... BENCII OF MAGISTRATES. TUESDAY, AUGUST 8.-Present: Sir D. S O)TT, 13art. Henry Gordon, a young manl who appeared in a state of great cx halustion;, produced by the want of food, was committed to the House of Correction for fourteenl days, Sir D. Scott Observing that he didl so not fromt a desire of inilictinrg puosislnent upon the defendant. bhot that he might receivc that attention which his ...

... MURDER AT TVHE CANTERBURY ELECTION. INQUEST ON THE B3ODY OF JOHN CONSTANT.-Consider- able excitement was produced in Canterbury on Thursday evening and Friday forenoon, by a report that a poor man, who had been knocked down by some bludgeon-men, and severely injured, had died of his wounds. A coroner's jury was sum- moned for the purpose of investigating the circumstances which led to his ...

... AMERICA.-EXECU'IONN OF A CRIIIMNA L. [Fiona the A LWv Or,'misaa Uomnonmcia! Herabl, April 2h9.1 Soonafiteri11 o'i'ioek yesterdav morning, Tliouas'ib' convicied of anr attemnpt to iiund'r i'l' tile Coll-! house keepl'c onl the, Levee, was hung, in the open ,apcec i i!r thle canal), ait the ?? of St. Louis streect. lie was Coiidueiled to the place of execution fromt the ('alaboose onl a c:all, ...

... LEWES CHRISTMAS QUAtrER SESSIONS. Ycgterdav, the Magistrates met for the dispatch of county business in the Grand Jury room. Immediately after the opening of the Sessions, the Earl of Chichester in the chair, there were present, W. Seymour, Esq., H. B. Curteis, Esq., M.P., G, Basevi, Esq., T. R. Xemp, Esq., M.P., R. Gear, Esq. - 131aaw, Esq., W. C. Mlabhott, Esq., J. EllInan, Esq., W.I3lencoe, ...

... IREM.A.RKABLE CASE OF SUFFERING AT SEA. The following case of extreme suffering lately occurred to a boy of the name of Cope, belongingf to his M~ajesty's ship Revenge, who aas tirifteti Out of a lita harbour in a small boat, withs an artilleryman, hoth in a state of drunkenness. Thle boy is now on board the Carysfort, Caiptatin Martin, at Constantinople -WN~illianm Cope (boy 1st class,) ...

... EVIDENCE BEFORE THE POOR LAW COM- M ISSIONE NRS. The evidence given by Mr. James Gray, a respectable inha- bitant of Chichester, has excited much attention in that part of the country, as it is important, and contradicting point blank some of the statements of the advocates of the New Poor Law. We extract the following passages:- Mr, WA LTIE; I will refer you to Mr. Raper's Evidence, No. 3,146 ...

... COUIRT OF KING'S BENCH-TUESDAY. [Sittings in Banco.) THlE KING V. THE DIRECTORS OF THE POOR OF THE PARISH OF ST. PANCRAS. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said that in this case the defendants had shown cause against a rule for a certiorari to remove into this Court an order of the Poor-law Commissioners, by which they directed the directors of the poor of the parish of St. Pan- cras to elect a board of ...

... BENCII OF MIAGISTRAMrES. TliuRsDAY, March 2, 1837.-Present : WV. SEYMOUR, G. BAsnvi, and J. HALL, Esqrs., and Major ALLEN. Geeorge Shellby, a butcher, was charged by Mr. Ewer, the officer of the Animals' Friend Society, with ill-treating a horse on the 25th of February last.-Mr. Ewer stated that on the day m1entioned he saw the defendant and others in Hfenry-street, cruelly beating a horse ...

... TH8, MUR.DER IN FREDERICK STREET. I Charles Taylor, a young man about 2l years of age, was brought lop at Bow-street, in the course of W drsesdiy, by Ir. Sandroce, ttle superintendent of tlc F division of Police and Soliet, the constable. of the same division, charged on suspicion of being an accessory before the fact to the murder of the young woman Eliza Davis, at the house of Mr. Wadley, in ...

... [From the Glasgow Chronicle]. The subject of capital punishment, and the question as to wiether it is a divine command that murderers should be punished with death, has been almost the only theme of public discussion in Paisley within the last two weeks.. Many a keen appeal to the Bible has been made, and. many an attentive pe- rusal of the passages that are generally understood to refer to ...

... BEINCH OF MAGISTRATES. TUURSOAY, JAN. 26.-Present, Sir D. SCOTT, Bart., W. SEY- asonOa, G. BASSE I, and R. PEDDER, Esqrs., and Major AL- LEN. Win. Short and John Short, brothers, were charged by Thomas Beal, with stealing some oysters and dried sprats from his shop, in Nile-street. They ran away, when he pursued and took them into custody. Beal said, there was scarcely a night passed that he ...

... On Wednesday, an inquest was held, at the Bristol Hotel, before F. 11. Gell, Esq., on the bodies of Robert Goldrinlg aged 25, and James Rich, aged 50, who were unfortunftely crushed to death by the falling of some earth. The Jury, having been sworn, proceeded to view the bodies; they pre, sented a most dreadful spectacle, every limb being crushed and broken. Their death must have been ...