STREET ROBBERY,—AS Mrs. Tracey, a lady of respectability, residing at
Ludgate Hill, was passing down Cheapside on Monday, two fellows came round her, and cutting her reticule which was round her arm, and contained eigbLen sovereigns, ran away with it.
ROBBER,: UN THE Bran Saas.—On Tuesday, a female named Kenney was committed for trial at the Admiralty Sessions, on a charge of steal-
ing from a soldier's wife of the 41st Foot, seven sovereigns, thirty-four dollars, and a check for 301. on the Scotch banking-house of Sir William Forbes and Company. The theft took place on board the Stakesly India- man, on the 20th of January last. The sovereigns and two of the dol- lars were found in Kenney's box. The cheek was stopped at St. He- lena; it has not been found.
MURDER AT IeswIen.—On Monday, a man named Flack, a boatman, was ordered to go down the river with a boat, having on board the tide- surveyor and others. Flack, it appears, was intoxicated, and Mr. Os-
born, the tide.surveyor, ordered hint ashore; he left the boat, threaten- ing to remember Osborn. On Tuesday afternoon, Flack having pro- cured a brace of pistols, went to the house where Osborn lodged, near the town Bridewell. He inquired of the servant for Mr. Osborn ; and on Mr. Osborn's rising from the tea-table to inquire his business, Flack instantly discharged the pistol, and lodged the ball in his head. A girl immediately gave the alarm ; and the prisoner, with apparent satisfaction at what he had done, surrendered himself to a man
near the spot. The ball cannot be extracted, nor can medical aid do any thing to relieve the sufferer ; and, when the account left, his death was hourly expected. AMERICAN Assassisaero2e.—The Arkansas Gazette quotes the fal- lowing account from a letter dated 17th June from Hempstead County.— " A few days ago a man named Gardiner, who, it is said, had emigrated
from the state of Missouri, was at work in a cotton-field belonging to Mr. M. H. Janes. About two o'clock in the afternoon, a strange man
came to Janes's house, and inquired for Mr.-Gardiner. Mrs. Janes pointed out the field to him. Ile then changed his coat and hat for Mr. Janes's, took Gardiner's pistol, which hung up in the room, and went to the field. Upon approaching Gardiner, he presented the pistol and at- tempted to fire it at his breast, but Gardiner struck it with his hand, and the charge entered the ground. The man then drew a large knife and gave him a mortal wound, of which lie died in a few minutes." The most singular part of this assassination story, is the changing of the clothes and the seizing of the pistol. Of course the murderer escaped, as in that part of America murderers always do, whether they he prose- cuted or not.
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