surgeon to Hatton-garden. While returning with the surgeon, they met the body of the deceased carried on a shutter. When the deceased went down stairs, he was perfectly sober.

Samuel Caiger, the watchman, said, that, when he went to Horn's court, in consequence of the noise, he saw the deceased, the prisoner, her husband, and daughter there. The prisoner appeared to be endeavouring to get to her husband from the yard gate. The daughter and Fitzgerald appeared to be pulling the husband into the house. The prisoner had a slender tableknife in her hand, holding the blade upwards. Some person here cried "The watchman ;" on which they all went into the house, and shut the gate. Witness then heard a female voice exclaim, "Damn you, I'll stab you." He thought it was the prisoner's voice, but he could not say positively. He then went away, supposing it to be only an Irish quarrel. In about a quarter of an hour, he saw the body of a man carried on a shutter. He went to the prisoner's house, and found her lying in bed, having all her clothes on, except her shoes. She did not appear to be over sober. He took her to the watchhouse. Next day he found three knives in the prisoner's house, one of which (a black-handled common kitchen-knife of rather a small size, apparently long used, and sharp towards the point) he supposed to be the one she had in her hand.

John Cartwright, a boy, heard a noise, and saw Fitzgerald standing at the pig-sty, about three yards from the door of the house. He said, "Oh, I'm dead." The daughter was trying to stop the blood, and endeavouring to lead

him to the house. The prisoner came out from under the pig-sty, and told the daughter not to take him in there. The deceased was at first standing, and then walking slowly towards the door, when he fell on his knees, and sunk. The daughter had one hand on his breast, and the other supported his head. She called for Mrs. Riley, who came down and hallooed out, "Murder! murder!" The prisoner then said, that Fitzgerald had fallen on a knife which he had in his hand. The prisoner held a light at the door, while they were carrying away the body.

Mr. Stephen Skinner, the surgeon, examined the wound, which was on the left breast, about the region of the heart; he had no doubt of its having occasioned death. The knife produced would have made such a wound.

Mr. Shelton then read the de fence. It stated that the prisoner's poverty had prevented her from employing counsel, but she threw herself on the merciful consideration of the court and jury. She disclaimed all intention of taking away the life of any human being; and had, on the evening in question, been dressing some onions and pepper for her husband's supper: she had a knife in her hand, and a child in her arms. She had only drank two glasses of gin, it being boxing-day, and the festival of St. Stephen's. About sixteen months ago she had been deprived of her reason for some time, in consequence of an injury received on the head. This infirmity troubled her on taking any spirits. There was a disturbance in the place, but what was done she did not know, being quite insensible of every thing around her. She

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The lord chief baron summed

The jury retired for 20 minutes, and found the prisoner " Guilty of Murder."

The recorder then passed sentence of death on the prisoner. She heard the verdict with little emotion, but burst into tears, when the sentence was pronounced. She was executed on the following Monday.

14. As two lightermen were passing under London-bridge in a wherry, the boat was upset, in consequence of running against a large mass of ice, which was aground at some distance from the shore, and both were drowned. The wherry in which the unfortunate men were, had run safely through one of the side arches of the bridge, at the time the tide was rapidly going out; but they had no sooner escaped this danger, than another presented itself. A large piece of floating ice, driven along with great impetuosity by the current, gained upon the wherry, and drove it with such violence against the mass aground, that the boat was turned completely keel upwards, and both the men fell into the water, and instantly disappeared. The following day the body of one of them was picked up near Battle-bridgestairs, Tooley-street.

16. DECCAN PRIZE-MONEY. After much consideration the lords of the Treasury have issued their decision upon the case of the Deccan prize-money, by the following minute :

Treasury Minute, 16th Jan. 1826. Present-The earl of Liverpool, the chancellor of the Exchequer,

My lords, assisted by the trustees of the Deccan booty, lord Bexley, and the law officers of the crown, having heard counsel on behalf of the marquis of Hastings and the grand army, and also on behalf of sir Thomas Hislop and the army of the Deccan, upon the subjects of discussion relating to the distribution of the Deccan booty, which have arisen out of the difference between the actual circumstances attending the capture of a large proportion of that booty, as stated by the trustees, and those which were assumed at the hearing before their lordships in January, 1823, and having maturely considered the arguments severally stated by the counsel, and also the whole of the documents upon the subject of this booty now before the board, are of opinion

1. That with respect to all that portion of the booty now at the disposal of the crown, which is described as having been "taken in the daily operations of the troops," the distribution thereof should be made to the actual captors according to the terms and conditions of the minute of this board of the 5th of February, 1823, and of the warrant of his majesty of the 22nd March following.

2. That, with respect to that part of the booty which consists of the produce of arrears of tribute, rent, or money, due to the Peishwah, it appears to my lords to have been acquired by the general result of the war, and not by the operations of any particular army or division; and they are of opinion, that it ought, therefore, to be distributed in conformity with the

alternative stated in their minute of the 5th of February, 1823, as being "the only correct or equitable rule, if the principle of actual capture cannot be adopted, viz. amongst the forces of all the presidencies engaged in the combined operations of the campaign."

3. With respect to the property captured at Nassuck, my lords are of opinion that the booty recovered at that place cannot be distributed upon the principle of actual capture, and ought, therefore, to be divided amongst the forces of all the presidencies engaged in the combined operations of the campaign.

4. With respect to the booty recovered at Poonah, alleged to have been removed thither from Rai Ghur, my lords are of opinion that this booty cannot be distributed upon the principle of actual capture to the forces by which Rai Ghur was taken, under the orders of the government of Bombay, unless it can be proved by the captors of Rai Ghur that the property in question was actually in that fort at the time when it was taken; in default of which proof, my lords are of opinion that this booty also ought to be distributed among the forces of all the presidencies engaged in the combined operations of the campaign.

5. With respect to that portion of the booty which is stated to consist of money recovered on account of deposits made by the Peishwah, my lords are of opinion that any part of the property which can be proved to have been'in Poonah at the time when that place was captured, viz. on the 17th of November, 1817, ought to be distributed to the captors of Poonah, according to the terms of the minute

of the 5th of February, 1823, upon the principle of actual capture; but that with respect to those parts of the above property as to which such proof cannot be established, such monies or effects must be considered as having been acquired by the general result of the war, and, as such, ought to be distributed amongst the forces of all the presidencies engaged in the combined operations of the campaign.

6. With respect to the share of the commander-in-chief in the distribution, under the several heads above enumerated, my lords are of opinion that the marquis of Hastings ought to share as commander-in-chief in all those cases in which sir Thomas Hislop is not entitled to share as such, under the terms of the minute of the 5th of February, 1823, wherein it is declared, "that sir Thomas Hislop, as commander-in-chief of the Deccan army, and all the officers of the general staff of that army, are entitled to participate in the booty which may arise from any capture by any of the divisions of the army of the Deccan, until the said army of the Deccan was broken up on the 31st of March, 1818."

My lords are further of opinion that the general rules of division hitherto adopted in distributing booty to the forces in India, among the several classes and ranks of the army, should be adhered to on the present occasion.

17. WEATHer. -The cold in the night between Sunday and Monday was more intense than it has hitherto been this season. Towards the upper parts of the metropolis, the mercury in Fahrenheit's thermometer fell to 20 degrees

below the freezing point. At the several bridges the river was nearly choked up by large masses of ice, so as to obstruct the navigation. In the streets the plugs were kept open, to afford the inhabitants water, as most of the pipes were completely frozen. The Serpentine in Hyde-park on Sunday, resembled a fair-upwards of 100,000 persons were supposed to be present; the Canal in St. James's-park was, if possible, still more thronged with visitors.

DEATH FROM FROST.-Yesterday evening an inquisition was taken before Thomas Higgs, esq. coroner for Westminster, on the body of a man who was found frozen to death on Saturday morning last in Park-lane. Robert Read, a watchman of St. George's parish, deposed that he was on duty in Park-lane on Saturday morning last; he was crying the hour of one o'clock. On arriving near Pitt's Head Mews, he saw the deceased, who was lying in the lane, on the park side. He was quite stiff, and, on examination proved to be dead. The deceased appeared to be a respectable mechanic, and about 35 years of age. Witness, in the course of the night, had before passed the spot where he found the deceased, but it was then very foggy, and he could not see many yards before him; the deceased smelt very strongly of spirituous liquors; but there were no marks of violence on him. On his person were found some silver and papers. The jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased was found dead, but whether from the effects of the weather, or any other cause, they had no evidence to prove; but the presumption was, he was frozen to death."

18. LONGEVITY.The last an

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nual obituary of the Russian empire, published at St. Petersburgh, records the death of a man at the very advanced age of 168, near to Polosk on the frontier of Livonia. He had seen seven sovereigns on the throne of Russia, and remembered the death of Gustavus Adolphus; he had been a soldier in the thirty years' war, and was at the battle of Pultowa, in 1709, when he was 51 years of age. At the of 93 he married his third wife, with whom he lived fifty years; the two youngest sons of this marriage were 86 and 62 respectively in the year 1796; the oldest of his other sons in the same year were 95 and 92 respectively. The entire family of this patriarch comprehends 138 descendants, who all lived together in the village of Pollatzka, which the empress Catharine the 2nd caused to be built for them, granting at the same time, a considerable track of land for their support. In the 163rd year of his age, this modern Nestor was in the enjoyment of the most robust health.

23. ATTACK BY A LEOPArd. -On Monday week, a collection of wild animals was opened for exhibition at Mold, near Chester, when, owing to the carelessness of the keepers, or the inadequacy of the cages, a large leopard escaped from the caravan, and dashed across the street, through a great concourse of people, who readily made way for so unwelcome a visitor. A short way from the exhibition the leopard fastened upon a youth about 15 years of age, seized him with his claws by the breast and back, which were much torn, and then fastened on his face, one side of which the furious animal actually tore off and devoured, before the lad could be

released from his fangs! This was at last effected by the keeper, but the sufferer was left in such a state as to leave no hope of his surviving. The magistrates have committed the keeper to prison, and served the concern with a Welsh eject

ment.

RIOT. A serious riot has taken place at Norwich, the origin of which appears to have been the jealousy felt at the employment of country weavers by the manufacturers of the town. On Tuesday morning last, about eight o'clock, from 600 to 800 men followed a cart containing goods manufactured in the country, attacked it, seized its contents, strewed them about, and threw the cart into the river. They then returned to the warehouse to which the cart had been proceeding, and broke every pane of glass, threatening similar destruction to every warehouse. They next directed their attention to public-houses, and other places where they suspected goods manufactured in the country to be placed. This caused great alarm. A body of men, armed with pickaxes, shovels, bludgeons, stones, and other weapons, threatened vengeance to every manufacturer in the town.

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When the sentence of death was read to him on the 24th, in the evening, he persisted, in spite of the clearest evidence, in denying the fact; but at length he confessed it. This prompt administration of justice met with general approbation, which, however, was not extended to the manner in which it was executed. There exists an ancient law by which the murderer of an ecclesiastic is to be knocked down with a hammer, then his throat cut, and his arms and feet separated from his body. This kind of capital punishment, which arose from the notions of the middle ages respecting the dignity of a priest, had not been practised since the reign of Pius VI.-On this occasion it was revived. Immediately on receiving the blow with the hammer, the criminal fell to the ground, apparently lifeless, on which the executioners proceeded to fulfil the other parts of the sentence with a dexterity and propriety that were really remarkable. The detached members were exposed for an hour, then put into a coffin and buried. It is said, that five other criminals sentenced to death were to have been executed before the Carnival, because it was thought that the people would thereby be deterred from the commission of similar crimes; but his holiness considered this mixture of the horrible with the comic more likely to weaken the impression of the former, than to inspire a permanent and salutary terror.

26. BARBARITY OF POACHERS. -William Thomas, alias John Emery, alias William Barnes, and Robert Wood, two young athletic men, were indicted at the Staffordshire sessions, under an act passed in the 57th year of his late majesty, for entering a wood, in the