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      THB ACCIDENT Off THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY—TERMINATION OF TBE INQUEST .

      The inquest terminated an Monday mornin ^ , when the coroner recapitulated the facta , and the jury remained in deliberation about an hour and a naif . On the re-opening of the court , the Fore-IH 8 Q of the jury said : — " We find that the deceased perso died from ' accidental causes ; ' but the jury desire to attach to that finding some special ob servations , which I will now read : — " The jury consider that , in closing their investigation as to the cause of the melancholy catastrophe which has been attended with such fatal results , they are called upon . as . well in regard to the distressed feelings of the relatives of the deceased as of those unfortunate sufferers who have gorvivedthe accident ,, and also , in justice to the public at large , to record some special observations With reference to the events preceding the occurence and attendant upon it , but further with reiar ence to the future traffic of the Bucks railway

      . " The jury find that , the railway upon which the patentable event occurred is a branch line from the London and Aorth-Western Railway , diverging at Bletchley , to Oxford , through Bicester , and that from Steeple Claydon to Oxford U a ^ BUljfle line "JThe jury find that the train to which the accident occurred was not only an excursion train advertised-by public notice for passengers , to leave London on Saturday , and to return on the following Monday . but it also formed a return excursion tram for passengers who had left Oxford for London on the previous Monday , as well as for those who had left Oxford and Bicester on the previous Tuesday . , . : _ « . « The jury find that the notices to the public of these excursion trains were imperfectly and vaguely

      4 fcawn , for , whilst the company ' s . officers at Bicester construed them to mean that the Saturday excursion train from London to Oxford was to call at Bicester the officers at Bletchley construed them to mean that they should not stop at Bletchley , bnt go through to Oxford ; and the jury consider that both ef those constructions might be fairly adopted without the imputation of any neglect of duty on their part as arising from such cause . " The jury find that tho company ' s servants at Bicester were prepared for the tram to stop tbere for the Bicester passengers to alight ; but that the engineman in charge of the train acted upon the belief that he was to go through to Oxford without stopping at Bicester , and that such a

      misunderstanding had a tendency to produce confusion in the arrangements , and required more than ordinary Tigilance to be paid to the points and signals ; and the jury consider that there was a want of adequate instruction to the guards from their , superior officers as to the stoppages of the . train to ha consistent with the public safety . "The jury find that , although there is-much discrepancy in the evidence adduced before them asto the speed at which tho train was travelling when it reached the junction point at Bieester ,. yet the engineman admits that be was going at a greater speed than he would have done had he known that he was to stop at Bicester . It appears , therefore , that , in the absence of a clear understanding

      among the officers as to stopping at Bicester or not , the only guides they had to direct them were the signals provided by the company , with directions for their use . That , in the present case , the signal man had used the necessary signal of caution at the auxiliary signal post , and of danger and stop at the points . That the engineman and guards had Observed the caution signal at the auxiliary post , and had slackened speed accordingly , bnt that the driver and his guards were misled by some optical illusion as to the whitelight , or ' goon' signal , at the principal signal post of the station . ¦ « The jury find that the white lieht was not

      turned to the approaching train , yet they see no reason to doubt that the engineman and guards were , from some unexplained cause , misled by the appearance of a real or reflected light , which they believed to have been the white light signal for ' go on , * and that being deluded by this supposed white light , they did not observe the danger signal at tbe points until they had approached so near to them as to be unable to stop or to reverse the engine . " The jury find that if the points had been fairly open for the train to pass down either the straight line or the siding , and had been in perfect condition at the time , it is ieore than - probable that the tram would have passed to the station .

      "The jury find that there was nothing observed by the pointsman at the time the train reached him to indicate any defect whatever in the points . But they find also that after the train had passed the pointsman , and before any other train had gone over the points , it was discovered that the tie-rod , which is shown to have been partially broken before , and which connects the two point rails , had been broken asunder near the screw joint , and that the heel chair was also broken , and the point rail attached to it Sent .

      " The jury find that these injuries to the tie-rod , ihe chair , and point rail , were occasioned at the momentary transit of tbe engine or tender over the points , by coming in contact with the toe of the point rail , but whether they were so occasioned by Band , gravel , or any other material having prevented the points falling into their proper position , or whether by any indecision on the part of the pointsman as to which line of rails he was to send the train down by , or whether any slip of the handle of the points lever , or by any other cause ; yet the jury find that from some such cause the engine went over the points on to the straight hue , whilst the rest Of the train took the siding , and resulted in that awful loss of life , serious injury to persons ,

      and sreat destruction of property which is now so painfully deplored . "That whilst the jury find that there was sot that measure of culpability in the conduct of any of the company ' s servants as to warrant the finding of an adverse verdict against any of them , yet they feel that it is due to the public safety that some greater means of protection to life and property than now exists should be resorted to by the company , and that in the monopoly which railways nave achieved in travelling , tbe lives of passengers should not be jeopardised at the shrine of interest and dividends . " The jury find that a single line of railway necessarily involves more danger to passengers than a double one by reason of the trains having to

      pass over junction points in tbe one case which would not be required in the other . They also find that trains are occasionally delayed at the stations to prevent collisions with other trains , and hence that the enginemen on duty are superinduced to travel at a greater speed than is consistent with safety on a single line of railway , in order to observe the times appointed for their , arrival at stations . These and other matters of more minute detail impose upon the company ' s servants a degree of watchfulness and care on a single line of railway almost superhuman ; and that the pointsman

      in the discharge of his duties is liable , from a mere accidental slip or fall , or from want of nerve or that presence of mind which is so essential in cases of difficulty and danger , to be the innocent or accidental cause of destruction to life and property . " The jury therefore earnestly urge upon the directors of the company , as they value human life and deplore the sacrifice of it , that they will cause a second line of rails to be laid down without delay , as a means of preventing the recurrence of such a dire calamity as that which has now formed the subject of their very amdons inquiry and most painful <^ elioerafcion . ,,

      At the suggestion of tbe coroner a recommendation was added that all tbe trains should stop at Bicester station .

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      Court-Martial As Captain Watsos.—On Mond...

      Court-Martial as Captain Watsos . —On Monday a Parliamentary document was issued containing some papers relating to the court-martial held on Captain Watson . In February , 1 S 50 , Captain "Watson , of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment , was examined before a committee of the House of Commons , on the affairs of Ceylon , and denied that certain documents sent to persons at Ceylon , stating that they would be tilled and their property confiscated unless they gave up some property belonging to other parties , therein mentioned , were in his handwriting . Captain Watson declared that the signatures to four documents were forgeries . It was subsequently alleged that

      they were in his handwriting , and a court-martial ¦ was held at Colombo on the Sth April last , when he was according to the letter of Lord Fitzroy Somerset " most fully and most honourably acquitted of the charge preferred against him , and the four instances contained in it , " < fce . The Judge-Advocate General , in transmitting to the Horse Guards the result of the Court-martial , declared that the signatures to tbe documents in question were forgeries , and that tbe statements made by Captain Watson before the House of Commons , with regard to the said signatures , were true and not false . The finding of the court was confirmed by Major-General Smelt , commanding Her Majesty ' s forces in the island of Ceyion .

      Thb Tkst . —A Spaniard having stolen a horse from an Indian , the latter convicted him of the offence by a very ingenious plan . He complained to a judge , who had the Spaniard , with the horse , brought before him . The prisoner swore that the animal belonged to him , and that he had always had it , so that the judge did not find himself in a position to convict . He was even about to return the horse to him ' , when the Indian said , " IT yon will allow me , I will prove that the animal belongs to me . " Immediately he pulled off his cloak , and , covering the horse ' s head , asked the Spaniard of which eye it was blind ? The robber was much embarrassed at tbe question , but nevertheless , not to delay the court , he replied at hazard that it was tbe right eye . The Indian uncovering the head exclaimed , " The horse is not blind either of the right eye or the left . ' * The judge immediately decided that the animal wts \ ui ,- ~ hnicktrlmker .

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      MONTHLI RECORD OF THE SOCIETY Of THE FRIENDS OF ITALY . NO . 1 . —SlPMMBEB , 1851 . 1 . Progrut of the Society . Formation and Objects of the Society . —The Society of the Friends of Italy was formed in the month of May in the present year ; it did not fairly commence its operations , however , till the beginning of July . The objects of the Society , as agreed « i a ts re aIar meeting , are as follows : — ' 1 . By pubUo meetings , lectures , and the pressand especially by affording opportunities to the most competent authorities for the publication of Works on the history of the Italian national movement—to promote a correct appreciation of the

      Italian question in this country . 2 . To use every available constitutional means of furthering the cause of Italian , national independence , in Parliament . 3 . And generally toaid , in this country , the cause of the independence , and of the political and religious liberty , of the Italian people . " Organisation of the Society-first , within itself ; secondly , in its relations with those whom it regards as the chiefs and representatives of the Italian cause ; and , thirdly , in its relations with the public . Iu the internal organisation of the Society , the following things are included : —The general body of the Members throughout the country ; the Central Office in London ; the Managing Committee ; the Council ; and the Corresponding Members , ' or

      Local Secretaries . ( 1 ) Members of the Society . — The conditions of membership are simply thesethe payment of an annual subscription of half-acrown or upwards , and a general concurrence with the objects of the Society as set forth in its programme . The Society offers to . its members the following collateral advantages : —The right to take part id the annual general meetings of the Society ; the right to receive regularly , on application at some fixed place in their respective districts ,: or . otherwise , a copy of the Society ' s Monthly Record of proceedings and intelligence , as well as copies of any other publications of small size the gratuitous distribution of which to members may seem advisable to the Committee and Council ; the right to

      purchase at a reduced cost any larger publications which the Society may put forth ; and , . finally , the right to correspond directly with the central office , whether for the purpose of . procuring information on points connected with Italian affairs , or for the purpose of making suggestions to the Committee and the Council . ( 2 ) The Central Office . —Here books and documents connected with the Society ' s objects are collected and kept , and here the Secretary is in attendance daily to receive personal or written communications , and to conduct the Society ' s correspondence . ( 3 ) The Managing Committee . —This consists of twelve members chosen from the larger body of the Council , together with the Secretary ex officio . The Committee meets at

      least once a week , and transacts all the ordinary business of the Society in the name , and subject to the revision , of the Council . The moneys of the Society are in the charge of a Treasurer , who is a member of the . Committee . ( 4 ) The Council . — This consists of a number of members—not limited —of known name and influence , residing in all parts of the country , and representing as nearly as possible the various elements united in the Society . Stated meetings of the Council are convened at least once in two months ; but members of Council may attend the ordinary meetings of Committee , and the . Committee is required to summon special meetings of Council on occasions of importance .

      The Society appeals to its list of Council already published , as at once a proof of the catholic nature pf its . aims , and a guarantee of the rectitude and prudence of its proceedings . ( 5 ) Corresponding Members , or Local Secretaries . —These are members of the Society who , being or not being members of the Council , will act as the Society ' s accredited agents in their several districts , receiving subscriptions , distributing information , corresponding with the Secretary in London , so as to report local progress , & c . ; and , in short , promoting the objects of the Society in every possible way . The Society relies much on tbis part of its organisation , which , however , it will take some time to complete .

      Under the second head of tbe Society ' s organisation—namely , its relations with the representatives of the Italian cause—it has to be remarked in the first place , that , though the Society i » strictly ' British in its constitution and spirit , it was absolutely necessary for its intelligent co-operation in the cause of Italian liberty that it should be in relations with native Italians , with whom it might consult , and from whom it might procure the specific information required in this country ; and iu the second place , that though the Society , as such , pronounces no opinions as to the form or forms of government which it might be desirable to set up . in emancipated Italy—leaving this question entirely to the future and to the Italians themselves—yet it was absolutely necessary for . the chances of its usefulness , that it should

      proceed on a general conviction of the good faith , and a general admiration of the conduct , of that party which really represents the national feeling in Italy , and without which , as events daily prove , Italy has no cause and no hope at ail—the party of Mazzini and hia brother patriots . The Society , therefore , announces it as one of the features on which it counts most largely for its useful activity , that it is in such relations with Signor Mazzini and other eminent Italians , as secure to it all the advantages of direct and intimate knowledge of current Italian affairs , without , in the slightest degree , compromising its independence of judgment , or pledging it to any further adhesion to Mazzini ' s future policy than is involved in the belief that Mazzini is a true and noble man , and that hitherto Italy has had cause to bless his name .

      Externally , the action of tbe Society is to be on the British Parliament and on the public generally . For action on Parliament , the Society has facilities in the fact that , some of its most zealous members are members of tbe British legislature . On tbe public at large , the means of action are through the press and by public meetings . In the former of these methods the Society has already done a good deal , both by publications emanating from itself , and by the friendly aid of the established press of the country . To put this part of its labours on a - better footing , a Sub-Committee of some of its literary members has been formed , for watching the treatment of the Italian question , both in the domestic and in the foreign press—for systematising the information procured—and for disseminating true views and

      refuting calumnies and falsehoods , by all available channels of literary intercourse . No public meetings have as yet been held ; but , aware of the importance of this mode of operating on the public mind , the Society has in contemplation a series of public meetings , to be held , as soon as possible , in some of the larger towns of the kingdom . Proceedings of the Society hitherto . —la addition to all the operations necessary for the establishment of the Society , the Society has issued the following publications : —( 1 ) An Address to the Public , explaining the Society ' s views and plans , and giving a general p icture of the present state of Italy ; ( 2 ) Tra .-t No . I ., entitled " Non-Intervention , " treating cenerally of the principles that

      ought to preside over the mutual relations of nations , and applying these to the case of Italy ; ( 3 ) Circulars to the public and to the press , calling attention to the existence of the Society , and requesting their friendly support ; ( 4 ) An Address , in the Italian language , to patriotic Italians , . expressinn sympathy with them in their misfortunes and their efforts , and asking their assistance towards enlightening the British public as to the true state of Italy . Contemporaneously with this first number of the Society ' s Monthly Record , there will also appear the Society ' s Tract No . II ., which will consist of a refutation by facts and documents ( the documents furnished by Mr . Mazzini ) of the charge , still so scandalously repeated against evidence , that It

      the Roman Republic was a Reign of Terror . may be mentioned , besides , that on the 18 th of July , a petition drawn up in the nameof the Council of the Society and signed by a number of its members , was presented to the House of Commons by Mr . Duncombe-praying the House to address her Majesty against the continued occupation of Rome by the French troops . Evidences of Success , and Prospects . —As returns have not yet been made by those who are acting for the Society in different parts of the country , It is not possible at present to say how many members the Society counts , nor what amount of funds is in its possession . So far as has yet been ascertainedhowever , the response to the Society s

      ap-, peal has been highly encouraging . Many persons in different parts of the country , and of . the most various shades of sentiment on other topics , have expressed their peculiar satisfaction that now at last there was a recognised means whoreby inhabitants of Great Britain might , in a fair and open way , ttstify their abhorrence of the misrule prevailing in Italy , and their desire to contribute , however humbly and afar off , tp its exposure and overthrow . Uot a few that have thus expressed themselves are ladies , and the Society hopes much from the assistance and zeal of this class of members . The press has also responded to the Society's appeal in a friendly and approving spirit . Notices of

      the Society and Its proceedings have appeared m the Da ily Aeuv , the Spectator , the Leader , the Atheno zum , the Dispatch , the Standard of Freedom , and other metropolitan newspapers—besides a most notable and hearty recognition , worth a hundred of a more ordinary kind , from Punch . The provincial press has likewise largely quoted from , or commented on , the Society ' s publications—some of them republishing the Address entire . In Scotland , where the addresses of Father Gavazzi have roused nnblio attention in an extraordinary manner , the announcement of the institution of the Society has hpen received with peculiar cordiality and satisfaction committees in its aid being already in course of formation both ia Edinburgh and Glasgow ; and

      Court-Martial As Captain Watsos.—On Mond...

      we have reason moreover to know that the existence of the Society has attracted" attention in France , and , still more widely and- with stronger effects , in Italy itself . The subscriptions received at ( be Central Office have gone on in an increasing ratio—varying , in individual amount , from the normal subscription of 2 s . fid . up to £ 559 . ; and altogether the experience of the Society is suohas to warrant the anticipation , that , as its own conviction of its power to be useful is strengthened , so its means and abilities wii ] increase . ¦ 11 . Progress of the Italian Question . Mr . Gladstone ' s Letters . — ' Since the Society began its operations , the publication of Mr . Gladstone ' s Letters to Lord Aberdeen on the State , Prosecutions in Naples has formed an epoch in the

      history of the Italian Question , both in this country and abroad . The peculiarity of Mr . Gladstone ' s service to the cause of Italy consists in this , that by the broad force of his personal character he has cleared a way for the discussion of the Italian questioninto quarters wherethe evidence of any wi tness less eminent and less conservative would have produced no effect . And though Mr . Gladstone studiously abstains , throughout his Letters , from the larger question of Italian nationality and independence—confiding , himself to the demand of a just administration of law in . the existing States—the whole result has been to show that , they are right who maintain that there is no hope for Italy save in the expulsion of the foreigner , and such a general politicalre-orgariisatibnas will subordinate all the

      Italian governments , in some way or other to the national will and aspirations of the Italian people . Mr . . Charles Maofarlane ' s attempt to reply to Mri Gladstone is worth y of notice only as illustrating , by its futility , the utter helplessness of that side of the question . And regarding Lord Palmerston ' s announcement in Parliament , . that he bad caused copies of Mr . Gladstone ^ Letters tolbe forwarded , ' through our ambassadors , to the various continental courts interested , we have only to say that ; while , the act was undoubtedly meritorious and proper , it must surely be a matter for regret that theliberal statesman , who presides over the foreign affairs of England should find himself unable to assist the cause of European freedom in any more signal way than by circulating the unofficial

      pamphlets of a conservative rival . How opinion on Italian Affairs is shaping itself in England . —Although it was to Naples in .. particular that Mr . ' Gladstone ' s Letters directed attention , it is evident that the general interest in this country in Italian affairs is concentrating itself on Rome . This is perhaps occasioned by the fact that the views and aims of the Papacy in connexion with Britain ' make Rome the special point of Italian interest to ourselves ; intrinsically ; however , and in the most general aspect of the whole Italian question , this course of opinion is right . Rome is the field of battle whereon the question of Italy , with all that depends oh it , will necessarily be decided . And here we would request _ speciaV attention to a fact which perhaps has not been so clear to others ' as it has been to us who have watched its indications—to wit , that the universal tendency of the British press during the last month or two has been towards the express assertion that the deliverance

      of Italy and of the world must consist primarily in the radical abolition of the secular Papacy . That the . Daily News , steadfast and able advocate as it is of liberal government , should have been led to tbis conclusion—or that the Morning Herald , and other journals occupying the same point of view , should contrive to embrace it—ia not to be wondered at ; but that the Times should have broached it as a circumstance of peculiar significance . Such , however , is the fact . By referring to the Times of August ' 2 nd , the reader will find , in an article of great power , evidently intended to turn the tide of public detestation from Naples to Rome , a vehement denunciation of the iniquities and abuses of the Papal government , wound up with an assertion , rendered as conspicuous as possible by the aid of italic letters ,, that" these will he the characteristics of the Piipal power as long as it exists . " Iii short , as " Delenda est Carthago" was the cry of Cato , so the " Abolition of the Papacy " is becoming the cry of the Timet .

      What aspect the Italian question is assuming abread . —Abroad , all the events that are happening in connexion with the Italian question—the increased cruelty and tyranny practised in every Italian state , from the Neapolitan to the Venetian the vague rumours of alliances between the Pope , Naples , and Austria , for the expulsion of the French from Rome ; the still darker rumours of German and . Russian intervention for the suppression of the Piedmontese constitution and the restoration of universal despotism throughout Italy ; the growing uneasiness of the French troops in their disgraceful

      character of tbe Pope ' s police , tbe growing coolness between them and the Pontiff , and the growing uncertainty of the French President and politicians in power at home what course to adopt—all conspire to prove that the Italian question is connecting itself indis ' solubly with the larger question of Free Government or Despotism ' all the world over . A ! great thing , surely , it will be if—should the issue of the approaching struggle be as we hope —it shall have been the part of an independent Society of Englishmen such as ours , however distantly , to contribute to it . Office . 10 . Southampton Street . Strand .

      Lecture Oh Bloomerism. On Monday Evening...

      LECTURE OH BLOOMERISM . On Monday evening , Mrs . C . H . Dexter delivered a lecture on Bloomerismj in the Literary Institution , John-street , Fitzroy-square . ' The building was densely crowded , and hundreds were unable to obtain admittance . The price of admission was twopence to the hall , and three-pence to' the gallery . At half-past eight Mrs . Dexter , a lady about thirty-five years of age , made her appearance on the platform habited in the Bloomer costume . She was received with slight manifestations of applause . Her attire , which was wholly composed of black satin , consisted of a jacket ordinarily worn by ladies in walking dress , a skirt below that scarcely reached down to the knee , and a

      pair of exceedingly wide trowsers , tied at the ankle . She proceeded at once with her lecture , which she commenced by adverting to a slight degree of difficulty and embarrassment she felt in appearing publicly to advocate a change of female costume . She felt there was something wrong iu tho state of things which rendered it necessary for a woman to appear in public to vindicate such a change . Under the dictates of fashion , the most absurd customs had prevailed . In China they compressed the feet of their victims until they rendered them incapable of locomotion . In other lands they compressed the skull so as to puzzle the most acute phrenologist . At one time a lady would not be considered dressed unless she carried a pyramid of a considerable height on her

      head . No custom had been too absurd to be followed , provided the example was set by the affluent . Long Sowing dresses , hoops , patches , powder on the head , & c , were originally invented by persons in a lofty situation , to hide some injury or malformation of the body , under which they were labouring . In eastern climes more primitive manners prevailed ; fashions seldom varied ; the females wore a costume similar to their own , and the Georgians , Circassians , and other eastern females had ever been celebrated for the beauty of their persons , and tho elegance of their carriage . They must not imagine because they were a highly civilised people , that they were free from absurdities in their modes of dress . The

      lady then showed the absurdity of stays as an article of female apparel , and tho loss of health , and deaths from consumption , that were produced by the system of tight lacing . Could they imagine anything more absurd , than a Venus kept upright by pieces of whalebone ? Nothing could be more inconvenient in wet weather than the present system of long dresses . Of this the lady gave a humorous description . She had often regretted its inconvenience , but had not thought of adopting the eastern costume until a lady in America , disregarding the sneers of the ignorant or prejudiced , dared to assert her right to use her own judgment as to the style of dress . She could speak to the comfort of the style she wished to introduce , and

      she left them to contrast its elegance with that of its competitors . Little could he said with certainty as to the dress of the females of ancient Greece ; but the modern Greekladiesin common with tho Turks , Hindoos , Siamese , Chinese , and the most of the other Asiatic and African nations , comprising more than one-half of the human family , wore the objectionable trowsers ; it was in Europe alone that they were monopolised by man . Why should not a woman wear a dress that would enable her to range free over hill or dale , gathering health from exploring the beauties of na cure ? At present , she was debarred from these enjoyments , being looked upon by the men as a drag and jncumbrance—as giving too much trouble to be a sharer in a country ramble . Their limbs were equally free and elastic with those of men , and they claimed to have a description of dress which would give them the nee use of them . One great objection to its use had Surelthi

      been on the score of its novelty . y s could not be a very tangible objection , when onehalf the world were in search of novelty , and were always changing fashions in an endeavour to pro-Cure it . Tbe speaker then replied to the objections made on the score of modesty , showing that in . this respect it was far above its competitors , bins until fourteen years old wore trowsers and short skirts , but when they reached that age they were put into long clothes ; what had been modest at fourteen became immodest on the following day . After entering into a variety of arguments in support of her views , she earnestly called upon the gentlemen present to give their sanction and support to a movement which she had endeavoured to demonstrate was a reform as regarded convenience , health , and expenditure .. Upon the lady sitting down , the applause , partly subdued during her discourse , buret out with renewed enthusiasm , ana , was prolonged during a considerable period .

      Lecture Oh Bloomerism. On Monday Evening...

      "" wthe ^ paternal governme ^ of austria " treats its children . letter A' / ° hann « ntonge has addressed ft Sa lte ^ y ** " * announcing his desire' to He 7 r pf « n mpt , on 8 for the benefit of the wife of outed hv JW * ' Jtojaabeaa sooruelly perse-WhaKK u 8 tri . Paternal Government . lastdaS V *\ ? , ctory of the Imperialists in tbe d & SL ° . 0 Der > 1848 , the unhappy epoch ' of , and % n 2 r ^ « - P 0 n the P ** ^ *«* £ eation rfnV , ^ ^ ¦ £ » rterrd / . the Free Cohgrewverniiw ^ l ^ -. 11011 ^) had * amoved by manaS ^ % ' Herr Pessnegger took the management of the conpreffatimi intn hia ha * A o „ h

      • fJa £ 3 r dni with ability until August , 1851 . Vipnn ? ™ ' " # *** '© f the NationalBank of from A * e JWeroment procured his dismissal S „ g »* 0 n \ » because he was a member SjW ^ . and threw him for six weeks Wp ^ p ! ° ' ^ fcbe course of the pr esent summer , Eri ? 1 f De er ^ companied by three youths , M ? i & £ fne , i ' came to London to visit the Great SffiSf ; £ w er his wturn ' to Austria , he was joined letter th ° Per ! eoutlon 3 related in the sub-B S tofa ' letterfrom HerrPeisneger , of Vienna , to the Rev . Johannes Rongo : — „ . « . '" , . " Brtion 'Aug . 21 , 1851 .

      in +: * j Ju amved at Paris a telegraphic message intimated that my presence was immediatelv required at Vienna . ' When I arrived there on the *¦ "i J "y » tne most cordial salutation from my lamiiy , the anxious question was joined , whether I bad any inter couse while in London with Mazzini , L ' edru-Rollin ; or Louis Blano ? 1 said that I had not , which was the fact . They were astonished ; for ' ° " that pretext the police had made a domiciliary visit , under a special order from the government , when' they took possession of all my papers , including those connected with the management of the - congregation ; " they even seized the various ministerial decrees on the subject of the Free Congregation . The frequent inquiries made at my house by the police , if I had returned to Vienna .

      showed that ulterior proceedings were in contem-Plat ° n- People even hinted at banishment . On the 10 th of July I was summoned before the police , when it was intimated to me that I must leave Vienna in twenty-four hours . I asked the reason . They shrugged their shoulders , and replied that it was not known , and referred me to Weiss Von-Starkenfels , the director of police . I went to him , and was told to ask no reasons , but to obey the order at once . M y blood boiled , but I controlled my indignation , quietly protesting against this illegal proceeding , and declaring that I should not voluntary obey the order . I , however , resolved to act merely by way of passive resistance , so as to give no occasion to the government to raise a criminal charge against me on that ground . I tried to have an audinue of Dr . Bach , the Minister of

      the Interior , but I could not get at him . I therefore presented a memorial to the Minister , stating that I had gone to London to see the Great Exhibition , accompanied by three sons of a friend ( at his request ); that I was furnished with a regular passport ; that I could prove by official documents that I was a citizen of Vienna , and had been a resident Since 1826 : that Vienna was , therefore , my legal residence , and that I had a right to live there and ' gain my livelihood ; that my expulsion from that town was a legal impossibility ; that I could not abandon my wife and children ; that there was no possibility of gaining my livelihood in any other place , and that moreover my position as plaintiff in an action against the National Bank of Vienna rendered my presence peremptorily necessary , to save me from absolute starvation .

      " 1 obtained an official' confirmation ot this proceeding , aud hastened with it to the office of police . On leaving that I had memorialised the Minister of the Interior , a commissary of the police promised to remove me merely outside the walls of Vienna , that he might be able to state that he had executed the order—thus allowing an opportunity tp see if effect would be giten to the memorial . It fell worse , for me , however . An officer of the police came to my house and delivered the following document : —

      " Official . —For Herr Pessnegger . —( Personal description is here given . )—Prescribed Route . — The same ia to travel by the direct route from Vienna to Btunn , and is , immediately on his arrival there , formally to present himself to the police . 'All civil and military authorities are requested to let the bearer of this prescribed route pass free and unhindered provided he does not deviate' from it . By the Imperial and Royal Branch Police-office , Josephstadt . ( Signed ) « Nbuwibth , Commissary . ' Vienna , 11 th July , 1851 . '

      " I asked the officer whether he was provided with money for my journey and other expenses ? lie said he was not , but I was assured that I should find , on my arrival at Bruon , everything that was necessary . An hour afterwards I was separated from my poor wife and boy . You will hot require from me any description of the sad scene ; you can imagine it—compelled , as I was , to abandon my family to the benevolence of friends , parting from them with the knowledge that I was going away on a journey of sorrow ana anguish . " "When I arrived at Briinn I immediately reported myself to the police , but was informed that they had not received any notification about me , and I was told to call again . The official report did

      not come till the third day . It set forth , not in the usual form , that I had been removed from Vienna to Briinn , but that I was a person particularly dangerous to the state , and that I was to be kept under the strictest surveillance , from " superior state necessity . " I represented to the police the inconsistency of this report , with a compulsory passport , and , therefore requested that I should be referred to the authorities at Vienna . A minute of my request was made and laid before the Governor of Moravia , who ordered a reference on the subject to be made to Vienna . Tho police thereupon informed me that it was not obligatory on the city of Btiinn to defray my expenses and the cost of maintaining myself there . Thus deceived and cruelly

      imposed on by the authorities of Vienna , I am compelled to live in an expensive hotel , as no private individual will let mealodging , for fear of attracting the surveillance ' of the police . " The presiding committee of the free congregations , and a deputation of respectable and affluent citizens of Vienna , without respect to creed , have used energetic measures on my behalf . They have had several audiences with Dr . Bach , the Minister of the Interior , but have obtained no greater success than promise of a further examination into tbe matter when the necessary documents are got at .

      My punishment , therefore , is in full force , while , according to the admission of the minister himself , my offence is doubtful . I am detained far from my home , where a surveillance as strict could be maintained in Vienna as at Briinn . I have not the slig htest doubt that my persecutors hope to be able to render me completely submssive by starving me out . As for the starvation they will have no great difficulty in carrying their point , for lam now compelled to exist on my poor savings , and I am prevented by brutal force lrom earning any livelihood . If they think that 1 will submit , I can assure you they are mistaken .

      " If the free congregation in Vienna is to preserve the little that remains of vitality as a protest against the fanatical proceedings of Jesuitism , and for the encouragement and support of the other oppressed congregations of Austria , I feel it to be my duty to persevere iih , e a man , and better men than my oppressors are must help me . " It would remove a heavy weight of cave which now depresses me if 1 knew that my wife and child could be removed to a place of safety . Do , thei-efore , my honoured friend , look out for some means of effecting this . I can do nothing further , fettered as I am ; and it is with these cares that my tyrants seek and hope to crush mo . The Jesuitical clergy have gone so far in their sjstem . of terrorism

      against me as to intimate that they will not cease till the complete ruin of my fortunes is effecteduntil the education of my boy , now eleven years of age , has been undertaken legally and officially by the government ; until , in short , he has been placed for education in one of the ecclesiastical dens of vice—a seminary of the Jesuits . How can I prevent their Satanic plans , and abundant proofs of their dexterity in carrying them out they have already given me—how can I prevent them otherwise than by the removal of my boy ? "It breaks my heart to say so , but even my wife must be removed , for her continuance in this scene of sorrow endangers the firmness of that resistance which I must offer to our enemies , She writes a fine , almost a manly hand , and knows French ,

      Italian , designing , painting , and music thoroughly . She is as clever in all domestic arran gements as in lady . like accomplishments , and poaesses a rasro activity . With so many qualifications , could she not in her future temporary place of sojourn obtain the means of supporting and educating our child ? I beg to add that we are above the every-day prejudices ofsooial position ^ and that we know how , in the hour of adversity , to maintain the moral dignity of humanity in the lowest situation of life , as we have done hitherto in the sphere in which we have moved . May kind Providence spare me this aggravation of the-pains of my wounded mind ; for , should my dear wife and child be forced to remain in Vienna , and fall victims to the- persecutions which I must endure , this indeed would be to drink the bitter cup to its dregs , " :

      Death Op One Op Bubn's Heroines.—A Glasg...

      Death op one op Bubn ' s Heroines . —A Glasgow contemporary records the death of one of the six " Mauchline belles , " on whom Burns confers the fame of his verse . Mrs . Findlay , relict of Mr . Robert Findlay , of the Excise , Greenock , was one of the very few persons , surviving to our own times , who intimately knew the peasant bard in the first flush of his genius and manhood , and by whom her name and charms have been wedded to immortal verse . When we consider that sixty-five years have elapsed since Burns wrote the lines in which this lady ia noticed , and that the six Mauchline belles were then in the pride of opening womanhood , it Is surprising that two of them , who

      have often listened to the living accents of the inspired peasant , still survive . The fate in life oi the six belles was as follows : —Miss Helen Miller , the first named , became the wife of Burns ' s friend , Dr . Mackenzie , u medical gentleman in Mauohline , latterly in Irvine ; Miss Markland wehavcalready spoken of ; Miss Jean Smith was married to Mr . Candlish , a successful teacher in Edinburgh , and became the mother of the eminent divine ; Miss Betty ( Miller ) became the wifoof Mr . Templeton , in Mauchline ; and Miss Morton married Mr . Patterson , cloth-morchant , in the same village . Of the fate and history of "Bonnie Jean" ( Armour ) , we need not speak . The survivors arc Mrs . Pattesson and Mrs . Candlish . —Scottish Prw .

      The Woods and Forests .-In the late session an act was passed , to which reference was » ade by Her Majesty on the prorogation , for the _ better management of the Woods and Forests . By tbis act the Woods and Forests will be separated from the Public Works and Buildings . On the- 10 th of October tbe new law will take efifect , from which day the First Commissioner of tho Public Works will be the First Commissioners of the Public works and Buildings , at a salary of £ 2 , 000 a year , and he may be a member of the House of Commons . It is furthes provided that the other Commissioners of the Woods may hold their appointment , and their salaries- are to be provided for by Parliament ; they

      are to sit in the House' of Commons * Provision is made for the appointment of other officers and the regulation of the- departments . From the commenceaientof tho act the management of the Royal parks will vest in the Commissioners of Public Worisand not ia the Commiasio am of Woods asd Forests . Both departments aso to be provided for by Parliament . ' ' The Chief Commissioner of Public Works will be an Inclosure Commissioner , a commiaaioner of Greenwich Hospital , a commissioner for Buildina New Churches and President of the Board of Health . It is expected that the separation made by the act will be beneficial to both departments .

      . Shocking Dbath . — The Dowager Duchess de Mailie has just been burnt to death at the chateau of La Roeheguyon , where she was on a visit with her friend , the Duchess de Larochefoucauld . She was standing in her room near a waxlight wben a current of air sent the flame in the direction of her dress , which caught fire ; in a moment she was enveloped in flame . She was so dreadfully burnt that all the aid of medical ar ( could not succeed in saving her life .

      The Jehbzy Mijbdkrkr.—Xae Convict Jpouqu...

      the jEHBzy MijBDKRKR . —xae convict jpouquec has received a reprieve for one fortnight beyond the time fixed by the Royal Court for his execution , for the sole purpose of inquiry into his case . The decisio / j of tW Home Office has beep communicated to hi / . n by Mr . Advocate Marrett , and he received the ir . telligeace ; with much apparent gratitude— Jersey ' Sun . Esibbmb Dswcact op Tasib , —Aa earthquake baa refused to swallow the Bona of Haples . —i ^ neA .

      The Jehbzy Mijbdkrkr.—Xae Convict Jpouqu...

      ! MIDDLESBX SESSIONS . M ^^ M The September general sessions of the peace for the county of Middlesex commenced on Mond . v rUOrninff atthe . WJBSlOns House , Clerkenwell- creen The calendar contains the names of seventy-two prisoners for trial , sixty-two of whom stand charged with felony , and tbe remainder with misdemeanour . Robmby BY A Sebvant . —Alfred Guest , 22 , a young man of highly-respectable appearance , was charged with having stolen thirty-six pounds weight of soap , and other articles , the property of John Holdsworth , his master . —From the evidence of the prosecutor it appeared that he was an oilman , residing at No . T , High-street , Shadwell , and bad also a branch business in Maud-place , Jubileestreet , Stepney . About three months ago the prisoner was hired at a yearly salary to conduct the

      business , who stated that he had bad a shop of bis own , but that he had recently let it , and was a single man . It was the duty of the prisoner to enter all the goods he sold on credit in a day-book , which was inspected by prosecutor about every six weeks . For some time past , however , he had observed a deficiency iu the stock , and from an observation made to him by a boy in his employ , ho accused the prisoner of still keeping a shop , to which he replied that he had re-opened it for his wife . Prosecutor told him that be would not allow anything to be . taken out of his shop without being paid for . At the prisoner ' s shop in Cambridgestreet he found thirty-six pounds of soap , fifty-four pounds of dip candles , mould candles , starch , washing powder , blacking , & o . No entry for them

      appeared m the day-book . After considerable difficulty the juryreturned a verdict of Guilty . —Judgmen t deferred until next session . AttircL Dbfbhcb . —Thomas Touerditoh , 27 , an Austrian sailor , was charged with having stolen two £ 10 notes and five £ 5 notes of the Bank of England , the property of John Seamore . —It appeared that the prisoner was a lodger in the house of the prosecutor in Welleloae-square , and on the 27 th of August last the prosecutor put two £ 10 notes and five £ 5 notes between two pieces of wood on tho top of his bedstead for security , but hia wife found them , and to play up a joke against her husband

      removed them , and placed them in a box in her own apartment . Some time afterwards , on going to the box for the money , she was amazed on finding that it had disappeared , the whole of which , with the exception of one £ 10 note , was traced to the possession of the prisoner , who was given into custody for stealing the same . —The prisoner , in his defence , said he had been within ten minutes of the time he was given into custody in bed with the wife of the prosecutor , who had given him the money , and that he had been intimate with her on other occasions . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty . —The Chairman sentenced him to be transported for ten years .

      Stuset Robber ? . —Morris Fleet , 21 , was indicted for having stolen a watch , value £ 6 , the property of John Trotman , from his person , —The prosecutor stated that be was a chain-maker , residing in Holborn , and that on the evening of the 21 st of August he was in the City-road , near the Angel , looking , with a great many other persons , at a man who , dressed in a soldier ' s uniform , was going through a performance which he called " the exercise . " The prisoner and one or two others were close by him , but observing that they were pressing against himself and several , others , he thought that he had better get a little farther off . The prisoners and two others followed , and again took up a position beside him , and in a very short time afterwards he ( prosecutor ) saw his watch in

      the prisoner ' s hand , tbe bow being cut close to tho pendant , the swivel remaining attached to the chain quite perfect The prisoner ran off , followed by prosecutor , who demanded the rostoration of the watch . The prisoner stopped suddenly , turned round , and struck him a heavy blow on the side of tho head , after which be again ran off , but was in the end captured in the City-road . —Mr . O'Brien , who appeared for the prisoner , said he could not struggle with the evidence , and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty . —Archer , a police officer , stated that the prisoner had been convicted of picking pockets at the Sadler ' s Wells , Theatre , and that be was a regular associate of thieves . —Mr . Witham sentenced the prisoner to one year ' s hard labour .

      SiwaoiiAR Defknce . —Henry Sheldrake , 21 , engineer , was indicted for stealing eight screw hobbs , ten screw taps , a force pump , some half-round taps , and other property , belonging to John Cramp Jury . —In January last a very extensive robbery was committed on the premises of the prosecutor , an engineer , in Green Dragon-yard , Whiteehapel , when property of the value of between two and three hundred pounds were stolen . At the following Old Bailey Session a marine store dealer named Hunt was tried , convicted , and sentenced to six months' hard labour for feloniously receiving some of the stolen property , and it appeared from entries in bis books that the articles he was charged with receiving were purchased of a person named Sheldrake . The property set forth in the present indictment was found in the possession of another marine store dealer , who now deposed that he

      purchased seven screw hobbs and eight taps of a person whom he thoroughly believed to be the prisoner for 15 s ., though they were worth more , but knowing tho prisoner to havo kept an engineer ' s shop , he though they were ordinary engineer ' s tools —that they were his own property . Hunt ' s term of imprisonment having expired , he was called as a witness , and he stated that he had no doubt whatever that the prisoner was the individual of whom he bought the articles he was convicted o / rereceiving . —The prisoner ' s defence was a rather inconsistent one . He first complained that the witness only gave his 15 s . for what was worth £ 7 10 s ;; and then contended that both the marine store dealers wore mistaken as to his identity , and that he never in his life had any stolen property in his possession . —The jury found him Guilty . —The court sentenced him to one year ' s hard labour .

      Plunder op a Charitable Institution . —Mary Bentley , 23 , and James Lewis , 27 ; were indicted for having stolen nine brass keys , value 12 s ., the property of the trustees of the Society for the Refuge of Females , at Dalston . —The prisoner Lewis pleaded guilty . The female prisoner , it appeared , was an inmate of the institution , anil the evidence showed that the koys were stolen from the washbouse by her , and given to tbe other prisoner through the window . —The jury found Bentley . Guilty . Assault . —Miohael Driscoll , 17 , was indicted for having unlawfully assaulted Emma Gaunter , a girl under the age of ten years , with intent , & o . ~ Mr . Payne prosecuted on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Young Females . —Mr . O'Brien defended . —The jury found the prisoner Guilty . Judgment wasdeferred .

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      The Court Resumed Its Sittings On' Monda...

      The court resumed its sittings On' Monday * ft appears by the first edition of the calendar tbafi there are at present only sixty-seven prisoners for trial at this session . Henry Dimsdale was called upon to surrender ana take his trial upon a charge of misdemeanour , it will be remembered that the defendant is one of T , ; J ! . 1 stand charged with assaulting Mr . S i "" Paging clerk to Mr . HnmpSreys , ritur ° n ^ from £ f ? i ti ,, g hira with e ^ P ' " » noSadS 5 ? ni k 8 raCeB * The Ca 8 e » Wbich ha * been adjourned over two sessions , was again ad-J 0 FfTl ' p ^ f . the V \ health of Mr . Dimsdale . Jr ^ A * S Vr Jo n Imriea Charles Crosa surrendered to take their trial for conspiring to obtain money b y . false pretences—The prosecutor in this case was Mr . Boss , the well-known perruqmerof Bishopsgate-street , and the indinmUf .

      appeared to have been preferred under the follow * ing circumstances : —Jt seemed that both the defendants were in the service of the prosecutor , Irarie being engaged in a rather confidential capacity , and it was the custom of Mr . Ross to consult him with regard to the quality of hair that was brought for sale , and the price to be paid for it , the prosecutor consuming a great . quantity of that material in his business . The fraud imputed to the defendants was that they had conspired together to get the prosecutor to purchase a quantity of inferior hair from a person named Gooding , and that the defendant Imrie had represented that ifc was worth i $ i , per pound , when he was : uvare that it had been purchased by Cross of a Frenchman named Aujarre for 40 s . per pound , thus , as it was alleged , defrauding the prosecutor of the other 8 s . per pound . —The jury returned a , verdict of Not Guilty .

      A Youso Thief . —William Carson , 14 , a fifer in the Royal Artillery , was charged with stealing a watch , the property of Robert Hill Koss and Joseph Westwood , a private in tho same regiment ,, was charged with feloniously receiving the watch , knowing it to have been stolen . —The boy Carsoa pleaded guilty . —The prosecutor was a private in the same regiment to which the prisoner belonged , and it appeared thatthe boy had gone into his room and taken the watch , which he afterwards gave t © the other prisoner to pledge ., He went for that purpose to the shop of a pawnbroker named Davis , who appeared to entertain some suspicion as to the manner in which the watch had been obtained , and ' the answers to the inquiries that were made by him not being satisfactory , he gave Wostwood into custody . —This prisoner , in his defence , asserted that he ?

      knew nothing of the robbery , and that he merely went to pledge the watch because Carson told him that the pawnbroker would not take it in from a > boy . He requested that the lad might be examine * on his behalf to prove that what he had stated was true ;—Tho boy was accordingly sworn , and . he confirmed the statement that had been made by Westwood with regard to the circumstances under which he had gone to pledge the watch . —The Recorder having summed up the case as it affected . the prisoner Westwood , the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty . —A corporal of Marines , who was tha stepfather of the boy Carson , informed the Court , in answer to inquiries that were made by tha learned judge , that his own father was an artilleryman , who was drowned , leaving a widow with seven children , of whom tho prisoner was the youngest .

      His pay , it appeared , was 6 £ d . per day , and at the time of the robbery he was under a stoppage of 2 d . per day to the quarter-master-sergeunt , for shoes and other necessaries that had been supplied to him , and being in arrear , he took the watch , hoping , by means of pawning it , to relieve himself from hia difficulty . He had , it appeared , always borne a good character , up to the time when this transaction took place . —The Recorder inquired whether , if a kliebii punishment , such as a whipping , were inflicted upon the prisoner , he would be taken back into tha regiment ?—The father-in-law said , it would depend upon the colonel ; but he had no doubt that ha would be taken back if only a slight sentence waa passed upon him . —The Recorder very kindly undertook to communicate with the colonel of tha regiment upon the subject , and in the meantime ! sentence was respited .

      Emdezzlement . —Lewis John Jones , 21 , the clerk to Mr , Huddlestone , the barrister , who had pleaded guilty at a former session to a charge of embezzling a considerable sum of money which he had received from different clients on account of his master , was brought Up for judgment . —The prisoner , who > was strongly recommended to mercy by Mr . Huddlestone , was sentenced to be imprisoned for twelva months in Newgate . Pockbi Picking . —Emma Yardley , 27 , and Mary Thompson , 29 , were indicted for stealing a pursa containing a half sovereign and other money , the ? property of Alfred Tritton , from the person of Angelica Tritton . —It appeared that Mrs . Tritton was upon tho Paul ' s Wharf steam pier on the 27 th of

      August , waiting for a steam boat , when she felt some one ' s hand iu her pocket , and she seized tha hand of the prisoner lardley while she was in tha act of withdrawing it . Yardley was then observed to pass some article to Thompson , who walked off , but sho was stepped by the pier-master , and sha was then observed to throw something away which turned out to be the purse of Mrs . Tritton . —Tha prisoners were found Guilty ; and as it appeared that they were not known to the police , they wera sentenced only to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months . Forger ? . —Caroline Gertrude Rogers , 10 , pleaded guilty to an indictmen t , charging her with forging a cheque for £ 43 , with intent to defraud Messrs . Currie and Co . —Mr . Bodkin , who appeared for tha

      prosecution , stated that the prisoner was in tha service of the Rev . Mr . Lawford as nurse , and ha said that she had taken the opportunity to abstract ; a cheque from his cheque book , upon which she had committed the forgery in question .-The Rev . Mr . Lawford , in answer to questions that were put by the court , stated that he received a good character with the prisoner , and she had generally conducted herself well while in his service ., Her ideas , however , appeared a good deal above . her station , for she had occupied her time in writing poetry , and had likewise taught herself the Italian language . She was also very fond of dress , and a considerable portion of the proceeds of the forgery were expended in the purchase of clothing and jewellery of an expensive character . —Judgment was respited .

      Bisamt . —William Matthews , ii , was indicted for bigamy . —Sophia Beeves deposed that the prisoner was married to her sister , inn Lover . Reeves , at Chichester , at the sub-denery parish church , on tho 3 rd June , 1811 . The sister had between £ 200 and £ 300 when the prisoner married her , and they went to London and took a public-house . About two * yeara afterwards her sister camo homo in a road waggon , and having paid her fare she had only six * pence left . Her sister was always of weak mind , and she was subsequently removed by the pariah authorities to Bethnal Green Lunatic Asylum , where she was at the present time , Tho parish had to support her sister at Chichester for some time , they had instituted the present prosecution . The prisoner did not contribute in any-way towards

      the support of hia wife after sho left him . —Mary Young , the second wife , deposed that she became acquainted with the prisoner while she was in service in Portland-pliee , and she was married to him on the 3 rd of February , 1840 . She was aware that he had been married , but he shovxed her a letter statin !? that hia wife was dead , and when she married him she believed that he was . a widower . The prisoner was engaged as a waiter and interpreter at the Exhibition . He oame home one day the worse for liquor , and- they had a quarrel , and he struck her , and she-then went to Chichester to make inquiries about his wife , and this-led to the present prosecution . —The jury found the prisoner Guiilty , and he was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for sis months .

      Pocket Pickikg . —James- John Smith , 1 S > printer , and William Harpurj . 24 , clogmaker , were indicted for stealing a watch ,, valued £ 3 10 s . from the person of Mary Condon Henderson , on . a vessel navigating the River Thames . The evidence in this case rested on the testimony of White , an intelligent officer , who , seeing the two prisoaera at Greenwich , and they being known to- him , he watched them on to one of the Greenw . ieh steamboats ,, and went on board after them . Ho saw

      thesi ; try the pockets , of several ladies between Greenwich and the Tunnel Pier , where the prosecutrix and a female-friend came oa board , and she shortly afterwards made a complaint of having lost lies' watch :- White told her not to make a noise about it , and , went to Smith » whom he had seen at her pocket * and he immediately passed the watci to llarpur .,. who to get rid of it threw it overboard . —The-jury found them both . Guilty , and they were sentenced , to twelvemonths' imprisaament and hard , labour .

      Alleged Robbery . —Riehsx'd Collinson , a cabman surrendered to take his trial for larceny . — The prosecutors are Messvs . Dunnage , the con « tractors of Gray ' s Iun-road , successors to Messrs . Cubitt ,. . On the 20 th of August they bavin * some works going en " at Tfatchford , "Surrey ; Mr ° Robinson , the cashier , packed up seventeen sovereigns and three pounds in silver ^ tobo sent down to the foreman of tbe works there . The parcel was at first intended to be sent by rail to the Wevbridga

      station , and there left , being bo directed with a memorandum within stating from whence it came , and it was sealed up with the seal Of the firm . On the same ni ght , a cart gomg from London down to the works , the cashier changed his mind , making the money into a larger parcel and entrusting it to the carman , but not telling him what it contained . The man consequently throw tho parcel carelessly into the cart , and attbe ' ehd of his journey , which he made during the night , he found that the parcel wasgone . On the same night the pn oner drova on to tho rank at King Wifiww-eJreet , City , . and

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 20, 1851, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_20091851/page/7/