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_Heu-th of Losdok _dcuiso thk Week —The m ortality is _decreasing in London . Hie 871 deaths ja _* t week were less by 123 than the deaths in the previ us week , and to nearly the same extent less than the _average ofthe 10 corresponding weeks 1 S _40-8 if wc exclude the week of 1819 . when 2 , 230 deaths were _registered . In the same _season last year the danger of dying in London was twice as great as it is _uo-v ; and ( he epidemics of cholera aud its inseparable _attendant diarrhoea , which _de-troye 11 , 230 , and 188 , were fatal last week only to S and to 139 lives . Six ef those who died of chijera were children , one was a dirty labourer of tbe ase of 41 , who lay about in stables ; and one was a widow of the age of to , who refused to take nutritious diet . Of the 139 per- ! sou * who died of _dianhoei , US were chilnen under 15 *» of 8 were adults , and 13 were aged
pcrye age , sons . -Lnoking at the numbers as well as the details Of tbe cases of ch lera _. eiurncd . and at the advanced _period of the year _^ o _maiO- _vfeeksalterUieepideiiuc broke oat . not only ia 1832 and 1849 , but in 1833-it must be _ndmi-ted that the chance of an outbreak in the present vear is considerably diminished . The immunitv from sttack will no doubt accelerate the great w _> iks . wliich are now in contemplation for the draina e and purification of London ; for _Ucannot be f or _* oven ihat that unseen power of the air which slew so many thousand last year may return , and pat the sanitary defences of the city to a second and severer pro * f ; when the population is more scantily supplied with vegetables , fruit , bread , meat , and the ether means _<> f living . It is worthy of note , that tbe decline in the _general mortality has taken place on the north side <> f the river Thames : and that it is
_obscrve-i is both sexes and m all ages under the age of 60 - The mean temperature of the air in the shade was 6 * 2 . 6 deg . ; the temperature of the Thames wafer was 6 G . 2 deg . in the day , 82 . 8 deg . in the night . The temperature of the air was 12 deg . above the average ofthe corresponding week . Electricity was active ; a * A r . eirh' an inch of rain fell—chiefly on Monday . The _wind passing aver Greenwich at an average rate ot less than 100 miles a day . Am . _jns" 0 Fire at the Sr . Martin ' s _Distillery . —On _Saturday morning last , between ihe hours of six and seven o ' clock , considerable alarm was caused in the immediate _neighbourhood- of Leicester-square , in consequence cf the _oalbreak of
a fire , which at , one period threatened the most disastrous results in the extensive rectifying works of the Paten * Distilling Company , in Castle-street , St . Martin ' s . When first p < rceivcd the flames <* _ers seen _issuin ? "h _*< n _* ' i the rw < f , and owing to the many thousand ga ions of brandy and other scirits in the Stores immediately under , a fearful conflagration was _apurehendfd . By dint of great perseverance , the fire was prevented from fafling into the stills or liquor vats , and by eight o ' clock all danger of further extension was over . The _greater portion of the roof of the distillery , however , is barn * d off , aud some damage done to _' fhe plant , Jt is believed that the heat of an adjoining flue caused lhc mischief . The premises ¦ scere insured in the Hand in-Hand _Fite Office .
Extensive Fhie at _Cleukknwell . —On S _} tordav afternoon last a fire , attended with a considerable _destruction of property , broke out in tbe extensive range of prem _' ses belonging to Messrs . Johnson and Pask , builders and contractor-, situated in Baker street , _Bagnigge Wells ro _^ d . The fl ames commenced , from some unexplained cause , in the manufaetorv , a Ions ; range of buildings composed principally of _timbar . Plenty of water having been _obtained , the engines were _worked for some hours , and at length the firemen _succeeded in getting the mastery over the lire , but not before the premises in which it commenced were burnt out , and nearly a dozen houses in G-anrillo-sqnare _partially destroyed . The _following is the official report of Mr . Braid wood :
— " Messrs . Johnson and Pass : Two workshops , two drying sheds , three stacks of timber , two racks of ditto , and a two-sta _' . l stable destroyed ; dwelling house damaged hy fire , and contents by removal . Building of workshops in the Norwich Union ; building of dwelling in the Phoenix . Cause of fire unkown . —Messrs . Nobla and Co , licensed victuallers , proprietors of the Union , roof cf concert room _damaged , building of skittle er « nnd burnt down . Contents insured in the Sun ; building , in the Guardian—Mrs . Pasey , No 43 , Baker-street : Furniture removed . Building and contents insured in the Norwich Union . —Mr . J . Sawyer , No . 44 , ditto : Back premi » : 'S damaged by fire . —Mr . J . Meyer , No . 45 , ditto , ditto : Contents and _buildings insured in
Phoenix . —Mr . W . Cooper , No . 40 . ditto : Building insured in Phoenix . —Mr . Baker , No . 47 . ditto ; _Boildin _* insured in the Law . —Mr . J . Flensctr , No . 2 S . Granville-sqnare : Part of the honse burnt ont aud lower pa * t seriously dsmaged by firs : furniture removed . Contents insured in the Guardian ; _buildinc , unknown —Mr . J . Adams , No . 27 , ditto : Back windows burnt oat . Contents not insured ; building , unknown . —Mr . Blackwood , Ne . 26 . ditto : Ditto . Contents insured in the Scot _ h Union ; building , unknown . —Mr . T . Pudwicke , No . 23 , ditto : Ditto- Contents insured in ihe Norwich Union ; _building , in Sua . —Sir . W . Newton , No . 24 , ditto r Ditto . Contents and buildings , supposed tn the Sun . _Sixgcue _SciciUE . —On Sunday evening , about a quarter past nine o ' clock , a lead report , similar to
the discharge of fire arms , was heard in the bed rom of a house oecipied by -Mr . Johnson , slipper maker , No . 20 , St . James _' s-street , L e-street , KingsJand road . A person broke through the _window of tbe _roo-n from _whence the noise proceeded , and there discovered : he son of Mr . _Johns / m , a _yo-. n'g man nineteen years of age , lyii : _jr on the floor in the agonies of death . Messrs . Monday and Duncombe , surgeons , were immediately sent for , but tbe uuforiunate young man had cea-ed to Jive before their arrival . Mr . Duncombe made an examination ol the body , when he discovered a large aperture in the stomach of tiie deceased , caused by & bulk-t which Bad entered tbe body , and caosed almost instant _, death . The instrument used by the deceased _wa-= the _harre ! of _a-i <>! d I'aliaa iron , which he had prepared by drilling a hole at the extremity for priming the charge .
Death from a _Bathixg Machine . —On Monday an inquest was held by Mr . Carter , the coroner , at the Green _Draspn , Behidere-road , Lambeth , on the body of Benjamin Chamberlain , aged two years and a half , fho was killed in a most _singular and _distressing manner . Mrs . Oldfield , wife of Mr . Thomas Albion Oldfield , of 7 . Thornhill-road , Is'inston , stated that the deceased washer nephew , and lived with his parents at 36 , Belvidere-road , Lambeth On Friday week ihey » ere all at Rrde _, in the Isle of Wight , where tbey enraged a machine for a tiathe After thev had heen in the water , the deceased wa *
_standing on one of tie steps whea fbe machine went On , and he was thrown on his head against a beam . The nest day there was a contused wound on it , which was poulticed at Brighton , but , on reaching London on Tuesday , he was much worse , and Mr . Miskin , of the York-road , surgeon , was called in , and attended bim to his death on Thursday , whi-h , in bis op nian was caused from inflammation of the brain , arising from the blow on the back of the head . The coroner and jury expressed a _ho- > e that the press wonld notice the case , in order that the owners of machines for lathing _might be more cautious for tbe future . Verdict , " Accidental death . "
Suicide yRos _BLACKPnuRS-BHioGB . —On _Saturday last an inquest was held by Mr . W . Payne , at St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , on the body of a woman whose name is unknown , who leaped from Blackfriara-bridge on the _previoas Thursday _moving . —A lad named Evans , living in Union-street , Borough , stated that on Thursday morning , about four o clock , be was standing on the Surrey side of the bridge with a ginger-beer stall , when he observed tbe deceased standing on one of tbe seats , and in a second or two after he saw ber falling down . She pitched first on one of the piers of the bridge , and thea fell iuto the water . —A bargeman of the name of Brazier , who was going up with a cargo of straw , brought her to the shore . Tbe cause of death was an extensive fracture of tbe Ekull . In order to give time for tbe body to be owned , tbe inquiry was adjourned . Fatal Occcerekce os the _Eastrrs _Cotjsms
Railway . —An occurrence , unfortunately attended with the loss of human life , took place on the Eastern Counties Railway , on Saturday last . Tbe down train , preceding towards Tottenham , bad not passed the Lea-bridge station more tban a minute , -when it was discovered that the train bad passed over tbe body of a man ou the line . The engine was stopped with all practicable speed , the officers and several ofthe passengers running back to render all possible assistance . They found the body ofthe unfortunate man ( who was most respectably dressed ) lying across tbe rails , bis bead being almost severed from his body . He was conveyed to the Lea-bridge station ; but as life was completely extinct , tbe body was removed to a neighbouring public-bouse to await a coroner ' s inquest .
SrnciDK . —In Kensington-gardens on Monday _afternoon , between four and five o ' clock , a gentleman , evidently a foreigner , discharged a loaded pistol through his heart , tbe act was committed in tbe centre ofa small clvmp of trees , near tbe Boundpond . Tbe report of a pistol was heard , and a person of the name of Dunn , looking round , saw the unfortunate gentleman fall on the grass . He instantly hastened to the spot , and found the gentleman quite insensible , and bleeding from a wound in tbo left breast , over tbe region of the heart . One of the _ffardcn constables was promptly on the snot .
and picked op a pistol wbich bad been recentl y discharged . A purse , containing £ 5 in gold , and some silver , was found in tbe pocket ofthe deceased , together with a gold watch and chaio , but no papers or _documents of any kind eonld bo found . His clothing ii evidently of foreign manufacture , and ia _compoiel of a black frock coat , corded watered silk waistco _; . _^ bine clo : h _trowsers , witb black braid down the outside , linen shirt , without initials br marks , black silk cravat , worsted socks , and Wellington hoots . He wore a _blueclotb travelling cap , ined witb orange coloured silk ; in the centre of ibe latter was stamped , ia gold letters , " Modede
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Paris . " The unfortunate gentleman is about thirty years of age , has sallo w complexion , black hair , no ! whiskers , and is about five feet fire inches high On I "Wednesday forenoon Mr . II . M . Wakley held an inquiry at tho King and Queen Tavern , Paddingtongreen , on the body . Inspector Grant of the D division , in answer to a question b y tho coroner stated that notice of the occurrence had been forwarded by route throughout the metropolis , but that up to the present time no inquiries had heen made fo «* the deceased gentleman . "Verdict" That tho deceased destroyed himselt hy _discharging a loaded pistol through his heart ; but the jury have no evidence as to the state of his mind at the time . "
Nxnmw _fEscATE op Mr . C . B . Bald wis , M . P . — This gentleman on Tuesday proceeded by the Gem steamboat to Purflect , from which place a boat was hailed to take him oft' in the middle of the river , when , stepping into the boat , he lost his balance and fell backwards , and the tide being very strong , he was carried down a great distance , and was obliged to swim nearly half a mile before he could reach the boat , as the boatman most incautiously threw out one of his oars to assist him , and therbv rendered himself incap able of directing the boat ; but , fortunately , Mr . Barry Baldwin , being a good swimmer , came up to the boat . in a most exhausted state , and was saved . He was taken to the boatman ' s bouse , where he was provided with a change of clothes , and has felt little or no ill effects from the untoward accident .
SnciBK os thb Eastern Cobstj . es Rmlwat . — On Monday evening an inquest was held by Mr . C . Lewis , at the Greyhound Tavern , Lea-bridge-road , on view of the body of "William Beard , aged fortytwo , in the employment of the government small _Uun factory , Enfield-Iock . who committed suicide on the Eastern Counties Railway . The deceased , who lived at Enfield with his family , had for some time past exhibited an aberration of his mental faculties _, lie left his home on the previous Thursday . On Saturday morning he was observed walking in Leyton marshes , near the Eastern Counties line , when , on tbe eight a . m . express train to Hertford proceeding down the line , as it passed the Lea-bridge station , he attempted to go on the line . The driver sounded tbe whistle , upou which he started back , but when it got closer to bim , he deliberately placed
bis head before the near wheel of the _engine , by which it was immediately severed from his body . Tbe train was promptly stopped , upon which the lifeless body ofthe deceased was taken to the Greybound . Verdict— " Temporary insanity . " Swixcixg at _Camderweu ; Fair . —On Tuesday afternoon two females , sisters , of the name of Chalker , residing at 10 , Beaufoy-terrace , "Walworth , were swinging in one of those'dangerous machines called Highflyers , at Camberwell-fair , when at tho moment it had attained its greatest velocity , they suddenly rose in their seats and were pitched out , flying over the heads of the people a distance of twenty yards . They were picked up insensible and taken to the hospital , both having sustained fractured skulls and other injuries , from which it is impossible that thev can recover .
TEUuIFlC ACCIDEST AT THE BrICKLATEKS' _AltMS Station . —An _accident ofa very alarming character , and attended with loss of life , occurred on Wednesday afternoon , at the Bricklayers' Arms Station . A few minutes before three o ' clock , the 2 .-50 train for Rochester having started shortly before , and the station being providentially free from pissenger traffic , the cast-iron roof extending 400 feet in length , and being divided into two compartments , each with a fifty-feet span , descended with a terrific crash to the ground . The porters who were engaged at the time on the spot were of course buried under the ruins , but being most of them close to a train of empty carriages then in the station , wpre sheltered thereby from the falling
mass . One poor fellow , however , who it is said was making for a gateway for protection , was killed instantaneously , and there are two or three others who have received serious if not mortal injuries . The name of the deceased is Patrick Ryan , and he has left a wife and child unprovided for . He was found in about an hour after the accident occurred lying on his back with an iron beam across his neck , and another across his stomach , his _right hand grasping a sponge with which he had heen washing a carriage when the roof fell in . Three other servantsof the Company , named Brown , Chandler , and Watson , were extricated from tho ruins more or less seriously injured , and at once conveyed to Guv ' s Hospital . There is every reason
to hope tbat no other person has suffered . How the accident happened it ia impossible at present with certainty to tell , but the account given is as follows : —Tbe porters , it would appear , were engaged atthe time in moving a truck on one of the turn-tables , when a train which was being slowly shunted on an adjoining line of rails , came nnperceived upon them , aud running into the truck , when in a transverse position , forced it against one of the pillars supporting tho roof . The whole mass , it is slid , immediately gave way , leaving nothing but the broken gas lamps and the bare walls on either side of the station . It will be recollected that this is not the first accident ofthe kind at the Bricklayers '
Arms Station , for about six years ago a portion ol the roof fell in , causing a loss of life . The whole was subsequently reconstructed , and was believed to be perfectly safe , bnt bow ill-founded that belief was is now made lamentably apparent . Had the accident happened a few minutes earlier or later , when the platform and _carriages were occupied by passengers , it is quite frightful to think of the sacrifice of life which must inevitably have taken place . The occurrence has naturally caused an immense and most painful sensation in the neighbourhood , and it was with great difficulty that the police could keep back the crowds of curious spectators who flocked to the spot .
Funeral of the late Recorder of London . — On Tuesday morninjr , at half-past eight o ' clock , the remains of the Right Hon . Charles Ewan Law , late Recorder of the City of London , were removed from hia late residence , 72 , Eaton-place , _Eaton-iqnare , Pimlico , to the church of St . John , _Southwickcrescent , Hyde-park , where they were interred in a vault under the altar , where one of his ¦ daughters lies buried . The funeral procession was unostentatious _, consisting of a hearse drawn by four horses and three _mourning coaches . The funeral service was performed by the Rev . Mr . Phillips . The City Recorbership . —It is said that the three _candidates for the _Recordership , vacant b . v _» h e death of the Hon . C E . Law . M . P ., areMr . Sergeant Merewether , the town-clerk of the City : Mr . Edward Bullock , tbe Common Sergeant ; and Mr . Russell Gurney , the Commissioner .
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Charge of attempting to defraud an Insurance Company . —At the Liverpool police court on Friday a person named George Smith , together witb one Mark Carson , were brought up to answer the charge of endeavouring to defraud the Royal Insurance Company . Mr . S- Booker conducted the case on the part of the company , from who .-e statement it appeared tbat the prisoner Smith applied to tbe Royal Insurance Company for the purpose . of effecting a policy of insurance upon his stock in trade and shop fixtures . The amount of tbe policy was £ 870 , and the date of the same was the 15 th of May .
On the 13 tb of July last the premises were partially destroyed _byfire , and on the _following 26 th he put in a declaration , wbich was taken before Mr . Rushton , in which he stated that his losses were over £ 1 . 500 for goods and £ 50 for fixtures . Tbe fire took place on a Saturday night , and was soon extinguished . In Smith ' s declaration he averred that he bad lost the whole of bis b-oks of account except two ledgers , and tbat be was , therefore , _unable to make an accurate and detailed statement of his losses , and that tbe am < unt claimed in the declaration waB under the actual sum ; tbat in March previous he bad taken stock , at which time he found it was then worth £ 1 . 600 . and he bad added to his stock to the extent
of £ 80 . It should have previously been stated tbat the charge now before tbe bench arose from tbe fact of three men , Edwin Roe , 'William Roe , and Mark Carson , having been brought up previously for having in their possession a _quaniity of woollen cloth , supposed to be stolen . The charge failed , but it turned out ia the evidence that it was eot from Smith ' s , and that the numbers upon it corresponded to that in his _invokes . The two Roes were discharged , but Carson was kept in eustody , and an application was made by Mr . Booker for a warrant to arrest Smith on a charge of conspiracy to defraud tbe Royal Insurance Company . —The prisoners were remanded . . Execution op William Ross . —This
unfortunate man , condemned for poisoning his wife , who died on tbe 31 st of May last , at Roughtown , on tbe b irdera of Yorkshire and Lancashire , was executed on _Saturday _m-rning at York . __ It may be recollected that shortly after his conviction memorials on his behalf were signed in Roughtown , Mossley , aud also iu tbe city of York , praying thatthe Secretary of State would stay the execution . Some statements alleged to bave been made by some of the witnesses for tbe prosecution , tending to the supposition tbat the condemned man was innocent , having been made public through the medium of the press , an investieation took place , the result of which was not favourable to tbe prisoner . On Friday evening the
chaplain was iu company with the unhappy man until a late hour , and on bis departure he still maintained tbat he was not guilty of the crime imputed to him . Ross was removed next morning at six o ' clock from tbe condemned cell to a room adjoining the place of execution . In tbis apartment he remained until within a short space of bis death , wben the f acrament was administered to him , and he seemed resigned to his fate . He walked with a firm step on to toe drop , and died ia a space of two minutes . Since bis _condemnation tbe prisoner had bad several epileptic fits , and he experienced a repetition of these attacks on the morning of his execution , becoming very violent in bis conduct . In a short tithe , however , he became edm andcdinpoBed , and remained in that state up to the time of bis death . Ross maintained
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his innocence to the last , and just before he appeared on the scaffold be declared most earnestly that he was not _galty of the murder of his wife . The number of spectators was not so large as usual , there not being more than between 3 . 000 and 4 , 000 persons present t < i witness the dreadful spectacle _. Firing the Prison at Parkih / _ust . - _^ -A court of inquiry was held in this establishment last week , for the purpose of endeavouring to ascertain the cause of the fire wliich took place on the night of the 30 th of July , and which consumed tho C ward dormitory , containing 150 ceils for prisoners , the bare walls alone _remaining , the damage being estimated _somewhere about £ 500 . The Rev . \ V . White was in tbe chair , and the rest of the magistrates who
formed the court were Thomas Cooke and II . P . Gordon , _Esqrs ., together with Capttin Swinburne ! It . N ., of Bi . nchurch . The result of the evidence , which occupied the magistrates six hours in hearing , was that the following boys , who had long been placed among the incorrigUiles , were committed for trial at ? he assizes , for wilfully setting fire to the dormitory namely , Frederick Grims , Thomas Xnott ( of Briah ' ton , ) William Pearse , William Fortune , and William _Sanderson , alt stout lads , their ages varying from sixteen to eighteen . The case was fully proved , not only by the evidence of i heir fellow-convicts , but by their own confessions ; the wonder being that both the _accused and accursers were not all burned alive .
_Mcrdhroos Attack on a Giia _.-On the 15 th insf . at _Thurlion , near Loddon , Norfolk , the parents of a girl named Caroline Warnes , aged fourteen , went to their work as usual . During their absence a labourer named Baldry , who lodged with them , went to the bedroom oftheir daughter , and asked if she was not going to get up ? She said " Not yet . " lie then put his left arm round her neck , and with a blacksmith ' s hammer wbich he held in his right hand struck the child a number of severe blows on the head , so often that her skull was fractured ; then he took her out of bed and put her on the bricks _^ He socn after left her , changed his clothes ,, and went away . The child is not expected to live . _Baidry was apprehended .
Spontaneous Combustion . —An exhibition ofa novel and ingenious kind took place at _Liverpo-1 last week , in r he Underwriters _' -room , in the presence of a number of shipowners , merchants , and others , the object of which was to show how a fire may be made to destroy itself . The apparatus , which is of the most simple and inexpensive kind , being adjusted , and its mode of action explained , the ignition of some cotton in a cirner of the room was immediately detected by one of the indices , which was as instantaneously responded to by the exterminator . The self-acting apparatus we shall not attempt to describe ; but from its , simplicity , cheapness , and unerring certainty , we make no doubt it will come into general use . Unlike many scientific
men who lock up their inventions till they get a certain remuneration for them , the ingenious inventor , Dr . Robinson , of Londo' * , has generously thrown this open to the public for their u * e , and , as he said onthe occasion , with the hope that it maybe the means of _preservim-, property and valuable lives . Punishmext of Convict _^ . —The two convicts who recently attempted to escape and were recaptured near the Royal Marine Barracks , Woolwich , and . 'mother very refractory convict , fflio was continually threatening to strike both guards and convicts , or any person who came near him , were ordered by the authorities to receive four dozen of lashes each in consequence of the number of
attempts of convicts to escape and the bad example of _insubordination shown by others . The convict who was most loud and fearless when he thought he could threaten and strike with impuuily , proved the greatest coward when the lash was applied to his back , aiid succumbed so much when undergoing the chastisement awarded to him , that the doctor caused the punishment to cease when he had only received ten lashes . One of the convicts who attempted to escape said he deserved the punishment ordered , as he wa 9 aware he had done wrong , and would bear _h- ' s f «> ur dozen , which he did in the most stoic -1 manner . Tbe other convict only received a limited number of lashes on the recommendation of the doctor . ,
Destructive Fire at Liverpool- —A most disastrous conflagration occurred in Regent-street , at the north end of the town about ten o ' clock on Sunday night . The flames were fir 3 t discovered in the -eeond storv of a flour mill , at present in the occupation of Mr . ' Charles Ward , but recently tenanted by Mr . John Bailey . It is conjectured tbat tbe flames originated in the vicinity of tlie boilers , but they extended with such rapidity , and the alarm and excitement were so great , tliat it is impossible to obtain any reliable int ' _ormntion on this point . Mr . Bibby , superintendent ofthe fire-brigade , had perceived the reflection of th-. fire , and , we believe , had got as far as Yauxhall-road with one of the engines before a messenger had reached Temple-court . The other
engines from the station immediately followed on the uack , together with that belonging to the West of England Insurance Company . Fortunately there was a most copious supply of water from the Greenlane wi lis , and seven or eight plugs were forthwith called into requisition to play upon the flames . A strong wind was blowing from the north-west , and the _ui- 'St serious apprehensions were entertained for the safely of the adjacent property . It was at one time thought thai the Clarence Foundry , _belonging to Messrs . Bury , Curtis , and Kennedy , _wa- * in danger tbe burning timbers being carricl a considerable distance in that direction . Indeed , the ignited wood was whirled --cross the railway , some 150 y _^ rds distant , and _alighted on some straw , which speedily became one mass of flume . Some small
shops fronting Great Howard-street , and a publichouse at the corner of . Porter-street , narrowly escaped entire destruction , and most of tbem were _mbi e or les _* injured at the rear . In the majority of cases the furniture and goods were removed , but great loss was sustained in that way , as thieving was _prac'ised to an extent whicb would be hardly credible to a person unacquainted with the neighbourhood . Tbe fire was not what is termed " got under" until after twelve o ' clock , and even tben a sudden gust of wind might have rekindled flames which it would have required the utmost activity to abate . One of the damaged houses , occupied by Mr . Bacon , an oil and colourman , is , we believe , insured in the Yorkshire Office . The loss , _altogether , _musi be very considerable , but upon whom it will mainly fall we are at present unable to state _.
Dautuovjth Borough Gaol , & c—An extraordinary sessions was held in tbe Guildhall on _Saturday last , the prison being considered unfit and unsafe for tbe detention of a prisoner , named W _^ _odmason , a locksmith ofthe town , committed on the 3 rd ot June , lor housebreaking . The learned Recorder , Mr . C . D , Bevan , in his charge to the jury , said be could not reconcile it to his conscience that the prisoner _shouU remain in such a hole — he could , call it nothing else . This was not his own personal opinion only , but all the government inspectors who , from time to timein the-course of their duty bad
in-, spected it had unanimously reported " that the gaol of the borough of Dan mouth was the worst inthe three kingdoms , and a disgrace to the place . " He wished be could gainsay this , but , on the contrary , he entirely concurred in that opinion , for such a vault was unfit for the purposes of a gaol . Neither wss there accommodation for prisoner , petty jury , or grand jury in the Guildhall . He had been compelled that day to inconvenience many persons to obtain a separate space for the prisoner . They had their choice , either to make these things better , or to submit to have the sessions removed to the
Castle of Exeter . Mysterious Death at York . —On the 16 th inst ,, a coat was found on the brink of the _Ouse , near the ferry boat landing at North-street postern . This circumstance led to tbe river being _dragged ; and in a shore time the body of a man was brought up , at a part within fifteen yards of the place where the coat bad been discovered . The body was identified by Mrs . Gray , of the Temperance Hotel , as tbat ot a gentleman who was lodging at her bouse . Tbat gentleman went to her house on the previous Wednesday evening , and disappeared on Thursday evening at eight o ' clock . His luggage was marked " Isaac Coulson , passenger to York ; . and when his pockets were searched £ 15 4 s . 9 d . in money , some
Keys , & c , were round upon him . When bis carpetbags and box were opened , two documents were found which leave little doubt as to the gentleman ' s identity . One was a mortgage bond for £ 200 , from the Cockermouth and Workington Railway Company to " Isaac Coulson , of Cumwhinton , near Carlisle , Cumberland , gentleman ; " and the other a share certificate in the Darlston Joint-Stock Brewing Company , in which tbe same description of the holder _ms given , excepting that he wns designated a farmer . These facts were proved at au inquest held before Mr . Wood , the coroner , and , as there was no evidence to show how the body got into the river , a verdict of " Found drowned , " was returned .
The Chichester Theatre has been Bold by auction for £ 350 . It was built in 1796 by tontine , and formed , with Portsmouth , Southampton , and Winchester , what was called the southern circuit , whicli did a good business , Messrs . Collins and Davis were tbe orig inal lessees under tbe tontine ; and it was here that Incledon made his first appearance on the boards , and received a summary ; dismissal for paying his suit to a daughter of one of the managers ! For many years , Chichester Theatre paid a rent of £ 50 ; but of late years the rent has dwindled dawn to a very small sum , til ) it disappeared altogether , The theatre had scarcely been opened for the last six or eight years . The purchaser converts it into a bre « house .
The Condemned Convict Patrick Forbes . — This convict , who murdered his wife with a poker in the most revolting manner , at Newcastle , will be executed on the summit of the town _saol this ( Saturday ) morning . It is thought by some parties tbat , in consequence of the approaching visit of her Majesty , the wretched man will be reprieved . That however , is very doubtful . Indeed i it _Jg almost certain that the sentence -will be carried into effect Thi . _Coimcr _ilwjKAir _Cmms—The _unhappy woman _Hannsh Curtis , : _irho was convicted at the _GlouceaterauireAsaueBoi tbewafulonrder ofher
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husband , by administering arsenic to him . will be executed in front of the county gaol at Gloucester , this dav ( Saturday , ) unless a reprieve should ue _wanted " in the interim . There is , however , not the feust expectation that the life of the prisoner will ue soared . She has had three or four severe fits since her conviction , and her struggles when so aifected were very violent . She has made no confession of her guilt , but ou the cwitr & vy wetsi & ts in asserting
her innocence . . ¦ , _,,., ., •¦ , _- ¦ _-. Thk Britannia Bridge .-The last lift of the last tube was completed , amid much acclamation , on the 10 th inst ., and everything is understood to _progress so satisfactorily as to lead to the conclusion tbat the entire structure will be opened a . fortnight earlier than was expected . „' - '•' ,, Riot and Morder in a _Colliehy Viu-aoe . — On Saturday last about midnig ht a fatal fray took place at Hepburn , a colliery village , about three miles from South Shields . Soar , to Heliburn is a shore called Ilebburn Quay , where vessels are repaired . Vessels from about Rye , Southwould , and ports in that neighbourhood . frequenting the Tyne _iro often laid upon this shore to undergo repairs
_ivlien needed . On Saturday a number of those vessels wero bceohed there . Saturday was " payfortnight" amongst the pitmen , and a number of tho men belonging to Ilebburn colliery had a quoit match , and after that a supper at Ilebburn Hall public house , in the village . After supper the pitmen had a carouse , and kept drinking until close upon midnight . About twenty minutes to twelve ei"lit seamen came to the public-house and called for somo ale , which the landlord refused to fill for them . The seamen hearing the pitmen in the adjoining room , made to it and forced themselves in . Now it happened that a bad feoling existed between the seamen and the p itmen on account of one _| of tiieir shipmates having been killed in a drunken
fray some time previous , and no sooner had the seamen got into tho room than a row commenced . The landlord came and put both seamen and pitmen to the door . As soon as the men got to the door a most fearful conflict took place between them ; stones , broken bottles , and flints , flying about in every direction . In the middle of tlie fray a stone was seen to come from one of the seamen and hit a pitman , named John Irdle , on the neck . He immediately fell . The windows ofthe public-house were broken , and a number of the belligerents received serious wounds from the missiles . About _, one o clock , when the riot wa 3 . abated , a person having occasion to go out of the _pnblie-house , fell ovor the body of some one lying in the road . A light- and assistance were immediately procured ; and , on tho body being brought into tho house , it was found to be tbat of John Irdle . He had been
struck with a stone behind tho neck on the jugular vein , and must have died instantly . He was quite dead when he was brought into the house .-Tho rural police were sent for from Jarrow and Felling , and during the morning they apprehended Charles Holland , John _Blaokport , and Robert Jenkinson —• _Jenkinson , witb a fearful gash in his check—part of the crew ofthe Sarah , of Rye ; William Irvine and Charles Perret , seamen oil board the Brother ' s Friend ; and Eli _Everson , belonging to the Albion , of Southwould . Six pitmen were also taken into custody . They were brought to the police-station at South Shields , and thoso injured had their wound 3 dressed by tlie police surgeon , Mr . R . B . Ridley . —On Monday , the prisoners were brought before Richard Shortridge , Esq ,, and William Anderson , Esq ., the sitting magistrates at South Shields , and were remanded until after the inquest . Accident' upon the Mariport and Carlisle
Railway . —Rathor an alarming accident occurred on the Maryport and Carlisle Railway on Saturday last to the 10 . 15 a . m . train , while on , its way from Maryport to Carlisle . Soon after passing Deerham , the train has to go round a curve by a stone quarry , and when at this point the engine came suddenly to a stand-still , in consequence of some accident having happened to the connecting rod . Tho driver got down to examine the engine , and whilst he was doing so , the goods train , whieh starts shortly after the above train , came suddenly round the corner at this awkward point , and ran into the passenger train . Fortunately the goods train was proceeding at a very slow pace , and the driver , with great presence of mind , on seeing what bad occurred , shut off the steam , and put on the break , and did all he could to prevent a serious collision . The goods
train , however , came with such force against the passenger train that several of the passengers received injuries of a more or less serious character . A child of four years of ago was very much hurt by the concussion , but is now recovering . No time was lost in despatching tho passengers to Aspatria , the nearest station , where every assistance was given by the medical gentlemen called in to attend upon those who were hurt . Great blame is attached to the guard , whose duty itwas to have sent or run down the line with a signal , particularly as there is a signal post near to the spot where the accident occurred . If he had hoisted a signal , and it is said tbat he had ample time to do so , the collision mi « ht haye been prevented . Tho company , with commendable anxiety for tho safety of the public , have dismissed the guard from their service .
Stabdjno . —A man named Thomas Ibell has been fully committed , by tho Hereford county magis-. trates _, for infliciinga severe wound on a farm servant , named William Penn , at Much Birch . From the evidence it appeared that the accused was one of the Forest of Dean coal waggon drivers , nnd had put up for the night at tho sign of the Axo and Clearer , in Muelt Birch , accompanied by others of his _fraternity , ii dispute arose as to whether the accused had paid or not , and in the end he and his party were ejected from the house . On the retiring of Penu some short time afterwards , ho was suddenly assaulted by Ibell , and dangerously stubbed in the arm . A knife , bonring evidence of being the instrument with which the injury was inflicted , was found on the prisoner . He does not deny the charge hut alleges as an excuse that he was first assaulted . Committed for trial at tho assizes .
Great Fire in Liverpool , —Ahout twelve o ' clock on _theniirht of Monday , a firo was discovered in Messrs . Eyre and Higgin _' s drug and oil manufactory , Seel-srreet , and before many minutes had elapsed the flames burst forth . A hi gh wind was raging at the time , and before tho arrival of the engines the conflagration had extended to Messrs . Tyrer and Son ' s cooperage , and a large warehouse which lay on tho east side . The firemen , however , succeeded in so subduing the conflagration as to save the lower stories of the warehouse and of Messrs . Eyre ' s factory . . _Encroachment op tub Sea at Yarmouth . —It is
stated thnt the last high tides removed nearly six acres of beach and sand from C . m , ter , which has been deposited and silted up at Yarmouth . Fears are entertained lest at some future time the adjacent marshes to the north of Yarmouth may be laid under water . It also appears tbat the Hood shoal to the north of _Caister has entirely disappeared : tbis shoal had the effect of setting the tide out between the Barber and Cockle sands , and its removal now causes the tide to arrive in full force on Caister beach , thus easing off its sluicing { . ower on the shore of Yarmouth , and affording greater chance of safety for the houses on the beach . Practical men are of opinion that some important changes are taking place on the eastern coast * , this , indeed , is pretty evident from the constant and frequent disappeavarico of the whole or part of the various outlying sands and shoals by which we are surrounded .
—Bury and Norwich Post . Departure op Jenny Lind fob America . — Liverpool , Wednesday . —Yesterday , Jenny Lind was presented by the directors ofthe Southern Hospital with a handsome silver teakettle , in testimony ofher kindness , in singing on a previous visit to Liverpool in aid of the tunds ofthe institution _. This morning she took her departure for America , in the New United States mail steamer , the Atlantic , Captain West , in which a special berth has been fitted up for 'her with great gorgeousness . About 2 , 000 persons orowded to the landing stage , to witness the embarkation . The berths on board the Atlantic -were all taken a month ago , so soon as it was announced that Jenny Lind would be a passenger . Captain _nuNWcnsoN . —Tho Liverpool Dock Committee have appointed Captain _Henvichson { whose wife and ohildren were murdered by _Gleason Wilson ) to a mastership of one of the docks .
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Execution . —Shortly after eight o ' clock on Friday morning , the 16 th inst , the sentence of death passed upon William Bennison , on the 2 , th of July laBt , for the murder of Jane Hamilton , his wife , at Steadsplace , Leith-walk ,. on the 12 th of April , was carried into effect in the presence of Baillies Law and Fyffe . The gibbet was erected during the ni ght at the common place of execution , in the Lawnmarket , at the head of Lady Lawson ' _s Wynd ; and from about seven o ' clock on the previous night crowds of persons visited the locality of the condemned cell , and the road leading to the place of execution . The Rev Mr . Hay was in attendance upon Bennison in the condemned cell , whither he was removed on
Thursday , all the previous night and Friday mornimr After the authorities had gone to the cell , he _eneaeed Fyffe , _theRey . Mr . _HislS , , chapL of t _gaft city officers , and Mr . _Morfiam . One of the _Methodist hymns was sung , and the Rev . Mr . Hay engaged in prayer , during which . Bennison sobbed _hefvflv andseemed otherwise much affected . At the conclusion of the praver , the prisoner was removed to eight o clock the melancholy procession moved from order _-Tbetownofticers , with their halberd ,. ; two magistrates of the city , Baillie s Law and Fyffe ; foilowed to * the criminal , supported on each side by the h _^ _± f „? _K- ay andH rP' ""• execution * and to the _wafiold , leemingly with a firm and unwavering
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step . The only physical effect which his confinement had produced was a paler complexion . On the procession arriving at the head of the Wynd , a murmur of excitement issued from the crowd . _Bennispn remained tit the foot of the steps ' until the magistrates , the city officers , and the executioners bad taken their places on the scaffold , during which time he looked nil round , apparently but little concerned , upon the Vast multitude ; aud then , accompanied by the clergyman , aBcended and took bis place upon the drop . 'Ihe Rev . Mr . _Hislbp , whom Bennisoncalled his spiritual father , and who was present by his special request , then engaged for some time in prayer , during which tbe doomed man exhibited appearances .,.. ' rut ... -i ... ' _.,. . .. i ««_ -i . —i _ t . -Li . _nAnflnp .:
i > f mental emotion , occasionally having his face upwards with his eyes Glased . At the conclusion ofthe prayer Murdoch , the executioner , proceeded to remove the stock from the prisoner ' s neck , and began to adjust ths rope . The white cap was simultaneously put on and iirawn over Bennison ' s face , as he did not mean to address the crowd . The signal having been placed in his hand , he cast it away , and said in a firmlorie of voice , " The Lord Jesus receive my spirit . " In another moment the bolt wss withdrawn , and he was launched into eternity . The body remained suspended till five minutes past nine o ' clock , when it . ivas cut do . vn , to be buried in the preciuts of the gaol during the day .
Thb Fourth Estate . —On Saturday tho representatives of the Edinburgh , Glasgow , and provincial press held their annual meeting , at _Stirling . The deputations from the various localities reached the town about two p . m ., where they passed a very agreeable hour or two in visiting some of the most prominent objects of interest in tho neighbourhood Araomr others , tlie museum of Messrs . Drummond was visited , when by the kindness of the proprietor , its varied stores of ancient and modern art were thrown open to the inspection of tbe party , who were _hiuhly gratified by the polite and courteous attention shown thera . Some time was also spent at the
Castle , from the ramparts of which , as is well known , a view , perhaps unequalled in Scotland , is obtained . The weather , though fine , was not particularly favourable , the atmosphere being rather hazy than otherwise , but the deficiency in this respect was amply counterbalanced by the prospect immediately beneath the castle , and extending towards Falkirk , of field on field of grain , ripening fbr the sickle , or in some instances , already cut down . About four o ' clock the parly , numbering nearly thirty gentlemen , sat down to dinner , in the Scottish Central Railway Hotel , Mr . Robertson , of the Guardian , officiating us chairman , and Mr Drummond , of the Witness , as croupier . '
Anothkb _Stkam-boat Accident . —The steamer Londonderry , from the Clyde for Londonderry , put back to Greenock on Thursday , the 15 th instant , having been ashore on Rathlin Island , about three o ' clock a . m . The night was very foggy , and the vessel was proceeding at half speed only , when she ran on the rocks , in consequence , it is supposed , of the tide having carried her _somewhat out of her course . She backed off , when it was found that she w ? . s making a considerable quantity of water , which , however , proved to be under what could be easily ejected bv the pumps . Edinburgh . —This city and neighbourhood was visited by a violent gale bf wind on Sunday last , which increased in intensity during the evening . A clipper schooner , named the Favourite , from Liverpool for Fisherrow , lying in Leith Roads , broke from her moorings at about midnight , and drifted towards the northern shore of the Forth . Tho watch en deck gave the alarm to the captain
and crew , who set about making preparations to escape , in the event of the vessel being driven on the rocky coast to leeward . Fortunately , Bhe was carried against the peer at Burntisland , where her rigging became entangled with the iron railings and lamp-posts at the pier end , by which she was retained sufficiently long to enable the crew to leap ashore , and the mate to convey the mother and wife ef the captain in safety from the vessel . He then returned to . the cabin to obtain his watch ; and on coming again en deck , a heavy sea struck the schooner , and swept her decks , ' washing the unfortunate man overboard , who was engulphed in the surge and drowned . His body has not been since recovered . The ship , on cleaving the pier , carried away the railings and lamp pillars with which she had been entangled , and drifted on to the rocks eastward of the pier , where she lies high and dry at full ebb , in a very wrecked condition .
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Tub Flight to America . —The Westmeath Independent has the following rather remarkable revelations * . — " The tide of emigration from this town and neighbourhood continues to flow on increasingly . Not a conveyance leaves the town for Dubtin , or Galway , that has not its quota of passengers bound for a foreign land . Indeed , we do not remember a season within the last few years in which the spirit of emigration seemed so strong as it is at present . Farmers hare abandoned their holdings —dreading the workhouse , and in fear of tbeir landlords , on whom , in a short time , tho land will devolve without a tenant , and with little prospect
of obtaining one . In some places the evil system of carrying off crops has already made its appearance , and several farmers have been known to dispose of the uncut corn for a comparative trifle , rather than remain to bo evicted and sued for the rent by landlords from whom they expeet but little grace . If the present extent and class of emigration continues much longer , there will be but the two classes—landlord and labourer—and what pan the former expect from the latter ? Unable to collect suflJcient to pay for their passagoout , what can they give ? Absolutely nothing ; and most assuredly the landlords will not select their tenants trom such an impoverished class . There is , we may say , a ffeneral desire to leave this unfortunate country
—a desire felt and expressed by every class in the community for whose industry there is no reward . Men who have toiled and struggled for independence at home in vain have now to seek it in a distant land . If we apprehend rightly this emigration will be felt severely by the landlords , whose ' snu _? tenants ' are tobe found amongst the ranks of the adventurers to America . So long as the artisan and the labourer , only emigrated , there was no reason to complain—but now , when the tiller ofthe soil—the supporter of landlord and labourer alike —when he goes , then , indeed , the evil is apparent —for he goes not away empty ; and by whom is he to be replaced ? Friends in the far We 3 t have sent , and aro sending , for theiv , families and friends , some
of whom have been for years mmate 3 of the workhouse . Ahd possibly the time may come when real advantage will arise from this universal desertion of Ireland—for competence to be earned there could be usefully employed in originating manufactures , or improving those that long Save been neglected in this country . That time may come—and right earnestly do we hope 'there is a good time coming . '" Turning to the North , the Perry Sentinel , another organ of landlordism , thus refers to the tide of emigration from Ulster ' . — " Ou Monday last thivtyone individuals , most of whom were in comfortable circumstances , left the village of Portstewart , to seek a home on the opposite side of the Atlantic , amidst the dark woods of Canada , where they hope taxation will press less heavily upon them—of the
rent none ever heard them complain , as in this locality we are blessed with one or the best landlords in Mr . John Croroie , who recognises tenant right as far as every honest man would -wish to see it carried . Two of the individuals referred to above held eight acres of land on joint lease ; on the property were a few old cottages , and two tolerable houses . They were allowed to sell out to the best advantage , and Mr . William Wilson Campbell , the Castle , paid them for their interest in the lease , £ 350 , not including a fair valuation for the crop , which he also tendered . Tho above method of transacting business ought , I think , to satisf y the most unscrupulous advocate of tenant ri ght . But there are many who would be satisfied with nothing short of landlord robbery and spoliation . "
The Cork Reporter thus notices tho tide of wholesale emigration from that port * . — " Vast crowds of emigrants continue day after day to quit the south of Ireland , making our harbour the way of exit The outward flow seems rather to increase than to dimmish , By emigrant ships in the port , or by steamers to Liverpool , where othor ships wait to receive them , large numbers of our peasantry depart . This outpouring of the rustic population is not by any means confined to Cork ; similar accounts reach , us from tbe port of _Limeriek , from Dublin , and Galway , and even from the lesser P 8 j * a ' if as Waterford » & c To-day tho Nimrod and Albert steamers were crammed to excess with the 8 e poor _creaturos . _Indonondpnt _« f what went
In other vessels , there were certainly upwards of 1 , 000 human beings packed on board these two steamers . To onoiooking from the quay , it seemed a marvel how they' could have found room to stand in the narrow compass of deok they occupied . Since the above was written wo have learned that on the arrival of the Nimrod , at Passage , it was found necessary to send some of the deck passengers on shore . In doing so we understand the J people were taken indiscriminately and forced to eave the vessel , their property and friends being in many instances detained on board . One man is said to have been brought out of the vessel , whilst
his wife , luggage , and £ 25 were detained .... The entiro number sent on shore amounts to about 200 . On inquiry at the Packet-office we are informed that the affair arose from the fact of a penalty being inflicted on the company for every passenger beyond a certain number . On leaving the quay this ( Saturday ) morning , a crowd of persona without tickets forced their way on board , and these were the only parties sent out of the vessel " , Tb * Great Sba SKRPENT . -With the return of the : recess , our old friend , the _creat sea _seit has again made his appearance . ThefoffiSfS nous _statementappears ihthe Freemanp \ _SS _mornrng- _^ VOn _Thursday _evenmgtri . _mS
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of _Sackviile-streot _, Mr . Hogan , of Sutton , and se . veral other gentlemen , while enjoying a sail in the yacht of Mr . Hogan , had the ' additional and exciting pleasure of _whnossiBg the evolutions of an enormous sea monster , which more resembled in shape _and'sizo the great sea serpent than any other living thing which the gentlemen had ever before seen or heard described . Mr . _Horn ' s yacht was , at the time the monster appeared m view ( half-past six p . m . ) , sailing botween Dalkey and Sutton . One of the gentlemen on board the yacht saw tho monster at a distance of about half a mile , rushing with great impetuosity in a direction towards Howth Point . He immediately-directed the attention of his companions to the strange "visitor , and nf ftnnt _citlp . pffont If * _Vfnnan nf Sutton , nnd an
the whole party continued for several minutes to watch his movements and scrutinise his shape and dimensions . Several portions of the back were in view over the water , and seemed to resemble " the coils ofa serpent , " to adopt the phraseology of one of the gentlemen who waited on us to describe tbe circumstance . The head was shaped not unlike that of an eel , and was born aloft several feet out of tho water . The speed at which he moved through the water was estimated at twenty miles an hour , nnd he left a wako such as might be expected from a ship of several hundred tons . The gentlemen who saw this monster computed his length at one hundred feet ; and Mr . Walsh informs us that Mr . Hogan , who had been many vears at sea . was quite
satisfied that the monster was not of . tbe whale tribe , or was not of a species heretofore known to mariners and described by naturalists . " The Parliamentary Sabbath . —The hopeless failure of the scheme for promoting the observance of the Sabbath by act of parliament , and the mitigation of the late absurd order which gave a day of rest to the letters , and scarcely an hour of easement to the letter carriers , bave , as might be expected , given no small satisfaction here . All classes suffered more or less from the effects of the rerent ill-timed experiment upon public patience , while to the parties for whom this measure of grace was specially enacted the boon has been rather distasteful than otherwise . A responsible official in the Post-office fairly states , that the complaints ,
confusion , and the vast pressure of business in tlie early part of tho week , consequent upon the non-delivery on Sunday , are but indifferently compensated for by the " name "—for it is nothing ' more—of a iielyday , of which closed doors are the outward semblance , while inside the work goes on as merrily as ever .- It is believed that next Sunday letters will be delivered as formerly . The IIabvest . —The reports of the potato crop , embracing returns from all quarters ofthe kingdom , are more favourable tban those received last week . The results may be thus briefly summed up : — Limerick . — " Accounts this day from various districts with respect to the potato crop are decidedly favourable . " Cork . — " Accounts are still cheering . Instances have been given us of stalks utterly destroyed and tubers entirely safe . The result at whioh we arrive is , that there will be an ample abunbance left for human consumption . " Galway .
— " We do not think the potatoes are so much diseased as many would lead us to suppose . We are of opinion that a great deal of tha crop will be saved . " Westmeath . — " In some parts of this county the potatoes are as firm and good as they were in 1844 , the year before the first blight . Twice the quantity planted this year . " Carlow . — " Accounts from several districts warrant the belief that the injury complained of is of a trifling character , and every hope of an average crop , both sound and healthy . " Armagh . — " The potato crop continues to withstand the blight ; and , though a great number of fields sceni blackened by the old disease , still the roots have not suffered to any great extent . " Donegal ( from which the worst reports havo hitherto come ) , — " Potatoes are not getting _worse . The _plague , v _? e hope * ' is stopped . " With the exception of wheat the cereal orops are all described as excellent .
Improvement op tub Country . —A correspondent ofthe Freeman ' s Journal , referring to the supposed prospects of general improvement in the country , writes in the following disheartening tone : —Alas ! there i 3 no truth in those encouragements—it will be many a long year before they are realised . Except in the north of Ireland , there is nothing hopeful in the aspect of affairs in this wretched country . It is in a state , not of transition , but of dissolution . The trade ot the great inland towns is gradually declining—the markets are falling off—the shopkeepers of the smaller towns are reduced to indigence . There is a dead silence in every country town—an utter absence of all appearance of business—no air of prosperity in any
place—the people seem listless , stupified , dispirited —hopeless of any possible improvement-unequal to any great effort to retrieve their condition—tbo houses are dilapidated—most of the gaols are full , so are the poorhouses ; hut how are the cabins circumstanced ? The gable walls are left of them : hero and there a burned rafter remains of the roof ; and , their former inmates , where are they to be found ? There is ns echo in these ruins to say where . But there are huts in their vicinity not yet wrecked , and their inhabitants will tell you how the " cratures" made sheds in the neighbouring ditches , and stopped there for a time ; how some of them had died on the roadside ; others " went wandering about , " God knows where ; some had
got into the poorhouse ; a few had picked up enough among the neighbours and their friends to take them to America , and the great majority had disappeared , and not a soul knew what had become of them , and their wives , and their poor children . Such is the account given to a stranger of the evicted peasantry that had been lately living in the suburbs of Roserea , that are now in ruins . Of the ravages of Irish landlord Vandalism in the course of the last month , I have seen a good deal . I have seen the ruins of about 500 recently demolished dwellings ofthe peasantry on the _highroads of Wexford , Carlow , the Queen ' s County , the King ' s County , and Galway , that had been places of abode of at least 2 , 500 human beings .
The Nenagh Guardian , a landlord ' s journal , states that " " on the 7 th instant thirty persons were evicted off the lands of Movaliffe , the property of James Lenigan , Esq ., Castle Fogarty . They owed large arrears of rent . On the same day ten persons were evicted from the lands of Templebeg , near Thurles , the property of Peter Graham , Esq ., of Dublin . " Repeal Association . —The Association met in Conciliation Hall on Monday—Mr . Michael Murphy in the chair . The attendance was very small . Mr . John O'Connell read a memorial to her Majesty , requesting her to convene her Parliament at tho close of the harvest in Ireland , to take into consideration the settlement of the land question . The memorial was referred to the committee for
revision . The rent for the week was £ 8 15 s . 6 _| d . Combination Outrage . —We regret extremely to state that upon Saturday evening last , when the railway waggon containing parcels was within two miles and a quarter of Sligo , at about five o ' elook in tho afternoon , it was attacked by a party of men , who , having felled the driver , a man named Wilruvm Walsh , with a blow ' over tho temple , shot one ofthe two horses which were drawing the _waugon . A man named Michael Marran has been identified jib one of the party engaged . Walsh is still in the infirmary , though his injuries are not very Berious . This outrage is supposed to be the result ofa combination of parties injured b y the running of tbis parcel waggon between Mullingarand Sligo . —Sliqo Journal . b *
Extraordisaby _Match . —Cootes , the pedestrian , successfully completed on Monday evening an extraordinary match against time which he had undertaken , namely , to walk a thousand half miles in a thousand half hours . The wager for which he undertook this arduous feat was only £ 50 , bHt it is expected that that sum will be considerably * increased by subscriptions . Some days since lie appeared in so exhausted a state that his backers scarcely expected that they would be able to keep him up to the task , but as the conclusion approached be recovered strength and courage .
a he Earldom op Roscommon . —Another claimant appears , it is stated , for the earldom of Roscommon in the person of Z , Wallace , Esq ., proprietor ofthe Anglo-Celt , Cavan newspaper , who it ia said not only entertains strong hopes of succeeding to the vacant coronet , but also of recovering a portion of the estate attached thereto , and upon wbich his family had a rent charge up to the year 1845 . The Limerick Reporter states that nineteen houses were levelled , and 148 persons turned our roofless , last week in a village called Ballagh , near Clonoulty , not far from Thurles . The village is the property of Colonel Perceval , M . P . _TlSIT OP THK LoRD-LlBUTKHAKT TO BM . SaST .-The Bel / tut Whig says , « We have the gratification of being able to state that his Excellency the Earl of Clarendon may be expected in Belfast about the second week of next month . "
At the Dublin Corn Exchange on Mondav , several samples of new gra _j n 80 _* d at somo slight improvement m prices . One sample of new white wheat , prime in quality , brought 24 s . per barrel , equal to tis . 2 d . per imperial quarter . Commenckuknt of _Crop-wptino . —The Kilkenwi Moderator has the following account of the renewal _« Ti . fI y t ea of , oro P lunder m thafc county :-ibe Sabbath plundering _commenced in our county on Sunday last at Temploinartin . on the _nronertv
oi _uiampion Brady , Esq . A farmer named Clancy _£ _{„? work at . rea P" _» g his wheat ateight o ' clock on _RAtvrnay evening , and continued till between three ana lour on Sunday morning , when he desisted , owing to the passing by of some police patrol . Uowil ' * " _? , P . <»" _fc had no instructions to interfere , though Mr , Brad y ' s agent applied to the authorities for assistance . The landlord had four keepers war the spot , but tbey only looked on at a civil dis-Unee , as they were afraid to go to the ground without constabularij protection . Tho crop was removed off the lands of Templemartin on Sunday night , the cars conveyingit passing through the turnpike without let or molestation . " • -
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 24, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_24081850/page/6/
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