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      MISCELLANEOUS Health of ihs Metropolis . —The number of leaths registered in the Metropolitan Distri cts last reek was 981 , being—males , 502 ; females . 479 . A roman is reported to have died in thesub-distnct oi 3 hristchurch . St Saviour ' s , of " natural decay , at ibe . advanced age of 100 years . The num ber ot ) iras , registered in the same period , w * , ' " ?*• nales , 718 ; females , 699 . Thereturdof meteorolorfcal observations taken at the Royal Observatory Gwenwich . daring the ^ kendmg Satarday , 2 ith April , states the mean heig ht of the barometer to have been 29816 : ««« ™ r V I Sfc i lowest , 318 : mean . 45 5 . The direction of the wind durin * the week was variable , but principally from the Nl and E ., with a maximum pressure of 2 . 0 lbs . oB the square foot , the snm of horizontal movement of the air being 160 milea ; mean amount of cloud , Extbaobdisabi Bihih —The wife of William Squire * , carpenter and -oraer , Buckingham-road , Kinssland , was safely delivered , on Sunday , the 8 th ult . of three boys , who , with the mother , are doing well .

      IKQPE 8 T 3 . AwFot Suodbw Death of a Strasger . —Before Mr Mill ? , on the body of a a » 8 n , unknown , about 65 years of aga . James . Cottrell deposed that , about three o ' clock last Thursday , he bsw deceased , who was carrying a carpet bag and an umbrella , fall do * n dead dose tothepump in the Hatnpatead-road , opposite Henry street . He was dressed in a new suit of black clothes , and the label on his bag was inscribed "James Smith , passenger . " Policeconstablel 85 S eaye similar evidence , and produced the following artirles that were foncd on his person : —A n or ersisnedbv the distributor of stamps , Tenbury , for £ l 13 a . 4 d ., to be returned to James Smith by the

      Commissioners of Stamps , being a surcharge on his property , which was under £ 150 a-year ; a receipt for the purchase of £ 50 stock , sold here by Mr Green a silver watch , ' Man and Wall , " makers , Coventry No . 2 . 307 ; two cold seals , one having a dark stone with ahead engraved , and theotherhaving a white stone ; a WHcb . paper . bearing the inscription . " James Smiih . 37 . Nottingham-place , 1818 " Ilis bag was foil « f new clothes , and atthe boUom ofit werea larre ham , some bacon , the Worcester Chronide March 31 . and the Birmingham Advertiser of the 12 th jnst . The jury having expressed a hooe that the press wsnld give publicity to the particulars connoted with deceased ' s death , returned averdiet of 11 Natural death . "

      Ttaao with Machinery . —B fore Mr Bedford , at ftePlnuph . Carey-street , on thebndyofT . Lawler S ^ L ^ i . T e dec *» lted with his father , at torfield ' a Papier Mache Works , Wellinoton-street , Kortn strand , and on the afternoon of the 13 th nit . while alone in the room in which he was eraplored \ he imprudently began playine with some steam machinery by thrusting his right hand between two iron rollers revolvms at full speed , grindim ; paper to a pulp , and before he could withdraw it . the rollers had drawn his arm in as far as the shoulder . " H s screams brou » ht assistance , and the ensine was instantlystopped ; but the machinery had to be taken to pieces before it could be extricated , when it was lockmely mutilated . He was removed to King ' s College Hospital , where , subseauentlv his arm was

      amputated , an « j ledifd on Friday last from the effects of the injury . Verdict , - Accidental death . " , AccnrcsT at the Blackwall Railwat . — Before Air Baker , at the Brown Bear . Leman-stwet . Goedman s-fields . on the body of Margaret M'Cattey , aeed 8 eventv-Sve . who for many years got her living at a fmit stall adjoining . It appeared , that the deceased was standing at her stall at the time that a dray , drawn by two horses , was passing the arch of le Blackwall Bailway . when the anima ' s were armed by the sound of the train . The driver did all he conld to stop the horses , but without success , and the dray knocked the deceased down , and the near whee ^ went across her " body . She was taken to the Brown B * a «\ life being extinct . ' Verdict , " Accidental death . "

      Mystebious Death took Daowjosa . —On Tuesday > y Mr Baker , at « he Royal Standard public-house , lemming-street . Kingsland-road , on view of the body of Alexander Ilenry Insram , aged nine yoars . he son of a respectable tradesman , residing in Griffin-sireet , Hoxton , who wa 9 drowned on Saturday ternoon last nnder the following very mysterious circumstances : —It appeared from the evidence of wo boys , named Giles , that on Saturday afternoon astthey were playing with the deceased near the Kmgsland-road Bridge . The deceased went to the side of the Regent ' s Canal , and laid himself down on the towinspath . where he was fishins with a stick for some time . He was cautioned not to go so near ihe water , when he rose and disappeared under the arch . He was never seen alive afterwards , and lie same evening he was recovered by means of the dwea under < he arch of the bridge . A verdict of " Found Drowned ™ was agreed to .

      Death by Suffocation . —A ponr fellow , named John Strange , aged 5 i years , an inmate of St Lnke ' s workhouse . Old-street , while eating his dinner on Monday last in the dining hall , put the greater portion of a potato in his mouth , and was in the act of swallowing it , when it stuck fast in his throat . He was observed to become quite black in the face , and pointed to his throat . An effort was made to dislodge the potato , but without effect , and before medical assistance could be ' obtained he was lifeless . Supposed Suicide in the New Rjveb . —Mr Hiegs wld an inquest on Monday , at the Canteen . Enfleld Lock , on the body of James Jones , aged 42 gardener to Mr Alderman Challis . It appeared in

      evidence thattne fleceased na . for some time past been suffering from disease of the brain , and was subject to paroxysms o \ madness . On Wednesday night he was exceedingly restless , and on the folowiag day left home secretly , and strolled along the ine of the Eastern Counties Railway , at Enfield . Lhe gatekeeper sent bira off the line , and believing , from his wild manner , that he was not in his right senses , sent some persons to look after him . He was not seen afterwards until Friday , whea his body was found in a branch of the New River , at Ware . Che jury returned a verdict , That the deceased ' was ound drowned , and that he had probably drowned himself whi ' e-in a state of insanity . "

      ExTRAORDISARr CA 8 E OP AtLKGCD MeSUBBIC Inimjesce tending to Death . - Before W . Carter , Esq .. coroner for Surrey , at the Gnildford Barge , BelTedere-road , Westminster-road , as to the death of John Peterbridge , aged fifty-eight years , who was alleged by his wife to have been seriously injured by mesmeric influence , under most extraordinary and novel circumstances . It turned out , however ; from theevidenceofDrAldis , of the Surrey Dispensary , that the deceased died from the combined effects of dropsy and consumption . Verdict— "Natural death . "

      Sodden Death . —In the Marylebone WorkhonBe , before Mr Mills , on Mary Bendley , aged 62 , late an inmate . On Friday evening , deceased was washing at the pump some potatoes for her supper , and had just the last one in the saucepan , when she exclaimed , " I will have some potatoes for supper , thank God I" The next moment she fell down a lifeless corpse . Verdict— "Visitation of God . " Sdicide . —Before Mr Mills , in the Marylebone Workhouse , an John Bateman , aged 36 , a carpenter and undertaker , late of John-street , New road , who has been missing for a fortnight . Benjamin Cole , deceased ' s brother-in-law , deposed that , in consequence of deceased having threatened to destroy himself , he searched the Regent ' s canil on Thursday , and found his body claseto the Lisson-grove bridge . In his opinion he drowped himself . Another witness proved that he heard deceased say that he would make a hole in the water . Verdict— " Found drowned . "

      Suicidk bt a Child . —Before Mr Mills , at the Elephant and Castle , King ' s-road , St Pancras , on John Taylor , aged ten , whose body was found in the Repent ' s canal , near the York and Albany . Mr J . Taylor , residing at No . 4 . Munster-street , stated that he was the father of the deceased , and that he sent him out one morning to buy some tea , but instead of purchasing the required quantity , he parcaased less , frr which ne mildly reprimanded deceased , who soon afterwards left his . home , and was not again seen until the body was found . In his opinion he drowned himself . Deceased ' s grandmother had been dennged , his mother was in Hanwell , and his aunt betrayed symptoms of insanity . Mr Mills observed that two cases of children of the ages of ten and eleven , committing suicide through fear , had come before him . Verdict— "Found drowned . "

      ACCIDEKTS , OTKHCES ETC Mysiebiou > Stout . —On Monday , information was received by the Marylebone division of police , that a day or two before , at noon , a Frenchman , fashionably dressed , drove u = > in a cab to the door ot a mansion in Portman-sqoare . during the absence from home of some ' of the family , and by r epresenting totheser-Tant who answered him that he came from a friend of ihe occupier of the house , residing in Eatonsquare , succeeded in obtaining an interview with the ladv , to whom he said he could communicate his message as well as to her husband . What hia object in doing b'j . w *' , or what took place atthe interview , has net been made known , beyond the fact that he by some means induced the lady to deliver to him two gold watches , a god guard-chain , a gold watch-key ,

      and a shawl of the vala « of upwards £ 50 , and £ 15 in money , the lady receiving from him in exchange an enamelled gold watch , warranted perfect , and a cold ctain ' an'l key . very inferior articles and of trifling value .-wben-te speedily very politely bowed himself out of the bouse ; The Frenchman is described as being atom five feet seven to eight inches high , from 33 to 40 yeaw of age . of florid complexion , can speak several languages , and is very plausible in his manner . He gave ihe aataa of " Mauley" to the wront when he » n .-nd tte house ; but to the lady he signed it "F . Deiia . * Tnepoliee are aware thataaindividual au sweaug the description recently obtained from a . Spanish gen tleman £ 20 by a similar trick . The name ot ihe ladj , his hat dupe , has not been aluwed lo transpire .

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      Tsttgiatfo . CHESHIRE . ¦ ' Birkebhead . —Dreadful Murder . —During the past week considerable excitement has prevailed in Birkenhead , owing to the death of ah infant female child , the daughter of an unmarried woman , named Grace Deays . The child had been placed out to nuree with an old woman , named Hannah Jordan , who on Wednesday brought it to its mother , and left it with her for the day . In the course of the afternoon it began to cry frequently , and towards evening it was quite clsar that the child was very ill . Its hands got clenched and the eyes fixed . Mr Edgar , surgeon , was sent for , and at once saw that the infant was labouring under the effects of some narcotic . On the following morning , Mr Drinkwater , suspecting

      that the mother had poisoned the infant , sent for Inspector M'Neill , who charged her with having given the child rme laudanum , when she admitted that she had given it some with a spoon , and had thrown the bottle into the fire . She was then taken into custody . Upon inquiry , it was found that she had purchased same laudanum at a druggist ' s shop in the neighbourhood . The prisoner , it appeared , wasabout to leave Mr Drinkwater ' s service , and being wishful to go into the workhouse , applied to the magistrates for an order for that purpose , but she was refused . She then made application to one of the relieving officers for relief , and a subscription was got op to send her to Scotland . The inquest was held on Friday , and after the evidence had been heard , the prisoner having been cautioned by the coroner , made the following statement : — " I it

      gave the laudanum , but I merely gave it to make it quiet and not to disturb the house . I did not intend any harm to the child , or I would not have given it . Master was going to bed , and I was going to be sent home to Scotland next day , and the master and mistress were going to let me stop that night if I was not going to cross to Liverpool . I had often heard that laudanum hid been given to children to keep them quiet . I did not think it would poison the ohild . " The coroner said one question for the jury was , whether laudanum had been administered atall ; second , how or by whom it was administered ; third , with what intent ; and fourth , was it given with the felonious or wilful intent to destroy the life of the child . After an hour ' s deliberation , the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Grace Deays . ;

      STAFFORDSHIRE . Attempt to Murder , an Aqbd Couple . —George and Sarah Bridgewood , both between 60 and 70 years of age , reside by themselves in a house in Highstreet , Fenton , in the Potteries , where they keep a small provision shop . Having retired to rest one night last week , shortly after 1 o ' clock on the following morning , the old man as he lay half asleep , fancied be saw a glimmering light in the room , and before he conld rouse himself to ascertain from whence it proceeded , he received a blow on the side of his bead , bis wife , the next moment , receiving several cuts oa her face and arms from a knife , which , it is believed , were aimed at her throat . The old roan , recovering himself , sprang out of bed , and seized a man , whom he got on the floor , and placing hiB knees in his assailant ' s throat , succeeded in keeping him down , his wife in the meanwhile contriving to reach the door , and call out "Murder ! " Ina

      few minutes afterwards the police were attracted to the house , and , on entering the room , found the old man in the position described . Both were drenched in blood , and the bed-clothes and floor exhibited fearful proofs of the murderous design of the ruffian . On being taken to the station-house , he was recognised to be a bricklayer , named William Burleigh . He was in a very weak state , his throat - being cut , but how it was done was difficult to say . There is no doubt that his intention , in the first instance , was to plunder the house , but being disturbed , he at * tempted to murder the aged pair , in order that he might complete his object and escape detection On Friday he underwent an examination before the magistrates at the Stoke police-court . Mrs Bridgewood was brought into the court on a chair , and was propped up by pillows . After several witnesses had been examined , theprsoner was fully committed for trial at the next assizes on the capital charge .

      SUFFOLK . New Rikg-dropping Thick . —As a simple countryman from Highatp , « f the name of Clark , was returning from Ipswich , with his master ' s waggon , he saw a small jewel-box iyinc on the road . Thinking no doubt he bad discovered a prise , be eagerly seized it , but on examination it appeared to be empty . On going a short distance further he met a man , with the appearance of a Jew , who seemed to be looking for something , and telling the countryman he had lost a box containing a valuable ring , asked him it he bad seen anything of . it ; the countryman replied he had found a box , but it was empty , on which the Jew offered to bet a sovereign that bis ring was in it . Therustio ' scupiditybeinvthus excited , and

      thinking himself sure of winning , and beim ; without that sum . he offered to stake his watch , worth £ 3 , which the Jew accepted , and pricing a ring from a false bottom of tne box , he claimed and walked off with the watch , leaving tho poor countryman aghast at his own folly , and with ample time to repent of his own stupidity on his way home . Destruction ep Brandihioh Uaix . —Afew days ago , this fine specimen of Elizabethan architecture , the seat of Mr Austin , Q C , situate on a prominent eminence , near the r » a < i- «> i < ie , between Cretingham and Framlingham , in this county , wax found to be on fire . It was built about three centuries since , and was very capacious , having a noble frontage of 160 feet . Up to within a ft-w years , tiie mansion was

      tenanted by the family of the f < iu-der , from whom Mr AuBtin purchased the estate , and it was atthe time of the accident , undergoing an elaborate restoration . It appears that tl < e hall wax placed under the care of the contractor , who , with hia workmen , slept in the building . Soon after twelve o ' clock on tne morning named , a b » y , aii as-i « . iaritiif the contractor , discovered smoke issuing Jrnm one of the sittingrooms over the library , on the . eist wing . It had been nsed by the contractor ^ jve he had had the care of the building , and was h- mry apartment in which there had been a fire f- < everal days . He immediately awoke Mr Sillen , ilie principal , who became so alarmed th « t , instead ut a- < eercainirg the nature and extent of the fire , t > c ^ aucd uut of window , and sustained some x 2 v < rv injuries * by his ( all . Two or three workmen who sie ; - »¦ uou . e attics in a distant part of the house . ' iieing phis *) , hastened to

      the apartment , andeiidenvo ' . i ' x-. i i » xtinguish the flames , which were issuing fr . m the flour within a spaceof two or three feet in frmit . « f the hearth , but owing to the dryness of the w . mcl , ihe fire spread with such rapidity , that their ffrts were unsuccessful . The elaborate carved womi wiling of the library below next caught , and it set-in-, from that moment a'l hopes of saving the eriifitt : were lust . Mounted expresses were immediately desjmich&l to Fratnlingham and to Ipswich - for en ^ i > , os and assistance . Crowds from villages ailjamni fl okd to the scene , and oa the arrival of the imginrs the spectators exerted every nerve to mas-ter t' ^ fin > , butallin vain —and in the space of two hour * from the discovery of the fire , Brandeston-hall was •< Ma ! ruin—only the south wall remaining . Tim U > - ~ cannot be known accurately . It U said to be mjjwjh d * o : £ 20 , 000 . The mansion , itisstated , wa « notihxured .

      OXFORD 8 HIKK , Civic IIosouhb at a Discount . —Mr Matthew , an eminent builder of Oxford , r ; n | i , " < iiao take upon himself the office of alderman •¦ ' < ii » . t nty , to which he was elected a fortnight agu <> v . -. r ^ e majority of the town council , ha * pai'l the . » iv s—*> i . £ 40 . —into the hands of the city treason : .. » ' ¦<; aiotUer gentleman has been elected in hh iil »<«

      ES « KX . The Bursham Fires . —A i ) . "i ,, i ! a ^ ed Ilawes , has been examined at the retistr « rV- * nicrt » t Maldon , when evidence , which api > e ; : ir < i >« i > i-ntify him as the incendiary bavingbeen a ; i \ r . n , ie •»«* committed for trial . The value of the [ n- « t-u < « y : t- ! tr . iyed upon the threefarms is now statcl t « iw , d £ 1 , > 09 . AKOTHEB CASKOrAlTEMPIKD ^ t IC 11 K FKUM DK 8 T 1-tdhoh has bten brought iitfmu t ' . ii masistratea at Newport . ^ A poverty . atritk . u .-.-litish ^ ss , named Daller , being out of emplotme <<> |> r «< U' < . < laquantity of laudanum , partof which slu ^ iv . ) © her illegitimate child , and thin swallom d tli < : larger portion herself . Both mother and chiui m under a hedge insensibleaUnight , butlieiug i ' .. ( : im n ihemorning , medical aiawas rendi red , am ! i taker « iied . The mother will , it is understo-kl , I" r ^ rixiiKUd for trial for the attempt to murder

      IliOHWAT Robbgbt and Mvkuxv . - An old man , named Terry , was stopped a fc « unn >> . -ince in a bye lane between Rochlordand Cai *> - < i < iii ^ tmso severely beaten about ihe head by afjot |»; ni , \ n&- he has since died . The robber toek the old ;• ;< u \ * > ch and four shillings and sixpence , but ha- l » u a orehended , and is now in Chelm ^ furd j : aol ;) u : iiiin ^ us trial . Ttphd * Fsver—The typhus tVver ia very prevalent in Rochdale , among thu ] ii » ii , : md - eath 9 occur nearly every day . The inhabitm ^ hh ; becotuing much alarmed , and not withovt c » tss « .

      BKKK 8 DIB-:. AcoiBiKT at Windsor Uistik . —An unfortunate accident , from the effects « f wliioli i » , m (' eared the poor fellow will never recove ^ ucru ' rci * on Wednesday morning , between geven and ciglu , iiViock , to a man named Sannders , a lab » uret , in tli « fui . iloy ufMr i « vegrove , of Maidenhead , while lio ¦ + *? fngaged in h ^^ ¦ SB i »>« eriab ,. f tlm ' miiiJary knighte ' houses , on the lower foundaiian , wl ) i < : ii 1 ^ , 5 been purchased b y h » roaster at thercl-. ir ^ : » , f t . h « S » .

      Kb * u ° f th ° C »™™™™ « • ^ ood ., and Foresw ItappearB that while fh- nt ! , n was standing on the remainin portion of- «!;« oj ' the walls a height of between twenty .-,. 1 , | , itiy ! e < jt . a portion of the wall to which he haa « } . „ ,-. iallice with him into the basement below , « umi , i « a > . « cture of both thighs and his right aim , bei .-j « «* oilinr w vere iuiUrie 8 . MrUoldeniesBandMr Pewrl , i-urgeona , were iamediatoly in attendance , bir , ia c « um queues ol then being no infirmary ward attached to the Wind .

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      aor Dispensary , it . «? aa necessary to convey the suf » ferertothe union . workhonse , a distance of three miles , where he received every attention from the Burgeon ; Mr Ridout . ' -

      • • . . ; . BBNT . MOBDBR OF A CniLD AND SuiClDE OP THE MoTHEB —A very painful act of murder and Boicide occurred at Woolwich , on Tuesday afternoon . The Salsette whioh lies moored off the dockyard , is used as a receiving ship for the seamen ( and their wives in some cases ) who are attached to steamers and other vessels undergoing repair in the dockyard . On the return o " f the Bloodhound steam-vessel , Lieut . Phillips , from the Mediterranean station ; a few weeks since , the vessel was taken into the basin and the crew drafted onboard the Salsette , amongst whera was the captain ' s cook , a man named Robinson , and his wifej who had an infant about fifteen months old . Somo domestic differences of a very painful nature occurred

      between this man and his wife since his arrival at Woolwich , and on Tuesday afternoon , between one and two o ' clock , when in a fit of excitement , she jumped overboard from the Salsette with her infant in herarma . An intrepid seaman on board the hulk immediately sprang in after her , and made a clutch at her dress , just , it is stated , as she was in the act of sinking . This heroic action , however , was unfortunately of no avail , and both mother and child sank beneath the water . Neither of the bodies han yet been recovered . Various reasons have been stated for the rash act ; but as these reflect both on the character of the husband and on that of the deceased , it would be unjust to do more . than allude to them till the coroner ' s inquest is held . :

      ... HAMP 3 HIRB . Sobthauptos . —Fam . op a TuNNEt . —The tunnel now forming under Bar-street and Houndwell , for the Dorchester and Southampton Railway , suddenly fell for a space of nearly two hundred yards ; twenty men and ten horses had been at work oh the very spot but a few minutes previously , and bad it occurred while they were at work not one of them could have been saved . The principal thoroughfare of the town is completely stopped , and the workshops of Mr Aslatt , coach-builder , whioh are situate on the verge of the tunnel , rendered so unsafe that they . ate obliged to discontinue working in them .. . . ••» .-. t ;; . :: ' , Rkprksentation of Newport , Isle , of Wight . — The present appearance of the register of voters has induced the leaders of the conservatives of this borough to offer , a compromise , and : that they will

      withdraw all opposition to the return of a liberal candidate at the next election , en condition they are allowed to return one conservative member , expecting as a matter of course that the same line of proceeding will beadopted by the liberals , in order , as it is alleged . ' to preserve the good feeling and peace of the town ! V We need no' say that the proposal was most properly and indignantlv spurned . Thunder Storm and the Electric . Tblegrapii . — Last week a thunder storm of short duration occurred at Southampton . The gentleman superintending the electric telegraph at the South-western Railway terminus , states that by . the influence of the eleotric fluid , passing along the wires , the alarm bell of the telegraph was rung , a circumstance that in his experience has never occurred before , although the magnetic needles of the dial are generally deflected and oscillated daring thunder storms .

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      — mm wmu& . CARMARTHEN . Tbebbrsed .- 'Love and Jealoubt . —A most barbarous outrage has been perpetrated at this place . Two rivals for the favours of a servant at that farm engaged in a contest , whioh terminated in one of them receiving seven or . eight wounds in various parts of his body , by which his nose and under lip were nearly severed from his face ; and a severe stab in the , side perforated the right lung so that in breathing tie air passed through the orifice . The weapon used by his antagonist was a clasp knife . The uninjured party has been taken into custody . Superstition in 1847 . —A few days since an

      unusual circumstance was observed at Pillgwenlly , Newport . A patient ass stood near a house , and a family of not much more rational animals were grouped around it ; a father was seen passing his little son under the donkey , and lifting him over its back a certain number of times , with as much solemnity and precision as if engaged in the perform * ance of a sacred duty . This done , the father took a piece of bread , cut from an untasted loaf , which he offered the animal to bite at . Nothing loth , the Jerusalem pony laid hold of the bread with his teeth , and instantly the father severed the outer portion of the sljce from that in the donkey ' s mouth . He next

      clipped off some hairs from the neck of the animal , which he cut up into minute particles , and then mixed them with the bread , which he had' crumbled . This very tasty food was then offered to the boy who had been passed round the donkey so mysteriously , and the little fellow having eaten thereof , the donkey was removed by his owners ; and the father , his son , and other members of his family were moving off , when a bystander inquired what all these " goings on " had been adopted for ? The father started at the ignorance of the inquirer , and then , in a halfcontemptuous , half-condescending tone , informed him that" it was to cure his poor sob ' s hoopingcough , to be sure !"

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      Scotland " IANABKSHIRK . Glasgow . —Extensive Fibe . —A fire broke out in the mills of Messrs . Ferguson and Co ., at Milend , Bridgeton . The fire originated , it is supposed , by friction in some portion of the machinery . The destruction was most rapid , and complete " , the whole being burned within two houM , in defiance of ever ; exertion made to stay its course . The damage sustained amounted , it is said , to nearly £ 30 , 000 , which is fully covered by insurances . We are sorry to think of the loss sustained by the four hundred unfortunate workers who will be thrown out of employment by the disaster . . :

      Invbiounoand Robbing a Surgeon . —Atthe Court of Justiciary held at Glasgow on Thursday , two persons ,: JameB Ford and Jane Livingston , were sentenced to 14 years' transportation , for having' inveigled Mr Black , a surgeon , into their lodgings , under the pretence that bis services were required for a sick person , and then assaulting and robbing him . ' :. ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦

      perthshire . Sdjtoat Observance bt as Englishman in Scotland . —The foreman of the section now forming near Abernetny of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway , was brought up before ajustice of the peace at Perth , at the instance of the procurator fiscal , charged with a breach of the decorous observance of the sabbath . The party was an Englishman , and only lately come to Scotland ; and had caused six men to be employed on the previous morning on some preliminary work connected with laying the rails , which had been attended with considerable noise , had attracted a crowd of the villagers , and disturbed the parish minister at his morning studies . The case was established ; but in consequence of the alleged ignorance of the offender of the strictness with which the day is observed in Scotland , and that the work ordered was of a trifling nature , the fine was mitigated to 6 s . and costs .

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      patients in the hospital of the workhouse , anddnring the last week nofewer'taan thirtytwo deaths have occurred within that establishment ; . ' . The Right Rev . Dr Coon has died at his residence in Leughrea . from the effects of an attack of the prevailing disorder . Thedeceased wasm his 78 th year . This makes the second vacancy within tne last fews weeks in the : number of Roman Catholic bishops . ; . .. " -,.. Sugo . —Typhus fever is growing worse every day ; it has spread from the environs of the town , where the poor live , into the leading streete , and there is hotastreetinSligo free from it . As the warm , weather approaches we fear the pestilence will become more prevalent . Unfortunately there is no account

      kept by any of our parish officers of the number of deathswhichoccur . butwe know that funerals are now more general than ever we remembered them , and they have ceased to create any surprise or astonishment . ¦ ¦• , . . Clonuel . —In consequence of the alarming increase of sickness in the workhouse of this union , the guardians found it necessary , at their meeting ou Thursday , to appoint an assistant physician . . Wexjord . —Ensibcorthy WoBKHODBB . —Fever is making dreadful ravages in the . Enniscorthy workhouse ; fifteen deaths occurred on last Wednesday , and seventeen on Thursday . Mr Kennedy , the clerk , and his wife , are both labouring severely

      under the disease—Mr Kennedy so severely that alight hopes are entertained of his recovery . Cork . —In consequence of the influx of paupers suffering from typhus fever , into this city , the following resolution has been adopted by the authorities : — "That the Mayor be requested to issue a proclamation under the provisions of the act 59 th George III ., for the exclusion of infected persons , &c ., out of the city of Cork , to prevent contagion . " Dublin . —The illness under whioh the Lord-Lieutenant has been for ' some time labouring has , within the last few days , assumed a most alarming character ; so much so that his nearest relatives have been summoned to attend at the Castle , from England .

      •; THE EPPECIS OF FAMINE . : WATERFORn ;—A - formidable demonstration took place on Friday in this county . A body of about 2 , 000 men , farming and mining labourers , proceeded to the house of the Protestant rector of Annestown . They complained of destitution ; he gave them a supply of bread , ' and they departed , meditating an attack on the city , wi ;< m the military were put under arras , and the police tiu-ew out videttes to signal invasion when it approached . - ¦ ¦ Tippebaut . —NuNiGB .--C : v Friday night last a murder was committed in the barony of Lower Ormond , in this county . A man of the name of Liddell , who had been steward to Mr Synge , was shot dead at his house in the village of Terryglass . As

      yet the cause of the bloody deed has not transpired . Killeagh . —A man named Patrick Lonergan was murdered on Saturday night , near his own door , by two men , who robbed him of a owt . of meal . Erris . —A shocking murder has been committed at a place called Tallagh , near Belmullet . A man named Michael Lavelle , who resided in a house close to the village , went , along with his wife , to the fair of Belmullet , leaving his nephew , Patrick Dixon , a boy about twelve years old , in oharge of the house . Some time after the departure of Lavelle , ' another nephew of his , a boy named Michael Mullowney , aged seventeen years , was seen hovering about the

      place . About three o ' clock in the afternoon Lavelle and his wife returned home , and to their great horror found the boy Dixon lying dead on the ground inside the door of the house , his head covered with blood and wounds . Beside him lay a turf spade and a tongs deeply stained with blood . The house was rifled of the little provision which they had left in it in the morning . Mullowney , who bure but a very indifferent character , was at once taken into custody . The evidence againBt him was entirely circumstantial , but so satisfactory did that of a female child , about nine years old , appear to the jury , that they at once found a verdictof wilful murder againBt Mullowney , who has been committed . ;

      Carlow . —Attack on Meal Carts . —On the night of the 16 th ult ., seven men stopped some carmen proceeding from this town to the County Wicklow . at Benuekerry Ford , and commanded them to give up the meal which they imagined they possessed . On being informed that they had seed oats and not meal they proceeded to open the sacka , and finding they contained but the oats they allowed them to proceed . Shortly after , about ten o ' clock at night , two carmen , who were conveying Indian meal to the Rath , were stopped by the same party , and called upon to surrender the meal , but the men refused , when a regular attack commenced on the carmen , which terminated , after a gallant struggle , in the route of the robbersone of the men in the charge of the , meal having speedily disposed of four of the party , although he wielded but a " loaded whip " in defence of the pro . perty . The robbers effected their escape .

      ¦ t . CULTIVATION OF THE SOIL . land at this moment unprepared for cultivation , in the south riding of this county alone , and no preparation is making to seed-sow any portion of them . ¦ .

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      DISTRESS IN MANCHESTER . Fearful as is the amount of distress in the town as indicated by the obtrusive mendicancy of our streets , we fear that it is surpassed by that which from a variety of causes h hidden from the publio ' gaze , and finds no means of making itself felt or known to those who have the means to relieve it . The subject was brought very painfully under notice on Wednesday night , at the annual meeting of the Manchester Town Mission , in the reportof that highly important institution . From that document we learn that the agents employed by the mission , whose duty lies chiefly in . places where wretchedness , distress , and their companions , degradation and crime , hide their heads , ana whose domiciliary visits render them acquainted with'the actual condition of the very poorest classes , have been impeded in their work by the calls for aid ; ' .

      Ont or two , outof numerous instances which they have recorded in the bobks , of the society , were given in the report on Wednesday night , and of these we avail ourselves as coming from a trustworthy source . Supposing the people to possess means enough U purchase food for their sustenance , their condition in reject to habitations is shocking enough to excite a feeling of pain for that condition . Take an instance : In one district , a missionary reports , that in one hoii 8 e , oentaining four small apartments , there were thirty-three individuals residing ; in a front room above stairs there were 19 persons . In another house of the same dimensions there were 27 , in another of two apartments 25 , and in another of five apartwmta 41 . But the inhabitants of these miserable herding

      places have not employment , and they have not food . In some cellars great distress was found by the agents ; in two , approached by one entrance , a front and aback cellar , IS individuals were found residing , many of them were unemployed and in great distress . In another was found a man and his wife and children , without work , the children nearly naked , and nothing to sleep upon , except a few shavings spread on a damp flagged floor . In another was found a respectable looking woman , with six children , and only one in work , and the earnings of that one were only 4 s . a week . Another missionary reports that he visited a family in a cellar , consisting of a woman and her child and mother , both without employment ; the mother was out seeking work . The neighbours informed

      him that for a whole week before they had found nut their condition they had only had three meals . On examination he found that there was no food of any kind in the cellar ; he went out and purchased aJoaf and some other articles , and placed them upon a small table ; when the poor woman saw the bread site burst into tears , rose from the stool on which she sat , went to the table and threw ^ herself ou the loaf and wept over it , apparently unable to express her gratitude for the gift . Can anything be more shocking , more affecting than such a case ? And these cases are but a few out of many such which are reported . They are not cases where the dissipation of the father or the mother condemns hapless helpless children to suffer the pangs of hunger and

      cold , but where the parents are desirous to do anything they can to secure a scanty pittance to feed their little ones to the exclusion of themselves . If we estimate the working population of our mills alone at 40 , 000 hands , we believe , from the number of mills stopped , that nearly one-seventh of the whole are wholly unemployed , ; that one-third are on short time , and the rest in full employment . In what state are the 7 , 000 out of work ? From whence do they draw their support ?—are questions more easily asked than answered . Sickness , the sickness of want . ' already prevails ; and if the people continue to be herded together in the way above described for a much longer period , the coasequencea must be dreadful . With damp cellars for their habitations ,

      and shavings for their beds , and rags tor their only covering ; many of them dirty in their habits at the best of times , and much more so now , when the inanition ot despair is uoon them , the wonder is that fever is not raging fiercely among them . Two or three weeks ago , a member of the board of guardians speaking of the deaths in the workhouse , said that , in the majority of cases , those who died there came in but a day or two previous , in the last stages of disease and destitution ; they were in , in fact , but to die ; and . with the above facts before us , we can imagine somewhat , but nothing near the reality , of the sufferings they undergo before they are driven to what proves their last refuge * We leave the lacts we have stated for the consideration of the public .

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      EXTRAORDIHATO ARD FaTAL ACCIDBHT AT MlDDLBHAU . —On Friday morning last , while at exeroise at Middleham , Sir John Gerard ' s mare Curiosity , and Mr A . Johnstone ' e Little Nell , and one of the lads , were struck dead by a flash of lightning . The puov lad , our correspondent adds , was shivered to pieces , limb from limb . The horses were trained by Daw ' ton . —MmiaiKt Courier . ;

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      LAW vKBsts REPEALl-ROYAL PREROGATIVE .

      TO THE IRISH RESIDING IN ENGLAND . Fellow-countrymen , You have great influence over your friends . in Ireland ; I beseech you to use that influence for the redemption of your countrymen , for their emancipation from the present abject state of slavery both of body and mind . They have ever been the dupes of toliow-hearted , cold-blooded , designing knaves . Peach them , beseech them , implore them to think

      for themselves , to act for themselves , to rely upon themselves ; to put their whole trust in God , but none in man . At the same time aid and assist by all means those who will help them , or teach them how to obtain their rights ; not imaginary or contingent rights , outreal , direct fand 6 onajWe rights , which they themselves can enjoy and exercise . I beg to direct your attention to the subjoined correspondence . It is worthy of your careful perusal . Faithfully yours , Dublin , April 25 , 1847 . Patrick CHigoins .

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      TO THE EDITOR OF TUB FltBEMAN . Clontatf Crescent , April 3 , 1847 . My dear Sir , —Ihave just been handed the Freeman of this day , in which ray name is mentioned by Mr O'iliggins , one of a class of men who are leading the people of Ireland to believe that the Soveteign . at the request of the Irish nation , has a right to revive the Irish Parliament in Dublin , and that , in leading the people to believe that , I am leading them erroneously . This may be Mr O'Higgins' opinion , but it has not been the opinion of the first lawyers of other days , the first statesmen of other days , nor is it the opinion of the first lawyer of the present day . He says there is no analogy between the case I drew of Charles I . summoning his Irish parliamentand

      , Queen Victoria summoning her Irish parliamentthat there is an act called the Act of . Union now in existence ^ that did not exist then . I ask him what union , except as Lord Byron truly named it , the union between , the shark and his prey ? Other men have told him that thesocalledact of Union is a nullity , a fraud , a deception . Men of eminence have told him so—men whose names will ever ive in the hearts ef Irishmen . Plunket told him so , Charles Kendal Bushe told him so , Saurin told him so , Foster told him so , Jebb told him so , and he told him so , whose opinion must ever haver ' weight , both at . the bat-and in the senate house—O'Connell . Laws , not legislatures , the Irish parliament were delegated by their constituencies to make , to preserve the

      ngnts-yes , the rights , as finally settled in the glorious year of 1782—of the Irish people—not to destroy themselves , were they commanded by their constituencies . Our parliament still lives . The Irish people say it lives . It may sleep , bat the overtaxed gentry of Ireland will soon awake it—will soon cry aloud for it . Phe leaseless farmers cry alond for it—the famished . dying labourers cry aloud for it-the seedless ground cries aloud for it—thecoffinless unburied of Skirbereen demand it—the dog-torn corpses of Schull demand it—the famine-stricken , delirious babes demand it—the [ unnatural joyful smile of the parent at his dying child demands it—the burning leper-houses efBantrv demand it—the over-worked , unpaid Catholic clergy demand it-the purseless ( and untirine

      in tneir cnarity ) Protestant clergy demand it—the rejection of Smith O'Brien ' s motion by the imperial parliament demand it , as also that of Mr J . O'Con""' t . Y 16 beggared artizan , the ruined shopkeeper , the failing merchant , the loomless liberties of Dublin , demand it . The citizens of Dublin to a man have already demanded it . The Irish nation want it—look for it—though it may be just now as weak as a child ' s cry—cry for it . And am I to be told that the ( Jueen of Ireland has it not in her prerogative , without referring to her imperial parliament ( magnilequently . so called ) , to revive her Irish parliament ? Am I to be told , because a base , a fraudulently concopted act stands on the state-book , that tho Sovereign of Ireland has not the legal , the constitutional , the royal power to summon , according to the wishes of 8 , 000 i 000 of her faithful subjects , her Irish parliament ? v Perish the thought—perish such absurdity !

      A nation ' s will is a Sovereign ' s will . We are told the English nation will not consent to such a proceeding—that Queen Victoria is Queen of England too . Be it so : but the Irish natioa demand it . The people wh » have bled—have fought—have died for herask for the assemblage of their parliament . We ask our Queen for the exerciae of her prerogative . We ask the Queen of Ireland to call her Irish parliament . He of other times said— " Fora nation to be free , 'tis sufficient that she wills it . " Shall we be free or slaves ? Will this imperial parliament be just towards this green land of ours ? I am , dear Sir , yours very faithfully , G . H . Kerin . P . S . —As to the Sovereign repealing the Emancipation Act , and so forth , such things are too puerile to deal with for a moment . May I beg you will pardon my takingup somuchof your space ? buttheim . portance of the question at such a period will plead my apology . ' . G . H . K .

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      LAW VK 8 U 8 PREROGATIVE . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FBEEKAN ' S JODBNAL , Sib , —The style of Mr Kerin ' s letter leads me to conelude that I have mistaken him for another gentleman of the name . However , as thatdoes not in any way affect the question atiBsue . viz . — "lawwiui Itoyol Prerogative , " I shall , with your permission , submit a plain statemeat of the cast , for Mr KerJn ' s consideration , at well aa for that of the sensible and unprejudiced portion of my fellow-countrymen . Mr Kerin ' s letter is an eloquent one . It is written in a high-sounding , dashing , patriotic strain ; and if I might vsntureto give an opinion of the character of the writer , from the style of the letter , I should say that he feels very acutely the wrongs and Bufferings of his country , and would redress them if he could .. But to repeal the Union in the way he proposes , or that any thing he has said bears upon the question , or will in asy manner affect it , except to retard it , is quite a different thing . In fact , Mr Kerin ' s letter carries its own refutation on the face of

      it , He says that " our parliament still lives . " The Irish people say "it lives—that all Ireland , alive and dead , young and old , demand the refutation of the Irish parliament , which is . not dead , but sleepeth—that fora Bation . to be free ' tis sufficient , that she will * it . " Now , if all Ireland demand it , which no doubt she has dsne . ' how comos it that she is not free ! "A nation ' s will , " he say B , « ' is a sovereign's will ; and that the Sovereign ' of Ireland has the legal , the constitutional , the royal nOwer to summon , according to the wishes of eight million ' s of her faithful subjects , her Irish parliament . " Weatfc tbeQueeH of Ireland to call her Irish parliament—ke ask . Our Queen for the exercise of her prerogative . " How comes it , let me ask , with all this royal prerogative—witii all this friendly feeling of the Queen for the eight millions of her faithful Irish subjects—wiih

      their almost unanimous demand for a Repeal of the Union —that the parliament is not , has not been loug since sitting snug and comfortable in College-green ? Accord , ing to Mr Kerin , the fault is not in the Irish people , the fault is not in the sovereign , who , it appears , ii ready a » d willing to comply with the wishes of eight millions of her faithful subjects . How comes it after all this unanimity aud good wishes and friendly feeling between her Majesty and her faithful subjects that the Irish parliament has not been summoned long ago ! How comes it tnut that parliament is not sitting in Dublin ? The answer is obvious . It is because the Union statute stands in the way , and says that while it exists the Irish parliament shall not sit in Ireland or auy place , and the law and the principles of the constitution , and common sense , ' say that the sovereign has not the power to set the law aside .

      I have said before , and I now repeat it , and challenge refutation , that if royal prerogative tan set aside one statute law , it can set asid « auother , any other . If the Union statute can be set aside by prerogative the emancipation act can be set aside by the same power . There enn be no doubt whatever upon-this point , Yet Mr Kc-rin treats this plain proposition as a thing so puerile as to be beneath his notice ; but this apparent contempt is not an answer to the objection . ' A formidable array of eminent names have been adduced in favour of prerogative , but against tli , e law and one of the well-known principles of the British conntitution : the Plunketts , the Bushes , the Saurens , the Jebbs , and even the great O'Cunnell himself , all of whom it is said declared the Union to be " a nullity , a fraud , a deception . " It was very easy , and safe too . to say beforo

      the act of . Union became luw , "do not dare to lay your hands upon the constitution , " " resistance to such a law becomes a duty , " " the Irish people will not be bound to obey it . " But did any of those eminent men make use of such Iauguage since the two countriis were united by law t No , not a word of tlie sort . It wiw before the act passed that they made these rhetorical flourishes . It is an act of sheer dishonesty in any man to lead the Irish peoplo to believe that those great men expressed thesis opinions subsequentl y to the act of Union , Those wine , prudent , aud far-seeing patriots , to whom this language is attributed , the Plurikem , the JAbs , the BaurenB the Bushes , fcc . like other patriots—Repeal patriots ofmbdern days —« c « eptedofall honours and all- the emoluments they could get from the enemies of their country ; and took right good care not to use such language since the act passed . ¦ - . ¦

      , The onlypwsan who said , since that period , that the act of Union should not be . obeyed—that the act was not binding—was the late Counsellor Walsh , for which lie was tried j convicted , and sentenced to six months'im prUonment in the gaol of Newgate , and to fin . i bull to keep thu p « acefor tevtn yearB . Andon » df your urcat authorities , agrent lawyer and stotesman , said in my hearing , and in the hearing of many othern . that the seatence on John Walsh whs not only just but knieut . Is there a aiine man in Ireland who would run the risk of advismg the people to resist the act of Uniou—to . iisobey it I Would Mr Kerin give such advice ! I ahuuld think he would not . Now , then , theroyMprerogative 1 b atthiH moment in as full vigour , agcomplete and powerful iu cviry respect agitwasin the reign of Charles I . or Jame » II ., and believe it is high treason to resist tho prerogative of the crows ; but so thoroughly convinced am I by the opinion ! oi great constitutional lawyers and statesmen that the

      crown never had , nor ever ought to have , the power which Irish patriots attribute to it , now and then , when it answers a purpont ; that I would not raly take up arms

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      ¦ ; ' . ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . - . ¦ - .. . -. i < .. "' ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ~ r—^ myself , but advise others to take np arms , and reilit b force the exercise of any each ; unconstitutional prero * tive as that which Mr Kerin and others pray her preu t Majesty , Queen Victoria , to exercise . Now there can k ! no mistake about what I hare said ; it must be eith strictly legal and constitutional , or seditious and tre sonable—there is no middle courie . What I bava sJa is either not lawful , or I have subjected myself to criminal prosecution , for which I bare no ambition , a Any manvho . would teach the people to unlesrn . the political nonsense with which they hate been drtigiJi intoxicated , bewildered , for the last twenty je L would deserve well of his country , and become justly en titled to the character and honours due to true patriot ! ism .

      I had , for some shott Um » past , indulged tne hope that empty sound and flippant assertion were about to vieu to caramon sense ; but it is painful tofeeUhat that boo ia declining . Irish politics instead of advancing ar retrograding . Every movement appears , now-a-dsys to be made with a view to melodramatic effect ; and ai ' f » as I can judge from my intercourse with my fellow cif zeni , the impression . which these ill-considered rhodo . montades make , is os instructive , < m useful , aad at h 6 tineas the feelings excited by one of those playg 80 fuu oj stirring incident , I have heard Braham jing and Shiel speak : both were equally cheered , and both conferred equal benefits upan the M » h people , the only difference being that the man of song HveB honestl y npnnhie own resources , while the man of words lives upon the tax « g wrung from an oppressed people ,

      I hava now but one of Mr Kerin ' s authorities in favour of prerogative to dispose of . It will not be denied by any one that where two things contradict eaoh other both cannot be true—that every proposition roust be either trne or false—that when a man gives opinion * contrary to each other upon any question , he eannot bo admitted ss an authority upon that question . Now upon these universally admitted principles of right real son , I shall prove that Mr O'Connell , upon whoseopinion Mr Kflrin relies with so much confidence , cannotbe admitted as an authority upon either the question- of Re . peal or Prerogative ; for these reasons : —

      First—Because , upon many occasions , but more eBpe . cially at the great monster meetings at Cashel and other places , Mr O'Connell pledged his reputation-as a constitutional lawyer , that the Union could be repealed without the intervention of either houses of parliament ; that it was unnecessary to petition parliament on the sub . ject ; and that he subsequently petitioned parliament to Repeal the Union . Secondly—Because , at the great ' meeting at Mullagh . mast , he declared " before high Heaven , in the face of America and Europe , ft at the Union was void ; " that he has since petitioned parliament to repeal the Union which he declared void . ' ¦¦ ¦ . ' Thirdly—Because he solemnl y declared in the Rte tunda , and other places , that none but the King , LordB and Commons of Ireland should make laws for Ireland ' that the Irish parliament should be , to all intents an * purposes , completely independent of the English parliament .

      Fourthly—Because , in the authentic report of the die . cussion with Mr Butt on the Repeal of the Union , in the Dublin corporation , be has said distinctly and authorita . tively that" the Irish parliament may revive without the necessity of going through the drudgery of getting the approval of the English legislature . " - { See Report , page 62 That" the Queen might at any time issue writs for the convention of aa Iri&& parliament , "—( See Report , page 62 . ) Fifthly—Because , in the reply which closed the debate , he said— " I am ready to do this—let them give us even a dependent parliament—a parliament inferior to the English parliament I would accept as an instalment , if I found the people ready to go with me , and if it were off red me by competent authority . "—( See Report , page 199 . )

      Sixthly—Because , in his place in the House of Com * mons , when the Coercion Act was under discussion ; he said that he never agitated the Repeal of the Union ex . cept as a means to an end , and that that end wag "Justice to Ireland ; " that he would " rather seelthat house doing justice to his country , than that any necessity for Repeal should exist ; The only reason I have for being a Repealer is the injustice of tbB present government towards mr country , and the total want of hope that justice will be done to my country . "—( See Neman ' s Journal , 22 nd Feb ., 1833—Mirror of Parliament , same date . )

      r . Seventhly—Because in November , 1849 , he solemnly deolared before God and his country that the ReptalAssociation was based upon the principle of petitioning par . liament for the Repeal of the Union—that petitions to parliament were adopted at the Repeal Association , aid subsequently presented to parliament by the very man who had often previously declared that petitioning parliament was wholly unnecessary , because the Queen had pdwer to Repeal the Union , by summoning the Irish parliament to meet iu Dublin , Eighthly —Because h « said , at a meeting in St Andrew ' s Parish , on Sunday , 22 nd of October , 1843 , " Give me but six months of perfect tranquillity , and will have a parliament in College-greea or give my head upon the block . " The people relying upon this promiee remained tranquil—a great deal too tranquil—but they have not gotten the parliament in College-green , nor their betrayer ' s head upon the block . He has taken oare that they shall have neither . ¦ '

      Ninthly — Because , at a ''Great MonBter meeting " held near Bantry , October , 1845 , where the people of Skibbereen and surrounding districts assembled in thousands , and complained to the " Liberator" of the cruel tyranny of their landlords , who were-turning them out . of their holdings , though they owed no rent ; of the . loss of the potato though many of them had to pay £ 10 aa acre for the ground ; of ' . the delapidation of their cabiuB , which let the rain down in torrentB ; and in order to excite the sympathy and support of their "Liberator" held up their cardB of admission as associates of the " Loyal National Repeal Asseciation of Ireland . " Well , what was : lit O'Counell ' s an 6 wer to these heartrending complaints ! Let it never be forgotten . Let it sink and settle deep in

      the souls of honeBt men , as a warning against hollowhearted trickery and knavery : — " I have not come here to talk about bad landlords , about rotten potatoes or crazy old houses ; but I have come here to talk about that which will soon redress all your grievances , the-Repeal of the Union . " The Union isuot repealed , but death by jtatvation has redressed the grievances , of the Repeal Association of Skibbereen . And the few who have survived have been basely deserted by the man in whom all their hopes were centred , and for whom and at whose bidding they increased the hatred of their landlords . And this is the man whose opinions , Mr Kerin tells us , " must always have weight at the bar and in the senate . "

      Tenthly—Because an inferior and dependent parliament is not an independent parliament , subject to no power but the monarch of Ireland . Eleventhly—Because Mr O'Connell led the great majority of the people of Ireland to believe that the Queen had the power to summon the Irish parliament to inert in Dublin , while at the same time , and bo late as Jan . last , he apologised to his country on two Mondays succtBsively in Conciliation . Hall , for not having the draft of a bill ready to enable her Majesty Queen Victoria to summon her Irish parliament to meet in Dublin . Now , if

      the Queen had the power to summon the Irish parliament to . meet in Dublin , by virtue of the Royal prerogative , where was the use or necessity of bringing in a bill to enable her Majesty to exercise a power which she already possessed , aud which was said to be one of the prerogatives of the crown ? This is so palpably contradictory ! absurd , and ridiculous , that no other people on the face of the earth tul mj deluded countrjmen would permit it t » pass unnoticed . To sum up further would be only » waste of time . Let every one , therefore , draw their own conclusions from the facts stated .

      In conclusion , I have te expresB a hope that neither Mr Kerin nor any one else has a wish to see our btloveS Queen in a predicament similar to that of Charles I . or James II . The first charge against the latter unfortouate monarch was , that he attempted to set the law aside by the mere exercise of what he considered the royal prerogative . The charge is in the following worda ( see Act 2 SesB . Wm . aud M . c « p . ' 2 . ) : — Charge I . "That he ( Jame > II . ) assumed and exercised it power of dispensing with and suspending laws and the execution of laws without consent of parliament . " Patbiok O'Uiosins . . No . 16 , North Anne-street ^ 9 th of April , 1847 .

      ¦¦ F . S . —I beg leave to say , which I do with the uttnoit candour aud sincerity , that I do not wish for a triumph over Mr Kerin orany , one else ; but I do wish to see my counirjmo * think and judge for themselvesto see them exercise that reason which God has given them , and which is the pride and glory of human nature . And that I consider one teacher of sound political principles it werth a hundred leaders . ' .. P . O'H .

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      Thb Nationm , Finanob 8 . —A Parliamentary paper , containing an account of the public income down to the 5 th April , 1847 ,, ha 8 just been issued . The document gives the-income of the year under one head , and the expenditure under another . The income ton the jear ending 6 th April ia £ 64 , 473 , 761 , and tbe expenditure U £ 51 , 708 , 670 , giving the large excessot £ 2 , 764 , 181 of income over the expenditure . Tbfs » a very gratifying fact . On comparing , however , the Balances in the exchequer on the 5 tb April , 1847 , ^ find a considerable falling off at the latter date . In April , 1846 , the balances amounted to £ 6 , 607 , 403 , while at tho commencement of the present monto they were only £ 6 , 459 , 835 , being less by upwards oJ a million than they were last year . The re duction is no doubt to be accounted for from the large bobs whioh it has been found necessary to advance » Ireland .

      Thb Chinkbk Junk 'Kbyino . " - This vessel , commanded by Shing-Shing , now on her passage from Hong Kong to this country , is daily expected to arriveather Majesty ' s Dockyard Woolwich . Sne is the bearer of most valuable presents from -the Emperor to her Majesty and Prince Albert . ' W will be the first Chinese vessel ever brought to England . She is eolely manned by Chinese sailors . ' it is understood that a troop of celebrated jugglers are on board , nod have been engaged to perform in tin * country . ' < ¦ . : On Friday afternoon last a beautiful white 1 »* was ao ' . 'n , pouring forth its melodious noto , in a nela near Heap . -

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      Ireland THEFBTBR . We continue to hear of the spread of this calamity , and famine and pestilence combined are fast engendering violence and outrage . The change from winter to summer weather has operated unfavourably on the condition of the country . '¦•¦«•¦¦¦ ¦ . - ¦ ¦ -, The calamity , true to the Persian saying ; that " curses like young chicken" always come home to roost , " is rapidly extending to the wealthy class . Dr Trail ) , of Skull , has died , as auto Mr Gregory of Coole Porte , Gort ( father of tbe present member ) . ' ¦ ¦

      In the midst of this dreadful miBery , in the very place where famine and fever are at their height ! the higher classes are doing nothing for the sufferers , but , with an infatuation akin to . ineanity , cloBing the doors of relief against the destitute . ~ In Castlebar and Westport in tha west , Bandon and Bantry , the depots of southern destitution aud death , there is the same fatal and intentional negteot . The Bandon workhouse has been closed . Helief works have been rejected . In consequence there > b great misery and sicknessf but there is no rate ! The Temporary Act is \ evaded , and this while nearly every second house m the town is represented as a small fever hospital ! Then in Bantry , of whsse workhouae Dr Stephens has just reported scenes worthv the horrors

      oi romance , the guardians , as well as the representatives of property in tho surrounding country , have resolved neither to afford any admission to the shocking workhouse , such as it is , nor to impose any rate for ifa support , nor to employ the labouring population ( of which there is a superabundance ) , nor to give effect to the Temporary Relief Act * This policy is not more inhuman than suicidal . The Cork Reporter even asserts that a conspiracy has been intered into araonfist the owners and tepreJ . sentatives of landed and other property in the south west of Cork county against the very existence of the labouring classes , inasmuch as they neither will allow their admission to the workhouse , collect a rate for their support , employ them extensivelv . nm > «» rv intn

      effect the Temporary Relief Act . Baiusa . —Mobwutt in ihb Wobkhodsb . —The number of dc « th » which have occurred in the workbouse from Wednesday the 14 th to Wednesday the 21 st instant included , amounts to 67 ; and from the 8 th of last October up to the present date 760 human beings have died in that establishment . Dr Devlin haadied of fever contracted at the workhouse , and we now regret to have to state that Dr Whittaker , who was , some short time ago , appointed to superintend tho medical department of that establishment in * conjunction with Dr Devlin , is now very seriously ill of lever canfiht in the discharge of his professional duties to the paupers ..-, , . Galwat . — LoneBii * . — Then »« 250 few

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 1, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1416/page/6/