• James Cotter, an engineer in the employ of Messrs.

Maudslay and Field, was tried at the Surry Sessions, on Tuesday, fora libel upon Mr. James Cook junior, a surgeon, residing in. York Road, Lambeth. In.,

the libel, which was couched in very violent terms, the prosecutor

was charged with having seduced the plaintiff's wife. Printed copies of it were circulated by the defendant, three years and a half ago, when the seduction was alleged to have taken place ; but no action had been

brought by the prosecutor, nor any notice taken of it till now. The Jury found the defendant guilty, but strongly recommended him to mercy ; and the Court ordered him to enter into his own recognizances in the sum of 100/. and to find two sureties of .50/. each to keep the peace for the next two years.

During the late Middlesex Intermediate Sessions, the County Trea- surer's office, at the Clerkenwell Sessions-house, was broken into ; the thieves, no doubt, expecting a rich booty, as the expenses of the wit- nesses are paid there, frequently to the amount of between 2001. and 3001. in the course of a day. They were, however, disappointed ; for it seems that the precaution is adopted of removing the money every night to a place of greater security. They broke open the different desks ; but the only property carried off was a coat belonging to Sir Robert Baker's clerk, and a small silver cross with the St. George and Dragon.

On Saturday, Mr. Cope, the City Marshal, and one of the City Police, apprehended a solicitor in Great Alie Street, Goodman's Fields, who has hitherto borne a high character in his profession, and a female who bad lived with him for many years as his wife, but who has latterly lived under the protection of a wealthy. tradesman in the neighbourhood, on a Judge's warrant ; a true bill having been found against them by the London Grand Jury, for defrauding the East India Company of 3,500/. Mr. Cope informed the parties, that they would be liberated on giving bail, themselves in 3,0001. and two sureties in 1001. each, to appear at the next Old Bailey Sessions to take their trial.

The Mercers' Company have offered, through their surveyor, to give up, free of rental, all such portion of their estate as would be required for the formation of the contemplated street from the Strand to the British Museum.

The Court of Examiners and Council of the Royal College of Sur- geons have determined to pull down the building in which they now assemble, as it is too limited for their museum and library.

The new subscription club-house in Old Broad Street is nearly finished. It is a plain but handsome building, in which convenience is more consulted than decorative architecture, as it has neither portico, nor columns, nor pilasters.

It is rumoured that a new batch of Peers will soon be made ; and the following gentlemen are mentioned as likely to be included in it,_ Messrs. Shapland Carew, St. George, Tynte, and Methuen, Sir John Wrottesley, Sir Oswald Mosley, and Lord Dunraven.

It is said that on the late trial of Palmer, of bill notoriety, for felony, the Magistrates of Clerkenwell, while they themselves dined, allowed the Jury to go at large ; and that the defendant intends to impugn the verdict on that ground, by writ of error. We may thus have an amended reading of the old verse : it will no longer be

" Wretches hang that Jurymen may dine,"

but- " Felons escape that Magistrates may dine."

The town of Deptford has been lately on the qui vice, in consequence of two fashionably-dressed females (calling themselves " Sisters of Charity") having lately visited various quarters of the two parishes, for the ostensible purpose of administering relief, in the shape of cloth. ing and-other useful articles, to such poor individuals as were likely to need them during the ensuing. winter. •The .objects. of their• charitable notice were, of course, exclusively persons of scanty means ; and as the appearance and manners of the visitants, in conjunction with their pro- fessed disposition to alleviate indiscriminately all who were poor and in want, were calculated to operate on the minds of a class of society ever ready to court relief at the hands of the humane and affluent, it is not surprising that the labours of these industrious Samaritans met the fullest success. The mode in which' theypractised their calling was rather novel. Habited in the plainest attire, and gifted, by nature, with commanding figures and an insinuating address, they sought out such.districts of the town as are but moderately frequented, and tapping gently at the door of the humble occupants, they at once introduced the object of their call by interrogating them as to their several wants, and even wishes; and then producing a book, handsomely decorated, they proceeded to enumerate the several articles (such as cotton prints, for gowns, stockings, flannels, blankets, &c.) which it was their intention to bestow. Then, affecting to be prepossessed either by the cleanliness of the house or the conduct of the individual whom they addressed, it was their plan to observe that they had it in their power to procure one or two articles of a finer, quality (such as a bombasin dress, or a counter- pane), which, as a reward for the recommendatory domestic traits be- fore alluded to, they would make a point of obtaining for the object of their, exclusive preference. The names of the piny, and of all the children, and even lodgers, were then duly entered in the book ; and, after politely den:tending the sum of half-a-crown entrance-money (which was usually scraped together), they stipulated the most pro- found secrecy, in order that the neighbours might be contented with that more ordinary apparel which " would be good enough for them." This plausible game was practised from house to house ; and, in one instance, perceiving an old-fashioned watch hanging at the mantelpiece of a bed-ridden widow, named Churcher, they offered to purchase it at the sum of ten guineas; and as the old modestly declined selling it for less than 201., they proposed to take it home to their mamma, in Elliott Vale; Blackheath, and if she approved of it, to return with the 20/. at three o'clock. They added, they would bring with them the family physician, to cure' the old lady, and lend her their mamma's pony-chaise for an airing. Such an appeal, coupled with a promise of bed-clothing and a new gown, of course proved irresistible ; and it is needless to add, that the watch was duly approved, but not paid for. It was not till upon their departure, and when every female tongue in the street had been moved in audible self-congratulation of her own pre- ferred chances, -that the secret became known, and the " Sisters of Charity" suspected. A hue and cry was raised, but without effect; and although a minute description of the persons of the swindlers, and of the several articles carried 'off, was immediately furnished to the Superintehdemt Of the Police force, the "ladies" have not yet been discovered.- The same scheme was also successfully practised on the same day Col-Oath Row, Greenwich:—Greenwich Gazette.

Lord William Lennox met with a severe accident on Monday. evening, whilst riding a spirited horse in Oxford Street. A boy's hoop getting entangled with the animal's legs, caused him to plunge and fall; by which his Lordship was thrown to the ground with great force, his shoulder dislocated, and his arm considerably bruised. He was taken to the house of Mr. Harrison, surgeon, Great Marlborough Street, who immediately reset the dislocated limb, and paid him every attention.

On Saturday evening, Captain Williamson, the master of the Scotch smack, Trusty, was passing froth his'vessel; at Miller's Wharf, to the jetty, along a sbute (two boards, faStened together with pieces of wood, forming steps) : when his weight, on reaching the top, overbalanced the end near the ship, and he was precipitated into the water. His brother-in-law, the mate of the ship, jumped overboard, and after diving, about, caught him by the legs ; but he was so exhausted, that he was obliged to let go. The drags were then procured, and the brother- in-law would not leave the water till his :relative was found. Every means were adopted to restore animation to the deceased, but without effect.

On Friday evening, Mr. Thomas Church, an old gentleman of seventy-three, was crossing the Hackney Road, when he was knocked down by the shaft-horse of one of Mr. Elliott's drays, and the wheels went over him. Both thigh-bones were broken, and the lower part of the abdomen much injured. He died the following day.

A room in the Maid and Magpie public-house; in Stepney Green, was broken open on Monday night ; and bank-notes, a gold watch, and other property, to the value of 4001., belonging to a Mr. Parke, carried off. Henry Eames, Mary Anne Harris, and Sarah Harrington, were examined at the Lambeth Street Office, on Monday, the first charged with having committed, the two others with being concerned in the robbery. They were remanded for future examination.

- An extensive robbery was committed on Thursday evening on the premises of Mr. Dempsey, bedstead-manufacturer, in Wells Street, Cavendish Square. The robber was porter in his service for a consi- derable time. Last evening, he took a chisel belonging to his master, and secretly got into the bedroom, forced open a bureau in the room, and took the cash-box out of it, containing gold and Bank of England notes to the amount of 460/., but previous to his effecting his escape from the room the servant-maid came up stairs, when she discovered the state of the bureau, and alarmed her master. The prisoner was taken from under the bed, with all the property on his person.

Mr. William Tuffnell, the friend of Mrs. Hampton, and who lately appeared as a witness in that person's prosecution of her servant Ann Vickers, attempted to commit suicide on Monday evening, in a room at the Marylebone Savings Bank, in Henrietta. Street. He cut his throat with a penknife, but did not succeed in reaching the vital parts. He was removed to the Middlesex Hospital, and is expected to recover.

Mr. Edward Wilson, a dancing-master who livedin Finsbury Place, committed suicide on Wednesday night,- hanging himself by his neck- cloth to the banisters of his staircase. An in-quest on the body was held last night, and a verdict of Insanity returned by the Jury. Anxiety respecting a lawsuit, and grief for the recent death of an inti- mate friend, were assigned as the probable causes of his deranged state of mind. He has left a widow and six children. John Hooker committed suiciae in Horsemonger Lane Gaol on Thursday morning. He was confined on a charge ofassaulting a child, and was to have been tried yesterday. A Coroner's Jury found a ver- diet of felo de se. Unless the parish authorities ciuim the-body; which they can do under the Anatomy Act, he is to be buried without Church ritual to-night.