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No evidence bping_adiuced by the Attorney-Gnneral,

The Court ordered her acquit'tai.
Richard Gamble was next placed :at the bar, and !pleaded
" not guilty" of having been accessory after the murder of
Jane Jones ; and also of receiving several gowns and other
property, knowing them to have been stolen.
In this case no evidence was offered, and

The Jury acquitted the prisoner.
Baron Alderson (to Mr. Cope, the Governor of Newgate)
—Let the prisoner be immediately discharged.

THE CONFLAGRATION AT HAMBURGH

BREMEN, MAY B.—The senate of Bremen has just met
to consider of means to assist the unfortunate city of Ham-
burgh. _ _

Three o'clock, p. m.—The number of fugitives increases.
The senate has decided that our troops shall be sent with all
speed to Hamburgh, and all our carriages are put in requisi-
tion fo convey assistance and provisions. Thousands of un-
happy beings have been wandering for these two days in the
streets unable to find shelter, they having lost their all, and
apparently perishing from want and misery.
FRANKFORT, MAY 11.—The senate had fixed the sum
which it proposed to take from the public treasury, as a gift
to the city of Hamburgh, at 25,000 florins, but the repre-
sentatives of the citizens and legislative body have raised the
sum to 100,000 florins (about £10,009.)
ANTWERP, May 13.—The enormous losses caused by the
dreadful conflagration at Hamburgh have already excited,
wherever the news has reached, the public sympathy and
generosity. The Cologne Gazette has opened a subscription
at its office, to which, in a few minutes, 4000 francs were
contributed by 150 persons.
The Handelsblad at Amsterdam and several Brussels jour-
nals offer to receive subscriptions, and we (the Journal du
Commerce d' Anvers) have been solicited by several persons
to receive subscriptions at our office. We doubt not that
Antwerp, which, as a commercial city, must particularly sym-
pathise with Hamburgh, will not be behind Frankfort, Co-
logne, Amsterdam, and Brussels, and other subscriptions
will soon be opened to afford some relief to distresses so de-
plorable and so extreme.
We this moment learn that a subscription is opened at the
Hanseatic consulate. .

The fresh subscription received on Change by the Han-
seatic Consul, and those at the office of the Journal du Com-
merce d' Anvers already exceed 20,000 f.

From the Prussian State Gazette.—"We, Frederick
William King of Prussia, &c., to all to whom these present
come greeting. By the inscrutable decree of God, the city
of Hamburgh has been, destroyed by a fire such as there has
been none in Germany within the memory of man. The
dreadful misery and distress of that city, the prosperity of
which is so intimately connected with Germany, will, as we
confidently expect, be felt through the whole of our German
father-land, and especially by our faithful subjects, as a gene-
ral misfortune. In order, therefore, to afford our faithful
subject an opportunity of manifesting their sympathy by
deeds, and, considering the extraordinary extent of the dis-
aster, we have ordered, that in all the communes of our do-
minion, a general collection shall be made in all the churches,
and from house to house, for the relief of the sufferers by the
fire at Hamburgh ; and our Ministers of the Interior and of
Ecclesiastical Affairs are to see to the execution of this ordi-
nance. . _ _ _

" WILLIAM FREDERICK
" VON ROCHOW.
" EICHHORN.
" Given at Berlin, May 9, 1842."