Star. — London, England, 1827-08-23 00:00:00

ENGLISH OPERA. The second representation of PAZR'S Opera of The riteboaers attracted, last night, one of the most crowd ed audiences that we-havrever seen assembled within the malls of this Theatre. The excellence of the music, and the manner in which it was executed, fully justified the eagerness of the public : and, from the nature of the applause bestowed, evidently gratified their taste. Miss Batts having attained a greater degree of self. possession, confirmed her claim to the rank of an emi ne..t singer; and PHILLIPS and PEANMAN acquitted themselves in the most masterly manner. lhe N•rjeanes wife followed, w hen Miss KELLY and Miss GowAstu, as usual, divided the honours of the piece. VAUXHALL GARDENS. -,.........- The Birth-day of the Deke of CLAIINCI was last evening celebrated with great magnificence at Vaux hall, and the attraction of the G +la night drew together a very large assemblage of visitors. An immense num ber of lamps, in addition to those usually displayed, wrre Mamboed around the walks in appropriate ban ners and mottos; and a large ship form, d of variegated lights was exhibited at the end of the principal prome nade.. Tne covered walks were lit up in a very pleasing and tasteful manner, and the judicious introduction of several lamps of the " Royal purple" gave novelty and vaiiety to the scene. The customary insc! iption in honour of the Royal Duke was represented as a trans latency, which had a very good effect. The season at this popular, and indeed deservedly popular, place of amusement, is now d , awing to a close, and from the ►pirited manner in which the season has been conducted, we sincerely hope it will have been as profitable as it has been excellent. THE ARMY. Sir Curia Les DOYLE on Monday Inspected the 23d Regiment in 'limerick, and the 37th on Tuesalay. The General expressed his Loistaction at the appearance of each corps to the commanding Officers. The depot of the lOth Regiment is ordered front Spike Island, Cute or Cork, to England. Tuesday se'nnight, the depot of the oath Regiment marched fr.,ni name! to Templemsne, and are replaced by the Sdth at Kt:tenni._ The Ath Regiment is distributed as follows—Kilkenny, Head quarters—Colonel Joint with Rink and four battalion companies; (longue!, L) , Captains FISILSILACI, SA DLISa, S A LMIS'S...OO MA LCOLM'S companies ;Callan, Lieut. COLLINS. 'llse ark Soaked,' Reporter says—u We are enabkd to state, upon what we !whore to be cumpetent authority, that the following are hr contemplated Army Reductions:—The Cavalry Regiments to I.e reduced use men per troop.—The Infantry Regiments to be re. i'uted ten men per company.—All the Militia Staffs—all t h e c o ., lwial Corps (Wed India and Ceylon). except the African.—The Recruiting Establishments to be abolished, and the recruiting had. ids to be dune in future by the lk-pots of Regiments.—Two Districts to be abolished in Ireland. Limerick is one; the other we !use nut ascertained." ran vA L IN 1 LLLIGENCE. 071 a, Jett' 24.—Two 'truth, arrived from Oran, state that the Algerines have captured two French vessels from Mar. *cities—one bound here, the other to Nlartinique, with a valuable cargo, and carried them into Oran—(Poris, Aqua 20.) &arena, Jut.v 10.—The four pries mystics came In on the tinning of the 4th instant. They to a Greek vessel, under sus. ?kiwis circumstances, which bas hero sent to the Government at Bess. The log.bonk and some sails of the Kimble, oars of the Brothers, ands gun taken from the Camilla, were found on board. It i. nportrd that some hundreds of Llytitiots, who were staving hire, have •.iz, d trat., and sailed on a piratical cruiza. Pieta, Arouse 19. the Mars, from Sables to Marseilles, was driven on those near Cadiz on the 31st ultimo. 1),, L , A ut . 22.—Wind N E. to N. N.E.—The Simon Taylor, from 11,iicolen, and the Wanstead. (or Januotta, remain. The 111,1CleArlotte, for Madras, has sailed. ra.sed, front London, the 314tilda. Itirrusert.t., for Nlonte Caohne, Anoints, for Can..11,,r ; Z:nuhia, Dountas, for India ; Nlangruve Bay, Wrenn, no IN nierara ; and Sivisiinah, CLAPPIRTON, for the Cape. Pl./%OIITII, AUGUST 21.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the Cherub, DOM. f Archangel; and Duelhas of JONICIINti, NAAS, from I'eter.burgh. _ _ PoaTsmouTH, AUGUST SM.—Wind N.B. to N. Y. S.—Arrived the Amthie. Stotmorr, from Riga. r&TRACT Or ♦ LITTER FROM I, DATIED •U GUST 21. Yesterday afternoon sailed the Russian squadron of ships (de tached Itom Admiral Sineavin's) snider the command of Rear- Admiral Count Hayden, consisting of the line-of battle Air a Azef Hargool, Marked, and Alexander Newsky ; frigates, Con stautine,llelena, Kruiaer, sad Prevornie; corvette, Grernetchie ; and a store.ship. They were supplied with biscuit. salt pro visions, rum, four , &c. trom our Government -stores, (at the mak,' Nice 1, the quantity they required being too great to be , applied by private nietchants on so short a notice. Their fresh heel was contracted lot by the Consul, and supplied by the butchers Gsspoit. They are very discreet and econumical in the ripen iltrare of all thor monies, both personal and public. The Officers nl the squadron were paid irons 100 to In ducates each, as " table money." Will a continuarce of the fine wind with which they sailed, they will reach Gibraltar in less than ten days. The .remainder of the squadron, consisting of the line-of-battle-ships St. Andrew t Admiral Stria, vint), Vladimir, O'ice-Admiral Lumcmas), Czar, Cuastantine, Siwy, and Emanuel; frigates Mercurius, Castor, 'ad Dana, will return to Ce,,tortrdt, when the wind comes to the werward. Whatever the Commander of the squadron might know ~ 1 !lie ulterior destination nf all the ships, it is pretty evident that the Olficersgentrally are much disappointed in not being permitted to au the Mediterranean service.' GRAVISEND, A court 41.—Arrived the Earnest, Hunter; Chi!. Gabley; Don, Colville; Woodbine, Ow stun • Antelope, Drown; Equestrian, Harr ; Middleton, Scott; and Sovereign, 1141, ti urn Archangel; Fenveick„—.—.--, from St. Petersburgh; Irru lkothers, Robson, from Ilamburgh; Junge Jacob, Heslie, Irons Aid; John, Popplevecll, front Newstadt ; Esperance, Van tom; and Clifton, Mullen front Antwerp; Rhine, Hart; Alk• Nu, Fitch ; and Eliza, Light ' from Rotterdam ; and the Cathes nor, Fogg, Irvin Oporto.—Sailed the Matilda, Rothwell, fair Monte V isi , a; London, Jolly, for Newfoundland ; Aurora, Thompson, for Litho-altar ; an d the Perseverance, Starlet', for RioJaaeiro. setts SNTESIA. AT INA CUSTOM MOWS& b • W ASS%— . I . ne Z•phyr, Duff, from Memel; Abeona, Smith, from St. Peter•burch ; Alanbant, Brandt, from Gil, ; Thetis, An derson, from Handers; Anna Catherine, Bleckbert, from Darnsic ; Reward, Thompson, from Sr. Petersburgh ; Sir Edward Banks, Bowie:tr. fruit, Ilanthurgh ; Reliance, Sheader, from liamburgh ; )1 / 4 "a• Klaoliter. From 1./artiste; Hannah, Alardem,from Valencia; Castlereagh, (iraliain, tram Riga ; Return, Bolton, and Abeona, sod, from Archangel • Fwee Jonkvrouwend, Dykstra, from scum; Cunimerce, lh N'ties, frum Brussels; Adjurer, Jensen, Norway; Delphin, liner, frum Alcatel; Antelope, Brown, Archangel. tarn OUTIVARDIh—The Redman, Freebody, for Sierra Leone; Teasdell, nor Rotterdam ; Job. Francis, Miller, fur not Aluntre .1; Duke of Kent, liisworthy, for Pernam• nalury, fur Malta, Corfu, Lillie, and Cephalonia; thooLt., White, for Tenerife; Belle Alliance, AVildman, for `and Wu.% is; Isabella, Bloye, for liamburgh; London, nr Iforterilant ; Julia, Davies, for Malaga; Astrea, Pan g fiAmburgh ; Dryad. Power, fur the Brazils; Cholinley, o )ns for [home; and the Seringapatam, Richards, for the Scat. sancholy accident occurred at Gaywood, near , ately. Toe labourers of Mr. Dye, farmer, of lace, were engaged in stacking corn, when one o II from the stack, and alighting on the shaft of /inch WAS stuck in the ground, it penetrated hi• near the piostite glaud. He survived several the mo.t excruciating agony,b.fote death put to his suffering, Worcum ; irm Norio ' , mil Arch. a CLeAt im ▪ t w,n ; F,. t , 14,1 Y puill Alitottp ( '' l, b , for t wte,fur 11 liobms on, 141 Juutl Scar, r. A rntl, • Lynn, Li • that plat )1 them leil ,g ainkwl bowels hour % in 'e•.dtC ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MAIDSTONE, AVM= to. • CROWN SIDE. Michael Ryan was indicted for violating the person of Elizabeth Skeer, on the 9th ofJune last, at Chatham, and Thomas O'Connell and Martin Norton for aiding and assisting in the same felony. Mr. LAW conducted the proscution. The prisoners were all soldiers, stationed at Chatham ; and the prose cutris was a married woman, and the mother of two children, living in the same place. Between nine add ten in the evening, she was going to the market, at` companied by a woman, named Hannah Goddard, and had turned dolvn a lane for a minute, leaving her com panion at the top of it, when the three prisoners came down the lane, and all laid hold of her. She entreated to be released, sa)ing that she was a married woman. Two of them then let her go, but the third, Ryan, main. mined his hold. He dragged her some way further down the lane, and then threw her down on theground. The two other prisnarrs had followed, and were stand. ing close by him. She cried out "Murder !" and strug.' gled to get up; but Ryan told her " it was of no use,"l and if she made a noise he would strangle her." After that she was afraid to scream, or to make further resistance. Here the witness proceeded to state, in pretty broad terms, facts which completely made out the commis sion of the offence charged against Ryan; Ryan then left her, but held her down upon the ground until O'Conne 1, who, with IsLot in, was standing near, Caine up, and prnceeJed to treat her as Ryan had,eione ; she begged him to desist, hut he refused, saying, that he, would give her a shilling if she would be quiet ;" he swore he would have his will of her, And was proceed mg to acts of violence, when she screamed ont murder, ‘ and an old Gentleman came up, but was immediately' attacked with great fury by the ether prisoners, and forced to retire. He, however, won returned with two other persons, when the other prisoners ran away, and O'Connell was dragged away from her by main force, without accomplishing his purpose; she told the three persons who came to her assistance all that had hap pened; two of them took O'Connell to the guard-house, and the third Accompanied her home. The next day the soldiers were, at her desire, all drawn out, and she immedi tely selected the three prisoners as the persons who had ill treated her. This was the statement arise prosecutris. Hannah Goddlid confirmed so much of the story as related to herself; but added that she waited for Mrs. Skeer five mihutrs at the end of the 14oe. and did not hear any cute► of murder. and that when she told her ►he nest day how she had been used, she IMrs. S.) laughed, and said she should no; have cared about it if the men had not dashed her dons n to the ground so violently. John„S:telleto, slimes Fisharden, and Thos. Sparkes, thy Cure persons who had gone to the assistance of the pet s -cutrix, fully corroborated her statement, so far AS it refeteed to th. m ; s!te appeated much distressed and alarn.e.l when they rescued bur, and complained greatly of the injury she had sustained. The fact of the plots cut, is having pointed out the three prisoners among all the othsr soldiers, as the persons who had in , ju•ed I er,ssas confirmed by two of the petty officers. This was •übstanui ally the c •se proved in support of t h e prosecuti•sn. The Learned Judge summed up the case to the Jury, who. Ater some deliberation, found the prismatic Not Guilty. O'Connell was the.. teed for an assault, with intent commt. a rape upon the same female. He was found Guilty, and seittenc.ql to eighteen months' imprison ment and baud labour. ADo 21. ItoBURY OP TIM DOVER MAIL. A izheingale was indicted for stealing, on the 2&h Januai y labt, at Bridge, a bag of letters kocn the Dover rnail coach. Mr. Set giant Oranow having stated the case to the Jury, proceeded to call the following witnesses in sup. por. of the statement. (This CAW, from the extraordinary circumstantial evident* ex pected to be produced, and the nice question of Identity lovebird In it, excited the most intense interest. It occupied the greater part of the day, and did trot terminate till seven o'clock in the evening. The Court was crowded almost to suffocation during the whule of the trial.) M. Etienne Bolineur (examined by means of an in. t•rpretet). Comptroller at. the Foreign-office of the General Post-office, at Paris—lt was my duty to make up the Paris mails for London; I did so on Friday, the 26th of January last; there was an Italian hag ; I tied it up, and gave it is the proper person to forward to [undo:. ; I am not sure that I made it up in a separate parcel ; I gave the letters to M. Avier ; he put them all into a leathern bag, and scaled it ; he then put it into one of the pcckets of the portmanteau of the mail ; I saw him put it in; then it was chained, and put into the Calais mail coach. M. Constat.t .%vier—On the •26th of January I was employed in the Foreign Post-office, at Paris; it was my duty to tie and seal the mail-bags; I do not know that there was an Italian bag made up that night; I took all the bags to the Director of the Calais mail coach; they were all in one leathern bag ; I don't know that the Italian bag was in it. M. Gustave d'Ortelle—l was Postmaster in Cal ,is in last January ; I received the mail portmanteau from Paris, on the morning of the 28th; I opened it, and put in the Calais letters; made it safe again, and gave it to the Captain of the packrt Henri Quatre, to go to D.,ver ; I s.w it safe on board myself. CNA * Margot—l was Captain of the Henri Quatre pa:ket on the '..8:11 of January; I received the mail for London that morning; I at rived at Dover; I gave the p rtmanteau to a sailor to catry to the Post-office, ac companied by a revenue offiset. Thomas Dupont was the man who took it. Thomas Dupont (examined in Engli,h)—l was mail man to 'he Henri Q 'Atte p cket on the YBth Janaary. I carried the French mail big to Sir Thomas Mantel', at the Pus -office at Dover. Sir 'l'. Mantell was there, and Yuilip Riley and a man named Nash went with me. 1 pened the bag by Riley's older. He took out the Direr bag, and faitened the bag up again; nothing else sea, taken out. Here the mail-bag was produced; hut Mr.Bonneur was unable positively to identify it as the bag into which he put the Italian bag on the day in question. He proved. however, that it was sealed when it left Paris ; mad the Postm iskr at Calais proved that the seal was unbroken when the bag arrived there. Mr. AD )Lrto us objected,that thrie was not sufficient evidence or the Italian letters having ever been for warded from the Post-office at Paric. The Learned JUDOIL thought there was evidence to go to the Jury, and therefore refused to stop the case. John Nash, a Custom-house Officer at Dover, accom eamed the maul with D•rpoot from the packet to the Post-office at Dover. I saw the bag there; It was per feet then. I saw it opened there, and the Dover bag taken - out.' - I left the bag there with Mantel! and Riley. Philip Riley.—l received the bag from Dupont and Nash at the Dover post-office ; I opened it, and took nut the Calais bag for Dover I staid in the r ffize till four o'clock, and returned at about six; I found the door locked when I returned; thee I took - the bag to the London m.. 11 coach ; I gave it to Williams, the guard, and saw it put on the roof of the coach. Sir Thomas Manrell remembered the arrival of the mail on the day in question; he saw it orened and se cured again ; nothing was taken out but the lettet a for Dover; after that, it was never distuibed till it was taken to the London mail-coach. Mr. Fearne kept the key cf Sir T. Mantell's office ; saw the mail 134 g in the office : left it locked up while he was alssent. W. Williams, the guard, received the bag from Riley, and put it on the top of the coach ; it was matte fast there with straps to an iron ; we 1 ft Dover at eight o'clock in the evening; there was a lamp fixed to the bag, and a chain across it ; we had three outside passen gers, one sat on the box, and two on the roof just be. hind the coachman ; we stopped betarten Doerr and Canterbury to change horses; I got down, but did nut go into the house; I was down three or four minutes ; I altered one of the lamps, and belped to change the horses; at Canterbury I got rlf at the Post-office, and the coach left me Oct e,and wet t on to the Fountain-inn; I got back to the coach in about a quarter of an hour; it was then at the coach•office; there were three outside passengers when we left Canter bur y ; I can't say whether they were the same three that came from Dover or riot ; when we got to Lombard street, the bag was taken off by Badcock and K•rby, and carried into the office; I saw nothing the matter with it then. Charles B.sdcock removed the bag from the Dover mail-coach, and carried it into the office, at Lombard street. I lett it in a room there. I was backwards and forwards for a quaver of an hour. Then I took it into the Foreign•ofbce, and I left it there. I believe it was in the same state then is when I first received it. John Kirby saw the bag taken up by Badcoek. and put it into the Foreign race. Believed it remaiueJ in the same state as when it arrived. James Cowie received the bag from Badcock, and opened it. A letter•bill came with it. I found the bag had been cut open in two places, and informed the President. We both searched the bag, and Lund that all the interior bags were cut. Many of the letters were cut into pieces. The hill contained an item of the Ita lian letters.but there were no Italian letters in the bag. Mr. Walton, the President of the Foreign Office, con firmed thejgatement of the last witnese. Josiah Mayer, bookkeeper to Mr. Wright, the coach master at Dover.—On the 28th of January I booked six passengers for the mail to London, four in, and two out; one ouOde was booked for Chatham, and the other for London; the former was dre•sed in black ; I ob served him ; I had seen him before; I believe the pri soner is that man; I am sure of it; he gave no name when he took his place. John Haywood, coachman, drove the mail from Dover to Canterbury ; there were lour in, and three out; two of them sat on the roof behind me; one of them went to Chatham ; he never got oil' the coach at Canterbury; the other two got down at Canterbury ; the one that went on to Chatham was the one that was booked for Chatham; I don't know who he was. John Minter, proprietor of the mail, living at Canter• bury, saw the mail coming in on the 28th ; I saw two men walk from the coach ; they stopped and conversed sometime; then they walked out, and a third person joined them, and they milked all three down the street together towards London ; the mail went by them ; then one separated from the other two, and they walked away the other way; I believe the prisoner to be one of those three men ;I don't mean to swear to him. Thomas Wilkes, coachman, drove the mail from Canterbury to Rochester on the night in question. I saw the mail arrive at Canterburp There were three outside passengers. The two on the roof got down. 1 have an opinion the prisoner is one of the two that got down. I can't swear to him. John Colley, waiter at the Rose. Cinterbnry.—Re members the mail passing on the 28th of January; soon after two men came to the house; they asked for a chaise on towards London ; they came in and ordered two glasses of brandy and water; one had a bag ; some tame after,. I went into the room to announce the chaise ; Law Irom twenty to thirty letters on the table, and two or three packages; the men were feeling the letters, and holding them up to the candle ; one said " damnation," and then they both put the letters into their pockets ; the bag was lying on a table behind them; I put my hand on it; it seemed to be full of papers; they paid their bill, and went away in the chaise they had ordered; the prislner was one of the two men; I took particular notice of him. Alice Newington, chambermaid at the Rose, remetn• bered the two men coming on the eve tins in question ; the prisoner was One of them. John Clements, master of the Rose. at Canterbury, saw the two men that came on the night in question; had good opportunity of teeing ihem ; the prisoner very strongly resembles one • f them, but my eye-sight is impelect ;l Can't su ear to him. Geor g e Starr, lancll ird of the Lion Inn, at o;pring. —On the 28th oft/A(111v y, at night, two men came to my house in a chaise; they went on post to Ch a tham ; I saw tl.em perfectly ; I believe the pt ironer was one of them. James Bassage, waiter at the Swan Inn, at Chatham. —On the 29th of January, at two in the morning, two men came to my house is a chaise; they staid half an hour, and then went on post to Dartford; the prisoner was one of them. .f.ihn Bailey, a schoolmaster, was at the Swan on the night in questi.m, and saw the two men come in; was in the same room with them half an hour, and obsery ed them well ; they were much muffled up, and appear. ed m) sterinus ; they were unwilling to talk; a friend of mine, Mr. Penn, was present. :John Penn confirmed the list witness, and believed the prisoner to be one of the men he then s iw. W. Woods, post-toy.—On the 29th of „Isnu4ry drove two men from Chatham to Dartford; did not observe their persons. W. Lodge, post-boy.—On th4morning of the 29th of January drove two m-n from Dartford to London ; they got out at the corner of Surreysquarr, in the Kent ro sd ; did not observe their faces. George Rutheen apprehended the prisoner oo the 14th of March, at Holloway, near LlnJon. The prisoner, in his defence, put in a written paper, string that he was innocent, and that he .should be able r to prove by twiny Witnesses that We was 200 milts horn Dover at the petiod when the robbery was committed. The follow ing witnesses were then called Benjamin Booth, landlord of the Ge 'rge Inn, at Glass tonbory—Knows prisoner well; was at my house on the Mb of January; !eft on the 22.1; appointed to re. torn on the 25th, and diJ so; M. Baker was there that day. and saw the prisoner; the prisoner bought a horse ~f Biker; slept th-re Oat night and the next; on the •27th he went by the Exeter coach to Tiverton ; that is, away from London; I saw h m again on the 50th; he went away again the same day; he had a friend with' him all the time; I never saw him before. Thomas Baker, an iiikeeiter at Somerton. confirmed the last witness, And swore positively to basing seen the prisoner at GI istonbury on the 25th of January. Samuel Ellis, waiter at the Twee Tuns, at Tiverton, taw the prisoner there on the evening of the 27th ~ f Janual7; he slept there that night and the next, and went away 011 the 29th ; I booked his place by the Bath coach. Julia Palpenon, chambermaid at the same inn, de posed to the same facts. Jane Barlett, bar•ntaid at the same inn, confirmed the last two witnes.es, but would nut swear positively' to the pri.onei per son. The Learned lupus here interposed, and inquired of the Counsel for the prosecution whether they desired to press the case fortker? It appeared to him that there was too much doubt of the prisoner's identity to call upon the Jury to find a verdict of guilty. Several of the Jury expressed themselves satisfied that the witnesses for the prosecution were mi taken, and that the prisoner was not one of the persons who had committed the robbery. The Counsel for the prosecution immediately ac quiesced in this suggestion, and a verdict of Not Gaiky was taken, without further inquiry. BRIDGEWATER. Assort 21. Owns Stos-tßrfore Chid Justice Ben► Robert (Conning was arraigned for stealing a gelding. value 101. the property of wtlham Bartlett, a farmer living at a village near Taunton, in this county, on the 19th of April, in the present year. On the prisoner being called upon to plead to the indictment, Mr. Sergeant Bu►trus, with whom was Mr. JIMMY. cotitendeJ this as the prisoner had be•n already ttivi during the present Circuit at the Dorchester Assize, and there acquitted, he had a right legally to plead to the present indictment, ant; efois acquit. The Curly JUSTICE said, that he could not admit any such plea.—lt was true that the prisoner had beets tried and acquitted at Doeche.ter ; but that had been because the continuation of the possession of the horse had not been traced into Dorsetshire. It it had been so traced into any county, a man could be tried in that county for the offence; for the crossing the boundary of one county into the other was, in the eye of the law, a te newal of the tobbery. This being the case, it could not be said that the prisoner was now called upon to plead to the same indictment of uhich he had been formerly acquitted, and that was the very gi.t of artrefuis acquit ; for it would be absurd to contend thst, because ;here was some flaw in an indictment, th,t fls.v c , .uld nut be corrected, and the prisoner tried ova again. To plead autreflois acquit, it must be dieters that the previous in dictment was good as far as its drawing up went, but not sufficient to carry through the justice of tt - .e case. The prisoner then pleaded not euilty to the present indictment, and was subsequently put to the bar to take his trial. The trial occupied a long time, and a great number of witnesses were examined both for anJ against the prisoner. The case seemed very doubt! ul, of winch the Jury gave him the advantage—Acquitted. William Kearsley, with several aliases to his name, was indicted for a burglary in the house of Vincent Stuckey, Esq. the banker, of Bristol, and stealing there. from upwards of 2001. worth 11 plate, and sundry other articles, as specified in the indictment. From the evidence of Henry Parry, the butler of Mr. Stuckey, it appeared that on the night of the 22d of July, his master's house at Langport was locked up quite safe, but that the neat morning, atv of five o'clock, he was alarmed by a fellow servant, and on getting up, discovered that the house had been broken into, sod robbed of a con , iderable quantity of plate. Amongst other things the mustard spoon, ont of the niustatd pot, had been taken. To connect the prisoner with the robbery, a' man was examined, who saw him at a publ , c-house, near Mr. Stuckey's, at half past 12 of the night the rob bery—an innkeeper, who deposed that the morning after the robbery the prisoner had acacial pints of beer at his house, and paid for them in hallp , nce, until the robbery at Mr. Stuckey's was mentioned, and then he offered a sixpence to be changed for the next pint. From Mr. Stu, key's testimony it appeared, that . among other things a charity box, of which he had'the keep ing, and in which there were nearly 20s. worth of half pence, had been stolen. And, finally, the landlord of Street Inn deposed that the prisoner c.tled at his house, and treated - all the people in the tap-room with beer; this circumstance, aid that of his having a heavy trunk with him, excited the landlord's suspicion, especially as he soon afterwards heard of the robbery at Ms. Stuckey's. Determined to pursue the prisoner. he took horse, and riding on the liiistol road, came up with him, within about half a mile of Bristol, where I.e was disoting with the driver of a cart. who had given him a lift, whether or not he should give him a shilling for the carriage of air box. The landlord %% %% seeing what was in the box, and on 'lamination it was found to contain a'sout 1001. worth of the plate which had been stolen. The test of the plate was discos ezed hidden in a field, not far from Mr. Stuckey'. house. The Jury, alter a minute's deliberation, returned a verdict of 6uiliy, the prisoner having offered no de fence, nor called any witnesses. The CHUM Jusrica then directed the usual procla mation to be made previous to his passing sentei.ce f death, and then addressed the prisoner thus:—" Vs il. Liam Kearsley, you having bees convicted by a Jury, who, during this Assize, have given abundant pouf of the discretion with which they discharge their duty, I am now called upon to discharge mine." At this m iment the prisoner dropped down in the deck altogether on the instant, without uttering any sound, or giving any previous intimation how deeply he was affected by the awful sentence that was being pronounced against him. The Judge paused in his duty, while a chair and water were brought to the relief of the prisoner, and a medic t.l Gentleman who was pre. sent attended him ui. she dock. gin three or four minutes had elapsed, the senses of tbe unfortunate man appeared gradually to fftll; 11, but up to the tiros when 1 o