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Summary Of News Foe December
Kent Assizes , Thomas Mansell was found guilty of wilful murder , and ordered to be executed . On the 19 th , at the same assizes , Redanies , the Italian soldier , was sentenced to death for the murder of the girls Beck . On the same day the Lords Justices pronounced a decree vesting the winding up of the Royal British Bank in the Court of Bankruptcy , and on the 23 rd the commissioner declared a dividend of 5 s . in the pound .
On the 20 th Sir John Dodson , in the Court of Arches , confirmed the decree of the Prerogative Court relative to the furniture of the churches of St . Paul arid St . Barnabas , Knightsbridge .
ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES . Under the head of accidents , we have had during the past month , a large num * her of railway collisions , boiler and mine explosions , destructive conflagrations and shipwrecks ; while under that of offences , it would be tedious to enumerate the burglaries , garotte robberies , suicides , and murders which have , since our last summary , blackened the surface of society , and which so emphatically call in question the efficiency of our police .
On the 1 th , there was a fearful collision at the Denton Station of the Stockport and Staleybridge branch of the North-Western Railway . On the 6 th , the James Hartley steamer ran down the brig Messenger , off Shields Harbour . On the 7 th , the American ship Clarendon was wrecked in a gale off the coast of Whitehaven . On the 11 th , a large portion of the Farnworth Paper-mills was destroyed by fire .
On the evening of the 14 th , a small boat , in which several persons were taking an airing on the Thames , came in contact with Blackfriars-bridge , and was capsized , when three of the crew were drowned . On the 15 th , Marley was executed , at the Old Bailey , for the murder of Richard Cope in Parliament-street .
On the 17 th , a destructive fire broke out in Aldersgate-street ; and the same evening , another at Lambeth , both attended with great destruction of property . On the 19 th , a burglar was shot at Barnsley . On the 20 th , a terrific explosion took place at Bessemer ' s Iron Works , Leeds , by which several persons were more or less injured . On the 20 th , the atrocious criminal , Jackson , who murdered his two children , was executed at Chester .
On the 20 th , it was announced to the public that Paul and Wanini , two men engaged in collecting the rates of the city of London Union , had absconded with large sums of money . > On the 21 st , a girl aged twenty-one years , and who was stated to have been a prostitute from her tenth year , was brought before the magistrate , at the Thames Police Office , charged with attempting to commit suicide by poison . On the 23 rd , at Winchester , the three Italian sailors , Lagava , Petrici , and Barbaalo , convicted of murder and piracy , underwent the last penalty of the law . The two former confessed to several other deeds of bloodshed .
On the 24 th , Redpath and his associates were fully committed for forgery and fraud . COMMERCIAL . On the 1 st , Mr . I loratio Love was declared duly elected a director of the Eastern Counties Railway Company , in room of Mr . D . Waddington , M . P ., resigned .
On the 1 th , the Waterloo Bridge Company declared a dividend for the half-year at the rate of 46 ' . per share . The same day the Regent Canal Company declared a similar dividend , at the rate of 8 s . M . per share . On the 7 th , the Peninsular and Oriental Company held its annual meeting , when the net profits for the year were stated to be £ 197 , 153 . 11 $ . 7 d ., out of which a dividend at the rate of 12 per cent , was declared ;
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Summary Of News Foe December
Kent Assizes , Thomas Mansell was found guilty of wilful murder , and ordered to be executed . On the 19 th , at the same assizes , Redanies , the Italian soldier , was sentenced to death for the murder of the girls Beck . On the same day the Lords Justices pronounced a decree vesting the winding up of the Royal British Bank in the Court of Bankruptcy , and on the 23 rd the commissioner declared a dividend of 5 s . in the pound .
On the 20 th Sir John Dodson , in the Court of Arches , confirmed the decree of the Prerogative Court relative to the furniture of the churches of St . Paul arid St . Barnabas , Knightsbridge .
ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES . Under the head of accidents , we have had during the past month , a large num * her of railway collisions , boiler and mine explosions , destructive conflagrations and shipwrecks ; while under that of offences , it would be tedious to enumerate the burglaries , garotte robberies , suicides , and murders which have , since our last summary , blackened the surface of society , and which so emphatically call in question the efficiency of our police .
On the 1 th , there was a fearful collision at the Denton Station of the Stockport and Staleybridge branch of the North-Western Railway . On the 6 th , the James Hartley steamer ran down the brig Messenger , off Shields Harbour . On the 7 th , the American ship Clarendon was wrecked in a gale off the coast of Whitehaven . On the 11 th , a large portion of the Farnworth Paper-mills was destroyed by fire .
On the evening of the 14 th , a small boat , in which several persons were taking an airing on the Thames , came in contact with Blackfriars-bridge , and was capsized , when three of the crew were drowned . On the 15 th , Marley was executed , at the Old Bailey , for the murder of Richard Cope in Parliament-street .
On the 17 th , a destructive fire broke out in Aldersgate-street ; and the same evening , another at Lambeth , both attended with great destruction of property . On the 19 th , a burglar was shot at Barnsley . On the 20 th , a terrific explosion took place at Bessemer ' s Iron Works , Leeds , by which several persons were more or less injured . On the 20 th , the atrocious criminal , Jackson , who murdered his two children , was executed at Chester .
On the 20 th , it was announced to the public that Paul and Wanini , two men engaged in collecting the rates of the city of London Union , had absconded with large sums of money . > On the 21 st , a girl aged twenty-one years , and who was stated to have been a prostitute from her tenth year , was brought before the magistrate , at the Thames Police Office , charged with attempting to commit suicide by poison . On the 23 rd , at Winchester , the three Italian sailors , Lagava , Petrici , and Barbaalo , convicted of murder and piracy , underwent the last penalty of the law . The two former confessed to several other deeds of bloodshed .
On the 24 th , Redpath and his associates were fully committed for forgery and fraud . COMMERCIAL . On the 1 st , Mr . I loratio Love was declared duly elected a director of the Eastern Counties Railway Company , in room of Mr . D . Waddington , M . P ., resigned .
On the 1 th , the Waterloo Bridge Company declared a dividend for the half-year at the rate of 46 ' . per share . The same day the Regent Canal Company declared a similar dividend , at the rate of 8 s . M . per share . On the 7 th , the Peninsular and Oriental Company held its annual meeting , when the net profits for the year were stated to be £ 197 , 153 . 11 $ . 7 d ., out of which a dividend at the rate of 12 per cent , was declared ;