Mr. Gisborne, lately Member for North Derbyshire, met with a
serious accident a few days ago, by a fall from a runaway horse. He was severely hurt on the crown of the head.
Kinnear, the forger, was sent off from Kirkdale prison, on Tuesday, (or Woolwich, in a van with other convicts. He was in good health, end did not appear to be affected in any degree by his prostrate condi- tion. During the time he was confined in gaol, he subsisted on prison allowance, and complied with all its regulations without any complaint or apparent uneasiness. His wife, who is stated to be a well-educated woman, visited him in gaol only once, a few weeks before his trial. It spears she was living at Paris at the period of his apprehension.— Mow/nester Times.
Mr. Pain, a student at Oxford, and belonging to a wealthy family in Glamorganshire, killed himself, with a pistol-shot, a few days since, in consequence of having been jilted by the daughter of a solicitor in Glamorganshire.
William Hill, condemned for rape and murder, was hanged at Liver- pool on Saturday. Some expectation of a reprieve had been enter- tained ; and just as the criminal had reached the scaffold, a messenger appeared, with a letter to the Chaplain, in which was written "In great haste, affecting life and death ; " but it was only the letter of some foolish or unfeeling person, who wished the execution to be stayed, as le believed Hill to be innocent.
On Easter Tuesday afternoon, a very strange scene occurred in a town not a hundred miles from Barnsley. A quarrel arose among a number of the Irish who inhabit thereabout; and a regular Irish row seemed to be on the point of commencing, several of the party having stripped for the affray, when the Romish priest came running with a long whip in his hand, which he began to use somewhat unmercifully about the shoulders of his riotous flock, many of whom will have reason to remember for some time to come this singular mode of inter- ference.—Halifus Guardian
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