cannon, Albemarle, and Winchester; Sir E. Codrington, Sir Wil liam Houston, and a number of other lords and gentlemen, with several ladies.

Her Majesty looked extremely fatigued and pale, but returned the repeated cheers with which she was greeted, with remarkable ease and dignity. She was dressed in deep mourning, with a white tippet, white cuffs, and a border of white lace under a small black bonnet, which was placed far back on her head, exhibiting her light hair in front simply parted over the forehead. Her Majesty seemed to view the proceedings with considerable interest. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent was similarly dressed to the Queen.

In the court-yard, were Garter King-at-arms, with heralds and pursuivants in their robes of office, and eight officers of arms on horseback, bearing massive silver maces; Sergeants-at-arms with their maces and collars; the Sergeant Trumpeter, with his mace and collar; the trumpets, drummajor and drums, and Knights Marshal and men.

On her Majesty showing herself at the presence chamber window, Garter Principal King-at-arms, having taken his station in the court yard under the window, accompanied by the duke of Norfolk, as earl marshal of England, read the proclamation, containing the formal and official announcement of the demise of king William IV., and of the consequent accession of Queen Alexandrina Victoria to the throne of these realms.

The following was the proclamation:

"Whereas it hath pleased AlVOL. LXXIX.

mighty God to call to his mercy our late Sovereign Lord, King William the Fourth, of blessed memory, by whose decease the imperial crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is solely and rightfully come to the High and Mighty Princess Alexandrina Victoria, we, therefore, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this realm being here, assisted with these of his late Majesty's privy council, with numbers of other principal gentlemen of quality, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and citizens of London, do now hereby with one voice and consent of tongue, proclaim that the High and Mighty Princess Alexandrina Victoria is now, by the death of our late Sovereign William the Fourth, of happy memory, become our only lawful and rightful liege Lady Alexandrina Victoria I., Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, defender of the faith (and so forth), to whom we acknowledge all faith and constant obedience, with all humble and hearty affection, beseeching God, by whom kings and queens do reign, to bless the royal Princess Alexandrina Victoria with long and happy years to reign. God save the Queen."

At the termination of this proclamation, the band struck up the national anthem, and a signal was given for the Park and Tower guns to fire, in order to announce the fact of the proclamation being made. During the reading of the proclamation, her Majesty stood at the presence chamber window, and immediately upon its conclusion, the air was rent with the loudest acclamations by those within the area, which were responded to by the thousands without.

F

JULY.

1. EXTRAORDINARY ACCUSATION. It will be remembered, that in the month of May last year, a charge of a criminal nature was preferred before the Lewisham magistrates by Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson Boyce, widow, against Mr. John Frederick Parker, solicitor, who for many years had resided at Lewisham, where he filled the office of clerk to the district magistrates, and held other official appointments. Mr. Lester, solicitor, of Blackheath, appeared on behalf of Mrs. Boyce, and an information was exhibited, charging Mr. Parker with having, in the spring of that year, administered certain drugs to Mrs. Boyce, to procure abortion, she then being pregnant by him, and with having subsequently taken her to the house of a German surgeon in London, where, in a darkened room, an operation was performed upon her, which produced the intended effect of causing abortion. -Upon this information, a warrant was issued, and Mr. Parker was brought before a magistrate, when time being asked on behalf of the accused to rebut the charge, the magistrate consented to grant it, and without then entering into an examination, fixed a day when the inquiry should be gone into before a full bench, and, in the interval, consented to take bail for Mr. Parker's appearance. Two gentlemen of known property and character immediately became sureties for Mr. Parker's appearance on the day appointed, each in 500l., and Mr. Parker having entered into a personal recognizance of 1,000l., he was liberated. The day appointed for the hearing ar

rived, and there was a very full bench of magistrates assembled. Mr. Lester appeared as solicitor, and Mr. Bodkin was in attendance as counsel, for the prosecution. Mrs. Boyce and Mr. Tanner, her father, were also present as witnesses to support the charge, but the accused was not forthcoming, and on inquiry, it was ascertained he had quitted his residence at Lewisham, and was gone, no one knew where. He was in the usual form called upon for his recognizances, and, not answering, they were ordered to be estreated. Large placards offering a reward of 50l. for his apprehension, were, a few days afterwards, posted about the towns of Greenwich, Deptford, and Lewisham, but they led to nothing. Notwithstanding the disappearance of the accused, the magistrates deemed it their duty to take the deposition of Mrs. Boyce, as to all the details of her accusation. A long narrative was given by her of the circumstances out of which her acquaintance with Mr. Parker arose, the illicit intercourse which followed, her becoming pregnant, and giving birth to a child. A subsequent renewal of the intercourse, and her becoming a second time pregnant, upon which occasion she alleged the attempts to have been made to procure abortion, by administering drugs, and these failing, that she was taken by Mr. Parker to a German surgeon in London, where, by an instrument, the end was accomplished. Mr. Tanner, her father, was also examined as a witness upon some collateral matters of minor importance. The depositions of the witnesses were carefully reduced to writing by the clerk of the magistrates, and having been read over to Mrs. Boyce and Mr. Tanner, they subscribed their signatures to their respective depositions. Orders were given by the magistrates, to estreat the recognizances of Mr. Parker, against which, an appeal was lodged by the sureties, and, upon argument before the quarter session, the recognizances were declared invalid, a single magistrate having no power to admit to bail when the charge was of felony. The affair, as might be expected, caused much excitement and conversation in the neighbourhood, but, like all other things, at length was forgotten, till it was most unexpectedly revived, by the accused himself challenging inquiry into his conduct.

About ten days since, a formal notice was served upon the clerks of the magistrates, informing them that Mr. Parker would forthwith surrender himself to meet the charges which had been preferred against him. Similar notices were served upon Mrs. Boyce, Mr. Tanner, and Mr. Lester the solicitor. On the day appointed, the magistrates met in the assembly room of the tavern, for the purpose of entering upon the examination of the prisoner.

The accused, John Frederick Parker, was produced by Atkins. He is a good looking man, of middle stature, and apparently in the prime of life. Several respectable friends accompanied him.

The information was read by the clerk of the magistrates. It contained the charges before stated, to which Mr. Parker pleaded not guilty.

Mr. Bodkin said, he was now instructed to say, that when Mrs. Boyce preferred her extraordinary charge, she was labouring under

great irritation and excitement of mind, and had been improperly urged on by others to make statements which she could not, now that she had regained her self-possession, possibly attempt to substantiate, and which, therefore, she wished to withdraw. He had only to add, that he had received a letter from Mrs. Boyce, in which she admitted the charges preferred by her against Mr. Parker, to be altogether untrue.

The room was ordered to be cleared, and the magistrates continued in private deliberation full half an hour, when the doors were re-opened, and the prisoner, the counsel, and other parties resumed their places in the room.

The Chairman asked if the witnesses whose depositions were taken on the former occasion were in attendance ?-Mr. Bodkin said, he believed not.

The magistrate's clerk asked if Mrs. Boyce was there? - Mr. Bodkin said she was not.

Mr. James Lester, the solicitor for Mrs. Boyce on the first investigation, was ordered to be sent for.

Mr. Lester entered the room and was asked by the clerk if he had anything to say in respect of the charge? - Mr. Lester said he had nothing of himself to offer. He was no longer the professional adviser of Mrs. Boyce.

The Chairman said, that under all the circumstances of the case the magistrates had determined to remand Mr. Parker to allow an opportunity for a full investigation.

Mr. Parker was accordingly transferred into the custody of Fisher, the high constable, who received a warrant for conveying him to the county gaol.

2. QUEEN'S BENCH. MONDAY. CRIM. CON. PERRY v. MURRAY. -The Attorney General stated, that this was an action for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife. The plaintiff was a gentleman whose father had left him a competent fortune, and whose taste led him to the enjoyment of a literary leisure. He had been a visitor to Italy. While there, he met his present wife, who was the second daughter of LieutenantColonel De Courcy; she had been educated abroad, and to great personal attractions added the highest accomplishments of education. An intimacy had been formed between them, which soon ripened into attachment, and in 1830 they were married. For some time they resided abroad, at different places in Italy and Germany, but at the close of 1835, Mr. Perry came to England. He received shortly after, the appointment of Master of the Horse to the earl of Mulgrave, the viceroy of Ireland, and he removed his wife to Dublin, where they lived very happily to gether, till the defendant, who was very highly connected, and was an officer in the 15th Hussars, became acquainted with the family, and by his seductive arts destroyed the domestic peace of that family, into which he had been received as a friend, and forced the husband now to appear as a plaintiff claiming compensation for an irreparable injury.

The marriage of the plaintiff was proved.

Ernesteine Schneider, a German female servant, was examined through the medium of an interpreter. She stated, that she entered the service of Mrs. Perry, at Baden, in the month of November 1835. She was lady's maid. Mrs.

Perry was then living at Baden with her two children. She remained there till the following February. She afterwards came to London, and stayed here about eight or ten days and then went to Dublin. Mr. Perry met her at Dublin, and conveyed her to the castle. They continued together in Dublin, till the month of September, when Mr. Perry went to England. He always behaved very kindly to Mrs. Perry. Witness knew the defendant. He was a captain in the 15th Hussars. She had not observed anything particular in his attention to Mrs. Perry before he left Dublin. After Mr. Perry left, the defendant used to come every day to the house. He generally came about one o'clock in the day, and remained till five or six. He then went home to dress, and returned to dinner, and he used frequently to remain till one or two in the morning. They dined together alone. Witness knew that Mrs. Perry received letters from the defendant, and had seen her burn them afterwards Once, when Mr. Perry was in Dublin, he came home at nine o'clock in the evening, and found the defendant there. He expressed much displeasure at the circumstance. Witness had delivered letters from the defendant to Mrs. Perry, and also letters from Mrs. Perry to the defendant, sometimes as often as twice a day. Witness had gone with Mrs. Perry to 19, Suffolk street, Dublin, where she saw the defendant. (The witness here mentioned circumstances to show that an adulterous intercourse had taken place.) At that time Mrs. Perry did not sleep with her husband. Her health was not good. Witness mentioned to Mr. Perry what she had seen. He turned very pale. Cross-examined; Mr. Perry had left Baden before Mrs. Perry quitted it. Witness never saw him there. Mrs. Perry was visited by several acquaintances when at Baden. Colonel Lanskoff was one of her acquaintances there. He visited her frequently. She was also some time at Mayence, and the colonel lodged in the same hotel. They dined together several times. They went to Frankfort. Mr. and Mrs. Perry slept in separate rooms in Dublin. She frequently remained whole days in her room without seeing her husband. On one occasion, when he was in Dublin she remained out all one night. She came home about seven o'clock the next evening. Mr. Perry inquired for her in the morning, and witness said she was not well and would remain in bed. When the dinner hour arrived, he inquired if she would come down to dinner. Witness answered that she would not, and he sent up dinner to her. Witness knew at the same time, that she was not at home. Witness said so at Mrs. Perry's desire. Witness was still in the service of Mr. Perry.

David Piccard kept a shop at 59, Suffolk street, Dublin. Witness knew the defendant, who took a room in witness's house, saying he had a French lady he wished to marry. Witness asked if she was quite correct; defendant said that she was; the room was a parlour; it had a sofa and chairs in it; defendant met the young lady there; witness opened the door; she came several times and went into the room with the defendant; they remained there an hour and a half alone; they generally came between daylight and dusk; witness tried the door once, and found

that it was locked; the defendant used to go out first and call a coach, and then the lady went away with him; witness once found the cushions of the sofa on the floor, and mentioned it to the defendant, who said, "That's nothing! - Cross-examined ;Witness would not have allowed them to come again if he thought that there was anything wronginit.

Mr. Thesiger addressed the jury for the defendant. After a charge from Lord Denman, a verdict was returned for the plaintiff. Damages 100l.

3. A NEW ARITHMETICAL PRODIGY.-(From the Medical Gazetle.)-A boy who is able to perform very complicated arithmetical operations, mentally, was exhibited at the sitting of the Academy of Sciences at Paris. His name is Vito Mangiamele, and he was born in a village in the environs of Syracuse; he is the son of a shepherd, and has been a shepherd himself. The person who has brought him from Sicily says that he is ten years and a half old. At a very early age (says this same person) he shewed a great readiness in calculating; and the compendious methods by which he solves the questions proposed (which he generally does in a much shorter time than can be done in the ordinary way, and with the pen in one's hand,) are entirely of his own invention. The only thing which he has been taught is the meaning of the words employed in arithmetic--such as square, cube, power, root, ratio, &c. This child has not that appearance of suffering, which one too often sees in little prodigies, and which shows that they are worn out by toil. His plumpness and rosy complexion bear witness to his