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_FlBE-DAMT _Exi'LOSlOX IS _"WiUiS . — LOSS OF ¦ _YEsi T-xlSE Lives .- _^ An explosion of fire-damp , by liich _twenty-hlnc _hnnsaii beings lost their lives , ok place oi Saturday last , at a colliery _beicngin' - Mr . -Tiiosnas PoweL , situated at Crtmbach , about vec miles distant from tlie Tillage of _Abcvdave _, and s ' from Merthyr Tydvil . About eleven o ' clock a ud report attended witli a violent concussion ol ic cartii was beard , whicli caused the people of the ¦ _islibunrlus ; bouses io direct tlieir attention _to-svaTds _icjiii , asd in a very short time Ike awful fact betrae known that an explosion of fire-damp lind oeirfed . The consternation which ensued may be _ioi-c easily itua _& Uted _tkiii . _dass . _wUti , _v _& tw ft is
_edwb tbat there were in llic jut at the lima from se hundred and fifty to two hundred human beings , _icn and boys , and the _awiui uncertainty tliat existed , aw many , if auy , were * alive . _Laugu-age cannot _csc-rihi * the mournful scene . The waiiiug of wClllCli _ndtbc crying cf _children as they ran towards the it _' srocut ' i _seeking their relatives were sufficient to nnetvc the _stoutest heart , aud melt the most _stoieal pint . In one face you _might ' see the fcailuily _nxions look _disssol into " one of gladness as the husand , son , or _iB-atl _.-er , came up alive . In another ace " hope _fii-d _/ Vud settled despair , when-cue after _aotLcr < . r . iaeia > , nudtlic expected one still behind _, _nevi-r had It & l ! c » tuiaylot to witness a more awful cssoa . Siircly _ledsJation o > rM to step ia , and
_euleaveur to give security to human liw , by the _appointment of _-caapctcnt j . eisons—men vhofc scientific _lequireinents would be at least a guarantee that _aoiiriiig v . hick . _<* ciYn « could do had hccii left undone towards the security . of _1-aresn life . The air in the P _& _, after thc explosion , was ho jp & ious , that it was a _eansiddrsWe time ere auy person could venture to seek for the mhsiug incu . But such is thc devotion , _snehtbe spirit and courage of these poor working colli- * !;? , that they were to be seen coin ;; into the pit witheut the least hesiiatiou to seek their missing _feKcw-workmen . Tbe risk which tbey iucurral may ue _-iaagincd from _manv-of ihem having fainted when _proceeding towards the -workings ; yet other . * were _pUshim , ' on and working ; undauntedly , hoping to find same one alive and la-need nf _assi-stancc . It is nut
exactly known how Ihe accident happened . It is said the Davy _lamy-was constantly used to try the air , but thc pit has always been in bail repute on account of its _deficient ventilation . _Xo accident in t ' ais part of thc _ccuiitry has ever been attended with thc loss of to _nnsoh human life , aad thc effect , consequently , is an _ur _. nsiril gloom _eve-r the whole neighbourhood . There were also two er three horses killed , and thc damage done to thc works is very great . Aaothci _' _- _con-espouuciit states that the number ki : lcd is twenty-eight . Tlie same correspondent states that the number of Miners iathe pit at the time of the _-eqilosion was only about thirty , "tlie rest being _cngagea at a clufc-feast . " But for this , tlie probability is , thst this explosion would have caused a sccodd Ilaswdl daughter of musty or -a hundred human _hiiass _* .
_IxtjvEsr-ox the Bodies . _—AbeRlarCj-near-Mcnuyi TydWl , _-ftifisday .- —The caroncr & r tke-uyper dlvi _** ion of the . county of Glamorgan , William Davits , Esq ., 8 olic « 0 ¥ 5 Merthyr Tydvil , haviag Iked yesterday for the _inquest , veiy many of the most respectable _iiihabitaufc-of the place aiid its _neighbourlwwl , aud also a good-many workmen , met at the Uoot . Inn , in thc _viDage-of Abenlare , where the inquest had been appointed to take place . The jury , having _beea sworn , irocee _^ ccltocxccutethcmelaiseholytiskofvicivirigthc bodies , and as the places at which they Jived _cmhraceti ; i circuit of some miles the inspection occupied _^ considerable time . Many of-the bodies presented a shocking spectacle . Two or tliree seemed as if ibev had been literally roasted , whilst others
_wwebut slightly scorched , and atthc same time the bruises were inconsiderable . Hy the time tbat the _iusocctiou was over the _iufc-lllgenee was brought that thfwholc of thc bodies had been recovered from tbe pit - : three or four had been ' found in-the morning and the rest in the evening . -Where these serious ctfUery accidents have happened here before some of _tiio bodies have been _irrewiyerable for a considerable _ti *\ e , arising from the foulness of the air , or the falls of _ruM-feb . The Jittle village , situated as it is so beautifully , was yesterday a scene of _imiversu _lamentation . At one time six funerals were to be s _*; u uvoceeding towards the church in succession , xdulst several others were in the churchyard . Tlie _eoncc-uTsc of _uconte was vcrv great ; and whilst
_contcuyilatiag the sad scene , the humble church and _ckurchvMxl , with its _vcuwaWe yews , where "the rede forefathers of the hamlet _sk-cji , " and listening to the impressive burial service , -1 thought within _EsTsclf , that never _wcre-Arords more applicable than those of the Psalmist , " Jhist thou art , and unto unst shalt thou return . " I'he jury having _ic-asseuit- _' e'din the inquest-roam , it was deemed advisable , from the lateness _ofiheJisur , the . number of witnesses to ha examined ,-and la all probability-the yvo teacted nature of tlie inqun * , to adiouiu the inquest until eleven o clock to-day . The foliowiag arc the _jirjnes and ages of tbe-smFerens : —David Jenkins , _fcingie mau , aged 37 ; _itichcrd Morris , ditto , aged 30 ; llowelVfiliiains , ditto , _jiged 2 S , and ltees WiUiauis , _d-tta , aged 21 , brothers . ; Joseph Philips ditto , aged It : Thomas Evans , married , aged 35 ; . EvanXewis ,
• angle , aged 18 ; George Ihomas , uitto , aged M ; V . "iliiani _Wiliisms , _lanrricij , aged ' 3 i ; David Jones , ditto , agcil SI ; David Jones , single , aged * i 2 ; James James , ditto , aged 23 ; Ilowcl David , ditto , aged _^ O ; Jukn Jones , ditto , aged 194 David Morgan , ditto , _sjed 21 ; Thomas Smith , ditto , aged 19 ; John Edwards , married , aged 3-5 , and William Edwards , _2 "cd 9 father and sou ; _Jju _* nes Thomas , widower , _eicd 44 , and David Thomas , aged 10 , fathci * aud _68 U * , _» Viiliam Llewelyn , single ,. _« gcd 19 ; William Evans , cilto , aged SO ; Thomas . Davies , widower , aged IS E-. in Thomas , single , aged 14 ; _Jobn Joac _*? , ditto , p ged 17 ; John Evans , married , aged 32 , and David Evans , aged 'J , father and sou ; _Nicholas Evans , a _eumpound fracture of thc tliigh , a fracture of the arm and a portion of the j ? . _w-bi > iie , and several teeth _brakcu—not expected to live *
-AiiEnnAKE , sear _Msi _' _tntR _Tvdvil , _Weosesda-v _Moilmxc—The jury reassembled at eleven o ' clock yc * : tcrday moruiug , aud their _aamcshaviiig been _cgleii over , thev were swern to inquire into the cause of , tbe death _ofilonrcl David , aged twenty . Lis being tllC first boJ y found . After tbe examination of seressd witnesses , the jury delivered in the ibHowmg written verdict : — " That it is the opinion of thisjuvy that . the deceased , Howel David , came to hisdeatu from accidental _ciix-uinstanccsj . _-and tliat this jury are ofyitimon that the present system of ventilation
_employedJatheDyfli-yn or Cr _* _roiba _**! i Codtery , _tbougli as { _Hfrfest as the said system will admit , is inadequate to . < _3 : _suw the safety of the lives ef the men employed in the said works , and _tiicy strongly recommend _thata-systcm which will prevent the gas from oozing _outlet the old or abandoned irorkings into a tramrocd . atr-w £ y , may _ba adopted in preference as soon as nnssible . " iii * . Enoch Williams _wae called iu and swarn as . to the identity of ibc . rest . of . the bodies , and tlic S 2 mec _* ridenee being applicable , the same verdict was _wOimed in each of the causes of their deaths .
_AxorHEH Fatal Goal Pit _Accivesz . —Anotner _corrtMpondeiit , writing on the above awful calamity , sends us-the following notice of another eoal pit accident ;—Another man was killed in a pit-belonging to the Oyferthfe . ireu works ; he was to have been a mouraer in tiie fanend of one of the _aiwre _twtlt _' yninc , and sunt his son instead . A stone fell from the top _<> f * the pit on him , and kilicd him oa the spot . Ciuib MritEEn at _Wixdsoi _^— On Monday afternoon an inquest was held in the borough gaol , Windsor , _bctore Thomas Marlin , Esq ., coroner , . and _,-ii . _^ _blv _resneeta bl e jury , ou tbe body of a new-born Minle infant * whieh was found dead iu the privy _attached to the residence of Mr . Charles Alder , in _Sni-. n « _r- _^ ir *! en 3 , on _i- _'riday lsst . The servant of > lr _AlAsr _* a _voiin « ciri named Susan _Dougias . between ot
twci _^ y and _twentv-one years age , who had giyen _birthiotheinSint _i Wasiu custody oi __ the gaoler , but too iii from the weak state she was m to be present _durin " _tlieiuqK 3 ry , whieh lasted nearly five hours , and created the greatest interest . After hearing a , _-TKiddealof evidence ( not adapted to publication ) _* i » imy remained in _dclibcmtion lor _opwards of an _Jioe- . and then returned a _verdict of Wilful _niur-• da" against Susan Douglas . The prisoner wdl be remoted to the county gaol at Heading , to take her _triEkd the next Berkshire _assiies , as so & a as she _» InaSb state to undertake the journey . The girl , who is a native of Wokingham , _stajtcs the father of the _infani to be au old man , named Day , who died at Windsor , where he was well knowa , about three weeks sisw , at the advanced age of belweea seventy and eighty _j _. ears .
_Capteiies . of Slavers . —By a . letter received from the Matine , . one of the new _experimental 12-gun brigs , commanded by Commander J . B . Crawford , ¦ we learn thc foUowing particulare of her success among the _siavejs . The letter is dated _Moaimbiquc , May 10 , lslo ;—It appeals that , on the 2 Cth of April , ¦ _Jhe Mutine _wasdi _^ roat * of ovcrhauHng a _suspicioualookin " _, verv lat _? c , and fast-sailing vessel , that soon pr _oVed _^ ficr _sIavc-d & _iU-ig _cbanacter by running _Jiway . Whilst in fall chase after this _tc . -scI , whicli had previously been chased hy several other cruisers , and had escaped capture by her superior sailing , the Maiinc grounded on the bar of Quilliinane river ; linon _seehjE which tbe crew of the slaver gave three
cheers , butj nevertheless , endeavoured to increase her distance from the Mntine as much as possible . -The Mntine's crew returned three cheers of defiance , and thee the gallaat fellows set to work to get their Vessel from her dangerous position . Eveiy man -worked with hearty goodwill , and Captain Crawford , TCry active and enterprising officer , witnessed , with _n-eat -satisfaction , after nearly two hours' exertions , iis _bri" fairly forced over the bar . Espnssmg lus _Trarm a pprobation at th * _i zeal ani energy cf every mau _iuid officer on board , by whicli alone the vessel w 4 rescued from the perilous situation die occupied _saW during an ebbing tide , as _aoon as she was St he _crdcFed thc _incifi brace to be spheed , and at vFv _™ A _Amcall « _aiT to 'to instantly paclred on in _S _? Kiiig qualities , _ar . d _mgj ?? up for las *
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time . Gaining on the chase every minute , . she was -alongside tho notorious Urazilian slaver tue rrinccza Imperial m the course of !> evcii houra . Sheendeavom-edto detach tbe Mutiiie from _puisniiiff ber by iioisting the stripes and stars of tlie United Stales ; and , a * siiiaing the appearance of au _Anieric-an whaler , she was well calculated to deceive one not thoroughly convinced of her character . The prize was upwards of 400 tons burden ; she had made three successful consecutive trips to Santos iii tke lb-arils , * and lmdeavikd altogether 2100 slaves , by tliis lucrative trade realising good fortunes for her owners . When eapturcd slic was quite ready for _tlit raccptiosi of £ 00 or 000 slaves . The riineeza was given in charge of Lieut , the Hon . T . A . l _' aken-Iiam , _uader who : c command she sailed to Sierra Leoneforadjudieation . Since capturing the Priuceza the boats of the Mutiue , under the _ordci-s of Lieut .
George ' stew ' s and Lieat . the Hon . Frederick Curzon , on thc Cth instant , off Madagascar , after a vcry sptritcd and wel . _' -uianagcd chase , captured an "Arab slaver with 231 slaves on board . Thc Arabs , though desperate _lutnaiid well armed , jumped overboard at thc _lui-iuent their vessel was hoavded . Thc Arab vessel was not in a fit stale to undertake a voyage to tbe Cape of Good Hope at this tempestuous season , and was therefore destroyed . Thc Mutine sailed with her cargo , mustering nearly 400 , including cre « nnd supernumeraries . She may be . considered a lucky craft , notwithstanding her ' mishap at the commencement . The Helena , 10 , Commander Sir C . Kicketts , Bavt ., having _captured a small Arab vessel , with eighty slaves , was under tlie necessity of of conveying them to the Cape of Good Hope ; the captured _vesici not being _equal to the voyage , was destroyed .
Death MOM Eatixc _Ml-siikooms . — On Saturday an inquest was held at the White Hart Jnn , in Ipswich , ts inquire into the circunislances connected with thc death of Mr . John Carr , boot and shoe maker , St . Lawrence-street . O . Bullen , Esq ., surgeen , said—1 _wascailed in at seven o ' clock on _i'Viday evcahig , the deceased having bceu taken suddenly ill in his simp ; I went instantly , and found him in the shop sitting in a chair , quite insensible and very pale . Tbe pupils of the eyes were very mudi contracted ; pulse unusually slow and feeble . He had been sick before 1 arrived , and I observed some dark _substauc-c projecting from the side of his lip , which his wife removed with her finger . 1 found this substance a large piece of the common edibk
mushroom—not the poisonous mushroom—aim thu cause of his illness was at once apparent to me—viz ., tliat of being poisoned by mushrooms _, lie had vomited pieces of mushrooms several times before . _jA large portion was here shown which was taken from deceased's mouth ] . Deceased had no teeth . Illness occurred five hours after he had eaten thc mushrooms . I ordered hiiuto bed , ami gave him a strong emetic , I remained some time with Lim ; indeed , from seven o ' clock till midnight . After that time he becajsc worse , and at two o ' clock he expired . The wife of cue of his men had brought four mushrooms to Mr . Carr , as a present—two of them were grilled ( uot stewed or boiled ) for dinner : one of them was a verv large one , very black underneath , and , in
fact , only-fit ibr making catsup . The whole of this large one was eaten by deceased , and part of the smaller one also . The son partook of a part of the smaller one . It was a real mushroom ; but it should be _uudei-s'tood tbat all fungus matter is really poisonous at some parts of their growth . By grilling thc mushrooms the poisonous matter remained in them , and having no teeth he swallowed it without masticating it . There was ao odour nor any thing else indicating his _having taken any fermented or _spirituoasliquors . He was . perfectly narcotised for hours . Mushrooms are of a narcotic and acrid nature . Deceased was perfectly senseless and
powerless from the moment he was taken ill . There were no symptoms of apoplexy ; in fact , they were the very reverse . His pulse was about 56 , aud showed that he was under the influence of some strong poison . It was extnmcly important tliat the public should tako'this as a warning in the use of mushrooms ; they wereat-all times indigestible , but they should never betaken when the underneath part is black , but only when they arc of a light colour . In this case the stomaeh-puinp would have been useless , as no tube would have carried off the large pieces of mushroom on his stomach . The Jury returned a verdict ot Died from poisoning occasioned by eating mushrooms .
_Juokdeu ox the Hiou Seas . —On Wednesday week the Admiralty commission was opened at Galway , when Michael Uoban was . indicted for having , on _the-lSth of July last , on the high seas , withiu the jurisdiction of Ireland , and within four miles oi Jluras , on the _Galway-coast , murdurcd Mark Puberty by throwing hhn into thi . sea , by which he was drowned . A second count charged him with . the murderof the deceased by striking him on the head with a stick ; a third by stabbing him ' with a knife . Mr . Baker , Q-0 ., in _stating-the cose , observed that the crime was committed during the . passage , of a _turf-boat-from Corraroe to Kinsar .. There were only theprisoner and the deceased in the boat _^ together , andthe evidence to be offered was . purely . _ch'cum
stantial . The evening before tlic __ . murder .: the prisoner complained of the conduct of tho deceased , who , he said , cheated hini in _tiicTpartiiei-sbip' concern of the boat , and expressed his intention to quarrel * with him and _jiuutsJs hiiu . When . the prisoner arrived ai his destination , he stated that the deceased fell overboard ; and in about a fortnight after his body was found in the bay ; bearing marks of violence , evidently inflicted during his lifetime . There were four cuts on the head , a hole in the thi-o . it > . and several teeth knocked out 7 There was blood on the breast and ' collar , of the shirt on the body . After the examination of a number of witnesses the commissioners retired to deliberate , audio half an hour raturncd . a verdict of Guilty , ilr Justice
Jackson proceeded to pass sentence of death on the prisoner , who knelt down aud said , " I throw my lite and soul in your hands , my lord—I trust to your mcrcv . When he was leaving the beat , he was to me as well as ever . " His lordship told the prisoner it was . useless to speak in that strain , as there was no doubi ofhis guilt . Sentcnce . of execution , on thc 30 th of August , was then passed . The Wkeck of _xue Jons _IIesomck , Dutch East _Ixpiamas . —We arc happy to state that thc eleven men left by Captain It . W . _Jlceklebm-j-, ofthe Dutch Eaatlndiaman , thc John llendrick , ou the 30 th of May Jast , upon a rock near thc Line , as ¦ was reported some time ago , were rescued from tlieir _fi-i « MM situation , . after having been on . the rock
fifteen days , by Captain Snell _. otthe _mercliant-sliip ¦ Eliza , of Liverpool , ami have arrived iu London . It will be recollected that , upon the captain , witii seven of the crew being taken olf , the vessel , on - board o J wluch they were received , was for several days prevented , by a violent storm and advei-sc winds , from mrtking head toward the rock , and was carried some hundreds of miles away from it , when , it being supposed hv thc captain thatthe poor fellows would have been starved to death , as there appeared to be no meanf ? of obtaining food , tliey were left to their fate . Fortunatelv , however , after enduring the most dreadful sufferings and privations _^ tlie Eliza hove m sight , and prevented that calamity whicli was looked for by the captain of the John Heudrick . The following
aecounthas been given by P . L . Zeeman , the second mate of the John Hendriek , one . who was left on thc rock , of thc dreadful visitation of Wb companions , one of whom was the surgeon of the vessel . Itwas _expected that alter the captain had left , every effort wouldbe made to return and take them off ; but when it was found that the wind was so long in a direction that would carry the vessel away from them , thev took step , under the direction of the surgeon , to provide _for-exti-einities . The rock was discovered to be about half a mile in circumference , and upon making a survey of it there was found to be a plentiful supplv of fowl , but no fresh water was anywhere tobe met with . Thc only meat they had was a little pork ; with this they made bait , and attached to nails , which wvre made iu the form of hooke , and by them caught fish , wliich abounded there . They kilicd
the fowls , a sort of duck , during the night , and in the day time gathered their eggs . There was a description of crabs upon the rock , the legs ofwhich were serviceable in quenching their thirst . For some days thev were able to cook their food by burning pieces oi tlie _' _-wreck of the vessel till that was exhausted , and bv pounding the charcoal and mixing this with the sea w & ter they thought they should be able te deprive it o its saline properties ; but in this they were unsuccessful . During the day , between eleven and tliree o ' clock , on account ofthe extreme heat , they waded into the sea . Iu this situation they continued for eight davs , whennearly the whole of them wereseized with a swelling ofthe lips and tongue and a vertigo , that for two davs rendered them almost insensible . This arose tromthe want of water . The surgeon for some davs previous had been in tha * situation . On
tbe tenth day thev were visited with occasional showers of rain , to collect which the sail they had was expanded , a hole made in tho centre , and ; a cask placed underneath in which the rain water was collected . This , which was very sparingly disributcd , assisted to restore the strength of all . In this state they remained till the 15 th of June , when the Eliza , Captain Snell , _bolonsingto LivciT ool , and trading to Svdnev hore in si"tit . A flag was waved wlueh was ha _ppg'oSSfty some ofthe El J- _" ¦ crew upon wl & twotoate were lowered and tlie _^ _ft _/ _Z taken off . They were most kindly _treated by the _SpSnTbutforten days they _endm-cd . the g _^ _atet boS' _springs , several of them not being expected torecov _£ Shortly after being on hoard , as the cajtain _eiperfed to be short _g _^ ater , upon the _linten ,- _^ pta : n 6 eIman , fron . Bomb . Y to Li _«^ appearinjdn _si'ht , five ofthe men were put on board litvelil _Ktcnters readied LivefP _^ l _^ " - fey , _vthen the men brought by her P _^ cded to the _«>^ nn « _. n _fti , „ Tintrh _flonsu . who , upon beingmade
acquainted by them that they belonged to t lie ; J 0 iin Uradrick , and were the men abandoned upon tiie rock , gave them immediate assistance . He _PW Tia < _£ each man with a jacket , a pair of shoes , and . a pa » of _stockinis . He also paid their passage _» p to _Wfr don , and gave them a letter of introduction to Jiie Dutch Consul in London . The men are wwr lodging 2 t the Yorkshire Grey Tavern , in Lower Ihnreesstreet , and . _inpc-arnottobe in the least degree aifcttea by their _oreadful _sufierings . ' i te J «* on
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which the men vrcro is supposed" to be a Volcanic eruption .- ike mate , described the composition-of the material ant to be iron , stone , and glass . There are three spires ov pillars arising out of it , on tlie tup of one of which ( this being aflat _surhice , a few feet diameter ) ailag was placed during the dav , and a man was also stationed to watch for a vessel ' . It has been ascertained tbat the surgeon and five men , wiio were in the K . 'iza , have been lauded at the Brazils , where ihey were taken under the _proteetiou of tlie Dutch Consul , and treated with the utmost kindness and attention . Nothing was lieard of the mate , five _soaincn , and tlie passenger , who went off pvcvioiw to Captain Hccklcbury _' s departure , and it is supposed that they were lost in the storm already spoken ot . The captain of the Eliza had placed in his care two quadrants , two spy glasses , and the log books cf the John Hendriek , which ho retained possession of .
The Game Laws . —At the _petty , sessions at Buckingham , on Saturday last , William White , a ' decent and . venerable-looking oldiman , of . Preston Bit-sett , was charged before the Itcv . Messrs . Eyre , Andrews _, and Baynes , the magistrates present . , by George Bridger , one of the Duke of Huckiugliaiu ' s gamekeepers , with having used a dog ior the destruction of gauic . 7 It appeared that the defendant obtains a scanty _jiving by rat-catching ; that when on the public , road leading from Ililieden to Three _Di-ldgc Mill , accompanied by three dogs , _> vo of them tied together and the other loose , the latter doc went into
the ditch and brought out and killed " a leveret as big ss . 1 kitten . " White acknowledged this , and strongly expressed his regret at being before " the gentlemen . " lie said that he had caught rats for ' . _oi-ty years , and never was up before the justices befor e ; that he had a wife and live children , and had a difficult matter to get bread for thein in an honest way . He put in for the inspection of the magistrates a written testimonial of good character . It was numerously and respectably signed . The magistrates ordered him to pay ISs ., and in default fourteen days ' imprisonment . He begged for and succeeded , iu obtaining time to pay the line .
Extensive Firk at _Homectox . —On Wednesday morning , shortly after one o ' clock , a lire broke out upon the extensive range of buildings , belonging to Messrs J « hn and Samuel Bcrger , colour manufacturers , situated in Watcr-lanc , llomcrton . It originated in the centre ofthe lower floor ofa building about eighty feet long and three stories high , used as drying houses . The building was closely bounded on each side by furnaces , sheds workshops , and the gasworks . It appears that the discovery was made by one of thc workmen , who was engaged at the time in burning ivory in one of the retorts . Seeing tlie flames issuing from thc building , ho immediately communicated to some ofhis fellow-workmen the unwelcome intelligence . The whole of the men up at the 'ime . at once set to work , and endeavoured bv
moans of buckets of water to subdue the flames . Tkeir progress , however , was so exceedingly rapid , that the men were soon forced to make a retreat . Intelligence of the disaster was then sent , off by a mounted police constable tothe engine stations in town . In the mean time the parish engine arrived , but was of little avail . So strong a hold liad tl ' . C five obtained during the interim that it soon became apparent that it would not yield to the power of that force . The brigade engines from Whiteeross-strect and _Jcffery-Equare stations followed soon afterwards . They were also set to work ; but by the time that was accomplished thc lire had obtained complete possession of the immense building ; and when the roof Jell in the flames rose to such an altitude as to be visible
from most parts of the metropolis . Mr . Cunnorton _, tlie moment he was apprised ofthe disaster , started to the scene of conflagration with the West of _England engine and firemen , and was followed by the County e ngine , with Mr . Garwood . By judiciously distributing the water thc flames were confined almost exclusively tothe premises in which they commenced , but were not entirely extinguished until past six o ' clock . Ly that time the whole of the valuable stock in thc building was consumed , and the premises were gutted . The _s-toek destroyed consisted of blue verditeremerald greens , and lakes ; the value amounts to several thousand pounds , and the firm was not insured . The fire , it is supposed , originated ill the overho . it of one of the furnaces .
Fatal Affiut betwf . es a _Lasdlokd asd Tenant . —On Wednesday Mr . Carter , coroner for Surrey , resumed and concluded an inquiry at the Bee Hive , Carter-street , Walworth , touching tho death of Mr . Charles Itatherbce , aged thirty-three years , a musician , residing at "Vine Cottage , Walworth , who , it was alleged had died in consequence of violence inflicted upon him by a man named Harvey , his tenant , under the following circumstances : —Ann Ilathurbce , widow of deceased , deposed that her husband hnd been possessed of a piece of land at Walworth ' , ' whieh he had let to Harvey , but which ho had given liim notice to quit lady-day last . -Harvey did uot do so , when , on tlie Sth of April last , -, deceased , seeing him on the ground , went to him , and desired him to quit
the possession . * 'Hc ; . however , * still ' refused , saying lie would not quit until compelled to do so by law , and added , * 'hc would have a fair up 1 and , down for it . " lie theii _,, without any provocation , struck the _dvcchj-ed a violent blow with his elbow on the head , which knocked him down . lie subsequently attempted to strike him -with a spade , and threatened if he did not go off the laud , .. "he would knock liis ( deceased's ) life out . " Deceased subsequently became very 111 , and was unable in consequence to follow his profession . Medical assistance was afforded him , and lie had become an inmate of Guy ' s Hospital . He lingered for upwards of three months , and died on the 30 th Jaly last . The Jury retired for upwards of three hours , and returned into court with a verdict of Manslaughter against Joseph Harvey . .
Fines ' i . y ISxxycasilu . —On Friday evening August 1 st , about ten o ' clock , a very destructive lire , broke out in the premises occupied by Mr . Perry , a treaclemanufacturer , in l _' _uduing-eliare . The fi-e was first discovered in the lower story ofthe building , by . an individual who was passing , and he gave information to the _policemiiu on duty , who dispatched a messenger for the _engines , and gave information at the police stations . Thc Newcastle _attd North . British fire-engines were on the spot , and with some little delay were got ready for action , but it is painful to add , " that the supply of water was scanty . There being little indeed lor a considerable time , the lire continued to rage with great fury , and before any effect could be made upon it , it had reached thc top story ; thc building being five stories high , and filled with very combustible materials . It beiner a
comparatively recent erection with strong gables , the tire was confined within the main walla , though the heat was so intense as to ignite the wood on houses on the opposite side of the street which was with difficulty extinguished . The total loss is estimated at about - £ 1 , 000 . The origin of thc fire is undiscovered . By two o ' clock in the morning the lire was completely extinguished . On Monday forenoon last , about eleven o ' clock , an alarm was given that the factory of Messrs Clarke and Hummer , at Ouseburn , was on fire , aud the fire engines immediately proceeded to thc spot , when it was found that , in consequence ofthe machinery not being keptduly oiled in thc cardingroom , the friction had caused the hemp to ignite . Fortunately it was discovered in time , and by buckets of water being thrown on the flames they were extinguished . The fire engines were uot required .
_IlTORornouiA . —Another case of hydrophobia has taken plaec on Mr . Hallett ' s farm , at Cuckficld . A short ti'ne ago one of Mr . Hallett ' s horses went raging mad from the bite of a dog ; and one day last week a cow , tliree years old , in full milch , exhibited symptoms of uneasiness as Mr . _Hailett was driving her home with others to be milked . She kicked out frequently , and struck her head on thc ground and when he got her home he shut her in the stable . The poor animal was shortly afterwards attacked with a raging lit , dashing herself against thc sides ofthe building , tearing down everything within her reach , lacerating herself terribly , and occasionally bellowing iu a frightful manner . The lit continued throughout thc night , and in the morning tlic cow became exceedingly exhausted . Her sufferings wore terminated by being shot . Sikgui . au SuiciDE . —On Monday evening Mr . Wakley held an inquest at the Albion , Battle-bridge , on the body of Charles Richardson , aged 55 . From the
evidence it appeared that the deceased , who had been formerly a gentleman ' s coachman , and lately ostler in the mews , Hastings-street , Burton-crescent , comp lained within the past week of his life being a burden to himself and his friends , and expressed a desire to get rid of it . On Saturday morning he repeated the complaint , and also his anxiety to get rid of his troubles by death . Shortly afterwards he handed the keys of the stable he had charge of , and also 12 s . to pay for corn , to a neighbour . He . then deliberately walked to the Regent ' s Canal , adjoining Battle-bridge , into which , with his clothes mid . cap on , he flung himself , and , swimming to the centre , clasped his head with both hands and drowned himself , though tliere were several persons on the bank at the time . Drags were instantly procured , and lie was taken out , but not before hie was extinct , _^ iie bore an excellent character for integrity , industry , and sobriety . Verdict , " Deceased destroyed himself , but there was no evidence of his state of mind
at the time that he did bo . " The Lipb _GoAnns . —Oh Monday afternoon , between three and four o ' clock , * sn accident of rather a serious nature occurred to a private belonging to Captain Hall ' s troop of the 2 nd Life Guards , whilst on the march to Windsor after the grand review in Uydc-park . The troops had reached _Tumharngrecn , when the horse on which the man was riding suddenly stumbled and fell , the man also falling with his right leg beneath the animal . The occurrence caused much confusion among the troops , and two ol thc soldiers instantly dismounted to their comrades assistance . On lifting him up he comp lained that his leg was broken , and by order of the commanding officer he was carried into the Travellers' Rest
publichouse , near the new church , where , on being examined by the surgeons of the regiment , the bone of his right leu w _* s found to be badly "fractured . --He was conveyed to the hospital belonging to the _regijBcnt at _? pii 8 l , _» enr Windsor .
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' — ——— - - ¦ . _m , mm _mwmxvazas > . _-Vj Collision or _Steakmis . —Loss o p O . _vn _Hoxniu-D axd _luiRTv-fivB Lives . _—Constamindple , 3 ulv 17 . — tin the night of the nth instant , on the Black Sea , itOout _ forty miles cast of the Bosphoriis , a most dread ! ul catastrophe took place . Two Turkish steamer * - , tlie one coming from , and the other going to _Ii-ftiizbnd _, came into sudden collision , and one ot thein went down with tlic greater part of her crew and passengers . The vessels were the Scutari , commanded by Ah * . Dubbins , awl thc Mcdjchrni _Tidjnhret , commanded'bv . Mr . Lambert . The shock was tran . _'iulnus . Tho vessels parted ; the Medjehrui li'ija-.-. Vvt dropped . about a mile asternand in tlic
, course oi Jess than a quarter of an hour it was found that she was sinking rapidly . Tlie Scutari , whicli had got but slight damage , then went to her help ; but it was too late . Very few , comparatively , could be saved . '* . The boats of the devoted vossd wore so overcrowded by those who strove with frantic eagerness to make their escape , that _tiu-y sunk at once . About seventy , however , by swimming , and by clinging to the spars , reached the Scutari , where they clustered round the paddle-boxes till they were taken in . Captain Lambert and . 111 ' engineer were picked up . by a boat of the Scutari . All the rest , one hundred , and thirty-five souls , perished . Their agony was a sliort one , but it was terrific .
A Sekiks or _Alt-i-DBjis , —awful Deeds of Blood . —A gentleman who arrived in Cincinnati lately gave the editor of thc _Commeivtoi the following particulars « t dreadful deeds of blood committed on ( he Waclutta river , in Louisiana , a l eiv days . since . IJestatcd that two planters , living on adjoining plantations , liad a ililhcully .- An unruly horse belonging to _osw jumped into a lot belonging to the other , and was shot . Soon alter , a-negro , belonging to the owner of the horse , went ' . over to . the said plantation , and he too wasshot . The same evening the planter who owned the horse and negro took liis gun and went over to tlic planter ' s house who had shot hi ; - horse and negro , and , as lie stood in his yard , deliberately shot him dead . Tiie son of the dead planter , hearing the report" , came out of the house when he was commanded to stand . As soon as the gun ivas reloaded the son wasshot , and immediately-expired , The lllUlglitev of tho planter then came to the door , when the mou _* stct * took his bowie-knife and cut her tin-oat from car
to car , and then lied , . lhe slaves on the plantation raised the alanii , and the lieiui was pursued and taken , and committed to the nearest _gaol to await a trial . These awful terrific detail ' s arc said to be from a reliable source , but we feel inclined to doubt them . — * _tmci-ic « Jij ) o ) jitT , Deplorable Cask op _IItdkophobia . —On Sunday morning George . Maruston , a young mau twentyseven years of age , ' ti ( Stone-mason , residing in Davley-street , * Lambeth , died from the effects of _hydrojthobia . The " unfortunate _deceased , -. \ boufc six weeks since , was parting two dngs lighting in the street , when hewas slightly bitten in .. one of . his . fingers , but no notice was taken of it , and tho wound healed up . On Friday last he coiuulaiued uf _licud-rolie _av . d _-jiviiwa in his lingers . At ni g ht he grew worse , comulaiiiing of pricking and shouting over his body . A medical man was called in ,. who immediately pronounced him to _belabouring under hydrophobia . Every remedy was used , but without cil ' ect .
Finn seau Barsslbv . —A lire broke out at eleven o ' clock a . m ., at the iron works of Messrs . Chambers , Newton , on Monday last . It commenced in the third story , where a great number of wooden moulds were laying . Four engines were fetched from Sheffield , and two from Wentworth , and the fire was got under in about an lioui ' . / . -The extent of damage is not correctly known , but it is estimated at several thousands , * ' - 'The property was insured . The Alleged Murder or a Child hy Eursisg it to Death . —Carlisle , August 0 . —At thc Cumberland Assizes , * before Mr . Baron _Itolf ' c this day , the case of Jane Crosby , _,-iged 30 , charged with the ' murder of her daughter , Sarah Aline , hy burning her at Skelton , in this county , upon the 29 th day of January last , was called on , and thc prisoner arraigned . John Wilson , next-door neighbour to the prisoner , said his
house was .: lorty yards irom Crosby ' s liouse , which stood a little back from the road ; said he saw the prisoner's little child , since dead , running up tiie road , and the mother following her , calling lier to conic back . She did not eomo bach- , and the mother weut away . This was in the day time , about three o clock , of the 28 th of January . The child changed her place and came nearer to its home , and he took it home . Prisoner appeared to conduct herself as if in liquor , but not very violently in liquor . This was near live o ' clock . About nine at ni ght , the witness said , I went into the road . Thc evening was calm and lightish . There was snow on the ground . Immediately afterwards I went to bed , but was called up about ten minutes to ten o ' clock . Thc prisoner ' s elder child called for some warm water , and said her sister had been burnt . She added , Sarah ' s mother hail heen to Skelton . I went into the house of thc
prisoner . ' She had the youngest ehikl on her knee , which had nothing but a blanket on it . I asked the prisoner ; what she had been doing . She answered I might sec the child , and would see it was burnt . _"Iwn ' s , " said she ,: " coming up thc road from Skelton and found the ' child lying on its side burning , and no one-would put it out . " I asked her would she _hiiyc-adoctor . She answered , jck . I . went for soine assistance and to send some one for a doctor . Bainbridge stile is twelve or fourteen yards across the road from the prisoner ' s house . Before eleven o ' clock I returned and found Jane Iluggins , Elizabeth Scott , and my wife at tho house . 1 looked at the child on my first visit ; the burns had a reddish cast , they were when I returned much changed , and had become black . I ashed who had set the
child . . on fire . The mother asked the : child " Who set thee on lire ? " in a rather violent man . ner . I said , ' the child is distressed , and' told her not to * ask it questions . I heard the prisonei say , ' 1 had been to Skelton , and when 1 came to . the _niillhouRCS , 1 found the smell of fire . 1 scnght . for my children , and could not find tliciii . * The ' millhouses arc two hundred ' yards from lhe prisoner _^ and Skelton is two miles _olf . Tlie same evening , she said that when she got to the limekilns she had smelt fire . Thc limekilns arc a mile from the millhouse . - * . — William Carrick _, coroner for thc county , * Qut in the voluntary examination of tho prisoner , which stated that the children Yvere obstinate , tho latter particularly . The eldest assumed to rule thc younger .
She was sharper and harder with the younger thau with the elder child . She said , " I have kicked them when in my passion , perhaps ; but I am quite innocent of the death of my child . "—Mary Crosby Yras put into the box , a very vulgar _sheepish child , without anything to prepossess in her appearance , _« nd in face very strongly resembling the prisoner .--The learned J udgc asked the child her age . She answered eleven -years . ' ' She remembered perfectly the night her little sister died . Her brother was a t home , and went out again for a short time . The child for sonic time could proceed no further for sobbing . At length she added that she remembered Air . Wilson bringing her little sister Sarah home . Her mother did not go out the whole of that night ; sho was in the bar all
the evening . Ilcr mother went to bed after eight o ' clock . The witness was sitting in the kitchen ; her sister Sarah ivas sitting on the fender . She was burnt when sitfcingon the fender . Again the witness paused , and Yvould not answer . At last , in reply to the j udgc , she said she saw her mother put her sister on the fire . She put her on thc topof the lire on her face .-Witness said she did notsec anymore , blithermollici took her off and nursed her . Her sister ' s eyes and head were all burned . She said nothing when her mother took her ofF . I went afterwards to Bamc Iluggins . That was after my sister was burnt . Thc prisoner told me to say my sister was burnt . Mother told me to go to John Wilson , and tell hhn Sarah was nigh burnt to death . I told him so when I went .
Cross-examined : * -1 said my sister ' s eye ivas burnt out and her car burnt olf , and her nose burnt off level to her face . And all this was as true as what she had said beside . The Counsel : The doctor is behind you . Now mind ; do you mean to say you saw the eye burnt out , and one of her cars were gone ? Witness : She had no ear . I saw it burnt off . She knew that . God knows what she was thinking about . Mother did not go out that night , nor did she and her little sister play with thc hot poker . The poker waa not in the fire when mother went , out of thc room , [ The child concluded in deep afflition , but very firm in her inculpatory evidence respecting thc presence ofthe mother at the burning of the child . ! Thc surgeon Carrick -examiucd : the child ' s eye wasnot burned out . nor her ear burned off . Had she recovered she would not have lost her sight . Tlie fiice was so swollen it mightcasily have been supposed that her nose and eyes were gone . Thc piece of paper
produced contained part of thc skin of her hand _, lhe prisoner had displayed proper maternal feelings on other occasions when he attended this child . The Court asked Mr . Carrick if there wasnot a notion prevalent amongst ignorant people thatholdin _* a burnt part ofthe human body to the fire was a good thing to ease it and make it better ? Mr . Carrick replied that such a notion prevailed . Mr . Wilkins insisted ou the inconsistency of the evidence in respect to many important facts detailed , andthe _impossibility of the jury assenting upon such evidence to take away the , life of a woman who had been proved to act as a woman of tender feelings towards this vorv child when ill aud attended by her medical attendant i'he Judge ably and humanely summed up the evidence , and the jury , after retiring for about live minutes , acquitted the prisoner , who , after a feeling admonition from the learned jud ge as to her future conduct to lier child Mary , was released from confineincnt , and privately led out of the gaol .
_ Huddersfield . —Gwldhau , Tuesday . — One of those unfortunate girls who infest thc neighbourhood ot _Castlegate , and Wm . _WoodrufTe _, a corporal of thc o « h regiment , were brought before the sitting magistrates , Joseph Armitage and John Slltcliffc , _Lsqi'S ., on a charge of hi ghway robbcrv . Tho following arc the / acts of the case :-0 n TiWsday last , Mr . James Bailey , piece manufacturer , of'Golem * , came - to Huddersfield on busines- _- , and on leaving home had six sovereigns and a quantity of silver in his possession * , on arriving at _Iluddeistidd , he received £ 50 , in the notes of the West Kiding Union Banking Company , from a liriiVhe is in the habit of _ading with . ' " Having , iu the course of the
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day , partaken too freely of John Barleycorn ,, he found his way into that street of brothels , Castlegate , whore he met with Ann Moxon , a prostitute , in : i low beer-house , kept by J . Tienicy . She sat in his company and drank with-him until about half-past eight o ' clock . When he got up to go home ho was followed by Woodrutfe and Moxon as far as afootpath at the west end o f St . ]\ - _iuktrcet , r . hero they knocked him down and rilled his pockets . The robbery was not made known to the constables until nine o ' clock the next ' morning . The constables , Townend and Sedgwick , howeverimmediatelinstituted the '' in f _v . _Nt
, y . necessary .-.. w < _.. _* - » , _....... _^^ _p _...-.,, ......... « vv » . \ i . ii \;\; v .. _c _.. i . . i _. _iquiries , and found that one of the notes bad been exchanged by thc soldier at the Rose nnd Crown taproom , on tho previous night ; upou further inquiry they found that both thc soldier and the girl were missing ; . The Corpora ! was traced to Leeds , and thc gili was subsequently apprehended in a house , in Out Coat-bank , where sho had gone to hide herself . Two sovereigns and a quantity of pawn tickets were found upon her person . The sovereigns she acknowledged to be tlic property of . Mr . Bailey . After hearing thc ease the magistrate - committed the two prisoners to take their trial at thc next assizes .
Deaths prom Accident . ! nv Maciiinkky AI liim * _DEiisriELU . —An inquest was held at the house of Mr . Rhodes , the Rainalen _' s Arms . Inn , liudderslwld , before Mr . Dyson and a respectable jury , on Wednesday , the Gth of August ., touching the death of Harriet Kiuiwles , a girl of seventeen ' years of age , who died in tho _iiiiirniary from injuries she had received from becoming entangled in the machinery at Mr . Kcnyon ' s mill , Doglcy-lanc , liear . _lvii'kburtoii . Verdict—Accidental Death . Also , before the same j ury , an inquest was hohlcn on , the . body of Mary Ann Brook , aged sixteen , who died in the . infirmary from injuries received by being caught by an upright shaft , aiid whirled rouud several times . . ' . Ilcr left arm and icg were broken , and her head sadly bruised . Verdict— " Died through injuries received by not having the machinery properly guarded . " :-,- ' . .
DARING MUTINY AT SEA . ( From the Hong Kong Register ' , May C . J Mutiny at sea , especially by the officers , is so rare an occurrence , that the recent , and , fora time , _successful attempt of tlic mate ami gunner ofthe schooner Ariel to take possession * of the . vessel , * with her valuable freight of s ' peeie , iathe cause of much astonishment . Tho particulars *'' of this tragic affair wc have received from the very best authority , and our statement may be relied upon . The Arid left Amoy on Saturday last , bound for this : port , ' with about 100 , 000 Spanish dollars in specie 011 board . " At six o ' clock that afternoon she was off Chapel Island ; after taking the bearings of the island , and giving a course of _Nawtoa , Cavtain Macfarkiuc being
indisposed , and requiring to lis on deck during . 1 great part ofthe ni _^ tit , went below to his cabin fora riliort re . vt . At half-past eight hewas disturbed by the voice of the chief _ollicuv , Mr . -Wilkinson , who shouted in an unusual tone " Captain Macfarlane , you arc wanted ou deck . " Captain Macfarlane obeyed the summons . Upon getting on . deck' thc companion was closed by thc mate aud gunner , who were each armed with a brace of pistols . They told the captain that it was their wish , and thatof the crew , that he should take the vessel to Singapore , and that they had altered their course from SW . to S . They proposed that he should join them , (• fibred hiin a large share of the money on board , and staled tliat from the Ariel ' s sailing Qualities they could commit piracy with
little risk ot being captured . 1 hough his hie was at stake , the captain relused to join them . They then ordered his huelcrto bring all thc arms from his cabin , continuing their persuasions to join in their lawless intention to rob their employers , and afterwards to fit the vessel out as a regular pirate . Captain Macfarlane pointed out ( 0 them the heinous crime which they were committing , and thc fearful penally they would incur ; he also promised that thoy should be forgiven , yrovided they gave up the attempt—but they were " obdurate , and resolved to carry out their villaiious plans . The mate said he would spare the captain ' s life , _* stating that while asleep in his cabin hehad intended to shoot him , and even pointed a pistol down thc skylight for the purpose , but could not bring himself
to commit sueh a cowardly action as to shoot a man asleep . Ik also stated that any attempt at rescuing the vessel would be certain death , as thc crew ( _Manillamcn ) had all joined himself and the gunner , who , with the captain and one lad , were thc only Europeans on board . After some further conversation , they promised to land the captain , also to spare the lives ofhis . . attendants , though ihey said they would be compelled to kill some who were on board , for their own safety . At ten o ' clock thc main ' natch was taken off , and it was purposed . to . confine Captain _Maciarlanc in the hole ; he requested that they would give him his own cabin , aud after some _Ucsittvtion they agreed to make that his prison . Previous to going below the captain made another attempt to dissuade
them , but it was of no avail . They said they had made np their niinds to tlic step they had taken for _Binne time , and only awaited a favourable opportunity . They also mentioned , that others in Hong Kong had it in contemplation ( 0 capture thc Ariel ; that an European , whose name is before us , was then close at hand in a lorcba , " having a crew of forty men , expressly fitted out for that purpose , and that , failing in his success , there were people in Hong Kong who intended capturing thc Ariel , with the clipper Celestial . This part of the statement must be taken with caution ; they , however gave thc name of the ringleader of th _& _piiatcs in the iorcha , who , it appears , offered to ship on board the Ariel . At daylight on the' morning of thc 27 th , Captain
Maotarhinc forced open the door of ins cabin , and went on deck . The ship ' s head was then S . W . by W . At eight , breakfast was sent info liis cabin , the Ariel , then running before a fine N . E . wind . At ten , he sent for the mate and requested that they would give him tho long boat , or put him on board a junk . This was refused , the mate saying that he ( tho captain ) would get to Hong Kong too soon for them . lie promised to put him on board a junk at nightfall , also that he would give up all his personal property . At noon , the mate came again into thc captain ' s cabin , telling him to make himself comfortable until the vessel got to Singapore . He expressed his determination to throw the treasure overboard if pursued—thc assurance that the captain ' s life would bo snared was
again renewed . In the afternoon , the captain ' s Chinese servant , who was allowed to go on deck , told him that thc Manillamcn were not in the pit . t , and that thc . v meditated rising upon thc mate and gunner , and again restoring the vessel to liis command . * About tew o ' clock tlwy had _-maUiml their plans , and although without other arms than the rammers ofthe guns and their knives , " they attacked thc mutineers , atthc same time enabling thc captain to get on deck through a window , and arming him with the cook ' s axe . The light was soon over the mate being knocked down with a rammer , and also cut with knives ; the gunner took refuge in the cabin , raising thc hatch which covered the magazine , and threatening to blow up fhe ship . Captain Macfarlane had by
this time got possession of a fowling-piece , one barrel of which was loaded ; " with it he fired and wounded the gunner in the thigh . The poor wretch cried out for mercy , but still threatened to blow up the ship . A lasso was got ready and thrown over his head , with which the crew hauled him on deck and secured him . Thc mate died of his wounds , The gunner was brought here , and has been committed for trial , after an examination before Mr . _Ilillicr , thc acting marine magistrate . It is pleasing to state that , alter thc affray was over , and thc ship ' s ' course was again shaped for Hong Kong , Capt . Macfarlane mustered the crew , and offered up prayers and thanksgiving for their deliverance from imminent danger . The whole affair is a very sad , though a remarkable one .
Mr . Wilkinson , the ringleader , was a young man with the fairest prospects before liim , - his employment waB , and is , the best in the merchant service , and had he behaved himself , would in all probability , in a few years , have led to a competency for life . Thc Manillamen , contrary lo the usual opinion of them , proved true to their employers ; and wc doubt not , from the well-known liberality of the firm , they will be rewarded . Captain Macfarlane himself , though placed in a most trying position , acquitted himself ' ina manner in the ' highest degree creditable ; and however deeply he may regret the fate of the unfortunate young man whose life was the penalty of his crime , __ he may always look hack with ' satisfaction upon his own behaviour whilst his vessel was in the hands uf the mutineers .
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Birmingham Boot axd Shoemakers . — The Boot and Shoemakers of this place have 6 truck one shop against a reduction of wages , with every prospect of success . We extract thc foi owing from a , Birmingham paper : —The following resolutions were adopted by the unanimous decision ofa special meeting ofthe Boot and Shoemakers' Trade Soeiety , held at the Rose and Crown Inn , Lower Hill-street , Birmbghani _. Jiily 30 th , 181 o : —1 st . That this meeting of Boot and Shoemakers , after most serious deliberation on the proposed reduction of wages submitted by Mr . Holmes to this society , together with other grievances existing in his shop , regret that ho should have refused to comply with the just and reasonable require * ments of the trade ; _especially , from thc situation and respectability of his business as an employer , being fully com p etent to continue thc statement of wanes lie has hitherto naid : and trust that , iinon
mature consideration of the already ill-remunerated and oppressed condition of our trade , he will sec the propriety of meeting the just claims of his workmen , and prevent those consequences so _injurious both- to employer and workmen arising out of such circumstances . —2 nd . That Mr . Uohi ' _ics be supplied with a copy of the Resolutions agreed toby this trade : and that he be respectfully requested to forward an answer by ten o ' clock on Friday morning , August thc 1 st , thatthe present differences may be brought to a satisfactory settlement , ancl everything ofaiiunplcasantnaturcavoided . Signed on helil > . lf of _thft tsa * I « _, i . _M-asmi , president ; J . M'Gee , secretary . Thc rate of wages submitted to Mr . Holmes , by the Trade Society , has been subsequently approved of by the non-society men ' of his shop ; we , however , much regret that he stfli persists in his reduction . Committee rooms , Rose ami Crown Inn , Lower Hill-street , August , 18-iy .
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Mil . O'CONNOR'S TOUlt- . _cSScrf Itaii , Manchester , _Sunday , Aug . 10 . ¦ Blackburn _W ay " * S » lZi 13 Tres ' on ' Wednesday ,, August 1 . ) .. j & _$ ::: ... _™«^ t _^ _- llochdaV Friday , August 15 . Carpenters' Hall . ¦ ... Saturday , August 0 . _^ The days for Bolton , _Biriiiingluun , _tottingham , . Leicester , Derby , Shelton , and Norwich will be announced afterwards . " .,.,., c * It is requested that the usual district Seere . ancs ,, who require -rules and cards of thc _Ohnrtis . Cooperative Land _Sock-tv , will p lease to meet -Mr O'Connor at the nearest of the above places . Tin * . Prusidusts ov thk _Usituo States . —It is ft
circumstance worthy of note , that three ot the 1 residents of the United States—Jackson , Monroe , and Volk—have sprung from the same race , the Scottish colonists of thc north of Ireland . Jackson certainly exhibited in an eminent degree ' the strongest and best pints of that ancestral * character , which * presents a singularly happy union of the sterner virtues that , distinguish the Scot , with the strong impulses , quick perception , and warm _afiec ! ions of the Irish people . Washington , Jefferson , Madison , and the Adamses , were of English descent ; and in thc _livos and characters of ai ! , in varving proportions , we c _.-. _n clearly trace the distinctive traits which point to
their Anglo-Saxon origin . V ; _-. n _lluren _hss been the only descendant of the Hutch colonists that has attained the highest honours in the Union . In this reference to lhe parentage of our precedents we suggest a subject of study not . a'little -curious , and by no means unworthy attention and philosophical investigation . The birth-place of Andrew Jackson ' s father is still pointed out to the stranger by the people of that district in the jierth of Ireland with _, marked and peculiar )' ecliii < _-s of pride . " There , " the traveller will he told , with an air as if something of tho greatest mlevest was cimw . _unieatcd , " there is thc place where thc lather of General Jacksoii wns _lioi'ii . _"—iVi'iu York Herald . * _. _** _. ! L - II JIIU | _. _» _. _WH . M ¦ _¦ ¦ W _. ll—r
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Ludswokth. Yi'edn-Jsdat.—A Tale Gf Mvste...
_lUDSWOKTH . _Yi ' _edn-jsdat . —A Tale gf Mvstehy . —Soon ' after Mr . PnyntiT , tlic presiding magistrate , had taken his seat , Serjeant Durstal , A' ' 1 , introduced to his notice ' a * young wou ' uin , of about eighteen years of _agt , of petite figure , fair complexion , blue eyes , anil nttirnl in deep" mourning _, whom lie lmtl found silting at the edge of a pond , on Wimbledon Common , at an early hour that morning , under _ciiTuiustiiui-es that induced Hint officer to mippose tlmt she coutemphh'il suicide . The _prl'smicr upon bri »;; asked her name , replied in a low tone of voice , _Eli-ta Fulton , but refused to give her address ; she wept bitterly , and apparently was suffering aeutely . In _ri'jrfy ton scries of oiiostions _, the prisoner , who occasionally leant
_wgni-. ist the- bar , buried her tr . ee in her hands , and wept , made the following strange nnd incoherent statement . That she was born , so far as she knew , in London . That at ( "even years of age her mother died , iu Mount-row , _Gvosvenor-sijunve . Her father , who was a _tnilor , went to reside at Xeweastlc . upon . Tyne , and a gentleman whose name she eould not divu ! _t ;< _-. took clinrge of her . _Siielwd since had reason to believe Ihat the name she went by was wot h « v _yvj-W , one , nnd Ihat her mother ' .--family was highly respectable , and settled in Yorkshire . She hail lately been treated with great harshness and cruelty iiy _tlii * family in which site was living ; and , hecause she would not listen to certain overtures made to her by the gentleman who originally took her from her mother ' s deathbed , he had violently assaulted her and
turned her out of the house . _Slic had come all that way from town to bo out of thc reach v > i his _bvut-. dity , and had intended to remain until that evening , when , if sho received a letter from him , forwarding her moiuy to _enablo Iter to go into the country , slie would have left London for ever . She _begged of the magistrate to discharge lier . Mr . _Taj-nter said he certainly should not do that ; he _thoiisrlit the prisoner ought to be under no delicacy in ' exposing lhe name of a man who had endeavoured to ruin her . —Prisoner : Then , you won ' t let me go?—Mr rayntcr : Not unless 1 know where you go to . —Prisoner If I were to tell you where I am going ,- you would then discover him ; I cannot , I will not , tell his name . After a long conversation the names of one or two parties in town were elicited , and the prisoner was sent to ' the union pending inquires .
MAItYLEnOJfE . _WkuxESDAT . _—KXTBAOBD ' IX . IBT ATiTJfPT AT _SCICiCE os tiie Cheat _WiSTEitii Jl . iji . _wMVrr-V labouring roan , named William Tucker , was brought up from St . George ' s Hospital , anO placed at tlio huv -before Mr . Hawlinson . charged with baring made two attempts lo put a period to his existence . It appeared froin _. thc evidence , tliat on Sunday week , the 27 tli ult . | between five aiidiu in the evening , the prisoner , who wasihucli . thc worse for _liquor , tied a rope round the area railing of . the house , at wliich he lodged , No . 10 , _Pratd-strcet , 1 _'hddingtoii , _liudliung himself up hy the nock . Another ' lodger who ' perceived him hanging rushed out and cut hiin down iii time to save hi _* i life , and as soon as he { prisoner ) ' had recovered from the effects of the rash net h _« quitted home . . In tho course of an hour he made his way , to the premise ' s of the Great Western KaiUvay , and laid hiniselt down across the rail near Lord Hill ' s _llridge , situate within half a
mile of thc terminus , his object _eviih-nlly . being that 0 $ losing his life by cariiagcs passing oyer liim . One of tlie company ' s constables , No . 83 , ' who was ou duty at the sign . il j ? ost near the spot , fortunately succeeded in causing the engine-driver of an up train , which was progressing along atthc period , to slacken his speed , and instead of being _i-iin over the prisoner was merely struck by tlic ironworks in front ofthe engine denominated a " guard , " which turned him over on his side , and he received such injury on one of his knees ' , as to render it advisable tor him to he removed to the hos pjtal , where he remained until yesterday morning-. The prisoner , in answer to thc charge , said that he was uneasy in his mind , arising from a quarrel which he had had with his wife ; he regretted exceedingly what he had done , and promised with much ' apparentsincerity to conduct himself properly in future , lie was then discharged , and he and his wifo quitted tho court together _.
SOUTIIWARK . Mosdat . —A Blackguard . —William Parker , tic- - scribed as a maltster , was charged before Mr . Traill I with committing an assault on Mrs . Lydia Jones , r . -. tradesman ' s wife . The complainant , one ( if whose 0 eyes was black and swollen , stated that on tlic pre-. ' - ceediii ft ni _& ht as she and her husband were walking _g along Union- street , he had occasion to call at a liouse , _t , and while she was waiting for liim , - -thc _"defendants came uj ) and addressed her in a very rude manner . ' . She desired him to go about his business , hut _instead-d of doing so , he began to pull her about , and shoo then informed him that her husband was near at is hand / and would resent his conduct . - The deponent , t , however , not intimidated , still persevered , and _trictk .
to twist an umbrella out of her hand , and while shcic was struggling with him her husband came up , aiuM some words of an angry nature having passed _bc-ic- _' tween them , a scuffle ensued , and _apoliceinan comi » fi » fi to the spot the defendant was given into custody . —A A young man who witnessed thc transaction stated thatat he saw thc defendant pulling Mrs . Jones about , _andnd afterwards saw him strike her iu thc face . Tho coin * in * plainant ' _s husband said that , on hearing his wit eife : call out , he ran to the spot , and _linding she had bcenen 1 ill-used by the defendant , he askad that person houou i he presumed to interfere with her . The defendantnt ,, instead of evincing any contrition , began to , , . us ( US ( : _ahust ' re language towards witness , who , in ' the ' _i ' _irim tntion of the moment , struck him , anil a ¦ scuffle oi oil some duration took place , which ended in his _givinfinj his wife ' s assailant into custody . He added , that he he :
did not sec the blow given to his wife , but ; he * af _* _teKer- _. wards saw her bleeding Irom the eye . _Thcifcfci _^ tinfinll said , that seeing thc complainant alone in'tlie '" gtrcct : cti ; he merely went up and invited her to takc ;' spm _^ fvc _? vc- ¦ freslmicnt , not thinking she was a married wohidn an that while he was in thc act of prevailing' oiilic _^ tec , t < i accept his oflbr tho last witness came up and , witliouioui ceremony , struck him in thc mouth , cut the insiisid I of his lip , and loosened some ofhis teeth . Mr . ' Trai ' rhi _!* said , had it been satisfactorily proved that defendandani had given the complainant tho blow which had" no" in disfigured her face , he should have _infiictcd a vcivcii heavy fine upon him . The complainant ' s husbanoam 1 it appeared , had taken tl e law into his own hamlaml I and punished his wife ' s assailant , otherwise , the can . _cai 1 would have been differently dealt with . The magiiagii tratc then held tho defendant to bail , compelling hifffiii ; to pay the costs .
HAMMERSMITH . _Wedsesdat . —Murderous Assault bt a _IIusbajbbaj- _" - _osj . _bk Wife . —William Curtis , a sawyer , Irving ing ii Market-court , High-street , Kensington , was brougbugl : l up in tl * . c custody of the police , before Mr . 'Jr . ' . ' . rayntcr , tho sitting magistrate charged wtth haviiavilil brutally assaulted Charlotte , his wife , whereby hby hti life was in danger . On the previous day , Air . Mr . Cornell , the derk to the board of guardians of tbf IT . parish of Kensington , who was accompanied bv Afcy Ml Guamroni , one of the pavochial medical ofl ' iceifl ' icein applied to the _sitting magistrate for a warrant fait if tho apprehension ofthe prisoner , by direction off of tit board , before whom the matter had been that _diat dili brought . From their statement it appeared that on i ] on ft ' previous Tuesday , about four o ' clock in thc af ' ternoornooo
durmg an _alcereatton which took place between t ! en t ! t ! prisoner and his wife , in her own apartment , tit , tt prisoner kicked her moat violently on the lower _pssr paa of her body from behind , the result ofwhich was mes mat extensive ] i _< _cmoirli « ge , tlie Wood running throuhroua the floor and ceiling of the room below , di , _dvh ing whicli the unfortunate woman fainted , and _iud _Si Guazzaroni , on his arrival , had tlio greatest dift ' euifficuu in restoring life , and it was some hours _before'tforeM : I luemorrhagc could bo stopped . From Saturdayirdayy Monday last , she had appeared better , but tint tiU ( Tuesday ) ' morning she was much worse , and v « d w Jittle hopes were entertained of her surviving . Yesf _Yestei day , on the prisoner being placed at the bar , evidcEvklcic was given as to tlie facts of thc case , and tho pthc pj woman s dangerous state . The case was remandmandid and the prisoner locked up , thc magistrate refas _refasis ordinary bail .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 9, 1845, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_09081845/page/5/
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