committed for trial for the murder of the five Lascars, bail
being taken for their appearance at the sessions. Two
Lascars, Ali and Ahalt, were committed for assaulting
Mr. Treatt the chief mate.

A Housebreaker has been Caught at Manchester in a
singular way. On Sunday, the 9th inst, about two in
the morning, he entered the warehouse of Messrs. John
Harding & Sons, manufacturers, by a window. Here
he broke open a desk and an iron chest, obtaining the
halves of notes to the value of £75, which he treated as
valueless, and threw upon the floor. He next took a
saw, and made an opening through the floor into the
shop of Mr. Falk, underneath. To make as little noise
as possible, he lowered a piece of cloth through the first
opening made to catch all the pieces of ceiling that
might fall. Taking a piece of strong cloth from Mr.
Harding's warehouse, and tearing it into shreds, he
constructed a rope-ladder, by which he descended into
Mr Falk's shop, where he filled his pockets with the
more portable and valuable property, and selected a
large quantity more, which he placed in a table-cloth
found in a room behind the shop. There was no one
residing on the premises, and therefore no doubt all
this was done with due deliberation. He then prepared
to depart as he came, but, unluckily for him, he found
a brandy bottle. The result was that he drank too
much, fell asleep, and did not awake until broad
daylight on Sunday. Not willing to hazard an attempt to
retreat in the day-time, he thought it necessary to
remain on the premises till night returned, and here he
was found about half-past four o'clock on Sunday afternoon
by Mr. Falk's shopman, who called at the shop at
that hour as usual to see if all was safe. The thief was
behind the counter when Jacobs entered, and
endeavoured to pass him and escape, but was prevented,
and an alarm having been given to the police he was
secured without difficulty. The prisoner, who gave the
name of John Norton, is about 18 or 19 years of age.
He was committed for trial at the next assizes.

A Decision Important to Emigrants has been given in
the Whitechapel County Court. A number of passengers
who came from Australia in the James Alexander,
sued Ridley, the master, for £50, for breach of contract,
in each case. It appeared that not only were there no
"bread, butter, suet, raisins, pepper, and mustard,"
—articles which had been promised in the dietary-table
shown to the plaintiffs,—but the biscuit and flour were
vile, and the ship was so badly stowed that the water on
deck had to be started, and the passengers were reduced
to great straits for want of it. The people were crowded
together. When even the ship put into Bahia, the
master did not provide the requisite food; and the
vessel was afterwards beating about in the ocean with a
flag of distress flying. The ship Wave succoured the
James Alexander with some pig-meal, which the
passengers had to use in place of flour. It was urged
by a solicitor, that the owners were liable, not the
master. The judge decided that the master was liable;
and gave £10 damages in each case.

On Wednesday night, the 12th inst. an atrocious
Murder was committed at the Bull's Head public-house,
Wolvey, a village in Warwickshire, about eight or nine
miles from Lutterworth. A large party were having a
kind of Michaelmas holiday. A quarrel began about
some trifling affair between two women, when a young
man named Joseph Rowley, and a married man named
Joseph Bolton, both about 27 years of age, entered into
the dispute which these women had begun. From angry
words they soon got to blows in the room; the lights
were put out, and Bolton drew a knife from his pocket
and thrust it into the lower part of the abdomen of poor
Rowley, inflicting such a deadly wound that he reeled
into his brother's arms and died in ten minutes. The
murderer threw the deadly weapon through the window,
ran down stairs, went home, and went to bed. He was
soon followed by proper officers and taken into custody.

Two omnibus-drivers have been committed for trial
on the charge of Manslaughter by furious driving. On
the night of the 17th instant, a Chelsea and Islington
omnibus and a Hackney omnibus, were racing along
Great Portland Street, when one of them ran over a
man named Mason who kept a shell-fish stall, and
injured him so much that he died soon after. Mason's
son was also severely hurt. After a protracted coroner's
inquest, the two drivers Titus May, and John Wood,
were committed for trial.

A dreadful Murder and Suicide were committed on
board the Countess of Wilton, of Liverpool, on her
homeward voyage from China. On the 17th of May, when the
ship was near the Indian coast, the late captain, Mr.
James Crangle, ordered all hands on deck. The chief-mate,
William M'Fillen, did not seem inclined to perform
his duty, and the master sent two men to look for him.
He was found in the storeroom under the cabin, and the
captain despatched the second-mate to bring him up for
disobeying orders. M'Fillen was met approaching the
cabin, and the master ordered the seamen away in order
that he might have some conversation with him
privately. A cutlass was lying on the table in the cabin
at the time. Angry words were passing between them.
Soon afterwards the second mate, hearing a noise and
some heavy groans, looked through the skylight, but
could not observe anything. He called the crew, and,
arming himself with wood, went down to the cabin,
where to his horror he saw the lifeless body of the
captain stretched upon the floor, and M'Fillen thrusting
at him with the cutlass. The murderer made an attempt
to escape by running up the rigging, but he was
pursued, secured, and chained down in his cabin. About a
week afterwards, while he was being conducted to the
water-closet, duly guarded, he made a sudden spring,
bounded overboard, and was drowned. The catastrophe
is attributed to the free use of ardent spirits on board.
The master is said to have been often in liquor, and
while in that condition treated the chief-mate with
excessive severity. The second-mate took command of
the ship, and brought her safe home.

A daring Highway Robbery was committed near
Bristol on the evening of the 20th inst. Mr. Thomas
Hamlin, solicitor, of Red-hill, was returning home from
Bristol in his phaeton about 8 o'clock, accompanied by
his articled clerk, when, on arriving at a part of the
road called Lullsgate, a man was observed by them on
the higher ground on horseback, and apparently waiting
the coming on of the carriage. Mr. Hamlin passed this
man, and shortly afterwards the robber rode briskly up
to the near side of the phaeton where Mr. Hamlin was
sitting, and, presenting a pistol to his head, demanded
his money. At the same time another man on horseback
kept near to the back of the carriage. Under the
dread, and with no means of resistance, Mr. Hamlin
being an invalid, the robbers obtained a booty of several
pounds, and quickly made off. The man who acted as
principal in this outrage, was closely observed by Mr.
Hamlin and his clerk, and hopes are entertained of
their apprehension, as two men answering the description
were subsequently seen and traced through Ashton
turnpike-gate into Bristol, and were particularly noticed
by the different policemen on duty from the furious way
in which they were riding.

Garotte Robberies are frequent in Glasgow. On the
night of Thursday, the 20th (the Fast Day), an elderly
man was passing through Sauchiehall-lane, on his way
home, a little the worse for liquor, when he was set on
by some ruffians, severely garotted—his throat being so
roughly compressed as to make his breathing difficult
for fifteen minutes after—and robbed of his overcoat,
three sovereigns, and twenty shillings in cash. Between
twelve and one o'clock on Sunday morning, the 23rd, a
young man was garotted and robbed of a one pound note
m Renfield-street. A mason named John Scott—who
has lately concluded an eighteen months' imprisonment
—and a butcher named John Andrew, were caught and
apprehended on suspicion. The missing note was not
found on them; but, in making the search, they were
partially stripped. Scott's overcoat proved to be the
coat stolen from the old man who had been garotted in
Sauchiehall-lane on the previous Thursday evening, and
his undercoat proved to be a shooting coat stolen some
days before. A handkerchief was also found in his
possession that was one of those carried off along with
the coat. Both prisoners have been remitted to the
sheriff.

Sir Robert Clifton, Bart, was brought before the
Marlborough Police Court on the 21st, apprehended in
consequence of information, given by Mr. Samuel, a