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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extraets fivin the Morning Pripet's ) Aug. 7. [THE TIMEIIa The recent and passing agitations of the Preuch funds, with other causes of a nature less obvious to general observation, induce our fo reign correspondents to conjecture that the inac tive condition of public afa►rs is likely to under go some speedy change—whether for good or evil. Our accounts from Paris of the $d and 4th instant, narrate circumstances concerning the King personally, which must be looked at with considerable interest, although not, perhaps, as affording grounds for such decided prognostics in relation to his Majesty's life as if ho had not been already subject to crises like that now de scribed to us. On Sunday last, at ten in the evening, there was some confusion at St. Cloud. The King had been alone in his Cabinet, and fast asleep in an arm-chair. After waiting for half an hour, and hearing no sort of noise, the at tendants in the next room thought it right to en ier the King's apartment, where they found Louis in a violent fit, and with a countenance quite distorted. A general alarm followed. Thu phy sicians were sent for, and the Princes apprised of the King's danger. But in the mean time Louis recovered a little and on hearing that the family had been raised, became so excessive ly irritated, that on the Princes hurrying to the chamber-door, he exclaimed, with all his might, " Do they think me dead already ? "-- Their Highnesses, it appears, on this hint, ran otT without seeing his Majesty. The next day Louis wail a little better ; but he is kept alive by con stant medicine, and the most assiduous care on the part of those about hint. if he had reason to suspect how much, they say his anger would UP ungovernable. Speculations were pretty com mon on Tuesday, that the Session then about to Le closed would re-open in the course of No vember, for another experiment with the projel for reducing the ltentes. M. Villele, says re port, has pledged himself to this measure, on condition that the contractors shell keep up the price of stocks, and that a new batch of Peers will be created to guard against another dis uppointment. The extreme complaisance of this Minister towards Lord liarrowby, on Sunday last, at St. Cloud, is thought by the French Court-calculators, an inauspicious omen for the solidity of his power. The session was closed on Tuesday, and a suspicion prevail ed that the censorship of the Journals would be forthwith announced by proclamation. The pre text for so monstrous an overthrow of the in estimable right of discussion was to be, say our correspondents, 44 the gravity of circum stances." But what offensive and odious policy this most odious of all encroachments would he destined to assist, we are not yet informed. regard to some of its consequences, in►- mediate and remote, there is less difficulty in , . judging. In the first histanceithe Journals are, to every gaud end, extinguished. The censors are to be unknown--a masked exeoutioner will stifle, unseen, the most powerful and most useful offspring Of the national ititelit4t ; the peo ple will believe nothing that they read, and sus pect fur .worse of public affairs than what the jealousy of this secret tribunal conceals from them ; distrust and exasperation will grow up and ripen in the m idst of the compubiory dark isess ; the Government will tremble at the awful silence which they have themselves enforced ; the impossibility of maintaining suet) a system in the actual state of France, will be once more, after this third or fourth unsuccessful trial, made manifest ; and the censorship will become, us it hug already, a burnt-offering to the safety of its own selfish advocates and advisers. [Milli:UV} PORT.] New York Papers to the 4th, and Philadel phia to the 6th ult. reached us yesterday. They contain no confirmation of Bolivar's reported vic tors'. A vessel, arrived at New York on the 7th, from Carthagena, having ou board Mr. W. D. Robinson, with dispatches from the American Minister at Bogota, for Ins Government ; and also from the ColUMbiair Government, for its Minister at Washington. The accounts from La guyra were to the 22d June. The General Sant- ander, Captain Chase, had carried in there three Spanish armed brigs, the Trienta de Mayo, Es frella, and San Pedro, With three merchantmen, whose cargoes were valued at 250,000 dollars. — They formed part of a convoy from the !lave :nail for Cadiz, which 'was attacked by Captain Chase, in Om night time, One of the armed brigs bad on hoard 8,000 dollars. They are French built, anti two of them Carry 16 guni each. The ex traordinary gallantry and activity displayed by Captain Chase had induced the G over nment to re l a x in his favour the recent Decree for laying a duty of 45 per cent. on all prize goods. r Lan ITISII PH MI We have received New-York Papers to the 7th of July. The topic of primary interest still 4,43 might. be expected, the election Of the Pre sident for the next period. The friends of Mr. Crauford do not seem to be quite so confident as they were formerly, and they a re bitter in propor tiPlingainSt: their opponents. The following let ter, as indicating a coalition of interests in favour di . General Jackson, has called forth the wrath of the opposite party. The anniversary of the inde pelidence has been kept throughout the Union tivitlt the spirit and enthusiasm with which such an event deserves to be celebrated. Besides ""' nhove, there seems to be no intelligence of any moment, except that the people of Ame rico are proceeding steadily in the improvement of 'their inland navigation, by cutting canals in ev e ry dlrection, for the purpose of connecting their great rivers and takes, This is the best and limit profitable mode of etraploying capital In a centitry like Anterlete„ , % en ter . the establishing a rapid and "wdli 'ot! catiummication no'ry part . of 044 Ulthiti will more efiec timily benefli the COutkry it large r than ail the irtrifts tb eitcoo/60 the gro w ti of• tilauu ciitares in art tincosikeniiii sell ;tiott 'for - WWI framed. The spirit with which thvie overt- tions are carrying on is truly wonderful, and the promptitude of their execution must insure a speedy return for capital invested. In America, in great works of this kind, the Government pur sues a plan, which, if not' required in this coun try, where capital is abundant, could not fail to be beneficial in Ireland, where money is scarce. After a certain moiety has been subscribed by individuals, the State becomes a partner in the speculation to the amount of one-third, or one half; thus at once assisting the private capitalist, benefiting the nation, and insuring economy in the conduct of the operations, by encouraging payate wealth and individual industry, to carry into effect measures of great public utility. [NEW TIMES.] We learn from the Dublin Morning Post of Monday, that the new Legislative Assembly established in that city under the style and title of " The Catholic Association," has finished its Session. Without entering into any discussiontof the merits of the Association, or considering how far the .country may be enlightened by the speeches of its Members, or the peasantry en riched by contributing their pence to its Rent, we shall briefly notice its proceedings en Satur day. On that day Mr. O'Connel announced that a Newspaper was about to be established at Manchester on 44 Catholic principles," and that en application had been made for an advance of some pecuniary aid towards the object from the funds of the Association. A. motion for that pur pose could not be made without notice, and thus the matter dropped. Mr. O'ConnelV in the, course of his speech, took occasion to defend the reputation of Cobbett, who, he said, had been charged with having received money front the Association. His advocacy was " genuine and unbought—he knew Mr. Cobbett personally, and was proud of it. The oppressors of man kind were ready enough to bribe the Press ; the Catholic Association ought to do one thing for Mr. Cobbett ; they ought to take his Register into the Rooms of the Association. There should also be a list of Mr. Cobbett's useful works posted in the rood's.", Another speaker said that the Papers which had advocated the Catholic cause had done so . merely 44 on Whig principles," and that 64 the most powerful advocate the Catholic cause ever had was Mr. Cobbett." Mr. O'Con nell, who is the principium et funs of all the good things which flow from the meeting in Capel street, Own moved a resolution, which for com prehensiveness has been rarely surpassed even in Ireland. _lt was to the following effect : That an Aggregate Meeting of the Catholics of Ireland should be held in November, and that Petitions to Parliament should be prepared in the interim on the following topics :- Ist. Religious Liberty for ourselves and for Protestant Dii. 2d. Education on liberal and just= principles. 3d. Abolition of Church Rates. • 4th. Diminution of Ti h s, and to facilitate the delivery in kind. btb. Abolition of Corporation abuses, monopolies, anti powers of levying money. nth. On the administration of Justice. 7th. To enable Ecclesiastical Persons to make leases of three lives or forty.one years. Bth. For redress of local grievances, and, in particular for the abolition of the Paving Board. tub. For the introduction of Poor Rates. A genthinan who followed hint attributed the discussions on the State of Ireland during the last Session to the influence of the Association. The resolution was then agreed • to, and the Meeting adjourned.—As faithful recorders of the passing events of the day, we could not pass over in silence so momentous an occurrence as the pro rogation of the mighty Assembly, which Mr. O'Connell regulates with equal moderation of language and liberality of feeling. The good sense and' propriety which have marked its pro ceedings must .be no less gratifying to the respect able body of the Roman Catholics than they must ' r )rove beneficial to the cause of emancipation. [lllOll NINO CHRONICLE.] It is fashionable to eulogize the administration of justice in this country. We would ask if jus. lice can be said to be well administered in a country in which the agricultural labourers have no protection from the law ? Are the peasantry of a country to pass for nothing when we speak of law and justice ?—We remember once asking a Professional Gentleman, who had made several voyages to New South Wales, with convicts un der his charge, and who of course had the best means of obtaining a knowledge of their charac ter, how the contingents from the different parts of the Empire ranked. " I have no hesitation (he said) in saying, that the Irish convicts are de cidedly the best, the English are also often very innocent creatures, but the Scotch of both sexes are very bad. lie accounted for this na tu ra Hy enough. The law is administered in Scotland considerately and mercifully, and transportation is assigned in that country to the wo rst description of criminals. The class of people who in England are sent without compunction to Botany Bay, are punished in Scotland by a slight imprisonment or a small fine. The English convicts are often poor unfortunate peasants, the victims of the Game Laws, or petty depredations to which they have been driven by want. With respect to the Irish again, they are often swept olt en masse as it were, and it is quite out of the question to class many of them with criminals. This matter is thoroughly un derstood in New South Wales. The richest settler of that colony has his doors and windows night null day unfastened amidst Irish and Eng lish convicts, some of whom have been twenty five years in his service. 46 Though a Scotchman myself, I never wish to see the face of a Scotch convict, and all the other surgeons with whom I ever conversed have expressed the same wish." —What n severe satire this is on the administra• lion of the law in England and Ireland, as far as the poor are concerned !—There cannot be n better test of the manner in which the law is ad ministered in the three kingdoms, than the cha racter of the convicts from each. The badness of the administration is inversely as the gooduess of the convict. [MORNING HERALD.] Much praise is due to Mr. Peel for the readiness he lass she wn to correct such abuses within his department, as.have been itiadi apparent to him. The regulation of prisons, and the Method of naming Special Juries ; are of this dtscriptiou.— On the latter subject, it iit to bethoped, that be will not stop till he has' effected a thorough re form. Though much may he done in that re spect, the evil he will find is not confined to Special Juries only ; but if he were to consider the way in which Grand Juries, especially in the county of Middlesex, are impanelled, he would find much that requires a remedy.— In all other counties there are two Assizes and four Sessions in the year. At the Assizes, the Grand Juries are composed of the prin cipal persons of the county ; and those at the Sessions (where inferior offences are tried) of the better sort of yeomanry. Iu Middlesex there are eight. Sessions, at which the business of the Assizes and Sessions elsewhere is blended: and a Middlesex Grand Jury has therefore to attend, at one and the same time, to the most important and most trumpery cases. ♦Yithout meaning any disrespect to the persons who usually com pose the Middlesex Grand Juries, we say that, generally speaking, they more resemble the Sessions than the Assize Grand Juries in other counties. But in fact their duties are so laborious, and their accommodation and reception at the Sessions House so objec tionable, that we do not wonder that many of those persons whose services would be most desirable stay away, and either get ex cused by a bribe to the summoning officer, or submit to the chance of a fine, rather than un dergo a harassing onerous duty. The conse quence is, that it very rarely happens that a full Jury of 23 is obtained. At the very last Sessions it was stated, that it was with difficulty that thirteen, the smallest possible number, could be obtained to be sworn in. This, it must be ad mitted, is a serious evil. To find a bill of in. dictment a majority of twenty-three (that is 12 at the least) must agree ; but if instead of its full complement, the Jury, consists but of two-thirds of its proper number, it is not sur prising that so many bills are thrown out, which it is thus in the power of one or two individuals to do. This and some other parts of the system, or rather of the practice, tend very much to de feat public justice. As far as one part of the evil is concerned, it might be very easy for the Middlesex Jestices, who lay out a good deal of money upon objects of less importance, to render the accommodation of the Grand Jury out of the Court, and their reception within it, very different to what it is. But to cure it effectually might require a complete revision and new mo. delling of the criminal practice both of the county and the city of London ; the manner in which the same are now blended being the source of much of that of which we complain. At any rate, we see no reason why there should not be two Grand Juries, the one to take the serious cases which are to be tried at the Old Bailey, the other e inferior matters at the Sessions. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. YORK, THUBSDAY, AUG. 5. CROWN SIDE, _ [llobre Mr. Baron II If LLOCK.]] CUTTING & DI ING EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL Stephen Cumuli stood capitally , indicted under LOrd Ellen borou Act with cutting and maiming Elizabeth Carnal', la* wife, on the Bth of June 1811, at Bedouin flicrlow, in the parish of Sheffield, in the West Riding, with a razor ; and with wilfully, luslicioualy, and unlawfully stabbing his wife, with intent to murder or maim the said Elizabeth. The prisoner's ago was 50. - - . - — The Court was crowded to excess, and the case appnred to excite considerable interest. The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. HARDY stated the case on the part of the Crown, which was one of a capital nature by the Statute of the 411 of the late King. he Learned Counsel then called Elizabeth Carnal( the wife, and examined her to the following effect s—She is wife to the prisoner at the bar ; has been married to him six years; has two children by the prisoner, one five years and the other five months old ; ber husband and herself had not lived upon the best of terms latterly ; he said he would be the end of her, he would stick her and put her to bed with a spade ; he is a labourer, a working gardener ; they were at home together on the 13th of June last; he came home a little after 12 o'clock At noon on that day, and went no more to his work; went out about three o'clock afterwards, and returned about four; he remained in the house until the evening ; went out again more than once and returned ; she wag nursing her child and doing the business of the house; she and her husband had had words about three o'clock ; she afterwards went out and he followed her at a dis tance; she went to see her brother at the furnace; lie liv'ed about 100 yards off; her brother worked there; she did not see her husband until he came up to the gate • he afterwards went home, and got int o t h e h ouse fi rst; he told her he had been taking a pair of gardener's shears to sell • he said he had been fallowing her, as he thought she had been going somewhere else, And if she had, the prisoner said she should have seen what he would have done t when he went to bed he locked the door and put the key in his pocket ; I asked hint what he did that for, and said, I don't think myself safe in your company, as you said you would put me to bed with a shovel and I was afraid of' my life; lie had been mending shoes on that day ; he said lie was not going to do any thing to me; 1 said, let me feel what you have in your pocket ? this was in the bed-room ; he took out a knife and flung it on the floor; he said he had nothing else, and said will that do ? and flung the knife in the other room. I afterwards saw him stoop down and take something from under the carpet; he wax then undressed and getting into bed ; I was undressing myself to get in likewise. I felt dis turbed, and put my hand in his bosom anti took out a rater; I said, dear me, here is a razor; he said, it is not, and snatched it out of my hand and put it in his bosom again. I took up a bit of wood y and knocked against the wall that divides the next cottage from ours; he then rose up anti seized the razor, and began cutting me ; he seized me with his left braid by the cap anti hair, and with hie right hand began to cut my neck ; I held my head down he caught me afterwards and cut use near the mouth ; she could not say if he cut her more than once; she had a child in her arms ; , she let it fall on the floor. Could not say how she got away ; the screamed out ; Mrs. Thornton came to her assistance, and she was taken through the window. The Learned %lupus; asked the prisoner if he wished to ask his wife any question, Prisoner—Yea ; nut guilty she 14 impertinent ; she want ed to know where his sister is; hie had left me. Prosecutrix examined by th e .110 noE—You bad left your husband ?—Yes ; I went to live with Mr. Ibbooton ; lie has a wife. I.3he was a year there;,sbe saw her husband Many times afterwards. She appli e d to he r parish, and they forced her again to live with hint ; they had no misunderstanding before ;, had many quarrels after. He knew perfectly well what he did; he was a sober man, but not so right as some men. He wits regular in his labour, lie was jealous of her without cause. Ibbotson Is 40; his wife has no children; they are dead • he has been jealous of her ever since they have been married. Here the prisoner said ho wished to wilt . the Judge a question. Juvoy—Well. His wife clouted his head as he sat on his bed . his wife got u p at t our o 'clock in the morning, and said, Blau you, you devil I and threw scalding water over him. JUDGE to PrthleCUtriX—lt was on scalding ; don't know if they had words on the Monday, but they had on the Tuesday. John %Vinterbottom examined—lle is a cutler ; was at home on the 11th of June last ; lives about lei yards from the prisoner; was alarmed by a noise or scream of murder; it appeared to be at Stephen Carnall's door. I heard her say, be has cut my throat. The screaming cnntinued. I broke the windo w open and I jumped in a t the window. I could not find the key; I found the prisoner in'the next room cutting his throat. I said you have cut your wife's throat, and now you villain, `you are cutting your own. The prisoner said i how do you think any person can live, she has been knocking my brains out with a poker. I took hint and gave him in charge of a -constable. l'he prisoner said, .the key was in his pocket. I i'said you have hid the key, you villain. I afterwards found it . lin his breeches pocket. Has known the prisoner' Some years by sight. He has been in the parish a long time. He don't look bright, but witness considered he knew good from evil. To a question put by the Judge witness said, they had lived in the house about eleven months, but he could not speak upon what terms. Prisoner—lt is a false tale; a chap threatened to thrash his bones. She has been living with another man. She clouted me on the head, she did. Martha Thornton examined—She is the wife of John Thorn ton ; lives directly opposite the prisoner's house. Remembers the 13th of June ; she was in the garret of her house, when she heard the screams of murder. 1 got in at the window. She saw the prisoner's wife ; she said, he has cut my throat. She was undressed, and had nothing but her night clothes on. Has heard them have words ; don't know whether he is right ; his wife is a decent woman. William Nicholas Kirby examined—He is a surgeon at Shef field ; he was called in to see the prosecutrix on Whit Tuesday at half-past eleven o'clock at night ; she was at widow Boyle 's house. She ap peared very faint ; her upper clothes were stained with blood. There were wounds across her throat, cheek, and neck ; they appeared to be done by a clear cutting instrument— a razor would have inflicted' such wounds. The first was a slight one, in an oblique direction ; on the cheek it was an inch and a half in length, and cut through the mouth. The back of the neck was the worst—it was down "to the bone ; the razor ap peared to have been carried backwards and forwards within the first incision. Ile sewed up the wound, and she got well in five weeks after. The wound on the back did not yield well ; he thought the bone might be slightly injured. The J UDGE—ii ere must have been considerable force used. Witness—Yes ; I saw the prisoner a few days after ; there were nine scratches upon his neck. I thought him a weak man, but he appeared to me to understand what he had been doing, and seemed sorry for it. George Marples....fle is a constable ; his assistant appre hended the prisoner ; he has the razor. The instrument was produced, and handed to the Jury. The JUDGE—Now is the time, prisoner, for your defence. Prisoner—She is a very impertinent woman ; she lived at Sheffield; I got her cried; she wanted a home ; she threaten. ed to thresh my bones ; she tried to scald my eyes out, and to fire me out ; she would not let me eat or live in peace ; she has four children by smother man ; two are dead. Mr. Lyddell examined as to character—He is a shoemaker living at Sheffield ; has known the prisoner 10 or 12 years ; he was - known as a steady industrious man ; considered him us possessing inferior intellects. William Webster, a solicitor, examined—He has known the prisoner 10 months, and never knew any thing against him. The Learned JUDGE charged the Jury, and said the prisoner at the bar was indicted, under a wise Act of Parliament, with the offence charged in the indictment, a capital offence, which, be fore it passed into a law 4 was only a misdemeanor. The ques tion for the .Jury now to consider was, whether the prisoner at the time he committed the offence was in possession of his pro. per senses, and knew right from wrong; iflie were, then he was guilty of the crime laid to his charge, which made it death. It was quite clear that the wife had acted wrong, but that had nothing to do with the act itself. The indictment charged hitn with an attempt to murder her, or do her some bodily harm ; the Jury would therefore consider of their verdict, and bring in such a one as would satisfy the law on the subject and their own consciences. The Jury retired for a short time, and returned with a ver dict of Guilty—Death. 'Pule prisoner was recommended to mercy by the .Jury, on account of the weakness of his intellects. The Grand Jury, in the course of the examination, informed his Lordship that they had found all the bills for the county before them, when his Lordship thanked the Gentlemen of the Jury for their patient attention and the zeal they had shewn during the arduous duties they had to perform at the Assize. CAMBRIDGE, AUG. 5.• CROWN SIDE. (Before Mr. Justice GAst LEE.) henry Lindsell was indicted for having assaulted Thomas Whitby, on the 10th of April, at Shelford, and having, inflicted a wound upon him there with a knife, which occasioned his death. The Coroner in this case had returned a verdict that Lindsell acted in his own defence ; but he was subsequently committed to prison by two Magistrates on a charge of wilful murder. The Grand Jury now found one bill against him for manslaughter, and a second for au assault upon a man named Wm. Shearing. It appeared from the statement of the witnesses for the pro secution in the course elan immense mass of rather unintelligi ble evidence, that Lindsell on the night of the 10th of April had stopped with a horse and cart at a pnbllc.house called the Three Horse Shoes, in little Shelford. When he came to this house he was something fresh, having before been drinking at a public-house called The Prince Regent; and while lie stayed at the Three Horse Shoes, he was observed by a per son who held the horse, to come out of the house once, tucking a knife up his sleeve. M the end of about three quarters of an hour, Lindsell came out of the public-house (the Three Horse Shoes) a second time, in company with Thos. NVhitby, the man who was afterwards killed. Lindsell (as it was al leged) asked Whitby to go with him on his way to Great Shel. ford, to which the latter agreed ; and they started, followed by Joseph and Wm. Shearing. The remainder of the case rested chiefly upon the evidence of Joseph Shearing, who said that when the party had proceeded a short distance on the road, little past Sir Charles Wall's house, he saw Lindsell knock Whitby down. It was at that time that the mortal wound was given ; and Lindsell ran away, crying " murder." The death of Whitby was further proved from the wound that he receiv ed ; and it appeared that before he died he made a declaration that Lindsell assaulted him, unprovoked, and struck him with some sharp instrument. In his defence, Lindsell declared that Whitby and the Shear ings had surrounded him in Little Shelford, and had insisted on his treating them with beer, which he did in order to get rid of them. He wanted to get a constable 4 and asked the landlord . of the " Three Horse Shoes" where there was one; but the landlord told him shortly that" they wanted no constable there." When prisoner started for Great Shelford, the witnesses (Shear. ing) and Whitby still kept near him ; and he heard them say to each other, " Ile shan't pass : d—n his eyes, we will do for him to.night." At this time Whitby and the Shearings were beihre him ; and on his attempting to pass, the deceased seized his horse, and turned the animal round Joseph Shearing at the same time knocked the prisoner out of his cart, and stopped the horse. William Shearing then came up with a knife in his .hand ; prisoner knocked him down ; and a general scuffle en. sued, to the particulars of which he could not speak. The material question in this case seemed to be, whether or not the Slicaiings and Whitby had really committed or medi tated any assault upon Lindsell ; and to prove that they had entertained such an intention, three young women (servants of Sir Charles Wall) were called on the part of Lindsell. These witnesses swore, that about 12 o'clock on the night of the 10th of April, they saw two men on the road before their master's house; these men afterwards, skulked along under the paling as if they wished to hide themselves ' • they (witnesses) looked out of the window (two of them), and heard one of the men say, " He's coming now, d—m him, we will do for him." A cart then passed by, and both the men sprang after it. Presenfir witnesses heard some one cry " Do you mean to murder me ? ' er, " Are you come after me to murder me ?" Afterwards there was a noise and scuffling, and one man seemed to be knocked down. It was a moonlight night on the 10th of April; but not so light as that the persons of any of the men could be identified. The Jury, after retiring for about 10 minutes, returned a ver dict of acquittal in favour of Lindsell; and after this verdict, the second Indictment, for the assa u lt u p on William Shearitg, was not proceeded in. • CHELMSFORD, Ay°. 5. CIVIL SIDE. (I?efi»•e a Special Jury.) HICKS V. PALMER AND ANOTHER. This was an action against the defendants, u owntrs of the Southend coach called the llero, fin the negligent driving of their servant, whereby one Of the plaintiff's shoulders was dis. located. Mr. GURNEY and Mr. Am)Lritus conducted the plain. tiff's case. It appeared in evidence that the plaintiff, who is a respectable' farmer and surveyor, living at Rayleigh, took an outside place on the defendants' coach to London, on the 10th April, 1822. He got up between Rayleigh and Rochford about six in the morning, and seated hinifell in the dickey. There were several other passengers on the roof. The coach pro ceeded in safety until it came to the brow of Rayleigh.hill, when James, Palmer, the coachman, and a relation of one of the defendants, began whippiig his horses, and drove them down the hill at a fitrious rate. One of the witnesses, a miller, who saw the transaction from the stage of his mill, said it ap peared to him that the horses were going at the prodigious rate of between 111 and 20 miles an hour. The velocity increas ing, the coach soon became unmanageable, and after proceed ing a great many rods on two wheels only, it swayed on one side, and at last fell with a tremendous crash at the bottom of the hill, scattering the unfortunate passengers in all directions. Several of them were severely hurt, and among others the plaintiff, who had his left shoulder. dislocated. He was taken up and carried to a surgeon's as soon as possible, but a consider. able time elapsed before the dislocation was reduced, and in this operation he .suffered the most excruciating pain, and was for a month afterwards under the care of a surgeon, whose bill amounted to 10/. 16s. The plaintiff being a man advanced in years, was stated to be still labouring . under the effects of the injury. Besides the dislocation of his shoulder, he had also sustained very were bruises.and contusions. For those injuries the present action visa brought. It was sworn positively that the coachman had set up all night, and was drunk . when the accident happened . that he whipped his horses when he go t to the brow of the hill, and that the lowest rate at which the coach was going was between II and 12 miles an hour. A great proportion of the evidence offered on the part of the plaintid was to establish the joint liability of the defendants, which be came necessary in consequence of their having neglected to. make the usual entry at Somerset-house. Various acts al ownership were proved, which it was contended were sufficient to show a joint liability. The defendants, whose names were George Palmer and Ede ward Cracklin, were defended separately, and the, defence of both was mainly founded on the circumstance of their having no joint interest in the coach. To prove this some evidence was offered. It was also attempted to give an answer to the charge of neg ' ligent driving. For this purpose, James Pal - mer, the coachman, was called. lie positively de nied that he was drunk, although he admitted that he had been spending the previous evening with some friends, until a late hour, and sat up the remainder of the night, thinking it useless; to go to bed. He was driving the coach down the hill at the rate of eight or ten miles an hour, and had the perfect com• mend of his horses, when unfortunately, the pole broke, and to this circumstance he attributed the accident, which never could have happened but for that event. Losing all controul over the horses, and seeing the accident inevitable, he contrived to draw the coach near the side of the road, that it might fall In a soft place. He admitted, on his cross-examination, that ha had not mentioned the circumstance of the pole breaking at the time of the accident. Did not know that he took notice of it to any body. Never attributed the accident to the breaking of the pole till now. that Southend IV m coach, Chapman, p proved v b rd t h t era whip, h h reach of the Hero. The latter was going down the bill at the rate of between eleven and twelve miles an hour, whets he ob' is served the coach stop for a moment in its descent, after which' i e p , was and driving driver o I f , Mrs. co cNheil a n Nelson 't the accident happened. He afterwards observed that the pole,' though made of sound materials, was broken, and thought the accident was owing to that circumstance. These were the prig , cipal witnesses to negative negligence. Gu RWEY, in reply, urged this as one of the most ogre' rated cases of the kind which had ever come under his notice: and he demanded, at the hands of the Jury, exemplary damsel' —first, as a compensation to the plaintiff for his dreadful.'" juries ; and, second, as the only mode of making c oach-pre‘ prietors and their servants less indifferent to the lives of his ga d ' iesty's subjects. Mr. Justice Bunnouou summed up the evidence. The Jnry found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1201 , FRIDAY, Aug. 6. Cumin? SlDE.—(Defire Mr. Baron GRAUA3I.) John Burrell and Benjamin Burrell were indicted for a burglary and robbery in the dwelling house of Jane Clapton, at Dunmow, on the night of the 16th May. Mr. Kwox, for the prosecution, stated that Mrs. Clapton wal e lady advanced in life, resident with a sister at Dunmow. Early on May 17, she was awoke by the noise of her bed-room window being broken in, and drawing open the bed-curtain, saw a ma ll making his way in at the window. Mrs. Clapton juirped tits and attenipted to rush to the stairs, but the man followed , saying, " You need not run away, I will not hurt you."- 111 t man brought her back to th e room and-she then saw that another man had got in. Th e y desired ber to get a candle , but they struck a light from the tinder-box themselves.-- Mrs. Clapton went into her bed again, but one of the nien, forced his hand under the pillow where her pocket was, an d demanded the keys, and pointed to the dr a wer where she p drawers, usually andep t her to o k m a o w n a e y y . a 5 1 1. 1 ban k t . h n e o n t e p a n r proceeded to search e reignThel then quitted the house, and one o f t h e men on ret i r i ng said, They she made the least alarm, she sho u ld f are t h e worse f or it."-; She identified John Burrell positi ve ly, b ut t h oug h s h e b e lieved the other prisoner to be one of the m en , s h e was not eqUalli certain. Evidence was produced to s h ow t h at t h e prisoners were in company, at Dunmow ' the day before the robbery, 1 5 0 _, 44 after it, on the road between Harlow and Ongar. It was al"s.the proved that the prisoners bad gone to London by coach, frosts Saffron Walden, and paid for their seats, with two new crown pieces, which were identified by Mrs. Clapton as part of the stolen money. The prisoners did not produce witnesses, but protested tbdr innocence of the charge. The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict el Guilty. Mrs: Clapton recommended the prisoners to mercy. A man named Conyngham was murdered by Thomas Kearney, in Mr. Scully's plantatiops, at Silverfort, near Killenaule, County Tipperary, on Thursday.—(Litnerick Paper.) A CODENT.—Yesterday evening an Inquisitioll was taken at the Middlesex Hospital, before TimmAs STIRLING, Eq. the Coroner, on tho body of William Harkam, who received a violent kick on the head by a horse. Verdict—“ dental death.'' _ COURSE OF EXCHANGE, August 6 k mat et dant —• Ditto, at Sight l2 1 Rotterdam I? 5 Antwerp l2 4 1-laniburgh 37 4 1 Us . 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On Thursday, th e s t h i nst ., at H arrow , M r . David 13°...1./611•00eAll: surgeon, of York-gate, Re.gent's-park, to Miss flu' of V a g, , youngest daughter of the late George Hutchinson, Harrow. f On Thursday, th e sth i nst ., at t h e new church 0 , : . 4 0, Hackney, Mr. Cornelius Field, of Kingsiand, Plus third daughter of Mr. J o s e ph B oar d man , of the same P t iaa On Tuesday, the ;Id in s t., at Keswick , Yellneilisfe of James Stanger, Esq., to Mary, Only daughter of Calvert, Esq., of Greta-bank, Cumberland. DIED. r od Lately, in Paris, the Baroness Von Pagel, Chief o ° Ye of her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange. f t he bi te On the flat inst., aiNd 27, Andrew, the eldest son a Theophilus Ilearsey, Esq., of Botolph.lane. ' dil Itt.kheti On the 4th inst., at the house o 1 her father, ...- - Aug her Mary Susannah, the wife of the Rev. Newton Smart, "'— delivery of a son, who survives. .. 4 o wliog i l On the sth inst., in the IlUth year of hisage, Edvia'-,;gt, en - Esq., late and many _years of Aldermanbury, inereu., formerly L. C. of' the Hon. Artillery Company.'Eng On the 13th u l t . at C ux h aven ( on hi s roa d to ~..,.. i ter* suddenly, in a ti t o f apoplexy, James Hargreaves, :‘" chant, Hamburgh, in the 501.1 year of his V*. _____,,,,Aie, 031. Printed and Mill:died for the P.ROPEIESTOILS. a 11°1 ' . OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B. GAityrostig** Dal and Au/ hta