serious injuries, and was in great danger of his life, and
the public might have been deprived of his valuable
services. It is not enough to shout out, for the very
shouting might deprive a man or a woman of presence
of mind.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on the 4th inst., a
government prosecution was instituted against Messrs.
Tressange, Moore, and others, for conspiring to Defraud
Her Majesty's Government, by representing that certain
bas–reliefs were of a given quantity and quality. It
was proved on the trial that 19 cwt. of iron had been
substituted for bronze in the 31/2 tons of metal employed.
The defendants were severally sentenced to imprisonment
for one and three months.

A young woman, named Emma Jane Papson,
Destroyed herself and her Illegitimate Child, by
throwing herself and it into the Thames, where their
bodies were found. At the coroner's inquest, on the
4th inst., it appeared that she had been seduced by a
man of the name of Metcalfe, who had ill–treated and
deserted her. She had been reduced to utter destitution,
having been unable to earn enough, by working as a
needle–woman, to support herself and her child. The
coroner read three letters, which had been found in her
room. The first ran thus:—"James Metcalfe,—By the
time you receive this, I hope to be no more. It is you
that has brought me to this, you bad, wicked man. I
know that I was greatly in fault in giving way to you,
and bitterly I have had reason to repent it, which I do
from the bottom of my heart. But had you never have
promised things which you did, it would never have
happened; and then, as soon as you saw how things
turned, because I would not leave my dear baby at some
workhouse, nor to the mercy of the world, you thought
proper to leave us to starve and die. Oh! you bad, bad,
wicked man, hanging is too good for you. Repent,
repent, before it is too late. I will say no more, for to
night I hope, please the Lord, to be in heaven, and my
baby as well, and may our blood rest upon your head,
for it is you that is the cause of it; but my kind love,
for as I look for forgiveness, so do I forgive you.
Farewell, farewell.—Jane Papson." Two other letters
were also read, written in the same incoherent manner,
the one to the young woman's father and mother at
Folkstone, and the other to a cousin at Finchley,
praying that, should the baby be found alive, it might
be taken care of. The jury returned a verdict that the
crime had been committed in a state of mental derangement,
brought on by destitution and want.

A frightlul Suicide has been committed in
Manchester by Mr. Frederick Cope, a young gentleman of
that town. His sister had been married two days
before, and among the company present was a young
lady to whom he was engaged. Fancying, though without
foundation, that he perceived some estrangement
on her part, he became melancholy, and, going into his
room, shot himself through the heart. The house being
full of wedding–guests at the time, the scene which
ensued may be better imagined than described.

At the Central Criminal Court, on the 6th inst,,
Charles Cunningham, and James Thompson Currie,
surgeons, and George Thomas, chemist, were indicted
for having feloniously Assaulted Eliza Mardon, with
the Intent to procure her Miscarriage. The indictment
also charged the prisoners with administering to the
prosecutrix a quantity of a noxious drug, with the like
intent. It appeared that the prosecutrix, who was only
twenty–two years of age, resided with her parents,
who kept a boarding–house in Ely–place, Holborn;
and that, in the year 1851, the Rev, George Campbell
Gordon took up his abode in the house. He was at that
time curate of St. Andrew's Holborn. An intimacy
took place between him and the prosecutrix, and in
January last the unfortunate girl discovered that she
was enceinte. On this discovery, her seducer took the
scandalous measures described in the evidence, for
concealing his guilt. He afterwards fled from justice;
but the prisoners, as his agents in the affair, were
apprehended and brought to trial. The charge against
Cunningham was fully established; but the evidence
against the other prisoners was not conclusive. They
were consequently acquitted while Cunningham was
sentenced to be transported for fifteen years.

A curious instance of the Gullibility of a "Fast"
Young Man was exhibited in an action tried in the Common
Pleas on the 7th, Mr. Simmonds, a jew, sued Mr, Parkinson,
a young man of fortune, on six bills of exchange,
drawn by the plaintiff and accepted by the defendant,
for the amounts of £157 10s., £1260, £106, £300, £500,
and £848, respectively. The defendant pleaded that the
acceptances were obtained from him by fraud. It
appeared that the defendant came of age last year, and
the plaintiff being then the proprietor of a high trotting
horse, called the Oneida Chief, the defendant purchased
the animal for £500, Subsequently the defendant, who
whenever he saw a pretty face was seized with a strong
passion for giving away jewellery, bought rings, bracelets,
&c., of his acquaintance, Mr. Simmonds, and also
improved on his purchase of the Oneida Chief by giving
Mr. Simmonds, "a fancy price" that is to say £1260.
for two chesnut horses from America, For these and
other considerations Mr, Parkinson had given cash and
bills, the latter of which he now protested against
meeting, on the plea already stated. The plaintiff was
examined: He said he had heard in 1852 that the
defendant had come into "a werry great deal of money,"
£200,000, or £300,000, Became acquainted with him at
Perry's livery stables in Horsemonger–lane, That was
in December, 1852, Had a horse called Clickup, which
he sold to the defendant then and there for £60, Soon
after he sold him another horse, called Reliance, for
£200, The plaintiff then went through a long list of
horses and other property which he sold to the
defendant, and the exorbitance of the sums charged drew
from the Chief Justice the remark that he had never
before found in combination such a fool and such a
knave. The witness, on being cross–examined, said he
carried on business in the "Exchange,"—he meant the
Clothes' Exchange, Houndsditch. He was in partnership
there with one Levy, Had been a publican as well as
a clothes–merchant, and also a government contractor
(having sold clothes to Millbank prison). An action
had once been brought against him in the name of John
Crocket, This was for fraud, connected with the horse
Flying Cloud, which horse, under the new title of
Oneida Chief, he had sold to defendant. Flying Cloud,
alias Oneida Chief, had legs of a dark white, which
meant a "dark drab," Had his legs painted to match his
body when he ran at Liverpool, He won the race, but
the stakes were not paid, A long confession of knavery
was wrung from the plaintiff by the adroit questioning
of the defendant's counsel, and it will be sufficient to
add to the facts already stated that he had made use of
a Miss Laura Graham as an instrument to pigeon the
defendant. This young lady was called as a witness,
and deposed to having received a great part, if not all,
the jewellery bought of Simmonds. It was a curious
circumstance about this jewellery that the intrinsic
value, in the case of almost every item, was greatly
anhanced by association with some distinguished
personage or remarkable event. A ring, for instance,
acquired factitious worth by its having belonged to Sir
Robert Peel, who had received it from her Majesty;
and a bracelet, sold for £660, was severally valued, by
dealers who gave their evidence, at £100, £150, and at
most £200, this last sum being named by a witness who
had frequent dealings with the plaintiff. The jury
returned a verdict for the defendant, which was
followed by loud applause from a crowded court.

In Leather Lane, Holborn, and Baldwin's Gardens,
Serious Riots have taken place in consequence of
quarrels between the Italian refugees, friends and
partisans of the Padre Gavazzi, and the Irish, who are
thickly located in that neighbourhood. It appears that
the Italian refugees of 1848 adopted the above locality
as their general rendezvous, and some time since they
became most inveterate in their dislike to the Roman
Catholic clergy who officiate in the district, and carried
it to the extent of attempting to assassinate an Italian
priest who had a mission there, he having been
recognised by some of them as an "aristocrat," who had
been inimical to the popular cause in Italy. The
removal of this gentleman, it was imagined, would have
created a better understanding; but such has not been
the case, for the Irish clergymen who have taken his
place, the Rev. Mr. Gilligan and the Rev, Mr. O'Connor,