... UNION HALL. ATROCIOUS BARBARITY. May I not do as I like with my own 0-Duke of Newcastle. On Monday Thomas Hawes, a policeman of the R division, stated that on Saturday afternoon he received information that a man was in the act of skin- ning a live dog at the rear of a public-house called the Feathers, in Ber- mondsey. He (the policeman) immediately repaired to the spot, and saw the ...

... MuRDER TRiALS.-A vast tuinber of these havf taken Place deting thd past week. At Liverpdol there were three prisoners. In the ofie cia woman was charged with poisboing her husband, and in ano'ter, a young in vith causing the death of a young woman, uedet-ppcnlinr circudstances; Both were found Guilty, and were sentenced to be executed on Satutday Id a third, a inan was Ciarged with the muirder ...

... FRAUDS OTN 'reN Sroct-Eiccniis.l-a.Considerable excitement was created Oh Saturday riorning week, at the Stock-Exchange by its being made known that a jobber, unrecognized by the Stock-Exchange, and who only did business in the alley of the house, had decamped with stock and money to the value of 12,0001., which he obtained on Friday, being settling-day in the foreign market, from two ...

... ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, 4ac. A FALLING GOD.-On Monday night, on the conclusion of the perform ances at Drury Lane Theatre, a young man respectably attired threw himsel from the front of the 2s. gallery into the pit. T he people were going out at the time, and, although he fell close to several persons, he injured no one but himself. Several individuals ran to his assistance and lifted him up, but ...

... LEWIS, WEDNESDAY, JUEY 27. HARRISON a. GOUTLD.-This action was brought by the plaintiff, Betty Harrison, to recover from the defendant, John Gould, compensation in damages for a breach of'promise of marriage. From the evidence called on the part of the plaintiff; it appeared that she, now twenty-four years of age, was kitchen.maid to Lord Egremont, in whose service her father was as gardener. ...

... ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, Lc. DEATH OF A BARONET IN DESTITUTION.-In the beginning of last week an inquest was held at the Merlin's Cave, Wilmington square, Spafields, betbre M r Stiling and a highly respectable jury, to inquire into the death of Sir William Hewitt, Bart., aged 69. Mrs Elizabeth Thompson, of Mar. garet street, Wilmington square, deposed that on last Saturday fortnight the deceased ...

... MIDDLESEX SESSIONS-TUESDAY. DESPERIATE ASSAULT B3Y AN OMwiBers DBitvEm.- Robert RawliUs and Edward Humerston were indicted for assaulting Thomas Ingram, in the parish of St Pancras, on the 24th of September last. - Mr Prendergrast, having stated the case, called Thomas Ingram, who deposed as follows .-I am a fish salesman, and on the 24th of September last I went to Highgate. Shortly after ...

... MARLBOROUGH StREET. Thonas Adams, a sharp, stout boy, was put to the bar before Mr Chambers, on srspciion of having atternpted to tratisfer the contents of an oddgentle- matr's 'poeket into his gwn. The charge was of addoubtfel nature, and as the b-oy' appea-ance and replies indicated considerable shrewdness, the magiitrate was indu(ced to put some questions to ?? Chambers: Are' your pareits ...

... MitARYLEBONE. On Wednesday Charles Paddon, a youn- man of siabby-genteel appea, ance, was placed at the bar, charged with having obtained halt-a-crown from Sarah Hemington, the wife of a policeman of the D division, under the 1ol lowing circumstances :-It appeared from the evidence of the compinant, that a short time ago a card, with the address of an astrologer, was given to her by a female ...

... LIAMBETH STREET. On Tuesday, among the night charges brought before Mr Hardwick, was a young lady (whose name, in justice to the feelings ofther respectable friends, it is but charitable to withhold from the public) for being found rolling about the streets on the night before, il a state of beastly intoxication.-A policeman deposed to having taken the prisoner to the station-house for ...

... ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, tic. SIDE-ARMS.-We have repeatedly had to notice that the custom of allow- ing soldiers to wear-side-arms off duty is productive of serious disorders in other countries as well as in England. The following is another example:- A letter from Ghent, of the 13th of June, in a Brussels paper, says- 'Yesterday and the day before there were several affrays between the soldiers, ...

... ADVENTtURES AND INCIDENTS. BALLOON OF BALnOOWS.-A stupendous balloon hag bhen cbunstfiteted at Vauxhall. This balloon is 157 feet in circumference, and the extivejid height, with the car attached, will be 80 feet. It contains 70,000 cubic feet of gas, and is stated to have cost the proprietors upwards of 2,1501. Among the many advantages anticipated from the enormous increase in the dimen- ...