The Sun. — London, England, 1845-08-12 00:00:00

SCoTCfI BANKING. Ir. will be seen, fromourPariiamentar; report, that the 13.11 to regulate the Sottish and Irish Joint Stock Backs ha. been withdrawn till next session. The Chan. Feller of the Exchequer has, however, given notice that it will be a-eset introduced early next session, and that all banks established after this date will be brought und r its oper ttion . This fact cannot be too strongly impressed upen the public mind, because it is virtually a prohibition of all new banks. The stock of any bank established after this date cannot be less than 100,0001, nor its -hares less than 1001. each. The whole stock mu- t be sutiscribel far, the contract of co-partnery signed by all the partners, and the half of the whole stock paid. hetbre the business can be begun. No new bank can th refore hold any reserved stock, and thus no profit c-in be made by it on its shares- It cannot repay any part of its sto c k, w i t h ou t t h e p erm i ss i on of the Privy Cooneil fur Trade and Plantations—it cannot purchase any of its shares, and it cannot make any advances to a sharehold.'r on the security of his shares. Its assets and liabilities must be published once a month. With these very stringent provisions, the prohibition against is-tun,and the aetive and energetic, though honourable, competition of existing banks with the right to issue, with what prospects of success cart any batik he established hereafter? We do not know what may be the intention of the govern- ment in their tatnpenngs with the currency of the country. To us they are inexplicable. Th e po pulation of the empire is daily increasing, its means of subsistence is increasing, the trade and commerce of the empire is increasing —everything is moving onwards with the strides of a giant, yet the currency of the country must stand still, nay, must be diminished. Connected with this subject, there is one point in particular to which we would beg to direct public atten tn.n I' the Bid we have now been speaking el be really introduced next session of Parliament, can the companies called Exchange Companies, and Investment Companies, b:; brought under its operation ? The solution of this q to-tion w:li dep ed upon another—whether these ctenpanies are B .nkieg Companies? The parties im mediately inter.sted should look to this in time, so that they may not be taken by surprise when the Bill is passed into law.—Scotch l(ejorrners' Gazette. SUPPOSED MURDER. REA DING, SATURDAY.—Throughout to-day this town has been in a state of great excitement, in consequence of a report gaining ground that on the previous evening a woman, named Elizabeth Spicer, residing at No. 16, Howard -street, had been found in a lifeless state in the cellar of the house, under circumstances which led to the conclusion that she had come to an untimely end by t';e hands of her hu-band, William Spicer, a journey tn b is!,et-rnaker, and who has been taken intocustody on the charge of having caused the death of his wife. Co sensation prevails throughout the town ; 1:- , - more as happily so dreadful a crime has not been r i )erpe:rated in this borough within the remembrance of the oldest inhabitant. inquest was held this evening at the public office, b4,re Mr. G. Morton, Deputy Coroner for the borough, and a resue:tahle jury, when the following witnesses were ex:twined : M:ir: ha Aubry deposed—l am on a visit to my sister, TV/r.4. Tomk ins. of No. 1.5, Ilo , ard-stre . et, next door to Mr. I knew the deceased by her coming in an < taut of icy si-tet's house ; saw her about eleven yesr.erday, when she was in her usual good h aith. She came to borrow a clothes-prop of my sister. We dined between twelve and one o'clock. Whilst at dinner we heard a noise in the adjoining house, occu pied by Mr. mid :Nil's. Spicer, like something heavy lling (lox n stairs. My sister said, " Oh ! what can that bo ?—surely th is Ilelre . :* Mrs. Spicer fallen down ?" I said, " don't you go, I'd run," and instantly ran out of the doiir kto thi• front i:arden, and looked through Mr. S:. , ic , r's , indow. I there slw Mr. Spicer looking d x n the cel:iLr stairs, and I concluded that nothing serous hail happeni:d. I distinctly saw Mr. Spicer standing looking dawnthe stairs. I went back into my sist-es house tuid said, " Oh, there is nothing the mat ter, Mi.. Spicer is home." At the time I saw Mrs. c r its the morning she appeared perfectly sober. I ),,, te d dt-,e.gre.. able pass between them before I heard the noise. Leary Tomkins—l live at No. 15, Howard-street, end am by trade a shoemaker. I live next door to Mr. Spic+ r. I have latayan Mrs. Spicer for about two years. Last Navember , they vier, married. I saw Mrs. Spicer aeaut devea a• caralt yesterday. She came into my • tear •• bor-ox aal '.thas prep. About half-past twelve • We' a Fria a daffier, when we heard a tremendous crash it the next r•ott:e, ocaupied by Mr. and Mr.. Spicer. We were all el road, having heard that Mrs. Spicer had n fit scene time t:efore. We said, " There is poor Mrs. Stie: r fallen down stairs." I did not see Mrs. Spicer any line between h wring that noise and eight o'clock ist the evening. Ab , ut eight o'clock in the evening Mr Spit; .r Came out of his front door, and I went out. He .aid, " Mr. Tomkins, have you seen anything of my . ?" I said, " No; is she not at home?" He said, " wars e A, , mt- to my tea and did not find her. I cannot ma t o e out e here she is got to." I said, " Oh rear, it is not she tett has fafien down the cellar." He said, Oh dear, I da not know," and wentimwediately towards the c • :kr- door. I was in toy own garden at the time. La about a minute he came out again and said, " Oh dear me, my el e is dead." It was near eight o'clock, coal he h d re, c , ,relle. Spicer the n immediately got glut, and Mr. House, who had been in my house, want iH to Spicer's, and reok the candle, and both of us went dean the cellar. Whilst we were in the cellar, Mr. Spier wae siting down in a chair in his front room. We towel the laudy 01 Mrs. Spicer at the bottom of the stairs, and Lee face against the wall. She was lying on her right side, with a great wound in her temple. The head was drea !fully cut and bruised, and there was a great deal of blood on her head. Her cap was off her head, and her clethes smooth upon her body. Her legs were in an upward position, resting on the steps. I imme aiiately went to inform Mr. Houlton, the superintendent of pe!ice of this borough. 13y the DEPUTY-CORONER—When I saw her in the man d ea she w4S perfectly sober. She -was not a person eat eted to ,irittking. They were not in the habit of r taut iebeso three weeks ago we heard them .i•arret f..• about .n hour up stairs. She has frequently ,aoptaived to me of her husband coming honees intoxi rated, arid late at night. Mr. House and myself went :nto 'the cedar. Mr. Spicer was sitting in the front room, and lie ma •lia ne ohservation. The noise I heard was a eradi, as if sent thing heavy had fallen. The blood I bl ck and congealed. I.l , Corae Melee. of No. 30, Upper Hosier-street, la -I,ollrtr—l knew Mr. and Mrs. Spicer before they were ma, re about eight months ago. I was at Mr. Tome benae a'eeat half-past seven o'clock last night about eight e'cloek. I was standing at Mr. Turn kin-'s gaae, allow: to leave, when Mr. Spicer came to his clew, and ask. d Me. Tomkins if his (Mr. Spicer's) wife was at Mr Ternkins's house. Mr. Tomkins replied, no ; and esker! Mr. Spicer if she wasn't up-stairs. He lid no. he bad le On up stairs. Mr. Temkins then asked as down in the cellar ? He said, "I do not will go and 3CV, " and then lighted a candle, the cellar-door down a step or two. He el and placed the candle en the table, and .came u. d. and said to me, " Oh, she is down there." I then &reedy caged Mr. Tomkins, and we went together to Spicer' s. The candle was en the table. We went :".own stairs Mr. Spicer remained in the front roe:fa crying. I .aa the body at the bottom of the stairs, the feet were upea_rds, and the head doubled under. The face was coverea cith blood. Saw the left eye wounded. The other was pressing against the wall. There was teuen blend on the floor. The cap was off the head. I sac the bread lying eat the floor. There was also a f rk and a pair of slippere, and a bread-basket lying lab ut. see Leal of bread appeared to be fresh cut. I i a a; ;he ; ~ai d extinct. We came up stairs ta , a, •triee, r. iotnkins went for Mr. Houlton, the supetareeadent of police, and I gave an alarm to the axighbours. By Ow DEPUTY CORONER—I asked Mr. Spicer if he had any tea wren he came home at tea time, and he said he had no tea. but a piece of meat and a piece of bread on a 'late retuaird g from dinner time. He then, he ta: id, went (0 aI r. Sharp's, at the Royal Oak, and had a twit of b t r, an l inquired if his wile haul been there, and they said ehe hail n.A. He then call d again on coming b ,we in the evening, and found she had riot been there than. Atieut ilia.. or ten o'clock in the evening Spicer said. that whilai he was out in the yard after dinner he tht-arct a ri• i.e like creme one falling down stairs. ar.o wt the:: Vito s: e,,otitity-d---When I saw the body the legs were visiOl.- hAf-wa.• up, to about the calf. Both the r..maini-d as much uncovered. By a .I:.ror-1. arn not immediately connected with Spwer ,t• y that that he has dealt with me at times. By another .luror—Before I had the conversation with him he seen%ed agitat , d, but he was afterwards more cornposAi when the conversation took place. The , x,imination of this witness having here ended, )EPUTY CORONER said, that as aireat deal more evidence wouid be brought forward, which could not be gone thr:mgh that night, he would suggest the propriety et an ailjourninent at that late hour (nine o'clock) till _Monday; and ultimatrly it was agreed to adjourn the proceedings to th,t Slav at one o'clock. THE New EDITION OF BURKE'S PEERAGE AND Ba AONETaGs FOR 1845, just published, is certainly the most perfect and comprehensive Encyclopedia of personal and na tional I.lstory ever given to the public, combining surprising accu:-t.ev and im•!nrtant information with the greatest brevity and cle,rties4, and exhibiting in a condensed and lucid form the tivt-s and ,tchievemen's of the many eminent men who have shed lustre on the roll of our nobility, from the steel-clad Barons of Crescy and Agincourt, to the heroes of Blenheim awl Waterloo. This new edition has evidently undergone the must gearel+ing revision, several of the lineages have been re writtert—all remodeled and improved ; —and the introduction .of n ere.ttn • g matter reVn - ential to the Baronets and the hvaiwnes, re , :tlers the impression far more valuable than any of the former on.s. Indeed there is not a name con nected with Peer or Baronet that is not displayed in its pages, and yet, by the judi c i ous p l an t h at has been adopted, the bulk of the volume is not increased. STE %IV- BOAT ACCIDENT.--DOVER ' AUG.AUG 10.— The Ondine steamer, Captain Jenkings, arrived her e Itis a f te rrwon, towed in by the Belfast steamer. She lefteitend esterday morrln2 with vas;engers for Do ver , an d about half an-hour after her departure sustained some injury t o th e ma chinery of one of the wheels , by wh i ch it was rendered useless. They hoisted a foresail,and attempted to proc ee d w i t h the other wheel, but the wind and tide were strong ag a i ns t t h em, and unfortunately they carried away the foremast and disabled the second wheel. The non-arrival of the vessel caused alarm, it , Al the Britannia -trainer was sent from hence in search. Fortuna:My. at d 9,light this mornrig, they were discovered about t. n rages i , ff Gravel:nes in this distressed state by the steamer Belfast, on a voyage from Calais to Lond:in, who bore <lowa to them, took them in tow, and brought them safe into kpert. The rasseri.iers give very great credit to Ca p tain Jen ins, for his good conduct and judgment under such trying circumstances. YARMOUTH, AUG. la—Died, this day, aged 60 years, Mr. Benja nin Cobb, a respe , able tanner and leather merchant Great Yarrn , iutn, Norfolk. Mr. C. was one of the first elected rivrn Couneillo-. aster the passing of the Munici pal Corporations' Act, 1835, was re-elected 1838, and retired from (41,:e Ic4O. Pllll SUN, LONDON, ‘TITE9DAY AIORNI/114,_,ATTGTYS,T__11,_1M8 RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES IN THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. NAMES OF RAILWAYS. Aberdeen Arbroath and Forfar Ditto Half Shares . Armagh, Colr., & Portrush Belfast and Ballymena—. Belfast and County Down Birknhd, Lan. & Ches, Jnc. Birmingham and Glo'ster Do. New ( iss. at 7 1 /dis.) Ditto Half Shares ...... Birminghm & Oxfrd. June. Blckburn, Chrly, & N. Un. Blackburn, Darwn, & Rohn Bolton, Wigan, & Liverpl. Brighton, Lewes, and Hast. Bristol and Exeter .. Ditto New Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian Ditto Extension Cambridge and Lincoln Chester and Birkenhead Ditto New Shares Ditto Half Shares Chester and Holyhead Cheltenham and Oxford Chichester and Brighton Churnet Valley Clydesdale Junction Cork and Bandon Cork and Killarney Cork and Waterford Cork and Youghal Covntry, Bedwrth, & Nun Coventry and Leicester Cornwall . Diss, Beccles, and Yarmoth Direct Northern Direct Norwich ...... Dublin and Belfast Junct. Dublin, Belfast, & Colraine Dublin and Galway Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath Ditto New...... Dundee and Perth Eastern Counties Do. New .... Do. Perp., 5 pr Cnt., No. 1 Do. ditto N 0.2 East Dereham & Norwich Eastern Union Ditto Extension Edinbgh, Glas., and Duni Edinburgh and Gla Do. Quarter Shareq Do. New Quarter Shares Edinb., Leith, and Granton Ditto Pref. 5 per Cent. Edinburgh and Northern Edinburgh and Peebleshire Edinburgh and Perth Ely and Bedford Enniskillen and Sligo Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchstr Garnkirk and Glasgow Glasgow and Ayr Do. Quarter Shares Glasgow and Greenock Ditto New Ditto Preference Glasgow, Dmfries, and Car Goole and Doncaster Grand Junction. Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarter Shares Ditto New Quarters Ditto ..... Grand Union ... Great Grimsby & Sheffield Gt Sothrn & Wstrn (Irelnd) Ditto Extension . Great Monster Great Northern of Scotlnd Great Northern of Englnd Do. New, 401. Shares Do. New, 301. Shares Great Western Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths Guildfrd, Farehm, & Ports Ilarwieh Hudrsfld & %lan. K & Canl Huddersfield and Sheffield Hull and Gainsborough Hull and Selby Ditto Quarter Shares Ditto Half Shares. Inverness and Elgin Kendal and Windermere Kingstown and Bray Killarney Junctions Lancaster and Carlisle Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Dewsbury Leeds and Tnirsk Leeds and W. Riding June Leicester and Birmingham Leicester and Bedford Limerick and Waterford Limrck, Ennis,& Kit. Junc Lincoln, York, and Leeds Liverpool and Manchester Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarter Shares Livrpl, Orinskirk, & Prestn London and Birmingham Ditto Thirds Ditto Quarters. London and Blackwall London and Brighton Do. Cnsolidated Eighths London and Croydon. Ditto New....:..—... ...... Do. Guarantd. 5 per cent. London and Greenwich .... Do. Prefrnc. or Privilege London & South Western Do. New Cons. Eighths Do. New, 50/. Shares ... Do. New, 401. Shares ... London and York ..... London and Windsor .. Lundn, Salisbury, & Yeovil Londonderry and Coleraine Londonderry& Enniskillen Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham... Manchester and Leeds Ditto Half Shares. Ditto Quarter Shares Ditto Sixteenths Manchester & Birminghm Ditto Quarter Shares Do. New Quarter Shares Manchestr, Bolton, & Bury Manchstr, Bury, & Rosend Manchstr, Buxtn, & Matlk Midland Ditto Fifths Ditto New Do. Cons. Him. & Derby Midland Gt Westrn (Irish) Do. Extension to Sligo Nwcastl & Darlingtn Junc Do. New (Brandling) Newcastle and Berwick Newcastle and Carlisle Newport and Abergavenny Newry and Enniskillen Newark and Sheffield North British . Ditto , A 2 Northern and Eastern ..... Do. Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.) Do. Quarter Shares ...... North Kent North Staffordshire North Ea-tern North Union (A) Ditto (B) North \Vales Mineral Ditto New Shares . North Western North Wales Norwich and Brandon Ditto New Not., Bel voir, and Granthm Nottingham and Boston Nutt., Erewsh Val. & Man Nottingham and Mansfield 02cord and Firming. June Oxford and Worcester Perth and Inverness Portsmouth Direct ...... Preston and Wyre Ditto Half Shares . Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar. Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & div. Richmnd and W. End Junc. Rugby, Worcester, &Tring Scottish Central ....... Scottish Midland....... Sheffield and Manchester Ditto Quarter Shares Ditto ditto (No. 2) Ditto ditto (No. 3 ) Sheffield and Lincoln Shrewsb., Wor., and Crewe Shrews.,Wolv.,Dudly,&Bir Shrevrsbry & Trnt Val. Lin. Shrewsb,lierefd,&N.Wals Slamannan . South Devon . South Midland South Eastern and Dover. Do. New ( iss. 321.) No. I Do. (iss. 33/.65.8d.)„ 2 Do (iss 301.) „ 3 Staines and Richmond Staffordshire & Shropshire Stirling and Dunfermline.. South Wales- ••• Trent Valley Do. and Holyhead Junc West London, Old Shares West End& Southrn Coun Wexford and Carlow Warwick and Cneltenham Waterford and Kilkenny Watrfd,Wexfd,Wick&Dub Wakfld, Pontefrct, & Goole Wakefield and Harrogate Warwick and London West Lancashire Worcester and Tring Whitehaven and Furness Do. New Half Shares Welsh Midland. West Cornwall West Yorkshire . Wilts, Somrst. & Weymth Yarmouth and Norwich Ditto New York and Carlisle York and North Midland Ditto Half Shares..... Do. Scarborough Branch Ditto Selby Ditto Extension London. I Liver• pea. !Aug. 9, 2% 4% 11% 10 3 4 2 8 3% 2'% 8% ..... 2% 201/ 7 PI 3% 10 3 / 4 5% 11 3 / 4 31% 232 501 26 1 4 - 2 1/.2 11% 79 1% 24 14 p 16% 4% .._ 23/4 4% 202 64% 31 73/4 VA 176 27 1 / 137 2% 30 94 314 23 7% 2 1 4 3 1 4 1 31 1 4 5 18% Y 4 !Aug. 8. 9% 25 10% 3 3 / 4 69 65 344 1 3 / 4 4 20% 864 2% 53 23 1 / 2 I', 7 g 6 13 15% 26% 13 lls. 3d. 41s. 3d. 3A WA 6 3 / 4 251 2% 5% 8 1 / 8 26 3 4 113 158 s . 6d, 3% 351% 5% 6% Man- cheater. I Bristol. I York. I Leeds. lAug. a 6 1/4 ...... 9% 9 2614 10% 4% ...... 87 34 - 1% 6 5% 12 1 / t 14% 12 1 / s 14 1 / 2 2 1-16 6% 514 4 5-16 ...... 8% !Aug. 9 12% 5% lAug. 8, - . . . . 35/8 625. 79 1 / 2 3 3 / 4 1 535. 4d, 51% 7 1 A 4 9-16 2 3-16 !Aug. 6. - 2M 13s. p, 6% 235. 6d 375. p 335. p - 5% Hun. !Hudders field. !Aug. 9. 9% 281,4 38 251/, 140% 7% 5% 12 1 /s 3 - 1 4 3 1 / 2 .._ 31/2 243% 3% 5% 47% 8% 8 % 6i Me. pi 255. 214 !Aug. 7 83 4 3% 15s. 41s. 7% 14 15% ISlgtilleld. Aug.l 7, 2% 7 % s iB Glasgow. Dublin. Aug. 9, 68 565. 5 3/ 122 — 5.6d.p 91A 28s. I2s. ,425. 6d. 18% 58s. 9d. 374 14% 345. 5p 21s. 4 i z i p 2 1 / 2 . 2% p 3 3 / 4 7Lls.6d 56 1 / 2 3% lug. 9. 6 3% 61% . 2V, 308. p 154 3% 147 35 3 % 27 11% 445. 127% 15% 1214 3/. 17s. 7L 9g. 641. 375. 2% 265. pi _ 251 A 51 % 53/4 24 ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. ECroydon, August 11. (More Lord Chief Justice T INDAL and a Special Jury.) VALLANCE v. THE DUKE OP BRUNSWICK. ng she (Gond the back door fastened with a wooden per. It was not so left the night before. Found a lucifer match in the cellar. The above case was resumed this morning. The case of the plaintiff was proceeded with, and an affidavit sworn at the Central Criminal Court, during the proceedings against the Satirist, was put in and read, in which the Duke, in answer to an affidavit on the other side, had expressed his belief that Mr. Val iance, while acting as his attorney, had conducted him self with honour and integrity. Mr. Besgood proved that he purchased six copies of the printed speech made by the defendant, from the printer. Mr. Bierley, the plaintiff's partner, deposed that be fore he entered into partnership with Mr. Valiance, he acted as his clerk, and he was acquainted with all the proceedings connected with the prosecutions against the Age and the Satirist, and he said that all the proceed ings were taken under the advice of counsel, with the sanction of the Duke, who frequently attended the con sultations that took place respecting them. Alter the publication of the libel in the Lancaster Guardian, Mr. Valiance sent a writ to his agent to serve upon Mr Milner, the responsible party connected with that paper. Ile believed at that time Mr. Milner was a perfect stranger to him, and he did not dunk tin re was the slightest ground for believing that he was a friend of Mr. Valiance, or that he ever saw him. The Duke was not satisfied with the apology that subsequently ap pear& el, and he directed them to proceed with the action. The defendaat in that action did not plead, and judgment went by default, and in May, 1843, he signed jail:lncet. At. this time all the proceedings were eoirg on against the Age and &tit ist, some of the indictments had been removed by ce;tiorari to the Queen's Bench, and thus caused a good deal of delay, but eventually Barnard Gregory was sentenced to five months imprisonment Upon an indictment preferred against him by the Duke, and a further imprisonment of ei ht months upol an in dictm-'nt preferred by Mr. Valiance. The witness gave at great length the history of the legal proceedings against Barnard Gregory and against the Aye, in which Mr. Valiance had been concerned for the Luke, and of the taxing of the plaintiff's bill of costs. In answer to questions put to him by the Duke, he said, that after the libel on the Lancaster Guardian, the Duke gave Mr. Valiance directions to bring an action against every newspaper in the United Kingdom that. had copied it, but this, he said, was certainly not done. 'rue Duke—Why not ? Witne,s—We showed you the impossibility of bringing actions concurrently against every newspaper. The DuiteLDid I not give him notice to prosecute every newsvender who sold the SaVT/4? Witness— You d:d, but it was not done, because Sergeant Talfourd, who was consulted throughout the business, did not think it advisable. The Duke—You throw all the blame upon Sergeant Talfourd. I think we ought to have him as a witness. Chief Justice TINDAL observed, that it was very pro. bable Mr. Sergeant Talfourd might have thought it better, for the interest of the Duke, that such a proceed ing should not be taken. Cross-examination continued—There were two bills sent in fer costs, and when the first was delivered wit ness told the Duke not to show it to De Witts, but to peruse it privately. The reason for this was that there were private matters contained in it, such as the means by which they obtained information respecting the Sati rist, and other information connected with the prosecu tions, Ithich he thought other parties ought not to be acquainted with. The Duke here endeavoured to obtain from the wit ness a statement of some portion of the contents of the bill that had been delivered, but Mr. Sergeant Shee ob jected, and sail the proper course ,ot , ,s to produce the bill and let it spe4k for i sel'. The CHIEF JCS 'ICE Sail the Learned Sergeant was right. but he reminded the Duke that if he put in the bill it %veal be his evidence, and would give a right of reply. The Duke—Then I shall net d i that.—(A laugh.) The witness was then further cros-examined, when he said he was aware that Gregory had offered Mr. Valiance 2,0004 if he would prevent his being brought up for judgment. He denied that there had been any anueccssary delay in the proceedings l'he Duke asked the witness whether he did not, the moment he received the taxing ma-ter's order for the pat ment of the costs, send the Sheriff's officers with a mit of executiom to his house, and instruct them to h,mmer et his lour, and ino,ist upon immediate pay. m nt, without giviwe him any notice ? Witness—The moment we received the order we put it into the hands of the proper officers to execute it. The Duke—Was it not within two hours after you received it ? Witness—lt was the same day. We exe cuted it immediately. We had been obliged to wait six months tor the money while the bill was under taxation, and. theref ore, thought we had waited long Enough. The Duke—Did you not describe me in the writ of summons that was served upon me in this action as " commonly called the Duke of Brunswick." Witness— It na , ty be so. _ _ _ John Waslab-ook, a labourer, stated that early en the morn ing of the 17th he was passing the house of Miss Chambers, when he saw the cellar window• frame broken, and some bars wrenched out. Sidney Conway, who had been admitted Queen's evi dence, said he came out of gaol that day, where he had been confined for being concerned in the robbery. Lives with his father at Balscote. The prisoner Grey was in his father's employ. Witness and Grey slept together. Knows Bratt also, who lives at Neithrop, about four miles from Balscote. Perry lived about half a mile off. The robbery was first mentioned by Bratt and Perry. Brett said that Perry, Grey, and himself had been planning to rub Miss Chambers, and asked witness to go with them, and he agreed. On the night of the 16th, witness took a ladder from a gate-house near to his father's, and he and Grey went up stairs as if going to bed. They then got out of the window by the ladder. They went to the stable and blackened their faces. It was two when they reached the house of the prosecutrix; they got in by the cellar window, got a light by means of a Lucifer. Brett and Perry opened the back door, and let witness and Grey in. Grey, Brett. and himself went into Miss Chambers's room. Watt first, with a large horse pistol, Grey second, witness third. They each had a small pistol. Perry was left in the passage to watch. Two of the pistols belonged to witness, the other to his father. Witness found them all him self and loaded them himself with powder and ball. (The wit ness then described what took place pretty much the same as the prosecutrix Lad done. ) A good deal of evidence was then given, which clearly showed portions of the stolen property to have been in the pos session of the different prisoners, which property was identified by Miss Chambers as the property of which she had been robbed. Mr. HAYES, on the part of the prisoners, directed the chief part of his address to the fret of the person whom he contended to be worst of the four being admitted as approver. The prisoners were all found Guilty, and sentenced to be transported for fifteen years. ROBBIRY sr A POSTMISTRESS.—MiSS Louisa Maria Mewis, who had the superintendeLce of the receiving-office of the Edgbaston Post-office, and an account of whose embezzle ments appeared in our columns last week, pleaded guilty when placed at the bar this day. CHESTER ASSIZES, August 8. CROWN COURT. The Ditk.—Was not that intended as an insult ? Witness—Certainly not. Sergeant SHEE explained—There was at present a reigning, Duke of Brunswick ; and lest any objecti ns should be taken as to the description, it was thought ad visable so to de- tribe him. Mr. Justice Coltman took his seat in Court at nine o'clock, and proceeded to try John Foley for two rapes, committed upon two children at Dunkentield. The offence was committed and the prisoner taken into cus tody so long ago as the 50, of December in the last year. In consequence, however, of the defective education of one girl, and the deplorable ignorance of the other, the Learned Judge who presided in the criminal court at the last assizes for this c unty felt it necessary, for the purposes of justice, to remand the prisoner to the present assires, in order that the children might be sent to teirmil. _ _ _ Jf course the evidence adduced in the case was of a cha racter quite unfitted for the pablie eye, and we shall not give it. Sufficient evidence was given to justify the jury in return ing a verdict of guilty of an aggravated a,sault, and the pri soner was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in Knutsford House of Correction. His Lordship was next occupied some time in trying another of this class of cases ; but at the suggestion of the Judge the Attorney-General abandoned the charge, and the prisoner was acquitted. The business of the assizes came to a close at seven o'clock, the services of the second list of jurors not being called into re quisition. NORTHERN Cll?CUlT.—Carlisle. Aug 7. The two charges of murder, the one against Jane Crosby, and the other against John Graham, at these assizes, have caused quite a ferment in this town and its vicinity. Yester day, during the trial of the former. which lasted from the com mencement to the close of the day, not only the whole Court, but every passage around it, and even the street, were crowded with people. Jane Crosby was acquitted after a short deliberation among the jury, who retired fur but a few minutes. She was de fended by Mr. Wilkins. The principal facts deposed to were, that she had held her little child u d on the fire for such a time as to cause it to be burnt so severely that it died of the injuries thus sustained. hut it had already been pa , tially burnt by its clothes accident ally taking fire, after which the mother had first extinguished the flame, and then, as stated by the other daughter, a child of 11, she had put the living child upon the fire and held it there. In th s case the Court concluded in the view taken by Mr. Wilkins, the defending counsel. namely. that although the pri soner was shown to have been rendered in a manner crazy from the habit of drinking, and had treated both her children with occasional great harshness, there was much inconsiste•ncy in her conduct if she really intended to put the child to death. It was suggested to the jury as being not at all improbable that she in fact, so placed the child in order to " draw the fire out," which had already been communicated to the child's body, it being a common notion with some people that such means of " counteraction" will be efficacious. The Duke—There could be no difficulty. In my eoontry, if a Duke has sixty sons, they are all Dukw:,— (L'ituhter.) And if a Count has sixty sons, they are also all Counts.—(Roars of laughter.) Th e Dak,—Was I not always very anxious to offer myself as a witness to be cross-examined by the defend aots in all the notions for libel, and did not Mr. Valiance endeavour to dissuade me from doing so ?—Witness— You were always anxious to be examined, but upon some occasions Mr. Valiance was anxious to spare you the pain of appearing as a witnes s . Mr. C. PEARSON, the City Solicitor, was then called to prove that Mr. Valiance had been in his office, rind that he had known him ten or fiftien years. He likewise stated that he had read the printed speech complained of, and he had no doubt it applied to Mr. Valiance in his character of attorney. He added that while officially employed at the Central Criminal Court during the pro secution against the Satiris4, he had opportunities of observing that Mr, Valiance appeared to be most zealous and active in the matter. The Duke objected to this being received as evidence. Chief justice TustrokL—Yes, we must receive that. It is in answer to your pea that he shuffled and neglected your interest. Mr. Sergeant SHEE said this was the plaintiff's case, upon which the Court adjourned for a short period. The Duke of Brunswick the❑ addressed the jury. and in a somewhat ingenious speech contended, in the first instance, that the m4tter charged as libelous was not so in reality. He then said that, upon the inquiry before the Sheriff, he was compelled to give some excuFe 'or the delay that had taken place, and feeling convinced that it was enfir.-ly owing to the neglect of his attorney. he stated so to the jury, and for this he was called tyon to answer an action for libel. Mr. Valiance, who had been slow formerly, was qulck enough in his own case, for the speech in question was only made on the sth of June, and he had got the case down for trial at these assizes. lie then went on to say that the bill which had been referred to was a most improper and unreasonable one, and but for that Mr. Valiance would have still been his attorney. Because, however, he refused to pay it Mr. Valiance kept his papers, and put him to great in convenience ; and he now sought to obtain more motley from him, by means of this action. He trusted, how ever, that the jury would defeat him in this attempt, and return a verdict iu his favour. Chief Justice TINDAL having summed up, The jury retired. They were labsent ah..ut half an hour, when they returned into Curt, finding a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 2001. ( Before Mr. Baron ROLFE ) CHARGE OF POISONING AT KIRKA NDREWS. —Jolin Gra ham (aged 44) was paced at the bar on the charge ot having, in November last, wilfully cau.ed the death of his wife by art. ministering to her arsenic mixed in some panada, or bread and m;lk. Mr. Temple stated the case to the jury. Richard Hind, examined by Mr. Laurie, stated that he was brother of deceased, who lived at Kirkandrews. She died on the 27th of November last, and was interred in Kirkandrews burchyard. It is three miles from Carlisle. The body was taken up in June last. Thomas Elliot, surgeon, cf Carlisle, made the post-mortem examination of the body. Mr. Elliot stated particularly the appearance of the body, and his evidence left no doubt that de cea,ed died 'if the poison as supposed, and that in it there was a large quantity of arsenic when exhumed. Mary Hind said I am the sister of Margaret Graham, and remember her death. She died on Wednesday, the 27th of November, at. seven o'clock in the evening. She had been in good health before that, for a few months, but not very well for a few weeks before. I saw her on the Sunday morning before her death, and she said she was much better. I saw her that day in John Graham's, her own house. She came up to our house that morning, and stayed about an hour. I live with my father in the same village, Kirkandrews-upon- Eden. I saw her next after that on Monday morning, about nine o'clock, I think. She was then very ill in bed, and said she had been very ill all night. She complained of a very great heat and pain in her breast. She was purged, and vomited. I remained with her that morning till past eleven o'clock. John Graham was at home during that time, sometimes in her bedroom, and sometimes walk ing about. Mrs. Graham was very thirsty, and asked me to make her some whey. I got both the milk and ale for it, and she drank it and vomited it up again. She asked me for some gin -and-water, and John Graham gave her it. I went home and returned afterwards. He sent for the doctor at eight o'clock. When I returned at two o'clock, Mr. Sewell, surgeon, had come. Mrs. Graham was rather easier, and he gave her something amongst brandy. I left about three o'clock, and returned between five and six. I left her for the night about eight o'clock. She was easier then. The purging hail abated, and the vomiting had ceased. I saw her next at eight in the morning on the Tuesday. She was in bed. Nobody was in the room with her when I first went in. She had been easier through the night, and said she ha 4 had some sleep. Her thirst still continued. I went home, and told my father and mother how she was, and came back again. I re turned about nine o'clock. About ten o'clock Jahn Graham made her some sago. It is what is called panada. John prepared it. He boiled it. I was in the kitchen when it was on the fire, and remarked to him that it was too thick. I was near l.im while it was on the fire. When he took it off, he asked Betsy Robinson, his servant, if it would do. I had my back to him then. His servant, Robinson, is also called Elisabeth Graham. I was in the kitchen. I was in the kitchen all the time it was boiling, and do not knew what he put into it after he took it off the fire. Ido not know what he might have put in before I was in the kitchen. We gave it to Mrs. Graham. I did not see her partake of it. I did not see her take anything else that morning. About an hour after she took it she was taken very ill—the same as the day before, but much severer ; both vomiting and pirging worse. Her thirst was very great. She said no one could tell what she suffered that day from pain and burning heat in her stomach and chest. Cold sweat was upon her brow, and her hands were very cold. She did not see well that day. but made no complaint of her sight. She complained much of pain in her head. Dr. Sewell and John Graham's mother came after eleven o'clock. J.ihn Graham was pi esent. Dr. Sewell proposed to send for Dr. Oliver, and John Graham vent himself for him about an hour after. Or. Oliver came about two o'clock, and he had a consultation with Dr. Aewell, who then left. Dr. Oliver gave her some thing amongst brandy, and she vomited it up again. He or dered her a mustard plaster for her breast and bowels. John's mother and I applied it. In the evening we had her up a little. She seemed very . weak, and trembled all over. After I got her put to bed again, about six o'clock, the pri soner said I and John's mother had to go, and he would lie down beside her. We then went to a neighbour's house for a little while. When we returned we saw her again. She was easier, John still lying on the bed beside her. Benjamin Mitchell the elder had gone to Carlisle to tell Or. Oliver not to come. He was one of John's servants, and was sent by the prisoner. He had sent him before we came. Dr. Oliver came about ten in the evening, and John seemed very much displeased. Dr. Oliver gave her something more amongst brandy, and ,she vomited it up again. He ordered a little panada for her. Betsy Robinson made it, and my sister took it. It remained on her stomach while I was there, and I was there for half an hour after she took it. Mrs. Cannel! is a sister of John Graham's. She called that night. Joseph told me so. Dr. Oliver said that Mrs. Graham was to be strictly watched, and was to have nourishment during the night. John Graham was present ; it was proposed in his presence, that Johns Gra ham's servant. Elizabeth, and his father's servant, Mary Beckton, should sit up with Mrs. Graham. John did not say anything about this while Dr. Oliver was there ; but as soon as he went away he refused; and my brother Joseph arid he got to high words about it. My brother Joseph wanted them to sit up, and John would not let them. When John refused he said he would wait on her himself as well as any woman they could get. I went home about eleven o'clock, and returned next morning (Wednesday) at eight o'clock. She was easier, bat much weaker. I did make some beef tea that morning and gave her it. She was very low that day, and took no notice of anything. She saw less, and did not hear so well. She died about seven o'clock that evening. Mr. Sewell, surgeon, of Bergh, attended Mrs. Graham during her illness, and described the symptoms as similar to those produced by an irritating poison. Dr. Oliver, M.D., was also sent for, and coincided with Mr. Sewell respecting the symptoms. The witness was of opinion that the arsenic was taken in repeated doses. He was inclined to think, from the re-accession of the symptoms of irritation under which he found her labouring on the Wednes day, that there had been a fresh dose given in the interval between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. On cross-examination, Dr. Oliver stated that he had been fetched to decea,ed by the prisoner. Benjamin Mitchell (by Mr. TEMPLE)—I was the servant of John Graham, at the time of Mrs. Graham's death. I had lived with him about two years and a quarter. On the Sunday before Mrs. Graham died I was at home is the evening, betwixt seven and eight o'clock. Mrs. Graham had been rather off health, but on that evening when 1 came home she was as usual. My master was out. I went to bed before he came home. I and Betty Robinson went to bed within a few minutes of each other ; she went first. I saw my mistress, before I went to bed, put some milk into a pan, and then some bread. Just as she was doing that I went to bed. I sleep above the kitchen. I heard the prisoner come in a few minutes after I went to bed. After he came in I heard her say, " John, you've never any time to spare for my com pany, but all will work over." When I first went to Mr. Gra ham, he and his wife were on very good terms. Margaret Rickerby was living there when I went. At first her conduct and demeanour towards her mistress was very good, proper, and respectful. She left her serwee before my mistress it at. 1114rtintuas, last year, and Betsy Robinson came in her place. Before she let her conduct had changed. She fre- quently ab,ented herself from the house in the evening, and upon occasions, when she was absent, John Graham has been absent also. Upon those occasions I have heard his voice in Mary Elliot's house, which is about fifty yards from our fold gate. I have heard his voice more than once in that house. I have not seen her go Into the house 'sit those outfit lops when I heard his ♦oice. 1 told John Graham that people were talking about his going there. The house was blamed for clath—sometimes peephi call it backbiting. I have seen alterations in the conduct of Rickerby to Mrs. Graham in the prisoner's presence; she has used language that did not become a servant. Sometimes he did and sometimes he did not reprove her for the language she used. When he reproved her, he said, " hold your tongue ;" nothing more. I remember one Sunday when he bad a goose for dinner. Mrs. Graham had been at church that morning, and Margaret Rickerby remained at home. We all sat down to dinner, John Graham with the rest. Mrs. Graham said to Rickerby, " Margaret, I think you have pinched us of gravy—is there no more?" Ricker'oy went and provided some more, and when she brought it back—John Graham was then sitting at the table— she set it down, and said, " D—n her, that'll grease her guts ;" and she told her mistress on the same day that she had no more religion than an old sow. After this language Mrs. Graham removed her plate from the table, and went into another room. and had her dinner. She was very nervous at the time, all of a shake. The words had put her out of the way. John Graham remained and finished his dinner with me, Margaret Rickerbv, and another servant, W►lliam Richardson, who left at Alartiiimas. Whilst we were at table, Rickerby said to Mrs. Graham that she was a laughing stock to the whole village. Mrs. Graham was in the other room then, but John Graham heard it. During the dinner John Graham said, " Hold yoar orgue." and she said, " No, I'll not hold my tongue, she is a laughing-stock to the whole village." I told him she behaved very badly to her mis tress, and he said she had a very bad tongue. I rem,:mber Carlisle races. When John Graham came home to supper Rickel by came in. and John told her to get herself some sup per. She said she would never break her fast in the house again, because the mistress had removed the things off the table. The prisoner asked her what she meant by taking the things from the table. Mrs. Graham said she had removed mehing—there was nothing to remove but a pot. I went to bed, and did not hear any more. I first ob•erved this sort 'if conduct on the part of Rickerby towards her mistress sometime before Midsum mer. During the autumn, and up to the time of my mistress's death, the pri.oner was absent sometimes in the evenings, and Margaret Rickerby was absent also. Nine o'clock was bed time. Sometimes they came home before and some times after nine. I have sometimes gone to bed and left both out, but my mistress up. I saw Rickerby. after she left my mistress, at Candlemas hiring. I saw John Graham go across the street where she was standing and crack his fingers (witness cracked his finger and thumb). She crosFasd over to him, and they went together into Lowther-street. Up to the autumn Rickerby's conduct had always been very good to her mistress. tody, for the benefit of the little girt, who had aoliki"' being to look to for protection in ill. world. Om The prisoner was remanded for a few days. Ti' e found ii the room was s•lid to be about 301., and th , 0 cordial with which th e prisoner h a d b e en indulging '' said Thtom be gin. oas T etail was charged with having committe d 0 eo? most eitsperate assault upon a pottnan, iiamo. (l -- Prosser, who officiated in the King's Arms public-how in Queenhithe. ,i 0 The defendant wanted to quarr e l with a custnin`"„id the tap-room, and the prosecutor interfered, and W A - 01 " not permit any disturbance, whereup o n the defel' a d thrust his head between the pour iellow's legs' 1 :01 dashed him, head foremost, against the floor. The ix t o flowed from the ears of the potinan, who was conv e l t be to the hospital, and the defendant was locked up in station-house. The LORD MAYOR said the assault we.* a most d i4 ,, r4 ; gorous one, and ordered the defendant to find bail to . amount of 401., to meet the ca,e 0•e emitling se6Si°ll - MARKET NE #s S YESTERDA Y./ IsT EXCliz.:ta GE Since Monday last up to Saturday evening, the arriva_ ls i ba English Wheat were rather above an average scale Cu - 08 time of year. while the total receipts of arts—inclu ding foreign importations—were moderate. Of English Barle}ituer a single parcel came to hand, and the supplies of al l ° Ol Grain were small. The quantity of Flour from our own c 0 „II exceeded 5,000 sacks. Fresh up, rather an extensive 90.1:1',0, of Wheat came to hand coastwise and by l an d call ! t lbe especially from the county of Essex, which, added Is l . o p arrivals reported last week, and the quantity left 0%9 this day se'nnight, formed a large supply of 1 1 1 17 1 0, of 84000 quarters. As might be expected,' tl erd and notwithstanding the prevailing changeable weather Lab the somewhat unfavourable accounts which continue to 'Lir us from our large Grain districts respecting the sPci - o r ante of the growing crops, buyers evinced but little we s 4O Lion to meet the demands of the sellers; hence, the ''oisy with nearly every description of Wheat of home produ c ! to be considered inactive. Where parties were anxio7o sell, lower rates were complied with; yet, ge l ' e o tr speaking, the sales were conducted at last Mondays q e igt foodtions, but a clearance was not effected. Holders of re Wheat, the supply of which was by means !argot, bet firm. The sales, however, were only moderate, a L ., 0 9. week's figures. Grain under lock was steady, at full P h ' ws i The transactions in Barley—nearly the whole of wh ic .. car of foreign growth—were on a limited scale, at unaltereawitit rencies. The supply of Malt was limited, yet the trade. b os that article was in a very slugggish state, at price s equal to those paid on this day se'nni g ht. The 51 1 Isst Oats being small, that grain moved off steadily, ,a7 l , 0 4 , week's prices were well supp o rted. In Bea n s very 14 ,;Seen doing ; but Peas and Flour were quite as dear. 1 " - market was somewhat inactive. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE t 0641 Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier •• •• 63S , Red . 51s to 56s Oats— Yorkshire and ns Ditto, White ••. - • • 56s 67s Lincolnsh., Feed. %. gif Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe .••.• • • • " coin, Red..... 48s 56s Youghtif and Cork. 3 10 Ditto, White .. 54s 63s Black . ..... •. 2 r; Irish, Red Ditto, White • • —s —s Scotch, Feed. •• • • ,°, 4 ; Rye—Old •••• • • • • —s —s Beans—Tick ...••• • • • — 4"" . 38 4 40 New. .. Barley —Grinding . 258 27s Pease—Grey .•••• • • • 3 431 Malting . 65 3 8 3 4 , Chevalier •••• . • • • 34s —s White ..... • 491 Malt—Stufolk and Nor- Boilers ... ••• • • • 40s folk 58s 59s Flour—Town-mat • 3473 4009 Brown ... .. 52s 58s Suffolk Kingston and Ware 58s 63s Stockta & Norfolk 366 FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. 0 9 28 5 36 0 Wheat—Dantzic •.• • • • 4iis to 48s Beans . 33 5 Ilamburgh Barley • 20s 21s j Flour—American •• • 19 i 9 81 5 Oats. —New ... .• • • 19s 218 I Baltic Iced ............ 15s 18s Richard James—l am a physician in Carlisle. John Gra ham came to m, a little after four o'clock on the morning of the 3d of June. I was in bed, and he called me up. He asked me if his wife was going to be taken up that day, and I said I did not know anything about it. I said if it had been the case, it wai most likely I should have known. He said if it was the case that she was taken up, he would be obliged to leave the place. He also said he had never done injury to any person in his life. I replied I was very sorry for him. He requested me not to mention to any one that he had called me up. I said it was quite impossible to keep it secret. It was brciad daylight, and there were several per sons in the street. John Sabbage, examined by Mr. Rwatsizay-1 am super intendent of Carlisle police. I saw the prisoner on Thursday, the sth of June, about 200 yards on this side of his own house, at Kirkandrews. He asked me if it was true that they were going to lift his wife. I toad him it was; that I was just going over to arrange about it the next day. He said, could they not see Mr. Carrick, and get the opinion of the doctors without lifting her, for if they did he could not stand it ? I told him I thought that would be no use now. He said, "If they do find poison, I did not do it " I saw him returning, and the same conversation was repeated. On the 9th, the Wednes day, about half-past three in the morning, I went to apprehend him. He said, " You are come to take me ?" I told him I had a warrant for him, and assisted to dress him. I read the warrant to him in the yard. George Tinniswood, M.D.—I am a physician, practising in Carlisle. I remember receiving from Sabbage, on the 28th of last June, a parcel purporting to contain the contents of 'some pockets. They consisted of some crumbs of bread aid cheese, some pieces of sealing wax, and a little woolly matter, such as is found in the corner of a pocket. There was mixed amongst it a chrystalline substance like fine sand. I kept the parcel till Monday, the 30tn, when it was analysed by me in conjunction with Mr. Elliot, Dr. James, and Dr. Cartnell. We found that it contained arsenic, by the same experiments as were described by Mr. Elliot. It was the oxide of arsenic, the arsenic of commerce. I received, on the 14th of last month a assistcoat from Sabbage. Arsenic was found in each pocket. I heard De. Oliver's evidence. Judging from the symptoms described by him, and the morbid disease found on dissection, I am of opinion that the arsenic had been taken in repeated doses. P. fter much other evidence, Mr. Wiexisis addressed the jury for the prisoner, contend ing that if ever there was a case in which the facts were dis proportioned to the rumours. it was the case that had been de tailed that day. There was hardly a shadow of evidence to justify the charge against the prisoner. There had been no proof of improper intimacy between "him and Riekerhy ; ar'd, if it had been substantiated it only showed that he had no thing to gain from her, by the death of his wife, he having her already at his bidding. Out of the whole history of John Graham, only cane instance had been found of reproach from the lips of his wife. All the circumstances alleged with re gard to his treatment of her were more in his favour than against him. The Learned JUDGE in summing up said—Before the Learned Counsel addressed them application had been made to him on what was called a point of law. He did no think it tit to stop the case, for he did not think there was anything in t point of law at all; but the Learned Counsel had properly re• marked that such an application ought not to prejudice his address to the facts of the case, for undoubtedly, in a matter of doubt affecting the life of a client, it was t he du , y of the counsel to make the application if he thought it likely to be advan tageous. It was necessary to tell the jury what the charge against the prisoner was. It was that, knowing that his late wife, Maigaret Graham, was about to take some bread and milk, or that she was going to take some pa:mita, or same medicine (any of these would be sufficient), he, contriving wickedly to poison her, mixed up with that bread, or that pinada, or that medicine, or with all of them, a eertain quantity of deadly poison called arsenic; and afterwards, she not knowing that there was any poison mixed up with the bread and milk, or the panada, or the medicine, or with all of them, swallowed it, and thereby, in consequence of t: at, died, either from taking first one and then the other, all of them being mixed with poison, or from taking any one of them so mixed. It was fur the jury to be sa,isfied as to whether that charge had been proved. Such being the charge, then, what was the nature of the evidence by which it was sup ported? In any charge of death occasioned by poison, it was, from the nature of things, scarcely ever possible to have any direct testimony. It was said always to be the most odious kind of murder ; perhaps, among other reasons, that stamp was affixed on it because it was necessarily perpetrated in the dark, or, what was the same thing, in obscurity, with no eye to detect it, with no possibility of detecting it, but by circumstan tial evidence. If they were sat'sfied beyond all reasonable doubt that the prisoner did administer poison and cause the death of his wife, their oath, by which they swore to do their duty to their country, imperatively called up.in them to return a verdict of guilty. But if the circumstances de tailed in the evidence, and the inferences fairly deduced from them, did not lead to that conclusion, he for one thought it would be an insult to them to suppose that anything they might have heard out of Court could induce them to commit the gross injustice of letting a man suffer, not for the evidence ors-which he was tried, and which he had the opportunity of answering and commenting on, but on w hat might have been said by irresponsible persons whom he had no opportunity of contradicting. They must now proceed to the dis.tharge of their duty, and return a verdict according to what they consi dered to be the real nature of the case. The jury then retired, and after an absence of little more than half an hour, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. August 8. FURTHER CHARGE AGAINST JOHN GitArtax. Mr. Baron Rolfe took his seat on the bench at nine o'clock, and Mr. Temple having intimated to his Lordship that the prosecution had thought it necessary to go on with the second indictment against the prisoner, he was brou4ht up at once, and the trial proceeded ; but after some evidence HIS LORDSHIP recapitulated the facts to the jury, and in so doing, appeared to express his view of the case to be, that it was not one upon which the jury could satisfactorily believe, without doubt, that the crime alleged had been perpetrated. The jury retired from the Court for somewhat less than a quarter of an hour, anti returned a verdict of Acquittal. Pi ;LICE INTELLIGENCE. mANSIO frlV HOUSE. A man, namel Thomas Pasfield, wh, is what is called a " scuffl-hunter," or " chance" porter, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having cut his own throat in a fit of drunkenness, or rather of madness, the result of drunken habits. The prisoner it appeared had been left a legacy of about 601. or 701. by a relation a short time ago, and had never been sober down to the time at, which he made the attar upon his own life, on the 7th of last July. His ferettle child, a poor, half-starved, wretchedlooking creature, aged about I air years, had been panting out a miserable existence with him in tatters, in a garret, in the neighbourhilod of Tower-street, and occasionally re ceived assistance from the benevolent poor people about the locality, who looked upon this neglected little fel• low-creature with great compassion. The child was in the habit of wandering about the streets, while the father was smoking and drinking in what are called the flash cribs of the City, and used to wait upon the stairs until it pleased him to return home and open the door of his room, which contained nothing in the slily,- of fur niture or bed-clothes, except a thread-bare old blanket, a box, and a pail. On the night of the 7th of July the poor infant was ltuad waiting upon the stairs, and some of the lodgers having had reason to suppose that the father was in his room, an attempt was made to gain ad mission, but those who tried the experiment were obliged to break open the door before they succeeded. Upon entering they beheld a ghastly spectacle. The unfortunate drunkard had deposited the greater part of his person in the box, and was bleeding from a severe wound in the neck, which hung over the pail, and cash, to the amount of netween 201. and 301. was found in a corner of the room, the remnant, it was supposed, of the property he had been left by his relation. Miller (city policeman, No. 408) stated that on Mon ! day the 7th of July, at a quarter-past eleven o'clock at night, he was in Tower street with Inspector Marchant, when he received some information which induced them to go to a court at St. Dunstan's-hill, and in a room of one of the houses there they fitund the prisoner bleeding from a wound in the throat which he had inflicted upon himself. They conveyed him wrapped up in the old blanket to the hospital, in which he had remained under very attentive care till that morning when he was pro nounced to be able to undergo an examination. The prisoner upon being asked what account he could give of himself replied that he had been completely unconscious of what had happened, that he had some disagreement with a female relation which put him Out of sorts, and he took drink to get rid of the trouble ; but what further took place he really could not say. He, however, would state that he was very sorry fur what had occurred. It was ebs-rved by a person present that the pri soner evidently felt regret at the condition to which he had reduced himself. The prisoner stated that it was impossible for a man to be obliged to lie in bed so long without feel ing very sorry indeed. rh e was wh , n the prisoner was narrieri to the ite d who treated with reap.' • mother it was stn': d had iiven s. wit tutu dears, a w l I,l h . neighbours expressed much anxiety that the lord Mayor should interfere, to prevent the cash found in the room from being squandered by the prisoner, and should en deavour to prevail upon him to deposit it in safe cue- SMITHFIELD. ; 500 The Beef trade was in a very sluggish state, and . 11 The instances the quotations had a downward tendeneAd prirnest sorts were disposed of at 4s 4d per 81bs. we had an increased number of Sheep on offer, it Iw" i means large for the present season. Prime old Down s a sr off steadily, at full prices; but all other breeds were e ste inquiry, at late rates. The arrival of Lambs from 11 6t° shire being on the increase, the Lamb trade was d n „ll o , fr , reduction in value of 2d per Sibs. For Calves we ha d a t aemand, yet the quotations were supported. The Por' was dull, at last week's currencies. Per slbs. to sink the oral. d tO , I s. d. s. d. s. O • 4 Inferior Beasts ••• • 3 0 3 4 Second quality ditto 4 6 4 0 Second quality ditto. 3 6 3 8 Coars e -w oo ll e dditto 4, n Prime large Oxen 310 4 0 Southdo wn W e thers 4iv 0 Prime Scuts • . Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 4 Large Hogs ... ••• 3 , n Prime small ditto 4 6 410 small P or k ers ••• • 3 40 Suckling Calves, .18 0 30 0 quarter old Pigs •• 1 6 - Inferior Sheep .. . 3 6 310 Lambs SUPPLY AT MARKET, rigs. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. I 3 05 3,224 26,880 I 170 NEIVGATEI AISID IPENHATA' ft oll/ The arrivals dauglitered meat fur these markets' Scotland and different parts of England, during the ic have been seasonably good, but by no means extensir % Gr esse', supplies killed in the metropolis having been on the ° l dol , ' particularly those of Beef and Veal, the general dens r d heavy, and prices have, in son.e i ns tan ces , a downw a e cti": dency, while sonic difficulty has been experienced iu7 o JP; clearances. About 20 carcases of foreign Beef, and AO" of mutton, have sold—the former at from 2s 10d to ,! latter, 3s 4d to 3s 10d per 81bs. At per stone, by the CarcaEe. 8 . d. t°3 ° ' s. d. to s. d. 2 10 4 4 Deef, inferior.... 2 210 3lutton, inferior •• - g g 6 middling • • 3 0 3 2 43 6 6 prime large .. 3 2 3 4 prune •• • • a prime small •• 3 6 3 8 Pork, 1arge........ ? ; 4 Veal I 3 8 4 8 small .... ••• • 3 Lamb. 4s led to Gs —d. ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK'. rig g. Beasts Sheep Calves 200 Scotland .•.••• • • • • . • 20 I'o 160 Yorkshire • • • ••••• • • • • • 30 300 Lincolnshire ••.• • • ••••• • • • • 25 120 30 N " l6l k •••••'•••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 10 30 20 Suffolk 20 Cambridgeshire .•• • • ... 24 40 Essex 00 1 40 0° Surrey 25 120 90 I !, Devonshire —• t ie Wiltshire .. Other parts • • ......... . 03° Total l 214 1,280 28 0 ' B lO Previous week's arrival 2Bl 1,520 450 Difference since our last 67 240 17 0 200 BOROUGH HOP MARKET. „ r ead' Owing to the favouraule account s wh ic h co ntinue t". cis 0 f us from the plantations, the demand here, for all !'l",ret 9 Hops, is heavy. Th e duty is still called 190,0001., few backers. BOROUGH AND SPITAIMIELPg . offe r ' We have had several parc e ls of F ore i gn P ota toes on s. 0 since our last, and which have so ld a t ver y low ' 11° ,4 tit . New English P o t a t oes th e su ppli es are a b un dant, 9- demand is steady, at from 3s to 6s per cwt. • WOOL MARKET. 11/31g14 The imports of Wool into London since this day s e r yet have been very moderate In the p r i va t e con tract Iv; Nei full average amount of business is doing in English' 00° 6 as in Foreign and Colonial qua liti es , a t, i n ev ery "" full rates of currency. TALLOW. 31 3 •fo me The market is brisk, and the prices on the spots he the autumn are very firm, and a good business for t. ta tioP of year is doing on the spot, at a shade under our el n° ,oo os There are no sellers of new Y.C. for the last three r ",',i410 0 under 41s; for separate months, 41s 6d to 425. Town fa t t " 40s net cash. Of the quantity of Tallow shipped, e L o nd °° ' l'etersburgh, up to the 28th of July, there are fur 1 844. 12,153 casks, against 7,829, ditt o , a t th e same time in COAL MARKET. , Prices per ton at the close of the market: — Adair 7 50 gdo 135 9d; Bates Hartley, 15e; Bud , lle's West Harlle,''oros e ' Carr's Hartley, 16s; Chester M a i n , 15 8 ; D e an's 1. 1 5i6dj 143 6d ; Fenham Hartley, 13s; Hasting's HartlePo r igi o ,, Holywell Main, 16s; Nelson's West Hartley, 163; dbe eq Tanfield, 13s 6d ; Old Pontop, 13s 6d; Ord's i te e vor t , 13s 6d; Ravensworth's West Hartley, 15s 6cl; S t ;010°", Hartley, 14s 6d; Taylor's West Hartley, 15s; 16s ; Wylam, 14s 9.1; Wall's- end, Bewicke and u n 1656" Gibson and North Durham mixed, 15s 6d • GosfortNorr Heaton, 16s 601; Killingworth, 16s ; Walker, 1 6 % b ippe ci l' cliffe, Itis 6d ; Eden Main, 17s • Eden Main (re",d ; IGs; Braddyll's Hetton, 17s 94 East Hetton, ",,bettu v l well, 18s • fietton, 17s 9d; Lanibton, 17s 6d; r e 2", e art',. ' " 1656,1; Russell's ' Hetton, 1753 d ; Scarborough, 17s; tel 17s 6(1; Caradoc, 17s 6d; Heugh Hall, 17s 3d; os 17s 6d; Adelaide Tees, 17s 6d ; Barrington Tees , Ter", Evenwood, 16s; Richardson's Tees, 16s; Seymou r 150' leif 17s ; Tees, 17s 9d ; Cowpen Hartley, 16s 6d • Fi %Vest Hartley Netherton, 16s.—Ships arrived, 133. • II ar il !, ADVERTISEMENT.—Defective Sight and - r y relieved. Instruments and specta c les sent into the eetotiet' post.—The Eyes.-39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. iroitP Impiovements to enable persons at ad va n c ed age is reausy ease and to discriminate o bj ec t s wi th p e rfect distin ct Messrs. S. and B. Solnmons, Opticians, have invented sa l l ieb tacle Lenses, &e., of the greatest transparent po" r ', r , k n et are patronised by his Majesty the King of 1 - 1 10°° " - e i Grace the Dowager-Duchess of Bedford, their G rac kos o< Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Dublin, the pu,..aiter• Devonshire, Norfolk , Argyle, Marlborough, and Mane 131 Conk, Bishops of Exeter, Lincoln, Eiphin, and Kildsreb'eued, this invention, imperfect vision is pre s erved and strelit, th s and very aged persons are enabled to employ their eig u ` e s o f most minute occupation, and can see with these Le" he Ire' much less magnifying power, and they do nit require the quent changes to further helps. Also, Achroma tic . in of copes, Opera Glasses, Microscopes, invisible, and all 1,;“tio. Acoustic instruments for relief of extreme deafness. A'l —Messrs. S. and B. Solomon', Opticians, me not in I ,„% t iists, connected with a person of the same name, in their it:111'00P neighbourhood, nor in any part of the country. T ° 1 3 ) 9, A l ' mistakes, be cautions, and observe, only to be had et bemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. 000,0' [ADVERTISEMENT.]—LADY B— AND ,i s be 4 wAy's PILLS.--.Lady B—, the wife of a distil,ol Lord, was, a few weeks since, so alarmingly ill, oe cas l aa jeiAd ic a disorder in the liver and stomach, as to induce her son' to oisclose to the Honourable Ur. L—, her Lady , h l P, o ved' in-law, that they ent er tai n ed but little hopes of her re' In this s tate, an d u n b e k n own to her medical attendae"; iho bieS was strongly advised to try Holloway's celebrated filligjaa she took for only three weeks, when she found heree“..dioall as ever she was in her life. The accuracy of thi s extre°!ofesser. statement can be proved beyond all doubt. So ld at r i d 14 4 11 Holloway' s E s t a bli s h men t, 244, Strand, London, ai d • medicine-sellers throughout the civilised _.---=------- BIRTHS. 4. 0 of On the 28th ult., at Interlachen, Switzerland, the .0. o d Lieutenant Hodgkinson, her Majesty's ship Cale; lcuile ' pa of Witnpole-street, London, of a son. gi Orkn,sth e' the lte wife oinfsitt.., Sargent sinarlgieennts,ington G ar dens- terrac e, On the 6th inst., at late Reliestogr"yo,f a Gloduacueg,,chetrserl; the la ire' gli of the Rev. G. L. Harvey, of a son. :, nobe,r AA.' On the 4th inst., at St. t Qt-!or's, Hanove r -squar e, dote Ransom, Esq., of Hastings, t o Hannah Martha , °n i l b ter of Mr. George Pearson, of Pimlico. A . JoseP,,e On the 9th inst., at St. Mark's, Tenter Gl'ulln":"!.abter " Wohlgentuth, Esq., to Mary Louisa, the eldest da.b the late James E. Maddox, Esq., of Bow. 1 li k DIED n O 9 gig' •tt 0 On n tl N i j e rs l , s A t i i n ui s i t 6 ., tn i i t i t h h , e l r via 7:3 o d w .)o'etart,h:tilNii:„.7;j9o.3o 00- bo stad 3 formerly of Gordon House, Kentish- town. of the On the 2d inst., Mr. Thomas Hitchings, ll , '-u-lt -New Cavendish -street, P,,rtland-place. , ;3 Coo r g L „ P t. '. ) it :i ,- .• :Ili it:',%, at Foie , , , , 41;11, li.*,l,..4ti.v'St'Pel",,turri*- . • °., -it. , 4Lti i-t., !:;LL,._.; h, %%,.., ~i )ir. ci t " .l %irar ,a *,,,e t.,:.-. uoach and Horses, tipper W e itn.g e '... t t--_ - ' --- 0( 7r---- , --____--_--7_7:tr-*",:' --- - ' j ib CSO i t i 2, Lotideu : Prizt,'N.l and i'ul - iiisintd ill , ' M 1 5111)° .V"..., a No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun. 4 - 6 , c : estiOv Strand. in the Precinct of the Savoy, ll t' Middlesex, Tuesday, August 12, 1845. GILLETT v. BULLWENT. This was an action for slander, tried before Mr. Jus tice Coleridge and a common jury, on Saturday. Mr. Edwin James and Mr. Creasy were for the plaintiff, and Mr. Montagu Chamber. and Mr. Ogle for the defendant. It app. ared that the plaintiff was a young la , ly re• spectably cAtnecti.d, and was engaged in tile c tpacity of g"' lness i n the family of a gentleina,tl at Iticktrians• worth, and it seemed that the defendant had taken upon hiti self to state publicly that sh w.is in the NIBIIY-way by her master, or that she had had a chill by him, and for which scandalous imputation there did not appear to be the slightest foundation. . . The jury Lund 'or the pkintiff—Damages, 3001. the amount at which they wpre lai,l in the declaration. MIDLAND (111?CUIE—Wwwick, Aug. 8. _ CROWN COURT.—( Before Mr. Justice MAULS.) IMPURrANie CASE OF BURGLARY.—John Brat!, a.zei 26, Thomas Perry, 25, and Frederick Grey, 20, were charged with having, in the parish of Rodway, on the 16th of Decem ber, committed a burglary in the house of Mary Chambers. Mr. Miller prosecuted, and Mr. Hayes defended. Mary Chambers deposed that she lives at Rodway, in Warwickshire. At the time of the robbery her household consisted of herself and two female servants. Owing to illness the witness had for the best part of the month been obliged to keep her room. On the night in question had gone to re;t about half-past nine. One of the servants went with her. On awaking in the course of the night she saw a light shine through the door. Thinking it might be the servant, she called out " Caroline." She received no answer, and almost immediately afterwards the door opened, and three men eatered the room, the first having a candle in one hand, and a large horse pistol in the other, and his face blackened. He was what is called a thick-set man with a broad-brimmed hat on his head, and rather overhanging his face. The second was tall and thin. The third she had not the same opportunity of observing as she had the other two. The man that had the pistol in hand came to the side of the bed where the witne.s lay, and, putting thepistol close to her fore head, said, " We have come for your money, and we will have it or your life." The poor woman said, " Don't kill me." Upon which, the ruffian replied, "If you will give me the key where the money and plate are, I will not." At that time, the second man was trying the bureau. The witness said, her keys were in the right-hand drawer. A ring was then taken out with two keys upon it. After some ineffectual attempts to open the drawer, it was opened, though before that one of the men said, "If you d o no t te ll us where your money is, we will send th e contents of the pistol through you." By this time the oth er servant had become alarmed. and called out, " What's the matter, mistress ?" One of the men called out sternly, " Stop where you are ;" and she again entreated the man with the pistol " not to kill her." They then pro ceeded to take what money and valuable articles they could find, and after being in the house about half an hour they quitted the premises, threatening the prosecutrix that if she made any alarm before an hour from the time of their quitting the place they would return and shoot her. One of the men asked her if she knew them, or the number of tne notes they had taken, to which questions she answered " No." Some 1 time had e!apsed before Mrs. Chambers could recover from her fright so as to be able to speak, and she did not. examine the house for two or three days after. When she did, she found some table, dessert, a n d s a lt spoon ,. with '.er uprm them, were gone, and also a thimble, with the words upon it From a Friend." Witness also had the numbers of the notes. Caroline Morris, servant to the last witness, stated that she saw the doors and windows were all fast. The next morn- _. ~~ IN la hi (I, , ( MI 114 1 ,I v q \ 4 1,