... TRAFFIc IN SLAVEs.-Mr William Sherwill has been tried at Gibraltar, for being concerned in the shipping of goods on board the brig Czad cor, which was proved to have been employed in the slave trade, and was at the time of its seizure fitting out for Africa with a similar object. There was both a civil and a criminal action, and in both he was sentenced to penalties. The penalty in the civil ...

... GUILDHALL. Mrs King, an aged woman, complained -that the overseers of St Andrew's, Holborn, had stopped an allowance of 2sI per week, which abe had been accus- tomed to receive. She had lived 44 years-in the parish, and had been a house- keeper, paying all rates and taxes, above half that time. She had been reduced through having her goods seized, though her landlord was kind enough to give ...

... 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 ...

... MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, TuEsDAY. Mr Morris Barnett, the well-known theatrical performer, surrendered at the sitting of the Court this morning, to receive judgment fbr an assault upon his wife, Mrs Margaret Barnett, of which he had been convicted at the adjourn- ment-day of' the November session. Cheney and Newman, policemen of the F division, who were indicted jointly with him, were ?? only ...

... BOW. STREETi Yesterday a respectably-dressed young man, named James Todd, was charged with having stoleh a very extraordinarily formed child named Henry W iebb Tipping.--Th child was brought into the Office wrapped in its mother's shawl;-ij and its appairance excited very great curiosity and attention. The asges of tie bhil[ is five years and two months, its height 27 inches, and the eigt l! ...

... 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 ...

... MARYLEBONE. On Monday a short thick-set knight of the brush and sootbag, named John Bridges, appeased befbre Messrs ftawlinson and Shutt, charged with having hawked hbs trade about the streets, contrary to act of Parliament. The de- fendant entered the office with a knowing grin, seemingly quite confident of success, and while the evidence was being gone into, employed himself by taking ...

... 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 ...

... E I . fHATTON GAIDEN. On Monday a woman, named Mary Sibley, was placed at the bar, charged with having murdered her daughter, aged nine ?? appeared, by the evidence, that the child had been ill some time, and on Saturday morning, the prisoner, who had frequently manifested a'tendency to aberration of intellect, was found lvin on the floor of her arartment, in St Helena place; Clerkenwell, ...

... | MANSION HorsE- A genteelly-dressed man, who said that his name was John Thompson, but who is believed to have a very different name, was-brought before the Lord Mayor under the following cirenistances:-A married woman stated that as she was passing through a court at about six o'clock on the previous evening, she was grossly insulted by the defendant.-A little girl, the daughter of an ...

... PRIVY COUNCIL. SMITH V..1.ELLY-JUDG5IENT.-The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council met at fbur o'clock on Friday, for the purpose of giving judgment in this important appeal, the decision on which has been looked forward to with great interest. Lord Broughaam delivered the judgment of their Lordships. The point turned on whether the conversion of the parties to the Roman ...

... OFFENCES, ACCIDENTS, &e. * EXECUTiom.-Mark Devlin, %vho was convicted, of the revolting crime of rape at the last Perth circuit, was executed in lront of the Town House, Dur. dee, on Snatrday afternoon. The day after the arrival of Devlin from Pertb he wvas 'visited by several clergymen of the establishment, and Mr M'Phersor, the Catholic clergyman, the culprit being an Irishman, and ...