William Banks, who IVSS convicted at last Surrey Assizes of
a burglary in the house of the Rev. Mr. Warrington, of West Moulsey, was executed on Monday, in Horsemonger Lane.
Thomas Mellon alias Mulhall, William Clinton, and Michael Byrne, were tried at Dublin on Wednesday the 6th, for the murder of Hanlon. Clinton was ac- quitted ; Mellon and Byrne were found guilty of the murder, and executed on Friday. On Saturday three men were tried for the same offence, but acquitted. An old woman of the name of Wilkins, who resides at gingstanley, Gloucester- shire, being anxious to rid herself of her grandson, whom she had as a lodger, but who refused to pay her rent, applied to one of her sons to save her from the vio- lence which his nephew threatened her with, should she expel him. The son agreed. • On arriving at his mother's house, a dispute arose. In its progress Dangerfield, the gm '
ndkon stabbed his uncle with a knife. The poor man died soon after. Dangerfield has not yet been apprehended.
Mr. John Denton Holt, clerk and eaahier in the house of Swaine, Ralph, and Co. merchants in Dublin, absconded last week with 15001. in gold and Irish notes, the property of his employers. He has been traced to Loudon, and it is supposed that he started for Liverpool on Monday.
Last week, a Mr. Holden, a Liverpool corn-dealer, was arrested at Drogheda WI a Dublin Valise warrant, eik-a chargc of forgery to a large amount,
Last week, the Reverend Mr. Hoops, Rector of Newchapel, Waterford, was visited by five ruffians, who, under pretence of looking for fire-arms, took the opportunity of robbing the house. A man of the name of Baylis and his wife, residing near Leamington, have been committed t Warwick Gaol for cruelty to their children. These had been amissing in the neighbourhood lately, and were at length found in acorner of the cottage lying in straw, unclothed, without food, and covered with bruises, the effect of blows. The eldest, a girl seven years old, weighs but lzilbs.s A respectable widow was attacked in Drury Lane last night, by four men in cloaks. They slabbed her with a sword: it broke, and six inches of it remained In her side : the wound, however, is not mortal. From this incident, Sir Peter Laurie will perceive, that crime, put to flight in one shape by the use of cloaks, springs up in another under their shelter.
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