... The Lord Mayor having made a gross blun- der, and indulged in a few general observations on the many means there are of getting an honest livelihood, eight days ago committed a vagrant girl, whose character could not be compared with moorland snow,; to prison for fourteen days; her offence being, that she had hawked combs within the precincts of the city. Now, the moral character of the girl ...

... Yesterday, Mr. Serjeant Payne held an inquest aC the board room of St. Bartholomew's hospital, on the 1 body of George Colston Boawell, aged eight years, who resided in Mark street, Panlastreet, Finsbary. It appeared that the deceased was knocked down by a timber carriage, when the wheels went over his abdomenf crruehing him in a frightful manner. The jury retnoned a verdict of Accidental ...

... YORE DEATHS FROM THE WEATHER. On Friday morning, Mr. Brent attended at the George, Dudley-street, Seven-dials, for the purpose of investigating the cause of death in three oases in which the deceased were found dead, such deaths being supposed to have been produced or accelerated by the severity of the weather. The first case was that of Margaret Condon, aged forty-six, a charwoman, who lived ...

... I 0-4- INSOLvENT DEBTORS' COURT. TBE: MlrKY WA. - IN BE L. MIDDLETON. - This insolvent, a dairyman in Tooleystrkeet was op- posed by Mr. Nichols for his brother-in-law, a Mr, Holmes, a cowkeeper. Mi. Sasgood supported. - Formerly the insolvent was a carpenter, and took the business in Tooley-street from Holmes for 501., pay- able by instalments of 10s He had paid a portion, and Holmes now ...

... I DREADFUL FIRE AND LOSS OF LT E. On Sunday morning last, between t'he haurs of fours and five o'clock, a fire of a very alarming and destru, live character, and nanfortunatelyattendedf with grod loss of property, the qacrifice of two huan belngt end Eerious injury to several other porsosn, took Jle5' The'premises in which the fire ?? e- lernoed . The Little Wonder beeroshop, situatld at 77, ...

... I THE CHILD MURDER AT LEI-BRIDGEI On $Tuesday, Asian, otherwias e ntann Fcd.#eld, twenty-tharee year~s of a~ge, war brought up at War. ship stireet, f or the product'ion of fiarther evidence againtst her on a charge of havinlg wilfully meardazol her child, A ugutstuc PaddaIed. he evidene taken a; the for~mer examinationl has already been pehishad, On the present oceasiorn May Padfield waa ...

... (Contmnued frm the fourth page.) THE FATAL FIGHT AT BATTEREuS..-Wii# W. liams was indiced for the Manslaughter of George Mitchell, and WiRacm Henry Walker and Wiam Davis were indicted for aiding and abettiog 3e the comsaision of the offence. They were all fellow workmen, and some quarrel having taken place be. tween the deceased and Williams, they agreed to fight for ll. a-side. They met upon ...

... TEE ASSASSINATION AT PORTBMoUTr. On Monday evening the inquest into the ?? caue of assassination of a tradesman at Portsmouth wasrTesumed, and did not conclude until Thursday night The only witness examined on the drst day wag Mirs Vick, with whom the deceased lodged. She laid she had known the deceased for about sixteen years, and he had lodged with her between eight and nine yearn She had ...

... The following account is from the Ijswich Express: -During the last few days every effort has been made, though in vain, to obtain a reprieve for the condemned criminal. As intimated last week, a pe- tition. numerously and very respectably signed, praying for a commutation ot the sentenced was for. wstded to the secretary of state. On Friday, W. D. Sims, Eoq, went to London and had an ...

... I MANSION HOUSE. EXTBICSITS PAPER ROBBERY. JOarnffoleralias rames Blair, a young man of about eighteen years of age, was brought before Mr. Alderman Hale, charged, upon his own confession, with having robbed his late employers, Mesers. Symonds and Co., wholesale sta- tioners, of 27, Artillerlane, of sevral tudedwihat of paper.-G. W. Wils pice-constable 4672 said that on Saturday night h rsnrcm ...

... I EXAMINATION OF THE AUDITORS. On Monday, a more navel branch of the mystery ofiniquitywasenteradupon. Wehave at length been admitted behind the scenes as regards audits, and have learned the inodus operandi from a brace of living auditors, examined on oath, who have, moreover, given us the benefit of their views and these of the bank ma- nagera ss to the sppropriate functions of their ...

... About two o'clock on Wednesday morning a shock. ing murder took place at Bramall, four miles south of Stoclport. A farmer and grazier, named James Henderson, aged about sixty years, lived at a farm in Robin's-lane, Bramall, called Hardy's farm, and about two o'clock in the morning the family were alarmed by hearing the discharge of a pistol or gun in his bed. room, and the unfortunate man was ...