Lord Dunboyne was tried in the Court of Queen's Bench on the 19th, on the charge of making A False Statement in the Register of His Marriage. In August, 1842, Lord Dunboyne was privately married, at Paddington Church, to Mrs. Vincent Vaughan, a well-endowed young widow, with prospects of increased fortune, living at Bell Hatch, in the county of Oxford. The marriage was private because it was opposed to the wishes of Mrs. Vaughan's mother, to whose wealth she would succeed if she did not alienate her regards. The opposition made to Lady Dunboyne's marriage by her mother wore off, and the parties were married again at St. George's, Hanover Square, in December, 1843; and on this occasion, just as on the former one, the parties were described as widower and widow, though then man and wife. This false description was the offence. Lord Campbell instructed the jury, that they must be "satisfied that the representation had been made falsely, fraudulently, and corruptly;" a conclusion which there would be some difficulty in coming to, as the defendant had no motive to injure anybody by his act. Such marriages are highly irregular, but very common, especially among Roman Catholics: it is difficult to see how on a second marriage a man can describe himself except by his description before the marriage. The jury found a verdict of Not Guilty.

to the preceding. This Edward Wright, sen., appears English, but the eldest of them was able to answer the to have been the father of the system, which he has magistrate's questions. Mr. A'Becket (to the eldest carried on for more than twenty years. He pleaded boy): Where have you come from? From the county of guilty, and James was convicted by the jury. Sentence Cork. What place? Dunmanway. I was in the was then passed on the whole. Wright the elder, James, workhouse there. Mr. A'Becket: Why did you leave Campbell, and Stanley, eighteen months imprisonment that place? Boy: Because Mr. Hamilton, one of the with hard labour; but as it appeared that Sparks had gentlemen there, said that I would get plenty of work not taken any money, and that Wright, jun., had acted and victuals if I left the workhouse and came over to under the guidance of a bad father, the period of their England. Mr. A'Beckett: Who paid for your passage? imprisonment was limited to twelve months. Boy: Mr. Hamilton, I believe, paid the money. Mr. A'Beckett: Were there any more boys sent away from the workhouse with you? Boy: Yes, Sir; there were 21 boys picked out, and we were all put on board the ship and brought over here as deck passengers. Mr. A'Beckett: Did they supply you with food while on board? Boy: Yes, Sir, we had some bread given to us, but nothing else besides water. Mr. A'Beckett: Where have you been living since you came to London? Boy: In no house, Sir. We tried to get work, but could not find any one to employ us, and so we have been wandering about the town, sleeping sometimes under the arches of the railway, and at other times on the steps of houses near the water-side. The magistrate, after commenting on the conduct of the Irish parish officers, directed that the boys should be taken to the workhouse of the parish in which they were found destitute, that they might be relieved and passed over to Ireland." An Atrocious Attack on Her Majesty was made shortly after six o'clock on the evening of the 27th. The Queen, accompanied by a lady in waiting and the royal children, had been to inquire respecting the health of the Duke of Cambridge, at his residence, in Piccadilly. A man was observed loitering about for some time, keeping his eye directed towards the entrance at which the royal carriage would come out, when on reaching the end of the road from the house, the villain deliberately aimed a blow at her Majesty with a light cane, which he held in his hand, striking her on the cheek, and crushing her bonnet over her forehead, which caused a great sensation to the bystanders. The fellow was instantly seized by the persons on the spot, and the weapon wrested from him. Her Majesty then immediately proceeded to Buckingham Palace. police were quickly on the spot, and took him in charge, and conveyed him to the Vine Street station. Upon being placed before Inspector Whall, he gave his name Robert Pate, 27, Duke Street, St. James's. He assigned no reason for the act; said he had been a lieutenant in the Tenth Hussars. The charge was then entered as follows:-"Charged with assaulting Her Majesty on leaving Cambridge House." He was then locked up. Her Majesty arrived at the palace perfectly safe, and apparently little alarmed at the outrageous assault that had been committed on her. In a short time, however, the news had spread to the various club-houses, and the noblemen and others there assembled instantly hastened to the royal residence to ascertain, if possible, whether Her Majesty had sustained injury. However, she appeared at the Royal Italian Opera in the evening, and presented herself in the front of her box perfectly unharmed. Her reception by the audience was something more than enthusiastic; it was affecting-many shed tears.

Walter Watts, tried at the Central Criminal Court on the 10th of May, on the charge of stealing a cheque for 14007., belonging to his employers, the Globe Insurance Company, was convicted on one of the counts of the indictment, of "stealing a piece of paper," the point of law being reserved whether this was sufficient to constitute a criminal charge. On the 22nd instant Lord Chief Justice Wilde delivered the judgment, Affirming the Conviction.

An action was tried in the Court of Common Pleas at Dublin, on the 22nd, at the instance of the London and Dublin Bank against Mr. Clements, a young military officer, for payment of a bill for 10001., purporting to be drawn by a person of the name of Joel and accepted by Mr. Clements. When this bill was afterwards discovered to be in the hands of the Bank, Mr. Clements pronounced it a Forgery, and Joel was subsequently tried at the Old Bailey in January last, convicted of the forgery and sentenced to transportation. Notwithstanding this, the Bank pursued Mr. Clements for payment of the consideration given by them for the bill. Judge Ball, in his charge to the jury, told them that they were not to be influenced by the fact which had come out in the course of the trial, that Joel had been found guilty by another tribunal of the forgery of the bill; and the jury found a verdict in favour of the Bank, for 7007., with sixpence

costs.

A deliberate suicide was committed on the 22nd, by a Child Seven Years old, the son of John Hanson, a waterman, residing at Newark. The boy having been beaten by his mother, had threatened that if she did so again he would drown himself, and carried his threat into execution, by walking resolutely into the Trent till the stream carried him away.

On Sunday the 23rd, early in the morning, a respectable-looking middle-aged man was observed to throw himself from the centre arch of Southwark bridge. In his fall his head was seen to strike against one of the abutments with a force which must have shattered his skull. His body has not been found.

An instance of the misery caused by the practice adopted by the Irish parochial authorities, of Getting Rid of their Poor by sending them to England in a destitute state, was exhibited at the Southwark Police Court, on the 25th, when three little Irish boys, found lying on the steps of a house in the Borough, were brought before the magistrate. They were almost unacquainted with

The

NARRATIVE OF ACCIDENT AND

DISASTER.

MELANCHOLY accounts have been brought, by recent arrivals from the Atlantic, of the Destruction of Ships by floating Icebergs. One of these catastrophes was witnessed, on the 27th of April, by the Oriental, of Liverpool. The Oriental was then beset by ice, and saw another vessel a few miles off in a most perilous condition, stove in by the ice, and sinking. For two days she was seen in the same forlorn condition, when she suddenly disappeared, and very little doubt is entertained of every soul having gone down in the foundered vessel. Subsequently a great many bodies were seen intermingled with the ice, together with some portions of the cargo, from which it was discovered that she was from Londonderry bound for Quebec. The Oriental was eleven days before she got entirely clear of the ice.

Another similar catastrophe was witnessed on the 29th

Railway, the tackle employed in..oisting one of them to the top of one of the arches, suddenly gave way, and the mass fell, bringing with it a quantity of the brickwork. One poor man, named George Rowe, was Instantly Crushed to Death, and two others, John Hackett and George Howison, were injured, the former so dreadfully that he was not expected to survive.

On the night of the 17th, as Captain Peel, son of Mr. Yates Peel, and nephew of Sir Robert, was returning to Nenagh Barracks, in a car with three other officers, it was Accidentally overturned, and, falling above him, fractured his left thigh, and his right leg in two places, and dislocated his left shoulder.

Two children of Mr. Lewen, a visitor to Brighton, were playing on the beach on the 18th, when a bathing machine, on the wheels of which they had climbed, was suddenly put in motion, and threw them down. The one, a boy of seven, escaped with slight injury; but the other, a girl of nine, was Killed on the Spot, the wheel having passed over her head.

On the 19th, William Jones, a labourer in Messrs. Whitbread & Co.'s brewery, was Suffocated by Foul Air, in a vat into which he had descended for the purpose of cleaning its bottom. The coroner's jury found that no blame was attached to the firm, as it appeared that Jones had been frequently cautioned against entering vats to clean them without first allowing the carbonic acid gas, generated from the grounds, to escape.

feet and rushed on deck. After a very brief interval one of my neighbours returned, and began with great trepidation to dress. I then apprehended danger, and jumped out of bed, and drawing on my trousers went on deck, calling at the ladies' cabin, in passing, to tell my wife that she had better get up and dress although there might not be any immediate danger. On getting to the A Dreadful Fire broke out on the morning of the quarter-deck I found a large number of the passengers 17th, in a house in Phoenix Street, a narrow thorough-assembled in great alarm. The vessel by this time had fare leading out of Crown Street, Soho. A Mrs. settled somewhat by the head, and was lurching over a Harding, who occupied a portion of the second floor, little to the starboard-that is, towards the land. I attempted to make her escape by the window, but, instantly went below to hasten my wife with her toilet, after holding on by her hand for some time, was com- and put on a little more dress, and sought for a small pelled to drop on the stones beneath, and her death trunk I had, and brought it to the middle of the cabin. was almost instantaneous. Her son, who had made the My wife and I now went on deck, and as the vessel was most courageous efforts to save her, was so burnt as to dipping deeper and deeper into the water I calmly told be obliged to be removed to the hospital. One of the her that I feared there was little hope, but that we daughters of a Mr. Noland, whose family were also would use every effort to save ourselves. By this time inmates in the house, was literally burned to a cinder. the water was over the bulwarks at the bow, and the Every article of furniture and wearing apparel belonging heel' of the deck was becoming greater and greater. to the different lodgers was destroyed before the fire I then feared that all was over, and clasping my wife to could be got under. my breast felt resigned to my fate. We then proceeded, at my wife's suggestion, to the stern of the vessel at the larboard side, and as the inclination of the deck became so great as to prevent our standing, I laid hold of one of the belaying-pins, and placing my wife between my breast and the bulwark, I there held on. A lady at this moment had got hold of my wife's shawl, but as it was not fastened at the throat it soon dropped off, and the unfortunate creature slid down the deck. On turning round I found the whole space within the bulwarks, and up to nearly the centre line of the deck, filled with a struggling multitude in the gurgling and seething waters, and most of these were very soon drowned. As soon as the water reached the companion, the pent air in the cabin forced off the skylights with a most horrid crash, and in an instant after we were under water, sucked down in the vortex of the sinking ship. When below the surface, I lost hold of my wife, and striking out found myself above water and in contact with one of the stays of the mizen-mast, which I laid hold of at once. I had hardly done so, when my wife rose also to the surface, and I at once took her hand and caused her to hold on by the same rope. I placed my legs round the rope, the better to secure my hold, and told her to rest herself on my knee, which she did. As soon as we had so far secured ourselves, the ship gave a heavy lurch to starboard, which immersed us under water; but swinging back she lurched again to port, and again were we under water. Gradually the lurches decreased in extent, and after a few more rolls the masts continued stationary. I had only my head above water, as I was supporting my wife; and I was afraid to elevate myself further, as I knew that in that case the weight would be increased. Above me, on the mast, a sailor was perched, who called out in the most imploring accents to some persons in a boat to come and take the people off. When the vessel ultimately sunk, the quarter-deck at the stern was clustered with human beings, like a bee-hive; and of these but few were saved, as the vortex absorbed them, and they were so numerous as to impede each other in their attempts to save themselves. On the shrouds of the mizen-mast, near where we were, there were several persons clustered, three women hanging on by one rope. At this time the companion cover floated off, and three persons contrived to keep up by it until they were rescued. After being about half an hour in the water, a shore boat came up and was about to pick me up, when I told the men to get a lady, who appeared much exhausted, in first; this was done, my wife was taken in next, and, as quickly as possible, all supported by the mast were speedily rescued. The boat then went to the main-mast, and took off the captain and another man or two, and then proceeded to the shore, where we were met by a little girl, who said we must come to her mammy's house, as they had a nice fire to warm us and would make us comfortable. Mr. M'Neill, of Collonsay, his wife, two daughters, and two sons, were on board. The sons alone escaped. The eldest daughter, though alive when she was brought ashore, soon died. She was a handsome, joyous, happy creature, and walked the deck till a late hour in all the health and joyousness of youth. Alas! how soon was

The Orion, a large and fine steamer, plying between Liverpool and Glasgow, was wrecked on Tuesday the 18th, off Port Patrick, with an Appalling Loss of Life. About one o'clock in the morning, while most of the passengers were asleep, she struck on a sunken rock, and in five minutes went down in seven fathoms water. There was no time for the people, thus awfully roused, to dress; in the cabin the water was immediately up to their knees. Every one crowded on deck, which presented a scene of consternation and despair. The boats were launched with difficulty: the first, overcrowded, sank instantly, and almost all on board perished; the second, into which a number of ladies were put, reached the shore in safety. Meanwhile the vessel filled and sank, leaving the crew and remaining passengers floating on the surface. Some saved themselves by swimming or getting on pieces of the wreck, but many were drowned. As soon as the accident was discovered from the shore, a number of boats put off and picked up the persons still struggling in the water. To make the circumstance, if possible, still more distressing, the weather was calm and beautiful, and the sea as smooth as a mirror. It is said that there were above 150 passengers on board, many being of the superior class, and about 50 appear to have perished. Among them are, Professor Burns, of Glasgow; Mr. M'Neill, of Colonsay, his wife and two daughters; Captain M'Neill, brother of the Lord Advocate; and Mr. Splott with his wife and three daughters, who were about to proceed to Australia. The causes of the disaster are under investigation.

The following graphic and affecting details are extracted from the narrative of Mr. George Thompson, of Glasgow, one of the survivors:—

"It was about half-past one that I was awoke by hearing and feeling a strange tearing sort of noise, as if some strong paper was torn. It was so gentle that I thought little of it and remained in bed, although all the other passengers in the cabin started at once to their

all changed, and ere a few hours elapsed she was a corpse. Mrs. Merrilees, of Liverpool, had a little child SOCIAL, SANITARY, AND MUNICIPAL

PROGRESS.

about nine months old in her arms. When she was overpowered with the waters, she sank, and on rising to the surface her baby was dead, and floated away out of The Society for Improving the Condition of the her arms. The mother was saved; and when she Labouring Classes had its annual meeting at St. recovered herself so far as to recollect her loss, she was Martin's Hall on the 6th; Lord John Russell was in the bewailing her sad bereavement, when the body of the chair. The committee's report, read to the meeting, little innocent was brought into the house. The scene enumerated the various places where improvements that ensued may be imagined. Mr. Tait, baker, of had been effected in the dwellings of the poor, and the Glasgow, swam on shore with his little boy on his back sums expended for that purpose. Referring to the most of the way, and both were saved. The Rev. buildings now being erected in the neighbourhood of Mr. Peughe, the Episcopal clergyman of Paisley, had Gray's Inn Lane, it stated that it was intended to a little child on board, about twelve years of age, which receive, among others, 128 needlewomen, at a rent of was given in charge to the stewardess. After the alarm a shilling a week, and that there would be healthy was given, she proceeded to dress her little charge, dwellings for from two to three hundred people. and took her on deck, the poor child exclaiming, Attached to these buildings there would be a publie 'I know you will not leave me.' 'No, no! I never washhouse. The cost would be 10,000l., of which will,' exclaimed the noble woman; but, alas! heroism nearly one half was still to be raised, so that the society availed them not; the remorseless surge claimed them had need of assistance. The resolution adopting the as its own. Nothing could exceed the kindness of the report was about to be put by the chairman, when villagers to the wants of the survivors; their houses, Mr. G. W. M. Reynolds came forward, and was their larders, their wardrobes their all, were freely vociferously cheered by a knot of persons at the bottom placed at our disposal. Nor should Dr. Douglas, the of the hall. Lord Ashley rose to order, observing that medical gentleman of the place, be omitted. He literally this was a meeting of a private society for the transaction ran from one to another from the hour of the wreck, of its own business, and could be addressed only by its administering relief to those who required it, with a members. "Then," cried Mr. Reynolds, "I'll make degree of kindness, skill, and perseverance, which must myself a member at once," and advanced with a purse ever be remembered with gratitude by all. The night in his hand, out of which he offered some money to the was beautifully clear and calm. There was a slight secretary, which was declined. A great deal of noise and haze of fog crawling along the land, but the shore was confusion arose; Mr. Reynolds insisting on his right to quite visible and distinct; the lighthouse loomed close pay his guinea and make himself a member on the spot; over the vessel when she struck. The distance between and Lord John Russell explaining that this might the rock and the shore did not appear above 150 yards, entitle him to address a future meeting, but that he if so much, and would be about the length of the could not be heard then. At length the resolution was division of Argyll Street from Queen Street to Buchanan put and carried, only three hands being held up against Street. The rock on which the Orion struck is well it. Lord Ashley then came forward to move the second known to all the seamen and fishermen of the place, and is resolution, when he was met by loud uproar on the part a very short distance from the mouth of the harbour." of Mr. Reynolds's friends, in the midst of which Mr. Captain M'Neill, of Colonsay, lost his life in endea- Reynolds once more rose from his seat, and advancing vouring to save the lives of others. He was seen by with air half-menacing, half-swaggering towards the chairseveral of the survivors clinging to a floating spar, guid- man, exclaimed, "I appeal to your lordship whether ing to safety, by his voice and exertions, the shrieking you will allow the working classes to be insulted in this throng who struggled around him. His strength failing manner?" By this time he had come up to Lord him, he was heard to say, "For God's sake save your- Harrowby, who sat next Lord John Russell. Lord selves, I have done all I can ;" and, before the boats Harrowby put out his hand to stop his further progress, which put off from the shore could approach him, the and exclaimed, "Go back, sir!" Mr. Reynolds still noble-hearted soldier was beyond the reach of succour.- pressed forward, on which Lord Harrowby rose from The cook of the Orion, a man of colour and an excellent his seat, took him by the shoulders, and pushed him swimmer, was among the first to reach the shore, and back. Mr. Reynolds, without further resistance, slunk left it in the first boat which made for the wreck. He back to his seat, while the meeting resounded with leapt into the sea, and by pushing spars and boxes to cheering and cries of "Well done, Lord Harrowby!" those who were battling with the waters, succeeded in Lord Ashley went on, and in the course of his speech saving several lives. On the 23rd, instructions were re-assured his good friends below the rope that he had ceived from the Lord Advocate to apprehend Mr. Hen- been in the habit of mixing with all classes, and that he derson, the master of the Orion. even came from among the working classes with increased respect for them, and a determination to do all he could for their benefit. Mr. Reynolds exclaimed, "The Factory Act; the Ten Hours Bill! You have betrayed the working classes." Lord Ashley did not notice the interruption, and the remaining business of the meeting was quietly gone through. This meeting gave rise to some proceedings at Bow Street. Mr. Merriman was soon afterwards charged by Mr. Seeley, bookseller, with creating a disturbance at the meeting, and was held to bail, Mr. Reynolds becoming one of his sureties. At the same time Mr. Reynolds applied for a summons for assault against Lord Harrowby, whom he called "a ferocious fellow." The magistrate said he should require written information upon oath, which was promised by Mr. Reynolds. Two days afterwards he renewed his application, but it was refused by the magistrate, who held that he had no right to address the meeting, nor to approach the chairman, and that Lord Harrowby was justified in thrusting him back as an intruder.

No less than five fires took place in different parts of London on the night of the 21st. Two of them, the one in the premises of the Messrs. Bowler, vellum-binders on Garlick Hill, and the other in Red Lion Street, near the London Docks, were attended with great destruction of property, the inmates narrowly escaping with their lives. The others were at Wapping, Tabernacle Square, and Lisson Grove; but the damage done by them was comparatively small.

A young gentleman named John Bellowen, son of an extensive planter in Trinidad, was drowned on the morning of Sunday, the 23rd, while bathing in the Serpentine. This is the second loss of life at the north side of the Serpentine this season.

Mr. J. Smith, of Sheffield, a young man of 21, lost his life on the 24th from the Incautious Use of Chloroform. He was found dead in his bed in the morning, with a hankerchief in his hand firmly pressed to his mouth and nostrils; and a bottle which had contained chloroform was found by him. He had been in the habit of inhaling chloroform to allay the pain of toothache.

A Workshop suddenly Fell on the premises lately occupied by the Philanthropic Society in St. George's Fields, on the 25th, while a number of French polishers were at work in it. One man named Wilson was crushed to death, and several others so much injured that they were conveyed to the hospital.

The Great Flower Show of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, on the 8th, was attended by above six thousand visitors, the Nepaulese princes being among the number. The chief object of curiosity was the gigantic Victoria Regia Lily, grown in the gardens of Sion House. The still greater exhibition of a similar kind by the Royal Botanical Society, in the Regent's

Park, on the 12th, is said to have attracted no less than of the children gave great satisfaction to a large assemsixteen thousand persons. The magnificent collection blage. The object of the society is the scriptural of American plants was the principal feature of this education of the children of the poor, without disexhibition. tinction of sect or party; and this is accomplished by A deputation on the subject of Purifying the Ser-promoting the establishment of schools in the destitute pentine, consisting of several medical gentlemen, had an interview with Lord Seymour on the 8th. After having heard the statements made by the deputation, Lord Seymour replied that the condition of the Serpentine had not escaped his attention, and there could be no doubt as to the necessity of there being a constant stream passing through it. The only question in his mind was, as to the best mode of obtaining the necessary increased supply of water. He did not deny the necessity which was said to exist for thoroughly emptying the Serpentine of its mud, and also for rendering the river more safe, but it would be impossible to do so before the Great Exhibition of 1851 took place. He promised, however, that no time should be lost in affording the necessary increased supply of water.