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interfere further. " Squinting Jenny" lived in the
same Louse as witness. She had disappeared from
her lodgings. _

Afalr some further evidence, the prisoners, who
declined saying anything to the charge, were re-
manded.

Mr. Trßwriirr inquired if any money belonging
to the prosecutor had been recovered.

Constable Keene answered in the negative, giving
it as his opinion that the bulk of it was with " Squint-
T:nny.

The magistrate congratulated 'the prosecutor on his
lucky cscape with his life, and desired the officers to
look after the other woman.

THAMES.

Henry George Rushbrook, a well-dressed, intelli-
gent lad, about fifteen years of age, apprenticed to
Mr. Edward E. Child, pawnbroker, os: 216 and 217,
High•street, Shadwell, was charged before Mr.
Ingham with robbing his master.
It appeared in evidence that for some time past
money had been frequently missed from the tills in
the prosecutor's shops, and two valuable watches and
other valuable property had disappeared. A strict
look-out had in consequence been kept, and on Mon-
day Mr. Child adopted the precaution of marking a
quantity of silver, and
.put'sorne in the tills every
day. On Friday afternoon, Mr. Golding (Mr. Child's
foreman) put marked silver to the amount of 3/. 3s.
in one till, and to the amount of 1/. 17s. in the other
shop, and whi!e he was at his tea, the prisoner, who
was generally employed in the warehouse up-stairs,
was left in care of the shop. When Mr. Golding re-
turned to the shop he missed a marked half-crown out
of the till in the pawn-shop, and immediately sent for
Potter 212 K, and on his arrival the prisoner was told
that a half-crown was missing from the till, and he
was asked if he had any money about him. He de-
manded why he was suspected more than the other
boy, and declared he had only a few halfpence, which
he took from his pocket. While doing so, he was in
the act of raising his left hand towards a shelf, when
Potter seized it. and said, " What have you got
there ?" and at the same moment found it to be the
marked half-crown, which was identified by Mr.
Golding.
The prisoner afterwards admitted to Potter that he
had taken the half-crown, but denied having stolen
the two watches.

Mr. INGHAM said be had no doubt the prisoner had
robbed his master to a great extent, and fully com-
mitted him for trial.

CRIMINAL COURT SENTENCES.
The following is a list of the sentences passed at
the late sittings of this conrt :
TRANSPOUTATION. ••• Life —, Howard Augustus
Styles.
Twenty Years—Joseph Braznell, John Wren.
Fifteen Years—Robert Archer, Francis Davis.
Ten Years—William Perry, Steven Sly, Jesse
John Westerby.
Seven, Years George Gabriel Leeky, John
Taylor, William Bawser, James Cole, William Kip-
ping, John Moram, Ellen Williams, Daniel Dowd,
William Brown, William Clayton, James Wreu,
Thomas Green, Charles Bentley, Hannah Toser,
William Edward Pike, Geore Chapman, James Paris,
John Thompson, William Fall.
IMPRI3ONMENT.—Eighteen Months—John Simp-
son, Henry Davies.

TwelveMonths—Thomas Crawford, Thomas Hall,
George, alias Mousy Madden, Joseph Morrison,
Frederick Ford, George Wren, William Brace, Wil-
liam Cowley, James Buckthorpe, Joseph Ride, Henry
Brown, Martin St. Leger, John St. Leger, William
LPggett, John Alexander, James Darvill, Jeremiah
Driscoll, Isaac Bandon, John Gregg, James ryefinch,
Rueben Randall.

Ten Months—Michael Macdonald.
Nine Months—John Crosby, James Litman,
Sarah Lowe, William Christy.
• Six Months —Peter Hughes, Edward Barker
Simpson, James Keeley, John Richard Marks, Mary
Ann Church, Robert Ekins, James Thompson, Wil-
liam Britton, James White, Thomas Haywood, James
Mercer, Sarah Hassard, Lilen Hoar, James Brock-
man, Thomas Palmer, Joseph Elderfield, George
Steevens, George James Pocock, Michael Welch,
Mary Ann Duncan, Mary Law, Edward Rooke,
Elizabeth Williams, George.Sheldrick, Thomas Hay-
wood, John Sullivan, James Mercer, Edward Short,
William Chick, John Petrie, the younger, John Pe.
trie, the elder, George Bentley, John Dee, Richard
Marshall.

Four Months—William Derbyshire, George Der-
byshire, David Deland, Fanny Deashander, Rachel
Haynes, Henry Smith, Cornelius Merritt, Mary
Ann Leary, John Manley, , Mary Crawley, John
Cronan, Thomas Domanger, Thomas Cooper.
• Three Motiths—Lewis Wolff (ono month solitary),
Henry Knapper, James Millard, Richard Weston,
Mary Vaughan, James Patrick, John Thornton, Ann
Field, Robert Shepherd.
Two Months—James Hazel', Margaret M'Swiney,
Edward Harrington, Thomas Doyle, Mary Wilson.
One Month and Under—Edward Shehea, Robert
Hsye, Thomas Kelly, Lucretia O'Connor, Catherine
Hill, John Pealing, Elizabeth Dyer.
Acquittals—Ann Macarthy, Jane Hailes, Abraham
Harris, Jane Neaves, George Steevens, Catherine
Steevens, William O'Brian, William Turner, Edward
Mansfield, John Chester, Mary Ann Allen, John
Gould, Robert Petrie, Thomas Deman, William
Carter, John Munday, Catherine Watson, James
Drage, Frederick Luscombe, Thomas Baldock, Wil-
liam Hill, John West, John Smith, John Forrester,
Charles Israel Dixon, William Saunders, William
Taylor, Richard Collins.

Remands until next Sessions—John Gregory,
Thomas Banks, Augustus Robinson, John Wakeman
Edwards.

Bills Not Found—Horatio Nelson Branch.
Judgment Respited—Edward George Barrington,
Mary Ann Archer.

ALARMING ACCIDENT ON THE
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

BRISTOL, SATURDAY. —This morning, at twenty
minutes to five o'clock, the mail train, which was
then over due nearly four hours, arrived in this city,
bringing intelligence of .an alarming accident which
had occurred the previous evening to a cheap excur-
sion train near Wootton-Bassett station. The acci-
dent was of a most extraordinary, and, as the affair
at present stands, ofa somewhat suspicious character.
The policeman on duty at the station at the time has
been given into custody, and a thorough investiga-
tion will be made by the officers of the company into
the matter. A number of persons were more or less
injured ; but, miraculous as it will appear when the
details of this distressing accident come to be read,
fortunately no lives were lost. The news soon spread
throughout the city, and the doors of the station were
oompletely besieged by anxious inquirers after rela-
tives and friends.

The following particulars, which have been obtained
partly from official sources and partly from personal
inquiry, may be relied on as authentic :
It appears that one of the cheap excursion trains
which have latterly become so popular on the Great
Western and'other lines was announced to leave this
city on Friday morning for Paddington and back. It
was completely thronged with parties from the. West
of England anxious to avail themseif of such a fa-
vourable opportunity of visiting the metropolis at
a cheap rate. So great was the throng, indeed, that
for the convenience of dispatch the excursion party
,was divided into two separate trains, one leaving
the Bath and the other the Bristol station. Similar
arrangements were intended by the officers •of the
company to have been made for the return journey in
the evening; but, as is usually the case, most of the
passengers, anxious to see as much as they possibly
could of the-lions of the metropolis, delayed their arri-
val again at the Paddington station till almost the
last minute allowed them, so that .when the time ap-
proached for leaving, such was the rapidity and the
promiscuous nature of-the arrivals of the passengers
that it was found absolutely, impossible to separate the
Bristol from the Bath excursion train, and it was ac;
cordingly resolved to send on two mingled. trains.
The first of these return trains accomplished its pas-
saga with great punctuality, arriving at the Bristol
station shortly before twelve o'clock last (Friday)
night. It was stated by the passengers that when
they left Swindon the other excursion train was just
signalled as being in sight, and it seems it also arrived
as far as Swindon in safety. It left Swindon at a
quarter past eleven o'clock, and just after passing:the
Wootton-Bassett station, at the junction of the siding
with the down line, the passengers felt a tremendous
concussion, and immediately there was an awful
crash ; it seems that the train had come into collision
with a horse-box, which somehow or other in the
short space of a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes
which had elapsed since the passing of. the first ex-
cursion train, had been placed on the line. The en-
gine and the first four carriages were precipitated
down the embankment into a field of mangold-
wurtz.)l. The first carriage was turned on its side,
so that there were no means of escape, but although
the top of it had to be removed by forcibly breaking
it in with a sledge-hammer before the inmates could be
rescued from their perilous position, none of them
sustained any injuries that were of 'a serious or dan-
gerous character. .The engineer and stoker were
flung violently to the ground, but apparently without
much injury, as they shortly afterwards busied them-
selves in endeavouring to assist the passengers.
Mr. Burton, the superintendent of the company's
police at the Bristol station, happened to be in one of
the first-class carriages, the inmates of which were
precipitated over one another. As soon as he managed
to extricate himself he WAS most unremitting in his
exertions. The scene is described as having been for
some time one of the utmost consternation and con-
fusion; the screams of the female passengers were
heartrending; two persons had their collar-bones dis-
located, the heads and faces of several others were cut
and brui:ed, and some had their arms and legs in-. '
jured. A. lady named Lewis, wife of the high-bailiff s