determined to pass very severe sentences in future. But
in this case, the punishment was six months' imprisonment,
without hard labour.

At Guildhall, on the 23d, Margaret Raymond was
charged with Throwing her Son, a Child of six years
old, from a third-floor window in Sun Court, Golden
Lane. The charge was proved by several witnesses.
The child fell on his head, which was much injured,
but the skull was not fractured. Mary Ann Regan, an
intelligent girl, aged 11, deposed that she lived in the
house, and was looking through the second-floor window.
She saw the prisoner holding the child out of the upper
window. He exclaimed "Oh, mother, don't chuck me
out!" The mother then took him by the heels and
dropped him out of the window. At the same time a
little girl in the mother's room exclaimed, "Oh, mother,
don't throw him out." The prisoner was committed
for trial. She subsequently admitted that she had
wanted the boy's boots in order to sell them for gin.

At the Greenwich Police Court, on the 9th, Lord
Ranelagh was charged with Assaulting two Railway
Officers and obstructing them in the discharge of their
duty. Many witnesses were examined on both sides.
It appeared that Lord Ranelagh had been dining at
Greenwich with a party of friends, and had come to the
railway station in order to return to town. There was
a great crowd, and the railway officers were attempting,
by closing the door, to prevent the people from entering
too rapidly. Lord Ranelagh, who had a lady on his
arm, endeavoured to keep the door open and to press
forward, and a scuffle ensued with the officers. The
parties mutually charged each other with violent conduct
and abusive language, but the evidence as to this was
contradictory. The magistrate, Mr. Seeker, inquired if
all Lord Ranelagh's party had tickets; and was informed
that they had. The magistrate's decision was that the
railway men were not in the execution of their duty;
Lord Ranelagh and his party had received tickets, had
passed the outer barrier, and had a right to expect that
they could proceed to the platform to enter the train:
Mr. Seeker therefore dismissed the complaint. The case
has been brought by the railway company before the
central criminal court, and Lord Ranelagh held to
bail for his appearance to take his trial.—A countercharge,
made by Lord Ranelagh against the railway
officers, was sent by the Greenwich magistrate to be
tried at the sessions.

At Clerkenwell police court, on the 23d, Thomas
Ledger, master of the national school in Agar Town,
was charged with Assaulting one of his Pupils, 12 years
of age, named Philip Wheaton. The boy's back was
bared in court, and a number of black and blue marks
were visible. It appeared in evidence that the schoolmaster
first gave him two cuts across his hand, and
afterwards caned him, no one else being present, at the
same time holding him up with one hand until the
weapon split. He then got another cane, and then held
him with his face downwards, and, putting his foot
upon him, flogged him for a considerable time, when a
gentleman and some of the boys, who had heard his
screams, came to the door, and he was permitted to
crawl away. The schoolmaster said that the complainant
was an obstinate and wicked boy, and he punished him
for making a noise and snapping his fingers while the
school was at prayers. He denied using two canes, and
called two of the boys, who on oath corroborated his
statement. The magistrate was of opinion that the
case ought to end there, for no great harm had
been done. He would repeat what he had often said,
that he had seen punishments far more severe inflicted
in the school where he was brought up upon some of
the first noblemen now living, clergymen, naval and
military officers, and others of very high standing, who
never flinched from it, but took it manfully and in good
part, knowing they had deserved it, and that it was
necessary for the character and dignity of the establishment;
that such a discipline was actually necessary;
"and without it," emphatically exclaimed the worthy
magistrate, "what would have become of our army and
navy? Why, instead of a brave and manly race, we
should have had a set of cowards and runaways." The
father said that undue severity had been exercised,
and he was desirous that defendant should be tried
before a jury. The school-master was accordingly
committed for trial at the next Middlesex sessions,
and bail was taken for his appearance.

At the Worship Street police court, on the 13th,
Angus Brown, John Wright, and James M'Cormack,
soldiers of the Royal Horse Artillery, were charged
with an Infamous Outrage on Miss Harrison, the
daughter of a respectable farmer in Norfolk. The
young lady had come with some friends to town for to
see the Exhibition, and was residing in the house of
Mr. Syers, a tavern-keeper in Shoreditch. She gave
the following evidence: "At half-past eleven last night
I went to bed in the back room on the second floor. I
had not been asleep more than two hours when I became
sensible that some other person was present, and upon
thoroughly awaking found a man in my bed lying by
my side, with one of his arms round my neck, and
totally undressed, with the exception of his shirt. This
man I can positively swear was the prisoner Brown,
whom I had seen, previous to retiring to rest, in the
public parlour of the house to which he had come in the
course of the evening, and I heard him ask if he could
be accommodated with beds for three. When I awoke
and found his arm round my neck in the manner I have
described, I also saw another man standing at the foot
of the bed, who had on dark trowsers, but no coat. He
was one of the other two prisoners, but which I cannot
say, but I distinctly saw that he had military trousers
on. I was dreadfully terrified, and screamed loudly,
and entreating the men for God's sake not to hurt me,
sprang out of bed as rapidly as I could. The prisoner
Brown leapt out of bed at the same time, and, running
to one of the closets in the room, closed the door, and
endeavoured to conceal himself. Mr. Syers, who
had been alarmed by my screams, at that moment
hastened into the room to my assistance, followed
by his wife, and Mrs. Syers suspecting somebody
was concealed there, went to the closet, and
finding Brown standing there upon some steps, seized
him firmly by one of his legs, exclaiming, 'Come out,
you villain!' and the prisoner did so. Mr. Syers in the
meantime returned to the room and secured Brown,
expressing his determination to hold him until the police
came, and hearing one of the other two prisoners, who
were also present, privately exclaim to his companions,
'We are three to one; let us kill the——,' I hurried
out of the room during the struggle which ensued
between them, and running in my fright to the
bedroom of the witness Collins, concealed myself there in
my nightclothes under the bed until the police had
effected an entrance and secured the soldiers. The
witness added, that she had had no conversation
whatever with either of the prisoners previous to the
commission of the outrage, and the only time she had been
nigh them was once when she handed them some beer at
the request of the servant, who was otherwise engaged."
The young lady's evidence was corroborated by Mr.
Collins, a gentleman of Birmingham, and by Mr. Syers,
who corroborated the young lady's evidence, and showed
marks of great violence he had suffered from the ruffians.
The prisoners expressed great contrition, and Brown,
crying convulsively, entreated the magistrate not to
ruin them by sending them to trial. Miss Harrison
herself seconded this appeal, and the magistrate, in
consequence of it, and in consideration of the principal
witnesses residing at such distances as Birmingham and
Norfolk, did not commit the prisoners, but fined Brown
10l. for his assaults on Miss Harrison and Mr. Syers,
and the other prisoners 5l. each; in default of payment
to be sent for two months to the House of Correction.

NARRATIVE OF ACCIDENT AND
DISASTER.

A SHOCKING case of Premature Burial has taken place at
Tipperary. Mary Neill, a young woman, apparently died
on the 3rd inst. in the poor house, and was buried next
day. On the morning of the 5th a man heard her cry as
he passed close to her grave, and he ran as rapidly as
possible to town, and gave the alarm. She was disinterred;
and on opening her coffin, she was found lying on