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vordict , pronouncod it to bo fabrication . A vordict of accidental doath was roturnod . It is only just to stato that tho unfortunato woman boro an oxcellent charaotor for sobrioty . The Manchester inquiry into the trades' outrages iu tho brickmakers' trade was continued on the 14 th inst . The disclosures

revealed a shocking amount of terrorism on tho part of some of the societies ; but , owing to tho unwillingness of many of the witnesses to give evidence , the commissioners have great difficulty in eliciting tho whole truth . In one instance , the secretary of a society having admitted that he had destroyed the cashbook , his expenses were refused . On the 15 th inst . a destructive fire broke out at tho village of Southall , some

fourteen miles from London , the local flour mills being the scene of the disaster . It was not till tho steam fire-engines arrived from town that the conflagration yielded to the efforts of those who were engaged in extinguishing it . Property of great value was destroyed . Mr . Ernest Jones has been nominated by the representative working men of Manchester as their

candidate for the representation of that city . Mr . Jones , in accepting the invitation , pledged himself to go to the poll . He will contest the third seat which the new Reform Bill gives to Manchester . The commissioners appointed to determine the boundaries of the borough of Finsbury assembled on the 16 th inst . The proceedings appear to have excited but little interest .

The inquiry as to the cause of the death of Police-sergeant Richard Barry , which resulted from the collision of tho steamers Metis and Wentworth on the Thames , was resumed on the 16 th inst . at-Cubitt Town . The captain , mate , and engineer of the Metis were examined , and , however the inquiry may terminate , their evidence discloses facts which , in the interest of the public ,

call for an investigation into the amount of nautical training received by those in command of our river steamers , as well as into the adequacy of the regulations which at present guide them in the critical navigation of tho Thames . The inquiry

was adjourned . At the Mansion House , two insurance brokers , Mr . Georgo Watson Grubb and Mr . William Robinson , were charged with , misappropriating a sum of £ 1 , 500 which they had received from certain underwriters in tho City on behalf of a Liverpool firm . The caso was adjourned . At Marlboroughstreet police-court another charge was preferred against the lady

swindler , " Geraldine Mem-ice , " who rejoices iu many aliases and has made many dupes . In this instance she obtained goods , under 'false pretences , from a tradeswoman in Berners-street , who stated that tho prisoner dubbed herself " The Honourable Mrs . Mem-ice" —a title to which she , of course , has no sort of claim . The court was full of tradesmen , who were anxious , if

possible , to identify her as concerned in frauds by which they had suffered ,- but she discreetly covered her face with a thick veil . The magistrate , however , promised them an opportunit y of inspecting her features . She was again remanded On the 17 th inst . a meeting of readers of the Press was held in the Salisbury Hotel . Mr . Charles Dickens , who occupied the

chair , delivered a brief speech , in which he testified , from his own experience , to the fact that correctors of the Press perforin valuable services in a literary sense—services not purely mechanical in their character , but requiring mental thought , knowledge , and acuteness of judgment . The meeting resolved to memorialise the Masters' Association with a view to an

improvement of their position , especially as regards the scale of l-eiiiuneratioii . In the Court of Aldermen the retirement of Mr . Abbiss was officially announced , and a resolution , regretting that event , and testifying to tho efficient manner in which he had performed the duties of his office , was unanimously adopted . Alderman W . Lawrence was also thanked for the services he

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had rendered his fellow-citizens in the House of Commons , in connection with the bill for regulating the traffic in the streets of the metropolis . At the Thames police-court Captain Matthew Irvin , master of the ship Balcamarra , was charged with the wilful murder of Joseph Heck , a seaman on board that vessel . It was alleged that the captain had brutally assaulted

tho docoasod who , to cscapo tho violonco of his assailant , jnmpod overboard and -was drowned . A quostion was raisod as to whether thoso facts , cvon if proved , woro sufficiont to support a chargo of murder . Mr . Bonson'incidontally remarkod that thoy woro . ¦ Tho caso was adjourned for further ovidonco , tho magistrate consenting to accopt bail . Tho commissionors appointed

to define tho boundaries of tho borough of Wostminstor mot on tho 18 th inst . Tho procoodings oxcitod no intorost . On tho 18 th . inst . tho inquiry into tho causos of tho fatal collision on the Thamos botween tho Metis and tho Wentworth was torminatod . The investigation has , wo aro glad to say , boon of a most searching character : and it has brought to light tho oxistonco of a stato

of things on tho rivor which no man in his sonsos can contoniplato without a shudder . Tho exact amount of culpability which should bo apportioned to tho individuals responsible for tho accident is a small matter compared with tho facts that havo boon disclosed concerning tho navigation of tho Thamos . It appoars that thero aro roally no rules whatovor to guido captains of

vossels . All is loft to tho chapter of accidents—to ¦ the chanco that vessels will somohow or other manago to pass ono another without coming into collision . Witness after witness testified to this fact , and , if any doubt on the subject still remained , it was amply set at rest b } ' the very frank answers of Mr . Jenkins , the deputy harbour master of the port of London . The jury decided that the fault lay with both vessels , and thoy requested the coroner to convey to

the Thames Conservancy Board the expression of their opinion that regulations should be prepared for tbe navigation of the river . A terrible affair took place in Manchester on the 18 th inst . As two Fenian , prisouevs wove being conveyed to prison , a mob of thirty or forty Irish attacked the van , and liberated the prisoners . A police-serjeant was shot through the head , and died soon afterwards . His murderer has been arrested . Two other persons were seriously injured . The city is naturally

in a most excited state . A dozen persons have been arrested . The final examination of three members of the Caseley gang of burglars , who were charged with lurking about the City with burglarious intent , aud also with having skeleton keys in their possession , took place at the Mansion House the other day . They were committed for trial . Sir Robert Garden , with manifest reluctance , allowod a part of tho money found upon Evans to bo given up . Mr . John Hard

y , M . P ., will lio romoiuborod for his vagarios in tho Houso of Commons . Ho has now established another claim to bo romombored by tho public . On tho 17 th inst . ho was charged boforo his brother magistrates at Burton with assaulting a man named Hipwol ] , who is in tho employ of Mr . Thomas Robinson , a local landed proprietor . Hipwcll shot at a wood pigeon , and Mr . Hardy appoars to havo fauciod that tho man was shooting at a partridge . An altercation and a tusslo ousuod botwoon thorn ,

which resulted in Hipwcll being struck on the broast with his own gun . Tho prosecutor , i t appoarod , had authority to shoot tho wood pigoon ; and as tho sport was boing pursued on land with which Mr . Hardy had nothing to do , ho had no right to intorfero . Tho lion , member mado romarks in court which would scarcoly havo been toloratod if his position and that of tho plaintiff had boon reversed . But tho magistrates did substantial justico in tho caso . They fined Mi-. Hardy fivo pounds , and ordorod him to pay costs .

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