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London, England, 1854-04-15 00:00:00

APRIL 15, 1854

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AN bruitEsnito SCENE took place on Monday at
Gravesend, on the occasion of Mrs. Chisholm deli
vering an address to her fellow-passengers, who are
emigrating to Australia on board the ship Ballarat.
The emigrants numbered in all 280 souls, the ma-
jority of whom are about to sail under the auspices
of Mrs. Chisholm, who has been busily occupied for
some time past in making arrangements for their
Comfort and convenience. The address was listened
to with much interest.
THE WILL OF THE LATE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY,
which was proved on Saturday at Doctors' Commons,
consists of a few lines, giving all his estates, real and
personal, to his marchioness, absolutely and at her
entire disposal, appointing her also sole executrix.
'the will bears an endorsement in his lordship's own
handwriting, recapitulating its contents in terms of
affectionate endearment. The personal estate in the
province of Canterbury has been sworn under 45,0001.,
which, when added to that within the province of
York, which is under 250,0001., and in Ireland under
40,0001., makes an aggregate of personal property
left by the deceased amounting to 335,0(X)1., exclusive
of all the vast settled estates and ,collieries of the
Vane and Londonderry families in England and Ire-
land, in the former of which he is succeeded by Lady
Londonderry, and in the latter by the present mar-
quis.
A NEW CATTLE STATION has been opened on the
London and North-Western Railway. This station
is conveniently situate, being scarcely one hundred
yards from the entrance to the new cattle-market in
the York-road, at the top of Maiden-lane, Battle-
bridge. It is replete with every necessary conve-
nience, having a good supply of water ; and pens are
provided in order to secure the cattle, should the
owners, or their representatives, not be present on
the arrival of the trains.
THE office of Counsel to the Admiralty, rendered
vacant by Mr. Crowder's elevation to the Bench, will,
in all probability, be filled by Mr. Phinn.
THE GENERAL THEATRICAL FUND DINNER took
place on Monday night at the London Tavern, pre-
sided over by Mr. Monckton Milnes, and attended by
about 160 gentlemen. Subscriptions were announced
during the evening to the amount of about 5001.,
whereof the Queen contributed 1001. According to
custom, Mr. Buckstone backed up the chairman's
appeal on behalf of the charity by an amusing speech.
Mr. T. P. Cooke responded to the toast of " The
Army and Navy ;" Mr. Edwin James spoke on behalf
of the bar; Mr. Albert Smith appeared as The
Stranger, and crowned the part with a comic song.
The proceedings, which were protracted to a late
hour, passed off very agreeably.
MR. CHARLES CAVENDISH CLIFFORD, D.C.L., has
succeeded Mr. R. W. Grey as private secretary to
Lord Palmerston.
THE CONSERVATIVE LAND Socrxrv.—The seven-
teenth public drawing for seventy rights of choice
on the society's estates took place on Saturday at the
offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand. The numbers
drawn belonged to members in various counties.
The Rev. Dr. Worthington (chairman) announced
that the allotment of the St. Margaret's estate
would not, according to the surveyor's plan, interfere
with the beauty of the grounds, as ornamental gar-
dens would be laid out with the villas. This an-
nouncement gave great satisfaction to the meeting.
THE balance sheet of liabilities and assets of the
firm of the Messrs. Le Roy and Chabral, the great
Parisian bankers, whose failure we announced last
week, has been drawn up. The document shows
their assets to be 39,884,474 f. 30c., against liabilities
of 38,352,301 g. 03c., and c Insequently leaves a balance
in favour of the firm of 3,332,172 f., or about 133,3281.;
but it will require time and a prudent course of
action to realise the assets as set down. It was
understood that the result might be even more
favourable, but much would depend upon the pro-
gress of political and other events.
A RUSSIAN INDIAMAN, the Vesta, Captain Sandman,
laden with a valuable cargo of East Indian produce
from Bimhpatam, came up the river into the West
India Docks on Saturday, being the first ship of the
enemy's country that had arrived in the Thames
since her Majesty's declaration of war against the
Czar. The appearance of the ship in ho Channel
with the Russian flag freely flying excited some atten-
tion at Portsmouth, when she was hailed to bring to,
and an officer and a boat's crew were sent on board to
examiner her papers. The examination satisfactorily
showed the bona fide character of trade,. and her right
to the liberty prescribed in the declaration. She ac-
cordingly proceeded to the Thames, for the purpose
of discharging her cargo. Attempts are being made
to sell her to a neutral power.
THE Himalaya, with the India msssenail, r
eachedhd
Malta on the 7th, and landed her pge
mails to convey troops. As the Indus had broken
down, and the Vectis gone to Marseilles, the French
steamer Bosjhore was engaged to take on the mail.
The disappointment of the 152 passengers on board
was extreme. The Malta hotels were so full that no
accommodation was procurable for half the number
requiring it.

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THE EARL or HARDWICKE'S SON, the Hon. V.
Yorke. has just entered the navy as naval cadet, and
will join the Hannibal ship-of-the-line, Captain the
Hon. Frederick Grey, ordered to the Baltic.
The NUMBER or SHIPWRECKS last year of vessels
belonging to the United Kingdom was 581, of which
5439 were sailing-vessels and 12 steam-vessels. The
tonnage was 120,714.
THE VACANT CoLoNELCIES are thus appropriated:—
Major-General W. L. Darling to be colonel of the 168th
Regiment, vice Henderson, deceased ; Lieutenant
General Sir Willoughby Cotton removes from the
colonelcy of the 98th to that of the 32nd Regiment,
vice Armstrong, deceased; Major-General Sir Wil-
liam L. Herries to be colonel of the 98th Regiment.
THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT have given permis-
sion to the Electric Telegraph Company to build a
station close to Hiirst Castle, which guards the en-
trance of the Solent Sea, to enable the company to
telegraph the arrival of vessels and mail-packets off
the Isle of Wight bound for Southampton, Cowes,
and Portsmouth, from the west and south.
THE TILBURY FORT IlArtwAv was openedon Tues-
day morning in connection with the Blackwell and
Eastern Counties lines, and the steam-ferries at
Gravesend. The line branches off the Blackwell at
Stepney, and is carried on to the Eastern Counties at
the Bow station, where it takes the main line nearly
as far as Ilford. It then shapes off to the southward,
to the oast of Purfieet, and, passing through Grays,
directs its course to West Tilbury and Tilbury Fort,
where the terminus is erected. Small steamers coo-
vey the passengers across the river to and from the
trains.
ANOTHER week has passed without rain, and
agriculturists are complaining that the crops are
suffering from want of moisture, but, although some
of the wheats are thin, the plant has a healthy
appearance. It is not unlikely that the long dry
spring may produce a regenerative action in the
potato crops, fur amongst all the theories relative to
the disease the most probable appears that which
ascribes the epidemic to a succession of wet seasons.
The surface of the land is now very dry. Perhaps a
finer seed time was never witnessed, nor was the land
ever in a better condition to receive it.
THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE PROFESSOR WILSON
took place on Friday, in the presence of a large
number of mourners. The ceremony was a public
one, the leading public bodies taking part in it as a
tribute of respect for the memory of the departed.
The students of the University headed the funeral
cortege, followed by the directors of the Philosophical
Institution, the members of the Royal Academy, the
Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh,
the High Constables, and the Lord Provost, Magia
Vales, and Town Council. A number of private
friends of the deceased followed the coffin—the
mournful procession numbering in all about 400
persons.
HER MAJESTY'S congi &Hire to the Dean and
Chaper of Salisbury, empowering them to elect a
bishop in succession to the Right Rev. Dr. Edward
Denison, has been received, and a special chapter has
been summoned for this day (Saturday), in which
the Queen's recommendation in favour of the Rev.
Walter Kerr Hamilton, M.A., will be read to the
assembled dignitaries, and the rev. gentleman will be
unanimously elected by them to fill the vacant see.
THE SOUTHAMPTON EI.ECTION came off on Wed-
nesday, when the Attorney-General was again re
turned without opposition. Sir Alexander, in a
speech of some length, spoke of the many times he
had been chosen one of the representatives of South-
ampton, after which be alluded to the many mea-
sures of " reform " which had been brought into
existence by the present Government—an Admini.s
tration which (he said) for efficiency and ability
had not been equalled for the last half-century.
Atter speaking of the very careful manner in which
the present Government had entered upon their
responsible duties with regard to the Eastern ques
lion, and challenging any ono to deny that he had
at any time carried out his previous promises and
pledges, a vote of thanks was given to the mayor, and
the proceedings terminated.
THE alleged seizure of property belonging to the late
British Ambassador at St. Petersburg is thus explained
in a letter from Sir G. H. Seymour himself : —"The
question affecting my interests appear; to be not
whether certain cases which I left at St.. Petersburg,
and which contain pictures, ornamental furniture,
hooks, linen, and other articles of value are to be
seize.) and confiscated, but whether their shipment on
board the Anne M'Alister, the only English vessel re
maining at Cronstadt, is to be permitted. According to
the last advices the question has been determined
against Tlle ; hut, as I am bound to infer that the deci-
sion must have been taken upon erroneous grounds, I
still entertain the hope that it may be reconsidered
and revised." The subject has been alluded to in
the House of Lirds, when the Marquis of Lans-
downe, who of course had received no official infor-
mation, doubted the accuracy of the report, because
he believed that the Czar could still claim the title of
a civilised sovereign.

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Tux 48th Regiment, according to the Dublin Ex-
press, is under orders to proceed to the disturbed dis-
tricts in England, and all the out detachments have
been called in.
FROM the statement of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer on Tuesday it appears that the Government
contemplate during the present session, and most pro-
bably before the approach of the next quarterly divi-
dends, to adopt some plan that shall render it unne-
cessary for them to have recourse to the Bank for
temporary advances, it being considered desirable in
war time to keep up a handsome balance for all con.
tingencies. The mode in which this is to he carried
out remains to be explained, but it yen, of course,
consist in nothing else than an addition in some way
to the funded or the unfunded debt. It must be
borne in mind, however, that a loan raised simply
for the purpose of augmenting the Government de-
posits at the Bank can have no effect on the money-
market analogous to that which would resnit if it
were for the purposes of increased expenditure. The
pressure that would be created by the withdrawal of
the amount trom the hands of that portion of the
public who might subscribe for it woaldlitirthvrith be
compensated by the correeposil=minisra in the
assets of the Bank available he gurposes.
It is therefore not to a loan of this iisture, but to
such as may be ultimately necessary tomeet a foreign
outlay, that the public mast look for any permanent
influence on general prices.—Timiee.
THE NATIONAL. INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION
or LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK held their annual meeting
on Wednesday at their offices, John-street, Adelphi,
Capt. Shepherd, Deputy-Master of the Trinity house,
in the chair. The annual report then read stated that
life-boats on Mr. l'eake's design had been placed
during the past year by the institution at. Lyme Regis,
Barmouth, Sennen Cove, Dungeness, Ardrossan,
Dundrum Bay, and Skerries. Life-boats on the same
plan had also been built under the directions of the
committee for the Prussian Government, and for the
Aberdeen Harbour Commissioners, and several of
them had already proved useful in saving the crews of
wrecked vessels. The life-boats of the society during
the year had saved the crews and passengers of twelve
ships. The destruction of human life from shipwrecks
on the coasts of the United Kingdom had been very
large in the past year, 800 shipwrecks, with the loss
of 870 lives, having occurred in that period. In the
awful gale of last January 257 wrecks occurred, an
companied by the sacrifice of 48.8 lives. In addition
to one gold medal, fourteen silver medals, and ten
honorary rewards, nearly 2001. had been voted by the
institution during the past year for savintf 678 lives.
Since the first establishment of the society nearly
11,00(1 lives had been saved by the use of its life boats
and other means; and it had granted seventy-nine gold
medals and 539 silver medals, besides pecuniary re-
wards amounting to nearly 0,0001. Tne receipts of
the year had been 1,8851., including a donation of
1001. from the Queen, and 2101. from the corporation
of London, whilst its expenditure on legitimate objects
was 2,4821., beside liabilities for life-boats amounting
to 570/. The committee earnestly appealed to the
public for additional support to enable them to carry
on successfully the operations of the institution. The
report was adopted unanimously, and resolutions
pledging the meeting to support the institution were
carried.

Xab3 ant Volitt.

FREDERICK MARSDEN was brought up at Maribo.
rough-street on Wednesday, charged with cont.
mitting a somewhat novel fraud upon several pawn-
brokers. From the evidence, principally of Mr.
Attenborough, it appeared that the prisoner was in
the habit of bringing tickets for goods he had either
pledged himself or which were another person's pro-
perty, and requiring to inspect the property on
payment of the interebt. When the goods were
brought to him he took the opportunity, while the
assistant was making out a fresh ticket, of substi-
tuting a paicel similar to that in which the property
was placed, containing a similar article, but of little
or no value. Several cases were brought forward to
prove that the trand had been practised to a consi-
derable extent. The prisoner was remanded.
THE DISCOVERY
PERTY the proceeds
which have taken
last two years
day last. It
plate, watches,
silks, satins, lei
of all descriptions,
impossible to '
two previously
man, of Cary-,~
quantity of wool
house was in
Monkwell street,

!TRY or AN 1145111:N8E AnoUNT OT PRO•
roceeds evidently of many burglaries
iken place in the metropolis during the
was effected by the police on Wednee-
consists of every variety of jewellery,
:s, brooches, bracelets, chains, rings,
eather, barege, linen, Manchester goods
ions, alpacas--in fact, it would be almost
name any article not found. A day or
y the police were informed by Mr. Bate-
y-lane, that he had discovered that a
wool which had been stolen from his
Di the possession of Mr. Chadwick, of
yet, City. An officer at once proceeded
took Mr. Chadwick into custody, and
of wool the property of Mr. Bateman.
examined before the Lord Mayor, Mr.

INIMIrMMII

Chadwick proved that he had purchased the property
of a Moses Moses, a general dealer in Houndsditch.
Moses was apprehended, examined, and remanded,
and Chadwick was discharged. After Moses was in
custody the police proceeded to his house, and there
discovered several waggonloads of goods, among
which was nearly the whole of the plate andjewellery
stolen a short time since from Mr. Alexander, of
Hatton-garden ; cloths, barge, and alpacas, stolen
from Hargraves, of Gracechurch-street ; a large
quantity of skins, the produce of the robbery of Messrs.
Self and Co., of Bermondsey; portmanteaus and
carpet-bags stolen from various ra lway stations ; bales
of Manchester goods, gold aud silver plate, &c. Above
a waggon and a half of goods have been identified by
the persons from whom they were stolen, and the police
are actively engaged in tracing the rest. Moses was
brought before the Lord Mayor on Thursday and re-
manded for further investigation.
A TOVrN TRAVELLER and confidential servant
*stied Turner, in the employment of the Messrs.
Field, the extensive wax-chandlers in the Upper
Marsh, Lambeth, has been charged at the district
police court, and remanded, for embezzling upwards
of 1,0001. received on account of his employers.
AN UNDEFENDED ACTION FOR CRIM. CON. was re-
fernd on Thursday to the Sheriffs' Court for the
purpose of assessing the amount of damages. 1,0001.
was claimed in the suit by the plaintiff:—
It appeared that Mr. Stocker, the plaintiff, is a schoolmaster
at Brighton. near Faversham, Kent, and the defendant had been
his assistant. Plaintiff and his wife lived happily together, and
three children were now living, the eldest being about fourteen.
Not the slightest suspicion existed on the part of the plaintiff.
On the Suth of November Mrs. Stocker lefther home, and on the
seine day the defendant disappeared. They were traced to Lon-
don, and subsequently to Rouen, in France, where they lived as
man and wife from the 2nd of December to about the 14th of
January, and then Mrs. Stocker came to England on account of
her mother's illness. The defendant was now in the United
States.
The jury assessed the damages at 300/.
A WELL-DRESSED, STRANGE-LOOKING- MAN, having
a huge red beard and bearskin coat, whose name
was stated to b 3 David Rollerston, was brought be-
fore Mr. Jardine at Bow-street, charged with loitering
and sleeping several days and nights in St. James's-
park, and refusing to give any account of him-
self:—
The defendant had been remanded, to enable Inspector Walker
to ascertain if anything was known respecting him. It was
found that for some time past he had obstinately persisted in re-
maining in the open park, literally taking up his residence there;
and, as he always appeared attracted towards the royal carriages
when they passed, the police had repeatedly warned him off.
Hut he invariably returned, and at length, being unable or unwil-
ling to state how he got his living, or what were his motives fur
sleeping in the open air, he was taken into custody. Ills manner
was too quiet and inoffensive to admit of the supposition that he
was insane and, as be declined to give any answer to the charge,
the police were still in the dark as to the man's reasons for
adopting such a vagrant mode of life. He was a strong,
bealthrlooking man of about forty, and did not complain of
distress.
JARDINV. asked the defendant what his occupation had
been, and whether he could not get some kind of employment?
The defendant replied that he had been a seaman. He thought
he might getsomething to do.
The task-master front St. Martin's Workhouse stated that the
defendant became chargeable to the parish in May, 1851, and was
sent over to Ireland, where he had a settlement; but,to the
astonishment of the parochial authorities, he was back to London
again even before the porter who was employed to take him over.
Under these circumstances they did not know what to do with
him, unless they passed him to Ireland once more, with probably
the same result.
'The defendant said it was no use to send him to Ireland. He
couldnot, do anything there.
Mr. Jardine cautioned him that he was liable to
imprisonment, as a rogue and a vagabond, for sleep-
ing in the open air, and advised him not to repeat
the offence, desiring the police, at the same time, to
apprehend him if he did. For this once he might
be discharged.
THE DAY OF PRAYER AND HUMILIATION fixed for
Wednesday week, the 26th instant, will be observed
by the closing of all the courts and offices connected
with the law.
THE AMOUNT OF LAW BUSINESS disposed of by
the Equity Courts last year is shown by a return
just issued :—ln the legal year, commencing on the
first day of Michaelmas term, 1852, the following
matters were " disposed of in the Court of Chan-
cery:-80 appeals and rehearings, 1,888 appeal mo-
tions and special motions, 1,456 causes, pleas, de
murrers, exceptions, further directions, &c., 3,180
petitions, and 383 claims; in all, 6,987 ; besides
which there were 1,632 orders made in chambers and
drawn up by the registrars, a branch of business
which seems to have come into fuller operation, 990
orders haviir, been made in the first three months of
the present legal year. The arrears with which the
year commenced comprised 8 appeals, 5 appeal mo-
tions, 373 causes and further directions, and 15 pleas,
demurrers, &c. in all 401. The work left undone
at the close of the year included 19 appeals, 14 ap-
peal motions, 375 causes, &c., and 11 pleas, &c. ; in
all, 411). The arrear of appeals and appeal motions
hid been much reduced on the Ist of February last.
The number of days the judges sat is made up for
the year ending the Ist of February : the Lord
han tenor sat 58 days, the Lords Justices 128, the
1 ord Chancellor and Lords Justices together in
ft 11 court 33, the Master of the Rolls 173, Vice-
Cha 43110 r Kinderaley 160, Vice. Chancellor Stuart
171, and Vice-Chancellor Wood 176."

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U 1 efinttes.

A FIRE broke out on Sunday morning at the
residence of Dr. Wolfe, known as Penrhyn-lodge,
Park Village East, near Gloucester-gate, Regent's-
park. Before it could be extinguished the house
was gutted, and a large quantity of furniture and
pictures, of the value of 1,0001., destroyed.
ANOTHER FIRE occurred on the same day at the
Royal Exchange, on the premises of Messrs. Barrup
and Co., stationers and bookbinders, destroying a
considerable amount of property before the flames
could be mastered.

On Sunday evening a third fire broke out in some
extensive premises near Great Peter-street, West-
min-ter, occupied by Mr. Williams, a japanner,
which were almost entirely destroyed, the adjacent
houses being saved with much difficulty.
A FOURTH CONFLAGRATION commenced on the
previous evening (Saturday) at the printing and
lithographic establishment of the Messrs. Waterlow,
in London-wall. The workmen, more than a hundred
in number, were assembled at the time to receive
their weekly wages, and the fire, which commenced
in a lower apartment, burst through the staircase and
occasioned intense alarm. Fortunately every one
was rescued, or succeeded in escaping over the roof
without hurt. The flames were afterwards subdued
by the strenuous exertions of the firemen, though
not before many thousand pounds' worth of damage
had been done to the buildings and stock. The loss
is amply covered by insurance.
WILLIAM THOMPSON, who was convicted at the
recent Norwich Assizes of the murder of Lorenz
Beha, a travelling watchmaker and jeweller, was
executed on Saturday last at Norwich. The convict
had made a full confession of his guilt, and fully
described the manner in which the horrible crime•
was perpetrated.
SUICIDE was committed on Thursday week by a
cooper named Emmins, who fastened a rope round
his neck and attaching the other end to a heavy
weight threw it over a beam and was strangled by
the tension. Ho had been noticed bringing home
the rope a few days previously, but no suspicion of
his purpose was entertained. It was stated at the
inquest that he had occasionally given symptoms of
a weak intellect, and a verdict of " Temporary insanity "
was returned.
A FARMER NAMED ABRAHAM ROBINSON, residing at
Blaxton, near Doncaster, has been committed for
trial on a charge of manslaughter, having, by a long
series of acts of cruelty, caused or accelerated the
death of his mother. One witness, named Mary
Taylor, stated at the inquest on the body of the
deceased that she had acted as charwoman at
Robinson's house, and had frequently seen him
strike his mother with a whip or stick without a lash.
About five weeks ago he wanted the deceased to
pump some water ; she did not speak, and he beat
her so severely that she repeatedly cried for mercy.
Witness said to Robinson, " Remember she's your
mother." He replied, " Yes ; and a d—d nice
mother she is." Other witnesses deposed to having
heard, when passing Robinson's house, a whip crack,
and cries proceeding from the deceased. The poor
creature was compelled to do the worst drudgery
in the house; was kept in the back kitchen without
a fire during the winter nights; and was so com-
pletely starved for want of food that she was fre-
quently seen picking bits out of the swill-tub. When
she refused to work she was beaten by Robinson or
his wife. She had no bed to sleep upon except a
bundle of old clothes, with a single rug for a covering.
A SEIZURE HAS BEEN EFFECTED AT GLASGOW, on
the premises of Messrs. Napier, of two pairs of
marine steam-engines of 450-horse power, adapted
for screw line-of-battle ships oeheavy frigates, manu-
factured under contract for the Russian Government.
It appears that, as in the case of other recent sei
zures, some attempt has been made to set up a sub-
contract for transferring these engines to a Hamburg
house, Merck and Co., in order to evade their confis-
cation as Russian property. In all about eight ves-
sels calculated for warlike purposes have been in
process of construction for Russia since we assumed
an attitude of hostility to that power. There is but
too much reason to conjecture that two of the
number have escaped into the hands of those for
whom they were destined.
A FATAL ACCIDENT occurred on Monday evening
upon the North-Western Railway, resulting in the
death of an engine-driver, and the serious injury of
the stoker and a passenger, by the up train from Lon-
don. The catastrophe took place between the Moss-
ley and Staleybridge stations, the engine running off
the rails into a bank, where it was thrown over on
its side, the tender and guard's van being also
thrown over across the down-line. Two second-class
carriages next the van were considerably damaged,
the front of one being smashed in ; and in this car-
riage was the only passenger, who was dangerously
hurt. ThCdriver died a few hours afterwards.

SATURDAY,

THE BRUTAL ILL-TREATMENT OF A CHILD was
charged against a man named Elmes, and a woman
with whom he cohabited, who were severally indicted
at the quarter sessions held on Tuesday at South.
ampton, for unlawfully neglecting and refusing to
give sufficient meat and drink for the support of
Emily Lavinia Elmes, a child of the age of 11 years,
and unlawfully assaulting and beating the said child.
The male prisoner, who is a compositor, was left
a widower with two female children, about three
years since, but afterwards formed an illicit connec-
tion with the woman Wake. His two children were
then much ill-treated; one of them escaped, and is
now the inmate of a local charitable institution.
The younger was subjected to a system of close con-
finement and ill-treatment; her father taking her a
scanty allowance of dry bread only, end positively
denying her any drink whatever. During the winter
she was placed in a cold damp washhouse, with a
brick floor, without any article of furniture upon
which she could rest herself. She was also fre-
quently and inhumanly beaten. The consequence
of this treatment was, that the child became a mere
skeleton, broke out in sores, had chilblains upon her
feet, and an ulcer upon one of her legs. The neigh.
hours were disturbed by her cries for mercy. In•
formation was given to the board of guardians, who
procured a warrant, and had the prisoners arpre-
liended. The medical officers could not discover the
slightest trace of organic disease ; on the contrary,
under humane treatment, she rapidly gained strength,
and is now in a fair way of perfect recovery. The
jury having found both prisoners Guilty, the recorder
sentenced Elmes to be imprisoned one year, and
Wake six mouths.
ADMIRAL Lows died suddenly at his residence,
16, Pittville-parade, Cheltenham, on Monday morn-
ing. The deceased, although 83 years of age, ap-
pears to have enjoyed good health up to the moment
of his sudden demise. He had been resident in
Cheltenham for many years, and was of very active
habits for a man so far advanced in life. Death
having been so unexpected, an inquest was held
on the following day, which resulted in a verdict of
"Died from natural causes."
A MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT occurred on Tuesday
morning in the Clarborough tunnel, on the Manches-
ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, which re-
sulted in the death of two persons, the driver and
fireman of a train. It:seems that a light-goods train
started from Retford about fifteen minutes after a
heavy coal train belonging to the Great Northern
Company, and overtook it in the tunnel unawares.
The shock detached some of the hind coal-waggons,
and overthrew the engine and several carriages of the
goods-train, the driver and stoker being so terribly
crushed in the fall that they expired shortly after
their extrication. The tunnel was choked with the
wreck for many hours.