colonies altering the sums allotted for the sustentation of public worship, be omitted. On the second reading of the Metropolitan Interments Bill (introduced on the 15th), it was agreed that it should not be committed till Friday the 10th May. Col. SIBTHORP was amusing on the Official Salaries Bill.-On Lord John RUSSELL naming the select committee, the Colonel said, that instead of appointing this "select" committee, the noble lord at the head of the Government had better have said candidly-"I mean to take care of myself and of my own salary. I shall look after my friends, and I will stand by them as long as they stand by me; ubi mel, ibi apes [where the honey, there the bees]. Let them support me, and they shall have plenty of turtle and venison!" He then called the committee a 64 packed one; with what justice will be seen: it was agreed to consist of the following members:-Lord J. Russell, Mr. W. Patten, Mr. Bright, Sir J. Y. Buller, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Beckett, Mr. Napier, Mr. Home Drummond, Mr. W. Evans, Sir W. Molesworth, Mr. Henley, Mr. Ellice, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Walter, and Mr. Deedes. Mr. LABOUCHERE brought in the Mercantile Marine Bill in its altered state, and it was read a first time. time.-Vote of 2,434,4171. taken for Ordnance Estimates.-Brick 11th.- Distressed Unions (Ireland) Advances and Repayment Bill, read second time.-Judgments (Ireland) Bill, read third time and passed.-Legal Technical Objections Restraining Bill, read first time.-Naval Prize Balance and Indemnity Bills read first time. 12th. Committee of Inquiry into Public Salaries agreed to.Public Health (Scotland), and Public Improvement (Scotland) Bills, read second time.-Estates Leasing (Ireland) Bill, read third time and passed.-Indemnity Bill read second time. 15th.-Medical Charities (Ireland) Bill read second time.Indemnity Bill passed through Committee.-Metropolitan Interments, Convict Prisons, and Railway Abandonment Bills, all read first time. 16th-Committee to inquire into Investments for the Savings of the Poor granted. 18th.-Larceny Jurisdiction Bill reported as amended in Committee. - Naval Prize Balance Bill read second time.-Indemnity Bill read third time and passed. 19th. Mercantile Marine Bill withdrawn for modification and amendment. 22nd. Metropolitan Interments, and Railway Abandonment Bills were read each a second time.-Resolution that Naval Prize Balances should be paid out of Consolidated Fund.Mercantile Marine Bill read a first time on re-introduction. 23rd.--Committee granted to Mr. Roebuck to inquire into the defalcations of Sir Thomas Turton, Registrar of the Court of Bengal.-Collector of Fees in Chancery Bill read first time. 24th. New Writ for Lymington ordered, Mr. Keppel having accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Mr. HEYWOOD, on the 23rd, moved for an address praying for a Royal Commission to inquire into the State of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, with a view to their adaptation to the requirements of modern times. Many things, he said, demanded reforms, which the Universities could not make for themselves. Sir R. INGLIS denied the right of the House to ask the Crown to interfere unless a primâ facie case were made out against these institutions. They were THERE was an aggregate meeting of the citizens of reforming themselves, and the University of Oxford Dublin convened in the Rotunda, to petition the since 1800 was a great reforming body.-Lord John legislature against the contemplated Abolition of the RUSSELL could not agree to a motion which might be Office of Lord Lieutenant on the 8th. The Round characterised as a bill of indictment against the Univer- Room was crowded, the audience including ladies. The sities, not considering that they were objects of accusation chair was taken by the Lord Mayor. Resolutions by the great majority of the country. Considerable im- condemnatory of the intended abolition of the viceprovements had been made by the Universities them-regal court were adopted. At a meeting of an opposite selves, but these improvements might be rendered more tendency, of the Irish Alliance, a Mr. Leyne called upon complete; and he proposed to advise the Crown to issue the audience to despise the pocket patriotism that petia Royal Commission for Oxford and Cambridge.—Mr. HEYWOOD withdrew his motion; and Mr. Roundell PALMER, on the ground that so important a matter required consideration, moved an adjournment of the debate, which was carried by 273 to 31. Mr. MILNES moved the second reading of Juvenile Offenders' Bill on Wednesday 24th, in a speech in which he stated that the 545,4547. which youthful criminals had cost the country during the last six years, had not produced a single reformatory result. That sum had therefore been utterly wasted.-Sir G. STRICKLAND moved that the bill be read that day six months, which was carried without a division. The Affirmation Bill was next discussed, on Mr. Page Wood moving it into committee. The object of the measure was to legalise a simple affirmation by all persons who have conscientious scruples against taking an oath-a privilege now only enjoyed by Quakers and Moravians. After a short conversation the motion was negatived by a majority of 148 to 129. PROGRESS OF BUSINESS. House of Lords.-April 12th. Convicts' Prison Bill read third time and passed. tions for a continuance of the Lord-Lieutenancy. “Ĥeed not what is called the indignant protest of outraged national feeling. It is but the grumbling of the discharged menials of the Castle. It is but the lament of the official purveyors who hold diplomas from Viceroy's Chamberlain. It is not a revolt of the people that rages. It is a squabble in the kitchen,-an émeute of the scullery against the drawing-room." These remarks were received with great hilarity. The Tenant Right Movement is increasing in some districts, especially in Ulster, Tipperary, and Limerick; and meetings were held at which ridiculously violent language was used. Combined action, no frequent expedient in Ireland, has been determined on. A congress of delegates, to meet in Dublin, is in course of organisation. meeting in Conciliation Hall on Tuesday the 9th, there The Repeal Association is fast expiring. At the was a very small attendance. Mr. John O'Connell announced the rent for the week to be 47., and stated that if the country did not come forward to support the Association, it would be impossible for him to keep the doors of Conciliation Hall open much longer. The first of two meetings of a conference convened by the National Reform Association was held in Crosby Hall on the 23rd & 24th. Its objects were to receive reports 15th.-Brick Duties Bill passed through committee. 16th.-Exchequer Bills and Brick Duties Bills read third time from delegates in reference to the progress of the reform and passed. movement, to devise means of carrying out with promptitude and vigour the objects of the Association, and to complete the arrangements for realising the fund of 10,000l. required for the present year's operations. The attendance was very numerous: many of the leading Reformers were present, and there were no less than 130 delegates from different parts of the kingdom. Sir Joshua Walmsley, President of the Association, was in the chair. Able speeches were made by the Chairman, Colonel Thompson, Mr. Hume, Mr. W. J. Fox, Mr. J. Kershaw, Mr. Heyworth, and other eminent individuals; and several resolutions were unanimously adopted. NARRATIVE OF LAW AND CRIME. ON the 2nd, Thomas Denny was tried at Kingston-onThames for Murdering his Child. He was a farm-servant, and so poor that he lived in a hay-loft on his master's premises with his reputed wife. In August a child was born, and died immediately. Suspicions arose, and an investigation took place, which led to the prisoner's commitment charged with murdering the infant. On the trial the prisoner's son, an intelligent boy of eight years old, told the following graphic story of his father's guilt:-"We all," he said, "lived together in the hay-loft at Ewell. When mother had a baby, I went to my father and told him to come home directly. When we got back, my father took up the baby in his arms. He then took up an awl. [Here the child became much affected and cried bitterly, and it was some time before he could proceed with his testimony. At length he went on.] My father took up the awl, and killed the baby with it. He struck the awl into its throat. The baby cried, and my father took the child to its mother, and asked her if he should make a coffin for it. Before he said this, he asked her if she would help to kill it, and gave her the awl. She tried to kill it also. My father gave her the child and the awl, and she did the same to it that he had done. I was very much frightened at what I saw, and ran away, and when I came back I found mother in bed." The woman (Eliza Tarrant) had been charged as an accomplice, but the bill against her was ignored by the Grand Jury. On the trial, she was called as a witness; to which the prisoner's counsel objected, she being a presumed participator in the crime. The woman however was called, and partly corroborated her son's testimony; but denied that she took any share in killing her offspring. The prisoner was convicted, and Mr. Justice Maule passed sentence of death, informing him that there was no hope of respite.-Subsequently however the objections of the prisoner's counsel proved more valid than the judge supposed, for the Secretary of State thought proper to commute the sentence. The unfortunate man received the respite with heartfelt gratitude. Since his conviction he appeared to be overcome with grief at his awful position. "I'll throw you over!" exclaimed a carpenter of the Strand Theatre, named Lepridge, to a fellow-workman. They were quarrelling violently, and the latter (Matthews) having taken refuge in one of the upper boxes from the rage of his companion, was followed by Lepridge, who seized him by the throat and actually threw him over into the orchestra. This happened on the 2nd. Matthews was seriously injured, but was able to attend and give his evidence a few days afterwards at Bow-street, The prosecutor humanely begged his fellow-workman off, notwithstanding his savage conduct. The excuse was, that having been drinking all day, Lepridge was furious from intoxication. The magistrate sentenced him to a fine of 5l., or two months imprisonment, one of the most lamentable the officer had met with. The publication of the case had the effect of inducing several benevolent individuals to transmit donations to Mr. à Beckett for these destitute girls, to the amount, as he stated on a subsequent day, of above 251. He added that it was in contemplation to enable the girls to emigrate to South Australia, and that meanwhile they had been admitted into the workhouse of St. George's parish, where they would be kept till a passage was procured for them to the colony. More than one person had offered to take Mary Ann Bannister into domestic service; but emigration for the whole four was thought more advisable. A Tale of Misery was revealed on the 3rd to Mr. à Beckett, the magistrate of Southwark police court. He received a letter from a gentleman who stated that as he was walking home one evening, his attention was attracted to a young woman. She was evidently following an immoral career; but her appearance and demeanour interesting him he spoke to her. She candidly acknowledged, that having been deserted by her parents, she was leading an abandoned life to obtain food for her three sisters, all younger than herself. Her father had been in decent circumstances, but that unfortunately her mother was addicted to drink, and owing to this infirmity their parents had separated, and abandoned them. The writer concluded by hoping that the magistrate would cause an inquiry to be made. Mr. à Beckett directed an officer of the court to investigate into this case. On the 4th, the officer called at the abode of the young woman, in a wretched street, at a time when such a visit could not have been expected. He found Mary Ann Bannister, the girl alluded to, and her three sisters, of the respective ages of eight, eleven, and fourteen, in deep distress. The eldest was washing some clothing for her sisters. There was no food of any description in the place. Altogether the case was a very distressing one, and although accustomed to scenes of misery, in the course of his duties, yet this was A female named Lewis, who resided at Bassalleg, left her home on the 3rd to go to Newport, about three miles distant, to make purchases. She never returned. A search was made by her son and husband, who is a cripple, and on the night of the following day they discovered her Murdered in a Wood at no very great distance from the village, so frightfully mangled as to leave no doubt that she had been waylaid and brutally murdered. The head was shockingly disfigured, battered by some heavy instrument, and the clothes were saturated with blood. For some days the perpetrators escaped detection, but eventually Murphy and Sullivan, two young Irishmen, were arrested at Cheltenham, on suspicion. Wearing apparel covered with blood, and a number of trifling articles were found on them. They were sent off to Newport, where it was found they had been engaged in an atrocious outrage in Gloucestershire, on an old man whom they had assailed and robbed on the road near Purby; his skull was fractured; and his life was considered to be in imminent peril. Both prisoners were fully committed to the county gaol at Monmouth to take their trial for wilful murder. A Dreadful Murder has been discovered in the neighbourhood of Frome, in Somersetshire. On the 3rd a young man named Thomas George, the son of a labourer residing near that town, left his father's house about eight in the evening and never returned. Next morning his father went in search of him, and found his body in a farmer's barn; he had been apparently dead for some hours, and there were deep wounds in his head and throat. A man named Henry Hallier, who had been seen in company with the deceased, the night he disappeared, close to the barn where his body was found, was apprehended on the 18th on suspicion, and committed to the county gaol. An act of Unparallelled Atrocity was committed during the Easter week in the Isle of Man. Two poor men named Craine and Gill went to a hill-side to procure a bundle of heather to make brooms. The proprietor of the premises observed them, and remarked that he would quickly make them remove their quarters. He at once set fire to the dry furze and heather, directly under the hilly place where the poor men were engaged. The fire spread furiously, and it was only by rolling himself down the brow of the hill, and falling over the edge of a precipice into the river underneath, that Gill escaped. His unfortunate companion, who was a pensioner, aged 80 years, and quite à cripple, was left in his helpless state a prey to the flames. After they had subsided, Gill went in search of Craine, whom he found burnt to a cinder. The proprietor of the heath has been apprehended. A Shot at his Sweetheart was fired by John Humble Sharpe, a young man of 21, who was tried for it at the Norfolk Circuit on the 9th. The accused, a young carpenter, had courted and had been accepted by the prosecutrix, Sarah Lingwood. She, however, listened to other vows; the lover grew jealous, and was at length rejected. In the night after he had received his dismissal, the family of the girl's uncle with whom she lived were alarmed by the report of a gun. On examining her bed-room it was discovered that a bullet had been fired through the window, had crossed the girl's bed, close to the bottom where she lay, grazed a dress that was lying on the bedclothes, and struck a chest of drawers beyond. Suspicion having fallen on the prisoner, he was apprehended. The prisoner's counsel admitted the fact, but denied the intent. The prisoner had, he said, no desire to harm the girl, whom he tenderly loved, but only to alarm her and induce her to return to him. The jury, after long deliberation, acquitted the prisoner. Several shocking instances of Agrarian Crime have been mentioned in the Irish papers. At Glasslough, in the county of Monaghan, a shot was fired into the bedroom window of Mr. John Robertson, land steward to C. P. Leslie, Esq., on the night of the 10th. Arthur O'Donnel, Esq., of Pickwick Cottage, in Clare, was murdered near his own house, on the night of the 11th. He was attacked by a party of men and killed with a hatchet. The supposition was that this deed was committed by recipients of relief whom Mr. O'Donnell was wont to strike off the lists at the weekly revision by the board of the Kilrush union, of which he was one. A man was arrested on strong suspicion. There was another murder in Clare. The herdsman of Mr. Scanlon, of Fortune in that county, went out to look after some sheep, the property of his master, when he was attacked by some persons who had been lurking about the wood, and his throat cut. Two evidences of the Low Price of Labour were brought before the magistrates. One at Bow-street on the 10th, when W. Gronnow, a journeyman shoemaker, was charged with pawning eight pairs of ladies' shoes entrusted to him for making up. He pleaded extreme distress, and said he intended to redeem the shoes that week. The prisoner's employer owned that the man was entitled to no more than 48. 8d. for making and preparing the eight pairs of shoes. "Why," said the magistrate, "that price is only sevenpence a pair for the workman. I am not surprised to hear of so many persons pawning their employers' property, when they are paid so badly." The prisoner was fined 2s. and ordered to pay the money he had received upon the shoes within fourteen days; in default, to be imprisoned fourteen days. Being unable to pay the money, he was locked up. On the previous day a man named Savage, a slop shirt seller, was summoned at Guildhall for 9d., the balance due to Mrs. Wallis for making three cotton shirts. When delivered, Savage found fault with them, and deferred payment. Eventually 1s. 3d. was paid instead of 28. The alderman said he was surprised at any tradesman who only paid 8d. for making a shirt, deducting 3d. from so small a remuneration; it was disgraceful. He then ordered the money to be paid, with expenses. Alexander Levey, a goldsmith, was tried at the Central Criminal Court on the 10th, for the Murder of his Wife. They were a quarrelsome pair: one day, while the husband, with a knife in his hand, was cooking a sweetbread, the wife came in, and, in answer to his inquiry where she had been, said she had been to a magistrate for a warrant against him. On this, with a violent exclamation, he stabbed her in the throat; she ran out of the house, while he continued eating with the knife with which he stabbed her, saying, however, he hoped she was not much hurt. She died in consequence of the wound. The defence was, that the blow had been given in the heat of passion, and the prisoner was found guilty of manslaughter only. He was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. On the same day, Jane Kirtland was tried for the Manslaughter of her Husband. They lived at Shadwell, and were both addicted to drinking and quarrelling, in both which they indulged. Kirtland having called his wife an opprobrious name, she took up a chopper, and said that if he repeated the offensive expression, she would chop him. He immediately repeated it with a still more offensive addition, and at the same time thrust his fist in her face, when she struck him on the elbow with the chopper, and inflicted a wound of which he died a few days afterwards. The prisoner, when called upon for her defence, burst into tears, and said that her husband was constantly drunk, and that he was in the habit of going out all day, and leaving her and her children in a destitute state, and when he came home he would abuse her and insult her in every possible way. In a moment of anger she struck him with the chopper, but she had no intention to do him any serious injury. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended her to mercy on account of the provocation she had received. She was sentenced to be kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for six months. A coroner's inquest was held in Southwark on the same day, respecting the death of Mrs. Mary Carpenter, an Eccentric Old Lady, of eighty-two. She had been left, by a woman who attended her, cooking a chop for her dinner; and soon afterwards the neighbours were alarmed by smoke coming from the house. On breaking into her room on an upper floor, the place was found to be on fire. The flames were got under, but the old lady was burnt almost to a cinder. Mrs. Carpenter was a very singular person; she used at one time to wear dresses so that they did not reach down to her knees. Part of her leg was exposed, but the other was encased with milk-white stockings, tied up with scarlet garters, the ribands extending to her feet, or flying about her person. In this extraordinary dress she would sally forth to market, followed by immense crowds of men and children. For some years past she discontinued these perambulations, and lived entirely shut up in her house in Moss-alley, the windows of which she had bricked up so that no light could enter from without. Though she had considerable freehold property, she had only an occasional female attendant, and would allow no other person, but the collector of her rents, to enter her preserve. On the 12th, Mrs. Eleanor Dundas Percival, a lady of thirty-five, destroyed herself by poison at the Hope Coffee-house in Fetter-lane, where she had taken temporary apartments. A Distressing History transpired at the inquest. She was the daughter of a Scotch clergyman, and lost the countenance of her family by marrying a Catholic, a captain in the navy; while her husband suffered the same penalty for marrying a Protestant. About a year ago he and their infant died in the West Indies; she afterwards became governess in the family of Sir Colin Campbell, Governor of Barbadoes; her health failing, she returned to England in October last, and had since been reduced to extreme distress. Having been turned out of a West-end hotel, and had her effects detained on account of her debt contracted there, she had been received into the apartments in Fetter-lane partly through the compassion of a person who resided in the house. While there, she had written to Miss Burdett Coutts, and, a few days before her death, a gentleman had called on her from that benevolent lady, who paid up the rent she owed, amounting to 27. 148., and left her 10s. On the evening above-mentioned she went out and returned with a phial in her hand containing morphia, which, it appeared, she swallowed on going to bed between five and six o'clock, as she was afterwards found in a dying state, and the empty phial beside her. The verdict was Temporary Insanity. Elias Lucas and Mary Reeder were Executed at Cambridge on the 13th. Lucas was the husband of the female convict's sister, whom they had poisoned. Morbid curiosity had attracted from twenty to thirty thousand spectators. In the procession from the jail to the scaffold there was a great parade of county magistrates. The Middlesex magistrates sat on the 15th to hear appeals of publicans whose licenses had been refused by the divisional justices, for exhibiting " Betting Lists" which show the state of the "odds' against horses entered for different races. This, it was alleged, encouraged persons to make bets and to gamble. It was admitted that these lists were the same with those published in the newspapers; but on the other hand, when bets were made, it was usual for the landlord to hold the stakes; and the judge decided that, though the landlord could not be made responsible for bets made in his house, yet, when he became stake-holder, he was knowingly suffering gaming, contrary to the terms of his license. The licenses were ultimately granted on the applicants promising to discontinue the betting lists, and on payment, by each, of 107. costs. At the Mansion House, on the 16th, Walter Watts, clerk in the Globe Assurance Office, late lessee of the Marylebone and Olympic Theatres, after a series of examinations, was committed for trial on a charge of stealing two cheques of 14007. each, the property of the above office. Louisa Hartley was charged at the Southwark Police Court, on the 16th, with an Attempt to poison her Father, who is a fellowship-porter. On the previous morning APRIL.] LAW COURTS AND CRIMES. she made the coffee for breakfast, on tasting it, it burnt Fresh Illustrations of Smithfield Cruelty were brought that there might be arsenic found in his wife's stomach, Two Men were shot at by a Gamekeeper lately in a A Scene from Life in London was detailed in the Court of Exchequer on the 19th. A baker and bill-discounter named Glen sued Lieut. Evans of the 69th, as acceptor of a bill of exchange drawn by Lieut. Baldwin of the Rifle Brigade. The defence was that the plaintiff had obtained the bill by fraud and collusion with one Humbert, who had stolen it from Mr. Baldwin, after having got from him a letter in which he said he had received money for the bill, which he had not. On being cross-examined, Mr. Baldwin said, Lieut. Evans was in London when the bill was drawn. We wanted to raise 2001., of which each was to have 1007. The Turf Wine-law would allow. stores, in Jermyn Street, where I met Humbert, is not a regular gambling-house, but one to which men go I was a very frequent visitor there, to make bets. "Ladies" are admitted. I have played at hazard at this house with Humbert. When I have been there, they have always tried to persuade me to play. I have never been a winner there. I have never won a "copper" there in my life. The game was not played there habitually. When I wrote this letter I was intoxicated, although it was only 5 o'clock in the afternoon. I wrote What!" exclaimed Baron Alderson, it deliberately. "do you call it writing a letter deliberately if you are drunk at the time?" The jury consulted for some minutes, and then found that the bill had been obtained by fraud from the drawer, Baldwin, by Humbert, but that there was no evidence to connect the plaintiff with that fraud." The verdict was then entered as for the plaintiff, damages 2007. A man named William Bennison, a workman in an iron-foundry, has been committed to prison at Leith on suspicion of having Poisoned his Wife. The circumstances of the case are extraordinary. The scene of the murder is an old-fashioned tiled house in Leith. Bennison and his wife occupied the second floor of a house in which also resides Alexander Milne, a cripple from his infancy, well known to the frequenters of Leith Walk, where he sits daily, in a small cart drawn by a dog. Mrs. Bennison, after, it is said, partaking of some gruel, became very ill, and died on Monday, the 22nd inst. The dog which drew the cripple's cart died about the same time: suspicion was drawn upon the husband, and he was apprehended, and the dog's body conveyed to SurSome weeks before, Bengeon's Hall for examination. nison had purchased arsenic from a neighbouring druggist, to kill rats, as he said. When suspected, he called on the druggist, and requested him and his wife not to mention that he had purchased the arsenic. He even pressed for a written denial of the fact, adding "The A simple personage named George Thompson, a cattlesalesman in Little Britain, charged a suspicious-looking fellow whose name did not transpire, at Bow-street, on the 23rd, with an Ingenious Swindle. The complainant's tale was, that on the previous day he was walking down Holborn, when the prisoner, accompanied by another person, accosted him in the following terms:-"Hallo, old brick, you 're a countryman I can see by the look of Well, we'll just go in to Tom your jib; dang it, we must have a drain together prisoner continued, Spring's and have a drain." They according went in to Tom Spring's, and witness was treated to two glasses of port wine. While there, a game at skittles was proposed by the prisoner, which was accepted, and his When the friend and witness were invited to watch the game. Various public houses were entered, and various potaskittle-ground was reached, the prisoner and his friend tions of brandy and water indulged in. played witness, but asked to bet on the game, and, briefly to relate, the only 57. which he had were soon won by betting and playing. The prisoner then said, "Have you no more money?" Witness said, "Not with me, but I've 157. at home." After a great deal of pressing on the part of the prisoner and his friend, witness was foolish enough to go home with them in a cab and get it. When he had got it, they adjourned to another skittle-ground, and, of course, the 157. soon followed in the wake of 5l., and then they all set off, leaving him "in pawn" at the public house for certain liquors they had had. Information was given to the police, and the prisoner discovered. The magistrate who adjudicated in the case remarked that he had never known a person evince such childishness as Thompson had shown. The affair appeared to him to be a mere gambling affair, though he had no doubt the money was won by unfair means, and the prisoner must therefore be discharged. R. C. Willis, a clergyman of the Church of England, was tried at the Central Criminal Court, on the eighth charge of Obtaining Money on False Pretences. He had gone to Hatchett's Hotel, Piccadilly, and having run up a bill of 31. 38. 6d., he gave a cheque for 141. 13s. 1d., and being known as a customer of the house, no suspicion was entertained, and the difference was handed over to him, the cheque, as in the other cases, turning out to be of no value. He was found guilty on two charges, and it was stated that there were twelve similar ones against him. He was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour, for a year, in the House of Correction. Council were entirely void, and the decree of the Court of Arches remained in full force. Lord Campbell, after having heard the learned counsel's argument, said that the Court would intimate its decision on an early day. At the Arches Court on the same day, Mr. Bewdler, the proctor for Mr. Gorham, intimated that no return has been received to the monition which was ordered the last court-day to be served on the Bishop of Exeter, and prayed that a certificate of its continuation be granted. The presentation had not been sent in by the Bishop. Another application on behalf of Mr. Gorham was made on the 23rd, when the Judge ordered the case to stand over till next term. At a Great Number of Public Meetings strong demonstrations of their respective opinions and sympathies have been made by the supporters of each side of the question.-The most noticeable was one on the 1st, by the Parishioners of Mr. Gorham, at St. Just, who adopted a resolution congratulatory on the successful issue of his suit, "involving, as they believe it did, vital Christian truth." In his reply Mr. Gorham says: "That such a struggle should have been with my cumstance connected with it which has given me pain; but I had no choice between such a contest, and compromise of a great Protestant-let me rather say Scriptural-truth." An Affecting Case occurred at the Mansion House on the 23rd. William Powers, a boy, was brought up on the charge of picking a gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief. A little boy, who had seen the theft, was witness against him. The prisoner made a feeble attempt to represent the witness as an accomplice; but he soon abandoned it, and said, with tears, that he "did not believe the other boy to be a thief at all." The Alderman, moved by his manner, asked him if he had parents? He said he had, but they were miserably poor. My father was, when I last saw him, six months ago, going into the workhouse. What was I to do? Idiocesan,' is, you will readily believe, the chief cirwas partly brought up to the tailoring business, but I can get nothing to do at that. I am able to job about, but still I am compelled to be idle. If I had work, wouldn't I work! I'd be glad to work hard for a living, instead of being obliged to thieve and tell lies for a bit of bread." Alderman Carden-If I send you for a month to Bridewell, and from thence into an industrial school, will you stick honestly to labour? The Prisoner-Try me. You shall never see me here or in any other disgraceful situation again. Alderman Carden-I will try you. You shall go to Bridewell for a month, and to the School of Occupation afterwards, where you will have an opportunity of reforming. The wretched boy expressed himself in terms of gratitude to the Alderman, and went away, as seemed to be the general impression in the justice-room, for the purpose of commencing a new life. Cobbe's Divorce Bill camejudiciously before the House of Lords on the 23rd. Mr. T. Cobbe, a barrister, was married in 1838 to Miss Azelia Anne Cobbe, his cousin; both were young and attached to each other. They lived together in Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, from the time of the marriage to the year 1846, on the most affectionate terms. Among their visitors was Mr. Talmadge, a special pleader in the Temple, a college companion and intimate friend of Mr. Cobbe. In 1846 Mr. Cobbe's father came from Ireland to see him, and they took a trip to Germany together, leaving Mrs. Cobbe and her sister at home. They were absent about a fortnight. It has been proved by the evidence of the domestic servants, that Mr. Talmadge during that period was in the habit of being clandestinely admitted into the house and passing the night in Mrs. Cobbe's bedchamber; and that this criminal intercourse was continued after the husband's return. On the 13th of March 1847, Mr. Cobbe went as usual to his chambers, and his wife, after giving the servants directions for dinner, &c., left the house and never returned. She is now living with Mr. Talmadge at Passy near Paris. Mr. Cobbe brought an action for adultery against Mr. Talmadge, who suffered judgment to go by default for 5007. damages; and he has obtained a sentence of divorce in the ecclesiastical court. The bill was read a second time. The Legal Bearings of the Gorham Case have been discussed with great animation not only before the regular tribunals, but at meetings all over the country. On the 15th, in the Court of Queen's Bench, Sir F. Kelly moved for a rule to show cause why the Arches Court and the Archbishop of Canterbury should not be prohibited from proceeding further in giving effect to the judgment of the Committee of the Privy Council in the case of Gorham versus the Bishop of Exeter; by which judgment the previous decree of the Court of Arches had been reversed. He contended, that, in such a case, the appeal from the Court of Arches lay, not to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, but to the Upper House of Convocation; and that, therefore, the proceedings which had been laid before her Majesty in A good deal of attention has been excited by a Correspondence between Miss Sellon and Lord Campbell, Writing from the "Orphan's Home, Plymouth," March 19th, the lady desired his lordship to withdraw his name from the charitable establishment of which she is the head.-Lord Campbell wrote a good-humoured answer, expressing great respect for Miss Sellon's piety and benevolence, telling her that she misunderstood the judgment of which she complains.-Miss Sellon returned to the charge in a letter of the 8th, in which, after an impassioned lamentation for the wounds inflicted on the Church, she concludes by saying, “I thank you very earnestly for your promise of remembering me in your prayers. I am not worthy to pray for you-and yet if the God of all goodness will hear the supplication of a loving and deeply sorrowing heart, He will bring you to grieve for the injury done to the Church, and will help you to repair it-and give you all blessing in time and eternity."-Lord Campbell, in a reply, reiterated his previous arguments, and, lamenting her "stern resolution," tells the lady that "if at any time hereafter you should be induced to relent, I shall joyfully avail myself of the opportunity of again trying to further your benevolent schemes." Miss Sellon closed the correspondence by complaining that her previous letters should have been published without her sanction. NARRATIVE OF ACCIDENT AND DISASTER. NUMEROUS SHIPWRECKS were occasioned by the terrific storm which swept over these islands on the last two days of March, and produced innumerable disasters among shipping on nearly every coast, and great loss of human life. The Royal Adelaide Steamer, which was due at the wharf, Lower East Smithfield, from Cork on the 30th ultimo, did not arrive. A river-pilot, who had been waiting at Gravesend to take charge of her, was informed by a Deal pilot that he had passed in his bark a large steamer on Saturday night, about 15 miles off Margate. Signals of distress were fired from her, and she seemed to be on the sand. The wind blew a gale, and the bark could render no assistance. The description of the wreck tallied with that of the missing ship. Subsequently intelligence was brought by steamers that arrived in the river, describing the appearance of the wreck. Not a soul was seen on board by any of these vessels. A telegraphic despatch from Margate on Monday afternoon (1st), announced that the wreck was covered at high-water, and that two bodies had been picked up off the sands. It was now ascertained that signals of distress had been heard by men of the Coast Guard near Margate, and by the people of the Tongue light ship; but as there were only two or |