her Majesty's pleasure with regard to him. Levi Harwood
and Jones were executed on the 15th. They made
a confession, in which they stated that the fatal shot
was fired by Levi Harwood, but without the intention
of murder.

At the Liverpool Assizes, on the 31st ult., Patrick
Lyons and Bridget Lyons his wife, were tried for the
Murder of Peggy Fahey, at Warrington, on the 4th of
February. The prisoners, who are Irish, kept a lodging
house, and Peggy Fahey, a travelling pedlar, was their
lodger. It appears that the contents of her basket of
wares had excited the cupidity of Lyons and his wife,
and that they had murdered her early in the morning,
when she was preparing to go out, by striking her on
the head with a hatchet. Suspicion having arisen, the
house was searched, and her dead body was found in a
closet, together with her basket, and a butcher's cleaver
with which the murder had been committed. The
woman was immediately taken into custody, but the
man had fled, and was traced to Dublin, where before he
was apprehended, he had enlisted in the East India
Company's service, and had been passed by the Surgeon.
The prisoners were both convicted, and the judge
pronounced sentence of death upon them. The woman
has since received a reprieve.

At the Taunton Assizes on the 4th, John Wiles was
indicted for the wilful Murder of William Wilkins, and
John Smith was charged with aiding and abetting him.
It appeared, from the evidence, that the two prisoners
first came to the house of the deceased, who kept a
small shop, on the pretence of buying a loaf of bread,
and afterwards returned to obtain money there, when
they both attacked the deceased and his wife with a
spade and an Italian iron, leaving the old woman for
dead, and then assailing her husband, who shortly
afterwards died of the wounds he received. Foot-marks
were seen; they were followed, and at length the
prisoners, who had shortly before the murder been seen
together in the neighbourhood, were discovered together.
On one was found the knife, on both money, which
each admitted was taken from the old woman. The
jury returned a verdict of guilty against both prisoners,
and. sentence of death was passed upon them. They
were executed on the 22nd.

George Carnt was tried at the Gloucester Assizes for the
Murder of Elizabeth Bainbridge. Carnt was a labourer,
aged twenty-three; Elizabeth Bainbridge was a young
woman of respectable family, married to a husband who
had deserted her. She was a well-favoured, modest
woman, esteemed by the people of Laweshall, where
she and the prisoner lived. Some weeks since, they
were seen walking in a field along a footpath, which
was in their way to be traversed frequently; and were
observed to be laughing to each other. Further on,
they were seen by other persons standing near a stile,
"talking kindly" with each other. They were no
more seen together, and Elizabeth Bainbridge was never
again seen alive. Near to the stile is a pond, and in the
evening shrieks were heard in the direction of that pond.
Later in the evening, Carnt returned to the house of
Elizabeth's brother-in-law, alone, wet, dirty, haggard,
and wildly excited; with a bare head and neck. He
exclaimed—"The halter is ready for me!" and being
asked to drink, said, "I shall never drink again."
Search was made for Elizabeth, and her corpse was
found in the pond. There had evidently been a struggle
on the brink, the young woman had been dragged into
the pond and drowned; and then the murderer had
waded across, and climbed the opposite bank. In the
bosom of the victim was found the watch and chain of
Carnt, and in the pocket of Carnt was found the
wedding-ring of the deceased. The hat and neckerchief of
Carnt were found in or near the pond. The Judge,
Lord Campbell, suggested that the young man had
attempted violence; that the young woman had resisted,
and called forth the base passions of her companion, and
in his fury he had killed her. He was found guilty and
condemned to death. Before his execution he confessed
the crime.

At the same Assizes, Maria Clarke was convicted of
the murder of her infant by Burying it Alive. She
was engaged to be married; and, having an illegitimate
child, whose existence she wished to conceal from her
intended husband, she resolved to take that way of
getting rid of it. Next morning she confessed the deed
to a relative who asked what had become of the child.
A constable was sent for, and on his arrival the prisoner
rushed out to a pond; but being arrested in her course
she quietly returned, and informed the assembled folk
that she had buried her boy in a certain field at
Wingfield. There, at midnight, by the aid of a lantern, and
in her presence, the constable discovered the body of
the child lying just under the turf; which seemed to
have been carefully removed and neatly replaced, so as
to present but little difference to the eye. The prisoner
stated that she had found the scuppet [shovel] by accident,
and that all of a sudden the thought came in her head
to bury her child alive; that she dug a grave for him,
and having laid him sleeping in it, she kissed him, and
then replaced the turf. This done, she sat down by the
side of the grave for half an hour; and all of a sudden
she felt as if some one had lifted her up into the air and
she could fly; so she got up and went home, more
light-hearted than she ever was. Some attempt by the
prisoner's counsel to suggest insanity was rejected by
the Judge, Lord Campbell, who said the whole facts
pointed to a specific motive for a deliberate and
premeditated crime. After the trial, however, a statement
of circumstances indicating the woman's insanity was
forwarded to the Home Secretary, and her execution,
consequently, has been respited.

At the Nenagh assizes, a man named Kenna was
convicted for being engaged in the perpetration of one of
the worst cases of Agrarian Murder, which disgraced the
notorious county of Tipperary last year. The victim was
a man named Martin, who, with his brother, had got into
possession of some land, the property of Mrs. Lidwell,
from which tenants of the name of Joyce had been
evicted. Two parties of men entered the houses of the
two brothers, at the dawn of day, in October last, and
while one of the brothers escaped with some broken
bones, the other was dragged out of bed and murdered
in a most brutal manner on the floor. The prisoner,
who was not disguised in any way, stood sentinel at the
door while the murder was going on: but the jury in
finding him guilty, added a recommendation to mercy
on the ground that when he went to the house the
intention was only to beat the man, without murdering him.

James Newsam, a young man of two-and-twenty,
assistant to Mr. Wright, a druggist at Sheffield,
committed Suicide by swallowing prussic acid. He
obtained a bottle of the poison from the shop, had
poured a quantity into a glass, and had drunk it while
in bed: the draught he took was so large that he could
have had barely time to lie down before he was dead.
He left two letters, one for his employer and the other
for an aunt, in which he expressed his intention to
destroy himself, declaring that he was constantly
haunted by a "phantom": he feared he should never
be a credit to himself or his relatives: it appears he had
frequently made mistakes in business, from what was
considered absence of mind. He begged that Mr. and
Mrs. Wright would forgive any trouble he had caused
them. The unhappy young man, who was the son of a
clergyman, appears to have had some disagreement
with his family. The Coroner's Jury gave a verdict of
"Temporary insanity."

On the 1st of August last, the merchant-schooner
Secret, Captain Jamison, was at anchor in Rucheanina
Bay, New Georgian group, when four of the crew
Mutinied, and, joining the natives who were on board,
took possession of the schooner, which they kept for
upwards of an hour. The captain and mate were in
the cabin; and by keeping up a regular fire through the
skylights, they killed the native chief, and succeeded in
clearing the deck of the mutineers and their allies, who
jumped overboard and swam ashore. The captain and
mate now went on deck; and found that two of the crew
were killed, and one severely wounded, as was also
Captain Jamison's faithful dog. Captain Jamison then
slipped his cable and stood out to sea, followed by the
canoes of the natives; who on the following day (being
still in sight of land) attempted to board, but were
prevented by the steady fire from the schooner. The
loss of the natives is not known, but is supposed to have
been severe.