On Friday last, a numerous gang of Irish labourers, on
the road be tween Lawtongate and Warrington, met some covered carts, which they ascertained contained natives of their own country. A parley ensued ; and, without much ceremony, the Patlanders opened the doors of the caravans, and insisted upon giving liberty to the inmates, who were poor persons, under passes, going to Ireland. The officers were not in a - state to resist, and to remonstrate was useless. They were therefore obliged to leave the poor people in custody of their new friends.—Li-
verpool Albion.. •
On Tuesday morning last, a man, who had the appearance of a la- bourer, came by the first class train, which left Manchester at seven o'clock in the morning ; and as he was somewhat intoxicated, and bad a doo•. with him, he was placed upon One of the guards' seats upon the roof of the carriages. As the train was proceeding at a very rapid rate, about a hundred pads on this side the spot where Mr. Huskisson met his death at Park-side, the man fell from his seat down between two or the carriages. The remainder of the train, of course, passed over his body; and as soon as the carriages could be stopped, it was found that part of one foot, and the other leg below the knee, had been completely severed by the wheels. His bead had also been struck by some part of the iron-work of the carriages, and had sustained a compound fiacture< We understand be expired on the spot.—Liverpool Chronicle.
Last Saturday, at GWeimap, two • men having gone down the engine.. shaft in a kibble, the men at the surface became alarmed for their safety on finding the rope slacken. A man was sent down to ascertain the cause. On reaching the edit, at a depth of about thirty-seven fathoms; he found the kibble ; descending further, be found a shovel the men had taken down, and when forty fathoms under the adit, he found the bat belonging to one of the men, whom he found dead at a little dis-, Mime ; prosecuting the search, be discovered the dead body of the se mid man at seventy fathoms below the adit—one hundred and severs fathoms from the surface of the- earth.— Cornubian.
A man named Costard, a blacksmith, was deliberately murdered at Chalgrave, near Wellington, on Friday last, by two fellows named Bunce and Phelps. Dunce ran a pitchfork through the unhappy man's neck, while Phelps beat his brains out with a sledge hammer. The murderers have absconded.
On Friday night, Thomas Creury, a lad aged seventeen, committed. suicide at Tunbridge Wells, by hanging himself. Ile was found on the following afternoon, by his younger brother, in a shed behind the Neville Arms Min—Brighton Herald.
About nine o'clock in the morning of Tuesday last week, a fire was discovered in a rick of hay on the premises of Mrs. Butcher, who re- sides with her son on Chiverill Common; and before it could be ex- tinguished, it consumed a range of barns, all the outbuildings, and three hay-ricks.—.Devizes Gazette.
The Rev. Dr. Sands, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, was on Tuesday thrown out of a fl Y carriage in Portland-street, by which his leg was broken, and he was otherwise seriously bruised.— Cheltenham Chronicle.
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