LENT ASSIZES. POACHING. —Five men have been tried at Aylesbury for

having entered a wood at Chalfont St. Peter, armed with guns and bludgeons, with the intent to kill game. They were overpowered by the gamekeepers, and secured with some dead pheasants in their possession ; but it did not appear that they had added to their offence the aggravation of personal vio- lence towards the keepers. The jury, who found them guilty, recommended

kem to mercy on this account; and they were sentenced to seven years'

transportation. The full penalty of the law is transportation for fourteen years.

RoBBERY.--James Huban and William Nicholls, were charged at the Wor- cester Assizes with having robbed the house of Elizabeth Brydges, at Overs-

bury, of some plate and cash. On the night of the robbery, Mrs. Brydges (who is about seventy years of age, and the aunt of Huban) was awakened out of her sleep by something glimmering before her eyes. She saw two men in her room with candles in their bands. " Who are you?" she asked ; "what do you want?" " Your life or your money," they replied. Mr. Justice Park.—" Attend, now, don't gabble so fast." Witness.—" I said I had none, and they should not have it. Haan, came and drew the curtain, and took hold of my. watch. With that I jumped up and took bold of it by the ball, and he held it by the chain and seals. I had also two of his fingers in my hand, and tore it fronts him and threw it behind my pillow. The short luau, Nicholls, then stepped up to my bedside with a monster of a cleaver in his hand, and desired Inc to ' lie still and be quiet' Huban again said he would have my money. I said he should not. My god-daughter said' Do let them have it.' I then said it was in the drawer in the parlour. Huban then left the room, and Nicholls stood by me with the cleaver over my head, desiring use to be still. I said, God bless me, that is my cleaver ; how came you in, and who are you ?' Huban then returned and said, That is not all the money you have gut.' I said it was. He then had the poker in his hand, and he went to my servant in the other bed and said, Now I'll have your money.' He then returned and said, ' have that watch or your life.' I said, That's a keepsake ; my life is of no consequence, and it shall go first.' As Huban was going to strike me, Nicholls got hold of him and said, No, no' " The witness here got hold of one of the learned counsel near her, and pushed and shook bins very vigorously, to show how Nicholls opposed her being struck. Mr. Justice Park—" 1 tell you what, ma'am, we must not have so much acting here. We are on the life of man, one of the most grave causes that can be. You must therefore give your evidence without such exhibitions." The pri- soners (the witness added) soon after left the house, threatening to set it on fire if the inmates gave any alarm. The old woman identified the cleaver, poker, and plate. The prisoners were found guilty. The Judge delayed sen- teuce ; but intimated, that Huban would probably be condemned to die, be- cause of the violence he had threatened to the prosecutrix.

Muanen.—Jane Jameson was tried at Newcastle, on the charge of having murdered her mother. On the '2d of January, the prisoner called upon her mother, at the Keelmen's Hospital, where site resided. She was drunk a the time, and some angry words passed between her and the deceased. She was seen standing before her mother, presenting a poker at her, which she held in both hands ; and in less than a minute after, the old woman was heard to say, " Oh, dear me !" the daughter immediately called out, " My mother!—oh, my mother h" The deceased was found sitting on the floor, bleeding at the breast, and the prisoner standing bellied her. She lingered till the 14th. The medical men who examined the body, found that the wound had been inflicted by the poker in a burning state. and that it had pea netrated quite through the breast-bone, and mitered the right ventricle of the heart. The Jury found the prisoner guilty ; sentence of death was passed. upon her; and she was executed on Saturday, and her body given for dis- section.

CHILD-MURDER.—Jane Baty was tried at Carlisle for the murder of her bastard child, by stutan4 hay in its mouth. The circumstances were very suspicious;, nevertheless the Jury found a verdict of " Not guilty of the murder, but guilty of concealing the birth of the child." Baron Hil- lock sentenced her to imprisonment and hard labour for eighteen months.

Honsx-sTEALING.—Joseph Hurst and Jonathan Ashton were convicted of haying stolen a colt, which was found in their possession. They were recom- mended to mercy. Judgment of death recorded. The same sentence was awarded against horse-stealers convicted at Leicester and Chelmsford.

INSURANCE.—At the Salisbury Assizes, Mr. Everett brought ant action against the Atlas Insurance Company, to recover 100(11. insured on the life of James House. The insurance was effected in April, and House died in June. The defence against the actions was, that House was au habitual drunkard, and that before the time the policy was effected he was not a person whose life ought to have been insured. Evidence was offered to prove that House was seldom sober, and that he had been frequently carried home in a state of intoxication. The Jury nevertheless found for the plaintiff—damages, 10001.

On Sunday morning, as Captain W. E. King, of the Royal Navy, was pass- ing along Grafton-street, he entered a butcher's shop, and requested leave to sit down for a moment, as he was unwell. He would not allow a medical mart to be sent far, and expired in a very few minutes. The deceased had been out at a party the preceding evening, and had played a rubber at whist, but had not eaten or drunk immoderately. A Coroner's Jury returned a ver- dict of " died by the visitation of God."

An inquest was held on Monday, at the sign of the Hog its Armour, Great Saffron-hill, on the body of James Steward, a child only eight years old, whose death was occasioned by drinking ardent spirits ; and the jury gave a verdict accordingly. It appeared from the evidence, that the child's father was in the habit of taking bins to different public-houses to drink, and that he had frequently gone to bed in a state of intoxication. An hour before his death, time brutal father gave him two doses of gin and peppermint.

A young woman has lost her life, through the accidental burning of her clothes whilst she was employed in her master's kitchen in Fleet-street. An application of flour to the burnt parts, had some effect in allaying the inflam- mation; but she suffered excruciating, pain, and in the three days that pre- ceded her lingering death, she often. exclaimed, " Oh let me die 1 kill me, pray kill me."

Last week, while a girl in Dublin was making- tea in Mr. Delany's kitchen, her clothes caught fire, and she rushed into the lobby. The family having been alarmed, Mr. Delany, as the Dublin Freeman's Journal reports, "instantly sallied out, armed with a large knife and the poker, thinking that he should have to encounter with robbers, when a horrid spectacle was presented. The girl had just fallen down on the lobby, literally burned to a cinder, although she lived for three hours afterwards in torments indescribable. The impres- sion of her feet on the 'stairs, and qf her hand on the balustrade, are as visible as though they were made with heated iron Mrs. Delany and her son, a young lad, having come out in the confusion, were both thrown into convulsions at the appalling sight. The boy has partially recovered, but the mother is still lying in such a very dangerous state that doubts are entertained

of he ultimate safety. AIr. Delany's hands were burnect in his endeavours

to assist the unfortunate girl, and her sister, the servant, is very seriously in- jured. Thus no fewer than five persons have been involved in this fatal calamity."

Another Dublin paper, the other day, stated that a poor man whose house was on fire was burned to death " before his escape."