POLICE OF LONDON. DEATH OF MR. NEALE.—John Butler w a

s brou before Mr: Rawlinson on Saturday to hear the evidence, which had not before been given in his presence. He came up to the bar with an air of indiffer- ence ill-suited to his situation ; and, having placed his cap upon the ground, he drew from his pocket a sheet of writing-paper folded, and a pencil, and took occasional notes of the examination. The prisoner cross-examined the medical witnesses with considerable acuteness ; but elicited nothing favour- able to his case. He was committed to take his trial for the murder, and a detainer was lodged against him for the robbery. It is supposed that Mr. Neale had from 8/. to 10/. in his pocket, when he fell into the hands of the prisoner. INFANTICIDE..—A woman was examined at Lambeth-street Police-office last week, on the charge of having murdered her illegitimate child. It appears from her own confession, that she had been delivered of a child ; but believing that no one was aware of her situation, she placed the body of the babe on the fire with the intention to consume it. Fragments of the bones were found among the ashes in the hearth; and parts of the skull were found buried in two flower-pots. The woman had previously borne a reputable character. She has been committed for trial, on a Coroner's verdict of" Wilful murder."

EMBEZZLENENT.—On Saturday, Oliver Ewings, a respectable-looking man, about forty years of age, late clerk to Robert Espinasse, Esq. was charged at Worship-street office, with embezzling several large sums of money received by him for and on account of his employer. hi November 1827, he had embezzled thirty guineas ; yet his employer not only forgave him this offence, but paid a debt of 20/. for which he had been arrested. He had subsequently embezzled several considerable sums. The prisoner's family was described by the officer who apprehended hint to be in the most miserable condition. HONOUR AND EMBEZZLEMENT.—A journeyman baker has been up at Guildhall for the embezzlement of 2/. from his master. In his defence he said he had kept the money to save his honour by paying his losses at betting on some boxing-matches.

SWINDLING.—John Beresford Sayers, a dashing young man with three or four other names, and related to some respectable Irish families, was ex- amined at Bow-street on Thursday, on many charges of swindling. One of them was for having hired a carriage from Mr- Mathews, Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, the value of which was 250/. and which the accused sold in Paris. When placed at the bar, he burst into tears, and hid his face with his handkerchief, EXECUTIONS.—William Jennings, aged seventeen, was hanged, on Monday week, at Appleby, for an aggravated assault upon a young woman. When he was brought (literally carried) to the platform, he seemed insensible to his situation, and cried out" Don't hurt me I" "Let me go home;" " Forgive me," Fee.

Cooke, the boy who was found guilty of setting fire to various buildings at Witham in Essex, was executed on Friday morning, in front of Chelmsford gaol. A short time before he suffered, the culprit made a solemn confession implicating a fellow named Ling for having urged him to commit the crime : Ling, had also, he said, confessed to him that he had been guilty of other similar offences: but when the rope was round his neck, Cook declared that his confession was false from the beginning to the end.

INIMartin Slack was executed on Monday at York Castle, for the murder of his illegitimate child. He was attached to the infaufs mother ; but his parents refused to sanction their marriage. He went to see the child, took it in his arms, and while the mother was in another part of the house, poured aquafortis into its mouth. He denied the crime till within a few moments of his sentence being executed; and when he did confess, it was only to impli- cate the mother as being equally guilty. A man named Ryan, convicted at the Carlow Assizes of the robbery and murder of William Burke, was to have been executed on Monday ; but it was found that he had already hanged himself; from a bar in the window of his cell. The Sheriff performed one part of the sentence by sending the body of the suicide for dissection.

Murtem—Charlotte Inman and John Macrame were on Tuesday committed to Newgate, charged, on a Coroner's verdict, with having wilfully murdered Sarah Ewen, aged twenty-five, in their attempt to cause abortion. A medical man declared that after the manner in which the deceased had been treated, there was no possibility of saving her life.

ROBBERIES.--011Tuesday morning, two fellows, rather respectably attired, entered the shop of Mr. Isaacs, an extensive diamond-merchant in the Strand, and intimated a wish to see some diamonds that were placed in the window. A large box-full was immediately shown to them ; and after looking at them a moment, one of them made a snatch at the box, and ran off with several. Mr. Isaacs collared the young man who remained in the shop, but, on his protesting that he knew nothing of the thief, suffered him to go. The pro. perty stolen is valued at 300/.

On Tuesday afternoon, a thief stole two silver jugs, valued at one hundred and thirty guineas, from the house of Mr. Neild, of Berkley-square. Three dead bodies were on Sunday night stolen front a poor-house at Beth gal-green.

SUICIDES.—On Sunday morning, William Thomas, aged fourteen, hanged himself in his master's house at Shoretlitch. He bad fixed his affections on

• a female considerably older than himself; and as she did not return his pas- sion in the ardent manner he wished, his mind became affected, and self- murder was the result.

Mr. J. Neat, a butcher at Bermondsey, hanged himself on Thursday, in consequence of mental distress occasioned by the death of his wife. Rebecca Ward, a middle-aged female, in the service of Mr. Solomon, banged herself on Friday morning, in her master's house; having purloined some property belonging to her master, in order to gratify her passion for drink.

MYSTERIOUS SEPARATION fei thou Li FE.—An illustrious bride lately united to a gallant young officer, and not unknown to the Irish public, has, it is said, been recently separated from her spouse, though the honey-moon had not terminated ! We have heard the cause assigned for this mysterious sepa- ration, but it is altogether too serious and delicate a subject for us to men- tion. Suffice it to say, it was not any post matrimonial fausvas that led to it. A certain gallant young nobleman, himself united in the sacred bonds of matrimony, and connected with the late Irish Court, is rumoured to have been the primary cause of this unhappy business.—Dublin Warder. In allusion to this, the following statement was published in the Dub/in Mercantile Advertiser, authenticated by the signatures of the Earl of Errol and Sir John Bytig. "In the Star of Brunswick and Warder newspapers of Saturday, paragraphs have appeared giving currency to a previous rumour, to which we cannot, on account of its peculiar :delicacy, otherwise than generally allude. Any minute reference to the odious calumny in question cannot be made in the absence of the parties more directly affected by it. It will serve our present purpose to state, upon most high and competent au- thority, that the paragraphs of the papers we have mentioned convey an im- putation which is, in all its parts, and in relation to every person named or hinted at, and from the beginning to the end, a wilful and disgraceful fabrica- tion. In no one respect is it true ; nor has any circumstance, however slight or remote, given colour to the author for a slander so base and unprin- cipled. Public indignation will be his punishment, while the aggrieved are searching him out for the chastisement of the law." THE REVEREND MR. DE CRESPIGNY.—II will be recollected that this gen- tleman was held to bail for having written a threatening letter to Lord Ply- mouth, with a view to extort money. At the Leicester Assizes, Mr. Denman applied to have the recognizances discharged. Lord Plymouth made no opposition ; but the Judge merely respited them till next Assizes,—both for the sake of the offended nobleman, and of the lieges generally: he might then feel justified in discharging them. THE Zoohoeical. SOCIETY'S LOSSES.—A paragraph has gone the round of the daily papers during the week, detailing some recent losses experienced by the Zoological Society ; the main facts of which are true, but the particu- lars not so. The " silver lion," which they are said to have lost, was really nothing more than the puma, or American lion ; the bear was not one of those usually exhibited in the bear-pit of the gardens, but one which had been presented to the Society, but three or four days before his death, by the executors of the late Marchioness of Londonderry ; and he is supposed to to have died of a "malady most incident to" AlderMen,—fat and plethora, —not frosty weather and piercing winds, which, however inimical to English- men, have not been considered much to affect the tender susceptibilities of Northern bears. Tun SINGLE STRING VIOLINIST.—Paganini is to he here by the beginning of May. This is quite certain, so far as any engagement made with so uncertain a being can be relied on. He not long since gave a concert at Prague, which he announced in the following manner. "The Chevalier Paganini, artist of the chamber of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, will have the honour to give on Saturday, 20th December, in compliance with the general wish, another concert, which must be the last, and in which he will perform, among other pieces, 'The Storm,' a dramatic sonata, with grand orchestral accompaniments, and with appropriate decorations [scenic], together with solos and variations on the fourth string of the violin by Paganini. 1st. part, the approach of the storm ; 2nd, commencement of the tempest ; 3rd, the prayer; 4th, raging of the sea; 5th, hurricane; 6th, confusion at its height; 7th, the return of calm ; 8th, a burst of the most lively joy." In spite of the success of this performer at Vienna, he has found many Germans who do net join the crowd of his admirers. The Musical Gazette of Berlin contains a letter in which great surprise is expressed at his success in the capital of Austria, once the seat of good music. The author adds, that it is impossible for anybody possessing taste and reason to be pleased with his harlequinades, after having heard the real violinists of the present day. We shall hear and judge for ourselves.—Harmonicon.

Mr. Young, of Drurylane Theatre, has originated a subscription for the relief of the mother and sister of Telma the tragedian, who are both in a desti- tute condition.

A grand dramatic and musical entertainment is to be given in Covent Garden Theatre on Tuesday, in aid of the subscription for raising a monu- ment to the memory of Dibdin. The monument is to be placed in Green- wich Hospital.

Sir Richard Birnie and some of his officers made their appearance in Windsor on Wednesday. In the absence of a more satisfactory solution, the Wowed says they were sent on an "April fool's errand."

A gentleman of the name of Wade, who resided in Bond-street, Waterloo. bridge, died about a week since, of pulmonary consumption. By his will, made with a full knowledge of his approaching dissolution, he directed his body to be given for dissection, for the benefit of his fellow-creatures, and to give an example to others.

Scarlet fever is at this time very prevalent at Yarmouth and Freshwater. Nine persons died at these places during the last week of this complaints-- Hants Advertiser.

A new demand has lately arisen for money on Irish mortgages.—Lrunts Advertiser.

At Tralee Assizes, a man named Daly was indicted for stealing eight sheep; his guilt was undeniable, but a witness came up for the defence to swear that two of the eight sheep were rains. On this fiction the accused was ac- quitted !

lernisoemes.r.—David Hunter, rho has been confined in the gaol of Edinburgh upwards of twenty-eight years, having been convicted of murder- ing a woman near Libberton, but who had his sentence commuted on account oeinsanity, died on Wednesday morning. Ile was about seventy years of age, and had not left his cell for several years.

M. Others of Breinen, has been nominated a member of the Institute of France, in the place of the late Dr. Wollaston. Mr. Robert Brown, of Lon- don, and Professor Leslie, of Edinburgh, were among the candidates.

The population of Paris, in 1816, was 662,000 ; in 1819, 713,000; in 1821, 763,000; in 1827, 890,000; and in 1817, the number of houses, in- cluding furnished hotels, was 27,493; in 1827 they amounted to about 30,000. From this statement it appears that the population during the last ten years has increased in the proportion of 25 per cent., and the number or buildings at the rate of 10.—Quotirlienne.

LADIES' SLEEVES.-A French paper, in giving an account of the ladies' fashions for the month of April, says—" The sleeves are of a frightful breadth. When you have taken the quantity of stuff necessary for the gown, cut just the same quantity and it will be about enough to make the sleeves." Bombay papers of the 16th of October announce the death of Sir C. IL Chambers, senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of that Presidency. He died on the 13th of October. in the thirty-ninth year of his age. ' On the evening of the 17th March, the Princess Sophia Albertina, formerly abbess of Quedlenburg, died at Stockholm, aged seventy-five years and five months.