at times, and she was in the habit of saying, "If my
mother was to die, I should cut my throat!" and she
had also repeatedly exclaimed, "When I am in a passion,
I should kill the child, and then cut my own throat!"

A gentleman named Henry Joseph Bradfield
committed Suicide on the 11th inst., in the coffee-room of
the St. Alban's Hotel, Charles-street, St. James's, by
swallowing prussic acid. He had been a magistrate in
the West Indies, had been dismissed with other
magistrates, had afterwards gone to Barbadoes as Colonial
Secretary, and had for some time been in much distress,
believing himself the victim of maltreatment by the
Colonial Office. An inquest was held on his body, and
a verdict of Temporary Insanity was returned.

Many persons have been lately summoned before the
police courts for Taking in Lodgers without observing the
regulations in the Common Lodging-House Act. Cases
of this description were disposed of at Bow-street,
Clerkenwell, and Southwark, on the 11th and 12th inst.
The parties summoned were lodging-house keepers, and
persons who rented rooms for the purpose of subletting.
Frightful descriptions were given by the Police Inspectors
of the condition of these places, and the people who
occupied them. In a house in Wyld Court, all the
lodgers were realising a profit by under-letting, and one
of them, who paid only 2s. 9d. for his room, made
upwards of 8s. per week out of the wretched creatures
whom he huddled together nightly on the floor. In a
house in Charlotte Court, Gray's Inn Lane, there was a
room rented by a Mrs. Barnett, in which the Inspector
found three beds: in the first were the woman herself,
her son six years old, her brother, a man of thirty-five,
two girls of twelve and nine, the brother's children, and
another girl of nine. In the second bed was a man. The
third bed was on a chest at the side of the others, and
contained a man, who said he paid Mrs. Barnett 4d. per
week. The room was in a most filthy state, swarming with
vermin, and encumbered with a quantity of old wood
which left a space of about 7 feet by 4, in which space the
first-mentioned beds were on the floor. The beds consisted
of a quantity of dirty shavings, and the stench was
horrible. Several houses in Mint-street, Southwark,
occupied by Joanna Adams, James Baxter, C. Bryan,
and Catherine Leary, were visited between two and
three in the morning. In Adams's house the Inspector
saw, in one bed-room, five bedsteads, each containing
two men, and for which they paid 1s. 6d. a week each.
There were ten men in this room, seven being the
number allowed by the act. Another bed-room
contained three beds; the first bed had a man and his wife
and a lad of fifteen in it; the second bed contained two
single young women; and the third bed was occupied
by a married couple. The sergeant added that there
was no partition of any kind in the rooms, so as to secure
separation of the sexes. The house was registered, and
the defendant had been previously furnished with a copy
of the regulations, which were read to her; and in order
that no mistake might arise, each bed-room in the house
had a ticket, upon which was marked down the number
of persons allowed to sleep there.—The adjoining house,
occupied by Baxter, was next visited; and in one room,
in which there were three beds, the Inspector found the
first bed occupied by a married couple and a boy of
thirteen years of age; in the second bed there was a
single woman, and in the third there was a man. Another
room had two beds in it; in the first bed a man and his
wife were sleeping; the second bed was occupied by a
woman and a boy. On leaving Baxter's house, the
Inspector went to that of Bryant, and in one room saw
three beds, one of which was occupied by a married
couple and an infant; the second bed, by a woman; and
the third, by a son and daughter, both grown up.
Another bed-room contained three beds, in the first of
which were a woman and infant; the second bed had
two men, and the third a woman and her daughter.
There was no partition. He then descended to an
underground kitchen, in which directions had been
previously given not to admit lodgers, and he found Bryant
and his wife and daughter sleeping upon the floor, with
no covering over them but a rag; they had no bed
of any kind. At a little distance from them another
man and woman were also lying on the floor in the same
condition. There was no partition. Catherine Leary's
house was next visited, and in a bed-room containing two
beds, the first was occupied by a man and his wife, and
the second bed by another married couple. There was
no partition. In all the cases the parties had been
furnished with the regulations as to the number of lodgers,
and the partitions to separate the sections, and in some
cases the lodgings had been registered. In some of the
worst cases mitigated fines were imposed; in others,
judgment was suspended on the parties promising to give
up their rooms, or discontinue the practice of under-
letting them, except in compliance with the regulations.
The Bow-street magistrate inquired of the Police
Inspector if the result of his proceedings in various parts
of the metropolis had been satisfactory? The Inspector
stated that there had been a manifest improvement in
the lodging-houses of Church-lane. The rooms were not
so crowded, and the water had been laid on in several
of them. It remained to be seen, when the Irish, and
other labourers returned from the country (where they
were hopping, &c), whether the reform which had so
far resulted from the operations of the act would be of a
permanent character. There were at present as many
as 18,000 duly registered lodging-houses, in which the
new regulations were observed. Mr. Henry.—What
becomes of the lodgers, usually, when they are cleared
out of these places? I suppose they go into other
districts, and overcrowd them in the same way? The
Inspector said, this was undoubtedly one of the
consequences of the measures taken by him and his brother
officers under the new act. But in Spitalfields, and
some other parts of London, good clean lodgings, with
beds and proper partitions, might be obtained for 21/2d.
or 3d. each. Mr. Henry.—It would be a great boon to
the poor if such cheap accommodation could be extended
all over London.

A Gang of Coiners have been discovered in
Southwark. On the 14th, George Minns, a costermonger,
Thomas Kelly, a compositor, William Fisher, a carpenter,
and two women named Sophia Field, and Mary
Ann Brown, were charged at the Southwark Police
Court with being found in a house in Unicorn-court,
Kent-street, engaged in the manufacture of counterfeit
coin. A police sergeant stated that on the previous
afternoon, accompanied by a brother-officer, and a boy,
he went to the house, the door of which leading to the
court was open. The boy then walked upstairs and
knocked at the door of a back room on the first floor,
and a voice from within called out, "Who's there?"
The boy answered, "It's all right," upon which the
door, which was barred and bolted, was undone, and the
two sergeants, who rushed into the room, saw the
prisoners sitting round the fireplace busily engaged,
some attending to a pipkin filled with hot metal, while
others were employed in arranging plaster of Paris
moulds for the reception of metal, to strike off counterfeit
halfcrowns, shillings, and sixpences. Before the
officers had time to make a seizure of the whole of the
implements, the prisoners dashed down on the hearth
several plaster of Paris moulds, and smashed them to
pieces. In Kelly's possession was found a mould, with
a genuine halfcrown in it, and several counterfeit
halfcrowns and shillings were picked up off the floor, all of
which were quite hot, showing that they had been
recently manufactured. Among the various articles used
by the prisoners, several bottles containing spirits of
wine and other liquids, together with pounded plaster
of Paris, files, small hammers, and moulds for making
different coins to imitate the current coin of the realm,
were discovered in the room, and were produced in
court for the magistrate's inspection. Some broken
spoons were also discovered, made of metal of a white
description, from which it was inferred that the prisoners
used it instead of that of which publicans' pots are
composed, and which is generally the kind of metal from
which the chief portion of the counterfeit money is
made. Fisher made an attempt to escape, by rushing
out of the room downstairs, but was overtaken and
secured. The woman Field, who had her bonnet and
shawl on when the officers entered the room, asserted
her innocence of being engaged in coining, said that she
lived over in Shoreditch, and that she oniy came thence
to see the prisoners, and to be shown the way in which
they made the counterfeit money. The magistrate said