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      « fc————^—_———q <_ g _ SS 5 S ^ ^ tropoH ^ Health of LootokI Durikg the "Week . —A considerable decrease is observed ia the mortality of the week ending last Saturday- The total deaths registered in the metropolitan districts , which in the previous week rose to 1 , 124 , were last week only 893 , whereas the average derived from deaths in ten corresponding weeks of 1840-9 , and raised in proportion to increased population , is 1 , 001 , and in the last three corresponding weeks , namely those of 1847-9 , the deaths rose to about 1 , 050 and upwards , la last week as compared with that immediately preceding , the deaths classed as having been caused by zymotic or epidemic diseases , are almost exactly of the same amount : in this return there are 157 , of which 7 were from small-pox . 15 from measles , 18 from scarlatina , 35 from hooping cough , 4 from iuflaenza , all of which

      diseases are at present less fatal than usual ; there are also 37 from typhus , which is about the average ; and 13 from diarrhoea , 6 from remittent fever , 5 from rheumatic fever ( besides 3 from rheumatism , ) and 8 from erysipelas , from which diseases the mortality is rather above the average . But diseases of the respiratory organs still exhibit a small increase on the average , though compared with the mortality of this class in ihe previous week they show a reduction . Bronchitis , pneumonia , asthma , and other complaints affecting the organs of respiration ( with the exception of hoopin" cough and consumption ) , number 174 , the average being 161 ; tlieir progress during the last six weeks may be traced in the following numbers : —171 , 182 , 231 , 252 , 253 , and 174 , these fluctuations being nearly coincident with rise and tall ot

      temperature . Phthisis ( or consumption ) was fatal to 103 persons last week , an unusually small number ; the year 1 SJ 3 affords the only example of a corresponding week in which the mortality from this disease was so low ; the average is about 150 . Untne 6-h of April , in the Marylebone workhouse , a widow died , whose age is reported to have been 103 years , she snnk bv - * natural decay . " On the 28 th of March , in Ferry-street , Poplar , the daughter of a labourer , aged 3 years , died of privation , or , according to the return " made by the coroner ' s jury , from " natural death accelenued by want . " Two men and two women arc registered as the victims of

      intemperance . In workhouses , 77 deaths were registered in the week , and in hospitals 58 , of which 35 were in general hospitals , 8 in naval and military , and 8 in lunatic asylums . The births during the week numbered 1 , 473 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29-425 in . The mean daily reading of the thermometer was highest on Sunday , when it was 54-4 deg ., and lowest on Saturday , being 46 ' 2 deg . ; the mean temperature of the week was 49 5 deg ., or 5 deg . higher than the average of the same week in seven years . The mean temperature was throughout the week higher than the average , and on Sunday was Lisher bv 9 * 5 deg ., and on Monday 8 * 5 . deg .

      Suicide ir Poison . — On Saturday last Mr . Payne held an inquest at the White Hart , Fetterlane , on view of the body of Mrs . Eleanor Dundas Perdval , aged thirty-five , a lady of high respectability , who committed suicide with morphia at the Hope coffee-house , No . 37 , Fetter-lane , where she had taken temporary apartments . —Sophia Cole , a governess residing at No . 37 , Fetter-lane , said that the deceased had been living at the same house about two months . She informed witness that her relations , who were niest respectable , had turned their backs upon her in consequence of her marriage about two years ago . When at the is ' and of Havannah she lost her husband , to whois she had been married nearly twelve months , and who . was a captain ia the naval service . She at the same time lost

      an infant child . Being left in these circumstances she obtained a situation as governess in the family of Major-General Sir Colin Campbell , who was then the Governor of Barfcadoes . Upon her health dedining she returned to England in the month of October last . Witness accidentally met the deceased in the beginning of February , near the American C- ffee-house , where witness was applying to obtain a governess ' s situation in one of the colonies . Deceased was there for a similar object . She then informed witness that she had been turned out of an lot *] at the West end , where she had been residing several weeks , because she was unable to pay the debt -he had contracted there , and that her boxes , with all her wearii-g apparel and her other property in them , had been detained by the proprietor of the

      hotel ia . discharge of his claim . She was then dressed in her night clothes , with a gown over them . She also stated that she had lent a turn of money to a female who she supposed was her friend , but ¦ who had robbed her . Witness had compassion upon her , and recommended her to engage apartments at the house she ( witness ^ was residing at . She assented , aid accompanied witmss there . Deceased had applied to some friend in Gordon-square for assistance , but was unsuccessful . She ( deceased ) subsequently wrote toMUs Burdett Coutts . when , a few days ago , a gentleman called on the part of that lady , and paid the rent she cved , amount ins to £ 2 14 s ., and left her 10 a . Deceased for some days past bad beeji in a very exvited state . On Thursdav evening she went out . and

      returned with a phial in iier hand , which contained morphia . There was a direction on it , that ten drops were to bs taken at a dose . Deceased , who was aware of its effects , if taken in a larger quantity , was in the habit of employing it ' sis a sedative . She went to bed between five and six o ' clock . Previous to lying d-iwn she swallowed ten drops of the morpbia . "Witness went away and returned in a ^ out half an hour . Deceased then appeared dying . Witness , who found that she had emptied the phial of the morphia , alarmed the landlady of the house , upon which 3 Ir . Cooper , snrgeon . of Fetter-lane , was sent for . He applied the stomach-pump and oilier antidotes , but without effect , and she died in a few hours . In answer to the coroner , the witness

      added that deceased had ei » hty guineas a year while governess in the famiiy of General Campbell . There were numerous letters in deceased ' s apartment * , with other documents . Deceased was the daughter of a clergyman . A letter wa 3 produced , wr itten shortly before her death to a friend in Scotland fur assistance , in which , she observed that she had married a gentleman of the Catholic persuasion—that she had lost all her friends by marrying him , while he bad lost all his friends by marryicg her , she being a Protestant . She then stated the circumstances of lis death , and reques t ed relief . There was another paper in which it was stated that she was proficient in the Latin , French , and Italian languages , and was fully competent to teach music and dancing . Verdict— " Temporary insanity . "

      Melancholy Accident . —A lengthened inquiry was held by Mr . Carter on Friday the 12 th inst . at the Noahs Ark Tavern . Park'Street , Southffark , respecting the death of Miss Mary Carpenter , aged eighty-two , who was burnt almost to a cinder , ata fire which occurred at the deceased ' s residence in JJSoss ' s-aUey . Bankside , on Tuesday evening . The deceased , who was possessed of several freehold houses in the above neighbourhood , was looked upon as being one of the most extraordinary characters probably ever heard of . A few years since she bad a number of dresses made so short that none of them would reach down to her knees . Part of her leg was exposed , but the other was encased in white stockings , tied op with scarlet garters , the ribbons extending to her feet or flying about her person . In

      this extraordinary dress she would sally forth to market , followed by immense crowds « f aen and children . Sis or seven years ago she entirely changed her manner of living , for , instead of continuing the sport of the populace , she shut herself up in her bouse ia Moss's-alley , and being apprehensive that" thieves would break in and steal , " she had the windows bricked up . She continued to live in one of the rooms on the ground floor until the memorable high tide occurred , which forced her to leave her dingy apartment for one higher . This room she also had bricked -to . so that not the least sight could enter from theoiu ' slde . A woman named FJynn used to atteud upon her , and with the exception of her

      collector of rents no one was allowed to enter on any pretence whatever . - On Tuesday Mrs . Flynn left the deceased cooking a mutton chop for her dinner , and in two hours after smoke was seen pouring through the apertures in the wall . An alarm being given , the house was broken open , when , on going to the upper floor , the place was found to be full of flame , and the deceased lying on the bed encircled in fat . The flames having been extinguished , the deceased was fmnd to he frightfully burnt . There being no doubt in the minds of the jury that whilst deceased was cooking her mutton chop her dress became ignited , they returned a . verdict of " Accidental death . "

      Accident p * the Thunder Stobm . — Fne storm of Friday , the 12 th inst ., was extremely destructive . A man , unknown , was struck deadbytbe electric fluid near the Nightingale , Lissen-grove , and removed to the Paddington dead-house . A billy-boy , eighty tons burthen , was also struck near to Hungerford Suspension-bridge , and instantly sunk , the crew , three in number , escaping almost by a miracle . The enormous hailstones that fell have destroyed property to a considerable amount in the suburbs , more particularly in the nursery grounds at Kilburn , Fulham , Depiford , Camberwell , Ac . Metropolitan Police . —Captain Donsjlas W . P . Labalmondiere , is appointed Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police , in the place of Captain Hay , who has succeeded Sir Charles Rowan as joint commissioner with Mr . Mayne .

      Burglary xso Robbery . — Saturday morning last : he premises of ilr . Barr , flour-factor and wharfinger , of Copenhagen Wharf , on the River Lee , Inmehquse , were discovered to have been entered , and upwards of i £ 30 in silver and copper money abstracted by the thieves . The burglary was effected with considerable skill , the thieves having obtained an entrance at the window , and , as it is supposed , SJOTdy after daylight so as to throw the persons engaged oa the premises , looking after the cows and other stock ln the outhouses , off their guard . About twenty minutes to nine two men were seen proceeding in a truck from the direction of the prejnises , tut , as it was not earlier than the ' nsual hour

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      for commencing suburban business , no notice was taken . Suspicion has , consequently , fallen on the men who were seen' in the truck , neither of whom have , unfortunately , been yet recognised ; Burglaries at this end of the metropolis and its vicinity have been greatly on the the increase lately . Shocking Accident . — About ten o ' clock on Tuesday morning John Jane , one of the men employed to unload the ice from the Wenham Lake Ice Company ' s stores , near the Waterloo-bridge , met with so serious an accident that his life is despaired of . The blocks of ice are this year unusually larpe , some nf them PYWPnMnir 5001 b . in weight , and a horse ^

      is employed , by means of ropes and tackle , to raise them from the barge to a platform , from which they are carted for storage to the ice houses . The > unfortunate man was employed to detoch the blocks from the ice-tongs , on its reaching the platform . By tome means one of the blocks in its ascent caught the beam which crosses the barge , and the horse , not 5 -topped in time , pulled down the pole to which the tecUe was fixed , and the phtform , from which the poor fellow was precipitated head Joremott , and fractured his skill ' . He was immediatel y conveyed in a cab to the Westminster Hospital , and , from the extent of his wounds , not the slightest ho ) -e ? are entertained of his surviving more than a few hours . IIiis wellknown

      Death of Madame Tossaud . — - lady died on Monday night last , in her 90 th year . She was a native of Berne , but left Switzerland , when but six years old , for Paris , where she became a pupil of her uncle , M . Curtius , " artiste to Louis XVI ., by whom she was instructed in the fine arts , of which he was an eminent professor . " Madame Tussaud prided herself upon the fact of her having had the honour of instructing Madame Elizabeth to draw and model , and she continued to be employed by that princess until October , 1789 . ln 1802 Madame Tussaud left France for England , and from that time to the present—close upon half a century—has exhibited in the principal cities and towns of Great Britain and Ireland her collection of wax figures , to the great gratification of teas of thousands of holidaymaking sight-seevs .

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      Oxford . — A notice has appeared in the Oxford Journal of the intended stopping up of no less than forty-six public way 3 and footpaths , many of them such , . no doubt , f : om time immemorial , and leading , by short cuts , across pleasant fields , and along delightful walks . Fearing that this wholesale curtailment of some of the most valuable rights and privileges of the citizens of Oxford has not met with the attention it deserves , we now notice it , in order to check it , if yet possible . The stopping up is announced to take place in August next . Execution at Cambridge . —Cambridge , April 13 th . —It will , probably , be in the recollection of our readers that Elias Lucas and Maria Reeder were

      found guilty at the last assizes of the murder of Susan Lucas , the wife of tha male prisoner and the sister of the female . The horrid act waseifected by means of poison , and was committed to enable the guilty parties the more fully to indulge in a guilty passion which they entertained for each other . For the commission of this offence Lucas and Reeder were left for execution by Mr . Justice Wightman , and at twelve o ' clock this day they expiated their crime on a gallows in this town . Although immediately subsequent to their conviction they mani fested complete indifference to their fate , they yet shortly afterwards exhibited a most desirable change of conduct , and the girl Reeder very soon confessed that she had mixed some arsenic in a mess of which her deceased sister had partaken . Lucas continued to deny any participation in the crime , but upon his receiving the sacrament last Sunday he confessed to the Rev . Mr . Roberts that he " desired Reeder to

      do it , and to put as much in the mess as would lie on a shilling . " At the scaffold both convicts manifested the most astounding nerve . At length the usual signal was given , and the next moment the miserable creatures were in the struggles of death . They seemed to suffer but little pain , and within u minute they had lost all symptoms of vitality . At the moment of the drop falling a terrific rush was made for the narrow gateway leading to the road . Through some oversight on the part of the officials there had been no barriers erected at this dangerous part of tha ground . A strong body of police was in attendance , but they were of little use in checking the rush of tha multitude . A fearful scene ensued , and many persons were seriously , if not fatally hurt , by being trampled upon , the -women being the greatest sufferers . The female prisoner was in her twenty-first year , and the male prisoner was in his twenty-fourth .

      New Military Prison at Gosport . —The new military prison at Forton , Go 3 port , is completed , and in about a fortnight the establishment now occupying Southsea Castle will be moved over . It consists of a governor , Captain J . Curtin ( late 40 th Regiment ) , a chaplain , the Rev . Mr . Dennis ; a surgeon , Mr . Dowse ; a schoolmaster ( not yet named ); with about seventeen or eighteen warders . The new prison will contain about 150 prisoners , each with a separate cell . The cells are capacious , airy , and well lighted by a small corrugated glas 3 window , placed high up . The glass admits liaht freely , but is impervious to sight , and a small pane can be opened by the prisoner to admit air , if he requires it . The cells , and , indeed , the whole building , is kept perfectly warm , by hot-air pipes , that run under the floorings . Each cell is provided with a bsll-pulJ , which strikes a gong , and the act of pulling the bell throws out an indicator that points to the

      warder the cell from which the bell has Heen rung . The building is three stories high , the cell doors face each other in three tiers , with iron verandahs running along . The centre or aisle between the floors is lighted from the top by a glass roofing . The lower tier of cells contain the solitary and dark prisons for punishment , but these are also warmed by hot-air pipes , and are well ventilated . Four baths for the use of the prisoners also occupy the basement , and in each there are places for washing , shaving , and a number of water-closets . The food is hoisted up from the furnace-room through a trap-door in the floor , and a railway then conveys it to the door of each cell . At the back of the prison is a capacious chapel , and underneath the chapel-room is a large school-room . The prisoners are generally in three clashes , and within the walls are three classyards . The prison has been erected at the expense of £ 30000 .

      , The Newport Mdrder . —The conduct of Maurice . Murpby and Patrick Sullivan , the two young Irishmen charged with the robbery and savage murder of the poor infirm old woman , Jane Lewis , in a wood near Bassalleg , has been marked by a degree of levity extraordinary in their awful position ; and this has been especially the case with the prisoner Murphy . The Catholic clergymen have been unremitting in their spiritual attention to both prisoners . The prisoner Murphy has , on one or two occasions since his committal , sullenly expressed a determination to destroy himself , if he could procure means . However , since the ministrations of the spiritual advisers have been so earnestly directed towards this unhappy man ' s desire for self-destruction , he has evinced a

      deep sense of its wickedness . The prisoner Sullivan —who has & more stolid and morose disposition than his partner in euilt—begins to exhibit feelings of deep regret for the crimes in which he has been en . gaged ; and he expresses indignation that Murphy should have attempted to charge a third party with the Namoc murder . He relates that another young man had been in their company for several days-that they bad agreed to commit some robberies , but that the third party had expressed a degree of fear , and that , therefore , on the morning of the murder ( Wednesday ) they sent him on an errand , and gave him the slip , fearing that his connexion with them would involve the whole in discovery . lie further says : — " We were by the ditch . The other prisoner hit her on the poll of the head with a stone . Her hand

      basket fell down , and some of the things came out . I took the basket in my hand , and took it up to thelittle house , lie took the things out , and gave me a black handkerchief , which I put in my pocket . He told me then to go and watch in the road if any one was coming while he went down to search her pockets , and I did . I stopped in the road till he came out . I asked him how much had she ? He said , ' But one halfpenny , ' and he got the shawl . He went to the pawnbroker's with the shawl , and wore the hat at the time . The woman swore falsely about it . They did not take the shawl because it was too wet ; so we both went up together to that lodging-house , and sold it for Is . 5 d . Murphy gave her a kick in the eye with the toe of his boot , and on the jaw with the heel of his boot . There is the first and the last

      of it , whatever Murphy may have said . That s how it happened , from first to last . " The prisoners , it will be recollected , were apprehended at Cheltenham , and circumstances have transpired which leave no doubt that subsequently to the murder of Mrs , Lewis , and while on their road to Cheltenham , they also committed a murderous attack on a gentleman in Pnrley Wood , near Lydney . It appears that the second victim was Mr . Benjamin Meredith , aged seventy-two , a tall powerful person , formerly attached to the excise department at Chepstow , afterwards superannuated , and residing at Aylburton , in Gloucester-hire . The unfortunate gentleman had been to Blakeney , for the purpose of paying bis rent ; and had taken a stamp in his pocket upon which to

      have a receipt . Un returning by Purley Wood , with the unfilled stamp in his pocket book , not having roed it , be must have been attacked a little before six o ' clock , on a lonely spot , adjacent to the road , and much dreaded in general by foot-passengers . Here he was mo 3 t brutally beaten—the crown of his head being kicked in , and so relentlessly was he dealt with thit he wa ? leftfor dead . The poor old gentleman must have lain in the ditch all night , and the attemp t ed murder must bave occurred about six , as he left Blakeney at five , and two coaches pass the spot a little after six , after which time he was not seen . It is supposed he recovered his consciousness in some measure before morning , and crawled towards the high road , where he was found at about six o ' clock , by James Davis , a farm servant , who was

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      ! : ¦» r- - - - ; .,.. ' :. . . . —tr proceeding to his wprki . Mrv Meredith ; . who ' wail then quite insensible , and apparently dead , . was in * mediately removed to Lydney ; but . the surgeon , Mr . j T Tockwell , gives no hopes of his recovery ' . ' .. Two more Thug-lifce cases have seldom stained . the annals of crime . «» ¦ '¦ - '¦ . Confession of a Murderer . —A murder , committed twenty years since , at Laleham , a rural village near Staines and Chertsey , has been brought to light by a voluntary confession , made on Friday afternoon the 12 th inst ., by Charles Ilolden , a labouring man . upwards of forty years of age . —The facts connected with this case will probably be best understood in a narrative form . On Friday afternoon the man Ilolden was in Mr . Mott ' s beer shop at Ashford , when police constable Wright , who is stationed in that

      village , entered the house . Holden ^ who was not in" * briated , addressed the constable in a low tone of voice , and said he had a secret to tell him . The constable , supposing that the man was merely joking , told him to speak out what he had to say . He entreated to be taken into custody , saying that he was a murderer , and tired of his life . The constable apprehended him , and the prisoner made a statement to this effect : —That about twenty years since , on a Friday ni « ht , he was in the company of a young woman , about eighteen years of age , named Jane Lewis , with whom he had tramped and lived about two years . This was at the Cricketers , near Chertseybridge . They left that house about twelve o ' clock , and when they had got half-way between Chertsey and Laleham they turned into a footpath across the

      fields , which was a near cut to the Horseshoes publichouse . Some words arose between them , and he ( the prisoner ) hit her with his left hand under the ear ; she fell , and expired instantly . The prisoner then went on to state that he took her on his back , and carried her about twenty yards into a plantation near to the Earl of Lucan ' s mansion . Knowing the place where Lord Lucan ' s gardener kept his tools , he went there , although it was almost adjoining the lodge in which he slept , got the spade , and came back with it . He then measured the body , cut away the turf from the same length and breadth of ground , and dug a grave two feet deep . In this he put the woman , dressed as she was , placing her arms across her bosom . He refilled the grave , and replaced the turf , and carried back the spade to the place he had taken

      it from , and , as the prisoner stated , the whole of these proceedings occupied him only about an hour and a half . The prisoner continued his extraordinary statement , by saying that he bad not had any peace of mind since . He knew no more of the young woman than that she was a native or Hertfordshire . When he struck her he did not intend to kill her . After the discovery of the skeleton , a few months since , he became still more wretched—the deed preyed on his mind . More than that , it was in every person ' s mouth , and he fancied all that looked at him thought him the murderer . At the time he first heard of the skeleton being found he was in Mr . Woodhouse ' s beer-shop , at Laleham , and he thought the devil had caught hold of him . The prisoner made this statement in a clear , unbroken voice , and when asked if

      he would point out the spot where he had buried his victim , he consented instantly . The constable then took him to Charles Hanell , policeman , who does duty at Laleham , and in his presence the prisoner made the same statement . He afterwards went with the constables to the plantation , and before starting begged to be handcuffed , lest he should lay violent hands on himself . As he approached the spot he trembled violently , and when within a few yards of it said , ' I am near the spot—1 can go no further , ' and pointed to it . The skeleton was discovered on the 30 th of November last , by a carpenter , who wag putting up some new fencing , and in making a hole for a post struck against the skull . The skeleton whs found entire , and subject to the rude inspection of every person for several days . The hole , however ,

      was filled in , no further notice being taken of the discovery . The prisoner was conveyed in the afternoon to the police station' at Sunbury , when Sergeant M'Intyre , the acting inspector , reduced his statement to writing , and the prisoner signed it . The prisoner said he felt now comparatively happy—that he knew he should be hanged , but he did not mind that . The statement was read over three separate times to the prisoner , and each time he declared solemnly it was the truth . Oa Saturday last the prisoner was taken before Mr . Marriot , one of the county magistrates who resides at Sunbury , for examination . The magistrate having read the statement made by the prisoner , questioned and cross-examined him as to different points , to ascertain if he was insane , but there was not the slightest symptom of derangement exhibited . On Monday the prisoner was brought before the bench of magistrates at Staines Petty Sessions , and police constable Wright

      and the other witnesses having deposed to the facts above stated , the prisoner , who asseverated that the occurrence was accidental , was again remanded , in order to afford time to the bench to consider the propriety of adding to the depositions the written statement purporting to be the prisoner's confession . Destructive Fihe at Manchester . —On Monday morning , about nine o ' clock , a very alarming fire broke out in the premises of Mr . Thomaa Baxter , cotton-waste dealer , Cross-street , Manchester , The premises are situated in a very closely-built part of the town , and are surrounded by piles of warehouses , . ill containing a great amount of inflammable materials , and for some time presented a threatening aspect to the adjacent property , but , by the exertions of the fire brigade , it was confined to the building in which it originated—not , however , before damage to the extent of £ 2 , 000 had been canscd . The stock and premises are insured in the West of England office .

      A Waterspout iff the Bristol Ciiannel . — -One of these singular phenomena of nature , which seldom occur in these latitudes , happened on Saturday afternoon last , in the Bristol Channel . As the Fanny and Jane brig , 118 tons , from London to Bristol , with a cargo of wines and general merchandise , was proceeding up channel , when about twelve miles off Padstow she had her masts , bowsprit , and everything above deck carried away by a waterspout . She was taken in tow by the Alert , of Bridport , and brought into Bristol . Vessels distant from the brig at the time of the occurrence only half a mile escaped uninjured .

      Explosion of Fire Damp . — 'An inquest was held at the Dinas Works , on the 10 th inst ., before R . L . Iteece , Esq ., coroner , on the bodies of Idras David , aged 11 , and Shadrack David , aged 15 , both of whom died from injuries caused by an explosion of fire damp , at the above works , on the Monday previous . The deceaged , Shadrack David , had a partner with him , of the name of Thomas Williams , who , on the morning in question , placed a chain for safety in an old windway , in a part of the works . Williams , not being able to attend to hia work shortly afterwards , the deceased , Shadrack

      David , employed Idras David m his stead . The latter , not knowing where to find the chain alluded to , went , in company with the other deceased , to look for it . In the course of the search , one of the parties took a lighted candle with him into that portion of the pit which had not been worked for some time past . An explosion immediately took place , which blew the unfortunate lads 100 yavds down the pit . Assistance being procured , they were subsequently discovered lying on their backs , covered with rubbish . Both died in about three hours after the accident . Verdict— " Died from

      injuries received from fire damp . " Growing Riiubarb in a Coal-pit . —A collier , of the name of Dearden , in the employ of Mr . E . Iiadeliffe , of Woodland Cottage , near Stannington , planted a root of rhubarb on the Cth of March , in the pit , thirty-seven yards below the surface , and on the 9 th inst ,, he cut six or seven stalks , about twenty inches in length . This subterranean practice might probably be applied with great success in the production of sea-kale . —Sheffield Times . Fatal Collision at Sea - Plymouth . —Mr . Christopher Brown , master of the ship Genrge Wilkinson , of 391 tons register , belonging to Mr . James Brown , of Liverpool , reports that on Saturday , the 13 th inst ., she left Weymouth in ballast , bound to Quebec . On Monday morning , at three o ' clock ,

      when the Eddystone bore north-north-east , distance twenty miles , wind south-south-west , blowing strong , thick hazy weather , the George Wilkinson was on the starboard tack under three single-reefed topsails , foresail , mizen , and topmast staysail ., Saw a-head , at say half a mile off , a large ship on the larboard tack , standing to the westward or north-west , towards the George Wilkinson , under double-reefed topsails , mainsail , and foresail . She continued her course , and although hailed repeatedly but without effect , there bidng apparently no look-out forward , struck the George Wilkinson on the larboard side , abaft the fore rigging , carried away her fore topmast and topgallantmast , f «> re and main topsail yards , rigging gear , « fcc , and having hooked her anchor , Captain Brown was obliged to slip the cable attached , and thus lose in addition thirty fathoms of chain . When clear , one fine young man , named Handle , was missing ; he was twenty-five years of age , and belonged

      to Weymouth , where he was shipped . He is supposed to have fallen between the two ships in attempting to board , or , what is much more probable , to have been swept off in the falling wreck of spars , sails , and rigging , from the topgallant forecastle , where he was on duty , earnestly , but vainly , endeavouring to alarm the crew of the approaching ship . The stranger proved to be the Harbinger , belonging to Mr . Chapman , of London , 600 to 800 tons burden , Captain Sampson , which left iJavre on Friday , with 256 German and Swiss pasaengers . bound to New York ; in the collision she lost jibboom and fore topgallant mast , and had her starboard side grazed by the channel bolts of the other vessel . The Harbinger came in about four o ' clock on Monday afternoon , and brought up in the Sound . The George Wilkinson , which had lost more canvas , followed in about an hour , went up Catwater , and moored at the tier .

      Discovery o ? Human REUAiNS . —On Friday , the 12 th inst ., tho workmen on the Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway were sinking for ballast gravel , on a part of the estate of Mr . T . G . Parry , at Highnam , near Gloucester , they disinterred twelve skeletons , apparently the retrains of full-grown men . Some of

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      aMi ^^ ^ ¦ . . — i . ——i fltoJtd ^ B wlytog' « the . bodies to which they once belonged 'hadbeen rather carelessly consigned to their common grave ; but others , and one in particular , had evidently been resp ectfully interred , and the coffing , formed ol blocks of Painswlck stone , had been , built round them . It is conjectured that they were the bodies of some of the officers and soldiers who fell at the siege of Gloucester during the civil , wars between Charles I . and hia Parliament . Port ov Liverpool . —The Gazette of Tuesday __

      night contains a Treasury Order , dated Friday last , which declares Runcorn no longer a port after the 5 th lost ., and that after the same date the limits Of the Port of Liverpool , " shall commence at the termination of the Port of Chester , being a place , called the Red Stones , in Hoy Lake , on the Point Win-all , aud so along the coast of Cheshire into the river Mersey , and all over the river 3 Mersey , Irvrell , and Weever ,. and thence returning along the coast of Lancashire till it meets the termination of the Fort of Fleetwood , at a place called the Hundred-end Water . "

      Drbadfux . Death . —On Monday an inquest was held at the infirmary on the body of William Cuin , a » ed 44 , in the employ of Mr . Gibbs , vitriol-works , St . Philips ' s . At half-past eight o ' clock on Saturday morning the deceased was examining the interior of a boiler , which contained a quantity of vitriol to the depth of eleven inches . By some mischance he t ' ell into the liquid , and was totally immersed in it . He was almost instantly extricated by a fellow-workman , but he was so seriously injured—the flesh being burnt off his bedy , and the vitriol having penetrated

      the bones of his knees and legs—that he died as he was being conveyed to the infirmary . It was stated by deceased ' s wife that he had for some time been suject to fits of giddiness in his head , and it was supposed to have been owing to one of these attacks that he met with the dreadful accident which terminated his death . Mr . Gibbs said that he was unaware that the man ever suffered from such a complaint , or he would not have employed him in such a dangerous occupation . The boiler into which deceased fell was between two and three feet above the ground . The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death . "

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      iteiano . Sale in the Enoumbeed Commission Court . — A sale took place on Friday in the Encumbered Court , under circumstances of a very remarkable kind , tho buyer being at onco inheritor , petitioner , and purchaser . . The property , situate in the King ' s county , held on a lease of lives , and two thousand years , consists of 142 statute acres , with mills and buildings , the estimated annual value being £ 128 . Deducting the head rent of £ 24 , there would be a profit rent of £ 104 ; but the estato is charged with a jointure of £ 50 per annum for tho residue of the life of a lady aged 72 . The properly is mixed up with others , and there is some complication in the

      arrangements . After a very brisk competition between the tenant in possession , tho inheritor and petitioner , Mr . Thomas Spunner , and a Mr . Thomas Spunner White , the estato was sold for £ 1 , 500 to Mr . Thomas Spunner , who has now re-purchased his own estate . It is difficult to ascertain the exact rate of purchase ; but after the lapse of the jointure of £ 50 a year , Mr . Spunner will have £ 100 a year for £ l , G 0 O . According to one calculation , he has paid eighteen years' purchase . The novelty of this case , however , is the fact that Mr . . Spunner petitioned for the sale of his own property , and has become the purchaser , divesting the estate of all the mortgages by which it has been encumbered . Emigration and Town Pauperism . —The numbers

      of people daily crowding the quays of Galway , securing passages across the Atlantic , are described , by the Qalway Vindicator , as exhibiting in their appearance " a degree of comforfc and independence hitherto unknown amongst emigrants . Four hundred emigrants , chiefly of this class , sailed from that port last week ; and four more vessel ? , for i itforent parts of America , are rapidly filling with passengers . Meantime , there has been an enormous influx of paupers , to the town from the adjoining counties ; and the magistrates and poor-law guardians are preparing for a strict enforcement of py * f ** VB ** »» v * a w wa «^ w * * if fvjb »** ^« — **» ftp ** ** V * » W V V * 4 B V * V V A * aW * a V ^ f **

      the Vagrant Act . " During the ensuing summer , " the same journal remarks , " there would be no living in the town if something were not done to remove tho sweltering mass of destitution , from which plague and pestilence unquestionably spring . " Up to Friday , evening 130 vagrants had been convicted before tho looal magistrates , only forty of whom were chargeable to the Galway electoral division . The same state of things exist in Limerick . Since January last , upwards of 5 , 000 persons had left that city to take shipping at Liverpool , besides the multitude sailing directly from the Shannon for America . The Limerick Chronicle remarks :

      — "A superior class of persons , m many instances , are leaving the country , consigning to us a miserable lot of beggars , with whom our streets are covered every hour of the day , importuning relief , or helping themselves by stealth or violence . " The local magistrates are vainly striving to abate the evil by the rigid enforcement of the Vagrant Act . Mr . John Lamb , a Quaker correspondent of the Northern Whig , who has returned from a tour through the midland and southern counties , remarks that " the shrewd , hard landlords of Limerick and Tipperary have been some of the first to reduce their rents , and are , consequently , retaining their solvent tenants ; while the quiet-going land

      lord , a little dipped , was afraid to commence a reduction , lest he should be left nothing for himself . Men of this class find their best tenants selling off their chatties and emigrating to America , The stream of emigration continues , and has reduced the competition for land ; and in many parts of the south and west there is a scarcity of able-bodied men left to cultivate tho land properly . " Mr . Lamb gives a most disheartening account of the condition of several of the landed gentry . In Clare one of them has five thousand acre ' s thrown on his hands—another has thirteen thousand acres " without a hoof on it , except some deer ; " and he speaks of" more than one family , who formerly kept their carriages and hunters , who are now inmates of the union poor-house . "

      Decay of Orasoeism . —The Banner of Ulster has the following remarkable statement from a Stewartstown correspondent : — " It having been arranged by tho masters of Stewartstown Orange district , in the county of Tyrone , that in consequence of a bill having been lately passed against party processions , they should meet in Stewartstown , for the purpose of destroying the banners and emblems of the Orange Institution of that district , which they had so often hoisted in token of their attachment to the British constitution , and in commemoration of the anniversary of the Boyne , about sixteen masters belonging to tho district attended in Stewartstown , on the 8 th inst ., when a bonfire was made in the marketsquare , and fifteen or sixteen warrants belonging to

      tho district were burned : and it was agreed that the members of the district should henceforth live in peace with their Roman Catholic countrymen . " Execution . —The execution of the woman , Catherine Moore , for the murder of her husband , took place at Maryborough , on Thursday . Though no public confession was made b > the culprit , it ia understood that the vorsion of the tragedy given by the unfortunate woman , who evinced the utmost compunction , was not without some extenuating circumstances , as her husband had lived some time separate from her , and it was , according to her account , in a struggle to defend her own life that she inflicted a deadly wound on him . ituiiDBii . —The Clare Journal gives tho following

      account of a barbarous murder committed in the vicinity o Kilrush , on the Oth inst .: — " We deeply regret to have to announce the melancholy fate of Arthur O'Donnell , Esq ., of Pickwick Cottage , Knock , who was waylaid and brutally murdered hear his own residenoe . It appears that the unfortunate gentleman was in the habit of going from his dwelling house in the evening to the house of his herdsman , and while he was returning from doin" so , at about nine o ' clock , he was attacked by a party , pf whom tho names er number are equally unknown , and killed with a hatchefc . Tho deceased was a quiet and inoffensive gentleman .

      The same journal states that the herdsman of Mr . Scanlan , of Fortane , was murdered on the same niffht in Maryfort-wcod . Seven Cuubciibs , SiiANNorf-niUDOE , Armii 12 . —A barbarous murder was last night perpetrated on the person of Patrick Egan , a pensioner , residing on the townland of Clonasera , the property of a Mr . Usher . The poor man was ailing and in bed at the time of the attack , bo early as eight o ' clock : One of the assassiriB struck him with a pistol , and then leaped so . violentl y on his cheat that he expired in ten minutes . It is not known at' present what the motive , of the attack was . Egan was known to have a considerable sum of money , and also a gun ,.-. ' - ¦ I ¦ ¦ ' .,-,. - « - ' — ' . ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦¦ t - ¦ . '¦ - ¦¦ i ' , ¦ .. ; -.- . . ¦ , -. ¦ ,. ' . (> ., , j , i ;

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      for . his . ^ . jirot « otio ^ , was carried off by thft villains '; . they made nd ; sparch / forrth © money . This is the third attempt on the . unfortunate man ' , At Glasslough , in the county pf Mqnaghan , a shot was fired on Wednesday ni ght last Into the bedroom window of Mr : John Robertson , land' steward to C . P . Leslie . Esq , ; , ¦¦ ' : ¦ . Letting of Estates . —In the Court of Chancery on : Monday , in the case of .. " The Duke of Leineter v . Ball , " an application wag made that the receiver in the cause might be at liberty to re-let portion * of an estate in Tipperary , in a more . advantageous manner than the ordinary process , by receiving stamped proposals from persons desirous to become purchasers of small lots . At present the tenantry —250 of whom were in insolvent circumstanceshad been served with ejectments , and a large number of the holdings had been given up . The Lord Chancellor granted the application . __

      The Repeal Association . —The association met on Monday , in Conciliation Hall , Mr . M . Murphy , who was called to the chair , stated that it was tho intention of the committee to close tho association on that day week if the people deserted them . Mr . John O'Connellnext addressed the very few persons who were in attendance . He said if they were not relieved by the country , to enable them to discharge their debts , the doors would be shut . With about £ 1 , 000 he would undertake to work the association efficiently . They should not allow Lord Clarendon , besides carrying off the Viceroy , to bring also the joy ful news that the sp irit of the people was sunk ; for a few paltry pounds the association must be let down , and tho glorious agitation for Ireland ' s liberty abandoned . That shall hot be . ( Cheers . ) At the conclusion of the meeting Mr , O'Connoll announced the rent for the week to be £ 22 ( ft . 8 d , and observed that it showed the people were determined that their association should not go down .

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      Indictment for Extorting Money by . Threats . —Henry Tiddiman , 24 , omnibus conductor ; John Bennett , 22 , sugar refiner ; William Laidler , 30 , waiter ; John Jones , 24 , labourer ; and John Sullivan , 39 , fancy willower , were indicted for feloniously extorting money and a valuable security , to wit , an I O U . for £ 50 , from Samuel Wyatt , by a threat to charge him with an abominable crime . The prisoner Tiddiman pleaded guilty to . the charge . Mr . Bodkin and Mr . W . Cooper conducted the prosecution . Mr . Woollett defended Bennett , Mr . Parnell defended Jones , and Mr . M . Prendregast defended Sullivan . The prisoner Laidler conducted his own defence . The prosecutor is 64 years old , and carried on the business of a tobacconist in

      Little Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-inn Fields . —Mary Legg , the niece of the prosecutor , deposed that her uncle had for some time been in ill-health . About last November he appeared very much depressed , and there , was a great change in him . Shortly after this she remembered Tiddiman coming to the shop . It was on the 31 st ot December last . She observed him sitting down between the parlour and the shop door . Pie had got his hand in his pocket , and he said to her uncle , " Now , this settles it between you and me , " and he then left the shop . —Baron Platt suggested it would be better to call Tiddiman before this witness was further examined . —Henry Tiddiman was accordingly brought from the gaol and sworn . He . deposed that he was

      formerly an omnibus conductor . He had known Bennett three years and a half . He was formerly checktaker at the Adelphi Theatre . Witness remembered going to Mr . Wyatt ' s shop . Ho had seen Sullivan and Bennett five or six months before , and had drank with them , About fourteen months ago , he went to the shop of the prosecutor with Sullivan , and saw Mr . Wyatt . Witness asked for a cheroot , and Sullivan said he would have one also , and he then asked for an ounce of birdseye tobacco , and he went away , and said that his friend ( meaning witness ) would pay for it . He was then left-alone with Mr . Wyatt , and he remained fivo or six minutes , and then went away , and met Sullivan outside . Sullivan then said to him , " If that is not an old , my name is not Jack Sullivan ! " Witness told him he did not think so : he did not .

      understand such things , and Sullivan said , " Then you should ; if you come under my jurisdiction I will make your fortune . " Witness passed off the conversation as well as he could , and they separated . The next night he went to the shop agaiu , and smoked a couple of cigars and had some gin and water with the prosecutor , and he gave witness half-a-crown . After he left the shop , he met Sullivan , who said to him , " Ah , you ' ve been into the old man ' s , and got some money ;" and thinking he had been watching him , he said that he had . Sullivan then demanded half , and he gave him a shilling and twopence ; and he said that if witness took his advice , they could make £ 20 or £ 30 out of the old man . - Witness replied that he would have nothing to do with it , and Sullivan said if he did not he would have him " nailed . " He

      made no reply , and went away . About a week or ten days after this he met Bennett , Jones , and Sullivan , near Coventry-street , in . the evening , and Sullivan said , " Harry has a good case , which I told him of , and if you pay attention to me , we can make a good thing of it . " Witness made no answer , and Sullivan then talked apart to Bennett . They all went to a public-house where they had some drink , and then proceeded to the Catherine Wheel public-house in Windmill-street . They afterwards met again , Sullivan , Jones , and witness , and Sullivan said , " Well , have you been to the old man ' s again ? " and he told him he had not . Sullivan then said if he did not he must put up with the consequences ; he had already extorted half-a-crown and he had got him in his power . A fortnight after

      this he saw Sullivan , Jones , and Bennett again in Piccadilly , and witness , Bennett , and Jones went to the prosecutor's shop , and saw Mr . Wyatt . Jones asked Wyatt for some money , and told him that it was no use to hesitate—he knew what it was for ; it was regarding him and Tiddiman . The prosecutor then gave Bennett some money . At first he said he had not got any money , but Jones said ho must have some , and Wyatt then went into the parlour and fetched the money from a chiffonnidre . The prosecutor appeared very nervous . They divided the money afterwards , and witness received 2 s 4 d . as his share . He met Sullivan again about a month after this , and Sullivan said , " Now , Harry , will you go with me down to the old man , and get some

      money V Witness hesitated at first ,. but Afterwards complied , and they went together to the prosecutor ' s shop , and he went in and Sullivan stood outside . He told the prosecutor that he should bo obliged to him if he would give him a little money , and he gave him a sovereign . Whon he had obtained tho money he joined Sullivan , who asked him how much he had got , and he told him a sovereign , He replied that ne ought to have got more , and he believed ho had . He then gave Sullivan ten shillings . A week or ten days after this he went to the shop with Jones , and Jones asked for some more money , and the prosecutor said he had not got any , and Jones replied that he must give some money . The prosecutor then eave them

      a half sovereign and some silver , and the amount was divided between them . Witness bad known Laidler before these transactions . About the 1 st of March he was at a ball , and saw Bennett and Laidler there ; and Bennett said , alluding to Laidler , " there is a young man who has no objection to take the part of a solicitor , and we can do the old man out of £ 40 or £ 50 . Laidler replied that he would do bo , and Bennett said that Jones would act as clerk , After this had occurred Jones and Laidler went to the prosecutor , and witness remained outside . He had seen Sullivan before this , and he said it would be a very good dodge to get some one to act as a solicitor , as there was a woman in the case . When Jones and Laidler went in Sullivan

      and witness remained outside . Sulliran' had' previously told Laidler to go in and get some money , and to mind and not ; come out without it . When Laidler came out he produced a sovereign , and said that was all he could get , and they then went to a public-house and shared the sovereign . Upon the same night Jones , Sullivan , Laidicr ,. and witness met again , by appointment , at a publichouse in Long-acre , and it was arranged that they should go again to the old man , and that Laidler was to draw up aalOU for £ 50 , in case the prosecutor should not have so much money in house . An IO U was first drawn up for £ 40 . When they left the public-house they went to the pro seoutor ' s shop , Sullivan , Bonnett . Jones and witness .

      Laidler came by appointment , and he and Jones went in , and witness , Sullivan , and Bennett remained outside . In about ten minutes they came out of the shop , and Laidler told Sullivan that he had told the woman all about it , and then turned to him and said , "Now , Harry , you must come in , " At first he refused , but afterwards ho went in , Bennett accompanied him , Laidler and Jones talked to the woman privately , and ho saw tears in her eyos , and she appeared very much affected . The prosecutor was standing by the counter when thia took place and he appeared rather nervous . Laidler asked him for some money , and ho replied that he had not got any , and Laidler then said he would draw up an IO U for £ 40 , and one of the others said it should be for £ 50 . Laidler then drew uo an

      l u u tor ± 40 , and Jones drew up one for £ 60 . A paper was hero produced , and the witness identihed it as the I 0 U dravn up by Jones . A sovereign was then demanded of tho prosecutor , and he said he had not got a sovereign , but he would give him some silver . On this same evening the prosecutor gave Laidler a £ 10 note , and they then left the shop , and joined Sullivan outside , and they all went to a coffee-shop , when Jones told Sullivan they had been to the old man ' s and had made him give them an 10 Ufor £ 50 , and Sullivan replied , " Then of course I stand in , " and Jones and Laidler replied , " Yes . " On tho following day Jones , Bennett , Laidler , Sullivan , and witness went to the prosecutor ' s shop , and Laidler and Jones went in , and the others remained outside . When Jones and Laidler came out they said they had jjotf twenty-five ' shil-

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      lings ,-and that amount was . shared betY ^ nn ^ T 7-They all met after this at Laidler ' ahouae anft * ' saw each other almost every day . ' On the niMi * ? was taken into custody , Laidler and Jones wo » the ; prosecutor ' s , and , Sullivan , Bennett and ness stayed outside . Jones came out in a i ^ time and told them they must . come in foi ? ** money was there , ready and waiting . Witnp ^' first refused , but at last he agreed-to go in win , 3 , ?* two others . When they got into the shop Mrs T asked them to walk into the parlour , and thP $ t so . Mrs . liegg then said , "Now , gentlemen I ' an explanation of the case ; who is the solicit & and Laidler said ho was . She then wished to t ?" what demands they had upon her unele * nA n ° ^ them said £ 24 . Mrs . Legg ' asked Laidler 2 ? of his chambers were , and he said in fC-i " flra St . Martin's-lane . At this moment two « m ° W came forward , and took them int « „ .. _ . " ! erB came forward , and took them into « t 2 cers

      pn Mary Legg was then recalled , and her evffiS ~ firmed the statement of the previous witneT , ' the extortion of money at various times fV * ° prosecutor . —Sergeant Thompson , of the P ? ' ^ of police , deposed that he and another conTn named Brown , concealed themselves behind e » tain in the parlour of the prosecutor ' s hon « CUr < the night in question , and they heard wW ^ 011 place ; and he confirmed in this respe ct the tn \\ oIc g iven by the last witness . Upon searchineLii , ! , Found the IO Ufor £ 50 and fletter in hi ? pj 2 f » ha As they were going to the station-house LaiHi ¦ ' quired if Sullivan was taken , and witness w , ! ' he believed ho was . He replied , " lain elaK " he was the general ; but with all his gen "' W » he is taken at last . " He afterwards searSrJ * box at Laidler ' s lodging , and found the J jj that had been produced . He had seen theSn ent in company together , and had frequently seen n nett dressed in different military uniforms In ttn ~ ?^ # . ff ° . Y ? . 4 fcJ ? ' he apprehended Bennett S umt iei into

      ne aam ne was that secret ami i wished he had staid at home . " -Mr Samuel w 8 the prosecutor , was then called , and he was mKh ' examined as to the circumstances under whufi ? first became acquainted with the prisoner T . VM-T " He also spoke to seeing all the oW prisonerfS ' peatedly at his house and to their demands fl money .-Mr . Baron Platt summed up , and the juS immediately returned a verdict of " Guilty" a ? < all the prisoners . His lordshi p then addressed tha prisoners , and said he would not make any allus ™ to the disgusting nature , of the offence of S they had been convicted , and it would be quite < mf flcient for him to say that after a very long and na tient inquiry the jury had found them guilty mil ifc now became his duty to make such an exanmla of them as would be calculated to deter miscreants

      of the like kind from levying contributions in future upon those who , as in the case of the prosecutor ia the present instance , had not the ^ nerve to meet such demands in the proper manner . Takin » into consideration , therefore , the nature of the ° case and all the circumstances connected with it , he felt it his duty to order Sullivan , Bennett , Jones , and Laidler , to be transported for tho term of their natural lives . With regard to Tiddiman , consider ^ l ' . « * late hour » certainly , that he had reudered all the assistance in his power to further the ends of justice , and that he had made some atonement for his share in the transaction by giving cvidence and impeaching his companiens , the punish , ment would not be to that extent . The evidence ot such persons was necessarv in some cases , and

      the ends of justice required that when their evidence was made use of , that some consideration should be shown them . It was utterly impossible , however to pass over such an offence without adequate pu nishment , and under all the circumstances the jud ? . ment of the court upon him was that he be imprf . soned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for two years . —His lordship then directed Mary Legg , the niece of the prosecutor , to stand forward , and after observing that ic was mainly through , her that this gang of miscreants hadheea brought to justice , and that she had thereby rendered a great public benefit , he directed that she should receive a reward of five pounds .

      The Riot ai Gkhenwich Fair . — William Battersby , 21 , Thomas Hart , 28 , and James Purcell 29 , marines ; and Henry Taylor , 18 , Matthew Cowdy , 26 , William Lemon , 22 , James O'Brien , 20 , Samuel Robinson , 25 , William Jamieson , 21 , Evan Evans , 19 , John Watt , 24 , Thomas Ilart , 28 , Jame 3 Purcell , 29 , John Martin , 21 , Kennedy Wilkinson , 22 , Edwin Grippen , 21 , William Wedd , 20 , Ilenry Tipping , 21 , were jointly indicted for a riot and assault . The . prisoners pleaded " Sot guilty . "—Mr . N lson Lee said he had been most unwillingly brought forward , although be would not admit that any blame was attributable to his clown , and also begged to state that he had been a considerable loser

      by the injury done to his show ; still he had no wish to press the charge . —The Recorder said he had looked over the depositions , but could not find out how the affray first began . —Mr . JTelson Lee was then sworn , and said the first he saw of tte matter was a soldier driving the hat over the eyes of a civilian , who remonstrated , and then some one struck him , and a general fight followed ; and he thinking that by getting the person into his booth they might have got him out another way , and so end the quarrel , The soldiers then got up the step , and beat every one , and having cleared the place commenced breaking the lamps , and continued their violence until overpowered by the civilians and

      police . He did not know if ihe man who was bonnetted had given any offence to the soldier . —Several other witnesses deposed to individual acts of violence on the part of the soldiers , and identified Lawson , Rippon , Evans , O'Brien , and Jamieson , as having committed actual assaults , and added that for the three days , the soldiers had gone in a body through the fair , assaulting every body . —Mr . Balkntine and Mr . Parry said those who had been pointed out should plead " guilty , " for though there had been a mutual aggravation , they could not as lawyers justify their conduct , —A verdict of " Guilty " was taken against the five identified , and an acquittal on the part of the others . —The Recorder then

      bound the- defendants over to keep the peace for twelve months , and ho hoped that for the future this would serve as a lesson for them to act with more temperance and discretion . —The recognisances were then entered into and they were discharged . BiGAMY ..--John Smith Marl , 38 , carpenter , was indicted for feloniously marrying Mary Ann Hog , his wife being then and now alive . —Mr , Ballantine defended . —It appeared that the prisoner was married to his first wife , at Trinity Church , Marylebone , on the 18 th of November , 1832 , and had children by her ; and it did not appear that ho was separated

      from her even at the time of his second marriage , which took pl . ieQ at Bloomsbuvy in . February last . — The jury found him " Guilty , " and he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment . ¦ Highway Robbery with Violence . —Jane Knight , 21 , was indicted for robbing Charles John Cowell , upon the Queen's highway , of three sovereigns and a half , and the indictment alleged that at the time of committing the robbery the prisoner struck and beat the prosecutor . —The jury found the prisoner " Guilty , " and she was sentenced to be transported for fifteen years .

      Robbery op Platk , —Edward Pawson , 23 , and George Parraty , 22 , were indicted for stealing a quantity of plate , the property of James Miller . — The prosecutor of this indictment is a physician in Welbeck-street , and it appeared that on the 22 nd of March , between three ana four o ' clock in tho afternoon , during the temporary absence of one of tho servants , some thieves contrived to get access to the pantry from the area , and stole a good deal of plate . The prisoners were met the same afternoon by a police constable , who , knowing their character , stopped them , and endeavoured to take them into custody . Dawson ran off , but was stopped by another policeman , and Parraty , who had

      endeavoured to assist his companion in getting away , was also secured ; and upon searching Dawson , the whole of the stolen property was found upon him . — The jury returned a verdict of " Guilty ' against both prisoners , and Parraty , who had been before convicted , was sentenced to be transported for ten and Dawson for seven years . Burglary . —R . Newman . 19 , povfcer , Jane Phillips , 18 , spinster , and B . Gardner , 18 , smith , were indicted for burglary in-the dwelling-heuse of William Cox , and stealing therein a quantity of boots and shoes , It appeared from the evidence of the prose « cutor and the police that the prosecutor keeps a boot and shoe warehouse in Field-terrace , Bagnisge

      Wells-road , and on the 5 th of this month the policeconstable , observing one of prosecutor ' s shutters removed and standing near the door , went to the place , and there found that one of the shop windows had been broken out , and the contrivance for preventing the noise that would arise from breaking outasquareofglass was a novel and most artful one , The square intonded to bo broken had been first plastered over thickly with mud , and then covered with several folds of paper , and had been so broken oat , and was laid down by the side ; the police then roused the prosecutor , who found that all tho property within reach had been taken out . The officer having seen all four prisoners , who are known to him , near the spot where the robbery had been committed a short time before , went to

      where they nil lived in Paradise-street , Gray s-inn road , and , on knocking at the door , heard some one go to the back of the premises . Having got i » they found three of tho parties in the front parlour and one coming from the yard . Upon searching , some of the shoos were found in the parlour , and the rest had been thrown down tho water-closet . — The jury found them all " Guilty . " —The officer aalJ Giii'dnor had been convicted nt this court- in 1848 . They were part of a most desperato gang of thieves , and were tho terror of the neighbourhood . — Tho prisoner Gardner was then sentenced to tea years transportation , nnd the other three to seven . —Morris , upoa hearing his sentence , deferentially raised his hand to his head , and said , ' Beg pardon , my lord , but ' can ' t you make mine ten ? " His wish , however , was not acceded to .

      , This concluded the business of tho session , and the cour , t sfcands adjourned until Monday , May 6 th

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      Srotifittt * , The Expeditions in Search of Franklin . — The expedition organised at Aberdeen under . Captain Penny , consisting of the Lady Franklin , commanded by himself , and the Sophia , Captain Stewart , of Peterhead , left the harbour there on Saturday last , on their perilous enterprise . These vessels hare been fitted out at the expense of the Admiralty , and are provisioned for three years . The crew of the Lady Franklin number twenty-five , andthat of the Sophia twenty men , all picked seamen , inured to the dangers of the Polar seas . Crowds of persons of all ranks lined the quays and thronged the extended line of pier to witness the moving sight of so many gallant fellows , animated by the most generous motives , and inspired by the highest hopes of success , leaving all that are near and dear to them , for the regions of perpetual snow . —Captain Austin ' s Exp edition . —The Admiralty have taken up the Emma Eugenia , transport , at Deptford , to take out the coals and surplus stores for Captain Austin . Light gutta percha sledges are to be provided for the expedition , on a plan proposed by Lieut . IIalkett , R . N .

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      6 THE NORTHERN .. ST ^ Bu __ ^^ m ^ O , ^

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 20, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1570/page/6/