great room of Exeter Hall, to welcome Dr. Achilli on
his escape to this country from the dungeons of the
Inquisition at Rome. Mr. Bevan presided; the Rev.
Baptist Noel, and many eminent dissenting ministers,
were on the platform. Dr. Achilli was greeted with
exceeding warmth: he spoke in Italian, and was cheered
often and very generally. The crowd attracted was so
great that the immense hall was not large enough, and
several subsidiary meetings were held in the small
rooms; Dr. Achilli appearing at each in turn.

The province of Ulster is described  as being in a state
of alarming commotion on the agitated questions of
Tenure and Rent. Incendiary fires are lighted in every
direction, and the tenantry, hitherto esteemed most
respectable and attached, very generally refuse to take
any steps towards checking the outrage. They hold
meetings and formally "deprecate incendiarism;" but
complain that the refusal of justice and want of
consideration on the part of their landlords have excited the
general discontent, and unhappily led to excesses over
which they possess no control, and for which they
cannot be accountable. Lately, in public meeting, the
tenants of the Marquis of Londonderry—a nobleman
famed as an excellent landlord—refused to affix their
signatures to a document offering a reward for the
apprehension of the parties who burned down some
farm-offices in the preceding week. It is stated that the
tenant of the farm was compelled to emigrate to
America, and was not allowed the full value of his
improvements, worth £500; that a stranger was put
into the farm on terms not customary on the estate;
and that the remonstrances of the tenants on the breach
of custom were unheeded. The tenantry passed a
resolution that the crime "has arisen altogether from
the conduct of our landlord the Marquis of Londonderry,
who refused to accede to the prayers of our repeated
memorials."

NARRATIVE OF LAW AND CRIME.

At the Guildhall, on the 12th February, Fanny
Hainsworth, a young, innocent-looking girl, aged seventeen,
was charged with Stealing a Victorine, the
property of Mr. Moses Solomons, of No. 3, Little Britain.
After hearing the evidence, the magistrate said there
were so many contradictions between father and son,
there was no foundation for the charge, and the
prisoner was discharged. The solicitor, who appeared for
the girl, now said that he intended charging the son,
Joseph Solomons, with the crime of a rape. He was
accordingly placed in front of the dock. Police Constable
Webb said that when the girl was originally given in
his charge she resisted going, and said, "This would
never happen if it had not been for Master Joseph." He
asked what Master Joseph had done, and she said he
came to her bed-room at night and had taken improper
liberties with her, and effected his purpose. She called
out, and his sister, who slept in the next room, asked
what was the matter, when Joseph replied that he was
calling the servant up. He did not contradict the girl,
but treated the whole affair in a light, off-handed manner.
She spoke to him, and accused him of coming to
her bed-room on Sunday night, and defied him to deny
it, which he did not. She further added that he passed
something over her eyes and nose, which took her senses
away, and he then ruined her. Alderman: Until she
charged the son with ruining her, was any charge of
felony made against her?—Webb: None whatever. The
girl also in the presence of Mrs. Solomons told me she
had informed her of her son's conduct, and that Mrs.
Solomons said, "Well, I suppose he did not kill you."
A remand for further evidence was granted. When
brought up again on the 20th, it was proved the girl had
been taken out of the way. The magistrate, therefore,
remanded the case until she was forthcoming, and
increased the bail to two sureties of £100, and defendant
£200. On the 27th, new evidence was produced, and the
girl corroborated her previous statements with some
reluctance. The case was again remanded to the 2nd of
March, when it appeared the culprit had left for the
continent the night previous. The bail was estreated,
and a warrant issued for his apprehension.

In the Bankruptcy Court, on the 2nd, Mr. Edward
Thomas Delafield, late of the Covent Garden Opera,
applied for his Certificate. On his behalf, Mr. Lewis
strove hard for a "first-class" certificate; intimating
that Mr. Delafield has prospects among his wealthy
connexions, and that his intention is to put aside half of
whatever property he may hereafter become possessed
of, that the creditors may be paid ten shillings in the
pound beyond what they have received. On behalf of
the creditors, Mr. Lawrence assented to the application.
Mr. Commissioner Fane applauded the arrangement for
the further payment of ten shillings in the pound, but
felt insuperable difficulties in the way of granting a first-
class or even a second-class certificate. If such certificates
(he observed) are awarded in any but meritorious
or at least blameless cases, they will be degraded in the
distinction they confer. Mr. Delafield had entered
business with a very large capital—£100,000; had
squandered that capital in a very short time, and had
incurred £33,000 of debts, against which the present
assets are but £3 14s. 6d. It cannot be shown that he
acted with prudence and a due regard to the interests of
his creditors; or that he stopped payment at the proper
time while there were still assets for distribution. He
went on with a clearly losing concern, paying some
creditors in full at the expense of those who now get
nothing; and up to the very eve of his bankruptcy he
was living in a style of extraordinary and very
unbecoming splendour. A certificate of the third class was
accordingly awarded.

At the Newcastle Assizes, on the 4th, an action for
breach of promise of marriage was tried; Mr. James
Nicholson, organ-builder of the town, plaintiff, and Mrs.
Mary Turnbull, late Miss Parkin, of Etherby, with her
husband, defendant. The plaintiff was a widower,
thirty years of age, with children; and the defendant a
spinster of twenty-two, who had inherited considerable
property from her father, lately deceased. The
evidence of the promise of marriage appeared in
correspondence of a singularly unimpassioned character,
wherein the young lady authorised the purchase of a
waistcoat with studs, the ring and cake, and the licence.
The plaintiff proved that he had been to some charges
in carrying out these directions. At the last moment.
Miss Parkin broke her promise, and suddenly married
Mr. Turnbull, a former lover. The defence made by
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins admitted the breach of promise,
and aimed only at a mitigation of the damages: founded
on insinuations that the match had been a money-
hunting one, into which the defendant was drawn by
importunity, and on the trivial character of the losses
which the plaintiff had suffered. The verdict of the
Jury was for the plaintiff, with a farthing damages.

Rees Hopkins, boatman, and Ambrose Davies, were
indicted at Swansea, on the 5th, for a burglary in the
house of William Jones at Llanwonno, near Cardiff, on
the night of the 24th of December. The curious feature
of this case was, that the prisoners had invited a lad to
sleep with them in a certain hay-loft on the night of
the burglary, with the view of securing his testimony to
prove an alibi in case they were charged with the crime.
This lad was the principal witness against them. It
appeared that after the youth had fallen asleep, the two
prisoners stealthily left the hay-loft on their burglarious
expedition. On awaking, he found them gone, but
their bundles had been left behind. In a short time
they returned, and he (pretending to be still asleep)
heard them conversing about the robbery. Other
witnesses examined, proved that the prisoners had disposed
of clothes and other articles stolen from prosecutor's
house, at Cardiff and other places. Hopkins (against
whom a previous conviction was proved) was sentenced
to seven years' transportation; Davies to fifteen months'
hard labour.

Edmund Henry Simmonds, late the relieving-officer
of the Southampton Union, was indicted at the
Winchester Assizes on the 6th, for the Manslaughter of
Elizabeth Biggs, a pauper, by refusing shelter and food
in her urgent need, whereby she died of cold and
starvation. The facts appeared in our first number. In
favour of the prisoner, it was proved—that he was a very
humane man; that Briggs was unknown to him by her
own name, and was not recognised as "Harris," under