but only to alarm her and induce her to return to
him. The jury, after long deliberation, acquitted the
prisoner.

Several shocking instances of Agrarian Crime have
been mentioned in the Irish papers. At Glasslough, in the
county of Monaghan, a shot was fired into the bedroom
window of Mr. John Robertson, land steward to C. P.
Leslie, Esq., on the night of the 10th. Arthur O'Donnell,
Esq., of Pickwick Cottage, in Clare, was murdered
near his own house, on the night of the 11th. He was
attacked by a party of men and killed with a hatchet.
The supposition was that this deed was committed by
recipients of relief whom Mr. O'Donnell was wont to
strike off the lists at the weekly revision by the board of
the Kilrush union, of which he was one. A man was
arrested on strong suspicion. There was another murder
in Clare. The herdsman of Mr. Scanlon, of Fortune in
that county, went out to look after some sheep, the
property of his master, when he was attacked by some
persons who had been lurking about the wood, and his
throat cut.

Two evidences of the Low Price of Labour were brought
before the magistrates. One at Bow-street on the 10th,
when W. Gronnow, a journeyman shoemaker, was
charged with pawning eight pairs of ladies' shoes entrusted
to him for making up. He pleaded extreme distress, and
said he intended to redeem the shoes that week. The
prisoner's employer owned that the man was entitled to
no more than 4s. 8d. for making and preparing the eight
pairs of shoes. "Why," said the magistrate, "that
price is only sevenpence a pair for the workman. I am
not surprised to hear of so many persons pawning their
employers' property, when they are paid so badly."
The prisoner was fined 2s. and ordered to pay the money
he had received upon the shoes within fourteen days; in
default, to be imprisoned fourteen days. Being unable
to pay the money, he was locked up.

On the previous day a man named Savage, a slop
shirt seller, was summoned at Guildhall for 9d., the
balance due to Mrs. Wallis for making three cotton
shirts. When delivered, Savage found fault with them,
and deferred payment. Eventually 1s. 3d. was paid
instead of 2s. The alderman said he was surprised at any
tradesman who only paid 8d. for making a shirt, deducting
3d. from so small a remuneration; it was disgraceful.
He then ordered the money to be paid, with expenses.

Alexander Levey, a goldsmith, was tried at the
Central Criminal Court on the 10th, for the Murder of
his Wife. They were a quarrelsome pair: one day,
while the husband, with a knife in his hand, was cooking
a sweetbread, the wife came in, and, in answer to his
inquiry where she had been, said she had been to a
magistrate for a warrant against him. On this, with a
violent exclamation, he stabbed her in the throat; she
ran out of the house, while he continued eating with the
knife with which he stabbed her, saying, however, he
hoped she was not much hurt. She died in consequence
of the wound. The defence was, that the blow had been
given in the heat of passion, and the prisoner was found
guilty of manslaughter only. He was sentenced to
fifteen years' transportation.

On the same day, Jane Kirtland was tried for the
Manslaughter of her Husband. They lived at Shadwell,
and were both addicted to drinking and quarrelling, in
both which they indulged. Kirtland having called his
wife an opprobrious name, she took up a chopper, and
said that if he repeated the offensive expression, she
would chop him. He immediately repeated it with a
still more offensive addition, and at the same time thrust
his fist in her face, when she struck him on the elbow
with the chopper, and inflicted a wound of which he
died a few days afterwards. The prisoner, when called
upon for her defence, burst into tears, and said that her
husband was constantly drunk, and that he was in the
habit of going out all day, and leaving her and her
children in a destitute state, and when he came home he
would abuse her and insult her in every possible way.
In a moment of anger she struck him with the chopper,
but she had no intention to do him any serious injury.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended
her to mercy on account of the provocation she had
received. She was sentenced to be kept to hard labour
in the House of Correction for six months.

A coroner's inquest was held in Southwark on the
same day, respecting the death of Mrs. Mary Carpenter,
an Eccentric Old Lady, of eighty-two. She had
been left, by a woman who attended her, cooking a
chop for her dinner; and soon afterwards the neighbours
were alarmed by smoke coming from the house.
On breaking into her room on an upper floor, the
place was found to be on fire. The flames were
got under, but the old lady was burnt almost to a
cinder. Mrs. Carpenter was a very singular person; she
used at one time to wear dresses so that they did not
reach down to her knees. Part of her leg was exposed,
but the other was encased with milk-white stockings,
tied up with scarlet garters, the ribands extending to
her feet, or flying about her person. In this extraordinary
dress she would sally forth to market, followed by
immense crowds of men and children. For some years
past she discontinued these perambulations, and lived
entirely shut up in her house in Moss-alley, the windows
of which she had bricked up so that no light could enter
from without. Though she had considerable freehold
property, she had only an occasional female attendant,
and would allow no other person, but the collector of
her rents, to enter her preserve.

On the 12th, Mrs. Eleanor Dundas Percival, a lady
of thirty-five, destroyed herself by poison at the Hope
Coffee-house in Fetter-lane, where she had taken
temporary apartments. A Distressing History transpired at
the inquest. She was the daughter of a Scotch clergyman,
and lost the countenance of her family by marrying
a Catholic, a captain in the navy; while her husband
suffered the same penalty for marrying a Protestant.
About a year ago he and their infant died in the West
Indies; she afterwards became governess in the family
of Sir Colin Campbell, Governor of Barbadoes; her
health failing, she returned to England in October last,
and had since been reduced to extreme distress. Having
been turned out of a West-end hotel, and had her effects
detained on account of her debt contracted there, she
had been received into the apartments in Fetter-lane
partly through the compassion of a person who resided
in the house. While there, she had written to Miss
Burdett Coutts, and, a few days before her death, a
gentleman had called on her from that benevolent lady,
who paid up the rent she owed, amounting to £2 14s.,
and left her 10s. On the evening above-mentioned
she went out and returned with a phial in her hand
containing morphia, which, it appeared, she swallowed
on going to bed between five and six o'clock,
as she was afterwards found in a dying state, and the
empty phial beside her. The verdict was Temporary
Insanity.

Elias Lucas and Mary Reeder were Executed at
Cambridge on the 13th. Lucas was the husband of the
female convict's sister, whom they had poisoned. Morbid
curiosity had attracted from twenty to thirty thousand
spectators. In the procession from the jail to the scaffold
there was a great parade of county magistrates.

The Middlesex magistrates sat on the 15th to hear
appeals of publicans whose licenses had been refused by
the divisional justices, for exhibiting, "Betting Lists"
which show the state of the "odds" against horses
entered for different races. This, it was alleged,
encouraged persons to make bets and to gamble. It was
admitted that these lists were the same with those
published in the newspapers; but on the other hand,
when bets were made, it was usual for the landlord to
hold the stakes; and the judge decided that, though
the landlord could not be made responsible for bets made
in his house, yet, when he became stake-holder, he was
knowingly suffering gaming, contrary to the terms of
his license. The licenses were ultimately granted on
the applicants promising to discontinue the betting lists,
and on payment, by each, of £10 costs.

At the Mansion House, on the 16th, Walter Watts,
clerk in the Globe Assurance Office, late lessee of the
Marylebone and Olympic Theatres, after a series of
examinations, was committed for trial on a charge of
stealing two cheques of £1400 each, the property of the
above office.

Louisa Hartley was charged at the Southwark Police
Court, on the 16th, with an Attempt to poison her Father,
who is a fellowship-porter. On the previous morning