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      Health of Losddx . —The official report states tJia > tbf pubJic health now presents a more favourable aspect . In the w * t > k ending last Saturday tbe number of deBths registered from all causes declined to S 31 . In the ten con expending weeks of 1341—50 the average number was 877 ' . hut as population has be «* n growing throughout that period and up to the jnoent da e . an avera .-e mortality corrected for the rate of increase may be estimated at 965 , compared wilh which ihe deaths of last week exhibit a decrease of 84 The progress of tbe summer months in reauciug the mortality is perceptible in all those ol : i »> es of disease , which niaKe the principal contributions to the Hgsrfeate amount . with the exception Of the class of epidemics in which 'here now appears

      Some disposiiion Jo increase . In the P j ! efl "' week ( ending Ju ' v 6 ' this class ™ ™ - . * deaths ! it hJno * risen to 224 , but the tobewatar class , the most important of which is Pe »»»'™" fallen from 202 to Mi l'h . hi- « " " ? " £ S ° numhers . hisweek 127 . which is ta » J ?" tl £ ° r ir ¦ £ £ ^ a 4 fiS ?* 5 S $ ™ mM-P ° i confluent ; unprotected ; and am .. ne » t these a labourer , aged 27 years from Ber-3 ? ev . TtanwisiiarB mention particular families which hHve suffered extensively , and lament in such easrs that vaccination , wliich aiwht have prevented the spread of the disease or its fatal results , had been neglected . Diar . hoea , which was fatal m tbe ious week to 23 persons , n-arly all children ,

      prev has suddenly increased , and last week carried off 53 <> f whom 44 were young persons , 3 were of middle age , and 6 had reached Bixty yeare or upwarJs . Besides these , 8 cases were registered , in which the cause of death is described as " cholera infantum , " or " English cholera , ' a'ld . one in irtrcb it isstated as Asiatic cholera . The particulars of these ca . * e 3 , all with orn : •¦ xcepcion amongst ^ children , are as follows ;—In Kensington , at Jenning ' sbuiidings , op Gih Ju : y , the daughter of a spinster , aged one year , died of " cholera infantum . " In Kensington , CooperVgardens . on 6 th July , the daughter of a kb' > urer . a < : ed 6 years , " cholera infantunit" In MaryMione . 6 t . John ' s , at 4 . Victoria-terrace , on 6 ih Julv , the daughter of a eardeneraged 4 years . " English cholera . " In

      , Cripplegate , at 10 , Adela de-pUce , on 10 th July , the son of a police constable , aged 7 months , " cholera infantura ( o days ) . " In B < ahir- « W reen , at 13 . Bedfordrow , an &h July , the daug . -ner of a woodcutter , aged 4 months , " English cholera ( 4 days ) . In Bethnalgreen , Town sub-district , at 31 , Thomas-street , on 9 th Julv , the wife of a ac-Ie and beam maker , aged aixtv-efght years , " cholera Asiatic 36 hours ) . In Goodman ' s-nVlds , at 8 , Ev-rardV place , on 4 th July , the daughter of a iob iconist , aged four rainthB , "English cholera ( 3 days ) " In St . Gsorge * 8-in-ihe-Ea « t , at 21 , Cross-street , on 8 th July , the son of a mariner , aged 2 years , " cholera infantum { 7 days ) . ' I" St . Saviour , at 23 ,

      Zoarstrect the son of a cpllarman , ased 2 years " English cholera ( 14 days } . " ihe births of 700 boys and 616 girh , in all 1316 children , were registered last week . The av > rago numhar of six corresponding weeks in 1845-50 was 1 , 227 . At the Royal Observa-ory , Greenwich , tlu » w > hei ht of the barometer in the week was 23 . 777 in . Tlr * mean temperatare of the week va * 596 deg ., or about 2 deg . below Ihe average of the same * eek in ten y-are . On ¦ Wedn esday , T < itirs ; iay , and Friday the daily mean was abnut 6 deg . below the average of the respective days , and on Saturday it rose nearly 4 deg . above it . The wind generally blew from tlie west , but on Tuesday and the two foll owing days it blew occasionally from the north-east and north-west .

      Attempt to Fibk a Warehouse at London Bbidoe . —On Sunday the warehouses of Messrs . Birber , calied Chamberl iin » Wuarf , and situated near St . Olave * s Church . Somhw ^ rk , just below London Bridge , narr « wly tscaprd destruction by fire . The bnildings are ne > rly twn hundied years old , aud are built of woud excepting tin- sonth part facing the yards in To » ley-street , and the whole of the north part towards the river is covered wi- 'h pitch and tar to preserve the wood . The warehouses are filled chiefly with flour and merchandise from the north of England . A number « f vessels lie at the wharf , the crews of which pa * s 'hrough the yard to the street . On Sunday evening 'he watchman suddenly perceived a smell of fire , and entered the building to discover thf cause . On arriving at tbe first landing next the

      river , he discovered an immense quantity of smoke pouring out of a lumber ronnj on ibe right hand side . The -atchman . being iermr- » iruek at the sight of so much smoke issuing irom a ponton of the building \ rh ; -re such a quantity of inflammable matter is kept , ia ! i out and called to his assistance the crews of the vessels lying at the wh . - irf , and de-patched messengers for the fire engine * , but before thr arrival ot the latter all danger was removed . Ou ftmirj ; their way into thr lumber room , they discover' :- ' * the fire orignated from the nearest co-iier to the entrance , among a quantity of baskets containing straw and cooking utensils , -which had lain there some time . There were also two bags of charcoal in the raidM of tbe rubbish , and from the situation in which they * ere all dis covered , there is a supposition 'h « t 8 re had t » een introduced in two places . The baskets were partially destroyed , and one of the bags o ' charcoal was ignited ,

      and in n few minutes thr fire would havt ; communicated with the straw , when the io * s of proprr'y must have been frightful to consider . Had the watchman remained at the gate iiiste ; i-i of reiuming to ihe wharf , the flames would have communicated wilh the buiWinj , and i > eing all wood , it would have neeu almost impossible for rhe ( irt-ra ^ n to have fated any portion . Shortly after , Mr . Braidwuod , the superintendent of the Fire Brigade , was on the spot , and examined the premise . ' , fie isclcarlyof opi nion that the fire was the work » f an incendiary , and such information was immediately forwarded to Messrs Barber and Son , wh- > catl- - d in the assistance of the police to unravel the mystery , Qa Monday , Ingprc * tor Barry , of the M division , w .-is engaged the whole of th- day in carrying on a strict investigation into the affairs of Messrs- Barber , bar nothing has transpired at present to show who the guilty party is . The S-rEFiTEY Abduction Cabs . — It will bo

      reoollected that at the May se ^ ion , the Central Criminal Court , a young man named William D « y , was convicted under the Bishop of Oxford's Act of the abduction of a young woman named Harriet Newman , whose statement was a very extraordinary One . He was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour ; but since th * conviction t » ok place a statement of facts has been laid before 8 ir George Grey , through the exertions of Mr . Field , of the Society for the Protection o ' ~ Young Females , and the right honourable baronet advised her Majesty to grant the prisoner a free pardon . He is now at liberty . ¦ ¦

      ExtBssrvE Cosflagbation 8 . —Oo Sunday ' afternoon a fire broke ont mi the premi-es belonging to Messrs . Drew , llay * ard , and Barron , wholesale druggists , Bush-lane , Cannon-street , CUy . In a comparatively shore period there were upwards of a dozen bngade engines on the spit , and owing ; o the indefatigable exertions of ail parties engaged , the fire was ex'inguished by seven o ' clock , ' -nt not until a considerable portion nf ( he upper floors , probably extending over five , or aixh ;> usea in Bosh-lane , and two or three at the hacK of Scott ' s yar" , bad been burned out , and the contents either wholly consumed vv Considerably damaged . The total loss is roughly estimated at £ 5 , 009 . Another fire bro '* e out at the game time on the premises o » Mr . Downing , a bonnet maker and milliner , No . 12 , Cross street , Blackfriars-road . Before the confl gration could be extinguished the premised were gutted , and those adjoining seriously damaged by Witer , and the furniture broken by removal , and four children nearly perished in the last named fire . Fortunately the

      sufferer was insured . Fatal Slkp-waKcing . —On Monday Mr . H . MWattoy held an inquest in the University College Hospital , on Samuel Shilton , aged forty-fight . It appeared from the evidence that deceased , who was in the habit of walking in his sleep , and was engaged mowing for Mr . Daniel How , of Elgware , had , ~ ith other mowers , gone , according to their cu « ton > , to ¦ leep on a rick twenty feet higli . During the night be got up in his sleep , and before his c-impaniuuB could stop him , h- walked to the edge of the rick , whence he fell to the ground , breaking his neck , Verdict— " Accidental death . "

      Thb Royal Visit to the CiTr . —Her Majesty bag been graciously pleased to accept " a- tnemo-iaof her visit to the City on the 9 tb of July , " the very beautiful dessert plates and wine-glasses prepared for the entertainment at Guildhall , which have bceu presented by Mr . Staples to her Majesty . Killed in a Ceowd . —Benjamin Hill , who was trampled on by the crowd on "W ednesday week J « st , on her Majesty ' s visit to the City , died oa Sunday , from the injuries he had received .

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      . . : —^~—¦ Thb Lot or Staupkd Publications . —Mr . B * ron Purke has announced in the Court of Exohequi-r , that the opinion of the Court being divided in the case of the Attorney-General and the publishers of to © J / ouseftoW Narrative , it must stand over till next Vr ^ w a 3 P excellent remarks on the historyfLndna ^' - ^ ^ *"" * dds . —'' Mattel Standing thus , it 19 with no small surprise that we SSl " " ! 8 that are * «> ad " to the SitfrST ^ 4 0 f f te c ° ^ ttee of tue House of Commons on the taxes on knowledge , who are under-toad to represent the views and wishos of government . It is reported that tLyarestreHU ously exerting themselves to cram doJn Z K of tie eomnunee a report deprecating , or rto denouncing , any chan ee in the law imS , £ / £ S upon newspapers . WhUe one ofthe Supreme Count . St Westminster is pretty unequivocally < ta £ rml

      mi tneiaw ts uninteiiigible-in other word 8 iuht it is full of traps and pitfalls , for houeat and ' independent men—our liberal and reformin g government b Btrainicg tTOry nerve to keep this law unaltered ; and its lav officers . are endeavouring to < xaetpenalp ^ s . bymean _ 3 . of itj" . . . .

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      ® 9 e gromnst * . CoNTICTlOTt OF TlIRKB NOTORIOUS THIEVK ^ . —At the Ipswich Sessions , on Friday , last , three welldressed men , named William Davis nged 34 , John Hodgson , 36 and Henry Griffiths , 30 . who as sart to be well known in London as of the "Borough Sag " of sharpers , were tried for burglariously entering the connting-house of Mr Joseph F . sc-n . thembtoprietor of the steam flour mills , and stealing 1 erefrom an iron chest and divers monies and securities amounting in value to £ 3 , 000 . rhe case excited much interest in consequence of the daring character of the robbery , and the belief that the prisoners were implicated in other buvglarieB which hnre been committed in the neighbourhood . Counsel appears 1 for the prosecution and defence . The systematic manner in which the prisoners arranged

      their plans for the robbery showed that they were no novices in the art . About the 10 th of February Hodgson and Griffiths took up their abode i \\ the town . They occupied different lodgings . The prisoner Griffiths passed under the name of Leo , and resided within sight of the flour mills . Towards the close of the month , Griffiths-visited the mill , and stated that he would take it as a particular favour if ho could be accommodated with £ 5 worth of silver for gold . Mr . Fison complied , nnd so the prisoner ascertained the whereabouts of the iron chest . It was also shown that he was often on the 1 move " about the premises . During their stay in the town they represented themselves as travelling cutlera . They left on the 17 th of April , and nothing was seen of them until the 23 rd , when

      Davis made his appearanee with them . They came in a light cart , with a grey horse , from London , as it was subsequently traced along the road ' . They put up at a public-house in the outskirts of the town , and at ten o ' clock Davis proceeded with the vehicle to the mill , and there had the boldness to stop it almost in front of the premises . Previously Griffiths and Hod gson had been lurking ' about , and the landlord of an opposite public-house thinking their movements strange , was induced to look out , when Davis , in order to draw his attention off , coolly walked over to the house and called for a shilling ' s worth of brandy-and-water . This enabled Griffitbfi and Hodgson to effect an entrance into the counting-house , but the noise of their footsteps alarmed a labourer who slept on the premises . The

      » ellow 8 had succeeded in forcing out the safe , with an iron bar , and had placed it in a sack , preparatory to its being placed in the cart , a practice which was generally so successfully carried out by the Ilackett gang of burglars . The 6 udden approach of tbo labourer caused the thieves to make a precipitate retreat . They were seen to dart opt , of the mill and jump into the cart , which was driven furiously along the London road , and was soon , lost sigbt of . The sack and safe were found near , the counting-house . The police immediately worked the electric telegraph , with a view of capturing the fellows , and about four o ' clock they were , found near Witham , returning to London , a bountiful

      supply of beer , pipes and tobacco being in the . vehicle . Counsel having addressed the jury for the prisoners , it was urged that Davis was a highly respectable man , and kept an omnibus and eight horses in Southwark . He stated that he had been engaged to drive Hodgson and Griffiths down from London , and ho called several parties living in Xewjugton to prove that he was the individual he had represented . It w . is his ostler who was Blip * posed to be implicated in the burglary at Bexley . — The jury found all the prisoners Guilty , and the Recorder , after expressing his concurrence in the verdict , sentenced them each to be transported beyond the seaB for the term of ten years .

      Charge o p Fobobry against a Merchant . — On Friday last , June the 11 th Gloucester was thrown into an unwonted state of excitement , in consequence of the sudden disappearance of Mr . William Henry Barrett , an extensive miller and corn merchant of tbo city , and the owner of some coasting vessels ; and the circumstances under which he has disappeared leave no doubt as to the crime of forgery having been committed . The fugitive was engaged in extensive mercantile transactions , and last year he discharged the honourable duties of Sheriff of Gloucester . The fact Of his absence was not made known until some days after he had left home , and it is feared that he may have made his escape to the Continent ; but on it becoming known that he had left Gloucester without any intimation as to his intention , inquiries were made into his affairs , which eventually led to an announcement , offering £ 100 for his apprehension .:

      and if be has not yet left the country there is little dou !> t he will soon be captured . When his disappparance was first made known it was not expected that he had been guilty of anything beyond defrauding his creditors of their due , although it was discovered that he bad taken with him a large sum of money , which ought in justice to bave been divided amongst them . On a strict investigation into his affairs being instituted , however , it was ascertained that he had put in circulation a number , of bills , to which were attached the forged acceptances of a cumber of Gloucester merchants , anil others of distant towns , with whom he had bad dealings . Several bills of this kind have lately turned up , and upon them warrants havo been issued for Mr . Barret ' s apprehension on charges of forgery . It is said that already eight or ten forged acceptances have been brought to li g ht . Several of these are for large sums . On one of them JE 350 hud been obtained .

      Fatai . Accident on ihe PoNtop and Shields Railway . —On Saturday afternoon last , about two o ' clock , an accident , attended . with loss of life , happened on this railway at a place called Eden-hill , about sixteen miles west of South Shields , and about six west of Chester-le-street . ' A locomotive was running along an embankment , when inconsequence of a rail jumping , it was plunged oyer the embankment , a distance of fourteen feet . There were six men oh the engine at the time of the accident , two of whom , the fireman and a man ' of tne name of Swinburne , were thrown into a ' field

      and escaped comparatively unhurt , the other poor fellows were buried beneath the engine , which rolled over upon them . In consequence of the weight of ths engine , it waa two hours before they could be extricated , when it was found that the engineman , John Mann and William Richardson , a' man employed at the , inoline , were both crushed to death . George Moffii , a young man , an enginewright , and another person , a pitman , were badly injured , and though much exhausted there are some tapes of their recovery . The engine ; a new one , ia broken to pieces . ' ¦ "" ¦¦¦ -

      Thbbk Suicides at Brighton . —A respectable widow at Brighton committed , suicide on Saturday la > t by cutting her throat . Her . husband , who . died five yeara ago , left her in comfortable circumstances " , her children were all ' remarkably Bteady and wellconducted .. No cause whatever could ' be ' gut-mised for so dreadful , an act . On the previous-Monday James Wady , aged fifty-five , drowned himself , because his elder brother , who was seventy-three / had married & girl of eighteen , and had thus extinguished his hopes of succeeding to a trifling property . The third suicide was Thomas Wnitwell . a stranger from

      Shoreham , who lodged on Friday , Saturday ; arid Sunday nights , at a beer-Bhqp in Gloucester-lane , Brighton , andon Monday evening was found banging inanouVWse ; quite dead . The evidence at the inquest showed no other cause for his evident insanity than the eating of opium . In his bat was a Prayer-book , on a blank page of whioh was written - "Whoever finds mybody , I will thank them to convey this book to ' Jane . " Jfye , 23 , Marine-parade , Brif h ton . Give her my dying love . " - Jane Nye-wasa servant girl , whom he had known four months . ' : " : ' ' '• ' •• •

      Dariso Highway Kobberibej Nkar Carlisle . — About nine . . o ' clock , on Saturday Morning last , Robert Bowman and William Gibson , two farmers , were coming together with a cart and- horse to market , and bh going along the high road between Cnmwbinton and Harraby toll-gate , ' about two miles from Carlisle , a man rushed out of the hedge ) eked the horse by the ; bridleV'an ( l presented ' a sixbarrelled revolver pistol , ; demanding their money or their Ii » es \ They delivered , np . jall the valuableB they had—a watch and some silver—and the robber disappeared as quickly as be came . Not a hundred yards behind rode a woman in ' a cart and horse , who saw the whole transaction . The highwayman wore a mask or piece of crape , but this covering fell off ; bv which the farmers were enabled to seehis ,

      features . He is a roan between twenty and . thirty years of age , five feet eight inches' in height , fair com plexion , Lsb light hair , thin face , Roman nose , and wasdrwsed in a bottle-green square-tailed jacket ] moleskin trousers , and cap . Soon after' the newg ol thii affair reached . the town information of a second r -bbery in the same vicinity ' arrived at . the police- ' Mde ,. Mr . Backhouse Myers , '" a' commercial tra-i Tiller , irom Newcastle-upon Ty ' ne , wis driving'in ai gijt , between Scotby and Carlisle , 'when close te Calderbridge a man seized the reiiJBi and holding the ' horse back with one hand , presented a six-bar * ' relied revolver pistol at Mr . " Myers with the other , exclaiming " Your money or your life , and be quick

      about it too . " The traveller drew out his pu » e . containing two sovereigns , which he was taking out to give the fellow ,-when the latter hearing the sound of an approaching vehicle , impatiently cried ' out 11 Come , come , money and purse and all , or III fire ! Do you think I ' ve time to wait whilst you ' re fiidh ' ng there ? " The commercial traveller was only too glad to escape so cheaply , as he had between £ 500 aud £ 600 in the gig ; so he threw him the purse and the money , whereupon the ' fellow relaxed hia hold of therein ? , and Mr . Myers drove off . In this Instance also the highwayman had crape over his face , and was dressed in a green shooting-jacket , moleskin trousers , and hat . .

      Capture . of the Carlisle HiGHWAYMEN . —The cool desperadoes who have reoently been causing such C 0 ast 8 rnfttidn in Cumberland , by . their audacious pranks , have atlength been captured . . By the sudden d P * ! ° f 'two questionable , c ^ Bnact ' ers from : . ttsir lodgings in Botchergate , suspicion immediately

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      fell upon them . One . ol them , named Thomas Tinyon , a wearer by profession , hut a poacher in practice , is well known in CarlWle , especially , to the authorities of the taol ; the other , Hugh Monteith , abou t twentytwo yetrs of age , has been occupied at one time as a gardener in the nrighbourhood of the . town , bat was dismissed by his last employers for dishonesty . The capture was rat her neatly effected . Police-constables Snuwden and Anderson set off from Carlisle on Sunday afternoon , in a gig , dressed in plain clothes . They had previously , a si'erttHntd that Monteiih ' s father lived at Gretna , so they called thpre on their way , and contrived to find cut that both he and Tinyon were iu Maxwelltown . Tliej proceeded at once to Maxwelltown , and at httlf . past onB in the , morning , with the aid of a conntable from Annan ,

      they succeeded tn capturing both prisoners , though in d fferenthouseB of the samp street . Each had a female accomplice , but the police came upon thun so unexpectedly that they had no time for resistance . Monteitti made W \ effort to reach the six ^ barrelted revolver , which wa 3 near the bed , whilst one of the constables was securing h " i 8 clothes ; but a second officer seized him and prevented mischief , for all the barrels of the pistol were loaded with ponder and ball , with a cap on each ni pple . In Monteith ' s pockets were found the watch stolen from the farmer , and a guinea which the commercial traveller had thrown to him with ihe other money in bis purse . Tinyon had a brace of pistols loaded , and two boxes containing bullets and caps . Monteith , when frustrated in his "ttenipf to reach the p istol , said with an oath to Anderson , that had he known

      it wag them , he would have sent three bullets through their bodies . However , both prisoners were secured and carried to the county police-sta-ion for the night , and last Tuesday morning they were brought on to Carlisle , where they will undergo an examination before the magistrates . It is scarcely possible to estimate the satisfaction which is on all bands expressed at the timely capture of thesedaring highwaymen . Thb Murder near Holkhau —The Nonirieh Metcury contains a long account of an inquiry into the murder of John Ay ton , manager of the Holkhnm brickyard , a report of the circumstance attending which , with the apprehension of Henry Groom , a discharged labouni , on suspicion o ( having perpetrated the deed , has already appeared in the Star . After a very patient investigation of the evidence , Heory Groom was committed for Wilful Murder .

      Fatal Accident at thb North Side Colliery Bedminbtrr , NRA . R . BRiaxot .-rSince the , late accident ad the North Side Colliery , by which nearly fifty men were 80 long imprisoned under ground and were at last so providentially rescued , workmen have been employed in repairing the damage then d > ne . At half-past twelve o ' clock on Sunday night a bucket , containing three of the men so engaged were lowered into the pit , The names of these , men are W . Boult , Edward Gibbons , and Jonathan Barton .. A . t ha \! - past four on , Monday morning the alarm bell wag heard to ring violently , and on the bucket being drawn to tbe surface of the pit it was found that some portion of the air shaft had fallen on the bucket , and completely crushed the head of W . Bonlt , the other twomen being very much injured . . Boult , who was quite dead , was one of the men who were most active in their exertions to liberate the imprisoned colliers on the occasion of the late disaster . He has left a family of eight children and a widow far advanced

      pregnancy . FoLKBSTOWS . —On Saturday morning , as Captain Wjngfield , of the South Eastern Company ' s boat Lord Warden , was walking on the pier , he was suddenly observed to stagger and fall ; he was immediately lifted into the porter ' s Io < tge . by Mr . Cullen , custom-house , agent , and medical aid sent for , which promptly arrived , but tbe vital spark had fled . The deceased was well known , and universally respected , hy English and Continental travellers . ' Daring Leaf of a Burglar from a Railway Tbais . —A very powerful . man , named George Fisher , and who was until recontly a member of the CardiS police force , from which he was discharged for misconduct , ni ; uie his escape on Monday from a carriage 011 the Birmingham and Bristol Railway by leaping from it while . the train was iu motion , and where he was in the custody of an

      officer upon a charge , or rather several cbavges , of burglary , The police officer instantly jumped out after him , but falling on the rail he severely bruised his shoulder and was unable to pursue Fisher , who baying run through the engine-house of the Great Western works , succeeded in climbing the bank and escaping into the wood at Brislinpton tunnel . FlRB AT NuisFoitD Valb , nkar Manchester . — Sutsford Vale , situated between tlie vill » ge .- > of Gor > ton and Longsight , was , on Monday , the scene of a destructive fire , which broke out about nine o ' clock in the morning on the premises of Mr . John Scott , and destroyed a considerable portion of the buildings before it could be extinguished . The business carried , on at these premises comprised silk printing and rope making . The materials in the building when the fire liroke out burnt with inconceivable

      fury ; and the heat was so intense that the wheels of the machinery were fused and ran together in masses . It was one o ' clock before the flames could be got under , and at this time only a sm ; ill portion of the walls of the building in which the fire commenced was left standing . The flames had swept off the roofs of the engine house , tar house , dressing room s ( destroying in . the Litter also the dressingfraraea and a considerable quantity of hemp ) , anil leaving only the coctagos , silk-mill , and stabling . untouched . Some valuable blocks for printing silk handkerchiefs , which were in the dressing room , were saved . The worm is destroyed , and though the till oh being gauged after the fire was found to contain about 100 gallons of oil unconsutneil , it is believed to . have been fractured inside the brickwork with the great heat to whioh it was su bjected . The premises were not insured . . . Fatal Accidekt at Sheffield by the Escape

      OP Steam . —Ou Tuesday-morning , a most frighttuJ accident , occurred on the . premises of Mr , John Davenport , saw manufacturer , of Rockinghamstreet , Sheffield . —The firm has in use , 1 steamengine of . abput thirty-horse power , chiefly for the purpose of grinding saws . On Tuesday morning the engineer discovered something the matter wjth the safety-valve . ; On his going to screw it down , to prevent an accident ( the steam , being then at its highest pressure ) , the screw was . suddenly forced away , whep the steam began to escape to r-uch an extent , as literally to parboil the men in the room ; Itiohard Iiobertshaw being dead before , he : could be extricated ; and a blade-grinder named Green , although god out alive , was so dreadfully injured that he died at twenty minutes befoie three o ' clock the

      same afternoon at the Infirmary . A file-grinder was also dreadfully scalded , but ihe poor fellow . is still alive , and slight hopes are expressed that his life may yet ; be spared . Others were more or le , 8 a injured . A coroner ' s inquest on the bodies returned a verdict of Accidental death .. > ' . " Alarming ; Accident to , a Railway Train . —An accident of a very alarming kind , and which at one time threatened to be attended by most serious conaequencea , occurred on Monday to the mail train ot the Bristol and Exeter B-iilway while on its way from the latter to the former city . . The train took its departure from the terminal station : at Exeter at about the usual time , and proceeded , without any particular occurrence , beyond a little loss Of time , until it had , arrived at a distance of b « tween one

      and two miles from the terminus at Temple Meads , Bristol ; when the utmost consternation . and alarm was excited among tbe passengers inconsequence of its'becoming . known ; that one of the carriages waa on fire . Efforts were made to signal the engine driver for a time ineffectuall y , aa the train was carried full a mile before it was pulled up . Fortunately it was riearing the , city , and had to ! paBB through a densely , populated district , and the inhabitants ot tnehouses skirting the line gave the alarm as it passed them , which drew attention to tbe accident . Itappearjj that one of . the iron tiers of-a wheel of one of the second class carriages broke in two , probabl y from its having been imperfectly ! welded j and the increased friction -conaequent on the irregular motion ignited t ; o the wood work . The-passengers

      were at fins alarmed by the . smoke and sparks whioh flew off from the burning materials ; but at length a piece of the iron work was stru . ; k again . fi the bottom of the carriage with such fotce as to break in a portion of the fioor . The flames now forced their way , into the carriage greatly , alarming and perilling the , passengers j but it is gratifying to be able to state that the , train was stopped in sufficient time to prevent any very serious conseouenc * .. . ; Patai , Boat AccibENT on . WiNDKBiiBRu . i . A' * ad accident took place , on : Sunday . morning l&st , the i 3 th . in . 8 t ., about ten o ' clock , to a party of four young men who started . ' for a sailing excursion fmi . i

      Waterhead , . "Witidermere . They had proceeded about two mile 3 down the Jake to nearly opposite Calgarth , when . a sudden squall struck the boat whioh ' caused her to fill and go down instantly , engujfing in the deep and boisterous lake the four unfortunate occupants who altogether disappeared in a moment , and it is said that nothing wn » aeen-afterwa rdB of the boat , and its . crew but a helpless hand which was for , a while held up .- A few loose things belonging to the boat have since beun washed ashore . The young men were all joiners at Waterhead , named Walker , Thompson , Tyson , and Garnett . . . .

      Karbow EscAPB . — . On Saturday last » labourer named Charles Musty , accompanied by a Ud i > aTn « H \ John Powell , proceeded to a well a ' t about . Haifa mile from Painswick , for the purpose of getting up a bucket which had fallen to the bottom from the breaking of the rope . He was lowered down the well , wfiick was about forty feet deep , by a rope round bis waist . On getting to the depth of aboul , thirty feet he placed hiss foot on a promoting stone for the purpose of taking , the necessary means to get the bucket , when the stone gave away , tearin » with ' it a number of others , and immediately tho walls ofthe well , which were built of large-loose stones , collapsed around him , and lie was completely buried in the stones and rubbish , a small Bpace only being left above his head , from . sbvor . il large stones lying across each other . The bov

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      above , on seeing the well give w : iy , immediately ran back to Painswiok , and gave the alarm , though not with the remotest idea of saving the poor fellow , . the whole mass of earth and stones , thirty -feet in depth , having closed above him . From , sixteen to twenty men got to work to dig through the mass of earth , it being necessary , from the nature of the ground , to work-upon a large surface . ' About one o ' clock on Sunday morning , one of the two men who were at work in the well { there not then being room for more ) was relieved , and another went down in his place ; bat immediately afterwards , from unmistakeable sign below , they were pulled up again , and instantly a large quantity of the earth gave way , nnd to a great extent closed up the space the previous labourers had effected . Men again set to work , but their operations were necessarily 6 low from the large stones they frequently oncounterod ,

      one of which weighed five cwt ., and to remove whioh a triangle hud to be ereoted ; and it was ahout eleven o clock on Sunday morning bt-fore they got down to where their tools had been previously buried . Shortly after this another full took place . On getting down about sixteen feet the poor fellow below was heard to speak ih reply to questions put to him . The whole of his body was fixed in the earth and stones , there being only a small space above his head , which enabled him to breathe . The men continued their labours , and between -five and half-past on Sunday afternoon the man was drawn from flis subterranean prison , where he had been fixed without nourishment for thirty hours . He was carried in a sheet to a house near , when it was found he had sustained no material injury , his legs and wrists only being badly cut , and parts of hia body bruised . —OIovl'c&ur Journal . ¦

      Abondel Election . —On Wednesday the election of a representative for the town of Arundel , on the acceptance by the Earl of Arundel and Surrey of the Cuilterii Hundreds *; took place at that town . The occasion excited little notice , not more than one hundred persons having assembled to witness the proceedings , Mr . Halliday proposed , and . Mr . Marshall seconded , the nomination of Edward Strutt , Esq ., of Kingston Hall , in the county Of Nottingham , as < t fie person to represent the borough . No other candidate being proposed , the Miiyor declared Mr . Strutt to be duly elected . Manslaughter , at Manchester . — -On Tuesday a charge of manslaughter , committed under circumstances marked by great brutality , engaged the

      attention of the magistrates . The prisoners were two young men named William Crank , or Grounds , and Thomas Price . A mere boy named Moores , was also . ' charged , as an accessory . The name of the man whose death they were charged with , was Wiliam Grounds , stop-father to Crank . The Statement of the witnesses was to the effect that the pri-, aoners were standing in Cumberland » street . where they resided , about twelvo o ' clock on Saturday night , and were singing and amusing themselves , when Grounds ( the deoeused ) who was in a state of intoxication , and annoyed with their behaviour , attached his step-spn , and threw him down in the street . . . Grounds fell , upon his step-son , and they struggled together on the ground for some time .

      The step-sun was the first to get upon his feet , and calling the prisoner Price , to his assistance , they , both kicked the old man severely . A witness of the disgraceful . scene stales that he saw the step-son kick the old man upon the right temple , after whioh he groaned , and appeared to become insunsible . Some hystanders interfered . The wife of the deceased asked them to carry him into tbe home , whioh they dW , and he waa then found to be lifeless . The coy ' , who appeared to be ten ortwelve years old only , also attempted to kick the old man , but did . not succeed . The magistrates committed ; the prisoners Crank and Price to the assizes for manslaughter . The boy was remanded , and ultimately discharged ., . ¦ ¦ .

      Shipwreck . —On Sunday last , the Joseph Anderson , of Plymouth , a vessel belonging to the D ' evori Coal Association , was lost on the ; Culver sands , near trio Steep Holme , and had her captain and four of her crew drowned . The vesselleft Newport on Saturday night laden with coal , and was proceeding on her voyage to Bristol , when on Sunday morning she got on the sands , and after beatiug for some time went to pieces . ¦ Only two of her hands were saved , Matthew Crake , a seaman , and Charles Sweet , an apprentice . One of them lashed himself to a sturlding'sail boom , and the other to two boato « irs , upon which they floated about till picked up by tbe , Gannymede , a boat belonging to Weston-Super-mare . ' The captain , Richard Holtin , has left a widow and eight children . The others drpwned were John Tope , mate , William Shepherd and Francis Drake , seamen , and a boy name unknown ,

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      MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . The Jul y adjourned session commenced on Tuesday morning , at Clerkenwell , before Mr . Sergeant Adams , Assistant Judge , Mr . Witham , Mr . Buchanan , . Mr . Warner , Mr . Archer Burton , and Mr . Whiskin . There are sxty-fiye case of felony and seven of misdemeanour for . trial . — The learned judge gave the grand jury some brief instructions as to the duties they were summoned to perform .

      ROBBERY , —James Ballard , whose real name was William Ilovton , was indicted for . having stolen seventeen cwfc . of lead , the property of George Edward Delaforce and another . —Mr . Ballanduo appeared for the prosecution ; Mr . O'Brien fort he prisoner . —The , circumstances of this caBe were singular .. The " prosecutors were wide merchants , and in May last the prisoner went to Mr . Delaforce aud , representing ^ himself as Mr . James Billiard , a cashier in the Bank of England , Btate'd that he wished to take a house Mr . Ddaforce had to let 1 * Westmoreland-street , Marylebone . ' Believing him to be a respectable man . aad . what he had re presented himself to be , Mr . Delaforce let him the houaej- 'No . 7 , Westmoreland-street , on agreement for £ 60

      - a year . Adjoining the house was a warehouse , which the prisoner was allowed the '" ^ ° [» " " * ' wa , »'' required by the firm , and on the 19 th' of June it was dissoverea that the whole of the lead had been removed from tho roof , nnd replaced with zinc ; but the value of the zinc laid * 'down waa about one-third that of the lead whioh : had been removed . The prisoner sold the lead to a marine store dealer for £ 8 10 s ., and Mr , James Balla * d i , s '' e » sh >* in the Bank of England , proved that be was the only person , of that name holding that position in the Batik . He had been in tho Bank fifty years , ann knew nothing of the prisoner . —Mr . Delaforce ' - distinctl y denied that the prisoner had the slightest authority to remove the lead , but admitted that he had oainted the ftw , f rf

      the house , adding that he had ' not yet . paid tb " person ^ whom he employed to do it .-The defence Im , iSS ^ ° t ' bad . ' ^ wno - mbre taan . wns required to put the house in a good state of . repair ; S-8 &&E" T 8 tion ofH Iht between himnd Mr . Deitforofc and not a . felony .-The jurr-found £ ' -rn fT ' ? ! ? -7 - ™ Z ™ omcer UC vL ? Soo'ety-for the Protection ' of W SdStne UnSW ' P ri ^ ner , had been 3 ^ . StiT ! Z ^ 2 ^ £ !? receive judgment . ' He * well know to Scierv tart £ SS ? 8 entcnced the pri 80 ner to six ™< S ' " nf ^ J'Z ^ * -Caroline .. Wi ! sted , a woman eSuSfdlfadT' ^ - "tated ' that *''« ^ dTeoIi ^ ^ tlM , ' ^ b . indited . for havim ; stolen a

      thein ™ iKfVfcT T , pemh ' onVi " iam » " £ SJSSfSSf E ^ w ° ? the Chine 8 Q Junk-Tfo E 5 hn wL , that , ° ? the mo « of Thu ' isda - v omri ' rriZS a PUblld bouse for & <* purpose of tl 8 a a T W the musiciana ! who per-™™ J ' lund OThim on the Chinese Junk , when he met the pmoiior , whonoeosted him , and remarked what . a beautiful pin he had in his searf . Whilst pretending to-look at it . sho pulled it out of the * c ari , - and concealed it in-lior parasol , where it was iountf by a police officer ' into whose custody she wns given -The prisoner , in her defence , said she wefct vnth two femalo friends to a public house wuere . Chejr . wore ,. treated . She certainly made a remark upon the . pin the prosecutor had in his scarf , and it mus . t have fallen into the parasol : She called two witnesses-,-to character . —One of'theie stated that he kept a chandler ' s shop , at which the prisoner < Jer . lt . She always paid for whut she had ,

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      and therefore he considered her to lie of , ~~^ character The other , was the landlord Of TjM in which she lived , and ho considered ho * h ° « s » a good character because she paid hot Z , I * lenrnen ju- ' go iisked qui'Stions of these , * ;" Tt "i with the view of ascertaining whether tL " ^ was not a woman of tho town . Thev 1 P " ier she w « 8 to their knowled ge .-Tho prfionS'Si 1 * was not a prosutute , but had been DS ^ She then mentioned the names of a colm 1 at « . captain under whose protection she had li 1 " " 3 sated that she was well known to an emi ' ar "l rist . T , whom she also named . She -was on ""'!' , ^ - of £ 000 .-The jury found tho prUo , ^? ' ?^ Tho li-arned judga said tho Chin ese Jiinkh ''^ a greiit public nuisance , as they kept uti m ,, * * no dancing at all hours of the nijrht , and thn . a ft | l had better benefit hy a warning , thev n"" ^ in . itctod—The prisoner was senteilp . " . rf " . ' ^ months' hard labour . * w « Wd to £

      Labcbkt . —Ann Ascall , a dissi pated lontm man , who was convicted of larceny lt » i > o * session , was brought up for judgment -It ? last aecutor was a person named Spicer w | , r ' ' 9 , Evans . buildii > ss , Lower Geor .-C . stroe w *? a i and he and his wife being ill with fevev * v > m > ner was sent from St . Luke ' s workliouso t pri * ' nurse until they got better . She availed \ J" \ ' tlie opportunities afforded her whilst Z » , r ot house in that capacity to steal a varietv of ,, !' tll ( 1 « -hich she pawned in order , . is shes . ud at fh 11 Q 3 » to procure food , but in reality to procure drii ?* ' One of the prison officers havinf comn »« i U something privately to the bench whonT , T wa . placed at the ^' . ^^ S ^ A ^ a communication certiimly ought to be madP n ,, i p * as it dueloseda p iece of grBSt mucluw ! ' part of the relieving officer of St . Luke ' s Ch I who appeared to have sent this prisoner ' whom *?* knew to be a dissipated drunken woman t 0 n tffo poor persons who wcro ill with a severe for S / ie was an inmate of tho workhouse , her hap '* must hare been known , and sho was sent iiipm '

      because sue was to receivo but six shillings a kJz It mn t have been known that the prisomr vnl \ pilfer whatever she could to procure drink , it * ' , h most improper thing tosond hor , and the wlievin * officer ouj . » ht to be sent to prison as well as ^ lie wished some ofthe parish authorities were n ^ sent to hear what he had said , but as he had s ,-,. ; ; it publicly , it would no doubt come to their kiio » lediji ' . —The prisoner was sentenced to tbi months ' . hard Libour . ¦

      Pockbt PiCKiso . —Christopher Kein , 21 , ff ; i 3 j n dieted for attempting to pick pockets at th » Britannia Saloon . Three several attempts *«» proved against ' him , and he was found Guiltr ^ The court sentenced him to four months' hard U bour . Committal of Witnesses . —At the rising of tin court two ptrsons who had been committed to cu «

      tody , one on Tuesday , and one on Wednesday wew brought up . The former had given a prisoner I good charaoter , knowing at the same timo tlut & had been three times in prison , and it turnip nUh that he himself was known at tho House of Cwrec tion . The other deposed to facts , and the learned jiidjje believing he had perjured himself , corn . mitred him . They were discharged after a sever * admonition .

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      Anso . v . —Emma Pennington , 19 , was Indicted for feloniously and wilfully 8 ettin « five to tho dwellin * , house of Charles Wood , with intent to injure lijijf —The prosecutor was a printer , residing in Pen ! tonville , and it appeared that the prisoner had bpea in bis service for six weeks at the time the fira happened , jvhich was on the 29 ch of June . On tta evening of that day the house was left in the so | 8 charge of the prisoner , and very soon after . wards smoke was observed to issue from the ii |> pct part of the premises ; and a young gentli'inai named Lloyd , who » ppeared to have acted with 1 great deal of judgment and presence of mind oa the occasion , knocked at the door , and roctivini no answer , he mnde his vraj into tho house by th « window , and succeeded in putting out the firo , but not before property to the value of about £ 80 hai been destroyed . The evidence against tho prisonei

      was entirely circumstantial , the main points boin ^ that , in the first place , the fire was evidently a wi [ . ful one , and that th < re was no one eke in thehot ^ but the prisoner who could have occasioned / £ ; and the other suspicious circuiu&tances wero , tha t she did not open ihe door when Mr . Lloyd knocked at it , and that she refused to render any assistancs to extinguish the firo ; and when the policeman put some questions to her , sho told him that she understood that her master was insured for tbe lower part of . the house , but not for the upper ; and it was suggested that she had committed the net from a feeling of revenge against her master in consequence of his having rebuked her a Bhorb tima (¦ eforo for allowing her brother to visit her during the absence of tt > e family . - The Jury , without liest tation , returned a verdict of " Guilty , " and she was sentenced to be transported for seven years .

      Forobry . — Herman Liw , Si , merchant , who had pleaded Guilty to forging an acceptance to a bill for £ 1 , 250 , with intent to defraud Conrad J . Thurn , was brought up for judgment . —Mr . Gurney . ia passing sentence , said the pmoner had tried to jet into circulation tbe bill in question . Inquiries Had satisfied him that this was not a single instance , but part of a system , and he should therefore order tha prisoner to be transportod for ten yoarg . Thkeatening Letter . —William Lscey , 32 , was indicted for feloniously sending a letter to Tliomaj Bate , threatening to murder him . The prisoner was employed at the new works at BillinesKate .

      market , and the prosecutor , who was one of the foronien ,. had discharged him for some misconduct , This excited the anger of the prisoner , who wrote a letter to him , in which he threatened "thatha would stick a knife into him the first opportunity he bad , and be h : mge < i for him . " The prisoner , it appeared , was not t . iken into custodv for nearly 1 month after writing the letter . —The jury found him Guilty . The Reuntrter ordered the prisoner to be kept to hard labour for one year , and at tha expiration of that period to enter into his own recognisance in £ 100 to keep the peace for twelve months .

      TnE Westminster Bank Robbery . —William Cauty and John T jler , who had pleaded guiltvto a charce of stealing a cash-book from the London and Westminster . . -Bank , were brought up before Mr Justice . W'i ghtman to receive sentence—His Lordship said it . was perfectly clear from the manner in which this robbery was committed , that tha prisoners were most expert , daring thieves , and ha thereforefelt it his duty to sentence then to transportation . Any sentence of that description to persons of .- their time gf life—over CO—must of necessity be tantamount to transportation for life ; tint the Court had no alternative , having regard to iu dutj to the public , but to pass such a sentence . Heathen ordered the prisoners to be transported for ten years . —The prisoner Gauty , befove he kit the bar , be . aged to he allowed to state that ha fell it . right to say publicly that none ofthe young men belonging to the bauk were in any way coucetwd in planning the robberv .

      . Bigamy . — William Gordon , who had been found guilty ot bi gamy , was brought up for Bentence . - The Recorder , before whom he had been tried , s » M the case was a very usuvnvated one , The prisoner luuijtctiyesws ago , down in Deronshirfi , married a woman , by whom ho h . id two children , and she seemed to have borne an irreprochablecharacter , and was now in respectable servioe , supporting herself and children . Ho had deserted her , and been abroad fur some Years , and upon his return became

      a theological Ktudent at the King ' s College , whera he became acquainted with the daughter ' of a la * stationer , whom he had persuaded into a clandestine marriage , and was unfortunately prej : "' " ' Ill ' s following a religious profession was an aggravation-of hja offence , as ho must be n . hypocrite , and coaH have 110 truu religion in him . However , »• transportation was the highest penalty for those class of cases , and there were more atrocious ones . he should not go to the full ex : ent , but order him to be imprisoned for ei ghteen months .

      Porgkrt . —Mary Elizabeth Joimson , 28 , sp inster , was ind'Cted for uttering to Prank Senior t | jj forged promissory notes , for the sums of £ 0 , * 2 ° > atul £ 4 . 0 , v ? itu \« tent . to cheat and defraud ^ - The prisoner , a delicate ladylike looking )' oun woman , seemed quite-unconscious ofthe nature o » the proceedings that were going on , and remam W seated the whole time the trial was proceeding- * Mr . Parry said r h . t the prisoner was a pe « ° . ; literary attainments and of high family cotint * ^ 'and the question tluy would have to decide * ° whether she had not been imposed upon by wi" * one in bavin p the hills passed off on her ' as f ! em 11 !' or whether- she was a person of sane mind ? f ° , knew that would he the defence set up . One or t e other of those issue ? would , he felt convince " , u " the true one , as alao did the prosecutor—and , tn ^** tore , be was not at nil anxious to press the < 'n ar =: vindictively , but that it should be fairly inve « T jrated . —After hciviiig " the evidence , the )^ V . ' Uiey were quite s .-itisfi « d , and returned a verdict 0 Not Guilty , on the ground of ins-anity . . 1 This being the last , case , the courts wereadjou "' until Monday , the ISth Gf August .

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      — Sale of ' iUna Ssum . —Tuesday being t 1 ' * seventh day of the sale of the e&cta of tlie •« Earl of Harrington , the large and curious com - tion of snuffs , of which it is known the | U > C , ,, i peer was . a connoisseur , waa brouaht tp the !•» wer , The stock comprised about 2 . 0 ( 30 lbs . ot t j ' most various kiml . , , including hH the choice st « scriptioiiH , and was < . ffured iu . 200 . lots . Soio e « the rare snuff 3 fetched £ 2 10 a . per- IU ., »«« " ' - > of the - 'Earl of -Jiarrihctoii ' s Evening Mixtl ' r 1 was sold fur ifi , pi . if tuc property rw about £ 1 , 000 .

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      f veunD . Harvest . Prospects ,. —With dneexception , out of a large mass of country intelligence of Monday ' s date , all tt ^ e accounts of the , potato crop are as favourable , an could be desired , the exception being in tlie county ,. of" Donegal , where , according to the authority of a correspondent of the Nation , the blight has made its appeurance . The communicant of tkis news went to see the fields where it was said to have se > . in , under the impression that it might be the effects'Of wind ; "but the report , " he says , " was to » true . it was unmistakably . , the old

      disease . .. As a set-off to this , solitary . complaint , the most cheering accounts have reached . from Cork . Limerick , Waterford , Clare , Gitlway , the ; midland cuutiiies , and Monaghan . With respect to the cereals ' the reports are precisely similar to those of the potato crop . With one exception , the prospect of an abundant yield is apparent everywhere , but in the cuniy ot Kilkenny it seems the blight has partially shown itself , in the . wheat crop . ; it is , however , satisfactory in learn that ' there never was so little of this grain sown there , bo , that let what will come to pass , t'JO Inaii catinnot be very sensibly felt .

      Puor ' s Rates in thb Wkst . —An estimate has been struck of the raie requjreiii ron > .. the 25 th of March last to the same date in the ensuing year for the support of the eighteen electoral dwisioug composing the union oi - 'R swcommon , varying in amount from I 2 u . 6 d ., the maximum , to 23 ., the minimum figurehe av ^ raije being about 5 s . One , of the guardians ( Mr . U' > rr ) demurred to this high rateage , observing that the prosjiect at present of a plentifnl harvest pave evt ^ ry hojie that 500 of the paupers would not remain in ihe , house duriner-, the next half year , and it w « u'f ' t therefore , be . monstrous : to impose a rate grounded on the . present numbers ,, for whose support it W'lild be nnnecessary to tax the ratepayers . He suggested that a . rate for six months only should be collecied . The suggestion ,-however , did not apiiear to find general favour , , and . the subject dropped . . - ,., ' . ¦ . . ., 1 . .

      BMiokmoN PROU . TH ? . SouTHi—According to the limerick Repprier , the . tide continues to flow just as steadily as ever . ¦ ' The only surprise is where the numbers come- from ,, ' . ! At . this rate-a . census taken ten y-.-ars bence will find the population . of Ireland no greater thaq that of Scotland : — "The remnant of the Bubs antial farming -classes • are evidently those , who . are now ori , the move-rthose who have bravely fnuaht against accumulating , difficulties . for che last six yeaK i but j » ho now , under the irresistible pressure of that atrocious system to which evil landlordism and .-a- vicious government adhere with a withering and fatal pertinacity ,, are compelled to see that there is ' , nq , prospect of amelioration in the distance as long as they remain adseriptiaUbee > in the

      old country ; and . who trust in Providence : that < re * movulto America , will improve their condition .- ¦ We have never seen the quays of Limerick s <> busy with emigrants of the respectable classes as they were on . Saturday last . . The magnificent ship Lydia , for New York , has , completed her ,.. numbers , which amount , to . 231 ., The . Medium is ' also rapidly filling up . Already we , hear , on , gopd authorit y -that even for the saving of the approaching harvest it will be y »; ry diffijult to obtain hands in several rural districts ? What' will it be next year- ;? What the , ypar lifter" ? . Where is \ be . drain ' , to- stQp f- . What e : in juslilya public journalist just now in telling the Ins ) , former th « t he ought ; at allihazards toremain at home ? Where is landlord encouragement afforded—where ths hope that . the-cruelties and horl

      rors of the ^ upr . Law system , and the drain it is on > .: very energy and . resource of the . . people , will tcrminaie . evrn ,,, the n « r . decade of . years , if matters be permitted , to progreas ^ sithey are now . going on ?" . DrcrtKAsE of Ckiuk , is thb South . —Mr Serkeant iiawley who is acting adjudge . o £ Assize for the Munster circuit , in , opening the commission at Ennis , « n Friday week , c 9 n S ratttt « e « the grandiury 011 the state of . tbe county of . Clare , as evidenced by the lightness ot the criminal calendar . 1 There wits ; in fact , »» ut one venous charge on the . . face-, of . \ b , cas all th ^ otherK , amounting to . but thirty , were of the most nrdinary character . The serious case referred to is that o ( Mr . Jly . illiam Blood Stnitli , J . P ; . CastlefergusJ Hgainst whom bills were found at ' the' last assizes for conspiracy , with two other persons . , to murder l \ i&KWUWY .

      THANSATZ . AKWC Packet . Station . —The Weekly Freeman ol Sa . urday last announces ,. on . the autbo--rity t « t a Ifuer fri . m London , the formation there ofi an influ ntiaf body of capitalists . to promote the Jonz-( ifHired ^ object of Transatlantic coranmnicution'be . f * ee » Galway and Hulilax , and the . subscription of , in . less a sum-than £ 50 , 000 as the first step towards the attainment of that Hid , Arrangemcnte , itieemt hiivfi already been . entercd into , nnd orders absolutely civeii t ( . th .-, ^ vo most eiB inent . EngmeerW- tirms in Ltiglmid for . . the construction ofwoneamers of power andep « ed nopenflr to anythinghitherto known on the Atlantio , to run . the .. ' « fe rry " between the Insh and . Aaicncaii . ports , , The Messvs . Millar ,. of ^ . ackw-Hli . and AitSSrs ; Jo . hn Penuar . d Son , of Green , wicb . are the person enpged . to build the ve 3 ' A . profl .. MM for the i «« kt sA- ^\ aaw wW shor h mSri ^ " ^ : 8 UCh ' ™ f f : !«^ , command fi Alkthew Go ' lgan , of Spriiwfiuld ! in the Queen ' s County , a man , comfortable circumstances , bus

      been committed for trial at the ensuing assizes on a charge of attempting to poison hi * wife . The body of iiis iufant child , wbich died six weeks since , hus been exhumed for the purpose of having the stomach aualysccl ; some auspicton , it would appear , esis ing that its death whs produced by poison . Charles Brown , late quaiier-maitef- ^ ergeant of the 32 nd regiment , sh' » t himsilfthrough the he » d in Limerick on the 10 th inst . Nu cause tor the act has been assigned . A boy , a « ed twelve years , the son of a Mr . Henry , the coroner at Keady , in 1 be county of Armagh , fired in joke at a young man with whom he was playing , on the 6 th inst ., and killed him on the spot . ANNlVKRSiRY OF THE BllVSE . —TUtt celeWation of the 12 'h of July in the . north hat passed over without the slightest interruption of public peace .

      Tenant Lbaguk Meeting . —The Aggregate lenant Right meeting at the Boyne on Mondaj appears ro have met all the wishes of its promoters . The weather was not very propitious for an out-door demonstration , the rain having fallen heavily in the early part of the day , but a considerable mass of people nevertheless , congregaied , and everything seems to havepassed off satisfactorily . The . raeeMiig was held on an eminence overlooking the river , and within a short distance of the obelisk commemorating the famous victory of William III . A large banner displaying the colours of orange , green , and blue , was unfurled , and the Protestants aj ' d C 11-tholicg who were assembled y \ w& vtry cordially in their cheera for the common object they had in view . The meeting was presided over by the Very Reverend Archdeacon Fitzgerald .

      The Loud Mayor . —After a warm and protracted discussion on Monday the corporation rescinded its recent vote , raising the salary of the present , and all future Lord Mayors , fr .. m £ 1 000 to £ 2 , 500 a year . However , the Assembly decided upon fixing the salary at £ 2 , 000 . Thb Irish Exubs . — Escape or Mr M'Maxus . —The news of the escape from Van Diemen ' s Land of M'Manus , one of the Irish political convicts , has just been communicated here in a letter from John . vlitchelto Dr . Gray , the editor ofthe Freeman ' s Journal . As the writer of the letter supposes the circumstance to be known in detail through the medium ' of newspapers , which , however , have not been received , he only mentions it in the fulli . wing postcript : — " P . S . 1 bethink me that I . ought to tell you 1

      bow it fell out that MManus found himself at liberty to make his escape . Of course , whfn the governor took him into custody , and revoked hig " ticket of leave , " his parole wa * at an end , and it would re quire a new ticket of leave and new promise to revive it . In O'Doherty ' s case ,. after his month ' s hard labour , his ticket of leave wa 3 restored , and a new parole required of him . Not so M'Manus : he was not aet at liberty again by the governor , but in spite of .. the governor , by the intervention of another power , the " Supreme Court . " And , far from giving him back his " comparative liberty , " or . taking a new parole , the governor sent him orders at once to report himself at a " hiring depot . " Buf- it was too late—M'Manus had a clear day of lv >" , and good-friends , ; a ship was ready to sail , arid so he went off . —J . M . "

      Captain Wxnne against Lord TVestmbatit . — The tedious case of Captain TYynne against tho Marquis of Westmeath terminated-on Tuesday , aft « -r a trial of eight days , in the discharge of tho'jury without agreeing to . a verdict . This is the third trial that- has been had . in this case , and each occupied the court for eight days . In the first tbe jury , as at present , disagreed ; in the second , a verdict was given for the plaintiff with £ 2 , 000 damages ; and after tbe close of the proceedings on Tuesday is was rumoured in the . hall that the

      uriors were unanimous as to finding for the plaintiff , but disagreed as to ' the amount of damages , eleven being for £ 500 , and one for a farthing . The plaintiff , it will be recollected , was the late inspector , of the Carriek-on-Shannon Poor-law Union , and sought to recover damages from the defendant for the publication of libellous matter charging the plaintiff with immoral conduct in the discharge of his public duties . The details of tlie case were of such a nature that they have been excluded from all the Dublin newspapers .

      . Representation of Limerick . —The Roman Catholic electors of Limerick have signed a requisition to the Earl of Arundel , inviting him to stand for their borough . A meeting has been held for the purpose , and Mr . John O'Connell has recommended his . constituents , in tbe strongest' manner to solect Lord , Arundel as their representative . . Fevbb . —The Cork Exmiinerhna the following statement : — " We regret to learn that fever has broken out amongst the crews of the Retribution and Sidon , war steamers , recently arrived at Queenstown , for the purpose of . shipping troops to the Cape . Both vessels- now lie at anchor at the Queenstown utation . The Odin , screw steam-frigate , has arrived in place ofthe Sidon . " Vagrants . —The Inspector-General of Constabulary has issued an official notice to the police calling upon them to . use active . exertions for the suppression of vagrancy .

      Loss , or Lire from AceuraHTAi Poisonino . —A deplorable loss of life , arising from partaking of poison mixed in bread made for the purpose of killing rats , took place on Tuesday at Limerick , the victim being a respectable man of the name of Lambert , who hid been for many years a sergeant in the city militia , and who , up to the period of his death , was on the etaff of the regiment . It appears that his son wanted a gun to shoot crows or gulls , and his daughter , who had the key of the cupboard up stairs , soii t the key to her father , in ordur that he should takethe gun from the place in which 'it was . On opening the cupboard Sergeant Lambert perceived the . oake , and riot suspecting that it was f

      saturated with poison , he * ate of it heartily , not having , it-appears ; partaken of breakfast in the morning . Soon . afterwards ho . experienced the usual , symptoms arising from active poison , a burning pain at tho stomach . In a few hours death put a period to his sufferings ; and it was not till a short time before he breathed his last that the cause , of death was discovered . The remnant of the cake was immediately discovered and handed over to tho physicians , who on analysing its contents found a large portion of arsenic mixed with tho flour . ^ On Wednesday the coroner held an inquest on view ofthe body of deceased , and a verdict in accordance with the facts wasgiven .

      ( Eentrai Criminal ©Ouvt.

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      6 THE NORTHEriJJ STAR . July 19 , ijsl

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 19, 1851, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1635/page/6/