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      ^^^ : ^^^^ U , ^ ,. ^ ! tikiitif o& Ioxdo ' s 'Dtmiiffi- Mrs ¥ 582 .- —The increase of mortality , noticed in the previous week , Is still apparent to nearly the same extent in the ¦ we ek ending last Saturday . The deaths registered in the metropolitan districts , which in the two preceding weeks were respectively 845 and 945 , numbered last week 921 . In the corresponding weeks Of the ten years ( 1840-9 ) the average was 963 , which , if raised in the ratio of supposed increase of population , becomes 1 , 051 , and shows a difference in favour of last week to the amount of 130 . The mortality from pneumonia ( or inflammation of : the lungs ! and- asthma nearlv ennuis , the average ,

      ¦ while that , from bronchitis exceeds it ; and , thougn the deaths from all diseases ara < diminished , as compared with last week ' s return , those from that class of complaints of whioh the above are the roost important hare increased . For , in t he preceding ¦ week , the deaths from- diseases of the respiratory organs were 138 , last weefcthey :. were 171 . Bat ft Vlll be seen that phthisis { or consumption ) which has this year beeriless'fata ? tban asnal , is notoneluded in the observation ; for while in the previous ¦ week it was fatal in 112 cases , last week there were only 93 , a considerably less number than in any of the ten corresponding weeks m 18404 ) , when they ranged betweea . 107 and 133 . The present time se ^ ms to beHafavouiMble to the health' of the aged ,

      |> ct more propitious to the young . Eleven children < Jied of small-poxj besides a man who had nearly attained the age of 60 ; 22 of measles , 23 of hooping cough , 33 of scarlatina , 7 of croup . Fever is now the epidemic which is most propuctive of fatal results ; last week 55 persons , of whom about a half were of middle age , were its victims . In connexion -with various deaths from fever , the registrars call attention to local nuisances ; bat the following cas j which occurred in "Wild-passage , St . Gile 3 , is specially worthy of notice . The child of a labourer died there on the 3 rd of this month from typhus , making the third death , which , according to the statement of the mother , has taken place amongst her children , in the same house , within six months . In the dwelling ( added the informant ) there is . a cnnstnnt and intolerable smell ' from the drains .

      The death of a boy , aged twenty-two months , is registered as caused by " typhus ; loss of blood from the throat , by leeches . " Fatal cases of diarrhoea and dysentery do not exceed 20 ; and the following 13 the only instance in which cholera is mentioned —At 6 , Pitt-street , St . George ' s-road , the son of a shoemaker , aged ten months , * * 'died of . " fever ( two days ) infantile - cholera ( twelve hours . ) " . The deaths of three persons are aseriBeiJ directly Of indirectly to intemperance ; -and that of a woman in Jennine ' s-liuildings , Kfosnjgtonj- to * want and

      exposure . The births of 851 boys and 726 girls were regUtered in the week . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean reading ' of the barometer on Saturday waa 30-194 inches ; 'the mean of the week ¦ was 23 ' 9 il inches . Themeandaily temperature varied little during the week , and was throughout higher than the average of each day . The mean of the week was 50-2 i , which is abont 4 ° higher than the average of the same week , derived from the observations of seven years . The wind was generally in the south-west .

      EXTENSIVE CoXFLAGBATIOS AT BkPIFORD . —On Saturday morning last , a fire broke out in Deptford , -which injured the premises of Mr . Ealmei * , a grocer , No . -16 , Broadway ; those of Mr . Kenward , a lmendraper , No . 15 ; and the building numbered 17 , in the same thoroughfare , occupied by Mr . Feat , a cheesemonger , burning most furiously . ' The . fire at one period assumed such an alarming aspect that the occupants of the houses some distance off commenced removing their goods to a more distant place for protection . At length , however , owing to the exertions of all parties , the fire was . extinguished , bnt not until a serious amount of property was destroyed . -. ¦ - .-.

      Extessive Fiee . —Atafew minutes before two o ' clock on Tuesday . morning ,, the neighbourhood of Great Russell-street , Bsrmondsey , was thrown into great confusion , through a fire breaking oat in a range of premises belonging to Mr . Harredine , a rag merchant , in Butler's-walk , Bermondsey-strett ¦ which extended into Blue Anchor-place , the whole being of great magnitude , and which was adjoined by the premises belonging to Mr . Murrall , a straw merchant , the national schools , and several other erections nsed for private and manufacturing purposes . . Numerous engines of the London Brigade and West of England Company speedily arrived , and plenty of -water having been procured , the whole force was brought to bear upon the conflagration , bnt it was nearly three o ' clock before the mastery over the fire could be obtained . : " . ., ... ; Tub Lite Burglar ? is the Regent ' s Park . —

      On Monday morning the four men , John Mitchell , "Willum Dyson , James Mahon , alias Hollinsdale , and William Robinson , all of whom were under remand upon the charge of burglary at the mansion of J . Ilolford , Esq ., Holfora-bouse , Regent's _ ark , -were brought up at the Marylebone Police-court . The perforated hat was called for by the magistrate who directed that Drage , D , should place it on the head of Mitchell . This was done by the officer , and on his being asked by Mr . Broughton if it fitted , he replied that it did . —Mr . Wakefield examined : Remembers Mitchell being brought to the House of Detention on remand . He was severely mounded in the leftside with numerous small shots , extending f ova tbe hip to the head , and the wounds -were covered with poultices , which were removed by the warder . There is no doubt in my mind as to their being shot wounds . Since he has been under my care no shots have come away from him thai I have seen . There are , in my opinion , some under the snrface of the skin now . There were

      several shot in the nape of the neck , and several under the scalp . ( The riddled hat was here shown to Mr . Wakefield . ) Had seen it today for the first time . The marks appear to me to be caused by shot . Some of the shots which passed through tbe hat would bare produced the wounds in tbe scalp that he bad stated . The prisoner is a great deal better . He had at one time a bad abtcess , which has now nearly healed . —He has been most severely ¦ wounded ; and , to the beat of my belief , he has received altogether as many a 3 60 or 70 shots , most of them in the arm . —Mr . Broughton ( to Mitchell ) : Do you wish to ask this witness any questions ? Mitchell : 3 Jo , your worship . —Mr . Broughton ! Does either of the prisoners wish to say anything ? 1

      Mahon : Yes , I wish to ask—but , suddenly stopping , he said—I ' ve taken a second thought , I won ' t ask it now . —Mr . Fell , the chief clerk , then read over the depositions taken from time to time in this case . —Mr . Broughton ( to the prisoners ) : Having heard the evidence , do you wish , either of you , to say anything ? Ton are not obliged to do so , but whatever you do say will be taken down , and may be used against you at your trial . —The prisoners replied that they bad nothing to say . —The magistrate discharged Robinson , at the same time saying that he had had a most narrow escape . He hoped that he -would now see the necessity of quitting evil companions , and doing all in his power to obtain a living in a honest and respectable way . Mr .

      Broughton added , that he should send the other three prisoners for trial at the next sessions of the Centra ] Criminal Court , upon what he considered to be as clear evidence as ever went before a jury . —The prisoners were then removed from the bar , and Mitchell , Dyson , and Mahon were locked up .- ¦ The becest Lobs of Foub Lives os the River . —On Monday Mr . C . G . Lewis , the coroner for Smth Essex , resumed an inquiry at the Bell and Anchor Inn , Flaistow , respecting the death of William John Luck , aged twenty-five , « ho with three others yeas drowned , by a boat in which they were coming in collision with the Duke of Cambridge ( Cork ) steamer , on the morning of the 17 th nit . The evidence adduced was of a very contradictory character ,

      one class of witnesses affirming that the accident would not have happened if there had been a proper look-ont on board the steamer , while the other fide -were of opinion that the boat was managed recklessly , and as if the men in her were bent on destroying themselves . After half an hour's congideratiin the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Wm . John Coe , the pilot who bad charge of the . Duke of Cambridge at the time of the accident . l '"'' ... '' . ' . ' Accident ax WEsrsirasTEB-BBineB . —On Saturday last , an accident , by which the "lives of several persons were jeopardised , took place at Westminster bridge steam-boat pier , during the ^ time the Lord Mayor was going on board the City barge after leaving Westminster Hall . The civic

      functionaries were in the act of getting into the . state barges when the rash of people on to the steamboat pier became so great that the whole structure became densely packed . At the end of the steps of the bridge a stage between twenty and thirty feet long was thrown over the river to one of the dummies , and although the crowd were warned of the clanger they exposed themselves to by standing on that portion of the structure , yet they refused to move . Owing to the ' . weight on it one of the beams broke , and the ocoupants were precip itated into the mud . Several were severely bruised , and a child belonging to Mr . Vaeher , the lawstationer , of Parliament-street , unfortunately got its leg broKen .

      ' Supposed Suicide os thb South Westers Railff ^ r . —On Sunday night , abont ten o ' clock , a young " man named Gwynn , a bookbinder , and living with bis father , in Stewart ' s-lane , Battersea-fields , was inrryin" home , and to shorten the distance was in ' the act of crossing the railway , which is contrary ¦ to the rules of the company , when he saw a respectable looking man lying with his legs acrass the Windsor and Richmond uplme ; he went to him supposing he was asleep , but finding that he was bleedinir and apparently dead , he ran home to his ¦ fS&ssrtsawsss discovered tbat the unfortunate man was beyond

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      assistance in this world , a frightfully laoerated , wound . ^ e 5 sajnche . sin-lengtbphavi 2 g-beenj-made inThiffnghl si deTwhicb exposed thelive ^ and there was also acoritased woundgjver . theTlgbt temple . The legs of the deceaseo * ,, as alsc » his arms , were free from injury ; clearly showing that , he had been thrown by the guard attached to one of ths > engines from off some oi the other metals , and that this was no doubt the fact mayJbe . conjectured from the circumstance of two up trains , passsing , one on the South Western line and / the other oh the Windsor line , only , a minute prior to the young manGwyhne crossing . The face and hands of deceased were cold , but the body was described as quite hot , proving that he had not long met with hia death . There

      was no hat found , and on him was only one . penny , a comb ; and penknife . He remained , undentified until Monday night , when Mr . Rowe and his wife recognised the body as that of Mr . Robert Hancock , who with his wife , had resided at their house in Vauxhall-streetfor some months past ; he stated that he was ' , brother-in-law to Mr . Gooich , the late superintendent of the locomotive department on the South Western Railway , and that the deceased had been « n assistant under "him . On the opening of the Windsor line , the deceased had the management of the locomotive department at Windsor , but was compelled to relinquish the appointment from bnrjmiog deranged . ¦ He had been under control in some time , and it was anticipated he would

      have recovered ; but of-late he had become very desponding . On Sunday evening'deceased was out with his wife walking , and she left him at Vaushall , between eight and nine o ' clock . It is stated that the deceased' was ; much reduced , though at one period possessed of large means , ¦ , : - The Fatal Steamboat Collision os the River . —On Tuesday Mr . W . Carter resumed an inquiry , which occupied the whole day , at the Angel , Platform , Botherithe , on view of the body , of Charles Cooke , one of the four unfortunate fellows , who were drowned by the boat in which they were coming in collision with , the Duke of Cambridge ( Cork ) steamer . It may be stated that these proceedings were opened previous to those ' before the

      Essex coroner , which concluded on . Monday ia a verdict of manslaughter being returned against William Coe , the pilot who was said to . have had charge of the steamer . The same witnesses being examined as were called at the . former investigation , and it being sworn positively by several parties employed on the riser that the deceased rowed the boat athwart the steamer ' s bowa , and . that the engines were stopped , the ' coroner summed up , and desired the . jury not to be guided by . what had taken place elsewhere , but solely , by the evidence that had been adduced before them . After about a quarter of an hour's con 3 ultatib'jj , * they ,. returned _ , verdiet of " Accidental death , " adding that they had not the slightest doubt in coming to that conr elusion . .. ' ¦ .-..

      -The Charge against Mb . -Sireem .. —On Tuesday' the property , which was of considerable jaltte , taken by the police from Mr . Sirrell's premises in Barbican , penning tbe charges madeagainst him at the Mansion-house , was returned , by order of the police commissioners . Immediately after the discharge of Mr . Sirrell on Thursday / week on the several London charges made against . him , Messrs . Lewis and Lewis , his solicitors , made application to the commissioners of police , for the restoration of the property seized , which led to an interview , between Mr . J . G . Lewis and Mr . Mayne , the chief commissioner , and the result was , that the immense property , except some few articles for which parties had applied for , was on Tuesday brought back from Whitehall to Mr . Sirrell ' s premises in Barbican .

      Arrival of Cabdisai . Wiseman in London . — The newly-appointed Romish Archbishop of Westminster arrived in London from Ostend , at half-past four on Monday morning , by the South Eastern Railway , and proceeded to his residence in Golden-square . The cardinal left Liege on Sunday . The cardinal's arrival at this moment was kept so profound a secret , and was so little anticipated , that when he reached town , the mansion that is being fitted up for him was still in possession of the workmen . . . . Shocking ¦ Suicide . —About twelve o'clock on Monday night * young woman precipitated herself

      from the first receBs on the Surrey side of Blackfnarebridge , and , striking with great violence against one of the buttresses , dashed in her skull and rebounded upon the causeway . The sound of her fall attractec the notice of two constables , who ran down and raised her , but after groaning heavily once or twice she expired , and wa * conveyed to Cbristehurch deadhouse . She was apparently about twenty-six years of age , short in stature , fair complexion , light brown hair , teeth much . decayed , and had on . a brown-cotton dress with white stripes , slate-coloured sbawlwith red stripes , and a straw bonnet with brown ribbons ..

      Thb Proposed Park for Finsbury . —Last week the Commissioners of Woods and Forests ( who , by the last returns , have a cash balance in hand of £ 171 . 306 Ha . 6 d . ) completed the purchase of the Red House , Battersea , and have given directions for Battersea-park to be proceeded witb . They ; have also manifested a laudable interest and concern for the healthful recreation of the 30 , 000 inhabitants of the borough of Finsbury , comprising the squalid masses of Saffron-hill , St . Luke ' s , and Clerkenwell . The proposed park for Finsbury has occupied their serious attention ; and the committee appointed at the aggregate meeting , held in Sadler's Wells Theatre have resumed their labours . , .- ' .-

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      miration of the position ivhlclii . as , J'irat-Minister . of thVGrown ; he has assiinved' in referenqe ' . to thei recent attempt of the Ppp ' eMd' de £ ract from the'digriity of the throne of these realms /'; 'The motion ^ ww unanimously adopted .- ¦ ' - ¦ '' ¦ '¦> :- " '> > : " • ' ' ;;' ¦ '' '''' " ' "' ¦ '' ' ' : ' - : ' . < ¦ ¦> AiKovBLTT . —At the" Br istol Police' ^ Court -on Tuesday , the jurisdiction' ^ ofwhioh' extends " ' over 200 , 000 inhabitants ,-thero was not a single entry oh the : police charge sheets . The _ cireum 8 fcance 'Was noticed in terms of commendation by the magistrates present . . • - - ¦ - ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' ' . ' ••• ¦ ¦ -- ¦ ¦ ' : ¦ . / . ' ¦ » " i Fire and Loss of . Life ai Roohbsibr ; —On Monday evening , shortly after wne- o ' olock , an alarming fire broke out at the residence of Mr . R . Homan , on St ; Margaret ' s Bank ; Rochester , arid which unfortunately resultedin loss of life . ' " It originated in a bedroom in which ah infant was asleep , and appears to have been caused by the curtains of the bed taking fire through the 1 incautious act of the servant , who , on discovering the dangerj ran to a front window and gave tbe alarm , and from which she escaped : the child being suffocated before 1

      assistance could be rendered . The fire made rapid progress , and , * although but a short time elapsed before the engines arrived , ' owing to the want of water , it speedily communicated to the . adjoining houses , and threatened destruction to a large amount of property . A messenger was despatched to the barracks , and , with their usual promptness ) the military were on the spot . By this time a supply of water was obtained from the breweries of Mr . Shepherd , Mr . J . Hulkes , and Colonel Best . Aided , by the soldiers , every effort was made to stay the devouring element , but it was riot stopped until the house in which the fire originated , and the two adjoining ones , were destroyed , and oneor more materially damaged . Much of the furniture was saved ; but , owing to the confusion and alarm which prevailed , ' it-was , of- course , considerabl y injured . The fire was got under about twelve o ' clock . The buildings destroyed were all insured in the Sun Fire-office . • ; ¦ ,

      Suspected Murdbr is Kent . —Mrs . Sarah Bates , aged sixty-seven years , the keeper of a small chandler ' s shop , in East Peckhara , was found on the evening of the . 7 th inst ., at about half-past five o ' clock , lying dead . behind her counter ; with * her throat but , apparently by a large bacon knife , which was lying near her . Her nephew came home o-t the above hour , and not finding her , went up stairs to ohange his dress , in order to go to an evening school , when he missed some clothes and four ; Shillings out of bis . bos . Another lad called on him ' , and they were shutting up the shop , when they found the aunt ' s body as above described . 'She had . then been dead some time .. She had been seen alive ; by" a female neighbour at about three o ' clock , when ' she said she was nb . t fit for work , burst outcrying , and' asked her to go in . She seemed to have been

      drinking , to which she was somewhat addicted . She was also seen by another neighbour at about five , at her back door , swaying to and fro , with her-arms folde ' d . When found , her hands were much cut , and there were marks of blood as if she had passed along the counter whilst bleeding , and had stood and bled at a different spot from that where she was found ; The place' did not appear to have been robbed , and the sum of £ 2110 s . waa found in one of her boxes . —An inquest was held , on the following day , before J . ' N . Dudlow , Esq ., when Mr . Biggendes , surgeon , stated it to be his opinion that the wounds could not have been inflicted by herself . —The jury ' returned a verdict thai ; " deceased had been found dead with her throat cut , but whether , or riot by . her own act there was no evidence to show . " - , -. .: •'

      ' Iscendiabism in South Hants . —Several ' acts of incendiarism Have recently been committed in the neighbourhood of Fareham , near Portsmouth . At the last meeting of the Fareham bench of magistrates a man named Wheeler , a tramp , was committed to the assizes for trial , for feloniously sotting fire to a stack of wheat , the property of Mr . J . 'G . Martin , of Cams Farm , near Fareham . On Monday morning last , about half-past seven o'clock , a'wheat rick , in a field between Fareham and Stubbington , belonging to Mr . John Whettern , was set on fire by an incendiary and completely destroyed . It contained nine loads of threshed , wheat . The perpetrator of the crime has not yet been discovered . ThbLbbhs Po 8 T-offce Robberies . ^—The Voung

      man , John Warren , was again arraigned on Wednesday' before the borough magistrates , and several additional oharges ofpurloining letters from the post-office were proved , and he was further remanded for the proof of additional charges . The eases on Wednesday wero very clear . against him , especially with reference to the purloining of several railway dividend warrants belonging to Mr . John Jowett , jun ,, woolstapler , and his , sisters . -Serious Accident .- ^ -The eldest son of the Rev . Thomas Croker , of Mary ville , a youth in his sixteenth year , met with a deplorable accident on Wednesday evening , last , by tho incautious use of gunpowder , a long train of which he was laying on the kitchen floor from a powder flask ,, while a servant man , at his desire , ignited the powder at one end , when the train blazed up , and the running

      flame caught the young gentleman in a moment , with the flask in his hands , which burst asunder with a terrible shock , tearing a thumb from each hand of the unfortunate victim . One thumb was fennel in a recess in the kitchen . Dr . John Wilkinson was directly sent for , and removed the other thumb , which was connected witb . the hand merely by a ligament . : . StmscMPiHOV von Uessllv Officers at Manchester . —The Germans in Manchester have lately set on foot , and are successfully rising a subscription for the officers of the electorate of Hesse-Casael , who lately resolved to resign their commissions rather than submit to being used for the upholding of the power and decrees of a foolish prince and a destable minister . The object of the subscription is with a view of providing the Hessian officers with the means of subsistence , which they had sacrificed by resigning their commissions . -

      Representation of Postefkact . —The Hon . Beilby Lawley , theliberaJ candidate for this borough , has , it is said , completed a most successful canvass . Captain Preston , who expended a considerable sum in contesting the borough at the last general election on the tory . interest , visited Pontefract immediately on the present vacancy being known , but found the feeling such as not to justify him in again offering himself . No other candidate on that side seems to hare any chance of success .

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      smaiui . CLEARANCES AND SOABCITT . OF LABODBBRB . —At the last meeting of the guardians of the Glenamaddy Union , county of Galwny , Sir Joseph Burke , chairman , in reference to a letter of Messrs Eyre and Norris , extensive purchasers of property in the district , recently sold under the Encumbered Estates-Commission , stated , that those gentlemen had enclosed a list of destitute-persons who had been evicted from their holdings , offering to bear a por . tibn of the expenses of their emigration to America , 'if the guardians would liquidate the remainder ; Sir Joseph announced that the guardians were unanimons in refusing the applicationas

      , , from the enormous extent to- which emigration is now carried on , "they would be obliged before long to import people into the country . " Business in thb ENcuMBEnsD Estates Court . — The gryat accumulation of sales in the Encumbered Commission Court has compelled the commissioners to adopt a total change in their arrangements . Heretofore the petitions , in tho order of their presentation , were adjudicated upon , and days of sale fixed at convenient periods , in some instances several months hence . But the sale lists are now so full , whilst hundreds of petitions remain for consideration , that the commissioners have determined to make no further orders for sales during the present or the next year .

      Re-abjcstment of Rents ;—The provincial journals contain further announcements of reductions of rent , and of new arrangements between landlords and tenants . In one case , Mr . Eccles , of Ecclesville , has issued an address to his tenantry in the county of Tyrone , with the view of placing them , by leases or by written agreements for yearly tenancy , in a position "to make changes in their modes of tillage , to enable them to come up to the improved state of farming in other countries , thus putting them on an equality with the farmers of those countries , and leaving the want of success entirely with themselves . "

      . Emigration . — - Wages of Agricultural Labourers . —The Watford Independent atates , that many of the tenantry , in the district of Gorey , in that county , are making arrangements to emigrate to America next upring . From tho Barony

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      Litherir ports ; the ^ riigratidri ^ w ; 8 till ^ ry considerable ; In some parts of thecountyof / eorkr the wages of agricultural labour have been ; reduced to the lowest possible point . -At Hanturk Sessions , a harvest labourer , named 'Walgh ^ summoned a « re . - BDectabl ftlooking farm " er , : named Green ^ for Is . ; Bd ., the hire Of eighteen ' days , in reaping and sawngthQ harvest ^ being at the rate of , one penny-per day ! The farmer contested , the claim , on the groundthat he h ad agreed to givebut one halfpenny per week ; M 6 a&t a : Walffll . I « l . piate hetendered . paynient S three halfpence for three , y . eeka ^ bard labour ¦ g the harvest ; - The labourer positively affirmed that the eneagementwas'fpr , one penny a day , and he Stared «»«; during the time of his cmploymen ^ he « got nothing - for ^ -support ; butabi ^ tfto

      ; ; Indian m ^ r gr ^ eLV Ultupately the' magistrates P " d a ^ ecree ^ for , thea 3 . ; 6 d ; 'as wages , with' 8 s 63 . foi loss of time and costa , and they directed the immediate issue of the ; warrant . . " ¦ ' . ¦ Affair of H 0 N 0 UR .-A hostile meeting on Saturday morning , in the Phoenix-park , ; . between the Marquis of Sligo and Mr- Gl 0 . Higgins , M . P ., was interrupted by thepolice asthe parties were about taking their places ., Two of thejnends were captared ; The principals escapedi but were arrested jntheeourBe ' of the day on ; a warrant issued by Colonel Brovvhe . ' and taken to the police-office , College-street ,-where , they were bound over before Dr . Kelly in heavy recognizances . The . misunderstandihg , we'have heard ; aroso but of a late election of ea oteo guardians in the county . of Mayo . . ,

      CoBNTr of Limerick Election —A third candidate , Mr . Thomas Fitzgerald , Q . C . ( who had been in the field at a previous election without , however , ' going to a poll ) , has ' addressed the electors , from Glin Castle , the residence of his relative , the Knight ofGlin . V " I' am "determined ( he says ) , if niy ^ pponenfo db ¦ not -Mliro , to poll td ! thn ^ last mrih . ** - ' - ' - / ¦ '' , '""• " ' . ' , _' , ' . '" i ' . Jit , ' - ' ' ¦ '¦ : The Letter of LoRn John Russell . —Already' the country is excited , and the newspapers are engaged iii a bitter controversy ' about Lord John' Russell's memorable letter to the ^ Bishop of Durham . The Roman Catholic organs are vehement , in their expressionB of indignation ' , : whilst the Protestant joijrnida liud ¦ the 'Prime J Mihistop for inflicting a 'I heavy / blowand great discouragement" against

      Papal power and influence . ; The -Enwstiig Mail , lor instance , accepts the lettersas " a grand testimony for the principles of the Beformatioq , " aiid as ^• fr aught with consequences whioh wj ( H'render it memorable to our latest posterity . " The Mail , howeve r , Speaks with a qualification , observing that , " even in this letter of Lord John Russell the case of Ireland is made specially exceptional He thqiighi ; that the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholics should be upheld for the Irish , and no ; doub . pe-still thinks bo , although the Queen's authority and her right were as audaciously trampled upon aDd defied in tbe Convocation of the Synod of ThVirles , as in the apostolic mission of Dr . Wisemah to Westminster . '" The Newry Telegraph

      congratulates its readers , and , referring to the Pope s bull ; says that "the . would-be ravager is taken by the horns , by the iron grasp of power . " ; On the other band , the JltW ^ delares that Lord Jobh Rus . sell has thrown ' off the mask ; and entered upon an ostentatious alliance with the blasphemers of Exeter Hall . " Further the Tablet says : — "Those Catholics who have sold'themselves—whether- for gold , for partisanship / f or Whig favour , or for the name of social and political respectability—to the present governme ' nt , have' now their'just reward , in the contempt of the puppet they hayeso ignominiously worshipped . In return for their -base cringing he buffets them on the mouth , voids his rheum upon irarments , " &o . " ¦ This , " exclaims the Tablet , " is

      the severest blow that has yet been dealt by . public opinion ,: upon those Whig Catholic partisans who have been willing-to-go'all lengths , in sacrificing the interests of the Church to the good pleasure of those anti-Catholic friends ,, patrons , and protectors . ' ? The Freeman ' s Journal says : — " We sincerely regret to finrt Lord John Russell the author of such a , letter . It directly tends to light a flame of religious persecution Nor is it more intolerant than it is weak and unmanly . " A provincial journal—the Waterford News—suggests retaliation in the shape of an agitation against the Protestant Church Establishment . The . Nation exclaims ;—" If the battle of religious liberty is still to be fought , it ' could never have been fought . in this

      island with'more advantage than now—not the battle of bishops , but the battle of liberty—a battle for the right of Christian community to manage their ' own ecclesiastical affairs , according to-their own will and conscience . " - "; Mr . John O'Connell , assuming a character which his father was wont to take in a political emergency , namely , that of " member for all Ireland , '' has " come out" with a verbose address to the Roman Catholic representatives , brimful of " sound and fury . " calling upon them to "> gird themselves once more for the good old fight , to stand together as of old , " &o . The " Fifth of November" was . celebrated in Belfast , Kewry , Lnrgan , Dungannon , and other parts of Ulster ; and passed off quietly .

      ' RE-ApjusrMEOT op Rents . —The winter . emigration of-farmersj in large numbers , is leading to a general reduction of rants , commonsurato with the altered value of agricultural produce . The former valuations of land will be no longer taken as a standard , either to estimate the rate of purchase in the Encumbered Court , or the letting value of farms .. Even the Griffith valuation has been described , by one of the Commissioners as- exceeding the intrinsic value-for-the poorer class of lands . Tho old rentals are exhibited in the sales ; but they seldom had been , at any time , a correct representation of -the rents actually paid , and now : hey have become , in general , a most fallacious test

      of the real value of estates , Tbe provincial journals daily contain further announcements of abatements of rent , and of the reductions of the poor-rate valuations on appeals before the assistant-barristers at quarter sessions . Landlords have discovered that moderate rents , connected with the security of a lease , are indispensable as a means of retaining industrious tenants on their estates . It would have been much better if those equiUble arrangements had been , entered into two or-three years since ; but even at" present fair concessions by landlords will bave the effect of checking a most pernicious system of emigration , which removes from the country the remnant of the tenantry possessing some capital and skill . ¦

      Decbeasb of Bcsinbss in the Four Courts . — Since the commencement of the present term there has been ajyery decided decrease of business in the law and ' equity courts . The Queen ' s Bench rises daily about twelve o ' clock , and the Exchequer and the Common Pleas bave very little to do . The Encumbered Court has absorbed the chief business in Chancery . The Rolls . Court alone is occupied , but chiefly with motions in loif £ pending causes . National Education—The Priests . — The Sligo Journal has the ¦ following statement : — " Everywhere , and in all directions , from the highest to the lowest , the Roman Catholic clergymen are exerting all their influence against every school and speciqa of education not under their entire control . In this county a national school has been ' closed , owing to

      the visitor , a Protestant gentleman , refusing to resign hia visiting and inspecting powers in favour of the priest of the parish . About ninety pupils were in attendance upon this school , nor was there any objection to it , but that the visitor was not a Roman Catholic ; so muob for the national system , well-intended , no doubt , but in almost every instance rendered subservient to the views of the priest and to his control . We bave also heard that Mrs . Knox Barrett ' s school has been treated in a similar manner . Wo fear all endeavours of establishing , good feeling between the Protestant and Catholc religion is at an end , and a time . is coming of great trouble to the people of this country , " Repeal Association . —As was only to be expected ,

      Mr . John O'Connell having succeeded in netting a ' « grievance , '' made a grand display of it on Monday before his friends in Conciliation-hall . Lord John ' s letter ,-in these dull times , was a perfect Godsend , and Mr . O'Connell made the most he could of it . The learned gentleman , after exhausting his vocabulary of abuse , suggested the virtual squelching of " Repeal" by the reorganization of the " Catholic Association . " The project seemed to have been favourably received , and a Roman Catholic clergyman present promised the Premier that if he persisted in his threat of persecution , they , ( the association ) would have the ardent and powerful aid of 4 , 000 priests . Mr . O'Connell called on the meeting to answer Lord John Russell ' s letter by

      taking off theV hats , and giving three cheers in honour of the Pope . ( Loud cheers and waving of hats followed ;) He then called for three chcera for Cardinal Wiseman and the Catholic hierarchv of England , whioh was duly responded to . A voice ; "A groan for Lord John Russell . " ( Groans and hisses . ) A voice : " Down with heresy . " Mr . J . O'Connell interposed arid said : In that association since its first foundation , there never had been uttered anything hurtful to tho feelings of those professing a creeu differing from their own . He hoped never to hear an expression of that kind repeated ( cheers . ) Mr . O'Connell said that a little boy had used the expression , and he had withdrawn it . The rent for the week was £ 5 Ss . 4 d , ¦

      Condition op Ikbland . —The Dublin Jfereantik Advertiser contains the following rather cheering account of the condition of the country : — "Notwithstanding the severe distress still prevaling in many districts , especially in the South and West , the enormous extent of emigration amongst the better class of farmers , and tho embarrassment of a large portion of the gentry , there are not wanting evidences of improvement in the Home Trade in most parts of the country . The New Parliamentary Franchise . —The several clerks of unions in tUo county . fif Rgscommon

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      have « made ¦« returns ^ amountin ^ to ^ i fiOO ^ persons , qualified toTvote . under th e provisionaToOho . Kew . franchise Bill ^^ ff oration oftho -people / / even in the qwest- ' pf > Jre-\ &nd ^) Oiliji i' ^' . Ji ^ , 7-in jrxi : ' ilUll tejoi

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      ROBBERY ; OF'JEWELLERYATiNEWCASTLE . . It will probabiy be . in .. the reeollectionr of . our readers ( says the MweaiUe Ovdrdian ) that iii December last the * ' shop of Mr . Cohen , of Grey-sfcreet , in this towiiV was broken intb ; "and a'large quantity ofnewellery sfcoleni .-. ; A . reward ioij £ 50 : was . offered for the apprehension of the . burglar * but the efforts of the police were , for a considerable period , unsuccessful . At the summer assizes a man of the name of John " Bell was sentenced to ten years' transportation - for breaking into the premises ; of Messrs . Hill and Nicholson , Grainer-street ,: and since . that time some . particulars have been , obtained which tend . to throw light upon Mr . Cohen's robbery . Mr .

      Stephens , the superinteiident of police , from private ihformatidn he had received , wrote to the magistrates at Reading , to which place Bell has been removed , and ,. in > consequence of a communication from them in reference : to , ; a , statement Bell had made , further inquiries were instituted , by the police of this town , and the result was that after a private consultation of the magistrates , on Thursday week , a warrant was issued for theapprehehsibn of-Mr . Simeon Joel , bullion dealer , Shakspeare-street . —He was brought ; up on Friday ; morning-at the . policecourt , when the following evidence was given;—Mr . Cohen stated . that between , Friday night . and Satur day morning , the 14 th' aridl 5 th of December last , his shop was enteredi ' and a large quantity of

      iewellery ; including seven dozen pairs of gold and silver spectacles , ; was stolen therefrom . Between ; eight and nine o ' clock on Saturday morning his boy came to his house , and said that , his shop . had been broken into , and" oh going down he found that a hole had been made through the wall into his shop , from the passage between . his shop and Mr . Joseph's . ' The till had not been , broken open ,: but the goods in the shop were in great contusion , and a large number of . them had been stolen . ' . Ho had not since recovered any of them ;—Inspector Little ' examined the premises on the morriirig after the robbery , and found a hole large enough for a man to pass through , in the side . wall of the shop , i Tho robbery was reported in the usual way , and entered in the robbery

      book , which was sent round . to the pawnbrokers and jewellers . —^ Police-officer "Buelass stated that lift Bhowed ^ the ' ibotice ' of the robbery > to Mr . Joel- * , on -the day after ' 'it had- been . committed , ' , bdt Mr . Joel -refused to .: sign . the _ book . — Police-officer Turner stated that after obtaining a warrant to , search , Mr . Joel ' s house , he examined it , but- found nothing ' to lead him to suppose there was any ; 8 tolen property there . —Mdsohj another officer , frpmsom ' e information he received , was afterwards induced to apply for a warrant to apprehend the prisoner , which-was granted . —Matilda Bejl stated that she was the wife of John Bell , who was sentenced to transportation at the last assizes for another offence . 'She remembered her husband coming

      home one Friday night at : " twelve o ' clock , with : a number of gold and ' silver spectacles and . eye glasses . When he . had taken them out of , his pocket . -he took some of the glasses out , of the spectacles , and left the house with , them . Oh his return he had two earthenware " pots ; iri his pocket ; andr he then melted the gold and silver rims , and put the silver into one pot , and the gold into another . On the Saturday the pots , containing the gold and silver and the remainder of the spectacles were put into a basket , and between six and seven o'clock iii the evening she carried the basket ,. and accompanied her husband to Mr . "Joel ' s shop , and remained outside whilst he went in with it . The prisoner and her husband were alone in the shop , but she did not see what passed between them . When her husband went in he had no money , but when he came out he gave her & % and the empty basket .- Some months after that , when her

      husband was taken into custody , he desired her to go to prisoner ' s shop for a sovereign which was owing to him , and she-accordingly ' went , when Mr . Joel said thathe did not know her husband , and did not owe him anything , ; She had since theVseen Mr Cohen , and told him that she knew nothing about the robbery , but the statement she made to him was not . true . —Police-officer Douglass . 9 tated that after the burglary at , Hill and Nicholson's in February , he went to ' the house of John Bell , in Hill-street , and there found part of the stolen property , and also a bow- pen . Prom some information he received after Bell was convicted , he searched behind his back yard , and there found a large number of eye glasses , buried about a foot under the soil . —Mr . ' Cohen identified the bow pen as part of the property stolen from his shop , in December , and though he could not positively swear to the gla 88 es , ho believed they were his . —The prisoner , was remanded . ¦;'

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      POISONING NEAR GAINSBOROUGH , j LINCOLNSHIRE . The inhabitants ? of the village of Stow wer thrown into a state of great alarm and excitemen last week , by the fact becoming known that Mr Christopher Page ,- farmer , of Stow-park , and hi wife had both been poisoned , that the latter wa dead , and that Mr ,. Page was suffering fromth same cause , and : that his death was likely to ensue Information was forwarded to Mr . Hitchins , core ner , who immediately issued his summons , and earl ; on Friday morning , the 8 th inst ., held an inquest n the house of' the deceased . The person accused 0 the poisoning _ is Eliza Smalley , servant of the de ceased , who is now in custody . ' —From the evi dence of Mr . Smith , surgeon , and who is a neigh bour of Mr . Page , it appeared that about sevei

      weeks ago mercury or arsenic had been boiled in his ( witness ' s ) presence for the . purpose of being mixed . with the wheat . The portion left remained in the iron pot in which it waa boiled , and the pot was put in the granary , the door of which was locked , and tbe key brought into the house every night , and put in its usual place . —B . H . Cheney , superintending constable , examined , flesnid : In tbe kitchen of this house , this morning , I told the prisoner , Eliza Smalley , ' that my name was Cheney , that I was the superintending constable , and that she was in custody on suspicion of having poisoned hermistre 8 S . She said ( her breast heaving violently ) : " Last Saturday my mistress said I had killed a fowl . I told her I had not . Yesterday morning I took some mercury from an iron pot that

      stood against tho backdoor , and put it into the coffee-pot . I did not think it would have killed her . I only thought , ifc would have made her badly . " When I asked her where the pot was , she went and showed it me . I held out no inducement to her . She confessed freely and voluntarily . —The Coroner ( cautioning her that what she said would be written down ) asked her "Is this what you told Mr . Cheney , and is it the truth ? " Prisoner ( hanging down her Head ) : Yes , sir . —Coroner : ; How old are you ? Prisoner : I am seventeen years of age , and have lived here ever since last Mayday . I have no reason to complain either of my master or mistress . The . pot stood at the back door for two days . I took the poison out of the

      Dot with a gill mug . I took it away and put it in the dairy after having washed it . When I put the poison in the coffee-pot I was in the kitchen , I put in a gill full , and the coffee was boiled afterwards for a few minutes . My master and mistress got their breakfasts immediately after the coffee ( oiled . I saw both of them after they had done their breakfast . I was with my mistress when she died . Ihave never been either to church or chapel since . 1 . have lived here , but I used to go to church before I came here . I never had a Bible , but I could read a little in it if I . had one . I know the commandments , and I perfeotly remember the sixth ; it is , Thou shalt do no murder . " I cannot write . —Mr . Page , who looked better than

      might have . been expected , but who appeared to be suffering merely from the effects of the poison , was then examined . ' ^ He said : Yesterday morning , after 1 had come home from shepherding , I wentihto the house and asked my wife if breakfast was ready , She said " No . " Then I said to her I'll go and turn the beasts out of the yard ; and when I came in again I said " What , thour't getting thy breakfast , art ' ee , bairn ? " She said " Yes , I ' m just getting a cup of coffee , but I feel very unwell . ' " What ' s the matter with thee ? " I asked . She answered her tongue roots and throat were sore , and that she did not know what was the matter with her . She went out of doors and threw up ; she went into the garden and I thought her ong , therefore I got up to go and seek her , but ust did

      as I so she came past the window . As soon as she got into the house she sat herself down and told me to tell the girl to come to her . She Said to her , get me a little brandy ; and to me , put a little water to it . She suffered greatly , and writhed with pain . I assisted her as well as I was able . She kept continually feeling about and creeping on her hands and knees . She died in about half an hour nfter she began , as near as I can toll . I sent for Mr . Smith , but when he arrived she was dying in my arms ; I had had the pot in the barn for a month , and my man brought it put last Tuesday night , and left it in the kitchen . —The Coroner then summed up , and the jury , after a few minutes' consultation , returned a verdlet of " Wilful Murder " against Eliza Smalley .

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      TnE DNFAU . INQ SUCCESS OF ' lIoiXOWAT ' s PlLls Avi > Otnt MENT IK THE CORE OF RlNWORM AND DISEASES OF TUE Sb ™ . _ A- medical gentleman mldW at u £ J whose child had been severely afflicted . wUh ' * riDg « W for ™ wards of six years , tried every known remedy -o erne th& dreadful disease , but in vain , as it was of si iniS . character thathbaffled the skill of K ^ ng ™ tlfaoners . As a last resource he -was i » r « iinrt » I ? * S ? Holloway ' s Ointment and PUls tho ? J I I ? . to W btained mueh celebrity in alffiso 4 ^^^^^^ the , had the happy effect of soundl y curin R the cWid and perfeetly eradicating the disease from the system .

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      , - '¦¦ -v *) n-: nitt f : f" " ¦;•• " - <•• : ¦ •' . ft ** . ! T » j t * -.- ,. ., - v \ : ; : 'V ^ : y :-v , BO | jc , 'fl- q 0 ttftf : ; . ;' v- * ¦ ¦¦ : ¦¦ ' ¦ \* : EOVtowAify : nbiM ^ nt ;— "i » Ji 7 jrcrios . j "¦ ¦ ' - 'I ; I'MBi TimKBirtipened the case for'the plaintiff , antf stated that the injunction . which he ! was instructed to move forjoould : hardly , be refused -under the cir . ' cumstahces itwas his duty to state ; , and the affldsi . vita' which hjjd been , filed by the defendant since the case ; wbi'rbefore - , the' court ' . very imperfectly attempted 1 "to .-. answer ; the' case made out / by the plaintiff m behalf of the injunction ; . He read the following affidavits :- ^ - " Thomas Holloway ,, the in . ventor of the Ointment and tPllls , deposed that in the year 1837 " the plaintiff invented an Ointment

      and , in' 1839 ; ' a . Pill , since known aB ' Holloway ' s Pills and Ointment / which for several years had a high repute with ; the public for their , curative and healing qualities ; and . that large . quantities were now sold in the . United Kingdom , and in all quarters of the Globe ; that the : plaintiff had expended £ 150 , 000 in establishing the sale of his medicines whioh are more extensively sold than any patented medicine in use . ' About : May last : the , defendant ( Henrj ^ Holloway ) , commenced the . sale of his Pil ] g and Ointment at No . 0 , TTalbrook , and Bfnce then at 210 in the Strand ; and ' the defendant described the latter to be his manufactory , but the premises consisted of only two empty ! rooms on the second floors The defendant ' had stated in his advertise .

      ments that he bad expended large sums of money in advertising his medicines , ; which assertion the plaintiff denied ,, and . alleged that he had riot expended in advertisements more'than one pound per week at the utmost , and that sum only for colourable purposes . The affidavit of Mr . Thomas Young of . Hatton-garden , depo ' sed that ho had learned from the defendant himself , that the defendant bad applied to the Stamp-office to have medical stamps struck off for him , with" the wordB , Holloway ' s PillsandOintment , ' engraved thereon , which the authorities refused to do . He had then stated that he should carry out his speculation without being obliged to advertise the medicines , as his brother had already sufficiently advertised them , and would continue to do so . "

      WitiiAM Hall , L 190 , Strana , said the defendant had hired part of his shop . window for the sale of his Pills and Ointment . .. The defendant informed the said William Hall tKat his Pills and Ointment were prepared and made up for sale in such a manneras to resemb ^ 'those of the plaintiff , so that they might be sold foVthe plaintiffg : and to dremark that the initial letter . " H . " of the . surname of the defendant would betray ' the . deceit , and the defendant replied that would ' never be noticed by the public . : - ¦ ¦ ¦¦ •' ¦ !< ; - ¦ ¦ •• • • '

      Amy Newbbrrt ' s deposition was , that she bad used for a twelvemonth the Pilla and Ointment of the plaintiff with good effect for the dropsy ; that on the 25 th of September last she purchased both Pills and Ointment at" a shop in Harrow-road , which proved to be injurious to her on two occasions , when she took eight of the" pills . The Pills , upon examination ; were foundnqt to be those of the plajntiff . ' Other affidavits were read , which proved that the defendant had obtained his recipe for his Pills from a young medical student , and another for the Ointment from a-different party , and that neither had been prepared in the same mariner as the plaintiff had prepared his , though they we ' re put up in boxes and pots of the same make as those of-the plaintiff ' s

      medicines , with labels corresponding in nearly every respect , and in wrappers arid direction papers copied almost literally from those made bv tho inventor . There were other affidavits to prove that the defendant had endeavoured to induce patent medicine vendors to sell , the defendant ' s Pills and Ointments as those of the plaintiff , and that they had been offered at a reduced price , or to be left on sale or return ; that he bad failed to induce the Messrs . J . Pratt and Co ., potters , of Lane Delph , Staffordshire , to . furnish him with pots of the pattern of the plaintiff , having '? inscriptions burnt in upon them , purporting to contain his , Holloway ' s Ointment ; that he had given instructions to Gayneau , to draw up two direction papers , consisting ' of

      twelve and of eight pages , the same number of pages as are used-by the plaintiff , which papers were to' be only a little altered in phrases from those of the plaintiff , so as to , deceive buyers intcthe belief they were purchasing the plaintiff ' s medicines that he had Bueeeeded in getting pill-eutting machine-makers , lithographers , &c , to aid the defendant in his' deception ; arid that some of thewholesale dealers told him that they must refuse tovend his medicines unless specially asked for , aB his was a too palpable deception . ' ' The learned counsel ( with whom was Mr . Miller ) remarked that the case could hardly by possibility be carried further

      to prove that a gross fraud had been practised upon the trade , and the customers of the plaintiff , and that the pirating of the plaintiff ' s boxes , labels , and printed productions , full / authorised the court to grant the injunction . Mr . RouPEt , for the defendant , observed , that the plaintiff was fully aware for some time that thedefendant bad been'making the medicines ; the names wereidem sonant , and likely to be confounded .. The plaintiff had his action at common law , and yet had not availed himself of it ; The defendant had not had sufficient time to put ; in such an answer as he might have ; done had He'had an opportunity todo so . t- . '¦¦ . *•'•'¦ " . '

      The affidavit of Henry Cunningham stated that he had been a workman to plaintiff , and now served the defendant , He traversed the statements of several of the plaintiff ' s witnesses , admitting that he had solicited orders for Henry Holloway's medicines , but denying that hebad represented them to be the plaintiff ' s medicines . The defendant ' s affidavit stated that he had obtained tho secret of preparing his Ointment from a party , and not being similar to that of the plaintiff .. He denied that in making the application to Somerset House on two occasions to have a distiactive stamp he intended to practise any deception on hisbrother , or pirate hia invention .

      3 ib . White followed on the same side ; and upon . Mb . Turner rising to reply ; ^ Lord Langdale said he would not trouble thelearned counsel to reply upon the case . The namesof the plaintiff and of the defendant in this case were the same . His lordship did not , he said , mean to abridge the right of the defendant to vend an article in which he dealt , but he could have no ri ght to prepare and get up that article so as to resemble the article invented , by the plaintiff , and thereby deceive the public into a belief that it was that ofthe plaintiff ' s . It was only necessary to refer to the eyidenoe of Gayneau to see that the ' defendant had given orders that the direction papers of the plaintiff should serve as a guide or model of the pamphlets which the defendant wished him to prepare , so as to pass with the public as the pamphlets of the plaintiff . This was a direct avowal of an

      intention to commit a fraud upon the plaintiff . It was stated also to Hall , by the defendant , that the introduction of the initial letter "H ? ' for Henry would never be noticed , and the medicines might be very well sold as those of his brother . This was » certainly a description of property which , was pro * tected by law , and when it came under the jurisdiction of the court it must have the benefit of that protection . The only thing which pressed upon the court was the suggestion that the defendant had riot had time enough to put in a sufficient answer . His lordship would , therefore , introduce into the terms of the order for the injunction , which he was determined to grant in this instance , permission to the defendant to move to dissolve the injunction should he be provided with sufficient evidence tocontradict the plaintiff ' s affidavits . The injunction , as prayed by the plaintiff ' s bill , was accordingly granted .

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      Navigating the Air . —We find the following in the Evenement : — " On Saturday afternoon , at halfpast three o ' clock , an experiment took place at the Hippodrome , before some of the representatives of the press , relative to- . the possibility of . directing balloons in the air . A" amalf balloon , made of goldbeater ' s skin , in the shape of a long fish , and suspended from wooden supporters , was made to go straight against the wind by means of two small wings , to which a semi-circular movemont was imparted by machinery on the sorew principle . The experiment was considered perfectly satisfactory . " Tbe Opinion Publiquc gives the following details of the experiment : — " In this experiment we cannot aay that a solution of the problem of navigating at

      will through the air has been come to , but we think that a first s > tep has beon made in the matter . The model balloon which was used to make the experiment measures five yards in length , and contained 1 , 200 litres of gas ; it weighs 1 , 200 gramma , and is completely of the fovm of a fish , with fins and tail . The tail is composed of two . small rudders , one which causes the balloon to ascend , whilst the other turns it either to the right or left . The fins are represented by two moveable oars , short and wide , whioh are moved b y a very simple piece of mechanism . The whole apparatus is covered with network , and with bands of whalebone . This model , which is rather diminutive , labours under very serious disadvantages . The necessity of making the mechanism for moving the wings very light , allows

      only it to act for a very short time ; nevertheless the balloon went for a certain space in a direct lino , and even described a circle , though with some difficulty . In order to bo able to carry three men , the balloon should bo at least seventy yards long , and thefins worked in the enr below by weans ot a handle turned by two men . or by means of a wheel similar to that of the treadmill . The exhibi tion of M . Arnault , the inventor , is of ft nature to excite public curiosity to a high degree . " Chinese Produce . —The importations of fancy articles from China , are much more various and extensive than used formerly to be the casd vessel which has just arrived from Canton , cas brought no leas than 376 packages of china and lacquered wares , as a portion of a large general cargo from the Chinese empire .. " ., / , V . l ' .. '

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      ® fje prowiwjj . Beemont House Bdbnt . —This , a large mansion atPoetswood , new Southampton , was burnt to the ground on Saturday night last . It was built on what is called the Portswood estate , the property of George Jones , Esq ., a gentleman of large property near Liverpool . Belmont House was built several years ago , and was never inhabited . It contained large stores of grain and other farm produce when the fire took place . Amongst these stores the fire was first discovered , and is supposed to have originated in spontaneous combustion . A number of engines were soon on the spot , but not a drop of water could be found , and the fire was allowed to

      take its course . Some sappers and miners from tbe Ordnance-map-office entered the mansion while it was burning , and attempted to save some of the produce , but they failed in effecting their purpose . The Poisoning at CosisetiKB Moor House . — DAELWGroN . Nov . 8 . —The mystery in which the circumstances connected with the death of Mr . 6 . Young remained involved at the conclusion of the last inquiry , has teen considerably removed by Boine additional evidence which has j ust transpired . Mary Cleasby , keeper of the Coniscliffe Toll-bar , has made the following statement , which was taken down in writing at the time , by the medical gentleman to whom it was communicated : — " On tbe Friday week before the death of Mr . Young he called at the gate ,

      and after some talk he asked fora pot to get a drink from the pump . I gave him a glass , and I then , through a small window , saw him at the pump take a paper from his waistcoat pocket and put some white powder from the paper into the glass ; he put back the paper , folded , into his waistcoat pocket . I thought it was one of those boiling soda powders . He next began to pump , when I called through the window that he had better pump off the warm water which wag in the pump first . He seemed startled when I spoke , but did as I told him , and having got the water he turned his face from the window and apaeared to drink , and then threw away what was left in the glass . He then sat down on the stone at the doorand he had not sat a minute when bis

      , colonr turned pale , and I said Mr . Young , you don ' t seem well . He said , no , not very well . He then got np and walked homewards , but stopped when be had got about sixty yards , and leaned upon his stick , and threw up . He then walked on , and again stopped when he had gone as far again , and threw up ; after thathe turned into the lane that leads to his house , and I lost Bight of him till he came into tbe field beyond . In walking np there 1 saw him stop thrice and lean on his stick , bo that I thought he was throwing np again . After I lost sight of him , I took the class , and saw at the bottom some of the

      white powder , so I took some water to jinse out the glass , and threw it into the fire ( the Water and powder ); it turned the coals black at first , as water does , bnt when it burnt nn the coals burned with a blue flame . " The white powder described seems to correspond in every particular with arsenic . The absence of fatal results at that time is accounted for by the immediate and repeated vomitings . The discovery of these circumstances tends materially to remove the suspicion attaching to deceased ' s widow , and strengthens the opinion that the poison from which death ensued had been taken by deceased himself .

      Thb Robberies from the . Leeds Post-opficb . — On Saturday and Monday last John Warren and Hannah Leonard were further , examined before the Leeds magistrates on charges of robbery of letters and money from the Leeds post office . The evidence did not affect the woman at all , and she was discharged , but the male prisoner was committed for trial on three charges of robbery—one of a bill of exchange for £ 741 los ., another of a post-office order for £ 5 , and tbe other , of a banker ' s check for £ 50 11 s . 3 d . He was also committed for forgery and uttering forged documents in order to get the respective sums of money in each case . He was further committed for trial for stealing a watch from a temperance coffee-honse , and was remanded on three or four charges of stealing railway dividend warrants and letters seat . through the post-office . These latter charges , like the former ones , also involve forgery and uttering forged documents .

      Election of Mayor at Hum ,. — On Saturday Mr . T . W . Palmer was unanimously reflected to the office of Mayor of this town . After the aldermanic gowns had been conferred on Saturday last , Dr . Sandwith , after expressing his great delicht at Lord John Russell ' s letter in answer to the Pope ' s pretensions to these realms , moved the following resolution : — " That this Council beg to tender to Lord John Russell their thanks for his able and spirited letter to the Lord Bishop of Durham , and their ad-

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      Strike at the Brymbo Colliery . —Upwards of eight hundred hands have turned out at ^ the above colliery for an advance in their wages of sixpence per day ; and no arrangement appears to be likely to be come to . The company have given notice to all their hands to quit , in order to avoid violence betwen those men who wou'd continue in workand the tum-outsthe latter having attacked and ill-treated several of the other party , and manifested very hostile feelings towards them . ' Several summonses have been issued against the offenders . Considerable damage has been

      done to two pit heads . The strike is expected to be general throughout the district , the colliers of several adjacent pits having turned out . Attempted Murder . —A daring attempt to murder the valuer of Caldecofcfc enclosure , Monmouthshire , was inade on the morning of the 8 th inst . Mr . Williams had retired to rest at his lodgings , when at about two o ' clock in the morning , some miscreant , who most have known the room in which he usually slept , fired a charge of slugs through the window . Fortunittely he escaped without injury ; but with a view to deter others from similar acts of outrage , the authorities have deemed it proper to offer a reward of £ 50 for the discovery of the offender or offenders .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 16, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1600/page/6/