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At a Common Hall of the Liverymen of London held on Thursday, Mr. John Carter, Alderman and clockmaker, and Mr. J. Hulbert, citizen and grocer, were elected to the office of Sheriff for the ensuing year.

On the preceding day, there was a warm discussion in the Court of Aldermen on the yearly incident of gentlemen being named for the office and refusing to serve it, at the peril of a fine of 4001. In this instance it was alleged, that the nomination had been made without the concurrence

of the gentlemen named, Grissell and Mr. Moore ; and therefore moved that the entry of their nomination be erased. On the other hand, it was contended that the consent of the members was not legally neces- sary, and that they were obliged to " serve or pay." Ultimately, in a thin Court, a division was taken on a proposal to cancel the nomination; and this proposal was carried, by the casting-vote of the Lord Mayor.

The dinner to the Judges, on Wednesday, given, according to yearly custom, by the retiring Sheriffs of the City of London, was honoured by the presence of Lord John Russell. Lord John, in a small speech on some toast intrusted to him, professedly eschewed politics, as he supposed that the sages of the law around him had no doubt, in their high position, never even heard of the floating rumours of an approaching dissolution of Parliament ; but he ventured to assert for himself, as a Member for the City, that he had at least been plain-spoken—" When I have thought it my duty to express an opinion upon any political subject, I have not bowed blindly down to popular opinion."

A grand banquet was given by the East India Company on Saturday, to Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, on the eve of his departure to take the command of the Company's troops in the Presidency of Bombay. The Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir John Pakington, and Mr. /ferries, were among the crowd of distinguished company.

The annual meeting of the Law Amendment Society, on Wednesday, was an occasion for congratulation as to the past and of good stimulus to farther successes in the future. The report pointed to the directions in which Law Reform has made strides this year,—abolition of Masters Offices, Equity Procedure and Common-Law Procedure Reform, Copy- hold Enfranchisement, &c. ; and was able to say that the chief impetus in each direction had originally been given by the Committees of the Society and their small octavo pamphlet reports. On one important measure, however the Common-Law Procedure Bill, the report gave reasons for qualifying the pleasure, which form a grave warning, and an incentive to fresh amending efforts. Members are strongly urged to beat up for recruits, especially lay recruits. " The combination in due proportion of the two elements of professional and non-professional members is most desirable, and would, we are con- vinced, produce a result far better than can be attained by either class at- tempting to act alone."

The eighth yearly meeting of the Society for Improving the Dwellings of the Labouring Classes was held on Saturday ; the Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair. The report stated that the Society is raising up kindred insti- tutions all over the country—at Edinburgh, Leeds, Halifax, Wilton ; and has also become the model of similar philanthropic associations abroad.

" At Berlin, model buildings containing 146 dwellings, giving accommo- dation to 850 persons, have been erected; at Geneva, some gentlemen who visited the Exhibition have built model lodging-houses for 16 inmates ; and at Christiana a lodging-house of large dimensions has recently been built."

The Court of Queen's Bench was crowded on four successive days of this week, for the trial of Dr. Achilli's criminal information against Father New- man.

A book was published in October last year by Burns and Lambert, of Pater-

noster Row, entitled " Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in Eng- land" ; lectures originally delivered at Birmingham, by John Henry Newman. One of them contained an attack upon Giovanni Giacinto Achilli, better known as Dr. Achilli, a converted Dominican monk, who within the last two years lectured against the Church of Rome, and published a book called "Dealings with the Inquisition." The attacking passage in Dr. Newman's lecture was considered libellous by Dr. Achilli; and he directed a criminal informa- tion to be filed against the publishers. Dr. Newman, however, came forward and admitted that he was the author • and, by leave of the Crown, his name was substituted for that of Burns andLambert.

The libel made Achilli confess his own iniquities. Ah ! said Father Newman,

Dr. Achilli—the Protestant world flocks to hear him because he has something to tell of the Catholic Church. He has something to tell, it is true ; he has a scandal to reveal ; he has an argument to exhibit. That argument is him- self. His presence is the triumph of Protestants, and the Catholics' confu- sion. And then Dr. Newman dramatically makes Achilli confess to "mo- thers of families, gentle maidens, and innocent children," that he is the man who for many years enacted the part of a profligate in a cowl, a seducer of women, married and single, and even of children under age, against their will. He makes Achilli particularize the places and the deeds : ho addresses him as "the scandal of Catholicism, the palmary argument of Protestants by his extraordinary depravity " ; he calls him a profligate, an unbeliever, and a hypocrite." This libel was set out verbatim m the criminal informa- tion.

As Dr. Newman pleaded first " not guilty," and next a justification,

consisting of twenty-three charges, specifically 'describing the heinous of- fences alleged against Achilli, the dates when and the places where the acts were committed, as well as the names of the victims, time had been granted to Father Newman to collect evidence,—namely, from the 21st November 1851, when the rule was made absolute. The trial before Lord Chief Justice Campbell and a Special Jury commenced on Monday, and continued de die in diem until Thursday evening. At the commencement of the proceed- ings, only nine of the Special Jury panel answered to their names, and a

' tales was prayed • the actual Jury, therefore, included three Common jurors. The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, and Mr. T. F. Ellis, ap-

peared for the prosecution ; Sir Alexander Cockburn, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, Mr. Bramwell ta.C., Mr. Addison, and Mr. Baddeley, for Newman. The court was crowded with auditors to, such a degree that Lord Campbell talked about having it cleared. The greatest interest and excitement prevailed, not only within the small area of the room itself, but in the passages and corridors adjacent.

The nature of the offence legally ascribed to Dr. Newman was stated by the Attorney-General ; the case on the other side by Sir Alexander Cockburn. The first witness was Elena Giustini, a woman about forty years of age,

and married two years ago. She deposed that she had visited Dr. Achilli in the convent at Viterbo, twenty-three years bank; having previously seen him at the country-house of a Signora Gentili. The place of their assig- nation was the sacristy ; but she described herself as being under some degree of compulsion. "I spoke to him on the sin of it," and he replied, that "there was no sin." "I told him that it was a hellish matter'. ; but he said, "not at all, otherwise hell would be quite full." "Did he give you any presents ?" asked the Attorney-General. "He gave me a silk handker- chief, which was older than himself" • another time he gave her three sau- sages. The witness said that she had confessed, "but the confessor pro- hibited me from saying anything to anybody, on account of Achilli being an ecclesiastic."

Sofia Maria Balisann, born Principe, a middle-aged woman of the humbler

class, knew Dr. Achilli before her marriage at Naples, when she was thirteen or fourteen years of age. She went to the church of St. Peter, to make a small offering of money at the image of one of the saints ; and there she met with Dr. Achilli. His presents were " a bit of sweetmeat from time to time." The sacristy was again the part of the church retired to. Dr. Achilli after- wards brought her father and mother before the police for calumniating him ; and they' preferred counter-charges. But, as her mother, Gaetana Principe, deposed, neither of them was punished. Dr. Achilli soon after left Naples.

Antonio Russo, a Maltese resident in Corfu, related how be found one night one Garamoni, a tailor at Corfu, in his house, holding Achilli, who was silent and trembling ; Garamoni uttering all the reproaches of an angry husband. On being released, Dr. Achilli "ran away like a horse." Pietro Boccheciampi deposed to having seen Achilli in parts of Corfu fre- quented only by persons of bad character. William Reynolds, a resident at Zante, who assisted Dr. Achilli in esta- blishing a Protestant chapel, used to see in the chapel a woman who acted as doorkeeper, and also as laundress in Dr. Achilli's house. She was the wife of a chorus-singer, and of character so notoriously bad that Mr. Reynolds remonstrated with Dr. Achilli on that subject. The style of her dress un- mistakably indicated a profligate mode of life. The windows of Mr. Rey- nolds's house overlooked Achilli's house ; but the latter closed the blinds of his own window. Rosina Lavanchy, a nursery-governess in the family of Mr. Reynolds, had met Achilli and Cariboni's wife walking in the streets; and witnessed fami- liarities in the opposite house, which obliged her to discontinue her observa- tions, she was so shocked. Vincenzo Bares and Giovanni Patrignani deposed to seeing Achilli habit- ually in company with Albina Cariboni. The Reverend George Hadfield, Principal of St. Julian's Protestant College in Malta in 1847, knew Dr. Achilli as the Italian theological teacher. Two members of the College, formerly priests, were accused of profligate con- duct. Dr. Achilli made light of the charge ; called one witness " a calum- niator," and sent another out of the way, "on an important mission "— to distrilsute Bibles in Sicily. The Earl of Shaftesbury, a member of the London Committee managing the College, corroborated the routine state- ment as to Dr. Achilles being dismissed. Dr. Bonavia repeated a conversation which he had with Achilli respecting one of the accused teachers, who had been visited by a married lady. Dr. Achilli asked Bonavia, "if he thought it wrong ? " told him that "if he were a bachelor he might do worse' ; and broke off the conversation to join his companions at cards. Several witnesses deposed to Dr. Aehilli's immoralities in England, since 1850. They were Harriet Harris, a servant-girl in Dr. Achilles house ; Jane Legge, servant of all work in the house of the Doctor; Sarah Wood, another servant-girl in his house; and Catherine Forman, servant to Miss Lambert, at whose house Dr. Aehilli lodged. The character of all these wit- nesses did not stand on close examination. Harriet Harris bad been charged by Mrs. Achilli with being dirty. Legge and Wood could not prove them- selves to be immaculate in other respects. Sarah Wood said that she had threatened to write to Mrs. Tennant; on which Achilli told her " she would be a very naughty girl" to do so. He gave her a book, the title of which was " Come to Jesus."

There were several other witnesses, but we have indicated the principal allegations. Mrs. Logan, Jane Legge's sister, when she told Achilli that a

solicitor had visited her to inquire about her sister, was answered with the advice to shut the door in the man's face next time he came. Achilli thought that the subpcena was of no use, and that it could not make Mrs. Logan and her sister go to the court. Dr. Aehilli appeared in the witness-box on Wednesday; when the interest of the trial reached its height. The Times describes him as follows—" He is a plain-featured, middle-sized man, about fifty years of age ; and his free is strongly Italian. His forehead is low and race ing, ins' nose prominent, the mouth and the muscles around it full of resolution and courage. lie wears a black wig, the hair of which is perfectly straight ; and being close shaved, this wig gives to his appearance a certain air of the conventicle. Yet he retains many traces of the Roman Catholic priest, eepecially in his bearing, .enunciation, and gestures, which have a sort of stealthy grace about them. His eyes 'are deep-set and lustrous ; and with his black hair, dark com- plexion, and sombre, demure aspect, leave an impression upon the mind of the observer by no means agreeable, and not readily to be forgotten. Judg- ing of his intellectual powers from his physiognomy and mode of giving evidence, one would be led to say that he was a man of considerable penetration and cleverness. The questions put to him by his own counsel he answered with great clearness, and in a calm unwavering quiet manner, without any trace of strong excitement or feelings deep- ly roused. Sometimes a slight contemptuous smile accompanied his de- nials of opposing evidence, and once or twice he even seemed to treat points merrily. His general bearing, however, was serious, without any excessive display of anxiety or much apparent admixture of cant. Yet at certain por- tions of his examination, without losing his self-possession, he became more animated. His dark sunken eyes flashed fire as he listened and replied to the questions put. This was particularly the case when he was cross-exa- mined by -Sir Alexander Cockburn on the more material points of the libel, and especially when be -was confronted by the Italian women who have sworn that he debauched them. The effect produced by these meetings was suite dramatic; the poor women eyeing their alleged seducer with half timid, yet steady glances, while he, his face overcome for the moment with a slight pallor, turned upon them looks that seemed to pierce through them. Dr. Achilles manner in the witness-box considerably diminishes the effect of the sanctimonious expression which his singularly-fashioned wig gives to his face. He is evidently a man of strong passion and uncommon nerve." Dr. Achilles evidence comprised a kind of biographical sketch of his eccle- siastical career : his entering the Dominican order at sixteen years of age, in 18.19 ; his various promotions and appointments ; his secularization, at his own.request, in 1835 ; his imprisonment in the Inquisition ; his coming to England in 1847; his visit to Malta—appointed by the London Committee as Professor in the Protestant College ; then his return to England ; and finally his marriage to Miss Heley, in 1849, at Rome. He met the -evidence of the female witnesses by a direct negative. He-never knew Elena Valenti -or Giustini. There is no Gentili family that has a country-house at Viterbo. He .had known one Rosa de Allesandris, (the name of one of the women men- tioned in the justificatory plea,) but she was older than himself, and a rela- tion of his. He had never seen Principe or Balisano in the sacristy. Geri- mones wife had only called him 'to speak to him about her husband's ill- treatment. He bad been obliged to remonstrate with Reynolds for drink- ing too much. The relative situation of their houses is such that you can see into Reynolds's house out of Dr. Achilli's, but not vice -verse. The alleged faults of the teachers at Malta were oommitted -while he was away ; and he discredited the charges, from knowing the cha- racter of the accused. The accusations preferred by the English servants he denied point-blank. Dr. Aehilli denied having been charged in the Inquisition with immoral conduct ; that tribunal did not take cognizance of such charges. The charges were only of a doctrinal kind. He had sub- mitted himself to the judgment of the Inquisition, but not an any immoral charges; and the statement ascribed to him in a document produced in court was so far false. It may be observed that Dr. Achilli denied all the specific charges point-blank, but he did not do so in respeot to general charges. He was at some pains to make it understood that he had taken a vow of obedience, and that chastity is part of the obligation of a priest, but that " a Dominican friar does not take a vow of poverty and chastity." He re- mained at Viterbo principally until 1833; and "during that time" he had no relatian with any woman "according to the accusation." Asked if he had such with other women, he replied, " I could answer 'No,' but I have the privilege of the Judge not to answer." He used this "privilege " several times.

In reply to Sir Alexander Cockburn, who asked whether Cariboni was a Protestant, Dr. Aehilli said—" The greatest part of the Italians are neither Catholics nor Protestants : Cariboni had an antipathy to the Romish Church, but he was not a Protestant." Again being asked whether Cariboni and others, who had gone back to the Roman States, had become Roman Catho- lics, Dr. Achilli said—" No, nor Protestants; but negatives." Asked whether he had performed mass after he believed it to be an imposture, he said, rapidly, that the same charge might be brought against all reformers. He had not bad his heart touched : conversion depended more on the heart than on the mind.

For the defence a few other witnesses were produced. Dr. Domenico Poggi confirmed what Dr. Achilli had said as to the vows. Domenico Paoli, a friar of the order of Serviti, now secretary to Father Gavazzi, spoke to charac- ter. Captain Lawrence, Inspector of Police in the Ionian Islands, and Mr. Kirkpatrick, Chief Justice, attested legal proceedings between Gara- moan and his wife. Marianna Crisaffi Garamoui would not have known Dr. Achilli if she had met him : she had been married sixteen years, and lived a miserable life, but had always proved her innocence—it was she who accused her husband, "and had always been victorious" she went to the window on the night more particularly mentioned, because her mother had pointed out Dr. Achilli as having probably overheard a conversation be- tween herself and a "lady friend of my husband's" ; and she wanted him for a -witness. In the oourse of Paoli's examination, he accounted for his pre-

sence in England, by saying that lie came originally on the strength of a society " that had an office in Leicester Square," " to evangelize foreigners during the time of the Great Exhibition. Mrs. Achilli was examined, and corroborated the statements as to the mis- conduct of her servants in England.

On Thursday, Sir AlexanderCockburn addressed the Jury forthe defendant Newman, and the Attorney-General spoke for the prosecutor Achilli. Their addresses were both very skilful. Sir Alexander Cockburn rested much on the balance of probable motives in the opposing evidence : the " artless" women having no motive to come from Italy to perjure themselves ; whereas Achilli, with all his future, in this country, depending upon his being purged of the charges at all price, had the strongest of motives for the evi- dence he gave. One incidental point Sir Alexander adverted to : Achilli said that there was no family of the name of -Gentili whom he visited ; but he visited a widow Crislofori, and it turned out that her maiden name was Gentili : now in Italy it is common for a widow to go by her maiden name. In reply, Sir Frederick Thesiger rested upon the character and balance of the evidence. At the suggestion of the Lord Chief Justice, the Earl of Shaftesbury was again called, to establish the actual reasons for Achilli's dismissal from the College at Malta by the London Committee. Witness—" The reasons were these, and Dr. Achilli knew them. In November we received a communication from Mr. Hadfield. (All the documents were in court.) The matters discussed before the Committee appointed to the College of Malta was a branch relating to the mission of the priests. A certain number of reformed monks had been admitted into that College; and it was our intention to appoint Dr. Achilli as the head of that branch and of the Italian school, because we could not procure an English clergyman who could teach Italian. Dr. Achilli was in England. We knew there were charges against Leononi. We directed an inquiry into 'those changes ; and we also charged Dr. Aehilli to take the chair in that inquiry. Dr. Achilliwent to Malta, and we received information that one of the chief witnesses had been removed."

Sir Alexander Cockburn—" Were there any other reasons besides that of having sent Saccarez away, which influenced the Committee in dismissing Dr. Aehilli?" The Earl of Shaftesbury (with much emphasis)—" There was nothing left us but to break up that separate branch of the establishment ; therefore, we cut the Gordian knot by dismissing Dr. Achilli and 'the other priests, without carrying the investiga- tion further, or ascertaining whether he was personally implicated or not for we felt it our duty to wipe our hands of so foul a scandal. We acted upon rumours, not upon any charges actually before us." Lord-Chief Justice Campbell summed up with great care ; reading over the evidence with passing remarks, brief but pregnant, on the value of the evi- dence. This process alone occupied nearly three hours and a half. The case of Marianna Principe, of old standing as a matter of publicinvestigation, and evidently not got up to suit the present emergency, he regarded as serious ; the -evidence in other oases he treated as less satisfactory ; he gave a caution to the Jury on the evidence of Reynolds; he accepted the abstract of the proceedings before the Inquisition; but showed that it was not a copy of the Judgment, or of the. leadings, only a note of some person's opinion of the re- sult of the pleadings, with extracts from the judgment; he thought that judgment most probably referred to heresy rather than immorality.; and be -viewed Dr. Achim 's declining to answer general qfiestions in re- gard to chastity as a point which perhaps strengthened his evidence on the specific charges, since he might easily have made a sweeping denial. The Chief Justice explained as to the two pleas, that the Jury must find for the Crown on the one of "not guilty," if they considered that the libel, whether true or false, had been published ; but that on the justification they must consider the whole of the plea and each of its twenty-three allegations separately ; and he handed to them the copy

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of the plea in justification with this direction—" Now, that document con- tains, as I am informed, a correct copy of the allegations of the plea : what I direct you to do is attentively to consider these, to bear in mind the evi- dence for and against, and to tell me when you return whether you find any of them proved, or all of them ; and then I will direct how the verdict on that is to be given. I have done my duty to the best of my ability, and I am sure now you will .do yours."

The Jury retired at a quarter to nine o'clock, and remained absent for two hours. During that interval, Lord Campbell went off to the House of Lords, which was sitting; the Court meanwhile growing loud with polemical and facetious conversation. After the Judge resumed his seat, the Jury reentered court, and was asked if it had agreed to its verdict ?

Foreman—" Yes. We find the 19th plea proved. All the rest we find not proved." [Partial cheering .]

'Lord Camph —" The 19th charge respects Dr. Achilli's being deprived of ifs professorship, andiwohllitted from preaching and hearing confession: you find that to be proved i " The Foreman—" Yes, my Lord, proved."

Lord Campbell—" And you find none of the other allegations .proved 7" The Foreman and several jurors-4' No, none of the others.' [Here the peopl in the court, beginning to understand the verdict, burst out into a vigorous cheer, which no one attempted to suppress.] Lord Campbell—" With regard, then, to the plea of 'not guilty.° The 'first plea is ' not guilty.' You see that involves the publication and the question whether it was of a libellous nature."

A Juror—" Not guilty. That's what we find."

Lord Campbell— ' No; understand me. The first pleais ' not guilty '; and that in- volves the question whether it is proved that the defendant published this alleged libel, and whether it be libellous. Do not mind the truth of the charges at all. As to this, say only, on that do you find him guilty, and that it was of a libel- lous nature ?"

The Foreman—" Yes, guilty."

Lord Campbell—"On that you find him guilty. There is then a verdict for the Crown on that Then we come to the justification ; and on the justification you find that the only part of it which is proved is the 19th, respecting Dr. Aehilli being deprived of his professorship, and prohibited from preaching and from hearing con- fession."

A Juror—" Yes, that is the verdict."

Lord Campbell—" Wait a moment, and let me see. That is, (after a pauses you find that that m true which is alleged in the decree of the Inquisition, as far as that decree goes?"

A Juror—" Yes."

Lord Campliell—" So far as that decree goes.? You don't find as to the reasons for the decree, but as to the decree itself ?"

The Foreman—" Yea, only that."

Lord Campbell—" Very well. Then you find it to be true that Dr. Achilli was suspended from the celebration of mass, prohibited from any cure of souls, and from preaching and from hearing confession, and from exercising his sacerdotal office in any way, according to the decree of the Inquisition. And all the rest you find not to be proved?"

The Foreman—" Not to our satisfaction."

Lord Campbell—" Very well. Then on the justification I direct a verdict to be entered for the Crown on that issue, as well as on the plea of not guilty '; and that special finding 1, of course, will report to the Court when necessary. [Here again a loud cheer was given by the -thronged court.) I now discharge you, gentlemen, from your attendance, and beg to thank you." 1Reneiced cheers.) A Juror—" 1 beg your Lordship to understand that we did not consider this case as regards Protestantism and Catholicism : we only looked at it as a matter of fact." Lord Campbell—" Oh, I am sure you have dealt with it conscientiously." Another hearty cheer was now given, which the Judge did not for a moment at- tempt to check.

[The 19th allegation charged Achilli with having been " suspended from the celebration of mass, and disabled from any cure of souls, and from preach- ing and hearing confessions, and from exercising the sacerdotal office," by the Inquisition at Rome, on the 18th of June 1841. But as the Jury did not admit the truth of the allegations of immoral conduct made iu the document on which they rested for proof of the passing of this seutence against Achilli,

the verdict amounted to this, that the Inquisition had suif ended Dr. probably for teaching heresy.]

The Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and a Special Jury tried at Westminster, on Monday, an action of damages brought by Captain Nies, now in command of the St. George, of 120 guns, lying at Plymouth, against Captain Scott, a brother officer, for defamation of character. Both officers are members of the Senior United Service Club : Captain Nias lately pro- posed a candidate for election who was blackballed : subsequently, Captain Scott, in conversation with General Macdonald, said that the blackballing of the candidate "arose entirely from the unpopularity of" his proposer, Cap- tain Nies ; and he added also, that there was " a blemish attached to the character" of Captain Nies, "from his not having obeyed in China the sig- nal made to him to come into action." Those words, though spoken with a guard against their repetition, were carried through two intermediate mouths round to Captain Nias. Captain Nies conferred with a professional friend; who advised him that "there was one course [a belligerent one] which he ought not to take." At the trial, Admiral Sir Thomas Herbert gave evidence which showed beyond doubt that Captain Nies went into action on the coast of China with remarkable promptitude. Hereupon the Judge made a sug- gestion, which brought the action to a close honourable to both parties. The Lord Chief Justice—" Sir Alexander Cockburn, there seems to be a very proper course for your cheat to pursue. He was, no doubt, mistaken, and cannot as a gentle- man refuse to withdraw every imputation against the plaintiff's character and conduct."

After considerable consultation between the defendant and his counsel, Sir Alex- ander Cockburn said, the defendant was willing to withdraw the imputation.

Mr. Chambers (warmly and emphatically)—" That will not do. I have the cha- racter and honour of Captain Nias in my hands, and I press my right to go to the jury unless an ample public apology is made."

The Lord Chief Justice—" That should be done, certainly."

A further deliberation ensued; when Sir Alexander Cockburn rose and said, that he was now fully instructed not only to withdraw every imputation upon Captain Nias, but to express his client's regret that any such should have been made by him.

The Lord Chief Justice—" That is quite sufficient. Let the verdict be taken for the plaintiff at forty shillings, and I NvilIcertify for costa."

Verdict accordingly.

Two actions for compensation against the Great Northern Railway Com- pany have been tried in the Court of Exchequer. The plaintiffs were hurt by a collision on the line. In the case of Mr. Housdon, a draper in the Horseferry Road, who suffered from an illness arising from a cut and bruised face, it was arranged that a verdict for 501. should be taken. In the case of Mrs. Reynolds, wife of the keeper of a small shop at Hitabin, two ribs were broken and a leg so much hurt that a " dub foot" has re- sulted : the foot, it is thought, can be set straight, but at an expense of from 1001. to 2001. and the loss of the use of the limb for six or twelve months. Mm. Reynolds is fifty years of age. The Company had offered 2001. as a sufficient compensation: the Jury fixed the damages at 4201.

At the Middlesex Sessions, on Tuesday, Samuel Jones, a determined young ruffian well known as a thief at Cheltenham, was convicted of stealing a purse at Paddington terminus. Mr. Sergeant Adams sentenced him to be transported for ten years. When the culprit was retiring from the dock, he took advantage of an opportunity to hurl a small stone ink-bottle at the judge, with skilful aim : at the moment, Mr. Adams happened to move his head a little to the left, and the missile passed close to his right ear, and made an indentation in the wood-work behind. Jones was immediately seized, brought back to the dock, and received an addition of five years to his sen- tence of transportation.

Eliza—, the wretched young woman who was found living. with a Black beggar-man, has emigrated to America : she consented to sign the necessary deed, and a supply of money was raised for her upon property to which she had a claim. When brought to the Mansionhouse for the last time, she behaved with propriety, and expressed gratitude to the Magis- trates for their kindness to her. Several offers to marry Eliza were sent to the Lord Mayor, by persons who proposed to go abroad or to Australia : the wooers seem to have been attracted by the mention of the property be- longing to the young woman. Mehemet was kept in custody till Eliza had left England, and then sent to the Union Workhouse. So ends this "London romance,"

Mr. Henry, the Bow Street Magistrate, has sent John Lutridge, conductor of a Blackwell omnibus, to prison for one month, for abusive and insulting language to Lord William Lennox, who had remonstrated against the loiter- ing of the omnibus at Charing Cross.