... THE ORIGINAL OF ROBERT MACAIRE.-Tbe Parisian Court of Assize has been occupied with another of those extraordinary trials which so fre- quently occur in France. The principal criminal, whose name is Lacenaire, is described as having been a mercantile traveller, but to have occupied his leisure in writing republican songs, inditing levelling articles for the Bon Seas and the Reformateur, and ...

... TRAGICAL EVENT IN THE EDGEWARE-ROAD.-On Friday, about noon, the inhabitants of the Edgeware-road were thrown into a state of great con- sternation in consequence of a report having been rapidly circulated, that Mr Henry Staninought, the proprietor of an extensive public library and newspaper office, had murdered his son, and afterwards made a determined attempt upon his own life. On Thursday ...

... HATTON GARDEN. Elizabeth DaVeey, a female about 24 years of are, with scarcely a rag to cover her person, weas brought from the station-house, in the custody of olice constable Richards, under the following distressing circumstances:-. ichards stated, that between 11 and 12 o'clock on Monday night, lie found the prisoner sitting on the steps of St Sepulchre's workhouse, in an exhausted ...

... X COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MONDAY. THE KING v. ROBTsoN.-The defendant had been convicted some time ag6 of publishing a libel reflecting on General Darling, formerly Governor of NJew South Wales. He was now brought up to receive judgment. Mr. Jus- tice Littledale, as senior p wisne judge, passed sentence on the defendant. He observed that the defendant had been an officer for a period of twenty ...

... 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 ...

... - A sergeant of the 89th Regiment was severely stabbed by a sentinel in the garrison of Fermoy, on Christmas night, under the following circumstances: The sergeant had been infringing a military order, and was challenged by the sentry: but disregarding the challenge, the sentry arrested him. In a few minutes the sergeant attempted to escape, the sentry pursued and stabbed him in, the right ...

... MSANSIOW HOUSE. Tlwo men, named JamesaHolden and John Otteway, appeared before the Lord Mayor, to answer to the complaint of Nelson, the chief assistant to the water-bailiff, that they had, in conjunction with other fishermen, dragged the river Thames with an unlawful net, not less than 240 yards in ?? appeared, from the statement of Nelson, that numbers of poor fishermen have lately suffered ...

... MARLBOROUGH STREET. Two lads were on Tuesday brought to this office for the purpose of being apprenticed from the parish of St Giles.-Mr Chambers asked them whether they could ?? replied that they could ?? Chambers then asked how long they had been in the workhouse, and he was informed that they had been there nine ?? Chambers.-How do you spend your time in the workhouse ?-Boy.-We go to the ...

... Thosas Jnes was indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling house of Samuel Rice, an inspector cf police, on the night of the 6th of November, with intent to steal. The prosecutor, it appeared, returned home from his duty to his house in York street, Hackney, and admitted himself by means of a key. He had scarcely got in, however, before lie heard another key put into the lock, and on ...

... MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.-A most melancholy occurrence happened in this town last Tuesday morning. About five o'clock A.M. Miss Charlotte Stewart, daughter of Captain Stswart, half~pay, went, in company with several young ladies, to bathe at the Broad Meadow, and having unfortunately got into deep water, she sank. She was not got out for halfan hour, and life was then ?? .llcprter. - - ...

... OFFENCES., ACCIDENTS, &c. DESTRUJCTIVE FIRE.-With the exception of the destruction of the late Houses of Parliament, a more extensive loss of property has sot taken place than the awful conflagration on Tuesday morning, about one o'clock, in Mar- shall street, Golden square. There is every reason to believe that the fre commenced in the timber-yard of Messrs Taprell and Holland, and a strong ...

... I COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE 22. MARTIN V. BRtOOKE.-This was an action for infringement of copyright.- The plaintiff is Mr Martin, the eminent painter and engraver, and the efen- dant is a printseller. The action was brounht to recoyer damages from the defendant, for bavin exposed to sale and heo d pirated ?? f The Faintif engravings of 1 Beshspzsar's Feast, The Deluge,an Te alof ...