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THE DEFIL AND TOM WALKER. Ire extrart the following humorius story from Mr, if obington Irving's new work, published yesterday, called t`.• ul a Truerllrr: fcw miles from Boston, in Massachusetts, there is a 111 jrkt winding several milea into the interior of the Lena from Charles Bay, and terminating in a thickly reo,o sa imp or morass. On one side of this inlet is a dark grcive; on !lie opposite side the laud rises Dra ptly from the water's edge into a high ridge, on which r , a lov scattered oaks of great age and itamense size. Vier one of these gigantic trees, according to old stories, were iris a great amount of treasure buried by Kidd the bit!,. The itilet atlasalowed a facility to bring the money in a u se and ght to the very foot of the hill ; the e l e vation of the place permitted a good look-out to be kept that no one was at hand; while the remarkable trees formed good land-marks by which the place might easily he b e d again. The old stories add, moreover, that the devil r esiard at the Itidlng of the moncv, and took it under his gordairship; but this it is well known he always does with buried treason!, particularly when it has le:en gate. Ile that as it may, Kidd never returned to recover his wealth • being shortly after seised at Boston, sent out t o England, and there hanged for a pirate. About the year 1747, [ just at the tune that eatthonakes v:rc prevalent in New England, and shook many tall sin- ET , d o wn upon their knees, there lived near this plavi a m eagre, miserly fellow of the. name of Tom Walker. He awl a wife as miserly as himself ; they were so miserly that :Ley even conspired to cheat each other. Whatever the eainan eould lay hands on, she hid away ; a hen could Malt Nekle lint site was on the alt rt to secure the new-laid egg, Btr husband was continually prying about to detett belt secret hoards, and many and fierce were the conflicts that took place about what ought to have been common pro petty. They lived in a forlorn-looking horse that stood alone, and had an air of starvation. A few straggling savin-trees, emblems of sterility, grew near it; no smoke eve: curled from its chimney ; no traveller stopped at its d ad . A miserable horse, whose ribs were as articulate as the liars err gridiron, stalked about a field where a thin carpet of moss scarcely coveting the ragged beds of pud ding.mope, tantalised and balked his hunger; and some timrs he would lean his head over the fence, look piteously at the passer-by, and seem to petision deliverance from this lard of famine. The house and its intimates hail altogether a had name. Tout's wife was a tall termagant, fierce of temper, loud of tope and strong of arm. Her voice was often heard wady warfare with her husband ; and his face sometimes bowed signs that their conflicts were not confined to words. No one ventured, however, to interfere between them. The lonely wayfarer shrunk within himself at the horrid clamour and clapper-clawing; eyed the den of discord askance, and hurried on his way, rejoicing, if a bachelor, la his celibacy. One day that Tom Walker had been to a distant part of the neighbourhood, lie took what he considered a short cut hoinewaids, through the swamp. Like most short cuts, it was an ill-chosen route. The swamp was thickly grown with great gloomy pines and hemlocks, soine of them ninety ket high, which made it dark at noonday, and a retreat for all the owls of the neighbourhood. It was full of pits and quagmires, partly covered with weeds and mosses, where the green surface often bet-ayed the traveller into a gulf of biseg, smothering mud ; there were also dark and stagnant pooh, the abodes of the tadpole, the bull-frog, and the watasnake ; where the trunks of pines and hemlocks lay half drowned, half rotting, looking like alligators aleeping is the mire. Torn hal long been picking his way cautiously through this treacherous forest ; stepping from tuft to tuft of rushes and roots, which afforded precarious footholds among deep sloughs; or pacing carefully, like a cat, along the pros trate trunks of trees ; startled now and then by the sudden screaming of 'the bittern, or the quacking of a wild duck, rising on the wing from some solitary pool. At length he arrived at a piece of firm ground, which ran out like a peninsula into the deep bosom of the swamp. It had been one of the stung holds of the Indians during their wars with the first colonists. Here they had thrown up a kind of fort which they had looked upon as almost im prepable, and had used u • place of refuge for their squaws and children. Nothing remained of the old Indian fort but a few embankments, gradually sinking to the level of the surrounding earth, and alrea f t e lu f v e ergrown . in arr=eau eaut abet fagot uses, th e of witch a contraat to the dart pines and hemlocks of the swamp. It was late in the dusk of evening when Tom Walker reached the old fort, and he paused therefore awhile to rest himself. Any one but be would tutu felt unwilling to linger in this lonely, melancholy place, for the common people had a bad opinien of it, from the stones handed down from the time of the Indian wan; when it was asserted that the savages held incantations here, and made sacrifices to the evil spirit. Tom Walker, however, was not a man to be troubled with any fears of the kind. He reposed himself for sonic titneon the trunk of a fallen hemlock, listening to the bod ing cry of the tree toad, and delving with his walking staff' into a mound of black mould at his feet. As he turned up the soil unconsciously, his stall' struck against something hard. Ile raked it out of the vegetable mould, and lo ! a doven scull, with an Indian tomahawk buried deep in it, lay before him. The rust on the weapon showed the time that bad elapsed since this death-blow had been given. It wu a dreary memento of the fierce struggle that had taken place in this last foot : hold of the Indian warriors. __ . - " !" said Tom Walker, u he gave the scull a lick t) shake the dirt from it. "Let that scull alone!" said a gruff voice. Tom lifted sp bis eyes, and beheld a great black man seated directly opposite him, on the stump of a tree. lie was exceedingly surprised, haring neither heard nor seen any one approach ; lad he was still more perplexed on observing, u well u the gathering gloom would permit, that the stranger was wither negro nor Indian. It is true be was dressed IA t rude half Indian garb, and had a red belt or sash swathed round his body; but his face was neither black IC! copper-colour, but swarthy and dingy, and begrimed ►ith soot, as if he had been accustomed to toil among fires' sal forges. Ile had a shock of coarse black hair, that stood out from hishead in all directions; and bore an axe on his lieseoaled for a moment at Tom with a pair of great red e!eL__ " What are you doing on my grounds?" said the black awn, with a hoarse Frowling voice. "Your groonds!' said Tom with a sneer, "no more 7 0 ar grounds than mi ne; th e y b e l ong t o Deacon Peabody ." Doom Peabody be d—d," said the stranger, ' as I darter myself he will be, if he does not look more to his own sins and lee to those of his neighbours. Look yonder, aid seehow Deacon Peabody is faring." Torn looked i n the direction that he stranger pointed, *lir:held one of the great trees, fair and flourishing with ,rat, but rott en at the core, and saw that it had been nearly l e l2 through, an that the first high wind was likely to blow itdown. On the bark of the tree was scored the lwar of Deacon Peabody, an eminent man, who had waxed y by driving shrewd bargains with the Indians. tiow looked round, and found moat of the tll trees ked with the n..ine of some great man of the colony, Mdl more or less scored by the axe. The one on which , he lwil bete seat e d, and which bail evidently just ben "o down, bore the name of Crowninshield; and he re wdreted a mighty rich man of that name, who made a 'lleardisplay of wealth, which it was whispered be had I Nuard by buccaneering. ileajust ready f or burning!" said the black man, with D 1 yawl of tri ump h . " You see I am likely to have a good I mrk of fire -wood for wir.ter." L' mut what right have you," said Tom, " to cut down '" 111 Peabody % timber ?' The right of a prior claim," said the other. "This land belong,ed to me long before one, of your •rhile "•° rare put a foot upon the soil." And Pray, who are you, if I may be so bold ?" said Tom. ma ne ' bvarious names. lam the wild huntsman countries; the w black miller in others. In this l ` Rh bwarhood I am known by the name of the black woods " r, j "4 am he to whom the rcd men consecrated this spot, ,m.hortour of who m t h ey now an d t h en roasted a white by war of sweet-smelling sacrifice. Since the red I " 'awe been exterminated by you white savages, I amuse 4 1 "'`' l 1 )7 presiding at the persecutions of quaker and 1C,45 4 , : 1 a: I am th e great patron and prompter o f slave 1. • d the mavter of te Sa whes." t %Yalu:it g of rand all which is, h that, lem if I itc mistake not, said Tom, sturdily, " you are be eontrnonly call ,4 old Scratch." The same, at your service !" replied the black man, with a half civil nod. Such was the op ning of this interview, according to the! old story; though it bas almost too familiar an air to be credited. One Would think that to meet with such a sin gular personage. in this wild, lonely place, would have shaken any man's n V•. 3; but Torn was a hard-minded fellow, not easily u nted, and he had li-ed so long with' a termagant wife, that he did not even fear the devil. It is said that after this connieticetnent they had a long and earhest conversation together, as 'tom returned home wards. The black man told him of great sums of money which had been buried by Kidd the pirate, under the oak trees on the high ridge, not far from the morass. AU these were under his cominanil, and protected by his power, so that none could find them but such as propitiattA his favour. Theft he °Wesel to place within Tom Walker's ' reach, having conceived an especial kindness fir him ; hut ithey were to he had only on certain conditions. What these conditions were may easily be surmised, though Tom never disclosed them publicly. They must have been very hard, for he required time to think of them, and he , was not a man to stick at trifles where money was in view. When tin , had reached the edge of the swamp, the strangeritaused—" What proof have I that all you have been telling me is true ?" said Tom. " There is my signature," said the black man. pressing his finger on Tom's forehead. So saying he turned oif among the thickets of the swamp, and seemed, as Tom sail, to go down, down, down, into the earth, until nothing hut his head and shoulders could be sea, and so en, until he totally disapp.ared. • . (To be continued.) THE MEMOIRS OF FOUCHE ; BY lIIM:TELF. A pt lication has just made its appearance in Paris which, as an historical monument, must be regarded with ,j-Jeattstirioaity. We speak of The Menoirs QrFonehe, a posthumour work of that notorious character. 'Nine rears ago, when he wrs Minister of Police to Louis . XVIII. a 'short IbLetels of his life.appeared in England, which. so far as it went, delineated him much more correctly than les own partial pen. I t spoke of his atrocities in 1793 and 179 t. It cited his own recorded statements of the churches he hail plundered, and the massacres that he had perpetrated. These things he of course throws into shade. He declares that he was never a member of any of the Revolutionary Committees. This is true, as regards the Committees of Government in Paris ; but at Lyons he presided for many weeks in a Revolutionary Committee , which day after day slaughtered 60, 80, 100, 200, individuals at a time. In short, Robespierre himself was not a more sanguinary mon ster. But the actions of Fondle are well known ; and if they were not, we could not expect to find them faithfully related by himself. His opinions on other events anal per sons are more likely to be impartial, anal they are abund antly curious. He is not one of those Who think that the Revolution was inevitable. On the contrary, he says that if Louis XVI. had bail the firmness to dissolve the National Assembly he might have sate on Iris throne to this hour ; anal he expressly declares that the !truffle would not have been attacked on the 14th of July, if the Generals had done their duty on the linh. After the murder of the benevolent Louis, e.g.. Govern ment was seised by the National Covention. Let us hear how Fondle describes this power. "It was a sort of mon strous dictatorship," says he, " which grew out of the sub version ot all order, anal presented alternately the picture of Athenian anarchy and Turkish despotism." The memorable 18th of Bnunaire found Fouche Minis ter of Police to the Directory. It is curious to observe him (unconsciously as it were) exposing his own perfidy on that occasion. He knew all Buonaparte's intrigues to get possession of the Consulship; he knew that the struggle was to take place that morning at St. Cloud; but he was doubtful of Me event. He therefore took no step one way or the other, but sat at Paris surrounded by his police agents, keeping his eye on both parties, sending out spies every five minutes. and receiving intelligence as frequently, until the sword of Buonaparte had cut the Gordian knot.— l'hen he hastened to salute the victor, and was rewarded by being continued in his post as Minister of Police. It has often been obserted that Buonaparte, at the time of which we are speaking, sbewed 'himself far inferior to our Cromwell ; and Fouche's picture of the scene, which is drawn with mat liveliness, fatty confirms the remark. Cromwell's conduct was cool, deliberate, and firm, and the act was wholly his own. The part which Buonaparte had to play was chalked out for him by Sieyes, Talleyrand, and others; and lie would have failed in the performance if it bad not been for the energy of his brother Lucien, and the decision of Murat. Even in the Council of Ancients, where his adherents formed a majority, he delivered his ,speech with much hesitation and disorder; but when he came to address the Council of Five Hundred he turned pale, and trembled at the opposition which he encountered, and was actually carried out of the Hall by his own soldiers. Foucbe mentions an incident, which, to those who know the local situation of the Palace of St. Cloud, strongly marks the state of indecision into which Buonaparte was thrown. No sooner bad he escaped from the Hall, than he mounted his horse, and galloped clown the avenue, • distance of above a quarter of a mile, to the bridge leading towards Paris. Near this spot was Sieyes waiting in a pat -chaise with six horses. Murat joined them at the bridge. lie it was that decided Buonaparte to turn back and lead th., troops against the Legislative Body ; while Lucien, as President of the Council of Five Hundred, lent the cloak of his authority to the forcible dissolution of the Government. These details give a tone and colour to the transaction very different from what is commonly imagined, and we see in them traits perfectly consistent with the flight from the army in Rum, and the Satire lasi petit at iVattrloo. Till EARL or Fire's CAUSZ.—It will be recollected that this cause, so highly important in regard to the law of Scotland, relative to the execution of deeds and instru ments, by a person said to be labouring under defect of vision at the time, and equally important to the present Earl of Fife, the one party, and the Trustees of the late Earl, his Lordship's uncle, the other party. the sum at issue, depending on the decision to be ultimately pro nounced, being upwards of 20.000 L a-year, was heard at great length in the House of Lords, and after the most able and ingenious observations by the Lord Chancellor and Lord Redesdale, on the subject of instruments, the Court of Session in Scotland were directed to send an issue to a Jury to try whether the deeds of trust, disposition, and entail, of the 7th of October, 1808, sought to be re duced, being in law probative instruments, were not, or ei ther of them was not, the deeds or deed of the deceased James, Earl of Fife; and whether the deed of alteration of the 12th of November, 1808, sought to be reduced, being in law a probative instrument, was not the deed of the Earl of Fife. It is understood that this important trial will take place in the Jury Court, in Edinburgh, on the Yid No vember next. DerONSHIRE COT IC.—The disease called the Devon shire Colic, which is particularly prevalent during the 'summer months, is ascribed to the custom of making cider in leaden NAM ; but another cause is said to be, that in making cider, they do not rack it off from dregs, which rise to the top of each cask at about four days' fermentatioh after which they settle to the bottom of the cask, and con-, tinue to fret the cider till it becomes completely sour. The disease is common in parts of Devonshire where the cideris never put in leaden vats at all, and where nothing but stone and wood are used. To make cider properly, it should be racked off at least twice; the first time into steamed casks, at the moment it is supposed all the dregs are at the top ; the effect of steaming the casks (with sul phur) is to stop all farther fermentation ; the second time it should be drawn off from the dregs, which will have subsided in about eight or nine days, into other steamed casks, when it will be perfectly wholesome, ■nd will not fret or assume the aretous fermentation in the height of summer, which the dregs, when allowed to remain in the cider, promote. If at the end of one month it be racked off a third time, it will be still more pure. PiOTESTANT ASPOCIATION. — We have been informed, ' that at a recent General Meeting of the Orange Lodges of this city, it was resolved that a Society, to be denominated the " Protestant Association," and conducted on a plan something similar to the Catholic Association, should im mediately be fennell in this city, and tbat the debates shall be open to persons of every denomination.—lr Times. TIIR REV. C. C. COLTON. The friends of this gentleman appear to be sensitively and properly alive to any statement that appears to reflect discredit on his character. A correspondent in a Mornin! , Paper of yesterday took upon himself to give a positive and unqualified contradictien to the whole of an article that appeared in this paper ou Tuesday last respecting Mr. Colton. The withdrawal of a large sum of money from a banker's on the day previous to his departure from Lon don was a matter of notoriety among his friends; and the fact, if necessary, could be substantiated. To the circum stance of his changing a lOW. note in a gaming-house. on the evening of the 2stli of May, and losing only a very small portion of it, the writer of this article was an eye-witness, and also an ear-witness to Lis stating that he intended to go to Epsom the next flay (Thursday), to see the races, and also to hack Emilins. It is indeed said, that Mr. Colton was not possessed of 3,0001. ; but it should be known that this gentleman was engaged in very extensive speenlations, and had always large sums at his command, , of which, indeed, he was very constantly boasting, which no doubt rendered him an object for the designs of the vagi bonds with whom, from his pursuits at the gaming -table, he must have frequently come in contact ; and the circum stance of his having left his house in the manner described in 'the Morning Paper of s csterday furnishes some corroboration to the inference that - he may have been murdered—per haps invited out under sonic pretence, like that under which t'eare was entrapped, to render him the more easy prey. One thing is certainly clear, via.—that Mr. Colton has been missing since the 29th of May, 18E3, and no person can be found to say that he has been seen or heard of since that period. MR. GRAHAM'S ASCENT FROM TAUNTON. --..m.--- [From the Tatar:ow Catricr.] 'r'te failure in Mr. Grahaßs attempt to ascend from this town, on the 16th instant, incited him to the most anxious exertions to compensate for the disappointment he had oc casioned. Arratgements were Accordingly made for his ascension with his balloon yesterday (Tuesday), and a , large elevated field, opposite the Gas-works, in liolway lane' was selected for the purpose. On this spot the tanks, and other works for generating the hydrogen gas,, were erected. Mr. Griaham having announced that the field should be thrown open, gratis, to the public, am'. that he should rely on the voluntary contributions of those as sembled, published a particular statement of his expenses, by which it appoars that histlisbursementsamounted to up wards of 3601. The free admission to the field occasioned it to be filled at an early period of the day, by a vast mul titude of spectators, many of whom had arrived from distant parts of the country. 'Carriages of every descrip tion snrroundcd the ground, many of them filled with a bewitching display of female grace and beauty. Stands we're erected for the accommodation of spectators, and booths, in Which supplies were served out for refreshing the thirsty pedestrian, alipeared in various parts of the ground. A party of eudgel-players firm Wedmore displayed their science in an adjoining, Meadow, on an elevated 'stage ; and various homely aintts.ments enlivened the scene. The day was calm, clear,, and of uncommon loveliness—the sun having shone, without intermission, from the earliest dawn ; the sky 'was, in consequence, delightfWly blue and cloudless. _ _ _ . At twelvt o'clock the process of inflation commenced, and as the hour advanccd at which the ascent was ex pected, the anxiety of the multitude became painfully in sister', from the apprehension that some mischance might wain frustrate the attempt. Mr. Graham hail, however, very discreetly availed himself of the voluntary services of sobe highly scientific slcntiemen, to whose honourable Worts no inconsiderable praise is due for the admirable arrangement of the process. As we stated last week, this was Mr. Graham's first ex periment with pure hydrogen gas, his balloon having, on all former occasions, been inflated with carburrcted hydro. gen from the Gas-works; but 'soil gas is too heavy for the purpose of' aerostation, that obtained from the establish ment in this town was inapplicable to the purpose. His materials of iron and vitriol were, therefore, brought from Bristol, at a considerable cost, and Mr. Graham is, indeed, entitled to the greatest credit for having spared neither pains nor expense in redeeming hit reputation from the dis advantage occasioned by ltioilarnt Whirr. The process of inflation commenced at twelve o'clock, and the balloon became rapidly distended; so rapidly, In deed, that the net-work, not hating been thrown over in sufficient time, it was near escaping from the grasp of the assistants—the consequence was, that upwards of 5,000 cubic feet of gas escaped through the valve, and soon after four o'clock it was ascertained that no more gas could be generated than was sufficient for the ascent of one person. Mrs. Graham, and one or two other aspirants for the ho nour of accompanying the aerial voyager, were therefore compelled to forego their intentions. At twenty minutes before five o'clock Mr. Graham took his station in the car, and the cords having been simulta neously loosened, the balloon majestically rose to the in finite delight of the immense concourse of persons assembled, who hailed the intrepid aeronaut with continued shouts of applause. The balloon took a south-castern direction, and moved calmly through the air onwards; and the sky being delightfully clear and serene, the spectacle was perhaps as interesting as any of the kind ever ant i nessed. A few minutes after Mr. Graham ascended, he threw out his travelling cap, and soon after a roll of paper, for the purpose of affording increased levity to the balloon. After sailing steadily through the air for about twenty minutes, the balloon, when about a mile in height, was gently im pelled in a south-westerly direction, in which it continued until a few minutes past six o'clock, when Mr. Graham pre pared for his descent, which was safely effected about twenty minutes after six, in an oat field occupied by Mr. R. Broomfield, about a quarter of a mile south-east of the village of L'pottcry, Devon, distant from this town about 12 miles. From the clearness of the sky, the balloon was in sight the whole time, from the moment of its ascending to that of its descent below the horizon. This town was never remembered to have been so full of company as on this occasion. On the descent of the ballaon in Mr. Broom& eld, it rebounded to the height of about 12 feet, but wa im mediately secured, and held down by some laboure on the spot. The spot at i'pottcry, where Mr. Graham descended, is in the domain of Lord Elidmatitb, 12 miles from Taun ton, and six from Honiton. Mr. Graham being obliged to lighten the car as much as possible, had been compelled to ascend without his coat, Mr. Kitchener, his Lordship's steward, in consequence, obligingly provided iin with one and after Mr. G. had taken refreshment at his Lord ship's villa, he returned to Taunton at a quarter before , one o'clock this morning. The utmost attention was paid to Mr. Graham by Lord Sidmouth's family ; and as a testimony of grateful respect, Mr. Graham presented her Ladyship with a flag, which had been used in the present and several other aerial voyages. It is rather singular that so nicely was the quantity of gas generated proportioned to the weight of the balloon, that it was only by Mr. Graham'► divesting himself of his coat and waistcoat, stripping the car of its velvet linings, and leaving behind his grappling iron, that the silken vehicle was enabled to ascend. Mr. Green ascended from Shrevniburt in his balloon on Monday, at 20 minutes before five o clock. From the c.almneits and clearness of the sky, the balloon was visible for nearly three-quarters of an hour. After ascending to 'a considerable height, it morel horizontally for some time in the direction of Wellington, when it became invisible. The crowd was immense. The meeting of the three Choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester, is the oldest musical establishment in the I United Kingdom. The hundred and first meeting will take place next month at Worcester, at which the Bishop of the Diocese is the President ; the patrons are, the principal Nobility and Gentry of the country; among them are-- The Earls of Coventry, Plymouth Monntrnoeris. Beauchamp, and Somers; Viscounts Deerhurst, Eastnor, and Valentine; Lords Foley. Aston,Dormer, and Northa ick; 800. Colonel Lygon ; Sirs Charles Cockerel, Ban., Edward Blouut, Bart., Thomas Edward Wincingtom Bart., C. Sidney Smith, Bart...pd Anthony L ec h. mere. Bart.; laent..Colonel Dories, H.P., A. . Solana, Esq. OXFORD CIRCUIT. • fIONMOUTII ASSIZES, Avourr • Erfurt Mr. Jounce PAaa. MURDER. llirliard Williams, a decent-looking mentrrnen, arid *God Mary Marron, single woman, a person wholly devoid a paresaal attractions, aged 26, were ihtlicted for the wilful murder of Wm. Evens. Mr. RUSSELL stated, that on the night of the fifth of April, Win. Evans, who was an acquaintance of the prisoner Williams. had been drinking with him, but It° sort of enmity subsisted be tween them ; and at eleven that night the two prisoners, the de ceased, and a girl hawed Nixon, were in ceitipaoy together at • place called Kimson ; there was also near them a man in a white frock. The prisoners proceeded forward, and soon after the de ceased and Nixon followed. lie might now state, that both Nixon, whom he should call as a witness, and the female prisoner. were women of the town. After they had proceeded a little way, Nixon and the decanted turned off the road, sad went into a saw-psi, and in a few moments a large piece of timber was thrown down into this raw-pit, and fell on the head of the deceased ; it instantly killed him, and the woman Nixon, who was standing near the deceased in the pit and speaking to him, was also considerably injured. The iece of timber was a very heavy ;lank, weighing about three hun dred weight. He should prove that it could nut have fallen into the pit by accident, and a witness named Davis, who was in a host near, would prove that he heard the timber fall, and the ley of a woman. He would also prove, that he saw a man and antler wo manZtanding near one end of the pit, and on hearing the ay, that man ea standing, instead of going to the end of the pit nearest to where ht was, went round the pit and got into it at the other end. IHe shoe el also prove that the female prisoner was on terms ' with the girl Nixon, and had often expressed herself in a violent way towards her; and after the occurrence, Nixon desiring her to get a liAt and give het assistance, she, instead of doings*, went home and smoked her pipe ; and on a girl named Phillips, also a woman of the town, asking her why she did not assist, she said, "Do you mean to take het part ? If you do, you shall be served the same, for whoever did it they did not mean to hurt the man, it was Romer (a nickname by which Nixon went) that they wanted." The male prisaner got into the pit to assist the WOllll%/1 Nixon, and he lifted her out of the pit, and though the pit was of so small di- ' , ! marshes., that it appeared impossible lie should not have known the of the deceased, he di.l not appear to know of his being that ; but the titan in the white frock came up and said, " What ix become of the man ?" and the prisoner Williams made no reply.' He should also put in the statements made by the prisoners before the Magistrate, as in such a case it was rupee that every thing should be laid before the Jury. Elizabeth Nixon stated—l live at Newport, and en does the Ire male prisoner, who is celled "Cardiff Mary"; we lodged at the same house. On the evening in question 1 went out at eleven' o'clock ; I went to Kimeon, that is, a public-house, by the canal aide, out of the town of Newport. I saw Cardiff' Mary and Richard , 1 Williams (the two prisoners), and the deceased and a man in a white frock. The female prisoner said to me, " What the devil do! you rant here ?" I said, " Are you drunk or mad ?" She said,', "Go to h—l." On the night before we quarrelled about her bring ing a young man into lief lodgings. She said she would be up to me. The two prisoners went on beyond Kionson, and I stayed with Wm. Evans, the deceased. Our lodgings were only a few yards off; the deceased proposed mgo there, but I would not take him. He pro- posed going to the Red Cow. I said, "Go onand 1 will follow you " mid he did so, and we th en met the t w o p r i soner . Th e female threw her semi round the neck of the deceased, who, how ever, told her to go away, and the deceased and I went into the saw-pit, which is three or four yards off; it is a sloping descent,' that yon may walk down into. it at one end, by the assistance of some steps in the wan of the saw-pit. When we went into the saw pit we left the prisoners taking near the Red Cow. It was dark, but the prime. wswet have seen us. We were standing in the saw-pie tool the daelesed had his hand on my shoulder, when the'' piece of tfiti‘ea came down. It struck me on the right side of my face and on the aide. It struck me down. I never heard the de ceased cry out. I was senseless, but for what length of time I can not tell ; but when I came to my senses again I was lying in the pit, with the timber at me. I could not get up.—[ Here the female' prisoner fainted. As soon as she recovered the examination was resumed.)—l cried out fur help, and Mary Morgan, the prisoner me up and said, " What th e d ev il i s t h e matter with your an ti ca asked her to get some help and a light, to see what was the mat ter. She, however, neither came back nor sent any lig:it ; but in a few minutes the male prisoner came and lifted the timber up and got me out of the pit. and the m a n i n th e w hi te f roc k helped 'him, and the prisoner Williams took me home. The men in the frock asked me, " Where is the man who was with you in the pit ?". I said I did not kopw, unless he was gone away, and I believed that he was gone beibre the timber came down. I heard no noise Of any one near the pit. When I got to my lodgings I was very bloody. I saw the female prisoner, who said nothing; and I uld, " Mary, I will never forgive you : it would not have been too much for you to bring a light and see what was the matter." She was then sinokine. We had lodged together for about a month, but had not been on good terns*, because I informed against a house fur taking a men. I went before the Mayoral Newport about it, and she was put in prison about it. She often said she would be up to me. It was here discovered that the male prisoner was a Welshman, and did not understand English (as is the case with many thou. sands of the Welsh). An interpreter was sworn, and the evidence of Elizabeth Nixon read by the Learned Judge fromtis notes, and repeated in Welsh to the prisoner. Examined by-the Learned JUDOZ—I can fern holdea al how long I had been insensible. The prisoner Williams helped me out of the pit, and took me home. lie said, " What the devil is the matter with you ?" When he got me out of the pit he seated me on some other timber which was near. Eleanor Phillips stated—l am not a married woman. I lived in the same house with the prisoner and Nixon. I went home to my lodgings after having been in the streets on the evening in question. I saw the female prisoner, Cardiff' Mary. I saw her smoking her pipe. She asked to " Are_you alive ?" I said, Did you hear I was killed ?" and the only laughed. I saw Nixon come in about ten minutes titter, very bloody. I said. " What's the matter?" and Nixon said, " - Oh, Mary, you have served me pretty well to night ; I would not have served you so. It was not much to bring a light and see what was there ; • and the prisoner said, " D'ye think I would bring a light and be killed myself?" I asked Nixon how it happened, and she said she had gone with a nun into the sawptt, and sonic one had thrown a piece of timber upon her. I said to the prisoner, " Mary, where were you ?" and she said, " I watt not far off;" end she said she saw sonic one near the sawpit, and knew them very well. I asked who they were, and she said, " I won't tell you to-night ; I will tell you to-morrow morning." I went out with the prisoner on our nightly walks, and asked her why she did not go to the sawpit on hearing 'Nixon call'? and she said, • If you are going to take her part you shall have the same ou rself , fur that is nothing to what she shall have; that L only a . nning." The other prisoner was at the door, and asked me ow the girl was. I said, "Do you know something about the girl?" " Yes," he said, " I w e nt t o t h e pi t an d h e l pe d her home." I was in prison with the female prisoner at Newport Dridewell, and I said, " We hare bleu ht ourselves into a pretty hobble." She said, " Yes, all through Betsey Rosser," which la another name for Nixon. I said, " You told me that you knew those who were about the sawpit." " I thought so, ' said she . ; " It was not their intent to kill the man , b ut to kill t h e g i r l." Nixon and Cardiff Mary were nut friends. Elizabeth Nixon Trailed—The prisoner Williams took me home to the door, but did not air to go in. I remember the keeper of the house shutting the door, but 1 don't remember bet telhog him I lie must not conic in. David Thomas, a boatman, stated—My boat was in the canal near the place in question, and I was on board. I was as near the aawpit as the length of the court, but there was a blockmaker's shop between me and the pit, but I could see the path leading to the pit, and could, from the stern of my boat, 'hem I stood, see the end of the pit. It was a dark night. I heard a ni.ise like two planks falling on each other. The sound came from the pit. I heard afterwards a moaning; it seemed to be a woman% voice. and I saw a man and woman either at the lower end of the sawpit or on the trammed near it. I had heard the moans before this. I saw the man go to the further end of the wtwpit, and get into it, and the woman stood at the door of the Rcd Cow. The person in the pit cried out ...Mary" twice, and the woman called to said. •` Why don't you get out ?" I did not see the man in the white frock. I went to the aawpit next morning. between five and six o'clock, and I saw the deceased lying in it. Many pigeons were assembled by that time. John Young stated.-1 am a timber-merchant, and live within fifteen yards of the sawpit. As I was going to bed I heard a woman cry out. I feared she had fallen into the canal, but after wards heard her cry out, " T.iere is a piece of timber on me." I opened the window and found that the cries came fmm the sawpit. 1 saw a woman near the Red ( ow, and 1 saw a man conic from the direction of the canal, and go up to the pit ; he had a flannel frock on. The woman in the pit cried out, " For God's sake, 3lare, bring a light." Thomas Phillips stated—l measnred the place in question ; the distance from Kimson to the sawpit is 77 yards, from the Red Cow to the pit 62 feett Mr. Young's bowie is .5 . .1 feet front the pit, and the stern of Davis's boat 72 feet. The length of the pit itself is lY feet, depth six feet, and breadth four feet. ' Thomas Waters stated-1 am a sawyer, and worked at the pit in question. I remeniber leaving my weak at six o'clock on the evening in question. (In one side of the pit was a slab of timber, it was fourteen inches from the edge of the pit ; it was laid length_ wise at the side of the pit ; it had been there' week ; it wits of oak, seven feet long, and twenty-two inches broad, and about eight ' inches thick at the thickest part, but it ran taper mahout sit inches thick, it weighed 324 pounds ; it could not fall in of itself; I put it for my own safety, as 1 worked in the pit. At six o'clock the neat morning 1 found a dead per , vn in the pit, with a slab upon him. One person could have shoved it in, as it lay "on edge" against two posts ; one person might have turned it over into the pit, it lay so near. As it stood, to have turned it over into the pit would have taken a strength of about 80 pounds. 1 have replaced it as it stood, and tried it in that way. Thomas /tierce' stated—l am a pilot, and live at Newport. I was at the aaw.pit at about half-past four the miming alter: I saw the dead body, and 1 saw also the prisoner and a man named Green. I went into the pit, and found the dreamed lying thereon his left side, with the plank against him. I said, •• this is Jack of lilannionorth." The prisoner did not say anything. I did nut take the timber of the deceased, and the prisoner did not speak. David Francis stated-1 am a carpenter at Newport. I saw the body; it was the body of %Pm. Evans. There were " that is hatchet marks and splinters—on the mid of the timber, which answercil the wounds on his head. _ _ Mr. Jarnn ilawiths, a surgeon, stated•—L tun a surgeon, at Newport. I examined the body : on the right side of the head were wounds to the extent of two inches each way ; theta were four or tire cirzults punctures just above the car. L took off the 'op of the skull. sod found several pieces Oben' driven in p the Ault was fractured to the length of live inches la various dins tons ; a piece of bone had been driven late the beim I ow alder lids to have caused his death. Phillips, the Town Clerk of Newport, put in the ensuing.- then of the pnaotters, as it was taken betire the Mayas of that place. The male prisoner wan esarnined in Welch ; but the answers were translated into English, and written down. The examMaglon of Richard Williams stated rearly the same facts as proved by the witnesnes ; but he denied his guilt, and did not eggplant any .1 the circumstances. The female pris o ner's ratanient was read : it was very l.mg. and denied a good deal of the evidence given by the women, bat stand no new fact. Maher of the primness made any defence. Mr. Justice PARK, in his summing up, observed, that this was an inquiry of the deepest consequence; that the deceased came by his death by the mode charged .weeined clear, but whether the tint. her was thrown down by the prisoners, or either of them, was the question the Jury had to tee. The law was, that if a ream doing an unlawful act, intending the hurt of another, and death ensued. though death was not intended, the crime would be murder or man slaughter. according to the circumstances of the case, such as the natureof the instrument with which the injury ices inflicted. And it had !mix been held, that if the instrument used was of such a nature as must cause great injury, and it did cause death, the crime was murder. It could hardly be supposed that malice mild have actuated the parties at the outset ; for he must say, that he never saw 'deliberate murder attempted to be committed ty such means. It was an important question, for he would say that it was a case or the greatest nicety. The two women did not appear to be on good terms; and, according to the evidence of Elizabeth Nixon, had vowed revenge. (His Lnalshio then read over the *bole of the evidence, and commented on it at he proceeded.) Ili. Lordship then left it to the Jury to say whether either or both the prisoners had committed this act, and, in , oncluainn, Laid, that tht obsena :iors in favour of the men were very strong indeed ; and, with re gard to the wimtati, it seemed difficult to supplest that she could commit the otenre alone. it should be OA...wed, too. that the witness Nixon spoke under a feeling of Irritation ; and she, as well at the witness Phillips , were women of such habits of life as would not entitle theta to plummier credit; but at the same time he far tone would never advise a Jury, merely because women had thrown orall moral and religious obligations, that they were therefore not to be believed under the soleino sans_ Lion of an oath. Another question would be , if they thought the prisoners guilty, tehether they committed the otfinice and knoring that the deceased was in the pit? As against the male prisoner there was not the slightest evidence of it lice, and as againsk. the woman the expressions of malice appeared to be the speeeries of a person of most depraved habits, and If they thought it wit done foolishly and out of wicked spurt, and sot in tending to kill, the crime would then be matialaughter. Hut. on the whole of this case, they would say what was their spinion. The pritionetwarould not have gone there intending to kill, because they did notsorry the timber with them; and they could not have known that the deceased or the witness Nixon would 113Vtgose into the pit at all. The Jury, after deliberating a quarter of an hour, found the pri soner Riches, Williams Not GaWy, and the prilaner Mary Met gen Guilty of .4feestostelater. Mr. Justice PARK addressed the female prisoner, and explained himself highly satisfied with the verdict of the Jury. He rejoiced that time was spared to her to repent of her life of miseuntiuct, a life spent in drinking, shearing, and debauchery. Of this man's death she was clearly guilty, though it appeared the her bad in. tentiuns were directed against another. He was bound in justice tie the country to prevent a person of such unbridled passions from doing more injury. His Lordship then sentenced her to be trans ported for the term of her named life. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. CUMBERLAND ASSIZES—CARLA:IL:, Ayousr 21. The business of Assize laving finished tit Newcam le on the ad, the Leaned Judges (Si- J. BAYLEY and Sir J. 111:LI.00K) pro ceeded on their I 'ircuit to this city, within a mile of which, at a Rtea called Stanwis, they were met by tris:! II iAlt Shentf, Th MIA Henry Graham, Esq. and the Under ... ,, herutl, Air. Silas Saul, and baring received the usual salutations, the Judges alighted Ivor: their travelling carriage and entered that of the High Shelf, which was drawn by four horses with two postilions. in the front were several javelin-men, with two trumpeters. The procession was dosed by several Officrn belonging to the 3layor and Corpora. tan, which slowly moved towards the Nisi Prins Court, where they were met by the 31syor. Thorn's iliatnire, Esq. and C.sr potation, when his hlajeaty's Commission for holding the Acs le was reed. s_ The whole of the business was over soon after fire o'clock, irl:en their lordship's proceeded to Rose Castle, the seat of the venerable Bishop of eerie;le, to dinner. The bells of the CarhedrarChu'cn of Saint Mary did not ring, on account, it is said, of their being in a very deranged state from the efects of that destroyer—" Time," or else they are, it is said, a very tine set. To.motrow theJua l teas will proceed to Church a t el even o'clock, and immediately after te reining the Sacrament will open the respective Courts, Mr Jestice Bayley presiding at the Nisi Pries, and Mr. Bann Ifsdinet on the Crown side. On the former one there are only twenty veirirrt, a comparativer small number to limaer Assizes; and on the latter the criminal cases are but few, And these, as will be seen, of no par. titular enormity. Such a leek of business, it is whispered. has not been known here these twenty years. which either 'hews thet Dien are too wise to go to Ise or that there Is no necessity for it ‘• whilst IS she ether hand ske knirreeed months of the people hasetentleted the gaols almost unnecessary, although the good final/26f Curate are building a new tine ! The following prisoners are for trial : viz. John 3foir, aged 39, aid Janes /bowie. aged 59, Bre stealing from the person of John Carruthers, at Shemin, a pocket-book, cur taining various cash notes to a considerable amount. Williams Straw'', aged 21, lease Moron, aged 21, Ate assault ing. John Weill, M Bmcklebank, on the King's higher:rt. in the panalt of Caklbeek, and feloniously taking from his lessee a polka book containing bank-note. value 81. and a promissory rote foe el. Samuel Cove, alias Char/(a Sooristel Corr. aged 31. ror obtaiolrg money of Alr. George Saul, Solicitor. Carlisle, midis false pre tences. Also on another indictment, with haring on the 2iith slay of March last, feloniously married and taken to wife. Mary Cape, at the parish of St. Cuthbert, Carlisle, his former wife, Cat/wiz-1r Bingham, being then alive. Withem Chatterton, aged 18, for feloniously entering the dye ling house and ship of Rot ert Loagtown, and stealing therefrom venous ankles, his property. Arthmr xrflry, aged 18, charged by the Coroner's Inquest. w , th haying committed manslaughter on the body of George !Mao', re' Whitehayen. Rickard Rotriledge, aged 113, charged with stealing th-ee sheep, the property of John Smith, of Ta!lentire. Joseph Geisilale, aged 2.1, and Willi am C ram pt on , age d 36, f or , 1 feloniously putting away one falseand eountertrited promirory note for the payment of money, purporting to be a %Vhiteharen Bank Note fur the payment of one pound one shilling, knowing the tame to be counterfeit. Charks Dixon, aged SA, for feloniously stealing and carrying away, in the parish of Lanereost. various household articles anu wearing apparel, the property of J. Howard, S. Martin, ard W. Routledge. Sarah Graham, aged 24. for stealing a knife and pocket hand kerchief, value Ss. the property of J. Fergussm, of t'arlisle. James Darirbox, aged '27, for feloniously taking from the person of John Matthews, of ‘Varnell Fell, the sum of 265. at the end of Calder Bridge, near the city of Carlisle. Lso•t. Set r riNG.—On Tuesday evening last, between six and seven o'clock, after the Court had broken up, Mr. Baron Graham and Mr. Justice Burrough, the Judges or, the Home Circuit, were observed to walk through Guild ford, in the direction of the rivers Arnon and Way, in the vicinity of which are steep chalk hills, named " The Hills of Ambition," which command a very beautiful prospect. Oa arriving at the foot of one of the hills, Mr. Justice Burrough commenced his ascent, followed by his Learned Brother, who, being a more nimble man, seven got the start of him, and gained the summit. Mr. Justice Burrough, by great exertion and labour, at length got into a steep and slippery path, called " The Lady's Path," close to whieh is a precipice ; in his attempts to clamber up this path, the Learned Judge slipped down on his " breech." both his shoes having come off', and rolled down to the base. Two persons, who were spectators of the predicament ia which the Judge was placed, ran to his assistance, when Mr. Baron Graham called out from the top of the hit:. " Halt, hall ! Brother Burrough, you had better desist ; I think you have already paid dearly for your ambiiien.•• With the assistance of the persons above mentioned, the Learned Judge succeeded in arriving at the top of the bill. where he was congratulated by Mr. Baron Graham on the courage and perseverence he manifested, by gaining the summit of " Ambition." The two Learned Judges did no: feel disposed to descend the hill, but returned to Guildford by the New Portsmouth Road. A gentleman residing in the neiehbourhood of Carey street, Lincoln's Inn-fiehls, returning from a dinner, where he had made rather too free with the bottle, was met by an individual, who kindly undertook to see him home. The aier was as kindly accepted ; and on arriving at h:s residence, be could do no less than requite him for h 4 services by asking him to take a drop, and desired his wife to hand out the brandy bottles. Pining her temporary absence, and whilst the htishand was nodding. the kind fr:encl made frig with his gold watch, worth thirty gniness,which was incautiously lying on the table, and decamped. REI PIG.—On the eth instant a person in than parish of Martock, Somerset, lost his pig, and afte' many inquiries was informed that the animal bad walked up wards of a mile, and entered the church daring divine service. So strange a guest rather alarmed the congrega tion, and be wee immediately driven out by the sexton.— Nothing daunted, the grunting lounger proceeded to a meeting-house, a short distance from the church, and walked with stately step up to the pulpit, when he was observed by one of his master's servants, who drove hiss home.— Taunton Pope r. I I I . J it , . I 4 i l l f l 1) , 1 : 11 1 ill ('~