The Magistrates at Bow Street were engaged some time on
Saturday in hearing a complaint of Mary Croker, that her daughter had been sent, without her knowledge, by the Children's Friends Society, to the Cape of Good Hope, by desire of the Guardians of St. Martin s parish. It appeared that the girl was willing to go ; and that the reason why the mother had not been informed of her departure, was that site could not be found. The woman had lived iu several houses or ill-flume, as a servant, and neglected her child. She had herself' been seven times in the Workhouse, and the parish had spent 50/. on the girl. An offer was made to the woman to send her also to the Cape ; but she insisted upon having her daughter brought back to England. The Magistrates could not interfere to that extent ; so nothing was done.
At the Hutton Garden Office, on Thursday, Mary Ann Waters, a young woman in the employ- of Mr. Peters, dealer in cigars, March. wont Street, Brunswick Square, and William James Broadwater, who with his mother kept a chemist's shop in the Vauxhall Road, were charged, the former with stealing a bundle of cigars from her master, the latter with taking the cigars knowing them to he stolen. This was the second time the parties had been betbre the Magistrate ; who on the former occasion refused to commit the young man to prison, consi- dering the evidence as Insufficient ; and he remanded the W0111:111. On Thursday, additional proof of a guilty connexion with the woman was adduced, and both parties were remanded ; and the Magistrate said he would consider about receiving bail for the male prisoner.
Yesterday, a verdict of " manslaughter" was given by a Coroner's Jury against John Bull, a clerk in a merchant's counting-house in the City, for killing William Rushbrooke, a cabman. The deceased, with four other cabmen, had been drinking on Saturday night in several public-houses in and near Hoxton, in the Kingsland Road ; and about one o'clock they were seen " larking" and insulting everybody that passed. Robert Asplin, one of the party, got upon Rushhrooke's back, who carried him some distance, and then fell. Rushbrooke got up and ran beyond his companions some yards ; when, according to the imper- fect evidence, he either met or was passed by the prisoner, who stabbed him under the right arm-pit, and then ran away. Bull met two police- men; to whom he said, " I throw myself on your protection ; I have been attacked by six men, but I am safe now." A large Spanish knife, with a spring at the back, and sharp on two sides, was found him, covered with blood. The wounded man died before a surgeon arrived. One of the witnesses against the prisoner had been charged with bur- glary, but acquitted. The part of the road where the affair happened is very lonely, and the prisoner had been robbed there some time ago. His connexions are very respectable, and he has borne a good cha- racter. He was committed.
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