Castle Howard, the extensive demesne of the Earl of Carlisle,
has safilired severely by the late hurricane ; and, although the mansion has sustained little or no injury, it is said that .7,000/. will not cover the damage done to the estate.
So undisguised is the system of arming carried on amongst the T11:1111l• facturing population of the neighbourhood of Stockport, in aid of the plan of the Chartists, that ou Monday last at New Strives, and that district, a luau was publicly hawking pistols at 3s. a brace ; for which he found many willing purchasers.—Stockport Adverliser.
Two fires have taken place within a week at the village of Cobham, in Surry, supposed to he the act of incendiaries. A meeting of the
most inllitentiul inhabitants was held in consequence, and means have been adopted to bring the perpetrators to justice. A Mall has also been commiled Jim trial, for an attempt to murder. Another man, not in custody, is sum to ue implicated.
There are seven persons, two of them women, in Abingdon Gaol, charged with iuceudiarism.
At the meeting of the Essex Magistrates at Halstead last week, William Jones, a gentlemanly-looking young man, was charged with working an illicit still to a very great extent. The proofs against him consisted of several neighbours recognizing his voice iu an uninha- bited house in which the still had been found at work, The Magis- trates fined him in the penalty of :30/., and committed him to prison for three months. The prisoner prayed that his hair might not be cut off. The Magistrates said that Lord John Russell had sent a general order that the hair should be cut off close to the skulls of all men and women sent to prison, and they had not the power to interfere. This circum- stance, and the denial to him of any but the scanty prison allowance, seemed greatly to affect the prisoner.—ChchnVinel Chronicle.
Lord Scarborough's gamekeepers had a desperate conflict with a body of poachers on Friday last week. The poachers had air-guns, which they discharged several times, without effect ; but they beat and wounded one of the keepers severely with sticks ; and all escaped.
William Hayward, about eighteen years old, has been committed to Bridgewater Gaol on a charge of murdering the son of a portrait- painter, named 3PCarthey, in a scuffle. Whilst they were fighting, Hayward stabbed MiCarthey several times in the abdomen, with a knife ; and the latter survived only a few hours. Hayward seems to have been the aggressor, and to have provoked 'ikPCarthey by insults to his father and sister.
On Thursday night, a great number of knockers and bell-hag lies were wrenched from the street-doors of houses in Lewes : nearly all the houses in one street were thus injured. We are nor aware whether the parties in this case are known : but it is well known that this kind . of outrage invariably follows the " parties " at which certain young gentlemen attend. While the inhabitauts arc nightly disturbed in this manner, the sapient Commissioners are actually hesitating whether or not they shall bring to justice sonic parties whom their servants are able to recognize as being concerned iu a midnight brawl! The inhabitants, who pay a good round sum under the head " watching and lighting," have a right to inquire why the Commissioners arc reluctant to do their duty.—Brighton Guardian.
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