The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-28 00:00:00

A KEEPER SOOT BY POACHERS.

The Ipswich Express thus reports an affray which
took place between some poacher+ and the keepers of John
Bcreen, Esq., of Holbrook, on the night of Monday, the
19th instant .—At about half-put twelve on the night in
question, a keeper named John Rush, hearing the report of
a gun in the Holbrook Hardens, opened his chamber win-
dow and blew his railway whistle, as a signal to the keepers.
He then dressed himself, and called up en assistant-keeper,
named Thomas Manning, who lives in a cottage unit r the
same roof, and they proceeded in the direction from whence
the sound had been beard. Shortly after Rush called out
for Manning to come back. Almost immediately after he
had done so, Manning perceived one of the poachers, and
pursued bim a distance of about two roils, when a second
poacher made his appearance, and, from his movements,
it appeared as if he wanted to melee his escape over the
palings, but when he saw Manning, who was standing
Just on the other side, ho drew back into the pre-
serves. Manning now proceeded for a short distance
by the side of the gardens, thinking that the
Poacher had gone in that direction, when some one behind
him fired a gun, the charge from which entered the lower
part of his person. Notwithstanding the intense agony he
was suffering, Manning. courageously pursued the man in
front, succeeded in earning u p with him, and seizing him
by the collar of his coat; but the man flourishing a blud•
geen and at the same time threatening him, and from the
love of blued Manning had by this time sustained and the
intense pain he was suffering from the gun-shot wounds,
he was compelled to release his hold of the poacher. Just
at this moment the second poacher, and the man whom
Manning believed to be the person •ho fired the gun, ran
by him in the direction of Woleerstone. The keeper
Rush, having heard the report of the gun which had been
fired at and wounded Manning, was soon upon the !pot,
when he found poor Manning much exhausted, and groan-
ing piteously from the wounde he had sustained. With
much difficulty he assisted the poor fellow to his Lome, a
distance of a quarter of a mile. Mr Jarmans, surgeon, of
Holbrook, was quickly in attendance upon the sutf..r.ng
man, and applied rernedii s usual in such a case. From
the examination he male, he discovered that no than
160 shots had entered Manning's person, tome of them to
a depth of two inches. Up to Sunday evening last Man-
ning was going on as well as could be expected under all
the circumstances. The poor fellow has a wile aril six

children, and be has been in the service of John nee-
nets, Esq., for the last fifteen months, and has beam an
industrious and steady man. Much praise is due to Man-
ning, as well u to Eush, for the manner in which they
acted. The police, under tint active and intei,igent
officer, Sub-Inspector Bragg, have been actively at work
since the brutal outrage to bring the offenders to justice,
and hopes are entertained that before long they will be in
Icustody.

A MISER.—A man, named Bearing, (hid at. Chi!.
compton lately, aged ninety-three. Ile would deny him•
self almost every neerssat y, ei•her food, fire, or clothing.
A fortnight since he was visited by a lady, who gave Wm a
shilling, as he told her that he was perishing from cold, and
want of food; he had the same tale fur any one who went
to ace him. After his death there was discovered hid about
the cottage nearly 200;., principally in guineas an,: half-
guineas; several suits of cothes, rotten from lying by ; and
a quantity of coal in a pantry, which was bought by him
about twenty•one years since, but which he was ton nig-
I gardly to burn; ale, a will, wherein he lisqueattod ',.;091.,
Iwhich, it seems he had put out at interest, together with his
other money, &c., to sum, relatives in America, leavmg •
po r old relative, who had rendered him every ass'•.4...ce
: in her power, without a shilling.— Western Flying Pose.

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SINGULAR CASE. OE HOMICIDE.—Oa' Saturday
night, abut 10 o'clock, u lubouring man walking up All-
Clrah street, Manchester, vus struck by another man the
head, who instantly run away. The labourer fell upin the
pavement, and was anon I:ftergearcs conveyed to the Infir-
mary by the police, wte he died in the course of a short
time Ile was never lible to speak after he fell, and, as the
man who struck him is not known, the cause of the assault
Las not NOD ascertained. Several persons witnessed the
transaction, but are able to give only a poor description of
the assailant. The labourer was a single man, residing
with his sister, and had 3i. to 4/. in gold and silver In his
pockets when taken up, but the assault is not supposed to
have been for the purpose of robbery, but in censequi nee of
some previous quern I.
SNOW-STORM IN LlVERPOOL—Yesterday morning
snow fell heavily in Liverpool, and • few minute after
nine o'clock a rare atmospheric ph, nomencri noon r, d.
Waite the snowflakes were falling thick and last one vivid
flash of lighiping burst thn ugh the morning storm, act nes-
palsied by aloud peal of thunder and sharp hail.