Cappur was convicted, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment in Stafford Gaol.

15. CLOSE OF THE STAFFORD SPECIAL COMMISSION.-The trials of the persons concerned in the late riots in Staffordshire terminated after a fortnight's duration. The following is a summary of the results. Of the whole number of prisoners tried, no fewer than fifty-four were sentened to be transported. Out of these, eleven were to be transported for life, thirteen for twenty-one years (among them William Ellis, one of the most dangerous men in the Potteries), nine for fifteen years, eighteen for ten years, and three for the term of seven years. A very large proportion of the remainder were sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour. There were in all 146 prisoners who had to undergo this kind of punishment: nine of them were sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour for the term of two years, one for twenty calendar months, nine for eighteen calendar months, six for fifteen calendar months, thirty-three for one year, three for nine calendar months, seven for eight calendar months thirty-three for six calendar months, eight for four calendar months, fourteen for three calendar months, fifteen for two calendar months, one for one calendar month, six for fourteen days, and one for ten days. Eight were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment without hard labour; and among these were Linney and Cappur, the Chartist agitators, the former of whom would have to remain in prison two years and three months, and the latter two years. Fiftyfive prisoners were acquitted, two were discharged on entering into recognizances, six were discharged

by proclamation, and three traversed till the next assizes-these three being O'Neill, Cooper, and Richards. The whole number of prisoners for trial was 274.

17. FEMALE POLITICIANS.-A meeting of female Chartists was held at the National Charter Association Hall in the Old Bailey, to form a female Chartist Association to co-operate with the original society. On the motion of Miss Susanna Inge, seconded by Mrs. Wyatt, Mr. Carey was called to the chair. A Mr. Cohen created some dissatisfaction by speaking against the interposition of women in political affairs: he "put it to the mothers present, whether they did not find themselves more happy in the peacefulness and usefulness of the domestic hearth, than in coming forth in public and aspiring after political rights?" Miss Inge asked Mr. Cohen, did he not consider women qualified to fill public offices? it did not require much "physical force" to vote! Mr. Cohen replied with an argumentum ad fœminam:-He would, with all humility and respect, ask the young lady, what sort of office she would aspire to fill? ("Order, order!") If she would fill one, she would fill all? He was not going to treat the question with ridicule. But he would ask her to suppose herself in the House of Commons as Member for a Parliamentary borough, and that a young gentleman, a lover in that House, were to try to influence her vote through his sway over her affection: how would she act? whether, in other words, she could resist, and might not lose sight of the public interests?" ("Order, order!") He wished to be in order. He was for maintaining the social rights of women: political

rights, such as he understood that meeting to aspire to, she could never, in his opinion, attain. This drew forth an energetic speech from Miss Mary Anne Walker: she "repudiated, with indignation, the insinuation, that if women were in Parliament, any man, be he husband or be he lover, would dare be so base a scoundrel as to attempt to sway her from the strict line of duty." Miss Walker was much applauded; and after the business of the evening she received the thanks of the meeting.

18. SINGULAR CASE.-At the Leicestershire Quarter Sessions, Louisa Wykes, a rather good-looking girl, about nineteen years of age, respectably attired in black, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing fifteen sovereigns, the property of John Taylor, at Belgrave; a second indictment charged the prisoner with stealing a pair of breeches, leggings, and other male attire, the property of Henry Smith. Prisoner pleaded guilty to both indictments, but the Court, being unacquainted with the circumstances, requested Mr. Taylor to give a relation of them, when it appeared that the prisoner entered the service of the prosecutor about ten months since, during the whole of which time she conducted herself with propriety. A few weeks since Mr. Taylor had occasion to remain at another of his houses in Leicester, leaving the prisoner and three men in charge of his house in Belgrave. During the night the prisoner proceeded to a bureau, in which she had seen her master place some gold, and whence she took sixteen sovereigns out of a gum of fifty; she then cut her hair off so close as to resemble that of a man, after which she proceeded to

the men's room, and dressed herself in Smith's clothes, when she left the house. Being overtaken by the carriage of Mr. Hunter, of Brooksby Hall, his lady ordered the coachman to stop, as she perceived that the prisoner had a singular appearance, and was crying very much. Upon some questions being put to her, she acknowledged that she had committed the robbery, and disguised herself in men's clothes to avoid detection. The mother of the prisoner, having been put into the witness-box, said she could account in no other way for her daughter committing the robbery than that she was pregnant, and stole the money with an intention of providing herself during her confinement, and thus avoiding the exposure to which she would otherwise have been subjected. The chairman, Mr. W. Meyrick, said it was one of the most unheard of cases that had come within his experience; and had not the prosecutor recommended her to mercy, and some alleviating circumstances appeared in her favour, he should inevitably have passed a sentence of transportation upon her. The prisoner was afterwards sentenced to twelve months hard labour, three weeks solitary.

-A terrible boiler-explosion occurred at Middlesborough, near Scarborough. At a quarter past nine o'clock in the morning, the steam-boiler of Messrs. Bulcho and Co.'s iron railroad manufactory burst, and blew off the roof of the building; which fell upon a great number of men who had just returned from breakfast. Two (Michael M'Ewan and Philip Kelly) were killed on the spot; the latter having been blown under the fire, was literally roasted be

fore he could be extricated. Two others, Daniel Martin and James Thompson (both boys), afterwards died from the injury they sustained. There were 21 others much scalded. An inquest was held over the four bodies, and a long and strict investigation took place, but no evidence was given to prove that more than ordinary pressure had been used, or that there had been any inattention on the part of either masters or workmen. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," with a deodand of 10s. on the boiler.

STRANGE AND DREADFUL ACCIDENT TO SIR WILLIAM GEARY. An accident of the most terrible kind, and which had nearly proved fatal befel Sir William Geary, at Oxenhoath. It appears that the hon. baronet, on entering his dressing-room, fell over a glass screen, which was broken to pieces, and a large fragment, presenting a very sharp tapering point, inflicted a frightful wound on the right side of Sir William's neck, behind the lower jaw, within the smallest possible distance of the carotid artery, and dividing one of its principal branches. Lady Geary, who was in the next room, instantly ran to Sir William's assistance, with her maid, and the sight that presented itself to her agonized gaze may be more easily conceived than described. Sir William was stretched on the floor, his life's blood gushing out with fearful violence. In this dreadful extremity, the presence of mind and fortitude both of Lady Geary and her attendant, were the means of preventing the unfortunate gentleman's instant dissolution. At her ladyship's suggestion her maid, a Swiss, courageously seized the wound and tightly compressing it

with her hands, stayed the frightful effusion of blood. In the mean time messengers had been despatched for the family surgeons. On their arrival it was found that the only chance of saving the patient was by performing the important and difficult operation of tying the carotid artery in order to prevent hemorrhage, the least renewal of which must have been fatal. The operation was most skillfully perormed by Mr. Starling, assisted by his partner, Mr. Vine, and Dr. Taylor. It was unattended by the slightest additional bleeding, a point of the highest importance in this extreme case, and was borne with extreme fortitude by the previously well-nigh exhausted sufferer.

20. DEATH OF THE CELEBRATED GRACE DARLING.-Grace Darling expired at Bamburgh in her twenty-fifth year. She had been in a delicate state of health for a considerable time past, and her medical attendant recommended her removal from the sca. She in consequence went to reside with a friend at Wooler; and afterwards removed to Alnwick, accompanied by her sister, where lodgings were engaged for them by their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, by whom the greatest attention was paid to the amiable girl. Her complaint having assumed the form of decided consumption, and all hope of her recovery being abandoned, her father anxiously desired that she should return among her family; and she was accordingly removed from Alnwick to Bamburgh only about ten days before her death.

fifteen years transportation, five; seven years ditto, six; eighteen months imprisonment, six; fifteen months imprisonment, one; one year's imprisonment, sixty-three; for periods varying from three to ten months' imprisonment, forty five; acquitted, twelve; discharged upon recognizances, twenty-eight; traversed to the next assizes, twenty-nine. Among the latter were Feargus O'Connor, and two persons described as the Rev. James Scholefield, and the Rev. Mr. Hill, both dissenting preachers.

EFFECTS OF PRISON DISCI PLINE. An inquest was held at the Cheltenham Union Work house, on the body of Charles Beale, lately a prisoner in the Northleach House of Correction, whose death was supposed to have been accelerated by the treatment which he experienced in the prison. Much interest was excited about the case: a great many witnesses, several of them having been fellow-prisoners of the deceased were examined. The mother of Beale stated:"On the Thursday before he died, he despaired for the first time of his recovery. On the following evening, after Mr. Hollis called, my son asked me if I knew where that gentleman lived; I told him I did not. He said he was fearful that Mr. Hollis had misunderstood him as to the number of hours he was in the potato-cellar, which was very shortly after the first time I went to see him. He said it was wrong what he told Mr. Hollis; he was not down in the potato-cellar fourteen hours in one day: he wished to correct this, as he wished to put all straight before he died. His head wandered at times. On the Saturday before he died, when he was quite sensible,

the potato-cellar, I found my blood run cold; my hair stood on end on my head; I pulled off my cap and kneeled upon it; I think that caused me my death. The starvation of the prison that I suffered, mother, no tongue can tell.' did not hear my son say in the presence of the governor and turnkey that he was perfectly satisfied; he said, Don't make yourself uneasy, mother; the turnkey has been very kind to me.' His satisfaction was confined to Curtis. [He had complained of the brutality of the under-turnkey.] He was always of a delicate constitution, until he was grown a man, when he became strong and healthy."-James Churm, a gardener, imprisoned four months for trespass, was Beale's companion in the potatocellar. Under cross-examination by Mr. Curtis, the turnkey, he said "The potatoes were turned several times, as they were continually making shoots and beginning to grow, it was so damp. The other days that I saw Beale coming from that direction, his hands were dirty, as if he had been among the potatoes. He had not been on the wheel, as he was taking medicine. When I was there the first day with Beale, 110 one else was in the potato-burv except us. No food was brough, to us there. We went out to dinner. We both ate some of the raw potatoes; I dare say I ate half a peck. I had a good bellyful that day, and I don't think I had another all the time I was there. I am sure Beale ate a quartern. The wet used to run down the walls. The place was damp altogether. I recollect deceased taking his cap off his head to kneel upon, on account of the dampness of the