Second Lieutenant Robert Bellairs, of the Royal Marines, was sen-
tenced on Thursday, by a Court-martial held at Woolwich, to be dis- missed his Majesty's service, for abusive language to his superior, Lieutenant Wood. On Thursday evening, Lieutenant Bellairs sent a challenge to Lieutenant Wood ; and they met yesterday morning, oppo- site the Arsenal. The challenger fired, but missed his opponent; who fired in the air ; the parties afterwards shook hands.
In the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, the Recorder passed sen- tence on the prisoners convicted at the late Sessions. Isaac Norton and Samuel Poole were sentenced to two years' imprisonment, for an offence which the Recorder said was "too disgraceful to be mentioned in open court." Norton is a man of considerable property, and the father of twenty-one children. henry George Thomas, for an attempt to murder his wife, was sentenced to be transported for life. George Edwards Peacock, a solicitor, for a forgery on the Bank of England, and seven others for robberies, were sentenced to death ; the Recorder intimating, however, that the sentence would be commuted to trans- portation. At these Sessions the Grand Jury ignored no fewer than fifty bills.
The clerk in the Bank of England who had the care of Peacock's account, and who hastily reported that all was right, when Peacock's brother, fearing that all was wrong, called to check the account, has been dismissed. His character for integrity is quite unimpeachable, and he had been between thirty and forty years in the Bank. His case is considered to be a hard one.
In the Sheriff's Court, on Thursday, the following persons, among others, were proclaimed outlaws,—Lord William Paget, the Reverend John Cape! Hanbury Tracy, William Long Wellesley, Sir John Ed- ward De Beauvoir, Augustus Barrington, Price Powell Hamilton, Henry Leigh Hunt, and Samuel James Arnold.
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