The youth Harrison, who was injured by two of his
fellow students at Yostrninster School, is now convalescent. The Dissecting-room of the London Hospital was entered by thieves on Tuesday night, and robbed of upwards of 20/. in cash, the proceeds of a charity sermon. Four prisoners were sentenced to seven years' transportation at Berkshire Sessions for poultry stealing. Two of them asked the Chairman to toss whether it should be fourteen or nothing I
Fowl-stealing has become so common in Wiltshire, that many farmers have been obliged to give up rearing fowls altogether.
Auguste Gurgot, a French merchant, about forty years of age, who had resided at the Sabloniere Hotel, in Leicester-square for the last seven weeks, was on Saturday found drowned in the Regent's Canal. Mr. Macintosh, lately a partner in the house of Macintosh and Ferrer, Shadwell, cut his throat on Tuesday. The firm lately became insolvent, and the change of circumstances had affected his mind.
Two men were murdered last week at the fair of Morroe, Limerick, in a quarrel betwixt factions ; and three others were left 0!t the ground dying.
A deserter, who refused to surrender himself, was shot last week by a police. man, in the execution of his duty, near the bridge of Old Leighlin. The Limerick Chronicle records two or three cold-blooded murders committed within these few days.
THE LETTER OF THE GOSPEL....--A Sunday or two ago, a Baptist minister front Derbyshire, being engaged to preach at Sheepshead, took for his text the 5th chapter of Matthew, irth verse—" If any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also." In the course of his sermon he strenuously enforced the Christian duty of overcoming evil with good; but to his no little astonishment, when lie was about to enter his gig, which stood in an adjoining yard, he found that his cloak and coat were both gone—the thief having written on the wall with chalk, " 1 have taken your cloak, and hope you will give me your coat !"—Birmingham Journal, after Joe Miller.
A Quaker's meeting-house at Ratcliffe was on Sunday robbed of from forty to fifty cloaks and umbrellas. A dreadful assassination was committed in Paris on the forenoon of the 2nd, and in the middle of the Place Louis the Sixteenth, on the person of M. Calemard Lafayette, deputy of the Upper Loire. M. Plagniol lay in wait, it seems, for the deputy, and going up to him discharged a pistol, and the ball passed through his breast. The assassin immediately afterwards blew out his own brains, tad expired on the spot. M. C. de Lafayette died on Sunday afternoon. No certain cause has been yet assigned for the commission of this act; and as both the assassin and his victim are dead without explanation, probably the real motive may never be ascertained.
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