THE PILFERING NURSE.—Dora Fenn, the female who was charged recently
with the robbery of Lord Ingestrie, was again brought up for examination yesterday. Several additional acts of _robbery have been discovered ; in fact she seems to have practised pilfering wherever she was engaged as a nurse. The Duke of Buccleuch has determined to prosecute.
DANGEROUS AMUSEMENTS FOR GENTLEMEN.—MT. Edward Col. man (son of the Dramatic Censor) was charged at Queen Square Police Office, on Friday, with stealing two pewter-pots from a publican. Two respectable-looking persons, his companions who gave their names Mr. James Kelly and Mr. James Baker, were also charged with him. It appeared that on the preceding evening the parties had gone into a pub- lic-house and called for some brandy and water, and when they had finished their glass, Colman retired with a quart pot under his coat and a pint one in his pocket. Mr. Colman, on being called upon for his de- fence, said he had been dining with some friends at Chelsea, and had drunk too much ; he took the pot without any felonious intent, but how the other came into his possession he could not tell, and he supposed his friends must have placed it there for a joke. Mr. White—" You must have known that you had the quart-pot in your hand ? " Mr. Col- man...." I suppose I must. It is certainly very ridiculous conduct ; but I can assure you I meant nothing felonious." The prisoners were fully committed for trial, and bail refused.
A SWINDLER sr; Lova AND TRADE.A fellow styling himself Statile. lane Jaunsen, a distinguished Pole, recently eloped with a young lady from her residence near Shaftesbury, having prevailed upon her to ac- company him by a promise of marriage. The "lovers "made their way to Andover ; where the skilful impostor took lodgings, and obtained his provisions from a neighbouring hotel. After a few days, the young lady's suspicions were aroused, as no steps were taken to celebrate the marriage, and she remonstrated. Upon this, the impostor locked her up, and, with a naked razor in his hand, threatened to destroy her if she did not yield to him. In the mean while, the parents of the lady became alarmed, and used every exertion to discover the retreat of their daughter, but in vain. The landlord of the hotel, who had supplied Jaunsen with provisions, hearing of the elopement of a young lady, suspected that these parties were the delin. titients, and informed her relatives. Jaunsen, it is supposed, had some intimation of the pursuit, and decamped. The history of this fellow would supply many curious instances of the credulity of our country- women. Assisted by his foreign costume, and a Manner the most plan.. sible, he has insinuated himself into the good graces of the fair. A few years since, he figured in the West, and was tried at Exeter for swindling, but acquitted on account of some informality. His practice is to pretend that he waits for remittances, and that he follows the occupation of painting blinds until they arrive. He has skilfully deluded the most astute, by producing franked letters and official documents, recognizing his rank in the Russian army, which, though forged, have all the appearance of authenticity. He once courted a young lady in Devonshire, and would have been accepted, but a relative chose to inquire after the pretensions of this personage at the Foreign Office, and at the Ambassador's • by which means the imposture was detected, and he escaped, only to change the character of his depredations, from stealing ladies' hearts, to swind-
ling tradesmen. Ile has now, we perceive, reverted to his former avocation. •
ATTEMPTED Assassissarsciar.—Three men who had worked at Messrs. Lightoller and Co.'s mill at Manchester, lately struck for higher wages. Last week four fresh hands were procured. These men were lodged in the house of another workman employed by Messrs. Lightoller. About one o'clock on Thursday morning last week, the family were ter- ribly alarmed by an explosion, which shook the whole house, blew out the doors and windows, and destroyed the furniture ; luckily, however, without doing any injury to the inmates, w:io were eight- in number. The explosion was found to have proceeded from a large quantity of powder, which had been let down the chimney by a string, and fired by a bit of slow match. This is a second attempt within a couple of weeks to assassinate by a species of infernal machine.
MY BRAVE ENGLISH —On Monday, a band of ruffian Yorkshiremen beset a few Irish labourers, who were peacefully working in the employ- ment of Mr. Flower, bargemaker, of Rotherhithe, and beat one of them so brutally that his life is despaired of. The occasion of the attack was as praiseworthy as the attack itself was brave. The Yorkshiremen had previously worked for Mr. Flower in unloading and loading sand-barges, and after repeated misconduct and repeated warnings, had been dis- missed his employment, and the Irishmen taken in their stead ! Three of the ringleaders were seized, and carried for examination to Union Hall ; where, on the evidence of Mr. Flower, they were held to bail. How happened it that bail was taken before it was clearly ascertained that the wounded man was out of danger ? HAYMAKERS.—A number of Irish labourers have congregated lately about Barnet, where' being unable to find work, they have been gene- rously supplied with food by the gentlemen in the neighbourhood. On Wednesday, the weather of haymaking having improved, the rations were discontinued ; when nearly two thousand of the vagabonds assem- bled, and, after some preliminary speechifying. proceeded to plunder the whole of the shops in the town. A number of the townspeople at length collected, and the ruffians were driven out of the town, and dispersed, seven or eight of the ringleaders having been first of all seized arid com- mitted to gaol.
According to Sir Richard Birnie, five of the unemployed haymakers had been found dead in the fields in the Western parts of Middlesex within the last week : they had perished from want of sustenance.
AFFRAY WITH SMUGGLERS.—On Saturday seunight a desperate fight took place on the road leading to Cambo, between Mr. Collector Evans, his clerk, and a supernumerary of excise, and a couple of smug- glers named Kennedy and O'Hara. The collector and his party had endeavoured to seize two casks of smuggled spirits, whichthe smugglers were carrying;" in which attempt they were most desperately • beaten. The clerk was stabbed in three places in the neck, and had nearly all his teeth knocked out. The worsted party were fOund lying on the road ; whence they were removed to Wallington, the seat of Sir John Tre- velyan. Sir John's servants immediately set out in pursuit of the smug- glers, and after a four-miles' chase, succeeded in capturing them, and conveying them to Morpeth jail. SENSIBLE BURGLARY.—The Albion tavern at Wolverhampton was broken into on Tuesday last 'week, and a number of articles carried off. The thieves seem to have known what was what : among the plunder were' "four gallons of brandy, three gallons of gin' six bottles of wine, six bottles of cider, two flitches of bacon, a boiled ham, a quantity of butter, a tea-pot, a fur-tippet, an umbrella, a man's hat, and a couple of hampers to convey the booty." SUICIDE AND INFANTICIDE:A woman in Dublin, a tradesman's wife, poisoned herself and her two children with arsenic, on Wednesday, last week. The whole of them died in great agony, in Mercer's Hos- pital, on Thursday night. SLAUGHTER OF THE LATE MR. 0.GRADY.--••The Dublin Mail states on authority, that there is no foundation for the rumour that Captain Smith, by whom Mr. O'Grady fell, will be tried by a court- martial, or that he has resigned his commission. PUNISHMENT or THE Pittoar.—Peter James Bossy, the man vho pleaded guilty at the last Old Bailey Sessions of wilful and corrupt rerjury, and was sentenced to be pillored, underwent that sentence on Tuesday morning in front of the Debtor's Door, Newgate ; and in pre- zence of an immense assemblage of persons, as no similar exhibition has faken place for twelve years. We have heard that Bossy is the son of a oelebrated mountebank, who used to exhibit on Tower Hill.
A BITE WORSE THAN a DOG'S.—On Saturday last, at Wortham, a man inhumanly bit off a considerable part of his mother's nose, and at- fempted to tear out her tongue. He was taken into custody, and com- mitted to the county prison.—Maidgtone Journal. M. Co unnir R.—Fremont, who acknowledged himself to be the assassin of this gentleman, died at Tours on the 18th, of apoplexy, brought on, I is supposed, by the agitation of the trial.