... The investigation was resumed on Friday (the fourth day) when seve'. ral witnesses were examined, who deposed to the quiet of the town before the military appeared, and to the extreme violence used against the peo- ple. We can only refer, however, to the evidence given some weeks ago berore Mr Roaf, much of which was repeated, and to the few extracts which follow :;Mr Simkiss: Is a medical ...

... VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. LEIGH v. LEIGH.-A question arose in this case, the other day, on a de- murrer as to the precise construction of certain words in the allegation con- tained in the bill. Sir C. Wetherell appeared in support of the bill. The de- murrer was supported by Sir AV. Horne, on the ground that the bill stated a period of 20 years' adverse possession had elapsed since the death ...

... COURT OF KING'S BENCH-FED. 9. THE KING ON THE PROSECUTION OF O'GORMAN MAHON V. WIGLEY, GENT.-TThe Attorney-General stated the case. It was an indictment for peijury, brought by Mr O'Gorman Mahon, formerly M.P. for the county of Clare, against an attorney named Wigley, residing in Essex street, near the Temple. The perjury was alleged to have been committed by the defendant in an answer which ...

... STEAM-BOAT ACm1DE S T.-A-nolhet of' these accidents ocrrreird oil Mon day evening. A lad, sixteen years old, was dhowned by the Mostarch steam towing-vessel running down a boat in which he was in Blackwall Reach. A proper look-out does not appear to have been kept. The i gnotett terndinatid in the following verdict- Manslaughter against Nathan Wi lam Credirs thei master of the 3ifonarch ...

... HORRIBLE AcCIDENT.-A horrible accident happened at Crew's Hole, St George's, Bristol, last week. A poor woman named Bull went out, leaving her infant, about four months old, asleep in a cradle in the kitchen, and on one of the other children going in shortly afterwards, he saw that a pig had entered the house, and was in the cradle eating the poor infant, and it was with some difficulty that ...

... -On Monday morning the Don coach left the Tontine, Sheffield, at its usual time (five o'clock), and although the horses proceeded at full speed, yet a thief, with extraordinary dexterity, contrived to attach himself to the hinder part of the coach, when he managed to unlock the door of-the boot, and abstract therefrom five parcels. The robbery was not discovered ?? the coach reached Rotherham, ...

... ROLLS' COURT, TUESDAY. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL V. CORPORATION O0 LIVERPOOL.-His Honour gave his judgment in this case in Lincoln's inn ?? injunction, it will be recollected, was obtained a week or two since, to restrain the old cor- poration of Liverpool from selling certain property belonging to the town- immediately before the period when their existence was determined by the operation of the ...

... THE PERILS OF H. M. S. PIqUr.-A court martial was held at Ports- mouth on Tuesday last, to try Captain the Hon. H. J. Rous and Mr Hemsaey, master of his Majesty's ship Pique, fbr having on the 22d Sept. run that ship on Point Fortean, on the coast of Labrador, on her passage to England, from Quebec. The evidence adduced on this occasion corroborated the accounts which have already appeared in ...

... GUILDIIALL. John Macklini, a private in the 3rd reginent of Guards, wlas charged with assaulting Jfhn Shuhb, a constable, tlith his h ?? P. Laurie said it was an old complaint that soldiers were improperly allowed to carry bayonets, and asked if' they were ordered to do so ?-Tho serjeant in attendan'ce said they were to carry them except when ordered not to do so in consequence of abusing the ...

... DKEADFUL ACCIDENT IN A COAL-PIT: SEVENTEEN PERSONS DROwNED.-We have to record another instance of the deplorabla 16os of life in a coal.pit. On Friday last, about eight o'clock in the morning, as the workmen in the employ of John Fletcher, Esq., at a pit called The Aullart Hole, about fbur miles from Bolton, on the banks of tic Irwell, were at their employ, the watt burst in from the bed of ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, AuG. 4. MALpAS's DIVORCE BILL.-Mr Wigram, as counsel for Mr Malpas, again appeared at the bar and proceeded to argue in favour of the bill seeking to divorce Mrs Malpas.-He produced several letters, and, after the evideice had been concluded, Lord Brongham recommended the second reading ofthe bill' Since the case was last before the house it had assumed a very ...

... ACCIDENT TO Sfit B. BRoDiE.-Sir Benjamin Brodie, the eminent surgeon, has, we are sorry to learn, met wvith an accident lately in the Isle of Wighbt While riding he was thrown from his horse with such violence as to dislocate his shoulder joint. Some time elasped before assistance could be procured, but on Sir Benjamin's sending for Ml John Bloxam, of Newport, the dislocation was soon ...