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their furniture, and the windows of 

 Mr. Broadbent, the superintendant 

 of the works, were much shhrttered. 



A letter from Huddersfield, un- 

 der date of the 10th instant, says, 

 " Several persons have been appre- 

 hended on various charges of Lud- 

 dism, and are now in custody here. 

 A number of others have this week 

 abjured their illegal oath, and taken 

 the oath of allegiance ; they see 

 the calamities they have brought 

 upon themselves and neighbours 

 by the atrocious depredations they 

 have committed, and the delusions 

 they have laboured under ; aud it 

 is to be hoped they will all follow 

 the laudable example of these their 

 associates, in discharging them- 

 selves from that unlawful and ruin- 

 ous system in which they have un- 

 fortunately been engaged, and re- 

 turn to their duty and allegiance 

 before it is too late." 



14. Mil/or d. — A most horrid 

 murder was committed this day, 

 on the body of James Dean, in the 

 service of Mr. Waters, who plies 

 the passage from Bulwell to Mil- 

 ford. A person, about 40 years of 

 age, five feet nine inches high, 

 dressed in a blue jacket and trow- 

 sers, stout made, of very dark 

 complexiion, and who has lost a 

 part of one of his great toes, de- 

 scribing himself as a sailor, came 

 to Mr. Water's house at Bulwell 

 last night, saying that he had come 

 from Tenby, was looking for 

 a ship, and requested a night's 

 lodging, which he was accommo- 

 dated with ; and this morning, 

 about six o'clock, hearing Mr. 

 Waters give his boy 36 shillings, 

 with directions to go to Milford, 

 the stranger said he would go over 

 and try to get a birth ; and if he 

 could not succeed, he would give 



the bov his breakfast, and return 

 with him to see what he could do 

 at Anjile. Ithappened to be a very 

 thick fog, and the cries of murder 

 were distinctly heard from the Mil- 

 ford shore; they were supposed to 

 proceed from some boy on board a 

 vessel, chastised by the master ; 

 however, some time after, similar 

 cries were again heard, and a boat 

 was discovered by an artilleryman 

 near the shore, from which pro- 

 ceeded the cries of murder, but i^ 

 a fainter voice, and a cask or some- 

 thing else was thrown into the 

 water, after which the boat put off, 

 and was obscured in the thick fog. 

 The soldier alarmed some of the 

 neighbours, and in about an hour 

 afterwards the Bulwell passage- 

 boat was discovered near Hubber- 

 stone with a great quantity of blood 

 in it. Every possible exertion was 

 used by the magistrates in order to 

 detect the murderer. About nine 

 o'clock, the body of the unfortu- 

 nate boy was picked up, his throat 

 being cut in a shocking manner, 

 with other marks of violence. 



The man who murdered the boy, 

 was taken on Tuesday morning by 

 a party of artillerymen at Temple- 

 ton, on the road to Tenby. 



Boston. — A fatal occurrence took 

 place in the afternoon of Thursday 

 last, in Swineshead North Fen, the 

 particulars of which are as follow: 

 About four in the afternoon of 

 Thursday, as George Day bell, far- 

 mer in Swineshead, and Charles 

 Roberts, a labourer, were reaping 

 wheat, four Irishmen came up to 

 them and asked for work as reapers. 

 The road was close to the field 

 where Daybell and Roberts were 

 reaping, and one of the Irishmen, 

 who was in liquor, got over the 

 ditch, and was inclined to be very 

 1 2 quarrelsome. 



