COACH Romieraz.—The Regent stage-coach, running between Edin- burgh and Glasgow.
was lately robbed to a very large amount. A box, belonging to the 'Commercial Banking Company, containing about 5,700/. in bank-notes and gold, was deposited in the boot at starting ; but in the course of the journey, it was discovered that an aperture had been cut from the inside, and the contents of tire box, excepting some bills, which could be made no use of, removed. The chain and padlock which Secured the box had been wrenched off. The thieves have not yet been detected. It appears that a woman at Airdrie had taken four places inside, and the remaining two were left at Glasgow, but nobody came to take them on starting ; at Parkhead, . a man and a woman got into the coach, and left it about a mile and a half beyond Airdrie.
BSCIC1DE.—On Tuesday evening, a young man, described as " ele- gantly dressed, about six feet high, and apparently not more than two and twenty years of age," went into the City of London Coffeehouse, and asked accommodation for the night. At about half-past eleven next morning, the chambermaid went to call bins ; when she heard a -dreadful moaning within. She gave the alarm several of the waiters rushed in, and they found the young man in bed, but in the agonies of death. On the toilet were found two phials, one of them labelled " lau- danum—poison," but both had contained laudanum. Medical aid was quickly procured, and the stomach-pump resorted to, but the unfortunate gentleman expired under the application.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—A young man went into a shop in King Street, 'Westminster, on Saturday, to be shaved. After the shaving was over, he took up the razor and drew it across his throat. The wound, fortunately, was not very deep. The young man said he was a carpenter by trade, and having no friends nor employment, lie had de- -terminal to destroy himself. EXECUTION.—A woman named Mary Mackesey was hanged last week, for murdering her mother-in-law. She was, as is almost always the case in such instances, a poor, weak, uneducated creature. BETHNAL GREEN MURDER.—Clarke, one of the two persons ar- rested on suspicion of this murder, has been discharged ; Dexter, the son, is still in custody. No final judgment has been come to by the Police Magistrate.
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