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  ^^^^ P ^^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^^^^^ BHB ^^^^^^^^ H ^^^^^^ V ^^^^ K ^ fc' ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ K ^ PH ^ HI ^ W ^ tf ^^ B ^^^^^^^^^^^^ H &f ) e rttrtropolts . Mortality in tiie Metropolis . —The weekly return continues to exhibit a satisfactory state of public health . The deaths , which were about 1 , 200 towards the end of last month , have fallen in the Jast week to 1 , 048 , or 121 less than the average . The mortality from epidemics , with the exception of hooping cough , is little more than the average , and has fallen twenty-five per cent , within the period of a month . The mortality caused by small-pox and measles is still unusually low ; that from scarlatina is now little more than the average . Diawhcea has declined ; and the deaths from cholera are only 10 , 9 of which , as is shown below , occurred in one ¦ workhouse and two hospitals ; three in one family . Scarlatina and typ hus WOM each fatal to 40 persons , which is rather less than the average lor the latter disease . Inflammation of the lungs and air passages , and pulmonary consumption , do not prevail fatally at the t time : the aggregate deaths in the
  
  presen week from these diseases were only 260 , whereas the average is 329 . Three are recorded as deaths from intemperance , and had been the subjects of inquest , A woman of 62 years , whose occupation was iinknown , died in Park-street , Dorset-square , of " exhaustion from having denied herself the common necessaries of life ( inquest . ) A favourable condition of the atmosp here may be esteemed perhaps the principal cause of the recent improvement in the health df London . The mean height of the barometer in the week was 29-9 C 3 . It was above 30 on Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday . The mean daily temperature ranged from 42 deg . on Monday , to 36 * deg . on Saturday . The weekly mean was 40 de " . 8 . The greatest observed difference between the dew point temperature and air tempera ture were on Tuesday , Wednesday , and Saturday , when they were respectively 14 tleg . 1 , 10 deg . 1 , and 15 deg . 4 . This denotes dryness of the atmosphere . The wind Wow for the most part from the Rorth and East .
  
  Holhorx-htll . —On Saturday last workmen commenced lowering the brow of Holbom-hilL commencing opposite Hatton-garden , where it was peculiarly steep , and most dangerous for vehicles heavily laden . The road was sunk eighteen inches , and will be continued on a gradual incline to Fetterlane . The old flag paving is to be removed , and the four-inch granite stone , which affords so firm a foothold to horses , and has proved so admirably adapted for public traffic in Fleet-street , Moorgnte-street , and other great thoroughfares , is being laid down jn lieu thereof . Lola Montes . —On Saturday last a sale was concluded at Phillips ' s-rooms , of the personal effects of the Countess of Landsfeld ( Lola Monies ) . The properly to be disposed of included pictures , bijouterie , and articles of vcrtu . On many of them were emblazoned the royal arms of Bavaria .
  
  Extraordinary Circumstance . — On Monday night police-constable Corry , 224 G , in Charterhouse-lane , Charterhouse-square , picked up a small paper parcel from the pavement . It looked as if it contained a few shillings , and he was in the act of opening it , when it exploded and caused a loud report , and in a moment his hand and fingers were shattered and mutilated in a most shocking manner . Steamboat Explosiok ojj the River . —On Tuesday morning , about nine o ' clock , the greatest alarm and excitement prevailed among the passengers at London-bridge Wharf , in consequence of a serious explosion on board the Waterman steam-boat , " So . 8 , bv which several persons were much iniured . The
  
  steamer left Woolwich shortly before eight o ' clock in the morning , under the charge of Captain War ren , apparently in good working order , with a fair freight of passengers . She proceeded towards London , and at the time above named reached the London-bridge pier , where several persons landed . All then seemed quite safe , but just as the captain gave orders to " Go a-head , " a loud explosion was heard , and the next moment a large body of fire and steam ¦ was seen issuing from the engine-room . The captain finding the lower part of the vessel was on fire had Ler made fast , and then immediately adopted steps to release the men who were engaged below . Several attempts were made to descend the ladder leading to the engine-room , but all efforts were useless , although a , great quantity of water was thrown down . After a few seconds had elapsed , the engineer , named Thomas Williams , made his appearance
  
  in a most distressing condition , the whole of the upper part of his person being dreadfully burned and scalded by the action of the fire and steam , which filled the engine-room . Shortly afterwards tb . 3 stoker , named Samuel Spencer , was released , and he was found to be more injured than the lastnamed person , being shockingly injured from head to foot . They were taken ashore , and conveyed to St . Thomas ' s Hospital . The origin of the explosion is yet not positively known ; but the engineer ' s opinion was that the tube plate at the end of the boiler burst , which let out the steam and water on to the fire , and blew off the furnace doors , and in a few seconds the engine-room -was completely filled ¦ with fire and steam . The sufferers are progressing as favourably as could be expected . The steamer , which is completely disabled , now lies off Queenhithc for further examination .
  
  Stoke yswixGioN . — Another Ecclesiastical Razzia . —The rector of Stoke Xewington , the Rev . A . W . Taylor , made a claim on some of his parishionei'K for church rates , and the following is the mode in which the said claim was enforced by his myrmidons : —On the 23 rd insfc ., four men , taking advantage of the day on which Friends are accustomed to attend their meeting for worship , and no doubt expecting to find the heads of the respective families from home , proceeded to the house of Mrs . Foster , Church-street : went first into the shop , "where they might have seized abundantly more than would have liquidated their claim ; pushed their ¦ way into the drawing-room , where two ladies were sitting , and insolently demanded a screw-driver to remove a barometer and lqoking- ^ lass , for the sum of Is . 4 d ., the rector ' s claim . This modest request
  
  for the loan of a screw-driver not being complied with , they made off with a large copper stew-pan , with two " smaller ones , and a copper tea-kettle . They were very rude to the two ladies , and told them they had got their pockets stuffed full of plate from other houses . At the house of Mr . Joseph Marsh , in Church-street , they behaved still worse . The family were at dinner . They went first into the kitchen , but would not distrain there , saying they wanted plate . They endeavoured to force their way into the parlour , where the family were dining , and behaved so insolently that the inmates were obliged , in self-defence , to bolt the doors against them . They at last made off with a good barometer , which cost Mr . M . £ 5 . The following is a list of the distraints , and of the value of the property sacked in this clerical foray : —
  
  DEMAND . VALCE TAKES £ . s . d . £ . s . a . Ann Foster 0 1 4 J 2 0 0 Cornelius Hanlmry .. 252 349 G . W . Alexander 18 1 2 3 6 EdwardHarris 0 3 0 0 10 6 . Benjamin Reed 0 3 1 0 10 ( J Ann Alexander 0 1 7 i 0 10 G J . F . BuJ ^ ess O 3 7 " 0 12 9 Joseph Marsh — 3 0 0 MaryTylor -.. 0 2 CJ 0 11 3 SarahJanson 0 2 Oi 010 6
  
  Departure of Sir Charles Xafier . —Sir Charles Uapier took his departure for the East on Saturday evening . lie left at a Lite hour , and proceeded vi a the South Eastern Railway , to Dover , m route for Calais . Sir Charles and staff proceed direct to Leghorn , there to be joined by Major William Kapier , and from thence proceed to Alexandria in one of her Majesty ' s boats , specially ordered . At Aden , where the steam-packets stop for coals and provisions , a special steamer , belonging to the Indian government , will meet Sir Charles Napier , and convey him and his staff to the port of Kurrachee , in Scinde , instead of proceeding to Bombay . The Commander-in-Chief is expected to arrive at Mooltan by this route in about a month from his departure .
  
  Death from Coiai axd Starvation . —An inquest was held on Wednesday before Mr . W . Baker , at the Plough public-house , Plough-yard , Shoreditch , respecting the death of Michael Donovan , aged nine months , who was alleged to have died from starvation and exposure to the cold . The body of the deceased was most frightfully emaciated . * He was one of twins , and the mother was constantly begging in the street , with her two infants in her arms . She generally left home about ten o'clock in the morning , and remained out all day with her two children until late at night . She usually sat upon the steps of doors in Finsbury-square , for several hours together . Some time since she was taken into custody for begging , and convicted by a
  
  magistrate . After her imprisonment had expired , she again resorted to the same method . In January last the deceased was attacked with a pulmonary disease , and an order was issued by the medical officer of the union , who directed that the child should be properly attended to . The surgeon visited the child daily , until the 6 th of March , but the mother heeded not the surgical advice , and again exposed the two children hi the streets . The surgeon discontinued his visits after the 6 th inst ., ana the deceased gradually became worse . The mother never applied for the assistance of a surgeon , nor stated that the child was worse . On Riday last , the deceased was apparently dying , but uiomer took out
  
  w « s nun witnthe other infant , and didnotreturn home until the evening . The deceased becamo wome , and expired early on Sunday mornm S- , ? coroner said the surgeon's evidence did not distinctly prove that the death was accelerated by exposure , and the case was one of those when the jury could onrf eiprdsVtheir horror at what had occurred . The jury said they had no doubt that the death of the child was caused by starvation and exposure to the cold air , and returned a verdict to that effect . The coroner , by the directions of the jury , severely censured the mother , and cautionol Mr tflfafcc proper care of licr remaining child .
  
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  Et ) c ftro&uttfft * Scssex .-Atiempied ifeiPBB .-The inhabitants of Tine-street , Brighton , were alarmed lasiti wcck , by hearing cries of murder , and upon k ° »^ . ™ J £ they discovered afemale with blooA streaming ^ down thefront of her dress . The woman toying ^ been stopped , she was taken to Mr . C . Burriou us a EiJ 3 ^» jSf = done by Robert Spiers , with whom she lived , at STrfince ' s Arms beer-shop . The man accused £ woman with cutting her own throat , but , upon examining him , his hands were found covered with blood , fte was taken into custody , and will bo detaincd until it is seen whether the woman will recover or not
  
  . Staffordshire . —Suspected Child Mcrder and Scicide . —Last week , at Smethwick , Hannah Rose committed self-murder by cutting her throat with a razor , and the information forwarded to the police was , that sho had been led to the commission of the crime by remorse , consequent upon the death of the illegitimate child of one of her daughters , which she ( deceased ) had poisoned . On Wednesday week , an inquest was held before Mi * . G . Hinchcliffe , the coroner , when Sarah Holmes said , that the deceased was her mother , and that on the previous day she asked hor for the key of the brewhouse , which she gave her , and shortly afterwards she heard a wild scream , and on going into the brcwhouse , found her mother in a pool of blood ,
  
  and her throat cut almost from ear to ear . She had her hands in the wound , and was pulling it open . A surgeon was Bent for , and the wound was sewn up , but she expired in an hour afterwards . Witness s sister was confined with a child on the 10 th instant , which went on very well for a day or two , but it died suddenly on the 13 th instant . On the following Friday , the child was taken to West Bromwich Trinity Churchyard , where it was buried . —Police-constable Critchlow gave evidence as to the rumours prevalent . —The jury gave a verdict " That the deceased destroyed her life , but they had
  
  no evidence as to her state of mind , " when the coroner issued his warrant for the exhumation of the child ' s body . The inquost was commenced on Thursday week , when tho sexton proved that the child had been reported to him as " still-born , " and that he , in consequence , buried it . —The inquiry was adjourned for a postmorte m examination ; and the jury met again on Friday week , when the coroner said it would be necessary to adjourn again , as the medical gentlemen who had made the post mortem , examination were quite of opinion that the child had been poisoned . Tho investigation was , therefore , again adjourned .
  
  Gloucestershire . —The Bristol Murdbr . —Our readers will remember that Sarah Thomas , who stands committed upon the coroner ' s warrant for the wilful murder of Miss Elizabeth JefferieB , at Bristol , on the 3 rd of March , made a statement to the police who had her in charge , denying that she was the actual perpetrator of the appalling crime , and implicating a girl who had lived servant with the unfortunate lady immediately before she went to reside with her . Subsequently to the inquest the inquiries by the police were resumed , and happily with better succcbs , as a girl ha 3 been found who , there can be no doubt , is the one referred to , and whose evidence was so much required to complete the cham of testimony . Her name is
  
  Charlotte Morgan , and she is the daughter of a plasterer and painter carrying on business at Thornbury , Gloucestershire , but having been ( as statedby the witness Miller ) unsuccessful in business , she sought a service , and was engaged by Miss Jefferies . She states , however , that she only lived with the deceased lady from Thursday night till the following Saturday morning , - as Miss Jefferies ( who was very eccentric and strange in her manner ) told her , as soon as she entered the house , that she was too fine and too tight-lnccd for the place , and before breakfast on the Saturday morning she insisted on her
  
  quitting the house forthwith , which she did on pain of having her boxes trundled into the street . Happily this girl is enabled to provo , to the complete satisfaction of the police , that she could have been no party to the murder , inasmuch as during the whole of the night upon which it was committed , as , indeed , had been also the case for many days before and afterwards , she was sleeping at her lodgings in the house of a person named Hancock ( a respectable tradesman ) , and in a room in which the sister of her landlady likewise slept . This testimony is looked upon as being of a very important character .
  
  Threatening Letters to the Queen . —At Windsor , on Monday , John Wardle , remanded from Monday week , was charged before the mayor and two other magistrates with having sent threatening letters to her Majesty and other parties . It appeared that the prisoner , " who is about twenty-three years old , of short stature , and rather idiotic appearance , has been employed in the collieries of Lord Dartmouth at West Bromwich , near Birmingham , whence he dated his first communication to hor Majesty , dated January 18 , 1848 . In this letter he stated that , unless he and his family obtained their rights , her Majesty should die by his hands ; that , if he was wanted , he might be found by applying to Lord Dartmouth , or at his residence , Argat-lane ,
  
  West Bromwich ; or he would attend to any appointment . This letter was sent down to the Staffordshire police , when the prisoner was apprehended and taken before the magistrates , charged with writing threatening letters to her Majesty . The prisoner explained that the reason of his doing so was to obtain £ 10 , 000 left to his family by the late Duke of Kent under the following circumstances : — His grandfather was a soldier , and served in the Americas war , and was induced to marry a servant who had been seduced and had a child by the late Duke of Kent , on being allowed a pension from his Royal Highness ; that at his death his Royal Highness left the family £ 10 , 000 , whieh was unjustly keDt from them . These facts , the prisoner said ,
  
  were communicated to him when he was thirteen years of age by his grandfather on his death-bed , and he was determined to have his rights . After iniuutely examining into the particulars of the case , the magistrate sentenced the prisoner to three months' confinement in Stafford Gaol in default of his finding bail to keep the peace , which expired in the early part of May last . In the following month the prisoner found his way to London , and underwent several examinations before tho Lord Mayor and Mr . D . W . Harvey , the City Police Commissioner , which resulted " in his being sent back to West Bromwich and p laced under the surveillance of the police . On the 18 th of December last the prisoner wrote a letter to Mr . Abbott , the
  
  Superintendantofthe North Staffordshire Poliee , stating that he was determined to liave " his rights , " if He " swung for it ; " and he also addressed a similar letter to Sir G . Grey , the Home Secretary , under date of December 21 . 3 Jo notice was , however , taken of these letters beyond their being forwarded to the solicitor for the Treasury . On Thursday , the 8 th inst ., he presented himself at the residence of the Dean of Windsor , and told the butler he was determined to see the Queen , and get his due , even if his neck was stretched for it . He was again given into custody , and the result was that , after two inquiries , the case was postponed till Monday , the 19 th inst ., when theauthoritics at the Home-office having been communicated with Mr . Hayward , of
  
  the office of the solicitor to the Treasury , attended to watch the case , and was about to ask the magistrates to hold the prisoner to bail for using threatening language , when Mr . Pearl , a surgeon , of Windsor , who had examined him , expressed doubts of the prisoner ' s sanity . Upon this Mr . Hayward asked for a remand , to obtain further evidence on that point . Accordingly the prisoner was again brought up when the above facts having been deposed to , Dr . Munro stated that he had had an interview of more than an hour ' s duration with the prisoner , and he was clearly of opinion that he was a dangerous lunatic , whom it was not safe to trust at large for a single hour . Upon this evidence being given , Mr . Hayward applied to have the prisoner
  
  committed to the county lunatic asylum . Th ? Mayor , having asked the prisoner if he had any explanation to give of his conduct , he replied that it would be useless , as he was like a Iamb in a a den of wolves . After some consideration the bench adjudged the prisoner to be a dangerous lunatic , and sentenced him to be confined in the county lunatic asylum at Littlemore , near Oxford , unless his friends could give security for his safe custody . The prisoner is evidently very illiterate , no two consecutive words being spelt eorreetly , her Majesty being described as Queen " Victorsy . " Fratricide at Leeds . —A case of fratricide has occurred at Hunalet , one of the out-townships of the borough of Leeds , which , owing to the parties
  
  concerned being well-known , has caused much excitement hi the locality . On Saturday last two brothers of the names of Thomas and William Proctor , entered into a very angry quarrel . The elder brother , William , giving way to an extraordinary degree of passion , took off his waistcoat , and threatened to g ive Thomas a sound' beating . The latter took a pocket-knife , and struck William on the neck with the weapon , cutting the jugular vein . The resultwas that William bled profusely , and was removed as speedily as possible to the infirmary at Leeds , where he expired on Sunday night . There does not appear to have been any previous quarrel or bad feeling between the two brothers . The
  
  deceased was twenty-one years of age , and the survivor is only eighteen . The sad catastrophe occurred at the house " iiiwhich the family reside , in the presence of a sister and the father . Thomas Proctor , the younger brother , is in custody . On Monday an Inquest was held on the body . The jury having heard the evidence , found a verdict of Manslaughter against Thomas Proctor . " ' Warwickshire . —Accidext o * the Bristol and Birmingham Railway . —On Saturday evening last a man named Orton , a plate-layer on this line , attempted to get on one of the waggons as it was descending thft Liekey , near Bromsgrove ; in doin » this he fell , and the wheels of tho carriage passed
  
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  over hia legs , fraeturing them in a fri ghtful manner . He was conveyed to the Queen's Hospital at Birmingham on Sunday morning , and died there last evening . Hampshire , —North Hants Election . — Last week the High Sheriff received the writ , calling upon mm to appoint a day on which to elect a Knight of the Shire for that county to git in Parliament , in the place of Sir W . lleathcote , when he ordered that the nomination should take place on the 31 st of March , at Winchester . If any opposition , the polling to take plac ^ on the 5 th and 6 th of April .
  
  Suffolk . —Superstitions in 1849 , —A case has just occurred ( fays the Ipswich Express ) , at a village a few miles from Rayleigh , which shows that if witches and their familiars have fled from the land in a fright at the rough handling of science , the mental cobwebs beneath which they flourished have not been yet quite brushed away . A girl in the village had been long subject to fits , and as family consultations and councils traced the mysterious malady to witchcraft , " a cunning man , " celebrated thereabouts , was called in to counterplot the mischievous old hag , who was supposed to be squatted in some dark corner , muttering her spells and enjoying the writhings of her victim . The conjuror , of cour-e , undertook the j > -b for a consideration , and
  
  immediately set the village blacksmith blowing and beating away to manufacture an air-tight iron bottle . After a sharp struggle with the arts of the doomed witch , who kept maliciously poking flaws and fissures in the hissing metal ; this was completed , and being filled with the parings of the patient ' s toe-nails ) locks of her hair , and fluid , was placed over a roaring fire , chained fast to the grate as additional security against the tricks of the imps who were believed to be hover-Ing in dozens and in terror around it . This charm was to blow the offending witch thr . ugh the air at a ¦ quicker rate than she ever travelled upon her own broom-stick , or bring her to the hearth-stone pleading for forgiveness ; but of course we cm understand without being very deeply read in the occult
  
  science , that the spirit of steam would begin to grow rather fidgetty at being shut up in an air-ti ght iron bottle ; bo at last , ¦ wi thout waiting for ths appearance of the expected old lady , he jumped out with a loud explosion , blowing away the grate-bars and the fire . This was expected to do the girl good . Execution at Worcrstbr . —W . Pulley , convicted at the late assizes of the murder of a young girl at Pershore , underwent the extreme penalty of the law on Motday morning , at Worcester gaol . Many thousands were assembled in all tbe roads and approaches to the prison . Pulley had made a confession of his crime , and of the justice of his punishment . At oIctcu o'clock divine service was performed in the gaol chapel , and at twelve o ' clock—the service being ended—Pulley ascenned the ladder , and in a short time the bolt was drawn . Having
  
  hung an hour , tbe body was taken down , and buried without ceremony in the precinctsof the gaol . The Execution of John Smith , for Murder , took place at Salisbury on Tuesday , The convict persisted to the last in withholding all information as to bis real name and connexions . He said he had parents living , and sisters and brothers , whom he did not wish to know his ignominious end . At twelve o ' clock he mounted the scaffold with a quick step and a smiling countenance , and desired the executioner to hurry through hia task as fast as possible . When , however , the cap was drawn over his face , he requeBted the executioner to let him have another look at the crowd , which being complied with , he almost immediately added , "That will do , " and the drop fell within a minute or two . The crowd in front of the gaol was immense , and far exceeded any that had been witnessed here on a similar occasion .
  
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  burned a house , tho property of ^ Mary Connor ; Anne Daly , the iurylound you guilty of burning £ house of JoL ' sutler ; and . you Anne Day , S ^ eifenfS- feK my ° NDAT , March 26 .-The Papai . Rate in Aid .-The collection for Pope Pius proceeds « ij nn » . The diocese of Meath has sent in the sum of £ 1 , 300 . At Frcshford , in Ossory , Mrs . Bryson gavo the sum of £ 100 . It is roughly estimated that the gross ? v « r btom ) total of this uncalled for rate m aid 6 S JSri Ireland from £ 25 , 000 to £ 30 , 000 . Sale by Auction of Conciliation Hall . —The fSFjfcX tai the ^ joined " puff direct " forThe Burgh-quay « Stow" :- « We poMure by advertisement that Mr . Burke is to sell by auction , ™ Rurdiauav . to-morrow , at the Corn-Exchange ,
  
  the effects of the committee-rooms ot the wopeui Association . The sale is to take place at the instance of the committee , and embraces all that was not disposed of on the former occasion . There are , » e believe , a great variety of articles still on hand considered to be both useful and valuable , and interesting as relics . Thore is the wrought-iron safe of the old Catholic Association , a very ingeniouslycontrived balloting-box , made after a , plan devised by the Liberator , and under his own immediate inspection a full set of band instruments , made specially for the Loyal National Repeal ^ Association , and a great many other articles that will not fail to interest the public . " Sale of mib Effects of the " Liberator . —The World , of Saturday , mentions that the house of O'Connell , in Mernon-square ,. will soon bo ottered for sale . The library of the deceased agitator isalso to be sold by auction very soon , according to the same authority .
  
  Destitution . ^—O verchowded Gaolb . —Something must be done without delay by ; the authorities to prevent the overcrowding of thegaols in the country districts . The extent of criminality in these times is excessive , as may be judg ed-from the fact , that inaddition to the heavy calendar before tho judges of assize at Cork , there are not less than 581 traversers to be tried at the preuent Cork sessions by Assistant Barrister Berwick . Their crimes are chiefly stealing turnips , potatoes , and other food . Harvest Prospects . —The Jfeatk Herald says , — " We have seldom witnessed a spring season wherein farming operations were so far advanced , nor one in which more grain haB been sown than in that of tho present . —The quantity of potatoes planting far
  
  exceeds the year ' 46 ' 47 or ' 48 . Asthe , decline of this valuable root increased from year to year , so in all probability will its restoration to health procoed until it arrives at its original BoundneBB—a consummation much to be desired . The wheat crop looks healthy , and we niay look forward to a plentiful harvest . " Tuesday , March 27 . —The Law of Retaliation . —A letter in the Boyle Gazette has the . folio wing particulars in connexion , with the murder of Robert Todd , a tenant on Mr . Ormsby Gore ' s estates in Leitrim : — " On Tuesday Todd wasrburied in Carrigallen church-yard ; the funeral was attended by the eentrr of the neighbourhood , and about 300
  
  respectably dressed Orangemen from the Manor , wearing the insignia of their order , with flags , and music playing the . ' Dead March . ' When tho procession arrived at the parish priest ' s house ( Father M'Govern ) , it halted , when some of the Orangemen addressed the priest , and said , that if ever they had cause to come again : on such a melancholy oceasion , his life , or that of some one like -him , would be taken , as the priests have power , if they choose , to prevent the many murders which take place , or at least can discover the murderers and hand them over to justice : the procession then moved to the church , and after service proceeded in the samo order to their homes . " What a state of society in a country pretending to civilisation !
  
  The Tralee Savings Bank . —At the Tralco Assizes , just concluded , an action was brought by a . ? erson named Lynch , upon an award of Mr . Tidd ratfc , the Government Inspector af Savings Bunks , for the sum of £ 27 , to ascertain the liability of the defendant in . the caso , who was one of the trustees to the plaintiff , who was a depositor , and who lost his money by the failure of the bank in the course of last year . The Rev . Mr . Rowan , the bank treasurer , and Mr . Pratt were examined at considerable length , to show the manner in which the bank business was conduced ; the details of their testimony were of a technical nature , which gave riso to several questions of law , that were reserved for the consideration of the court above . The jury found ,
  
  " That the defendant was a trustee , but not guilty of wilful neglect ; " and the question of his liabilities will depend upon tho decision of the Court of Queen's Bench upon argument next term . Steamer AsnonE on the Raohery Rocks . —Belfast , March 24 th , 1849 . —I regret to inform you that an accident , which it is feared may prove serious , has occurred to Her Majesty , a fine steamer , well known on the Androssan , and latterly Troon and Fleetweod , station . It appears that Her Majesty , which for some time past has been plying between Belfast and Fleetwood and Derry , was proceeding from the latter port to Fleetwood , on Thursilay evening , but owing to a dense fog which
  
  prevailed that night all along the Irish coast , she struck upon the Raghery rocksj—a dangerous reef near the Giants' Causeway—where she still remains . It being nearly high water when tho vessel struck , as the tide ebbed Her bottom was injured in several places by the sharp points of the rocks ; but hopes are entertained that she may be got oft should the weather prove favourable . It is nearly five years since Her Majesty commenced p lying between Fleetwood and Androssan , during which period she has been commanded by Captain Wilson , without ever having met with the slightest accident till now . Captain Wilson has not been sailing the vessel , we believe , for a few weeks , having had leave of absence on account of his health . His
  
  place was supplied by Captain Wheeler of the Fenella , an Isle of Man steamer ; but no blame is attributable to any one for the present unfortunate occurrence , which was entirely caused by the fog . —The Daily Mail . Wednesday , March 28 . —Auction , at Conciliation Hall . —Notwithstanding the badness of the times , the sale of the remaining effects of the Repeal Association yesterday , according to the Freeman ' s Journal , realised good prices . The sum realised was above £ 100 . The musical instruments belonging to the band of the Repeal Association , however , did not all find purchasers .
  
  Treatment of Mr . Mitchel . on his Voyage to Bermuda . —A correspondence has just been published , in which Commander H . E . Wingrove , who commanded tho Scourge , in ivhich Mr . Mitchel sailed , makes the following statement : — " The Scourge arrived at Cork on the morning of the 31 st of May , and on the following morning , at six o ' clock , the prisoner was embai-ked , and the vessel sailed for her destination . * * * I was distinctly informed that he was not during the passage to be treated as a common criminal . Under these circumstances , and anxiously mindful of the great responsibility of such a charge , it became most difficult for me to decide in what part of the shin he should he placed , or how he should foe
  
  watched so as to ensure his safe custody . I couW not put him with the officers , neither could I place him near the ship ' s company ; indeed I must admit that I felt particularly anxious lie should not be where by any possibility he might disseminate those principles "which sentenced him to transportation , or where he could have such uncontrollable opportunities of establishing- mischievous communication of a nature calculated seriously to enhance the difficulty of his safe custody at Bermuda . M y object was to convey him to the place of his banishment with the least motive to exasperation , so far as he or his partisans were concerned , and with the least risk of bad consequences upon my own people afterwards . Then , again , it occurred to me I should be
  
  held responsible if this convict committed suicide upon awakening to a real sense of his situation , which from the anguish of his mind there really seemed reason to apprehend on first leaving his native land . I considered it my duty to endeavour to calm these feelings as much as possible , and for this reason , as well as others , I did not consider him safe , indeed I could not re 9 t satisfied unless ho was under my own immediate eye ; therefore , I waived all personal feelings , which were much indeed at variance with the course I thought it best to pursue , and allotted to the prisoner a portion of my cabin , and gavo him his meals at my own table , taking special care to invite no ono else while he remained on board , at the same timo confining him
  
  to the strict observation of the sergeant of marines and one sentry whenever he took an airing on deck ; two sentries watched him also by night . The result was successful : the prisoner was landed safely at Bevmudii , iu comparative health and calmness of mind , though he suffered acutely from an alarming malady during the passage , which , the surgeon informed me , might cut short the thread of his existence in a moment . lie was landed before his arrival cowld be possibly anticipated on the island . Having thus successfully performed this responsible as well as most disagreeable duty to the best of my judgment , having conscientiously acted for what I considered the good of the Bei-fice , having adopted that course which I thought would be most consonant
  
  with the wishes of her Majesty ' s government , and disclaiming all sympathy with the prisoner beyond that which is due from one Christian to another in misfortune , I confidently trust their lordships will be pleased to extend to me that protection to which , under all the very peculiar circumstances of the case , I feel that I am justly entitled . " Upon this statement the Lords of the Admiralty have made through their secretary , the following "Deliverance : '— "My lords are disposed , generally , to approve of Commander Wingrove ' s conduct , hut upon the understanding thai the convict was not admitted to partake of his moals in the company and as tho guest of the commander , although he may have had his meals to the commander ' s <; abin . "
  
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  Exeter , March 23 . Thb Robbery of the Mail Trains on the Great Western Railway . Henry Poole and Edward Nightingale vere severally indicted for stealing , in the parish of St . David ' s in tho city of Exeter , on the 2 nd of January last , twelve post letters from a mail , the property of the Postmaster-General . Mr . Rogers , Q . G ., and Mr . Poulden were counsel for the prosecution , instructed by Mr . Peacock , the solicitor to the postoffice . Mr . Coekburn , Q . C ., : Mi \ Stone , and Mi * . Slade conducted the caso of the prisoners . Mr . Rogers having stated th « case called the following witnesses .
  
  Thomas Winsor Berry . —I am a clerk in the branch banks office in the Bank of England . 1 posted the packet produced at the Lombard-street post-office on the 1 st of January . It is directed "Robert Morris , Esq ., Bank of England Branch , Plymouth . " It contains the probate of a will . I had the packet registered , and I produce the receipt . Robert Fowler Pitt . —I am a clerk in the Lombard-street branch of the General Post-office . I gave the receipt for the parcel posted by the last witness ; the usual course , then , is for the messen « ger to take the parcel to the senior clerk to be registered , and despatched to the chief office , St . Martin ' s-le-Qrand . Edward Jambb Smith . —I am also a clerk in the Lombard-street post-office . On the 1 st of January I registered a letter directed to Mr . Morris , Plymouth . On that evening I despatched the letters . and . a latter hill nf the l'ficistm'fid lottera . Thin is ¦ ¦ Tf Klri
  
  MBK HB M ^ ^ P W W ^ B > W H ^^ ^ r H V » " ^ v ^ ^ p J ^ S ^^ ^^ ^ ^ » * ¦ ^ IV ¦ ^ BP M » M the letter bill despatched that night . Martin Dexter . —I am a messenger in the General Post-office . On the evening of the 1 st of January I opened the Lombard-street bag , and having stamped these letters with an obliterating stamp No . 21 , I handed thom to tho senior clerk on duty . Cross-examined : The No . 21 stamp is used for oblitorating the registered letters only . Mr . Morris ' s letter stamp is obliterated with that number ; and I am , therefore , enabled to say that at some time or other , that letter passed through my hands . William James Plant . —I am a clerk in tho Inland-office of the General Post-office . The packet produced passed through my hands . I checked it with Mr . Adams , the senior clerk , on the evening of the 1 st of January . Mr . Adams directed the green cover , and I then did it up . and passed it to Mr . Moule . On that evening we had eighty registered letters , which passed through my hands in the ? anie
  
  way . James Moule . —I am also a clerk in the Inlandoffice ; I received tho letter from the last witness , and took it to the clerk of the Devonporfc-road with others , and obtained his signature . John Fleming . —I am in the employ of Messrs . Matheson and Brogden , jewellers ; Henrietta-street , Covent-garden . The packet produced is directed in Mr . Brogden ' B hand-writing to Mr . J . A : Page , jeweller , George-street , Plymouth . I took it on'the 1 st of January tothe Charing-cross Post-office , had it registered , paid for it , and obtained this receipt . This letter was traced the in the same way . Letters from Monsieur Julhen , in Regent-street , to Mr . Wallis , Park-street , Plymouth ; from Steriker ,
  
  teadealers , London , to Mr . W . W . Snell , 3 , Octagon , Plymouth from Lacklind , M'Leod , and Co ., shipbrokers / to Captain Mihnan , of the Sir George Seymour , care of J . B . Wilcocks , Plymouth ; from Mr . Derham , cutler , New Oxford-street to C . Holder , Esq ., Maradon , near PlymoutE ; from the Provident Life Institution to the manager of the Devon and Cornwall Bank ; and other letters were all proved to have been posted in the usual way , on tho 1 st of January . Mr . James Coiusaos , clerk of the Devonportroad , proved his receiving the registered letters , signing the initials , p * laoing them in the bag , seeing the bags sealed and delivered to a porter to put in the accelerator . The whole of the letters produced passed through the Inland-office , as appeared by the
  
  obliterating stamp having been used . M . Street , a letter carrier , proved that the guards received the Plymouth bag , which witness took from Mr . Collinson in the usual -way . Letters which were in the Truro bag were proved in the same way . Lelard Barrett . —I am a mail guard of the Devonport-road . I accompany the mail from Padding ton to Laira , two miles from Plymouth . I received the bags from the General Post-office on the evening of the let of January . They are p laced in a carriage called the accelerator , and I ride with the driver to the Paddington terminus . Tho bags are there taken out and carried by three porters , appointed by the Great Western Railway Company ,
  
  to the Post-office tender . I saw them so taken that evening . One door of the tender is fastened up by screws , tho after doors on the near side starting from Paddington . On the oft' side two doors can be opened , but only one © n the near side . The guard of the Gloucester mail travels with me in tho tender as far as Swindon . The train left about nine o ' clock , the usual time , that night . I travelled inside the mail tender from Paddington to Bristol . I separated the bags for Bristol and Exeter from those for Truro , Devonport , and places below Exeter . At Bristol , I delivered the bag to the porter as usual , and received the bags for Exeter and Taunton from him , which I placed in the tender . I then locked the door , in which is the window , and
  
  went into the travelling Post-office—a separate carriage , lighted up with four lamps in the roof , and one to seal with , and used for sorting letters . The tender carriage is much larger than the travelling post-office carriage . It is part of my duty to assist the two clerks , Mr . Silk and Mr . Birchell , in sortr ing letters in the travelling post-office . There is no travelling post-office between London and Bristol ; it comes up from Exeter , and goes back the same night . On entering the carriage the clerks told me the bags of the up-mail had been opened and robbed . I , in consequence , returned to the tender , and found the bags m the same state as I had left them . 1 had placed the Exeter and Falmouth sack , the Fahnouth and Truro sack , and
  
  the bag called the Fahnouth agent , against the farthest oft-side door . The sacks I wanted to open between Exeter and Plymouth were on the opposite side . I observed that the strap which I had stuffed in to prevent the after oft-side window from rattling was in the same position , and I then locked the door , and returned to the travelling post-office . The word was given to go on as I was getting into the carriage , and within , two or three minutes we were put back to the points where the Exeter line branches off . In two or three minutes the engine was changed , and the carriage was drawn on to the express shed . In about another tiro minutes , having taken up the passengers , the train started . I had previously looked out at intervals two or t times wnust the
  
  nrce tender and carnage , were being put on the Exeter line , to see that no one was on the post-office tender . We are allowed an hour and ten minutes between Bristol and Bridge water , and we do not stop between . That is the longest run in the journey . The next longest interval is between Bridgewator and Taunton , which is run in twenty-five minutes . Before the train stopped I looked out of the window , and as soon as it came up to the platform , I jumped out and unlocked the post-office tender . I then perceived that all the bags had been displaced . The Plymouth bag had been shifted from the right hand side to the left . I saw that the Plymouth bag had been cut open and tied up by a different * ring to that used by the Post-office . I returned and fwrfl infnvm : iti ' nn tn -w W
  
  - — - - - - — vv .. _ «_ f ^ * j *«**» vA " ™ » V Mr , Birchell . He came to the door of the tender and looked in . Mr . Silk then came and entered and looked at the Plymouth bag . I requested Mr . Silk to take charge of the tender . I then proceeded to thcnrst-class carriage , of which there was but one , and it was situated immediately behind tho mail tender . That carriage had four compartments , the two middle being divided with doors , windows , and blinds . The first and last compartments are open . I told Rhcinhart and Thomas what had occurred , and I directed them to suffer no one to come out of the first-class carriage . I then went behind the train , and directed the porter to stand on the line and watch the carriage on that side . I then told Mr . Jones , the superintendent , and requested him
  
  him to give an order to have all the passengers searched . He was not up . I returned to the platform , and waij told no one had left . I communicated to Mr . He » nett , the railway contractor , and Mr . Barlow , one of the directors , who were in the second compartment . Mr . Bavlow came out and directed Rheinhart to go and see the tickets . I went back to the Post-offioe tender , and found that seven bags had been broken open . They had all been tied and sealed when delivered to me . I found them tied but not sealed , having been broken open I again returned to the platform . Mr . Silk gaye me a piece of string , which I produce . I went to tho first-class carriage to have the passengers searched . I then entered the third compartment , and in the division next the platform I saw two men , who turned out to be the prisoners , Nightingale waf drcHsed as he is now , but Pool had on a cloak , a Jim hatwith
  
  -Crow , a handkerchief to his faee I had known him as a guard for about four or five rears , but-1 did not recognise him then he lav curled up in the corner , with his legs on the opposite side . I requested to be allowed to pass , and they let me . I found Mr . Andrews , whom I ha known before , a solicitor of Modbury , in the inner compartment I told him of tho robbery , and said I wished to have all the first-class passengers searched . Mr Andrews opened his coat S oEd tobc searched saying Ms luggage wasunderthe opposite scat . Mr Bleinbart " then SZ in and SiidltS \ , ' , utIsaid Iknewliim , went intnfhIT > , th division > Nightingale 3 mv a ? ° ther Slde with Rheinhart , myself , andI Mr . Andrews . coming into the division with t £ «™ . rt " beckooe ( 1 out of tho carriage uv rt , n £ >\\ Secoml raib 7 a y g « M wh ° told me h ' e thought the man was P « Jsu Peole had previouslv
  
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  attempted to get up . I thought he was about to leave , ro I pulled him by the cloak , and said I do not wish you to leave the carriage . Thomas told Mr . Barlow the same , and Mr . ° Barlow came to thecarmgeand called Poole three times by name . He took no notice . Mr . Barlow shook him bv the hat but . he made no reply . Mr . Barlow then took off his hat , and said , "Ah , Poole , you are very sleepy to-night . " Poole made no reply , but wiped lis face and sat up . I again asked Air . Barlow to have the carriage thoroughly searched . Mr . Barlow recommended that persons should be placed in the carriage with the prisoners and go on to Exeter as they were Exeter pnssengerg , in consequence , Mr . iur
  
  Anurcws , anu . uiubons , the Plymouth supcrinten ^ P ° )> ce , rode with Poole and Rheinhart , and Williams , the jpoliceman , rode with Nichtineale ! I rode to Exeter in the travelling poat-office As soon as the train arrived , I requested Mr , Barlow not to have them taken out until I had started my bags . I found that they had been taken into the waiting room . I saw Williams come in and say " Here it is , " producing a . parcel of letters . Poole said , "Why was it not found at Brid guwaterwhere is the policeman ? " Mr . Andrews remained in the carriage . I received a piece of string from Williams at Bridgcwater , with a piece of scaling wax attached . 1 saw a piece of string fall from .
  
  Poole ' s cloak , m the waiting room at Exetor , which I also produce . I received another piece of string from Williams at Exeter . I stated at one timo that I thought Poole worked the mail train for some time , but I do not think he did . He was constantlypassing uj > and down by pass , so that I did not know whether he was working or not . I have seen him frequently travelling by the mail train . Since Poole left the company ' s service , and before tho robbery , an alteration was made in lighting the post-office tender . Formerly a candle could be lit from the lamp , but now the lamps are the same as in the other carriages . It is impossible to get from the second class carriage to the post-office tendor ,
  
  because the distanco is too far , but it is quite possible to get from the first-class carriage to the post-offioe tender . I myself have done it by walking along the plank on the bottom step , getting on the chains of tho butters and across to the other side , bv holding by the ledge of the tender , I got in through , the window , and of course Poole , who is a much thinner man , could have dono the same . I found at Bridgewater that the window-strap , which I usually stuffed in to prevent its rattling , was hanging down . It mi g ht have Wen knocked down by the motion , but it never had before , and it has peen so placed , I may say , for years . —Cross-examined We arrived at the Bristol station at ten minutes
  
  past one . The train was not more than two minutes at the express shed . I think it startsd at 1 . 28 ; the proper time is 1 . 25 . There was a gentleman in the first compartment whom I did not know . I have not seen him since . I believe Mr . Barlow searched him . Ni g htingale was partly searched at Bridgewater . ; his coat was . searched and his hat looked into . I was guard on the line when the prisoner Poole was . Before the introduction of tho travelling post-office the guard always rode in the tender . The travelling post-offiee has been running aboufe a year and a half . This is not the first time I have mentioned that I saw a piece of string fall from Poole ' s cloak . I have mentioned it to several
  
  people . I think I mentioned it before the magistrates , The tender has two doors on cacli yiile , which are locked , I hare steps on both sides . There is not a window in each door , but on / y one each side . On the off-side the window is nearest the first-class carriage , and it was at that window that the strap was pushed in . The window on the near side is furthest from the first-class carriage . The buffer of the tender is thirteen inches , and the buffer of the carriage is twenty-six or twenty-sevea inohes long . I did not try the experiment of passing from the carriage to the mail tender whilst the train was in motion . I should not bo afraid to do it . I see no difficulty in it . My opinion is that
  
  the person , whoever it was who got in , went across the buffers from the near side to the off ' side and in at the window , the same way as I went . It is impossiblo to' pass from oho door of the mail tender to the other on tbe same side , the span is too great . I steppedfrom one buffer to the centre connecting bar , and from the- bar to the other buffer , and it can be done with ease . We nrmed at Exeter at 4 k . 25 min ., nnd left at 5 h . 30 min . Re-examined : There are two handles outside the mail tender , and they assist in getting to the door . —By tho Jud < je : The robbery I hwird of at Bristol , was of a different train . Joskph Rheinhakt : I am a guard of the Great
  
  Western Railway . I was principal guard on the 1 st of January of the mail train . At Bristol , « t the express shed , I let in a gentleman into the first compartment next the mail tender for Luira . The two prisoners were going into that compartment , but when they saw the gentleman was before them they would not go in . I coniplained of their detaining the train , and put them into the third compartment ; of the same carriage . A gentleman from London was there , Mr-. Andrews , of Motlbury , and one o £ prisoners passed through the division where Mr . Andrews was sitting , into the other division , but I did not see if the other prisoner followed him , because , as soon as he was put inside , I shut tho door and the train started . At Bridgewator 1 was
  
  informed of the robbery . A passenger in the compartment into which the two men had gone , asked me what was the matter ? I said there was something the matter with tho mails . The window was shut up , and I heard some conversation in a lowtone of voice . I went to take the tickets , and found in the pocket of that compartment some crape . I said what is this ? but nobody claimed it , and I put it in my pocket . I picked up a piece of string , which I gave to Mr . Gibbons . Afterwards , hearing that Poolo was in the train , I went back and lifted up Poole ' s hat , and said , ' Holloa , Toole , is it you ?" Poole said , "Ah , Mr . Rheinhart , how are you ?" Finding that I could not properly search
  
  Xightingale , I did not attempt it with Poole , but went oa to Exeter . I found in the pocket of the division door , the side nearest where the prisoners were sitting , a whole candle . I rode in the same carriage to Exeter , The divisional door was open , Gibbons Baid to Nightingale , " I think I know your face ; I have seen you before . " Nightingale said , " I am a respectable man . I have twenty to thirty men to look after . " Poole said that w ; is true enough . I asked Poole what train he went up by . He said by the third-class train . I asked if it was by Mr . Clarke ' s train , and he said yes . 1 saw l ' ooie fumbling about . I put my hand into the pocket of the cloak and took out a pocket-book , which I
  
  handed to Gibbons , as I was holding up the window with one hand , to prevent anything being thrown out . I asked if his friend went ud to Bristol with him , and if lie knew him , and he said no , lie never saw him before . Nightingale said to Poole , " Oh , I know you . I saw you two or three days ago , aiid I knew you twelve " months ago . " I asked Poole why he came back by the first class , when lie wer . fc up by tho third class , and why he wasmutiied up so , and he uaid on account of his having a bad cold . Gibbons asked me if these men were to consto themselves in custody . I said " Yes . " Gibbons turned to them , and said they must consider themselves in custody on suspicion of having robbed the
  
  mail bags . Poole said h « always thought tho guard travelled in tho mail with tho bags . 1 said 1 wondered he pretended to be so innocent , when he must lave known how the mails were worked . He s-iid he never worked the mails ; he had only kvn as passenger once or twice . I said life had been « o long in the servien that it must have come to his turn to work the mail on a Sunday . He said ho had worked it once or twice . At Exeter I took the prisoners to the waiting-room , and was present when the letters were brought in by Williams . I took sonio pieces of sealing-wax from the pockets of Poole ' s coat . —Cross-examined by Mr . Stone . While tho train was being pushed back at the Bristol station
  
  he walked over from one p latform to the other , no did not know how many second-class passenger 5 there were . Tho train was about five minutes law on starting from Bristol . He did not go into & house , or to take coffee , during the stay of the train at Bristol . Ho noticed Mr . Andrews * in the oo »> partment all the way to London . He heard of hi " robbery immediately on his arrival at Brid ^ 'owatcr . He did not see any one get out of the secon < l-c' : IS * carriages . Nothing was done by him fo prerw " them getting out . He did not search the [ ioeW in Mr . Andrews' carriage . In fact , he did not iu . i * any accurato search of the carriages at all . iie found nothing in Poole's pocket but a p iece ot ' Kiu ' sage . ( Loud laughter . ) Mr . J . Axdrews , solicitor , Modbury , said he ™~ a passenger by the mail train on the evening of ' ?;
  
  1 st-of January . He was alone in the carving" "i * Bristol ; two men came in at that station , and F > Bed through his division of the carriage iut ol '» next . Thoy dragged a piece of string or cow v \ . them , and it was shut in by tho divisional door . ^ broke it off and threw it on the floor . At iSvwfi , water the train stopped an unusually long » mc > * . a guard came in to soe llie tickets , and ehort ly » u , wards another guard came in and asked witip „ name , and where he was going . —Cross-ex amine" Mr . Cockiiurn : He did not get out at Ta "'' VLjn at uny of the intermediate stations whore tlie ' )«« stopped . TIid police did not attempt to « £ ^ any surveillance over him . —Lord Desman l l 5 witness : Excuse me the question I am S 01 I ) S , | lC r * to you , Mr . Andrews . Did you put the Icttei * \ ^ which wero found under the seat ?— Wk uC : ¦ . ¦ j , c my lord , I did not . ( Loud laughter , in wl » . c » bench and bar joined . i I'ml-William Chacg , foreman of the porters M ^ dington station , said he had got from a '"' . ^ -jid carriage to tho mail-truck and back again . " ^ train was still , hut . it could be done very _„ , „? ,
  
  the train was in motion , if a person « a « "; ^ r He had once clambered over the root ot w < - , j fl d and had got into it with his legs foremo st , •« got out of it with his head foremost . . v for Mr . Cockmus proceeded to address tbe j" ^ . j the defence . There was no denying , he s . t < v - ^ case of suspicion had been made out * yi
  
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  Srothmtr . Remarkable Adventure . —A few days ago , says the Glasgow Poet , Hector Macalister , while out on the Arran Hills looking- after his sheep , as was his wont , about six miles from home , or any other habitation , his two collie dogs ( wh p were his daily companions ) , started a rabbit , which ran under a large block of granite . Thinking he saw the animal , he thrust his arm under the stone , expecting to catch it , but instead of doing so , he must have removed some of the supports of the block , which instantly camo down on his arm , holding him as fast as if he had been in a vice . The pain he endured was great , but the pangs he suffered when he thought of his home , and tho death he seemed doomed to die , were much greater . In this position he lay from ten in the morning until four in the afternoon , when finding that all his efforts to
  
  extricate himself were unavailing , he tried several times , without effect , to get his knife out of his pocket , to cut off his arm . His only chance now was to endeavour to send home his dogs , with the view of alarming his friends . After much difficulty ( as the creatures were most unwilling to leave him ) he at length succeeded in this ; and Mrs . Macalister , seeing them returning alone , took the alarm , and speedily collecting the neighbours , went in search of her husband , led on by his faithful collies . When they came to the spot poor Macalister was in a very exhausted state , and was quite voiceless with crying for assistance . Suffice it to say , that it required the utmost exertions of five strong men to move the block to extricate the arm , which was dreadfully bruised , but after being conveyed home and having medical treatment , it is hoped he may yet recover the use of his limb .
  
  Edinburgh , March 27 . —Cholera has disappeared in Edinburgh and Glasgow , but has commenced in Campbelton , near Fort George , under circumstances which strengthen the theory of contagion . The clothes of a woman who had died of disease in Glasgow were sent in a box to Campbelton , on being taken out and washed , two men , a father and sou , who were at hand when the process was going on , became ill and died , both having exhibited the customary cholera symptoms .
  
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  Ireland Dublin , March 24 . — Cattle Stealing and Destitution . — The provincial journals daily bring accounts of the continuance of this system of plunder . At the various assize courts , great numbers of prisoners have been tried for this offence , and in most cases it appeared that they were in a state of utter destitution . In some instances the wretched beings expressed gratitude to the judges , on their being sentenced to transportation . Ixcendiaihsm in Louth . — The Nctvn / Examiner contains the following : — "We are sorry to observe that Ireland ' s hitherto most peaceable county has lately become the theatre of crimes gratuitous and revolting . On the night of Tuesday last , at Cortial , in the barony of Loutb , a haggara belonging to a person named Coleman , and a house
  
  belonging to another named Burns , were set on fire by some malicious persons . When the haggard and house had been consumed , it was discovered by some parties in the neighbourhood that three horses , two belonging to Burns and one to Coleman , had had their throats cut in a most brutal manner . One of the horses ( the property of Burns ) was quite dead , and on the other two the cuts had not been so deeply inflicted as was intended . They were immediately conveyed to Mr . Eyan's veterinary establishment , where , under his judicious treatment , they have since partially recovered . " Within the last eighteen months eleven poor law inspectors and vice-guardians have died from fevers contracted in the discharge of their perilous duties . Amongst the number was Major Fitzgerald , inspector at Sligo , the eldest son of the late Kni ght of Kerry .
  
  assize intelligence . Londonderry . —Trial of Captain Johnson and the Mates of tjie Londonderry Steamer . —On Wednesday , the 21 st , Alex . Johnson , Richard Hughes , and Xinian Crawford , were given in charge to the jury , for that they , on tho 1 st of December , did , on the high seas in the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of Ireland , assault ono Hannah Brennan and others , and had caused her death , by placing her and others in a place on board tho Londonderry steamer , where they had not a sufficiency of air to preserve life ; and that while there , the said traversers neglected to pay her and others proper attention , and had thereby caused the death of tho said Hannah Brennan . —Several witnesses for the prosecution were examined , who deposed to facts similar to those sworn to at theinquest . —The court then adjourned
  
  to next day ( Thursday ) , when some of the seamen and firemen employed on board of tho Londonderry at the time of the melanchol y catastrophe were examined for the defence , after which Judge TorrenB eharged the jury , who retired for about three-quarters of an hour , and returned with a verdict of " Aot guilty . ' —A conversation then took place between the counsel for the defence and Judge TorrenB , which had been called forth by scvei'afWmorials addressed to the judge from parties who sought to get their passage money , which they stated thev had lost , to enable them to go to America . The Judge said that the representative of the Crown solicitor , Mr . M'Mahon , had kindly consented to inquire into the memorials , and to communicate with the Glasgow Steam-packet Company on the Bubject . This important trial terminated the
  
  assizes . ^ At Kilkenny , on Thursday , the 22 nd , a James Malone , who had been found guilty of making an attack on the Kilmacow Police Barrack , waB sentenced to be transported for seven years . [ The sentence was subsequently commuted to imprisonment for two years . ] County Kildare . —At Maryborough on Thursdav 22 nd five young females ; varying from fifteer . to eighteen years , who were guilty of the crime of arson , were ranged in the front : of the dock to receive BM . te . cfc-J . Hl g * Dohertr addressed them thns :-EstherLalor , you plead guilty of the great crime of arson . You : nave , set fire to a house and a stack . of barley , belonging to James Nolan ; Catherine Man , you -plead « & , ot buhin * * BtoblJ ! l longing to James Morris ; Eliza GuUfoyle " you
  
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