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The annual display of siege operations at Chatham tc ok place on Thursday, in the presence of Prince Albert. The various operations were performed under the superintendence of Colonel Jones, who pro- ceeds to the Baltic, by troops whose destination is India.
Great success has attended the Yarmouth mackerel fishery, now draw- ing th a close. During the last three months, about eighty large boats have been engaged in the work ; and the quantity of fish soil has pro- duced upwards of 30,000/. No fewer than 99,000 packages, weighing 3000 tone, and containing 6,000,000 fish, have been forwarded by rail : another illustration of the vast benefits of railway transit in developing industry.
In addition to the great iron-works at Middlesborough and Easton on the Tees, the manufacture of iron is about to be commenced at Stockton, where sites for six blast-furnaces have been secured. The ironstone will be brought from the Cleveland Hills by rail.
Trade in the manufacturing districts, without exhibiting any extraordi- nary activity, is reported to show great general steadiness.
Great distress prevails among the handloom-weavers of Penrith, who have nearly all been out of work for two months. There will be a large emigration from South Wales this year. The emigrants are of the better class of mechanics or small farmers ; and they go to North America or Australia, assisted in their movement by remit. lances from relatives already there.
A General Court-Martial is sitting at the Infantry Barracks, Windsor, to try Lieutenant Perry for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, in assaulting Lieutenant Greer with two candlesticks and seriously wounding him. Lieutenant Perry alleges great and brutal provocation.in his defame, The sentence will riot be promulgated until approved by Lord Endings, At Hertford Assizes, this week, Mynel Yzquierdo, a young Spaniard, was convicted of the murder of a bay of fourteen, at North Mimma : he killed him by blows with a bludgeon, in a field.. The prisoner was produced at the last Assizes; be remained mute ; a Jury pronounced .him mute, by the visite. tiou of God, and the trial was postponed. This week he again remained ob- stinately silent ; but evidence was adduced to show that this was a sham, and a jury pronounced him "wilfully mute" : so the trial proceeded, the Judge ordering a plea. of "Not guilty ', to be entered. The Spaniard evi- dently thought that by remaining silent he might escape punishment. Na one saw him commit the murder, though several persons were not far off; there was no reason to suppose that the boy had assailed him in any way ; the motive for the crime was not apparent. The Jury deliberated for some hours before they gave their verdict.
The Preston Pilot states that the prosecutions against Cowell and the other delegates, which were to have come to trial at the Liverpool Assizes, have been withdrawn.
A farmer named Gill, and his wife, living near Leeds, have kept their lunatic son confined in a horrid den in the basement of their house for two years ; lately the police discovered the matter, forced their way_ into the house, and rescued the unfortunate young man. The Leeds Magistrates have directed. that he shall be placed in an asylum ; and the parents, being in good circumstances, will have to pay all expenses.
A convict in Dartmoor Prison, of the Jack Sheppard stamp, cut a pinto from the lock of his cell-door one evening lately, and got into the large hall; in three hours he made a hole through the roof, and gained the exterior of the building ; then sealed the boundary-wall, which is twenty feet high. He resumed business by breaking into the house of Dr. Campbell, whence he stole plate and clothing. After he had attired himself, he required a horse to ride ; so he went to Two Bridges, broke open a stable, selected a horse and saddle, and set off for Exeter. Unfortunately for his adventure, he chanced to meet two persons, one of whom wee the owner of the horse; and by them he was captured and carried back to the prison.
A young woman has for some time been duping the credulous in different parts of Lancashire, Gloucestershire, and Derbyshire, by pretending that she was the daughter or granddaughter of Dr. Hook, the Vicar of Leeds, and that she had been cruelly turned out of doors. For eighteen monthsshe got money by means of this tale, without any of the dupes making inquiry in the proper quarter as to its truth. At length she was taken by some Mat, lock people to Leeds, and confronted with Dr. Hook's family ; She thee con- fessed. her fraud. It seems she is known for a bad character ; she had been assisted at Leeds, and thus acquired some knowledge of Dr. Hook and his family. She is to be punished.
The proprietors of hackney-carriages at Manchester now fix their Own rate of charge, but they are bou,nd to nunounce on the panels of the vehicles what that rate is. It is found that for moat of the cabs the fare is. ninepenae a mile, and for coaches a shillitig.
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