answer to the charge, the prisoner sullenly answered
that he did not wish to say anything. Mr. D'Eyncourt
strongly animadverted upon his brutal and unnatural
conduct, and ordered him to pay a penalty of £5, or to
be committed, in default, for two months to the house
of correction.

Two Irish beggar-women, named Mills and Madden,
were brought before the Lord Mayor, on the 25th,
charged with having solicited, or rather, demanded
pecuniary relief. The women, it appeared, had followed
Mr. Solly, of Great Ormond-street, who has been long
known to the poor all round the neighbourhood in
which he resides for his charities, from the door of his
house into the City, where he alighted from an omnibus
opposite to the Mansion-house. The moment the old
gentleman descended into the street, the defendants,
who had travelled on the top of the vehicle at the rate
of threepence each, dropped down, and began to shower
their blessings upon him, and as Mr. Solly's fame had
followed him all the way to the Union Fire-office, a
crowd of mendicants surrounded him, in the hope of
profiting by his hazardous benevolence. The difficulty
of moving along the street would not, in all probability,
have at all disturbed the serenity of his temper, but the
officers found it necessary to interfere, in order to keep
the great thoroughfare clear at so busy an hour of the
day, and the most effectual plan they could adopt to
remove such impediments was to lay hold of the two
women, who had speculated upon the success of the
journey, and to whom Mr. Solly had given several
shillings, in order, no doubt, to induce them to go away.
Mr. Solly was called as a witness. He said,—I have
been in the law, but am not now, and I occasionally
come into the City, to go to the Union Fire-office. I
came yesterday in an omnibus, and got out opposite to
the Mansion-house, between 11 and 12 o'clock. I do
not know the older woman, but I have seen the other,
and gave her perhaps a shilling or two now and then.
The Lord Mayor: How much did you give her when
you last saw her?—Mr. Solly: Perhaps I gave her 5s.—
The Lord Mayor: Did she solicit charity?—Mr. Solly:
Oh dear no. She is a decent poor woman—no beggar.
A policeman said it was quite unnecessary for the
followers of Mr. Solly to beg of him, as he was always
ready and willing. Storey, one of the detective police-
officers, said it was actually the fact, that a dozen beggar-
women have gone into an omnibus the moment Mr.
Solly has entered it; and it was a common practice with
beggars of all kinds to ride on the top of his omnibus
wherever he was going. The Lord Mayor: I have no
doubt at all of the charitable disposition of Mr. Solly,
and would not presume to offer any check to his
philanthropy; but I cannot, as a magistrate, refrain from
stating that mischief must arise from such an indiscriminate
distribution of alms; and from such a practice
of dispensing bounty as calls for the interference of
the police. It is quite clear that numbers of impostors
are on the look-out for the overflowings of so
generous a heart, as the officers of the Mendicity Society,
to whose exertions we owe so much, testify, and any
one who looks into the newspapers must see the necessity
of stopping the odious mode of raising money by
tales of fictitious distress. Mr. Solly thanked the Lord
Mayor with a smile, but quitted the justice-room
apparently in the humour to make a further distribution
of his bounty. The women were discharged.

The son of a respectable tradesman, named Phibbs,
was brought before the magistrate at Bow-street on the
25th, charged by his father with Embezzlement. The
father, who appeared much distressed, stated that his
son had frequently taken his money and lost it on
betting lists and at betting offices. He was a good workman,
and could not well be done without. He had no
desire to punish him, and hoped his worship's censure
would have some effect. Mr. Henry seriously
admonished the prisoner as to the evil course he was
pursuing. The betting list would prove his ruin if he did
not give up visiting the gambling offices. The young
man expressed his regret, and said he had upon a late
occasion given back a sovereign out of his winnings that
he had taken. Mr. Henry committed him to prison for
a week.

Another death among those shot by the military in
the Affray at Sixmile-bridge has rendered a second
inquest necessary. The deceased, whose name was
Molony, died in Barrington's Hospital, and the inquiry
was commenced on the 25th in the Limerick city courthouse.
Sir Matthew Barrington, Bart., attended to
watch the proceedings on the part of the crown. After
the examination of several witnesses, who went once
more over the same ground as before, the inquest was
adjourned.

NARRATIVE OF ACCIDENT AND
DISASTER.

Mr. Samuel George Daniel, a master silk-winder, of
Bethnal Green, was Killed on the South- Eastern Railway.
Mr. Daniel was on his way, on the 24th ult., to join his
wife and family at Ramsgate; he was in a third-class
carriage. As the train passed through Ashford Station,
he put his head out at the side; it struck against an iron
pillar, and he fell back insensible into the carriage. As
soon as a guard was made aware of the disaster, the train
was stopped; but a surgeon deemed it most advisable to
carry the sufferer to the hospital at Canterbury. He
died there that night, from a fracture of the skull.
When the coroner's jury met, it was resolved to apply
to the railway department of the Board of Trade, that
an inspector might report on the cause of the fatality.
Captain George Wynne accordingly inquired into the
matter, and made a report to the Board of Trade, which
contains a succinct account of the causes of the accident,
with some very important observations. After mentioning
the circumstances of the accident, Captain Wynne
adds:—

"The South-Eastern Railway Company have a considerable
number of carriages of all classes of the same width—viz. 8 feet
6 inches—as the one from which the accident happened. The
first and second class carriages have two bars across the
windows to prevent passengers protruding their heads any
distance out of the windows; why the same precautions were
not adopted with the third-class carriages, I cannot understand.
No time should he lost in putting bars to the windows of these
carriages, sufficient in number to prevent the recurrence of such
an accident. At the same time, I think it a matter for grave
consideration whether the South-Eastern Company have not
passed the limits of safety in constructing carriages of this
extreme width. Absolute danger to life may be avoided by the
precaution which has been adopted by placing bars to the
windows, so that passengers cannot protrude their heads; but
serious damage to limbs may occur by the common act of a
person merely putting out his hand to ascertain the state of the
weather; and when it is considered that the distance to the
pillars is but 9½ inches, this is no extreme case; and to this
danger children are particularly liable. The repugnance to the
public of having themselves confined by barred windows was
very strongly manifested when it was first put in practice on
the North Kent line: and as I believe this occurred before the
introduction of these carriages on the main line, the expression
of the public opinion should have had some weight with the
company, more especially when to the inconvenience is added a
certain amount of danger to limbs."

Captain Wynne gave evidence before the coroner to the
same purport as the report. The jury gave a verdict of
"Accidental death;" but added, "We cannot separate
without expressing our surprise and regret that so little
care and attention is paid to the safety of persons travelling
in the South-Eastern Railway Company's third-class
carriages."

A Fatal Accident on the North-Western Railway
took place on the 28th ult. When the train from
Birmingham to London had reached the Berkswell
cutting, the ash-pan, falling from the engine, struck
against the frame-work of the break-van, broke away
the couplings, and threw it on to the down-line. At
this moment the train from Leamington came up,
dashed into the break-van, glanced off into the leading
second-class carriage, and smashed it in pieces; killing
two persons on the spot, and inflicting hurts on many
others. The Earl of Dartmouth was in a coupé of the
up-train, but escaped unhurt, although the door of his
carriage was splintered. The sufferers were sent on to
Coventry, and well attended. One of the killed was
Mr. Beddington, optician, of Birmingham; the other
was a young man, son of Mr. Floyd, of Oxford. An
inquest was held at Coventry on the 3rd inst. on the