gbe Vrobinces.

A dinner was given at Portsmouth, on Thursday, to Admiral Stop- ford. The Mayor was the chairman. The assembly was very numerous, and comprised a great number of persons distinguished in arms or politics. If any allusion was made to Sir Charles Napier's remarks at his Liver- pool dinner, 4 was exceedingly cautious and tender. In returning thanks, however, Sir Robert Stopford seemed to have his brother officer's more triumphant entry into the country in his eye, when he said, "With respect to my reception in England, no trump of fame, no herald an- nouncing pompons achievements, preceded my return." He spoke of the Syrian campaign briefly and indistinctly, offering rather a negative than a positive contradiction to the assertions attributed to his co-

adjutor. Referring to the inadequate means with which he had to en- counter Ibrahim Pasha and his 70,000 men, while the British military commander was ill, he said-

.. I had, however, the good fortune to have in my second in command an officer, Sir Charles Napier, who had had the advantage of occupying very useful positions under the Duke of Wellington, and who had also most gallantly distinguished himself on many occasions in Portugal. To such a man I very gladly looked to supply the place of the General:Officer who was pre- vented from acting by indisposition. As he was upon the coast of Syria for some time before I went there, he judiciously selected a situation which was occupied immediately on my arrival with the troops, when opera' ions com- menced. His subsequent operations were, as you are aware, of a nature to check and paralyze the Egyptian troops, so that they never came into collision with the Turkish troops under arms, except in one instance, when, by a simultaneous attack on the Egyptian troops in front and rear, he succeeded in expelling those troops from Syria and delivering them over to the command of the officers of the Sultan. To that officer, therefore, I beg to express the greatest obligations. Neither can I forget the obligations I owe to a distin- guished officer now here, Captain Collier; to Captain Boxer of the Pique, who was employed in the more Southern operations ; to Captain Barclay, who was engaged in another part of the operations; to Captain Stewart, in the Benbow, who was employed 'Northwards ; and to all commanders and men who so ably and so nobly performed their duty. The operations on the coast of Syria ex- tended over a line of three degrees of latitude, if not more. There must, of course, have been numerous detachments from the Commander-in-Chief to perform the services on that length of coast. Now, unless the Commander-in- Chief possessed a power which a countryman of mine attributed to the birds and the fishes, of being in two places at once, he could not possibly be in more paces than one at the same time. Therefore, what has been said about this Commander-in-Chief not being there is fully answered by the fact of its being impossible; and I feel myself in every way fully exculpated for placing reli- ance in officers on whom I knew I could fully depend. Whenever concentrated services were wanted, as at Beyrout and Acre, there I was in person."

On this volunteered apology, the Marquis of Anglesea, who returned thanks for the toast of the visiters' health, observed- " It seemed to me that he tried to make an excuse for not having himself been at this, that, and the other place; saying that he could not be at all places at onoe. Now, it seems to me one of the matters of the first and greatest importance to all commanders, whether by sea or land, to place confidence in those who are under them, and not to attempt to do every thing for them- selves."

Sir Charles Napier was present, and was toasted with the other officers of the Syrian expedition. He returned thaoks ; speaking in a less in- vidious strain than that imputed to hint in the reports of the Man- chester and Liverpool dinners— Be wished all the officers who had served under the gallant Admiral on the coast of Syria and of Acre were present that night to witness the kind manner in which they had received the mention of Sir Robert's name. He could as- Sure them, as an officer holding a high command under the gallant Admiral, that there was not an officer or a man engaged in that expedition along the whole coast of Syria who did not always look up to the gallant Admiral with the most perfect and entire satisfaction and reliance. As to himself, if he had been able to perform any services useful to his country or creditable to himself, lie owed it entirely to his gallant Commander-in-Chief, Sir Robert Stopford, who placed a sufficient confidence in him in the illness of the army officer who was appointed to the command of the troops.

Among the other speakers were Sir Edward Codrington, who returned thanks for the Navy ; General Sir Hercules Pakenham, who represented the Army ; and Mr. Baring, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was present as one of the Members for the borough.

Last night, another dinner was given to Admiral Stopford, by the officers of the Navy and Marines resident in Portsmouth and its vicinity ; and, by favour of the railroad, a long report appears in the Post of this morning. Sir Edward Codrington took the chair. It was altogether a professional affair ; and although the speeches were freer and heartier than on Thursday, they were of less general interest.

Sir James Graham, on the 22d July, gave what is called the " cus- tomary " dinners to the electors of Dorchester, to celebrate his own return. Dinners were given at all the inns in the town : at one in the Antelope, at which about sixty electors sat down, Sir James himself presided, and delivered a speech : Lord John Russell's partial and chance victory in the City, the triumph of Conservatism in the manu- facturing counties, the iniquity of the Ministerial attack on the Corn- laws, and the beauty of those laws, formed the chief subjects of his effusion. One part is almost a converse of Cromwell's injunction, "Put your trust in the Lord, my lads, and keep your powder dry "— They were constantly reproached with the question whether they would altogether refuse, in periods of scarcity, to receive aid from foreign countries. Be said, "just the reverse: let us pursue such a course as will render the re- quisite supply always easy"; and he said also that the principles—he would not say the details, but the principles of the existing Corn-law, provided that course and operated to that end. If, indeed, it was expected by human laws to provide fur Providential calamities, much more was expected than human legislation could accomplish. They were told that, like the pestilence, famine was one of the Divine punishments for national offences ; and to baffle human skill, to subvert all human efforts, how slight were the means that would suf- fice! What was blight ? The breath of Divine pleasure passed forth, and the husbandman's hopes were blighted ; the staff of life was broken; and there was the cry of distress, and suffering, and sorrow throughout the land. By such means, apparently so insignificant, but, oh, how powerful ! were we taught on the one hand to look with humility on all the efforts of the legislative wisdom of man, and on the other hand to look up for reliance on Him who is the Giver of all good.

The Tories of South Derbyshire held a grand dinner in the County Hall, on Monday, to commemorate their triumph at the last election. Sir Francis Burdett presided ; and he was supported by the Earl of Lincoln, M.P., Mr. E. M. Mundy, M.P., and Mr. C. R. Colvill. The number of gentry and yeomanry who surrounded the table was five hundred. In acknowledging one of the toasts, Lord Lincoln exulted in the general defeat of Ministers and the failure of their affectation of exclusive loyalty— The voice of the people having failed them, they now raise a cry that the Queen is with them, and brand the Conservatives as disloyal, and pretend that every effort to remove them from office is a defiance of the Queen's authority. Be did not know whether most to pity, despise, or hate profligacy so base, con- duct so disloyal; for he would say, that it was no less disloyal than unconsti- tutional thus to drag forward the Queen's name in association with their pro- ceedings and republican connexions. Fancy "the Queen and Roebuck" on the same placard I But the Conservatives could afford to be taunted with want Of loyalty ; their affectiouate attachment to the Amara' ay, sad the Mc.

amity, was too well known to be disputed ; they loved and reverenced her who sat upon the throne, while they respected and venerated the throne itself. It would indeed be a profitable matter to the Whigs if they could make their po- litical opponents believe that opposition to the policy of Ministers of the Crown was opposition to the Crown itself; if they could persuade the country to adopt such an opinion, they might say with Swift-

" Ministers by kings appointed

Are. under them. the Lord's anointed ;

Ei-go-'-'tis now the self-same thing

To oppose the Minister or King; Ergo—by consequence of reason. To censure statesmen is high treason."

Conservatives could bear all this; but if there was one thing more nauseous and disgusting than another, it was to witness a man—whose name he would not mention in that company—a man on the other side of the Channel, be- spattering the Sovereign with his fulsome adulation, as offensive as the virulent sedition and the vile slanders with which he had aspered her Majesty's revered predecessors.

In returning thanks for the toast of his own health, Sir Francis Bur- dett spoke with as much warmth and familiarity of the Conservative party and its leader as if he had never been any thing but a Tory— The ensuing Parliament of England would be looked to with more anxiety than any similar meeting since the memorable Revolution ; and it was to him a source of high satisfaction, that in Sir Robert Peel they had a statesman remarkably suited to the circumstances of the times—a man unrivalled in that peculiar kind of talent now required in the House of Commons—a man more remarkably efficient in all the great qualities for practical business than any statesman in his memory. He trusted that now they should soon be rid of an Administration who were the mere minions of a Court, not the Ministry of a people—who held office without power—who abused the Royal authority to promote their own selfish party purposes—who, after having got a Parliament of their own under the most unjustifiable use of the Queen's name, wore out that Parliament by exhibiting a spectacle of lamentable imbecility, and by a sacrifice of the honour, glory, and renown, which used to attach to the English name. They succeeded to men who, after carrying on a long but glorious war to glorious results, contrived, with all their difficulties and the popular cry of economy, to manage the expenditure so as to leave a surplus in the national treasury. The present men came into office with a surplus of from 3,000,000Z. to 4,000,0001. in the exchequer; but by wretched mismanagement they had embarrassed the public finances, and in seven years, be would affirm, they had expended seven centuries of British honour, power, and glory ; and now they were going out—now they were compelled to retire—they boasted that they had done that which made it impossible for any other Government to retain power I But Sir Robert Peel had a mind fitted to grapple with the difficulties they had created. Under his auspices, the sound feeling, honour, honesty, morality, and patriotism of the country would revive. Not rashly interfering with every thing, but like a man who understood his business, doing one thing at once and that thing well, he would only meddle with that which wanted revising; and under his firm and judicious government, the country, if it does not feel quite easy, would at all events feel itself safe.

About 300 of the Canterbury Tories gave a "splendid banquet" in the Corn Exchange, on Monday, to the Honourable G. P. S. Smythe and Mr. James Bradshaw, their Members. Among the principal guests were Mr. Croasdill the Chairmau, Sir Edward Knatchbull, M.P., Lord Loftus, the Honourable T. Cochrane, Mr. J. P. Plumptre, M.P., Lord Northland, M.P., Mr. W. H. Baldock, Captain It. Burton, and Mr. G. P. R. James. In proposing the toast of the evening, Mr. Baldock observed, that it was the first time for half a century that the citizens of Canterbury had had an opportunity of meeting to celebrate the retura of two Conservatives. The "triumph" was duly immortalized by Mr. Smythe ; who set up the Church as the Tory ally, against the ally claimed by the Whigs, the Crown— They must remember that a majority of one compelled the dissolution : it was the men of Canterbury who effected it ; therefore it was that their verdict had been so signally fulfilled. Its first echo was heard in Sandwich, caught up at Nottingham, and returned to them at Rochester. It had since become merged in one universal shout of triumph and congratulation from Cornwall to Northumberland—Cornwall, where Vivian, the great Ministerial Member, did not dare confront his own constituency—Northumberland, where the son of the Reform Premier was driven from his pasturages. Who could mistake a lessou so plainly and so pointedly told ? The last hour of Whig domination was at hand; the last prop of Whig Government was crumbling from beneath it. He would say, in the words of Lord Bolingbroke, which were uttered more than a hundred and thirty years since, but were singularly applicable to the present exigency, on the difference between the Tory strength of this nation and the fictitious one of the Whigs, " How much time—how many lucky accidents—how many strains of power—how much money it would require to create a majority of the latter! But once take away the opinion that the Crown is that way inclined, and the Church-interest rises with redoubled force by its natural genuine strength." The revival of the Church-interest, he could assure them, could nowhere be held so appropriately as in this city, the very cradle of the Church of England. Mr. Bradshaw alluded to certain circumstances connected with the last election in that city— They all, doubtless, remembered the aspersions cast upon his character as a gentleman and a man of honour. The position in which he had been placed, he felt to be one of great difficulty ; and the best way that he thought he could extricate himself from it was fairly and manfully to throw himself on the constituency for a verdict. Had he been guilty of any thing approaching in the slightest degree to disloyalty, they might rely on it he never should have had the courage to face them again. But, as nothing of that sort could with any truth or justice be attributed to him, he had fearlessly stood forward to ask their verdict ; and a most gratifying and triumphant answer they had liven him.

The Liberals had a counter-demonstration on the same day ; giving a dinner to Mr. Thomas Twisden Hodges, their unsuccessful candidate.

The company included Mr. Masters, (the Mayor,) Alderman Brent, Mr. G. Cooper, (the Sheriff,) and several members of the corporation. The chairman was Alderman Plummer.

The Liberals say that the Tory dinner was "a failure "; the Tories, that the dinner at the Castle was "poorly attended."

A rumour is current, and belief in which gains ground, to the effect that the Flintshire boroughs are likely to change hands immediately after the meeting of Parliament ; Sir Richard Bulkeley taking a Peer- age, and Mr. E. J. Stanley taking the boroughs.—Salopian Journal.

An Anti-Corn-law movement proceeds in Essex : meetings to peti- tion against the Corn-laws have been held at Barking and Stratford.

At the preliminary meeting of the British Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, in Plymouth, on Wednesday, Professors Dicke and Link of Berlin, Otto of Breslau, Jacobi of St. Petersburg, and Dr. Lamont of Munich, were elected corresponding members. On the mo-

lion of Colonel Sabine, resolutions were then proposed, directing that printing expenses on account of the meetings should be paid from the Association's general fund, under the direction of the permanent offi- cers; that no expenses shall necessarily be borne by any local fund, other than those for rooms provided, attendance, messengers, and police ; that local officers be requested to prepare lists of lodgings and of break- fast and dinner ordinaries ; that members be entitled to one or two ladies' tickets on paying a sovereign apiece to the general fund ; that

no expectation be held out of grants from the general fund in aid of any local funds ; and that general dinners for the Association be not again attempted, unless under particularly favourable circumstances ; and then that the list of toasts be brief, and prepared under the direc- tion of the general Secretaries. A discussion ensued, and Dr. Robinson of Armagh proposed to abolish the dinners altogether : they had be- come a point for ridicule and scandal. The Marquis of Northampton also confessed that some check on the dining would be advisable. The only resolutions ultimately passed, however, were for the provision of a more economical publication of the meeting's proceedings in future. The financial report was then read. At the last report there remained a balance in hand of 309/. lls. ; since then 7901. had been received for life compositions, and 1,843/. for annual subscriptions ; making, with stock dividends and some other sums, a total of 3,350/. 12s. 2d. There had been paid in grants of money for scientific objects 1,265/. 10s. 9d.; to liquidate the expenses of the meeting at Glasgow, 300!.; and a sum for the purchase of 1,000/. in the Three per Cent. Consols. The balance left was 367/. 3s. 11d. The estimated value of the property of the Association was 6,955/. 9s. 11d.

The first sectional meetings were held on Thursday. On Friday, in Section G, (Mechanical Science,) Captain Taylor, R.N., read a commu- nication on floating breakwaters-

" The subject of protection to the harbours of this country was one of very great importance, particularly as the Commissioners appointed by the Govern- ment had pointed out the desirableness of having three harbours of refuge on the Western coast. This would involve an expense of at least 6,000,0001.; which at once negatived the proposition. There were no less than 230 bar boars round the coasts, all of which required protection. In the course of the year, 500 ships were wrecked on our coasts, whilst 1,200 lives were annually destroyed, and the annual loss was about 3,000,000/. sterling. On the score of humanity, therefore, this subject deserved consideration ; and Captain Taylor was prepared to prove that a floating breakwater made of wood might be con- structed for at least a fiftieth part of the expense of a solid breakwater. A floating breakwater was not liable to many of the objections of the former : it had been found that in many parts of Plymouth Sound the mud hail accumu- lated to a depth of five feet. A breakwater on this principle was about to be laid down at Brighton, so as to make it a harbour." The report of the Committee appointed by the Association to inquire into the mean value of railway constants, was also read by Mr. J. S. Russell. The conclusions-of the Committee were principally based on various experiments made on the railway of the Liverpool and Man- chester Company : the most interesting of these appear to have been substantially, that a very large proportion of the resistance encountered by trains in motion is as the square of the velocity ; that the resistance of the air (contrary to recently promulgated doctrines) is not very con- siderable; and that planes of a much steeper inclination than it has been thought advisable to admit in a railway do not cause the supposed dis- advantage. A level, indeed, to obtain which great outlay was necessary, had no advantages over a gradient of 16, 20, or even 25 feet per mile. On Saturday there were no sectional meetings. Means, however, whereby the members might at once be taught and amused were not wanting. A geological party set out on a visit to the mines of Corn- wall ; where of course it met with a polite reception at the hands of the proprietors ; the latter being in return favoured with the assistance of the whole company at a cold collation, after a full inspection of the mines. The Admiralty having contributed two steamers to further the ends of the British Association, they were employed to convey parties to the Breakwater and Eldystone Lighthouse. It was ascertained that the Breakwater is now in the twenty-ninth year of its construction, the works being still in full activity. Awkward questions are started as to the fitness of the limestone materials ; the naturalists of the Associa- tion having found that a common marine mollusc is in the habit of ex- cavating that sort of stone in such a way as to render it unequal to bear the heavy beating of a surge or the action of a ground-well.

The meetings were renewed by adjournment on Monday. The General Committee on that day resolved to accept an invitation to hold the next annual meeting at Manchester, which had been forwarded by the Civic Authorities, the Magistracy, and the Literary Institutions of that town. Lord Francis Egerton was chosen for the President next year ; the Dean of Manchester, Dr. Dalton, Dr. Henry, Professor Sedgwick, and Sir Benjamin Heywood, for the Vice-Presidents ; and Dr. Fleming, Sir Peter Clare, Mr. W. Ormerod, and Mr. J. Heywood, for the Secretaries of the Association. Much philosophical business seems to have been transacted ; but the reports of the papers are confined to technical lists of the bare titles of matters discussed. The entertain- ments of the day were enlivened by the launch of the Hindostan, a ninety-gun ship, built wholly of teak. This ceremony, despite deluges of rain, seems to have collected an imposing assemblage of philosophers and sight-seers ; upwards of a thousand persons having been launched in the Hindostan herself.

The sectional business terminated on Wednesday. On the same day, a numerous meeting was held in the Athenmum, at which a committee was formed to take steps for the erection of a monument to the memory of Sir Humphry Davy, in the county of his birth. It was very well attended, and a liberal subscription was begun. The last general meeting was held on Wednesday ; when 3,083/. was voted in grants for the scientific pursuits of the different Sectional Com- mittees. The financial report stated that there had been received in the town 1,280!.; and the assets and available property of the Associa- tion were now valued at 6,9551.

A public meeting was held at Sunderland, on Friday, to receive the report of a deputation appointed to meet the coalowners of the river Wear, on the depressed state of the coal-trade. The meeting was numerously attended by the shipowners and merchants of the port. The coalowners had been requested either to reduce the price of coals delivered to the shippers, or to freight the vessels themselves. They declined either arrangement ; and it appeared that the price of coals' bad been raised 2s. very recently. The meeting separated without coming to any resolution. The shipping-interest is in a very depressed state in Sunderland : many vessels are laid up ; and a greater number of seamen are out of employment than has been the case for many years.

A public meeting was held at Wolverhampton, on the 27th, for a very curious purpose. Mr. Castle, an Inspector of Police, had been convicted at the Police-office of a grossly improper assault on Mary Warner, a girl of fifteen years of age, a servant in his family ; and he was fined forty shillings. His defence was, that he only meant to chastise the girl for burning some paper. The meeting was convened, on the requisition of several persons, by the Constable, in the Court-house ; but the place was so crowded, that an adjournment to the Hall-fold took place ; and then, according to the Staffordshire Examiner, the numbers present were not less than five thousand. The case was laid before them, and resolu- tions were passed urging the dismissal of Castle pledging the persons present to resist a town-rate should the Commissioners of Police not remove him ; and censuring the conduct of two Magistrates and some others for endeavouring to screen the delinquent. The resolutions were all unanimously adopted.

The extraordinary case of the Irish people living at Stockport accused of poisoning their own children for the sake of the money allowed for the funerals by a burial-club, which had been put off from the last Assizes, was tried at Chester, before Mr. Justice Erskine, on Monday and Tuesday last. Robert Sandys, and Ann Davannole, who passed as his wife, were charged with administering poison to two of their infants, Mary Ann and Jane ; and George Sandys, and Honor his wife, with being accessories. The principal witness was the brother of the chil- dren, a little boy of tender age ; who stated that his mother gave hint and his two sisters some bread and butter, and what he called salt was sprinkled on that which his sisters ate ; they both vomited very much, and were taken by their parents to two different surgeons ; but Mary Ann died the following day. The fact of their having been poisoned with arsenic was proved ; and the prisoners, when told of it, accused the godmother of the deceased child, who had been taken into custody in consequence, but was discharged by the Coroner. Robert Sandys was proved to have received 3L 12s. for the burial of his child Mary Ann ; and a like sum only three weeks before on the death of another daughter, who was proved to have been poisoned, though he said it died of measles ; and George Sandys three months before received funeral- money for a daughter of his, on which occasion Robert was with him. The Judge, however, was of opinion that the little boy's evidence was not to be relied on, as it was different from what he had given before the Coroner six months back ; and the other evidence being merely circumstantial, and net conclusive, the prisoners were acquitted: Robert Sandys, the father, who looked very dejected, lifted up his hands and prayed audibly on the delivery of the verdict.

On the following day, however, Robert Sandys and his female com- panion were charged with the murder of Elizabeth Sandys, their infant daughter, by administering arsenic. The evidence was similar to that on the previous trial ; but it did not rest upon the testimony of the child, being more circumstantial. The woman was acquitted ; Robert Sandys was found guilty. He protested his innocence, declaring that all the witnesses had sworn falsely ; and he was carried from the dock in a state of insensibility.

An old man of seventy-four, William Major, was tried at Exeter, on Friday, by Baron Rolfe, for attempting to poison his son-in-law, Thomas Coombs, of Thorneombe, in March last. The evidence was to the following effect. There had been an habitual enmity between Major and his son-in-law. On the 14th March, in a quarrel with Coombs, Major said, "You think to have the end with I, but I shall have my end of thee ; and before Saturday night you shall die in a ditch like another gipsy." On the 16th, he employed the postman to purchase him some poison for rats, though it seems there were no rats in the house ; and on the 18th, in the absence of his daughter. Coombs's wife, he was seen to uncover the pot contain- ing Coombs's food and put in his hand. Coombs and two of his chil- dren were taken ill after breakfasting on the contents of this vessel ; and the doctor who attended them believed that their illness had been caused by a strong dose of arsenic. The verdict was "Guilty." Major was sentenced to death. The sentence is said to have produced a great sensation, as it was believed that the offence of the prisoner was one of those included in the act lately passed to abolish the punishment of death in certain cases. The Jury signed a recommendation of the prisoner to the mercy of the Crown. Since the trial, Major has made a statement, which, if true, puts the matter quite in a new light. Some remarkable ejaculations uttered by him in his prayers induced his keepers to question him pertinaciously as to his meaning; and he at length said, alluding to his daughter- " I did not expect her to come against me. She lived unhappily with her husband because he was always drunk, and spending his money upon drink ; and she said he should either be poisoned or have his brains knocked out ; and she then suggested that some poison be got. I accordingly procured the arsenic ; but her's was the hand that put it in the broth. I took the lid off the pot and put my hand in ; but that was only to feel whether or not the water was hot. I did not have any- thing to do with putting the poison in the broth." The reporter of the Times says it can be proved that this woman ate none of the food that she prepared for her husband, and which nearly killed him and the children who breakfasted on it. She has gone about perfectly unmoved by the fate to which her father has been condemned, while all the rest of the family have taken most affecting leave of him. The clergyman of the parish has gone to Bothnia to consult the Judge on the matter.

Ann Walters, aged nineteen, was tried on the Oxford Circuit last Friday, for the murder of her infant child. She was also charged on a Coroner's warrant with the manslaughter of her child. On the 13th April last, Walters was about to journey from Worcester to Hereford by a stage-waggon ; but the waggon started without her, and she was obliged to set out on foot to overtake it. After a tiring walk of ten miles, she came up with it at Malvern Wells, and took her place with other passengers. At Ledbary, which is about eighteen miles from Worcester, she said, in answer to a remark of the waggoner's, that she

had been very sick, and had got out of the waggon just above a turn- pike, which is within a mile or two of Ledbury. Next morning, a newly-born female infant was found, dead and cold, on the road-side between this turnpike and Ledbury. One Weaver, a waggoner, had the night before heard a shrill cry, and had gone aside to see whence it came ; when he found the child, and felt its arm to see that it was a human creature ; but he afterwards passed on and left it. Overtaking one Matlow, he declared what he had seen ; but Matlow was content to recommend him to tell his story to the man at the turnpike. This Weaver did ; but the gateman's wife would neither arise from bed her- self nor let her husband leave her, lest, as she was within a month of her own time, she might herself be startled. There was evidence to prove that the mother had carried the child some time after its delivery. It seems that the prisoner knew she was near the time of her labour ; she having provided baby linen, and engaged with a Mrs. Thomas to lie in at her house and pay her a weekly sum for the infant's care after its birth. She left the child because she was too exhausted to carry it ; and she trusted, with what propriety the result shows, to the humane interference of any passenger who might see the child. She was found guilty of manslaughter only ; but was sentenced to ten years' transpor- tation. The recognizances of Weaver, the waggoner who found the child, were estreated, in default of his appearance as a witness.

The Magistrates have examined several persons on suspicion of their being concerned in the murder of Mr. Bennett, at Exeter. Two women, Jane Avent and Elizabeth Stoneman, were apprehended ; and among seven or eight men who were arrested, two, named Pitts and Brinsmead, are retained in custody. Brinsmead has made a detailed confession. He says that he was persuaded by Pitts to join him in following Mr. Bennett from the Cattle Market Inn. He and Pitts dodged Mr. Bennett towards his home, till they came on him in Colleton Street ; when they spoke to him and demanded some money to buy beer. After a brief parley, Mr. Bennett offered them sixpence ; which Brinsmead accepted, but Pitts said it was too trumpery to offer. Pitts then seized Mr. Bennett over the arms round the body, and struggled with him towards the river. There was a cry of " Mercy!" and then a heavy plunge in the water. Presently afterwards, Pitts came up and said that he had got Mr. Ben- nett's watch and a sovereign ; and as long as there was a shilling left Brinsmead should not want. Brinsmead says that he knew of no women being at all concerned from first to last. There was a 'third person with them when they set out, whose name he does not know. In addition to these facts confessed, one Mrs. Meringo deposed that she re- ceived Mr. Bennett's watch and sixteen shillings from Pitts on the day after the murder. This watch is now in the hands of the Police.

An inquest was held at Liverpool, on Monday, on the body of Anto- nio Tuscano, an Italian who died from injuries inflicted by his country- man Girolamo Capello. Tuscano and Capello were both organ-players, and were fellow-lodgers at a house in Liverpool, sleeping in the same bed. On the 12th of last month, Capello went first to bed, but waked on Tuscano's coming to rest ; after which he slept again. At three in the morning he was roused in a state of great agony, by a quantity of some scalding liquid which had been thrown over his face and throat. He saw a person, who was in his shirt, escaping from the room : he snatched a stick and pursued him down stairs to the parlour ; but when he came there, he felt be was dying, and could go no further so the man then escaped. Tuscano swore on his deathbed that this per- son was Capello, his companion and bedfellow. It seems that there bad been disputes about money between them ; Capello claiming a debt of 12/. The Jury found a verdict of "Wilful Murder" against Ca- pello; who was then committed for trial at the Kirkdale Assizes.

The Queen's going through Uxbridge, on the way from Panshanger to Windsor, on Saturday, gave occasion to a fatal encounter. After the Royal party had passed, some people were sitting in the kitchen of the Bull Inn ; when one Tollerson, a cooper, observed that the Queen did not pay so much respect to Uxbridge as Uxbridge paid to her. Hobbs, a sergeant of Militia, felt his loyal indignation aroused, and threatened to strike Tollerman if he repeated what he had said : Tollernaan did affirm his first remark, and Hobbs struck him. A struggle followed, and ended in Tollerson's falling. He was picked up senseless, bleed- ing at the month and ear ; and died next day. An inquest was held on the body, and the Jury returned a verdict that he "Died from a mortal fracture of his skull, accidentally caused by the head of the deceased, Thomas Tollerson, having come into violent contact with the stone flooring of a certain kitchen." Hobbs was held to bail to answer any charge at the Assizes.

Many instances have occurred during the summer of deer-stealing in the parks at Windsor. On Monday afternoon, Joseph Atkins, alias Lovely Joe, who is believed to be one of a large gang, was examined before a Berkshire Magistrate on a charge of shooting a doe at day- break of Sunday morning, in the Great Park. The report of a gun was heard by keepers watching near Peter's Hill ; and half an hour after, Atkins was seen attempting to bear off a doe which had fallen at the shot ; but he was sa drunk that as often as he shouldered the animal it toppled him over and brought him to the ground. He made no re- sistance on the appearance of the keepers, and confessed where he had hidden his gun. He was committed, and will be tried for the capital offence of slaying a deer enclosed in a Royal Park.

Mr. Muntz, M.P., met with a severe and painful accident on Monday afternoon. He was proceeding homeward at a slow canter, and had nearly reached the top of the hill beyond Hockley Brook, when the animal which he rode, as if seized with some sudden madness, sprung at once into a gallop, and darted straight for the lamp-post on its left. Mr. Muntz, with great presence of mind, contrived, at the moment when the horse was coming into contact with the post, to sway to one side, and thus to receive the shock on the shoulder. He was, of course, hurled with great violence to the ground, and upon recovering himself, found that his right collar-bone was broken. The fracture proved, on surgical inspection, to be a comminuted or shattered one. Mr. Muntz was able to walk home ; and we are glad to say that he is doing as well as under the circumstances it was possible he should. The frontal bone of the horse was dreadfully crushed and broken, and its eyes almost forced out by the blow.—Birmingham Journal.