immediately, and that a reduction of 50 per cent, on the duty should be allowed on bricks already made. Lord J. RUSSELL stated that Lord Seymour, who had accepted the office of Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, was to have the usual salary for his office of 2,000l. a year; but he would take that opportunity of stating that, after Easter, he intended to move for a committee to inquire into all Judicial and Diplomatic Salaries, as well as those of ministers themselves. This announcement was received with loud cheers. Lord J. RUSSELL stated that a bill would be brought in, during the present session, for settling Marlborough House upon the Prince of Wales, and that her Majesty had signified her consent to allow that building, for some few years to come, being devoted to the reception of the Vernon Gallery of Paintings, and other works of similar character, and thrown open to the public as an exhibition of art. [MARCH. Mr. Hume moved for the production of papers connected with the Receipts and Expenditure of the Royal Academy, and complained of the illiberality of that body in refusing to open their exhibition to the public after a certain time, notwithstanding the privileges they enjoyed of being allowed apartments in the National Gallery, free of rent, in which to exhibit their pictures. And now it appeared a sum of money was to be voted to them for the erection of a new building; but he for one would vote against any sum being granted till the house had before it an account of their receipts and expenditure.-Lord J. RUSSELL regretted the decision the Royal Academy had come to in refusing to allow the public admission to their exhibition; but it was to be remembered that the pictures were their own property, and it was for them, therefore, to decide the question. With regard to the grant of money, it was open to the hon. member to object to the vote when it came before the house; but he brought it forward because George III. having granted the Academy apartments for their pictures, he thought the government was bound to continue that privilege.-The motion was negatived by 47 to 49. The house adjourned till Monday, the 8th of April. PROGRESS OF BUSINESS. House of Lords-March 1. Umpire's Appointment Bill withdrawn. Bill read a third time. 4th. Railway Audit Bill read a first time.-Party Processions (Ireland) Bill read a second time.-Ecclesiastical Commission 7th. Sunday Trading Bill read a second time and referred to a select committee. 8th.-Party Processions (Ireland) Bill read a third time and passed. Mr. TRELAWNY moved for a select committee to inquire into the extent of the public interest, present or prospective, in the property appertaining to the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster. He supported his motion by ample details of unthrift and extravagance in the past management of these and other appanages to the public revenue. To the argument that the duchies in question were the private property of the royal family, he replied by showing that the parliament, in the days of George III., had purchased the right of interference with the estate of the princedom of Wales, by repeatedly paying the enormous debts of the then heir apparent. Other conditions of the administration of those properties also gave them a quasi-national character.-The SOLICITORGENERAL contended that the legislature had no more right to interfere with these than with any other private properties. He showed, nevertheless, that many improve ments in the management of both duchies, tending to increase the net income by many thousands a year, had been effected since the accession of her present Majesty. The charge of oppression towards the tenants was a loose accusation, which had not been fairly substantiated by evidence. No case was, in fact, made out to justify the interposition of the house by the appointment of a selectment of Copyholds Bill. committee.-Sir R. PEEL doubted whether it could be proved that the jurisdiction of the House of Commons was not wide enough to warrant its interference with the management of the duchies. He was, however, convinced, by a review of the recent administration of their affairs, that it would be most prudent to allow matters to remain as they were. It was altogether irrational for the legislature to adopt violent measures in consequence of hypothetical charges.-After some further discussion the resolution was negatived without a division. 11th.-Railway Audit Bill, read a second time. 14th.-Convict Prisons Bill read a second time. 15th.-Statements respecting the Greek Question. 25th.-Master's jurisdiction in Chancery Bill read a first time; adjourned to April 11. House of Commons.-February 28.-Parliamentary Reform; Mr. Hume's motion negatived.—Leave to bring in EnfranchiseCommittee.-Regulation of Deeds (Ireland) Bill read a second March 1.--Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill considered in time. mittee. 4.-Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill considered in com5.-Social Condition of the Working Classes, Mr. Slaney's motion withdrawn.-Select Committee on Postal Communication agreed to.-Mr. Mitchell's motion respecting Duties on Wood used in Shipping carried. 6.-Affirmation Bill read a second time.-Marriages Bill read a second time. 7th.-Ecclesiastical Commission Bill read a first time.Kilrush Union, Mr. Scrope's motion negatived.-Voteby Ballot, Mr. H. Berkeley's motion negatived. Real Property Conveyance Bill read a second time. Public Libraries and Museums Bill read a second time.-Leave 15.-The Budget. 18.-Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill in committee.Brick Duties Repeal Bill read a first time. On Monday, the 26th, Lord DUNCAN renewed a previous motion respecting the Encroachments on the Green Park, caused by the new buildings going on at Lord Ellesmere's mansion, and wished to know who had permitted the encroachments.-Mr. BANKES thought the public were much indebted to Lord Ellesmere for the splendid palace he was raising there, and pointed to the former disgraceful state of this portion of the park, contrasting it with the condition into which it was now brought by so many mansions being erected in its neighbourhood.-Mr. LUSHINGTON and Sir B. HALL complained that their constituents felt aggrieved by these encroachments.Lord J. RUSSELL admitted that if the strict letter of the law were to be enforced, no doubt the wall must be pulled down; but, in that case, he doubted whether the public would not be the losers rather than gainers. -Mr. HUME, while he gave every credit to the Earl of Ellesmere for his liberality, in throwing open his collection of pictures to the public, contended that the 25.-Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster, Mr. Trelawney's encroachments were illegal, and that the Attorney-motion negatived.-Chief Justices' Salaries Bill in committee.-General ought to be called upon to take measures for Brick Duties Bill in committee. their removal.-Mr. HAYTER and Mr. S. WORTLEY 26.-Adjourned to 8th April. denied that this was any encroachment. It was a 19.-African Squadron, Mr. Hutt's motion negatived. Jurisdiction Bill, in committee.-County Rates Expenditure 20.-Small Tenements Rating Bill, Summary and Larceny Bill, select committee re-mended. 21.-Mutiny Bill read a third time and passed.-Succession to Real Property, Mr. Locke King's motion negatived.-Pirates Head Money Repeal Bill passed through Committee. Bill, and Factories Bill, considered in committee.-Stamp 22.-Australian Colonies Bill, Process and Practice (Ireland) Duties Bill read a first time. question regarding a breach of covenant; and though the public had a right to have the covenant enforced, THE election of Colonel Frederick Romilly for Canter yet they were sure the enforcement would be to the bury, on the 4th, was unopposed; Mr. Vance, the injury rather than the advantage of the public.-After protectionist candidate, having retired from the contest a few words from Lord DUNCAN in reply, his motion on the previous evening. was agreed to. A very large meeting was held on the 7th, in the great room of Exeter Hall, to welcome Dr. Achilli on his escape to this country from the dungeons of the Inquisition at Rome. Mr. Bevan presided; the Rev. Baptist Noel, and many eminent dissenting ministers, were on the platform. Dr. Achilli was greeted with exceeding warmth: he spoke in Italian, and was cheered often and very generally. The crowd attracted was so great that the immense hall was not large enough, and several subsidiary meetings were held in the small rooms; Dr. Achilli appearing at each in turn. The province of Ulster is described as being in a state of alarming commotion on the agitated questions of Tenure and Rent. Incendiary fires are lighted in every direction, and the tenantry, hitherto esteemed most respectable and attached, very generally refuse to take any steps towards checking the outrage. They hold meetings and formally "deprecate incendiarism;" but complain that the refusal of justice and want of consideration on the part of their landlords have excited the general discontent, and unhappily led to excesses over which they possess no coutrol, and for which they cannot be accountable. Lately, in public meeting, the tenants of the Marquis of Londonderry-a nobleman famed as an excellent landlord-refused to affix their signatures to a document offering a reward for the apprehension of the parties who burned down some farm-offices in the preceding week. It is stated that the tenant of the farm was compelled to emigrate to America, and was not allowed the full value of his improvements, worth 5007.; that a stranger was put into the farm on terms not customary on the estate; and that the remonstrances of the tenants on the breach of custom were unheeded. The tenantry passed a resolution that the crime "has arisen altogether from the conduct of our landlord the Marquis of Londonderry, who refused to accede to the prayers of our repeated memorials." NARRATIVE OF LAW AND CRIME. Ar the Guildhall, on the 12th February, Fanny Hainsworth, a young, innocent-looking girl, aged seventeen, was charged with Stealing a Victorine, the property of Mr. Moses Solomons, of No. 3, Little Britain. After hearing the evidence, the magistrate said there were so many contradictions between father and son, there was no foundation for the charge, and the prisoner was discharged. The solicitor, who appeared for the girl, now said that he intended charging the son, Joseph Solomons, with the crime of a rape. He was accordingly placed in front of the dock. Police Constable Webb said that when the girl was originally given in his charge she resisted going, and said, "This would never happen if it had not been for Master Joseph." He asked what Master Joseph had done, and she said he came to her bed-room at night and had taken improper liberties with her, and effected his purpose. She called out, and his sister, who slept in the next room, asked what was the matter, when Joseph replied that he was calling the servant up. He did not contradict the girl, but treated the whole affair in a light, off-handed manner. She spoke to him, and ace sed him of coming to her bed-room on Sunday night, and defied him to deny it, which he did not. She further added that he passed something over her eyes and nose, which took her senses away, and he then ruined her. Alderman: Until she charged the son with ruining her, was any charge of felony made against her?-Webb: None whatever. The girl also in the presence of Mrs. Solomons told me she had informed her of her son's conduct, and that Mrs. Solomons said, "Well, I suppose he did not kill you.' A remand for further evidence was granted. When brought up again on the 20th, it was proved the girl had been taken out of the way. The magistrate, therefore, remanded the case until she was forthcoming, and increased the bail to two sureties of 1007., and defendant 2001. On the 27th, new evidence was produced, and the girl corroborated her previous statements with some reluctance. The case was again remanded to the 2nd of March, when it appeared the culprit had left for the continent the night previous. The bail was estreated, and a warrant issued for his apprehension. " In the Bankruptcy Court, on the 2nd, Mr. Edward Thomas Delafield, late of the Covent Garden Opera, applied for his Certificate. On his behalf, Mr. Lewis strove hard for a "first-class' certificate; intimating that Mr. Delafield has prospects among his wealthy connexions, and that his intention is to put aside half of whatever property he may hereafter become possessed of, that the creditors may be paid ten shillings in the pound beyond what they have received. On behalf of the creditors, Mr. Lawrence assented to the application. Mr. Commissioner Fane applauded the arrangement for the further payment of ten shillings in the pound, but felt insuperable difficulties in the way of granting a firstclass or even a second-class certificate. If such certificates (he observed) are awarded in any but meritorious or at least blameless cases, they will be degraded in the distinction they confer. Mr. Delafield had entered business with a very large capital-100,0007.; had squandered that capital in a very short time, and had incurred 33,0007. of debts, against which the present assets are but 37. 14s. 6d. It cannot be shown that he acted with prudence and a due regard to the interests of his creditors; or that he stopped payment at the proper time while there were still assets for distribution. He went on with a clearly losing concern, paying some creditors in full at the expense of those who now get nothing; and up to the very eve of his bankruptcy he was living in a style of extraordinary and very unbecoming splendour. A certificate of the third class was accordingly awarded. At the Newcastle Assizes, on the 4th, an action for breach of promise of marriage was tried; Mr. James Nicholson, organ-builder of the town, plaintiff, and Mrs. Mary Turnbull, late Miss Parkin, of Etherby, with her husband, defendant. The plaintiff was a widower, thirty years of age, with children; and the defendant a spinster of twenty-two, who had inherited considerable property from her father, lately deceased. The evidence of the promise of marriage appeared in correspondence of a singularly unimpassioned character, wherein the young lady authorised the purchase of a waistcoat with studs, the ring and cake, and the licence. The plaintiff proved that he had been to some charges in carrying out these directions. At the last moment, Miss Parkin broke her promise, and suddenly married Mr. Turnbull, a former lover. The defence made by Mr. Sergeant Wilkins admitted the breach of promise, and aimed only at a mitigation of the damages: founded on insinuations that the match had been a moneyhunting one, into which the defendant was drawn by importunity, and on the trivial character of the losses which the plaintiff had suffered. The verdict of the Jury was for the plaintiff, with a farthing damages. Rees Hopkins, boatman, and Ambrose Davies, were indicted at Swansea, on the 5th, for a burglary in the house of William Jones at Llanwonno, near Cardiff, on the night of the 24th of December. The curious feature of this case was, that the prisoners had invited a lad to sleep with them in a certain hay-loft on the night of the burglary, with the view of securing his testimony to prove an alibi in case they were charged with the crime. This lad was the principal witness against them. It appeared that after the youth had fallen asleep, the two prisoners stealthily left the hay-loft on their burglarious expedition. On awaking, he found them gone, but their bundles had been left behind. In a short time they returned, and he (pretending to be still asleep) heard them conversing about the robbery. Other witnesses examined, proved that the prisoners had disposed of clothes and other articles stolen from prosecutor's house, at Cardiff and other places. Hopkins (against whom a previous conviction was proved) was sentenced to seven years' transportation; Davies to fifteen months' hard labour. Edmund Henry Simmonds, late the relieving-officer of the Southampton Union, was indicted at the Winchester Assizes on the 6th, for the Manslaughter of Elizabeth Biggs, a pauper, by refusing shelter and food in her urgent need, whereby she died of cold and starvation. The facts appeared in our first number. In favour of the prisoner, it was proved-that he was a very humane man; that Briggs was unknown to him by her own name, and was not recognised as "Harris," under which name she had before been relieved; that impostors had been numerous; that Biggs did not appear seriously ill to an unprofessional eye; and that the officer's duty, as to the discretion he might exercise, had not been clearly defined. Without waiting to deliberate, the jury found the prisoner "Not guilty," and assured him that he was honourably acquitted. Mary Savill, a woman of thirty-one, was tried at the Chelmsford Assizes, on the 6th, for Firing a Stack of Oats at Great Chishall. Last year, the grand jury ignored the bill against the woman, and she was discharged; she thought this was the same as an acquittal, and she avowed her guilt: this led to her second arrest, and the present trial. She was convicted. Sentence, seven years' transportation. H. Hitchcock, a young fellow who had been before convicted of felony, was found guilty of Firing a Farm at Braintree, whereby a large amount of property was destroyed. The sentence was fourteen years' transportation; for which the impudent culprit thanked the judge. W. J. R. Smith, formerly a clerk in the Admiralty, and Charles Niblett, were indicted at the New Court, on the 7th, for Forging and Uttering Certain Papers, whereby they obtained money from the Admiralty. This was the case where the government was defrauded by forged papers purporting to be signed by secretaries of colonies authorising the conveyance of distressed seamen to England, on which the Admiralty pay money for their subsistence during the voyage. Smith pleaded guilty to stealing a book the property of the Queen. The case was not proceeded with as regards Niblett, since it was apparent that he was only the servant of Smith; and the plea of the latter with respect to the larceny seems to have rendered the pressing of the indictment unnecessary. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Ôn the 7th, Elizabeth Higgins was tried for Attempting to Murder her Three Children by drowning them in the Regent's Canal. The distressing details of this case were recounted in our last number. It was elicited in cross-examination that the poor woman was sober and well-conducted; her children appeared to be clean and carefully kept. In his address to the jury for the defence, her counsel urged that their verdict must be "Insanity," or "Not Guilty." He thought they might well give the latter: in her desperation at the neglect and brutality of her husband, the woman had jumped into the water without any definite intention to destroy her children and herself. The judge, in summing-up, warned the jury against adopting such a view of their duty. A verdict was at once returned of "Not guilty, on the ground of the jury's belief that at the time the act was committed the prisoner was in a state of temporary insanity." Some doubt arose whether this verdict was tantamount to one of simply "Not guilty;" and the matter was reserved for the decision of the Criminal Court of Appeal, the woman to be detained in the meantime. James Boag, a man respectably connected, and formerly in the Bank of England, was tried at Chelmsford on the 7th, for altering the Register of a Marriage, and a book kept at St. Runwald's, Colchester; a felonious offence. The alleged object was to gain an advantage in a lawsuit respecting 10,000., left by a man deceased, in which Boag was one of the parties concerned. The case was fully made out. The counsel for the defence urged that there was no motive for the act imputed: the register had been seen by numbers of persons before it was said to be altered, and the register itself was kept with much laxness. The prisoner was convicted, and the sentence deferred. The decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the case of Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter was delivered on the 8th, in presence of a crowded audience of distinguished persons; Lord Langdale read the written judgment of the court, and stated that Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce was the only dissentient. It was to the effect "that the doctrine held by Mr. Gorham is not contrary or repugnant to the declared doctrine of the Church of England as by law established; and that Mr. Gorham ought not, by reason of the doctrine held by him, to have been refused admission to the vicarage of Brampford Speke:" therefore, that the sentence of the Arches Court of Canterbury ought to be reversed; and that it ought to be declared that the Lord Bishop of Exeter has not shown sufficient cause why he did not institute Mr. Gorham to the said vicarage; and finally, that the cause be remitted to the Arches Court, "to the end that right and justice may there be done." At the Assizes at Swansea, on the 8th, Mr. Rhys, an engineer, obtained a verdict of 1500l. against Messrs. Hall, manufacturers of gunpowder and gun-cotton, for having invited him to witness an experiment with guncotton, and managing it so carelessly that an Explosion took place and he lost his sight. The damages were laid at 10,0002. At the Lambeth Court on the 9th, O. I. Hairby, a surgeon, appeared on an Affiliation Summons. The prosecuting counsel stated that in all his professional experience he did not recollect one of a more dastardly or heartless description. In the year 1843, Rhoda Southgate, entered the service of the father of the defendant, a medical gentleman, carrying on his profession in Marlborough-place, Walworth-road, and remained there till about six months ago, when her pregnancy was discovered, and she was turned out of the house. For some time the defendant paid his addresses to her. Under the most solemn assurance of making her his wife, he succeeded in seducing her; the result was the birth of a female child. The poor girl, from her wages of 107. a year, had managed to save 301., and every farthing of this the defendant borrowed, so that when turned out she became penniless, and being ashamed to return to her family, had it not been for the humanity of others, must have perished from want. The Magistrate- (to the defendant)" Well, is it your intention to fulfil your promise to the young woman?" Defendant (in a drawling tone)" No, Sir; you know circumstances make a great change in feelings and dispositions." Yes, I suppose the change took place in yours when you succeeded in seducing this poor girl, and borrowing the whole of her money. What are you?" "I have been brought up to the medical profession, but I am, at present, a warehouseman in Wood-street. I don't deny that the child is mine, but the greater part of the money I gave back." This the young woman denied on her oath, and declared she had not a single penny of the 307. returned. The magistrate said- There can be no doubt that you robbed this poor woman of her virtue, her money (for I call it a robbery), and her honesty, in refusing to marry her. Your conduct has been most heartless, and I shall make an order for the highest amount allowed by Act of Parliament." The magistrate also expressed a hope that proceedings would be taken in the County Court for the payment of the bor rowed money, and the solicitor replied that he should lose no time in doing so. W. Smith, apprentice to Mr. Pope, tea-dealer, Fins. bury-pavement, and John M'Nay, errand-lad, were charged at Guildhall, on the 10th, with Absconding from their Master's Service. A constable of the Detec tive Force had brought them up from Biggleswade, where they had been detained on suspicion of having committed some offence, as they were each armed with a pistol and a dirk, and had a greater supply of cash than might be expected from persons of their appearance. Mr. Pope accounted for the possession of the implements of death, by stating that the mind of his apprentice had been poisoned by reading novels of which robbers were the heroes, and he had no doubt from the purchases they had made that they had resolved to become villains of that class. He had run away for a few days on a former occasion, when he lurked about on the country roads; but upon voluntarily returning, and begging forgiveness, complainant received him again into his house. Mr. Pope said he did not mean to press any charge against the errand-boy, and as to the apprentice he was willing to receive him again if he would solemnly pledge himself to the magistrate that he would never offend again. On obstinately refusing to do this, he was committed to work on the cranks at Bridewell, for three months. A melancholy Suicide has taken place at Woolwich, About six months ago, a publican residing there, in a respectable way of business, together with iis son, & promising young man, about 24 years of age, were charged with carting and removing several cart load of bricks belonging to the railway company, and depositing them on the premises of the father; and after an examination before the magistrate, they were sentenced, the father to undergo an imprisonment with hard labour for eighteen months, and the son to six months' and hard labour. The son's imprisonment expired on the 8th, whereupon he immediately returned to the inn kept by his father, and resumed his avocation of waiting upon the customers as usual, and whilst so doing on the 12th one of them incautiously made use of the expression, "How about the bricks!" which appeared to have such an effect upon the mind of the young man, that he immediately repaired to a shed at the back part of the building, and hung himself. He continued hanging, until his family, missing him, made a search, when he was found. He was immediately cut down, and medical assistance promptly procured, but life had been extinct for some time. in 1840. She confessed that she had committed adultery with her husband's nephew. He thereupon refused to live with her, took away his three children, placed them with a person whom he employed to take care of them, and went to America. He returned in 1847; and married a second wife, his first being then alive and charge. able to the parish. The overseers applied to him to maintain her, and summoned him before the magistrates for not doing so; but the magistrates upon hearing the case dismissed the summons against him, and thereupon the parish authorities instituted the present prosecution. Mr. Baron Platt told the jury, that it was a shameful prosecution, and was evidently only instituted by the parish authorities as a kind of screw to compel an honest hard-working man to support a prostitute wife. However, a breach of the law had clearly been committed, and the jury must therefore find the prisoner guilty. The jury thereupon returned a verdict of "Guilty,' with the observation that they thought it "a very hard case." Mr. Baron Platt-"Everybody must think so: it is a shameful perversion of the law. Prisoner, you are fined one shilling, and discharged; and the parish must pay for the prosecution." The prisoner paid the fine, and left the dock. The Worship Street Court was crowded on the 13th by a large number of persons, amongst whom were many well dressed women, anxious to be present at the adjourned hearing of a summons against William Calcraft, the public executioner, issued by the parish officers of the Witham Union, in Essex, for Refusing At the village of Clayton-on-the-heights, near Halifax, to Support his aged Mother, an inmate of that work- on the 16th, a young man named Abraham Jessop Shot house. Not making his appearance at the hour ap- his Wife, to whom he had only recently been married, pointed, the magistrates directed a warrant to be issued and afterwards Blew out his own Brains. Both were for the apprehension of the defendant, but he shortly about twenty-five years of age, and though married but after entered the court; and his mother, Sarah Calcraft, a few months, were living apart in consequence of who was compelled by her infirmities to be seated domestic differences arising from Jessop's habits of intoxiduring the examination, was then called, and stated ication. Jessop had latterly desired a reconciliation, but that she was seventy-four years of age, and having be- failing, sought an interview on the 16th, with a view to come totally destitute, was constrained to throw herself putting a period to all future strife, by murdering his upon the parish. She had previously addressed three wife, and afterwards destroying himself. After taking letters to the defendant, requesting assistance, but had several glasses of ardent spirits at a public house to keep not received anything from him, and he had not even up his courage, he entered the house where his wife answered one of her communications, although in resided, and found her in the presence of her mother circumstances to support her, as in addition to the and sister. He asked her to accompany him to the door salary he received from the corporation, he carried on for a private conversation, but she declined. He the trade of a boot and shoemaker.-The magistrate attempted to induce her to listen to him in another asked the defendant if he had any reasonable grounds to room. This she also refused, and he then took from assign for refusing to contribute to his mother's main- one of his coat pockets a pistol, and discharged it with tenance?-Defendant: Well, I should be very happy the muzzle almost close to her person. The ball took to support her if it was in my power, but it is not; and effect in the left breast, but missed the heart. Before as to what she says about the profits I derive from my any attempt at interference could be made, he drew a shoemaking business, I can assure you that I have not second pistol, and placing the muzzle under his right earned a penny at that for a great number of weeks. I ear, discharged the contents through his head. The admit that I receive a guinea a-week from the City; unfortunate wife ran to the door, and sank upon the but that is all we have to live upon; and when you causeway in a state of insensibility. She was afterdeduct out of that 4s. 6d. for rent and the cost of a wards carried to bed, and surgical aid being procured Sunday's dinner, you will find that there is not much and the wounds staunched, she still survives. left.-Magistrate: Well, you are clearly liable for the feared, however, that the ball has passed through a support of your mother, and I feel it my duty to make portion of the lungs, and that she cannot ultimately an order upon you for the sum of 3s. per week.-De-recover. The wound which Jessop inflicted on himself fendant: Ah, but you'll never get it from me. I can't was mortal. He fell upon the floor, and expired, his pay it; and if you do, I must run in debt, I suppose.- skull being fearfully shattered. The magistrate continued: I shall make an order upon you for the sum of 3s. per week for your mother's support, together with the costs attendant upon the present proceedings.-Defendant: Oh, very well; you may make your order if you like, but it's out of my power. -The order was about to be made, when the defendant turned round sharply upon the relieving officer, and said, "Well, now, suppose I took my mother to keep myself, what would you allow me for her? Come, that's the point. Certainly, if you allow me something for her, I may be able to get on perhaps.-The officer expressed his belief that the mother would prefer being in the union. The mother: Oh dear, yes; I should not be alive a week in London, whereas I should be safe in the country if they even left me upon the common. I prefer being in the workhouse, for I am very comfortable there.-The defendant thereupon leant over to his mother, expressing his willingness to take care of her, and, with apparent feeling, told her that he was very sorry she should have to come there; and, upon the order being made, and one of the officers coming forward to raise her out of the chair, the defendant pushed him aside, and gently raising her, with his arm round her waist, supported her out of the court. At Stafford Assizes, on the 16th, Benjamin Griffiths was tried for bigamy. He was married to his first wife It is A double Murder was perpetrated on the 17th, at Juniper Green, a village about five miles from Edinburgh. Dr. Wilson, a medical practitioner, resided with his aged mother in the village, a servant they employed sleeping at another house. A man named Pearson, who has been subject to fits of insanity, and had been confined in a lunatic asylum for four years, went last Sunday night to Dr. Wilson's for medicine; the servant left him in the house-departing in some apprehension from the strange conduct of the man. Early next morning, Dr. Wilson and his mother were found dead, and horribly mangled, on the floor of the lower apartments. Pearson was found upstairs in Mrs. Wilson's bed, naked, and fast asleep. When awakened, one of his exclamations was, "Here I am; quite clean, you see!" He had burnt his clothes; some remnants of which, his watch, and other articles, were found in a grate. His whole manner indicated insanity: he had recently had fits of madness: sometimes he was friendly towards Dr. Wilson, and sometimes the reverse. Dr. Wilson was a vigorous middle-aged man; his mother was eighty-six years old. At Exeter Assizes, on the 20th, Thomas King was found guilty of Attempting to Murder his aged Father and his housekeeper, with the object of effecting a robbery. On the 12th of February, he had gone to his father's, at Forder, and had supper; when he thought the old man was asleep, he went to his bedroom, cut him with a sharp instrument, beat him with the kitchenpoker, and left him senseless. Then he went to the housekeeper's room, saying his father was ill; as soon as the woman opened the door, he felled her with the poker; and proceeded to rifle the house. He was taken at Plymouth next day, while attempting to sell his father's watch. The mangled victims subsequently revived a little; they were brought to the Sessions in a spring-van, quite helpless, and presented a pitiable spectacle. He was sentenced to transportation for life. The Rev. Henry Meeres, successor to Mr. Whiston as head-master of the Grammar School at Rochester, was summoned before the magistrates, on the 20th, and fined 37., with 25s. costs, for unmercifully Beating and Misusing One of his Pupils. In an action at Maidstone Assizes, on the 21st, brought by Miss Jane Emma Adams against Mr. Richard Gibbs, to recover damages for a Breach of Promise of Marriage, the defendant pleaded a special plea-that after making the promise of marriage to Miss Adams, he learned that she was suffering from an "incurable disease called consumption," which would render her "unable to perform the duties of a wife." Mr. Gibbs was a neighbour of the plaintiff's father at Wateringbury, knew her from her infancy up, and made her a regular offer, with a full knowledge of her circumstances, in August, 1848, at which time she was twenty-four and he forty-eight. The licence was bought and the day fixed; but on the day of signing settlements the defendant disappeared, filed to America, and never reappeared till October, 1849, when he was found in London. It seems that two sisters of the plaintiff died young, of consumption, and that a brother went abroad to escape it. The medical attendant of the plaintiff admitted his having administered cod's-liver oil and other remedies very suitable for consumption, but said the plaintiff had not been ill of that disease. Several eminent London physicians, who had attended the plaintiff, were in court, attending the cause, but were not examined; neither plaintiff nor defendant called for their evidence. The jury gave a verdict of 800%. He now allowed him 10s. a-month, which was as much 66 to Alexander Moir, a baker, of Brydges-street, Coventgarden, has been charged with Wilfully causing the Death of his Wife, by most cruel beatings. It appears that Moir and his wife have been constantly quarrelling. Lately a lodger heard them scuffling in their bedroom, and Mrs. Moir's voice saying, "You'll kill me, you'll surely kill me!" Moir's voice replied, "I'll murder you before I've done with you!" A boy's voice was then heard-" Oh, father, don't kill mother! you'll kill my mother!" A journeyman heard a noise in their bedroom, which was over his bed, as of dragging about on the floor, and he heard Moir talking very ferocious." When he called his master up, he saw Mrs. Moir, and perceived that her face and neck were swelled, and she was crying. On Saturday morning, the 23rd, Mrs. Moir's female cousin saw her repeatedly struck and kicked by her husband: he refused leave for her to lie down an hour, though she had been up all night, and was ill. In the afternoon he was offended at some act in the business, and again boxed her ears very heavily; in a few minutes after she swooned; he prevented the shopman from lifting her up, saying, with an epithet, "Let her lie-let her come to herself! She recovered enough to say to her cousin, "I am in a fit, and a very bad one; pray, for God's sake, don't leave me," and again swooned. Moir exclaimed, she should never lie on a bed of his again; but, after some hours, her cousin persuaded him to let her be put on a bed. She lingered insensible till Monday, and died. Mr. Watkins, a surgeon, has given evidence, that he was called on Sunday, and the case was then evidently a fatal one. On a post-mortem examination he found the body covered with bruises and wounds. The injuries were caused by blows, and those blows had been the cause of death. Moir was examined at Bow-street and At Exeter, on the 22nd, Robert Curtis Bird and Sarah remanded on the charge of murder. On the 27th, a Bird, his wife, were indicted for the Wilful Murder of Coroner's jury sat, and after hearing evidence, found Mary Ann Parsons, a parish apprentice, by striking and a verdict of "Manslaughter against the husband." On beating her to death. The particulars of this revolting the 28th the inquiry at Bow-street was continued. case were given in our January number. For the de- Some facts appeared which suggested that the assault fence it was urged, that the immediate cause of death of Saturday was committed in a great passion, and that was a fall or blow-most likely the former: if a fall, Moir thought his wife was drunk. On her death he neither party was guilty; if a blow, there was nothing was at first unaffected, but subsequently "much cut at all to fix the guilt on both of the prisoners, or either up." The magistrate committed him to be tried for one more than the other. This view received the sane-murder. tion of Mr. Justice Talfourd in his summing-up. In At Worship Street Police Office, on the 27th, W. S. order to maintain an indictment for murder or man-Jenkins and Charles Pound were examined on a charge slaughter, it must be made out that the unlawful act of obtaining 8001. from Mr. Newman, a colour-manufacwas the cause of death. The cause of death was an injury to the head by a fall or blow: the jury could not leap in the dark, and in the absence of proof infer that a blow was struck, or if struck, dealt by either one prisoner rather than the other. If the death had been caused by privation or want of food, the male prisoner alone would be responsible; if a long succession of wrongs had caused the death, there would be a case; but the medical testimony failed to establish either such ease. The prisoners must therefore be acquitted. On this direction the jury returned a verdict of "Not guilty." At Lambeth Police Office, on the 23rd, Mr. George Waddington attended to explain continued Ill-conduct towards his Son, the Reverend John Waddington, a Wesleyan minister. About a month ago, Mr. Waddington was charged by his son with annoying him; and he was held to bail. Mr. Waddington, it then appeared, complained in his turn of the conduct of his three sons, all ministers of religion, who would not render him that Decuniary aid which was well in their power; in consequence, he annoyed his son John at his chapel, and went to his house in Surrey Square, and there wrote defamatory sentences with chalk on the pavement. The son stated to the magistrate, that his father had some years ago deserted his mother, to live with another woman; leaving his family to struggle on as they might. turer in Hoxton, by Fraudulent Pretences. A preliminary examination had taken place before. Pound, who falsely pretended that he was an attorney, was introduced to Mr. Newman by that gentleman's nephew; he represented that Jenkins, a very young man, was about to come into 20,0007. under a will,-producing what appeared to be a legal copy of a will; and by this and other means induced Mr. Newman to lend money and bills to Jenkins, who was introduced to him. It appeared subsequently, that Jenkins only had a claim to a small property, now undergoing a process of litigation which would most likely consume it all. The copy of the will mentioning 20,000l. was a fraud. The case was further adjourned; the magistrate requiring heavy bail. At the Mansion House, on the 27th, Rose Hunt, aged 19, was brought before Alderman Gibbs, on a charge of having attempted to commit Suicide. The unfortunate creature had been for four years living a wretched life of prostitution in the eastern parts of London. Her history presents a melancholy example of the way in which the streets of London are replenished with victims.-Rose Hunt is the daughter of a person who once kept a respectable inn in a country town, but who has become so reduced as to be now dependent upon parochial relief. About four years ago, when only 15 years of age, she met a young woman at a |