The Duke of St. Albans' house at Highgate was robbed
on Sunday night. Among the articles carried off there was a time-piece worth 130/. A very daring forgery has been discovered in the Consul-office at the Bank, where a person has obtained the dividend on 66,0001. Consols, by personating the real holder and counterfeiting his signature. The amount thus obtained was NW.; and the forgery was not discovered till the true claimant, whose name is Thomas Hudson, presented himself as usual to sign for his dividend. The money was taken out chiefly in notes of 50/. each, of which only one has come back to the Bank, so that the offender will probably be detected. The loss falls on the Bank. The house of Mr. Johnson, Southampton Street, Strand, was entered the other morning at an early hour, from the ruins behind, ocsasioned by the demolition of houses for the purpose of the Strand improvements; and was robbed of plate to the value of 501. Other houses in the neighbourhood have been attempted. The Police should be vigilant in that quarter. William Wicks, of Bisbmore, near Bisley, in Gloucestershire, was found murdered in his cottage on Sunday last. His house had been plundered at the same time. The Jury who sat on the body returned a verdict of "wil- ful murder" against two men of the name of Cox, who lived in the neigh- bourhood. One of them has escaped, the other has been committed to gaol.
A shoemaker named Smith, who lived at Kiledmond, in the county of Carlow, was found about ten days ago, apparently dead, in a field near his own house. The man who discovered him carried him home. Smith hinted at a quarrel that had occurred between his wife and himself; and requested that a clergyman might be sent for. When the clergyman arrived, Smith was found to he quite dead. Suspicion attached to the wife, and a young man named Styles, who was supposed to be her paramour. Both were ap- prehended; and Styles has confessed that he had been instigated by Mrs. Smith to kill her husband—he had left him for dead in the field, and had despatched him when he was brought home again.
The ship Lydia, which has just arrived in the London Docks, was boarded, on the 21st of April, off the coast of Africa, by a party of savages, who offered to barter ivory and gold-dust. On a sudden, they made an attempt to possess themselves of the vessel, and in'the attempt killed Cap- tain Carlisle and two of the seamen. The mate and the rest of the crew, however, succeeded in driving the assailants into the sea. The savages car- ried off the bodies of their victims in their canoes.
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