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Tuesday next is the first day of partridge-shooting; and it is many sea- sons since the sportsmen entered a more cleared field, and with a better prospect of filling the game-bag. In Norfolk, Suffolk, and Eastern coun- ties, and Surrey, Sussex, and Southern counties, partridges are exceedingly plentiful; the mildness of last spring coupled the old birds earlier than usual; and the present summer being favourable to the hatching-time, the broods of partridges soon got on wing. In all quarters the covies of young birds are in full feather, strong on the wing, and average seven and eight brace in a covey; and from the early clearance of the corn-fields, the birds feed on the shed-corn in the stabbles, and are in very plump and good condition, but rather shy and wild. In many instances the old birds have hatched a second brood, which are yet small, and unable to take wing, and will be granted a respite by a fair sportsman. Hares in most counties are plentiful, and the leverets are full-grown. Pheasant-covers are well stocked, 'and are preserved till the 1st of October. In Sussex and Hants a good number of those choice and rare birds the cornrake or landrail have been flushed; which is unusual at this period of the year.—Horning Chronicle.

The three spacious parks provided for the recreation of the inhabitants of Manchester, were inaugurated with great pomp on Saturday last, which was observed as a holyday; and this enabled vast bodies of working men to swell the throng and take part in the rejoicings. The Municipal au- thorities started from the Town-hall, in a gay procession of equipages; bands of music performed; and from the windows and balconies variegated banners, bearing appropriate inscriptions, waved. The Peel Park, contain- ' thirty-two acres, was named by kr. W. B. Watkins, the Mayor of Manchester; the Earl of Ellesmere, who had engaged to officiate, being unable to attend. Mr. Watkins, in addressing the vast assemblage, stated that no fewer than five thousand working persons had contributed to the Park fund; and alluded to the manner in which they had been backed by their wealthy neighbours, as practically refuting the reproach that the ma- nufacturing and mercantile classes were actuated by the sole desire to ac- cumulate wealth without caring for the sufferings or enjoyments of their poorer neighbours. The Queen's Park was named by Mr. Mark Philips, one of the Members for the borough; and the Philips Park, named in honour of Mr. Philips, was christened by Mr. Eutwisle, one of the Mem- bers for South Lancashire.

The Sussex Protectionists are bestirring themselves to get up a testi- monial to the Duke of Richmond.

At the Liverpool Assizes, last week, Charles Lyon was tried for shooting at John Wainwright. The prisoner is a poacher, and Wainwright is a gamekeeper to the Earl of Derby. In April last, the keeper was in a public-house at night near Knowsley, when he heard shots fired; he went out by the back-door, and directly afterwards he was struck by several shots. Circumstantial evidence pointed to Lyon as the criminal. He was found guilty, and sentenced to be transported for fourteen years.

On Monday, James Seddon, aged seventeen, and Joseph Dean, twelve, were tried for the murder of a boy twelve years old, at Manchester. The trial occu- pied many hours; and the evidence, which was circumstantial, seriously impli- cated the prisoners. The Jury, however, were not satisfied, and acquitted the lads.

On Tuesday, Benjamin Barret was tried for the manslaughter of Robert Seddon. The prisoner was employed at a colliery; he absented himself for two days, and in consequence the ventilation of the mine was neglected; when the workmen went down there was an explosion, and Seddon and another were killed. After hearing evidence, Mr. Justice Wightman directed an acquittal; the testimony not support- ing the charge.

The Berwick branch of the North of England Joint Stock Bank was robbed on the morning of the 21st. The bank was closed on Thursday at the usual hour; the doors were locked, and the customary precautions for security taken. The safe-door is secured by a bolt, which communicates with the sitting-room above, and extends up into the bed-room on the third story; and when that bolt iaproperly shot, the safe cannot be opened without causing an alarm. On Friday morning it was discovered that thieves had opened the safe. How they managed to enter the house and to open the safe without causing an alarm, was a mystery. No locks were broken. It was supposed that the bolt of the safe had not been pro- perly secured. The cash-box was found lying open in the back-yard; it had not been emptied of all its contents, upwards of 2001. in gold and all the bills and letters of credit werein it: it was surmised that the robbers had been disturbed while rummaging it. The money taken consisted of 1,0001. in Bank of England notes, 1,4431. in Scotch notes, 361/ 10s. in gold, and 151. in silver. Mr. Thomp- son, the agent of the bank, was from home; Mr. Short, the senior clerk, slept in the house on Thursday night, as the agent was absent.

Extraordinary discoveries have since been made. In searching about, a con- stable observed that the water in a butt in the yard bad been disturbed: he put a stick in, and found something soft and bulky at the bottom; he drained the water off, and discovered two packages in strong brown paper, with a coarse towel round them; these turned out to be wroth! of silver, which had been made up in the bank on the afternoon of Thursday. Mrs. Thompson, the wife of the bank- agent, who slept in the house on the night of the robbery, came into the yard with others; and when it was known that these parcels had been found, she remarked that " she hoped the whole of the money would be found." Farther search was made, but nothing more was discovered. The matter having, however, been put into the hands of Mr. Stephens, the Newcastle Superintendent of Police, he examined all the inmates of the bank. A clerk and a book-keeper declared that the safe was properly secured on the Thursday. The clerk slept in the house • he heard no noise. Isabella Lamb, the nurse-maid, gave a very unsatisfactory account of the matter as far as she was concerned. She slept in the same room with Mrs. Thompson, on the same floor as the dininkroom, into which the safe-bolt passed: she said she was awakened by her mistress about half-past one o'clock, when her mistress said she heard a terrible noise: her mistress got up, and said she saw two men in the next yard to the bank, with a lantern; she went to sleep again and slept till morning. Mrs. Thompson'said she went to bed about ten o'clock, and heard Mr. Short come in at eleven: between twelve and one she heard a noise, and got up and looked out of the window into the yard; when she saw two men in the next yard: she awoke the house-maid, and asked her if she was toring the bell; but the girl said, "No, no: if there is any one in the place we shall loe murdered." She accordingly did not ring, but lay still till theperspiration poured of her. This part of Mrs. Thompson's testimony was contradicted by the or/ After hearing these statements, Mr. Stephens made a thorough search of the house; which ended in the discovery of the missing property. A quantity of gold and silver was found hid under the cellar-stairs. The bank-notes were found in Mrs. Thompson's bed and pillows, and in the pillow of a small cot-bed, which had been opened to conceal the property and sewn up again. In short, one dis- covery. succeeded another, till the entire missing property was found with the exeeption oftwo shillings. Ms. Thompson, on learning the discovery of the property, fell lattrhysteriest

fits; and as it was not thought proper, from her state of health, to take her into custody at the moment, she was placed under the surveillance of the matron of the gaol.

The directors have suspended Mr. Thompson, the bank-agent, considering that some suspicion attaches to him. Hitherto he had given great satisfaction to his employers; in addition to the bank agency, he acted as a general commission- agent- A serious accident, of which the following particulars have been published, oc- curred on the Brighton and Hastings Railway on Monday, about two miles beyond Pevensey. The road has only a single line of rails at present: at the spot where the disaster occurred, there is a pit whence the materials for ballasting are drawn; and parallel with the railway is a "siding," upon which the waggons, in order that the line may be kept clear, are drawn while loaded; and it is the ditty of the engineer when he takes a train upon this siding, to see that the points leading to it are turned, so as to prevent any following train passing upon it. On Monday, about one o'clock, an engine and a train of ballast-waggons were upon this siding, and the engineer had neglected to see that the points were tamed off: when the half-past twelve o'clock train from Brighton came up, the engine-driver, seeing the points improperly placed, endeavoured to stop the train; but was unable to do so, as it was going at the rate of twenty miles an hour; and it came into violent collision with the standing train in the siding. The engine and tender were thrown of the rails, iron plates torn and wrenched off, and the massive iron sides of the tender bent and dashed to pieces. The buffer-beams were also split to pieces. Some accounts say the points were self-acting; but that, from some un- known cause, they did not fall back when the ballast-train had passed. Mr. Perry,. a contractor, who was standing on the stationary engine, was thrown violently to the ground, and severely bruised, but not dangerously hurt. The fireman of the passenger-train was thrown down; and he was found lying at the mouth of the furnace covered with coke, his clothes on fire, and the boiling water rushing over, him: the gatekeeper saw and rescued him; and he was removed in a senseless state to the sluice-house. The driver and fireman of the stationary engine jumped eff, and received no hurt. Several of the passengers were thrown forward by the violence of the collision: teeth were knocked out, and faces cut; while the Rever- end Mr. Brown, of Tunbridge, suffered a broken leg. There was a surgeon in the train, who was busily employed in dressing the wounds of the passengers. One of the second-class passengers. was literally Lifted out of window by the vio- lence of the concussion; but the injuries he sustained were trifling. High encomiums are passed on the promptitude of the surgeon—Mr. Walton, of Fitzroy Square— who was so fortunately present.

It is said that of forty passengers who were in the train hardly one escaped un- injured. The hand of the stoker to the passenger-train, who was screwing up the break when the collision occurred, has been amputated.

On Sunday night a fatal accident occurred at the Farrington station of the North Union Railway. Robert Blackburn, a servant of the company, was spend- ing the day with some friends near. the station, and in the evening he wished to return home along the line. About nine o'clock a train was passing from Black- burn, but did not stop at the station. The man was cautioned by the station- keeper. not to attempt to get on; but as the speed was slackened, he resolved to ride; in the attempt he missed his footiog, was caught by the steps of the car- riage, and killed on the spot.

Agnell, a porter on the Great Western Railway, was killed at the Reading station on Saturday night, in consequence of the neglect of two policemen stationed there. Agnell and another porter had been removing a horse-box, by which Ag- nell was standing; the policemen omitted to change some points which had been. turned in the process; a train came up, went off the right line of rail, and dashed into the horse-box, the buffer of which struck Agnell in the side, and he died in a few hours.

A very destructive fire occurred on Sunday night, at Wenuington, near Parfleet, on the farm of Mr. Hill. It was discovered by a policeman, who saw a wheat- stack in the yard on fire at one corner; he raised an alarm, and assistance was speedily obtained from various quarters; the garrison at Purfieet supplying three enguies,and a large body of soldiers and Government workpeople. But this aid did not greatly avail: before midnight the whole contents of the stack-yard, consisting of six wheat-stacks, averaging fifty quarters in each, a rye-stack, a barley-staok and three hay-stacks, two barns, the bags of each filled with barley, and one of them containing fourteen quarters of wheat, a cow-house, two sheds, a waggon, three carts, a threshing-machine, and a stack of three hundred hardlesz were en- tirely consumed; the dwelling-house, granary, and stables closely adjoining, being alone saved. The reflection of the flames was seen as far as Blackfriars Bridge, (if not Bayswater) in one direction, and at Southend in the other. It is suspected. that the fire was wilful; though Mr. Hill paid wages above the average.

Walshaw, a pedlar living at Leeds, having ill-used one of his children, a num- ber of women resolved to " mob " him; and two of them went into the house to bring him into the street. In a rage, Walshaw pulled a parcel of knives from his pocket, took one in each hand, and dashed out of the room; two women were on the door-steps, and the man stabbed both. One did not long survive, and the other has since died. A Coroner's Jury has returned verdicts of " manslaughter"; and the man has been committed for trial.

The bodies of three of the the children of Sarah Chesman, who has been com- mitted to prison on a charge of poisoning the infant of a stranger, have been ex- burned at Clavering in Essex; and an examination of the viscera was made at Guy's Hospital: arsenic was found in the stomachs of all three.

A woman at Chatham is strongly suspected of having thrown an infant into a coke-oven ! She was seen to thrust something into the flames during the night; in the morning the form of a child's skeleton was seen on the coke, but the re- mains crumbled to ashes when touched.

We recently referred to the finding of human remains in a pit near Sturdy's Castle, on the road from Oxford to Banbury, and to the circumstance of lb. Brunner, the Coroner, having consulted Lord Denman as to holding an inquest We are informed that his Lordship is of opinion that there is no occasion to go be- fore a jury, and that en inquest will not be held on view of the remains.—Globs.

The brig Retrieve, bound from Newcastle to London, was run down in the Bos- ton Deeps, off the Spurn Light, on the night of Wednesday week, by the ship Charlotte, bound from Hull to Newfoundland. Three men were taken off the wreck by the Charlotte; but the master, steward, and four seamen, must have perished in the Retrieve, as there is no doubt that she foundered on getting clear of the Charlotte. The Charlotte was so much damaged that it was necessary to put back to Hull.

A tremendous hurricane, accompanied by torrents of rain, visited the neigh- bourhood of. Rugby. on Thursday week. A great number of large trees were snapped in two, agricultural produce was whirled away, and many buildings were injured. The tempest lasted for three hours.