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      £ f ) e iHetropoli ^ . Mortality is the Metropolis . —It is shown by the present return that the public health improves with the progress of the early months , and that the mort . ility has now fallen to the rale that prevailed in tlit month of October . Tho deaths in the week were 394 , being thirty-one more than the weekly average of five springs , if allowance be made , in estimating the average , for increase of population , which in females was in ten years ( 1631—41 ) 1 ' 551 per cent , annually . In the registration returns the spring quarter is reckoned from the 1 st of April ; and as the rate of mortality falls with the advance of the season , the return of last week is more favourable as compared with the averse than at first sight annrars . Tim < Wths from the zviiiotis ; or epidemic _ . '

      class of disease were 221 ; the average is 19 S ji those from affections of the respiratory organs 20 > -a considerable excess above the average , which is 161 , but .-raemented by the circumstance au-eady mentioned . " The deaths from hooping-cough , bronchitis , pneuir . oma . werefifty-four . seventy-niue . anUeightyscvej : ; the respective averages being , thirty-si . \ , thim-seven , and skty-one . Consumption exhibits almt / st as nearly as possible the usual amount of fataHtv . Deaths from small-pox are still unusually few - those from measles are on the increase . The mortality from scarlatina and typhus is near the nverajre ; the asrgregate from diarrhoea , dysentery , and ciiolera , it fs satisfactory to observe , can hardly be ss ' vl to be more ihan usual at ihis iime . Only

      five persona died of cholera . A woman in Wmtechapel died , according to medical certificate , of "intemperate habits , and disease of the heart . " According to similar authority' , a nian of I vventy-throe years , ^ died in the sub-district of St . John the Evangelist , Westminster , of " convulsions ( ten days ) caused by being exposed to the deleterious effects of tobacco , in his occupation at a cigar manufactory . " The mean height of the barometer was 2 JH 6 S in . on Tuesday , the inchest recorded in the week . The temperature of the air was highest on Friday , when it w : * -39 deg . 5 min . The moan daily temperature was highest on the same day , and was 44 ) deg . 1 rain . The main temperature of the week was 45 deg . 7 m . Fatal Cases of Cholera registered in the week cndiiur Saturday , April 7 . —One is a case in which an in-Tuest was held , the others are certified by medical attendants . Kensington . —Town : F . 28 , " maiignant cholera , and not injuries by -violence alleged to havo been done to her . " —Inquest . St .

      ilARTix-ix-inK-FiELDS . —Charing Cross : F . 3 S , " cholera spasmodica ( 10 hours ) . " Mr . Leonard , the registrar , states that " The deceased was reported as a charwoman , but in fact was an unfortunate female of intemperate habits , brought to the workhouse at six o'clock p . m . on the 7 th instant in a state of collapse . The house-surgeon and assistant gave immediate attendance , and at half-past nine the district-surgeon' also . Death occurred at ten p . m . On the morning of Easter Sunday the district officer of health visited the house , > ' o . 5 , Hanovercourt , Long-acre , and reported it to be a ' house of accommodation . * la a small yard about 4 feet by 10 feet is a deep cesspool , not sufficiently protected , and very offensive . The under part of the house receives the dust and refuse ; and the drain-water from iix small yard runs in a pipe into the cellar , and is cnught in a tub or butt . The rooms , which are two on a floor , are cleanly kept . The two officers of health visited this house on August 26 of last

      year ; and from notes then taken I find , that over a surface of about 6 , 480 square feet there is no surface drainage , or very insufficient ; that the cesspool of fch « abovvs house had been emptied about tho 17 th July of ihe same year , and that there appeared to be no < Ir : iin . The ' next house has also arrangements of the very worst description . " St . Paxcras . — Camden Town : M . 34 , "Asiatic cholera , active symptoms ( 18 hours ); continued fever ( 3 days ) . " Dr . liartii , medical attendant , states that " all the

      symptuius of Asiatic cholera were well marked m the pativnt , except cramps , which were very partial , and restricted to the upper extremities . Lips and face him- and collapse , diarrhoea , rice-water . Transfusion of thirty ounces of blood was tried while in collapse , which rallied him for a day , but he died three days afterwards of continued fever . " Greenwich . —Woolwich Arsenal : In Royal Ordnance Hospital , M . 23 , " debility ( 20 days ); cholera biliosa <' l * hours ) . " Greenwich West : In Dreadnought Hospital , M . 14 , " cholera . " P . m .

      inquests . Mtstthious Death of as Inmate of the Trinitt Almk »!;< -s 5 . —On Saturday last before Mr . Baker , at the Ear ! Grey public-house , Milc-end-rcad , on Thomas Davis , aged 72 years . It appeared that the deceased was formerly a pilot , and had been for sereral yrore past an inmate of the Trinity Almshouses in the Mile-end-road . On the previous Wednesdar evening he was seen sitting in his room with three females , and he appeared perfectly sober . About an hour afterwards deceased was found lying with his head upon the top of the fire , and his body preseiiT ' .-J a most horrible appearance . —Mr . Jackson , the governor of the almaouscs . stated that the deceased had received Ms quarterly pension on

      Monday last , amounting to £ 7 Is ., and when his clothes were searched all his money was found to be missing . It was proved that the deceased was not subject to fits , but enjoyed tolerably good health . The wemen seen in his room had frequently visited him , and also the oilier pensioners . —Stephens , the constable , said hi- had made the most diligent inquiries respecting the females , but could not discover who they were . —The coroner said it was quite clear that a felony had been committed , and it -was probable that the females had placed the deceased in the position in which he was found , to screen themselves from discovery . The inquiry was adjourned . The inquest opened on Wednesday evening at the Earl Grey public-house , Mile-end-road , and the three women wore brought forward by Mr . Stephens ,

      the constable . Their names are Elizabeth Mary Ann Barnc-. E . Watson , and H . Calahan . . "Watson and Calahaii swore that Barnes put her hands into the posit ! « f the deceased , took out what w . is in it , Jind that t ! i * y then left . She then treated Watson and Calahai ! * i » a show , and told them she took 10 s . 6 d . from tin : •• id man , though she aftcrwavds said she only i . ook lOs . At the suggestion of Mr . Baker , who said he had nothing to do with the robbery , the jury returned an open verdict , " That the deceased died from mortal burns on the head , but how caused remains unknown . " The women Barnes and Watson were tb *; i taken into custody by Sergeant Brown , of the K division , to be tried before a magistrate for the robbf rv .

      Child Murder . —On Saturday last before Mr . Baker , at the Biack Ilorse , Kingsland-road , Shoreditch , on the body of a full grown female child , which was < ii 3 covered in the . Regent ' s Canal at Haggersto ; i- ! 'i-i ; lge , with its head nearly severed from the body . —A v «; ith named Shephard , residing in Tvsenstre ' et . iSethnal-grcen , proved finding the body about one o ' ckw . 'k on the previous Wednesday afternoon , floating iii the water of the canal , near Haggerstontedge . Oil Mag taken out of the water , an extensive- wound was found in the throat , evidently inflicts ! by some sharp instrument , and extending from <•; . )• in car . A second wound crossed the throat ,

      and penetrated the stomach . —Mr , Clark , surgeon , who had made a post mortem examination of the body , ii \* order of the coroner , suited that the deceased h : il arrived ! at the full period of gestation , and w : ; * . in his opinion , bom alive . The wound in the throat •¦ '« = inflicted during life , and was the immediate 1 .-VU - of death . The police have actively been ensragi ' -i in the case since the discover } ' of the body , butuj tv » be present time no clue whatever lias been 6 btr . ii . en \» the guilty parties . The jury returned a verdict . « . f ¦ s-ilfti ! inurder against some person or persons unknown .

      RrvrR-j . of Fortune . —On Saturday last , before Mr . ?»;• • : •' . at the King and Queen , Great Distafflane , iiociors ' -commons , on the body of Mr . William Alexander , aged oi , formerly a watch and clock maker i : i ravliameut-street , where he carried on an exteiisH > i business for twenty-two years . The deceased . i . appeared , became bankrupt three years ago , ai !? i -vis for a long time afterwards out of work , and in > hi greatest distress ; but at length he obtained u :-. , -iigagenient to regulate the clocks on the Chester ¦ ' .. ¦ ' . Holyhead Railway . Meeting with au accidonr :: the line a few months ago , he came to one of the [» ndon hospitals , from which he was discharged < ¦ •» Tuesday week . At this time he was utterly « K iUute , and his wife , who was living with a relail v . ' , Lad no home to take him to . In tills condifivn he- took a room at the King and ( Jueen , Great Di ta ; f-lane , and died there suddenly from the burst ? : > . ? - > f a vessel in the lungs . Verdict , " Natural DeaVi . "

      " Suit : iv 6 . —On Saturday last , before Mr . Carter , at the }!¦;!« Tavern , Broadway , Blackfriars , on the Body of Mrs . Sarah Smith , aged 41 , who destroyed herself under the following circumstances : —The decease-. ! w .-ts 6 aid to be the niece of a well-known baronet . tvA for fifteen months had lived at Mr . Borenwsi ' r , grocer , Blackfri . irs-road . On Thursday ffibrni : i £ , jis nis wife had not seen the deceased , she auggeiicj i sat he should go up to her room , which he *~ dR an i found the door locked , with the key ineide . Xut iiking to break own the door , he sent for her frwEiU , and an entrance was then made . Mr . Bpremajj found her suspended by a piece"of oM tape , hieh ir .-. s fastened to a part of her bedstead , and l » e appeared to have been dead for some Lours .

      There sinned no doubt it was the deceased ' s own act , a ; - 'J *"¦ ::: t she was under the apprehension that she shouio die of starvation in a workhouse . She , howfevoi' , r-ocmed to have plenty of work to do , not for the i-- ; rpose of earning money , but to employ her mbii . The jury returned a verdict , " That the doeeavvJ destroyed herself in a fit of monomania . " Mondat .-Pestitutios . —Before Mr . Payne , at t 5 ie Giltr-iw-Etreet Compter , on the body of Ellen Criimain , -igcd 21 , a prisoner . It appeared from &eeri « Io ! :-vV of Ellen Sullivan , a fellow prisoner , fhat ilivv had botb . come over from Ireland a few TriM * ? s ; iw , in tho expectation of obtaining situations in London , but , failing in doing to , they had for tV- u--i fortnight been in a starving siat . ° , slceprh at nk -vs on the steps of doors . On the 20 th

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      ult . thev made application to the relievm"' officer of the Citv of London Union for relief , andlie offered to send them to Peckham poorhouse , provided taov would afterwards submit to be passed to Ireland . To this they objected , and on leaving they comnutted the act for which the Lord ^ r ^ nl * J m £ SS ^ SSpfe SSr stssSW- ^ e " r S : Sffi K : 2 » 7 fr * never rallied , and died on Saturday last . Terdict , " Natural Death . " _ . ,, „ , Bilker

      Scicide or jw Old L *» y . -Bafon > Mp . at the Old Basing House , Kingsland-road , on the body of Susannah Benson , aged 6 G years . It appeared that the deceased was the widow of Mr . John Benson , a horse hair manufacturer , who died suddenly some years since , leaving the deceased an annuity sufficient to maintain her until she was seventy years of age . The deceased enjoyed tolerably good health until within the last three weeks , when she appeared very low and desponding , and OOnipkinod that her money would not last till she was dead . She w . i 3 last seen alive on Thursday evening , when she appeared much distressed in her mind , and said " she thought she would die that night . " On the following morning she was found by Mr . T . Guest , the landlord of the Old Basing House , suspended by a black crape handkerchief from a rail of her bedstead . 'She was quite dead , and had apparcntly been so some hours . Terdict , " Temporary

      Insanitv . Deaths from Suffocati on-. —Last week we gave an aeeount of the deaths of three young women alleged to have died from the inhalation of the fumes of charcoal at Miss Caroline Mann ' s establishment for young ladies , Liburnia-house , No . 2 , Lomlonroad " , St . John's-wood , on the nigiit of Tuesday or morning of Wednesday . On Saturday Mr . Mills , the deputy-coroner for Middlesex , and a jury of fifteen inhabitants of the Christchurch district of Marylebone , assembled in the cofiee-room of the Eyre Arms , for the purpose of investigating the unhappy occurrence . Eliza Griffiths was 15 , Frances Carter 17 , and Eliza Prichett 23 . The facts of th casehavinfr been proved by several witnesses , who 3 e

      examination extended to a great length , the coroner summed up , merely observing that the unfortunate deceased persons appeared by the evidence to havo gone into the room in question of their . own froe will ; at least two were proved to have done so . None ot them had asked for better accommodation . He would , therefore , leave the matter in their hands , satisfied that the jury would come to a just and proper couclusion from the evidence before them . Strangers were then desired to withdraw for the jury to consider their verdict , and , after a lapse of nearly an hour , on the public being again admitted , the coroner said the jury had unanimously agreed to the following verdict - . —" That Elizabeth Pritchett ,

      Eliza Griffiths , and Frances Carter were found dead in a small and ill-ventilated room , and that their deaths were caused by the poisonous fumes of burning charcoal , which h * ad been sold at an extravagant price , under the fraudulent name of prepared fuel ; and that these attempts to vend charcoal under the name of prepared fuel to be used in Cannon's or any other such portable stoves , is a scandalous imposition on tho public . "The Coroner : Am I to understand you to say , gentlemen , that you attach no blame whatever to Miss Mann?—The Jury : Most decidedly so , Sir ; not the slightest . The inquiry occupied upwards of four hours .

      Wednesday . —SnicnjE of a Female bt Oxalic Acid . —Before Mr . Bedford , at the Bose and Crown , Knightsbridge , on the body of Mary Ann Taylor , a-ed 42 , who destroyed herself by taking poison . —Jfr . Brownlow , of Trevor-square , deposed that deceased entered his service as general servant on the loth of February last . Before engaging her he had understood from her brother , a tradesman in the city , that she was formerly a great drunkard but had reformed . She conducted herself very well for the first fortni g ht , but afterwards she was frequently the worse for liquor . On the Monday and Tuesday preceding her death she was so much in liquor as to be incapable of doing her duties , and on Wednesday morning he told her she must quit her situation on Saturday / last ) , addinsr that in lieu of a month ' s

      warning he should pay her a month's wages . On Thursday evening he returned home , when , ringing for deceased , and receiving no answer , he went to look after her , and in the watoi ' -closet found her crouched up on the floor quite dead . He had since found duplicates of property which she had pledged belonging to him , and in a cujboard in the kitchen was a stone pitcher containing gin . —Mr . W . Martyn , surgeon , said he was called in to see the deceased , who had been some time dead . There were no external marks of violence , but on making a post mortem examination , he found the death to have been caused by oxalic acid . —Verdict , " That the deceased died from the effects of oxalic acid , but how or by whom administered there was no evidence to show . "

      Destitution . —On Wednesday , before Mr . Payne , at Bridewell Prison , on the body of Mary Mahony , alias Quin , aged 30 years . It appeared from the evidence of Capt . Adams , the governor , that the deceased had been admitted twice for fourteen days , during the last six years , for breaking windows and qas lamps . She had only lately arrived from Ireland with a number of other emigrants , and , as might be expected , she was soon left destitute , and the only means of obtaining food was by being sent to prison . When the deceased was admitted the second time , she was very weak and feeble , and said she had scarcely anything to eat since she was discharged the first time . —Mr . Coote , the surgeon , said the deceased died on Tuesday morning from fever , produced by want and exposure . —A juror remarked that there were 1 , 200 Irish emigrants now supported in the West London Union . —The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical

      evidence . Scicide at Yadxitat ., l-briDge . —On Wednesday before Mr . Bedford , at the Feather ? , Dean-street , Westminster , on the body of E . Burford , a farrier , who committed suicide by jumping over Vauxhallbridge into the river . —John Puliinger , a Thames police inspector , stated on Thursday evening week last , about half-pa = t eight o ' clock , lie was in a galley passing under the second arch on the north side of Vauxhall-bridge , when some person on the bridge called out " a man has jumped over , " and at the same moment he heard a splash in the water . He rowed to the spot . whence the sound proceeded , and picked up a man ' s cap , after which ho caused the drags to be put into requisition , but without

      avail . —R . Stradford , a " dredgcrman , " proved finding the body of deceased on Sunday morning near the Horeeferry . —Elizabeth Burford stated that on the Thursday e ' vening in question , about halfpast seven o'clock , the deceased left home , saying that he was going to t-ake a little walk , and should not be long . She never saw him again ulive . The deceased had been fur eight weeks ill , and on the sick-fund of the " Old Friends" society . On the Thursday nicht he was apprehensive that his allowance would " bo discontinued , and he was consequently very low-spirited , saying that " he was not able to work , and that he did not know how his family would be supported . " The deceased never had threatened self-destruction—Terdict , " Found drowned . "

      Suicide of a Naval Suhoeo . v . —Before Mr . Iliggs , at the Spotted Dog , Strand-lane , on the body of Mr . John Acton , aged ' 30 , an assistant surgeon in the royal navy , lately resident at jN " o . 0 , Surrey-street , Strand . — * Jane Brooker , servant to Sirs . Douglas , oi G , Surrey-street , stated that the deceased had occupied apartments in that house for tho last four months . He had been in a very bad state of health for some time past , and for the last eight days bad not left his room . He appeared chieiiy to be suffering from lowuoss of spirits , groat nervousness , and had a very bad appetite . Lately he laboured under the delusion that all his friends had forsaken him . Dr . Johnson used formerly to attend him , but lately deceased had prescribed for himself . On Monday

      last he seemed exceedingly restless , and at twelve o'clock at night asked for writing materials , saying that he wanted to write home to his relations , but when they were brought he trembled so muchthat tie was unable to write . All night long he was heard pacing the room in a very exeitod state , yet no fears were entertained that lie would do himself any injury , and in the morning , finding he did not answer her knock at the door when she carried up Ms breakfast , she imagined he had fallen into a sound sleep after his night ' s fatigue . However , at eleven o ' clock , receiving still no answer , the door was forced open , and he was discovered hanging by a cord which he had taken otf one of his boxes to a hat peg by the side of the door . He was instantly cut down , and a surgeon sent for , who said he had been dead five or six hours . —Mrs . Douglas said she

      attributed the deceased ' s excited stare to the repeated disappointments he had met with in endeavouring to obtain promotion in iho rank of surgeon in the Royal Navy . He had been unsuccessful in his applications to the Admiralty . In some conversation she had had with him he told her that lie had been twice assistant-surgeon in ships stationed on the west coast of Africa , and that his health had much suffered from the climate . Dr . Bryson , of the Army and Navy Club , visited him on Monday last , and seeing the state of his health wished him to become a patient in the Woolwich Infirmary . Thu deceased , however , had the greatest objection to going to that institution . A card on which the following was written was found on his table : — " Forgive me my friends and avoid sin . "— -Verdict " Temporary Insanity . "

      Finz asd Probable Loss of LiFE . ' -On Tuesday evening considerable alarm was caused in Poolplace , Mount-pleasant , Clerkenwell , in consequence of a cry being raised that the first floor of the house numbering 2 in that place was on fire , and that a child about four years of age was burning therein . The parish engine and the Brigade firemen immediately started for the spot , when , to the surprise of

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      the neig hbours , the doors were barred against the admission of the firemen—the inmates of the house succeeding themselves in putting the flames out . The onl y information that could be learned was , that a bed and bedding was burned , and a child about four years of age was so frightfully burned , that its death was hourly expected . The premises , which were let out in tenements , were owned by a Mr . Sullivan , who was under an erroneous impression that if he allowed the firemen to enter he would have to pay for their attendance . The unfortunate child who was in the room when the outbreak occurred was removed to the Royal Free Hospital , where it expired from the effects of the burns during the night . Impudent Robbery , by Personating the Police .

      —On Monday evening , a robbery of a most impudent description was committed at the residence of Miss Ilarams , an aged maiden lady , 2 fo . 2 , Yorkrow , Kennington-road , and next door to Lambeth Police-court . Between the hours of eight and nine o'clock , a sharp double knock was heard at the front door , and , on tho servant going to answer i she found three men close to the entrance . The person next to the door , addressing hoi , said , " Wo belong to the police ; I ' m an inspector , and wo have come to apprehend some thieves who are on the promises , and who have got in the back way . " Tho servant , believing the man ' s statement , admitted him and his companions , and they at once closed the door after them . Miss Ilarams , and Miss Sargeant , her companion , were then at tea in the front

      parlour , and the latter , hearing the noise and voices outside , walked into the hall , when one of tho men , addressing her , said that there were thieves on the premises , that they had come there to protect them , and the best thing she ( Miss Sargcont ) could do was to remain quiet in tho parlour with tho other lady . Miss Sargeant acted upon this advice , and the moment she returned into the parlour , one of the fellows , who was armed with a bludgeon , closed the door and remained outside , while tho other two , having recommended the servant to go to the kitchen , and keep herself quiet till they called her , went up stall's . The fellows remained , in the house from fifteen to twenty minutes , and made their exit by the front door . Miss Sargeant soon after ventured out of the parlour , and sent the

      servant for Mr . Flowers , the medical attendant on Miss Harams , two doors off , and that gentleman on arriving and oeing informed of the circumstance , called in the police , when it was found that tho front room on the second floor , which has been used for years as a store-room for her property , by Miss Ilarams , was forced open , the drawers also forced open , anc it is feared property to a considerable extent carried away . Miss Ilarams had been unfortutatcly subject to fits , and such was the effect that the presence of the thieves and the robbery produced upon her , that she has not boon able to state the extent of her loss . Up to Tuesday evening Miss Eavams was not in a state of mind to give a description of the property stolen . The Cosvksx or Mbuct , Bermondset . — Taking

      the Teil . —On Tuesday the ceremony of the reception of a young lady into the order of the Sisters of Mercy took place in the chapel of the most Holy Trinity , Parker ' s-row , Bcrmondscy . The chape was thronged with fashionably-attired ladies , and several noble lords , members of the Catholic church , were also present . The postulant upon this occasion was a Miss Barry , the daughter of highly connected parents , who have only recently returned from India , after a lengthened sojourn . The young lady , who is said to possess a large lortune in her own ri g ht , devotes it all to the service of the order with which she has connected herself . The jweltminary services having been concluded , the postulant rose from her kneeling position , and retired with the superioress to change her secular dress for that of the order , tho choir cliauntinff tho psalm ,

      " In exitu Israel , " &c . Upon the return of the postulant there was a breathless eagerness on the part of the secular assembly to observe her countenance after exchanging the ball-room attire for the sombre habit of the Sisters of Mercy . The desire , however , was not gratified , for a large white veil enveloped the head . The celebrant proceeded with the ceremony of blessing the white veil , after which the superioress placed it over the head of the postulant , who then sang in a clear voice the psalm " Ernctavit cor mewnvcrbwn bonum , " to which the choir , accompanied by the organ , responded . Tho young ladv having now gone through all necessary to be received as a sister , embraced her religious companions , and the choir haying concluded the psalm , "Eccc quam bonum , " the sisterhood , preceded by the newly chosen , retired by slow measured steps to their retreat , and the ceremony concluded .

      The State Prisons and Sew Barracks at the Tower . —The celebrated Bcauchamp Tower , which has for a long period been used as a mess-house for the officers of the garrison , will shortly be thrown open to the public . The Bcaucbamp Tower was the prison-house of the unfortunate Lady Jane Grey , the Earl of Essex , Sir William Wallace , the hero of Scotland , and at one period containod two sovereigns as prisoners , viz ., James of Scotland and the King of France . This new and splendid barracks , which have been erected upon the site of the disastrous fire which took place some years ago , are now occupied by the men of the 2 nd battalion of the Coldstream Guards . The officers' quarters are not yet completed .

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      MURDER IN BLA . CKFRIARS-ROAD . On Monday morning the public thoroughfare of Blackfriars-road was the scene of an atrocious murder . Between three and four o ' clock the inhabifants were alarmed by hearing loud cries of murder from a female near to Rowland Hill ' s Chapel . The policemen on duty , Benjamin Homer , 109 M , and John Meek , 48 M , immediately ran in that direction , and on reaching the corner of Charlotte-street , they found the female whose cries bad attracted their attention , and two men , one of whom was lying on the ground . Upon seeing the policemen the woman

      called out , "This man has murdered my husband , at the same moment pointing to him . Homer immediately seized the man . Meek raised the other man from the ground , and he still exhibited some slight signs of life . Upon opening h s dress he was found to be stabbed to the heart , his under cloth- ' ng being saturated with blood . A cub was instantly ca led , and the wounded man placed in it , and conveyed to St . Thomas ' s Hospital ( as he still breathed ) , but before reaching it life was extinct . The murderer made no effort to escape , and was conveyed to the Soutbwark station-house .

      The deceased ' s name is Lambsill , a biscuit baker in the city , and his assassin is a potman , employed frequently at the Mitre Tavern , in Broadwall , Blackfriar . * . The murderous act was apparently the result of a quarrel , supposed to have originated in default of the payment ofa debt of 5 s . The name of the murderer is William Bailey , and he is well known in the neighbourhood as a desperate character . EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONER . On the same day , W . Bailey was brought before Mr . Cottingham , at the Southwark Police Court , charged with the murder of Henry Lambsill , by stabbing him threugh the heart with a penknife in the street .

      . Tohx Meek , a policeman of the M division , stated that about a quarter after two o'clock that morning , while on duty in the Blackfriars-road , he heard a woman call out muider . and exclaim that a man lmd been stabbed near Rowland Hill's Chapel . Observing some persons standing together at the corner of Chrvrlotte-street , near the iron railings which surround the chapel , lie hastened to the spoti and saw a man supported in another ' s arms , with his waistcoat unbuttoned , and the front of his shirt open , and blood trickling down his breast . He ( the policeman ) asked who it was that did it , but the wounded man , although he still breathed , was unable to answer him , and he was then informed that tho prisoner , who at

      the time was loaning against a lamp-post , was the person who committed the deed . Witoiess then went up to the prisoner , and asked him if he bad any weapon about him , flnd his reply was that he bad none ; but , when he examined his pockets , he discovered a penknife , with a long blade , open , in the breastpocket of his coat ; he also found another penknife in one of the prisoner ' s other coat pockets . ( Both of the knives were produced . ) Th * prisoner did not say anything at the time ; and , another policeman coming up , he took him into custody , while he Cwitness ) procured n cab , and conveyed the wound ? d man to St . Thomas's Hospital . When they arrived at the hospital , the man seemed to be quite dead .

      Mr . Cottingham examined the open knife which was found on the prisoner , and inquired if there was any blood upon it at the time ? The policeman said , that he did not notice any , but he believed not . M r . "Wilson , one of the dressers of St . Thomas ' s Hospital , stated < hs \ t when he was called into the surgery lie found the man quite dead on the floor , and , on examination , lie discovered a wound such as might be inflicted with the point of a knife , under his left breast . Thers was very little blood about the wound , and , although a post mortem examination hart not taken place , yet he was of opinion that the point of the instrument had penetrated the heart , and hid cansed death . Mr . Cottingham now inquired as to whether any persons were in attendance to describe the particulars as to the or . use ' of the murder .

      A woman named Mary Taylor came forward , and on being sworn she stated that she lived in Martinstreet , Lambeth , and that she was acquainted with the deceased ; that at the time mentioned that morning she was standing at the bar of tho Duke of York public-house in Blackfriars-road , ami saw the deceased , the prisoner , and four other men drinking together ; that same words took plac-3 between the prisoner and the deceased , after which they all kit the house . ' She ( witness ) was some distance in tl : e rear , and when the parties arrived at Rowland Hill ' s chapel , she observed tliut they all made a stop , a » d when she got uj ) to tbem she observed the dec-eased in a man ' s arms and bleeding from a wound in his breatt . She called " murder , " and went for a po-

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      liceman , to whom she gave information of what she had seen . GeoRGR Baiitj-ett stated that he was passing on the opposite side of Cliarlotte-strcet , and heard a woman exclaim , "That man ( pointing to the prisoner ) has stubbed my husband . " Witness immediately went to the spot , and saw the wounded man , and the prisoner standing at a little distance from him and witness sp 'kc to the latter , and mentioned to him that he must not stir until the policeman cam" up The prisoner said that he had no intention to go and that he should await tho result , and witness stood by him until the policeman came to the spot , searched him , and found the open penknife in tlie breast pecket of his coa " . _ James Parker and other witnesses gave similar testimony . . ' . . .. .. . .. ; nn , , An

      l ' oliceman 179 M stated that he had taken the prisoner to the station-houso , while Meek , the olher policeman , conveyed the deceased to the hospital . But on the way to the station-house the prisoner did not utter one word with regard to the charge , nor did he do so when before ilie inspector . Mr . Cottingham ( 'o the prisoner)—ion have heard the evidence . Do you wish to make any statement ? Although n < ne of the witnesses have proved that they saw the wound of which the unfortunate m ui died , inflicted , yet there is very little doubt th-it yours was the hand that did it . Tlie prisoner said that ? nl he had to say was , that he did not commit theoffence ; that he knew the man was stabbed , and that if his was the hand that did it , he would not have stood bis ground , bnt have made his escape , which he had plenty of opportunity to do if he liked . He added that lie always carried knives about him , and might iii his hurry have put one away

      open in his pocket . Mr . CoxriNGHAM said that it would be necesfary to have other witnesses io attendance , and for that purpose remanded the prisoner . TuKsnAA-. —William Bailey was brought before Mr . Cottingham for re-examination . The court was crowded duriug the investigation . Mr . Cottingham , addressing George Ilerriman , the man who on the previous day had exhibited a disinclination to give his evidence arising fi om being under the influence ofliquor , and who was committed in consequence at the time , asked him if he was willing to describe wliat he saw of the unfortunate transaction , for it was evident he must have witnessed much more than he was disposed to divulge , it having been stated by some of the other witnesses thn the murdered man had fallen into his arms when he was stabbed by his assailant .

      Hebriman was then sworn , and his evidence , which is of importance , was then taken . He proceeded to nanate the circumstances attending the origin of the . dispute between the prisoner and the deceased in the Duke of York public-house , in the Blackfriars-road . respecting the 5 s . which tie former lent to the latter , and afterwards wanted back . After they all left the above house , the prisoner and deceased walked together , and when they got to Surrey Chapel , all in a moment witness heard the deceased exclaim . " Bill , " ( meaning the prisoner )

      '' has s : abbed me . " Witness , who was near at hand , ran up , but before he got to the parties the deceased fell down on the pavement , and he immediately went and be held up his h-. 'ad , and having unbuttoned his waistcoat , anil tore op n his shirt , he observed that he had been wounded in the breast , over the heart , the blood from which was trickling down , and had saturated his shirt and flannel waistcoat . In reply to Mr . Cottinghsm , the witness said that no person » as near the deceased but the prisoner when the former exclaimed that he was stabbed : that after

      thwound was infiictod witness did not observe the prisoner with a knife , nor did he see him as if in the act of concealing the weapon with which the deceased was stabbed . The latter only uttered the exclamation and afterwards seemed unable to articulate , and his eyes were closed ; but he still breathed . Witness had known the deceased for a long period ; he vrns a patent biscuit-maker , and about 23 or 24 years of age . Did not see any blows given by either party previously to the deceased being wounded , and thought they were walkine together in amicable conversation until he heard the deceased ' s exclamation of being stabbed . Mr . Cottingham asked the prisoner , who leaned forward at the bar in a careless attitude , if he wished to i'Ut any questions to the witness ? Pkisoner . —No , Sir , I have nothing to ask him .

      Kliza Gibbons stated that on the morning in question she was reluming home in company with another woman , and passed the prisoner and deceased , who were walking side by side and laughing and joking with one another . Witness and her companion , however , had g"ne but a short distance in advance when she heard the cry of " Murder , " and on returning to the spot she saw the deceased in the arms of the last witness , bleeding from a wound in the breast . She also saw the prisoner stat . ding a little way off leaning again the lamp-post near the corner of Cha lotte-street .

      Mr . Cottinoham asked the prisoner if he harl any question to put to this witness ; but he replied in the negative , merel . v saying that he had no recollection of having seen her on tlie occ- 'Sion . Mr . Cottingham having inquired if there were any more witnesses than those examined on tlie previous day , and the answer being in the negative , t r > en addressed the prisoner on the serious nature of the offence with which he was chnrged , and informed him that it was quite optional with him whether he would nicikeany statement in reference to it or not , but that it was his duty to caution him at this stage of the proceedings that whatever he did say would be taken down , and used for or against him , as the ease might be . "Now , " added the magistrate , " after this necessary caution , y <> u are quite at liberty to make any statement you please . "

      Pkisonkk . —I hiiye nothing to say more than that the deceased and I were , always on the best of terms , that we were in the habit of having our meals at each other's houses , and I never had the least animosity against him . Mr . Cottikoham i You had better confine yourself to what passed between the deceased and you on the morning in question . Prisonkr . —We had-a slight disagreement about a little money transaction in the Duke of York , but when we left that house it was all over , and we walked together down the Blackfriars-road , towards Surrey Chapel . Mr , Cottingham —Now , he particular in your statement of what to « k place between you ?

      I ' msoNER . —As we walked along deceased exclaimed . " Oh , lam stabbed , " and he fell down on the pavement . I was surprised on hearing him , and had uo idea of such a thing . lam truly s . irry for what has happened to him . Mr . Cottingham . —Then you assert that you did not perpetrate the offence ? Prisoner . —I have no idea that I could be guilty of such an ac , particularly towards a man I was well acquainted with , and with whom I was always on the > est of terms .

      The dresser at St . Thomas ' s Hospital stated , that a x > ost mortem examination of the deceased ' s body had taken place since the preceding day , and he then proceeded to describe with minuteness the appearances of the wound , which was infliuted with a knife , such as the one found in the prisoner ' s possession when he was taken into custody . It was an oblique wound , the point if the weapon having entered the pleura , through the pericardium , and penetrated ihe right ventricle of the heart . Mr . Cottingham said , that he should commit the

      prisoner for the n . urder of the deceased , and , as the Central Criminal Court se-sions were now being held , his trial probably would take place in a few days . inE INQ . UEST . On Tuesday evening , Mr . Payne , the city coroner , held an inquest on the body of the deceased . The jury having been sworn , proceeded tt > view tlie body , and * having heard the evidence , as given above , returned a virdiet of "Wilful munier" against William Bailey . The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute .

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      "" iii " SSI ) * ' $ n > W ) ttf 0 » The Liverpool Murders . —On Saturday last an inquest was hc ! d on the body of Mary l ' arr another of the victims , but . nothing new transpired . There is every reason to believe that the prisoner ' s real name is not John Giecson "Wilson , but Owen Morris . A person named Sharps has deposed that he wrote ; i letter to the prisoner ' s father some time since at tho prisoner ' s request , in which tho prisoner spoke of himself as Owen Morris . The letter to the father was addressed " John Morris , blacksmith , Drcol , to the care of the Rev . Father ltyiin , P . P ., Ilathkeal , Limerick . " The prisoner speaks Irish with great fluency , which is what not an Englishman in a million can do . The prisoner himself states that he

      comes from Limerick . Ho frequently converses in the Irish language with an officer who acts as intcrjietror to tho Irish emigrants , and w !« lo is from time to time with him in hia cell . During one of these conversations , the prisoner said , " There is no doubt I committed the murders ; but I will not confess till I get under tlie drop . Tho old woman ( Mrs . Ilenrichson ) being gone , and tho servant being out of senses ( insensible ) : it the time , she can ' t say I committed the murders . " The prisoner has stated that he has many things to reveal ; but those he will not make public until lie is placed under the drop , when he will make known all . NonTnUMBKHLAXD . —HoBHERY BY HaH . WAT Cl / EUKB

      and Ijcket Collectors . —On Thursday week at the police court , Newcastle , John Hayes , a clerk , at the Newcastle station of the North Shields line ; Robert Bowie , a guard on the line ; Alexander Alexander , a ticket collector at Percy Main ; and Robert Codlhig , ticket collector at North Shields , were charged with conspiring to deihiud tlie York Newcastle , and Berwick Railway Company . Mr . Nowfcoii , of York , who appeared foi' the company , suiil tho prisoners "wtsre charged "with Veing in concert to defraud the company of money received for tickets . It was the duty of the ticket collector , on receiving tickets from passengers at thciv dona-

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      tion , to "ive them to the station clerk , and the clerk at each station should send them direct to York , where they were examined and compared with the money , as a check . It would be shown by the evidence that a number of the tickets issued at Newcastle for Percy Main and North Shields , instead of going in this way to York , had been sent to one of the clerks at Newcastle and re-issued , before being sent to York , so that money had only been received by the company for one issue , while two or more issues of the same tickets had taken place . 16 would be shown that there had been double issues from Newcastle , that the collcctoi-3 had been soon , after receiving tickets from passengers , to give them to a guard . Mr . Allport said the affair had come toliis ; + ^ „; -,. « t um to the clerk , and the clerk

      ( Mr . Allport ' s ) notice through . 1 person who examines tickets before the trains leave . Tickets were numbered consecutivel y , and that person had been surprised to find lower numbers issued at a later period in the day than in tho morning . On this being mentioned to the clerk , lie said that he WHS ill tho habit of dating some hundreds early in a morning , and putting them into a bowl ; and that , consequently , the lowest numbers , which wove put in first , came out last . Another person , however had been set to watch , and had detected that that was not the reason . The clerk had been searched , and tickets which had been issued by the ei ght and nine o ' clock trains were found upon him at a later

      period . These re-issues bad always taken place on the same day , so that there was nothing to excite suspicion at York . The tickets , on being received at York , were always destroyed ; they were never re-issued by the company . Evidence was given of the collector at Percy Main handing tickets to the guard . A policeman deposed to having found upon the guard £ 33 in gold , and at his house a large quantity of silver , making £ 411 in all ; and £ 50 in gold was found upon the Percy Main collector . Tlie magistrates remanded the prisoners . Mr . Stoker a 2 > plied to have some of ihe mouev given to the prisoners to prepare for their defence , but the beneli refused the application .

      The Palace of Joiuv O'Gauxt , in Lincoln , has boon sold by auction , and it is ropor-tod that tho building is to be pulled down and the materials sold . It was at one of the windows of this guildhall that Lord Hussey was beheaded for taking part in tho rebellion against the Reformation ; and the citizens are reputed to have so far favoured tlie Catholic movement , which brought several to the block and the axe , as to resist as a presumptuous innovation the injunction that the church services should be read in a language they could understand ! Tho doomed palace is generally considered to have been built by John O'Gaunt for the summer residence of Katherine Swinfonl , the sister of Chaucer , the poet . The remains of this lady are interred in the cathedral , near those of Henry of Huntingdon , the historian .

      SiSQVh&n Fatality . —The family of Mary Ann Stnight , " the pooi girl fov whose murder Pulley suffered the last penalty of the law , lately at Worcester taol , lias been almost destroyed by fatalities . Sarah 'taight , the mother of the girl , was tossed by a cowover a hedge near the spot where her daughter was murdered , and died of the injuries she sustained . This woman had two brothers , ' one of whom , a gamewatcher on tlie estates of the late Earl of Coventry , was killed at Pirton by a gang of poachers , some years since . Richard Staight , the other brother , was killed by a wall falling on him . Finally , the murdered girl ' s grandmother died three- days before Pulley's execution . —Glovcester Journal . Worcestershire . — A Beggar ' s Crutch and

      Great Coat . —A short time ago , says the Birmimjham Minimi , . in old boggar , a resident of Dudley , " shuffled oil ' this mortal coil , " and with it an old crutch and a great coat , which he left to his two daughters . After the old man's decease the cast-off garment and the crutch were thrown on one side anti almost forgotten , till one day the crutch was called into requisition to punish a refractory cow which had broken into a garden , when lo ! the handle came off , and 350 sovereigns were found enclosed . The other daughter hearing of this golden shower , hastened home , and examined tho great coat left by the old man , when , much to her astonishment and delight , a similar number of sovereigns were found stitched in old rags in the collar and

      waist of tho cast-off garment . The daughters had not the slightest idea that the old man , who had lived in a most penurious manner , had ever possessed such a sum of money as that they now equally inherit . Highway Robbery . —Last week a most daring robbery , accompanied by the use of the most brutal violence , was committed on Mr . William Dawe , a farmer , living at Llangunnidcr , whilst proceeding on the highway between Radand and Usk . ^ h : Dawehnd attended the Rngland fair , which was held on that day , and was returning thence when the attack was made upon him . Ee was assailed by two men and a woman , v ? lio , after violently boating him , endeavoured to rifle his pockets * . For some time they wove baffled , as Mr . Dawe's money was contained in an inner pocket , to which they found difficulty in obtaining sioeess . lie was boaton 4 vith a large stick in a violent manner , and the

      ruffians at length succeeded in taking from him six £ 5 notes , four half sovereigns , and some silver , and then decamped . As soon as Mr , Dawe had sufficicenrJy recovered himself , he returned to tlie Ship Inn , in Ragland , where lie saw one of tho men whom iic stated had robbed him . The man was accordingly apprehended , and has been committed to Usk gaol to await a fuvthov examination . Mr . Dawe since the occurrence has lain in a xery precarious state from the injuries be has received , " and he will for some time be prevented from attending the examination of the person apprehended . Burglaries have been very rife at Ragland and its vicinity , within the last five months . The houses of the Rev . James Farquhar , Rev . Vi . Powell , Yen . Archdeacon Crnwlcy , W . M ' . Mlan , Esq ., surgeon , Mr . E . Arnold , farmer , and a small cottage , have all been entered at different times , and articles , chiefly food , have been stolen . Various other robberies have occurred .

      Lxecutiox of a MunDEr . ER atExeteu . —Tlie convicted murderer of Mrs . Grace liolman has finished his career of crime upon the public scaffold . After his condemnation he exhibited groat self-possession , which only gave way at times to a sense of his position ; but he indulged no hope of a commutation of his sentence . He adverted to his past life , acknowledging that from tho age of thirteen ho had constantly practised theft , sometimes attended with the grave offence of houscbreakiug . In the exercise of liU apparent calling—that of a travelling tinkerhe had opportunity to observe and mark well the situation of premises on which he designed his depredations , and that circumstance , connected with the fact of his seldom , if ever , engaging with

      accomplices , accounts for his only occasionally finding iiimscif within the power of the law . He had , however , been tried at Taunt on and at Uodmin , and been twice an inmate of the gaol where his body now lies . He attributed his being led into vice by frequenting tampers' lodging houses in Tavistoek , where he was born , and where his father now lives . He was executed on Monday , at twelve o'clock , in front of the gaol . An enormous crowd had gathered io witness the disgusting spectacle . He died admitting that he put the box and the chair upon the old woman , buc he persisted in savins ; Woods ,

      the approver , was tlie murderer , and expressed himself glad that Mills had got clear , because he was led into it by himself and Woods ignorantly . There had not been an execution in the county of Devon for nearly thirteen years before , the last having been on the 12 th of August , L ? 30 , when Thomas Oliver , alias Buckingham Joe , was hung for murdering Mr . Jonathan May , a farmer of Dunsford . It is said that "Woods , the approver , was jprcsont with some women , to witness a scene from which he very narrowly escaped being a principal actor . It is computed 27 , 'JOO persons were present , the majority of whom were women and children .

      JT . he Adulterated Flour , at STOuncRiDGE . —Tho ISdderydimlCf Mc $ * c ; -: < jcr states that the numbers injuriously affected by partaking of thepoisonousmixture , before referred to in this paper , have very alarmingly increased , and that several cases are likely to prove fatal . As many n . ? six or seven families , iiumbering' seven , ten , and fifteen members , have been ill in consequence of the poison having been absorbed into the system . The danger only becoming apparent when the symptoms wore at their height , in many cases medical aid was not

      obtained till tlie parties were in a wry dangerous condition . The following aro the numbers of patients suffering' severely from the deleterious compound , who arc uruler the treatment of tho medical gentlemen of the town : —150 Messrs . Freer , 70 Mr . T . Bancks , GO Mr . Thomas Cooper , 50 Messrs . Betis and Giles , 50 Mr . Henry Wilson , 30 Mr . Xorris , and !) U Mr . Sorris , jun ., making a total of 500 eases . The greatest excitement prevails in the town respecting the matter , and notice has been given that a meeting will be held to investigate the subject .

      Asutos-uxber-Lyxe . —The Factouy Question . — Imvohtaxt Meeting or Maxaoeiis and Overlookers . —The system of working by relays has created groat excitement . The workpeople at the firms of Messrs . Wm . Bayley and Brothers , Messrs . Chccthain , and Mr . Leach , during last week , refused to work upon the " shift" principle ; the consequence was t ! utc Messrs . Bayley and 2 Ii \ Leach locked up their mills on Thursday week , imd refused to allow tho hands to go in until they would consent t © work by relays , as they havo been doir . tr for somo timn

      past . L'pwards of two thousand workluuuls have tuerefore , been walking tlie streets ever since It is stated that Messrs . Chootham and other firms also purpose closing their mills this week , unless tke wor-k pooplo resume their employment upon the old plni ) . A meeting took place at the W Inn , on l ' l-iuay weoK , when tho large room was crowded to twess Mr . Samuel Oliver , an overlooker of con-8 uu !* ai > io jsj , criraw , was called to the chair . He owned t !« business by alluding to the subject yiiieh had brought them together , one which he considered of vital hnportaiico to all concerned in cottou manu f actures . The trholo question was

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      afterwards fully discussed , and several resolutions , condemnatory of the relay system , were unanimously agreed to . EXCBOACHMEXT OF THE SEA NEAR Ul . VKR . STO . Y . — During the recent high tides and gales a sb-i p of land , not Jess than twelve , and in some places twenty , yards broad was washed away along the west and south coast of the Isle of Walney . The loan is estimated at about tiro acres in each halt mile ; a serious privation for the landholders and farmers . It is said that encroachments of this deafterwards fully discussed , and several resolutions

      scription , which are unfrcquent , are greatly iaciJitated by the farmers themselves , who aro constantly removing the stones forming tho beach , to sell for paving and other purposes . Xb fewer than fifty vessels have been freighted with these stones , during the last year , for Fleotwood , Liverpool , and other places . Should the inroads of the sea extend , the lowlands will shortly be entirely inundated afc every spring tide , and the island will then be divided each time into three parts . Yorkshire . —Strange Appointment . —Miss Tempest , of the Grange , near Ackworth ( sister to Sir Charles Tempest , IJart ., of Broughton Hall , in the county of York ) , has been appointed ovmoc-r of the poor for the parish of Ackworth , together with

      John Hagues , cow-leech , also of the parish of Ackwortli . The appointment was made at Wentbridsre on the 20 th ult ., and is endorsed by " two of lieu Majesty ' s justices of the peace . " Highway Robbery at Cambridge . —The inhabitants of Cambridge have of late been frequently startled by audacious highway robberies , and another occurred on Friday night week , characterised by great brutality . As Mr . Josephus Glover , ] J . A ., of St . John ' s college , was returning from Grantchester , nbout ten o ' clock , a tall ruffian , standing by a gate , struck him with great violence with a tremendous bludgeon across the forehead , which laid it open ; he seized the fellow by the throat , but another one , as yet unseen , grasped him by the collar behind , forced his knee m his back , ami nulled

      him in a half prostrate position , while the first one beat their victim with the bludgeon . He guarded the blows with his arm , which is now for a time rendered useless , and one blow laid his eye open ; they then threw him wholly on the ground , tore his watch from his guard , and robbed him of £ 1 2 s . He again struggled with thorn , calling loudly for help . Persons were heard coming , and the men docamped and escaped . A description of them boin » given the next morninjr , two persons were taken iiu to custody , and Mr . Glover immediately identified them . They live at Grantchester . Their names are Hayes and Wilson ; and a youth who knows them saw them standing near tho place whore the robbery was committed a very short time before it took place , Committed for trial .

      Chargk of Murder at Glossop . —It will be in the recollection of our readers that an inquest was hold at Glossop upon the body of an old pensioner , named Doxey , who was found on the moruing of tlie 31 st of December last dead in the bed of tho rivev Shelf , close under the Victoria Brid ge at Glossop , having apparently fallen from a height of twenty foot , or having boon thrown over tlie lofty rails , about six feet high , which protect the river at this point . No evidence was at the time produced to implicate any parties , though tho rumours were numerous , and the jury returned an open verdict of '' Pound Dead . " On Friday week , in the course of a quarrel between tlie son and son-in-l . in- of tlie deceased , and another person , a shoeinnker , named

      Clough , the latter charged the former with havin « - thrown their father over the rails into the river , anl said that he and his wife witnessed the transaction . lie adhered to his statement when subsequently questioned , but on Sunday last he absconded . The police at Ashton apprehended him on Monday , and brought him to the lockups at the Glossop " Town Hall . Ho told the policeman who had him in charge that it was nothing against himself , but that he was the principal evidence in a case of murder . The case has caused great excitement in the neighbourhood , as it involves , if true , a charge of parricide of the most atrocious and unfeeling character . Attempted Parricide . —Hothkriiam , Tuesday . — The town of Kotherham lias been thrown into a

      state of intense excitement by a report that Mr . John ttland , the superintendent constable of Kotherham , and high constable of that district of the West Riding , had been assassinated by his son . It appears that the young man , who is about 22 vcars of age , is somewhat of a spendthrift , and has ' been in the habit © f appropriating his father ' s cash to the gratification of his own appetite . Latterly , when pilfcrings of this kind have taken place , Mr . * Blaud , sen ., has searched his son ' s apartment with the hope of recovering some of the lost valuables , and this has greatly exasperated the yoimir man . Mr . Bland , sen ., having to attend l ' o ' ntefract sessions , his son took advantage of his absence to purloin a sum of money . Anticipating the repetition of a

      search on Ins father s return , he spent a large portion of the day alone in his bedroom , with the door locked in the inside , anil , as disclosed by the result , lie planted a pistol loaded with ball in such a manner in one of the drawers , tlinfc the drawer could not lie opened without causing the pistol to explode , lie cut away a portion of the front of the drawer with the exception of the veneer , and placed the muzzle of tho pistol within tho cavity , tho stock ov opposite end of the pistol being against the back of tlie drawers . Tied to the trigger of the pistol was a piece of string , which was passed through the back of the drawers , and made fast . Thus it will be perceived that the opening of the drawer would drawback the trigger and discharge the pistol , and the

      contents , would pass outtnrough the veneer : and so it turned out . Mr . Eliind , on his return , discovered the abstraction of the money , and , his sun bwnjr out ; at the time , went into the bedroom of the Hitter to make a search . The moment he attempted to open the drawer , he was stunned by the report of a pistol , and recoiled from tlie shock with a consciousness that he was wounded , though in ignorance of the extent of his injuries . In an instant the household were around him in a state of consternation . As soon as the panic h ad in some degree subsided , it was ascertained that Mr . Bland iu \ d sustained an abrasion of the skin on the side , and was slHitlv

      wounded on the back of the hand . Instead of standing in front of the centre of the drawers , it happened that he was near one end , and pulled tho drawer open by one handle . Ilad he proceeded in the usual way , and stood directly in front , the pistol was so planted that the ball would have penetrated his face or his chest , according as he had happened to be in an erect or a leaning attitude . Mr . Bland , who is a man of great courage and coolness , was not long inactive . Tho youngman was at once taken into custody , and kept in the lock-up until arrangements were completed by which he was sent to London , in order to enrol " him in one of her Majesty ' s regiments on the eve of sroing abroad .

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      scoiunlr . The Danes axd the Pnus . sm \ s ix Leitii Harbour . —Tho war spirit which has of late reigned in Prussia and Denmark lias been frequently exhibited , on a small scale , near our own door ' s . On Wednesday week , two Danish sailors were appro , hended on a charge of unwarrantably going on board a Holstein vessel , in Leith Ducks , and cutting and tearing down its i !; i »' , because it wasjiot * P-iiM ' sh one . On the following Thursday , an English sailor was apprehended on the charge of attempting to cut down the lias of another JIolstein vessel , but on the mate taking a gun andthrer .-tening to shoot him , he desisted , arid came down from the mast . A few davs ago all the narties were

      brought before I > aillie Ford , when one of the Danes was fined 20 s ., the other cue 10 s ., and the Englishman 3 s .. his ease being considered loss otfjiisii' 0 than the others . Tile fines were paid . The baillie cautioned them that if any such attempt as the above was repeated , a more- severe sentence would be inflicted . In consequence of tlie illfeeling subsisting between the Danes mul tjie Prussians , whose vessels completely fill I-oitU Docks at the present time , the magistrates ha ve deemed it advisable to have an extra police t ' w& perambulating the docks . On one or two otcasii" ^ the special constables havo met and ors . ' : " ' * ' themselves in such a wav as to ho voadv at " a > '

      meiit ' s notice , should a more serious nil'tiia between the rival parties take place . —Xorth iinc * - « Mail . Hiot in EwiNituROH . —The Cowgate and its neig h-Ijourhood ( which has boon mmsuaily peaoeud i ^ the new police bill came into operation ) was a ? 11 " the scene of sv very disgraceful not on Sim **} ' cvi- « : ing , and in which several police constables a " others wove seriously injured . The ftftVay arose *> usual from drunkenness and consequent ext-iwiiifl ' ^ Four or more Irish labourers , who had been & > going out and in to public houses in tlie »' = ' from four o ' clock , bosan between six and sc « get noisy and tvoublosmnp . mul showed a ili $ l lOs " ... »

      to fight with each other , and annoy tin' * - ' l i : l 5 ' , ' by . They -were warned several times by ^ , stuhlos on tho boat , and once oi' twice c-iiec >^ their ebullitions , but at last becoming so » % ,, | inclined , they were apprehended by four cO" *" | lOic and a struggle ensued , on which almost tlie ^ neighbourhood turned out , and the l ' " ' ^" ' , ' :, ^ . rescued by tho overpowering i ' oree of the lll ^" ,, on The police onicers , wsailed by numbers P ' 0 . " :., ^ - every side , made great efforts to keep y "" ' . ^^ sonors , ivho wore recaptured and rescue ' ; lS times , and defended themselves with then urn ^ long and as well as they could , but xhree m ^ . } c \ vei \ J Hung to the ground , and kicked ami = - , y most unmercifully . The alarm was ""'" f " ' ^ * conveyed to the police office , and in a fev . ' " ; a detachment of about thirty or forty men li : u > t « - j ,, tf the spot . By ihis time ' the Cowgato , H " , . ) iri . Hoi-se-wyud to above George the Fourt" ^ . for ir ,-is in a state of great excitement ; »"" j . jjr jt this relief , thu consequences to tho «> Ilit : "'"\ ^ itlioro might have been of the most dari . treimi- ^ racter . One named Uannowin had receive jiW [ five- blows on tke haul tv tlie etfwioa oi WJM

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      , THE NORTHER N STAR . April 14 , 1849 . »¦ ¦ _¦ ———¦ —¦—¦¦ ggg = SSS !^ == .. . . i i ^^ f » mn f .. W + ™ station .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 14, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1518/page/6/