fraud was made clear. Mr. Mounsey and a clerk proved
that the letters purporting to be written by "Mr. Sanderson"
were in Wilson's writing. He was convicted,
and sentenced to be transported for twenty years.

A gang of burglars were courageously repulsed while
Attempting to Rob the house of Captain Newton, near
Stockport, in the night of the 8th inst. Captain Newton
is an extensive owner of land in the neighbourhood, a
portion of which is let to Mr. Thomas Savage, whose
farm-house and buildings are separated from the
residence and garden of Captain Newton by a brick wall
about 12 to 14 feet high. The inmates, besides Captain
and Mrs. Newton, were a footman and two domestic
servants. In the farm-house with Mr. Thomas Savage
lives his brother William, who is a stout and powerful
young man, and several farm servants. During the
night above mentioned, William Savage had occasion
to be out late, and returned home about two o'clock in
the morning, when he saw two ladders reared against
the wall. On making up to the spot he was instantly
seized by two men, who got him down upon the pavement.
He saw a third man standing by, and two others
soon appeared, as if they had come down the ladders.
When down he heard a clicking sound, as of the cocking
of a pistol. All the five then made off up the farmyard
towards the fields; some of them were in advance of
the others, but one of them, when only about four yards
off, turned round, and, seeing Savage had regained his
feet, discharged a pistol at him. The ball passed through
the upper part of his hat, making a hole and tearing it.
Seeing that the men were separating, Savage made a
desperate run after the hindermost, and caught him by
the back of his coat collar. The man called for help,
upon which the other four returned, and again got
Savage upon the ground. He heard one of them cock
a pistol, and another struck him several times with a
truncheon. Having severely beaten him, they left him
prostrate and ran off. On examining the premises, it
was found that the two ladders had been brought by the
burglars from the farmyard of Mr. Elkanah Cheetham,
about 200 yards distant.

Messrs. Strahan, Paul, & Bates, appeared at Bow-
street on the 15th inst., for the tenth time, and were
again remanded. Mr. Humphreys, in the absence of
Mr. Bodkin, brought additional evidence tracing two of
Dr. Griffith's bonds to Coutts & Co. No additional
evidence will be offered until September. Bail was
proffered and accepted on behalf of Mr. Bates; the
sureties being Mr. James Anderton, of Bridge-street,
Blackfriars, and Mr. Bates, a Liverpool merchant,
brother of the accused. Sir John Paul was brought up
on the 24th, when he was admitted to bail; the sureties
being Mr. Thomas Graham of Reading, and Mr. John
Woodhall, coachbuilder in Orchard-street.

The case of Boyle v. Cardinal Wiseman has been
settled by agreement at the Croydon Assizes, without
going to trial. The terms were, that the defendant is
to pay £100 towards the costs of the abortive trial at
Guildford, and the whole of the taxed costs of the trial
at Kingston, and the present action; and it was arranged
between the counsel that an apology, or retractation,
should be demanded or given. The costs to be paid, it
was said, will amount to nearly £1200.

At Maidstone Assizes, George Henry Smith, formerly
postmaster at Jersey, was tried for Murdering his Wife
at Rochester. One morning he shot her while she was
in bed. It appeared that he had formerly been in a
lunatic asylum; that since the homicide he had been
decidedly insane, and still remained so. The jury ac-
quitted him on the ground of insanity.

Two melancholy cases of Suicide are mentioned in
the Belfast papers. One was that of a middle-aged
man, in comfortable circumstances—a Mr. Henry John
Gerrard, a native of London, who contrived to put an
end to his existence on Saturday morning by forcibly
straining a leather strap round his neck. His body was
found by his sister lying on the floor, and a copy of
"Carpenter's Animal Physiology," which he appeared
to have spent a great part of the night reading, was by
his side. The deceased was described as an artist, and
no cause was assigned for his act of self-destruction.—
The other case was that of a poor woman, who placed
her head on the rails of the Ballymena Railway when a
train was approaching, and, in spite of the efforts of the
driver to stop the engine, was instantaneously killed,
her body being mangled in a shocking manner. The
unfortunate woman had been telling her children the
night before that she no longer knew how to support
them.

A shocking case of Murder and Suicide has occurred
at the village of Bradshaw, near Bolton. On the 8th
inst. it was discovered that a clog-maker, named Thomas
Jolly, had cut the throats of his two children, and afterwards
his own. The man had been a habitual drunkard.
When discovered, he was quite dead, and his daughter,
three years old was also dead, but his son, aged five,
was alive, but with little hope of recovery. The poor
boy was able to give some account of the tragedy. He
said that, as his father was taking him and his sister up
stairs, she asked if they were going to bed then. The
father replied, "I am taking you to your everlasting
bed: we will all be buried together." The little girl
answered, "What, with mammy?" When they got
into the room; Jolly took the girl and held her so that
the boy could not see her; and, afterwards, when her
father laid her on the bed, and thus displayed the fatal
wound in her neck, the boy; asked, "What have you
done that for?" The father again said something
about their being buried together. From this it is
supposed that, whilst the boy was between the room
door and one side of the bed, his father took the little
girl to the other side of the bed, and, leaning upon it,
cut her throat, for there was blood on the wall at that
side of the bed, and also upon the portion of the
counterpane which overhung the bed on that side.
Then he had seized the little boy and attempted to take
his life in a similar manner; but the two wounds on
the left side of his neck and the cuts upon his fingers
indicate that he had offered all the resistance in his
power to the murderous attack of his father. In all
probability, the severe wound was inflicted whilst the
little fellow was on the bed, just at the time a neighbour
entered the house to search for him and the little girl to
go to school, and the noise she heard would be caused,
she thinks, by the boy falling off the bed to the place
where he was afterwards found, from whence he could
see what was subsequently done by his father, which he
doubtless did. The man was a widower, his wife having
died in childbirth a few months ago.

NARRATIVE OF ACCIDENT AND
DISASTER

A large portion of the village of Chamouni has been
Destroyed by Fire. On the morning of the 20th of July,
a fire broke out in the Hotel d'Angleterre, and twenty-
two houses were consumed. The Hotels d'Angleterre,
de Londres, and de la Couronne were burnt down,
besides nineteen houses belonging to the poorer
inhabitants. No lives have been lost, but there have
been sad accidents. Half the village, including part of
the church, has been burnt, and a great amount of
property destroyed. A subscription has been already
set on foot by the English chaplain, Mr. Ferryman, and
by Dr. Malan, who was at Chamouni at the time.
These gentlemen were very active in giving relief to the
wretched sufferers, and in aiding to extinguish the fire.
Mr. Albert Smith is receiving subscriptions for the
benefit of the poor inhabitants.

Miss Oxley, a young lady of five and twenty, daughter
of the late Dr. Oxley of Bridlington, has been Killed by
the Fall of a Cliff, under which she was sitting. She
was walking on the sands at Bridlington-quay with
another young lady, who returned home, leaving her
companion behind. As she did not return, alarm was
excited, and it was found that the unfortunate young
lady had been crushed to death by a fall of the cliff in
weight about 30 tons. The earth had fallen upon her
as she was sitting to rest herself.

The fuse manufactory of Messrs. Hawke and Co., of
Gwennap, in Cornwall, has been Destroyed by a
Gunpowder Explosion. There were ten women employed in
the manufactory, and two of them were engaged in
binding lengths of fuse called "rods," when one of these
broke, and friction being caused by the machinery, some