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the employ of an anchorsmith at Monkwearmouth, nen',"
humsden. The deceased was foreman. Oa the day of !Ile
offence the men were employed upon an anchor, which, being'
" at heat," it was necessary that the hammering should be car-
ried on briskly. The station of the prisoner was on the out-
side the anchor, near the shank. A man named Dodds was
nearer the fluke. The deceased wes standing near the point of
the fluke, about three yards from the prisoner, w in) left his work
and went to a corner of the shop, about eight yards off, where
he was drinking something out of a bottle. The deceased called
to him not to be getting drunk, but to go on with the work. The
prisoner went back to his station grumbling, and struck five or
-six Mows, and tht-n walked past Dodds to the deceased, saying,
",When I can't do my work 11l go home." Thredeceased
replied, " Then go," and repeated the words, " Then go."
The prisoner immediately raised the heavy hammer with both
`sands, and struck the deceased a violent blow on the left side
of the head near the crown. The deceased fell back, and the
' prisoner was about to repeat the blow, when Dodds and the
younger Lumsden seized him, notwithstanding which the
i-iainmer struck the chest of the deceased. Lumsden said, '• You
rascal, do yen see what you have done ;" to which the prisoner
replied, " I may as well be hung for him as for moiler." The
i',risiieer struck with all his force, as when striking the anchor,
saying " Ilah I" as he delivered the blow. The prisoner wes
' somewhat intoxicated. After the b ows he walked home, and
was there apprehended, when he eagerly asked, "Is he dead ?"l'he offiver said, " No, not set." 'He said, " be hanged;
I may as well be hanged now as alien"
The deceased lingered till five o'clock next morning, and then
,lied. On examination it was lotted that the skull was fright-
fully fractured, the membrane torn away, and the brain deeply
wounded.

In summing up the case His Loansuir told the Jury that
she question for their consideration was wile, her the offence
was committed with malice aforethought, which was ersential
to the crime of murder, but that. no provocation by words only
would reduce that crime to manslaughter; but if, though he
fared there was nothing in the eridence to warrant it, they
could consistentle bring their minds to the belief that there
was no malice aforethought, it would be open to them to find
a verdict of manslaughter.
The Jury, after a shcrt retirement, returned a verdict of
Manslaughter.
His Loanstur addressed the prisoner in a very solemn man-
ner, and said that the Jury had taken a very merciful view of
his case. Had they found him guilty of murder, the last sen-
tence of the law would most certainly have been executed
upon him ; as it wa., he would, for the residue of his life,
have to undergo a punishment less terrible only than death it-
sdf. He was then s.mteneed to be transported for life.

POLICE INTELLIJENCE.
GCILDRALL.

One of the shareholders of the Westminster Investment Com-
pany, who gave hts name to Sir Peter Laurie in confidence,
attended to state how he had been dupei, and that he was
ready to give any testimony in his power to assist those who
Were inquiring into the history of this concern. He said he
was a foreigner, who had been utterly ruined by put chasing 21
shares in the" Company. For i great number of years he had
laboured to save something for his family. He had heard of
tricky establishments, and he bad been so afraid of being
duped out of his lone. savings that he had shunned all advice
'of placing his money here or there, and kept it in his house till
he had realised above 2001., and then the high interest offered
by the Wes:minster Investment Company, and the high patro
nage it seemed to have, induced him to invest `3lOl. in ita
shares. When Members-of Parliament and Honourables lent
the sanction of their names, he concluded this concern must
be safe and upright ; but he had been deceived, and had not
only lest his money, but he dare not go to his home, and his
nine children were in danger of starvation.
Sir PET 13 It asked whit the liabilities of the Company
amounted tu?
The applicant replied they were said to be 3,0001. at a
meeting of the shareholders held at the beginning of last
month: A general meeting was called, but only. six share-
holders attended. The chairman made a statement that, in
consequence of some attacks in the newspapers, the customers
had withdrawn their money, and the concern was 3,000/. in
debt, which must be produced, or the Savings' Bank must
close its doors. He asked how this could possibly be the case,
when four months had not elapsed since the Directors had pro-
duct(' the following balance-sheet :
Liabilities and Assets of the Westminster Loan anl Investment
J,int-stcck Company.

Dr.
Amount due by the Company on Shares, De-
bentures, Current and Deposit Accounts,
including money taken on security £90,f20 14 6
Balance carried to Profit and Loss account." 10,866 17 6

00,887 12 t

Cr. -
Amcunt in loans, bills discounted, and cash in
till ..
Preliminary expenses, advertising, travelling
expenses, solicitor's bill, stamps, lease,.fix tures 1,69514 8

£98,991 17 4

Balance as above : £100,887 12 0
Current expenses, interest allowed on deposits,
rebate on bill not due, and 1-10th of preli-
minary expenses
Dividends payable on debentures, shales, and
deposits fur definite periods
Surplus profit carried to guarantee fund 520 I. 0
Auditor—James PRINGLE, GEORGE WINKS, and JG.UN

HOWELL, Shareholders.
The chairman said the lease of the premises had been paid'
for since this Report. Applicant pointed out from the Report
that this was not true.. He was very dissatisfied, and asked :or
the deed to see who were his fellow-sufferers. After some re-
sistance the deed was produced, and he found the nalnes of 26
shareholders, which he copied. Some of them he had not
been able to trace. Those he had found mostly held two or
three shares. One person, however, held 38 shares. The sp.-
plicant produced his share. It set forth that he was the pro—
prietor of 21 shares in the Company, and was signed" r•harles
Kerry Nicholls and Francis A. Whittaker."
Sir PETER said he had received a letter, in which it O'A'
alleged that Nicholls'a real name was Whittaker, but he ha cf
changed it to the more attractive name of Charles Kerry
Nicholls.
The applicant said he had waited upon the Hon. Alr. Byng,
in Clarges-street, and he said he was not a shareholder ; he
countenanced the concern, believing it was established for the
good of the public, and that he was sorry for applicant's lass.
He had called upon Mr. O'Brien, ALP., but could not obtain
an interview. Some other great men had declared off, but
shareholders could not shift their liabilities so readily. At the
meeting held on the 3d of April, 1841, letters were read from
Cornelius O'Brien. Esq. ALP., (perpetual chairman,) the:
Honourable E. Byng, Air. Bridgman, M.P., and Sir Robert.
Dugdale ; and amongst the resolutions advertised in the news.
papers was one—" That the thanks of this meeting are hereby
gratefully presented to Cornelius O'Brien, Esq., the Hon.
E. Byng, Sir 11. Dugdale, and Hewitt Bridgman, EN ,
M.P.'s, for their exerticns and support on behalf of the Inati.
tuti‘:n." The Railway Magazine of the following week spoke
of the Society as " supported as a kind of experimental Insti-
tution by several influential Members of Parliament and others,
tor the purpose of placing capital within the reach of the
humbler classes an moderate terms."
Sir PETER LA U RIE told the applicant if he would call again
next Wednesday, it might be seen whether any and wha.t steps
could be taken by the sufferers.
11'011811-IP-STREET.

Mr. Edwin. Bates, of Park Villas, Regent's-park, who
stood charged with having used langnage of a violent and
threatening description, towards William Marshall, Esq., M.P.,
one of the Directors of the Northern and Eastern Counties
Railway, was placed in front of the bar for final examination.
After a brief conversation between the Magistrate and Mr.
Maynard, the solicitor for the prosecution,
Mr. Davis, a surgeon residing in Worship-square, was ex-
amined, and he stated that he had visited the defendant, in
company with Mr. Leeson, surgeon, of Finsbury-square, on
two occasions since his remand, and the conversations that
took place between them had impressed him with a conviction
that the defendant entertained a strong, feeling on the subject
of his transaction with the Railway Company, more particu-
larly in reference to Mr. Marshall ; and he was decidedly of
opinion that whilst he remained under the influence of that
feeling it would be unsafe to allow him to go at large.
Mr. 13iNniram asked the defendant, in a soothing manner,
whether he felt satisfied with the treatment he had received
since he was last before him ?—The defendant answered that
the Governor of the prison had behaved toward 3 him with the
utmost urbanity and kindness, for which lie expressed his
warmest acknowledgments.
Mr. BINGHAM was proceeding to state that he now proposed
to send him to a place where he would be treated with equal
consideration, when the defendant interrupted the Magistrate,
and vehemently protested against such a proceeding being car-
ried into execution. He then bitterly inveighed against Mr.
Marshall, and called a clergyman, an 01,1 friend of his, to prove
that the opinion of the medical men with respect to the state of
his mind was not to be trusted to.
't he MACIsTRATE said that every word the defendant uttered
went more fully to confirm him in the opinion that it would be
unsafe to liberate him without good security for his behaviour,
and, instead of pursuing the course he at first intended, he
should require the defendant to find bail for three calendar
months, himself in 500/., and two sureties in '2501. each.
The Magistrate having required the usual notice of bail, the
defendant was conducted back to prison.
UNION- HALL.

William While was charged with assaulting Selwood, th
constable of the Surrey Theatre, in the execution of his duty
The complainant stated that on the preceding night he had
occasion to proceed to the boxes, owing to a noisy gentleman,
who broke the door and interrupted rho audience. He (the
constable) however, had scarcely spoken to the individual, to
request he would either leare the house or conduct himself
with more propriety, when the defendant came up, inteeercd,
and ultimately struck the officer, and created much confusion
by the violence of his conduct.
The defendant said that he was tipsy at the time, and apolo.
gited for his conduct. He was held to bail.
Thomas Spinks, collecting clerk in the employ of 'an ex-
tensive glue. manufacturer in Bermondsey, was committed ter
embezzling upwards of 3001., the property of his employer.
'there were six charges selected against the prisoner.

" The Manceuvring• Mother," by the authoress of
" The History of a Flirt' is just now the great object of at-
traction at all the libraries. The following criticism from the
Examiner certainly affords a strong testimony of its merits:—
•• • The history of a Fiirt' was an excellent novel in au excel-
lent school. We think of Turner Ellis as we think of the best
creations of Miss Austin. The present book is not unworthy
of its predecessor. The quiet unexaggerated pictures, the
lively natural dialogues, the coot, asts of folly and vice, the
dangets of false education and a half-morality, were chiefly no-
ticeable,in the writer's first production, and present themselves
in this wills unabated freshness. The design is to exhibit the
manoeuvring and match-making passion in its trains of misery
and disastrous consequence. Lady Wetheral is the central
figure round which are grouped the fortunes of her five
daughters. And most admirable, the work of a sure and un-
faltering hand, is this elaborate and highly-wrought character.
It is even raised here and there, by the writer's earnest spirit,
into something of tragic elevation and intensity—differing in
this respect from the tame subject in the hands of other writers,
that the mere sordid, calculating, money-making spirit, is by no
means its chief feature. The vice in Lady IV etheral springs
from a deeper source, and works with more fatal poison. It is
the effect of unrestrained indulgence on a weak character and
a bad education--resulting in the utter misapprecietion of all
worldly things as to their power of contributing to happiness.
We wish all success to this writer, and that she will win her
way to a sure and enviable vation in this class of literature is
little to be doubted."
TORIES DESCRIBED BY TORIES.—“, The inconsist-
ency' of Sir Edward linatchbull, ulto last year moved
an amendment (on the Poor-law Bill) identical with
Mr. Sharman Crawford, and with ti-.e very same ob-
ject--of Lord Gra:Mlle Somerset, of Mr. Goulburn,
and of Mr. IL Manners Sutton, in their present line of
con'luct, is, we beg
leave to tell those gentlemen, dis-
gusting, and can only be accounted for by a greater re-
gard for place than for principle, or for truth. But it is
idle and useless to throw away comment on such per-
sons ; they
seem perfectly insensible to shame."—Herald.
TUE VACANT jUDGESUIP.—Up to the present mo-
ment it seems somewhat doubtful whether Recorder Shaw or
Sergeant Jackson will be appointed to the puisne judgeship,
vacant by the death of Mr. Justice Foster. Without venturing
an opinion on this subject, we way state that the elevation of
Sergeant Jackson to the office of Solicitor-General was a pure
blunder on the part of the Lord Lieuteueut.—Dublin Pam.