connected with the parent house and auxiliary house at
Milntown, together with the neglect of the Ballyvoughan
guardians. The Government have ordered a magisterial
investigation into this affair, the result of which is not
yet known.

A thrice adjourned Inquest on the body of James
Geary, a young Irish labourer, was terminated on the
4th. It appeared from the evidence that Geary had
died on the previous Sunday. About one o'clock on
Sunday morning, the 19th of August, he was attacked
by the police near the court where he lived, adjoining
Burial-ground Lane. The police beat him about the
head and shoulders with their staves, and as he lay
on the pathway with his head hanging over the kerb-
stone, one policeman held him by the collar and another
knelt on his chest; after which they pulled him up and
dashed him against the railing, when Sergeant Bushell
struck him across the arms and legs with his staff, and
while they dragged him to the station-house, Sergeant
Bushell again struck him with his staff. The people
cried out "Don't kill the man." Geary, who was
perfectly sober and orderly, was charged with drunkenness
and disorderly conduct; but the magistrate dismissed
the charge. The day after he got the beating he took
to his bed, declaring he would never recover it, and
gradually sunk until he died. One of the witnesses
swore to Sergeant Bushell being the man who struck
Geary with the truncheon, but could not swear to the
identity of the other policeman. The jury returned a
verdict of "Manslaughter against Sergeant Bushell,"
who was committed to Newgate. He has been since tried
at the Central Criminal Court and acquitted.

Mr. Thomas Charles Sirrell, gold and silver refiner of
the Barbican, a tradesman doing a large and profitable
business of an apparently respectable character, was, on
the 4th, arrested by the police on a charge of Receiving
a Quantity of Stolen Plate, with a guilty knowledge of
the mode in which it was obtained. A large quantity of
plate was stolen from the residence of the Rev. Mr.
Fisher, a Catholic clergyman, near Liverpool. The
officers visited Mr. Sirrell's, and seized the goods. They
telegraphed the seizure to Liverpool, and received
instructions to arrest Mr. Sirrell; this was also done, and
he was conveyed to Liverpool, and brought before the
magistrates, by whom he was remanded. Two persons,
named M'Aulay and M'Guire, were apprehended at
Liverpool, charged with stealing the goods received by
Sirrell. On the 8th the prisoners were again examined
and remanded. When the police arrested Sirrell, they
examined his general stock, and saw enough to induce
them to seize the whole, on suspicion that it was the
produce of robberies. It was removed to the Scotland
Yard station, and part of it was recognised; Mr. Argent,
of the Rainbow Tavern, Fleet Street, identified some
plate which he had lost, though his marks had been
nearly obliterated; and Mr. Lovegrove, of the London
Coffeehouse, claimed a number of spoons and forks. It
was ascertained that a pair of salt-cellars, part of the
packets sent from Liverpool, were stolen from the house
of Mrs. Tinley, a lady living in that town. On the 18th,
Sirrell and M'Aulay were committed for trial; but
M'Guire was discharged. Mr. Sirrell has since been
liberated on bail.

An inquest was held on the 5th on the body of Ann
Francis, a young girl, servant in a family in Newman
Street, who had committed Suicide. She had formed
an affection for a young man named Kelly, whose master
resided in the same house, where she had been a servant
five years. She received a letter from Kelly, in which
he said that he intended sailing for New York, in
consequence of her having said that she was pregnant by him.
Next morning she was found by a fellow-servant in the
kitchen, hanging by a rope from a clothes peg, and dead.
The following letter, addressed to her mother, was
found close to where she was hanging—"Dear mother,
Kelly has ruined me, and says that I am the cause of
his going away. It's more than I am able to bear.
Good-bye, dear parents. Ann Francis."—A verdict of
insanity was given.

John Lambourn, a labourer, residing at Watlington,
in Oxfordshire, has been apprehended on the charge of
having Murdered his Wife. They had long lived
unhappily, and violent altercations were often heard
between them. The wife was seen in good health on
the 5th, and at eleven o'clock that night she was found
dead in the garden, near her cottage door. She was
then quite cold, her bonnet and cap were saturated with
blood, and a quantity of congealed blood was beneath
her head. The coroner's jury found a verdict against
the husband, who was committed for trial.

John Kelly, a boy of twelve years old, was charged at
the Mansion House on the 7th with Stealing in the
clothes market in Cutler Street. He had been seen
walking along with two "blinds," a black-and-white
dog and a girl, both of which he was in the habit of
using in his trade of theft, in which although so young
he had been very expert and successful. He carried a
whistle, which he blew upon the approach of danger,
and the call was immediately answered by a rush from a
crowd of Petticoat Lane thieves, and generally a rescue.
The girl had been the immediate recipient of the
"swag," and the dog was stated to be the bitter enemy
of the police and others who are interested in the
preservation of peace and the diminution of robbery. Upon
the present occasion the prisoner was disappointed, and
his whistle having been secured, he was unable to
summon his friends to the rescue. Alderman Gibbs: Let
him be taken down stairs and soundly flogged, so that he
may remember the day. The prisoner. Oh dear, don't
whop me, and I'll promise to cut away from you
altogether. Alderman Gibbs: No; you must go away
taking with you a wholesome whipping.

A Daring Robbery was attempted in the house of
Mr. Marston, a gold and silver beater in Birmingham,
on the 7th. About four o'clock in the morning he was
roused from sleep by a noise in the house, and on getting
out of bed he found that his room door, which he left
ajar on retiring to rest, had been in the meantime closed.
He went down stairs, and glanced into the sitting-room,
saw three men emptying his sideboard of the plate which
it contained, and a large heap of the spoil was lying on
the floor. He attempted to run back to his bed-room,
with the intention of getting his firearms, but the
robbers attacked him with their bludgeons. He turned
upon them and tore a wooden rail out of the bannister,
maintaining his position on the stairs for several minutes.
At length, one of the villains brought a poker from
the sitting-room, and with this he struck Mr. Marston
numerous blows across the head and legs. Unable
to hold out any longer he dropped at their feet, but even
then they kicked and struck him, so as to prevent the
possibility of his pursuing them, and as at this moment a
fainting fit deprived him of his senses, they no doubt
thought they had killed him. They then quitted the
house, making their exit from the premises by the same
way as they had entered, namely, through the ceiling of
Mr. Marston's warehouse, from which a door communicated
with the house. During this struggle, which
lasted a quarter of an hour, and while Mr. Marston's
daughter and servant were at a window crying loudly
for help, two or three policemen were standing inactive
before the door; and they afterwards alleged that the
noise was caused by a man chastising his wife (or son,
as one of them said) as if such a thing was likely to
happen in a highly respectable house, and at such an
hour in the morning. At last the door was opened from
the inside, and Mr. Marston was found covered with
blood, and insensible. No property was carried off.
Five young fellows belonging to a London gang of
thieves have been arrested. The policemen were brought
before the watch committee, when Miss Marston attended
and stated the facts; but the men were simply
reprimanded by the Mayor. Five men were apprehended
on suspicion, but, in consequence of the precarious state
of Mr. Marston, they were not brought up for examination
till the 23rd. Against two of them, Elijah Wareham
and John Smith, no evidence was adduced; the
others, Christopher Healy, Joseph Marshall, and William
Wallace, after a long examination were remanded.

Cornelius Bowan, a respectable looking man of middle
age, was charged on the 7th, at the Southwark police-
court, with Assaulting police constable Gingle while in
execution of his duty. The policeman said that the
defendant with several women were standing by a coffee
stall at one o'clock in the morning, talking and making
a noise; that he desired the defendant to move on