saw some faces, when she thought it was some one come
to frighten her.  One of the men, who she believed to
be Collier, called out, "Give us some money, or it will
be the worse for you."  It was at the little window at
the back of the house. She told them to go about their
business, but they refused to do so, and commenced
forcing the door open. She put a piece of iron against
the door to prevent them from breaking it open. She
then saw that part of the shutter had been cut through
with a knife, the blade of which she perceived through
the shutter. She was very much afraid of that, but she
seized up a candlestick and pushed against the knife, to
prevent the blade coming any further. With one hand
she held the candlestick, and the other the shutter. She
told them to remember the Frimley murder, and go
about their business. They again demanded a sovereign,
a half-sovereign, or a half-crown, when she told them
she had none. But she recollected afterwards that she
had a shilling, and offered to give them that if they
would go away. She then told them to go round, and
when they got there she threw out the shilling and
some bread and cheese. She was afraid her strength
would fail her, which induced her to give them the
shilling. She was positive she knew Collier, as he lived
with his parents in the next cottage to her. She said to
him, "You bad boy, Tom, go away;" but both of them
said, "No, we sha'nt; we will have more." She then
got an old dagger, but she was afraid to handle such a
deadly weapon, but still she threatened them with it,
and they went away.  An officer of the Surrey police
said that he had watched the prisoners from a beer-house
to the back of Mrs. Willis's house, and confirmed her
account of what took place. He pursued the prisoners,
and captured them. Another officer had examined the
old lady's house afterwards, and found the back door
broken very much, as if the thieves intended to force
the lock back by wrenching off the bottom board. The
shutters were also very much cut, and the marks
corresponded with a knife found on Collier. The prisoners'
counsel contended that their identity was not clearly
proved, but the jury found that both were guilty. A
former conviction having been proved against Tovey,
the court sentenced him to ten years' transportation,
and the other prisoner was sentenced to twelve months'
hard labour in the House of Correction. The chairman
told them that had it not been for the courageous
conduct of the old lady, they would have entered her house,
and might have succeeded in committing a crime similar
to that in another part of the county, for which two
men suffered so recently.

At the Middlesex Sessions on the 21st, John Whitman
was indicted for Obtaining Money on False
Pretences. The prisoner, on being called up, complained
that an attorney had the whole of his papers and had
failed to appear to defend him. He was anxious, therefore,
to have his trial postponed, as the papers in question
were of the utmost importance to enable him to
conduct his defence. The judge said that he could
not postpone the trial. The prisoner had been
committed now for nearly three weeks, and had had plenty
of time to get his papers out of the attorney's hands.
There were persons who attended the Criminal Courts
falsely representing themselves as attorneys, and thus
defrauding the prisoners and their friends; and had he
but the power he should not be slow to put it in operation
to cleanse the court of them, for he would take
care that they were safely lodged between four walls
during every sitting of the court; but he had not the
power, and could not do anything in the present case.
If the person alluded to by the prisoner were an attorney
on the roll he would have his remedy by an
application to the Court of Queen's Bench. The trial then
proceeded, and the case being clearly made out, the
jury returned a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was
sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for six
months.

Two medical students of University and Guy's
Hospitals, were charged at Bow-street on the 22nd, with
Riotous Conduct in the Street. The police officers who
had taken them into custody said, that at half-past
three in the morning, the defendants and two other
gentlemen, not in custody, were on and in a cab in
Southampton-street, Covent-garden, making a great
noise and disputing the fare with the driver, which fare
they settled when the officers came up, but used towards
them such coarse and insulting language, and were so
riotous, that they were obliged to take them to the
station-house. Another medical student came forward as
witness for the defendants, and stated that about three
o'clock in the morning they left the Casino, in
Holborn, two of the party mounting the box of a cab, three
going inside, and witness riding on the roof, having
desired "cabbee" to drive them to the Cider Cellars.
Witness was sober, although he had taken some wine;
but the others were more or less excited from wine and
dancing, and some of the party commenced humming
tunes, chatting, laughing, and talking to the cabman
loud enough to be heard, as witness believed, on the
pavement. When in Southampton-street, two of the
party ran away, and one of them being the gentleman
who ordered the cab, the cabman called the police,
when the fare was paid; but one of the defendants made
use of language which the witness believed he would
not have been guilty of if sober. The police then took
him into custody, and on witness and another of the
party going to the station-house the latter was also
locked up as being drunk. Mr. Henry said that he
could not permit persons to disturb the inhabitants of
the metropolis in their beds at such unseasonable hours,
and the defendants must each pay a fine of £2, or each
go to prison for a month.

A young woman, named Maria Stewart, who resided
with her uncle, a person of great respectability, at
Crawford, near Bury St. Edmund's, has been
committed for trial for two distinct Murders of her own
Illegitimate Children. Having been suspected of
having given birth to a child, she was apprehended on
a charge of concealing the birth. On her road to the
station she confessed that the child was buried behind
the lodge at her uncle's house. Search was made, and
the body of a female child discovered. On being
examined by a surgeon, he gave as his opinion that the
child had not only been born alive, but that it had
sucked. Whilst the prisoner was in the station-house
she made a voluntary confession that she was delivered
of the child on the 24th of September, that she murdered
it on the following day, and kept it in her bed till the
6th inst., when she buried it at the lodge, and that she
had murdered one child before. She then indicated
the spot where she had disposed of the body, and,
search being made, its remains were found.

Mr. James Beardsley, a highly respectable chemist in
Nottingham, committed Suicide on the 14th inst. He
left home in the morning for the purpose of going to his
garden at Menton, and in the afternoon his wife and
eldest daughter went to join him. Having arrived at
the garden, near the summer-house they discovered
him suspended from the roof. Every assistance was
rendered, but life was extinct.

Charles Falkner, a marine-store dealer, with a shop in
Eyre-street hill, and W. Thomas Jackson, also a marine-
store dealer, in Clerkenwell, were indicted at the
Middlesex Sessions, on the 23rd, charged with having
Stolen, and also with having Feloniously Received, 40
pounds weight of tinfoil, of the value of £2, the property
of Messrs. Simpson and Emsley, of Gray's-inn-lane.
The circumstances of this case are remarkable. It
appeared from the evidence that on the 9th of June last
two officers of the detective police, of the names of
Fisher and Archer, were on duty in Gray's-inn-lane,
when their attention was arrested by a cart which
belonged to a man named Usher, a dealer and collector
of old metal. A quantity of old lead and brass were
apparently in the cart. They made a search, and
discovered about 40 pounds of tinfoil in an unfinished state.
Having some suspicion that all was not right, they took
him into custody. On inquiry it was ascertained that
the foil was the property of the prosecutors. Upon
Usher being taken before the magistrate, he stated that
he had purchased the foil from a person named Falkner,
at his shop, in the regular way of business, and that the
price he had paid for it had been 7½d. per pound, and
then he called Falkner forward as a witness in support
of this statement, but that person totally denied having
had anything to do with the foil, and, therefore, that he
had ever sold it to him. Usher asserted that he could