At the Gloucester Assize., on Wednesday, Mr. Candler, formerlytat officer
in the Navy, obtained a verdict with 1001. damages against Mr. Crane, a clergyman, for criminal conversation with his wife. The adul- tery was proved; but it appeared that Mr. Crane would certainly lose his living, and moreover, that he had fought a duel with Mr. Candles and received his fire twice without returning it. This goes to explain why only 1001. was given in damages, when 5,0001. was the sum claimed.
A great portion of the Liverpool Mechanics' Institution was destroyed by fire on Friday last week. The following particulars are given in the Liverpool papers- " The theatre and the whole of its roof are completely destroyed. Me south eaitraoce is id,o destroyed, but the houses of the keepers on each side am preserved uniajutod. Part of the roof on the west of the building is also destroyed ; but tie whole of the exterior of the building, including the beauti- ful portico, is quite uninjured ; a circumstance which shows the care with which the operations of the firemen were directed. In the vestibule of the front were four statues ; one of these, representing the Goddess of War, is sup- posed to be about a thousand years old, having been found in the ruins of Pompeii. It was saved principally by the exertions of Inspectors Kerr and Cochrane. 'the statue after the INIedicean Venus and another statue were also saved; and the fourth escaped with the loss of its nose." The fire was discovered in the roof. The foundation-stone of this building was laid by Lord Brougham in the summer of 1835; and Ma Wyse, M. P., was to have delivered an address on Thursday at the ceremony of opening. The amount of the damage is estimated at 11,000/., but the whole building is insured for 6 0001. An inquest was held at Pullmrough, in West Sussex, on the 25t11 March, on the body of Mary Bushby, who died from starvation- She had been in the habit of receiving out-door relief under the old sys. tem ; and this was continued till lately under the new law, in come- gnome of her decrepitude and poverty. The Guardians of the district had lately stopped it, mid offered to take care of her in the workhouse. She, however, obstinately refused to go there ; and as her friends, who arc represented as respectable, took no care of her, and the woman with whom she lodged did not seem to know that she was reduced to extremity, death ensued ; and the Jury found the following verdict- " That the said Mary Bushby was found dead, having no marks of violeaet appearing Oil her body, and died from want of the common necessaries of life, oa lug to her great aversion and absolute refusal to go into the Uuion Work- house at Thakeham ; and the jurors express their regret that the Board of Guardians, under her peculiar circumstances, discontinued the payment of out- door relief to the said Mary Bushby." Au inquest, was held, on Thursday week, on the body of Campbell, who was accidentally shot at the Queen's Theatre in Manchester. Mr. Oilier, a surgeon, who had examined the body, said that he found a piece of a ramrod, four inches in length, and headed with brass, in the lungs of the deceased. Finlayson, who fired the shot which killed Campbell, declared that he knew of no charge but a piece of wet wad- ding which he had put into the pistol. The Jury returned a verdict-- that Campbell was shot " by accident and a certain degree of want of caution."
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