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N t , I t • I 1 I f ( ° t t S ij r . l V t • INCEZVLIA.RZEL LAW INTELLI9ENCE. COURT' OP.. NCtitY, AUGUST N. The L 6 19 it, a Oent this day several judg menu to the •.t , f the purpose of transmit ting them to the respective parties. His Lordship did not come to Lincoln's Inn Hall. He will leave town on Saturday, and intends returning the latter end of September. His Lordship will resume his sittings on the'3lst of October. The Vitza-Cnancet , - Lott will also resume his sittings at the same time. CUMBERLAND ASSIZES. We lately noticed the embarrassment experienced in consequence of the Commission for the Assizes of Gloucester not having been opened on the prescribed day. Another difficulty, but not of the same kind, has recently occurred at Carlisle. The following are the particulars :—On entering the Court on Satur day morning, Mr. Justice BAYLEY made some ob servations on the weight of business which he saw by the cause list was to come before the Court in which he presided. He said he understood much dissatis faction existed respecting the shortness of time which had been allowed for the present Assizes. He would explain the reason. When the Judges met together, and arranged the Circuits, it was thought that recent events (the Election) in this and a neighbouring County would much reduce the business, and that was the only reason why so short a period had been Fitted upon. It seemed that this supposition was ill founded as it respected Cumberland ; and he was anxious to do all in his power to remedy the defect. Ne was willing to sit in Carlisle, and try the Civil causes, while Baron WooD proceeded to Appleby alone, and executed the Commission there, if this course dhould prove agreeable to Counsel ; or he *odd return to Carlisle, after the business at Lan caster had closed. Mr. BaARLIETT, and several other Learned Gen tlemen of the Bar, said; that returning from Lan caster to Carlisle was out of the question—they could do no such thing—and they hoped that the business would be gone through by Wednesday evening. Mr. Justice BAYLEY replied, that whatever was agreeable to the Counsel, would also be agreeable to him : he was only anxious that the parties who had matters at issue in that Court should be enabled to get them settled. Mr. Baron WooD finished the business of the Crown Court on Monday night, and sentenced the prisoners on Tuesday morning. He occupied the re • mainder of the day in trying Nisi ?rius causes, sent from the other Court. On Wednesday morning he set off for Appleby, where he opened the Commis sion in the evening ; before his departure he reprieved all the prisoners under sentence of death. Wednesday evening, at the rising of Mr. Justice BAYLEY, there still remained 'spatial jury causes for trial, " Milburn and others v. de Whelpdale also " Hodgson v. Barwise and another r and " Thomp son v. Gowan;" each likely to occupy a considerable time. The leading Counsel declared that they would nut remain, their presence being required at Appleby. Mr. Justice BAYLEY said, he could not prevent them from going certainly, but he was bound to try the remaining causes if the parties wished it, and in the morning - he would be ready to hear the respective attornies, if' they desired to go on. The Court was opened on Thursday, and the Counsel did not attend. Mr. Moussze appeared in Court ready to go on in the case of " Milburn v. De Whelpdale ; BLzaxsone was also ready, but he felt disinclined to proceed, from a wish that his Client should have the benefit of experienced Coun sel. In consequence, it was determined to take this cause, and Thomson v. Gowan," to Lancaster. Mr. Justice BAYLEY left Carlisle for Appleby in the course of the day.—A great number of witnesses had been waiting in the town from the commence runt of the Assizes, at an enormous expense, inde pendent of the inconvenience and cost of prolonging the litigation. Mr. Justice BAYLEY was fully sensi ble of the hardship, and expressed great regret. I ifty-si x causes were entered for trial, seven of which were special jury causes; and two of these are re moved to Lancaster. A meeting of Solicitors took place at the Bush Inn, at which were present several residing in Carlisle, and nearly all from the other parts of the County. It was agreed that a deputation of Attornies should , on Monday, wait upon the Grand Jury, to express to them their opinion, that the Assizes ought to be held in this County twice a year. A deputation ac cordingly waited upon the Grand Jury, who, after considering the subject, unanimously came to a re solution in favour of a Spring Assize. The Grand Juries of Northumberland and Durham, at the late Assizes held in those Counties, also came to simi lar resolutions. . DRITN FROM Fa ton r.—An Inquisition was taken, last night, at the Pine Apple, Pimlico, on the body i of Mrs. Mary Anne Banday, of No. 6, Palace-street, I Pimlico.—Sarah Garner deposed, that she was set vent to the deceased ; she had lived with her about n;ne years. On Tuesday morning, about onedcloak A. M. witness heard a violent knocking at the street door, and got out of bed; saw two watchmen at the front door ; they called out—" There are thieves in the house !" and they wished to come in and.search, so discover where they were concealed. Witness was going down stairs to let the watchmen is, and the deceased called to know what was the matter ? she informed her what the watchmen had told her, and the deceased went, in apparent fright, to her cham ber. Witness let the watchmen in, and they searched the premises ; but could not find any one, though a Gentleman persisted, that he had seen a man get over the railings of the area. Witness returned up stairs and found the deceased had fallen on the floor, greatly terrified ; she endeavoured to pacify her, but her terror was so great, that she became senseless.— A surgeon was sent for, but she died in three hours after. Witness believed that the mind of the de ceased was more affected by her having been, a short time before, reading in a paper the account of the murder and execution at Godalming.—Mr. Charles Edward Clark, Surgeon, Pimlico, stated that be was called to attend the deceased, about four o'clock on Tuesday morning. He found her lying in the drawing-room in a senseless state ; he endea voured to stimulaw her system and restore anima tion, but failed , she died at five o'clock the same morning. The death of the deceased was probably caused by excessive terror. Verdict—The death of t h e d ec eased was pf4dOced by excessive fright. A short time since, ellumber of fires broke out in the village of Exoing, about two miles from Newmar ket—there were no less than five firs in a month. One of them was at a barn attached to a house be longing lately to the Earl of Yartstotrru, in which there was wool of the value of £4OO. The parson age-house, and all the premises attached to it, were destroyed, and at all the fires very little property was saved. These frequent fires created a considerable degree of alarm in that part of the country, and there was very strong suspicion that thendid not h a pp en by accident. An investigation took place by some of the princi pal Gentlemen of that part of the country, but they could not make any discovery as to the cause of the &res: . they therefore determined on writing to the Se cretary of the Phoenix Fire Office, for a Bow-street Officer to be sent to them from London. The Secre tary accordingly applied at the Office, when Salmon was dispatched; and on his arrival at Exiting he re ceived every possible assistance and information upon the subject from Mr. Parr, the Agent to the Phxnix Fire Office in that part of the country. In a short time, Salmon discovered suspicious circumstances against a man and his wife, of the name of Webb, so as to induce him to take them into custody. A meeting of Magistrates was called in consequence, and Webb and his wife were examined before them. The examinations lasted nine hours; at the close of which, the circumstances which came out against the prisoners were sufficient to induce the Magistrates to commit them to Bury St. Edmund's prison. In a few days after, circumstances transpired which induced Salmon to apprehend John Webb, the son of the prisoners, who, upon being interrogated, confessed the enormity of his guilt to Salmon, in the presence of Mr. Fyson, a respectable farmer, and that his hand actually did the deed, by setting fire to the premises with a candle, by desire of his mother. He was de tilined in custody, and was afterwards examined with Ibis father and mother before the Magistrates, when a son and brother of the prisoners, only thirteen years of age, was produced as an evidence, who confirmed the confession of his brother John, and said he saw his brother John set fire to the premises, and he did it by desire of his mother. At the close of the examination, no evidence ap pearing against Webb, sen. he was discharged, the whole of the infamous crime appearing to have been perpetrated by Mrs. Webb and her son John: they were both committed to Bury prison for trial, and the parties were bound over to prosecute. John Webb was committed into the custody of Mr. Horwich, the keeper of Bury prison, who was about conveying him there in a single horse chaise, when, just as he had proceeded about a mile on Newmarket Heath, John Webb was seized with a fit, and he fell out of the chaise. Mr. Horwich thought it right to return with him. A medical man was sent for to attend him, who, on examining him, advised that he should not be re moved that night, and the prisoner was placed under the care of the parish constable at the poor-house: he there took an opportunity of eluding the attention of the constable, and escaped out of the poor-house. A number of persons were dispatched in different direc tioos in pursuit of him: it was discovered, however. that the cover of the well, sixty feet deep, in the yard of the poor-house, was open, a state which it was very 'seldom in, and the rope of it moving. On looking down, Webb eras observed neerly at the bottom, there being but little water, he having let himself down. He was wound up out of the well, and given in the custody of Salmon, whom the gentlemen there engaged to convey him to Bury prison, not consider ing hirn.safe in any other persons custody after what had happened, till he was safely lodged in prison. The first of these fires broke out on Sunday after noon, the 2Stli of June last, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, in a barn belonging to Mr. G. Brook, a farmer, which raged with great fury for a considerable time, destroying several cottages, barns, stables, and other outbuildings, which burnt out no less than seven families, who ha d not time to save but very little of their property. The second fire,.in the same village, broke out on the Tuesday evening following, the 30th of June, be tween seven and eight o'clock, which was discovered when it was breaking out in some stables belonging to Mr. Martin: it consumed several other buildings, and, besides a large quantity of wool, other property to a considerable amount. The flames also commu nicated to the parsonage-house, and destroyed the whole of that building, together with the whole of the stables, coac:r-house, and other outbuildings, to a considerable amount; and although the Phtenix and Suffolk ergi•res attended from Newmarket with very great promptitude. A third fire li oke out at Exning on Friday even ing, the 17th July, which was discovered at the house of Mr. C. Webb, a butcher ; but happily on the alarm being given, on the early discovery of the fire, it was extinguished without doi•ls much damage.—' That being the case, the incendiaries were so deter m;ned in their dreadful and diabolical ptirpoge, that they actually attempted to set fire again to the same premises on the following night, in two different parts at the same time. Both fires were fortunately 'extin guished without much damage being done. STAGS Coaanas.—Saturday and Monday, before a full Bench of Magistrates, :fitting at Elstree, in and for the Liberty of Saint Alban's, the owners of the Luton, Barnet, Coventry, Liverpool. Bedford, and Nottingham stage coaches, were convicted in the pe nalty of Five Hundred and Ten Pounds, for carry ing more passengers on their respective coaches than what is allowed by Act of Parliament. Yesterday evening the daughter of Mr. Samuel, of Whiteehapel, and a neighbour's child, both about seven years of age, were playing on the foot pave ment before the house of Mr. Orson, two Gentlemen rode up at a furious rate, one of them by some means having dropped the bridle, his horse ran upon the foot pavement, and trampled upon Miss Samuel ; she was taken up in a senseless state and carried to the London Hospital, where she now lies in a dan gerous state. At the time a large crowd collected who witnessed the accident, and they detained the Gentleman and his friend till it was ascertained by the surgeons that the child was WS in any imme diate danger. • The Gentleman gave his name and address, and on his promising to make componsat3cos, he was permitted to depart. POLIO. Mnininntaottait.--Tirs aanx.—Yesterday, Benjamin Smart, jeweller and dealer in coins, at 55, Prince's-street, Leicester-square, applied to the LORD Mayoa for advice under the following circumstan ces:—ln the course of business, his son had taken a Bank Post-bill for £5O, in payment for coins. He neglected to ask the name or address of the person Who paid the bill, and upon presenting it at the Bank of England for payment, it was declared to be one which had been last or stolen some time before, and of which payment had been stopped. The original owner of the bill was Mr. Noi'ris, surgeon, in the Old Jewry ; and when the loss of it was discovered, ap plication was made to the Bank, and the amount of the bill was paid by the latter to the owner, upon his ving a bond of indemnification. The Clerk of the Bank, after stating these circumstances, took the bill from Mr. Smart, and refused to give it up. These were the facts which had given rise to the application, and he (Mr. Smart) wished to know whether the Lord Mayor had power to compel the Bank to give up the Bill, or what other remedy he had? The LORD MAYOR—" I cannot take such a view of the present case. I certainly do not think the Bank have acted criminally, and it appears to me that you have no other remedy than to enter an action against the Bank for the recovery of the bill, unless you can find the person of whom your son received it. lie should not have taken a bill for such an amount with -out. knowing the name and address of the person who paid it." Mr. Smarr—" The idea of contending at law with so powerful a body as the Bank of England, is so appalling to an humble individual like myself, that I would sooner submit to the loss than commence an action. Ido think, however, that my case is one of excessive hardship, and that the conduct of the Bank is oppressive and unjust." The Lono MAyon--e , f agree with you perfectly that the case is a hard one; but for my own part I think the conduct of the Bank quite justifiable, the amount of the bill having been paid by the Bank to the owner. I cannot in any way interfere." Mr. Smart then withdrew. MARLA° no tic n- srrneET—Lieuten ant GeofFry Night ,u Olt ingale, of the Grenadier Guards, was brought up to this Office, yesterday, charged with a breach of the peace, under the following circumstances : Mr. De nison, of Edward-street, Manchester-square, deposed, that about 12 o'clock the preceding, night as he was sitting with his wife and some company in the draw ing-room, he was alarmed by hearing a noise like a pistol at his window, which threw the ladies into such a fright that Mrs. Denison fainted. He went to the window, and found that some person had thrown up a large stone, which had shattered the frame, broke two squares of glass, and might have done great mis chief to some person, hadit not been thus retarded in its progress. Soon after a watchman informed him that the person who committed the outrage was in custody, and on going down into the st'ivet, he dis covered the prisoner, who acknowledged that a Gen tleman who was in his eolnpany, and intoxicated, had thrown the stone, and had made his escape.- I The de fendant admitted that his friend had broke the win dow ; but he felt himself in honour bound to conceal his name—Ordered to find bail. A journeyman taylor, calling himself Mason, but whose real name turned out to be Brakes,' charged Captain Townshend Dame with knocking him down, late on Saturday night last, in Hanover-square. The I Captain stated that he was walking with a resikecta ' ble lady at t: - .0 time specified, when the defendant, passing by, pinched her arm so violently as to cause I her to scream out, and this led to the assault com plained off.—The Magistrate dismissed the case. HATTON-GARDEN. —Joseph Turner was fully com mitted for trial, charged with passing a forged Bank of England Note to Mr. J. F. Johns, linen - draper , North -place, Gray's Inn .lane-road.— Catherine Carm an was charged with ft-and. She had gone to the Jerusalem Cotfee-house, in St. John's-square, and or dered a dozen of wine. The waiter carried it with her to the door of a public house near Temple Bar, where she desired him to give it to her, and she would bring him out the money. • Ile did so, but followed her, knowing that there was another door to the house, and took it from her. As the woman gave up the wine, the Magistrate said he could not com mit her ; but he ordered her to be locked up until the waiter could inform Mr. Hodgson, a wine mer chant, who had been swindled out of a dozen of wine in the sane manner. Mr. Hodgson and his man arrived soon after, and recognised a man named Murphy, who had come to ask after the woman, as the persdn who had swindled him. Murphy was committed, and the woman discharged. J. Leach, of Circus-street, Mary-la-Bonne, was fined El 1. 55. for selling . bread short of weight. LAIMITII-STREET.—YeSterday Benjamin Tatham Willis, a young man of most respectable appearance, was brought up ironed from the House of Correction, 4 to which place he has been committed three times since his being taken into custody, for final examina „tics, charged with being an utterer of forged Bank IV England Notts.—He was committed for trial. . A fire broke out at an early hour yesterday morn ing at No. 2, Potter-place, Mary-la-Bonne-fields, at the nursery of a Mrs. Groves. Two children of five and seven years old were much burnt, and their lives are despaired of. Mary Alter, the ,servant, is also much burnt. Wednesday night Mr. Curry, of Webb's County terrace, New Kent-road, was returning from Cam berwell in a chaise, he was stopped by three fellows, who called upon him to deliver up his property ; one held the horse's head, and the other two stood on each side the chaise, and rifled his pockets of his watch, some papers, and a pocket-book, containing a bill of £ 250, and several one pound Built of England notes, with which they decamped, MURDER AT EPSOM.—May the officer since the committal of Osborne, the supposed murderer of Mr. Tessier's gamekeeper, visited him at 1-lorsemonger lane jail, when he took off his shoes, and on a minute examination, he found that the sock, which was cut out of an old hat, exactly corresponded with one he had in his shoe, both having some small chaff on them, and the one as is supposed that was substitu ted in its stead was rather longer than the others, and not the one that was found, as was before stated.— May at present keeps the 'boos, in his possission for the trill. FIRIT TO THE INTERIOR OP A PrEAMYtt. We have received from M. de Niebuhr, the , clan Minister at Rome, and one of the most disti l guishrd literary characters of Germany, the , tic declaration of Belzoni, a Roman Architect, lative to his having effected an entrance into the tenor of a pyramid, a project which has been it attempted by many celebrated travellers for cent past :—On the 18th of February last, M. Belzoni, his own expense, began his project of opeuing into the second Pyramid 01 Giza, called th at a Chefrem. In the first place he caused an ey et , vation to be made towards the north front, by fat lowing a perpendicular line from its centre. 11,1 f.„ discovered that there was no opening in thi s he commenced further researches about thiati at. east of the middle, and on the 2d of March the real entrance, which is a gallery of gra%l. et v 4 led to a hanging door also of granite. Ileving tu A it to be raised, he found himself in an leßiir.y4 gallery, from whence he descended perpindi., Into a second, and thence by a staircase ii u a tl;', which conducted him into an apartment cal, e,, ; found a sarcophagus cortaining . human bea ts blamed. Proceeding by a shelving gallery be at , rived in another horizontal one, passing along he perceived about half way a passage that led 133• wards the south, into a second apartment. At ti extremity of this horizontal plane, M; Belznni a niche, cut for the purpose of fixing a grar,:l dca that lay near. From this place he asce n d e d up s teep passage about the height of 47 feet, to a t o rt wall by which it was closed. At tnis spot h e ceived stones cut and laid in rich a man-.ce as close the entrance of this . passage, near the base; the Pyramid. From this account of 3!.. Belzoni, it is proved thtt the Pyramids were the tombs of the Royal Fart& It appears to M. de Niebuhr that the Pyramid Chefrem is not in its original state. The sarcopl,-t. gus must have been plundered at some period other; and the doors of stone which have been fueua were displaced at the time of this hosti!e it:easier...— We may presume that it was the Pe:siara, ;is l e Cambyses, who opened and pillaged it. i.e tians, during the interval of their independence, mi g • : . have closed the entrance, not being tc rep= tea ce vastations conirnitted by the enemy. SULPHURED US SPRING. treaace or Lerma A greater curiosity of the kind I have not Lee fore seen, than what is here (in Indira) czlif " French Lick." Previous to reaching this place had heard different reports concerning it, some , which only were true, but which may :Tr.= es: gerated. As I came within three-to.trtlis of a n ' . of the spring, or places from whence the water iur.e% I could with facility perceive the disagreeable srit:l of sulphbrated hydrogen gas, which emitted great quantities, and the smell is more perteirahn as we approach nearer the spring. The pr.r.c , :- part of the water flows from one fountain, wilich verfclear, and has a cool, peculiar taste, slight chalybeate ; the smell of sulphur is very strong the morni, especially if it is foggy, and when that is a gentle 'current of air meeting the traveller, it is perceivable at the distance of one mile. I discovered the gas 'to pass of from the water in bubbles, as I water passed along its natural channel, having ready taken up as much of the gas as it rot:ld ceives A piece of silver coin immersed in the w. became tarnished in a very short space cf time. water contains a small portion cf niuriate ct slda, and tubcarbonate of lime it solution I svrs some persons that this spring was in no 'way differs from common springs of water, previous tc theeari: quakes which happened a few years past. Wbe7 this information be correct is to be doubted will give you my ideas of a theory on the without touching on the time at which this peciList gas first made its appearance, which I think was is all probability previous to the settlement of tl:e country. We have only to suppose that this vein of water, in passing through the earth, in some pzt cf its passage meets with a metallic body (iron), and that this metal decomposes the water by absoMiri^, or uniting with its oxygen, and thus liberating ti.e other constituent of water, called hydrogen. Sulphur is not only found native in different parts of the wes tern country, but is found with different metallic bodies. Hydrogen gas has the peculiar quality of dissolving sulphur when placed in contac t with it, and thus we may account for the formation of sill phurated hydrogen gas, which is soluble in %ea:a; but there being a greater quantity than the water can possibly take up, it rises from the wa ter as it reaches the surface of the earth, and mixes with the atmosphere. It is probably from the decornponucs of this gas that pure sulphur is precipitated scnueuTell during a thunder-storm. The land around thisspring is said to belons to the State of Indiana. Of the me dicinal properties of this spring I shall say notlans at present ; but I would be inclined to believe that it would in time become a place of resort, if suitable at commodations should ever be established. HI RT H. Saturday, at Plymouth Dock, the Lady of Captzin &haw. tl the 95th (or Duke of York's oven Light Infantry,) a t:awotd. MARRIED. August 5, Monsieur Leconte, of Touraine, to Crronce . Vir• garet, only child of William Campbell Neatly, Esq. Captunuil Adjutant of the Wbitehaven militia. DIED. General ofay tb ateßp.iike. Brighton,. John Fuq. la't ComPt Ar. G 'PRICE OF STOCI Bk. Stock 273 Reduced 76H Cons. 76-iti Si per Cent. 861 4 per Ct. 95} 96 9311 Navy 10511 10.5 i Long Ans. `_?Os-16 'KS YESTERDAY. India Stock Bonds 86 87 fir. Omn. 2fil Etch. 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