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      Pbasck—It appears thai the Parisian civadek will . occupy in time of peace an army of 24 , 800 men , which , 1 united "with the garrison of tie military establish- j ments of the enricnte continue , as well as those of j { he interior of Paris , will form an effective of more ] than 60 , 000 men to gnard the Jree elty of Paris , and , ¦ snll be anntd with 1262 cannon , wmposeu in part of ei £ hfy-ponncJers and mortars , capable of throwing j thetr projectiles into ibscenare of Paris . : imaEs ^ qnehce of the increase of troops demanded j bj the fcxuficatlons ot Paris , it is in contemplation < to segment the Artillery and Engineer force , as well as tb& Mcnic ^ psl Guard- , The French FoKxiriCATioKS—It is not in external

      fortncauons only rhat the French GovtrnnjenJaia preparing to meet internal enemies . ** If the Faubourg St . Astoine , " -ofe 5 srves La Rrforme , " ba not ¦ well gnarded , it will certainly cot be for want of guardhonses , burac ^ s , smail forts , and other advanced works . ISvery day seine new prefect of fortification is cevised for thai quarter . Noi satisfied with the formidable Kock-houses on the Place de la Bastille , id the Rue de MGntretul , at the Barriere dn Trone , ob the hcdsTards Morland and Bonrdcn , the barrack of the arsenal , and the castle cf Tkscennes , the Government has re-solved on making extensive additions to lie barrack of the Celestins , which basict-n considerably augmented during the lass two years . The iormidable works about to be added to th *

      cniiaiES will ensb ; e it to contain a garrison of 3 . 000 loot ajid horse Municipal Guards . This Eriinsxy ^ lablishment will thn 3 ba converted into a rea l ^ ntaorel , being prot'ccied by * wab , piercrd w . ih loGpholes . It will be the first barrack of the kind constructed in Pari > . " Taesdsy , tre 25 th of December , is the day fixed for ' . he meeting of the Chambers . La Patrie announces the death of Admiral Houssin at Mumpelier . Stais . —Baxceloxa , —Letters from Paris of date the 25 th nlL , state that the fire of the batteries of Port Monijnicb and of the citadel contiaoed to cover the barricades of ihe insurgents , which answered Tigoronsly . On the 22 nd , the cannonade was very keen on both sides . The insurgents appeared to be "well provided with ammunition and provisions .

      The Journal des Debats says : —The Barcelonese insurgents are not at all discouraged . They do not , Content themselves with standing on the defensive ; Irat since their assault npon the citadel , which Jailed , ihev have raised a battery of mortars with the intent of bombarding it . Thus it is that the insurgents of Barcelona , in their turn , threaten to have recourse ia the terrible operation of bombardment- " Martell , aid to have surrendered at Tortosa , entered Figueras on the l ° ih . Tne prisopers taken at Matero , who were sent to

      Taieneiaand subsequently to Majorca , have been ; sent back by the governors of those places , who have refused to receive them ; tne Captain-General I has , in caaspqneneej-ebartercd a lar ^ e merchantman , ' and ^ o ^ ver-td it into a prison-hnik , which is now ; lying in the harbour filled with these nnfonnnate ' men . j It is stated in a . bnlletin of the Leon Junta , thati General Seniosani , second in command of Old Castile , who had advanced againsi Leon , was i attacked in the night by a colnmn from the town i and routed . This bnlletin is dated the 18 ih . i

      A j > ronunciaiaeEto has taken place at Rosas in > support of the Central Junta . - < PiHPJGSiS , Oct . 27 . —Prim continued his fire on 5 Girona ihe day before yesterday , and took posses- i son of the "Fanbonrg de Pedri * . The firing oonti-1 nned yesterday . Martell yesterday went out of I ihe fort of Figueras wish two hundred and fifty ] men- j Madrid , October 21 st . —The intelligence received to-day is favourable to the causeef the Central Junta . I The port of Rosas , in Catalonia , has declared for j

      that cause , and the insurgents cf Leon have been ' beforehand with the troops sent from VaHadol d \ against them , having Eurprised the latter in the nisb * of the 18 th , at one , aan ., and tsk « n Brigadier Uorente , Colonel P ^ jol , with two commanders and " about 100 cavalry prisoners . The rest escaped , ] owing i © the small foree which was sent ~ omJrom l Leon against them . This event will give an impulse j to the Centralists , and the Leon movement may become formidable , particularly from its proximity I to GallicuL .

      "Wehave news from Saragossa to tb& 19 tb . Con- » cha , having received some heavy-artillery from " ¦ Navarre and other points , amounting to twenty-two pieces altogether , had constructed his breaching ¦ batteries , which were completed on tha * day ; ha ¦ then sent a summons to the city , giving the 'Junta \ twelve honrs to surrender ; but tbe ! & > ter , in reply to the message , which was sant at six in the evening , ' replied thai "they saw his batteries were ready , ¦ aad he jni ^ iii begin * o fc-e as soon as lie Mod ; that iiiey h * a jest hoisted the black flag , and if he tronbltd them with any more messages , they would hang the messenger . " }

      Ltbebtt op thb P ^ ess !—There was a great row \ & the Chamber of Deputies at its preliminary meeting to-day . The military here have lately taken the law into their own hands ; and when an article appears that they disapprove « r , thay go in a < body and bully the newspaper people . Testerdayl no less than fifry ofiicers went to the efiice of the [ Tarantula , * , satirical opposition paper , to oblige the'j editor to put in an absolute retractation of some- ; thing he had said about the army . The editor not ' , being there when they went , they divided them- j Belves into parties often each , and kept watch the i whole day , bnt apparently without any other sue- " ^ eess than : that of alarming the journalist ? , and obliging them io get their psper out in some unusual

      way . Bills stuck on the walls announcing a new opposition paper , were torn down yesterday by a munber of officers and soldiers from the post-office ; and it was this circumstance that was brought beforeihe Chamber to-day . The Count de lasKavaz complained of the military taking the law into their own hands , and gave notice of a motion on the snhject a ? soon * 3 the house was constituted ; adding , ihat liberty would not perish while there were deputies there . Bis remarks brought np Narvatz in a great passion , who said that there was a plan forming for -discrediting the army , who were ihe defenders of liberty , which would not perish while he was at the head of the troops . Some personal recrimination took place , and is is rumoured that a duel is not unlikely to result from it .

      Babcelosa . —The follewing is from a letter in a ^ French paper : —** We are a league and a half from Barcelona , ^ and bear * Eharp cannonade . We eee ihe fi | ing dis&efly . | riOgr tbe citadel , the Atarazanas ( ibis-must le a mis ^ S ^ EB insurgen ts h aving aban * & > ned thai ipgflt ) , and Montjuich . Whilst I ^ m ¦ Writing , Iwu shlHs ' are burning in the air . Some Bailors who have ^ come on board inform me that the insurgents do not allow any person to leave the town . They ar * said to be 8000 in number , but a great number are without muskets . On the other Eandj however , they hare abnndance of artillery of

      and amnramtaon , and are . noi ^ hort provisions . 1 , donotknowhow » awjrtat ««« EnrronDd Barcelona , but It is ogrt ^ &tSiai iieaTly all tne villages at more \ £ han * 4 a * jfnealsiant « r « mVhout a single soldier , \ all b * ing fconeentrated immediately reand the city . ; 25 ie&sargent 3 have melted down all the old guns , j Jo be ' eonverted into money , and they eo on coining day and night . The ta » p 3 are regularly paid . Bar- j eelona has not suffered so much as might have been Bnpposed , 4 S the fire of Montjuich has been chitfly i directed against ihe batteries of tke enemy . The South Boulevard , however , is entirely in ruins . " ;

      issTTEBienos Ja Tieo . —By the Pacha steam- 1 ¦ vessel of the Peninsnlar line of packets . Captain ' "Wilson , Commsader , arriTed yesterday at Sonth- j ainpton , in fonr days from Tigo , intelligence has-j been ^ received of * i insnrrectionaTy movement in that tows , whieh fhoagh few jjarticulars have been { obtained , seems to have assumed an important eha-1 Meter , Captain Wilson states that he brought with mm , as passenger irom Lisbon to Tigo , -General 1 xnarte , one of E ^ artero ' s officers , and fba : he » meto Tigo on the invitation of the party which : © e ^ an themoveiBeDt Fighting had commenced on ; rrf v n iBstant ' ^^ ^ om that time to the arrival j Of the Pacha the city was in tbe oossession of the

      ^ lahonaLGuard , who had originated the attack . As soon as General Yriarte landed 1 » placed himself « tnerr head . Such was the state of eonfuswn in ! tte Place , that Captain Wilson did not think it ! SS *^? , ^ jeasel , which touched on the ^^ I ^ SiSSSSSA ^ SSi l ^^ SHSHHP- Ha £# ftS ® 25 SI

      * That a eonsiderable cons nf inrfw-. i ^ . « M iwt a ^^ nn-twiSRi ^ SSg ^ gS and to kold aemselvea in readiness to «*« . ^* l ^ ationB Bhonld t ^ amfiJSSS&aSS ^ leBttheaaelTesiB Bologna , Much exdtemeat ^ l keptnpb y * rep « ttaataF « aefifleet woold shwUr « jRpe » r « n ibeir shores , by tfie tfosingof the Uniyer-« ity etBologa * , ty the enforcement of new oDnres ^ reJninei » l meagurw , asd ' HuDr by tie recifmto * e PopeV cornels of the df Cardin *! Bernetti , WJO Waslegiteat Bologna during the occurrenees f 1832 , and snbseguenar SeereUtr of State , The population of Moden * is also disooateated . ** B » most terrible yoke presees npoa them /' B&ys ihe letter in question . u Austria had yalnly recomaenSed more moderation , the Bake will not renounce Ms system , ft general insurrection may be jhorily expected in the dnihy , and an armed jcter-Tention willineTiably ensue .

      GsxE . cs . —& I » rty in the interest of Jtnsaa attempted a reaction at Athens on the 9 : h ult . The » tiempt failed .

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      The Augsburg Gazelle of the 25 th iust . publish ^ a letter dated Trieste , ^ Oth inst . announcing the arrival there of Colopotrcni , sent by the King of Greece on a special mission \ o the King of Bavaria . It was expected that the elections would be concluded throughout Greece in a few days . Mavrocordato and Tricoupi have been already elected deputies for Missolonghi , Kairis , who had been banished Miree yeaT 3 smofi for Theism to the island of Andvos , had returned to Syra , where he was waiting the decision of the Government .

      The [ Frankfort Journal states , that the King of Bavaria had authorised snbscripSions to be made , throughout , his kingdom for the benefit of the Ger- man 3 who had been expelled frern Greece . IWhatapity but that the Tung of Bavaria had the pleasure of authorising subscriptions for a few raore of hb beggarly coun ' . rysien . We know a few " Germans " who might be " expelled" with some advantage frcm a certain " tight little island . " What say you , " genile reader" ?] The town of XJraisk , in the Government of Oren-: bnr ^ , suff .-red severely on the 9 ; h of last month by : two fires , which broke out on the same day ; 105 houses , som <* of stone , some of rood , were reduced to ashes . The loss is estimated at 103 , 000 silver ' rubles , We hsve sericus news from the frontiers of

      Arkansas , near which a large number of the Caicaachc Indians have been killed by a hostile tribe , and several Americans have been murdered by the Cherokees and other nai on 3 acd tribes . The United States forts on the border are receiving re-Iii * crcemeiU 3 . Indeed a secccd Semiuolo affair is feared , Geexast— Count Survi'liers ( Joseph Bonaparte ) who has been residing at Florenc-3 for some time , has been attacked with a paralytic sirokt , by which his life is endangered . Leipsig , Oct . 15—M . G . Wigand , bookseller , and M . I \ i . s , printer as Leipzig , who were sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for printing and selling ** The Four Qiestions , " by Dr . Paeoby , of Konigsburg , petitioned to have their punishment commuted for the fine equivalent to it ; this has been refused , ana their sentence carried into effect last month .

      West Indies . —At Kingston , fears ¦ were enter tained for the safety oi h » r Britannic Majesty ' s schooner Pickle , which left Bermuda on the 14 th of August , and had not arrived at Kingston by the middle of September . Bermuda has suffered dreadfully with the yellow fever . Tbe Rock , and other hsopitals , were crowded at our last dates , when its vieilms in Ireland Island had beta more than 100 , and in St . George ' s more than 200 . The yellow fever is nnnsualiy fatal at Yera Cruz , and all ihe Mexican and Yucatan ports . United States . —We have this week received the iVeic York Freeman ' s Journal , New York Weekly Sun , and Vra York Examiner ; the last a new journal started b > William L . Mackenzie . From these pacers we give the following extracts : The Elections—The elections for State ofiicers have beeu hrl-i in Georgia , Maryland , Pennsylvania , and New Jersey .

      | In Georgia and Maryland the Whigs have been successful . In Pensvlvania it is doubtful which party has the legislature . A majority of the Congressional representatives are certainty Democratic . In Kew Jersey , where tue Whigs bad the ascendancy , they htve been competeiy overthrown , and Democracy is now triumphant . Instead of the Whigs having a majority , as they had the last sefcsion of their legislature , they have now only about one-third of tbe members elect . Goteekob Joxes , of Tenessee , had pnbliEhed his message to the Legislature of that state . In it he deprecated the doctrine of repudiation , and Btrongly enforced the prompt meeting , on the part of the state , of all it > engagements .

      Thb Keic York Herald of the 4 th inst ., S 3 ys—* Tha mails this morning bring accounts of ' frost ' at Charlston . There is a great difference , however , in the * first-frest . ' The one in question ia a white frost , tbe operation ot which is to open the bolls , throw the cotton out to the sun , and thereby bring it to ijjatnrity earlier . It is a hard or 'black frost ' which stops the developement of tbe cotton , and stains it . This has not yet occurred . ' * A Isrw Tows is Florida . —The former inhabitants of Port Leon , in Florida ( one of the towns which was almost entirely destroyed by a hurricane and inundation on the 13 th ) , have selected a new site for a town , f-ome two or three miles higher up the St . Mark's rsver . which is to be called " Newport . " It is now being laid off into lots , and several warehouses will soon be completed , ready for the reception of gwods .

      Died m Framingb&m on the loth inst , Abel Ben- , son , a mailatto man , probably ninety years of age-He vras once an attendant on Washington in Revo ludonary days . Afterwards he served as a musician The A > tj-Mokhons assembled in Convention at Carthage , 111 ., on tht : 5 ; h uit . Next day they resolved that if Gov . Ford would not give up Joe Smith to be tried in Missouri , they would , assisted by such aid as they could obtain . > hey also resolved to require of the Mormons , blood for blood ; and agreed not to obey the Mormon county ofiicers . A crisis is evidently ai hand .

      Ltnch Law ijt Pesxstlva ^ ia , —Militabt called OCT . — We learn that in Butler , Pa ., the citizens have been thrown into a state of intense excitement by the holding of Ptveral meetings in the connty , for the pnrpofe of organizing a force sufficient to remove by violence the Indian , Samm-1 Mohawk , now confined in Butler , for the murder of a family , and ¦ whose trial has been postponed by the Court for three months . Tse malcontents wanted to get him out of prison , give him the semblance of a trial , snd deliberately murder him by hanging J The reason assign * d by them for this course ia that the people of the town desired the acquittal of the prisoner , of whose sanity at the time of the murder much doubt existB in the public mind . The Sheriff has ordered the captains of the various volunteer companies to be in readiness to march at a moment ' a warning , to datend the prison , should the mob ba so reckless as to attempt carrying out their scheme .

      [ Such doings as these bring disgrace upon Democratic principles ; and do more to retard the progress of liberty than all the persecutions th&t tyrants have recourse to , to stop the march of human progression . The Americans seem to be desirous of emulating the crimts of the Roman rather than the virtues of the Swis 3 democrats . Well ! if they will imitate the brigands of Rome , and the scu . ti of Italy , tney may yet find a < sesar to curb them ! j Aisociors Mtxrdebs . —The last Liberty , ( . > lo . ) Banner says : —A man by the name of A&ner , shot

      another by the name of Hutton , in Platte couniy , under the following circumstances : Asher and Hutton had been quarrelling for about a vear or so , abont a c ' aim to a piece of land . On the 8 . h instant the parties met in the woods by themstlves , the quarrel was renewed , when Hutton started towards Asher with a lar « e stick of wood in his hand . Asher to defend himself , ( as lie says , ) shot him through the body , and then went to a magistrate and made the above confession . Both of the men were over sixty years of age .

      New Obleass . —The following is the latest accoantfrom New Orleans of the ravages committed by the yellow fever . —Eighteen new cases , nine cures , and nine deaths , on the 4 th instant . The Picayune of the 5 th says : A keen north breeze sprung up on Tuesday night , which continued till Wednesday afternoon , when it was snececded by a thick close rain . Yesterday was the firEt of the year which told of winter ^ coming . The air was of a bracing , invigorating character . At Mobile , on the 5 ih inst .. there were five new cases of fever reported to the Board of Health .

      The accounts from Alabama are alarming . In Lowndee , Montgomery , Clarke , and Monroe , numbers of old settlers have K een carried off . In Haynevilleand Claiborne it has been unusually malignant . In the latter , out of 1 , 000 or 1 , 200 inhabitants , over sixty were dovra at one time , and many died . During the week ending September 30 , the total number of interments iB New OrleanB , of ptrsons who had died by yellow fever , was 118 . At Westfield Society , near Middktown , Ct . -Mrs . Bacon , wife of Ebenezer Bacon , was brutally murdered while the family were at Church on Sunday . She was stabbed in various parts of the body , and her head fractured by blows in several places . Tae perpetrators of the horrid deed carried off about eighty dollars in cash . Two men named Roberts and Bell have been arrested on suspicioi .

      The Ponloioc Tribune records a bloody and fatal . affray which lately took place in that town . Mathew H . Keys and James Wh'te being engaged in a warm sltercatron , G . W . Lipscomb was inciting them to fight . Addison Robertson came up and interposed to _ make peace . Robertson endeavoured to repel Lipscomb , Lai ineffectually , when Lipsomb stabbed "him , Robertson instantly fell , and died in ten mineies afterwards . A bystander immediately knocked Lipscomb dowR , when he was secured , to await fcis trial .

      A Most Shocxikg and foul jnnrder , says the ABheviUe ( N . C . ) Me 8 sen ^ ee was perpetrated about seven auUs from Knozvilie , « n Tuesday , the 5 th nit . m broad day-light , on one of the most public and frequently twelled roads ia Zeanessee . The victim was a soldier of the revolution , named John Sutton , who had been in Knoxwlle that aorning and drawn Iw !! £ ? ? ' * « r * nardered for what money he f ^' de ^^ jg ^ SSKSS

      onfttSebe ^ m ^ R " *' 7 th " ** & * Marke ^ wMch ' bu ^ ea £ S 23 ? \ £ && $ » £ part of Si . Aicholas-street . D welling-houses de-

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      stroyed , thirty-sir ^ , exclusive of outbuildings loss £ 40 , 000 . In the Government fuel yard , 500 cords of wood and 700 ch > ldrons of ooal were consumed . Thb Levt wind of the Royal Regiment had arrived at Quebfjc , and were immediately embarked on board a transport which was to sail for the West Indies immediately . In the course of the present season the number of emigrants that had arrived out from Great Britain was 20 , 353 . At the same period of the previous year 43 , 000 bad landed at Quebec . In the last week , up to the date of which the latest accounts are returned , 584 steerage and 46 cabin passengers had landed . There was rather more business doing in the flour markets of Quebec , Montreal , and Toronto . Montreal has been decided upon as the seat of the Canadian Government .

      A bill nas been brought into the Canadian Parliament for the suppression oi Orangeism throughout the province . Another bill has been brought up by Mr . Lafontaine , the Attorney-General for Cat ; ada Wcsl , to d . sqnalify place- holdersforelectiontotho Provincial P ^ r-Ha-aent . The f ev-nue had suffered considerably of latu , and British aid would doubtless be required to preserve the credit of the colony . A measure ot reform is , however , in contemplation which will secure a reduction of the outrageously extravagant salaries now paid to the placo holders .

      M . de Blaequire has laid a proposition before the Legislative Council for an address to bo presented j to her Majesty , requesting a general pardon to all pt-rsons concerned in tbe insurrections of 18370 . The Governor G . neral has pardoned Donelly , j charged with having committed a aaurder in Ireland I fourteen years ago . At St . James's , N ^ * w Brunswick , j a raft , with a pleasure party of fourteen young fem&le ? , parted when in the tide-way , and , shocking to relate , thirteen were drowned ! Mariners shouid be informed that ? he rock known as the'Old Woman , ' in the Gulf of St . Lawrence , off Cape Graspe , has sunk in the Bea . It was an important and well' known landmark .

      Sooth America . —News from Valparaiso had been received to the 3 rd of July . The south of Peru was then not quiet . The exiled General Santa Cms had retired from Ecuador , where he has , till recently , resided , to New Granada , that his presence might not injure the treaty in contemplation between Bolivia and Ecuador . The intelligence from Santa Fe was to the 15 th August . At that time all was quiet . S ^ nta Anna , in Mexico , had succeeded in carrying the elections in the department of Vera Cruz ; but he was in the minority in tho country generally . An armed brig , two gun-boats , &o M wiib 500 men , had tailed from Gampeachy , for the purpose of renewing the war m tne province of Tobasco against the Mexican Government . The opinion was , that the rulers of Yucatan intended to recommence hostilities against Santa Anna .

      China . —Persecution of the Christians —Tho following appears in the Dublin Evening Journal : On the 26 th of May last , the Rev . Mr . Libois , Procurator of the Foreign Missions at Macao , wrote to his Lordship the Bishop of Drusiparia : " I received yesterday very sad intelligence , which I hasten to communicate to your Lordship . Dr . Castro , the Administrator-Apostolio of Pekin , announces o m « that , according to the information which reached him in January , 1843 , his Lordship , Dr . Jmbert , and Messrs . Chastan aud Maub&n , were beheaded in the month of September , 1839 ; seventy Christians were also beheaded , and a hundred and eighty were strangled . '

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      ASHTON-TJNDER-I . INE . —Several of the millowners , to their praise be it said , have given tho list prices ; whilst others of them , up to the present , refuse to do so ; and one firm in particular , in order to prevent their hands from getting that support which is indispensably necessary , to enable them successfully to struggle with them for the same rate of wages , aa many of the other masters are paying , have circulated a report that their men are not on strike for wages , but to compel them , the masters , to take into their employ a man whom they discharged for spoiling his work . This is false . The

      truth is that the men are willing to go to their work , the moment the employers will give them the list price . We are happy to state that Mr . Wood , of Glossop , has given ihe power loom weavers in his employ an advance of one penny per piece this week . He was paying one farthing per piece , less than the other masters before . By this advance he is paying three farthings more ; wo suppose to make amends for the wages his workpeople have suffered by working for less than their neighbours . Also the Droyladen masters have given an advance of three farthiegs and a penny per piece , and an advance of one shilling per week to the card room hands in both of the above cases .

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      "The People tue only source , &c . —A few days back th » Sheriffof ttue King ' s connty , eight p # Uce , and some bailiffs , proceeded to the lands of Bally duff , near Roscrea , to levy tbe amount of an execution on a ¦ widow named Lark in , -when & mob of 200 persona disarmed several of the police , and rescued the seizure : after which the amount cf the execution was compromised . Jaiies Martih , Esq ., Coroner , \ rith a patty of police , after effecting a seizure of cattle at Smithstown , between Kufenora and Ejnistimon , were attacked by the country people , the cattle rescued , and tbe coroner and pnlicu assaulted .

      Robbery by a Postmaster . —O'Sullivan , the postmaster ef Castietown , Betbbaven , county of Cork * and bis brother-in-law , have been lodged in Bridewell , to meet a charge of appropriating a letter containing Bank notes to tbe value of £ 100 which had been forwarded by a Cork Dntt&r bujer named Mortv O'Sullivan , to bis brother . Police in Wales . —There are now at least 350 of the London police in the disturbed parts ot Carmarthenshire , Pembrokeshire , and Cardingahire . They have been stationed , with small companies of foot soldiers , under the command of non-commissioned officers In most of tbe villages and small towns throughout the count-y . and thus a system of stir veitktnce is kept up . Government Spies . —Three policemen are incustody at CastleTea on tne extraordinary charge of having on Sunday posted a threatening letter on a chapel door , warning the people against giving more than a certain rent for land , and emblazoned with a pistol emitting amofee and a ball from its inczzle !

      Sudden Death . —On Wednesday evening as a poor woman named Mary Galvin , living at Rumley Avenue , Kingston , was assisting a friend to carry a trunk to the railway station-house , on entering tho door she complained of having got a violent pain in her stomach , when she almost immediately fell down . Mr . Napier was on the spot in a few minutes , and opened the vein ia the arm , and Bent for Dr . Hatch , who was promptly in attendance ; and although be succeed in obtaining blood from the external jugular vein , and doing everything that medical skill could suggest , she died immediatrfy . —Dublin World .

      litPORTAMi . —lc ia said the Government baa ordered s CotuuiiESion to issue to inquire into the tenure of land in Ireland , and rtat tbe chairmanship is conferred upon the the Ri ^ ht Hon . theEsrl of Devon , who will bedssisted by four oilier members , two Liberals and two CoDservatires , whose names have not transpired . The sittings of the Gommission are to commence in Dublin , about tho first week in Dscembur ; and it is expected that thei- report will ba ready early in tbe next Suasion of Parliament . Shukikg Joke . —In the book in which travellers who visit Mount V esuvius usually inscribe their names , a captain of Austria dragoons made the following curious entry , which is translated literally : —•• F . N . has lit bis p » pe at the crater of Vesuvius—Providence and the Tascan dragoons for ever . ''

      Change o ? Fortune—An old man residing at Great Horton , known by the name of " Old Ben , " has had ; £ 100 a year settled on him for life by a relation who went out to India some time since , and bos obtained great wealth . " Old Ben , " alias Benjamin l « e £ gard , Esq ., has for a number of years obtained a livelihood by fetching coals with a donkey . Fatal Accident . —TJpton-on-Severn was horrified on Sunday by the sudden death , fro the accidental discharge of a gun , of Captain Henry Martin , at his residence at tbe Hook Common . . Drowned . —A policeman , while crossing the Shannon , on Friday night last , was drowned . The boat happening to strike against a rock , he was flung out , and all exertion to save him was unavailing .

      SoMEXfliKfi like a . Landlokd . —Edward Gal way , ef Duckspooi , in tne county of Waterford , Esq ., J . P ., has given all fcis tenants an abatement of 25 per cent tocemmence froav tho 25 th of March , 1842 , and has purchased a suit of clothes for eacn of h s labourers , and their wivts and fcunilies , and also supplied them with good feather be \ Is aud bed clothes ; he has employtd an experienced drainer , and ia about to stone drain at bis own expenc * ' uli tbe wetlands on his estates , and to build houses for » Vs tenants , roofed with slates . What next ?—William Lonergan , of Cdhir , a worthy son of St . Crispin , who repudiates the oldfashioned name of cordfc'aiEer , and dubs himself artist "! announces in the lipperaryFret Press that be has returned from a continental teut with ths latest patterns for understandings . '' The of

      THB TRAITOK OFIHB BARRICADES . — King tbe French intend * next year to . Day a visit to Queen Victoria , lor -which purpose a ya . 5 at iB about to be built . - More Tobtubjb . —At the CTerketfwell workhouse , as It appears by & zeport from the police-office of that district , a favourite punishment fer wfawt « y paupers , especially young girla , ia to look tbem np in a waid awMming with rats . Q . —Under what Jaw ? iBiorfkre atill in force ?—Tablet . A Veterah Tradesman . —Perhaps there is not another instance in this kingdom to be found parallel to one in the Chain Cable Foundry , Greanock . It iB that of a workman , a smith , who , though ao far advanced in years , is able to work for and earn bis living . From bis habits and appearance , no one would take bim at first sight to be above seventy ; he is now a few months beyond lot years . [ Toilwg at 104 years of age / B ' f > hold ino . ui . trys reward . ' 3

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      Death of a Cardinal . —Cardinal Alexander Glustidiani died at Genoa on the 11 th inst He was born in that city in 1778 , and was raised to the purple in 1832 . WAR IN Turkey —We learn from the frontiers of Albania that the Turks and the Montenegrins , after several c ' onfl . icts of a partial nature , had a severe , battle on the 21 st ult ., on the Herregovine , which ended ia tthe defeat of the Montenegrins by the Turkish troops under the command of the Pacha of Scutari . It ia said that an armistice was soon afterwards agreed to , Rebecca in Somersetshire On Wednesday night , tbe turnpike-gate at Sutfcon Weeks , near Chew-Btoke , was taken down , carried to a considerable distance , and thrown into a farmer ' s yard . Tho table of tolls was also removed from the front of the tollhouse arid placed over the door of u shoemaker , residing at sotne distance . — Wiltshire Independent

      Stoum ON the Continent . —Kxins amount ' ng n . tmuat to si il-iuitt ) , attendwl witn violent gules of wui' 1 , previiiiod ia Alauce during a part of last week . Tiavdilors rfelai-- ; in it the storma « f wind wero so r . lnrmins as o induce ih-. t directors of the railroad to suspend tbe dc'Kivtunss *> f tho trains . Wr . OCon . nell boasts that ( or tho space of forty yeara he h . i . i been the rale " Irish Tutor . " aud if we are to believe the Nation his nxer'ions have not btien eminently succabafiil . —Dub ' . in World . MRS . FKY is r ^ porteu to b « .. larm . n ^ ly HI , of a pulmonary complaijit , the conei ij-iei-ice of a eo ! d caught durine a . recent tour in the . orth of Europe . Father Mathew . —This gtintltmun is expected to leave Irulana iu ttirfce weeks , Rnn Will reCUHIIUbllCB his labours at Preston , in L uiuashire , and afterwards proceed to fulfil his numerous engagements in other parts of the country .

      The Schoolmaster / broad — The Nation says" Twelve months a ^ o and all tho world could not produce a People so ignorant of thoir ownhis'ory . To-day every man is familiar with it , or lon ^ s to be so . Its castles , its raths , irs battle-fidd . « , have become classic and sacred ground . Its triumphs are sung in racy melodies in every cottage , iarua hou « e , and mansion through the land , and in many a drawing-room . The young Conservative , hot with the fire of youth and tho instinctive lovo ef country , takes its history to his heart , and in his bi ^ otf-d College he sighs in secret * to ptrike one blow' for hig country . Old age has grown young again ovm tho chivalrous tale of'our struggltfs and prayed God that it might pot descend into the grave till it saw tho redemption of our country .

      The Mure a Nightcap . —The other Sunday , Khnry , Lord Bishop of £ xcter , according to the Western Times " took his scat upon his throne , drew the curtains around him , and ma-l-e all snug for meditation . " Dr . Coleridge , of Thorv . TtoB , preached . At tho conclusion of the hoaiily , tho coiiilregationj expecting the cu&tomary episcopal benediction , remained sitting . A breathless pause ensued . All eyes were turned towards the throne . Had anything happened to his Lordshtp ? The verger crossed over , and timouronsly rapped with his maco . There waB another pause , broken by—a snore , which proceeded from the flpUcopal snuggery . The offioial knocked again , louder ; the response was repeated , moro sonorously . Another knock : a downright whack : and up jumped tho Lord Bishop ; shook himself , and pronounced th « ble&sintt . Tho Western Times infers that the right rev , prelate wag asleep . Now , whether this stury is " a thing devised by the

      enemy , or not , we do not know Nor , supposing it to be true , do we know which to blame the bishop ; or the parson . Prelates are human ; narcotics will unvct the nervous system : and oven episcopal vigilance must yield to opium . Whether , therefore , Dr . Coleridge mesmerised Bishop Fhilpotts ; or whether a voluntary dismissal of ideas produced this effect ; or whether it was owing to a dovout abstraction of the mind from sublunary things , consummated iu a holy trance , we are quite unable to say . The supposed circumstance of a bibhop ' a sleeping in church , to have been published as a piece ot news , mu * t have beeu regarded as something extraordinary — we doubt if it is ao . An episcopal suore in church certainly is an uncommon acoustic phenomenen ; but if' prelates do not sleep in the chur < jhjwjertain questions that wo would ask are not eapQffansworablo How came it that Christianity was uniknown in the mines and factories 1 How was it that the extent ef

      destitution , metropolitan and provincial , has been but lately brought to light ? How happened it that the first appeal on behalf of the houseless sleepers in Hyde park to public charity was made by the Times 1 Whence arose the sale of pews and sittings ; How is kthatitho " superior classes" drive to church in their carriages , and leave their servants on the box outside 1 Verily , too many of their lordships must have been sleeping in tho church . —Punch . Hospitality . —Hospitals are some of the moat ad « mirabie insuintiona of Christian philanthropy , and especially those which are established for the relief of the sick and maimed . " They : rise , like shelters in affliction ' s storm * And welcoming the pallid , tott ' ring form , They softea pain—arrest the parting breath , Aud save the ^ uffurer from untimely death . "

      Thero is ono reflection , however , which is sure to rise on this subject , viz ., that sickness and Buffering in their cure , are not bo deserving of notice as they would be in their prevention . Tnis latter desirable object has been gained in the simple compound of Old Parr ; and the time , perhaps , is not far distant , wheR there will be little or no necessity for the institution of " Hospitals . " Destructive Fires . —On Saturday night , shortly after twelve o ' clock , the police constable on ( Jury discovered a quantity of smoke issuing from some of tho windows of the premises No . 3 , Oxford Arms Passage , Warwick-lane , New-lane , Newgate-street , in the occupation of Mr . Naah , manufacturer of British plate . On the dooTB being forced , the whole of the lower part of the building was discovered in flames . The interior of Mr . Nash ' s premises was almost wholly destroyed , together with the furniture and the greater part of the at nearl £ 3000 the

      valuable stock , estimated . y . ,,, amount destroyed supposed to be worth £ 2 , 000 , the sum insured in the Sun Fire Offioo . Some carnage was sustained to the roofs of No . 2 , adjoining ; of the stables of tho houses of Mr . Edward Sherman ; and of Mr . Matthews and Mr . Waight , meat salesmen , No . 11 , and No . 12 , Warwick-lane , while the furniture was damaged by water and removal . Last evening , about seven o ' clock , a fire broke out on the premises known as the " Ostend' rabbit warehouse , Neweut , Lambeth . Within five minutes after its discovery the wtiole contents of th * shop were in flames . Information was quickly forwarded to the firemen while engaged at a fire which had taken place about an hour previously in gome carpenters ' workshops at tbe back of the Surr . y theatre . Engines were brought into operation ; but notwithstanding such timely assistance , before the fhtnes cpuJd be subdued , the stock in the shop , as well as some household furniture of considerable value , wero

      entirely destroyed . The Nottingham Review states , " that the late Dr . Fairy , of Bath , had av ® n © time under his care two patients who had attempted to cut short or to ease a paroxysm of gout by plunging the afflicted foot into cold water . This gave instant relief to the pain , and in both instances the inflammation presently abated , but in both also palsy of one half of the body occurred iu a few hours afterwards . " This terrible affliotton with its train of evils could not by tho martyrs have been in the most remote degree contemplated . Cruel as the sufferings are to those that endure this sad malady , consolation is derived from a knowledge that the improvemf nts in medical science have led to the discovery of Blair ' s Gout and Rheumatic Pills , from the use of which the afflicted have ever found relief .

      i rogress of Insoxvehcy . —DunHg the past month there have appeared in the Gazette the names of 2 * 4 insolvents , whoso property ( 1 ) has beeu vested in the provisional assignees ; 44 bankrupts and 22 assignments ; making a grand total of 310 persons , who , in 26 days ^ have become commercial delinquentspersons who , by reason oftheir idleness , their extravagonce , their roguery , or their gambling ( speculation ) in commodities , have become unable to pay their jast debts—persons who , by favour of vicious legislation , are all , or nearly all , screened from any punishment due to their mischievous dolinquenoy . Experienced men say that for one name which appears in the Gazette , there are nine delinquencies settled by private compromise , which would make 3 , 100 during the month ; and , if their deficiencies amount each to £ 200 only , there isaloss duringthemonth or £ 620 , 000 . — York Courant .

      Female Academie Franchise . —M . de CaRtellane has at length succeeded in carrying into effect his lo&e-oberisbed scheme of founding in Pans a Female " Academie Fransaise . " Among the objects pro posed by the institution are ^ -The distribution of medals to the authoresses of remarkable works ; the encouragement of young females in their first literary essays , and the defrayal of the expenses of printing their works ; affording pecuniary aid to literary women in straitened ciroumstances , and pro-Tiding for the children of those who die in poverty . Among the ladies who are already chosen members of the new academy ate , Mmes . Georges Sand , Emile de Girardin , De Bawr , Virgime Ancelot , Anna 4 e « Essarta , Gleoaence Robert , Charles Reybaud . PriBeesse de Craon , Eugenie Foa , Mdlanie Waldor , AoaiB Segalas , D'Helf , CpmtesBe Merlin , and several distinguished female painters and masicians . — -Foreign Quarterly .

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      A Steamkr on Fire in the River . —Between the hours of five and six on Sunday morning , a fire broke out on board tbe Ailsa Craig steam- ship , Capt . Dawson commander , moored off the Leith and Berwick wharf , Irongate-stairs , at the Tower . The steamer , which waslof bstween 200 and 300 tons burden , arrived off the wharf mentioned from Yarmouth on Sunday afternoon , having a heavy cargo on board , consisting ! of several hundred sacks of flour , several tons of [ mustard , besides bales of silk , wool , cotton , and goods of every description . The fire was discovered by the Captain of the Princess Royal Bteamer , which was lying alongside , who percieved the Hmokefissuing through the deck . At the time the crew of the Ailsa Craig were fast asleep

      below ; they were instantly a ' . aTmed , and the hatchway torn off to get at ; the fire , which was found to be of fearful extent—the whole of the cargo appearing to ba in a blnze . No sooner had the alarm been raised than the brigade floating-engines were unmoored and convHyed ] to the fire . After the engines had been got into operation , the branches were directed into the hold } and torrents of water poured upon , the burning can , 'o , which not having the desired tffect , holes j were cut in various parts of the deck so as to reach the fire , but evan this was of little avail , the flajnes still raging , and with increased fury , for si-yera ] hours . Several a'tempts wtr « made to get atjthe firo by firemen descending

      ! mw > the hold with the engine branch , but they were uua'ble to ri-m&in many seconds in consequence of i--h' * oppressive heat aiid buffuCJitirii ) f ffluvia that arose from the burning mustard . The only change remaining to save the ship was cither to skuttle her or fill the hold with water . Already was there four feet of water , which ] had baea pumped in by the floating-engines , and ! h was determined that they should continue playing until the entire of the cargo wafa flooded . This , although i * . ot accomplished until near eleven o ' clock , extinguished tho flames ; but the damage done Uk . the meanwhile was very considerable , so much'lo ' i indeed , that the vessel will have to go into dock-to repair . The loss , it is said wilf amount to £ 1 . 000 .

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      The Mortality of the Metropolis . —We regret to siate that lire wteliiy table of mortality still presents a more distressing increase in the number of deaths above tn . ii average at this season . In the week ending October 21 no less than 1 , 100 persons died-within tno bills | of mortality ; an increase of 198 upon the average pf the last five autumns , and 203 upon that of the last fiveyears . It ia in endemic , and contagious diseases that the increased mortality is principally perceptible ; the deaths UDderthis head numbering 271 , while the average

      gives only 183 . Of diseases affeoting the organs of respiration the returns of the week show an increase of 42 deaths , and of those in which tho digestion is concerned an increase ] also of 32 deaths , in fact , in no one instance out of i the many " ills which fl-sh is heir to" do the present teturus show a decreas ¦ in the amount of mortality . JThe mean temperature for the week has not been higher than 42 degrees , ten degrees less than that of the previous week or of the average during the corresponding weeks for the last nine years . —Times . 1

      Jesus Christ versus Louis Philippe !—The Reforme publishes the j following paragraph : — " M . Hubert , a boot makor , living in Rue St . Louis , bad placed in the interior of his shop a wooden figure of Christ , with all the instruments of the passion . Oa the glass bvll which icovered the pious image , bis customers read the following inscription , written in large letters . —* He j died for having preached equality . ' M . Gromfier , commissary of police of the 8 tti district , convinced , no doubt , that Christ , who said that the last thing on earth would be the first in heaven , had net preached in favour of equality ,

      presented himself , without any previous summons , accompanied by two agents , at the domicile of the bootmaker , tore off the inscription , and carried awav the seditious Christ . M . Herbert was absent at the time , but learning on hia return what had passed , be hastened to lodge a formal complaint in the hands of the Attorney-General . Let us hope that this functionary will see that prompt and Bevere jiistiot ) be done , and that , following the precept of the Gospel , ' Restore j to Caasar what belongs to Csesar , ' ho will order ] the figure of Christ and the inscription to be returned to M . Hebert . "

      Coroner s lKQUEST .-i-On Saturday an inquest was held at the Grueu Man Inn , Putney-heath , before Mr . Carter , coroner for Surrey , on view of the body of Mr . Richard Willa , aged 38 , a commercial traveller , who put a period to his existence on Wednesday last , on Putney-heath , by discharging the contents of a pistol through his head , under cii cum-Btances of a very lamentable and determined nature . A pocket pistol of moderate size was found tightly clinohed in his band . JThe upper part of his mouth was much shattered . Some friends of tho deceased spoke to his despondiug state of mind for some months past . His relations were most respectable persons , residing at Taunton , ia Somersetshire , and he was in very tood circumstances . Mr . Shillito , surgeon , of Putney , said the bullet had passed through the brain , lodging at the back of the skull . Death must have been ] instantaneous . The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary derangemont . "

      Jack in a Fix . —A rather ludicrous circumstance took place a lew days since . A party of seamen belonging to the Vanguard were returning stores preparatory to the paying off the ship , whou one ot them wagered that he would squeeze himself through the ring at the end of jthe main-yard by which the studding-yard is projected . All h <* nds immediately dropped work to witness the interesting performance , and Jack having inserted his feet first , got the ring round his waist , j Uufonunately , however , his shoulders were too broad , and his arms too lusty , to

      permit him to pass entirely through the ring , and after several unavailing attempts , he admitted that his fair proportions had defeated him . Jack , therefore , proceeded to " back out" of it , but alas , his hips prevented him . In this " fix 'he remained for some time , and amidst shouts of laughter from his messmates , which were Renewed again and again as he struggled and writhed to escape . Ultimately , however , a shipwright ] was sent for , and having removed the roller , Jack was released from this peculiar kind of " Jaying out" on the yard .

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      ANOTHER DREADFUL STORM . Cardigan , Oct . 28 . f-The Hampton , Rowland , from Liverpool to Marseille ? , was stranded in this Bar to-day , and must discharge to get off . A schooner is on the Bur , and it is found will become a wreck . A sloop han sunk in the Bay ; three men are in the rigging , but the sea is too high for assistance to go off . A piece of wreck has came ashore here , but nothing to indicate to what vessel it belongs . The Bristol Tender is totally wrecked , crew drowiied , and patt of cargo washed ashore . The Lord of the Isles , from Jersey to Whifehaven , is on shore ; crew savfed . Another schooner has just gone ashore ia tho Bar .

      Swansea , Oct . 28 .-4-U commenced blowing a smart bre < zt at S S . E . yesterday , at four r si ., which subsequently increased ; to a heavy gile . Two schooners and two smacks went ashore in the Mumbles , but are expected off , not having ( apparently ) received much damage ! The Kate , of Falmouth , in entering the Bav last night , very leaky , with cargo shifted , became unmanageable , brought up with two anchors , and , { fearing she would founder , was abandoned ; was ; subsequently boarded by pilots , and with the assistance of a steam-tug brought in here this morning , j Bridlington Qdat , Oct . 28 . —It has blown a hurricane , with torrents of rain since msduight , and a heavy sea . The Spring , Booth , of and from London to thia port , in making the harbour , missed , and drove between the Bouthjpier , and it is supposed will become a total wrncfc 1

      Liverpool , Oct . 28 .- The William , Newton , from Drogheda to this port , was driven ashore last night on the North Bank ; crew saved . The Britannia , Edwards , bound to Bahia , ashore near the Ribole , has come off , and put back , leaky . The Isabella , for Trinidad , has put baok leaky . 29 . —The Diana , Newlan , from Ban try toj this port , is ashore at the entrance -of Carnaea ( . Anglesea ) , and expected to become a wreck . The Liady Bentinck , Hamilton , of Whitehaven , with flour , butter , pigs &c , went ashore last night , near Southpprt , and is gone to pieces ; crew saved . T ^ e Henrietta , from Chester to Dublin , is ashore near Formbe ; cargo washing ashore . The Asia , from Rio Grande to this port , is ashore near Jarid ; crew saved . The Hibernia ( sWamer ) , from Dublin to this port , got ] on shore in Moeht ' a roads , but came off on the flood this afternoon , after landing

      the cattle . The Janet , M'Nab , from Loch to this port ( with wool ) , is ashore near Red Wharf ; crew saved . The Warrington packet , from Kirkcudbright to this port , went ashore this morning near South Port ; dismasted , crew leaved . The Vernon , from the Isle of Man to this port , ia ashore near Formbe . Dbai ,, Ocx . 28 . —It blew a heavy gale the whole of last night from S . S . W . The friendship , Belts , from Yarmouth to Stonehaven , put back to the Downs yesterday leaky , ' and sunk this morning in the Small Downs ; crew saved . The Spheriod . Bailie , for St . Vincent ' s drove on the Brake Sand , bat was hoisted off with loss ! of anchors , and has been supplied . The Union , Mackie , delivering coals on Deal Beach , drove aloagshore , and is expected to be saved ; part of stores and materials saved . Several vessels drove considerably ! but brought np with a second anchor down . '

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      Padstow , Oci ' . 28 . —It has blown a gale from W . N . W . to-day , during which the Peter and Rebecca , of Plymouth , was driven ashore at Port Isaac .

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      . .. ^ . —^¦ . . . —~ . . . ~ ^^ i ^~*~~*~*~ THE CASE OF POISONINGf BY SULPHATE OF POTASS . CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT , MONDAY , Oct . 30 . William Haynes , aged 25 , described in thecalendat as an oilman , was charged with the wilful murder of Mary , his wife , by administering to her excessive doses of sulphate of potas 3 , in consequence of whieh she died on the 28 th September . Mr . Prendergast conducted the prosecution , and Mr . Wilkins and Mr . Wym > e defended the prisoner . Mr . Prendergast stated tbe facts of the case which have already been published , and called a number of witnesse 3 s in support of the charge , who were ably cross-exnmined hy Mr . Wilkias .

      Mr . Wilkiss then addressed tbe jury for the defence , and commented severely oa the manner in Which the prosecution had been conducted , and also upon the medical evidence which had been given , by a man who possessed neither diploma nor license , and who had ! Buffered bis feeiings to be so far enlisted in the case , that ho might be called the prosecuting doctor . He then put to the jury whether there was any proof that tna apoplexy o * which the deceased died bad been produced by the administration of toe sulphate of potass . They had no evidence as to tha woman ' s habits ; they had Heard that she was predisposed to apoplexy ; they had b 8 ard that mental anxiety and that intemperate habits would produce apoplexy , and yet no evidence had been given as to the previous habits of the deceased . Suppose

      she had taken these medicines of her own accord , how cauld they find tbe prisoner guilty ? Medical men wers frequently in the habit , where former parturitious ha i been attended with extreme danger , of producing abortion . But in thia case the woman was nofc pregnant , and the probability was that she knew it , and had most likely informed the prisoner so ; and if the medicine had been given to prevent conception , that was no crime . Could they believe that the prisoner had intended to kill hia wife ? What man in the kingdom could say that tne probable result of admistering two ounces of sulphate of potass would produce death ? Under the circumstances , he submitted , that it was impossible that the jury could convict the prisoner of the crime of murder . As to what Mr

      Pickering had stat-d about the prisoner ' s dislike to children , be did not believe it . The policeman was present tbe whole time , and be bad not heard , it . The counsel for the prosecution had not aliuded to it ; he had not heard it Mr . Pickering , who . had been examined before the Coroner and the Magisstrate , could not have forgotten it ; and yet be bad never mentioned it before . He did not believe it He wished he could have laid before the jury , from some of the witnesses for the prosecution , what had taken place in the prison when tho prisoner ' s child bad aa interview with him . He wished they could have seen how that child had clung around him . That was the voice of nature , and nature never lied . Oould they

      believe the evidence of Mr . Pickering as to the cause ef death 1 Ho did not pretend that he had any diploma or that he had undergone any examination , but ha asked them to believe him as to the cause of death oa the strength of his having foe thicty stars experimentalised on human existence . If they had any doubt as to the cause of death they must acquit the prisoner . Law was stated to be tbe perfection of reason , and was it not most unreasonable to put the prisoner npon the same footing aa the midnight assassin . He had alwayg been kind and attentive to his wife ; and whatever might be the result of this inquiry , he hod , ia consequence of her loss , already suffered more than it was in tne power of any human hand to inflict upon him .

      Several witnesses were called , who had known tho prisoner for aowe years ; all gave him the character of a very kind and humane man . They were crosa-examineel by Mr . Prendergast .. ' Mr . Justice Wightman summed up , and said thafe if the jury shauld be of opinion that the prisoner had administered the drug to the deceased for the purpose of procuring abortion they must find him guilty , aven if they should be of opinion that he bad no intention of killing her ; that was if , ia their opinion , the administration of the smlphate of potass had been the cause of death . It was for them to say whether the medical testimony was sufficient to satisfy them that the admiaistration of the sulphate of potass had been the cause of death ; if they were not satisfied on that point , they must acquit the prisoner . The Jury then proceeded to deliberate on their verdict , and having retired for three quarters of an hour , returned into Court with a verdict of—Not Guilty .

      . The prisoner , who is a good-looking young man , wasdressed in genteel mourning . He seemed deeply affected during tbe who ; e of the proceedings , and frequently shed tears .

      CHARGE OF CHILD MURDER . Ia the case of Edward Dwyer , charged with murdering his infant child by dashing its head against a counter , Mr . Harry , on behalf of the prisoner , applied to have the trial postponed until next sessions , it . consequence of the absence , of several material witnesses for the dbfence , who Ojtald depose as to the state of the prisoner ' s mind . - ^^ Tbe application , which was not opposed , was granted by the Court .

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      London Corn Exchange , Monday , Oci . 30 th . — During the past week , the arrivals of all Grain up to our market , with the exception of those of Irish Oat * , of which upwards of 22 , 000 qrs were received , were on a very limited scale , and by no means ia first-rate condition . The receipts of English Wheafr were tolerabiy good , particularly from Essex and Cambridgeshire . The stands exhibited a fair average number of samples , the best of whieh were taken at fultpriccs ; indeed , in some instances , aa advance of Is per or was obtained for the best white

      descriptions . In the middling and inferior kinds not much business was doing , yet previous rates were supported . The demand for Foreign Wheat , was slow , yet the currencies underwent no alteration . Ia bonded sorts nothing was doing . Malting Barley sold freely , at fully last week ' s prices ; but in grinding ; and distilling sorts next to nothing was doing . The Malt trade was , on tha whole , duil , but we > have no change to notice in the value of this article . Owing to the large arrival of Oats , the inquiry for them was slow , yet full prices were generally paid . 3 eans , Peas , and Flour , were held firmly at late

      rates . London Smithfield Cattle Market , Monday , Oct . 30 th . —From our northern grazing districts , aa well as from other parts of England , the arrival of Beasts were again extensive , and , for the moBt part , of middling quality . The unfavourable state of the weather for slaughtering ,-and the large quantities of dead meat on sale ia Newgate and Leadenhall Markets , produced considerable heaviness in the demand for Beef ; indeed , for some hours , it was in . a state of * complete stagnation , notwithstanding , the attendance of butchers was numerous . A few of tha very primest Scoib found buyers , at prices about equal to those obtained on this day se ' nnightior from 3 s 8 d to 3 s lOd per 81 bs ; but the general quotation of Beef declined quite 2 d per 81 bs , and nearly 400 beasts were turned out unsold . The numbers of Sheep , were not very great , yet they were more than

      adequate to meet the wants of the dealers . The Mution trade ruled excessively dull , and the currencies were quite 2 d per QA > a beneath those realized last week . Wo scarcely evor recollect so dull an inquiry for Vtal , the , value of which receded from 2 d to 4 d per 81 bs . Som « small Pork sold freely , . and other kinds of Pork slowly , at barely late rates . The imports of Foreign sioc&s , since our last , hava been quite unimportant , aud we bad not a single head on sale here to-day . The arrivals of Beasts from Lincolnshire , Leicestershire ^ and Northamptonshire , consisted of 2 , 600 short-horns ; from Norfolk , Suffolk , Essex , and . Cambridgeshire , 150 Scots and homebreds ; from Yorkshire , 90 runts ; from ths Western and Midland Distriocs , 200 Ddvons , Herefords , runts , &c . ; from other parts of England , 100 of various kinds ; from Scotland , 100 Scots ; aud from Ireland , 40 beasts .

      Borough Hop Markst . —Tho quantity of hops on show here is still large , even for the time of year ; nevertheless the demand for them is firm , at prices fully eqoal to those obtained last week . Very little is doing in the duty , which is estimated ac £ 130 , 000 , to £ 135 , 000 . Borough and Spitalfields . —There has been a fair average arrival of potatoes at the waterside since our last report . Good s > uud qualities sell freely ; other kinds slowly , at our q-ioutions . Wool Markets . —The public sales , which have been in progress since our last report , have been well attended by dealers . Out of the 12 , 000 packages offered , about 8 , 000 have been disposed of at an . advance of from Id to lid per lb on the previous sale's rates . Privately , a very limitod business is doing , yet the quotations are irmly supported . Very few importations have taken place from any quarter .

      Tallow . —Tbia market continues in a dull and inactive state . The trade are buying only to supply their immediate wants , and but little speculation is going on . The latest advices from St . Fetersburgh are up to the 16 th inst . ; when the Quantity shipped off was 111 , 690 casks , " against 95 , 404 to t&e sanw date last year , and 118 , 630 in . 1841 . ErleeB were pteady , and Yellow Candle would cost , laid down in London , about 433 . There are now between London and St . Petersbiirgh 12 , 000 casks . Town Tallow , 433 to 43 s 6 d , net cash . Rough fat , 2 s 6 d per 81 bs .

      Manchester Corn Market , Saturday , ^ Oct . 28 , —There W ; as but little inquiry for Wheat at our market this morning , -but holders did not appear anxious to press sales at'lower-prices , and there was only a limited business-done in congequence . —Flour met a moderate sate at about the previous currency . Both old and new Oatmeal waa in fair request , anvJ the former must be noted rather dearer . No alteration in Oata

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 4, 1843, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct675/page/6/