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      Threatened Prosecution op Sharman Crawford for Libel . —The Belfast Whig has the following announcement : — We understand that proceedings have heen taken by the landlords of the County Down to bring an action for libel against Mr . Crawford tor certain comments on their conduct , which appeared in his recent letter respecting the Down election . In saying " an action for libel , " we make a mistake - we should

      rather have said twenty-live separate and distinct actions , a pretty large host for one unaided man to meet . But the distinguished defendant is by no means alarmed . It is stated that steps have been taken to secure the services of the ablest Irish counsel on his behalf ; and it is confidently believed that such an expose will be made on the trial ( should a trial ever come off ) as will astonish her Majesty ' s liege subjects . The Six Mile Bridge Tragedy . —A correspondent of the

      f reeman , writing from Ennis , on Saturday afternoon , gives the subjoined account of the committal of Mr . Delmege . and of the opular feeling manifested on the occasion :--John C . Delmege , Esq ., J . P ., against whom a verdict of wilful murder was found by the coroner ' s jury at Six mile-bridge , on Wednesday last , has this moment arrived , under a strong escort of the 3 rd Dragoon Guards , and been lodged in the county gaol . Though the announcement of his expected coming had been made but half an hour previously , immense crowds assembled to get a glance at one against whom so much of popular feeling has been

      aroused , and whose name , whatever be the final issue of the proceedings instituted , will remain for ever linked with the deplorable tragedy of the 22 nd of July . Old and young—men , women , and children—were to be seen rushing with head-long impetuosity in the direction of the prison , and some more anxious than others to behold a justice of the peace a prisoner under a charge of wilful murder on poor and helpless peasantry proceeded a considerable distance on the Clare road to await his arrival . On approaching Ennis , the walls at either side of the road were crowded ; the outer walls and gates of the

      prison , as well as all the approaches thereto , were completely filled and blocked up , and as the cortege passed the groaning and hooting were loud and continuous . Mr . Delinsge , with the police officer in charge , was in a covered car , and on emerging therefrom in the outer yard the groaning was renewed with increased vigour , and mixed up with such epithets as " a speedy uprise to you from the ground to the gallows *'— "high hanging to the Six mile-bridge murderer , " &e . Mr . Delmege , who looked very pale and downcast , was then received by the officer of the prison ; and the crowds separated with marked manifestations of joy at the event they had just witnessed .

      Suicide by a Military Officer .- —An inquest was held on Monday at Kingstown on the body of Captain Edward Pratt , 99 th Segiment who committed * suicide under peculiar circumstances . It would appear that the deceased proceeded about 6 o ' clock on Monday morning to the western pier of Kingstown . Harbour , and , having partly undressed himself , succeeded in fastening his head and feet together by means of a piece of strong cord , in which he made a noose . In that

      position he threw himself into the water , when it was impossible for him to make the slightest struggle , and it was the opinion of those who saw the body that he must have been partially strangled as well as drowned . Yerdict " Tern porary insanity . " Another of those shot by the military at Six mile-bridge , a man named Malony has died , and a new inquest has begun .

      The inquest on the woman shot by Mr . Bible in one of the election rows at Cork , and which has been proceeding for some eight or ten days past , has terminated by the jury returning a verdict of " Manslaughter" against Mr . Henry Bibie and a policeman named Campbell , who was aiding him in the defence of the house .

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      < 5 > METKOPOLITAN POLICE .

      ( From the Edhiburg Bevieio ) . A policeman ' s evidence generally begins thus , " From information I received , " and the very essence of the system lies hid under these words ; the mode by which this information was procured being kept secret with niiich care . Almost all such information is obtained from the criminal population , and we must explain how it happens that criminals are willing to assist their natural foes , the policemen , in accomplishing the destruction of their own colleagues . That "there is honour among thieves" is one of the falsest of all false proverbs .

      Thieves , living in habitual violation of the rights of others , are necessarily of all persons least swayed by consideration of what is due to their neighbours , and of all classes of men they form the single exception of having no community of interest among themselves : in fact they are quite as read ) ' to snatch plunder from thieves as from honest men . They live , therefore , in a state of constant hatred , jealousy , and fear of each other . In general also they lead a life of excitement , gambling , drinking , and vacious indulgence : their daily life is that of a gambler staking his liberty in every successive act : they are almost

      invariably living with female associates , the partners of their profligacy , generally their accomplices in crime , almost always the victims of their brutality ; for from the habitual indulgence of their evil passions , they have no idea of self-control , and are capricious , irritable , quarrelsome , and revengeful . Hence from jealousy or anger these women are perpetually tempted to turn apon their tyrants , and , by a hint to a policeman , secure a certain , secret , and sweet revenge . But this course is full of danger , for the vengeance wreaked against an informer is

      occasionally of a character truly awful . However desirous she may be to give information , she dare not do it indiscriminately . She must have sufficient knowledge of the police officer to satisfy ier that he will not betray her , nor even by a clumsy mode of proceeding throw suspicion upon her ; if a reward is stipulated , she must feel confidence that she will not be cheated of it—in short , if there is no honour among thieves , there must be . among policemen , or the sources of their information would be dried up .

      Another motive which weighs strongly with criminals is the liope of propitiating the police officer . The habitual state of mind towards the police of those who live by crime is not so £ -iteh dislike , as unmitigated , slavish terror . From childhood ^ "JE te thief has felt that the policeman is his foe , against whom he fpaimot contend , from whom he cannot escape but by flight , and 3 ^ whoni be must ultimately be overcome . This feeling being •^ constantly excited , grows stronger and stronger ; being shared ¦ ritedl his associates , it reacts on his mind through theirs , until : f i £ 5 ecomes an instinct which he cannot control . Conscious of a if thousand offences , he feels safe only so long as he is unknown . £ W ; jki this defence is gone , a ruffian will drop his usual tone of

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      i bullying audacity , and follow every look of the police officer , like a beaten hound creeping to lick his master ' s feet . We see in higher grades of life the servile running after the powerful , and doing dirty work , not for any definite reward , but from a vague hope of favour , and we cannot wonder if thieves imitate their betters , though they get as little by it . They also take a professional view of the policeman ' s duty , knowing that in pursuing them he is only acting in his vocation . The relations between a policemon and the . Tegular London thief who follows his business as a profession , are very like , i

      those between the soldiers of regular armies—there is no personal animosity ; the thief expects he is not to be worried for nothing , that the policeman , for instance , is not to step out of his way to get him imprisoned for a month instead of fourteen days—as one sentinel does not expect to be shot by another , an event , which howeve r disagreeable to Mm , cannot influence the result of the campaign . But when anything serious has oe curred , and the thief has been fairly hunted down , he bears no malice ; the battle has been fought and lost , he yields to his fate , and his anger is not directed against the policeman , but towards some accomplice whose treachery he suspects .

      A ^ skilful police-officer therefore regulates his conduct according to the feelings of the class with whom he has to deal . His first object is to know them by sight—their names , haunts , connexions , and associates ; he is inviolably secret as to any information given him , and will take as much trouble to shelter an informer as to lay hold of a delinquent ; persons have even been arrested and apparently pursued with determined perseverance merely to blind their associates . He

      presumes to an incredible extent upon the known cowardice of the thieves ; he will not associate with them , for that would lower his ascendancy over thorn , besides exposing him to the risk of losing his own situation , but he never permits himself to treat them with contempt or incivility ; for their irritable , uncontrollable tempers would resent this , arid lead them in retaliation to conceal anything he might wish to learn . From one or other of these motives—jealousy , revenge , the desire to propitiate the policeman , and more than all , the hope of reward —almost any amount of information may be obtained ,

      provided only that the right man applies in the right quarter . It might bo supposed that a thief , knowing that any one of his companions would betray him for ten pounds , would endeavour to conceal his movements even from them . But again , the necessary conditions of a criminal life make this impossible . A thief has no home ; solitude is unendurable ; he cannot , if he would , associate with honest people ; so that it is a necessity with him to frequent those places where such as himself are permitted to assemble . He knows that in those houses the policeman expects to find him , but even that risk will nob keep

      him away . The public-house is his place of amusement , and also his place of business ; for here he meets his associates , gains information , and arranges schemes of plunder . Living thus as it were in public , and amidst persons whose whole conversation is on their daily business , everything connected with him is perfectly well known to the peculiar circles in which he moves . There is another curious characteristic of this community . They divide themselves into classes according to the particular

      branch of crime which they practice . The burger never picks pockets , nor associates with the pick-pocket ; the thimble-rigger is equally separate from the bludgeon-man ; and in a great degree they frequent different houses . This system is of infinite advantage to the police ; for when a crime has been committed , the detectives of each division , instead of making their inquiries at random in all directions , know precisely in what class , and sometimes in what house to look for the offenders .

      We would farther remark that frequently when a crime has been committed , it is found impossible to identify the parties ; in these cases the exertions of the police , however successful in detecting and apprehending the criminals , come to nothing in the end , because no conviction can take place ; there is a failure in justice , though none in the police system . The case of Mr . Cureton , which occurred the year before last , is an example of this , as well as of the real danger which actually exists , and which

      nothing but the constant guard of an effectual police system prevents from breaking out into frightful magnitude . Three men in a booad day -light knocked at the door of his lodgings , in Aldersgate-street , in the City of London ; it was opened by the landlady , and they went up stairs to his room . One of them asked him for a particular coin , and on his turning round to look for it in his cabinet , he was stunned by a blow on the head with a life-preserver , and , to prevent an alarm being given , the flexible handle of the murderous instrument was twisted round his neck .

      The robbers then ransacked-the drawers , and in a few minutes left the house- It is probable that in less than half an hour the coins were passed to a receiver of stolen goods , and melted down in a crucible . When Mr . Cureton was restored to his senses , all remembrances of the appearance of the men had passed from his mind , and the landlady ' s memory was equally treacherous . In these circumstances a conviction was impossible , because the stolen property had assumed a cifferent form , and there was no

      one able to recognise the offenders . In fact , if the police had brought the three men into court with the melted gold in their hands they must necessarily have been discharged . Something of this sort did indeed occur ; for one of the real offenders ( at least the polic e who followed up the slight clue with extraordinary care , had little doubt that he was one of them ) , was arrested , but the case did not admit of proof and he was set at liberty by the magistrate .

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      ^ The New Free Library at Manchester . —The people of Manchester have subscribed about 12 , 000 / ., wherewith they have purchased a good substantial building , and filled it with two libraries—one a library of reference , containing 16 , 000 volumes ; and the other a free lending library of 5 , 000 volumes . The greater part of the money was subscribed by the rich , but the interest of the working classes was manifested by 800 Z . of the amount being raised by them , in small subscriptions , nearly 20 , 000 in number . This library has been presented to the town-council , but , in order to enable this corporate body to act as trustees , it has been necessary to put in force the Public

      Libraries Act of 1850 , entitled " An Act for enabling Town-Councils to establish Public Libraries and Museums , " and yesterday was the day appointed for an appeal to the burgesses under that act , to sanction its application to Manchester . It sanctions the levying of a rate not exceeding one halfpenny in the pound , and this will raise an ample fund for defraying the expenses of keeping librarians , &c . The burgesses exhibited much interest in the affair , and at the close of the poll , at 4 o ' clock , 3 , 962 burgesses had personally recorded their votes in faxour of thus taxing themselves , while the number opposing was only 40 .

      " I have lost my appetite , " said a gigantic Irish gentleman and an eminent performer on the trencher , to Mark Supple . " I hope , ' said Supple , " no poor man has found it , for it would ruin him in a week . "

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      Dreadful Accidents . —On Wednesday week , James Hml the once celebrated runner , met with a frightful accident \\ Hazzle Hirst stone quarry , near Halifax . He was workhol the capacity of a barer , and had stopped to change barrows n one of the huge pillars which supports the 8 c&oldin ° 2 which they have to wheel . As he was proceeding to retuS with the empty barrow , it accidentally hooked on to the full n . v whicn he had just set down , which gave him a sudden cW and there being only just room to pass , he wa s precipitated into the bottom , a distance of over 20 feet , on a bed of We si 5 Z angular stones . The whole of his ribs on the left side S stove in , and his hip and collar-bones were broken ' He In apparently dead for some time . On consciousness beni * „; stored he was conveyed to the Infirmany where he lingered until the Monday following and then died . ° tl ! Almost simultaneously with the above accident there occurred another at a neighbouring quarry , situated about a quarter of , SnTtal 6 HaZZlC Hil < St ) WhCT 6 by tW ° ua A ££ d

      Shocking and Fatal Accident at Messrs . Crosslin ' s Mitt Halipax . ^ 011 Monday last , as a young man was dohi * «>« £ glazing work on the top of Messrs . Cimslev ' s carpetfac orv h accidentall y fell through into the factorv , and nhsd e en was caught in the huge cogs-wheel * connected with the s n ing , and torn to nieces , bisbmf . An * + h w ., o + ! , „ ' mg , and torn to pieces . Instant death the

      was consequent His remains were gathered into a sheet and carried away home Melancholy Accii > BMT .-About eighteen months a < rt a decn qnarry hole was excavated in the 1 > ed of the Kelvh 5 CrreenocK , a little below the bridge on the Great WestarnXfcnd Alter the stones were taken out the hole was left open and the stank being removed from around it , the water flWid ? » and , exce pt to those who know it , the treacherous depth £ mams unseen and unprotected . About 16 month * ftW tLoWw

      fjJT ™\ TY downed in it ; and last Saturday , in interesting httle boy , aged 5 years , the son of Mr . Lyle , the sa tfiiS fir * * wadins * ^ The Late Accident near Shrewsbury . —! he adjourned inquest was resumed and concluded on Wednesday , when the Rowing unmeaning verdict was returned :- " We are unanimously of opinion that the death of John Thomas Beddhurton was caused in conse quence of the ashpan having heen severed irom the engine , hut the cause of such severance is not in evidence before the jury , "

      Gux Accident . —On Knnr ? n . v mm-ninn- in ^ nu t ^ tu -n , 7 ' AcciDEXT . —On Sunday moraine , last , Charles Attewell a laoouver in the employment of Mr . William Shaw , former , of JNewbmy , Berks , was walking through the fields with a loaded gun , when he incautiously used it in endeavouring to obtain some nuts irom one of the hedges . The trigger having become entangled m the branches , the gun exploded , and the charge was lodged m the poor fellow ' s arm . Although greatly enteemed by the excessive hemorrhage he succeeded in reaching nis home , when he immediately received medical assistance wtucn was , however , unavailing , and he expired within an iiour 1 he deceased was 23 years of age , and has left a wife and two children .

      Iutal Railway Accident . —When the express train which leit this on Saturday morning 8 . 45 had reached Carnegie-park about a mile above Port Glasgow , the driver observed a man who was accompanied by a little girl open a gate on the level crossing with the view of passing irom the public road on one side ot the line to a garden on the other . The girl at once ran across ; but the man stood looking for a moment at the commatram as it hesitating whether he too should cross . The driver

      put his hand on the whistle and sounded a warning ; suddenly the man resolved to make the attempt , and had all but succeeded m ins venture ( having cleared the engine save a single inch ) when the extreme edge of the buffer struck him and dashed him oft the line . Iho whole was the work of a little more than an instant , during which it was impossible to stay in the slightest degree the progress of the train , although the engine was at

      once reversed . Seeing the accident , the train was stopped , and the servants of the company and a medical gentleman , Dr . Hat . trick , ot Wasgow , proceeded to where the man lay , when it was found that the blow had killed him . The only mark of injury visible on his person was a cut on the brow . * The deceased was an old pensioner , named John Robertson , a huxter or fruit dealer in Port Glasgow .

      The Accident on board the XUvensbotjrke . —John Castle . the seaman who had his arm blown off on board the Eavensbourne steamer , whilst she was saluting the Queen at Antwerp , has been taken to the Portsmouth Hospital . The Queen has sent £ 25 for him , and H . M . steamer Retribution ' s crew have subscribed £ 6 . A seaman of the Retribution , on board which vessel Castle was sent , in unloading the foremost guns , in order that Castle might not be disturbed , also had one of his arms blown off . Boiler Explosion at Bum-LEY . -On Friday afternoon , about I o clock , as , the workpeople of Messrs . G . Holgate , cottonspinners , were returning from dinner , one of the flues of a boiler

      expioaec witn a loud report , driving steam , lime , and brickwork among the people passing through the yard , and badly scalding not less than eleven of them , of whom it was reported on Saturday not less than four had since died . The accident arose from the collapse of a flue about eight or nine feet from the front of the fireplace .

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      DISASTROU S RAILWAY ACCIDENT—SUICIDE OF THE POINTSMAN .

      We regret to state that a shoking accident occurred on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , on Monday night , neat Bolton , by which about fifteen persons were injured . The train to winch the accident occurred was the one leaving Liverpool , wo Bolton , to Manchester , at 6 . 57 in the evening ^ d due at Bolton at 8 . 45 p . m . This train , however , had lost time so c onsiderably as to be nearl y an hour late . When it arrived within a mile ot Bolton , the station and all the intermediate distance were blocked up with trains which had arrived before it . These

      trains probabl y numbered upwards of 150 carriages , and stretched over nearl y a mile of the line , to a place called Bullneld , where a pointsman is placed , having charge of two signals upon a high post in the form of discs . The pointsman ' s cabin is close to his points , but the signals are 250 yards beyond ( or iurther from Bolton ) , and are worked by means of a lever and a wire about six yards from the cabin . Beyond this cabin the line of trams stretched about 125 yards , or half way to the signal . The si gnal would have been seen for upwards of a mile in the Liverpool and Preston direction , had it been lighted , W it appears that the day ' s duty of the pointsman ordinarily en ds

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 28, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1693/page/4/