , and that an accident of a serious character was inevitable . Mr . Green , who was seated in the car , perceiving the extreme danger in which he was placed , commenced emptying the sand hags or ballast as quickly as he possibly could , but even this did not prevent the gradual sinking ofthe balloon . On passing over the St . George s-road , near "W est-square , it was painfully evident to the thousands who were looking on that the balloon -mast come in contact with some of the buildings , and in an instant it struck the roofs of the houses * D £

      and do on the north side of the London-road , and only one house removed from the Xunnery which lad been formerly the Roman Catholic chapel . She car , in which seven of the aeronauts were seated , struck the front of the house with considerable force , so much so that three of the persons who were standing on tho hoop were thrown forward on thc roof , which fortunately happened to be a flat one ; but the fourth clung to the network of the balloon . The machine being thus relieved from the -wei ght of three of its occupants , and having fortunately escaped -lamam * instantlv rose into thc

      • an- to a considerable altitude , when a brisk current of air , c-vrricd it in a southerly direction , apparently lowarJs Croydon . The * three individuals wlio had thusfortunatel y escaped descended through the trap-door of an adjoining beer-shop from the roof , reached the street , and having procured a cab , Sri ? _Knl _^ Ji _?™ _^ g _& en * to relieTC their friends and the yisitora from their painful _an-sety . A good _M _^ _Tinjinyu done to two h ous e * anthe _Lonaon-roaa- _^ _e of which is occupied b ? J _% Cross , who k a marine store dealer , and the Other by Mr . Hammond , a ha _ttdreeser . The

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      coping-stone , for about ten or twelve feet , has been earned on to the roofs , and the chimneys are much damaged , so that it will take £ 10 or £ 12 to repair . Tliefnends of thc parties who had escaped withthe balloon , continued ina state of much anxiety for their ultimate safetv , ahd the return of Mr . Green or some of the party to the "Royal property" was looked for with much interest . A messenger arrived at Tauxhall-gardens , at half-past one a . m ., conveying the information that , after passing over a great portion ofthe county of Kent , the balloon had safely _sels-ki upon term jitma in aa open field within half a mile of Eritli Church .

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      _"Mohe Mdbdehs _nr Poisoxixg . _—Exam-tsation op a Body . —W £ stbuht , Wilts , _FniD-vr . —Some time since an inquest was held and a verdict of -wilful murder returned against a woman named Rebecca Smith , for a wilful murder of her child by the administration * -of arsenic . Circumstances which transpired in the course of that inquiry induced a suspicion that she had likewise made away with others of her eleven children , all of whom , with the exception ofthe eldest , died when quite infants , and their last illness was characterised by symptoms approaching those which follow the administration of acrid mineral poisons . In consequence of these suspicions it -was determined to examine the bodies

      of some ofthe deceased , and the remains of Sarah Smith , who was born onthclSth of June , 1 S 41 , and buried on thc 7 th of August following ; and of Edward Smith , who was born on thc Hth of June , 1844 , and buried on the 29 th of the same month , were taken up in the presence of the officials and of the mayor , Mr . Shorland . Tlie inquest on those bodies was resumed yesterday , the remains having been in the interim forwarded to Air . Herapath , the eminent analytical chemist , for examination . —Mr . Shorland having deposed to the circumstances connected with the exhumation ofthe bodies , and the mode in which he packed up the remains , and forwarded them to ilr . Herapath—Mr . Herapath was sworn and was examined at considerable length . He deposed to having received a box , which nad been carefully divided into three compartments . In the first was a portion of the graveyard soil , taken

      from where the . remains lay ; in the others were the remains of bodies and of coffins . The one was labelled with the name of Sarah Smith . The textures ofthe body were all gone , and the bones separated ; but , upon subjecting the bones to the proper analysis , witness found arsenic in them . There was also arsenio in the black mould taken from the cavity of the skull , and in the black mould taken from between the ribs . The witness then exhibited the arsenic to the jury in the several forms in which he had produced it . In reply to the coroner , he said he believed it was the first instance on record in which arsenic had been found at so long an interval as eight years . Treated the remains in the compartment labelled Edward Smith in a similar way , and with similar results . —The Coroner : Are you of opinion that ihe arsenic most have been administered duriug life?—Mr . Herapath-: I have no doubt of it . I have never succeeded in

      findinnarsenic in any body in a natural state , and I mention this to correct the ridiculous notion which has gone abroad in consequence of some expressions which have been attributed to the French chemists . —There being no evidence to show . underwhat _ei-rcumstances , or by whom the poison was given , the jury , after a summing up bythe cero ner , returned a verdict , " That the deceased children died from . a ? senie , but by whom _administered there * ia * no evidence to show . " Accidesi os ¦ raB Losdos - & XD _North-wester-- * _Ei-iLWAT . —An accident occurred on this line-of railway . on Monday mornin _" _, between _Coventry _and-Bh'mingham . The first down train ran into a number of carriages , which appear to have been left on the line . Some of the passengers were bruised _,, and the arrival of the train in Birmingham was delayed about three-quarters of ah hour .

      Fatal Collieiit Explosion at Leeds . —An explosion of fire-damp ,, by which two men were killed , occurred on Monday _mornine , at * Waterloo _Collibr . y Thorp Hall , Leeds . _Manslaughter . —The evidence- at the inquest which has been adjourned twice , upon the body , of Martha Wilkinson , an illegitimate child , who was beaten to death by her father , at Xirkby , Notts , was brought to a close on Monday afternoon feist _,, when the jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against William Atkinson . " The coroner ( Mr . Swann ) immediately made out his warrant of committal , and the prisoner was conveyed by train to _Nottingham county gaol , where he will reinaiii till the next March assizes to take his trial for the ofienee .

      Suicide . at Dover . —On Saturday night a" gentleman named Jacob Sercherer , said to be a General in the German arniy , arrived by the eleven o ' clock train from London , accompanied by a friend , and they were about to embark in the Ostend packet , but while the latter was absent for the space of only a minute or two , seeing to their luggage , the former rushed out and running down a lane at the back of rrovidence Hotel , cut his throat so eftectually as to cause death . It was stated that deceased was married about two months since , and that his wife dying very suddenly , he had been in a desponding state of mind ever since . He was on his way to . join her mother and sister at Ostend . An inquest has been held on the body , when the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity . " Suddex Death of the Countess op _Moretox . —

      The abovenamed lady , who has been an inhabitant of East Bergholt for some years , was found dead in her bed on Monday morning . On Sunday evening she retired to rest in her usual health . —Ipswich Express . _Destkuctiv £ Fire at a Cotton Mill . — -On Saturday morning last a fire broke out in tbe premises of Mr . J , _Itosti'on , spinner , Edenfield , Karasbottom , near Bury , which has proved destructive to nearly the whole of thc premises . None of the workpeople were engaged m the mill at thc time , though several men who had been employed in repairing the

      engines , which were somewhat out of order , could not have been long absent from the building before it commenced . Its origin is at present unknown . So rapid in its progress was tho fire , that before any effectual assistance could be procured , tho premises were almost entirely destroyed , though fortunately a large quantity of the goods were rescued from the flames . The total damage to the building and stock is estimated at £ 1 , 700 which will be partly covered by thc insurances effected by Mv . _Rostvon . _Xo lives were lost or injury inflicted by the burning or falling materials . —Manchester Examiner .

      The Mukder ix Levesox-street , LiVERrooL . — The Prisoner ' s Defexce . —From information which we have received , it seems that the prisoner Gleeson will defend himself during his trial at the approaching assizes . On Wednesday a letter was received by the borough coroner , dated from the gaol at Kirkdale , and signed " John Gleeson Wilson , " in whieh the writer states that he shall require copies of all the depositions connected with the transactions in Levcson-street , and desires that they be furnished to him in the course ofthe present week . He states that it is his intention to conduct his own

      cose , without the interference of any other parties , aud says that persons who know nothing about the facts have already made themselves busy about him . He says that hc has no money , and , in consequence of his _friondB living at a distance , he cannot procure any ; but lays much stress upon the necessity of having copies ofthe depositions in the course ofthe present week . Fatal Accident bt . Lightning . — A Soldier Kiixkd . —On Wednesday afternoon , about a quarter past four o ' clock , a heavy thunder storm passed over Woolwich , accompanied with thick hail and rain . A vivid flash of lightning was seen , followed immediately by a sharp short clap of thunder . At

      the time the storm passed over the Royal Artillery Barrack-field , two gunners of the Royal Artillery , named John _M'Quiuey , of the 7 th battalion , and James Milstead , were standing on the parade ground , and when the flash was visible both men were seen to fall . Upon a number of gunners run-• _fting to the spot , it -was found that "M . _'Quiney had been instantaneously killed , and Milstead was in a state of insensibility . Upon removing the latter to the Itoyal Ordnance Hospital , and proper remedies being applied , Milstead was pronounced in a fair way of recovery . The electric fluid passed through the hat and head of _M'Quiney , leaving a hole completely through the cap , and also into the brain , so that liis death must have been momentary _.

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      Dublin, Satckdat, Jclt 21.—Tub Queen's T...

      Dublin , Satckdat , Jclt 21 . —Tub Queen ' s Tisit . —The following is from the Mercantile Advertiser of last night?— " We are happy to have it in our power to announce the day fixed npon for the departure of Her Majesty on her first visit to Ireland . We have seen a letter from a nobleman holding a distinguished post in the Royal household , dated London , Thursday , which contains the following gratifying intelligence;— 'It "was arranged at Osborne-house yesterday , that the royal party would embark , weather permitting , on Thursday , the 2 nd of August ; their stay at Cork is not to exceed twenty-four hours , and thence thev proceed

      direct to Dublin . ' It is probable that the royal squadron will enter Kingstown Harbour on the 7 th or 8 th of August . Wc have reason to believe that it is the iutcnlion of her Majesty w pay a short visit to the Duke and Duchess of Leinster during her sojojurn in the metropolis . We have learned that arrangements are in progress at Carton for her Majesty ' s reception . The preparations at Dublin Castle " and at the Viceregal-lodge are still continued . " The city is already rapidly filling , and some of the leading hotels aro crowded with strangers . Platforms and other contrivances wherewithto obtain a glimpse of royalty are in course of construction . Windows along the route f & m the _KingeWWu Rail--

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      wav to the top of _Xortk Frederick-street , near the _Ch-cplar-road , are at a high premi-im , each pane of glass being worth quadruple its original costr . Seats ' on a large p latform to be erected at the Rotunda are offered at half a guinea for each person . The Habvest . —L asdlobds and _Tesasts . —There are " still a few isolated accounts of bli ght in the potato , but in general that and all other crops are proceeding most . favourably . - There is now an abundant supp ly of fine , sound potatoes in alt the markets , at very moderate prices . The Kilkenny Journal , a . repeal paper * contains the following . — " ' On last Tuesday a gentleman named Mr . Nugent , who purchased a property lately * om Mansergh St . _George , situated near the Lime Tree , came to Kilkenny , sent for his tenantry , and civilly requested them to give security that they would not make away with the crop which is now growing on their farms . The tenantry laughed at Mr . "Nugen t , as much as to say- ' Don't you Wise you may get it ?'

      They told him if they _nafl any tlung to spare after paying the poor rates , laying up a sufficient provision for their families , which they were entitled to as tillers of thc soil , that he should have the remainder . They considered that he was rather premature in counting the chickens before they were hatched . The fact is that there are three parties in the country at present looking with anxious eyes at the waving grain—the landlords , the vice-guardians , and last , though not least , thc farmers themselves—the men who ploughed , and sowed , and toiled to bring forth from the bosom of the earth the abundance thereof . We believe that the farmers do really intend to partake of the fruits of tlieir own labour this season , no matter what political economy , Lord John Russell , Lord Clarendon , the landlords , and police say to the contrary ; and a good appetite to them say we . It is worthy of remark that the land in question was raised from £ 1 5 s , an acre to £ 114 s ., and in some instances to £ 2 !"

      Chief Bahoh Pigot . —We have to record the con valescence of this learned judge , after his late very severe and dangerous attack of diarrhoea , or rather cholera , at Monaghan . . Assize _IsiELLio-gsc-e , Limeiuck , 3 hit 19 . —John Fogarty and Thomas _M'Cormack were indicted for the murder of Daniel Dillon , and Catharine Dillon , wife ofthe deceased , was also charged as an accessory before the fact . Billon was a wealthy farmer , and his wife was suspected of illicit intercourse with the prisoner , Fogarty , who was alone placed on his trial inthe first instance , The jury found a verdict of " GuBty . "

      Monday . —Mr . Thomas Carlyle is travelling through the south , in company with Mr . Gavan Duffy . They arrived at _Corlt on Sunday , and left together for Kiilarney on Monday . The Late Ixs-urkection . —The commission for the South Riding of Tipperary was opened at Clonmel on Friday . The calendar 13 light , notwithstanding the imposing array of fourteen cases of " high treason" which figure at its head . In the course of the day r Xord Suirdale r foreman ofthe grand ? jury , with twelve of liis fellows , appeared in court and handed down true bills foT high treason against two of tho leaders of the insurrection of 184 S , viz ., against Mr , Michael Doheny and against Mr . Jons Blake Dillon , It is said that some other bills for _high treason are * -in the course-of

      preparation , with a view to having warrants ready for the apprehension' of certain others of tee leaders , should these gentlemen think proper to-return to Ireland .. This prevents recourse being had to the issuing e $ warrants flnder the Habeas- Corpus Suspension' . Set , and will enable the government , if the parties- be apprehended ; to bring them- to trial at once at the-assizes next ensuing after their apprehension ; whereas parties charged iii bills round at the special commission in 1 S 4 B , for the county at large , could not be tried at the ordinary assises , inasmuch as the- assizes are held under a commission for separate ridings of * the < _- _* _* _9 untry , It is said , that all the others now in gaol , and charged with being connected with' O'Brien ' s insurrection , will be discharged on moderate bail .

      Tuesday . —State op tbe * West . —A Leitrim paper has the subjoined statement -. _*—'' We regret to find that vast tracts of land in the county of Leitrim now lie unoccupied * in other instances , where the ground is not given up , the people are so reduced * in circumstances that they cannot pay the rates . In one barony , the lists of defaulters of county cess and labour rates exceed . 5 , 000 names ,, and the sum in arrear . amounts to £ 1 ' , 98416 s 6 _JtL Welhave only to add , in order to show the awfully distressed state of the country , that the collectors have attached their oaths _, and say , they "have used ; every exertion to collect the same , and could not _^ succeed in consequence of the great distress prevailing in the country , in some instances the lands beiug . waste , in others-the cattle housed or driven off . "

      'Tub _Qitbes ' s Visit , —The Cork Examiner of Monday , contains the following * . — ¦ " Grand Stand os _Pbneosb's-Q . ijay . —Mr . Edward' Scott , architect , is about erecting , under the orders of the general committee , a grand _, _stivni ov _galler- _* on Penrose _' s-quay , immediately opposite the Custom-house _, at which the Queen is to land , after receiving the deputations , & c . The gallery is to extend 450 , feet in length ,, ami to contain a dozen rows of seats , one gradually rising over the other , and it is calculated that it will afford accomodation to as many as three thousand spectators , the priceof a seat being five shillings . At each end of the gallery the quay is to be railed off by a barrier , so that all thoroughfare will be stopped , and a promenade of 700 feet obtained . A portion , capable of accommodating

      S 00 ladies , is to be arranged in the centre off the gallery , which is to be suitably decorated for the occasion ; aud , to crown the whole , a military band is to be in attendance . The whole structure is * o be of the strongest materials , so as to preclude the possibility of accident . Mr . Scott ' s services are giveu gratuitously . " Fatal _Pautt Conflict . —Government Inquiry . —The inquiry ordered by government into the who ' e circumstances connected with the fatal conflict at Dolly ' s Brae , _s > nd the subsequent homicides and wreckings at the village of Mahermayo _, on the 12 th of July last , will be opened at Castlewellan during the present week . The precise day has not yet been fixed , nor has lhe name of the Queen ' s counsel before whom the inquiry is to be held yet been publicly announced .

      _"Wedxksday . —Atuiesis usdeu _inu Habeas Corrus Suspension' Act . —The following significant announcement appears in the Freeman ' s Journal of this morning : — " Last evening - a party of police , amounting to seven in number , under the command of Inspector Dundon , entered the residence of Mr . Joseph Brennan , editor ofthe irishman . They exhibited a search-warrant , and Mi * . Brennan immediately led them to his sleeping apartment . Thc search then commenced ; his desk was opened ; his private _Iettei' 3 were read ; and all his papers taken

      and transferred to the castle . Mr . Brennan asked if they had a warrant for his arrest , but they answered in thc negative . At thc same time they declined to permit him to leave thc house . "Wc understand that a Mr . O'Grady , who was a member ofthe Irish Confederation , was arrested yesterday , near CaiTick-on-Suir , and committed to prison in that town , wc know not on what charge . Mr . O'Grady was confined six months in Clonmel Gaol , we believe , under the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act . " __

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      PROGRESS OF TnE CHOLERA . The returns made to the commissioners of police as to the health of the force , give but three deaths as having resulted from cholera throughout the whole police district of fifteen miles . In thc whole population included in the bills of mortality , tho deaths reported amounted to but fifty-five on Saturday , and forty-five the day before . On Saturday last a married female named Theresa Phillips , and three of her children , died in Ring ' s College Hospital , from Asiatic cholera . The famil y resided in thc Camberwell-iiew-road , not far from Mr . Farmer ' s vitriol works , and on Thurdaylast the mother with two of her children , were attacked with cholera . The father , who works at a wine

      merchant ' s in Pall-mall , was sent for , as well as several medical men _^ and at the request of the latter the three were instantl y removed in a cab to the hospital . The father remained there during the night of Thursday , but at an early hour on Friday the wife and two of her children died , and on returning home he found two more of his children attacked . They were also removed to the same hospital , where another of the children expired on Saturday , making four deaths in one famil y in the space of a few hours . "Whilst the family was being attended to by the medical oflBcers of the institution , a man residing in nolborn walked in and complained of b eing seized with cholera . He was immediatel y placed in bed and the usual remedies applied , hut during Saturday he expired .

      One of the nurses in the cholera ward was seized about the same time , and remains in a very precarious state . During the night of Friday , Mr . Robertson , for many years connected with the Morning Post , and latterl y with the Railway Record , died from an attack of cholera . A number of persons have died from cholera in Lambeth Workhouse during the week , but no' inquests have been held on them , and Mr . Bedford has decided on not holding inquests on the bodies of those who hare died in King ' s College Hospital . On Friday week , Mr . Morse , surgeon , of _Kennin' _**

      -ton-lanc , was sent for to attend a female , of the name of Roberts , the wife ofa bricklayer , living at Smitk ' s-place , Kennington-lane . Upon his arrival there he found the female surrounded by her famil y , suffering from Asiatic cholera , in its worst form . The usual remedies were prescribed for her by Mr . Morse , but she continued to get worse , and about one o ' clock the next morning Mi " . Mqrse _received a message to attend again immediatel y , as Mrs , Roberts was supposed to bo dying . Having some other i > atii- _* it 9 to attend io , he did not reaoh the house till half an hour after -the messenger arrived . He was then told to the mother tf the female that her

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      dawhter was dead , and had been laM out twentyfive minutes :,, Knowing that he _wouK _lufce to gyve Vce * _^^ befoi'C tbe flmeral could take _plafe , vr ? . Morse informed the mother that he would see the body at once . He was accordingly conducted „ "Jf the rooms were the _party was laid out . Unon _feelin- tho _% ody he found ' it quite cold , pulse _? _JSfo So fingers blue , and so contracted J 3 _TwmiS pSiS for Wm to open the hand . n VnbSd h £ S to the chest , and found that the , * - } _Knt entirely ceased to beat . As a dernier heart had not _entuciy ce _^ _^ . _^ _^^ _rt & S When to the astonishment of all reflowed lroeiy , wnuiw _» d . _S' ' _mhef _reuScrkvff _bS _Applied , _\ he i _wom-in so recovered as to be _abhV to eat , and _CeSow no fears entertained of her becoming

      PC _ffllo _^ _iSSts wcrchcldinthe metropolis on Saturday last ! -- ; MUMnk prison , on Lane aged l _^^ _^^& a £ prisoners had been removed elsewhere and -00 more were in the course of removal . The numbei of cases now under treatment m _^* _f" ™ _V ™ nine only , two of which were considered dangerous , and but one case had occurred since Friday .-Terdicta of "Died from Asiatic cholera " , were

      re-Before Mr . H . M . *\ VaMey , at the Coach and Horsos , _Jamos-strcet , Kensington-square , on the body of James Millard , aged 20 years . It appeared from the evidence gone into that the deceased was in thc service of the Equitable Gas Company , at their works at _Stamford-bridge , King s-road , Fulham . On Tuesday he got up in his usual good state of health , and went to his duties at the gas works , one of which . was cleaning out a boiler , which he has daily performed for some years , he going into it while hot , having previously thrown in tome cold water . That duty caused him to come out in a state of perspiration , from which he had never felt inconvenience . He _returned home

      any at his usual time to thc house of his parents , without the * slig htest _appearamee or complaint of indisposition , and _havinpr had hi 3 supper , went to bed . The nest morning ( Wednesday ) Mr . Redhead , assistant to Mr . Guazzarohi _" , parochial _medicul officer for the district , saw the- deceased , and found him in a perfect state o f collapse . He immediately adopted ail ' tho usual remedies' that the urgency oftho caso _required , but without avail , as deceased continued toget worse , and died _aifeout three o ' clcek inthe afternoon ofthe same day . Tlie jury returned a verdict of "Bled from Asiatic cholera . " , Before Mr . FMcer , atthe Duke of fork , Salmon ' _s-LineStepneyon view of the body _off _& imos Brown ,

      , , aged 29 , a seamsn on board the GuiHfovd collier of South Shields . The deceased , _who-was one of ei g ht seamen on board ; the above vessel , went to bed on "Wednesday night in good health , hot between eleven and twelve o ' clock he was seized with sickness and ho was _a-dtended at six by Mr . Cleland , surgeon , Ratcliffe-cross ,. who ordered his removal to the workhouse , in _Salmon _' _s-lane , where he ' died in a few hours . —George Dbdd ,. a seaman , stated that a sewer emptied itself dose- to the forecastle- of the vessel , and that a mos _* offensive smell _came-from it . —The Coroner remarked' that it was possible the attack- was produced from that cause . —Terdict , " Death from Asiatic cholera . " . ' '

      On _Momta-v Mr . Baker held' _four inquests _a-fc the London Hospital , on thc bodies- of as many persons , who had'died in Whitechapei workhouse , from cholera . The deceased were removed from Wentworth-• streefc and Cartwwght-gtl ' e _** , Aid-gate , to the W _45-khouso , suffering from cholera , and ! eventually died there . Mr .. Has & _i the surgeon ,, said there were * numerous case s of cholera brought to the workhouse from _Wentworfeh-street , but there was no one present to-give-any evidence * as- to- the state of tlie locality . After * some convorsation , the inquiry wasadjourned ' for the purpose of having the place in _* - spected . The coroner received' information of the deaths of four persons in _Lim-ehouseywho had died on Saturday and Sunday from- ' cholera * . ' Mr .

      Stephens , the * constable' for the * liamlet of Mile-end Old-town , gave notiee to the coroner of the deaths of two persons from cholera in- liis- district . Tuesday , —Mr . Bedford held two inquests in the Westminster Bridewell _r on the _bodies-of JPohn Bonner aged 40 and _Edwa-rd Burt r aged 21 , prisoners . there , who died of Asiatic cholera-. — -Mr .. Lavies said he was wholly unable to account for the disease appearing , for the prison had been free from it . There had been six cases but the- other four were r ecovering ! He bad ordered a better diet for the prisoners ; but he believed the cholera was entirely atmospheric * . Three of the prisoners had been attacked in one ward ; but there was no difference between that a . _* ad others . The yufy . in both cases , returned a verdict of " Died : of Asiatic * cholera /'

      Before Mr . W . Carter , at the Coburg Arms , Webber-street , Waterloo-road , on the body of Mrs . Ann Tipstaff , aged 68 , who died from Asiatic cholera , at No . 15 , Queen-street , owing ,, as it was allegedf > to noxious vapours arising from an open sewer , running at the back of the houses in that and several other streets in the neighbourhood . Evidence having been produced for the purpose-of proving that the sewer in its present state is injurious to the public health , the Coroner said that he would correspond with the Board of Health , and he had no doubt means would be adopted to rectify thi * - evil . Several of the jurors complained of the horrible stench , and of the larg * number of persons who had been attacked wi _* h typhus fever in the immediate neighbourhood ofthe sewer . The jury returned a verdict of H Death from Asiatic cholera , "' at the same time they ( the jury ) considered th * open sewer at the back of Queenstreet predisposes persons to that and other epidemic diseases .

      Mr . W . Payne , whilst holding an _intjuostatthe Crown , Blackfriars-road , received intimation from Mr . Fairbrother , surgeon , ofthe London-road , of the death of Peter Blytb , of No . 3 Mount-place , Gibraltar-row , St . George ' s-fields , of Asiatic cue ' era , and that in tbe same house three other members of the family , as also tha mother , were labouring under the same malady . Mr . Fairbrother stated that the privies and the drains were in a most disgraceful state , and that tbe . stench and noxious effluvia arising therefrom were of so offensive a character , that the inhabitants were continually vomiting , and that he thought the case was one calling for inquiry . Mr . Payne mentioned ' the circumstance to the jury , adding , it was important that in all cases where it could be clearly ascertained that death ensued from circumstanocs for whicli a remedy might be found , au investigation should tafee place , and he subsequently appointed a day for holding an inquest ; the body iii the meantime being removed .

      DbATII OF THE _ClIAFLAIiY Of TUE ToU'EB FH 031 _Asuiic CuoiiV . ** .. \ . —On Monday -morning , at twenty minutes to two , the Rev . Charles Boughton St . George , clerk ,. and chaplain to St . Peter ' s , in the Tower fortress , died from an attack of Asiatic cholera , under the following very distressing circumstances . It appears that the rov . gentleman seemed in his usual health on Sunday morning last , and preached his usual sermon to a large congregation . His voice , which at all times was perfectly clear and loud , suddenly fell towards the conclusion , and it

      became quite inaudible . After tlie sermon was over , ho immediately went homo to his- parsoaage house , which adjoins the church , and was immediately attacked with vomiting , purging , cramps , arid all tlio symptoms which are characteristic of an attack of Asiatic cholera . A surgeon was instantly called in , but the unfortunate gentleman gradually sank , and died at the above-mentioned time . The deceased was universally respected by all tho officers and soldiers in the Tower , and his loss will be felt for some considerable time .

      Isle of Wight . —The cholera has appeared in tho locality of Parkhurst barracks , but every precaution has been taken to arrest its _progress . Southampton . —Although the number of deaths from cholera is much larger this week wo are p leased to hear that the disease is on tho deoline , and that very few eases of a -malignant character have occurred within the last two or three days . Bristol . —Last week there wero many new cases of cholera in this city , in several of whioh death occurred .

      ' Worcester , —There were seven patients in the Hosp ital on Friday week , of theso four have died , two have been removed convalescent , and one , a man named Combes , still remains not out of danger . A married woman named Walker , died on Sunday : we regret to say that she was lost , in all probability , through obstinately refusing to take the medicine prescribed for her , In some way or other she conceived a prejudice against the treatment , and refused to continue it ; and although then recovering as rapidly as could have been hoped for , she speedily relapsed , the symptoms vapidly changcu to their most advanced form , and she sunk in a few hours .

      Her case is highly instructive to patients , and we state it here in order to induce an entire and trusting docility in them , as being most essential to their _successful treatment . —Worcester _Iki-akL Manchester . —Happily , the cholera has not increased in this locality . Cases are heard of here and there , rather in a mild form , but few deaths have occurred . A woman died on Friday week in the Canal-street hospital , which is common both to fever and cholera patients . She had beon taken io the hospital for fever , but . was attacked with cholera , and having led a dissipated life , she probably sooner , became a victim to the disease .

      Bukslem . —The number of new cases is on the decline , and the proportion of the recoveries on tho increase . The localities _whdl-e cholera has appeared are precisely those parts of the town whore fever most frequently commits even greater ravages , and an explanation of the severity of both may be seen in the squalor and filth-which abound . Wales . —At Cardiff the : disease is now confined to the outskirts , Cases from Jul y 13 th to 19 th , 23 ; deaths , 15 , At Merthyr it _continues v q _roak'j fear- '

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      ful havoc ; likewise at Dowlais and Aberdare . Thc returns for Merthyr and Dowlais , during the same six days—cases i -253 ; deaths , 156 ... . Chses . at Aber r dare ; 107 ; deaths , 15 . The ep idemic has broken out at Newport , Taibac _*^ & c . : ' * - _* . _IVeardale . —Two cases of Asiatic cholera , one of wbich has proved fatal , occurred last week at Stanhope , ' in Wcardale _, being the first appearance of the disease in that district . ¦¦ --- - Wioan . —We have to report two deaths from actual cholera , and five from diarrhoea . The victims of the former disease were in both cases poor people . The cases of cholera are .- —Peter Gaskelt , ebllieV , aged 35 , and Peter Hughes ' , weaver , _agod 52 . The death of Catherine Catterall , aged 46 , the wife of a carter , is one wliich has been reported to have been caused by cholera . - _Okmskibk . —Last week tliere were two _fatalcasAS of Asiatic cholera in the parish of Halsall , in the

      Ormskirk union . The victims were a man and his son of the name of Eaves , boatmen on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal . It is supposed that they were attacked first at Liverpool , and on their arrival at Halsall the disease had become so serious that they wove obliged to 9 top , and died in a few hours after . Eave 3 was aged 48 years , and his son was 18 years . _Nantwich . —During the last week this _disease continued to spread into different parts of the town . During tho three weeks previous seventy-eight persons had been attacked , and thirty-nine of the cases proved fatal . On Wednesday week the shops wero closed and business was suspended ; but it is hoped that the efforts of alleviation and precaution , so zealously commenced , will be continued until this dreadful epidemic be effectually stayed . Hull . —With the exception of two cases ( one fatal ) tlie attacks have diaiinished ; both in number and fatality , and have not extended beyond the districts mentioned in our last . _ ' ¦ ¦

      Woolwich —On Tuesday evening , Mr . C . J . Carttar , coroner for West Kent , held two inquests at the Albion and Shakspere Taverns , Woolwich ; the first on the body of William Butcher , a seaman rigger belonging to Woolwich dockyard , who died of cholera on _Hfonday morning ; the second on the body ofaconvictnamedJor . es , who died of consecutive fever , having laboured under Asiatic cholera for seven days . The peculiarity about this case was that it was the first and only attack of cholera which the Warrior convict-ship (!*? ing off the dockyard ) has had . Verdicts in both cases " were returned of "Death from cholera . "

      _Boston—It is a singular fact thai Lincolnshire , which is eonsidered to be so unhealthy a county , on account of the marshy character of the soil , has been so free fro _>* a the ravages of t _& e cholera . In this town ( Boston ) there have been some attacks and a few deaths ; but taken upon the -whole * the mortality does not seem- to exceed that of the corresponding period of last year . To Market Rasen , Louth , Spilsby , Grantham , and other towns throughout the county , the _sams remark applies . There have been but few cases , and those by no means of a violent character .

      LivEKroo-o . —The - new cases reported by the parochfei medical officer * on Wednesday amounted to 80 , and the deaths to 30 > , bat these only include the parties who apply for medicines and _attendance to the parish ; a larj » e number of cases occur in the middle classes of society , of which no formal report is given , _excepting that delivered * to the _registrar when the attack-proves fatal . PoftTSMOUTH . — In the island of _Portsesthe disease is fast disappearing , as among the cases under the parish medical officers only three or four deaths are reported ; for Tuesday . The deaths under cognisance of the same authorities ainee ths commencement amount toabout 280 . A large number of eases are still under treatment , but generally , of a milder form .

      The CiKHiBia in Paris . —We read in the _Comiltutionnel : _'— 'Ihe silence oi' the government with regard to the cholera has given rise to unfounded alarm , as to-the progress of that malady during the last fortnight ,, although that _silense is perfectly justifiedby _thesonitarystate ofthecapital . Notwithstanding the great heats , the epidemic has remained stationary , andthe number of victims to it continues to oscillate _withiii very restricted' limits , From the 13 th to the l _' _- _pth-the-f _tum-nuiTO ofthe daily number of deaths in the hospitals has been * eleven , and the

      maximum eighteen ,. giving an . average of twelve ; and _jfrom the 10 th io . th ' e 13 th tlie avcvagedaily number of : deaths in private practice had been the same average number , as it alsowas in tho week- preceding . The gi-neral mortality , in the city from all diseases unitedhas been sixty-five-in one day onIy and has fallen to fifty . As to the * military _hospitalO ) they are completely free _froin-oholera ; the hospital in the Roule ha _» only had one death in the last two days , and at the-Val-de-GraceortheGros-Caillou- there has not beea any death . OBeven one case admitted .

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      D 2 EBY , July 2 _S . Seduction . —Tliis was an action tc recover compensation for seduction and loss of services . Plaintiff is a shoemaker residing at Tickenhall- ;* defendant is a farmer residing at the same place , and his orchard adjoins- plaintiff ' s garden . Gheatle ' s sister resided with him ' as _housekeaper . The facts- of the case will best be gathered from the subjoined evidence . —Eliza Smith , daughter of the _plaintiff deposed : I and Cheatle ' s- sister became intimate , and so did the plaintiff and defendant . My father ; mother , and myself reside together , and I do the household work . My father is seventy-four . Defendant usually called

      him "uncle . " Defendant , on ever y opportunity that presented itself , paid me attention .. He told me that he was thirty-four last April ; 1 am twentyeight . He frequently said he would marry me , and at times would say ,. " * Miss Smith shall be my wife . " lie was not often iiii the house . When . I have met * _, him by accident I have walked witli him . In 1847 he asked me to meet him , but I refused . In lastyear he asked me to . meet him , and on- the 1 st of August he ran after me in the street . Ia 1 S 47 he offered to take some liberties with me , but he was not quite sober . We had a disagreement in consequence , and I beat him and blackened his eye . ( Laughter . ) He made it up again . In 1847 he laid an accusation _against me which I denied , It was

      the _^ sauie evening that he oft ' ended that he asked me to forgive hira . E met him on the 12 th of August _, lie said he would act honourably , and make me his wi ' e . Ultimately he had intercourse with me , and after that time I frequently met him , and the connexion took place again . In January I found myself pregnant ; and as soon as I became aware of the situation I was in , I informed defendant of it . A cbild was bom on the 2 ( hh of April . My father has been much distressed about it . My sister paid the expenses of my confinement . My father has paid the rest . It was necessary to have some assistance to go of errands . Mr . Baron Parke summed up . The jury then retired , and after au absence of some time , returned into court with a verdict for the plaintiff . —Damages £ 30 .

      STAFFORD , Jolv 23 . Breach ot Promise of Mariuage . —This was an ac'ion brought by Miss KeziaLangley , a young lady of considerable personal attractions , against the defendant , Mr . Richard Parton , son of a respectable farmer of this county , for a breach of promise of marriage . Damages were laid at - £ 5 , 000 . Counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr . Sergeant Allen and Mr . Greaves - lor the defence , Mr . Sergeant Talfoiird and Mr . Whateley , Q . C . —Mr . Sergeant Allen stated that the plaintiff was the daughter of a large and respectable farmer ; who also practised as a veterinary surgeon , and resident when the defendant was first received into the family at Abbot ' s Bromley , in this county . She was a young ladv who had been

      carefully brought up , and had received a superior education . The defendant ' s family live at Bromley Hurst , and he was at present about twenty-nine years of age . The defendant wa 3 introduced tb plaintiff ' s father in the latter end of 1844 , and shortly _after-, wards commenced paying his addresses to the young lady , who was about nineteen . Ilia _addvessts ' were accepted , and he visited as plaintiff ' s suitor . The learned sergeant in the course ofhis address read extracts from several letters sent by the defendant to the plaintiff , the whole of which disclosed the strongest affection and most fervid love ; several of them anticipating the day when his desires should be consummated by marriage . The tenor of the letters

      showed that , the defendant was serious in his purpose , therVbeing very little that was mawkish or sentimental in them . The learned counsel closed his address by an eloquent and forcible appeal to the jury , affirming that the case was no light one , and requiring damages to the full amount . —The learned sergeant s statement was substantiated by tho evidence ofthe brother and mother of the plaintiff , the only evidence called . —Mr . Sergeant Talfourd having energetically addressed the jury on behalf of th _» defence , the learned , judge summed up , stating inthe course Ofhis remarks that tho plaintiff . had _i-seeived a very grievous injury , and- the jury , after ten minutes' consultation , returned a verdict for the plaintifffor £ 400 .

      Cutting and Wounding at _Licupield . —W . Sandford , _j-ged thirty-one , was indicted with feloni , ously and maliciously cutting and wounding Mary _BillingSj on the 4 th of July , at Lichfield . Mr . * rl _« ddleston conducted the prosecution . The prisoner had not the benefit of counsel . The prosecutrix , a vespectablc-looking young woman , whose neck w asbound up , said she had lived with tha prisoner some time , and determined upon leaving him on the 4 th July , in consequence of a quarrel which had taken place . On that day she went to her father , who lived in Lichfiold , for the purpose of inducing him to accompany her to the prisoner ' s house aad remove hot clothes , & c , They accordingly went , the prosecutrix proceeding up stairs , where she packed up her p _^ erty , and then called to Ijer father . The prisoner who had remained down stairs with her father then went up to the prosecutrix , and putting his arm round her cut her on the side of the neck with some sharp instrument , saying "take that 1 " thev then struggled together _wdfeU on the bed , fo prisoner

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      tbreatenin- _* ; and endeavouring td cut her . The prosecutrix ' s " father hearing the noise ,, ran up stairs , and rolled the pri _* -oner off the bed , whenhesaw WPOQ streaming from Ms daughter ' s neck . She was then removed , and the .-assistance ot J . P . Oates , ± -sq « surgeon , was procured , and the hemorrhage stopped . A . razor was found in the bedroom , where the attack : ha _* a been made upon the prosecutrix , and also a broken glass . The jury returned a verdict of 'Guilty against the prisoner , on the second couftt charging him with the intent to do some grievous bodi . y harm ; when his lordship , observing that the jury had acted with great forbearance in , not finding the prisoner guilty ofthe _capital charge , sentenced him to be transported for fifteen years .

      CAMBRIDGE , July 23 . Si , J _$ i . vg . —James Lee , a child ten years of agef was indicted for wilfully killing and slaying Robert Newman , at Ely , on the 12 th instant . The prisoner , who had at first pleaded guilty , called his father to speak to his character , and the jury having returned a verdict of guilty , the judge inquired of the father whether he would take care of his boy if he was speedily set at liberty , and having received the expected answer , he sentenced tlie prisoner to be imprisoned for two days . The effect of this sentencewas that the father at once took his boy from the dock , but not before he had " pulled a lock of hair " at his lordship in token ofhis gratitude .

      July 24 . Highway Robbeky and Gallant Defence . —Two young m « n , were charged with _having , oa the 6 th of April last , being Good Friday , feloniously assaulted Mr . Josephus Glover , B . A ., of St . John ' s _Gallege , and stolen from his person a silver watch , a sovereign , two shillings , a latch key , and a penknife . —Mr . Sanders prosecuted . — The prisoners were undefended . Mr . Glover left his friend , the Iter . Mr . Harding ' s house at _Grancheater , on the evening iu question , at a quarter before ten , aud coming through the fields , saw a man standing near the string gate , having a bludgeon in his hand about three feet long . As Mr . " Glover passed , the man

      said " Good night , " and immediately after struck Mr . Glover a blow on the forehead , which fortunatel y did not fall with full force , because of his cap * but it gave him a _wo-and in the forehead , blackened his eye , and felled him to the ground . Mr Gloyer managed to rise , and was grappling with his assailant when he was seized behind by another assailanS , and the two got him on the ground and rifled _ros pockets . They were then about to turn hira over as if to get at his eoat pockets ; but seeing an opportunity , he adroitly put his head between the legs of one of the ruffians and threw him over ,

      then springing upon his feet he snatched the bludgeon out of the other fellow ' s hands and threw it some distance away . While the fellow went to look for the stick , Mr . Glover ran away shouting for assistance , and be was soon joined by two _persans who accompanied hits to Mr . Pawcett _' s , a surgeon , at Cambridge , where- he had his wounds dressed and his arm placed in a sling , where it was compelled to be for more than five weeks . The jury , without hesitation , found the prisoners - Guilty , ' and his lordship sentenced them to be transported for fifteen years . EXETER , Jul y 23 .

      Stealing Naval . Stores . — Elizabeth _Rickards _a-nd three otiier young women were indicted for stealing a quantity of naval stores from tbe * Plv mouth Breakwater . The prosecution was instituted by the direction of the Admiralty , in order , it was- ' stated , to cheek a system of depredation which had recently been- carried to a considerable extent . —Tbey were all found guilty , but rcconiinended to mercy , and the sentence of each was consequently mitigated , to one month ' s imprisonment , with hard labour . JumY 25 .

      _SemenoN by a Clergyman . —Mr . Collier stated the case . ! The Plaintiff was a- poor woman who had been a monthly nurse , and she had three daughters-. She brought this aetion for the seduction of her second daughter . The defendant was a clergyman-, residing in Exeter , a married man although separated from his wife . Maria Brooks was in his service , as she stated ,, in 134 _*? . In the month of November in that year she _qu itted his service to attend her mother , who was ill . The reverend defendant wa _» a constant visitor at her house under tfhe pretence- of bringing such articles ss a sick person might require , and of administering religious consc * lation to the mother . He also brought religious books to prepare her for the administration of the

      sacrament . He employed the girl in making shirts and other artieles , and required her to- bring them to him singly as they were finished .. On one of those occasions he effected his purpose . Her seduction accomplished , she returned to his service and found herself with child . Drugs were administered by defendant and miscarriage followed . She again became pregnant , and was delivered * of a chrhi in the defendant ' s house . The defendant nursed the child : it , however , died , and he paid the expenses of burial . Some time after he performed the office of churching this- woman in his own parlour . After the birth of the child a series of miscarriages occurred , each following the admiaistration of drugs- by the defendant until' 1848 . The rev . defendant then took another

      woman under his protection , and discarded Brooks . Has-repeatedly promised to maintain her for the-rest of her life , and put that promise in writing , but the document had been abstracted from her drawers . — These facts were fully borne out in evidence b y Maria Brooks . —Eliza Brooks , sister of Mary Brooks , stated that when tbe latter was taken ill Mr . Lamb , the surgeon , would not take the responsibility on himself , and proposed calling in Dr .. Shapter . Defendant begged her not to call him in , as the bishop would know it , and he should lose his gown . He cried , and on his knees begged her not to have another : doctor called : in . Saw the paper Mr . Rooks had drawn up , and was satisfied with the contents . My

      sister continued with him . They frequentl y had prayers . —Mary Sheppard , the monthly nurse who _a-ttended Maria Brooks in her confinement , deposed to defendant ' s saying he _hopeg he could put confidence in me , and that I would not let Mr * - _JLatimer know it , because he was no friend to the parsons . ( Laughter . )—Mr . Green-woo- ! ,, for the defence , relied on the statute of limitations barring the action ; and to prove that the girl was in Mr . Rook ' s s _.- * rvice before 1842 several witnesses were called , amongthem Mary Hanger , who stated that she lived with Mr Rooks in 1840 . I had the small-pox in August ' 1841 . Mrs . Brooks attended me as nurse . I remained at Mr . Rook ' s until I was partiall y recovered , when I left . That was tbe latter end of September 1841 Whe had

      , . n I' entirel y recovered I went to Mr . Rook ' s to offer my services again , and found Maria Brooks there . That was in October , 1841 . —Mr Collier replied , imputing ihat the entries in the pocket-books were recentl y manufactured , and that the witaesses in point of time were mistaken . —The 1 -amed judge summed up and said that , on the Question of damages , the J ury must take into consideration that the plaintiff was content to allow her daughter to live on in opulence as the mistress of the defendant , and to send a younger sister as a servant in the same house ; and " it was not until she "W & 3 supplanted by another mistress that any action was thought of . —The jury retired , and " after an absence of about a qusrter oi an hour , returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages £ 100 .

      YORK , July 24 . Breach of Promise 05 Mahmage . —This was an action for breach of promise of marriage ; The defendant denied the promise and the breach . —Mr ; Watson , ia opening the - _* ase , said that the plaintiff was a young-lady of _gre-it beauty an < l accomplishments , aged twenty-three , the daughter of an attorney at South Cave , near Doncaster . The defendant was an . officer in tha 1 st Dragoon Guards , and is twenty-six years of age , equal in station . An atta _« _hmeat had been formed , Upon which followed an engagement , for breach of which the present action was brought—not fram sordid motives , but to stoa the whisperings which had gone ataoad . - Mr . _Seria-mf

      wilkins here said that he had given more thaa ordinary attentioa to the case , and he was of opinion that no good man could withhold from tho plaintiff his sympathy and admiration . The correspondence did _infanita credit to her head and heart . No human being couW esteem and honour more than thedetendant _did her accomplishments awl attractions ; but the _* _ra was a _destiw in mivri & ge _, a * ad the _defend dant baving felt that he could not promote her happi ness as a husband-, in the manner she deserved ; k cotsld 1 not _fuifil his promise , but he hoped that time would heal the wound he had occasioned .-Mr . Watson said , teat deeolv as thftulnintiff _mne _wrmw a _„ a

      _Svl ° _I _ilftdi Stive feelinS » Possessed no sordid « J 2 ? _' , . nd . as t _^ e question of damages was left en-SL _^> _^*\ hands , lie at _w _^ acceded , to the learned find for _tLW _?! - , aniJ the J ury would therefore _dhigly P damages £ 88 . -Yerdict accor _.

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 28, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_28071849/page/6/