Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-21 00:00:00

THE IRISH CONSPIRATORS.

DUBLIN, Wednesday, April 20. —ln the Court of Queen's
Bench, the arguments on the motion to admit to bail th•
prisoners confined in the jails of Cork and Kerry, on the
charge of conspiracy in relation to the Phcenix Society,
have been concluded, and the court postponed judgment.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government emigrant
ship Forest Monarch, 877 tons, Capt. Thomas R. Anderson,
which sailed from Southampton on the 25th of August with
48 married couples, 85 single men, 75 single women, 29
boys between the ages of 1 and 12, 33 girls between the
same ages, 4 male and 8 female infants, making a total of
330 souls, equal to 287 statute adults, under charge of
Surgeon Superintendent Samuel Leonard Crane, M.D.,
arrived at Sydney, New South Wales, on the 21st of
December. Sixteen deaths (one male and three female
adults and 12 children) and six births occurred during the

voy_age.
TIIE SUICIDE OR MURDER AT RAMEGATE.—SOMe very
important additional particulars connecting the presence of
the deceased with the spot where the hatchet and boots
were found, and where, it is believed, his hand was mutilated
and chopped off, have just been brought to light. This
statement assists materially in accounting for the time of the
deceased up to within a very short period of his death.
Sarah Packer, of 2, Zion's-row, Ramsgate, . states that on
Sunday evening, the 10th inst., between eight and half-past,
she was in company with a young man near the shoot in the
cliff, on the sands, when she saw a man sitting alone on the
rock at the water's edge. It was between Augusta Stairs
and the East Cliff Lodge. She remarked to the young man
with whom she was walking, " Perhaps he wants assistance,
you had better go across to him." The young man answered,
" Oh, perhaps he is only washing his feet." Shortly after
this the man moved, but she cannot say positively in which
direction. The statement of the girl Packer proves that a
man like the deceased was at that spot, and alone, shortly
before the time it is supposed the deed was perpetrated. The
time also corresponds with information furnished by a young
woman named Matted, who speaks positively to seeing the
deceased on the East Parade at a quarter-past eight o'clock.
From this place he must have gone down the Augusta Stairs
and along the rocks to the place pointed out by Packer, and
here, no doubt, the hand was severed, if not the fatal stab
inflicted. On Monday a German Bible was picked up,
which it was believed the deceased had thrown from the
omnibus whilst travelling between Dover and Deal on
Friday. A bundle of pieces of cloth has been also fund
near the same spot, and they correspond exactly with the
cloth of the coat and trowsers worn by the deceased, and
would appear to have been kept by him for the purpose of
repairing his clothing as occasion might require. The
coroner, Mr. R. J. Emmerson, has inspected the spot on
the sands where the body was discovered, and it was
elicited from a number of seafaring men present that it
might have floated to the place where it was found, although
deprived of life, some 50 or 60 yards further out, towards the
edge of the rocks The public mind is still unsettled as to
whether it is a case of murder or suicide, and demands
further investigation. Accordingly Police-constable Hogben,
of the Harbour force, is prosecuting further inquiries at
Margate with reference to this man's movements, and also
as to what transpired while the deceased was at Brazer's
house with the girl Nines. These parties were to be
produced at the adjourned inquiry before the coroner.
Rumours have been afloat that the deceased had been dogged
about and murdered. The result of the inquiry is looked
forward to with a good deal of interest.