Vrintints.

Lancaster has returned Mr. Thomas Greene, by 686 votes against 554 given to Mr. Armstrong. It is stated that bribery and treating have extensively prevailed.

The carpenters of Torquay, Barnstaple, and Southmolton, having civilly asked for an increase of wages, the employers have generally granted it The Exeter carpenters are about to make a similar request. The brickmakers of Bridgewater have struck. The spinners of Bolton demanded an increase of 10 per cent in their wages : a compromise was effected, the men agreeing to accept of 5 per cent. At neighbouring towns an advance of the pay of spinners is in agitation.

A considerable advance in the rate of wages given to the men in the iron-works of South Wales has been established, in some cases reaching to as much as three shillings in the pound. The trade generally is brisk, and the price does not exhibit at all a downward tendency.

The seamen's strike at Ipswich is at an end: the shipowners have con- ceded their demands.

The paragraphs which occasionally appear in the journals respecting the Militia show a general progress in filling up the regiments with vo- lunteers, and speak favourably of the force.

At Chester Assizes, Edward Roberts was tried for complicity in the extra- ordinary robbery at Mr. Dean's in Macclesfield; when a gang of five men, all masked and armed, bound Mrs.. Dean and two other persons whom they found in the house, on a Sunday evening, and carried off a large sum of money. Mrs. Dean and her friends declared that Roberts was the leader of the gang, who called him "Mr. Inspector " : they recognized him by his voice and general appearance. Other witnesses deposed to circumstances of a suspicious -character affecting the accused. Nine witnesses were called to prove an alibi. But the Jury pronounced a verdict of "Guilty."

On Monday, there was a trial for murder, "full of horror, and full of wonder." The accused were Robert Thorneley, aged forty-seven, and his wife Harriet, aged fifty-eight They were charged with the murder of James Brookes, in February 1847. At that time Harriet was the wife of Brookes, who was a miner of Dukin6eld. For some months Thorneley had been improperly intimate with Mrs. Brookes. Brookes died sud- denly; an inquest was held, but as no suspicion existed, there was no post- mortem examination, and the verdict was "Natural death." Soon after- wards Thorneley married the widow. Subsequently, the couple quarrelled; and Harriet and her grown-up sons turned Thorneley out of the house. In revenge, he denounced her as the murderer of her former husband, and ad- mitted that he was an accomplice. He made a circumstantial statement to the Police, which he subsequently repeated before the Magistrates. Harriet had talked of "putting away" her husband, and consulted with Thorneley as to the means : he first obtained for her some laudanum, which she gave to her husband; but nature relieved him from the /Aeon. Then Thornsley bought arsenic. Harriet put this into a pudding ; her husband ate of it, and died. Several of the fowls of a neighbour who ate of the pudding also died; to the alarm of the woman. A number of witnesses testified to the truth of many of the circumstances recorded by Thorneley, but the most im rtant

evidence was that of Professor Calvert. Nearly six years after the y of Brookes had been interred, the remains were exhumed: some portions were undecayed—arsenic preserves flesh. Mr. Calved analyzed these portions; and he obtained from them nine and a half grains of pure arsenic. There Was no arsenic in the earth surrounding the coffin ; the poison must have been taken into the system during life. The Jury consulted for an hour and a half, and then, to the surprise of the crowd that filled the court, pronounced the prisoners "Not guilty.'

At Gloucester Assizes, last week, Eliza Cornish and John her husband were tried for the murder of Mark Cornish, a boy of twelve years. The de- ceased was the son of Cornish, but the woman was his stepmother. It was alleged that the boy was wilfully starved to death ; and it was evident that he died of starvation. His corpse—a bundle of bones in a skin—weighed only twenty-seven pounds; though a boy of his age in good condition would weigh seventy or eighty pounds. Witnesses proved that he was kept very short of food. But might not this have arisen from the poverty of the parents —poor labouring folks ? No; for whilst Mark and a sister were scantily fed, so that they tried to stay the pangs of hunger by picking Ohl from dung-heaps or begging food from neighbours, the children of Cornish by the .female prisoner were fed well. Besides, the cruel animus of the accused was shown by their frequently beating Mark, and not allowing him and his sister to sit at food with the rest of the family. The medical evidence as to the cause of death was very explicit. The Judge explained the distinction between murder and manslaughter, arising from the intent of the homicide; and the Jury convicted the accused of the lesser offence. Sentence, fifteen years' transportation.

Hannah Lovell, who was convicted of the manslaughter of a little child in a workhouse, was sent to prison for two years.

Two executions took place on Saturday : at York, Henry Dobson was hanged for the murder of a woman with whom he lived at Wakefield; and at Stafford, Charles Moore for the murder of the Blackburns. Moore had accused Henry Blackburn and others ; he has since exonerated them ; and Walsh, the man convicted with Moore, has been respited.

John Wilding, a young man of Garstang in Lancashire, has murdered one of his companions, and stabbed another. Pendlebury and Rogerson were drinking at night with Wilding ; a dispute arose about the payment for a pint of ale ; when they left the public-house, Wilding went after them with a knife ; suddenly attacked them in the road, where he left them lying help- less; he then returned towards the inn, told a man he had "killed two of them," gave up the bloody knife, and surrendered himself to the Police. Pendlebury was found dead from a wound in the thigh ; but Rogerson's wounds were not mortal.

A garotte robbery has been committed at Lincoln, with skilful premedita- tion. Mr. Thomas Winn, an opulent brewer, lives at Newland, on the out- skirts of the city; his mansion is approached from the road by a carnage- drive; he walks home at night from his brewery. On Saturday night, be- tween eight and nine o'clock, after Ile had entered the grounds and closed the gate, three men pounced upon him ; one seized him by the throat, and threw him down; the robbers then rifled his pockets of 50/. in notes, some gold, and a watch, and got clear off. Persons in the road heard faint cries of " Murder !" but before assistance reached Mr. Winn the robbers had fled. It is evident that they had entered Mr. Whin's grounds at different secluded points, and none by the gateway. A reward of 100 guineas is offered for their detection.

Mr. Cross, postmaster of Whitehurch in Shropshire, and also a linen- draper, parish-clerk and sexton, is in custody for stealing letters containing upwards of 2000/. He had left Whitchurch on pretence of proceeding to Crewe; on the way he told the driver of the carriage be rode in, that he found it necessary to go to Shrewsbury instead ; and the route was changed. In the mean time, a person who had posted at W hitchurch a letter contain- ing valuable enclosures wished to add something on the envelope, and he called at the post-office for that purpose : the letter was not there ; the Police were put in motion; Cross was pursued, and was taken with the letter in his possession. It is supposed that he was on his way to Liverpool, with the intention of getting on board a ship bound for America.

While quietly riding with Lord Elcho's hounds, Mrs. Robertson, of Lady- kirk, in order to avoid a bridge at the head of a reservoir at Lyham Dean, above Chatton, in Northumberland, attempted to cross it where some one had gone before, at what seemed a shallow place ; but her horse refusing, plunged into the middle of this large body of water—supposed fifteen feet deep—and threw her. Fortunately, Mr. Robertson, who is an excellent swimmer, was near, and got instantly off his horse and into the water, swain some distance, caught hold of his wife after she had been twice under water and was quite insensible,—a hold he happily never let go until she was safely landed. Sir John Majoribanks without a moment's hesitation, also sprang in to the rescue of his respected relatives, and was of immense ser-

vice to them. They swam with -her to the sluices of the reservoir, where

many anxious friends were ready to receive them. All at once, however, they were stopped by the suction, or under current of the water. At this

crisis, luckily, Lords Elcho and Aberdour, and Sir George Grey, got on to a plank attached to the sluice, and were enabled to hold out a hunting-whip to Mr. Robertson, who .got hold of it, and all were got out safe, though with some difficulty ; the height of the sluice being four feet perpendicular from the surface of the water.—Edinburgh Advertiser.

Mr. Camtti, the Glasgow merchant whose legs were fractured by the "ac- cident" on the Manchester and Bolton line, died in Manchester Infirmary on Sunday evening. The verdict of a Coroner's Jury merely described the cause of death.

The Jury who sat on the fifty-eight people who perished in the coal-pit at Wigan have returned a verdict that the deaths were "caused by an explo-

sion of fire-damp; and that the explosion occurred from gas which accumu-

lated in No. 6 (Griffiths's) drift, and other drifts on the South side of No. 2 North jigger. There is no direct evidence to show how such gas ignited or the accumulation took place' but the Jury are of opinion that it arose from the door on the South side of No. 2 North jigger being improperly left open for a longer or shorter period. The Jury cannot separate without strongly expressing their opinion that the rules for the regulation of the said colliery are very Imperfectly carried into execution."

A young man at Sheffield wandered into a malt-house, in a state of in- toxication, and fell asleep on the floor ; a beam of the floor above chanced to break, and a great quantity of malt poured through upon the drunken man, completely covering him; so that when he was found he was dead from suf- focation.