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On Wednesday afternoon a deputation waited upon the Right Hon- ourable William Cowper, at his office in Whitehall Place, to present an address in favour of the new Kensington ride. Mr. Cowper, in replying said he was much pleased with the memorial, as it showed that the resi- dents in the neighbourhood agreed with him that the new ride would prove an enjoyment to the people while it would improve the property of the surrounding neighbourhood. The agitation against the ride had been got up by persons who took an interest in agitation, and he did not think it had much chance of success. Many improvements would be made in the ride if it became permanent.

William Godfrey Youngman the young man charged with the four murders at Walworth, was tried on Thursday. All the facts were reproved before the Jury ; the defence set up by Mr. Best, the prisoner's counsel, rested upon the improbability of the case of the prosecution. But in ten minutes, the Jury found a verdict of Guilty, and sentence of death was passed.

Jobson was sentenced, on Thursday, to imprisonment and hard labour for twelve months, and afterwards to find sureties to be of good behaviour for twelve months more.

William Groshart Johnston, accused of stealing three books from his master, a warehouseman in Watling Street, was acquitted of that charge before the Recorder, but a second indictment for embezzlement ended in a verdict of guilty. Sentence, four years' penal servitude.

"All is not gold that glitters ; " Ellen M`Goff and Mary Al‘Gauty two young girls belonging to Dundee, were brought up before Mr. Alderman Hale on Monday to be passed to their native parish. They had been in- duced to go to Paris upon a promise of employment and high wages at a flax mill. On their arrival, they found the increased rate of wages did not com- pensate them for the increased hours and seventh day of labour in Paris, and they were compelled to leave the wages they had earned, when they re- turned to this country.

Mr. Commissioner Fane, refused on Monday to annul the adjudication against the Mitre Insurance Company, which was, he thought, a trading company, and the petition was sustained by Mrs. Portle's debt. Time to appeal to the Lords Justices was allowed.

Mr. Paynter, the magistrate, on Monday, exposed a revived system of begging letters from the United States, addressed to persons recently de- ceased. In the case before him, two letters in the same handwriting were addressed, giving different accounts of the same alleged immorality, upon which the claim for relief was founded.

David Wemyss Jobson, who has so often figured before the Police Courts for libelling Sir James Ferguson, M.P., was tried at the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday. Mr. Disraeli was called to prove the receipt of one of the libels, and was subjected to a rigorous but very offensive cross-examina- tion by Jobson. The Jury found him Guilty,: with a recommendation to mercy on account of the state of his health.

George Newtnarch, a news-boy, was brought before Alderman Abbiss, suspected of stealing a copy of the second edition of the Times, which he got another boy to offer for sale for a penny. The offer happened to be made to Mr. Jones, a news-agent, who complained to the police. He was locked up all night and discharged with a reprimand.

The' trial of the Colney Hatch Asylum keepers, charged with he man- slaughter of William Swift, is postponed until next session of the Central Criminal Court.

Sophia Payne, charged with the manslaughter of her child in consequence of not giving it proper food and attention, was acquitted ; the grand jury ignored the bill, and the prosecuting counsel withdrew from the coroner's inquimition. The poor woman only earned 3s. or 4s. a week by shirt- making, and had given the child as much food as her means would permit.

Elizabeth Wicksteed was found guilty of attempting to drown her child ; the violence of her language preceding the attempt, and the mode of cruelty, are unfit for publication. Sentence, three years' penal servitude.

Mr. Francis Hooper, the leather-merchant, was acquitted on Wednesday of the charge of misappropriating the proceeds of the Bills of Exchange in- trusted to him for discount by Mr. Summers, of Cheltenham.

A deputation to represent the views of the colonists of New Zealand on the subject of the bill relating to that colony now before the House of Commons had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday. The deputation consisted of Mr. A. Mills, M.P. ; Mr. J. A. Roebuck, M.P.' Mr. H. Childers, M.P. ; Mr. J. E. Fitzgerald, J.P., late member of Executive Council and M.H.R. ; Mr. John Hall, J.P., late mem- ber of Executive Council and M.H.R. ; Mr. J. Johnson, member of

Legislative Council ; Mr. J. Kelham, J.P., M.H.R. ; Mr. J. Cagill, J.P.,

M.H.R. ; Mr. W. Brodie, J.P., H.H.R. ; Mr. James Newman, M.P.C. ;

Mr. W. B. Bray, M.P.C., (Nelson) ; Mr. J. Jones, Captain Morehead, Mr. L. Harper, Mr. R. Phanwryn, and Mr. C. Bowen, L.P.

The three parishes of Marylebone, Kensington, and Paddington, have collected 42,910 signatures against the new horse-ride in Kensington Gardens. The form of petition adopted is a memorial to the Queen.

The Grasshopper of the Royal Exchange was in considerable peril during the thunderstorm last Saturday; a vivid flash of lightning hovered round the vane, and, for a moment, it was involved in an intense blaze. The grasshopper was the crest of Sir Thomas Gresham, the munificent founder of the first Exchange, and with that fondness for associations and emblems which distinguished the period in which he lived, the eminent merchant adopted his own crest for the vane of the edifice which he erected and dedi- cated to the use of the citizens of London. The vane and shaft have under- gone a careful examination, and they remain apparently uninjured, but their escape appears to be owing to a lightning conductor which Mr. Tite had the foresight to introduce for its protection.

Lord Palmerston has conferred the canonry in Westminster Abbey ren- dered vacant by the death of the Reverend Edward Repton, M.A., upon the Reverend Evan Nepean, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, chaplain in ordinary to the Queen, incumbent of Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, and rector of Heydon-with-Irmingland, near Reepham, Norfolk. The reverend gentleman graduated at Cambridge in 1823, but his name does not appear in the list of those who took honours. This statement is denied by the Times. Mary Allen appeared on Wednesday to answer for the horrible iUe of Caroline Lefevre : the facts are too notorious to require repetition. al, Jury pronounced her guilty, and Mr. Justice Williams felt himself call,`,''uv. upon to pass the severest sentence the law allowed ; three years' penal serill- tude.

Mahomed All Khan pleaded guilty to attempting self-destruction. ]1i10., the Indian who attempted to cut his throat during a morning sitting in this ■ House of Lords. He had some claim on the Nawab of Joonaghur as here- ditary officer, and laid that clain at 20001., and to obtain it had come to this country, having first been to Bombay, where he was offered to be put into the native police by the British authorities, who had no power to interfere, in consequence of Joonaghur being an independent principality. From India he had walked through Persia to Moscow, thence to Vienna, and finally to the port where the General Steam Navigation boats returned from ; one of the captains brought him to this country about two years ago, and the East India Company had done all they could do for him, as also had the authori- ties of the Strangers' Home ; but although they killed and cooked the food after the Mahomedan style he objected to stay there on account of its not being in accordance with the rules of his sect. A gentleman front the India House said that they had wished to send him back to his own Nawab, but he did not wish to go. Some conversation arose in Court as to sending him home, but the poor fellow, upon hearing about being sent home, expressed by action that he should have his arms cut off, and then his throat cut, and, putting his hands together, as if supplicating not to be sent, in an earnest tone addressed some remarks to the bar who were nearest to him, and pointed to the Jury and the bench.

Mr. Commissioner Kerr said he thought the poor fellow's claim was just, and he should respite judgment to see what could be done with him.

The deaths in the Metropolis last week were 999; in previous week 1047. If the deaths from epidemic cholera in 1854 are excluded from calculation, the average number of deaths in the same week of ten years past is 1227, showing a decrease of deaths 228. The births were 857 boys and 799 girls ; total 1650. In the ten oorresponding years of the years 1850-9, the average number was 1.550; increase 100.