... |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 ...

... stliNSON st 2SMisOF' AND ANOTHER.-This was an action against Mhssrs Mugsgrve and Moon, the late Sheriffs of Middlesex, for an improper ?? suf- fered judgment by ?? plaintiff, Miss Martha Parkinson, with her sister, lived in Gloucester place, Port- man square, and taught music. In January, 1844, an execution was issued against the goods of Miss Catherine Parkinson, and those qf the plaintiff ...

... ALLEGED MURDER ON BOARD THE TORY.-On Tues- day George Johnstone, late master of the Tory from Hong- Kong, was for the fifth time brought before Mr Broderip, at the Thames Police Court, charged with the wilful mur- der of William Rambert, William Mars, and Thomas Rea- S0on, on the high seas, within the jurisdiction of the Admi- ralty of England. The proceedings on this occasion related entirely ...

... VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. SMITH V. WARDE.-On Monday this case was concluded. Sir Lionel Smith, the late governor of the Mauritius, whose estate is to be administered in the suit, by his will dated shortly before his death in January, 1842, gave to each of his three daughters 7,5001., and to his son a double portion of 15,0001. Whether this disposition of his property was to be disappointed by ...

... BRANDY AND BUSTLEs.-At Southwark Elizabeth Hall, a respectable-looki ng young married woman, was charged with conveying spirits into the Queen's Bench. One of the turnkeys stated that the defendant, being Suspected of having spirits in her possession that morning when she presented herself at the gate for admission, was questioned on the subject, but she denied it, and expressed her willing. ...

... AwFUL CALAMITY AT YARMOUTH.-The journalist has but seldom to record an event of sucd a distressing cha- racter as that which occurred on Friday, the 2nd inst., by which there is little doubt that upwards of one hundred ?? persons lost their lives. In the afternoon of the 2nd inst., .r Nelson, the clown at Cooke's circus, proceeded to perform . a feat which has excited some attention, both in ...

... FOREIGN SWINDLiNo.-At the Mansion house, on Sa- turday, Mr Bebrendo, consul for the free city of Frankfort, accompanied by his counteitr, Mfr Finch, appeared before the Lord Mayor Cur the purpose of bringing under his lord. ship's lotice, as chief magistrate of the city of London, a communication which he had just received from his Go- vernment relative to certain fraudulent transactions of ...

... .1 MURDER AND SUICIDE NEAR STAINEs.-Arn inquest has been held in the village of Ashford, near Stalnes, to investigate the circumstances attendant upon the deaths of William Oliver, aged 36 years, and Sarah Oliver, his wife, aged 27, who resided in a cottage in that village. Many witnesses were examined, some of whom gave evidence as to the brutal treatment the wife received from her husband, ...

... In November last, a widow named Candler, keeping a chandler's shop in the above town, was discovered under her counter with her throat cut, the house having been robbed of a considerable sum of money. Four men named Samuel Yarham, James Mapes, James Hall, and Robert Royal, have been apprehended on suspicion, and examined before the magistrates. Yarbam lived next door to de- ceased; he stated ...