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The Week.
have been obtained of the working of the " Prevention of Poaching Act . " After some further discussion , iu the couise of which Sir George Grey supported the proposition of the member for Bradford , the I-Iotse divided , when the motion was rejected by a majority of 19 . —Air . Roebuck started another discussion , as the right of the Buggs and Buggeys to transform
themselves into Howards and Montmorencies , and Sir George Grey and the Solicitor General were at great pains to state the law on the subject , which is to the effect that there is no law to prevent a man altering his name as often as he likes , provided he does not do so for a fraudulent purpose . On AA' ednesday , Mr . Ferrand gave notice that on Friday he would ask the
Government whether they were willing to give a night immediately after Easter for the discussion of the condition of the distressed operatives in Lancashire . —Mr . Brady moved the second reading of his bill for the prevention of the practice of conveying persons suffering from infectious diseases in street cabs . The measure was opposed , and eventually , after some
discussion , the second reading was postponed to the 27 th of May . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —An influential meeting of the citizens of London was held on Tuesday at the Guildhall—Mr . Alderman and Sheriff Lawrence in the chair—on behalf of the present struggle in Poland . The attendance was numerous ;
and the meeting was addressed by the Earl of Harrowby , the Earl of Shaftesbury , Mr . Denman , Mr . AA estern Wood , Mr . Crawford , and other members of the House of Commons . Resolutions reprobating the conduct of Russia and asserting the [ rigkt of England to interfere in favour of Poland were unanimously agreed to , and petitions founded on them were ordered to be drawn up and presented to Parliament . It is stated that the changes in the Northern and Midland Circuits
have been finally decided upon : The old designations will be dropped , and the circuits will , it is said , he known in future as those of Lancashire and Yorkshire . The Lancashire Circuit will include Manchester , Liverpool , Lancaster , Carlisle , and Appleby ; the Yorkshire Circuit , York , Durham , and Newcastle , with Lincoln , Nottingham , and Derby , which will be taken
from the Midland . The remaining places on the Midland Circuit will be added to Norfolk . — - —At the weekly meeting of the Board of works , the inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Leicester-square presented a memorial urging upon the Board to oppose a measure now before Parliament for turning that square into a retail market . ——Mr . Farnall ' s report exhibits a
further decrease in the distress in the cotton districts . For the week ending the 7 th inst . the decrease , as compared with tlle previous week , was 1513 . Nine unions , however , have increased their poor , though the balance is more than restored in 16 other places . Mr . Farnell adds that there are now 213 , 705 persons in receipt of parochial relief , and 226 , 152 others who are assisted
by local committees , making in all 110 , 157 persons wholly or prrtially destitute : ——The remains of Sir James Outram are to find a fitting resting-place within the walls of AVostminster Abbey—the hallowed spot where , some 12 months ago , the illustrious soldier , broken and shattered in health , stood to pay the last office of respect to his departed ehietj Lord Canning .
The Cork branch of the " Brotherhood of St . Patrick " turned out again on Tuesday night , and , in pious memory of their patron saint , plunged the city into a . state of confusion , smashed a number of windows , and otherwise conducted themselves in such a manner as to render " a bayonet charge " necessary . The Magistrates , ivith Air . Maguire , M . P ., at their
head , appear to have acted with energy ; but the ruffians they haveto deal with are clearly fellows with a prodigious capacity for outrage and disorder . Mrs . Jessie Black , wife of Captain
Black , and daughter of a physician , has been brought before the . magistrate at Preston , charged with stealing jewellery from Captain Bluett . She was committed for trials . A foreigner named Antony Randewitz , who has been carrying on business , in Paris and at 6 , Bread-street , City , was brought up at Guildhall on AA edaesday , charged with conspiring with his partner ,.
Beuedict Brandels , to defraud creditors . The evidence showed that large quantities of goods had been bought by the fiim and sold immediately at much less than their value . The magistrate committed the prisoner for trial . A painful episode in the so-called " short and simple annals of the poor" is recorded in the report of an inquest on a girl of
the name of Smitbers , who died from starvation in St . Luke ' s . The family of which the poor little thing was ono were sunk in the depths of poverty , but refused to go into the workhouse . Another death from destitution has also transpired in Shoreditch . Sarah Jarvis , a woman of 67 , has died from exhaustion , asthma , and want of the common necessaries of life . An inquest has
been held at Guy's Hospital on the body of Mr . Isaac AY alker , who had died in consequence of injuries received by him through falling from a van on tiie night of the illumination . It was clearly shown that death had been caused in that way , and a verdict of accidental death was returned . Another inquest , which will probably be followed by other proceedings , was held
on Saturday evening by the AVest Middlesex coroner . The object was to ascertain the cause of the death of Ellen Cottar , whose death there is too much reason to fear was at least accelerated by brutal ill-treatment . A verdict of " Death from natural cause , " was , however , returned . A melancholy accident took place at one of the piers at London Bridge on Tuesday morning . A respectably-dressed middle-aged women , attempting to get on board a steamboat while the vessel was in
motion , missed her footing and fell into the river . She sank immediately , and notwithstanding every exertion some time elapsed before the body was recovered . The woman was quite dead . A fetal boiler explosion occurred ou Tuesday at the . A'ictoria AVorks near Dewsbury . One man was killed , and one if not two others are likely to die . George Vass , a brutal . young fellow , who murdered a married woman under
circumstances of fearful atrocity at Newcastle-on-Tyne , on the morning of New Year's-day , was executed on Saturday . A young . man , named Simpson , —in a fit of jealousy , it would soein—fired at his sweetheart at Newton Mount , near Burton-upon-Trent ,, on Friday , and afterwards committed suicide . The young woman received a serious wound under the right ear , and it is
feared that she will not recover . Five men have been sentenced to three months' hard labour each at the AA elchpool assizes , for intimidating a number of voters at tho election for Montgomeryshire in the month of Jul y last . The prisoners appeared to have been the ringleaders of a regularly organised mob , whose proceedings Mr . Baron Bramwell , in
passing sentence , denounced as " the worst of tyrannies . " A dreadful scene has occurred at the Dorchester assizes . A convict , named Preedy , was put upon his trial for the wilful murder of one of the Portland warders . There was no dispute as to the facts of the case , but an attempt was made to prove that the prisoner was not in a sound state of mind . As if to
support this plea , Preedy conducted himself like a raving madman in the dock , and at length it was found necessary to manacle and strap him down . Evidence was then given to rebut the case for the defence , and the jury returned a verdict of ' guilty . When sentence of death was passed upon him , the heavily-ironed convict" bowed very reverentially . " A farmor , near Chelmsford , named Straight , has been tried at Chelmsford on the charge of having discharged a loaded pistol at a policeman .
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The Week.
have been obtained of the working of the " Prevention of Poaching Act . " After some further discussion , iu the couise of which Sir George Grey supported the proposition of the member for Bradford , the I-Iotse divided , when the motion was rejected by a majority of 19 . —Air . Roebuck started another discussion , as the right of the Buggs and Buggeys to transform
themselves into Howards and Montmorencies , and Sir George Grey and the Solicitor General were at great pains to state the law on the subject , which is to the effect that there is no law to prevent a man altering his name as often as he likes , provided he does not do so for a fraudulent purpose . On AA' ednesday , Mr . Ferrand gave notice that on Friday he would ask the
Government whether they were willing to give a night immediately after Easter for the discussion of the condition of the distressed operatives in Lancashire . —Mr . Brady moved the second reading of his bill for the prevention of the practice of conveying persons suffering from infectious diseases in street cabs . The measure was opposed , and eventually , after some
discussion , the second reading was postponed to the 27 th of May . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —An influential meeting of the citizens of London was held on Tuesday at the Guildhall—Mr . Alderman and Sheriff Lawrence in the chair—on behalf of the present struggle in Poland . The attendance was numerous ;
and the meeting was addressed by the Earl of Harrowby , the Earl of Shaftesbury , Mr . Denman , Mr . AA estern Wood , Mr . Crawford , and other members of the House of Commons . Resolutions reprobating the conduct of Russia and asserting the [ rigkt of England to interfere in favour of Poland were unanimously agreed to , and petitions founded on them were ordered to be drawn up and presented to Parliament . It is stated that the changes in the Northern and Midland Circuits
have been finally decided upon : The old designations will be dropped , and the circuits will , it is said , he known in future as those of Lancashire and Yorkshire . The Lancashire Circuit will include Manchester , Liverpool , Lancaster , Carlisle , and Appleby ; the Yorkshire Circuit , York , Durham , and Newcastle , with Lincoln , Nottingham , and Derby , which will be taken
from the Midland . The remaining places on the Midland Circuit will be added to Norfolk . — - —At the weekly meeting of the Board of works , the inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Leicester-square presented a memorial urging upon the Board to oppose a measure now before Parliament for turning that square into a retail market . ——Mr . Farnall ' s report exhibits a
further decrease in the distress in the cotton districts . For the week ending the 7 th inst . the decrease , as compared with tlle previous week , was 1513 . Nine unions , however , have increased their poor , though the balance is more than restored in 16 other places . Mr . Farnell adds that there are now 213 , 705 persons in receipt of parochial relief , and 226 , 152 others who are assisted
by local committees , making in all 110 , 157 persons wholly or prrtially destitute : ——The remains of Sir James Outram are to find a fitting resting-place within the walls of AVostminster Abbey—the hallowed spot where , some 12 months ago , the illustrious soldier , broken and shattered in health , stood to pay the last office of respect to his departed ehietj Lord Canning .
The Cork branch of the " Brotherhood of St . Patrick " turned out again on Tuesday night , and , in pious memory of their patron saint , plunged the city into a . state of confusion , smashed a number of windows , and otherwise conducted themselves in such a manner as to render " a bayonet charge " necessary . The Magistrates , ivith Air . Maguire , M . P ., at their
head , appear to have acted with energy ; but the ruffians they haveto deal with are clearly fellows with a prodigious capacity for outrage and disorder . Mrs . Jessie Black , wife of Captain
Black , and daughter of a physician , has been brought before the . magistrate at Preston , charged with stealing jewellery from Captain Bluett . She was committed for trials . A foreigner named Antony Randewitz , who has been carrying on business , in Paris and at 6 , Bread-street , City , was brought up at Guildhall on AA edaesday , charged with conspiring with his partner ,.
Beuedict Brandels , to defraud creditors . The evidence showed that large quantities of goods had been bought by the fiim and sold immediately at much less than their value . The magistrate committed the prisoner for trial . A painful episode in the so-called " short and simple annals of the poor" is recorded in the report of an inquest on a girl of
the name of Smitbers , who died from starvation in St . Luke ' s . The family of which the poor little thing was ono were sunk in the depths of poverty , but refused to go into the workhouse . Another death from destitution has also transpired in Shoreditch . Sarah Jarvis , a woman of 67 , has died from exhaustion , asthma , and want of the common necessaries of life . An inquest has
been held at Guy's Hospital on the body of Mr . Isaac AY alker , who had died in consequence of injuries received by him through falling from a van on tiie night of the illumination . It was clearly shown that death had been caused in that way , and a verdict of accidental death was returned . Another inquest , which will probably be followed by other proceedings , was held
on Saturday evening by the AVest Middlesex coroner . The object was to ascertain the cause of the death of Ellen Cottar , whose death there is too much reason to fear was at least accelerated by brutal ill-treatment . A verdict of " Death from natural cause , " was , however , returned . A melancholy accident took place at one of the piers at London Bridge on Tuesday morning . A respectably-dressed middle-aged women , attempting to get on board a steamboat while the vessel was in
motion , missed her footing and fell into the river . She sank immediately , and notwithstanding every exertion some time elapsed before the body was recovered . The woman was quite dead . A fetal boiler explosion occurred ou Tuesday at the . A'ictoria AVorks near Dewsbury . One man was killed , and one if not two others are likely to die . George Vass , a brutal . young fellow , who murdered a married woman under
circumstances of fearful atrocity at Newcastle-on-Tyne , on the morning of New Year's-day , was executed on Saturday . A young . man , named Simpson , —in a fit of jealousy , it would soein—fired at his sweetheart at Newton Mount , near Burton-upon-Trent ,, on Friday , and afterwards committed suicide . The young woman received a serious wound under the right ear , and it is
feared that she will not recover . Five men have been sentenced to three months' hard labour each at the AA elchpool assizes , for intimidating a number of voters at tho election for Montgomeryshire in the month of Jul y last . The prisoners appeared to have been the ringleaders of a regularly organised mob , whose proceedings Mr . Baron Bramwell , in
passing sentence , denounced as " the worst of tyrannies . " A dreadful scene has occurred at the Dorchester assizes . A convict , named Preedy , was put upon his trial for the wilful murder of one of the Portland warders . There was no dispute as to the facts of the case , but an attempt was made to prove that the prisoner was not in a sound state of mind . As if to
support this plea , Preedy conducted himself like a raving madman in the dock , and at length it was found necessary to manacle and strap him down . Evidence was then given to rebut the case for the defence , and the jury returned a verdict of ' guilty . When sentence of death was passed upon him , the heavily-ironed convict" bowed very reverentially . " A farmor , near Chelmsford , named Straight , has been tried at Chelmsford on the charge of having discharged a loaded pistol at a policeman .