TRIP Atacntous AND LEGAL.—Joseph Spencer, a genteel young man, contrived,
on Tuesday night last week, to insinuate himself so effectnt ally into the good graces of Martha Simmonds, a maid of low degree, in the gallery of the Queen's Theatre, that the lady on Thursday agreed to receive his visits as her future husband. On Thursday, the render of Mr. Spencer's hand was made ; on Saturday, a cart filled with furniture for his future menage arrived at her brother's apartments ; on Sunday, Mr. Spencer. in company with Martha, visited Huston, in order to have the honour of an introduction to the rest of her family ; on Monday, he proposed to her brother a trip to Paris, previous to the trip of Miss Martha to the altar,—when in walked Sergeant Mason, of the Police, and, civilly accosting Mr. Joseph, beg,ged the pleasure of his company in a trip to the watch-house. It turned out, that the amorous youth was the gentleman's gentleman of Mr. Conway, solicitor, in Farrington Street ; and that the cart-load of furniture with which he was to accommodate Miss Simmonnis, had been takers by mistake from Mr. Conway's lodg- ings. "And," said the Marylebone Magistrate, before whom, on Mon- day, the case was investigated, to Miss Martha, "thus ended your brother's trip to France, and your trip to the altar ?" "Yes !" rejoined the young holy, "and I wish au end could be put to him also, for he richly deserves it." Mr. Spencer was committed. His next trip will probably be a very distant one. MAGISTE kr AL WISDOM.—A man and his mother were lately seized by the police of Manchester,charged by a parcelof the lowest and most ignorant of the populace of that town with killing children and making pies of them ! The man was what is called an articulator,—that is, a person who pre. pares skeletons, human or animal, for medical men and others. These poor people were discharged on Thursday last week, after being detained for a fortnight in custody, on a charge which none -but an idiot could make or credit, with a sapient cantion—against pursuing any avocation which was in, itsey illegal, as they had had a narrow escape of being com- mitted for trial on the present charge ! Lord Brougham would do well to have a magisterial reporter, in order that, when purifying the lists, be may know what names to strike out. Putting together the bones of a skeleton, is, it seems, an illegal act—under what statute ?
Mu EDT:E.—About nine o'clock on Sunday morning,a riot and fight took place in Brewer's Court. Bed tbrd bury ; in the course of which, a man named Dockery was killed by another earned Gallagher. Between eight and nine, Gallagher was observed to drag the body of the murdered man from the house No. 4, of the ,mall court where the deed had been committed, and to throw it down with violence on the pavement. Information of the riot was immediately communicated to the watch-house in Covent Garden ; but when the police arrived. the body had been again dragged into the house ; and Gallagher, and Moran, the master of the house, had run off. They were soon after found; and, together with Moran's wife and several others, sent to the watch-house. The parties were examined an Monday ; when the handle and iron part of a shovel stained with blood, which had been found in Moran's house, were produced. Dockery's skull was severely fractured, evidently by blows hill icted by these weapons.
Gallagher, against whom a verdict of " murder" had been found by the Coroner's Inquest, Edward Gallagher, his brother, subsequently apprehended, Martin Moran, and his wife, were finally examined on Thursday, and fully committed for trial. Edward Gallagher was iden- tified by a witness as having twice struck the deceased, Dockery, in the sleek.
SUSPECTED Menoem—On Thursday night, an unfortunate female was found dead in Justin Street, Hooper Street, New Cut. There were several marks of violence on the body. During the day, high words were heard between her and a man with whom she cohabited, and she was twice heard exclaiming, " Don't murder me." The body was found, in the evening, quite cold. The man to whom the murder is at- tributed had in the interim got away.
MURDER. AT Doorem—The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has offered a reward of 5001. for the discovery of the murderers of the five policemen who fell victims to popular vengeance at this place on Easter Monday.
GLASGOW COACH Rouesses.—An individual has been apprehended as accessory to the robbery ; and has confessed himself to be the person who was in the coach along with the individual in female dress. That person, he says, committed the act with his own hand, and took the money to a plantation in the neighbourhood ; where they threw off their disguise, and were met by another of the gang, to whose charge the spoil was committed. Another deposit of gold has since been disco. vered at 'Lida, in the house of one of the persons already committed for trial. Soon after the robbery was committed, the box was sunk into a coal-pit, fifty fathom deep, along with, the tools used by the principal thief. The officer found out the pit, and with, grappling-irons brought up the spoil in a basket. In the basket were a brace and a bit, which were identified as the property of a person who had lent them to the coachproprietor.—G/asssoto Courier.
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