The Reverend R. A. Johnstone, Rector of a parish adjoining
Brentwood, was charged with ravishing his servant-girl, of fteen • and the preliminary depositions of the girl and her mother made the affair 'look very disgraceful. On the day appointed for the second examination, both the women were absent; and it was stated that the family, a very poor one had been hurried up to London, and could not be traced by the Police. Mr. Johnstone was held to bail to appear again.
The accused attended before the Brentwood Magistrates on Thursday. Mr. Clarkson was his legal adviser. The Police had not yet succeeded in bringing forward the girl and her mother, though on Thursday the officers entered a house in the suburbs of London only a few hours after the fugitives had left it. Mr. Clarkson tried to make the Magistrates believe that as there were no witnesses against his client they ought at once to discharge him : but the Bench refused, and again remanded Mr. Johnstone. [The accused has been a very popular man in the locality, and an effective preacher. He is ma
but has no children. He holds the rectory of West Herndon with Ingrave.
Mr. Gardner, bailiff to Lord Northwick, who has been in the service for fourteen years, has disappeared; leaving a deficiency in his accounts, it is said, of upwards of 20001.
John Warren a young man, son of a stuff-weaver' is in custody at Leeds charged with stealing post-letters. When arrested, he had 742/. upon his person, in notes and gold ; at his house numbers of articles recently purchased were found. He was formerly in the employ of Messrs. Holt, woolstaplers, of Leeds. It appears that he made a practice of applying for letters at the post-office, saying tie was sent by mercantile firms; and as he gave the right address and the number of the post-office box belonging to a firm, he succeeded in getting possession of letters. Mr. Atkinson, of Bradford, sent a bill, payable on demand, for 744/. 15s. to Messrs. Holt ; Warren received the letter on applyinr, at the post-office, went to the Bradford bank, presented the bill, as "William Holt," forged the endorsement of "Holt, Brothers," and was paid the money. Other cases are expected against him.
Samuel Marder, the Gravesend tradesman accused of setting fire to his house, has been committed for trial. Roberts and Dowe, the men accused of breaking into the bank premises at Epsom, were examined by the Magistrates on Monday.. Mr. and Mrs. Holland identified Roberts as one of the men they saw in the bank.Roberts said in defence, that he and his companion had found all the things in a parcel at Epsom ; and he made his lying statement with such coolness that it caused an explosion of laughter. Dowe said nothing. They were committed for trial. The conduct of the Police, especially of Dymock, met with general praise. Samuel Harwood was finally examined at Guildford on Wednesday. More evidence implicating him to some degree was taken. Harwood, when asked if he had anything to urge, said—" I know nothing" ; if he were commit
he would be "committed innocent." He was committed to take his trial with the other accused. It is said that Mrs. Holiest is left, with her two sons, totally unprovided. for.
A burglary with violence has been perpetrated at Manchester. Mills Rebecca Codling keeps a shop in the populous locality of Moss lane, Ilulme ; she has one domestic in her service—a girl, who usually sleeps in the same room with her. On Thursday sennight, she had gone to bed, fastening the outer doors of the house and the windows but not her bedroom-door. About three o'clock she was awakened ; and, perceiving a faint light in the room, supposed the girl had left the room for some purpose. She called her by name, and put one hand involuntarily to one side of the bed; where it rested on something which the moment afterwards she discovered to be the back of a man.
She thee sew that there were two menitithereem, their faces pertly (Altered with black orape ; and, greatly terrifiedt.she screamed for help. The men told her if she made any further noise they would murder her. She screamed; and one of the men struck. her across the forehead with aliesty iron bar, about fourteen or fifteen inches long, which for a time deprived her .ef consciousness Whenshe came to her tenses again, the men were still in the room, and one—a very tall, Week-fill man—told the other. to strike her again, unless she We theit her nioney. tpon this she took from under the hedelcrthes a pocket contirtning_froni Ms. to Me. in silver, and gave it them. They then left the house. The thieves had opened boxes, drawer; and eimboattik and *untied off plate and efliee artioks. The Police set to work to discover the burglars, and succeeded in a day or two in taking three men --Gregory,. Holland, and Brooks; the first of whom attempted to sell the plate, at Bolton, "With Brook; it seems, a female eohabited, named, Jane Carruthers; whose Mother has long been employed as a charwoman by Miss Codling, and from whom there is reason to believe the burglars hadgot to know thie lady's habits and the defenceless state of the house. They had • broken into the hotise by scaling the wall of a back-yard ; and having stuck a plaster of treaded paper to a paneof the back-window, were enabled to force it the glum without noise, and unfasten the window inside. In Brooks's bedroom was fouad the iron bar with which Miss Codling was retreat." Miss Codling recognized Gregory as the man who struck her, and Hotline& are the one whey told him to do so. The three men, and Jane Carrothers, who had frequently been at Miss Codling's house, where her mother had worked as charwoman, were examined by the Magistrate on Tuesday, and all were remanded. An attack has been made on John Jones, the prevaricating witness againat Mrs. Elizabeth, Jones, who is charged with poisoning her mother-in-law. Three men assailed Jones on the road near Aberystwith, and cut him with knives: he says they attempted to cut his throat, but were foiled by his struggles. Ho is gashed across the chin, the mouth, and on the cheek, and is cut in tire legs. Ogle Wallis, the man who made so savage an attack on. Mr. Coplestone, a 'tavern-keeper at Bath, was brought before the Magistrates on Monday for reexamination. Mr. Coplestone had recovered sufficiently to appear and give evidence. His solicitor abandoned the charge of cutting and wounding, end proceeded only for an assault. Wallis was fined 51. This result has
• mated muoh. dissatisfaction in the city, as it is surmised that the affair was compromised.
While a man was about to resume work on the cliffs at Smedmore in Doreetshire, where he was extracting shale, he jumped so carelessly on to a particular spot that he lost his equipoise, and fell over the face of the cliff; but as he toppled over, he had pretence of mind to throw himself as far from the rooks as possible, and he fell clear upon the beach. The descent was a hundred feet. When his companions hastened to his aid, they found him seated on a rock, coolly endeavouring to reset his knee-joint, which had been dislocated—that was all.
Seven miners were preparing to begin work in the morning at the Earl of Lisbunie's lead-mines near Aborystwith : one of them incautiously placed his lighted pipe near some gunpowder ; three barrel; containing together a hundredweight and a half, exploded ; one man was.killed on the spot, two died in a few ileum, and the others were so much hurt that their recovery seemed hopeless.
On the night of the 21st September, a passenger-train on the Great Northern Railway was driven into a cattle-train at Hatfield : Carter, the engine-driver of the passenger-train, was much hurt ; be lingered in great suffering till his death, last week. At the inquest, the Jury gave this verdict—"That the death of the deceased was caused by an accidental collision on the Great Northern Railway, the result of his own negligence."
WhileWambweirsraenagerie was at Durham, a youth incautiously-put his ' hand on a lion's paw whioh happened to be protruded beneath the bars. The lion instantly seized the hand, drew the lad towards the den, and fastened his other paw on his head. A keeper succeeded in releasing the sufferer : his head and hands were dreadfully lacerated, and he was scratched on the throat Mr. Murton, a gentleman of Birmingham who suffers from scminambulism, has met with a serious accident. He rose during the night, opened his window, and feller jumped out : he fellagainst the diuingroom-window, and thence rebounded on a spiked railing : he was of course very much -hurt.
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