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CORONER'S Dierizsrs.
A Coroner's Jury sat yesterday at the house of Mr.
Leach, in Adam's-buildings, Oxford-street, on the
body of Miss A. Loach, aged 19, who was killed by
a kick from a horse on Sunday night. The deceased
was crossing Oxford-street with a gentleman at
the time a coach was passing near them, and in
hastening to clear the carriage, she was knocked down
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by a horse led by a groom, and kicked at the same
instant on the temple, which killed her on the spot.
Verdict--Accidental Death.
An Inquest was held by Charles
at the Je
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Coroner for the county of Surrey,
Wandsworth, on Tuesday the 3d inst. on the body
of Mr. William Astell, late gamekeeper to the
Right
Honourable Earl Spencer, at Wimbledon Park.
Lavender, from Bow-street, produced the gun,
which had been taken from the deceased, and which'
was found in possession of William Holt, when ap-
prehended by him and Vickery, at Farnham, on the
21st ult.
The witnesses were re-examined, and evidence given
the same as before the Magistrates at the Session-
house, Horsemonger-lane, with the addition of that
of Mr. Shillito, of Putney, one of the Surgeons
who attended the deceased. From the evidence of
this witness, it appeared, that, independent of two.
wounds on the left side of the head, with the skull
fractured and driven upon the brain to the extent of
five inches, injuring that organ and its membranes,
the deceased had also received two violent blows
on the lower part of the skull on the same side,
and also several severe contusions on each thigh ; i
that the deceased had been understood repeatedly to
articulate, although indistinctly, that Woolzyer did
it, and always pointed towards Wandsworth as the
residence of the person ; that in consequence of it a'
man of that name living at V/andsworth was brought
to him ; the deceased, however, gave unequivocal
sign of his Rot being the offender, pointing at the
same time to the door and waving his hand for him
to retire. The witness afterwards understood from
him, and had it confirmed in three different ways,
that a man who had been lodging at the Antelope,
Wandsworth, was the person who had wounded him,
and that he had declared to the deceased upon his
corning up to him in the field, that his name was
Woolzyer. It also appeared from the information
this witness had been able to obtain from the decea-
sed, that the wounds had been inflicted by his han-
ger, and after he had followed the man over the ;tail-
ing into the woody part of the Park. Instead of that
composure which was observed in the deceased
'when the real Woolzyer was brought into his pre-
sence two days before, the deceased was agitated on
first seeing the prisoner Hult enter the room ; and
when asked if he was the man who had assaulted
him, he lifted up his right hand, and pointed it two
or three times at him, in, as the witness thought, the
most convincing manner ; also gently nodding his
head as a corroborative assent. rhe witness was of
opinion, although the faculty of sp.ech was at the
time impaired, that his intellects were sound, and also
when his deposition was taken by Colonel Fleming,
the Magistrate. Several attempts had been made by
the deceased to write, and which he seemed anxious
to accomplish, but was unable sufficiently ti grasp
either a pen or chalk. The Jury, alter an investiga-
tion of eight hrrs, returned a verdict " Wilful Mur-
der against William Holt."
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Friday last, Sir CECIL BIsIIOP'S game-keeper, named
Woods, accompanied by Daniel Nash, a labouring
man, went into a coppice in the neighbourhood of
Parham, to shoot a hare, and having started one, the
gamekeeper shot at it, but, owing to a sudden doub-
ling of the animal, unfortunately he lodged the charge,
in his companion's breast. The wounded man is,
however, likely to recover.
On the 22,1 ult. a melancholy accident took place
at Windermere. A party of four men pushed off in
a small boat to amuse themselves on the lake, when
it upset by a gust of wind ; one of them, a sailor, ad-
vising the others to hold by the mast, swam to the
shore, and brought another boat ; but, in the interim,
another of the party, a good swimmer, let go his'
hold, and perished in attempting to make the shore.
He was butler to a Gentleman in the neighbourhood,
and bore an excellent character.
A young man of respectable appearance was
found drowned, on Monday morning, near the in-
tended Vauxhall Bridge, by a lighterman. He had a
silver hunting watch in his pocket, and abort three
pounds in mt,iey. The body was owned on Tuesday
morning, by the mother and sister of the deceased,
who reside in the vicinity of Fulham. He had been
missing from his employment in a respectable house
in the neighbourhood of Carnaby Market, since
Monday se'nnight. •
FATAL MISTAKE.—A few days ago a woman went
into a druggist's shop in Liverpool, and ordered some
medicine for a child, which she promised to call for
in a short time The medicine was made up accord-
ing to order, and placed on the counter ; but on her
return the person in the shop being very busy, did
not observe that she took up a wrong bottle, which
unfortunately contained laudanum, and of which •she
gave the child so large a dose that it died in conse-
quence.
Monday a boy, while blacking tile side of a ship in
the West India Dock, fell therefrom and was drowned.
Saturday morning some villains entered the house
of Mr. Braithwaite, of Gloucester-place, Edgeware-
road, by forcing the window-shutter on the first-flow
landing, and carried off plate, &c. to a considerable
amount.
Another house, belonging to a Mrs. Adams, in
Church-street, near the same spot, had an unsuccess-
ful attempt made to rob it, on the same evening.
Lord Paget's house, in the King's-road, Chelsea,
was attacked twice last week. Mr. Watkins, who is
in possession during the absence of the family, pur-
sued a man on the last attack, whom he fired at, and
wounded, blood having been traced eit the shrubbery
the next morning.
SWINDLING --John Williams, a watchmaker by
trade, was yesterday, at twelve o'clock, publicly whip-
ped on Clerkenwell.grecn, pursuant to sentence passed
upon him by the Magistrates of Hatton Garden Po-
lice Office, by virtue of the Pawnbroker andJewellers'
Acts. The-prisoner was convicted of having obtained
from divers persons watches, under pretence of re.
pairing them, but in reality-with intent to pawn the
property of his employers, and convert the money to
Ats, own we.
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AM ICA
ROBIHERY AT VAUXHALL GARDiaffe.•The prOplit•
tor of the Gardens hiving had suspicions for some time
past, that the men employed in lighting and trim-,
ming the lamps were in the habit of robbing him of
considerable quantities of oil and cotton, steps were
taken to detect them, but without effect till Monday
'last, when a constable was set to watch them as they
were going out, who accordingly took his station
near the gate, and as one of the suspected men, named
Brown, accompanied by Crowley and Guileford, two
other lamp-lighters, were quitting the Gardens, he
stopt them, and en searching them two large bladders
of oil were found concealed under the hats of Brown
and Crowley, and upon Guileford was found a %inn-
tity of cotton.' On this discovery being made, Brown
and Crowley expressed contrition, and offered to dis-
cover all they knew relative to the depredations.—
In consequence of their discoveries, no fewer than 12
of these pilferers were taken before a Magistrate, when
sour of them were discharged, and eight were reman-
ded fur farther examination. There is also a person
in custody on suspicion of having received the oil,
knowing it to be stolen.
HATTON GARDEN.—A very interesting case was
,`nought before the sitting Magistrate yesterday, by
one Joseph Canter, a working goldsmith and jeweller,
against the Un;on Benefit Society, to which he had
belonged for 33 years. The claimant charged that his
allowance, being one guinea per week, according to
the Articles of the Association, had been withheld
from him s nce the .sth of Jnne last, after he had re-
ceived the same for 2c weeks, he being now at the age
of 70 years, and afflicted with weakness of sight.
wholly
Dr. Clare attended to testify, to a degree
incapacitating him for the finer parts orthe
work. The Society is very rich and numerous, but
principally composed of goldsmiths and jewellers,
several of whom attended to give evidence of the no..
ture of their trade, and to obtain the judgment of the'
Magistrates upon the Bth Clause of the Articlei,
which specified that the party claimir.3 the allowance
must be, by blindness or other visitation, wbolly un-
able to work in the finer or coarser branches of the
trade, or in any other kind of trade or business what-
soevcr. On the latter words of this clause, the doss,*
was lately started by the Treasurer and Stewards oft,
the Society, not with hostile views towards the clai-
mai.% but to settle the point. —The Magistrates, Mr.
' LEacit and Mr. BAKER, after an astute and patient
discussion of the merits of this case, ruled the excep-
tion not to apply to this case, but that the words of
the clause were to be restricted to the trade of gold-
smiths and jewellers oaly, and not extended to any
other trade or business.—Judgment for the claimant.

CHILD Sattattato.—Tuesday morning, a miserable
looking woman, bordering upon sixty years of age,
decoyed away a female child from the door of its pa-
rents in West Smithfield, under pretence of giving it k
an apple and buying some toys. She then took the
little innocent up an alley in Cow-cross, and was pro-
ceeding to strip the child of its garments, when a con-
stable, who had watched her actions, conveyed her
to the Compter.
GLANIORDANSHIRE GREAT SCS9TONS.—A case came
on for trial, in which Good title, on the demises of
Sir Watkin Lewes, lEnt. Justina Anna Lewes, spin- I
ster, and Granville Sharp, Esq. was plaintiff, and
George Morgan, Esq. James Morgan, D.D. Henry
'Wilde!, D.D. John Morgan, Esq. and others (mort-
gagees and tenants of the estates, the subject of this
I ejectment) were the defendants. The Plaintiff's Comt•
sel stated, that their case rested upon an outstanding
term of 50J years, created in the year 1717, for pur-
poses which have ceased to caist upwards of 40 years
since; but which term Sir WatkinLewes had procured i
an assignment of to Mr. Granville Sharp, so late as
January last, for the purposes of this action. After
' the Pl.tintiff's case had limn stated, Mr. Chief Justice
Hardinge said, that he felt it his duty to direct a non-;
suit, winch passed accordingly.—( Cambrian.)
At the late Assizes held at Bridgwater, a man was'
tried on the Crown side for stealing letters from the,
Post-Office at Bath. On New Year's-day last, Messrs.!
Slack's and Co. linemeir2pers,i f Milsham street, Bath,
put a letter into the Bath Lust. Office, containing notes I
and bills to the amount of £7OO, directed to Messrs.
Whitehead and Co. Bankers in London, the whole of
which came tohand except two 'lank of England post.
hills, amounting to £l7O. Notice was gtved at the
Bank of the robbery, and one of the bills, after some
time, was traced to a pawnbroker in Gracechurch-
street, London, who could give no other account of
the possession of it than that he took it in his shop in
the way of business, of a man calling himself Mr.
Jones, of Reading. Inquiry was made there, but no
such person was to be found. After a considerable.
interval, some circumstances occurred by which the
bill was traced to the prisoner, who had been em-
ployed as a servant at the Bath Post-Office, which si-,
tuation he left, and went to keep a public-house in
Bath, occasionally calling in at the Post-Office, and
when they were busy assisting in sorting the letters.
IHe removed from Bath to Milford to keep the Fox
Inn, occasionally pursuing the lame practice of call- I
ing in at the Bath Post-Office. Another post-bill was
traced to the prisoner which was put into the letter
with that tittered by him in London, and which he
passed at Gosport for the purchase of some sil k. He
was tin and the Judge left him for execution.
At the Glamorganshire Great Sessions, la-t week, I
a true bill was found against J. Merrick, a only
12 years of age, Mr setting fire to the tin manufac-
tory, at Merlin Griffith, but the trial was postponed
till next Sessions.
At a Court of Inquiry held at Winchester, on the I
26th ult. to try the right of property in a sloop called
the Venus, lying in Hythe Dock, the Jury, aver de- •
liberating a few minutes, expressed a wish to retire,l
and were accordingly conducted to the Grand Jimmy '
Chamber. There was / division between them, nine
being of one opinion, and the other three of a diffe-
rent opinion. Neither party could make any im-1
pression on the other, so as to induce them to alt
their opinion, and they remained in the Jui y room ti m
three o'clock till about nine, when it was discovered
that one of them had made his escape out at a back
window from the water closet ; the remaining eleven
then importuned to be discharged, which they were,
without coming to any decision.
The sham Parson has relinquished all idea of
itroneiion in die Church, as tle me* very shortly
to be called to the Airi
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rag NSW COMM:
AWRY, spa S.—The Coact which was ob-
served soils time ago in France, coming down to
wards the no. has passed its p.rihelion, and is now
ascending northwards. It was seen at Bury •)r e, .
today evening last, and at SS minutes past ei4;lit,
had about 11 degrees altitude above the horizqi, and
formed a triangle with the two lower stars of t 6
sqtutre of the Great Bear, they being the base, and the
Comet the point downwards. It formed a good dia-
gonal line with the two stars in the Great Bear's pie-
ceding hinder foot, and about a quarter belurt awe
the Comet had risen sensibly from this diagonal. It
had a nebulous appearance, the denser light abott
Ave or six minutes diameter, strongest in Cie centre,
which was like a star of the 4th or sth magnitude ;
the general diffused coma (winch is very twig and
delicate,) exceeded a degree. It appears to be pro.
ceeding northwards towards the tail of Ussa Major
At present it is tie illy North. N: dad. 35 degt.ty
nearly ; It. A. (doubtfuty) about 152 degrees.
The comet was distinctly seen with the naked eye
and through a telescope. at about a quarter beim
Ifour, on Sunday morning at Hackney.

Upon the passage of the goith Cork Militia from
Cork to Spithead, a Serjeant's wife, belonging to the
regiment, had the misfortune to fail overboard, and
lnotiiiyelplCuirtigaewdroinatoo,
tiiiine observing the aceiden., ii .
would unquestionably have been drowned, had not
though in boots -nd re.
Colonel
gimentals, and by lt:s exertions kept the poor woman's
head above water until a boat was got ready, whit h
brought the Colonel and the Serjeant's wife safe on
board the transport. '11)5 ihnihjui oral •••
which Colonel cnAwrosto has had the happiness to
say from drowning a fellow creature.
An alarming fire broke out at seven o'clock in
Tuesday morning, in the premises of a hair-dresser,
in Taylor's-court, Islington Road, which for a t in.:
threatened the destruction of the buildirg ; but a
number of fire engines soon arriving, and there brine
a good supply of water, by the exertions of the firemen
aid others the &me► were subdo.rd, after doing vc.y
considerable diunge.
The Society of Methodists have purelased the su-
perb mansion and grounds of Apperiey-bridge lithe
West-riding of Yorkshire, late the residence if Tho-
mas Clapham, Esq. for the purpose of 4 public school;
this institution is to be founded on the model of the
school at Kingswood, in the neighbourhood of Bris-
i tol, and is to be on a scale sufficiently large to ac-
; commodate4oo boys, principally the sons of the mi-
nisters of that community.
Thetford Lamb Fair was on Friday last rather
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smaller than last year, but the price of lambs was
much the same as at Ipswich, and nearly all were
' sold. Mr. Thornhill's wether and ewe sold for 275.
i each ; Mr. W. Bidwell's refuse ewe Southdown lambs
' sold at 18s. ; Mr. 1. Manning's, 18s. ; Mr. Sewell's,
20s. 6d. ; Colonel Cadogan's Southdnwn wethers,
Ws. r Mr. Sillis's half-bred ewe and wetlwr, ilirs.;
Mr. Jacob's (Brandon) half-bred ewe and wether,
, 20s. 6d.; Mr. Rodwell's Norfolk ewe lambs, 22,
I The Fair was not very brisk, although aimo-t every
thing was sold except the crone ewes, which in gine-
ral were very poor. There were several wool-buyers,
and many flocks of wool were sold from .555. to 38s.
per tod.
Werisr ate the mast frequent sources of Children.'
disases. Their symptoms every parent and guardian
of children should be acquainted with. They occasion
loss of appetite, a paleness of the colour of the face,
emaciation, and irregular state of the bowels, atten-
ded after with violent pains ; they bring on convul-
sions, they affect the growth of the body, and they
prove fatal, by ending in a consumption or decay.—
Both as a preventative and cure of these alarming
complaints, CAines Patted Irons • Loaenges is univer.
' sally allowed, on the testimony of the highest chaise-
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ters in this country, bout in rank and respectability,
rto have no equal. The public approbation given to
the Proprietor, from a personal knowledge outs won-
derful success in their own families, stamps its merit
'beyond competition, and gives a sanction to it, of
, which no other medicine of the kind can boast.-
1 Parents and others who have the care of children
Ishould have this remedy as a family medicine to re.
tort to, whenever the stomach or bowels of children
are any way disordered, which it will always be
j found to relieve. Sold, wholesale and retail, at Mr.
I Butler's, N 0.4, Cheapside, corner of Paternostar.riiw,
and retail by Belam and Sharp, Portsrnou•h ; Hail
; and Johnson, Gosport ; Ailnutt, Weavin, Mallory
I and Jones, P,ortsea ; Trev:nun, Exeter ; Cooknor-
thy, Glenville, Gilbert and Holland, Plymouth ;...-
Newbery, Dublin ; B rater and *Donald, Glasgow;
i Smith, Manderston, Scott and Cargill, Edinburgh ;
i 3ruttwell, Bath ; Rias and Peck, Hull ; Gregscr.
and Billinge, Lverpool ; Stains and Lynch, M sr.-
chester ; Bowen, Nora ich ; Knott and Lloyd. 13
rifngliana ; Gregory, Brighton ; and most Medicine
Venders, in Boxes at 2.. 9d. and Ss. 6.1. each.

ECCL ESIAS ricAL PROIIOIOIIOIOI3.
Sunday loot,\o. 1« Manse), D.D. Lord Bishop of Brlstid,was
inducted Into the valuable living of Barwick to Elmore, Yeasts's.%
The Earl of Plymouth has been phased to appoint the I•c‘•
David Evans, B.A. of Llaudilo, Carmarthendure, to be one cf
his Lordship's Chaplains.
The Rev. John Davie, B.D. h of Sidney Sorts Cctl‘r-,
Cambridge, was elected on the 30th Wt. Master of the Jwidy,
hi the room of the late Dr. Pearson; and on the followleg .!a),
the Rev. Hoslth g, B.D. also fcßow of that Society, vas
presented by the Master to the Rectory of Remota/se, is hot-
tingbamshirr, vacant by the death of the said Dr. Pearson.

LEM IFICAIES, SEPT. t 4.
Huy, of Weston, Herefordshire, cattle dealer.
Fri:derick Wine. of Frame Sc woad,
Thorow. Itebnison, of lAverpeul, merefunt.
0. Stratton, Cumberiand.stmet, Goodge-s: feet, liquortnerchreft
Edw. Weaver, of Kenton-wrest, bruuswlck.square. slaw dealer.
John Wyo.'s, auf Leominster, merchant.
J. Taylor. of Marryort, Cumberland, cottongrizaufacter.t.
1. C'ilit'oPY, of Nioryport, Cumberland, clams insaufac•u:
Thos brockbank, of 11l iventen, Layeastifre, cot ton. inatistfaci wet.
W .111 am Todd. of Cross-lass, It. Mary.hill, merchant.
hallscl Dyer, late of Newbury, Berkshire, alai:star,
Thomas Ectil.ihm„ of Romford Ewes, lincli-dt d.
T'numls Ruhi ion', of keonfonl, x, n•net.

inut.
Lately, at TewkeNtirry, Mrs. Mn Cecilia Di ddridge, lass
Hein rtaughter of the pious and le.unesi Dr.
Norrisamprou *h., died 111 6761.
On Wefineksy, the each of August, ft Paitisite, Nors. rt. -
toesbirei in bee Hitt. year. Elisebesis, wife et the Rel. Thor....*
Welch, Vfisir o 1 1 at isar

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