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The Liverpool Standard has published an account of the Irish immigra- tion into Liverpool. From the 1st of January to the middle of April, as many as 138,528 Irish have landed from the steamers. Of these, 43,149 have emigrated; and it is expected that a considerable number more will emigrate when shipping is more abundant. There will still, however, be an enormous surplus of mendicants and paupers to be distributed over the country. Last week, 200 miserable Irish paupers were landed at Newport in Monmouthshire, from some trading vessels: 100 of them have been sent back.
The Kendal and Windermere Railway was opened on Tuesday, with much éclat and a dejeuner in the new hotel at Birthwaite, the terminus on the banks of the lake.
There has been a " strike " of bricklayers and Irish labourers employed on the railways about Birmingham. The Irishmen appear to have turned out because barrows were used instead of hods. The movement is likely to be disastrous to the actors, for their places are rapidly filled with Eng- lish labourers and with bricklayers from other localities.
A gipey tinker has been shot, near Grampound, in the act of stealing a braes kettle. He had roused the people of the farm-house; one of the farmer's sees followed him with a gun, overtook him, and ordered him to carry back the pot: after going some distance, the gipsy refused to proceed any further; an alterca- tion ensued, and the thief produced a hammer, with which he threatened his cap- tor; in self-defence, the other fired, wounding the gipsy in the calf of the leg; and the wound has proved SO Demo that It has been necessary to amputate the limb,
Catherine Foster, the young woman who was convicted of poisoning her hus- band three weeks after their marriage, was hanged, at Bury St. Edmund's, on Saturday last. Outwardly she exhibited great firmness in her last moments; but the Reverend Mr. Ottley, who visited her at intervals, says that her mind was by no means so callous as it appeared: he asked if John Foster had never been before her eyes, and in answer she muttered the single word " Always." Her confession has been published. She fully admits her guilt; avowing that she bought the arsenic at Sudbury, and three days after mixed it in a dumpling. She does not hint at any motive for the crime; merely observing, "I had no cause for complaint
aaggea my husband; he was always good and kind to me: but I never had any n for him, and wished to go back to service." It is said that she had never exhibited affection for any one.
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