that his uncle was dead in consequence of being
attacked by three assassins, one of whom had shot him;
that he had escaped, but had been pursued across the
fields. The fact of the nephew having, a short time
previously, purchased a pistol, bullet-mould, gunpowder,
and caps, in Banbury, caused suspicion to fall upon
him; and on being inquired of by Mr. Samuelson, who
speaks Italian, he admitted that he had bought one for
his uncle, who had sent it away. A search was
subsequently made on the premises of the uncle, when a
bullet-mould, bullets, and caps were found, all of which
it was proved the nephew had purchased of a gunsmith
in Banbury on the 10th of December last. The bullet
taken out of the skull of the deceased, as well as the
one that dropped out of his clothes, was made of a peculiar
hard white metal, and corresponded with those
found secreted in the stable. After the discovery of the
bullet-mould, bullets, powder, and caps, which were
found secreted in the stable, every effort was made to
find the pistol, but in consequence of so much rain
having fallen, the ditches became so full, that all the
endeavours used were unavailing. Subsequently the
millers allowed the water of their mills to be drawn off,
which had the effect of lowering the water in the ditches,
and then a brown great coat was found in a ditch, and
about six yards off a pistol was discovered pressed into
the mud. The coat was proved to belong to the deceased,
and the pistol was sworn to by the gunsmith as the
identical one which he sold to the prisoner on the 10th
of December last. The ditch in which the coat and
pistol were found was in the direction which it was
supposed the prisoner took after committing the murder.
Several witnesses, who were near the spot where the
murder was committed, stated that they met no men
except the deceased and the prisoner, who was seen with
the deceased, a few minutes before they heard two
reports of fire-arms. The jury found the prisoner guilty,
and the Judge passed sentence of death, holding out no
hopes of mercy. Kalabergo afterwards attempted to
escape from gaol. While in the airing-yard, he clambered
on to a wall; a keeper tried to seize him by the leg, but
the Italian was too nimble for him; he ran between the
spikes along the top of the wall, got on to the roof of the
female ward, and then found that he was foiled—that
which he had taken for the boundary-wall of the prison
was not so. A ladder was got, and the murderer quietly
descended. Subsequently to this attempt, Kalabergo
confessed his guilt: he signed a short declaration of the
fact in the presence of Dr. Tandy, a Roman Catholic
priest, and Dr. Harington, the Principal of Brazenose
College, a Magistrate; and in that statement he gave
permission to his priest to disclose all the particulars of
the crime which he had disclosed in religious confession.
He was executed on the 22nd inst.

At the Nottingham Assizes, on the 8th, George
Bowskill, Samuel Simms, George Dunlop, and John Moaks
were tried for the Wilful Murder of William Roberts.
George Robinson and James Alvey had been included
in the charge, but as to them the bill was ignored. This
case arose out of a dreadful affray, which took place on
the night of the 13th of October last, between the game-
keepers of Lord Scarborough and a large party of
poachers, in the course of which Roberts (one of the
keepers) was so severely injured that on the 17th of
October he died. The Judge, in summing up, intimated
to the jury that, in his opinion, the evidence would
hardly warrant them in finding the prisoners guilty of
murder; but he left to them the question of identity,
and to consider whether the prisoners, having originally
gone out for the purpose of taking game, had abandoned
that intention before the acts of violence were committed,
with a view to the question whether the prisoners could
at all justify their conduct on the ground of self-defence.
The jury found all the prisoners guilty of manslaughter.
Judgment, was respited upon a point of law. The
prisoners were also arraigned upon the charge of night
poaching, and, having pleaded guilty, were sentenced to
transportation for 14 years.

At the Huntingdon Assizes, on the 10th, John Titman,
James Stokes, and John Hall were indicted for
burglariously entering the bouse of Thomas Fairley, at Great
Raveley, on the 24th of October, 1851, and Stealing a
quantity of Property. It appeared that Mr. Fairley,
who is the bailiff of Mr. Hussey, at Great Raveley,
was awoke during the night by a crash against his back
door, and, arming himself with a revolving pistol, he
went to the top of the stairs, when he saw by a light
below the face of a man at the foot of the stairs. The
man then blew out the light and retreated, when Mr.
Fairley discovered there was another man in the kitchen,
at whom he fired; the fire being returned. He then
saw other men, some of them with masks, and fired
again, when several shots were fired in return. They
then set fire to the parlour, and Mr. Fairley becoming
overpowered by the smoke and by the wounds he had
received, and the men threatening to shoot his wife,
who came to his assistance, was compelled to submit.
After this they ransacked the house, and collecting a
number of valuables they made off, having previously
regaled themselves with such spirits and eatables as they
could find. Titman and Stokes were found asleep on
the side of a road in the neighbourhood, in the course of
the morning, and apprehended, and Hall, having been
implicated in the matter by Stokes, was subsequently
taken into custody. A quantity of the stolen articles
were found strewed about the road, and Mr. Fairley
now distinctly identified Titman and Stokes. The jury
returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners,
who were known to belong to a notorious gang. They
were sentenced to be transported for life.

At the Marlborough Assizes, Matthew Colgan, a
gentleman farmer, was tried for Administering Poison to his
Wife with intent to murder her. Colgan married the
lady two years ago, and received a portion of £ 500 with
her. When she was domiciled at her husband's, she
found there a domestic who had borne a child to him.
Colgan wanted his wife to ride in the same car with this
woman; the outraged wife uttered such remonstrances
that the husband consented to dismiss the servant from
the house. Subsequently, Mrs. Colgan discovered that
she had returned to the neighbourhood, and that her
husband visited her. On Mrs. Colgan's confinement
with a child, she was frequently ill after taking liquids
from her husband's hands; she grew suspicious, and
noticed sediments in the vessels: these she preserved,
and they turned out to be arsenic. On one occasion,
what had been refused by the wife was about to be
swallowed by the illegitimate child: Colgan dashed the
vessel from the child's hand. The jury convicted him
on all the counts charged; but Judge Torrens said, that
as, happily, no life had been lost, perhaps justice would
be satisfied by taking the verdict on the fourth count—
attempting to administer. Sentence, transportation for
life.

John Ahearne, a man nearly seventy years old, has been
convicted at Waterford Assizes of Conspiring to Murder
James Troy: Troy was murdered, but Ahearne did not
take part in the actual homicide. The victim was a
bailiff, whose only offence was being a witness to give
evidence of the handwriting of Ahearne and others to
notes passed to their landlord for payment of rent; it
being believed that in the absence of the witness the
civil bills should be dismissed. The convict was
sentenced to be hanged.

At the county Mayo assizes, on the 6th inst., John
St. John Bridgman, said to be a monk of the Franciscan
order, was found guilty of Burning a copy of the Bible,
when Baron Lefroy directed that he should enter into
sufficient security to appear to receive judgment when
called on, which assuredly he would be if there was any
further attempt to commit a similar act of desecration.

A coroner's inquest, held on the 9th ult. on the body
of an infant found dead in a house in Newcastle-street,
Strand, disclosed the Shocking Condition of that Locality.
A woman named Elizabeth Butler said she lived in the
room with the child's mother. About six o'clock in the
morning, Mrs. Addison, the mother, got up, and said
she found it was dead. The father got up too, and
expressed a hope it was not, and then, finding it apparently
so, ran with it to the King's College Hospital.—The
Coroner: Who was the mother of the child?—Witness:
Caroline Hailes, my cousin.—The Coroner: Then was
she not married? Who did she live with?—Witness:
A man named Addison, a sweep.—The Coroner: Tell
me now the whole of the persons who slept in the room?
—There were Addison, my cousin, two boys, and myself.