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A church-rate contest has just taken place at Brighton, and termi- nated in favour of the rate ; the numbers being 1,132 and 833.
There have been five incendiary fires in Essex, Suffolk, and Cam- bridgeshire, this week. The greatest damage done was at the farm of Mr. Raymond, at Walton Belchamp, near Sudbury : the whole of the premises were destroyed.
Nineteen persons, including twelve soldiers of the Seventieth Infan- try, have been tried at Leeds for rioting on the 10th of last month. Four of the soldiers were found guilty, one of whom was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, and the other three to eight months' each ; and four civilians, one of whom was fined, and the other three sentenced to a few days' imprisonment. The riot arose from an attack on the police by the soldiers.
The steam-boiler at Alderman Brooks's woollen-mill at Bolton blew -up on Monday morning ; destroying the engine-house, shattering one side of the mill, killing three persons, and injuring several others. The boiler had only been in use for six months. By this accident six hun- dred persons are temporarily thrown out of employment.
• A whole family has been poisoned at Upper Beeding, near Horsham, by eating putrid meat ; and the father and two children have died. The man, Richard Chapman, purchased the carcase of a heifer which had died, for the purpose of boiling it up for his pig and chickens ; but actually salted part down, and with his family partook of it. Several of the fowls died, and the pig being very ill was killed ; but, though the person who dressed the pig declared it to be diseased, Chapman and his family ate of it, fresh or salted : they were all made ill, and the father and two children speedily died. Mr. Lovegrove, the parish- apothecary, found the cottage in a horrible state—human beings, pigs, Toultry, all under one roof, and the fowls constantly dying off from the effects of the poisonous meat ; while the effluvia was unbearable. He had a tent pitched a considerable distance off, to which the surviving members of the family were removed, and properly attended to ; in con- sequence of which they are doing well. It is complained that no inquest was held on those who died, to afford an opportunity of inquiring into the conduct of the person who sold the murrained cow.
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