he did not think he would be in a fit state to be examined till Saturday. The prisoner was accordingly remanded till that day.

24. SINGULAR DEATH FROM LOCK-JAW. This morning Mr. T. Horwood, the master baker of Newington Workhouse, Surrey, expired in Guy's Hospital from the effects of a lock-jaw, produced under the following singular circumstances:-It appears, that on Monday last, the 18th inst., Mr. Horwood was assisting a brewer in carrying a cask of beer into the house, when the little finger of his right hand accidentally got jambed between the edge of the cart and the slings, by which the skin was slightly grazed; no notice was taken of it until Friday evening, the 22nd inst., when it began to swell, and the symptoms rapidly assumed so alarming an appearance that it was deemed advisable to remove him to the above hospital, when lock-jaw took place and he died in a few hours.

24. INCENDIARY FIRES.-This afternoon, at about half-past three o'clock, a fire was discovered raging on the farming premises belonging to a gentleman named Day, situate near the village of Hucking in West Kent, which extended to an alarming degree, consuming the whole of the outbuildings attached to the establishment, besides several valuable stacks of hay and wheat. The flames were first observed bursting forth from the barn, where a light had not been taken for several weeks past; and from the circumstance of a person being seen to leave it a few minutes before the discovery was made, there is no doubt but that the place was set on fire. The loss is estimated at several hundred pounds.

27. To-night a fire of a most

destructive character, involving the loss of property to the extent of 1,2001., broke out on the premises belonging to Messrs. Tasker and Co., timber-merchants, at Andover. When discovered, several parts of the timber-yard, which was of considerable extent, were on fire; and so rapid was its progress, that within half an hour the whole of the property was enveloped in flames. The engines of the town were quickly on the spot; but on account of there being no water at hand, it was some time before they were brought into play. The fire was not got under until four o'clock the following morning. It was the work of an incendiary.

On the same night an incendiary fire took place at Havant, near Chichester. It commenced in a granary, in the occupation of a farmer named Softly, and extended to another building used for the same purpose; and lastly, to two dwelling-houses--the whole of which were burned to the ground. A labourer, who had absconded from the services of Mr. Softly, was suspected of having been the cause. A reward of 50l. was offered for his detection.

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POOR LAW RIOTS AT LEICES

The town of Leicester has been this week thrown into a state of great excitement, and the preservation of the public peace has been so greatly endangered as to render necessary the presence of a body of dragoons, and the active interference of an extraordinary number of police.

It appears that the able-bodied men who receive relief were required to attend at the workhouse, and, as a test of their destitution, were employed in turning the wheel at the Union Workhouse, or, as it is called by everybody at Leicester,

"the Bastile." This plan seems to have been very obnoxious to the above-described recipients of parish bounty, and they have frequently of late injured and broken the machinery. On Monday last, the 25th instant, the mill was again broken, and the master of the workhouse and the miller being able to bring home a charge against several individuals of having committed the offence, they were taken into custody, and conveyed to the lock-up.

A great concourse of the lower classes assembled, threatening language was used, and stones were thrown; the prisoners, however, were safely deposited in their places of custody. During the whole of Monday, the streets were thronged by large numbers of people, who mobbed and threw stones at several individuals, who were obnoxious from their connection with the grievances of the poor: many shop-windows were broken (though, it is believed, not intentionally) during these transactions; the shopkeepers at length closed their shops, and at an early hour all business was suspended. The mob next went to "the Bastile," and broke a number of windows there; upon which the magistrates reinforced the constabulary with a large body of the Midland Counties Railway police, the firemen of the borough, and a number of special constables. An express was likewise sent off to Loughborough for the troop of dragoons quartered there, which arrived in the course of the night. Eleven of the leading rioters were arrested; and these prompt measures on the part of the authorities awed the misguided populace, although the town continued in a most disturbed state the whole of yester

day; and to-day, when the rioters were brought before the magistrates, a rescue was feared. After a long hearing, two of the prisoners were discharged, and the remaining nine committed for trial.

29. AN ELEPHant's Revenge.— A few days since John Glascott, groom to a gentleman named Turner, was conveyed to the London Hospital with a severe fracture of the leg near the ankle. The injury was caused by an elephant; and is an additional proof that that animal remembers wrongs, and seldom fails to resent them.

In the morning Glasscott had been witnessing the performances of an elephant then exhibited in a booth in the Commercial-road East; and he took it into his head to amuse himself by teasing the animal. Nothing more happened then, but in the afternoon Glascott returned to the booth with his children, and whilst they were intent on the feats of the animal, it suddenly wound its trunk round the man's leg, and did not uncoil it until the limb was fractured. The surgical treatment Glasscott received in the hospital at first succeeded, but in a day or two erysipelas attacked the system, and to-day terminated fatally.

RIOTS AT DUDLEY.-The neighbourhood of Dudley in Worcestershire, has been the scene of a riot, caused by some nailers, in resisting a reduction of wages. In full work a nailer can make 20s. to 24s. a week, a horse-nailer 30s. to 40s.; at present the former are making only 8s. or 9s., the latter 13s. or 15s.; and the masters declared that they must reduce the wages. At the same time they said, that they thought they should thus be enabled to employ the men for a longer time in the week, so

that they would make not less money, and that trade would become brisker.

The men, however, were exasperated at Rowley Regis, on Monday, the 25th instant, they attacked the manufactory of Mr. Samuel Lewis, dragged him from his house, and carried him, with Mr. Jones and Mr. Cox, whom they also forced from their houses, to Dudley, for the purpose of procuring a compulsory attendance of masters at a meeting with a deputation of working-men. party of gentlemen rescued the masters; and then began a general riot.

The magistrates assembled at the hotel; and one of them, Mr. Charles Molyneux, proceeded to reason with the rioters; but he was driven back by the violence of the mob. Two ringleaders were seised; the Riot Act was read; the crowd made a rush at the hotel; and the police were giving way, when a detachment of Enniskillen Dragoons, who had been sent for from Birmingham, appeared on the scene. From that time, which was about four o'clock in the afternoon, the town was kept in a state of comparative order; but it was now known that a large body of rioters had assembled at Rowley Regis from Westbromwich, Cradley, Lie Waste, and Halesowen, with weapons in their hands; while their ranks were hourly augmented by fresh companies of one or two hundred each. A reinforcement of troops was sent for from Birming

ham.

On Wednesday, a detachment of the Worcestershire yeomanry_entered the town, with a piece of artillery, and the town remained under military guard on Thurs

day. On that day, some hope of an accommodation of the dispute was held out; the masters having offered to accept the workmen's scale of wages, subject to a reduction of 10 per cent.; and pledging themselves to use every ef fort to put down the truck system, which was another source of irritation.

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2. CHARTIST "DEMONSTRATION." The Chartists had a "grand demonstration" to-day, in carrying up their petition to the House of Commons. Parties assembled in the Waterloo-road, at Bermondsey, Deptford, Croydon, Bethnalgreen, Shoreditch, Finsbury, Somer's-town, St. Pancras, Marylebone, and several other places, between seven and eleven o'clock. At twelve they came to the rendezvous in Lincoln's Inn-fields. At one arrived the members of the National Convention, preceded by the monster petition, borne on the shoulders of sixteen able-bodied men, selected from the different trades in the Metropolis. It was carried on a kind of portable stage or platform which had been constructed for the purpose; and was covered with ribands, and otherwise decorated. On the front was placed a placard, displaying the number of signatures which it contained, and from that it appeared that the number was 3,315,752.

The procession was formed soon after one o'clock, the petition being placed in front; and it was followed immediately by a black banner inscribed "Murder demands Justice 19th August, 1819." Then came some staves, surmounted each by a cap of liberty; and

then some flags, in all numbering seventy. These were some of the mottoes: "O'Connor, the tried Champion of the People," "The Sovereignty of the People," "The Charter," "Universal Charter," "No Surrender," "Liberty, "Free Press," and "More Pigs and less Parsons," with "Universal Suffrage," on the same flag. The procession went down Little Queen-street, Holborn, Tottenham Court-road, the New Road, Langham-place, Regent-street, and through Westminster to the House of Commons. Here the open places were thickly crowded with spectators. At the windows of the Committee-rooms were Members of the House: in one, Mr. Thomas Duncombe, who was to take charge of the petition, was recognised, and loudly cheered. The petition was taken to the Members' entrance, but it was found too vast for admittance: it was then carried to the front-door, but neither was that large enough; so it was broken up, and carried into the house piecemeal, by a long line of men. That done, the procession filed off, and departed across Westminster Bridge.

TAKING THE VEIL.This morning a spectacle of very unfre. quent occurrence in this country took place at the convent of "The Sisters of Mercy," situate near Hickman's Folly, Bermondsey. The ceremony was for the initiation of two young ladies, one of whom had to receive the white veil, and the other the religious (or black) habit of the community.

Before eleven o'clock, the hour appointed for the ceremony, the chapel attached to the convent was filled by a numerous congregation, the major portion of which consisted of ladies. As soon as the clock struck eleven the convent

bell began to toll, which was the announcement of the entry of the procession into the chapel. The Very Rev. Dr. Griffiths, the titular bishop, who officiated, advanced to the altar, splendidly dressed in his sacerdotal robes; in his train were a number of the Roman Catholic clergy, the choristers, bearers of incense, and others forming the procession. At a given signal the choir struck up the hymn to the Virgin, "O Gloriosa." The sisters of the convent then entered in procession in the usual costume of nuns, each holding a lighted taper in her hand. The two novices, Miss Baxter and Miss Kellett, who are both young ladies of considerable fortunes, followed in order, led by the superioress, assisted by two of the sisters (one of whom was Miss Agnew niece of Sir A. Agnew, Bart.; and the other Lady Barbara Eyre, daughter of the Earl of Newburgh. The religious names the latter ladies bear are Sisters Mary and Clara.) The novices, Miss Baxter and Miss Kellett, were both elegantly dressed in white embroidered muslin, wearing chaplets of white roses as head-dress, and each held a lighted wax taper in her right hand.

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After they approached the altar, an exhortation was delivered by the bishop, from St. Matthew, e. xix. v. 29:-" And every one that hath forsaken houses, brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting life."

After the exhortation, the bishop severally questioned them as to their own free will in taking the holy habit of religion, to which having assented, the novices retired to put off their secular dress, and

shortly returned in the habits of the nuns.

During the delivery of a very affecting discourse by the titular bishop on their retirement from the world, the novices showed no signs of agitation, nor did their countenances betray any symptom of reluctance, but, on the contrary, appeared to be lightened up with an expression of enthusiastic feeling.

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EXTRAORDINARY BURGLARY. -At an early hour this morning, considerable surprise was created in the vicinity of Cheapside amongst the numerous owners of warehouses situate in that locality, by the discovery of one of the most daring burglaries that have taken place in the city for several years, on the warehouses belonging to Messrs. T. and W. Hutchinson aud Spillers, No. 5, Bread-street; and also those in the occupation of Messrs. Gent, Millar, and others, silk-mercers, in the same street.

The discovery was made at about eight o'clock, by a porter in the service of the latter gentlemen, who, on entering the warehouse, found that it had been broken into, and that the place was in the utmost state of confusion.

The robbery appears to have have been perpetrated in the course of Saturday night, the 30th ult., or yesterday, and it has been clearly proved that the burglars' operations occupied upwards of twenty-four hours. The warehouse of Messrs. Millar and Co. seems to have first been attempted, but this externally was found impracticable, on account of the warehouse doors being strongly secured by patent locks. The burglars then proceeded to those of Messrs. Hutchinson, which they speedily entered, the only fastening being a common padlock. They were then, it seems, locked

in by one outside, for three are supposed to have been concerned in the affair. This no doubt took place between the hours of ten and twelve on Saturday night. The goods in the warehouse being entirely carpet, and too bulky for their purpose, they remained untouched.

Their next operation was to effect an entrance into Messrs. Millar's warehouse, which was accomplished by making an aperture through the party wall on the ground floor with an housebreaking implement called a "jemmy," which was found by the police on the premises, and is now in their possession, with a bunch of skeleton keys, and other housebreaking articles, which were likewise found. The hole, which was just large enough for a man to squeeze himself through, must have occupied them many hours in boring, owing to the great thickness of the wall, and there being pieces of hard timber and other obstacles.

At the termination of their la bours they repaired to Messrs. Millar and Co.'s counting-house, where they regaled themselves with ham and biscuits that were in a closet, and with sundry bottles of Dublin stout, and two of sherry, the bottles of which were left on the desks. From thence they returned through the hole into Messrs. Hutchinson's warehouse, and on leaving it, replaced the padlock on the outer door, and locked it, unobserved by any of the inhabitants or police on duty in the immediate neighbourhood.

4. EXTRAORDINARY DELUSION. -An investigation was gone into this evening, before Mr. Higgs, at the Falcon, Lisle-street, Leicestersquare, concerning the death of a foreigner, named Lindau, who