At the Landon Session, on IVednesdny, Charles Wadham Wyndham Penruddock
was seetenced to twelve months' imprisonment, and ordered to find sureties for future good behaviour, as a punishment for com- mitting a violent assault on Mr. Hardy, one of the examiners at Apothecaries Hall, who had refused to give the prisoner a certificate. The uffenco was committed about six weeks ago.
At the Mansionhouse, on Monday, Robert Johnson and several other Men dismissed from the British Auxiliary Legion in Spain, complained that they had been landed at Portsmouth destitute, with- out the pay or gratuities they had a right to claim. Altogether there were sixty-eight men who had to solicit relief, in consequence of this ill-treatment. The Lord Mayor promised to write to the Spanish Ambassador in their behalf. On Tuesday, they again applied at the Mansionhouse, to know whether any reply had been received from the Ambassador. The Lord Mayor had left the office ; but Mr. Holler told them that no reply bad been received ; and he recommended them to send a deputation to M. Aguilar, and gave them twenty shillings. On Wednesday, they called to let the Lord Mayor know the result of their application to M. Aguilar. It appeared that his Excellency had refused to listen to their complaints ; but he wrote to the Lord Mayor, stating his regret at his inability to relieve the men—they had been sent home for misconduct, and any money he advanced would not be repaid. The Lord Mayor then said, that as most of them came from Scotland, he would commence a subscription to pay for their passage home : he accordingly contributed 5/. Money was also given them ti purchase some food. It appears from a statement in the Chronicle, that these men having inlisted for two years, laid down their arms, and refused to serve to the end of their term ; and that fourteen of theta bad been in the prison of Santander for various crimes. This is give' as the excuse for shipping them off from Spain.
At the Marlborough Street Office, on Tuesday, Chapman, a tailor, was charged with making a disturbance at the house of Mr. Walter, John Street, Berkeley Square, a Magistrate for the county of Notting- ham. The defence wits, that Walter was living in adultery with Chapman's wife. Walter admitted that the woman was living with
him ; and tinder these circumstances, although Chapman had nearly demolished Mr. Walter's kitchen-dour with a hatchet, and behaved is an outrageous manner. Mr. Comet, the Magistrate, only fined him a shilling, and ordered his discharge. On Saturday, Greenacre and the woman Gale were brought b. clots the Magistrates at the Marylebone Office ; and a good deal of evidence
was given, which tended indirectly to implicate the woman in a guilty knowledge of the death of Hialeah Brown. The prisoners were re- manded, mud ;loin brought tip on Wednesday; when they were finally committed fur trial,—which it is expected will take place in the Central Criminal Court on Monday. Previously to his committal, Greenacre signed the statement, the principal part of which we gave last week, of the circumstances attending Hannah Brown's death. Gale also signed a statement, corrobating that of Greeenacre, as far as she was con- cerned. Greenacre has drawn up a sort of memoir of his past life, with a view to create the impression that be had always been a reputable person, of some property, and a kind husband to three wives. He was in business for twenty years in Southwark, and was elected Overseer of the parish of St. George in 1832. He complains bitterly of the horrible stories circulated about him in the newspapers.
On Monday evening, some boys playing near Christchurch, Harrow Road, found the body of a newly-born female child, and its head at a little distance. The head had apparently been cut off by a blunt instrument ; its right arm was also nearly cut in two near the elbow. The excitement in the neighbourhood was naturally very great, as the body of the child was found not very far from the place where Hannah Brown's mangled corpse was first discovered. The perpetrator has not yet been discovered.
An inquest was held on Saturday,-on the body of Joshua Bensusan, a pupil at the academy of Mr. Cohen, of Hammersmith, who hung him- self in the schoolroom on the Thursday morningprevious. The boy, who was only nine years of age, had been ordered by Mr. Cohen to stand for some time in a corner of the schoolroom under a board, on which the words " disobedient boys" were written. He was also not ullowed to dine with his schoolfellows, as a punishment for break- ing some lilac shrubs. He had not been beaten, or otherwise harshly treated ; but when the servant came to bring his dinner to the school- room, he was found hanging by his handkerchief to one of the hat. pegs, quite dead. It appeared that he was a remarkably sensitive, me eons child. Mr. Cohen was spoken of by several witnesses as being a kind and lenient master. The Jury gave a verdict of " tem- porary mental derangement." The extensive premises of Messrs. Creswick and Ryan, (cabinet. makers, we suppose,) New Compton Street. Soho, were nearly bunt down on Monday night. The damage is estimated at between :20,0001, and :311,000/., and upwards of a hundred workmen are thrown out of employ, by the accident.
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