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MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS

... Two Italian seamen, Francsisco Moraty, and Bento Mayo Argesti, were charged, on Wednesday, at the Thames Police-court, under the 3Sth section of the Ge- neral Merchant Seamen's Act, the 7th and 8th of Vic- toria, c. 112, with the wilful murder of Peter Getland or Gotland, at Mobile, in the United States of America, in April, 1850, while the prisoners and the deceased be- longed to and were ...

INQUEST ON THE FIFTY MINERS KILLED AT RAWMARSH

... INQUEST ON THE rIPTY MINERS XILLED AT RAWWA1SH. The adjourned inquest, to investigate the eircum- stances attending the desth of the fifty miners, who lost their lives by the explosion at the Watson Vale colliery, near Rawmarsh, on Saturday, the 20thl alt., was held on Tuesday at the Star inn, Rawmarsh. After the examination of several wgitnesses, as to the duties of Sylvester, the uaderground ...

WILFUL PERJURY BY THE POLICE

... WILFUL PERJURY BY THE POLICE; On Friday, Henry Attwood, a con till of the F di- vision, and Richard Moss, of the P division, appeared before Mr. Hall, at the Bow-streetpolice court, to answer a charge of committing wilful perjury. The prosecution arose out of a case heard before Mr. Hall, on the 11th of December last, and reported in LLOYD's NEWSPAPER of the following Sunday. The two ...

ANOTHER DARING ROBBERY NEAR NOTTINGHAM

... APNOTHER DARING ROBBERY NEAR NOTTINGHAML. For several weeks past the neighbourhood of Notting- ham has been infested by a qang of robbers, who have committed the most daring highway robberies in the im- mediate vicinity of the town. These robberies have also been accompanied with great violence to the person. The robbers infest the county in gangs ef four and five, and do -not confise their ...

SHOCKING MURDER IN DERBYSHIRE

... .SEOOKflG MURBDER IN DERIBYSHIR] | S N O T ~ ~ - . - ?? A most daring and cold-blooded murder was perpe- | trated on Saturday at Belper, about eight miles from Derby, and near the extensive soanufactories of Messrs. Strasit. It appears that a man named Anthony Turner, who re- ides at Lane- end, about halfa mile from Belper, has been {or some vears in the habit of collecting rents fer a widow ...

THE ASSAULT ON A CHILD BY A PARISH SCHOOLMASTER

... On Tuesday, Mr. James Deaorn Simmons, the schoolmaster at Marylebone workhouse, was charged at the Marylebone Police-court, on a warrant with having violently assaulted William Ellam, a boy thirteen years of age, by striking him on the head with a stick. The matter was brought under the notice of the guardians and directors, at their last weekly meeting, and upon that occasion defendant was ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... 0- A'?-'ix-asulujwm- 7?- ?? G!JILDHALL. SMe1IC SVBJECT FOR A POLzICE-COtURT.-O1 Wed- IaydkV, Mlr. Hat ea, a dollmaker, of Long lane, Smith- {elfk was summoned for unlawfully detaining a wax dDI), valve 12s., that bad been entrusted to him to be re- Prid.-Defendant produ ed the doll, and explained tat ?? been left wi h him to have the leg mended, fvt athat it had got mislaid in the warehouse, ...

THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR WIGAN

... THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR WI*GAN. The adjourned inquest upon the bodies of the thirteen persons who lost their lives by the explosion at the Ince colliery, Hindley, near Wigan, on the 22nd ult., was held on Tuesday, at the Red Lion inn, Hindley, before r. Charles Duflield, coroner for the hundred of West Derby. Mr. John Dickenson, of Manchester, one of the Governmnent inspectors of coal ...

DREADFUL ATTEMPT AT MURDER IN IRELAND

... I EADFUL ATTEMPT AT MaRDER W | _ IR}XELAND. The Newry Telegraph says:- Als yet there is no clue to the discovety of the parties who made the mur- derous assault on Mr. Esotwood. That gentleman has continued, since Friday, to progress favourably. A friend in Dundalk has informed us that Dr. Pollock, one of the medical attendants at Castletown, reported of his patient, I that, although not to ...

IRELAND

... -- BREL B. DEiZNC OFs v1nB MB1ERED B BATiZSN.-SiZ RobertfBatesombarL, jrothy of-Mr. ThomasWMteson, the-victim of the Castleblayney tragedy, has written a lengjetter to the editor of tlee Ist Chrdesele, vindi. cating his relative from nertain charges of oppression pre- ferred against him by a northern paper. *SIr Robert, in the course of his defence, obaerives: - For many years my brother ...

DEATH IN PRISON OF A NOTORIOUS IMPOSTOR

... DEATE IN PRISON OF A NOTORIOUS IMPOSTOR. On Thursdav, Sergeant Goffwaited on the Hon G. C Norton, at the Lambeth police-court, and communicated to him the death, at Guy's hospital, on the day before, of the notorious imnpostor, Jane Farr. It will berecollected that this mo.st artfttl cf a numerous class of ingenious impostors had been brought to this court about six weeks ago, and underwent ...

ROBBERY OF BANK NOTES IN ESSEX

... I (From the Zpswich Express.) On Tuesday night, the dwelling-house of Mr. William Beer, farmer, of Fordham, was plundered of 701., con sieting of fourteen 51. notes, under circumstances which at present appear to be involved in the greatest mystery. Mr. Beer had been spending the evening with some neighbours, at the Shoulder of Mutton inn, and on his return home, about halt-past eleven, ...