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reigns. Mr. Troward, whose dwelling was next examined, was discovered to have been robbed of some cash and plate, in addition to seals, rings, &c. The servants belonging to the plundered establishments were closely questioned with regard to the manner in which the doors were secured when they retired to rest; and, from their replies, it would seem that the fastenings were made, in every respect, as usual. The domestics, by whom the doors were unlocked in the morning, declared that they found them in the same state as when fastened up at one o'clock, and that not the slightest noise was heard which could for a moment induce them to think that any intruder was on the premises. ROBBERIES IN PARIS.-It appears from the French papers, that a great number of persons have of late been robbed in the streets of Paris, between the hours of ten and twelve o'clock at night. In almost every instance, great violence has been used by the robbers, and in some cases, assassination has been attempted. On Monday last, an Irish gentleman, Mr. Nagle, was attacked in the Rue de Varennes, and was so severely wounded, that he expired on Wednesday. Mr. G. S. Grenfell, and Mr. W. Douglas, grandson of Admiral Douglas, were attacked on Monday night by four ruffians, in the Rue de Bondi. By the stout resistance they made, they succeeded, not however without serious injury to themselves, in putting three of them to flight, and in capturing the fourth, whom, with the assistance of a national guard from the Corps de Garde of the Chateau d'Eu, they conveyed to the commissary of police. On Tuesday night, about half past eleven, a butterman

living in the Rue du Regard, was attacked by three or four individuals at the moment of reaching his own door. He was very seriously wounded, and left in the street. A workman, returning home late on Sunday night, was stopped and severely beaten by a robber in the Rue du Haut Moulin, but his cries aroused the inhabitants, and two of them came out and pursued the villain, who was overtaken and seized in the Marché aux Fleurs. The man assaulted was obliged to be taken to the Hotel Dieu. M. Serget, the master of a school near the church of St. Thomas d'Aquin, was a few nights ago reading in his bed, when a man, who had got over the garden-wall, by means of a ladder, entered his chamber. M. Serget's calls for assistance raised the house, but the intruder made his escape, after threatening M. Serget that he should be murdered.

The grocers' and mercers' shops have also lately been the marked objects of the attacks of thieves. Four of them were taken on Tuesday, in the Place Maubert, who had brought, in a fiacre, a quantity of sugar, coffee, and India handkerchiefs, to deposit with a woman named Poulandon, in whose house were found numerous stolen articles.

THE ACCOUNT GIVEN OF THE ESCAPE OF HENRY WILLIAMS FROM NEWGATE, BY HIMSELF.— Henry Williams, alias Thomas Whitehead, a chimney-sweep, who lately escaped from Newgate by climbing the wall of the capital convicts' yard, was apprehended in the county of Hants, for committing a burglary at Lymington, and lodged in Winchester gaol. Mr. Cope, the governor of New.

a number of large sharp projecting iron spikes. Supporting the frieze there is an iron railing with upright spikes, upon which a man who wants to escape must walk, after having accomplished the task of scaling the walls. The adventurer has then to spring from the railing eight or nine feet, in order to reach the top of the day-room to the cells. The least slip, after having mounted a few feet above the cistern, must be fatal. Through all these difficulties and perils Williams had to pass; but although he knew, as he says, that "he had his work to do," he did not expect to encounter such tedious labour; for he supposed, that at the angle at which he had contrived to reach the ironwork, he would have been enabled to reach the top of the wall, by getting between the revolving spikes and the wall, and in this expectation he was disappointed. He could by no means thrust his body into the narrow space, and was obliged to go round three quarters of the square, by means of the ironwork, until he reached the projecting bars of iron, under the top of the day-room, to the cells. He then mounted the topmost wall, in doing which he broke away a little mortar with his foot, and he believed that if a little more had given way, he should have been plunged into the abyss. He did not trouble himself with looking back at the dangers he had passed, but cast his eye round the top of the houses in Newgatestreet, to find some passage to the street; he was convinced, that if he could not effect his object by means of a sky-light, or accidental ladder, he could successfully prosecute his journey down a chimney; but he neither wished to frighten

gate, went down to that place, and immediately recognised the unfortunate fellow, who gave the details of his enterprise. Of the persons who visited the prison of Newgate to view the path which it was supposed he took in his ascent, almost everybody went away laughing at the extreme improbability of the enterprise, and convinced that the whole mystery was solved, by ascribing to the turnkeys such negligence, as left an easy transit through the swivel gates and doors of the gaol. The statement of the man, himself, however, corresponding as it does exactly with the more accurate examination of the ascent, and with the particulars detailed by those who have the superintendence of the prison, entirely removes all doubt of the miraculous nature of the escape. The capital convicts' yard, viewed from the top of Newgate, presents an appearance of the most perfect security. The walls, by which it is surrounded, are between sixty and seventy feet in height, and form four right angles. In one of these angles, near which there is built, some feet from the ground, a water cistern, the granite has been rendered more rough, and what builders call rusticated, in consequence of the burning of a large quantity of scaffold-poles and ladders, which were deposited against the side of the wall at the time of the riots in 1780, and which caught fire, and were totally consumed. About fifty feet from the pavement of the yard is erected a revolving iron-work, or chevauxde-frieze, to prevent the ascent of any person who might have the aid of ropes from above, and considerably higher than that are fastened in the walls, between the prison and the adjacent buildings,

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anybody, by entering an apartment from a chimney, nor to expose himself to the danger of detection. Getting over the top of the cells and day-room, he passed on to the roof of the ordinary's house; and finding all possibility of entrance denied there, he climbed over the Newgate-street roofs, not one of which presented any hope, and ⚫ then turned to the roofs of the houses in Warwick-lane, upon one of which he saw a woman hanging out some clothes to dry on the leads. He hid himself behind a chimney until she disappeared down a step-ladder, and then followed her gently, and appealed to her compassion.

He had been, after he gained the free passage over the houses, obliged to avoid the gaze of the workmen at Tyler's manufactory, formerly the College of Physicians in Warwick-square, by incurring other hazards; and finding his coat an incumbrance, he left it on the top of the third house in Newgate street, so that when he made his appearance before the woman in his descent, all the clothes he had on were the gaol shirt and trousers. In passing through the house, he had to encounter another woman, and a girl about fourteen years of age, but his assurance to them that he was running from the gallows, soon cleared the way to the hall door, out of which he walked with one shilling and fourpence in his pocket to begin the world again. He immediately crossed over to Christ's Hospital, where there are some new buildings, but was told by the workmen to leave the place, as there was no thoroughfare, and there was no business on the spot for naked beggars. He then walked up Newgate-street, along Cheapside, and over London

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bridge, from which he proceeded on to Wandsworth. The first house into which he entered, after having quitted his prison-house, was a beer-shop in this village, where he drank a pint of heavy that gave him comfort." It was now about eight o'clock, and he walked on till he reached the entrance to Kingston, in a field close to which he stretched himself and slept soundly till four o'clock in the morning, when, hearing the cry of " sweep in the town, he followed it, and succeeded in getting employment in his old trade from a widow, who gave him what he called his "bub and grub," and one shilling and sixpence for nine days' work. This sort of remuneration not suiting him, he quitted the neighbourhood of the metropolis, and in a few days he reached Gosport. He could not, he declares, get any work to do, and was obliged to look for a bit of bread in any company he could fall into, and he was at last apprehended by a policeman on a charge of housebreaking.

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Mr. Cope asked him how he contrived to spring from the spikes to the top of the wall at the side of the day-room to the cells, especially as he was barefooted? Williams replied that he felt some inconvenience from the spikes, which stuck up in his feet, and one of which " poked a hole in the small of his back, but he found that by keeping himself steady, and not suffering anything to frighten him, he was able to get on very nicely. He believed at one time that he should have fallen through the skylight of one of the houses in Newgate-street, as part of the mortar gave way, but his good luck stuck to him all through; and although several

persons from the garret windows of the neighbouring houses saw him, and looked with curiosity at him as he laboured for his release, nobody made the least noise: and he believed the reason no alarm was given was, that those who beheld him in his perilous situation had humane fears for his life, and determined not to endanger it. Mr. Cope asked him by what means he managed to mount the wall from the cistern? Williams replied that he had contrived, by keeping his back to one side of the angle and working with his hands behind him, while he worked with his bare feet in the nook, but without touching his shoulders or any part of his back to the wall, to reach the revolving iron work; but he did not think, if he had known the difficulties would have been so great in passing the ironwork, he should have thought it worth his trouble. Once, however, up, he resolved to go through with the job.

14. This morning the metropolis and its suburbs were visited by a thunder-storm, which appeared to extend for many miles in a south-easterly direction. For upwards of an hour the rain fell in torrents. In some parts of the metropolis the streets were under water for a considerable time, owing to the drains and sewers being choked up, and where they were in a defective state, great mischief was done. The thunder and lightning, peal upon peal, and flash upon flash, followed in rapid succession; and about eight o'clock an unusually loud clap of thunder took place, which seemed to proceed from towards Blackheath, and continued for some time. A boy passing over the heath was at the same moment killed by the

lightning, which also struck a tree in the vicinity, and shattered it to pieces. The electric fluid went over Rotherhithe, where many persons were greatly alarmed, and entering the top of the George public-house, near the Commercial dock, destroyed part of the roof, passed through several rooms, and went out at the side, doing considerable damage in its progress, and striking a girl, whose arm was so severely scorched that it is feared she will never recover the use of it. Mr. Wickers, an elderly man, landlord of the King's Arms, a waterside public-house on Millwall, Poplar, was standing at his window, watering some plants and flowers, during the storm, and was knocked backwards by the force of the lightning, which, however, did not enter the room. He was for some time insensible, and it was several hours before he entirely recovered from the effects of the stroke. The electric fluid spread in all directions, and struck the mast of a sailing-barge proceeding down the river, and shivered it and the sail in a thousand pieces. The man at the helm was knocked over-board by the shock; but he was immediately picked up by his mates. The violence of the storm abated soon after eight o'clock, but the rain continued falling heavily until eleven o'clock. Some other accidents, but not attended with serious consequences, occurred during the storm; and the steamers, generally so much crowded on Sunday morning during the summer months, were quite deserted.

16. HOUSE OF LORDS.-Sir W. C. Anstruther v. Anstruther.This was an appeal from the court of session, bringing under the consideration of their lordships the

question whether an heir of entail, being also the heir of line, was bound, by the laws of Scotland, to collate the real estate to which he had succeeded, before he could claim a share of the personalty of the deceased. By a decree of the 28th of November, 1833, the lords of the second division of the court of session had declared that the heir of entail must collate the real estate, before he could take any benefit from his share of the personal estate. That decree was appealed from; and in April, 1835, the House of Lords forbore to give any judgment on the question, but directed the case to be remitted to the court of session, with an instruction to have the point argued before the whole of the judges, including the lords ordinary, and to pronounce judgment according to the opinion of the majority of the whole. The cause was accordingly argued before all the Scotch judges, and on the 20th of January, 1836, the judges pronounced unanimously the same decree as before. The present appeal was then brought.

The Lord Chancellor now delivered judgment. The judgment below had proceeded chiefly on the authority of a case known as the little Gilmour case, and that case had been cited as an authority in the arguments at the bar of this house. He did not admit that case's authority binding on this house; for, if opposed to the true principles of the law, the house might overrule it; but the question now was, whether it was opposed to those principles. His lordship then went into a consideration of all the leading cases and rules of Scotch law on this subject, and concluded by saying that he thought the little Gilmour case was rightly decided, and if their

lordships agreed with him in opinion, they would affirm the judgment of the court below.

Lord Lyndhurst concurred in the opinion that the judgment of the court below must be affirmed.

The Marquess of Breadalbane v. the Marchioness of Chandos.The lord Chancellor stated, that this was an appeal, bringing under the consideration of the house two questions-the first, upon the construction of the narriage settlement of the marchioness of Chandos, formerly lady Mary Campbell; and the other upon the same rule of Scotch law which their lordships had already disposed of in the preceding case, as to the liability of the present marquess of Breadalbane to collate the real estate, which he took, as heir of entail, before receiving any share of the personal estate of his deceased father. Lady Chandos was the daughter of the late lord Breadalbane, and in 1819 married lord Chandos. Upon her marriage, a settlement was executed, according to the English forms, and certain annuities, or rent charges, thereby expressly declared to be in satisfaction of her dower, were granted out of the estates of the duke of Buckingham. The settlement also provided that the marquess of Breadalbane was to pay the sum of 30,000l. as the portion or fortune of the said lady Mary Campbell," but there was no express renunciation on her part of any further claim on the property of her father. The late marquess of Breadalbane died on the 29th of March, 1834, leaving three children the present Marquess of Breadalbane, Lady Pringle, and lady Chandos. Lady Pringle had, in fact, released her father's estate from any claim on her part

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