The Press.
London, England, 1858-10-30 00:00:00

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for trial and discharged the other. The discharged
prisoner was immediately reapprehended as a de-
serter from the 19th Foot.

;Accibents and Offences.

A VERY SERIOUS OCCURRENCE took place late on
Monday night, at Charles Henry-street, Sparkbrook
Bit mingnam, in which a shoemaker, named William'
Jackley, was stabbed in the left side, near the heart,
by Thomas Holder, also a shoemaker. Holder had
gone home in the evening in a state of intoxication,
quarrelled with his wife, and attempted to strike her
with a kettle of boiling water. A crowd consequently
collected, and marked their sense of Holder's conductby shouting, and pitching stones at the door. He
became frightfully excited, and seizing a large shoe.
maker's knife, the blade of which was sharp up to the
hilt, with a point almost as fine as a lancet, he rushed
into the street. He was, however, pushed back into
the house, and was next seen with two of his children
at a window. Many of the bystanders, thinking that
be intended to murder the children, crowded round
the window more nearly ; Jackley, who was a neigh-
bour, being amongst the number. He had not, how.
ever, advanced far, when Holder made a blow at him
through the window, and in an instant after Jackley
fell, exclaiming, " I've got it." A policeman came
up at the moment the stab was given, and rushing
in, seized Holder, while the assistance of a medical
gentleman was obtained. The wounded man was
picked up insensible, and conveyed to the Queen's
Hospital, at which institution be now lies, hovering
between life and death. At the police court, on
Tuesday, Holder was brought up on the charge of
attempted murder, but the case was remanded to
wait the result ot the injuries to the wounded man.
AN APPALLING ACCIDENT, resulting in the death of
Miss Mary Richmond, the daughter of a clergyman,
residing in the county of Gloucester, and a grand-
daughter of the famous Leigh Richmond, has
occurred at Clifton. Miss Richmond, who was about
eighteen years of age, was on a visit to a connection
ot her family, residing near Richmond-park, Clifton.
Recently she was observed to wander to a cliff,
called the Lion's-head OK which stands at an eleva-
tion of upwards of 300 feet from the road below, and
from which is obtained magnificent views of the
Avon, the Hotwells, the Leigh Woods, Ashton, and
the surrounding scenery. From this tremendous
height the young lady fell. Just before her fall she
was stooping over the cliff in avery dangerous position,
as if endeavouring to gather one of the rock plants
which grow in the crevices of the limestone formation,
and it is supposed that in her efforts to reach it she
over•balanc.ad herself. In her descent she ass ob
served to beat against the projecting points of the
cliff, and finally to pitch ou bet hoed on the winding
road which skirts the river. Assistance was at one •
afforded, but she was beyond the reach of any hums
aid, having been dashed almost literally to pieces.
Her face was shockingly torn and mangled,
.her
lower jaw being broken and forced in on one side.
several nbs and her arms and thighs broken, and the
flesh of her legs torn and lacerated. This
.is the
fourth or fifth accident of the kind which, during the
last twenty years, has occurred from the same cliff.
At the inquest a verdict of " Accidental death " was
returned.

A SERIOUS ACCIDENT occurred to Mr. Simon
Watson Taylor, M.P. for the borough of Devizes,
while shooting, last week, in company with the Rev.
May)w Wynell Mayow, rector of Market Lavingtoni
Wilts. On coming to a small plantation on Erchfont
Down the two gentlemen separated, the one taking
the upper anti the other the lower side. Shortly
afterwards Mr. Mayow observed a rustling among the
furze, and imagining that it was a hare immediately
discharged his gun. Unfortunately Mr. Watson
Taylor was in the way, and received part of the charge
in his face, several of the shots entering one of h:s
eyes. The unfortunate sufferer was conveyed to
Erchfont as soon as possible, and medical aid pe,-
cured, but it is much feared that this lamentable
accident will involve the total loss of the sight of the
injured eye.
THE LATE COLLISION on the Eastern Counties at
Six-mile Bottom, on the night of Saturday the 9:h
inst., has been investigated by the magistrates, Ino
have committed Henry Ward, the driver of the train,
ifor having caused the death of the guard, Charles
Titmarsh.
A MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT occurred yesterday week.
n Stratherrick. Some members of the family of
Mr. Gentle, tacksman of Dell, had occasion to drive
into Inverness on that morning, and two of the
younger daughters, Sarah and Helen Gentle, accom-
panied the party as far as " The Line." Here they
parted, and the young girls, full of life and gaiety.
and animated by the fineness of the weather. struck
across the moor to a lonely little loch among the hills
called Loch Kemph ; about a mile divant from the.
house of Dell. They were accustomed to go to thi
place with friends nu fishing and 413POting excursion