Star.
London, England, 1817-09-20 00:00:00

FEVER IN IRELAND.

.
NEWRY, Seri. IS.—Report of the State of i6]
Hospital from the 12th July till the 12th iestant-Th
. is
elusive:•
Number of Patients admitted
Minified, cured -
Died . "
in the House of Recovery
Remain in the Hospital

405

ts
fog
Of the above seven, Eve only have died'of Typhus.
No deaths these fourteen days.

Ineecrinus Fevea.—" It was lately represented to
the Magistrates of Paisley b y inhabitants in different
parts of the town, who had been alarmed for the
safety of themselves and families, that infectious fe-
vers prevailed in certain houses possessed chiefly by
Irish people. The Magistrates caused the premises
to be inspected by medical practitioners, and though
the tears of the neighbourhood bad overstated t',e
•disease, in other respects the medical reports exhibit-
ed no pleasing picture. Besides a general want of.
cleanliness, tbe houses were crowded to excess. In
one garret room there were no fewer than twenty-
three persons ; and such was the site of the
apartment, that in the night time the floor must
b ye been nearly covered by the inmates. Those in
the different place. who were in fever were removed
to the 11 use of Recovery, and other measures were
adopted by the Magistrates, on the suggestion of the
medical Gentlemvn, to prevent the spreading of the
contagion."—.(Gleugolu Courier.)
" We Are very sorry to fi id, that a severe epidemic
lou-r, of the typhus kind, is now raging among the
lower classes of people in this town We understand
that the large and welLorranged Fever hospital belong-
ing to the toms is actually overflowing, and that k•
number of potatoes are necessarily provided with I_t-_
cammtidatious,elaewhere."—Liceeptiol Courier.

iteted by s common inife. it. lived limit about sit
or seven o'clock on the. morning after his arrival.--
After death wiines• clanine i the 1.0,6. an 1 diet°.

vrre4l that 'he instrument pAssed h istr, en the settind
end vied ribs, 'hr nigh the ;tangs, end even punc-
tured the heart. Three was no toubt het that this
wound, which was three nr four ;notes deep, and nod
and a quarter hi I C rased the n 4' ient'. death.
J. hn Bow on was the Headbnrnngh of t' a parish.
He went nn the 19th of August to the lodrrings oe-
cupied by the prisoner and her husharid, and took her
into custody. On searching A drawer in her rhotni
he found a small dessert knife it WAS cotieird
tearly three inches 4f:triood from the point He
took this knife to a Magistrate, And afterw .rds tri the
.e.orotter, but on gnifsgm,stitum to *jure, the knifd
passed through a hole in' hie pnckei, and was lost.s.
The prisoner told ssitness, on her arrest, that the

knife she WAS eating her suppl,r with was. she be.
lietred,. lying in the room.
The prisoner an being call, d on for hi 4 dt.fetite
said, " that 'when she did the unfortneiate

was stunned with the Wow het husband gve her, that
she knew not what she did, until 'he sAA him tail."

Francis Kitchener, and other witnesses. were id
readiness to prove the it, flicriou of treneral 111-thage,
in the heat of passion. on the part ot the elet eased to-
wards the prisoner. They st tted toemselve. ready
to prove that he was ever quarrelling hen in liquor,
and his wife always end,•avpdring td extricate him
from those squabbles. She was deSeribed as a Very
humane woman.
Mr. Justice Hotkoi'D ptneeteded t sisui up the eVi-
dence, and observed, it could be considered no higher
than a charge of Manslaughter. The provocation
she had received cl,d not certainly amount in law td
any justification of her acting so in self defence, but
was actually manslaughter. It was unfortunate that
she at this moment had the knife in her hand, as in

all prvbabdity, had this not been the case, the wound
would not have heeninflicted. It was equally ardor.
tunate.that the young man, Harriet, did not interfere
in preventing him from striking his wife, and it was
most imprudent in him to leave the room, when he
saw the deceased armed with the cane or rod,
It was lonentablo to see such A fatal event, but this
cannot justify a Juiy in acquittal. The provocation
she might have received, though it did not operate
rnow, might nevertheless be sufficiently attended to,
:and would, witkouctioubt, be attended to when the
effect of the verdict was taken into consi.teration.

l'he Jury found hergutlty of M,nslaughter.
The unfortunate woman was decently dressed in
mourning, and during rhe whole trial exhibited the
sincerest borrow for her situation. She shed tears all
the time,- was a.sistest from the har in A state of great
agitation, and shortly .4firer expired in N wzrtel

Frederich'Darecek, aged S 2, was in licted for steal.
ing a quantity of sugar,. the property of Messrs.
Craven and B-wman, sugar-boilers.
Several persons deposed to the premises of Messrs.
Craven and Bowitnn having been entered into; and
it was proved by several watchmen that the prisoner
had, on. the 20th of July, between th - hours of I Wrlve
and one in the morning,:a bundle, whtchi on being
pursued, he dropped, but he was 4pprchended with
the bundle and taken IQ the watch-noose. "the bin-
dle contained two loaves of sugar, an on the rim..
ner's house bring searched eleven other loaves were
found there, which were all identified by a person in
the empty of the firm.
roe priirner made along cross-examination, to that
storimment of the Court, In answer to one question
' put butlWprisoneiln the constable, as to whether he
kne-, him btfore ? the latter said, lie bail long known
him to be 3 bad character. a a .

The prisoner made no defence, but called wit-
nesses to his character, none of whom could say how
he got his livelihood.
The RECORDER summed .up the ease to the Jury,
and said, that the conduct of the prisoner precluded
all doubt of his gailt.—Guilty.
The RECORDER afterwards remarked, that he never
knew t person take such pains to convict birdcall as
the psisoner had done; by his questions he had filled
up every chasm 111 the evidence.
J.ha Howard was inflicted for stealing two watch
chains, on,. brooch, ,and other articles, of the value
of 40s. and upwirde, *the dwellinghouse of Georgd
Harris, on the 'l4th of July, knEing.street, St. Giles's.
Mr, Moses st stedwibm ,les was a pawnbroker, and
'rived iu East SenithfolcL:.. On the 25th of July the
prisoner came to
.his house, and offered to pledge a
watch-chain upon which he desired, to have either
15s. or 50s. (the witness could not recollect which).
'He *skid bin if it was his own ? to which he replied,
ea. Witness having his suspicions raised by the ap.
peewee qt the chain, affected not o be sure that it
was gold: and said he must take a neighbour's opi.
Alan.. He then conducted-;he prisoner to the hoe*
Of an Officer, who succeeded, after great resistance,
so warsbio'g . , •
• Nithiniekhlathett, Ileldborough of the Parish of
St. john's, Wapping, confirmed the evidence as to
the primmer; heing troeght tu.hira cn the Mb af Jul y
by the Ls t art,tpess. : Mires. first told him trims he
had came about in Hebrew,. and ea his saying be
must search him the prisonerendeavoured to get away.
It was wah'irlisch difficelty, arid with the assisttoace
of three otk.4-:. that he secut.tti and mamined
He tore ....ts.es't shirt, and use.] very bed citrus.
'loos. Thb result of the search wat the findlng on
his person the' articles emus:crated in the iedicatient,
which he copsidered to be much above the. value af
140 s. together with a latch key. On carrying him, to
the watch-house, he at length ceased to resin Witte,
saying. 44 It' it must be so, so let it be.".
The two last witnesses, who are both of the Jewish
persuasion, prayed of .the Court early in the day,
that they might be allowed to give their evidence be:
fore twelve clock, as it would be contrary to dick
religious forms to be in Court after that hour. Usk
request was complied with.
• George Harris dePosed, that he was an undertaker,
and lost the articlesin..rstiott on the night of the
'24th of July. Hi not pot ac five o'clock in the
evening.leaving his wire andapprentice at home, and
returned about ten o'cleck. On retiring to bed he
found the closets bad been broken open and the goods
stolen. The shop door was usually left on the latch,
and the higher windows thrown opea. On the Mon-
day following he saw a bill posted in the streets, de.
scribing the articles, referring the owner to Mr. Nathan.
The prisiinsr, in his detence„ merely said that he
met a man, whom he did not Lime, on the '26tb, io