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      daring t ^ bsence , and th ^ t all the drawers and bp ^ es in his bedroom ba d been / oxced open and completely- ransacked of the most yalS portion of their contents , comprising nearly the whole of hj sUS A pparel , together with numerous . gold rin s , pins , and other artS of jewellery and personal ornament . He immediatel y gave inform ^ tion of the ungrateful robbery to . the police , and the prisoner was shor tly after traced and taken into custod y .-He was fully committed for trial . | lmiT ^ hsence . thatfl »« ^ wi ^ ZK ^^^

      LAMBETH . Child-murder . —Mercy Steer , a young woman seventeen veaix of age , and evidently abourmg under severe indisposition , was fought in the custody of Mr . May , the superintendent of the Pet worth division of police for the county of Sussex , and placed before Mr , EHip ^ t charged with the murdqr of a female child of which she had been delivered , and with its subsequent mutilation . To complete the depositions it was found to be neeessTu-y to have the evidence of Mr . Flower , the police-surgeon , who had examined the body andfor that purpose the prisoner \ yas remanded to a future day .

      SOUTHWARK . Hpu sE ^ EA ^ q . —John Flower , a well-dressed man , was charged With breaking rata the house of Mr . Joshua Hains , a tradesman residing m Thopton-street , Horsleydown .-The prisoner , who declined say ing any thing m answer to . the charge , was committed to the Central Criminal Court . . ' "• ¦• Street Robbery .-Ann Smith was charged with stealing a sovereign and two halt-crowns from a man in the publiq streets the pr osecutor said , on Saturday night he was proceeding home with his wages , consisting of a sovereign and two half-crowns in a leather bae and that was deposited in his trousers pocket . While passing up Wmchester , street , Soulhwark , the prisoner accosted himand asked

      , him totreat her . . lie put his hand in his jacket pocket , and gave her all the coppers he had , when she suddenly put her hand into his tronser ? pocket , aa ^ stole his money , and he saw lier throw the ha * on the pavement . He immediatel y seized hold of her , and demanded his money , when she put something in her mouth ,-which he knew was his money from the sound and glittering appearance . He struegledvery hard with her to prevent her getting way . A policeman coining up secured her . —In defence , the prisoner said the prosecutor acted improperly with her , and gave her a few coppers As for the other money found on her , it was her own , having been given to her by a freud to purchase some clothing . Mr . A'Beckett committed her for trial .

      THAMES . The Fraud on the Earl of Zetland— The notorious beggingletter impostor , Thomas Thompson , alias Spaw , alias Hailes , alias Scott , with many other , aliases , who has imposed on so many benevolen t noblemen and gentlemew in the course of the last ten years was brought up on remand before Mr . Yardley , on charge of attempt ing to obtam money , by false pretences , from the Earl of Zetland . —Mr . Yardley commented with great force and effect on the

      incalculable mischief such impostors as the prisoner were lively , to effect . He was surprised that anyone should be so shallow-brained ' as to be imposed upon by such letters , but the feelings of some persons were so acute that they believed in the possibility of anything . The prisoner was one of the worst class of impostors , for he imposed on the best feelings of our nature . It was impossible to trace all the mischief done by such persons . He sentenced the prisoner , as a rogue and a vagabond , to three months' imprisonment and hard labour .

      Garotte Robbery . —Mary . Ann Kirwan and Mary Wernham were charged with aiding two men not in custody in committing a garotte robbery . —Captain East , apowerful man , stated that he was passing along the Minories , on the way to his ship , at a late hour on Monday night , and was accosted by the prisoners , who entered into conversation with him , and he walked a short distance with them on to Tower-hill , where they were accosted ' by two men , one of whom struck him a violent blow with his fist , and the other , at the same

      moment , seized him by the neck , compressed it tightly with his hands so as to nearly produce suffocation , and flung him right over on his back . He struggled hard to get away , but the fellow held him down by the neck , while the other villain was ' kicking his hat along . The woman Kirwan made a snatch at his watch directly lie was held down , detatched it from the guard , and ran away with it . By a powerful effort he released himself from the grasp of the ruffian , ihrew him eff , and called out ^ Police' * as loud as he was able . The

      two women ran away and he pursued them , and overtook them twenty or thirty yards from the . spot where he was attached , and gave them into custody . The watch was afterwards found in the mud . Witness was quite sober . —The evidence being confirmed , the prisoners were committed for trial . Murderous Assault . —James Cunningham , an Irish labourer , aged forty-three , was brought up on . remand before Mr . Yardley , charged ¦* nth assaulting and grounding several persons .- —John Sanders , police constable , So , " J 29 f £ K , said , I was about half a mile from Alfred-street on Saturday night , on horseback , and I heard the people calling out . ^ Police ! ' * and " , Murder ! V I rode as hard as I could to the street , and when'I reached it I saw a large mob

      assembled , and among them were several men "who complained of being hurt . One man ' s face was all over blood , streaming from a 'wound in his head ; another lay on the ground bleeding and wounded , and a third , who was bleeding , was supported by two m en . I also saw a woman , whose arm was hurt , and she was bleeding . The mob collected round the prisoners door , and some of them said , ' * Take care , there are two men with pokers inside . " That was said after the door was opened . I entered with my sabre drawn , but did not strike any one with it , and brought the prisoner out . A man , who was hurt very much , and appeared to have been knocked down , "was called upon to identify the prisoner , and he said he was the man "who struck him with a , poker and knocked him about . —The prisoner "Was committed for trial .

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      The Australian Screw Steamer Melbourne . —The Australian Kail packet Melbourne left London for Plymouth the latter end of September . She experienced considerable damage and delay in going down the Channel , and could not start from Plymouth with the mails at the proper time . After she had been repaired , and was leaving Plymouth to proceed on her route , she met again with some damage in that harbour , which caused some further delay . At length she finally left Plymouth on the 16 th of October , but she had not been two days at sea before she became dismasted and leaky , and her screw oecame entangled . For two days she "was scarcely manageable , and

      was knocking about at the mercy of the waves . She had about 180 passengers on board , and their accommodation now became execrable . At length the Melbourne scrambled into Lisbon , where her passengers and cargo were landed . -It is not expected that she will ever be fit to proceed on so long a voyage as that to Australia . The Melbourne was a Queen ' s ship called the Glasgow , and was purchased of the government by the Australian Company . It would appear that the Glasgow was never a first-rate ship . The government inspection of the Melbourne must have been very loosely performed previous io her departure with the mails , as she became leaky in almost smooth water , and when she became dismasted the weather was not very tempestuous . International Telegraph . —Direct telegraph communication is a established between London and Paris .

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      S ^^ rr ^^ m ^^ wJV ¦* reSldence of the Lotd Gha > " = * r , in orte to Sve Ms EStaffi" ° ^ Wintment - ' A . «^ S oc-JS 7 f ? f- ' ***" . * e sergent , who was cher the S ; i , e ?? ' IeSldenceinJerse y- M - Schoel-^^^ r ^^^ l ^^ : ^ * im ^^^ mz ^ a ^

      sided for neai-ly thirty years , has jult died . She Vas the parent to the ScSK £ g o ^ r « ° * *¦* £ * £ S SKffSPSSf ° " *? £ " •? " » *» ' 4 * e to the gdl S ^ ir f ir * t 7 ? f fanu ips W » unprotected state . The

      The ^ fc . S-J ^^ S ^ rSls soon as Dodyot the London University , purpose to renew their most stremurti tSS ^^ X ^ ^ **^«* « * ^ gtS powSX ° r ^ **** , * thepasseL « « by , attSS &fe ? ^* ? * h PMng soldieryand

      a ^ JST W ^ ^ .. F " , £ e g finally to be closed on le ^ g ^ ST 2 . were for the mast part young and active , looking men , and they came forward quite as numerously , as their officers expected they , would . New Burial-ground for MARYLEBONE .-On Saturday at the Mof ttieMaryleb pne vestry , a notice of motion : ^ il ^ ^ ! T - ^ ^ / ? ? 5 ^ try on the 10 th of November , Cotton Field ca S

      ^ ew - iN South Ameri - oi ™ samples of cotton have been exhibited this week on the Manchester Exchange , of a very good and useful quality , from the River . Plate . Five bales of it had been transmitted from Buenos Ayres to a Liverpool house , with advices to the eifect that it was a . sample 0 | cotton growing wild on the west ban ) : of the Parana , in the district pf Tucumana . It is said that any quantity may be had forgathering , the thinly scattered natives , irom indolence and ignoran . ee of its value , allowing it to rot on the ground every year . ° .,.. -... ; The Crystal Palace op I 851 .-The plougWan is busy at work m : Hyde Park , where the palace stood , preparing the ground ? for grass seed , which will be sown in a few days . Except some pillars of granite and lumps of coal , upon which the ominous word " Lot" may be seen nothing . remains of the structure or its contents . '

      Funeral op the late Yin < jent Dowling , Esq . —The remains of this gentleman , who for a great number of years edited " Bell ' s Life m . London , ' with-great ability , and integrity , were interred in Brompton Cemetery on Saturday . r _ Mr . Macaulay , M . P ., at Edinburgh ^ -Edinburgh , Not . 2 — Mr . Macaulay addressed here to-day about 2 , 500 persons . He keenly criticised the inconsistencies of the present ministry , and recommenced the people to insist on a strict maintenance of free-trade principles He advocated a liberal enlargement of the franchise , and hoped ere long to see a liberal government in power again . He stated , however , that he would not himself again take office . - ' .

      Launch of the Screw Steamer , BENGAL . —There was launched on Saturday afternoon , from the building-yard of Messrs . Tod and Macgregor , the largest iron steamer ever constructed by the hands of of Glasgow engineers . She is named the Bengal , and is intended to augment the steam fleet of the Peninsular and Oriental Company in t | ie Indian seas . This magnificent ship is 10 feet longer than the Great Britain , but , having less depth and breach of b ^ am , she has not , of course , the same amount of tonnage as the latter . The Militia in Flintshire . —There is " little likelihood of the

      requisite number of militia-men being obtained in this county without recourse being had to the ballot . The Dissenting ministers , whose influence over their flocks in North " Wales is almost unbounded , have been for some time engaged in-dissuading their hearers from volunteering to serve .. The Peace Society has also striven with great energy for the same object , and placards have been issued in great numbers drawing attention to the fact that corporal punishment will be retained even in the niilitia . Sii Stephen Giynne , Lord Lieutenant of the county , has intimated hisintention of having recourse , if necessary , to the ballot , and that in such case all bounty will be withheld from those on whom the lot falls .

      The Drainage op LAMBETH . —On Tuesday a deputation , consisting of Mr . W . Williams , M . P ., Mr . Murrough , M . P ., Messrs . Taylor and Sewell , churchwardens , Mr : Denver , overseer , and the surveyors of highways in the borough of Lambeth , waited upon Mr . Walpole , the Home Secretary , to represent to him the great deficiency of drainage in the borough , and the fact that though they had paid heavy sewer rates , these were not applied to improve the sanitary condition of that part of the metropolis . Mr . Walpole expressed his readiness to back up a memorial to the Commissioners of Sewers embodying the wishes of the inhabitants of Lambeth .

      Austria and the German Press . —The chronic anxiety of the Austrian government to extend its power through postal , customs , and similar administrative unions over the whole of Germany , is well known . A case has just transpired in which Austria takes upon herself to decide what newspapers Bavarians may read . The . Nuremberg Correspondent of the 27 th ult . says : — " Instead of yesterday receiving our number of the " Bisorgimento" of Turin we received the following notification from our agent at Augsburg : —' The Eisorgimento de Turino is prohibited in all the Austrian states , so that it can no longer be sent to you . ' Thus , by the , prohibition . of a journal for Austria , the other states , even those of the Anglo-German postal union , cannot receive the said journal , and have no other alternative than of getting it by some circuitous route . '

      Journalism in Hesse . —Electoral Hesse , is a model of the state of restored Germany . On the 20 th ult . the troops in and about Cassel were to execute certain manoeuvres at which the Elector and his staff were to be present . An officer named Schirmer holds the post of censor of the newspaper press in addition to his military appointments . Qn the day above-mentioned Schirmer had no time to revise the journals before going to the review . The post-office was in a difficulty , and , not knowing what to do , refrained from distributing the journals until next day . '

      The Militia . —The Eoyal North ( jlocester . Militia are making considerable progress in their training , and the last fortnight has made an astonishing change in their appearance and efficiency . They muster twice a , day on Cecily-hill , and are marched into the park , where there is ample range and scope to put them through their facings , and teach them the . ** quick march , "" &c . ¦

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      Marriage Extraordinary . —One of the most singular cases of wiiat may be termed "matrimonial goo . cl luck" that we ever heard of occurred at _ Earsdon on Sunday . A respectable old lady , named Baxter ' wnose age is 73 , was united in marriage by the Rev . H . Workman ' m the parish church , to a gentleman named Lee , whose age was equal to the lady s , —this being the ninth time that the venerable bride has vowed" to love , to honour , and to obey , " before the altar . kV + S S ? T S 1 T last lmsband cM 5 to * on leaving Church ^ SLfeSI ^^ Vf PWtB , and observed with great glee h [ had mentioned he

      % J&JI £ T \ ^ T > ^ ° that had qother . JZ ^ -r + UESTS- rhe ^ ate Mr-J- Terrett , formerly a prosperous and mdustnous cotton hosier at Tewkesbury , Glocestersliire , but who retired from basiness a quarter of a centuary go with a com ! KSlirf I ft ° rtuight ^ aSecI U ^ ^ ] his will , SSnf nf } ° * \™ t 0 public charities ' i ^ to the life ? 7 ™ r S- the P ™ P eilt y--Clmrch Pastoral Aid Society , 1 ' 2 ' ^ H j \ g on ary Society , £ 1 , 000 . ; Glocester Iirfirmavy £ 1 , 000 . ; Society for Promoting Christian Knowled ge , ^ 500 . ; Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Forei gn Parts , £ 500 . ; Deaf and Dumb Asylum Birmingham , £ 500 . ; Malta Protestant College , f S'iJn iendS ° f thG Oergy Society ' £ 500 - Medical Practice rund ± 500 .

      Duke op Wellingtons Funeral CAK .-The car of imposincr dimensions , being twenty-one feet in length by eleven in breadth , tl 5 largest size which would admit of its passage through TemiDle-bar Six massive bronze wheels will be intersected with six panels of the same metal , which , descending from the platform , will reach almost to the axles . These panels , which will each in form resemble a shield , will be richly ornamented , and have painted on them allegorical allusions to the late Duke ' s triumphs . A second platform , rknjr two feet above the first , will have its sides divided into compartment ? , upon which will be inscribed the names of the Duke ' s principal victories , and at the corners will be heraldic bronze figures . Ornamental arrangements of military weapons surmounted by the ducal coronet

      , will surround the bier , which will be nearly ten feet hiph . Above all wxll . be a canopy of rich gold tissue supported upon halberts , so arranged as not to conceal from view the coffin underneath . The weight of such a structure , all of solid bronze , and reaching altitude ot twenty feet , will not be less than eight or ten tons . To remedy the inconvenience that might arise from having to lower the coffin from its great height , the bier will be so constructed as to be removeable to a smaller carriage , upon which it will be drawn alonir a stao-e to the exact spot over the permanent resting-place . At the proper moment the coffin will sink through the bier into its last resting-place by the side of Nelson s remains .

      A very Old Woman . —A short time since a very old priest , residing in a commune in the Dordogne , having fallen ill , sent for a woman who had . been his nurse to attend on him . She caino every day to attend on herpes until his tah , and for this purpose she walked several miles . The good woman is not less than 114 years ol : age . She has witnessed the following forms of governments : —Louis AY ., Louis XVI ., the first Eepublic , with its three or four metamorphoses , Napoleon , Louis XYIII , the Hundred Days , the second Restoration , Charles X ., Louis Philippe , and the present Republic . Iscariot

      Bonaparte . —The title chosen by Louis Napoleon is triple , if not as modest , as the shamrock . Emperor of France—Kino- of Algiers—and Protector of the Holy Places . Think of the last . The Perjurer of the 2 nd of December Protector of the Holy Places ! Another miracle ! For it is not as if Judas Iscariot , cut down , became a Watcher at the Sepulchre 1—Douglas Jerrold . The Ministerial Crisis in Piedmont . —A letter from Turin of the 29 th ult . states that Count Cavour having failed to form a Ministry , the King had commissioned Count Cesar Balbo to undertake the task , who had made overtures to Generals Lamarmora and Dabormida : The latter had refused , and the Ministerial crisis still continued .

      France and Ecuador . —Count Charles de Montholon , French Charge d" Affaires to the State of Ecuador , lias arrived in England in the Magdalena with his family and suite , having been forced by a succession of insults to abandon that State , and seek redress from his own Government . A number of persons who were presented by Urbino ' s Government as adherents of General Flores took refwc at the French Legation , and the French Charge d" Affaires refused to deliver them up . Several articles accordingly appeared in the papers , accusing the Count of being a friend of General Flores , and of improperly using the boats of the French men-of-war as a means of

      correspondence between General Flores and his adherents in Guayaquil , against which publication the Count protested , and demanded satisfaction , which was not given . On the 3 d of August , after a Democratic banquet , which was given in Guayaquil , a procession was formed , including several members of the Ecuadorian Government , headed by a band of music , and , when in front of the French Legation , the music stopped , ai } d loud cries of " Muera Montholon ! " " Mucran los Franceses ! and other insulting language . The Count immediately applied for his passports , and repaired on board the frigate Penelope , and , no satisfaction being forthcoming ou the Commodore ' s demand , it was agreed between the Count and the Commodore to refer it to the French Government . ¦

      New Public Hall at Wisbeach . —There was a grand demonstration at Wisbeach on Wednesday , on the occasion of the openinpof the new Public Hall . The want of such a building as this has been long felt at Wisbeach , and a number of gentlemen accordingly combined to raise the present building by shares . It is situate " in Hill-street , and is in the Italian style , the architects bein ^ Mr . TJtting , of Wisbeach , and Mr . Pilkington , of Bourne , Lincolnshire . The building contains a large room , estimated to seat one thousand persons , a lecture-room over , with class and committee rooms , and subsidiary offices of every necessary description . Government Activity in the Mediterranean . —The Trieste

      Gazette of the 28 th ult . says : — " An English courier , who arrived here yesterday a few hours after the departure of the regular steamer , immediately engaged a special boat of the Austrian Lloyd , at a cost of 8 , 000 florins , to continue the voyage to Patras . This is the third courier who has arrived here within the last few days .

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      Ay awkward Predicament . —Some of the stories told l ) y Mr . St . John in " Village Life in Egypt ' ' recall the grim story of some French Antiquaries wh 0 > having crawled and wriirgled their way into the heart of one of the pyramids , and having set about to return , were stopped by thestoutestof their number , who crawled first , sticking fast in the passage . He could neither advance nor retreat , nor could they help him , and they finally decided that the only means oi saving the lives of the rest of the party was to cut the unfortunate man into quarters . And this they had resolved to do ; but the horrible idea , when imparted , acted so violently upon the poor fat man that he made a desperate effort and got through !

      A NEW EXHIBITION . As soon as the success of the " Wellington Campaign ' s" is exhausted , it will b < succeeded by an exhibition of the " Louis Napoleon Campaigns . " They \ ril comprise : — 1 . The Boulogne campaign , with the live eagle and the bit of raw beef stuck on the cocked hat . 2 . The Strasburgh campaign , with the real Napoleon costume . 3 . The 10 th of April cmapaign , attended with the special constables ' s staff . 4 . The Plain of Satory campaign , ivith the distribution of wine and t ; au > - ges 5 . The Boulevards campaigns will be omitted as being too terrible for am bu Exhibition of Savages . —Punch . A . False Report . — -Major Bevesford—says the Rcmld—i 3 not going t . Jamaica . " AU the better for Jamaica , says Punch ,

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 6, 1852, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1703/page/7/