... POLIE 1NTTELLIGE)1OXE MANSION-HOUSE. IM]PUDENT ROBBEPsr-8O, Monday, Mark Benjaeiln was charged with having robbed Samuel Rathbone of a silver watch and a key. The prisoner was defended by a ?? complainant went on Sunday into Petticoat-lane, for the purpose of making some pur- chase, and upon being asked what o'clock it was, pulled out his watch; which was suspended by a guard round his neck, ...

... IHORRIBLE5 CASE O CHILD TORTURE. Ann Bird, a woman about forty-five years old, and who resides at No. 10, Horace.street, Edgware-road, was brought up at the Marlborough-street Police-court, on Friday, on a warrant by Jesse, one of the officers of the court, and placed at the bar before Mr. Long, charged with having barbarously ill-used Ellen Walsh, a delicate- looking infant, only two years of ...

... GOVERNMEJNT INTERFERENCE. NEWPORT, EssEx, SEPr. 4. No small sensation has been caused in this district by the apprehension, at the instance of the secretary of state, of Sarah Cheshamn (who, at the Spring Assizes for the county, in 1848, was tried for the murder of her two children, and acquitted), on suspicion of having destroyed her ?? Cheshbm, by administenng arsenic to him. At the gaol of ...

... 3REACH OF PROMISE OP MARRIAGE. HAL'sIDE v. BAXTER.-This was an action brought In the Queen's Bench, on Friday, to recover moo enpe- tion In damages for an alleged breach of promnise of mar- siage made by the defendant to the plaintiff From the statements of the learned counsel for the plaintiff, it ap- pared that the plaintiff, Matilda Mary Halfhide, is the daughter of a respectable tradesman, ...

... LAW AND POLICE.-SATURDAY. ?? . TDTSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. A DOCTOR OF MuSIc.-IN BE TnOMAS SAMUEL WALLS -This insolvent, known as Dr. Wallis, the late musical director at the Polytechnic Institution, was op. posed by Mr. Cooke for a creditor named Painter, and by four others in person. Mr. Dowse ?? complaint was that the insolvent had improperly got into debt with the opposing creditors, and ...

... A most singular case of imposture has recently oc- Curred at Norwich, the circumstances of which, as far as they have come to our knowledge, are as follo :-Last Saturday week, in the afternoon, some little commotien Occurred opposite the residence of Mr. E. D. Rogers, situate in the Dereham-road, Norwich; and on inquiry the cause of the stir appeared to be a young woman, meanly dressed, and ...

... ASSIZE ONThLLIGENCE. CHESTER. THE: MATRICIDE NEAR BIREtLIIflAD.-On Wednes- day, William Thomas, aged twenty-three, was pieced at the biar on a charge of the wilful murder of his mother, Elizabeth Tholnas, at Prenton, near Birkenhead, on the 31st Of July ?? facts of the case, so far as the murder was concerned, are brief, but very clear. The deceased lived in a small cottage at Prenton, with ...

... fIDDLESEX SESSIONSX - s, , i z ,, MONDY. ~TThe)'eceflmm~l~ ?? wete foritriiil fifty-fife fs~ierbtehagd~*ietllfeloy, said halt~cnowa, and otherc moneys,' beloneging to leabeth A:sbl'ey.rThe ?? satriuinbthis dase was anunrtu'ate gil,' and theprsonerwsa.-policeman in the N'aneaop. On the ht of heer ' thof-l.ast month lhe mether onhis beat in winslid. rohed, aid induced haer to tdke' him homaewith ...

... MUIRDMR IN DEAN FOREST. AnotbeerouL ?? Ias ocen commintec on zne western borders of the Forest of Dean, a locality which unhappily -bears an ill name for deeds of violence. The case now under notice is a peculiar one in point of atrocity, and al- though it has undergone considerable sifting by the local officer, it is still enveloped in much mystery. The de- ceased is one William Peake, a ...

... The Hon. Mr. Norton -let him at his leisure and his pleasure thank or revile the memory of Lord Melbourne for such profitable elevation- sits in the judgment-chair of Lambetlpqlice. office. He who the sword of beav'n would bear Should be as holy as severe. The public may have nothing to do-(never- theless, the public will somehow busy its heart and brain in the matter) -with the mnarried ...

... ; u : ~ % :; , A: ., 1 ?? O I . i :r ; Q ; I: i; ; i 8 t XEEB PROVIECE841 r .51 . ?? DEVONSHIRE..T.-ms ATTEMPr AT MVUDDEM NItEAR CoeftxyLi ?? unfortunate Jew pedlar,'. whor * was so crhly trcated near. Cowleysbridge, is gradually recoveriag,.under the care of thbosurgeonsofi the D)von -and-Exeter hospital -His recollection.,however,;as'tore- ,eat events i nt yet sufficiently improv- d to ...

... CAMBRIDGESHIRE.-PRECOCITY IN CRIaEi-At the Cambridge borough sessions, on Monday, Lydia Pleasance, a little girl ooly seventeen years of age, but whose face denoted the possession of cannirg beyond her years, pleaded guilty to charges of robbery under the fol- lowing impudent ?? the preceding Monday she went into the shop of Mr. Roe, a silversmith, on the Market-bill, and representing herself ...