The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-08-21 00:00:00

~...,~.,....a. 110111 ASSIZES. A ' 1-21' nevew . 171. Wellbcrton.--nree v. viTAtitatp. 'This was en edit% to obtain compensation for the n6OllOll of plaintiff's daughter, who was about 19 years oid. !fr. George Bennett stated the plaintiff's ease to a laminate temech, which made a great impression on the Court and 'dry. The fsets of the case as stated were these :—The plaintiff was a, poor man who lived in the neighbourhood of the defendant, :“Itho was a Lieutenant In the Navy, and who Once the peace resided In the Village of Faraide near Itostellan, where be was engaged in mercantile pursuits. The girl, who was the cause of this action, was in the habit of going into the defendant's stores, and conducting herself with such levity towards him, as to call forth the suspicion of a workman in the employment, who informed her mother and the Roman Catholic Priest of the parish of it, and by whom she was admonished. A short time after she was returning from Cove, towards her father's bodge, and was met by defendant, who induced her to come to Cork, 'where he took her to a house of ill fame, and effected his pur pose—and was attended with still worse consequences, as she was obliged to have recourse to surgical assistance in conse quence of her intercourse with the defendant. Several wit nesses were produced to affect the young woman's character in various ways, and to remove the imputation from the defend ant of being the cause of her being obliged to attend the In firmary. 'The trial lasted a cousiderablp time, and much abi lity was displayed on both sides. Raton PENN Et 4TUER addressed the Jury, who retired for a short time, and brought in a verdict for the defendant. CORK ADJOURNED ASSIZES, Auo. 18. The trial of David Nagle was proceeded on. The charge against him nes, " taking arms from the house of Doctor Wood, by force an I menaces." Mrs. Charlotte Wood examined.—is the wife of Doctor Wood; he lives at Coolgerisk; on the 20th of May, at night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, a loud knocking alarmed her, and a call for "light and arms." The Doctor opened the windows an i asked what was wanted ; a person outside sa'cl, " let down the window, or we'll fire." Witness cried out, at the same time, that she feared they would fire, while she should be in the act of letting down the window. The leader said she should not be fired at, but required her to come down and open the door, which she did ; at this time a servant, Judith Quinlan, came with a light. The 1 leader said—" don't be alarmed, you shall not be injured, if ru omen the door." . The servant opened the door, and witness retired upwards a few steps of the stairs, when se veral armed men came in. Doctor Wood asked what was wanted? The answer he received "arms." Witness d , tl not stiffer the Dottor to reply, but came forward and told the leader of the party he should have them, and added t..at as r o r. sistance was - made, she hoped he would not allow hie memo do them any mischief. The leader turned about and $41.1, " First Lieutenant, come up stairs with me, and Second Lieutenant, stand at the door, and let none of the men enter, or do any mischief .to this lady's house or concerns." Hs then said to witness "now ma'am chew me the arms." Slie accordingly went up stairs with them, and pointed oat the arms where they stood in the bed•roons. The arms were, a blunderbuss, a fowling piece, and the sword of a cane. The leader begged she would not be alarmed, and asked If she had not in the house a case of pis. tots, and she having replied in the affirmative, gave him the pistols. He then desired a wardrobe to be opened, in which were ttie chain and seals of a watch, rings, brooches, and some plate; but he directed it to be locked, lest any of their property should be taken, and added, that if any of his party should commit any depredation, he would punish !Mtn. A man came up stairs then, and, in a low voice said to the leader, that there were some articles in the heave which would be useful to them, anti asked his permission to take those articles; to which he replied, that " if the house were full to the top of silver and gold, they should not touch a farthing's worth of it." At that mo ment a voice from - below cried out, " Captain, if you do not • make haste we will fire up stairs." The leader appeared indignant, and inquired if the gun he had received was . leaded ; on being answered that it was, be went towards the stairs : the t all was fell of armed men, their guns presented lup stairs. He levelled the gun at them, and threatened to fire if they did not immediately clear out, and cahanred his second Lieutenant fur allotting them to come in, bidding him beware of again committing such a fault: and added, that if any thing had been taken it should be instantly replaced, on pain of the offender biing shot through the head. The leader then turned to witness, and said be Loped she was now satisfied. He next looked under a bu reau where there was a tin box, but from this be turned away. He took from the desk a few flints and balls, and a little powder. He assured witness that be meant her no injury, and regretted that he had been obliged to come to the house at all. He told her that he was from the neighbourhood of Dohallow, and that he believed he would come again,. bat that she must open the house to any party who might come, from the defenceless state in which it was. If he same again he requested her not to be frightened. Ile would say he was from Dohallow, and ti.en she would 'know him, and neel not hesitate to open the door ; if possible, be said, he would return some of the arms, for witness told his that they would be in danger of robbers, if left without arms. The party were then about to depart, when she was called by them to the door .; they were talking to the leader in a load and angry tone of v•iice, and she feared that they were going to make him fire at her, hot he merely said, let the Doctor take care of his conduct, after which they went away. The w4ole time of the transaction there was a candle lighting. The leader was in her presence for upwards of three quarters of an boar ; she can swear positively to his identity, and abe ac cordingly painted him out in the dock. Mr. Ifairord, as Agent for the prisoner, stated, that on the present occasion he sae without the aid of,Counsel ; he ould w.hciet to the consideration of the Court, whether the witness should he allowed to, state any further particu lars ; but his Lordship was of opinion that it would be better not. Judith Quinlan, a female servant of Doitor Woods, was then examined by 'Mr. Pluntsett, and deposed, that she was in her master's house the night it was attacked by the White boys. This witness gave an account of the transaction, so far as she had any opportunity of observing, Which comes poLded exactly with the testimony of her . mi.tress. The wit ness Lieu identified the prisoner as of We party. After which the Counsel fur the Crown intimated that they deemed it unne cessary to examine any more witnesses. . Previous to identification, Mr. Howard said to the Court, the prisoner wished to withdraw his plea and plead Guilty, but the Learned Judge was of opinion that It would be better to have the is-me reap to the Jury, for that the prisoner would •ot place himself in any better situation by a plea of— ; Guilty." rho Learned Judge, after suiting the indictment to the Jury observed, that it was unnecessary for him to read over his noes of the evidence of Mrs. Wood, given as it sees with great recision, and with great tettaerhass towards tho prisoner. His ide.sity he said had been 'proved by the testimony of an other wissess, Judith Quinlan, and therefore, if they believed the evideice, they would find the prisoner guilty. As to the ciresseista b oes wine% had been ;toted, apparently is favour of the prisoner. be was bound to tell them, that, whatever weisht these 'eight ;ase elsewhere , they were hot such as ought to affect their *edict, one way or the other. ' The Jury‘after a abort deliberation in their room, found the prisone.Yinilte, but recommended hitn to mercy. His Lordship saici:thafhe would forward 104 recommendation to the proper quarter. • The la, amid Judge then; witlithie astud feeling, pro. ceeded to pa. 3 'tinware upon the asilappy grisoner, when tde'prisoner asked "a long day." sloe Judge said he should have sufficient time for repentance, and for the traosmislion of the Jarv's recnmmendation to Oovernmen t This morning the — iiiiin — Firaglitrates fined two lads for carrying a sack into the Jail on Saturday last, containing foqi-five live rats, which was Inckily'iliacovered in time to recent , their being turned looie in the buildings.--.(C/as tor Herald.) " DUBLIN POLICE. LOVE, MATRIMONY, JEALOUSY, DEFAMATION,; AND BATTERY. ct.Avxv v. DALT-011 Friday 'a bearing in this case, embracing all the above heads, came on before the sitting Magistrate at the bead office of police. The Board-room was crowded with witnesses, who were numerous on both sides. The first witness on the part of the complainant, was Anne Clarke, a very handsome young woman, who was covered with blushes on being about to disclose part of the evidence. She stated that Catherine Clarke was her (wit ness's) sister-In law ; that she (Catherine) was married to her (witness's) brother; and that the other woman — Here Catherine Clarke (who held an infant in her arms) interposed :—" Oh ! your Honour, 1 got this girl in bed , with my husband." Magistrate.—Which girl ? Catherine Clarke.—This girl, your Honour, (pointing to a girl in the crowd). Magistrate.—(To the girl). What is your name? Girl.—Biddy Daly, your Honour—l'll tell your Worship how it was; they said they'd make me out a w— and a thief, and I come from the country to try would they. Magistrate.—Well, and what did they make of you ? Biddy Daly.—Your Hoooar, they could'nt make nothing of me. Magistrate.—Were you not found in bed with the woman's husband? Catherine Clarke.—Your Honour, I pelt her out • • • An Old Woman.—Will you hear me, your Honour; I am his mother, and I was born in this town, as the world knows ; I am the mother of fourteen dailder, and I reared them well. Magistrate.—Did you rear him well? Old Woman.—ls it that boy—(pointing to Mr. Terence Clarke, who stood carelessly looking on) is it my child ? —Oh! then its I that did ; and that's the way lies going on: Your flonour, I gave him a fortune to set them a going ; and th y told me that he took up with a forbid able looking wretch of a woman ; and sure - besides that, he inveigled a little girl from the country. Magistrate.—Where's that little girl now? Old Woman.—Your Honour, she's at home in the country. Magistrate.—What fortune did you give him ? Old Woman.—Cows, your Reverence, cows, cows! M. Terence Clarke.—One cow, your Honour, the devil a more. Old Woman.—Six, _your Honour, sir ; beautiful cows, elegant cows. Magistrate (to Biddy Daly)—What have you to say to this ? Biddy.—Why, your Honour, there was but the one bed in the room; — Catherine Clarke.—Tics, your Honour, there was two beds. Biddy.—Aye, but that was after, for when I went there, there was but the one bed, and they put me to sleep with them both ; I lay at the foot, your Hanaur, and she says to me, " I'll get you blown out of Dahlia, yob heifer." Sure, Sure, I took out a summons against him. Mr. Terence Clarke, (taking a paper out of his breeches pocket.)—Here's the dismiss of that, your Honour. Magistrate.—Well, Sir, how do you meet all these charges? Mr. Terence Clarke —Why then you see, your Worship, I'll tell you the naked truth, and that's this:—On my oath I could'nt keep her away, she was always coining alter me. Here the noise and confusion became general. The case terminated by the several parties being haund over to keep the peace towards each other.—(Dir4lin .1Iora• leg Post.) . POLICE. MANSION•HOUSIL-Mr. Citadel' Spicer, a young man of respectable appearance, was charged by a citizen and shop• keeper of Cornbill, named Letts,with having ignominiously assaulted him. . . . . Mr. Letts said the defendant and be had been acquainted, and that the defendant, in consequence of some imagined wrong, threatened to thrash him wherever they met. They did meet on Tuesday, and the defendant advanced to him in a menacing manner, and pulled him by the nese The coin plain-int thought it right to get bim down, and then called out for an officer. Some labourers, however, wished to form a ring, and not being inclined to let any thing spoil their sport,set op a noise to drown the voice of the complim ent. For a time they sacceeded ; the defendant got up, and a contest ensued, and down be went again, and was held un til an officer arrived. Mr. Spicer said he had once been ejected from the shop of Mr. Letts in such a way as no gentleman could endure, and he promised Cie thrashing, but he had Dot assaulted Mr. Letts; he had only pulled him by the nose. The LORD MAYOR said, that Lavery wan ought to know that a pulling of the nose was an assault, and was perhaps a greater indignity than a blow. His Lordship suggested that the matter he settled by an apology. Mr. Spicer was ready to make one, but Mr. Letts think ing that an apology could not recompense him for the asault, the former was ordered to find bail. STEAM BOATS.—Mr. Gable,the conductor of some steam boats, attended upon the Lord Mayor, and requested his Lordship's interference with respect to a practice by which the lives of the public were daily endangered, and which, unless checked, must occasion great loss of life. Mr. Gable stated, that upon the arrival of the Margate and Ramsgate steam boats, the wafermen crowded round them in such numbers, as not only to incur great danger themselves, but to put in immin+•nt peril the lives of those passengers who ventured with them. On Tuesday, when 1,300 persons ar rived by three steam-boats, one wherry, with a gentleman and two females, was swamped, in consequence of the rush and contention of the waternaen for the passengers. An other gentleman who had got into one of the boats tumbled overboard, and was with difficulty saved. None of the was terinen would leave the steam vessels until they bad got one passenger ; and besides the improper contentions with each other near the vessels, there were continual quarrels on shore amongst them and the passengers, on whom they endeavoured to Impose by charging 3d. or even Gd., for each, when 2d. was the proper fare. Mr. Gable hoped that his Lordship would kindly interfere, and cause some regulation to be adopted likely to put an end to the danger and inzon venlenee arising from the present conduct of the watermea in their struggles for precedence. Several persons who had .been landed from the steam boats corroborated the statement of the complainant, and said the extortion, insolence, and riotous conduct of the watermen, were intolerable. The LORD MAYOR exp d his readiness to check`tbn nuisance. Any case of overcharge would be dealt with by the Magistrate in a summary manner. .As the regula tion of the watermen was peculiarly the province of the Waternicn's Company, who have the power of snaking by laws, his Lordship directed Mr. 13ro vn. the Marshal, to sAait upon the CoMpany, and lay theicase before them, that they might take such measures as they thought would effec tually ensure the public safety. Bow-erneex.-31ajor Hepburne, alias Rogers, alias Brown, was brown up yesterday for final examination, on various charges of fraud, as stated in our paper of Tuesday and Thursday last week,and was fully committed for felony on Mr. Coward's charge. MARLBOROOOII-STREZT.—Jas. Clark, charged with rob bing Col. bleyrick; was yesterday re-examined, and a man named Luke Downs, a soldier in the Colonel's regiment, was placed at the bar, charged .with being an accomplice in the robbery. The,otfice was crowded with the friendsof Col. Meyrick. The greater part of the property foam! upon Clark was produced and snort) to by the Colonel. It con. sisted •of diamond, emerald, amethyst, and ruby necklaces, 'diamond rings and broooltes, and other valuable articles.— THE STATESMAN. - - - - After the details of the robbery had been deposed to, not - varying ankterially from those stated on the first•mcasnina don, evidence was adduced to prove the participation of Downs in the robbery. which chiefly depended on his hav ing been seen in Clark's company im mediately after it was committed, and having in his possesbion the box in which the property was contained. Both prisoners werefully committed. Mr. Manuel, a jeweller, 'who attended, valued the articles stolen at 10001. They were placed in a box sealed with the office seal, and given in charge to Col. M. y rick till the trial. HATTON GARD/N.—Yesterday, Messrs. King and Cow ling, proprietors of an extensive brick field, opposite the White Conduit Tavern and Tea Gardens Pentonville, ap plied to the Magistrates for advice, under the following circumstances :—They stated that on Monday lest, in con , sequence of Mr. Graham's Balloon, npwards of 50,000 spec tators assembled in Pentonville, every place from whence a view could be obtained was crowded, they poured into com plainants' brick field by thou-ands, several constables had been employed to prevent them, bat to no Purpose ; the whole field was crammed with spectators. They got or the fresh ridges of bricks set op to dry, and trampled then) into dirt. The kilns of burnt brick were levelled to the ground, and all broke to pieces, and several panes of glass in their windows were demolished by the incensed moh. so that their loss on the smallest computation exceeded 1501. Their application was for their Worship's advice what steps were best for them to take to recover damages, whether against Ike Proprietors of the Garden, or against the County. The Magistrates informed them they did not sit there to give advice in such cases, butadvised them to consult some . respectable A torney. Qvassr-siiiusax.—An old man, in a very miserable con dition, was brought yesterday to this office, charged by one of the park-keepers with begging in St. James's Yark. The M•GISTRATIL—Where do you come from? The Prisoner—From gaol, your Worship. f have'nt been out more than 20 minutes. Alfred, the assistant at Tothill-fields Prison, said, the un fortunate prisoner had been confined there for the last six weeks for a similar offence,aod he had been liberated within the last half hour. I he MaataxiaTe inqinred if he had any allowance made to him upon leaving the prison ? and it was stated that a pint of porter was his only viatiettm. The prisoner exclaimed, that if his Worship would pass over this offence, he would proceed without delay to War wick,—The fact is, your Worship, said the prisoner. I was proceeding up to the One 'fan, in Jermyn street; it's a sporting house, and I thought I'd meet with Mr. (fully, or some of the sporting men, and get a pound from them to take me down to Warwick Races. , The Dl•oisTaaTe—What do you want at Warwick Races ? The Prisoner—l follow race-horses, your Worship! • The M/015TRATE—Yes, at a pretty good distance, I think.—You are rather too old now, I think, for a jock-y. The Prisoner—U4! your .Worship, but my judgment's good. I've had great experience. The MAGISTRAT6 observed that he seemed to him a melancholy instance of age without experience. It was stated by one of the Officers that the Prisoner be longed to St. George's Parish. The worthy MAatsTRAT6 ordered him to be P..ken to ois parish workhouse, and assured him that if be was again detected at his old game of begging, he might expect no trivial punishment. UNION-HALL.—Yesterday the Magistrate, L. R. ALLEN, Esq. was occupied the greater part of the"tnorning in the examination of lie. James Cataimg a wbarfinger, residing at No. 337, High-street, Wapping, who was charged with wilfully and knowingly receiving at his wharf, acargo of beech staves, 13,000 in number, and va- Ined at 290/.said to have been stolen from the wharf of Mr. Wilkins, timber-merchant, in the Waterloo-road. The facts of this case have been already stated. It may be remembered that a person calling himself Francis agreed with Wilkins to purchase a quantity of stave*, for which he was to pay ready money.. The staves were ac cordingly shipped on board a barge lying off the wharf, and the barge disappeared during the night, the price not being paid. The goods having been traced, were found in the possession of the prisoner, whO said he bought them from Francis, for 290/. which he paid him in sovereigns, but he kept no tally. This and the unsatisfactory account he gave•of the 'transaction, excited suspicions that he had purchased them with a guilty knowledge. Mr. ALLEN said, that in his opinion the case had been clearly wade out against the prisoner. cad he would there fore, send hint to take his trial. There were two extraor dinary features in the case against the prisoner, the one was, ;bat he kept no tally of the goods as they were landed, and the other was, his paying the money for them in sove reigns. His opinion was, therefore unalterable. Application was then made to bail the prisoner. After a considerable discussion, the Magistrate took two sureties in 3001. each, and himself in 500/. for his appearance atthe ensuing sessions. BULLOCK HUN f ISO. --s s esea—e. Yesterday evening, betweee n tir and six o'clock, a most daring and flagitious outrage was perpetrated at the east end of the metropolis, of which the following are the parti culars : - It seems that about the time stated, a servant of Mr. Browne, a respectable master butcher in Whitechapel market, was removing a bullock from thence to a slaughter house, in tioulstone-street, not far distant, when the animal was rescued froM him by a gang a ruffians, who, as they are wont to do on all such occasions, commenced beating it in a most brutal manner. Such treatment of course tending to drive the animal wild, he proceeded in an infuriated state along the road, towards the London Hospital, chased by a motley group of desperadoes, amounting to several hun dreds ; he foamed at the mouth, and bellowed in a terr fic manner, and upset every person and thing that he chan ied to come in contact with. On arriving opposite the gate of the hospital, lie attacked a boy about five years of age, who unfurtanately had not time to get out of the way, and hav ing lifted him on his horns, hurled him into the air ; and on the boy's alighting on the earth, the animal made to wards him again, and tossed him into the air in a similar manner ; and on his being picked up, he was discovered to be lifeless ; the roof of his mouth was nearly torn out in 'consequence of one of the horns getting in there. The mob did not seem satisfied even after this melancholy cir cumstance happened, and, evidently beat on further mis chief, drove the bullock into the fields behind the hospital, and here an old lady also lost her life in a similar manner I to the former. The Lambeth-street officers, accompanied by a party of the Bow•street patiole, by this time came ad, and after having secured the bullock, captured some of the offenders, and lodged them in Whitechapel watch house. About three weeks since, Captain F. retuned from a long residence in Jamaica, bringing over with him two of the bloodhounds from the island of Cuba. They had remained about a fortnight in London, when the Captain sent them on Tuesday week by the waggon to Salisbury, where they were received, and properly secured in a stable. On the following Friday, however, the dogs presented themselves at their master's lodgings in town, and while conjecture I was yet busy as to the wanner of their return, the man in 1 whose charge they had been placed, called to say the dogs had gnawed away their fastenings, had worked a hole through the stable, and had escaped; and as he kneivhe 1 1 value set upon them, he had hastened to town in the hope of hearing of them upon the road, or of giving such early 1 intelligence of their escape as might lead to their imme diate recove:y. Nothing could (NW the surprise of the man when he Darned that the dogs had anticipated the messenger, EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. An Inquisition was taken yesterday afternoon, at fotir o'clock, before Mr. HIGGS, Deputy Coroner for Westmin. ster, at the Bell, Cecil Court, St. Martin's Lane, on the body of Win. Henry Mears, aged 40 years. Mr. John Morgan, surgeon, Great Newport Street, de parted, be was called upon between three and four o'cknic on Tuesday to attend the deceased ; witness went immedi. ately, and found hint lying across the bed in a two-pair hark room of No. 19, Cecil Court, almost in a state of nudity; he was very faint, and had a wound just above the ands of the left foot, about three-fourths of an inch i n length, peaetrating in an oblique direction. The auterine artery W 45 dividrd. Witness asked why he did the art 'tt He replied, he was a distressed Mall, and by that urged on to do it. lie was sensible, and aitswered collectedly. he perpetrated the deed himself. Witti-tss dressril h;s wound, hat had a very faint hope of his recovery. About six o'clock. witness was again sent fur, and went about seven ; he had hem then dead about ten minutes, and cer tainly dird from the aforesai•l wound. No other mark of violence appeared on hi r person. William Turner, 19, Cecil Court, deposed ; the Herds-. 4 occupied a room in his house, and worked for Mr. 4;7 '; i. sell, a figere maker, in the Strand ; he always appearal to witness to he a singular sort of man. On a Sunday he would lock himself in his room, always about 2 o'clock, and would not be seen by any one; at other times lie world lay a-bed for two or three days together, that he wonl4 , a spree: he never went to church, but would call lock. ling himself up on a Sunday going to church. About /iv. weeks ago lie came into witness's room to see a child, of which witness's wife had just bees delivered. He thew observed, " Turner, why dont you pat a striag round that chill's neck, and put it out of the world." Witness never considered him insane, hat a very eccentric character; he b a y been with witm as twelve mouths. Juror.—ln that twelve months have you sees so •rn:p. toms of inPanity ? Witness.-1 have net. Coaoreca —Did you ever converse with him on reli;:i cous subject'? Wit .ess.—No, he o'ce lent my wife a book,eutitled Gait, a ilfistery; which she offered several times to reiiirn, and as onen he requested her to re•+d it again, saving she profit by it. When he entered the room et the derea.eff s wiimss said, " Oh, my God! what Is tVe. yoa done:'• The deceased answered, " Oh, nothing!" and aidc.of witness to take a parcel to Hunt's Court for him; a f rakilr e 1 , 4% lying by him, with which he appeared IQ have committed tl:e set. Elijah Debille, of Hunt's Court, St. Lane, posed he received a letter from the deceased about Owes o'clock on Tuesday, which letter purported that the witness s hod,' receive .mine money due tcat.n a Benefit Snarly, ms account of his borial, and reTtes:ed that he might Se hurie I very humbly, • and the surplus arising therefrom to be ap. plied to the liquidation of some debts he owed. It C , 14• eluded by atlvertinir to the ca•e of a young womin with whom he had been i:.timate, and in a great dearee tended to boor° his dissolution, in consequence of some bickering that had taken place. Ile bequeathed his property to the witness, and then bade hint an verlastingt farewell. Wit ness thought h• had a;tneareti 10 , . and dejected of bite, anti considered his mental I:twill:les in saint degree affected. Mr. Thomas ;teeascli, Strand. deposed the deceased Ind been in his employ eig!ti yerrs: ha hattbeen very itret,ti lar for the last foGr or fire years in It's attentioo'to bushiest: the o•her Farts of his evidence were immaterial. The J ury cotifotiteil h,r some time together ; sad then re turned a verdict of —" I it-unity.' ENORMOUS TUMOUR. —There is at presentin o , e rmiela County Infirmary, under Cre care a Surgeon Cro!eip, a man who had II tumour removed farm his ri.zlit *Moulder and arm, which weighs 9lbs. evairdaiasio--.nee ir -es too feet In circumference at its largest part or b and mi. foot at its apex or neck. It is of that description culled adipous Of fatty, and abounded with blood-vessels of cry treat size. The man is in in a fair way of recovery.— (Irish paper.) An extraordinary . case of hydrocephalus exterritts, or water nn the brain, is just now exciting the interest of the medical gentlemen of Salisbury. The head of an infant, before any operation was performed. at the are of sic (noir only seven) months, was of the following astonishing di. mensions :—Round the forehead and back part of the bead 30 Inches, and from ear to ear ssrciss the virt , x 21 inches, which measurements will be better understood by stating', that the larger circumference of the adult head averageo bnt 22 inches, and from ear to ear hut Ili; and of a brellthl child of six months old the largest circuinferenee averages 16, and from ear to ear nine inches. 'I lte infant, belonging to respectable parents, is under the immediate treatment of one of our surgeons, and is submitted to a novel practice, viz. the removal of the water by degrees, through the means of operation, and at the same time the employment ofpress sure. The infant has undergone the operation Eve and 110 ounces, (nearly seven pints) of w....ter have been removed. The present state of the infant. and the effects of the operation and treatment, are such as afford well ground ed hopes that for this disease, considered hitherto hopeless. a remedy has at length been fonnrl.—(Salisbary Juernal.) SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—Sanastcl Cheraw', the driver of thelVariniuster wogeon,was on Tuesday afternoon hronght to Hatton Garden Office by Charles Read, one of the Bow Street patrol, under the following dream-takes :—lt ap peared that about 3 o'clock on that day Charman was pro ceeding with his waggon along Holborn, on his way out of town, and had reached that port of Holborn which is just beyond Little Turnstile, where there is a hackney coach stand, when a gentleman'e carriage attempted to piss him ; to afford room, he immediately drew his waggon rime np by the curb atone. The coachman, however, in aveitli tie the waggon, brought his hind wheel in routrat t with the hind wheel of one of the coaches on the stand, when the shock was so great that the carriage was overturned, and the coachman thrown from the box finder the waggon, the wheel of which passed over his thigh, which it litte!-olly crushed. In this state, with but slight hopes of h 1 reco very, the unfortnnwe man was conveyed to the Middlesex Hospital. The persons inside the coach fortunately escaped with but slight bruises. The carriage in its fell bappeeing to strike against the waggon, caused it to &nerve so much as to force the load of the waggon against one of the new iron lamp posts, which in consequence was broken in two, leaving only the pedestal standing. The above statement was confirmed by several persons who witnessed the ;:e i. dent. The Magistrate, atter hearing the, statement, ob served, that no blame whatever appeared to attach to the waggoner, who, after keying his address, was permitted to depart. WATLRIED.—On the 19th instant, at the parish church'in St. Julie. Ilack ney. James Baffles. Esq. of Tavistoek-square, London, In Miss Walton, 4 Sanford-place, Stoke-Newington; and Jackson Walton, Esq., of Sanford. place afomaid, to Miss Dempster, of Mitcham, in the County of Surrey. Yesterday morning-, Thomas Holmes Bosworth, Esq. of Westerhain. gent, to Sophia. daughter of Francis de Berates,. Esq Finsbury place. Loadon. On the 19th, at Mary-le-bone church, Captain Fiankliu,ll.N..to Eleanor Anne, youngest daughter of the late William Porden, Esq.of Berner'slitreef. DIE h.—On Tuesday night, at his house tlarles-street, Berkley-square. George Nassau. Esq. aged 67. On ruesday week, at Cheret, age l 3l, from the stroke of a hone upon hb head, Mr. William Milthorp, of that place. His nuptial with an asalablesod Interesting young tidy were to have taken place two lays sabseitwatly that on which he died. R. EADY respectfully calls the atientiJn of those afflicted, to his peculiar and effectual method of cure, and although ha will not presume to pledge in fdlliniiity in every description of case, yet as far as human ai !, assist ed by medical and surgical experience tan be app.i ed, be promises a speedy and permanekt restoration.--Dr. E. is consulted daily at No. 38, Dean-street, hobo, b) patients of both sexes. Country letters Medi respectable attention by return of second poet. London : Printed and Pub%kited at the 01111 e, No. Strand, by R. WARDELL, LL.9. Troprietor.