On the arrival of the Judges for the purpose of
holding the Assizes at Worcester on Tuesday evening, they were made acquainted with the determination of the High Sheriff not to appoint a Chaplain. This circumstance induced their Lordships to express regret that the Assizes should be held without the divine service usual on such occa- sions; which being intimated to the Bishop, his Lordship volunteered his prvices, and preached one of his most eloquent sermons, on the sub- ject of the obligation of an oath.— Worcester Journal.
At the Stafford Assizes, on Monday, Ann Wycherley was sen- tenced to death for the murder of her own daughter, a young girl. After sentence, the woman pretended to be pregnant ; but a jury of matrons found that "she was not quick with child." On Thursday week, Parker, a patient in the York Lunatic Asylum, Suddenly knocked down Ward, another patient in the day-yard of the Asylum, and kicked him on the head with such violence that 1Vard died the next day. A Coroner's Jury found a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Parker. On his trial, of course, evidence of his insanity will be given.
At Easton, near Stamford, early on the 6th instant, some ruffians broke into a house occupied by Elizabeth Longfoot, a single woman, of weak intellect ; whom they murdered with blows on the temple, alld by strangulation, as appeared from the marks on her head mid throat: Considerable property, chiefly articles of plate, and about me In ready money, was stolen. Three brothers, named Archer,
• were arrested on suspicion of being the guilty parties ; but were dis- charged after examination. Andrew Porter, of Euston, a baker, was
subsequently taken into custody. Government have offered a reward of 1001., and the inhabitants of Easton an additional sum of 301. for the discovery and conviction of the actual murderers.
John Jones alias Armstrong, charged with larceny, effected his escape from Walsall gaol on the afternoon of Sunday, the 4th, between three and four o'clock. He forced one of the bars over the entrance into the prison ; and by that means procured admittance into the Guildhall, from a window of which he gained the street, and ran off in the direction of Wednesbury.— Wolverhampton Chronicle.
" Brighton Bill," who fought on Tuesday last with Owen Swift at Royston, and who was defeated by the latter after a fight of frightful severity, died this morning at seven o'clock, in consequence of the beating lie received. This is the second man that Swift has been un- fortunate enough to-kill in a pugilistic encounter.—Globe.
On Friday afternoon, a fall of chalk of considerable extent took place at the eastern end of Shakspeare's Cliff, where the excavations for the South-eastern Railway are going on. Fortunately, the men engaged on the work were at such a distance from the place at the time, that no injury was sustained by them ; but a poor slog, which was lying on their clothes near the spot, was buried in the ruins.—Dercr aro. nide.
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