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      « V *«* t- ~— ——^ Ei . I attended to . All coramumwrtions nni 6 t , therefore , infdturejbe addressed a 3 follows : — Orders for the paper and advertisements ) to F . O'Connor , Esq ., 17 , Great Wiodmill . street , Haymarket , London . Communications for the paper , to Mr . Joshua Hobson , Editor Northern Star , Office , 17 , Great Windmill-street Haymaiket , London . All orders for money must he made payable to Mr , O'Connor at the Charing-cross Post-office .

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      — m Sons AaxoVr , Sohees Towk , iatliauked for his friendly note . On the subject matter of tbat note we snail act ai we have erer acted—on our own conviction of what is most beneficial to the interest of all sections of the , labouring classes , and not for one section of them only . Tfeo northern Star , in oar bands , is not a tiling lo be Bsed according to the whim or caprice of & mere set of conceited " politicians , " who have bo learned their lesson of "liberty" as to deny liberty not only in their vim eondnct towards each other , but also to the press , which , without full and cheerfully-accorded freedom , is one of the bitterest curses that can be inflicted on a people ; bat it is an instrument to be used for the exposure of wrong and the upholding of right , wherever found . So expression of opinion , either of fulsome " thanks . " or of undeserved or inconsiderate " censure , "

      shall drive us from this course . If there are any who ore so narrow and contracted in their views—so monopolizing in spirit—and so unreasonable in conceit , as to demand the continual insertion in our pages of the thousand-times told tale , of what was done in the sacred name of liberty at the Fig-and-TOustle—and this too to the exclusion of matter which intimately and immediately concerns hundreds of thousands of toiling operatives , whose savings for . years are in danger ; if there be any of this sort , who think they can accomplish Each an object as this with «» by notes such a * that Mr . Arnotthas forwarded , they are strangely znUtaken . They must try their attempt at coercion elsewhere , if they would have it successful . For ourselves , as long as judgment is left us , we shall ever

      prefer to do our utmost to thwart the unjust oppressions of thousands , andeipose thenefariouraess of those who BOB the workman of his hard-earned savings ; we shall prefer to do this when occasion calls for it , even to the trumpeting forth the " sound and fury" of those who " hate all tyranny" accept ihebrown : who are " deadly foea to all oppression ** —to which they may think them setsca subjected ! whose " efiorts'fbr liberty "— ( to "denounce" ) - —aretindjing ; and Trho are filled with such insufferable conceit as to imagine that all other considerations must wait on their convenience . If there are among the army of " jiatrioti" who cannot afford to let OB do this , why they must e ' en mend themselves as they best can . 30 BS G&bkot , Prestos , might know that Mr . O'Connor

      is not in London , nor has "been for sonic weeks past . 3 Jr . Coopeb , 13 i , Blackfriaf s-road , begs to acknowledge the receipt of the following sums for the Veteran Patriots' and Exiles' "Widows' and Children ' s Fund : — Hr . Crow , Leicester ( being a subscription originally intended for Mr . Cooper's relief ) , * s . 3 d . ; Mr . Rogers , Xambeth , 2 s . 6 d . ; llv . Sweetiove , 6 d . ; Mr . Miller , 2 d . ; Mr . Bradley , Leicester , one dozen postage stamps . iTr . m-Geath will be in Aberdeen on Mondajnext ; all localities in the north , desirous of his services , must immediately communicate with him ; address Alexander S . Henry ,-65 , West North-Street , Aberdeen . Bbwaxo Sotoliffc , Hcddersfield . —The rule in walking is always to take thetright-liand side . W . TbAUOHPOn , lioLUB Mtix , did not send pay for his advertisement , nor any reference . Besides , he must

      take on himself the responsibility of his statements , if it appears . T . U ., of HosstET , in Gloucestersbire , sends us the following , under the head "Doings in Horgley Gaol ?•— " A few days ago , ' Jack Ketch' arrived at Ilorsley , from 2 Gloucester , in a beastly state of intoxication , to perform ' a duty' which the brute says he takes a pleasure an—viz ^ that ofiflogging . On this occasion he operated on a boy , who was tied up to the iron gate by the turnkey . His cries were heart-rending . Ultimately the boy fainted ; but the hangman kept at his infernal work , till stopped by Mr . Wells , the surgeon to the gaol . The boy , a fatherless orphan , had been tried and con-~ Tictedfor not giving a satisfactory account as to how he got possession-of a bible . The inhabitants of Horsley are looking forward to the sessions at Gloucester , to

      know what will be the sentence of Lewis , the watchman of the gaol , he being fully committed for stealing coals from the prison / while he had 15 shillings a week } to prevent others from stealing . At Gloucester assizes , not long back , the governor's son , who was then an officer of the-gaol , was tried for administering drugs to one Sarah Gibbs , a prisoner , to procure abortion ; but lie got acquitted . He lost Ids situation , and is now residing in London . The Ducom Fond Committee beg to acknowledge the receipt of 7 s . from Brighton , per Mr . William Flower . —Thomas Whittaker , treasurer , 63 , Devonshire-street , Charlton-on-Medlock , Manchester . A ., iLkXCBLBTER . —His letter was received , and declined . Thomas Fkakcis , Mebtbte Tvdvu .. —We see little cause I Ito complain in the case he names . He -was referred to

      a party who granted his request . Thus everything ¦ was done that he required . In answer to Ms other query , the Boor Man ' s Companion is in the press , and will be shortly in the publisher ' s hands . J . P . —If he berated to thepoor ; i . e ., if his name be in the poor-rate book , and he has the right of controulover the outer door of the house he dwells in , lie has a ¦ rig ht to be entered on the list of voters . 3 L&BT 1 S Jcde's letter next week . . Jabkow Pit . —The following letter we extract from the .. Hornby Chronidc : —Sir , —Such is the dangerous state ** of Jarrow Pit , from want of ventilation and by * discharges of gas , that not more than about twenty ' miners have gone to work since the explosion , a great number of the men having sought work elsewhere . lhere are still many in the houses belonging to the

      Colliery , but who have got notice to quit if they will not proceed , at the certain risk of their lives , to work in this dange ' rous mine . One man called Atkinson , whose son was killed at the explosion , and whose body was broug ht home to him piecemeal—limb by limb , and almost lioadless—which was buried at five different times , as found—he also has had notice to quit his house if he will not immediately proceed to labour , -amidst the scene of his son ' s dreadful death . CaUous' . ness and heartlessnoss such as this , it is seldom a British public is witness to . The owner , who lives on ihe spot , can scarcely be cognizant of such doings , for I see his name down for a handsome subscrip-. tion for the wido ; vs and orphans : and money

      lie knows is not everything even to the poor . If report speaks truly , this pit is in as bad a state as ever , and the commissioners sent by the Government liave gone away for the present , it is said , to return again for further investigation . They have a serious and important duty to perform ; it is hoped they will not content themselves with a mere visit to the mine , like their predecessors at Ilaswell , who , consequently , fell into the most ridiculous errors , but that Sir Henry ~ Be la Heche and Dr . Playfair will make a thorough and searching investigation , such as becomes thtir names , honourable to the Government that has apjtoinUd them , find useful to the important subject under their care . 1 take leave to transmit this

      communication to you rather tuan to the local press : your arm -is long and strong—iiiclrs , unfortunately , weak and trembling when the cause of the poor and the interest of the rich may be involved . A coalowner is powerful liere .

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      — - ~ " *• — — - w — v •• • - ** - *» *¦ •* ^ vw ^ 'w ^ rwwvvvvvvwvvvvWvWnAAAAA . The Late Stabbing Case at IIounslow Barbacks . —On Saturday last Lieutenant Kerwan , of the 4 th Light Dragoons , charged with having stabbed Quartermaster Tarleton , of the same regiment , the particulars of which were given in this paper of Saturday last , was brought before a bench of magistrates , at Brentford , for further examination . Mr . Edward Smith Graham deposed that he was surgeon iu the 4 th Regiment of Light Dragoons . He had in consequence of the infliction of the injury been attending Quartermaster Tarleton , and last saw him that morning at eleven o ' clock . The wound in the abdomen had been inflicted with a sharp instrument . Witness considered him progressing very favourably , considering the nature ot the wound he had received , and he entertained hopes of his ultimate recovery .

      He did not consider there was any danger at present . He should say now he was out of danger , and that the -wound was healing fast . Mr . John Mure deposed that he was assistant-surgeon in the 4 th regiment of Light Dragoons . He now considered the patient quite out of danger . Similar evidence was given by another medical gentleman , and the chairman said the -magistrates had considered the evidence of the medical men , and also that the occurrence had been without any deliberation , and had come to the determination to admit the accused to bail , himself in the sum of £ 500 , and two sureties in £ 250 , for his appearance at that court on that day fortnight , further to answer the charge . The requisite recognisances having been gone into , Lieut . Kerwan bowed to the magistrates and left the court , accompanied by his brother officers and friends , and immediately quitted the place on their way to Ilounslow Barracks .

      # "Wholesale . Bigamy . —A man named John Brooks is now in custody in this city , on a charge of having married five wives , his first spouse being still alive . The first marriage was solemnised at Beckington , in this county , by the late Rev . Mr . Sainsbury , and after the prisoner had deserted his bride , which he did within a few shortweeks , the lady took to herself another helpmate , and has become the happy mother of eleven children . Of the subsequent Mrs . Brookses , two arestill living , and twohavedeparted into the land of spirits . The prisoner stands remanded , to allow of inquiry being made at Beckington , with a view to the proper identification of the parties , prior to his commitment to take his trial for the offence . —Bath Journal .

      Fire at Hollowat . —On Monday afternoon , between one and two o ' clock , a serious fire broke out upon the premises of Mi * . Flowers , a builder , residing atQueen ' s-road , Ilolloway . The fire was first discovered in the workshop , at the rear of the dwelling bouse , containing a large quantity of building materials , which , in consequence of the flames spreading so quickly , were entirely consumed . Several engines were soon on the spot , and the fire was extinguished , but not before property worth several hundred pounds was consumed . The adjoining buildings , stables , ifcc , were very much damaged . Mr . Flowers is not insured , and the cause of the fire could not he learned .

      Fire at Soho . —On Tuesday , about noon , a fire broke out upon the premises of Messrs . Kingwall and Weeks , wheelwrights , whose manufactory is situate in Crown-street , Soho . The flames were first discovered in the workshop raging with great fury , which soon communicated to a large quantity oi timber . In the meantime information was forwarded to the West of England , the County and Brigade firestations , and in a very short space of time the respective engines arrived at the lire with a large body oi men . A good supply of water being obtained , the firemen were able , after considerable difficulty , to subdue the flames , which were confined to the above premises , but not before pro-erty to a great amount was destroyed . The fire is supposed to have been caused hy a spark falling from a heated iron on some shavings . The parties are insured .

      Smugglers' Retexge . —A letter from Harburg ( Hanover ) , dated the 25 th ult ., in the Gazette den Tritunaux , says : — " On the night of the 23 rd ult . the village of Flchrsberg , situated near Ilarburg , was the scene of a dreadful act of revenge . A little after twelve o ' clock six men , dressed like Harburg sailors , each earning on his back a large parcel , landed in front of the Custom-house port , not far from the conflux of the Seve and the Elbe . The moment they landed tkey hastened to Fleshrsberg , and entered precipitately the court-yard of a house standing l > y itself . About a dozen of the Custom-house men followed close at their heels , and they iu fact entered the gate together with them . The moment all were inside the walls , the gate was at once closed , and a

      number of men attacked the officers with sticks , beating them most cruelly . They then tore outtlieir eyes , and mutilated them dreadfully , after which they made off . A patrol that happened to pass , hearing their groans , entered the yard , and removed them to the hospital of Harburg , where they had been paid every attention , though , no hope is entertained of saving their lives . Two men have been since arrested , and they without hesitation acknowledged that they formed part of a great number of smugglers who determined to entice tho Custombouse officers into a snare , and take vengeance on them . They have , however , refused to state the names of their accomplices . The packets were found in the court-yard ; they wcro filled with saw-dust . "

      Awfuixt Sudden Death—On Tuesday Mr . Baker held au inquest at the Kiug of Prussia , Dean-street , Gould ' s-liill , Shadwell , on the body of Richard Bayloy , aged 33 , a seaman . It appeared by the evidence of his landlady , Mrs . Vernan , of Dean-street , that he had but recently returned from a long voyage . On Saturday night last he at 9 a hearty supper and retired to rest in a good state of he : ilth . On the following morning he complained of being chiJly , and said ho would get a little rum and water ; he went out for the purpose : he returned in about ten minutes , sat down by the fire , fell back almost instantly , and expired without a groan . Mr . Atkins , a surgeon , attributed death to spasms . Verdict accordingly .

      Extensive Seizure of Goods by the Revexue Officers . —The present time appears rife in the seizure of goods of the most valuable description , by the ollicers of the customs , which have by some means been obtained by the parties holding them without payment of the proper duties due thereon on importation into this country . A day or two since notice was made of au extensive sciKUVC of goods , consisting ot" cameos , < fcc , and previous notice has been made of the successful operations of two more of the customs officers in another quarter in the capture of a large quantity of watches . If we be correctly informed , which there is not the slightest reason to doubt , the officers alluded to will , before they have completed their operations , mnke one of the most extraordinary ami extensive seizures of the

      same valuable description of merchandise , and that in the most circuitous manner which has been under notice for a very , considerable space of time . The first seizure made by them was in London , which rave them a clue to a further quantity at the port of Liverpool . Their information in the second instance was so sure and unerring , that thev pounced upon the parties and the goods without the " slightest difficulty , and as if they were already to their hands , although they met with desperate resistance from the parties concerned—foreigners , we believe—and it was ultimately found necessary to obtain the assistance of the police before they ' were enabled to depart with their capture in safetv , and to preserve them

      from being assailed and severely injured . This further seizure at Liverpool led " to a variety and vast amount of information being furnished to the same officers , which caused them to yetum immediately to London , where they have since prosecuted their searches and inquiries to a very wide extent , and have succeeded in making several subsequent seizures of the same article . In fact , by some means , these officers have , from what we can understand , evidently got a clue which will ultimately enable them to obtain possession of , and restore to the revenue , the largest amount of contraband goods of this very valuable description which has hitherto been heard of .

      SIelaxcholt Accident . —An accident of a very melancholy nature , and which lias caused a deep A sort of rivalry had been got up between two of the sensation in Perth , happened on Monday forenoon , pleasure-boats belonging to Perth , as to which was the fastest sailer . It was agreed to run a race to Dundee on Saturday , and back on Monday , to test their respective capabilities . They both accordingly set off on Saturday , but one of them had not proceeded any distance below the Friarton , when , finding the wind too heavy , she put in shore and returned . The other continued her course , and reached Dundee in safety . On herreturn on Monday , she was caught in a squall about three miles below ^ ewbui-gh , and upset , and two out of the three on hoard were drowned . Their names are Matthew Taylor , -JO years employed as a boatman on the river , and Mr . Simpson , some time ago a grocer in the High-street , The one saved isocca ionally employed as an engineer OB board the Tay steamers .

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      Fatal Accident at the Treasubt , WniiBnAU .-On luesday afternoon Mr . Bedford held an inquest at the Chequers , Tothill-street , Westminster , on the bodyot Charles Wildy , aged 42 , a mason , who on Monday last fell head foremost from a scaffold erected at the back front of the Treasury offices / and fractured his skull . The deceased was a very sober , steady man , and had been upwards of eighteen years in Mr . Cubitfs employ . Verdict , Accidental doath . , Accident ox the Great North of England Railway . —The mail train from London left the Gateshead station of the Newcastle and Darlington Railway as usual , at half-past three o ' clock on Saturday afternoon , and reached Darlington at twentyseven minutes past five . After the usual detachment and accession of carriages the train left the

      station at thirty-seven minutes past five , and then consisted of the engine and tender , a luggage-vail ( oil which the guard who communicated this account was placed ) , tffo second-class carriages , two carriagetrucks belonging to the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company , three first-class carriages , the mailvan and sorting carriage , a carriage-truck , and a liorae-box . Among those who joined the train at Darlington were Mr . and Mra . Whitehead , of Manchester , who had booked to the Normanton station , and they occupied the compartment next the engine , of the first of the three first-class carriages , the other end being a empe . They had a private carriage and horses by the same conveyance , and were returning home after a short excursion among their friends .

      About a mile and a half north of the Cowton station , which is the second from Darlington , the attention of the guard was drawn to the accident by the breaking of the coupling-bar between the luggage-van and the carriages , which drove in the end of the van . On turning round and looking back , he observed that they had left a portion of tho train behind , and he immediately gave a signal to the engineman to stop , which was done after proceeding about three hundred yards further—the train having been previously going at the rate of about thirty miles an hour . The engine having been detached from the van was sent on to Cowton to step the train expected from the south ; after which the guard returned along the line , nearly a quarter of a mile , where he found the

      two second-class carriages standing on tke rails , not much injured ; about 50 yards further , the first of the carriage trucks was standing on its stock on the rails , the wheels and . axles having been completely taken from under it . The second truck was about 20 yards further , and about 40 yards past that the three tirstclass carriages were thrown together in such a manner that it is surprising the injury to the passengers was not greater than it has been . The first carriage was thrown upon Its end , the coupe end uppermost , and the lower end embedded in the earth , and in the anterior compartment of the second carriage , which was thrown on its side across the rails . The third was also oft' the line . The mail van and sorting carriage were upright , but the wheels

      were off the rail , and deeply embedded in the earth . Tke rails were much bent , and the ground ploughed up for several yards . His attention was first directed to the situation of the passengers , and he found that Mrs . Whitehead , by the assistance of Major Parker , tbe superintendent of the line , in succession to Capt . O'Brien , and who was fortunately travelling with the train , had been removed from the carriage , having sustained very serious injury , it being at first thought that both her legs were broken above the knee . She was placed on the bank , the accidenthavingoccurred in a deep cutting , and every aid was rendered by Mr . Parsons of York , and Mr . Boyd , from the firm of Abbott and Co ., of Gateshead , who were passengers

      by the train . Mr . Whitehead , who was in the same compartment with his wife , sustained ho serious personal injury , but his feelin « 3 were , of course , much excited by the situation of the unfortunate lady . The passengers in the second carriage were buried under the coupe of the first one , which was also filled , and some delay took place in extracting them from their perilous position ; but , when that was effected , it was happily found that none of them had sustained any injury beyond a few slight blowsand scratches . Mrs . Whitehead , we are happy to state , is pronounced out of danger . Both her legs are broken , the left leg below the knee , and the right above it ; but the last accounts state that she is going on favourably .

      ANoraEit Accouxt . —We learn , from information that can be relied upon , that on Saturday night last an accident of a very serious kind took place on the Great North of England Railway , about four miles on the York side of Darlington . It appears that at the York station on Saturday night considerable surprise was manifested at the arrival of the engine of the mail train , then over due , bearing the letter bags but without the travelling post-office and passenger carriages . Upon inquiry , it was found that at the place above mentioned , owing to the breaking of the wheel of a truck which was attached midway amongst tho passenger carriages , a lamentable occurrence had taken place . On the breakage of this wheel the truck was thrown off the line during

      the time that the engine was proceeding at its usual rapid mail speed . This caused a concussion of the passenger carriages , three of which were dashed together , the centre one being literally lifted on its end , bearing upright against another , the rest of the carriages being much shattered . Our informant states , so sudden was the shock that scarcely a scream was heard , although the carriages were tilled with passengers , many of whom were Jadics and children . He understood that no lives were lost , although several ladies and gentlemen were severely cut and bruised . One young married lady , whose name in the hurry was not ascertained , but who it was said was well connected in the neighbourhood , received a compound fracture of one of her thighs , the other

      e « being also broken . The unfortunate lady , whose husband was with her in the train , was with difficulty removed from the shattered timbers of the carriage and borne on one of the doors to a neighbouring farmhouse , where surgical assistance was of course promptly procured . She now lies there in a dangerous state . We have not as yet been enabled to ascertain the extent of the injuries sustained by the passengers , It may be as well to observe that in the shock one of the carriages was thrown across the rails , and had not the express train from York to the north been rather late , as it fortunately happened , another dreadful accident might have ensued , the night being dark and rainy ; there would not h ave been time to remove It , and the spot where the accident happened is that where tho trains pass each other on the line .

      Melancholy Accident . — Kirkcudbiuciit , Oct . 4 . —A melancholy loss of life occurred hove on the night of Tuesday , or early on the morning of Wednesday last , ltubert Cunningham , of Linkens , occupying the farm of Nether Boreland , off the town of Kirkcudbright , having been in the parish of Born-go in the course of Tuesday , taking sheep to grass parks there , took his seat in Forrest ' s coach from Newton-Stewart , about Barhairow , in Bourge . On the coach crossing the ferry at Kirkcudbright , lie was requested to keep his seat , but he declined , came off the coach , saying— "No no ; I don't wish to he drowned in a coach ( alluding to a recent accident which occurred at the ferry ); when I am drowned , I shall be drowned on my feet . " lie crossed the ferry , wont to the inn at which , the coach stopped , paid his fare , and in company with a friend walked out of town as fur as the Millburn on his wayVhome , whenjuis friend parted with him , and bade him good night . This might be

      about ten o ' clock . There are reasons for believing that he was seen about an hour later bv Robert Hannah , the post runner from Tarff-bridge , a ' bout half a mile out of town , at eleven o'clock ; but from this hour no further trace of him can be had till about half-past five on Wednesday morning , when his body was found lying in the dock at Kirkcudbright , on its back on the sand , the tide having receded from the spot two hours at least before the foodv was found From further inquiries it has been ascertained , that erics of a slmll and urgent nature were heard in the direction of the dock , about twenty minutes before two o ' clock , at which time it is supposed the gentleman unfortunatel y , under the impression that lie had left his horse at Gastlesod , retraced his steps to Kirkcudbright , with the viewof re-crossin" the ferry , and the night being very dark , missed his way , and stepped over the quay , which is quito unprotected , and fell into the dock .

      Alleged Mckder at Cambeuweu . — On Monday night , between eleven and twelve o ' clock , Benjamin Booth , a plasterer by trade , died at No . 2 , Alphacottages , Cambenvel ] , from injuries inflicted upon him on Monday morning by a man named John Walsh . It appears that the deceased , Walsh , and a third man slept in the same room , and Walsh being the first up in the morning , Booth accused him of taking Is . Gil . from his pocket . "Walsh denied the accusation , and went into the next room , which was occupied by a journeyman tailor named Leeney , and complained to that person of the false accusation that had just been made agj , ist him , and seizing a sleeve-board , rushed to the room where Booth still remained in bed . lie immediately attacked the unfortunate man while he was in bed , and struck him several severe blows about the head with the sleeve board . Booth , however , manaeod to s : et out

      of bed ; but before he could grasp his murderous assailant lie received several additional blows about the head and upper part of his person . The third man by this time got out of bed , and' forcing himself between the parties , separated them , when VValsh made the best of his way out of the house , booth though severely injured , was able to get out ot bed , and take one or two cups of tea . Soon after , however , he was seized with serious ill" i ? ai stlI P ' . and the symptoms were so alarming that Air . Morris , the parish doctor , was sent for . mat gentleman immediately attended , and used every means that medical skill could devise to relieve the unfortunate man , but it was to no purpose ; the poor fellow breathed his last shortly after eleven ° ™ j « w ? i ™ V ' of N ^ occurrence was forwarded to the Camberwell station , and the police arc in pursuit of Walsh .

      Accident o . v the Sheffield axd Maxchesteu iUiLWAY . —Owing to a cow Laving negligently been allowed to stray on to the above line , by a drover from Penutone market , after dark , on Monday night , an accident occurred , which had well nigh been the

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      destruction of a whole train of passengers . Shortly after the tram had left Donford-bridge , and while it was dark , a shock was received , which threw both engine and train off the line , very seriously injuring several Of the carriages , and almost crushing the guard to death . As soon as the passengers could be got out of the carnages , it was ascertained thatacow had got upon the line , and the engine had come in violent contact with it . The poor animal was cut nearly in two , and , of course , killed on the spot . Information was immediately sent to the Sheffield station , and a pilot engine promptly despatched at ten o ' clock at night . It returned at midnight , with a portion of the passengers upon the tender , and immediately on setting them down , started again for the remainder , with sufficient carriages , arriving again at Sheffield about two in the morning .

      Fike at Dalston . — On Wednesday morning , shortly after twelve o ' clock , a destructive fire broke out in a large newly-built house , situate at the corner of Ingerfield-road , Dalston , the property of Mr . L . England , a builder . The fire commenced in the lower floor , from some cause at present unknown ; it then extended to the upper part of the building , destroying in its progress the whole of the interior . The flames were not mastered before the premises were quite gutted . It is only about two months since that the same person had a large double house destroyed by a similar disaster . Fortunately in the present instance he was insured .

      HoRRons op Slavbrt . —A letter from Martinique ( French colony ) gives the following horrible story : — " A planter , named lahan , of Champ Flores , about two leagues from st . Pierre , has just committed a crime worthy of none abovo the savage Anthropophagi , on the person of a slave lad scarcely twelve years old , named Leandre , alias lean Baptiste . This unfortunate boy was the son of an African woman , whose language is more the peculiar patois of the plantation negroes than our intelligible French , and who is in a state of pregnancy . For some time the young Leandre had been receiving , by way of aliment (!) , frequent castigations , more or less rigorous , until the term to his sufferings , which was reserved to his heartless master , waa produced ,

      and his last sigh of anguish was given on the 7 th of July , 1845 , he being literally scourged to death Previous to this melancholy termination of his exisence , and while subjected to a series of the most cruel tortures , his inhuman master cut off the poor boy ' s lell ear , and , what is still more horrid , had it minced up with the excrements of pigs and dogs , and offered in the shape of food to the tortured Leandre , who was forced to eat it , at the same time receiving on the head a severe contusion , to which his death has been ascribed by those medical men who examined the corpse . After having thus performed the office ot executioner upon his young slave , lahan , on the 8 th , attended the corpse to thehurial-place , as if nothing extraordinary had happened . But the mother had been witness to the tortures inflicted on her

      childhad seen him murdered—and had been several times tied down to the pickets and flogged for daring to weep over the sufferings of her son . This woman . in a state of desperation , made her way to the town of St . Pierre , crying about the streets , ' my master has killed my child ! ' This occasioned her to be called up before the Procureur du lloi and interrogated . Without delay the officers of justice repaired to the estate , where they found the various instruments of torture which lahan was in the habit of employing upon his slaves . The body of Leandre was afterwards disinterred , in presence of the authorities , and three medical men of the public hospital , who at once saw that the left ear had been cut off , the right one remaining perfect . Legal proceedings have been commenced in the matter , and numerous witnesses heard ; but Man has taken to flight . "

      Child Murder . —On Thursday , Mr . Mills , deputy coroner for West Middlesex , held a protracted inquest at the Coach and Horses , Air-street , Uatton-garden , on the body of William Hill , aged six months . — Elizabeth llill , a very young woman , mother of deceased , examined : My husband is a glass-cutter , and we reside at No . 20 , in this street . About eleven o ' clock on Saturday night last I left the baby well and hearty in bod , and went into Leather-lane to buy it some milk . It was then fast asleep . I returned in fifteen minutes and found it dead in bed . The child was not born in wedlock , and my presenthusbandisnotthefatherofit . It was born at my mother's , 15 , Somers-street , over the way . There was no one in thcroomwhenlfoundthechiludead . Iliad not left it a quarterofanhoaraltogether . When I went out for the

      milk I left my husband m the room quite sober , and standing with his back to the fire . As I was going out , I asked him to go on an errand to my mother ' s , in Somers-street , and he said he would . When 1 came back he was gone . When I took the child from the bed it made a strange noise in the throat once , and then died . On passing my hand over its head , it had no cap on , I found on the leit side , behind and above the ear , a bump as big as the half of a goodsized ogg , and a spot of dry blood on the cheek . ] could see it was a bump from a hit . Tliero was another reddish bump at the back of the head , not so large as tho other . My husband was the first person to come into the room , almost directly after me . I said to him , "Baby ig dead ; it has been killed some how or other—run and fetch

      mother . " He replied , "Is it quite dead ? " Ianswered , "Yes , for some minutes . " lie went and fetched Catherine Shepherd from my mother ' s ( my mothei not being at home ) , and he said lie had been to fetch Mr . Mullins , surgeon , of Leather-lane , but that he was not at home , lie went out again and fetched a doctor ( the summoning officer said it was a non-medical man ) from llatton-wall , who merely looked at the child , and said that it had died of inflammation of the chest , and that the bumps on the head were the result of convulsions . When the doctor was gone I said to my husband , " If you have done it , tell me . " He said , " I have not touched the child . " Iafterwards said , in the presenceof witnesses , " You wicked wretch , you have killed the baby . This is the

      night you long wished for . " lie made no answer . — The Coroner : What did you mean by saying to your husband , " The night you wished for is come ?"Witness : Because he frequently ill-used and threatened the child . About a month ago , in the midiilf of the night , the child being ill and crying at the time , he said if I did not keep it still he would dash its brains about . I told him 1 could not help its crying , and that if hehit it , I should hit him . He then struck at the baby , but hit me , and I had a struggle with him to prevent him hitting the child , lie hit me on the side of the head and raised a great lump . He frequently ill-used me as well as the baby . — Cross-examination in chief resumed : About ' two months ago , during the night , he got out of bed , and thinking I was asleep , he pinched a piece out of the calf of the baby ' s right leg . The wound did not

      heal until last week . 1 took the child to Mr . Mullins , surgeon , who ordered me to poultice the wound , and asked how I could live with such a vagabond . I also wont to complain of my husband to Clcrkenwcll police-court , but they told me 1 must get a warrant , which 1 could not do for want of money . After lie had pinched the child I said to him , " Uow could you hurt the poor child , how could you be so brutish ?" He answered , " Before I do anything better to it , 1 will do something worse verylikely . " A month after our m&mago lie gave the child a black eye , and in a fortnight after that lie began to threaten it . He once hit the child in the stomach whilst it was lying on the floor , and it was very sick for two or three days afterwards . I have nothing more to say . After hearing the evidence of other witnesses , the jury , without more than a moment ' s deliberation , ictlll'llCC a verdict of Wilful Murder ajjainst William Hill .

      Death from Oil of Almonds . —On Friday aftcrt noon , Mr . William Payne , the City coroner , weninto a long inquiry m the board-room of St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , as to the death of Sarah Webb , aged forty-nine years . It appeared by the evidence that the deceased was in the habit of working for a Mrs . Francis , residing at No . 2 , Bennett ' s-hill , Doctors ' -commons . On Friday morning , whilst the deceased was at work in the kitchen , she was seized with a fit of shivering . Mrs . Francis ran to the deceased

      and placed her on tho floor . She remained in that position a few minutes , when she vomited . A surgeon was called in , who , seeing the state she was in , ordered her to be removed with all speed to the above hospital . A small bottle was found soan afterwards , which the deceased had been tastiii " from . Tliero was a strong smell in the room of the essential oil of almonds . The deceased never spoke after she fell to the ground , and died in ten minutes after her admission into the hospital . Mr . 1 . Francis said , in answer to the coroner , that tho bottle was htapropcrly . It contained a small

      portion ot almom flavouring , which was considerably weaker than oil ot almonds . The deccasedmust have placed the bottle to her mouth fop ( he purpose of tasting its contents . The coroner animadverted in strong terms on the danger of leaving such articles ^ Jrtii" i whicl 1 the jury returned a verdict , taken tytiS ? ' ^ fwm «» effects of poison Suicide iu the SiatruxTiXK . -yestordiiv ( Fridavj morning , as one ot the officers of the Royal Humane Society was proceeding along the south " bank of the Serpentine , he saw a bonnet lying on the grass . Suspecting the owner bail committed suicide , he i ™™™!

      , the drags , with which , after a little time , the bodv of a female was brought up . She was quite dead , ami had evidently been some hours in the water Her age appeared to be about 18 , and had interestfo " features , but from her tattered and dirty garment shew believed to l . aye been one of the numerous women by which Hyde Park is niyl . tly thronged . 1 he body was removed to the workhouse iu Mountstrect , where it awaits an inquest , Death of Eari / Spexckr . —Earl Spencer better wTsZVr A ] $ y > dlcd * ^ SrfSS , in £ ; . ? £ ? ' < b 2 ) a 5 , d was ' therefore , at his demise AnriM -Sti / Tli ° mnrricd on tIle m * Anl-lnm « ¦ - lift ° . nly daughter of Mr . Richard iiVw Inn ? ady dl . on the llth of J «» C 1818 - without leaving any issue . Tho dnpensnii F . n ,. | ;

      succeeded m his title and estates by his brother the Hon . Cap am Iredcrick Spencer . Those who re ter f Ref 01 ' m B ' 'U Ration , and the subsequentWhig Government , need not be told who and what Earl bpencer was ti&i&m *^ & **>

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      MURDERS IN IRELAND . Mubder in TippunABir . —On Tuesday evening , the 30 th ult ., between the hours of eight and nineo'clock , fourlcllows , all of whom were armed wUh bludgeons , entered the house of a man named Sheedy , of Giuren-> erg , about seven miles from Nenagh . Michael Hill , the victim in this case , and others , were sitting round the fire at the time . On the party entering they threw something on the fire which completely darkened the house . They then commenced belabouring unfortunate Hill , till they left him , as they conceived , dead . On the first blow being given , the persons who were sitting round the fire ran away , ihe deceased was afterwards removed to his own

      louse , which is next door to the one in which he had been beaten , and where he expired the following morning . The cause assigned for this daring act is , that the deceased refused to allowing brother to marry a young woman , with whom an intimacy had existed . On Thursday an inquest was held on the body . The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some persons at present unknown . Four fellows were taken up on suspicion , and were under examination the greater portion of the day , at the police barracks ofKilloscully , before Mr . Tabutea and Captain Pollock . On the following day they were committed and lodged in Nenagh gaol .

      Murder is Armagh . —On Tuesday night week , an old man of the name of Ryan , a driver , oelonging to Mr . Hughes , the ear-owner , in Armagh , was barbarously murdered by three persons , who jumped upon the car he was driving , and insisted upon being carried . There was a female in the car who was grossly insulted by those persons , and upon Iiyan remonstrating , and attemptingjto protect the woman , the fellows beat him to death . While they were perpetrating the murder the woman escaped , and ran to the next police station , where in a few minutes the body ot Ryan was brought in by three men , who said they

      ound him dead on the road , and that they thought lie fell off his car , and was accidentally killed ; but , much to their surprise , the woman identified them as the persona who killed the deceased . Dreadful Murder at Clonpert . —Bauisasloe , Thursday , October 2 . —I deeply regret at having to record a murder of a most atrocious character perpetrated at Clonfert , county Galway , within nine miles of this town , on the night before last . The name of the unfortunate deceased was Thomas Lenney , steward to the Rev . Mr . Butson , rector of Clonfert . The circumstances of the lamentable case , as I have collected from authentic sources , are as follow

      —Some short time back Mr . Butson discharged a steward of his of the name of Coates , and engaged deceased as hia successor . In the interval between that and the murder , Mr . Butson received several threatening letters to dismiss Lenney from his situation , or the worst consequences would follow . The notice taken of these threats was tbat about ten davs back the father of Coates , the former steward—a man in rather comfortable circumstances—was apprehended and committed to Galway gaoi , as being concerned in the sending of notices in question . Matters remained se until Tuesday last ; on that day the agricultural show here was attended by Lenney . lie returned to his employer ' s house in the evening , and there took his dinner and tea as usual . 1 should have stated that on the previous night , Monday , another

      notice was found in Mr . Butson s hall , threatening that if Lenney was not discharged from his place within a given time he would certainly be shot . Deceased left the house ftt ten o ' clock to proceed to his sleeping apartment in the farm-yard , situate a very short distance from the dwelling-house ; but he was fated never to reach it , as he had scarcely reached mid-way to it , when he fell by the hand of the assassin . In passing through a gateway lie was fired at , and with so sure an aim , that the ball passed right through his heart , and death must have been instantaneous . The shot was beard in the stable-yard , but it appeared that no immediate attention was paid to the circumstance . In about twenty minutes , however , after the fatal occurrence , the lifeless body was

      discovered by one of the domestics extended in the gateway . Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr . Kenney , the coroner for the county ; Mr . Douglas , R . M . ; Mr . Lewis , county inspector of police ; and Messrs . Sweeney and Abbot , sub-inspectors . The result of the investigation was the finding a verdict of wilful murder againstsome parties unknown . Three persons have been since arrested on suspicion . They are Christopher Coates , coachman to Mr . Butson ; John Coates , also in Mr . Butson ' s employment as an agricultural servant : both are brothers of the dismissed steward . The name of the third prisoner is Joseph Bergir , groom to the reverend gentleman . The prisoners were brought in here to-day , guarded by a strong police force , and lodged in the Bridewell , for further examination by the bench of magistrates .

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      bridge over Leith Mills was on that morning completely swept away , and one or two ship ' s boats were capsiwd and sunk in the stream , which roared from ' bank to brae , " presenting as wild and wintry an aspect as we have witnessed for many a day . As an extraordinary contrast to this , and as a proot ot our variable climate , we may state that on the Tuesday previous , it was remarked by a pedestrian that in the Water of Leith , for more than a mile above the harbour , there was no running current to be seen—nothing but alternate shingle and stagnant pool . —Caledonian Mercury . Ddjjfbies Between tho night of Thursday anil Friday morning more rain fell than we ever remember within tho same brief period . Nor was the succeeding behind the preceding day in the influences inseparable from " even down pours , " with intermissions so few and far between , that streets , roads , and fields , not only saturated , but ruiiiiinj ; o'er , were never for a single moment dry . The tiniest summer rills were swollen to

      the size of brooks , burns to second class pastoral streams , and rivers to little seas . Lammas floods or Spates llftVC long bccil familial to the people of Scotland ; but rarely manifesting tho same magnitude of volume of irresistibility of current . And in consequence of accumulating , thus multiplied and concentrated , lavish rushings from the hills , and tributaries gorged , the Nith rose to a greater height tliau wo hud gupposed possible , in consequence of the improvements in our river navigation , which , by giving a freer egress to surplus water , have averted for several years periodical Hooding in the lower parts of the town—more especially the dwellings of tho poor , Hy ten o ' clock in the morning the Kith became an object of interest , rolling as it did majestically from bank to brae , however inferior to tho rivers of America ; and continued rising as the day

      advanced , until the brond stream above and below the Caul obliterated every trace of tUe artificial falla circumstances of very ran ) occurrence , During the forenoon and afternoon of Friday a great deal of grain , swept from level holms , was floated down the Nith , sometimes to the eMont of twenty or moro sheaves closely abutting on one another . And the same scene was re-witnessed on Saturday morning , although probably on a smaller seale . The < iuimtity of oats and bavley , and in one case of wheat , thus lost , would have piled , we should suppose several stacks ; and but rarely has the oldest indweller witnessed more animated fishing' , not by rod or net and coble , but by decks affixed to long poles , sticks , ropes with a stone attached , and other nppli . aiieesinnearingtothesido . The waif-men at the town mills were most industrious , and had collected among them

      an ordinary rick of corn ; but many sheaves escaped their apparatus on detouring over tlie Caul , portions of which were secured lower down by at least tliir-iy men uuil boys stationed on the Mill-green . Nor is this all , for by noon on Saturday , after tho river had fallen in , considerable quantities of grain were secured with ease at Keltou , and all rouud the shore of Caiiuverock . The chief portion of the grain was , we understand , brought down by the Nith , but it is reported tliat five acres of crop were swept away by the the Clouden , on the farm of Ha-hill . At one o ' clock on Saturday morning the Nith attained its greatest height ; and by that time had Hooded Brewerystreet , the White Sriuls , Friar ' s Viainel , and Bank-street , to a considerable distance . Many one-story dwellings were in this way invaded to the discomfort of tlie inmates , now that winter is again approaching . The premises

      occupied by Mr . Campbell , coachmaker , were deeply flooded , to say nothing of the inconveniences experienced at the Three Wells and Mill Hole ; and apart altogether from crop submerged and drawn i " , the damage done to the barrier erections ou the Duck , punts drifted or sunk , loose timber carried to sea , &c , will amount to a considerable sum of money . Twodrowned bullocks appeared in the stream , one of which was landed on the Maxwcltotvn 6 ide , and the other got out at Conlicath pier . Several of the show caravans had been placed near the edgo of the river at the foot of Hunk-street , and the owners were advised to remove them , as the river rose on Friday . This they refused to do from ignorance of the nature of the slream , mid in consequence , they were speedily surrounded with water , which not only prevented the ingress of all tbitors , but placed the concerns-Bin some danger .

      In the evening Uve sight was really picturesque , lights gleaming from the caravans on the turbid river ; aud men up to tho knees in water , busy anchoring tho travelling houses to the solid luud . liy means of a ship anchor and ropes , they were pretty well secured , but as the water at last rose above the level of the wheels , and entered the doors , other measures woro taicen ; nnd about eleven o ' cloiAc " ttie fattest woman in the world"reached Una firma by means of a boat ; ami considering her prize-bullock weight , it is fortunate the distance was not great enough to call for much rowiug Around Newton-Stewart rain fell incessantly for the uuusiinl period of twenty-four hours , accompanied by a tremendous gale of wind from the east and north-east . ' What with its roaring and tumbling masses of waters , which burst its banks at every little distance , the Croo

      presented a spectacle altogether unequalled for a number of years . Considerable damage was done by Hooding , us may be judged from Um statement that the bridge sit Clauchuncasy , about eight miles above Newton-Stewart , was swept away . This was au entirely new structure , which the trustees intended to talie off the contracto \ - ' s hands on the very Cay it fell—a casualty which may generate a knotty point for lawyers . The l'enkiln burn rose with extraordinary rapidity , and has not been seen so tempestuously flooded for thirty years , when it carried the bridge at Old Minnigaft ' awny . In reference to the wind and rain of Friday , a , veteran farmer says , that no siicli disastrous day lias occurred

      since 1810 , when the weather was precisely similar ubout the middle of harvest . From the neighbourhood of Kirkcudbright we learn as follows : —There was a strong wind from tlie cast , on tlie afternoon from tlie north-east , and tho rain frequently fell in torrents . The rivulets were much swollen , the low lying grounds inucli flooded , the water-tables running ovev so much in various places , that the parish roads were here and there almost impassable . I have not seen , at least I ( lo not remember , so great a spate these several years past , Thu Clyde , wu understand , tt'as tremendously flooded , and eke the Annan , Milk , Esk ; but what is strnngo , neither the Kiunel , Dryfc , nor Tweed , to any extent worth namiiif , although tho wind blew from tho east . —JJumffiis Courier .

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      hull , Lecture . — -On Sunday , October utli , Mr . R . Pcddic delivered an address , at half-past two in the afternoon , on the west side of the Dock-basin , to a largo and attentive audience , on the evils of a State Church . His address was listened to with the groatcsl . attention . The spiritual police ( tlio parsons ) , as wctt as the temporal , received : i severe castigation . The meeting adjourned " , till half-past six in the evening , to the large room of the White Hart Jnn , when Mr . J . . again spoke for two hours and a half .

      NEWCASTLE-- UTOA-TYNE , Public Lectures . —On Tuesday and Wednesday evening meetings were held in thu Barkcrite Chapel to consider the important subjects , the Charter a : ul tho Land . The meetings were well attended , and were effectively addressed by Mr . M'Gratli . Thu audience seemed fully to appreciate tlie truth of our political creed , as well as the excellence of the plan for obtaining possession of the land . A . largo numbcv of the rules of t lie society were deposed of , as a consequence of which wo expect a considerable increase in our numbers . The Land Society will in future hold its meeting at Mr . Judo ' s , Sun Inn , Side , every Monday evening , where anil when the attendance of pcrsinis desirous of enrolling is requested .

      OLD 1 IAAL Ox Suxdaa' ! u&t Mr . David lloss delivered a mo ? t energetic address on Sanatory Reform , in tlie Working-Man ' s ] fall , Ilorsedge-stfcet . The lecturer gave , great satisfaction .

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      Aderdbk . y . —Mr . M'Gratli , President of the National Cliiu'tisv Association , will deliver a lecture in the Tiiinperance-halj , on Monday , October loth . t liucKiiuus . —A meeting of the members of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society will be held here , at Mr . George Kui'toivs , Tcmiierance Hotel , Kingstreet , on Wednesday next , October 15 th . Siiwnuu ) . —Tlie shareholders of tlie Co-operative Land . Society are informed that a meeting will ho held at Mr . Cavill ' s Democratio Heading-room ? , oil Monday , October 2 lHl ] , to take into consideration tlie address of the directors , and likewise to consider the propriety of holding a meeting at IluxhilJ prior to the Conference . JJiiiSDK . v-IiiiincE .--A gi ' . Mid I ) . ) ! I will bo hold in the Democratic Chapel , I Widen-Bridge-lane , on Friday , the 17 ch insi ., at sovenVdcek .

      Ax Aiuoi ; i : xi : n AFektixi : of tiie shareholders of the City of London ilall will bo held on Sunday ( to-UlOl - ro ' . v ) lDoniini :, at eleven o ' clock . Mit . Skivku . will lecture ou Sundav ( to-morrow ) evciMiitr , at the Partlieisiiim . St . AlnrtiuVlaue . Mr . \\ heeler will also attend . Chair to be taken at eHifc o clock . Mr . Dc-Yj-r . ' s Horn-: von the Emuxr ; Wi : i : k " : — \ J r' n < L l ' 2 tll < Asllln » -i '" der-Linc ; Monday Mil , Mopley ; luesdny , Jlth , Staley Hrid » o ; Wednesday , lath , I Joy wood ; and Thursday , lOthf Hoi ton . Tiik AVi-ST-Kimxo Delegate iMcctiti" will beheld on Sunday ( to-morrow ) , in the Working Man ' s Hall , I . ullclosc-Iane , Halifax , at twelve o ' clock in thcJbrc-11001 ' .

      U . \ ui \\ x . —The Chartists of this locality arc va , quested to meet in their room , on Sunday ( to-morrow ) at slx o ' clock in the evening . Mascuestku . —A Tea Party , Concert , and Ball will be held on Tuesday , October Jltli , in the Carpenters ' Hall , in honour of tlicliiKil Plan . Toa on the table at seven o ' clock p . m . —Mr . James Leach will lectura on Sunday ( to-morrow ) , in the above hall , at halfpast six i ' . M .-Mr . J . it . Cooper will lectaoia tho above hall , on Sunday , October 10 th , at half-past SIX leelual Advancement ot the People . " -Tliefldjonrned members' meeting will take place <^ sSS&N £ «) , at two o ' clock p . * , in ^ fi ||^ | ^ Isifiii M iand

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      EECEiriS OF THE CHARTIST CO-OMRATIVJE LAND SOCIETY . FEB KB . O ' COXKOIt . S . S . < 3 . rdslev . nearBarnsley . perMr . Xonnan .. 2 o 0 liarles Harper . Anlsley . 0 14 alifax , per C . W . Smith 4 2 0 JLrcifc-. vcr V . 'm . J'rools .. .. .. .. il O 0 35 amslev , per J . AVanl 2 0 0 Exeter , per J . SuS ? « 0 0 Oidhain , per Win . llamc-r .. ... .. 200 Preston , per J . Urtmii .. .. ... .. : 1 14 3 Uoulo 2 nc . perJ . 0 ram .. .. * . .. 3 13 0 Salfonl , per J . ilillington .. j . .. 3 1 G A Friend , Buln-cll . Xotts , per J . Sweet .. .. 2 12 0 Manchester , per J . Murray 1-3 o 0 J Jradfurd , per J . Aldersoa .. .. .. 400 Mr . Tonloff , Waterloo rudncy , near Braiifoard .. 200 SCewcastle-ti pon-Tyne . jieril . Judu J .. .. 200 TEB . CEXIBAI . SECBET ^ ET .

      INSTSIJIEXTS . £ * - <*• £ s . d . HaiUey .. .. 014 Tho ? . Knapp „ 0 1 4 Trescot .. .. 0 S 0 J . liagley .. ., 014 ilouiuoutli .. 068 SBiSES . 3 $ ai nslpJvXo . 2 , por Mr . Pursell .. 0 1 0 Wilkinson .. 120 G . Battisuii .. 6 1 o ¦ Westminster .. 300 15 . Fu \ .. .. 100 IVliittinirtoEA-Cat 113 7 G . Fox .. .. 000 Xower Warlcj- .. 2 0 0 E Sobfes .. .. ( I 3 0 Brighton .. .. ' 2 11 i . Gul&anith .. o l o CABDS AND BCXES . JTacclesfieM .. 0 C 0 Manchester .. 084 5 Ir . Doyle .. ., 0 0 S XewcasUe-on-T yne 0 6 0 jplvmoutii .. .. 009 Sunderlsael * .. 0 3 9 > lf- Bear .. .. 009 South ShU-lds .. 020 Secretary .. -. 0 Q C TnoJiA * Xvrtix AVnEELEE , Seerctarv .

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      TO TH £ HEHBEBS OF TOE CHAUTIST CO-OPERATIVE Land SociErr . —Having received numerous inquiries re . lative to the insertion of the list of Sept . 27 th . and October 4 th , in the par « r of that date , I have to inform you that it was owing to the Money List being omitted from some editions of the paper , dated Sept . 27 CU . In tbe balance Flieet published iu last week ' s Star , I am sorry to state that mistakes Ii 3 ve occurred in the money from Ashtun , Uarnsley , Button , Dewsbury , Lambeth , Lamberhead green , Mottram , Northampton , Nottingham , Old Basford , Old . ham , Kadclifte , HuUierhara , Sheffield , Somers Town , Wheeler's list . Whittington and Cat , and Carrington ; these mistakes have occurred owing to want of due attention on the part of tbe compositors and readers , but they will com . pel me to issue a printed balance sheet , a copy of which will be in the hands of each sub-secretary during the course of the ensuing week : this will also obviate the necessity oi further explanation on matters of detail which space would not allow to appear in the Star . I also inform the subsecretaries , and other members of the body , that on and xftcr the date of October 13 th , all letters and communications must be sent to me , at No . 7 , Crown-court , Deanstreet , Oxford-street . All Post-ofiice orders to the Branch PosU > ffice , Old Cavendish-street , Oxford-street . ThomaB Mabtin Wheeleb . __

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      TIIE DOOMED SHIP . We understand that . a report , of which the following is an outline , was made to the Lords of her Ma jesty ' s Privy Council , on Friday week , by Sir William f ym , superintendent-general of quarantine , and Mr . Arnott , of the Middlesex Hospital . Those gentlemen proceeded to Portsmouth on Tuesday week . The Eclair , it will be remembered , reached the Motherbank on Sunday evening . She had been immediately reported to the Custom-house authorities , which arc always the first informed of sucli matters , and the channel of communication with tho Privy Council , » s having on board a most malignant fever . That circumstance ¦ was , in due course , communicated to the Privy Council , and in consequence of its order Sir William' 1 ' ym and Mr . Arnott proceeded on Tuesday

      morning : week to 1 ortsnioutli . They lmiaocliutely repaired alongside the Eclair , accompanied by thu quarantine officers , and made the most minute inquiries into the condition of the shin and the crew . From them it resulted that the crew had been suffering from a most malignant fever , with black vomit , since the 23 rd of July , when the steamer sailed from Sierra Leone . On leaving that place she proceeded both to Gambia and Goree , but the French authorities of the latter place would not even allow an-y communication to be had with her , and she left immediately , for Buona Vista , one of the Capo do Verd Islands . Here the Avhole ship ' s company waslanded , all the stores taken out , as well as the water tanks , and thesliip was thoroughly cleansed , fumigated , and white-vashed . But thirty-one of the officers and

      crew having died on shore in little less than tlivec weeks , it was determined , after an investigation b y the medical officers of the Eclair and the Growler , which was at Buona Vista , that she should proceed immediately to England . Before leaving Buona Vista , Mr . M'Clure , a surgeon of the navy , who whs passenger on board the Growler , with seven seamen of that vessel , nobly volunteered , their services on board the Eclair ; and Mr . M'Clure , it is to be regretted , fell a victim to his devotion to the public service . After leaving Buona Vista tho fever did not abate , as might have been expected , when the vessel approached a more temperate climate . On the contrary , before she reached Madeira Captain Estcourt and Mr . M'Clure both died , and one of the seamen who had volunteered from the Growler was altaekec

      with the disease . At Madeira the authorities would allow of no communication from the Eclair , though they permitted Mr . Bernard , a naval surgeon , and two seamen , who volunteered their services , to cmbark on board of her . Mr . Bernard and the assistantsurgeon of the Eclair , Mr . Coffv , still remain on board the vessel at Stangate Creek . After leaving Madeira the disease continued as bud as ever . From the time of her leaving Duona Vista till she arrived ill England . She lost at the vato of almost one m ; ui per day . Two deaths occurred after her arrival at the Mother-bank within the spaceuf thirty-six hours , which elapsed before she was visited by the medical gentlemen men ioncd above , and one fresh ease ol / ever appeared on the 20 th . Considering , these circumstances , and particularly the fact that the fever still prevailed on boardit was thought necessary that

      , the ship should be kept in quarantine , but that every means should be taken to provide for tbe wants ami recovery of the men . She was accordingly immediately ordered to Stangate Creek , Uig usual quavimtinc station , and two hulks were placed at the service of the crew . Into one of them those who had not had the fever were removed , and on board tin .-other those who had been attacked ami had recovered were placed . 1 ' rcsh bedding and fresh provisions , and everything which it was supposed could contribute to the recovery or the comfort of the crew , were immediately supplied . Indeed , everything of that kind which was needed was sent to them at Tori ;; .

      mouth . Between the 30 th ult ., when rlio was visited at Portsmouth , and Friday , the date of the report three more deaths had taken place ; but as no fresh case of fever had occurred subsequent to tbe ° Oth and there were only two patients confined to their hammocks , it was hoped that tlie progress of the disease was arrested . Besides these two , there were eleven of the crew convalescent , the remainder having either wholly escaped the fever , or had the disease and recovered . It is singular that of the forty-three Iwoomen , taken on board at dilleivnt periods , and still on board the Eclair , not one was uver affected by the disease .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 11, 1845, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1336/page/5/