18 AUGUST 1838, Page 9

At the Liverpool Assizes, on the 13th, John Corbet Peele

was found guilty of embezzling a considerable sum of money belonging to the Bank of Manchester, in which establishment he had been cashier for some years. The Judge, in passing sentence, expressed his regret that a person so well educated, and of such respectable connexions, should have been convicted of so serious an offence. He could make no distinction between persons of the prisoner's reek in life and those of humbler station, and ordered bim to be transported for seven years.

A gentleman of large fortune and noble connexions has had his car- riage and four horses seized, on their way from Brighton to London, in consequence of the carriage containing smuggled goods. A replevy has just been effected on payment of .5001. It appears that the coachman had the folly to secrete two half-ankers of Hullands gin within the vehicle, and his fellow-servant, the footman, angry at not being let into the secret, laid an information, and a seizure of the carriage and horses raw the consequence. Both the servants have been dismissed.— ' Globe.

On Tuesday, a private of the Sixth Dragoons, quartered at Trow- bridge, shot himself with his pistol ; the ball entered the lower jaw, and passed through the skull on the left side, taking away part of the brain. He was alive on Wednesday, but not expected to survive. The Devizes Gazette says, that this is the third lamentable occurrence of the kind which bee taken place at Trowbridge. A serious riot °enured at Dewsbury, on Monday the 5th. Accord- ing to the Leeds Mercary, the people in that district had been excited by violent speeches from Feargus O'Connor, Richard Oastler, Ste- phens and others, to oppose the introduction of the new Poor-law. Mr. Ingham, chairman of the Board of Guardians, and Mr. Green- wood, now Magistrate at the Thames Police-office, but formerly a bar- rister on the Northern circuit, and on the day in question visiting at his father's, near Dewsbury, were especially the objects of the fury of the mob. The guardians assembled in the parochial school-room, and had some discussion ; but they were soon assailed by a crowd of per- sona, who rushed into the room, and tried to lay hold of Mr. Ingham and Mr. Greenwood. With great difficulty these gentlemen made

their escape. They were pelted with stones, and severely beaten. The militaty were brought from Leeds ; and by their exertions order was restored. Several of the ringleaders were taken and committed to prison.

On the same day there was a disturbance at Wigan. The members of two Sick and Friendly Societies wore walking in procession, whew a umber of Irish Catholics, employed on the railway from Wigan to Preston, took offence at the exhibition of an orange flag, and attacked the elubbigs with sticks and stories. Soldiers were called in to assist

the police, and shout fifty prisoners were secured. Next day, the Magistrates remanded some, and sentenced others to line and im- prisonment.