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knew she would pass, with her 

 head shockingly bruised. She re- 

 mained in this state for several 

 days, and when slie came to her- 

 self, she described the attack to 

 have been made by a man in the 

 lane, who came behind her and 

 gave lier some violent blows with 

 a stick or bludgeon on tlie 

 back of her head, and afterwards 

 dragged her into the field, but she 

 did not see the man, and of course 

 coidd not describe him. She has 

 since died of the wounds, and the 

 coroner's jury have brought in a 

 verdict of wilful murder against 

 her own son. On Monday he was 

 conveyed to Winchester gaol, by 

 Vickery the Bow-street oHiier. It 

 appeared before the jury, that the 

 son courted, and was about to 

 marry, a young woman whom the 

 mother had a great objection to, 

 but he persisted. On the night 

 when the horrible deed was com- 

 mitted, he was proved to iiave been 

 visiting the young woman, and he 

 was seen by a servant giil coming 

 out of the Held where his mother 

 was found five minutes after she 

 left her house. It is conjectured 

 that the motive for the barbarous 

 act was, that the mother had left 

 all her property to her son ; but 

 had threatened that if he married 

 the girl she objected to, she would 

 alter her will and leave it to some 

 one else. 



27. An evening paper commu- 

 nicates the following letter from 

 Cowes, in the Isle of Wight : — 

 A melancholy accident took place 

 yesterday in Hamble river, by the 

 upsetting of a punt, in which were 

 R. Hohces, Esq. member for New- 

 port, aud only brother of Sir L. W. 

 Holmes, bart. and a young man of 

 this town, named Parkaian, who, 

 although they could both swim ex- 



ceedingly well, were unfortunately 

 drowned, by getting entangled iiv 

 the weeds. Mr. Holmes was not 

 more than 24 years of age, and 

 such was the respect in which he 

 was held, tliat his death has occa- 

 sioned an universal gloom through- 

 out the island. 



28. At the leree Dr. James 

 Edward Smith presented to the 

 Prince Regent a set of the Trans- 

 actions of the Linnean Society ; 

 on which occasion his royal high- 

 ness was pleased to confer the ho- 

 nour of knighthood on Dr. Smith, 

 as founder, and hitherto only pre- 

 sident, of that learned body, of 

 which his royal highness is pa- 

 tron. 



" The violent storm which alarm- 

 ed Stamford and its neighbour- 

 hood on Thursday night, the 28tb 

 ult. was felt with great severity in 

 some parts of Leicestershire. At 

 Reasby, half way between Leices- 

 ter and Melton Mowbray, it began 

 before ten o'clock with such a 

 wind and hail, followed by such 

 thunder and lightning, as horror- 

 struck every person in the parish. 

 We are assured by a respectable 

 man from that place, with whom 

 we have conversed, that the hail- 

 stones were bi;;ger than a hen's 

 etrir - many window-frames have 

 been beaten in by them at Reasby, 

 Syr-ton, Thrussington, and Hoby, 

 and fields of corn totally destroyed. 

 Mr. Woodcock, of Syston, has 

 mowed what remained after the 

 storm of a fine crop of barley, and 

 is ploughing the land for a crop of 

 turnips. The lightning was almost 

 incessant for two hours ; it scorch- 

 ed a tabl^- cloth spread at Mr. 

 Simpson's, al Reasby ; and at two 

 o'clock on Friday morning a shock 

 of an earthquake, we are ini'orm- 

 ed, was felt at that place. A man 



