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%%$ &etxwoii 9 * " " ? Health of London dcrikg the Wsek . —It is gratifying to observe that the return for the week ending last Saturday , exhibits a further decrease in the mortalitv . During the two previous weeks the deaths registered in the metropolitan districts were , in snccessiou , 1 , 124 , 893 ; they have now declined to 866 . In the corresponding weeks ef ten previous years ( 1 S 40 9 ) the average number was 937 , which being r used in the ratio of probable increase of population , becomes 1 , 022 ; compared with which the number now returned shows a decrease of 156 . In the same week of last year , before cholera became pr «! oni"mnt . the deaths were 1 . 0 S 9 ; the mean temperature , which was then unusually depressed , was lower thin last week by 12 di g . List week the
deaths of 9 children and 2 adults were registered from small-pox ( of which 3 occurred in the Small Pox Hospital , Oamden-town ) , indicating rather an increase of the disease , though it has not yet q'lite attained the average ; 17 children died of measles , which is esacly the average ; 3 G died of hooping cough , aud 18 children and 1 adult of scarlatina , both complaints being less fatal than usual : 8 children died of croup , abur . t the usual number ; 35 persons of typhus i ' evtr . and 8 of erysipelas both of which are near the average .- Ten woni ? n died after childbirth , to 1 of whom " puerperal fever " is assigned as the cause of death ; 22 persons , of whom about half were chi dren , died of diarrhoea and dysenrrr ; this number is double the average , and also exhibits an increase on each of the three ireeks immediately precding . A woman died of" purpurahseniorLagica ; ai d again , two persons of chorea . The two cases in wlirh the latter disease , so seldom fatal , occurred , are thus recorded;—At 8 , Jeff ' s-p ' a ; e , St . John ,
Marvlebone , on the 13 th of April , the daughter of a coachmaker , aged 16 years , " chorea ; " on the 1 / th Avril , at the London Hospital , to which she had been brought from Stepney , a female servant , aged 19 years , died of "chorea . " It is vo thy of remark that 9 deaths have been registered in London from tills cause during the last ten weeks , which is nearly double the number that usuall y occur in a year . Amongst diseases of the respiratory organs , pneumonia and asthma now show a decrease ; bronchitis has also declined , if compared with the amount of corresponding weeks in the last three years , but is slill in excess , in comparison with the mortality of the seven previous years . The b ' rths during the week were 1 , 471 . At tlie Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the raean height of the barometer in the week was 29 . 504 in . ' 1 hs dailv temperatures varied little throughout the we-k ; the mean temperature was on every day higher than on the same day on an average of seven years : the mean of the week was 48 9 deg-, and was about 3 des higher than the average .
Robbery in an Omsibus . —On Saturday last , Mr . W . Archer , builder , of PortJand-town , obtained £ 209 in gold at tlie Bank of England , for the purpose of paying his workmen , aud having deposited the money safely in his pocket , he entered an omnibus ; at the same moment , a man about thirty-five , dres = ed in a brown paletot , took his seat beside him , followed by a f male carrying an infant . Xear the Angel , the woman was seized with hysterics , causing great a'arra and confusion amongst the rest of the passengers- Tiievt hide being stopped she was got « ut and taken ia-o a surgeon ' s , when it was found that the man in the brown paletot was missing , having forgotten to pay his fate , and on Mr . Archer fee . ing for his money he discovered that it was gone also . Suspicion was aroused , and on proceeding to the surgeon ' s the woman was found to have instantly departed . Xn doubt exists that the affair was a ruse to facilitate the plunder .
Illegal Soap Manufactory . —Saturday moiling Inspector Srennan seized a . mrst extensive illicit soap m .-u / nfacrory , which it is evident has been car ried on for a lengthened period at a place called Sprii ! 2-oattsge , Stoke Newingt < ni . It was with considerable difficulty that the officers effected an entrance to the premises , which were well secured , but having done s " , they first of all pounced upon two well-known smugglers , named Jacob Bench and John Yoang . who were forthwith removed to Clerkenwell Court , where they were sentenced to sn imprisonment of three months in defaul t , of paying £ 30 each .
Co . \ SEcaATiO 3 i of A New Church . —On Saturday forenoon the new church of St . Bartholomew , situated in M"or-lane , Cripplegate , was consecrated by the Bishop of London , in the preseuce of a very numerous and respectable congregation . The sacred edifice is erected < -ut of and fitted up with the materials which formed the clmrcii of St . Bartholomew , in Broad-street , which was taken down for the improvements adjoining the Royal Exchange . The tower is of a design simi ' ar to the old one , and the organ , with the font , pulpit , and communion-table , are the same . The Rev-. 3 Ir . Denton , senior curate of Shoreditcb , is the incumbent .
Assault is Hyde-park . —Shortly before six o ' clock on Sunday afternoon , being the period when the foot promenade is generally most crowded , the following affair iook place , contravening ! tlie wisdom of our ancestors as expressed 5 n the ,-xioin , " The bsUer the day the better the deed . " At the curve opposite the Duke of Wellington ' s forming the junction between " Uotten-row" and the " Serpentinedrive , " two persons in gentleman ' s attire m t , when one assaulted the other with a heavy " cane , " inflicting a fearful wonnd , apparently over , or directly on ,
the right eye . J he attack appeared to 02 instantaneous , and the result as above stated . The sufferer ¦ was a tall slim young man , apparently about twentyfive years of age , who was hurried over by a powerful friend to St . George ' s Hospital , his track thither being traceable by gouts of blood . The aggressor who was instantly confided to t e hands of the . police , and taker off to the Vine-stre ? t station , wa-s shorter in stature than the assailed , bnt much more squarely built , and showed no outward marks of havi > g suffered in the nfihty .
Determined Sdicioe . —On Saturday a ternoon last Mr . Bedford , the coroner , concluded an inquiry -which had previously been adjourned , at the Malpas Arms , Charles-street . Grosvenor-square , respecting the death of Susan "White , a single woman , aged thirty-two years , who committed suicide in Lady Vernon ' s mansion , No . 5 , Upper Belgrave-street , Be ! gr-ive-square . The deceased had only been five days in her ladyship ' s service as cook , having previously filled a similar situation in the establishment of LaJy Xormanby . The deceased was found in her room on Tuesday niorning week , with a rope round her neck , the end of which she held in her hand . She had died from strangulation , and the deceased had also inflicted two incised wounds upon her throat and one upon her rishtann with acoramon . kitchen-knife ,
wfcicu wai found lying by her side . Several of the deceased ' s relatives were examined , but were un-ible to account for the deceased committing the rash act . During tlie last three weeks she had complained of pain * in her head , smdshehad also appeared very low aud desponding . Verdict— " Temporary insanity . " Serious Accident at the House of Commons . —On Tuesday morning , shortly before ten o clock , an accident which had well ni » h proved fatal to several workmen occurred in the great central ball of the new houses of parliament , in that part leadins to the crypt in connexion with St . Stcphen ' s-hall . Several men were engaged in raising a mass of stone weighing nearly three tons , intended to form part of the central arch of the hall , by the means of hand machinery , the pullies being suspended
from three pillars , technically called " shear logs . The scaffolding , in consequence of the enormous wei ght of the stone , had been made extra strong , and the men had been c autioned to work it slowly and carefully . After three hours labour the men had succeeded in raising the mass of stone to a heig ht of between fifteen and twenty feet , and they then commenced to " stock it , " so as to keep it steady working ; the process of blocking was hardly gone through , when the ponderous weight of the stone , which was then resting on the two ropes of the hand pulley , caused the wheels of the block to enap from the rollers , the " shear legs " at the same time giving "way , the stone with the cumbrous machinery suddenly falling to the ground with an immense crash ; fortunately the -workmen while the stone was suspended had withdrawn from the spot , those only remaining who were engaged in raising
it In the course of thefall of the "legs " iheee men -were seriously injured , being knocked down and jammed between the " legs " and stone . Assistance was immediately rendered , and the men drawn out in a senselesss condition , and conveyed to the hospital , when it was found that they had sustained most extensive injuries , Carss , one of the sufferers , having received a compound fracture of the skull , and Michael Donoghue and the foreman , Webb , having received injuries , the effect of which may prove fatal to both . Carss and Douoghue remain in the hospital , "Webb being , at his earnest request , eonveyed to his own house . The escape of the sufferers from beiug crushed to death is moat miraculous , as , had it not been for the shear legs forcui" them out , the stone must have fallen upon them , and certain death would have been inevitable .
Alaiw of Fike at Drubt-iase Theatre . — On Tuesday evening , at a few minutes before five O ' clock , considerable excitement prevailed m the immediate neig hbourhood of Drury-J . ine Theatre , in consequence of a report being raised that the building had taken fire * In the course of a few minutes several hundred persons congregated , for sheets of flame were rising above the roof , whilst \ o \ leys of sparks kept flying about in sundry directions . In the coarse of it few minutes the engines froxi Messrs . Combe and Delafield ' s ( the brewers , ) the Lou-lon Brigade , and West of England Office , attended ~ , but then-services were not required ,-as the fire ; , did not extend beyond tfie chimney ,-in ¦ which it brolj « out , and it was extinguished by the persons connected with the theatre .
JSEQUAisxiEs iF iaz Iajtd TjxI ± On Monday last the committee of the . commissioners of land fax , for-MMdlfliex , appointed at : a ' general ' meeting 6 f the commissioners , held at the ; Sessions House , Cl ei * ljinweU ,. on , Tnesday , , tho . 26 ffi "; of Mareti , alt . ; ttfHiike '' thle necaasary steps U > ' induce the' go « rnj m ' ent fco } iBlJC ^ a . measure i ; infoFparliameniti ; 4 e ' - >/> . A ¦ ' ::: } ~ acfiJ-svsaofiwnyJi j « - ~
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claratory as to the powers of the commissioners to equalise the land tax throughout the county—held a meeting at the board-room of the Holuorn division , in Bed Lion-square , when it was determined that a deputation should immediately wait upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer , in furtherance of the purpose for which they were appointed , ana tne deputation was nominated .
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tured in front by a blow , and , from the manner in which the wound had been Inflicted in the throat thev were . decidely of opinion that the deceased could not have committed suicide , but must have been murdered . It further appearod that his pockets had been rifled , and turned inside out ; the mark of bloody fingers was found , but the hands of the deceased were perfectly clean . H . Ililler , alias Axford , a labourer , has been brought before the Fr < ime magistraten-, charged , on suspicion , with committing the murder , and remanded for a fortnight . The Game Laws . —A Man Shot . —Two men were shot at lately in a wood called Noroyds , bolonging to Lord Wharncliffe , at Carlton , near Barnsley . The game on this estate is preserved by a solicitor , who resides near Wakefield , and who
employs a person named Joseph Hunter as gamekeeper . The police authorities took no notice of it , although Moody , one of the wounded men , is unable to go without a stick , from the effect of the injuries he received . However Cherry , the other man who was shot , has sued Hunter ; the case was heard on the 19 th , before Wm . Walker , Esq ., the judge of the county court at Barnsley . Cherry Btated that on the 23 rd of February , he went to see the Badsworth hounds meet at the village of Notton , and in coming down by the side of the wood he saw Ilunter , the defendanti who asked plaintiff and two others where tlie hounds were . Plaintiff told him that they w ere in Notton-park . These men left Ilunter , am ! walked down by the side of Noroyds-wood . They went through tlie wood , when one of the men with him began cutting some sticks . Plaintiff then saw Hunter , who was about twenty-five ^ ards from them , coming towards them , the men be gan to run away , when plaintiff snid to the other , " He ' s going to
shoot us ; " and before he had delivered the words he was shot in the arm and side , and could not run with the others . —Georpe Wordsworth , assistant to , Mr . Cawood , surgeon , Barnsley , said that plaintiff went to their surgery on the 25 th of February , and stated that he had been shot . They examined him , and found he had been shot in the left arm and side on the ribs near the heart . On the 6 th of march he extracted a shot from his arm , and made an incision on the ribSi but was unable to get the shot out . The wounds were not dangerous , but they were in a dangerous part . —Henry Challenger and Joseph Cherry , the two men who were with the plaintiff , corroborated his evidence . —The Judge sni that defendant deserved to be sent to York for what he had ¦ done alreadv . The damages might have been laid at £ 100 or £ 1 , 000 had plaintiff been acting lawfully ; buthe thought plaintiff had acted with discretion inlaying the damages at £ 10 ., for which he should give a verdict , : md all the costs the law would allow .
Alleged Fraud by a Bankrupt . — At the Bristol Bankruptcy Court on Saturday , Charles Green , a baker , who applied for his certificate , was opposed by Mr . Trenerry for the assignees on various grounds , ODe of which was that he had , with a view to defraud his creditors , antedated a bill for £ 55 , which he afterwards paid four days before its presumed maturity . . It was proved that although the bill was dated the 11 th of May , the stamp upon which it was drawn was not struck in London until the 4 lh of July , and the learned commissioner , Mr . Serjeant Stephen , ordered the assignees to prosecute him for making , or being privy to the making , of a false entry in a document with a view to defraud his estate . There being no estate the court ordered the costs to be defrayed out of the bankruptcy funds
in the Bank of England , and he informed the bankrupt that bis conviction would subject him to three years' imprisonment with hard labour . Colliery Strike near St . Helens . —The colliers in the employment of Messrs . Johnston at their colliery at Laffock , numbering fully 200 hands , haye turned out in consequence of the proprietors having recently appointedaperson named Smith as manager or undcr-viewer of their mines , who is disliked by the men . The proprietors have issued large placards , informing and cautioning the public against relieving the men . The colliers engaged at the extensive vorks of Mr . Mackay , at Upholland , have been upon strike for several weeks past . Upwards . of 100
colliers have turned out from the collieries at Rainford , on account of a dispute about wages , and petty depredations are becoming so numerous , that an extra numb ? r of police have been applied for and sent to ( his neighbourhood to protect the property of the inhabitants . We regret to be informed that several riotous meetings have been beld by the men on Smithybrow , to which the colliers had been summoned by the beating of tin cans , &c . Stones have been thrown at various parties who declined leaving work . Several of the ringleaders have been apprehended and brought before the magistrate , who has ordered them to find bail for their future good behaviour .
St . Ives . —The Fishery . —The boisterous state of the weather during the past week has hindered the fishermen from going to sea . Three boats shot on Monday night ; one took 300 fish ; another lost eighteen nets ; and . the third was obliged to go to Newquay or St . Agnes . It would be an act of charity towards the poor unfortunate fishermen , if any 01 our coasting vessels which may fall in with these lost nets , would take them on board , and on arriving in port , publish them in the Shipping Gazette , without asking salvage , a 3 some have done- —Cornwall Gazette . On Saturday last there arrived in Hull , by train , from Darlington , eight bulls and four heifors of the Durham breed , from the eminent breeders Mr . R . Thornton , of Stapleton , and Mr . R . Emmerson , of Evyholm , which were shipped for the Belgian government .
Oxford . —On tlie 18 th inst . two eight-oared outriggers fouled each other near Iffley Lock , when both boats were upset , aud their crews , consisting : of eighteen persoas , were thrown into the water , which was very high and running rapidly at the time . Three of the individuals could not swim , and were saved by Mr . Ham'ber , of Oriel , who was in one of the boats , and swam to their aid , and with great presence of mind , and with almost superhuman Strength and tact , brought all three safely to land . St . Helen ' s Savings Bank . —The following notice was extensively circulated on Monday : — " St . Helen ' s Savings Bank . — "Notice is hereby given that the trustees and managers of the St . Helen ' s Savings Bank will pay a first dividend of 6 s . 8 d . in the pound
out of the funds of the bank to those depositors whose claims have not been objected to , as well as upon the amount awarded to those depositors whose claims ) have been objected to . The dividend will be paid at the Town-hall on Monday , the 13 th dny of May next , and on the three following days , between the hours of ten o clock in the forenoon and two o ' clock in the afternoon . By order of the trustees and managers , Ansdsll and Haddock , solicitors . " Dreadful Tragedy by Drunken Navigators . — On Saturday evening last the small town ( if Otley , on the banks of the Wharf , ten miles north-west of L ^ eds , was the scene of a collision between a party of
drunken navigators and several of the townspeople , which has unhappily resulted in the death of one man , and the serious injury ef one or two others . Ic appears that on the afternoon or evening of Saturday , a number of the navigators who are at present employed in making a reseservoir at Burley had walked over to Oiley , a distance of some three miles , and as is the custom of their class , had found their way into several of the public-houses of the town . Having received their wages 011 that day , the Men , it appears , continued drinking up to a late hour . On their way out of the town , four of these men began to amuse themselves by breaking the windows of the houses on each side of the street . As a natural
consequence , a number of persons were speedily roused from their slumbers , and two men , named Ives and Oliver went in pursuit of the delinquents . On coming up with them , Ives , after some altercation , struck one of the men with a heavy stick , and then , wii h his companion , ran away . Unable to lay hands on their first opponents , the navigators appeared wining to engage in a row with any one who presented himself . As the neighbourhood was by this lime disturbed , a young man named Robert Daws in presented himself , and asked them if they knew what they hud btcn doing . The only answer they appeared to have given him was to seize him and throw him down , and proceed to beat him severely . While this was going on . however , Robert Dawson's wife went to call his hvother , John Dawson , who w « s in bed , 10 come down
and help to rescue her husband . After partially dressing himself , John Dawson ran to the assistance of bis brother , but he had no sooner re iched the spoc than he received a stab in the groin from some sharp instrument , which cut through the n . ai n artery . The poor fellow cried out , "I ' m stabbed , I shall die ;" and almost immediately dropped down aud expired . In . the meantime one of the nei ghbours had carried Robert Dawson into his own house ; a party had also gone to call up a constable , who lived in the neiglir bourhood , and some one had also gone to one of the inns of the town , at which some company was drinking , to obtain assistance . On the appearance of the constable , the navigators , who did not seem to have been aware of the mischief they ^ had done , laid hold of him , threw him to the ground and inflicted several wounds with a knife oh his neck and body . Rescue ,
however , was at hand , for , with , tlie assistance of pokers , a small band tha . V had been called together succeeded in seciiringihre ' e of the four . '' rioters . Of course the three were immediately lodged in gaol . On Monday , morning ah inquest , was held on the body of John Dawson , before Mr . Brown , the coroner , and a highly respectable jury . A great number of witnesses were examined , but none of the parties cou'd say which of the four . prisoriere had inflicted the wound that had caused the death of John Dawson . There could be very little doubt , however , as to tho identity of the fourmen . After the conclusion of _ the evidence the coroner briefly summed up . The jury then retired . After deliberating some , time , ; they found they could not arrive at . a unanimous yerdict , and they finally returned , by a ' majority , , a verdict of "Wilful Murder .. " against all the prisoners , who were subsequently committed to York Castle . ,. ' ;
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£ veiam > . Terrific Storm . —A most terrific storm of thunder and hail passed over Dublin about three o'clock in tho afternoon of the 18 th inst . Peals of thunder , accompanied by ; lightning , followed each other with scarcely any interruption . Trees were torn up by the roots in the . College Park , the Botanic Gardens , Sandimount , and other places in the vicinity , the venerable elms at the Mansion being amongst the fallen . Some houses in the south suburbs were unroofed , and almost all the glass was shivered in the galleries of tho Dublin Society , the Round Room of the Mansion-house , the Rotunda , the conservatories of the public gardens , and other places similarly exposed , The hailstones were of
enormous size , the greater number of them being fully as large as grapes , and many of them being much larger and of an irregular shape . In fact tho storm presented , on the whole , all the characteristics of such a phenomenon in the tropics , and will be long remembered by tho inhabitants of Dublin , Saturday ' s papers contain additional particulars . of the mischief caused by the terrible thunder storm . Tho whole amount of damage is not . yet ascertained ; but . fortunately , it appears that noHferwas lost , although there were several casualties and hairbreadth escapes from the falling trees andchimnios . But the greater havoc has been in the article of glass , the price of which lias shot up 200 per cent ., and a further rise is expected . Every house or nublic building , at . all exposed to tho fury of the
hailstones has suffered more or , less , and there is no doubt that had the storm continued but a few minutes longer its ravages would not have been confined to broken windows or skylights . It was , in truth , a perfect phenomenon , the like of which ha s not occurred within the memory of any living person in the metropolis . From such of the northern papers as came to hand ,, it would seem that the tempest exhausted itself not far frotn Dublin , if , indeed , it travelled at all beyond this county , for it was scarcely felt at Howth ;; while to the inhabitants of the southern suburbs it was a total mystery till the following morning . Westward , however , it race d with great fury , arid in Mullingarit is dcscrired as being of feariul severity , commencing about an hour previous to its break-out in Dublin , and lasting nearly tho same timo ^—a little over half
an hoar . ¦ , , : , .: • .: :., Sales of Encumbered Estates . —There were four more sales on the 19 thinst ; , ' in different-counv ties , namely , Cork , Tipperary , Wicklow , and . Roscommon , all of which wero completed within an hour . < Thej were small properties , some of them subject to heavy charges , made'in so complicated a manner that it is impossible to ^ calculate the rate of purchase with any . ' degree of accuracy , but all of them brought fair prices ' aftci a vigorous competition ' : The Wibklow estate , containing 140 Irish . acres , brought . £ 2 , 850 , or fourteen years' purchase . A small fee simple in . Nol-th . Tjpperary , near ; the town of Nenagh , producing a profit rent of £ 66 , ! was sold for £ 1 , 200 , beinff upwards of twenty -one years ' purchase—a very hign ' rate under existing cireumstarioes ; •¦ ' ¦ •" ¦{• " ! :- ' ' ; ' - |; '• ¦¦ ' ¦ : ¦ :. ' .-. •• ¦ ' ¦ . , .,.,
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1 regret to tell you that the Lparties . interested in the far-famed . . { Martin estate ' , have obtained no less a number than 650 ejectment' decrees against the unfortunate tenantry of the late Thos . Martin , Esq . By this means 3 , 000 to 4 , 000 people will be thrown upon the world . " A Donegal correspondent of the Freeman gives the following account of some evictions in that county : — " I regret to inform you that evictions on a very extensive scale , have taken , place ih this county , on the estate of Lord Leitrim , in the parishes of Kilmacrenan and Mevagh , and that the sensation arising from that cause ia creating a very bad effect . There is reason to fear it will ultimately lead to secret societies being established . The Hon . Mr . Clements , second son of Lord Leitrimis the acting agent , for his father in these — . . ^ >* i » -v . v'l- '_ " > " _ . i » _ : ' £ * J * nL , A : «
, evictions . One case amongst many may be stated : A respectable tenant of the name of Moore ( a Presbyterian ) , bought a farm four years ago near to the one hewas occupying , called Devlin , for the tenant ri <* hfc o ( which - he paid £ 150 , and although this tenant offered Mr . Clements one and one-half year ' s rent ( only two years' rent being due ) he would not , as I am' informod , accept it , and this respectablb and honest old man / with his large family , was driven off his land , which he had improved very much . The consequence will be that the finest land will be loft unfilled ; and those poor persons who have been ejected will be compelled to enter the Milford poorhouse . This estate being held by Lord Leitrim , under the grant of Trinity College , it is hoped hero the board of trustees would remonstrate with his lordship on this serious matter .
Agrarian Murder is TipPERAny . —The Kilkenny Moderator , of Saturday last , contains the following — " At about nine o ' clock on the night of Tuesday last , a farmer named Shearman , who resided near New Birmingham , was waylaid on the road nearly midway between that village and shot dead on the spot . Although the scene of the tragedy was a public thoroughfare , the body lay on the ground without any notice of the occurrence being conveyed to the authorities till the middle of the next day . It appeared from the evidence on the inquest that
Shearman had distressed some tenants for rent , and was to have appeared against them at the sessions next day . The murder was , no doubt , committed to prevent the issue of those proceedings . " The Kil kenny Journal mentions that the murdered man was agent or receiver under the courts for the property of Mr . Cooke , at Poyntstown , on which ejectment notices had been served . It is added that seventeen slugs entered his head . This , and similar outrages of recent occurrence , show the revival of agrarian crime in Tipperary . ¦
Incendiarism . —The Lsiruter . Express contains an account of a desperate act . of incendiarism by two femal paupers , who had been discharged at their own request for the Mountmellick workhouse , Queen s County . After setting fire to the house of a poor labourer , they acknowledge that their object was to exchange the dietary of the workhouse for that of the county prison . Further Petitions is the Encumbered Court . —No less than thirty additional petitions for the sale of estates were filed in this court during the week ending the 17 th inst ' . The total number of petitions now amounts to 713 :- .
The ; Lord Mayor . —Sir John Jet-vis , Attorney-Genoralfor Englnnd , lias given an opinion in the case of the Lord Mayor of Dublin , coinciding with that given by . the English Solicitor-General ; and by Sir Cphnan O'Loughlen ; It is as follows : ^ - " I am of opinion that Mr . Reynolds may , whilst in possession of the office , legally' appoint a locum tenens whose acts will be ' valid .. I am of opinion that the deputy so appointed will ; not bo subjected to any penalties ; but I am inclined to think , that Mr . Reynolds will be liable for the act of the deputy so appointed . Mr . Reynolds can only . be removed from his office by judgment of ouster upon a quo
warranto . . The Rovai . Adelaide . —A subscription list has been openedat the Chamber / of Commerce for the sufferers by the loss of the Royal Adelaide . The Freeman ' . states , that the opposition between , the City of Dublin' Company and some of the competing companies is carried on with sucK bitterness " . that tho widow arid child of one of the unfortunate sufferers in the Royal Adelaide were refuaed a 'passage from Cork to Liverpool by the Cork Company , although requested by the agent to the owners of the lost vessel as a matter of charity . " " . . ' Connected with the recent discontinuance of the
office of Deputy Judge Advocate for Ireland , Saunders' News Letter' says : — " This measure has been followed by a grant of an additional salary of £ 200 a year to tlie Deputy Judge Advocate General in London , making £ 1 , 000 per annum , on the under * standing tbalfc he is to perform all the duties of that department in Ireland , and to receive , when necessarily travelling thither , only his actual travelling expenses , and 20 s per diem whenever required by public duty to sleep out of his settled quarters . Already the merchants and citizens of Belfast have raised a fund of £ 500 for the purposes ef the exposition , of 1851 . ¦
rSiR John Romillxs Bill . —Meeting of Landlords . —On Monday afternoon another meeting of Irish landlords wa 3 held afc the Dublin Society , to consider the best mode of modifying the bill of Sir John Romilly , with a view of extending its advantages to proprietors of- land only partially encumbered . After much discussion , a petition has been adopted , praying that proprietors , whose debts are less than half the value of their estates , and who are , therefore , excluded from the operation of the
Encumbered Estates A . ct , should be empowered , by a new bill , to obtain debentures upon the security of their estates , in the same manner as half-credit purchasers of estates in ordinary cases at the sales in the Commission Court . For instance , that a landlord owing £ 12 , 000 on an estate worth £ 2 , 000 per . annum should be entitled to obtain debentures sufficient to pay off his debts , and thus place himself in a position to free his estates from all encumbrance within the period of twelve years specified by thebill . of Sir John Romilly .
The Repeal Association . —There was a meeting of tho Repeal Association on Mond . iy , at Cbnciliation-hall , Mr . Mahon presiding . Mr ; John O'Connell read letters from different parts of Ireland enclosing subscriptions , including a letter from the Rev . M . O'Beirne , P . P .. Ballinahown , enclosing £ 5 , of which the Right Rev . Dr , O'ili ^ ins , Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh , contributed £ 2 . Mr . O'Connell then stated that ho had received a circular from the National Reform Association , expressing a wish that delegates or representatives' should be sent over to attend the Reform Convention to be held in London next week . He had , in his individual capacity , drawn up an answer , in which he stated that in the present state of the law the Repeal Association could not appoint such delegates , as it would be illegal so to do ; but the association entirely sympathised with the reform movement in England . . The rent for the week was £ 37 . Tenant-right Movement . —The Cork Examiner
has a long report of a tenant-ri ght meeting , held at Ballahooly , on Sunday last . It is stated that there was an immense gathering . A considerable number of Roman Catholic clergymen were present .
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Mr . Smith O'Brien . —By the last file of Hobart Town papers , we find some very stringent remarks upon the system of treatment pursued by the authorities of the colony towards the convict Smith O'Brien . We give them without the least alteration : — " A correspondent at Launceston , whose accuracy we have had reason to bo satisfied with , sends us some particulars of tho alleged harsh treatment of the' misguided and exiled patriot , Smith O'Brien , which surprise us not a little . Mr . Smith O'Brien left Hobart Town for Maria Island by steamor , on tho 1 st of November . He was removed to that penal station because he would not accept the indulgence of a ticket of leave . At the latest-period of ouv e 6 mspondenl ' 9 information , which appears-to be about the 18 th of November ,
the unfortunate prisoner O Brion was shut up in a narrow miserable hut , lately occupied by an overseer ; bars of iron had been placed on tho windows , and he was so completely deprived of the services of the attendant appointed to wait upon him by one of the persons in authority , ' that ' he was not permitted to cook for him his miserable convict ration of meat and flour in his own hut . ' In his habitation a military sentinel is ; constantly stationed , and an officer visits his bedroom three times each night , so that he cannot be said to have any undisturbed repose during the night or by day . It is 9 tnted that no unauthorised person can speak to him now , or give him anything to conduce to his comfort ; and that any employee of the government , found infringinc
these apparentl y heartless regulations . would incur the penalty of dismissal , without any chance of successful appeal to the governor . " [ The above is from the Dispatch . . The name of the Hobart Town paper and its date are not stated . Our latest papers from Hobart Town aro tho Courier and Colonial Times ; their dates are from the 29 th of December to the 12 th of January . " They contain nothing about'Mr . O'Brien . In a communication from our Singapore correspondent , which we published on the 25 th of March , it is stated that he had received Hobart Town papers to the end of November _ ; that Mr . Smith O'Brien alone of the Irish political convicts had refused to accept a ticket of leave , on condition that he would promise riot to make the
liberty granted him a meana of escape , and that ho had therefore been sent to Marja Island , " where he will bo strictly watohed . ?' . It is stated in the same communication that , "In . the passage frorirS ydney to Hobart Town , O'Brien , Martin , and O'Dogherty , were accommodated with a cabin passage ; " and- had opportunities of communing with jeaoh other . ' . ' ]—Daily News . ¦ ¦ . . :: ¦"; ;¦ : /; ¦ . ; \ .. Joint 'Stock Companies . — . By tho - -report for the year J 849 i made to ' the Lords of . ' tbo ^ ppmmittco of Privy-Council for Tra < j / it appears tharduritig the pastyear' 134 companies have been " pi'bvisioria ] ly re- " gistered ^ at a . ' total cost , irioluding the . 'feespnid at ¦ the branohonice in Dublin , of £ 2 , 027 ...-The-veturn mentions , ihatduring . ihe ; year thei-o have beehrrio ' pRpkruVt 6 ie 6 , pf . JQint stoekcompanies .- .,. - ; ., ; ' ''
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JAMES MOEISON , THE HYGEI 8 T , AUn ^ T ^ .. . . .. ; ; MEDICAI , PROFESSION . * TfiE ( Extract of the concluding passages of « An Inn ,,-mode of action of Morison ' s Hygeian Mediein « i lnto Mifl Marshall Smithson . ' ) •'¦ . . We 8 'tylfJ ii It needs no fire of fancy—a sober imaginatio n « , realise the idea , that it is permitted to the d ea sil » spirit to contemplate , with a meek and gentle Z ^ ied and joy , the sweetly . beneficent fruits of its BC act'on doings whilst on earth ; and the shade of Jam ™ 1 , ' Pi » the Hjgeist , may even now enjoy the priviw 6 J ' 'son thising , with a calm and chastened conroiiieT Jm Pai delight , in the comfort and happiness which hit v co nd and writings have already so widely diffused In «?? OTer «* of tears . ' And generations yet unborn shall 8 ' ' afe name , and embalm with grateful tears , them re him , who , rescuing the art of healing from « , „ ° fJ of dogmatical science , taught the lame to foreeo th azes of the blind to see ; the deaf to hear ; the nalsfoJ 11 crutch . agility of Hmb ; the bed-rldde * to rl , Um A » iceil } duties ; and the prematurely infirm and fiiiiort . "n uicu viuawui . TAWRS' MHTlTRftW TTTP * TTVfiWTam TUT "
juuiu auu ovibngtui , Him I&Sllin cll 6 W judice . njay . fora season still lead the thron ' ? nd Pre . with disdam the proffered boon , —may still decn «! re iect to embrace the dendliost means as wisely am ™! * T ^ am . of health and of life ; hut the great mass ; ofTe ki ^ not long be inveigled by a grossly mercenary J ; can . ever subtle and refined ; nor by so phistrio . i hotr learned and ingenious ; neither will they lone hn Offe « r to the utter ruin of all that makes life ' s sweetilro 01 "'^ tire error , however sanctioned by authority oi- tt escri Pnorance , however venerable from , anti quity , ' fu" * ' ^ lig . medical Juggernaut may still , for a season ri (] p ° ^ "iB mangle to tho death its fanatic victims but ' r ? Ver M sleep , a little more slumber , a little more fo | , r e "tore arms to sleep , ' and the people will arouse tliemsi ? *» their fatal delusion , and . will throw off , wit , sfr ( "n loathing and horror , their superstitious reverent ' c " ruthless medical idols , and then the eyes of ti ¦ ' ^ ir will 1 ) 0 opened , and they will clearly nerceiJ . ll ^ is legitimate office of the art of healing is & cm * fte aggravate , disease ; -that the real function of i ! 1 ( * means is to restors health to the afflicted nmi i , «? " ! e * al tUilluuaLci / iiGucoaiMCB Ul
uMJU u Uuruanc pi'OfPQsi — " v the worth of medicines is to be estimated by no nth " ' ' than the amount of human suffering which tho . rufe and the perfect and permanent cures which tw I , e > effect . Thealcbymists of a former day were ' ft V ^ 3 skilled and learned , and , impelled b y a kindrpil mor delusion , and folly , were infinitely more ardent imii " nce in the prosecution * f their wild and mania c re » i S" " than even the most profound and enthusiastic nh « i ' and surgeons of our time—thaa the sur geons who 8 with mofo than alchyraical stolidity , to discover t ) , e i ^ of health and life by elaborately mangling the ccuw I loathsome carcases of the dead—than Hie ph ysician * il seek to restore health by the poisonous means wliich pair and paralise every function of the body , and whn si ! to prolong life by poisoning and utterly destroyine all tS organs through which life moves and has its earUiWlmm The speculations and researches of the alchymist wm » however , guiltless of murder ; whole hecatombs of hnmo victims are daily sacrificed to the upas and sanguinary t the craving aud exacting and still insatiate and crutfii ? of the merciless and mercenary doctors . Our forafatw had not more implicit faith in tlie trickeries and iucclerip
ot tne saeiices ot astrology , palmistry , and wizaru ism , than too many of their posterity—the wiser fools of our timehave in the medical sciences of alleviating sufferings bv torture , and of curing disease by death . The medical an of the present day is , indeed , ' at once tlie most stupendous monument of seientijie eflrontery and blaokguardism and offeeryile , mental prostration and abandonment , The pub . lie mind in our time is too much engrossed in amassinj ? wealth , is too much abstracted and lost in the lofty and exclusive researeliea of the applied sciences , and of the useful and ornamental arts ; the public mind is so entirely carried away and abandoned to the concerns of aecumulst . ing -wealth , and of promoting the advancement and eleva . tion of intelligence and c vilisation , as not to allow tie
dedication of a moment ' s time to the infinitely more im . portant and vital concerns of personal comlort ana oi bodily health . It is to this total abstraction of the mind from these concerns of the hi ghest earthly import , that a false and exploded science owes its lingering , pestiferous existence , in these our days of general intellectual ilia , urination ; it is owing to this entire mental abstraction that the medical grubs and worms are still suffered to ply their trade of feeding upon , the very vitals of the community and it is owing to this same intellectual engrossment , that wliilst they are tolerated by the wise , and ridiculed by the witty , these loathsome vermin still drag out their anomal . nus and unnatural , existence . But the death blow has been given to the trade ih death , in the spirit of his own
motto ' xmo ictu . " * James Morison , the Ilygeist , has deal that single , fatal stroke , under which tlie medical monster now languishes , and must ultimately perish . And tven whilst upon earth , he foresaw in prophetic vision , that he had entailed upon mankind the emancipation of their health , and the full assurance of their pers # nal comfort and enjoyment ; and . when laying the foundation of the future physical blessedness of coming geserations , his spirit was cheered , and his ardour was inflamed , by the ' reflection that on the fle 3 hy tablets of the grateful haarts of all succeeding posterity , he had raised to himself an endearing record of his own name and fame— ' monumtntum < ereperenniu $ ! ' - . ' Exeter Hygeian Dispensary , Apr il 8 th , 1850 .
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* Some persons have fancied that Jlr . Morison chose his motto , ' uno ictu ' —at one blow , in -accordance with his system , by which with oxe medicine he completely routed the whole tribe of doctors , '—but it is not however so ; ' mt ictu , ' and the three Saracens' heads joined in one neck , with the dagger for the crest , having been for many centuries the armorial bearings of the Morisons of Bopiie , in Aberdeenshire—but the motto ' at one blow' is certainly a most extraordinary coincidence .
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A London Rookery . —By day there are the dingy alley , and the thievish-looking population , women with their bloated faces , and men who fill every intermediate occupation between greengrocer and birdeatcher ; true , that ihieves lurk here , these very employments being , in many cases , but spmblances worn to conceal a less reputable calling . Dog-breakers , dealers in birds , marine store keepers , men whom indolence ami dissipation unfit ; for more regular employment , throng these haunts even by day ; but night alone' witnesses the real condition of our Rookeries ; then the swarrn of beggars , who have driven their profitable trade , return to their lair ; trampers come in for their night's lodging ; the beggars' operas , as they were wont
tobe called , then open their dooro to those whom necessities has made skulkers or outcasts . So that , not in St . . Giles ' s alone , hut in most London parishes , are rooms where chance lodgers are gathered at nightfall ; these are crammed by those whom poverty assembles , and tho landlord derives a large revenue from the necessities of his customers ; so that you cannot- judge by the daylight aspect of the Roekery , what face ifc wears by night . You would bo startled to witness the crowding of inmates even in favoured localities ; to see the industrious mechanic , his wife , and five or six children , huddled into a single apartment , by day the common sitting-room , by night the common dormitorv ; you would be startled'tb find that such is the
rule among the working classes , the meed of honestj and diligence , so that it has few exceptions . But , in the genuine Rookery , even this remnant of decency , this slender rag which yefc betokens a lingering regard to the proprieties of social lif » . is removed ; men and women are brought together in the same apartment whom nomarriage tie unites , and who have no other bond than that of common want . So thnt because all are taken in -who can pay their footing , tlio thief and the prostitute are harboured among those whose only crime , perhaps , is poverty ; and there is thus always a comparatively secure retreat for him whohiis outraged his country ' s 1 ^ 8 . Sums are here paid , a tithe of which , if \ rcJl law out , would provide , at once , a decent and an ample
lodging for the deserving poor , ; and that surplus , which . might add to the comfort , and better the condition of tho industrious , Unds its way into the pocket of the middle-man . The SunREi New 1 ' hisox . —In arranging the designs for the Surrey neff prison , now in coupe of Construction at Wandsworth , under the direction of Mr D . Hi'i , architect , it has been attempted to make ' them in such u way as to bo uniform and complete for the number at first intended to be provided W ( 700 , ) and that the future extension ( to 1 , 000 , ) should not interfere with the buildings erected nor destroy their uniformity . The buildings are designed in the plainest and most simple style , and of the most substantial kind . They are executed
brickwork , with stone dressings , quoins , p luitfcs , cornices , window-sills , &c , and are arranged on the principle of Pentonville prison , and with the latest improvements in the various fittings and details . There aro 543 cells provided for male p risoners , and 105 for females , making » total accommodation for prisoners of 708 cells , not incluu » n puuishment and reception cells ; the whole will i > thoroughly ventilated , and fitted up with soil p » n or water closet , washing basin , with sufficient sup " ply of water ( a- separate cistern being provided fOI each ceil , ) and a gas light . Rooms on the gvovuvj floor , first , ' and second floors , adjoining tho centiw hall , - have been provided for trade instructor ? -
Baths'have been provided both for males and ft " males , supplied with hot and cold water . TliB cooking kitchen , bakehouse , and serving room * are entirely distinct from the main buildings . The infirmaries , both for males and females , are entire' ? separated trom the other parts of the prison , an » are provided with separatei-airing eouvts . The chapel will be fitted uo with separate seats or stalls for 394 prisoners , pews for governor's ana chaplain ' s families , and galleries for the officers . 1 jw prison vrill . be warmed by hot water , similar to tne manner at Pentonvillo . The whole of the cells , botn for males and females , aro thirteen feet by ser <^ feet , and nine feet high to the crown of the arch .- " The Builder . ..
The "Window Taxing , of Lodging-iiodses . -- ^ at present regulated , the window t ax falls paniflu ' larly , heavy , on model . lodging-houses . A W >» - having less than ei g ht windows is exempted ir » duty ; a house having eig ht windows pays near ; 2 a . IH . for each window ; beyond t hat number " * only is each window ' chargeable ; but the rate W per--window increases with the-number : t'lUS . ' model lodg ingrhoiiso having 100 windows wou ld " charged £ 20 3 s .- Gil :, 'that is , at the rate of n 0 ' ^ thaiifis . l . Od . per . window . The immense pi ' otlB ,. of tho window tax is the objection to its repe ^ but in . tliejspii'it of tho act itself , lodg ing-houses * ori a largo-acale'fiiij the labouring classes should exempted from duty .- Distinct , chambers in t j inns' of court are so . ; so are tl / ose in « n ! ver . - ' find in public hospitals , as also houses divide * r ^ different tenements , . bcing . distinct 'properties- — - * Builder "¦ " ' ¦
. < . ¦ ... . . • ISUtlUC / . < . ' , , . , . f -Legitimate Cabals . —The village of Frolis " ^ the residence of the -Duke-dc Bordeaux an ? , [ of Duchess ofAneouUhne , was . never . -before so iu I ^ oneK : iegiynii 8 t 8 ; ,, Many ; ,: of theni aro W ' Visitor ' sat -tkOr . IJute ' atablo .::- ^ :,. '; . ; :... ; - '
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SIfjf promnce ** Th * Murder of Mab 7 anxe ^ soNS . -AfteJ fiM ^ r ^^ SE produced at the examinnt . on of the W ™^ Ir substance the same as that on the trial ueiore ivii Ltte TaLrd . The procee * ngs were > adoptedUt the desire of the government , Mr . Harvie stated that to had received his instructions from one of the
government solicitors . Attempted Murder bt a Boy . - Ob the 18 th inst ., a bov ab « ut sixteen years of age , named James Smith , -was charped at the Manchester Borough Court with attempting to cut a lady s throat on the previons evening . —Mrs . Ivmght said her husband was a pawnbroker in Butler-street , Oldham-road , and the prisoner had been in their employment for some time past . On the previous evening she was in the kitchen , HO one else being in the house at the time but the boy , when the latter , who was engaged in cleaning some knives , aimed a blow at her neck from behind , with a carving knife . The wound was apparently inflicted with the blunt side of the knife , not being a serious one . She had given him no provocation , and was quite unable to account for his conduct . The doors were all fastened , so that no one could haveentered without witness's knowJedg " . She streamed for assistance , and she freed herself from the boy ' s grasp , and took refuge in the house of a
neighbour . —Mr . Knight said the boy had been detected on the previous Saturday stealing some money from the shop , and he thought he had perhaps been actuated by a desire fov revenge in committing the violence , with which he was charged . — The prisoner denied the charge , and said the assault was committed by a man who had rushed in unobserved , and run out again immediately the prisoner caught sight of him . He said the man was dressed in a Scotch cap , a round jacket , and a light vest . —Mr Hodgson , and the other magistrates on the bench , without pronouncing any op inion on the case , ordered the depositions to be taken . Eliza Chestnet . —This intrepid young woman has been married recently . She visited Cambridge on Friday , in company with her husband , on the wedding excursion . She appears still to walk lame from the serious injuries received from the fire of the murderer Rush , but in other respects she seems to have recovered her health . . _ .
A Large Sugar Refinebtis about to be built on the premises of the Southampton Dock Company , for the refining of sugar in bond for exportation . It is to be seven stories high , and will be calculated to refine from 80 ' to 100 tons of sugar per week . The building is to be erected at the expense of the Dock Company , but will be rented for twenty-one years by a London house in the sugar trade , who will enter into the business extensively , and import their cargoes of sugar for refining into the port of Southampton direct from
abroad-The Charge against the Crew of the John It . Skiudt . —On Saturday last several of the passengers who were on board the John R . Skiddy . ^ lately wrecked on the Irish coast , appeared before his worship , the Mayor , at the Town-hall , Liverpool , in support ofa memorial comp laining of the crew , by whom it was alleged the passengers had bsen shamefully illused and p lundered . It is stated in the memorial that the sailors , including the mates , were very abusive to the female passengers arid children , some of whom were knocked down and trodden on whilst the men were on deck , particu ' arly the females . A portion of the crew went below and broke open the boxes and other packages belonging to the
passengers , their object bting to possess themselves of the cash , in doing which much property , was de stroked . The memorialists further state , that , go far from the Irish being the abandoned set of villains described by the captain , they behaved with kindness , many signal acts of which were experienced hy the passengers . The memorial is signed by a dozen people , who represent their los « es at suniB varying from £ 20 to £ 60 . A number of the parties cimp ' aining were examined t y the Mayor and Mr . Rushton , but their statements were very coufused and indefinite , no single case of the nature complained of being spoken to ; and eventually the matter was left for the investigation of Lieut . Hodden ,
the government emigration agent . The Alleged Mumder at Laleham . —Saturday hst being appointed fdr the re-examination , at Staines , of Charles Holden , an agricultural labourer , who had given himself up to the police on his own confession of having murdered a woman twenty years a"o , and burying her in a plantation on the Earl ot Lucan ' s estate at Laleham , the Petty Session-house was crowded . Lord Lucan was among the magistrates present . The prisoner was brought by a tr . iin from the Detention-house in Clerkenwell . — Edmund Hiscock , carpenter , stated that on the 13 th of November , he was digging a hole for a post in 8 field near Lynch corner , belonging to Lord Lucan , when he came on a human skull , and on diggms
further he found an entire skeleton . He covered it up a ? ain and in a day or two he gave information to the police . They covered the skeleton up again , and put some turf over the place , and some wood over the turf . —Mr . W . K . Heseltine deposed that he was a qualified surgeon , though not in practise . He saw the skull within two or three days of its disoovery , and afterwards the other bones . They were certainly those of a very elderly female . The bones had been under gmund ' a number of years , probably a century . They crumbled when they were touched . —Policeconstable M'Intrre , 27 V ., stated that the place all round where the bones had been found had been carefully sifted , but nothing was tound . —David Groves , a fanning man , deposed that seventeen or eighteen
years ago he was at work on Mr . Honner s tarm , when he saw the prisoner , whom he knew , and asked where the woman was , alluding to a woman with whom the prisoner cohabited . He nodded , but said nothing . —Colonel Wood then read the usual caution to the prisoner , after which he asked him whether he ch « se to say anything ?—The prisoner then said in a low but dear voice , that he was not quite right in the head , and that he had been taking a little drink when he gave himself to the police . He had heard of th is skeleton having been dug up . As a proof that he was not guilty , the young woman he was supposed to have murdered was still alive , and to be found . He had lately been with her in a public house in Chertsev . and if any eentleman would go with him he
would soon find her . —The magistrates having deliberated on the case an hour , Colonel Wood said there was not sufficient evidence at present to detain the prisoner further . He was accordingly discharged . Secular Education ^— The congregation of Hopestreet Church , Liverpoo ' % have sent up the following petition to the House of Commons in favour of secular education : —First , that in the opinion of your petitioners the growth of population in this country has outstripped the resources of private education , and rendered necessary a public provision to supply the defects and fill up the insterstice 3 of the existing system . Secondly , That in order to avoid reasonable objection , and to rest upon a just and permanent basis , a system of public schools should comply with the following condition : —1 . It should not interfere with or discourage the schools already in operation ,
but rather seek to secure the completeness and efficiency of their secular instruction . —2 nd . It should be frc ely open to all , under suitable regulations , and should adopt no test or method of teaching which favours the special tenets ot any denomination . —3 rd . It should be supported by local rates , and managed by local boards , elected by the ratepayers . specially for that purpose ; with provision , however for such general inspection and control as may ¦ obvhte local defects , and sustain andcircu ' ate a spirit of improvement . —Thirdly . That the bill which has been introd iced for the promotion of ths secular education of the people in England and Wales , appears to your petitioners a fair attempt to combine these requisites . Your petitioners , therefore , pray that this bill , with any modifications requisite for the better attainment of its main ends , may pass into a law .
Holywell , April 19 . —Ellis Williams , a respectable farmer , residing at Nannerch , near this town , committed suicide a few days since , under the following circumstances i—about three weeks ago , he was present at a fair , held in an adjacent county , and observed his wife shake hands with a man who had formerly been a neighbour . Without other provocation than this , he immediately conceived the most violent jealousy ; and asked his wife if she would like to die the same death as he would ? Alarmed by the extraordinary inquiry , the wife left
his house , when ke entreated her to come back , saying that he wanted to see her for onceonly . She refused , and continuing to absent herself , upon which he placed all tbe articles of her dress in a box , and burned them in his farmyard . He then sent his daughter into his furthest field to attend the cows , and during her absence ripped open the bodies of two valuable mares ( in colt , ) for which he had refused £ 40 at the fair . The unfortunate mnn then went to the barn , where he hanged himself by a rope attached to the beam . There can be no doubt that he committed the rasa act when in a state of mental
insanity . Suspected Murder at Prome . —Last week -a young man named . T . George , ab 3 Ut eighteen , was found dead in a barn , at Nuuney , near Frame , with his throat cut . A coroner ' s inquest was held oh the following day , when an open / verdict was returned , to the effect that there was not sufiicient evidence'to prove whether the deceased had-destroyed himself or'bRchihet with his death from an ' unknown hind . Since theinquesf Messrs , Giles and Ceckey , ; surgeons / of Trome ; were called in ; to examine the body / 'and discovered that thel'fikall . hsd been ff « c--liVfe-V ^ U tTvV , ! - : 'V ¦* :: >« : : ?> ; ^ 5 l-j ; , ; l-
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~ T ; sartliWBi Innerleithek . — 'Singular Casb . —A short time since Miss Ldyinia Downie , niece to Mr . D ownie , gardener , Traqiiair House , a most amiable and interesting young lady , twenty-four years of age , who had suffered from occasional severe pains in the beau , and a considerable degree of deafness , since her childhood , and whose health had been gradually declining for the last three ' years , was in August last seized with most painful inflammation in the left ear , accompanied by occasionally bleedings also from the ear . About the 1 st of March , the pain and inflammation greately increased , and on the 20 th ultimo , an ordinary sized metallic pin was extracted from the left ear . which was enveloped in a firm substance ^^ 1 - ^ — —
with numerous fibres attached to it ; several hard bodies , in shape resembling the grains of buck- » heat , but of various colours , were also taken out of the right ear . Tho poor girl endured the most intense pain , which she bore with Christian fortitude till the 4 th instant , when death terminated her sufferings . It is believed that the pin must have been lodged in the head for nearly twenty years , as she never , recollected of having put one in her ear , out she had a distinct remembrance of having when a child'had a pin in her mouth , when she thought she swallo wed it . It is the opinion of several eminent medical men , that , in all probability , the one extracted was the same pin . It was found on examination to have been frequently bent and twisted .
Murder . —A trial for murdor took place on the 19 th inst ., at tho Circuit Court of Justiciary , at Jedburgh , before Lords Mackenzie and Ivory . — James Deary , or Derry , and Daniel O'Hourke , or Rook or Rork , Irish railway labourers , were p laced at tho bar , accused of tho crime of murdering , in Roxburgh-street , Kelso , William Fail-bairn . —The prisoners pleaded " Not guilty . " Several witnesses were examined , who detailed the particulars of the riot which took place in Kelso , which led to the murder . —James Ferguson said there was some disturbance going on between the Irish and the townspeople on the 29 th of December last . Had a brother in the crowd . Heard he was struck , which caused him ( witness ) to go into the crowd to assist his brother . Knew James Deary . Saw him there . Deary
was standing speaking in the crowd at the time . Saw him squaring with his hands at the time . Knew tho deceased William Fairbaim . ¦ Saw him there in the crowd at that time . Fairbaim told witness to take care of himself , as the Irish were not to lippen to . Saw Deary when Fairbaim made that remark , Deary being at that time within a few yards of him . ( Witness here showed the attitude that Deary wa 3 in when ho was sparring , showing particularly how Deary held his left hand over his right breast , from which peculiarity he beleived that he held some instrument in his hand—that was his impression . ) The crowd moved up the street after that . He observed the Irish mako a stand . Did not see Fairbaim there—only saw him moving up with the crowd . Shortly after tho stand was made , he saw the Irishmen' run away , anil Deary amongst them . He thought the man who struck Fairbaim was James Deary , but could-not be sure . —William Hetherington said he saw Fairbaim come out of
the crowd , who exclaimed that he had been stabbed , and the man that had done it had dirty trowsers . — Alexander Watt said that he saw James Deary , who was roaring for any man to come forward and fight with him , strike Fairbairn when he was stooping down , and then heard Fairbairn cry . out on being struck that he had been stabbed with a knife . Witness pursued him , and saw him enter Stewart ' s shep . —Other witnesses , chiefly policemen , were examined , who narrated circumstances connected with Deary's apprehension at Stewart ' s house , two of them swearing distinctly to marks of moist blood being on his waistcoat at the time , and also that the back of his trousers were much dirtied . —Lord Mackenzie having summed up the case , the jury retired , and , after an absence of twenty minutes , returned , finding the , charge against' O'Rourke not proven , and Deary guilty as libelled , with a strong recommendation to mercy . —Lord Mackenzie having assumed the black cap , pronounced sentence of death .
Murder by Poison at Lhith . —A woman has been poisoned at Leith in that part of this town called . Leith Walk . The accused party is William Bennison , a dresser of metal castings , in the employment of the Shotts Iron Company . He is an Irishman , between thirty and forty , married to his deceased wife for about eleven years . She is a native of Paisley . Their only ; child , a girl of six years of age . is still alive . The scene of the murder is an old-fashioned tiled house in Stead' s-place . Bennison and his wife occupied the second flat , which contains only two apartments ; but entering by the same passage , and forming a kind of left wing to the building , is the house of Alexander Milne , a cripple from his infancy , who is well known to the frequenters of Leith Walk , where he sits daily in a small cart drawn by a dog . Mrs . Bennison , after , it is said , partaking of some gruel , became very ill , the symptoms being violent pains in the stomach , accompanied by severe vomiting . On Monday the unfortunate woman breathed her last . The sudden death of the
dog , so indispensable to poor Alexander Milne in drawing his little cart , together with the hurried interment , tended to excite surmises . It is stated that Bennison requested a neighbour's servant girl to empty into the street the contents of a vessel , containing what had been vomited by his deceased wife . Its owner let out the dog about two o ' clock on Sunday afternoon , as was his usual custom . It was admitted again in the evening ; and was heard to reach and vomit during the night . The body ot tiie dog has been conveyed to the Surgeons' Hal ] , to have the contents of his stomach analysed . It appears that about seven weeks ago , Bennison purchased a quantity of arsenic from a druggist ' s shop in the Kirkgate , Leith on the pretence of killing rats ; These vermin ' , however , have not , it is said , been seen about his premises for three or four years , and no rat holes could be found in the house .
Benuisnn admits the purchase : of the poison , but maintains that it was by ihe request or his wife for the purpose he mentioned to the druggist . On suspicions beiiH raised of his having poisoned his wife , he called . on the druggist , and requested him and his wife not to mention that he had purchased the arsenic . He even proposed for a written denial of the fact , adding that there might be arsenic found in his wife ' s stomach , but , so help him God , he did not put it there . On the Monday previous to her death , it is said , he enrolled her name in a benefit society , by which , on her death , he was entitled to a sum of £ Q . The deceased aud her husband were members of the Wesleyan body , and b .-re an excellent character for piety . Bennison professed to be extremely zealous in behalf of religion , and was in the habit of administering its consolations to such as would accept of them . _
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 27, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1571/page/6/
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