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Mr. Pendarves, M. P., has been approved bybis Majesty as Recorder of Falmouth. TheCorporation sent up two names to the HomeOffice for appronal : the other named was Lord Wodehouse, whose late father was the Recorder.
Vntlentine Brice was convicted of arson, at tine Northampton Assizes, on Wednesday. The Jury recommended him to mercy, on the "general ground of humanity." Mr. Justice Park did not think that a sufficient ground for the recommendation ; and after taking time for considt .a- bon, sentenced the prisoner to be hanged. [The House of Commons, On yhtirsday, agreed to the second reading of a bill by which the punishment of death for wilful burning, is changed to transportation.] During in very destructive fire which took place at Fisherton Anger. near Salisbury, last week, a gang of ruffians from that city plundered the suffering inhabitants of every species of portable property they could lay their hands upon.—Morning Herald. [Had this "outrage" been committed in Ireland, it would have been quite a godsend to the Police, and would have figured at the head of their "insurrectionary or political " offenees.1 Iii the neighbourhood of Newbury, on Wednesday sennight, six ricks of corn and hay were burning at the same time, within the short space of three quarters of a mile. The ricks being all the property of one immdividtnmnl, t his act was probably committed by a single person whom the owner had offended.
The Worcester Herold says, that the barristers who atteml the Wor- cestershire and 1Varwickshire Sesaious have decreed among themselves, that, on future appeals, two counsel must be employed on each appeal, and, consequently, that in each case then: 'mist be two briefs and double fees. [That is to say, if their clients are such blockheads as to submit to the imposition. Should these important parties refuse to ac- cede to the arrangement, the dearth of barristers, we suspect, is not so great as to compel subtnission to this new TradesUnion.]
The Reverend J. H. Newman, Fellow of Oriel, and Vicar of St. Mary's, Oxford, refused last week to marry a couple, because one of them had not been christened. The parties were subsequently married by Mr. Calleott, minister of St. Michael's Church.
A grand dinner was given to Admiral Napier on Tuesday, at the Assembly-rooms, Portsmouth, by the independent men of the town, for tine purpose of complimenting the gallant Admiral, wino has always been a great favourite with them.
The tea imported from Dantzie into Liverpool is advertised for sale for exportation. This will be tine first public tea sale that has ever taken place in Liverpool, though not the last by many hundreds, we hope.—Liverpool Times.
A Commission of Lunacy, to inquire into the state of mind of Mr. Benjamin Bionic Sileock, was held at Kilburn on Saturday. The un- fortunate gentleman is possessed of' large landed property in Yorkshires SymptOITIS of insanity appeared in his conduct soon after his mother's death in 1831. Ile lbecied himself the subject of Divine inspiration, and that he was commanded by God to spit in people's faces. The Jury, the foreman of which was Sir William Poland, returned a ver- dict that Inc had been insane since September 1831.
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