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      the Government inspector will make a more complete examination of the pit . A man has been killed at the Methley station of the Midland Railway . He -was waiting the arrival of a train , and , as it approached , a little dog which he had with him ran on to the line . He went after it , to bring it back , and was knocked down by one of the engine buffers and thrown a distance of thirty yards . He was killed instantaneously . Some saw-mills in Wilford-street , Nottingham , have been tlie scene of a horrible accident . One of the workmen was in the boiler-house , screwing up one of the pins of the sludge-box door of the boiler , when a pin broke , the whole place was filled with steam , and the hot water poured out upon the man , -who screamed fearfully . He was conveyed to the hospital , but died the same evening . .

      A Singular accident has occurred at the Angel and Sun Tavern , Strand , to Arnie Sparrow , a servant of the proprietress . The young woman was dusting some soda water bottles which were in a rack behind the counter , when one of them burst , and several large pieces of glass huried themselves in her throat , wounding her in a very serious manner . She was conveyed to a surgeon , who succeeded in . extricating 1 the larger pieces of glass ; but the larynx was found to be injured . The woman is not out of danger .

      A shocking catastrophe has taken place at Dunbar , Scotland . A Mr . William Wilson , of London , -was staying there with his family ; and two of the youngest daughters went into the sea to bathe , when they appeared in danger of drowning , owing to the roughness of the waves . The father and eldest brother rushed in after them ; and all perished . Mrs . Wilson , in the wildness of her distraction , also endeavoured to rush into the water , in the hope of saving them ; but she was forcibly dragged back , or she , too , - would have been lost .

      A jockey , named Wakefield , has been killed by a fall from the horse he was riding at the Weston-Zoyland race meeting on Friday week .

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      alarm , and the police being informed of the circumstance , the hody was examined , and it was then discovered that two extensive wound 3 had been inflicted across the throat from ear to ear , of such a depth that the head was nearly cut off . There was likewise a wound in the right side of the skull , which had apparently been caused by a bullet , and there were several other marks of violence about the body ; but no weapon of any kind was found near it , nor did the gnmekeeper hear any report of a pistol on the evening that he found the corpse . The murdered woman has not yet been identified . The day after the discovery of the woman ' s body , the police noticed that part of the pocket of her dress had becu cut , and a portion of a pocket corresponding exactly with the remnant in the dead woman ' s clothes was found in the park of Mr . Groville Smyth , of Ashton . It contained nothing , however , but a stone .

      •' ¦ - " " MURDER , NEAR CLIFTON . The dead body of a well-dressed young woman was discovered on Friday week in Nightingale Vallej ' , Leigh Woods , Clifton . The coTpse was in a horribly mangled condition , and covered with blood . Her remains "were first seen about seven o ' clock in the evening by a gamekeeper in the employ of Mr . Miles , M . P ., who was passing along the north side of the valley in the direction of the rabbit-warren . His suspicions were aroused by first seeing on the ground a trail of blood partly covered with mould ; and he presently afterwards found a pocket-handkerchief , also stained with blood , and marked with the initials " C . P . " Other articles of the dead woman's wearing ap-parel were similarly marked . Large footprints in the soil—evidently those of a manwere next perceived by tlie gamekeeper . He raised an

      A clue to the discovery of the murderer is now being investigated by the police . Mrs . Caroline Green , who keeps the White Lion , Temple-street , Bristol , states that oa Thursday night , tho 1 , 0 th . inat ., about twelve o ' clock , a man dressed na a sailor , about thirty years of age , with dark sandy whiskers , slept at her house with a woman he called his wife , who was dressed in a grey alpaca gown with a white frill round tho neck and down the front , 8 traw * bonnet with , coloured ribbon , black cloth mantle

      , with velvet-figured trimmings . The woman wore her hair over her ears , and her boot 9 corresponded with those found on the deceased . The man and woman left together on tho Friday morning , about ton o ' clock , after taking breakfast . Another man was seen in company with them . Mrs . Green and her servant saw tho ooily of the murdered woman on Monday afternoon , and ootb express their confident belief that she was the same person who lodged at tho Whito Lion on tho previous i-linrsday nlglit .

      A card with tho address of a man at Briatol has been tound on tho spot , and \ yaa thought at firat to have been part of tho head-dross of tho murdered woman . The j nan was therefore arrested ; but it booh tranHp » red that |? ° card belonged to a young woman who luul visited liber ? ' / 11 ' " Ct 0 W < X ' ° ° Ur 8 e th 0 nwi Wa * ftt onco

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      CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . The September sittings of this court commenced on Monda } ' , when the greater part of the sitting was occupied with the trial of Edward Hastings for wilful and corrupt perjury . The case was not finished at the rising of the court . The trial was resumed on Tuesday , and terminated in a verdict of Not Guilty . Michael Murphy was also arraigned for the same offence ; but a verdict of Acquittal was taken . The case had reference to some evidence given on a trial for an alleged infringement of a patent , belonging to Messrs . Price and Co ., candlemakers , by Banraea ' s Candle Company .

      boy s father is an officer of rank on board the Agamemnon . William Weaver , a tailor , has been sentenced to five years penal servitude for a robbery , with violence , from a youth in Milford-lane , Strand , about nine o ' clock in the evening . Charlotte Knox Knox was charged with obtaining money from the East India Company by false pretences , having continued to receive a pension from the Company after her second marriage ; On the second husband being put in the witness-box , he admitted that he had a previous wife still alive ; but said he was not aware that she was alive when he married Mrs . Knox . The prosecution was then withdrawn . The trial of Thomas Diamond Evans and Captain Henry Thome for aa alleged attempt to extort money from the Hon . F . W . Cadogan , by means of a libellous letter , is postponed to next session .

      Thomas Perry , Edward Whiffen , and John Griffiths , driver , stoker , and signalman , on the North Kent Railway , were tried on Wednesday on several charges of manslaughter arising out of the accident on that line which occurred on Sunday evening , the 28 th of last June . It will be recollected that an excursion train was "brought to a stop at the Lewisham station , owing to some obstruction further on ; that the line , nevertheless , was telegraphed as clear by Griffiths , the signalman at the Blackheath station ; that the next train , driven by Perry and Whiffen , came on ; and that , the driver and stoker disregarding the danger signals on approaching Lewisham , a collision ensued with the train already standing there , and several persona were killed .

      In the course of cross-examination , Mr . John Nelson , station-master at Lewisham , said : —" Complaints had been made to him of this signal being defective . It was not ' chronically' out of order , but sometimes defective from accident , and then it was repaired . He could not say whether Hill had complained to him of the signal , but several other drivers had done so . All distant signals required to be looked at every day , and something had been done to this signal since the accident by the gas-fitter , but he could not say what repairs had been effected . He made noinquiries as to what was the matter with the signal , although he was perfectly well aware that the lives of the passengers on the line depended upon it being

      perfect . The witness , after a good deal of hesitation , and apparently with great reluctance , admitted that " since the accident the gas-pipes belonging to the signal had been cleaned out , but he said he was not aware whether they were also brightened . He knew nothing about it . Serjeant Parry : " And you are still stationmaster . "— " Witness : " I am . " Serjeant Parry : " And have not been suspended ?"—" No . " Serjeant Parry : " Nor blamed in reference to this transaction ?"—" No . " Serjeant Parry r " Nor praised ? " — " Not that I am aware of . " ( . 4 . laugh , ') Whiffen having been acquitted , as it clearly appeared that he was engaged at the fire when the danger-signal was exhibited , and therefore could not see it , the jurv having held a short

      consultation together with respect to Perry ' s case , and then said , they were of opinion that the evidence was not sufficient to convict the prisoner , and they at the same time begged to be allowed to express their greatest dissatisfaction at the extremely defective state of the signals and the bad time kept upon the North Kent Railway . Mr . Justice Crornpton said he quite concurred with the jury that there was no evidence of culpable negligence on the part of Perry . He was told at Lewisham that it was all right . He knew that the train ahead of him ought not to have stopped at Lewisham , and it was very possible that he did not see the light until he arrived at the bridge , as he stated . A verdict of Not Guilty was then recorded , and the same' result was come to with respect to Griffiths .

      Thomas Gorman has been found Guilty of wounding Southern Bevington , an asistant warder at the Millbauk Penitentiar 3 r , and sentenced to penal servitude for life . Charles Mickleburg , a cattle-dealer , lias been found Guilty of uttering a forged cheque , and sentenced to a year ' s imprisonment . Giovanni Passa , an Italian , has been sent to prison for six months for defrauding a Jew named Simmons of 13 ? ., by pretending to sell him certain gold chains which in fact were brass . James Preston was on Thursday Acquitted , on the ground of insanity , of the murder of John Hodges in Horsemonger-lano Gaol . Tho particulars appcured in our paper last -week .

      Cornelius Denny , on the same day , was found Guilty of the manslaughter of Gallo Benzanelli , the Italian confectioner , in tho Hampstead-road . It appeared that he had . been a good deal irritated by the various attempts of Benzanelli to get him out of the shop ; and this was the only defence urged . Denny was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude . Ann Donovan , a young woman of eighteen , was found Guilty of stabbing George Gymcr , a policeman . She also was sentenced to penal servitude for ten years . William Edwin Jnmos Hyllyar , a youth of fifteen ,

      surrendered to tnke his trial on a charge of uttering a forged certificate of baptism with intent " to defraud , lie vma endeavouring to obtain a situation in the Admiralty , to which clerks arc not admitted under seventeen , and he presented a certificate of baptism stating that ho was born in 1840 ; but it was at once perceived that the date originall y entered was 1842 , and that the 2 hnd been altered into nn 0 . Mr . Serjeant Bnllantine argued that it was highly probable tho youth knew nothing of tho fraud , if any had bcon committed ; and h « waa Acquittoil . A bxjrdt of applause followed tlio verdict . The

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      Murder in Shropshire . —An . old woman named Morgan , alias Evans , who has been known for several years as a fortune-teller , has been murdered by William Davies , a man of thirty-five , who lived with her . They had a quarrel last Saturday , on account of Davies beinglong gone on an errand , and a boy suddenly saw the man issue , covered with blood , from the cottage on Westwoodcommon , -where they lived . An alarm was given ; the neighbours entered the cottage , and found the old woman lying dead , with her throat cut , and six or seven stabs in her body . The police then started in pursuit of the murderer , who was captured at two o'clock on the following morning at Leebotwood .

      Mubdekous Assaults . — Three fellows , named Livermore , Powell , and Weston , -were discovered by a policeman on Sunday afternoon in the garden of a house , apparently for a dishonest purpose . The officer seized one of them ; but they all attacked him with sticks with such ferocity that he was covered wirh blood , and lay for some time as if dead . The men then escaped . ; but the two first have since been apprehended , and examined before the Marylebone magistrate , by whom they have been sent to prison for four months . —Anne Page , a dirty-looking woman , has been charged at Clerkenwell with stabbing in the back of the neck one Henry Johnson , a general dealer , in Baldwin ' s-gardens . She had had some quarrel with him ; but he requested the magistrate that the sentence on her might be as lenient as possible . She was therefore fined 51 ., but , being unable to pay that sum , was sent to gaol with hard labour for two months .

      Ill-usagk of Lascars . —A few days ago , twenty - four Lascars , belonging to the ship Dommian , from India , came before the Thames police-court , to complain of ill-usage by the captain and mates . Summonses were granted against the first and second mates . The case against John Greer , first mate , was first heard on Monday . One of the Lascars stated that the first mate had knocked him down , and kicked out two of his teetli . The ' serang , ' or cliief of the Lascars , said that every Lascar in the ship was marked , and five of them had been sent to the Dreadnought Hospital , in consequence of ill-usage . Mr . Selfe said ho must send the case to the sessions . The second mate was then examined and also committed . They were both held to bail .

      Attempted Mukdek in thic Kingsland-road . — Mary Ann Villiers , the wife of a retired publican , has attempted to take the life of her husband , by inflicting two severe wounds on his head and face . The man , wlvo was formerly in affluent circumstances , but had in a great measure ruined himself by his extravagant habita , lodged at the house of a builder in Mansfield-street , Kingsland-road . He lived on very unhappy terms with his wife , and they were constantly quarrelling . One evening , Mrs . Jones , the landlady of the house where they lodged , was startled by hearing an unusually violent noise in their apartment , to which she proceeded , and , on entering the room , saw the man bleeding profusely from two extensive cuts in tlie face . One of them was of a very dangerous nature , having cut tho cheek completely through to the extent of four inches . Tho wife , who was standing over her husbaud , coolly confessed that she had inilicted the wounds while

      attempting to cut his throat , and pointed at the same time to a large carving knife on tho table , the blade of-which was wet with blood . The landlady secured the weapon , and fetched a policeman , to whom she gave the woman in custod y . The latter repeated to the constable that it whs who who h . id wounded her husband in the face , and added that she was determined to murder' him , alleging that he once told her with a boastful uir that he had formed un improper intimacy with his wife ' a aistor . Mrs . Villiurs was nftorwarda brought before the Worsliip-struet magistrate , to whom her husband stated that l » c ; believed the injuries he had received were purely accidental , and begged that he might he permitted to abandon tho prosecution . This request , however , tho iiwigitMnUo of course rufused , tho case being of too . serious n nature to bo overlooked . Tho wife wus therefore rcmaudud .

      Child Muisdkk . —Maria Clarke , a wretched-looking woman charged with killing her child , a fc irl eight yoara old , and witli attempting to drown herself in tho I £ egent'a Canal , under circumstances related in our last weck ' H paper , han been re-examined at Wor » hip-Btreet . Two letters addressed to her uncle wore read . They

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      ; - K No . 391 , September 19 , 1857 . ] THE X IE A D-33 H . 89 y

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 19, 1857, page 897, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2210/page/9/