to the preceding. This Edward Wright, sen., appears
to have been the father of the system, which he has
carried on for more than twenty years. He pleaded
guilty, and James was convicted by the jury. Sentence
was then passed on the whole. Wright the elder, James,
Campbell, and Stanley, eighteen months imprisonment
with hard labour; but as it appeared that Sparks had
not taken any money, and that Wright, jun., had acted
under the guidance of a bad father, the period of their
imprisonment was limited to twelve months.

Lord Dunboyne was tried in the Court of Queen's
Bench on the 19th, on the charge of making A False
Statement in the Register of His Marriage. In August,
1842, Lord Dunboyne was privately married, at
Paddington Church, to Mrs. Vincent Vaughan, a well-
endowed young widow, with prospects of increased fortune,
living at Bell Hatch, in the county of Oxford. The
marriage was private because it was opposed to the
wishes of Mrs. Vaughan's mother, to whose wealth she
would succeed if she did not alienate her regards. The
opposition made to Lady Dunboyne's marriage by her
mother wore off, and the parties were married again at
St. George's, Hanover Square, in December, 1843; and
on this occasion, just as on the former one, the parties
were described as widower and widow, though then
man and wife. This false description was the offence.
Lord Campbell instructed the jury, that they must be
"satisfied that the representation had been made falsely,
fraudulently, and corruptly;" a conclusion which there
would be some difficulty in coming to, as the defendant
had no motive to injure anybody by his act. Such
marriages are highly irregular, but very common, especially
among Roman Catholics: it is difficult to see how on a
second marriage a man can describe himself except by
his description before the marriage. The jury found a
verdict of Not Guilty.

Walter Watts, tried at the Central Criminal Court on
the 10th of May, on the charge of stealing a cheque for
£1400, belonging to his employers, the Globe Insurance
Company, was convicted on one of the counts of the
indictment, of "stealing a piece of paper," the point of
law being reserved whether this was sufficient to constitute
a criminal charge. On the 22nd instant Lord Chief
Justice Wilde delivered the judgment, Affirming the
Conviction.

An action was tried in the Court of Common Pleas at
Dublin, on the 22nd, at the instance of the London and
Dublin Bank against Mr. Clements, a young military
officer, for payment of a bill for £1000, purporting to be
drawn by a person of the name of Joel and accepted by
Mr. Clements. When this bill was afterwards discovered
to be in the hands of the Bank, Mr. Clements pronounced
it a Forgery, and Joel was subsequently tried at the Old
Bailey in January last, convicted of the forgery and
sentenced to transportation. Notwithstanding this, the
Bank pursued Mr. Clements for payment of the
consideration given by them for the bill. Judge Ball, in his
charge to the jury, told them that they were not to be
influenced by the fact which had come out in the course
of the trial, that Joel had been found guilty by another
tribunal of the forgery of the bill; and the jury found a
verdict in favour of the Bank, for £700, with sixpence
costs.

A deliberate suicide was committed on the 22nd, by a
Child Seven Years old, the son of John Hanson, a waterman,
residing at Newark. The boy having been beaten
by his mother, had threatened that if she did so again
he would drown himself, and carried his threat into
execution, by walking resolutely into the Trent till the
stream carried him away.

On Sunday the 23rd, early in the morning, a respectable-
looking middle-aged man was observed to throw
himself from the centre arch of Southwark bridge. In
his fall his head was seen to strike against one of the
abutments with a force which must have shattered his
skull. His body has not been found.

An instance of the misery caused by the practice adopted
by the Irish parochial authorities, of Getting Rid of
their Poor by sending them to England in a destitute
state, was exhibited at the Southwark Police Court, on
the 25th, when three little Irish boys, found lying on the
steps of a house in the Borough, were brought before the
magistrate. They were almost unacquainted with
English, but the eldest of them was able to answer the
magistrate's questions. Mr. A'Becket (to the eldest
boy): Where have you come from? From the county of
Cork. What place? Dunmanway. I was in the
workhouse there. Mr. A'Becket: Why did you leave
that place? Boy: Because Mr. Hamilton, one of the
gentlemen there, said that I would get plenty of work
and victuals if I left the workhouse and came over to
England. Mr. A'Beckett: Who paid for your passage?
Boy; Mr. Hamilton, I believe, paid the money. Mr.
A'Beckett: Were there any more boys sent away from
the workhouse with you? Boy: Yes, Sir; there were
21 boys picked out, and we were all put on board the
ship and brought over here as deck passengers. Mr.
A'Beckett: Did they supply you with food while on
board? Boy: Yes, Sir, we had some bread given to us,
but nothing else besides water. Mr. A'Beckett: Where
have you been living since you came to London? Boy:
In no house, Sir. We tried to get work, but could not
find any one to employ us, and so we have been
wandering about the town, sleeping sometimes under the
arches of the railway, and at other times on the steps of
houses near the water-side. The magistrate, after
commenting on the conduct of the Irish parish officers,
directed that the boys should be taken to the workhouse
of the parish in which they were found destitute, that
they might be relieved and passed over to Ireland.

An Atrocious Attack on Her Majesty was made
shortly after six o'clock on the evening of the 27th.
The Queen, accompanied by a lady in waiting and the
royal children, had been to inquire respecting the health
of the Duke of Cambridge, at his residence, in Piccadilly.
A man was observed loitering about for some
time, keeping his eye directed towards the entrance at
which the royal carriage would come out, when on
reaching the end of the road from the house, the villain
deliberately aimed a blow at her Majesty with a light
cane, which he held in his hand, striking her on the
cheek, and crushing her bonnet over her forehead,
which caused a great sensation to the bystanders. The
fellow was instantly seized by the persons on the spot,
and the weapon wrested from him. Her Majesty then
immediately proceeded to Buckingham Palace. The
police were quickly on the spot, and took him in charge,
and conveyed him to the Vine Street station. Upon
being placed before Inspector Whall, he gave his name
Robert Pate, 27, Duke Street, St. James's. He assigned
no reason for the act; said he had been a lieutenant in
the Tenth Hussars. The charge was then entered as
follows:—"Charged with assaulting Her Majesty on
leaving Cambridge House." He was then locked up.
Her Majesty arrived at the palace perfectly safe, and
apparently little alarmed at the outrageous assault that
had been committed on her. In a short time, however,
the news had spread to the various club-houses, and the
noblemen and others there assembled instantly hastened
to the royal residence to ascertain, if possible, whether
Her Majesty had sustained injury. However, she
appeared at the Royal Italian Opera in the evening,
and presented herself in the front of her box perfectly
unharmed. Her reception by the audience was
something more than enthusiastic; it was affecting—many
shed tears.

NARRATIVE OF ACCIDENT AND
DISASTER.

Melancholy accounts have been brought, by recent
arrivals from the Atlantic, of the Destruction of Ships
by floating Icebergs. One of these catastrophes was
witnessed, on the 27th of April, by the Oriental, of
Liverpool. The Oriental was then beset by ice, and
saw another vessel a few miles off in a most perilous
condition, stove in by the ice, and sinking.  For two
days she was seen in the same forlorn condition, when
she suddenly disappeared, and very little doubt is
entertained of every soul having gone down in the foundered
vessel. Subsequently a great many bodies were seen
intermingled with the ice, together with some portions
of the cargo, from which it was discovered that she was
from Londonderry bound for Quebec. The Oriental was
eleven days before she got entirely clear of the ice.

Another similar catastrophe was witnessed on the 29th