was the first nurse of the Prince of Wales, but was
discharged for disobeying the orders of the medical
men. The eldest of the murdered children, Georgina,
was eleven years old; the youngest, George, was a year
and nine months. The eldest daughter, Mary, aged
nineteen, was at service as a lady's maid. Brough, the
husband, is described as being a hardworking, sober,
and honest man, which is borne out by the circumstance
of his having been for many years employed in one
capacity or another in the Royal Palace of Claremont.
His father was likewise employed in the same palace,
and was head coachman to the King of the Belgians
when Prince Leopold. The man, who was the wretched
woman's paramour, a married man, has been forced by
the indignation of the neighbourhood to sell his business
and leave the village; his wife is confined to her bed
dangerously ill. Brough refuses to see his wife, but
the daughter, Mary, has visited her mother in goal.

At the Middlesex sessions, on the 19th, Joseph White,
an old man, was convicted of Stealing Four Pounds of
Coal, the property of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The theft was a peculiarly ungrateful act: White went
twice a week to Downing Street to receive soup given
him by Mrs. Gladstone; it was noticed that he always
entered the coal-cellar; a footman watched him, and
saw him fill his pockets with coal. Sentence, six months'
imprisonment.

There have been several Incendiary Fires at Manchester.
A warehouse in Mosley Street was attempted
to be fired on the 19th, and another warehouse in
Fountain Street was attempted on the 23rd. On the
25th, a fire was discovered in the warehouse of Messrs.
Leech and Co., Mosley Street. The fire police force in
all these cases found that some combustible matter
enclosed in pieces of brown paper had been thrown into
the buildings through broken front windows or open
gratings, but the vigilance of watchmen had called
attention to them in time to prevent the fires extending.
At the mill of Messrs. Clarke and Co., cotton spinners,
Swinton, an explosion took place in one of the carding
machines, and set fire to the whole room in an instant,
but prompt and vigorous measures prevented the
mischief spreading. It was found that some explosive
substance had been previously placed under one of the
rollers wrapped in brown paper—the principal ingredient
being phosphorus. Four men under notice in the
mill were taken before a magistrate, but the case was
only one of suspicion as applied to them, and they were
discharged.

John Lyons, an Irish coalwhipper, has been
committed for trial by the Thames Police Magistrate for
Assaulting his Wife, by putting her on a coke fire,
severely burning one of her legs. A policeman witnessed
the cruelty through a crevice in the shutters of
the room. Lyons upbraided his wife for spending his
money in drink, and leaving their children to starve;
she retaliated by thrusting his trousers into the fire; he
said as she had burnt his trousers he would burn her—
and he actually thrust her on the large fire. The policeman
immediately entered: Lyons told him to take him
into custody—he would sooner be hanged or transported
than live with such a drunken woman. The wife has
since kept out of the way to avoid giving evidence; but
the policeman's testimony enabled the magistrate to
commit.

Mr. Samuel Adcock, a young farmer of Ashby Shrubs,
near Leicester, has been Robbed and Murdered. He
went to Leicester market on Saturday the 17th instant;
very early next morning his corpse was found in a ditch
by the roadside, at a lonely place, three miles from
Leicester. From the appearances observed, the farmer,
a tall man, had been shot in the base of the skull, at the
back of the right ear, by a shorter man; the assassination
had occurred in the middle of the road, and the
body had been dragged into the ditch. One of the
victim's pockets had been turned inside out, and all the
money was gone. The neckerchief and hat were missing,
but the hat has been since found behind a hedge. A
post-mortem examination has detected a bullet between
the scalp and the skull, where it had lodged after passing
through the brain.

A petition from two poor men, Imprisoned for Non-
Payment of Church-Rates, has been presented to the
House of Commons by Mr. Bright, and printed with
the votes. The petitioners, parishioners of Ringwood,
Hants, labourers, earning less than 9s. 6d. a week each,
and each having a wife and two children entirely
dependent on him for support, state that they were
arrested on the 24th of April, handcuffed together,
though offering no resistance, and, after being kept in
hold till next day, conveyed to Winchester gaol. There
they were treated as felons—stripped, washed, clothed
in the prison-dress, allowed no communication with
their friends, even by letter, and kept in continual
confinement in a cell measuring about nine feet by
five, with the exception of about an hour daily, for
exercise, during which they were compelled to wear a
mask. They state that they were subjected to this
degradation because they were utterly unable to pay the
church-rates demanded of them—1s. 9d. and 1s. 10½d.
They are now at liberty, in consequence of a public
subscription having been set on foot to procure their
release.

On the 23rd instant, a person named Bosworth, alias
Elliot, a printseller in Holywell-street, in the Strand,
was tried in the Court of Queen's Bench, on the charge
of selling Disgusting and Indecent Prints. The defendant
did not appear, but the charge was proved by two
witnesses, agents for the Society for the Suppression of
Vice, who prosecuted. He was convicted, and sentenced
to three years' imprisonment, with hard labour.

NARRATIVE OF ACCIDENT AND
DISASTER

There was a Boiler Explosion at Beasley and Farmer's
iron-works, Smethwick near Birmingham, very early on
the morning of the 16th. The engine worked by the
boiler had been stopped for repairs; just after the
engine was again put in motion the boiler gave way at
the ends, with an explosion of terrific violence. Many
of the buildings around were shattered; one piece of
the boiler, weighing about six tons, ploughed through
brick walls as if they had been paper. Fortunately,
most of the workpeople were absent; but three men
and three boys were dreadfully scalded. The boiler
had been examined recently and pronounced safe.

A young man named James Smith, residing at
Keighley, has met with an Appalling Death. He had
been an apprentice with Messrs. Hattersley, machine-
makers of Keighley, but had latterly been leading
an idle life and wandering about the country. Being
destitute and without lodgings, he lay down to sleep
between two limekilns. One of them was partly
empty, but still emitted a sulphurous stench and smoke,
and the other was burning and red. At two o'clock a
person passing by saw the youth near the empty pit,
and having warned him of his danger passed on.
Another person, named Wakefield, approached the kiln
about half-past six o'clock, and found the body on the
top of the burning lime. He immediately aroused
a workman who resided hard by, and the remains were
drawn off with an iron drag. The legs and bowels
were entirely consumed, the flesh burnt from the ribs,
the eyes from their sockets, the hair and scalp from the
skull, and the arm upon which he had fallen was
entirely gone. A mass of charred and blackened matter
alone remained, scarcely distinguishable as the vestiges
of a human being. It is supposed that he had been
partly suffocated by the fumes issuing from the nearly
empty kiln, and that when rolling over in half unconscious
agony he had dropped into the one adjoining. His cap
lay upon the brink, and from that alone his name and
occupation have been traced.

Lieutenant Macnish, of the Ninety-third Highlanders,
has been accidentally Drowned, near Scutari. He and
a brother officer, Lieutenant Crowe, were returning to
camp at night; and they had to cross a gully which was
perfectly dry a few hours before, but had been swollen
by a recent thunderstorm. They stepped into the
torrent inadvertently; Lieutenant Macnish was swept
away to the sea; Mr. Crowe only escaped by clinging
to a tree till aid came.

The Europa troop-ship, on her way to the East with