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THE t'lttB S, DECEMBER 4, 1858. en act of mutiny. There was not the slightest 'evi dence as to that. Then, as to Mr. Roe, most unwil lingly had Miss Cleaveland's name been imported into this case, but he was the stepfather of Miss Cleaveland, and had reason to suppose that a clan destine correspondence was carried on by Colonel Horne with that young lady, and it was his duty, if possible, to prevent it. The magistrates, as men of exper i e nce, would draw their own conclusion what must be the result of such a correspondence, looking at the position of Colonel i Home and Miss Cleave land. He must say that f Mr. Roe was to be put upon his trial for using such words as had been im puted to him the liberty of Englishmen was gone. Mr. JOHNSON, a magistrate, said no doubt Mr. Roe had acted under excited feeling throughout ; and The MAYOR said he and his brother magistrates had unanimously decided to dismiss the case alto gether, there not being a tittle of evidence to support the charge as brought before the bench. The announcement of the mayor was received with loud applause by the crowded court, which was, how ever, instantly repressed. In reference to this matter two letters have been published by a morning contemporary. Mrs. Roe, the wife of the defendant and the mother of the young lady whose name has been introduced into the affair, denies that there was any clandestine corre spondence between her daughter and Colonel Home, who " was first introduced under circumstances that will ever be remembered with gratitude—be saved my child from an almost inevitable watery grave." She represents her husband as a persecutor of his daughter-in-law, and brands his interception of a letter from the colonel as " a complete theft," adding, but the thief will never have a chance to do so again." Mrs. Roe adds, "The allusions made about ' protection' under Mr. Roe's ' roof ' is absurd, and what he has never pretended to offer. The very young lady alluded to, with her mother, are the principal agents in keeping a ' roof' over his head. His sort of ' protection ' will no longer be required. There is a mystery in the case. With your permis sion, sir, I will add, that had Mr. Roe ' got up a case' of insanity to help him out of the scrape, I could have furnished many instances, with witnesses, that would have borne out the said case.' It certainly would have been more manly and less cowardly than to entangle in such a cruel way a de fenceless girl." The second letter is from Colonel Home, also denying the "insinuation" against "a lady very highly connected, and with an irreproachable character," and adding, "Mr. Roe not being, as I un derstood from the beginning, in any way her guardian, he had no right to expect that I should make him acquainted with my intentions towards her." Colonel Home also publicly declares that under the circumstances which really exist he was justified in addressing the lady as he did. So the matter rests at present, but " the affair is not yet quite settled." A THIEF named Richard Barry, who practises in the child-stripping department of that well-divided field of labour, has been committed for trial by Mr. Selfe, the magistrate. A crowd of bis victims and their parents was in attendance to charge the rascal with his mean villanies. A police-constable said he was prepared to substantiate a hundred cases of theft against the prisoner. THE 'OMAN DESPATCHES THEFT has at length been solved. On Saturday Wellington Grenville Guernsey, Regent-square, represented as having held a commis sion in the Crimean Turkish Contingent, and lately returned from South America, was charged before Mr. Jardine, at the Bow-street police-office, with having feloniously abstracted the documents front the Foreign-office. The evidence adduced went to show that the prisoner had frequently called upon Mr. Miller, sub•librarian at the Colonial-office, with whom he had some acquaintance, and that he had been left there alone on one occasion when printed copies of the despatches were lying on the library table. It was further proved that the prisoner was the person who supplied the Daily News with the copies from which the despatches were published. The prisoner, who offered no defence, was committed for trial, bail being refused. THE MARCHMO - NT DIVORCE SUIT, which bas occu• Pied so much of the time of the court, has resulted in a verdict in favour of the lady. For the respondent several witnesses were called. These were, for the most part, servants who bad lived with the family, and their evidence proved that Mrs. Marclimont bad been the subject of violent tits of passion and jealousy, and that she bad not been over ntco in the epithets she applied to ber husband, nor before whom they were uttered. Dr ig the proceedings one of by law, but the learned judge, Sir Creswell Creswell, declined to sanction such au arrangement, on the ground that it would lead to the worst conse quences. • 1181 AN EXTBAORDINLRY CAGE 'was the subject of an inquest held at Cardiff, on Monday, on view of the body of Mary Ann Parke. It appeared from the evi dence adduced that the deceased was walking near the Bute Docks with her husband, the master of a small coasting vessel, when she complained of giddi ness and fell to the ground. She was immediately conveyed into an outfitter's shop, where she was placed on some bedding in a wareroom. Mr. Pratt, a neighbouring surgeon, was called in, and, after feeling her pulse and placing a glass to her lips, pro nounced her to be quite dead. This was about eight o'clock on Wednesday evening, and the body was locked up in the room until four o'clock on the fol lowing afternoon, when three women undertook to lay out the body, which had swollen so as to render her bonnet strings quite tight round her neck, and her face was black. One of them in cutting a string cat the skin, when blood flowed freely, and on the clothes being slakened the face assumed the hue of life and health ; the chest felt warm, and one of the v-nuen swore positively that she saw the lips moving as if breathing, and that one band was raised. Mr. Pratt was again sent for, and positively asserted that death had taken place twenty hours previously. An in quest was held on Friday, and adjourned in order to receive the explanations of the surgeon, who at. tended on Monday evening, and cited instances of similar appearances long after death. It was stated that even on Saturday evening the body had the fresh colour and other appearances of a person sleeping, but on Monday unmistakeable signa of decomposition set in. The jury expressed them. selves satisfied with the explanations of the surgeon, and returned a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God ;" and the coroner issued his warrant for the interment of the body. A REMARKABLE CASE OF ROBBERY AND PERJURY by a boy has just come to light. Three weeks ago a burglary was committed on the premises of Messrs. Kent and Co., Great Marlborough-street, when 511. in money was carried off. A boy fifteen years of age, named Edward Herbert, in the service of the firm, on oath before the magistrate, charged two meu in the same employ with the crime, saying that he had received a sovereign not to speak of it. The police had some suspicions of the boy ; and being watched, he was observed a few days, since digging up some sovereigns in Hammersmith churchyard, and on Thursday when brought before Mr. Bingham at Marlborough-street police-coart, confessed that he was guilty of the robbery. A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO MURDER two officers of the Middlesex House of Correction was made by a prisoner named Simpson, who was tried at the last session of the Central Criminal Court for felony, and sentenced to six months' hard labour, on Tuesday afternoon. The prisoner, on being supplied with his dinner, complained to the officer in whose charge he was, who bears a deservedly high character, and has served many years in the prison, that the meat was not sweet. The officer, after examining it, said it was, whereupon the prisoner rushed at him, and, in attempting to stab him in the throat, cut him severely across the face with the knife given to eat his dinner with. Morris, a brother officer, seized the prisoner, wbo turned furiously upon him, and struck at his throat with the knife. He missed his aim, but the officer received a wound which placed his life in great jeopardy. The knife struck him on the cheek and glanced off past the ear, and stuck in his neck. Had the prisoner succeeded in giving the blow he evidently intended, thejugular vein must have been severed. The prisoner was secured and placed in irons, and every attention paid to the wounded officers. Great fears were for some time entertained that Morris's wound was mortal, but he is now oat of danger, and both are getting on favourably. The prisoner, who seems very careless about the matter, was examined on the charge of wounding with intent to murder yesterday. Mr. CoOKE, THE SON OF MR. W. COOKE, of Astley's Royal Amphitheatre, met with a serious accident on Tuesday, whilst be was engaged in training a high spirited horse to perform in the new Indian piece, to be produced at that establishment on Monday next. In the course of a rehearsal the animal fell upon Mr. Cooke, breaking one of his legs. We are happy to state that Mr. Cooke is progressing as favourably as can be expected. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, on hearing of the accident, sent a special messenger from Windsor expressly to inquire after the health of the sufferer. Obituarg. ' . ,lttibtnts au Mats. TROWSCOED HALL, near Welshpool, the residence of E. S. It. Trevor, Esq., has become the prey of fire. On the morning of Wednesday last a fire broke out which completely destroyed this splendid mansion. 'rhe family escaped with great difficulty. A CURIOUS ACCIDENT happened a day or two ago in a manufactory at Garde•AdWmar to a girl, twelve years of age, named Chirouze. She had, contrary to the rules of the place, been combing her hair in the work.room, and had left it hanging loose on her back. As she was standing near the shaft of a machine, her hair was caught by it, and completely torn off with all the scalp of her head. She was carried to the hospital, where she lies in a very dangerous state. A REM.MICABLY SUDDEN DEATH occurred at the Parisian Italian Opera-house, on Saturday night last. Mereadante's IL Giuramento was given. Towards the close of the opera the tenor, Viscardo, stabs the prima donna, Elaisa. At, the moment when this event took place, a slight scream was heard from a lady in one of the grand tier boxes. Her friends around her supposed she had simply uttered the cry in a moment of temporary excitement on witnessing ;he dramatic events of the stage ; but her bead was seen to droop, and she was instantly removed. Me dical assistance soon arrived, and then, to the sur prise of all around, the lady was declared to have expired. She was a person of no ordinary beauty, and about thirty years of age—her name Severe. THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF MR. PARSONS, a tradesman at Andover, has led to the arrest on sus picion of Mr. T. A. Banks, the landlord of the Rose and Crown Inn, with his wife, Emma Banks. A juvenile party was in the midst of celebrating the birthday of one of the accused's children at his house when the arrest was made. The accused has been examined and remanded on the charge. A POACHING AFFAIR, attended with serious consequences, occurred upon the estate of Mr. E. I. Collingwood, of Lilburn Tower, near Wooler, in Northumberland. It seems that gangs of poachers roam about the hill districts of the northern part of the county, and in conse• quence the country gentry have to employ a large number of game watchers. Several watchers were perambulating the estate of Mr. Collingwood aad the adjoining estate, belonging to Mr. Cresswell, of Harehope, about three o'clock on Saturday morning, when poachers were descried. A watcher named Nixon, in the employ of Mr. Cnsswell, saw three of them. He ran after them, and in doing so was joined by some, if not all, of the other watchers, and was pursuing closely behind, when the poachers were observed to look back; they seemed determined not to be taken, but each seemed to wish his companion to fire the first shot towards the watchers, until at length one of them did deliberately turn round and fired his gun, and shot poor Nixon, who fell, appa rently mortally wounded, to the ground. The other watchers first saw to the state of their companion Nixon, and gave up the chase of the poachers, who had still two guns with them besides that which had been oischarged, and who, probably as a matter of prudence, were allowed to escape. Nixon was car ried in a faint and suffering condition home to his cottage, and several shots, about No. 6 size, were found to have entered his body about the thighs and the lower part of the bowels. He was evidently dan gerously wounded, though hopes are now entertained of his recovery. It appears that Nixon will be enabled to identify the man who shot him, and to whom, though it was rather dark, be had been very near. Having obtained the best description they could of the three poachers, the police arrested seven men, suspected as poachers, and in the houses of some of whom game that morning had actually been found ; but as neither the wounded man nor any of the other watchers could identify any one of them, they were brought back to Alnwick and liberated. The detectives, however, are still eugaged in in quiries, with a view to bring the real parties to jus tice. It seems that one of the other watchers was also hit by the discharge of a gun, but he is not seriously hurt. A SERIOUS ACCIDENT I EAPPENED TO LADY TUCKER, the wife of Admiral Sir Edward Tucker, on Tucsday evening. Her ladyship while crossing ltegent•strcet was knocked down and run over by the carriage of wey were tittered. During the proceedings one of was )(noosed uown auu run ~,. .., ...- ..... --,- the . jurors complained of being kept away from his Mr. Arnott, of New Burlington • street . She was im • LADY CHARLOTTE BRIDOEKAS, who was severely between for seven days merely to decide a quarrel mediately taken to th e shop of Mr . Waugh, chemist, burnt by accident at Lord Bradford's residence some a man and his wife, and expressed a hope Regent-street, and attended by Mr. Arnott, and atter. weeks ago, died on the 26th ult. Lady Lucy Bridge thatthe ju s t e o n rs l e When extra the compensation h s t e o l s w t a r r e d tc s h remo‘iT to Beanie's s l e l s o t t a c i l n , e D d o s v e e r r i - o s u tt s ce i t n , it o tr n ie s s Tsi man eith i e s r s t u h ll e s u u a ff r e i ri e n! B trom d f th r e d e n ir o a r ct ‘ s is o e f o t u n n e t accident t for the petitioner exp e re a s s s e ed d hi c s on w c d u lin e gn , ess the t c b o a u t n t . he jury should be remunerated beyond the scale allowed —hear b h r ip o e k s r . en elb e o r w.j a oin y i, a p nd a severe injury to one of has been able to use his hands since the lamentable occurrence. , , i I