ran up stairs to her bed-room, followed by him. She
fell on her face just in the position in which she
was found, and, he added, "I then took up the
poker and smashed her brains out." With respect
to the burning of the body he is silent; he says that the
clothes of the deceased must have caught fire. On going
down stairs he found he was covered with blood.
He then changed everything he had on. He cut up his
boots (high shoes) with his master's razors, completely
severing the upper-leather from the soles. He then
went into the paddock where the colts were kept, and
threw the soles of the shoes into a pool of water about
five feet deep, called the well: the upper-leathers he
stuffed into a drain which empties itself into the well.
The feet-part of his stockings, being very bloody, he cut
away from the leggings, and deposited them under the
coping of the immense wall which formerly enclosed a
portion of the Burnham Abbey lands. The leggings he
placed in the manger in the stable. The shirt and
trousers he secreted in the orchard on the Tuesday
night. On the night of Thursday, when he took his
master's horse out of the stable under the pretence of
going to the Maidenhead Railway Station for a parcel,
he carried the shirt and trousers with him, for the
purpose of getting rid of them. The trousers, all but the
waistband, he cut into small shreds, and strewed them
on the hedges and by the side of the road as he went
along. When he arrived at the top of the Maidenhead
bridge, he threw the stocking-leggings over into the
Thames, and was about to throw the shirt after them,
when the thought struck him that it would swim, so he
brought it back again, and buried it beneath the manger
of the centre stall of his master's stable. Some of these
fragments have been found, but others the police could
not discover. Hatto was executed on the 24th inst.

At the Norfolk assizes, on the 11th inst., Charles
Marshall, John Saunders, and Lewis Myers were
indicted for the Robbery of Mr. Matthews, watchmaker, of
Leighton Buzzard, in November last. The Jury ignored
the bill as to George Parker, who had been included in
the indictment. The three others pleaded not guilty.
The evidence showed that Marshall and Saunders had
been seen near the spot a short time before and after the
robbery, and had pawned some of the articles stolen.
Myers had received other articles, and had also pledged
and offered them for sale. The three prisoners were
found guilty, and the learned judge sentenced Marshall
and Saunders to be transported for twenty years, and
Myers for fourteen years.

At Lewes assizes, on the 14th, Emery Spriggs, a
respectable looking man of fifty, was indicted for the
Wilful Murder of Rebecca Spriggs. The prisoner kept
a public-house at Westbourne. The deceased was his
wife. There had been a dance, or some entertainment
at his house on the 6th January last, and at half-past
four the next morning, when the people went away,
neither prisoner nor deceased was quite sober. At five,
the prisoner called up a woman living near, and said he
had shot his wife with a fowling-piece. This turned out
to be the fact. In mitigation of the prisoner's guilt it
was urged that he had committed the act without
premeditation and in a moment of great irritability. A
verdict of manslaughter was then returned, and the
prisoner was sentenced to transportation for life.

At the Bedford assizes, on the 11th, Abel Burrows
was indicted for the Wilful Murder of Charity Glenister,
on the 25th of November last, and when called upon to
plead "guilty or not guilty," he said, "I don't know.
If I am guilty, I was insane at the time." This was
treated as a plea of not guilty. The evidence showed
that the prisoner, who lives in a wild district near
Leighton Buzzard, called Heath and Reach, had, shortly
before the 24th of November, exhibited such signs of
violence that on that day his wife sent for his father and
begged the old man to sleep with him on that night.
The father complied. During the night the prisoner
was very violent, and early in the morning of the 25th,
after his father had gone to work, he got up, seized a
stonebreaker's hammer, and threatened to take the life
of Charity Glenister, an old woman of seventy, who
lived with him and his wife. The deceased escaped from
the house, and was followed by the prisoner, still
holding the hammer. She escaped into the house of a
neighbour, and he, mistaking that into which she had
gone, rushed in and inquired for her and his wife, saying
that he smelt them, that they had ruined his mother,
that he would kill them both; that they would cause
him to be hung. He then rushed out and went to the
house where the deceased was, broke open the door with
the hammer—for at the request of the old woman it had
been closed against him—and made for her as she was
trying to get up the stairs from him. Before she could
get quite up, he felled her with a blow of the hammer,
and then dealt her two more blows which completely
smashed her head, and so extinguished life. Thereupon
the prisoner exhibited signs of religious triumph,
singing out, "Glory, glory to the Lord. Hallelujah!
Hallelujah!" The prisoner said nothing in his defence,
but the governor of the gaol handed in a paper, which
set forth that one of his aunts had died insane, and that
it was well known that at times he was also insane. The
statement as to the aunt was made out by a surgeon. It
was also shown that the prisoner was at times of weak
mind; that he often complained of his head, and that
sometimes he was very violent. The learned judge
placed these circumstances before the jury, but, after
deliberating for about half an hour, they returned a
verdict of wilful murder.—The prisoner: "The Lord's
will be done." The Chief Baron then passed sentence
of death in the usual form, and the prisoner was removed
from the dock, apparently quite insensible to the perilous
position in which he stood.

A case of Breach of Promise of Marriage, White v.
Wells, was tried at the Exeter assizes on the 16th.
The plaintiff is a young woman, twenty-four years of
age, of humble birth. Her father was the foreman in a
stone quarry at Torquay. The defendant is a farmer,
living on his own estate, in the adjoining parish of
Bickington. He is nearly fifty years of age, and as
described by his own counsel is bald and asthmatical.
His estate is worth about £200 a year, out of which he
has to pay for the support of his mother—After the
close of the case for the plaintiff, Mr. Collier made a
humorous speech on behalf of the defendant. He laid
it down as an invariable rule that women never died
with love for men above forty-five; and it was most
improbable that the plaintiff could have any violent
affection for a man of fifty, with a bald head and a
touch of asthma in the chest. He did not attempt to
deny that a promise of marriage had been given; but
pleaded for mitigated damages.—The judge having
summed up, the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff—
Damages, £400.

Several flagrant cases of Cruelty to Horses, by driving
with heavy loads, when quite unfit for any kind of
work, have been brought before the police magistrates
lately. One of the worst cases was that of Mr. Robert
Cheal. He is carrier to her Majesty, and it was while
drawing a waggon heavily laden with wine for the
royal cellar, that one of his horses was perceived in a
most deplorable condition. An officer deposed to seeing
the carman, Thomas Perren, standing at the horse's
head, and lashing the poor beast most unmercifully.
The waggon was on a dead level, but the horse was
quite unable to stir. Mr. Beadon, the magistrate before
whom the charge was made, satisfied himself as to the
state of the horse, and said it was only fit for the
knacker. The wagon was stated to have contained
54 dozen of wine, a heavy load even for a horse in good
condition. A penalty of 40s. was ordered, besides
expenses attending the removal of the horse and cart to
the green-yard.

Two men, named Jones and Amos, have been
committed for trial at the Mansion House for a most daring
act of Burglary. Early on Sunday morning, the 12th
inst,, a policeman on his beat in Savage-gardens, Tower-
hill, observed some suspicious appearances about an iron
crane. He placed some pieces of straw in such a
manner that if the crane were disturbed they would fall
to the ground. Soon afterwards he found a man
apparently in a state of excessive drunkenness, and took him
to the station. This man, probably, was a confederate,
and his feigned intoxication a ruse to draw the policeman
away from his beat. On the latter returning he
found that the crane had been disturbed, and
immediately called another officer to his assistance. In