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      Fiiit AcciDEAT ~ ~ K ? . Ka Jjsigsster . —An inquby into the circumstances attending the death of Ed-Trarf Jcrsrett , tie imfortnnate man Mfled on t&erail-¦ jotr mar tiro place on Thursday Bight , -took place on rnday , at six o ' clock . From the evidence of thetwo principal witnesses , the driver and stoker of a coal train , -which lef t Leicester for Ragby , about seren o'doek on Thursday night , ix appearexl-that the deceased acted as breaksman to the same train , and accompanied them on that occasion , . After pasing through the Knighton-hill Tunnel , -which is littlemore than a mile from Leicester , one of the coupling { fr * Vn * connectingihe coaltrncks broke , and fhetrain ma stopped to remedy the accident . This bavins been done , the ensine was ajrain set in motion , but

      During to ihe hnmid state of the atmosphere , and consequent dipperiness of the rails , the -wheels did not "Hte , " ana the deceased got down off the truck on Trhich he -was riding , and taking a small spade or sbo-rel -Kith Mm , crossed the line for tne purpose \> : obtain-n ^ a . little sand to throw upon the rails . "While in the act of doing this the second goods train from London tame along the down ] ine at a rapid pace , but , from tlie fog -which prevailed at the the time , it "was not observed l > v tne driver of the coal train until within . a few yards' distance . When the train hail swei > t past , the driver called out to deceased , and . i-Jtaining no answer , roinuieneei ] a search ior him . In a verv few momenl , * be -sra * di > -

      rovertnl in a . ^ pn-k-iess - -iatt- by tie road > iue , ttit ' i a frisriitful Kuanu over the rieht temple , from -wh ;; -h the brai ?; - T-rotruilfd . and other contusions about i ! uface , iif wa > immediately placed on one of the truck . * ami conveyed isic-k to Leicester , where he liiig « re « l mail tea o ' clock , and then expired . In the al > - sence of all positive knowledge , it is conjectured that , in consequence of the noise from the engine of the coal rrain , the dec-eased -was altogether unaware of the approach of the do ^ wn train , the connecting bar between the -wheels of the locomotive attached to irhich appears to have struck his head , and inflicted the -wound above described . After hearing evidence to tins-effect , the jury expressed themselves satisfied , and returned a Terdiri ot " Accidental death . "

      AaoiHKB Railttat Accidbxt . —Another accident occurred on Thursday betwixt Leicester and Rugby . Two statements have reached ns , but the one most generally credited is , that a luggage-train could not get along , in consequence of the slippery state of the rails ; that the guard or stoker got off to scatter . sand Bpon the rails , and that another train overtook them , bat vas not observed in consequence of the dense fog , and the poor fellow ' s brains srere dashed oat . These events have caused great exeitenient . Tee Fauu . Accident ox the Great Westebx RursfAT- —On Thursday morning , a dreadful and fatal accident took place on the line of the Great Western rail-way , near the station at "West Drayton , Middlesex , by -which two men , named Samuel Brooks and William Tnelcwefl . have lost their live * . It

      appears from inquiries made on the soot , that ai > ont haJfcgast eight o * el <* k six men , including the two menKflJed , vere engaged in repairing that portion of the railway westward of the "West Drayton station , nearly on the confines of Buckinghamshire , -when the sound of an approaching up-train -was heard in the distance . Tour of the men immediately got off the line altogether ; hut the two men , Brooks and Tnck-Trefl , instead of following their example , moved only from the up fine to the down line . At the time there ¦ was a « rv thick and dense fog prevailing , so that objects could not be seen beyonda very &hort distance , in consequence of which the men were not aware of the approach also of the down train , which leaves the P&ddineton terminus at eight o ' clock , until it was so ikne to ~ them that all -chance-of escape was hopeless .

      and they were instantly knocked down and passed -OTer by the train . The persons having charge of the train "were not avrare of the accident until thelr xrrival at the Slough station , when some of the raii-Tray officers observing blood on the tender of the engine , communicated the fact to the guard , when persons were immediately sent along the line , to " . ascertain the cause , who found the bodies of the two deceased lying in a frightfully mutilated state on the down line between the Slouch and West Drayton stations . Both bodies were promptly removed to a .-lv- J at the West Drayton station . It is stated that the bodies presented a most frightful spectacle , and that the watch of one of the unfortunate sufferers was driven into his body . An inquest on the bodies was held on Saturday last , when a -verdict tras returned of " Accidental death . "

      Asoteeb Fatal Accidexi os the Mtt » \ vt > Counties Ejji . wat . —Another accident , fatal in its refute to one individual , on this line of railway , occurred on Wednesday morning . The deceased , named Joseph Woodford , a married man without family , was a guard in the emplov of the Midland Counties Railway Company , and left Rugby on Wednesday morning in charge of the seven o ' clock train . On arriving at the-Syston station , some luggage , was handed up to him on the top of the carriage Tipon which he was seated , that he might arrange it in the usual manner . He gave the signal to the driver to start the train , while he was so engaged , and Mr . Withers , the superintendent , handed him a note , and the train moved off " . TTie

      deceased being still in an erect position on the top of the carriage , was observed for some distant * dovm the line , aDd was only missed on the arrival of tk » train at Sileby , by the superintendent of that station , and on a search being made he was discovered on the top of one of the carriages with Ms brains dashed out and -quite dead . Thine L- bur one biicbre bet-ween Syston and Sileby , It is iituau > d about midway , and there ean be no doabt that the aec-Ident ocramil by the deceased' s head , while he wasstill engaged on the roof of the carriage , tomins in contact with the bridee . . Near the centre of the arch > orne fur from the decea- ««> < J * s cap ha ? been discovered , reducing the mode of his death to a certainty .

      Accidxst os thx Ghix > -wich Railwat . —On Sunday night , about eight o ' clock , on the arrival of the np-train from Greenwich , an accident occurred xo an elderly m > iaan , named Ellen Donaj&oe , aged 89 , the trife of a Greenwich pensioner , which is likely to prove fatal toiler . Previous to the train arriving at the regular platform , a man in the same carriage "with her opened the door and jumped out . She , be laying that the train was at its destination , followed him . when she fell between the carriage and the stone platform . In falling she broke her right thigh , by twain : ; in contact with the steps of the carriage .

      Rm . ir . 4 T Accidxxt at Scxdeklasd- —On Saturday last a little boy named George Citywther , of Hendonterrace , near Sunderland , was killed on the Durham and Sunderland Railway , by being run over by two ¦ waggons as they were passing on the line near Hendon . It appears the little fellow was attempting to get on to one of the waggons , when he fell down , and both waggons passed over hrm ^ breaking his legs , and injuring him severely in other uarts of his body . He died shortly after £ rom exhaustion , his remains pre-Sentino aihocking spectacle . It is Tather remarkable that about a year and a half ago he escaped miraculously from being killed on the same spot by a train of waggons , at which time he was knocked down and his head laid open , and the greater part of his face much mutilated . On another occasion he narrowlv escaped browning , anil was rescued from under a ship ' s bottom when all hoi > e of his reeoverv was riven up .

      Brsi-. —Slicike . —An Inquest was held at the Back Inn , llolfwne , on ihe body of Richard Dearden , faracr , aped 4 " years , who " cut his throat on the 15 th instant . It appeared he had been in a low state of mind for several weeks . He died on Sunday la * . The jiiry returned a verdict of " Committed suicide whilst in a fit of temporary insanity . " Stockpohi . —BuriAL MAXsLArcHTXR . —On Tuesday afternoon , at five o ' clock , an inqum wa < -held ai ihe coroner s oSce , Yernon-street . before Mr . Hudson , on the Ixxly of Eliza Jones , aged between SO and 40 , whose husband , Henry Jones , is a bricklayer . It appeared , from the evidence of John Hadfield , that the husband had been drinking all day at a beer-shop and that the deceased came to Titm abont niid-dav

      endeavouring to £ et Mm home . The woman was "try 31 , and begged him ( liadfield ) to eel her hus band to go Lome . The prisoner came to the deceased , and Hadfield saw him strike her in the breast . She cried out , * Don't strike me , my love ! " and prayed several times , "Lord , save me I Lord , help me !" He said , " Are you going home / do you think J am going to have you following me up and down the town f" Sheisaid , "I can ' t go home , my love , " and lie again hit ner in the side . She changed her place to the front of a table ; and , after she had prayed once or twice more , he got hold of her head and "jowed "' [ beat ] it violently against the window bottom . The master came and separated them , and told the prisoner to go out of the house . The deceased could not walk , but went and sat down on some steps opposite . Prisoner got hold of her arm ; ie said . " Come , T . Yua , will von so i" She said . * ' I

      can t , love . He heaved her up , aDu weDt off m the direction of the town . Jane Langton deposed to seeing the prisoner strike the deceased , and kick her under the chin , after leaving the beer-shop . Ann ¦ Lewi * deposed that she saw the prisoner drasgine the deceased along the street . She sat down on the edee of the naj :. He . asked her to oet up . She did not do so ; and he took his foot , and betook a "' noi-i-ar piant" [ a running kick } and kicked her with his foot in-theieBy , very heavily . He ran back about two yank to do it . She fell back insensible by \\ w force of the kick , and I asked him how he could for shame . He said , if 1 medtDed with his wife and him . be would serve me the same . 1 did not speak mi > r «\ but I helped ht-r Lome . She never spoke afu-r tin- kick . After the prisoner had kicked the decease ] . } w dragL'ed her a- far a * tLe King ' s Arms , liavh .- Uis aands rtu ^ a her waia . He left her on th » - ii .-i " -

      Gpiiosue tiie }> ubiie-i ! GBse . He ^ s-eni off . .-: i ? : ri ;} ! T iOWer ( ACiWll l ^ e > l 3 ve L . SLe-vva ^ deatl K-i ' n .-.- sie ^ ii ; iie ? lii . iae . ' ih . f-sjri ? oner Geclined ? ayinvr : ti ; v rhiiir . ¦ '/ at trail-.- ; wits' -sscs to prove the ]» rr'v ; oi ;> " uj . ' } - ; . ^ ai na of Li- -K-lff . The jury at ont-e n-tun : * - ( i a \< roi' -i K > f nianslau ^ hier . A < ijLj * ESXi ; rxi ! Shot . —SaturJai nitriit ij-x . Mr . ^~ ' f ' . * ^ aiuekv -v- ]> er to J . S . Lescher . L > q .. i . f > vuih ^ i sdil . 2 _ =- ~ i = x , -jr ^> - vvoai 3 td by a < , au ^ biJi . i ;> an aij ^ iipi i . j ij-j-.-vbi-iid u poacher , who escaped . Mr . " rfct - iies is . a tiaDcervus state .

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      MranEB at Pasis St S ^ Toc-ino * . —The Court of Assizts of the Seine was occupied on Saturday with the trial of Etienne Chevreuil , aged 24 , a journeyman shoemaker , for having , on the 12 th of July last , murdered a woman named Celina Bronn , a ' ged 33 , by placing over her face a pitch plaster . The singularity of the means used in the committal of this crime " , and the fact of the prisoner ' s having immediately afterwards gone and delivered himself into custody , contributed to lend a certain interest to this case , it appeared from the act of accusation that the prisoner had , on the evening of the murder , come to the gnard-house of the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers , and declared that he had just killed a woman who lived with him as his wife . * He had met -with the

      deceased , he said , in the street , a month before , and proposed to her to go home and pass the night with him . She consented , and remained with him at his request for * onie da vs . He then wished to get rid of her , but siie positively refused to quit the place . Having scarcely any money to pay his rent and other expenses , and being besides in debt , they had agreed to die together by means of charcoal . They got some brandy on credit , and drank it to give thein courage , and , having stopped the key-hole and windows carefully , placed . tiie cliarvoal near , the bed , r eady to be lit whe ' i they pleased . The brandy rapidly took effect on the > en » e > of the deceased , and she was

      obliged t <« lit down on the WiL Finding that she by nuit't . the idea occurred to him to melt > omi' shoe-makers' wax , and spreading it on a piece of ra < : to plac-e it over her face . He did this , and after holdiirj : it on the woman ' s feature * for a short time , found that she w ; i ^ dead . He then thought , he said , ot lighting the charcoal , Imt lii * courage failed , and he determined to give himself up to justice . The soldiers at the sTian 3-hou 5 . e at rirst imagined that the prisoner intended some hoax , but on sonje of-them proceeding to his lodging in the Rue Aumaire , they found the woman Bronn lying dead , with the pitchmask on her face . On the trial a number of

      circumstances came out which very materially impugned the veracity of the prisoner ' s statement relative to his intention to die with the deceased . It appeared that the prisoner was always of a morose , taciturn dispostion , given up to the most degrading habits of dissipation , dissatisfied with his wages as a journeyman shoemaker ( 50 sous a day ) , and still wanting energy to better his condition . In appearance he bore all the marks of an ill-regulated life , being sallow , thin , and undergrown : He was fond of reading , but the books which he generally perused were of a lascivious character . He -was also said to be fond of poetry , and to have written some verses himself , but this fact only rests on his own assertion . The deceased was also said to have occasionallv produced

      some short pieces in verse . The quantity of wax used for the plaster was so much more consider able than a journeyman generally had by him , that inquiries were made on this point , from whicn it appeared that the prisoner had the evening preceding the murder gone out and purchased two sous' worth . This quantity , and evtn more , had been all used , which would seem to imply that the prisoner had previously formed the idea of murdering the woman . It was proved , too , thnt when he came to the guard-house he was perfectly sober , whereas , by his own acknowledgment , he had given the deceased so considerable a quantity oi brandy a > to intoxicate her . This was more easy for him to do , as the deceased was known to be fond oi

      spirituous liquors , and had been repeatedly seen in a state of intoxication during the time she was living with Chevreuil . The question of the prisoner ' s mental intelligence was raised by his counsel . A person named Oreillard , one of his most intimate acquaintance . * , swore that he was weak in intellect , and the person for whom fce worked seemed inclined to the same opinion ; but , on the other hand , tiierc > vas bronght forward a written account of the crime , and of the circumstances which led to it , drawn up by the prisoner at the guard-house on the night he delivered himself into custody . This paper , which is curious from the minuteness of its details , shows no want of intelligence . It is filled with faults of orthographv ,

      but is not devoid of occasional force of expression . After a great number of witnesses had bi-on examined , ;! .. Advocate- < ieneral addressed the Court at great length in support oT the accusation , declaring that no proof existed that anv agreement had been made between the deceased and the prisoner to die together ; but that , on the contrary , everr thinjj led to the belief that the prisoner had first intoxicated the deceased , and then murdered her , according to a pkn which he had previously determined on . The prisoner's , counsel having replied , the jury retired for half an hour , and then returned a verdict of " Guilty of murder . " The Court passed ^ ntence « f death on the prisoner , who did not manifest the slightest concern , and walked away in custody with a firm step .

      Axothxb f emale Dkowszh . —On Monday morning kst . the body of an elderly woman , the wife of James Hail , a resident in Lord-street , Oldhani . was found drowned in a lodge of water in the Intack Field ; The unfortunate woman , who was about sixty years of age , had been quarrelling on > aturday ni ^ ht last with a daughter of hers , -who bears a bad character . After this circumstance she disappeared . She was searched for in -v aiii on Sunday , and was not discovered till Monday morning . The deceased was a bread-baker , and a most industrious woman .

      Mellmhult am > Yatal AcdiiENT . —Alxiut seven o'di « ck on Tuesday morning a most frightful accident occurred at the mills of the Messrs . iiartin . adjoining Killileajh . While a man uf the namr ui John Cm-bey was artendinc the fires , liy some inadvertence his clothes \ v . > re causht by one of the l > elt > , which carried him round the drum attached to the engine . When he was taken out life was extinct . He was dreadfully mansled . The puor man liu > left a wife and > even children . LirE T ~ \ DEB EXTRAOEDLSABT AFFLICTIONS . Ml' . Hi ^ gs beld an inquest on Monday , at the workhouse , Poland-street , on the body of Richard Redding-, atrt-d twentv-two , an inmate , ^ Y ho for the last nineteen

      year * laboured under utnnu » i lock jaw j . Charlotte Clarke said that on Friday the deceased , while talking to a female in what i * termed the quarantine ward , suddenly fell down in a fit , and died in a few minute > . Mr . French , the parish surgeon , said he . arrived when the deceased was at the point of death , -and witness thought he died from the bursting ot some large blood-vessel . Jn his inianev deceased had sonic disease of the jaw , which caused the union of the two jaw bones , and in consequence of this the only way to satisfy him with food was . through an aperture made by extracting two of his teeth . This had the effect of weakening his constitution , and he was almost always in ill health . Verdict , " Died by the visitaiion of God . "

      SixGtiAB Case . —Monday afternoon Mr . Wakley held an adjourned inquest" at the Pembroke Arms Tavern , Pembroke-square , Kensington , on the body of Mary GarfielcL It appeared , on the opening of the inquiry on Friday last , that the deceased had been living for the last twelve months as cook in the service of Mr . Collett , a gentleman holding an official situation in the House ot Commons , and residing at I ^ o . 28 , Pembroke-square . During the whole time of her living there she was never known to go to bed , but she would sleep sitting in a chair in the kitchen , and her manners were in all respects most eccentric , the other servants scarcely speaking to her , j ) n account of her crossness and snappish manner of

      an-.-wering them . On the niirht of H ednesday last , about half-past eleven o ' clock . Rose Jackson , the nursemaid , after having supped with deceased , wlio during the evening appeared in her usual good state of health and spirits , took the candle off the table to go up to bed . when the deceased called her back , and asked her to leave the candle . She did so , and on comine down again into the kitchen the next morninjr , about seven o ' clock , she found the deceased in the kitchen , dressed as . she had left her on the previous night , lyins : on the flour , and quite insensible . The inquiry w : ts then adjourned for a ] t > . * t nwru ; . examination of the body to be made . This was done , and . in accordance with the medical testimony , the Jury returned a verdict of " * Natural death "

      llTDROPHOBiA . —During the last fivp or sis days the greatest alarm and excitement has existed throughout the neighbourhood of Tunikam-green and Chiswick , in consequence of a mad dog having bitten several persons and animals . It appears that on Wednesday week , the 20 th inst ,, a small Scotch t-errier dog , the property of Mr . George Battersbee , the landlord of the Prince of Wales public-house , Ttrrnham-green , which was 13 months old , and had been in his possession from a puppy , was observed to be in a very strange and excited state . Nothing was , however , thought of it , and the dog was allowed to range about during the day , and it has since been ascertained that he has bitten several dogs at Chiswic-k . Hammersmith , and Brentford , and also a donkev .

      belonging to a water earner , named Clark , at Cluswk-k . About 12 o'clock on that day ( "Wednesday ) thp dog followed home from his master ' s house a young man named Fowler , in the employ of Mr . beau , a market-gardener at Strand-on-the-Grei > n . who resides - nearly opposite the Prince of Wales , and there flew at him , and bit him severely on the thumb of the right hand . Fowler shortlv afterwards complained to Mr . Battersbee of the dog having bitten him , and laid hi- thumb open , but nothing serious was thought uf it at the time . About an hour after , however , a little l > ny , betwwn four and five years of ape . the sou of Sir . King , a tailor , livinc two * ioors from the Prince of Wales , was l > itt-eu in both kw br the jjoir . and snJjspqupntJv , on the same

      afterr . i *» n . Mr . G . B ; mers' > ee himsell , while sitting in the bar . was bitter ; by the animal in ihe middle iinsrrr tit' tli' - rjo-bt hand : a w »» man iin ? u < . d Urown . a dealer in ii-ii . living at ( 'hi- ~ . v >« -k . while passim : list- house , was hiliei : in tlir )<• £ : Mr . (' . } 5 aiters !* ot ' il . mtiicrot the la Dillon j ? , in the rii . irt fhuinb : a man imnim ] MowH . in ihi employ «» f Mr . . 1 . Clnud . liveryman , a ^ d Mr . Batt > -rsUf . sen ., in the thick p : irt of the rhisrh . Mill > : < j sK < jiIt-i"n was rutcrta / ncii that tinilo :: was hi a rr . l >}< i state nntiS ib > -e- > - » 'iii : > -jrt ) i" the > ai . ie day , when the do ^ \» ;» . s seen to bite tL < - door-pnst * : and il tHi-cniiriT k" » wn that > ¦ -vfral t « 'ino : is a-i v .-.-j ) r . s ai'inial- Y .-A ) wi-n Wrm ? \>\ linn . Mr . Haitersl « -idiivi-tctl ti :: !! ! . ' : •¦ ilojr s-li'Ulld !« ' tjf'd llji il » till- stJihlr , whit-L w : > = do ?) -. Fr >> m ih : il rirnc w > ii'l Sunda y J ; ot l \\ v <} t > ir n-fu ^ -i ; either t ' iKxl t > r < irink , K-n iVavinwi ni the uioutli . nr-i •_ "• ¦ r . ^ d th e ? tnnv on wl-j-h he was

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      placed , and even " the bricks underneath ; and on bunday he was destroyed , All the persona known to have been bitten have been placed under medical treatment , and have had the parts cauterized without any unfavourable symptoms having appeared . Numerous dogs in the neighbourhood , supposed to have been bitten , have been destroyed . Air . Buttersbee has also destroyed his cats , it being impossible to say to what extent the virus has been communicated . The voung man Fowler , owing to inflammation extending up his arm , has since become a patient at St . George ' s Hospital .

      Loxdox . —Great Robbebt at a Ba . \ ki . \ g House . —Great excitement prevailed in the City on Monday , upon the fact being made known that a robbery had taken place , during the course of the previous day , in the house of Messrs . Rogers , Oldingt and Co ., St * . Clement ' s-lane , and that property to tht amount of upwards of £ 40 , 00 U had been stolen . 1 appears that the money was deposited in the iron sale , and , as usual , a clerk was appointed to watcn over its safety during the day , and another to perform the like duty during the night . One of the partners remaining at home on Sunday , the day clerk asked permission to go out for a few hours , which

      was granted . At the accustomed hour in the evening the other clerk came , and remained during the night ; but when business was resumed on Monday , and the iron safe opened with the ordinary kev , it was found entirely empty ; and yet no force whatever had l > eeji used in the employment of the means adopted to rid the chest of its valuable contents . Of course , all is conjecture upon the subject . Notes t " tne amount of < £ 4 » , 7 )» have been stopped at tin Bank : and Forrester , the active City police officer , is engaged in endeavouring to trace the party sjuilty of this daring crime .

      ruKTHER Particulars . — This enormous robbery continues the subject of general conversation in the city ; but , as was the case on Monday , it is deemed a matter of prudence to . conceal certain particulars , the publication of which would probably militate against the apprehension of the offenders . " It has been a work of some excitement , under existing circumstances , for the clerks of Messrs . Rogers and Co . to make up the heavy list of missing notes ; but on Tuesday morning the whole were completed , and placarded extensively throughout the metropolis . The house of Rogers and Co . iasituated in Clement ' s-

      lane , rather a quiet thoroughfare , and , on Sundays especially , comparatively deserted , the houses being chiefly let out as offices , and occupied in other than business hours merely by the male or female keepers . This would so far afford * facilities for the unobserved approach of the thieves , a court running also within two doors of the bank . The house of Rogers and Co . has always been considered one of decided property , though doing a very private business ; and the head of the fira , now advanced in age , is well known as the author of the Pleasure * of Memory . Business appears to Kc proceeding in the establishment in the usual quiet way .

      The late Robbery at Messrs . Rogers . —London , Wednesday Night . —Not the slightest clue lias ret been obtained to the perpetrators of this extra ordinary robbery . All idea is now abandoned of the thieves having started for the continent . Mr . Holder , who has been employed by the firm , started immediately the robbery was discovered , for the continent , from which place he returned last night , and it i » believed from the information he there obtained that the guilty parties had not started for France ; and this assurance is further confirmed by the fact that Daniel Forrester is in town . The supposition now entertained is , that the produce of the robbery is secreted , and that the notes will not be put in

      circulation for the present . A full account , connected with the numbers of the stolen notes , has been sent to all the great cities on the continent , which , perhaps , will have the effect of preventing any ot them being passed ; but whether they might not l > e negotiated amongst the South American States is worthy of consideration . One of the superior officers of the City police received a letter in the course ot yesterday , informing him that the whole of the property which was stolen from Messrs . Rogers' bankinghouse was deposited in a house in the neighbourhood of Walworth ; and off two of the force were sent in a cab to act upon the premises , although the information bad all the appearance of a hoax in the eves of experienced

      men . 1 he latter was anonymous , and written in a wretched manner ; but so ready are people to grasp at any hope in a desperate case , ' that it was speedily reported amongst the police that all themouey would be , by six or seven o ' clock , certainly in tho custody of the City commissioner or the Lord Mavor . The cabman was the only one who gained by the report , for the poor man who owned the house , upon being shewn the warrant , expressed the greatest surprise and indignation at the calumny , and invited the most scrupulous investigation . The expectation ot the police of course proved delusive . The person who was subjected to this annoyance declares that he is not aware how he could have provoked the

      animosity of any living being to so unkind an act . The missing notes and gold alone amount to 40 , iH ) 0 L , and there is besides , it is stated , a large amount in bills , of exchange . The mode in which the robbei-y was effected is prett > well ascertained : and a > t lie locks of bankers' safes are generally on the patent principle , the probability is that the keys had on some occasion been mislaid , and that advantage was taken i > i' that circumstance to prepare for the robbery . There aiv one or two points that may be . stated with certainty , from what has transpired . Fii > t , that a successful r , i" was planned to < : et possession of the keys of the strons chest ; secondly , that the party delinquent ha » on a former occasion not stood A ] —and , thirdlv ,

      that there is a clue to the retreat of the delinquent . There was something like a run upon the bank on Monday ; but on Tuesday business resumed its ordinary current . It is not at all improbable tliat within eis : ht and forty hours the principal delinquent will be in the bands of one of the Forresters . The amount of sovereigns taken is not by any means so large as stated in many quarters . A very strong man must he be who can conveniently walk away , and without attracting observation , with 3 , ^ 00 or 4 , 000 . sove reigns . The transaction—the possession ot the keys , the opening of the strong room , and the principal party being fairly on "the road "—occupied less than three quarters of an hour .

      Extensive Housebreakisg and Robbery at Glasgow . —Friday morning , about one o clock , a roblwy of a verv daring and extensive character was perpatrated m the drapery warehouse of Mr . \\ illiam Patrick , Clyde-terrace , GorbaLs . The thieves , it appears , effected an entrance by forcibl y breaking open the back windows , and succeeded in earryinu off three hundred bolts of silk ribbons , a quantity of silk handherchiefs , sewed muslin collars , and stockings , along with , io in single notes , and < £ lt > in sDver and copper . The proprietor of' the warehouse , who resides above the premises , fortunately heard

      the noise caused by the depredators , and immediately proceeded to inspect his shop , just as one of the thieves was climbing over an adjoining wall . Of course , an alarm was soon given , and in a short time afterwards , Mr . Brown , the efficient officer of the Gorbals criminal department , succeeded in capturing six of the thieve?—three men and three women—along with a considerable portion of the stolon goods , in a house in Clyde-terrace . About seven o ' clock the same morning , a woman belonging to the party was also apprehended at the Edinburgh Railway Station , with a lanre quantity of the stolen ribbons in her

      possession . I > readfi'l Cruelty . —The public mind has , since Tuesday last , been much excited by the report of a case of almost unheard-of cruelty practised by thf master of a Danish vessel , misnamed Chri . 'tian Christensen . towards a boy named Wilhelm Ferdinand Flinher , aged seventeen , who belonged t <> the crew ot the brig Daisy , of Gottenburgh . The poor boy , who was on his first voyage , appeal's to have been sulv jeeted to the combined ill-treatment of wt-arvntion , confineniGnt , and blows . The crew of the schooner Prince , Captain Sohier , Bristol trader , having witnessed the barbarity practised towards this poor boy —having seen him * not only repeatedly thrashed by the ruffian Christensen , but also bv the mate , and " .

      moreover , confined in a [ cask with netting over the top , and also kept four days without food , stated the circumstance to Mr . P . Le Conteur , who had the lad taken ashore , r eported the case to tlio constables , and observing that the responsibility of the boy ' s life was now in their hands , left them to bring the matter before the court . Well , the constables had the poor lad ' s case in hand—they had him under their protection : they brought him , it appeal's , as . far as the court-house—and what did they do ? They sent him on board again ! What was the consequence \ A renewal of ill-treatment in an aggravated form . The monster Christensen , on Saturttny nJsrht , had the poor boy ' s hands and feet made fast , so that he could not use these limbs ; and , this being done , he had

      him fastened tight across the groin to the winch at the foot of the mast , exposed to the cold and min , where some of the pilots seeing him on Sunday moranig , went to one of the assistant-coiLstables , Mr . Payne , wlio , finding the boy unable to stand through ill-treatment and want of food , had him conveyed to the hospital , where he now ] ies in the prc . 'itest danger , the doctors scarcely pntertainins a hope of his recovery . The brute of a master was put into gaol on Monday evening , and- ' the court on Tues n those members of the police who wen * : \ ware of the l > r » v ' s situation and diu not iijili 5 ri' : at" ! v-i-eeciH' IiJuj from -t . —

      Uuem-Affx- -- tin < j Event . —V » ' e have reii i \ ' - > i iijtcaiiicnei ' of the aluitist sudden demise oi Mr . Willk . m liethcrm : jtu ! i . a fine proniisins : yuiiiisr mitii-iu . ui <> : " eighteen yea ? * « f . Tie . son of -tin- late W . Heiiu-rii . uo ' i , Esq ., of Hirkt'iihoad . an « l recently appoint . ¦' . ;\ s' -i- < -. ml lii'Uti'i :. ! T ; t in the ( Huh Kirjcs . Last sm- ^ -n-r ii had been ¦¦! . ' 25 i - c < l hi a rmvinir nii ; ich , and . JrMi ! tni- < - \< "i tion ; U the oar , hish : 'i !(' , s b > -comin ; r blistered . Ik- iu < ;\ utkm 4 y . whilst in a sUstr <> f [ n-r- 'piratio . 'i . iil ; i | ... \ l l ' .-in int <> tht- tidd "water . Eruption and <; . itln rmi ; cnsueVi , ' . au » ing much rain ;< nd annoyance , au . i thi ~ continu-

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      ing for a considerable time , he went to London , and , lt W ^ wnfod t took unskilful advice , by which , though he appeared to be cured , the disease was probably thrown into the system by the too rapid drying up of the sores . He returned home to his family apparently quite recovered , and , after remaining a short time , resolved to return to the military college at Brussels , where he had before studied , to make the best use ot his time in professional acquirements . On his arrival there he was congratulated by his former companions , to whom he was much endeared ; but , alas ! on Wednesday week , when he sat down to dinner with them , he suddenly remarked that he felt extraordinary sensations , and could eat nothing , being observed to be ill , and afterwards to faint , He was immediatel y carried to bed , and received every possible attention , but , to the grief of all around him , he expired early the following morning .

      Post-Office Robberies . —Sir , — The Postmaster-Ueneral , 1 perceive , has re-issued a notice on the subject oi " missing newspaper , " wherein he states the law against either the "Stealing , embezzling , secreting , or destroying the said newspapers , " and the punishment " on conviction . " It is on tlio twe last words , " on conviction , " that I take the liberty ot saying a few words , ami layinu bel ' ore the public a fact which shall speak for itself , and show , by the " screening" system , how unlikely the public arc to m redress . A poor girl , my «;\ int'kcei > i ' r ' -s daughter , cot a place stf Liclifielcl ; at the . end of the first quarter she inclosed two sovereigns in a letter , put two seals on it , took it to the . I ' ost-i . ffice in I . ichtield , and , as : good luck would have it , the sinie moment

      sho amvetl at the othce window topav the pontage , one oi the most respectable inhabitants of the city saw her pay the postage ( twopence ) . The letter ' was directed to her father , begging him to pay the bill his poor daughter had contracted tor a small outfit tor her place . Sow mind , sir , Lichfield is only 10 nnles from Wolseley-bridge , the residence of her father , and there is no stoppage l > etween the Post-office of Lichfield and that of Wolseley-bridge . The poor girl not receiving any answer from her father , she wrote to him ; he brought the letter to me . 1 went down to our Post-office , and there proved beyond a doubt , that on the day the letter ought to have come to hand , the post-bag being opened in the

      presence of a third indifferent person , there was no letter of any sort in the bag ! 1 then told the father to go off to Lichfield . lie did . He got rio redress ; and I wrote to the General Post-office Inspector living in North Wales , who came up , and what he called " investigated " it . : I saw him myself , and had a long talk with him , and I demanded the letter —{ I said nothing about its contents}—the letter with two seals on it , post-paid , 2 d . ; and I told him it never arrived at the Wolseley Post-ottiee , If proof positive , as above , and therefore the postmaster of Lichfield mast produce the letter in question , put in in the presence of a respectable witness . Now , sir , what was the result ? Nothing ' . —I am , sir , your-obedient servant , C . Wolseley .

      Home Circuit . —Maidstone , Wednesday , Nov . 27 . —The commission of gaol delivery for the county of Kent was opened on Tuesday last by Mr . Justice Williams , and this morning the business of the assizes commenced . There are forty-two prisoners for trial , seven of whom are charged with murder . There arc also several other serious offences . The Case of Richard Dadd , the Parricide . — Mr . Bodkin made an application to the Court in reference to the above prisoner , who , it will be remembered , after having murdered his father , made liis way to France , and was eventually brought back to

      this country and committed tor trial . The learned Counsel , after having briefly alluded to the circumstances of the case , said there was no doubt that the unhappy young man was insane , and he had been removed by order of the Secretary of State to a criminal lunatic asylum , where he now remained . As the trial , therefore , could not conic on , he would apply to the Court to discharge the recognisances of the witnesses who had been bound over , and to order that the money and other valuables taken from the pei ^ son of the deceased gentleman at the time of the discovery of the murder might be delivered to his friends . —The Court made the order .

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      several of the crew , and many passengers . -. The schooner Encore , bound from Bahia to Antwerp , was totally lost on the night of Friday week , on some rocks near Jersey . Her crew ; was preserved by means of lines from the shore . The Dandolin , an East India ship , of Liverpool , has beenttotally lost in the China Seas . The particulars as to the manner in whichshe was wrecked have not yet comei to hand . On the afternoon of the 11 th inst ., a brig , reported to be the William , of Boston , foundered off the Lincolnshire coast , about 18 miles S . S . W . of the Humber , and all hands perished . The British brie ! Pearl , has been totally lost near Nova Scotia . The brifj Star ( Captain

      Davidson ) from London , was totally destroyed by fire , on Friday night last , off Augra Pepuena , on the coast of Ireland . The crew were saved . On Thursday week last the smack I ' aul was wrecked on the shore , near Paulton ( Isle of Man ) . ] She had 11 passengers on board ; two of whom , young females , and the master and mate , were drowned , the others wore saved . The brig Picton , belonging to Padstow , was totally lost on tne 18 th inst ., about five mile 3 from the Dungeon Light , and being run down by the Ackam , another brig of Stockton , the crew had barely time to get on board of the latter before the ship foundered . We hear of two other vessels being wrecked in the course of the week , on the Irish coast .

      F . UYI . C'lVI .-PIT AcrillKVT : —1 'IFTV l . IVHs LiisT . — We i-cgi-Pt to have to record this week , the loss ot fifty lives , by t ] iv terrible agency of fict ' -iliimp . at the (' win Avon Coll-iery . . Neath . on Wednesday las ' , ( hi . !• count <> t' the shattered state of the works consequent on the explosion , and the noxious effluvia , only four bodies on that tUiv had tynMi taken out . Our information as to details , considering the distance we write from the fatal spot , cannot be copious : but of the painful truth of the frightful catastrophe there is , we regret to state , no room to doubt . —Monmouthshire Merlin of Friday . :

      Barbarous Murder at Tyninguame . —The small and quiet village of Tyningiiame , in East Lothian , was on Saturday thtown into ; a state of great excitement , from the report that John Hobert , coachman to the Earl of Haddington , had been murdered within the precints bf Tyninghame House . The report was unfortunately correct . The imhappv man was found lying on a grass walk within tLe demesne , between two and three o ' clock on Saturday morning . He died about twelve o ' clock on that day . Two young men named Hannan and Dudgeon have been taken into custody ; the former being suspected as being the party guiltv of the crime : the grounds for this suspicion being that ajquarrel had existed between deceased ana Hannan , who is a lad of only seventeen years of age , and jwho had been heard on the previous evening to declare that he would "do for him "—meaning the murdered man .

      Murder of Dr . Thorn . — The trial of Monsieur Sallicr , at St . Omer , for the assassination ot' I ) r . Thorn , an English surgeon , took place on Thursday , and the accused was acquitted . Explosion of Gu . vpo > vi > eh at Liverpool . —A serious explosion of gunpowder occurred in Limekilnlane , Roek Ferry , about half-past eight o'clock on Friday morning , It appear ^ that the ship Fairfield ^ belonging to Messrs . Charles Lawrence and Son , of this town , arrived from Ichaboe on Thursday morning , and was towed into the river by one of the steamtugs . She had on board one barrel of gunpowder , weighing about 201 b ., and also 41 b . loosely wrapped in paper . One of the laws for the regulation of the port enacts , that no : vessel shall be allowed to enter the river or docks with any gunpowder on board , but shall deposit it at the magazines . The boat which should nave waited on the Fairfield , for

      the purpose of taking the powder to the magazines , did not come ,, ana eon&equently it was put on board the tug and landed at ] Birkenhead ; the mate of the Fail-field , whose name is Camngton , undertaking to have it safely kept on the premises of his father Mr . Richard Carrington , customhouse broker , in Limekiln-lane , Rock Ferry . The ra . sk was put into an out-house along with the powder in the paper , and on Friday morning the youngest child , a fine boy , between seven and eight years old , got to it , and it is supposed that by some means he was the cause of its ignition . A terrific explosion took place , by which the out-house was entirely levelled to the ground , and the back and front windows of the house totall y destroyed , besides doing considerable damage in other respects . The boy , who is supposed to nave caused the explosion , was seriously hurt , and a servant girl was also injured .

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      CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . Saturday . —Manslaughter—A young man , named Samuel Simrns , was indicted for having , while in command of the Waterman ! steamer , No . 6 , improperly run down a small boat , rowed by Edward Everett , a licensed waterman , and containing four passengers , by which the said Edward Everett and another person were drowned . The body of the firstnamed person was afterwards found , and these proceedings were instituted in consequence . The evidence of the witnesses occupied some length of time , at the conclusion of which the jury retired , but not being able to agvee upon a verdict wove locked up .

      A Dangerous " Spree- "—A respectable-looking young man , named Alexander Webb , was indicted for stealing a coat and waistcoat , ! the property of William Dieksim , under ttic following circumstances : —It appeared that the prosecutor aiid the prisoner had been drinking together during t-liip whole of the evening , when , both parties being drunk , the fonuer about twelve o'clock invited the prisoner , as he alleged in his defence , for a "spree , " who put on the articles named in the indictment , with which lie walked out of the door . He was , however , followed by some friends to the prosecutor , who gave him into custody . The jury returned a verdict of Sot Guiltu .

      Stealing Sugar . —Edward'Warren , Philip Roberts , and George Bowers , were indicted for stealing one hog ^ iead of Sugiir , the property of the London Dock Company . The prisoner Warren pleaded guilty to the indictment . Evidence having been adduced at great length in support of theprosccution , Mr . Clarkson took a technical objection to the indictment , which having been allowed by the Learned Recorder , the jury , by the direction of the Court , acquitted the prisoners Roberts and Bowerf , Edmund Warren was then placed at the bar for judgment , and sentenced to be transported for seven years .

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      . Tfl £ LeAGUJS . AND AaII-LeAOCE , AI « HoLMFIBgSYorkshire . — We had a lecture from Mr . Harper , of the Anti-League , on Friday night last . His object was Free Trade , ' which he handled in a masterly manner . He was often interrupted by a leaguer in the body of the hall , named Nathan Littlewood , a shop-keeper . He mounted the orchestra twice for the purpose of refuting the arguments of the lecturer , but . never before was there such a specimen of middle-class ignorance . He denied this , and denied that ; but when he had the chance to refute the arguments , he completely forgot to mention them , in fact , he was a complete clown for the audience . At the conclusion of the lecture , another leaguer , named Beardsell , tried his hand , but to little effect .

      Finding that the question of " protection to labour , " was to be crowned with victory , the leaguers thought proper to try another plan ; that of a public discussion , This is to come off on Thursday , betwixt Mr . Harper and Mr . Ackland , if he can be got ; if not , with , some other lecturer of the Anti-Corn League . RocHnALE . —I am requested by some of the factory operatives to inform you that there seems to be a move amongst the different employers to advance wages . One firm , of the name of Butterworth , at Spotland-bridge , gave an advance yesterday to a portion of tlicir operatives ; as they did not advance all , the doffeis turned out , and they were obliged to stop the engine ; When the lull rang on Wednesday evening , the " hands" mustered in front of the

      factory and cave three cheers . As there was " no advance , " the mill lias been shut all day . — Corrafpondi'tit . ¦ Strike at Paisley . —The factory weavers of Messrs . Robert M'Arthur and do . have unanimously struck work . ' The reason they allege , in a circular posted in various parts ot the town , is their being asked to work for a sum which could barely keep existence in them , and besides , at a third less than ' ot her employers were paying for the same work .

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      City Chartist Hall , 1 , Turnaoain Lane . —A general meeting of shareholders will be held , at halfpast ten o ' clock , on Sunday morning , Dec . 1 st . The public discussion will be resumed in the Hall at the same time . In the afternoon , at three o ' clock , the Metropolitan Delegate Council will meet . In the evening , at seven , Mr . Skelton will lecture . Saint George ' s Temperance Hall , Blackfriah 3 Road , —Mr . Farrerwiil lecture on Sunday evening . Doc . 1 st . Westmixstei ! . —A public meeting will be held at the Clock . House , Castle-street , Leicester-square , on . Sunday evening , Dec . 1 st . A . v Harhomc Meeti . yg will be held at the Feathers , Lower Warner-street , Fitzroy-square , on Monday evening , Dee . 2 nd .

      Tower Hamlets . —Mr . Wheeler will lecture on Sunday evening , 8 p . m ., Dec . 1 , at the White Horse , Mary-street , Wkitechapel . Fkost , Williams , A > n Jones . —A public meeting will be held in the Riding School , Bidborougn-street , Burton-crescent , on Monday evening , Dec . 2 nd . Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., will attend . Camberwell and Walworth . —A meeting will be held at the Moutpelier Tavern , on Monday evening , Dec . 2 nd . Hammersmith . —A meeting will be held at the Dun Cow , Brook Green-lane , on Tuesday evening , Dec . 3 rd . Tower Hamlets . —The General Councillors residing in the Tower Hamlets are requested to meet at theWbi . ttington-and Cat , Ckureh-row , Bethnal-green , on Sundav evening next .

      Spitalfields . —At the Standard of Liberty , Bricklane , a public discussion , on Sunday evening * next , on the question of " the rights of property . " Islington . —A public meeting of the inhabitants of Islington will be held at the Swan Tavern , Highbury , on Monday evening next , December 2 nd , on behalf of the Duncombe Testimonial . G . Rogers , Esq ., wiU take the chair at half-past seven precisely . WujTEcnAPEL . —Mr . Wheeler will lecture at the White Horse , St , MaryVstreet , on Sunday evening . Pimlico . —Tub Welsh Martyrs . —A public meeting will be held at the Belgrave Tavern , Ebury

      Street , on Wednesday evening next , Dec . 4 , at haltpast seven , to memorialise Her Majesty to restore Frost , Williams , and Jones to their country , families and friends . Feargus O'Connor , Esq . and other talented individuals will address the meeting . LlilEiior . SE Localitv . —The members lately meeting at the Marquis of Granby , are requested to meet at 23 , Totton Street , Stepney Church-yard , on Sunday , at half-past eight . RoounALE . —Mi . Donovon , of Manchester , is expected to deliver two lectures next Sunday , at the Association Room , Mill-street , at two and six .

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      SATURDAY'S NEWS . , - ^^^^^ _ Mansion-House . —Examination of William Biroess , thk Bank Clerk . —The Lord Mayor sat at ten o ' clock . After a number of the ordinary charges had been disposed of , William Burgess , the Bank clerk , who had l > eeii brought back from America by John Forrester , on the charge of forging a transfer of ££ , 000 Three per Cent . Consols , unit absconding with the proceeds of the same , was brought in and placed at the bar . The prisoner is a well-dressed and respectable-looking man , of about six-andtwenty ; and although of a healthful and ruddy complexion , appeared to be suffering severely from trepidation and anxietv of mind . He walked

      him to a future day . But it the prisoner wished it , he was ready to proceed with the ease , and thought he could probably conclude it at onee . —John Forrester : "He wishes to be remanded , my lord . "—Mr . W . Oxenford stated that he resided at John-street , Bedford-row , and was an official agent in the Long-room at the Custom-house . He had . £ 8 , 000 Three per Cent . Consols in the Bank of England . On looking at the transfer-book now produced , he could distinctly state that he had never executed any transfer of that stock . Neither of the signatures pointed out were his . Mr . Thomas Ingall stated that be was a clerk in the Bank of England , and attested the signature of the supposed-Mr . ¦ Oxenford to each of the transfers . The prisoner at the bar was ^ the person who

      lame , and stooped forward as if from weakness , and at first leant upon the front of the bar ; but lie was immediately afterwards accommodated with a chair . Mr . Fresh-field , the solicitor to the Bank of Entrland , then proceeded to state that the officer , John Foirester , had ju > t arrived in town with the p risoner at thtV bar , whom he apprehended at Boston , in America , under a warrant granted Ivy Sir William Mammy , on the oliarif ** of utterm * , ' « linked transfer of £ 8 , IIIM ( Throe per Cent . Consolidated Annuities , bclou « j ; iiui to a uentU-man named William Oxenford . The prisoner had arrived in town only this morning , and hi ; ( Mr . l- ' reshucld ) thought , under these circumstances , that his lurdship would probably think it proper to remand

      "identified" the supposed Mr . Oxewifiml as that gentleman . The Lord Mayor , looking towards the prisoner , told him that he proposed to remand him until Wednesday next , but as there was plenty of time before the next session of the Central Criminal Court , he had no objection to fix any other day which the prisoner preferred . The prisoner spoke to Forrester in so low a tone of voice that his reply could not bo heard , but the officer stated that he nad no objection to that or any other day his lordship might think proper to appoint . The Lord Mayor accordingly fixed Wednesday next , at twelve o ' clock , for the prisoner ' s being again brought up , when he will , in all probability , be fully committed for trial .

      Vkrdict or the . Icrv in the Cask of the Nottimjham Railway Accident . — The adjourned inquest upon Mr . John Dean was resumed on Friday , at ten o ' clock . The room was crowded , and amongst those present were ( J . B . I ' aget , Esq . ; W . C . Ifutthinson , Esq . ; and J . Ellis , Esqr ., Directors ; Mr . Clarke , superintendent ; and Mr . J . Kirtley , manager of the locomotive engines . After a very lengthened examination of several witnesses , Mr . Campbell addressed the jury on behalf of Mr . Lightfoot . The jury unanimously expressed their high satisfaction at the very rca ' dy . ' manner with which the Railway Company had acted . The jury adjourned for half-an-hour . At eight o ' clock the jury again took their seats , and the coroner occupied an hour and a half in summing up . The room was then cleared , and at one o'clock the jury returned their verdict as follows : —

      " The jury , after a long and patient investigation of the circumstances , fed compelled by their duty to return a verdict of MANSLAUGHTER against Mr . Robert Lightfoot ; and they cannot separate without expressing their belief , that notwithstanding the management for general transition by railroad , ranch might be done , to render railway travelling more secure , and especially of second-class carriages ; and . though they may not be so comfortable as the firsi-clnss , they may be as safe . And they also intimate , that passengers ought not to be taken along the wrong line of rails without their consent . The jury further suggest , that much more safety might be secured by the general introduction of electrical telegraphs . There is also another point which the jury'think ought to be attended to , and that is , that in future great care should be taken to ascertain that all the company ' s servants are intimately and perfectly acquainted " in their social duties ; and the jurv cannot too stronglv express their conviction

      that Jonathan Rnven has not sworn to the truth in his depositions , and that he is utterly unworthy of the confidence of the Railway Campany and the service of the public , i There was a point on which the jury wished to remark , respecting Mr . Lightfoot , and that was , they were exceedingly grieved on account of the ma ' ny favourable circumstances in his _ favour , to place him in the painful situation in which they have done ; and nothing but a paramount sense of dutv had compelled them to do so . The coroner wished to join also with every individual of the jury , to express his sorrow on the occasion . There was another thimr which wn . s desired to be reconiinendi'd to the Railway Company , ami that was the situation of Mrs . Dean , " who , in " the prime of life , had been suddenly , and in a moment , deprived of the stay of i . er existviee , hrM of her support ; < in < l the . jury hope that provision will be made tor ht-r by the Railway Company , so as to prevent her le ' elinc , in addition to her heavy Ids * , the sorrows of destitution and

      privation . : ¦ DrEAI > FI L S ' lIIIMVRKf KS . —TwKLVE Vl : S ; , ELsLosT . — By the Hibmiia mail steamer , which arrived at Liverpool from the United States on Thursday niirhi last , letters have cunie to hand with the nulanch" ! . intelligence ot" the toUil io > - pi' the ^! , ; . p Klizu'wth , Captain r , tiuli : uil , coniniailtlor , bclonping to r . ivt . r ; o <> f , with , it is niiwh apprehended , tlio sacrifice of twentytwo iK . ' 1 ' sons , UicUidinj ; the commander , thr ehivf uiau '

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      Ektraordin-art Uambling Transactions . —Coubt of Qdeen ' s Bench , Satubdat . 4- ( Before Lord Denman and a Special Jury . )—Hill v ., Stratford . —The plaintiff , Mr . Henry Hill , is well known in the sporting world . The defendant , Mr . Hugh StratfordiStratford , son of the Rev . Hugh Hanmer Morgan , a canon of Hereford . The action was broug-ht to recover the sum of £ 3 , 539 , in six bills of exchange , accepted by defendant , who , among several other pleas , had pleaded that \ ie lost money in gambling at one sitting to a greater extent than £ 100 , and that the plaintiff , when he discounted tlie bills , knew they had been given * for such losses . Mr . P . Kelly , with Mr . VTilles , appeared for tin : plaintiff , and Mr . Jervis , with whom was Mr Sergeant Shea , and another learned gentleman , for the defendant . The hand-writing of defendant havingbeen proved , Mr . Jervis addressed the jury at some length

      for the defence , stating that plaintiff , who was formerly only a waiter , afterwards sold fish , and ultimately became an agent fur betting on commission . It would appear that a person named Coghlan gr > t , through plaintiff , three £ 1 , 000 notes for the bills , and afterwards , meetting a Mr . Willing-ale , paid him therefrom a debt of honour of upwards of £ 2 , 000 , and who , by good fortune , happened at the time to have the exact sum of £ 840 in his pocket to give change . The whole appeared like a plant . John Wynde Cooku was then examined ; he stated that he was a prisoner in tho Queen ' s pvison , but was formerly an attorney in Clifford-street , Road-street . Knew defendant , both being- from Herefordshire . ' Acted as Mr . Stratford ' s attorney , in 1842 , by conducting two suits in Chancery agaiuet a Captain Page aud ^ Dr . ; Bernard , which were armnged by paying Captain Page £ 3 , 500 , and about £ 700 to Dr . Bernard in lieu of the whole amount claimed ,

      amounting to £ 23 , 000 . Afterwards became on intimate terms with defendant , and played with him at vingt-et-un at his lodgings several times . Objected to say whut he won , or whether he won at all . Witness went to Cheltenham in August , 1843 , when defendant gave bills to the amount of £ 3 , 500 for money which he had acknowledged to be due . Stratford often met defendant , and also Mr . Coyhlan , Mrs . Coghlan , and J ^ r . Evans at the Wellington Arms , Strathfield Turgis , Strathfleldsaye , and on the 27 th April they ( lady and all ) played , at " blind hookey . The play was kept up till about twelve or one o ' clock . Began after dinner with silver , but afterwards played fov a large amount , and Mr . Stratford rose | tVom the table a loser of between £ 10 , 000 and £ 11 , 000 . ] The next day all went to Reading ; stamps were bought , and the bills drawn chiefly

      by witness , and made payable at his office in Cliffordstreut ; the total amount of the bills accepted was £ 10 , 841 ) . The next day the bills were divided between witness and Coghlan . On the Oth of May au | injunction was served at the office in Clifford-street . Mrs . Hannah Howard , landlady of the Coach and Horses , j Down-street , l'iceadilly ; George White , her waiter : William Tatton , the waiter at Hatehett ' s ; and other witnesses , proved the intimacy subsisting between plaintiff and Coghlan . It was also found that the nuiney had passed from plaintiff * hankers to Cohglan , and that plaintiff ' s balance two days before had been only £ 72 « , but had been drafted the very day that the alleged discount took place ' . The three £ 1 , 000 notes were- exchiingeil at the bank on the 10 th of May , 1843 , for Mr . Willingale , for six five hundreds . A sheriffs' officer and two or three attoniies proved that

      Mr . diaries William I'vancis iCoghlan hail hmi sued for several debts ami judgments , but no ui » ney , during these last ei ^ rht or r . iiu- years , and that In- h : ul al « avs contrived to keep out of the \ yaj , Mr . Iv II * haw % ' replied , the learned judge suiuincil tip , stuiMig tli .-tt tin- question wa .-,, wh-.-tlu'i- plaintiff knew f' > r "hat tin- hi \\ . ~ ha . l lieeu given ulicu lie disviuuU'd Jlieiii , ' » thlr trsii-s .-tction theiv w ; i > . noting i-u :. iiM . " -- ' :. l ; : C . ghlni ; ipi » 'ar .-d to be nothing but ; i pauper No iii «| uio «¦» " P ™ e < l to ha \ e liccu ma . lr I . y phtiutitf ; . r .-vMs t .. . li ^ ni . r . ting th ^ 'LiIls . If Coghlaji t .. id j . luintirt- nothi . jg about 'In- lulls , « :. « rhlai . ini-hr lime Ikvii crtHv- < lint «> tHv > " >\ ' ' ¦ l > rf « v « > it . If tin-\ nv . In-Ii . led Toghlau hud > aidf n .-tliii ^ a'x . ut flu- bi ! U :., " plaintiff , he was entitl . d to the \ tM'dit-r , but othiu'wisi' dt > - f .-i-. i \ aiit w ; i > viUitWvl to a sevdici . Tin- javv , after ; i brio * consultation , i - turned a u-rdiet lor the defendant .

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      DEATH . Death of the Princess Sophia Matilda . —Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda expired at her mansion on Blackheath , on Friday morning , after a short illness , ner Royal Highness had been unwell at intervals for some time past . The Princess was in the 72 d year of her age , having been born on the 23 d of May , 1773 , and was sister to the late Dake of Gloucester .

      BIRTH . On Monday , 2 <> th inst ., at iXewcastle-upon-Tyne , ihe wife of W . P . Roberts , Esq ., of a son .

      BANKRUPTS . From Friday ' s Gazette . Ci-cil Sober Taylor Walker , Oxford-street , artificial florist , to surrender Dec . ( i . at half-past 12 o ' clock , Jan . 10 , at 12 , at the Bankrupts' Court : solicitor , Mr . Ward , Essex-street : official assignee , Mr . Belcher , King ' s Annsyard . John Njjrth , Map's-row , Stepney-green , licensed victualler , Dee . B , at 1 o ' clock , Jan . It ) , at 11 , at the Bankrupts' Court : solicitors , Messrs . Yonge and Hancock , Tokenhouse-yard ; official assignee , Mr . Pennell , Basing , hall-street . Hichard Tucker , Dean-street , Westminster , farrier , Dee 10 , Jan . 4 , at VI o'clock , at the Bankrupts' Court : solicitor , Mr . Maekmore , Trafalgar-square ; official assignee , Mr . Follett , Sambrook-eourt , UaBinghall-street

      Lucy Williams , Oxford , woollen draper , Dec . 13 , at 2 o ' clock , Jan . 7 , at 1 . at the Bankrupts' Court : solicitors , Messrs . Dixon and Overhury , Frederick ' s-place , Old Jewry official assignee , Mr . Groom , Abchurch-lane . Joseph Harwar , Charlotte-street , Bloomsbury , pianoforte-manufacturer , Dec . 10 , Jan . 7 , at 2 o ' clock , at the Bankrupts' Court ; solicitors , Messrs . Willis , Bower , and Willis , Tokenhouse-yard ; official assignee , Mr . Edwards , Frederick ' s-place , Old Jewry . Robert Marshall , Deptford , stonemason , Dec . 17 , at 2 o'clock , Jan . 8 , at 12 , at the Bankrupts' Court : solicitors , Messrs . Tyler and Lane , South-square , Gray ' s-inn ; official assignee , Mr . Groom , Abchurch-lane .

      William Henderson , Sunderland . mercer , Dec . 9 , Jan . 20 , at 2 o ' clock , at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court of Bankruptcy ; solicitors , Mr . Moss , Cloak-lane ; and Mr . Brown , Sunderlaud ; official assignee , Mr Baker , Newcastle-upon-Tyne . William Oliver , Darlington , Durham , printer , Dec . 3 , Jan . 20 , at half-past 2 o ' clock , at the Jfewcastle-upon-Tyne District Court of Bankruptcy : solicitors , Messrs . Tilson and Squance , Coleman-stm-t ; and Mr . Allison , Darlington ; official assignee , Mr . Wakley , Neweastle-upon-Tyne . Edward Potter Worth , Henley-in-Arden , Warwickshire , victualler , Dec . 10 , at 12 o ' clock , Jan . 10 , at 1 , at the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy : solicitors , Mr . Noble , Henley-in-Arden ; and Messrs . Harrison and Smith , Birmingham : official assignee , Mr . Christie , Birmingham ,

      Matthew and John Ibbotson . Eeclestield , Yorkshire , paper manufacturers , Dec . , Jan . 16 . at 11 o ' clock , at the Leeds . District Court of Bankruptcy : solicitors , Mr . Tattersliall , Great James-street ; Mr . Marshall , Sheffield ; and Mr . Blackburn , Leeds ; official assignee , Mr . Freeman , Leeds . William Uets anil George Edwards , Wells , Somersetshire ; seedsmen , Dec . 17 , at 1 o'clock , Jau . 10 , at 11 , at the Bristol District Court of Bankruptcy : solicitors , Mr . Whittaker , Lincolu's-in-fields ; Messrs . Pry and Pain , Axbridge ; and Messrs . Robins and Hobbs , Wells ; official assignee , Mr . Miller , Bristol . James Storey and John Gibb , Liverpool , ship-chandlers , Dee . 10 , Jan . 8 , at 11 o ' clock , at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy : solicitors , Messrs . Willis , Bower , and Willis , Tokenhouse-yard ; and Mr . Mason , Liverpool ; official assignee , Mr . Morgan , Liverpool .

      William Cross , Chester , lead merchant , Dee . 13 , Jan . 3 , at 12 o'eloek , at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy : solicitors , Messrs . Sharpe and Co ., Bedford-row ; arid Mr . Garter , Liverpool : official assignee , Mr . Cazenove , Liverpool .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 30, 1844, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct515/page/5/