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London, England, 1856-08-09 00:00:00

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these two gals here, and they was very soon alongside of
me ; and says I to them, " You can have a quartern of gin-
and cloves," for them ere sort of gals is very fond of gin
and cloves, you know, my lord. (Loud laughter.) But,"
says I, I'm a-going to have none of it, as I shall have
some of the beat half-and-half," which I did, just having a
toothfal of brandy now and then to bring me to, like—for,
you must know, had drunk a trifle, and, to tell the truth,
I got tips',.

- The 4A-ssistorr -Jul:our : And some one stole your
money ? _ _ _ _

Prosecutor: Some one? Oh, my dear lord, it was this
one here ; Clark is her name and that's a fact. (Laughter.)
Well, I was so drunk they could have heaved me overboard
and I shouldn't have knowed it: still I kept on filling, when
a gentleman wakes me up from a stupor and axed me if I
had lost anything, so I looked round and the gals was gone,
and it then flashed over my mind that they had got my
money as I recollected they had been busy about my
trouser pockets, and so they had ; they took my money and
left me in the larch, and did'nt care what became of me.
( Loud laugh..er. ) I had sense enough left to know that,
hut it was little enough, God knows.

Power's purse having been found on the prisoner ,
Clark when apprehended, the jury returned a verdict
of Guilty. Sentence, six months' hard labour.
A SCENE occurred on Tuesday in one of the Equity
Courts, before the Lord Chancellor and the Lords
Justices. On their lordships taking their seats upon
the bench, an elderly woman, accompanied by her
daughter, who seemed to be about forty years of age,
rose to present a petition in relation to some pro.
perty she alleged herself to have been cheated out of.
The Lord Chancellor said he could not listen to her,
and she must sit down. The daughter then jumped
up, and in a loud voice said that her mother must
be heard; that she was unjustly kept out of her
property, and that she was starving ; and she com-
plained that now, when a decree might be had in her
favour, the court refused to hear her. The lady
went on speaking with much vehemence and volubi
lity, until the officers, directed by the Lord Chancel-
lor, induced her to leave the court, still calling out
that all the judges were acing with cruelty and
injustice towards an old woman whom they allowed
to be robbed of her property by a set of swindlers.
MR. DOVE, in all probability, will be executed this
morning. Sir George Grey bas left London, and it
is understood that on Wednesday he declared to Mr.
Barrett, of Leeds, his determination not to recom-
mend the prisoner for mercy. The convict during
the last week has exhibited the most sincere re-
pentance.
THE OLD STORY OF SHAME, DESERTION AND
SUICIDE was repeated once more last week at Walton,
near Colchester. A young lady with an infant ar-
rived there some three months since. She took
lodgings, represented herself to be the guardian
of the child, and lived in comparative seclusion. For
the last few weeks it was evident to the landlady
that the poor young creature was getting into dis.
tress. She had no money, was in debt, and appa-
rently had no friends to whom she could apply for
relief. On Tuesday week she left home as she said
for London, but, going down to the beach, she hired
a bathing-machine, went out into deep water, and
deliberately drovrued herself, for she was found with
her clothes on, her bonnet only taken off, and her
bead firmly fixed under the steps of the bathing-
machine. " A Near Relative," writing to the Times
on Tuesday, denies that the poor girl was ever aban-
doned by her friends :
It is not true, air, that the unfortunate young lady was
ever abandoned by her relatives and friends. Blinded by
a fatal passion, she persistently abandoned them. Terms
of reconciliation and return—such terms as are alone com•
patible with the sacred obligations of domestic life and
personal self-respect, and urged with all the power of ear-
nest entreaty and affectionate remonstrance—were always
freely offeted, and always, alas. refused. There are,
indeed, those living who have incurred an awful re-
sponsibility by the precipitate death of this young lady. It is
not my object to speak of this now. Over her grave no
word of reproach shall ever be uttered ; but the lacerated
feelings of surviving relatives and friends demand this
justice, and I am sure, sir, I shall not appeal to you in
vain to give this note a place in your next issue.
This statement does not coincide with the poor girl's
absolute distress and poverty, and her death alone
therefrom. The jury, at the coroner's inquest, re-
turned a verdict of " felo-de-se."