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    ir . nwrcKsniHB . — Awful Death . — On Friday week Mr . G . Greeimay , coroner , held an inquest at the King's Aims , Kcnilwortb , on the body of Miss S Stewart , aged 16 , a daughter of CWil Stewart . It appeared from the evidence of Joan Pu » h , coachman to tho Gener . il , that on Thursday afternoon , about three o ' clock , he heard one of his master ' s horses making a strange noise in the stable , ^ nA nn P-oins- to the spot lie found Miss Stewart

    under tho horse . The animal was standing close by the side of the stall , and the deceased was doubled up under it . The Wood wa 3 issuing from deceased ' s head , and there -wa 3 a large pool of blood in the stable . The deceased used to caress and feed the horse occasionally , and it -was remarkably quiet and seemed sensible of her attention . In the opinion of the witness the deceased was feeding the horse , when he , in play , knocked her bonnet off , and it fell on the ground ; that he then became frightened , and , knocking her down , kicked her on the head , as he found her bonnet on the floor of the stable , and tho off hind heel of the horse was covered with blooi "When he extricated deceased life was quite extinct . The iurv returned a verdict of " Accidental

    death . " The young lady was highly respected by the whole neighbourhood , and the melancholy event has thrown a gloom over the district . Leicestershire . —Riot by Workmen . — During the past five weeks the hands employed at the Leicester sock branch , and other parts of the frameknitting trade , have been on strike for an advance of wages , and subscriptions hare been opened for maintaining them until they could obtain the advance sought for . During this period a few persons have gone to work at Belgrave and also at Thurmaston . On the 2 d inst a man named Dilely , who had partaken of the subscription raised , went to wnA- and said that he had pot the advance

    demanded . His fellow-workmen did not believe him , and on the following Monday Jonah Dakin am Jesse Ercwood went to Mb shop and commanded him to come out . The man , however , refused , when the two entered and commenced maltreating him , and he was obliged to defend himself with an iron rod . The parties having departed , a crowd of between 300 and 400 persons went to a house kept by a person named Oswins . An eflSgy was earned by the mob , and several shots were fired at it . Tho mob next fired into Oswin ' s window , but fortunately without striking their man . Yarious other acts of outrage were committed , and ultimately thirteen of the rioters were taken up and sent for trial .

    HurcKLET Petit Sessions . — Thomas Coley , a poor day-labourer , was brought before the court by Mr . Henry Moore , farmer and overseer of the parish ofDradlington , to show cause why he refused to pay the sum of Is . and 8 d . for poor rates due to the said parish . The poor man said with much earnestness and feeling that he could not pay for the following reasons , or he would not object : " 1 work for 10 s . per week wages . My house rent is Is . 9 d . per week . I have a wife that can earn scarcely anything at all , and three children , all under seven years of age . That is my case , gentlemen / ' Mr . Deming said to Mr . Moore : "You hear this poor man's case . Ifow do you think , as a conscientious man , that that family can be maintained for a less sum than 8 s . 3 d . per week , or that that man can pay rates for the relief of the pool- ? You must know that it cannot be done . Nevertheless , if you say—and say it officially—that you

    believe he can pay , the bench has no alternative but to enforce the payment . The consequence will be , that a warrant of distress will be issued upon his goods and chattle 3 , and you will make the poor honest labourer a pauper at once . " Mr . Moore said that the gentlemen at Dadlington had had a vestry meeting , and they had every one agreed that the defendant was able to pay the rate , for he was better off than spme others of the parish who did pay , for their families were larger than his . Hr . Hemming said it was a shame that any of those men should he required to pay . Payment , however , must be ordered . Thomas Coley and some other poor labourers belong to Shenton and other parishes , but they are compelled to live at Dadlington , because there is not a single house in the parish where they belong , and where they work , for them to live in . The owners in that parish will not have any built ; and those pari s hes where they do live , compel them to pay rates in order to get rid of them .

    Sdssex . —Defalcation at a Saving Baxk . —The committee of management of the Brighton Savings Bank have been engaged in a very arduous inquiry , arising from the misconduct of their actuary , Mi . EuckolL The first suspicion of anything wrong was raised soon after the late annual general meeting , when a discrepancy of £ 100 was discovered in what are called " extra profits , " and which Buckoll , on being called upon , could not explain . Other discrepancies were also detected with the same result , and , at a meeting of the committee , a member was about to move a resolution declaring the incompetency of Mr . Buckoll ( who had not attended ) for his situation as actuary , when a letter was handed in from Mr . Buckoll , in which he

    admitted that there were defalcations in the accounts , but appealed to the committee , for merciful consideration on account of his innocent wife and family , and offered to make up any deficit from his private property . The case now assumed a more grave aspect , and a warrant was immediately issued to secure the attendance of Buckoll , but which , up to the present moment , has not been executed in consequence of his absence . The accounts were found to nave been kept in a moat confused manner , some accounts being closed which were still current , and entries made in the general ledger ( upon which the returns are made to government ) which did not agreo with those of the class ledger and the depositors' books . Upon the examination hitherto made ,

    there appears a deficit of about £ 850 ; and of co urse a large number of accounts remain to be examined . Under these circumstances , a sub-committee was appointed to proceed to London to consult with Mi-. Tidd Pratt , and see the comptroller general of savings banks , and the advice of this hitter gentleman was , that no further deposits should be received , or payments made , until the accounts had been thoroughly inspected . The committee , consequently ,, at a meeting held on Friday , passed a resolution recommending the managers to close the Bank for deposits and payments until this has been done , and to call in the books of all the depositors . The depositors , however , says

    the Brighton Herald , need be under no alarm on this account . The position ef the bank is such as to secure them from loss . The amount of deposits is about £ 120 , 000 : and the bank has the sum of £ 110 , 000 invested in government securities , and there is a further sum of £ 1 , 700 arising fromilie accumulation of " extra profits , " and which will , of course , be applicable to any deficiency that may not be covered by the property or the sureties of the defaulter . The amount of security given by Mi . Buckoll is , we understand , £ 600 , and Iris sureties are the London Guarantee Society . It cannot be denied that the managers of the bank have not shown that care and vigilance which were required of them , or this state of things could not have arisen .

    THE MURDER AT BRISTOL . Bristol , March 12 . —The remains of the murdered lady , Miss Elizabeth Jefferies , were removed to their last resting place this morning , the spot selected being a vault in the Bristol Cemetery . The funeral was strictly a private and a plain one , every ostentation being , for obvious reasons , avoided by the relatives of the unfortunate deceased . The police are actively engaged in investigating the affair , and have hitherto proceeded with very great skill and caution . They have succeeded in discovering the flyman who drove the prisoner , with her boxes , to Horfield on the day of the murder . The deposition of the flyman is to the effect , that he took the prisoner up on St . Michael's hill , and that at the tune

    when she engaged his fly she was standing on the pavement , and ner boxes were by her side . At this time she had no person at all with her , and , after engaging Ms fly , and seeing that all her boxes were stowed away—in doing which she was very particular—she told him to wait a bit , and she then went to a greengrocer ' s shop , which was not very far off , and brought out a bandbox , which it seems she had left there some little tune before , and which , in all probability , was the one which was found under the girl Sarah Thomas's bed , and in which was found concealed several articles of jewellery . After this box had been safely placed away with the rest the prisoner entered the fly , and desired the flyman to drive her to the " stop-gate " on the road to

    Gloucester . He did so , and put her down at a turning which passed down by the lane-way leading from Ashley Down , and where , her father's house was situated . There was no one with her , or waiting for her , and she did not have any conversation with a single individual the whole way . As is customary in these cases , the most absurd , improvable , and sometimes contradictory report * have been afloat . On Thursda y * March 8 th , the coroner , Mi-. J . B . Grindon , commenced the inquest on the body of the deceased , Elizabeth Jefferies , at the Griffin Inn , and havinsr detailed to the jury at considerable length

    the principal facts of the case , he observed that the gentlemen present were no doubt aware that in cases of suspected murder the first , as he was the most important witness , should always be the medical man . He should therefore propose , before he took any considerable amount of evidence , that they should adjourn their proceedings , and direct Mr . Bernard , surgeon to the Bridewell and to the police force , to make n post mortem examination of the body . Previous , however , to that , and to their going . to view the body , he thought it might facilitate the investigation to take briefly some evidence from the brother of the deceased .

    Heskt JBFFEniEswas then called , and Laving also minutely detailed tho circumstances of gaining admission to tie house , and otter fucte which have al-

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    ready appeared , he proceeded to observe that when he entered the bedroom of his sister and saw her lying on the bed , from what he observed ho was convinced that she died from violence , and being a surgeon he was sure that violence could not have been inflicted by hereclf . In addition to tllQ blood on her face , the pillow and bolster vrere completely saturated with blood . The jury then proceeded to view the body , but such was the excitement created , that it was only by the most strenuous exertions that they made their way through the crowd . The body presented a most frightful appearance , the head being completely beaten in . The deceased appears to have been a strong muscular woman . Tho right leg j > rqjected from the bed , and her left was drawn up as if she had been in the act of getting out of it , probably in order to grapple with her assailants . The jury having viewed the body returned to the inquest room , when

    IIekPvY Jepfemes was recalled , and stated , that by his directions the police had searched the house for property and he particularly mentioned to them a certain tin box in which his sister kept several valuables . It was found in a closet , without the padlock which she always kept on it . It was not empty , but was not nearly so full as it used to be . He also directed the sergeant to search for a nest of drawers , which he knew was generally full of valuable jewels . When found it was without some of the drawers , aud it had been pillaged . There was likewise a peculiar silver cruet-stand made of filagre silver ; one article of it , however , only was found . He had since seen a quantity of property at the station-house , and he recognised several articles of jewellery which he could identify .

    Michael Corp , police-sergeant , No . 2 , sworn , said that on Wednesday afternoon , by direction of the superintendent , he , accompanied by police-constable 58 , went to the house of the deceased . They managed , by going through the next door , No . 5 , to get into the baok premises . They found the back door fast , but by drawing the staple they gained admission to the kitchen . He could not judge what meal had Ia 3 t been taken there , but he saw a piece of liver on the board . There was no fire , but the fender looked as if it had been left in the act of being cleaned . The witness then gave the particulars of his search with Mr . Jefferies , and continued—that from information which he received he went in search of the prisoner , and found

    her at her father's house . Her father was a labourer , residing at Horfield . The door was opened by an elderly woman , who said—Mr . Dat , solicitor , stated that he attended on behalf of the accused , and he objected to any conversation being received as evidence unless the girl Sarah Thomas was present at the time . The Cohoxeb observed , that he might recognise Mi-. Day in the character of attending for the accused , but he could not allow him to interfere . He did not know thai any one ivas charged ; but Mi-. Day must know that any one suspected of murder would be taken into custody . If he ( the coroner ) took down anything improper , he was responsible for it , but not to any one present .

    The witness contmued , that the mother denied all knowledge of her daughter being in the house , and said she had not seen her husband for a month On searching the house , besides thearticlcs already mentioned they found several articles of jewellery in a bandbox under the bed , in which a little " girl was sleeping , and from which ho believed the prisoner had gone when they entered the house , as they found her in the coal-hole only partly dressed . [ The articles were here handed to Mr . Jefferies , who recognised them , and said he knew that his sister valued them as relics of other days , and she was not at all likely either to have given them away or to have sold them . ] Witness , that morning , accompanied by police-constables 46 and 86 , made a further

    search of the house , and hanging behind the backkitchen door they found a corded petticoat stained with blood , which they were told belonged to Sarah Thomas . Isabella Fry deposed , that she was the wife of Thomas Fry , turnkey at Bridewell . She resided at No . 5 , Trenchard-street . She had lived there five years , and the deceased was her landlady , but she never saw her unless when she went to pay her her rent . She never saw her servant , but a tenant of hers knew her well . On Saturday morning last , about ten minutes past five o ' clock , she was in bed with her husband , when she was awakened by a very great noise in Miss Jefferies ' house , which apparently proceeded from the front

    bedroom . The noise was like a person crying or screaming ; she did not hear any noise like blows . A tenant of hers , Mrs . Ham , came and asked her if she heard the noise , and she said she did , and she supposed that it was Miss Jefferies calling up the servant , and that they were quarrelling , adding , that from the noise the old woman must he killing her . Mrs . Ham asked if she should knock at the wall , and witness told her to do so . She knocked , and almost immediately the noise ceased . About seven o ' clock the same morning there was a knock at her door , and being only partly dressed she asked Mrs . Ham to go down ana answer it . She went down , and witness heard a female yoico which she was afterwards told was Miss Jefferies' servant , say " that Miss Jefferies had sent her in to say she hoped Mrs . Fry was not alarmed at the noise , for it was a cat hadgotonthehedand had frightened her mistress and that her mistress was afraid that they were killing

    each other . " Mrs . nam said , "I thought it was you crying . " The girl replied "No , it was the cat got on the bed . " Mrs . Ham said , " Oh , it was no cat , for I have heard you cry before in the yard ; " and the other then said " She is such a good-for-nothing woman , or wretch , that I cannot live with her . Witness did not observe that the house was closed that day , but her servant told her it was closed Saturday and Sunday , and she herself saw it closed Monday and Tuesday . On Tuesday some persons came and knocked , and no answer was returned . Witness said it was very strange , and her servant looked up at the window and said she believed Miss Jefferies was up , for she could see a looking-glass , a time-piece , and the corner of a bed-post . The next morning her servant went again and looked up , and then the green blind was down . She said , she thought Miss Jefferies was ill , but witness said , how could that be ? and , besides , her back window was

    open . Mrs . Ham confirmed the statement of this last witness as to the conversation that had taken place between her and the girl Sarah Thomas . She also said she heard the noise in Miss Jefferies' bedroom ; it was about five minutes past five . It was a noise as of a person crying or screaming . She knocked at the door , and after that heard no more noise . On Friday morning the investigation was resumed . The accused , Sarah Thomas , was furnished with a chair . She looked well , but her demeanour was by no means so callous as before , and at one part of the evidence she burst into tears and remained with her handkerchief to her eyes during the rest of the proceedings . Tho following is the evidence , as to the r > ost mortem examination : —

    Ralph Montague Bernard , having been sworn , deposed that he is a surgeon , and resides at 18 , Richmond-terrace , Clifton . Yesterday afternoon lie made npost mortem examination of the body of the deceased , in the presence of Dr . Farcbrother , Sir . Evans , Dr . Bowly , and Mr , Bowly , After describing the external appearances of the body , and the clothes in which it was dressed , he proceeded to say that the head was covered with a ni g htcap , which was saturated with blood on the . left side . The pillow and bolster , and also a part of the bed , were bloody , as was also a chair by the side of the bed ;

    and a stream of blood , about an inch wide , extended from the bedside to the wall near the door , where it formed a pool . The face was livid and bloody ; the chest and abdomen livid . On the left hand was a contused wound of the thumb and forefinger . There were three contused wounds on the left side of the forehead . On the top of the head , in the centre , extending from the coronal suture backward , was a contused wound , two inches long . A little to the right of this was a contused wound , like the letter T , one and an eighth inch long . On the loft of the central wound was also a contused wound of the

    same description . At the back of the head to the left of the occipital protruherance , was a contused wound , three-quartera of an inch in length . To the left of this , and below it , was an abrasion of the skin , one and a half incli long . The wounds appeared to be recent and death must have taken ilace soon after their infliction . They were such injuries as the deceased could not have inflicted on herself . [ The girl , Sarah Thomas , here burst into tears . ] On removing the scalp it was found that the occipital bone was minutely injected with florid blood . There was an extravasation of blood on the eft temporal muscle , and also under the scalp , at the lower and front parts of the parietal corresponding to the external ecchymosis . On removing the dura

    mater a layer of blood was observed effused under tho arachnoid membrane . The vessels of the ri <* ht hemisphere were congested ; the left was natural . In the chest and abdomen there was no mark of disease or injury sufficient to cause death . Ho concluded tho cause of death to bo concussion and compression of the brain , which tho external appearances were sufficient to account for , and in his opinion did cause it . The injuries could not have seen inflicted by a sharp instrument , but must have been caused by a blunt one . Ho had no doubt whatever that the deceased died immediatel y after receiving the injuries , and that her death was caused by those injuries . The inquest at this stage of the proceedings was adjourned till Tuesday .

    ADJOUUHED INQUEST . MAncn 18 th . —The interest consequent on the horrible murder of Miss Jefferiea at Bristol continues to increase , and at the resumption of the inouirv before the coroner this day the most intense aniiotv was manifested . The inquest-room and all the approaches to it were so densely crowded that it w-is with the utmost difficulty tho jurors or witnesses could fulfil their duties . The list of tho iurors having been called over , Mr . Bernard , surgeon was recalled in reference to tho appearances presented by

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    tho room when he was first called in to see the body Of the deceased . He stated that the , floor was strewn with linen and papers , and leaning agamst the fireplace was a clothes-horse , having upon it a woollen counterpane ; it was not , however , sufficient fully to conceal tho fireplace . Witness and SccWboII , after bolting at tllQ 1 ) 0 ( 1 )' , MdOft 3 ch for a weapon , and when looking atthofiro-£ r ^ iss ^? s « ^ ns ^ i s ^ aa « r feu ^ rAratttfjSs the poker or tongs . On Thursday , while witne s TOBonwiMd in making the » st « r » cxamina'

    tion , Inspector Bell came to the room ana ™ " * V" « stone from the firo-ptaoo and put it » n wltn * f hands . He looked at it , and saw-that there were marks of blood upon it , and also grey hairs , ine hairs had been divided , and had not cometrcm the head by the root . Dr . Fairbrother , at the sugg estion of Inspector Bell , tried the corner of the stone to one of the wounds in the forehead , and found that it exactly corresponded . Witness had no doubt that the stone produced the wounds , or , at all events , that the injuries were caused by such a stone . ( The stone was hero produced . It was of an irregular square shape , about two inches thick , and bore upon it marks of blood and some fragments Of grey hair . It was part of a paving-stone , and wobhed nearly 41 b . ) -Alfred Bell , inspector of police , corroborated the statement of Mr . Bernard as to the finding the stone with which the murder is supposed to have been committed . From

    lnformation which he received the same night , accompanied by Sergeant Corp , Sergeant Somers , and policeconstable Elmes , 46 , he went to Horfield , to the house of a man named Thomas . After much trouble they entered the house , and found the young woman present , answering to the name of Sarah Thomas , in a coal-hole under the staircase . Elmes saw her in the act of closing the door , and said , " Come out of that ; it won't do . " She had on a night cap ant a pair of slippers . In other respects she appeared to be in a day dress . She took off her night cap , and " throw it with great viciousnoss into the fireplace . " He then took her into custody . —By a juror : They were detained at the dool' long enough for her to have nut on these articles of clothing . On

    her being brought out of the coal-hole , he asked her " When she had left her mistress , at Trenchardstreet ? " She said , " On Friday last . " He asked her " Who brought her boxes up ? " and she said " She employed an Irishman , and gave him sixpence for the job . " After having been duly cautioned , sho said , " You may take me into custody ; but it was not I that did it . " This was after he had tolc her that ho took her into custody on a charge of murdering her mistress . She seemed very uneasy in her mind whilst the house was being soarched . This witness and policeman Somers and' Elmes , and Mr . Cridland , housekeeper and searcher at the central police station , then deposed to the search of the m'isotter ' s father ' s house , particulars of which

    have already been given , and produced the property found , viz . —four silver table-spoons , a gravy spoon , and a box , found in the coal-hole ; a gold watch , chain , and seals , found in the bedroom ; and twentyseven sovereigns , four half-aovereigns , and some other monies , found in the prisoner's pocket . Mi-. Cridland also produced five silver teaspoons found in the prisoner ' s stocking at the time when she was searched at the station-house . Tho most important evidence of the day was that of Police Constable M'Clymont , under whoso charge tho prisoner , Sarah Thomas , had been since her apprehension , who deposed that the prisoner had several times spoken to him about the murder . Witness did not offer the prisoner any inducement

    to say anything , nor threatened her , hut she freely and voluntarily spoke to him about it . The prisoner told witness that the servant girl who wi 3 with Miss Jefleries about two months before she went to live there , and whoso place she had taken , eamo down to the house on the Saturday morning , when she was taking down the shutters , and told her that she had been several times for a character from the Old woman , and She would not give her one , and that she could not get a situation unless she got a character , and that then this girl said she would go up stairs and murder the old woman—that the girl went up stairs and killed Miss Jefferies with a stone , and then got the keys and opened the cupboard , and took out a small box that was full of

    sovereigns . She opened the box and gave the prisoner part of thorn , and took the other pavt to herself , and that she told her that she would give her all the silver spoons and plate if she would not speak of it . She told her that it would be a long time before it would be found out , as there were not many persons who called at the house ; that they then ransacked the house , came down stairs , put on a frying-pan , made pan-cakes , and had their tea , and that tho stone that the girl killed the old woman with was laid upon the hob by the side of the fire . They did not leave- the house until about dinner time , and that she ( prisoner ) then went to Horfield . Sho said the girl's name was Maria Lewis , or Williams , and witness was not sure whether she said she lived in Bcdminster or St .

    Philip 3—witness forgot which—that when they came out of the house , the other girl locked the door , and took the keys with her . A day or two aftorwards , witness was sent up on duty to the house of the deceased , to relieve another policeman in charge of the house on witness ' s return he was placed in charge of Sarah Thomas in her cell ; she asked him if he had seen the old duchess ? Witness said he had not , for the door was made fast . She said that the other girl had killed tho dog , and put it down the privy . —Susan Miller , who had been in the habit of going errands for Miss Jeffories , proved that she saw her alive and well on the Friday before she was discovered murdered , and that on the following afternoon she wont to the house and rang

    the bell , but could get no answer . This witness stated that Miss Jetfeiies kept a very sharp dog , which used to bark at strangers , and that , in order to let the dog in and out , the kitchen door was usually kept open . It was fastened back with a stone ( the stone stained with blood was hero shown to the witness , and she identified it as that usually employed to keep tho door open . ) A girl named Chad , who had lived as servant with the deceased till about six or seven weeks before the prisoner went to live there , was called , as were also her friends , to prove that at the time of the murder she was in Bath . This witness also spoke to its being

    he habit ox deceased to have her dog sleep m her bedroom , and to see the doors safely locked , and carry up the keys in her pocket . —Police-sergeant Somers proved that in consequence of a statement made by the accused to the effect , that the girl who committed the murder killed the dog and threw it down the privy , he went and searched that place , and found the carcase of a dog lying head downwards , embedded in the soil . —A man named Vickery also deposed , that on Wednesday night , when engaged in putting up the shutters of the Flitch of Bacon Tavern , Host-street , he found in the groove in which the shutters worked tho latch and

    streefcdoor key of a house , which he handed over to the police . —The Coroner said there were other witnesses to be examined , and as the inquiry had now been protracted for a great number of hours , he thought it would be more convenient to at once adjourn . Tho inquiry was then postponed . At the close of the proceedings the crowd congregated outside could not have fallen short of 5 , 000 or 6 , 000 persons , all patiently waiting to see the prisoner brought out , which , however , " inspectorBell would not permit until , in some measure , a clearance had been effected . The prisoner was then reconducted to gaol . Sho had by this time regained her confidence , and left the room with a firm step .

    Wednesday , March 14 . —The proceedings of the inquest were ag _ ain resumed this morning . In addition to the prisoner , Sarah Thomas , her mother was also brought up in custody , charged with being an accessary after the fact . The new evidence of importance was that given by the mother , Anne Thomas , who was ordered by tho coroner to be sworn , and deposed that her daughter returned home to witness , at Horfield , on last Saturday week , between three and four o ' clock in the afternoon . She left her boxes out of doors , and requested witness to fetch them in . They were a trunk covered with paper , and a bonnet-box—nothing more . After she had brought homo these two boxes in the afternoon of Saturday , she went again into Bristol in the

    evening ; she went alone , and returned about halfpast nine o ' clock . She then brought home with her a little brown box , about the size of a small bonnetbox , and a band-box , and she also had a bundle . On Monday evening she again wont into Bristol , leaving Horfield at about seven o ' olock , and returned at about half-past eight . She then brought home a few biscuits and oranges , but no clotlfes . She went into Bristol on Tuesday night , and again on Wednesday ; it was before dark , about half-past six in the evening . She brought nothing back . She said she was going to buy some tape for a new apron . Did not see that she brought homo any scissors or a book . She always returned alone , a ' s far as witness knows . —Thomas Rowley , a fly driver identified the prisoner Sarah Thomas . On going np St . Michael ' s-hill on Saturday week last , at between

    eight or nine in the evening , she was standing on the pavement ; she hired his fly at 2 s ., to take her to Ilorfield ; sho was alone ; she had with her a little mahogany box , and another box with a loose cover , and a black bag ; then accompanied her to a confectioner s shop in Lower Maudlin-lane , where sho received a bundle ; lie then drove her to Ilorfield , and put hoi' down at the stop-gate Wdine to Ashley-down , and carried the luggage to the gate leading to tho cottage sho was going to , and lefther . Mary feulhvan , a little girl who led about a blind tiddler , and told an uieohei'cnt story about following two of the Rifles into Miss Jefferies' house , am seeing the murder committed by one of them ; but it was proved that the child was subject to epileptic fits , and not of right mind ; the jury , therefore , desired that her statement should ' be stopped — George Webb residing at No , il . TrcBchn . rd .-St * eot :

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    On Saturday week last , between eleven and twelve o'clock in the day , he had just got to the top of Steep-street step 9 , when he saw a man como bacKwards out of the front door of Miss Jefferies ' , carrying a red box before him . There was a young woman following him out , carrying the Other end of tho box , and sho lifted it on hia shoulder , i > id not notice cither of their faces , but toe young woman returned into the passage , and again came out with a bundle and something else in nor hand , and then slammed the door after her . They walked towards Steep-street , St . Miehael ' s-hill . The shutters of the house were then open . It was like a bundle of clothes ; a light-coloured bundle . The man had on a fustian jacket and fustian trowsers ,

    like one who . tended on masons . —Police-sergeant Philips : On Wednesday night he went to the Flitch of Bacon , at about half-past nine o ' clock at night , and had gome conversation with Mrs . Price , respecting Mrs . Jefferies , who then lay dead at that time , not knowing that she had been murdered . At between eleven and twelve o ' clock the same ni g ht , ho was informed that police-constable M . 110 had seme keys which had been found « fc the Flitch of Bacon . At about three o ' clock the next morning , having learnt that Mrs . Jefferies had been murdered , and the house robbed , he was induced to try thekeya to the street door of Miss Jefferies' house , and found that they fitted exactly both the key of the lock and the latch . —Mrs . Mary Price , landlady

    of the Flitch of Bacon , deposed to the witness William Vickery having on Wednesday night last delivered her two keys , which he had found . Finding they did not belong to her , she delivered them to tho policeman . During that evening there was a man of the name of Sweet , and a man of the name of Angel , and a washerwoman at her house . No one else . Has seen the little girl who leads about the blind man . Has heard she is not in her right senses . Had not seen a Rifleman ] in the house for six weeks . One of them came in with a young woman , and asked if she had a room to let . The Riflemen do not use her house . Had seen the blind man there twice , and the little girl was with him , There was no Rifleman there at that tinie . —At this period the proceedings were further adjourned .

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    that which it evince ^ . contains a variety of offences , numbering in all 520 cases . I was not able to ascertain exactly the number of each offence but it appears to me there are eleven charged with * murder , thirty attacking houses wiih arras and maltreating the inmates , twenty with hi <» hwav robbery , sixteen or twenty for burning hougest wjfjh a great number of o her offences , independent of 120 for petty larcenies , and sixty for sheep stealing . The majority of all those offences have occurred since the quarter session \ in January last . "

    ( From the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle ) Dublin , Mondat . — Crime and Destitution Thb Harvest . — The proceedings at the assize courts in the southern and western counties exhibit startling evidences of the effects of famine in the increase of crime and demoralisation . We have as yet accounts from onlyone or two of the western counties , and the criminal business hag only com . " menced in Mayo . In the counties of Limerick and Clare there was a formidable amount of crime directly connected with the distress so long prevailing ; and in the latter county , not less than 124 persons were sentenced to transportation — a number entirely unprecedented in our criminal annahfor

    a single commission of assize . It should be remembered , also , that tlw assistant-barristers , at quarter sessions , have jurisdiction in felony cases ; and that latterly considerable numbers have received sentence of transportation . At Fern sessions so many aa eighty , and , I believe , in one Instance , at the commencement of the present year , nearly 100 convicted criminals have been sentenced to transportation . Within the past three years , the number of persons sentenced to transportation in Ireland by judges of assize aud chairmen of quarter sessions probably exceeds the amount in any previous six years , even when agrarian crime prevailed to the greatest extent , nnd when many of the counties had been proclaimed under an insurrection .

    The southern and western journals give further most painful accounts of evictions and deaths from starvation . The clearance system is swelling the tide of pauperism on the one hand , whilst all who possess the means are voluntarily emigrating , many still abandoning their business and farms , leaving behind them a miserable , half-famished and brokendown pauper population . The Limerick and Clare Examiner , describing the progress of eviction , says : — " The ruined Castle of Kilmallocfc is swarming with paupers having no other home , and filled with everything foul . The . dens in Goit ' s-lane , in the town of Tipperary , are crammed with refugees and wretches herding together in filth and immorality . The ' neighb urhood of Kilfinane is overrun with the destitute , rushing in for relief to the benevolent ladies who dispense it to all . "

    The Qaltuay JMsrcury has an account of the deaths from destitution in the islands of Gorumna and Killeen . " Most of these unhappy beings ( says that journal ) were found dead in the fields , wliere they wandered in quest of food . " This is a fearful exhibition of the condition of the southern and western districts ; and , no matter how favourable may be the future circumstances , and propitious the seasons , slow must be the progress towards recovery in districts ^ thus devastated by famine , and utterly disorganised . But there are favourable symptoms , upon which one may found a hope that we have seen the worst of this period of terr ible calamity . I have in some recent letters , described the active preparations , and the decided progress already made , for the next harvest , in the

    southern counties . And I am happy to state , that the accounts received this morning are of the same gratifying kind . The Limerick Chronicle states that the surrounding country presents all the appearance of vigorous operations in the tillage of land . The young wheats are looking well and strong , Potatoes have been plantei extensively , and much earlier than usual , as the only chance of security . Oat sowing is very general ; and even in the county of Clare , where such vast tracts of fine fertile land " had been neglected , " field work has received a great impulse . " This is the commencement of the remedy , originating with the Irish people themselves—a small beginning , certainly , wliere sucli overwhelming misery has to be encountered ; but it is , at all eventSi beginning at the right end .

    Collections for the Pope . — The collections for the "Papal Fund" were made yesterday at the different Roman Catholic chapels throughout the archdiocese of Dublin . In the city of Dublin alone , about £ 1 , 250 hns beea already received . In Kingstown , nearly £ 100 was contributed , No returns Lave yet been obtained from the rural parishes . The entire amount in the archdiocese of Dublin will be very considerable . Death of Colonel Sir Robert Shaw , Bart . —The Dublin Evening Mail records the decease of the above venerable baronet . He died on the night of the 110 th , at his seat . Bushy Park , in the county Dublin , in the 76 th year of his age . For more than half a century Sir Robert Shaw had filled a useful

    place in public life and society ; he sat in the Irish . Par iainent ; he had been returned by Lord Ely , but when Lord Ely gave in his adherence to the measure of the union , Sir Robert ( then Mr . ) Shaw resigned his seat ani purchased an independent one ( continues our Irish authority ) for himself , and voted against the union . He represented Dublin in the Imperial Parliament from 1801 to 1826 ; and for above fiftythree years constantly acted as a magistrate and grand juror for the county of Dublin . . A Band-Masier Fired At . —The band-master of the Queen ' s Hussars was fired at by one of the band boys , on Saturday afternoon , in Dublin , after parade . The shot providentially took no effect . The culprit is in custody awaiting a court-martial .

    Pauperism . —The state of tilings in the Ennia Union is desperate indeed . There are not less than 25 , 000 persons receiving relief . The weekly expenditure is £ 900 ; and on the 25 th of March the union will owe £ 10 , 000 sterling . Murder in Tipperary . —The Clonmel Chronicle of yesterday contains the fallowing ;— "At ttvo o ' clock on Saturday , as the judge was commencing to try the criminals , with which our gaol is crowded , a dreadful murder was being ptrpetrated close at hand . A poor o d woman , seventy years of aze , named Margaret Ryan , was the victim , and the object , it appears , was a bag of meal in her possession . Her body was _ mans led in a shocking manner , almost cut to pieces . A broken scythe , covered with blood , was found in a ditch near the place where the dreadful deed was committed . Constables Sullivan and Hillyard arrested a man named John Ryan ( Jack ) , at Kilfeacle , the scene of tlie murder . " He had blood on his clothes . "

    ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE . Sucp , Friday . —The Rev . John O'Neill , a Roman Catholic clergyman , has been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for a violent assault on Alderman Cordukes and Mr . Delany , of Sligo . Limerick , Saturday . — In the City Court , yesterday afternoon , a verdict of " guilty of manslaughter" was returned against the three men named Hayes , tried for the murder of James Purchell , in the streets of Limerick , on the 1 st of November last . Watbrford , Saturday . — In the case of the insurgent attack on the police barracks at Porltaw , the j ury , after being locked up all night , returned a verdict of Guilty" against two o the prisoners , Doyle and Sheefy ; but they did not all agree as to two others . The jury were then discharged .

    South riprERARy . —Clonmel , Saturday Evening —Effects of Famine . —The Grand Jury duriug the day found a great number of bills , but almost all were for offenc-39 of a minor class , and Judge Jackson proceeded to dispose of those cases first , in order to clear the gaol , so much over-crowded . If any one required to see the melancholy position to which the country is reduced , he would find an index to it in the clas 3 of criminals that crowded the dock . Hitherto a'most every man brought to the bar was decently , if roughly clad , most of athletic frames and in rude health , and offences for the sake of plunder were the exceptions not the rule . On the present occasion the contrast was a striking onefamine tracing _ its outlines on the features of the accused , drawing its converging furrows to the mouth , and giving to the countenance a kind of halfidiotic , half-wolfish expression . There was arraigned

    the ^ child whose head scarcely reached the iron bar which the murderer had so often convulsively grasped , as the jury were coming out to deliver their verdict , and that child who , when asked , said he did not know if he had a father or a mother , was tried for . ' stealing some trifling article in order to convert it into food . Then came the mother accused of stealing some straw to make a bed for her children , who hoped to sleep away their hunger , pr taking some potatoes , which in lvippier years charity would have bestowed without being asked for ; and m marked contrast to childhood , age was trembling between the weakneaa incident to such a period ot life , and the privations which it had endured ; a" * the prison-house and the cell had , instead of any terrors , become the object of attraction to those miserable creatures : it afforded them a supply ot tuo food which they wanted ; and in many instancesi tne humanity of the learned judge , in inflicting a US" * sentence , instead of bein ? resarded as a boon , «•

    considered in the light of a punishment . A •""" v ' of persons pleaded guilty to having carried on in clothing which they got ' in Cashel workhouse ; aw William Dwyer , the spokesman , stated , in ansnei to questions from the Court , that he did not g enough to eat in the poor-house , and that he i ""! ' . preferred the gaol , becauserfhe food there was sui cient ; and a gentleman present added , that the snw keepers were greatly annoyed and injured by m ° their windows . broken by tho houseless and « ° " ? ^ vagrants wanting to be committed for any often Judge Jackson said that the attention of the Iw "'" ^ Supeiint-ndence ought to be directed to the w \ of thp . ffrtd-. « nd ir did HPe . m a most startling « - *

    that persons should leave the workhouse in ora * be committed to prison , as if it were an aclian - ^ to be a criminal rather than a distressed i ) ut »" 4 inmate of an asylum . During the day bi , Ui ot w ment for wilful murder were foyuid against {«<¦ ' ¦'

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    were asleep . The most prompt measures «« ££ sorted to by the medical men to restore , ft » untm tunate men , and after the lapse of nearly twelve hours , they wore pronounced out of tlangei .

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    ® De iRstropoiia . Health of Loxdox durixg the Week . —By the Kagistrar-GeneraTs report , we learn that a decided improTcment in the public health has occurred during the week ending March 10 . The deaths registered in London , which in the three previous weeks -were respectively 1 , 325 , 1 , 191 , 1 , 133 , have declined to 1 , 047 , or 133 less than the "winter ayerage . A remarkable improvement has occurred in the mortality from epidemics ; whereas thi 3 class of diseases was fatal in the three previous weeks to 333 , 318 and 310 persons respectively ; in the last week the , deaths were only 243 , which is little ahovc the average . - Small-pox does not prevail much at present ; measles is unusually low . Scarlatina and lioopinff

    cough show a decrease on the previous wee ** , « um now the mortalifcv from the former does not much exceed the average . The deaths from hoopingcough were 69 , which is more than the average by 27 . Typhus has fallen to the average , namely , 43 deaths . Fatal cases of diarrhoea and dysentery were 21 , being 7 more than the average : of cholera , only 15 , though in the three preceding weeks they were 49 40 , and 35 . Ofthe 15 , two occurred mTVartorton ' s Lunatic . Isyltim , Bethnal-nreen ; o in the workhouse of St . George in the East . The mortality ii-om diseases of the organs of circulation is also unusually low . Three men died of delirium tremens ; a man and a woman of intemperance ( both cases attended with epilepsy ); abo a woman from falling in Ihe street when drunk . A woman died in Mile-End , " eight days after childbirth , of typhoid fever , from previous poor living . " A man of 34 years

    died of " intestinal disease—obstruction of colon throuo-h its whole length , " ( post , mortj . The obstruction had continued thirty-foxr days , but was renrtved by medical aid before death . The patient had taken opium medicinally for the last nine years , and latterly in doses of three and sometimes four half drachms daily . The mean height of the barometer was about 30 in . daily , except on Wednesday , Thursday , and Friday ; the highest , which was on Thursday , was 30 , 385 . The thermometer was highest on Sunday , when it was 60 deg . ; the highest of each day fell almost continuously to 42 deg . on Friday , The mean temperature of the week was S 3 deg . The mean temperature of each day continued above that of the same day on an average of seven years , till Friday . The wind was for the most part in the south-west , till Thursday , whenit veered to north and north-west . The number of births

    during the week was 1 , 544 . The Attempt to Assasstsatb Mb . SocraGATE . — Since the commission of this gross outrage , the police have been on the alert to discover the guilty party , and on Wednesday week Thomas Tipping , an active officer belonging to the P division , succeeded in apprehending a gipsy named Ayres , whom lie suspected to be the person who had so seriously injured Mr . Souihgate . His suspicion was directed to Ayres principally on two grounds—the one was , that in the morning on which the outrage had been perpetrated he had shifted from an encampment , where he had been located for some time before ; and the other the reports in circulation that he entertained a feeling of hostility towards Mr . Southgate for some imaginary ill done or about to be done to one of his famfly , and he ( Tipping ) in consequence sought him " out . On Thursday week Ayres was examined hefore ihe Baron De Tessier and a

    bench of magistrates at Epsom , when the circumstances above mentioned were stated to the bench , and a smock frock belonging to the prisoner was produced , on the front of which there was a . large stain of blood . Thepmoner on that occasion preserved a strict silence , and had not given the officer the slightest explanation of the stain of blood upon Ms frock . He was remanded to Horsemonger-lane Gaol until Mr . Southgate is considered fit to appear against him . It is the opinion of Tipping , the officer , and others , that the wound on theear of Mr . Southgate was inflicted -with the point of his own stick ; and that Ms assailant , on finding Mm prOStrate at his feet , inflicted the slanting wound supnosed to be done bv a nistol balL This oninion is

    confirmed by the fact that when the stick was picked up and exam i ned . it was found , that ahout two inches of the end , including the ferule , were deeply stained with blood , and that four inches above this part were spotted , leading to the presumption , therefore , that the lower part had been fixed in the wound , and that the blood spurting from the wound itselfhad caused the splashed appearance . Melancholy Occurrence ox Tins Biter T / e < . — Two Lives Lost . —On Saturday night last an extraordinary and painful sensation was created in Hackney , l > y a report that two medical gentlemen and a female had lost their lives on the river Lea . Trom inquiries made , the following particulars of the melancholy occurrence may he relied on : — It

    appears that a gentleman named Robertson , a student at King ' s College , and residing at 7 , Upperterrace , Islington , and a fellow student , whose name is unknown , induced a young female , Hannah Murray , living as domestic in ifobertson's lod g ings , to accompany them to the river Lea , which they reached abont five o ' clock . They hired a pleasureboat at the Jolly Anglers , and had proceeded as far as the Horse-shoe Point , when Eooertson ' s friend leaned over the boat to secure the rudder lines . The female , fearing his precipitation into the "water , unfortunately suddenly left her seat , which caused the boat to turn keel uppermost , when all the three were immersed in the watery element . While in the act of sinkinc ; the unknown gentleman

    clung to Murray . The melancholy catastrophe was witnessed by a barge-man , who promptly used his hitcher , and brought up the body of the female , "which was conveyed to a neighbouring house , "Where , after lengthened efforts , Mr . Jones , surgeon , succeeded in restoring animation . Half an hour elapsed before the bodies of Robertson and his friend "were got out . The latter had the female ' s shawl bound tightly round Ms right arm . Every effort Biade to resusciate the unfortunate gentleman proved fruitless . On Tuesday Mr . Baker held an inquest at the Robin Hood public-house , Hi <* h-hill , Hackney , respecting the deaths of J . J . K . Robertson , aged 21 , and T . W . C . Hairby , a g ed 2 i , medical students , who were drowned in the lliver Lea .

    Margaret Murray stated that on Saturday last she accompanied Hairby to the Jolly Anglers , adjoining the River Lea , Upper Clapton , where he hired a small boat which was only . sufficient to hold two persons , and shortly after she had embarked with Bairby , Robertson came up and requested to be taken * in . The boat was put back , and Robertson jumped in and sat down by the side of witness . Some persons who were standing on shore cautioned Hairby and Robertson not to proceed in the boat , as it 'was too small to hold three persons , and that it was dangerous to remain in her . Hairhy took charge of the sculls , and Robertson held one * of the steering-strings and witness the other . The boat had not proceeded far when Hairby said he was tired

    of rowing , and requested Robertson to take the sculls . They both stood upright , and Hairby attempted to pass Robertson , and in doing so they both leant on one side , which caused the" boat to heel over and it began to fill . They became much alarmed , and the deceased immediately caught hold of witness , and the boat instantly capsized and turned keel upwards . W . Waller , a bargeman , said Ms attention was attracted by hearing violeRt screaming for assistance , and he saw three persons in the water . Witness was in a barge , and he quickly reached the spot and succeeded in rescuing Murray . The deceased , after swimming a short time , sank , and their bodies were not recovered until half an hour afterwards . The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death . "

    Wohkhoese Ecoxomr . —An inquest was held on Saturday , before Mr . Wells , at the King ' s Arms , Short's-gardens , DruryJane , on the body of M . Reynolds , late an inmate of St . Giles ' s workhouse , aged sixty-two . Elizabeth Worrall , another inmate of the workhouse stated that on Thursday night deceased returned with her to the workhouse about nine o ' clock . She was perfectly sober . Just as thev entered the hall the deceased missed her footing ^ there being no light , and fell head foremost down the kitchen-stairs . Witness fell after her and tumbled on deceased . She called for assistance ;

    the nurse came and removed witness , but deceased was quite dead . —Coroner : " Was there no light ?" —Witness : " Ifo , sir , and the stairs are very danserous . The least thing would throw any one down them . "—Thomas , the summoning officer " The lights are extinguished at eight o * clock . "Coroner : — " That ' s very ill-advised economy , by -which human life ha 3 been sacrificed . "—Verdict : " Accidental death , " accompanied by a reeonunendation from the jury that the guardians should -without delay erect a small door atthe head of the kitchen-stairs . The coroner directed Thomas to forward the recommendation to the guardians .

    Narrow Escape of Fivb Pkesoxs fhom Suffocation . —On Tuesday evening , whilst Ifr . W . Payne was holding an inquest at the Bull , in Tooley-street , the following extraordinary case , and narrow escape of five persons on board the Begownam Maid , was related to him hy Mr . Mead , the summoning officer : — -The vessel , which belonged to Wales , had a few days since arrived in the London pool , and had been moored off Tojping ' s Wharf , where she remains . The night being excesuively cold , the crew consisting of five men , made up a large fire , with Welsh coal , « i the forecastle , and previous to retiring to rest they put down the forecastle hatch . Li ° the morning the watchman was surprised at finding no

    one maKing ms appearance from below . He Knocked and called from above but without receiving any . answer . TMs induced him to open the hatchway and go beloxr , where he found the five persons lying in their berths , with blood issuta * from their moutna and noses , and they appeared " quite dead They were taken on to the deck , and Iwo medical gentlemen were sent for , and they decfcred vat they men were labouring under the ettccts of some noxious Tapour . —An examination having been made , it was clearly ascertained that ine Welsh coal brought in the vessel , and which had fceen burned in the forecastle , contained a laree J ^ t' ^ of sul ] ihur . the vapour from wliicli had so PiSti e fgbir . as to overpower the men whilst ther

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    Sreiand . Dublin , Saturday . —Resistance to the Rate in Aid . —The vote of the House of Commons in favour of the rate in aid has not in the least degree diminished the hostility to that obnoxious impost in the northern province . _ On the contrary , the movement proceeds with still greater vigour—men of the highest position are entering the arena , and there appears to be a settled and resolute spirit of passive resistance , which , if c rried into practice , may lead to very ssrious if not disastrous results . The northern journals received this morning contain accounts of further meetings in varfous ° parts of Ulster . The Banner of Ulster hag , a loner renorf ; nf the

    meeting of the county of Antrim , held at Ballymena , on Thursday last , at which the High Sheriff , J . S . Moore , Esq ., presided . The proceedings were opened by a startling speech of Lord Massareine , who urged an organised opposition to the collection of the rate in language almost a 3 unqualified as any uttered by the Young Irelanders in the hotte 3 t period of their agitation . The following is an extract from his lordship ' s speech : — " Let men of all parties and creeds unite , and if they cannot prevent the passing of the present measure , or the evying of the tax , let them take care that the intruder shall never go back with the supply , ( llear , hear , and cheers . ) There is at present in Ireland a society which seeks to have an occasional sitting

    of the Imperial Parliament in Dublin for the transaction of Irish business . He ( Lord Massareene ) was a member of that society , and he believed that if its object hud been adopted some years ago , the distress which now exists would not be so extensive , nor would the proposition of a rate in aid have been submitted . At a meeting in December last of the society to which he had alluded , he ( Lord Massareene ) observed that England had shown herself very generous in placing in this country some 50 , 000 soldiers to prevent us from shooting each other , but that it would take 50 000 more to prevent the north from speaking out , if once it felt itself to be unjustly taxed . England was now about to tax her unjustly ; and the

    demonstrations which had lately taken place had verified his prediction so far , for he believed that twice or three times 50 , 000 soldiers would not , in the north be able to collect this most unjust rate in aid . ( Loud Cheers . ) He ( Lord Massareene ) would dare the government to collect it . ( Cheering . ) If they would not repudiate the connextion between this country and Great Britain , or if they had tho shadow of a shade of justice , let them tax the absentee landlordi for whatever they want ; but let them not add to the already over-barthened but industrious people by additional and unjust taxation . " Messrs . Leslie , Edmund M'Donnell , and M'Naghten , subsequently addressed the meeting , in proposing resolutions , denounced the injustice

    of the rate in aid . Mr . George Macartney and the Hon . G . Handcock also addressed a meeting of tenantry of the Marquis of Downshire , which was held in the Court-house of Hillsborough , on Thursday last , at which Mr . Watson , of Brook-hall , and several of the neighbouring gentry , attended . Several respectable farmers expressed the most rooted opposition to the rate in aid ; and resolutions and a petition were adopted . A letter from Lord Downshira was read to the meeting , by Mr . R . S . Kennedy , J . P ., which contained the following paragraphs . — " We must raise a bold and determined resistance in Ulster , and show the minister that , while we are determined and resolute in maintaining a real union

    between the two countries , as we did last year , and are the advocates of peace and order , we will not quietly submit to have the profits of our industry , which that peace and good order have secured to us ( and which this very government has so often done their best to destroy ) , taken from us . " The edge of tho wedge once introduced , every year will drive it in nrre firmly ; and we shall hav « the satisfaction (!) of paying _ for the districts of the country which this government has demoralised , after it had tried , but failed , to demoralise us . " Besides this ; remember that is one thing to strike a rate and another to collect it ; and all that is necessary to bring us in for the 'rate in aid' is that the other districts should strike a rate : not a word is said about its being collected .

    " Lord John Russell-may callus in this province ' The Whisper of a Faction , ' but we will show him that we can speak in a voice louder than a ' whisper , ' and stronger than a ' faction / when injustice and wrong are attempted agaimt us . " The Cayan grand jury have adopted resolutions and a petition against the rate . The county of of Wexford met on Thursday last , and adopted a petition against the rate in aid . Tuesday . —Opposition to the Rate in Am . — The meetings continue in Ulster and Leinster , and even in the south and west there are meetings to protest against the rate in aid , in those districts

    where the gentry and ratepayers have been able to struggle through ^ their own embarrassment . Almost all the grand juries of Leinster have " pronounced " against the rate ; and the poor law unions are meeting in succession for the same purpose . At the county meeting in Armagh , on Saturday last , the most energetic resolutions against the rate in aid were adopted . On the same day , a meeting of the county Tyrone was held iu the court-house at Omagh , when resolutions , protesting against the unjust impost and a petition embodying the resolutions , was resolved on , to be forwarded immediately for presentation to both Houses of Parliament .

    Wednesday . —The meetings of the counties of Armagh and Down have been most important . Colonel Blacker , a great favourite of the northern people , delivered a stirring speech at Armagh , which was received with great applause . At the Down meeting , the Marquis of Downshire vied with Lord Massareene in the virulence of the language he employed against the project . He denounced it as " this most partial , impolitic , and rascally measure ;" declared his intention of opposing the ratei " as an individual ; " and expressed his carelessness about being called a rebel . Lord Roden also made a strong speech at the same meeting , and said it was the worst measure ever inflicted upon Ulster . Men of all parties are to be found in this agitation . At the Down meeting , were the Marquis of Downshire , and Mr . Sharman Crawford , Lord Bangor , and Mr . Maxwell , Mr . Ross , of Rosstrevor , and Lord Roden .

    Death of tiie Knight op Keery . —The Right Hon . Maurice Fitzgerald , Knight of Kerry , died at his residence in the island of Valentia , on the 7 th inst ., in his 76 th year . He is succeeded in the ancient title of Knight of Kerry by his son , Peter Fitzgerald , Esq ., high sheriff of Kerry for the present year . The knight was the lineal representative of the ancient Knights of Kerry—one of the three branches of the house of Fitzgerald—the others are the present Knight of Glin , or Knight of the Valley , and the Earl of Kingston , who by the maternal line represents the renowned "White Knighta of old . The Knight of Kerry , together with Lord Plunkett , were the only living survivors of the Irish House of Commons .

    Tub Crops . —In the counties of Limerick and Tipperary potatoes are extensivel y planted , aud generally by the better class of farmers , who hare all adopted the system of early sowinjr , as affording the only security against failure . The Limerick Reporter states , that large tracts of land are laid down with oats , and more are in preparation . The young wheat j looks vigorous and healthy . " Everything , so for ( says that journal ) indicates a " propitious turn of events , " Count ? of Limeiuck , — On Wednesday Judge Ball arrived at : Limerick , and shortly after proceeded to the County Court . In addressing ths grand jury , he said ; ' " If the calendar now before mo be taken as the state of crime in your county , nothing b calculated to excite more horror than

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  • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 17, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1514/page/6/