jury gave this verdict: "Manslaughter against divers
persons unknown."

An American emigration agent, named Samuel
Saunders, was brought before the Borough Police Court,
at Manchester, on the 7th inst.; having been apprehended
upon a warrant charging him with Obtaining Money
by False Pretences from an emigrant. This man's
proceedings had previously attracted notice; and about
twelve months ago a public meeting was held at
Manchester, when the Rev. Mr. Barker, of Leeds, and
Mr. Archibald Prentice, were present, and spoke from
their own knowledge of the total unfitness of the land
in Virginia, for the sale of which Saunders professed to
be agent, for cultivation. The complainant on this
occasion was John Booth, formerly of Salford; he said
that in August, 1849, having been attracted by
publications issued by the prisoner, which stated that he had
land to sell in America, suitable for persons desirous of
emigrating, he waited upon the prisoner at his own
office. Saunders there told him the land he had to sell
was in Doddridge county, State of Virginia; and drew
a very tempting picture of its inducements and
capabilities. He called it "fine rolling land," said it was
very fertile, that crops of wheat were growing on it
when he (Saunders) saw it six feet high; that a river
ran through it; that there were collieries, and factories,
and a foundry in operation upon it; that being partly
settled, it was extremely eligible for an emigrant,
because, on getting there, such emigrant would find
plenty of neighbours flocking about him ready to give
assistance in constructing a log house, and to do other
things material in giving a fair start to a person in such
circumstances. The witness having saved some money,
and being desirous to emigrate, was induced, by these
representations, to buy a plot of 338 acres of land from
the prisoner, called Lot No. 21, and to pay £6 15s. 2d.
to him for it as a deposit of ten per cent, upon £66 12s. 2d.,
being 4s. an acre. He sailed for New York, and arrived
there in October, 1819, having a letter to Mr. O'Connor,
the prisoner's agent. From Mr. O'Connor, he and
another emigrant were referred to a Mr. Underwood,
who lived eight miles from the land, and who was to
give them possession. They proceeded then to
Doddridge county, Virginia, and saw Mr. Underwood, who
at once told them he feared they bad been duped, like
many others coming from England, by this Saunders.
He took them, however, to see the land, and witness
was satisfied he had been swindled. On going to visit
the land they found it a sterile mountainous country,
almost inaccessible. They had to pull themselves up it
by the branches of trees. The cultivation of such land
was out of the question. There was no river, no
colliery, no foundry or factory within many miles.
Finding himself duped, and his money failing him, he
sought work; and after being there upwards of twelve
months, had worked his way back to Manchester. On
arriving there he called on Saunders, who said, " What,
are you come back?" The witness said, "Back from
where?" And prisoner replied, "From the far West."
Witness told him he was, and began to tell him how he
had duped him. In the conversation he saw some of the
printed papers lying on the prisoner's counter, which
had first allured him to think of becoming a purchaser,
and asked him how he could issue such lies? The
prisoner coolly replied, that lies did better for some
people than the truth, and sent for a police officer to
remove him from the office.—Saunders's solicitor
attempted to argue that his representations were not
such as constituted false pretences under the statute;
and that, moreover, he was only the agent of other
parties. And Saunders himself entered into a long
rambling statement, in which he said, "People here
like something level, but for his part, he liked hilly
land, and had bought 1080 acres of it, believing it to
be more healthy than low land, which gave agues to
the settlers: he had sold land to hundreds of persons
who had never come back and complained."—Mr.
Beswick (police superintendent) "But we have hundreds
of letters at the office from them, complaining that they
have been duped in this way."—The magistrate
committed the prisoner for trial at the next assizes, admitting
him to bail on two sureties for £50 each.

On the 11th, an inquest was held at Chiswick upon
the body of Mr. Samuel Thorrington, a coal merchant
and bargemaster, late residing at Hill Cottage, who had
committed Suicide by discharging a rifle pistol at the
back part of his head. It appeared from the evidence
of the wife of the deceased that on Monday evening he
came into her bed-room with a pistol in his hand, and
exclaimed "Here old girl, the time has come." She,
fearing he was going to shoot her, rushed out into the
garden, and called to the police, when the report of a
pistol was heard, and on her re-entering the house, the
deceased was found in the agonies of death, and weltering
in his blood. He was considered by his medical
man to have been decidedly insane. His wife had lived
separately from him on account of some unhappy
difference, and had come on that occasion to see his mother.
A verdict was found to the effect that the deceased
destroyed himself while in an insane state of mind.

The suit of Metairie and Wiseman was brought to a
close in Lord Cranworth's Court on the 17th, by a
compromise; the main feature of which is, that the £7000
stock is to be divided between the next of kin of Mr.
Carré and the trustees for the charity of St. Aloysius:
£4000 go to the next of kin and £3000 to the charity;
a sum of £404 l8s. 5d. already in the possession of the
trustees to be divided in the same proportions; each
party to bear his own costs; and "all offensive imputations
to be withdrawn by the plaintiffs."

A Fatal Affray took place on the 17th in Londonderry
between some soldiers of the 34th depot, stationed
there, and the constabulary. The affair originated in
some insulting treatment offered by the soldiers to a
countryman; and the police having interfered to
disperse a crowd which had collected, the soldiers attacked
them, using their belts in the assault. One of the police
survived the injuries which he received little more than
twenty-four hours, and an inquest having been held on
his remains on Thursday, the jury found that he had
died from the effect of a blow inflicted by John Day,
one of the soldiers, three others aiding and abetting. It
was strongly recommended that the custom of soldiers
wearing belts off duty should be discontinued.

On the 18th, Abel Curtis was tried for Stealing
Eleven Ounces of Indigo, the property of the East and
West India Dock Company. Mr. Curtis is clerk to an
indigo-broker; he went to the docks to inspect indigo;
on his departure he was stopped and searched, and the
indigo was found packed in his sample-box. The
company did not authorize any one to take away pieces
of indigo of such size as samples: hence this prosecution.
But the company's own witnesses proved that Mr.
Curtis asked the man who showed the indigo to pack up
for him the pieces now alleged to be stolen, and the
man placed them in the box with other samples. The
jury did not require the counsel for the accused to
address them, but returned a verdict of "Not guilty."

A well-dressed lad, named Harris, was charged at the
Clerkenwell police-court on the 21st, with Vagrancy.
A mendicity officer said he saw the prisoner go up to a
woman who was selling cat's meat, and purchase a half
pennyworth of it. He then waited until a number of
persons assembled about him, when he began devouring
the meat, saying he was hungry, and, in fact, starving.
Witness and many others prevented him finishing that
repast, and gave him money to purchase wholesome
food; but as he readily pocketed the coin, and refused
to lay it out as the donors intended, he (Colley) thought
it right to walk him off to the Mendicity office to see if
he were known. He could not, however, be identified
there, but as he had nearly 2s. in his pocket, besides
some food, witness deemed it proper to introduce him to
a magistrate. The officer added that since he had
locked the prisoner up, he had ascertained that he had
lodgings in Eagle-stret, Red Lion-square, where he had
breakfasted that morning off two eggs, plenty of bread
and butter, and tea. The magistrate said it was abominable
and almost incredible to what extent and by what
means the benevolent were gulled and plundered, and
he sincerely lamented he bad not the power to punish
the defendant, but he knew of no law to prevent a man
dining off cat's-meat. The present exposure would, he
had no doubt, have a beneficial effect, and with a
recommendation to the defendant not to try the same
game on again, he discharged him.