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of Mr. E. Scrimshaw, of Wisbech, were wilfully set on

fire. The w offered by Mr. Scrimshaw, and by the farmers and others in the neieshe the discovery of the author of " Swing" letters which have been sent is

well entitled to the consideration of the Government, when a new and a Love AND MURDER.—Two young women, the one a maid, the ether e:Ze Reformed Parliament shall take a retrospect of the present measure, for a widow, formed an a ttachment for one of the young swains of the loge of Newcastle, in the county of Carlow : an explanation took plaee, the purpose of tour ling its inaccuracies and supplying its defects.

and the maiden obtained a preference. The widow resolved on the &- struction of her rival, followed her to a field, where she was empleyel wer, which. the young woman, unsuspicious of any evil, was in the me eel"

tasting, when the widow t'irew spaneel over her head, and suddeele

twisting it, brought her victim to the ground, on which she continsaef to drag her until life was apparently extinct. She then fled. rsa immediately sent for, succeeded, after a considerable time, in restorireg of the influential portion of the Daily Press.] animation. The poor girl had her tongue and throat dreadfully swollm. and inflamed, and her jaw broken. So much for rivalling a widow:—

Edward Hickman, a veterinary surgeon, was convicted of inanslanginzei

in having caused the death of John Randells. It appeared that ala

parties, who were both on horseback, quarrelled on the Holyhead Reads and that Randells, in endeavouring to escape from the prisoner, was

thrown from his horse and killed. Hickman was sentenced to fourteen.

tZ little Taylor, near Chatham, we mentioned in our last Number, wax a d4 even rz appear, from any thing that transpired at the trial or after it, that les killing the rabbit to whose squeak the dying shriek of the child wa.

with horrid reality, compared by the brother of the slayer. liras 2za

'untutored boy like this, with his chubby cheeks and flaxen locks; ea,

every attribute of childhood, a proper subject for the halter and teas.

should receive its sanction by the sacrifice of infants ? Are our chili:Inez convulsions of the miserable boy were angry because they had to