The account of the death of Mr. Maude, who wits
said to havelot his life in consequence of injuries received at the Wakefield riots, is contradicted. Mr. Maude was severely hurt, but is recovering.
The present state of Portsmouth and Portsea is extremely unsafe, both as regards the property and health of the inhabitants, in caste. quence of the immense number of low Irish and Scotch, who as e expecting to be paid off from the British Auxiliary Legion, and who now infot those places. There are now 2,700 in a most deplorable etate of filth and destitution. They are so insubordinate that their own officers gala danger of their lives. A party of Marines is rowing guard roundthem night and day ; and when the Paymaster goes on board, be is obliged to be guarded by a file of Marines. It is found impossible to keep them on board the ships provided for them, and they are lying in the public streets by hundreds. Affrays are hourly taking place, in which their knives are called into frequent use. A representation is about to be made to the Secretary of State by the inhabitants, who conceive they have a right to be relieved from so intolerable a nuisance Fifteen of the Legion are now in gaol for robberies.—Chichester Gazette.
Joseph Jeffgate, an idiot in Leeds, has been committed on the ver- dict of a Coroner's Jury, to be tried for the "wilful murder" of a little boy, whose throat he cut with a table-knife. A few days ago, Robert Hill, a tailor in Taunton, declared tlinthe was the person who murdered Elizabeth Trump, in 1823, on &A- land Hill ; be also implicated two other persons, who were taken into custody. The murdered girl was very beautiful; and the dreadful atrocity which accompanied the murder excited indignation and horror at the time the foul deed was committed. A farm-servant was taken up nine or ten years ago, on suspicion of this murder ; but the Grand Jury threw out the bill against him. On Monday, Hill, and the men he accused as his accomplices were brought before the Magistrates at Taunton ; when he denied all knowledge of the transaction. The two men were discharged, but Hill was remanded. The prisoner, who has long borne a bad character as an idle drunken fellow, presented a most haggard and care-worn countenance. Since he has been in custody, he has refused to eat his food with a knife, and trembles on one being shown to him. He told the persons who gave information of his sup- posed confession, that he had committed the murder with a dinner. knife.— Taunton Courier.
On the night of Saturday week, a series of highway robberies were committed near Manchester, which, in respect of violence or daring, can only be equalled by the events recorded in the history of the cde• bratcd Turpin. Three parties were attacked and robbed on the turn- pike road, within two miles of this great town, in the short space of four hours, notwithstanding all the vigilance of a police establishment which has the credit of being second to no town in England. It was evident that the robberies were all effected by the same parties : and last evening one of the gang was apprehended. He made a desperate resistance. It appears that he was a deserter from the 17th Regiment of Royal Lancers, which were quartered in Manchester about sixteen months ago. Since that time he has had the honour of fighting undo the banners of General Evans in Spain, and has recently received his discharge from the British Legion.—Letter from Manchester, in the Daily Papers. [Some particulars of the different robberies are given: but they do not bear any resemblance to those related of the prince of highwaymen, the gallant Turpin. They might have been all perpe- trated by a" Manchester man."1
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