Dundee on the 28th anfl 29th of March. Three of
the prisoners pleaded guilty ; and the other four were, after a long trial, convicted. Three of them were sentenced to six months' imprisonment each in the gaol of Dundee, two to fourteen years, and one to seven years' trausportation, and the seventh prisoner to eighteen months' imprisonment. [Fourteen years for a riot, unpremeditated and unaccompanied, with personal vio- leuce ! What punishment will the Scotch courts inflict on the Ayr and Dumbarton rioters ?—Burn them alive? We commend the case to Mr. Hume, mid expect he will listen to our commendation.]
An MIRALTY SESSIONS.—These sessions commenced yesterday. Thomas Ewen, the master of a merchant-vessel, indicted for the wilful murder isf Robert Ewett, was acquitted from defect of proof. James Madden, mete of a Liverpool trader, called the Heywood, indicted for having, on tLe toast of Africa, killed one Hugh Caan, by inflicting on him divers mortal wounds; was found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to be transported for seven years; one half the amount of punishment inflicted es the Dundee rioters for inflicting divers wounds on one deal door, whereby several of the ribs of the said door were grievously hurt, and it was rendered incapable of acting as a door thereafter.
IDMI WEEK'S CRIME IN LONDON.—From the returns for the week ending June the 10th, we find that the number of prisoners brought to the Police-offices, charged with various offences, was 403; of whom 58 were committed for trial, 53 were sent to the House of Correction, 150 disidaarged, and 142 remanded.
ADLEID MURDER AT SEA.—A long inquiry took place on Thursday at the Thames Police Office, respecting the death of Thomas Elliott, a letunan, alleged to have been murdered on board one of the Company's gliess, in January 1825 by being confined in the spirit-room on the orlop clerk, where he was suffocated for want of air ; the third and fourth offi- cers, who ordered him into irons, forbidding any one to assist him. Mr. Bessell, the keeper of the Pavilion Theatre Saloon, with whom the in- quiry originated, still adhered to his statement, that the deceased had died from exhaustion by being confined. Several witnesses were exa- mined, but-they hardly recollected the cirounstazices; they were not of that opinion. The surgeon thought the deceased had died from apo- plexy, caused by excessive drinking. The investigation was adjourned. EXPEDITIOUS CAPTURE.—Three fellows, of very gentlemanlike appear- ance, on Saturday last, robbed the till of the landlord of the Castle Inn, Kingston, of nearly 400/. The robbery was detected in ten minutes after. The thieves, who drove a light cart with a fine spirited horse, were pur- sued by a butcher of Kingston, who is also a constable ; and after a hard ran they were caught, opposite the Dorset Arms, on the Clapham Road. Their horse was so completely knocked up, that a gentleman's groom, who stopped the cart, actually knocked it down with a blow of his fist. The whole of the property was recovered, saving the box, which they had thrown away.
Item:Imams)! AND SUICIDE.—On Thursday last, the house of Mr. Voleman, at St. Thomas huh, Canterbury, was burnt down. Suspicion saving lighted on a serving-girl, from several articles belonging to Mr. Coleman having been found in the hands of the Jews in the neighbour- hood, she was apprehended. During the examination of the witnesses, en Monday, being placed in a room alone, the girl asked for a towel, to wash herself. When the examination was over, and the officers went to fetch in the culprit, they found she had strangled herself with the towel.
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