At the Alansionhouse, on Wednesday, a man named Kearney was
examined on a charge of stabbing Mr. Loch, Deputy Chairman of the
East India Company, with intent to kill bitn. It appeered that Kearney had been or fancied himself ill-used by Lord William Bentinck and Lord Auckland in India, and by the East India Company's Directors in England. For services in the Burmese war, lie thought himself entitled to reward and promotion, which had been refused him. lie was resolved, he said, to teach these great men a great nioral lesson. He had threateited Lord William Bentinek with violence it, India; and had bi co imprisoned twelve months in Calcutta. He ii id knocked down Mr. :1 so ii. I mcputy Chairman of the Company, with his um- brella ; and been seta for six months to Giltspur Street Co:miter. On his liberation he had been told that his son should be sent to the Refuge for the Destitute, if he would cease pestering the Company ; a favour which be could have commanded himself, simply by stripping ofr his shoes and sending the lad into the street. But this did not suit him; so, with some difficulty, he gained admittance to Mr. Loch's apartment at the India House- " instead of being received as I ought," said Kearney, "I was received most rudely, and suffered personal insult. I told the Deputy Chairman that I was de- termined to have justice. Ile celled Ins a ruffian. I told him I carried a knife lie asked me, did I intend to murder bile? I said no, but I would make war. Make war ?' says he. • Aye,' said I, • I will make war to the very knife.' On his seeing the knife in my hand, be seized hold of my arm, and attetnptod to turn the knife against my throat; mai you mar perceive that I ant cut in the cheek (exhibiting a cut). I then thought my life in danger, and I was determiued to defend myself. We struggled : he attempted to get towards the bell, and I prevented him; be fell, and I struck him on the head. I was determined to give him a moral lesson, that he or no set of men should attempt to treat their fellow man as they have treated me. I am glad he is am seriously injured ; but if I had killed him, my conscience would make me no reproach. Their object was to drive me to do some act by which I %tenthl be disgraced and sent out of this country. I would die a theusand decides stunner than suffer myeelf to be walking the streets of London starving. No matter whatever may be the re• suit; I'll 'mot it. I have warned them, both by wool of mouth and writing, of the consequences of their conduct; and death is ter preferable to me than the continuance of the sufferings I have endured."
An this Kearney insisted on stating, notwithstanding repeated warn- ings from the Lord Mayor against self. crimination. He was re- manded for a week.
Yesterday, the Lord Mayor was informed, that Kearney was found dead in his bed that morning. There were no marks of violence or: his person ; and it is supposed that his death was occasioned by apo- plexy, brought on by excessive mental distress. An inquest is to be held on his body to-day.
The neighbourhood of Whitechapel was alarmed on Monday night by the escape of a wolf from the Three Nuns Tavern, where it had
been confined. It ran about snapping at the passengers I. until a butcher in the market, upon whom it made an at seized it by the
throat, and, with his knife, nearly severed the head front the body. Mr. John Al•Cibe, a partner in an opulent furrier's house ill South- wark, shot himself on Wednesdey, I f I
al a ..t insanity.
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