Elizabeth Norris, tried last Friday and convicted of uttering base
coin, when she was sentenced to a year's hard labour in the House of Correc- tion, made her escape from Newgate on Tuesday morning. It appears that she availed herself of the bustle which generally happens during the Session-thou in visiting-hours, and slipped out of the court; and being in her own clothes, and most likely provided with a bonnet by some friend, she made her exit with a crowd of visiters, without attract- ing the attention of the turnkey at the outer wicket.
No fewer than eleven persons were drowned in one night last week— the 20th—by the upsetting of boats in Chelsea Reach. There were four boats, containing together fourteen young men, of different occu- pations. Most of them had been to a cricket-match at Putney, and. were returning home late at night ; the wind very high, and the water very rough. Only three out of the fourteen escaped.
We are informed that in the case of a prisoner named John Bull, who was convicted at the Central Criminal Court in February last of manslaughter, aad sentenced to imprisonment for three years, with soli- tary confinement and hard labour, the punishment of hard labour has been remitted—Globe.
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