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      " THE REPEAL VAGARIES . " A HKW FACE OX XS OLD FKIBSD . " ' .. _ ' . Iftthe weekly Freeman ' * Journal we find the foliowing account of the recent " melting up' of the old " heavy metal" of the Com Exchange , and the shape in which , it reappears as a bran spanking new " casting : " — . « THE ' 82 CLUB , " - ' - - " At a numerous meeting of gentlemen , held at 17 , upper Budringham-street , Dublin , on tie 2 nd of January , 18 iS , WSliam Smith ( TSrien , &q .. MJ > ., in «*• f ™ it * as moved Dj Henry Grattan , Esq ., M . P . ; seconded by -Win . Bijan , Esq ; : That we whose names are hereunto subscribed , a " o hereby constitute ourselves a dub , to be called " The ^ 82 dub . " That the object of the club is to feeOitate the Repeal of the Union—to secure the establishment of the legidatire Independence of Ireland ; and as a means for the attainment of these ends , to enconrage Irish manufactures , art , and literature ) and to diffuse through society a national feeling .

      FCNDAXESTAI , 1 ULE 3 . • Moved by C ! harles G . Dufly , Esq . ; seconded by John Xloyd Fitzgerald , Esq .: That the dub shall dine together on the anniversary of the Declaration of Legislative Independence in 1783 , and of such other great events in Irish history as shall be hereafter determined . —Moved by John Gray , Esq . ; seconded by Thomas UacNeyin , Esq .: That the Charter Toast of the club be " The Legislative Independence of Ireland . "—Moved by Francis Comyn , Esq ., Ex-J . P . ; seconded by Bicbard O'Gorman , jun ., Esq .: That the dub shall give an annual baU . —Moved by R . Mullen , Esq . ; seconded by Robert Ferguson , Esq .: That tie dub uniform ie a green tody coat with velvet collar , icMte sfcirt linings , and gUt Mttm , inscribed " 1782 " in a wreath of Shamrocks , white tabinet rest , green pantaloons

      uniform with coat in winter , andtcAifedncfc tn summer , patentleatherlooU , white Md gloves , and Mack satin cravat , subject to changes by the Committeee , am . of Irish MANdfactcbe . —JToved by Richard O'Gorman , Esq . ; seconded by John Dillon , Esq .: That aU the members shall le obliged to wear the club uniform at meetings whenever required to do so by the Committee . —Moved by James O'flea , Esq . ; seconded by William JIackey , Esq . : That the Akncax Subsckiption be One Guinea , payaUe hx advance . —JLivod by Thomas Paris , Esq . ; seconded by J . 31 . Longman , Esq : That future members be elected at a General Meeting of the dub , by ballot , on a notice signed by a proposer and seconder ; that this notice be sent to the secretaries three weeks at least before the day of ballot , and that tiie secretaries send the names of the candidates to the members a

      fortnight before the ballot—Jloved by Wilson Gray , Esq . ; seconded by Thomas Gahvay , Esq .: That the business of the dub be managed by the President , Vice-President ^ Secretaries , Treasurers , and a Committee of twenty-one , with power to increase then niinibers during the present year to thirty-one ; the office-bearers being ex-officio members of the Committee . — -Moved by Edward Clements , Esq . ; seconded by Joseph Henry Dunne , jun ., Esq .: That the quorum of Committee be seven , and that the meetings of Committee be summoned by at least two of the secretaries , or the requisition of seven members of Committee . —Moved by Henry Grattan , Esq ., M . P . ; . seconded by Prands Comyn , Esq ., ex-J . P .: That in the ballot one black bean in seven shall exclude , and that at least twentyone members must vote to render such ballot valid . — The following Gentlemen irere elected Officers and Committee for the year 1845 j—President , Daniel O'Connell , Esq ., M . P . —Vice Presidents , the Bight Hon . Lord French , "William Smith O'Brien , Esq .. M . P ., Henry Grattan , Esq .,

      2 LP ., Edmond B . Hoche , Esq ., M . P ., Cornelius M * Loughlin , £ sq ., T . G . —Committee , Hon . George HdyHutchinson , James Kelly , Esq ., 1 LP ., Richard Albert Fitzgerald , Esq ., Sir Benjamin Morris , Mayor of Waterfbrd , Maurice O'Connell , Esq ., M . P ., John Mitchell , Esq ., Richard Dowden , Esq ., Mayor of Cork , Thomas Davis , Esq ., Barrister-at-Law , Caleb Powell , Esq ., M . P ., Charles Gavin Daffy , Esq ., T . C ., William John Geary , Esq ., Mayor of limerick , JohnDillon , Esq ., Barrister-at-Law , Nicholas Maher , Esq ., M . P ., Robert Cane , Esq ., Mayor of Kilkenny , Robert Mullen , Esq ., Barrister-at-Law , Francis Comyn , Esq ., Richard O'Gormon , Esq ., Sir Colman O'Loghlen , Bart , Win . Campbell , Esq , Mayor of Drogheda , John O'Connell . Esq ., M . P ., Charles Bianconi , Esq ., Mayor of donmel :-r-Secretaries , John Gray , Esq ., T . C ., 17 , Upper Buckingham-street , Thomas MacXevin , Esq ., Barristerat-Law , 26 , Summer-Hill , Matthew Moriarty , Esq ., Barzistef-at-Law , 33 , Rutland-street : —Treasurers , John Ferguson , Esq ., Solicitor , 98 , Lower Gardiner-street , William Bryan , Esq ., Xaheny-Loage , Baheny .

      On this Irish mode of achieving " national independence" by means of an " annual dinner" ! an " annual ball" ! " green body coat with , velvet collar , white skirt lining , gilt buttons , wlrtetabinet Test , " pantaloons , patent leather loots , white kid gloves . ' and black satin cravat" ! the Dublin World justly remarks : — T ¥ e should rejoice did some one of the initiated inform us whereabouts is to be found that " old curiosity shop , " that theatrical repository of tarnished properties , out of which every now and then some "imp of malice" selects some battered and nondescript absurdity , and throws it in the way of our patriots , as an engine of incalculable power for the regeneration of our country . Some months ago , this laughing spirit cast in the way of—it must hare

      been some denizen of Mary's Lane—a sign of portentous power—a button ! -who struck all of a heap -with the serene and melancholy splendour with which it shone out upon some ancient garment , like a solitary and impressive memorial of former gentility , pronounced at once that such a button so placed was the only fitting emblem of Ireland's memories and hopes , and was , in fact , the thing of aU others , with which to work out her nationality . We have tried the button , since then fully and carefully , according to the prescription . It has b ° en -worn on the right breast and on the left , -with rosettes of " national green , '' and -without them . It has even been exhibited , as the medical people say , in the strongest form , Chinese iashion , on the hat ; nay , the gentle- sex themselves , puzzled though they

      were , like our gracious Queen , when first she assumed the regal garter , " where on earth to place it , " found means , nevertheless , to bring the glimmer of the Iratton to tear on the Saxons , in addition to the lightings of their own far more effective artillery . Yet-what has been the result on the nationality of Ire * land ? none that we have been able to detect yet ; in feet , no effect of any sort worth recording has followed , except , indeed , an unexpected one which we charge the chemists to inquire into , seeing that it raises a suspicion that there must exist some hidden sympathy between buttons and the " laughing gas , " for ire never iailed to observe that abroad grin overspread the countenance of every man on whom their influence was tested . This last effect was grievously disheartening , showing , as it did , no

      indications of those recollections which were expected by the inventors . Perhaps the materials of which the buttons vrere composed destroyed the influence which the form was , in itself , well calculated to exert . The brass peeped out in time from beneath the gilding , like ugly motives now and then intruding themselves amidst the disinterested self-devotion of a patriot and then , of course , they became shabby and suspicious . But now , whatever the cause may have been , that panacea has been laid aside ; andalwajs excepting that " star of the brave , " that " radiant and adored deceit , " as Byron called the Legion of Honour , which still clings to the breast of Dr . Gray , not one Repeal button now twinkles on the cause of nationality . In fact , the truth is not to be disguised , that the public faith in buttons has declined , and the

      whole experiment has been a failure , For our own part i we iadno belief in such trumperies—wemay bepermitted to call them so now—from the beginning . ' We ventured to insinuate that there were other modes in which the claims of Ireland could be far more manfully asserted . We suggested that advantage should be taken of the prestige with which the monster assemblages of last year had invested her demands ; and thather advocates should be directed to bring them before the legislature at a period when time had not diminished the influence which these meetings must have exerted , and when her representatives might have cited them as proofs that they had come there , prompted by the wishes of her people . But our admonitions were disregarded , and we fear that never since the agitation commenced did apathy

      and disappointment so completely beset our people . It is , therefore , with extreme regret that -we perceive that another piece of ancient trumpery is about to be burnished up in order to furnish a pretext for another precisely similar experiment . We allude to a new club , which is to be formed under the name of the " eighty-two dub , " concerning -which -we are told by the Freeman" That Hie object of the Club is to Facilitate the Repeal " of the Union—to secure the Establishment of the legis"lative Independence of Ireland—and , as a means for the attainment of these ends , to encourage Irish Manu" iactures , Art , and Literature , and to diffuse through

      " society a national feeling . " And all this it is to accomplish—hOW do our leaders conceive ? By assuming a "title hallowed by the most glorious associations ; " by adontipj-as their charter toast , " The legislative independence of Ireland ; " and " as their costume , the national green f . and by " promulgating as then- profession of faith , " the declaration which we have above extracted . With great respect to the eighty-two dub , we must say , that there is no one association connected with that period which ought to convey one proud or pleasurable sensation to the minds of the great mass of the Irish people . The hi » torj-of that " glorious rerolution" is shortly told . ' Is -was the result of a combination of a few aristo

      cratic iamBies belonging to the smallest section of the people , who endeavoured to perpetuate to themselves a power which was fast escapingfrom their grasp , and which they had ever employed to persecute and oppress the vast majority—a combination of men , who , through the mouth of the " revered Charlemont" himself , spurned the chums of the Roman Catholics with contempt ; and who , having made a revolution for their own benefit , laughed at the people -who bad sustained them ' in it These are the associations connected with " 82 " in the minds of the Eoman Catholics of this country . This is an age of advancement ; an d we think that ' those who take on them .

      selves the guidance of the people should look forward to a state of thugs very different indeed from the recollection ofKgotiy , semi-Tjarbarism and oppression , which are suggested by that epoch . We foresee very dearly the history which willyet be given of this new bauble which has been adopted . The ' 82 Club will wear the national green , and proclaim their faith , and drink their toast , until everj man jn the land shall have grown weary of -their childishness , and shall become indifferent to their proceedings ; and the Irish people will either abandon in despair the contest which they have so long maintained with such unparalleled devotion , orthey . will scatter these follies to the winds , and choose other men to conduct it .

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      Respecting this same mode « f " regenerating -, « Au WfeiSid . y-the ^ w ^ i ' actet has the Mowing apt lines : — ; .. : ¦ -. ; ... ¦ _ . : ; 0 jostice to Erin is quickly adTancing , The heart of Tom Steele is as light as a feather ; Kepeal must be gained by the "feeds and the dancing—'' The " black satin cravat , " the boots—" patent leather . " Hurrah for the Club ! let the shout be uproarious ! Success must be sure when such leaders unite ; What force can resist men whose dress is so glorious . Whose breeches are green and whose waistcoats are white ? Repeal how is certain . ' ' twere treason to doubt it ; The' 82 Club in resources so rich is : Its members have gone quite the right way about it , The Union is dished by the Emerald breeches !

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      THE CONDITION OF ENGLAND QUESTION . TO THE EDITOR OF THE HOETHEBN STAB . Sra , Itis now nearly twelve months since I addressed a letter to my fellow-workmen and the country at large , through the medium of your valuable journal , on the fallacy of an extension of Free Trade ; showing that such extension did not bring comfort to the homes of the artizan , mechanic , and labourer . As the meeting of Parliament is approaching , we shall no doubt have the mover and seconder of the address in reply to the Royal speech , again lauding the prosperity of the country , and quoting the exports and imports as proof of such prosperity . Sir , I have been a close observer of passing events , at leastintheunfortunate trade to whichlbelong ( namely , fustian-cutting ) , and I find since I last addressed you on

      this subject , that the Fustian Cutters , with all the brisk trade we have had , are now in a worse condition ( if worse can be ) , than we were twelve months since . I still maintain that it is because Capital is protected ; and Labour , the poor man ' s only property , is still left unprotected . I am not aware that the population of any other country ever presented such a subject for serious inquiry and reflection as that of England at the present moment . Ignorance and poverty , intelligence and comfort , have in all ages been so intimately connected as cause and effect , that I can scarcely bring myself to believe in the existence of the one , without thinking of the other as its natural consequence ; yet , in despite of such association , we find that the reverse is precisely the case with the Working

      Classes of this country . They are not only the most industrious and hard-working people on earth , but they are also the most intelligent and best informed , and what is most extraordinary , and apparently unaccountable , they are the most wretched and poverty-struck of human beings . Though they ave well informed , not only on almost all subjects immediately connected with their peculiar situation in life—though by their industry , aided by the inventions of genius , they produce more than any other people in the world , and ought in consequence also to enjoy more , yet the pages of almost every journal in the kingdom teem with accounts of deaths from starvation ; yes , even in the very journals which are chanting the revival and extension of trade .

      This is a most anomalous situation for any people to be placed in , when it is viewed in conjunction with that of the higher classes in the country—the money and landed aristocracy . They still sleep on beds of down ; they still live on the fat of the land ; they still reside in mansions , which rival in splendour and comfort the palaces of continental Sovereigns ; they still sport their carriages , — while the poor man has to toil sixteen or eighteen hours —and yet live in misery . Nor is this all ; some of the fairest portion of God's creation—yes , sir , young women that cannot get a sufficiency by their employment are ekeing out a miserable and deplorable existence by prostitution . Is this not a state of things calling for Parliamentary inquiry ?

      Such is the situation of a large portion of our manufacturing population . And it is one which demands the most serious inquiry and deliberation from every wellwisher of his country . The few possess everythingwealth , comfort , and legislative authority ; while the many can lay claim to nothing but unmatched physical power , and an extent of intelligence and information , which puts to the blush the attainments of most of their " superiors . " Both these they do possess—and possess in such abundance , that unless some decided improvement takes place in their condition—( of which God knows I see but little prospect)—a tremendous conflict must one day or other ensue between them and those whose proceedings have reduced them to such pitiable distress .

      It would be the height of folly to believe for a moment , that a great body of men who are thoroughly aware of their rights , should be content to sit down day after day to a scanty meal of "hog ' s fare ; " while those who have no care but amusements , and no toil but that of " killing the dull hour of idleness , " are enjoying the sweets of the land ; and a still greater absurdity to imagine , intelligent as the people of this country are , that if .. the fetal hour ever arrived in which the two classes should be arrayed against each other , they would not ultimately prevail . God forbid that such a conflict should ever take place ; but looking at the present condition of the Working Classes , I put it to any reasonable man , whether it is not such as to afford strong grounds for alarm ? whether it can long remain as it now is ? and whether it would not be wise in those who possess the supreme power to prevent , by timdy concession , the possibility of such an occurrence !

      Were the Working Classes of this country " a swuush multitude , " alike ignorant of their rights and of thenpower to enforce them , there would be little danger in taxing , oppressing , over-working , and starving them to any extent which might appear desirable to those hi power ; any resistance which they might make -would he speedily overcome , and terminate in their subjection to a more galling yoke and more oppressive burthens ; but , instead of this being the case , they have within them all the elements of power—' Undisputed physical force—and intelligence unparalleled in any age or country . What , then , is the course which would be most prudent for an enlightened Government to pursue ? Resistance ! Noit would only be the signal of anarchy and defeat , of horrors and abominations ; but that concession of equal

      rights which justice demands , and that relief from oppressive taxes and over-working , which have reduced the people of this country to such a state of degradation and misery . The Minister who has ' sufficient boldness to do this , may " guide the storm" which impends , and direct " the -whirlwinds" of popular feeling . And never was it in the power of any Government to commence the great work of concession under more favourable circumstances than now exist . Let the Premier , then , pursue this plain and simple course , and he will have arranged under his banner the strength , talent , and industrious classes of the country . Concession , instead of weakening , -will strengthen—and the loss of the affection of the privileged few will be amply compensated for by the favour , support , and approbation of the many .

      I shall conclude this letter by calling on my fellow workmen , and the operatives of the United Kingdom , to step boldly forward in demanding that Labour shall be protected , and in calling their attention to the correspondence betwixt Mr . Drury of Sheffield , and T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., M . P ., in your paper of the 4 th inst . That the Trades in every town , village , and hamlet may be prepared to join in unity in the forthcoming struggle , is th « sincere wish of yours , la the cause of justice against injustice , Lymm , Cheshire , Jan . 20 tb , 1845 . W . D .

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      Dahisg Burglary .- —Coxfiict with , and Cattcrh op the Burglabs . —On the night of Thursday a daring burglary was committed at Gerrard ' s-cress , Buckinghamshire , on the premises of Mr . Thomas Teowell , the French Horn-inn . The above premises have on two previous occasions been burglariousl y entered , the last time not three months since , by ( it is believed ) the same gang of desperadoes who have had their rendezvous in the neighbourhood of TJxbridge . On the last occasion thctbieves effected an entry through the brick wall in front of the house , which is fourteen inches thick , and making an aperture eight inches in diameter , through which one of them entered and admitted Ms companions at the front doer . They then broke open the bar , wine cellar , &e ., and having

      collected whatever they could lay hands on , they sat down in the bar and drank wine and spirits and smoked cigars until they must have been far advanced in intoxication , -when they quitted the premises ( it is supposed about four o ' clock ) , carrying off with them . two flitches of bacon , two cheeses , a timepiece , two pounds of cigars , three coats , three pairs of gaiters , a flannel waistcoat , and a variety of other articles , besides a bottle of brandy and a bottle of peppermint ! The burglary was first discovered about five o'clock on Friday morning , when information was immediately despatched to Mr . John Larkin , the superintendent of the Iver and BuiSham police , who , taking with him George King , one of 1 ii 8 < officers , started for "Oxbridge , and obtained the assistance "

      Serjeant Roadnight , T 11 , to whom the persons ot the gang , whom it was anticipated would make for Uxbridge , were known . The officers accordingly stationed themselves in the neighbourhood of Long Bridge , on TJxbridge Moor , which divides Middlesex from Buckinghamshire , and about nine o ' clock they observed three of the gang , named Robert Ball , Samuel Townsend , and Robert Shoppee , coming over the bridge in a state of intoxication . On their coming up to where the officers were secreted , the latter rushed out , each seizing his man , when a most fearful conflict took place between them . The thieves fought furiously , and , notwithstanding the police in

      return used their truncheons , the result was for some time dubious ; but at that juncture Mr . Cane , a surgeon at TJxbridge , drove up in his gig , and having under the cushion a life-preserver he armed himself with it , and the tide was turned in favour of the officers . The prisoners were then secured arid taken to the station-house at TJxbridge , when , ori searching them , there was found on Shoppee a pair of scissors , which had been stolen from the French Horn , and on Townsend an ornament which had been on the top of the timepiece stolen . Most of the property has been recovered . The gang are committed to Beaconsfield gaol ,

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      Apprehension op a Weslktan'Prbacher . —A very ¦ sin ' gular-cii ^ mstance- ' oiccun ^ -at ^ Wootton-under Edge on Sunday last . On returning from evening service Miss Hunt , the ' sister of Mr . Hunt ,, the bookseller , discovered that this house hadbeen broken into during the absenceof the' family , and -that \ a cheque for money , a watch ; and . a number brother articles had been carried away . ¦ She instantly sent for a-person ' named James Hall , who was in her brother's employment , and who had that ^ afternoon been officiating as usual as a ^ edeyan local preacher , and on communicating to him' what had occurred , he went for a policeiriiin , and on returning with bmthe premises were gone over with the view of ascertaining the manner in which the house had " been " entered "Whilst they were so employed -Mr . Hunt himself arrived , and , oh being told what had occurred , his first inauirv was as to whether a savage little dog

      Avhich he had left in the house had been killed in the fray ; and on learning that it was safe and well , he instantly concluded that the robbery had been accomplished by a person who was well known to the dog . This aroused the suspicions of the policeman , and he contrived to accompany Hall to his ; lodgings , and from one thing to another he felt himself justified in taking him into custody . On being searched the watch was found upon the person of the prisoner , as well as the cheque , and a handkerchief which fcelongedfto Mr . Hunt ; and the probability is , that he had the ' articles in his pockets at the time he was assisting the ' policeman to inspect the premises . He has since made a confession , and all the stolen property has been recovered , some part of it having been found concealed in a hovel about half a mile distant from Woottonunder-Edge . The prisoner has been fully committed for trial .

      An Old Trick . —On Saturday afternoon a man of short stature , in a brown coat , called on a verjr poor woman , residing in Swan-court , and asked her if she took in washing ; on her replying that she did , he said he had half-a-dozen shirts which he wanted her to wash , and that he supposed they would come to half-a-crown , but if not ; that he would pay her that sum , and , putting a 5 s . piece into her hand , told her he would send them—that there were two of his own and four of his master ' s . The poor woman then gave him the change—a half-crown piece . On finding his scheme to answer thus far so well , the fellow then asked her if she had not four of them already ? On receiving an answer in the negative , he falsely told

      her that he had come from Cursitor-street ; to which the woman replied that she had had nothing from any one of that addresa . The -fellow - ' responded , " Then there has been a '' -mistake made , and they have been left with the wrong laundress ; I must give you back again your half-crown ¦; " he then returned her a piece , which , very soon after his departure , the poor toiling washerwoman discovered was a counterfeit , and that a cruel trick had been played upon her . The poor woman , with hopes almost forlorn , repaired to Cursitbratreet in search of the fellow , where she related her story ; but where no one at all answering the description of the swindler is known , nor whence any clothes had been sent to the woman .

      Fires—On Tuesday night , between ten and eleven o ' clock , afire broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr . Farraday , a japanncr , No . 33 , Brick-lane , Spitalfields . It originated in the woiishops at the rear of the dwelling , a building composed chiefly of timber . The building was nearly destroyed . Between twelve and one a second fire was discovered upon the premises of Mr . Davis , a saddler , of 100 , High-street , Borough , b y a gentleman in passing . An alarm was raised , and Serjeant Cowlie , of the M division of police , hastened to the spot , but the smoke was so dense the inmates were unable to descend the the stairs . The serjeant having obtained a ladder the inhabitants were enabled to escape through one of the upper windows . One engine was found sufficient to subaue the flames . ;

      Alarmin g Fire . —On Tuesday morning , about halfpast five , a fire , at first of an alarming character , was discovered b y one of the constables of the E division of police , raging in the workshops at the back of Mr . Myers ' musical instrument warehouse , 63 , Charlottestreet , Fitzroy-square . The constables alarmed the inmates , and as soon as they opened the passage doors the flames from the worhsnops rushed by the back windows into the first floor . The injury done is confined to the destruction of the workshops and their contents , and very great damage done to the umitnre on the first floor .

      A Fatal Ddel . —A duel took place at Mentz on the 3 rd inst ., between M , Rupfcrberg , aged 21 , a clerk in the commercial house at Manheim , but a native of Mentz , and a M . de Layalette , a Prussian Dragoon officer , of a noble family , aged 24 , which terminated fatally for the latter . The quarrel arose from M . Lavalette laughing at M . Rupferberg slipping as he was squiring a young lady from the play , and it was decided with pistols . They fought at fifteen paces . M . de Lavalette fired the first , and wounded M . Rupfcrberg in the belly , who , in falling , fired , and stvucii M . de Lavalette on the artery of tne neck . They were both taken into the town , M . Rupferberg grievously wounded , and M . de Lavalettc lead .

      Two Churches Destroyed bt FrRE . — Edinburgh Sundat Evening . —An event of a most disastrous and truly impressive character has occurred here this morning . The cathedral or collegiate church of the Greyfriars , in connexion with the Scottish . Established Church , a pile of great extent , and peculiarly venerable from its antiquity and historical assoeiations , has been 'almost totally destroyed by fire . It must be understood , that , as in many instances is the case in Scotland , the edifice comprised two churches under one roof , the one being separated from the other by a substantial wall of masonry . The eastern half , in which the Rev . Dr . " Robert Lee officiated , was colled the Old Greyfriars : the ^ western , of which the Rev . Mi . Robertson was minister , the

      New Greyfriars . The building , now in ruins , is finely situated to the south-west of the city , overlooked by the Castle , on its lofty rock , within ! less than hnlf a mile , and the churchyard adjoined the grounds of Heriot's Hospital . The eastern portion , in which the fire originated , is the more ancient , . bearing the date of 1613 ; the western half was erected a century later ; but the site of the former had been occupied by a monastic establishment for some centuries previous to the date mentioned . The fire was caused by the overheating of tho flue of a stove in the southeastern portion of the building . All the seating , furniture , and books have been destroyed , including some highly-prized relics—a table once the ' property of the Reformer , John Knox , and one or two bibles

      of early and rare editions . Fire at Paisley . —A very distressing fire in a weaver ' s shop in Great Hamilton-street , Paisley , took place on Friday night' One of the weavers had just commenced a web of Mr . Morgan ' s , a two-yards wide shawl , with a double-nicked harness , which was entirely new , and all the other utensils of the best description and in good condition . TYhile dressing his web , his harness being held forward by the rofls , he turned to speak to a brother weaver who stood by the loom-sido , Ayhen the great weight of the leads having shifted the rods and brought the

      harness above the gas ) the instant the harness , web , heddles , box , carriage , &c , were in a blaze . The fire had reached the joists of the loft when the shopmates , to save the other looms as well as the tenement , knocked off the racks and brought the burning articles to the treddle-hole . Water was instantly dashed upon it , and the fire got under , but the web and aU the weaving materials are lying a sad wreck . So intense was the heat that the leads were melted into one piece . Thug the weaver , after a month ' s mounting and a great outlay , has in four or five minutes been deprived of his only means of supporting his family . —Renfrewshire Advertiser .

      Coroner's Inquest . —On Monday , Mr . \ V . Carter held an inquest at the Duke ' s Head , Fore-street ; Lambeth , on the body of Charles Inger , aged 64 , a harness-maker , of 28 , Lower Fore-street , Lambeth , whose death occurred under the following distressing circumstances : —Thomas Masser , a police constable of the L division , said , that on Friday morning last , about two o ' clock , he was on duty near the deceased's house , when he heard a great disturbance . Upon going to the street door he could distinctly hear some persons quarrelling within . He knocked , and the door was opened to him , when he saw deceased , and a pan named Thomas Couch , in the passage . . The wife of deceased was also present . Upon witness entering , the deceased . wished . witness to take the

      man into custody for being in his house . He also said that he had been along with his wife since the Thursday morning , drinking . The-deceased appeared somewhat excited in consequence of the base conduct of his wife . He attempted to get her up stairs , but she resisted , and said she would go wherever Couch went . Witness having been obstructed in the execution of his duty by Couch , he threatened to take him into custody , when the wife replied , - "' . If you do , you shall take me also . " Upon deceased 'hearing that , he told witness that he was quite broken-hearted at his wife's conduct . Shortly afterwards he staggered a little , and then fell backwards upon witness ' s knee , a corpse-. Medical aid was sent for , and Mr . Waggetaffpromptly attended , and pronounced life extinct . Upon the wife being informed of the fact , she replied , "Thank God for it 1 " . The deceased was perfectly sober at the time , but his wife

      and the man Couch were both intoxicated . Ann Emily Inger , a daughter of the deceased , said , that her mother had six children , all of whom lived with her . On Thursday morning , at about eleven o ' clock , her mother went out , and she had been drinking with Couch up to two o ' clock on Friday morning , when she returned home with him . At that time the deceased was in bed , and ^ upon witness informing him who had accompanied her mother home , he became greatly excited , got up , dressed himself , and called for the police to remove Couch . Nothing was done to cause ner father ' s death , more than the misconduct of her mother in bringing the man Couch home . Her mother had been to various public-houses , drinlriM witt him , the previous dtiy , and witness had triedto persuade her to go home , but she would not . Mr . W . C . T . Waggstaff , surgeon , said he was called to attend deceased on Friday morning . On arriving he found Mm in the tot

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      v ;; -v . ; . - , r- ¦ :-. ¦ : ; > ¦; VI ' : " . . ; - .. ¦ . ' -x ¦ --roonvquite dead . His countenance was pallid and hisu ps'livid . There " r was nof doubt but that death arose from an affection of the heart , accelerated by considerable excitement of mind . Other evidence having been called , the jury returned the following verdict : —That the deceased died a natural death , accelerated by the base conduct of Ms yrife . The widow was then called" in ^ and severely lectured ; by the coroner , who told her that she was' morally responsible for her husband ' s death . The jury and also himself / were perfectly satisfied that his ' . death was hastened by her unnatural conduct towards him ; arid he ( the coroner ) was of opinion that she was not any longer worthy of being called by the name of woman . All means of support for herself and six children were lost through her own misconduct ; and now she and her children would have to go into the woife house , to be supported by the hard work of other and more deserving persons . '_' ' " ' . ' .

      Murderous Attempt . —Pwllheli was thrown into a 8 tate of much consternation and excitement , on Tuesday morning last , by the intelligence that a foul and deadly attempt had been made on the previous night , about eleven o ' clock , on the person of , Mr . Evan Williams , of Gelliwig , Levn , while returning home in company with Mrs . Williams from this town . Having proceeded nearly as far as the Penrhos Church , on the new road , they found that they were followe d by some person ; who , when he had approached them within a few yards , fired a gun , the ball from which entered Mr . Williams's back , and passed out through the lower part of the abdomen . The unfortunate man immediately fell to the ground ,

      telling Mrs . Williams that he was a dying man , whilst she , almost frantic with horror , cried out " Murder , " and ran to the nearest farmhouse , and called GegJn Bach , informing the inmates of the catastrophe .. The villain , in the meantime , had made his escape . The wounded sufferer was taken to the farmhouse , and medical aid obtained as quickly as possible . Mr . Williams remains in a very weak state , but we are happy to state that favourable hopes are entertained of his ultimate recovery . The cause of the villanous attack is wrapped in mistery , and the assassin has hitherto eluded every attempt at his apprehension . —Carnarvon Herald :

      Sudden DEAra . —On Tuesday night an inquest was held at the Friend in Hand Tavern , Elizabeth-street , Brompton , before MivWakley , M . P ., on view of the body of Colonel Charles Robert Kennett , aged 61 , who was found dead in his bed on Sunday morning . Mr . William Morrah , surgeon , of Sloane-strcet , deposed that he was intimately acquainted with the late gallant colonel , who > had served under the Duke of Wellington in the poninsular campaigns . Witness had attended him professionally since the 10 th of last December ; his complaint was disease ( of the heart . On Sunday morning last , during divine

      service , witness was called from church to attend at the residence of the deceased . Witness went immediately ,: and ' found the gallant officer in bed , quite dead : he must have been dead some hours . —By the Coroner : I am of opinion that the death of the deceased occurred from natural causes . When I first entered the deceased ' s room there was a phial and tumbler on his dressing-table , the latter of which had contained the medicine I had prescribed for him . I have no reason to imagine that he died otherwise than by natural causes . —The evidence of the housekeeper having been heard , the jury returned a verdict of—Died by the visitation of God .

      Strange and Horrible . —Two . brothers , residing in the commune of Pranzac , lately sold a pair of fat bullocks to a butcher of Angouleme . It was agreed that they should , on an appointed day , proceed to the slaughter-house of Angouleme . and receive the money . The money was duly paid , and the brothers set out to return home . When not far from their own house , a man , with a large hood over his face , suddenly appeared on the road before them , and taking aim with a fowling-piece at the foremost brother , shot him dead . He then fired at the second , and broke his arm , and otherwise wounded him . The latter had strength enough to tear open his brothers coat and take out the purse containing the money which they had received for their cattle ; with it he succeeded in reaching his house . The authorities are investigating the matter , but nothing has yet been discovered . —• Galignani .

      Death" by Fire . —On Monday night , Mrs . Johnson , aged 76 , wife of a retired calico printer residing at Wandsworth , was burnt to death by the accidental ignition of her clothes . She was found dead in the passage of her house ; her clothes were almost wholly consumed , and all her hair was burnt off . Attempt to Murder a Priest in Corsica . —The Court of Assizes of Corsica was occupied on Dec . 9 with the trial of a young man , named J . B . Michelangeli , aged twenty-two , for twice discharging , on Juno 7 , a fowling-piece at a priest , named Albertini , with an intent to kill him . It appeared that Albertini , who was the cur 6 of the commune of Lecci , frequently in , his sermons alluded to his parishioners ' conduct , and mentioned their names . The prisoner

      was more . than once reprimanded . m this way for living with a young girl , who was ' on the point of becoming a mother . On All Saints ' -day the cur 6 , seeing both parties in church , rcmdeao strong an attack on them that the girl was obliged to leave the place iU , and the lover soon followed her . A few days after she was delivered of a child , which died almost immediately , and the mother survived it but a short time . In the verses which , according to the Corsican custom , were sung over the corpse , the priest was declared to be the cause of her death . The next Sunday the priest declared from the pulpit that the girl ' s death was a just judgment for her immoral conduct . According to the evidence of Albei-tini , ' nothing occurred until the day of the attempt on his

      life , when , about six in the morning , he perceived , as he was cleaning a horse , the prisoner coming towards hiiu . The prisoner spoke to a woman , named Laure Ferioll ,. who lived in the priest ' s house as housekeeper , and reproached her with being on improper terms with her master . The latter , when approaching the parties , in order to interfere , was , he declared , aimed at by the prisoner , and fired at , but missed . He then returned to the house , and got a gun , with which he pursued the prisoner , who , turning round about , fired at him , but without effect . Such was the aviest ' a statement and that of Laure

      Ferioli ; but Pierre Fcrioli , the brother-in-law of the latter , who was at work in a field close . at hand , declared that the priest had fired the first , and that the . prisoner had only fired once on returning it . Mathieu Marclii , another witness , who was at work at a greater distance , stated that , on hearing the first shot ,, he had looked towards the priest ' s house , and perceived the smoke to come from the place where ie was standing . Under this contradictory evidence the jury took some time to consider their verdict . At last they declared the prisoner to be Guilty . The court , however , sentenced him to only two years' imprisonment . . . . '¦ : ¦ ¦

      InEUsn . —Another Murder in Tippebaby . —On Saturday morning a nian of advanced age ; named Samuel Smith , was murdered at Bawisnafarny , near Moneygall . His head was shockingly fractured , and death must have been instantaneous . Malicious Burking . —On the night of the Cth instant , an uninhabited dwelling-house and outoffices , in which were two cows , on the townland of Oldcastlc , near Coachford , the property of Mary Hill , widow , were maliciously set on fire and totally consumed . The land had been in possession of the

      brother of the widow's late husband , but having allowed it to get into arrear of rent , he was ejected . It is supposed that the eviction in this case was the cause of the premises being fired . Another . —On the night of Wednesday , the 8 th inst ., a range of cow-houses , on the lands 6 ? Ruskeen , near Charleville , the property of Mr . Patrick Carroll ; of Killacalla , were maliciously fired and totally consumed . A number of fowls , goats , and other domestic animals , the property of the herdsman , were also destroyed by the flames . No cause is assigned for this malicious outrage . —Cork Constitution .

      Shooting at a Serjeant . —On Tuesday evening week a corporal of the 44 th Regiment , quartered in George ' s-square Barracks , Devonport , with his musket deliberately shot at a seijeant whilst tho latter was in the barracks in conversation with another corporal . The ball passed through the Serjeant ' s coat and waistcoat , grazing his breast , struck against the wall and rebounded into the barrack-square , and is now in possession of the authorities . The corporal was immediately arrested , but gave no explanation of what induced him to commit such a rash act , nor did he express any regret for having done it . It appeared that he had been absent without leave , and on examining his kit his great coat was missing . This the serjeant in the course of his duty reported ; and it is supposed that revenge prompted him to make the attempt on the Serjeant ' s life . A generalcourtmartial will shortly be assembled to try the prisoner .

      Cow-ision -with an Omnibus ai Wssimdister Bbidge . — On Wednesday afternoon , as an omnibus was coming down the Surrey side of Westminster Bridge a person was observed driving at a furious rate , and evidently intending to make a passage between the omnibus and footpath—an intention which immediately became obvious to a young ] ady who was with the . person in question could not be effected without great danger , ant ] she exclaimed " Stop ! for God ' s sake , stop ! " but without inducing him to pay any attention ; and in another moment he had forced his way , and the wheel of the phaeton going over a stone , he was precipitated on the trround .

      Host providentially a man who was passing seized hold of the reins and stopped the horse , while the young lady threw herself into the carriage road and dragged the unfortunate sufferer from the erouhd . Bythistimeaerowd of persons had assembled , and the gentleman was lifted into the phaeton , though suffering so severely from his fall as to require assistance in pursuing his journey . The conductor of the omnibus ( to whom no blanie whatever can be attached ) Was most active in rendering assistance / It is to be hoped that the narrow escape of this gentleman from a dreadful death will be a warning to others against driving with such reckless disregard of their , own safety or that of others .

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      Destructive Fire at ALxcnEsiEn . - ^ Tuosdav evening arfire was discovered in the warehouse ot Messrs . Smith and Ingle , paper manufacturers , Piccadilly , which spread with a rapidity very similar to that . of the conflagration which destroyed the warehouse at thecorner . of New Brown-street , about two years ago , ; aridsoon ravaged through every floor of the warehouse , and left merely the shell standing . The alarm : was given about twenty-five minutes past nine , o ' clock , the police constables , in the neighbourhood of the warehouse springing their-rattles ; but , from what we could gather , no ^ ne seems to have perceived the fire till it was bursting forth from the windows . Intimation was given at the police-yard , about half-past . nine o ' clock ; and , in ten minutes

      afterwards , , the Niagara engine was on the spot , followed by others in , rapid succession . The warehouse of Messrs . Smith and Ingle is a long building four stories in"height , with the end ( four windowsin breadth ) fronting Piccadilly , and one side ( ten windows in length ) , forming one side of the Mosley Armsyard , ' whichis a narrow yard , open through from Piccadilly to Back Piccadilly ; the other side of this yard being formed by the Mosley Anns Hotel . Webelievethe upper part of Messrs . Smith and Ingle's warehouse was occupied by Messrs . Taylor , Humphreys , Hurst , and Co ., flannel and drugget manufacturers . Adjoining the warehouse , in front , to the west , is the White Bear Inn ; and the aspect of the conflagration , at ten o ' clock , was truly alarming . The whole of

      the warehouse of Messrs . Smith and Ingle appeared to be in flames , which rushed from the side windows , spread across the yard , and soon communicated to the wood-work of the Mosley Anns Hotel , the cornice and window-frameB of which house were repeatedly on fire . Fortunately the latter were immediately forced outwards by men stationed in the different chambers ; and the interior was thus preserved , though not without the greatest exertions of the firemen . Meanwhile the White Bear Inn was in the most imminent danger , and many by-standers declared that . nothing could save it . Under tins impression , the furniture , bedding , &c , were hurled out of the chamber windows ; ana much mischief was done by the hasty way in which the property was thrown about in removal . Behind the White Bear isa crooked yard , which also leads through into Back Piccadilly . , In one tenement in this yard was a poor

      woman confined to her bed by sickness ; she was hurriedly removed in her night-dress ; and conveyed away , seated on a pile of bedding , &c , in a . large porter ' s cart , filled with goods removed from . the premiscs . Both tlie Mo ' sley Arms and the White Bear were repeatedly on fire , both on the roof , the : cornices , and the window-frames ; and as often the firemen succeeded in extinguishing the flames , not , however , before they had penetrated into the bar of the White Bear , and quite destroyed one side of that room . The engines worked very effectively ; there appeared to be a good supply of water , and before the firemen had been an hour on the spot the flames were completely subdued , though of course not extinguished . The amount of loss it is of course idle to speculate upon at present . The entire stock in the warehouses on the west side of the Mosley Arms-yard is utterly destroyed . We have not heard even a speculation as to the cause of the fire .

      Horrible Murder . —Amsterdam , Jan . 20 . —A young woman was found murdered the other day in a ditch in the Nistlerode district , near Bois-le-Duc . It appears that she had in her possession the sum of ninety florins , the produce of the sale of a cow belonging to her father , and that she was proceeding home with the money . Two police-officers first discovered the body of the unfortunate victim , and near it a large knife , with which the deed had been committed . They returned in a short time to an adjacent inn , in which they had seen the young woman , and produced the knife , wliich the landlady immediately recognised as her own . In a few minutes her husband came in , and on being shown the knife stoutly denied that it belonged to him . This raised suspicion ; the officers examined his dress , . and found the entire sum which the poor girl had received .

      Esobmous Fall of Earth i . v a Mine . —On Tuesday an inquest was held at the Coseley Tavern , at Coseley , on the body of Benjamin Smith , a miner , whose death , with that of two other men , was caused by an enormous fall of earth in a mine in which they were working . The accompanying statement , given before the coroner by one of the survivors , will be perused with deep interest : —Joseph Parkes said—I live at Coseley , in this parish , and am a miner . On Friday last I was at work with deceased , Benjamin Smith ( who was about thirty-two years old , and a miner , living at Coseley ) , in a coal-pit at the Fox Yards , in the parish of Tipton , in this county ; and while we were at work there , about half-past nine o'clock that morning , a quantity of clod and earth

      fell in , to the amount of more than a thousand tons , and almost every man in the pit was stopped up . Some few of the men were a distance off , and got clear away ; but the deceased , myself , and four others , were stopped up in one of the hollows . Great exertions were made to get us out ; there was plenty of help , and nearly all the miners from the adjoining collieries came to give their assistance . Several tons of stuff were soon removed , and in about an hour one of the six men was got out very badly hurt , but he is still alive . Another was got out soon after without much injury . As fast as the miners got the stuff away more fell in , but in the course ot the day all the remaining men , except myself , were got out , but I was not sot out till about ten

      o ' clock that night . I was not at all hurt , but was very weak through the damp and confinement , and being without food . I had not had anything to eat from the previous night , so that I was move than 24 hours without tasting it . I was quite sensible all the time , and conversed with all the men . I tatted with Smith as long as he lived , which was about an hour and a half . ' I could hear the miners working to get us out . I believe everything was done that could be done I was afraid to stir , although I saw my suffering companions close to me nearly buried in the earth . It -was light a part of the time from a candle , but after it went out we wove in darkness all the time , Some of the men had their arms wgdged down , and asked me to remove the clods from their mouths to allow them to breathe , and -I did so several times , although it endangered my own life , as the stuff continued falling . The butty was one of those stopped up , and he died . While he was confined his arms were crushed against his body , and his head

      was kept bont down . He could scarcely breathe , and when I removed the clod from his mouth , he breathed so hard that the candle went out , and we gave ourselves up for lost . I have been a miner from my childhood , and have worked at the pit in question about six weeks , and speaking from my experience I think the occurrence was accidental , and could not be prevented . I did not think there waa any danger , or I would not have worked at the pit . There is plenty of timber , and every precaution is taken to ensure the safety of the men . After the deceased was got out , his body was , I believe , taken to his house . It is now lying there . Thetwoothezs who were killed were removed to Dudley . I think the accident took place through there being a hollow above the one where we worked , and the stuff between the two dropping down . I do not think any one is tp be blamed with reference to it . Other corroborative evidence was given , and the jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death . —Wolverhampton Chronicle . .

      Suppose !) Child Murder in York ;—For some time past considerable excitement has prevailed amongst the principal portion of the inhabitants of Walnigate and its neighbburhooa , - owing to a report having gained extensive circulation that a new born female child , which had been interred in St . Dennis Church-yard , had come by its death by violence . The deceased was the illegitimate child of Jane Lambert , Who resides in Mill-yard , Lawrence-street , and who is employed at Swale ' s factory . The circumstances having become known to John Wood , Esq . ; the coroner , he at once gave directions for the exhumation of the body , and a jury were summoned . The inquest was held on Thursday , and again , by adjournment , on Friday and Monday evenings , at the house of Mrs . Herbert , the Lord Nelson-inn , Walmgate , and terminated by a verdict of manslaughter against themotlier , Jane Lambert , who was forthwith committed for trial at the ensuing assizes .

      EXTEKSIVB EMBEZZLEMEi \ T .--MAXCnESTER , JAtT . 21 . —Yesterday morning a young man , named Evan Prince , whose connections are highly respectable , was brought up to the Borough Court , before Daniel Maude , Esq . ^ , the stipendiary magistrate , charged with having embezzled the sum of £ 3500 from his employer , Mr . Daniel Percival , woollen-draper , of King-street , in this town . No suspicion had attached to the prisoner until latel y , and then it originated not with his employer , but in another quarter ; and Mr . Beswick , the chief superintendent of police , made a communication to Mr . Percival before Christmas . No steps were taken to apprehend the prisoner until Friday last , when Mr . Beswick sent Mrs . Chell , the wife of the keeper of the Town Hall , with £ 212 s . fid

      m marked money , to Mr . Percival ' s shop , with instructions to purchase some cloth from the prisoner . Mrs . Chell did as she was directed , and took the cloth to Mr . Beswick , who then sent Mrs . Chell ' s daughter with marked gold and sQver , to the amount of three guineas , to purchase a further quantity of cloth . She bought six yards of cloth , and gave the prisoner the money . She had just left the shop when Mr . Beswick entered ; and the prisoner knowing him , said , " Can Iserve you with anything ?" Mi . Beswick told him that he wished to speak to him m private , and went with him into tlie counting-house where Mr . Percival was waiting . Mr . Beswick then

      told him thathe was suspected of robbinghis employer andhelmust be searched . In his pockets were found £ 7 in gold and £ 1 in silver . Two of the sovereigns ! were identified by Mr . Beswick as part Of the money which he had given to Mrs . Chell and her daughter . The prisoner was then taken into custody , and Mr . Beswick proceeded to his lodgings , and in his bed-room found gold and silver to the amount of £ 150 . This discovery was mentioned to the prisoner , who admitted that he had robbed his employer to a serious amount alleging that he was ill , and as it was not likely that he would be able long to follow his business , he had resolved to make a provision for himself . Mr Beswick then told him that he had reason to suppose

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      that he had a considerable sum of monfey J ^ I and in"Wales . "Theprisoner admitted taw ^ I said that his banking-book was at his father ' s i ** U at Mold , and that it would be found in al Si I under "his sister ' s bed . Mr . Beswick , accom ^ ° * S by Mr . Perciya . ] , at once proceeded to Mold i * I prised the prisoner ' s father , who is a dranov > i there , of the objeet of their visit . Theold eenti Cl > U declared his entire ignorance of anythin g wronr ^ I bed-room of the daughter was searched , but 11 ^ ~ m box could be found . -In'the . cellar , however , I ings bank book was found , from which it ihn ^ m that the prisoner had : £ 143 13 s . lid . in tfe 4 saving-bank . Upon making further inquirv it H found that the prisoner ' s hat-box had beenscnH if h is sister to the house of a gentleman named Handi ? ft in Mold , arid was in the possession of that gentlemi V s l servant . Mr . Beswick and Mr . Percival aul M went to Mr . Hancock's , and having obtained r ^ m sion of the hat-box opened it , and found in it S M in gold , wrapped up in various papers ; banfcn ^ books containing a statement of . deposits bv tr ti prisoner at the North and South Wales Bank , iy f m the Royal Bank of Liverpool , Messrs . Devon li M Wardle ' s , and Messrs . Granville ' s , at Chester ? 11 mortgage deed and a promissory note for £ fo . 'n §§ prisoner , who declined saying anything in his defence W was fully committed to the assizes for trial , it * ' m pears that Mr . Percival was not in the habit if II taking' stock , and had little suspicion of what was H going on . . ' H Trusguiar Duh , in Reality .-The followingj 5 ail f § extract from a private letter , dated Nice , Jan . 8- ^ . M " There has been rather a damp thrown over society ' % at large here recently . At a club supper , after a ^ H ball , a dispute arose between a Russian , a French . ' M man , and an Italian . The Russian challenged the * Frenchman , and the Italian the Russian . Tlie latter 1

      two immediately went out ; their feelings towards -k each other almost amounted to madness , as they $ fixed to have but one pistol loaded , and the muzzles to 5 each other ' s breasts ; but the second ( for they had I only one , as the others would not , they said , wait to * ' \ witness a murder ) loaded the pistol so that it woulj ^ not go off . They then returned to town to the Italian ' s rooms for other pistols . While there , in walkedi . the governor with the police , arreited both , and put them in confinement , as also the Frenclunan . This happened two days before Christmas-day , ani they are not yet liberated . It must , it is feared , eM in bloodshed , as the Frenchman struck the Russian ; and although everything -has been done _ . by the about reconciliation

      English residents to bring a , it « impossible . As for the first affair , that may be saH to be finished , as the Italian is in the service , anil will be sent on duty to a fort , where he will be kept as a prisoner . This affair lias caused quite a commotion here , all three being well known . The Rvisijf Mubdek , committed Eight Years ago . —Examination ' of the Accused . —Charlea Lamb , a prisoner in the House of Correction , Cold . ' bath-fields , underwent an examination on Tiies- * day , before Mr . Mills , an Uxbridge magistrate , jn . ' - the board-room of the prison , on a charge oi i having murdered John Brill , a youth of 16 , who ' was murdered in a wood at Ruislip in February , , 1837 . George Sibley , also a prisoner in the House * of Correction , was the first witness called . Ec stated $ " t —I came lately from Harefield . I am now in this i House of Correction . I know Charles Lamb . I *

      * -v ^* ji i i i - - M ii * have known him rather better than twelve months . I have been intimate with him . We usad to go out poaching , and were at hide and seek together . About "< a fortnight before Lamb was sent to prison I wag .... ; coming from Rickmansworth to HarefieW with him , and when we were in a lane at the bottom of a field % we began to talk about getting into trouble and getting 1 out again . I said , "It is easy enough to get into | trouble , but not very easy to get out again . " Lamb ¦» said to me , '' You have been in prison , haven ' t you ? ? I have heard it is very bad . " I said , " Of course it % is ; " and he then said , "I would sooner be taken $ for murder than go to prison for this . " I said I " Murder ! Charley ? " and he replied " Yes . I was ^ in Churchill ' s wood getting a bundle of wood when % John Brill came up to me , and I took and struck & him and knocked him down . A few moments after -M

      that I took and picked up his cap , and hung it upon £ a bough , and put his bill-hook and cap beside him , M to look as if he had fallen out of a tree . " Lamb then S said to me , " Nobody else knows of it but you , and m if you tell , I will kill you . " Ho said that when S Brill came up to him , as he was walking along the M wood , he said , " Well , master Lamb , is it you ? " a Upon which he took and struck and knocked him si down . I had heard of the murder some years M ago ; and that a man named Lavender had been had M up for it . I have always been on good terms with M the prisoner Lamb . The reason . of my making this if statement Twas that I had such queer dreams . I m

      thought something would happen if I did not tell . I M have . voluntarily made this statement , without m promise or favour from any one . I first made it to m Mr . Hoare , the chief warden of the House of Come- || tion , having first told the yardsman that I wished to M do it . I was 25 years of age last August . I am now f | looking Lamb in the face , and I state that he told 1 me what I have now said , and it is the truth , and if nothing but the truth . —Mr . Woodbrid / re , the ctek : £ § Now , "Iianib , Lave you any questitn ^ to ask thfc * witness?—Lamb : No , sir , I can't ask him anything , M I never told it to him . If God Almighty refuses to m receive me into heaven I never did it .. You must be | | a very wicked man to say I told you so ; you must be si

      worse than the man who did the murder ,, whoever 13 that was . Thank the Almighty I have not to answer | for that , let me go where I will or suffer what I will ' for it . You are doing this just on purpose to get yourself out of prison . —Other witnesses were ex- Sj amined but all they could depose to was the fact of | the youth being missing , and afterwards found , having J been evidently murdered . In conclusion the prisoner ¦ |] was asked what he had to say . —Prisoner : All I i have got to say , gentlemen , is , that I never named it § to him if I was'to die " momently . " —Mr . Millsthen M told the prisoner that it would be his duty to send fj him for trial at the ' next . ' session of the Central | $ Criminal Court . m

      Sudden Death . —On . Monday night Mr . Payne jgi held an inquest at the Red Lion , Poppin's-court , 'mm . Fleet-street , on the body of Robert George Banfield , W ® aged 28 . Deceased . was a compositor , and lived at ] f | No . 6 , St . Andrew ' s-hffl , Doctors ' -commons . 0 a | | | Sunday afternoon he hired a cab in Giltspur-strect , : ?|§ and had got as far asNew Bridge-street , on his way ill home , wheni he called out to the driver that he thought gf | he should die . He was assisted out , and , on a police- mm man cojniiig up , he was again placed in the cab , and taken , to , Black Horse-court station-house . From mm there lie . was conveyed to the . house of Mr . Hutchin-1 ||| son , surgeon , Farringdon-street , who found life ex- Wm tinct , and who was of opinion that the deceased had 'mm died from a disease of the heart . Verdict—Natural «; Death . " .,- .. ism

      Wigan . —Supposed Child Murder . —On Saturday last , as a man was engaged in emptying a privy be- 1 longing to a lot of cottages in St . Pnul ' s-street , I Hindley , near Wigan , he found the body of a male child , which from appearances had been born three or four days . The infant was immediately placed in > the custody of the county police , who werc ' inducedto j apprehend a young woman who was believed to have \ been lately delivered of a child : and she was

      accordingly brought up at the inquest , which was summoned for Monday morning , before Mr . fleys ( county coroner . After evidence had been tendered as to the finding of the body , a surgeon was examined , who gave his opinion without hesitation , that the child had been born alive . Tho young wo- 1 man in custody tendered the most satisfactory proot of her innocence ; and , in the absence of other evidence , the jury returned a verdict of—Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown ,

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      t A Secret Drawer . —We have received the follow-ffl mg'from our Crewc correspondent : — " Last Monday ||| the furniture , < fec , which belonged'to Mr . Gallop , ||| who was poisoned by his daughter at Crewc , wa 3 disposed of equally to his two sisters , a brother , m W $ a nephew , they having administered to them aa ha s ^ heirs , and the crown having no claim to the pi * III perty in consequence of its never having been tf §| i possession of the unfortunate girl who was M ^ m executed . A Mr . Tickers , tailor , wished to purchase ^ a chest of drawers , but , beincr anxious to have thcU ^

      a bargain , he refused to give the sum asked for theni-It was nearly decided that he should have thertj only' some eightee ' n-penee preventing the completion of the bargain , when the stepdaughter of the deceased said there was a secret drawer which might contain something of value . This drawer was forced open , and was found to contain 107 sovereigns . This £ lWi together with £ 75 in a building fund , is all the money that has yet been discovered belonging to the & ceased , although a short time before his death he W " understood to have said that he-was worth £ i 00- " Liverpool Albion .

      The Biter Bit . —A curious instance of a sharp ? ' W overreaching himself occurred on Monday last , » D i Chester . A Scotchman was in possession of a Bib « m of a rather seedy , appearance , and but for a title-p ^ S bearing date somewhere towards ' the middle of r || last century , the book might have been print ed tf the sixteenth century . In order the better to e » || nance the value of his book he carefully took out tj §§ title-page , and substitued in its place , as well as i « g possibly could , a title-page which he found amow M some lumber , and which had belonged toaBi »» | | bearing date in Elizabeth ' s reign , and othernis ?? m valuable edition . The next thing was how to ra ^ | the wind on the altered Bible without the fraud m = §

      detected . Towards dusk he hied his way to * ZA Swarbrick ' s shop , Bridge-street-iow , where * | curious in Bibles frequently resort , and prcs ^ X i necessity of selling Ms book ( as he wished to be ong | the next train to Liverpool ) so strongly , that J * bookseller , hardly loolring beyond the title-page . ' !^ mediately closed with the Scotchman , and gave * | his price , namely £ 1 15 s . Luckily , however , 1 » * Jj bookaellev , as soon as his eyes were open to tlie w j ^ after the seller had taken his departure , he > % % carefully pinned amongst the leaves two £ 1 notes ^ Scotch bank , which Mr . Swarbrick mil d etain m the £ 1 15 s . be returned , or compensat ion g » ^ Liverpool Albion . ; ' £

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      THE NORTHBRN STAR , Jaktjary 25 , . ltus I

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 25, 1845, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1299/page/6/