... Captain Rous has made a curious disclosure respect. ing the sentence on Mr Elton. He states that the Court Martial passed the sentence of imprisonment because they knew that the midshipmen of the fleet were about to give an entertainment to the prisoner. So much for the discipline of the Mediterranean fleet, says Captain Rous. So much for the justice of the Court Martial, say we. According to ...

... FORTuNE-TELLING. -A welf.dressed, middle-aged woman, who gave her name Sarah Robinson, was placed at the bar before Mr Long, charged with having obtained money and various articles of apparel from Eliza Headlard. -From the evidence of the complainant, who is about 20 years of age, it appeared that between three and four months ago, while she was in the service of a gentleman residing ia Pine ...

... -, - I 4 CREOLE' NEGROES SET AT ?? NeW York Express contains a letter from New Providence, tur- nishing the intelligence that the negroes of the Creole had I been formally set at liberty. A special session of the Admi- ralty Court convened to hear the charge of piracy against the seventeen negroes imprisoned from the Creole. After an examination of the testimony offered, the Court replied ...

... l DILLON v. DILLOW.-On-FridaY Sir Stephen Lushinglon delivered judgment in this case, which was an application by Dr Dillon, the celebrated preacher, fbr a divorce, on the ground that his wife had committed adultery. After a care- fiul investigation of the whole, Dr Lushington said this was more of a criminal than a civil case and, consequently, the wife ought to have the benefit of the doubt ...

... A GENTLE LowGcuCA.-At Marlborough street, a littld girl, named Elizabeth Molloy, summoned James Booth, a butcher, in Shepherd's market, for having assaulted her.- The complainant was hastening home one night last week with her mistress's daughter, when the defendant came out of his shop, pursued her into her own house, and gave her a violent blow on the side of the head. He would have repeated ...

... O F F EN C ES. COURT-AfRtTIAL.-The result of the second court-mar- tial on Lieu. Lionel R. Place, ot her Majesty's ship Queen, is the bull acquittal, after a four days' patient and laborious investigation, of this officer, from all and every the other fbol charges prelerred against him, which the court in its sentence stigmatised as false, scandalous, and malicious. On returning to his own ...

... TnE LoRD AND T1HS LADY.-At the close of last week a very pretty and smartly-dressed young woman, named Alice Lote, apparently about twenty-one years of age, ' placed at the bar, before Mr. Long, on the charge of ?? Stolen a pair of brilliant ear-rings and other arti- Ce the property of Lord Frankfort, who resides at No. ? Southwick crescent, Hyde park. It was stated that LPraer Rafter ...

... POL ICE. WESTMINSTER LOAN AND INVESTMENT COMPANY. -At Guildhall, an Wednesday, a further investigation was made by Sir Peter Laurie into the affairs of the above com- pany. He asked if there were any more individuals in at- tendance who had suffered by this society. Mr Cuff, a soli- citor, came forward on behalf of a poor man named Hamp. son, who had been induced by the puffs to deposit the ...

... The October adjourned sessions were field at thre Court house, Clerkenwell, before Mr Serjeant Adams and a bench ofmagistrates. In charging the grand jury, the Chairivian took occasion to condemn the outcry so frequently made of late against committals for trifling offences. For upwards of' 30 years he had closely watched the working of the svnstem of trial by jury, and he was the more ...

... EXTRAORDINARY FRAUD.-Olr readers will recollect that between three aid our years ago one of the tellers of a haalt in town, on halancing up the transactions of the dey, folnd himself minus a sern ofnupwards ofl,OOOL The occur- rence at the time gave rise to a good deal of speculation, as it was evident to tile parties who were acquainted with the teller, that he must have given the money in ...

... OF FE N CE S. DEATf H OF A SUSPECTED) MURDER1ESS.-Ei;za Rair S, whose committal (wiith her husband) to Shrewsbury county gaol, charged with the mursder of her aged parent by poi orn, we stated some time ago, died on Wednesday night is prisoni, after having ,Idv, bbeith to a child a chort time prevbim. She never rallied after the birth of her intint, yet conva:,l v declared her innocence of the ...

... O F F ENN C E S. _ TRIAL FOR BLASPHEcMY.-The trial at Bristol of Charles Southwell, late Socialist minister, for writing, print- ing, and publishing certain blasphemous libels in a work entitled The Oracle of Reason, took place belore Sir Charles Wetherell, the recorder, on Friday and Saturday. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the defendant was sentenced to twelve months' ...