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The prisoners was sentenced to two years' hard labour . Thomas Jones was sentenced to nine months' hard labour for indecently assaulting two little girls in the Green Park . On Tuesday evening , a gold-polisher , named Roland , living at Seckfordstreet , Clerkenwell , was taken into custody for a brutal attack made upon his wife . The inhuman savage had struck the poor
woman upon the head with a chopper , fracturing the skull . Her condition is considered extremely precarious . The prisoner was brought up at Clerkenwell Police-court , and after evidence being heard , was remanded for a week . An inquest was held on Saturday last , at Stoiu-port , in AA orcestershh-e , on a young lady named \ A orth , residing there , whose body had been
found in a canal a short time before . It appeared that on the evening before her body was discovered she had been visiting at the house of some relations , who accompanied her home , and she was then well and cheerful , nor was there the slightest evidence of anything having occurred to cause her distress . But she had once or twice before walked in
her sleep , and it was supposed on this occasion she had left the house and walked into the canal in a state of somnambulency . A coroner ' s inquest has heen held at Bradfield , on the fireman of the Great Eastern Railway , who lost his life by a train leaving the line of rails on the Great Eastern Railway near that place , toppling over , and crushing him to death . The cause
of the engine ' s leaving the rails could not be ascertained , in consequence of the rails being repaired immediately after the accident , and before it had been seen by any engineer . The jury , while they returned a verdict of accidental death , recommended that the engine should always he inspected iu case of an accident before the repairs are begun . An inquest was opened on Tuesday evening at the Town Hall , Margate , on the bod v of Mrs . Susannah Lock , who was killed
m a collision which took place between two trains at the railway station on Monday afternoon . Beyond identifying the body and taking the evidence of the surgeon who attended the unfortunate lady , nothing further was done by the coroner , and the proceedings were adjourned . Two other passengers , ladies , who were injured , are considered to be in a very precarious condition . A sad accident has happened at Hetton
Colliery , Durham , by the bursting of a boiler . Two firemen were killed instantaneously , the body of one being found in a field 200 yards off . A child at a considerable distance was killed in its grandmother's cottage by a piece of the steam-pipe filling through the roof . On Monday morning , the young man Brie-knell , convicted of the murder of Jane
Jeary , at the New Cattle Market , Islington , suffered the extreme penalty of the law . The Old Bailey and its precincts were less crowded than on previous executions . A Sunderland vessel , the Ouse , which lately sailed from the Tyne for Alexandria , has been the scene of a frightful tragedy . The cook attempted to poison the whole of the crew , and his diabolical
design partially succecdecl , three of the seamen having perished at his hands . The vessel has put in at San Roque , where the cook has been given into custody . -The body of an eccentric old man , named AA'alker , has been discovered near Audley , in North Staffordshire , under circumstances which indicate that a brutal murder has been committed . The lifeless body of
the old man was found outside his hut dreadfully mutilated , and the interior of the hut was in a state of confusion . It appears that the murderer carried off a watch , and this circumstance is likely to cause him to be brought to justice . ; An inquest was held on AA ednesday on the body of an infant that was found thrust up the chimney in a room at the Elephant and Castle , Camden Town . It was proved that the mother of the child , who had just left the workhouse , was in the room in
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question , and she did not deny that she put the bundle containing the body of her infant up the chimney . The surgeon gave it as his opinion that the child had heen put up the chimney alive , on which the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against the mother , and she was taken into custody . On AA ednesday , Lady Palmerston , who was accompanied by her husband , cut the first sod of a short line of railway which is intended to connect the London and North-Western Railway at
Blisworth with the Great AVestern Railway at Stratford-upon-Avon . The ceremony , which took place at Towcester , was followed by a luncheon , at which Lord Palmerston made two characteristic speeches . FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The great work of boring a tunnel through Mount Cenis has beeni-ecently inspected by a commission specially charged with the duty , accompanied by several French engineers ; and an interesting report has been made on the
subject . Progress during the last twelve months has been very slow to our English ideas , and it is calculated that with all the improved means at command ten years more of continuous labour is requisite before the communications by this route are so far advanced as to unite the territories of France and Italy . INDIA . —By the Bombay Mail we learn that a desperate engagement took lace near BameeanCaboolon the 9 th of
p , , June , between the Ameer ' s troops ancl those of his brother , Afzul Khan , in which the latter were utterly defeated , with loss of guns , ammunition , and all their camp equipage . Federal agents are said to be very active , at Calcutta inveigling into the service of the North large numbers of seamen . Cholera was extremely prevalent in the large stations of the Central
Provinces ; but fortunately in the Island there was a considerable abatement of the epidemic . AMEEICA . —Advices from New York of the 22 nd July represent the Confederates as engaged in an attempt to blockade the James River , with the object of cutting off General Grant's communications by water . Grant is saicl to have contracted his lines , though still proceeding with the seige of Petersburg . The raid of the Confederates into Maryland was even more
successful than was at first reported , for instead of 300 waggon loads of supplies having been recovered by the Federal forces , it is officially stated that the number is only 82 , and the pursuit of the raiders has been abandoned . Some doubt hangs over the position of Sherman ; but of this there is no doubt that at the above date Atlanta remained iu the hands of the enemy . To cut tbe Southern communications of Atlanta , General Rousseau has been despatched by Shermanwith a
, large cavalry force under his command . News of a Confederate victory comes from Fort Hudson on the Mississippi , where the Federal troops under command of General Elliott were attacked and routed with great slaughter , the roods for miles being strewed with dead negroes , horses , and arms . The bombardment of Fort Sumter , of which we have heard very little recently , has been renewed with increased violence , and from thirty to forty shells are daily thrown into Charleston . In
Kentucky Confederate guerillas are augmenting in numbers ancl audacity . Their activity is in the same proportion , and their operations have been attended with such success that the state has been placed under martial law , and the most alarming excitement prevails throughout the whole of the north-western counties .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
J . S . —A \ e do not know . R . S . T . —AVe will make inquiries , but our present impression is that he never held the office . AA . AA . —The brother alluded to has had no connection with the MAGAZINE for over five years . A YOUNG MAN . —The law regarding the visiting the subordinate lodges by the Grand Officers , so far as the metropolis is
concerned , is a dead letter . Neither the Grand Master nor the D . Grand Master would think of such drudgery ; and as regards the other Grand Officers not being deputed to visit the various lodges , they only do so when invited as private brethren ; and their self-glorification , and not the good of the Order , appears to be the moving principle on which they announce themselves as "humble representatives" of the Grand Officers—who , of course , are all anxious to do their duty to the best of their ability , which is not always of the most conspicuous nature .
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The Week.
The prisoners was sentenced to two years' hard labour . Thomas Jones was sentenced to nine months' hard labour for indecently assaulting two little girls in the Green Park . On Tuesday evening , a gold-polisher , named Roland , living at Seckfordstreet , Clerkenwell , was taken into custody for a brutal attack made upon his wife . The inhuman savage had struck the poor
woman upon the head with a chopper , fracturing the skull . Her condition is considered extremely precarious . The prisoner was brought up at Clerkenwell Police-court , and after evidence being heard , was remanded for a week . An inquest was held on Saturday last , at Stoiu-port , in AA orcestershh-e , on a young lady named \ A orth , residing there , whose body had been
found in a canal a short time before . It appeared that on the evening before her body was discovered she had been visiting at the house of some relations , who accompanied her home , and she was then well and cheerful , nor was there the slightest evidence of anything having occurred to cause her distress . But she had once or twice before walked in
her sleep , and it was supposed on this occasion she had left the house and walked into the canal in a state of somnambulency . A coroner ' s inquest has heen held at Bradfield , on the fireman of the Great Eastern Railway , who lost his life by a train leaving the line of rails on the Great Eastern Railway near that place , toppling over , and crushing him to death . The cause
of the engine ' s leaving the rails could not be ascertained , in consequence of the rails being repaired immediately after the accident , and before it had been seen by any engineer . The jury , while they returned a verdict of accidental death , recommended that the engine should always he inspected iu case of an accident before the repairs are begun . An inquest was opened on Tuesday evening at the Town Hall , Margate , on the bod v of Mrs . Susannah Lock , who was killed
m a collision which took place between two trains at the railway station on Monday afternoon . Beyond identifying the body and taking the evidence of the surgeon who attended the unfortunate lady , nothing further was done by the coroner , and the proceedings were adjourned . Two other passengers , ladies , who were injured , are considered to be in a very precarious condition . A sad accident has happened at Hetton
Colliery , Durham , by the bursting of a boiler . Two firemen were killed instantaneously , the body of one being found in a field 200 yards off . A child at a considerable distance was killed in its grandmother's cottage by a piece of the steam-pipe filling through the roof . On Monday morning , the young man Brie-knell , convicted of the murder of Jane
Jeary , at the New Cattle Market , Islington , suffered the extreme penalty of the law . The Old Bailey and its precincts were less crowded than on previous executions . A Sunderland vessel , the Ouse , which lately sailed from the Tyne for Alexandria , has been the scene of a frightful tragedy . The cook attempted to poison the whole of the crew , and his diabolical
design partially succecdecl , three of the seamen having perished at his hands . The vessel has put in at San Roque , where the cook has been given into custody . -The body of an eccentric old man , named AA'alker , has been discovered near Audley , in North Staffordshire , under circumstances which indicate that a brutal murder has been committed . The lifeless body of
the old man was found outside his hut dreadfully mutilated , and the interior of the hut was in a state of confusion . It appears that the murderer carried off a watch , and this circumstance is likely to cause him to be brought to justice . ; An inquest was held on AA ednesday on the body of an infant that was found thrust up the chimney in a room at the Elephant and Castle , Camden Town . It was proved that the mother of the child , who had just left the workhouse , was in the room in
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question , and she did not deny that she put the bundle containing the body of her infant up the chimney . The surgeon gave it as his opinion that the child had heen put up the chimney alive , on which the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against the mother , and she was taken into custody . On AA ednesday , Lady Palmerston , who was accompanied by her husband , cut the first sod of a short line of railway which is intended to connect the London and North-Western Railway at
Blisworth with the Great AVestern Railway at Stratford-upon-Avon . The ceremony , which took place at Towcester , was followed by a luncheon , at which Lord Palmerston made two characteristic speeches . FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The great work of boring a tunnel through Mount Cenis has beeni-ecently inspected by a commission specially charged with the duty , accompanied by several French engineers ; and an interesting report has been made on the
subject . Progress during the last twelve months has been very slow to our English ideas , and it is calculated that with all the improved means at command ten years more of continuous labour is requisite before the communications by this route are so far advanced as to unite the territories of France and Italy . INDIA . —By the Bombay Mail we learn that a desperate engagement took lace near BameeanCaboolon the 9 th of
p , , June , between the Ameer ' s troops ancl those of his brother , Afzul Khan , in which the latter were utterly defeated , with loss of guns , ammunition , and all their camp equipage . Federal agents are said to be very active , at Calcutta inveigling into the service of the North large numbers of seamen . Cholera was extremely prevalent in the large stations of the Central
Provinces ; but fortunately in the Island there was a considerable abatement of the epidemic . AMEEICA . —Advices from New York of the 22 nd July represent the Confederates as engaged in an attempt to blockade the James River , with the object of cutting off General Grant's communications by water . Grant is saicl to have contracted his lines , though still proceeding with the seige of Petersburg . The raid of the Confederates into Maryland was even more
successful than was at first reported , for instead of 300 waggon loads of supplies having been recovered by the Federal forces , it is officially stated that the number is only 82 , and the pursuit of the raiders has been abandoned . Some doubt hangs over the position of Sherman ; but of this there is no doubt that at the above date Atlanta remained iu the hands of the enemy . To cut tbe Southern communications of Atlanta , General Rousseau has been despatched by Shermanwith a
, large cavalry force under his command . News of a Confederate victory comes from Fort Hudson on the Mississippi , where the Federal troops under command of General Elliott were attacked and routed with great slaughter , the roods for miles being strewed with dead negroes , horses , and arms . The bombardment of Fort Sumter , of which we have heard very little recently , has been renewed with increased violence , and from thirty to forty shells are daily thrown into Charleston . In
Kentucky Confederate guerillas are augmenting in numbers ancl audacity . Their activity is in the same proportion , and their operations have been attended with such success that the state has been placed under martial law , and the most alarming excitement prevails throughout the whole of the north-western counties .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
J . S . —A \ e do not know . R . S . T . —AVe will make inquiries , but our present impression is that he never held the office . AA . AA . —The brother alluded to has had no connection with the MAGAZINE for over five years . A YOUNG MAN . —The law regarding the visiting the subordinate lodges by the Grand Officers , so far as the metropolis is
concerned , is a dead letter . Neither the Grand Master nor the D . Grand Master would think of such drudgery ; and as regards the other Grand Officers not being deputed to visit the various lodges , they only do so when invited as private brethren ; and their self-glorification , and not the good of the Order , appears to be the moving principle on which they announce themselves as "humble representatives" of the Grand Officers—who , of course , are all anxious to do their duty to the best of their ability , which is not always of the most conspicuous nature .