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(Greif) had not promised to keep it secret—that he told his father of it next day, and afterwards told it to several other persons. There was a rumour soon after the Bth of June that Armitage was to be a wit ness. He, Greig, and his father, were cloth-dressers. He denied that he had been instructed by his father or any body else ro question Armitage about the matter. Wo 'dhouse said, that Benjamin Lockwood bad been in his employment for five years, sad that his character was good. , Dyson gave the prisoner, George Woffenden, en excellent character. Will am Mills said, that Woffenden was one who always paid due respect to his parents, and was of good conduct with regard to every other person. John Thornton and another gave Wilson a good character as a peaceable, sober, and industrious man. Mr. Baron Woof), before summing up the evidence, observed, that the law had been rightly stated by the Counsel who led the prosecution, that those who were aiding and assisting were equally guilty with the man who bred the shot. He then summed up the evi dence, and left the matter to the Jury. The Jury retired about tea minutes, and coo their return found all the prisoners—Not Guilty. Mr. Baron Wools, addreising the prisoners, said, that they must nut hope always to escape If they en gaged in these riots. One of the prisoners, answering for the rest, said, they would have nothing to do with such riots in future. SALINBURY AS§IZES. MR. HUNT AND 1113 MAN SERVANT. Just at the Court was about to break vp, the well known Mr. Henry Hunt, of Middleton Cottage, rose and adds• seed his Lordship. lie was anxious to know how to proceed with regard to a traverse; he bad, he said, become hail for his servant, who was ' , Surged with having committed an assault; that servant he had now surrendered to take his trial ; but upon application being made to the Clerks to enter the cause, they refusecrto do it unless he took up the paper book ; that was, in other words, unless he paid them (we believe) £5. 16s. This his servant was certainly not in a condition to do; for he was a very poor man. Mr. Justice GRAHAM observed, that if he had off:sided against the laws, he must, as other subjects so situated would be obliged to do, abide the entice euences. If the Officirs of the Court had made any demand which they were not justified in doing, then Mr. Hunt fright have cause of complaint. Henry 4,;drew: was then put to the bar, charged with having at the last Summer Assizes violently assaulted Wm. Deare, by striking him in the Ince. William Deere being called, said he attended • as a witness in a cause at the last Summer Assizes at Salisbury. He gave evidence, and went np the steps iitending to go out, and he saw Harry Andrews and Thomas Ayres stantliiig close by each other's side. The defendant called witness a swindler, or some such word, end lifted up his fist and struck him a +violent blow in the face, which knocked out one of his teeth, and said, ‘, take that." Witness went out, and the deteudant challenged to fight him in the market-place, but witness would not. Cross-examined by Mr. BAYLEY.—You were a little fresh, I believe, Mr. Dearal.—Yes ; I had nut a drop of beer all day—(4 laugh). Mr. BAYLRY.—Had you not lost part of that toedl before?—No, I have got it hcrc if you chodse to look at iti.angh). Mr. AYunr.—You Ir.ve kept it as a valuable treasure I suppose ?—Yes, but I would rather have kept it in my head than my pocket—(A keih). On behalf of the defendant. Solomon Maslen stated that he was at the last Summer Assizes ; saw Was. Deare in the hail, just by the tap.rnam door; the defendant, 'l'hoinas Ayres, and witness were present; they were having words concerning some dispute they had before; Deare did not say any thing to witness's knowledge. Henry Andrews said they had had words, and it he chose they would now decide it. Witness went up to Wm. Deal', pushed him back, and said, e , You fool, hold your tongue." We turned round and went away. Andrews did not strike him, nor did he snake any complaint of having been struck. Thomas Ayres was also present, and said. that the defendant did not strike Dv-0 but that he charged him with having struck him. Witness saw no-assault of any kind committed by the defendant, but another man cache between them, and got betwixt them, but witness did not believe lw muck. Mr. Henry Hunt said the defendant was his ser vant; he had been so' three years, and an excellent servant he was, and he never— Mr. Baron nanara.—We cannot . p,o into charac ter in this business; if it were of a criminal nature it would be different. Mr. Hunt resumed.—l was just without the doors. conversing with two Solicitors, a Mr. Bowles and Mr. Bird ; I was obi ceased as a witness. I saw Ayres and my Servant standing attire gin-shop door near this Court. There was a group at that part of the door. I Heard some loud words, which induced me to go toward, them. I could see them both die; Slimily. It any blow had been struck by my servant, I must have seen it. I did not see him strike a blow, or po t himself in an attitude to do it. zamined.—Do you know, Mr. Hunt, that be was taken by a Beech warrant wain ten minute afterwards ? Mr. Hunt (with mneh Rahway and warmth)....' 1110, I know be was sot for hours afterwards: be was -attending on me, his master ! Mr. Justice GRAHAM..There is no reason for - such vehemence, 14r. Hunt. Mr. Hunt.--Well, my Lord,' I can explain. fie was not taken on a warrant until seven o'clock, when I understood it in eonsequenee of his having failed to bring we horses. Mr. Baron GaAllem reca insisted the evidence, End the Jury found him Guilty; b of his poverty, the Judge t in consideration statenced him to pay a fide • of 10s. to the King. Ten for received sentence of death. Vevey Awe, fee highway robbery, and Charles 111 . 1 for sheep stealissa, were left fo r execution. Mine s etr pied a small farm in the parish of p *stare r and the stolen sheep Were found cut up On his premises._ What was rafter unusual for persons of his pursuits, In his pockeesbook was found a sort of diary in hi s Own ha 84-itniiing. in which he had regularly entered t h e stealing she sheep ifs question I— 'he prisoner is acs engineer s and known to be a most excellent _ r NOIWOHAM. Clarks Rotherham, aged SS, was capitally indicted for the wilful murder of Elizabeth Shepherd, at Sut ton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, by striking her on the head with a certain hedge-stake. The prisoner at first pleaded gull' hot having, on the suggestion of the Judge, withdraw n this plea, the trial proceeded. It appeared from the evidence, that the deceased, Elizabeth Shepherd, an interesting girl about 17 years of age, and daughter of a woman residing at Papple wick, had left home for Mansfield, to inquire for work. Having succeeded in the object of her jour. ney, she was on her return home, in the evening, when, about two miles from her mother's residence, met by the prisoner, who, without uttering a word, inhumanly knocked her down with a hedge-stake, and did not cease his atrocious cruelty till life was extinct. He then rifled her of a pair of shoes, and lan umbrella, and threw her bleeding and disfigured body into a ditch, where it was found next morning. A few minutes after perpetrating this atrocious deed, the murderer passed on the road Mrs. Shepherd, the mother of his victim, who had come out to meet her I daughter. When the body was found it was in a dreadful state. The prisoner was quickly pursued and overtaken. To ne Benjamin Barnes, a constable who took him into custody. and who endeavoured to keep off a crowd by which he was surrounded, he said, a Never mind, let them come &wand, I am guilty of the crime, and must suffer the course of the law." Barnes afterwards accompanied the prisoner to the scene of the murder. He there pointed out the spot from whence he 541 d the stake was,taken.— He said he could not tell • what had possessed him; be never spoke to her. He was on the left side dicer, and on coming up he struck her on the head. She fell, and he repeated his blow two or three times.— He then dragged her to the ditch where she was found ; he turned her pockets inside out. but found nothing ; he then unlaced her stays, thinking she might have some money concealed there, but be found none. He added, that be took away her um brella and shoes, and that he left the shoes at Red hill. He could not say what possessed him, for he had six shillings in his pocket. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. The Judge ordered him to be executed on Monday. Bow-svazwr.—Yesterday James Lake Was charged with robbing his brother Mr. Samuel Lake, builder, of Alfred-place, Tottenham Court-road, of bank notes to the amount of £4.50. It appeared that he had taken the opportunity of his brother's absence from home, to get possession of the notes yesterday se'nnight. and after changing them for others at the Bank of England, he set off on the outside of the Umpire coach for Liverpool, intending, it is suppo sed, to go to America. When, however, be got to Liverpool, in consequence of an acquaintance he had formed on the jonrney with a married woman, who, with her husband, were fellow passengers, he eon. trived, by means of bribery, to obtain her escape from a room at an inn where her husband (observing her conduct with Lake) had locked her up, and he then set off with the Lady in a post chaise and four back again for London, where he arrived on Friday. They then proceeded in tl e same style to Dartford and from thence towards Rochester, but a few miles be yond Gravesend. they turned back to Dastferd, where they slept. and the next morning proceeded to Rochester; and from thence to Sittingbourne, where the father of the Lady resides. At the latter place, at the father's house, they were found on Sunday af ternoon by Adkins the officer, who had been pursu ing Lake all the way, and by the husband of the fu gitive female, who had also closely pursued. them.— The Lady, after a scene of great confusion, contrived to get away from her hotalund. but Lake was brought sale_to London by Adkins. On the examination it appeared that the prisoner's brother was gone off to Liverpool in pursuit of hint. The further investige. tion was, therefore, postponed. On the prisoner was found.in bank notes and cash £223. 25. 6d.- • MAtimmitotictt-sntti7..Yesterday tula Parrott, the youog woman who stands charged with felo niously carrying away a male child, named William Hampson, son of William Hampson, a private in the lst Regiment of Life Guards, was brought up for further. examination. The evidence was nearly the same as before, and the prisoner was fully committed toe trial. We have authority to state, that it was not Colonel Dissctwoon, of the Guards, to whom our Report alluded, in an account of an examination at Marlbo rough-street, published in this Paper on Friday last. HORRID MURT/114.—The following most inhuman murder was committed at a village in Sussex Gimpson, a labourer, returning from his work on Thursday evening, discovered his wife lying on the floor, weltering in her blood, and by her side. a poker, then scarcely cold. He raised her up, and after some time she revived, and recovered the power of speech. He sent for medical. aid, and in the interim The poor creature proceeded to state, that as she was sitting at work at the -cottage-door, a fine looking man ac costed her, and began to take some indecent liber ties—she resisted, when the monster dragged her into the house, and mixing the poker red-hot from the fire, hell it over her head, using the most horrid threats. She had proceeded thus far when she dropped from the chair into her husband's aims, and instantly ex pired. The most vigilant search has been made, but we are sorry to add, that but little hopes are enter tained of his detection. List of the prisoners charged w;th rintous proceed ings in the neighbourhood 01 IludJersfielti, with their age, place of residence, and offence fur which they were respectively committed : The following are charged with Steeling Arms.—Jonaritan Bailey, clothier, aged Pog log ; Jeltatbatt Brook, daintine ss,. et, Wham Benjamin Denkersley, weaver, 211, Hooky; Haan Johmon labours", sS, Hamlin!' ; John Kinder, cloth dresser, 41, Healey; Abraham Oldham, labotimr, 22, Marsh- Platt ; John Oldham, labourer, so, Marsh Platt; Joseph Sykes, clothier, 41, Hooky ; Joshua Thewles, labourer, 24, Holmerth; Benjamn Taylor, fancy 24, Hooky. • Ihe following are charged with tumultuously assembling.— Benjamin Brook, weaver, IS, Salford, In Lockwood; Joseph Beaumont, cloth-dresser, es, Lockwood; Wat. Osswther, shoe maker 17, Lockwood; Benjamin Green cloth dresser, Monkey; Joseph Haigh,weaver, so, Berryb:ow, Ahnoesdbury; Joseph Jysop, clotb.dtesser, 21, Lockwood; Benj. Lockwotd, clotholreuer, 19, Salford; Richard Lee, clothier, Holm fi rtis ; James Oldh am, cloth-dresser, LS, Berrybrow ; Ohlikid, weaver, Si, Almoodbury; Abraham Oldfield, weaver , SI, Al mondia7; George Woffeoden cloth-dresser, U, dickwood; John Wilson, clorinstresser, tb. Lockwood. Prewating Els Arms with i.ttent ter,Shoot.....lohn Rhodes, eradicator, Llnfitts, Saddieworth. Procuring Riotous Assemblies to be keld.-wThonsso Rilsy a taylor, Co, Crosland Moor.—l ssii Mersiejs REPORT f COMM 17TEE ST E M BOATS. (Condi:mei from the STAR of Satmlay.) Mr. George Dodd called is, and examined. Where is your residence?—l reside at No. 8, Ox ford-street. What is your profession ?—Civil engineer. Are you a proprietor of any Steam Boats ?—I have five under my direction. Where are those Steam Boats ernpllyed :—Two between London and Richmond; roe between Lon. don and Gravesend, and two between London and Margate. - How long have they, or any of them been in use ? -.The Thames bas been in use three years. Where does that go ?—From London to Margate ; the Majestic has been in use about twelve months, that goes to and from Margate; the Richmond from London to Richmond, has been in use about fi:teen months, and the other two are new vessels; all these vessels lie up in the winter. The Thames his not run from London to Margate during the whole three years; she has run from London to Margate two years, and was twelve months in Scotland hefore I had her. I finished the Thames Margate steam yacht At Port Glasgow in Scotland, anti navigated her from Scotland to Dublin, and encountered a ccnsi derable deal of bad weather, and found her most perfectly safe. No material accident happened to the engine which worked during the whole voyage; fr:;ni Dublin. I broughttlier round the Land's End, Corn wall, into the port of London. Are all the Steam Boats that you now have or that you have bad, used with condensing engines ? They are. Has any accident bappenz.d durirg the course of their being used ?—The bolero of two have been in. jnred by the imprudence of the engine werkeis ; but no accident of any description could or has occurred to the passengers. What was the nature of the accidents that hap. pened to those boilers?—The accident was the pm -1 tial coming down of the boilers over the furuac month, being pressed down by the power of the steam, lin consequence of the engine workers not sufficiently feeding the boileri, and cnveripg toe flies with water. What are all your boilers made of ?—Ti.ey are made of sheet wrought iron, rivetted tog,!ther. Are they cylindrical ?—They nit ; they are flat sided with fiat roofs, and the others have dome roofs; there is at least 1500 rivets in the larger ones ; and I consider every rivet to be in a degree a safety valve, as in all instances of bursting or tearing of this description of boilers the rivets first give way, and always give sufficient warning. How many safety valves have you to your boilers One to each. Is that safety-valve accessible to the engineer di recting the engine ?---It is in all of them excepting the Richmond. and there it is under lock and key ; the safety-valve on board of the Richmond is not a lever safety-valve, but they are simple weights rest. ing on the safety valve, the whole of which is en closed within a box and socked up, so that no dis cretionary power is left to the man who works the entne; I carry the key of it in general myself. o not you think in future it would be advisable, In older for the greater safety of passengers, that boilers should be provided with two safety valves— one not accessible to the engineer directing the en. gine, and another accessible to him ?—I think that to all boilers there should be two safety valves; the one which would be accessible to the engine worker should be loaded by the minimum of the pressure that the chief engineer saw fit that the boiler should sustain ; and that the one which would be inaccessi. kite and locked up should be loaded equal to the ulti matum tlrat he would, under any circumstances, per mit the boiler to support, In a,high pressure engine, what is your opinion of the weight that ought to be placed upon the safety valve of its boiler ?—That in a great measure is con jectural; but f, r my own pracuce I certainly should not allow the safety valves to be loaded with more than half the weight which I had previously tried and found the boiler was capable of supporting ; all my engines are low pressure engines, and the weight „upon the safety valves is regulated net to exceed six pounds upon the inch. What is the reason that you have adopted in your Steam Boats the construction of boilers with flat sides and ends?—Because that figure gives the greatest cubical content in the smallest space, and compact. ness of the machinery and the boiler is a desirable ob ject in a Steam Boat. Is it your opinion, that such boilers properly con structed, and of sufficient thickness in the plates of wrought iron, may be safely used on boar} Steam Boats baying the low pressure engines ?—Most de cidedly so ; I consider each of my boilers capable of sustaining a pressure of fifteen pounds up.,n the inch, bat I never work them to more than sis pounds upon the inch. Are those boilers so constructed that the water en tirely covers the tube in which the fire is made ?—ln the Richmond, the fire is entirely surrounded by the water; it is the case alsO in the Majestic : but in the Thames and in the new boat to Richmond, and the new boat to Gravesend, there are what se call open furnace mouths. Under the furnace mouth, I place an ash-hole of cast iron, bedded in clay, and upon fire br icks. Does the water in the boilers of this latter construe- 1 Lion come to the upper surface of every portion of tl'at iron, the under surface of which is exposed to the fire ?—lt does. It you are acquainted with any accidents which Dave happened to steam engines, not under your own direction, be pleased to state what they were, and how they happened?—l recollect, the boiler of the Caledonia London and Margate steam packet burst• iag at sea, by the forcing out of three of the rivets over the furnace month, which extinguished the fire, but it was not.productive of any injurious conse quences to any of :he persons on boards and the Cork and Cove packet boat in Ireland, with 250 offi cers and soldiers on board, burst her boiler when ly ing alongside of the transport th;t was receiving the troops; the bursting made a fissure or opening of nine inches by eighteen inches, but the steam which 'escaped did no injury either to the persons on board or to the vessel, nor do I think under any circum stances of the bursting, if a wrought iron boiler at the low pressure, that is, the steam not being more than tea or amen pounds to the inch, tbsiltii, steam ollich might be zustlenly let loose or asengag.:l would have power sufficient to raise the eeck of the vessel, or to injure the panic , on board. Supposing an engine upon .be high pressure pen ciple to have its boiler • ..ide of wr...i , yht iron, w it h the furnace parsing through water throughout its whole length, and the boiler to be provided tr:th safety valves properly adjusted, so as to pi .= on! ~ he steam being raked to more than half of tha • , r e which the boiler is calculated to sustain, shoi,i then have any apprehension of ill effects aristn, r fr rn the use of such on.en7,ine ?—Cert• ly, I shoula sod consider them haz trcions and liable to %try fatal eo n . sequences ; for all boi!ers deteriorate by wii r l c , time, and by oxydation ; and what might he p• at this period, at a Invite period th:r magi •• n . capable of sustainiug ; betides ail !?oil , rs r. t) casualties, and ia c :se et ;toy c.. 1, •.;ht suddenly let lease or diceng.ge d o o.earic :h yre:sure boiler, the ste?ro itself would expansive fince and impacts to destroy ar • 1 have known instances, as I have .t ••r• low ressi:re engines bursting, t'., 41;re,i. • no injury ; but I cannot conceive i, t sgt Te r s.eantot !Gin 2.1 times greater torte c.. e into tile engine room with‘iiit creating coi• What k the average prt..• of steam on . led to convey passrog , rs The Ric: r yac:•t cost, in the lit.' instance, ii , ..,u•ting • e, Xtb,;o, the engine its. It cost about . .e i.:stic cost about 42000, and the eni:n.• .:gout +E'litlu mote. Tile Thames c• st ,€2sot:, i.ciuding the iae at £ l2OO. The new voice ilia , I tuft to go toliicianond, the boil and joiners' atia:: cost sE7SQ, and an engine of 11 horses power and appal. tus c. st 41173. The new Gravesend steam yacht, Cleo hull only has cost £750, and the engine rtlST'i; but there will be various other expenses bAtire theie vessels are finish's/. Can yoti tall what it the czpense ,fthe bail- alone? I have just got a new boiler tar the Thames steam y.ttlit, and 1 pay tor the built:. at." 315. What additional expense du you apprel.end is in clined in a boiler these donentirna. by Iti:ving it of wrought iron, layond what it would cost if uJe u( cast metal ?—Never having had any cast iron ly lets, I do not feel toyb:11 competent to give a sail;. factory answer. Wha - t additional expense would be incurred by the addition of an additional safety valve won:a depend upon the dirrieniions of the suety valve; but in general, the additional erpenbe would tx under .4F. You mean, that each safety valve costs about that sum ?—The most costly of them cost ahniit that sum. D:d you ever apply a inc.:curial tube as a sataty valve ?—Never; 1 have.to each of t!.c boilers a mer curial barometer, that operates as an indic Mat of 0:5 bright and pressure of the steam. Whereabouts :5 the expense of that barometer I do not recoll-ct, but certainly not mine tl Did you see the Norwich steam packet which e:- ploded ?—I have b:eri on hoa:d he:, and pertotme3 a voyage with her ; I went down with Vit W pu:- chasing it ; I went down for that purposd twice. What was your reason tor not purchasing it.--Re cause it was a high pressure cogine, and 'calle to the accident which has since occurttd. Was that your sole Fe4SON l--Yes ; I went 71 tcc"ni time with a party of German gentlemen from B. men, who were anxious to make an Immediate chase of a steam vessel, and they also dec.inecl ui purchase that or any of the boats op•m the rive: 'Vary, s,lely because they had high pressure mar - engines on board. DIED. lime 21, at Greenock, aged 97, &till. Barbara M'Phersan, lict of the Rev. Alesander Mg.eod, of thr Isle of Skye. July 19, at his house, in Charles-weer, Bath, aged 79, John Palmer. Esq. many years Ci'y Amid:est and Surveyor. July 20, at Caister, Norfolk, aged 29. Hannah, wife of Capt. Edward Hall, R.N. A ft w days since, in Upper Seymour-street, Mrs. Fra-ces Manners, daughter of the late I .ord Wm. Manners. NEWOArE AND LER OFN HALL MAKKE JULY rs. (By tte ('arcase.) Berf, per stone Ss 03 to 4s ON: 1 Veal Ss 01 t' 44 41 Mutton34_ 4c1 . t0 4s 10d 1 Port 4i 01 to as ti Lamb zs. Id. till 4s. tki. PRICE E HOPS. SIM SAOI. 11.1[11, POCRETI. Kent 121 Os to 161 Fs Kent - 141 17s to 191 1 t Sums 111 111 to ISt 101 Susses 131 131 to 191 5 Essex 151 Os to 181 Os Farnham igl O 9 to 251 Os CU.II. MARKET, JULY 28. Ships at Market. fillips ►odd. l'..icts. 29 Idevreaale 24L SU. 9d. to 445. td. 3 Sunderland S 38b. 9d. to 59.. ....t. 2 Seo;ch Coal 0 00s. ad. I Wsls% Coal 1 545. 6d. I Cinch rs I 231. COUNTRY MARKE At Waltham Market on Friday, Wheat sold from 419. to E.G per load. Oats 38s. to 40s. Malt 1 is. per bushel. Bread 25. pe • Ohm. The samples were plegni ul ul all hinds of grain. PORT smouTu —.We are informed by an old Agriculturh.• is this neghbourbood„ that be has to t week sold M'lnot at La., per load, of the same quality as obtained Inns E3l. In the witrer months: he has subwquets , ly takeo the receding prices, accor,s ing as the markets have been. He further awes, that during Li. experience of forty years, he does nut unlimber having had a more promising appearance in the Wheat crops than at the pee sent time. The price of bread conrinuea to decline hers; i: is now 20 per gallon —one•third lets than it was a month ago. A: Gosport it is Is. 10.1. per gallon. At Arundel Market, on Thursday, Wheat wet i t mc :era*, supply, and sold, as In quality, from 80s.'n o-s per suarter, and the demand tolerably brisk. Nu demand for Barley awl Oatt, and but little offering. The fate unsettled weather has rather protracted the harvest, but the appearazce of a general ...rug of every sort of pain re• mains unaltered At Broad Oak Pak, on Wednesday, there was a large chew of lambs, the best of which sold from 15s. to las. a head—the iv:t rior sort groin I is. down to 9s. No; above a hundred were delvel away unsold. Of South down wethers there was not a great som ber, and the best fetched as much as 9Cs. a head. Salisbury Market, last week, W3l rather scantily so; !hri: and a few Ere sami.les sold nearly as high as last week ; ha: rior sorts were unsakabie. Oats and Beans the same as last week. Mutton is retailed at .51d. to 6d. a lb. I.am!), did to 7d. Vt;!. sd. to 6d. Butter lUd. to l I id. a pound. Eggs, 18 for a sttillipg. Ducks alive, is. 64. to 21. ad. a couple...dead, g s . to 34. t: I. Chickens, 2r. ad, to 31. a couple. Potatoes 9d. to 19d. a gallvn.— Pea., 6d. to led. a peck. PP ICE OF STO Bank Stock, 28 I per Ct. Red. 781194 i SperCt. Cons. 781 271 Tlgt 4 per Cent. 96 5 per:A Navy int!!!! 311 HIGH WATE4 TO MORA+ Morturg . ' . Afternoon . !KS YE3TERDAY. I Long Anne. 20 1.16 th 7.! 603./ India Stock, 451 (141,1111o:0s 114 116 !sr. • Exch. Hills (214.) 35 ..:s Si rr. Con.. for Ac. 73; II ; 9:ii .0 vi Ai LONDON isau.K.l. • 91 utiu. ater 3 1'04%4 mul pubtPtheti by La.vb, ix/kw**, Ocit:.. Vlach Ignlciiar.