The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality

"\J"l'J'E ("I,' "'(')'l"01'j")'U" nl'p¡ CAi-TL'?ECFA?OTOJ?OUS BL'?'LAR. lior a considerable t.me past the members of the metropolitan police force have been engaged in investigating the circumstances of several burglaries that have been committed within the Metropolitan district, but their efforts to discover th" perpetrator or perpetrators of the offence have been baffled until within the last few days. In December iast a man, who gave the name of Davis, was apprehended in Oxford-street, with ;i large quantity of plate in his possession, which it was believed was stolen; and though he was detained in ;uetody for three weeks, and every means taken to ascertain the owner or owners of the property, he was discharged for want of one being found. On the night of Tuesday, the 8th inst,, the house of IL-. Fitzgerald, situated in Clapham Rise, and that of Mason, residing next door, were burglariously oiteretl, and a quantity of plate, jewellery, &c., was stolen therfrotu. Infor- mation was given to the police, and on their examining the premises, they found they had been entered by practised burglars, and on the following day they discovered that a female, a foreigner, had offered portions of the property for pledge at three or four different pawnbrokers in the City. This rather puzzled the police, knowing, as they do, that practised burglars never offer stolen property in pledge. All the information they could obtain of her was, that she was a stylishly dressed person, and scarcely able to speak English, and they lost all trace of her. On Tuesday night last, it will be recol- lected that a man was apprfhended at the ChelnsJord Railway Station, through the inntrume.itaiity of Jlr. (iorehow, whose husband carried on business as a jeweller, at Chelmsford, and £ 700 worth of plate, j(S\:e1,I;ts:JI:1,;];;1}i .'s ;(l";i\ir:: sion in a black bag. Th" prisoner described himself as a Dutchman, and gavetlJe i1ame 0f John Philips, but on superintendent Aiay searching him, he found certain papers in his possession which proved that the prisoner had been some time in England, though he said he had only been in England two or three months, and that he hd passed under the name of Davis. )1r. Superintendent May immediately came to London, and put himself in communication with Inspector Whicher, of the IJetropolitan police force who at once felt certain thc prisoner was connected with the female who had pawned the property stolen at Clapham at the different pawnbrokers in the City. Inspector Wliicher, assisted by Sergeant llobinson, commenced inqiuires after the female, and found that she had been living for nine months past with the prisoner at a house in the Borough Market. On going there she denied that she knew the prisoner Philips, but Sergeant liobinson, on searching the room, found amongst a large quantity of valuable property, a gold seal with an agate handle, similar to that described as stolen from Nlr. Fitzgerald, at Clapham. They immediatly apprehended her, and conveyed her to Nlr. Fitzgerald's residence, when the seal was identified, and she was formally charged with burglary. She then confessed to having pawned the plate, jewellery, &e., in the city, which she said was given to her by Philips, now in custody at Chelmsford. The officer then returned to her luclging", and there found a gilt ormolu clock (a portion of the property stolen from the house of a gentleman in Peckham Itye on the] st of the month). A large quantity of duplicates of valuable property, wearing apparel, &c„ and also a quantity of miscellaneous articles of plate, jewellery, &c., was found in the room, together with a number of ladies' trinkets. It appears, from inquiries that have since been made, that the prisoner Philips, who passed in December in the name of Davis, is a Dutchman, named Van Popler. Three years since the prisoner, with his father, mother, wife, and brother, were tried and convicted at Maidstone for burglary, when he was sentenced to four years' penal servitude, but he was released about twelve months since, when he must have had recourse again to his former practices. The property found on him in December last, in Oxford-street, has remained in the possession of the police, and since his apprehension for the robbery at Chelmsford, it has been discovered it was the proceeds of a lmrgbry on the premises of Mr. Wickhani, a gentleman residing in Berkshire, on the night of the 3rd of December last. Van Popler is in no way connected with any of the gang of bur- glars in London, which accounts for his remaining so long undiscovered and unknown to the metropolitan police. Van Popler will be tried at the ensuing Chelmsford assizes, for the burglary at Chelmsford, and should he be acquitted he will be apprehended on the Clapham burglaries. The female will be | examined before the Wandsworth police magistrate on an early day.

A CLEVER CARTURE.—An absconding debtor, who left Liverpool some years ago for New Orleans, where he made a large fortune, was understood to havc reccntly arrived at Southampton, and gone on a visit to Prance. One of his old creditors for a large amount of money des- patched Inspector Bates in quest of the slippery indivi- dunl, and, after a chase through La Belle France, he ran the prey to earth at Havre. He was accompanied by a lady, ilm1 they had with them a large amount of money. The delinquent, finding no chance of escape, unless he made restitution, consented to hand over several thousand pounds on account of the claim against him, and this having been accepted, he was, under certain conJitioDS satisfactory to the Frcnch law, set at liberty. -Liverpool Albion. How TO MAKE SOLDIERS.—We understand that the Kigh Sheriff, Ilr. Thomas Smith, in his address to the grand jury at Winchester Assizes, on his health being proposed, after alluding to the entire want of military ardutir in the lower orders, in comparison with other nations, suggested to the magistrates whether it would not be desirable that a system of drilling the children in all the parish schools, by teaching them to march in line, be adopted, which would, at all events, improve them, and it might also instil into them and into the minds of their elder brothers some military spirit. And, in order to carry out this throughout the kingdom without expense and loss of time, he suggested that the polke should he allowed to devote about six hours during one year uiily-tliit is, half an hour in each month, in teaching the children to march in line, after which they would do it for their own amusement in preference to any other, and one of the eldest boys would be able and willing to attend to them, especially if he received a trifling present occasionally. These suggestions were fayonrabIy received and responded to by some of the magistrates.—Berkshire Chronicle. ACCIDENT IN THE STORM.—As the Rev. W. S. l'owe]], rector of Abingcr, was returning home with his wiic ,mll youngest son, on Thursday evening week, from Chcam chGol, they were overtaken, when approaching LCl:tLerhea:1, by a violent storm, in thc course of which the driver of their fly was either struck or fell from his box. They proceeded some distance without discover- ing that he was missing, only at length perceiving his loss by the light of a vivid flash of lightning. In about half a mile the horses stopped of themselves, and they then proceeded back in search of him. They found him walking towards them, and though complaining of in- juries to his head, lie was able to walk to Leatherhead, where Mr. Owcn, the surgeon, was quickly in attendance upon him. The poor man was put to bed, and hope was entertained that he was not seriously injured; but in less than two hours he expired, leaving a widow and six children. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Powell nor their little boy sustained any injury, though their escape was almost miraculous, both from the danger of being over- set and also from the fury and apparent nearness of the storm, while they" ere seeking for the driver. Mr. L"wre"čc. of the Duke's Head, Leatherhead, with his family, rendered them most prompt assistance, and thc villagers wcre very helpful and attentive. LXTHAORDIKARTC AND BLASPHEMOUS MEETING.—On ull\1ay, some three or four thousand persons assembled oil Skireoat Moor, in consequence of the extraordinary announcement issued last week by a woolcomber, named J, Taylor, who, there can be no doubt, is labour- ing under aberration of the brain It had been pre- dicted by this son of a prophet," that God would ap- pear in a visible form upon Skircoat Moor, on Sunday afternoon. There was to be no thunder or lightning, as at Sinni; but a little before two o'clock II thunder storm of unusual violence, though of. short duration, broke over the neigbourhood, thus falsifying the blasphemous prediction of the impostor. Still, however, some thou- sands of people found their way to the moor. At three o'clock Taylor commenced to address the meeting. After speaking about ten minutes, as to how God had manifested himself to him, he requested his numerous hearers to look towards the cast, observing that God would appear in the bodily form of the father of a young man who had taken up his position near him. The peo- ple looked in the direction indicated for some minutes, but there was no "manifestation;" and the multitude, enraged at the impudent manner in which they had been duped, commenced hissing and sodding the false prophet, who would probably have been disabled had not his friends hurried him from the Common in the cart which had been provided as a platform. Taylor was formerly a local preacher amongst the Wesleyans, He is still at large, the authorities having taken no no- tice of the blasphemous proceedings which have aroused to such a degree the indignation of the inhabitants.— ,Uancl,esler Exam in er.

THE SUFFRAGE. I It be oorne in mind that we do not beg this as a boon; but, in the name of the people, we de- mand it as a right. It is a right of which they nave been long unjustly deprived—a right to which tney are entitled by the bare fact of their ex- istence—a right which the sweat of their brow and the labour of their hands have dearly, fairly, and honestly earned. The absurd fallacy that "the peuple have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them,, is now finally exploded and the uii- deniable right of freeborn men to share in the managemant of their own affairs is on the eye of being conceded. in spite of the sneers of a Palmerston. the mock- heroics of a Russell, or the subtle sophistries of a quibbling Benjie, it will not much longer be tolerated that little Arundel, with a population of Miy x,7/;8. shall enjoy the privilege of sending to l'arhament the nominee of Ilis (,race of Norfolk, v.'hiist the dense mass of working men located in W estbromwich, and numbering 34,591 souls, have only the privilege of the local aristocracy voting for South Staffordshire. Nor will Ashburton, with •J,432 inhabitants, have much longer the power of makmg itself heard in the House of Commons, whilst Birkenhead, with 24,285, is compelled to be s¡Jent. It is absurd to think that Evesham, with -60D inhabitants, should be entitled to a seat in the national legislature, whilst Duckinfield, with must remain standing outside. We find that lleigate, Northallerton, and Calne, whose united population amounts but to 1.3,117, are eacli honoured with a vote in the Commons' House, whilst Mottram, Burnley, and Staleybridge, with a popu- lation of 62,803, are glad to skulk in by the back door oi a county constituency.

THE LATE FIREWORK EXPLOSIONS.—We regret to have to announce the death of another victim of these explosions—Mrs. Frances Bennett, better known as Madame Coton, expired on Monday night in Guy's Hospital. It was in Madame Coton's establishment the explosions commenccd. AN EDINBURGH CIVIC SOLON.—At a recent meeting of the Town Council of Edinburgh, Councillor Hope moved that the Superintendents of Police be ordered to turnish returns, showing the religion of every policeman, scavenger, and lamplighter in the city of Edinburgh. Councillor Crighton seconded the motion, which, after an amusing debate, was negatived by a majority of 20 to 1. The seconder declined to vote. Ctin.o-Dr.ori-iNG.—On Tuesday, the body of a child, supposed to be stillborn, and apparently about seven days old. was found in the cellar of a house occupied by a Mrs, Mary Crawley, of 57, Dudley-street, Seven Dials. The circumstance was immediately brought under the notice of the policeman on duty, George Matthews, F 70, who conveyed it at once to St. Giles's Workhouse, where it remains. There is no clue, at present, as to the whereabouts of its unnatural mother. HEALTH OF LONDON.—The deaths in London in the week ending July 17th were 1,173. The tendency in thc mortality to increase, caused by the heat, appears to have been temporarily checked by the fall of the tempe- rature, together with the timely rains. The mean tem- perature of the air was in the four weeks ending June 26th, 06 dgs.; in the two subsequent weeks it fell to 57 dgs.; and last week it rose again to 66 dgs. Last week the births of 788 boys and "96 girls, in all 1,484 children, were registered in London. In the ten corrcponding weeks of the years 1848-57 the average number was 1,408. TUADSTORM AT DUIUNFIELD.—A very heavy shower of min took place on Sunday, about 1 o'clock, accom- panied by vivid fiashes of lightning and loud claps of thunder. The lightning struck a tree near the Dukin- field Recreation-grounds, Cheetham-hill-road, and near the premises where considerable damage was done by lightning some years ago. There was also a very heavy shower of rain in Dakiniield on Friday last, and after it was over, thousands of small toads were found in Hall- green and about Dukinfield Park. We understand that a couple of handfuls were taken out of one small hole, and the children were filling their pockets with them. Many arc yet to be seen in Dukinfield Park.—Manches- ter Examiner. ACCIDENT ON THE EDINEURGII AND GLASGOW RAlL- WAY.—An accident occurred on this line, near Polmont, on Tuesday morning. A special excursion train from Edinburgh, with nine carriages, in consequence of the driver not having kept P. good look-out, ran past a red signal which was exhibited to protect some waggons which were being shunted into a siding, and before he could pull up his train it came in contact with them, with sufficient torce to bring one or two of the passengers' heads into slight collision, resulting, however, in nothing more serious than a few scratches. No damage was done to the plant, and the train proceeded to Glasgow arter a few minutes delay, necessary to get the waggons into the siding, and arrived in Glasgow a, proper time —7Vo?A Briti," Daily Mail. "?  ??"?' THE SurroSED MDRBER AT JIAMPSTEAD.—A c ii- siderable amount of excitement was caused by the re- ports given in the papers of a man being found murdered at Hampstead, bnt it is satisfactory to know that the probability is strongly in favour of the supposition that it is not a case of murder. Mr. Wakley has held an inquest on the body, at which the following facts were elicited:—On the evening of the 10th instant one of the Hampstead constables found a respectably-dressed man lying dead in a field at Haverstock-hil). By his side lay a knife, anti it was found that two wounds had been re- cently inflicted just below the right knee, cutting through the muscles and arteries, with every appearance of having been done by himself. The clothes having been kept at the workhouse, were identified as having t'e- longed to Ilf. William Dixon, of Hatton-garden. COMMITTEE ON BANK ACTS.—The report from the Select Committe on the Bank'Acts of 1854-5, which was instructed to inquire into the causes of the recent com- mercial distress, and to investigate how far it has been affected by the laws for regulating the issue of bank notes payable on demand, has been presented and was issued on Tuesday morning. It is a lengthy and elaborate document, carefully analysing the evidence taken, The conclusions arrived at by the Committee may be gathered from the following paragraph of the report:—Your committee have stated the reasons by which it is established, to their satisfaction, that the recent commercial crisis in this country, as well as in America and in the north of Europe, was mainly owing to excessive speculation and abuse of credit; and also, that in the time of pressure the houses which deserved assistance received it from the Bank of England in a manner in which that establishment would not have been able to give it, except for the bullion retained in their coffers; and your committee are satisfied to leave in thc discretion 01 tne executive Government the time and prudent opportunity of giving further effect to those principles by which the convertibility of the Bank of England note has been kept above suspicion. WHERE IS JEDDAH?—Jeddah is builtalong the shore in the form of a parallelogram, extending almost due north and south. From the sea it has a poor appearance: only a few minarets rise above ttielioiises, which present a long line of mean buildings. From the sea there is no entrance except through tlie shabby irregular courts of the custom-house, which are littered with lazy employes and bales of coffee and gum. The gate is at the end of a wide street, one side of which is occupied by a palace built by the former Sheriff Gholeb, and is lined on either side by a dark lOW of coffee-booths, which arc filled from morning till night with crowds of idlers an smoKing tlie nargileh, The bazaar, principally composed of wooden booths, runs almost at right angles to this street, leaving in the ccntre only a narrow passage often obstructed by camels and their loads which they de- posit before the entrance of the okels, The ok cIs are 1111 placed in this quarter, rendering it no easy matter to pick one's way through the masses of merchandise around them. The shops an poorly furnished—more than one half of them retail eatables; the rest of them display coarse china, porcelain or European earthenware -the venerable willow pattern predominant on the English ivares-otton, coarse abayahs, cornelian beads and rosaiies. Two or three shops sell Indian and Syrian silks. The crowd which fills the street forms a most interesting sight, on account of the number of different races whose representatives compose it—Turks, nomad Arabs, Meccans, Persians, Affghans, Indians, blacks of every shade, with features varying from the Jewish to the Negro type. Behind the bazaar lies the town, composed of tortuous and narrow streets, in which are a few houses with curiously- carved lattices and beautiful doorii of teak; the greater number, though lotty.are externally mean, and in their interier confined and shabby. Of all the towns in the East none has so distinctive a physiognomy as Jeddah: it is even more Oriental than Damascus, though as striking for its ugliness as Damascus for its beauty. A single Greek mercantile house, the keeper of a wine shop, and an Armenian broker, are the only Christians in the placc. A most unpleasing sight to the Eaglish eye are the crowds of poor Indians who litter in the streets like dogs. these Indians are pilgrims who have returned here from Mecca, but being destitute of means to continue their journey, live on alms a life of squalid idleness. According to the most probable calculation, the number of houses, large and small, may be about 4000, and the population perhaps reaches 20,000. Of the present population (18 J4) 1500 are Indians, including many of the wealthiest merchants, nearly the whole trade of Jeddah being in the hands of British subjects.—- Sinai, the Hedjaz, and oouaan, by Hamilton.

I FEAK-V;. I ?! T ?', 11.  i i A fl:Ùill(¡1:i'q:J tdU:, r: un London and Xofth-Wester.i K-dlwov. at 1.. near 11 ud d er.-fi I d A train of coa l a.vivul \'l;,l (,¡;, :l 'tiuc':i, %vlii?'e the ell(riii, b _t-. u.i i :ru.n"tc points on to J: I¡,J:I\ ¡'ru,¡ :n;l: L(:I to -Manchester rati >•••<• '■ w:. ,on< standing on the line. The ti-:ti?l :w„; r.t 1 ::$.J p. m was about eight iii::i:ii, r. ;:ii,. t:;j distance ♦signal light was put on tile om! w is were being shunted, and the (1: John Laty, ought to have secw but being busy with some disarrangement of ii u inv. lie not notice it, and the train ran into tin- •.vag^.ns wIth fearful N-ioliiee. The force of the c< ?; -i.i that the engine was seriously dam; and three third-class carriages much injuria, tiie v.noie of the divisions of the compartments :.lÏag forced out. One truck and the guard-van were smashed toatom". Upwards of 20 persons were more or !s lõ:,1ured- some of them very seriously—one o;' -uu i.: not expected to recover. The following is a list of those mu-t -criou^Iy jlJ. jured :—Thomas Porter, assistant to Mr. Bull, ccn- fectioner, New-street, lluddersficld, has sustained internal injuries of a most serious character, auù lies in a precarious state, and is not expected to recover; (j. V. Ryder, Esq" resident manager for Manchester for the Royal Insurance Company, has sustained a general shock of the system, severe injuries, and laceration of the muscles of the leg and ,id of the neck; (; Burnister, silk dyer, Bridge-street. Leeds, has two fingers torn, and both knees much injured Miss Sykes, of Longwood, has sustained a contusion of the face, and her left leg and thigh are much bruised; Mrs. Abel Taylor, grocer, of Ley Moor, Golcar, contusion of the leg, of a severe character Miss Jane Thorpe, of Lingards, near Slaithwaite. was cut over the eye, and has been seriously bruised on the legs; Mr. Senior, of Mold Green, near Huddersfield, severely shaken, and has received a contused knee Mr. Wood, of Wortley, near Leeds, has received internal injuries, and a general shock of the whole system Mr. Thomas Dixon, shoemaker, of Haslingden, near York, is much injured by severe bruises on the face, neck, and knee—he is much shaken Mr. Benjamin Littlewood, salesman tor J. Beardsell and Co., Huddersfield. severe injuries to both knees, and other contusions a Mrs. Dransfield, who had sustained a severe shock of the whole system, was removed to the Huddersfield Infirmary, where she was promptly attended to by the house surgeon and Mr. Bradshaw; John IIawkyard, of J. Mellor and Son's, New-street, Huddersfield, was much shaken, and it is feared has sustained internal injuries of a severe nature Mr. W. Brook. collec- tor of water rates, Huddersfield, face and knees much cut. Mrs. Donbavond, of Dewsbury, was brought to the Huddersfield Station in a state of insensibility. Medical assistance was at once procured, and upon examination it was found that she had received severe injuries upon various parts of her body. Mr. Burley, il pon various pa: Jacob Durley, manufacturer, Batley, had his nose and face much cut and bruised. Charles Blake, the guard of the passenger train, was much shaken and bruised. He states that he had not, although in the van next the engine, noticed any signal being up for the train to stop at Longwood station. It would appear the blame of the accident rests with the driver of the passenger train, John Laty, who ought to have noticed, on emerging from the deep cutting near Paddock, that the distance signal of the Longwood Station was up: had he done this he would have had sufficient time to have stopped the train, and prevented the collision. lIe stated as his reason for not noticing that the signal was on that he and the stoker were looking at the buffer- boxes of his engine, which were making an unusual noi,e. He is reputed to be a very steady man, but although he has been employed by the Company a number of years, he has only been an engine-driver about nine months. The line was cleared for traffic in about an hour and a half, new rails having been laid down.

SERIOUS AFFRAY AT A TAVER IN TEE HAY MARKET. —On Tuesday evening, at 6 o'clock, a respectably attired young man, in an insensible state, was brought into Charing-cross Hospital, and suffering from very severe injuries, which places his life in great peril. It would appear that he was in the Waterloo Tavern, in the Hay- market, partaking of some refreshment, when a difference arose between him and some person there, which resulted in a fight; he was tripped up and fell to the ground with great violence, fracturing bis right thigh, and he had also suffered concussion of the brain, rendering him wholly incapable of giving either his name or address. EXFENSES IN THE BERNARD CASE.—We are very far from having heard the last of the Bernard business. It appears that the prosecution cost a most enormous sum, and that the bill of particulars is being hunted up by the friends of the victorious defendent, who are also subscribing to pay his costs, which though merely those out of pocket, Bernard's lawyers working for principle and not for interest, were close upon £1,0 J'.I. Among those subscribers are Nlr. Hodge, of whose pretended conspiracy at Genoa the too eagar Walewski made *as great a blunder as he and his fellow conspirator, Per- signy, made in London in supposing that French poodle Palmerston ,ud the British Lion were ,he one identical [,njmaJ. Two others of these subscribers (for £ 25 and £ 5 rC5lJcetfully) are that Mr. Stewart, of Liverpool, and his brother, to whom Orsiui committed his daughters, in his letter from the Austrian dungeon—one of the noblest prod-actions ever penned, the antique stoicism ol the lIassic combining with Christian reliance on a here- after in the mode of which many instances are given in the old Spanish ballads, but are seldom met with else- where, even in poetry, and more rarely stiil in rea] 2i1'(' Liverpool Albion. A TRAINING Snir FOR MERCHANT SEH1£S.-WC announced a week or two ago that the Mercantile Marine Service Association of this port applied to the Admiralty for a grant of one of the many .msued vessels of the Royal Navy, to be use as a training school for merchant seamen at Liverpool. We are happy tc state that the request has been complied with, and that the Vestal frigate, now lying at Chatham, has been granted for the very excellent purpose named. The ship will not be permanently moored, but will be fitted to go short cruises, so that her scholars will obtain not only a theoretical but a practical acquaintance with the art of seamanship. In selecting boys to be educated and fitted for the sea service, preference will be given, very properly, to the children of deceased and destitute merchant commanders, officers, and seamen bu-, we feel assured that this circumstance will not interfere with the liberal support which it is thc obvious interest of our wealthy shipowners to give to the establishment of this valuable institution. In time it will probably become self-supporting. General satisfaction has been expressed at the readiness shown by the present Loids of the Admiralty in complying with the request from our local association, ami it adds another to ihe many ac!s of good policy performed by the Derby Administration, which has s'eadily and surely gained the public con- fidence since its accession to office—Liverpool Cou. -er. SWINFEK J.SWIWIIN.—As ACTION AGAIHST I HE LOUD CHANCELLOR.—A case 01 considerable importance has arisen oat ot the celebrated cause of" Swinfcn v. Sv.'in- fen, as it will raise a question materially affecting the privileges of counsel. Mrs. Swinfen has brought an action against the Lord Chancellor under the following clrcu;nstances :-An issue had been directed by the Court ot Chancery to try the validity of the will of Samuel Swinfen, by which he bequeathed an estate of £ 60,000, to his widow. The willwas impeached by the defendant as the heir-at-law. The case came on for trial in the spring of 1856, at Stafford, when a compromj,e W,\S entered into between counsel on both sides, Lord Chelmsford, then Sir Frederic Tiiesiger, being counsel for Mrs. Swinfen, and Sir Alexander Cocki arn, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who Yo", then Attorney General, the representative of the heir at law, Under this arrangement the defendant was to secure to Mrs. Swinfen an annuity of ZC3,000 a year. Mrs. Swinfen, however, on learning that this compromise had been made was exceedingly dissatisfied, and refused to give her consent to carry it otit, but she did not for some time openly repudiate it. The matter gave rise to fresh legal proceedings, both in the Common Pleas and the Equity Courts; and in November thc Master of the Rolls gave judgment, directing that there should be a new trial to test the validity of the will. This cause is to come on for trial at the forthcoming Stafford Assizes. The Attorney General (Sir F. Kelly) will conduct the case for Mrs. Swinfen in the place of the Lord Chancellor, and Mr. Edwin James has been specially retained for the defendant, to conduct the defence, vice the present Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. In the meantime all the necessary steps have been taken in the action which Mrs. Swinfen has been advised to bring against Lord Chelmsford, with the view of recovering damages against him for having, as her counsel, entered into a compromise, as she alleges, in distinct defiance of her authority. This action will probably be set down for trial at the sittings after next term for Middlesex; and will doubtless create no small amonnt of interest.

| I-S ROACIILNF; .A;FRAY NEAR BRIGHTON. iktweon two and three o'clock on Saturday mor- niiig a most desperate fight took place with two I'cJ:dwr, and three watchers on Colonel Paine's grounds at Patcham. three miles northward of Brighton, at which place the poachers resided. 'Hi.y are two mo"t desperate character-, named Popiett and Wintou, the lormer of whom was iilixe(I up ill a garotte C;;SI' "ome time since. Oti Friday niFht. the local constable of Patcham. named Graimes, had his suspicions ar<- i-=ed. and he obtained the as<isiauco of two men. named Clark and Brown (e:up?)yc.) by Colonel l'ai:ie ;id Mr. Ta:i?iur a? watchers), and :)th. p-o;?'?dto'.o..tjcn- closed land belonging to C; loncl Paine, where they ?0?!t<1 ,t \} rabbits c/iv i !i ouantity of snare* set. Thev lay by them tiil the above-men-  Wiiito,l tioned time, when Popl t: a-n" Wintou cam, along, and procce?c(l to te'-c '?: ',its olit ()I tllv (.lr.rk then walked up to then, and without a word being passed he was struck a heavy blow over the head with a bludgeon by Poplett, who called upon Winton. at the same time repeating the blow. to Come and knock his brains out." Graimes and Brown immediately ran to the assistance of Clark, and a most desperate encounter took place, and even after Winton was secured by Brown. Poplett had a fearful fight with the other two, and it was not before he "as nearly killed that he was secured and handcuffed, and placed tinder the care of the East Sussex Constabulary. All parties were severely in- jured, and Mr. Dixon, surgeon, who attended, said he was an hour and a half in dressing I'oplett's wounds, he having received seven severe cut- on the head. besides contused wound'' on the body. ilis captors were also severely punished. The case was taken before the county magistrates at Hove in the afternoon. The chairman of the heuch (Mr, C. (oarperitcr) said they were bound to convict, but they thought great violence had bcen used, perhaps more than was necessary, ,(cing that the watchers were the stronger of the two partic?. He then sentenced the two prisoners to one month's imprisonment each and ordered them to find sureties to keep the peace for six months from the expiration of that time. them- selves in £10. and two sureties each in t,5. At the conclusion of the case, Mr. Carpenter said he thought it was a sad pity that in the neighbourhood oflargc and populous towns like Brighton unenclosed lands «hould be preserved.

FATAL COAL-TIT ACCIDENT.—About half-past >-ven o clock on Saturday evening a collier named Wi;,iam Crompton, aged 29, was crushed to death by a full of earth from the roof in the Top-o'-th'-Lane Coal-pit Darcy Lever, near Bolton, belonging to Messrs. A. Knowles and Sons. Eight men were employed fo. three hours before the body eonh1 be extricated. NOVEL EQUIPMENT or CONSTABULARY.—A useful addition to the equipment of thc Berwickshire consta- biliary has just been made. The addition is a very powerful field glass, about three inches in diameter, with one slide. It is conveniently worn by the con. stables at the left side, slang with a strap over the righl Iot, Iler, and is capable of commanding a clear view 01 an object at a distance of 20 miles. Berwickshire is tlM first county in the kingdom that has adopted the nseoi this auxiliary in thc act of thief-catching. SCANDALOUS HOAX.—Tiie other night the bellman at Carlisle announced that the Deau of Carlisle would tw burnt in effigy, at nine o'clock, on the sands. Numbers of people went to witness the spectacle, and found them- selves the dupes of a disgraceful hoax. There were, indeed, two small fires lighted by some boys, but no effigy appeared. Who were the perpetrators of the hoax we are unable to say? but we are certain that such pro- ceedings, which arc only calculated to inflame, will be discountenanced by every respectable citizen. THE CUAJWE OF DUOWNINC. A SEAMAN AT HAM- 1J\ŒG.-On Friday the Sunderland magistrates con- eluded the investigation, which had been adjourned from Wednesday, into the circumstances of the drowning of William Barron, cook of the Reliance, of that town, while that vessel was at Hamburg, on the 22nd of June; Mr. Menham, the master of the Reliance, and Mr. Fox, the master of thc Shiedam, of London, being accused of causing his death. The magistrates, after a long con- sultation, determined to commit both the prisoners for trial on the charge of murder, at the assizes, and they have been removed to Dcrham gaol. THE RADICALS or THE NORTH AND LORD :\lAuIESDURy.-The Northern Reform Union, whose head-quarters Me *t e''elt;tk.cn- TiDe, have unanimously adope(I the Iol!?)Y.Yig That atoD1!¥tt ;?7h\e;ef: Union be tendered to Lord Malmesbury, her Majesty's Secretary of State lot Foreign Affairs, I)r the very able and cfilcicnt way in which he has ('(:ndnfcl -1,? nøfl'O- tiaiions between this country and Naples, in connection with the affair of the C.Ig);¡¡ri s'canier, and for his thoroughly English conduct in securing compensation to Watt and Park for their un/iist detention; thus pro- tccting the interests of England's humblest citizens, and fully vindicating her henoar." DREADFUL SUICIDE.— On Tuesday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, the family of Mr. Wilkinson Matthews, Q.C., of No. 04, Lower Brook-street, Gros- ytnor-square, was thrown into a state of the most pain- ful excitement, in consequence cf Charles Gtiruey, but- ler to the above gentleman, patting a period to his ex- istence by blowing his hCÚlJ to atoms with a double bar- relled gun. the property of bis master. The deceased has been in the service of :\11'. :,l.tU';ewc :or the last seventeen years, during which period he bad so con- ducted himself as to have the entire confidence of his ma5Ie: by whom ie wac: very much valued. About five years since, he met with an accident upon a rail- way, and ever after was afflicted with severe pains in the head; on the report of fire-arms beini' heard in deceased's room, the police were caned in, ..n<1 th.: room was entered, where the deceased was sitting in a chair, with his head literally blown to atoms—the skull and brains being scattered about the room. The fc«n was clenched in his right hand, one (í'ht barrcis taring been rcccntly discharged. THE MOORS.—The Ajt ?l,utisa -av? From fersonai inspection of a good breadth 01 n.¿or grouDds, and from reports by those i 1 ;barge of gaaic, we are disposed to come to the contusion that the sport this season will be better than (ür some years past. Of grouse there are a few barren birds, but in general there arc gool covies, eight, exclusive of the parent bird, j being not nHC0111JlF):J. There are also good brooks of black game, bat we saw a much larger proportion than usual of hens without broods. We do not agree with the pretty general ,;¡;c1,or. that these arc for the most part barren birds. They are chiefly to be found where hoodie crows are not killed down, or near villages and public reads, where Sioy are equally detractive in robbing r.e-ts. t) i moors which have been pi,u;cted, however, we thii.k hcr(J will be gacA ?poil &>,ue of the young grouse are so ;»rer g on ;lie w n. to b( 1tf::i:fi::i:I;?"f;:¡:n;{U at le to give the s p urts aa ? .1 ii •> i tv; ith of August. Parti11 <« in k the reports of the stock m i in sonw quarters they are s-ni to !••• ,t. i:-ir« tit brood, arc verv detective. jv.r;, *» > am h..res a g(,od st uk. where protei te. >: th rot in thc Cçjll;' ;ca.-on i: ;:i;cly t<; •• w tin the aY&c<An lxj'0') J A C,A1. &7.-( ¡:. of the most singular explosions that we remember, o rurred average. exl)loiioij, ti,It e 0n Saturday evening iii on thc Liverpool and Leeds Canal, qt ? placc called Gill-brand HIM :*• five miles from Wigan. The boat was heavily la witlui.'i bales of cotton, which were being convcyeu < u Liver- pool to W:gan, for Mr. Taylor, mar.nfactuier. of ti it town. Besides the cotton there were on nni n,.th :t, ,I"erl canisters of gunpowder.. •: v e being ;n:îl I-*Oi- I-i,-erp-o? l,I?c of bus mess. When neM GiUibrauII l,r?tlge » I :r became 19!Htd, by some means Qr other——c from the spontaneous combustion ofth cotton—.111,1 tlie result W.1' a terrific explosion, which blew some o! the 1'.1cs "it  the boat on to the towing-path, tuug the ° '<• iv Voat' William Sharrocks, from h: post into •S i v, "» C !ckmg', and 19Utted the cotton on board. Shar- rock", fortun¡¡¡dy, was only stunned for a few seconds: aLII, as SUIJI) us he recovered, the cargo being on fire, he ai.d others got the boat drawn into the Appley Bridge lock close r.t ha1h\. Aë there were no fire engines in the neighbourhood, and very little Msistance to be obtained, it was seen at once by those present that the only chance oi saying the boat, and extinguishing the fire, was to sink it. This, however, was a matter of considerably difficulty; but by dint of strenuous exertions the boat was scuttled, and then forced under the water by poles of wood. Such was the size of the cargo that the boat and eottoB completely filled the lock from bottom to top. Even this expedient did not succeed in exttnguishing the r.rc, and all the assistance that could be obtained was employed in getting the smouldering cotton out of the boat and laying it out in the fields adjacent and on the towing path, and then extinguishing it with buckets of water. This was a very glow process, but the men la- boured with diligence all night, until their task was completed. The boat being sunk in the lock stopped the traffic, and notwithstanding the age of railways ia which wc live, such is the extensive nature of the traffic still upon this canal, that in the course of two hours some thirty boats had arrived at the lock, m route either to Liverpool or the localities in the opposite direction. Manchester Examiner.