writing a treatise; he penned a treatise on diarrhœa,
and paid £23 when he received the diploma. His
counsel urged the probability of this explanation—
diplomas are advertised and sold. The accused, he
said, was a man of skill. Dr. Guy Babington, Dr.
Hanley, and other gentlemen, gave him a high character
for honour and integrity. The jury pronounced him
guilty, but strongly recommended him to mercy. Mr.
Baron Martin said he fully concurred in the verdict,
and commented on the necessity of stopping any such
practice as this. But he only inflicted a nominal
sentence—two days' imprisonment; which entitled the
prisoner to be immediately discharged.

Three men, Grant, Quin, and Coomey, were Executed
at Monaghan on the 10th inst., for the murder of
Thomas Bateson. Few scenes preceding an execution
have been so striking and unusual. All three were in the
best spirits, and bade farewell to wives, children, and
friends, with the greatest cheerfulness on both sides.
Three Roman Catholic priests attended them. On the
morning of the execution, the reporter of the
Northern Whig says that he saw them in prison. They
were walking in a yard, having partaken of an
excellent breakfast, two smoking, and all exhilarated.
When pitied, Coomey said he never felt so happy; he
was sure of meeting his Saviour! Quin said he would
not accept a reprieve if it came. The sub-sheriff said he
was sorry to see men in their position. "Sorry," said
one of them in a tone of surprise: "why, it is glad you
should be, sir." He then asked them if they had any
statement to make to him in relation to the offence for
which they were to die? "No," said Coomey, "our
Saviour said nothing when he was executed!" Quin
and Grant were first taken to the scaffold. Quin said,
"Hell cannot now scare us;" and, addressing the
hangman, "He's doing the best job ever done for us."
At their request the priests blessed them; and one said,
"Remember the penitent thief on the cross: in one
moment you'll be in heaven." Upon which Quin
exclaimed, "Mary, mother of God! receive us; prepare
heaven for us." Grant said nothing. When they were
hanged, the crowd shrieked and yelled. Coomey came
next. "I am quite content; I am going to my God,"
said he. When the rope was adjusted, he meekly asked,
"May I now go, gentlemen? " The drop fell, and the
culprit died without a struggle, amid the frantic shouts
and cries of the multitude below.

A shocking case of Starvation of a Child has occurred
at Southampton. G. C. Elmes and Mary Ann Wake
were indicted at the Southampton quarter session, on
the 11th, for neglecting to give sufficient food for the
support of Emily Lavinia Elmes, a child of the age of
eleven years, and for beating her. The male prisoner,
who is a compositor, was left a widower, with two female
children, about three years since. Two years ago he
went to lodge with Wake, who is a widow, with a grown-
up family residing with her. The two children of the
man were properly treated for a time, the father taking
his meals with them. After a time he took his meals
with the woman, and thenceforward regularly cohabited
with her. The two children were then much ill-treated;
one of them escaped, and is now the inmate of a local
charitable institution. The other girl, the younger of
the two, was from that period subjected to a system of
close confinement and ill-treatment. She was not
allowed to have the slightest intercourse with children
of her own age, but was confined in a room, the blind of
which was always kept close drawn, her father taking
her a scanty allowance of dry bread only, and positively
denying her any drink whatever. In the recent winter
months the treatment was rendered much worse. She
was then placed, during the day, in a cold, damp, dirty,
washhouse, opening upon the yard, with a brick floor,
and without any article of furniture upon which she
could rest herself. When unobserved she stole out into
the yard, and drank some water kept in a bucket there;
and when Wake saw her she beat and drove the child
back again into the cold kitchen. The consequence of
this inhuman treatment was, that the child became a
mere skeleton, broke out in sores, had chilblains upon
her feet, and an ulcer upon one of her legs. The neighbours
heard her continually beaten, and were disturbed
by her cries and entreaties for mercy. This continued
until the Rev. Mr. Norton, the curate of the parish,
heard of the matter; he went to the house of the
prisoners and found the child, whom he could scarcely
recognise, so altered was her appearance from the fine
healthy child who had formerly attended his school.
Information was given to the board of guardians, who
procured a justices' warrant, obtained possession of the
child, and had the prisoners apprehended. The medical
officers could not discover the slightest trace of organic
disease; on the contrary, under humane treatment, she
rapidly gained strength, and is now in a fair way of
perfect recovery. The jury found Elmes guilty of
neglect and assault, and convicted Wake of an assault.
The Recorder sentenced Elmes to be imprisoned one
year, and Wake six months.

A Seizure of Stolen Property to the Amount of £10,000
has been made in Houndsditch. The police having
been informed by Mr. Bateman, of Cary-lane, that he
had discovered that a quantity of wool which had been
stolen from his house was in the possession of Mr.
Chadwick, of Monkville-street, City, an officer at once
proceeded thither, and took Mr. Chadwick into custody,
and seized 87 lb. of wool, the property of Mr. Bateman.
Upon being examined before the Lord Mayor, Mr.
Chadwick satisfactorily proved that he had purchased
the property of a Moses Moses, a general dealer in
Houndsditch. Moses was apprehended, and not being
able to give a straightforward account of the possession
of the wool, was remanded, and Chadwick was
discharged. After Moses was in custody the police
proceeded to his house and there discovered several
waggon-loads of goods, among which was nearly the
whole of the plate and jewellery stolen a short time since
from Mr. Alexander, of Hatton Garden; cloths, barèges,
and alpacas, stolen from Hargraves, of Gracechurch-
street; a large quantity of skins, the produce of the
robbery of Messrs. Self & Co., of Bermondsey; portmanteaus
and carpet bags stolen from various railway
stations; bales of Manchester goods, gold and silver
plate, &c. Above a waggon and a half of goods have
already been identified by the persons from whom they
were stolen, and the police are actively engaged in
tracing the rest. On the 13th inst., Moses, and a person
named Chadwick, who was supposed to be his accomplice,
were examined at the Mansion House, when the latter
was discharged, and the former remanded for further
evidence against him upon one of the charges, and he
was fully committed upon another. A waggon would
hardly contain the property seized by the police at the
prisoner's house, and already identified as the produce
of recent burglaries and robberies. A vast number of
articles, consisting of pieces of scarlet damask, black and
crimson cloth, doeskin, silver mustard pots, gold rings,
&c, have not been identified.

On the 15th inst. Catherine Savill, a married woman
residing at Camberwell, Drowned her Infant while
labouring under a fit of insanity. A girl who acted as
servant to the child's parents found the body lying in a
basin of water. The child, a baby of four months, had
been dead at least three-quarters of an hour. In the
meantime the wretched mother had proceeded to her
husband's place of occupation in Finsbury-square, and
the moment he saw her he had a presentiment that
something had occurred, and asked her what was the
matter? She replied, "George prepare yourself for the
worst—I have destroyed the baby." He asked her how
she had done it, and she said she had drowned it in a
pail of water. The Jury returned a verdict of "Wilful
murder" against the woman.

A man named Goodal, residing in the village of
Milford near Derby, has Murdered one of his Children.
He was living apart from his wife, they having
separated about two years since, on account of his bad
conduct. On the 18th inst. he went to his wife's house,
after the two youngest children were in bed. While
the woman was occupied with some work in the garden,
she heard one of her children make a strange noise.
She ran up stairs, and met her husband coming out of
the bedroom. She said, "My baby is crying;" to
which he replied, "Your baby is in heaven." He went
down stairs, and she went into the bedroom, and saw
the child lying on the bed bleeding. She shrieked out
"Murder," and ran down stairs. An alarm was raised,