ntry from India, where he ssed a large fortune, and apartment at the house Mead's-row, Westminsterhere he continued to reto the time of his death. a bachelor, and his manners the most singular kind. ided his own food, which elf cooked in the kitchen. never visited by any one, I given instructions that no should enter his room excharwoman, whom he had 1 to come precisely at nine every morning to clean it ke the bed, &c. He would il himself of the use of a d, but slept on the floor, ways denied himself a fire. s, however, not at all of a isposition, but lived on the everything, and would go ily after dinner, visit varihibitions, and devote the (sometimes too freely) at rine of Bacchus. He was leanly and neat in his attire, coupled with his hale and appearance, had caused him last few years to be distind in the neighbourhood as ine old English gentleman." anday morning last, the 29th s he did not fetch the boilater as usual, with which to his breakfast, nor answer called to, his room was enand he was found dead in his features as composed as h he was in a sleep, and no tions of his having destroyimself. A surgeon was imtely sent for, who pronounche cause of his death to be exy. Verdict-" Natural A disgraceful and fatal aftook place at Cork Patent kind of dispute at law between the two partners, Mr. Wilson and Dr. Quarry; and Mr. Wilson kept possession of a part of the mill, to the exclusion of the other. Dr. Quarry, with four of the workmen endeavoured to obtain admission; but they were opposed by Mr. F. Delany and two brothers named Carroll, men in the interest of Mr. Wilson; who took a position on a flight of stairs that the entering party had to ascend. Thomas Carroll knocked Dr. Quarry down the stairs with the butt end of a blunderbuss, and afterwards beat him with a sawbuckle, a large iron instrument. Donoghue, one of Dr. Quarry's men, had his head cut open with some sharp instrument, that left a wound like a sabre cut. Dr. Quarry expired the next day. A Coroner's jury returned a verdict stating the facts, and incriminating Dr. Quarry's three assailants. They were committed for trial; and also Mr. Wilson, on an information charging him as an accesory to the murder before the fact. The mills had acquired a bad notoriety: a party of sawyers once threw vitriol in the face of Mr. Wilson, which destroyed an eye; and he himself once stabbed an unoffending soldier, who happened to be present at a riot among the workmen. A rack was kept over the fireplace in Mr. Wilson's room, full of guns, blunderbusses and swords, and inscribed, "Keep us clean, and we will do our duty." HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO HORSES.-Owing to a rupture between the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Animals Friend Society, Waller, a wine-merchant, in Crosslane, St. Mary-at-Hill. Anger at being refused employment was the immediate motive that actuated Rowe, who was an aged man; but various acts of eccentricity were proved of him, and especially a childish habit of playing with pistols, such as putting them under his pillow at night, or shooting at imaginary crows; and the jury acquitted him on the ground of insanity. He was ordered to be detained during the pleasure of the Crown. NOVEMBER. 1. TRIAL OF A DISSENTING MINISTER ON THE CHARGE OF STEALING A DEAD BODY.-The Rev. Isaac Bridgman and John White Bridgman were tried to-day on a charge of misdemeanour, in removing the body of Mr. J. G. Tawney from a vault in the burialground of St. John's Chapel, West Street, Walworth-a Dissenting chapel, of which the Rev. 1saac Bridgman was the minister. Mr. John Bridgman was the other's son, and a student in surgery. On the night of the 6th September, some neighbours saw three men removing the coffin; which was afterwards discovered near a garden at a spot about which Mr. Isaac Bridgman had been seen to dig. Some of the neighbours also thought that they saw the minister at his house on the morning of the 6th, and heard his voice at night. The defence consisted of an explanatory statement by Mr. Bridgman's counsel. Mr. John Bridgman, who was but seventeen years of age, was a zealous student, and he required a skeleton that purpose he removed the remains of Mr. Tawney: but that was some time before the 6th September. Wishing to diminish the chances of detection, on the 6th he also removed the coffin, which was buried in the grounds. That night, his mother discovered the affair, and was much shocked; and it was the conversation with her that was overheard. Eight witnesses of the highest respectability proved that they saw Mr. Isaac Bridgman at Ramsgate on the 6th, 7th, and 8th September,-thus disproving the evidence of his being at home on the 6th; and many others, including several Dissenting ministers, gave him an excellent character both as a minister and a man. The rev. gentleman was acquitted; but John Bridgman was convicted, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. 2. OPENING OF GRESHAM COLLEGE.-The new building appropriated to the Gresham College, in Basinghall-street, was opened at two o'clock, and an opening address on the occasion was delivered in the presence of the Lord Mayor and the trustees of the College by the Lecturer on Astronomy, as a preliminary to his first lecture. The lecture was succeeded by a musical entertainment provided by Mr. Edward Taylor, the musical professor, in the shape of an ode in commemoration of the event. -- AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER.Mr. W. Carter, coroner for Surrey, held an inquest at the Three Stags, Kennington-road, Lambeth, on the body of Mr. R. Vincent, aged seventy-two, a gentleman of independent fortune. It appeared that the deceased, of whose origin nothing could be gleaned, about this country from India, where he had amassed a large fortune, and took an apartment at the house No. 11, Mead's-row, Westminsterroad, where he continued to reside up to the time of his death. He was a bachelor, and his manners were of the most singular kind. He provided his own food, which he himself cooked in the kitchen. He was never visited by any one, and had given instructions that no person should enter his room except a charwoman, whom he had engaged to come precisely at nine o'clock every morning to clean it up, make the bed, &c. He would not avail himself of the use of a bedstead, but slept on the floor, and always denied himself a fire. He was, however, not at all of a mean disposition, but lived on the best of everything, and would go out daily after dinner, visit various exhibitions, and devote the evening (sometimes too freely) at the shrine of Bacchus. He was very cleanly and neat in his attire, which, coupled with his hale and hearty appearance, had caused him for the last few years to be distinguished in the neighbourhood as the "fine old English gentleman." On Sunday morning last, the 29th ult., as he did not fetch the boiling water as usual, with which to make his breakfast, nor answer when called to, his room was entered, and he was found dead in bed, his features as composed as though he was in a sleep, and no indications of his having destroyed himself. A surgeon was immediately sent for, who pronounced the cause of his death to be apoplexy. Verdict-"Natural death." 4. A disgraceful and fatal affray took place at Cork Patent kind of dispute at law between the two partners, Mr. Wilson and Dr. Quarry; and Mr. Wilson kept possession of a part of the mill, to the exclusion of the other. Dr. Quarry, with four of the workmen endeavoured to obtain admission; but they were opposed by Mr. F. Delany and two brothers named Carroll, men in the interest of Mr. Wilson; who took a position on a flight of stairs that the entering party had to ascend. Thomas Carroll knocked Dr. Quarry down the stairs with the butt end of a blunderbuss, and afterwards beat him with a sawbuckle, a large iron instrument. Donoghue, one of Dr. Quarry's men, had his head cut open with some sharp instrument, that left a wound like a sabre cut. Dr. Quarry expired the next day. A Coroner's jury returned a verdict stating the facts, and incriminating Dr. Quarry's three assailants. They were committed for trial; and also Mr. Wilson, on an information charging him as an accesory to the murder before the fact. The mills had acquired a bad notoriety: a party of sawyers once threw vitriol in the face of Mr. Wilson, which destroyed an eye; and he himself once stabbed an unoffending soldier, who happened to be present at a riot among the workmen. A rack was kept over the fireplace in Mr. Wilson's room, full of guns, blun derbusses and swords, and inscribed, "Keep us clean, and we will do our duty." HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO HORSES.-Owing to a rupture between the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Animals Friend Society, relative to the barbarities prac ticed in the knackers' (horseslaughterers') yards, which are most disgraceful, and should not be tolerated in any civilised country. The Animals' Friend Society has published some extracts from the evidence of their inspector, corroborated by the testimony of several officers of the metropolitan police, who have paid occasional visits to the knackers' yards by order of the Police Commissioners. The tale they tell is dreadful. Speaking of one of these yards, Thomas Radcliffe, the society's inspector, says, "We found eight horses in an enclosed place, up to their fetlocks in decayed animal matter, mire and every description of corruption. They had neither food nor water, The living animals were standing amongst the carcases of the dead, crushing them at every step. The stench was overpowering. One of the slaughtermen admitted that they had no trouble with the horses, as four or five dropped off every night. At another yard, the son of the proprietor showed thirty horses lying dead, some completely putrified, and he admitted that they never killed while they had so many dead ones.' He offered to sell me a horse, if I wanted one. Police-sergeant Allen, N 21, says, We discovered fourteen or fifteen horses, apparently dead, lying on the stones in an open shed, some of them were tied up to rings in the walls, and had died during the night. All the woodAll the woodwork about the premises was gnawed away, even the bar across the gates inside. While examining the shed, we heard a noise behind it was the moving of a horse's leg, the grating of the shoe against a stone. After some trouble we discovered (by the steam issuing from the trunk of a dead horse from which the bowels had been taken) that the still living animal had in its agony, plunged its head into the body of another horse by its side. It was the first time I had seen such horrors, and it made me quite ill for some time after. In another yard I found four or five horses tied to the skeleton of a horse in the open air; one had dropped down from starvation. It was in the agony of death. The animal struck out feebly in its pain, and the others stumbled down on the body three or four times. man 6. THE POLICE OF PARIS.This morning a washerwoman was crossing the Bois de Boulogne with a basket of clean linen, when on a sudden, not far from Bagatelle, a started out of a thicket, and, holding a poniard before her, ordered her to deliver up her parcel. This order she at once complied with, but the man further commanded her to follow him into the thicket. Exceedingly alarmed at such a proceeding, the poor woman entreated to be excused, but the man insisted. He then made her strip off her clothes to her chemise, and afterwards bound her to a tree with a rope. Having very coolly done this, he made off. The woman with some difficulty got rid of her bonds, and, half dead with cold and fright, took refuge in the nearest dwelling, where clothes were lent her. 7. DARING BURGLARY NEAR NOTTINGHAM.-A desperate burglary was committed in the house of Mr. W.Duke, farmer, near Wood men, who had their faces covered with crape. The thieves broke into the dwelling between two and three o'clock in the morning, and secured a servant man named Simpson, and two boys, who were going to take a waggon load of corn to Nottingham. Mr. William Duke hearing a noise, got up and went down stairs, where he met the men, by whom he was knocked down and served in the same manner as Simpson. The robbers then proceeded to the room of Mr. George Duke, brother of the master of the house, and beat him as he lay in bed in so brutal a manner that the blood from the wounds they inflicted on his head, and other parts of his body, ran on to the floor. The thieves ransacked the house, and took away four 51. notes of a Nottingham bank, 97. in gold and silver, a patent lever silver watch, a gold seal, and other property. They shortly afterwards left the house, and medical aid was procured as soon as possible for Mr. Duke. Information was given to the county police, and nine men were apprehended the same day on suspicion of having committed the offence, although after a protracted examination four of them were discharged; the other five were remanded. the engine with several carriages on the Dover line, was running rapidly on the line towards London. From the statement of one of his fellow workmen, it appears that the poor fellow was unaware of the approach of the train behind him, and notwithstanding every possible exertion was made by the driver of the engine and his fellow workmen to apprize him of his danger, he stood motionless, and in another instant the engine knocked him with fearful force to the ground. He fell with one arm across the rail and his hand upon it, and thus the wheels of the train passed over him, severing his arm above the elbow, and cutting off his fingers. As soon as possible he was picked up, and specially conveyed to the terminus at Londonbridge, whence he was taken to Guy's Hospital. In a few minutes after his admission there, it was seen that nothing short of amputation could save the life of the sufferer. The limb was consequently taken off. - OBSERVANCE OF THE RUBRIC. At the visitation of the Archdeacon of Surrey, held at Epsom, to-day, the officiating clergymen of the parish of Richmond were presented by the churchwardens of that place for non-observance of the Rubrics. On the rev. gentlemen being called upon by the Archdeacon to answer the charge, they pleaded custom, and the sanction of the Bishop of the diocese for their non-observance. It was, however, clearly demonstrated by the churchwardens, that custom could not contravene the Acts of Uniformity (which are prefixed to the Book of Common Prayer), and that the Bishop had not the power to sauction a |