... XIIDDLESEX SESSIONS. -- - -f- - - e. - MONDAY. RIvER Rounnrvx.-Ralph Scott. 27, John Fraser, 28, Chas. Watkins, 22, Henry Robinson, 27, aad John Watkins, 35-,were indicted for having stolen sixteen bushels of oats, and tour sacks, the property of Thomas Robert Keen and an- other, from a barge on the Thames. It appeared from the evidence that on the loth of December a barge called the ...

... MANSION HOuSE. SUSPECTED ROBBERY.-Oa Tuesday, Richard SeweU, boatswain,. and Wiliam. Pearce, .apprentice, on board the -aamona steam-vessel, plying ?? and Yar- mouth, were brought before Alderman Wilson, in the custody of George Scott, a detective policeman. upon suspioion of having robbed. Mr. Harris,of King-street, Borough, of two Bank of England notes, the one ?? 5L, the other for 101., ...

... ACCIDENTS,, OFFENCES,. ETC. w I - ~ - ?? v- . L AWFUL OCCURRENCE WE.AR MIAaCuESTEReOn. Saturday morning week, Mr. Spencer SSuthers, a cotton-spiuner dud manufacturer, residing at Oldham, committed suicide by leap- ing~down a coalpit belonging to Messrs.;Evans, Barker, and Ce.. in that borough. Mr. Suthere is said to isave been a great . sufferer from rheumatism, and is supposed to have: ...

... COlMIMITTAL OF A WITNESS FOR PERJURY. On Thursday, at the Old Bailey, John Gill, 40, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with wilfully and feloniously cutting and wounding Thomas William Orton. a child three years of age, with intent to disfigure and do him some grievous bodily harm. Sarah Fasey Orton, mother of the wounded child, and wife of Richard Orton, 64, Twyford-etreet, ...

... POLICE SEVZR-^TY IN FRANCE. The following amusing description of a traveller's relations with the French police authorities will be read with in- terest - On a fine morning last month I was going down the Saone from Chalons, on board one of the river steamers, in company with a gentleman who is one of the most successful of the lighter writers of the day (Mr. Albert Smith) and his brother. It ...

... DEATH OF BALDREY, THE ATTEMPTED - IMUaRDERER. On Wednesday, a long inquiry was taken, by Mr. S. F. Laugham, the deputy-coroner for Westminster, in the cbap- lain's room at the Milbank Prison, as to the death of Henry Baldrey. aged 38 The circumstance of this case have occu- pied muob attention in the metropolis, and more especially at Bury St. Edmund's, where he and his wife were well known, ...

... MONDAY. The court resumed its sittings pursuant to adjournment. The commissioners present at the opening of the proceedings were the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, the Common Sergeant, Aderman falomons. Sir Pt. W. Carden' and Wire, T Cot- terell, g~sq, and Richard Swift, Esq., sheriffs; J. J. Millard, Esq., and J. S. S. EHopwood, Esq., under sheriffs; and the other City authorities. Several ...

... - Anlinquiry took place on Wednesday mirning before the borough coroner of Liverpool into the circurmstances attending the demise of Mr. Joshua Edwards, a Liverpool merchant orf considerable eminence. The remains of Mr. Edwards had been disintered, in consequence of a corn- mutdcation made to-the coroner, conveying a suspicion of the adreinistration of poison to the deceased. The in- quiry ...

... DE)TERsMINED SUIcr,,E-O; Wednesday, an inqueast-was taken by Mr. Baker, at the Champion, Weymouth-terrace, HEckney-road, respecting the death of Edwin Mason, aged Is, who committed suicide by discharging a bullet from a fowling-piece through his head. It appeared from the evi- dence that the deceased was foreman in the service of Mr. Robert Mayston, printer, No. 12, Weymouth-terrace, and that ...

... THE- BETTING SYSTZEIZ if WTiEE CITY. r- arc_ w i,,A, -n Th-il- r,. - fln __r .. At' the Mansion Uouse, on xiursuay, iieorge Levi, the keeper of a beer-shop at the Old Swan Wharf, in Thames-l street, was summoned by Inapector Mitchell before Sir PetrE Laurie, for unlawfully and knowingly having Euffered gaming to be carried on in his housed The case came under the bead of charges under the ...

... ANOTHER, MrDERDR IN NORFOLRI This country seems destined to hold a prominent position in the register of horrors, as the dreadful tragedy which oc-. curred at Castle Rising, about four miles distant from Lynn, appears to have taken place almost concurrently with a mur- der 'or homicide of a most fllicting character,- which was committed on the same day at Ouhtwell, a village distant about ten ...

... THE SUSPECTED DMURDER OF A WEFE. BY HER HUlSBAND. On Monday, at Marylebone police-court, William Styles, who has undergone two previous examinations, on the charge of having murdered Emma, his wife, was again placed at the bar, before the sitting magistrate, Mr. Broughton. Samuel Jones said: I am a horsekeeper, in the same employ as the prisoner, in Victoria-mews, St. John's-wood; and at ...