POLICE or LON DON. MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—An investigation took place

on Wednesday, at Marylebone Police-office, respecting the death of

Henry Neale, of 16, Great Castle-street, Regent-street ; who it was reported had been " Burked," or murdered, at his residence, by a soldier belonging to the Foot Guards. Ann Norris, servant to Mr. Neale, made the followmg 'statement. Mrs. Neale is a fashionable dressmaker, and left town on Mon- day afternoon for Paris, in order to purchase the new fashions; and the de- ceased was a traveller to a respectable firm in Watling-street. On Tuesday evening, Mr. Neale went out about six o'clock, and did not return home until about half.past one, when he was brought in by a soldier, very much intoxicated. Mr. Neale was, however, collected in his manner, and desired her to let the soldier in ; and they both entered the parlour. The soldier said that he had found Mr. Neale lying in the street, near Hammersmith ; and he had brought him home on the understanding that Mr. Neale was to give him a bed, as it was past barrack-hours; and he was therefore deter- mined to remain in the house all night. She thought it a very strange pro- ceeding; but, at her master's command, she gave the soldier some refresh- ment, including wine, four bottles of which were taken out of the wine- closet. After the soldier had regaled himself, he appeared very tipsy ; and she urged her master to go to bed, and requested a young lady, who was sitting up at work, to assist her in conveying Mr. Neale to his chamber. They were, however, unsuccessful in lifting her master up, who was extended oil the floor ; and at length the soldier attempted to carry him out of the room, when they !meth fell on the floor. She asked the soldier if he would he satis- fied with sleeping on the floor, as she felt anxious to keep him quiet, in con- sequence of there being several valuable mirrors in the apartment, which might be broken if any disturbance ensued. At length the soldier and Mr. Neale composed themselves to sleep on some bedclotnes, which she brougnt into the room. At about two o'clock she left them, and for the following two hours and a half she distinctly heard them snoring. The soldier sat at the table, with his head on the pillow. Before she quitted the room, she told her master that she would call him about seven o'clock, and at that hour she returned to the parlour, having herself only gone to bed at half-past five On entering the room, she found her master extended on the floor—a corpse, and the soldier absent. The soldier had carried off Mr. Neale's coat, wais- coat, hat, and stock ; the pockets were rifled ; and a silver spoon was carried off. The street-door of the house was found wide open, and so was the parlour-door, which had been left shut.—Mr. Dennis said that the appearances of the corpse were such as might be produced by apoplexy. John Butler, private in the Grenadier Guards, was apprehended on Wed- nesday night, on suspicion of having murdered Mr. Neale. The ill-fated gentleman's coat, hat, and stock, were found upon bun. He was brought up for examination on Thursday, before Mr. Rawlinson, when some additional particulars were given. in evidence. The prisoner was seen about one o'clock on Wednesday morning, leading Mr. Neale, who was tipsy, along Oxford. street. He asked the watchman if there was any place where they could get something to drink ;—being answered in the negative, he said that he had come all the way from Hammersmith, with his "brother," as he termed Mr. Neale, and he wanted it for him. Mr. Neale's servant said that she found the body of her master at some distance from the place where she left him; but the pillow remained close to the spot where it had been placed. Her master was lying on his back in the middle of the room, with the pillow under his head which she had given to the soldier, and a blanket and a counterpane over him, and a sheet rumpled up under his shoulders. The blanket and counterpane covered his mouth, and part of his nose, and they were laid so smoothly that it was impossible he could have done it himself. She directly perceived he was dead, his lips were very black, and his nose was bent on one side. The officer who apprehended the prisoner saw the body of the de- ceased, and it had marks of violence upon the nose. The pot boy at the Cock and Lion, Wigmore-street, stated that the prisoner came there at half-past seven o'clock on Wednesday morning, dressed in soldier's clothes, with a grenadier's cap; he was tipsy ; he sat down in the tap-zoom, and called for half a gill of vinegar. He brought a frock-coat under his arm, and a hat inside his cap, and two bottles of wine in his pocket. Two Irishmen came in with him. He treated one with a pot of" half and half," and the other and the witness with some of the wine which he brought; and changed his soldier's clothes for the others ; and went away at half-past eight, leaving his cap and regimentals with the witness, and said he would come for them at ten o'clock. Stowell, the officer, said that the prisoner was drunk when he was appre-

hended. He seemed to have no recollection of having gone home with Mr. Neale. When told that he was charged with the murder of that gentleman, he exclaimed " Good God I have murdered no mail; I went home with no gentleman last night; 1 slept in Westminster, and can bring evidence to prove He was taken down stairs to be locked up, and when he entered the room be said, " I am done; I am a lost ruined young man, and I suppose this is to be my dungeon for life." The prisoner was remanded. Ile stood unmoved and sullen during the examination. A Coroner's inquest was held upon the body yesterday afternoon. One material fact elicited, was a contradiction of the soldier's story of his having found Mr. Neale at Hammersmith. Mr. Neale did not leave his house till nine o'clock ; and he was in the White Horse, corner of Oxford-street, Duke- street, from between nine and ten till half-past eleven. Be had drunk three gasses of rum and water. He fell as he was crossing the road to go to Castle-street; and it was here the soldier met with him. The body was examined by three medical men ; and it was their unanimous opinion that Mr. Neale had died by violence. The verdict was " Wilful murder against John Butler."

A HARDENED TIllEF.-011 Wednesday, a young man known to be a thief was brought before the Lord Mayor at the Mansion house, charged with having attempted to rob a boy who was carryina' some goods in a basket. The officer stated, that the prisoner had first fixed his eye upon the boy at the Old Bailey, when the four culprits were hanging on Tuesday morning. The prisoner made several attempts without success, and followed the boy to some distance, but finding that he stood no chance of getting booty, turned off to something more tangible. The officer, however, thought it too bad to allow a man to commit a robbery tinder such awful circumstances, and took him into custody. The Lord Mayor asked the prisoner (who vehemently de- nied the intention attributed to iiim) what brought him to the execution ? The prisoner—"Vy, your worship, I vent for to make it be an example to myself—a bit of a caution, your vorship, not to do nothing as was very bad." Mr. Hoblera—" And a pretty caution it has been to you. A fellow who steals at the foot of the gallows is sure to come to the gallows." The officers said the prisoner was seen at his tricks by several, who significantly pointed to their necks as a caution to hint, but he would take no caution. Committed for a month as a rogue and vagabond. CUTTING AND MAI N G.—Don Jose Marie Murillo, a Spaniard of ferocious aspect, was on Wednesday communed front Queen-square Police-office to take his trial for this crime. On Tuesday evening, he entered Storey's Gate Coffee-house, and demanded a glass of wine; which was refused, as he seemed to have already drunk enough. The landlady insisted that he should leave the house ; when he drew a knife, seized her hand, and cut her across the arm. He also inflicted four or five wounds on the waiter's head and face. The prisoner then ran mil of the house, but was apprehended in Great George-street: he had thro*u the knife away, but it also was picked up. The prisoner, when placed at the bar, affected not to understand the English language, FORGERY.—William Carr was charged at the Mansionhouse, on Tuesday, with having committed a forgery upon the house of Sir William Curtis and Co. It appeared that Messrs. Barclay, of Trinity-lane, merchants, kept cash at their house; and that on the 3d of November, a cheek was presented at the counter for the suns of 97/. 6s. in the name of Messrs. Barclay, for which he gave three 201. a 101. and the rest in cash. The signature to the check was a close resemblance to that usually attached to checks from the house of Barclay, which were drawn by procuration. The clerk in the banking-house would not swear to the identity of the prisoner ; but two of time 201. notes had been traced to his possession, and there were other circumstances of strong suspicion against him. He was committed for trial. Est BEZZ tem ENT. —Edward Edgar was on Monday examined at Bow-street, on the charge of having embezzled 700/. the property of Mrs. Eleanor Dyott, the divorced wife of General Dyott. The lady has an income of 8001. a year settled upon her for life ; and the prisoner having been occasionally sent to draw her quarterly payments from the Bank of Harman and Co. had appro- priated the money to his own use. He was ordered to find heavy bail.

ExactanoNs.—On Tuesday morning, Redgard, Kelly, Birmingham, and Goodland, were executed at Newgate. None of them exceeded twenty- three years of age. When Birmingham ascended the platform, he was most indecorously greeted by a vast number of dissolute females its the mob. His sufferings were prolonged by the rope having slipped under his chin, by his giving a sort of jump just before the drop fell. The miserable being breathed in agony for nearly five minutes. Shouts and screams from the mob caused the executioner to hang on his legs till life was extinct. Mr. Williams, the solicitor, who was sentenced to death at the Lancaster Assizes for forging a deed, has been reprieved.

ROBBE RI ES.—The Surrey county meeting, at Epsom, on Saturday, was remarkable for the spoil whteb it afforded to a numerous gang of pick-pockets. There was a rush of people at the door of the hum where the No-Popery peti- tion lay for signatures ; and at this particular spot the thieves were most active. Here a voice was heard to exclaim, " A thief is amongst us ! have a care of your pockets, gentlemen, I have lost my purse." Another voice, "My watch is gone ! " A third, " Where are the constables ? I have had my pockets picked." A clergyman, in the act of signing his name, was robbed of his gold watch and purse. Several other persons were robbed at the table.

On Saturday evening, a gentleman, walking from Brompton to Kensington, was waylaid by three footpads, who knocked him down and robbed him of some money. The robbers treated their victim with great cruelty, and even threatened to murder him.

A daring robbery, accompanied with peculiar cruelty, was committed at the village of Gedney last week. Two men broke into the house of Miss Cole, a maiden lady who lived along with her niece, a youbg girl, in a retired part of the village. They went immediately to Miss Coleas sleeping-room, fractured her skull by a blow from a blunt instrument, tied her hands, and proceeded to search for money. They possessed themselves of about 531., and then went off and joined some of their companions who were waiting at a distance. In the mean time a dog which had escaped from the house after receiving a blow from one of the robbers, had by its barking roused a neigh- bouring family, who saw the robbers retreating; and the injured lady herself, when left at liberty, succeeded in reaching another house. The neighbour- hood was alarmed ; chase was given ; and by the measures which were adopted, five men were apprehended, all supposed to have been concerned in the crime. Two of theist have been identified as the most active.

A few bights ago, a thief entered a malt-house at Bermondsey, and passed from thence to the counting-house, the door of which he forced open. He there changed his ragged clothes for a suit belonging to one of the clerks, rifled the desk of several articles of value, and carried three bottles of wine along with hiimmm to the malt-house. Two of these he drank, and broke the third in his endeavours to uncork it. The drunken thief then fell fast asleep, and was next morning found stretched on the floor, and his spoil lying beside him. PRIZE-FIGHTING.—One of these brutal exhibitions took place last week, near East Barnett, between two fellows named Doyle and Macginnis, for 5/. They fought twenty rounds, when the latter received a blow on the left ear, which terminated the battle at once, and his life in a few hours afterwards. A Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Doyle, and three otherten who were the seconds.

GA II E WAR.—A desperate gang of poachers, eight in number, armed with bludgeons and other offensive weapons, were discovered on the night of Sa-

turday last by the keepers and assistants in the plantations of Sir E. Kerrison, in Hoxne. A determined resistance was made, and many blows were ex-

changed ; some of the assistants were wounded, one of them severely. Many of the poachers have been apprehended, and there are warrants issued against the others, whose persons have been identified.—Sutroth Herald.

Siam:oz.—A tailor in Devonport shut himself last week with b. pistol. Previous to his leaving the shop of his master, he cut with a penknife in the framework of the window, " Sacred to the memory of Richard Sa.nipson, who departed this shop on the 10th of March 1829. His brother committed suicide about six years ago.

PLASTERS.--The following marvellous story appears in the Windsor Ex. press. "A brown paper parcel was last week received at the coach-office,

which, as the address could not be deciphered, was, after various inquiries, opened by the competent authorities. The contents were a letter, with the same illegible address, along with six mouth plasters of remarkably tenacious quality. In the note, the writer apprized his correspondent that the young woman had arrived safe, in very good condition, and well packed. He had therefore sent him six more plasters, and hoped to be favoured with another

remittance soon, as he considered Windsor an excellent place for carrying on the trade.—N.B. Young women much preferred; but in default of them, middle aged ones would do. The old not saleable at any price. Be sure to pack, as before, in sawdust."

The Marquis of Cleveland is convalescent.

Lord and Lady 13nrghersh gave a splendid masked ball at Florence, on the 23rd February, at which about eight hundred persons were present.

MAieAoE IN 11 1011 LIFE.—The young lady, Miss Jones, whose band is engaged to the Hon. George Talbot, only attained her 16th year on Sunday last, the day of the first publication of their banns. It is rumoured that the

Worthy baronet, her father, is most importunate for the consummation of their nuptials prior to the expected return of theNoble Lord Shrewsbury from Rome, to whom an express was sent on the 17th inst., and whose abhor-

rence is excessive at the known sanguine determination of his heretic brother and heir to secure a Protestant succession to this ancient earldom. It is also whispered among the hata ton that the rnarriag , if solemnized, is likely to atford ample employment for the gentlemen of tehe long robe.

Several persons have lately gaieed admission into the House of Lords by forged Peers' orders. The ladies of Falmouth have drawn up a petition to the King against the Catholic claims; it is to be piloted on satin, in gold letters.

Sunday the ISth was 'observed by many persons throughout the kingdom as a day of fasting, in consequence of the prospect of the admission of Roinau taitholies into Parliament, In 1710, the amnia! rental of land, 8se. possessed by Roman Catholics in England, was estimated at 375,28=1/.

Persons ;ire stationed at all places from which- stage-coaches start, distri- buting Anti-Popery tracts for travellers, to enlighten themselves and their country friends.

111 iss Smithson, it is said, will make her appearance at Covent Garden Theatre in Faster week.

Only 288/. wis collected in Edinburgh for the Spanish and Italian refugees. The peripatetic philosophers of the tlay are availing themselves eagerly of

him opportunity lime all erded them of .improving themselves in zoology. For the laat three ;lava, a crowd has been collected in St. Paul's Churchyard to look at a hawk %villa has taken up his abode in the belfry of St. Paul's, and sometimes indulges the gazers by living round the clock-tower. The pickpockets, meanwhile. are not idle. On Thursday afternoon, the pavement, both to the right and left, was completely obstructed by persons anxious to view this uneownwn

A steam-boat, of the power of 180 horses, was last week launched at Li- verpool. .

Five hundred families are about to leave the island of Arran for North America.

An organ has just been opened at ;Manchester, with 1920 .pipes, the largest twenty feet long and twenty inches in diameter.

Died, on the 27th instant, at Pimlico Lodge, after a lingering illness, John Elliot, Esq., in the sixty-huh year of his age. The Earl of Carhampton died on the 17th current, aged eighty-nine. flis Lordship was siaty-seven .years a Captain in the Navy, having received hi a post rank at the siege of Havaneah in 1762. his Lordship's name in 1793 dis- appeared from the Navy List, on being appointed a Commissioner of Excise ; but within the last five years had been replaced among the retired Captains. Lord Carhampton, when ia command of the Charm of 44 .guns, in 1779, with a small force, suddenly attacked and carried the strong Spanish fortress of St. ,Fernando de Onnat, in which were found 250 quintals of quicksilver and three millions of dollars.

Doctor Fortis, the General of the order of the Jesuits, died lately at Rome, aged eighty. lie held the office, about eight years. M. Parbo, the celebrated French geographer, lately committed suicide in the delirium of a/burning fever. His derangement, and the dreadful act which terminated his existence, were, itis atsid, the consequence of the injustice of

which he was the victim. The sole fruit," he observed, in a letter to a friend, written in December last, ." which I have derived from all my efforts, from all toy labours; and from all my fatigues, is, that I have learned, but too late to kuow mankind.'? NEW LAW AGAINST DLiELLIN G.—This law, which is at present before the French Chamber of Deputies, assigns the following punishments. For voluntary homicide, without premeditation it malice prepense, hard labour for life. For killing the antagoniat with premeditation and malice, death. .I.■or wounds, producing illness or iocapacity during more than twenty days, if without premeditatiou, imprisonment from one month to two years, with from sixteen ti two hundred halm§ fine if premeditation, imprisonment from two to live years, and from tifty to five 'hundred francs fine. The law, it is stated, is likely to meet with much opposition, from the rigour of its eeactments. The Germans have a strange superstition that Dr. Dodd is still wandering UI (linguae in the Hartz forest in Germany ; and his " Prison Thoughts" is a fitvourite book with the initiated.

A juuctiott of the Volga and the Moskva, is about to be effected by means of a causal.

In June last a new jouroal was commenced in the capital of Georgia, under the title of " Vedomosti, or the Tiflis Gazette."

The Carnival at Vienna is said to have been unusually gay this year. The lane.y balls concluded by one given in the Imperial apartments, at which more than five thousand persons were present.

The winter has been extremely severe in Sicily. •

Rowlacso Sireetimssosa—The ship Cambrian' in which this person (now almost, forgotten) was supposed to have effected his escape from Britain, has arrived at :Sew York, but Stephenson was not with her. Mr. ex-Sheriff Par- kins is in that city, and has offered a reward of five thousand dollars for his apprehension. IIEw.tun or Ss RVI IATY —The House- of Assembly in Lower Canada has earths! Mr. Robert Christie, one of its members, on a charge of having, while acting in a public capacity, advised Lord Dalhousie to remove certain justices of pease, in consequence of their having voted hi opposition to his N ENIC0.—The mining establishments of Sombrerete have been sacked; and a town adjoining pillaged by banditti.