An inquest was held on Saturday last, at Wantage, on
the body of Mrs. Ann Pullin, who kept a public-house in Newbery Street in that place. Her body was discovered about six o'clock in the morning, by
her step-son, lying on the kitchen-floor, with the head completely cut off Suspicion fell upon two labouring men, Georg King and Charles
Merriett ; who were both immediately taken into custody. At the inquest, which was held the same day, Merriett turned evidence against King - who charged first a man named Grant, and afterwards Mer- riest himself, with being the actual murderer. The Jury, however, were convinced that King, upon whom the purse of the deceased was found, was the criminal, and returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder" against him. lie is about nineteen : Mrs. Pullin was forty, and has left two orphan children.
On Thursday week a respectable jury was empanelled by the Sheriff of the county, in this city, to assess damages in the cause " Dally c. Flicker," for seduction, in which the defendant suffered judgment to go by default. It appeared that plaintiff was a person of respectability ; and defendant, the son of a substantial farmer in the ueigh!artirliood, bad for a considerable period paid his addresses to plaintiff's daughter, whom he had succeeded in seducing, after repeated promises of mar- riage. The present action was brought to recover compensation for the loss of his daughter's services. Damages assessed at 200t—Salis- bury Journal.
The Manchester tailors created great disturbance in the theatre of that place on Wednesday week, in consequence of the performance of a burlesque called the Quadrupeds, which describes the " heroic strug- gles of the flints," or journeymen tailors, against their masters, who are called the "dungs." The peace-breakers were taken into custody-. The same piece excited a disturbance in London when played sonic years ago at the Haymarket.
A seizure of contraband goods, consisting of French silks and rib- bons, was made on board one of the Dover hoys, moored alongside the Customhouse quay, on Monday last. The officer having received pri- vate information of the transaction, went on board the boy, and found the silks in cases, stowed away under the ballast. The value of the seizure is considerable. Will the property be the subject of a com- promise, as in the case of Leaf and Co. ?
On Wednesday week, Mr. Maire, excise-officer of Boston, Lincoln- shire, observed a horse and light cart, driven by a lad and a man named Gibson, pass his house ; and suspecting that the cart might contain contraband goods, followed and insisted on searching it. Gibson re- sisted for some time; but Maire called others to his assistance, and seized the whole; when he found that the cart contained about ten half-ankers of foreign brandy and geneva, the whole of which was con- veyed to a place of safety; the man and lad, however, were rescued by a mob of fellows, and have not yet been retaken. The same day, 11r. Stewart, Comptroller of Customs at this port, proceeded with some of his men to Gibson's house, and discovered a number of other kegs of spirits concealed in the ditches and watercourses.—Boston Herald.
As Mr. Rogers, of Beckenham, was going through Dulwich Wood on Monday evening between seven and eight o'clock, with his horse and cart, he was stopped by two men armed with bludgeons; one of them seized the horse's reins, and the other got into the cart and de- manded Mr. Rogers's money. Mr. Rogers said he had none ; he was then dragged out of the cart, and a small bunch of keys and two shil- lings were taken from his pockets. The keys were afterwards re- turned to hint, and the men made their escape into the wood.
On Thursday, a solicitor of Gray's Inn, and a sheriff's officer, attended at Barnet Fair, to capture a horse-dealer, against whom an execution had issued from the Court of Exchequer. The sheriff's officer having taken the man into custody, a mob surrounded them, crying out, " Rescue the man—curse the law—down with the officer ! " and the man was eventually rescued. In the scuffle, the solicitor was robbed of his purse, and the officer of his pocket-book. [Are there no constables or peace-officers of any description at Barnet, to interfere on such occasions as this ? Was the London constable the only one at the fair ?]
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