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or innocence. Fle.woald now, commis him on the charge of r0b1,..
and would give directions thnt he should again be brought 100
we (this day) for tutther examination, when perhaps, I.Z
the publicity much the. present would obtain. other serious
w.0.U1 be preferred against hie.
The parties were then bound over to prosecute ; but before to
left the office Mrs. Allen, in the most feeling manner, appeeißlZ
the Magistrr.aPute,
tter an to pay expressedhis check. a hope that his Worship %odd
compel M
and ad
Captain
sed her to a Ricus ELL
l disclaimed having the power of imerferlrg.
vippy to her attorney.
Potter was present doting this application, -but made rot kt
slightest obser radon. ,

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

On Saturday an inquest was held at the sign of the Wertot.n
Arms, in the iient.road, on the body of Mr. Thomss Raver:llLL.
distressed artist, who was found dead in his bed the pee.u..!i
morning. The deceased had lived in a garret at en obscure 10e W gii.
in eymour-stress, for the last two years and nine mnntns.
Sarah Rutledge, his landlady, deposed, that the deceased
lodged in her house during the abovementioned period lie vat
an elderly man, and appeared to be in very atealtened circus,.
stances. No person hid ever visited him. On Friday reaming te
was found lying dead on his bed.
A surgeon who opened the deceased's head described the appe3:.,
antes, and said, that he died in consequence of serous apoplexy_
A verdict to that effect was returned.
Another inquest was held at the Rose Tavern, Bermondsey 0,
the body of a lad named Dodd► who was aecldentally•killed in en,
deavouring to get unon a mill horse, working tithe hair manuti;,.
tory of Mr. Phipps Medley, of Berniontisey..—Vertlict accard:a^ -

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MIDDLESEX SZesioxs.—the only cases of any inheres:
tried at the Middlesex Sessions, on Saturday, were of a
nature which prevents us from reporting them.
Me RDE R.—On IVednesday evening, the Slat ult. tboy
iii the •employ.of a farmer, in the neighbottrhood of Neu.
port, Monmouthshire, going through hitt master's grounds.
discovered the body•of a man lying partly concealed Amit-
e hedge, about a quarter of a mile from MaYndw.isos,
The boy, much alarmed, went and informed his mane:,
who, on arriving at the spot, found the body to be not only
dead; but, from the intense heat of the weather, vc-v offers.
sire. On further examination, two large cuts, as 'from a
hatchet, were discovered just over the right temple, the
face was completely disfigured and black, as if from violent
blows • and the fingers were cut and mutilated, as if foe
deceased bad struggled with his assailants, for there is
scarcely a doubt but that be was murdered. Near the
place where his feet lay, when found, was an indention, es
if the head had been beaten into the earth, and into %Licit
the blood appeared to flow copiously. A large stone was
found near the body. The dress resembled that of an hisii
drover, but nothing was found upon him to give the lean
clue as to his name or connexions ; and although the pla-e
was not more than 60 yards from the mail-road to Nca.
port, the body is supposed to have been there three or fo:Ir
days. ‘Ve have not heard the result of the Coronet
quest.—Provincial Paper.
S1:I CI D •1" Pasts—Captain Goff, who committed
suicide on Tuesday last, was mph given to the use of
ardent spirits, which had a mesa unfavourable effect aka
his health. For some time he had !tinted to his friends
that he intended to destroy himself. On Monday he dined
in company, and the conversation turned upon suicide. The
Captain entered warmly into the subject, without alluding
to his project. On Tuestlay,.about peon, he sent a Errant
to invite a friend to breakfast with him, and whilst he was
gone be took two pistols, and plaCing the muzzle of cne st
his ear and the other in his mouth, fired them at the same
moment. It is remarkable that on Monday Mr. &I'
obtained his passport for London, and crdcred his setrant
to load the pistols for his jensvey.--Galignani's htrr

Darr BEISS.-41r. John Muggeridge,- a respectable
stationer, residing on St. Margaret s-hill, Southwark, who
died on Friday, met with his death in a melancholy man-
ner. A short time ago, he and his wife went to Dr ton,
with an intention of remaining there until his country-
house, which has been recently erected at Norwood. was
in a fit condition to be inhabited; and the night -of hu
arrival he caught so severe a cold, by sleeping in a damp
bed, that he died in the course of a few days.
ANOTHER STEAD! PACKET ACCIDENT,-011 Saturday
morning a distressing scene was witnessed Drat the river, oc-
ca.vioned. by the speed with which the steam packets pass
through the Pool. A gentleman had hired a boat et about
half-past eight in the morning,at Battle Br;dge Stairs, tocon-
vey his lady, himself; and their infant child, together with
their luggage, on board the Dart steam packet for Margate,
which was proceeding down the river on her (nurse. When
the boat approached the packet, the surf swamped the beat
and engulfed all within it. The gentleman and the water.
man could swim, and they saved their own lives ; but the
lady and her infant must have perished but for that
promptitude which distinguishes the watermen on such
occasions, and they too were rescued from death. -
DREADFUL ACCiDENT.—From -Croydon Wharf is an
iron railway, communicating with the Vilndsworth and
Merstham line. From the London 'and Brightest road it is
MOTE of the nature of an inclined plane than a common
railway, the fall for the distance being very considerable,
so that when loaded waggons are put in motion at tla
summit they will go alone and increase in motion for s
great distance ; when, upon a level, gravitation and friction
bring the machines to rest. A few days ago, Jane Chan&
ler, aged 43, a poor industrious washerwoman of Croyden,
who has a decrepit httsband and two children to provide
for, was walking upon a footpath towards the centre of
the declivity of the railway, when a waggon laden with
about three tons of coals was put in motion.. By scene
strange infatuation, this poor woman, while seeing u loaded
waggon coming at the rate of a horse canter, without
leader or driver, walked on to the line upon which it
I was coming with increasing speed, when she received a
dreadful blow, which forced her down upon the iron rails,
when two of the east metal wheels passed up her right arta
to the shoulder, and. dragged her under the waggon many
yards, so that she skided the wheel till the motion ceased,
which literally crushed the bones to atoms. From the
gore that stained the ground it was supposed the woman
was dead, but after some application she was recovered
from a long fainting fit, and her first words were, "Oh my
poor family !" She was sent to Guy's Hospital, where am-
putation was decided upon. She expressed regret at the
loss of her right arm, for the sake of her unprotected
children and family ; but finding a compound fracture in
the ulna radius, and humerus, they extracted the arm from
the scapula, or shoulder-blade. She now lies in Chapel
Ward, Guy's Hospital, still on the brink of eternity.