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siYmMER ASSIZES. • YORK:JULY 21. LIBEL. AND SLANDEII-DELL v. HILL. Mr: thousialAst opened the pleadings. Mr. SeastLerr stated the case.—The plaintiff in this action was a young woman, residing at. Shields, in the county of Northumberland, and was in partnership with her brother in the china trade; they were persons belonging to the Methodist persuasion, of great repu tation, and universal good character. Hill, the defen dant, was a preacher in that district, a min who ever cised a great influence over the Methodists, who formed a great proportion of his Majesty's subjects in that part of the country. The country was parcelled out into districts, over which a preacher was appointed, and then there was a circuit preacher over these, who de rived a handsome emolument (equally the object of the Clergy as of other professions) Item his labours. Hill, the defendant, presided over the North Shields circuit. He was in great authority, and made use of it for the double purpose of personal inteiest, and a species r f official influence. The complaint now made by the plaintiff was, that Hill, from some unworthy mo.ives, had interfered to prevent the union of the plaintiff with a respectable man residing at Hull. It would seem that Hill and the brother of the plaintiff, who was a local preacher, had had some difference; and in o•der to revenge this difference, Hill endeavoured to destroy the brother, the sister, and the entire family of the Bells. He obliod.them to gait their residence, he de s.royed her brother, and having sought Elsa means, he accomplished the object of the plaintiff's injury, and the ruin of her family. He invited the attention of the Jury to this ca-e, for sure he was that a case calling for more special consideration could not be well, brought before a Court of Justice. A more base, a more scandalous, or a more wicked case. never perhaps occurred, and whit gave it a dye of dee,:er malignity was, that the defendant, a malicious and worldly minded man, had committed all this michief under the cloak, and as if under the sanction of religion. While he libelled the plaintiff, he was pia) ing to GOD ; and while praying to GOD, he was blasting the plaintiff's prospects in life, and carrying on a system of unrelenting persecution against her entire family.— This Minister of GOD, as he styled himself, was propa gating the foulest slander, and that to gratify one of the basest passions of the fiend—revenge. In the year 1821 an intercourse had subsisted between a Mr. Sissison, of Hull; a respectable man in trade, and the present plain ' tiff (Miss Jane Bell) ;he was attached to her, he offered her marriage, and the ceremony was to have taken place . in.the month of June of that year. Mr. Sissison had abondant means to make them comfortable; and his in tended _partner happy fir her life. She was a young Lady of amiable manners, and could boast of very con . .-siderable personal attractions. However, before the • wedding day arrived; Mr. Sissison received al anony . moos le• ter, addressed to the care of a preacher at llull ; and in a• short time after, another similar letter, ad dressed to another preacher, calumniating this young • 'Woman in the most scandalous and unfounded manner. . These letters professed to come from a sincere friend of Sissison, and warned him of the danger which he would run in forming any 'connection with the plaintiff or any of f her family. Stich letters, upon strong minds, would paillapa 'have had no influence—perhaps they would have been shewn to Mss Bell or some of her family, ; who, would instantly have refuted such scandalous in sinuations; but NI r. Sisiison became alarmed, he dreaded . alre . existence of some mystery, and teemed to think itiat slighted warnings would turn into deadly curses.— Such were the terms in which he wrote to a friend at York, when asking his advice upon the subject of these letters. At the time those letters were written to Mr. . Sissiton, he had no acquaintance with Hill the defendant, who had artfully contrived to request a reference to be .made ao him as to Miss Bell's character and connexion. Mr. S. had known the wife of Mr. Hill since his child hood, and thus the trap which was laid had eminently succeeded. The anonym .us letters he would this day prove to be in Hill's hand-writing, and upon these let ters.no commentary would he necessary. They were • conceived in malice, and they ended ip fraud of the most wicked description. Hill had a personal motive to gra tify, and he scrupled not to take the most extraordinary means to attain it.—Here the Learned Counsel read the two anonymous letters, warning Mr. Sissison from forming any connexion with Miss Bell, requesting him to make inquiry as to her character, and conjuring him to pray to the LORD to give and assist him in the coice of a wife; for (added the anonymous correspondent) he was sure he never could'be happy with that Lady. Mr'. Sissison was attached to Miss Jane Bell, and perhaps the stronger his attachment the more easily could his sus picions be awakened. However, he sent one of the anonymous letters to Shields, and with this circum stance the defendant, in some way or other, became ac quainted. He had his eyes open in every direction, and his hand ready to seize upon every weapon which might inflict the fatal blow: The defendant also wrote a let ter to Mr. Sissison from Shields, abusing the writer of the anonymous letters, calling him a " Radical rascal," little, perhaps, thinking at the time, that he ss as so accurately depicting his own character. in this letter, also, he begs that the preachers at Hull may not be made acquainted with the fact of his corresponding with Sissison; he called the plaintifF 'a hypocrite; the described her to be poor and sanctified, and vituperative, and exulted that her brother John was • off the .plan," or, in other words had been suspended from preaching ; and all this, he concludes his letter by saying, he had done ,4 in the fear of Goa!" not to gratify arry revenge, but purely out of love for Mr.Sissison, and his duty to his Maker ! While these letters were passing. Miss Bell thought it right to make some inquiry. An appeal was made to the preacher and those who knew her best, as to her character and conduct, and they gave her the most unexceptionable testimonials. But the defendant is still at his work of infamy ; he gradually infused the poison into the mind of Mr. Sissison, aslago does into the mind of the generous Moor, until at last he so works him up, that murder becomes the fatal ca tastrophe, as the picture is drawn by our great dramatic poet. He (Mr. Scarlett) would not now trouble the Jury with the perusal of all the letters—they proceeded as they went along with greater fervour and warmth— they strewed that Hill found out he was suspected of being the WI i ter of the anonymous letter, and that lie feared an action might be brought against, himself for a libel, or against S:ssison for breach of promise of marriage, although he warns Sissison of the danger of evealing his correspondent's namc,as libel; , if known, to _ . hinges think of engaging himself with. Miss BA. In quiry was then set on foot ; Hill -teas found to be the author of these anonymous letters, and an action was brought against him.At that time, however,Sissison, only hewed one of the anony :Irani letters, and when he came into Court at the trial, he could not swear that it was the hand-writing o' the defendant. Sissison furihei adied, that these letters were not the only cause fnr - his breaking off the match, and the plaintiff was non• stftei. Miss Bell then retired under an impression uf great misery and anxiety ; then was Hill triumphant ; but Sissison becoming 'satisfied that these anonyMous letters were Hill's, and considering h;s conduct to be base, treacherous, and calumnious, he put all his letters into the hands of his calumniated victim. Hill's own letters, under his own name, were the cause of Sissison withdrawing his affection from the plaintiff, and no doubt she would be entitled tri a verdict. He (Mr. S). very much feared we were fast approaching to that time when religion Mould be made a cloak for the commission of every species of horror. He would not say that the Methodists as a body shared this feeling, there were many of them liberal, ►incere, and able men; and if the body wished themselves well, if it was thtir wish to stand well with society and the world at large, they would hold up the conduct of Hill to execration. The evidence in support of the plaintiff's case was then'examined, and the anonymous letters read. Mr. Pou.ocx addressed the Jury for the defendant. The Jury. after a quarter of an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict fur the plaintifF—Damages, #7,00. The trial excited an unusual degree of interest, and the Court was crowded daring the whole of the day. The defendant was in Court, and he seemed to be popular amongst the Methodist con nexion in the North of England. STAFFORD, JULY 23. ORME AND WIFE v. KNOWLES. This was an action for assault and battery. Mr. CuawooD stated she case to the Jury, which was this!—Mrs. Orme was retntaing from Walsall Races on the 30th of September last, in a cart, in company with the defendant and other persons. The defendant was drunk, and his hat falling off once or twice, and getting wet, a dispute arose between -him and Mrs. Orme, and after spitting in her face, he struck her in a most ferocious manner on the breast, with one of the chairs in the cart. Martha Williams, among other witnesses, proved these facts substantially. Cross-examined by Mr. CAMFML—Mrs. Orme was merry; she led the fun; when the defendant's hat fell off, it fell into some .water, and got wet (here the witness Isughed).—Mr. Castesett. New I see, Martha, you like a joke as well as Mrs. Ortne. Had you it in your hand? (laughter) No.—Mr. CAMPULL : Whether the hat went to the water, or the water went to the hat, was the water warm? (laughter.) Witness : I don't know whether it was or not. Another witness who was in the cart proved the assault. Cross-examined by Mr. CAMPIILL4—Saw the Ladies laughing, but did not know what the joke was; the next slay morning he heard the defendant say that they had made an Improper use of his hat ; the bat did get wet. Mr. John Towke, a surgeon, of Wolverhampton, proved that he was called in on the 3d November, to 'examine Mrs. Orme's breist he saw bruises on it, which had been inflicted by violence; she was not in ill health, but he applied leeches to herbreast. • Mr. CAMPBELL ac . lrissed the Jury for the defendant, and contended that this was the roost disgraceful action ever brought into a Court of Justice. What was the story made out by the plaintiff ?—Why, it was this:' , Mrs. Orme, who was the leader of the fashions• on this• occasion, and was at the top of the " ton," as they called it, wished to have a fashionable party to take a. jaunt to the Walsall Races. She got a cart for this purpose...and then, the next thing necessary was to fill it. Sheletc up a party, among whom was the unfortunate difend ant. The day was spent very comfortably, until . , they were returning home, and then Mr. Knowles wanted to stop at Wheatenhall to get a cup of tea—a little hyson or bobea ; but Mrs. Orme would not agree to this, no. thing would serve her but she must get out of the ,cart and walk. She did so; and then, when they overtook her, and she again got into tl:e cart, she became sulky ; she cursed and the defendant - cursed. He spit in her face, and she gave him a douse in the chops, and then it was asserted that this drunken man struck her on the breast with a chair, in the cart. Such a representatioh was most improbable. He submitted to the Jury, that his client had been jeered and ridiculed, and that, the Ladies having passed his hat round, and made a sort of use of it which was not quite consistent wish decorum ; and he having become annoyed with it, that sort of ' scuffle ensued which it would have been much better should never have been brought into Court. In cor, o boration of this probability, the Jury would recollect that Martha Williams would not say whether the water was warm or not. He once heard that a near relative of an Honourable Member who travelled this Circuit, having made a tour ef Ireland, in the publication of it, he represented that the Ladies in the sister had thick ankles ; on which they became so enraged, that they had the tourist's pot trait delineated in the bottom- of a certain vase, accompanied by these words— " Come, let us --- On good Mr. Twiss." He would leave his hearers to fill up the couplet ; but the Gentleman, on seeing himself thus treated, ordered another vase to be made, representing himself as look ing upwards, and exclaiming— ,. Ah, sue ! What do I see ?"—(Loud laughter). He left it therefore to the Jury to say, whether this was nut a case in which the defendant had been enraged by his hat being appropriated to that purpose for which another sort of vase was usually employed? At all events, it. was one in which the smallest damages would answer the ends of justice. Mr. Justice 13uftaovou, in charging the Jury, said, he never heard so bold a speech in his life as that which Mr. Campbell had made, and in which the Learned Counsel gave his own conjecture without any evidence whateler to support it. An insinuation had been made that the hat of the defendant had been made use of fer a certain indecent purpose, by Mrs. Orme, but to prove this there was not one word of evidence. Such things served to raise a titter in a Court of Justice, but they ought not to bias the Jury in giving a fair compensation in damages, where a verdict must be given for the plaintiff. The Jury, after a deliberation, said they found—One Farthing damages. Air. Justice Boaaotrow—Are you all of that opinion, only a farthing? One of the Jurors now said," We give sixpence;' and a verdict for that amount was accordingly recorded. Mr. JAMES CAMPBELL, the Bank Director, has gained 400,003/. by the decision of the Lon) CMANCELLOE I relative to the will of the late Mr. HOLFOED. The late arrests at Rome arc stated by the Austrian Obsetuer, to have taken place in consequence of the attention of the Papal Government being drawn to a meeting of Carbonari, under the name of " White Pilgrims," who .had their head-quarters at Pesaro _ HIN4 sUPEUSTITIO NS. At the Annual Meeting of the Dublin Auxiliary to the London Missionary Society, held in Dublin, on Tuesday last, the Rev. Mr. Reeve, Missionary from Mary, in India, related the following curious circum stance connected with the religious notions of the Hin doos:—" The Hint:loot," he observed, " differed in their moral character from other people; they consi dered all animals as Goo's creatures, and looked on those persons who eat of the flesh of animals as canni bals. They know no diarence between the spirit of a brute which goeth downwards, and the spirit t f a man which goeth upwards. They consider the sun and moon to be heroes, and they think thunder is the grum bling of the gods. They have thirty millions of idols, and their idols are exposed for sale in the public streets. You will see in the market-place baskets of fruits and baskets of gods alike exposed for sale. The time the Hindoos devote to the adotation of their idols ought to make Christians blush for themselves. Some of their processions hold from five o'clock in the afternoon until three o'clock the next m nning. and them are frequently twenty thousand persons in tlio.,e processions, carrying their idols, with dancing and song', from street to street. They also go to considerable ex pense, and a Hindoo temple frequently receiv, s offerings which amount in value to the sum of 2QA 0/. yearly. Such are their errors that many of them impale them selves alive on spikes, drown themselves in rivers, and bury themselves alive. it is not an uncommon thing for a Hindoo to run a knife through his tongue, which he lets hang out of his mouth with the knife sticking in it. They sometimes toast themselves bei;ne a huge fire, or carry flue on their b ire heads; and these extra ordinary acts they commit for the purpose of appeasing the anger of some of their gods, which they had them selves made. It appears by a calculalon which had been made, that in every four hours a Hiudoo woman was burned. A Prince of the Hindoo tribe, ) who died lately in India, had eighteen wives, and they were all burned on the dead body of the Prince, together with the child of one of them. The Hindoos had' gode for every kind of vice ; thus, those who lived by ptunder had a god who would sanction it. One of their gods, who sanctions stealing, was represented with a pound of butter in one hand And a pot of milk in the other. An other of their gods was represented ase monkey, and another as half bird and half man. [Here the Rev. Gentleman exhibited some specimens of the Idols of the Hindoos ; they resembled very small wooden toys. 3 A Hindoo once mentioned to the Rev. Speaker that he recollected perfectly well when he (the Hindoo) was an old cow, and that he even remembered the masks he had in his ear. He said, that he gave good milk when he was a cow, and that , that was the reason of his being changed into a man. The Rev. Gentkman in stanced the case of the conversion of a Native Hindoo woman, who was by trade a weaver ; and also the con version of the father, sister, and mother of thil woman, who all, subsequently, became holy followers of Cll lihr. He also mentioned the fact of a Gentleman who is resident there, expending the entire of his income, which is two hundred pounds a month, in forwarding the object of the Missionary Society, in establishing and supporting native schools, and having preachers ap pointed in the different prisons. CORN EXCHAN . CTR, NCI:MK:LANE, JULY 15. There were tolerable good arrivals of nearly all descriptions of Grain last week; but this morning, the quantities of Corn fresh up are only moderate. Prime Wheat has met a dull sale, but is nut lower than this day sennight ; all other sorts are nearly unsale able on any terms. The Barley trade has become excessively heavy, on account of the apprehension lest the ports should open for this article. The unfavourable accounts of the crop of Beans have occa sioned a further advance in this article of 2s. per quarter. Peas of both kinds are rather dearer. Oats meet buyers slowly at about the same terms as this day se night. The Flour trade is dull, aml prices unaltered. Wheat, Red (1824) 58s. 70$. Rye, old, 00g. 00s. - old, 00s. 003• Beans, Small, new, 48e. 5111. White, 1824, 625. 761. - old, 00s. 00s. - old 00s. Ms. Tick, new, 375. 425. Barley, 1824, 345. 425. -.... old, 00s. Dos. Old, 00s. 00s. Oats, Feed, new, Vils. 245. Peas, Grey, 1824, 395. 41s. I old, Os. Os. Old, 00s. 00$. Poland, new, 935. 28s. Maple, 1824, 425. 435. old, Os. Ois ---- old, 00s. 00s. Potable, new, 2.41. 975. White, new, 495. 451. old, Os. Os. --- old, Os. Os. Scotch, 28s. 31s. 80i1_ m er5, 0 1 w 82 , 4 0 , 4 163. 00 5: . 5. I hour, pet ARRIVALS LAST WWI. 5,931 I Peas 654 1,145 I Irish Wheat - • -- 3,534 Irish Oats • 5,97.. i 9,967 Foreign Oats l aiS 2,c06 linglish Flour, sack 71,301 SMITHFIELD MARKET, JULY as. The comparative coolness of the weather, has caused a slight ad. sauce in Beef, and the best Olen are 4s. 10d. to ss. pee stone; and the Inferior Meat 41.2 d. to4s.3d. per stone. In the 'AI utton trot& there is also an improvement, 4s. Bd. to 51. per stone bPing the quo. talon for the finest Kentish and Leicester Wethers ; bnd 4s. 9d. to'4s. 6d. per stone for the inferior. Th e Veal trade rtmaihs steady ; _ . . . Wheat, English, qrs. Barley Malt oats Beans - .. revealing his correspondent's name,as likely, ilknown, to at Pesaro • peared that Dill( tl had quarrelled and fought a day or to 4s. 6d. per stone for the inferior. The Veal trade remains steady ; lead to the ruin of himself and family. InAiihti,t,howevets RAPID READING AND AnTICuLA rtoN,-01) S.tbbath- two before thi s transact i on , an d hi s face was bloody and in Lamb *ere IA Pr* much alteration. Pork is Worth rathe r • more than ow.iltklay.—lk-atts, 9.,277 ; Sheep; :11,6!10;15r, Ito; day. May 16,1825, Bliss roux Kr ) sant.v, of Gilmantown, daugh- and scratched at the time Dobie struck him. The Jury can the critical moment, and the letters (it the delcild ant i r,,T e —ae.,-c i ite-htit.astst.-sfigrirlsaiccilaTie,tivoiictins, ter of DAvln Evorlirr, 1.5 . c. read vocally and distinctly, between seven o Mck in the snort:lug and lave minutes bt-fore 41i1X to t h e returned a verdict of likurstaughter against Dottie, and B : e s i , 4s. 4.1. to Its. per stone; Mattnn, 41. 4d. to 54:• • Veal, 4.:. Tad ten! 1: - ;:ted, - and deceitful." TLe;e letters earns. do v. i• aveing.th kw of h . r . - issued by 6d. tons. Lamb; sq. to 6s. Pork, 54.6 d. to 6s. 4a hi cW C rn - 71 7 . eivid.. , -. ;UM .-att:ll;ag to vnel.—.l- ay per load, • 1. , ) a 1::UCI: littet p rirAi, 'A hen Sissiscn sail he cLuld no idenene.er Pp•r. blot) and committal to Newgate. A z Ss. to £4 151. Clover, £4 ss. to Al 101. &rave, sel las. to £4 the C__ , angler tor his apprehen- - ..... - - . • - ' ` ' ' . - .-,..-- v-r ' . ...* ..,..- --- - • . • ....-..._ . • ...•••• 44•01,.. - . - , I ...., I Sllullfll, JULY 23. • According to t h e l ast accounts , t h e expe di t i on fi tte d out by the. Emperor of Brazil, to proceed to the Rover Plate, sailed from Rio de Janeito on the 25th of May. An Officer who came home in the Zephyr furnishes the following intelligence, from which it seems probable that Lord Cnchrane has withdrawn himself from the Brazilian service t " We left Rio Janeiro for England on the 22d May. The Emperor, bon Pedro the First, had laid an em bargo, four days previous to our sailing, on all vessels bound to any port to the southward of Rio, which was then in full force, and likely to continue for eight days longer. This detainment was in consequence of Monte Video being besieged by a Buenos Ayrian General, named Le Verneger, joined by one of the Emperor's Generals, Fructuoso Ribeiro, who was next in command to the Governor, Viscount de la Guna. Verneger had taken possession of the country round Monte Video, when Ribeiro joined with 200 regular Brazilian troops. It is discovered that he had held, for some time past, a correspondence with the Buenos Ayrians, and took this opportunity to break out, in hopes of surprising the Go vernor, who was very ill, and confined to his bed; but in deliveting up the town he uas disappointed: they have shut their gate;, and are now besieged. The Em• peror is enthai king 1.300 regulars in transports, and sending the Cabocl IS gun brig (the S cond Lieute nant of which is a son of Sir Robert Wilson), and 14. gun-boats, to the River Plate. These, together with the Viadore, 22 guns, and another 18 gun brig, already at Monte Video, no doubt, save the place from the hands of the Buenos Ayi ians. The Spartiate, 78, Sir George Eyre, was lying in Rio, not ready for sea. both her lower yards being quite rotten : the hull of the ship is by no means in a sound state, as she makes 24 inches water in a day, which obliges the crew to use the chain pumps. The Jasseur, Captain Martin, was refitting with all dispatch, provisioned for three months; it was supposed she would sail for Monte Video the moment the embargo was taken off, to look afterthe British interests. The Jasseur had only just re turned from a very long cruise, having run down the whole of the pouts to the North of Rio—to . Bahia, Mayao, Pernambuco, Sera, Maranham, and Para, which places were perfectly tranquil, the British inte rest well supported by the Brazilian Government, and the British trade throughout was considered in a flou rishing state. The Captain and Officers of the Jasseur speak in the highest terms of the attention shewn them by the Ccnsuls and Merchants of Maranham and Para, and which has left such an impression on them as time will not obliterate. The Blanche, 46, on the 29th of May, was at Bah 'a, to sail in five days for Rio. The Pedro, 74, had arrived at Bahia to refit, Commodore Jewi tt having on board his broad pend enr. "Lord Cochrane had hoisted his flag on board the Peranga, 60 gun fxigate, and taken all the Englishmen from the Pedro, and retained those belonging to the frigate. It was . supposed to be his Lordship's intention to withdravi hiniself from the Brazilian service, taking with him all the English Officers and seamen employed in it. lireki"rtthrom filaranharn, that the expedition sailed from blon . o tiVideo on the 25th of May." • • CLERICAL- INTELLIGENCE. PROMOTIONS. Rev. R. Richards, M.A. to be Domestic Chaplain to his Royal If{illness the Duke of Sussex: • Rev. Jamet'Johnson. M.A. Rector of Byford, Herefordshire, tb the Prebendal Stall of Hampton. in Hereford Cathedral, vacant by•the dead; of. the Rev. Charles Pryce. Rev. Dacre Clementson, to be Chaplain of the County Jail, Dorchester. Rev. George Willtam - Smith, Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Stradbroke, to the Vicarage of Bawdsey, Norfolk. Rev. Philip Gurdon, B.A. Rector of- Reymerstone, to be Domestic Chaplain to L ord Bayning. Rev. Edward Daniels, to the .Mastorship of the Grammar .School.of Helton, Cornwall. Rev.lT. F. Vyvyan, to the Rectory of Witbiel, Cornwall, void by the resignation of the Rev. J. J. Keigwin. Res, H. Trip; to the Rectory of lilackborongh, Devon. Rev. Chas. Ward, to the Rectory of Maulden, Bedfordshire. The Rev. Thomas Wynter, M.A. has been presented to the Rec tory of Daylesford, Worcestershire, void by the death of the Rev. Thomas Bartholomew Woodman, the last Incumbent. ReV. Henry Jones, M.A. Minister of Flint, has been collated, by the Bishop of St. Asaph, to the Vicarage of Northon, Flint. The Brussels Journals record several instances of sud den death, occasioned by the excessive heat. Mr. Holmes, M.P. gained a 20,0001. prize in the lottery just concluded. ^At the ensuing A , sizes for the County of Hunting don, there is not one prisoner in jail for trial. SHOCKING OGCURRENGL—An Inquest was held on Saturday evening, before THOMAS STIRLING, Esq. Co roner, at the Royal Standard Tavern, corner of Sey mour-place, and Shouldham-street, Mary-la-bonne, on the body of John Dillon, an elderly man, who had been for many years in the Life Guards, who was killed by the force of blows given him by a young man named Alexander Dabie, who resides with his mother at the corner of Croydon-street. A great number of witnesses were examined ; there was some variation in• their evi dence, but the following is the substance of their state menu: On Thursday afternoon, between two and three o'clock, Dillon, who lived within a few doors of Dobie, passed by the house in a state of inebriation. He re turned, and stopped before Mrs. Dobie's window, and called her and her son by very offensive names. The son went out of the house in a fit of extreme passion, and struck Dillon with his fist on the side of his head. He fell down, and his head was cut with the edge of the pavement. While he was lying on the ground, Mts. Dabie cried out, 4 ‘ Give it to the old villain, give it to him well." Dobie struck him another blow on the temple, and the deceased fell down, and seemed unable to rise. Old Mrs. Dobie then said, " Let the old vil lain lie there ; he has got enough now." Dobie then kicked the old man on the side, ss hen in that defence. less state. Mr. Blyant, a surgeon, residing in the Edg. ware-toad, came up at t'te time, and finding him in a dying state, from a concussion of the brain, he ordered young Dobie to be taken into custody, but no one would secure him, and he escaped, and has not since been heard of. -.Dillon lived till eight o'clock the same ;tight. The head of the uWorttinate man had been opened, and six ounces of coagulated blood found . pressing on the surface of the brain. 'Tree. surgeons were examined by the Coroner, and .they were all of opinion, that the blow which felled him to the ground, produced a concussion which caused his death. It ap peared that Dill( n had quarrelled and fought a day or . . sroltri,vo ingra.tagNce. CHELTENHAM RACES.—LAn DAY. The Course Was numerously attended. The Duke of Gloucester was present. - The Sherborne Stakes of 5 anus. each, with 50 added, for all art. Two miles. Mr. Bartley 's b. c. Flesibie . Mr. Pryse's Dr. Eady, aged . Lord Warwick's flaii Baba, 4 yrs • 1 5 The Gold Cup, 5 yrs, Est. 41b. 4 yrs, Int. 31b. 5 yrs, Ilst. 111 h. 6 yrs, 9st. 21b. and aged, 9st. 41b.—About three miles. Mr. F. Craven's Longwaist, 4 yrs • • . L Mr. Alytton's Euphrates, aged • • . 2 Mr. Bartley's Flexible, 3 yrs • • • • -, Lord Somerset's Dupont, 6 yrs . • • 4 Mr. Mytton's Oswestry, 4 yrs • • s 6to 4 Longwaist agst the field-5 to 4 apt Dupont—and sto i . 1 . 9 agst Euphrates. The Town Plate of 60 soy. for all ages-3 yr, 7st. 4 yrs P . 41b. S yrs, Bst. 121 b. 6 yrs, OA. 31b. and aged. 'st. - A winner once in 1.895, to carry 51b. extra, twice 5,1). uf a 71b.—Heats, two miles. Mr. Pryse's Dr. Fatly, aged Lord Warwick's Palatine, 4 yrs. Mr. Whiteside's Hesperus 2 :V' First Heat. —Even betting the Doctor agst the field, and after it 9tol on him; Hesperus took the lead, at a steady pace, for the first half mile, when the Doctor came up and led to the dkance, where Hesperus made a desperate push and again got in front fur a short time, but was pasted by the other, who won cleverly. It was thought Hesperus would have won this heat. Second Heat.—'Phis was as ratting and as fine a heat u we ever saw ; Palatine made strong play all the way, the Doctor waiting on him till nearly home, when he let loose, and won by nearly a length. BOXERS. The proposed fight between Spring and Ward is not likely to take place, as the friends of the latter unreasonably' insist that Spring shall teduce himself to thirteen stone, which, of course, he cannot conveniently do. Crawley, therefore, has come forward with a regular challenge to fight Ward for 5001. aside. •1 1 3 7