went to the woman's room; where she was found on the
floor, dead, with a frightful gash in her throat, and a
bloody razor lying near. It appeared at the inquest,
that the woman had been ill from fever, and the disease
had affected her mind. Her husband believed her to
be "partly insane," though he had not expected her to
do any "rash act." The husband is an industrious man;
the couple were much attached to each other; and the
mother was fond of her child. The evidence proved
clearly that she had killed herself and child, and that
she was not in a responsible state at the time. The
coroner stated, that no matter in what state of mind a
party may be, if he or she kill another, it is by law an
act of homicide or murder; and the coroner's court has
no power of discharging the party, no matter how insane
he might be, although superior courts may do so. The
jury returned the following verdict:—"That the
deceased, Harriet Newman, was in law wilfully
murdered by her mother, Mary Anna Newman; and
that the said Mary Anna Newman committed suicide,
being at the time in an unsound state of mind."

On the 4th inst., William Harmer a painter of
Walworth, Shot Himself with a Pistol, in Cold Harbour
Lane, Camberwell, inflicting a wound in his mouth; and
then ran with great speed towards Dulwich, and the
Forest Hill station. He was pursued, but distanced
those who followed him; at last, approaching the
Forest Hill station, he ran up an embankment on to the
line, put himself before an approaching train, and was
killed on the spot. He has left a widow and three
children. At the inquest, it appeared that he was in
utter poverty, and that this had unhinged his mind.
The distance he ran after shooting himself was nearly
three miles. The jury could not pronounce whether he
was killed on the railway by "accident, or by his own
wilful act."

At the meeting of the Surrey Magistrates in Quarter-
Sessions, on the 14th, the Visiting Committee of Justices
of the Guildford House of Correction recommended the
Dismissal of The Rev. Mr. Richards, the Chaplain of the
Prison, on account of his behaviour to a prisoner. It
appeared that William Augustus Sheen, a prisoner,
about to be liberated, had stated, that last year the
chaplain offered to bring anything he wished from
London: Sheen requested him to bring a shawl and
other articles; subsequently, Mr. Richards said he had
lost them, having "drank too much French wine in
London." Sheen further said that the chaplain had
questioned him in an indelicate manner with reference
to the conduct of ladies in France in the confessional.
When Mr. Richards was examined by the committee,
he denied having stated that he had drunk too much
French wine, but admitted that the remainder of the
conversation occurred, but with the qualification that
he only spoke of "certain " French ladies acting in
the manner described. Mr. Richards addressed the
magistrates in person. He admitted the conversation;
explained that it arose out of a desire to illustrate his
assertion that the state of morals in France is not better
than in our country; and he averred that he had been
entrapped by Sheen—"a concealed Roman Catholic, or
something worse." On Mr. Richards's own admissions,
the magistrates passed a motion to dismiss the chaplain
from his office.

Mrs. Pinckard, an elderly woman, has been found
dead in her cottage near Daventry, under circumstances
that have led to a suspicion of Murder. The body was
in a sitting posture on the floor, with a thin tape round
the neck and fastened to a little brass hook in the wall.
The position did not appear to be that of a suicide. On
closer examination, it was discovered that the deceased
had an extensive wound on the temple, and there were
bruises on her arms; there was blood on the floor and
on a wall. The deceased was not a person likely to
destroy herself: she enjoyed good health and spirits,
lived happily with her husband, and had a small income
of her own. Her husband was absent on the day of the
death; the only person who was seen to enter the house
was the wife of Mrs. Pinckard's son. This woman often
quarrelled with her mother-in-law; her husband was
in pecuniary difficulties; on the death of his mother he
would become entitled to £1000. The daughter-in-law
has been taken into custody.

Messrs. Hoare, bankers, of Fleet Street, have found
that a Robbery to a considerable extent has for some time
been committed upon them by a confidential clerk, who,
from speculating on the Stock Exchange, had incurred
considerable losses, and in an evil hour had been induced
to alter the figures in the bank books, whereby a
defalcation to the extent, we believe, of upwards of £10,000.
has occurred. The person has been in the service of the
Messrs. Hoare upwards of twenty years.

Mr. R. Ellison, solicitor, living at Tickhill, Yorkshire,
committed Suicide on Sunday, the 12th inst., by cutting
his throat. He had previously been labouring under
much depression of mind, and it was deemed necessary
to place a strict watch on his movements, as it was
apprehended that he would make an attempt on his life.
On Sunday morning he rose in apparently better spirits,
and walked in the garden, accompanied as usual by his
attendants. After taking exercise for some time, he
contrived to elude his watchers' vigilance, and returned
to the house unnoticed and alone. His absence was
detected almost immediately, and an alarm was raised,
which led to the discovery of his body on the dining-
room floor, quite dead.

At the Middlesex Sessions, on the 15th, Thomas
Strinson was indicted for having unlawfully sold
Indecent and Obscene Prints. He resided in Minerva
Street, Hackney Road, where ostensibly he carried on
the business of a surgical bandage maker. From
information received by the Society for the Suppression
of Vice, they directed one of their officers to go to his
house, which he did, and after some conversation
relative to surgical bandages, the officer introduced the
subject of the prints which the defendant was in the
habit of selling, and he sold him a pack of cards upon
which were certain representations which formed the
matter of this prosecution. Strinson was afterwards
apprehended, and a quantity of filth of the same kind
was found in his house. The jury returned a verdict of
"guilty." The prisoner's counsel then appealed to the
court for mercy, urging that he had never before been
known as a dealer in such disgusting matters, and that
he had endeavoured, but unsuccessfully, to bring to
justice the parties by whom he had been supplied. It
was stated for the prosecutor that the prisoner had been
in the habit of selling cards and prints of this description
at chemists' and druggists' shops, and the Society
for the Suppression of Vice had received information
that at such shops articles of that description were now
to be obtained; so many of the parties who kept shops
exclusively for the sale of such things having been
prosecuted and visited with the severity of the law.
The judge said chemists' shops were the places where
poisons were sold; but it appeared that they were selling
poisons for the mind as well as the body. The present
was not a case in which the court felt it was necessary
to inflict the punishment awarded to those who recently
had been convicted of this offence, and the sentence upon
the defendant was that he be imprisoned and kept to
hard labour for six calendar months.

A shocking case of Infanticide has occurred at Bath.
Elizabeth Slater was charged, on the 10th, at the
Sessions, with attempting to poison her infant child:
but the child having died on the following day, the
subsequent proceedings took place before the coroner. The
prisoner's real name, it appeared, is Elizabeth Lewis,
and it is said that she, with her mother, has hitherto
kept a respectable seminary near Bristol. Some time
ago, she went to Bath and took lodgings at the house of
a chemist named Searle. She took them for six weeks,
subject to the approval of her husband, representing
herself to be a married woman; and on the Monday
following, she went to the house, accompanied by Mr.
Crosby, a solicitor of Bristol, of good practice, who
represented himself to be her husband. The following
day she was confined of a female child, which was dry-
nursed, and at the end of the month the prisoner left,
leaving the infant in charge of Mrs. Searle, and agreeing
to pay for its keep. About a fortnight afterwards, and
on various occasions, the child was visited by the
prisoner, who was frequently accompanied by Mr. Crosby,
and on every occasion but one, after they left, the
child became very ill, being seized with sickness,
diarrhœa, and other symptoms of poisoning by arsenic.