A great number of individuals were fined and held to
bail at Marl- borough Street Ploice office on Wednesdap, for assaulting and hooting the:Adige, and other .offences tending to produce a breach of the
peace. Some of the prisoners had been found carrying boards with inflam- matory inscriptions ; others, tai-coloured flags ; and others—we did not know that this was an offence before—with wearing tai-coloured cockades. One man was convicted of crying " No Peel ! ' and three of crying " No Sing "
DEATH BY FIGHTING.—At an adjourned inquest that sat on Wed- nesday at Greenwich, a man named Richard Neale was declared guilty of manslaughter, for blows inflicted in a fight on one William Tyson, on the 25th ult. who died very soon after. The fight was for ten shillings !
MURDER OF MACDONA'LD.—We noticed, when it happened, the death of this man, which was committed in the neighbourhood of Ceres, county of Fife. The perpetrator, Robert Dempster, has been arrested. It is now said that he was provoked, by a blow from the deceased, to strike him with his hammer, and that he gave him but one blow. This considerably alters the view of the whole affair.
ExEc uTrom.—At the Court held on Friday, the whole of the crimi- nals on the Recorder's list were respited, except John Gorman, convicted of aggravated highway robbery ; who was ordered for execution on Thursday next.
MURDER AT PLYMOUTH.— Two boys, one six, and the other nine years oa g e, were murdered by their motheron Friday evening, last week. The miserable woman.is supposed to be insan TENDER Pine wrs.—At Waterford, a few days ago, a drunken ref. fian, named Power, being prevented by a neighbour, a female, from beating his wife, seized his infant, a fine boy four years of age, and diCd. This was life yvath, in Scotland, a ut four years old, and
threw him over the window : the child has since in Ireland. On Wednesday last week, at Carn
sober brute waylaid his child, which was also abo
Which was boarded with a female of the village, and deliberately at- tempted to cut its throat with a knife which he had sharpened for the purpose ! The hand of the little innocent ;vas pierced through in de- fending itself against its father. •
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