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490 ASSIZB INTEL i./G VC e. K ENT. MAIDSTONE, Mc. 16.—The Assizes commenced here to day at one o'clock. Mr. Justice Bayley arrived lust night, lint Mr. Baton Graham did not coma into town until this evening. 3lr. Justice But ley charged the Grand Jury. George Groombridge was indicted for having, on the 30:11 of November, assaulted and ill-used Mary Ann NVile's (with intent to conini4 a laps), at Speltilturst, in this comity. Ann Wiles stated, that on the abuse day, Its she vtns walking (ruin Toahridge Wells to 81),k: oust, between one and two o'clock inahe ailernrn n, s:ie saw the primmer following her, which he did fur about half a mile ; wheu she arrived at B:ind well II ook he passed her, and Ina use a steep hill, as she sup-, posed, to see if any one was insight ; be then descended, and, as she was 'missing along the bottom, he spin overtook her, .611,1 alltidellly took hold of her by the shoulders, suit forced her n 11114113 a bank, and esposed her person in toe most violent manner, using at the same eme the most disgusting language. NVitnetts begged for God's sgke that lie would desist, es site was a married woman, to which prisoner replied," I.)—n your eyes, I don't care who you sic, or wlint you are, but I e ilh;" lie then treated her with considerable t iuleuca ; and lint for . the fortunate halmoing of come gentlemen who were heating in the ilei6liboui Mg. wood, wouhl, in ell probability have effected his brutal purpose ; be, however, shinned, di sirged, and ran assay ; :loess on her arrival at home immediately in . formed her bus Land of the unmanly treatment she bad expe rienced of lh , hands or the prisoner, limn tie effects of which ••sbe en, huviiig been at the time considerably advanced ,In pregnancy ; on the fonowiug Monday (Deo. 2), the prisoner was apprehended—and witness now, in the most positive Wan t ter, itientilied Lim as the ',ensue who committed the assault . upon her. The learned Judge brit-fly reeapitulafed the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict of—Guilty. A sewed iodic: meta was immediately preferred against the prisoner, charging him with having, on the 2d instant, assault. ed Ann Easter, an interesting little girl, only a eleven yeses of age, with intent to commit a rape upon her, in the parisd of Peeshurst, in Cis county. The case wis somewbet similar to the preceding one, and was fully proved.—Guilty. Mr. Justice Bayley, after addressing the prisoner in teems of the strongest dep recnt i on , sen t ence d him to one year's im prisonment and hard labour fur the assault upon Mary Anne Wiles, and six mouths (to be eomputed lona the expiration of the ;net ions sentence) for that upon Ann Foster, and, at the eonclusion of his imprisonment, to enter into a recognizauce of 431. for his good behaviour for five veers. ill AIDNIUNE, DEC. .17 —Hichaid Hartley was inflicted under the 43.1 of Gee. 111, c. 58, sec. I. and contumely coiled Lot ti Ellenborungli's Act, kir assattliing S. Owen, at the Vltit. of Sheerness, on the- ',nth of August, wish a me lain sharp instrument, and feloniously and maliciously stabbing, with inteut to kill and murder him. Second count, alleging the intent to disable; a itsl the third, to do (lee prosecutor sonic grievous bodily Ilium. It appeared that the prisoner, hat Mg been convicted of and sentenced to death for a burglary, at the last assizes for this comity, and ordered for execution, obtained a respite of his sentence, on the ground that he was able to Etil»111111liedte some inipm twit itifut inset ion respecting the Mulder of the late Airs. Dolialty. The sentence was edict wards commuted to translioriation for life, 810 the prisoner was removed on hoard Ilse convict shipßelle.ophon, at Slieetness, pi rparatuly to the execution of that sen tence. • The plum cuter was captain or ovei see' of the 'Bellerophon. The prisoner thee said he saw no cause fits limos tag Lim to the hulks; and that if .instiee had berm done lion lie should hove !Well beeped long since. The captiiin reproached him as en imgratetel fetch, iu speek ing of the fin bearance slut wii 111111 by pus Kl:ltt, a nd the tnercy of Ins God ; WWI WEIVIsell 11;111 to elolillWel himself with inure rulimissiou in foture. In an iusiatit the pi l eakier strut k !dm a bark handed blow with great violence on the tight sale. At the moment the latter did not know that lie was woitieled ; but presently *nisei veil a hole in li.s waistcoat, and that blood began to flow. The con. duct of the pi isolier immediately excited the vigilance of the other officers, slid lie was secured and handcuffed. According to the testimony of the ship's surgeon, the wound was in a most vital part, and timing the first stages of the cure the captain's lire was in greet jeopardy. The prisoner asked DO (111eStiOlIS of thee witnesses for the prosecution, 11111 being called on for Ilk defence, said that he committed the &railed act imputed to him in a lit of insanity, without any malice to watt di the prosecutor.' ...-Goaded by the conseionenese of foi titer ermines, aud wound tip to a state ut ma t.nz,.. from Ike apptelte,isimis of beteg tianspoi 1..1 Cut life, h became dclik ions, and in a moment of tenons passion be 111.1 act elude of der other eircimistant es, he would have shod lewd at with humor. He had hero dismissed the naval set rice in eumeiptenee of insanity ; but, deserted and a bmolotivil by ail w Ito knew him, tie was iinotme to prove the !net. Ile trusted, however, that the Jury wouid take Ilia case limb consitictat.titi. Mr. Lanni iillial» the case—niel the Jury immediately gonad the pt i ou. r 14,1111 A—death. 1l lino called 1,1,011 to bay vvhy Judgment of death should not pass agatest him, the pi isieter said he wished for no mercy. Hai rinsed as he was 111 111111,1, by a series of crimes, he had Nu prospect of pi•aiie in this wool.). Lin. lied no chattels tom taint. Gather Ilion be itaiispos led for lite, he would pr. ler instant removal to the place of death. De pi ecating the 'nesse venous of his tionetable Lie, he eat Heftily prayed that the learked Judge would have him for executive. 'flak ittidleS6 hail excited genesis' astonishment. The wretched prisoner spoke in a SIJAiII of language far above what might be expected in a man of his humble cuitili lion. nir. 11 tron Gialiant plocetaled to pass the awful sem letter 01 the law, unit curial - .d the poisoner to 'nuke the best rise of the abort lime allotted him on this oide of the grave. to prepare 1 . .. r an eternal scene, twit told hint in' moist expect to undergo the meshed pionishisieut awaited his eritium. Benjamin Pmelirose watt indicted for a burglary in the ii wreing-house ul William Jeeves, in the night of the 71h of August, at St. Paul's Depiloid, and bleating therein, g.SI. hi gold and SiiVef 'steamy, six silver lea spool's, two surer table spoons, mod a a hosed gold sea!, the property of W. Jeeves. and .8 goer a eigos, two elbised gold beats, and a chased gold key, the ptuperty of Joint Jeevt.s. A Iwo-fold defence was set tip for the pinoner ; first, that lie was possessed of a considerable quantity of gold money befas• the rabbet) , ; aud, steund, that he hind r. e. ived l'ie sispebre sewn to by tba proseentor in ut a 1.31:•ci0y , “ at 4:t (1 . 3:4 i doss , iu I)..apit THE NATIONAL. REGIST: The Jury, under the learned Jutlnt's direction, found the primiler teem:intended him to merry, oil account of his previous good elimactrr. S. Lawrence was indicted und er the 52(1 (leo. c. Id 3, for assembling with oilier persons to the number of three And mote, at the 'latish of St. John, in the Lle of Thasiet, on the lot of Sept. 1,21, aimed for the parpose of aiding and assiating in the illegal i untiiiig and landing 01 cei tam mien-awned goody. . _ Tun defence set np was firct au alibi, and second, the wiknesacs tor Ilse crown ball tuktal.,ii the pri , ons r fur his broiler, tli:•te bt•ing 4 letuasl nose Ausil‘iity beta ' , tit 1114.1111111pC1.v011 1111.110113,.1 . 41 appearance. It aas uruc ed diat Ote biorbei had absconded 10 AMC! jell. The Jury deliberated Mount ten tad iiii tes, and found the pi isener uot guilty. DEC. IS.—Jesse Chantler, Samuel Omniler, Richard Harris, and WIII44181•SepeAlM.111, were indicted for having ou the 2.Ali of November, feloniously enieicit tile. house of Nathaniel Panklintst, at Stapleintr•t, 1111 d stokto there • from two It I. notes, one 31. hole, cur, a 11. LOWS, old gold cub, to the value 121. Nat silver tea swarm., and Wire roveleiglis, 1118 pi utterly. Itititittd Chautler pleaded guilty, the other three not guilty. l' o eJlity returned a verdict against Samuel and Jesse 01:miler of guilt y—death. .14 . 4111114111 and &Jarvis were acquitted, but the latter was delaieeti it; a Clltlf. , P of highway robbery. J 4.1111 J.. 1118 and J ohn Nillary were inflicted, upon a curoner's iuymirilion , with felutiitassly killing and slaying Michael fiemy Higgins, on the I 111, of Seocisther last. iu Ow palish of St. Nicholas, Deptroid Ike Oland Jary not having found a true bill in this case, the proceeding was instituted upon a coroner's *direst', but the evi dence went 10 billl4B that Jones and ilte deceased shook hands Mime& defy before and alter tightirg; that Ilil.a y was nut in any 11141111er accessary to the death—that there were itor,any outward bruises on the body—that tile deceased fell alter he had lei. Jones ; anti that tie effusion of blood upon the brain, which cans it his death, might have been produced either by the fall in by all t M:41414011 of the mind, acted upon by intempe ance (in watch state the pi ismer was said ho have been at use time the hattle took plat e). The Jury, taerrture, reunited a verdict of nut guilty. James Limes was indicted tor having, on the sth of November, feloniously slaughtered and carried away from a field, in the parish ut Siuke, one sheep, the property of luclrand Everest. care was folly suli-tantiated by the evidence ad duced, and the Juty remitted a verdict of guilty—death. William Sittig was indicted Nom a emit gt of having, on the loth of Nurtinuer la.t , tendered and uttered to Samuel Delisted. tine piece of false and counterfeit mo ney, called a sovercigii, and with having at the same lithe a piece of lake and counterfeit money, called a half erdwu, with intent to utter the sande, well kuowiug them le he lulse and cuiciterteit. The crane INAS fully pruved.—Guilty. Six mouths' im primmincut. . _ T. Huxted, was indicted for an assault upon W. Silver, an officer, in the execution of Isis duty. The psi:sinter in his defence denicd that lie had been called upon iii the King's mime to assist :silver in the dia. Cligi 6e °flits duty, but said that Ile had demanded a sight Of ttie wart aut. %litchi Sit vet would not prodiacc—autl ue then said, that lie had No right to take Clackett. Guilty—two months' impiesonment. Victor L Alexandre was charged with having. on the 4th ut November. feloniously stolen and taken from the Idiot) of dlr. iieioy lieu', at GI cenwith, iu this county, • Piece containing Ilitre siik handkerchiefs, 'rine 15s. N'ta silty months' imp &imminent. !gm tisloN DEC. 20.—Nluitok.R.—Julan Smith was inilicteit tor the %alibi welder of Catherine Sunni, at East Greenn lett, un lilt 411. of October last. . . It appear. di that the pi isotter, a Greenwich pensioner, who was a very old eau, upwards uf 70, had cohabited with the deceased, and they passes) as Mall and wile. On the morning of the 4th of October, about halt•past five o'clock he went to a ;melte-house called 'llie Cricketers, sat down near the bar, and called for a pot of porter. — Immediately afterwards, addressing himself to the land lord, said, " Hawkins. have yllll seen my woman this morning i" He seplivd in the negative. Upon which (tie ;album r said " Ir you see her go past, call her in." About ten 'Mettles helute six the deceased vaine into the public house, ill company with another (Steen% ich poigiolier of the name of L. vitt. 'foe deceased called fur two glasses of gi.t. 'lnc lac ilord drew a glass ut gin, end set it before her on the bar; tithe,' she sant, You know I take it peppermint." The landilnd was turning round to get the peeves mint hunk, when in an instant the prismier, who wassu.iitg 6ose to the dui:cased. close up and stabbed her with a knile its the tight bit ast. lleittre this, nut a ta Lit d had passed bet v. reit me pi busier all.l the deceased. deceased immediately ext.:Mimed, " Yon have killed vim have :bed me !" The WWI w all V% 44 wg. d by the 1414.110 rd to tun to the ictiemary Mieuttliati ly. She went out, but h e lot .• she got the distance of 1(.1 ty paces she stropped down dead. 'The prisoner ewes afterwards immediately 'wised by the laiollertl, who said to him, You wicked old luau, how could yen do so rash au act?" He replied," She has been with that fellow all eight."--- The prisoner WAS afterwards search, rf , and the knife was tome) ,'pmt hint, a ;tined with blood; and being asked whether that was the inst s 'intent web w Inch he commit tell murder, he said it was, anti owited that he did it. The point of the instrument, winch was a common pocket• knife, upon being examined, appeared as if it had been I ceehtly alias pelted at the point. This was the case proved on the part or the prosecution. The prisoner, who appeared to be the remains of a very fine seawall, being al least six feet high, slid still robust in ilium, entered 11510 a Moog etatement tit quarrels bet wren him and the deceased, which, lie said, had irritated and toddle hint unhappy. She had come Ii um Imielon to live with itim,and take care of Inn, he being old and iulium.— They liail I, veil together for fit tech mouths; but a Atoll time nefore tins transaction she was greatly altered hi lies behaviour towards him. He hail, thiongli iiiends of his own, itiverired her a nit as helper ill our of Ihm Mild, of the hospital. Stu• bereice cuts) and unkind to him, and at 'Net he discovered that she kept company with Levitt, another Grecooti.li penstuuc►. Oa the intoning el the 4110 id Oct. he went to the Cricketer's. public house, to get smile beer. Ve Mks he was there he was Out hug a piece of slick hgeosice with his kaite, when the deceased and her lubber came into the house. and stood otiose to Miss. He had been drinking the night before. The ap pearance of the tlerensett with her pas atom, t affected him vi ry much, and the deceased basing trod ,'pod his cut u he, In a moment of rage, committal the fatal act; het without knowing what lie did, and certainly not intending to kill the iiii. t nstosinie woman., Under such circumstances ho hoped a merciful view of his ease wunirl he taken. Mr. Boron Graham scanned np the case for the Joey. TheJniy for execution un Aluoday 'mooing. The unfolioniie old woo appeared Chill, add retired titian the bar with a thin step. lunnEn.—Tlinimix Adds was tried on the Coroner's 111 , 0,Ni:tun, fur Ilse wilful murder of 1•:Ilen thy, at lii lihg, on the 1d 01 . Sipteniiicr hist. The Grand Jury haJ iMunm out the Lid of indictment fur the alleged murder. . . _ I'p at examliiing the inquisition , it appeared that the iiiwo•st via.; taken couverning the death of laieu, the wife of Daniel Ji ijoi , y, the mime or the deren.ed being 3l•Cai die and, iii consequence of this variance, the It:allied Judge ilirreted 411 ;mottle'. 'the Juty found him not Charles Lewis and John Oliver were indicted for a burglary in the dwelling-house ofJ oho Kent, at Cimilton, to the ni;lit time of the 21st of Octolit r, ;toil s'ealiog six silver ten-spoons, a silver tattle-spoon, a pair of silver buckles, and oilier property, to the value of ii. After a long trial, the Jury deliberated a few minutes, and found the pi Cotters guilty of stealing in a dwelling house to the autumn of acquitting them of the [mtg. lary.—Death. John Pierson was indicted for assaulting Catherine, the wife ul Oililium Geroge, on the loth of September, al the parish of Witatletitirch, Mid %Miming her pep soil. Il appeared fount the statement of the vroseentrix,pliat on the night in question site had gone to rest alone, her William] not having then come home; she tell asleep, and was awakened by the caresses of a man in bed with her her Whim child was also in bed with her. Supposiug th e visitor to be her husuand, she yielded under that person slim to what took place. 'lite criminal act was repeated three times. In sleet duce quarters oleo hour, hearing a noise, she said to her bedfellow, What is that noise !" To which lie replied, speaking of her husband, " It's Ody coining home ;" and he immediately jumped out of bed and retired into the next room. prosecittrix also got eat of bed, threw a gown over her, and rau into a neigh bout's house, where she c plained that the prisoner, whom she said she knew by his voice, had thus eructed his object. She appeared agitated, was in tears, pale and trembling. She then dressed herself and weal to a sleigh. botirin. oast-house to give information to her husband, whom :lie retold there. the prisoner had got there before her. A complaint of what happened was made to the husband. Ten 'ninnies only had elapsed from the first discovery that the prisoner was the barmier into her bed. —She followed the prisoner, and kept him in sight until lie went into the (met-house where the husband was. The latter was asleep when his will came, and had been drinking at a public-house. She then told her husband what had happened, and that she believed it was the pri soner lions thescolour of his smock frock. Mr. Justice Bayley then summed np the evidence for the Jury. He Wise' ved that the statement of the prose. cut, ix was very eateaordinaty, and in souse particulars, very suspicious. He, however, should not himself give ally opinion upon the case in point of law, but abound leave it as a matter within their proper is:evince to determine. Tue Jury deliberated a few minutes and found the ;Hi mmel. not guilty. The Assizes ended about three o'clock. Sentence of death was passed upon ten capital convicts; but none were left for execution but Robert Hartley, for hrablottg Capt Owen, of the Doteruphox, and Smith, the man abuse mentioned. POLICE. COIfrOUNDTWG FELONY.—A titivate hearing took place on Tuesday, before Sir G. Fai rant, at this office, of a else of the above description. As it wi'l shortly be b; ought before a higher tlibtintil, we shall avoid any thing that might tend to prejudice it, and merely state the outlines. It appeared that on .he day of Mr. Hunt a last procession a gentleman mutual Cotton, who was robbed iii Pall Mall otitis watch, rid two mew tone a non rious character, named Marks, a Jew). and the outer named Martin, were taken into custody, but the watch was not found upon them ; Mr. Cotton, however, and the c aisinbles who took titztri, were positive as to their being the persons who committed the rubbery.—A bill of indictment was ptetehied against them ; but in the interim Mr. COMM had his watch reunited, and he, together with tile constables, pre such unwr.isfactory evidence beforc the Grand :Ivry, that the bill was thrown out. Sir G. Farrant, who was on the Bench at the Sssions, suspected some thing wrong, and thieved another bill to be pieteued. Tins second bill was Mond ; Marks and Martin were convicted and transported for lift:. Mark's w ire and Martin's si ;ter now came forward and accused the three constables concerned, 'fitylor, pia.. is, and Ah l 'ngsby, of havaig accepted money to the amount of 161. to ptoeute the i'irowing out of the t 5 at &11, end that to obtain the conviction money, they gave such testimony on the second as induced the Grand Jury to thid it. Mrs. M ark swore posit ively to her bat :ng paid the above sum into Taylor's howls, at the Fleor-de.lis Kobe. house, Hounds• ditch, and Mat sister co..oboratal tier testimony. Taylor a First denied bating been :here, but on the lani"ord of the house If wing Olitt lie saw Vila thereon the evening in question, he then seknOwledged the fact, and said he bad b.ien requested by a Mr. lloniain, a :delta of Mrs. Marks, to go with them, for the pur pose of IA: s'ng a Bench wet .ant in that nal:east:who:o, and that he owl no doubt it was a trap laid for Min by the Jews to get him thine, in order to give a colour to their charge. Taylor and the other two constables solemnly declared they had never received a fa ishing, and flint it was a mere conspiracy tame on account of tne evidence they gave. "Sir G. natant thought, hone ate prevatteztions of Taylor, and the whole appearance of the case, that it required further investigation. The constables were ordered to find baiL—Mr. Isaacs attended for the complainants. A darind attempt was main by the resurrection fellows, on Saturday morning last, between the hours of twelve and one o'clock, in the burial gt ound of the Parish of S. Mary, Lambeth, Surrey ; but the street watchman iturnethateiy gave the alarm to the 'ovum, who, without loss of time, went to the g ((((( lid, tviiiiotit loss of 111 l e, went to the ground, with every hope of taking these fellows, but they, having milllldlloil, made a precipitate reheat, leasing behind them the implements for their purposet , , namely —two bags, W-t P-3, two shovels, one marked It. T. in ink, and rite 4/the( shovel a ruble out, acid a ours liallCi. i