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THE NEWSPAPER. 



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"TTmuWellows were seen near the spot, and it is I 

 ** ° 1 that they wantonly set fire to the heath, but 

 f ? PP °^ have been unable to trace the parties. 

 Triton Sunday night, a fire, ^tended with h 



F'T *,*"who a few months ago, by a similar accident, 

 ? « abo« on thousand pigeons. The lower part of the 

 ^ ^.s consumed, but the prem.ses are msured.-On 

 £2£ZL a fire broke out in one of the new rows of 

 ? ?. behind Norland Crescent, Bayswater Seven 

 SS bouses, with the piles of timber and carpen- 



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K.r nf Deaths registered in the week ending June 1. 

 " tt W«[ Di^ct., 164; Northern, 173; Central, 151, 

 TZen ! 170 ; Southern, 227; Total, 885. Weekly 

 average'for the lasUJv ejrears, 346. 



pobmcfal Nefos. 



Bedford -James Richards, the person charged with 

 bavin, passed certain notes, forming part of the property 

 drained in a stolen banker's parcel, was on Friday 

 fin. ^examined, and committed for trial at Luton His 

 .oluitor tried to induce the magistrates to accept bail, 



but they refused. 



Bradford.— We noticed last week a murder committed 

 on an inoffensive musician named Gott, who had attended 

 a procession of some Orange clubs, by a mob of Irishmen 

 in this town. After a long investigation before two of the 

 magistrates of the West Riding, four Irishmen have been 

 committed for trial at the ensuing assizes, on the charge 

 of " Wilful Murder; " and a fifth has been admitted to 

 bail, to answer a similar charge when called upon. 



Bury St. Edmund's.— -The practice of incendiarism 

 itill continues in this county, and several instances are 

 reported from different districts. The Times newspaper, 

 which last autumn sent down a reporter to trace the pro- 

 gress and causes of the outbreak in South Wales, has 

 sent a correspondent into Suffolk to institute a similar 

 inquiry into the incendiary fires. 



Derby.— Yor some time past a number of ill-disposed 

 persons have made it their business on public days to 

 destroy the glasses which cover the labels in the Arbo- 

 retum in this town. This has been done to such an ex- 

 tent as to warrant the suspicion that the mischief is not 

 the consequence of a childish freak, but the result of a 

 •yatematic determination to destroy property, which has 

 been permitted to continue for a considerable time with- 

 out being detected. The committee, in connexion with 

 the authorities of the town, are taking steps to check the 

 mischief, and discover the offenders. 



Durham. — The colliers' strike is likely to be soon 

 brought to a close, the coal- proprietors having deter- 

 mined to bung in fresh men unless the pitmen return to 

 work immediately. Many have already acted on this 

 notice, and returned to work ; and it is expected that the, 

 majority will follow their example. 



Eton. —The corner stone of the tower of the intended 

 new building at Eton College will be laid by Prince 

 Albert on Thursday next the 20th inst, with great cere- 

 mony. The Prince will arrive at the College about 11 in 

 the morning, and attend divine service in the College 

 Chapel, with the Provost and Fellows, the head master, 

 and other dignitaries of the College, together with_the 

 whole of the students." 



Guernsey.— The troops recently sent over to this 

 island hive been found unnecessary, the information 

 given to Government respecting the state of the people 

 having been greatly exaggerated. The arrival of fresh 

 troops was so little expected, that no proper accommo- 

 dation was prepared for them, and they were compelled 

 to sleep on the barrack-floors of Fort St. George. They 

 were consequently recalled, and returned last week to 

 their old quarters in the Isle of Wight. 



Lancaster.— Lord Francis Egerton's eldest son, the 

 Hon. Geo. Granville Egerton, heir to the immense 

 Bndgewater estates, will come of age on the 16th inst., 

 when the event will be celebrated by great rejoicings on 

 the noble Lord's estates in this county. The 16th fall- 

 ing on Sunday, the festivities will take place at Worsley 

 on Saturday, and at Runcorn on Monday. A marquee 

 "to be erected under which to dine 1000 persons, and 

 the amusements will close by a display of fireworks. 



Manchester.— l n a recent Parliamentary Report, it 

 was stated that numerous children in the manufacturing 

 towns are annually killed by the indiscriminate use of 

 ^odfrey s cordial and preparations of laudanum. An 



in 8 tK- ICe ° f this kiad was brought before the magistrates 

 »n this town last week, when Mr. Anderson, an apothe- 



rh Wa r \ COmi »itted by the coroner for trial on the 

 cnarge of Manslaughter, for having supplied the wife of 

 of wM C i r r ith , a P re P a ration of laudanum, from the use 



,y r cbildaied - 



fti. * irporL ~Sotne months ago information reached 



own "? tr { ft? John F'0.t, a former mayor of this 

 thTnl 1° Ja ' ! been transported for life for having led 



•cttwi \, n ° t8 in Somh W " les > ™ s sent t0 the P en:il 

 Ute • / • , * ttem Pting to escape. A letter has been 

 ^received by his family, in which he states that he 



tatUt\| , ° t ° nI y re,ea *ed from the penal settlement, 

 d«ct. W, !l!_ 8 °, Vernor ' in consequence of his good con- 

 set free in 



Wl11 he all a *"*■* "" "' H ' ,IU1U 8 " ,3 freedom, he 



the oriT ? ' * . . ° foUo * an y pursuit he may please, and 

 FTevmiL*! Qt ,m l )08e(1 upon him will be, that, of being 

 «htt such n\! ns Van D;eme n's Land. In the hope 



PW to£- , S th - e C * Se ' his wi ' e and children are prc- 

 ••"ngtojom him in his banishment. 



Romford.— The liabilities of Messrs. Johnson and Co., 

 bankers, who have stopped payment, are said to be 

 35,000/., on current and deposit accounts, and 17,000/. 

 of circulation in promissory notes. The assets are said 

 to be very limited, although considerable payments were 

 made a day or two previous to the stoppage. 



Southampton. — On Wednesday H.M.'s war-steamer 

 Sydenham, arrived at this port from St. Petersburgh, 

 having On board the late Ambassador, Lord Stuart de 

 Rothsay and suite. His Lordship, who is far from well, 

 immediately landed, and proceeded to his seat, Highcliflf, 

 near Christchurch. 



Wakefield. — On Saturday, a bear about 3 years old, 

 which had been confined in a pit in the Zoological 

 Gardens in this town, suddenly leaped over the boundary, 

 and got admission into the gardens. The proprietor, 

 Mr. Hasselgrave, was from home at the time, but his 

 wife and sister-in-law attempted to drive it back again, 

 when it turned upon them, and worried them in a shock- 

 ing manner. Assistance was fortunately at hand, and 

 the bear was shot, but not before the females were so 

 so much lacerated that for some days they were in great 

 danger. The local papers state that it was sickening to 

 see the eagerness of the bear in following the course 

 where the females were carried, licking the blood as it 

 went, and on reaching the room where they were placed, 

 forcing its paws through the windows, and endeavouring 

 to burst its way through them in pursuit of its prey. 



Railways.— The following are the returns for the past 

 week :— Birmingham and Derby, 1619/.; Birmingham 

 and Gloucester, 2541/. ; Eastern Counties, 4709/. ; Edin- 

 burgh and Glasgow, 2403/.; Great Western, 18,909/.; 

 Grand Junction, 8438/. { Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr, 

 1594/.; Great North of England, 1624/.; London and 

 Birmingham, 17,930/.; South-Western, 7118/.; Black- 

 wall, 1328/.; Greenwich, 1838/.; Brighton, 4SG67.; 

 Croydon, 473/. ; Liverpool and Manchester, 5553/. ; 

 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull, associated, 8611/. ; Mid- 

 land Counties, 3450/. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 

 4441/.; North Midland, 5202/. ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 



1321/.; South-Eastern and Dover, 4137/. ; Sheffield and 



the 

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»ct K» 5'^emor, in consequence of his 

 »ciwl.n! Pr °w Sed t0 recom ™end him to be 

 ill be all i he sncceeds in obtaining his t 



Manchester, 1269/. ; York and North Midland, 1895/. 

 A general meeting of the provisional committee for the 

 construction of the new line of railway from London to 

 York was held on Friday ; the Earl of Winch elsea in 

 the chair. The Report stated that the committee ap- 

 pointed for the purpose of adopting measures for amal- 

 gamating the two companies, then before the public, viz. 

 the Great Northern Company, and the London and 

 York, vi& Lincoln, each having in view the connecting 

 the metropolis with the city of York, and ultimately 

 with Edinburgh, had so far succeeded in their object, 

 that henceforward the two companies would act together, 

 and the committee had appointed Mr. Locke, the en- 

 ginner, to decide upon the merits of the respective 

 lines. The chairman said he fully concurred in all that 

 the Report contained, and added that he should be happy 

 to give his most cordial support to either line that the 

 engineer might prefer ; even though, regarding it in a 

 personal point of view, the other might be more advan- 

 tageous to himself. On the motion of Viscount Howick, 

 seconded by Sir G. Strickland, the Report was agreed 10 ; 

 as was a motion appointing a committee of 24 gentlemen, 

 with full potter to take measures to carry out the under- 

 taking. The committee was subsequently nominated 

 and, upon the motion of Mr. Denison, M.P., seconded 

 by the Hon. O. Duncombe, M.P., a vote of thanks was 

 passed to the chairman for his services m promoting 

 the success of the company.— A public meeting was 

 held on Friday, at the Council Chamber, Salisbury, when 

 resolutions in support of the formation of a junction line 

 from Salisbury, through Warminster, Trowbridge, and 

 other intermediate towns, to the Great Western Railway, 

 near Bath, were carried unanimously.— The number of 

 persons who travelled by the Great Western on the Ascot 

 Cup day was 16,766, besides 229 gentlemen s private car- 

 riages and 551 horses. The money receipts amounted to 

 more than 4100/. The Great Western Extension Line 

 to Oxford was examined by the directors on Monday, 

 and opened to the public on Tuesday. The journey was 

 performed in rath er less than 2j hours. 



IRELAND. 



The State Trials.— The last " motion" in the 

 State Trials was made in the Court of Queen's Bench on 

 Monday. The Attorney-General attended on that day to 

 argue in support of a demurrer to the assignments of 

 error filed on the part of the traversers, as a preliminary 

 step to the writ of error to be argued before the House 

 of Lords. Sir C. O'Loghlen announced that it was not 

 their intention to argue the case, but they should allow 

 the demurrers to go by default, as the chief assignment 

 had been argued and decided upon in the motion on the 

 plea of abatement. Under these circumstances the 

 Court ordered judgment toj be entered for the Crown, 

 and the trials have consequently closed so far as the tri- 

 bunal* of Ireland are concerned. Thursday, the btti 

 Julv, is the day fixed for opening the case in toe 

 House of Lords.— The weekly meeting of the Kepe 

 Association took place on Monday; Lord Ffrencn was 

 in the chair, and said that Mr. O'Connell had been 

 sacrificed to the insatiable vengeance of an infuriate 

 faction, whose distinguishing characteristic wtis innro 

 rate hatred of Ireland, Irish interests, and w if act 

 everything Irish. What Irishman could behold anmowd 

 such a spectacle as the incarceration of him, who f< r halt 

 a century had devoted the powers of his IV^*£ 

 the amelioration of Fatherland, which for ~" l «™ P" 

 viously had groaned beneath the iron hoof of alien dm na- 

 tion. After some further remarks in a ^iUr s ra ^ „ p 0n 

 Mr.O'Conneli's imprisonment, his Lordship stated that he 



had come up to town for the sole purpose of presenting 

 ** the Liberator n and his fellow-martyrs with two ad- 

 dresses from parishes in his county, the inhabitants of 

 which were boiling with indignation at O'Connell's 

 unjust and unmerited conviction, and had resolved, 

 44 come weal, come wo," that on their parts there should 

 be no shrinking. Mr. H. G rattan, M.P., having given 

 in a subscription of 5/., said that on his way to meet 

 them, he had passed through London, and by design had 

 abstained from entering the House of Commons. En- 

 glishmen would probably say, that after the respect which 

 they had paid to the memory of his father, it was a bad 

 return that the son should neglect his duty on a debate 

 important to their interest. He had met many English- 

 men during his travels whom he respected and loved, and 

 he would always love Englishmen in the same degree 

 that they loved his countrymen, but he would also hate 

 them when they displayed a hatred of Irishmen, and 

 though they had the bones of his father, they should 

 never have those of the son. A year had passed since 

 he left Ireland, and during that period he had visited 

 many countries, and nowhere did he find one party set 

 against another. Sectarian prejudices were unknown ; 

 all was unanimity, peace, and prosperity. It was for this 

 country, blessed, forsooth, with a constitution, and boast- 

 ing of the trial by jury, that everything that was bad in 

 human nature should develop itself. What are the words 

 of the English Tory papers ? Did they nofr call the Irish 

 people savages, and their priests surpliced ruffians, and 

 a demon priesthood? So long as they continued to give 

 vent to these expressions, so long would he hate the 

 English people, because he considered these papers as 

 the friends of that people, for they were supported by 

 them. He then proceeded at considerable length to 

 detail the injustices which England had inflicted on 

 Ireland, and concluded by announcing his intention — 

 firm as if he had taken an oath— that he would never 

 enter the House of Commons unless driven there by the 

 injunction of his constituents. Mr. T. M'Nevin (bar- 

 rister-at-law), having detailed the substance of an answer 

 given by Mr. O'Connell to an address which he had pre- 

 sented to him from the Association, proceeded to 

 attack the Emperor of Russia, whom he described 

 as brought over by the gaolers of O'Connell, from his 



occupation of fetter-forging and peopling Siberia, 

 to enjoy a bear-hugging with Prince Albert in a lobby. 

 A great number of large sums of money was announced 

 to have been received from the wards of the city of 

 Dublin, and various localities throughout the country, in 

 which meetings of sympathy have been held, and a letter 

 was read from Lord Stourton inclosing a remittance. 

 Mr. S. O'Brien, M.l\, read an address from the Com- 

 plete Suffrage Union of England, signed "Joseph 

 Sturge," and expressing indignation at the imprison- 

 ment of Mr. O'Connell, and moved that it be referred 

 to the committee of the Association to prepare a suitable 

 reply. The hon. gentleman said that he could assure 

 them from personal experience that Mr. O Connell was 

 in high health and spirits. He had the happiness of 

 spending the previous evening with him, and he could 

 assure them that his feelings regarding his present situa- 

 tion were those of unbounded exultation. It was now 

 whispered through town that Government, not content 

 with imprisoning O'Connell, intended to prevent the 

 Association from meeting in that ball, by issuing a pro- 

 clamation against it Although it was rather unusual to 

 do so, he would open a part of the tactics of the Associa- 

 tion, and he told their enemies that it was the ^termi- 

 nation of the committee of the Association to try the 

 legality of such a proceeding by an appeal to a jury of 

 their fellow-countrymen, by way of civil action, and also 

 bv way of defence to any criminal proceedings against 

 them. In the event of a proclamation being issued 

 against the Association, the intention was to call a meet- 

 ing of it, and he begged that he might be permitted to 

 take the chair on that occasion. He then proceeded to 

 impress upon his auditory the necessity of preying -the 

 peace, whatever measures the Government m.g! t ^choMB 

 o take against their friends. The total .moan of con- 

 tribution, on the « second week of the captiv lt j was 

 announced to be 3200/.-Several of the ^a ^1 c 



bishop. *Z^$%?5^ andtafy Tf 



uansuired respecting the alleged suppression of the 

 transp rea r , ^ ^ given that 



RCP tf«rmt Repeal buttons will be allowed to enter 

 ZZrTc of quarter, of the troo P s.-On Thursday a 

 the barracks or 1 ve hicles, filed with corpo- 



P ? Ce a u horit e proceeded to the Richmond Penitentiary 

 S^t iddre^e. of condolence to Mr. O'Connell. 

 Tiic P y Contained deputies from Cork, Limerick, Water- 

 ford! Galway, Kilkenny, Clonmel, Ennis New Ross, 

 Carrick-on-Suir, Fethard, Fermoy, and Kelly. On 

 reaching the prison the Mayor of Cork went up the 

 steps, where the Governor of the prison was standing to 

 receive him, and asked admittance. The Governor 

 courteously stated that he could allow ^ deputation to 

 enter the prison for the purpose of presenting ^n « ou r 

 to anv person confined in it, but he was happy ' o « J 

 that Mr. O'Connell and his Wend, ^ere^in gocd he 



The Mayor and deputition then left % eiv **£ \, Uv0 r* 

 ing the Governor for his courtesy. Ine oui* 



and deputations went through the J r0iT9 ^ - a - 



cession, but the Mayor of Limencii j _ ^ crowd< 

 the regulation, and was loudly chjeere^ j^ 



was en- 

 hich be 



no 



ing the Governor for his courtesy. i44V ny in ««>c- 

 and deputations went through the same ^^/^.inst 



cession, but the Mayor of LimericK j tfae crnwA ^ 



the regulation, and was loudly cheere^ j^ 



The procession then returned in uie W| 



Z.im*ri<*.-Cn Friday t:.eM»;* M 

 Bering the Exchange to preside at 



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