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INQUESTS BEFORE P. F. CURRY, ESQ., CORONER

... INQUESTS BEFORE P. P. CURRY, Es%, CORONA CHILD S&ALDED.-On Friday last, the wife of John AlspinalI, of oid Finch-street, mariner was engaged boiling Emoe clothes in a ur- pan on the lire. On tas'ing the pan off, she placed it on the foqa, he near her husband and infant son, twenty-one isonths old. The child woos playing, at the time. with a roasted potalto, sturk ona c- forlk, and in tur ning ...

INQUESTS

... ?? R~tzlrdev ].tf Id I I4u o1in. Ad DE.ATH FROM A FALL.-On Saturday last, an inquir took place as Into the eircumstances which led to the death oat Villiam Jen- it kins, late mate of the barque Actcon. It appeared that, about is three weeks ag-,, the deceased was walking between decks, whea is his foot stipped and he fell into the hold and inflicted a severe d wound on his head. He bound a ...

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SWINDLING

... - 1 Yesterday week, at the Police Coutrt Liverpool, after the usual business of the day had been brought nearly to a close, a young man, apparently belonging to the swell mob, and who had just been apprehended, was brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having, with the assistance of a com- rogue (who has escaped), tricked a stranger, who had arrived in towun only an hour before, of a ...

PETITION OF THE UNEMPLOYED

... I lET'LION OF THE UNEMPLOYED. I At a crowded treeting, convened by the unemployed, x held on Thursday, at the Old Manor Court, Nicholas Croft, Henry Rawson, Esq., in the chair, a petition, r praysiag for certain changes in the poor law, was p unanimously agreed to. WVe call the attention of the public to it, as giving a plain statement of the case ti and elainm of the destitute Irish. Surely a ...

SALFORD COMMISSIONERS OF POLICE

... IS ALFORD COMMISSIONERS OF POLICE. I A general meeting of the Salford Commissioners of Police was held oi Thursday evening, at the Salford Town Hall, for the purpose of nominating surveyors of the highways for the township for the ensuing year, and for other business. The chair was taken by Mir. Holland Hoole, the boroughreeve. Previous to any business being brought before the meeting, Mr. Lit ...

INQUEST BEFORE P. F. CURRY, ESQ

... INQUEST BEFORE P. F. CURRY, E86, If furiampt DitatI-On Tnesidlgy lat. an the body of EiRlzheth = iLinden. en aged female, who f-r n longt time bediben troubled ~e wlth asare coiugh. Ont Saturday- evenintither cough became , wvotte. Md a l~ little ?? Was drninistered lit relieve her, I. - T~tshot die a OD tndasy eirning. 'he surgeon who examined tihe body sfter dte th, said be fi und no} ...

KIRKDALE MICHAELMAS SESSIONS

... TheYe sessions commenced y esterday week and termi- tnated on Monday last. The following is a list of the . prioners,, with the result of their respectivc trials:- George loenman,2t0. antd DominickWelsl, 18, forstealing three silk handkerchiefs, the property of Betty Oaks, at Warrington_ Penman six months, Welsh one movith. Nancy TNylor, 41, for stealing a tub, the pit p trty of Robert Mather, ...

HORRID MURDER, NEAR ILKLEY

... HORRID MURDE R, NEAR ILKLEY. (From the Leeds Mercurp of Saturday.) On Saturday morning last, the inhabitants of Ilkley, Ad.. dingham, and the neighbourhood, were horrified by the find. ing of the murdered body of a man, aged about fifty years, in a field in the township of Nesfleld, through which the public highway from Ilkley to Beamaley and Bolton-bridge passes, about a mile distant from ...

THE EXTRAORDINARY HOAX AT BRISTOL

... THE EXTRIAORDINARY HOAX AT BRISTOL, || (Fromh tde Bristol Mirror.) At the Bristol Police Court, on Saturday, Mr. Ilarmor said he had to prefer, on behalf of Mr. Frederick Jones, a jeweller and silversmith of that city, a charge of conspiracy against certain parties, with intent to defraud him of a gold watch, chain, seal, and ring. He was placed in a position of some difficulty, inasmuch as ...

THE NEW BANKRUPTCY ACT

... (From the London Gazettc of Friday. ) Whereas by a statute, made at the Parliament holden in the bth and 6th years of the reign of Her present Majesty, entitled, ,An Act for the Amendment of the Law of Bankruptcy, it was enacted, amongst other things, that it should be lawful for Her Majesty, after the passing of that act, by a commission or commissions under the Great Seal, to appoint as ...

THE LAND-TAX FRAUD

... I ;I'~THERLAND-TAX FRAUD. ISoon afe.4 the revolution of 1688 the feudal ser- vices of t~ie landowifers were commuted, for a tax of 4s. in, the pound. It then produced about one third of the revenue. Had, therefore, the land. lords' burthens increased in the same proportion as the public busrthens, they shit§sld noI be Co0tribntig11 sixteesli millions to the restate. But they continueif tote ...

CROWN COURT—YESTERDAY

... CROWN COURT-YESTERDAY. The Court was occupied for several hours in trying M several cases of revolting atrocity, the particulars of of which we cannot enter into. Pe MISS CRPLLIN'S CASE. di Regila v. Copelatid.-Mr. Roebuck, M.P., and Mr. M Aspinall, applied to Lord Denman for copies of the indictment against the prisoner.-Mr. Wilkins, who a is for the prosecution, stated, after conferring with ...