All expectation of finding the body of Lady Salisbury amidst
the ruins ut Hatfield House seems to be abandoned. The Hertford Reformer says, that " On three previous occasions the life of Lady Salisbury had been endangered by fire, and that on one of them her arm was burned very severely. But 'he had a particular dislike to admit her perception of the growing infirmities of age, and seldom allowed her maid to be in the coons with her, unless when actually wanted. To this her fate must be in a great measure attributed. There is no truth, we believe, in the repo t that her jewels, which are exceedingly valuable, were at Hatfield at the time of the fire. They had, very fortunately, been left in London."
On the 27th November, the interior of the tower of Stoke Castle, in Shropshire, the property of Earl Craven, was discovered to be on tire. A fire-engine was immediately sent for from Ludlow. There being a plentiful supply of water from a large pool near to the Castle, and the firemen and men of the neighbourhood using great exertions and skill in their operations, the conflagration was confined to the tower, and the other parts of the ancient and curious castle were preserved from damage.
During the night of Thursday week, a desperate affray took place at Long Shaw, in the Hantfield parish, near Tunbridge Wells, between four keepers of Earl de Lawarr and a gang of poachers, armed with firearms and bludgeons. The gamekeepers succeeded in capturing one of the poachers, who has since been committed to Lewes, to take his trial ; another was severely wounded.—Kent Herald.
Robert Hudson was committed to gaol on Tuesday, by Mr. Reid, a Surry Magistrate, on a charge of stabbing, with intent to kill, Eliza- beth Levi, a woman with whom he cohabited, in a street at Croydon. He came down from London with the design to kill her : the woman was wounded in the neck, but is expected to recover.
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