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THE LATE ATTEMPTED ASSAS

SINATION AT LUDLOW.

The following is the report of the surgeon who at-
tended Mr. Mackreth after he had been attacked by
the assassin
Henry Hodges, Esq., surgeon, Ludlow, resides in
this town, was called up a little before four, and was
taken to the bed-room, No. 17. The wounded man
was just put into bed and undressed. I found him

weltering in blood, and, on examining him, found he
had two very severe wounds, the upper one on his face,
the other on his neck, a short distance below his chin.
The wound on the face was on a line with the mouth,
and extending nearly from ear to ear, and dividing the
whole of the muscles of both cheeks ; the lower wound
was very deep, at least seven inches long ; it laid the
larynx quite bare, but the edge of the instrument glanced
upwards. Part of the wound was so deep that it com-
municated with the larynx ; and, in giving him a little
water, I saw some of it return through the wound.
He was not bleeding much when I saw him, but he ap-
peared to have lost a good deal of blood. The wounds
arc very dangerous, and particularly the lower one. I
am of opinion the instrument was drawn from right to
left. The shirt collar is slightly cut, and appears to be done
with a sharp instrument, such is my opinion. Mr. Craw-
ford was with him, and had slightly bound up the wound.
I put several ligatures in it. Several persons followed me
in, and a moment after I noticed the prisoner. I had been
in a very short time, when I observed the prisoner in
his shirt near the fuot of the bed. Do not recollect if

he had his trowsers on. Think not but cannot speak
with certainty. He made a remark to some one, and I
think spoke to me but did not hear what. He went
backwards and forwards in his room, and lay down. I
think till about seven o'clock. I examined the room, and
was led to do it from what I elicited from the wounded
man, who said distinctly several times, " some villain has
(lone this," he bath said it and wrote it, much the same
as he did to you. He made a motion something about
pen and ink, and they were immediately brought ; he
wrote several words in my presence ; he also asked for
a policeman and gave the paper to him, the man who
fainted (the paper signed was here produced), and was
to the following effect :
" Seine villain has done this—he stood on my left—l
grasped his arm—he escaped. The door was locked too.
W. MACKRETH."
" Is there danger—is the wind-pipe cut through—is
the man found."

In consequence of his statement I was led to examine
the room; there were three or four jets of blood from
the arteries, and the walls were stained the height of his
neck, wherever he appeared to have moved ; I was sur-
prised
to find this jet on both sides of the room ; on the
side next the window and also on the other side ; two
panes of the window were broken ; I asked him what
he did when he gave the alarm at the window ; I did
not tell him I observed the jet on the other side of the
room ; he told me it was dark and he could not find the
door, and he walked to the other side of the bed : I
could not account for the blood on both sides ; he had
groped and touched the wall with his hands; he described
this to me ; I traced the jetting down the left-hand side
of the stairs, adjoining the wall ; I then examined the
passage to the right, towards the door where the pri-
soner is represented to have slept ; I did not find any
jetting there, but many drops of blood on the carpet,
to the door of No. 20 ; the drops on the carpet were
very frequent, and not many inches between them ; I
traced the line of blood without difficulty quite up to
the door ; they were on the right side ; they ceased at
the door of No. 20, that is, the extreme end of the
passage ; I saw two or three drops of blood on the
door next the prisoner's, No. 19 ; there was one drop
distinct on the board between the carpets which
cover the passage and the carpet in the bed.-room
door of No. 20 ; this drop of blood is about one inch
external to the door when closed ; there is a rather
dark old carpet, loose in its texture, in the prisoner's
room ; I have not seen any blood on that ; I saw some
blood on the prisoner's becl-curtains ; they were
drawn back, and I saw some blood next the window ;
it did not appear as if dropped on, but as if some-
thing wet with blood had touched it ; this curtain
was within two feet of the window ; I remarked if a
person was throwing anything out of the window, they
would have touched the curtain. There must have
been more blood towards the prisoner's room if Mr.
Maekreth had gone in that direction ; my impression is
the wounded man did not go in that direction. The
prisoner's room looked into the yard of the next pre-
mises. The drops of blood on both the floor and bed
curtains were no doubt fresh. Before I had been in the

house twenty minutes I requested two policemen to be
sent for as there was something very suspicious about
the case, and shortly after they arrived I gave infor-
mation of my suspicions to Richard Hammonds,
and requested he would be on the look out.
About seven o'clock I saw the prisoner come out
of his room. He had no stockings on. I did not
make the discovery till the prisoner had left his room
and had been down the yard. He had all his clothes
on except his boots and stockings. He had a pair of
boots in his hand and put them down, he observed to
me he had lost his stockings ; at this time he was stand-
ing in the passage near the door of the wounded man. He
came inside the bedroom to look for his stockings. One
or two pairs were showed to him ; he said they did
not belong to him. He almost immediately left the
room, and the next time I saw him was down
stairs with his boots on. I discovered no instrument
in the room, with which the wounds appeared to have
been inflicted. 1 saw two razors of the wounded man's
is single cases ; they appeared not to have been used.
Mr. Bradford and Dr. Lloyd looked for them, and
found them while I was in the room. I have seen the
marks under the bed since the wounded man has been
removed. A good many persons have visited it. The
marks of the left hand are very plain, and it appears
as if some person had been breathing on the floor also.
I observed the marks of the points of a man's fingers
in the dust of the floor. Did not particularly notice tho
height of the bed from the floor.

BURNS AND HIS HIGHLAND MARY.—WC
have seen in the possession of Mr. Christie, merchant in
this city, the pair of Bibles presented by the poet Burns to
his Highland Mary. They are in a good state of preser-
vation. It is rather a curious circumstance that they
should have found their way to Canada; but having been
carefully preserved in the family, their present owner emi-
grated from Scotland some years ago—having refused,
before embarking at Greenock, the sum of 101. sterling,
which was offered for the Bibles, by one very desirous of
procuring them. Circumstances having changed, he is
now desirous of disposing of them, and has placed them in
the hands of Mr. Christie for that purpose, who is about
to send them to Montreal.— Toronto Colonist, U. C.
It is at length decided that the anniversary of the
Abergavenny Cwmreigyddion Society will be held on
Wednesday and Thursday, the 7th and Bth of October
next, preparations for which are now being made on a
large scale. J. E. W. Rolls. Esq , at the Hendre, will
preside on the occasion. The arrangements for accommo-
dating the audience will be much superior to those at the
Eisteddfod in 1838. His Royal Highness the Duke of
Sussex has never, we presume, been in this part of the
kingdom, and we have no doubt if all things turn out as
propitious as expected, he will be highly delighted with
his visit. The beautiful scenery with which the little town
of Abergavenny is surrounded, and the welcome he will
receive from Old Cambria's Sons, will not fail to make an
impression en his mind which time itself will not erase.—
Merlin,

The important subject of Parliamentary Reform
is occupying the. attention of the popular Journals. The
Bradford Observer strongly commends the principles of
the Leeds address, and the Manchester Times argues for
a reading-and-writing qualification. The Suffrage question
ought to be unceasingly discussed till an extension has
been obtained. This may be done without any collision
with other measures w kh various classes of Reformers
may deem it proper to agitate for. The Tories are
weakened by their divisions ; the Whigs are feeble in Par-
liament; now is the time for the Radicals, by aldattention
to the registration, to secure that command of v7fea in the
House, without which they must always be weak.—Leices-
tershire Mercury.

As a proof of the extraordinary rapidity of com-
munication between the two continents at the present mo-
ment, it may be stated that newspapers published at Ha-
lifax, Nova Scotia, on the sth of August, were received
at the British and Foreign Newspaper Office, Chichester,
on the 16th instant, and papers of nearly as late a date
were received at the same time from New Brunswick, Ca.
nada, and New York.
ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.—The new melo-
drama of Guy Fawkes, which was to have been represented
at this theatre last evening for the first time, has been post-
poned, in consequence of certain passages in it being offen-
sive to the Lord Chamberlain. The drama of Seg:Accu-
sation was substituted in its place.