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® &e Sfettopoli * . IlEALTn OF LOXDOS DCR 1 XG Tib Wsimt Tl . £€£$ & § £ SKaKf iififtMe T > a S ! IO " i , EiTH nDraB-pAHK .-About half X ™ ? Cl 0 C u on Sunday moraine , a lad , while R ^ t 11 ^^ discovered a man ' s flat on the south bankof the Serpentine , near to one Tsli ? ¥ ?** durecfly opposite to the receiving-house v u yal numane Society , ou the north bank , to yrmcn place the lad immediately proceeded and gave information of the circumstance . The officers of the society -with the greatest promptitude instantly manned
one of the boats and rowed across to the spot , where , on throwing in the drag close to the stiore , the body of a man was got up and placed in tue joat and conveyed to the receiving-house and put ma hot bath , but life was found to be quite STIl" P examination being made of the Body the deceased was found to be about fifty rears ot age and that his face was covered with bruises , there bera ^ also a large wound over the left eve , from whieh fresh blood was still flowing . The deceased was dressed in a dark dress-coat , silk waisteoatj , and dark buckskin trousers with a cheek on the cloth , white cotton stockings , and low shoes aeariy new . On both legs , from the feet up to nearly the knees , were large scars , covering nearlv
tne iront of his legs . On his person were found a pair of silver spectacles , a pair of wire spectacles , a penknife , a half-crown and a sixpence in silver and threepence halfpence in copper , but nottoV whatever to lead to his identity . The body was subsequently removed to the dead-house of St . Mar garet s , Westminster , at Knightsbridee , where it awaits a coroner ' s inquest . The Mubder rt Lambeth . —On Monday afternoon an inquest was held at the George Tavern Iambcth , byMr . Carter , the Coroner for Surrey on the body of Louisa Charlottce Watson , an infant ' who was drowned by her father in the water-butt en Thursday week . The facts of the case , as already stated , were clearly proved , and , under the direction of the Coroner , the jury returned a verdict of « Wilful Mnrder" against Henry Watson , the father . There is , however , no doubt that the unfortunate man was insane at the time that he committed the act , though that question is , of course , reserved for another tribunal .
Suicide ix Farrixgdox-street . — On Monday afternoon , shortly before two o ' clock , a person named James Powell , formerly secretary to Espartero , but latterly acting as waiter at the Druids ' Hall , Farringdon-street , committed suicide . He "went out in the course of the day , and returned shortly afterwards without his coat , and seemed extremely dejected , so much so that his wife deemed It prudent to ask Mr . Taylor , the hatter , who occupies the shop under the hall , to go upstairs and speak to him . Mr . Taylor did as requested , and , having inquired what was the matter with him , the jinfortunate man turned round and looked him full in the face . Mr . Taylorlaidbis hand on his shoulder , when all of a sudden he heard the click of a pistol d in instant
an an the poor fellow reeled round three times and fell to the ground a corpse . Medical aid ¦ w as instantly sentfor , and it was found that the deceased had shot himself through the heart . The unfortunate deceased , when he went out in the morning , pledged hh coat at a pawnbroker's , and yith the money advanced on it bought a pistol . " An inquest was held on the bodj before Mr . W . Payne , at the Rose Tavern , Farringdon-street , when the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity . " SniciDE from Starvation . —On Tuesday an in-• quest was held before Mr . F . S . langham , deputycoroner , at the Aran Arms , New Bond-street , touching the death of John Jenkins , aged thirty-seven , a gentleman ' s coachman , who destroyed himself
raider the following very melancholy circumstances . From evidence deposed to by the witnesses it appeared that the deceased lived at No . 17 , Lancashire-court ; he had been out of employment since May last , and was reduced to very great distress , and in want of the common necessaries of life . All his and his wife ' s wearing apparel had been pledged to obtain food , and for several days last week t £ ey had no coals to make a fire or any food to eat . It preyed very heavily on deceased ' s mind , who refused to allow Ms wife to apply to the parish . The deceased had not tasted anything for several days , and his mind appeared to he affected . He remained in bed , and never spoke to his wife or children . On Snnday last he got up and went down stairs
shortly afterwards his wife discovered that he had hung himself with his child ' s skipping rope , to the area railings . One of the jurors remarked that one of the deceased ' s children came into his shop on Saturday Ia 3 t , and asked for some bread and butter , and said his mother was crying at home and had nothing to eat . He said he had not tasted food for two days . Verdict" Temporary insanity . " Ax- Ixcourigible Coxvict . —On Tuesday an inquest was taken by Mr . Langham , deputy-coroner at the Millbank prison , on view of the body of John Smith , aged twenty-three , a convict . It appeared from the evidence that deceased was originally a collier , and that he entered a reiriment of tni » lin *
¦ whil e in which he was flosrged seven times for bad conduct . He was afterwards convicted four times for theft , for the last of which he was sentenced to seven years' transportation . He was admitted into the prison on the 17 th of June , 1817 ; he was then suflering from an internal scrofulous disease , on account of which he was immediately placed in the infirmary , where he remained till Saturday last when he died . While in the infirmary he made frequent attacks upon the officers of the ward . Death "rc-as the effect of the disease he was labourin « under upon his admission . Verdict , " Natural death . It was stated that there was not a single case of cholera in the prison . °
Gas Expmsiox at Greenwich . — On Monday night an explosion of gas took place at the residence of W . Matthew , Esq ., of the firm of Messrs . Johu Pennand € o ., engineers , situated at No . IS , Valcntine-place , Blackhcath-road . Mr . Matthews was sitting busily engaged with tools and instruments used in engineering , when a strong smell of gas annoyed him . He rose from his seat , and with a lighted paper got on the chair to discover from whence the escape of gas had taken place , and then in instant
an a very loud and alarming explosion ensued , driving out the two window sashes into the street , and demolishing upwards of fifty lar ^ e squares of glass . It is singular to remark that glass was broken in every room in front of the premises . A large leaden jar was blown from the table into tne road , and much of the broken glass driven nearly to the opposite house . Mr . Matthews , we arc' sorry to say , was much burned about his face and hands , and one female servant suffered bv bein " scorched on the neck . " *
Escape of a Cosvrcr from his Gaso at Woolmen , axd REcAPitRE of him . —On Wednesday a convict named Henry Connolly , while employed vith several other convicts at the saw-pits near the west end of the yard , managed to hide himself and leave his clothes , after substituting a canvass dress the same as is generally used by the painters and others employed in working with pitch . The convict had been missed before he was absent many minutes , and an alarm given at the gates to be particular as to every person the constables allowed to go vut of the yard . Every exertion was made at the same time by the police to find out his hidingplace , but he managed to elude them . When tne men left work at half-past five o ' clock the gates
Tvere only partially opened to admit of every one being more minutely examined , as it is now more diffijuU to know the convicts from labourers since their whiskers have been allowed to be cultivated as they choose . Several of the guards of the convict ship were also present to aid in detecting the convict if-he should attempt to pass out with the ¦ workmen , as the convict Wood must have done After six o ' clock sentries of the Royal Marines were " posted outside the dockyard wall , and every precaution taken that the convict should ho captured . Police-constables were also stationed in various parts of the yard ; and about eight o ' clock p . m po-Iice-eonstablc 207 It * James Willis , observed a pernearl
son pass across y opposite the slip , under which the Xankin ( fifty-gun frigate ) is bailding , at the east end of the yard , and gave the alarm , when the slip was surrounded , and after a considerable time spent in searching for Mm with lanterns , he wag found lying flat on Ms face on » coil of rope and taken to the conviet-shi p . Had it not been for the exertions made by all parties to capture him , he ¦ wou ld have effected his escape during the ni ^ ht and had evidently made his way from the west ° cnd of the yard to the easiest place for tlirowin" a rope over the wall and letting himself down at the outside when he found that , owing to the precautions taken at the gate , he could not pass out with the ¦ wor kmen . ' .
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The British : Association axd the Advaxcemest of Scie-vce . —Sir David Brewster has been elected President of the As 3 ociatien for next year . Mr . J . Taylor was re-elected Treasurer ; Professor Phillips * assistant-secretary ; and Professor Royle was appointed ASsistant-general-secretary with Colonel Sabuie . The next meeting is to be held at Edinburgh . The closing meeting was held on Wednesday last . ¦ ' The mice that inhabit some small chinks in a vast budding neither know whether the buildup is eternal , who 13 the architect , nor wherefore it has been built by that architect ; they endeavour to preserve life , to people their holes , and to fly the destractira animals by which they arc pursued Suchmice ^ are we ; and the divine architect who has built the ; universe has never yet , to my knowledge , revealed his secret to any mouse amomr ^ ?^ ***** * Freierh Grm > ^
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Zty prommes . Four Childres Poisoned . —One of the most diabolical attempts ever made to destroy human life by poison was perpetrated in Kottingham on the evenin" of Friday week . About five o ' clock , a young man residing near the house , occupied by a hawker named Burke , a widower , in Eve ' s-yard , Narrowmarsh , discovered that the poor man ' s children had been suddenly taken ill in the absence of their father , and proceeding to render them assistance , found that they had been vomiting dreadfully . At first it was thought that they had been seized with cholera , but a cup containing some suspicious-looking ingredient being iound upon the table , a number of the neighbours were called in , and the whole family , with the cup and its contents , were instantly carried off to the General Hospital , where restoratives being promptly applied , the two
youngest were soon pronounced out of danger . Their name 3 are—Mary , aged 11 ; Thomas , C ; Catherine , i ; and Sarah , 2 . On Saturday , the the eldest , Mjiry , was sufficiently well to make a statement , from which it appeared that having gone out to buy some small articles of grocery , she was met on her return by a woman who asked her if her name was not Burke . The girl replied in the affirmative , and was asked if she would like some good stuff . The woman then gave her a paper containing a quantity of white powder , telling her it was magnesia ; that she must pour hot water upon it , drink some of it , and give the rest to her brother and sisters . She did so , and they all became very sick . The liquid in the cup and the contents of the children ' s stomach ' s were found to be strongly impregnated with arsenic . The father has since returned . No certain clue has as yet been discovered to lead to the detection of the woman .
Destkuctive Fires . —On the 20 th instant , about two o ' clock in the morning , a long wooden building at Harhury , near Southam , for tne accommodation of the men working there , was burnt to the ground ; providentially no lives were lost . A servant-man , who was the only person up at the time , stated that he upset ajar of turpentine , and dropped into it accidentally a piece of lig hted candle , which ignited it . As he has since , however , given a different account of the affair he has been lodged in gaol for examination before the magistrate . About the same hour on Friday morning the mill at Southam was found to be on fire , owing , as is stated , to some bags which were ignited by the over-working of the machinery . At four o ' clock the roof fell in with a crash which was heard at a distance of a mile and a half . More than 100 bags of wheat were consumed in this conflagration ,
mostly the gleanings of the poor . The property was not insured . The Extensive Raiiava ? Robberies at Huddersfield . —The whole of the fifteen prisoners concerned in the robberies ( including Joseph Taylor , Court Leet , constable of Golcar , the last apprehended ) , appeared before the Huddersfield magistrates on " Friday last . The proceedings occupied from half-past nine in the morning until seven in the evening . Joseph Wood , the elder , Walton Whiteley , J . W . Ramsden , David Hellawell , Joseph Wood , jun ., and James Bailey , were all committed for trial at the next Yorkshire assizes , several of them on three or four distinct charges . Joseph Taylor , who had been apprehended on suspiciouof beingreceiver of the stolen property , was discharged , the evidence not proving him to have had a guilty knowledge . Cooke , previously discharged , was again in custody , and , with the other prisoners , was remanded for further examination .
Leigh . —Marriage of Unconfirmed Persons . — The ban 3 of John Williamson and Mary Ann Kearsley were published for the third time on the Othinst ., at the parish churches of Lowton and Leigh . It was resolved that the parties should present themselves for marriage at the latter church , and thus test the vicar ' s resolution , and , in the event of Ms refusal , the legality of his conduct . Accordingly , the following notices were prepared and personally served upon the vicar by the parties : — " L the undersigned Mary Ann Kearsley , of Twist-lane , in the township of Pennington , in the county of Lancashire , and I , the undersigned John Wilkinson , of the parish of Lowton , in the county of Lancaster , do hereby acquaint you , James Ivvin ,
ciei-K ana vicar ot Leigh , m the county aforesaid , that it is our wish and intention to be joined together in holy matrimony , and that we sha ' ll present ourselves for that purpose at your parish church at Leigh , on Saturday , the 15 th day of September , in the year of our Lord , 18 i 9 , at eight o clock in the morning , or at any other hour you may appoint as most convenient , provided , notwithstanding , so that marriage may be solemnized between us in your parish church at Lei gh , aforesaid , before the hour of twelve o ' clock of the said dav . —Dated this 14 th day of September , 1 S 19 . —Mart Ax . v Kearsley , her ft mark , Jons Wiixiamson . Witness , John Taylor , " "I , James Kearsley , weaver , of the parish of Leigh , in the county of Lancaster , do hereby express my full and entire consent to the
marriage of my daughter Mary Ann with John Williansom , of the parish of Lowton , as witness my hand this 14 th day of September , 1840 . James Kearslet . Witness , John Taylor . " "We , the undersigned , John Williamson and Betty Williamson of the parish of Lowton , in the county of Lancaster , do hereby express our full and entire consent to the marriage of our son John with Mary Ann Kearslev , of the parish of Leigh . Dated this 14 th day of September , 1349 . John Williamson . Betty Williamson , her ft mark . Witness John Taylor . " A certificate that the bans had been published at Lowton was also given to the vicar . The parties stated that the vicar said "he would not marry them , " and that "his curate had no power to do
so , and that he was glad they had taken that course . The parties said , however , that they would come in the morning . Accordingly they did so , and no further obstacles were offered * but they were married by the Rev . J . Brame , vicar of West Leigh , and stepson to the vicar , who read the full marriage service , including the exhortation at the end . The Kearsleys have never presented themselves for instruction in the church catechism in compliance with the citations of the vicar , and it yet remains to be seen whether they will be excommunicated at the end of the month allowed them . During the past week two or three publications on rubrical matters have been circulated in tlie parish , and considerable excitement prevails .
Poisoxixc at Cheltenham . —Sept . 20 . —The death of two persons here in a very sudden manner , after eating a dinner of cucumber , bread and cheese , and apple dumpling , has excited an unusual sensation . At first the parties were supposed to be labouring under an attack of cholera , but subsequent inquiries led to the conviction that they were poisoned—it is supposed by arsenic administered in the apple dumplings . The family , consisting of six persons , had partaken of four cucumbers , the remains of a portion of one of them arc quite rotten and full of offensive liquor ; but it is proved by the medical attendant that the symptoms under which the deceased and the other parties who partook of tho dumplings laboured , were not those of cholera , but
rather of an irritant poison , such as arsenic . The matter has now been for two davs under investigation before Mr . S . Mayer , the local coroner , a ° nd stands adjourned to Friday morning . From the depositions of the several wituesses examined upon theinquiryuptothis time , we take the following brief summary of the circumstances attending this mysterious occurrence , Mrs . Gregory , a -widow , lived with her family at 13 , Ghapel-stre ' et , a labouring man named Barnett lodging with them . On Friday , the parties dined on bread and cheese , four cucumbers in an advanced stage of decomposition , and offensive to the smell ( the four had been bought for a penny ) , and some apple dumplings , for which the flour had been provided by Bavnett .
While yet at dinner the whole of the party were seized with violent retching and spasms , and the two deceased , Elizabeth Gregory , aged twentyone , and a younger brother , were the worst . They remained in this state complaining of burning in the throat and acute pain in the bowels , accompanied by vomiting , until seven o ' clock in the evening , when Dr . Brookes was sent for . He found the whole family vomiting and Elizabeth Gregory was in a state of collapse . He considered the cucumber shown to him likely , if eaten at the present period , to produce diarrhoea , vomiting , and probably death . He prescribed for the family , and gave a decided opinion that the disorder was not cholera , but considered the symptoms
more like those produced by an irritating poison . It was observed at dinner that SOulC of the ( lumpli ng tasted hot , as if cayenne pepper had been sprinkled over them . The girl ( Elizabeth Greeorv ) died on the same ni ghtat ten o ' clock , and her brother on Sunday , after excruciating suffering . The contents of the stomachs of the deceased have been forwarded to Mr . Herapath , of Bristol , the celebrated chemist , foranalysation . andthe result has been the apprehension of Barnett , who is now in gaol , pending the verdict of the coroner ' s jury . Barnett s wife ( a-cook at the Cheltenham Training School ) has also been apprehended . —The i ' nrv as sembled at ten o ' clock on Friday morimV * * and there was a great number of the medical ptofesiou present . Mr . Herapath deposed that he had subjected the stomach , the contents of the stoin : u > li
the portions of flour , dumpling , and paste , forwarded to him by Dr . Brookes and the police authorises to a careful analysis , and he discovered in them tin ' presence of arsenic m very large quantities . A verv small quantity of the dumpling , taken into the human sytcm would he sufficient to destroy life . Mr Herapath added , he had not the slightest doubt that the deceased parties came by their deaths from taking arsenic . A great number of witnesses were called , but their testimony threw no additional li * ht on this niysterious transaction , and in no way tended to criminate the accused parties , further than that the flour came from the hands of the male prisoner The coroner determined , under these circumstances ' to adjourn the inquiry in order to enable the police to prosecute their enquiries still further . The suspected parties , Barnett and his wife ,, still remain
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in custody . —The investigation was resumed at elevenjo'clock on Wednesday morning . —Mr . Brooks , surgeon , stated the result of upon mortem examination which he had made of the bod y of Elizabeth Gr egory « He made the examination sixteen hours after her decease . He found tho body presented externally a healthy appearance , but the brain was sHffhtly congested . The stomach contained about twelve ounces of fluid , and the mucous coats were mUi > h inflamed in two patches . He described the SHion of other parts of the body , and said that with the exception ef the inflammation on the coats of the stomach there were no traces of poison , but this wns not all unusual in cases of poisoning by arsenic . —Caroline Gregory , sister to the deceased , stated Samuel
that when the deceased , Gregory , came in to dinner he said he did not like cucumber and hread and cheese , on which Barnett said to his mother " Give him a dumpling , and take one yourself" Accordingly Mrs . Gregory gave the noor bo y a dumpling , and he ate part of it , when he became ill . This witness also stated that when tho dumplings were made by her deceased sister some of the lour brought by Barnet was put into a teacup and reserved . When the surgeon came he asked for the remaining dumpling or some of the flour , and on going to the cupboard for it , witness discovered that it had been taken away . Did not knowwho put it away . Barnet and witness ' s sister had had some slight quarrels . Bavnett ' s room was ke pt locked by him when he was at work .
The Ikquest on the bodies of James Baker , the contractor , and one of his workmen , — Warren , whowero killed by the falling in of a tunnel , in making a sewer at Colchester , was held on Monday , when a verdict of "Accidental death" was recorded , the Coroner observing that from the manner in which Baker had conducted the work in tho tunnel , it amounted to almost a suicidal act , but no one was to blame but the parties themselves . . It was given in evidence that Baker ' sbvother had refused to continue working in consequence of his apprehension of such a result as that which ensued from a
want of a more perfect system of protection in passing through a stratum of sand . Determined Suicide . —On Sunday morning , a young man was taken into custody at Cowes , by the police , on the charge of having robbed a fellowservant of a great coat , which , it appears , he had stolen on the previous day , and sold to a sweep for 4 s ., in order to satisfy an inordinate propensity for drink . On being taken to the police station , the usual precautions of searching , &c , were adopted , and he ' was then locked up in his cell . Shortly
after he asked for water , which was supplied him , and about a quarter of an hour after , when the door of the cell was opened , to the horror of the policeman he was found suspended by his neckcloth to the bars of the cell window , and though he was still warm , and bled freely on the application of the lancet , yet strangulation had done its work , although every effort was made by the medical gentlemen , who were in instant attendance . A jury being empannelled , a verdict of " Temporary Insanity" was returned .
Sixgular Death . — On Saturday last an inquest was held by Mr . James Lewis , coroner for Rochester , on board her Majesty's ship Royal George , lying in Saltpan Reach , between Chatham and Sheerness , te inquire into the cause of death of George Brown , a lad nine years of age , son of Mr . Hudson Brown , a warrant officer in charge of the above ship , whose death was occasioned in the following singular manner : —Deceased whilst walking from the wardroom to the cabin , for the purpose of cutting a candle , carrying with him a pair of scissors , tripped and fell , when the point of the scissors pierced the jugular vein just under the jawbone , which caused almost instantaneous death , — Verdict , " Accidental death . "
Portsmouth , SEn . 24 . — Storming a Stockade . —An experiment to illustrate the practicability of destroying stockades without such fearful loss as characterised the taking those of the New Zealand chiefs two or three years since , was made yesterday on an island in Portsmouth Harbour , off the Victualling Yard , by the officers of her Majest ' s ship Excellent , and the Royal Engineers , in the presence of a large assemblage of spectators , chiefly naval officers of the ships in commission and the officers studying at the College . The stockage was erected out of the broken-up timbers of a sloop-of-war , and was apparently about two hundred feet in extent ( square ) entrenched , < fcc . This was . erected under the superintendence of Captain Savage , instructors in fortification and mechanical drawing at the Royal Naval College , and was a very complete model work of the kind . To destroy it or make a practicable v v Itl V *> Ail * a rn
breach seemed the object of the experiment . To endeavour to compass this a hag of olbs . of powder was laid at the foot of the timbers forming the stockade , and exploded , but without accomplishing the end sought ; another charge , of double the quantity , was then tried , fixed or suspended midway up the stockade , which was also discharged without effect ; but another charge of powder laid at the foot of the stockade , covered by a large sand bag , had a more fortunate issue , as some portion of the stockade was blown away . The timbers were scattered about to a distauce of upwards of 100 yards from the spot , one of which struck in its flight Captain Hewlett , tho second officer of her Majesty ' s ship Excellent , so violently on the thigh as to render him insensible . He was immediately taken on hoard his ship , and medical assistance instantly obtained , with what result -we -were unable to learn , This unforeseen catastrophe ended tho experiments on the island suddenly . —Tims .
Determined Suicide . —A most determined act of self-destruction was committed on Saturday last at Everton . Tho person who has wilfully put a period to his existence is a young married man , in independent circumstances , of the name of Kidd . He resided at 3 , Victoria-street , Everton , with his young wife and one child . It appears that the deceased was addicted to habits of jntemperence , and that while so indulging was subject to fits . About ten o ' clock on the night in question he was seen in a beer-shop in the neighbourhood of his residence . Shortly after this he returned home , and , upon his wife retiring to rest , was left in the kitchen smoking a pipe . Mrs . Kidd had occasion to return to the lower part of the house in a short time , and it was
then that tho discovery of the dreadful act was made . She found her husband seated on a chair near the door , strangled . The mode in which tho ill-fated man had carried out his dreadful object is so singular , and evinces so great a degree of resolution , not to say ingenuity ; md calculation , that it deserves particularising . He first fastened one end of a clothes-line to the handle of the door , then drew the rope over the "jamb , " contrived a noose , which , upon being placed round the neok , left a knot directly in front of the throat , and having made a slip noose at the extremity , placed his foot in it . He then deliberately seated himself , and awaited
the result of his contrivance . Death must have been produced by a sudden and violent effort of the foot , stirruped as stated above . The striking out of tho foot would , by a jerk , contract the noose vound the neck , and forcibly press the knot upon the throat . Deceased , besides one child , leaves a widow in a condition which promises soon to contribute another boing to mourn over a father thus consigned to a premature grave . It is said that in the course of a few months Sir . Kidd would have come into possession of a considerable sum of money , on the interest of which he had latterly subsisted . —Liverpool Standard .
Dakisg Burglary at Worcester . —A most determined burglary was committed early on Tuesday morning in one of the principal streets of the city , at the shop of Mr . Gwynne , pawnbroker , Highstreet , from which goods to the value of £ 200 or £ 300 were stolen . The thieves effected an entrance into the premises , first by picking the lock of the passage door of the house adjoining Mr . Gwynne ' s ; anil secondly , by breaking through a lath and plaster wall which separates the passage from the shop . Amongst the gold and silver goods stolen were the following : —a silver tankard and goblet , fourteen gold watches , twenty silver watches , about 100 wedding-rings , and about 150 fancy and mourning rings , six dozen of silver table spoons , twelve dozen of desert and tea spoons , five dozen of desert and table forks ( all silver ) , a large silver candlestick , silver salt-cellars , and a variety of other articles
. It is an extraordinary fact that the house was broken into , the wall broken down , and the above and other valuable boot y stolen , without any person living in the house hearing the burdars , or without their being observed b y the police who must liave passed the door while the thieves wwn 1 U tllC hOUSO . The police , however , are now on tlie alevt , and two men have alreadv been taken in S custody on suspicion of being concerned in the burglary . The city and nei ghbourhood of Worcester have for some time past been infested by a gang of daring [ characters . This is not the first time that Mr . Gwynne has had his shop broken into and robbed . A reward of £ 20 hos been offered by him for the recovery of the property and detection of the thieves , and it it supposed that this reward will be increased by the authorities , should they remain long undiscovered . '
Witchcraft and Superstition at ITento \ — There is in the neighbourhood of Henton and ' its vicinity a population of about 200 , in which it is asserted that there are nineteen witches and curious enough it is to hear the different tales of the people of the pranks played by this wonderful cluss of beings . Some of the inhabitants sit up bv night , three or four together , for several niVhts following , using some peculiar charm , instructed they say , by the wise man of the west . There- tbev sit praying to themselves , they must not heav ™ A
other speak , that the witch may not any lonsrer have power to scratch the children , as they do bv some invisible means ; and about midnight they generally hear some terribl y unearthl y noises Onn person has even attempted suicide under ' foi ' some , they say , are hag-ridden ; others dream won ' derful dreams , and have cramps , all of whir > h ™« attributed to tho same cause , ' one Dcrsnn nOon ^ ° that she . actually , at night , saw oa 0 SR 5 , S derful beings como into her room three W
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encourage enterprise , and too selfish and dishonest to grant tenures that would protect it . " This is the proposition—the peasantry must starve or rot ; tho citizens must pay or fly ; but the landlords —famine or no famine , beggary or no beggary , massacre or no massacre—may carry off the harvest , and do what they like with their own in the pleasant places of the world . " A proposition which the industrious classes in Ireland had better consider of , or prepare themselves in good time for the poor house and the em i grant ship . " New Colleges . —The Limerick Chronicle states that the Lord-Lieutenant will be Chancellor of the Queen ' s College at Cork , which his Excellency will
open in person on the 15 th of next month . Mr . Mitchel . —The Limerick Examiner has the following paragraph about John Mitchel , furnished apparently on good authority : — ' The friend 3 and family of John Mitchel have , we are informed , received notification from the English government to the effect that they ( the government ) have taken into consideration the condition of John Mitchel ' s health , hare granted him free leave and Jiberty to go wheresoever he pleases , subject to no such restraint , with the exception , that he shall not return to or settle in any portion or colony of the United Kingdom . The distinguished exile proposes , as we are told , to proceed to Germany , for the purpose of trying the effects of the spas in the restoration of his health
Ilia wife and family still remain in this country . The children , who are under the care of the Rev . John Kenyon , P . P ., Templederry , will leave to join their father , as soon as hie shall be settled in any eligible locality . " Yaive of Labour in Ireland . —The Wcstmeath Independent narrates the following lamentable instance of the depreciated value of labour in " one of the richest portions" of that county ; but , bad as the case is , there are worse , and of no uncommon occurrence , in districts even more favourably circumstanced than Westmeath . A gentleman who had been recently visiting the north of Irelrnd fell into conversation with several intelligent farmers of tlie better class—men weaving broad cloth , and
employing labourers under them-and from these he learned to his great surprise , that many of the " line strapping" fellows , these at work in the fields before him , were paid no wages whatever—that they were glad to accept employment for their " meat "—and this during the busiest time of harvest , when wages range between 10 d . and Is . 3 d . a day , according to the locality , besides substantial meals . By " meat , " too , it is not to be understood that these poor men contemplated the luxury of beef , mutton , or bacon ; but a sufficiency of stirabout , made of Irish meal , which in the north is dignified by the abavenamed tempting term : — " On Wednesday , 19 th inst ., at petty session of Glason , ( one of the richest portions of the county of Weatmeath ) , a young able lad about
twenty years of age , summoned a wealthy farmer named Coloe , for £ 4 odd , the value of his services as a farm labourer , at the rate of sixpence per week with his board . It appeared on evidence that he was engaged last autumn at this rate , and remained some months , when he left in hope of better earnings , and after a short period returned and engaged again , Coloe asserted , at threepence per week and his diet , and added that he could get hundreds of men at the same rate all last year . The plaintiff claimed sixpence a week , but was unable to prove any new agreement ; and as it appeared he was paid the threepence a week , and some counter charges of theft being made , the magistrates dismissed the case . ' '
The Linkn Trade . —The Banner of Ulster says : — " The home trade continues active , but the exports during the past week were inconsiderable , only 413 packages having been shi pped from this town . The demand for yarn continues good . " Proposed Palace for thk Queen in Ireland . — We mentioned a few weeks ago that it was in C 0 n « templation to erect for her Majesty a marine residence on the Irish coast , at or near Killiney , about seven miles from the metrorolis , and within a mile and half of the harbour of Kingstown . We are now authorised to state that Mr . William Deane Butler , the eminent architect of Stephen ' s-green , Dublin , is engaged m the preparation of plans and drawings of the proposed building , and that he will shortly arrive m London to submit them for the approbation of her Majesty . —WceBy Chronicle .
Fatal Accident on a Railway .-The Ncwry Telegraph of Monday says : — "We have just been informed that two men have been killed and wounded by a fall of earth on the railway works south ot liiUevey , on the junction line midway between ¦ Newry and Dundalk . " House Levelling . —Tho Clare Journal contains the following :- '' On Saturday last , at about three o clock , an armed party came to ( he house of a poor taimly residing at Inchmore , a short distance from bnnis . and after assaulting an old woman , who was the only person m the house at the time , they proceeded to throw down the house by the aid of crowbars and other implements which they brought with them and continued until they had totally demolished it . We have not been able to learn any cause for this daring outrage , nor have we heard that any ot tlio party have been arrest ^ , tlm ^ ii ^ i . ; v »
search is being made for them by the police . " ENGLISH COLONISATION . -COUNTY RoSCOMMON .-we cannot , indeed , well express our surprise at finding it stated , not only our metropolitan papers but « rLT ? L * English P ress ' "that tlle Plantation ot lieland has ctmmenced -that already extensive settlementsi have been made in Roscommon by English settlers . " Hbw , we would beg to assure our contemporaries , both of this and the other side pt the channel that Roscoramon this moment is as wi ° i ° w # l ) lantations as » any other part of ? rela ' - We h one English gentleman has
. , , _ > S ™ whom he is but ding a house , but unless this solitary case is a plantation of the entire county , we could hear of nothing to warrant so groundless a rumour ; wii ? ft 8 UrB * ? * V landlords will get no English tenants to offer them anything like the &J ^ T aC < i ^ t 0 e xtract f ro «» their £ i « P' - * $° £ 0 Uld l ) v * like beasti toenable them £ . r ? y Ti the 7 , ' Tis true we havc lai'S tracts wasted , and the gentleman who has already given accommodation to one English farmer could give it to a hundred , without havine now to disnnssfiss n sincrlo
28 *'™* A-r $ tf ^ eomen » Eta •« £ Si . % ' . 4 * will be nccessay for Irish land-2 £ T ? iff " » ° 5 Bony , of th 0 bad haWts deali » g with Irish tenants fostered , before they can be qualified to come to an understanding with such wirmonablc tenants . —Roscommon Messenger . 1 , 5 , « f ? v « - the Under-Secretary , has reduced his rents four shillings per acre . Inothino has yet been D 0 KE aboutthe Dolly ' s Btae affair , beyond the investigation . The popular Sleet ™ t 0 a " the S ° vernme ^ ° n the State of the Soura . -The Cork Examiner of Monday contains the following , from its own repor-«^\ . i I f- ed l Llsmove . Sunday evening—Since your last advices from this locality nothing of any particular consequence has occurred . In Cappoquin , beyond the arrival of troops and nolicemen . nnthi ™
O'DoL P l f , neral , quiet of that town - Sir Charles Sri ! - V ! ave been nfonned . arrived there yessfo ; s-s ^ s ; tt £ Lk ^ - aSB'&teS r £ S large extent m this county ; but what its ohiprt is Self r 8 ? V' The general& „ KX 3 a ? S ; num - flawless characters si ^ sas ig ^ p si ss mtea by the most credulous . Thn Vo ,. » « m , v >_
wmrea ^ hv o , 3 , g - Ifc i i »» J »« W whether this wiu reach you , as every pass between this and Permw w guarded , and the messenger may be arrested fortuned * *** t 0 Wn ' Hwever > 'wiUtrSto
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Yaoiit Match for £ 100 a Side . —A h > hlv in terestmg match for the above stakes " was run on ^ Vrissstajy ^ jg-j
t ^^ ffittsras ™^ &Z 11 ? A ^ melancholy accident on board the Tartar caused that vessel to bear up and terminate theconS prematurel y . Some portion of the gear aloft St deracged . to clear which one ofwVJTa
uuiuty , a native of Lymington , was sent up be ng called agam on deck , ho missed Ms hold and fell I distanco of about thirty-five feet , with frift ? violence on the deck , lie was picked up inS ' be , and the yacht rounded to under the stern of the Superb ; 80-gun ship , at Spithead , and hailed for the assistance of a surgeon , but no medical officer being on board , the yacht mado all ZmTI
i'ommouth harbour , the " man facing promptly conveyed ashore to the Isle of Wignt TawJn 2 S ho has since lain in the lethargy of . death his S > having received so . vere concuste , 2 £ lS other compound injuries , * ' m nis body
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THE CHOLERA . SATtmDAY .-Rcturn of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea . London and vicinity ; cholera no diarrhoea , 38 . The provinces ; cholera , 335 . dia ' vrW 88 . Scotland ; cholera , 21 .-Total choleS m ' Diarrhoea , 124 . ' Day of Humiliation in Maiiyleboxe and St ' Pav cras . —Sunday was appointed « 3 a , day of humiliation , and collections were made in behalf of thn sick and destitute poor . Collection fob SuFFEncns m rm Cholkka ~ . Thc collections in the Scotch National Church , Crownt court , on Sunday , after the solemn services of tho day , amounted to nearly £ 100 , which Dr . Cummin * announced was to be divided among the medical practitioners in the congregation for distribution afc their discretion among families known to them \? ho have suffered by the epidemic .
Manchester . — The epidemic has been on the decline for several days past , and the deaths liavo been fewer during the past week by nearly fifty compared with the preceding week . There is no doubt the appointment of medical men in the various districts , and dispensaries for medicine , havo tended to produce this effect . Leeds . —We are glad to find that this dreadful pestilence is much loss fatal than it was in this town . Monday . —Return of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea . The metropolis ; cholera , 122 , diarrhoea , 41 . Tlie provinces : cholera , 533 , diarrhoea 173 . Scotland ; cholera , 21 . —Total deaths from cholera , 070 ; diarrhoea , 214 . Tuesday . —Return of deaths from cholera and Diarrhaa . The metropolis ; cholera 102 , diarrhoea 42 . The provinces ; cholera 330 , diarrhoea ft ; . Scotland ; cholera 25 . —Total ; deaths from cholera 463 . diarrhoea .
Official Rrtuiin of the Sanitary Statf , of the Royal Navy and Arsenals . —Great praise is due to the Commissioners of the Admiralty , and the medical department at Deptford ,- Woolwich , Chatham , Slieerness , Portsmouth , Plymouth , Devonport , and Pembroke , for the sanitary precautions that have been taken in all the arsenals from the commencement of the breaking out of the present melancholy epidemic . The workshops have been kept constantly well ventilated , and tlie strictest ; cleanliness observed in every department , and wherever any stagnant water , or any other matter may have accumulated , it has been instantly removed . The result has been that , notwithstanding that
cholera and diarrhoia have prevailed in the neighbourhood to a great extent , there has not been one fatal case in the dockyards . The same satisfactory report was received this morning at the admiralty as regards the crews of her Majesty ' s ships of war either in the Thames , Portsmouth , or Plymouth , in consequence of the rigid regulations as to ventilation in the lower decks , the airin ? of the hammocks , and cleanliness of the men and the whole ship . The dietary has been particularly attended to , and the water always kept pure by means of a simple chemical process , which destroys all animalcule in the casks or tanks , too frequently on board a ship , where the water is confined and stagnant . —Evening Paper .
CuoLfcnA on thf . Goodwin Sands . —The following letter has been addressed to the Board of Health by Mr . Martin , the harbour master of Rams ^ ate : — " Gentlemen , —The following case I consider it a duty to submit to the notice of those who are anxiously investigating cause and effect relative to the prevailing epidemic . . During the heats of the last days of August , having a considerable body of officers and men under my surveillance , I watched their state and habits with great care and anxiety . I knew they were exposed in no common degree to all the admitted predisposing causes . Some were occasionally at work in a sewer in progress ; others in a cpfferdam , surrounded by a fetid blue mud and offensive suillage . All were employed in a harbour par *
tially dry at low water , and with a hot sun , liable to exhalations from decomposing marine exuvia , yet to my great consolation , all these poor men thus employed continued well . The exception is extraordinary . The crew of my steam towins vessel Samson , continually employed in the fresli sea breeze , when at home , living in well ventilated comfortable houses , temperate in their habits , hale and young and yet they were attacked under the following curious and interesting circumstances . At midnight of the 31 st of August , the Samson proceeded to the Goodwin Sands , where they were employed under the Trinity agent , assisting in work carried on there by that corporation . While there , at three a . m .,
on the 1 st of September , a hoi humid haze , with a bog-like smell , passed over them , and the greater number of the men there employed instantly felt a nausea . They were in two partic 3 . One man at work on the sand was obliged to be carried to the boat , and before they reached the steam vessel at anchor , the cramps and spasms had supervened upon the vomitings ; but here they found two of the party on board similarly affected , and after heaving up the anchor , they returned with all the despatch they could to Ramsgate . Hot baths were immediately put into requisition , and by proper medical treatment they were convalescent in a few d * ys ; Here then is a very marked case , without one known predisposing local cause . whilc our labourers escaned .
surrounded by local and continual disadvantages . Doubtless it was atmospheric , and in the hot blast of pestilence which passed over them . Is it not probable thiit the malignant arrow of the air has a powerful affinity for the miasma of hot and stinkinc breaths m crowded dwellings , in steamin" churchyards , or putrescent exhalations from dirty and illventilated neighbourhoods ? Is it not probable , that it this perceptible stream , or current of poisonous air had passed over the labourers at the sewer , in lieu of the labourers at sea , that the whole of the poor men so employed , would have been visited by the pestilence in a more aggravated form , and perhaps some of them died ? The choleric influence appears to pass along thruugh the atmosphere in streams similar to the currants in theocean , and to be drawn aside , or diverge to different noints . hv snm P TO « tn .
nous attraction . But one thing is certain—that it is most severe when united with the ma ' avia of crowded cities , or the already half-poisoned abodes M the sickly and indigent . My men were carried ™ 7 l \ re u ™* , cm ! on awaited them , and not a member of their families was infected . Excuse tlm hasty recital , which proceeds from a SS T ** " ? lfc 1 S a Sa ^ dut y t 0 cont »»« te anv information , however slight , upon this afflietiu » subject .-September 20 , 18-19 . " ' ™""» o BRiSTOL . --Yesterday having been set apart by the recommendation of theLord Bishop of the diocese . u a & £ ? £ ^™ JH » * PW . to Almiuhty
uoa tor tho removal from amongst us of the cholera , the day was observed ) allclasseSof theciti ^ hnu ^ T buS 1 " - ' closinStheir shops and warewnrh ; an f "THPS , to their several places of ZSlV ' i " ' ?* Whlch three serviccs were held iW * . U aud eV - - iDS' The Sodeiy of Friends Kin f - ' , " conci - e 1-easo » s" ^ y i ™ SL fi ? Om V 1 the fasts > which roa ? ° n concentratethemseves into this ; that public fasis were not in the nature of the Gospel , but of tho Jewish Iw . i F " , ?; tllere is much reaso » t 0 *< = < ¦ »• that cjolerutsdhasbeen started into vigorous life , many persons having been seized with , anil « , J
mm oi it , in several pans of the city . \\ EDSEM > AT . —notum of deaths from cholera and marrhoca . ihe metropolis ; cholera , 79 , diarrhoea , M . ihc provinces ; cholera , 331 , diarrhoea , 141 . ocotland ; cholera , 57 . —Total deaths from cholera , 407 ; diarrhcoa , 174 . ' Bristol , Sew . 26 . —Wo regret to state that this disease has in nowise abated , as shown by to-dav ' s returns . The return from St . Peter ' s Hospital is -new cases of diarrhoea , 74 ; approaching cholera b ; cholera , /; deaths , 5 ; in addition to which there are several deaths in private practice . The return srPhmn ^ e T ^ ^ S ivcs 3 d eaths lu u phi l . a * iaco ^ the « P « ienric is also pre valent . At Pill the deaths smcc yesterday are 5 as ^ hv nf J r T < T - cdnesday was ^ " -ed ch ^ oFM ^ niI » ' n ^ nd > and lts vicinity . Every shop and fc ° i _ s ! n « ss ™ s closed , public and oatins
the dHWnV v i ! sorvice was Performed in and SS Ch Tl and cupola both morning ivS i ^ e attendance was numerous . &c iTA 5 ? T USos in AU & > Hounsditcb , SSn ^ ft * * ? ^' werefikei » i « ! closed . £ being their " day of atonement , " or " white fast " GRKBNwicn -Day of HUMILIATIO . V .-IVednosday Efti ^ " "l ^ st was held S !]? ,, X ? 5 h Coronor ™ der the following peculiar circumstances :-On Thursday last a girf . cS £ KfN ? ' , was bunedin St . Martin ' s ^ emetcry . It was understood bv the neighbours hat the child had died of cholera * ; but onnamK he matter to the father and mother of thSoSSC rS ^ W ^ that ther 0 Ta 8 no truth in the over to ^ I , PKn C Uld n ^ that slie had 6 <> nS SM \ « lanf-, . Onoof the neighbours being satis-It t S ° n T dead > and had bccn buried in ? t . Martin ' s Cemetovr instifn ^/ i on , •„„„ :.. „ „„ . ?
lound that the child ' s death had been egTseVed as iCT eV «» Med by cholera , and the ° party fur-] Z IW tbat l h S eon wh 0 certified had never seen the deceased during her illness . Informatioa Z ? ^ l u n totto kroner , who ordered tho body to be exhumed , and at the inquest the fafi of the deceased was examined , when lie adSS mwrnsm Sal fir f , ° fr a his evidcncc that no nMB ^ Kn ^ ^ Vi 16 dec <» sed during her ill-SSiSSJ ^ , ^ fclflc M 0 was oU * incd ° Upon representation s made by him . Mv w ^ i . *—n
Z Sr mined - ' - d stakd ««* ^ 12 d SSSTi on ninn ? . ^ mmati 0 n of the ^> ™ ™ S OC vEKi ^ % deccased had died of cholera . A K 3 CmSr 6 VOtUl < iied accordin S y '~^^
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Ireianu * State of the South . — The insurrectionary effervescence appears to havo subsided in the counties of Tipperary and Waterford . Facts are coming to light which prove clearly that the insane outbreak at Coppoquin , and the partial organisation amongst Eome small portion of the peasantry and the town population , were produced by the machinations of emissaries more or less connected with the movements of last year . Reudction of Rent . —A movement is commencing in various parts of the country for low rents , and all the attention of the small farmers and peasantry in some parts of the south is given to reduction in the prices of land . The landlords must find a
lower depth still , and some of them who hoped to weather the storm must sell their estates . A noble earl , whose family have been seated in Munster for two centuries , is now living in a small house in the outskirts of an English wateving-plaee , while grass grows in the courts of his splendid ancestral mansion . A near relative of the noble earl , who was recently in public consideration a first-class comraonner , has left the country never to return , intending to live abroad for the rest of his life , and to sell his estates without delay . The difficulty of getting money where ifc is due is very great , the agricultural interest here is in a miserable plight , and we have no great manufacturing interest to sustain u ? . Many are settling down into a gloomy despair . One thing only is pfoin , that all political movements are at an end . The evictions are numerous in the south and west , and simultaneously secret societies are , it is said , springing up in various directions . The
prospects of the country for the apprcacliiug winter are certainly' gloomy , and the private accounts are worse than much of what appears in the journals . —It is believed by many that the conspiracy against rents is part of a very widely spread system in which there is more deMgn than was at first surmised . I know from , private sources of a very extraordinary case which occurred last week in the county of Clare . A gentleman put in a distress upon some tenants , who pretended to come to terms , with him , and agreed that the corn should be conveyed by the bailiffs for sale to a market town , twenty miles ofF . The gentleman fell into the snare laid for him , as the tennnts had legal advice that the corn vould not be carried beyond the nearest pound , and on arriving at the market town the corn was seized by a score of peasants , sold to the highest bidder and the money given to the tenants , who went oft to America . The gentleman haying counted to have the corn sold at the county town Irpnnrf-prl fv > ko
the dearest market ) , made in point of law a waiver or the distress , and he is tricked out of his rent . But the point worthy of notice is , that in a distant part of the county the defaulting tenants should have found such ready assistance . — " Who'll buv the Irish estates ?" -and " where are purchasers to bo looked for ?"—are questions asked in all Quarters . Ihe I otato Crop . —Condition of the Country —ihe accounts show that the blight is extending , but less rapidl y ; whilst in some places the injury is not yet very serious , and hopes are expressed that a considerable portion of the crop may be saved . The Nation , sounds the alarm about " a new famine . " . Mr . Duffy says :- "The Potato Crop has failed once more . It is in vain-to attempt disgu . se or evasion . A blight as sweeping , rapid , and destructive as that of 184 G is in full progress . In some counties there is not one field untainted . The farmers are digging and selling in a panic . The mice
ot potatoes has fal'en one-half during the last week , and within a few hours journey of Dublin . The disease is still at its height , blighting new districts every day . A correspondent who has driven through Wicklow since Saturday last , assures us that the crop in that entire county already lies a mass of putrefaction m the earth . He has spoken with practical farmers at Bray , Ashford , Newtownmountkennedy , and blenda ' . ough , and they report more than the half of the tubers irretrievably lost . The provincial papers bring similar tidings . " Mr . Duffy infers from all these accounts that " the potato is lost , and an appalling famine inevitable ;" and he proceeds to argue that there is no hope of remedy from " public works , " " grants from the British Parliament , " " emigration , " " the liberal bounty of the rich , " or "the charitable aid of forel ™
countries . " He says :- " The charity of England , of Europe , of the world , maybe excited for ouv imminent distress . ! Oh yes , we may beg . Ireland may beg . Let her once more become the pauper of the universe * Let her whine be heard at the gateposts of the nations , and the provinces , and the dependencies—for none are too low to do her service . Send hev begging-box round the earth with tho circling sun;—tender it for the golden bezants of the Grand Turk by the waters of the Bosphorus , and rattle it for the greasy cents of the uegro by the Mississipi . St . Petersburg will take pity upon us asain ( seeing
that we are still slaves and beggars ;) the free blacks of llayti will send another donation to the white slaves in Ireland ; Australia and America will freight new fleets to carry corn to our shores ( as if the fresh soil of Ireland were a barren rock ) and the parliament of Barbadoes ( of Barbadoes , smaller than OUT smallest county ) and the parliament of the penal colony of Bermuda will vote new supplies for the seven millions of Irishmen without a parliament But while you beg , know this fact , that the contributions of the universe in its first generous gush of pity liberal as they were did not furnish supplies for one * week of the famine of ' 47 . "
lie then proceeds to explain his remedial policv . He says : — " The first step towards helping themselves is to understand clearly whence the hurt comes . Now this is'the state of the case . " 1 . There is food in this present harvest , ripened on Irish soil , sufficient to feed the entire Irish population ; leaving a large surplus . But it is proposed to give up this harvest exclusively to a few thousand landlords , on the pretence of rent , and arrears of rent , calculated at a scandalously . fraudulent rate ; and if honestly calculated not due until after the husbandman is fed . It is proposed to give the harvest up to these proprietors , leaving three millions of peasantry—men , women , and children—to rot of hunger and dysentery , or to be supported by a ' rate in aid' on the earnings of the industrious commercial classes .
' 2 . Ihereis prontablecmploymentforeTerrunemployed man-in Ireland in draining land , subsoilineit growing food upon it , in deepening rivers for needful navigation , in reclaiming wastes , and bringing back to cultivation the artificial ' exterminated' wastes of the last three years . But it is proposed to leave the people idle to throw tkm » WtheJ % on ti industry of the country , to turn the famine nto a ma £ sacre , because a few thousand banWp Ce tors are too deeply involved : in personal dEltS to
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Scirtiantr . Two West Suffocated in a Coal PiT .-An accident of a melancholy nature occurred at the Garallan coal-works , parish of Cumnock , on the ISth instant , by which John Miller and William Hastings lost their lives . They were engaged , along with several others , in drawing the pumps out of a coal-pit . Miller was lowered down the pit on a scaffold suspended by a rope , for the purpose of screwing off a joint . He was heard to give a heavy n-oan , and one of the men asked if anything was the matter ? Ho received no answer—and Hastings , on the impulse of the moment , slid himself down by tho rope to see if anything was wrong . He reached the scaffold in safety , but did not return any answer to the inquiries of those on the pit-head re garding Miller , and immediately after Hastings
was observed to fall powerless from off the scaffold into the water below . It was then observed , for the first time , " that the pit was charged heavily with carbonic acid gas , —or , as colliers term it , " chokedamp , " —and this fact at once accounted for the accident . They then commenced to pull the scaffold ( with Miller on it ) cautiously up the pit , and despatched a messenger to Cumnock for medical assistance . Mr . Sharpo was in attendance at the p it-mouth before Miller was got out , but human skill was of no avail . Thero being at that time about fifty feet of water in the pit , the body of Hastings was not got out till the following morning , after measures had been taken to clear the pit of gas . Both of tho deceased were married , and have left wives and families to lament their untimely fate .
Rape and Mdbdeb at Aberdeen . —On the 19 th instant , the trial of James Robb , an agricultural labourer , indicted for the crimes of rape and murder , took place in tho High Court of Justiciary , before their lordships , Lord Moncrieff and Lord Cockburn . On the night of the 9 th of April last prisoner entered the house of a female named Mary Smith , in the parish of Auchterlen , Aberdeenshire , obtained admission by descending the chimney , perpetrated with great - violence the outrage described in the libel , and eventually suffocated her . The jury , after half-an-hour ' s consultation , returned
an unanimous verdict of " Guilty . " Lord Cockburn then sentenced the prisoner to be executed at Aberdeen on the 16 th of October next . Supposed Mcrder . —On Sunday evening , a number of Irish reapers in the town of Dunse quarrelled among themselves , and either on that night or early on Monday morning , a murder seems to have been committed , as the body of a man—one of the reapers—was found yesterday , terribly mangled , in a field near the Preston station . At present , however , we can furish no additional particulars . — North British Mail .
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" ^ coMsniRESiJPEusTiTioNS . -TrYhenabrideloavcs the house to be married they wash the flags at the entrance of the house , and the first single lady who entS afterwards will be the next married . At all wedding and funerals they . give a niece of the wedd n S-cake or funeral biscuit to the bees inform-£ them at the same time of the name ot the party SS or dead . If the bees do not know of the former , they become very irate , and sting every body Sin their reach ; aii if they arc ignorant of the latter th ey become sick , and many of them die .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 29, 1849, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1541/page/6/
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