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190 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF K INC;*:•; It r.xcli.---sviviin.tv. THE YAM; r. UAt pLitjug T. Mr. Marryart stated, that thi• was an indictment against the dere:el:int for wilful and corrupt perjury cot ttttt itted b, helm iii his evidence, alien on the part of the prosecution, in the eel...bested ease of De Revenger, Lord Cochrane, and °the's, for a conspiracy to eltfrand the Stock Eschange ; and with hav ing done so, mal:ciatisly and knowingly, fur the purpose of convicting those persons .4 the charge made against them. The. particular' or that case w are so well known, as to reinter it un tweet vary now to into it. The pis sent defendant, iu his es. amine' on that occasion, stated, that 1k Revenger lodged at his home. On the auth relbeasr), 1811, the day before the frand on the I . .:keliange was carried Mtn OK et, he (Da . bunt) lV;i1 standing at his parlour window, it being Stin.l.l,, •.aiting the the Asyltun deck to strike eleven, at which lime 1.! went to eliunel when he iiaserved Ile Bert tiger route homy at ilia. time he had a lar g e p:aiii dual. ou us USIII.II ; lit . COll - •st hirne ten tributes, and then went out again. hissing lit on a light colrinved mixture great coat : when lie (Davison , d to his *VI% that their lodger had got a new great cleat. Thes was the part of the ri Writer oiled!' rowtiiitte..l Ilie perjury ; as he should lie :41.6:e to prose, hy se% eral that 31r. De Iterenger, at the time the tirrottildiit WOI e to hav ing seen him iu lmi!on, was at Dover; and that he arriied there about ten o'clock 'ln Sunday morning by the singe, \I r. Gurney, the short-hand writs r rosins est his notes tal..•:i al the trial, and Da% id Rangiest,' was wait, r al the Royal Oak at Dover on the lath of February. I++! t. Recollected a gentle:nail arriving by the stage coach I . l'lllll London on that moral it mast I.M o'clock. Tlii• gentleman break lasts_ll, dined, and continued there till olden at night, when hr watt away. Witness heard a few days artyr of the Stock Esellauge hoax, and it imme diately occurred to him that this gentleman itas a party eon verned. He slid not at that time know who the gentleman was, but he since knew perfectly well that it was Ur. Dv Re mitter. The landlord and chamber-maid of the Royal Oak corrobo rated this statement. They had seen their guest frequently since the time in ei irsii,nl , and knew it was De Berenger. 4r. Gurney addressed the Jury for the defendant, and COM melded with considerable, force on the CIITIMINLIIICCS atteud ing the present prosecution, which, he said, weakd have woo teshed hint could idly thing coming from the platter whence this CAIIIC hate etched that feeling in his mind. lle had some experience• in eases of this nature, but this was the first °cc:i s:cm lii had es cr known in which A prosecutor for perjury skalkeil assay as if ashamed of being known. 'Fite Jury would perhaps be surprised to hear that at present the defendant was iutiorant who was the prosecutor on this occasion. 1 hat there had been abundant perjury on the trial so often alluded to reties the evidence et to-day, he was persuaded the jar) would no losi4;er donut, es en ii they had doubted it before; hot he was persuaded they would not be of opinion that the defendant was the person who was wilfully perjured. (In the former oc casion the w hole defence of Dc Ileteager and his friends con sisted in the evidence they brought forward, to prove that he tDe Iserenger) was in London is the emth of February, and not at Dover on that day, and several witnesses were brought forward to swear to that fact. Now those is ho brought forward he present prosecution lea an equal interest in pro. lug by evi dence, en midi. that De Iterenger had not been in LOll4lOll, but that he was at Doter all that day. The jury would judge upon such a proceeding as this. With respect to the crime imputed to the present defeadant, to find him guil.y, the Jnry must be sonv i need be had sworn falsely ; that he had kro.w ingly done so ; and, further, that he had done so ou a pt.int material to the cause. Be was persuaded, the Jury would feel that none of these points applied to the present case; and, under that peisuasiou, he •ould leave his client in their hands. Mr. Justice Abbot, who tried this case, observed, that the record ►et forth that the defendaut had sworn falsely and seditiously, tbr the purpose of convicting De Iterenger and others. This allegation had c.•rtainly not been made out; for, even suppo6big the defendant had sworn that 1)e lterenger was tu town, that eirciiitotailec was the only °sic which could have operated to procure the acquittal of that person, and those in dicted with li . oll. With respect to the perjury itself, to con stitute perjury, a per,on mast nut only swear falsely, hut he 'mist do so knowingly, aiiii even deliberately. lu lbe present site it did not appear to him that di feadant hail done either ; Le rather seemed to have sworn under a mistake. If the Jury be of this opinion, the defendant would be entitled to oil acquittal. Tisi; Jury without hesitation found the defendant Not Guilty. CONSISTORY COURT, JLtv 13. XOlis IMOR B Ir. MORTIMOUE. This was a cause of dive, •e brought by W. Mortimore n;ainst Eleanor, his wife, by reason of adultt ry, alledged to have been committed with 1. Griffith. It appeared, that the rn,ariaLte between the parties took place on the ge.th of Octo ber, 1 , 512; the husband was in the service of tlw Marquis Welle s ley. mi.l the wife in the t associty of house-Mind, in the family of !Ir. Lre Antoine. In 31;1y, ISI3, the husband at tended the Muttons to his country seat, near Ramsgate; the wife still remained in Albemarle-street. In the r of Jtll t, Mr. Lee Antoine scut to Brighton, leaving 3lrs. Morti- Snare , with other domestics, in his house, a hich lie directed to I.e painted during his absence. TM ce men were employed in pai sting it, one of Mum' was T. Griffith, who frequently used to s h ee p in the' 15011$!- ; %lira) gross familiarities were observed by the servants between Mrs. 'Morino° re and Griffith; and on she With of October lie was seen sittiog um the bed-room of Mrs. SI. bintuiling his brit elveswith his coat off, the door them cut' buns:, 111011 vitell. Thin-ass the charge of twhiltery.— W hen this e.tu•e n.isarginsk by Counsel in faster Term, it was plibMiLteti valise part 01 . the wile, that there was not Sntheient p; e.)f ot lottery. Sir W. Scott, ins Ole pray tv of the liasband's Counsel, lima permitted additional proof to be pi oduced, and this day resiii..ei the CililSl.; when lltr! o.llrt, after several re marks uu We natal e of the testimony, pronounced a decree of separatii.n. TLESDAT JULY 15. IittOD.IV:.II9FT 0, GREGORY. FtL.EL% CALLING lIERsELP 1111'1)04)%f ROFT. This WdS a ean•e of anllits ul marriage, instituted by W. liefieluweio‘t, of Liverpool, the rather of W. 31eililow trot., thr 111144/411ti, Mary Greirry, his wife, by PIASOII °fins toiity, tine undue pablieation of leamos. It ap -I.e .ietl 1441 the hamet acre paiblialted in February, 1845, at tc ,mnieb ut Sr. Jame•'s, Clerkenwell, in the names of Wa lla... Nlary Gregory, widow ; and before the antamniza - ion of the marrirare ttn• wont. Widdowerott was our Weddovrerott, by the Clerk ui the pari-h. OH the p 4. t o f ti.e hit‘intlil, it was submitted that ttti-: wa, an undue pum.ication, tli4t tie warriar wat bad claudeetiney.— THE N.ITION.IT. REGISTER. Sir W. Scott wax dearly of n inion , that it wag a fraudulent publication, for the purpose I. chiding the notice of those pel - moo; inler,•ated io prel.eiiting it; and therefore pronounced the marriage null and void. A curious rate of false imprisonment wag tried in the Com mon Pleat on hurtday .—A sugar-baker's servant. u: •d Kim ble, wits lately brought before the T.onl Mayor, and by him com mitted to the House or Correction tor a mouth, thr ICJ Vint: his work unfinished ; the warrant of commitment, by law, should have expressed that the prisoner Ise also " corrected," in other vrordsf/ogged ;—and this being untitled, lit. Kimble now brought his actiou against the Lord Mayor for wise imprisonment, On the gr I that the warrant seat illegal.—'Tim Solicitor-Getse ra I, thr she Lord Nlayot, tab', Use plaintiff' complained, nerord- Mg to I'OMMOSI uudcrstandiug. that he had not been ech'piHrf— ta most extraordinary complaint indeed)--and it was tar the Jury to say, what he was entitled to, us a eompensation fur the ohs of a te'siotail=fits Jury gas e a Farillin:r SURREY SESSIONS. Thc.e Sessions commenced on Tuesday, at Gal Word. Wow the Right lion. land Middleton and a numerous Bench of Magistrates. A rreut deal of Ciatnt:. hu atolls was got through that day, but nothing occurred ohm interesting nature. The Court with occupied nearly the whole of Wednesday, in hearing the appeal of Foripthari.oi v. the Parish Offerrr ehrisleh tin not its.sessing the Surrey Chanel to die poor; rate, of which chapel the Hey. HOYdalla Hill and Mr. Webber are the trustees. This well known appeal has been contested by the Same parties in every session that has been held since the Midsummer sus len 1511.—Mr. harquhar so.t, the appellant. now conducted his own cease. and strenuously in sisted on the liability of tie chapel to be rated. enforcing his argu. nits by various Acts of Parliament, and dwelling particularly on the decision of the /Ow: r. Agar —Various objections were taken by Menses. Nolan. Spankie, and lames (who were retained for the Parish Officers and ('ha nd Trustees), to die notice of appeal, andyroof of Messrs. Ilill and Webber being the Trustees; but these obit:l./ions were all over-valid, and Mr. Farquharson' then called as evidence a Mr. Ili. chanben, who &pawed that lie was steward, or rewiring door-keeper, at the chapel; that the yearly suav , paid by him inn' Mr. Webber's hands, on account of. seats, was will. exclusive of a half-yearly collec tion, which produced about lAA. more; making the whole revenue of that estahlidunent about 14311. Out of this came the whole disburse ments, including the payment of preachers, organist , door-keepers, lighting, cleansing. repairs, &e. Witness iels of opinion, that Mr. Hill derived no profit from the concern; and that as to Mr. IVebber, he was 3 laser of visa. per annum.—l'pon the evidence of' this witness Mr. Farquharson rested his case.—Mr. Laves was then heard in be half of the parish officers; who, he vated, had no other wish than to do what was right and just between the contending parties.—Mr. Nolan next addressed the Court on behalf of the Rev. Rowland Ilill and Mr. Webber; strongly contending that by the evidence it was clearly estab lished that the (7hapel was a losing concern; and that, no benehrial oc cupation being proved, it was not liable to be assessed to the poor rate. file Court gave as its opinion, that the Bev. Rowland Hill ought not to he rated; but that the rate must he amended, and NV O ber must be assessed on a leceipt of being the balance of the gross receipts paid for scats in the Chapel by the witness Richardson, after deducting 251 one year's salary for himself.—Mr. Farquharson is to pay Mr. Rowland 11111 his costs for endatrouring to procure his assess ment. The iletcrminatioa, we are intermed, is not final, but will lead to auother appeal, and to some ultimate decision, in a superior Court. The French Papers Zi% I' the following acemint of a dreadful crime recently committed in the Como iiii c of Biron, in the or. rorodissement of Bergerac. On the :10th ult. in the afternoon, three young girls, two of whom were sisters, of the ages of 10 and 14, dautthters of the Sienr Bonnet, had been to take a walk in the forest of Biron. 'They were occupied in gathering plants; when a Mall presented himself, who, without saying a word, commanded them, by signs, to fall on their knees, and pray to God, which in their fright they did! but he edi ately threw Irmo his coat a culla -s, which lie plunged into the breast of the youngest of the sisters; when the third, who is not 11111111 ed in the prom-rerbal, runaway; but the murderer pursned her, and struck her three blows with his entlass, and believing her dead, returned to the first victim, whom lie found in the arms of her sister, who was giving her every as. sManee: the monster stabbed the latter, and then disappeared. flue third, however, in spite of her wounds, was able to return. The inhabitants, assisted by the grus Warmer of the place, pur sued the murderer, and repaired to the house of a man named Nlmiteil, who is that and dumb, but who was of a bad dispo sition. 'The father of :Stowell said with a sorrowful air, that he had not seen his son since tb ,! morning ; hut he is suspected of Ming the murderer, or of being privy to it. Strict search is making alter him, as he has not returned home, BELFAST, JULY B.—The following is an account of a very atroci ous and brutal outrage recently perpetrated in the barony of Enniss lumen :—" At seven o'clock. on ruciday evening, the 2d inst. as Norton Butler, Esq. of Grouse-hall, in the barony of Ennisshowen, had quitted his house to go to a flax-kiln at a short distance front his dwelling, four armed ruffians, who had been lurking fin him, rushed out frotn their concealment; when two of the villains took a delibenue aim, and tired at so short a distance from him, as to prevent the possi bility of his escape. lie reeeived a ball which passed through the fleshy part of the thigh, shattered the bone, and brought hint to the ground : at the same instant, another of the monsters, with apm and fixed bayonet, made a desperate stab at his body ; which Mr. Butler (although fallen) warded off, and it was plunged into the same thigh that the ball had perforated. passing into the ground some inches. In this horrid situation Mr. B. grasped the gun, and, although in the agoni.s of &lath, retained his hold ; when a pistol dropped from the bosom of his murderer, who loosed his hold, and the pariy made ofi', leaving hint pinioned to the ground. and in possession of the arms. Mr. Butler lingered until twelve o'clock that night, and then expired. Ile has left a widow and numerous family to bewail his loss. N. Butler, Esq. formerly held a Captain's conuniasion in the Donegal Militia, and was ' a Justice of the Peace. His services arc well known to the Government during the rebellion. He has slamsl very serious losses from still fines; and his life has at last paid a ransom for his exertions in endear vowing to present illicit distillation upon his estates. This is the third attempt upon his life within a few months, hating had his horse shot front under him, and a blunderbuss snapped close to his hewd by one Magiuness, and others, for whom large rewards have been offered ; and the sante villain had the audacity lately, at Faughan, on a market day, to waylay Mr. Butler, and present a pistol to has hicaat in Cie market, in open day, which harmed its priming, and the murderer was allowed I to escape front among hundreds, who heard and saw Mr. Butler follow I hint. crying • munler' repeatedly. This same villain has been ad ; matted to remain in the county although notoriously known and ac Itnowledging himself detcrinidid to coinmit the murder !" Monday an Inquest was held at the Greyhound, Kennington-coin 1110n, on the body of Eleanor Saunders 62 years of age, who hung tar sal*. The deceassxl lived !I years cook in the family of Mr. h eath, of Harleyford-place, Kennitighat-concaton ; but a ridiculous rumour of the world's being at an end on the oath inst. had such an etlixt out her spirits, that she grew melancholy, and exhibited evident marks of a tWitardered mind. About seven o'clock on Sunday morning she hung lw:rself, with a lumilkerehicf. to a pipe that nut across the ceiling of the kitchen; in which situation she was tonna by her fellow-serrtnes, quite dowl—Verdiet—That her death was tweastoneel by her own act, in hanging herself, when in a state of mental derane. went. eta Sunday night the house of Mr. Vevey, in surrey-square, was broke open, and robbed of plate to the amount of £31.10, with which the villains gut off undiseuvertal. JULY .1,5!. HORIUBLE CONSPIRACY. The pv•lty of justice is so essentially necessary to the well-being of Swiety, that the remotest appearance of comipt practices among even the inferior agents, becomes an object of deep and immediate interest. But should those who are entrusted with the security of the lives, iroperties, and even the morals of the people, be them selves incentives to vice, that they my share the fruits of iniquity, and then betray the partners of their guilt, to obtain the reward of conviction, or recommend them selves to their superiors, then does the case assume a character of more serious importance. The injury in flicted on society by the inducements to crime which these wretches hold out to inexperience, and the outrage offered to humanity in subsequently selling the blood of their victims, cry aloud for retribution. From some in vestigntions now pending in the Police Offices, under the immediate atttion of the Lord Mayor and the Magis trates.of Bow-street, there ii some reason to apprehend, that these ehscrvations arc too tTplicable to several con stables and police assistants of the metropolis. It is suf ficiently manifimt, that ninny of them have been long connected with the most notorious offenders; whom, Peachum-like, they suffered to continue their dcprada tions for a certain time, and then betray for the reward of conviction. This breach of faith is, however, an act of angelic brightness when compared with the "deep damnation,' of other branches of' the system. Not con tent with the profits arising from the ordinary sources of' depravity and conviction, they encourage inexperienced men to perpetrate erimes; and these, after due indulgence, they consign to justice, and obtain the reward of their apparent activity and vigilance. These are the persons who stand so high in public estimation for their seem ingly ialct►tipuble exertions in the detection of guilt ; and who have Mien commanded our admiration for their ingenuity, and our gratitude for their enterprise. See our Police Itztelkonce. The developement of this busi ness will, it it thought, Iced to many discoveries still more important, which, we fear, will unfold a tale of horror, and draw down the public execration on the vil lains who could trade so deeply in the blood of their fel low -creatures, as to make the iniquities of their lives, and the ignominy of their deaths, subservient to their paltry views of avarice anti ambition. BOW-STREY.T. A second examination of Vaughan, the Bow-street Patrole, has taken plane at this office, in presence of Mr. Nitres, Mr. Raynsford, of Hatton garden (afire, and other Magistrates; the Solicitor of the Bank, and Mr. Harmer the attinney, were also present, when the following witnesses were examined: — Mackay; W. E. Drake, a man with a wooden leg; J. Arm strong, an idfcer of Worship-street ; Edwards, a patrole, be louging to this office; Read, jam and Limbrick, two officers of Hatton-garden; a watchman of Gray's-inn-lane; and the three Hurtt•ys, brothers, who were charged with committing the burglary in the cottage of a woman of the name of Macdonald, at Iloxton. The witnesses were all kept apart and examined separately. Drake's evidence takes up several sheets of paper. From Drake's and Mackay's evidence, it appears, that Vaughan Gate Drake orders to go to Sadiera Wells on Monday evening the Ist inst., where Vaughan met him, Mackay, Brown, and Bland ; and where the plan of the hurglaty in Heaton was ar ranged between them—Vanglia is first ask iug the parties if they could not pia hint up to a track, by getting some young fellows into the thing, and inform him of it; in consequence of which the following night st as pitched on to rob this viiiman's house. In the meals time Drake procured James, Michael, and William Hurley (three brothers), W. Saunders, and W. Wood (a boy to join him in committing the burglary on the following night. Next slay, Tuesday. the 2d, Drake sent a buy to Vaughan for sonic money, Vaughan sent him las. with word to tests them well, and Vaughan also furnished Drake with a Jemmy (a crow), phosphorus bottle, matches, and pick-lock keys; and. Mackay procured a dark lantern. Drake, by getting acquainted with the Hurleys, &c. prevailed on them to accompany him at night to commit tha burglary in Mrs. Macdonald's house to woman with whom he Mulled cohabited, but which they did not know), telling him it was an easy matter to effect it, that he knew there was a box in which it contained notes and some valuables, also a good dub (or bed) and a han•l+ome dial worth 101. When they consented, Make informed Vaughan. Drake then took poor Mrs. M‘Donald, who seems to be innocent of the plot, to the sign of the Crooked Billet, in the Kingsland road, about nine o'clock in the evening, where he treated her and kept her until near two u's'lot•k in the morning, to give an opportunity to the others to commit the burglary. Drake was frequently in and out, while Brown stopped to de tain Mrs. IWDonald. Vaughan, assisted by his accomplice, Mackay, who generally passed as an officer, and Edwards, a patrole from Bow-street, who, it appears, was entirely ignorant of this horrid plot, lay its wait to detect thein. Drake, accom panied by the Hurleys. came to Mrs. al'lfimald's house ; the door not being lucked, Drake wanted (twos to go in and rob the house, but they finding the door unlocked, and Drake himsclr refusing to go in, would nut go in. The tigual was given by Drake, and tlw• others all fled, without effecting purpose they Caine upon. By Drake's confession, Vaughau came, and with a crow bar made an impression between the door and the lintel post, as if it was forced open. Then the crow bar and lantern were placed in the house, and the alarm then that the house was robbed. Drake led Vaughan and his party to the house where the Ilia ley's lodged. and they were taken into cus tody by Vaughan, and as Mackay solemnly declares, Vaughan put a ring of Mrs. M'Dunald's into M. Hurley's pocket, which he had front Drake, after which he desiital Mackay to search him, when he found the ring which was put there for the pur pose of eutivietiag them; on this charge they were examined on Wednesday the ad instant, at Bow -street, when from sOIIIP envinnsf Mire, the cunspiraey appeal cd, mid they were 1-I•Mallii . ed for Owther ex:minimum ou t , riday the 4th, and then this ! charged. It tiu•ther appeared that N'atighan wished Drake to pr,wine Wome fellness to commit A burglary, and that he, Vaughan, Drake, and Iluitbard, now fully committed for wishing a at:anent:to of his watch, as we some days since stated, would shale the cousiction money. Drake retain ked that he knew of no house to make the attempt on ; but this objectiuu was runused by Vaughan, alto told thew that UNE nitl tvoi: coy) N ;tt. ilzei the