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A fire broke out on Friday morning, at Langley Lodge, near Wind- sor, the residence of Mr. Thomas Forman, in the chamber of Mrs. Forman. The building was reduced to ruins ; and Mrs. Forman was
burnt to death. The neighbours gave active personal assistance ; but the fire raged for two hours before anybody thought of sending to Windsor for the engines. Mr. Forman himself was in London when the accident happened ; and, having been sent for, arrived in time to see that the bare walls were all that remained of his house, and to hear that his wife had lost her life in the flames.
On Saturday, a young man of very respectable connexions, clerk in the house of Messrs. Tebbutt, Stoneman, and Spence, was sent by his employers to get cash for a check for 8001. at their bankers. As he did not return in a reasonable time to his business, suspicions were
entertained that he had abseonded ; and those suspicions were realized upon inquiry at the banking-house, where he had a considerable time previously received the amount. It was found that the accused had take% a place in the Star coach for Liverpool, in another name, and had started at half-past six o'clock. Mr. Storieman and Male-ham, the inspector of the City Police, immediately took a post-chaise and gal- loped after the Star. Upon entering the inn at which the Star stop- ped, they found the accused sitting at dinner with the other passengers ; and Mr. Stonemau asked him whether he was not alarmed at seeing them ? to which he coolly replied, that be was not, as he expected nothing else. Marchant took 8001 ii, bank-nozes from the person of the accused ; who, upon being asked whether he had thing else about him, said, " Oh, yes, my purse and sixpence," and flung them to the officer. Mr. Stoneman, in speaking to the young man, told him, that although he had committed that fully, his friends would be still happy to receive 1 ; and Merchant requested that he would allow a closer search to be made. To this he ubjecred strongly, but requested five minutes to himself. This proposition was acceded to, and he sat down at the bead of the table, and leaned his head upon his hand. Marchant and Mr. Stoneman sat down at another part of the table, but in a few minutes were disturbed by the re-port of a pistol. The unfortunate young man had discharged a bullet into his head above the left eye. iii it few minutes, however, he recovered his senses, and asked for the other pistol, which lay by him, " to shoot his heart out of him." He then, to the surprise of every one in Coe house, ran up stairs. He was put to bed, and the medical men pronounced the wound mortal, but said that he might linger two or three days. He appears to be about nineteen years of age, and is a person of rather dashing appear- ance.- Times.
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