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      ' " flileK OF THE SUPERB STEAMER . .. „ . - «{ life consequent upon the wreck of this ¦ Ima X V «^ tbad * " ¦ * c been stated , ' * Sppied in a ? - first instance eleven ^ ons had perished , but upon a comparison S passenger list , which we extract from the il , j&ess and pnhlish below , we find that at leas 'iventeen persona have been lost , leaving , if the lis ^ correct , three or four persons still unaccounted f 5 Thepersons sated are John Treryandson ; J . jamel , of St . Malo ; Achille Qu 6 ru , of Argents , ; &orge Bowerman , of Jersey ; Dr Harral ; Emde £ j < 4 y , of Paris ; Le Gros , of St . Malo , boot-£ vfer : John Currier , of Birmingham ; Benjamin

      Johnson , of London ; Bobert T . Monteith ; Carof ; ' iiambly ; Charlotte Maule ; Charles Bastin , of grii ; " G- Knch , of London ; Ellen Willis , of Lonj whose uncle and sister were drowned ; Alfred j e B : iillieul , of St . Servan ; J . B . Hamilton , wife , La children , and nurse , of London ; Mrs . Mormon and daughter ; James Harris , Jersey ; Henry Lomas ; the Stewardess : John Frost ; Joseph Johnsou en gineer ; John Steward , seaman ; JohnBelot , riewarf ; Prianlx , captain ; Fleming , mate ; Charles Amv seaman ; Phillip Gumming , carpenter . ; Mollet ' seaman ; Gaudin , second mate ; William Cox ; Nicholas du Tont , of Guernsey , pilot , thirty-eight dition to the list of

      In se persons drowned , are the following : —Mr . "Willis and niece , Mr . Pinson , 2 hs . Baker and child ( bodies found , ) and a person fiom Gorey ( name unknown . ) The latest estimate of the number of paasengnrs an { . oard the Superb , states the Jersey Tress makes jt 43 or 43 , and of the crew 15—57 or 58 in alL pj-oB-ned 17 , saved 38 , unaccounted for 3 or & . Tiie Superb , which wa 3 left high and dry on the jocks by tbereeeding tide , after the accident , has jow disappeared ; having sunk in deep water . The Jersey Press contains a report of the coroner ' s inquest , which was commenced on Wednesday , on tie bodies of Mr . Isaac Hilgrove Gossett , and Jnlia

      Jjcoll-his wile , who met a watery grave in consequence of the steamer having struck . The Attorneygeneral and the Solicitor-General were present at the inquiry . The jury having been sworn , proceeded jo examine the bodies of the deceased in one of the offices of PMIip Winter ifieoll , Esq ., who identified fie said bodies . The body of Mr . Gossett was found about ; an hour after the accident , and was brought fo Jersey by the cutter Jupiter ; that of Mrs . Gosgett mis found on the day following at sea , and was conveyed to La Rocqne , Gronville , and from thence to St . Helier . The jury then returned to the { jourt-house , when , the following witnesses were iesrd : —

      Joseph Johssos . —I was engineer on board the Eieamer Superb . Nothing particular took place jjetvreen leaving St . Malo and the time we Struck . We were steaming at the rate of fifteen units an hour with the tide in our favour . It was jlioiit a quarter before ten when the vessel struck on the larboard paddle-box . It was a pointed rock . " The steamer canted over and filled immediately . She fell over some lower rocks . This took place eastward of Maitrelle , about a mile arid a half from it . We had never passed so close before I . do not . know why she was taken by that passage . I waa ^ on deck near the engine . / Trie cap tain , John Prianlx , was on the larboard paddlebox . The mate , John Fleming , was at the wheel .

      J heard the captain cry out " port" before she gtruck . He did not speak in a louder tone than asnsL As soon as the vessel struck , myself , the captain , and two or three others , put the hoat out forward . The people rushed in so that she got fidl . "The boat made away round-the stern of the vessel to get on the rocks ; about five minutes after she must have swamped . He did not see it . AUthe passengers were clinging to each other in the water . There must have been ten in her . The gtera of the steamer was underwater . The cutter Jupiter , was about eight miles off when the Bteamer struck . We made an alarm for the cutter . 6 be then came towards us . She sent her boat . Sis or seven ladies and the stewardess got down in

      her by a ladder , and were taken on board the Jupiter . When the boat returned she took back to the Jupiter the remainder of-the passengers in two { rips , and afterwards the lpggage . The captain , deponent , and crew remained with the Superb .. 1 cannot say whether the captain was on board the whole of the time . We began to save our things , and got what we could out of the steamer . We continned till the evening : to cany the things to the cntter . We came off for Jersey about seTen o ' clock in the cutter . We reached St .. Helier ' s harbour abont ten o ' clock . The body of Mr . Gossett was ra board . When the vessel struck I did not hear set orders given by the captain . When they left for Jersey in the cutter , the . captain went off with

      two fishermen in a boat towards the vessel . The boats were of an ordinary size ; one could contain twelve , the other eight . When the steamer struck she remained hard and fast on the rock ; about thirty-feet of the stern were under wateiv and the rater came nearly as far as the chimney . ^ did not see the captain go into the boat . I do ' not know the exact number of passengers that were on board . Ihe list of them was washed overboard , as also the cash box . If all . had stopped in the vessel , the whole of the passengers wonld have been saved . 1 heard . the captain say on board the Jupiter that he trusted to the mate . The mate afterwards said that the captain gave the orders how to steer , and he obeyed the orders . When the captain said tbe

      above , he was speaking to the crew and the passengers of the Jupiter . He trusted , he said , to the mate , who he thought knew the passage , but [ he added ) , it can't be helped , the vessel is now lost . Philip Amt : I was a sailor on board the Superb . [ was at the wheel . About ten minutes before we struck , Mr . Fleming came to replace me at the trheel . . He told me then that he was going to pass through the rocks , as he had passed there several times in the Camila . Captain Prianlx cried ont twiee " port . " Mr . Fleming did not obey the fford . He cried out once more " port , " which crordwa 3 obeyed , and the steamer struck on the rock . He could not see the rock himself .

      James Habhis . —Was on board the steamer ; he ma in the saloon taking refreshments with three or four more—heard a crash , and exclaimed Good God 1 what ' s that!—she's struck ! " Got into the boat with others ; it was upset ; he managed to climb up the vessel ; the captain left the wheel into the hand 3 of his mate , who assured him he could take him through . The captain had never been there himself . Phiup Mollet , a seaman , deposed as follows : — When the Superb struck on the rocks she immediately filled with water behind . I helped to lower the small boat , and jumped into her . All the passengers immediately rushed forward to jump into he as well ; but I told them not to crowd bo much .

      Ten or twelve persons got into the boat , and pushed &ff from the steamer . We had neither planks nor ehs , and she sank when about one hundred yards fromthe steamer ; every one fell into the water ; he saw ei ght or nine sink around him . I and a Scotch gentleman ( Mr . Monteith ) were three hours on the rater before we were picked up ; there were in the boat , Palmer ( fireman ); Belot ( cook ); William Creney ( cabin boy ) , all belonging to the Superb ; Mr . Jackson , bAs ' daughter and son ; Miss Price and another gentleman whose name I did not know—» ho were all drowned . A boat from St . Clement ' s belonging to Hamon Brothers , of the llocq , picked Dp the Scotch gentleman and myself , and also the bodvof Mr . Gos 3 ett , and soon after also saved Philip

      Cunning , carpenter of the Superb ; tbe body of Mr . Gossett was found at four miles distance from the Snperb , and he had not been dead more than a jnarter of an hour . I had never gone by this passage before , and heard on board that this course had been taken to show the passengers where the Polka had been lost ; but it was after I was saved that I beard this . I did not hear it from either the captain orthe mate . I wasibrvard , and cried out "Rocks !" Bhen the captam , who was talking with Mr . Gossett on the bridge , cried out , " Port ! " but it was too late —the vessel was going on the rock at a great speed . I heard the captain tell the mate , Fleming , to take this course shortly before the vessel struck . There is a small canal between Maitrelle and the rock on

      which the boat struck , and bad it been high water , she would not have struck ; but the tide bad been falling about two hours , and , in consequence , " it was not prudent to pass that way . The passage is as large as the Bayal-square . Xot a minute elapsed Between the order giten by the captain and the time she struck . Captain Priaulx told me on board the Jupiter , that he depended on Mr . Fleming ; but that it was a bad job . In genera ] , we took " three boats in the Superb , and it was the first time that tre had left one at Jersey . The boat left ashore Was from eight to ten feet long , and could contain ten or twelve persons—the other , four or five . Edward Gaedix , second mate of the Superb said : —I was below when the steamer struck . I ran op ; all was confusion . The water was running into the vessel , and Mr . Mollet and the brother of the steward were getting down the small tboat l

      ran to help to get the long boat down . Between Mr . Johnson , Mr . Fleming , Mr . Amy , and I , the long boat was got into the water , when I descended iato it with Mr . Amy . Mr . Fleming ,, apd two ot three ladies also descended , and we # rustout a little behind the wheels , where two gentlemen and a lady waited to get at a boat . The boat was at that moment so leaded that we could take no more , and 1 pushed ouW intending to land the passengers on a large rock which was by . But as we left , Capt . ftiaulx . lumped over into the water , and , striking the boa £ caused it to capsize . We were all thrown into the water , and I , with Amy , swam again to the steamer . Capt . Prianlx cried , " For God ' s sake * ave me ! " Amy sprang towards him , and caught him by the coat , and saved his life . I saw two females carried away by the current . There were from fifteen to eighteen of us in the boat , and I think that , had not Capt . Priaulx capsized our boat , i « 9 whole number , would bayebeea eayedi Our boafe

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      had no plug , butl placed ; my footover the hole ; » nd was keeping out the water . I know not why we went by that way ; the vessel had never been navigated over those- rocks before . After we had struck , Capt . Priaulx said there waa no passage among those rocks . Mr . Fleming said there was . and added that he would any day take a vessel over not drawing more water than the Superb , the sea being of the same height as at present . I think there was . great imprudenee in attempting to pass that way . No instructions were given out to the passengers when the vessel had struck . Mr . Fleming had no authority to give orders except under

      the captain . ' Had the passengers been ordered to the front , I think all might have been saved ; hot I will not say positively , as we expected to see the steamer roll over tbe rock as soon as the sea should have left her . With order and a little patience , I am sure all might have been saved in a quarter of an heur . The sea was perfectly calm . We had three lanterns on board . I heard Mr . Fleming say to Capt . Priaulx , "We were in a gooiTcourse if you had not cried port ;'" but I do not believe it . Besides , the channel is not straight , and there was no reason for entering Us sinuosities . The fishermen who came said there was no passage there .

      Mr . Thomas Hamon , ( fisherman , ) said—We were about two leagues from the steamer when she touched . As weneared her we saw pieces of the wreck drifting before tho tide , and heard cries of distress . I said to my comrades , " We must cease to make for the steamer , and proceed in the direction of the cries . " We advanced , and heard cries from several distant parts . I directed the boat towards the voice which seemed feeblest and most exhausted , and presently saw two men en chemise , whose heads were above water . We took them in , and afterwards picked up another , named Cumming . I then picked up another , a French gentleman , quite dead . Cumming said he had talked with him a quarter of an hour before . This was just at midnight . We went to the Jupiter steamer , and deposited the body ; it was that of Mr . Gossett . I have known the rocks thirty years . Tbe place

      is not in the least practicable for a steamer . There are two tracks tolerably practicable ; one about half a mile to the right . I have never seen steamers pass over those rocks . I think it just possible for the vessel to pass , but it is the most dangerous passage of all . Captain Priaulx told me that he should not have gone , but to show the passengers where the Polka was . He added , that he had asked Mr . Fleming if he could take the ship through , and the latter said " Yes . " That he then asked Fleming to take the helm , but seeing a rock at the head of the boat a few minutes after , he cried " Port , " and the same instant the ship struck . Had they escaped the rock on which they struck , and another by its side , I think they would have been safe . The passage , such as it is , is zigzag , and cannot be made in a straight line . In certain parts it is not more than twenty-four feet in width . The channel is dangerous for two miles . .

      Mr . James -Harris said—When the boats had been let down I saw Fleming and the captain in one . The first said , "Let . us go back to the steamer . " The captain said "Ho , push out ;" but as a lady and two children were crying on the steamer , Fleming insisted upon returning , and at that moment several persons jumped into and upset the boat . I saw the captain in the boat , and heard it said , " For shame , captain ; save the ladies and children . " Philip Cummsg said—After the ship had struck I jumped overboard , and at tbe end of half

      an hour was close to Mr . Gossett . We talked a good deal ; be said when we were about three or four , miles from the steamer , " My dear fellow , think you there is any chance of our being saved ? " I said , " I do not see any . " He answered , "lam very much fatigued ; I do not think I shall be able to hold out much longer . " Ten minutes after , I saw him change his . place , and heard him cry . I believe he was praying . I saw a boat coming , and cried for . help , and . the men , who were fishers , came and saved me . Afterwards they picked up Mr . Gossett . I suggested to them that he might not be quite dead : we tried to recover him , but he

      was gone . . s The inquest was adjourned at the close of this witness ' s evidence . The captain of the Jupiter , the proprietors and agents of the Superb , and probably Mr . Fleming , were then to have been examined . . The funeral of Mr . and Mrs . Gossett . took place on Friday at Jersey , amid a concourse of sorrowing relatives and numerous friends . The Polka steamer wreck has been sold for £ 80 to Mr Philip 2 fico . ll , of Jersey , who hopes to raise it . Parts of the wreck of the Superb are being saved almost every day .

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      DREADFUL MURDER OF A CLERGYMAN AT FRIMLEY GROYE .

      Fanner , Tuksdat . —This usually qniet and sequestered village has been thrown into a . state , of great alarm and excitement during the past fortyeight hours by the occurrence of a daring burglary , which has unfortunately terminated in the violent death of a venerable and much respected clergyman , the Rev . George Edward Holiest , who has held the perpetual curacy of this hamlet during the past seventeen years . The village' of Frimley Grove is situate about one mile and a half from the Farnborough station of the South Western Railway , in the centre of the hop country . It consists of not more than forty or fifty straggling houses , and the parsonage house is at the western extremity of the hamlet . It is an old-fashioned brick residence standing on its own

      grounds , but not more than one nundred yards removed from Other houses , on either side . The Rev . Mr . Holiest was a married man , his household con sisting of himself , his wife , a man servant , two maidservants , and on Friday last , his two sons , yonths of fourteen and fifteen , were at home , having arrived from school the same afternoon to pass the Michaelmas vacation with their parents . On Friday ni"ht , the family retired to rest at their usual hour shortly before eleven o ' clock . Mr . and Mrs . Holiest slept on the first floor in a room overlooking the lawn ; the two boys occupied an apartment on the same floor ; the man servant slept at the top of the house , and a room adjoining formed the sleeping apartment of the two maid ; servants . It appears

      that it was Mr . Hollest ' s custom , when his children were at home , to leave the door of his bedroom ajar in order that le might overhear them in the event of their requiring anything , and he seems to have done so on Friday last . After retiring to rest , both himself and his wife fell into a sound sleep , from which they were together awakened about three o'clock on Saturday morning by a sudden increase of light in their apartment and a noise of footsteps . On . looking up they saw two masked figures standing at the front of their bed , but so little suspicion of danger had . the reverend gentleman , that his first impression was that his sons were playing him a trick , and in playful terms he chided hem , and told them to begone to bed and not play

      jokes with him at that hour of the night . Mrs . Holiest , with a quicker perception of danger , at once saw the dreadful truth , and screamed aloud . The miscreants instantly seized Mr . and Mrs . Holiest , and with pistols pointed at their heads , declared that if they made the slightest noise they would blow their brains out . ' Mrs . Holiest notwithstanding the imminent peril she was in struggled hard , and at length succeeded in slipping out of bed and seizing a bell ' rope , npen which her assailant rushed round to the side of the bed and threw himself upon her with " such force as to snap the bell rope asunder . The fellow continued to stand over her with his pistol pointed to her face , and she Btates that she fully expected to be shot dead every

      moment . Mr . Holiest , who although fafty . four years of age , was a very strong and active man , on discovering how matters stood , struggled with the villain , who stood over him , and at length got out of bed , and was in the act of stooping down to reach the poker from the fireplace , when his assailant fired at him and wounded him in the abdomen . The unfortunate gentleman was not ' aware at first that he had been struck , and continued to grapple with the fellow , endeavouring by every means in his power to prevent his escape . The report of the pistol at this moment appears to have alarmed the miscreant , who wa 3 standing over Mrs . Holiest , and he left her for a moment , and joined his companion . This

      courageous woman , nothing daunted by the fright she had undergone , on finding herself released rushed to the fireplace , and seizing a large hand bell swim * it to and fro several times . This had the effect of alarming the burglers , who almost immediately left the apariment , and descending the staircase ran out of the house by the frontdoor . Mr Holiest , as soon as he was released from nia assailant , ran into an adjoining apartment and snatched up a ' gun which he always kept loaded . Descending the staircase w ith the gun m his hand , he distinctly saw three nien running across thelawn , and , withouttakingany direct aim , he fired amongst the group , and itappeara , without effect . Returning to his bedroom lie now first discovered that he was wounded in the abdomen , and having

      endeavoured to allay the fears of his wife , he got into bed and ordered his roan servant , who had onJy just awoke / and descended from his room , to send for the constable as a protection to his family , and then to fetch ' a doctor for himself . The roan called up the village constable , and tben proceeded to summon Mr . ^ Davies , the medical attendant of the family , who resided about a mile and a half distant . On the arrival of the constable , an ex amination of the premises was . ibade , and it was ascertained that an entry had been effected at the rear of the premises , through the scullery window , the burglers having first broken a pane of glass , to enable thorn to open the window , and then cut away the . wbodwork , into which an iron bar was fixed . From the scullery an entrance to the kitchen was effected by \\ % removal of p . n . e . 1 , ^ whjch appears to haw been

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      done in a VST business-like manner , indicating that the villains we » ' » n <> novices in crime . Having once gained an entry , i >? ey appear to have set open all the doors in the hou ' to , so as to afford speedy egress , in case of alarm or discovery . The front door was propped open by a mat , ' ai ; d two or three other doors were found fixed on their binges by the insertion of knives in the crevices . From the positive testimony of Mr . Holiest their appears to be no doubt that three men were engaged in the attack , and the amount of property carried off seems to corroborate the unfortunate gentleman ' s impression . The cool determination of the rascals may be ga

      thered from this fact , that within half a mile of . the spot a quantity of bread and meat , with tw or three half empty bottles of wine , stolen from thn personage house , and evidently forming the debrh of a meal made by the miscreants , have been discovered . On the arrival of Mr . Davies , the family surgeon , he found Mr . Holiest in very good spirits , and sufficiently collected to detail tho circumstances of the attack . On an examination of the wound , however , Mr . Davies formed an unfavourable opinion , the correctness of which was soon made manifest by the unceasing pain and uneasiness which Mr . Holiest suffered . After the first two or three hour 3

      the pain the unfortunate gentleman suffered became so intense that hope of his being ablo to survive the injury waa at an end . His t « ro brothers , who reside in the neighbourhood , were immediately sent for , and admitted to an interview with their afflicted relative . During Saturday the unfortunate gentleman continued to grow worse , and on Sunday at noon all hope of saving his life being at an end , the fact was communicated to him . He received the melancholy intelligence with Christian resignation , and having taken an affectionate leave of his family and servants , he declared that he freely forgave his murderer , and that he hoped God would forgive him . He added that he died in peace with all mankind . He then expressed a desire to partake of the

      sacrament , which was administered to him by a clerical friend and neighbour , and after lingering in great suffering , be expired in & state of almost unconscious exhaustion at twenty minutes after eight o ' clock on Sunday evening . Intelligence of the melancholy event had been forwarded , " to London before it fat . il termination was known , and Sergeant Kendall , of the Detective force , was sent down to Frimley on Sunday night to assist the local police in investigating the affair , The most active exertions were made , and the result of inquiries set on foot was the apprehension , on Sunday evening , at the Rose and Crown beershop in Guildford , of three young men of bad character , two or whom at least are shown to have been

      at Frimley during the past week , and one of them is known to have had some conversation with the deceased while endeavouring to dispose of some earthenware dishes . The reputed names of these men are Hiram Smith , James Jones , and Levi Harwood . The are all well known to the local police as very expert thieves , and each of them has been several times in custody . During the magisterial inquiry this morning the prisoners were taken into the room where the deceased was attacked and where his body was lying . The conduct of Smith on being submitted to this ordeal is said to . have been very remarkable , and strongly indicative of familiarity with the apartment . All three prisoners are very small men , and two of them scarcely five feet high . They are ,

      nevertheless , most determined-looking men of the roughest cast of character . At the close of the magistrate ' s investigation ,, the prisoners were remanded , instructions being given to the police to send one man to Guildford , another to Farnham , and the third to Godalming , in order to prevent the possibility of communication between them . Sir James ' Stirling ' and Mr . Tickell , a gentleman of property resident in the neighbourhood , were present during the magisterial inquiry . The Home Secretary has offered a reward of £ 100 , to which the family of the deceased have added £ 50 , for the discovery of the guilty parties . The inhabitants of Farnborough and Frimley , as well as all the surrounding villages , have testified their respect for tbe deceased by closing their shops , and but one feeling of deep regret pervades all classes at the sad bereavement his family has suffered .

      THK ISQUEST . Mr . C . Woods , coroner of the eastern division of the county of Surrey , arrived at Frimiey shortly after mid-day , and as soon as the magisterial inquiry had concluded a jury was impannelled at tho White Hart Inn , for the purpose of investigating the melancholy affair . The jury accompanied the coroner to the deceased ' s late residence , where , having first viewed the body of the unfortunate gentleman , they were conducted to the dining room for the purpose of receiving Mrs . Hollest's deposition . Mrs . Hollusi said , on Friday night last I retired to rest about five minutes to eleven o ' clock , my husband having gone to bed previously . About

      three o clock on Saturday morning I heard , footsteps in our bedroom and I saw two men at the foot of our bed , One of them put his left hand on my feet and in his right hand he held a pistol , which appeared to be levelled at my head . One of the men was a little taller than the other . The tallest seized Mr .. Holiest in the same way and levelled a pistol at him . As nearly as I can recollect , both of theihsaid together that "if we made any noise they would blow our brains but . '* That expression was repeated several times . Mr . Holiest at first thought it was our boys playing a trick upon him , and lie told them to go to bed . I saw at once the terrible reality , and sprang out of bed on the left hand side to ring a bell , the rope of which huog

      down at the head of the bed . On my doing so one of the men rushed towards me and pushed me down with so much force that the bell rope broke in my hand . The man continued to press me down on the floor and held a pistol close , to my eyes . While m this position I heard my husband , who had also got out of bed , scuffling with another man on the other side of the room , and presently afterwards I heard the report of a pistol . I struggled hard with my assailant in order to get round to help my husband . I think the man fancied his comrade was shot , as he gave way a little , arid I at length succeeded in getting round to the fireplace , and taking hold of a large hand-bell , which I rung as loud as I could . The men at this time left the

      room , followed by my husband . I ran to the window , and throwing up the sash ! rang the hand-bell again . While doing so I heard a gun fired from the lower part of the house , and at the same' time observed two men run across the lawn . One of the men turned back and looked at me . ' and I shut down the window immediately . '—The Coroner : You saw only two men then ? Mrs . Holiest : I saw only two myself , but Mr . Holiest told me he had seen three distinctly . After I had closed my bedroom window I went to my children ' s room , and on the landing I met Mr . Holiest- coming up stairs . He said to me " The fellow has shot me , " and at the same time showing the wound . —The Coroner : What persons slept in the house besides yourselves ?

      Mrs . Holiest : One man servant , two women servants , and my own boys . —The Coroner : Did you see how the men were dressed ? Mrs .: Holiest : They appeared to me to be dressed in light clothes , and to have their hair stuck out at the sides of their heads for the purpose of disguise . Their faces appeared to be covered with linen masks as I could see boles for their eyes . ' I heard no rustling ' of paper , and , therefore , I think the masks were linen . —The Coroner Since this occurrence happened have any persons' been placed before you ? Mrs . Holiest : Tes . —The Coroner : Are you able to identify any , of them « Mrs .- Holiest : I suspeot

      twooftheml—Coroner ( to Mrs . Holiest ) : Do you think it possible that there were three men , in the bedroom at the time ? Mrs ' .. Holiest : Oh , yes , I think it very likely . ' I did not observe either the man who ' stood over me or the one who was struggling with Mr . Holiest go to the table where my watch was lying , and as it is gone I think it very ptbbable that a third party . may have taken it . The examination of Mrs . Holiest here closed , and the coroner and jury returned to the White Hart Inn , where the examination of the other witnesses was proceeded 'with . ' . ' ' Mr . William Davis , surgeon , described the nature of the wound . The deceased died on

      Sunday evening . Had since made a post mortem examination Of the body , and found a small grey marble between the bladder and the rectum . Had no hesitation in stating his death to have been caused by the wounds described . The . CoROXBK ( to the police ) : Do I understand that you have" any party here who can depose to having seen the three men in custody on this charge in Frimley village on Friday night ? . Ixspector HoLtiSGioN : Yes , sir . A young woman in the service of Mr . Mayberry , a surgeon of this place , has already identified two of the ' men . She saw three men together in front of her master ' s house about half-past twelve o ' clock on ' Friday night , and she has identified two of the prisoners as being of the party . —The Coroner here desired that the prisoners , who were . all in custody downstairs , should be placed in the taproom among other parties , and that the girl alluded to should then be im

      asked if she could point them out . This was - mediately done / and , although the prisoners were each placed at a different part of the room , tho girl , upon entering , directly pointed out tho two wen , Smith and Jones . The third prisoner she could not recognise ! ' The officers having communicated the result to the coroner , ' . Mary Gouldstone , the girl in question , was sworn and examined . In reply to the coroner , she stated that . she was a nursemaid iri the service of Mr . Mayberry , and that on Friday night last , about half-past ; twelve o ' clock , she was looking but of her bedroom window , whjch was on the second floor , and faced the street , when she saw three men standing on a grass plat nearly iri frorit of her master s house . She took particular notice of them , as she thought one of them appeared to be tipsy . The three prisoners were here introduced , and the witness immediately pointed out the two she had pre-Yiously identified !

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      : a ^ ( addressing the prisoners } said , he supposed they were awa ? e . _ that a very serious charge had been made against them . The last witness had declared that she had seen them in Frimley on Friday night , at half-past twelve , and he w shed to inform them that they were at liberty to ask any questions if they chose to do so . The prisoner Smiiu said that he oould bring forward a person to prove that he had not been in Frunleyonthenightin queatlon . The inquiry was then adjourned for a week .

      F ° RinEB PARTICULARS . The government has offered a reward of £ 100 , to which is added a reward of £ 60 on behalf of the disconsolate widow , to any peraon who will give such information and evidence as shall lead to tho discovery and conviction of the burglars . And her Majesty s gracious pardon will be granted to any accomplice ( not being the person who actually fired tho shot ) , who shall give such information and evidence as shall lead to the same result . Ihere is great reason to hope , in the event of the parties in custod y being guilty , that one of them may impeach his companions . While at Frimley on Wednesday , Harley is stated to haye asked one ofthe officers whether anyand what rewardhad

      , , been offered for the discovery of the offenders . llie following ia a list of the articles carried ofl by the thieves : —A gold watch , Xo . 1 , 899 , ( maker ' s name James Murray , Cornhill ) , with short ohain , key and seal united , and a plain blood stone ; a silver engine-turned hunting watoh , ( out of repair ) ; a small old-fashioned gold watch , with white dial ; a cone-shaped plated sugar basin , a silver antique snuffbox , with a device ( figures ) on it , gilt inside , and small holes ; a small silver box , with hinge lid ; a silver pencil case , ( Mordan ); a gold ring , with blood stone ( engraved in old English ' Forget me not" ); an engine-turned silver pencil case , with

      p lain blood stone ; two rough blue cloth lads' overcoats , with name marked on tapo inside ; cup and paton ( pocket communion ) , and silver top to bottle ; a short camlet cloak , dark brown , lined with serge a black case of silver instruments , with silver edges to lid , engraved " Colin Donaldson , " containing a six-inch rule , a small pair of scissors , knife with plain silver handle , toothpick , and compasses ; an old-fashioned silver table spoon , much worn in the bowl ; German plate ( King ' s pattern ) knife , fork , and spoon , to fit case ; a silver pencil case , with yellow stone , broken at the point ; a gold pin , with cut top ; the silver tops of two scent bottles , and about £ 5 in gold and silver monies .

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      FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENTS . On Tuesday an inquest was held before Mr . Ilerford , at the Royal Infirmary , Manchester , on tho body of a man named Allen Ash , of 9 , Sheffieldstreet , aged thirty yeai-s . Deceased was a railway guard in the employment of the Mnnchester , Sheffield , and Lincolnshire Railway Company . About a quarter to seven o ' clock on the previous evening , deceased was on a luggage train which was moving at about the rate of three miles an hour , on the railway near the Ardwick station . As the train was crossing from the up line to the down line , the waggon on which deceased was standing went off the rails , and he was seen by a man on

      the engine to fall off , with a lamp in his hand . The engine was immediately reversed , when deceased was found lying between the rails . Ho was quite sensible , but his left thigh was shattered . A surgeon was sent for , who bound up his thigh , and he was then taken to the Royal Infirmaiy , where he died the same evening from the effects of the injuries he had received . The jury returned a verdiet of " Accidental death . " On Saturday evening last , an accident occurred to a government train at the Deep Car station , on the above . railway , which has unfortunately resulted in the death of one of the passengers . It appears that in consequence of the train being driven rapidly up to the station , and then stopped

      somewhat suddenly , the impulse thus given to the entire train caused the link which secured the ' carriages to the tender to spring off the hook ; and there unfortunately being no side chains attached ' at the time the whole line of carriages commenced a retrograde course at the moment the Deep Car passengers were alighting , whereby several of them were thrown down with some force , but without any injury except to one passenger—a Mr . Thomas Wood , of Huntshelf—who was drawn down between the edge of the platform and the train , and his legs falling across the rails , were passed over just above the ankles by the wheels of two or three carriages , and completely cut in two , except a little of the skin on the under parts . The poor man was removed to his own house , and amputation of the stumps was performed the same night by Mr . Henry Jackson , of Sheffield . The shock was , however ,

      too great for his vital powers , and , after lingering until Monday , death closed his sufferings . Another passenger , a young female , had a most narrow escape , being , like poor Wood , drawn down between the platform and the train , ' but fortunately escaped contact with the moving carriages . Fatal Acctoent on the Midland Railway . —On Wednesday morning a man was killed by tho mail train from London to Leeds . The train was backing into the station , and the man , being upon the rails , was knocked down by the carriages , which , with the engine and tender , passed over his body , crushing him so dreadfully that his identity was completely destroyed . From his dress he is supposed to be a workman employed in tho engine shed . The same train was delayed at Chesterfield by the breaking down of two carriages in a luggage train which had preceded it upon the line , but no personal injury was sustained by any one .

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      A Dangerous Refugee . —Along with the refugees from the hte Hungarian war , who arrived &t Southampton in June last , and were so hospitably received by the inhabitants of Southampton , was one whose dashing appearance—so different from the care-worn arid travel-soiled aspect of his ' . comrades in mi 8 fortune--excited general attention . He dressed in an expensive manner , his clothes being so designed as to preserve somewhat of the characteristics of the national Hungarian costume , and regularly took equestrian exercise on hired horses . At the civic procession , on the occasion of the Lord Mayor ' s visit to Southampton , the Baron Louis Bulow , as he entitled himself , made a conspicuous figure , on horseback , wearing a richly

      embroidered velvet coat / trinimed with gold laco . He recently took up his lodgings at the house of Mr . Short , whose kindness to some of the refugees is known to our readers . A rather awkward circumstance , however , occurred the other day ,. and somewhat damaging to the reputation of M . de Bulow . When the Hermann steamer arrived here from Bremen , en route to new York , ' the soi'disant baron got acquainted with a German , on board , of whom he obtained £ 100 in sovereigns , in exchange , as he said , for a £ 100 note , but as soon as he had got the cash he pretended to have left the note on shore , and went away for the assumed purpose of procuring it . To assist in the delusion he went to the American Consulate , and took his passage ,

      paying £ 26 for it to Messrs . Croskey , and Martineau , but at the starting of the Hermann he was not est . A day or two afterwards he called on Messrs . Croskey and Co ., and made some clumsy excuse for his absence , and wanted to get back part of his passage money , in which he was not successful . Suspicions being thus awakened , inquiries were made , and it turns out that on his first arrival ; here he went to Mr . Ketterer , a German , in business in Bridge-street as a watch and clock maker , representing himself as the possessor of an ea'iato worth 12 , 000 , 000 florins , in Milldorf , on the borders of Hungary , of which ho had been deprived by the late war . He begged the favour of a month ' s board and lodging , till he could write to his friends . Mr .

      Ketterer , on the strength of letters which "tho baron" produced , apparently corroborative of the truth of his story , gave him board and lodging for eight weeks , supplied him with clothing , and lent him ; on fifty-four occasions , iri sums varying'from 2 s . to' £ 12 / the total sum of £ 120 . During this period he made several representations to account or his position , and on one occasion he produced a letter purporting to be from his brother-in-law , stating that ho had sent " the baron" £ 36 , 000 , which ho would be enabled to draw at Messrs . Rothschild ' s . Mr . Ketterer , on three separate occasions , paid the expenses of himself and " the baron" to London , and the latter kept putting him off , by stating that Messrs . Rothschild demanded an exorbitant interest , which he would not submit to pay , and other like excuses . Six weeks ago he went to reside at Mr . Short ' s but still continued

      borrowing cash of Mr . Ketterer , as wo have mentioned , producing various letters , from timo to time , with reference to his pretended property . Mr . Viener , of the Temple of Fancy , in the High-street , was also a creditor to tho tune of £ 27 8 s . Gd . ; but on his receiving letters on Saturday 'last , representing " the baron" as a swindler and a thief , he took those letters to him , just subsequent , as it appears , to his getting the money from tho passenger en board the Hermann , and succeeded in getting payment of his debt . ' He aftorwards went to Mr . Ketterev , and borrowed £ 2 of him , stating that he was suddenly called to London , and instructing him to follow him there on the succeeding evening , naming an hetel in Leicester-square as- tne rendezvous ; but on Mr . Kettever ' sarrivalthere ho found no trace of the fellow , who , we need soarcely say , has not sinco been heard of . —Hampshire Independent ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ •;• ¦ ¦ : ¦

      , ; .. ; ., Exhibition op 1851 . —The Central Committeoof Denmark has forwarded its demands for space to her Majesty ' s Commissioners . From this it appears that the Danes propose to exhibit printing machinery , porcelain ( painted and bisque ) , shell carving , bronzes , clockwork , rifles , musical instruments , furniture , ivory turning , stylographio plat ? 8 * oilclot ' usj lace , woolnettiri gi Randers gloves ( with leatb-er . specimens ) , fur carpet * , stearine , candles , W / m wv 43 , Ypo gtoMBfl statuary .

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      MIDDLESEX SESSIONS .

      Tho September general adjourned session of the peace for the county of Middlesex commenced on Monday morning , hefore the assistant judge , Mr . Pownail , chairman of the bencli , Mr . Witbam , and other magistrates . There were fifty-nine prisoners for trial , fifty-four of whom were charged with felony , and five with misdemeanour ; forty of them were able to read and write imperfectly , eighteen were unable to do either , and only one was competent to read and write well .

      HomiEnY from the Pebsos . —Henry Williams , 32 , Daniel Carty , 17 . and Robert Buckingham , 12 , were indicted for stealing a shilling from the persort of Emma Pigott , at a fair which took place in a field near Westbourne-grove . The case was clearly proved by the evidence of a police-officer , who was on the spot at the time in plain clothes , and the prosecutrix . —Williams said he was innocent ; ho was not at tho fair for pocket picking ; he was only there " working" with a pea and thimble . The other prisoners denied that they had any part in the transaction . —Guilty . —The police proved the prisoners to be known p ickpockets . Williams bad

      been convicted , and was the associate ot returned convicts and the worst thieves of the Seven Dials ; Carty was taken into custody at Barnet Races for pocket picking , and the other had been convicted . —Tho ienrned Judge said it certainly made but little difference in a case where a man was charged with theft , for him to sivow , by way of excuse , that he was a thimblerigger . —Williams was sentenced to ten years' transportation , Buckingham to eight months' hard labour , and Carty to six months' hard labour . As Williams was conducted from the dock he made a desperate attempt to strike the officer who spoke to his character , and ho was only prevented doing so with difficulty .

      Stealing a Watch . —Zalie Barnet , 38 , was indicted for stealing a watch , the property of Simon Lewis , from his person . —The prosecutor , a German , was ac a funeral in North-street , Whitechapol , when the prisonor went up to him , cut his watch-» uard with a knife , and snatched his watch from his waistcoat pocket . He was at once apprehended , and tho watch was found upon him . The knife he had . thrown away . —Guilty . —Former convictions were proved , and the prisoner was sentenced to seven years' transportation .

      Robberies by Sailors . —James Wallis , 25 , a seaman , was indicted for breaking open the chest of Jacob Potter , a messmate , and stealing therefrom five sovereigns , his monies . —The prisoner and prosecutor served together on board the Sir Harry Smith , and on leaving the vessel they went to live at a lodging-house for sailors , No . 12 , Wellcloseplace . On the 16 th of September the prosecutor left the house in the morning , at which time the chest was quite safe . When he returned the chest had been broken open , and five sovereigns which he

      had left in it , were gone . No one had been into the room in which the chest was save the prisoner , who in the morning had complained that he had got rid of all his money , whilst in the evening he had several sovereigns , and he admitted to the officer that he had broken the chest open , and taken the money , —Guilty . —Six months'hard labour . ¦¦ William Math"eld , seaman , was convicted of robbing Thomas Airs , a , messmate , of a £ 5 note and a sovereign , and sentenced to six months' hard labour . >

      John Moriarty , a marine store-dealer , was indicted for stealing a wheelbarrow , the property of Thomas Reeder . —The barrow in question was chained up at the rear of the prosecutor ' s house , and the prisoner was seen by a police constable to unchain it and take it to his own house in the middle of the night . The constable followed him , and on searching a cellar underneath the shop found some copper , lead , &c , of which no account was given , in the purchase-book , and he took botk the prisoner and his . wife , into : custody . The latter was discharged at tho station-house , and the police took possession of tho property in the cellar , and found parties who identified portions of it as theirs , but they declined to prosecute . —Tbe defence was that

      it wiis done for a " lark , " and the learned counsel commented rather severely upon tho conduct of the police in ransacking the prisoner's place , and taking away property which was not the subject of any accusation . Some of the property so taken actually belonged as fittings to the house . —The learned Judge thought the police had acted properly under the circumstances , there being no account of the articles in the purchase-book . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty , and he was sentenced to three months'hard labour . Robbbrt in a Roman Caxholic Chapel . —Mary Pinneran , an elderly Irishwoman , was convicted of having stolen a piece of cloth , value 7 s . from the altar of the Roman Catholic Chapel ,

      Duncanterrace , Islington , at which she was a regular attendant . —The learned judge said it was a very bad offence , and sentenced the prisonor to be kept to hard labour for six calendar months . Street Robbery . — Sophia Burton , 35 , Sophia Elliott , 23 , and Mary Ann Wick , -were indicted for robbing a sailor , named Fish , of eighteen sovereigns . Mr . Horry appeared for Burton . —It appeared that the prosecutor met the three prisoners and another woman , who was known to the police by the name of " squinting Jenny , " in Goswell-street , on the evening of Sunday , tho 22 nd of September , and having entered into conversation with them , he , at their request , consented to treat them , arid they repaired to a public house called the Maidenhead , where they had some gin . After this they went to

      another public-house , where they preferred ale to spirits , and the prosecutor called for a pot of that liquor for which he paid . Immediately after he had drunk a small quantity of it , he became stu ' pified , and the only tiling he could recollect was , that after , he experienced the stupefying sensations , the women pulled him about , that they got him into the street , and that whon ho recovered ho was lying in a gateway ' , all his money having been stolen from him . From the evidence of a Jewess , named Isaacs , it appeared that " squinting Jenny , " who had hitherto eluded the vigilance of the police , enacted the part of principal in the transaction , the witness having seen her take her hand from the prosecutor ' s pocket , and exolaim , " Come along , I ' ve got the

      money , and they ran away . Immediately before entering the second public-house the prosecutor counted bis money and found it all correct , the p risoners at . the time having the opportunity of seeing it . The three prisoners were apprehended shortly afterwards . ' They each admitted having had part of the money , asserting that it was " squinting Jenny" who had stolen it . —The jury found the prisoners . Guilty . The learned judge said there was some reason to believe that it was the fourth woman who had administered the drug to the prosecutor in the ale , arid that cirumstance only saved them from transportation , ' that punishment being inflicted upon all who committed robberies by means of hociissirig or by tho aid of bullies . —The prisoners were sentenced each to nine months' hard labour .

      RopBKRr in a Ragged School . —Timothy . Callagbari , 30 , was convicted of stealing a coat and other articles from the "Ragged Dormitory and Colonial Training School , " in St . Ann-street , Westminster . The learned Judge , in sentencing the prisoner to threo months' hard labour , remarked that the men who were promoting these ragged schools were performing one of the most Christian duties that could be undertaken , and though they might appear to be sowing seed in an ungrateful soil , it was not so , as the result would prove . No class of men were more useful to society or calculated to confer greator ultimate benefit upon tho community than the promoters and supporters of these institutions .

      , . Robbeby by Begging iMrosTORS . — Johanna Donoehue , 44 , and Johanna Lynch , 20 ; were indicted for stealing a coat value £ 2 , the property of William Clark . The prisoners went to the house No . 33 , Bloomsbury-square , and presented a . petition , purporting to be from one John Wilison , of Little . Guilford-street , praying for a letter of admission to the London Hospital . Whilst the servant went to hand the petition to her master , the prisoners , or one of them , stole a coat that waa hanging up in the hall , and made off . A description' of them was placed in the hands of Horsford ,

      the ' officer of the Mendicity Society , who , knowing them from the Description , watched for them , ana he succeeded in apprehending them on Holbornhill . The servant identified both prisoners . Mr . O'Brien defended Lynch , who was Acquitted , Dprioghuo was found Guilty . Horsford said he had known Donoghue for nine years , and Lynch for twoyears , as begging letter impostors . . Donoghue was' sentenced to six months' havd labour . The grand iury ignored the bill against Fanny Baxter who was charged with forcing herself into the : sleeping apartment of Colonel W . Macadam , and stealing therefrom a shirt , his property ..

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      An Inquiry op a very serious character which has been going on for somo weeks , into , the character of some of the cadets at the Royal Military Academy , Woolwich * has at length been brought to a close . In consequence of some practices too gross and atrocious to be particularised practised by somo of the students who had recently joined from the new- training school at Carshalton , tho Master-General of the" Ordnance ordered a committee of

      inquiry to assemble , and investigate the circumstances . Theifiist result waa the dismissal of . three students from' this academy , who had been convicted of these practices . The result of the labours ofi the committee k ^ a been the expulsion oof six more out of the ten students who had joined the academy , making nino in all , and the peremptory ^ dismissal of . twenty-three scholars from the Car-8 hhlton School . The principal of the school , Dr . Andrews , has also been dismissed , for neglect of duty in not taking prompt steps to crush tho evil when it first became known to him . ! ' ) The OATTiiE-DEAMRs and farmers of Glasgow are devising measures to establish a new cattle market boyoatl the bounds o tbe municipality ,

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      ROMANCE OF THE HAEEM . - -

      The Times of Saturday published , under the above head , the following narrative : — A few years ago a Greek girl of uncommon beauty was married to Mr , Melinglr , an English physician residing at Constantinople . Children were born of this marriage , which seemed likelv to continue hftppy . Mr , Melinger received frequent visits from the highest dignitaries of tho empire , and among others , from F 6 thi Pasha , now son-in-law of the Sultan . It would appear that the doctor discovered the existence of an intrigue between this gentleman and his wife . She soon after obtained a divorce , and abandoned her children and her husband . Sho shortly accomplished the conquest of Mehemet

      Pasha , just appointed Governor of Belgrade , and became a Mussulman . Mehemet ' s happiness was not complete , as there was reason to fear that their union would bo sterile . Accordingly , he ventured a kind of reproach to his wife , who replied with a smile , "My lord , why did you not mention it sooner ? Would you prefer a boy or a girl ? " "A boy , by all means . " " You shall have one . " After sx short interval the crafty Greek feigned to be in thecondition her lord desired , whil" every means were employed prudently to exile him from his wife ' s apartment . Mehemet Pasha was recalled to Constantinople , and subsequently appointed Ambassador of che Ottoman Porte in London . Previous to his departure , he expi eased a wish that he might have another boy , a brother and a companion for

      his beloved Belgrade . As sho had done in the first instance , his wife replied , " You shall have one . ' ' At the end of a month she again declared herself enceinte ; the Pasha was soon obliged to set out for London , and his wife was left at Constantinople to complete her accouchoment . After the lapse of a few days the child iell seriously ill , and was sent , by order of the physicians , to Pera , under the care of ita governess , the same woman who had performed the office of nurse at the birth of Belgrade . However , an old black eunuch , who had brought up the Pasha , possessed his entire confidence , and uould by no moans recognise Usnud Boy in the child thus brought back , and in the presence of several slaves said to his mistress , " Well , my lady , if that

      child be Usnud Bey , ho has become singularly altered by his sojourn at Pera among the infidels . " The mother remained silent , and carried off the child , directing a fierce glance at the eunuch . Doubt had established itself , however , in tho old man ' s mind . He betook himself to Pera , and proceeding step by step , he succeeded in acquiring positive evidence of the death of the veritable Usnud Bey , and of the substitution of a child of the same age , purchased of parents in the lowest grades of life . The eunuch then returned , and , pointing to the pretended Usnud Bey , said to his mistress , " Madam , let me beg of you to send that child back to his father— -Mossul , the fisherman . I know all / ' Afc these words the woman became livid , and left him

      saying , " It is well . " Shortly before the time of afternoon prayer she sent for the eunuch , and was told that he was taking a bath . No sooner did she hear this than her project was immediately formed . Tho old man , as we have said , was governor of the Pasha ' s household , and as such occupied a sumptuous apartment , to which a bath-room was attached for his private use : it was- here that his mistress sought him out . Tho eunuch was attended by two slaves ; she disn . £ Sfti them with an imperious gesture , and ren . 'inel alone with the old man . " You were deteiminoi to find it out then ? " she said . " Yes , and I d d find it out . " She then threw a noose ro nd tho neck of the wretched old man , and < w men $ d strangling him . The eunuch was feeble , ai d to ' cen

      by surprise , could offer but little resistance . A ; the vociferations of the assassin , and the groans of tho victim , one of the slaves returned into the apartment , and at the sight of the horrible scene , rushed out , and began crying all over the house . " The Ehanum ( mistress of the house ) is strangling the eunuch ! A scene of general confusion ensued . Others hastened to the bath room , and only reached it as the old eunuch , overpowered , was sti etched out senseless upon the marble floor . Betraying no alarm at' the publicity of her deed , the Tckanum loosened the noose , and slowly retired between a double row of her servants , whose imprecations followed her to the door of her apartment . The eunuch had been kind to the slaves , and they lamented bia

      loss . One of them raised him from the ground and discovered that he still breathed . They rubbed him , and a physician was sent fcr , but it was too late ., The wretched man returned to life for a few moments , and found sufficient strength to denounce the guilty one , and to gire a detailed account of his assassination , but he expired immediately after . All Constantinople was soon thrown into a state of agitation at the news of the crime , which spread with , the vapidity of lightning . Tho Cadi arrived , and ia spite of the Ikanum ' a rank , the authorities determined that she should be arrested and conveyed to prison . A courier was then immediately despatched to London , to apprise Mehemet Pasha of the fatal occurrence . The culprit has already been examined

      several times , and up to the present time the only defence she has set up is that she possessed a power of life and death over her eunuch , whom she considered as her slave . The affair remains at this stage for the present , and all further proceedings will be suspended until the arrival of a communication , from London , or of the husband himself . As you may imagine , this mournful event has created a sensation in the higher circles of Mussulman society . It is presumed , however , that the Sultan will not be deterred by the rank of the criminal , and that the punishment ot the crime will be signal . The Globe of Monday night reprinted the above , and added : — " The parties who figure in this startling account are known to us ; and indeed the Times ,

      in which several leading articles have appeared on the subject of Dr . MeJingen ' g conjugal wrongs , and the Pope ' s refusal to give him up his children , ought to have recognised in the French misnomer of Melinger , its own quondam correspondent at Constantinople . Dr . Julius Melingen attended Lord Byron in his last illness at Missolonghi , and i % the author of a book published in London , in 1814 , called Memoirs of the Souliote Brigade . When we knew him at Pera , in 1839 , he had already got rid of his wife , whom he had left with her two children at Rome under the care of the Countess Melingen , his mother . The Countess was a Roman Catholic *

      and dame d'honneur to the Duchess of Lucca ; she , of course , brought up her grandchildren in her own creed , and the murderess of the old eunuch , whom we often met at Rome at the Palace delle Stemmate ( the residence of the countess ) , also professed herself a Roman Catholic . She took some opportunity of eloping from Rome , and lived two years at Paris in the Lola Montes style ; but still possessed with a lingering for her dear Levant , she found her way back to that sunny clime , and the subsequent part of her history is pretty correctly given . We were quite prepared for the tragic jinah from a knowledge of her ungovernable temper . "

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      Justice ai Damascus . —A letter from Damascus Of the 28 th ult , says : ~ " On the night of the 2 nd of this month M . Abraham Romano , a Prussian Jew , was awoke by the cries of his neighbours , who had arrested a man when just issuing from the house , after having stolen a gold necklace and some jewels , which Madame Romano had worn the evening before . The court was soon filled with Musselmans , who hearing that the man in custody was » Turk , pretended that M . Romano and the other Jews had inveigled him into the house in order to murder him . * The thief , delighted at this chance of escape , boldly affirmed that such was the ca 6 e . Under the circumstances , the Turks decided that the parties should be taken before the Kiaia . This latter ,

      listening-only to the Musselmans and to the thief , ordered tho latter to be at once set at liberty , and M ' . Romano and two other Jews to be bastinadoed . The two last , being Turkish subjects submitted to their fate , but M . Romano protested , and presented to the Kiaia a certificate from the Prussian consul , declaring that he was a Prussian subject . The Kiaia , in a rage , directed a double amount of blow 3 to . be given ban , and In addition ordered him to be sent to prison . , M » de Weztel , the Prussian Consul , being informed of what had passed ,, intervened in favour of M . Romano , and obtained at last that he should be removed to his own house , where , however , the unfortunate man expired a few days after , from the severe punishment which he had received .

      The Consul has addressed two notes to Said Pasha , demanding a signal reparation , and that the Kiaia should he severely punished ; but no answerhaa jet been returned . The Consul has just sont : in a report on the whole matter to . the Prussian Ambas-. sador at Constantinople , in order that the matter may bo investigated and settled in a manner suit-We to the dignity of Prussia . " Aberhbth * * s Pub Ointments—One of the greatest legacies bequeathed to . human kind , by the immortal Aber nGthy , was , no doubt , his . wonderful discovery for tho infallible cure of thattnostloathsoriie and painful diseasethe piles . Tho prop ' ric-to » of this valuable remedy , though under the treatment of several doctors , sufiered intensely for many years with the piles aud occusionnl bearingsdown , ' yet was ncahing better , but rather grew worse , '

      until he applied to that eminent surgeon , Mr . Abernethy , whose prescription completely cured him ,. and has since proved its powers to heal in thousands of case ' s of piles , fistulaj , &c . In fact the medical profession , always slow and .- - unwilliug to acknowledge the virtues ol" any medioiuo nojt ' prepared by themselves , are now unanimous in r « wpm&nfling the 1 'ile . Ointment , ' as prepared from tho orj * jnal prescription of that departed wonder of the age . , V ^ Abernethy . Sold in covered pots at 11 s ., and 4 s . » £ •' £ all respectable chemists and ; dealers in l' » J " . 'X ln in ev « ry market town throughout the United k" ^^^ ; The surpassing , excellence , of Houoway s ^ AND PlUS , IN TOE CURE « O" , ^ S ° « COtton-Sp to-SoBE 3 .-Fouryoa ssince , Tho « na 3 Wa « dns ac ner at Manchester , received a scVere ™" « , considerits cmirig in contact with «' ^^^ Jdical mou at « ta abla time to was attended by sovenU mw ve poor Infirmary . Avhodeeided . tharnoth ^ com cte raau ' 8 Hfe tut auipum tion ^«» «»» At thiS crisis his upon he . wM turned out »* p chaBe some of Hellowaj * Meuds subscri ^ in a few , veel « ,

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      ( mm ^ im : t ^ ,. ^ .,, - ^^ --- ^^ ^___ ... ¦¦ THE NORffffERN STAIT 7 ^

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 5, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1594/page/7/