The National Register.
London, England, 1814-06-19 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS' AM) OFFENCES.

Satcrday sernight was exhibited in effigy, at the corner of Or-
frond struct, in the Earl of Meath's Librt ty, Sir Henry Parnell.
tk WAS supeioled by a rope about his neck as if hanging, for blintz-
lug the Coin Kill into Parliament ; and ou all old shelf oppo-ite
%vas placed a Ntnall leaf, representing how distressed the working
prople%%oold be, if the Bill had been passed ioto a law. There
%%ere (Our officers sent from the !lead Police ()thee, to have it re-
moved, to preveot any :;reach of the linage, as the crowd was very
great. At their de. ire the ttrizy wa4 instantly taken down, but the
people eratitied.theiwelv..s by binning it on the spot.
f)ii Wednesday lasi were comtnitted to Cliccer gaol, on the ver-
dict of a Coroner.- Richard and Jolm Pickstock. butchers,
front Northyiieh, %-!:arat d alopff with Sam. Barlow (now tit
with feloniously • liciir% Wary Postmaster at Northwieli,
setting a dog on him', the wounds from which caused his death.
irnEtt AND Ri DTI u;ght, between ihe hours of
nine and ten, as Mr. Wnt. Fowler, a frtrirer, of Chew Magna, was re•
turning froth Bri,t3l market. accompanied by a young wvtimii, in his
market cart, he was Stopped by a footpad neat the Maidelihetitti at Do-i-
-dry ; %shell spriiwing, (root as it is :.iipposed Kith a %los- to
Iris property, he %vas shot the ti.!!l the h:.-ad. The report cl the
pc.!ol bightvned the li,rse, lint the :coun, woman leaped tut 01. ihe
car-t, and procured assistaixe, and on her .•;iiirn found the dece.a.ard
viivri of a!1 his property. lie has hit a wife and four children, The
rob!ier was dressed-in it mock finch. A treiacriltoois stor.., of thunder
and lightning, which was ragitig at the tint,, (lift net deter the haritcned
villain from the commission of so ntintiiinable a ciiinc. _

Friday u Coroner's Inquest wit% Birmingham, on
Jane Petuberti n, who was
.shot iii the hack pat t Of her head. as she
was standing in the street to see the at rival of the nail-coach with the
nniirc f the ,igning if the Defizoitivc Irc:ity t,t Peace, mot who died a
few dripof er. It appeared that the dem•as:2d, with her husband and
likluts, were •.tanding cn a I.ench in front of the Britannia public
lieuse, in Borde4hy, whet, K 111:111 of the name of ,Triseph Shepherd, who
wms in the kitchen, discharged ai awl, loaded with• viippowder and
throtw.ii the .tindow, which was open and di eaditiliv wroltulerl
deceased.—Vcidict, I,4fenstairghLe. Sl.epherd was conntiired to
Warwii goal. _ . _

Sunday morniog a young Isdy, about 17, eloped from her friends at
Prddington, with a lief son who had paid honouralile addiesses to her
f. r some time. It afterwards appeared they lepaired to an Hotel in
Jerome-street, wheTe her in:tmorato continued with tier two frights;
but having forsaken her on the third day, the frail fair-one, overcome
Kith shame and regret, threw herself into the Canal, and wits drowned.
An unfortunate loan of the tin Me of Ilet.ry Rogers, was un Saterday
last fotsud drowned in the Neath Canal. In his rocket,: we re several
4toncq, and is label stock on I. hat, had tile fo'lowing remarLable words;
--4, 'lime life of Henry Rogers hots nu r njovioutd, therefore I t,id it fare-
vrell.-- Die I must, some time or titlr_:r, retire I may as well die now,
as sib 50 years hence."

rrnrsentA visvt —Mr. Coster, a lamer. undertook nn Monday last,
at Ftisfi!-• ii, Oxfordshire, to go on lout No miles io 19 hours. He per-
formed 40 toiks in six hows in Lreat -tile. Atior halt:tv, he finisiliql
13 houre, when he skewed much di,t,,!ss, and gave in at 80, in a
duplurable state, having 20 tulles to go 1.1 four hours.