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Dover has been thronged with an influx of strangers to witness the de- -nre of the Rifle Brigade, ordered from that garrison to the Cape. The Duke and Duchess Dowager of Bedford, Marquis of Worcester, Lords Howe, Dartmouth, Radatock, General Sir Alexander Woodford, and se- veral military officers of high rank, with their families, were among those assembled.

The Bishop of Oxford has determined to commence at once a College in which candidates for holy orders in his diocese may pursue their stu- dies systematically, and prepare themselves without interruption for the responsibilities and work of the ministry. The College will be under the Bishop's own eye at Cuddesden ; and the Principal is to be the Reverend Mr. Pott, his Lordship's chaplain and curate.—Globe.

The Marchioness of Bath has presented Mr. Bennett, late of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, to the living of Frome, Somersetshire. He has decided on accepting it.—Times, Crimes of great enormity have been very rife this week. Mrs. Barnes, a widow lady residing at Belper, of rather eccentric habits, owned considerable property at Derby and Belper. She employed a man named Anthony Turner to collect her rents ; he was a defaulter to a con- siderable extent, and the lady sent him a note dismissing him from her ser- vice. Mrs. Barnes lived at the house of a relative, Mr. Bannister, a clergy- man. On Saturday evening, Turner, being tipsy, went into a provision-shop kept by Mr. Haslam, and got possession of a lame carving-knife used for cutting bacon. He wont to the lady's residence, and asked to see her ; a servant returned with a message that Mrs. Barnes would not see him. Tur- ner vowed that he would not go away without having an interview; and, thrusting the servant aside, he rushed up-stairs, forced an entry into Mrs. Barnes's room, cut her throat with the knife, and escaped out of the house. Mrs. Barnes died in a few minutes.

The murderer was apprehended on Monday evening. After his escape from thb house, he seems to have wandered about the country, On Monday evening, a young man recognized him on the outskirts of Belper ; but he scaled a wall and got away. The Police were informed of this, and event- ually they arrested him at his mother's house : he attempted to cut his throat, but a constable struck him on the arm, and the wound inflicted was very slight.

The Coroner's inquest was opened on Monday.

Mr. Haslam, grocer, of Belper Lane, stated that Turner came to his shop much excited. Haslam said, "Turner, you seem full of liquor" ; ho an- swered, "Yes I am, Fm drunk." He was invited to sit down and coin pose himself with a pipe. He showed Mrs. Haslam the notice of dismissal he had received from Mrs. Barnes : he raised his arm, and said he would "do something to be talked of." Haslam went into his shop to a customer, and soon afterwards Turner came out : as he passed through the shop, his eye fell on a large carving-knife, used to cut Cheese ; he seized it, and saying, " Excuse me taking this knife," he walked off with it quickly, towards Bel- per. Haslam ran to the door, and shouted to him to come back ; but it was too dark to see him. He was heard to reply, "I won't" ; and Haslam almost immediately pursued him, sometimes walking and sometimes run- ning. When Hallam reached Mrs. Barnes's house, Turner was in the kitchen. The lodge-keeper, warned by Mr. Haslam, endeavoured to get Turner out : he then seemed calm, and said he would follow her out in- stantly ; but when the cook came down with Mrs. Barnes's refusal to see him, he exclaimed, "Damn you, I will see her." He threw the cook down with violence, ran up-stairs, and burst open the bolted door of Mrs. Barnes's room, and had completed the murder before Mr. Bannister arrived on the' see qtrCl E 00 rend Mr. Bannister, husband of Mrs. Barnes's niece, gave this ,earing a great noise in Mrs. Barnes's room, I rushed up the 41114.43" hastily entered her room, the door of which I found open. standing in the middle of the room, motioning with her hands ; she could not speak. I supposed they had had high words together and that Turner had so insulted her that she could not speak. I saw.som- thing red round her neck, and down in front, which, in the absence of strong light, and having no idea of murder, I supposed was a red comfort able.' I saw this at the first glance ; the second glance was at Turner whom I then saw rather behind me, near the door : he looked hard both at the deceased and myself, and brandished something in his hand (which have now no doubt was the knife) over his head, as if triumphantly. Tinz action now appears to me as if he was hesitating whether or not to attack me. Still supposing that Mrs. Barnes had been only insulted, I said Rome out of the house, you rascal.' As Turner got to the top of the stairs, I with him, hands on his shoulders and threw him down. '4 bile I was thus with him, Miss Harrison and Miss Harmer, who had come up the front stairs, had entered the room. On turning round again, I saw Miss Harrison leadingMrs. Barnes to the sofa and I exclaimed to Arks Harmer, 'Ring, ring I' [the t alarm-bell.] I assisted in placing Mrs. Barnes on the sofa, where she eat for some time ; and we applied handkerchiefs and a towel to the throat. she appeared quite sensible, and tried to articulate. At first her lips I could not catch a sound ; but the second time I heard her say, 'Take care of Patience and Louisa,'—meaning my wife and my wife's sister, Miss gar.

risen."

The surgeons arrived very quickly, and found Mrs. Barnes apparently dead; her throat had been cut from ear to ear, above the organs of voice. While they were busy with their surgical aid, she gasped once or twice, and died. One of her thumbs had been nearly cut off, and the other was deeply wounded. A sharp instrument had been used with great force. The proceedings concluded on Thursday, with a speech by Turner in self- defence. He requested, and was allowed to take, some brandy and water. Asked if the evidence should be read over, he said, " Oh no, sir; observed it alL" He desired to speak ; but the Coroner cautioned him that his words would be used against him.

Turner said—" I am quite aware of that; but, with your permission, sir, I should like to say a few words to the gentlemen present on this occasion." The Coroner again cautioned him, but he persisted, and said- " Worthy and respected Coroner, gentlemen of the Jury, and friends—"

The Coroner—" Wait ; I must take down what you say." Turner—" Unless I can go on with what I have to say, my ideas will be flown from me." The Coroner told him to proceed. Turner—" Worthy and respected Coroner, gentlemen of the Jury—What I have to say shall come before me another day. I am not afraid of what I am going to say. Gentlemen of the Jury, in your hearing and mine, I am charged with the wilful murder of Phoebe Barnes. There was one period of time I as little thought as any of you present of being brought here on such a charge. I have been known in the town of Belper above thirty years, and if any man present ever witnessed any act of ingratitude or Inconsistency on my part, let him speak out. But, unfortu- nately, I am sorry to say for myself, I have fallen into the hands of some who call themselves Christians ; and if all men who profess to be Christians acted as such, they would be better than they are. My poor old friend Mr. Walker, (brother of the murdered woman,) who has gone hence, and I must shortly follow him—my poor old friend Mr. Walker placed in my care a child, which he acknowledged was his own. . . . He said to me in his lifetime, when we were taking a glass and smoking a pipe together, ' You know the little girl is a great trouble to my mind.' I said to him,

• Mr. Evans has informed me that you are liable to go off at any moment,' and I ad- vised him to make some provision for her. He said, ` Well, Tent, I'll make the little girl right'; and I replied, 'I hope you . . . . He paid me for it up to within a month of his death • and I have got the accounts to show it. I was at Mansfield at the time of Mr. Walker's death. On hearing the news of it, I came home, and found that he had made no provision for the child. I let the funeral be over. In a fortnight after Mr. Walker's death. I was in Mrs. Barnes's room one night in conversation with her. I told her that I bad in my mind something of the greatest importance to inform her of. Are you,' said I, 'in possession of any documents of Mr. Walker's?' (I did not mention the child then : it was a long time before I came out with it.) She said, No.' I then asked her if no provision had been made? She said, ' No'; and I said, ' More's the pity.' She said. ' What is the matter?' I said, 'A child was placed in my hands by your brother.' She clapped her hands and said,' Oh, dear ! what do you tell me, Turner?' I told her it was true, and that I would bring the child to her. She said, ' No, don't bring it here !' I then said,

Will you make provision for the child ? and she replied, No; you have no claim upon me. I have nothing for illegitimate children.' I said, ' Can you, sitting there, and having two-thirds of the estate—you, a lady professing religion, professing to act justly—can you tell me that I have no claim upon you—I, a poor man—for the maintenance of that child ? I have honourably discharged my duty to it; and God forbid there should be any religious people in existence if you are such !' On Friday last I came before her, and we were very warm on the subject. But, gentlemen, I will not detain you. I only must tell you that I was under excitement, and sorry I am. Had I not got the liquor, I should not have done the act. I saw her when she was going to Buxton. One pound was then due for the maintenance of the little child. She said, 'Collect my rents as usual while I am away. Some repairs want doing ; and as far as the money for the child goes, take that from the rents.' Well, I took for this child out of the rents. I took 41. for the child, and gave her credit for 11. I gave her a list of all the bills which I had paid. I have been calum- niated in saying that I appropriated her rents ; it was due for the maintenance of the child, and I'll face any one here and prove it. She tantalized me on Friday, and I think some evil-disposed person set her mind against me But, gentlemen, I must cut it short. The charge brought against me is that of wil- ful murder. There is a just God, who knows under what feelings I was actuated. I was excited at the time, and in liquor ; and I am sorry I was driven to such an act. I sin now in your hands and in the hands of my country; but there is one thing I know that there are motives known to God, who knows your hearts and mine, and with Lim I shall have to decide the subject-

. That all-seeing hand which death shall bring, Will make a poor man as well as a king." "

Except in one or two passages, the prisoner spoke with great collectedness of mind. There was a breathless silence in court during his address. He sat down ; but he rose again, and added-

" I am not going to colour the subject with falserepresentations. I shall reserve my defence till another day. I have possession of documents that will prove whether I am an honest man or not. I shall leave behind me a wife and an innocent offspring unprovided for. [His voice faltered.] And then, what did she tell me at last ? She told me the child was mine ! But I am innocent of it. Let every man take this to his own heart. Had she treated me patiently and calmly, I should never have done that. She owed me 41. or Si. Place yourselves in my place, gentlemen! But there is a just God."

The Jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against Turner; and he was committed to the County Gaol for trial at the March Assizes. Reports having been circulated to the effect that Turner was formerly a Wesleyan local preacher, he wrote the following declaration-

" I, the undersigned, do solemnly declare that I never was a preacher of the gos- pel in connexion with the Wesleyane or any denomination. ANTHONY Tnanan."

The neighbourhood of Nottingham has been for some time infested by gangs of highway robbers and burglars. On Sunday evening, four of them perpetrated the. following outrage. Mr. King, a lace-manufacturer, was walking with a young lady along Trent Lane, a rather lonely pathway a mile from the town. A man of suspicious appearance passed them, and gave a whistle ; three men armed with bludgeons immediately, sprang from the hedges, and, with the aid of the first man, assailed the lady and gentleman. The former was beaten till she became insensible; the offers of Mr. King to give up all he had about him, if tho robbers would refrain from violence, being unheeded. Finding but a small sum of money on Mr. King, they struck him a violent blow on the head, which laid open his skull. The vil- lains then decamped When When the sufferers were discovered they were in a pitiable state, and the surgeons thought them in danger.

Mr. Richard Whorrall, a tool-maker of Birmingham, has been found dead in a pool on Coleshill heath, which he had set out to cross at night. The feet were tied with strong string ; a string was also round the neck, the two

ds king .put round the left wrist twice and tucked in, and then twice rid the right wrist and also tucked in ; there was no knot in the tyings the wrists, and the hands were placed flat upon the stomach ; his trousers- lets were turned inside out, and were empty. At the inquest, a surgeon tad that in his opinion the deceased had died from strangulation, not drown- . his opinion also was that he could not have committed the act him- ; if deceased had died from drowning, he should have found water in the ea and stomach. The Jury returned this verdict—" Found drowned in waters of the great Coleshill Pool, strangled, and dead ; but how, or by hat wean?, there was no evidence, but that strangulation was the cause of death.

an atrocious outrage has been committed at Coug•hton toll-gate, near Al- r. The turnpike is kept by Mrs. Lewis, a widow, who is the lessee; U' her reside a granddaughter of nine years, and a youth of fifteen. At ne o'clock in the morning, there was a call of " Gate !" two men leading oes were at the gate. While Mrs. Lewis was opening the front-door, one them struck her on the head three times with a bludgeon. ' She cried „Murder !" and attempted to close the door, but her exertions were un- ; the door was burst open, and the man who had struck her rushed to the house. Mrs. Lewis struggled with her assailant, and succeeded, th the help of her little granddaughter—who had run down stairs on hear- g the noise, and laid hold of the robber—in wresting the bludgeon from • not, however, before he had aimed a blow at the little girl's head, hie', would undoubtedly have been fatal had it not been warded off by the of Mrs. Lewis, which was fractured by it. The ruffian who kept watch ataide handed his comrade another bludgeon but by this time Mrs. Lewis d her granddaughter had gained the inside of the staircase-door; and either from the alarm caused by the youth, who was up-stairs and calling oily for help from the window, or from hearing a cry from Mrs. Lewis's er-in-law's house, " We are coming !" the ruffians decamped, taking th them what they thought was the cash-box, but which, fortunately, con- tained only a few articles of little value. William Baldry, a farmer of Preston, near Lavenham in Suffolk, is in rim on a charge of attempting to poison his wife. A child and a appears from were also made ill by drinking things prepared for the wife. It appears irora the evidence taken by a Magistrate, that Baldry put arsenic in beer and coffee which he gave to the woman. The poison affected her, but not mor- tally ; apparently, the greater part had remained in the vessels used, in the form of sediment. Her mother noticing the sediment, on one occasion preserved it in a bottle, and a chemist proved that it was arsenic. Baldry told a man that he had given his wife some " powders," as he had found they did himself good : he offered this man the bribe of a pig not to say anything about the matter ; remarking that he would give the doctor who attended his wife another pig if he also would keep silence. Mrs. Baldry had some money, which she refused to let her husband have, and in con- sequence he had treated her harshly.

A subscription has been opened for the families of the sufferers by the Sawmarsh explosion. Messrs. Charlesworth, the lessees, have given 2501., and Mr. J. C. D. Charlesworth 501.

The inquest was resumed on Tuesday. Two miners, who had each lost a brother, said they could impute no blame to any one. Thomas Kaye, an old man, who is underground-steward at another pit, said he occasionally assisted Sylvester, who was a new beginner at that pit. He considered that the pit was well ventilated. There were only two Davy-lamps to three its. Syl- vester had a great deal to do. Mr. Charles Morton, Government spector of Mines, gave evidence at great length. He had examined the pit twice since the explosion. "On Monday, the general ventilation of the thick coal-mine was better than on the Saturday. I infer, that on the latter day it was bet- ter than before the explosion, because latterly there has been a furnace-man both night and day. Prior to the explosion, the furnace was attended in the day-time only." The quantity of air passing through the workings before the accident might have been sufficient for ordinary occasions, but was quite insufficient for any emergency when gas was freely liberated. He had no doubt the explosion occurred from a fall of the roof, which forced out gas collected in the "goafs"—recesses whence the coal has been got, and through which no current of air passes : this gas exploded, and fired more as the flame passed by other goafs. "I have not been able to discover any criminal neglect on the part of any person in connexion with this dreadful catastrophe : but I feel it my, duty to state, that there has been, in various ways and by various individuals, a want of caution and a degree of laxity in the management of the mine, which is at all times pregnant with danger in working a fiery coal-seam. For example, the ventilating furnace, which is the prime moving power of the whole system of ventilation, and which ought to be kept constantly and fiercely blazing both day and night, was here not at- tended to in the night, but was smothered up with fuel from five in the afternoon to five the next morning, and on Sundays this inattention ex- tended over a still longer period of time. The effect is, to slacken the current of air in the works during the night, and increase the risk of explosion next morning." An underground-steward should have explored the mine each morning with a safety-lamp before the men descended, and should have prevented them working wherever there were indications of danger. Such a precaution would most probably haveprevented this disaster. " The colliers and boys have evidently been left too much to their own guidance, and have had too much of their own way, on account of the multifarious avocations of Syl- vester, who had been supposed to be their superintendent. The various branches of manual labour devolving upon him, as fire-trier, road-repairer, stopping-builder, trap-door setter, &c., would utterly preclude him from exercising the important mental duties which appertain to the vigilant and skilful supervision of seventy persons working in a fiery mine. And Syl- vester's deficiencies in this respect do not appear to have been compensated for, and in fact could not be effectively supplied, by an aged and illiterate man like Kaye, who nominally held the office of bottom-steward at this and other pits belonging to Messrs. Charlesworth." Mr. Morton suggested va- rious precautions for the future. A number of practical mine-agents concurred in the views expressed by Mr. Morton.

Mr. Charlesworth announced that some of the precautions recommended had already been adopted, and the others should be as fax as possible. Other pits belonging to him should be carefully viewed ; and he invited Mr. Mor- ton to accompany him in the investigation. The, inquest was then ad- journed till Friday. In the course of the inquiry, one of the Jury asked Mr. Morton, whether he bad power to examine every pit? Mr. Morton replied, that he had, but he had not sufficient time. It appears there are only four Inspectors ; Mr. Morton has between two and three thousand pits in his districts. The Coro- ner announced that he should urge upon Government an increase of In- spectors.

Several railway accidents are reported.

While a cattle-train was ascending an incline near Alnwick, at night, a nger-train ran into it. The last truck was smashed ; a man employed J the Telegraph Company happened to be riding in this truck, and he was killed. Other persons were hurt, but not dangerously. As the mail-train which leaves Birmingham in the morning was ap- proaching, Liverpool, on Saturday, an express-train overtook it, and there was a collision. Several persons were hurt seriously, if not dangerously. A train was approaching Torquay, where there is a descent., when it was found that the break would not act : the train dashed forward, and crushed through a barrier at the station, the engine and a third-class carriage falling down an embankment. Though the seats in the carriage were broken in pieces, no person was hurt beyond a few bruises.

Richard Greenwood, a guard, has been killed between Halifax and North Dean. He fell from a carriage, and the train passed over him. It is sur- mised that he must have fallen while attempting to step from his van to another carriage to apply an additional break.