The Press. — 1856-08-09 (London, England)

THE PRESS.  these two gals here, and they was very soon alongside of me ; and says I to them, " You can have a quartern of ginand cloves," for them ere sort of gals is very fond of gin and cloves, you know, my lord. (Loud laughter.) But," says I, I'm a-going to have none of it, as I shall have some of the beat half-and-half," which I did, just having a toothfal of brandy now and then to bring me to, like—for, you must know, had drunk a trifle, and, to tell the truth, I got tips',.  - The 4A-ssistorr -Jul:our : And some one stole your money ? _ _ _ _  Prosecutor: Some one? Oh, my dear lord, it was this one here ; Clark is her name and that's a fact. (Laughter.) Well, I was so drunk they could have heaved me overboard and I shouldn't have knowed it: still I kept on filling, when a gentleman wakes me up from a stupor and axed me if I had lost anything, so I looked round and the gals was gone, and it then flashed over my mind that they had got my money as I recollected they had been busy about my trouser pockets, and so they had ; they took my money and left me in the larch, and did'nt care what became of me. ( Loud laugh..er. ) I had sense enough left to know that, hut it was little enough, God knows.  Power's purse having been found on the prisoner , Clark when apprehended, the jury returned a verdict of Guilty. Sentence, six months' hard labour. A SCENE occurred on Tuesday in one of the Equity Courts, before the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices. On their lordships taking their seats upon the bench, an elderly woman, accompanied by her daughter, who seemed to be about forty years of age, rose to present a petition in relation to some pro. perty she alleged herself to have been cheated out of. The Lord Chancellor said he could not listen to her, and she must sit down. The daughter then jumped up, and in a loud voice said that her mother must be heard; that she was unjustly kept out of her property, and that she was starving ; and she complained that now, when a decree might be had in her favour, the court refused to hear her. The lady went on speaking with much vehemence and volubi lity, until the officers, directed by the Lord Chancellor, induced her to leave the court, still calling out that all the judges were acing with cruelty and injustice towards an old woman whom they allowed to be robbed of her property by a set of swindlers. MR. DOVE, in all probability, will be executed this morning. Sir George Grey bas left London, and it is understood that on Wednesday he declared to Mr. Barrett, of Leeds, his determination not to recommend the prisoner for mercy. The convict during the last week has exhibited the most sincere repentance. THE OLD STORY OF SHAME, DESERTION AND SUICIDE was repeated once more last week at Walton, near Colchester. A young lady with an infant arrived there some three months since. She took lodgings, represented herself to be the guardian of the child, and lived in comparative seclusion. For the last few weeks it was evident to the landlady that the poor young creature was getting into dis. tress. She had no money, was in debt, and apparently had no friends to whom she could apply for relief. On Tuesday week she left home as she said for London, but, going down to the beach, she hired a bathing-machine, went out into deep water, and deliberately drovrued herself, for she was found with her clothes on, her bonnet only taken off, and her bead firmly fixed under the steps of the bathingmachine. " A Near Relative," writing to the Times on Tuesday, denies that the poor girl was ever abandoned by her friends : It is not true, air, that the unfortunate young lady was ever abandoned by her relatives and friends. Blinded by a fatal passion, she persistently abandoned them. Terms of reconciliation and return—such terms as are alone com• patible with the sacred obligations of domestic life and personal self-respect, and urged with all the power of earnest entreaty and affectionate remonstrance—were always freely offeted, and always, alas. refused. There are, indeed, those living who have incurred an awful responsibility by the precipitate death of this young lady. It is not my object to speak of this now. Over her grave no word of reproach shall ever be uttered ; but the lacerated feelings of surviving relatives and friends demand this justice, and I am sure, sir, I shall not appeal to you in vain to give this note a place in your next issue. This statement does not coincide with the poor girl's absolute distress and poverty, and her death alone therefrom. The jury, at the coroner's inquest, returned a verdict of " felo-de-se."