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The expiration of the sentences of the two Bath Chartists,

Bartlett and Bolwell, the former imprisoned for nine, and the latter for six months, for sedition, was celebrated by their partisans on Monday.— Wiltshire Independent.

Mrs. Frost, the wife of John Frost, is now reduced to the most pinchine. indigence. Having expended all her money for the defence of her husband, her four daughters, from the ages of twelve to twenty years, were obliged to seek a subsistence by their industry.—Begford Mercury.

A most disgraceful outrage was committed on Thursday evening in Salisbury during the delivery of a lecture on Teetotalism ; which as- Rimed so alarming an appearance as to require the presence and active interference of the Mayor and a body of the police in order to restore tranquillity. One of the offenders is in custody.—Salisbury Journal.

A company of Sappers and Miners have been appointed by Govern- ment to make a survey of the elevations of the Cleveland Hills. They have been busily engaged for the last ten days on Eston Nab, Easby Hills, and Roseberry Topping; to the no small alarm of the peaceful peasantry and villagers in the surrounding districts.—Neiveastle Journal.

The Magistrates of the Dumnow Sessions have decided, that persons comine from a distance for the purpose of attending divine service at a place of worship of which they are regular members, are " tra- vellers" within the meaning of the act, and may be accommodated with refreshment at a beer-shop or public-house during the hours of divine service in the parish-church.

At time Marlborough Petty Sessions, nine persons were summoned for unlawfully. attempting to produce smallpox by inoculation. As this was the first instance of a prosecution under the statute, the parties were dismissed on paying the costs only. The public ought also to know that exposure of a patient labouring under the smallpox will sub- ject the persons so offending to imprisonment for three months.

On Tuesday the 6th, John Dunkley, gamekeeper to the Marquis of Northampton, at Castle Ashby, in Northamptonshire, was missing. On Thnrsday, be was found in a wood near Yardley, murdered, with his gun broken to pieces. On Friday, three men, named Bedford, Down- ing, and Underwood, who had been lurking about the neighbourhood, were taken into custody, and conveyed to Ashby Castle. A shooting' coat, stained with blood on the left arm and shoulder, and a pair of corduroy breeches, also stained. with blood, were found in 13edford's lodgings by Mr. Young, Superintendent of Police. .Mr. Young went to Bed-tbrd, and made linn take off his clothes, when about thirty gun- shot wounds were found in his buck. Bedford then made the following confession— lie stated that he and the other prisoners were poaching in the wood near Yardley, on the Tuesday night previous; and having levelled. his piece and tired nt the deceased, lie innnediately returned time fire, and shut his hack all to morsels. A desperate struggle ensued, and the prisoner Downing coining up at flue n1C, meat, lie lodged the contents of his fowling-piece in the neck of the deceased under the ear, which caused him to tumble forward; and then Underwood rushed thrward, kicked hint violently on the head, and beat him with the butt- end If his gun until he broke it to pieces upon him. They then dragged the body of the deceased ahout twenty yards into the wood ; where they left it, and went together to a public-house at the village of Olney, about four miles from where they committed flue murder. There they drank is quantity of beer ;Ind other liquors, and ultimately returned to their houses about ten o'clock at night.

At a separate interview the other prisoners admitted to Mr. Young that Bedtbrd's account was generally correct. On Saturday the pri- soners were examined before a bench of Magistrates, and committed for trial.

The Magistrates at Rugby on Saturday sentenced a Policeman on the London and Birmingham Railway, named Fletcher, to fourteen days' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction at Warwick, fur neglect in the execution of his duty. Mr. William Leatham, banker, of Wakefield, who read a valuable paper on the bill circulation of' the country at the late meeting of the British Association at Glasgow, was unffirtimate in ltis railway travel- ling adventures to that town ; having met with accidents in going and returaing. A letter from him describing these accidents, which he says

had not been previously published, appeared in the Times of Thurstlay- " On the 19th of August, my wile and family accompanied me in a lirst-

class carriage 11'0111 Carlisle to Newcastle. About twenty-lioar miles froni

Newcasth., when in time midst of social intercourse, and. without any other notice except fur a few seconds a jilting as on rutty rood, we were thrown over; nod I shall never forget the horrors I felt as a parent and a husband, till our

fate was decided and the carriage Mlle to a rest. While imprisoned, we heard

the s,autals anion). voices, S111110 in suffering mmmii crying fin. help, :mut others as if remlering assistance. We foo lid ourselves in It potato-field • alai sumo :1 line

young sailor seas carried past on a door us if dead ; another iiluml I i. inn broken,

and many had contusions ; but, mercifully, no Mit was lost. .1 with others ex- amined into the cause of the accident, and found the luggage-carriage had been too heavily loaded, soul that the axle had broken, being made of had iron. This roill was nut hid down orighially thr locomotive pouver, hut for horses only, and. is one of the oldest, auti extremely dangerous from the curves, &c. " On returning from the British Association on the 28th September, on the Clarence Railroad, from the city of Durham to Stockton, the wheel of the tender broke ; and, after running fifty yards, the engine stopped; but had we gone one yard further we must have gone over, and had we been a quarter of a mile in advance we must have been dashed down an embankment of thirty feet : but what was our astonishment, on examining the fractured wheel, to find four old rusty fractures, besides the part where it broke! and how much was this feeling increased to learn a similar accident had happened only three days before from the same cause, and with the same tender sent forth again, rith such shameful neglect, with a wheel co defective!"

The chain-cable of the Howe, 120 guns, at Spithead, accidentally ran out of the hawse-hole on Friday after the anchor was cast, and a seaman on board was killed by it. George Hall, one of the divers en- gaged under Colonel Pasley at the wreck of the Royal George, was sent down to snake a rope fast to the end of the cable ; which he succeeded in doing after having been at the bottom for two hours. During that time, he only came to the surface twice, to communicate with the men in the boat. The air was supplied to him at the bottom, through a tube attached to a forcing-pump.

The Bristol Standard mentions the loss of the Victory of Bristol, Captain Garner, on Wednesday, off Portlock on the coast of Devon. The vessel was seen to give a lurch, and immediately go to the bottom. There were on board, the captain, three men, and three passengers, one of whom was a Dissenting; minister. Sir T. Acland's yacht put out immediately to render assistance ; but nothing could be seen of the vessel or persons on board.

Our Cambrian friends will he gratified to hear that the Welsh lan- guage is coming more generally into use on the borders of Shropshire ; and that the mountain peasantry are not so ill off as some would repre- sent them ; the managers of the Savings Bank in Oswestry having found it necessary to rs an assistant secretary to " Sharad Cymraeg."—Salopian Journal.