7. LIBEL. SPORTING CASE. At Guildford Assizes, Lord Abinger and a special jury tried an action of libel brought by the Honourable Mr. Greville against Chapman and another, the proprietors of the Sunday Times. The libel complained of was contained in a report of the proceedings of the last Epsom Races; and the plaintiff was accused of having withdrawn his horse Canadian from that race, in order that he might win several large bets that he had made against him. The defendants put in several pleas, tantamount to a plea of justification. There was much conflicting evidence respecting an unaccountable lameness which seized the horse just before the race; but it seemed put beyond a doubt that the horse really was lame and the jury, after a few minutes' consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with 2501. damages.

senters.

LADY HEWLEY'S CHARITY. The House of Lords gave a final decision in the long-contested case of Lady Hewley's charity. The charity consisted of certain manors in York, left by Lady Hewley, in the time of Charles the Second, in trust, to support "godly preachers of Christ's Holy Gospel"a phrase taken to designate Protestant DisIn process of time, the trust fell entirely into the hands of Unitarians; but attention was drawn to the subject by the Report of the Charity Commissioners, and a bill was filed in Chancery to dispossess the Unitarians. The Vice Chancellor and the Lord Chancellor decided against them. On an appeal to the Lords, the opinion of the judges was taken, and they decided that Unitarians did not come within the terms of the trust-deeds; Mr.

Justice Erskine observing, that those who denied the Trinity were, in Lady Hewley's time considered blasphemers; and therefore they could not be intended by the term "godly preachers." Lord Cottenham now pronounced judgment, affirming the decree of the Court below, with costs.

9. ABDUCTION.-At the Liverpool Assizes John Orr M'Gill, Richard Jones, and Margaret his wife, Jane Clayton, John Osborne Quick, and Thomas Wormald Rcgerson, were indicted for the abduction of Ann Crellin. She was taken away from Liverpool, and conveyed, in a state of perpetual intoxication, to Gretna Green; where some marriage ceremony was performed between her and M'Gill, with whom she found herself next day in bed, Mrs. Clayton being on the other side of the bridegroom. Miss Crellin was possessed of some 4,000l. or 5,000l. in real and personal property, which it was alleged to be the object of a conspiracy between the prisoners to obtain. M'Gill, Jones, Clayton, and Quick, were convicted, the others were acquitted; the jury at the same time censuring the conduct of Miss Crellin herself. Next day M'Gill was sentenced to imprisonment for eighteen months; Quick for fifteen, and the other two for twelve months; in all the cases with hard labour.

Samuel Martin Copeland was convicted of obtaining money under false pretences from the same Ann Crellin. He had "courted" her, but gave up his suit, on finding that her property was not worth 50,000l., as he supposed; and then, contriving to appear as a rejected suitor, he threatened her with an action for breach of promise of marriage, and so extorted 250l. as

a composition. The defence was, that Miss Crellin admitted Copeland to such familiarities as precluded the possibility of marriage, and that the money paid was a kind of honorarium for the gallant. Copeland was found guilty; sentence being deferred.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. The Queen prorogued Parliament in person. The House of Lords was splendidly fitted up for the occasion; and from noon it was crowded in every part. On the right of the Throne was placed the Prince of Wales's state chair; on the left, Prince Albert's; and at the foot, a little to the right of the Prince of Wales's, were two chairs for the Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha. Among the crowd of illustrious spectators were the Prince and Princess, the Duke of Cambridge, Dwarkanauth Tajore and another Hindu of rank, the Foreign Ambassadors, and hosts of ladies. At five minutes to two, the cannon, and then a flourish of trumpets, announced the approach of the Queen who, after having robed, entered the House in state, handed by Prince Albert, and preceded by heralds and pursuivants, and the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and the Duke of Wellington, bearing respectively the Great Seal, the Crown, the Cap of Maintenance and the Sword of State. The Speech delivered by her Majesty from the Throne has appeared in a previous part of this work. Her Majesty the same afternoon returned to Windsor by the Great Western Railway.

15. AN INTRUDER IN WINDSOR CASTLE-A labouring man was discovered on this evening, between nine and ten o'clock, in the footmen's waiting hall at Windsor

Castle. He had been lying for an hour on a bench near a staircase leading to the suite of private apartments and the Royal nursery. He was taken before the Earl of Liverpool, Lord Steward of the Household; to whose interrogatories he replied, that he had that day walked thirty miles, and come to Windsor Castle for his pension, and that he had followed a potboy into the castle. When he was about to be removed, he made a slight resistance, saying, "I've now got into good quarters, and here I'll stay for the night." He was, however, taken to the station-house; and the next day to London, where he was examined at the Home Office, before Mr. Hall, the police magistrate. He proved to be Thomas Quested, a native of Maidstone, who has an insane idea that he is "Lord Godolphin d'Arcy ;" and he had gone simply to ask the Queen to reinstate him in his "rights." He has a mad sister; and medical examination has put his insanity beyond a doubt. On the 18th, he was again examined and was committed to Bethlehem Hospital under the Home Secretary's warrant, there to remain during the pleasure of the Crown.

ACTION AGAINST THE BISHOP OF DERRY.-A cause was tried at the Derry Assizes, brought by Mr. W. Henry Fortescue, as executor of the late Thomas Knox Magee, against the Bishop of Derry. Mr. Magee had a son, for whom he was anxious to obtain a living. Through the agency of a person named Pearson, a promise was obtained from the Bishop of Killaloe, that Mr. Magee should be preferred to the living of Kilrush, then in the occupation of an incumbent ninety years of age,

on the understanding that 1,000l. should be immediately paid down to relieve some pressing difficulties of the bishop, and that 1,000l. more should be forthcoming on induction. On the payment of the first sum, a bond was executed to Thomas Knox Magee for the sum of 4,000l., as a penalty for nonfulfilment of the bargain. When the vacancy occurred, instead of presenting Mr. Magee to the living, it was given soon afterwards to another person. In consequence of Mr. Magee's having made what he considered to be a handsome provision for his son in the agreement with the bishop, he cut him off in the codicil of his will with 501. instead of 8,000l. The bishop then, through his agent, Mr. Studdart, offered to pay off the bond; which was refused, on the ground that it was given not to secure the sum specified, but a living. Mr. Studdart, however, insisted on the money being taken; and Mr. Fortescue at length consented to receive it, with an understanding that such a proceeding was not to prejudice the future claims of Mr. Magee on the patronage of the Bishop of Derry. Other vacancies afterwards occurred, but the bishop still declined appointing Mr. Magee; and the present action was brought, damages being laid at 3,000l. For the defence it was contended, that the bishop was not cognizant of the contract; and that the money advanced had been paid back with interest. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.

19. SUICIDE FROM THE MONUMENT.-Soon after ten o'clock this morning, a young woman paid sixpence, and ascended to the top of the building, accompanied by one of

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the men who have been appointed to keep a watch upon visiters since the suicides a few years ago. She was quite cool in manner, and displayed much interest and curiosity respecting the view and the various objects to be seen: she thus spent nearly a quarter of an hour, it should seem, in putting the watchman off his guard. While his head was turned another way, she nimbly climbed over the iron railing, tucked her clothes tightly between her knees, and dived headforemost into the air. In her descent, she struck the griffin that surmounts the right side of the base, and rebounded into the middle of the road, clearing a cart in the fall. Some passengers picked up the body directly its bones were broken in every part, those of the legs and ankles protruding through the skin; but the head had little marks of injury. The corpse was placed in a shell and carried to the church of St. Magnus, where it was exposed to be identified. The girl was short and stout, with little colour, but with beautiful dark eyes; neatly but not genteelly dressed; and her age variously guessed at from nineteen to twenty-three. Several persons whose friends had been missed called to see the body. Among them was a young man whose sister had been lost that day, and whose name was Jane Currie: the dead girl's linen was marked J. C.; and it was at once assumed that she was the lost Jane Currie; but she proved to be a stranger. At length Mr. Rowbotham, a gentleman holding a situation in the General Post-office, who lives at Hoxton, identified her as Jane Cooper, his servant. She had obtained a holiday, it was supposed to visit her friends, who are said

to be highly respectable. The cause of her destroying herself is totally unknown.

24. CONSECRATION OF THE COLONIAL BISHOPS.-The ceremony of the consecration of the five colonial bishops who are about to proceed to their respective dio ceses took place in Westminster Abbey. Since this venerable pile has been dedicated to divine wor ship under the auspices of the Reformation, no occasion has been presented in which the Protestant Church has had such reason to rejoice. It is true that an equal number of bishops has been consecrated since the Reformation, in some of the cathedrals of England, at the same time, but then they have been consecrated to fill up vacancies incurred by death or resignation, or translation, and not to fill up bishopricks created at the time. But, on the present occasion, the consecration of the five bishops has led to the extension of the episcopal Church of England by the addition of four new sees to its constituency, (the diocese of Barbadoes being divided into three sees, and two new sees being created,) viz., the sees of Antigua, Guiana, Gibraltar, and Tasmania (Van Diemen's-land); the see of Barbadoes, in its present state, being the fifth see. The consecration was concluded with all the solemnity which was requisite. The public were admitted to the cathedral by cards, and the choir was set apart for the clergy, who attended in great numbers. In consequence of the indisposition of His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the consecration of the five colonial prelates was by commission entrusted to the Bishops of London, Winchester and Rochester, by

whom the ceremony was performed. The service was commenced by the morning prayer for the day, according to the rubric. The sermon was preached by Dr. Cole ridge, the late bishop of Barbadoes, who chose for his text the very appropriate fifth and sixth verses of the 43rd chapter of Isaiah :

"Fear not, I am with thee, I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west.

"I will say to the north give up, and to the south keep not back. Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth."

After the sermon the ceremony of the consecration was performed, the bishops being presented by the Bishop of Chichester and the late Bishop of Barbadoes in the following order. Dr. Parry, Bishop of Barbadoes; Dr. Tomlinson, Bishop of Gibraltar; Dr. Nixon, Bishop of Van Diemen's-land; Dr. Davis, Bishop of Antigua; Dr. Austin, Bishop of Guiana. The ceremony having been concluded, the Sacrament was administered to a great number of communicants, the contributions at the offertory amounting to 1137. Mr. Turle presided at the organ. The introductory voluntary was from the overture to Esther, the voluntary after the sermon from Sphor, and the concluding voluntary from Haydn. The Te Deum Jubilate from Nares, and the Feni Creator from Attwood. Nothing could surpass the devotional and dignified effect of this very sacred ceremony, and it is a matter of congratulation to the Church of England particularly, and to the whole Christian community generally, that so efficient a step has been made for the propagation of that faith in which all who profess and call themselves

Christians repose their hopes of salvation and happiness.

-THE MONUMENT.-The City Lands Committee, at a meeting determined, in order to prevent any other persons from precipitating themselves from the top of this pillar, to place some strong iron bars, fixed sufficiently close over the head of the visitor to leave no chance of squeezing through. The additional railings will be painted white, so as to be invisible at a distance. The surveyor of works was directed to proceed with the alteration immediately.

FIRE ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. This afternoon the luggage in a van, which was placed next to the tender of the engines affixed to the five o'clock train from Paddington, caught fire in consequence of a lighted cinder flying out from the furnace when about two miles on the London side of West Drayton. Several of the packages were immediately ignited, and upon the arrival of the train at that station many of them were in flames. The necessary assistance being then at hand, the lighted packages were promptly removed, and a good supply of water prevented the further destruction of much valuable property.

25. TRIAL OF BEAN FOR ASSAULTING THE QUEEN.-At the Central Criminal Court, John William Bean was tried for a misdemeanour in assaulting the Queen, with a pistol; the charge being variously expressed in four different counts. Although seventeen years of age, he was so short and deformed that his head scarcely reached above the bar. The counsel for the Crown were, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-Ge

neral, Mr. Adolphus, Mr. Waddington, and Mr. R. Gurney; for the prisoner, Mr. Horry.

The Attorney-General very briefly sketched the facts of the case, and explained the law, by which any menacing action, within a short distance of the person threatened, constitutes an assault. Witnesses were then called. As their evidence differed in no important particular from the accounts already given, a recapitulation of the chief points will suffice. Charles Edward Dassett deposed that on Sunday, the 3rd of July, he saw three Royal carriages going towards the Chapel Royal. Just as the last carriage passed the watering-house, he saw the prişoner come from the crowd, draw a pistol from his breast, and present it towards the carriage, at arm's length and breast high; and then he heard the sound of the click of a pistol-hammer upon the pan; but there was no explosion. He seized the prisoner, and, assisted by his brother, took him across the Mall, and "offered" him to police-constable Hearn; but Hearn said that "it did not amount to a charge." Police constable Flaxman likewise refused to take the prisoner. The prisoner only asked the witness to give him back the pistol. At length the pressure of the crowd was so great, that he was obliged to let Bean go; and afterwards the people said that witness himself had been shooting at the Queen, and a policeman took the pistol away from him.

In his cross-examination, Dassett said that the Royal carriages were not going very fast. Some person in the crowd laughed, and others called out that the pistol was not loaded. Frederick Augustus Dassett, the younger bro