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marched, slut one of Ilse soarhool hiterowas fogad ea Isis.
Ho was twasiwitted.

WOIRSIBIT
!ordea lay two ones, who gave their manses Wits, sad
7Sowspeatt, were brought op /now Hackney, ebarged with
stiatirig a thill's 1.44 from that berial•gronsd. Two con.
stables saw lb* Prisoners Is a city suapeiou• isasser lurk-
inr s►est the wisrahes sear the riser lee., sad they watched
their for some time; Ws perreivisg fhe Prisoners were also
'itchiest, the constables took thews lotto custody, and found
in their possemion the sieressary insplemeats for upeniag
co (Goa, Sic., ands as screwy, hammers, roper, Ike. on watch-
inc further, they founds hag which coulained the head of
a child, newly cut off, and a grace (won 'kirk it was taken
wis discovered to have hers Dowsed —The Pri.un►rs deuied
asy kolowlesfitc of the bag or the head, sod raid the screws
were their tools to work wills—Cotossitted for oast of
ictreties.

Yowl-11•Lti 1011TFIWAItIL.

MOST EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTION.

During the greater part of yesterday Sir John Lamer
waa laboriously employed in the investigation of a most
unaccountable case, nut very unlike the famous judgment
of :Monson in its mature. It was a proceeding on • sum-
tunas at the instance of a lutneloome young woman against
two females, named Sherry and Cronan ; hot all the parties
being of the Wiest order of MA, it was with difficulty the
Magistrate could comprehend their radon' statements;
however, at the conclusion, tbe following seemed to he the
tarticielare :
Defendant, Mrs. Shorty, a married woman, lives in open
a lultery with • man named Michael Callaghan, in %ent_
stern', awl the other Prisoner is their lodger, and sleeps its
the same room. About • year ago the Complainant had the
misfortune to get acquainted with 'Callaghan, who professed
a warm attachment towards her, and as lie introduced him-
self as • young mao free from all encumbrance, she allowed
him to visit her, where she was at wrvire, on the footing of
a lover. In an unguarded hour, she became the victtne of
seduction, sod being unable to commal her situation from her
master and mistress, the of her situation was the eon-
segment.. She them got lodgings is • wretched alley in the
ilorough, where her seducer still visited her, proursiug to
marry bee as soon as his affairs were a little swinged ; hat
within • few days of her acconehement he most nrifeelingly
deserted her altogether. She was without friends or money,
and daring her illness experieured the greatest privations;
the frequently sent to Callaghan fur some relief, but be re-
fused to give her any. A day or two after her recovery she
went to his lodgings with the child (a fine buy), suit pre-
sented it to him ; he received her in the presence of the or.
fendants with the greatest scorn, and made many unfeeling
remark...on the poor child, in which he was joined by both
the women. The Complainant, in a great passion, laid
down the child awl went away, but next morning, repent-
ing what she had done, she went back with the intention
of bringing it away, when to her great surprise the
Defendant, Slurry, denied that she had ever left a child
there; the Complainant, however, seeing her own infant
in the woman's arms, made an effort to take it
ewes,; on which the latter called loudly for assistance,
soil a oun:her of persons etme in from the street, to whom
she represented thahtlie Complainant had forcibly attempted
to take away her child, and the eun•eq was, that the
',ma roman was mad treated and turned out into 11w street.
She made many subsequent attempts to gain possession of
the child, in all of which she failed. Meanwhile the infant
had shrunk to half its original size, from want or proper
attention pad nourishment. Os. last Tuesday she made •
last and desperate effort Iv get the child, hot was attacked
hey high the I. ironer', her clothes torn from her hack, as
well as hi r hair from her head. She was finally kicked down
stairs, and severely contused about the head and body.
Mrs Shurey now produced the cbilj in Audience to the
tn atithite of the Court, and a painful spectacle it presented;
is thighs were not thicker in reality than a middle-bleed
walkiag-stirk or wax candle, and the arms were about as
thick at the haft of a knifes whilst in Various puts the skin
was completely cleared off; indeed it appeared as if every
means had beta resorted to to accelerate the pow child's
death.

The Defendant protested stoutly that the child was her
ran offsprint, and reforest on any orusidermion to &her r it
up to any one. he called a •amber of witnemes, who stai-
r.) their [whet' that she had Imes, delivered of a thild s satin
Vie last six seeks, a frith child they believed she then had
11 her arms.

On the other hand, the Complainant, in the most earnest
manuer,, declared that it was a conspiracy amongst Ihrni to
detain the child till it died fur want of (Are, which would
asnicrate its inhuman father from the claim which the
would ucecwiacily make on him for lire child's sop.
i•Ort. She also ca11..1 a 'mother of woiao,u, who bore Irfti-
roog
to the locik of illy chit.!, and identified the one which
Mrs Shorty earned as the came of whirls she hail been Jr.
Leered in their wiener.

Amidst all this conflicting testimony, the worthy Magi-
strate was at a loss how to act ; but °harrying the Prisoner
/piing the breast to the Add, a very 'emersions thought
torso It him, abet he desired that she might be Isamined,
whew, to she astonishment of all present, it was discovered
that she had no milk at all, and that her rtelwoolisag the
breast to the child was no more than an ati.mpt to impose
aria the eredolity of the Magistrate. Her fUlbfal6lol. whew
thus detected deprived Inc 4.f utterance; she-could make
i". 'V.V.?, but leati.l.3l the child over to the Complainant,
win oil receiving it pressed it to her bosom wills maternal
Lendoess, whilst she bathed the little innocent with tears of
Joy.
'Su add to the confusion of the woman 'burry, a female,
who was present, stated, that she had hero ou tensile of mit-
wary with her for many years, and site believed she never
tr.4l • chat! its her I:fe.

Ssr iOn4 FAIR Slid, he dial not at that MORlelii nye&
Irct any law that would pianist' aural fin:Mimi% such aura-
osoam colorfast*. There (staid be little doubt et. the ohkel of
the Defesolasts in riellataine the child; 114 apiwarance suf.
fat Molly justified every suspicion on that head, and if it
la•aii died (aud it was very scrprising it dial nott. dory would
Irsve been mom monetarily hung for the murder. %Vitt, re-
rarit to the assault, that was sufficiently prosed, and he
should neer. them to be detained tall they proctored good
boll.—lbe Defendants were accordingly held to bail.