Star. — London, England, 1830-08-27 00:00:00

LI BERTA& Italia! Su! Su! The day.star of liberty shines ; , tytants of earth in their palaces quake, The pillurs of priest-craft and policy shake, The despot his sceptre resigns, Italic ! Italia ! awake ! Hispania ! Hispania! a ello ! The Gaul his oppressor has cruah'd ; Tile slaves of the Bourbon presented the chain, With one mighty struggle he snapp'd it in twain, Anti forth to his freedom he rush'd Hispania ! Hispania ! arise ! Germania ! Germania! auf ! auf ! The blood of the Frank has been shed; The nations of ..arth arc arous'd from their sleep ; The slave must rejoice, the enslaver must weep, The living must follow the dead. Germania ! Germania ! up, up ! Britannia ! Britannia ! beware! Nor mist in thy nobles or gold, Thou art proud in thy wealth, and mighty in war, But the voice of mankind shall be mightier far, When the banner of Freedom's unroll'd. Britannia ! Britannia ! beware ! Fellow.mortals,—thanksgiving to Goh ! His spirit is stirring on earth ; lie has heard the lou:1 cry of the poor and the slave ; He has shivered the strength of the statesman and knave, He has given young Liberty birth. Fellow-mortals ! thanksgiving to GOD ! Earth ! Earth ! cry out and rejoice ! 'Froth, Freedom, Religion are thine; In one mighty bond let the nations unite, To win and to guard their freedom and right, The holiest " right divine." Earth, Earth ! cry out and rejoice. The alliance of Kings is destroy'd, The union of People remains ; The Briton unites with the Spaniard and Gaul, Th' Italian and German are brothers, and all Fling back to the tyrants their chains. The alliance of Kings is destroy'd. But, Gaul, keep thy hand on thy sword— Be fix'd in the right to the death ; The voice and the heart of mankind are with tnee, And if tyrants should dare, our hands, too, shall be Thine, thine to the last dying breath. But, Gaul, keep thy hand on thy sword. FREYHEIT ASKABYAH. PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE. THE CROPS. Accounts from all parts of the country state the wheat harvest to have comtoenced very generally, and the prospect, both as to quality and produce, to be superior to that of many years past.—Sheffield Mercury. The weather, on the whole, continues favourable for maturing the corn crops, and in Yorkshire we are on the eve of a plentiful hatvest. Should the weather continue favourable for the next two months, the public distress, which is already much diminished, will, in a great de gree. be removed ; and with a sound currency, and economic Go vernment, the situation of the country, during the approaching winter, will he very different to that of the winter of 1829-30.—Lcedsilfercury. Wiltin the List few days. the operations of the sickle have been very genet ally commenced in this neighbourhood. The wheat presents every schen. the most luxuriant appearance ' the straw is fine and large, and the cars long and well filled, so that the reapers have seldom met with wcte abundant crop. The barley, which is also very fine, is forward, as are likewise the oats—Dorset Chronicle. _ _ _ To.day we have had some heavy showers of rain, accompanied with hail ; but as the showers appear somewhat partial. we should hope their occasional violence may have no influence in breaking down the stand. ing crop.—Susses Advertiser. FALMOUTH, Auo. ll.—Yesterday was a fine harvest day, and a great deal of g ood corn was secured. The harvtat had commenced Sc. nerally. but the heavy rain of to-day will greatly impede it; and, as the wind is strong, will most likely beat down the grain on high lands. Nothing can exceed the appearance of the crops at present in the whole northern counties. In Ross-shire, the cutting of barley has al. rcauy commenced. In Morayshire, shearers have already been busy on marl farms. The crops around Kilsyth arc luxuriant and healthy in appearance. Wheat, in particular, will be an abundant erop.—Giosgote Chronicle. _ _ Cobbett's corn is this year a complete failure, even were in gardens than it was last year upon farms ; none ripened in the fields • but in gardens, in favourable situations, some was saved, which looked perfect, but, when sown this spring, has not vegetated to the full amount of three.fourths of seed. The few plants I have seen appear very unheal thy, and do not promise a single head.—A orthantpion Correspondent. Reaping has commenced in the vale of Glamorgan, and will in the cour,e of the following week become general. The crops are very abundant—The Cambrian. The heavy rains on Friday and Saturday last so wet the wheat which is cut, that in the Weald the farmers have been obliged to open the sheaves, whilst on the Downs, in this neighbourhood, they are making stacks daily. The barley and oats have been much hurt by the high winds lately ; and the weather has been altogether as unkind for the farmer as possible. The levels in the neighbourhood of ilenfield and Ili:ad:n:4 are completely under water, to the extent of many hundred acres ; and in no situation, on what is called dry land, is the stock doing adL—friyhton Gazelle. a CSIZE INTELLIGENCE. LANCASTER, TUESDAY, Auo. 24. The Crown Court sat at eight o'clock this morning, and proceeded t , lihspose of the cases in which the Grand Juryhad returned true bills. Before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. Jch Alanion:a short, sallowTeon Iplexton, ill-favoured fellow, was placed in the dock, charged with the crime of having killed his wife.— The indictment charged him with manslaughter only. Mr. STARKIE conducted the prosecution, and called Mary Sidley, who stated that she was sitting at her door in a street in Blanchester, about 11 o'clock in the morning, on the Bth of August, when she heard the prisoner say to his wife, "You'll turn up that shilling, or by Jasus"—the door was open at this time, and the pri- Roller immediately shut it; she then indistinctly heard the wife cry out twice or thrice, " Don't, don't" and then a faint scream followed : she instantly ran to a neighbour's for help, and they got into the house and found the man with his wife on his knee at the bedside. Some one said to hum, "John, she's dying," to which he replied, "No, she's in a tit." Another woman who came in then said—" If she is in a fit, help me with her on the bed, and let us undress her." He did so, but when she was laid on the bed her face was black, her skin cold, and she was found to be a corpse. Other witnesses stated conjointly with the above similar facts. Henry Oilier, a surgeon, at Blanchester, was called in to see the de. ceased on the day.in question, and found on examination a violent con tusion on her left cheek ; her viscera and other functions were in a healthy state, but on making an incision into her cheek, he found a vast quan tity of extravasated blood within her head, and pressing on the brain even down so far as the spinal marrow. The blow or contusion on her cheek was the immediate and only apparent cause of her death. The prisoner stated in his defence, that his wife fell down in a fit in the house, and hurt her cheek: he dented having struck her any blow. The Learned Judge summed up, and the jury immediately found him Guilty. He was sentenced to 14 years' transportation. Royer Barnes was indicted for the manslaughter of Isaac Slee, at Chetham.hill, in this county, on 4th of June last. Tice prosecution was conducted by Counsellor DROWSE, LL.D. William Holt was at Manchester races last June, in company with the prisoner, some neighbours, and two of witness's brothers, one of whom was the deceased. On the evening of the 4th of June they were all returning together to Manchester, and at arrived at Chetham on their war, when some women came in sight. The deceased began to halloo aft( r them, and the brother of the prisoner remonstrated with him, upon which they had some words ; blows were then exchanged, and the wit. ness's brother, Isaac :gee, was knocked down, the brother of Barnes fall ing upon him in the road Barnes, seeing this, called on the parties to keep the peace, in the King's name, he being a constable, though not of the township in which they then were. To this no attention was paid, and the two who were lying on the ground continuing to do so, witness thought it necessaty to interfere and assist Slee, his brother. Whilst he was attempting to do so, the prisoner struck him a tremendous blow, declaring that no one should meddle with the two men. The prisoner then made tight at every one around him, and struck the witness severely severs' times. The latter, however, succeeded in getting his brother away front his antagonist, and he then called out for a constable to arrest Barnes. Isaac Slue immediately said he was a constable, and pulled out from his pocket something like a staff; but as he was bending for. ward to seize the prisoner, he was met by him with a blow on the lower part of his lace slid ;Moat, which felled him to the earth senseless ; he was conveyed to a neighbouring house, and a surgeon was called to him, who said that Le had received a concussion of the brain, from which he could not be exreted to recover: he died shortly after. Mr. ALEXANDER cross-examined the preceding witness on behalf of the prisoner at great length, and with much legal tact : in tact. he made the witness admit that he entertained great doubts as to whether the in strument which the deceased had produced was a constable's staff, or whether it was not merely a pretence fot one. The witness also acknow. 'edged that Barnes might very reasonably be supposed to be unable, in the riot and confusion of the fray, to distinguish between the constable and those surrounding him. The witnesses who succeeded this man confirmed his testimony, and particularly that elicited from him by the counsel for Barnes. A surgeon was examined, who stated that he was called in on the night of the 4th of June to see the deceased, and he found him in a most dangerous condition. There was a fracture on his skull, extending all along the base. He died at 10 o'clock the next morn. ing, and on dissecting the head, the vessels of the brain were found to be suffused with blood, and the outer integuments were also charged with it. He had seen few cases in which so extensive an extra. vacation of blood had taken place ; but then he had only had three years' practice as a surgeon. Outwardly, the only appearance on the skull was a small bloody mark. He entertained no doubt that the death of Slee was caused by the violence of the contusion : that contusion was caused by a fall, and that fall by a blow. Cross-examined—The blow upon the chin would not have caused death of itself; the case was not one of apoplexy; he had often heard of serious injury having been sustained by patients from ignorant and incompetent surgeons, but he certainly did not consider this case as coming under that class of treatment. This evidence closed the case for the prosecution. The prisoner declared his extreme regret for the unhappy occurrence, and disclaimed having felt the slightest malice towards Slee. Mr. Patten, the new county member of Parliament, gave Barnes a high character for good temper and humanity : he was formerly game. l keeper in his service for a short period. The prisoner's brother stated, that the morning after the affray, the prisoner had shown the deepest sorrow for what bad happened, and sent to inquire after the deceased; also to say, that he would pay the doctor's bill. Barnes had a wife and one child; and the brother, who was engaged in the fray, was a cripple, with the use of one hand only. The JUDGE summed up, and the jury found the prisoner Guilty. His LORDSUIP expatiated on the culpability of his conduct in en gaging in an affray, whilst it was his sworn duty to keep the peace, and this culpability was deeply aggravated by the circumstances of the man, who had met his death at the prisoner's hands, being also a constable in the immediate execution of his duty. These circum stances called for a severe punishment ; and but for the contrition and commiseration evinced by the prisoner, the sentence would have been much heavier ' • that sentence was, that he be confined for two years to hard labour in Lancaster Castle. John Hinds and Connor Riley were arraigned upon a charge of bur glary. Hinds pleaded " guilty' to the charge, but Riley, sitting him a look of reproach, pleaded not guilty." The evidence, however, was so clear as to render it a matter of some speculation what line of defence the prisoner would adopt. An alarm of thieves was given on the night of the burglary t Hinds was caught in the house, and a watchman twigged the other fellow just as he was escaping through a cellar grating; he took hold of him, and lodged him in the watch.house. The prisoner, when called on for his defence, whispered to Hinds— " I could you I'd never throw a chance away." Turning to the Judge, he then said, " My Lord, I had been drinking that same night with some Mends of mine, and after breaking up, I was passing by a house promiscuously, when some one shouted Thayer, thaves I as loud as iver they could bawl. I thought I might as well help to catch the vil. leans; so in I crept at that same cellar grate—when they very unhand. somely laid hould ;on me, and mistook me for the 'thafe, instead of thanking me, as I richly deserved to be." During thii brief recital the fellow made sundry pauses between the sentences, to gather fresh Im. pudence for his next phrase, casting his eyes now at the judge, anon at the jury, and often at Hinds, who apparently stood aghast at his un• paralleled audacity, whilst the court and those present were not able to refrain from laughter. At its conclusion, his lordship gravely asked him to explain the only trifling difficulty which remained towards establishing his innocence, by clearing up some little doubts which might be left on the minds of the jury, as to his having been found without his shoes whilst going a thief catching. Comior—Oh faith, and is that all, your holiness (overjoyed at the apparent success of his tale); I'll dare up that in one twinkling. Ye see, I was wishing to stale on the rogues, your honour, so I pet pulled oil my shoes to be more quiet about it. The Learned JUDGE summed up, and repeated the prisoner's in genious defence, leaving the jurors to draw their own conclusions as to its truth. Withouj any consultation, they found him Guilty, and sentence of death was recorded against the prisoners. The Nisi Fritts side has disposed of two cases this day—in the first a juror was withdrawn after the defence was concluded, and the second was a mere question as to liability of the inhabitants of a neighbouring vil lage to repair a road. Neither were possessed of any such Interest u to render their publication desirable. GLOUCESTER, At o. 25. (CIVIL SIDE)--Befure Mr Justice PARK. HICKS, EY DIX. TILT Y. WILLIAMS. This was an action of ejectment, brought by Mr. Thomas Tily, the husband of the heiress.at.law of Francis Skurry Smith, a brandy-mer chant, formerly residing at Lawrence-hill, Bristol, who died in Feb. ruary, 1813, having in the preceding month of January made his will, by which he devised to his second wife, Anna Maria Smith, all his real and personal propertv,which was of considerable amount, to the ex clusion of Mary his daughter and only child by his first marriage. The object of the action was to try the validity of the will. The widow of the testator had married the defendant, Mr. Charles Williams, a brewer at Dursley. The lessor of the plaintiff, Mr. Tily, who mar. ried the testator's daughter in the year 1824, was a veterinary surgeon at Dursley. In support of the will, Mr. CAMPBELL and Mr. TaLronD, who conducted the defendant's cue, called the two surviving witnesses whose names were subscribed to the attestation of the execution of the testator. The first witness, Elizabeth Skinner, a cousin of Mrs. Williams, the de fendant's wife, spoke to her attestation of the will, which she said was prepared by Mr. Charles Ludlam, formerly an attorney in Bristol. She did not recollect seeing the testator sign the will, nor that he said any thing at that time. She had signed the attestation by the chris. tian name of Betsy, which she said was her baptismal name, and the name in which she always signed important instruments, though on other occasions she sometimes signed by the name of Elizabeth, or the initial " E." She was asked, on cross-examinat i on, whether she had not denied having seen the will executed, and she said she nevet did; ' but on the question being repeated, and it being suggested to her, that she had told Mrs. Tily that she did not witness the will, she admitted' the fact, with this explanation—viz. that Mrs. Tily " had taken her so unawares, that she did not understand what she said." She admit. ted also, that on another occasion, when Mr. Tily's attorney called on her, she at first said, she was not a witness to the will, though she im mediately corrected herself, and said that she was. The second attesting witness, Harriet Stratton, who was a sister of Mrs. Wil liams, stated that she saw the testator execute the will (having first read it over,) and that the three witnesses (Elizabeth Skinner, herself, Mrs. Stratton, and Mr. Latcham, the attor ney,) attested it in his presence. Mrs. Stratton admitted on her cross-examination that she at one time denied to a Mr. Rickards that she was a witness to the will, but accounted for such denial by saying she had forgotten the circumstance. There was a discrepancy in the evidence of Elizabeth Skinner and Mrs. Stratton, as to the state of health in which the testator was shortly before his death, the first of those witnesses stating that he was ill and unable to move about the house without assistance, and the other saying that he was able to go up and down stairs and attend in his shop. The handwriting of Mr. Latcham, the third attesting witness, who was dead, was proved, and it was stated that at the time of the transaction in question he was a re spectable attorney at Bristol. it was proved also that the body of the will was In the handwriting of a clerk of Mr. Latchum. It appeared by the will, which was put in and read, that a sum of 201. was left to the testator's daughter (now Mrs. Tily) for mourning, and that sum was stated to be "in addition to what she was entitled to, under her late mother's marriage -settlement." The testator, it was stated by one of the witnesses, was about 40 years of age when he died. The daughter was about 8 or 10. On the part of the lessor of the plaintiff; Mr. TAUNTON, with whom were Serjeant Ludlow and Mr. Blaule, (after addressing the jury, and remarking that it was an extraordinary circumstance, that both the sur viving witnesses, who were said to have seen the will executed, and to have attested it, should, at different times, and to different persons have denied the fact,) called several witnesses, the two first of whom were persons who had lived in the testator's service, and who stated, that the testator had been always fond of his daughter, who was his only child ; and that he occasionally had disputes with his wife (now Mrs. W illiants) as to her mode of treating her. These two witnesses also spoke to the fact of the testator being very weak for several weeks prior to his death, and unable to go up and down stairs, cr even to get out of his chair without assistance. The fact of Elizabeth Skinner having told 61r. Powell, the attorney, that site was not a witness to the will, and afterwards stated that she was, was deposed to by that gentleman ; and Mr. Rickards, a bookseller and auctioneer, at Dursley, spoke to the conversations be. tween him and the second attesting witness, H. Stratton. He stated that he, accompanied by Mr. Tily, the lessor of the plaintiff, saw her in March 1828, when, in answer to his inquiry, she stated, that she had not seen the will executed, and was not a witness to it. She ad. Jed that she was present when Mr. Latch= came in with the will, but site " made it a point of delicacy" to leave the room, in order that it might not be thought that any undue influence was used. On his cull. lug on her a second time, in company with a Mr. Duberley, she said she was very sorry she had misinformed him (Mr. Rickards) on the former occasion ; but:she had since seen her brother, to whom she bad mentioned the conversation, and he had brought every circumstance se strongly to her recollection, that she was satisfied she was a subscrib. ing witness to the will. In addition to this evidence, some receirk signed by Miss Skinner in the years 1824,:,1826, and 1829, in the name of " E. Skinner," were put in for the purpose of contradicting that witness's statement as to her signing all documents of consequence in the name of " Betsy Skinner; and a 'copy of her baptismal register was produced, to show she was christened by the name of Elizabeth, and not Betsy. itlr. Justice PARK, in leaving the case to the Jury. observed that if there was any doubt or difficulty in it, it was owing entirely to the absurdity and folly of the two surviving witnesses in denying, as they had done at different times, that they had attested the execu tion of the will. The Jury, without the least hesitation, found for the defendant, thereby establishing the validity of the will. The above was the principal case tried in the Nisi Prius Court to day. In on action which followed, and which was brought in the name of a boy IG years of agc against Mr. Cox, a respectable man in Glou cester, for sending the plaintiff to the Tolley in that city, in conse quence of his having trespassed on the defendant's premises in going into his garden in search of some runaway rabbits, the Jury, after hearing some rather heated observations of Mr. Justice Park, found a verdict for no less a sum than 301. to the great astonishment of the Learned Judge himself, and of the Counsel and every one else in court, it having appeared in evidence that the boy was not detained at the Tolsey above five or ten minutes, the constable having taken upon himself to decide that the matter was not cognisable by the magistrates. Mr. TAUNTON intimated pretty audibly that he should move to set aside the verdict. CHOWN SlDE.—Before Mr. Justice BOSANQUET. Edwin Lewis, a young man, was indicted for a rape on Mary Ann Fawkes, at Stroud, on the 17th of July last. The details of the case are unfit for publication ; after a very long trial the prisoner was acquitted. POLICE REPORTS. MANSION•IIOIISPAN EXTENSIVE IMPOSTORA man named James Jones, with dark eyes and rather a flat nose, was brought up and charged by a great number of persons with having given them orders for a variety of goods merely to give himself a pretence for borrowing money from them. The LORD MAYOR was quite astonished at heating of the multi tudes of tradesmen whom this ingenious person succeeded in " victi. mixing," as the spongers call their practices in public.houses. It was stated that the prisoner on one occasion ordered some shirts and stockings to a false address, and almost immediately afterwards bonowed Is. 6d. from the shopkeeper for an immediate object, as he had left his money at home. This was the course he pursued. The order was generally so tempting, the appearance of the man so like what he pretended to be, though he represented a great variety of trades, and the loan he required so small, that his success was not interrupted, until by accident he gave an order to a tradesman whom he had " victimized" before. The indignation expressed against him was very great, but it was very ludicrous in one instance. The prisoner rung at an accoucheur's night bell, and requested that the medical gentleman would at once be so good as to put on his clothes and go to visit his (the prisoner's) wife, who was in the pangs of labour. " Surely," said the Doctor, " I'll go to her this moment," and he started up, although he had just sought repose after the performance of a si. milar task to that for which he was preparing. He scarcely had his breeches on, when another ring at the bell introduced the same visitor. " Doc tor," said he, " will my wife require a nurse ?" " A nurse ! good 00D, to be sure she will. You must get one immediately," said the Doctor. " Bless me," said the prisoner, " what shall Ido ? No nurse will come at this late hour with. out money, and in my hurry and anxiety I have not brought out a halfpenny with me." " Never mind that," said the doctor, pull ing an his boots with much difficulty, " I'll let you have what will answer the purpose," and he handed two half-crowns to the prisoner, who immediately departed in quest of the nurse. Soon afterwards the doctor foillowei, but how much must he have been astonished at finding that the house to which he had been directed was a police station, and that there was no woman there except one that had been a :mother fifty years ago. The LORD MAYOR—Does anybody know whether he has taken in any lawyer? (Laughter.) The shopkeepers all said that they could find all trades and pro fessions in the prisoner's list, except the lawyer. The Loan MAYOR—He is too clever to try an experiment there. The tradesmen here caused much laughing in giving accounts of the labour they underwent in carrying carpets and other large un wieldly articles to various distances, after having lent the prisoner lid. or 16d. The Lord Mayor thought the tradesmen had been easily duped. They replied that they were convinced that upwards of 2,000 had been imposed upon, and they were anxious to check the prisoner. His Lordship advised the tradespeople to get Robert Cruikshank to take a likeness of the prisoner, and to enclose it to one of the newspa pers that exhibited the slang and villainy of the metropolis. The prisoner was remanded till Monday, when it is expected that many of the 2,000 will be in attendance. GUILDHALL. - Elisabeth Read, with an infant in her arms, and a child about five years old by her side, was charged with deserting these two children in the parish of St. Sepulchre. Mr. Miller, the assistant overseer, stated that the children were brought to the workhouse, about six o'clock the preceding evening, by a young man, who said the mother had thrown the infant down with some vio lence upon a sack she dropped on the pavement, in the north-west cor ner of Smithfield ; and having done this, she ran away across the sheep pens' leaving the other child behind. She said she was a n a ti ve o f West. moreland, and had deserted her children because her husband had been committed from Hatton•garden Office. Enquiry was made at the New Prison, Clerkenwell, but no person answering to the name she had given had been brought there.—She was remanded. Bow.trrasZT...-Yesterday a gentleman, named Whalley, who re sides at South Minims, complained to Mr. Mirrsitura. and Mr.HALLII of his having been stopped on the Greenwich road at one o'clock the preceding night, while proceeding to town on the dicky of his brother. in-law's carriage. by some of the new police, one of whom seised the horses' heads, while the other proceeded to search the carriage. Mr. HALLS—Did the police constables say what they searched for ? Mr. Whalley—They did not, nor could I obtain the slightest expla nation from them upon that point; one of them, who carried a lent. horn, said his letter was R. and his number 12. Mr. Blrsrsuma. advised Mr. Whalley to proceed at once to the Commissioners of Police, and lay a statement before them of the treatment he complained of. Mr. Whalley left the office for that purpose, and returned in about an hour, stating that he had seen Mr. Mayne, one of the Commis sioners of Police, who assured him that the matter should undergo investigation. dr. Mayne added, that police constables had certainly no right to take upon them duties of excise officers by searching for contraband goods, much less had they a right to stop a gentleman's carriage for that purpose on the highway. Mr. Whalley then withdrew, thanking the Magistrate for the atten tion shown him. Urriou.ssau..—Yesterday, Thomas Witham, the husband of the unfortunate woman who was barbarously murdered at her house in Prince's4treet, Lambeth, on Thursday afternoon last, attended at this office, accompanied by Mr. Harmer and several of the jury before whom the late investigation had taken place. Mr. Harmer complained that Witham had been kept in custody ever since Friday last, by the Superintendent of the Lambeth Di. vision of Police, without being taken before a Magistrate, and even after the Coroner's Jury had returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown, on Wednesday ; thereby acquitting Witham of guilt. Yet that unfortunate young man was still kept in custody, and was not released until that mottling, when he was taken up to Queen-squere Office. Mr. Harmer here proceeded to describe what had taken place at Queen-square. When Witham was taken before Mr. Gregorie, that gentleman inquired of Mr. Dowling whether he had any further evidence than that produced before the jury to charge Witham with the murder ? The reply was in the negative; upon which the Magistrate expressed considerable sur prise that the young man should have been detained in custody at all, particularly after the verdict of the coroner's jury had been pronounced; and he at once said that Witham was at perfect liberty to leave the o ffi ce. Mr. Hamer said that before leaving Queen-square that morning, he had been told by the new police present, that the moment Witham was out of their custody, It was the intention of the officers of Union.hall to apprehend him again, and take him before a magistrate. Upon hearing this report, Witham, as well as his master, (Mr. Nash,) expressed a wish to proceed to this Office, to ascertain whether such was the inten. tion, and to deliver himself up, if there was any shadow of evidence to show that he was concerned in the atrocious murder of his late wife. Chief constable Hall said that he attended on both days the Coroner's Inquest, and paid the greatest attention to the evidence ; and after hear ing it, he had no doubt as to Witham's innocence, and no officer belong ing to that establishment had any idea of taking him into custody. Mr. Sir/ABET said that he had no hesitation in saying that the deten tion of Witham in custody at all was illegal, and contrary to law. If the superintendent thought proper, on his own responsibility, to take that person into custody, it was his duty, in the first instance, to have taken the suspected party before a magistrate, and not depriveone of his Majesty's subjects of his liberty from the Friday until the Thursday following. 'I he magistrate added, that the superintendent had, by this illegal proceeding, subjected himself to an action in the Court of h.ing's Bench. Mr. Nash said, that when he spoke to the Superintendent on the sub ject of Witham's detention, he said that the latter had expressed a desire to be taken to the station-house, rather than be sent to Horse monger-lane Gaol, which would have been the use had be been taken before a lilaghitrate. Witham was now asked whether he hod expressed a desire to the Superintendent to be taken to the station-house ? Witham said that he never expressed a wish on the subject ; but was taken off to the station-house in Waterloo-read, and there locked up since Friday last. Mr. Harmer characterized it as a most scandalous piece of injustice towards a man under all the circumstances : he said that Witham was detained all along contrary to law, and that steps would in ail probabi. lity be taken to show the Superintendent, who had performed his duty in such a manner, that he was not justified in the way he had acted. hit. SWANEY.— There is no charge here against Witham, and there. fore he is at perfect liberty to leave the effice ; and as his master has the highest passible opinion of his character, if he was inclined to b e f r i en d him, he had strong grounds for entering an action against the Superin . tendant, who had upon his own responsibility deprived the manor his liberty for so many daps, without tacking him before a magistrate, and without *particle of evidence to charge him with so heinous an offence. The parties then withdrew. LAIKEETHSTREET.—Yesterday, Mr. Edward Cohen, of the firm of Cohen and Co. Ship and Custom House Agents, in Great St. Wens, Bishopsgate, waited on the Sitting Blagistrate, AI. WYATT, N. to request the assistance of the o ffi cers of the est a bli s h me nt t o apprehen d a man named Charles Smith, who had decamped with property amount. ing in value to near 5001. which had been entrusted to his care, n , stated in our paper yesterday. Lea, one of the officers, said he had been for the greater part of il k night and morning in pursuit of Smith, and from the information he re. ceived, he had every reason to think he should soon be able to app re . bend him. _ _ _ Mr. WYATT told Mr. Cohen that the business could not be in IktWr hands, u he was sure Lea would spare neither time nor trouble it: curing the delinquent. Mr. Pink, the landlord of the White Lion public-house, in IVIM 4 . Lion-street, Wbitechapel, was convicted in the penal) , of 31. fur per mitting disorderly characters to assemble at his house at unseasonabk hours. THAMES POLICE.—.JOhn Moore, who walks o n crutches, and is one of the paupers of St. Paul, Shadwell, was charged w i t h assaulting another anrpad disorderl y namedup behaviour. k'ter He was ten , asailor,ansednhcincd to be being guilty of gener a l riotoui imprisonee. for two months in the House of Correction. TOWN.RALL.—WiIIiani. Thomas Giles, landlord of the George and Phcenix, Bermondsey-street, was charged with assaulting /Francis Se. gun, a broker. The defendant met the complainant in the street in a state of extreme agitation, and said that an acquaintance of his, named Tubby, had lodged an information against him, and how to act he did not know. He advised him to face it out ; shortly after the defendant sent a person to him to say that he wished to speak to him, and he went to his house, when, beckoning him inso a private room, he locked the door, accused him of giving the information, knocked him down, trampled upon and kicked him. Tubby, also a broker, said that, on hearing the complainant's cries for help, he endeavoured to enter the room, but was prevented by a mail named Claughton ; he did at length force an entrance, and saw the de. fendant kicking the complainant as he lay on the ground ; when the complainant left the room he fell senseless. Other witnesses corroborated Tubby. The defendant contented hintself with asking the Alderman to assess the penalty. The complainant accepted of the sum of four pounds as a recompence. SCINTILLtE. Aw AMERICAN RAT.—A New York paper contains the following paragraph :—" The Marblehead Rejisler states that a rat, caught by the nape of the neck in a trap on Thursday night, completely skinned himself and absconded, leavirdl his whole hide unbroken, ex cept by the teeth of the trap !" HYD ito Pilo ut A.—A learned and experienced physician in Philadelphia, Dr. Rosseau, maintains that hydrophobia is not pro duced by a specific virus. He regards it as a tetanic afibction, and says there is always danger of hydrophobia front the bite of a dog, *heater the dog be healthy or diseased, in the same manner as there is always danger of &lock-jaw from running a splinter or a nail into the foot or hand. It is only in one cue in a hundred, or in a thousand, that the running of a splinter or a nail into the hand or foot is followed by the lock-jaw. In like manner it is only a few instances out of many that the bite of a dog occasions hydrophobia. On this theory, dogs are even a greater nuisance than they were of old. It teaches that there is danger of hydropho. bia from the bite of any dog, and at any thne.—/Itiladelphia Gazette. AWFUL !—At a public dinner on Saturday week, at Whitehaven, given to Sir J. Graham, Mr. Lawson, proposed, " May the heads of Don Miguel, Ferdinand the Seventh, and Charles the Tenth, be rolled in the dust, and the sooner the better !" The chair man, Thomas Hartley, Esq. desired that this toast might be drank is solemn silence! ! REMARKABLE HANK OT SILK.--A bank of silk, pro duced by a single worm, was lately reeled in the presence of several gen. tlemen in Bolton, which was 365 yards in length ; and on being weighed, was found to be of the texture of 1,500 hanks in the lb. A single pound of this silk would reach 710 miles. The worm was only seven days in spinning the hank, consequently it produced at the rate of 52 yards per diem. EXTRAORDIN A RY CI RCUAISTA NCE.—In a field near the Lincoln road is to be seen a man of the name of George Harrison, a pauper, who is totally blind, reaping among the other reapers, and doing his work equally as well, and nearly as much in a day as the best man in the gang. How TO CATER FOR SPORT.—A young gentleman, who has a strong inclination for field sports, borrowed a double.barrelled gun, and sallied forth, determined upon slaughter. He reached the Hone and Jockey, where sat an old duck, enjoying her water excursion. He aimed with deadly intent, he pulled, the gun fired, and ite hit the pond. He loaded a second and third time, and at last site received an accidental corn shot, which deprived her of life. The gamic was bagged. LINCOLN HAS LONG BEEN CELEBRATED FOR CLAIMS UPON :THE Awriousstraw.--Saturday last, at a small cottage, the property of Colonel Sibthorpe, I.P.a a portion of the plaster tea.: removed, when there was discovered some inscription, but which, from its not being expected to be found, and from the ignorance of those who were the discoverers, it has been nearly effaced : from the portion that remains, it seems to bear the date ISM, and the name Hussey, but who he was we are not aware. In the reign of Henry the Eighth, there were some of that name, but the date will not allow of the supposition that this name can have any reference to theirs. BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY.—Green be the pil low of honest Allan Ramsay, at; whose lamp Burns lighted his brit liant torch ! But it is impossible not to regret that such an affecting tale as that of Bessie Bell and Mary Gray should have fallen into las hands. The Southern reader must learn (for what Northern reader is ignorant ?) that these two beautiful women were kinsfolk, and so strictly united in friendship, that even personal jealousy could not iptertup: their union. They were visited by a handsome and agreeable young man, who was acceptable to them both, but so captivated with their charms, that, while confident of a preference on the part of both, he was unable to make a choice between them. While this singular si tuation of the three persons of the tale continued, the breaking out et the plague: forced the two ladies to take refuge in the beautiful valley of Lynedoch, where they built themselves a bower, in order to avoid human intercourse and the danger of infection. The lover was rot in cluded in their renunciation of society : he visited their retirement, brought with him the fatal disease, and, unable to return to Perth. which was his usual residence, was nursed by his fair friends with all the tenderness of affection. He died, however, having first cot mant. clued the infection to his lovely attendants. rhey followed hint to th.: grave, lovely in their lives, and undivided in their death. Their ha. rial place in the vicinity of the bower which they built is still ri sible, in the romantic vicinity of Lord Lynedoch's mansion. and pm. longs the memory of female friendship, which even rivalry mu:a roc dissolve. Two stanzas of the original ballad alone survive : " Bessie Bell and Mary Gray, • They were twa bonnie lasses They biggit a bower on yon burn-brae And theekit it ower we rashes. • • • • • • • They wadna rest in Methven Kirk, Among their gentle kin, But they, would lie in Lednoch braes. To beck against the sun." " There is, to a Scottish ear, so much tenderness and simplicity 1. these verses, as must induce us to regret that the rest should hire been superseded by a pedantic modern song, turning upon the Dios; unpoetic part of the legend, the hesitation, namely, of the lover whtc . of the ladies to prefer."—Poetical Works of Sir if Sou. Vol. XI. Yesterday evening, as the servant of Mr. Smith, car penter, of Whitechapel-road, was walking along the highway, with child in her arms, with whom she was playing, it fell from her. when a cart went over it, and broke its thighs ; the child was conveyed hor.e. where it expired in the presence of its distracted mother. BIRTHS. The 23:h inst. at the Principal's lodgings, Bluenose Co Ox ford, Mrs. Gilbert, of a daughter.—The 25th inst. at Harpenden-hou.e. Harpenden, HertfordAire, the lady of J. Sniith, Esq. of a son and heir. MARRIED. The 24th inst. at Broadwater, near Worthing, Sussex, Mr. G. Ward. of Bridewell Precinct, to Sarah, second daughter of Mr. Etlmund4..! Worthing.—At Quebec, on the Ist of June, at the Chapel of the lion Trinity, G. Keys, Esq. Deputy-Purveyor to the Forces, H.P. to Man Jane. eldest daughter of Mr. Marshall.—Wednesday, at Norwood, E. P. Thompson, Esq. of Dover, to Anne Eliza, eldest daughter of the la: , G. Thompson, Esq. of Rye, Sussex. —At Islington, on the 21st ins:. Mr. W. E. Plunibridge, to Elizab.th, died daughter of Mrs. Abraham. of Hackney. DIED. The 23d inst. in the 70th year of het age, Elizabeth. wife of 314 J. Dabell, leather-seller, Cranbrook..—The 24th inst. at IVatford- Her tb . Elizabeth, daughtcr of T. Nicholl, Esq. solicitor, of that place...At Edinburgh, on the 23d inst. the infant son of CoL Mavne.—The 21th inst. at Kentish-town, in the 14th year of her are, Catherine, the fifth daughter of Mr. J. Edwards, of Hanover -street, Hanuver-squarc.—Thr. 23th imt. at Brompton, Catherine, the wife of G. Ogle, Esq. 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