... STATISTICS OF TIHE PARLIAMENTARY SESSION. TiiE Parlianmentary Session which has just terminated was remarkable for its brevity and the rapidity i with which public business was hurried through, par- ticularly during the last month. It lasted only six months, having commenced on the lst of February and ended on the lst of August. DuaING that period the Lords sat 92 days and occupied in their ...

... CIUMINAL versus PAUPER ASYLUMS. I There is no want of comfortable, well-to-do and persons in this country, who are disposed to be 4 fold their arms, lean back in their easy chairs, con Iand congratulate us that this is, upon the spe whole, the happiest and the best governed eve |country in the world. They have no objection suec to admit, merely for the sake of argument, nes that there may be ...

... (From our Third Edition of Last Week.) Late on Thursday night the neighbourhood of Chiswick and Hammersmith was thro'wn into a state of excitement by its becoming known that a dreadful attempt at assassination had been made at theresidence of Captain John Farmer Monkhouse, situated on the Mall, fronting the River Thames at Chiswiek. Captain Monkhouse himself was the un- fortunate victim of ...

... SURREY SESSIONS.-MAoCni 24. CRIM. PON.. AND ROIBo1sr.-R. lWardley, a smart- tt looking young man, was indicted for stealing at w Kiingston-upon-ThIames, a bedstead, six silver tea- ci . spoons,.a.ctal teapot, and other property, belong- oi lung to John Bevap, a market gardener.-Mr. Char- ci , neck defended the ?? prosecutor, an th elderly, man of rather curious appearance, stated fo that he ...

... ip$o1ie. TIIAMES.-BRUTALITT AT SEA.-James Grieves, ( mate of the Jenny Lind, was charged with cruelly I assaulting Richard Williams, an apprentice on board ci that ?? complainant.stated that about five b months ago, just before the ship got into Valparaiso, ta the defendant flogged him cruelly round the mast, ci and com pelled him to fly -ip each side of the rigging. el Complainant never knew ...

... [he HASTIE V. Sin H. W. BARRON, M.P.-A FOOT- an- MAN'S CLAIM FOR Wioas.-This was an action antaagainst the defendant by the plaintiff late footman al- that gentleman's service, to recover a month's .elliwages in lieu of a month's ?? tas stated that on the 21st of May last he entered Sir 'ie Henry's service at the stipulated wages of twenty- Db- five guineas per annum. On the evening of Sun- ...

... poItce. tsMARYLEBONE.A GENTLEMM! IN SE&RCH 0o HnisraL.-.Mr. F. Bailey was charged with having created a terrible uproar in the neighbourhood of le Wimpole and Welbeck-street, at a very early hour at of the morning.-A constable said he observed the be defendant knocking at several hall-doors, and the it- query heput to the servants upon opening was, ,st Is that infernal rascal, Fred. Bailey, ...

... .j Icbe jorobturco. THE LIvERPOOL .MRDERS.-On Saturday last an inquest was he!d on the body of MaryParr another of the victims, but, nothing new transpired. There is every reason to believe that the prisoner's real name is not John Gleeson Wilson, but Owen Morris. A person named Sharps-has deposed-that he wrote a letter to the prisoner's father some time since at the prisoner's request, in ...

... MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-TUESDAY. s _ ?? HOW CHEAP ClOTHES ARE MADE.-John Jones, aff 1 42, whose appearance denoted that he was e by profession a snip, was indicted for having g stolen a pair of trowsers, the property of lhenrybe Lawrence,-'the prosecutor said, that he was a b ,master tailor in Brewver-street, and for the last nine low , months the prisoner had worked forhim. Onthede occasion in ...

... : ?? - - aopqe . wellioence. hve SWANSEA, MARCH, 1. the lad ing CHARGE or MuRJDE.-John Conners, an Irishman, meanwl {en aged 25, described in the calendar as a railway la- theJur: at bourer, was indicted for the murder of one Thomas calLed, i ich Lewis, at Cardiff, on the 11th November last. Wm. minatib the Williams examined *-I waS in Bridge-street, Cardiff, of finisi on the night of the Ilth ...

... * JUDGE'S CHiAMBERS.-MONDAY. ye ge THE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION Or THE GUArA- ap P DIANs oF THE HOLBORN AND CHELSEA UNION v. hu he DROUBT.P she IN this case an order nisi had been obtained by Mr. all 'esBallantine, on the part of the defendant, to remove hbl the indictment found herein, the coroner's inquisi- bI - tions, as also the depositions and all proceedings he in- had thereon, by writ ...

... NORTIIAMPTON COUNTY COURT. GUBSDINS T. FRARGUS O'CONNOR.S This was an action brought by the Plaintiff, a Co shoemaker, living in Elm-street, in this town, to re-it cover two sums of £2 10s. each, paid by the plain- tH tiff in April, 1846, and March, 1847, to William ni Munday, of this town, and agent to the defendant, for shares in a scheme called at different periods h the Chartist Co ...