The arguments in the cause of Leith versus Irvine Were
brought to a close in the Court of Chancery on. Saturday last. They had lasted twenty-one days. The suit itself, in one shape or another, has been before the Court for more than thirty years.
A communication has been made by the Lords of the treasury to the Middlesex Magistrates, that they do not intend to provide' as here- tofore, the salary for the Chairman of the Sessions. The Lambeth Police-office is to be suppressed.
Richard Coster was apprehended on Thursday, by Mr. Cope, the City Marshal, upon a charge of forging Bank of England notes to A
considerable extent. Be .underwent an examination at the Mansion- house, but was remanded till Monday, to give time for the production of witnesses. • Marshall,. Taylor, and Evans, the men accused of the brutal treat- ment and murder of the boy Robert Paviour, have been twice privately examined at Hatton Garden during the past. week. It is said that the Magistrates have received some important information which will im- plicate other persons besides the prisoners in the commission of similar crimes. The only evidence published, which seems to bear against the prisoners, has been given by a Mr. and Mrs. Brindley, who are re- sident at Hampstead. They state, that on the night of the 23d of February, three days after the commission of the murder, as they were walking towards Hampstead, they observed three men with a large bundle on the Albany Bridge in the Regent's Park ; that on their ap- proach, one of these men said, ". Halloo ! who's coming ?" and another said, " Hush ! never mind." Soon after they-bad passed on, they heard a splash in the water; which Mr. Brindley thought was probably made
by the fall of a cat or dog that the men were drowning. Neither Mr. Brindley nor his wife could identify the prisoners, although they said that they were similarly dressed, and were about the same heigat as the men whom they had passed on the bridge.
Information Was received on Monday at the different Police-offices, that the premises of Mr. Roe, at St. John's, Worcester, were broken open by some thieves, and plundered of several hundred dozens of men's and women's gloves, of the value of .500L and upwards.
Thomas Chinnell, the driver of a Brentford omnibus, was racing on the London road, on Monday last, with one of Cloud's omnibuses ; and drove over an old man, named Hancock, who was employed in mending the road, and who could not get out of the way in time. The i poor old man was dreadfully butt, and the driver remains n prison until it is known whether he can recover from his bruises.
An unusual accident happened to the passengers in a Paddington -omnibus on Wednesday last. The hind axle-tree snapped close by the near-wheel, as they were going along the pavement, Moorfields. The vehicle slowly swayed over and fell to the ground, with its top resting -on the curb of the pavement. The passengers were all tumbled to- gether, but sustained no injury except a little crushing.
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