... COURT OF CHANCERY-FRIDAY. The Lords Commissioners appointed to hold the Great Seal took the usual oaths this morning, in this court, which are generally administered to the Lord Chancellor on taking office. The Master of the Rols, as chief Commissioner, addressed the bar to the following ?? taking upon themselves the duties of Lords Commissioners, their first object had been to arrange the ...

... MURDER AT WOdL~W1cr-Tire Old English system of'sruffering sol. diers to carry bayonets with them through the streets, and during private inter course, has again been illustrated in a most shocking way. A Corporal Carrol han just stabbed a poor wvidsw, the keeper of a public-house in Wool- wich, by way of settlement of a dispute that had arisen between them. He thrust his bayonet into her ...

... CMANSTON H-OUSE. Francis Tuthlill, a translator of shoes, from Ireland, and aged about 60 years, was brought before the Lord Mayor under the following circumstances:- Thomas Fleming stated that he came over from Ireland to buy clothes irn Cut- lr street, and he brought a purse of money with him, which he stitched op in a bag, and hid in a hole in his bed. He made some purchases amongst the ...

... | THE HATTON GARDEN OFFICE. TO THE EDITOR Or THE EXAMINER. SIR,-I believe the Examiner has always taken an interest in the question of removing the tax on newspapers. The brutal administration of the law in cases-ofthe unstamped byr the gentlemen at Saffron hill, Messrs Laing and Rogers, merits the especial notice of the Home Secretary, if the Government do not wish the police.offices to be ...

... ACCIDENT TO LADY E. PERcY.-On Thursday morning about half-past ten o'clock, Lady Esther Percy met with a serious and distressing accident while driving in a phaeton along Grosvenor square, Pimlico. The wheel of her phaeton came in contact with that of a gig, and the concussion was so violent, that her ladyship was thrown forward over the dashing iron into. the road, and fell with considerable ...

... ACCiDEIXT. To LADY CASTLEMAi-xE.-~Satarday last, Lady Castlemaine was walking in the demesne of' oydrum, accompanied by Miss Edgeworth, . whenherfoo. hppeingto tri~e gaist a clump of' wood, she was preci- pittedforar- wth uchvilene tather leg was severely fractured.- ALL.EGED MIURDER.-Afl innest was recently held at Bolton, Lancashire, on the bodies of Ellen Boardmau and her infant child, who ...

... MANSION HtOUSE. BILL STICXING EXTRAORDINARY.-On Monday, a mat in very shabby attire, named John Peacock, was brought before the Lord Mayor by a police- man named Parish, charged with having stuck upon the walls of King William street a placard calculated to excite the people to acts of violence. Parish stated that tat a quarter past seven 'clock on that morning he observed the defendant stick ...

... GUILDHALL. Robert Riley, a private in the Coldstream Guards, was charged with assault- ing Mrs Jones, landlady of the Old Swan Tavern, Snow hill. The prisoner went into the house with another soldier, and was going out without paying. When she asked for the money, be threatened to run her through, and hernn to draw his bayonet. Mrs Jones seized it, and ran away, but he followed 6er, and struck ...

... COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 16. JERtROLD Wr. Mo0ss1s AND W1NSTON.-This was an action brought by the plaintiff, the well-known dramatic writer, to recover compensation from the lessee of the Haymarket Theatre, for a play called Beau Nash, or the King of Bath, which was represented at that theatre in July ?? pleaded that they had paid Mr Jerrold 501. for his play, which was all they considered it ...

... SUtDDEN DEATH OF DR PINCAIRD.-Thiis gentleman was suddenly called a few days ago, from his own drawing room, to attend a female patient in the parlour. He had been with her but a few minutes before the servants were alarmed by a violent ringing of the bell. On one of them going there, the deceased was found upon the floor apparently in the agonies of death. All their efforts to restore the ...

... EXTRAORDINARY CAsE.-The following most extraordinary charge against a priest (which must however be received with considerable suspicion) was lately fixed for trial hefbre the Court of Assizes fbr Tarn. A beautiful young woman, of the name of Elizabeth Losisa Farmond, died lately in Valence, in the 18th year of her age. Rumours began to Spiead about the town as to the cause of her death, her ...

... POL ICE. MARLtBOROUGH STREET. Hestry Bares and John Hamtilton, a couple of low-looking fellows, were on Tuesday brought before Mr Conant, for having created an ob- struiction in one of the Conits leading to Leicester square.-A gentleman; named Godwin, stated that at about eight o'clock in the evening his attention was attracted by a large crowd, which had assembled round the defendants in a ...