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_DeCBtMBEK !} Ifiis _i a THE NORTHERN STAR . , ' n _**' 0 1 HU- ¦ _" *» _** •** ** *» - -a . ___ -ma-aaa-a
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aair ? mi Rulwat Accmis * ai _fiSHf _^ _-ME : * i _* ite ; _- _'ft' * _ra > _onau _* _aiv _^ Kte foe Tontma Hotel . - _?* _3 _^ _^ _' _5 . _^« KUed b 6 od _) bodyof _JtoV _^* *____ l ?_ i York _Utt _^ _thedecw- _^^ P _^ - _;^ _^ _fcg on a _SSsTtaiaM _* * s-2 ? _nw _^ g _« t _^ Droyteden « _tetion , and _^ t on tte _rvw _^ thu ; he _alwheld on b / thertep Mil : On [ aLS _' toR _^ ner _Laii _^ which _iaatent _GOO yards mtbmthe Ashton station , we -nutted the train , itt _eeaeoearod _, _hsvinetogo to Ashton . tar-ito I -jet oa tse Kenffer , bat WI off . and the wheel of . tto low _*«» «« K _« i _, fm _htihnri * Tiftirn- * tha lurry iff the rails
Boetaceased , _afrer _tnelartyliaigem ovetbun , ymTei ooni on his fe * Mand immediete » y feU across the metals hhin hit left side ; I got off tbs lurry , ran back , but on ttictdngup tohitn I foand he was quite dead . —tne yy . ury , after exfressinetui op _i nion against the _dan-^ _WtmB _practice _ofTitiin _goa _lorriea behind trams , OTRtnraed a verdict of * Accidental Death . gFH Floow is im _Koara . — Darin ? toe last _« x cr _reeoTen _dajs , in tfae _countiei of Cumberland and Westmreiorelaflt _* * . heavy rains , aleet , and snow kaye fallen rmofmost _incessantlT . and on _Monday morning ml ,
aa ha lakes , riven , and streams were greatly Bwolien , _wiiaTingoverflawed their banks and covered thead-• eencent low grounds to a considerable extent and pptepth . Oa account of the flood riling grado > Hy , « m _« usfss allowed for the exere ' _se of precautionary mearaeares , still it is to beapprehended that , in the _monn-Hnjunousdiitriot _! . there hasbeen iwj Knoulixi ¦ _moiaongat _flicka for seven ! _» bfiep _* werefl « n at v » no _* j _« iaolaees hurried away by the ftc-ad . andthequantitj f t laf large teas and other wreck which came down was [• _r-j-r-t-nenea . Many of the millers , whose mills are icoptopped fiom grinding , and _othera living on the _u-jft-jrgins ofthe rivera , were obliged to retire tothe _rorapperapartraeats of their dwellings- _Forronateiy oo no account has yetcome tohindof the loo of numaa _Sfefife . At nine o ' clock on Monday night the flood had _thaxbated rery little , and fears _wew entertained for the R » t * Mity ofthe bridges on _thermta _Ea-aont , _lawlaithsrEdtn Oalderand other atraatna .
_. , ] Dabieq BoHGUHr . — -One of ahe most danngburi _^ glaries that bas fer a long _timfe taken place in th is ¦¦ erei ghbonrboed occurred oa Sunday _ratrmag . at the _iiofcouse of a Mr Benjamin _AspipaH . a _respecUKe _iarfarmer . residing near the WMtelCrow . in _AdUngton ittetont four miles from Wigan . fie ba-glars , three _il / _of whom were seen by the _imaaws of the house , _efeeffectsd an entrance by taking a pahw of glass _ftora a rrnrmdow and removing an icon _stauncheen placed iniidtide . Some ona of them , it would appear , then got _Ihihrou-h the aperture , and went to the front door and idadmitted bis _treompliofa , of whom it is _satpo- 'ed Ihthere were six . The raffiani proceeded upstairs , snd _.
Sifinding the family _aronied by the _toiee they had _mmade , and awake , they demanded all the money that sfiwaa in tbe house , and threatened if it was not indtstantly delire : ed up they would thoot thera , at th ? siEame time presenting pistols . 'They _weredisguised , aiand with blackened faces _. After a ahrrt parley , ttlthey broke open the drawer ; , in the presence of the _Diowners . and _succeeded in getting a gold watoh , and ¦ laboae £ 9 or £ 10 in money . After this , they _proiwceeded downstairs , helping themselves to a _cheae , a q quantity of currants , come pieces of cleth , and a _mnumbsr of articles similar ; they left the premises * f _Tri' hout _detection .
_EuBEzzbBXBsr bt * . CtKBK . —On Wednesday week , is at tha B iraugh > Court , Manchester , a young man : i named George v _7 . Mortimer , lately employed as ( cashier by Mr Alexander Glendinning , _propii'ior ( of the _Seedly Printing Works at Pendleton , near ] _Masohe * fer , was brought up charged with _emot zzling a sum of upwards of £ 700 . tha pro _perty of hia emjployer . Tfca prisoner had been employed ty Mr I Glendinning fee a , period of nearly three years . ' That gentleman resides in the south of Enflattd , and i is in the habit of coming to Manchester two or three 1 timet inthe course af ( he year . Ia _Octeta last he i arrived iu Manchester and called npon the prisoner f to eea his cash accounts . Mortimer told Mr Gleni dinaiog that , in consequence of illness , Mb accounts
were not prepared for inspection . Mr Glendinning then directed tbe prisoner to hare ihe _accounts ready on the _followiEg Thursday morning . Oa tbat day Mr Glendinning called at his counting hoose , bat foand the prisoner was col tbere . Mr Glendinning remained in his counting-house nntil the evening , bat the prisoner did not make his appearance . This aroused Mr Glendinning ' s auspicious , when he sent to his bankers , and their accounts convinced him that _eoznethin _? was wrong . He then communicated with Mr Baswick _, Chief Superintendent < f Police , aad the latter gentlemen , by the orders of Mr Glendinning , broke O- _ea tho varioas drawers iu the _offics of which Mortimer had the keys . Confused heaps cf money , private memoranda , promissory notes for money Unt by the prisoner to his private friends , & j . were found in the drawers . Search was then
made for Mortimer , and ha was fonnd ia a state of inebriety , sod plaeed under the sntTeillince of a police-coiistab ' e until he became sober . After a few days all restraint was removed , npon an undertaking given by the prisoner ' s brother , that he would make tip his account *' , whieh he did , and it was then dis covered that hs waa deficient in his cash account £ 459 , and deficient ia a earn of £ 250 , on account of tents which ho had received in trust for his master . On the llth of November tbe prisoner was discharged from Mr _Giendinning ' a employ , and he ( the prisoner ) then oommenoed an _aotionagaiost Mr Glendinning for false imprisonaesf . This induced Mr Glendialing to apply for a warrant against the prisoner , -which waa granted , and he was apprehended accordirgly . Three cases of embezrement wera prored against hira , and the Banco , decided tt ? a committing him to tako his trial at the sessions
, _Afpeeesnsio _** or J . Pauuxub fob Shmp Stealing . —in the early part of last winter large number _£ of sheep were stolen from different farms around Long Melfbrd and Sudbury , snd , on the nightof the 5 th of September , _^ 847 , fonr sheep , three hoggets , and oae maiden ewe were stolen from the field of Mr Hale Wm . Westrop , of Boen St Mary , fanner . Oa ths morning after the robbery the field gate , where thirty-eevea sheep were folded the previous evening , was found lifted eff ita hinges , with the lock nnfa-tened ; and the print of cart-- / heels upon the road which adjoined the field had been apparently obliterated by the foot sf some person . Every exer tion was used by Mr Westrop to discover the perpetrators of this bold robbery , aud , in
_consequeieeof suspicion , tha _premuesof John Parmenter , ef Long Meiforf , _jbbber _, were searched , aad ia his shed or oathonsa were found the _caicaues ot two _aheep recently killed , aad tha skins of feur sheep exactly _correspoading with the description of sheep lost by Mr Westrop . Parmenter immediately _ab-Kondid , and , although constables and policemen have been continually , sinoe tbat time , upon bis track , no sooner did they attempt to caotnre him than his sadden departure completely OS Aid their effort * For six-Booths past , _Superiutendant Hoy , of the _Eisex _PoUoe-s tation , at Hedingham , has been oa tha alert , determined to secure Parmenter , and * nr * ces 3 has at length crowned his exertions . Saving suspicion that Parmenter was employed amongst a
large number of workmen at Victoria Road . Newington , Superiutendant Hoy dUguised himself , and with a white hat instead ofthe _leather-rimmed gossamer of the police , he prooeeded with two pclioemea in plainclothes , to Newington , and went amongst the workmen , his assistants waiting a signal to approach . After sons difficulty he found Parmenter , and wat h _ng bis _o-j-jcrtuuity _fjy _PanaenfJer going nnder a wall . Hoy said , 'John Parmenter , you are my _prilener , ona charge of stealin _t * Mr Westrop * . * aheep . ' Prisoner said , Yea are qaiie mistaken , I am not tte man yaa take me for ;* but Hoy said , Why , Parmenter , yoa know me . * To which , he rejoined , 'If it had not been for your white hat sou would never have taken me . I shoald have known yoa in
a moment . ' On Thursday week the prisoner ; _was brought beforeW . _E . Biban . Esq , atthe Town _U * M _, Saobury , and great anxiety was shown ia the resalfc of the casa by _thefattendance of many respectable farmers . Mr J . J . S . Gooday , _whwtor . con . onetei the case on the part of ihe prosecution . The tOOa WU Cleared Of _aUst-rasfen-, and * great many wim _?» sesw ** reexarflined . Tie prisoner , when called npon , made a long statement , inculpating another party , and Mr Gooday prayed a remand until Monday morninf , the 4 th ia g t „ whioh was granted , when farther evidenoe wUl . it is taid , be produced . _Buobacibci , _Matbucokui , Hoax . —a creel and most aanktaral hoax waa plmjed off in Haddertfield a few daji ago . It appears that _y—af mea _auacd _ITright Irtdsle , « t l ! ad ! -y , _« « dellrer / hu paid hi *
addresses to serrsmt girl _ftr upwards of three years . About six weeks sgo he peraasded htr _tolsavs her plsoa _oapnrBoss to b » airri-d ; aba did so , aad tho _tasai werepnhlished at the parish ehswb _, and expired on Sunday Ust . _H-ud-g wu fixed as ths _wedding day ; _ererythisf was prepared / or th . mrptlsis ; dreusi . dinner , m * tie goats _fartttd , _Ihpgirri hroth-r and s ' _Jttf _aairedoa C _. _tcrdsy nlgut , _npoa the inviiatien of the _toasgrooo- elect . - having ( mailed sear !/ forty milea . The _jonng rata haoborrowed several poand * _ofa friend Otthe _ysung woman ' _a , io order that ail shoald g * on w » Jpert _« 6 ly : bar , without tha least inUmatfoa whatever , ca _Sttardsy b 9 eet eff to leads , _Iesvior word he should
_BBtarnat _nJsht . * _tTi ght cams , tad _Busday eame , bnt - _> - > _*« _'Iredslamadeliiaappeaiano _,, _. It _w „ _q __ _„_ _firlantly expasted he woald reran * b j the Srat train on «« aay mornia , ha » _iaj g 0 M u ha saU , _iolekh . _eoa-te torn * as _teideaauW . Monday passed over , and _ataTuesday , _totheehsjrlflaad _disfppcfateientVsU * r « _rfeeeoccttned ,-xoe *» tf * i ffl 8 elf ; HorhaaanithlBrliea seen or heard of him in thlstown since . HUp ' stentaare _ g «» t _ilttteu at tho _deesitfol asd -hurutol part he _jasaoted ; and the girl ' s Msnds havo returned fo their _MBas , _aftsr loriog twili tfae , _expsniA , aad trtrj other _« - _« veaienc t to which they bar * bean _putiaosnia . _•^ _oithli deeaafal fallow . _¦»»*< m ___ f ~* xw 9 or LuuMB . —Qa Satarday a ¦•• BBS o * " -lectors took _bJsc-j _, b-ta * it was strfetl y
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_privBte , tt to _topowlHe to say wh » _^ fa p _j _, f _j _^^ the fcet thatit was decHed to - _^ _j _ft _pttbuetMettng , Mi , In ths earning week , proV _. aly oft Taudty , when b > per con will be nominated by tbe liberal- . The friends of Bf Cartels , an advocate of _Doctor ¦ _Ceaoioiu _, who contested the borough with Mr Bailer at ths last general election , are _masjlns ; exertions to ensure that gentle-¦ nan ' s return . Tba Bight Hon . Thomas Bablngtoa Uacanlsy is the person who will in all probability be Dominated by tbe Liberal psrty , bnt ths honourable gentleman hss not yet been _communtcatid with . It la Tery generally reported that Samuel Trehawke _Kekswleh , B « q „ wiU be a _candidate to _reprsient this borough in Parliament la thetotn of Chirlti Boiler Esq . .
, _CmoKBi i > MAKonisTBB . —News arrived in town on _Ssiurdsylajti by _altoirb telegraph , annoandng the appearanee of cholera in Manchester . _ThedeoeMcd was a gentleman travelling b y tbe train towards his home , Higher _Broaghlon where he expired after an attack ef a few hoars , at fire o ' clock oa tbe moraing of Satarday . A BExaiKiBH Boms . —Oa Satarday week at Sonthmoltcn , Sarah Nioholla was committed by tbe Rev . W . H . Kuelthe , for trial at the session * , for stealing gander frem Mr Crocker , of B- _* t _* _-ott Farm , in the parish of Chlttlebampton . Mr Crocker traced marks to the prisoner ' s door , and then gave Information to BaTl _« ra , the police officer , wIjo searched the premises , and
found freih plucked geoie feathers abont the housr , Bad the legs , entrails , 6 c , in s . pot concealed . Frcm theie circumstances , as also tbe fact of the girl ' s foot corresponding with tbe marks in the ground , he took her Into custody , and her father , with whom she resided , alio . At SoBtbmoIton tbey were p laced in tbe _ststlon-home to await the arrival of a magistrate , when Mrs Fisher was struck with the _aau-nd appearanoe of tbe prisoner ' s waist , and suspecting the buttle not to be ' patent , ' proceeded to sesroh ber , and discovered the tander , _mlnni the bead end -rings , tied In a towel , and , with tbe aid of two strings , _cantueted as near the con- ct ibape as It would allow . The father was dis . charged from _ciwtody .
Thb Batcon Mobdeb . —On Monday week , e man as . _swerlcg tbe description , given ot ihe mnrderw , Thomai Williams , and mho on being interrogated aa to the mode of his arrival in tbis town and his previous oecnpatkra , preTiricttted considerably , was takea Into custody aed detained until communication could he bad with the _authorities in Brecon . He evidently _ere ' ind * to he an Irishman , and gives the name of Jerry Msloney ; but the account he renders et himself la to extrstnslj _uautiifactory as full y to Justify hia detention , even suppoatog him not to be the party for whose apprehension a large reward bas been offered . A rep ly was received from Brecon , aad Maloney was discharged froo _cn-tody , _b » not having a _icsron the left cheek , whlob the alleged murr erir Is marked with . '
A _Floatiko Railboad . _—Oarrailwajs have beea laid in costings and on embsnkmen ' s , tferough tunnels and _ortr _rfalusca _, end by the genlm of s Stephenson tbey are actually _beiag carried over anna of tbe sea , wbere ships in foil sail ean pata beneath tbem . While tbli daring work , however , can Bo . effected where tbe widtb , as at the Henal Straits , is only lomeSOO feet , snch great tidal estn « ries u the Forth and Taj will aot admit of tt . Ai theee Friths lis across the route of ths great east coait line of railway * , which will shortly extend from Londoa te Aberdeen , It became axtremely desirable thatome meant should bs devised hy which those seas might ba crossed withont the troublesome necessity of passengers and goods cheng ' ng carriages . We are happy to say that a plan has been devised for carrying tha trains bodily across tha Tay at Bronghty Ferry , where it is aboat a mile and a bait broad . Ur Bobert
Napier is atthe present time _btuldln- ; . io his yard at Govon , a floating railway for tbe Edinburgh and Northern Railway Company . It ia being _boiltof iron , 180 feet la length , and thirty . five in breadth . Itis to bave three lines of rails on deck , so as to _tnahle it to take on a railway train of 500 _fset in length , and is to be propelled by engines of 250 horse power . As the mala lias of railway on etch side ofthe Tay ii considerably above the level ofthe sea stationary engines on either side of the Filth are to be employed to draw up or lower the trains . This railroad steam-boat Is expected to be launched ia a few weeki , la the _mesntfme . and before tha above Improvement is completed , theEdin burgh and Northern Company hava made arrangements for having their cattle and heavy goods for the English markets carried by the Dundee end Perth lice , and thence through Fife , and by the east coast lines toEng . land , en very moderate terms .
A _Iibsbal _Taics . — . We mentioned , a few weeks ago , that the new Town Council of Stockport , wbich , at the last election , had become _ConserraHre , for the firat time since tbe paisiog of the Reform BUI , had lumtnarUy dismissed their town elerk , who had made hlmitlfverj obnoxious to them hy the intrusion of his Free Trade and Dissenting politics , and by hit snipe and woodcock exhibitions after _journejs to London about Improvement Bills . _lirCoppock surrendered hts effice with a good grace , and the council appointed Mr John _Taoghan as bis _sacaesser ; bnt immediately on this , the _ex-town clerk set himself fo consider how best to nullify the _conseqasnecs of tbe decision , By his advice an application was nude to tbe Lord CoanoeUor , ( or such an addition to the number of borough magistrates as should give bis friends ths majority , and . this being granted they
appointed him their clerk . At no salary wat attached to the office of town clerk—tha council having , seme time ago , arranged , from economical aad other prudential reasons , that the tawn clerk should alto be tfae clerk to the magistrates , at a redsced salary , and paid out of the feet arising out of magisterial proceed _, tags—Mr Vanghan wat that left with withont aay emo . _iamen * . On thlt discovery _deputations proceeded to London , to show the nen neoesrity , for any proper parpoie , of new magistrates , whilst a speoial masting of the coinoil BaBseao . en . tly protested by _twenty . nlns to thirteen against this insidious and party attempt to govera the town * ln spite' of tha _bargsisei . Every _conttitationtl means by protest , by petition , by reasonable argucent , ard by the force of facts , wat empleyed
against thia Iniquitous jobbing by a disappointed faction . But it waa of no avail ; the Whig officials mast _asrre their party , and the borough Is now blessed with itvtnUen justices , and only eleven policemen ; though the eld magistrates had little to do , there being only nine prisonera for trial at the etuuiag _Knuttferd Settions , and three for Salford , and one for the Chester and Liverpool Att ' z * _t respectively . Ths new batch are—Mr Alfred Orreil _, Mr Stephen Yates , Mr Carrlngton , Mr _Btkrigge , aad Mr Edward Mar-laud , the latter gentle _, man ( a _Canservatlve ) being , as ex-mayor , already a magistrate for tho _pret < at jeir , With the exception of Mr Copr / ock and a very _fsw of his _vielent parlisans , the _transaction It viewed by everybody with feelings of unmitigated _dlsgu't—Ct-rpwl Mail .
Dxaxh or _Pbotissob Saudi * , doom , F . B . 8 . —This eminent surgeon expired on ths 3 rd inst , at bis oountry _retidi ate , _Shepperton . Mzxakchol ? Sbifwbick at Si'foid . — Early on ths morning of _Wednatday weth during the gale , a Swedish schooner , named the _Lafayette , of TJddewalla from 8 t Host , laden , with a . cargo of salt , Sso ., was wrecked in thb bay , opposite tba Buckle Inn , and we muoh regret to state that two of the crew out of seven ( Swedes ) were drowned . The body of one ef tbo aafor . tanats men wat foand en shore before daylight near
the wett gun field , bat the vital spark was extinct . Bis name was itated to be _Nicholat _Nolsoa . The vessel is a complete wreck , and It Is expeoted the next tide will kaock htr entirely to pieces . The coast gaards exerted _thamtelvet , in saving tbe lives of the crew , and the sur . _vivort 'had much kindness aud attention shown them at tha above tan . Tho poor tailor who wat found waa interred in Ssaford chnrohyard , oa tho following day , end wat followed to tho grave by the -arriving crew , who had ao narrowly escaped the aame sad fate . The remains of tbo other unfortunate man who was drowned had not been discovered .
» abbow Esciji . — We scarcely recollect a better Instance of presence of mind , when that quality is decidedly required , thsn the fallowing : — A short lima ago , Mr Beddard , a person residing at BrimfiBld . near LndW and dolus a considerable basinets at _aht-gltr . was returning horse in hit cartfrom Kidderminster , On the read , between _Bewdlty and Rewaham Bridge , he met a woman oarrylog a basket , who asked him for a ride . He consented , and on tbo woman ' s getting Into the cart he came in ooatact with her hand , whioh iramedUtely track him ssb-iag too large and hard for a woman ' s . His suspicions being thai aroused , aad recollecting the occurrence of a robbery ander similar circumstances elsewhere , he hit upon tha following Ingenious node of _getting quit of hit companion . _Pnthing off his hat , as Uby aocldent , into the _rotd , he wished the supposed
wmnau to get cowa and pick it np , as his marc was rather _tklrilsh , and he was afraid to quit ttorairu . Tba teeming woman compiled , hat as toon as the was oat of tfae cart Mr B'ddard floggad his boras into a _g-Bop , andgavo her or him the gcby . Aboat _half-amleonwardthohad again occasion to exercise all hit _i P TI _!^ * _ * _ _" *» . Two mea cam * , ** , and _dearmdediffaehadteen a woman carrying _baeketon tie road t He replied , 'Yes ; about a quarter of _« m _'' from this : and u _I-utsed _* _-. waa getting up into a gentleman ' s Rig . _» On thb the fellows tat off sta smart pace ; and He Btddard _con'ta- _* teg _hUjo-ttneyarrived safely at home . Ou examining the basket left ln tho esrt it was _fooad to centals a brace of pistols and a largo clasp-knife . Mr Beddard had aboat bis per t on on that occasion onwards of £ 100 in mosey .
MuiOZB 1 ST A £ r _*** A « c Aartta * . _—OaUeaday , a Jary assembled at tho Town Han , Derby , ' to Investigate a ¦ _ariooscsre _, fa the prcKaoe of the mayor snd visiting justices . Tbe following are tbe particulars of the evi . _denas : —Aboat six months ago , a yoang man , aged 23 , vary retprotably connected , wat seat to the Derby asylum la a ttate ot great imbecility of mind and physical weakness . He wat not a violent lunatio , and _comeqiently was not secluded . He associated with other patients , _perambalated tbe grounds , and even on the afternoon of tbe dsy preceding the murder wbich caused tbe investigation , wai asked by Hr- _Btig & toob , tha wlf »
of the pbytictan who had charge of the asylum , to walk with her , bat he refused . Until within _thit week or ten days past , a keeper slept in tbe tamo ream , bat since tbtt time the keeper slept with two patients in aa _adjginlng apartments , and the youag lunatio und a _companlca maraed Tomlluson , ( who wat also considered formless ) slept by tbemselres . The keeper saw thtm ia bed betwosa teres- and eight o ' clock at night , and , at a-oal , looked tho deor . About six o ' clock on the following sorolaf , one of the patients , whose duty it wat to gat op aod light the fires , went to tbe keeper * * room for * _-Sm _^^^ f ? ' - Ioo 8 s « _'l Mmaaaeed _tlngtag _, at . _" : '* - * ' * - _' * - _*?• ' . - ' _- ' - ' _-iV' *> ' : ' . .
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wat _costoasary with hhn every motnlB _| when hohetro _SateS * _Thok _« p « he « dhl « . _* _^ , o « D . lttti . _Sm . when he _oiswd _, and in _aheat flva _miaatet afterwarte sn _nna-oal noise wat heard , whlob cauted tbe _kaensr _Mlsap o «* «* _*• € and rash into the room . Xt was not _toiSoIently light toobterw tho ttate of thing * retv minutely , hut on entering he taw the young lunatio itandlngby _hltbed-tldo , with nothing on but bis _thirt , aod his companion _Tomlintoa lying groaning upon " he & _oor , to » »>»•» of nudity . Tho keeper ' s first aot wae to ' push the young man dawn upon the _beo . and cover htm _ovsr ; » Ms _isoond , to fetch a light and _si-lstanoe . aad call Dr Biigotock . On _rtturnlDg to
the room , _Tomllnson had breathed bit last . u » skall was spilt , lower Jaw broken , aad several _Uefh kaocked out , and a pool of blood lay upon _Wiofl-or . On making further tearoh , a piece of thick wood wm found in a corner of tho room , which was _etolned with bipod : this piece of wood , _provsd to be a lathJsksn from tbe bed en which the murderer slept ; ana it m conjectured that A * d *** _ased waa in tho act of _ohaneing his skirt , when hit companion -prang oat of befl i and struck Wm several blows wltk tho _latb _; He denied the aot and would not believe that _Tomlinson was dead During tie _lnyestigatlon the prisener looked bewildered , and frequently mattered something ia tn inaudible voice . He looked thin and emactattd . He was _oommltt-d to the oounty gaol on a charge of _wllfol _marder , and new awaits his trial . _BnaosAar amd _Mobdib , —Stveral robberies _fcavs re .
_oentiy baen oommitted in and near Credltoa , Devonshire , On Friday wetk , a farmer , named Wellington , was ranted lathe night by burglars , who , not content with stealing his money , beat him very 'evenly on tbe head with bludgeons . On tbo following night tho house of an aged _womaa , named _Hoimsn , at Taphouse , _Tedbury St Mary , wat broken into , and from tho appearance of tho premises Bext day , it it supposed she made tome _resittanee , for her body was found quite lifeless on hsr bed ; a chest of drawert and a chair being upon her , where they had apparently been placed to suffocate her . Tbt murderers hava not yst been discovered .
Awfdx Siobm amd Lois or Lira . —The boat Monarch , of St _Agnss , Cornwall , pat to tea at five p . m . on the Ut ,. employed on the herring fishery . Tho crew coi'bted of four men , via , James Front , ten ., aad _Jamst Ms tea , John B nnett , and — Bnnt . At 7 . 50 this coast was Tlslled with a eevtre _ehook of a hurricane , tbe wind veering feom S . W . to N . W ., when tho beat swamped , and all _bandt found a watery grave , Pront leaving a widow aad eight children , Bennett a widow and two children , Bunt a widow and one child . A few of the floating _Bttto ' es ©! the teat havo washed oo shore , confirming tbo tad catastrophe , Fea * op Stbbkgth . —A few days ago one of those not
_und-quiBteHaloMcf alarm In the streets , an over _, goadad cow , escaped frem her drivers , and was _plunglag madly along , when a tall , _haadiome . Highlander , of the name of Maorea , a gamekeeper with _Glenmorrlaton , happened to pass . Ho at ones threw himself before tho _onragsd beast , selz . d ber by the horns , tumbled hsr , and held h-r firmly pinioned thero till the / drivers came np , and effectually secured her with ropes . This feat of strength excited the astonishment of many an _on-loeker . —Inverness Courier . Fa * AL _AcciBEHI ? . —On Monday evening week a _yeung woman , named Margaret Malcolm , residing in CasttehiU , met her death Ib South Gray ' s Close , High Street , la a
very tuddra and _dUtreitiog manner . About twenty minntei past eight o ' clock she , with two companions , left tho Uolted _Iadattrlol 8 chool , about tbe middle of tbat close and bearing ao umbrella , wu proceeding up the close and passing an old and high building , when a large stene , loosened by the wind or heavy raia , felloe her head , and caused immediate death . Fortunately both her companions escaped , although a quantity of rubbish fell at the tamo time , and shortly after several ether atones gave way , and tome passers-by bad a narrow escape . She wat a _monltrets , and very mnch liked by her pupils _andacquaintances . —C « _tof < m « ' _hereury
_Leohimsteb EiEcncK . — Mr _Bsrkly ' t appointment to a colonial government bat brought tno candidates into the field—Sir Edward Balwer Lytton _, and Ur Pe t ) , the second son ot Sir Robert 7 eel . An active canvass will bt immtdistely commenced by the friends of these gentlemen . _FoNsaAT . cr Tiscouki Meiboubw . —The funeral of the late _Tfteoont _Melbourne took place ' on Friday after _, noon , Dec . 2 d , when the remains of the deceased were removed from Brocket Hall , sear Welwyn . for interment ia the family vault in Hatfield Church . _Yisoouot M « lbourne ( Lord _Beanvale ) _wasprevaated by the stato of his health from assisting at the _obtrqaies of bis departed brother . _Vi-eonat Palmerston , _£ ord Se Mauley , lord Aibl-y , Earl Cowper , tht Right Hon . Edward Elites , and the other relatives and personal friends of tke late _vitcount , wero present at the ceremony .
Abotbzb Attempt at _MmvoiB at _Cabbim . —On Tuesday week last the towa of Cardiff was again tbe seene of another diabolical attempt at murder . The victim on thb ooca'lon wat an Irish girl . It appears tbat ahe bad been fetching sand down by tbe wharves , and whilst returning with tt about three o ' clock , p . m ., some one suddenly pounced upon her from behind and stabbed ner under the right arm with some sharp _inttrument , probably a knlfr . It entered about two inches and a half deep , bat , fartanate !/ , by coming In contaot wltb oat of her ribs , it wat prevented from penetrating farther . The poor girl wat immmediately taken to the
infirmary , where her wound wat drested , and wo are glad to find that the it eoniidered out of danger . No clue has been had ofthe villain who inflicted the wound , although several parlies have been taken upon suspicion . A Child Shot . —On Satarday last , as a child belong _, log to John Sbaw , of Hoyle Mill , Barnsley , was playing with Its father ' s coat , wbich he bad j-Bt taken off , a loaded pistol which was In one of the pockets , went off , Tbe ball entered the child ' s hip , and came out in tbe front of the thigh , very fortunately _mltsing the vital parts . The child la likely to recover . Shaw . it in the habit of carrying a loaded pistol aboat him fer the protection of his person .
A wohih Xiuis bt . ja _Shkp . - — Oa Sunday week , at a poor woman _ntmed Hannah Dawtoa , of Methley , aged eighty-eight yean , wat going across a field in tbe occupation of Mr Ferrer , of the Rote and Crown Inn , at that place , tht was attacked by a tup lamb , and so muoh injured that the died on the following Tuesday . Ibisb iHPODiMcr . —A few days since an Irith woman , wltb two or tbree children , applied for relief at the Hall workhouse , and after ber case had boen inquired into , a loaf of bread was handed to the eldest child . The mother immediately turned round to the child , gave It B good _tuttihiflg , snd then threw the loaf Into the street , declaring she would have something better or nethfcgatall .
Child _Stjetccamd . —Oa Taesday week , an inquest wss held at Tarvey , under the following singular circumstances : — It appeared from the evidence that a man named George law , on retiring to bed , on Satarday evening , pot tho embers ofa wood fire in a kettle , and placed it on the floor of the bed room in which he , with bb wife and youngest child , between two er three yean of tge , tUp ' _. Two other children slept in the adjoining room ; the door between tbe two rooms wat left opea , bat the oae at the top of the staircase was partially elated . There it no chimney in either apartment . When Law awoke on tbe following day he _feltstoplfled , and conld hardly stand ; hit wife , who experienced a eimiltx sensation , told him tbat the- child was dead , Thert wts no smoke in the room , hat neither of ¦ them conld _ste dearly . He saw a neighbour pasting , whom
he called in , and , to bla surprise , foand it wat three in the afternoon , — Elba CMton , tbe person allnded to , tald she foand the inmates of the cottage in a very atrange ttate ; the man appeared ia a mi re , and ' teemed not to knew what he was about . Mr Godfrey wat Immediately called in , and stated he found the mother in bsd with tho dead child . Two children wera in aa adjoining room ; one of them wat in a ttate of approaching death . Taking _appearaaoet Into account , and the evidence he bad heard , he was of opinion that the death of the _deceased arose from _inffocation , by the iabalatioa Of ( he fames of charcoal . In answer to the Coroner , it was ttated that the house Inhabited by Law , and the adjoining oast , htd been recently ereoted , and the occupants have been ia the habit of putting embers in pott to warm tht rooms . Tke jary returned a verdict according to the above facts _.
_OtnHAH , _—AccrosBt to tbb Man , Cabt . —On _Saturday moraing about seven o ' olock , an accident happened to the mall cart from Manchester , whin passing through _^ the market place . The batchers wero remov ing their standings across the street to prepare for the business of tbo day , and the nolte occasioned by tbo wheels _rnnnlnr over the atones frightened the horse , so tbat It commenced kicking and plunging violently . Tho splashboard of tho cart w « i aeon dashed ia pbcti , tho driver was-violently thrown ont , and tbe wheel pasted ever him . He wat takea up almost _tenteltss , aad carried Into Mr Dodge ' s printer , wkere hit leg and tide wero fomented , aad ho remained until bit brother wat _fstchtd fiom Manchester . The bags and parcels were forwarded to Saddleworth by a conveyance provided _hyUrBuekby withont delay . Although -tin-offering from the accident , ths drlvn it not ttrloniiy
_bjored-Pbam _FtoiMsions box Win _PtAoncr . —At Soar _, _horoogb , lut _wosk , Mr William Bean Crawford , working jeweller , wat brought np in custody , charged wltb having thrown a stone at the head of a _reornltlng _ter . geant of tha 5 th Battalion of Artillery , and thereby inflicted a serious wound . It appears that the Peace Society , had posted tbe town with _piacirdi , _osuManlcg _yooagmea a _« t to enlist , < and _commtnting genera !!* _ape-sthecbaraeter _ofoar military establishment and a maa was likewise employed to parade tho town with a bowd . with this placard posted open it The _ser . geant , thfaklng thete placards might _pteviat him obtaiDbgrosralts oa the fair dsy , consulted the mayor ob the eab-e < t . tad _coBclodlng , from whattook pboa at thb interview , that ho wat justified in remoTing the nla . cards , Kqaettod the man carrying the board te desist e , pMing them wbich he refuted to do . The _taegsaal then attempted _topnll down the obnoxious placatd , mi wUe _/^ ! % _P' _*' _* - _^ ford , wko was to the r _^ L / A e a T ' * _"P ¦ •*•« . « _ndjuried , it at bb hear * A Private ,-who wat near , took the , **! - !
toner mrocu-iopyK , me iowa Hail , where the maab . _tratet wero s t * _ing , Tho magistrates , _thloklna ; the m _" . fence too serious to . be diiposed of summarily , bonnd the prisoner over to appear at theses-loos to answer anv charge that may he then preferred againat him—Halfax _paptr . ' DireawoB or _ras _MAit—Fioon oa » : t « _-railway — Tho mail from tho Sooth fa ., bee-, _ _ _£ _™* _~ _qavacoof the _flttdt _, whleh fat ,, _^ . „ _£ ¦ _£
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bridges , one near _teamlogton , tho other near Crawford , hMidotatatly _fllliog up oot of tkeoutiinison tho line oi £ _oSS Jn _Bsifwsy with the earth swept oa . the Has hv tke floods . The country ell around ta under water _, the railway _co-pany havo *»« de . ro _«*»*> t _amngernenb for _olearlBi the Una and keeping opsnthe oourie jot _iatstngert , to that the detention for ths _^ present will not bo great , and it maybe txpeotad to bo altogether removed in a day or two , ; _-..-. _.. Da CHAKB _« 8 . -The reported death of Dr . Chambers , . s stated in the _Iakcw * of S _* _'orday last , to contra . _dlotsd . " ' attw ' —
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Tna Real Revoiuhon . —The Cork Correspond _, eat of the DAii _* News gives the following graphic account of tho effects of landlordism upon tho landlords themselves . If suoh is the ttate of _thinr-a in a , oounty which was one of the moit prosperous in Ireland , the condition _ofojlhera not _sofaTOured , may be coDJeotwed : — .... , . The social _revolution , which has so long beea foretold , it now ve ' y visible in this oountry , aud the signs of its progress oan no longer be mistaken . The embarrassments ef tho _gentoy in this great county' tl e Yorkshire of Ireland '—not only exceed _anjjthing recollected , but even go beyond the gloomy anticipations of the most foreboding of their order . The
pecuniary difficulties of several tamuies in , tms oounty , who were supposed to be out of the reach of all financial casualties , are no longer , matters of secret , but are openly discussed in every social circle . Every distriot presenta _, its spectacle ef ruined families , and the patrician class of this unhappy island is now in its turn suffering with the pleli an classes the dire scourge ofthe potato rot . Your Dublin correspondent reoeatly informed you tbat it waa calculated that Ireland has lost _fotty-thteo _taUUont in consequence of the famine years , and yon can easily suppose what destruction oi classes mutt have taken place amongst ns . I will specify a few inatances , of this _osunty , which will show you the mingled operation of the potato rot and the poor laws .
* One gentleman in this county , representing one of the eldest families , had a well-paid rental half-adozen years ago of eleven thousand a-year . The property owed a hundred thonisnd _peunds . Whatever rents _heihas received within the last two years have not paid the _tfemands en him for interest money . He has beea compelled to eject several defaulting tenants , aud raany others have stealthily emigrated to America , leaving farms untitled , and no chattels on the lands . We has now no less than four thousand sores of hia patrimonial estates untenanted and idle , and the difficulty of procuring solvent tenants is juat as great as getting root at all . An argent
demand has been made on him By one 01 nis principal _creditors for twenty . five thousand pounds , and the incumbrance must be discharged immediately , or due legal remedies bs taken . Prior to the famine this great landlord > as most _solicitonslfor a ohange of the la w of real property . His wish has been fulfilled by the ' Incumbered Estates Bill / He wishes to sell laad t _» the amount of four thousand pounds a year , with the best titles , but in the present state of the money market he cannot find a buyer to give twentyfive per cent , of the value . What Englishman will invest io Ireland , and where is there a monies ! class here to give value for the property of our ruined gentry ?
' Mark the po ; ltion of the land . ord alluded to here . He owes a hundred thousand pounds ; he receives only a moiety of his rents , and a vast portion of his estate is idle . He has reduced his establishment to the hwest figure , his expenditure not exceeding that of a gentleraan farmer . 4 A few days since there was a ; sheriff ' s tale at the demesne residence of one of the grand jurors of this oounty . The execution was put in for the small Bum of £ 200 . So little means was there of staving off the claim , that things were let sell for about a quarter of the value . Thus , turnips worth £ 18 an aore were aotually sold for £ 5 . And this ia one of the most canons peculiarities of tho crisis . Sales
of any kind in this country are now attended with vast sacrifices . Thus , a few weeks ago there was another sheriffs sale . at the splendid park of one of the first grand jurors of this county . A variety of valuable property was put up to auction . But the want ef money in all classes prevented any competition _. The carriage which hsd been used not long aince during its owner ' s year of the high shrievalty , fetched twenty-five pounds , and a pair of tolerable carriage horses sold for fourteen pounds ! The state bed of the grand bedchamber , with carriage , hangings , ' and all appurtenances , sold for fifty shillings !
' Another grand juror , who used to drive four-inhand , is now ' a Sunday man . ' And in oae district of this county there is a cluster of country seats of which the owners are remarkable foe their rapidly acquired sedentary habits . Gentlemen who were noted for their activity in field sports have become suddenly fond ef the fireside , and instead of' tallying ho' Master Reynard , they have become tarryat-home iu their _waysot life . Sir Bulwer Lytton makes a spendthrift exolaim in one of his novels , Ah ! it ib really _deusaa fashionable to be deep in debt , because it shows tbat a man once upon a time had credit . ' And by this text our Irish gentry were never so 'deuced fashionable' as they are now .
Another sheriff ' s sale is every day expeoted at the residence of a landlord who had £ 7 , 000 per annum of reut roll , Right and left the gentry are _craokicg beneath the poor-law like _Bheet-ice in a thaw . ' Of tbe stringency of the poor-law , and of the vigour with which it acts , I will cite an example . One of the embarrassed landlords I have allnded to above , was asked during the famine last year to give a subscription to the local fund of bis district for the poor relief . _flesent £ 25 . In this year £ 600 , will barely pay hie poor rates I A titled neighbour of the same _sentlenun sent twenty pounds to the tamo relief fund , and for his property located in that particular union the noble lord will pay this year upwards of four hundred pounds !
* The quantity of land out of employment , aad the extreme difficulty of selling estates , at present constitute the peculiar and argent difficulty of this timet Until there be more social confidence in the state of the country , land _eannot fetch its value , and holdert will naturally defer its sale . Estates that formerly might hare been sold at twenty-five years' purchase ( if worth thirty shillings an aore ) are now , with the pressure of poor-rate , and the low prices of produce , not worth more than fifteen years' purohaBe . You can easily imagine from this faot what a state of things we are in here . The simple fact ic , that Bince the property af the country changed its proprietorship at the period when James II . was defeated , there haa not been in Ireland suoh a social \ revt lutioi tt
is being effeoted now . Four times the property ol Ireland changed bauds in the seventeenth century , according to tho calculation of Lord Clare , in his famous union _Bpcesb . In what hands the property of the fallen gentry will now go it is very hard to say . Ona . would wish , as Sir James Graham did last session , that more of the catholio capital of Ireland was attached to the soil . But the catholic capitiliBts have _themselves Buffered heavily along with every other class , and under present _cironmstances they are not likely toemtarkgoed money in buying land , when excellent wheat fetches only
twenty-two shillings a bag in Cork market . Itis not alone the gentry who have suffered . The trading classes in all the { towns have been heavily mulcted . Ten years ago the tanning trade of Cork was a most lucrative acd tbriviogbranoh of manu ' ao tare , It has now . become a minces business . The tale of leather for the lower olasses _wasalmoBt stopped during these latter times of distress , _« Bd the English dealers have sucoeeded in beating out the Irish tanners even from our own markets . Within the last two years some of the eminent catholio capitalists of this city have fonnd that for losing a fortune rapidly * there is nothing like leather . "
CONDITION OF TUB COUMTKT . Tiers Is no symptom of improvement In the Irith soelal horizon , whioh It dally , if not hourly , b ' . comlng more hazy at tht oriole approaches . Indeed , If entire credence it to fee given to a provlaclat _touthtm _pao _« t , ( the Likibick Szawmib , ) tbe oaly visible sign of ' clearance' la to be found In a syttem of wholesale extermination of tenantry whioh it at present ravaging certain districts lo the [ counties of Limerick , Clare , and Kerry ; In tho last number et thatjanrnal thtre It a catalogue of misery wblob , It but the ono half be true , _thowt a ttate of demoralisation without parallel In any oonntry professing to bs governed by tho _lat-t of civilisation . The record extends over two _oolamct of close -print , bat a few extraots , taken almost at random , will
gene as samples of the _wholt . Thus , a letter from _Iusfh , in tha county of _Olaro , tells of _tbirty-rlve houses levelled , and the ooflupanti , amounting to , 200 iouIi , tent h < H » -l « _'t upon tho world . In _Wlkee tamo thirty ot forty persons shared a eimi ' ar fate . In Sctr ff eight houses bave boea levelled , and two others doomed to a similar process . In Croon several families havo been dispossessed , and from Tarbert , it it Mid that the better clase at farmers ham relinquished tbclr holdings atd emigrated with their families to America , la Rath _, _keale It It stated that , at the latt meeting of the union board of guardians , ' Upwards ef 300 _tsttoiated btlnga crowded round tbe workhouto , uttering tha most pit tout lamentations on fhofr hopeless condition- The majority of them came from | ho remotest electoral dl _* 4 _tions of the union ,- —tome frora Glynn , many from beyond _Croom .
and not a few from 8 _SanagoIden . Thty could not obtain admission into tlie _workhosse , owing to a want of _accemmodatlonj _, and _nere obliged to _rstraqo tbeir steps back t _« ttetr wrewhed homes , to Hvo God knows how . Oo a recent board-day , some 200 or SOO were also nnable to obtain admission . The flood of pauperism is increasing more and more rapidly every day j but we hope the _guardiant , in w & oie humanity we bare confi leoee , will endeavour to mako arrangements as soon _atpractl-Mile to save the Uvea of their fellow-creatures , who theoKg to thorn for protection aud att ' . ttance . They are theitoly aud tbe late resource of their unfortunat _^ feL _low-Mngs ; and npon thtm will depend their _cWnqe of eaespltrg from the grasp of death . ' _t V Tho _condirtoa of a portion of the county of Kerr | . i * that de * erfW '— _'Iamtold that _etsnet of misery hot te he _M-i-asiaed fe BhfhbtreiD _, or Skull , la Bushy la
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wmf _"P * « £ 1 * 5 SeSoi _U _evtagaa _ptett _mploymeat . Mr _«¦»*• _£ _'™~ Mr John _Hickson , _exwmslvolf in _diainage _operatio" . -r ¦ _ , . _« _ . „ ' . „ . I _¦„» ...,, _ronjOj ¦ _ « . _»^ _x _* _VS . an , or any other work , la doing . i _»« i _*» __ » _psrt are watts snd of _thi . tsnsnts _^ _j ; « JJ * J msoy who have the _mtsns _artantiol _^ _tlag _theaaSi . r _^ _SiUfav thoir war *• . ** - _^ _wttSJtjs ; rlca , while the Inability to cultivate undtr wbioh others labour It not diminished by . as . lslancfl l _^ _** _' teed or ether form tbat I know of . Wholo _vlUsget , __
any tuokasthe two aamod Ballymore and C _oonties , have been depopulalod-not . however , by voluntary _miido * _snent-ihe bonus levelled to the _-rsoaaa , ithe roof _, burned , aad . _tfae wr . _tcbsd _ptop l . forced to fleck Into Oa town , « hs _tasementt in which are _fiHsd to overflowing by ths evicted and destitute . If a man who « aw Dingle fifteen yeart tlnoe beheld it bow , I will not write what I think ho would or _thould _tay -butifa man of oommon humanity beheld It , deeply would ho _ewcrato the syttem by which changes so lamentable and so ruinous have been wrought in ths state of Its -oolsty , _MsBy ms the respectable aBd _hoipItaWe _ftmilies who have _besn r « . duce ' d to penury and beggary ; and _coontleis are the onoe contonttd ' ocouplers who are now in _mitery and want , oooped up in iho town , or orammlng thepoorhouie and lying a deadweight on the resources of tbe union ,
badly able at It le to bear them . ' Meantime , tho Muuriok paper _ohiorves , the moit remarkablo ftatar-i of trado at present aro the exportations of people and food . -- There aro at present io this port seven vessels aotually _shtpplns corn to remove it from our shows , and ten _vetstU _prspsring to take away paiiengen , heaides a great number who tako shipping at Liverpool , Groups msy be teen flocking in every dsy from the conntry , with their little articles of property packed up for tbe railway conveyance . If recom . _meaded not to go now in , the depth of winter , but remain nntil spring , they toy they , would not have the means then to pay for their passage ; and that aa there tt no chance of life at borne they may at well run the risk of the passage to America / PaooBMi or _DsroroxATio _** . —Jo a townland la ( he
Immediate neighbourhood of Borrbokane , where twenty _, five famitlat lived ia comfortable _cirtumttancei , nine ct those families emigrated within the last few months , and four of thein died , leaving twelve on the townland , some of whom are In the most indigent _clrcumstancea , _desiroot of leaving the country if they coald . Tht village of _Balljmackeybai become a heap of the most squalid pauperism , whilst it da- _« _»«« contain ona fourth of the QnC 0 _Maparativoly happy _cottiera by when tt -a , inhabited , _dtath having made aad havoc among thtm ,
OfToomevara the same may be taid in a great meatare ; and In nearly all the rural chapelt on Sundays it ts observed that tho _congregationi are thin , scanty , and ragged , not numbering half what they were a few years ago . ( 3 TaTI OF Cl . IHE . _ The -WAvttteUl -journals supply further lamentable _evidence ef the _Inorease of crime In varioas parts ofthe country . Tht _Akolo-Cut bas the following from Cavaa , _whtro the magistrates recently assembled and called upon tho government for stringent measures ef repression :
_Atibmpt at Moboib ik thb _Cocbti Cava ** . —We have to reoord another attempt of this description , whtoh proved all but _eacceseful , on a farmer named Robert Fisher , who resides at a place called _KiUicunny , within three _miltt ef Mullagh . On Friday evening last , about the hour of eight o ' clock , Fisher wss fired at on the pjabllo road , from some reload walls , withla seventy perches of fab own boost , at ht was returning from Mr _Keatlng'i _, of Ssl-an Park , tho shot took tffeot , wound-Ing him very severely on ths right falp and left arm . There are good hopes entertained , however , of bis recovery . Tbe assassin must bave been v « _ry convenient , at tho _wadding of tbe pfeos wts found at the very spot
where Fisher had been standing when he received the fire , Fisher is an hontlt , industrious man , and in the habit of _emplcying a great number of labourers . He faai _besa on ihe best terms with ail his ne i ghbours , asd was _aotengagtdln a dispute of any kind , _eongequtntly no motive oan be assi gned for thb daring outrage . Tbt guilty party escaped , it it supposed , into the county Meath , whioh adjoins Cavaa near that place , at the po . lice tracked tbe footsteps of two men in that dirt otion . A reward haa been offired under tho direction of Matter Brooke , fer the prosecution of the _rufiina concerned in tho attack ou _Lyoni , ths bailiff on the Blackwood _property ia tbb coanty .
Dubolich Attempt at _Assuiiiutioi _*—On Sunday evening last a young woman , tho wife of a respectable elderly farmer , namtd Walib , residing at Cranagb , within three _milst of Athlone , Roscommon tide , wts fired at when abont retiring to boa , and it is feared mertally wounded , several slugs having been lodged in ber hip and baok . The circumstances which led to this _ratUnohoty _taan-acdon ara , as near as can be guessed at , at follows ¦ —It appears the unfortunate woman lived for some few years ae servant to Walsh , to whom she subsequently got married ; thb created an Ul . _feellng in the mind of _Walsh ' a too , by a former wife , though a married man and separated from his father . The wife of the older Walsh waa _farjadvanosd In pregnancy , and itis tnpposed tfae object of the assassin wat to pat ber oat of the way , lest the property should devolve to her Issue . Walsh ' s eldest son bat been arrested en _taiplclen . Up to tbb data she still lives , although in the most _excraoiatlng agony , Wabh ' _t family are very reepeotable . _—ITerinieatA Guardian ,
. _Abbest or a Mobdibeb and his Haibotjmm . —Ob tbe 22 ad ult ., Constable DevaiJy and tbe _MolIIoavat police psrty succeeded , after a lengthened starch , ia apprehending at Mantwell ' a Conrt , a man named Joseph _Kearns , en a charge of having murdered a person named Wbelan at Moonooin _. last August , and also a young man ntmed Gaul , charged with tbe _eoramtsslon of a murderous assault . These prisoners have beea com . mlttfid to the county gaol , together with Jamst and John Holden , tbe men in whole home they were found con . _ceaied . The latter _ptnont were _taktn into cuitody for harbouring _feloas , and thb thould ba a warning to tho farmers of onr coanty to exclade all _offtndtrt from aid or ahelter . _—lKKMtm _*/ _JfW-rator ,
The _Ieibstsb Eipjh ** hat tha following account of the arrest of another murderer in _Tipperarv : — 'John Coouan charged by tht verdict of a _outonat ' _s jury , with being one ofthe murderers of Michael Smith , atBslIy bropby has beta at hngth arrested . Bince tho perpetration of thit foul died , for wbioh one man wat executed , Coontnoomrived to befib the vigilante of tbe police , until latt Satarday night , when ho wu arrested under the following olroumtlances ••—On last Satarday night , aa Constable E . P . Jackson and party were in search of stolen mutton , at Cullahlll , ia the oounty Tipperary , the rtfleotlon of a twinkling light , at a plaoo at which h » _considered there m , _» habitation , _atirsctsd hit attention . Having approaohtd it _nolielowlr , ho found tbe light to proceed from a wretched hovel , far apart from human habitation , and there to bb great joy he found Coonan , who bad with bim hit outfit for _Amerles , for wbioh land he was to start the ensuing _morniog , '
_RstcaxA , Nov . 30 . —At Thomas _Lyster , Esq ., manager to Hamilton Lj-ter , _Et _« „ waa _rctornlng from the Tipputty Joint-stock Bank oi this towa to _Mlllpark Mills , he wts attacked on tht highway ( within 120 _yardt ofthe tpot whtro tfae servant man of tfae Messrs Bo _* d wat robbed abont seven weeks ago ) by two armed men , and robbed of £ 80 sterling in half notes . Pooa Law _Ettioai-no ** . —The Poor law Comrslttleneri have sanctioned a mtttlBg ef tho rate-payers in the _Davldttown electoral division ofthe Atby Union , for ths purpose of making a rate for pauper emigration , _Libebatio ** or _PoiiTieai , _Pbisoniib . —After an _imprbonmentof four months , Mr Mahony _wat ' _ditobargedby order ot the _Lsrds Justices ob _Wadneiday . Previous * _a his release a special report ou ths stata of hit health was aubmitted to the government by tha medbal officer of the prison . _Metttt Lawless and Burke were liberated on the same day .
Dr _MCurron _, brother-in-law to Mr _Oharlet Oavln Duffy , it ont of tfae liberated prisoners accaied of treasonous practices . Ma Dcm ' t Babmwtc * _Sofebiimd . —The attempt to n » ke Mr Daffy a bankrupt hat signally failed . The claim which Mr Doff ; disputed hat been withdrawn , and the commission of bankruptcy superseded , at tfae colt of the person on whose affidavit it waa Issued . Mr Duffy it now tho only politioal prisoner in Kawgato , Mr Donne waa _reelected Lord Mayor of Dablin on Friday for the _remalalog portion of the _pressnt ytar . He was not opposed , The corporation of Kilkenny bava eleoted Dr Cano aa mayor of that elty for the ensuing ytar ; The doctor bad jnst been released from prison , wharo he was confined undir the Habeas Corpus Suspension Aot ,
B ( TaiwoBKKMX , > -. ConaidsrAbIo _modificatleaa of the publio establishments have b _<« n for some time under _coat-mplatlon ; and amongst others to whioh tbo buom it to be applied it tht Irish Pott Offioe , with a view ot _lo-previog _, not _Impalrlag , tha working of that important _dt-tartnunt . At prtnat there It a most _unjutt _dlstribn-Mon of labour , with an _Itverit ratio of oomptntatlon , allottad to the clerks of tbo _tovsrel offices ; for , while the persons employed in the { aland and sorting _dipattmen's are well nigh harassed but of existence by a ntvertnding round of duty , thk & j _owIbj to a- Insufficiency of _bsnds , the more fortunate , gentleman ' upatairs , ' who luckily hold situation ! ia the E » cr * tary '» _, _Accountant-Oenerel ' i , and _Dead-bttw offices , not to speak of tho numerous tribe engaged in the . surrey , ' enjoy , by comparison , a perfect sinecure . To correct this anomaly , by thinning the r & _nkt , keadt aad subordinates , ofthe class
above alluded to , is tkeobjtot of tha inquiry now pending , The offioe of Paymaster of the Civil Sarvioe , at the head of Whlob was the Bight Hon , T , F . Kennedy , hss fa-en abolUhsd . Several ct the ouWdlnate- also have been retired , and the _busineti will bt done nnder the Treasury by a clerk or two in the Caafle . Sir James Dombrain baa prooeedad to Eagland , aad tbe department , of which ho was tho head—the Irish C jast Guard service—will be transferred to London also . The offico of Irish Seoretary to the _Poat-offlce will exist so more , Mr Cosby having retired on full allowance . The head ofthe Money OrdworBce will alio be dispensed with . The Board of Works hat beea weeded to a very great extent , and oa Monday tho wfeala of tho tfwp _- ojw . there , with two _crthreo _exc-Btfont _, wtre dtoptaaed with . Tht _psrmaneat staff , ami « -m or three parties whose "" ita ! f > iaMb [ 9 ia Wd 0 U ' * whn , Bt »» llone
To The Democrats Of Londont" Gevtim-}T.-...
TO THE DEMOCRATS OF _LONDOnT _" _GEVTim- } t .-At one who has for , _, „ . past filled a place in the ranks of _MetrouS _Jr _!' mocTacy , and lug taken a deep interest in _£ _e * ofthe _BritUhUbertymov * m ent , I prMUKe _^ to you , _throushthe medium ofthe _PeonS _n a ! a few observations upon topics _hearine _aLW ' at the p'ejent juncture , upon the _bucc-S 7 * o ' In the Star ot Saturday last , _app-ars the nl-National Organisation as revised b y the Exe v The principles , according to the vote of their ** mingham delegates , is that of the old plan Tb TO THE _DBMnrpT _^^ T _^ _T- - _^^ _^
, o _*** i *» \ _t _\ _r-i \ vtAaf en-ma _ls-vkr \ _- _* - . A \ fl _*~ ti . _^ _HfcrS are , however , some slight modifications of _defi which upon investigation , will , lthink . be found t be improvements . The plan is complete to au - ° parts , and is now submitted to the democrai _, t Great Britain , for the ratification of their _sancti It has been placed fairly before the friends 0 f- ? * man progression—the votaries of glorious freedom * and it now remains to be _sein , whether it j * to be a dead letter , a mere caput mortuum , or a livine active , energetic reality , instinct with every _essen tial for the accomplishment of its holy aim .
Therei 8 a trite aphorism , to the effect that 'I ] W deferred maketh the heart sick ; so , wit h equal truth , may it be said , that frequency of disappoint . ment chills popular _enthus'asm , and damps the ardour of exertion for freedom . That the fervency of popular . feeling has sustained a check , no one conversant with the calamitous events of the past tbree or four months can deny . But , thank God it is not extinguished : no , no , the mali gnity of tyrants , and tbe machinations of spies—worthy allies—have done much to check the fire of patriot . ism , but a spark still exists and may with care be kindled into a bright flame , from which the light of liberty may radiate to the remotest regions of the globe . Be this the mission of the National Charter Association .
The p lan of Organisation promulgated by the Executive , is well calculated to render powerful the Chartists of Great Britain . But it must be taken up with zeal , spirit , and resolution . It must be espoused by men with hearts in their breasts , and minds in their heads ]; men whom reverses will not retard , nor misfortune make melancholy ; by mea who , seeing liberty in the distance , are resolved ta surrender only with their lvveB in their efforts to reach the _Heaven-born booh ; by men prepared to brave the' oppressor ' s wrong , and the proud man ' s
contumely ; ' let the staff of our National Charter Association be composed of such sterling materials as these , andthe days of Whig and Tory ascendancy may be numbered . We have , I believe , upon record , the opinion ofa Judge , to tbe effect that the constitution of the Association is legal ; its object we feel to be jU 3 t _, its means constitutional . It sets aiike at defiance , the infernal machinations of the odious spy and the legal fineness of his dexterous master , the Attorney-General . Hence the most scrupulous politician may , with perfect safety , regis . ter hisnameupon the roll of the Association .
Men of London , it behoves you , as denizens cf the British metropolis , to take the initiative in the work of organisation . U behoves you to lead the van of the movement , to set a noble exemplar , and thus give a tone and a tendency lo the proceedings of your brethren , throughout the empire . Your activity or _supineness can almost determine the success or failure of political movements . A grave responsibility , then , rest upon your shoulders . A manly and patriotic procedure , on your parts , at this ) _unctwe , may prove the precursor of your country's rescue from oligarchic thraldom ; whereas , a degrading and passive subserviency will embolden your masters to make further detachments from the small modicum of freedom you now possess .
I humbly presume to tell you , that among the nations of Europe none owe their country duties more sacred than you . Your country writhes and pines under the onerous impositions of political fraud and religious intolerance—she wails under the conjoint dominion of landlords and _fundlords—and she appeals to the patriotism of her sons to extricate her from ber perils . We have at our command the means of doing so , and if we do not respond to her call by a prompt award of the required succour , we evince a degeneracy of nature , which places us among the lowest on the scale of European nations . Men of London , your immediate step should be
to rally round tbe old banner in your respective localities , and thus strengthen the breath of life ia the new Organisation . Begin at once the work of reforming and re-organising . Whatever defects your experience has proved lo exist in the old mode of agitating , let them be atonce remedied . Thewriter of these _ramarks knows well the metropolitan system of agitation . He has , for the last six years , sustained his part in jt , and his experience constrains him to say that it needs reformation . Let each Democrat ask himself , what is the purpose of agitation ? And he , will find his common sense answering , that it is to display tbe justice of a
cause , to add to its adherents , to combat opposition , to dispel prejudice , and thus to foster and strengthen public opinion , until that tribunal fiats the triumph of the cause contended for . Now _,, many of our places of meeting appear to me illadapted to attain any of these ends . I consider that taverns are not the proper arenas for the inculcation of the principles of citizenship . They are not tlie most seemly seminaries to school the - people into a knowledge of the sublime principles of human progression . Their murky atmosphere is not the best meiium through which to discover
the li g ht of truth . Neither ara appeals , _emanating from such forums , likely to have much weight with those to whom they are addressed . We should immediately redeem our public character from the imputation of being pot-house politicians ' . With that stigma resting upon us , our efforts to imbue the public mind of this metropolis with the justice and necessity of the Charter will prove comparatively abortive . Let no man read this as the language of reproach or reproof . It is neither . It is the sincere dictate of conviction , founded on experience * - , and thus made public to benefit the movement .
How is this defect in our mode of agitation to be remedied ? Some of you are now diligently engaged in the solving of this problem , while I believe all are more or less convinced of the course to be pursued to that end . If you woald elevate and render acceptable the cause of Democracy , yoa must advocate it in balls uncontaminated with fumes of inebriation . Ia such places it may be upheld in a manner accordant with its greatness ; it may be maintained with fervency and a dignity
commanding at once admiration and respect . It is pleasing to learn tbat a little temple , dedicated to-Democracy , has just been opened in Commeicial Road East , and that several of your localities are engaged in creating the necessary funds to secure respectable places of meeting . To your halls , then , Chartists of London ! furnish them with libraries ; attach to them reading-rooms ; and thus _rendi r them so many central luminaries dispelling the gloom of ignorance from society .
Another topic demands your attention . The ' press as an engine of agitation , has never yet by our ' party been brought fully into play . We should aa i far as possible bring its mighty po « ver to bear upon i the apathy of the masses . The Northern Star has , , by exhiting Democracy in its purity and sublimity ,. ,. removed the film from the eyes of thousands of ( sceptics . Still there are myriads of the community , , who recognise Democracy only in ths hideousness s and distortion in which itis paraded by its enemies- i . As an antidote to this poison of misrepresentation , i , I know of nothing more effective than ably written a tracts , explanatory ot our principles and those re- i-
forms we seek to effect through them . I would d have these tractB circulated upon the plan of the ie religious societies . Tbis I think would ba found an . in efficient mode of diffusing our principles and aug- ; - menting the number of the Association—two ob- > jects to attain , which must be near and dear to the ae heart of every good Chartist . Let every patriot , it , then , hasten to one or other of our centres of Demo- , _o-Cracy , and there enrol hia name under the new _svi Organisation . Let him cast his mite _iato the trea _« : a < sury , to enable the Executive to start vigorously _slj with the holy woik of national regeneration . Take ike heed that the efforts of tha Executive are not io ' paralysed for want of means , as the neglect of tb & lbi people has hitherto furnished the enemy with a i :
very plausible pretext for the retention of their iei : rights , _namely— -that their indifference proves that ha they care little whether they be slaves or freemen ; en and , therefore , that they are unfit for the elevation ioi from serfdom for which their friends contend , md Cease , men of London , to afford ground for this thi stinging reproach . Show the world that your ap- ap preciation of your political rights , is as hig h , correct , ed and sensitive as that of any other class in tbe tb Empire ., Let the next Star herald forth the resolve olv of many metropolitan meetings , to re-commence _thd th winter campaign against tha , powers of corruption tio with renewed spirit , and much will be done to infuse fus new life into the Democracy of Great Britain . Jvnics . London , _Daceabtr 6 th , 1848 :
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 9, 1848, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_09121848/page/6/
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