adjoining Brentwood, was charged with a Criminal himself through the temple, and that the ball had passed Assault on his Servant Girl, of fifteen; and the pre-out at the back of the head. The body was then reliminary depositions of the girl and her mother made moved to the dead-house of the parish, and the clothes the affair look very disgraceful. On the day appointed of the deceased were searched, where, besides money for the second examination, both the women were and other effects, was a card-case, in which were two absent; and it was stated that the family, a very poor cards with his name and address. Subsequently the one, had been hurried up to London, and could not be butler in the family went to Knightsbridge, and traced by the police. Mr. Johnstone was held to bail identified the body as that of his master. Mr. Pento appear again. He (the accused) attended before the nington had a fit about three months since, from the Brentwood Magistrates on the 7th. Mr. Clarkson was effects of which he had scarcely recovered, and about a his legal adviser. The police had not yet succeeded in fortnight since he had resigned his situation. He had bringing forward the girl and her mother, though on left his house about half-past 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Thursday the officers entered a house in the suburbs of to take a walk with his daughter, and returned home London only a few hours after the fugitives had left it. in about an hour. Shortly afterwards he again went Mr. Clarkson tried to make the magistrates believe that out alone, saying he would take another walk. At the as there were no witnesses against his client they ought coroner's inquest, on the 16th, it appeared clearly that he at once to discharge him: but the bench refused, and had suffered from aberration of the mind. He was in his again remanded Mr. Johnstone. The accused has been fifty-sixth year; he was Auditor of the Civil List, and had a very popular man in the locality, and an effective been a barrister. On one occasion, he told a friend that preacher. He is married, but has no children. He he had experienced suicidal feelings-a desire to throw holds the rectory of West Horndon with Ingrave. On himself from a cliff at Brighton, or to shoot himself if the 14th he again appeared before the magistrates. The a pistol had been within reach. Sir Frederick Thesiger girl (Mary Anne Doe by name) and her family had been saw him a few days before his death, and felt sure his at length discovered in London, and captured by the mind was not in a sound state. This was the impression police. When Mrs. Doe saw her daughter in custody, of the other gentlemen who were examined. Before she ran towards her, grasped her hand, and exclaimed his illness, Mr. Pennington " was of a particularly calm -"Now, mind, my child, you tell the gentlemen it was and well-disciplined mind," said Sir Frederick Thesiger, all wrong which you told them before: and if they ask "and was the last man who would commit suicide." you how you came to tell such a tale, say you wasn't in The jury at once gave this verdict-"That the deceased your right mind, and you didn't know what you said." had died by his own hand, while in a state of unsound When the other witnesses were ordered out of court, mind." that the girl might be questioned, her mother held up John Onslow, a policeman, was charged at the Lamher finger to the daughter in a threatening manner. beth Police Court on the 16th, with having made a Mary Anne Doe's former deposition was read, and she False and Malicious Statement against Mr. Brookes, declared it was untrue-she did not know what she was the proprietor of the Jolly Butchers beerhouse, in after when she made it. Mr. Johnstone had not touched Lock's-fields. On Sunday evening, the 3d, Onslow preher-she believed he had not, but she fainted away in sented himself at the door of the Jolly Butchers, and the kitchen; she had been ill all night before. In a having beckoned out the landlord, addressed him in a word, Mary Anne utterly denied all her former state-low and confidential manner, saying, "Tell them not ments against the defendant. Mr. Tower, a magistrate, to make such a noise." Mr. Brookes, surprised at his expressed his opinion that the complainant had been manner, asked him what he meant; and Onslow, in most disgracefully tutored. The chairman said, they had two depositions before them-one sworn in defendant's absence; the other made in his presence, and entirely rebutting the other. The case must therefore be dismissed. The bench subsequently directed that a bill of indictment for perjury should be prepared against the girl.

An inquest was held on the 14th on the body of Emily Nott, a servant girl of one-and-twenty, who had committed Suicide at Blackfriars Bridge. The girl had formed an attachment to a police constable, who being engaged to another woman, gave no encouragement to her passion. On the preceding Monday she left her situation and went to the Borough, where the officer was, but before doing so, she placed on the window-sill a letter which ran as follows:--"Dear Madam,-By the time you receive this I shall be no more. I am, madam, your unhappy servant, Emily Nott." She inquired the way to Blackfriars Bridge, and having reached it, mounted to the top, and plunged head foremost on to the causeway below. The policeman at the bridge saw her fall, and on going to her, found her head battered in. He lifted her up, when she groaned twice and expired. The jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity, and were further of opinion that the police constable was free from blame.

the same tone, said, "Why, they are a-playing at cards in your parlour." Mr. Brookes denied the assertion, and asked him to go into his parlour and disabuse his mind on the subject. Onslow went into the parlour, and on his return said he knew the company had been playing at cards, but had put them away. Soon after this a sergeant came up, when Onslow improved upon his story by saying that he had been watching the house, and that he distinctly heard the parties inside call out " High, low, jack, and game," as if they had been playing at all fours; and further he said he mounted the window, and saw the party engaged in playing cards. The landlord, astonished at the hardihood of the man's statement, spoke to his customers, and it was agreed that they should at once proceed to the station-house, and mention the circumstance to the inspector on duty. On reaching the station-house, however, they found Onslow there, and that he had actually made a report of cardplaying at the house. No information was laid on his representation, but on the complaint of Mr. Brooks, through Mr. Robinson, the superintendent, the Commissioners of police ordered the present inquiry. A number of respectable witnesses, who had been in the parlour of Mr. Brooks from 7 o'clock in the evening until they went to the station-house, were called, and swore distinctly that not only were there no cards played, Mr. Pennington, who for fifteen years past has filled but not a single syllable was uttered about cards or highly important offices in her Majesty's Treasury, gaming of any sort, and therefore that the statement of committed Suicide on the 14th. About half-past the defendant was a deliberate falsehood. The magis4 o'clock, a police constable heard the report of fire-trate considered the charge clearly established against arms in one of the plantations in Hyde Park, almost the defendant, and that he was a most improper person opposite Gore House. He immediately entered the to hold the situation of constable longer. He then conpark at the small wicket gate close to the spot, and dis- victed him in a penalty of 10s., or four days' imprisoncovered Mr. Pennington lying on his back in the planta- ment, which would lead to his immediate discharge from tion, with his arms extended. In his right hand a the force. double-barrelled pistol was tightly grasped, one of the barrels of which had just been discharged; and on the lock of the other barrel was a percussion cap, and the lock was cocked. He was then still breathing, a motion of the lips and mouth being perceptible for five or six minutes. Mr. Bonney, a surgeon of Knightsbridge, examined the body, found that the deceased had shot

A Fearful Outrage has been committed at Leeds by a band of Irish immigrants. On the night of Saturday, the 16th, a body of men, armed with pokers, bludgeons, and other weapons, marched to the Foresters' Arms, and finding it barred against them, broke the windows and did other damage. They then proceeded to Ball's beer-house, at the door of which stood a pony, and one

mendations, that it became necessary to visit such offences with the utmost severity. The persons who gave the false character were usually the worst of the two, but it was not his intention to make any distinction in the present case. He then fined the prisoners 101. each, and, in default of payment, committed them each to three months' imprisonment.

and the rest in proportion. Now it happens, that before the riot in his house Don Pacifico had had the misfortune to have one of his daughters run away with twicefirst by a merchant's clerk, and secondly by an apothecary's boy, and on this second sad catastrophe he addressed himself to King Otho, protesting that his daughter had stolen everything he possessed, and that he had nothing left to live on, and consequently asking for alms. The King, it is a well-known, fact, lent him more than once 100 drachmas at a time. You may judge, therefore, of the crystals and bronzes there must have been to break in his miserable dwelling." Don Pacifico's counsel, in applying for a rule, denied all these assertions. Don Pacifico had never been at Constantinople, and had never been a bankrupt. He had three daughters, the eldest of whom married with his full consent, and the youngest, who was thirteen years of age, was still living under the parental roof. With regard to the second, to whom the libel was supposed to refer, she had been married to an officer named Lante. M. Pacifico, being a Jew, had objected to that marriage on the ground of Captain Lante's religion, and his daughter had been married without his consent; but as to her running away, or taking away with her any part of her father's property, there was no pretence whatever for the charge. The rule was granted.

Newmarket fair was infested by swarms of pickpockets and rogues of all kinds. Many persons were robbed in the street. James Betts, a young man from Snailwell, while defending his wife and sister from a gang of thieves, was struck down, and died in a little time. The murderers escaped detection. The crime so alarmed the people, that they would not leave the town but in large bands; and the first market after the fair was thinly attended, though it has been usually thronged; terror kept many away.

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The proceedings in the Bankruptcy Court, on the 20th, in the case of Lakeman and Co., produced some curious disclosures respecting Commercial Transactions of the late King of the French. Stephen Charles Lakeman carried on business in copartnership with one Chale and General de Rumigny, chief aide-de-camp to King Louis Philippe. The place of business was in St. Mildred's Court, Poultry. They were commission-agents. This was a meeting for the last examination of Lakeman. Rumigny has not yet surrendered to his fiat, and he has up to this time alleged, upon affidavit, as a reason for his non-surrender, and to prevent his outlawry, that he is unable to obtain a passport, the prefect of Police, for State reasons, refusing to grant one. Lakeman, being examined at great length, gave a history of the transactions of the firm. He stated that the partnership of Rumigny was established in May, 1848, soon after the arrival of the late King in this country, solely for " political purposes." The object was to purchase the debts of the Civil List on account of the Royal Family of France. This he clearly understood from conversations with Rumigny and with the King. A loan was to be negotiated with Messrs. Baring to the amount of 800,0007. on the landed property of the house of Orleans in France. This money, when raised, was to be applied to the purchase of the debts of the French civil list, on account of the Royal family, it being specially provided and determined that no debt should be purchased at a less advantageous rate than 40 per cent. discount. Such was the object to be attained by the house of Lakeman, De Rumigny and Co., in May, 1848. A short time afterwards the copartnership was modified by the introduction of Chalè into the concern, and a second commission was given to the establishment as thus amended. They were "to receive goods and consignments from THE splendid steam-yacht called the Peterhoff, built French manufacturers and tradesmen, advancing them at Blackwall, for the Emperor of Russia, has been Lost money on account of such consignments, so as to gain on her passage to St. Petersburgh. Her transmission their sympathy for the Royal Family of France." Cir- was intrusted to an eminent firm on Cornhill, who took culars were accordingly despatched to certain French every care to supply her with an efficient crew. A mashouses; a place of business was taken, "the General ter mariner, Mr. James Boniland, who had been emattended daily at the office," and customers, when they ployed in the Baltic for the last twenty-four years, was offered themselves, were introduced, in the presence of appointed to take charge of her, her crew being selected Lakeman and Co., to the Ex-King at Claremont. The from men who had been trading in that sea. Some five concern did not prosper. Rumigny went to France, or six weeks ago she took her departure from the and Lakeman was left behind to face the responsibilities Thames, having on board, in addition to her crew, of the firm, which terminated in bankruptcy. It ap- Mr. George Rennie, the engineer, and Mr. Waterman, peared by the balance-sheet that Lakeman was victim- jun., who designed the yacht, and who, we understand, ised by his partner Rumigny, who was to have brought was charged with its delivery to the emperor, with money into the concern, but brought none, while he Mr. Eschapper and one or two other gentlemen. She drew out 13007. The Commissioner allowed the bank-reached Copenhagen in safety, and having taken on rupt to pass. board two ladies attached to the embassy there for conThe celebrated Don Pacifico, whose claims upon the veyance to Revel, she resumed her trip on the 22d ult. Greek government have made so much noise, has applied Going up the Baltic, the wind blew a hurricane; and, in the Court of Queen's Bench for a Criminal Informa- while making for the island of Dago, at the entrance of tion against the Morning Herald for an alleged Libel. the Gulf of Finland, she struck on a reef of rocks. By The libel is in a letter from the private correspondent of this time the weather had moderated to a calm, otherthe Morning Herald at Athens, dated the 28th of Fe-wise every soul on board would have perished. As soon bruary, which contains the following passages:-" The as they were seen from the land, three boats were deJew Pacifico, before his fraudulent bankruptcy at Con-spatched to their relief, and the weather favouring their stantinople, and before his consulship in Greece, held an exertions, the wreck was gained, and the whole of those inn in a village in Portugal." "On one occasion Don on board were taken off. On reaching the shore every Pedro, on his way to Lisbon, first sent to say that he relief was afforded them, and it appearing impossible to would stop there, and having changed his mind and rescue the wreck with the means then at command taken another route, was much astonished some time on the island, Mr. Waterman, jun., with Mr. G. Rennie, afterwards to see mine host arrive with a bill for 1507. proceeded on to St. Petersburgh overland, with a view for the cost, he said, of his preparations to receive his of procuring assistance. The journey being one of conMajesty. Don Pedro took the thing as a joke, but gave siderable difficulty, much delay must necessarily take him 251, and sent him to the rightabout." "Since then place ere any relief can be rendered the wreck. Very Pacifico, having changed for the third time his nation- trying weather has since set in, and the last accounts ality, and put himself under Sir E. Lyons' protection, speak of her loss. raked up this old account, which he pretends to have been torn or lost in the pillage of his house, and which suddenly took the fearful proportion of 25,000. This is the principal item of the Pacifico affair, which also comprehends the indemnities for the harm done to his house, such as 20007, for bronzes and crystals broken,

A melancholy case of Hydrophobia has occurred at Lochend, near Edinburgh. About seven weeks ago, a boy named Weston, between eight and nine years of age, a farm-servant, was bitten by a little dog belonging to the neighbourhood, which had been observed on the day of the accident howling and roaming about the

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The boy's father, in place in a rather unusual manner. consequence, cautioned him not to approach the dog, but, heedless of the advice, he stole out unobserved, and ran to caress the little favourite, when the animal immediately leaped upon him and bit him above the eye. Having told what had taken place, the dog was immediately killed, and medical aid having been procured, the wounded part was cut out of the boy's brow, and other measures taken to prevent the virus from spreading. The wound healed up, and all seemed well, but on the 13th symptoms of hydrophobia began to appear, and although the most eminent of the medical faculty of both Edinburgh and Leith were consulted, all was unavailing, and the unfortunate sufferer died two days afterwards.

the hose from the engines on to the roofs of the surrounding buildings, were enabled to cut off the fire from the two wings, which contained a vast quantity of property, and also the steam-engine; and at length the fire was extinguished: but by that time part of the works where the fire began was nearly burnt out, and the adjoining buildings severely damaged. Their occupiers were poor people, who had the whole of their humble furniture removed into the street to save it from the ravages of the flames. None of the property destroyed was insured.

A young man was Injured by a Lion, while visiting He laid his Wombwell's menagerie, at Durham. hand on the lion's paw, which was protruded through the bars of his cage,-a familiarity which the brute With the quickness of On the morning of the 15th, an explosion took place resented in a fearful manner. in a coal-pit at Singing Clough, near Manchester, belong-lightning the animal laid hold of the young man's hand, Two men were and, drawing him close against the bars of the cage with ing to Messrs. Knowles and Stott. killed on the spot, and two have been so much injured his other paw, he fastened upon his head. The cries of that but little hope can be entertained of their recovery. the lad instantly attracted the attention of the keeper, There were sixteen colliers in the pit, and these had who flew to the spot, and, after severely beating the descended between five and six o'clock on the above infuriated brute upon the paws, compelled him to relinmorning. At the bottom they met the underlooker, quish his hold. The whole proceeding was the work who had examined the workings to try the air, and re- of a moment, but the unfortunate lad retains traces of ported all of them free from danger except the furthest his fearful rencontre which he will bear with him to the point of the level, in which he directed that no one grave. should begin to work. Shortly before seven o'clock, however, a young man, named Peter Tonge, declared his intention of going there for a tub of "slack" (small coal), and persisted in doing so, despite all remonstrance from the other workmen. Two of his fellow-workmen, named John Stone and John Lever, went with him, and so incautious were they, that although provided with safety lamps, they used a naked candle. On reaching the end of the bay, Stone is said to have "flashed" the light up to see if there was any danger, and in an instant a loud explosion took place. Lever was in the direct way of the current, which the explosion of course followed, and his life was sacrificed in an instant, the top of his skull being blown off, and his brains scattered about. Tonge was suffocated, and Stone was so fearfully scorched with the flash of the explosion that his life is in great danger. The other workmen, with one exception, were all in bays off the main level or drift way, and the ventilation of the mine being good they received no injury.

On the evening of the 15th, a Frightful Collision took place on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, near the Huddersfield Junction. An engine which had been undergoing repairs in the engine shed, was being replaced on the line on which it was to be worked, when it came into violent collision with the passenger train from Bradford. The shock was so violent as to smash completely the engine and tender, as well as the engine belonging to the passenger train, bringing the train itself to a dead stop. The passengers in alarm jumped out of the carriages, but had hardly time to become conscious of their fortunate escape when a goods train dashed into the standing train, doubling up all the carriages in a moment and knocking them to shivers. The scene that presented itself after this second catastrophe is described as terrible, the entire line being blocked up with a huge mass of fragments of broken carriages and engines. It was remarkable that none of the passengers were killed or injured by the flying splinters. The line was completely choked up, and men were immediately set to work to make a temporary line of rails for the to be made the subject of usual traffic. This affair an inquiry.

On the evening of the 21st, an Extensive Fire broke out in the premises of Mr. Hynam, chemical light manufacturer, in Prince's Square, Finsbury. The property formed two sides of the square, and stretched across the entire length of the public road. The flames were first perceived bursting through that portion of the building between the two wings, and so high did they rise as to illuminate the principal portion of the city. The engines of the London Brigade and West of England Company speedily attended, but by that period the principal portion of the manufactory, a building 74 ft. long by 32 ft. wide, was, with the exception of a fireThe proof apartment, wrapped in a general blaze. firemen, however, kept to their work, and by carrying

An Explosion of Fire-damp has taken place in a coalFour mine at Haydock, in Lancashire, by which nine men were killed and many others severely burnt. ponies were also found dead. Thirteen lives were lost in the same pit in 1845. At the inquest, it appeared that the system of supervision in the mine was very defective. The underlooker said there was great difficulty in preventing the men from working with unprotected candles, and ascribed the explosion to their negligence. But some of the miners stated that they had never been interdicted the use of candles, and that the underlooker The underlooker admitted that several days did not visit the mine for intervals of a fortnight together. might have passed without his going over the mine. The Coroner thought it was usual to inspect coal-mines every morning before the men entered to work. Mr. Tremenheere, the Government Inspector, was present; he questioned the witnesses, assisting to elicit information on the defective management of the colliery, and made some observations before the jury gave their verdict. Their finding was "Accidental death." The owner of the mine, Mr. Evans, was then sent for, and the Coroner advised him to adopt an improved system.

Houghton Pit, near Newbottle, in Durham, the property of the Earl of Durham, has been the scene of a Similar Accident, still more fatal. The colliery is said to have been considered in a good general condition. On the 11th, while one hundred and fifty miners were in the workings, a very violent explosion of fire-damp occurred; many of the people were blown to pieces or destroyed by the flames, but the great majority were in a safe spot. They occupied a position where the air was respirable, while they were hemmed in on all sides by the fatal choke-damp. Some who attempted to gain the shaft perished by suffocation, and others with difficulty regained their refuge. Here one hundred and twenty persons remained for hours in utter darkness, and momentarily expecting to be suffocated by the foul air. Fortunately a communication was at length opened, and all the living miners were got to the shaft. It was found that no fewer than twenty-six men and boys had been killed.

A fearful Explosion of Naphtha has occurred at the Roman Catholic school and reading-room at Seacombe in Cheshire. Mr. Johnson, the schoolmaster, was filling a lamp from a can of the liquid, six of the boys standing around, one holding a lighted candle; Mr. Johnson poured too much naphtha into the lamp, and it ran over, caught fire at the candle, and then the whole quantity exploded with a report like that of a cannon. Mr. Johnson and the boys were enveloped in flames, and were all much burnt; one boy died next day, and others were thought to be in danger. The people in the readingroom above were so much alarmed by the explosion that several of them jumped from the window. A number of accidents have lately happened from the incautious use of this dangerous substance.