OLD BAILEY SENTENCES..--OH Tuesday, the Recorder passed sentence on the
convicted prisoners. Death—James Rogers, Daniel Pace, William
Howe, Thomas Smith, William Anderson, Thomas Lumpton, Edward Dowling, Henry Dickson, James Carter, Thomas Elmes. Patrick Mul- len, John Buller, and Thomas Williams, for house-breaking. Thomas Stacey, James Cohen, and James Blacket, fur burglary. Henry Halfan,
Hannah Jones, Hannah Crew, and George 314Lauchlan, for stealing in a dwelling-house. Joseph Carter and Edward Johnson, for horse-steal-
ing. Frances Bagley, George Bagley, and George Forecast, for uttering counterfeit coin. Eliza Bacon, Elizabeth Lee, and James Sullivan, for robberies from the person ; and Walburges Elvira Roulette, alias Chris- tiana Echart, for felony. Seventeen were sentenced to be transported for life ; eighteen for fourteen years; and sixty-one for seven years.
LEGISLATORIAL PICKPOCKETS.—A gentleman had his purse abstracted. from his pocket in the Gallery of the House of Commons on Monday even. ing during the division on the Reform Bill.—Standard. [As none but members remain in the Gallery during a division, this could not have been an ordinary thief] Mn. W. BROUGHAM.—As Mr. William Brougham was walking along Prince's Street, on Wednesday night, on his way from the House of Commons to his Chambers in Lincoln's Inn, he received a violent and unprovoked blow from three men whom be happened to meet. He gave two of them in charge, and the case was examined into at Bow Street next day. Mr. Brougham was, however, unable to identify the man that struck him ; and as he declined prosecuting the matter further, the parties were discharged,—one of them, who confessed to being drunk, having been previously fined five shillings. Mits. Hunr.—This respectable member of the Hunt family, who, it may be recollected, was convicted at the Police-office of gross neglect of the sick in Cripplegate Workhouse, and of great cruelty to a dying pauper there, was tried yesterday at the London Sessions, found guilty, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. INcErtDrAnism.—We have the painful duty of stating, that a fire, undoubtedly kindled by an incendiary, took place near Callington, on Monday night. At an early hour, the inhabitants were alarmed by cries of " Fire ! " which it was soon ascertained had taken place in a mow. hay belonging to Mr. John Sambells, assistant-overseer of the poor for that parish. The most prompt assistance was given, under the direc- tion of the principal gentlemen of the place, and the lames were extin- guished, but not before a valuable stack of oats and great part of a rick of hay were destroyed. A melancholy occurrence took place in conse- quence of the fire above mentioned. A poor man named Kitto, who re. sided at some distance from Callington, seeing the flames as he was about to go to bed, hastened towards the spot ; he unfortunately fell into a shaft of an old mine, by which his head was dashed to pieces.—West Briton.
Last week, the premises belonging to North Street farm, in the pa. rish of Broad Chalk, Wilts, were destroyed by fire in the night-time. On the evening of Monday the 12th instant, a barn, blacksmith's-shop, and cider-house, situate in the parish of Urchfont, in the same county, were maliciously set on fire, and totally consumed, together with a quantity of corn, bay, and a cider-press, the property of Mr. Thomas Alexander, of Urchfont. A most respectable person, who passed through Whitchurch, on Wednesday last week, saw seventeen corn-stacks on fire at one time.
POLICE AND POACHERS.—An affray took place on Sunday at Pately Bridge, near Ripon between a number of poachers and four officers em- ployed to apprehend two of them ; which terminated in two of the officers being left for dead, and one being most seriously bruised. The criminals of course escaped. ALLEGED MURDER.--A man named Reeves was charged at Hatton Garden, on Thursday, with murdering his wife. It was proved that he had beaten her severely, and several bruises were perceptible on the head of the dead woman. The inquest has found a verdict of '1 murder." HOLLOWAY THE MURDERER.—We understand that Holloway at- tempted to destroy himself last week in Horsham Gaol, but was prevented. A day or two ago he attempted to convey a letter to the female prisoner Kennett in a loaf of bread, which, however, was discovered by the gaoler. —Brighton Gazette. THE MURDER NEAR Ernssuiton.—The body of the murdered child has, it appears, been claimed, and the murderer discovered. He turns out to be the father. The following particulars are from the Edinburgh papers. " The miserable man, litho is a ship carpenter, of the name of George Waters, was apprehended on Wednesday morning, in a stair of Stockbridge, where he had taken refuge. From his statement at the Police-office, it appears that he had not been at home from the Saturday preceding, but went. home on Tuesday forenoon • his wife was out when he arrived at his dwelling in the Cable Wind, Leith ; he left it, and met his hapless son at play with some boys in the street, who were amusing themselves with sand. They had a table-fork with them which the luckless child took along with-him when the father called to him to follow. They proceeded to town by the Bennington-road, intending to visit an aunt of the child (the sister- .the murderer), who resided NWOUTaberland Street, They passed
Canonmills, and wandered about till they arrived in the fatal field. The father had previously asked the boy to give him the fork to carry, when on arriving near the ditch, the father, without cause or irritation, but, as he says, impelled by the Devil, struck the child a heavy blow on th. forehead with the but-end of the fork, and afterwards stabbed him re peatedly in the breast. The unfortunate victim fell without a groan,
• and, in the words of the father, " died like a lamb." His recollection from that instant forsook him, and, like the first murderer, he wandered forth in misery and despair, not knowing where to lay his head. He -went into a public-house at Cramond, and pretended to engage two men to take a raft to Leith ; but his conversation was so incoherent as to at- tract the attention of other persons in the room. He first asked if they had seen any remarkable light in Leith, and on their answering in the negative, he said they soon would. He was then asked if his raft was aground ? he answered, " No; but it soon would be, as the tide was going back." They then inquired if he had a boat. He said " No." When they asked how he had got ashore, he answered, " The best way he could." One of the party then examined his shoes by the light of a candle, and found that they were not wet. This scrutiny roused his in- dignation; and he went to the door, and was observed to take something from under a seat outside, which was rolled in a piece of paper. He then returned to the house, and having unrolled the package, said, show- ing a three-pronged fork; with a green handle, " Have you ever seen any thing like that ?" and, at the same moment, made a thrust at the person who had examined his shoes. Believing him to be insane, the instrument was taken from him. On the examination of the body on Wednesday, fifteen punctures were found in the breast-bone towards the left side ; the medical gentlemen by whom it was dissected agreed that the child's death had been occasioned by the punctures in the sternum, four of which had penetrated the heart, and proved instantly fatal. The heart was wholly empty, all the blood in it having flowed into the cavity of the thorax."
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