... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 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 ...

... . TaR CLEOPATRA.-The Cleopatra frigate, that took out ?? of Durham to St Petersburg, arrived in the harbour at Sheerness on Friday last; having been on shore in the Cattigat, it was considered necessary to take her into a dock to examine her bottom. She was found to have received but very little injury, her trifling defects were made good, and she was putout of dock on Saturday. Her captain, ...

... I NEW COURT.-BeforC MA Serjrant Arabin. Mr Scrjeant Arabin adjourned the Court at halt past four o'clock, observing' that there wvas no case of' felony ready to go on w ith. At a quarter-past fivee o'clock the Court resumed its sitting, when Mr Connmon-Serjeant iflrehouse took his seat on the bhoch, and the Alint prosecutions were called ?? Clarkson begged the Court to iefbrm biln why these ...

... COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MONDAY. MOsCATI V. LAWsoN.-This was an action of libel. It appeared from the affidavits, that the plaintiff bad already tried an action against the defendant, the printer atld publisher of the Times newspaper, for the publication of the saiie libel, that the defendant had justified the several parts of the libel; and bad called several witnesses, who fully made out the ...

... VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, THiURSDAY. PRISOSERS IN THE FLEET.-The Vice-Chancellor, upon entering the Court, addressed the Bar, and said that he had had an interview with Mr Brown, the Warden of'bthe Fleet, and that gentleiman had declared to him'that'v several persons coofined in the' Fleet for conte'ipt were in a state of the 'reatest'destitution: His Honoer expressed' his very great surprise ...