Star. — London, England, 1831-07-23 00:00:00

PANORAMA OF _ THE BRITISH FRAMS ON CREDITORS. TO THE ED!TOR OF TILE STAR. • Si bez your attention to a few objections, y hi;.ll may be, in your hands, usefully suggested, to ti.e hill introdired by Lord Wynford, and now vending in the !louse of Lords, I think it quite I gemonetrable that, should the learned lord's bill pass into a law, it cannot prevent any one fraud now practicable, whilst it is equally proveable that it will enable every unprincipled debtor to defraud to a greater extent than he could at present, his honest and confiding tradesmen and shopkeepers. let me suppose the Honourable A. B. or Lord Viscount C. D. the eldest sons of peers, or heirs of commonen, to be launched upon the town (as the phrase runs), with but a moderate outfit from their parents, —they very soon contract debts with their tailors, coach builders, and horse dealers; — their parents nre probably unwilling, or unable, to discharge those improperly incurred debts ;—these young prodigals, when pressed by their creditors, will soon discover how to be relieved, and they need only to get a friend to make a writ for £lOO, and, at the end of three months, a commission of Ilankrup:ey will issue, end these sparks of fashion xvi;l be liberated from all debts whatsoever due prior to the bankruptcy, and all their future pro- i petty will be thus protected from their past debts of every kind. Now many cheats and saripalers will take up goods, and borrow money, and fail, what is called full-handed, then get discharged, and set up with the plunder thus acquired ;—and this will be entirely owing to Lord Wynford's Act: for you are aware that hitharto merchants and those concerned in trade were the only persons who could take advantage of the bankrupt laws. Thus I have proved, Sir, that Lord Wynford enables the ilisho , .est debtor to deceive and defraud honest creditors. MOIRE. I shall now prove that honest inexperienced debtors may be ruined, should Lord NV's Bill be come law. How often does it happen that young men give theif bills to advertising money-brokers to raise money, and bow frequently does it occur that those miscreants concert those drafts to their own account, and procure an unfortunate young man to he arrested for twenty thousand pounds, when there is not one shilling really due. Let me suppose this unfortunate young man to be arrested; and though he has a good defence in law to make, yet as he is unable to give bail in double the amount of the sum marked, he is liable to be declared a bankrupt, and all his property, both in possession and reversion, may be sold, and that in conse quence of Lord Wynford's inconsiderate legislation which favours, much more than it prevents, frauds. _ _ _ SHEFFIELD COURANT, Jo* lb. The Assizes fee the county of York commenced on Sa turday lut. Mr. Baton Vaughan arrived a little a ft er five o'clock, Mr. Justice Parke having been detained in Lawlor, on account of the illness of a daughter. Charles Briggs and Janke Briggs, who were convicted at the lut assizes of feloniously sidling, kicking, and wound ing Wm. broil, in the neighbourhood of Hatfield, on Sun day night, the 9th of January, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm, were then called up to receive judgment, their case having been submitted to the consi deration of the Judges. His Lordship, in passing sentence, observed that the prisoners had been convicted under the statute of 9 Gee. IV. cap. 31, see. 11, which re-enacted a former statute, the 43d of Geo. 111. cap. 68, with an addition. The 434 of Geo. 111. cap. 38, made it a capital offence for any person malidouly to cut or stab any person with intent to murder or do some grievous bodily harm, and under that statute the Judges held that it was necessary that the wound should be committed by some instrument capable of cutting or stabbing. and that an indictment could not be sustained if the wound were inflicted by a blunt instrument. His Lordship, in or dering Judgment of Death to be recorded, intimated to the prisoners that their offence was a serious one, as it was corn witted to prevent the course of justice, and that though he should feel it right to recommend them to his Majesty's royal clemency, they must expect to be transported beyond the aces, for the term of their natural lives. Reuben Goodeer was indicted for feloniously stabbing, cutting, and wounding - Hannab his wife with intent to mur der her. A. true bill was found against the prisoner at the last Assizes, but the trial was postponed on account of the proseentrix having been taken in labour on the mornings} pointed for the trial. Mr. Hardy and Mi. Milner wean 11l the prosecution, and Mr. Cottinghem defended the priest* In his defence, the prisoner said he was sorry for what bad happened ; he was in liquor at the time, or he should not have done any thing of the sort be not know how it was. .A general verdict of Not Guilty was recorded, and the prisoner was discharged on entering into recognizances with two aunties in the sum of 1001 each to keep the peace, and be of good behaviour towards his wife for the space of four years. MALICIOUS STABBING AT HAISLOGATE...... Francis Wilson, aged 19, was indicted for maliciously stabbing William Siddall, with a knife, with intent to murder him. —The Jury found the prisoner guilty of stabbing, with its. tent to do .some grievous bodily harm, and reesmosmisd him to mercy.—His Lordship in ordering *Waist of Death to be recorded against him, said he had doubts upon his mind whether he should not suffer the law to take its course upon him, on account of the prevalence of this bar barous offence, but in consequence of the good character he had received, and the rem- dation of the jury, be should not think he his duty to the public *WU& ne was neglecting a. in recommending him to his Majesty's clemency, on -condi tion that he should be transported for life. EXTENSIVE Sueep STEAM/M.—Daniel * Simpson and Peter Simpson pleaded guilty to three indictments charging them with having stolen a large number of sheep the pro. petty of different farmers residing in the neighbourhood of Wold Newton, in the East Riding. Daniel Simpson * who has been for some years a local preacher amongst the Wes. leyan methodists then requested permission to address the COWL Leave being given, he said that be had not the slightest intention of offering any thing by way of justifies. tion, as he was quite aware that the laws of his country did not sanction any such acts as those of which be had just confessed himself guilty. It was, however, his intention, with his lordship's leave, to state the causes by which he had been hurried into the commission of those enormous acts, and the motives by which he bad been actuated. be then entered at considerable length into the circumstances It has been well said that a commission of bank ruptcy was the best commission in the King's gift . Lord Brougham is not fond of increasing even his own patronage, and he ought not to suffer such a bill to pass unopposed. This bill, in addition to all other objections, is an ox post facto law, for it subjects debtor, and creditor to a code of laws to which neither were liable when they contracted with each other—it cannot be matter of regulation to subject parties to a penal code to which they were not liable when their dealing. com• menced. As well might Lord Wynford propose an act to make it lawful that a man who borrows at the rate of five per cent. par annum, shall, not w :distending, pay ten per cent. to the creditor, or become a bankrupt. Has the learned lord con sulted with those classes moat interested in the subject, and best acquainted with the present law between debtor and creditor ? And has lie ob tained any sufficiently weight• authority, to enable him to assert, that, for the ends of juatice, the Bankrupt Laws should be extended ? For my prt, Mr. Editor, I am convinced that it would not he for the advantage of creditors, that ever• spend thrift heir to an estate, all of the learned proles slims, _every artist, every teacher, every actor, musician, or dancer, should be unaided to resort to the convenience of Bankrupt Law. Most of these earn large sums; and can it be for the advantage of creditors that such persons should have the pi i vilego of purchasing this, commission, uhich the v.itty Foote represented, and, with truth, as so valuable ? It cannot be for' the benefit of trade that such persons should be enabled to secure all property acquired subsequent to their bankruptcy, from becomingliable to the payment of their i tors . In conclusion, Mr. Editor, allow me to express m•• !nu:prize, that the gallantry of the Lords did not suggest some proviso in favour of the Ladies, so as ti: rescue them from the pains and penalties, to which Lord Wynford's harshlegislation will other wise subject them. A TRADESMAN FOR SELF AND OTHERS. ',Many Gelds of barley have been cut within these days in this vicinity. The harvest wi:l bnome f;onerai in the course of a week. The crops are most abundant.—Plymouth Journal. • The Infitietiza in Essex is almcst universal ; and like most epidemic disorders in that county, it as sumes frequently an intermittent character. There are two principal forms in which it appears here. Tl.e first is the form in which it attacks adults ; anal consists of headache, lumbago, and drowsiness, It:::trwod by vomiting, purging, and catarrh, with wi,ich the disorder goes off. In children it is Tiincipallivident dry cough. and cold, and few have escaped it. Those who have lived low, have come off the best. of himself and his father during the last seventeen years, during the former half of which time he had struggled hard to relieve his father from his insolvency; and at his death, in 1825, had voluntarily made himself liable for the payment of his father's debts, though not legally responsible. Notwith. standing he bad considerably increased :he produce of his farm, by adopting an improved system of agriculture, his affairs were not materially bettered, but he contrived to maintain his Credit, and to pay the interest upon loans which had been made to him. At length, in the spring of the present year, l an execution was issued out against him for a considerable sum ; but out of regard far his nanternus creditors, who had ' befriended him in his difficulties, he made an arrangement with his execution creditor, by which he was prevented front sweeping away all his property, and depriving his other creditors of their just proportion. As his brother refused to assist him further, unless he would compound with his crc. ditors, he was induced to take the property of his pro secutors, though not with the smallest idea that any of them should suffer any loss; and, indeed. in order to prevent that, he entered all the property he took in a book, and spent thrice as much time in valuing them as he should have done if valuing them for MI indifferent person. He drove the sheep to York, and stood with them in the fair for six Lour., though he could have sold them without digiceilty to a drover from Leicestershire, if he would have eel:mined to a reduction of five per cent. from the sum be had valued them at. The prisoner stated that several of his prosecutors had received their sheep again, and conclud ed his address in the following terms : —" My Loid, I solemnly avow, not by way of justification, that I am not here straigned for an offence committed with a view of en. noising myself—not with any view of gratifying my own sensual appetitica ; for my neighbours know that I have never been drunk for twenty years--1 have never smoked a pipe—my habits have been most economical. I ant not larraigned by the malignity of my prosecutors, but righteous. • ly ;it was the love of my creditors that induced me to commit this offence, as I could not bear that any of them Ishould suffer any loss by me. I therefore leave myself in the hands of my Judge." Mr. Cottirghatn, who appeared for the prisoners, then I called, to speak to their characters, the Rev. J. Banks, in cumbent of %Vold Newton, Sir. Thomas Gibson. the largest farmer in the parish of Weld Newton, Mr. F. Hutchinson, Mr. P. Grice, and Mr. J. Wetson, all of %Vold Newton ; and Mr. It. Jennings. solicitor, of Bridlington, all of whom had knoen tile prisoners nearly 20 years. Mr. lithey, of Fox 111 s, ntY3 of the prosecutors, who had lost 9 ewes and Li said le !lad known Daniel Sampson nearly 20 years, and never lit tl heard any thing against him in his life befute.— He was a man well respected by his neighbours, and was always thought to be an honest, good dispositioned sort of young man. lie was sure that if he had seen him in the fold among the sheep, at dead of night, he should never have suspected that he was about to steal any. Ile recom mended him to mercy. His lordship tedeted the prisouers to stand down, saying he should consider their case. ALB IVALS AT A SEX it :re--Mr. and Mrs. Pearl, from Jamaica ; Sirs. Clarke, Barnby Moor ; Sirs. Jones, and Mrs. Daniel, County Sleuth, Ireland ; Miss Workman, Adw t:k le-street; Miss Shirley, Sheffield; Mrs. Coldwell, New Inn, Leendug Lane ; Mr. Hodgson, Woodhouse, near Sheffield ; Mrs. Jackson, Fairborn ; Mr. Forster. Ponte fract ; ,Mrs. Holt rev. Doncaster ; Mr. L. S. Bitching, Lads; Mr. David Heinsworth, Monk Fryston ; Mr. Sits. aped Miss Deplege, Hull ; G. A. Sharp, Esq. Retford ; Mr. Reed, Birininghato ; Mr. end Mrs. Louis, Hull; Mrs. and Sli-s Hickson, East Retford ; Mr. and Mrs. Bullivant and family, East Ratted ; Misses Matthews, Sir. le.ekee.td. Sir. Snoby, Miss Swallow, Mr. Hems. worth, Mr Dickinscns, Jarvis Empeon, Esq;.J. Schofield, Esi. G. Wilt, Esq. J. Robertson, Eq. Sir. John Atkinson, Ferreleidee ; Mr Rater, liedalesey ; Misses Pye, Hat field ; W. C. Ilszlewectl, Esq. Mr. Hadley, Gainthre; fit. Itimineton, Barfield; Miss Adams. Littte Houghton; Clarke, Sea. J. Howe, Mr. W. Rogerson, Cools. broueb ; Sir. . Berke', Raweliffe ; . Rev. J. Ch.lmers and family, Steffen!; Miss Workman, Alntholtte ; Sir. Thomas Ferdeley, Mr. T. Chorley, aureeon, Leeds; Mr. T. Browne Thorne; Sir. and Mrs. Priestly, Leeds ; Mr. Mrs. ' and Miss Burke,, Hoocaster. RURAL VEN4V.ANCE.—Last week, about two acres cf Swede turnips, growing at Ashbourn, Derbyshire, wire ma ' licintutly pulled tip. The Cromford and High Peak railway was opened last wee!: for the transmission of goods. BittnetsicTorn—This deligh,fully and increasingly fa. shit neble watering place, boasts even at the present early period, a large accession of visitors. MARRIED.— A. George Martin, Esq. of Saeciall. grove, near Doncaster, to Maria, eldest daughter of Sir. Wm. Wrenshall, of Liverpool—William, youngest son of John Hunnicliffe, Esq. Clifton Hall, near Ashburn% to Anne, second daughter of Mr. Samuel Harrison, Eq. of Helper Lar n.—At Rugby, the Rev. J. W. Totnlinon, M.A. to Caroline, eldeat daughter of the Rev. I'. B. Ho. poet, Setrrington, John Keld, Esq. M.D. of Scar borough, to Arabella, daughter of the Rev. H. J. TodJ, of Set trington. DIED—Mr. Henry Pickftird, aged 25. The attainment s of this interesting and excellent young man were of a supe. 'FaE.AKS OP THE BOROUGH ARISTOCRACY.— We learn that his Grace the Duke of i',larl beronal,, it, imitation of the Duke of Newcastle, wild ether worthy borough patrons, is 840 deter• • laded to dn . what Le will with his own ; and has eccortihigly. scut messages to Mr. W ilks, a re spectable coach-proprietor at Woodstock—to M. ' Palmer, the principal surgeon there--and to Mr. '• Mears, the glove manufacturer to his Majesty— .-.forbidding them or their families from ever again entering Blenheim Park, which' is open to all the other inhabitunisof the town ; the reason a§igned ' being, that the three gentleman named took a - very `Prominent part iu promotiog the.election of the independent candidate, Sir. BuekinOiam, against..bis braces' eg o Lord Chat!.. Spencer ,( . ..L'huMiiill,,And his other nominee, Lord Stormont ! "{Such ire the .ste.n.s bk. which some nub!e per :ffMr/tres i:birik it ',it . ..4 tu maintain the " dignity iStll:Oir.CiiJer.".Thet public may, perhaps, think, ibiit 'o , l . 3lk;:l,;:iin isaik,wp given by the Crown to to "Lii , hei nicestor m • public services, and has Ltr supported h i t a e rant from the funds of the . c . ii:rb 7 +; it .4', I, ,come Ps present Gr•ce to ex .,*elqi_:.::ii:y, of l e.. l‘.7mje . ity'3 subjects for their 1(7 :7 , 4. 440.. f.... ; ., iippoi wig.. a TtlOnal we MC I°-• ". :# YLCII. : -, Ili ...ifinisters, base °Hilly up 4, ttaiLiree Me . i":•.!7. ••'as i•il • o-t. Ifyll P' k t Sat ender ; and sysslally must they be so regarded when tjecture. At this vosseet (three o'clock,) the, grand jury Mob ?se had spasm have latiseeied, • dot filmy are "Wog to dad a bill ice man ed'aressiviagsstudy 'ste w .considered. Having "%tightly oisturseder=idoiesne esmormisseed with oneh an education as is ommleen lia• alit and dig is amber with eke Chief rises in d! ~ a o s f in_ soll, ir he. coo f e o e r ivg trek , It. o a bove new 1 4 7 t Iseene d fhwleT usy tholimelt. , But if weft a bill fbran i . i t as arb g% whterstudy be pursued pliriseay not be .tided , and in is peemeaurat with so much spas.% al without the aide/ masters, all. ,1 4 Ms weld he a end dannsen,* wad inapt* stfielml that between. the ago of 17 and the eanneoseeteet di his with dissilleens i cemeweences. Bo dele is the meek et the Moms, he had optabal a osesiOroblepoldelmoy he *WO jury, and set tie tosoo. Lord Valenta is an the pad ill of en itimeep of the isee—Mmy„ will of the *iv. jury. , The pod r c. is, that it wend be mach R. Sykes ef West-Ella. better if he rembsed for much of the bad bleed that ex. PRIIINANW JOURNAL, Ady 16 to 10. lets is traced to bit at the last elestio. Mr. Cos. The Omegans. of the North have, in spite of elegy tell°, has Meeme..Regarty, gauss, and Mist, to aid as effort of government to prevent it, cel ebrated the last 14th counsel; and pile Corcoran, a local spat, who is well ac. of July in the MOM manner that they were accustomed to quainted with the county, will attend to the swearing of the do in the very waist days of Orange ascendancy. For our jury, if the trial goes on. own part, we are delighted at it. Stanley himself can no don- Wier 01D, July 19.—Judge Johnston took his seat an ger Pretend ignorance et the true character of the Orange the b e n c h at t h e usua l h our . YtmnenrY t eod if bes t hould DOW esitate to disarm them, The grand jury, who, as stated in our last, bad adjourned we the Catholics meet I n every part of Ireland, the preceding eret without having decided as ow the and petition for the removal of the Secretary and system, billsof indictment a g ain st the accused, assembled this ism which has left their lives, persons, and properties, at the iag at ten o'clock, their room, where they remained till mercy of an armed bondluL--Witlerford Chronicle. a few minutes before twelve, when being sent for by his A letter from Omagh The reads on all skies of the lordship, they appeared in their box, and their names were town, extending to a distance of several miles, were covered called over—all answered but Lor d Valenti& who, it was with crowds of men, women, and boys, dressed in orange, stated, had left the room about four minutes previously, and, acemnpealed by music, gags, &c. he. The party who came as we understood, from indisposition; be afterwards ap from glum& Cross, were headed by a hlr. Irwin, a Lieu- paired in the bon tenant of Yeomanry, and numbers of them arrived with Judge Johnston then addressed them as follows :—Gen yeomanry muskets and flied bayonets, loaded double-bar- demos Of the Brand Jury, you have now had bills of in felled fowling-piacts, pistols, swords, &c. Ac. The New- dictment before you since yesterday, and I would wish to be town.stewart party were armed much in the same way, and Informed, through your foreman, what you have door, or also accompanied by a young Lieutenant of the Yeomanry w h e th er y ou have come t o an y conc l us ion ? corps of that place. The town of Ballygawley was also a L or d gt o pford—nly Lord, we have found no gills against scene of the same display; here the magistrates permitted three of the prisoners, Win. Devitt, Thomas GIS and t m eq.abigal to be arranged premeditatedly i an orange deg John Denceo, but we are willing to entertain bills against was flying over the King's arms on the Court-house, the Wm. Gi and Mr. Graham, for manslaughter. semblance of authority in the patronising the splay I the His Lod i Then the regular course for you would be terrified Catholics prudently took tbe advice of the better to require bills of indictment for manslaughter to be now order of Protestants and their pastors, by avoiding all coil- Bent b e f ore you. Won and thereby providentially saved themselves from The Foremen expressed his assent. butchery. Many of the Orangemen were drunk, having Si r William Cox (Jame): My Lord, I wish to ask year open tents selling spirits In different directions. In fact, lordship one question. If a military body be called net, the roads, for a distance of thirty miles, were covered with and if the commander give the order to fire, whether those those outrageous processions. acting under his command are exempt from the con. BATTLE AT Bawnernas.—The battle lasted for two sequence , ? hours. The Catholics were driven towards the Bann, and, big Lordship : My opinion is, that no subject of the in endeavouring to cross it, four of them were drowned ; one gi ng i s w oo d' to o b ey an ill ega l or d er ; a nd if an officer of their party was also killed by a gun-shot wound. At least one of the Orange parry was killed; but the wounded, gives an Illegal order, those who obey him are not, in my opinion, exempt. on both sides, are more numerous than either will acknow. Juror: Then, my lord, is the soldier to be the judge ledge. After the tight, the Orangemen proceeded to wreck f or himself in the case, whether be is to obey the order every Catholic house on the way of their journey homeward. or not ii They smashed the furniture, threw out butter, milk, cheese, His Lordship t I suppose so. &c. and even wounded, with gun-shots, many old deerePta Juror: Then, this being so, the circumstances will be women received below in mitigation ? _ _. . - . His Lordship I have nothing to do with that. The Jory, on this, retired. Mr. Green (LC.) and Mr. Costello, immediately on this, conferred for a few moments, when Mr. Costello withdrew, for himself and the other agent on the same side, further co• Xron with the Crown in prosecuting for the minor c ti e. Mr. Green, for the Crown, declining to persevere, and new bills were accordingly soon after sent up by Mr. Hemmis. Some time after this, Mr. Fogarty came Into Court, aid begged his Lordship to indulge him, as counsel for the toast of kin, in a few observations. The Crown bad permitted the co-operation of counsel for the friends of the deceased, and be weld say, that up to the present hour the gentlemen ea the other aide had acted with the most perfect co-operation._ *Meal for the deceased, he was bound to say, gave every credit to those gentlemen concerned for the Crown peens. dew. Up to this period they had acted most cordially Se. webw • however, since the Grand Jury had come into= Costello and counsel for the next of kin had deli meths; and the result was, that they (for the deemed) mid ow longer co-operate with the gentlemen for the Crown, its pseasenting for the minor offence. Mr. Green, on the part of the crown, felt it his duty to prosecute in this case to the utmost, whether they bad the co-operation of Counsel for the next kin or not. Mr. Fogarty—So far from their offering to throw any biome on the Counsel for the Crown, for the course they were about to pursue, that were he (Mr. F.) acting for the Crown, he should feel it his duty to pursue precisely a shat. her line. At three o'clock, the bills against Wm. Gilfoyle having been found a few minutes before, the prisoner was put to the bar and indicted, that he on the 18th of June, in the Ist see of the Bing, did , at Newtownbarry, feloniously assault Slulruoney, with a gun, charged with a leaden bullet, self be discharged at her, and with the leaden bullet hit her is , Ilis right side, of which she died. The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty in a loud voice, and in a tone equally audible declared himself then ready for' ' The following witnesses were then called for on the pro secution, the four first of whom had sent in informatior.s Zan remaining four had not, but had received Crown summon ses, and all had been before the Grand Jury :—" Terence O'Brien Mark Devereux, Harry Hogan, Charles Morris, John Curran, Moses Doyle, John Redmond, Joseph Burne. Not one of them, however, answered to their names, though repeatedly called, on the penalty of forfeiting their recognisance& His Loaustrir on this raid, that he presumed the wit susses had gone, not thinking that the trial would come on at so late an hour. He, therefore, now gave public notice that he would be ready to proceed with the trial at nine o'clock next morning. A Quarts - ea PAST Foua.—The bills against Captain Graham, for manslaughter, have been just ignored ! and he was in four indictments. The Freeman's Journal, received this morning, states that the Grand Jury could not agree to find bills for mur der, bills for manslaughter were subsequently sent up by the government counsel, counsel employed by the friends of the deceased having very properly refused to join even in doing , so. The result was that the bills against Captain Graham were ignored, those against °Moyle, a policeman, found l !! And so there was not even a prima facie case against a single yeoman. It was so clear, so certain a thing, that it ought not even to go to a petty jury for investigation ! The :flail is in raptures. We confess we have quite dif ferent feelings. 11 c have not yet learned to rejoice at a circumstance so deplorable. Nor do we envy the condition, which compels a journalist to defend a transaction, that must afflict every person of the slightest tincture of humanity.— The Mail says: " There is in cur moral economy as in our physical con struction, a class of diseases generated which requires the letting of blood. The symptoms manifested at Newtown. berry called for such a remedy, and the surviving patients will long feel the salutary effects of the prescription admi nistered." Is this decent, prudent, or honourable? Is it in suds language that so dreadful a tragedy is mentioned? The Mail is the organ of the Orange party and the yeomanry— is it possible government will continue to arm a body ani. mated by such feelings? The matter cannot rest here. Proceedings must be instituted in anotlrer shape. Mean. while, we give unqualified approbation to the conduct of the counsel of the relatives of the slaughtered people. As to the boast that Catholics were on the jury, it is sufficient to say, that the result is determined by the majority, and that since they could not agree as to bills for murder, there must have been some for that finding, whether Catholics or Pro testants is quite immaterial. On the 14th instant, Dr. Tyrrell, the county coroner, as sisted by several magistrates and a jury, half Catholic and half Protestant, held an inquest on four of the Catholics who met their death at Tullyoner, near Banbridge, on the 12th of Jul. The substance of the depositions of the witnesses was, t hat the Orangemen having determined to match in procession, the Catholics prepared themselves to resist thin, when an affray ensued. The deceased, in retreating from the Orange party, who pursued them with fire-arms, and And several shots after them, were drowned in the river Bssisr— The jury returned the following verdict That do Is. ceased were drowned on the evening of Tuesday, the II July, in the river Bann, while attempting to alas it; pursued at the same time, by two men named Gilbert LIM and Robert Logan, a riot or fight at the same time existizal." The witnesses were bound to prosecute at the assizes. WEXFOID Asst res.—This day, Alonday, at a quarter past ten o'clock, Chief Justice Bushe and the Hon. Jusdos Johnson took their seats in their respective courts—the latter presided in the crown court. The commission being reek the following noblemen and gentlemen were sworn on the Grand Jury :—Lord Viscount Stopford, foreman ; Lord Viscount Valentia, Sir Thomas Esmond., Bart. H. K. G. Morgan, Francis Leigh, Samuel Boyse, John H. Talbot, J. Beauman, jun. John Rowe, John G. Richards, G. St. George Irwin, W. Pigot, Christopher Harvey, Robert Doyne, Licutenant.Colonel Sankey, Williatu Bolton, John Maher, Robert Phayre, Henry Archer, Jacob W. Goff, Edward Beatty, R. B. Clayton, Esqrs. and Sir William Cox, Knight. His lordship then addressed the grand jury to the fol lowing effect :—My lord and gentlemen of the grand jury, the calendar which has bees laid bell= me presents nothing of crime or enormity beyond eke ordinary degree, with the exception of one particular cast., to which 1 would direct your particular attention. The case to which I allude has already attracted much of the public attention, and has tended otherwise to excite no inconsiderable feeling. I hope, however, that you will discharge from your minds any impression which they may have previously received,for it is your duty to act alone on the evidence that is to come before you. A change has of late years taken place with respect to grand juries, he which you will be enabled to come to a clearer end better decision than formerly. Hither to the informations only taken before magistrates were sent up. Now no information which could throw light on the matter is refused. The transaction to which I have already alluded appears to have when from a conflict be tween two parties; and it also appears that both those par ties had recourse to reciprocal violence. I wish particularly to call your attention to the party from which the first act of violence proceeded, for that determines whether it be a case of murder or of legal homicide. Homicide is of various descriptions—either murder, manslaughter justifiable, or excusable homicide. To which of these descriptions the present case properly belongs, must depend on the nwure of the evidence that will come before you. Murder is a death proceeding from personal violence, arising from ex press malice. But there is another species of malice, which the law calls implied malice ; so that should no ex press malice exist, it the act which causes death be com mitted without Lay provocation, and meetly under a savage and barbarous excitement, the law will hold it to be implied malice. Manslaughter is a miti gated murder, arising from strong excitement and provoca tion. Nor will wards amount to a sufficient provocation; but if the violence be such as to put persons in reasonable dread and fear of their own lives, then, should their resist ance be such 43 to cause death, it will in.that case he consi dered mitigated murder. Justifiable homicide is where an attack is made on a patty so as to put life in actual danger, or excite apprehensions that death will be the consequence of non resistance. Death arising from such resistance is deemed justifiable homicide. Excuseable homicide is where death arises with the absence of all bad intention, and pro ceeds from mere accident, unforeseen circumstances, and in. advertence. The homicide that is to come before you has taken place between two parties. One of the questions for you to consider is, what were the objects of each party.— 'lf the original object of one patty was to break the law or violate the peace, and in the prose cution of that object a life was lost, it would most cer tainly be considered murder. But if the object was the preser vation of the public peace, and that a death did in consequence ensue, in that case the offence could apply to none but those who actually caused that death, but if any of the party were convicted of murder, then all the remaining per sons concert:et: therein would be equally guilty. All the facts of the case are fur your consideration. I have made those distinctions in alley to assist you in the discharge of your important duties, but you will take care to be guided by the evidence that shall come before you. Yuu will find in the italic ment some parties charged with aiding and abet ting. if t',ese hosniei* appear to have oceurnal froin the directions of any person, then all those who acted under his authority should be considered equally culpable with him who gave it ; but if, on the other hand, the command Wu justifiable, the persons who obeyed it ought to be free from the charge of a criminal participation. With these observe. (tons I leave the case entirely in the hands of the Jury, con. vincd that you will do justice to your country, to your own consciences, and to those who are implicated in this se rious transaction, Waxst , au, JuLT 18.—The grand jury have been sworn this morning ; they are for the most part ultra Tory. The Attorncy.General is here special in two civil eases. He takes no apparent p tr. in tbe trial of the Newtownbany case. Mr. Richard Green, aid, d by the usual crown counsel, con. ducting it. Mr. Patrick Costelloe, who superintends the prosecution on the par: of the relatives of the people, had a long consultation this morning with Mr. Green and the crown counsel. lam informed that he and Mr. Fogarty, Ms counsel, are perfectly satisfied with the result. Mr. Green conceded to Mr. Ca telloe, the right of naming the witnesses who were to be sect before the grand jury, and those who were to be called on the trial, and the order they should be called in—but what is still more important, full privilege was given to suggest to Alr.Kenimis to put by all objectionable jurors. Nothing unfair is intended by the crown officers, from all can learn. No witnesses for the defence to be produced on the part of the prosecution, all that kind of management abandoned. So much in justice to crown prosecutors; but I have good reason to know Ney act under orders from head quarters; but as to the result, I cannot even form a con. POLICE REPORT. BOIP-STEELT.— ST. NIARTIN'S PARISH, . Or SE LECT' NON-REPREIIENTED.—The struggle between the few relf-elected parish officers and the great body of the parishioners, which has been airlift' on for years in this pa rish, is likely to be brought to a crisis very soon. The Select, by their attorney, Mr. Rawlins, went before the grar.d jury for Middlesex at the last sessions, and preferred bills of indictment against a number of the parishioners who opposed the Select at the late parish meeting for granting a rate. The indictment charged the parties with rioting and assault, and upon the cx pane evidence true bills were re turned against Mr. Robert Fenn, bookseller ; Mr. J. Jeft: revs, tailor; Mr. Ackerman, stationer; Mr : Henry Sionp. son, haberdasher ; Mr. J. Oldchurch Webbe, hatter ; and the bills were thrown out which were 'mimed against others. Yesterday the parties appeared tt this office on a Judge's warrant (the indictments having been removed by the prose. tutors to the Court of King's Bench) and put in bail to ap pear to their trial at the Court of King's Bench next Term. QUEEX-SQUAtE.—lxremous'Bonixn.r.---Thurstlay, a middle-aged woman, named Buller, alias Lawrence, alias Bayley, the landlady of a notorious brothel s . o. 10, James street, New -cut, Waterko-toad, jails* phinviaNa fellow with whom she cobabita,and John Cgdatart, were placed at the bar before Mr. Gregorie, for final examination , cha rged with robbing a simple . savant girl, turned Charlene S trat. kw, of two boxes, attaining her wawlogeopparel and mt.- Mrs glrl, having left ha situatlea, was Inquiring for WO, b -Jimass4trosta e d e tie Moak prison er eir ti , bar agerwmawit ht r while she accepted. Ti e primes !!sleds ft was imoolossi to the girl as the they et lades, sod basis lairmati Butler that the k a d two hem slothso awl toss in Union.stree, L as e s d i , dat dirsa_gelsweers her to let t h e ", fetch the bozos to Jiates.street. width she contented t o. Bedew also proposed to the girl to arm Pickering, e t, she NM was in so clamant dustbin. The girl, quit e uessasoleas of the character et the house and the p arti. wised them to pc posoessisa ot her prop er t y , , hich they eankd Tot et the peopoty was traced to the prisoaers, and they were fu.fty counitted. lldasiminown.—Taars On. awn HIM YE T Thursday, Mr. leollsoi of the Cade of flood Hop : public-house, Titeworm, amend base Mr. R ai ,. LIIISON and Mr. GRITTITN, an a charge of selling atioh, rated bear. -- "ii ;lies of the case VIM • rimy these :—Alesscil e Mills, a istuusymen %visibility , having sent his wif e f ur k . pint of poster to the aboothannul hems, the poster was inn. .41 1 / 26mts aura out in a and coo . ewe train oil, *bid via. the mixture essyl,htsd de dm purchaser in lih fright apprefunaisi k one worse than this dal. cur, so much shad by thy of the Crimea. Mr. Romano's eeniisei this in explanation, but to: an excuse. Mr. Mills, however opposed quite relieved at findin g lit had taken es emirs akeirises compound than train oil, asd expressed himself ON satlelled with the mplanation. Mr. Ilowuxeon thee& that Mr. Bacon ought, at ke i t, to pay him for his Ism Odom Jr. Mills was see musk delighted at esaping a Comsat', inquest to think d Was( any remmnrntlao , and said he tram quite content. He kit the office. The unearthly loot he wore on entering eampletely disappeared at IdLTD had been cooling his as bossy" with nothing more deleo ui than heavy wet and train oil. The 22d inst. in Devonshire.plaee, Mrs. Capel Cute, o: a daughter. LED. The 21st inst. st Northwood, Isle of Wight, J. French, Esq. of Wanstead, Essex, to Miss Elizabeth Hodgkirtw of the same place.—The 20th inst. at Clifton, M. Pringl e , Esq. eldest son of the late J. Pringle, Esq. of Oakendess, fluseez,toJulia Fanny, only daughter of .the late J. B. Irwin. Esq . Captain in his Majesty% 103 d Regiment—Tilt l 20th inst. . Boom, jun. Bag. of Lewes, to Bliss Mary, z: Ueltfield..—The fth inst. Capt. W. W. Baker, Madras army, third son of Sir R. Baker, of Montague-plate, u Barham, second daughter of J. A. Young, Esq. of Great Ormond-street, and of Hate.hateh, Berks.—The 21st irst. Mr. C. Verrall, of Brighton, to Elizabeth. eldest daughter of Mr. E. Palmer, of Paternoster -row and Islington. DIED. The 16th inst. Mr. W. Holmes, of Albemarle.street,— The 99th of May, In the island of Barbadoea, F. Cobham, Req. M.D. aged 33—The 22d inst. at his house, in Huntley. street, Bedford-square, Mr. J. Gibbins, aged 76—The 18:4. inst. Mrs. Susanna Williams, widow, of Welbeck•strej, CavendishAnate—The 19th inst. at Liverpookhoure, Dover, Maria, wife of W. Slater, Esq. of Alkham Rectory, near Dover, and second daughter of the late Thomas Home, Esq. of Buckland.house—The 21st Inst. aged 72, W. Browell, Esq. Lieutenant Oovernnor of Greenwich Rosy!. tal, and retired Captain of the Royal Navy. STAPLES OF BRITISH COMMERCE. BRITISH (THIS DAY.). 'Bowed Pernams Covina . Are. 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