There was a grand display of fireworks in the park, and illuminations in various parts.

10. RETURN OF THE QUEEN TO ENGLAND.-The Queen, accompanied by the members of the Royal Family and attended by her suite, took her departure from the Castle of Rosenau on the 7th, on her return to England. Her Majesty reached Kranichstein, near Darmstadt, on the 8th, and spent the day with Princess Louis of Hesse. The Queen took leave of the Princess and left Kranichstein at ten o'clock the same evening, and arrived at Antwerp at half-past eight o'clock the next morning. The Queen embarked immediately on board the royal yacht "Victoria and Albert," Captain the Prince of Leiningen, accompanied by the Admiralty steam-vessels the "Black Eagle" and the "Vivid." The royal squadron anchored for the night in Margate Roads, at seven o'clock, and on the following morning proceeded up the river to Greenhithe, where the "Fairy," steam tender to the "Victoria and Albert," was lying in readiness to convey the Queen and her suite from the royal yacht to Woolwich. Her Majesty and the Royal Family embarked on board the "Fairy and steamed up the river to Woolwich Arsenal, where the royal travellers disembarked. The Queen was received on landing by Commodore-Superintendent Sir Frederick Nicholson, Viscount Sydney (lord-lieutenant of the county), Major-General Sir Richard Dacres, Captain Gordon, and other officials. Though no salute was fired, the reception of the Queen was loud as well as fervent, a large assemblage of persons cheering her as she left the Arsenal gates. As Her Majesty reached her carriage a loud cheer broke from those around, which was taken up and continued as she passed through the Arsenal and out of the gates, whence the royal party proceeded by Lower Charlton, Greenwich, and Deptford, to the private station of the South-Western Railway, near Nine Elms, where a train was in waiting by which they proceeded to Windsor. At the Putney, Richmond, and other stations along the line, many spectators were assembled; and at Windsor a much larger concourse awaited the arrival of the royal train. The journey from Nine Elms was performed in forty-five minutes, Her Majesty reaching the Windsor station at five minutes to one o'clock. Such was the boisterous state of the weather that the royal standard, hoisted on the Queen's arrival, had very soon to be replaced by the small storm-flag.

11. EXECUTION OF FOUR MEN FOR MURDER AT LIVERPOOL.. Four men, each convicted of a separate murder, and three of them for the murder of women, suffered the extreme penalty of the law at the usual Liverpool place of execution at Kirkdale Gaol. A circumstance of such a nature as this never occurred in Liverpool before, and, as may be supposed, it attracted an extraordinary crowd, a large proportion of which consisted of persons from a distance; but, independent of these, there was an immense assemblage of men, women, and children belonging to the town. The culprits

were José Maria Alvarez, a Spanish seaman, convicted of the murder of James Harrison, in Oldhall-street; John Hughes, convicted of the murder of his wife in Great Homer-street; James O'Brien, an Irish sailor, condemned for the murder of Elizabeth Callaghan, in Spitalfields; and Benjamin Thomas, a Welsh sailor, sentenced to death for the murder of Mary Rowlands, in Brook-street, Oldhall-street. All of these murders were attended with circumstances of great aggravation and ferocity, and although considerable efforts were made by different persons to obtain a commutation of the sentences passed on the different men, there never appeared any reasonable ground for believing that the royal clemency would be extended to any of them.

O'Brien exhibited a defiant bearing; the others were calm, submissive, and prayerful. The following are the circumstances connected with the various murders: -Benjamin Thomas lodged with Mrs. Rowlands, the wife of a merchant captain, and was slightly in her debt. He had engaged to go to sea in a ship for which a man named Crossthwaite was acting as shipping-master, and, in consequence of that engagement, received an advance note, which he lodged with the deceased as security for the money that he owed her. He afterwards expressed an unwillingness to sail in the ship; and Mrs. Rowlands, who was aware that in the event of his failing to go on board at the appointed time the advance note would become worthless, made repeated attempts to overcome this unwillingness, and told him distinctly that if he did not join the ship he would be sent to prison for three months. On the 12th of May she was reasoning with him in the Welsh language, when the prisoner suddenly rose, went into the cellar, and called to the deceased to come after him. She followed him immediately, and while she was in the cellar he attacked her with a heavy wooden instrument called a "potato-masher," and mangled her head and face dreadfully. She died immediately. After this he went upstairs and made a ferocious attack upon a young woman named Benbow, and an old woman named Evans, who received some frightful wounds, and narrowly escaped the fate of Mrs. Rowlands. José Maria Alvarez, another of the murderers, was walking along Oldhall-street, Liverpool, on the 12th of May last, as were also James Harrison, and a man named Cohen. Cohen accidentally jostled the prisoner, and immediately offered him an apology. Alvarez appeared very much enraged, spoke a few words in Spanish, drew his knife or dagger, and stabbed Cohen twice. He first wounded him in the back, and then in the breast; but neither of the injuries in this case proved fatal. As soon as Harrison heard his friend cry out, and became aware of what had happened, he attempted to arrest the prisoner, but Alvarez resisted, and wounded him twice. One of these wounds was a very severe one in the abdomen, of which the unfortunate man died. Harrison fell in the street, and the prisoner went away. He was called a "villain" by some women who were standing by, and he imme

diately took up the apron of one of these women and wiped his bloody dagger upon it. Having done this he succeeded in getting away, but was shortly afterwards apprehended by the police. John Hughes, the third murderer, was an habitual tippler, and, as is not unusual with fellows of his class, was in the habit of beating his wife. He threatened to "dance upon her," and said that she ought to have been hanged at Kirkdale instead of two men whom he saw upon the scaffold some time before his own execution. This feeling towards his wife took a murderous shape on April 30th, on the morning of which day he got up, went to her bedside, and asked her to give him a shilling. She said that she had but one, a sixpence, twopence, and a foreign coin, and she refused to give him any thing. He said he would have it "out of her bones," and an hour later, when he had dressed himself and taken breakfast, he went to the bed-room, where he beat his wife with his fist until she fell off or over a box, and then trampled upon and kicked her with so much brutality that she was completely paralyzed. Her spine was severely injured, and she died two days afterwards. The scene of the murder committed by O'Brien was a house of ill-fame in Spitalfields, and here some women of the town robbed him of his wages, to earn which he had done hard service on board ship for many weeks. His chagrin at the conduct of the women was intense, and, having made an unsuccessful attempt to induce the police to interfere, he went into a cutler's shop directly opposite the police-station and purchased a sheath-knife, which he sharpened on a stone. He then left the shop, accompanied by a woman named Mather, and drove in a cab to No. 5 Court, Spitalfields. After a few words of conversation, the prisoner shut the door, and drawing the knife which he had just before purchased, he rushed upon Callaghan and stabbed her in the lower part of the stomach. The deceased fell off the chair and was conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where she died.

18. DISASTERS AT SEA.-The British ship "Ocean Mail," 800 tons' register, commanded by Captain Linklater, was totally lost in the China seas. The intelligence was received from Suez. The value of her cargo, consisting of teas and silks, is estimated at 100,000. The ship and cargo were insured in London and China.

19. A telegram was received at Lloyd's, reporting the loss of the "Pactolus," 2000 tons, employed on the Liverpool and Canadian line. This is the third that has been lost since the line

was opened. She had three water-tight compartments.

23. DREADFUL END OF A WEALTHY MISER.-An inquiry took place before Mr. Langham, the deputy Westminster coroner, in the vestry-room of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, respecting the death of Mr. George Beamire, aged seventy-five years, a gentleman of considerable property, and formerly a barrister-at-law, which occurred under extraordinary circumstances.

The deceased, it appears, for the past twenty years, has resided

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at No. 1, Adam-street, Adelphi, but in almost total seclusion, no person, under any pretence whatever, being allowed to enter the three rooms in his occupation on the first floor. His meals were prepared by his housekeeper, and were left on a tray at the door of the ante-room, and then taken in by the deceased; and although many times in a state of ill-health, he refused to have medical aid, but used to have sent in from a chemist a large quantity of dif ferent descriptions of medicine. All communications to him were received in the same way as his meals, and for more than twelve months he never left the house. He was stated by Mr. James, a solicitor, of Ely-place, to have been a gentleman of considerable ability, and, although very eccentric in his habits, of perfectly sound mind, and capable of managing his property, which consisted, amongst others, of large estates in Cumberland and Cardiff. His time was chiefly spent, it is believed, in read ing and writing, the society of men being entirely dispensed with.

The housekeeper, Mrs. Palmer, deposed to many of the above facts, and further added that she on the 14th went up as usual with his dinner, but received no reply to her knock at the door, and although she frequently called him she did not again see him alive. On the 17th, becoming alarmed, she made a communication to the police, and the door was broken open, when a scene was presented which almost defies description. On entering the anteroom the floor was found to be strewed with hundreds of newspapers, writings, &c., chairs, tables, and other articles of furniture. The left-hand room (which is some forty feet in length, and overlooking the river) presented even a more extraordinary appearance. At one end was a handsome chimney-glass, some twelve feet in height, massed in dust and cobwebs. The furniture, of very handsome description, was in an equally filthy state, the dust lying thickly on every thing. The floor was strewed with a mass of articles, consisting of trunks, papers, and books of science and law of much value. There were also three large bags filled with new boots, and several silver spoons lay upon the sideboards; and packages of candles, clothing, &c., were heaped up in all parts in the utmost confusion. Near the doorway, and leaning against the wall, was a painting of the Crucifixion, about twelve feet by four, said to be of value, but which was also covered in dust and dirt. The right-hand room displayed a similar scene of dirt and confusion-furniture, books, paintings, &c., being piled up in different parts of the room. The shutters, which were closed, having been opened, a dreadful sight was presented. The deceased was found lying back in an arm-chair quite dead, and in a rapid state of decomposition, having no doubt been dead several days. He was quite dressed, but in a very dirty state, and by his side the remains of some food. There was not the slightest vestige of bed or bedding, and the deceased, it is believed, for twenty years slept in the same chair in which he was found. In other parts of the room

were scraps of bread, bottles of wine, and medicine. This as well as the other rooms was almost impassable, while the light of day had evidently been shut out for years. Upon a further search made by the police, 77. 17s. in a bag, a gold and a silver watch, silver articles, and other valuables were found, and upon the floor were scattered thirty keys.

Dr. Alfred Harvey examined the body, and made a post-mortem examination, from which it was shown that death had resulted from exhaustion from low fever, accelerated by his own neglect.

Other evidence showed that the deceased was a single man, and had no near relatives; but a will was made by him, which was in the hands of his legal adviser, Mr. Newson, of Carlisle. He was further said to have been very charitable.

The coroner, in summing up, alluded to the case as one of the most extraordinary in his experience; and the jury after a consultation returned a verdict "That death was caused by exhaustion from low fever, accelerated by the deceased's neglect.'

25. CONVICTION OF A SCHOOLMASTER FOR CRUELTY. -George Wilson, the master of the Charity-school of St. Botolph Without, Aldgate, appeared for the second time to answer a charge of violently assaulting John Edmund Jones, one of his pupils. A number of witnesses were called to prove the general kindness and humanity of the defendant, among whom were some of the boys and their parents, but most of the boys had been severely caned on the hand, and one had been privately flogged. Mr. Partridge, in summing up, said there could be no doubt that the punishment had been most severe. Such a system would not be permitted in any public school, and ought not to be tolerated in private or charityschools. The trustees ought to lay down rules for the guidance of the master, and not again permit such a punishment as this. He fined the defendant 57., and in default of payment, two months' imprisonment.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF WITCHCRAFT AT CASTLE HEDINGHAM.-Emma Smith, thirty-six, and Samuel Stammers, twentyeight, were placed at the bar before Mr. Bernardiston and a full bench of magistrates, sitting in petty sessions at Castle Hedingham, charged by Superintendent Elsey with having unlawfully assaulted an old Frenchman, commonly called "Dummy," on the night of the 3rd of August, and thereby caused his death on the 4th inst.

From the extraordinary circumstances connected with the case the greatest interest was manifested in the proceedings, and the court was crowded. The female prisoner was the wife of a beershopkeeper in the village of Ridgwell, about six miles from Hedingham, and Stammers was a master carpenter in a small way of business. It is a somewhat singular fact that nearly all of the sixty or seventy persons concerned in the outrage which resulted in the death of the deceased were of the small tradesman class, and that none of the agricultural labourers were mixed up in the affair. It was also stated that none of those engaged were in any way under the in