between Highroyd and Longbottom, near Halifax. They knocked him

down, and then demanded his money. Mr. Turner threw one of the fellows into the canal ; and in a struggle with another, both parties fol.

lowed him. The third ran off; and the second, as soon as he could scramble out, ran after him. The first fellow would have been drowned, had not Mr. Turner, at great risk and with much exertion, assisted him to the side ; when he made off also. Mr. Turner himself got out with difficulty. It is quite obvious that these rogues were not born to be drowned.

MURDER AT PorLaa.—On Tuesday, a verdict of wilful murder was returned against a brute of a fellow named Mc Carthy, by the Coroner's Inquest that sat on his wife's body. It appeared from the evidence, that he had for a long time past been in the habit of beating and abusing the miserable woman in the most inhuman manner. On the previous Satur- day, he had, without the least provocation, knocked her down, and after. wards kicked her in the breast. The woman died next day, havingpre. siously expressed her opinion that the kick would prove mortal. The immediate cause of her death was internal inflammation. Mc Carthy was immediately committed for trial.

MURDER AND ROBBERY.—A gang of ruffians—seven men and a female—broke into a house near Donnegal on Saturday sennight, and after beating the serving-boy until he was, as they imagined, dead, they

pulled the old man who owned the house, and his wife, out of bed, and murdered them on the floor. They then ransacked the house, and

finished by setting fire to it. The flames attracted a neighbour, who

rushing into the servant's room, where he heard a moaning, found the boy still alive. It appears that he had prudence enough, on recovering his senses, to counterfeit death ; and he has thus been able to identify the murderers, four of whom including the woman, are already taken. The three who have for the present escaped, are known, and will in all probability be captured soon.

THE FIFE Munnzn.—The trial of Henderson, charged with the murder of David Millie, weaver near Moniemail, in Fifeshire, took place at the Perth circuit on the 8th. There were three counts in the indict-

ment,—one charging Henderson with the murder, another with robbery, the third with forgery.' The forgery had reference to a bank receipt for 181.4s. 7d., the indorsation of which was forged by Henderson for the purpose of procuring the money. He was found guilty on all the three counts, and sentenced to be hanged at Cupar, the county town of Fife, on the 30th inst. The evidence of the murder was circumstantial, but extremely complete ; the evidence of the theft and forgery was direct,

and equally complete. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Jamieson, the Sheriff Substitute, that Millie had been murdered while sitting at his loom. There was a considerable quantity of blood on the treddles of the loom, and on the floor ; the web and the stretchers were stained with blood ; and Millie's snuffbox, which was found below the loom, was sprinkled with blood. The instrument with which the murder was effected seems to have been a common clawed hammer, which was also

found blood-stained. When Henderson had absconded, and the rumour which had for some time circulated through the adjacent village of

Moniemail, had reached the legal authorities, the first search made for the body was made in the house. There was a part of the floor soft; and from the circumstance, as was well marked by one of the witnesses who dug it up, of some remains of potatoes being mixed with the soil, it is evident that the purpose of the ruffian had been to bury his murdered master where he fell. The cottage, however, was built on a rock, covered with but fourteen inches of earth; and he was obliged to have recourse to the garden. The spot he ultimately chose was in the very centre of the footpath to the well ; but, though daily trodden, it did not answer his purpose of concealment. The decomposition of the body led to a sinking of the earth; and the men employed to search, no sooner pressed it than they perceived that it had been recently " travailed," [dug]. The first object that presented itself was one of the deceased's hands about eight inches below the surface. In addition to a number of less important facts, it was proved by the female who washed them, that some shirts belonging to the prisoner were much stained with blood.

They were washed soon after the day on which the murder is supposed to have been committed, the 26th of June; the discovery of the body

took place on the 24th July. Among other. curious facts, it was proved, that soon after the murder, the prisoner proceeded to Edinburgh accom- panied by a lad belonging to the inn at the neighbouring borough of

Auchtermuchty, for the purpose of purchasing a keyed bugle ; for which

he paid Mr. Robertson the music-seller, four guineas ! His conduct is spending the money of which he had by such horrible means got posses•

sion, seems, indeed to have savoured much of the madman. It was ad- mitted that he had on all occasions a hurried appearance; one witness said he never walked like other people-.'he was always running.

Pinacr.—In the month of August, 1829, the colonial brig Cyprus, while proceeding from Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, to MNatrrie

Harbour, with thirty prisoners on board, was taken possession o. y sixteen of the convicts ; who, after murdering some of the military guard, put the rest ashore, with the other prisonergand the crew, and effected their escape with the vessel, which has not since been heard of. The persons thus inhuman'," exposed suffered the greatest hardships, and some of them perished from want. In the beginning of last March the Committee of Supercargoes at Canton were informed that four persons, with a ship's boat, who stated themselves to be part of the crew of an English merchant vessel wrecked on the coast of China, had visited the port. The story was at first supposed to be a mere fiction ; and they were looked on as deserters from some ship at Lintin ; but cir- cumstances afterwards transpired which induced the Committee to alter their opinion. Three of the men had gone on board the Charles Grant, and the other the Thames. The last stated himself to be William Weldon, of Sunderland, in the county of Durham, commander of the brig Ed- ward, of London, which had left the London Docks in December 1828, bound for Rio de Janeiro. He said that he remained at Janeiro nine days, and . riled for Maranham and Pernambuco. After touching at these I,— -, lie sailed for Valparaiso, and, after calling at some other ports of South America, proceeded to the Sandwich Islands and Japan. Off the coast of Japan his vessel was damaged by the fire of some bat. teries, and he bent his way towards the port of Manilla ; but the vessel became so leaky from the injury sustained by the shots, that the crew were obliged to abandon her near Formosa. Two boats contained the crew, amounting to sixteen persons, but only one of them had succeeded in reaching Canton. In corroboration of this statement, the boat was produced by which the pretended Walden, and his companions had reached Canton ; it bore on it "The Edward of Condon—William Weldon." The Committee entirely believed the story of the men, and ordered the whole of them to be taken on board the Charles Grant, and to be furnished with a free passage to Europe. A few days after the Charles Grant sailed, a man named Huntley made his appearance at Whampoa, accompanied by other three persons, who also said they had belonged to the Edward. On being examined, however, he stated the Captain's name to have been James Wilson, and described the brig as having left London in June 1828, and gone straight to the Cape. Huntley said, that he and the other three men had quarrelled with Wilson, near the Ladrones, and run away. His account differed so materially from that of Walden, that he was detained and sent prisoner to England by the Kellie Castle, the boat being also sent over by the same vessel. The three men with whom he had arrived in company had not been dis- covered when the fleet sailed. The statements of Weldon and Huntley were sent by the Canton Committee to the India House, and by the orders of the Secretary of State, to whom they were communicated, the Thames Police Magistrates gave directions for the arrest of Huntley and the other four, as well as for securing the boat as soon as the China fleet arrived. Huntley was in consequence arrested as soon as the Kellie Castle came into the River. On Tuesday last week, the Charles Grant arrived, and was immediately visited by the officers ; when it was discovered that Walden, the leader, had gone ashore at Margate, no suspicion attaching to his conduct on board the vessel ; the other three, who gave their names John Anderson, Alexander Telford, and Charles Williams, were Secured. The three fellows were examined separately, and their testi- mony was in almost every point contradictory. Anderson, who described himself as a native of Edinburgh, said he entered the Edward in De- cember 1828; that her crew was sixteen in number (the same number of convicts, it is to be noted, who carried off the Cyprus, and hence pro- bably the coincidence) ; that the captain was named Walling, a third name for him ; and that the owner, Allen, died soon after leaving Val- paraiso, and the body was thrown overboard. Telford described Ander- son as only joining the Edward at the Sandwich Islands, and Allen as dying at Valparaiso, and being buried on shore in that town. Williams also stated that Anderson had come aboard at the Sandwich Islands ; but in other respects he differed both from Anderson and Telford. The three men were confronted with Huntley, but neither he nor they would admit that they had ever met before ; although, from their change of colour on his being produced, it was pretty evident they were well ac- quainted with each other. Hitherto, though it was quite evident that they were a nest of rogues, there was no evidence but their own lies whereon to found a charge against them; and they must as a matter of course have been discharged bad nothing else transpired. The ends of justice are, however, not likely to be defeated. When the Cyprus was carried off, a particular description of the convicts was sent home ; and it was published in the Hue and Cry last March. Evans, the chief offi- cer of the Thames Police Office,—who has a hawk's eye for such offen- ders—while the men were under examination, imagined he saw a strong resemblance between them and four of the fellows described in the Hue and Cry. A more minute examination confirmed hind in this opinion. The prisoner Huntley answered so exactly to the description of George James Davis, that not a doubt of his identity remains ; as little doubt remains respecting Williams ; Telford Corresponds exactly with the de- scription of an Alexander Stephenson, tried in Glasgow in April 1821; and Anderson answers to the description of a John Beveridge, who was tried at Perth in 1821. All these parties were equally concerned in the murder and piracy on board the Cyprus. It is not unreasonably supposed, if the story of the Edward be not altogether fabricated, that after carry- ing away the Cyprus, the pirates had captured the Edward, and mur- dered or exposed the crew. It is considered not improbable that the tale of their being fired on by the Japanese may be true, as their marauding spirit might very probably have provoked such an act of hostility.—The whole have been remanded, to give time for their identification by the Officers who had charge of them before they were sent out of the coun- try; and as Weldon, as he called himself, was sufficiently marked by the Frew of the Charles Grant to enable them to describe him minutely, it as thought he will not be long ere he join company with them. The three men who reached Canton with Huntley, or Davis rather, will in all probability, have been found there and despatched to England.

EXECUTION OF WILLIAM GRIFFITH AT BEAITHARis.—This un- fortunate man, who was convicted at the last Anglesey Great Sessions of a most brutal and inhuman attempt to murder his wife, was yesterday executed upon a scaffold projected from the east side of the new gaol, Beanmaris. From the time of condemnation, Griffith manifested a strong fear of death, attended by occasional bursts of despair, during which he made bodily efforts as if to escape from confinement. On the morning of execution, having been for a few minutes left alone, he tole up the wooden bench on which his bed was placed, and fixed it against the door, which for some time prevented all access from without. The door being at length forced he was secured, and every effort which htr manity and Christian feeling could suggest having been in vain used to compose his mind, the requisite preparations were made for carrying the sentence of the law into execution, the criminal all the while uttering the most agonizing cries and groans. A little before ten o'clock, S. Bur. rows, the Chester executioner, was admitted into the cell, and after a desperate struggle, succeeded in pinioning the prisoner with a cord at the elbows. The Reverend Chaplain then commenced reading the funeral service; and the prisoner was led, or rather dragged, be.- tweet two officers to the scaffold, on which the javelin men and others whose duty required their presence were already placed. When arrived at the scaffold, and placed under the fatal beam, Griffith, who appears to have reserved his strength for a last struggle, made a desperate resistance to the executioner putting the halter round his neck ; and even when this was accomplished, he made continual efforts to displace it till the drop was withdrawn, which was done within five minutes from the time he came upon the scaffold. His death was to all appearance instantaneous, and after hanging for about an hour, his body was cut down and placed in a coffin for interment, which took place in the evening. An immense multitude was present at the execution, and even after it was over crowds continued to throng into Beaumaris ; the general impression throughout the neighbouring country being, that the sentence would not be executed before twelve o'clock. It is upwards of forty years since an execution took place before in Beaumaris.—North Wales Chronicle.