The Black Dwarf, of the port of Exeter, bound from
Malaga to Hull, was totally wrecked on the rocky banks of the Spurn Lights, on Wednesday night the 12th instant, and every hand on board perished.— Western Luminary. The North Devon coach, on its route from London on Wednesday night, was detained upwards of three hours, near Salisbury, by a large tree, which had been uprooted by the wind, lying across the road. The passengers were obliged to go in the dead of the night to procure assist.. ance to saw and remove the obstruction.—North Devon Journal.
Gomez Pelayo, the Spaniard charged with "loading" the letters for Havant:all, by the explosion of which Mr. Barnard of the Liverpool Post-office was seriously hurt, underwent a final examination before the Magistrates of Liverpool on Saturday morning. The case was gone into at great length ; but no new particulars of public interest were elicited. The prisoner was committed to the Sessions to take his tlial for the offence. At one period the life of Barnard was supposed to be in danger. Ile has since partially recovered, although be has lost for ever the use of his left eye. It is believed that he will recwer the use of his left arm, which was so much damaged at the time that it was feared amputations would have been necessary.
John Brennan, gardener to a gentleman near Dorking, was charged before the Magistrates at Wootton Hutch, on the 21st instant, with firing at and wounding seven persons at Tillinghourne. It appeared that Brennan had been accused of beating his wife; so a party of his neighbours resolved to treat him with some " rough music." This en- raged Brennan; who posted himself behind some trees, and fired at the party with his fowling-piece. He seems to have peppered six of them smartly, and to have wounded one person seriously. He was com- mitted for trial.
On Sunday morning last, about six o'clock, as Mr. Hurling, fore- man to Mr. Shearman, of the Bull and Mouth Inn, was walking across the churchyard at South Mims, near Barnet, he was suddenly attacked by two nien dressed in dirty smock-frocks : one of them, by a desperate blow on the head with a hammer, felled him to the ground ; when tin y both held him down and rifled his pockets of 121. in gold, together with some silver ; with which they :ran swiftly off, and effected their escape.
At the Hampshire Quarter-sessions, on Monday, Charles Macdo- nald, a horse.jockey, was sentenced to seven years' transportation, for driving two nails into the fore-feet of two valuable horses, that were about to be sold by auction, by which the poor animals received such injury that they were obliged to be shot. The wretch confessed that his object was merely to lame them, to cause them to sell cheap, as he intended to purchase them.
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