... I I GORHsAM V. THE BTssOP oF EXETEn.-The judicial committee of the Privy Council met on Tuesday to hear the appeal of the Rev. Mr Gorham from a decision of the Courtof Arches, in which judgment was given for the Bishop of Exeter. There were present the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of London; Lords Langdale, Campbell, Lansdowne: the Vice-ChancellorKnigltt Bruce ...

... EXTRAORDINARY INVESTIGATION AT HACKNEY.-An inquiry was held before Mr Baker, the coroner, at Hackney, on Saturday, respecting the death of Mr G. Row land Smith, aged 64 years, a solicitor, who died from starvation, under the following melancholy circumstances :-Mrs M. M'Donald, of No. 5 Orchard Cottages, deposed that the deceased had re. 'sided with her for the last twenty-four years. His ...

... LAW AND, POLICE. GLASGOW CIRCUIT.- EXCESSIVE BRUTALITY TO A WIFE. - The court on Monday was occupied with the following case of culpable homicide, and cruel and unlatura, treatment of a wife by her husband:- G. Fay, shoemaker, was accused of culpable homicide, by confining his wife in a water-closet, while in a state of bodily disease, from the 3rd of June last till the 23rd of September, when ...

... AC C I DENTS. WRECK OF THE QUEEN STEAMER.-Mr Hare, of Bristol, has furnished the following account of the disaster: - The Queen steam packet, Captain Gardner, started from Bristol on Friday last, at haltfpast ten o'clock r.as., with a valuable cargo and passengers ; and at eleven o'clock same night, being suddenly enveloped with a dense fog, struck on a rock in Jack's sound, off Milford ...

... WANDSWORTH AND CLAPHAM UNIoN.-The poor-law commissioners have caused an inquirv to be made into the truth of certain charges which had been brought against the master and matron of the Wandsvorth and Claphani union. The result was the exposure of a most cruel and indecent system of conduct towards the girls who are inmates of the establishment. It was elicited that some time since it was ...

... The following are extracts from a letter from Lieu- tenant Munro, read by 3Mr T. Duncombe in the House of Commons:- I will not attempt to describe my own most unhappy state of mind, since I have been forced to fly from my coun- try, my profession, and my beloved wife, children, father, mother, and relations; but those who have known me from my childhood, and my gallant comrades, can conceive ...

... |ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, & OCCURRENCES I FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY.-An accident, which unfoitunately has terminated with the loss of life, occurred between seven and eight o'clock on Tues- day evening last, on the London and Brighton Railway. A Mr Jonathan Hill, aged 42, an engineer in the employ of the Peninsula Navigation Steam Company, left London by the six o'clock train for ...

... I THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT ASHTON. - ASI1TON, TUESDAY.-Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held al the Albion Inn, Ashton, before Mr M. S. Rutter and a respectable jury, or the bodies of the unfortunate- men who were killed by the falling of the arches on the Ashton branch of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway. There was no evidence of any novel character broughit forward at the inquest. ...

... (From the ' Parliamentary Report ' just issued.) 1. Our procedure for the purpose of preliminary in- quiry is open to great objection. The injured party may be helpless, ignorant, interested, corrupt. He is altogether irresponsible; yet his dealing with the criminal may effec- tuallal defeatjustice. On general principles, it would evi- dently be desirable to appoint a public prosecutor, and I ...

... COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. THE GREAT BILL-DISCOtINTER.-ReFUSAL OF CER- TIFICATE TO MR JAMES GIBBS.-lmmediately on the learned Commissioner taking his seat he proceeded to give judgment in the above important case, relating to the bank- ruptcy of James Gibbs, bill broker and money serivefler, of Jermyn street, St James's. The learned Commissioner stated that, as a money scrivener, James Gibbs came ...

... I SWIN~r , U EXTR&AORDINARY.-A deep-laid schienie of swindling by evidently a practised hand was last ieek sune- cessfully played off bv a well-dressed gentleminaly-lookiing mal, upon some of ?? most respectable innkeepers and tradesmen of Windsor, Eton, aed Slough. OnL Tuesday mornigw last a person of highly respectable appearance and getltlemclanly manners arrived at Slough by'an ar il ...

... I ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, AIND OCCURRENCES. EXTIUMtMI NARY S UIcllIE--Oil Saturday, I8;,tectoI 'I 1lm11. of tie 1) . visiool, ?? to thi ln1agistracus or tie MAlly1elbolie otlice the fact otf I pliislollr 1l:,i ?? soacide ill tile statioll-IllsoI f) that (ibtrict. It optvleI tflint XL jlIOI\ il EC tilo MEMOli :LIxi;(I[~ cs (1id ls\\-t Thorlitoii, : HaItlal1 tarrace, Keiitiati tom , ?? taken ilto ...