The Bristol Radicals are an incorrigible set. A few years
since they tried their hands at burning on a large scale, for which a few of them were hanged; but with smell advantage to the morals and man- ners of the survivors, as would appear from the following advertise- ment, which appears in the Bristol papers of Saturday- " TWENTY POUNDS REWARD.
e Whereas some infamous and malicions Radieal or Radicals did, on Saturday last, the t:Otli of September. dine nitb n powerful caustic sorne beer which was in ore. or the rooms adjoining the Guildhall, 'or the refreshment of the Conwrvative ens ... ii, in ansequence of which, several win, partook of it are suffering very sera effects; the above reward will be paid to any one who will furnish the consievid ice Committee with such itffermation no may lead to the conviction or the inurderou= eillaM or villains who poisoned the beer. If more than one person was engaged in the atrocious act, and w in give evidenc, against his accomplice or accomplices, lie shall receive the rewara.-17, Small Street, October 2,1837."
The Bristol Journal says that the poison infused into the beer was found to be caustic potash, and it was detected in such loge propor. dons that a single drop of it applied to coloured paper instantly ex- tracted the colour. The beer had been provided for the refreshment of the Conservative freemen who were in attendance on the revising barrister's court, sitting in the Guildhall.—Standard. [It will be hard to make a case of poisoning out of this trumpery uffaird We understand that a partial turn-out for wages has taken place in the Staffordshire Collieries ; and such is the activity of the iron and coal trade, that an advance of Is. per ton has been put upon coals, and a further rise is expected to take place at the quarterly meetings next week. In some instances the masters have offered an advence of 3d. per day; but this is refused, the men holding out for fid. ; and, in some collieries, this has been complied with— Worcester Herald.
Mr. Jonathan Fielding, Governor of Prestwich Workhouce, died a few days ago, from the effect of a wound on the head, iodieted about a month ago by a pauper with a drying-iron. The pauper is in prison, and is said to be insane.
The Leicestershire Mercury has a long account of an attempt at murder and rubbery, committed close to the pretty village of Barwell in Leicestershire, on the 27th ultimo. The criminal was Hobert Harrold, a man of respectable connexions in Leicestershire, and not represented as being needy. He fell into the company of James Barnes, a printer of Londonderry, and walked with him across some fields Letween Barwell and Leicester—
They took the foot road avrog9 some fields ; and before they had crass, the third close, Harrold laid himself down, and said he slundil priiretal no fur- ther, f ir he had lost his way. Barnes begged of him to ger up and pursue his
jraittcy, but the other positivily r ftised; and Ilat•nes then ,:11,1 he would return to amwell and leave him ; which he was in the rut of doing, when Harrold sprung from the ground and gave him a dreadful kick in i!.e small of the back, which brought him to the earth ; he then struek him vii•lently on the left temple, and under cult ear, caught the lower part of one vf his ears, which was completely severed ; kicked or struck him in the most bruied manner over lt:s head, eyes, nose, and :tomtit, the upper lip of which also was cut in two. He then sprang upon his breast, and after repeated jumps left him for dead, first drag- ging hint by his coat from the foot-pith where the deed was ri.nintittell, towat ds the hedge, the coat being torn comp!etely off his hack. his victim being now senseless, he took his shoes, hat, umbrella, bundle, and ahem twelve shillings in stoner; and in this miserable state left the unfortunate man, who had been his companion through the day. Barnes remained insensible for some time, and
then crawled through an aperture in the hedge, into a thy ditch on the other side. About three o'clock, he heard yokes coming from the spot he had left, and the exclamation of" He's gone ! Id give twenty guineas if I was out of the country I" Barnes, in his own words, says, " it is impossible to express my feelings at that time, not doubting that he had come back either to finish his bloody work, if not complete, or to bury me."
Some persons cameto the relief of Barnes ; and the next day Harrold was apprehended, and committed to prison for trial.
Aman employed by some medical students to procure a subject dug up his own wife by mistake, and has been inconsolable ever since.— Worcester Journal,
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