... CEURCHYARD PENAL LA.W I - - L _ ?? tn ?? _ or__ (&forn the Tppesrry r Free Press.) Anne-street, Cionmel, Dec. 6, 1852. RA. SM-I have bqen informed that on the occasion of the funeral of the late Matthew Hamerton, Esq., you ap- peared in the churchyard of Rathronan- in an official capa- city, and that you then and there performed a burial service as prescribed'by the Roman Catholic church. ...

... IMUR)E4 !AD SUICIDE AT MANCHESTEL On Thursday morning, at Manchester, a mau named Jamet. Roite, aged 6yean, whilst ?? under s .trora~ry ,der~engvemqn; murered oneof his ehildven, ana a intort iiediately afterardtrs put an.nd to his oivev- istence. The unofiftnate' ran was employed attbe' n- a eshire and Yorkahireiailwriyj and before going to his 2work on Thursdaymorning he bed not manifested ...

... rOLICE TELLIGENCE. - I--- UI.-vAY DwCemberV CotZijL.HUSR MO AY becemuler 27. psnt The mayor, and Messrs. Gibbs &Langtonl. se tialr1F'.WhadaO unusually lengthened sittin, but the be Tiie , Ift charges were those Of drunkennesa~dsre roit tof the Christmas festivities. The followhig alone in crisiog0 dIfeastures; Ofinterest. name William Phelps at posess, was bharged bY a fal ad a Jonlekinorte ...

... .INSOL VENTDEBTORS CO URT-YESTEADAY [Before AfP. Commissioner PnHlLLIPs.] IN THE MATTER OF DAVID BOWEN. This insolvent, a coal agent, was opposed by Mr. Cooke on the part of Irvine and Brown, coal merchants, Broken Wharf, Wappiug. Mr. Sargood supported. The complaint was that the insolvent had improperly con- tracted a debt with the opposing creditors. It appeared that he had been in their ...

... OFFENCEs.-A murder of an atrocious character was committed in the New Forest, at Fawley, neatr Hyrhe, on Christmas eve, the victim beingr J. Ravin, aged fifty-nine, a labourer on the Cadland estate. The decease wvas found on the high road leading out of Fawley on Saturday morning, quite dead, with his head dreadfully beaten and fractured, the brains being strewn on the ground. A man named ...

... (Before J. B. Grirbdon, Beg., Coroaer.) q On Monday, the 27th instant, at the Black Boy tavern, a Durdham-down. on the ?? Doran, who had destroyed rI himself under the ciroumltances detailed in the following ?? Doran, wife of Frederick Doran, of No. 1, e Bennett's row, deposed that the deceased was a gardener, was £ married, and had a family of two children, latterly he had I been unable to ...

... POLICE-YESTERDAY. BOW.5TRE5T.-Inspector Sheppy, of the A division, ac- companied by the mother of the little child who was cruelly stabbed by an unknown hand, and is now lying at Charing- cross Hospital, attended before Mr. Jardine to state the par- ticulars of the horrible occurrence, and of the inquiry which had been since instituted respecting it.. It appeared that the mother, a widow named ...

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... I 1 JUVENILE DELINQUENTS.-W.. Parker, aged twelve years, was arraigned at the Town Hall, on Monday, on a charge of stealing a child's frock, the property of a female named Hannah Billington. It seemed that yesterday week, P.C. Poole caught the prisoner In the act of attempting to pledge the stolen article at the pawn. shop of Mr. Lewis Taylor. In reply to questions put by the police-offlcer, ...

... LEEDS BUROUGH DECEMBER SELS'tONS. I I . The General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for !-ti3 S Itorogligh wre opstied at the Court-house, on Wednesday mnorning, belora TiiomAs FLOWER, ELL13, Eiq., Rvcordor, 'Tile calendar is rather a ligit one fur Lhe winter quarter, * and contains a ji't of G3 prisoners for trial. The Court havinrr5 been opened with the usual formalities, tilrfolloving ...

... BANKRUPTCY CORT-YRTMDAEtkY (BeforeMr. Commissioner Ilaunnett.I in re Jeremiah Kavaagh. - This meeting was for surrender, choice of assignee, and at proof of debts. The bankrupt surrendered, and was ex- strained by Mr. Levyy relative to tscme of his dealings with api Stewart and -onei ~ot'London. Me stated that he shipped ;828 casks of butter to them; he heard of their failure be- fore the ...

... CITY COItRT-TURSPAY, ?? 28.- s, Beforec the MAayor and Mtr. Aid. Word. to Georgo Gom0m, a trnmp, lately discbarged from gaol, men corn1 mitted for 21 days' hard labour, for begging in tbo stroets. lot Jnmos Hastings was aoto committed to gol for21 doyo (in 3 a default of piying thro fdoe and costs, aleounting to SOs.), for ics assooltiog John Trinder, in St. Ebbc's, on tho 21th of Dec. ce Dsne ...