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      _XA 5 S 105 HOUSE . MoxnAV .-CH- . w-rt : ot Besertixc a _Chilo .-A young woman n-itncJ _Jfusaret _Shaanesjy was _tegbt _^ charged with ha .-i . ig deserted her eh . ld .-Mr . James Tbonit _. who stated that he was a wipe merchant , and resided at 1 . Cliapd-court . Poultry , m the parish of St . _JSSdred , &* oscd that on Saturday last , at about half-past three oVIeck _, the _jirisonercaroe to Ids counting-house with an infmit in lier amis . He went up stairs , and about five toriiKifrr _* . _aftcm _^ ird * _« B * _t- * . U « I a «« rn . when he found that * feDHlc infant had been left at bis door . He put tlie _tttld \ at < i tlie care >< _*\ policeman . —Jfr . Charles Lewis _, a merchant ' s clerk , -aatcd that at the time mentioned he went up _iliapd-ewt , and saw two women , one of whom was the prisoner-, in thc court . Immediately afterwards he jaw the prisoner put down a baby at Mr . Thome ' s door 4 uid walk a _** 'f ? . He told the policeman of the

      circum-* tance , and _followed the prisoner to Finsbury-pavement , where she wns taken into custody . —The Lord Mayor : Wdl , prisoner , what can _yousay in answer to tliis serious _ebaj-ge ?—riic Prisoner : Fleaseyour worship , Mr . Thome is the fi £ iier of the cl . iW . Iliad a summons against bim to _obllga him to support it , but he denied that he was the father , and tbe summons was discharged , because he told lies . I put down tlie child because I kpew that I was seen , and * wanted to be brought before your lordship , and to get sui . _jtort for it—Tbe lord Mayor : You deserted the -clnld . —The _Prisoner : So , my lor _« _t I never meant to do _stything of the kind . 1 wanted protection for it , for I lave no way of supporting it myself . —Mr . Thome most - positively denied that be « as the father of thc child , or that tbe yoiiug woman had auy claim whatever upon him . —A persun of very _retractable ajij . earai . ee state- ! that she

      _Teitdtd in Great Wiui & _esler-strefct . and that tlie prisoner lad lived witli her as servant ; and a better servant eould not be fowl . She ( the lady ) bad tlie highest opinion of the poor creature ' s integrity , and would most willingly , if the child were _providedYorJ again employ her . —Hie Lord Mayor : It is a case in wliich 1 bave no alternative but to commit for trial for tlie desertion ofthe child . If it had not been for this young man ( Lewis ) she would have left it there wholly unprotected . —The l'risoner : I knew it was seen , my lord : I knew the police saw it , and 1 had no other way _. for tbe parish wimlddo nothing : nobody wonld * rlo anything f _« . r me . —The Lord Mayor : For the suke of tiie infant it is indispensable that I should commit the prisoner . The case will be taken into consideration by tbe court , and the child will be protected . —The prisoner ** as then committed .

      Tcesdat . —Assault asd Robbert . —Thomas Capbam , a calwlriv « r , and John Harris , bis companion , were charged before thc Lord Mayor under tlie following cir-• _catnstanecs : —II . Ferguson , timekeeper on the IHackwall Railway , stated tbat on Saturday night , at halt-past ton o ' clock , he was in the -Miiiurics giving a direction to a pei-¦ on , when Capliain , who was driving a cab , struck him en this head with a whip and knocked off bis hat , after wliich the cabman got off the box and grappled with hhn , and lore off bis stuck , in whicli was fastened a diamond breast put whicli cost £ 2 . Harris drove off the cab , leaving Cap-Iram _engaged with witness , who believed tliat _Cajtbam in the row took tlie diamond pin as well as tlie stock . Tfit . ness also believed that his hat was taken away in the cab , and the whole transaction took place without any _provocation ujK . ii the part of tlie witness , who merely struggled to defend lumself . Capbain , after tlie outrage , made bis escape . Iu his cross-examination by Mr . Hobinson for Harris , the witness said he both felt and saw Capham drag at his stock and diamond pin . He grasped the whip

      ¦ wi th which be bad been assailed , and wrested it from his assailant . —George i . Ferguson , brother to theprosecntor , stated that he was in the company of the last witness when _Cajiliain struck the hat off . Witness went . to take thc _Auinber _' of the cab , and Harris struck liiui , and they bad a struggle together , and Harris made bis nose bleed . Harris then drove off tbe cab , and Capham disappeared , and afterwards witness ' s brother complained of having lost lus stock aud diamond pin . —James Mavtiu stated that be saw tbe prosecutor and Capham struggling together , aud the former said , " Do you see what he is at V aud called out for the police , and said he had lost bis stock and pin _directly afterwarJs . — The Lord Mayor : I have looked most scrupulously into this case , and I am come to this decision , —I sentence Capham , for his flagrant conduct at a cab-driver , to imprisonment in Bridewell for two montlis and liis license shall be cancelled ; and I adjudge Harris to be bis own surety iu the sum of £ 80 , and to find two sureties to the amount of £ 10 each , to appear at tbe nest quarter _sessions to answer any charge which Mr . Ferguson may bring against him .

      - . GUILDHALL . Tcesdav . —A _Fauos _' _s Dog . —The Law's Justice . — Tbe Kev . Ilr . Watkins , of Turn wheel-lane , Cannonstrcet , attended upon summons before Mr . Alderman Challis , to answer thecomplatutof Mr . Wilkinson , a tallow-chandler , in HiHindsdhdi , for suffering to beat large unmuzzled a ferocious dog . whereby Nathaniel Wilkinson , bis son , was ¦ _* bi ttcn . The boy stated that he went on Sunday afternoon , the 22 nd nit , into Grasewood _' s livery aud bait stables , in Finsbury , and saw the clergyman's coach dog there . He attempted to read tbe inscription on the dog ' s collar , and tlte dog immediately turned rouud and bit bim in the lace , _nis father took him to a surgeon , who deemed it proper to cut out and cauterize tlie part bitten . Tbe father banded in the surgeon ' s bill of £ 1 Is ., and said he bad requested payment ofthe rev . gentleman , who refused to pay it . The rev . gentleman cross-examined the boy , -who . admitted that the affair occurred fifty yards from the

      • common highway ; tbat hewas warned not to touch tlie dog , and that after that he touched tbe dog ' s collar for tbe purpose of reading tbe inscription . He entered Uic stablejard on _bnsiin-ss . Mr . Alderman Challis said the stat te which imposed a penalty on suffering dogs accustomed to fate to go at large unmuzzled applied only to _tliorongbfares . and not to the interior of houses or yards . He had , therefore , no ] K > wer to inflict a fine ; but the caution that the boy was uot to touch the dog implied tbat he was _ac-<* ustouied to bite , and should betaken care of ; and he _should recommend Dr . Watkins to pay the surgeon ' s bUI . Tbe Kev . Dr . Watkins said he would , if tlie Alderman ordered it ; if not , he would give the father only half _svso-Teragn , lest lie should provoke pe "pie to tease his dog and put it on its self-defence , in tbe hope of being bitten , aiid extracting uiomyfr ., ui the owner ' s pocket . Mr . Alderman Challis _confessed be could not make auy order ; andthe father accepted tbe half _sovereign as a compensation .

      BOWSTKEET . . - - Fkidax . —The Kobbert at Bcckingham Palace . — John Taylor , a cabinet-maker , was brought up for final raamiuation , charged with stealing various pieces of plate , and a valuable china vase , from . Buckingham Palace , the property of her Majesty .- Iu order to complete the evidence , it was proved by Mr .-Colliflson / upbolsterer , connected with the Lord Chamberlain ' s department , that on tbe evening of the 13 th June , ' the prisoner was seen near the store-room with a * green hag which appeared to be empty , where he . bad no . business , his _workshop bong , on the basement-Boor , after the other _tnetl bad gone away ; and it was further proved that Ile bad made application to Mr . Richardson , ' an upholsterer residing in Upper Seymour-street , to say his name was John Johnson , should any person make any inquiries for liim , which , upon bis refusing , tbe constable made bis appearance and be was taken into custody . -The prisoner was fully committed for triaL

      MARLBOItOUGH STREET . Tuesday . _—Felost . —Bobert Perceval Berks was brought before Mr . Maltby for final examination on a charge of felony . Thc prisoner was originally taken into custody for stealing a gold watch , the property ofa lady , Bring at 12 , Great _llider-strect , St . James ' s . The prisoner , it appeared , had contrived to make the acquaintance of Mr . Hoskins ( late of tlie London magistracy ) in the street , and Mr . Hoskins , imposed upon by the prisoner ' s specious manner , and his assumption of relationship to the Earl of Egremont , after walking Bbout from place to place with the prisoner , took bim Conic to dine with him at his _anaruuents , So . 12 , Great Rider-street . "Mr . Hoskins being about to proceed to Soxaezsetshire thc same evening to take part in a public _«?« _-eui < . iij-J p risoner proposed to go down by the same train , which proposal was accepted ; while engaged in

      getting ready thc luggage , the prisoner contrived to possess himself of a lady ' s gold watch , which stood on thc mantelpiece . The watch was not missed until fhe prisoner aud Mr . Hoskins had left to go by tlte railway train , but measures being promptly taken to go in pursuit ofthe prisoner , be wascapturcd _, andlodgediu tbe station-bouse . The watch was nowhere to be fouud , but a number ol duplicates were found op the prisoner ' s person , which led to tbe discovery ofa second robbbery . Two of the duplicates related to a watch-key and seal , and two silk handkerchiefs . These were identified by Mr . Hoskins as his property . _ThislatttT cisebeing complete in the evidence , - was selected as the one most likely to ensure conviction , ana consequently tbe evidence respecting the robbery of

      thegold natch was not enteral upon . The assistants to Mr . Ashman aud Mr . Bassett , pawnbrokers , proved that the prisoner pledged the abore articles with them , in _-assuinedn-uiiesi «• the day ofthe robbeiy . Mr . Hoskins , in explanation ofthe case , said , he had been completely imposed upon by thc prisoner ' s plausible story and manners ; so much so indeed , as to induce him to throw the _i > ri- < mer a £ 10 note-whUe in company together , telling tile prisoner to give him an L 0 . C if he liked , but if be objected , not to mind . He really believed tbe prisoner was a young man of good connexions , but reduced by _jiiriug way too freely to the follies of town . Theprisoner , who is stated to be an _apprentice to a surgical instrument maker in the Strand , was fallv committed .

      Tbuesdat . _—Chaece of Forcekt . —George nickmott , butler , in lhe service of A . IV . llobarts , Est ) ., banker , Hill-street , was brought before Mr . Maltby for final examination , charged with embezzlement and forgery . — Charlotte Ann llobarts , the wife of Abraham Wilday Itolurts , Esq ., of 26 , Hill-street , Berkeley-square , said the prisoner had been in the service of her husband , as bulla , for about a year . On the 4 th of April witness gave the prisoner a cheque for £ 417 s . Cd ., to pay some tradesmen ' s accounts / and among tliem a bill for £ 114 s ., owing to ilr . Smethnrst , lamp-manufacturer , _Xew Bond-street . The prisoner brought tbe 'biU tbe next day , receipted , in

      the name of Thomas Fhra . —Thomas Finn said he . managed tbe business of Mr . Smethurst , in Bond-street The receipt at the bottom of tbe bill was not in his hand-* wiitinij . The money had never heen paid . —Mrs . Koharts next deposed , that on the 26 th of June die gave the _prisoner a second cheque for SI 15 s ., to pay other bills with . Thc prisoner _SirOught her two bills purporting to be _receipted , one from Mr . ThomhiU , cmler , of Bond-street , ft , -r £ 3 7 s ., and the other from Messrs . Rippoir and Buris _,, i , of _Oxford-street , for £ 3 7 s . —Mr . Thornhill said the n * n te Charles Williamson , at tlie foot of the bill , was a _fbrjri -ry . —The prisoner made no defence , and was fully . * nB . ' 3 _* ** t c ' _**

      WOBSmP STBEET . Mora * v . _SiVACE ASD _-Ijcfamocs Assacit . — Two voting in « i named BicbardSlade and Thomas Whiting , descnb & I as engineer * : , were placed at the bar before Mr . Broughton . charged with having committed a scandalous outrage u _** iii a respectable young married woman named 'EHvm _' llooW , _^ _n _* als 0 w _* * bavins assaulted and wounded her brother-iiK aw farrier , in Castle-street , Shoreditih . _wbnhadintCTft-re _^ _forherprotection . Itappearedfroni the * videuee tbat bctiv . een ten and eleven o ' clock on the preceding _nr-bt the _ctji . i _. p _*** inants , whobad been taking ten at ihe house of a _fcraS- 'e friend , were passing on their wax home _thnmsli _Old-strcct-roa u . ¦ Shea the two prisoners anpToatbed _lbwiiiH a aw . tfu * . V _^' _'> and wlu _' . eendw-• _ronriug to pass them , ihe prisoner _-jlaile seized hold ol the yro _** ei-: r _; s with * V .-ahdn ! .. _'J' = iadceeucy . at the sanie iiine _adunstiiu : hei'in tumi tcog _» $ S 5 to be repeated . On

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      being remonstrated witli by her brother-in-law upon their disgraceful conduct they both assailed him with theimost threatening language , and the prisoner Slade lustantij struck 1 . 1 m a violent Mow nnder thc eye , while the other prisoner seized hiin bv the hair , and repeatedly dashed his bead against some iron railings until tlie back part of it was cut open , and the upper part of his dress saturated with blood . He at length succeeded in _extru-atmg himself from the grasp of Whiting , but had no soouer done so than he was airain attacked by the other prisoner , who knocked iiim down several times in rapid succession , and was proceeding to further acts of violence when two policemen , who had been attracted by tlte tries of his relative , opportunely arrived , and the prisoners were eventually secured and conveyed to the _, « tatiou-bou 6 e . Mr . William Ridley , a gentleman residing in St George ' _s-square , Hoxton , who was accidentally passing at tlie time , fully corroborated

      tlie i vider . ee of the parties , and after describing ths transaction as tlie most wanton and brutal outrage he had ever witnessed , expressed his decided opinion that the prosecutor would certainly bave been murdered , but for tlie timely arrival of the police . —On being called upon for their defence , tlie prisoners in vague and general terms denied the charge , and declared that the prosecutor attacked them in the first _instance and bit cue of them in tbe leg , without tbeslightestprovocation . —Mr . Broughton said that , from the evidence he- had heard , he could come to no other conclusion than that the prisoners had been guilty ofa most brutal and unprovoked outrage upon two unoffending persons who were proceeding quietly to their homes ; and . although be always felt extremely reluctant to impose such a penalty upon working men as would bave tlie effect of consigning them to prison , he felt bound , iu tbe present case , to order each of them to pay

      a fiue of 40 s .. or be committed in default for six weeks to tlie House of Torreetion . The prisoners begged hard for a mitigation of the fine , but the magistrate said he feared the sentence was already far too lenient , and he could not listen to the application . [ Often as the doctrine of proportion between the offence and the amount of punishment is set at nought by our police magistrates , we have seldom seen an instance in which that rule has been more grossly violated , than in that recorded in our columns this day , in our report of the proceedings at Worship-street' Two powerful young men arc shown , not merely by the testimony of the aggrieved parties , but also by that of an indifferent witness , a gentleman casually passing by , to havo first attacked a young married woman with scandalous indecency , and then , because her brother-in-law remonstrated with thein , to bave assailed Iain with such ferocious violence that the opportune arrival of two policemen

      alone saved the life of their victim . For such "a most brutal and unprovoked outrage upon two unoffeuding persons who were proceeding quietly to their homes , " as Mr . Broughton justly characterises this attack , what punishment will it be imagined the worthy magistrate imposes ? He has before him , and he appears to appreciate tlie infamy of the prisoners' conduct , —tlieir assault upon a woman , their un-English behaviour in attacking her protector two to one , the falsehood of their defence ; and , from the terms in which he . denounces tlie ruffians , we should have made certain that he was about to mark his sense of tlieir behaviour by a sentence that should operate as a salutary lesson to themselves and a warning to others , if we bad not before now learned tliat police

      _magistrates do sometimes make their censures and sentences bear an inverse ratio , as though the objurgation were _considered by tliem as part of tlie punishment . Mr . Broughton imposed a fine IDs ., or six _weeks'imprisonment in default of payment . It is true , he himself afterwards expresses a fear that tliis was "far too lcnicut" In this fear wc concur . The reason Mr . Broughton gives for his leniency is his reluctance to consign working men to prison ; iu this excuse we do not concur . The offenders were before Mr . Broughton not in tlieir capacity of working men , but in the character of insolent and ferocious breakers of thc peace ; aud the mercy which the magistrate showed to tkeui was no mercy to the community , whom it is bis duty to protect—Tinier , Tuesday . ]

      Fbiday . — The Late _Lamestabie Occorkence at _Bethnal-gbeek . — William Warren , who stood charged with attempting to murder his wife by cutting her throat and afterwards to destroy his own life , was placed at the bar before Mr . Bingham , for firal examination . The prisoner , who was iu such a state of agitation and debility as to be unable to support himself , was allowed to be seated during the proceedings . The depositions ofhis wife , which were first taken and were substantially the same as the evidence she had given on tlte preceding day , were read over by Mr . Vine , the chief clerk , and on arriving at the point where _reftrence was made to the jealous supposition of her husband that she had concealed inker bosom a gold ring , the gift of another man , the prisoner suddenly fell senseless in the dock , and a considerable time elapsed before he had recovered himself sufficiently for the evidence to be proceeded with . Mr . Bingham said that it was his painful duty to commit tlie prisoner for trial on tbe capital charge of cutting and wounding bis wife with intent to murder her ; and he must also order him to be detained for the misdemeanor of attempting to destroy his own life . '

      S 0 UTHWARK . MosBAT . —AssAniT . —Thomas llensell was brought up for reexamination , charged with committing a violent assault on Hannah , his wife , by wounding her on the head with a large piece of granite stone ; Theprisoner was brought up on Friday last to answer thc charge , and was remanded until this day , but liis wife failing in making her appearance , the magistrate sent an officer after her , and , much against her inclination , she was brought toi the court Mr . Traill expressed his displeasure that the complainant did not attend , and asked her the reason , and her excuse was , that since the defendant was in gaol their business had been declining , and that if he remained there longer it would end in their ruin . On that account , she added , she did not wish to press the charge against him . Mr . Traill said that he had made up his mind to have committed tlie prisoner to the sessions for trial , but ia consideration of what had just been stated by his wife , instead of adopting that course he should infiitt the full penalty of £ 5 ou htm , with a caution that if lie again _astsauUed bis wife he should certainly I e sent for trial

      -. Tuesdat . — Pocket Pickisc . — Samuel Wallis , a smartly dressed youth , wa ? . brought before Mr . Trail , charged with picking a gentleman ' s pocket of a silk handkerchief , under the portico of the Victoria Theatre .: The complainant stated that , ou the preceding night , ai he was quitting the Victoria Theatre , he felt a sudden twitch athisebat pocket , and on looking round , saw the prisoner walking away at a quick pace . The prisoner was followed and taken infc custody , on the complainant missing his handkerchief . A witness stated that he was standing under the portico of die theatre as some of thc audience were leaving the house , and had his attention directed towards thc prisoner on seeing him lift up the tails of a gentleman's coat with one band , while with the other he pulled a silk handkerchief out of bis pocket , and quickly passed it into tlie hands of another lad , who _ir . is standing In a position to cover bis associate from observation . The" lad to whom the handkerchief was

      passed immediately disappeared in the crowd , and the prisoner crossed from the porticooverthe road , when witness having given notice of what be hail seen , the prisoner was followed and taken into custody . The handkerchief , however , was not recovered again . Mr . Trail said that bad tbe handkerchief been found , he should have committed tlie prisoner for trial , offences of this description being so prevalent , particularly in the vicinity of the theatres . He , however , should not let the prisoner escape punishment , and the sentence was that he be committed for six weeks to the treadmill .

      THAMES . Toesdat . —IIoerible AssAt'LT . —Thomas Tuckfield , a very powerful man , cliicf mate of the ship Westmoreland , was charged with assaulting George Ecclcston , second mate ofthe same vessel . The complainant , who had lost the use of his left eye , and was in every other respect no match for the prisoner , stated that Gil the loth of December , as the vessel was beating down the ltcd Sea for Aden to Bombay , _Tvitli variable winds , he tola the mate _thzt if the weather _COUthmed Co they would have to put the ship about . He then turned in for a short time , but imagining that he heard himself called , he ran upon deck . Thc mate , who was lying in the hen-coop , hearing his voice as he spoke to tbe boy , jumped up and said , " What the d is the matter with you . Have you so much on yonr mind that you can ' t lie quiet V To this he added other abuse , calling tbe complainant a d -d infernal b——r , aud accused hiin of having to'd somcth ' ngto the master . This tbe complainant denied , upon which

      theprisoner ran down aft thc poop ladder , felled bim with a heavy blow , and throning himself upon _hini attempted to gouge the remaining eye out with his finger . Complainant screamed out from the intense agony , whilst he felt the prisoner ' s fingers in the socket of the eye , and _grnsping the eye-ball as if with a forceps . Notwithstanding the distance of time the eye was still bloodshot ¦ ; and angry . Henry Pooley , a mariner , corroborated the complainant , whom he heard cry out , " For God ' s sake come and save inc . " Witness found the mate trying to scoop the man ' s eye out , and at once Handed him off . The complainant ' s eye was all bloody . Mr . Broderip said Hie offence was too serious a one to be summarily dealt with , and it was aggravated by thc circumstance of the complainant baring only tiicuse of tbe single eye , of which it would appear the prisoner tried to deprive him . Under such circumstances be felt it to be bis duty to send the ease for the consideration ofa jury . The prisoner was accordingly committed for trial .

      GREBXWICH . Mosdat . —SnocKisc _Destitution . —On Sunday afternoon , as Colonel Angerstein , of the Guards , accompanied by bis father , John Angerstein , Esq ., of the Woodlands , Hl _.-K-klie-it ! _i . were riding on horseback towards the river , tliey observed the figure of a human being in a state of nudity behind a hedge in a field belonging to the latter gentleman . They proceeded down a lone lane and opened a sate , when , to iheir great surprise , tliey discovered ! a wretched female with only a small piece of ragged garment covering her shoulders . ' The gallant colonel tlimv _hal' -a-crown to the unhappy creature , aud immediately proceeded down the Woolwich road to the Greenwich union workhouse and gave information to the master , by whoui tliey were informed that it was not the province of the parishes to interfere . The police should take the parly into custody , and then the magistrate would deal with the

      ease formally . They then informed the policeman on duty , and he , after seeing the object of inquiry , applied to the " union-house for some kind of apparel before lie _couliHegally remove her . Having procured at the workhouse a worn-out covering aud bonnet , he returned to the field and caused her to dress _liei'seil as best she could : and tlien marched her off to the station-house and gave her in charge * of _theinspet-feron duly . The poor woman , who stated she was about forty years of age , was brought before Mr . Grove , at tlie Greenwich police court , when she stated , in answer to the magistrate , that , _lieing destitute , she . wandered about the fields for the last two days : iu < l nights . Her clothing was worn to rags , and had dropped off bit by bit until she had been seen iu the state described : She said that she belonged to thc Kernel Ilenuisted union ,

      aud had been some ' time iu tliat workhotise , until the overseer , Mr . Smith , of King ' s Langlcy , Herts , had . ordei'cd her to be turned out . The reason assigned for so doing was , that she had no children , and ought to seek her own Bring . She is a married woman , and went away after her husband , _thintong that she might find him out . She liad been a long time wandering about without success , and having a great antipathy to bsg , she had refrained from so doing . She had been a day or two in Mr . _Angcrstein ' s park . Mr . Grove said an indictment could be preferred _ij-y ' nst the officer-n ' ! i 6 had caused her to be _tunn-d out oi tiie . uqion-house . lie then _gqive drdci's ' to . the police to r taU 6 'l « r _* to tbe Greenwich union , ' with a statement of facts , and he doubted not but' that the guardians would _iafce the necessary ami legal _stsps . to . pass : ~ lier to her _fimisli . Tie ( Mr . Grove ) _et-nsidered _thankss were due tu

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      the gentlemen who had taken so much pains ini the unhappy woman ' s behalf . He had never More lieard of sueh a case of destitution . The poor creature ** yi » 5 then taken to tlie union .

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      HOUSE OF LORDS . Mosdat . Juke 30 . The Scotch Banking Bill was read a third time and pjsscd on a division ; the Charitable Trusts Bill was also read a third time and passed ; and , after a short conversation on railroads , their lordships adjourned . Tuesdat , Jult 1 . The Public Museums Bill was read a third time and passed . Several bills were also forwarded a stage , and their lordships then adjourned . TBOESDAf , Jolx S . OAM _1 NG AND WAGER BILL

      Lord Whabncmffi ! moved the second reading of this bill . He said its object was to put a stop to the 7111 tarn actions which had been brought against several persons , some of whom were members of their lordships' house , and to amend the law relating to the suppression of common gambling-houses , and to amend the law relating to wagers . The present plan , which required that two householders should sign an information before a liouse in which gambling was suspected to he carried on could be entered would be abolished and placed in the hands of a superintendent of police , who would have to make a statement to the commissioners to that effect , who would use , their discretion as to whether the house should be entered or not by the police , and that wherever dice and other implements of gambling were found , ' they should be taken as a sufficient

      evidence that gambling was carried on , though the persons found in the liouse mightnot be actually engaged in " play ; _* ' and that billiard-rooms , in which gambling was frequently carried on , should be licensed by the magistrates in the same way as other places of entertainment . With respect to wagers , by the law , as it now stood wagers were recoverable by law except in certain in 6 _tat > ccs . If the bet did not exceed £ 10 it was a legal wager , but if it exceeded that amount it was illegal . The Bill proposed that no bet whatever should be recoverable before any court of law—putting bets entirely out ofthe protection of the law . In cases where money was lost by cheating , the party guilty of the cheating should be an object of punishment . These were the chief provisions of the Bill . After 11 few words from bOid Campbell , lord Brougham , and the Lord Chancellor , The Bill was read a second time .

      Friday , July 4 . The Lobd CiUNCEtLon . moved the second reading of the Irish Jurors Bill , the object of _ivliicli was to amend the state of the law relating to the challenge to the array which occasioned so much legal discussion in the Irish state trials . After some observations from Lords _Denman and CAjirBiLt , thc bill was read a second time _. Several bills on the table were forwarded a stage , and tlieir lordships adjourned .

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS , Monday , Junk 30 . COLLEGES ( IRELAND ) BILL . On the motion that the Speaker leave the chair , for the purpose of enabling the house to go into committee on thc Colleges ( Ireland ) Bill , Mr . Sunn O'liaiES observed , that if he entertained any hope of being able to amend this bill , he would propose : i series of amendments for that object ; but as he had no hopes of succeeding in any attempt to modify the bill , he would state bis objections to it in detail . It made no provision for tlie religious instruction of any class , either Roman Catholic or Protestant . It had , therefore , been declared by the Roman Catholic hierarchy to he dangerous to faith and morals . It was also calculated to produce a large field for the exercise of corrupt influence for party purposes , and was , therefore , particularly objectionable to the friends of free institutions in Ireland .

      Sir J . Gkaham said that he should consider it a waste of time to enter into a defence of the general outlines of the bill , after the ample discussion which had taken place upon them on sereral former occasions , tlie diffusion of general intelligence was the best guardian against the exercise of any corrupt influence on the public mind in Ireland . : Mr . O'Connell said that he should not attempt to debar the house from going into committee . The right hon . baronet-was perfectly jiast in assuming that the house should not be dictatedto by any persons , however respectable or venerable ; but then itwas worth while for the Government to consider how . far themeasurc they were putting before the liouse was likely to be successful . What signified the expenditure of money , if they did not succeed in their object ! . But they , could not succeed if

      tliey did not attend to the advice of those persons . The , right hon . baronet srad the bill had . been much altered ' since the Koman Catholic prelates had declared'their opinion upon it . He believed he was in possession of evidence to show that those alterations were not considered satisfactory by thosewrelateii . -A letter , dated the _ai j ' tfi of June , from ur . _M-lfiile , Koman Catholic Archbishop of Tnam , stated that their opinion of Hie uit-usm-c _, notwithstanding those alterations , remained unaltered . They considered it to be a bad scheme of education , and the bill a penal and rerolting measure . - [ Sir J . Grab _^ n _*^ " Penal ? " 1 Yes , they . considered it penal , because tliey were deprived Qf doing the duty they owed to the _prince pics of their religion . If the woid was considered too strong , it was evident that it was not stronger than tlie feeling to wliich this measure had given rise . The object of the Government was to be successful , but they could hot be so if they met with thc decided opposition of the clergy

      and of two-thirds of the Irish people . ' His opinion was , that it was an irreligious bill , hud thatit had not been improved by the alterations . Miich' was talked of the jealousies and differences of opinion of the different religious persuasions whiclt would be excited by the introduction of religious instruction ; why , they existed already ; anil , as the right lion , baronet said , darkness was calculated to encourage them . " They would prevent _ligli ' t from being diffused by excluding religious education from the Protes . tint , the Roman Catholic , and the Presbyterian . To promote the charities of their common Christianity they should give all a religious education ; biit , instead of doing that , they left them in darkness . He did not mean to divide the bouse _thea , but he should take a division on one ofthe early clauses , not with any hope of success , but by way of protest . ' He protested against tke bill as being utterly irreligious , and as giving a kind of left-handed permission to the inculcation of that which was the best friend of education;—religion .

      Lord J . Russell considered the declaration just made to thc honse by Jfr . 0 ! C 6 nneW , ' very important , lie feared that , unless this bill were made acceptable to the Roman Catholic pnlates , it _wiulitubt be of mucli use to Ireland . ¦ ' * , 7 ' ' The Speaker then left the chiiirj and the house resolved itself into the proposed committee . '* ¦ Inthe committee considerable discussion took place on the first clause , empowering fhe Commissioners of the Treasury to pay from the Consolidated Fund sueh sum of money as shall be needed for purchasing lands , tenements , and hereditaments , for the use of these new colleges , " and foi' the necessary buildings with the appurtenances thereof , " and for establishing and furnishing the same , not exceeding £ 33 , 333 Gs . 8 d . for each such college , and not exceeding £ 100 , 000 in the whole .

      Lord Jons _Rossell proposed as an amendment , to add after the words which we have enclosed in inverted commas , the words "including the building of the hulls hereinafter mentioned for the reception of students . " lie likewise proposed to omit the words which divided the grant of £ 100 , 000 equally between tlie three proposed new colleges , in order to enable Government to expend on any one of thorn a sum proportionate to its wants be it more or less than £ 33 , 333 6 s . 8 d . Sir James _Gjiahah , 011 the part of thc Government , declared that it could not assent to cither of these amendments . Upon the issue thus joined between the two parties in the liouse , fhe question of separate or mixed religious or secular education was again raised and strenuously debated . The committee divided , when there

      appeared—For thc amendment 42 Against it ' ... ... ... 117 Majority ——75 So it was carried in tho negative . The first clause was then agreed to . Some slight amendments were made iu the intermediate clauses , _bunothing of any importance occurred until the _committei nvrived at the 10 th clause , which makes her Majesty tin visitor ofthe new colleges , and gives her the power of appointing the professors until the end of _tlieyoar 1 S 48 , and afterwards leaves the appointment to be provided for b \ Parliament , or vests it in her Majesty , her heirs and successors _, in default of any provision to the contrary _.

      Mr . W vse objected to the latter part of this clause , ami moved that it he left out of the bill . He proposed _instead of it that words should be substituted to this effect , —thai on _^ iny future vacancy occurring in the professorships _, _sui-li vacancy should be filled up by such candidates as , after due public examination before _couipetcntcxanunei-s should be declared by them ( being otherwise qualified b _> character and conduct ) to be the most competent to discharge the duties of sueh professorships . Considerable discussion followed ; but thc _committci at last divided , and the amendment was negatived by 111 over 47 .

      fair II . W , Bakkon then moved that tho following proviso be added to the clause : "Provided always , that previous to the first appointment of any rector , president , head of college , or professor under this act , the Board ol Education in Ireland shall have power to present three names to thc Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland , who mustseleci one ofthe said persons to fill such office . " If the Gover . ment acceded to this proviso it would take away all religious anil political bias from these appointments , ami would destroy thc objections urged against this bill on the score of Ministerial patronage . Sir J . Graham observed , thatif he were merely seeking the convenience ofthe Government , he would willin"l > deprive it of this patronage- , but as the committee liad decided that the responsibility of these appointments ought to rest on the Government , ' he must resist the amciidmeiit of Sir H . Barron . * He objected also to resting tliis patronage in the parties on whom Sir II . Barron hail cast the duty of dispensing it . It would diminish the emciency ofthe Board of Education anddestroy the harmony _u-i'h which it . had hitherto acted in concert with the ¦

      Government . . _-- _*' Alter a short discussion ' the _amendmeut was negatived . ¦ _Ui-. O'CostiELL then-moved that the clause be stl'lliii out of tlie bill . ¦ ¦ ¦

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      On this question the committee divided ; but the amendment was negatived by 129 over 24 voices . The clause was then agreed to , as were also clauses 11 , 12 , and 13 . ¦ ¦ The Chairman then reported progress , and asked leave t (* sit again to-morrow ( Tuesday . ) The Peg - ? H' 3 ! f n {> _?•*•! : 1 ? read a third time and passed . * The other ord _^ s ofthe day were then disposed of , am thc house adjourned . . ¦

      Tuesbat , July 1 . Captain Latard called the attention of the liouse to the necessity of limiting the duration of service in the army , and moved that an humble address be presented to her Majesty , praying that she will be graciously pleased to din ct inquiry to be made how far the reduction of the period of service iu the army , from the present unlimited term to ten years , would tend to procure a better class of recruits , dimiaish desertion , and thus add to the efficiency of th » sen-ice . Mr . S . Herhebt said that great improvements had been effected in the army within the last few years , to an extent which had ' caused the service to become now popular with the community . The attention paid to the feelings , comfort , and respectability of the men , rendered the service superior tothe military service of other nations . Such being thc case he thought the motion altogethcr unnecessary .

      After some observations from Mr . Hume , Sir K . Douglas , and Mr . Williams , the motion was eventually negatived without a division , Mr . M . _Milses then brought forward a motion relative to the evil effects of public executions , his object being to obtain leave to bring in a bill to give power to the judges to direct executions to take place within the precincts of the prison whenever it should seem proper to them to do so . While the hon , gentleman , however , was still addressing the house , An hon . member moved that it be counted , and There not being a sufficient _number of members pre . sent , the house forthwith adjourned .

      _Wedxesdat , _Jl'lY 2 , On thc motion of Mr . W . _Coytpeh , ihe _Field Gardens Bill went into committee ; but on the very first clause which came under consideration , Mr . lloebuek moved that the chairman leave the chair . Upon this amendment a discussion took place on the general merits of the bill . It terminated in a division , wherein nineteen voted fov the amendment and forty-two against it . The consideration of the bill was in consequence proceeded with . Several amendments were proposed , discussed , and adopted . The house then resumed , On the motion of Lord Ashlet , the house then went into committee ou the Lunatic Asylums and Pauper Lunatics Bills . The rem ; infer ofthe evening was consumed in discussing sere , al clauses of the bill .. The other _oiders of the day were then disposed of , and the liouse adjourned .

      _TnunsDAT , Jult 3 . Mr . T . S . Doncombe presented a petition from Capt . Digby , of thc Koyal _Haxy , complaining ot being forcibly taken out of his house , and taken to a lunatic asylum , where ho was deprived of all _commun- ' cat oii with his friends , and kept in confinement t- ' xtecti -weeks . The petitioner prayed that , befon the tun icy Bill passed , a coramittue mig ht be appointed to inquire into the manner in which persons were used that were charged with being lunatics . " The hon . member presented several other petitions from different individuals to the same effect . The ' .-petitions were _orderud to be printed with the votes , tl e'hon . member . -giving notice of his intention to found a motion upon them .

      • _rnr poob _iaw amendment ( Scotland ) bim ,. Mr . T . S . Ddnoom ie presented a potition from Dundeed compla ' ning of the New Poor Law Bill for Scotland , and especially that no provision had been made . in : it for the able-bodied poor . The lion , member also presented a petition from Edinburgh , whieh prayed also that a clause might be added to the bill , declaring that the able-bodied poor in Scotland were as much entitled to relief as in England .- ' The hon . member also presented a similar petition from Aberdeen . Sir James Graham moved the order ofthe day for going into committee on the Poor Law for Scotland . Mr . A . Oswald moved that the bill be committed that day six months . He was decidedly against its provisions , and he believed the feeling of the people of Scotland was generally against the bill . Mr . Sharman Crawiord seconded the motion .- The

      condition of the poor of Scotland was deplorable in the extreme , aiid required a much more efficient measure than the one before the house . He objectod more especially to thc _^ machinery of the bill that provided for . the raising , of the funds and the administration of relief . He considered the * management of the poor eould not . be placed in worse hands than the . present . Kivk . Sessions ' ; yet it was proposed to perpetuate their functions . He npuld oily refer , to the north , of Scotland to Shew ; _fhi w the poor had been treated . Why , one com ty : had been almost depopulated , - ' having bccn ' coi . _vcrted into a ' vait sIiot- * "' * . Mr . Crawford lic'fe _j rca'd extracts from the evidence of the Scteh Poor taw _Commissioiicw , aiid also from fhe articles that have recently .. appeared in the Times newspaper , showing ' the

      _denlor-iWe state of the poor in Sutherirtnd 7 Much had been ' snid of the improvements in * Sutherland , and that £ C 0 ; 000 more than the rental ofthe county had been expenfed on those ' improvements since 1811 to thc presett time . The benefits / however , had not yet been ( iscovered , for it came out that the rental of the county waB iii 1811 above £ 33 , 000 , whereas in 1833 it was nottrorejtliuu £ 35 , 000 * This did not look much like _improvi ment , or that the system pursued had been productive of any benefits either to the landlords or tenants . Tin re were no . manufactures , no trade , no business " of tiny kind going forward , even the fisheries had gone into decay under the system of improvement that had been going forward . ' He instanced the village of Helmsdale as ' a proof of the last particular . .

      ; Mr . Locn replied to the statements and charge * winch me hon , member for Rochdale had brought against the management of tho Sutherland estates . He read a number of extracts from documents which he held in his hand , to tho effect that great improvements had taken place in the condition , habits , and character of the popua ion of that part of the country . Mr . Sheil and Mr . _Newdegate objected to that portion of the bill which preveuted Englishmen and Irishmen from gaining a _settlement in Scotland . They considered that industrious residence should command relief in ¦ my part of the Unite _' d Kingdom .

      Mr . Edward _Elice said he had had great difficulty in making up his mind as to the course he should pursue . He believed that the Government had attempted to grapple with the subject of pauperism in Scotland in an honest spirit . Still , there was so much in the bill that was objectionable—so " much to favour the landlords and depress the ' poor—that he felt compelled to support the amendment . He objected especially to the constitution of the Board . of Supervision , and also to thc mode in which the relief was to be administered . . . Mr . P . M . Stewart contended that the general feeling of the people of Scotland was against the bill , and urged the postponement of it till another session . Mr . Escott supported the amendment . He considered that after the facts which liad been laid before the house , they ought not to proceed any further . .

      Mr . Dundas at . some length defended Mr . Loch and the Dulte of Sutherland , and said that though Sutherland hud not yet shown so much improvement as might have been expected , yet that . it was every year getting better . The system of relief he admitted was very inadequate in Scotland , biit that should not be taken as evidence of the extreme destitution of the poor of Scotland ; to their great honour , the poor o" that county supported each Other even under the n ost adverse circumstances . Sir James Chabam generally . defended the bill . He maintained tbat it was the best that , under the circumstances , could be introdueed into thc management of the poor of Scotland . The house then divided , when there appearel

      For tin amendment ... ... 33 Against it 7 ( 5 Majority against the amendment ... »—43 Tho house then went into committee on the bill , and the consideration ofthe clauses occupied the remainder of tlie evening . . _i Fbiday , July 4 . ' ¦ ¦ _- ¦ _COJ'HONS ENCXOSUBE Bill , On the motion foi the liouse resolving _itsilf into a committee on the Commons Enclosure Bill , Mr . ' S . Crawford moved that the bill be committed that day three months , on the ground that it wOiild conduce only to the benefit of the landowners and the lords of the manor . The house had no right to barter away the rights of succeeding generations ; but he would not object to the enclosure of commons , if it could be effected on equitable grounds , though he would never _assent to the bill before the house . Colonel _Sibthorp seconded the amendment .

      •* Lord Wobslev opposed the amendment , awl wns not sorry the measure was taken out ofhis hands ; for it was one which ought to be taken up by the Government , being of great public importance . Sir . Hume said it was a landlords' bill , and founded on eas parte evidence . It was an invasion , ofthe rights ofthe poor , and he would oppose it as lie had done all other enclosurc hills . After some observations from Mr . _Trelawney and Mr . Henley , Lord Palmekston said it was a great mistake to ' suppose that common lands were public property . The projected system of enclosure would give employment to u great many people , and he would , therefore , sup . port the bill . ¦ Lord Lincolk defended thc bill as unobjectionable in principle . ! Tho housedivided , and the amendment of Mr . Crawford was negatived by a majority of 121 toll . '

      The liouse then went into committee , and was occupied during the remainder of tho evening in discussing the several clauses .- ' '

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      The next Delegate Meeting of the South _STAFFoniisiiiRE _Mixeks will be held on Monday , July Uth , at . the . house of : Mr . John . Griffiths ,. Lamp lavern , Walsall ,, Chair : to be _takenuit _' ten o ' clock liithc moiaiiiig . A public meeting will be held the same day , lhe chair . to . be taken . attvM o ' elcck . " Mr . Ramsay , will addrcs _9 £ . a _jneetingH _^ Sthe _Bloxwicli Miners , on Monday , July ¦ 7 th , at _feWdid in the m . ormn <> . _" _ym *?

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      DREADFUL CONFLICT IN IRELAND . _* atai . Collision between the roucE asd PEASANTRY of tub County Cork . —Dubmn , July 2 , —• Accounts have been received in town of H melancholy colli ? ' "? " _^ een police and »| _£ peasantry , winch took place oVi _^ C _' uay evening at the fair of _BuHinliajsi- _* _, near Cork , when eight of tho latter . _ve _* ! , ; Vilcil ° and about twenty-five wounded . Two men were fighting , and tlie police arrested one , who would not he appeased ; they confined lmn in the village dispensarv , when his friends collected in great numbers * and _' demanded liis release , which , wis refused and at once a furious attack was commenced upon the building , and some of the nolice . werc struck with stones . The police fired , and , shocking to relate , eight persons were killed and several otheii * wounded . _;; * ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ _-, T . _- _^ .,.. _„^ _, _'„' _' _^ _r _. T . _* _, * _m

      _rUBTIIEK PAnTICULAnS . ( From the Cork Reporter . ) Ballishassig , Tuesday Mobm . no . — I have been for tlie last seven or eight hours witnessing scenes ol such an agonising and heartrending nature , that I almost despair of -being enabled to convey any idea of their horror in the hasty notice I send you . The peace of this hitherto most tranquil village litis been sadly disturbed , and in almost every second house about thc neighbourhood are hcavd the waitings of

      widowed mothers aud fatherless children , or the loud and disconsolate grief of friends and neighbours at the sufferings of tlieir wounded relatives . Amid the excitement and confusion whicli prevail all about , it is difficult to eollcct accurate details of all the facts ; but I have made the most minute inquiries , and spoken to at least forty of the persons , who were at the fatal spot , or in its immediate vicinity . I am , therefore , enabled to supply yon with what I think may be generally taken as a correct outline of the melancholy transaction . ' .

      There is an annual fair held in thc village ot Ballirihas 5 ig _, onthc 30 thofJune , wliich is usually well attended by all the farmers and people in that district , and it is , I believe , customary to send a small police force to the fair in order to prevent riots , or the disturbance of the peace . This precaution was taken yesterday ; but , unfortunately , in my judgment , not carried out with either the prudence , good temper , or moderation which the judicious discharge of so onerous and responsible a duty demanded . About half-past seven o ' clock , when the business oi the fair had concluded , a number of persons remained near the fair field , and about the little village . I have made special inquiries to ascertain whether many were under the influence of drink ,

      and I find that those that were so were comparatively few , the great majority being sober and very peaceable , A party of police , nineteen iu number , under the command of Mr . Kelly , sub-inspector at Ivinsale , were stationed near thc _cro-s-road . Atone iide of this spot is a public-house , kept , I think , by i person named CaJJaghan , and at the o her side of the road , running parallel with it , ia a low slated House which has latterly been used as a dispensary . I _' wo _' pcrsons in the crowd , from the neighbourhood of _Adanistown , whose names I understand are Sullivan and Neale , began to quarrel , and others having interfered—whether as combatants or peace-makers I cannot ascertain—the police felt it their duty to arrest one of the principals , Sullivan , and immediately on

      their doing so one or two mischievous persons called out in Irish , " Don ' t let him with them . " Symptoms of a disposition to rescue Sullivan having thus become perceptible , tlie police retired with tlieir prisoner to the dispensary—the door of that edifice was not on the hinges , but it _waylaid to . Here soiiic stone throwing occurred . To what extent the rioting was carried on in front , at this moment , I cannot say , but some shots having been fired , a number ofthe country people got into a garden behind thc dispensary , and were throwing stones on the roof , until they had smashed it . in two or three places . The police , in the mean time , had been again ordered to load , and very soon after they had got into thc dispensary , they tired from the window and door , with deadly effect .

      There was no magistrate present ; no Riot Act read ; no warning , as I am positively informed , to the people to desist ; no attempt made to disperse them by a bayonet charge , or a volley of blank cartridge . At the first ( ire several fell , and the police then came out ; some of them fired again , and again returned , and the whole party once again rushed out , and the people having by this time run in all directions , they turned up by the bridge in the direction of their barracks . When they went from the dispensary a small body of people followed them , and though no attack was , as i can learn , then attempted , one or two of the police turned round , and again fired with the same aim and effect that signalised their previous proceedings . . I shall now come to the sad spectacle which

      presented itself on my arrival at ' the village . Having received intimation in Cork about twelve o ' clock at night of what had occurred , I proceded to the lucidity , in company witn _JOr . _M'i / _vers , _wlio-ie valuable services were put in requisition for the relief of the unhappy sufferers . 'Hie . first house Ave entered , a wretched hovel near the bridge , presented a sight that it would require the gifted pencil of _M'Clise to depict , or the pen of Carieton to embody in the pages of some of liis most thrilling narratives of Irish suffering . On aheap of potatoes in the corner , resting on the lap of an aged wonian , t > vhosc anguish seemed too deep and intense for utterance , lay tlio body of a Me athletic man , his clothes open , and his chest covered with blood ; three or four women were collected about

      , a group , of men surrounded , him , and only a hollow moan froni the women occasionally broke thesilence of tlie house ofmourning . With some difficulty I made way for the doctor , and when he held the candle to his ghastly features and looked for a moment on the last convulsive agony , he saw that his end was come . In less than a minntc he had ceased to exist , and his _annoimeemcht of the melancholy ; truth seemed the signal for a burst of that anguish only the Irish peasant can express , when involved in such absorbing sorrow . The name of the deceased was Jeremiah Coglan ; he lived at Skehanagh , was a small farmer , and had left , besides his aged mother , a wife and one child to bewail his . sad and untimely fate ., The bullet entered at Itis back , and passing through , the Jungs came out : at thc left side ; We then hastened to tlte

      nearest place where it was intimated that one ofthe sufferers lay , and in a little liouse in the village , stretched on the earthen floor , we found a fine young man named John Walsh , from CarrigaXine , aged 21 . His right leg was literally shivered to bits : it had been hastily dressed , but on opening the bandage several large splinters of bone came away . It was dressed'again , as _. wcll as time arid circumstances would permit , and the poor sufferer expressed his gratitude over and over for tie relief he was afforded . The doctor at once recommended that he should be removed into Cork to thc infirmary , where amputation of the limb should take place , ns the onl y chance of saving his life . He was unmarried , but 1 wns Informed ' had a young unnily of brothers and sisters who were mainly dependent on his labours . '

      From this we proceeded with all expedition to Adamstown , where some of the most dangerous cases had been removed to their own houses . At the house of Maurice Corkran , whom we found lyirg on a bed almost in the agonies . of death , his wife and four young children were screaming at the bed-side , and a crowd of neighbours blocked up the single apartment of his wretched and cheerless habitation . On examining him , the doctor was of opinion that his case was quite hopeless . The bullet had entered between the eighth and ninth ribs , and as well as could be ascertained , passing through the abdominal viscera , came out at the other side . lie was throwiii" up blood in vast quantities , aiid was fast sinking . Vhc doctor having done all that he thought advisable for the poor sufferer , wc praecded about half a m . lc further on , where we were informed another victim lay . On entering the house cf John Desmond , at Adamstown , we tound him lying in bed , with two _eunshot

      wounds . In one place the bullet entered at the hipbone , and came out behind , the flesh ' then tain *' greatly lacerated . The other wound presented far more dangerous symptoms ; * the ball had _unteved at thc back iienr thc spine , and was lodged in the abdomen . Alter a minute examination the doctor resolved on extracting it , and did so from the front in the lnostcxpeditioiisand scientific maimer While engaged in the operation the poor man manifested the greatest courage ; he bore it with patience , such Ml never Wore saw equalled , and it has been my lotto have been present on several such like 0 cca-* T _^ _h 1 m mv Possession ; it is slightly flattened at one side , by , I presume , concussion with the rib . Such sedatives as were deemed proper were _henadmiiiistei-cd-fomcii tations _, poultices & c , to keep down inflammation , and unless internal hemorrhage should supervene , it is possible he may recover . l He odds , however , are fearfully against him . * He was a remarkably , athletic man , and had only been married last Kaster . '

      Returning from this poor man's house wc met a tine stout young man named Richard Barrett , of _Balhnplicliek , the son , I understand , of a very comfortable farmer , and a very respectable man . A bullet had entered thc . back of his left hand between thc first and second metacarpal bones , and lodged iu the ball of the thumb . The hand was so dreadfully swollen aud inflamed that nothing could be then done for him , and he was recommended to conic into tlie infirmary . ; The next house wc arrived at was that of Jeremiah Conway , of Liskilea ; This man received the bullet in such a very dangerous and critical spot that very slight hopes indeed are . entertained ' of his " recovery

      , It entered . through * the centre of tho right bladebone , and made its exit through the armpit , wounding the important vessels in that _neighbourhood , and causing an immense effusion of Mood , which left the ' . patient in a , most exhausted and sinking state .- '* His ' wound was most carefully dressed , arid nis friends were advised to bring hiin to the infirmary without delay Within a . _fevy doors of this _mah'V house Jay another _tfiiffereiv _^ a niaiipf fine athletic frame , and evidently possessing great : muscular - power . His name was John Walsh , of llerour , and his case was perhaps " the most- •¦ _rc'iiarlfable . of _^ the critii - e ,. - ; . _'Tuo bullet entered on the right side , and over the cartilage of the second rib , it then _travused across the chest , aud nude it - *

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      exit near the axilla , or armpit ; lacerating the flesh dreadfully , but without , it is hoped , fracturing the chest bone . Such remedies as were most proper were _spcciuly administered , and tin } case promises a fa . Yourable result . Crossing a large tract of country we next came i & a house where / indeed , a most atHicting spectacle awaited us . The woman of the house , Johannah Holland , aged 23 , and lately married , was shot dead near the bridge in thc village , after the police had left thc dispensary . Hei * mangled corpse was ly ing on a table lacing the door , and a vast crowd , principally women , thronged tho house , which , from _itg general appearance , i should say belonged to a comfortable farmer . On examination , it was found that exit ? ear the axilla , or armpit ; lacerating the fleS ;

      the ball entered at the back , and passing between ihe shoulders through the lungs , caused instantaneous death . The deceased was a very respectable , quiet woman , and was by mere accident passing through the village on her way home , at the moment of the untoward event , wliich brought her to a premature grave . When no service could be rendered her , we hastened back to thc village , and found there a poor old man , named Michael Donnelly , whose right arm had been perforated by a bullet , and who was greatly exhausted from loss of Wood . With the aid of the probe , it was ascertained that the bone had not been broken , thc ball having passed through the flesh y part of the arm , and it is hoped that no ulterior danger will result , with care and judicious

      treatment . The bodios of . the other victims _^ nowh . id been removed to a distance near Five Mile-bridge by their friends , and I cannot await seeing them to forward this in time for post . A powerful young man named Cornelius Fordc , who resided at BalJinavoh . ee . is shot dead through the chest , and a man named Charles M'Cartliy , who resided at Ballyhccda , and has left a wife and ' four young children , is also shot dead , and has been carried to a distance from the spot by his friends . A man named Deasy is also stated to be so dangerously wounded as that his death is hourly expected . There is a policeman named Dawson rather severely hurt . He has three cuts on his head from stones , and his lip is split ; but nothing move serious than those cuts and bruises . He was sheltered at a gentleman ' s house in the neighbourhood , whicli was the means of saving his life from thc infuriated

      people . There is one matter more to which , before I close , I must call your special attention . I examined carefully thc dispensary in which thc police took refuge , and now observe its position . There is a window and door in front facing the cross road ; there is ko window or aperture to the rear . The stones wliich knocked in the roof were all thrown from the rear , and yet the firing necessarily was directed against thc people in front , who could not have been the parties to that attack on the building . I have not time to add more . There arc over a hundred and twenty nolicc under arms in the barracks on the Usmdon-road , under the command of Mr . _Wallier , sub-inspector of Cork , it mc-scngcr has been despatched forthe coroner , and I shall send you a report of the proceedings on the inquest with all despatch . BalLixiussk ? , Tuesday , Two o'Clock . —The utmost excitement prevails for several miles around .

      Thepeople , and they are proverbial for exemplary ; conduct , are sullen . They arc most respectful to all : parties seeking information , * they ask for an impartial _investigation—a request that tliere seems every prospect of having conceded fo them . The magistrates—Mr . John Molony , Mr . William Meade , andl Mr . T . J . Biggs—the coroner , Mr . Franklin , Bald win—the parish priest , the R - *> V , John Jlnllinariand a considerable number of the surrounding gentry and respectable farmers , after a consultation have agreed , and it has been resolved upon , fhat the inquest shall not commence its sittings until nine o ' clock on Thursday morning , seyc-ral circumstances concurring to vender that eourso the most prudent . In the meantime , counsel and agents arc to be engaged , the friends and relatives of the ill fated deceased and wounded—of the former six , of the latter ascertained , 25 ; some , it is feared , mortally—having taken measures to insure justice .

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      Important To Weavers. To The Editor Op ;...

      IMPORTANT TO _WEAVERS . TO THE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN STAR . ¦•¦ Respected Sin , —I am instructed by the Broad Silk Ilandloom Weavers of Spitalfields , to request that , you -will . be so _kindas _^ o a _^ low them , through the medium of your valuable journal , to call the attention of the whole of tlio Silk Weavers to a bill which has been introduced into the House of Lords by Lord Lilford , intituled , " An Act to make further regulations respecting the tickets of work to be delivered , to Silk Wcsivcrs in certain cases . " This bill has been well discussed by a committee appointed for that pui _' iose , and after going tlirough it clause . by . clause , they can . e to the resolution that the bill , instead of benefitting the ... Weavers , would ( by its close connection with other Acts of a very injurious character to tho workmen ) prove a very great injury .

      lhe first clause of this Act requires that the manufacturer shall deliver a ticket of work tothe Weaver , specifying _. the count or richness ofthe warp or iane : the number of shoots , or picks required in each inch ; the number of threads of . weft to be used in each shoot ; the number of days allowed for weaving any specified length of fabric ; the n ' ame ' of the manufacturer , or thc style of the firm under which he carries on business ; the weaver ' s name , ' with the date of the engagement ; and the price in sterling money agreed on for executing each yard , imperial standard measure of thirty-sixinches of such work , in a workmanlike manner _. This appears very plausible ; but it a manufacturer gives out a ticket of work whicli requires the weaver to bring home his cut at a certain

      Hire mentioned on the ' said ticket , may he not keep him afterwards waiting for his shoot , and thus prevent him from taking home his cut at the time set forth on the ticket ? Should this be the case there are other Acts which may be connected with this Act , _wh-. ch will allow the manufacturer to stop a portion of the' man ' s wages , or to semi him to prison for any term not exceeding three calendar months . This bill is also considered by the Weavers' Committee extremely defective , because it makes no allowance for illness , accidents , or any other casualty which may . unfortunately arise . There are also several other clauses in it equally as objectionable , and even more . detrimental . to the interest of thowork man than the one described above . The committee

      also resolved , "That wc consider the ticket system a bad one , and arc therefore entirely opposed to it . " We , thc weavers of London , having thus briefly explained the nature and bearing of the said bill , SillCClcly hope that our country brethren will do their duty in imposing it , or procuring its amendment ; for if they do not , this bill , with the other Acts with which it is connected , will place them entirely at tho mercy of the manufacturer , to do with tliem - as he pleases ; and should they dare to complain , they will be consigned to a prison . There is also another _subjeet to ivJnch the ;; weavers of Spitalfields would beg most to call

      earnestly the attention of all trades ; namely , a notice of motion ' , by Sir II . Alford , in the House ot Commons , respecting the 5 th of George IV ., relating to masters and servants . We hope that this is not a sly method of introducing a Masters' and Servants Bill .-II p ping that you will oblige the Weavers ot Spitalfields , by inserting this letter , I remain , sir , yours respectfully , J . S . _SiiEURAnn , _Secrel 3 _[^* V } _ty _^& _t _f _*? ik Hand-Loom Weavers of bpitalhelds ; and London Secretary to the Weavers ot Leigh , Wigan , Midulcton , Carlisle , Norwich , and _Banish-London , July 2 nd , 1 S 45-5 , Abbey-street , Bctliiial-Grccn-road .

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      •• PORTUGAL . 1 he most extraordinary activity is displayed , on the part both ot the Government and of the Opposition , m preparing for the approaching elections , and the contest is conducted with more than usual bitterness _, lhe election takes place this month . Two persons were tried on the 10 th for participation by connivance in the revolt of Torres Novas , 10 months since , ihe jury acquitted them . They had been imprisoned more than a twelvemonth , and for a time transported to Madeira .

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      Pnntedb / DOUGAL M'GOWAN , of 17 , great Windmill .

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      ¦ ¦ ST ' 1 , aymarm ' _™ City of Westminster , at the oaeein the same Street and Parish , for the Pre , prietor , l _' _-l- . AUGUS O'G 0 SNOU : E 8 q ., andpublisliedby .. - WittiAji Hewitt , of No . 18 , _Cuarles-street , Brandon _, street , Walworth , in the Parish of 81 . Mary , _Newington , in the County of _Surrejf , at the Office , No . ;« 0 , Strand , in thO Parish o St . _Mary-lcStranil , ii tlie City of Westminster Saturday , July 6 . _184 S ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 5, 1845, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_05071845/page/8/