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®! e IBeifopon * . HSiLTH 0 * LOXOON DCMXQ THB WEKS .- ^ The deaths registered in the metropolitan districts , in the . week ending last Saturday , were 85 t . Taking ten corresponding weeks of the years 1 SJ 0-9 , it appears that the number now returned is less thutt in the years 1 S 47-9 ; that it is also less than in 1843 , nut greater than is the same week of the other six years . The average of the ten weeks is 870 , or corrected for userease of population , $ 49 ; as compared with the corrected average , the mortality of last week 6 traua a decrease sf 92 deaths . The total deaths from the zymotic , or epidemic class of diseases , continue to be less numerous than usual , amounting <) nr ? to U 6 , while the corrected average 13179 ; frem sinall-poz there were 4 from measles ^ - _ ^^^^^^^^^^ H ^^^^^^ HA ^ h ^^^^^^ ^
, 14 , fromfeooping-cough . 36 , and typhus 26 , the mortality from each of these epidemics being less than the average- From diarrhea there were 8 , which is about the average ; this disease exhibits a decline on former weeks . But scarlatina shows an increase , the numbers io the last three returns having been 21 , 17 , and 25 , whilst the average for the last week is 24 . Five children under fire years of age-died of infantile or remittent fever ; 4 persons of iefluenza ; and 7 of erysipelas . A woman of fiftyfour died of scurvy . Diseases of the respiratory organs , exclusive o * f hooping-cough and consumption , were fatal to 137 persons , which is about tne corrected average ; from laryngitis there were 4 deaths , from bronchitis 51 , from pneumonia ol > , from pleurisy 5 , and from asthma , 13 . The mortality from consumption continues unusually low ; this disease carried off 110 persons , whilst the
corrected ' average is 143 ; and in the corresponding-weeks of 1 S 40-9 , it ranged from 117 to 148 . A beershop-keeper , aged forty-six years , died of "haematemesis ( sixty-eight houw . )" Be' , is reported to have been an habitual drunkard . The classification of deaths in pnblic institutions , shows that 77 persons were registered as having died in workhouses , 37 in hospitals , 5 in military and naval establishments , and 6 in lunatic asylums . —The mean daily reading of the barometer in the week at the Royal Observatory , Greeenwicb , was 29-S 75 . The mean temperature was 46-7 degs ., and was less by 5 * 4 degs . than the average of the same week in seven years , On every day it was less than the average , bnt especially on Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday , when the decrease was from 7 to 9 degrees . The wind was generally in the north-east and south-west .
The Chinese June . —At an early hour on Monday morning the Chinese junk was taken out of the Eat India Dock to be removed to her new place of exhibition adjoining the Essex-street , steamboat pier , Strand . Her hall was enclosed in a holland covering , and her masts removed to permit her to pass under the bridges . She was taken in tow by two steam tugs , and reached her destination about
noon . The Bebmonbsk Mbbobb . —A few days ago the wh'Je of the property taken from Mrs . Manning , and that found at the railway station and in her possession , which , since their examination at the Southwark Police Court , has been in the custody of Inspector Yates , was handed over to the Treasury , to be disposed of as the H « me Secretary may think fit , government having intimated their intention of settling the demands of the convicts' solicitors . Accidents at the New Chukch , Westminster . —On Monday forenoon as several men were employed in removing the scaffold from the tower and " spire of Mis 3 Burdett Contt ' s new church , Bochester-row , Westminster , which are completed , a man of the name of William Ward , who was assisting , fell from the platform at the top of the scaffold ,
a height of seventy-four feet . He was in the act of lowering a scaffold pole , when the plank on which he was standing broke in two . To save himself he laid hold of a rope , bnt he wa 3 unable to prevent bis descent , and he came in contact with a cross-pole . This ,-with some others , checked his fall , and when about twenty feet from the ground , a man csught him in his arms , but , notwithstanding ,-he went to the bottom . He was instantly taken to the Westminster Hospital , where , upon being examined , the only injury received was found to be a slight abrasion of one of the ribs . A few weeks ago a man fell a height of eighty feet , and was taken to the same hospital . It was then stated that hs had a clear fall . He Was admitted into the hospital , and was immediately discharged ,-not having received any injury . The church , it is expected , will be completed i i the ensuing month .
Suicide at Wanbsworth . —On Saturday evening last Mr . W . Carter excluded an inquiry at the Spread Eagle Hotel and Tavern , High-street , Waadsworth , relative to the death of a gentleman at that time unknown , who committed suicide there on Wednesday nisht The name of the deceased , it appeared , was William Baker , and he was a native of Kingston . He had been employed as storekeeper at the Clarence Foundry in Liverpool ; but , in consequence of a dissolution of partnership in the concern , he had been thrown out of employment , and , being of a desponding turn of mind it was conjectured that lie had committed suicide nnder the pressure of fear that he could not obtain another engage * mentl The jury were unanimously of opinion that the deceased was of unsound mind when he committed the act , and returned their verdict accor dingly .
Suicide . —On Saturday last Mr . Baker held an inquest at the Star , Wilkes-street , Spitalfields , on the body of Thomas Pickard , aged eighteen , the son of Mr . Pickard , one of the parish rate collectors of Spitalfields ,. residing at 37 , Wilkes-street Mr . Thomas Pickard , the father of the deceased , ' deposed that his son was apprenticed to a cabinet maker and upholsterer , bnt resided at home with him . ' lie had noticed for several weeks past a great alteration In his mind and appearance , which he was unable to account for . He was in a low and desponding state , and of late refused taking his meals . He had frequently asked deceased if anything was the matter , to which he invariably replied , "Nothing , " and hie was not aware that he had formed any attachment to a female . On fiie previons Wednesday he was in a very dejected state , -which was also
noticed by his master , but who was unable to account for it . He slept in the same room as witness , who was called by his daughter about eiijht o ' clock on Thursday morning , and on entering the kitchen He found the deceased lying across the doorway of a closet , the walls of which were covered with blood , and on lifting him up he found his head nearly separated from the body , and only adhering by a small piece of skin at the back of the neck . One of witness s razors was firmly clenched in the deceased ' s right band . —Mr . Lewis , a surgeon , s » id that the deceased had been dead for sometime , and that : bis death must have been instantaneous . —In answer to a question by a juror , Mr . Pickard stated that the deceased would have come in for £ 500 on his arriving at twenty-one years of age , which he was fully cognisant of . —After some fnrthsr evidence the jury re turned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity "
Suicide fbosi ihb Ddke of York ' s Colums . — On Tuesday an extraordinary degree of excitement was caused in the neighbourhood of St . James ' s-park and P . iH-mall , in consequence of a most determined suicide , which was committed in the sight of hundreds of . people , from the Duke of York ' s Column . The railings , which surround the capital of the column are about four feet high ; but notwithstanding the protection afforded by them , it has been usual for . one of the two attendants who are stationed at ithe building to accompany visitors to the top , and abortion of their duty , it is believed , is to watch their movements , and endeavour to prevent the oecanence of such a catastrophe as unfortunately took place . About half-nast ten o'elnnk a
respectably dressed man applied to the doorkeeper of the Duke of fork ' s Column , and addressed him m French , which he did not understand . He then pad him sixpence , and intimated by signs that he wished tog « to the top . Smith , the guide , accompanied him « p , the stranger , who was evidently a foreigner , stdLconversinz in French . They walked xonndthotop once , and nothing particular was observed in the conduct of the stranger bnt what was attributed to the peculiarity of a foreigner WhUe the visitor was looking at the corner towWds Carlton-terrace . Smith was standing at the door only abont three yards from him , when in an in stant . tae deceased , by a sudden and violent effort threw , himself over , and before Smith could catch his he from that
legs jumped portion of the column -which faces the mansion of Chevalier Bnnsen in Carltsc-gardena . Eh body la falling struck the base of the column , rebounded thence to the flawed way from which the monument springs , and when taken up by some of the passers-by it was found that life was quite extinct .- The body was conveyed to St . Martin ' s workhocse , and it was discovered that the unfortunate gentleman was M . Henry Stephan , of her Majesty ' s Theatre . . Hi 3 engagementas horn player in the band , at £ 3 IG 3 . per week , from . th * 3 month to August , was found upon his person . -Tke unfortunate man , Henry Stephan , wa 3 identified in . . the course of the morning by his trother-in-law , ^ musician , residing at 17 a , Gerardstreet , Soho-square . It was stated that he was abont forty years old , and that this was his second
seasonal engagement in the band of her Majesty s Theatre . He was & first-rate musician on the violin and French horn , and was formerly engaged at the Repartoire , Paris , which place he left under an engagement io Mr . Lumley . For several days past it was noticed that he had . behaved in a very flighty manner . . fie was a native of Paris , and a married man , his « ife reading at 85 , Faubourg St . lienis , Pans , but he waaf in the expectation of her arrival hourly , in London . Mr . Tetsel , the master © t the workhouse , took charge of the bodv , the ja » ' ^ is shocking ly mutilated , ' and f i ^ rf «/; &n ^ 5 « Wy destroyed by the fell . . Thedistanoo . from the top of the column to afternoon . Mr . Bedford , tha coro _ r for Westminster hf Id an inquest at St . Margaretslworkhouse , on th j . bodft when the vjury retunwd a verdictof "Temporary insanity , and recommended , that
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there should he some tailing rothd the top of the column , to prevent such oocarreace 3 in future . The "coroner inquired whether many persons had ' been permitted to « scend the cotaain since : the fatal occurrence ?—Smith , the-officer , replied that no one had beea admitted oh Tuesday after M . Stephan leaped ftom the column , hut large numbers had visited the place that day ( Wednesday ) . ; In reply to *< question from * juryman , Smith said a railing would prevent persons throwing themselves over , sad would not Wfere with a view oTthfi surrounding scenery .: ' The proceedings t hen ter-
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he slyly , asceiitained ' the time of their' departure . iri order to m ake a shoW'iof . zealiafterwards-i-a' trait lite his generous , oharactor , ; It , may be stated that Captain Taylor makes no secret of , his connexion With the affair . < OdJhis return / he , told the . whole story to the . colleotor , of bustoms hvLondon . ' Will it he believed that for his courageous and honourable act ,, he . lost the command of tho . Bhip in whiph ho then served ? " ; v ,.. ' ., ' ., ' . . .. ¦ .- . ¦ ..,. ! -.
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Chabge of attempted . Parricide .. — Louisa Susan Hartley , ' 19 , was indicted ' for feloniously administerin g to Joseph William Hartley a ' quantity , of deadly poison , called vitriolic acid , with intent to murder him .-rIt appeared that , the prisoner and the prosecutor , who stand in the relation to each other of father and daughter ^ occupied a room in the Hope public-house , / Gravel-lane , Sputhwark , and the' prisoner was engaged in attending to the domestie ' eoneernsof the prosecutor , and she was in the habit of getting the breakfast ready every morning before her father went out to work . On the morning of the 16 th April th e prosecutor was asleep in bed ,. ari ' d the pri-1
soner awoke him and told him that breakfastwas ready , and she at the same time handed him a cup of coffee and some bread and , butter in a smalltray . Upon tasting the coffee the prosecutor , discovered a sharp , burning taste , and he accused . the prisoner of having put poison into ' his coffee . She denied having done so , and ^ he tasted it a second time , and again felt the same sensations , < ' and the prisoner , was again accused by . him of , putting poison in the liquid , but she repeated that she had not , and took up the cup and empted it into a wash-hand basin , in which there was some soapy water , > nd she then went to the fireplacei ' -and rinsed the cup and wiped it with a towel . The prosecutor then got up and put the contents of the basin into : a iu ? , and took them to Guv ' s Hbsbi
tal , where they were examined by Dr . Taylor , the eminent professor of chemistry at that establishment ; and the result of the analysis to which they were subjected was the discovery of about half a tenspobnful of vitriolic acid ; but it was stated by this gentleman ; that the effect of this quantity of acid being taken into the stomach , would not have been to destroy life , but that the results would have been merely temporary , and would have entirely ceased after the lapse of a few hours . In addition to this evidence it was shown that the prisoner had repeatedly complained of her father having beaten her , and that she had upon one occasion threatened to burn his clothes in vitriol , and ' afterwards put some i forjriro to take : and at another she said rather . than her , father
ahoviid lock her up , as he had threatened , she would cut his throat while he was asleep , and put . the razor upon his bed to make it bebelieved tbat he had done it himself . ' It turned out in the course of the case , tbat the prosecutor appeared to have taken very great pains to getup the case against his daughter ,, and there were some circumstances tending to throw suspicion upon his evidence!—Having heard the evidence the jury returned a verdict of" Not Guilty . '' The Argyll Rooms . —Mr . Clarkson applied to the court ic reference to an indictment against Emile Laurent and others for keeping open a place called the : Argyll Rooms , id Great"Windmill-street , as a
disorderly house . He said that the prosecutor was unable to bear , the expenss of any further proceed ^ ings , and he therefore desired to . withdraw from the prosecution . —Mr . Parry , who appeared for the defendants , said that after what had fallen from his lordship ; he begged to say that the respectable solicitor who conducted their case ,. had instructed him to say that they were no parties to any ' compromise ; but , in point of fact , they had been put : to great expense by a prosecution instituted by a common informer , who had now abandoned . it . —The several defendants then surrendered , and a verdict of , " Not Guilty " was recorded . '¦ . ¦ ; " ¦ ' • - ¦ ' ¦ ;
Brutal Assault .-William Steers , 27 , chairmaker , and Catherine Steers , alias Duncan , 38 ; married , were indicted for cutting and wounding Richard Burn , with intent , &c . It appeared that , the male prisoner , who is a well-known associate ' of thieves , cohabited with the female , in a place of notorious character , called' Francis : street ,- Old-street-road , living upon her prostitution ; and on the day . of the commission of the offence , the 10 th of MarcW they had a quarrel with another prostitute living opposite , and she coming home at a late" hour , the two prisoners most brutally assaulted her , and her cries brought prosecutor , who was a policeman ; to the spot , the . two-prisoners fled into their own house . The woman in question being very much injured , and
bleeding profusely from the face , the constable went to take the prisoners into custody ! but they refusing to come out , he forced the door , and seized the female , upon which the man said he would serve him as hehad the injured woman , and took up the leg of a chair to defend himself against being taken into custody .- Tlie officer then seized him , and after some scuffling got him into the street , where the female prisoner attacked him , and got him to the ground , where she held him by the hair ; and whilst on the ground the male prisoner beat him most fearfully about the head and loins , threatening to murder him , and would in all probability have carried out his threat had not assistance arrived , and they were
taken into custody . The injured officer wa 3 then placed under tho hands of the police surgeon , who found that the blows about the loins were of so brutal a character as to have positively broken the flesh , though inflicted from the outside of his coat The result had been that he was disabled for life , and those , in conjunction with the injuries on the head , had rendered him subject to epileptic fits ever since . —The jury found them both " Guilty . " —The Re corder , having commented upon the extreme brutality displayed by the male prisoner , sentenced him to ten years ' , transportation , and the female prisoner to eighteen months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction .
Taking Forcible Possession of Goods . —John Sadler , 39 , carpenter , stood indicted for larceny , lhe facts of this case were these :-The prosecutor , Mr . John Southgate Williams , having disposed of a business that he had in St . George ' s-in-the-East , was about to leave , but being indebted to the landlord the sum of £ 34 , he made a compromise with him by paying £ 20 down and giving a bill for . £ 14 , and the prisoner , who had acted as a sort of broker , or agent in the matter , put his name to the bill as acceptor , and as the prosecutor was going into the country for a short time , made an arrangement to leave his furniture , amounting in value to nearly £ 200 , warehoused under the care of the grisoner , who , however , it appeared , under the pretext that he should require
some turther security for the liability he was under in having accepted the bill , obtained from prosecutor a uecument purporting to have sold' the goods in question to him . The good » were then placed into thecarttobe removed from the premises , and no sooner were they so done than the prisoner intimated his intention of keeping them ; upon which prosecutor ordered the carman to drive them to his ° wn place , and there prosecutor watched them all night , intending on the following day to remove them , and have them kept at the warehouses of the Eastern Counties Railway .. The prisoner , however , came with several men , and forcibly took possession of the things , and removed them to an auction room , where he said he should at once sell them . Prosecutor then went and obtained the £ 14 with : which he paid the bill , in order that the prisoner mieht not
imagine he had any claim on them , and then went and demanded the goods , when prisoner laughed at him ; first asking £ 20 , and then £ 30 , before he would part with them . Prosecutor ' refusing to give it to him , went and gave notice to the auctioneer not to sell the things , which , however , was done in defiance of him , they being sold at a . most ruinous sacrifice . — Mr . Bullock : The case was clearly not one of larceny , although the prisoner would no t have any answer to an action for trespass or trover . An "Acquittal" was then takeu . . FouGEnYON a Bank .-E . Barnett , who pleaded "Guilty " on Wednesday , in the Old Court , to anlndictmentfor forgery on the London Joint Stock Bank , was brought up and sentenced to seven years ' transportation . . ... ;
Stabbing . —J . Smith , alias M . Terrardi . an Italian , aged ; 30 , was indicted for stabbing , Patrick Scanlon with intent to murder him . Mr . W . Cooper , prosecutor , and the prisoner crossHJxaitined the witnesses through the medium of an interpreter . —The prosecutor stated that his parents kept a lodging house in Ease SmithGeld , and on , the 22 nd of April the prisoner came to . their house with a girl , who got into conversation with a young man who was with him : upon this the prisoner became much enraged , anil complained of its being very hard that he should be deprived of her company , when he had been spending money on her all theevening . Prisoner then became very outrageous , and wanted to fight the man he was jealous of . Prosecutor , howover , interferred to
prevent the quarrel , and he then saw prisoner put his hand iuto his pocket , and heard a click , as if of the opening of a knifo blude . He then made a run at him , and thrust at tho lower part of his belly , and he felt himself cut , the knife—if a knife it was , for he did not see what he was struck with—in its passage wounding him in the ami , which he put down to ward off the blow . The prisoner then withdrew his hand , and ran off . Prosecutor immediately felt very sick and faint , and was subsequently oonveyed to the hospital , where he had his wounds dressed . When his clothes were examined , it was found that they were cut through , and that had it not been for the
miraculous interposition of a pack of cards that he had in his pooket , which partially arrested the progress of the weapon , the blow must have proved fatal ;—Mr . John Wyatt , house surgeon at the London Hospital , said that the prosecutor was brought into the hospital on the 22 rid of April . He had an incised wound on ' the arm , above the wrist , and a punctured wound about an inch and a half in width in the most dangerous part of the abdomen . The blow must have been struck . with much force to have inflicted thft wound ithad ; fortunately notany beSf COnse mmms ^ m ^
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' : ¦ vf WURT ; OF ^ OEEN'S BENCil , "V ' : ' REQwry . KBBBALY . ^ Mr . Crow der , QC and Mr . Huddle 8 ton appeared ' for the prosecution and Mr . Whateley , Q . C ., vfor the defendant . This was an indictment for an assault-committed by the defendant ,- Edward Kenealy , a barrister , upon- his child ,. described as Edward . Hyde . The-: defendant pleaded " Not Guilty . " Mr . Crowder said , he appeared as counser on behalf of the prosecuti on wMoh'had : been instituted by the guardians of the West : London Union against Edward Kenealy , who was charged with . an aggravated assault , upon a boy of theage of six years , and who , it appeared , was the . natural / child of the defendant . The
defendant said that the child waa excessively obstinate and addicted to telling lies , and that it was necessary ; for , him to receive chastisement . But it would be for , the jury to say whether excessive punishment , had . not ; been jnflicted , or whether the child was only'punished with ordinary chastisement . —• Witnesses were called . who deposed to the ' finding the child on the . 13 th of February last in Skinnerstreet , Snow-hill ,. covered with stripes and bruises . ¦—Stephen John Birfc examined : lam a surgeon . Isajv the child . on , the 14 th of February , the day after it was found .- I found a mark on his throat from ' ear tb ear . The back part of the neck ' was soaroely marked ; There was no mark on the back part of the neok . ; On tho front part of : the throat
the Bkin ; had been removed , apparently by pressure , by a cord , or something passed round the neck . Scabbing had taken place on some portions . Other portions were undergoing suppuration . The suppuration bad been produced by pressure and struggle with the child . Inflammation bad ensued before suppuration could take place . The suppuration was on the . part of the throat where the skin was removed . The whole of the back , from the shoulders to the posteriors , was covered more or less with bruises produced by a rod or a cano . They were ofa ' different colour where near the bone . The marks might all have been inflicted at the same time . From the posteriors down to the ankles there were marks which showed evidence oT the
same castigation . I should say great violence must have been used . " From the ahoulders down to . the hands , there was evidence of the same treatment previously . It . might have been done by a rod or cane .. A common birch rod would not produce such marks . —The evidence ^ of Edward Hyde , as given before the magistratea , having' beon put in and read , he was produced , and having repeated the Lord ' s Prayer and answered several questions put to him by Lord Campbell , was sworn . He said : I recollect the day I was found in the street . Before I was found in the street I lived with Mr . Kenealy . lowed to . sleep along with him . I was beaten by him before I went into the street . That is the cane I had in my hand when I was 'found in the street
Heibeat me , for not learning my lesson . I had my clothes off , all of . them .. My shirt was on , I was in the little room where I sleep . ' I was not tied , my neck was hurt . Mr . Kenealy put a rope round my neck . Mr . Kenealy was catching hold of the other end of the rope . It hurt mo because it squeezed . I did not try to get away . . It hurt ms round my neck . He flogged me . The flogging was all at once . ' I went to bed after I was flogged . It was night . I dressed myselfto light the five . I went out' after that by ^ myself and wen t to play ; I went home after I had been playing ! I remember when I was found in the street .. He djd not catch hold of my hand .. I went out by myself . I went to the left . I went fair" before the people came
round me . . He told me to go out to Highgate all alone . —Cross-examined : Mr . Kenealy told me to wait at the' corner of the building , and he would take me . a walk . to Highgate . . I went , and instead of waiting lost myself , I was not frightened when I found I had lostmjr way . I was not frightened when the people and police came round nie . Mr . Kenealy often took me for a walk , ' sometimes to Highgate , and sometimes into St . - James ' -park to feed the ducksi He taught me to spell and read and to say my prayers . He bought me playthings and books with pictures in them . I sometimes told him lies . He was very angry with me when I told him lies , and told me I should always tell the truth ; and when I told the truth he was always kind to me .
He always told me , to boa good fine hoy , and I would make a good honest man , and that it was very wicked to tell lies . When the weather was good he sent me ' out into the square to play * and when it was bad he kept me at home and gave me things to play with . He told me little stories and taught me little songs . I was with him some hours every day , and slept in his bed every night . I remember his bringiug me over from Ireland . I had not then learned io read , and had not learned my prayers . He began to teach me to read as soon as I came to London . He kissed me every day . When he told me not to tell lies I promised . that I never would any more . He would then take me in his arms and kiss me . He was angry . when I told lies , and was always kind when I spoke the truth . ~ 3
leexamined . —I read to Mr . Kenealy . I was not reading to Mr . Kenealy the night when he beat me . He beat me for not knowing my . lesson . —By Lord Campbell . —I had not for ^ otton the beating . I had not been telling many lies . that night . I forgot what I had done to make him angry . I cried much when I was beaten .- — -Mr . Whateley addressed the jury , and Lord Campbell having summed up the evidence , after a , few minutes consideration the jury gave a verdict of «? Guilty" on the second count , which charged a common assualfc . . ' -... Lankfom > i / . WitsbN . —fhis action was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages sustained
through the negligence of the driver of one of the defendant ' s omnibuses , which was one of the Favourite , line . The injury was inflicted near the Holloway-gate on the Gth of January last , under the following circumstances : —The omnibus was on its way to town , and came into collision with the plaintiff ' s chaise cart , at a point of the road where it was partially blocked up with a , number of brick carts . Tho plaintiff was thrown out by the shock and had his arm broken . The , question was who was in fault—the plaintiff or the driver . —Witnesses were called on both sides , after which the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages , £ 75
EVANS V . WAYLKIT . Malicious PRosEcuiioN . —Mr . Chambers stated that this was anaction for a malicious proseoution . The plaintiff was an omnibus conductor , in the service of the Richmond and Sunbury Omnibus Company . The defendant was , a silversmith in Oxfordstreet ; A-robbery had been committed on the defendant in the following manner : —A man , subsequently discovered to be named Rolls , came to the defendant ' s -shop , and , opening the door , asked him to step out , and pointed out to him in the window a bracelet , the price of which Rolls asked and , after a : few words of conversation , went away The defendant was then about to enter his shop when he found a man there , who likewise made
some inquiry about articles in the shop , and then went away : The defendant afterwards found that his till had been robbed , and that a drawer , which had contained more than twenty sovereigns had been opened and its contents carried off . Rolls was discovered / and taken into custody . On the 27 th of October he was examined before Mr . Broderip when the plaintiff , being at that time present in custody en another charge , he was sworn to by the defendant as the man who was found in the shop on the defendant re-entering it after his conversation with Rolls . The defendant thereupon made the charge in a formal manner , and the plaintiff was remanded . On the 31 st of October the plaintiff was brought up for re-examination . He
then offered evidence to show that he was not the person , and could not have been present at the robbery , for that at the time of its being committed he was doing his business as an omnibus conductor many miles from Oxford-street . The magistrate , according to a bad practice at police-courts , refused to receive this evidence , on the ^ ground that it was not his duty to try tho case , and so committed the plaintiff for trial . The plaintiff was tried at the Central Criminal Court , and was acquitted . These wero the facts of the case ; and the plaintiff now sought for damages for this charge , in order that he might re-establish his character , which had been
thus unjustly made the subject of so serious an imputation . — Witnesses were called to make out this case , and the ' alibi was distinctly proved . Lord Cam p bell said that the simple question here was , whether the defendant had been actuated by malicious motives ; for , if he had acted sincerely throughout , a mere mistake in such a case as this was a misfortune for whioh the law gave no redress to the party who was thereby injured . His lordship then went through the evidence , leaving it to the jury to say whether the defendant ' s conduct had proceeded from malice or only from error .-The jury returned a verdict for the defendant .
. . EVANg V / WILCOX AND WALKER . inW anactltm fought hy the same plaintiff Kdv T h ! fT L had firsfc g ^ en hfm into X ^ J ! chai'ge here was that of stealing a Siirt ' " ° ? witU Rolls ' The same fvidence was given as u the former case , establishing hav « ? 8 tInCt manner , that tbe Flaink could S have been present at the place at whioh the roht 2 twTmitte ^ -Lord Campbell told the juvy that the only question was as to the amount of the
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> een going along the Hackney-road , with a eon ^ T £ barrow ,, sentior . police-constable , Clark o , ? N ,-and went with him in search of the I ' 23 Having found out that Dadson , had bouehii \ * £$ *> of the plaintiff , they went to the plainSg ff and asked him if he had sold one to BadZ u $ > plaintiff replied he had , and the policeman . - ^ " That goose has been stolen , and yo " mus ? d » sider yourself in custody » The plaintiff then J& " I bought the goose of a man named Wallacfi « Li heje is higcard , " and produced to them SW whichwaa inscribed ^' Mr . Wallace S £ d ° a Cambridge . road , : Bothnal-green , » bit thevL ^ theless took him into custody , and mm ^ l **' to the station 10
. Hackney , i £ ? T 3 fc )* me mcuney station , where the n ^ L ^ charged him with stealing tho goose Ja \ h * 2 fendant signed the charglsheef . They thif ft him m the cell , and went to the h £ e m 5 Wallace , who is a wholesale dealer in the m ? t T ' used by bootmakers , and has lived in BethS / 8 for thirty years . They got the * fSStT * ° i 00 kat t l ' ? d . Wording to irijh statement , the , policeman , who was inS ^ asked him if he had sold the plaintiff \ K ° fr Wa ] l « ^ WV ° dld not "collect the plaiS ' ^ said "No . " The policeman said , « lam a B 1 ^ man . Do you mean to say you have ^ t H'f " goose to a baker to-day ? " Jlr . Wallace In - he had done sn . Tha ««!;< , ««„„ \? l ce thei > said
a . stick he held in hb hand in 1 T ^ manner and said , with ah oath , he hSdT mn mind to lock him up , and that f he Ed mP" * one man he would do so . ' He xennten \* £ l ot great mind to do it as it « £ ' aSfrf A , T * conversation , during which he sevenl nl ? "V * ? K « 5 tefsSi ? a , ralh ^ , s- ^ fi if you are not there , I'll have a warrant mf and apprehend you . " They then left till > and Mr . Wallace went ?| K ktiffS htf ' and found his wife and children m m-eat distm ' Hethen went with Mrs . Marriet in a cab ff ? police-station , and stated to the officerStV t £ ? he had bought he goose of a hawker . Z& ^
« ro inepj amtitt ; Iwt the officer said he oo ^ - Sn ? release his pnsoneiyand they were obliSZ return home , and leave him in custody . Thenoyf 1 ing , being Sunday , they went Lfi ^ station , and there , met the defendant . Mr VS 0 repeated his statement , and then the defendanffd "He looks more like the man , " and cave him inti custody . Mr , Wallace said , « Why , T ? eS Z taken for a thief before . I have been a w keeper for thirty years , and I bought the goose yet terday m my open . shop . " Notwithstanding thk they took him into custody , searched him , and took from him all he had in his pockets , and then locked him up in a small cell , without a chair or bed the whole of that day and the night following , and let the plaintiff out on . bail . The next mornins ? Mr aiiace
* » was marched with others to the police , court , where plaintiff duly surrendered , and havine been kept there while other cases were disposed of until between four and five in the afternoon / they weiebroughtbefore Mr . Hammill , the magistrate . That gentleman , haying heard the case on both sides , immediately discharged the plaintiff and Mr . Wallace , observing that " there was not the slightest pretence for charging them with a felony that he was perfectly satisfied with the explana ' turns 1 they had gwen , and the more so , as he under , stood from some officers of his court that thev knew them both perfectly well . " On the other hand the policeman , who was called for tho defence fin / 1 rVATtA li * rt AHtrlAHHA £ *~ ^ ~>_ W and his evidence in
* gave a very rough manner ' swore that when he first asked the plaintiff if ha had sold a goose , he made no answer ; but he ad « mitted that before they had left the house the plaintiff told him that he had ; that he'had bought it of a man in Bethnal-green , and that he showed him the card Mr . Wallace had given him . He also swore that when he first asked Mr . Wallace if he bad sold a goose , Mr . Wallace said " No , he had not had such a thing in his possession ; " that when told what the defendant had said about it , he said , " He could not think who the fellow could be that could tell suoh a lie ; " that when the card was shown him , he said , " He would-take his oath it was not his
writing ; " but on being-further told the man lived in Wentworth-street , and kept abarrow , that he replied , V Oh , yes , I did sell him a goose . " All this , however , Mr . Wallace denied positively . —The defendant addressed the jury on his own behalf , contending that he had reasonable grounds of suspicion against the plaintiff and Mr . Wallace , and urging upon them that the action was a speculative one on the part of a Jew attorney , and that it would be useles to find a verdict against him , as , if they did so , he should be obliged to pass tlivou < r& the adjoining building , meaning the Bankruptcy Court . —The jury , after a short deliberation , returned a verdict for the plaintiff , with £ 20 damages
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TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE . The following account of the terrible catastrophe which occurred at Algiers on the 4 th of May is givea in a letter to the Constitutional : — " We write these lines under the influence of the most painful emotion , and our readers will forgive us if we relate simply and without elaboration the fearful accident which we have witnessed , and to which several of our citizens have just fallen victims . » fx » ¦ i , announced that this day » at nine o ' clock , MM . Barthelon and Dussard , contractors for the conveyance of materials for the corps of Engineers and the hydraulic works , would spring a mine in the quarry of Bab-el-Dued , charged with 4 , 000 kilogrammes of powder . It is easy to understand with what eagerness so attractive an invitation was
responded to . Early in the morning a numerous crowd was seen proceeding in the direction of the engineers quarry , and we do not believe that we exaggerate in estimating at 5 , 000 the number of persons which crowned the surrounding heights . An experiment of the same kind had already been made in the month of December last , and , as it had completely succeeded , a great number of ladies , attracted by the desire to witness a spectacle of magnifacence of which they had heard vaunted , did not hesitate to join the crowd of sight-seers . Several mothers even-so great was the feeling of securityhad brought their children with them . These groups , ranged one above another from the bottom of the ravine up to the Targarnis . formed a most
animated and picturesque sceae , and the sun . which shone on them , seemed to . beam forth promises of enjoy ment for this festive day , which was destined iu a few minutes to become a day of mourning . At a quarter past nine a loud report announced that the tusee had been ignited . Twenty minutes were required to elapse before the fire reached the two excavations , in one of which were placed 2 , 500 kilogrammes of powder , and in the other 1 , 500 . When the fire had gained the first gallery twenty-one salutes were fired in celebration of the anniw .-ft y of the Republic . A few minutes after an explosjon took place in the interior of the mountain , a thicksmoke enveloped the quarry , and a volley of stones and _ large , blocks of rocks was hurled in the direction
of the city with prodigious force and to incredible distances . Persons standing at a distance of more than 800 metres from the quarry were struck , and we are informed ' that the substances projected reached not only as far as the New Prison , but even to the terraces of the Casbah quarter . We shall not attempt to describe the frightful spectacle which presented itself shortly after tbe explosion . As the crowd was scattered over a large space , and occupied various points at a distance from each other , it was impossible to perceive at once the extent of the disaster , and only by going from . group to group could an idea of the number of victims be formed . " We shall not seek to exaggerate , nor understate , their number , and our readers will find below a list , which is unfortunately but too correct : —Eight persons killed , several wounded so badly as to leave little hope of recovery , and a large number injured more or less severely ; such is the sad result of this
unhappy day . Among the deaths we have to record that of M . Jourdan , Juge destruction at the Tri-S ? J ° n A 1 ? io . rs ' who was struck bv a Projectile near the old Christian cemetery , at a distance of more than bOO metres . —Considerable anxiety exists on the part of the public with respect to the cause of this sad event , and the strangest rumours are afloat , Not being competent to pronounce any opinion on this point , we judge it more prudent to await tho result of he inquiry , which is appointed to he made forthwith . It would be unjust to visit the contractors with the responsibility of this accident , they having givea the necessaryadmonitions to tlie public , and taken measures to insure the least dangerous positions being taKen ; nor are the police to be accused of negligence , an every pains was taken to point out the danger with which it was attended . —The list of dead and wounded contaws the names of six persons dead , and mentions two whose names have not been ascertained . Tlie number of wounded amounts to twenty-nine . "
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. p-RCMMED Oct . —On Tuesday two privates of thff battalion , of tColdstream . Guards stationed at St . ueorgels Barracks , Charing-cross , were drummed out of . the corps with the usual formalities' of tne RogueVMaroh , " vfeoi "The offence for which tlufl punisbmont was inflicted did not transpire ,
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&t ) e prouincw . LrvERM 0 L . - ExiEKSiv 7 F 0 EGERiES . -6 n ^ Friday Mr William Threlfall , cotton spinner , of the Addin ' « rham Low Mills , near Bolton Abbey , was appretended at the George Hotel in this town , on a charge of forgery , which ho is supposed to have committed to the extent of several thousand pounds . When the prisoner was searched at the bridewell , £ 3 000 was found on his person , and , in a carpet bag , which was found in his bedroom , £ 3 , 000 more was discovered . It is stated thai a subsequent inspection of his pocket-book disclosed a further sum of £ 5 , 000 and bills , apparently availabl e at any moment , to the amount of £ 12 , 000 . Some . of these are certainly forgeries , but several appear to be
genuine . Along with the bills were found numerous letters oh business and relating to private afiairs . Shortly after his apprehension , the prisoner was placed in the dock , before Mr . Rushton , and Mr . Harvey , of the firm of Messrs . Harvey and Falcon , appeared to prosecute . It appeared from the statement of Mr . Harvey , that , on the 13 th of February last , Mr . Timothy B . Bourne , cottonbroker , of this town , received a letter from the prisoner , enclosing a bill for the sum of £ 2 , 000 , drawn by Mr . Threlfall , upon the Hull Flax and Cotton-mill Company , and purporting to be accepted by Mr . Joseph Rylands , manager of the said company . The writer reguested Mr . Bourne to get the bill discounted , and to apply the money for
his ( the prisoner s ) advantage . The bill was discounted by the bank of Liverpool ; but , on Thursday , in consequence of information ho had received , Mr . Langton , the manager of the bank , went to Hull , and there discovered that the acceptance was a forgery . Word to that effect was instantly sent by electric telegraph to Liverpool , and the prisoner was in consequence arrested here . —Mr . Harvey , at the conclusion of Ids statement , prayed the magistrate for a remand , which was granted . —On Saturday afternoon last , the prisoner was again placed in the dock , and the court was crowded by merchants and brokers , many of whom were personally acquainted with the prisoner , and recently had had transactions with him . Mr . Harvey again appeared
on behalf of the prosecution , and Mr . Aspinall , barrister , assisted by Mr . Bremner , of this town , and Mr . Barratt , solicitor of Leeds , for the prisoner . The latter gentleman was informed on Friday , by a telegraphic message of the prisoner ' s position . —Mr . T . Bourne produced a bill drawn by William Threlfall , dated the 10 th of March , 1850 , for £ 2 , 000 , upon the Hull Flax and Cotton-mill Company , lie also produced a letter which he received enclosing the bill . In pursuance of the instructions contained in that letter , he got the bill discounted at the Bank of Liverpool , and transmitted the money . In answer to Mr . Aspinall , witness stated that he did not know prisoner to be a
partner , in the Hull Flax and Cotton-inill Company . —Mr . Layton , manager of the Borough Bank , proved the discounting of the bill at the bank , and said that he had been assured by the accepter that it was not-genuine . —Mr . Superintendent Towerson , examined by Mr . Rushton , stated that he had examined the carpet bag , and in it he found a small lock and leather , bag . In the small bag were the bond stamps which he produced . He also found some red ink and paint . One of the stamps contained the words , " Hull Flax and Cotton-mill Company , " and the other " chief manager . " He had looked at the bill of exchange produced , and he believed it was stamped with the instruments produced . The nrisoner was remanded .
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SflrtianUf . COLIISIOS AT THE XORTH BRITISH RAILWAT StAtios . —A collision of a very alarming character by which the lives of abont sixty persons were placed in extreme jeopardy , occurred on Saturday last , at the station of the North British Railway , below the North Bridge . The passengers by-the mail train for London , which usually leaves Edinburgh at eleven o ' clock a . m ., having taken their seats , and the signal haying been given for the train to start , the engine driver immediately turned on the steam , but at the first revolution of the machinery , the crank of the axle of the driving-wheel of the engine snapped in two , by which the locomotive was
completely disabled . The superintendent immediately despatched a pilot engine to the company's works at St . Margaret ' s for a fresh engine ; and in the mean time it was proposed to remove the disabled engine by the locomotive momentarily expected . This step , however , was not adopted , as being likely to occasion the entire derangement of its machinery ; and , in these circumstances , to enable the new engine to be attached to the train , the carriages were moved backwards to the turning table , and shifted to the centre line of rails , leaving the disabled engine on the line , close to the platform . The operation was effected in less than ten minutes , and the train , as then arrainged , consisted of a cattle-truck ; filled with swine , for Leeds ; a
passengers' luggage van belonging to the York , Newcastle , and Berwick Railway Company \ a second-class carriage , a carriage of the first class , and two other second-class carriages . Scarcely had the train been removed to the centre line , when the engine expected was seen to emerge from the Calton Hill tunnel at a rapid speed . The brake seemed to have peen applied , but as the locomotive approached the station with no diminution of steam , and at an apparent rate of more than twenty miles an hour , the alarm of the officials , and such of the passengers as saw it approach , became excessive . The eagine advanced on the same line of rails which the train occupied , and dashed into it with great force . The concussion was tremendousand
, spread the greatest terror among the passengers , some of whom , as the engine came up , seeing the danger , vainly endeavoured to escape from the train . The cattle-truck in front of the train , which experienced the full shock of the collision , was nearly smashed in pieces , and tbe unfortunate pi « s were thrown high into the air . It doubled , in a manner , over the luggage van , and separating into two parts , the upper half fell over on the south line of rails , leaving the wheels and axles on the line where the collision occurred ; deeply imbedded in the ground . The luggage van sustained scarcely less injury , the roof and sides being dreadfully shattered , but singularly enough , the framework remained upon the line , and ( the countings
connecting it with the truck having been broken ) with the train , which also escaped being thrown off the rails , receded backwards from the severity of the shock twenty or thirty yauds . The engine was found to have remained on ihe line , but the tender was thrown off , when the wheels sunk in the ground to some depth . The damage to the train extended no farther than to the truck and the Inggage-van . —The passengers , beyond the excessive alarm occasioned by the collision , suffered comparatively trifling injury . Itis rather singular that only one pig was killed by the collision . —It is difficult to account for the occurrence of the collision . The engine-driver , of the name of Aitken , is one of the new hands employed in consequence of the recent strike of the regular engine-drivers and stokers , from an attempted reduction of their wages by the introduction of some new regulations formerl
. He was y a mechanic in the company ' s-establishment . The explanation given of the collision is , that having been anxious to display his promptitude in the emergency that had occurred Aitken had come up at too rapid a speed , and becoming confused on his near approach to the station , had lost the command of the engine . The regular stoker was absent , and the man despatched for the engine was acting in that capacity when the collision took place . Neither of them sustained any injury ; but we believe that the guard in charge of the mail bags , who occupied the compartment of a second-class carriage , sustained some injury on his oack . Aitken , the engine-driver , was apprehended by two sheriff ' s officers in the course of Saturday v rf * b was takett "to custody . —It is stated that the cause of the accident to the regular engine of the train was the sudden application of & ffSXS 45 " **' tbC " % ™*™ r , ¦» tMUu
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• vnug n ilallUa Ireiami . pZ ^ H ^ NATSOnTJtf ^ reNI--The Preparatory & ££ ff ^ ° // Ten ant-right Conference have rt ? n ^ nf £ reSS t 0 * to Afc ° f tenant-right SSXFrt ? it countr y . setting forth the dufies which they have assumed to perform in making preparations for the approaching conference . They propose to delay the summoning of the conference till the second week-m June . The address contains the following passages : _» The preparatory committee propose that the conference shall be considered essentially a meeting of business : that allthp
arrangements will be such as will best conduce to a despatch of business ; that there shall be no attendance of reporters for the public press ; and that no other publicity shall' be given to its proceedings than what the conference itself shall judge fit . . The preparatory committee will report to the conference the various plans for a . 'ri ghtful tenant law that may . be laid before them ; and , for the convenience of eliciting opinion , they hold themselves bound to submit to the conference a < on nected and detaUed ptin , st ichas . 'injlieirjuagmeht , inll bethejwstcalculated toseotire ; tfitU least risk
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and most certainty , the justdemarids bf the tenants . They also hold themselves Bound . to , lay bpfore . ithe conference , and to submitto ' its ^ judgment ; the ' outline of a plan for a tenant league , to agitate for an improved tenant law . " J ¦/ i ¦ : ^ ,- 'U sjv ; : r Orange LODGES . —Among . the " signs of the times' * is the general movement of disruption which is going on at present ainorig the" Orange lodges of Ulster . In the Derry Standard we find another series of resolutions setting forth the motives for breaking up the institution , and signed by no fewer than fourteen masters Of lodges , who are described in the local journal as men of respectability and integrity . ' < , ' Mr . Pooly , the Paymaster of Constabulary has been arrested under a fiat , and lodged in Kilmainham , at the suit of government . '; :
Petitions for Sales . —There , were twenty petitions for sales of estates filed in the Encumbered Court in the week ending on the 2 th inst . ' The entire number of petitions is now 7841 '; ' ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦''• • ¦¦ Prosperous . State of the Irish Linen and Yarn Tr { j » e . —The staple trade of Ulster had hcldiup wonderfully during the . famine , and tho . extensive employment it afforded contributed in no small degree to prevent serious destitutioni in the northeastern counties . Latterly there have been decided symptoms of further extension , especially in the flax-spinning mills ; and the trade altogether is in a more flourishing condition than at any period daring the existence of Protection . " Evictions in Tipperary . —The lipperarv Vindi
cator contains the following lamentable statement : — " No less than thirty-six families , comprising upwards of 336 individuals , were' ejected on the' 6 th inst ., by the under sheriff , of . the county , on the estate of Mr . Henry ( encumbered ) , in the parish of Bellina and Boher , barony of Owhey and Arra , county of Tipperavy . ' A scene so utterly' appalling has been seldom witnessed even in a county proverbial for the exercise of the depopulating system . The misery and desolation to which these poor people have been thus subjected may be imaginedit cannot be described . The Nenagh Union , which has been so deeply suffering from the wholesale clearances at Toomevara , and the ejectments in several other parts of that union , has had , in this
instance , an augmentation ; to its misery ; whioh must tell with fearful effect on the struggling ratepayers of the union . already hardly able to bear up against the burdens that oppress them . Thus , in this case , there are no less than 336 human beings ' cast on the world ; thirty-five houses were levelled to the ground , of which nothing now remains , but the black chimnies / ahd , the . wrecks of roof trees , startling monuments of the progress of that desolation , which , is bringing the country to yvm ' . " Emigration . —The emigration , which has been upon so formidable a scale since the opening of spring , is still carried on with undiminished vigour , so that there appears to be scarcely sufficient shipping accommodation for the multitudes seeking their way across the Atlantic . The Limerick Chronicle remarks that the arrival of each American mail " conduces still more to stimulate the farming
classes to emigrate , by the cheering . accounts of prosperity ' and contentment , with numerous money orders from friends abroad , encouraging their relatives to quit their native country . ' Another description of emigration—that of able-bodied paupers—is also extending considerably . At tho last meeting of the poor law guardians of Kilmallock , county of Limerick , a motion of Mr . Bolton Massy —that one thousand persons should be . sent out to America at the expense of the electoral divisionswas unanimously adopted , and a committee was appointed to carry but the project . In urging the plan , Mr . Massy remarked that those , poor men , by their industry abroad , would . be enabled to remit ; money for some of their relations left behind ; and that although the expense of so large an emigration might press upon the ratepayers in the first instance , they would find it the best and the most economical course before long .
Assaults on . thp Military . —Several civilians have been convicted at Limerick for assaults on the military , and sentenced to various amounts of fines and imprisonment .- ; : Evictions near CR 0 ssxiAOLEN .--On Monday last a formidable array of police mustered near . Crossmaglen , from the neighbouring stations of Forkhill , flewtownhamilton , Glassdromond ,. Cullehanna , and Keady . About ten o ' clock the sub-sheriff arrived from Armagh , accompanied by four men , whose appearance was very much in keeping with the sort of work they came to execute , namelyhouse levelling . From the strong force of police collected , it would seem as if formidable resistance was apprehended , but there was no indication of a breach of the peace . Nine families were evioted on the property of Mr . W . C . Quinn , two on the
property of Mr . Reed of Rahans , and one on the property of Mr . Tipping . ' Only , one house was thrown down ; the others wore spared possibly tor want of time to perform the work of > demolition . It is said that 120 ejectment notices were served lately on the tenants of the Tipping estate ! ¦ ' It is even remarkable that the clearance system is carried on extensively in higher quarters , and that may landlords , influenced by what would appear absolute infatuation , do not hesitate to take up the land from wealthy tenants of the highest class rather than yield ' any abatement of the rent to meet the altered circumstances of the ceuntry . This has taken place in several instances in the county of Meath and Dublin , and tho consequence is tbat large tracts of country must remain partly unproductive , for , want of cultivation and stock .
The Repeal Association . —There was a miserably small attendance at the meeting of the Association on Monday . Mr . Hagarty presided . The rent for the week was £ 20 2 s . Id . Tenant Right . —Mr . Sharman Crawford has intimated his intention of being present at the tenant right conference in Dublin , and of postponing the introduction of his own bill on the landlord and tenant question , for the purpose . of having its principles discussed by the members of the conference . The Weather . — After several weeks of sharp ungenial winds , there was a fortunate change in the weather on Tuesday , and some refreshing showers Jell during the day . This rahVwas much required , in consequence of the backwardness of vegetation . A week or two of moist weather would new be of incalculable service to all the growing crops , which afford such fair promise of an abundant harvest .
The Cork Examiner publishes the following particulars relative to . the escape of some of the Irish refugees in 1848 : —" The captain who rescued O Gorman and his . friends ' Doyle and O'Donnell from the tender mercies of the British government , is now , or was recently , at Passage , and he gives an interesting account of the adventure . His name is Taylor , and he is a native of Northumberland . He had discharged corn at Limerick , and left in ballastj but , owing to the weather , was obliged to bring up in the roads at Carrigaholt On Saturday , the 2 dof September , he happened to go ashore in a small boat ; and as he ; landed , he was accosted by a man dressed in a frieze coat , who inquired whether he had any room for passengers . The captain said
he thought he had , and told him he was going to Malta to look for cargo . The stranger did not ' seem to like the idea of going to Malta at all , and wished to know whether he could not land them in France . The captain , however , stated that it was probable that he would afterwards go to Constantinople , and he then asked whether they were refugees . To this question the person addressed , whom he afterwars learned to be a citizen of Limerick , replied that they were , and that he hoped he might confide in him . At two o ' clock on Monday morning the refugees , all armed , were put on board at a place just under the police barracks ; and immediately afterwards the vessel set sail . The weather , however , continued bad , she was obliged
to return to the same spot , and was detained there for a whole week longer . During this period the refugees , as may easily he imagined , were in a state of great suspense . Several circumstances occurred to show how active was the search for them . Tho ^ captain speaks with strong feelings of the zeal exhibited by a retired military officer in the ne . ghbdurhood , who used to go round the ship inaboat and say , "Well , Captain , you ' re not gone yet . Upon one occasion , as he passed under the stern O'Gorman and the others were looking at . him through the cabin windows . CaSn Taylor seemeS utterl y unablo to compreB the conduct of this individual , or how anv any man ' s loyalty could oblige him to be a spy , aS to hunt down men who were in misfortune and So longer dangerous , It . happened that the XtZ coast
guards at tne place was a townsman of Captain Taylor ' s , and moreover particularly anxious to touch the reward for the apprehension ofttoSons Thejessel had been searched on leaving ' LimeiS and hedid not think it necessary to scarcKSn ' because he had full reliance , on tho captSKncurrence with his views in that respect . DlnhS with him ashore on one occasion he said hehad a sharp look out for the Natives , but there wa s no need to search the ship , because Gaptain Taylor would be the best searcher himself , to which the S ^ SS . Sftg J jSs SB = &" £ 3 MH =, £ t- » !! te » « . 'k ° 7 g » t SSStoSi
of thfhlS SJrtf' ^ ? ed t 0 8 theniasight S ^^ tfjsssss tw £ Wan ? ' that he used Pleasantly to tell fWMT S arde ( J it as a fortunate circumstance tttat they were an odd number . When they landed at Constantinople , he procured them a lodging , u it ^ chan < in the very quarter of the city where the English ambassador lived . They remained there about four weeks ; ' ^ Two days after . they left Sir Stratford , ' : Canning '' sent some men-to arrest them ? . The captain believea that ' Sir , Stratford knew perfectly well they were to Cohstaeilnople ; and'tfiaii
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BRITISH COLLEGE ; OF HEALTH , New-road , London . TO THE FINANCIALTsOOIAL REFORMERS THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN . Fellow-Codntrymen , —Prove , as most e asily you can , how the doctors have lor ages cheated the people on tho question oi their health , and all tho reforms that you demand must follow , and that , too , in quid succession . Tlie dishonesty of the medical body cod be most easily established . We are , Fellow-Countrymen , Yours in tho cause 01 Salutary Reforms , The Members of the British GottEGt April 11 th , 1850 . of Health .
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: COURTOF COMMON PLEAS . _ : UARRITTV . OANN . J ) alsb IupRisoNMENT . -The plaintiff is a dealer in stale bread , living in Wentwovth-street , Whitechapel , and keeps a stall in Petticoat-lane . The defendant is a beer-shopkeeper in Lower Claptonplace , ia the . same vioinity . On Saturday , the 20 th ot October last the plaintiff , who frequently dealt jn such things ,, bought a gooso of a person named Wallace for 4 s ., and sold . ifc again to a person named Dadson for ia , 6 d . :. On 4 he . Bamo . day the defendant Io 8 ] t ! a goose ,. ' and : having" ascertained that a man , answering the description 0 ? the plaintiff , bad been
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 18, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1574/page/6/
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