... TRIAL OF JOHN BENTY BY COURT I MARTIAL. On Tuesday the Court Martial for the trial of Mr John Henty commenced on board the Ocean at Sheerness. Ad- miral Bouverie, President, who, with Captains Hornl y, Cla. veil, and Commanders Well and Douglas, composed the court. Mr Essell acted as Deputy Judge-Advocate. The prisoner wvts charged first with having been guilty, on the 2d day of October, 1840, ...

... GUILDHALL. On Saturday George Baver, a shoemaker, was charred with stabbing his father in the side with a knife. The father said he wished to forgive his son, and not to appear against him. Mr Alderman Humphrey said he would not compel a father to prosecute his own son, but he hoped the prisoner would bear in mind the danger he was in, and gratefully remember his father's kindness. The ...

... COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, MONDAY. THE QUEEN v. O'DortnETY.-This was a rule which had been obtained some time since, calling upon Major O'Doherty to show cause why a criminal information shookd not be filed against him for having sent a letter to Sir John, Milley Dnyle tending to provoke him to a breach of the peace. The whole matter occurred with regard to rival committees which had been formed ...

... I ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, C. SUICIDE.-On Thursday morning Colonel Feltharns, aged 64, a halftpay officer, residing in the Kig'ic road, Chel.e, shot himself with a pistol ball through his left side. Toc' ball passed under the heart, and lodged near the Spine; 6S1-1 gical aid was promptly procured, and the wound probed, bit; for the present the ball cannot be extracted, and no hopes are given of ...

... ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, -c. NARROW ESCAPE OF WORDSWORTH, THE POET.-On Wednesday afteinoon last, between two and three o'clock, as William Wordsworth, Esq., the celebrated poet, in company with his son, the Rev. John Wordsworth, Rector af Brig. ham, were on their way home to Rydal mount, from a visit to the Earl of Lonsdale, at Whitehaven castle, they lied a narrow escape from destruction. The ...

... MARYLEBONX. LovEn's QUARRELS.-CR The course or true love never did run smooth ? and the truth of the assertion was on Tuesday exemplified in the Case of James Wayt, a young man who stood charged be!bre Mr Hardwick, on susplicion of having entered the house of. Mr H. Hlerrinti 23 Duke street, Portland place, with intent to commit felony. The prisoner, who holds the situation of a light porter ...

... ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, fr. DEATH OF MRt SPARKES, THE BARKER, OF GUILD- FoRD.-On Friday week the deceased attended the first ploughing match of the Soeth Sfrrey Agricultural Associa- tion, which was held near Guildford, and was present after- wards at the dinner of the fiiends of that association. He left the company soon after nine o'clock in the evening, and proceeded to his own residence, ...

... ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, 6c. COLLISION AT SEA AMD Loss OF LIFE.-On Saturday accounts were received eat Lloyd's of the loss of the brig Hopewell, of Cork, which took place on Wednesday night, near the Naas Lights, about ten miles from Newport. It appears the Hopewell left Cork on Monday, and was making progress across the Channel, when she came in collision with the Yoauden. This vessel was on her ...

... I BAIL COURT, TUESDAY. BAMFORD ?? PARKER.-Tbis was an action for lslse imprisonment. It appeared that the defendant stood in the relation of brother-in-law to the plaintiff, who is an un- married lady, having recently attained her majority. In consequence of some domestic differences, the plaintiff, in the early part of last summer, withdrew herself from her mother's protection, and went to ...

... - COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, MONDAY. THE QUEEN V. THE GOVERNORS OF THE POOR OF ST GEORGE, HANOVER SQUARE.-Lord Denman: This was an application fbr a mandamus to be directed to the overseers of the parish of St George, Hanover square, to command them to remove from St George's Hospital the dead body of a pauper settled in the parish, and who had died in the hospital, and to cause it to be buried. ...

... FRAUD.-On Tuesday Thos. Wilson, alias Thes. Wilson Lilly, and Thos. Lilly, uncle and nephew, two persons of re- spectable appearance, were indicted for conspiring together to cheat and defraud Mr John Simmons, a jeweller, residing in Southampton row, Holborn, by selling to him a ring which they falsely represented to be composed of gold and precious. stones, they well-knowing that it was ...

... MANSION HOUSE. BRITISHt AND AUSTRALIAN BAkN.-Tt appears that bills drawn upon this bank by parties who have lodged their money in it, going out as emigrants, and who had received a bill and money orders, have had them refused acceptance here under some alleged informality, and thus great misery is likely to be produced amongst them. Mr Ashurt, on Sa- turday last, made a complaint of this ...