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ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, 80.

Sr lt,—l feel assured the late pretended explanations of ('aptain
and Lieutenant Andrews, inserted in the Public Journals of Ire-,
ifelbre WILLIAM Rearms, Easi.,_whn sat for J. Monnts, Esq. land and this country, as to my client, Surgeon Patrick Connolly,'
IMPORTANT TRIAL. sill be received by every man of feeling with the contempt such
11•111RISON V. MASON. LEI-timed attacks merit. From the documents submitted to me by
This was an action to recover a compensation in damages for the Sturgeon Connolly, I boldly assert, that notwithstanding the boasted
*Raged wanton and negligent conduct of a drover, whereby the' Yentas against him, he is a most injured and persecuted man;
plaintiff had sustained much damage. I and I feet confident the result of the late olefin freak occorrcruy at
lie. FLANAtiAN opened the pleadings. Robley //uric will be favourable to my client and his character,
Mr. Tursior ti a, in stating the case, said, the action was one and bring disgrace miry on the parties concerned against him.
of great public importance. The plaintiff was an eminent opti. ! Prudence, and the interest of my clients generally, forbid my enter.
elan at the COMM' of Brownlow-street, Holborn. On the 3d Oct.! ing into counter " explanations ;" but as every occurrence of Sur.
a drove of bullocks were seen coming up Holborn ; whenthey ar- I geon Patrick Connolly's life will be embodied hi his defence, his
- them ran front tht rest up Rrownlow- conduct, and that of his adversaries and persecutors, will ccane
other four, and went after it. The fairly before the public for their decision.
iff's window, when the drover came I ant, Sir, your obedient servant.
`y and tamed it round, whereby the I JOHN NOEL.
window of the plaintiff; and, had Omit Ormond-street, January 10, Imo.

A most awful instance of the uncertainty of human life oc-
curred about 7 o'clock on Thursday night, near the end of Chanter y-
lane. is Holborn. As John Doran, • stout, healthcorn, Arty
yews of age, a wriest by trade, at which busbies* he had been
working all day, wee on his way home, in company with a NM,-
worlunan, he staggered two or three paces, and fell to the gated a
lifeless corpse. He did not utter a word, or show the lead=
toms of life. Mr. Swain, surgeon, of 23, Charles-street,
ampton-aquare, happened to be passing at the time, opened a vein,
sad rendered what assistance he could, but to no purpose. Welden
the street-keeper procured assistance, and had the body carried to
the parish workhouse, in Little Gray's bin-lane, where • coroner's
inquest will be held on it this day.
A Coroner's Inquest was held yesterday at the Three
Tom public-home, Cross-street, Hatton-garden, before Thomas
Stirling, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Mary Colvin. The deceased,'
it appeared, was • widow. and employed as a niilk-carrier to a lola-
man in Hatton-yard. She had a indisposed a few days before
tier death, but not so as entirely to prevent her following her usual
occupation. She was much better at going to bed on Tuesday
night; but in the morning, on her master going to roll her, he
fused her a lifeless corpse, still and cold.—Verdict—" Died by the
visitation of God."
s. Stricing.—A melancholy circumstance was discovered in
Grimsby pa en Saturday moving. A man of the swam of James
Cloche, • potter, who.lately resided at Grimsby, aad who had
bees committed to prises for using abusive language to the Magis-
trates acting at the last quarter sessions, before whom he had been'
Zaefor leaving his wife and family shergeable to the parish,
nd with his throat cut. He had committed the rash act with
• small penknife, some time in the eight, and, wbeo found, was
quite deal As inquest win held on the body tbe same aftemoon,
before Mr. Fletcher, Coroner for the Borough of Grimsby.—Verdict
—Fel° des. The body was buried privately in the night—Siam-
/bed

Mercery.
A young mast, about 18, of the name of Skinns, at Methering_
ham. near this city, was found suffocated on Saturday last in a
shallow pool of water, into which he is sampeald to hare fallen while
in a tit, being known to be subject to such visitation.—Verdict se-
cordingly.--Lineohs Paper.
Suiting IX MAII/LITOXX (hot..—Yesterday, one of the pri•
moneys, named James Ray, pat a period to his existence by cutting
his throat. The deceased complained of indisposition no saturslAx,
and on Sunday was admitted into the hospital. Early yesterday he
complAned of haying a pain in his site, and said lie wished he
could die ; some ter was given to him by the nurse, and he ap-
, peered more composed, and laid himself on the bed. In about half
lan bout afterwards he was found lifeless. Although three men
were In the used with the deceased. and awake the whole time, yet
they were unconscious of what was oteurring..___maidstome
Jeri. 27.
Thursday morning, at an early hour, the body of a man unknown
was found lying dead and cold, with his head on the step of •
garden..gate, at the bottom of Stonemason's-buildings, Great Titch-
flekLatreet. ilary.la.bonne. II is clothes were all wet and dirty, as
if he had been in the water ; he had only twopence. halfpenny in his
pockets, but no papers to lead to a discovery who he was. Zie apt
peered a middle-aged man, and was shabbily dressed.

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