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was sentenced to transportation, is living at Port Philip as assistant in a confectioner's shop. She is described by a person who recently saw her in that colony, as having regained her health, and looking very comely. Her haggard appearance at her trial showed the relics of a countenance of considerable attractions.

13. DUKE OF BRUNSWICK, v. KING OF HANOVER.-The Master of the Rolls gave judgment in the case of the Duke of Brunswick versus the King of Hanover, in which the Duke had sought to set aside the instrument executed by the agnati of his family, appointing the King as curator of his estates. The King of Hanover had filed a demurrer to the bill, denying the jurisdiction of the Court. Lord Langdale thought that it must be considered, on the whole, that a foreign prince is exempt from the jurisdiction of the country in which he may reside; but the immunity of the King of Hanover was considerably modified by his duty to the Queen of England: so far from renouncing his allegiance, the King had renewed his oath and taken his seat again as an English Peer. Still, the defendant was exempt from being sued here in respect of acts done by him as King of Hanover, although liable for acts done as a British subject. The demurrer was, therefore, allowed.

WILL OF THE MARQUESS OF WELLESLEY.-The will and codicil of the Marquess Wellesley were lately proved by Mr. John Thornton Down, the sole executor, who has a legacy of 1000l. He bequeathed to Mr. Alfred Montgomery, his private secretary, 10007., "in regard of his affectionate, dutiful, and zealous services," and the residue of his property to his wife,

Mary Ann, Marchioness Wellesley. By the codicil he gave to his secretary (Mr. Montgomery), in addition to the legacy in his will, all his manuscripts; together with the following directions, which are verbatim:- And I desire him to publish such of my papers as shall tend to illustrate my two administrations in Ireland, and to protect my honour against the slander of Melbourne and his pillar of state, O'Connell.” To Lord Brougham he left "Homer," in four vols., and earnestly desired him to assist in publishing his MSS., saying, "I leave my memory in his charge, confiding in his justice and honour." To Earl Grey, "my George, carved on an amethyst, and worn by George II.” To his valet he left his wearing apparel, robes, stars, &c., "for his kindness during my illness." The property was sworn under 60001.

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EXECUTION OF A MURDERESS. Sarah Westwood was executed at Stafford this day, for the murder of her husband. She poisoned him with arsenic in gruel, after having been twenty years his wife. The chief evidence against her was that of her own children. Two days ago she expressed a wish to see her sister and her husband, who were instantly sent for. On their arrival, however, from circumstances made known to the governor, it was found that, instead of the man being the husband of the wretched woman's sister, it was Phillips, her guilty paramour; consequently the meeting was refused in the most positive terms. At this disappointment she manifested deep regret. To-day the unhappy creature partook of the sacrament, and evidently felt the deepest anguish at the awful position in which she was placed; in fact, she fainted twice or thrice during its performance. Notwith

standing, she still avowed her complete innocence of the murder of her husband. Her age was stated to be forty-two. She appeared deeply distressed as she approached the scaffold, and when placed under the fatal beam trembled violently. The preliminaries having been quickly arranged, and the rope placed round her neck, the bolt was drawn, and the sufferings of the murderess ceased in this world. After the body had hung the usual time, it was cut down, and subsequently interred within the boundaries of the prison.

15. PRINCESS BARIATINSKI.-A commission of lunacy was opened before Mr. Commissioner Barlow, at the Canonbury Tavern in Islington, to inquire into the mental condition of the Princess Catherine Louisa Maria Frances Bariatinski, daughter of the late Prince Bariatinski, a Russian nobleman. Her mother, the honourable Frances Neville Dutton, sister of the present Lord Sherborne, died at Altona, in 1807, in giving birth to the Princess Catherine. The commission was opposed by the present Prince Bariatinski, half-brother to the princess: it was watched by Lord Sherborne, under whose care she has principally resided, and by Lord Ducie and the Earl of Carnarvon, who are related to her. Several witnesses, the medical advisers and chief personal attendants of the princess, were examined. Her conduct first attracted notice in 1829, and since that her mind had undergone a gradual decay. Her language was frivolous and incoherent; she destroyed valuable clothes and other property; some letters were read in which she spoke with a childish levity about wishing to be married; she would pull up her clothes in the streets and shops

to tie her garters, make faces at people in church, smile at gentlemen in the theatre; and altogether her behaviour was so improper that her governess was obliged to keep her apart from other ladies. The Commissioner and the jury visited the princess at her residence in Highbury Grove. They found her crouched down before a fire, which was guarded by a fire-screen; and her idle answers fully betrayed the state of her mind. In person she was tall, and of rather prepossessing appearance. The jury pro

nounced her mind to have been unsound since August 1830.

18. ARREST OF MURDERERS AFTER FOURTEEN YEARS, IN IRELAND. -About fourteen years ago a most brutal murder was committed in the town of Maryborough. A respectable old couple named Cowen resided with their nephew and a servant girl named Grimes; a man and his wife, named Drennan, who were in the habit of working for them, also resorted to the house. A conspiracy was entered into between the nephew and the others to take away the lives of his relatives, that he might get their property; and on the evening of the murder he took his uncle to evening prayers, leaving his aunt alone in the house. Grimes took the dogs out of the way, and Drennan entered by the back door, and, with a loaded butt, drove the poor woman's spectacles into her brain, as she sat reading. He then dragged her towards the hall door, that it might appear she had fallen down stairs; Drennan's wife then went over to see that the foul deed was accomplished, and finding that she still breathed, she chopped her face nearly off with a spade. Circumstances came out which attached suspicion to the nephew, and he

was tried, but for want of evidence was discharged on his own recognizance. Grimes has since led a wretched life; and having been some time ago arrested for some crime, she was put in gaol, fell dangerously ill, and has made a full confession of the foregoing facts. On her depositions, Drennan and his wife were arrested. For two years subsequent to the murder, Drennan, though repeatedly sought for, could not be found; and it is said that Cowen, the nephew, was killen in a drunken row shortly after the commission of the

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20. SHIPWRECK ON THE GOODWIN SANDS. During the night a distressing shipwreck took place on these sands, ending in the total loss of a fine brig called the Shepherdess, of 200 tons burden, Turner, master, belonging to Bideford, whilst on her passage from Newcastle to Plymouth, laden with coals. When off the north sandhead of the Goodwin there came on a tremendous gale of wind, which almost immediately drove the vessel on the sands, and she then fell over on her beam ends. The occurrence being perceived by the crews of several lug. gers belonging to Deal, Ramsgate, and Broadstairs, who are generally cruising about that dangerous part of the coast, in order to render immediate assistance to vessels in distress, they quickly bore down towards her; but the gale still increasing, accompanied by a heavy fall of hail and snow, made it impossible for them to go along side the wreck. The crew of the brig were at this period in a truly appalling condition. No sooner had she struck than the surf made a complete breach over her, and several of the poor fellows

were nearly washed overboard. It was only by maintaining a firm hold that they were prevented from being swept away, and they afterwards more firmly secured themselves by lashing each other to the rigging, where they were more exposed to the full fury of the boisterous element. In this situation did the unfortunate creatures, who consisted of Captain Turner, eight seamen, and one apprentice, remain for seven hours. At last, about four o'clock in the morning, one of the luggers succeeded in running so close alongside the brig, as to enable Captain Turner to jump from the rigging on board of her, but in the next moment the lugger was carried away from the wreck, and thereby deprived the remaining nine of the same means of escape. It was then determined to throw ropes from the lugger, whereby they were eventually dragged on board.

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"deed of darkness," which will probably, from the long time that must have since elapsed, remain for ever buried in oblivion. At about thirty yards from the high road leading to Shooter's Hill, a labourer employed upon some improvements which were being made by the residents, came upon some bones; he made known the circumstance to some persons near, and, proceeding cautiously in his search, discovered an entire skeleton. It was of the usual stature, indicating a young person; but all doubt on this head was speedily removed by finding the hair perfect, of a light gold colour, of great length, and beautifully braided. At the back of the head was a deep distinct fracture, of a

circular form, though irregular; the skull being quite beaten in. These circumstances seem clearly to indicate a murder, particularly as the remains were at no greater depth than two feet under ground, but the length of time since the deed was committed must be considerable, as not the slightest remains, except of the bones and hair, could be discovered.

22. INNOCENT CONVICT. A young man named Mepham, who was transported about two years since for an alleged attack on Mr. Killick, of Weavering-street, but whose innocence has since been proved, and who consequently has received a free pardon, arrived in Maidstone, in good health, to the great joy of his friends. The following is a brief narrative of his misfortunes:- A fortnight after his conviction he was removed to the Fortitude hulk, at Chatham, where he was ironed on the leg with a 71b. shackle, clothed in convict dress, and employed in dragging timber with other convicts in the dockyard, not being allowed to speak to any freeman. After being here five months, he embarked with a party of 250 on board the Surrey transport, for the place of his banishment and slavery. Nothing particular occurred during the voyage. They hove in sight of Hobart Town on the 1st of August, and on the 8th the convicts were landed, placed in the gaol, and afterwards draughted off to different parts of the country. Mepham, with a party of eighty, together with twenty men who had been tried at the settlement, and sentenced to be sent to the place of punishment, Port Arthur, for misconduct, were placed on board a schooner, and sailed for the latter station. In the night the vessel

drove on the rocks, and a dreadful scene ensued. For some hours, while efforts were made to get her off, the convicts were locked down in the hold, where the water was rising upon them, and the utmost terror prevailed, some crying, some praying, some swearing, but all vainly struggling to escape. At length the hatches were opened, and they rushed on deck, and thence, some in boats, but many by swimming, they got ashore. Here they remained without food or shelter till the evening of the next day, when, by throwing the cargo overboard, the schooner was got off. The prisoners were then sent on board, and proceeded to their destination, where the party was divided into several gangs, Mepham being sent to a place called the Cascade station. The convicts were employed in clearing the forests and burning the timber, or dragging it to the creeks for transport. After being employed in this way for twelve months, he heard of the efforts that had been made in his behalf, and of their successful result, by a Maidstone paper, which had found its way to the colony. Nine weeks after, while mustering with the gang, as was usual, one Saturday evening, an official letter to the superintendent of the station confirmed these joyful tidings, by announcing a free pardon. He instantly stripped off the badges of crime and conviction, tore the hated garments shreds, and joyfully clothed himself in some old but honest-looking apparel, kindly contributed by the chaplain and the superintendent. He made his way to Hobart Town, where (there being no provision made by the authorities) for persons in such a situation he got work to maintain himself

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till the necessary preparations for his return to this country were completed, and after an interval of a week was provided with a free passage home, earning a few shillings on the voyage, to enable him to reach his home on landing, where his reception may be better imagined than described.

-THE BELGIAN DOG MARKETS. -The police of Belgium have long been devising plans to obviate the following mode of theft :-There is a dog market held every Sunday in all the great towns, at which the English sportsmen and others who fancy dogs attend; and it has been discovered that most of the valuable dogs sold there and in Holland are brought from England in the different vessels and packets, and are disguised, shorn, &c.; and sold there at high prices, particularly the small breed of spaniels.

A CHILD FOR SALE. The following extraordinary letter was received a short time ago by a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Tewkesbury, "Sir,-Having heard that you expressed a wish to have a child and did not mind giving a sum of money as an inducement i flatter myself that I have it in my power to furnish you with one to answer your purpose in every respect. It is a boy 2 years old a good looking healthy spirited child and sound in wind and limb and you will never be troubled concerning the child afterwards so that you can rair him up to suit your inclination you can send word by the bearer and appoint aney time to inspect the child."

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an inconsiderable hamlet in Odenwald, about two leagues distant from Heidelberg, and was the wife of a peasant. From some cause or other, her husband had become hateful in her eyes. This had been long manifest, and at length it appears she adopted the fatal resolution of getting rid of him by poison. She accordingly contrived to induce him to swallow a quantity of arsenic. The husband then betook himself to his usual occupation, and carted some wood to a customer, at a place called the Wolf's Fountain, and died on his way home, after enduring great agony. To-day the miserable woman was brought out of the prison at ten o'clock in the morning. A clergyman attended to offer her the consolations of religion in her last moments. Accompanied by him she entered a cart, and was driven to the place of execution, about a mile out of the town, where a scaffold had been erected. The culprit exhibited no extraordinary emotion, but surveyed the apparatus of death with perfect composure. Her countenance presented nothing of the ashy paleness of fear. She ascended the scaffold with a firm step, and took her seat in a chair which was placed in the centre of it. A troop of dragoons was drawn up round the platform. A short prayer was read by the clergyman, after which part of her attire was removed from her neck, and a cap was then drawn over her face. remainder of the melancholy spectacle was sufficiently dramatic. There were two executioners, or at least the principal minister of justice had an assistant. latter twisted the sufferer's hair and held it up at arm's length. When this was done, the prin

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