A fortnight since, a lad, seventeen years of age, was
convicted before one of our county magistrates, of stealing apples, and was fined; but, being unable to pay, he was sent to Petworth Gaol for h month. Last week, a man, caught in a similar act, was brought before another ma- gistrate, convicted, and fined ; but, mark the difference—he had a fort- night allowed to pay the fine, although supposed to be an old offender. —Brighton Guardian.
A most distressing accident occurred on Tuesday at Brighton to the daughter of Mr. Horace Smith. This lady was riding with Mr. Ricardo in a four-wheeled chaise belonging to the latter ; when time horse taking fright, started off at speed, and at the northern end of the Pavilion enclosure, dashed the chaise against a fly. The chaise was upset ; and Miss Smith was, we regret to say, very seriously hurt. Mr. Ricardo and the servant escaped with little injury.—Brighton Gazette.
• One night last week, a Russian vessel, laden with salt from Liver- pool, outward bound to a port in the Baltic, was wrecked, during a heavy gale, off Hoylake. There were at the time eleven hands on board, and one passenger ; and they all perished, with the exception of the latter individual, who was found clinging to part of the rigging early the following morning, and rescued from his perilous situation by a boat which put off from the shores of the Dee.—Chester Chronicle.
Last week, a most daring robbery was committed by some villains at the residence of the Bishop of Hereford, near Colney Hatch, in Hert- fordshire. It appears that the thieves effected an entrance through one of the back-kitchen windows, which had been carelessly left open : they packed up every thing portable they could lay their bands on in two sacks, and, after having broken open the cellar and larder, and re- galed themselves with the best the house afforded, they departed. Fortunately, as some labouring men were going to work in the morn- ing, they discovered two sacks, filled with property, concealed in a deep ditch near the Bishop's house, and which proved to contain the whole of the property stolen ; no doubt placed in the ditch by the thieves, to be carried off at a more convenient opportunity.
At an early hour on Saturday morning, as the gardener in the em- ploy of Mr. Wakefield, of Bury Street, Upper Edmonton, was en- gaged in the grounds in front of his master's residence, he saw some
' object suspaided from the lamp-iron above the gate : on a nearer ap- proach, it proved to be a young and interesting woman, who still ex- hibited signs of life. Fortunately the man had his pruning-knife in his hand, with which be instantly cut her down ; . and, surgical assist- ance being promptly obtained, in a few boars she was completely re- suscitated. She was the same day conveyed before the local authori- ties of the place; and, in answer to the interrogatories put to her, she stated that having been seduced and subsequently deserted by a married gentleman residing at Edmonton, she had been driven by despair to make the attempt on her life, which, in consequence of the conduct of her seducer, had become insupportable to her.
On Wednesday last, at Tideswell Fair, a large ox escaped from its drover, and contrived to ascend a thatched roof; the weight of the animal forced in the roof, and he descended upon the bed of the cottage; when, to make the disaster worse, it was found necessary to breach the well of the tenement to let out the unwelcome visitor.—Sheffield Inde- pendent.
A yearling colt, the property of Mr. Robins, innkeeper, of Nantyglo, having laboured under a most severe attack of strangles for some time, the proprietor applied for relief to Messrs. Morgan, veterinary surgeons at Abergavenny ; by that time two large tumours had formed on both sides of the windpipe, and compressed it to that degree that suffocation appeared to be the inevitable consequence. Messrs. Morgan made two longitudinal incisions down upon the windpipe, through the glandular substance, exposing and separating the muscles, and emitting out a por- tion of the windpipe, and then closed the parts, leaving a tube for the admission of air for the purpose of respiration. In the course of three weeks, the parts healed, and the animal is now in perfect health.— Monmouthdeire Merlin.
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