has returned a verdict of wilful murder against some
person or persons unknown.

At the Surrey sessions, on the 1st instant, Lucy Fore,
the wife of a respectable tradesman in good circumstances,
was convicted of Shop-lifting. She had desired to
be shown some silk handkerchiefs in a draper's shop,
and endeavoured to secrete and carry away some pieces
of silk, but was detected by the shopman. She was
sentenced to four months' hard labour at Guildford.

On the 1st instant a labouring man of the name of
Taylor, living at the village of Tushingham in Cheshire,
Murdered his own Son, a boy of seven years old. Some
of the man's younger children complained to the neighbours
that their brother was ill, and that they were shut
out and could not get to him. On looking through a
window one of the neighbours discovered the boy lying
on the floor weltering in his blood. An entrance was
forced into the house, and it was ascertained that the skull
of the child had been split with an axe. Taylor was found
upstairs in bed, and immediately accused of the murder.
He was sullen, but after a coroner's inquest was held, he
confessed himself guilty, and was committed for trial.
Although in very poor circumstances, it does not appear
that absolute want drove him to commit the crime, nor
did he assign any motive for it. His wife stated that he
had for some time past carried a rope in his pocket for
the declared purpose of hanging himself.

The proceedings of a coroner's inquest, held on the
3rd, at University College hospital, on the body of
Ann Truscott, a young woman who had poisoned
herself, were disturbed by the Disgraceful Conduct of a
number of Medical Students. During the examination
of the witnesses, they entered the inquest room in a
body, and behaved so rudely that the coroner had to
send for the police to clear the apartment. The students
again forced their way into the room, and a repetition
of the former scene took place. The coroner adjourned
the inquest till the evening. When the jury reassembled
there were about twenty students present, who, on the
coroner's desiring strangers to leave the room, took
their departure, but only to recommence a new course
of annoyance, by constantly ringing a large bell in the
room which communicated with the front door of the
hospital. The jury added to their verdict an expression
of their great disapprobation of "the gross conduct of a
number of the students of University College hospital,"
and their wish that the fact should be made known to
the heads of the institution.

A man of the name of Reynolds, who lived in
Yarmouth, had been for some time separated from his wife.
He met her accidentally on the 4th, and after some
abusive words, attacked her savagely with a clasp-knife,
cutting her on the neck, hands, and arms. She contrived
to escape with life, on which he cut his Throat with
the knife, and threw himself into the sea. An inquest
on the body returned a verdict of felo de se, and the
corpse was buried by torchlight.

The Gorham Case has now been brought before the
Court of Exchequer. On the 6th Mr. Fitzroy Kelly,
on behalf of the Bishop of Exeter, made the same
application which had been successively refused by the
Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas—namely,
a rule calling on Mr. Gorham to show cause why the
Court of Arches should not be prohibited from
proceeding further in giving him possession of the living
of Bramford Speke. Mr. Kelly spoke for five hours in
support of his motion.—On the 11th the Lord Chief
Baron intimated that the court were by no means
prepared to differ from the other courts to whom a similar
application had been made; but, that so important a
case might receive due consideration, they would grant
a rule, cause to be shown on the 29th and from day to
day till the case was disposed of.

In the Bankruptcy Court, on the 7th, W. Chittenden,
a draper at Paddington, passed his examination. The
bankrupt, a very young man, had been only about a
fortnight in business. His debts were £2800, of which
£2000 owing to trade creditors were secured by bills
given by Mr. Tarlington, the landlord of the bankrupt's
premises. This Mr. Tarlington was a retired tradesman,
who had devoted his capital to building
purposes, and had erected a number of houses that were
known by the description of Tarlington-place and
Tarlington-street, and the houses that the bankrupt had
occupied. In consequence of the flourishing representations
of the bankrupt, in October last, of his ability to
establish a business on a monstrous scale, he had let the
bankrupt five houses at a rental of £1050 per year, on a
lease for twenty-one years. To adapt the premises for
such a business, Mr. Tarlington had expended between
October 1849 and March 1850, a sum of £1000 The
bankrupt had represented to Mr. Tarlington that he had
saved £100 as a draper's assistant; that he was on the
point of being married, and that his intended father-in-
law would advance him £300; also that his father, who
resided at Tonbridge, would become his security for
£1500. Mr. Tarlington, who had but a slight previous
acquaintance with the bankrupt, was induced by these
representations to assist him with his bills to the amount
of £2000 to purchase stock. In fact, as Mr. Commissioner
Fane remarked, it appeared that the retired
tradesman had retired from his senses. But Mr.
Tarlington, soon having reason to suspect that all was not
right, took steps that stopped the bankrupt's brief
career. The bankrupt, who was opposed on the part of
Mr. Tarlington, denied that gentleman's representations,
and alleged that Mr. Tarlington had rather persuaded
him to take the five houses and enter upon the monster
business in the manner stated, than he had persuaded
Mr. Tarlington. The commissioner said that, as Mr.
Tarlington had conducted his business so loosely in
treating with a boy like the bankrupt, he ought to be
content to lie down under his own folly. He therefore
passed the bankrupt's examination, reserving all
questions of conduct for the certificate meeting.

Robert Kemp, a clerk of the Charing Cross coal
company, Committed Suicide on the 8th, by throwing
himself on the line of the South Western railway near
Wimbledon, in front of the train from Southampton,
which went over his body and dashed him in pieces. A
verdict of temporary insanity was given.

Elizabeth Ann Chambers, a lady-like person of forty,
was tried on the 8th at the central Criminal Court, for
Forging an Acceptance to a £300 bill, with intent to
defraud. She had attached the name of her cousin, the
Rev. Charles Randolph, to a bill which she got
discounted. The evidence was conclusive. The prisoner
had no counsel. She said that Mr. Randolph, though
he had denied it, had given her permission to use his
name. Verdict, "Guilty." A second indictment for
forging a £200 bill was not proceeded with; the convict
would seem to have repeatedly offended. Mr. Baron
Rolfe, in passing sentence of transportation for life,
remarked, that the prisoner was no doubt well aware
that a few years ago her life might have been forfeited
for the act she had committed; but as the legislature
had made the experiment of remitting the capital
punishment in the expectation that the crime might be
repressed without resorting to it, he considered that the
law ought not to be trifled with, lest unhappily it might
be found necessary to re-establish the former punishment
affixed to the crime.

Richard McAllister, a man of rather shabby appearance,
was charged at the Marylebone police court on the
10th, with having been near the house of Miss Bellew,
Primrose-hill road, for an Unlawful Purpose. The man
had been Miss Bellew's footman, and was in the habit
of saying to his fellow-servants and others, that his
mistress was in love with him. This coming to her ears,
she discharged him, and since then he has persecuted
her with importunities and threats of violence, pretending
she owes him money, and that she had encouraged
his passion. During the investigation. Miss Bellew, who
told her own story, was in a state of great excitement,
while McAllister insisted that the lady had promised to
marry him and none but him, with more to the same
purpose. He was held to bail to keep the peace to Miss
Bellow and her household for a month and sent to
prison in default of sureties. On hearing the decision,
Miss Bellew exclaimed with great agitation, "I am
surprised, sir, that you have only secured this man for
a month—at the end of that time we shall all be shot."

In the Bankruptcy Court judgment was given on the
11th, in the case of Edward Thomas Delafield, the late
lessee of the Royal Italian Opera. Mr. Commissioner Fane
after detailing the circumstances of the case, which are