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Summary Ot Mews Foe May.
the Neufchaljel question . The United States and the republic of Granada are at loggerheads , and it is difficult to say to what the squabble may lead .
JUDICIAL . On the 29 th of April , George Bare was found guilty at the Central Criminal Court of murdering Samuel Long , a corporal of marines , belonging to Woolwich Dockyard , and sentenced to death . On the sams day Mr . Humphry Brown , late M . P . for Tewkesbury , was examined before the Court of Bankruptcy , in reference to the Royal British Bank , and made the most startling disclosures . On the 30 th , a criminal information was , at the suit of one of the Berkshire magistrates , filed against Sir E . Conroy for insulting conduct . On the same day , a similar information was ., at the suit of Mr . G . Forth , one of the directors of
the London Bank , filed against a printer named Cockburn , for printing a placard defamatory of the credit of that institution . On the 1 st of May , damages to the extent of £ 3 , 000 were assessed , in the Secondaries Court , in the case of Smith v . Duterre , for criminal correspondence . On the 2 nd , the case of Mansell v . the Queen in Error was argued before the Court of Queen ' s Bench , but the points reserved broke down , and the wretched man was ordered for execution . The Attorney-General has again authorized an appeal against the sentence , to be tried in the Exchequer Chamber . On the 7 th , Alexander Sidney obtained a rule for a criminal information against a printer * , named Attwood , for the publication of a libellous handbill , on the
occasion of the Worcester election . On the 9 th , Dugdale , a dealer in immoral publications , was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for pursuing his nefarious calling . On the same day , another man of the same character , named Strange , was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for the same offence .
On the 13 th , Bacon and his wife were tried for the murder of their children at Walworth , when the former was altogether acquitted , and the latter on the ground of insanity . On the 14 th , Mr . Commissioner Holroyd delivered judgment in the case of the Poyal British Bank , strongly insisting on the propriety of the Crown prosecuting the swindling directors .
ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES
Under this heading we have this month to record a series of most distressing events . On the 25 th of April , a man was killed at Bethnal Green by the falling of a Bcaffold . Several others were more or less severely injured . On the 26 th , a child was scalded to death at Wandsworth . On the 27 th , a servant maid at Chester attempted to poison the children of her employer . On the 28 th , a man named William Holt was caught in the machinery of a cotton-mill , near New Church , and was killed .
On the 30 th , a girl at Castle Pennington , Leicestershire , attempted to poison her mistress . On the same day , a Mrs . Knight , overcome by grief , drowned herself in a water-butt , at B , otherhithe . On that day too , the Andrew . Foster was run down in St . George ' s Channel , by the Tusraora . On the 1 st of May , another sad accident took place at sea , when the Im-pcrhd Prince was run down by the Peninsula . On the same day , a railway accident took place at the London-bridge Station to one of the Crystal Palace trains , whereby several men were either killed or dreadfully injured . On tho same day , a robbery of plate to the amount of XI , 000 was committed at Liverpool .
On the 3 rd , a man named William Marshall , who , as ; i criminal lunatic , had been for many years confined in York Castle for the murder of bis children , committed suicide in that , prison .
On the 4 th , the wife of John Miches , of Bumham , was committed to Somerset jail , for attempting to murder her husband . On the same day , a woman named Mary Cooke , residing near Durham , cut the throat of her son .
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Summary Ot Mews Foe May.
the Neufchaljel question . The United States and the republic of Granada are at loggerheads , and it is difficult to say to what the squabble may lead .
JUDICIAL . On the 29 th of April , George Bare was found guilty at the Central Criminal Court of murdering Samuel Long , a corporal of marines , belonging to Woolwich Dockyard , and sentenced to death . On the sams day Mr . Humphry Brown , late M . P . for Tewkesbury , was examined before the Court of Bankruptcy , in reference to the Royal British Bank , and made the most startling disclosures . On the 30 th , a criminal information was , at the suit of one of the Berkshire magistrates , filed against Sir E . Conroy for insulting conduct . On the same day , a similar information was ., at the suit of Mr . G . Forth , one of the directors of
the London Bank , filed against a printer named Cockburn , for printing a placard defamatory of the credit of that institution . On the 1 st of May , damages to the extent of £ 3 , 000 were assessed , in the Secondaries Court , in the case of Smith v . Duterre , for criminal correspondence . On the 2 nd , the case of Mansell v . the Queen in Error was argued before the Court of Queen ' s Bench , but the points reserved broke down , and the wretched man was ordered for execution . The Attorney-General has again authorized an appeal against the sentence , to be tried in the Exchequer Chamber . On the 7 th , Alexander Sidney obtained a rule for a criminal information against a printer * , named Attwood , for the publication of a libellous handbill , on the
occasion of the Worcester election . On the 9 th , Dugdale , a dealer in immoral publications , was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for pursuing his nefarious calling . On the same day , another man of the same character , named Strange , was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for the same offence .
On the 13 th , Bacon and his wife were tried for the murder of their children at Walworth , when the former was altogether acquitted , and the latter on the ground of insanity . On the 14 th , Mr . Commissioner Holroyd delivered judgment in the case of the Poyal British Bank , strongly insisting on the propriety of the Crown prosecuting the swindling directors .
ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES
Under this heading we have this month to record a series of most distressing events . On the 25 th of April , a man was killed at Bethnal Green by the falling of a Bcaffold . Several others were more or less severely injured . On the 26 th , a child was scalded to death at Wandsworth . On the 27 th , a servant maid at Chester attempted to poison the children of her employer . On the 28 th , a man named William Holt was caught in the machinery of a cotton-mill , near New Church , and was killed .
On the 30 th , a girl at Castle Pennington , Leicestershire , attempted to poison her mistress . On the same day , a Mrs . Knight , overcome by grief , drowned herself in a water-butt , at B , otherhithe . On that day too , the Andrew . Foster was run down in St . George ' s Channel , by the Tusraora . On the 1 st of May , another sad accident took place at sea , when the Im-pcrhd Prince was run down by the Peninsula . On the same day , a railway accident took place at the London-bridge Station to one of the Crystal Palace trains , whereby several men were either killed or dreadfully injured . On tho same day , a robbery of plate to the amount of XI , 000 was committed at Liverpool .
On the 3 rd , a man named William Marshall , who , as ; i criminal lunatic , had been for many years confined in York Castle for the murder of bis children , committed suicide in that , prison .
On the 4 th , the wife of John Miches , of Bumham , was committed to Somerset jail , for attempting to murder her husband . On the same day , a woman named Mary Cooke , residing near Durham , cut the throat of her son .