A FATHER THE Munnens:n Or Iris Soar.—On Monday, an inquest
was held at Neroche Hill, near Chard, on the body of a boy about twelve years of age, son of a man named Lane, who has a small farm at Dead- man's Point, in the parish of Buckland, St. Mary. It appeared that the child had on many occasions been treated in the most barbarous manner by his brutal father ; that on the previous Friday he beat him in the field until he was unable to rise ; he then threw him into a ditch, and on his being taken out by a neighbour, struck the boy a heavy blow on the head, which stunned him ; he then carried him home on his back, and threw him down on the floor, still in a senseless state. This was about nine o'clock in the evening, nor was it until six o'clock next morning that he was laid on a bed ; and he expired about seven. The murderer has been committed to Ilchester gaol for trial. A HUSBAND THE MURDERER or ins WIFE.—OR Saturday night, a poor woman, the wife of a porter named M‘Feat, residing in Shuttle Street, Glasgow, was murdered by her husband. Both parties were intoxicated. The cries of the miserable woman were heard • by the neighbours but she and her husband had quarrelled so often that they were disregarded. There were various marks of blows on the body, and several wounds on the abdo- men, inflicted with a sharp instrument. 141`Feat was immediately seized and conveyed to gaol. POISONING IN SPORT.—At an inquest held last week at Denham, on the body of Elizabeth Turner, aged nineteen, a verdict of manslaughter was returned against three men for administering cantharides to the deceased in beer. They declared that they had no intention to cause death. One of the men was brother to the deceased. They are all in custody.
VIOLATION AND MURDER.—Four ruffians laid hold of a poor woman, near Dalkeith, in Scotland, last week, and used her so brutally that she died in great agony in a day or two after. The ruffians, or four men who are suspected to be the same, are in custody.
An inquest was held on Thursday, at the Carpenters' Arms, in Allen Street, Clerkenwell, on the body of Francis Monk, a poor man in the employment of a silversmith. It appeared that the daughter of the deceased, a girl of twelve, had been grossly abused by a person of the name of Robson. The deteased became frantic in consequence, and cut his throat. The Jury re- turned a verdict, "That the deceased committed the act himself, in a de- ranged state of mind, occasioned by the infamous conduct of a man named Robson towards his daughter." Coroner—"If he were hanged for it I should not be sorry."
FORGERY.—A female named Harding was charged at Hatton Garden, on Tuesday, with uttering a forged check for two pounds. After some hesita- tion, she said she got it from a person named Chapman, who wasaccordingly taken into custody. Chapman, who had formerly been a commissary under Government, said he found the check in question, together with some law *papers, on the previous Wednesday. A Spaniard, named Coesta, has been charged at a police-office in Dublin, by a young woman named Judith Kelly, with having administered to her a dose of poison, which she suspected to be intended as a love potion, because she didnot like him as well as another young man, an Irishman. She said she did take the potion, but had the stomach-pump immediately applied, and was thus instantaneously relieved of every remnant of affection for the Spa- niard. Judith Kelly told her mother what had happened, and the mother told a great big Irishman, who was about demolishing the Spaniard, but the Spaniard made a stab at him with his knife and cut him ; for which offene informations were taken against him, and he will be tried before the Re. corder. The Spaniard denied most vehemently the charges that were brought against him, and alleged that it was all a conspiracy to get from him a few pounds that had been subscribed to enable him to go to London. MI LIT AltY PUNISH ME NT.—In the Belfast barracks on Saturday last, John Harknett, a private in the 0th regiment, who was convicted of having loaded his musket with the intent of shooting his Adjutant, and whose punishment was deferred until the approbation of the Commander-in-Chief was obtained, received 600 lashes, being a commutation of the sentence, which had been originally 099.—Belfast News Letter.
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