cast myself upon your sympathies, and your love of truth
and justice; for I solemnly declare, in the presence of
this imposing assembly of British officers, and in the
presence of my country and my final Judge that I am
innocent of the charges preferred against me; and I leave
myself, my conduct, and my reputation in your hands,
with a consciousness that you will do me justice; and
'May God defend the right.' " A loud cheer broke
through the audience as the last words were uttered,
but it was of course at once repressed by the court.—
Major-General Wetherall then said, as he could not
admit the truih of some of the statements made by the
prisoner and the inferences drawn therefrom, he must
request that the court would adjourn until next day.
This was done; and on the 18th he made his reply,
commenting at great length on the evidence, and
maintaining that the charges against the prisoner were proved.
The sentences of the court on this trial, and on the
previous trial of Lieut. Greer, have not yet been
published.

A gentleman committed Suicide by throwing himself
from the top of Shakspeare's cliff at Dover, on the
evening of the 16th inst. He was conversing with a
man named Anderson, who has his station on the cliff
as a vendor of fossils. Anderson warned him that as
darkness was coming on, it would be dangerous to stay.
He retired some short distance, immediately turned
round, and, exclaiming that he came from 19, Waterloo
Crescent, jumped over the boundary-stone. Anderson
immediately gave an alarm, and some of the coast-
guard and boatmen, proceeding to the base of the cliff,
found his remains mangled dreadfully, he having fallen
between 300 and 400 feet. The unfortunate gentleman
was staying at 19, Waterloo Crescent with his lady, who
was anxiously waiting his return when the dreadful
news arrived. His name is the Rev. Thomas Robinson,
and he held a living in the Isle of Wight.

At the Mansion House on the 21st instant, Daniel
Shea and John Beames, were charged with having
Picked the Pocket of Mr. Carnell a solicitor. A
detective officer said that he saw the prisoners together
try the pockets of several gentlemen, the one screened,
or covered by the other. At last he saw Shea point
Beames's attention to the pocket of the prosecutor, and
the latter prisoner whip the handkerchief out of the
prosecutor's pocket. When Beames was apprehended
he said that Shea had made a thief of him, and induced
him to leave his honest work to rob. It was proved
that Shea had been frequently in custody for robbery.
Beames, who is a mere boy, said, last Wednesday Shea
came out of prison, where he had been for three months,
and he called upon me at my master's house. I was
going upon an errand, and I accompanied him, and
never went home since. He took me to the Black
Horse Court in the city, and in our way be took a
handkerchief out of a gentleman's pocket and sold it
for eighteen pence, half of which he gave to me. This
morning he came to me in my room at the house in
which he lodges, and asked me to go with him to steal
handkerchiefs on London-bridge. After trying a good
many pockets he touched the pocket of the prosecutor
and told me there was a handkerchief in it, and I
must go and take it, and I did take it. I assure your
lordship, that he made a thief of me, for I had no idea
of thieving until he came and took me out. The
prisoners were committed for trial.

The Mischiefs Arising from the Suburban Fairs were
again exhibited at the Lambeth Police Court on the
24th inst., when a batch of young thieves, who had been
taken up at the Camberwell fair on charges of picking
pockets and who were remanded to give the constables
an opportunity of inquiring into their respective characters,
were brought up for final examination. The
ages of the prisoners ranged from nine to sixteen, and it
was clear that they had come from all parts of the
metropolis for the express purpose of picking pockets.
Among them were two nice-looking boys, the one ten,
and the other eleven years of age, the children of a
respectable man, who, it appeared, had used every effort
to bring them up properly, but, owing to the desertion
of her home by their mother, and the necessary absence
from his residence of their father, had commenced a
course of crime scarcely conceivable in children of such
tender age. They had both been inmates of Wandsworth
House of Correction, and other prisons, and
some time ago, when taken home by their father under
a solemn promise of improvement, they, after being
treated in the kindest manner, broke open their father's
cashbox, and carried away 50 sovereigns, every shilling
of which they spent. They were found at Camberwell
fair, with several articles of property in their possession,
which they had evidently stolen, and were locked up.
While at the station they were visited by their father,
and, in answer to his entreaties for reformation, told
him it was useless his taking them home, or doing
anything for them, for they were sure they could not
stop with him. They were committed to Wandsworth
House of Correction for two calendar months each.
The other prisoners were also committed for different
periods. The magistrate again adverted to the shameful
nuisance which this fair annually creates. It was not
only an intolerable nuisance to the respectable inhabitants
of Camberwell and its vicinity, but added some
hundreds every year to the already enormous number of
juvenile thieves.

Informations have been laid before the Capel Street
magistrate, in Dublin, in order that a warrant might be
issued for the arrest of Mr. Edmond O'Fiaherty, late
Commissioner of Income Tax in Ireland, on a charge of
Forging Signatures to certain bills of exchange. Mr.
Maurice Saloman, jeweller, deposed that Mr. O'Flaherty
passed to him a bill for £450, dated 1st May, 1854,
purporting to be drawn by Lord Dunkellin upon Lord
Bolingbroke, and indorsed to William Keogh, Solicitor-
General for Ireland. Mr. Lazarus, jeweller, deposed
that Mr. O'Flaherty passed to him a bill for £450, dated
22nd March, 1854. purporting to be drawn by Edmund
O'Flaherty upon John Robert Godley, and accepted by
Mr. Godley; and a bill for £70, purporting to be drawn
and accepted by the same parties. Mr. Godley
appeared upon a summons; and deposed that the
signatures purporting to be his were not his, and that
he had never authorised Mr. Edmond O'Flaherty to
use his name. Mr. Keogh gave similar testimony. It
is stated that Mr. O'Flaherty is in Copenhagen, out of
the reach of the constable; but another report describes
him as having selected New York as his place of exile.

NARRATIVE OF ACCIDENT AND
DISASTER.

There was a fatal Accident on the North-Western
Railway on the morning of the 27th ult. North of
Coventry, the down-line of rails is undergoing repair,
and the up-line is used for all trains, each train being
led by a pilot-engine. On the above morning, the
express train for London was travelling along the up-
line; in consequence of the points at a "turn-out"
being wrongly closed, the express ran on to the down-
line, and came in contact with a number of ballast-
waggons. The driver of the pilot-engine was killed,
his stoker died in the afternoon, and several passengers
were seriously hurt.

Two workmen met with a Fearful Death at Sunderland
on the 2nd inst. Some time ago a tall chimney
upon Messrs. Hartley & Co.'s Wear glasswork was
struck with lightning. It has since been taken down to
within 50 feet of its base, and built to the height of 185
feet. The scaffolding for conveying the labourers to the
top was erected in the inside, and they ascended the
summit by means of a bucket drawn by a gin. Two
workmen named Vower and Rhodes, employed in
Messrs. Hartley's works, resolved, notwithstanding
express orders to the contrary, to go to the top of the
chimney, and, though warned of the danger of their
frolic, they induced the driver of the horse which turns
the gin to send them up. They reached the top in
safety and remained there ten or fifteen minutes, when
they both got into the same bucket and prepared to
descend. One of the men was much heavier than the
other, and owing, it is supposed, to the bucket being
unequally balanced, it struck in its descent against
a piece of timber which runs across the chimney; the
bucket was thus loosened, and fell to the bottom, when
the men were left hanging by the rope. They