OLD BAILEY SESSIONS,..-The only trials since our last publication that

have attracted or that require notice, are those of the Carters, for the robbery of the late Mrs. O'Keefe, the Customhouse forgery, and Miss Perlet's watch case. These, with a few others of minor importance, we subjoin. THE CARTERS.— Mrs. O'Keefe, aunt of Dr. Farre, of the Charterhouse, died on the 8th June, possessed of bank notes to the amount of 2251., a bill for 2001. and some small money, which at the period of her decease were locked up in a desk. When the state of the deceased's property was inspected in Carter's house, where she had lodged for some time, the desk was found in great confusion, and the bank notes gone. By a singular piece of infatuation or forgetfulness, a slip of paper had been deposited in the desk, on which was written by young Carter a memorandum of her death, the name being spelt as he habitually spelt it, ("Keith. There were other circumstances that tended to excite suspicion. besides the dis- appearance of the property, and an investigation having been directed, the pos- session of several of the notes was traced to Mrs. Carter, and her husband, and son. The defence made by the father, a person who has long maintained a most respectable character as a tradesman, and by the son, was, that they received the notes from Mrs. Carter, who was in the habit of keeping the cash of the house, and paying the outgoings. Mrs. Carter strenuously protested that the deceased gave her the money in consideration of her attentions to her for several years that she was her lodger. The deceased was a very old woman, of extremely penurious habits, and had seriously quarrelled with her landlady but a short time before her death, for an attempt to raise the rent of her room a shilling per week. These facts which were distinctly sworn to, outweighed with the Jury Mrs. Carter's pro- testations, and also the evidence of a couple of witnesses who spoke to expres-

sions of regard employed by the deceased towards her.. The father and son were acquitted, and the mother found guilty, but strongly recommended to mercy.

THE CUSTOMHOUSE FORGERY.—The particulars of this case were given at the time it came before the police office. The amount of the forgery it will be recol- lected was 1973/., and it purported to be the sum required by the comptroller at Fowey to defray the expenses of the customs establishment there. The prisoners seem to have been intimately acquainted with the forms of the Customhouse, and of what was passing there, for it is curious that one of the examining clerks to whom the document would have been subjected was sick at the time, and another was performing his duties, and of this small fact it appears the prisoners were aware. The evidence against West was incomplete, the only witness called against him having been declared by other testimony unworthy of belief: he was consequently acquitted. Maynard, the principal, was found guilty of uttering, and Jones of being accessory before the fact.

William Harrison Scale and Edward Seal were charged with stealing certain wearing apparel from Emma Harwood, a dresamenker, under pretence of a levy for rent. The only peculiarity of this case, if it be one, was, that neither Judge, Jury, bar, nor penny-a-line men could snake out its nature or osigiu. The pri- soners got, of course, the benefit of the mystery by being acquitted.

Foinesee or A WILL.—SUffUlk and Brandreth, whose property he attempted to appropriate, had been comrades (soldiers) for twenty years. Brandreth shed intes- tate, when Suffolk got one Wyman to write a will and sign it with Brandreth's name, which lie afterwards obtained probate on, and sold out :tool: to the amount of 380/. He was found guilty of uttering„ but recommended to mercy.

Gifford, the young man who committed the forgery on the Stock Exchange, was found guilty on his own confession.

Francis Parson for stealing bacon, and two others for receiving, guilty. There was nothing in the case. A Mr. 13rown swore there was nothing in the prisoner's house when searched but his own goods and some rubbishy pigs' heads, whereon the following polite and witty colloquy ensued :—Mr. C. Phillips —" So you call pig's heads rubbish, do you ? Pray, do you not deal in pigs' heads yourself ?" Prosecutor—" Not such as I saw in the prisoner's shop." Mr. C. Phillips—" Had the one you saw its Parson's shop as much under jaw as you have 2" Prosecutor—" No it was an Irish pig's head." (Great laughter.) Mr. C. Phillips—" Oh ! it was an Irish pig's head ; I suppose, then, you con. versed with your friend, and can swear to its having been Irish by its accent." Prosecutor—" They are all Irish pigs' heads that conic to London salted." Mr. C. Phillips—" Oh 1 then Irish pigs' heads are the only migratory ones, Mr. Brown, you call all pigs' heads that come to London, Irish, do you ?" Prose. cutor—" We consider them to be Irish."

Barnette and Levy, charged with the robbery of Lesser, a German Jew, (we gave the case last week,) were found guilty on their own confession.

Samuel Nathan, with half a dozen aliases, was charged with a burglary com- mitted in the house of a William Newton, Mile End Old Town on the 22d April. The prisoner in his defence said, that he was the victim of the Lambeth-. street Police Establishment. He had already had the misfortune to be twice tried for capital offences within the last three months, and he was confident that the officers of that establishment would never be satisfied until they saw him hanged. When the unfortunate Brown was taken up for this same offence, he, the prisoner, had also been charged before the magistrates, but the evidence not being sufficiently strong enough, he was, after several remands, discharged. He asked the Jury ,whether they could believe that if the evidence that they had heard to-day from the witnesses of the prosecution had been brought • forward against him when he was before the magistrates, that he would then have been discharged from custody ?—Guilty. We think the case might be inquired into, without injury to the public. The officers of police are not the less honest that they are snow and then looked after.

William Jones was charged with receiving stolen stamps. The facts of the case were published at the time. There was no proof given that Jones had ever possessed the stolen property, or that he was more than a go-between the thieves and the person whom they wished topurchase the " swag." Not guilty. Samuel Fisher, a Life Guardsman, (he was described at the time as tall, stout,

and rosy-checked) was charged with stealing a watch from the person of a.re.

spectable young woman named Matilda Perlet. Miss Perlet who is somewhat sallow, and squints a little, though very respectable, went to fetch a walk and call on her uncle on the 24th of last month, when she met and accosted, or was ac- costed, by Mr. Fisher in the New Road. He talked of the weather, and ended by inviting her to a public-house. She refused in the first instance, but on her re- turn from her uncle's she did go with him to the " Little Cannon" in Upper Norton Street. They had ale and gin and beef-steaks. They remained most of the day together. At last the Life Guardsman withdrew rather abruptly, carrying with him Miss Perlet's watch. There were no improper liberties took place. Mr. Fisher merely put his hand round her waist. Mr. Adolphus—" Do you mean to state, upon your oath, the soldier did not kiss you ?" Witness—" Oh, yes, he kissed me. Mr. Adolphus—" Did he kiss you once or forty times ?" Witness—" Only once." Mr. Adolphus--." When you say once, do you mean to say that once lasted all the time you were there ?" (Laughter.) Witness.- " No ; not all the time." The landlord of the " Little Cannon" allowed that Miss Perlet was a little the worse for the liquor she had drunk, although she was a re- spectable young lady. A corporal and two privates swore when she came to seek for Fisher at the Regent's Park Barracks she could not stand without holding by the table. She was drunk *. Fisher got a good character from his officer. Not Guilty. Miss Perlet—" Am I to get my expenses ?" The Common Sergeant- " I don't know what to say to that." Mr. Alderman Venables suggested to leave it to the Jury to say if she ought to have her expenses. The Common Sergeant —" What do you say, gentlemen? There may have been some mistake. The Jury said, they thought she ought to have her expenses. The Court allowed

them accordingly.

• This is too strong language : a young lady or gentleman, at least if respectable, is not drunk so long as he or she can lie on the floor without holding by the carpet. At the close of the Sessions, yesterday, the Recorder passed the following sen-

tences.

Death—Richard Gifford, James Suffolk, and Thomas Maynard, for forgery. Charles Wilson, William Spong, Henry King, Mark Joel, Thomas Walker, and Elizabeth Swiney, for stealing goods in a dwelling-house above the value of 51. Robert Cross, John Wilson, John Roach, and Joseph Nathan, for house-breaking. William Callaghan, James Charles, and John Hill, for horse-stealing. Timothy Driscoll, and Michael DWI; for highway robbery. Thomas Edwards, and Henry Duffy, for cattle-stealing. John Boyce, for a robbery in a house of ill-fame. Robert Bennington, William Williams, and William Newit, for sheep-stealing. Transportation for Life—William Smith, George Gibbs, William Jones, William

Gresham, Jan Hemes, Jane Turner, William Potter, Jeremiah Hemes Maria Harrot, William Bousted, James Harris, William Kershaw, Sarah Jones, John Hancock, and Eliza Jones.

Transportation for Fourteen Years—John Ferrar, John Howler, William Coulson, James Kinnock, John M'Cann, James Whittle, James Galloway, Henry Wilkey, Jane Knight, Anna French, John Edmunds, John Foley, Thomas Lazarus, Henry Woodward, Henry Keys, James Kelsey, George Morris, Caroline Knight, Ellen Kelly, William Earl, John Cook, Henry Hughes, Thomas Nibbs, Thomas Williams, John Hurley, William Downes, Henry Griffiths, Frances Marshal, William Stevens, Elizabeth Saunders, Mary Ann Dodd, William Squires, and Philip Overton. Transportation for Seven Years—William Jones, William Humphries, Alexander Lyon, Thomas Conolly, Sarah Skelton, John Roberts, Mary Leary, Henry Wilks, Samuel Smith, Richard Grohan, Richard Uland Jones, James Stedman, Elizabeth Sut- ton, Ann Davis, Henry Murray, John 31`Gee, Margaret Barry, Henry Price, Daniel Kelly, Joseph Brace, Samuel Beaziey, William Cooper, Robert Lockwood, Joseph Searle, Edward Wilson, George Weston, Edward Hickey, Mary Hill, John Larkin, John Kemble, William Ottoway, William Collison, Henry Robinson, Matthew Ward, William King, Elizabeth 'Waters, Joseph Waterhouse, William Beaumont, Charles Boyd, Henry Cook, William Chappel, John Divine, Henry Demsey, Solomon Barliena, Philip Levy, Frances Parsons, Margaret Jackson, John Reading, John Wilkinson, Wil- liam Sullivan, Samuel Wingrove James Legge, John Fisher, James Davis, Thomas Taylor, William Spong, Henry dorris, George damuel Ball, Mary Jones, Mary Allen, Henry Turner, Edmund Thorns, Henry Stanley, John Smith, John Kelly, John Hewitt, William Thompson. Mary Brown, Thomas Simpkins, James Robinson, Nary Sears, John White, John Williams, John Shawe, William Rowe, William Saunders, Jane Eing,'John Charter, William Green, Pocebe Dunbell, Henry Belcher, C. Phillips, George Sice.

Two Years' Imprisonment in theHouse of Correction.—Elizabeth Carter, Anthony Col- ville, John Pesman, William Forbes, Charles Quixy, Sarah Blakeley, and Henry Burke.

Twelve Months' Imprisonment.—William Blake, Thomas Hollingsworth, Jane Pierce, Ann Baker, John Woodward, John Somville, and Stephen Winter.

Several others were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.

'The following were respited till next session :—Richard Harmer, James Jones, Jo- seph Button, John Smith, and Henry Paul.

The Sessions adjourned to the 29th of October.

INQUEST ON TUE LATE MRS. PHILLIPS.—" There are many facts connected with this extraordinary transaction, which, in justice to all parties, must yet see the light. These we shall communicate in our next number." Such was our lau- guage while speaking of this inquest last week. But our readers will pardon us for not redeeming the pledge, as the publication of the facts referred to. might paralyse the arm of the law. Public curiosity, although painfully alive to the subject, must suffer a further denial ; but not, we believe, of any extended dura- tion, as an inquiry is on foot, which, it is evident, must be directed, before its termination, by magisterial authority. Some of the facts sworn to on the inquest are known to he false ; this, and a knowledge of circumstances of a very myste- rious nature, have given rise to rumours, some of which involve nothing less than the crime of murder. Many depositions have already been taken, and the rector i and churchwardens of the parish are anxious for the interference of the magis- trates.—Lancet

EFFECTS OF A THUNDER.STORNI IN LONDON....-The neighbourhood of Lambeth was thrown into alarm on Tuesday afternoon by a most tremendous thunder- storm ; which did considerable injury to the houses of several of the inhabitants, and also injured some persons seriously. The inmates of the house of Mr. Cap- per, Lambeth-terrace, had a narrow escape with their lives. Mr. Capper was absent from home at the time of the alarming shook ; none but his niece, Miss Ward, the groom, and other servants were in the house. Their attention, imme- diately after the clap of thunder, was attracted by an explosion resembling the loud report of a gun, which caused the foundation and the whole of the premises to totter; and immediately after, the roof the house, with two stacks of chimnies, gave way and fell in with great force. The adjoining houses were also consider- ably injured. The servants state that the moment they heard the report, they ob- served a large ball of fire come doWn the chimney and pass through the kitchen, towards the door, when it disappeared. Miss Ward happened to be at the time in one of the upper apartments. Much of the furniture in the upper part of the house was injured. At about the same time, a similar shock was felt at Mrs. Barlow's, next door, but the injury was not so extensive as at Mr. Capper's. The butler was in one of the apartments when a thunderbolt came through the chimney, and striking his legs, laid him senseless on the floor ; but he afterwards recovered, The house adjoining was also shaken, and the parapet stones forced away from the front. At the Lambeth School, one of the scholars was %cry much injured by the lightning.

FIRE IN }licit Horse:AL—Between two and three o'clock on Thursday morn- ing, a fire broke out in the house of Mr. Hanson, the silversmith, No. 75, High Holborn, next door to Mr. Hopkinson's large coach-manufactory; which, in a little time, communicated to the house No. 74, occupied by Mr, Ray, the limn and from thence to Mrs. Drew's, the poulterer. All these houses were built of wood, and were on fire at the same time. It was with the utmost difficulty that the inmates were enabled to escape in their night-clothes. The fire-engines nes were promptly on the spot; but the supply of water was for some time very scanty, and no effort of the firemen could preserve these houses and their valuable stock and furniture from complete destruction. The fire communicated to the upper

part of the Red Lion public-house, at the corner of Red Lion-street, kept by Mr. Preece, and consumed the two upper floors. The rear of Mr. Hopkinson's premises received considerable damage. No one received any personal injury upon this occasion ; and the loss of property will fall chiefly on the insurance.. companies. In the course of Thursday evening, Mr. Hanson was examined by the sitting magistrate, Mr. Laing, at Hatton Garden Police-office, on suspicion of having set fire to the premises himself. Several witnesses also were examined. Robert Hughes, a tailor, who lodged on the second floor of the prisoner's house, deposed, that at half-past two o'clock that morning, having heard the alarm st fire given, he rushed down stairs and met the prisoner in the passage undressed. A thick smoke was then issuing from the chinks in the front door of the shop, and in the private-door leading into the passage, and some persons were endea- vouring to break open the shop-door with a pickaxe. Witness requested the prisoner to unlock the private door, and suffer a few individuals to enter with pails of water, in order to extinguish the fire before it burst into flame ; but the prisoner was deaf to entreaty, and refused to open the door until the engines ar- rived. He gave witness a dressing-glass to take out of the house, and at wit- ness's return the shop was in flames ; which spread with such violence and ra- pidity as to prevent all access to the upper part of the house. This witness caused Mr. Hanson to be taken into custody because of his refusal to (Tell the door when the fire was but just kindling. William Gardner, a constable de. posed, that when he heard time alarm of fire, he hastened to the prisoner's house, and found him in a very agitated state and undressed, in the passage. The pri- soner begged of him to go and fetch him a coat to throw around him, which he immediately did, and at his return all was on fire.. Witness knew nothing further of the circumstances. Marianne Beech, servant to the prisoner, deposed, that, Mr. Hanson occupied a parlour and abed-room on the shop floor, together with a kitchen underneath the shop, where she herself slept. About nine o'clock the night before her master closed up the shop and went out, and between twelve and one returned. Site left him about a quarter past one in the parlour, and retired to bed. At two o'clock she was awakened by time crackling of .timber; and getting out of bed, she saw that the ceiling of the kitchen was on fire, and that the fire proceeded from that part of the shop-floor where the gas-pipe lay. She called up her master, who was then in bed ; and he, immediately opening the hall-door, sprung a rattle and alarmed the watch. He had not his clothes on at the time. Smoke was issuing from the front and private door of the shop, and there was a strong smell of gas accompanying it. She knew nothing whatever of the origin of the fire. A female lodger deposed, that when she and her sister with two children descended from the upper part of the house, she found the prisoner in the passage undressed. He was in a state of great excitement, and was extremely anxious about the safety of the lives of the inmates. He held a rattle in his hand, with which he ran into the streets and alarmed the neighbour- hood, and procured a place of refuge from the inclemency of the night for herself and her family, who had not had time to procure even one particle of covering before they were obliged to escape from the raging fire. Witness conceived that the prisoner did every thing he possibly could to save the premises from destruc- tion. Mr. Laing wished the prisoner to account if possible for the origin of the fire. Mr. Hanson, who was atteirded by Mr. Harmer as his solicitor, denied all knowledge of the origin. He had been that night at the English Opera, and during his absence he left the gas burning, though very low, in his shop. At his return he put the gas entirely out, and retired. It was possible that the gai might have escaped from the pipe, but whence it could receive ignition he was unable to conjecture. He had lived upwards of six years in the house, got the shop newly painted but two days before, and his property was insured at the Sun-office for 2701. Mr. Laing inquired of the witnesses whether they obserml any property to be removed out of the shop lately, and they all replied in the negative. The Magistrate then said, that there was no evidence before him to sustain the imputation, and the prisoner was discharged. On Wednesday afternoon, a fire broke out in the large premises belonging to Mr. Walker, the sugar-baker, in Brick-lane, Spihaltields, which, from the com- bustible nature of the materials, alarmed the neighbourhood, and threatened time destruction of the whole premises and the numerous adjoining houses. Had it happened in the night, the destruction of property must have been very great. Many of the firemen, at the risk of their lives, entered the premises, pulled down fixtures and succeeded in confining the fire to time hnmediatevicinity of the stove, which is completely destroyed. The damage done, it is said, amounts to about three thousand pounds.

A few days ago, the seat of Sir R. B. Phillips, Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire was entered by thieves, and robbed of property to the amount of 500/.

The despairing lover of a fair sempstress at Cheltenham, has been cured of love, despair, and a taste for suicide, by a potent dose of cream of tartar, which the prudent apprentice of Mr. Alder the chemist had sold to him under the name o_f arsenic.

An inquest on the body of Henry Kellard, a pauper of Shoreditch parish, bas reported that " the deceased died from excessive drinking."

A man has lost his life at,a distillery in Glasgow, being suffocated by the foul air at the bottom of a mash-tub, into which he had descended. A workman at the Bathurst Basin iron-works, in the act of explaining to hk wife the operation of a steam-engine, came in contact with the crank and caw necting-rod of the engine, and was killed before her eyes.

A gentleman, pike -fishing a few days since at Gatton Park, the seat of Sim. Mark Wood, hooked a fish of considerable weight, and, while endeavouring,: to bring him to land, was not a little surprised at finding him attacked and seized across the back by another • pike of extraordinary dimensions. Eager to make prize of the larger fish, he waded into the water above his middle, when the monster, rather than relinquish his prey, allowed himself to be grasped under the gills, and was thus landed ; the gentleman retaining the lesser fish which was hooked by him in his left hand. By this means he succeeded in securing, both ; the largest weighing twenty-three pounds and a half, the smaller seven pounds. Michel, an officer retired' from the service, residing in Fismes, had for soma

I time been on ill terms with a neighbour named Couet, a dyer. Early n the

morning of the 4th inst. Michel went to the house of Couet, whom he leound en- gaged in his business, and producing a brace of pistols, exclaimed, "Now, your life or mine 1"—" Fire, coward !" replied Collet, ducking his head at the very moment when the other drew the trigger. The ball grazed his head as he $11411 upon his assailant, and grasping him closely, prevented him from using his seam! pistol. Some gendarmes were coming up, when Michel by a violent effort dis- noaeed himself from Couet, and rushing to the river's bank, threw himself into le stream, in which he perished before their eyes. Couet's wound is not con- sidered dangerous.

During the early part of last week a poor woman named Thoughley, residing in New-street, finding herself unwell, took what she supposed to be a dose of Epsom salts, but which unfortunately proved to be white vitriol. Shortly after drinking the poison, she endured the most excruciating pain, and was instantly taken by her friends to the Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, where by the aid

of the usual remedies and antidotes, and the most unremitting attention, she was saved from a premature death ; though she has hardly recovered from the effects of the noxious drug.—Cheltenham Chronicle.

A most awful occurrence happened on Monday at Shut-end 'Colliery, near Kings■vinford. Four men were descending the shaft of a pit in a skip, when a

tremendous explosion of fire-damp took place from below, by. which their bodies, together with the skip, were blown to a considerable height in the air, and their instant death was the result. Three boys who had previously descended into the pit were also seriously burnt, and now lie in a very dangerous state. The ex- plosion was heard at a great distance from the place.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. Fauche Borel, well known as a political agent, and whose memoirs were lately published, has terminated his existence by throwing himself out of a win- dow of his house at Neufchatel. It is said that the embarrassed state of his affairs led him to take this desperate resolution. He was in the receipt of a pension of 300/. a-year from the British Government, 5,000 francs (2004) a-year from the French Government, and it is probable that he received a pension from the Frussiatt Government. Considering the state of things on the Continent, and the

low rate of salaries and pensions, M. de Fauche Borel had no great reason to

complain of the ingratitude of his old employers, and it certainly must have been his own fault if he got into embarrassMents. He had been originally a bookseller. —Frcnch Paper.

On Thursday last, Mr. James Booth, bleacher, of Woolford, near Bury, attended the Manchester market in the course of his business in perfect health. On the following day he went to attend a parish meeting, whence lie and about a dozen ofhis friends repaired to a neighbouring into to dine. They partook of a pudding, shortly after eating whi cli they all became very ill, and on Saturday morning Mr Booth died. The symptoms being such as to betoken the presence of poison, an investigation took place, and we are informed that the flour of which the pudding was made was found to be strongly impregnated with arsenic. No suspicion whatever exists, we believe, with respect to the people of the inn, the landlady having herself eaten of the pudding, and being at this time very ill in consequence. —Manchester Mercury.

A shocking accident occurred on Friday last at Cottingham, arising front a practice which has too frequently been productive of fatal calamities. The ser- vants in the employ of Mr. Dalby, of the place in question, were engaged in stacking wheat, when a young woman, named Hannah Townsend, who had as- cended the stack, jumped down upon some sheaves, amongst which a fork had been placed, with the prongs standing uppermost. Her leg coming in contact with one of these with great force, the iron entered the calf, and passing through under the ham came out withinside the thigh, protruding several inches. The unfor- tunate woman was taken up in excruciating agony, and through skilful surgical treatment, is now considered to be out of danger.-1-11111 Packet.

A few slays since, a woman from Manchester called at a house in Sutton, near Macclesfield, and inquired for a person who was a steward at a cotton factory in the neighbourhood. A female answered " This is the house, and I am his wife." "That cannot be," said the stranger, "for I am his wife ; we were married several years ago at Manchester." Just at this time the luckless husband made his appearance, when, lo ! another lady came and claimed him as her lawful hus- band; she had been married to him at Nottingham. What was to be done? The man of many wives preferred the first; and, after disposing of his furniture, starched off quietly with her, leaving the second and third to their legal remedy.

On Monday sennight, one of the boats engaged in the Herring Fishing caught a fish of rather colossal dimensions, in the neighbourhood of Cullen. How will the reader credit the fact. that this fish was nothing else than a whale of prodigious size! The monarch of the deep had somehow or other entangled himself in their nets ; and the fishermen, on discovering the kind of customer they had to deal with, felt very much in the same way as the Irishman did when he caught a Tartar in the wilds of Africa—namely, that instead of catching a whale, the whale had caught them. Instead of taking the fish prisoner, the finny gentleman speedily satisfied them that they were entirely at his mercy : he set off on an excursion down the firth at a rate surpassing anything that they ever before dreamed of._ dragging the hapless crew along 'with him, with the utmost imaginable ease. When they had proceeded a considerable distance, one of the fishermen recovered his presence of mind so far as to cut the nets, which were fastened to the boat. The whale providentially set off on his excursion precisely in the direction to which the boat pointed at the time ; had he dragged it from either of its sides, it must have been upset in an instant.—E/gin Courier.

ACCIDENTS AT LONDON BRIDGE.—A wherry mess upset on Sunday, in attempt- ing to shoot the fall at London Bridge : the watermen and a passenger, were drowned. On Tuesday, a barge, laden with goods, was carried by the strength of the flood-tide, against the timber under one of the arches, and sunk; the men fortunately escaped by clinging to the wooden brackets until another barge took them on board.

An interesting child, five years old, daughter of Captain Gosling, R.N., broke her arm and severely lacerated her head, on Monday, by falling from a carriage in Oxford, through the coach-door not being properly secured. °The Cheltenham Chronicle relates, that Captain Gosling " who was sitting in the coach at the time, and had been seriously afflicted with an ague, was so suddenly shocked at the circumstance, that he was completely cured of the disorder, which has never trade its appearance since."

Mr. Best, who shot Lord Carnelford in a duel in 1804, died last week at Blau gums near Worcester, aged forty-nine.

Loss or TUE BIRMINGHAM AND Livenroos Mans—On Friday morningbctween two and three o'clock, the mail was proceeding from Manchester to Liverpool, with three inside passengers and one outside. At a small village called Lawton, which lies in a valley on the line of the mail-road, it was found to be exceedingly flooded from the effects of the immense quantity of rain which had fallen during this whole of the night, so as to render it apparently dangerous to attempt a pas- sage. On reaching the bridge, erected much below the canal, and which the mail generally passes over, it was found to be inundated with water, scarcely a lietitige of the bridge was to Inc seen : the coachman, however, whipped his sorses, and proceeded onwards, but hail not eerie far, when the brick-work of the bridge gave way;inol the coach; horses, and passengers, with the guard and ettachman, were precipitated, ce massc, into the flood. One of the inside passeue gem forced himself through the window, and got safely to land, as well as the coachman, guard, and outside passenger; but the other two not being able to get through the window, perished. Their names were Truman and Bennett, the former a linen-draper of Walsall, and the latter a resident of Liverpool. The bodies were found, and an inquest was held on them last Saturday. The coach was broken to pieces. THIRTEEN PERSONS POISONED.■A lamentable and mysterious circumstance has thrown the neighbourhood of Bury, Lancashire, into a state of great consterna- tion. The Select Vestry of Tottington meet annually to dine front the proceeds of fines made among themselves for non-attendance at the parish meetings. Thirteen of them met on Friday last at the house of W. Kay, at Nailes Green, and soon after dinner were all taken ill, with a burning heat and a fulness as if swelling, and then successively became sick and retched violently. It was evi- dent they were poisoned. Mr. James Booth was most affected, and suffered ex- cruciating agony till Saturday, when he died. The others continue seriously ill. An inquest was held on Wednesday, which after sitting a considerable time, ad- journed to the 25th inst. It is strongly rumoured that arsenic was diabolically mixed with the paste of which the puddings were made: and this is so far corro- borated on a postmortem examination as to cause the death of the deceased ; but whether from accident or design remains to be ascertained. On the body being opened, it was clearly proved by two medical gentlemen that the stomach had been violently acted upon by poison; the inner coat was greatly inflamed; the whole extent of the villous coat of the intestinal canal was more or less af- fected by the same deleterious substance ; and, from the tests applied to the coats of the stomach, and to the water in which the pudding was boiled, the examiners expressed their confidence that his death was occasioned by arsenic