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REPRESENTATIVE PEERS FOR IRELAND. The following are the names of the Peers who voted : rOR THE EARL. OF MONTCASIIFIL. itisitrattEssrs—lkmegal, Sligo, Conyngliam, Westmeath. EA x Ls —Cavan, 0 reliant, Shelbourne, Darnley. Cal rick, .trran, Courtown, Dliltowtt, Longford, Portarlington, Erne., Liman, Bel laire, O'Neill, Bandon, Limerick, Clancarty, Rtnse, Charlccille, Bantry, Sheffield, 'Chummy, Danraren, Listowel. Vtscouttrs—Strangford, Kingsland, I hetwynd, Barrington, Dungannon, Lifford, Daneraile, Northland, liarburton, Temple. town, Lorton, Dort, Castlemaine. Moto:re—Kinsale, Conway and Killultagh, Carberry, Brandon, Arden, Massey, Muncastar, Clonbrock, Bridport, Carrington, Henley, Dulferin and Claneboy, Heneker, Hartland, DunaKy, Norbury, Ashtown, Decies, (iarvagh, I)ownes. TOR TIIE EARL Or lIIEATU. Duke of Leinster. Marquess of Downshire. EARLS—Cork, Charlemont, Enniskillen, Llandafr, Caicdhit, Ocaford. :it,, Vlse °lt wra—Cliftlen, Bs o xra—Aylmer, Cloocurry. STATEMENTE OF ISIS, TRE ACTUAL AT CAMBRIDGE. VOTES FOR JUA, B:ngle votes foe Copley Palmerston Blokes Goulburn Double votes for Copley and Palmerston Copley and Ilankes Copley and tbrlbum Palmerston and Bankes Paltnen•on and Ooulburn Bankea and Goulburn THE NEW PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. 23 . 141 65 248 . 312 - 187 75 163 12101 LIST OF MEM/MISRETURNED TO sreve Yon acnTLawn. 9 „• Those marked thus (a), were not in the last Parliament.— Those marked thus (*), are new fur the respective places.—All the rest are re-elected. Aberdeenshire —Him. Captain W. Gordon Aritylethire—W. F. Campbell Ayrshire—Oen. J. Alantgomerie Ranffshire—Earl of File Ilerwickshire—llion. Captain A. 'Maitland, ts Caithness and Bute—Hon. Captain J. Sinclair, n Cro,narty and Nairnshire—D. Davidson, n Dumbartonshire—J. Campbell. jun. n Dumfriessliire—Admiral Sir W. J. Hope Edinburielishire—Sir 0. Clerk El i rinshire—Colonel Hon. F. W. Grant Fifeshire--Captain J. Wrmyss Forfarshire—llon. W. R. blaule liaddingtonshire.s-Lord J. Hay. a Invernesphire—R;ght Hon. C. Orint Eincanlinshire—CA. Hon. 11. Arbuthnot, it Eitirnaditrz—Col. G. Graham. .1 Kirkcudbright—R. C. Fergitsson, PI lemarkshin—Lord A. Hamilton Linlithgowshire—Hon. Sir A. Hope Peebleshire—Sir J. filontgoinay Perthshire—Sir 11. Murray Renftewehire—J. Maxwell., jun. Rowi.shire--Sir J. W. Mackenzie Roxburghsbire—H. F. Scott, ft Selkirkshire—W. E. Lockhart Stirlingshire—ll. Drummond SutherlAndlihire—brad F. L. Gower, • Wipponshire—Sir W. Maxwell. ROYAL BURGH... Aberdeen. flume. Anstruther, &c.—J. Balfnur • Art, Irvin. &c. —T. F. Kennel,. Dumfries. &c.—W R. Douglas Dyoatt, ace.—Sir R. Fergusson Edinburgh—Right Honourable W. P'i Elgin, &c.—Honourable General .t. Fut:rose, he.—R. Gault. it Illaagaw & e.—A. Campbell Jedburygit. ite.—Colonel A. J. Dalryind:e • Peebles. Ike.—A. Hay. Perdu ke.—Hononnible 11. Lindsay Stirling. kc.—R. Downie Tain. Ste--. Sir H. Inns Wagton,lte.—.l. 11. Lowther. • ArLESBURr ELECTION. On Monday the electors of the borough and hundred of Ayles bury dined together, in celebration of the return of Lord Nugent to Parliament art one of their Representatives. The dinner toot place iu the Town hall, which was completely filled with company. After Lord NEGENT had returned thanks, and several toasts had been drank, Mr. ANDREWS informed the meeting that the Secretary of the Committee for conducting the entertainment had received letters of congratulation from the Duke of Bedford, the Marquis of Tay-- stock, R. G. Russell, Eq. M.P., the Hon. R. Smith, M.P., T. Denman, Esq., C. T. P■llmer, Dui., Lord Wm. Russell, Sir J. Mackintosh, and other eminent Individuals, expressing their regret at not being able to be present on the occasion. The letter of Sir J. Mackintosh was of so gratifying a nature that he begged leave to r ad it to the company. The Secretary then read the letter, which was of great length. /titer congratulating the electors of Aylesbury on their integrity, Sir James bays. They also see that other liberal principles of foreign policy and domestic legislation. to the promotion of which Lord Nugent and his friends trust that they have contributed by efforts at the mo. melt apparently unavailing, are now adopted by those of his Ma. 'levy's Ministers who give most lustre and vigour to the Govern ment. They will persevere in their attempts to render civil justice in..re expeditious and cheaper, as well a• to remove that cruelty by whirl: the criminal law has enfeebled itself, and they will support and apple:id the manure', however tartly and inadequate, for the eformation of these evils, which public opinion may at length in duce others to undertake. They deeply lament that England should be either disposed or obliged to look as a passive speetatress on the destruction of the people of Greece—an event which, however it may be considered by us, will be conteutplated by posterity as a stain on our own, as well as all other European Governments, un less success or glorious failure in the private enterprise of heroic Englishmen should put away that shame from their country. lie will persevere in his efforts to support liberal principles, whoever may be thetr advocates—to lessen the burden and shorten the dun. ton of laws aghiast liberty, when lie cannot defeat them—to com plete the removal of restraints on industry—to restore freedom in the exchange of its produce, with a due regard to established inte rests. and by 'seaming religious liberty co-extensive with the sacred principle of doing unto others as we would that they should do unto us, to justify the tolerant prileiple of the Protestant re ligion, as well as to provide for the peace and safety of the British empire." I4cSMESE WA a,—ln the camp at Mellown, besides the I Treaty of Peace, part of a letter to a friend is stated to have been found in the Kee iVongee's house, in which he states, if he could gain but a little time, he would annihi late our whole army. Ltritaroot. Colt% Escitaxue.—The demand at Tues day's Market was tolerably good, and some considerable business dune at about last week's prices. Oats may be quoted about id. advance. A very fine parcel of oats brought 4s. 2d. per 45 pound. A moderate demand for American sweet flour, but no heavy salts made. On the whole, the market was better than for some time past. FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES: Yestertlay the Leet Jury for the district of Clerken well and Spafields made • very general scrutiny amongst the butchers, bakers, publicans, and others in that vicinity, and nu merous seizures took place in consequence of the frau dulent practices detected, the Jury having come upon these public robbers by rwprise. It is a pity that these visits are not more frequent ; for the most abo minable frauds are continually practised on the un- ' suspecting consumer. One butcher in particular, who is in the habit of charging at the rate of 9d. and Ind. per pound for his meat, was detected about a mmtli back with a false beam, by which the pound was reduced an ounce and a half in weight; and on yesterday's exa mination, it was ascertained that the fraud bad been in creased to nearly three ounces; so that on a leg of mutton bought at the rate of eight pounds, the buyer would lose 21 ounces on the weight, equal to Is. or upwards in money. Frauds so glaring as this would almost tempt us to wish for the introduction of that summary law once made in Turkey, which consigned the roguish baker to his own oven. CHILD Mi:RIIER.-A young woman named Poupet was tried at the last Assizes at Names, for the murder of an in fant, of which she had secretly delivered herself. The murdered child was found with the string round its neck with which it had been strangled by its unnatural mother. The guilt of the accused being clearly established, she was outlawed to hard labour fur life. HOME CIRCUIT. CuiLaturoaD, JULY 12. CIVIL SIDE. a MIT II r. DAY. This was an action for In assault and battery. Plea the general issue. _ _ Mr. ANDREWS SMI Mr. PLATT conducted the plaintiff's case; and Mr. MARRYAT and Mr. Anorritus the defendant's. The ram: was this: The plaintiff was showmen to the defendant, a ! Letter, at Stanetead. On the day mentioned in' the declaration, the plaintiff hail left his master's shop without leave, for the pur pose of ordering a new suit of clothes. On his return, the defend ant reproached hint with having heen away a great while. The plaintiff respectf u lly told hint he had been out only for ten minutes. The defendant Hew into a violent passion, gave him the lie, and seizing • broom. stick, struck hint with it violently. The de fertilant'a son, by his father's orders. then pursued the plaintiff into the yard, and seizing him by the back of the neck, threw him down on his knees, and struck Jinn three or four blows. Under these circumstances the action was brought. The case went to the Jury, and under the Learned Judge's di. rections they found their verdict fur the plaintiff—Damages, Thirty Pounds. PAUL ET UN. r. SMITH. This was an action lalasaulting and battering the plaintiff's wife. Plea, the general issue. 31r. ANDREWS and Mr. Daonatce conducted the plaintiff's case ; and Mr. MARRYAT and Mr. A mocru us the defendant's. The plaintiff was a master tailor at Stanstead, and the defendant 1 a publican and pig jobber. On the evening of the day mentioned in the declaration, the plaintiff. the defendant, and other persons were drinking together in the King's Arms public-house at Stan stead. While the plaintiff and the defendant were amusing them selves tossing halfpence for beer, the plaintiffs wife came in for the purpose of taking her husband home. The defendant had just touted a halfpenny, and whilst his hand was upon it, Mrs. Paul laid her hand on his shoulder and said her husband should toss no more. The defendant immediately gave her a back-handed blow on the face with his left hand doubled ; she staggered and fell on a table ; the effect of the blow was to draw blood from the nose ; the mark of the blow was v:sible for a day or two. On the part of the defendant the assault was not denied; but in mitigation of damages, it was proved that immediately on the blow being struck, the and some of his friends present, took the law in their own hands, and gave the defendant a severe casti gation. The Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions, found their verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 30s. TIIE ZING Z. BOURNE AND OTHERS. 1 Iletore a Special .lury.l This was an information filed by the Attorney-General, for of., feting a bribe to t Iwo of the Smuggling Preventive Service, to allow the defendants to land a quantity of uncustomed goods on the coast of Essex. Mr. Sergeant ONSLOW, Mr. MAnnYAT, Mr. GURNEY, Mr. NOI.Ax, and Mr. KNOX, conducted the prosecution. The only defendant who appeared to take his trial was Bourne. Two seamen of the coast blockade proved that, on the 10th of March last, the defendatt offered them a bribe of 301. to allow him and a party of smugglers to land 110 parcels of smuggled goods, at a place called Jerry Cole's gap, in the parish of great Clackton. The bribe was refused, and information being given to the Board of Customs, this prosecution was instituted. No substantial defence was offered, and the defendant was found Guilty. CROWN SIDE. Georee IVelght, ThooTa7sW;l4ht,lira7rati Irt:ght. and Thomas Wright, were indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Joseph Mania, on the night of the 11th of April last, at Leneley, and stealing therein various articles of wearing apparel, and a quantity of gold and silver coin, exceeding the value of SOL his property. Mr. JEISOPP conducted the prosecution, and Mr. RYLAND the defence. It appeared in evidence that the prosecutor, a decrenid old man, eighty years of age, lived in a cottage in the parish of Lang ley, on the borders of Essex. The savings of his life as a day labourer. amounting to upwards of 501., consisting of solaces. sovereigns, crowns, half-crowns, and other silver moneys, were deposited in a hutch in his sleeping room. In the middle of the night of the I Ith April. he was disturbed in bis slumbers by a man coming to his bed side, and in a gruff voice dem:km:ling his money. He replied that he had none, and attempted to get out of bed ; but the man pushed him down. and got upon hint in the bed, and held him down. The man then got hold of the old man's breeches, and putting his hand into the pockets, gave the key of the hutch to another man, who did not speak, and who proceeded to effect the alleged robbery. After securing their plua der. the men escaped by the back door, The pro-ecutor lay covered up with the bed clothes for some time ; and finding that there was no fear of personal danger, gave the alarm to his daughter and tton-tn.law. who lived in the adjoining cottage. It was then ascer tained that a hole had been made in the lath and plaster wall of the cottage, close to the front door, latwousough to admit a man's persona that the hutch had been rifled of all the money, and a con. siderable quantity of wearing apparel carried off. The case to im. plicate the prisoners was this: Tire prisoner, Naomi Wright, whoa* maiden name was Briggs, was the grand-daughter of the prosecutor. and had married the prisoner O. Wright. She was well acquainted with the prosecutor's house, and knew that he was possessed of money. The other prisoners were brothers and sisters. All the prisoners lived in the parish of Stocking Pelham, in Hertfordshire, , lbout three miles from the prosecutor's house. It was proved that, Just previous to the robbery, the prisoners were very much dis. tressed, and destitute of money ; next day they were proved to be espectively possessed of guineas, sovereigns, and silver money, corresponding with the money which the prosecutor had lost. In the cottage of lleorge Ni'right were found fourteen guineas. Other suspicious circumstances were relied upon to establish the alleged criminality. The prisoners denied their guilt. An attempt was made to set up an alibi, which, however, failed. The Learned Judge summed up the evidence with great minute ness, and the Jury acquitted Naomi Wright on the ground that she must be presumed to have acted under the control of her husband; and they found the other prisoners Guilty. Cllr. Baron GRAHAM passed the awful sentence of the law upon the convicted prisoners, and held out no hopes of mercy to the male prisoners. All the prisoners had been convicted of felony at the late Assizes fur llereferd. THE B :SH PRESS. fortune which were to attend her emnpliance, witness gave prisoner three aprons, two pairs of stocking, a pair of boots, and a chensine. Prisoner frequently told witness tliat the loft man was C Mlllai to Maltosbury, but witness had 00* 4 eii) lUD. At one time the pri soner said that the young man , in Glimeettea; ths; she insist see hint, and that the witness give , her bra& silk Spencer to pay the expense': to this wi aasentef, and gave the spencer. i s, On another °carton, prisoner to . witetris`that she had power to prevent her moving hand or which witness believed, and in consequence gave her a flannel ticoat,es prisoner said she wanted money, and witness had noise to give her. About the 9th Mardi last, as witness was walk,* with her master's children at West port, she met the prisoner, whit asked for money. Witness said she had none. Prisoner then laid, " 11l be --,- if I don't have your shawl," which she instantly snatched, and took away with her. As she was going away, prisoner said." You know, if you tell any body, I can make you so that you ain't go home." Tie shawl was worth 14s. (in the Tuesday following this (recurrence, witness was walking with three of her master's children In a lane leading to the ahnshouee at Malmsbury. Primmer then asked witless for money. Witness said, " I have given you all I had, and have no more. You have all my clothes, and 1 am ruined for ever." Prisoner said witness should be better off than ever; that the young man ins very rich, and that she (witness) should ride in a coach. Wit ness said she had been deceived so often by prisoner, who told her that the young man was in Malmsbury, and had never brought him to see her, that she would not give any more money. Prisoner answered, " Ile will certainly come, or semi you a letter, by Friday," and thin she repeated with an oath. Prisoner then un tied witness's apron, which Witael4seppirested her net t 6 do, but prisoner persevered, and in untying the apron heard some money jangle in the witness's pocket*, She demanded this money, which witness said was to pay her shoemaker ; but prisoner said that she would bring her a 10/. check on Friday from the young man, anti that she must have the money. Witness was reluctant t 3 give the money, but prisoner pulled forfh a penknife, which site pointed at witness with an imprecation, and witness through feet gave her ail the money she had, which was only 3s. Primer afterwards ' sad, that if witness told what had passed else would strike her dead, or make her a cripple. Under fear of these menaces, witness never told what the prisoner had done until it was discovered by her mistral, who missed her clothes. Prisoner brought witness a letter on the Friday after she had robbed her of the 3s. Several witnesses were called to prove that the prismer had sold the clothes which she had obtained from the deluded witness, at prices considerably under theit value. The letter was also read iti evidence, and it was proved that it was wristen by a kind of female village amanuensis, at the desire of the prisoner, who remunerated the writer by paying her 20. It was in the following form:— " Dear Mary Ann—l take the easiest opportunity of writing this few lines, in hopes to find you in good health,las I am but very poorly at present : and I am very uneasey in nay mind to think I was dimpointed in not seeing you on Sunday last. Dear Mary, I hope I sloth imbrace the opertunity of seeing you, or is your part changed, Dear Mary, to another. Dear Mary, my hart is not changed away from yow, and I hope ynurn is the same, for bed nor up you will nor ever be out of my thoughts. (1 Dear Mary, I shall be glad to know it yen do intend to give warning, for in my mind 1 have no rest when I think of you. Dear Mary, I was very glad to here of you, as I herd from weld of mouth that yow was owell ; and Dear Mary, I hopelwhen you do send to send by word of mouth by the Bearer of this, as my Master is a very perticlor man, and I must try to pleese him; and I hope you will try and do your best endevor for to see me or to rend. Do not blame the bearer of this, as it is not her faulght in seeing of me when I was there on Sunday last. I thought in my hart I Need you pass, wish filled my hart with pleashour. 0 mold I but once lir:brace the oper tunity of seeing you, Dear Mary, I would never let you fly from my harms ! 0 that I had wings, that I could fly to the banns of my dear Mary. Dear Mary, you shall never want for nothing wilst I am living, and if I had now that you had the regard for me as you have, I shud not been away so long, but. I have seen your sister, and wish you would tell me whether do intend to be mine or not, as I have bought many valuable things for you. So no more at present till 1 see or here hoot you. From your afectionate lover till death, (Signed) WILLIAM PAGE." Addressed, " Dear Mary Ann, this conies by bearer, Ann Hill." The case for the prosecution having closed, the prisoner was called upon for her defence. She isstd that it was all false. and got up by two lawyers and the girl. She said she had no witness to call. The J ury without hesitation returned a verdict of Guilty. The Learned JUDGE then addressed the prisoner. He said that she had been convicted of a capital offence, but he should take time to consider whether it was necessary for hint to pass sentence of death upon her. She was stated to be RI years old ; and when this was represented, it might induce his Majesty to extend his clemency and spare her life. What punishment would be substi. tuted it wan not for him to "ay, but he wished it to go forth to the public, that if a similar offence had been committed by a younger woman, the justice of the case would demand that her life should be spared only under the provision that she should quit the coun try for ever. The present was a very aggravated case, but he should take time to consider what sentence should be pass ed on the prisoner. 4 After the prosecution conchided, Mr. filr newersrea, the lead ing Cu:noel, intimated to the Judge that there was evidence to prove that the ulterior object of the prisoner was most diabolical, and Mit - if she had succeeded, the onfidittmate girl would ban been utterly ruined. The old woman retained her composure during the trial, and, upon being removed from the bar, appealed to heaven with mock solemnity to testify her innocence. The prosecution was carriers on by Mr. Chubb, an attorney, re siding at 31almsbury, in whose service Mary Ann Body was. CIVIL SIDE. [Before MC Justice Gases E E.] SHEPHERD U. OULLIVEE.' This was an action to recover 81. 10s., the price of' a horse sold by plaintiff' to the defendant about three years ago. Mr. Sergeant Wtsue (with whom was Mr. Bananquet) stated the plaintiff's case. Two witnesses were examined to prove the sale of the horse. They stated that Gulliver, who was a small farm, r, came, in com pany with a man named Cox, one of the game class, to plaintiff's house, to look at his horse. Plaintiff demanded 9/. foe the horse, Gulliver only offered 111., and it was finally determined to split the d.fference. Mr. Sesw vie (with whom was Mr. NS'it mire.) for the defence, stated the defendant's case. He was instructed, he said, with a complete answer to the case made out by the plaintiff: The fact was that Cox, whose name had been mentioned, was the real pur chaser of the horse. and had been frequently applied to for the price of him. It was nut until Cox became embarrassed, nay, until he had been arrested for debt and discharged under the Insolvent Act, that Mr. Shepherd thought of proceeding against Gulliver, or even of applying to him. Ile would support this case by the evidence of Cox himself, who would also state that the plaintiff had made overtures to him to the effect, that if he would swear on the trial that Gulliver was the purchaser of the horse, he, Shepherd, would give him hat the damages lie might recover. To support this case, Cox was called, anti swore that he was the buyer of the horse, and that he subsequently sold it to Gulliver. It was by witness's desire that defendant's son went to Shep herd for the horse. Witness always acknowledged the debt, and said he would pay Shepherd when he was able. Shepherd proposed to witness, in the presence of his wife and of a third person, that if he swore Gulliver was the buyer of the horse, he should 'here the damages. Cross-examined.—Witness was not shocked at Shepherd's pro. posal. He had bought another horse front Shepherd a week be fore, but it was not for the value of that horse that Shepherd ap plied. Could not remember whether he paid Shepherd the price of the first horse before he bought the second. Sold both horses to WESTERN CIRCUIT. tem t ing. SALISBURY. JULY 11. CROWN COllRT.—(Before Mr. Justice !ATI. I.EnaLE.) John Corr and Thomas Stanton were tried fur breaking into the factory of John Cowper and Son, at Trowbridge, and stealing there from a large quantity of cloth and kerseymere, above the vat of 301. It appeared that the cloth mane actory of Messrs. Cowper was fastened in the usual manner, on the evening of the 19th March, and on the following morning it was discovered that it had been broken into, and a quantity of cloth and kerseymere stolen. In con sequence of private Information the prisoners were apprehended the next day, at the prisoner Stanton's house, where a large quantity of the property was found concealed under a bed. Some trifling articles, a part of the property, was also found on the persons of both the prisoners. The prisoner Stanton offered nothing in his defence. Carr said that he picked up a bundle containing the cloth in the street, and took it to Stanton's; but he declared that Stanton was entirely nigo- . . _ rant how he had come by the cloth. Gulliver. Several respectable persons came forward and spoke to the goad The wife of Cox, and a lodger named WiManic:deposed to the character which the prisoner Stanton sustained in his neighbour- overtures made to Cox by plaintiff to swear that defendant was the hood. He Wa4 staled to be a remarkably industrious man, and purchaser. have acquired considerable property. Young Gulliver was also examined to prove that he went to After retiring and consulting for several hours, the Jury returned Shepherd's fur the horse by desire of Cox, who had sold it to his a verdict of Guilty against both the prisoners. Sentence of death father. was recorded against the prisoners. Mr. Sergeant WILD, in his reply, called upon the Jury to con. MATCH-MAKING. alder the improbability of Cox's story. Ile contended that a man must be unworthy of Credit who could calmly listen to a man that Ann Hill, a woman of advanced age, but of stout and athletic proposed to him to perjure himself, which, according to Cox's state person, was put to the bar, charged by Mary Ann Body with hay. menu, he had done. Was it likely, he asked, that Shepherd would ing at different times stopped her on the King's highway, and put have acted so much like a madman as to make such a proposal to sing her in bodily fear, and felonionsly stealing from her person Cox in the presence of two other persoine, one of whom was a nom_ some articles of wearing apparel and 3s. in mousy. parativea tranger to both parties. Ile submitted that the evidence Mr. MEHEWETHER and Alf. HALCOMBE conducted the of Cox and the other witnesses for the defence was altogether sera prosecution. worthy of credit.—Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages W. 10s. The prisoner it appeared was a very notorious character. She TAVENDER v. MINOR. was known to all the country mound, as one whose potency was un unfolding the Book of Fate and providing husbands This was an action for the trifling sum of three pounds, due 'for questioned in the use and occupation of a piece of land. There were two for unmarried damsels ; in short, though not a gipsy, she ap- Counael for the plaintiff, and no defence. A verdict was of course peared to have a strong predilection for the habits and practices of taken for the plaintiff; but It may be doubted whether in this the that vagrant race. winner may rot find himself in the end a loser. Mary Ann Body (the prosecutrix), a ample, innocent•looking, Mr. JUSTICE GAsEt.EE having gone through the Nisi Prisms country girl, and extremely pretty, was first examined. She swore cases, entered up on the Crown business, to assist Mr. Justice LlT that she was now about eighteen years of age, that she held thc si. 'MED ALE. tuation of child's maid at Mr. Chubb's since July 1325, and is un married. Witness was introduced to the prisoner in January last, George Talbot and Joseph Smith were charged with obtaining by a girl named Harrison, who told witness that the prisoner could money on false preteuces. from Sarah Dark, over.eer of the parish tell her fortune. Witness was anxious to see the prisoner, who of Ramsbury. then told her that she should go a journey and see an elegant Mr. Justice Gasy.t.rg having looked over the indictments and young man, who would become her sweetheart. The prisoner was affidavits of the witnesses, inquired of Mr. Bingham, the Counsel said to have got many young women husbands. Upon her first for the prosecution, whether he thought it advisable to proceed visit she gave witness something wrapped up in paper, enjoining her with the case. It appeared that the prisoners had Sold a naked false. not to open it until she came again. At this visit witness gave hood to the prosecutrix, but they were not guilty of any greater prisoner a shilling, and returned by appointment seine days after, crime. They had not produced any certificate, nor a token of any with the paper unopened. Prisoner then opened the paper, and kind, to prove that they belonged to the parish, or were entitled to poured some livid out of a bottle on at. She said it was a parish relief. "charm,' and told witness that the nice young man would come to Mr. BINGHAM said he was struck by the sane point, but he sec her. Some days after they met in the street of Malinsbury, and understood that convictions had taken place in similar circuit). prisoner said that she knew some woman besides witness must have stances, under the 30th of Geo. 111. touched the paper, and that the charm should be repeated. l'ri- 1 Ir. Justice GASELEE doubted whether any such conviction miner said this would coat her Is. Rd. , which witness gave her, and ' had ever taken place. He had consulted with a gentleman corner another Is. Gd. for herself. She then had another piece of paper r ant with these matters, who coincided with . him that the charge from prisoner, which she kept carefully, and returned. She subse. was not susta i na bl e , an d th a t the prisoners, it convicted, could arrest quently gave the prisoner three several sums of 3s. sad ss. and 2s. Gd. the judgment. She also gave her an apron and a white shawl. The latter, the prisoner said, was to be cu: in twain, and one half of it delivered to Mr. BINGHAM said, he believed his Lordship was right, and the young man, which would evince his affection and constancy. that he had been in error. The convictions to which he had Prisoner afterwards afterwards obtained from witness a pair of cotton stock- ferred took ben i n the Sessions, and not at the Assizes. The fact Mg* and a striped gown : she said these were to be given to a was that a great deal of money was taken from Overseers by such misrepresentations, and they wished to put an end to the practice. young woman, who was to accompany the nice young man. Pri- The offence would probably come under the new Act of Parliament. sorer afterwards said she was going to see the young man, and wanted money to pay her expenses. NVitness then gave her a silk The Learned RIDGE thought that might be considered, but I gown. Upon various occasions, by threats of ill-consequences that the present indictment must be discharged. which were to ensue in case of her refusal, and promises of good The indictment was therefore withdrawn. OXFORD CIRCUIT. WORCESTER, JULY 11. The Assizes here are nearly terminating. On the Civil Side there has been nothing remarkable, or even in. panying it would not render the offence a murder, if death has: tn. sued, a verdict of acquittal mast he reccrdedi- Ili, Lottlihip ou s;iveil that many atrocious offenders had altogether._ en .cajlllui 4 4. punishment in consequence of this clause in the Act; allereiraW. in smicelettcotling the . mimi,i.tration of justice. he Ilhe;C:: right course disk to pursue 'oe• to he had thine, in order might not escape all punishment, in ease he had, bessailiti otasy offence._ _ . _ _ _ CROWN SIDE. These are the only carer of any interest : Mom Mons was indicted for having on the 24th of June last, broken and entered the dwelling house of Henry Harbour and James Jones, situate at Hanley Castle, in the day time, no person being therein, and stealing a metal watch and six-pennyworth of hall Pence. The two prosecutors lived together in a house, and hiving gone out on the day mentioned in the indictment, thtty locked the door, and hung the key up in a secret place, violet) the prisoner it seemed had discovered. On their return they still found the door fast, and the key hung up in the place where it had been left 4 but the hous2. had evidently been entered, because a chest, in which the articles in question had been, had been broken open, and the watch and half mice were gone. The prisoner had absconded from the neigh bourhood where be before lived, and being apprehended four days after, the watch was found on him. His Lottbautr was of opinion that the dwelling-house was wrongly described in the indictment, and that therefore, it the Jury were satisfied that the prisoner stole the property In suestion, they could find him guilty of that fact only.—One year's imprisonment and hard labour. Francis Penn and Amelia Penn, husband and wife, were in dicted for having filoniously broken open the dwelling-house of `James Bartley, of Rushock, on the 2&I of Slay last, in the day tune, no person being therein, and with having stolen therefrom one shawl, one table-cloth, two shifts, and other articles, the property of James Hartley. The evidence in the case consisted of proof I that the female prisoner disposed of all the articles stolen, after the robbery, and the male prisoner, on his apprehension, confessed having broken into the house, but declared that his wife was per fectly innocent. Mr. Justice Bunnounie, in charging the Jury, observed that Amelia Penn ought not to have been indicted, because, if even she had Whited in committing that house-breaking which her husband had confessed, still the law would construe her conduct as having been pursued under the coercion of her husband. The female pri soner must therefore be acquitted.—Amelis Penn, N.,it Guilty— Francis Penn, Guilty_-l)esth. Elizabeth llornsby was indicted for stealing an anvil and a ham mer, the property of Edward Perks, of Ited,inch, nut RR the pro secutor could not identify the property, the. Jury found her Not Guilty. James Thomas was indicted for a highway robbery. committed upon John Daniel, on the sth of April last, at St. Peter's parish, The Jury found tho prisoner Guilty. llis Lordship then observed, that he had _basis guilty of ails merous unwarrantable acts on the (lay mated in gar indiettnent. lie first destroyed the property of sn inoll'ensive boy; he then toi sluiced him becsase he complained of the injury • star that hd brutally treated a female wh:) took the boy's part; aid aMta the prosecutor irnan interfered,i w oun d , :ire.yett.t,rfuwrttrliVeurrilliet be r mil=id , v i l re itn w i as s n‘ o t t d t n fo:fe . ited. Under all g the rut ' , bat Iti C s a his Lords‘t;p felt it his duty to pass a sentence Cu 11118. ei twelve inotiths imprisonment, and It.trd labour, in the 1111111111* Ana of Correction. Richard Crook was indicted for having assaulted a Lends Tardy, with intent to commit a rape. The seelad esalst In the indicunent simply charged the pr.sotter ebb heed"' oonelnitted a common assault upon the prosecutrix. This case extlfediuost extraordinary interest, as tho obovoctot of a very beautifuf "girl. only thirteen years of oiro, who was the daughter of a respectable fs:mer, was concerned in its Sara& The Court was crowded to excess by almost all the beauty of the county of Worcester. Mr. Justice DI:ReeI:GU requesting the ladles would retire be fore this case was entered upon, observed, that it always gave Aim pain to desire the withdrawing of the fait sex from a Court of Jas. tice. Upon the present °cession, however, he felt convince* that the case was one which could net by possibility afford them interest. The ladies then withdrew, and the contrast that immediately pre ! sensed itself between the then present ippeamnee of the Court; and I that of ha subsequent auditory, was most smiting. Benches that had been filled with beauty, and standing places that had beta crowded with the loveliest :banns. were instantly occupied by fat sweltering farmers, who had struggled during the preceding Mere. ing for some access to the Court. CHARLES PHILLIPS conducted the prosecution ; and, in a speech unornamential by unnecessary phraseology, stated the facts lof the case. _ _ _ :Hiss etitia Tandy wes then called. She appeared to be about seventeen, though her actual age was but thirteen. In stature she was unusually tall, and in figure beautifully formed. Her youth alone could repel Anything like desire in any man, and she was most respectably dressed. /Ice simpleharrative, after having been sworn ~ was, that she went to Pefshore fair on the day stated in the indict. ment.whicli was the last day of that fair. In the course of the evening she was accosted by the prisoner in the White Horse public-house. where she had taken shelter from the rain. ilthen she was entice. enuring to proceed home, as he acted civilly, she did not reject his attentions. though he was a man much beneath her in rank ; and afterwards he offrred to conddc her home, as she was without ny ip ector, because it was as late as ten o'clock at night. She ot as stopping on a visit at that time in the house of a brother-in-law, at Mount Pleasant farm, close to Pershore, and in her way thither she had to pass a stile, Which crossed into same fields that would indirectly lead to the house of her brother-in-law Over that stile the 0 toner forced her, and, after proceeding with some rapidity for a tittle ' he attempted to take liberties. She re slated, and the prisoner knocked her down. After having got up, he renewed his attack.. anti caught hold of her frock, whilst she was screaming " murder." The string of her frock broke at that in. quint, and being liberated from his grasp, she ran as fist as she could in one direction, and, on her screaming " murder" again, the prisoner ran in knottier direction. Mr. Ceitwoon, for the prisoner (with whom was Mr. CAAR I NO. row ), closely cross-exam ined her as to whether she had not first drawn in the prisoner to make certain advances towards her, but, with great simplicity of manner and apparent purity of morals. she denied all the assertions which the Learned Counsel appositely pat to het. Other witnesses were called, who proved that, hearing the cty of " murder," they went into the fields whence it proceeded, and there saw the prosecutrix in a situation which evidently sheaved that she had been maltreated. Her frock wet ripped open behind, and she was also otherwise maltreated. Tne surgeon who had been called in to attend her, stated the she had been grossly m 'treated. and Ire found her in a state o delirium, with some bruises. On his cross-examination by Mt. Curtwoota, he was asked whether that delirium had proceeded from drinking too much runt and water. He distinctly ansiterref that it was a delirium evidently proceeding from some other cause. Mr. Cu ItWOOD then addressed the Jury at some 'length for ehe prisoner, and stated that the whole Areusation was unfounded. The Learned Counsel then called witnesses, both Mate and fe male,' who most positively stated that the prosecutrix had actually invited the prisoner into her society by nods and winks. Some u them, however, equivocated most grossly in their cross-emu:dna ' Lion, and we understand that two of them particularly bore the basest characters. Mr. Cuattr.sis Pin r.r.i rs made a very eloquent reply. Mr. J ustice flunantt Git read over the whole of the evidence M summing up, and the Jury found the prisoner Onihy. His LOLIDSHIP remarked, that there was a clear suborriation of perjury in the defence; and passed a sentence of one year's impri. sunment upon the prisoner, and said that he molt flinti securities NI his good behaviour for one yew subsequent. _ in this county. Mr. Bias/ stated the case to the Jury, and then called the fol lowisin witnesses : John Daniel—l am not quite seventy.eight. I live in the work house of the parish of St. Peter. a little way one of this city. Or the sth of April, I came to Worcester to receive some money, and got six and sixpence in a leathern bag. In returning imitate I called at the Wheataheaf, with a friend, to shoni I had showed the town. After my friend had left, the prisoner at the bar, who was in the house, 'tidied me to drink with him. There I had a pint of beer, and when it came in, I pulled out my purse for the purpose of paying for it. When I wax going away, the prisoner asked which way I was going, and I told him I was going along the London Road. The prisoner overtook me after I got through the turnpike. Atter I got a little further, I had occasion to turn into the fields to go to the workhouse, and the prisoner went on the road. When I got across the first ficl i, soniehody overtook me, gave my coat a violent shake, and struck me a blow under the left ear, which knocked me down. It was the pri soner. When I was down, he got upon me and began throt tling me. He stuffed a pocket handkerchief into my mouth, to prevent my crying out " Murder," which I did whenever I could catch my breath. He knocked old one of my teeth; which threw into the fire when I got homes lie took my money out of my pocket, and tried to get my watch, but could not. I cried out " Murder," and tut:, persons, named Waal and Meek, came to my assistance, and I told them what had happened, and told them the direction in which the prisoner hod gone. They took him ...id brought him to me, and then he asked if I would swear to hint. and I said not then, but I would the next morning. The next morning I was taken so the prisoner, and saw him among other prisoners, and picked him out. lam positive lie is the person. The witnesses Brass and Meek were then called, and described the situation in which they found the prosecutor. They went in pursuit of the prisoner, and found the prisoner at the bar.— They asked him where he was going, and he said he had lost his way, and wanted to go to Norton. They then seized him. Meek said to the prisoner, What have you got in your hand ?" The prisoner said, " Nothing but a handkerchie r ," which they took from him, and found, on examination, that it was quite wet with blood. After they had got a few yards. they heard something fall from the prisoner which jingled like silver, and they tried to find it on the ground, but it was too dark. In all oilier respects witnesses corroborated the statement of the prosecutor. The next mawahrg, on the spot where the prisoner had stood the night previ ous the prosecutor's fAir.e was found. landlord of the Wheataheaf public-house then proved that the prisoner had been drinking with the prosecutor on the evening in question. l he constable who apprehended the prisoner was next called, and stated that when he apprehended him hr asked him what he had done with the old man's money, and he said he had thrown it away, and, where he described, the purse was found. 111 r. Justice ItuRROUOII charged the Jury, and they found the prisoner Guilty—Death. John Clifton, an ill-looking fellow, was indicted for a common assault committed upon one John Crump. The prisoner was ortgioally indicted under Lord Ellenborough's Act, for stabbing John C unip with intent to do him some grievous I bodily harm ; but Mr. Justice Burmugh, for a reason which he stated in his summing up, recommended the Grand Jury to throw out the bill for the capital charge. Subsequently the present in dictment was preferred and found. Mr. Jicavis, jun. stated the case to the Jury, and then called the following witnesses:— Edward Crump, the brother of the prosecutor, stated that lie was in the White Horse public-house, at Bror»sgrove, on the 24th of June. The witness had a pair oebraces in has hand, which he had just bought and the prisoner having snatched them from him, pretended that he would not restore them. At'itnesa said, that if he kept them he must pay for them, on which the prisoner threw them at him, and he them perceived that they were cut to pieces, and rendered completely useless. He remonstrated with the prisoner on the cruelty of his conduct, when he uplist, and knocked him down. Ann Tidmarsh, the waiter at the White Horse, then said that the prisoner ought to be ashamed of himself to strike a boy like the witness ; when the prisoner, with much brutal violen:e, knocked Ann Tidmarsh down on the top of the witness, and then placed a chair on her chest, which he pressed down, on her violently. John Depper then released her from the oppression of the chair, and the witness was then enabled to rise. The prisoner was pro. 'ceding to do further violence to Ann Tidmarsh, when witness went and, called in the prosecutor, John Cramp, who was hostler at the White Horse, and told him that unless lie carne in jinn - mil. ately Ann Tidmarsh would be killed. The prosecutor then came in, and was immediately knocked down by one of the prisoner's companions, who inntantly ran off. Ann Tidmarsh had then hold of the prisoner by the collar, who was going to strike her with a little short stick (which, it afterwards appeared, must have had some sharp instrument in the point of it). when the prosecutor jumped between the prisoner and Ann Tidmarsh, and prevented the infliction of the intended wound. The prisoner then run this stick right forward at the prosecutor, and thrust it in his ribs. Ann Tidmarsh was next called, and corroborated the first part of the statement of the last witness, and described that, after the psi. saner had struck her a violent Wow and knocked her down, he placed a chair on her stomach, and pressed upon it with all his weight. She then saw John Crump, the prosecutor, corning in at the door, and he was immediately knocked down by one of the pri- I loner's companions. On his getting up. one of the prisoner's com panions made a thrust at him with a short stick, and site witness saw no more, as she was so much injured that she was obliged to be carried home. John Depper was then called, and corroborated the whole of the previous statement. John Crump, the prosecutor, next gave his evidence, and stated that he was • nailer by trade, but was acting as hostler of the White Horse public-house on the occasion in question. He Yore out the testimony of the other witnesses, as far as his observation gave him the means of judging, that it was correct, and he de scribed that when the prisoner thrust him with the short stick, lie felt an acute and smarting pain. On clapping his hand to his aide, outside his shirt, his hand was immediately covered with blood. Afterwards he perceived that he was wounded in the title, and the tenth rib had prevented the wound from having been made deeper. Mr. Richard Jenkins Haynes, a surgeon, was then produced as a witness, and stated that he had been called in to examine the prosecutor shone ten o'clock, in the night its question; and upon examining his side he found an incised wound, about a quarter of an inch in length, but not more titan the eight') of an inch in depth, as the weapon, whatever it was, had struck against the tenth sib. The wound had been inflicted by some small sharp instrument. The constable of 13romsgrove was next called, and proved the apprehension of the prisoner and another man, who had a short and a long stick with them ; but from the circumstance of its being fair time at Broo.sgrove on the occasion in question, the prisoner was enabled to drop the short stick in the crowd during his conveystice, a distance of a quarter of 11mile, to prison. This witness also pro duced she prosecutor's shirt, which appeared to have been com pletely saturated with blood. The prisoner, when called on for his defence, evinced, by his dialect, to our astonishment, that he was an Irishman. We be lieve that such instances of wanton and unprovoked brutality to. wards the other sex, as was proved the prisoner had committed upon Ann Tidmarsh, are very rarely instanced in the conduct of individuals who have been born in that nation. He said, in de fence, that Ann Tidmarsh had assaulted him itninediately after his entering the house; but lie added that he could produce no witnesses either to his conduct in the instance in question, or to his character generally, as he was it stranger in the country, and knew nobody. Mr. Justice BURROUGH, in the course of his summing up, told the Jury that it was very true he had recommended the Grand Inquest to throw out the hill for the capital offence, under Lord El. lenborough's Act, and had advised the present indictment for a common assault to be presented against the prisoner, because i^ that statute there was a special provision, that if, when a wound was inflicted Witt a sharp instrument, the circumstances accom MIDLAND CIRCUIT. LINCOLN, JULY 11. [Before Lord ChicfJustice A snox T and a Special Jury.] 3tAwiir v. HARKER. This was an action brought to recover compensation in damages, for an alleged libel on the character of the plaintiff: 111 r. 3Pllowal.a opened the pleadings. Mr. Co MatOti SERGEANT stated the case to the Jury. He re gretted the painful duty which was imposed upon him, of calling on a Jury of Englishmen to decide upon a charge, the very men tion of which must be revolting to the feelings of every man of honour and integrity all over the world. All morality was shocked at such disgusting charges as were attributed to his client, but he was forced to appear before them, in order to repudiate the horrible charge made against him, not so much with a view to punish the guilty violator of all law, honour, and all decency, as to set his character aright with his friends and neighbours, and in doing so, to wipe ()tithe foul stigma which had been cast upon the character of the county at large. This appeal was no :longer a matter of choke to his client, bitched become a matter of necessity, and if he could not, before he concluded, show there was no foundation for mai a charge, then would he be satisfied that all the infamy of so outrageous a etarge should attach to the plaintiff, rather than to theldefend , ant. He was satisfied, however, that no ground existed for such imputation, and he had no hesitation in stating, that all these alle gations were the result of malice and revenge in the breast of the defendant. The plaintiff in this case was a respectable brewer and maltsier at Market Beeping, in this county, and the deterulaat a tanner of considerable property, residing in the same neig hbour hood. It appears that some time since, property was taken fforn the i premises of the plaintiff; and found on those of the defentlana 1 against whom, however, no imputation of dishonesty had her, alleged, beyond what malicious gossiper' will tattle. The plaintiff had made some observations on the subject, and to that cause alone he attributed the hostility of the defendant, who charged hint with indulgieg in unnatural propensities. Ile should make but few further general observations on a charge of this nature being ' made against any man. It was most painful to be charged wirit‘ such an offence—it was painful to bring it forward in this pubae manner; hut painful as it was, the plaintiff owed it to his duty-- to his character—to his family, anti to the morality of the country, to t ring the defendant to prove the truth (if he could) of as au. datious and wicked a libel as ever was charged by vise man against another, in any country, or at any period of time. (Several witnesses were examines!, bu: the evidence was of SA repulsive a n.ture, that we decline inserting it.l Mr. Sergeant V.tuGHAN, for the defendant, said it was painful to him. even though professionally, to enter upon the dismission nt topics like the present. With respect to the writing on the wall, there was no evidence of its being written by the defendant. No. i it was dexterously introduced to make oat a case, in the absence of 1 otiwr matter. Ile took it that the very walls were prating of Mr. alawby'a character ; and sure he was, that after the witnesses i:r was instructed to mill, that character would not be impro%ed. But why did the plaintiff take this writing to himself? Why was he ro morbid ? why did Isis conscience share him at such an seen. Lulea ? He did not quarnl with the plaintiff at bringing the mat. ter here, but it should not have been overloaded, as it had been by his Learned Friends. But if Mr. alawby felt ea for his character, why did his Counsel objact to speak to the rumours geuerally afloat about it? !the w:isinnosent, he should have courted every inquiry, in order tit restore him tothe good opinion of his (!lends t whereas, at the very first onset, an olijection was taken to the inquiry:— Here there were no less than fifteen or sixteen counts in this declaration, the one half of which must be dismissed, as the allegations were not proved. It was lamentable to think how much the crime imputed to the plaintiff Itad increased, partitat tarty in this courty. If the defendant coldly and malignantly charged the plaintiff with unnatural propensities, then let him tie punished ; but if not, then let the brand of infamy be fixed ut.on, the plaintiff: The Learned Sergeant then, at great lengths, com. mendal on the evidence, and contended, under all the ciretan stances, that no case of malice was proved against the defendant He would now proceed to call evidence, to show that the plaintiff was addicted to the propensities with which he was charged by the plaintiff; and having done so. lie would leave Hie case, with p::- fect security, to an intelligent Jury. Mr. COMMON SERGEANT replied on the evidence. The LORD CHIEF JtasTies recapitulated the evidence, arid the Jury, aller a few minutes' hesitation, found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 21101. RANTING.—A short time since, one of those persons, called Ranters, took his station on Cavendish-green, and ranted to a considerable number of people for upwards of an hour; his discourse was eery striking; we trust the proper authorities will look to this. Such fellows do as much harm to the cause of real religion as Carlile—they first make their disciples melancholy and then mad. Ou \Wednesday last, a p.Json, called Dr. Owen, preached a sermon in the Tabernacle, for the benefit of the Moms:hut Missronarier; ' after which the sum of 2/. 1 ts. 6a. was collected. Ibis Caveadii: is a flawed srot.-13,.rj Gazette.