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      88 * " mmavrti ** Hkaxtii of IiOSdoh DoKiso the Week . —In the week ending last Saturday , the deathsi registered in the metropolitan districts were 1026 . This return shows a farther increase in the mortality , for since it began to rise , the deaths during the two previous waeks were in the first 875 , aM iu the second 961 la the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1840-9 , they fluctuated between 770 and 1197 , the latter amount of mortality occurred in the twelfth week of 1845 ; the average of the ten weeks corrected for increase of population is 1 , 071 , the present return is therefore only less than the average by 45 . The only classes of disease in which an increase

      on the average is remarkable are those which affect respectively the organs of respiration and the organs of circulation . The only instances in which -complaints in the respiratory organs have been so fatal as in last week , at this season of the year , occnr in 1845 and 1847 ; from pneumonia there were 90 deaths ( of which 71 were amongst children , ) the corrected average is 85 ; from bronchitis there ¦ wete 89 ( of which more than two-thirds were among adults , ) the corrected average is only 47 . Both these diseases show a considerable increase , when the deaths are compared with the numbers returned in the two previous weeks . Tkis excess both on the weeks immediately preceding and on the cor-, responding weeks of former years is sufficiently' expJaiued by the fact that the mean temperature which

      List week was only 37 min . S deg ., shows a * reat fall on each week throughout the whole month ot February and the half of March ; and taking the corresponding weeks of 1840-9 , it appears that it was never so low as at present , except in 1845 ana 1846 , and that in six of those years it ranged from 40 deg . to 49 min . 7 deg . The deaths from consumption Jast week were 135 , a number less than the average . Amongst epidemics , small pox , scarlatina , hooping cough , and typhus , are not so fata ] as usual , but measles , from which there were 23 deaths , and diarrhoea , from which there were 20 , are above the average . A death from cholera is recorded in the following terms ; "At S 3 , Londonroad , St . George's Southwark , on the 15 th of March , the son of an ironmonger , at the age of ten weeks ,

      died of infantile cholera , after an illnes 3 of 23 hours . " It deserves to be mentioned that three deaths were registered in one week from cholera , though it is not usual that more than double that number are returned in a year ; the following are the particulars : —At 5 , Charles-street , Hackneyroad , the son of a compositor , at the age of 8 years , died of " cholera after an illness of 3 weeks ; at 25 , York-street West , Katcliff , the son of a painter ( deceased , ) died at the age of ayear and ten months , of " cholera ; " and at 1 , James-street , in Lambeth , the son of a glass-packer ( deceased , ) died at the age of 15 years , of " cholera , after an illness of 23 days . " The three deaths occurred , one on the loth , and two on the 16 th of March . Children are returned almost every week as accidentally suffocated

      in bed ; amongst other deaths registered last wees from this cause are two which occurred in one house . Two men and a woman died from the intemperate use of strong drink . Two men and six women died between 90 and 100 years of age . One hundred and eleven persons died in "workhouses , 54 in hospitals , of whom 18 were in naval and military establishments , and 6 in lunatic asylums . —The mean daily reading of the barometer at the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , was above 30 in . on Sunday , Monday , Wednesday , and Thursday ; the mean of the week was 29 971 . The mean temperature ( 37-8 deg . as stated above ) was lower than the average of the same period in seven years , particularly on Sunday , Monday , and Saturday , when it was from 7 deg . to 11 deg . less than the averages of these days .

      Alleged Infanticide .-0 * Monday forenoon . Mr . W . Carter coroner for Surrey , held an inquest at the Duke of Suffolk Tavern , Brandon-street , Walworth , on view of the body of a newly-born female child , found dead under the following circumstances : —Mr . Thomas Cook , s-ummonins officer « f Newington , said , that in consequence of information he had received , he went to the house . No . 1 , Black Princecourt , Walworth-road . on the previous Friday morning , and after having examined the house he found in tbe water closet the body of a female infant quite naked and wrapped up in a black apron . AVitness removed the body to his own house , where it was examined by Mr . Gannon , ene of the parochial

      surgeons . — Elizabeth Biddes , of No . 1 , Black Prinrecourt , said , that a woman named Mary Ann Frew , had occupied a room in her bouse during the past two months . On Friday last witness ' s attention was called by another l-. dger named Nash to marks in Frew's apartment which g ^ . ve rise to a suspicion th < t the latter had given birth to a child . Frew ' s room was in a very miserable condition—there was no bed or bedstead in it , and a few shavings and an old coat in one corner of the room were all that she had to lie down npon . About mid-day on Friday Frew w-s brought home by a fellow workwoman < rom the place whereshewasemployed , very ill , and . incons-quence of the wretched state of her room witness caused her

      to be conveyed to the workhouse , where she still remains . Another female witness proved an acknowledgment by MaryAnn Frew that she had given birth to a dead child , and that she had placed the body where it was found . —Mr . John Johnson , surgeon , of SafjJl-row , Walwertb , deposed to having made a post mortem examination of the body , which satisfied him that the child never breathed . —Other evidence having been adduced , a conversation arose between the coroner and jury on the frequency of cases sitnilarto the present , and even of the more terrible irime of infanticide . In tbe course of his ohservaaons the coroner said , it was certainly to t ) e lamented that no public institution existed for the reception of poor and hardworking women in i heir hour of travail , rhere could be no doubt it was a very difficult question to deal with ; but cases did occur—and this ippeared to him to be one of them—where great allowance ought to be made for the erring mother . He thought , if the subject were taken up in some way

      ind properly laid before the public , it would meet frith considerable support from the philanthropists of this country . —A juror remarked that institutions like that referred to were very numerous in foreign countries , and he thought , if introduced here , they would tend greatly to diminish crime . The jury then agreed to a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony , at the same time expressing their unanimous ipinion , " That in consequence of the great and increasing number of illegitimate children , and the degraded and helpless condition of their mothersowing , in a great measure , to the low rate at which the labour of women is paid for—the dreadful and unnatural crime of infanticide is becoming more and more frequent ; that , with a view , if possible , to alleviate the condition of suffering humanity , and tsimprove the morals of the people , it is the opinion of this jury that it is the duty of government to provide a suitable national asylum for the reception of all illegitimate children . "

      FIRE 8 . £ » the Hacksbt-Road . —On Tuesday morning , shortly after two o ' clock , a very alarming ai'd destructive fire , nearly attended with fatal consequences , broke out in the premises belonging to Mr . William Ward , a fruiterer and green grocer , No 19 , Londonterrace , Hackney-road . The flames when first dis covered were raging in the lower part of the premises at which time the inmates were in their beds asleep . The constable on the beat succeeded , after some trouble , in arousing them , but the flames by that

      period had gained so strong a hold of the property that it was with great difficulty the parties could effect Iheir escape , and not before they were nearly suffocated . Several engines quickly attended , when the firemen found the building from the base to the roof encircled with flame . But in 3 plte of their escrturns they were unable to get the mastery over the conflagration until the premisese were gutted , the whole of the stock in trade , furniture , and other effects being consumed . Mr . Ward was insured in the Phoenix tire-office .

      In Lambeth . — On 'f ue-day morning another fire -which threatened the most disastrous results to life aafl property , broke out in the Star Tea-warehouse , No . 109 , Lower-marsh , L-imbeth- It commenced in the cellars under the shop , but having been opportunely discovered , the inmates succeeded in escaping without receiving any injury . Several engines were worked with fe 51 -vigour for some time , when the firemen succeeded in getting the fire extinguished , but not before considerable damage was done . The slock in trade was insured in the Alliance-office . In JJethnal-Gbees . —In the house of Mr . Painter , a cabinetmaker , and serious loss incurred . Also in the house of Mr . Taylor , Wellingtcn-row , from smoking tobacco in the stables . In WimB IIart-street . —On the premises of Mr . Shearman , boot and shoe maker , and considerable damage done to building and stock .

      NeabDhubt-Laxb Theatre . —On Tuesday night , shortly after seven o'clock , a fire attended with a great loss of property , and jeopardising the lives of nofcfewer than fifteen persons , broke out in the premises of Mr . Mackerell , baked potato merchant , Soi 7 ,-yihegaivyard . The premises—which were five stories high—were adjoined by numerous similanerections on either side , while the space between the fire and Drury-lane Theatre was not more than a few yards apart . The outbreak—which was very sudden—was occasioned by an escape of gas , and fortunately all the persons who were on the pronmes succeeded in makimy their wav out without

      injury . Several engines were promptly brought to the spot , but notwithstanding the strenuous exertions of the firemen , the flames continued to travel , and the whole range of premises in which they commenced were turned out ,-and those adjoining severely damaged before the fire was extinguished . Tneparties , who have lost every thin * they once VW& ^; ?; . Mackefell ( insureS ) , Mr . and Jto . £ lee and chdd { not insured ) , Mr ! and Mrs . AtVawx with-fliree children ( uninsured ) , Mr . ani X * L ^ 1 P ^* and threeiionildren ( uninsured ) . The * mlain £ in which the disaster occurred was insured in lite West of England Fire-office Respite os Amkb Mkbbiit . —The heriffij have

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      received a communication from Sir G ; Grey ; informing them that the execution of Ann Merritfis' / to be respited during her Majesty ' s pleasured * A further investigation of this case-has been considered necessary by the Home Secretary , after communication with the Lord Chief Baron , owing to doubts which have been expressed by physicians and surgeons of great eminence , of the correctness of a very imp ortant part of the evidence depending entirely upon the accuracy of a medical opinion . Suicide . —About seven o ' clock on Tuesday moming an old man , nam-d Evans , who was lodging at Mr . Whitmore ' s , a greengrocer and fruiterer , ia Charles-street , Westminster , comn » tte 4 . 8 U'C 1 ^^ shooting himself through the heart with aj ""*" pocketpistol . The deceased , wh ° ™ % f $ S by trade , bad been in a very desponding state of mind for some time pas f , inconsequence of his being unable to obtain employment .

      any Fair under the THAME « -Monday being the anniversary of the opening < . f that great undertaking , the Thames Tunnel , the directors , in celebration of the event , gave a grand fancy fair beneath the waters of Old Father Thames . The entire length of the tunnel and either shaft were decorated with myriads of variegated lamps , the panels being filled in with a variety of paintings , representing the most interesting views along the ba > ks . Rows of st ' alli , covered with ornamental articles , shows , refreshment booth ? , the Wizard of the North , Ethiopian MinBtrels , and bands of music , were the amusements offered . During the day several thousand persons visited the tunnel .

      The Cattlb Trade . —The Apollo , screw steam vessel , arrived at Blackwall on Monday , with a cargo of oxen from Ilolland . On her passage she experienced a heavy gale from the north , which caused loss or serious injury to nearly fifty fine oxen . Of these , about twenty that were on deck were thrown overboard ; the remainder , about thirty in number , were landed at Blaokwall , many of them dead , and others dreadfully mangled . It is beliefed that all this meat finds its way into the London market .

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      responding week of 1840 . tMamouht wag , £ 24 p , 10 d 2 } d . These simple facts are a-fair index ' 6 f ~ the improved state of things in'this country , and are , we think , the harbingers of returning prosperity . The people are everywhere taking advantage of the genial weather for . carrying on their " spring " operations , which are . at present in a more advanced state than in any former years during the month of May . The weather has continued mild for several weeks , and has served to raise the drooping spirits of the farmers in no small degree , who are now most busily engaged in their farm operations . A very considerable quantity of potatoes will be planted /' The Sligo-. papers mention the occurrence of two

      agrarian outrages in the county of Leitrira , attempts having been made to deter people from holding land from which the former tenants had been evicted , Emigration from the West . —Tho Qalway Vindicator says : —' . ' The side of emigration is almost at its height in this part . Scarcely a vessel offers for America that is not immediatel y filled with passengers of a superior class and description . Those who sailed by the Northumberland a few days since were of a very high order , and had every appearance of comfort , being exceedingly well supplied for their yoyage ; they were , above the ordinary description of the farming class , and many of them had considerable su > ns of money with them for the purchase of land oil their arrival in the New World . "

      Thb Weather . —The severity of the weather appears to increase in intensity . On Monday night the fall of snow was nearly as . heavy as any during the winter ; and it was accompanied by a strong -gale of wind from the north-west . Still the farming authorities describe the season hitherto as : in excellent one for putting the seed in the earth , and observe that the check g . iven to vegetation is opportune , as the danger ot its being too early , and being subsequently nipped by late frosts , is now escaped . Encumbered Estates Commission . — There app ears to be a decided decrease in the filing of petitions for sales in the Encumbered Estates Court . Tbnant RioHT . —The columns of the newspapers friendly to the interests of the tenantry are filled

      with reports of tenant right and tenant protection meetings both in the north and south , of Ireland . At a meeting held at Ballyclare , in the county of Antrim , one of the speakers , arguing against the proposed extinction of tenant-right , after twenty years' possession , according to Sir W . Somerville ' s bill , adduced tne following illustration ;— ' That in the case of . mere squatting upon , the soil , an undisturbed occupancy of twenty-five years conferred a right in perpetuity ' : in other words , twenty-or twenty-five years usurpation of another man ' s property gave a valid title to it , but twenty years possession of a man ' s own property wrought its complete forfeiture . " "It is impossible ( obgjrves tho Banner of Ulster ) to furnish a moreconvi cing

      exposure th ,. B this of the m quitou 8 principle upon which the measure of Sir W . Scm rrille has bjen founded . " . Meetings have also been held at Bully-© lire , anJ Dervook , and at Castl-comer , in the South , at which resolutions deprecating the bill of Sir W . Somerville were adopted . In the second letter of his series entitled "A Plea for Tenant-right , " Mr . Sharman Crawford makes some . useful observations on the subject of a general valuation of the land in Ireland . There are , in fact , as he remarks , two valuations at present going on under the authority of parliament , and both carried into effect by the same commissioner , Mr . Griffiths ; but he shows that neither of these valuations can be-of the slightest use in tbe

      great question of the regulation of rents , and he suggests a . mode by which that important want may be supplied . "I would . propose , " says Mr . Crawford , " that under the form to be prescribed by the statute , tho valuator should be instructed that , in the front page of his valuation of every union , he should make a classification of the lands of the union , dividing them into as many classes as he should find general causes of distinction arising from the actual qualities of the soil , the elevation , or aspect , and giving the average productive powers of each class per acre in the kind of grain suitable to each class , estimated as being under a fair system of improvement and culture ; or , in easo of lands suitable to the purposes of grass , but

      not to the cultivation of corn , stating the quantity of hay such lands would produce ; or in ease of lands only fit for pasture , stating the proportion of animals to the acre such lands would be capable of feeding ; and also stating the annual value of each class of land , meaning thereby the rent which , according to the price ftxed by the statute , each such class would , in the judgment of the valuator , be reasonably competent to pay . This being done , and the classes numbered , it would only be necessary , in the valuation of each tenement , to refer to the quantities of each class of land in such tenement , and the value or rent would be brought out accordingly . * * According to the present system of valuation adopted by Mr . Griffiths , the

      amount of value-fixed on any tenement is incomprehensible to the parties concerned . It is not the real , value , but a combination of . unknown elements , worked up by the ' valuators of their discretion into what is termed a net value . By the plan I propose , the lands being classed according to the intrinsic qualities of the soil ( uniform over Ireland ) , and the value of each class being taken according to its productive power , under lair improvement and culture , and the tenements being valued according to the quantities of each class of land in each tenement , not according to the results of extraordinary good culture or extraordinary neglect of culture , every occupier would , get esual justice , and the local causes and amounts of addition or

      deduction being specified , both the basis and every step of the valuation would bo clear and intelligible , and , if objected to , capable of correction , by appeal , o : » the special points on which objections might be raised . " Thb Viobroy . ALt * . —The Evening Mail suggests that as a substitute for the viceregal court in Dublin , the Irish' Commander of the Forces should hold a court in Dublin Castle , and that the institution should thus be transformed from a political to a military one , the honour to be conferred on Prince George of Cambridge , or some officer holding a high rank in the British army . Touching this latter question there are some pungent remarks in the Dundalk Democrat , in the course of which that journal mercilessly twits its

      congenial brethren of the broad sheet—the Freeman , Nation , < fec . —with .. their rank inconsistency in taking up the cudgels in defence , of the " moral sink" of corruption , as Mr . John O'Coiinell designates the Irish Yiceroyalty . " Time was , " says the Demcwat , " when our forofathcrs shed their blood to abolish this same office , and drive the representative of tho English monarch from the shores of Ireland . In these degenerate days men professing to be redhot Nationalists , and enemies of English rule in Ireland , have . different notions and views , and seem wondefully reconciled to bear the degrading yoke . Not many months since a different doctrine was preaohed : ; but to-day the old creed of servitude , is promulgated . In ' 48 the representative

      of an English monarch was considered a nuisance , to-day it is an , in suit to Ireland to have him re ? moved . To the Irish gentry the removal of the paltry court would be a blessing , for it has been the means of -demoralising them , and , in -many instances , encumbering their estates ... Instead of minding their business in the country , andlooking soberly after their immediate interests , they were puffed up with notions . of pride and ambition , from heir having come in contact with the iViceroy at his levees and drawing-rooma . "While in Dublin they lived beyond their means , and to support the dignity necessary for a ' visitor at the . Castle , 'they ran into extravagance which their incomes could not Support . On coming ; homo there was nothing

      talked ot but the Viceregal Court , and its splendour , and the bland smiles of the Viceroy . In a few days after the visitor at the Castle' had a number of the neighbouring gentry to dine with him , or he was at a fox-hunt or country , ball , and to all he recounted the wonders of the , Irish . Court , ita brilliancy and splendour , ; called everything else vulgar , ' and thua spread the -contagion , till men who , perhaps , , were leading a useful life in minding their business were seduced from their duty , and brought into habits of living and thinking which hurried them on to ruin . " ¦ .-..:. Diabolical Outrage . —At Curraghashoge , near

      Abbeyfeale , on the night of the . 20 th inst ., a house belonging to-Mr . Richard Collins , was maliciously set on fire , and before any assistance could be procured , the house , together with all it contained , including seven valuable cows , an excellent horse worth £ 18 , a large number of dairy vessels , a quantity of timber , deals , and other property , ;\ vore totally consumed-. On the following morning a person named Roche , who . lives in Abbeyfeale , came forward to give information , against his own father and brother , y ? uo were immediately arrested and committed for trial , as the perpetrators of the wicked and unprovoked outrage .

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      MEDALS OP JAMES MORISON , THE'HYGEIST . AND GKEAT MEDICAL REFORMER , May be had of all the Agents , for , the sale of Morison ' s Pills . PRICE , ONE . SHILLING EACH . In Bronze , 10 s . Cd . ; in Silrer , 21 . in Sold , 181 . JAMES MORISON , the THE IMMORTAL . UUjvllliaTtne vital prin-¦ ' . " ¦ cipleisin the blood . HARVEY toilj .-HlSF > U diseases arise from impurity ot tho PROCLAIMED THE bloody ^ . . . ¦ ¦ 3 jrdfy . — Thnt such 1 m-CIHCULATIOS OF THE mrtity can onlj be eradi-, P gatedbyapurgatiresuchas BLOOD . / Morisbn ' 8 vegetable Urn-/ Tersal Medicine of the Brii /; ¦ tish College , of ^ Health , New-. / road , London .. ,. ' ...:., \ jf : " 4 tlily . Hi That the deadly ^ v .:.-. ¦ poisons : used as > medicines ¦ .,, . by . | the . doctors are ,. totally - ; ' unnecessary in the cure ' of 'diseases ,

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      : /; - ;; ' ; ' ;¦ / ¦ derby ; ¦ A Wife , charged . with the Murder o-HosBAiTP . ~ Ann Orchard wag charged withm , i " ing her hu 9 band .--Mr ; Wilm 6 re , in d peSi ?" case ; stated the prisoner was not to betrindr murder , but still ib would W proved that she i tHe , , death of the deceased ; but he had no 1 !* his lordship would direct them in their findi John Harrison , pupil of Dr . Hengill , of Tl !!!?* " "' said : On Tuesday , 23 rd of Octbbor . I was Sty . to the house of John Orchard , about ten i 1 morning , and found him bleeding from a wounV the right ear . ; he was sitting at the table with i ° - head on the sofa cushion . Mrg . Orchard » h " tending to the wound . I asked her how £ ' at done . She said he was sitting in the corner i \ " rated , and she was coming out of the « . „ . " ^

      tnrew tne nrst tmng she had at him She im " . tt diately sent for the doctor . I succeeded in « $ ' the bleeding and then left him . In about ftfT * hour he sent again , saying that the wound ft commenced bleeding again . Dr . Hen « il then * to see him . —Mr . Denison elicited thafh e hail * no memorandum of Mrs . Orchard ' s stitenu . » DrlHengil ofRepton , said : I was oSftfc houso of John Orchard on the 23 rd of OnfV about one in the afternoon , and found him hi i- » profusely from a wound in the right cheek < H $ prisoner was present . The bleeding was frL i wound in the temporal artery under the right 9 I stopped tho bleeding by pressure . I iw ' with him till half-past seven in the evSX " * which time he was considerably exhausted r at it was a lacerated wound , about half an inr > h , i ! avr and about half an inch long . it wa a kinl P ' wound that might be caused by a broken niep ! 3 pot being thrown againstthepart . Withcoi 1 3 iilerlf iorco i leic in tne

      . unen mm evening I did n I apprehend any danger , unless the bleeding ahn / , u return . It was quite possible for an injury O j rh ? kind to produce lockjaw . I went again at half S nine the same evening , and remained about an hour I continued to attend him twice a day till the nth of November , when he died . On the fourth or fifth day ; lie noticed a slight contortion of the face which indicated incipient lockjaw . I proceeded to treat him with a view to prevent look . ja w , but it came on generally about two days before his death , extending to his body , and he eventually died of convulsion ! caused by lockjaw , and which was the ultimata effect of the wound ., After death , Dr . He ygate of Derby , came , and I heard him put questions to tin *

      prisoner about his death ; he asked what the causa of the quarrel was , and she said they had been having some words ; that he had abused her , and that she had marks stilLremaining on her arms . I was coming out . of . the kitchen , she continued , and had a dish in my hand ; my husband was seated in an arm chair by the fire , and in a moment of exas . peration I threw the dish at him , which has caused the wound I believe . I don ' t recollect anything more that she said .: Did not see the dish . —By Mr Dennison : He went on very well for a short time , but Iobserved he was rather imprudenfc . afc the tima

      the symptoms of lockjaw came on by moving about the house . I think if 'he had not been imprudent he would haTe recovered . Heard the deceased say , just before his death , "Ann , I don't blame you it was not your . fault . "—Other evidence hayin ^ been given , the jury returned a verdict of " Guilty , " with a strong recommendation to mercy . ilia Lordship said that under the circumstances he should pass as lenient sentence as he possibly could . He accordingly ordered her to be confined for one month in the gaol . The prisoner seemed greatly distressed , and was allowed to sit during the trial

      EXETER . Charou op Mordkr . —Robert Curtis Bird , described as a farmer , aged 31 , and his wife , Sarah Bird , aged 34 , were placed at the bar , and arraigned of the wilful murder of Mary Ann Parsons , a parish apprentice , by striking and beating her to death . The poor deceased girl , the subject of the inquiry , was at the time of her death about fourteen years of age . Her father having left . the country , she , with her mother , became an inmate of the Bideford Union . On the 29 th of September , the deceased young creature was taken away into the service o £ Mrs . Bird . She was supplied with new clothes from the Union , and she left in perfect good health . On the 4 th of January , Mrs . Bit d came to the union and

      acquainted the master ( Mr . Surman ) that the girl was dead , and desired a coffin for her . The master told the mother of her child ' s decease , and on the following day the poor creature went to Bird ' s house . She saw the body ; it was lying on a bed generally occupied by an old labourer named Curteis . It was partly covered by _ a sheet , and on being turned down very extensive injuries were seen on all parts of the corpse . From the ancle to the hip there were severe stripes , indicating chastisement with some instrument . There was clotted blood on tho hip , a considerable , sore , and abscess , and wounds on the hinder part , which were covered with plaster . There were also marks of blood between

      the shoulders , and bruises on the left side of the cheek , and another bruise on the right . It should be further stated that the left arm of deceased was bandaged . The shocking oondition of the body immediately aroused suspicion that the poor girl had been subject to the most brutal ill-usage . On tho mother speaking to the Birds about her sad state , Mra . Bird asked if it was likely that a coroner ' s inquest would be held . Mrs . Bird frequently urged the mother not to have a jury , that she would be a friend to-her as long as . she lived , and so long at > she

      had . a penny she should have -part of it . —Several witnesses deposed to . having seen the poor girl suffering from personal injuries during the time she lived with the prisoners . The medical witnesses , at some length , described . the , injuries inflicted on the deceased . Death was found to have resulted from congestion of the brain . There were several wounds on the back of tho head , and either ef these injuries was likely to produce effusion , although it could not bo positively stated that they had that effect in this instance . This closed the case . —Both

      prisoners were acquit ted . Arson . —Samuel Best Foote was indicted for having , on the night of the 11 th of February , wilfully set fire to premises in his own possession , No . G , Queen-street , Exeter , with intent to defraud the London Assurance . Company . The prisoner , who is about 22 years of age , was insured to the amount of £ 500 . Evidence having been given , the jury found the prisoner " Guilty , " and he was sentenced to be transported for life . —A most affecting Bcene ensued . The prisoner shook his poor father ' s hand , and bade him " never mind , " and then hs kissed his brother , who was in court . He was removed , but his deep sobs were heard in the stillness produced by ene of the mo . st painful scenes ever witnessed in a court of justice .

      SHREWSBURY . Charob ov Matricide ai BniDO . voRTH . —ilerey Catherine Newton was indicted for having , on the oth of December , 1848 , murdered her mother , at Bridgnorth , in this county . There were nine counts in the indictment , varying the modes in which the alleged crime was committed—by burning , by suffocation , by strangulation , &c—This case was rendered remarkable , not only from the atrocity of the crime itself , but also from the fact of this being the third time she was indicted , having been twice pre « viously tried at the Shropshire assizes , and the jury on both occasions being unable to agree to a ver « diet . —Several witnesses were examined , v ? lio spoke

      of the evil feeling and cruel conduct of the prisoner towards her mother on various occasions . —Three medical men were next examined—one of whom , Mr , Newell , of Bridgnorth , swore , » s a matter of fact , that deceased was set fire to before death ; the 8 econd , Mr . Thursfield , of Birmingham , stated , as a matter of opinion , that the death was caused by suffocation , and after death set fire to ; the third , Dr . Wright , of Birmingham , concurred in the latter view . —This closed tho case for the prosecution . — Mr . Huddleston having been heard for tho defence , the learned judge caretully summed up the evidence . The jury then retired , and , after about a quarter of an hour , returned with a verdict of "Not Guilty .

      Charge , of Embezzlkmbnt . by a Superintend ^* op Police . —William Baxter , late superintendent of the Shropshire county police , stationed . it Wellington , was charged with having . embezzled , nt various times , certain sums of money , the property of the county treasurer , Mr . Peele . —It appeared that the prisoner had received on the 12 th and 26 th of Julj ' i 1849 , trom two of the county police , certain sums of money which he had not accounted for to the chief constable , as ho was bound to do , the < J ciency in each case being £ 2 3 s . 6 d . On the 13 th ot March he had received £ 12 4 s . from Mr . Lwille , clerk to the magistrates at Newport , as tbe moiety of fines inflicted for deficient weights and measures , and which sum also he had not accounted for to

      the conhty . treasurer . —Considerable discussion arose among the legal gentlemen as to whether or not the prisoner was justified , in keeping this last money , as informer , under the provisions of tna act of parliament . Ultimately the prosecution withdrew that part of the indictment , when the prisoner was found '' Guilty " of the first charge , an * sentenced to be imprisoned one day . —The . prisoner was then arraigned on a second indictment for * misdemeanour , in absenting , himself without leaf " from the station ( he having , absconded and fled w Liverpool , where he was apprehended ) , and also tor sending a , false . statement .. of ; accounts to Cbar «* Mayrie , chief constable . To this charge the P" soner . pleaded " Guilty , " and was sentenced to < w imprisoned for three months , without hard wo °

      LIVERPOOL . , ; Sbntkncb . —George Heaps , who had Ple' 1 ^ guilty to three distinct charges of felony , at As " % under-iLyne ,- Garton , and Pendlebury , was sentence to transportation for life . : •« j , . . • WOBSDINQ ' Wlttt ISTtSNT TO'MbBDER , * C . j IGruiidy wxis' indicted for having on the -iano Janury last ; at Worsley , 'assaulted Mary ?»* ™\ & andfelonioasly out , stabbed and wounded her , w »

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      & | e SUroutnrm The Brighton Foroert Cask . — After the sentences bad been pronounced , and the prisoners taken below , two inhabitants of Brighton , feeling strongly interested in the thorough establishment of the innocence of Mr . Steward , applied to the visiting justices for permission to see the men Green and Hasland in Lewes gaol . Permission was given , and the following statements , obtained from the convicts , in the presence of Mr . Saunders , the governor of the gaol , are the result : —Joseph Green says : I came from London with , a man whose name I don't know . He goes by five or six names ; they call him George Andrews . No one else came with me . I came on the Friday night ;

      slept at a beer-house ; don ' t know the street . The man ' s name is Harper . It is not in St . James ' sstreet ; it is up St . James ' s-street on the left-hand side ; I believe Edward-street . Andrews came . on to Lewes ' . I went out alone to pass the notes . Andrews is a short man , about five feet four inches ; he had on a light coat . I never saw Steward before in my life . I met with Andrews at the Green Man in the City-road , London . I had known him but a rery little time . He always passes as a gentleman . He gave me twelve notes . He said he had got them on his hands , and that there was going to be a run on the bank , and he wanted me to assist him in getting rid of them . I don't know . whether he had any more notes . Andrews was to have met me at

      the Brighton Railway Station on the Saturday night , at eight o ' clock , if things had gone right .. I have been at Birmingham . I have lived in London about three months , and have a mk and seven children . I firmly believe that young Steward is » 3 innocent as a baby . If the judge would hold out any hopes of my being restored to my family I would say a good deal more , but I cannot do so at present . I never saw Steward before I saw him on Sunday morning after he was in custody . —Joseph Hasland " said : I never saw Steward before in my life until I saw him in custody . I came down to Brighton on the Saturday with another man not in custody . We got to Brighton about two o ' clock . There were teB of us altogether . I know nothing

      of Green . I know all the rest . I live at Sheffield . I was at Birmingham on the Thursday before the Saturday I was taken . This job was planned at the Green Dragon , at Birmingham . We ten came up to London by the rail , I and my mate came on to Brighton by the twelve o ' clock train , leaving the eight in London with an understanding that they were to come down by the two o ' clock train . I and my mate went on to Shoreham , but we did not do anything there , and we walked back by the seaside . We had a place of meeting with the other party , and we met at the top of a street , but I don ' t know the name of it . We had some talk , and then we went on in parties into the different streets to get rid of the notes . There was one in the -party that

      very much resembled Steward . He- is just like him as to dress and general appearance , and any one might easily , take Steward to be t !< at fellow . Steward is as innocent as a child just born . None of the party , to the best of my belief , ever saw him before . I saw the man who is so much like Steward go into a tailor ' s shop opposite the sea , I don ' t know the name of the place , as I w . 13 never at Brighton before . I don't know whether he bought anything or not , because I came away , leaving him in the shop . I wanted to be somewhere else . If we had beeii successful that night it was arranged that we were to do the best we could for the night , and go to London by the first train on Sunday morning , and get back as quickly as we could to Birmingham . I have all along felt very much for that young man Steward , as we knew nothing of him , and he is an

      innocent man . CoiIMITAL FOB SnOOTlXG AT A GaMEKBKPEB . —At the recent petty Sessions at Buckingham , Jabez Anderson , of Denshanger , labourer , was , charged with having , on the night of the 11 th instant , snot at James King , head gamekeeper to the hon . R . Cavindish , of Thornton-hall . It appeared that , in consequence of ft suspicion of poachers in Beachampton-wood , the complainant and two watchers were on the looK-out , when Anderson and two companions came into the wood , armed with guns ; and that on King going to the prisoner , he shot at him . The charge from the gun did not hit King , but it singed his cap . The prisoner was committed for trial .

      Ood Fellow Lohoes Declared Illegal . —Mr . R . . J . Kindersley , chancellor of the county palatine Durham lately delivered judgment in the case of Brown and others v . Shaw and others , in the Chancery Court , Durham . The bill was filed by George Brown and seven other persons , on behalf of themselves and all other members of a certain association called "The Rose of Durham . Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows , Manchester Unity , " except the defendants , against Geerge Shaw andsix other persons . The first five plaintiffs are described in the bill as members and five of the trustees of the association , and the last three as simply members of the association ; that some years ago the Defendants Shaw , Stafford , Dodd ,

      Wood , and Ba ' t eson , were appointed trustees in the place and stead of Stafford and Bateson . The object of the bill is to recover from the defendants , for the benefit of this lodge or association , a sum of £ 20519 s . Id ., on the ground of that sum , the property of the association , having been misapplied by lending it to the defendant Shaw , on his promissory note , and of the defendants having been parties to that transaction , which , it is contended , was a breach of trust . The grounds of defence are these : —1 st . That this is an illegal association , and therefore the bill cannot be sustained ; 2 nd . That the transaction complained of was for the benefit of the association , and that the lending of the money on Shaw ' s personal security was no breach

      of trust : 3 rd . That the members and the plaintiffs in particular , acquiesced in the transaction ; 4 th , that the present trustees were not duly appointed , and therefore the relief asked by the prayer of the bill for payment of the money to them cannot be enforced ; and , 5 th . Objections are raised for , want of parties . Mr . Kindersley said , the first question was , whether the lodge or association came within any of the descriptions of societies mentioned in the acts of parliament , of the 39 th Geo . III ., c . 19 . After minutely describing the nature of the society and the state of the law relating to such societies in general , he came to the conclusion that the society in question did come under these acts , and , not being within the exemption made by sees ; 26 and

      27 of the latter act , was consequently illegal . This being tho ease , the bill must be dismissed , it being unnecessary . to go into the other grounds of defence . Assault os tub Editor of . a Provincial Newspaper . —A considerable sensation has been excited in Cornwall by an assault committed on the editor of the H « t Briton , an influential newspaper in the west of England . It appears , that , at the county meeting of the 12 th of February , called in favour of agricultural protection , there was only ono of the county members present , T ., J . Robartes , Esq . The other three ; members were attending their duties in parliament , and sent letters expressing their sentiments on the subject . Two of these letters ( from Sir C . Lemon and W . H . P . Carew , Esq . ) were read in full ; the other ( from E . W . W .

      Pendarves , Esq ., " the oldest of the county representatives , and a gentleman held in high esteem by , all parties ) was only partially read to the meeting , the part suppressed being that in which he exposed the falsity of some statements made in the requisition calling the meeting . . Mr . Pohdarvescomplained in a letter to the county papers of the discourtesy of the sheriff , shown to himself arid-his constituent ? , by the suppression of a part of his letter at the county meeting . Sir S . T . Spry , the high sheriff , replied , to this in extraordinary terms ; the letter was published in one , of the county papers , and the other ( the West Jiriton ) -commented on it in severe language . -The-West Briton appeared on a Thursday eyenin «» ,. ^ Bdi pn the next morning Sir , Samuel Spry called at the office with a solicitor .- The editor was not there , and Sir Samuel and the solicitor

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      went to hisi ' . tesidence . - ' - ' Some conversation- took place on the subject of the comments in tho paper ; Sir S . Spry was much excited , and on the ' euitor refusing to withdraw the comments he had made , Sir Samuel raised a short riding whip which he had brought with him , and atruek at the editor The latter caug ht his arm , and wrenched the whip from him , and a kind of scuffling fi ght ensued between the parties , until the solictor recovering from his astonishment , went forward and parted them . There was no great personal damage done ; though the editor ' s face was somewhat scratched by Sir Samuel ' s nails . Tho proprietors of the paper conceive it necessary that the editor should be

      protected in the discharge of his duties ; and , in consequence , a bill of indictment for the assault has been preferred against the late sheriff at the present Lent Assizes for the county . FiTAii Acoidbnt . —The Yorkshire Gazette announces the death of the only son of the Baron and Baroness de Langen , and grandson of II . Preston , Esq ., of Moreby . The deceased was out upon his favourite pony , near Ratcliffe Hall , Lancashire , attended by a servant , when a party riding past at a furious rate , caused the pony to take fright ; the deceased unfortunately was thrown off , and his foot hanging in the stirrup , he received such serious injuries as to cause his immediate death . The tlad wa 3 in his ninth year , and an only child .

      Supposed Soicidk —Much consternation has been caused in the town of Reading , since the 20 th inst ., when it was known that J . Woedon , Esq ., of Brunswick House , on the Bath-road , had been absent from his homo since the previous evening , and notwithstanding the diligent search made Dy his afflicted family and friends , no clue to his discovery has been ascertained ; it is , therefore , feared that lie has committed suicide , most probably by drowning . No pecuniary difficulty could have induced this act , as he was a man of large means , and had , a short time since , retired from a very lucrative law practice , the best in the town . He was leader of a large section of the liberal party in Reading for many years , and was much looked up to and respected by them- ; he was also a member of the town council , and was but lately mayor , the duties of which office he discharged with much credit to

      himielf , and to the satisfaction of all parties in the borongh . He leaves a wife with a family of nine or ten children . MelAncholt Aocident . ~ A lamentable occurrence took place in the family of Mr . Walter Paul , of High-grove , near Tetbury , last week . Mr . Paul gave a ball , previous to his son , Captain Paul , leaving home to join his regiment . At about nine o'clock Miss Paul retired from the ball-room ; having an attack of tic doloreaux , she proceeded from one room to the other , the lighted candle fell from her hand , and her dress , being composed of white lace , rapidly ignited , and the young lady was instantly enveloped in flames . She endeavoured to extinguish the . fire by throwing a basin of . water over herself , and her screams alarmed the attendants , but , before their efforts could subdue the flames , she was so severely burnt as to leave but faint hepes of her recovery , and on Sunday last she ceased to live .

      Poisohiso ik NoRFoiiK . —Norwich , Satordat , March 23 . —Another case of wholesale poisoning has been discovered in this country , a whole family often persons having been poisoned , two of whom have since died . The locality of this dreadful affair is Stow Bardolph , a small retired village , two miles north of Downham , in the western portion of the county , and the unfortunate victims are the family of a respectable farmer named Mr . James P-ige , who resided there . An investigation has taken place before the Rev . E . J . Howman , ono of the county magistrates , but the reporters were excluded on the ground , it was alleged , that it would not be prudent at present to give publicity to the evidence , though the case was admitted as one

      involving the utmost mystery , and it was doubtful if it was not a foul and deliberate murder . The facts furnished to the representatives , of the press by tho police are as follows : —The family consisted of nine persons—namely , Mr . James Page , Mrs . Page , three-sons , two young ladies ( sisters of Mr . Pago , ) a governess , three women and one man servant . A few weeks ago a quantity of sugar was bought by a member of the family , which came first into use on the 20 th inst . The tea at the breakfast table was Bweatenod with it , and Mr . Page at once complained it made him sick . At the same time he summoned the servants , and a remark was u > adc by one of the women that there were some white particles in the sugar , probably mixed with it to cheapen it . A

      sediment was also discovered in the cups . Nothing more , however , it seems , was thought of the circumstance , and it was determined that instead of using the sugar for tea it should be employed for puddings and other pastry . At dinner that day an apple pudding was served , and the sugar was added to it ; and immediately after the family had partaken of it they were all seized with violent burnin * pains in the throat , followed by purging , vomiting , and other symptoms usual in cases of poisoning . The servants partook of the m- al , and suffered in tho same manner . Mr . Page at once despatched messengers for medical gentlemen residing in the neighbourhood , who were quickly on the spot , and every means was resorted to , to check the horrible

      effects of the poison . They remained with the sufferers the whole of that ni » ht and the following day . It was evident , however , that Mr . Page , had swallowed a considerable quantity ; he never rallied , bat sunk under its baneful effects , expiring in great agony on Friday morning , the 22 nd inst . ; and-at the time of these details Tmirig written the medical gentlemen have reported the death of his son . The other members of the family and two of the servants remairfed very ill , but hopes were entertained of their recovery . Mr . Page was highly respected . Murder in Newcastle . —A shocking murder ^ Yas committed in the town of Newcastle on Saturday morning last , the victim being a woman named Elizabeth Forbes , and the supposed murderer her

      husband , Patrick Forbes , an Irish labourer . The latter is stated to have been a violent drunken character , and to have been in the habit of maltreating his wife . —The police were attracted to the spota top room in Cloggers entry , near St . Nicholas ' s Churchyard—by cries of "Murder , " and on entering found the floor covered with blood and the woman dead in bead , and shockingly wounded in the lower part of the abdomen as well as on the face . The husband was at the time sitting on a chair by the fireside . He professed total ignorance of the manner in which his wife had come to her end , and offered no resistance when taken into custody . Spots of blood were found on his shirt , trowsers , and hands , and he had two knives in his possession .

      The Truck Ststem . —For the last month or two there have been a great many prosecutions in East Worcestershire and . Staffordshire against parties chiefly connected with the coal and iron mines of that district for paying their workmen in truck . The war against the system has been taken up by gentlemen and tradesmen of Dudley , Wolvcrnampton , Walsall , Wednesbury , &c , and a great many convictions have taken place , wlich it was thought would have a very salutary effect . Another case lias , however , just been tried , at the Inst ? hamcd place with a different result . The defendant in this case is a' butty collier , named Thomas Lawrence , and he was defended by Mr . Sergeant Allen , who succeeded in showing that the tickets given to the complainant were in the form of checks , and thereupon it was contended that this was a legal payment , authorised by Act of Parliament , and tho magistrates dismissed the case .

      Extraordinary Case op . Bigamy at Upton-on-Sevekn . —The magistrates sitting in Petty Sessions here hare been engaged in adjudicating on a case of bigamy committed under very peculiar circumstances as regards the conduct of the first wife , who had adopted the habits and dress of a man , and had actually been married to one of her own . sex . The accused bigamist is one John Curtis , a labourer , of the village of Strensham—the retreat of the poet Butler ; and he standa charged with having married a second wife during the existence of his first , whose maiden name was Anna Maria- "Williins , and whom he married at Strensham in 1835 . Curtis and his wife lived together until the year 1840 , when they lame to a mutual agreement to separate . Upon

      this separation taking place the wife , who was of a masculine character , determined to " change her condition" otherwise , and forthwith she assumed male attire , and proceeded into an adjoining county ( Staffordshire ) , whero she engaged w ' ith a farmer as day labourer , and actually worked in the fields , and occasionally guided the ploughshare . She then became the " man-servant" of a gentleman , and having the appearance of a " brisk young man , " she attracted the attention . of , her master ' s housemaid , and the two appeared to bo on terms likely to lead to a consummation in niarriacre . It was supposed by some parties that theso two fellow servants wero more intimate than virtuous , and the housemaid was i severely taken to task by her . relatives upon the subject , and some abuse fell to the share of of the seeming man . The two were much annoyed by the scandal , and at length tho banns were put up , and they were actually married , and lived

      together as man and wife ,: as everybody thought , for some years , the secret of the supposod husband's sex being undivulged . At length , however , tho housemaid got tired of her female husband , and married a real man , removing to a distant part of the country , while the heroine of our history remained in Staffordshire . In the meantime nor real husband , Curtis , tired of single life , resolved to marry again , and having paid his addresses to a woman in his parish , the clergyman , the Rev . Dr . Groves , incumbent of ; Strensham , was applied to , but very properly refused to marry tho couple until ho had some proof of the death of Curtls's first wife . Curtis made another application for the fulfilment of a custom peculiar to the parish of Strensham , viz ., to have the church bell tolled as for the death of the missing wife . : This , however , was also refused , upon which Curtis and . his bride expectant repaired to Worcester , where they wore married . The fact was very shortly afterwards conveyed to

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      ti , e eAi-s ¦ ' of liis' roal wife' in ' Staffordshire , upon Tfhich > she assumed her female atiire , had Curtis taken into custody , andiappeared . to prosecute him for bigamy ,. The . magistrates , having heard : tne evidence , committed Curtjs for trial , Shocking Suicide by a Suhgeon at Cheltenham —This town has been much excited by a melancholy case of . suicide , committed by Dr . Bell , . who had been . for a short time : an Inmate *\ ^ SandyWellnark Lunatic Asylum , kept by Mr . Hitch , The deceased was seized nine months ago with symptoms of suicidal lunacy , and had been placed m the above named twylum , but was occasionally m so rational a mood that his doctor permitted him to pay a ' weekly visit to his wife and relations at Cheltenham , lie hnd been fetched from the asylum in a carnage by Mrs . Bell , and had spent the day at his own house when the dreadful event took place . Mrs . Bell h- » d cone upstairs for the purpose of dressing , in order to accompany , her husband back to Sandy well-park , and

      the deceased was left in the drawing-room witn a young gentleman named Traill , a pupil at the Cheltenham Proprietary College . This young gentleman was in the act of taking coffee when he observed Dr . Bell walk up and down the room and suddenly stop opposite a looking-glass . He then heard a n -iae as of scratching , and looking . round observed the deceased in the very act of cutting his throat with a table knife , the blood streaming from the wound . The youth endeavoured to wrest the weapon from his hand , but the deceased resisted and pushed him away , upon which he went in search of some of theservantB , and returning found him lying on tho floor in a complete pool of blood and _ quite dead Two surgeons were examined on the inquest , and it was proved that the wound which tho deceased had inflicted upon his throat was seven inches in length and four In depth , he having in fact cut down to the spinal vertebra ) . The coroner ' s jury returned a verdict , that the deceased had committed the act while labouring under temporary insanity . Nuns in Cambridgb . —After a space of more than three hundred years nuns are again stationed in the university town of Cambridge . On Monday the 11 th inst ., the school of the Roman Catholic mission were re-opened , under the superintendence of two nuns of the order of the Infant Jesus , from the convent- of Northampton . On the Wednesday following mass was celebrated by the Rev . Thomas Quinlivan , the pastor , for the special invocation of the Holy Ghost on the labours of the sisters , after which the children went in procession to the schools . Cambridge Chronicle ..:.

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      ScotlsuB , Fobgery at Paisley . —It was discovered on the 22 nd inst ., that a number of one-pound notes had been forged on the Clydesdale Banking Company . The names forged ore Walker , and Muir . The extent of the forgery has not yet been learnt , but it is believed to be considerable . Sunday Shaving . —The Scotsman says that three barbers have been prosecuted at the Central Police Court , Glasgow , for having exercised their calling on the Sabbath-day .. They were ,. however , acquitted , it being successfully contended that the old Scotch acts of Parliament ( 1661 to 1691 ); on which the prosecution was founded , were quite inoperative and inapplicable at the present day . How the . Poor Rates are collected at Wisiiaw . —The Nortk ^ British Mail says that there has been great dissatisfaction in the parish of Cambusnethan , in consequence of the poor rates being levied upon " means and ; substance . " This system presses hardly upon the working classes , and a number of seizures have taken place . The discontented assembled in a riotous manner , and being joined by the colliers at . the , Coltness ironworks , who had a separate grievance of their own upon the subject of wages , matters assumed a serious aspect . A boy who had been captured was now rescued by the mob , and Wishaw seemed in a state of opon revolt . A detachment of the 4 th Dragoon Guards was sent , for ; but their valour , was . not called into requisition , the crowd quietly dispersing on their appearance . To vindicate the majesty of . the law , however , a few striplings were arrested , and safely conveved to Hamilton eaol .

      Destructive Fires At Glasgow . —A fire occurred on Monday night , by . which the larger portion of the extcn » ive premises known as the Port-Dundas Grain Mills , occupied by Mr . Currie , has been totally consumed , very little being saved from destruction . The origin of the fire it is impossible to account for ; the mill , when left at eight o ' clock , by the parties employed in it , having been all safe , and no appearances whatever of anything wrong . Including the building , machinery , and grain , the total dampge will not be much , if at all , under 15 , 0001 . Both the proprietors of the building which is owned by the Port Dundas Distillery Company—and the occupier , Mr . Currie , are , we believe , fully insured . It is somewhat curioue , if what we heard stated bo correct , that the sum of £ 4 , 000 upon the grain was insured in the Phoenix only four days since , the policy not having been made out , Mr . Currio merely holding the usual line from the company . The mill was partially burned , aome few years ago , but at that time , the damage done was trifling compared to the present heavy loss . About four o ' clock on the same day , Mr . Houldsworth ' s niill , in Cheapside-streot , also caught fire . Agood supply of water having been obtained , the firemen wrought with such alacrity that the fire was altogether confined to the engine-house , where it originated , which , however , hxs been almost entirely destroyed .

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      irwinD . Extraordinary Charge of Murder . —The trial of Dr . Langley for the murder of his wife terminated on the 22 nd inst ., at the Nenagh Assizes , in the acquittal of the prisoner . The case , which was a very remarkable one , and occupied the court fur two days * , attracted considerable attention . The prir soner was a physician , practising in the town of iXenagh for several years . He had been married fr fifteen or sixteen years to his wife , the daugh : er of a respectable clergyman named Poe , in the Same town , and was charged with murdering her by confining her while sick and diseased to an unwholesome room , and by refusing to allow-her to provide proper food for lu-rselt , and neglecting and refusing to provide it for her . This treatment , was said to have occurred between 5 th December ,-1848 , and 1 st May , 1849 , and the motive for it was alleged to have been an unfortunate attachment which the prisoner entertained for a niece of his wife . Letters were produced in evidence in which the prisoner confessed that attachment , and brought charges of infidelity against his wife to excuse the hatred which he felt for her However , it appears from the testimony of the witnesses that Mrs . Langley died of diarrhoaa , and the jury acquitted the prisoner of either murder or manslaughter . One of the remarkable circumstances connected with the ca « e was the fact of the prisoner having abstained from food for forty days in the prison , taking nothingduting that time but water , and also refusing to have his heard removed .

      The murder of Mr . Woolsey , of Clooriagh-house , near Portadown , continues to excite much interest in the north ot Ireland . The inquest had not termini ) ted when the last accounts left , and the Belfast Newsletter states : — " That from the evidence there in ns yet no positive charge against any individual . The deceased was at litigation on several occasions with his relations and others , and had been successful in ejecting them out of small portions of land . There has therefore , existed between him and them so much coldness as to warrant the surmiss that he was shot by some of those persons who may have supposed themselves harshly treated by him . Ills brother waa apprehended on suspicion of being a guilty parly in the dreadful transaction , but was liberated by order of ibe . magistrates , as there was no evidence to warrant their holding him . Mr . S . Boyd , who is brO ' ther-in-law to the deceased , and his son , were appreliHiuled on susnicion . .

      Abolition of the Vicekotalty .-tAccording to the authority of the Warder it is not considered prohable that all the arrangementsforthe sweeping away of the Irish Court can be completed before the close of the present year , although no time will be lost in pushing the Abolition Bill through both Houses of ' arliament . The Lord Mayor has returned from London , and will , it is said , preside , at another aggregate meeting of the citizens on the subject . Ward meetings are also to be organised , and fresh , energy given to the agitation . Tenant Right Agitation . A 14-eolumn supplement to the Banner of Ulster , almost entirely devoted to the proceedings of two tenant-right meetings onv'held in Londonderry , the other in Antrim , bead ' s testimony to the rapid growth of the agitation which ims been fet " on fooc , by the Presbyterian clergy of " the North and theTtoman Catholic priests of the South . At the gatherings in question the rev . gentlemen hnd a complete monopoly of the oratory , and to do them justice , Mr . John Mitchel himself , in the columns of the United Irishman , never went much farther in his violent advocacy of the rights of the tenantry , as opposed to thoao of the landlords . An unhappy escapade in the Upper House of Parliament , touching the propriety of stopping the regiwn donvvi , lias " told" the wrong way ; the threat merely servin g a- a text to preach whele volumes of contemptuous indignation / As for poor Sir'William Somerville's bill , it was literally torn to shreds at Ballyclar » nd Dervock . '' ' ¦ ''

      Signs of Improvement . —Further cheering symptoms of improvement In the far west are thus announced in'the Tyraxdy Herald ;— "It will be gratifying to our readers to learn that there are but three pauners receiving out-doi > r relief in this union , at the weekly cost of Is . Qd . This presents a very favourable contrast with the corresponding period of last year , when several thousands were on- the relief lists , and the weekly expenditure amounted to £ 587 . The saving is . at the rate of £ 30 , 000 « year . 'A- ' similar tappy change is presented in the Swineford Union ; for the out-door expenditure , for the week , ending March 10 th 1850 , was only 7 » ,, while , in thecor-

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 30, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1567/page/6/