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I. 1• I ' ,1 4 1 . 1. 1 11 { ' `+{M ASSIZES. SUIRET ASSIZISL—GUILDFORD, AUGUST 10. Thomas Hust was indicted for feloniously marry ing Sarah Bristow, otherwise Garrett, his former wife, Susannah Host, being alive. The case was proved not only by the.usual kind of evidence upon such occasions, but up n the confession of the priso ner, who now attempted to justify his conduct, by declaring the infidelity his wife. He was found Guilty, and sentenced to two years imprisonment. William Taylor and Robert Hughes were indicted for stealing two white hogs, the properti of William Meagre, at Croydon. This case was wholly bircum tial. They had taken the hogs from the . premises of the prosecutor in a cart, at five in the morning. Pne, of the wheels of the cart left an odd impressiorrirpon the tzt o rd, near the house ; and one of the feet of the had a deformity, which was very unfre-+ quent with hones, and left an impression not to be mistaken. These marks were traced to the prisoners' • house. The skins of three hogs were found in the stable of the prisoners resembling that of those that were stolen. The pthoners had been seen dragging three white hogs into their stable from the cart at an early hour in the morning ; their horse was in a de plorable sweat, and their behaviour had many marks of suspicion about it. They were found Guilty, and sentenced to be transported for seven years. Edmund Murdock was capitally convicted of breaking and entering the dwelling house of John Jarrett, on the Ist if June last, at Southwark,. and burglariously stealing therein a quantity of wearing apparel, some plate, and other property. Henry Hogan was indicted for stealing, on the 23d of March last, a saddle and bridle, the property of Edward Glandell, of Lark Hall-lane. The circum stances of this case were rather curious :---The priso met went to the house of the prosecutor, and stated that he wanted to go to Croydon, and for this, pur pose wished to borrow a horse. Ile was in conse quence accommodated, but while bargaining for the hire he dashed off with horse; bridle, and saddle, and was not for some time heard of. Being discovered, however, the horse was restored, but the bridle and saddle had been disposed of. In mercy towards him, the proseeitt;on was only laid against him for the larceny in stealing the bridle and saddle, the charge of horse. stealing being of course a capital oifence.-- The prisoner was found Guilty, and was sentenced to seven years transportation. William Al:en aad Dalian:in Gardener, two mere boys, were found Guilty, upon their own confession, or stealing some shoes, and other articles, the pro perty of John Palmer, of Wandsworth, on the 30th of July last. They • were sentenced e•tch to one mouth s imprisonment, :tad to be privately whippci. _ _ _ nosigs Williams and Samuel MessenFer verefound Guilty of stealing a number of masons tools, &c. the property of Messrs. Thomas, of Lambeth. They were sentenced also to one month's imprisonment each, and to be privately whipped. SUMIII Brawn was convicted fog' stealing, on the 4Cr: of August, from the -,hop of Mr. Lank ' aster, at .I:ewington, a piece of plinted cotton, his property. Sht was sentenced tc impr:sonmcnt for nine months in the county jail. _ James M iinic, for stealing a caddy and skew. bog, the property of John Platt, of St. George's, Southwark ; and William Canning, for stealing a miss of hay, the property of John Field, of Ncv;ing• ton, were each convicted, and sentcaced to c.ne month's imprisonment, and to be privately whipped. STAFFORDSHIRE. At the Staffordshire Assizes, Samudienkins, aged 11, was tried for feloniously assisting a man to ravish Eleanor Norton, at Tettenhall, in April list. Accor crag to the evidence of Eleanor Norton, she was over taken by the prisoner and Joseph Harvey, about l 2 O'clock on a Saturday night, as she was returning front Wolverhampton. Jenkins, she said, held her d )wn, while Harvey ravished her. She went to a Magistrate the following morning, and Jenkins was taken into custody, but Harvey could not be found. While the first witness was under examination the Learned Judge ordered the others to withdraw ; the consequence WAS a flit contradiction in the evidence (4 . the prosecutrix and her mother-in ,law, and the immediate acquittal cf the prisoner. Bow sratrr.—Testerday blr. Bu'.rner, the floor-I cloth manufacturer in the Strand, preferred a charie of burglary and theft against Janus Kellner. .sir. Bulmer, on entering his house on Sunday evening, about twelve o'clock, discovered symptoms of rch• Ws- y, and on looking about saw a strange man. Ile and his son instantly gave an alarm, and the door being opened, the watch and patrole came in and found a man in the shop. The person so found was charged with being a thief, but he insisted that he had come in with the watch, to assist Mr. Bultner.—; Eva"' body, however, protested that this account was false, He gave the same account yesterday be. Ore Sib- N. CONANT, who admitted him to bail. • M A RIAOROUGH4TRZET.—Ycq erday John Bishop I was charged with robbing Mrs. E. Rose of her pocket 7 bark, containing £4, Sec. on Saturday evening.—The prosocurrix, who is a respectable married woman, , whose husbar.d is in a situation near Welling, she re siding temporarily with their friends in Weymouth street, was returning thither between nine and ten o'clock on the evening stated, from Devonshire-mews, with two bundles in her hands, when the prisoner ac costed her, and said it was a piry so light a figure quid be so much loaded. She made him no an swer, bat he continued his importunities, and walked class by her side. When near her residence, in Weymouth.street, witness--did not think at safe to cross the road in his company, and she turned back to avoid him ; he still followed her, but quitted her on some one approaching, and she discovered that she had lost her pocket-book. She called out " stop aid!" and the prisoner was taken.—ln answer to an insinuation of the prisoner, that the prosecutris had tsten his arm, she denied it, but said he had forced her arm into his. Selon, a constable, produced the property, and the prisoner was committed for trial. - Examitsori.--Friday, Thomas Smith was executed at Cbelmsford, pusuant to his sentence, for having assaulted and robbed Mr. William Haydon and two I other geatigrap.auturning from Fairlop wllo was to have suffered at the same time, received a reprieve. ' T IRELAND. LIMED ASSIZES. . Nyanza OF 010101 a AL/ova. On Thurday the SOth ultimo, at an adjournment of the Assizes at Lifford, . William Merry and Da* Ganny, were tried before Mr. Justice MOORE. and a respectable Jury, for the murder of George Balfour, at Glena Bridge, near Carn, in the county of Done 'on the night of the Ist of Oc tober, 1817. e Counsel for the Crown stated the circumstances of the case. The murder of Mr. Norton Butler, two or three years ago, had led to the crime whith was the subject of the present prosecution.— Daniel Maginnis had been charged with the murder of Mr. Butler ; after evading justice for a long time I , he was taken prisoner in the summer of 1816, and was tried and convicted at the Lent Assizes of 1817. Batfour•was suspected of having given information which led to the taking of Maginnis, and for this offence it was determined by the prisoner, and his associates, that Balfour should be put to death. It appeared from the evidence of one of the wit. nesses that a few nights before the murder of Balfour he was going to a wake when he met with William M'Sheffry, who told him he was watching Gecrge Balfour, and induced him to join a party of about fifty persons. The party were consulting how to get Balfour out of the wake-house, in order to murder him, but while they were deliberating Balfour passed by in company with two other men, and the design was postponed till another opportunity. Other witnesses swore, that they had received sum monses to attend a meeting on the night 6f the Ist of October, which they were afraid to refuse, lest their own lives should be endangered. They joined a party, consisting of a hundred at least, assembled near Glenagannon Bridge ; they were under the bank of the river, some sitting and some lying down. It was a moon-light night, but not very bright. A man came over the bridge along the road from Cam whistlitv;—which the witness understood to be the signal that Balfour was corning lir a few minutes atter Balfour came. by himself, in the same direc tion. The party drew near to the bridge, and just as Balfour had passed along it, a man rushed for ward and seized him, and dragged him back a few paces. Balfour raised his hand to his hat, and said, " Boys dear, what you please?" which were the last words that lie spoke. The person who had first seized him, immediately gave him a stab with a sword, which he drew front a canc. , and instantly the whole party rushed upon him with various v: ea puns, every body striking him that could get ax him. They dragged him off the road into.the hollow, and when he was dispatched, a rope was put round his seek, and he was shagged to a flax-hole, at some dis tance ; the body was throWn in, and a man jumped on it to sink it. it was then covered with sods. When all was over an oath was administered to several of the party, to keep secret all that had gassed. This was not taken by all the pariy. The trial commenced at twelve o'clock and con tinued till nine at night, when, after a most impres sive charge from the learned and humane Judge, W'. M'l:hany was sentenced to he hanged on Saturday, the Ist instant, and his body to be delivered to the surgeons for dissection. Darby Canny was acquitted. HEAD POLTCE Orrice, DUBLIN, Are. 7.—A per son, formerly in the woollen-drapery business, in Francis-street, was on Friday taken into custody, upon the charge of having, in February last, handed over in payment to Benjamin Rigley, of Manchester, a forged draft of C. 44. 10s. Bd. purporting to be the acceptance of Sam. Smith, of Wicklow . The docu ment in qeescion had been given, with other securities, to the amount of £lOOO, in settlement of an account. The prisoner was taken into custody by Mr. Farrell, the chief peace officer, and upon being brought before the Magistrates, Counsellor I'INLAT was, upon two separate days, heard upon his belAlf. After the most mature deliberation, the primer was, on Monday last, committed to Newgate. Denue.—Tuesday last, between three and four o'clock, a tuffian, of the name of John Reilly, the driver of a hay -cart, in the employment of a man' named Discern, a factor, of Kevin s Port, Dublin, after having discharged his load of hay in the neigh bourhood of Leeson-street, drove his horse and cart along the flag-way of the South side of Istephen%- lgreen. in a must violent meaner, and unfortunately came in contact with five- interesting young Ladies. who were returning item school; they were all thrown down—one of them, abeet twelve years of age, the dau,siecr of Mr. Bergin, a respectable grocer :n Essex-street, suffered most seriously, the side of her head and face being dangerously cut and bruised Surgical assistance was fortunately procured almost -at the moment, and this young lady was conveyed home to her disconsolate patents ; two others of the young ladies were in a slight measure hurt—the re attaining two suffered more from the fright than otherwise. Reilly, the driver, immediately fled, leav ing the cart and horse behind; but was ultimately discovered, concealed - in a quarry, in the Long-lane l off Camden-street. CARLOW, AUGUST 6.---Monday night, about nine o'clock, three men called at the house of Michael Mulhall, an induitrious coal cartihr, living near Bal. lyadams Castle, about ten miles from Carlow, in the Queen's County, affecting to search for a deserter.— One of them entered the house, and the other two drove in a man and boy, who were at a lime-kiln near it ; and closing the door, demanded what mo ' ney they had. The wife of Mulhall gave ten-pence, saying it was all that was in the house t not satisfied with this, they proceeded to search Mulhall's person, and discovered in the pockets of an inside waistcoat, a few tenpennies which he had to purchase a load of culm in the colliery next day. Rather than part those, Mulh 11l straggled, and was immediately fired , at by one of the gang. He kept his hold, notwith standing a mortal wound, from the shot in his belly, and, assisted by his wife, the man and boy, endea voured to secure hm ; but at last, faint and over- I powered with repeated blows of the pistol, and a !large stone fiom the other two, they desisted, and the villains escaped. Mulhall died immediately after. In the struggle, one of the robbers bit the wife's fin ger almost off. An Inquest was held on the body, by Mr. KELLY, one of the Coroners of the Queen's County, and a verdict found of—Wilful Murder against some parson or persons unknortu • • MURDER AT EPSOM. Thursday the remains of Ely Cox, the young man who was murdered at Epsom, on the morning of, Sunday se'nnight, were interred at eight o'clock in the evening, at Epsom Church ; the crowds who witnessed his funeral were very great. The deceased was only between 19 and 20 years of age. He was a remarkable fine stout young man. Sunday the Magistrates (who have met daily since this transaction took place), who formed themselves into a Committee to prosecute the affair with the greater success, met again at the Coffee House, when a man named Thomas Osborne, who had been exa mined before, and set at liberty, was again brought' before them by May, of Union Hall Office, and exa mined upon suspicion of being the murderer of Cox. ,After his examination, 112 was committed, and con veyed to town on Sunday night, by May, and lodged in Horsemonger-lane jail. The cause of his appre- I hension was, that a baker's boy, who delivered bread at his house on the morning of Monday, the day after the murder was committed, had stated, that he saw an apron (such as prisoner generally wore) in his house in a bloody condition; other circumstances also came out during Irk examination. The prisoner worked for Mr. Northey, at Epsom, in his gardens, and prior to the murder he used to cut the fruit trees with a clasp pruning knife; ,Monday, the day after the murder was committed, he used a long case knife to prune the trees, and such a knife as the pri soner used was found near the body of the deceased. The prisoner's sister-in-law, and a man named Saun ders; who worked with prisoner at Mr. Northey's gardens, deposed, that the knife found near the dead body was very much like the one they had seen the prisoner use, but they could not speak positively that t was the same. Saunders stated also, that the pri soner-on the Monday after the murder was commit ted worked with him in Mr. Northey's ,garden, and his conduct was very different from what it formerly was; he was not so sociable as before, but kept at a distance, and " appeared very shy." This witness did net observe the injuries on the prisoner's head on Saturday, the day before the murder was com mitted, nor on the Monday after, for he wore his I hat, and that covered them.--There could be little doubt that some of the persons, whoever they were, that committed the murder, must have received some personal injury from the determined resistance made by Cox. The prisoner was found to have re ceived some injuries on his forehead, and also on other parts of his head. The account he gives of them is, that he received their on the day the mur der was committed, by falling from a fruit tree ; but he brought no person I-ray:a-3 to whom he had men tioned having met with the accident. The prisoner denied the assertions of the baker's boy, he declared that no bloody apron was in his house, and said it must be all an invention of the lad. The boy, how ever, persisted in his story. When the prisoner was examined on this day week before the Magistrates, he was asked if he wore socks in his shoes ? he very calmly replied, " No, I do not." • On Sunday, when the prisoner was again before the Magistrates, the question about his wearing sacks was not agairi put to him, hut it occurring to May that his former ac count might not be correct, he thought it proper to examine his shoes, and to his surprise found a new sock in one shoe, and an old one in the other, resem bling the one foand near Cox's .dead body. The prisoner Osborne is more strongly suspected from his being a poacher, but it is not believed that he was alone in the transaction. May, the officer, lett London immediately after he had secured Osborne in Newington Jail, having received information of another person being concerned. The prisoner being shewn the bloody knife found near Cox s corpse, said that it was not his, and that lie was innocent of the murder. The Magistrates, Mr. TROTTER, General Howaant . , Mr.Wurrstorta, &c. were of-opinion that there was sufficient evidence against the prisoner to warrant his committal, and they committed hini for re-examination on a future day. Daratieut. Rms.—Yesterday morning, about half past one o'clock, an alarming fire broke out at the house of Mr. Heneker, the sign of the Duke of York public house, Ratcliffe Highway. A man who was passing by the house at the time, and observing a great body of smoke issuing from the window, in stantly ran to the watchmen, and made an alarm. In a moment the flames burst from the windows with the most alarming rapidity. Mr. Heneker was in the country; and had left his house in the care of a man and two women servants, who had retired to rest. Every effort was tried to rouse them, but for some time in vain ; the watchmen at length broke open the doors, and awoke them, and they escaped the back way. The fire communicated to the ad joining house, and likewise to some old wooden houses' At the back, and the wind blowing in that direction, it threatened destruction to the whole neighbourhood. Several engines shortly arrived, but at first there being a short supkily of water ,' the flames increased to an alarming height. The houses of Mr. Heneker and Mrs. Hume fell in with a tremendous crash, and the adjoining houses which had taught fire were burning rapidly. A poor woman was then observed from a win low, surrouded with flames, screaming and calling for assistance for herself and her help less children, but those who wished to assist her were fearful in the attempt they slmuld lose their own lives. At length finding no person coming to her assistance, she rushed out, svith three naked chil dren in her arms. She let them fall, and returned, and brought out another. She then ran about dis tracted thmking she had not got them all, and on their. being placed before her, she fainted, and lay on the ground as if dead for some time. One family were buried in sleep when the fire had nearly arrived at their apartment, and were awoke by the intense heat. -The father let .the whole out by rot es, while the fire men played the water about them ; after which he let himself out, and fell, but was not much hurt.— Several persons ventured into some of the old houses at the back, to try to save some of the property, and while they were in, the roof fell, in, and they nar rowly escaped with their lives. A woman and her child were burned very much is escaping front their room ; they took shelter at Mr. Cohen s, but were shortly after obliged again to escape, that house having caught fire. The fire continued burning till . between eight and nine o'clock yesterday morning, and Ittithu - in the 'fumes was vt quite oat. It not yet known whether any Bile' wee lost houses of Mr. Heneker, Messrs. Ma shall, bit Mrs. Hume, hatter; Mr. *Donald, hair-dre.so; Mr. Dudley, butcher 4 Mr: Cohen, ledging.hose. keeper, and Mr. Owen, were burned in Ifusci;: e . Highway, and upwards cf 12 other were destroyed, THE MARIC.ET& CORN ERCiIANGE, MARK-LANE, AtGrST za. c u MM24T rases Al Mai • 11101JIX. Wheat, Kist sod Essex 7os Ws Suffolk 70s 7Bl Norfolk 681 76. Barley 421 511 s Matt 76s Ws White Peas s6* 664 --, Boners 66s 78s Grey Peas 54. as NEWGATE moo I.E %BENI (By the Beef is Od to 4s LI Mutton —.As 0d to Os 841 Lamb Ss. Small Beans ...».--fU - e l Tick diao ......... ....4.4 :ss Oats, dictator .........'p, i 4 ....... Feed ............... 21i 31 Flour, per S•tck •••• • • 'es : iißapeseed, per la s s - A e ll Tell!lin. Wheat, DattlaC ...... ..114 6 Heide Red, ilatabro' es Bsemen, Brabant red `n 'lt I Alt Pi ARK LTF, Aussie • . .c Cu-case.) IVeal . Pork 14. to 65. 44. ~ ..• 41 C 4 re 31 , 541 134 ts S I fr, PRICrS nrHAII•3IO - N • ay. IA Mee& Hay.... 11 15i t'd to 91 Os Od Straw 21 14 Od to 21 171 Od Clover 91 04 Od to 01 0s 04 rrn.tw .VESTERDAT.— 1 ssonscossis. 1137...61 o. (s 1 to 01 pa Straw 21 121 Od tc il los ad Cloves all Od to Fl (*id IF lIOPS. _____ PRICE, IMP BAWL Kent -151 lOs to t4.00s Sussex 131 Os to 181 Os Esse: OOl Os to 00, Os Foreign A os to 101 Os MET roman Kert l,l So to 11l It &Assn ICI to SO • Essex ucl os to col Fan.haus izt Cs so; HIDES. Best Heifers and Steers (per Oididary ...% Oil to 43 14 stone) 23 8d to 33 Od Market C. lOs Cd to Cs og Middlings 2s 4d to 21 6d Eng. Horse 93 Od to 1:1 (4 Sheepskins—Polled, Os Od to Os Od—I). .r, tto el to ct id Shearlings, Is 24 to Cs Od—Lanbs. Zoa 64 to ss Cs g. PRICE OF LEATH/at RAW Butts, 50 to 561bs each 'rid to 2ttl pal Ditto, 56 to 6611 is tack ....... 2.54 to ICd Dressing Hides sod It. 2c4i Fine Coach Hides IW to 114 Crop Hides, 55 to 40:bs or cutsktg ... 19.1 to 504 Ditto 43 to 50Ibs Yled to lad Calf Skins, ZO to 40Ibs ................... =W to :ad Ditto 50 to 70Ib1 .. . sed to :',/cl Ditto 70 to 52Ibs 'od to g',4 Small Seals (Greenland) rl.l to e:d Large ditto .................. ...... ...pee dozen 704 to lOW Tanned Horse Hideo lsd to 164 Spanish Horse Hide 5.......... . COAL MARKET, Aeocctia Ships at Market. Slips Void. Prim Sii Newcastle 29 VA 9d to 4,1 s (.4 11 Sunderland 10 3So Cd to Z7t Sl 1 Stoat Coal 1 70s Od to --o od The reports of the progress of the Harvest, from a 1 parts of the Kingdom, are particularly flatterint; the utmost activity prevails among the reapers ; if the tine weather coatinuns but a little time lose, the duration of the reaping season will be ma\ shorter than any recorded in the annals cf ture. The craps ripen in a manner scarcely ever Le. fore remembered ; 6:: wheats especially are in m.st instances of the best possible quality. Wednesday being Lanark St. James' Far, market was well supplied with lambs; sales erre brisk, and prices high. They were all sold offof f:73 £l2 to £l4 a-score. The horse market was also rej supplied, and colts met with a ready sale; bat tie other kinds were dull, and many remained unsold. On the moors in Scotland, the hfath flowers, so fine for the-use of beet, are nearly in complete bloom, a fortnight sooner than usual ; and the husbandman. now that the flowers en the dale lands hare faded, i busy in carrying his hives to the heaths. The boLer will be uncommonly good, plenty, and cheap. The harvest has very generally commence 3 is Ireland. Sir J. Ns weont had on Monday 60 reapers employed on i fine and luxuriant field of wheat. The Dublin market was opened for the sale of grain, &c. on Wednesday last. Most of the stands exhibited a great many samples of different kind; and the supply might be considered good. There were a few samples of new Wheat, which sold at4ss. to 50s. the quality was very fine, but soft.—this elide has experienced a further reduction of ls. per barrel; no sale for any thing but very prime sweet them, at 48s to .555. in every thing else prices remain steady —Oats are in demand at 17s. to 20s. sl.ir e ing price!, 17s. 6d. to 19s. a few samples of new Oats brcuzst 17s. Sweet second Flour, 30s. to 544. BIRTHS. Saturday, at Ropley Cottage, near Alresford. the Lady d Captain Wadi; R.N. of a daughter. Saturday, in Bed(ord.square, the Lady of lfzjer-Gtansl Darby Glad', of a daughter. DIED. August 6, at Bromptun. Frances, daughter of the late Cosh Jos. de Mendoza Rios, F.R.S. Thursday, at Brighton, Lady Charlotte Eyre, second dank. ter of the Earl of Newburgh, aged 26. Friday, in Queen-street,Whitehaven, after a few days and almost immediately after completing his 52d year, &SI Crosthwaite M.D. At Du mfries, on the Slat ult. Miss Jane C. &othctt, daajb. ter of the late Thomas Stotbert, Esq. of Arkland, writer. At Kirkcudbright, on the 21st ult. in the 60th year o: bis sus 'Mr. John SPClure, late merchant and baillie, after a ic:.g aid severe illoess. Saturday se Wright, in Greenock, Mr. Muhl-, a liFekttnik. He dropped suddenly in going down the stair of ins ow.i dwell ing, and instantly expired. Ile was previously, to All appear me: in perfect health. July ' 27, at Netvgalloway, after a tedious illness, attendedsith the most excruciating pain, Mr. Robert Heron, MVO, aged Ile was a man that possessed a range of knowledge superior to must men of bis condition. This respectable tradesman waifs thee to Major Heron, who fell some years ago at the takiog the Isle of Bourbon, and uncle to the unfortunate historian, ROM. Heron, who died of a broken heart at London, in the year I sO7. At London, on the 22d July, William Morrison, Esq. late at Calcutta, a man whose amiabie qualities and truly Christian dip position, endeared Lill to all who had the pleasure of his AC' quaintance. He has bequeathed to the poor of his. native Pariah of Campsie £lOO, to the British and Foreign Bible Society igei and to the Society in Calcutta for educating the Katie' £lOO. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. ' Bk. Stock India Stock Reduced 78 77f Bonds 95 96 pr. . Cons. 77ff Omn. I I dis. Si per Cent. 88fi Exch. Bills (2d.) 18 lb 4 per CL 97f Ditto (20) 19 18 Navy 10Gf I Cons. for Acil7ffi Long Ans. 20; 11-16 I Lottery Tickets, !1014. _ __----- - - HIGH WATER at LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning . - 26 minutes afro 10 Afternoon - • a) .....-......... it/ r ublidied b, -011P fla:s. Ttanrlsjoi.