Wilkins, hinting that his own services were gratuitous, stated that Mr. Grant had lost a valuable government situation, and had been deserted by his friends; and so far had he been reduced, that but for the kindness of a friend he would not that day have worn a decent After consulting for a few minutes in the box, the jury returned a verdict of "Not guilty."

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SANDWICH ISLANDS NEWSPAPER.-At the meeting of the Ethnological Society, held this evening, the first four numbers of a new newspaper, published at the Sandwich Islands, in the native language, were produced. This singular journal, a small folio size, was published every second week, the circulation was about 3,000, and the annual subscription was about one-eighth of a dollar, or sixpence-halfpenny. It is edited by an American missionary, and contains, in addition to the ordinary political and general news, political and religious dissertations.

15. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT, HAVERFORDWEST. A dreadful accident happened at Landshipping Colliery, in this neighbourhood. While the men and boys, amounting in number to fifty-eight, were at work in one of the pits which extends under the river, the water broke in at about half-tide, and so sudden was the rush that eighteen only of the number were enabled to make their escape. The remainder were either instantly drowned or crushed beneath the slip. The work of this pit was completely destroyed. No blame appears to be laid to any party, as the persons whose duty it was to survey the work had considered it safe. It had been never before worked at high water, when the pressure must have been much greater than when the above acci

dent took place. Among the numbers who perished, several were fathers with large families dependent on them for support.

17. STRANGE AFFAIR.-A strange inquiry has occurred at Cheltenham. On the 9th instant, and again by adjournment to-day, a Coroner's inquest sat on the body of a male infant that was sent down by the Cheltenham railway a day or two before, and received by the Rev. Mr. Close, of Bayshill, in a hamper. There was no evidence to create even a suspicion as to who the mother of the child might be, and there was nothing to show from what place the body had been sent. Two respectable witnesses stated that Leopold Sach, a converted Jew, had told them that he Iwas in the kitchen of the Vicar's house when the coffin was opened, and that he saw inside the lid a paper, on which the words Behold thy likeness" were written. This, however, Sach now denied upon oath; and Sarah Doleman, a servant to Mr. Close, proved that there was no paper of any kind within the coffin, and that Sach had not been at her master's house on the day on which the hamper arrived there. The conduct of Sach was severely censured by the Coroner. The jury, after a long consultation, returned a verdict, "That there was no evidence as to the identity of the deceased, nor cause of death, nor by whom the body was forwarded to Cheltenham."

18. A SECOND DANIEL LAMBERT. -To-day was buried at St. Bride's, Fleet-street, Charles Cole, a wellknown character, aged forty-two, who was found by his wife lying dead by her side. Cole, though not more than 5 feet 7, was of extraordinary bulk, weighing nearly twenty-four stone, (14lbs.perstone.) He had been

cook at the Rainbow, Fleet Street, nearly fourteen years. A short time before his decease, he had grown enormously fat.

20. FRAZER v. BAGLEY.

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A case of criminal conversation occupied the Court of Common Pleas four days. The plaintiff was Mr. William Frazer, a barrister; the defendant, Mr. William Bagley, also a barrister, who had chambers in the Inner Temple adjoining Mr. Frazer's. The lady is the daughter of Mr. Vivian, of Clavering Park, Bath, and Portland Place, London she was married in India to Mr. Blair, a civil officer in the East India Company's service; after whose death she had a fortune of 10,000l., with a pension of 3007. as his widow; in 1831 she married Mr. Frazer.

The plaintiff's account was as follows:-Although Mr. Frazer was a kind husband, Mrs. Frazer's violent temper rendered his home unhappy, In 1842, he became embarrassed; and applying to Mr. Bagley for assistance, he

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advised to leave the country.Shortly before going into retirement, he made over his whole furniture to the defendant, by a bill of sale, for the benefit of his family; but the implication was, that Mr. Bagley had converted the property to his own use. The friend employed the opportunities thus afforded to institute a criminal intimacy with Mrs. Frazer; who dined at his lodgings, suffered him to sleep at her house, entered the room where he slept in great dishabille, frequented his chambers, being heard even in the bedroom; and in short, as one of the witnesses said, he behaved to her like a husband. Mr. Frazer, still continuing embarrassed, was advised to go to India; which he would

have done, but for the accidental discovery of his wife's dishonour. Several witnesses gave evidence to this effect; but it may be mentioned that one was a female servant who had been accused of purloining some spoons belonging to Mr. Bagley, and another was a clerk who had taken wages from that gentleman in advance, and had never returned.

The defendant's story was the following:-When Mrs. Blair became a widow, Mr. Frazer sought her hand from mercenary motives, being at the time a bankrupt in fortune; and, once married, he treated her with neglect. Of her fortune, 6000l. was settled on herself, but 4,000l. was given to him to pay his debts. He became involved in the difficulties of his brother, a partner in the house of Salomons and Co., bill-brokers; and in his trouble he was assisted with several loans by Mr. Bagley, whose acquaintance he had sought since his marriage. At one of the dinner-parties in Mr. Bagley's chambers, Mr. Frazer himself was actually among the guests. Mrs. Frazer was warm in temper, and jealous; but not without reason. In 1839, Mr. Frazer was indicted for an assault on a gentleman at Brighton, and Mr. Bagley helped him through that scrape without fee or reward. In May of that year he was arrested. Before his arrest, he had made an assignation with a girl named Harriet Edwards, and he actually sent for her to his prison: she visited him daily; and on his release the intimacy was continued, the two going about from lodging to lodging under feigned names. A career of systematic se duction ensued. Mr. Frazer's advances to a Miss Dalgleish, whom he met at the house of Mr. Smith, surgeon, were repulsed, but

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not till they had caused a marriage contemplated for her to be broken off. At the same house he met a Miss Simmonds, who after wards gave birth to a child. Tired of her, he apprenticed her to a music-master, paying 150l.; though the indentures were cancelled, on account of her pregnancy. At the very time of his paying that money, Mrs. Frazer's goods were taken in execution for tavern-bills incurred by her husband while luxuriating with Edwards. Miss Simmonds now resided at the house of a Mr. Arnold, who had a daughter at Bonn; and Mr. Frazer obtained leave to bring the young girl home, with his own sister: no sister accompanied him; and the consequence of the journey was, that after her return Miss Arnold was obliged to retire into the country for a time. In the course of his troubles, he was constantly writing notes to Mr. Bagley, asking for help in various ways, and sending messages to Mrs. Frazer, whom he desired his friend often to see; which accounted for the intimacy between the friend and wife. He had borrowed 8007. from Mr. Cockburn, the Queen's counsel; and when it was known he intended to go to India, Mr. Cockburn's solicitor threatened to advertise him in the papers if he went without satisfying that claim, and that was the reason why he did not go. Thus detained, he brought forth the story of his wife's infidelity, and actually employed money which had been given him by her friends to pay his passage, in the endeavour to obtain evidence against her; with part of the same money he bought a gown that he gave to Mr. Bagley's laundress, one of the witnesses. A great deal of evidence was adduced in support of the defence.

Evidence was then produced in reply. The chief points were these: several of Miss Arnold's connexions, and the young lady herself gave evidence, which tended to show that her acquaintance with Mr. Frazer was not so intimate as had been supposed; and medical testimony confirmed that view. Mr. Duncan, an attorney, deposed that he was employed by Mr. Frazer to make inquiries respecting the wife's fidelity, before Mr. Frazer was detained on account of his debt; and that he was kept in town as much by his doubts as by the arrangement with Mr. Cockburn.

The case having now closed on both sides, Chief Justice Tindal summed up; and, after retiring for about three minutes, the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. The announcement was loudly applauded in court.

MELANCHOLY REVERSE OF FORTUNE.-An instance of the sad changes to which persons who have moved high in commercial credit and worldly comfort are frequently subjected, has occurred in the case of Mr. Robson, the projector and publisher of the Post Office Directory, which bore his name.The unfortunate gentleman, after suffering the loss of his fortune, and beholding the wreck of his hopes, sank lower and lower in poverty, until he was compelled to seek parochial aid, and at length died to-day in the Peckham workhouse, of which he had been for a considerable time an inmate.

the trunk of a small tree petrifled, but, on examination, proved to be the tusk of a fossil elephant, or horn of some other antediluvian animal. When it was first hit upon, the workmen unfortunately split it in pieces with their pickaxes in attempting to get it up; and, on leaving the field for dinner, shortly after, some boys who were near, completed the work of destruction, and carried away a great portion of it in fragments; but on its being made known to the proprietor of the field, Mr. E. R. Roberts, a more diligent search was made, and the remainder of the tusk traced and taken up. It was lying on the lower gravel bed, with a superincumbent stratum of four or five feet of the blue clay, above which is about six feet of the yellow plastic clay, with several feet of coarse gravel and soil above. The tusk must have been of large dimensions, about 18 inches in circumference, and from four to seven feet in length. It has the shape, grain, and markings of ivory, but the colour and consistence are those of horn, and it retains a considerable degree of elasticity. This is, we believe, almost the only instance of antediluvian animal remains having been found in this neighbourhood. Nothing else has been discovered in the brickfield; and from the nature of the ground, great difficulty would be experienced in continuing the search, as immediately on reaching the gravel beneath, the water comes up, and stops all progress, and the clay is consequently not worked to

the bottom of the bed.

26. FRAUDS ON THE CUSTOMS.— In the Court of Queen's Bench, Messrs. Williams and Mottram, importers of goods from France, and Mr. Horsley, their clerk, were

tried for defrauding the Customs revenue. In 1840, with the connivance of Homersham and Burnby, the landing-waiters whose names have become so notorious in connexion with these cases, they landed goods worth 1,100l. as being worth only 4187., paying as duty only 1381. instead of 4201. For that service the two landing-waiters received 201. each. Burnby, who appeared as witness for the Crown, said that transactions of the sort were going on from 1837 to 1842. He made disclosures to the Commissioners of Customs, not from remorse he had no such feeling, nor from fear of discovery; but because the frauds had reached the frightful extent of 400,000l. or 500,000l.; and therefore he determined to stop them. Mr. Cockburn, who defended Mottram, said that Williams had suffered judgment to go by default, and Horsley had absconded: the department of the business in which the frauds had occurred was under their management: Williams and Mottram had since become bankrupt; their books had been open to inspection, but there was nothing in them to affect his client; and he contended that the evidence of Burnby, which had inculpated Mottram as privy to the frauds, was not to be trusted. The jury re turned a verdict of " "Guilty."

27. LORD WILLIAM PAGET v. EARL OF CARDIGAN. (CRIM. CON. An action for criminal conversation, brought by Lord William Paget against the Earl of Cardigan, commenced to-day. The Court of Common Pleas was crowded in every part by persons anxious to witness the proceedings. The plaintiff's counsel were, Sir Thomas Wilde, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, and Mr. Wordsworth; the defendant's,

not till they had caused a marriage contemplated for her to be broken off. At the same house he met a Miss Simmonds, who afterwards gave birth to a child. Tired of her, he apprenticed her to a music-master, paying 150l.; though the indentures were cancelled, on account of her pregnancy. At the very time of his paying that money, Mrs. Frazer's goods were taken in execution for tavern-bills incurred by her husband while luxuriating with Edwards. Miss Simmonds now resided at the house of a Mr. Arnold, who had a daughter at Bonn; and Mr. Frazer obtained leave to bring the young girl home, with his own sister: no sister accompanied him; and the consequence of the journey was, that after her return Miss Arnold was obliged to retire into the country for a time. In the course of his troubles, he was constantly writing notes to Mr. Bagley, asking for help in various ways, and sending messages to Mrs. Frazer, whom he desired his friend often to see; which accounted for the intimacy between the friend and wife. He had borrowed 8001. from Mr. Cockburn, the Queen's counsel; and when it was known he intended to go to India, Mr. Cockburn's solicitor threatened to advertise him in the papers if he went without satisfying that claim, and that was the reason why he did not go. Thus detained, he brought forth the story of his wife's infidelity, and actually employed money which had been given him by her friends to pay his passage, in the endeavour to obtain evidence against her; with part of the same money he bought a gown that he gave to Mr. Bagley's laundress, one of the witnesses. A great deal of evidence was adduced in support of the defence.

Evidence was then produced in reply. The chief points were these: several of Miss Arnold's connexions, and the young lady herself gave evidence, which tended to show that her acquaintance with Mr. Frazer was not so intimate as had been supposed; and medical testimony confirmed that view. Mr. Duncan, an attorney, deposed that he was employed by Mr. Frazer to make inquiries respecting the wife's fidelity, before Mr. Frazer was detained on account of his debt; and that he was kept in town as much by his doubts as by the arrangement with Mr. Cockburn.

The case having now closed on both sides, Chief Justice Tindal summed up; and, after retiring for about three minutes, the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. The announcement was loudly applauded in court.

MELANCHOLY REVERSE OF FORTUNE.-An instance of the sad changes to which persons who have moved high in commercial credit and worldly comfort are frequently subjected, has occurred in the case of Mr. Robson, the projector and publisher of the Post Office Di rectory, which bore his name.The unfortunate gentleman, after suffering the loss of his fortune, and beholding the wreck of his hopes, sank lower and lower in poverty, until he was compelled to seek parochial aid, and at length died to-day in the Peckham workhouse, of which he had been for a considerable time an inmate.