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BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. —There are now in 
Aylesbury goal nearly 180 prisoners !! 4 only are 
debtors !—Berkshire Chronicle, Dec. 27, 1828. 
KENT.—At the winter assizes for this county, 
6 convicts were recorded for death; 7 were tran- 
sported, and 30 sentenced to imprisonment for 
various periods, 
SURREY.—The following resolution was pro- 
posed, and carried unanimously, by the magis- 
trates assembled at the quarter sessions of this 
connty—“ That this Court deem it a duty to re- 
present to the Secretary of State for the Home 
Department, the crying eyils resulting from the 
present state of the Game Laws, and to implore 
his Majesty’s Government to effect such an 
amendment of those laws as to its wisdom shall 
seem expedient, for the diminution of crime and 
the general welfare of the country; and that the 
county members do present, the same.” 
The ancient Archiepiscopal Palace, at Croydon, 
the remains of the once splendid palace, were 
sold at the Mart. ‘This extensive palace once 
covered 13 acres of land. The principal remains 
are the ancient hall, with its curiously-construct- 
ei roof, the chapel, the Judges’ chambers, and the 
old head of water. There are now a number of 
modern buildings erected on the site, which is 
bounded by the river Wandle.—The whole pro- 
duced £6,700. 
CORNWALL.—The Union Canai, between 
Liskard and Looe, is now in full working : it has 
been effected in the course of two years, at an ex- 
pense of nearly £15,000.—The new line of turn- 
pike roads, avoiding hills, between Liskeard and 
Torpoint, and branching thence towards Looe, 
are now open to travellers, combining usefulness 
with pleasure. These works have been the result 
of very liberal expense ; and the grand cbject of 
establishing a steam ferry across the Tamar, 
from ‘Torpoint to Devonport, is nearly accom- 
plished.— Sherborne Mercury. 
Ata late meeting held at Penryn, it was unani- 
mously resolved, that an institution for the in- 
struction of infant children should be established. 
At the quarter sessions, the chairman stated 
that a saving had been made last year in the ex- 
penditure of the county goal of £1,428 in the cur- 
reat expences, and on the total expenditure, of 
£583, notwithstanding an increased sum of £840 
had been expended in repairs. 
The Plumper is arrived at Falmouth from Sierra 
Leone, with forty prisoners, crew of a piratical 
schooner under Buenos Ayres colours, captured 
by one of onr cruisers, and sent to this country 
for trial. Sterborne and Yeovil Wercury. 
WALES.—The late tempestuous weather has 
been truly terrific throughout the county af Mon- 
mouth, and the country round Abergavenny, is 
_ entirely inundated. Theriver Usk has overflowed 
its hanks, and the Merthyr mail-coach has been 
washed from the road through one of the arches 
of the bridge. One of the passengers was drown- 
ed, and the whole of the horses. 
The inhabitants of Merionethshire thus intro- 
duce their petition to the commissioners appointed 
to inquire into the practice and proceedings of 
the courts of commonlaw in England and Wales ;— 
** We, the undersigned inhabitants of the county 
of Merioneth, beg to solicit your investigation of 
Provincial Occurrences : Buckinghamshire, Kent, §c. 
“made her drunk, then laid his breast over her 
[ Fes. 
the present mode of administering justice in 
Wales, more particularly as regards the expe- 
diency of assimilating the Welsh judicature to 
that of England. The facilities that must be at 
your control, and the information that has been 
forwarded to you from other parts of the princi- 
pality, reuder unnecessary our going at length 
into the subject. But we are anxious that, 
amidst other matters of consequence, your atten- 
tion should be given to this subject, which is 
of paramount importance to the community in 4 
Wales, so as to ensure them the benefit and 
instructions of the leading gentlemen of the 
law.” 
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SCOTLAND.—A noted resurrectionist, named 
Burke, and a woman with whom he cohabited, 
named Helen M‘Dougal, have been apprehended 
in Edinburgh on several charges of haying com- 
mitted murders for the purpose of selling the 
bodies of their victims to surgeons for dissection. 
The crime seemed to be of too horrible a nature 
to be true, and few persons were disposed to be- 
lieve in its reality. Their doubts, however, have 
been removed, and one of the inhuman wretches 
has expiated his offences by the forfeiture of his 
life—a punishment scarcely adequate to the enor- 
mity of bis guilt. Their trial came on in the 
High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh ; they were 
indicted on three counts ; the first, with the mur- 
der of Mary Paterson, while in a state of intoxi- 
cation, by covering ber mouth and nose, and 
forcibly compressing her throat, thereby causing 
suffocation; the second, with having committed a 
similar offence on J. Wilson, commonly called 
Daft Jamie ; and the third, with haying murdered 
Mary Campbell, also by suffocation. The pri- 
sOners were tried on the latter count only; antl 
in this case, after witnesses had testified to their 
belief in the horrible trade carried on by them, 
W. Hare, an Irishman, who acted as an accom- 
plice in the disposal of the bodies, proved the facts 
stated in the indictment: that Burke had drawn 
the old woman into the murderous receptacle, had 
head, and remained in that state till he had suffo- 
cated her; they then put the body in a tea-chest, 
and sold it to the Museum, whither it was carried 
by witness. The deceased had arrived from the 
country only one day before the murder, having 
left her home at Glasgow in search of her son, 
and being nearly destitute, was found by Burke 
in the street begging: he promised to give her 
food, and induced her to go home with him. Be- 
fore he could finally accomplish his purpose, the 
poor woman cried “ Murder,’ which was heard 
by a passer-by, and this led to the horrible dis- 
covery. Burke’s accomptice, Helen M‘Dougal, 
was acquitted ; and he was ordered for execution 
on January 28. i 
The theatre at Glasgow has been burnt to the 
ground. , 
IRELAND.—The following is an estimate of 
the value of the principal articles of produce, &e, 
exported from Ireland to Liverpool, in the yeal 
1827 : grain, £1,451,170—provisions,, £1,010 
—live stock, £1,170,998—manufacture, £€1,011,6 
—cotton twist, woollens, soap, glue, stareh, snuff 
quills, hides, and skins, potatoes, feathers, & 
£200,000 —salmon ahd poultry, 50, 
£4,894,643, 
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