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      THE SEWER ACCIDENT AT ISLINGTON . On Monday an inquest was held before Mr . "V ? Payne , m the vestry room of St . Magnus ' s Church Iandon-bridge , on the bodies of George Ellis and yrilhain Birling , who lost their lives by the break"F ™ bad of the New River , on the 17 th inst ., wnUfit the deceased were engaged in constructing a drain into the main sewer recently constructed by the Commissionera of Sewera in the Lower-road Islington . The bodies of both the deceased were fonnd atetbe mouth of the sewer at London-bridge having been drifted to that point by the force of the water—that of Ellis on Saturday , and that of Bir ling on Sunday night . Mr . Frank Forster and Mr "Woolrycb , on the part of the commissionera were present . The Jury having been sworn , viewed the todies , and evidence was called to prove their identity . « =========== the" —• irnnni r . An HTnr < W or . J—_ . i -.,, - --

      • ffauiM Bevas , labourer , of the P ancras-road deposed that he was at work in the headin * upon Priday afternoon , about three o'clock , whentheaccident occurred . Mr . Kesteven had employed him to make a drainfrom Mr . Cox ' s cellar at the King ' s Head into the new sewer . Witness had contracted to fioit for Mr . Kesteven , and commenced a fortnight « go last Saturday . He began at the cellar , and had sunk a shaft sixteen feet deep , and he then Started to drive a heading from the bottom of the Shaft towards the sewer . He had driven this heading about twenty-five or twenty-six feet , and the gewerwas thirty-four feet from the shaft , the tunnel of the Xfw River being between the sewer and the Bhaft . The heading was about three feet high , and eighteen inches wide . 3 fo part of it had been

      leeched , the intention being to carry earthenware pipes through . Believed he had got his heading beyon d the tunnel of the 3 few Kiver . Did not know himsetf the depth of the tunnel from the road , but had heard that it was twelve feet six inches . For all he knew he might have run right into it . On Friday week last , after working at Jthe heading , he found five or six feet of water standing in the shaft . Ho then ceased working at the heading until Monday , when ho shored the shaft in order to prevent its Sides from breaking in . The shaft had not been examined since , but he had filled it up . The heading also he had filled up . Did not give any information of the matter to the commissioners , but understood that Mr . Ecsteven had been to them . On Friday , between eleven and twelve o ' clock , Mr . Cox told Mr . Kesteven to go to Mr . Johnson ' s office for leave

      to go into the sewer , and before he came back witness treat down into the sewer along with two otuer men , to try to make a hole through to join the heading that he had previously made . Nobody told them to go . They began to start a heading about the same size as the other . He had a very imperfect notion of taking leveh ; it was all guess work . He then used an iron searcher , about the thickness of his finger , to find out how they were with reference to the position of the other end of the heading , and he had not put in above three inches when the water began to come in with groat force and rapidity . Witness was carried about forty feet by the strength of the water , and he ultimately escaped up a shaft . The two deceased men were not employed in the heading , but had merely come down to look on ; and they were lying upon some struts at the time when the water broke in .

      Mr . Gotto : Upon the 3 rd January I gave leave , Upon the application of Mr . Kesteven for Mr . Cox to make a six inch drain from his premises into the eewer . Mr . Kesteven , however , was bound to give notice of his intention to commence the work , and this he had not done . Had he done so , a competent officer would have been appointed to watch its progress . It was improper , moreover , for him to have Hone any work in the commissioners' sewer , and he had no authority to work from that sewer , and I did not know that the work was going on by Mr . Kesteven .

      Some further evidence having been adduced , Mr . Foksteb said he should characterise this catastrophe more as the result of accident than negligence . The Coroner said , that being so , the Commissioners of Sewers being the persons who would Suffer damage from the stoppage of their works , &c , and they not suggesting that blame attached to any one , possibly the jury would be of the same opinion , and think that this was an accident . The Jury concurred in this view and returned a verdict of " Accidental Death . "

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      THE UCKFIELD BURGLARY-APPREHENSION OF ANOTHER OF THE GANG . Ihe eh £ ien and the woman , alleged to hare been concerned in the above burglary , were re-examined on Saturday last at Tunbridge . A man named Edwards and his wife , charged as receivers , were also placed m the dock with them . It appears that Oliver having given her address to the police , when calling on her brother , one of the prisoners , at Tunbridge , Dadson , an officer , proceeded to her residence , and in a plantation close by , where the burglars Lad gone to overhaul their booty , he found the boxes which had contained the jewellery taken from the Misses Farncombe ' s house , and other portions of ihe property . He lnrther found in the house of Edwards , where Oliver lodged , a cart lead of property , consisting of silk , cotton , and calico

      goods , together with other articles , evidently the proceeds nf a robbery of : pome draper ' a shop . Mrs . Edwards was then taken into custody , and shortly afterwards her husband , in whose possession was found a watch . Subsequently Oliver was secured , and , on being searched , there was found suspended from her waist , under her clothes , a cloth containing several watches and seals , £ 17 in gold , and other articles of va ' ue , which were proved to be part of the proceeds of the Uckfield burglary . Two watches taken from Oliver have proved to be the produce of other burglaries ; and two found on Edwards belonged to the Rev . O . E . Tidal , who ? e residence , at Arlington , Sussex , was broken into , in September last . Other articles answer the description of those stolen from the house of the Rev . J . 1 L Stewart , Of Liugfield , East Grinstead , on Monday fortnight .

      The polics are now engaged in active search for two of the burglars who are missing , and who are wanted also for an extensive robbery at Farnham some time since . They and the gang generally are also suspected of two other burglaries in the neighbourhood of Tonbridee Wells . As an indication of the mode by which the prisoners obtained the information necessary to carry on their operations , it may be mentioned that , in a box belonging to Brooks , one of the missing burglars , and which was found at Edwards ' s house , were fonnd a number of small bills , headed " The best price given for umbrellas , rags , broken metal , " &c ., for which it was stated " D . Hayler " would call in two hours . This person proves to have been Brooks , and the opportunities of investigation thus afforded to him would unquestionabl y be of the greatest service . The whole of the prisoners were committed for trial .

      Another man , who is concerned in the recent burglaries at thi 3 part of the country , has been apprehended . He was taken into custody at a barn belonging to the Hon . James Norton , of AVoodhams , near Chertsey . He gives the name of W . Brooks , and is said to be one of the most daring of the gang . The prisoner Brooks had adopted the most cautious and wary measures to avoid detection . A clue , however * to his whereabouts was obtained by Mor-Sea and Dadson , on Saturday , January 11 . They foimd that he had been at a beer-shop at Bagshot , Surrey , and traced him thence to another house of the s&me description still nearer the borders of Hampshire , and a well-known , resort for thieves . He had . however , departed from the latter place

      before the arrival of the officers at that time , and had left no clue by which he could be followed . It is supposed that he took his departure in the dead Of the night . Having peremptory business at Tunbridge Wells , the officers left two auxiliaries in the vicinity , with instructions as to the course they should pursue to recover the lost track . The plans adopted were successful . On the return of Morten and Dadson from Lewes on Friday , the 17 th , where they had been to fetch the other nine prisoners for re-examination , they received a telegraphic message to the effect that a man answering Brooks's description had been seen between AYoking and Chertsey . Having taken the precaution to attire themselves in the garb of gipsies , they started at once by train

      lor Guildford , and , after some inquiries , proceeded to Woking , where they made an active search in all the low beer-houses in the neighbourhood . This proved ineffectual , and then they began a minute investigation of all the outbuildings in the district , where there was the remotest chance of the ruffian being concealed . Lodges , barns , stables , and piggeries underwent the closest scrutiny , and at last their efforts were attended with the success they deserved . They came to the barn already mentioned , about eleven o clock , and during the examination of it , they perceived , by the aid of alight thev had in a dark lantern , that a piece of board had recently been torn from the side of the barn , causing an aperture sufficiently large for a man to creep through The measurra of the officers were promptly taken They madft tint bole larser . and both of them entered . A

      search ensued , and the prisoner was louna concealed under some straw . Knowing someth ng . of the character with whom they had ^ o deal , We officers presented each a loaded pistol to him , witn the intimation that an offer of resistance would [ result is . his death . Having effected his capture , they discovered in the straw , close to where he had lam , two knives , disposed in such a way as to leave no doubt of his intention as to how he would have used them if he had got the chance . On his P « son ¦ wasfonnd aknive , since identified as part of the produce of the Chailey burglary , and , as a . further link connecting him with this aflair , it will be remembered that in the possession of the female pn , soner , Oliver , with whom Brooks has for many years cohabited , was found a watch , which was idenSfied by Mm . Hurst as a portion of the property stolen on that occasion . The officers conyeyea their priwaer fcoiu "Woodhama to Wolyng

      & ^ SM terss £ Stt «? ' Brook 8 « 0 Uvep ' Morgan SSF ™^ ? , sf " j ° urneythe fc » ° ws ° bewerfrnnH * Tt V the van m whicl 1 they E . T l had 8 Carcely P assed Crowborough sroSv \ n J ? T ^^ J violent , and most grossly insulted every one that passed , declaring that they anticipated a " rescue . " Upon remonstrating with them upon such behaviour , Brooks , wno appears to be amost unmitigated ruffian , raised ms heavily-ironed hands , knocked off the hat of IJadson , and entreated the other prisoners to throw themselves out of the vehicle . Hillyer immediately dashed his handcuffs against the side of the van apparently with the intention of snaonin * them \ i m . i n ..... . : ' •"; . v ° ey awaited the arrival of the mail wain , ana tOOK then * nlaroa in i * «« T ^ n ^

      out . not succeeding m that , he attempted to throw himself into the road . By this time / however , the officer ^ s eeing how the case stood , became most SpfrfirfiL 5 ^ ^ ? ' ha » ° S P « ented ! £ ? n « r \ - ^ l at ?^ shoofc the first man that moved , which had the effect of quieting them Before their arrival at Uckfield , the pg wmeX raised 8 uch an intolerable noise by holnl ™! yelling , that a horse winch was being led by a boy mJhf ' r ^ rtedawayatamostterr ^^ What became of it we have not yet heard

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      ^ THE MUP . DER SEAR MOTTBAM . On the evening of the 16 th instant a diabolical murder was committed at a farm-house at Hattersley , near Wernetb , Lancashire . It appears , that the house in which the above deed was done is known a 3 Rose Fold , and is situate in the township of Hattersley , in a lonely place , and was occupied by the deceased , Mary Kindar , aged seventy-eight years , two daughters ( maidenladies , ) a man-servant , and a female servant . On the above evening the daughters and man-servant were from home on some business , and a little alter six o ' clock , the maid-servant went to the sbippon , about forty yards from the house , to milk two cows , which occupied a very short time , and she returned to the house for the key of the dairy , but did not see the deceased , or anyone else . She strained the milk , and aeain

      returned to the house , the whole of the time she was absent not being more than half an hour . Not seeing her mistress , she says she went to look for her , and found her lying on the floor in the parlour , in the midst of a large pool of blood , and quite dead . She immediately gave an alarm , and Mr . John Side * bottom , surgeon , of Mottram , was sent for , who , on examining , found a very large wound on the left temple , the skull being fractured , and a portion of the same and the brains scattered about the floor . Death must have , therefore , been instantaneous . At present there is no clue to the murderer or murderers . It appears the object sought after was cash , as the drawers and other places have the appearance of having been ransacked , but no money wa 9 found . The search had not been very strict , as a smali bandbox , which was uutouched in one of the bedrooms , contained £ 1410 s ., but this appears to have

      been overlooked . On Monday an inquest was held at the Stamford Arms , Hattersley , Cheshire , before Mr . Hudson , one of the coroners for the county , on the body . Euza Kinder , a daughter of the deceased , stated that her mother wa 3 in her seventy-eighth year , and "was the widow of George Kinder , a farmer at Matley , who died eight years ago . The deceased soon afterwards came to reside at Hattersley with her family . This witness stated that she and her sister went to spend the day with a sister at Armfield on Thursday . On their return home in the evening , they were informed of the tragical occurrence . The servants were trusty and confidential , and took

      their meals with the family . After a careful search , two purses were found to be missing ; but whether they contained money or not , she was unable to say . Sakah Fox , the servant , then gave the following evidence : —I am twenty-three years of age , and unmarried . I have lived in Mrs . Kinder ' s house for the last five years and a half . "We usually milk the cow 3 between six and seven o ' clock in the evening . As I left the house to go to the " shippon " I found my brother near the pigcote opposite . My brother had taken three cans from the slop-kitchen . I went out of the back door to the shippon , on the opposite side of the road . I took away the clothesmaiden by the front-door , and that was the last time I saw Mrs . Kinder alive . She was then seated

      marocking-chairm the front kitchen . I cannot say whether she was smoking or not . I cannot say what time it was when I went to the shippon . When I got to the shippon my brother was there . My brother had a lantern with him , and a lighted candle in it . There were three cows to be milked . I milked two , and my brother milked one . He had finished before me . After he had done he did not go out of the shippon till I had done . When we had done milking I went up to the house with the milk , leaving my brother in the shippon . I carried the milk to the bench-stone in the kitchen . I went into the house by the back-door . I went into the front kitchen or house-place for a light . That was the place where I had left Mrs . Kinder . I sot a

      light from the fire . I had not left Mrs . Kinder with a candle burning . Mrs . Kinder was not then in the room . The rocking-chair was in its place . The front-door was shut . The door leading into the front parlour was partially shut . I went and sieved the milk , and then locked up the dairy . I then returned tfi the house by theback-door . I put themilkcans in thelittlekitchen or house-place . As I did not see Mrs . Kinder there I went into the parlour to look for her . I had a candle in my hand . The parlour doorwas a little bit open . I pushed itopen and saw Mi-s . Kinder lying on the floor . She was lying on her face with her feet towards the door . I thought she had fallen in a fit . She had done so before . I put the candle down on the table against the wall and tried to help her up . Her face was all over blond , and on the floor where her face lay there was a large quantity of blood . She was dead , but her body was warm . 1 put the body down

      again , ran to the shippon , and called for my brother . I found my brother in the shippon . My brother followed me to the house , and afterwards brought the next neighbour , Mrs . Williamson . When she came Mrs . Andrew , another neighbour , was there . "While Mrs . Andrew was there Mrs . Williamson and I lifted up the deceased . Mrs . Andrew said the deceased had not done it herself . Witness , accompanied by Mrs . Andrew , went up stairs and found the door of the room open where the woman slept ; the drawers were open , and clothes and other articles were pulled out of them . When I began to milk the cows my brother went out and said that he was going to put the horses in the stable . I cannot say that I heard him putting them in the stable . I should think he was not above two minutes out of the shippon when he returned , and commenced milking a cow . There was a dog at the house , but I did not hear it bark that night .

      Mr . Samuel Sideboiiom , and Mr . R . Sidebotiom , surgeons , of Mottram , described the wound which caused the death . It was a fracture on the left side of the head , five inches long by three broad , the wound must have been caused by an instrument having a broad surface . The wound was a lacerated one . After such a blow death would be instantaneous . Several other witnesses were examined , after which the Coroner briefly summed up , and the Jury found " that the deceased had been wilfully murdered by some person or persons unknown . " The inquiry lasted from about ten o ' clock in the morning till half-past five o ' clock in the evening .

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      The English Press is Russia . —A gentleman , last week , who has recently returned from Kussia , exhibited at the reading-room of the Mechanics' Institution in Ipswich , copies of English newspapers which had been forwarded to him during his sojourn in that country . They bore upon them palpable marks of the rigid censorship exercised by the officials of the Czar over the English press . The ban is not confined to criticism on llussian politics , but extends even to the slightest allusion to the domestic intelligence of the country . The process of obliteration is accomplished at the Postoffice , where the papers upon their arrival , are narrowly scanned , and any article or paragraph considered objectionable is at once most effectually defaced , by bavins a band of black glutinous composition , the width of the column , spread over it . The papers exhibited consisted of two copies of Bell ' s Weellv Mesienqer , published in the months of

      October and November last , and they certainly presented a singular appearance to an English eye , the broad patches of impenetrable black imparting to them quite a pie-bald aspect . Fortunately a file of the Jteiyeriskept at the Institution , and the curiosity of those present , as to the nature of the offending articles , was speedily gratified . One was an article , a column and a quarter in length , headed , " The Conspiracy of Kussia and Austria against the Liberties of Germany . " As this article commenced the second page , the whole of the first column was—for the sake of convenience , we supposed-cut away , and in this mutilated condition the paper reached its destination . Another condemned portion included a series of extracts from an article in the Timei upon Russian farming ; a third was an account of the Polish ball at Guildhall ; another an announcement of the state of General Bern ' s health ; and a fifth a paragraph of a fire in a forrest in Poland .

      A Liver and Stomach Complaint op loser Stasdino Cubed bi Hbliowat ' s Piixs Setgeant Wilton , late of the Honourable East India Company ' s service , and for nearly twenty-five years employed en the Bengal establishment , suffered most intensely from an affection of the liver , indigestion , and sickness of the stomach , which appeared to be rapidly undermining his constitution , notwithstanding the treatment of some of the most eminent of the medical profession . On his return to this country hewaaadvi 3 edto trj Holloway ' s Pilts , and this superior medicine has effected such a prefect cure , that it has astonished all that were aware of his former , apparently hopehsscase , . .. :.

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      MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . The January adjourned goneral quarter sessions , for the trial of prisoners for the county of Middlesex , commenced on Tuesday . Sestksck oh Pickpockbts . —Henry Jones , a prisoner convicted at the last sessions of picking pockets , and remanded , was brought up for judgment . The officers proved that he had been before convicted more than once , and the court sentenced Him to be transported for seven years , u , £ Da 8 hman t convicted of picking pockets at the Paddmgton terminus of the Great Western Hallway , was brought up for judgment , and sentenced to six months' hard labour . Lahcest . —An elderly man named Cross , convicted at the last session of larceny , was also brought up for judgment . —The prisoner was a person of some notoriety , from his great eccentricity of manner in the streets , from being almost oontinually MIDDLIHET ^ FcflTOTn « uo « 4 anag < v » H <

      intoxicated , and Irom the fact of his being a perambulating teacher of the French language . Formerly he had been an assistant surgeon in a regiment serving in Portugal . The officers proved that the prisoner had been convicted three times summarily , and a doubt having been expressed , as to his sanity , a certificate of Mr . Wakefield , the prison surgeon , was put in to show that he was not of unsound mind . He was sentenced to threomonths'hard labonr .-Prisoner : My lord , three months ! Can ' t 1 be flogged , or something of that sort ? I'd much rather that than go to prison , I would indeed ( Laughter . ) -The learned judge said he could not w iP % > with the re < l 3 t of the prisoner .-Prisoner : wen i ra sorry for it ( my ] ord ) for j assure you 1 a rather be hung , flojraed . or anvthinwplsn than

      go to prison . Anothing but prison for me . ( Loud laughter . ) The prisoner was then removed , UOBBERT . -George Luck , 20 , George Sands , 23 , Thomas Cox , 21 , and Henry Cooper , 10 , were in ! dieted for a robbery upon Thomas Howell . —On the Jud inst ., the prosecutor was at the Griffin public nouse at Whetstone , where for three or four hours he was reeling himself and other persons with beer , and though the prisoners were not there when he nrst went into the house , they subsequently formed part of the company , and the prosecutor tossed them for beer . Having spent all his silver money he obtained change for a sovereign , and immediatly afterwards some of the prisoners challenged him to toss for money , which he declined .

      though afterwards he tossed for more beer . One of the prisoners tauntingly told him , that the reason he did not toss for money was , that he had no moaey to toss with , upon which he took out of his pocket the change he had received , and held it out in his hand . 'J'ho prisoner Luck then struck Ma hand , and the mouey was scattered about the floor , and a general scramble took place . The case against the prisoners was , that they were all parties to this transaction , and that they each had an intention to possess themselves of the prosecutor's money . In cross-examination the prosecutor said he went out on the night in Question to enior

      himself , the period ( 12 months ) for which he had taken the pledge as a teetotaller having expired the preceding day . —The learned Judge summed up for an acquittal and the jury found the prisoners " Not Guilty , " Thief Traisino . —The Thieves' "Kitchen "William Bristol , 28 . a desperate looking fellow was indicted for a misdemeanour in having attempted to steal from the person of a man whose name was unknown . —Archer , a detective officer , deposed that on the evemnff of Saturday , the 11 th inst he was on duty with Fisher , another officer , in Gr ' ay ' smn-lanc , when he saw the prisoner , who was in company with a well known thief and prostitute , lift up the coat-tail of a man who was just by Foxcourt , a notorious spot , and put his nand into it

      , but before he had time to take out anything the pocket might have contained , the woman called out " Here ' s that Archer and Fisher in plain clothes , " whereupon they all ran away rapidly . Witness followed the prisoner , whom he captured in a tobacco shop . —The prisoner , in answer to the charge , said he was quite innocent , and that the evidence of the officer was quite false . —Archer said that the prisoner had been convicted of felony at Guildford Assizes , and sentenced to nine months' hard labour . A short time ago Mr . Yeomans , gun contractor to the East India Company , was robked of nino muskets and bayonets , and soon afterwards he ( witness ) apprehended two persons for hein < r

      unlawfully in possession of some of the property . On searching the prisoner ' s house ono of the bayonets was found , and there was no doubt of his being concerned in that robbery . The witness added that Fisher could inform the court what sort of character the prisoner was . -Fisher then made a statement similar to that which appeared in our Police Report last week . —The learned Jud ge said he most sincerely regretted that the court had not the power of passing such a sentence as would rid the country of the prisoner , and ho mi ght think himself fortunate in having been convicted of misdemeanour only . For that misdemeanour the court could not sentence him to transportation , and the sentence wa 3 that ho bo kept to hard labour for eighteen calendar months

      . Charge of Robbiso a Sailor . —Philip Barker , aged 30 , the chief mate of the brig Delta , of Stockton-on-Tees , was charged with having robbed John George Hancock , a seaman , of nine sovereigns , four half-sovereigns , and ten shillings . —From the testimony of the prosficutor it appeared that he belonged to the brig Mandingo , now lying at the London Dock buoy , and that between ten and eleven o clock on the night of Friday last , as he was making his way to his ship , he was accosted by a " lady , " who at once placed her hand upon his breast in such a manner as to induce him to push her away . He pursued his way , but discovered that lie was being followed not only bthe womanbut

      y , by two men who were with her . One of these men he could swear was the prisoner . The woman again accosted him , and while she kept him in conversation the two men passed and repassed several times . Eventually he felt a hand forced into his right-hand trouaera pocket , when be instantly put his own hand down , and laid hold of the band , which proved to be that of the prisoner then at the bar . He thereupon seized the prisoner by the breast , but he broke from him , and ran away . Ho pursued , and soon overtook him nearto a public-house . The prisoner then turned upon him , and , forcing his fingers in between hiscravatandhis throat , nearlj strangled him as he dragged him violently along towards the public house , into which he succeeded in millinsr him . Just

      prior to the prisoner ' s band having been forced into his pocket his purse , containing £ 11 10 s . in gold and some silver , was safely there , but when the hand was withdrawn upon his laying . hold of the intruder , he found that the purso had been taken . It was , of course , unnecessary to add that he had never seen either purse nor money since . When they were in the public house a policeman was sent for , and upon his arrival the prisoner wanted to give him into custody upon a charge of attempting to steal hi 3 watch . The prosecutor , however , explained the transaction to the policeman , and , making a charge against the prisoner of having robbed him of his money , that functionary at length took the prisoner into custody . —A number of witnesses were then called , when it appeared from their statement that as the Delta was to weigh anchor at an early hour on the following morning , the

      prisoner was with several of them that night taking his grog at the Swan public-house . Among the company was hh brother , and he left the room soon after eleven'o ' clock , the prisoner accompanying him part of his road . The latter , however , on hia return to the Swan , was collared by the prosecutor , who said he had robbed him . The prisoner ' s ire rose at this unfounded accusation , and he therefore dragged him to the Swan for the purpose of seeing who he was . In- the struggle the prosecutor laid hold of the prisoner ' s watch-guard , and , therefore , when the policeman came , he charged him with an attempt to rob him of his watch . It was further proved , that the prisoner had not been absent from the Swan more than three minutes . —The learned Judge having summed up the case , the jury Acquitted the prisoner , stating , that in their opinion the prosecutor was mistaken as to the identity .

      Charge of Stealing Boots . —Joon Turner , a respectable looking young man , was indicted for stealing a pair of boots , value 3 s . Cd ., the property of John Millwood . —A woman named Jacobs , deposed that she saw a person take a pair of hoots from a shop door in Knutsfordford-place , and she swore that that person was the prisoner . —Mr . Payne , for the defence , urged that thi 3 was a case of mistaken identity and called evidence , which showed that he was a man of excellent character , a tailor by trade , and in constant and respectable employment . —Acquitted .

      A Yotso Thief . —Benjamin Crutchley , a boy eleven years of age , pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a scarf , the property of Henry Pascoe . — The prisoner had been summarily convicted four times , and he was taken into custody upon the present charge with two more prisoners , who were convicted , but he contrived , it was stated , to escape from the person who took him into custody . —The learned judge said this case illustrated the working of the Larceny Act , the evils of which were palpable to all save members of the House of Commons . The prisoner was sentenced to nine months' hard labour .

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      BAJ ^ CE SHEET OF THE POLISH AND -0 OMMIf { ? " ¦ METR 0 P 0 LITAN ¦ TIDES ' From Sept . 12 th , 1850 , to Jan . 12 th . 1851 . .. BALANfiE ROWPt at ? mnv nATTen Axm

      18 ° 0 « RECEIPTS . £ 8 . d Sept . 12 . —From the City of London Ladies' Shoemakers , per Mr , Greenslade 10 0 h —Collected' in the parlour of the Bull and Bell , per Mr . Greenslade 0 6 0 »» —Ditto in the Committoe-room 0 10 lo . —Collected by Messrs . King and Antill 0 10 6

      ii —By Subscription Books ... 0 15 0 22 . —Ditto ... ... 0 5 i 29 .- —Ditto ... 0 10 2 uto . 6 . —Proceeds of a Prize Shoe by Scotter 119 , i —By Subscription Books ... 0 2 0 13 . —Second subscription of the City of London Ladios' Shoemakers ' , per Mr . Greenslade ... 2 0 0 ir —From the City of London Boot Makers , por Mr . Stevenson . 2 0 0

      ii —By Subscription Books ... 0 8 0 20 . —Ditto 0 8 4 27 .-Ditto 0 3 7 Nov . 3 .-Ditto 0 9 0 4 . —Froin Box ' s Society of Ladies ' Shoemakers , per Mr . Burn 10 0 10 . —Second subscription of the Bull and Bell parlour , per Mr . Greenslade 0 3 C „ —First division of tho City of London Bootmakers , per Mr . Ladd 0 7 0 ii —Second ditto per Mr . Wynn ... 0 10 1

      „ —Fourth ditto ditto ... 0 2 G „ —From the Progressive Society ofCarpento , per Mr . Ferris 0 7 8 „ —Harmonic Meeting , Rising Sun 0 8 7 , i —From the Borough of Southwark Boot Makers , per Mr . Cambridge ... - . 0 10 0 „ —A Friend per ditto ... 0 0 3 ,, —By Subscription Books ... 0 11 2 17-Ditto , ditto 0 12 2 i 24—Hiirmonic Meeting , Rising Sun 0 3 2 „ —From Mr . Ilarney , per the Red Republican 3 3 7 „ —By Subscription Books ... 0 2 10 Deo . 1 . —From the Progressive Society

      of Carpenters , per Mr . Ferris 0 4 0 „ —Fourth Division of City of London Bootmakers , per Mr . Mahoney 0 4 4 ,. —Harmonic Meeting , Rising Sun 0 2 10 } „ —By Subscription Books ... 0 5 6 ,, S . —Second Division of tho City of London Bootmakers ... 0 7 9 ,, —From Mr . Havney , per Red Republican ... 1 9 2 ,, —Harmonio Meeting , Rising Sun 0 2 2 „ —From tho Borough of

      Southwark Ladies Shoemakers , per Mr . Fox 0 9 0 „ —By Subscription Books ... 0 2 7 „ 15—Harmonic Meeting , Rising Sun 0 17 „ —Second Division of City of London Bootmakers , per Mr . Wynn 0 5 0 „ By Subscription Books 0 4 5 } ,, 22—Harmonic Meeting , Rising Sun 0 3 7 ,, —From tho Progressive Society of Carpenters , per Mr . Ferris 0 4 6 „ —By Subscription Books ... 0 3 10 ., 29—Harmonic Meeting , Rising Sun 0 1 S

      1851 . Jan . 5 . —Harmonic Meeting , Rising Sun 0 2 0 } „ —By Subscription Books ... 0 1 C-J ,, 12 . —Harmonic Meeting , Rising Sun 0 1 Si „ —From the City of Lincoln Boot and Shoemakers ... 0 5 0 . '„ —By Subscription Books ... 0 2 1 £ 23 0 8 | 1850 . EXPENDITURE . £ S , ( J , Sept . 12 . —Two days' pay at 4 d . per day each for 39 men ... ... l'G 0 „ —For wine , for one of the Refugees that was ill 0 10 15 . —Two days' pay at 4 d . per day each for 39 men 16 0 Oct . 3 . —Ona ditto at 4 d . for 39 men ... 0 12 8 5 . —Two ditto at 4 d . for 39 „ ... 1 6 0 9 .-One ditto at id . for 39 0 13 0 10 . —One ditto at 4 d . for 44 „ ... 0 14 8 13 . —Ono ditto at 4 d . for 36 ,, ... 0 12 0 16 . —One ditto at 4 d . for 50 „ ... 0 16 8 17 . —One ditto at 4 d . for 50 „ ... 0 1 G 8 19 . —One ditto at 4 d . for 50 „ ... 0 16 8 20 . —For Subscription Books ... 0 0 11 } ' 26 . —One day's pay at 3 d . per day each for 54 men 0 13 6 27 . —For Subscription Books and A . Paper 0 0 9 Nov . 4 . —One day ' s pay at 3 d . per day eaoh for 61 men 0 15 3 6 . —One ditto at 3 d . for 66 mon ... 0 16 6 ll . —One ditto at 3 d . for G 9 „ ... 0 17 3 13 ,-One ditto at 3 d . for 71 „ ... 0 17 9 22 . —One ditto at 3 d . for 73 „ ... 0 18 3 21 . —For printing bills for a Public Meeting 0 2 6 „ —Paid one of the Refugees for waiting on Mr . Barney ... 0 1 0 25 . —One day ' s pay at 4 d . per day each for 58 men 0 19 8 26 . —Ono ditto at 4 d . for 55 men ... 0 18 4 28 . —One ditto at 4 d . for S 5 ,, ... 0 18 4 30 . —One ditto at 3 Jd . for 55 „ ... 0 16 Oj „ —Paid Dr . Frith ; by tho wish of the Refugees 0 10 0 Dec . 4 . —One day's pay at 3 d . por day each for 54 men 0 13 0 ,, 8 . —Paid Cd . each by 54 men for washing ... 17 6 „ ll . —One day's pay at Sid . porday each for 56 men ... ... 0 16 4 „ 9 . —For printing 500 addresses .,, 0 5 6 „ 23 . —Paid tho Refugees 0 7 0-„ 24 . —Ditto 0 3 6 „ —For postage stamps , Envelopes , and sealing wax for addresses to bo sent to tho country trades 0 6 0 30 . —Paid the Refugees ... ... 0 10 0 1851 . Jan . 6 , —Paid to the Refugees ... 0 8 0 „ —For subscripJion books and paper 0 0 11 £ 22 11 10 | £ s . < T Total Received 23 0 8 £ - Total Expended 22 11 10 J Leaving a balance in hand of 0 8 10 Wm . H . Burs , Secretary . -John Sootter , Treasurer . Committee Room , Rising Sun , Calender-yard , Long-alley , Moorfields .

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      The Act for Prevestiso Colliert Accidents . —Mr . Budger , tho coroner , oa oponing a late inquest , called the attention ' of the jury to the act of the last session , instituting an authorised inspection of coal mines in Gveat Britain . The provisions of this actcannotbe too strongly impressed upon all parties connected with the management of collieries , as the history of the Yorkshire coal-field abundantly proves . By section 1 power is given to the Secretary of State to appoint fit and proper persons for the inspection of coal mines , and to remove them , notice thereof being given in the London Gazette . By section 2 power is given to the inspector to enter mines . at all reasonable times , and to inquire into the state and condition of tho

      mine , the ventilation , the mode of lighting , < fcc .: and if anything is found defective therein , or likely to tend to the bodily injury of any person employed in or about the same mine , the inspector is to summon the manager , who , if he fail to attend , or do not satisfy the inspector concerning it , the inspector is to serve a notice of the defects on the manager or owner , aud report the same to the Secretary of State . The owner , ( section 3 ) when required , is to produce a map or plan of the mine to tho inspector , or if one U not produced , or is found imperfect , he may require one to be made at the expense- of the owner , on a scale of not less than two chains to one inch . No land agent or manager of . a coal mine ( section 4 ) to be employed to act as inspector .

      Notice of all accidents occasioning loss of life' ( section 5 ) in any coal mine , is to bo sent by the manager or owner within twenty > four hours thereof to the Secretary of State , or , in Scotland , to the Lord Advocate , and he his bound to give any further information relating thereto , that the Secretary of State may require , under a penalty of not less than £ 10 , nor exceeding £ 20 . Section 6 provides for the giving at least two days' notice to . the Secretary of State of the holding of an inquest in case of death arising from accidents in mines ; and the coroner must adjourn his inquest , if he find that such notice has not been given ; and section f imnosesa penalty

      of from £ 10 to £ 20 on any person obstructing an inspector in his duty . Section 8 provides for the recovery and application of penalties , and the last three are the customary clauses . —Sheffield Timei Cardinal Wiseman . —It is stated' / saya a correspondent ) , that the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster has received notice that a bill of indictment for a misdemeanour will be presented against him forthwith . —The Newry Examiner states that a certain Major Sterne , of Gola Castle , Feirmanagh , " boasts that he has written to Cardinal Wiseman , to say that if ho puts a foot in Fort Royal he ( the major ) will shoot him as dead , w a gvute&temng , "

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      NATIONAL REFORM LEAGUE . The fifth quarterly meeting of this body was held at the Eclectic Institution , Denmark-street , Soho , on the 13 th inst ., when a report was read , from which we give the following extracts : — " Since our ' last meeting we have added some staunch members to our body . We are promised the accession of several more in a short time , Mr . Hart , Mr . Swift , and Mr . O'Brien , have lectured upon our principles and objects in various parts ol the metropolis ; and , though in consequence of the known political apathy that prevails , their audiences were not numerous , the principles of our programme were everywhere well received , and the leading democrats of London have already—almost to a man - ^¦ adopted our theory of social rights , as laid down in our prospectus , and in the seven propositions we have so widely propngated . . . .. .. ~ = s ^_ » ¦¦¦ ¦ uiTin \ UT dbpadu t ^ ,. « .. «

      " A still more striking proof of our progress , is the gratifying fact that the new Executive Committee of the National Chcrter Association has deemed it necessary to recommend , in emphatic tprms , that in the future conducting of the Chartist movement the questions of social rights shall be continually kept IWore the public . ' ' " Fac-. s like these , your council submits , are immisiakeable evidence that the public opinion is beginning to move in the right direction ; and it is a » indisputable fact , that great numbers of influential minds amongst the trading and working class , who , not a year ago , would hardly tolerate ihe mention of social rights , have since come completely round to the principles of the League . " " You are doubtless aware that , snuie weeks ago

      , a Conference of delegates was held at the Johnstreet Institution for lbe ostensible purpose of amalgamating the various sects of Political and Social Reformers known to exist in this country , and to form out of the whole one single association which , it was hoped , might supersede all the rest . Your council , at the request of its promoters , sent delegates to that Conference , in ' the hope that a general union of all the democratic and social societies might he thereby promoted , without detriment to the integrity and principles of our own body , which , in accordance with your previously expressed opinions , we were resolved to preserve intact . In that hope your council was disappointed . The only terms upon which such an union appeared io us piacticable were rejected by a majority of the Confeieice . "

      " The policy on which the League has acted is that every society , whether political or social , shall be left free to work out its own special mission , in its own way , to the btst of its ability ; but that all should invariably act in harmony together to acciraplish tb « one great measure on which all are agreed , namely—a full , fair , and free representation of the working classes in parliament upon the principles laid down in the Peopls ' s Charier . " " Another great fact , which a short time will demonstrate . The hall we are now assembled in

      is a gratifying proof that obstacles are giving way before our peneverance , and thus one great impediment to our continued progress is removed . We hope also speedily to bft enabled to announce that ws have established a newspaper or periodical , by which we can establish a better communication with our broibea in the provinces , and rally the country round the new standard we have raised up . To accomplish this design it is necessary t . hat we should receive the strenuous support of the rank and file of the Association . "

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      Money and Passengers for India , —Amongst the cargo taken out by the Indus , which left Southampton on Mondiiy with tho Indian mail , was specie to the value of £ 300 , 000 , destined for India . This is tho largest quantity ever taken out by an Alexandrian steamer . It was contained in 1 , 250 boxes , weighing forty-five tons , and arrived at Southampton on Saturday in eleven railway waggons ; one hundred men were employed in embarking it , who were guarded by all the officers in the Peninsular fleet in the Southampton docks . A very stron " guard was placed over it on Saturday , Sunday , and Monday morning , during the time the Indus was alongside the dock quny . The specie consisted of gold and silver , but principally silver , a great portion of which was in Indian rupees . Tl : e Indus took out also neavly 130 passengers , most of them first class . About twenty of the latter were cadets in the East India Company ' s service . Tho transit

      of Indian passengers and cargo across tho Egyptian desert , tho management of which iias been ' in the hands of the Pacha of Egypt about four years , has just begun to be remunerative to his highness , and the management has never been so satisfactory to the public as it is at present . The Kile boats have been increased in number , and the accommodation on board of them has been much improved . The horses , about 300 in number , employed in drawing the carriages across the desert , are in good ordei ° and are exceedingly well harnessed . Gre . it complaints used to be made by the Indian passengers on account of their being hurried away from Cairo as soon as they landed from the Nile , although they had , perhaps , to wait at tho uninteresting " and illprovided town of Suez for the Rod Sea steamer . Abbas Pacha has attended to these complaints , and tho passengers are now allowed ten hours' stay in Cairo to refresh themselves and see the place before they start for the desert .

      Loss o ? 7 , 000 Dollars . —Tho Ripon , which left Southampton with tho Indian mail on the 20 th of December , took out amongst her cargo some specie , a portion of which , consisting'of a box of sold nearly 7 , 000 dollars value , was lost . The Ripon returned with the Indian . mail on Monday . She made a rapid voyage from Malta , and arrived in Southampton Water with the homeward , just as the Indus was preparing to start with the outward Indian mail—a rather unusual coincidence . As soon as the Ripon came close to the Indus the yards of each ship were maimed , and the- crews on board both ships cheered ench other- . immensely . The Ripon then proceeded to tho docks ; in tho centre of the docks she laid to , according to secret orders , until

      Captain Engleduo , the Oriental Company ' s Southampton superintendent , returned fronvthe Indus The superintendent , assisted by all the officers of the Peninsular vessels in the dock , rapidly enclosed a space on the dock quay with barricades , and from which all but the Post-office and Admiralty authorities were rigidly excluded . The superintendent of police , and some assistants , wore secreted in one of tbe dock buildings . Tho Ripon was then allowed to come alongside . No communication was allowed to take place between the crew and the shore . The erew were mustered on deck , and their clothes minutely examined , and when this done each man was sent a shore . Every cabin and part of the ship was inspected , but not tho slightest trace of the missing found

      goM was . . Changes in the Patent Law . — The following official orders have just been issued : — " The Attorney-General , with the consent and concurrence of tho Solicitor-General , hereby gives notice thut from and after the 15 th day " of Jan ., 1 S 51—1 . Every outline , description , and drawing deposited witli the Attorney and Solicitor-General must be signed and dated by tho person applying for tho patent , or his agent . . 2 . Every person who shall have deposited an outline , description , or drawing of hisinvention shaU bo at liberty , at any time previously to tho enrolment of the specification , to cancel any portion of such outlino , description , or drawing ; and for this purpose to deposit a fresh outline , description , or drawing of his invention , omitting the cancelled parts . 3 . Every person who shall have entered a caveat againbt the granting of any patent , and shall , upon the hearing of his opposition , induce the Attorney or Solicitor-General not

      to make any report upon the application for the patent , shall deposit with the Attorney or Solicitor-General an outline description or drawing of his invention in respect of which be opposes tbe granting of the Baid patent , such outlino description or drawing to be approved by the Attorney or Solicitor-General . 4 . After the specification Bhall have been enrolled , any person shall be at liberty , on production of a certificate of the enrolment or after two days' notice , and payment of ono shilling ' , to inspect the outline , description , or drawing so deposited with the Attorney or Solicitor-General as aforesaid , of the invention in respect of which the specification shall have been so enrolled , as aforesaid , and any person shall be at liberty to obtain an offlco . copy of such outlino description from the office of the Attorney or Solicitor-General , on payment of the accustomed charges . —( Signed ) John Romilly . " s . " '

      Assassination . —Wo have received information of the melancholy death of Mr . James Joseph Fryer , - of York , under the following very painful circumstances : —He had gone out to California , and on the 30 th of October last he was cruelly murdered at a place named Ilumboldt , having fallen pierced with fourteen wounds by the Indians . His companion ( Mr . Sproxton , son of the incumbent of Trindon , Durham ) with his own hands dug a grave ' and buried him . Ho then headed a party in pursuit of the assassins , and poor Fryer ' s murder was avenged by tho death of eighteen of his murderers . Mr J

      J . Fryer was tho eldest son of the late Mr Frver of this city , proctor . —York Herald ' ? ' Feminink Longevity . —There is now livino at MiUon near Cleobnry Mortimer , £ Tag £ Kale ters . and is now , considering her . a » 6 in eood ha ' this S dTf v *^ 'V *™ Se ? S vZjI S ? * , has a m < ice « ow . living , a Mrs SSh ° mg 00 f d healt V * ° ^ s reached the patriarchal age of one hundred and one years . JKa co ™ mce jn ifamUy ia ' surely not upon mord , .-F < weetter - Journal : ¦ ¦•*¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦¦•¦

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      A Monster Snip . —We learn that Jabez Williams and Son , shipbuilders , of Williamsbuvg , are to com . mence early next ' spring a clipper ship for a mercantile house intlmeity ,-engaged in ; the Liverpool trade / of the enormous size' ¦ of 12 , 800 tons . Her length will bo 230 feet ; or * even ; . fect longer than ; he United States ship-of-tbe ^ ino Pennsylvania . In this respect , however , her dimensions did not exceed those of'the great ship which has iust been commenced by ; -William H . Webb 'for N . L . and G . Griswold ; but , in consequence of- an increasing depth and breadtb / of beam , she will be some two hundred tons larger . No merchant vessel has ever been built at all approaching her in point of magnitude . 'She is to have three decks , and will bo able to carry a vast number of passengers . — i \ ew York Journal of Commerce . ' ¦ Representation of Glamorganshire . —A rumour

      is abroad to the effect that Mr . Henry Thomas , who for many years has been vice-chairman of the quarter Bessions of the county'of Glamorgan , will be put forward in the Liberal interest as a candidate for-Glamorganshire , on the vacancy occasioned' by Earl Dunfaven accepting the Chiltera Hundreds ^ . The Emperor of-Austria has raised Charles and Joseph Poniatowski ; sons of tho Polish Stanislaus Poniatowski , to the dignity of princes of the Austtiturempire , - '

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      Income Tax . —It is not generally known how small a portion of the people pay the property-tax . Mr . William Ray Smee says , in his pamphlet on the income-tax , that out of the twenty millions of which our population is composed , only 500 , 000 pay this impost . The same writer remarks that the houses charged with the window-tax are only fourteen percent , on the total number ; and that were the malt-tax taken ofl , the ale now sold at 6 d . might be retailed at 2 d . a quart . These facts are * startling and suggestive to a Chancellor with a surplus revenue . The consumption of cotton , in the last year , at Manchester , it is stated was upwards of 710 ^ 000 , 000 lbs ,, or about 1 , 000 tons per day .

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      AUTHORISED BLOODSHED ON RAILWAYS . ( From the Spectator . ) We have awaited in vain the report of the " full investigation" that was to lake place into the collision of the 4 th inst . at the Boxmoor station of the North Western Railway j hut the Coroner ' s inquest into the accident at the Ponder ' s End Station of the Eastern Counties Railway fully shows that it must be classed among those which' might have been foreseen . , ___"_ --__• . ' . : ~ "

      The guard of the special train which slaughtered Lodwick , the night inspector at Ponder ' s End , has been committed to Newgate for heedless driving ; but the verdict of manslaughter against him was accompanied with au expression of censure on the imperfect arrangements and irregular practice of the Company . To us , indeed , it appears that the " accident is less fairly ascribable to reckless driving than to the despatch of the special train without adequate precautions .

      The evidence shows that the arrangements at the station where the collision occurred were not sufficient to secure the safety which they professsd to aim at , and that a rigid calculation would have demonstrated their inadequacy beforehand ; that the arrangements at the station from which the special ( rain was sent were not sufficient to secure safety in the despatch of that special train ; and also that the arrangements , inadequate as they were in their nature , were not completed even in form by the officer who sent the special train .

      The arrangements at the London station were not sufficient to guarantee safe'despatch of-the special train . A Hertford goods train had left London twenty minutes too late ; the night inspector of the telegraph department in Shoreditch telegraphed down the Use to keep clear ; but it appears that the arrangements for drawing attention at the telegraphic stations are so incomplete that there is frequentl y great delay in obtaining a response , and frequently no response at all . The telegraph offices of some intermediate stations—Lea Bridge , Water , lane , Marshlane , and Chesunt— " are supposed to be shut up after dark . " Here , then , we find gross unpunctunHty in the despatch of an ordinary train ; the delayed train is a slow train preceding a fast train ; thn telegraph means for clearing the " line are imperfect in their nature and in regularity of attendance .

      Such as they . were , the precautionary arrangements were not completed in form . The imperfect working of those means were manifest at tbe London station ; whether tbe telegraph night inspector knew it or not , it must have been known to somebody that the Hertford goods train had starti d late . The telegraph inspector received instructions to " speak" with all the stations between London and Cambridge at only five minutes before six o ' clock . "I first spoke with Tottenham ; ten minutes elapsed , however , before I could attract their attention . The next station I . communicated with was Ponder ' s End . It was then about four minutes past six o ' clock ; I continued calling for ten minutes , and , finding no attention was paid , I called at Waltham , and there also no reply was given for some titno . "

      The inspector was to announce at these stations that a special train for Cambridge bad started ; it had started at ten minutes before six o ' clock . The precautions to secure the safe despatch of the fast train were not commenced till after the train had started ; and they were no sooner commenced than their total incompetency in the working made itself appear . The arrangements at the slalion where the accident occurred were in their nature insufficient to secure safety . Now observe what happened at this station . In reading the evidencp , the tact first in point of time is , that the Hertford goods train reached Ponder ' s End about sir

      o ' clock ; stopped to leave a truck in the siding ( which would take three minutes ) , and departed " about five minutes past six . "—so says the guard ; but he had sent his watch to London for repairs . The guard of the Norwich up goods train states that he arrived at his usual time , ten minutes past six o ' clock ; the Hertford train was then partly on the siding and partly on the main down line . A » soon as it had completed its operation , the men of the Norwich up train began theirs ; which was to detach a truck and " shunt" it across the down line

      on to the siding ; it is said to take ten . minutes thus to shunt a truck across the line . TheJHertford train , bad departed about three minutes when the special train came up , dashed against the truck , which had not yet got clew of the line , and inflicted those frightful gashes of which Lodwick died . Lodnick evidently knew nothing of the special train ; and , as the driver of the Hertford goods train knew nothing about it until he reached Waltham , it is very probable t ' nat if the truck of the Norwich train had escaped , the special train would have overtaken the Hertford train .

      Such are the facts as they happened ; now what were the standing arrangements at the station ? At four stations on the line there is a level crossing ; but of those four Ponder ' s End is the only one where it is necessary to shunt from the up-Iine across the down line to a siding : " it takes not more than ten minutes" to effect that particular sort of shunting . During the night there is only the night inspector at . the station ; but as soon as the train arrives , the men belonging to it are under the orders of the night inspector , It is hia business to attend to the trains , their shuntingthe s ' gnals

      , , tbe telegraph , and the gates of the level crossing . It is a rule that when there is an obstruction on the line , a man is to run back six hundred yards behind the obstruction , and to put down a percussion signal ; but as that manoeuvre would take about twenty minutes , and as the stoppages at Ponder ' s end are very short—say five or ten minutes—it is the standing practice to disregard that rule . The rule is said to be observed at other stations , but not at Ponder ' s End—the only station where there is a level crossing conjointly with the necessity for a transverse shunting . ' •'

      From the facts it appears , that while ' the telegraph inspector at Shoreditch was engaged ia trying to draw' the attention of Lodwick , Lodwick was engaged in shunting the truck . It would also appear , that between the commencement of the telegraphing to Ponder ' s end station and the actual arrival of ihe special train at that station , no sufficient time was allowed for a man to be sent back six hundred jards along the line ; therefore , even if Lodwick ' s atten . tion had been attracted at the moment when the telegraphing began ; it would have been too late to stop the special train .

      The simple facts recorded in evidence irrcsistably establish these conclusions—that the precautions to prevent accidents at Ponder ' s End were incomplete , and in their nature unworkable ; that the precautions available at the Shoreditch station were in their nature imperfect ; that they were not taken before the special traiu started , which made it impossible to repair omissions ; and that they were begun absolutely too late to allow lime for obeying ' orders at Ponder ' s End , and therefore too late to prevent that very disaster which was confessedly

      foreseen when the precautions were colnurably begun . To state the case more simply , the Norwich goods train arrived at Ponder ' s End in the due course of duty , and its arrival about that time should have been foreseen ; the shunting was an operation in the regular course of duty , and should have been provided for into the truck crossing the line the special train was sent to dash without forewarning ; the simplest decree of correctness would have sufficed to prevent the disaster , by ascertaining that the line was not free , and keeping back tbe special train until it had been made free .

      ; We are justified 'therefore in reckoning the Pon der ' s End slaughter among those which are per formed by authority .

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      Januar y 25 , 1851 . _ , „„ == — = —^ THE NORTHERN STAR I ft ? === ^^ r—¦~— .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 25, 1851, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1610/page/7/