On Saturday night, two gentlemen, on horseback, determined to bilk

the toll- keepers of Waterloo Bridge. They passed at the Middlesex side without paying. The keeper on that side followed, however, and called on the man at the other to close the gates. Before this could be accomplished, the poor man who attempted it, was knocked down by the horse of the first equestrian, and frightfully injured. One of the gentlemen left his hat behind. By an application to the maker in Cornhill, it was discovered to belong to a Mr. Wilson, who lives at Tooting. He was apprehended, and brought on Tuesday to Bow Street ; where, in consequence of the dangerous state of the toll-keeper, bail has been refused, and Mr. Wilson committed to the house of correction.

Mr. I. H. Wilson, brother to the person already apprehended, has surrendered himself, and been consigned to the New Prison, Clerkenwell.

A woman of the name of Brown, wife to a carpenter in Spitalfields, succeeded on Monday last in detecting her husband in a long-suspected amour. The con- sequences were, however, fatal to herself. If not the husband, his paramour, Elizabeth Reeves, assaulted Mrs. Brown, and threw her into the street, where she lay for some time insensible, and on being removed into an adjoining house, ex-

pired. The guilty pair were taken into custody. At the inquest held on the body on Wednesday there was no evidence that the husband was concerned in the out- rage ; but it was proved that Reeves had assaulted the deceased in a most furious manner. A verdict of "manslaughter" was returned against Reeves.

The proprietor of a set of "flash" oyster-rooms in Brydges Street, Covent- Garde, has been apprehended as a principal in the robbery of the Doncaster bet/fig-room. A man of the name of Jenkins, who was formerly a waiter, in the service of the other, has been committed to York Castle on a similar charge.

A Mr. Kemsley, the occupier of Northwood Farm, in Essex, has been com- mitted to gaol on suspicion of having set fire to his own premises. He had pre- viously insured them to a large amount.

A female from Portsmouth landed on Ryde Pier this week, whose portly ap- pearance induced the excise-officers to fancy that the time of her delivery was near. They accordingly conducted her to an inn, where the chambermaid offi- ciated as midwife, and delivered her very safely of nine bladders of contraband spirits, which were concealed under her clothes. The fruitful stranger was fined, on Saturday/ in the penalty of IOU) for this breach of the reyentle•laws.— 8riglagm Calardion. The warehouse of Mr. Joseph Kay, of Watling Street, Manchester was robbed of a very great amount of property on Sunday last. Several men have been apprehended on suspicion. Mr. Kay, it is worthy of remark, bad a private watchman for his warehouse.

On Sunday evening, as Mr. J. G. Harrison, surgeon, Manchester, was re. turning from a visit to a patient on the Altrincham Road, accompanied by his brother, Mr. Charles Harrison, they were attacked by two men at the third mile-stone from Manchester, near the Dog and Partridge Inn. Mr. liar. rison and his brother were provided with a slight walking-stick and a short das. ger-stick, which last was lost in the first encounter. The assassins were ana'd with bludgeons and fire-arms. The scuffle lasted some minutes, during whieh one of the ruffians, on being refused his demand for money, fired a horse-pistol at Mr. Harrison ; and that not taking elect, repeated attempts were made to wound him with a sword or dagger. At this critical moment footsteps were heard at a distance, and the thieves began to retreat, one of them threatening to blow out Mr. Harrison's brains if any alarm was given, and even attempted to reload his pistol. Messrs. Harrison called loudly for assistance; when three gentlemen made their appearance, who proved to be ministers of the gospel, re- siding in Manchester, and returning front spiritual duties at Altrincham. One of them was armed with a sword; but though earnestly entreated to render assis- tance in the pursuit, they refused, and the villains escaped. At an early hour on the same evening, they attacked five different individuals on the other side of Stratford. Amongst the number was a man named George Miller, who wan stabbed a little below the right kidney, and was until Thursday considered to be in a dangerous state.—Manchester Guardian.

On Thursday morning, Livingstone, a Manchester police-officer, apprehended a man charged with several robberies. By twelve o'clock, two cases had been substantiated against him. Bills were immediately preferred against him before the Grand Jury, then sitting at Salford ; which were returned found. He was instantly brought up, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to be transported for seven years. All this occupied only a small portion of one day. In the parish of Rowe, on Saturday, Robert Hare, the son of Mr. Hare, of Heayhillbarton, in a fit of insanity took his gun and went to Little Heayhill farm, the residence of John Holman, a dairyman, and shot Mary Holman, the wife, dead on the spot.— Western Luminary. An affray took place last week between some poachers and the keepers of Mr. Gascoigne of Parlington Park. Some men on both sides were severely hurt. Se- veral of the poachers are in custody.

Munnen BY GAMEKEEPERS AT RIPLEY:We have received a letter from a highly respectable quarter, representing the facts of this case much more favour- ably to the accused gamekeepers than the account given in our Enaresborough correspondent's letter last week. The party whom the gamekeepers encountered, and one of whom was killed, are stated to have been a party of poachers, who were provided with sticks and stones ; and the fatal result of the affray is repre- sented as an accident. —Leeds Mercury.

A man brought a quantity of hay to market last week, and sold one-half of it for four pounds. He was returning with the rest, when a messenger from the purchaser overtook him with money for the whole load, in a letter, which he handed to the driver of the hay on receiving back the four sovereigns. The letter was addressed to the owner of the hay, and was found to contain six halfpence. On Thursday, Mr. Poole, of Stogausey, was accosted at Bridgewater market by a genteel person in the street—" Sir, I see you're a country farmer, will you distribute some hand-bills for me The stranger invited Mr. Poole to accom- pany him to the Bristol Arms Inn ; where another person in company observed that there were pickpockets in the town, and recommended those who had money to put it into their watch-pockets. Mr. Poole took the hint, and endeavoured to place his 40/. in his watch-pocket ; but being rather clumsy in the operation, his near friend said, " Sir, I will assist you." Mr. Poole shortly left the house, and went to a Mr. Peole's in Castle Street, Bridgewater, to pay his rent, when, to his great surprise, he had in his pocket two penny-pieces instead of his 401.—Bath Chronicle.

A man of the name of Newell, was shot last week, by a spring-gun, in an at- tempt upon the poultry-house of Mr. Moth of Farnham.

A lady walking with her children on the Dulwich road, was robbed by a ruf- fian at mid-day, on Monday last.

Henry Woods, the man who a short time since was examined on suspicion of being concerned in various burglaries at Enfield, and who made his escape front the cage there, was on Wednesday again apprehended at a brothel in Shire Lane, and has been sent back to Enfield.

As the Lord Mayor's state carriage was proceeding on Monday through Cole- man Street, a baker's apprentice was forced under the horses' feet, and the wheels of the carriage passed over his body his arm was broken to pieces, and his che,t dreadfully crushed and lacerated. He was carried to St. Bartholemew's Hos- pital without any hopes of his life being preserved. On Monday afternoon, while the bells of St. Sepulchre's were ringing a merry peal, the tenor or great bell, weighing 3,3001bs. fell with a most tremendous crash into the pit beneath. The gudgeons by which it was suspended, had yielded to the friction of two centuries. The ringers, who were three floors under, owed their safety to the strength of the oak timbers upon which the bell descended.

Early on Wednesday morning, Mr. Price a surgeon in Great Pulteney Street, was found by a policeman, bleeding, lacerated, insensible, and naked, in the street. It appeared afterwards, that in a state of intoxication he had leaped over the window, and been torn by the iron railing. A watch-dog, the property. of Mr. Mace, Regent's Park, flew at his master's throat on Sunday last, while feeding, and tore his arm dreadfully. Mr. Mace held the animal by the ears, till assistance came, and then caused him to be shot.

A girl named Elizabeth Rathbone, servant to a shoemaker in the Borough, was burned to death last week, in consequence of her apron having caught lire.

A little girl residing at Kennington Cross has been crushed to death on the common by one of the coaches. Mr. Adam Barret, a corn-dealer in Heaton Norris, who left home to attend the Manchester market last week, has not since been heard of. He had a large sum of money ; and it is feared that he may have been trepanned and murdered.

The Doctor Syntax coach, on its way to Hexham last week, was overturned, and one of the passengers, Mr. James Robson, auctioneer, at Hexham, killed. While a detachment from Wombwell's menagerie was exhibiting at Hull laq week, one of the assistant-keepers placed a ladder against the bars of the leopard's den, in order to amuse the company by distributing fruit or biscuits amongst the smaller animals in the cages above. The ladder slipped, and the man's hand tell within the monster's reach, who instantly seized it with great fury ; and, though the keeper very promptly relieved him front his perilous situation, by sticking a hay-fork into the leopard's nose, yet the injury he sustained was so great as to encloser the loss of his hancl.—, York /*raid,

On Monday week, three of the colliers employed in the Isabella Pit, near Workington, were seriously injured by an explosion of foul air, occasioned by

one of the men having imprudently taken his candle from the lantern, by which the air was instantly ignited. One man lingered till Thursday, when he expired ; the others are in a fair way of recovery.—Carlisle Patriot. An alarm was given on Monday last, that Barnsley prison was on fire. The doss were opened and a rush made by the prisoners, of whom one named Hoyle contrived to escape. Some straw, it turned out, had been set or:fire, for the purpose of raising a smoke. On Tuesday evening, Mr. Voole, an eminent cotton-merchant in Manchester, went into a public-house in Oldham Street, and after drinking some brandy and water, discharged a pistol at his head. The ball passed through his neck, but

left his brain uninjured. His life is despaired of. Losses in trade are said to have prompted the deed.

Mr. Birkenger of Doughty Street, Brunswick Square, cut his throat on Monday. Captain George Newman, residing in Homer Street, New Road, cut his throat ta:t week, in a fit of depression, caused by pecuniary losses.

Mr. J. Kingston, a respectable tradesman at Clerkenwell, hanged himself last seek in a fit of insanity,

On Wednesday-, Mr. Thomas Baildon, commercial traveller for the house of Tasswells, druggists, Garlick Hill, destroyed himself with prussic acid. A jobber with timber legs, who used to supply hay to carmen on the Rock Road, Dublin, was refused liquor at a public-house in that quarter last Saturday, the fellow being intoxicated. He went off in a fret and hanged himself in a stn... A letter from Gibraltar states, that Mr. Ellis, the English Vice-Consul at Tan- tier, had a sea voyage lately prescribed to him on the score of his health. He had st the use of his arms ; and while being hoisted on board a frigate, fell into the sea. and narrowly escaped drowning. On the afternoon of Sunday sennight, the congregation of St. Mary's church, Devonshire, were alarmed by dreadful cries. These came from the bellfry ; and en forcing open the door, a little boy was seen hanging by his hands to a large beam, just below the bells. He was rescued from his perilous situation, but the congregation had been so much excited, that the clergyman deemed it necessary to ILSITHSS them.

On Thursday, while the workmen at the New Palace, St. James's Park, were WIng the marble columns at the top of the grand staircase, one of these, of the weight of nearly two tons, fell, and bruised the foot of Mr. Roles the clerk of the works, but without breaking any of the bones. About two o'clocic:on Thursday morning, a fire broke out in Cock Yard, Tot- hill Street, Westminster; and it was not subdued till after it had done a great deal of damage. A man was drowned at Wapping lately, and after an inquest had been held on his body, he was advertised that his friends might claim him. Two men, who represented themselves as nephews, and a wornan who called herself sister to the deceased, immediately: recognized the body, and expressed their anxiety to re- move it. The beadle took the precautiou to make inquiries about them, and dis- covered them to be notorious body-snatchers.