THE NEWSPAPER. 



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£E. -i«k *• ff^S'l,. bad come to the 

 2* wbjwt in a" "• be* no. ^ of the tey 



*U*ion tb«t it «w' J b , e /" r a Urge- that these trial* 



— ^ the U»", ed p K, f e T lt a , at "they would produce 



JSaotttto P!"" on H a ^ d lead to all the eviU conse- 



*~ nt "Vf sute In Ae midst of such agitation 

 Bpon such a swe- country could not apply 



S "° m fi a of ommerce or agriculture. He 

 a^to tbe promotion u ia communlca . 



S3* " U lhC tfall pa "e since the prosecutions had 

 tl0 o«i0. f°°' a Lliered it to be the general desire 

 •aneed. he nrmiy oc be eventetl |,„ 



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ST tbw don ffl ent c ; tta - ^.^red trend, 



iB ,' Bpon the ^Y«?h?«riteed that an expression 

 be aarred ground , but ™™ twcea WO uld be cal- 



rfptWic feeling under all the urcu herefore move 



tt^Cc^^Stb? Q^n praying her Ma- 

 ^tm amnesty for the past and to appoint a 



StTi necessary of the whole House of Com- 

 ^ o Lc rtain tbe causes of discontent which tin- 

 ESlf Prevailed. This motion was seconded by 

 Ean Bovse and carried unammously.-On ^ ed- 

 Md.f f being 'the day fixed for striking the special jury, 

 Zla« advisers of the traversers applied for further time, 

 •tid for a copy of the list drawn _ up J>y the Recorder 



Wr. Ma 

 declared 



the Berwick mail, from Darlington, and 

 that the guard and coachman from Darlington to Berwick 

 (who appear to have had their attention attracted to her 

 by some eccentricities of manner) were of opinion that 

 she had come from London to Darlington bv railway on 

 the night of Tuesday the 12th December. Her original 

 residence is, therefore, shifted from the south of Scotland 

 altogether; and may perhaps account for the circum- 

 stance that no inquiries have been made by any of her 

 friends. It is the opinion of those who have seen her 

 that the poor girl is insane. 



Dumfries.— A meeting was held in the Council 

 Chamber, Dumfries, on Wednesday, to form an associa- 

 tion against the crows of Nithsdaie. The attendance is 

 said to have been great. Some farmers said it cost them 10/. 

 yearly to herd their crops ; others, that the crows did them 

 10/. of damage ; others computed the damage at 10,000/. 



- - ~ ..~^„ auu from crow depredations ! A committee was appointed to 



appeared in the "Edinburgh Review," and which be , wait u P on the proprietors of rookeries, requesting them to 

 attributed to Mr. Trevelyan, who he said some time a^ check the increase of crows, and a subscription in aid of 

 published some letters calumniating Ireland in the Morn he object of the meeting was entered into. 

 ing Chronicle. He moved the insertion of extracts from! " - 



speech delivered by mc iaie j-iora Mayor on t» a t day on 

 retiring from office ; and on the part o"f the tracers dis- 

 claimed all anxiety for the intercession of the crporation 

 or any other body of men with the Queen, in" a vour of 

 the gentlemen against whom the stale prosecutes had 

 been commenced. The -people's leaders had committed 

 no crime ; and much as they revered and reipectd her 

 Majesty they could not therefore supplicate her p r don 

 Mr. Steele fully concurred in these sentiments." Mr' 

 J. O Connell read two letters from his father, e?.pre s i n ^ 

 his gratification at the recent adhesion to the Re, e -ii 

 cause of Mr. Smith O'Brien, Mr. O'Neill, of Buno ea 

 Castle, Col. Caulfield, and other gentlemen ; and incl s . 

 ing his subscription to the Repeal rent, and those of K 

 grandchildren. After several letters had been read ari 

 remittances acknowledged, Mr. J. O'Connell spoke a 

 some length on the subject of a recent article which had 



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and for a copy oi we »« " l °"" -*-_,-■' . .. n „ 

 Mr. Mahony, Mr. Ford, and Mr. Cantwell, severally 

 i~\ i »u.; r»„«ati>f. nnnlir.ations had been made to the 







•centra inn icjica^u •„,»——. - 



aberiff, the clerks of the peace, and the Recorder, wituout 

 eff«x The High Sheriff (Mr. Latouche) said he was 

 only anxious to do equal justice to both parties, and con- 

 sidering tbe responsibility of his posicion, he decided 

 upon giving the list only on receiving the consent of both. 

 He did not consider he was directed by the act to give the 

 eanel, but be had come to the decision of giving it to both, 

 but not to one or the other. If, therefore, the parties 

 applied to him he wouid give it to both. After some 

 further conversation, it was finally arranged that a clerk 



ild attend on the part of the Crown solicitor, at the . ...___ 



office of the sub-sheriff, with Mr. Cantwell, one of the | it for private examination." 

 attorneys for the traversers, to make copies of the special rather not send any mon 

 jury . which would be compared and certified by the 

 High Sheriff, and Thursday at twelve o'clock was fixed for 

 striking. ^ special jury. In the course of the proceed- 

 ings Mr. Latouche stated that he had a general jury book, 

 a»d also a special jury list, in compliance with the act of 

 Parliament, that it was from the latter the jury would be 

 ■truck. After this decision nine clerks were set to work 

 m the sheriff's office copying out the special panel, 



r, which consisted of 717 names. It is said there were 

 •out 4oU Conservatives, and the remainder Liberal 

 3" 1 ;. aad .K°»" Catholics. On Thursday 

 E?^ °{ thG ^y took place in the 

 Presan ll t 0fhCe ' Several or ' the traversers were 



inm co Z P T rep ° rter ° n each side - T » e ' l ' 

 *5» ' olZ ' Md Put ilU0 the ^Hot-box. The 



the ground^ "a rt i "^ made ^ the traversers, on 

 Tho^.^ were drawn out. 



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the article on the minutes of the Association. The rent 

 for the week was announced to be 280/. 2s. 2d. 



Fi?inoe.—A poor man named James Ardill, who held 

 the situation of ploughman to Mr. Joseph Falkiner, of 

 Rodeen, near Finnoe, the scene of the late tragedy, was 

 murdered last week when within a few doors of his own 

 cabin and in the hearing of his family. He was overtaken 

 by a party of men, who immediately fell upon and mur- 

 dered him by striking him several blows on the head with 

 weapons called « skull crackers," any one of which would 

 have been quite sufficient to cause instant death. His 

 wife and children on hearing his shrieks rushed to his 

 assistance only in time to discover him a corpse. At the 

 inquest, after the widow had given her evidence, the 

 magistrate said that if her testimony was sufficient to 

 answer the purpose of the inquest, he wouid not offer any 

 other witness for examination. The foreman of the jury 

 said " I did not like to ask the question if he had a dis- 

 pute with any person. If I was upon an inquest in any 

 other country I would do it ; but it would not be safe for 

 any person here to put the question. I would rather leave 





The Magistrate : " I would 

 y more evidence." The Foreman : 

 " Our verdict is— that this is a barbarous and brutal 

 murder by some persons unknown." 





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SCOTLAND. 



Edinburgh.— It is announced that Mr. M'Donald's 

 scheme for the erection of 500 schools, in connection with 

 the free church is making favourable progress. It has 

 been resolved to raise 50,000/. for this purpose, and 

 already 20,000/. of this sum has been obtained.— On 

 Wednesday week the indictment for trial was served 

 on Mrs. Gilmour in the prison in this city. The 

 trial is to take place on the 12th; instant. —The 

 Scotsman states that an individual died here a 

 short time since, who obtained an unenviable noto- 

 riety more than 20 years ago. This was the Hon. and 

 Rev. Percy Joselyn, Bishop of Clogher, who was indicted 

 for a crime committed in London in 1822, forfeited bail 

 and fled, was degraded from his ecclesiastical dignity, and 

 has never been heard of till now. He lived under the 

 assumed name of Thomas Wilson, Salisbury-place, Edin- 

 burgh, to which he removed four years ago, having previ- 

 ously resided in Glasgow. His incognito was only known 

 to one or two individuals in the neighbourhood, who kept 

 the secret till after his death. The application for inter- 

 ment was made in the name of Thomas Wilson. There 

 was a plate upon the coffin which he had got prepared 

 some years before, but without any name upon it. It bore 

 a Latin inscription, the sense of which was as follows : — 

 * Here lie the remains of a great sinner, saved by grace, 

 whose hope rests in the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus 

 Christ." Tiie preparation of this inscription years before 

 shows that he was deeply penitent. He was very anxious 

 to conceal his true name, having got it carefully oblite- 

 rated from his books and articles of furniture. He was 

 buried at his own request in the most private manner at 

 7 in the morning. — The movement for the establishment 

 of public baths for the working classes is going on prosper- 

 ously. On Wednesday a meeting was held in the Music- 

 hull for considering the subject, which was addressed by 

 the Lord Provost, Lord Dunfermline, Dr. Alison, and 

 other parties of influence. Lord Dunfermline pointed to 

 his proposition of the working classes as clearly indicating 

 a vast advance made by them, and as heralding still fur- 

 ther improvement. — The Edinburgh papers have lately 

 contained long accounts of a young lady who made her 

 appearance at a lodging-house in Queensferry in male 

 attire, and on being suspected stated that she was of 

 Greek extraction ; but that her father about three years 

 ago, had come into possession of landed property in the 

 south of Scotland, where they had lately been residing. 

 She further stated that her friends had insisted upon her 

 marrying an old gentleman of eighty, and that the cere- 

 mony had actually been performed that morning; but 

 that she was so disgusted with the disparity of the match 

 that &he had seized an opportunity when left to herself, 

 of disguising herself in the dress in which she had come 

 to Queensferry, arid effecting her elopement from her 

 friends altogether. She refused, however, to give any 

 names, or anything that might lead to the testing of the 

 s ^° i r y , i The police were ordered to watch her movements, 



On Wednesday 

 paid ber bill and disappeared, and all tr 

 of her has been lost. In t meantime, it is proved that 

 one part of her story is untrue; for ins id of comi: 



Plague of Locusts. — The following account appears in 

 ne of the Indian papers received by the overland mail : — 



There has been a vast flight or flights of locusts, which 

 J^e apparently laid waste a belt of country extending 

 fro > the right bank of the Ganges across the Dooab, and 

 P e . ni rating over the Jumna into Gwalior. They com- 

 mute dreadful ravages in the districts of Furukabad, 

 J^tawa on botn banks of the j umnaf and at Dnolpore 



Irf i walior Stflte ; and it; was feared *ater accounts 



ti! ? it muc!l more dama ? e t0 nave been committed. 

 lhe tollov ng are the rarticu i ars :— On the 16th of Sep- 

 tember aoc. t 5 PM# they came over to Futtehghur, the 

 principal ci f f the Furukabad district, and in an hour's 

 time they a(1 str jpp e d every vestige of cultivation, 

 tn-eaking 4ou. h i arge oranc ] ies f trees Wlth their we \ (J hU 

 *rom Ltavah a traveller going down the river Jumna 

 wrltes ° n he 17ch that the ravages committed have 

 extended for mi, s . T n pass i n g ver the boat, the noise is 

 described as teintlike distant thunder. But a letter just 

 received fromDho n ore states that the flight passed over 

 it on tne 14th,thaiit came from the eastward, and after 

 remaining tweny- e i iht hours took its departure in the 

 same direction; to tiat there must have been more than 

 one flight tc > have ,eei simultaneously at Etawah and at 

 *utteghur, distant , e ar y 100 miles. The destruction to 

 the crops in that jprton of the north-west provinces, 

 through which m anonh or two troops will be passing, 

 is stated to be enorm, as . The reve nue of course must be 

 given up, and taken ^connection with the state of affairs 

 in the north-west, it iu St altogether be looked on as a 

 most grievous calamity.' 



Stationery Provosts.-\ t is rather a curious coincidence 

 that the Chiet Magistrate f London, Edinburgh, Glas- 

 gow, and Perth, should ai present all be mtmibers of the 

 respectaole fraternity of St*onfifs.~CaIedonian Mercury. 



Strange Coincidences.—^ Courricr Francais states 

 that some days since a states^ an d academician, in the 

 course of a conversation whic. t ook place in the library of 

 the National Institute, observe that in the middle of each 

 century for the last rive hundre yean some 

 crisis had occurred in Europe. " a " i^q « ga j d ne 

 the art of printing which created* revolution, 'in 1550 

 it was Luther who shook the fondation of Catholicity. 

 In 1650 it was Bacon and Descart s wLo demolished the 

 infallibility of Aristotle. In 1750 it Yas philosophy which 

 triumphed and prepared the revoltion of 1789. We 

 approach the year i860, and it is evient society is pre- 

 paring to undergo a fundamental renottio**" 



Classical Discoveries The Nation announces the 



return of M. Minoi de Minas from a scbit.ftc mission in 

 Greece, Thessaly, and Constantinople, wh*h lasted three 

 years and was undertaken at the desire of *i e Minister of 

 Public Instruction. Amongst the valuabh manuscript! 

 discovered and brought to France by M. M . i;s m ust be 

 noticed Fables by liabryas, a fragment of tb\20th book 

 of Polybius, several extracts from Dexippus atf Eusebius 

 — two historians but little known to us, a fragm^ f the 

 historian Pryseas, a treaty of the celebrated Gall** which 

 was deficient in his collection, a new edition of^sott'i 

 Fables with a life of the fabulist, a Treatise o:H4reek 

 Syntax by Gregory of Corinth, an unpublished Grai tnar 

 of Theodosius of Alexandria, a history of the Conquer f 

 China by the Tartar?, and various other works, w\ ca 

 have safely arrived at Paris. 



Metallic Cement At the Society of Arts last week* 



paper was read by the Secretary on the new patent metalh. 

 cement, a composition of sand and of the refuse of coppe* 

 commingled, and of a peculiarly hard and durable de- 

 scription. Specimens of its application to building pur- 



great social 

 w it was 



find an abundant market in the mountains of Wales, 

 Where the refuse of copper was so great that the proprietors 

 did not know what use to make of it. Fresco paintings 

 worked upon the surface of this cement were likewise 

 exhibited, the result of the method being that they may- 

 be preserved much longer by this process than by the 

 usual method. 



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WivTKrt Asttsat, Oxronn CfftCvlf, RTATFoan.— Sarah West- 



wood was charged with having murdered ber hnaband, John 



Wc>twood, by t adminiatrat i of arsenic. It was proved that 



the prisoner had purchased the arsenic, and had Imioistercd 



jrrnel to her husband, in which some white powder bad been 



, * " ~- " Vl «wij .a uimuc, iwi unvwi ^. ^.n...^ mixed, and that be died ion afterwards. The aargeoa stated 



iroin tne south of Scotland, it is ascertained that she came that on a pout morttm explanation he anal} zed the contents of 



