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AccpESTa , _offm-cxs _, arc . _lteata akd SxcKicT . —On Sunday motning ft young man and two or three _femaleswere out in a _Boall skiff pa the river : when off Mr _Chandlers stearo-lHat pier , owing to the strong breeze , and it is alleged , want of skill in the parties in the boat , tte vessel suddenly turned _trrerboard , and the whole of them were immersed . The cries of the people in the water brought several persons to their assistance , Int . notwithstanding that every exertion _ _waa made , the young man who bad charge of the skiff was carried along with the tide , and disappeared . The females were saved , and refused to tell the name or address of the young man whose life has been lost .
SEFBire _Ohsibub AcciDEST . —On Sunday aftemoon a-an omnibus , belonging to the Metropolitan Conve > once Company . , wa « proceeding on its journey to _Hunrerforf-roarket * with twelve inside passengers and nine outside _, when _r-pnosite Percy-street" Tott « nbani-court-road , the hind axle-tree broke , and the omnibus turned _completely over en its side , throwing _theoufe-He passengers in the street .. One gentleman had his leg broken , and another his shoulder dislocated ; they were placed iri cabs and conveyed to Middlesex Hospital as quickly as possible ; the driver and the rest of the outside passengers were
mor e or leas injured , bnt not so inuch aa to prevent them from reaching their own homes ; the inside _nas « engera were thrown together in a heap , but fortunately escaped without any farther injury than a tew cuts from the broken glass , excepting one lad v . who was so cut arid bruised that she was carried to _asurgeon _' sin the neighbourhood to have her wounds dressed , . ind was then " sent iri a cab to her own residence . On examination , after the accident file axle-tree was found tobe composed of very bad material , the iron atthe fractured part appearing rotten and fall of flaws .
_tSOJCTStS . D ** _snt * OTOs . _—BeforeJfrW . Payne , at the West London union workhouse . / West-street , Smithfield , on the body of Stephen Wackett . aged 55 . a labourer . —W . Pym . 276 , City-police _, said that on Tuesday evening last he was called by one of tbe porters of St Bartholomew ' s Hospital to a man in the waiting rjom , broneht in by two strangers , who had picked him np in the street . He had been seen by the _surgiOB , who said he required no medicine ; all be wanted was food and rest . The deceased was 'Cxnoved to the workhouse . He was quite nnable to wait or stand without assistance . He shook like a person snSkring frem the ante . He said he bad had nothing to eat that day bnt a small piece of dry bread , and he had just come nut of the country from _tryinstogetemploymentathaymaking . G . Forrow _, the night porter at the . workhouse , said that he admitted _thedecea'ed _abmt eicbt o ' clock on Tuesday right , and seeing him very weak he asked him if be
wished to see the _doctor . The deceased replied' No , he only wanted rest , and he should be better in the mornim * . ' On beine pressed he drank"alittle . tea . bnt ate nothing . The witness took him into the refuge , audgavn him two woollen rues , which he wrapped around bim . He visited the ward several times during the night without observing _anything particular ; but on visiting it about half-past five on v 7 edn < 3 day morning , he found the deceased senseless , and breathing very hard . Mr Hutchinson , the surgeon to the union , was sent for immediately , who had tbe deceased removed tothe infirmary , where mustard poultices were applied to hia cheat , bat he never recovered his sense , arid died at ten o ' clock the same morBine .--Mr F- Hutchinson , surgeon , said thathe found the deceased was labouring under all the symptoms of 5 _erious appbplexy , _produced in this case , by low living and exposure to thecold . Verdict : -Katuraldeath . _'
_AiiEOEu Death feou _Liprofes _Dhivtko . —At Vie London Hospital , before Mr W . Baker , upon a man named _Rii-bard Beau , who died from injuries received by being mn over by a cart , alleged to have been occasioned bv the _itmropsr driving of ai young man named Christopher Lucking _, a _general dealer , residing m _Ceniosba-n , Esses . On Thursday even _, in ? , abmt six o'c _' ock , deceased was talking with some friend .-, and standing in the Commercial-road East , when a cart driven by Lucking came by ; the sear wheel knocked _deceased down . Lucking ; still kept _dti-rine on . Tbe deceased was removed to tbe _iospital , where he expired _ebortly afterwards . It was said that blame attached to _Lacking in _conse-Quence ofhis having passed on the off side , when there * as sufficient room on the near side , which was his properside . Thejury said it was a very improper place fer men to converse , together in the centre ofa public mad , and returned a verdict of 'Accidental death /
Suspicions Death of a .. Fsjmi _* - . —Before Mr Wakley , M . P ., at thc Elephant and Castle , King ' s * road , Camden Town , on . tbe body of a female unknown , _apparently about 23 years of age , now lying in the dead louse of St Pancras- Workhouse . Connor _, a groom in the service ofa gentleman residing in Gower street , said that on Sunday night last , about twelve o ' clock , he . together with another ronmrraan , were in Tottenham-conri-road in a state of intoxication , when tbey met deceased , who was _slightly known to them . They gsve her something to drink and then prevailed on her to accompany them to where he ( Connor ) resided , which is a loft over some stables in Chinese mews . They were so drank tbat tbey could sot toll what happened after
their arrival , but on the fallowing morning they found the decea « ed oa the floor apparently lifeless ¦ which , on medical aid being procured , proved to be the case . _Informaium was then _grren to the police , and as the deceased was not known , the body was removed to the workhouse . The coroner _observed that under the very singular circumsiacceB connected ¦ with the case , he must _adjourn the inquiry , not only if possible thatthe body might be owned , but for a post mortem examination . Mr Robinson , the _surgcoiof St Pancras _workheuse , was instructed to _psrform this operation . The deceased , who is of fair complexion , about 5 feet 4 inches in height , was very well dressed , in a green lavender arid white striped and _fijured _mousseline tie laine dre * s
_fliunced . blue cardinal cloak , white silk drawn bonnet with wreaths of green Sowers , a pair of white silk knitted cloves , one ofwhicb had a green glass button , and . tbe ojther , one blue snd one green ; in ker pocket was a small pockot-book and some tablets ; on one leaf is written , "E . Collin ? , 7 , King ' s Headcourt , Broadway , Westminster ;* on . the opposite leaf is some poetry , concluding with the quotation , 'She never told ber love . ' and . appended , the name * Jane Sanh ' -Usher . * Another , name in the book-is ' William Brown , _Perey-sqnare , Basnigge-wells . ' There was al-oapaper beaded , * A cure for love . ' Tbe inquest was adjourned . ' Death _bf Fire . —Before Mr Baker , at the Harrow public-house , High-street , Poplar , on view of the
bedyef Elizabeth Passmore , 71 , of No . 5 , narrowlane _. Poplar . John Passmore , night watchman in the employ of the East India Dock Company , stated that on Saturday night last he left his wife in bed . and went to his work as usual . He returned home about eight o ' clock on the following morning , and discovered the deceased lying in the passage quite dead . She was most frightfully disfigured , and the whole of the upper part of her " body was completely burnt to a cinder . A candle waB fonnd lying under her body . Itis supposed that duricg the night tbe deceased had an occasion to go down stairs , when , on returning up stairs , she slipped and fell down . Her clothes caught fire from the candle , and , beiog very feeble , she was unable to move . Thejury returned an open verdict of' Found dead . '
FISK 8 . Fihf . w the Wssr _Isma Docks — On Mmday night , between seven and eight o ' clock , information was received at the London fire-stations of a fire having broken out in the West India Docks , Poplar . The firemen fonnd that the ship Helena , of Dublin _, laying in the Import Dock , had taken fire about an hour _pre-iously . The flames originated from some _unexplained cause , in what is termed the aft-deck , or steerage , containing a quantity of sails and ships ' stores . The flames having obtained a strong hold of tbe under part of the deck , tiie water pumped down conld not touch that compartment , consequently the work of _destrnttion -was still going on . Mr Fogo , the foreman of tlie brigade , on reaching the place .
su : ge 3 * cd that a . ladder should be procured and lowered into the _store . That having been done , the _brigale men went below , and by taking the branches of ihe engines they were enabled to scatter the water in the right _direction , which had the desired effect of gettin _* the fire entirely sabdned . The damage dofli \ however , to the ship , is very considerable , for Burh was the violence of the flames that seme of the beams _» re nearly burned through , and the aft-deck is very seriously injured . Independent of which a nr .- ' -tier of sai ' s and general stores aro consumed . F : se is B £ Rjr ; . "M > sBr ? T » E £ T . — -On _Toesday right , about 11 o ' clock _, afire broke out in Great Bennondfiey- _ _-trezt . In the course ofa few minutes theentire _district wr . s illuminated to such an extent , that , from Loadon-bridge _, it appvarcd as if the greater part of tlis aou * es in the _stree- were on fire . KciheroUB
engines sooa reached the spot , when it Vfa 8 found that the premises belonging to Mr Ucdgkin 8 , rope and _rai merchant , were wrapped ia one immense sheet vf flame , the fire from which was ascendinr . _hi'h . into the air , threateninz destruction to the surrounding building-. Fortunately , an abundant supply of water was immediately obtained , and a powerful strcim was thrown hy the engines into the mid-t of the fl _uneg , but they continued to increase until the whole cf the st ' _-ck in trade was on fire ; and it was with no little difficulty that thc _sir-3 manufactory belonging to Mr Mills was saved from _destroctidn , and also an adjoining yeast _warehoose The firemen succeeded , by 12 o ' clock , in getting the complete mastery over " the conflagration , but no ! atu the r-ntire range of premises iu which itcom-• fflenced , together with their contents , were reduced _toaehea .
_ubcellankoes . " Thb Cut r a » Losdo . vSsuu , Dams * Act . —The _fiifit court to be held under the new act , which will tat e phvson the 29 th inst , has beea _appointed for tie 12 t ' i of October . In the act , there is a _provision * jim' 5 _artocnointhoNew County Courts' Act _fcr
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tiie rt * cove _** jof tenements in a _gummary manner : - And be it enacted , that when and , so soon _^ ai _^ the termand iriterest ' of theteriaritof any house , Und , or other corporeal hereditament where the value of the premises , or the rent payable in respect of tuch , ten « _ancy _, did not exceed the sum of _£ 59 by the year , and npon which noMine ahall have heen paid , ' shall have ended , or shall have been duly determined by a legal notice to quit , and ; such tenant , or if such tenant do not actually occupy the premises , or occupy only a part thereof , any person by whom the same or any part thereof shall be then actually oconpied shall neglect or refuse to quit and deliver up posses sion of the premises , or of such nart' thereof res f actively , it shall belawful for the landlord or , hisagent
toenter a plaint in this court , and _therenpen a _gummons shall issue tothe person so neglecting or _rofnsing : and if the tenant or occupier shall not thereupon appear at the time and J > - ae 1 _^ S ? mM „ and show cause to the contrary , and shall still _nesleet or refuse to deliver up possession _otthe . _PwnnseB or of snob part thereof of which he is theni _inpossession to the said landlord or his agent , it "a - » lawful for such landlord or agent to . give to im court proof of the helding , and of the end or other determination of the tenancy , with the time er manner thereof , and where the title haa accrued since the letting of the premises , the right _^ bywhich he claims the _pofsession ; _radapnaptoof of _theservtce of the _sunimons . and of the neglect or refusalof the tenant or occupier , as the case may _BOf »• 8 nal 1 ? _e lawful forthe judge to issue a warranb under tne seal of the court to any bailiff of the court ; requiring and authorising him within a period to be therein
named , not lessthan seven , or more than ten days from the date of such warrant , to give possession of the premises to such landlord or agent , and such warrant shall be a sufficient warrant to the said bailiff to enter upon the premises , with such assistants as he * shall deem necessary , and to give possessiori accordingly ; provided always that entry -upon such warrant shall not be made on a Sunday , Good Friday , or Christmas-day , or at any time except between the hunts of 9 in the morning and i in the afternoon ; provided also that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to protect any perssn by whom any such warrant shall be sued ' out of _4 he court from any action which may be bronght against him by any such tenant or occupier ter or in respect of such entry and taking possession , where such person had not at the time of suing out the same as aforesaid , lawful right to tbe possession of the same ¦¦
premises . ' _ - ' , "" _' ' - _.-Auxesn _HmcitiTioa- of the _DsiD . —In consequence ofthe reports recently . circnlated concerning the alleged desecration of the dead buried in the raultsofElimChapel , Fetterlane , Fleet-street , Sir James Duke , Bart ., M . P ., alderman of the ward of Farringdon Without , accompanied by Charles Pewson , Esq ., M . P ., City selicitor ; Messrs _Batchelor and Celk , churchwardens of St Dunstan ' _s-in-the _* West ; the Rev . Mr Cowan , curate of the parish ; Mr Comfort , the foreman , ' and other members of the _inqnest ; ( Jr . A . Walker . Esq ., surgeon ; Drs Ross andFarquhar ; Messrs' Fowler , Darin , Ac . ; attended on Monday to inspect those vaults , with the view of ulterior proceedines . ' Messrs Church , _Frisken ,
Peaty , Gardner , Westwood , Preston , and Hutchens attended as trustees of the chapel ,-arid produced maps of the vaults , ' which were inspected by Sir James Duke and thejury , who afterwards proceeded to examine the vaults ! the entrance to which is by a double ; trap-doer in the body ofthe chapel . The vaults presented a moat frightful spectacle . A large pit had been recently excavated to the depth of several feet , whence a vast number of human remains had been removed ; and on the right hand side was an accumulation , to the height of several feet , of human bodies and broken coffins , while on the opposite . Bide was piled together heaps of old coffins . The jury and several other gentlemen having expressed their disapprobation of the disrespectful
treatment to which the dead were subjected in the vaults , Sir James Dake , who had minntely examined every portion of them ; said that the present proprietors were not to blame for the confused manner in which the dead were heaped together . On the contrary , they were doing all in their power to remedy the evil , arid the _alterations which they were making were necessarily imposed upon them , and were done with every possible respect for the dead . Still he called upon them to lose no time in completing their work , and thereby SMUring t <> the dead respect , aud tothe living security from disease . Dr Farqrihar assured the worthy alderman and the inquest that since he had visited the vaults during the previous week many of the abominations which he had then
visited werereraoved . _^ Mr Pearson _saidthat on two previous occasions similar complaints had been made against Elim Chapel , once fourteen years , and again seven years age . But he was confident that the present would be the last Sir James Duke having again pledged the trustees to _leseno time in properly securing the vaults against farther sacrilegious intrusion , the inquiry concluded ;' . _THEPooRisSTPjarjius . _—OFFicuiilsvESTiGnioa . —Ori Tuesday a numerously attended meeting of the directors ofthe poor of St Pancras took place in the new board room adjoining the workhouse , King's * road , _Camden-town ; Mr Churchwarden Howarth iri the chair . Mr Pitt , the agent of the board , brought up and read a lengthened report as to the
overcrowded state of the workhouse , from which it appeared , that on _theothinst . there were 1 , 530 inmates , for the accommodation of which number 43 , 911 feet of house-room existed . The dimensions of unoccupied ground in the rear of the workhouse was 320 feet by 212 feet . ' . In the first , floor , to accommodate 780 persons ' and _^ _fi children , " there were but 524 beds ; rooms _between the new vestry _' room and boys school , 54 beds to 13 persons ; infirmary ( men ' s side ); beds 44 , persons 46 ; infirmary ( women ' * side ) , beds 126 , persons 165—total 170 beds , and 211 persons ; boys ' school 83 , beds , and , 165 persons ; girls' school 136 beds , and 296 persons . On the motion of Mr Douglas , this report was referred tothe committee appointed to inquire into the condition of the poor , with
reference to better classification and accommodation . Mr Clarke then called the attention of the board to the charges which had been made in the public prints with reference to the treatment ofthe poor . More particularly * the letter of a blind and paralysed pauper , named George Whitfield , which _centairied _sucli Eerio " uschargesa « ainst the master arid the board , that he , considered an immediate investigation necessary . After'discussion it was resolved'to call in the master and the inmate , Whitfield , arid enter into the inquiry forthwith . George Whitfield , on being examined , sa'd he was totally blind and paralysed , and had been in the workhouse 12 years . ' On the first Friday ia August be applied to the master for permission to visit his mother ; 80 years of age ; at
Camberwell . He asked for two or three days and was re- ' fused , nnles he discharged himself . He applied tothe _committee ef . the board and _, they' _confirmed the master ' s decision . He thought this very harsh and oppressive , seeing that he had no means of getting a living . He did not write the' letter which appeared in the paper of Saturday , but he acknowledged that it was done by his dictation . He must be excused telling who did write it . Had a card in hia possession , which gave him the privilege ' of going out ori Sundays , but went out for a few hours on the Tuesday following his application _byHhe master ' s permission . It was not true that his bed had been kept by the master for a week ; never was ont ofthe house a single night * since the appointment of the hew master : considered the master treated him harshly .
Mr Eaton , the master , denied the allegations altogether . He declared thathe never gave Whitfield the permission to go out on Tuesday , ' and that he never saw him from the time he went before the board ori the Friday , until the following Friday , and that his bed was empty the whole time . Whitfield said he could prove by the inmates of his ward that he was never out as described . Mr Wright then moved and Mr Marks seconded a resolution , ' That in the opinion of the board , the allegations against the master were unfounded . ' The motion was carried unanimously ; and a resolution having also been adopted , ordering the issue of tbe new uniform clothing tothe inmates , and that it betaken from them and their clothes returned on their dicharge , the boardbrokenp . --- ' . _ ¦¦¦ _.
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West London _Czsibal _Akti-Encwscbe _Assocutjon . —At the last . weekly meeting ofthis Association , at the Princess . Royal , Circus-street , New road , September 13 th , . Mr _Baston in the chair . A communication from Richard Oastler was read , respecting the proposal of that gentleman to write a public letter in aid of the Anti Enclosure question . Mr Oastler states that it was a mistake to suppose that he ever intended writing such letter , for though he had stated that if a public letter from his pen would be of any service ho wonld write one , yet he wished it tobe distinctly understood that it would not be of any . service , public patriotism being at so low an ebb , that he had ; been forced to lay down his
pen . and retire at once into private life . Mr _Oastlei's explanations were deemed satisfactory by the meeting . A resolution in support of Rbwitt ' s Journal was unanimously adopted . The meeting then adjourned till Monday erming next at eight o ' clock . More books were received for the library . Irish Deuocratic _Confcderation . —At a meeting _ofthis body held at CartwrightV Coffee House , on Sunday evening , September 5 th , several new members were enrolled . The following gentlemen were elected as the managing committee for the next three months : —Messre Martin , Tucker , Joice , Bezer _. andDwain . Mr Clancey was elected 6 eoretaiy , and Mr Cartwright _, treasurer ; ;
EAliKG BArVKOFE' -OtASDNorESFOBAWAOBB . — Two privates of the Royal Marines just paid off from her Majesty ' s steam vessel Pluto , Lieutenant . Commander Low , at Woolwich , for a trifling wager commenced eating several £ 5 Bank of England notes , with bread , cheese , and onions , but were stopped by some of their more sensible comrades , who came up at the time ; and compelled them to desist Fortunately the numbers of the notes remained unmutilated . The Prometheus , Commander Hay , and tbe Phoenix , Commander Dennis , have just been paid off , and the seamen have been playing similar _ibsnrd tricks . Most of the Bailors hare received nearly £ 100 each .
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the _regiiherit for a considerable : time , and ' was so tame tbatthe men wrestled and took B ' _mihr liberties with it . Mr Cowen . had had the bea * - about seventeen months ; it was secured tothe stump of a tree by an iron chain , fonr or five yards long ; and had an area of partiall y unenclosed ground , to the extent of its chain , on which to move . The deceased , in company with an old man named Gass , on the day already mentioned , went to see the bear ( as he had oitea done before , but stood where he thought himself out of the bear ' s reach . He was there feeding it with bread crumbs from the palm of his hand , when the beat sprang at him , knocked him down ,, and dragged him within its area of ground . . Notwithstanding the intrepid exertions of the poor old man ' , Gass , and Mr Cowen , the bear commenced , to worry
the mai >> arid eventually seized him in the neck be . low the left ear , and continued to draw the blood from the wound which it had made there . It was not until several men , one of whom had a pitch-fork and another a coal-rake , had beaten the brute tbat the unfortunate man was released . Although . all the other persons were within the bear ' s reach , it did not attempt to injure any but its victim . The unfortunate man , who was dreadfully torn about the neck and the head , was soon afterwards taken tothe infirmary , where he received every attention , notwithstanding 'which he died on Sunday morning . Mr Cowen , who was absent when the accident occurred , informed the Coroner and the Jury , when they went to see the animal's habitation , that he had never known the bear guilty , of attacking any person before . He shot it early on Saturday morning .
TOBKbHIBk * ' - A pLA » _BriRraEi _»' -- S _* Jp-tBsnMo » is , 18 ' 47 . — Last week , a child of E . Mitchell ' s , bobbin-maker , near Todmorden , got severely burnt by _fallingagainst the oven door . A neighbouring ' woman' happenedto go into the house soon * after , the accident , ¦ and assured Mitchell ' s wife that an : old planet-ruler and fortune-teller ., resident at a secluded and . solitary place called Frield Hurst , near Todmorden ,. could cure the child instantly by cabalistic art , for , continued the woman , he can stop bleeding , kill witches
and _wisards , by means of ruling the planets . The mother of the child went to the forturie-teller _. _whpse tame is said to _beBolgut aU ' iwHol _^ te , and after she had told her story about the accident and paid him the usual fee , he told her that she might go home ,-for she .. was completely cured . , . The . woman returned , hut found the child crying and much , wone _. On Sunday , Mr . Hardman , surgeon _. bf Todmorden , was called to see it , and under his caw , the _chiwis iri a fair _vtay of recovery . It is stated that the planet-ruler " o ' f Frield Hurst obtains an excellent living by his bad fortune-telling , - chiefly by young
women . Mdbdeb -at Swimos « kar _Doncasikb : —Tho de- ' ceased , Caleb Barker , aged 47 ; warehouseman to Mr Barker , of Don Pottery , left his house between seven and eight o ' olock last Saturday evening , and went to the Ship , kept by a widow named Simpson , at Swinton-bridge , which is distant only a few hundred yards from his residence , and immediately opposite the railway station . On arriving he paid some club money , and had some ale . ¦ He left the bouse in good health about half-past nine , taking with him a quart of ale , his cuBtom every Saturday
night , for his wife to partake of , and also a few pipes whicii he had purchased . _xHis wife , having waited sometime longer than usual , sent a person to inquire . respecting him ; and about half-past ten an alarm was given , and some persons came to ner house for aliehfc . On going out with lights _iehe was horror struck at finding her husband quite insensible , he having just been found in that condition by a person named Thomas Gore . The poor man was at once removed to the house , and medical aid was immediately obtained , but he never spoke afterwards , and died early the next morning . An inquest was held , but no positive proof of the guilty obtained .
The Shbpfield Free-Trade Association have sent an address to Col . Thompson , M . P ., whom they have appointed one of their representatives atthe Free-trade Congress at Brussels .
_waewickshibs . BiRMiKGHAM . —Sotpobed Mobdbr . —Three persons ( a man arid two boys ) are now in the custody ofthe policed this town , charged with being concerned ini or having a knowledge of , the murder of a man named Brown , ' ma _hvitatthe Crescent , on Friday night last . It appears that the deceased , who had been ont all the day at Tamworth , thatching , asked permission of a number of boatmen ( the prisoners being of the party ) to rest himself in their hut ,. situated on the banks of the canal . This favour was granted to him , when one ofthe boatmen proceeded to quarrel with the deceased ; the fellow seized Brown ' s stick , and beat him so violently about the
head and neck that he lay insenble upon the floor , when his brutal assailant lifted bim upon a bench , and he was found to be dead . The . whole of the party who were participators in , or witnesses of , the murder , then made their escape . , The deceased was supposed to be possessed Of a watch and some money , but nothing was tound npon his person . In the course of the the week police apprehended the parties now in custody , but the principal offender , whom they state struck the blows by which the deceased was killed , has for the present succeeded in eluding the vigilance ofthe officers in pursuit . The men in confinement refuse to give any information as to the watch and money . . ,
_SOTWUt . A _Pbeb * 8 . 0 i ? ikioh © j . Fabm-mases . —At the annual meeting of the East Suffolk Agricultural Association in Saturday , Lord Stradbroke said : in some districts we see farms mthe highest state of cultivation Y tbis ib , no doubt , ascribable to the aids of science applicable- to husbandry operations ; in such places there muBt have been a considerable outlay of money , with a proportionate amount of labour . Tbis state of things is most gratifying to the spectator ; it not only reflects credit on tbe occupier ofthe soil , but is attended by inestimable advantage to the poor . Bat we cannot deny that a less , cheering prospect meets the eye in other districts . We see vast tracts of land imperfectly cultivated , the- farm
buildings dilapidated , the tenantry in aa obviously impoverished condition ; in ¦ short , all' betokening neglect . In such places , it it painful to reflect upon the amount- of suffering to which tbe poor are un happily subjected . - Are we not bound to ask what is the cause of all this ! Now , then , I maintain that these evils , spring fromthe bad system of farming pursued . ' If the land does not yield more than half the crop thatit is capable of producing , the system of cultivation must be wrong . The question then naturally arises , who is to blame ? This is delicate ground ; but , however unpopular , I shrink aetfrom stating my opinion fearlessly—I trust not offensively . I say , then , that the landlords are the chief culprits ; it is the landlords' fault if farms be not better
cultivated . ( Great cheering . ) We may call upon the occupier to improve the land , hut can weexpect men of sense to expend their capital without some guarantee—without tbe certainty of such continued _ccenpatiohas may secure both principal and interest to the fall extent of the sum expended ? _( Renewed cheers . ) The next question that arises is as to tbe mode in which that object may be best attained . My answer is , by granting leases to deserving tenants . That is the only way in which the land can be exten _stvely improved . I am aware '' that heretofore there has existed considerable difference of opinion , upon the subject of farm leases , bnt we should bear in mind that the pursuit of agriculture is placed upon a very different basis . - We must henceforth- adapt our
system to those altered circumstances , and the first step will be -that . of giving the occupying tenant a distinct and permanent interest in his holding . ( Cheers . ) Indeed , the question in future should not be whether the tenant be desirous cf a lease , but rather whether he should he permitted to enter upon the occupation of a farrii without it . For riiy own part , I conceive that leases' are essential to the wellbeing both ofthe landlord and ofthe tenant—I mean Bitch form of lease as may render it imperative on the occupier to adhere toa prescribed rotation of crops , and which should likewise provide for the employment of such an amount of labour es would in the end prove advantageous to the tenant , secure the rights of the landlord , and bs beneficial to the labourer .
CAMBBIBORSHIRB . Conflagrations and Loss of Life Near Cambridge , last week , a tremendous fire laid in ruins the greater partofCottcnhatn , a village noted for the _manufacture of cheese . When discovered ( about twelve o ' clock ) , it appeared to have commenced in a _cojper ' _sshop , occupied by Mr Moore , situated at tbeCanikridge end . The Cottenhara engines were brought immediately into requisition , arid those of Willingbam arid Cambridge were sent for , but before the latter reached the scene , the flames bad advanced with giant strides , throwing a lurid glare over the country for many hours . In less than two
hours ; a row of dwelling houses , with twenty or thirtv barns , granaries ;' outhouses , and upwards of twenty sacks of wheat , hay , and straw , were in a blaze . As a spectacle , the scene was almost ; sublime , and the utmost consternation and dismay naturally prevailed amongst the inhabitants . The conflagration _» ged furiously till nearly six o ' clock , before it was checked . By that hour three parts ofthe village had fallen a sacrifice . No lewer than fifty buildings , and as inany _sacksof wheat , & o . have been consumed . It has been stated that the losses exceeded £ 30 , 000 ; the amount of insurances are not mentioned . How the calamity originated no accurate information conld be obtained . Late on Wednesday night , , twelve dwelling houses , tenanted by labouring families , at
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Sidthouth , at a placo oalled _Mill-orou , were burned _downT"It _; was caused by the _driver , ofthe Northern Mail-cart , ' , going into a stable with a ' naked candle , to bed-up his horses for the night ,: when a spark fell on some straw , whioh 'speedily -ignited .: One - nan ' named Bull , lost _his'Hfe in the flames , His body was ; dog out the following morning , ' a blackened mass , _t _* .-. ' _. _¦ * ' "'•' ; ' : ' . - ' j . *; ' )'" .- ' _. . ; '¦ ; . " ,,. ;; - " l / lami , _UBAaiEi , T , _Tr ; MoRa _uvBiEBious Poisowno '; . —A ' female named Ann Barnes , who for sometime past had been residing at Ely , but latterly had'been staying at ' : her son ' s , at _Parlo-bridge , near _this village , had been'in tho habit of taking a number of young children to nurse daring the daytime , while their parents were engaged ; in gathering in the barvest Amongst the children in her care were four
. whoso ages Sveraged from seven to fifteen months . The'first of these four children ' , a daughter of a labourer , named Benjamin Hartley , was taken Ufa short time back , and after a * few days' severe suffering it recovered , having been taken _homel and placed under the care of ita mother . ' Immediately afterwards the child belonging to John Hartley , another labourer , was taken ill ; and _^ a third was seized with similar symptoms , about ; the same period ; and the fourth ; the infant child , of John Youhge ; Mrs Barnes ' s son waB also laid up with illness . After a few days of excruciating : agony the ohildren died . The fact ; of so many children having died [ under such mysterious circumstances having come tothe knowledge of the . police ; an inquiry was forthwith
set on foot , the result of which showed that each case was fraught with suspicion . - Mr Peate , the coroner , at _oaoe issued his warrant for holding an inquest on tho body of Mary Ann Young ; the only one not interred . Mr Dean ,, Burgeon , madea post mortem examination ofthe bod y , and said he was prepared to say that the deceased had been . poisoned with arsenic . Several witnesses were examined , aod after an ; arrangeinent was made for the exhumation of the other bodies , ¦ ¦¦¦ . i _.:--: m * y ; . ¦ . -,. _^ _/• _" : _' :. ; At the resumed examination , the bodies of the children of Aubery . and . Hartley having . been , exhumed on Friday last , . Mr James Dean , surgeon , of Chatteris , was called : Exhumed the bodies on the 10 th . " That of WhitweT Aubery presented no
nnu ' _sualexternalappearariceibat internally , the small intestines were suffused with a bright yellow colour . The lungsand liver appeared healthy . Removed the alimentary canal , put it in a'sealed bottle , and delivered it to Captain-Hampton . '' The next dayexamined it with , Mr . O'Connor , ; and discovered' the presence of crystals . ' ,, Mi- Dean then ' entered into minute details of the tests he had applied to ascertain whether any poison'was in the body of the child , * The result is , ' he concluded , ' that there is no doubt on my mind that- the child Aubery died of arsenic ' Mr Dean next described'the process by which he arrived at an opinion in regard to the death of Eliza Hartley . That opinion was -that the child had died oi arsenical poison . As regards Young ' s child , Mr Dean-had no doubt that it had an additional dose of arsenic just before death . The other two children had
but one dose , and nearly got rid of it before death . This accounted for the crystals resulting from the tests in the case of Young ' s child and not in the others . Captain Hampton ; -superintendent of the Ely police , aaid he had caused every inquiry to be made , but the procuration of the poison could riot be traced . No poisoner trace of it had been found in the house of Young , although _^ minute search had been made . Other not very material evidence haying been adduced , Captain Hamilton , applied for a further adjournment , and after some discussion as to the probability of _. the , obtaining of further evidence ,, . the coroner having fully explained the importance oi the inquiry , it wis adjourned to the 15 th of September , the jury being bound over to appear en that day .. .
' ¦ : - . . ...-:,....,.. -B 8 _BHX . : . - !¦ , _.- ¦ _.-. _Sotjih Esbbx Rl 50 _isiRAiioi * . _^ . OnMonday ; . Sir , W , Riddle and E . _Bosanquet , Esq ; , the barristers appointed to reyifie the list of voters for the county of Essex , gave notice that they will commence the revision of the division _ofrit" on : Wednesday next at Romford . Oathe following day the court will sit at Stratford .. The number of claims and objections are much greater than usual . : ¦ . .. ; ,-.
.. : : _lIHBDLESEX . ,. ... v , \ Elopemkkt . w ; Middlb : Lu ? b . —The quiet little village of Acton has -been furnished with a bit of truitf ui gossip , by an elopement . The young lady is the daughter .. of a tradesman at Charing-crofis , and possesses considerable attractions . Tbe . young lady has been very , fond of taking short morning rides by the London aad Wycombe coach , which she was per * _, nutted to do byber parents ,: in _eonseqnence _. ofber health appearing much to improve therefrom , arid not tho slightest suspicion was entertained by any of the members of the . family that she _was forming a secret . attachment . The other : morning . shewas missing at breakfast time , and it was afterwards ascertained that the , usual morning ride-had beeu varied by a drive in a ' fly , ' with the driver and pro ; prietor of the Wycombe coach , who is some years her senior , her age beiog 20 . This excursion ended at a metropolitan church , where ithe parties were duly married .
StJBBBT . Two Gauekbepsbs Stabbed bt Poachers . — -On the morning of Saturday last , a murderous affray took place at West Horley , near Guildford , between a keeper and an assistant keeper , in the joint employ of Mr R . A . Frogley and Mr Currie , M . P ., and a party of poachers , in which the two-keepers were stabbed ; and are now lying in a dangerous state ; . - GmjJfFORD . —THa Game Laws . —The excitement created throughout this portion of the county Of Surrey by the late frightful affray between a party of poachers and the gamekeepers of Messrs-R . A . Forgley _. and E . Currie , Esq ., M . P ., on the morning of _Saturday last , is beyond description , and has only _bsen equalled by tbe similar affray which took place a few years since , between another party of poachers and the gamekeepers of Mr Bryce Combe , at Church
Cobham , " when one of the gamekeepers met his death . The names of the two keepers who have in the recent conflict been Btabbed are George Targett and James Martin ; the' former , who is head keeper , is about 40 years of age , and has a wife and two children ; and the latter , who is a single man , is 21 years of age , and is an" assistant keeper . The wounded men were not discovered for nearly three hours after they had ' received ;' the injury ; and at that time Targett appeared to be completely lifeless . They .-, were'fourid by . a person who ? was accidentally passing through the wood in which " the affray took place , from whence , aB soon as assistance was procured , they were conveyed in a spring cart , each to his own cottage ,, on Mr . _Forgley's property , at East Horsley . Both mon are in a very . dangerous state . - ,. _> .. "'' _-. ' _- ' :
, _FKioniFUJC . Occurrence , ' at . thb . New Cboss Railway Siation . — -On Tuesday afternOon _' an accident occurred at the New Cross Station of the London arid Brighton Railway to a man named William Wadley ; which , it is feared , will prove fatal . ' Wadley was in the employ of tbe company in the carriage department , and while removing some trucks , he by some means became jammed between the , buffers of two of the carriages , which ca me , together with _sach violence . as to . crush tbe upper part Of , hiB person in the most awful manner . ' His cries' soon brought several men to . his aid , and , after a little difficulty he was released in an insensible Btatc He was taken to Guy ' s' Hospital , where it was discovered thathe had received diBlocations of the collar bone , and fracture of the sternum , and that the ribs had sustained great injury , several being broken and forced in .
r _•' ... ' ¦• • KBNT . - Fire AiWootwiCH . —At half-past twelve on Tuesday , a person in the employ of Mr Griffin , carrier , on his return from London ; at that time discovered a fire on the premises of Mr Hill , furniture-broker , opposite the Dockyard wall , a short distance eastward of the main gate . : An alarm was immediately given , and the Dockyard police , ; witb two of the fire-engines , weie promptly on the spot , but could not , for , _spme time , render efficient assistance , owing to thCjWant of water . , The policemen exerted themselves in a most praiseworthy maririer , and by joining seventeen lengths of hose ; of forty feet each , succeeded iri obtaining a supply _from'the Dockyard main ; which enabled tbem < to play * upon the honse arid' shop so as to confine the fire to the building in whioh it originated , although the -fire bad obtained such ascendancy that : the whole of the contents and flooring were consumed . Mr , Hill is said to be insured , out it is not known to what amount .
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; * _majMi \ : SHipwnKok akd Loss op LiFE .- ~ Inthe evening of Saturday last ; the llth inst . ; during a heavy gale from the WSW , ; in Carnarvon Bay , five ' persons met a premature death . Two vessels , one a yacht , the other a schooner , were seen on the afternoon of that day out in the bay . The yacht signalled for a pilot to cross the bar , and proved to be the Gem , the property of J . Fleming , Esq ., meinber of the' Royal Yacht Squadron . In consequence of the distance from the station , she did riot wait for the pilot ' s arrival , ' but exchanged one of her own hands for the mate of tbe _. other vessel , who was to act as ber pilot . The _Bohooher proved to be the "Vine , of Pwllheli , bound with a cargo of coal , fiom _Lanelly , in South Wales , to Bangor . From some cause or other ,
perhaps the _darknesof the evening , tbe schooner , in attempting to pass the bar , some time between five ond seven o'clock , into the Mcriai Straits , struck on the north . bank , must have immediately capsized ; filled and sunk with all onboard . The pilots belonging to tho station at _Llanddwyn went out in tlio life boat , but owing to the extreme darkness , and the schooner shewing no light , they were unable to find out her position until day-break on Sunday morning when having discovered her , they pulled out for the purpose of boarding . She was on her _beam-ends , with her masts lmbeded in the sand . In the cabin the dead body of a woman passenger was found , and on the bank the body of a man was discovered ; and both were immediately taken to Carnarvon , there being signs of hie m the man . Four other men , the remainder of the crew , perished . The Gem arrived safe over the ar with the Vice ' s mate on board .
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; - ' . " •; " , ' - ' _¦'!?> . ' - _„ .:, ' J , _fttW- _•¦•!¦ - "' 'St _' . _ijr- " THr ' . Sj » w &« 'i _^ day , an mquest _^ ii held at Carnarvon ; 6 n ; . tn »; . |» ay of , _MaryHumrihwys , _"JthejWU- _^ _. f _^ nnfl _drdwnw l _^ the cabin of : the ,. Vihe _; Mhooner , ' _--m on the night of Saturday last .... From the . . evidence of one of the seamen who had been recovered , . although found senseless ; named W . ' William * , it appeared that the schooner was oh her passage from Portduillaeh . _lto _;^ _^ _^ Bangor ; _, that \ they ., had . left , ; , the ' above place about three , or four o ' clock ; that , hething occurred until about six o'olock ,. when : she _gtruckon the sand-bank ; the captain , G . Griffiths , was at tha helm at the time , and he was well acaiiainted with the navigation of the bar . . They had their mate with ' of tbo
_Ereviously exqhariged one ands of the yacht Gem . There , were on board , when the vessel struck , the . master , J , Owen , J . Jonas , the yacht-nan , arid the female , who was a passenger to Bangor , The Xine was driven oyer the bank by the extreme violenceof the " waves : the crew took refuge in the rigging , with tbe exception of the female , who was in the . cabin . The witness saw tbe Englishman washed from the riggiug , when he tried to swim . Did riot see the others washed away . ' Did not make a signal for a pilot , aB the captain knewthe navigation well . Conld seethe shore for some time whilst in the rigging , and thinks that the wreck could be seen from the land . Is sure that the body is that of tbe woman who is iri the cabin when the vessel struck . Verdict , 'Found drowned . '
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_gcotiatttu _Akotbbb _DaraBMWBn ¦ AiTEMpr ; at / Swci » e . —A female , engaged in a publio work at _Anderston , Glasgow , having been discharged from her employment on account of some misconduct , resolved upon destroying herself . The poor creature had set her mind npon death by-poison , but in order to . effect this , he found it necessary : to hayowconrse to the pawnbroker , and she actually pledged * portion of her _clothes for threepence , ; witb which she purchased first one penny worthof laudanum , which _ahe drank , then a second , and these , doses not . proving immediately effectual , the last penny was expended on , the drtig in order to accelerate her death . She was found ia a dying state , and the cause of her illness having been ascertained ,, the . stomach ' . pump was applied , and sheil now nearly recovered .. ( ,
>'¦ ' ' ¦ ? IJltIHSHinB . _! . _,. _-,..,:, _;•; . . _; _Dcciii _Fbbb . — -At a- meeting of the _Perth-vtown council , Bailie Barlas ' stated that heavy fees were exacted , by the Dukeof Atholl from every one who visited the Dunkeld _Rrounds , and that the whole of these fees went into the duke's , pocket . ; ' He ( Bailie Barlas ) was certain there was not ; another duke in Scotland did the like . ' These fees , ' adds the Advefttsef _, 'J are as follow : One' person , is . 6 d , ; . two persons , 3 s . ; and a shilling a head for any greater number , « A gentlemaa told us on Monday , that he had lately paid 7 s . for the privilege accorded to tho party with which he was connected .
• " ' - _'HJ _ABBBBBBNSHIBE . i Right or Way . — -A- subscription has been set on foot ,. ia aid of which the . publio . are invited to come forward , and to support their claim to a pathway on tho south side of the River Don . . Lord James Hay has issued an interdict , prohibiting the . publio , from using this pathway , which he claims aB private property . At a meeting of the town council of Old Aberdeen , on Friday last ; a motion was made that the council should give _, £ l 0 . to ' assist in defending the " right of way through Seatori Park . " The council , however , negatived the motion without a division . ;;¦ ; - „ AVESBIBB . : « V . ,.: ¦ _-. ; . _DBiBBunrsn Suicide . —A person named Teale _, lately ih the employ of . the Glasgow and Ayr Railway .. Company , but . dismissed a few weeks ' ago ;
threw himself on tbe-rails between Drybridge and Qatehead stations , at the moment the down train front' Kilmarnock came in sight .- The engine-man perceiving him , reversed the engine , and sounded the whistle , whitetthe > guard put on the drag , and both shouted to him to ; get off the line ... In ; vain , however , lor the unhappy man kept his position , arid the train , before it could be stopped , went over him at a slow pace , mangling bim in so shockingly , that he died next day . ; Before the train came down , - -he inquired at Gatehead station if the op-train from Ayr was past , and , oa being told that it was , he repiied _. _^ _Qb _, it mak es no odds ; I'll wait for tbe next ;' and went off to meet it . No . one suspected his purpose . He was an Englishman , and bas left a wife and fire children . ' _¦¦ " ¦ ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦
; Death 01 an Ou >; FiD _» iBR . —Died at Peeblesstreet , Newton-bn-Ayr , ' , On Monday morning , Matthew . Hall , . aged . eighty . seven years . The deceased was a well-known character , in the West country . He surpassed as a baBB fiddler . The old worthy used to mention that he was forty-five years in the habit of frequenting Coilsfield arid Eglintoun Castle , in his capacity as a musician .. His chief coadjutor was James _M'Lachlan , an Highlander , who , came to Ayrshire in a fencible regiment , and was patronised by Lord Eglintoun . At concerts at the castle the late Earl of Eglintoun generally'took a part on the violincello or the * harp , and amongst other professional players on the . violin , blind _Gilmour from Steveri 8 ton . was usually present .: _'O'thae war the
days for music _!'» involuntarily exclaimed old Hall , as he proceeded with his reminiscences .. Hall arid M'Lachlan played over the whole county at all the gentlemen's residences , and . even in Edinburgh and Glasgow , _ongreat _^ occasions . ! In one week to' nst 3 bis own words , they' passed twenty-six parish kirks , and returned to Ayr on Friday to a ball , never gett ' ngto bed till'Saturday night . ' . They obtained snatches of sleep , a they best ' conld , during the intervals of _playing and travelling . . At one time Hall and M'Lachlan were at the Duke of Argyll ' s for . six months together . M'Lachlan had been there before
as footman to Lord John Campbell .. It was a time Of much festivity ; a blind Irish harper , of the name of _Q'Kane , was also among the party of musicians . The harper , conceiving himself to be eclipsed by the violin players , or fancying an insult from the Duke bf Argyll , left the party , ; and bribing some boys ; to procure materials , actually set fire to the lower part of Inverary Castle , which would soon have been in flames , but for the timely discovery of the act' The incendiary was taken to Inverary ga « l , ' and no doubt met the punishment he deserved ., Mr Hall ' s _" bass fiddle was . a present from the late Countess of Eglintoun . It is , perhaps , worth mentioning that he was the first mason ever made by the poet Burns . . ;
_,-. MID'lOTRWt . _..... LBifiii . —Fall of a Grahary . —Between nineand ten o ' clock on Tuesday night ,. the front wall ofa granary „ _situatedin Lawriestreet , Leigh , suddenly fell into the street , throwing : out ., about 200 tons weight of grain .- The building , was . three _stories . in height , and the'floors , we understand , were laden with grain to the . _ldepth of about -seven feet each , which _overloading " appears to have been the cause of the unfortunate eccurrence . - ' The inhabitants in the
neighbourhood were , of course , dreadfully alarmed by the fearful Crash , but so far as we have been able to learn no porsonal . injury was sustained . Fortunately , _Lawrie-strcet is ' , ' not a great thoroughfare , except on Sundays , during divine service , when it leads from Kirkgate to Mr Smart ' s church ; and had the fall taken place two hours sooner , the consequences might have been highly calamitous . The _amonntofdamageto the property must hive been great . The back wall seems to be all that remains standing of the building" :
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. _--- ' : '' Ir _# Ittti 0 r _. _FtAX IMPROVBMEKT SOCIETT . —THE _tOITO IlECiaUAST . Last week a deputation from the Royal Society for the Promotion and Improvement of the Growth of Flax in Ireland , composed of the Earl of Erne , _Messrs John Sharman Crawford , John Herdman , S . R . Mulholland , and Jaines M'Adam , waited on his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant , at the Viceregal Lodge , to present an address of congratulation on his Excellency ' s appointment to the government of this country , and to solicit that his Excellency wouW be graciously pleased to accept of the ofiice of vicepatron of the society .
His Excellency said that be accepted witb great satisfaction tbo mark of distinction they bad conferred upon him by proposing to bim to become tho vice patron of the Flax Improvement Society of Ireland . lie was aware of the efforts tbey had made , and the succoes whicb had attended their laudable exertions . He ' attached the greatest importance to the cultivation of flax , because it afforded the means of creating and spreading a spirit of industry in _Irel . irid , and he felt the nioreintereei in it on account of its being the particular branch of-agriculture most closely connected with that particular branch ef manufacture , tbe linen trade , for which Ireland had been famous ns an exporting country . As a free trader , he thought that there should , bo norestriction placed on the produce of other countries , howerer remote from Great
Britain , and tho principle of which ho approved was , that they should , buy in the cheapest and sell'in the dearest markets , but tbat did not prevent his desiring to see the productions of his own country cheaper , better , and in all resp cts superior to those of other countries . Under their auspices he hoped they should yet see tbe linen manufacture flourish throughout tho country . Notwithstanding that their clitriatew & s _higWj favourable to tho production of flax—that their peasantry were as laborious and their artisans as ingenious as those of any other country—with all theso advantages , be saw , with great regret , that the people of Great Britain and
Ireland were tributaries to foreign countries in tbe amount of fire or six millions annually for an article which could bo abundantly produced at home , the manufacture of which would be a source of wealth to the couutty , aud tbe consumption of which would confer the blessings , of remunerative employment on our own artisans . He therefoTo looked upon tbo growth of flax , and the manufacture of linens in Ireland , as of imperial importance , arid tbere was nothing , that the deputation could point out to him , either as vice-patron of the society , or in bis official capaolty , by which their objects could be advanced , and the manufacture of linen promoted , in which they might not be assured of his cordial
co-operation , THE _rOPK—UlISH DIBIMSS . The Evening Pott says , ' We bare extreme grttti
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[ ficatfon in ginng _fcurtioi to thc following _cMnmT nication : — , ; , .. ' . ' """ . >' .: " :: " " V- - _•?' _: wnat « U l _TboBev . MrCroke , P . P . of .: Ch « I « _tille , in new * ledglog , _wltbtheieepestaenieotobUgatlon , thsinm r ; JEM | from bis _Bmlnenco Cardinal _Pranionl , for the _w _^ of his parish , iriost ftrven « _y-nalte » ' with bis flockK offering the homage of grateful hearts to the Hoi Father for his generous _sympethy and princely _amn _^ licence to mitigate the suflferiags and . save from _at & r ™ tion the _etBioted people ofthis unhappycountry . _'Acctioi ir . _iM «; 0 'Co _^^ sale by auction took place at the residence of tbe late Mr O'Connell , in _Merrion-square , of a variety of articles of household furniture . The rooms were crowded during the course of the day , and every p » tt ofthe spacious residence examined ; but of the lata
distinguished occupant there . wa « , little or nothin _* inthe property sold to suggest a memento . Tha furniture was solid , but plain ; Neither books nor pictures were put under the hammer of Mr Lawler Inthe hall there were large trunks , directed for Darrynane Abbey , marked _¦/ Law Books , * and vacant places oh the walls showed where pictures had formerly been ; but the articles actually sold were of too every day a nature to exoite peculiar at . tention . They were not suggestive of the deceased as the contents of a library would havebeen , or of a study . The property disposed of by the auctioneer realised very good prices ; , but from the circuta . stances already alluded to , the details of the sale do not call for any especial * notice . —Saunderts News Letter . ¦ ' - - '
spbbad op _psvan . Fever is . becoming more prevalent and more fatal in Dublin as well as in the provinces . The state of the Castlerea poor-house is described ai awful . The master and matron have resigned ; the latter is very ill of _feven On Friday none of the guardians would take tbe chair , lest he wonld subject himself to aay of the liabilities . An assistant has been at work to try to regulate the accounts of the former olerk , whioh , indeed , appear complicatedt Where _fiuchmatters will end God only knows . :
F 00 DRI 0 I 8 AT _BASTBT . ' ' " ' A letter dated Bantry , September 6 , and published in the Cork Examiner , says : — ' ; . ' ..,.- . : ¦ This ill-fated and almost depopulated town bKame tbis day tbe scene of indlscribable confusion .: The withdrawal ef the rations , -coupled wWi tho frigUful prospect of an approaching winter , bas blighted _« all hopes of existence , and goaded the enraged multitude to desperation . The consequences were painfully exhibited this day . ' The wretched and famished inhabitant * of tbe neighbouring parishes proceeded to town , and thence to tbe workhouse , where they demanded admission , and , as might be expected , were refused . Tbey were not
long supplicating , when a large party of military and poljce were on the ground , commauded by a captain and sub-inspector of constabulary , all under the control of Mr Hutchinson , Justice of the Peace . At tbis stage of the proceedings , tbe hungry and disappointed applicants commenced uprooting a plot of potatoe ground attached to the workhouse , but the military obliged them to retreat as quickly as their exhausted strength wonld per * roit tbem . Some bf tbe dispersed people plucked np some turnips and ate tbem whilst retiring , Still nothing serious occurred . Three only were captured for thevery clamorous manner in which tbey sought to obtain food . . -i ¦¦ ¦¦ ' ' ¦<¦
' : It isrumonred bere tbat tbe melancholy scenes ofthis day are to be renewed to-morrow and each succeeding day , until thepeople find a refuge in the workhouse . The Tipperary Vindicator contains a long report of ameeting of tenant farmers , held at Borrisoleigh , on Thursday last , on . the same subject of tenant right .. There appears to . be considerable excitement on the matter in , Tipperary . The Evening , Mail denounces the movement as revolutionary , and as directed against the payment of rents ; but as yet , there is pothing in the proceedings to warrant this imputation . ,, _,., .
POOR BBI . 1 EP rAXATI 02 f . The EnniBkillen board of guardians , yielding to tbe demand of the poor-law commissioners ' who threaten to dissolve the board and appoint paid guardians ) have mado the rate , including a portion of the temporary relief expenditure , as required by the commissioners . , The Kilkenny ; board of guardians have in part complied with the demand of the commissioners , by making a rate of 5 s Ijd , which will be entirely devoted tp'tbe ordinary . expenditure ; but they have by a majority passed a string of resolutions , declaring that they are not fairly liable for more than one-half of the loans tor temporary relief . The Marqnis of Oririond and the Hen W . Wandesford dissented from the resolutions . ' In Carlow union the resistance to the rate for outdoor relief appears to have ceased . MONSTER MKBTISO OF mUBBS iSD UB 0 CBERS »
_HPPSBABT . A movement of a very extraordinary kind , with the professed objected of promoting a settlement of the Land-tenure question , is now in progress of the county of Tipperary , in which a notification , of which tbe following is a copy , Ms been extensively circulated : — A public meeting ( convened by requisition numerously signed ) of the tenant-farmers , labourers , and people at large , of the county of Tipperary , will be holden at Holy Cross , on Sunday , the I 9 th of September , _1847 , for the purpose of establishing , a league of tenantfanners ,, and of taking snch other measures as may bo thought necessary and effective to prevent themselves trom the general e ' -: ctment intended by tbe landlords ; to pTO-fide aad secure _thenmW _&& & n & tlieir _famiUea against the danger ef another famine , and to obtain a fixed and firm right of property and possession in thenfar _ni 8 , on such conditions as will enable them to live in independence and comfort .
Last year there was an ex ' _srieive failure of the _vo . ttto crop , the usual and sole source of _subsist-nce to tbe farmer . An universal dearth and desolating general famine followed tbe failure . This year from want of seed , want of means , and general fear of another failure , tbe potato has not been planttd to aBy extent . Tbe stock and means of the farmers have been greatly reduced , and in many cases taken ' away altogether by the demands and deficiency of last year , and tbey are in _coasequenct utterly nnable to pay this year the ordinary rents arid extraordinary taxes . In the face of tbis fact tbe landlords are determined to require and enforce full payment of tbe usual rents , arid if those rents be not paid to take the lands into their own hands , or let it in large tracts . In public and private , in Parliament , through the press , and at public meetings , they have declared tbat the tillage farmers of Ireland must be cleared ont and got rid of . . '"' '' "' .
Under those circumstances , tbe tenant-farmers mutt now determine bow to act , and what course to follow . One and all , let tbem come te Holy Cross , on the 19 th of September , and then and there determine and declare , by common agreement , in full meeting assomb ' eJ , what that coarse is to be , and in vibat manner they are resolved to act . ' _., ' . ' The qnestion between landlord and tenant must now at lost be fully and finally settled ; it shall be settled . It shall be settled at Holy Cross , on Sunday , the I 9 th of September . The tenantfarrner 8 and people of Tipperary have now , if they choose to use them , the power and oppor" unity in their own bands of settling that question for ever .
. The _labourers also , as well as tbe farmers , are re . quested and bound to attend ; tbey have a direct per . _sonal Interest in the matter as strong and clear as tbat of the farmers—the rate of wageB and extent of employment , tbeir future condition , tbeir subsistence , independence , and very lives are all at stake , and all to be determined on as well as those of the farmers ; for if tbe _fannerb obtain security iri tbeir holdings at reduced and fair rents , wbich will enable them to make improvements , the employment of labour will increase , and rate of wages will rise ; but if the farmers lose their lands , the labourers will lose their lives , or sink into wretched paupers depending on the workhouse .
The interest and prospect of the townsmen and trading classes are intimately bound up witb those of the occupiers of land—the rate of wages and extent of business , the certainty of employment , the amount of profits , whether of trade or professional practice , are all based on the amount of disposable m « aniln the hands of tbe tenant-farmers . - ! And , finally , the future state and condition of Ireland , her independence and very existence are staked on the preservation , security , and prosperity , of those wbo occupy and cultivate her soil as farmers and labourers . All her help aud hope is in them—they constitute ber people—her only people j for the town population of Ireland is scanty in amount ; and the landlords , with few exceptions , are aliens , _enemka , or absentees _.
In direct furtherance , therefore , of the interests of every class of our people , in defence of tbeir rightB e i life and property , in defence of their country and all ber hopes , it is requested arid expected that the entire population of _Tippcrery—tenant farmers , labourers , townsmen , and tradespeople—will attend at Holy Cross on the day of meeting . ¦ _¦! _.-. ; ,, T It is earnestly requested tbat all means be Used tO QitCU ' atO this handbill as extensively as possible , ; Let it be passed rapidly from hand to band . let no ono keep it in his possession after reading it , but send u on through tho country ; and let each man wbo reads it use all exertion to prevail on at lesBt fire or six others to accompany him to tho proposed meeting . This is tbe woy to secure success . " A great object Is nt stake—a great purpose is to bs achieved , and a groat , meeting is required . By order of the Preparatory Committee ,
( Signed ) J & hes F . _Liioa . Tub _Pbkutes in _Pabuambni . —The four Irish representative prelates for the session 1847—8 . are—The Archbishop of Armagh aud Tuam , the Bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert , the Bishop of Kitmore , Ardagh _, and Etphin , and the Bishop of Clogher . A Fbvbb Victim . —M . de Mussy , oneof the physicians sent over to Ireland by the French government , to report upon the epidemic now prevailing , is ill of fevor at his residence , in St Stephen ' _s-green _, The fever is of the spotted type , and Dr de Mossy , bas been in a perilous state ; but his medical attendants now have strong hopes of his recover *; . So caught the infection in the fever sheds in the vicinity of Dublin , where be had been almost _con'tantly ia attendance , ( Contimui l * t- Seventh Pcj 2
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 18, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_18091847/page/6/
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