Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1849-02-14 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ALLEGED FELONY BY A CLERK.—The gisttates at Bristol were occupied last week in hearing a serious charge of felony against a confidential clerk in the eminent mercant:le firm of Miles, Kington. and Co. The accused, Christopher M. S. West, was charted with stealing a certdin yaluable security for C5OO. Mr. P. W. S. ,Milts, M.P. for roistcl, deposed that he, jointly with his brother, Mr. Wm. Miles, M.P. .for East Somerset, was executor of the estate of the late Mr. Phillip John Miles, and the accused was a clerk in their employ. Amongst the effects of the deceased was a loan !note of the Bristol anti Gloucester Railway for .12500. ,This note bad been stolen, and in a conversation with Witness on the 16th of January, the prisoner admitted that he had deposited it with Mr. Robert Gross, a sharehr.,ker, as a security Cr money (about £200) advanced to him, Mr. Gross, tie sharebrolzar, corroborated this evidence. Insp ,ctor Bosworth proved that he pursued the prisoner to. Hanibtirg, where, upon the, application of Col. Hodges, the British Charge d'Affaires. the senate passed a decree for the prisoner's arrest, and he was handed over to witness's custody, and brought to England. The Magistrates committed him for trial.  • , It has been discovered .that Rush purchased. a five-barrelled pistol in Shoreditch a ebert time beers ti-e Stanfield Hall murders. The shopman has identified Rush. . Mary Anne Skinner, a young woman, dieci last week in Kingston poor-house, in the Portsea Islama Union. On the Approach of death, she made a most astdunding confession to one of the Guardians, who, in the presence of a number of witnesses, reduced the statement to writing. She said she had been seduced by a lawyer living at Gosport; and that two infanta, the result of Cheir intercourse were murdered; the first, apparently, was killed by the woman, at her seducer's prompting ; the second was carried away by the lawyer's clerk, and "di,posed of as the first had been?' Other atrecioos circumstances were detailed. A Magi...trate was sent for to rehear the confession ; Imrt tbe woman was too terrified or too much exhausted to repeat. It; she died the next day. The gentleman panted. by Skinner has hitherto been considered one of the most respectable men in Gosport. The women was pronounced by a surgeon to be sane when she made her statmient. Among other crimes for which Birmmghani is becoming conspicious, a desperate highway robbery was perpetrated there recently. Mr. Beasley had been collecting rents, and was returning Lnae with a large bag of silver : near a waste piece of groan, a man seized hold of the bag from behind ; a struggle ensued.., ansl the thief stabbed Mr. Beasley with a knife, looeked him down, and made off with the booty. The wounds were not deng7rous. , Ann Reynolds, a respectable young woman! of Birmingham, has been stabbed, it is feared moi tally, by I Benjamin Cutler, a yoe2rg man whose addresses had beet rejected by the girl. •  It is said that there are numbers of Mormonites in Camden Town and Somers Town, and that they are increasing'. They intend to emigrate to California in the spring as colonists. Mr. Charles Blackstone, a scholar of Corpus Christi College, has accidentally shot himself with • pistol. He had bought the pistol to shoot a rat that annoyed. him ; he was very incautious in handling it when loaded; and it would seem that he was watching for the rat at night, holding the pistol without sufficient care, when it went if, du contents entering his side. A friend found him lying on a sofa, ."ead, at midnight, Mr. Blackstone. the son of the Vicar of Heckfield in Hants, was in .his 23rd year, and was a very promising young  man.  "111 , t, ~..