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nine miles , from Pauling , Was demolished , killing him and eight members of . his . family , aha wounding several others . Walker ' sarrangements were so far perfected that it was announced that thefirst cargo of emigrants for Nicaragua would leave Mobile on the 20 th of November information had reached Washington that a large number of adventurers had assembled , but it was considered certain that they would not be permitted to leave for Nicaragua , unless they succeeded in
eluding the vigilance of the XTnited States officers . — - —The Lady Lucy Bridgman , daughter of the Earl of Bradford , has sunk under the injuries which she received from burning . The unfortunate young lady expired oh Friday . A Thus both of the sisters have perished through a dress taking T fire . ——master boot and sboemaker of Walwnrth , named George aylor , was charged at Southwark police court with stealing a ; large quantity of sole leather from Mr . Dickens , Blackman Street . Suspicion had fallen upon the prisoner , who
made purchases frequently at the warehouse of Mr . Dickens , and a watch being set , he was defected secreting a number of pairs of soles under his coat . Subsequently an om ^ e ^ wrho searched his house , found 129 pairs of the same description , which the prosecutor identified as his property . The niagistrate committed him for trial .- —^ -An inquest was liel d , on Saturday , on the body of William Newton , a seaman , who met his deathby falling into the river from the deck of
the steamer Thalia , while sparring at a carpenter named Dawn . Deceased was intoxicated at the time , and in a quarrelsome temper ; Dawn , it appears , jumped into the water to save him . The juryentirely exonerated the carpenter froni blanie . ——A prisoner , named Simpson , in the Coldbath Fields House of Correction , quarrelled with the officer in charge about his food , and then stabbed both him and another officer who came to the rescue . Both of the wounded men were
seriously injured , and it was at first feared that one of them would hot survive . —— -A servant-girl , named Hannah King , was found lying upon the railway near Dalston with her legs broken . She was conveyed to the German Hospital * but died after amputation had been performed . Before her death she made a statement to the chaplain and to her aunt , to the effect that she had been met by a person in woman ' s clothes , who she afterwards found was a man , who engaged her in conversation and gave her something to drink which stupified her . Witnesses
at the inquest deposed to seeing the deceased thrown oyer the bridge , and that a train passed immediately afterwards . The person who threw her over was in tho garb of a woman , and immediately made off . The surgeon stated that violence had been committed on her person . A person answering the description of the party perpetrating this outrage called on the same evening at a house in the neighbourhood of the occurrence , and , on the door being opened by a young woman , asked her if she was alone in the house , but she called her master ,
and the man ran away . The inquiry was adjourned . The Court of Common Pleas was occupied on Monday , in hearing the case of the Earl of Shrewsbury v . Hope Scott and others , which is an action brought by the present Earl of Shrewsbury , who has , by the decision of the House of Lords , been declared heir male in tail of Earl Gilbert , the first Earl of Shrewsbury , against the defendants , the executors of the last Earl , Bertram , who bequeathed the extensive estates to the younger son of the Duke of Norfolk , to recover possession of
those estates . Some formal evidence having been put in , the case was stopped by the Lord Chief Justice , who said as it must come before the full court on the law , it would be better that an arrangement should be made for the admission of the facts . This course was assented to , and a verdict was taken for the plaintiff , subject to a special case on the points of law . ——The Landed Estates Court has decided that the London and County Bank are entitled to the Irish estates of the late John Sadleir . ——The case of Marchmont v . Marchmont has terminated in a
verdict for the petitioner , and she is now , therefore , judicially separated from her husband . The judge , in his summing up , did not spare either party ; both received a well merited castigation . ' Thomas Edis , grocer , Aylestmry-street , Clerkenwell , and Benjamin George Clements , Elder-walk , were each , fined In the mitigated penalty of £ 25 , by Mr . Jardinc , at Bow-street , for adulterating coffee with chicory .- Thomas Higgins and George Davis were charged at Westminster police-court with conspiring to obtain tho signature of Mr . Charles Grunberg , pro-
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nine miles , from Pauling , Was demolished , killing him and eight members of . his . family , aha wounding several others . Walker ' sarrangements were so far perfected that it was announced that thefirst cargo of emigrants for Nicaragua would leave Mobile on the 20 th of November information had reached Washington that a large number of adventurers had assembled , but it was considered certain that they would not be permitted to leave for Nicaragua , unless they succeeded in
eluding the vigilance of the XTnited States officers . — - —The Lady Lucy Bridgman , daughter of the Earl of Bradford , has sunk under the injuries which she received from burning . The unfortunate young lady expired oh Friday . A Thus both of the sisters have perished through a dress taking T fire . ——master boot and sboemaker of Walwnrth , named George aylor , was charged at Southwark police court with stealing a ; large quantity of sole leather from Mr . Dickens , Blackman Street . Suspicion had fallen upon the prisoner , who
made purchases frequently at the warehouse of Mr . Dickens , and a watch being set , he was defected secreting a number of pairs of soles under his coat . Subsequently an om ^ e ^ wrho searched his house , found 129 pairs of the same description , which the prosecutor identified as his property . The niagistrate committed him for trial .- —^ -An inquest was liel d , on Saturday , on the body of William Newton , a seaman , who met his deathby falling into the river from the deck of
the steamer Thalia , while sparring at a carpenter named Dawn . Deceased was intoxicated at the time , and in a quarrelsome temper ; Dawn , it appears , jumped into the water to save him . The juryentirely exonerated the carpenter froni blanie . ——A prisoner , named Simpson , in the Coldbath Fields House of Correction , quarrelled with the officer in charge about his food , and then stabbed both him and another officer who came to the rescue . Both of the wounded men were
seriously injured , and it was at first feared that one of them would hot survive . —— -A servant-girl , named Hannah King , was found lying upon the railway near Dalston with her legs broken . She was conveyed to the German Hospital * but died after amputation had been performed . Before her death she made a statement to the chaplain and to her aunt , to the effect that she had been met by a person in woman ' s clothes , who she afterwards found was a man , who engaged her in conversation and gave her something to drink which stupified her . Witnesses
at the inquest deposed to seeing the deceased thrown oyer the bridge , and that a train passed immediately afterwards . The person who threw her over was in tho garb of a woman , and immediately made off . The surgeon stated that violence had been committed on her person . A person answering the description of the party perpetrating this outrage called on the same evening at a house in the neighbourhood of the occurrence , and , on the door being opened by a young woman , asked her if she was alone in the house , but she called her master ,
and the man ran away . The inquiry was adjourned . The Court of Common Pleas was occupied on Monday , in hearing the case of the Earl of Shrewsbury v . Hope Scott and others , which is an action brought by the present Earl of Shrewsbury , who has , by the decision of the House of Lords , been declared heir male in tail of Earl Gilbert , the first Earl of Shrewsbury , against the defendants , the executors of the last Earl , Bertram , who bequeathed the extensive estates to the younger son of the Duke of Norfolk , to recover possession of
those estates . Some formal evidence having been put in , the case was stopped by the Lord Chief Justice , who said as it must come before the full court on the law , it would be better that an arrangement should be made for the admission of the facts . This course was assented to , and a verdict was taken for the plaintiff , subject to a special case on the points of law . ——The Landed Estates Court has decided that the London and County Bank are entitled to the Irish estates of the late John Sadleir . ——The case of Marchmont v . Marchmont has terminated in a
verdict for the petitioner , and she is now , therefore , judicially separated from her husband . The judge , in his summing up , did not spare either party ; both received a well merited castigation . ' Thomas Edis , grocer , Aylestmry-street , Clerkenwell , and Benjamin George Clements , Elder-walk , were each , fined In the mitigated penalty of £ 25 , by Mr . Jardinc , at Bow-street , for adulterating coffee with chicory .- Thomas Higgins and George Davis were charged at Westminster police-court with conspiring to obtain tho signature of Mr . Charles Grunberg , pro-