... ?? :NOTTINGHAM ASSIZES. Some weeks ago we noticed the, murder of Samuel Clay,'a master butcher of Sutton. On Wednesday Wm.'Clayton, aged 18, was tried on the charge of being the murderer. The body of the deceased, it will be recollected, was found after a market-day in a close about three miles from Sutton.' There was a deep incision under the'ear, effected in precisely the same manner as that ...

... DISCOVERY OF A ROEeRthS CAVE AND RETREAT NE.&R LiNcoix.-On Monday last a most singular discovery was made in the plantation of Skel- lingthorpe, a small village about three miles from Lincoln, of a most inge- niously constructed retreat for robbers. About six months ago three fellows called Freeman, Coupland, and Greetham, who had been charged with robbing Mr. Chaloner, leather-cutter, of ...

... ATTEMPTED SUICIDn OF SEVERIN DUssAs, THE FRENCR USHER.-On Wednesday morning, at half-past 2 o'clock, a young man was brought in a hackney-coach to St. George's Hospital, labouring under the effect of several extensive wounds, which he had inflicted on the inside of the elbow joints of both arms. He was attended by Mr. Hicks, the house-surgeon, who succeeded in stopping the hemorrhage, but the ...

... VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT. WATTS V. COLBrURM.-On Saturday Mr. Knight obtained an injunction on behalf of the plaintiff, to restrain Mr. Colburn from publishing a weekly newspaper, called The Naval and Military Gazette, or . eekly Chronicle of the United Service, on the ground that it was a piracy on the title of a weekly paper, the property of Mr. Alaric Watts, called the United Service Gazette, ...

... M5ARLBOROUGH STROEET. THE POOR LAws.-The parish officers of St. Giles's brought a number of Irish paupers (principally young women either pregnant or with families, who had been left by their husbands behind, for the purpose of getting them passed to Ireland at the expense of this country) before Mr. Chambers, in order to have them sworn to the truth of their examinations. One of the Irish ...

... VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT.-~THuRSDAY, Jua~y 25. WVCULLOCH ANiD LONGANAN ?? MACARDY.-Mr: KNIGHT appidfra injncton o rstrin he efedant from publishing a work ntitled Tae ontmercial Colu cyOPdia, or Didionarf of Practical CoA merce, ing at it was in a considerable degree phraoI from Mr. MtCulloth's of th of Comaerce and d n vipation, publishey by Longman and Co.n th several articles copied, ...

... MARTLEBONE OFFICE. John Brown was charged on suspicion of stealing a horse, which he had offered for sale to Mr. Hedges, a horse-dealer, Edgeware-road. William Lake deposed that the prisoner came to him in Lissou-street, and said he wished to sell his horse. On witness telling him that prosecutor would purchase it, prisoner went to his house, and offered it for sale. Mr. Hedges desired to know ...

... COURT OF KING'S BENCH.-GuLDHALL, MoNDAy, DEC. 16. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the LORD CRIEF JUSTICE and Common Juries.) LIABILITY FOR PAYMENT OF SLARIREs wEN -No AGREEMENT HAS SEEN MADE.-RIMSEX V. -NCHOLSON.-ThiS was an action to recover a compen- sation for 'services rendered by the plaintiff, as clerk and agent to the de- fendant, who is a tea-dealer, and the proprietor of the Price ...

... The following event is, we believe, without its parallel in ?? father of a family in Silesia having determined to put an end to his exist. ence, loaded his gun, and placing the muzzle to his mouth, called one of his children, only eight years of age, and desired him to pull the trigger, The poor child, ignorant of the consequences, did as he was desired, and became innocently the murderer of ...

... . INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.-TUsDAY. - MR. HENRY Joln WALMACK, late of Druryliane Theatre, appeared on his petition to be discharged from his debts. The insolvent since his arrest has been in the King's Bench prison. Several members of his profession, ajixious about the result of of his applicatioi, were observed i and ~abiiui the Court. There was no opposition to his discharie,;'but the chief ...

... . In the village of Barrhead, two remarkably fine boys, both about three years of age, who had been out of sight of their parents only -a few minutes on Thursday afternoon, were discovered drowned together in a well. How this melancholy circumstance occurred no onexcainimagine. So limited are the depth and diameter of the well that, one poor little fel. low was found stretched across, ...

... MANSION HOUSh. Captain Ross waited upon the Lord Mayor, on Thursday, to contaadict a statement in the newspapers, intimating that the crew who had sailed with him suffered privations which were enhanced by withholding the pay due to them for their services on the polar expedition. Captain Ross said, that whatever hardships the crew-had undergone were fully participated in by the officers. As ...