The servant of Mr. Bower, who was arrested for having
facilitated his flight, has been released. Mrs. Bower
was removed to a Maison de Santé, where she remained
in a state of insanity, but she has since recovered
and come to England. She is described as a lady of
exceedingly amiable manners, as well as of great
accomplishments, while her demeanour in society has
always accorded with the most rigid views of female
propriety.

James Taylor, Esq., banker, of Birmingham,
committed Suicide at Brighton on the 8th inst. Mr. Taylor,
who was 71 years of age, had gone to Brighton about a
month ago for the benefit of his health, as he had been
unwell for some months past. Since his arrival in
Brighton he had been in very low spirits, and on the
above afternoon he took a drive with his wife and son,
and returned to his residence about five o'clock. He
went up stairs, and in a short time after his body fell
into the yard behind the house. It was found that he
had climbed out of the attic window, and had cut his
throat with a razor. A medical man was immediately
sent for, but his services were of no avail, the unfortunate
man was quite dead. A coroner's jury returned a
verdict of temporary insanity.

Another dreadful Agrarian Murder has been
committed in the county of Limerick. The victim was a
farmer, by name William Shine, a tenant to the Earl of
Dunraven, well known as a most respectable and
industrious character, and his only crime it seems was, that
he had the temerity to take some land on the adjoining
estate of the Rev. William Waller,—land from which
some people supposed to be implicated in the murder
had been removed. The police were out on patrol the
night of Saturday the 9th inst., and on their return
towards the village of Adare, about 11 o'clock, they
heard voices in loud and angry tones before them.
They quickened their pace, and shortly came up to the
spot, where they found the body of the unfortunate
man, still warm, but life was extinct. They immediately
pursued the persons whose voices had been heard,
and succeeded in capturing six or seven individuals,
who are now in custody, and on whom strong suspicion
rests. This murder was committed within a stone's
throw of the village of Adare, and not ten yards from a
respectable house by the roadside.

An inquest has been held on the body of James
Deegan, the private of the Thirty first Regiment, who
was Murdered near Fermoy, on the 21st ult. Private
John Thompson, his comrade, gave an account of the
assault which ended in Deegan's death; but Thompson
himself was so much hurt and confused that his story
is barely intelligible. As far as can be gathered from
his evidence, it would uppear that Thompson and
Deegan went to Ballyhooly, a village near Fermoy, to
see a policeman there, an acquaintance of Deegan. On
their return in the evening, they went into a public-
house kept by Widow M'Grath, to light a pipe; and
while they were there, several men came in, hustling
the soldiers, and evidently trying to pick a quarrel. By
the exertions of the widow, however, the intruders were
persuaded to go out; the door was barred, and
something was probably said about the soldiers' remaining
all night. However, they pushed on, determined to get
to barracks. But they had not gone far before Deegan
was struck on the head by a stone. He remonstrated
with the assailants, eight or ten in number. Thompson
seems to have been separated from his comrade, and both
appear to have crouched down to avoid the stones.
Ultimately, we find Thompson helping Deegan out of a
"hole;" the assailants moving off, Thompson and
Deegan walking back to Mrs. M'Grath's, but unable to
get the door opened. They were again attacked, and
Deegan was knocked down; Thompson lying down out
of the way. When he got up he found his comrade
speechless; and returning to barracks, he himself was
found to be very seriously cut in the face. There was
no other witness of the assault. A man named
Fitzgerald, deposed that he found the body in the yard, and
gave the alarm. Another witness, lodging at Mrs.
M'Grath's, saw the slight scuffle which took place in the
public-house; but he heard no stone-throwing, or
rapping at the door afterwards. The surgeon of the Thirty-
first stated that Deegan had died of a punctured wound
in the nape of the neck, which severed the spinal cord.
Deegan had with him a sword-cane, which had been
given to him by Constable Rice, and it was found bent
beside the body. Under these perplexing circumstances,
the jury found a verdict of "wilful murder against some
person or persons unknown." The inhabitants of
Fermoy have resolved, that they view with "disgust,
detestation, and abhorrence" the assassins of Deegan;
and the officers of the Thirty-first, and neighbouring
gentlemen, have offered large rewards for their
conviction.

James Cannon, a chimney sweep, a notorious ruffian,
has been committed for trial, at the Lambeth Police
Court, on the charge of Assaulting Michael Dwyer, a
policeman. Cannon had been fighting in the street, and
the policeman, coming up and finding him covered
with blood, offered to take him to a surgeon to get his
wound dressed. He consented, and walked away with
Dwyer, but all at once attacked him, threw him down,
and kicked and stamped on him with the most savage
ferocity. Dwyer got above him, and endeavoured to
hold his hands; but, from his great strength, was
obliged to let him get up. The fellow then ran his
head against Dwyer with great force, and at the same
time catching his legs, gave him a desperate fall on his
back, and again began kicking him brutally. The
policeman again got to his legs; and at this time he
heard some one in the crowd exclaim, "Well done,
Cannon, give it the——." Hearing this name, and
knowing the man to be a desperate fellow, Dwyer, for
tne first time, drew his truncheon to defend himself;
and kept his assailant at bay till another policeman
came up, by whose assistance the ruffian was at length
mastered. It required the united strength of seven
constables to convey him to the station-house. This
outrage was perpetrated in the midst of a crowd of two
or three thousand persons, not one of whom would
assist the policeman, though he repeatedly called for
help. The poor policeman appears to be injured for
life. He was one of the finest young men of his division;
but, when he appeared in the police-court, his appearance
was so altered that he could scarcely be recognised.
He was bent double, and his haggard looks
showed the intensity of his sufferings. Cannon, who
behaved with the greatest insolence, was fully committed;
the magistrate observing, that it could hardly have been
supposed that, in a civilised country, such a scene
could have occurred, and have been carried on for
half-an-hour, in the presence of thousands, without a
single individual going forward to assist a man so
seriously injured. It appears that Cannon, during the
last ten years, has been committed twenty times for
brutal assaults, chiefly on police officers. On the 26th,
Cannon was tried on a second indictment for assaulting
William Thorne, the police-constable, who assisted
Dwyer. The indictment for assaulting Dwyer had been
withdrawn from these sessions, it being the intention of
the Treasury to indict Cannon at the Central Criminal
Court for the attempt to murder Dwyer.—The prisoner
pleaded guilty to the charge of assaulting Thorne, and
was sentenced to two years' hard labour in Wandsworth
House of Correction. Cannon was tried at the Central
Criminal Court for the assault on Dwyer, and found
guilty; but sentence was postponed.

A servant-girl of seventeen, named Jane Collins, has
Murdered her mistress's child and committed Suicide.
She was in the service of Mr. Elliott, a cigar-
manufacturer at Mile-End; two children slept with her—an
infant twelve months old, and a girl of four. On the
morning of the 11th, Mrs. Elliott, receiving no answer
when she called the girl, went to her room; the elder
child was crying, and the infant was lying on the bed
dead—apparently strangled. Jane Collins was not in
the room. There was a pool of blood in the wash-house,
and an open razor lying on the floor; drops of blond
were traced upstairs to a loft; and there, in a small
lumber-hole, the girl's corpse was found: there were
cuts on the throat, and an apron-string was tightly
twisted round it. At the sitting of the coroner's jury, a
surgeon stated that the girl had died from strangulation,
and not from the wounds on the throat, which were
merely superficial. Witnesses deposed that she had not
exhibited any signs of insanity; but she was passionate