In the Central Criminal Court, on Saturday, Robert Salmon, whose
conviction on a charge of improperly administering Alorison's pills was mentioned last week, was sentenced to pays, fine of 200/. to the King ; which was immediately discharged, and the prisoner was released.
James Barnes, a clerk in the Post-office for twenty-seven years, with a salary of .5001. a year, has been tried on three distinct indict- ments of having purloined money received by him for postage of letters. He made an able defence of himself on each trial; and the verdict of acquittal which the Jury pronounced, excited loud approbation from the spectators. There appears to have been too much inveteracy in the proceedings of the Post-office against this person : surely two acquittals might have satisfied the prosecutors, without putting the accused to the expense and agony of a third trial for an offimce of the same nature as that of which he had been twice declared innocent. Eleven out of twelve of the third Jury expressed their disapprobation of the persecu- tion he had been subjected to.
At the Kingston Assizes, last week, John Harley and James Hills were convicted of the burglary at the house of Mrs. Long and Mrs. Scholefield at Chipstead, on which occasion Captain Rankin, Mrs. Scholefield's nephew, behaved with so much coolness and intrepidity. They were both condemned to death, and Harley was hanged on 'Won- day ; but Hills was respited, in consequence of his having made a con- fession which led to the conviction of Harley ; and it is expected that he will be transported for life. •
On Wednesday, an inquest was held at the London Hospital on the body of Nelson, a seaman, forty years of age, who fell in his sleep from one of the upper rooms of an inn in Ratcliffe Highway, and was dread- fully injured. lie had been in the habit of walking in his sleep. The Jury found a verdict of " accidental death."
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