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(YESTERDAY.)
CLEEKENWELL.

Alfred Divett, a poor Irishman, of wild and excited
appearance, was brought before Mr. Combe, charged
with threatening.to murder Mr. Willian-i Berry, an at-
torney, residing at No. 1, King's-road; Theobald's-road.
The complainant deposed that the prisoner, who had
formerly been his client, came to his office on that
morning, and threatened to murder him. He had ye-
peatedly annoyed witness previously, and called him a
swindler; .
Mr. COMBE—What is the cause of all this ? Mr.
Berry don't know, I- am sure ; I have not
given him any cause.
The defendant, who seemed to be labouring under
extraordinary excitement, declared that he was now
wholly destitute. He had been in the Spanish Legion
for some years, and when discharged received a certifi-
cate for a pension. He then enlisted in the 60th Rifles,
and-served with his regiment in Corfu, and other places
in the Mediterranean for four years, and was discharged
for desertion at the close'of the last year. He came .tc•
I4ondOn in the beginning of February, and being with-
out money or friends borrowed 11. 10s. from Mr. Taylor,
a publican at Rotherhithe, leaving his certificate in
pledge for the payment of that sum. He subsequently
had a difference with Mr. Taylor, who refused to give
him back the certificate, which was for the sum. of
91.25. 6d. He employed a person named Williams, who
promised to get back, the certificate on condition that he
would give him 4t. To this he •agreecl, but.. Williams
failing in his endeavour defendant employed the com-
plainant, who obtained the certificate from Mr.
Taylor, but refused to give it to him (defendant)
unless he paid 21. 10s., which sum he had not.
Mr. Comm (to complainant)—Had you the certifi-
cate ? Complainant—l had.
Mr. COMBE—Where is it ? Complainant—l gave it
back to Taylor.
Mr. COMBE—What
.this 21. 10s. ? Complainant—
My costs. They should have been 4/.
Mr. COMBE—Have you been paid this money ? Com-
plainant—Yes ; • Taylor paid me, and I gave him the
certificate.
Mr. COMBE—What ! Taylor paid you ? Why, se-:
cording to your own statement, you had no right to
withhold the certificate from Taylor. Why should he
pay you any costs ? It was not he employed you. Com-
plainant (laughing)—True, but he did pay me, however.
Mr. COMBE—This seems strange, very strange, indeed.
I have heard of Williams, whom the defendent mentions,
as having deluded some of these poor creatures who
were in the Spanish Legion. Who would pay the cer-
tificate ? The defendent said—Mr. Castenado, who was
clerk to the Spanish Commission in London. He en-
treated of the Magistrate to postpone the further hear-
ing of the case, and grant him summonses for Williams
and Taylor, when it would appear that he had been most
unjustly treated.
The complainant said he was in fear of his life from
the threats of the defendent, whose mind, he believed,
was disordered.
Mr. COMBE said he could not grant summonses for the
attendance of Taylor and Williams, as he had no juris-
diction in the matter.
The deTendant said he believed they would attend vo-
luntarily.
Mr. COMBE said that as the complainant declared he
was in fear of his life, he should commit the defendant
until the Bth of April; unless he could find bail.
The defendant declared he had no intention of injuring
Mr. Berry ; he had called him a swindler, but had not
threatened to murder him. He had no friend or rela-
tion in London who' would be security for him.
He was committed.
An unfortunate girl, named Mary Ann Hartwell, was
charged with breaking two panes of glass in the Clerk-
enwell workhouse.
The offence was fully proved against her. She had not
been more than a day or two out of prison, having been
committed for a similar offence.
The prisoner, a very interesting-looking girl, declared
that she was unable to perform the task assigned her—
picking oakum, at which she could not earn more than a
few pence a day. She had been on the town, but what-
ever would become of her, she would never again be a
prostitute. She broke the windows to be brought be-
fore the Magistrate. (Here the unfortunate female
burst into a paroxysm of grief, and intreated of the
magistrate to send her to some asylum where she might
Spend'the remainder of her days in tranquillity.
Mr. Harnett, the master, said, unless an example were
made of the prisoner, there would be no such thing as
governing the other paupers. She had broken two
squares of glass.
Mr. Monro (the clerk) observed that the girl's deter-
mination not to go upon the streets was highly creditable
to her.
Mr. COMBE said that perhaps if she would promise to
conduct herself well for a few days in the workhouse, he
might be able to get her into some asylum.
The prisoner thanked the worthy Magistrate heartily,
and promised compliance.
Mr. Harnett said they could not receive her into the
workhouse.
Prisoner (sobbing bitterly)—Oh, Mr. Harnett, you are
more cruel to me than the Magistrate.
She was then committed for five days.
The worthy MAGISTRATE told her that if she came to
him when she came out of prison on Thursday morn•
ing, he would do all he could for her.
The unhappy girl thanked the Magistrate heartily,
and was locked up.
Three men, named Cook, Murray, and Marston, na-
tives of the north of England, were charged with begging.
Police-constable 45 E deposed that he saw the pri-
soners walking in Bloomsbury-square on that day.
When they saw witne is approaching they commenced
begging immediately, and declared to witness that they
wished to be sent to, prison,_ for they had been walking
about the streets night and day, in a state of starvation,
for the last fortnight.
Mr. COMBE sent them to the workhouse.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

TIMBER.—" A Return of the several Expired Con-
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Thickstaff, and Plank, for the use of her Majesty's
Dockyards, since the year 1825." (No. 60. On the
motion of Mr.-Forster, ordered by the Commons to be
printed, Feb. 23.) A detailed return, with prices, of no
less than 333,384 loads of timber. _

DIVER and DIVING BELL, Among the recent Deposits is the
HEAD of a MUMMY from THEBES, very remarkable.
Adwilssion, Is.; Schools, Half-price.

GRAIN, MEAL, AND FLOIJR.—(No. 36. On motion of
Mr. Hutt, Feb. 22.)—An Account of any Grain, Flour,
and Meal imported during the years 1841-43, from
each of the British Colonies (including India), stating
the quantity imported in each year from each colony.
These annual tables are made out in ten columns, show-
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oats, peas, Indian corn, corn and grain of all sorts ; of
wheatmeal (or flour), oatmeal, Indian meal ; meal and
flour of all sorts. The total imports were—
For the Years. Of Corn and Grain. Of Meal and Flour.
1841
1842
1843
The largest quantity of wheat imported in the first
year of this series came from Canada-68,854 qrs.
In 1842 and 1843 the quantities were, severally, 32,774
and. 20,671 qrs. Of wheatmeal or flour, from the same
country, the imports were in the' like interval 594,124,
508,488, and 325,097 qrs. In the year 1842, there were
brought into this country, from its possessions in India,
5,451 qrs. of wheat.
3CPORTE; TD BRAZIL.—(No. 73. Mr. Labouchere,
Feb. 29.).—An Account of the Declared Value of British
and Irish Produce and Manufactures Exported from the
United Kingdom to Brazil in the years 1841, 1842, and
1843, distinguishing the principal articles :-
1841. 1842

ROBERT SEAMAN, (late Ward and Seaman,
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the late firm will be received and diseharged.br him.
St. John, Maddermarket, Norwich, March, 1844.

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TION.

FORFEITED PLEDGES.
MESSRS. DEBENIIAM and STORR will
SELL by AUCTION, at their Rooms, King-street, Covent-
garden, on WEDNDSDAY, March 20, at Eleven,
WATCHES, plate, jewellery, plated goods, guns, pistols, linen and
woollen-drapery, hosiery, silk mercery, elegant shawls, scarfs, and
handkerchiefs ; ladies' and gentlemen's apparel, table and bed linen,
carpets, feather beds, household furniture, and other effects, pledged
in months prior to April, 1A43, with the following pawnbrokers, viz. :
—Bonham, late Fleming, High-street, Whitechapel ; Franklin, Tot-
tenham-court-road ; Aldridge, Orange-street, Bloomsbury ; Priest,
Long-acre ; Poile, High-street, Borough, late of Great Suffolk-street;
Reeve, Gray's Inn-lane ; Summers, Bath-street, City-road ; Thomson,
Eyre-street-hill ; Thomson, Frederick's-place, Hampstead-road ;
Walmsley, High-street, Borough ; Barnett, Roebuck-terrace, Dover-
road.

May be viewed and Catalogues had at the Rooms.

ESSEX ; KENT; ANI) ATLESBURY,_BUCKINGIIAMSIIIR:

•
FREEHOLD ESTATES.
MESSRS. HARVEY and GEORGE respect-
fully intimate that they have received instructions frmn
Henry King, Esq., to SELL by PUBLIC AUCTION, on THURSDAY,
April 11, 1844, at Twelve o'clock, at the Auction Mart, London,
Upwards of 300 Acres of highly valuable freehold MARSH
GRAZING LAND, in Fifteen Lots; comprising the LITTLE-
COTE FARM, with genteel Cottage residence, convenient homestall,
and 132 A. 3 a. 35 r. of sound and productive grazing land, situate
at Littlecote, in the parish of Stewkley, Bucks, and within a short
distance of the celebrated Creslew estate, in the delightful neigh-
bourhood of the Vale of Aylesbury, so proverbially famed for its
grazing qualities. The whole is freehold, land-tax redeemed, and
tithe free, and is now in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Sallery,
(yearly tenant), at the rent of 300/. per annum, but which may be
fairly estimated at 3501. per annum. This estate will be sold in One

Lot.
The other portion of the property consists of Freehold Marsh Land,
situate in West and East 11am, and Plaistow-levels, within five
miles of Smithfield, in the counties of Essex and Kent, com-
prising about 160 Acres, which will be sold in Twelve Lots,
The purchasers can have immediate possession of the land.
Also a highly valuable Freehold Estate, situate at Plaistow, Essex,
consisting of five genteel residences, with gardens, out-houses, and pre-
mises ; six cottages, and about ten acres of rich upland pasture land,
as let on lease for the unexpired term of about forty-eight years at
the yearly rent of 971. This property contains extensive and valu-
able building frontages, and the present rental of 97/. may be con-
sidered as a ground rental, the Lessee haring covenanted to expend
a lrge sum In building improvements. Near to the ove poperty
are about twelve acres of sound pasture land, producing ar yearly
rental of 47/.
The Littlecote Estate may be seen by application to Mr. Thomas
Sallery on the premises ; and the Marsh Land at West liam and
Plaistow, will he shown by Mr. Richard Goalin, Marshman, near
the Abbey Arms, at Plaistow, Essex.
May be viewed any day preceding the Sale by application to the
tenants ; and descriptive paiticulars had of Messrs. Bischoff and
Coxe, Solicitors, 19, Coleman-street, London ; at the Auctien Mart ;
and at the Offices of Mons Harvey ftIN Gorge, 11f9rd, &Word,
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IHENRY HASLIP, at present, and for six
A. years last past, residing at No. 18, High Holborn, In
the parish of Saint Andrew, Holborn (above Bars) and
county of Middlesex, and being a cutler- and dressing-
case maker, do hereby give notice that I Intend to present a pe-
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to be examined touching my debts, estate, and effects, an;. to be
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debts; and I hereby further give notice that the time when the
matter of the said petition shall be heard is to be advertised in the
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after the date hereof; as witness my hand, this sth day of March,

in the year of our Lord, 1844. HENRY ILUILIP.
Witness, H. T. Roberts, 2, Bride-court, Blackfriars, attorney for the
said Henry Haslip.

WHEREAS, a PETITION of JAMES
BLUNT, of No. 10, Church-street, Trinity-square, in the
parish of Saint Mary, Newington, in the county of Surrey,
out ofbusipess, having been filed in the Court of Bankruptcy, and
the interim order for protection from process having been given to the
said James Blunt, under th% provisions of an Act of Parlia-
ment passed in the Parliament holden in the sth and 6th years of the
reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act for the Relief of
solvent Debtors," the said 'James Blunt is hereby. required to ap-
pear in Court, Before John_ Herman Merivale, Esq., the Commissioner
acting- in the matter of the said petition, on the 19th day of
March instant, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely, at
the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street, London, for the pur-
pose of being then and there examined touching his debts, estate, and
effects, and to be fhrther dealt with according to the provisions of the
said Act. All persons indebted to the said James Blunt, or that
have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to
Mr. George Green, the official assignee, No. 72, Basinghall-street, no-
minated in that behalf by the Commissioner acting in tke matter of
the said petition.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS, March 15.
The Rouse sat to-day, to hear appeals. The Peers
present. were Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, and
Lord Campbell.

THE WEST CALDER MURDER.

(From the Edinburgh Weekly Register)
HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, EDINBURGH.
The trial of James Bryce for the murder of John Geddes,
his brother-in-law, at West Calder, began on Tuesday,
March 12. The judges present were the Lord Justice Clerk,
Lords Mackenzie and Moncrieff.

The indictment charged James Bryce, with murder and
robbery, in so far as, on the 26th or 27th of December, 1843,
he did, within the dwelling-house at Blaw-wearie, in the
parish of West Calder, occupied by John Geddes, labourer,
with intent to possess himself of money and goods belonging
to the said John Geddes, or in his possession, or from some
other malicious motive to the prosecutor unknown, attack
and assault the said John Geddes, and did, with a pair of
tongs or other instrument, inflict several severe blows on his
head and face and other parts of his body, and did, with a
cord or other ligature, compress his throat or neck, so as to
strangle or nearly strangle him, and did with his feet or
knees, or otherwise, tram pie or press upon his breast or
sides, by all which, or part thereof, or other violence, the
said Jain Geddes was 'mortally injured in his person, his
kull and lower jaw and 'ribs were fractured, and in conse-
quence. he immediately or soon after died, and was thus mur-
dered by the same James Bryce.
The evidence, which was wholly circumstantial, consisted
of tracing a considerable sum of money into the possession of
the :prisoner immedirftely after the period of the murder,
when he had been just before in want, as well as some of
Geddes' property, including a watch and a pair of shoes;
and of tracking him to different places where he was seen
both before and after the murder. The whole of Tuesday
was occupied in examining witnesses, and on Wednesday the
Solicitor-General for Scotland addressed the Court for the
prosecution.

Bryce was ably defended by Mr. Crawford. His speech
produced considerable sensation.
_ _

1843.

Amounts... 2,556,554/. ... 1,756,8051.... 2,140,127/.

EXPENDITURE OF IRELAND.—Return showing present
Total thereof, including Debt, Army, Pensions, Civil
List, Miscellaneous Estimates, and all Disbursements
payable out of the Public Revenue, for the years ending
respectively—

Payments for interest and ma-
nagement of the Permanent
Debt, including Terminable
Annuities (6011.185. in 1843
and 597/. Bs. in 1844)
Other permanent charges on
Consolidated Fund, exclu-
sive of advances for Public
Works
Ordnance
Miscellaneous Services .. .

Jan. 1, 1843. Jan. 1, 1844.

1,192,735

586,909

~. 937,500
97,050
... 398,504

Total present Expenditure —.C3,212,698 .......£3,184,696
LONDON COAL MARKET.—(No. 74. Mr. Wawn, Feb.
29.)—" Return of the Sums of Money received and paid
by the Chamberlain of the City of London in relation to
the market for the sale of Coals, to and including the
31st December, 1843," &c.:—Total receipts, including
11,521/. 14s. Amount of duty of one penny per
ton on coals, but deducting drawback of duty
on coal exported (under Ist and 2d Vic., c. 101),
14,5171. 7s. sd. Total expenditure, including 1,0001.
transferred to coal-whippers' account (6th and 7th Vic.,
c. 101), 5,860/. 17s. Invested by virtue of Ist and 2d
Vic., c. 76 and c. 101, in Government Securities, on 31st
March, and sth July, 1843, 9,3281.35. Total sum, which
had been invested on 31st December, 1843, 80,848/. Bs.
Balance in hand on same day, since invested, 6,266/. 7s.
COURT OF SESSION (SCOTLAND).
Return, extracted from the Accounts furnished by the
Exchequer of Scotland of Payments for the Maintenance
of the Judicial Establishment in that country ; showing
the number and names of the Judges of the Court of
Session who have retired on Superannuation Allowances,
&c. (No. 57. Mr. Wallace, Feb. 22) :

Date of Annual Amount
rumhs. Allowance Received to
Retirement.
granted. Dec. 31, 1843.
Charles Hope; of Grantoun,
late Lord President of
the Court of Session • • • • Oct. 7, 1841. 3,G00 7,131
David Moneypenny, of Pit-
milly, late a Lord of Ses-
sion and Justiciary, and
Commissioner of the Jury
Court....
Sir Andrew Campbell, of
Succoth, late Lord of Ses-
sion and Justiciary • • • • • Dec. 13,1824. 1,950 36,657
Sir William Miller, of Glen-
lee, late a Lord of Session Jan.lB, 1840. 2,250 8,32 G
George Cranstoun, of Core-
house, late a Lord of Set-
Mon .•
Alexander Maconochie, of
Meadowbank, late aJudge No Payment
of the Court of Session . • Nov. 3, 1843. 2,250 yet made.
Present Annual Charge...... X 13,950

Present Annual
Tot

Charge • • • • • .
,tal Paid ....

£92,358

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The jury, after an absence of nearly an hour, returned with
a verdict unanimously finding the pnsoner Guilty as libelled.
Lord Justice Clerk passed 'sentence, that the prisoner be
executed on Wednesday, the 34 of April.—The prisoner re-
ceived his sentence without the east emotion.

THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE, 44 WHITEFRIARS;
OR, THE DAYS OF CHARLES THE SECOND."—The popularity
foretold by the critical press for this work seems to have been
already attained—a third edition having appeared. The in-
exhaustible variety of character, the continual change of
scene, and the highly wrought complexity of plot which dis-
tinguish 'this romance have• certainly rarely been excelled.
Indeed, it is among -the curiosities of the criticisms on this
work that the author is taxed with exhibiting too great a
variety. " Take," says the Examiner, " merely a few of the
scenes in which the hero is concerned. He is present on the
eve of the murder of Lord Aumerle in the Tower. He has a
narrow escape from death in the Great Fire of London. He
sits on the lap of Nell Gwyn, the orange girl. He is student
with Titus Oates in the Jesuit College of St. Omer. He is
witness to the mysterious death struggle of Sir Edmondbury
Godfrey. He is with Blood in his desperate robbery of the
Crown jewels. He is Bide by side with Sheriffs Bethel and
Cornish at the dripping scaffold of the Popish plot. He
stands by the side of the Duke of Monmouth at the battle
of Bothwell Brigg. He is ' confederate conspirator with
William Russell and Algernon Sydney. He is present when
Shaftesbury plots against his master, and Howard of Esrcicke
is dragged down the chimney. He is with Captain Rumbold
at the Rye-house, and with Charles in his Alsatian rambler.
He takes part in the death of his mother, the infamous Lady
Howard; attends his father-In-law, Sydney, to the scaffold;
and is at the gallows with a friend and protector in the person
of Claude Duval."

Mr. O'CONNELL.—We give the following extract
from a country paper, the Ten Towns' Messenger, published at
Kidderminster, to show how far the London press is behind
the Tory provincial papers in elegance of style and powerful
writing:—" DLNNER TO O'CoNNELL—This most disgraceful
but instructive exhibition of contempt for all the decencies of
public life, took place on Tuesday last, at Covent-garden
Theatre, when that already degraded temple of the national
drama was subjected to the yet further debasement of being
made the scene of a banquet, given by a most reflecting public'
to a convicted conspirator,' who, in a few short days will, we
hope, find his mere fitting place among the felons of a public
gaol ; who has striven, as rarely man has strove, to dismember
the British empire ; has exhausted the vocabulary of even
his abuse upon the men of England, and dared to brand her
women as prostitutes at heart. This man, shamelessly living
upon the misery of which he is the very source, yet affects to
he the redresser, sat down to a public entertainment at which
no fewer than 1,200 guests assembled to meet him, with boxes
and galleries crowded to the root"

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Rent visited the
Queen and Prince Albert yesterday, at Buckingham-palace,
and partook of a dejeunt with her Majesty and his Royal
Highness.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the
Royal Gardens.

its Royal Highness Prince Albert presided, yesterday
afternoon, at a meeting of the Commission for promoting
and encouraging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the Palace
of Westminster. The meeting was held in Gwydyr-house,
at half-past two o'clock, and his Royal Highness arrived
soon after that hour, attended by Sir Edward Bowater. The
other Commissioners present were the Marquis of Lansdowne,
Lord Colborne, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Air. Gaily Knight,
Mr. Henry Hallam, Mr. Samuel Rogers, and Mr. Thomas Wyse.
The meeting broke up at half-past four o'clock, when the
Prince, attended by Sir E. Bowater, took his departure, and
returned to Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Princess Royal, left Buckingham Palace in a carriage and
four, escorted by a party of Light Dragoons, at twenty
minutes past five o'clock yesterday afternoon, for Claremont.
The Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Colonel the Hon. Charles
Grey, Equerry in Waiting on her-Majesty, and Major-General
Sir dward Bowater, Equerry in Waiting on his Royal High-
ness, followed in another Royal carriage and four.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were conducted to their
carriage by the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse,
the Vice-Chamberlain, the Hon. Misses Liddell and Murray,
Maids of Honour, the Margins of Ormonde, Lord in Waiting,
and Sir Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Prin •
cess Alice left Buckingham Palace, at three o'clock yesterday
afternoon, for Claremont, in a carriage and four.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took an airing
in a carriage yesterday afternoon.
Lord Sandon, M.P., and Mr. Lockhart, M.P., accompanied
by Mr. Tennant, from Glasgow, and some of the master
coopers of London, had an interview with Mr. Gladstone, at
the office of the Board of Trade, on the subject of the griev-
ances affecting the coopers' trade.
Mr. Attwood and a deputation had an interview with Sir
R. Peel yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer also attended the interview.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meet-
ing yesterday afternoon at the office in Whitehall-place. The
Commissioners present were the Bishop of London, the
Bishop of Lichfield, the Lord President of the Council, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Besborough, the
Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, and the Dean of Westminster.
M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, and Baron de
Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, transacted business yes-
terday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Evanson had an interview with Lord Stanley yester-
day at the Colonial-office.
A model, illustrative of an improved self-adjusting rail-
way switch, was submitted by Mr. Faram to the Earl of
Dalhousie and General Pasley, Inspector-General of Rail-
ways, at the office of the Board of Trade.

ADULTERATION OF TOBACCO.—The Excise autho-
rities, under the immediate direction of the Hon. Chairman,
Mr. Wood, have recently been very active in putting down
the adulteration of tobacco by special inspections and prompt
prosecutions, and conviction where the frauds hnve been de-
tected. The following cases have been brought before the
local judicial authorities within the last few weeks, and the
parties have been fined in the sums named, viz. :—Mr.
'fickle, of Bolton, 150/. ; Mr. Laffer, of Liverpool, 300/. ;
Messrs. Nichol and Gough, of Chester, 300/. ; Messrs. Wood
and Son, of Doncaster, 150/. ; Messrs. Gartans, of Lincoln,
2501.. Messrs. Gamble, of Gainsborough, 600/. The case at
Gainsborough. last referred to occupied the Magistrates the
whole of Thursday and. Friday last, was conducted by Dr.
Bateman, of ' London for the Excise, and by Mr. Cartwright,
of Bantry, for the defence. One of the witnesses for the
Crown was Professor Graham, of the London University,
whose proof of the analysis of the adulterated tobacco was
complete and conclusive.
ON THE VERGE OF THE GRAVE ! OR A MIRA-
CULOUS CURE BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS I—James Langley, a
ladies' shoemaker, residing in Allen-street, Goswell-street,
caught a violent cold about twelve months since, which being
neglected brought on a swelling of the legs and feet, pains in
the side and shoulders, night sweats, with inability to keep
food on the stomach ; indeed he was at last reduced to such
a state of general weakness and debility that no one thought
he could long survive ; but by the use of Holloway's Pills
every dangerous symptom quickly disappeared and he is
now as hale and as hearty as ever he was in his life. Sold at
Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand (where ad-
vice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable Medi-
cine vendors throughout the civilised world.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—TWO MEN KILLED AT WOOL-
WICIL—SeveraI men of the Royal Artillery were yesterday (Fri.
day) afternoon employed in digging and carting gravel from the
gravel.pit between the battery and Repository.grounds to the
Royal Arsenal, and two of the men, gunner and driver Norwood,
and gunner and driver Cochrane • belonging to Captain Dyson's
company, 7th battalion, havhig in the progress of digging gone
under the bank, their operations and the state of the ground and
gravel above them caused the whole to give way, and, falling upon
them, they were killed ahnOst hlstantaneously. Their comrades,
who were present at the time, soon got out the bodies, and medical
men were promptly on the spot, but life was totally extinct in the
one case, and MI6 two or three gasping, the other ceased to exist.

-
VICTORIA PARR.—AII doubts of the commence-
ment of operations in the park during the present spring, are re-
moved by the Crown having given permission to the market
gardeners to resume possession of their property till Michaelmas.
day, and having rented all the pasture land to Mr. Ridge, a large
proprietor, till the end of October. The terms for the purchase
of Bonner's-hall, which was the property of Guy's Hospital, and has
been the subject of much litigation and delay between the Crown
and the hospital, have been finally arranged this week. It is, how-
ever, considered likely that workmen will be at once employed to
stake nut the boundaries of the park, and that the excavations for
the drainage will immediately commence.