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      & $ c mctropom , He > t . ttt cp Xosdos durlng the Week . —The deaths registered in London in the week ending last Saturday were 893 . In the corresponding weeks of ten years ( 1840-9 ) the average was 970 , which , if a certain proportion be added for supposed increase of population , becomes 1 , 058 ; the present rate of mortality , therefore , continues comparatively low , at-i the decrease of last week amounts to 165 deaths . The class of zymotic or epidemic diseases exhibits in this return 195 fatal cases . This is a lower number than in any corresponding week since that or 1846 , when" there were 179 ; in those of the three following years the deaths from epidemic diseases were respectively 318 , 430 , and 608 . & «« « £ small pox was fatal in 10 cases ; measles in onlyj , hooping cough in 27 ; scarlatina in 31 . A aeatn from the last-mentioned cause occurred in M 11-streetStJames Bermondsey ; and Mr Martin ¦¦

      , . , Ihe % d ^ Ttbafc out ' of 10 deaths which he registered during the week , 6 , arising from vanous diseases , occurred within a few yards of the tidal ditch , Jacob ' s Island , " yet the intolerable nuisance remains unabated . " The mortality from diarrhoea and dysentery continues to decline ; the deaths which in a week of August rose to 155 , have now fallen to 47 . It is worthy of note that 13 deaths occurred in the workhouse , "VYhitechapel ( north subdistrict , ) all with one exception between the 27 : h September and 4 th October ; and of these , 7 were caused by _ diarrhoea , 2 by fever , and the remaining 4 by various causes . Seven deaths from cholera ( five of which were among children ) were registered last week , a number which is rather more than has been usual lately . Besides the ordinary causes of mortality , a few cases of a special character , extracted from the returns of the week , deserve to be mentioned . Two men and a woman died from

      intemperance , besides a case of suicide during insanity , which was the result of the same habit . Another case of suicide is reported , in which a boy ¦ whose age was only 12 years , banged himself when insane , and was suspended about ten minutes . Death did not ensue till 3 days afterwards . A boy of 8 months died from ansemia ( 5 weeks ) , following hsemorrhage from lancing the gums . Vaccination vas fatal to a child by producing erysipelas . Two persons died of tic douloureux . The births of 6 S 0 boys and 722 girls , in all 1 , 402 children , were registered in the week . The mean height of the barometer in the week at theKoyal Observatory , Green-• wicb , ? as 29 . 537 in . The mean temperature was 52 dsg ., rather lower than the average of the same ¦ week in seven years . In the previous week it was 57 de ? .

      Fihs is 1 as ! 33 th-w . alk . —On Tuesday morning , between two and three o ' clock , a fire broke out on the premises of Mr . T . W . Smith , Lion Brewery , So . 13 , Lambeth-walk , Yauxhall . The fire was discovered by the policeman on duty , who perceived smoke issuing from between the shutters ; he immediately gave an alarm , and in a few minutes the lower part of the house was in flames , and the inmates escaped with great difficulty over the roof The fire was not subdued until the cellar and lower part of the premises were completely destroyed , and great damage "was done to the brewery . The building was insured in the London and County Fireofiices .

      Fizz at Camberwell . —On Wednesday evening , about-half past seven o ' clock , a fire broke out Id the premises belonging to Mr . Crawcour , a surgeon dentist , carrying on business in Addington-place , Camberwell-road . At the time of the outbreak the only parties in the building were Mr . Crawcour and his ' cook . The female had her attention suddenly drawn to a strong smell of Sre , and having informed her master , they proceeded towards the lower portion of the house , to ascertain the cause . Having descended a few stairs they found the smoke rolling upwards In such tremendous clouds , as to prevent

      their descent . They , therefore , retraced their steps as fast as possible towards the upper floor , and got upon the roof . They had not proceeded far , when , owing to excitement , Mr . Crawcour was seized with a fit , and he fell senseless into the gutter of the roof . Assistance having arrived , the two sufferers were pulled out into one of the adjoining houses . An alarm was promptly given , and several engines having arrived , the fire was extinguished , but not until the whole of Mr . Crawcour ' s property was destroyed , and some damage done to tho premises on either side , by fire and water .

      SEDtcnox and Suicide . —On Saturday last Mr . H . M . "Wafcley held an inquest at the Blue Post- - , Uewman-street , Marylebone , on Anne Francis , aged twenty-three , a servant to 3 fr . Lendskaj , No . 11 , Newman-street . It appeared that deceased formed an affection for a young man named Kelly , whose mother resided in the same house with deceased , where she had been a servant five years , and was highly respected . On the previous Wednesday she received a letter from Kelly , in which he stated that he intended sailing by the Ocean Queen to Kew York , in consequence of her having said she was pregnant by him . The following morning she was found by a fellow-servant in the kitchen , hanging by a rope from a clothes peg , and dead . "Verdict"Insairitv "

      A Fatal S ± ilisg-boa . t Accident happened on Saturday last on the river . The Messrs . John and "William " Montford , of Islay House , Brompton , and Mr . W . Farley , of Faversham-terrnce , Brompton , were bsaiing up Woolwich Reach in their yacht , the Fairy Queen , when a sudden squall of wind upset the boat . Mr . W . Montford aud Mr . Farley saved themselves by clambering up the keel , but Mr . John Montford was drowned . Somnambulism Extraordinary . —Shortly after iwo o'clock on Sunday morning the pedestrians of the New-road and the neighbourhood of West-street , were thrown into a state of great excitement and surprise by the extraordinary freaks of a female somnambulist , who was parading , dancing , and

      acting in the middle of the road , with nothing on but her chemise . Miss Mary Ann Evans , a young girl , residing at 40 , West-street , had from her infancy been troubled with somnambulism but her walks were generally confined to her sleeping apartment , though at times she would make the circuit of the house in which she might be staying . It appears that on Saturday evening she was accompanied by a gentleman oi the name of Davonport , to Sadler s Welis Theatre , who , after seeing her safely home , bade her adieu . A female friend , who was sleeping in the same apartment , affirms that she was undressed and in bed about ten minutes , and then she rose and went down stairs . The young lady not being acquainted with the fact that her friend was a somnambulist , took no notice of her quitting the room , but some thirty minutes passing away and Miss Evans

      not returning , she was induced to go aown stairs also , when to her astonishment she discovered the street-door wide open . Search was made for the missing young lady , and in about a quarter of an hour afterwards she was brought back in the care of one of the constables of the 6 division , who had kindly divested himself of his great coat to cover the somnambulist with . From his statement it appears that a long distance down the New-road be saw something white flitting abGut the road , and hastening to see what it was , discovered Miss Evans acting before an astonished audience of some fifty persons in the moat tragic manner , and at intervals exclaiming , " My own Davonport—he or his life I will have / ' and it was with the greatest difficulty thst she was awakened , and the moment she became conscious she burst into a fit of crying , which lasted several hours .

      Fatax . Accident at TVoolxwch . —About half-past twelve o ' clock on Wednesday Lost , a boat belonging to the Dolphin revenue cutter , containing five men , one a Cu 3 tom-house officer , and four rowers , when leaving a brig they had boarded opposite "Woolwich dockyard , cast off at the moment the Sylph Woolwich * Company ' s Steam Packet was approaching , and before the boat could get out of the way , and the steamer eased , it was cut in two , and the whole of the men went under the wheel of the ster . aier . Your of the men were saved , with the assistance of the boat belonging to her Majesty ' s dockyard lighter , the Ann , and taken on board the Lightning steam vessel . One of the men , named Manning , -was drowned , and another severely hurt . The drowned man has left a wife and three children to lament his loss , and the body has not yet been found .

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      « ¦ m I Y '' i * Jmi 7 % BT& p ^ ^* ™ * a 3 possible . They were both about thirty-three vears- of ago . At half-past two o ' clock in the afternoon Mr . Cartridge , the deputy coroner for the d 3 * r ic < - opened an inquiry at the Fox and Hounds Inn , near the station . The jury having viewed the mutilated remains . William Beldry , the porter , was called and examined : I left Bury station this morning with the 8 . 10 a . m . train , anil rode on the roof of one of the carriages . Mr . Hatclnvell was on the roof of another carriage , sitting on part of the luggage , but not on the top of it . The top of the carriage is not the place to ride ; their directions were to ride in the break or in one of the carriages . At Thui-stcn Mr . Walton got upon the roof with Mr . Ila ' . chwell , and I also joined them on the same

      carnage . Mr . Hatchwell and Mr . Walton got higher upon the luggage than where the former had been previously sitting . I cautioned both of them as to the danger they were in . They were sitting with their face to the engine . As the train was passing under the fourth bridge from the Thurston station , their heads caught against the arch . Mr . Hatchweli was knocked off , and Mr . Walton fell on the luggage . He breathed once or twice , and expired . I stopped the train , and went back and picked up the body of Mr , Hatchwell . —By the Juror : Two boxes of luggage were added at Thurston station , and it was upon these the deceased men were

      sitting . There was sufficient room for the luggage to pass under the bridge . —Samuel Sadler , a labourer on the line , deposed to seeing the train passing under the bridge , and seeing the bridge strike the heads of the deceased . He picked up the body of Mr . Hatchwell . —Mr . Bruff , the er . giueer of the line , informed the jury that neither of the deceased had any business on the root' of the carriage . It was a breach of discipline , and both of the unfortunate men had subjected themselves to dismissal for leaving the stations without order . After a short consultation the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death . "

      Scicide at Gravesekd . —An inquest was held on the 4 th inst , at Gravesend on the body of Mr . John Ren Gatley , formerly a surgeon , but lately a spur manufacturer at 161 , Piccadilly . The deceased was found dead in bed , having blsd to death from a wound inflicted by himself in the right groin . The jury returned for their verdict that " The deceased had put an end to his existence , being at the time of unsound mind . " Escape of Two Convicts from the Leeds Borough Gaol . —On Saturdaylast it was discovered that two government convicts had escaped from the Leeds Borough Gaoi . Oue is Richard Harrison , a man who was convicted of felonv at the

      Yorkshire assizes last year , and sentenced to seven years' transportation ; and the other is Robert Shenton , aged 27 , who was convicted of felony at the Stafford sessions , and sentenced to ten years ' transportation . The former is 3-3 years of age , five feet six inches high , with red hair and fresh com plexion ; the latter is 27 years of age , five feet nine inches high , with hair inclined to be sandy , and is a native of Cheadle , near Manchester . The escape in both instances was effected by pulling out the windows of their cells , and cutting away the stonework into which the iron bars outside were secured . Both cells are in the upper story of the building ,

      from which the prisoners lowered themselves down by means of ropes . The stone wa 3 cut away by a sort of needle used in mat-making , which isasthicU as a small chisel , with a sharp point at- the end ; and the ropes used were a part of what they were em * ployed in working up into matting . A very active search has been made by the governor acd his assistants all round the country , and a reward of £ 20 has been offered for the recapture of the runaways , but wp to Monday afternoon nothing had been heard of them . Both these convicts escaped in their prison dress—a kind of grey friezed cloth ; so that unless they can contrive to change it they will easily be recognised .

      A FejiaIiE Swindler . —About a fortnight ago a short-set pock marked female , pretty respectably attired , and , according as she alleged , of Welsh ex . traction , called at the goods' department in Charles > street , to inquire after a quantity of missing luggage , ' which she pretended had been sent , and not reached her , from London . She gave her name as Ellen Green , and said she " was nurse in the family of Charles Heaton , Esq ., Golden-hill-placs , Blackheath . road , London , son of Colonel Charles Heaton , of the 45 th Regiment of Foot , who was serving on the coast of Africa . The purpose for which she had come to Preston was to see her sister , a Mrs . Jones , but this Mrs . Jones having left the town , sbe had found Mrs . Jones of the Temperance Hotel , Lune » street , who

      had accommodated her with apartments , together with , bed and board , ou exceedingly reasonable terms . Day after day did Ellen Green , bringing with her each time Mrs . Jones , of the Temperance Hotel , apply at the goods' office for her missing luggage , giving in a list of the following articles , addressed to Ellen Green , td be left at the Prestion station till called for - . —Three sailors' chests five feet long and two feet six inches by two inches , painted , ropu handles , six sacks tied on the top of two , and three sacks on the top of the other ; two ciothes' trunks , covered with black leather and brass tacks ; one basket ( reticule , ) with black oilca ? e over , large size ; one carpet bag , red and blue , locked with small padlock ; one brass bird-cage , with marble bottom , containing a golden parrot and a white cockatoo . In

      one of the chest 3 were several gold watches and a number of deeds . The corresponding clerk at the office ( Mr . Mewis ) wrote to the various stations on the line , respecting the property . Nothing , however , was heard of it . She then wished him to proceed with her to London in search of them , offered to pay his expenses if he would do so , and a reward of £ 25 if the luggage were found . It was therefore agreed that they should start by the express train on Saturday last , " and Mr . Mewis called at the Temperance Hotel on that day for his compagnon de voyaae , but the bird had flora , and forgotten to pay her bill ! It is evident that the whole affair was a trick on the woman Green ' s part to throw dust in the eyes of Mrs . Jones , and live at a cheap rate at the Temperance Hotel .

      Skeletons found in a Lead Mine . —Some miners were engaged last week in emptiag out an ancient mine shaft near the Noon Nick mine , iu the parish of Bonsall , when , at a considerable depth , they came upon a number of human bones , partially intermingled with the old tnine rubbish . As they proceeded with their work , many more bones were discovered , amounting in the aggregate to as many fis would , if re-articulated , form three human skeletons , the skulls of each being in a tolerable state of preservation , and many of the teeth particularly so . The conjecture is that the bones sre all that remain of three unfortunate miners , who were killed by the " running in" of theshaft . A Scene at the Consecration of a Church .

      —On'Saturday last the new district church of St . Peter ' s at Plymouth was consecrated by the Bishop of Exeter . Some days before the consecration the incumbent , the Rev . G . R . Prynne , issued notices stating that admission would be by ticket . Upon this application was made by Mr . Isaac Latimer , the editor of the Plymouth Journal , for a ticket , which Mr . Prynue , who had recently prosecuted Mr . Larimer for a libel at Exeter , and been defeated , refused , alleging that he felt a solemn duty to protect the worshippers and communicants of St . Peter's Church from the idle and profane gaze of a mere spectator . The ticket was consequently withheld , and Mr . Latimer wrote to the Bishop of Exeter , who , however , has taken no notice of his letter ,

      although his attention was called to the fact that he had before deprecated this system of packing a church by admitting by ticket . Such being the state of things , Mr . Latimer determined on trying his right to admission ; and , accordingly , about twenty minutes to eleven , he went to the church door , where he was stopped by three policemen and a clergyman , and refused admission on the ground that he had no ticket . Mr . Latimer loudly protested against the course that had been adopted of packing the church , and claimed his right to admission into the church without a ticket . The noise that this scene occasioned brought the curate , the Rev . G . Helling , to the door , and he again said that there should be no admission without a ticket . Mr .

      Latimer said he would insist upon his right to enter the church without a ticket , upon which Mr . Hetling replied , that if he created a disturbance he would give him in charge . Mr . Latimer defied him to give him in charge , asserting that at a time of public worship he had as much right to be in the church as he ( the curate ) had , and that right he would maintain at all cost . He also defied the police to take him into custody , and called upon Mr . Gibbons , the superintendent , to show by what authority he presumed to act or to attempt to prevent a parishioner and a peaceable citizen from entering a church at the time of public worship . Mr . Gibbtms said that he was authorised by the mayor of the town to act under the instructions of Mr , Prynne . Mr . Latimer said that the mayor had no right to delegate his magisterial authority to any clergyman , and that he should , in spite of that delegation , insist upon his

      right to enter , and defied the police to interfere . Their duty was only to prevent a breach of the peace acd not to carry out illegal and unconstitutional orders given to them by men of straw . Mr . Hetling said that Mr . Latimer should not enter till the bell rung , and then ordered the bell to be rung , and told Mr . Latimer he might pass in . The door was then thrown open , and Mr . Latimer entered , and immediately walked through the aisle aed took his place close to the chancel . The scene was one of great excitement . At the time nil the pews were filled , and the whole of the people had risen in consequence of the altercation that was going on at the doors . It is a strange fact that all the other representatives of the local press not opposed to Tractarianism were admitted . Shortly afterwards the Bishop of Exeter made his appearance , and the work of consecration went on with great pomp .

      Compucatios of Accidents and Offences . — Last Saturday , as Mr . j . J . Kemp , of Kemp-street , Brighton , was driving to Lewes in a dog-cart with a lady , the horse took fright shortly after passing the Ashcomb toll-gate , apd . dashed off at full speed , It

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      had not gone far , however , before Mr . Kemp was thrown out , and as he iiad held the reins all command of the animal was now lost . The lady , terrified at her position , endeavoured to set out of . the vehicle behind , but in doing so she fell ; her foot and ancle were seriously sprained , and the small bone of her leg was also fractured . Passers by soon assembled , and Mr . Keiiip leaving the lady iu their charge set off for Lewes after the horse , which , never checking its furious speed , entered St . Ann ' s , and proceeding down the High-street , came safely into the centre of the town , nearly opposite Messrs . Lowdell and Granthatn ' s . At this place stood several vehicles , which the animal attempted to avoid , but at length it came into violent collision with the Ilailsham

      carrier ' s cart knocking the horse completely over , and breaking the shafts of the dog-cart . Leaving these behind , and now freed from all incumbrance , it galloped down Market-street until it was stopped near the King ' s Arms Inn . The carrier ' s horse was slightly injured , but the cart was soon put to rights , and lhe broken dog-cart conveyed to Mr . Lenny ' s , the coach builder . The accident had , of course , attracted crowds to the spot , and as they were entirely ignorant of the origin of the accident , great curiosity prevailed on the subject , but at length Mr , Kemp appeared on the scene , bavins ridden in as fast as he could . He immediately ordered a fly to convey the lady home , but in dismounting he was pitched from the horse and received a severe contusion on the leg .

      To return to the lady , whom we left on the Brighton road , she was not more fortunate than the gentleman in escaping without further misadventure . Unable to proceed farther than the bank on the roadside , a young woman , said to have the appearance of a gipsy , had first come to her assistance . Shortly afterwards two youne men from Lewes came up , and they forming what children usually term a sedan chair , carried her to the house usually known as the Hopein-the-Valley . Here every attention was paid to her , and the lady having partially recovered , missed her brooch , and almost immediately discovered that her purse was gone . It was then remembered that the young woman who had first assisted the lady bad long ago left the spot , and , suspecting her of stealing

      the articles , one of the young men started in . pursuit . He speedily overtook her and recovered the brooch , which she had really taken advantage of the lady ' s situation to abstract , but stoutly denied having the purse . It was thought prudent to examine the spot where the lady had been seated prior to her removal to the Hope . in-the-Valley , and there lay the lady ' s purse , Very shortly after which the lady was removed to Brighton , in a fly , and so ended this complication of" accidents and offences . " A ' Captain ' s Wife and Ship ' s Ckew seized bv Arabs , —A painful interest was felt in BIyth last week , on receipt of the intelligence of the loss of the Tyne brig Mary Florence , Captain Christopher Short , ' on the coast of Africa , and the ^ subsequent seizure and detention of the captain's wife and six of the crew , by the Arabs . Captain Short and his wife

      are natives of BIyth , and much respected . Mrs . Short , who has for several years accompanied her husband ou bis voyages to different parts of the world , is a daughter of the late Captain William Smith , of BIyth , the most intelligent and adventurous seaman BIyth has produced . Hia name was brought very prominently before the public about thirty years since , while captain of the William , of BIyth , as being the discoverer of the New South Shetland Islands , a notice of which appears in the Penny Cuclopadia , vol . 16 , article " New South Shetland . " The mate of the Mary Florence , who is also one of the captives , is married to a daughter of the late Mr . Wm . Handyside of BIyth . We hope that every effort will be made by the Bombay government to rescue the unfortunate captives from the savages , and restore them to their afflicted friends . — Newcastle

      Guardian . Death op Miss BrFFi . v . —On the 2 nd inst ., Miss Sarah Biffin , the celebrated miniature painter , who was born without hands or arms , died at her lodgings in Duke-street , Liverpool , at the age of sixtysix . The deceased was born at East Q . uantoxhead , near Bridgewater , Somersetshire , in the year 1784 . She manifested in early life the talent for drawing and painting which she afterwards cultivated to so extraordinary an extent ; and she was initiated in the first rudiments of the art by a Mr . Dukes , to whom she bound herself , by a written agreement , to give the whole of her time and exertions , and for that purpose to remain for a term . ot . years in his house . Some time after this engagement had been

      contracted , the late Earl of Morton became acquainted with , and so much interested in Miss Baffin , that he caused her to be further instructed by Mr . Craig , a gentleman of great eminence in his profession as a miniature painter . Under his skilful tuition , she attained to an almost miraculous degree of perfection ! so much so , indeed , that in the year 1 S 21 the "Society of Arts and Commerce Promoted , " for one of her pictures , presented her with a , prize medal , through their president , his Royal Highness the late Duke of Sussex . The Eai'l of-Movtou also made liberal offers , but unavailingly , to Mr . Dukes , to induce him to relinquish his claims upon Miss Biffin ; and although she was assured by professional gentlemen that the agreement was not legally

      binding , she refused to avail herself ot the circumstance , and she remained with Mr . Dukes for : nearly sixteen years . During the whole of this time she resided with Mr . and Mrs . Dukes , as one of their family , and was treated by them with uniform kindness , but it will scarcely be believed , although such is undoubtedly the fact , that in compensation for this exclusive sacrifice oi tbe best part of her life , Miss Biffin , at no time , received from Mr . Dukes , in more money than £ 5 per annum . Miss Biffin was patronised by their late Majesties George the Third , George the Fourth , William the Fourth ; by the Queen Dowager , by her present Majesty , by Prince Albert , aud by a host ot the nobility , and

      other distinguished persons . For many years she supported herself by miniature painting ; but after the death of her noble benafactor and evei' kind friend , the Earl of Morton , there was no one , like him , ready to assist her in obtaining orders for pieturers , or in disposing of such as she was enabled to complete when not otherwise employed ; and as age grew upon her she became much reduced in circumstances . A few years ago she came to Liverpool , where she made an ineffectual attempt to support herself by her own exertions . Our benevolent townsman , Mr . Richard Rathbonej took a great interest in her welfare , and it was princicipally by his exertions that a short time ago a small ' aniiuitv was purchased for her by

      subscription . Ciiarge of Attempted Poisoning by a Soldier . — At the Town-hall , Dorchester , last week , William Dowling , a private of the 8 th Ilussars , was charged with an attempt to poison Corporal Michael Riley , of the same regiment . The following are the details of tho case , as deposed to by Riley . I am a corporal in the 8 th Hussars . It i 3 my practice to put away the over-nig ht a basin of tea for the next morning , which I kept in a black bottle , on a shelf over my bed , but the tea was not in the bottle at the time this drug was put into it . On the night ot the 2 ith I came in out of the town at nine o ' clock , when I told a private of the name of Letmoti to put my tea iu the bottle . I cannot swear which of the

      men it was who told me my tea was in the cupboard . The prisoner was in bed at this time . The two private soldiers , "Walker and Lennon , assisted to put the tea into the bottle , the one holding the bottle , the other pouring it in . I went on undressing myself , and presently asked Lennon whether he had put the tea into the bottle ; and upon his saying he had , I told him I wanted some then . Upon this he poured a part out , some of . which I drank , and the remainder of that which was poured out Lennon drank . After we had drunk this portion of the tea I put the bottle on the shelf . In the morning , about five o ' clock , when I awoke , I felt a violent pain in ray stomach and head . I iiad slept sound all night , and was not sick when I awoke . Lennon . who nad

      drunk what I left in tho basin , complained of the same sensation as I felt . 1 don ' t recoliect making any complaint then ; and went to the stables as usual . When I came to my breakfast , about seven o'clock , I was going to warm this tea for my use , when private Divett told me he had seen the prisoner put borne thing in it , and told mo not to drink it . I then directly locked the bottlo up in my box , and between eight and nine o ' clock tlie same morning I gave the bottle to Corporal Chadwicke , and requested him to take it to Mr . Panton , surgeon , for tlie purpose of having the contents examined ; the bottle was precisely in the same state when I sent it to Mr . Panton as when I took it from the shelf at seven o ' clock in the morning . From the hour of five until seven in the morning .

      during which time I was absent at stables , 1 do not know who might have entered the room . Before I sent the bottle by Chadwicke to Mr . Panton , I charged the prisoner openly , iu the room before the men , with having put something into the bottle . He denied having done so , and threatened to report me for having made such a charge againefc him . I replied , if there was anything in the bottle it would turn the ease quite a different way . When I came in from exercise I was informed that the bottle contained a quantity of sugar of lead . I said nothing more afterwards , and Dowling was made a prisoner directly ; I have never had any altercation with the prisoner that I recollect , and never brought him to the notice of the Sergeant-maior , or any other of his officers ; the prisoner is an older

      soldier than I am myself considerably . I have been five years in the regiment . I believe the prisoner has always borne a good character . I wish to stato that shortly after coming in from exercise in the morning I made an examination of tho cupboard in tho sick ward , which is near to my room , and to where the prisoner had access , the pr isoner up to within two or three days of this occurrence having been in ill-health . On looking into the cupboard I found several bottles and things with the prisoner's name on them . As I was going away a sick corporal named Hanrahan , who lies in the " room , told me to try the upper shelf , as he had seen Dowling place things up there . On doing so , I found a paper , on which was written . " Sugar of lead — poison , " and . the paper contained a quantity pf that

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      substance , aud had Dowling ' s name upon it . An officer named Sargeani-ifc / orMarriott ™ V f . ent /" the room when I took the paper from the shelf , ana 1 handed it to him . —John Chadwicke , alao a corporal in tho regiment , deposed as follows ; -I wni a . oorpo-. ral in the 8 th Hussars . On the morning of the 25 tu of Septembor , I received a bottle containing some liquid frcm Corporal Riley , which he asked me to take to Mr . Panton , for the purpose of having its contents analysed , as somebody , ho said , had put something into it . I saw Mr . Pantda , and delivered the bottle into his hands in the same state m which

      I received it from Riley . I told him afc the same time that Corporal Eiley wanted the contents analyBed . Mr . Panton said it would take some hours to analyse the contents , and then he took out the cork and tasted it , and he immediately said that there was sugar of lead in it . He told me to desire Riley to report the matter to tbe commanding officer . Mr . Panton gave me back the bottle , which I carried back to tho barracks , and gave to the sergeant-major , in whose possession it has been ever since . —On tho advice of his solicitor , the prisoner reserved his defence , and was remanded .

      Colliery Accidents . —A few dsys ago the first instance of a rope breaking when regularly at work with the Fourdrinier safety apparatus attached to the cage occurred at the Belraont colliery ; owing , bowever , to the apparatus , any accident was fortunately prevented . It would appear that the tubs , not having been properly secured in the cage , came in contact with one side of the framework of the shaft in their descent . The rope and one guide was thus broken at a distance of five fathoms from the bottom . By this derangement of the one side of tho framework in the shaft the apparatus had only one guide to act upon , and it was a source of satisfaction to all parties that the apparatus held the cage firmly in its position until a fresh ropo was attached to the cage , when it was immediately lowered into the pit without any injury to the cage or apparatus , although called into operation under very unfavourable circumstances —Sunderland Herald .

      Muroer at Watlington , —Considerable excitement has been caused in the usually quiet villagetown of Watlington , since Saturday last , in consequence of an aged woman named Ann Lambourn having been brutally murdered by her husband , John Lambourn . An inquiry was held before Mr . John Henry Cooke , one of the coroners for Oxfordshire , at the Hare and Hounds Inn , Watlington , on the body of the unfortunate woman , when it appeared from the statement of the neighbours who live in the adjoining cottages at Watlington , that Larabourn and his wife had long lived unhappily , and violent altercations were often heard to take place between them ; that the wife was seen in perfect health on . Saturday last , in the afternoon , and at eleven o ' clock that night was

      found lying dead in the garden near her cottage door . One of the witnesses examined , named Mo 3 es Robinson , a labourer , deposed as follows : — " . Last Saturday night I was at my brother William ' s . John Lambourn came into my brother and said , ' Will you comedown along with me , for I think Nancy lies dead in the garden ? ' I went down with Lambourn to his house . She was lying on her back , with her head about six inches from the wall , and her arms by her side . As soon as we had got a light I took her up , but she was as cold as a clod , and her clothes were quite damp . Her bonnet and cap were saturated with blood , and underneath her head was a quantity of congealed blood . Her cheeks were bloody and her fingers drawn up . I carried her upstahs ,

      and remained with her until Mr . Dixon , the surgeon , came . Lambourn never expressed any regret or sorrow , all he said was , ' I think the poor old creature ' s dead , for I touched her , and she was as cold as clay . '" —Evidence was given by Mr . Dixon , surgeon , of Watlington , as to the injuries discovered about the body of the deceased , and also by four labourers , as to the violent threats used at various times by Lambourn against his wife . —The coroner shortly summed up , and the jury , after a short consultation , returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against John Lambourn , her husband . " The coroner then made out his warrant for the committal of the prisoner to the county gaol , where he will await his trial on the capital charse at the ensuing Lent Assizes .

      Suicide and Murdeb . —A most melancholy event has just happened in Leigh . The following are brief particulars . On Tuesday morning , a young female , named Elizabeth Eaton , committed the double crime of murder and suicide by leaping into the Leigh and Wigan Canal with her child . The spot she selected for her purpose is close to the Leigh Bridge , crossing the canal , near the centre of the town , and it is a matter of surprise how she should have accomplished the deed without detection , as it is supposed that she must have jumped into the water about five o ' clock , an hour when many operatives are beginning t » proceed to their employment . A youth in the employment of Messrs . Farnwortb , named Peter Speakman , was passing the spot afc . twenty minutes to six , and saw something dark floating on the water , which he mistook for the body of a mun . He went and awakened Mr . Hiseins , at the Bridgewater Canal office , who got

      up and fetched a shaft , and , with the assistance of Richard Wilkinson , pulled the body of the unfortunate woman on the banks of the canal . Immediate information was given to the police , and they removed the body to the house of Mr . Thomas Greenough , Boat House , where it was shortly afterwards identified by the woman with whom the deceased lodged at Thorpe ' s Houses , near the Wesleyan chapel , and the body was conveyed to her lodgings . It was then discovered that the child was missing , and a search was commenced for the body in the canal , where it was found in the course of half an hour by a ^ man named James Duke . The woman was only partially dressed , and the child was in its night clothes . The child was an illegitimate one , and was about three or four months old . Its maintenance had muoh embarrassed . the mother , although she had recently affiliated the child upon its putative father . The woman was a silk weaver in tho employment of Messrs . Walker .

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      ScotiattU . The Airdhie CoiAim ? Explosion . —Triai of tiie Lessees for Culpable Homicide . —This trial took place on the 2 nd and * 3 rd inst , boforo the Lord Justice Clerk , at the Glasgow Court of Justiciary . James Sneddon , or Snedden , coal master , noar Airdrie , and John Sneddon , or Snedden , son of the aforesaid , was placed at the bar , charged with the crime of culpable homicide , as also culpable neglect of duty , by persona carrying on or superintending the works of a coal pit , whoreby any of the lieges are deprived of life , in so far as they , being lessees of the coal pit known as No . 2 Pit , Common head , near Airdrie . and , having had the

      superintendence of the said pit from January . to the end of July , and , in particular , for the period betwixt 12 th and 23 rd of July , and it being their duty to secure safe and proper ventilation , so as to prevent the undue accumulation of gas , for which purpose they ought to have kept closed by an air-tight brattice , or seen that there was so kept , a communication by the down-cast vent or compartment of tho Kiltongue coal seam , to a wrought out waste lying above it ; as also to have caused to b . e' maintained and preserved duo air-courses down tho said vent , to the whole of the workings , in an air-tight manner , and in particular so to keep the throughers , or open spaces between two pillars of coal , adjoining two levels , oi passages leading in opposite directions along the lower clip of the said seam ; as also to erect and keep trap-doors on all

      roads or openings connected with the said leadings in a secure manner ; as also to provide at tho bottom of the up cast vent of the shaft a proper and sufficient furnace or cube , and to keep a sufficient fire burning in the said furnace while the workings are going on ; and it being also their duty to prevent the miners going down when the mine had been unwrought , or without having with them safety lamps—they culpably neglected to take the above necessary precautions , - in consequence of which , on the 23 rd of July last , an explosion of fire-damp took place , and eighteen miners lost their lives . At the conclusion of the defence tho judge summed up ; and the jury , after rather more than half an hour ' s deliberation , returned a verdict of Not Guilty against the father , and a similar verdict against the son , but only by a majority of one , The prisoners were discharged amidst some signs of approbation from the persons assembled in the court ,

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      ^¦ j ^ jb . — . n^—m ' TTi rn in— . . ¦ ¦¦ . ' . - - . ¦; " Imanb . ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ " : " . ' BaiAiNASloe Faib . —The great annual fair / of Bal * linaaloe commenced on the 4 th inst . with the sale of sheep , The number on the green was from 10 , to 12 , 000 lest' than the average of previous years , which is accounted for by the great quantity of land converted from tillage to grazing throughout the West , and the . necessity of stocking those lands with store sheep : The number of sheep in the country is fully' as lat ; ge aa ever ; but they are scattered over a greater lit en , and the graziers at a dis- j tance from Ballinasloe buy and sell in the fairs adjacent to their own lands . In a year or two , owing to the extent of breeding , the supply will be vastly augmented . At the fair there was a great number I i i . ___

      of buyers , and prices generally were very high , pariiculariy for store wethers and ewes . One letter , from an extensive Meath grazier , who went to Ballinasloe to purchase store sheep for fattening on his rich pastures , says , "the low-priced wethers and ewes were from five to eight shillings over last year ; the fat sheep much about the same price ; in consequence , I had to limit my purchases . In fact , the prices were fully equal to the average of highpriced years under Protection . " Some of the southern fairs show equally high prices as Ballinasloe , with a great demand for cattle as well as sheep . Afc the fair of Cnllohill , county of Kilkenny , horned cattle brought full prices . The Kilkenny Moderator remarks : — " There were very fine lots of sheep , but ewes being in great demand , were so dear that Mr . Flood and other gentlemen expressed a determination to send to Falkirk , in

      Scotland , for them . " The great demand lor preening ewes , at all the fairs , is caused by the anxiety to devote unoccupied lands to grazing . Stmptoms of Improvement . —Several letters , from various part 3 of the country , refer to the decided improvement in general business . As a sign of reviving trade , the Cork Examiner says : — " The Nimrod steamer landed this day on our quay , from Liverpool , over 300 bales of manufactured goods , the greater part of which were for one leading wholesale houee in this city . " Whilst cargoes ot foreign corn are arriving , the export of our own cereal produce continues . On Monday last four vessels left Cork for England , laden with homegrown oats . The Albatross steamer left Dublin for Liverpool one day last week , with the enormous number of 550 head of cattle , ia addition to a general cargo . : -.- ..

      -Cultivation of FiiAs . —Archdeacon Keating , of Limerick , in a letter to the RoyalAgricultural Society , says : — "It 13 the intention of several influential persons in this district of the country to form an association , to be , called , ' The South-Western Society for Encouraging the Cultivation of Fiax , and Promoting Agricultural Improvement . '" Reductions of Rent . —The Marquis of Ormonde has issued a circular to his tenantry in Kilkenny and Tipperary , proposing a reduction in the rents for the present year , varying Irom twenty-five to ten per cent ., according to circumstances , and declaring his determination to enter upon a re-valuation of his estates . Lord Ormonde ' s rents are already more moderate than those of mo 3 t other proprietors . . ¦ .-- . ¦ J ;

      __ .., _ .. A Good Landlord . —John Campbell Dicker , Esq ., the present proprietor of the Gleneask estates , in the county of Sligo , is at present on a visit to his property . Gleneask , lately held by the Irish Waste Land Improvement Society , is now m the hands of this gentleman , who has arrived from London for the purpose of personally examining into the condition of the tenantry . He has minutely and carefully considered each individual case , and ha 3 reduced ' the rents one-half from the 21 st of September last . Besides making other liberal allowances , he has reduced the last half year ' s rent in all cases where he thought the rents too high . The Irish Waste Land Improvement Society had those lands let at very reasonable rates , and this further reduction ought to be very encouraging to the

      tenantry , as well as affording a good example to others . Mr . Dicker has also effected an arrangement with the Roman . Catholic curate , of Kilmactieue , whereby divine service will be regularly performed in the . chapel already built on the property . Seeing the destitute state of many of the poor people , he has given the means of purchasing clothing for themselves and their families . Since the month of May he has provided on the property employment for all the tenantry who cho 3 e to avail themselves of it , or who could spare the time from their own holdings . We also understand that he is about opening extensive works on the estate , which will be the means of giving general employment to the people , and of circulating among them the cash of which they stand so much in need . —Tvrawlv Herald .

      Reproductive Labour —The Rev . Cornelius Corkran , P . P ,, of Tracton ( Cork ) , had an interview on Friday last , at the Castle , with Sir Thomas Redingtoii , on the subject of reproductive labour , or theobtainaient of some equivalent for poor rates in hia parishes . He proposed to cut away the bar at the mouth of Rin ^ abella Creek , in the barony of Kenelea , and thus give the sea sand and oar treoJ an inland determination , to deepen the bed of the river ,. and create a navigation of seven miles , intersecting five parishes . The rev . gentleman demonstrated the vast importance of this project , not only in an agricultural , but commercial , view ( this county abounding with slate quarries of a superior kind ) . ' He offered to collect himself the poor rates lately assessed on . the five parishes which would be

      most benefited by the work ( and which money , he knew , would he promptly and gladly paid ); also to collect contributions from the landed proprietors ( which he also knew would not be refused ); also to keep away from the poor-house every pauper boloniring to these parishes until the work was finisheH , if the government gave him any reasonable assistance from any fund within its control . The Undersecretary , without any lack of courtesy , entered into the views of the rev . gentleman , commended their soundness , and applauded their enlightenment , but " rag re tied there wereno means for re « productive labour outside the Drainage Act , and no relief for an able-bodied pauper outside the workhouse , under the control of government . " The application of the rev . gentleman on behalf of the most smitten district in the south of Ireland to

      the Board of Works had a similar result . —Cork paper . Agrarian Murder is the County of Down . — The Belfast News Letter . contains the following : — " It is with the most painful emotions that we announce the perpetration of a murder , in the most peaceable and prosperous district of ^ the , north of Ireland , as cold-blooded as any that fiver , stained the annals of the south , and that the odio . ua . crime had its probable origin in agrarian discontent ; Shortly after dusk on Wednesday evening , a weafe ' ry named M'Cormick , who resided at Cormoss , on tki llillsborough-road , within a short distance of Ballynahinch , and about two miles beyond the Carryduff Meetins-house , while sitting at " his loom , was shot

      at by a miscreant who had introduced the muzzle of his gun through an aperture made in the yriniloyr pane . The bullet entered the heart of the poor victim , and after passing through his body lodged in the framework of the loom . It is unnecessary to say that he expired instantaneously . M'Cormick has left behind him a widow and five children to deplore his untimely fate . We regret to state that the perpetrator is at present unknown ; but we trust that , by the vigilance of the police , he will soon Le brought to justice , The only cause-that can be assigned for the murder is that M'Cormick had taken a small farm , and was care-taker for another , from which the previous tenants had been evicted . He had received several threatening letters , during

      the last two months , calling upon him to give up possession , or take the consequences . An inquest was held on the 4 th inst ., at the scene of the murder . The evidence tended to implicate a mail named M ' llveen , for whose apprehension a warrant has been issued . It appeared from the evidence that M'llveen , some time previously , had evirced symptoms of jealousy towards deceased , for supposed intimacy with his wife , and that he bore a grudge towards him on that account . One of the witnesses , the Rev . Mr . Blakoly , stated that he looked upon M'llveen as insane , and had , previous to the murder , spoke about having him placed" in & lunatic asylum . The inquest was adjourned until Monday week .

      An exceedingly acrimonious controversy on tho subject of mixed education and the new colleges , is being carried on by various clerical writers in the columns of the Evening Foit . A few days since the Rev , Mr . Maher , of Carlow , made an attack on the late , Dr ; Crolly , the predecessor of Dr . Cullen in the'ltoman Catholic primacy , for having countenattee ' d' the Belfast Academic Institution with , its Arianahd Socinian professors ; and , in the Post of this eveninj , tlie nephew of the deceased archbishop , who is a professor of theology in Maynooth , comes out with four closely-printed colums in defence of his uncle ' s character , and mokes a furious onslaught on Father Maher .

      Bank Defalcation . — Informations have been sworn against Mr . C . Clarke , late cashier in the branch bank of New Ross , charging him with having embezzled £ 78 4 s . Hid . from the money entrusted to his care . The case was investigated on Monday last before a bench of magistrates at New Ross , and Mr . Clarke was admitted to ball himself in £ 600 , and two sureties iu £ 250 each , to stand his trial at the next assizes . c , ^ °° S " . ! ' *? " [ :--Tbe Most Rev . Dr . SlatteryRoman Catholic

      , Archbishop of Cashel hi bil S ? , ; r i , f ppear . 8 that myhumble name has been dragged before the public durin ° - the == ^ rt'wi ?« s .- { s / 'a EiSr »«~^ s P&S , h 6 ^ 'g ^ st authority in the Catholic SSVfc a e ^ P <> unced . If such was the object those parties bad in viev , they will find them-

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      / solves grievously disappointed , let oih ^ Miey may in this respect , for my par r % fffompromise the dignity of the hf gh stat ic * 1 ' 11 so unworthily occupy . I may be taunte d t ^ sneered at , and insulted , but no attack th ' -if 'r made upon me shall ever induce me to fn ^ moment the respect I owe to ' my ' own X f * a prelate and as a jentleman . " in a act pended to the letter Dr . Slattery says - «? ote ' a sizar of Trinity College , '—I was ' not «?*•* educated there gratuitoualj' —I ¦ wns n 6 t < M astronomy" by Dr . Magee , ' nor ' Greek- C \ Graves , ' nor 'history by Dr . Miller . '" b ? 1 Conviction of Crop Lifters . —At th 0 v sessions on the 4 th inst . before . Mr , Waltl * wick , the Assistant Barrister , three men a !^ ! women , all of one family , named Hoare , ! & dieted for a riot on the 2 nd of September \ m ) facts of the case , as afrated by the Crown ao ];' - briefly these— "MrCreach aim 1

      were : , was .: receiver by the Court of Chancery overly lands in the Riding , called Clash'abee . One of traversers at the bar , thffwidoW Ellen HOat \ tenant to a portion of these- land * ^ and paid J ' i Mr . flreagh since his appointment , her wi having been previously tenant to these l . indg n 1 his death , Mr . Creagh interfered with the V ' in the cause M'Leod against O ' Qdlaghan , ' in * ;| he was so appointed 'receiver , antf obtained Lit a remission of the arrears then due ,, and a rcdn ^ of 25 per cent , on the existing reutt- It was nee *' to draw the attention of tbe jury , to soniecW which had taken place in the lavrof IaniJl 0 J ^ tenant within a short time past . Uc-prcsunied ? previously to the charge to which lia allu ded * were aware that landlords were empowered ? ' i ''train growing crop 3 ; but since the enaefciw

      the late statute tney were deprived of that Z ' and he regretted to say the good intention 0 P Legislature had not been . met in a correspond spirit by the tenant . In the present inatance 1 individuals charged chose for their purpose ? Sabbath—a day of all others which ou * httr held sacred , and on which it would not beTawf' ? make any distraint for rent—to assemble a y body of persons consisting at least of ninety * ^ and cut down her crop of oats before j ' j l < thoroughly ripe , having it removed as fast as jj , " cut to an adjoining farm , held under adi'L ? landlord . Mr . Creagh ' s bailiff having seen $ remonstrated with them , watched the corn -, proceeded the next day to distrain , on whi ' tf , casion the riot occurred vrhich would be no * * tailed to them in evidence . " After a lon ? ck * from the Assistant Barrister , the jury refurrJ verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners . !

      Ekolish Settlers in the west . —It is s-w , that several private tenders have been foi ^ : ; to the Encumbered Estates Commissioners |) y £ ' lish capitalists for some of the lots of the ty ' estate in Connemara . During the- past month -u estate was visited by isome English agricultuf ^ At the fair of Ballinasloe , now in progress , t ^ were many more English and Scotch visitors h , heretofore , some actuated by mere curiosity ; £ , there are others who had goned ' own to the ' , » with the view of judging for themselves aa \^ t expediency of a permanent location as ownetjT renters of tracts of land . The sales in the Enta bered Court re-commence on Thursday , the $ , ' just . ; and it appears to be the general opinion * * in future sales there will be much more of En & competition than heretofore .

      Horrible Cruelty and Neglect . —A con « . pomient of the Clare Journal , writ in 2 from jii town Malbay on the 4 th inst ., says that on theor& ceding Monday 100 boys , whose ages averaged ^ J nine years , were sent from the auxiliary Trorkfeaj there to be inspected at the parent house in Eitj ; and , being allowed to return the same evesicJ without having received any food during theiit the greater number of them unable to walk , |« about thero&d duringthe night , which happen ^ be a most inclement one , and one of them ivaa fcacd dead in the morning with his head quite bata ?) from falling against the ^ nlls . The verdict of tt « coroner ' s jury very properly attributed the'death to the neglect of the poor-law officers and the gmr . dian 3 of the Ballynaugheu union .

      State of the Country . —The following is fcj the Tuam Herald : — " By a kind of apathy notun intelligible , ' the agitation seems to be " takenm rather slowly in his locality . And surely if feu is one other spot en the face of the habitable s !( fe in which protection for tenant property and least right is more required , we should be eladtote of it . On every side of this town , and ~ all over ia province , the -eye of the traveller rests upoik bleak walls of roofles cottages , whose former hr pants have long since become the' victims ofeation and death . TVe could point out whole viili ; s thus cleared away . In fact , it is . useless to den , nor does any body attempt to deny , the

      horridtirbarihes which M ' e bein » daily practised isposAe tenant classes . And this system of cruelty isgdrj on with undiminished vigour . Even a feivitj ago we were informed of a large village of upwajj of forty families being dispossessed of their Mini in this neighbourhood , the particulars ofwhicaw will not detail until we can satisfy ourselves ty minute and accurate inquiry . In * one word , it eviction of whole townlands is now becoming raiiia of such ordinary occurrence as to create no pirncular sensation or bring any particular amount ef popular odium upon the actors in these tnss doings . The legislature , with its usual inertia

      is slow , and even unwilllmg to provide a renwj for these evils . Hence it becomes a duty upontb friends of the people to combine together , andrei energy and vigour to agitate the country w every side , in order to put a stop to those cruekfe The address of the Ulster Tenant Kight Pr « - cial Committee intended to have been presented !} his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant during his lire tour to the north , has along with the Karl of Ct rendon's reply , made its appearance in the Beife ! Banner of Tuesday . The address , ' , which occf " a column of space , is drawn upon up with cons * derable skill , and is remarkable for its » oto «

      tone . The Tenant League . —Mr . Nicholas Mayer , cts of the members for Tipueravy , and a larae to * proprietor in that county , and the Hon . Cecil b * less , member for Clonmel , and son of Lord fe - curry , have given in their unconditional nl ! ejp ' to the principles of the Tenant League . Both if ' tlenien have promised to attend the fortueoraug monster meeting to be held in Tipperary on th « l » instant . Mr . Scully , the other member for 1 ^ county , has also " pronounced" in favour of & League .

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      MR . SMITH O'BRIEN IN EXILE .

      ' The following letter appeared in the W of Tuesday , together with one from Mr . * Hawes , stating that it had been received ftsthe Colonial Authorities open , according » the usual regulations in such cases : •—Darlington Probation Station , MariaI $ ' * Van Diemen ' s Land , Feb . 28 . & Mr Dear Potter , —I would have written toJj " sooner if I had anything agreeable to coman " ' ^ but I have been unwilling to grieve you , by t " "' you that your worst anticipations , with respect ' r sort of treatment which I nvght poss ' -biy ex ; : erif & in this colony , have been realised . During aP .., fihnnh twn mnnflia T snffprpH no mm >) i ;> s tilt ! " . \

      inanity of the Governor , Sir William DenisonA by the Comptroller-General , Dr . Hampton . coP " flict . My health at length began to give . ^ 1 rapidly under the solitary confinement to wliicM . ina this pariod , I was consigned , that the ij « ' the station became seriously alarmed , and to r ^ . sentations produced such a relaxation of ijie r&A lions under which 1 was placed , as has had the e ^ of restoring my strength . I shall abstain W * ' -, tressin ? you with a detailed narrative ot my »? ence of the magnanimity of British functionary illustrated by my treatment in this island- '^ j . rather impress you with a persuasion—1 >» P ? ' . J founded—that I bear with wonderful clieerl " " ^

      the privations to which 1 am subject . ^" . ' ' . Misource of suffering appears to me to be «<> "N y cant , compared with that of separation " ., # . family , that I reconcile myself to the m ' 1101 " . . ^ . tions incidental to my position , as to matte ? 5 ° ] m paratiye indifference . Yet , though I cou ld KV 0 > the pains of this separation , by allowing Mi * ^ Jj to come to Van Diemen ' s Land , I feel more stw *^ tlian ever that it would be the greatest i"J ^ t my children to bring them to n country , ^/^ f . condition of which I will not trust myself to u ^^ I , therefore , can see no definitive termination « ^ calamities of my lot except that which you ijf e friends took so much patus to avert- the » Jeii"U that will be tffected by death ; and , I con ft » i V > deliberately think that my death would be . ' , # vantaseons to mv nhiiriren than that they suo "

      lov » me to tbia colony . .,. | io # I am afraid that some of my fello \ v-exi . e =. . tf enjoying the " comparative liberty " wind . « ' t bja leave confer ? , find their lot little more envw > ( a mine , and the more I re fleet upon the circi" b ,, 8 of their position , the more do I repice tun £ Vi j kept myself unfettered by any engag «" % cf though my resolution in this regard ve > J ! % , {> me my life Considered as a prison , Mar" ¦ , i » as little objectionable as any other spot m a ( lJ p chosen . The scenery is very pic tiirfsq" ^ f Innnl nfflnprs hnvfi heen as kind as they co , , \*

      to be , under the inhum an regulations I " " , \ % \ their guidance by the 'Comptroller ^ ewj ^ 4 therefore , rather sorry to learn that tins oi v soon be broken up . Upon the abandon ^ ^ m station , I shall probably be removed to ¦ * J f ne # a change which will , 1 fear , bt P ^ f ^ U $ ?) benefit nor satisfaction to me . Te » " . dnes 5 ' ¦ ' friends that my recollection ot their Native ;/ vivid as if I wore still their wpresew ^ d believe m YO « r very obliged and attache" ^

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      Lamentable Rail way Accident . —On the 4 th inst . a verv lamentable accident happened on the Bury S . Edmund ' s branch line of the Eastern Union Railway , by which two officers of the company lost their lives . The unfortunate event occurred between Thurston and Elmswell . In consequence of some defect to the engine attached to the tram which should have left at ten minutes past e : ght in the morning , Mr . Gideon Hatchwell , the respeoted etation-master of this place , despatched a messenger -to Haughly for another engine , and in the mean time directed the train to be drawn forward by horses . Mr . Hatchwell rode on the top of one ot the carriages , and on the train reaching Thurston , Mr . James "Walton , the master of that station , climbed upon the carriage where Mr . Hatchwell

      was , and took his seat beside him . Soon after leaving Tburaton the engine from Hauglil-y came up , and was accordingly hooked on to the train , and it then renewed its journey as usual . Here it seems that both the unfortunate men shifted their positions , so as to be seated higher on the luggage , it should be mentioned that Baldry , a porter m the service of the company , joined thera when the tram halted at Thurston , and on seeing them change their seats he cautioned them as to the danger they were Sng themselves in . Unhappily , however , they oaid no attention to the warning , und as the train Swept under the nest bridge , the fourth from the Thnoton Station , at the rate of fourteen miles an i ™ heir heads came in contact with tbe arch « the bridge , and both were killed instantaneously , Mr Hatehwell alone being thrown off the carnage . Bd ** ti » porter , immediately called to the driver oi the engine , and tbe train was stopped as qwWy

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      mu \ e $ - Piue-Daup Explosion and Loss of Life at Coed Peeth Coal Pits . —On Saturday last the men en gaged at these pits went down to their work as usual , and becoming conscious of the presence of fire-damp , they immediately endeavoured to effect their escape ; before this could be accomplished an explosion took place . Three men were killed , and two others are in a hopeless state . None of tho sufferers were burnt , as is usually the case in these accidents , bub were evidently suffocated . The coroner , B . H . Thelwell , Esq ., and a respectable jury , held an inquest on Monday last , and after , a lengthened inquiry into the melancholy affair , returned a verdict of " Accidental death . " They also

      recorded the fact , that no blame could be attached to the proprietor , Mr . Burton , or to the manager of the pit ; it being found , on examination , ventilated in the usual way . During the examination of one of the witnesses , it transpired that the pit in question was much more subject to sulphur than any other pit in that part . The coroner drew the attention of all present to the importance of using the safety lamp . The men , in reply , said that it gave so imperfect a light that they could not get near as much coal with the safety lamp , as they could with a candle . The coroner contended that was a trifling consideration , compared with the misery entailed by these dreadful accidents ; not to mention the great increase in the poor rates , in the parishes where suoh accidents occur .

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      6 . - ;¦ - THE NORTHERN STAR . _ . __ i .. ' ' ¦ ¦ L ^ ctomr 12 l §

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 12, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1595/page/6/