The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-05 00:00:00

REGULATION OF STEAM-BOATS ON THE RIVER. A Committee of Aldermen was held on Saturday at Guildhall, for the purpose of hearing. any objections parties interested in the steam navigation of the River Thames might have to the draft rules suggested to the Court of Mayor and Aldermen for the regulation of steam-vessels, pursuant to the provisions of the Water men's Act, 7th and Bth George IV., cap. 75. The Lord Mayor, Aldermen Sir John Pirie, Thomas Wood, Gibbs, Farebrother, and John Johnson, formed the Committee, and the Chairman and Members of the Navigation Committee and several of the proprietors of the steam-boat companies, and a few of the body of the Watermen's Company, were present. Solicitors also attended on the part of some of the steam-boat com panies. Mr. Cooper, the Secretary to the Watermen's Company, appeared for that company. The LORD MAYOR stated that he had received a letter from Sir John Hall objecting to one of the rules, which went to interdict any steam-vessel from being placed alongside any ship whilst towing her within certain boundaries. Sir John urged the indispensable neces sity of using steam tugs under certain circumstances alongside of vessels, and added that the prohibition might 'vitiate the policies of insurance, which demanded that every protection should be yielded. Mr. Newbon, the Solicitor to the Watermen's Steam Company, said the company he represented, although the smallest company on the river, was seriously inte rested in the regulations. He was anxious to know whether the rules emanated from the Court of Aldermen or from the Watermen's Company ? The LORD MAYOR said the Court of Alderman had seen the necessity of making arrangements for the better regulation of steam-vessels, and had deputed the City Solicitor, in conjunction with the Watermen's Company, to frame a body of rules for the approval of the Court, and before the Court would agree to these rules, they were desirous to hear any objections which might be made. Mr. Newbon then suggested that the Committee should postpone the consideration of the rules, that the various steam companies might have opportunities of producing evidence on matters of such great importance to them. The LORD MAYOR said the Committee considered they were justified in making rules adapted to the altered condition of the river, and for the public safety, which was seriously endangered by the present steam-boat practices of over• crowding and rapid speed. Mr. Matthews (solicitor to the Star Steam-vessel Company), objected to the proposition that the Water• men's Company should have the power of compelling the licensing of steam-vessels, and of inflicting penalties in case of refusal. He saw nothing in the Watermen's Act to justify the exercise of any authority of the kind, that Company's power being limited in its operation to watermen themselves. The LORD MAYOR said the Committee contended that all those who are to come under the operation of the rules must be watermen, and no others had a right to act. Mr. Matthews submitted that time ought to be afforded to produce evidence on so important a subject. His objection was to the authority of the Watermen's Com pally. The LORD MAYOR asked whether Mr. Matthews denied the right of the Court of Aldermen to make regu lations for the improvement of the navigation of the river? Mr. Matthews replied, that he did not deny the right of the Court of Aldermen, but he disputed the right to delegate such authority to the Watermen's Com pany. The LORD MAYOR said the rules should be carried out if some practical objections were not shown. It -;,,as quite clear that somebody had the power, whtbrer 'that power existed in the Court of Aldermen or in %be Water men's Company, and it was as evident that the time had arrived for exercising it. The TowN CLERK read several regulations, the prin cipal of which (that which related to the number of persons to be allowed to be taken on board, and that for the regulation of the speed of the vessels), ruled that no steam-vessel, whose voyage was within the limits, should be licensed to carry more than one passenger for every four square feet of the deck; and that the speed should not exceed six miles an hour with the tide, nor fuur miles the hour against the tide. By the second of these regulations, the dangers hitherto so imminent in the pool would be averted, and by the first the nuisance and inconvenience, as well as the danger to the passengers, would be completely obviated. In explr;dation of the rule on the subject of carrying the passengers, Mr. Cooper (the secretary , to the Watermen's" Com pany) stated (and particularised some) that the steam vessels which were now notorious for carrying 1,000 or 1,100 passengers would, according to the calculation made, be permitted to carry no more than about 635. It was stated that in order to prevent a greater num ber from going on board than would be admissible by • the regulation, it would be absolutely necessary to have - the whole body of police in constant attendance at the places of embarkation. The LORD MAYOR said that the proprietors of steam ' boats were under no necessity of troubling their heads upon that subject, as the necessary preparations should be made. It was objected that the steam-vessels might, with perfect safety, be allowed to carry at the rate of four passengers per ton, and that the speed might be per mitted to be at the rate of eight miles an hour with the tide, and six miles against the tide. The Committee ;fated that the objections should be • taken into consideration with all possible expedition, so that the public may rely on an early decision. There can be no doubt as to the result. It is proper to state that the readiest disposition was expressed upon the part of the several steam-boat coin , panies to agree with . the Committee in any regulations for . the security of the public. • REGULATIONS RESPECTING EN GINEERS IN HER MAJESTY'S STEAM-VES. . SELS, PAY, &c. (From a Correspondent of the Shipping Gazette.) . The following important regulations respecting the quali fications of engineers in the Royal Navy have been issued, by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, which _ prove how anxious Government is to have an efficient corps of engineers for our steam-vessels : First Engineers.—No person will be considered qualified to • hold the warrant of a first-class engineer, who is not able to - keep accounts, and to make notes in the log of every particu - hr of the work of engines and boilers. He must be tho . roughly acquainted with the principles on which the ma . chine works in all its parts, and capable of setting right any . defects which may arise in the engine or boilers, and also to adjust the length of the various rods and motions, slides, valves, and eccentrics. He must have been at sea as engi neer, and be capable of working, starting, and stopping the engines, &c.. and able to make rough sketches, correct in proportions, of any part of the machinery, and willing to take • charge of and teach the apprentices. Second engineers must not be inferior in education to the first engineers, and but little behind in mechanical acquire - ments, with the exception of the nice points of adjustment of slides, parallels, motions, &c. Third engineers should be equal in education to the second and first engineers, and will be selected either from the senior class of apprentices, or appointed direct from a factory. They must be accustomed to engine work, and acquainted with the principles of the engine, with the names of all its parts, their uses, and effect in producing motion. - Aer•ourramgr.—Engineers to be appointed, after exami nation, by warrant from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, or by commanders• in chief on foreign stations, on vacancies occasioned by death, &c., in the same manner as othe4vvarrant officers of the navy are now appointed. No person to be deemed eligible for an appointment as engineer of any class until he shall have passed such exami nation as the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty may from time to time think proper to require for such class, • before the chief engineer and inspector of steam machinery, or such other officers as they may appoint. RANK.—Engineers to be distributed into three clases, and . to rank next below carpenters, and with each otheraccording to their standing on the official list. PAY AND ALLOWANCES.—To engineers when serving on ' board one of her Majesty's steam-vessels in commission, or in any of her Majesty's dockyards, whenever their services may be required there ; or in repairing their own or any other vessel in the home dockyards, Holyhead, the River Thames, Portsmouth, or Plymouth harbour ; or where the vessel to which they belong is paid off, and they are still re tained on board :- Ist class, 12/. per lunar month, and 6d. a day extra for each engineer's boy whom they instruct ; 2d class, 81. per lunar , month ; and 3d class, 51.65. per lunar month. When serving on board one of her Majesty's steam-vessels within the tropics, while the steam is up, one-half the amount • of the pay of the respective classes in addition. Engineers of vessels in commission, when employed in re pairing defects of other vessels than those in which they are serving, except in the home dockyards, Holyhead, the River Thames, Portsmouth or Plymouth Harbour, to be allowed extra pay as warrant officers in addition, according to the scale established by her Majesty's regulations, when borne on the books of the guard-ships of the ordinary, and not actually employed in the charge or repair of steam ma chinery :- Ist class, per month, 7/. 17s. ; 2d class, per month, 4/. 18s. ; and.3d class, 3/.Bs. per month. Pay of Engineer Boys-Ist class, 1/. 14s. per lunar month ; 2d class, 11. 6s. ; 3d class, 11. 3s. ; and 4th class, 14s. 6d. per lunar month. The superannuation of engineers to be upon the scale esta blished for warrant officers of the Royal Navy. By command of their Lordships, SIDNEY HERBERT. Admiralty, Aug. 1. A RAT KILLED BY A H— EN.A curious circum stance occurred a t the low end of Stramongate, near the river, during the week, which shows the courage evinced by a hen in defence of , h o e o r d y e o r u t n h g brood. A nest of duck lings, nine in number , charge of a hen, whilst • basking in the sun, where pou nc ed W e a uori by a large rat and at the moment when he Within reach of his prey, Dame Partlet bristled up her feath ers, with spur y put him to and beak flew at the marauder, and flight. Following; up the success of le t t e r :7, in the first come e ea n t e ing to his • instance, the hen intercepted her enem to y hole, which she would not allow him beat ing him off on every approach towards it, till in a th Mr. Rat was fairly laid upon his back, and the heneceonred: spot , —Kendal pleted her work by killing him on the sp Mercury. On the 19th instant, the son of Mr. Greathead, exciseman of this place lost his life while bathing in our river below the town. It appears he had got out of his depth and was sinking, when his father, who was sitting on the bank, jumped in immediately to his assistance, and was drawing him into shallow water, when he un. fortunately slipped, and lost hold of his son. He saw him rise (to the surface again, but could not reach him The body was picked up by some men almost imme diately, but life was extinct. An inquest was held, and a verdict of " Accidentally drowned" was returned. — Norwich Mercury. The new comet has been seen at Bois le Duo, with the naked eye. Low PAR E S O N RAILWAYS.—We understand that the .. • -class passengers on the Brandling Junction nallway are carried at lass than one-halfpenny per mile.--Railway Record. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. STANDARD.—Lord Brougham presented last night a petition in the House of Lords from the Earl of Dun donald, better known by his gallant exploits as " Lord Cochrane," claiming for the Noble Earl the priority of invention of Captain Warner's destructive agent ; or, at least, claiming to have invented, more than thirty years ago, some other agent of destruction as ter ribly efficacious. Lord Dundonald's gallantry, skill, and enterprise, as a naval commander, are too fre quently recorded in our naval annals to require any other testimony. The nation owes to him a deep debt of gratitude for most important services, and we hope we may now without offence add that the nation owes to his Lordship a heavy debt upon another score—reparation for grievous wrongs. Thirty years the gallant nobleman was made the victim of as flagitiously iniquitous a verdict and judgment, as ever disgraced the administration of justice in any coun try. It is difficult to read the trill'', of his Lordship, and we have been rearming it lately, in order to refresh our knowledge of the law of conspiracy, without ce;ning to the conclu sion that judge and j':i-y were all mad or drunk together. It may not be out of place to refer to this scandalous trial, because younger men may be at a loss to understand Lord Brougham's allu sion to the banishment of the Gallant Earl from the service of his own country. The story in few words is this :—A number of persons, one of whom was Lord Dondonald's relation, and another his stock-broker, contrived a fraud to raise the price of the public funds, by false news (an anticipation of the restoration of the Bourbons). The case against these persons was proved clearly enough by an exposure of all their pro ceedings, in which it was manifest that Lord Dun donald took not the slightest part. It was proved, however, that he lent a hat to the principal agent, with whom he had a casual acquaint ance ; the hat was a plain round hat, such as gen tlemen commonly wore at the time, and still wear, and the reasonable pretext for borrowing it was that the borrower had on a showy military head-dress, which caused him to be stared at in the street, notwithstanding that his gaudy foreign uniform was otherwise shaded by a cloak. Upon the strength of this unlucky loan of a hat was Lord Dundonald dragged into the conspiracy, deprived of his commission, and driven, from that noble service, even upon which his achievements had reflected new glories. But Lord Ellenborough was a commercial man—the jurors were commercial men—and the times were those in which about threescore men, women, and children, used to be annually strangled at the Old Bailey, for, as it was supposed, the be nefit of commercial credit. What chance, before such a judge and such a jury, and in such times, for any one exposed to the suspicion of being suspected of tampering with the price of the funds ? So much for Lord Dun donald. Now as to his invention. Lord Brougham said in his Noble Friend's praise, that though ill-treated, as he certainly was, by his' own Government and his own countrymen, Lord Dundonald reserved his secret from, those foreign Governments by which he was empl , :,: ye a, and patriotically resolved that England al " Ile should have the benefit of its possession. We confess that we do not understand his Lordsl , motive in this conduct. If the secret is on . which can be used without exposing it to discover:;, hesitate to give t", those we do not see why he should Goverments that had a just right to clair2s all his services, the full benefit of it. It seems to, as that when a man engages in the service of a fo:,i gn State, he becomes, ipso facto, the subject of `..:nat State—a vendre ou a pendre, as the old phrase has it—and that he has no right to reserve any results either of his physical or intellectual power, always supposing that these are not to be directed against the country to which he naturally owes allegiance. We must repeat it, therefore, that if Lord Dundonald's secret is not one liable to expo sure in the use of it, his Lordship ought to have given to the foreign Governments that he served all the advantage of it. If, however, the secret is one which would bo explained in its application, it is plainly of little value, except for the first blow. It might render war more destructive for all parties in the long run ; but the nation first using it could have the advantage but once, as all other nations would forthwith adopt it. Nay, it might, and if Captain Warner truly describes his " long range," it would deprive some nations of ad vantages they already possess. What, for example, would be the fate of our naval superiority were the " long range" universally adopted? What could Nelson himself do in conflict (if we may call it so) with, an enemy six miles off ? We comfort ourselves with the reflection that all these things are " moon shine," for the effect of them certainly would be to de prive England of most of the advantages she owes to the physical and moral superiority of her people. Bayard called the: use of gunpowder " the grave of valour" — and of the valour which stimulates individual acts of daring for the sake of individual glory it was the tomb. Another and a more reflecting kind of courage has, how ever, succeeded, adapted to the changed style of war, and now the victory is not to the impetuous and au dacious, but to the patient and enduring, to the cool, collected, and determined. It is, however, impossible to imagine what modification of fortitude could be success fully opposed to the invisible shell or the long range ; the adoption of such instruments would be not merely the grave of all kinds of valour, it would be the grave of honour, honesty, and humanity; all war would re solve itself into surprise, and ambuscade, and wholesale massacre; fortunately, we say again, the thing is mere moonshine. GLOBE.—Mr. Liddell's Dog Stealing Commit tee has produced a sensible report. Perhaps the authority of a report of a Select Committee was hardly wanted to recommend Mr. Liddell's proposals for the protection of poodles. But we quite agree with him that poodles ought to be better protected, and think the sug • gestions of the Committee very commendable ; and we by no means quarrel with the appointment of a Commit tee on the subject. The evidence collected by the Com mittee on the tricks of dog-stealers, and the statistics of the dog-trade, is an interesting con tribution to a " Library of Entertaining Knowledge." The taking of a reward for restoring a stolen dog is at present not penal. Rewards are eagerly given for the recovery of pet-dogs, and dogs are stolen with a view to the reward. The premises of dealers in dogs are not at present accessible to the police except after a search-warrant has been obtained; to obtain which some reason must be shown for believing that the missing dog is in the particular premises to be searched, and which can never be obtained without delay. This is a great help to the dog-stealer, and furnishes a great additional inducement to the parties robbed to offer high rewards. The Committee apply themselves, then, to the preven tion of rewards, and the increase of control over the dealers in dogs. They recommend that an Act should be passed declaring dogs to be property, and mak ing the theft of a dog a misdemeanour; from which it would follow, under the words of the 58th clause of 7 and 8 Geo. IV., that the taking of a reward for restoring a stolen dog would be felony—that dealers in dog s should be required to take out licenses, an d that their premises should be open to inspection of police-officers—and that parties in possession of stolen or lost dogs should be made responsible for such possession, and be obliged to bring forward the names and places of abode of those parties from whom the said dog had been obtained, and that these latter parties shall, in like manner, be held responsible. "It appears to your Committee that such an obligation, com bined with the licensing of the premises of the dealers in dogs, and the power of inspection given to certain officers of police, would go far to check, if it would not entirely put a stop to this pernicious and illegal traffic ; and the same regulations might be applied to parties bringing lots of dogs to the quays and wharfs of the different ports for exportation to the foreign market." THE PARLIAMENTARY SESSION.--It is now gener ally thought that the business in the House of Com mons will be brought to a close on Thursday next, and that the House will on that day adjourn for a short time, to enable the Lords to consider the Bills which will be sent up to them. No prorogation, however, will take place until judgment is given in the case of Mr. Daniel O'Connell and the other traversers. CABINET CouNcrL.—A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office on Saturday, at the hour of twelve o'clock. The Council was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Stanley, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Buccleugh, Mr. Glad stone, Sir Edward Knatchbull, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Granville Somerset, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Aberdeen, and the Lord Chancellor. Sir James Graham joined his colleagues immediately after the adjournment of the House of Commons. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, AUG. 2.—Our raw sugar market has become quiet, and the trade continues extremely cautious in their purchases, confining them selves to supplying their immediate wants only. The sales since our last report are only 300 hhds. West In dia, chiefly the middling qualities, at former prices ; a small parcel of crystallised Demeraras, of large grain and good complexion, at from 70s. to 745. About 600 bags of Bengal% have changed hands at steady p r i ces , but the demand for Mauritius is very dull. Rum is steady at the quotations.—Bristol Mercury. COMPARATIVE TRAVELLING ON DIFFERENT RAIL WAYS.—In Mr. Laing's paper, appended to the evidence taken before the Select Committee on Railways, it is stated, among " other remarkable instances of the effects of high fares, and limited acommoda tion in restricting the amount of travelling," that the London and Birmingham Company carry 130 per cent. fewer passengers per train, and 100 per cent. fewer passengers per mile than the Glasgow and Ayr, and 85 per cent, fewer passengers per train, and 135 fewer per mile than the Ulster; while the Liverpool and Manchester Railway carries 60 per cent. fewer pas sengers per train, and 50 per cent. fewer per mile than the Glasgow and Greenock (although the latter is ex posed to a sharp steam-boat competition), and 50,000 passengers fewer per annum, than are conveyed on the Newcastle and North Shields line.—Railway Record. BABIES.—It strikes us that more fibs are told about babies than about anything else in the world. We all say they are sweet, yet every body knows they are sour; we all say they are lovely, yet nine out of ten have no more beauty than a pug dog; we all praise their ex pressive:eyes, yet all babies squint; we call them little doves, though one of them makes more noise than a colony of screech howls • we vow they are no trouble, yet they must be attended to night and day; we insist they repay us for all our anxiety, though they take every opportunity of sc ra t c hi ng our f aces , or po ki ng their fingers in our eyeslin short, we make it our busi ness to tell tho most palpable falsehords about them every hour of the day.—American Paper. RECOVERY OF LAND FROM THE SEA. Mr. Samuel Hemming, of Bedminster, Bristol, has succeeded in reclaiming by extensive embankments, no less than 1,600 acres of rich and valuable land from the sea on the south bank of Lough Foyle, Ireland. SUMMER ASWEE, 4 . HOME. ElRCUlT.—uild:forcl, Aug. 3. CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron GURNEY.) George Hart, 17, and Ddvid Chilton, 17, were in dicted, under the statute, for unlawfully setting fire to certain growing heath and furze, the property of Robert Munro. Mr. Locke appeared for the prosecution ) and Ml. Charnock defended the prisoner. Mr. Locks, in addressing the jury, explained that the present indictment was framed under a statute which made it felony for any person to wilfully set fire to any growing crop of corn, heath, or furze, and subjected them to be transported for seven years, or for such term of imprisonment as the Court might direct. The Learned Counsel then went on to say that the prosecutor was a gentleman residing at Godalming, and he possessed a good deal of property in that neighbourhood. On the day mentioned in the indictment the prisoners were observed by a woman to go up to the furze, and with a lucifer match set fire to it in several places. They ran off, but were pursued, and taken into custody, and on their being searched, a pistol and a quantity of gunpowder were found in the possession of them, and upon the other no less than twenty-two boxes of lucifer matches. The above facts were clearly proved in evidence, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Mr. Baron GURNEY sentenced the prisoner to be transported for seven years. Jane Filar, aged thirty, was indicted for the mur der of her new-born male child. Mr. Charnock defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner had been cook in the service of a gentleman at Guild ford. On the 28th May she appeered to be very ill, and at night one of the servants observed her to go down to the water-closet, and she followed her, and, according to her statement, shortly afterwards heard the cry of a child. An alarm was given, and the body of a child was taken out of the closet, and the surgeon who was called in to examine it, expressed his opinion, from certain circumstances, that the infant had been born alive. There was, however, no posi tive evidence as to this fact, except the testimony of the servant, who stated that she heard the child cry ; but upon cross-examination she admitted that she might have been mistaken. The jury found the prisoner guilty of concealing the birth of the child, and she was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. John Smith, 17, was indicted for a misdemeanour. It appeared from the evidence of a police-constable named Timsley, that, about one o'clock in the day on the 26th July, he saw the prisoner bathing in the Surrey Canal, and he came out of the water quite naked, and just as a train was passing along the rail way he turned towards it, and behaved in a very indecent manner The jury found the defendant guilty, and Mr. Baron GURNEY sentenced him to be imprisoned for four months, at the same time remarking, that if the defendant had been convicted summarily by the magistrate, he might have been sentenced to hard labour ; but in the present form of proceeding by in dictment, he had no power to affix hard labour to the sentence. His Lordship got through all the criminal business by twelve o'clock, and he then proceeded to dispose of some common jury causes, and he will sit again on Monday (this day) for that purpose. The business on the Civil side hitherto has not con tained any feature of public interest. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.--Neteeastle, Aug. 3. (Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.) Mark Sherwood, a grey-haired man above the middle age, and whose face bore traces of habitual indulgence in spirituous liquors, was indicted for the wilful murder of his wife, Ann Sherwood, on the 14th of March last, by cutting her throat. Mr. Ingham and Mr. Unthank conducted the prosecu tion ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Wilkins. Mr. INGuam stated the case, and proceeded to call the witnesses. itg of Thursdtty. The st6riittel Was eillpty; and firmly contracted. She must have been six or eight hours with out food. She had not been dead less than two hours. nor more than four, when I saw her at half-past eleven, The prisoner could not have been more than an hour in the state I saw him. _ Mr. Taylor gave similar testimony. Sarah Ifichartisdn—t live itt the Castlezgarth; in new castle. I knew the deceased. She was not at my house on the morning of the 14th. Cross-examined---I knew the deceased, from her coming to my house for firewood. I was never at the house in Blandford-street. I never sold any whisky for her. I did not know she made whisky. I sell firewood. My husband is a labouring man. Thomas Jenkins--I am a policeman. I went to the house with Mr. Little, about half-past eleven. Dr. Carr was there. I made a bed for the prisoner in the corner next the fire. I went into the closet to get the clothes. The things were disturbed. The clothes were all off together at one side, as if they had been slept in that night. There was a jug on a low table beside the prisoner. It contained about a pint of whisky. There was a little fire in the grate, but it was not perceptible until I began to stir it, when the doctor told me to make a fire. Two razor blades dropped out. I got a light and went into the back room. I found a still, and wash working in a barrel. There were about two or three quarts of whisky in a jar. The prisoner had two coats, two waistcoats, trousers, and shoes. His hat was lying at one side. There was a small bottle of whisky in his coat pocket. Cross-examined—The clothes were off the bed, as if they had been thrown on one side by some one getting up. There was a hand-brush lying near the deceased. It was about a yard off. It appeared to have been worn a little. There was some blood on it. It was lying among the blood. Ralph Little, inspector of police, gave similar testi mony to that of the last witness. A towel, some pieces of soap, and other articles were found on the prisoner. The prisoner came to his senses at four o'clock in the afternoon. He looked at me and said, " Little, I know you, take my defence now." We were raising him up to keep him from sleeping, and he said, " Let me lie, for my days are numbered." I found a key hanging on a nail inside the door, which opens the lock. The day after I examined the prisoner's dress. He had his top coat on. There was vomit on it, and apparently marks of blood. I took his shirt off. There was a good deal of blood on the left wrist. _ Ann Sutherland—l lived at Oakwell-gate, in Gates head, at the time of this occurrence. The deceased was my mother's sister. On the 14th March she and the prisoner lived in Bradford-street. I was at the house about seven o'clock in the evening of the 13th. When I knocked my aunt came to the door. I went into the kitchen in the front room. I found no one in the room but my aunt. I asked if she had heard any word about her husband. She said yes, she had heard he was in the town. She said he was in the closet, and she told him to come out. He came out and shook hands with me. He said something about forgiving, but Ido not know to whom he applied the word. She upbraided him about selling a waistcoat and a pair of shoes. I told her not to mind, he would get his waistcoat back again. He said he would. She said it would be like all the rest of his gettings. He said he had got 3s. for it, and had made a bargain to get it back again for the same money. He said if she would give him 6s. he t would go out and not come back again that night. Shß,said if she gave it she would only drink i‘.4ttd come i her again. She said, " You know wliSt you mad, . e swear upon the Bible to-day; ;what' -3* was goi ~to do to me." I a asked her wll ' atit waVhe said she' ould not tell me what it was. "She sar -he could no ll me or any one what it was,*tit she 'glad I h ome to see her living. She then drew her hand onct or twice across , her throat. He then asked hereto leg,im stop till six in 1 the morning, and then he would go to Gateshead and look for work, and not trouble her any more. I asked her to let him stop. He came round the table, took me by both the hands, and going on his knees, said, God would bless me if was a mediater of peace that night. He said he had a blister on his foot, and asked me to feel it, but I said, " Oh, yes," as I wished her to let him stop. I then went out, and bid them good night. I came the next morning a little after eight. I rapped at the door several times, and called out. The prisoner ran up the steps to the door and said, " Who are you ?" I asked for my aunt, and he said she had gone out to Gobbys, a woman called Richardson. He said she had got the key with her. I told him to tell my aunt I had been there, and would come back again. He said, " Yes, yes," quick, in his usual way. He went down the stairs steadily, for I listened at the door. I went to Mrs. Richardson, and my aunt was not there. I went back to my aunt's about eleven. I went to the door and it was fast. I rapped, and received no answer. I went to Mrs. Ormiston's and asked for my aunt. I borrowed a key from Mary Or miston, and opened the door. I went down the stairs. I saw my aunt lying on the floor with her hand stretched out, and I ran off directly to Mrs. Ormiston's and fell at their door. _ . _ Edward Latimer proved that the window was fastened in the inside. Mr. WiLiuNs addressed the jury for the defence, con tending that the facts of the case showed that this was in all human possibility a caso not of murder, but of man slaughter. He could not deny that this unfortunate woman had come by her death at the hand of the pri soner at the bar ; but if they should think that the un fortunate blow was struck by the man without premedi tation in the course of the scuffle provoked by her, in which she was the assailant, and in the course of which she had by her taunts continued to irritate him to mad ness, it would be manslaughter only. He submitted that all the facts bore out this view of the case. His conduct as contrasted with her's the evening before—the time at which the unfortunate woman came by her death —the instrument which had been employed, and which, as the counsel for the prosecution had stated, the pri soner was in the daily habit of using about that hour— the hand brush lying on the ground near the hand of the deceased, all tended to show that the husband had in the morning been again assailed with violence and abuse at a time when he had the razor in his hand, and that in a moment of passion, arising from this violence, the fatal blow was struck, which deprived the unfortunate woman of her life. His LORDSHIP summed up. The rule of law was that when one person was wilfully the cause of the death of ano ther, he was prima facie chargeable with murder. If, how ever, the death arises from a blow struck in a conflict com menced without any such intention, and where the party inflicting the blow has been the object of personal violence, in some cases it may be manslaughter. It is, not, how. ever, every amount of assault which would reduce the crime to manslaughter. An attack of a grievous cha racter, followed by instant retaliation, producing death, would frequently be of this kind, but in every case the nature of the attack, if any, and the nature of the re taliation must be taken into consideration. The offence would still be murder, if a slight attack were resented with a murderous weapon, such as would probably, in the knowledge of the party using it, produce death. No mere words would be sufficient provocation ; but, if there was any conflict whatever, the language accompanying it, if of a highly irritating character, and such as would naturally excite a man's anger as much as the most grievous assault, might very properly be taken into con sideration. The great question which they had now to consider was, whether they were satisfied that anything occurred on that morning which would bring the present case within the scope of the principles so laid down, and reduce the offence from the higher to, the lower class. His Lordship then went through the evidence with great care and minuteness. _ _ _ Cross-examined—l never heard him upbraid her with making whisky. The night before they had some words, and she took up her clothes and slapped a part of her person. I told her I did not like to see conduct of that kind, and I would not stop to witness it. My aunt was quick tempered. He did not say anything about my stopping all night. When I went in the evening the door was locked. My aunt locked it again. I saw no whisky. She said she had given him the last threepence to get him a glass. My aunt had no other residence at this time. I had no quarrel with the prisoner but once, a long time ago. Agnes Little—l live in Blandford-street, about twenty yards from the house of the deceased. I saw the last witness about eleven o'clock at Mr. Ormiston's back door. I ran down the stairs into the prisoner's house. I saw the deceased lying on her right side, with her throat cut. The prisoner was lying on his face with his great coat on. His hat bad fallen off. I knew the deceased only to speak to Mary Ormiston. Gave an account of the room similar to that given by the last witness. The deceased used to come for milk to the house of witness's mother, usually between seven and eight. She did not come that morning. John Ormiston, brother to the last witness, stated that the prisoner and deceased rented the room they occupied from his father; they had been there two years and a half. I heard the alarm on the morning of the 14th. I ran down stairs, and the first thing I saw was the de ceased. Her throat was cut on the left side, and her head lying over to the other side. There was a great deal of blood where she lay. I saw no blood anywhere else. About eight days after I found in a drawer a piece of soap all bloody. The prisoner, when I went in, was lying on his face near the window. There was fire in the grate. I sent for a policeman. Mr. Carr and Mr. Taylor came. I remained there till about three o'clock in the evening. There was only one window in each of the apartments, that in the front room looking into the street. The receipts for rent were given in the name of King. She was known by several names, usually Nannie. William Carr, surgeon—On till 14th of last March I went with the last witness to see the body of the de ceased. She was lying on the floor on her back. There was a wound in the throat five inches in length ; it was superficial on the right side, but deeper on the left. It was a transverse wound. This was joined by another wound from below the chin downwards. Both carotid arteries and jugular veins were divided. There was also a very free opening into the windpipe. The wound had been inflicted from left to right. Death would be instantaneous. I do not think the de ceased could have inflicted the wound herself'. The wound must have been inflicted as she lay. There was no blood on any other part of her person. There were two tranverse wounds over the left jaw bone. A super ficial wound below the left eye. On the thumb of the right hand were two very deep wounds, and on the in side of the fingers of the same hand were three super ficial ones. The middle finger was not cut. On the back of the left wrist was also a trifling cut. There ap peared to have been a violent struggle. There was a cut on the gown in front, four inches and a half in length. It divided the gown, the lining, and a double handker chief. There were three cuts on the stays, one on each side of the busk, and one on the busk itself, dividing the case in which the busk is lodged. The prisoner, when I saw him, was lying on the floor, about a yard from the deceased, on his belly. He was quite insensible, and appeared to have vomited. I turned him on his back, and on examining him I concluded he had taken a large quantity of drink. I sent to it. We for a stomach pump. Mr. Taylor came with We emptied the sto mach of its contents, whisky and water. After a very , considerable time he recovered. He was not out of dan ger till about three o'clock in the afternoon. For some time at first he sunk, and was almost p ulseless. His life was in very great jeopardy. He would have certainly died without medical assistance. I saw two razor blades taken out of the fire. There was a basin in the room containing water. His hands were and see medbltcoo have d o b s ee a n p y recently washed. lexamined his person on the Saturday, two days after. There were a few insignificant scratches on the palm of each hand, and on the back of the ring-finger of the left hand. I made a post mortcm examination of deceased on the even- The jury remained in consultation upwards of six hours, and finally returned a verdict of Guilty of murder. Sentence was passed on the prisoner in the usual form. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Bodmin, Aug. 1. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN and a Special Jury.) SEDUCTION.—KEASH V. HAWKE. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a farmer, residing at Melluish, in this county, against the defend ant, to recover compensation for the seduction of his (the plaintiff's) daughter. Mr. Crowder and Mr. Butt were for the plaintiff, ; Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Greenwood appeared for the defendant. Mr. CROWDER having stated the case to the jury, called the young lady who had been seduced by the de fendant. She stated that her father was a farmer, re siding at Melluish; that she had three sisters, two older than herself, who were living in gentlemen's families, and one younger, living at home. In 1841 she went to live with the defendant (who was a widower), in the capacity of housekeeper. It was her duty to look after the house generally, and direct the other servants kept by the defendant. She took her meals with him, and was present in the parlour when he had company. At the time that she went there, a young man by the name of Fowell kept company with her, and used, once now and then, to come and see her. About three months after she entered the defendant's service, he commenced paying attentions to her. He first began by requesting her to dismiss her suitor, Powell, which she did. He then grew more bold and warm, and assured her that he had never seen any one since the death of his wife that he liked as much as herself, and offered to make her his wife. She, in reply, made objections, on account of his family, who, she said, would not be willing, and because she had no fortune. He said he did not care for that, for that he had enough for them both. After this his attentions continued, and she considered herself engaged to him. She used to sit up with him at night, after the other servants were gone to bed, and for a time nothing could be more proper or respectful than his conduct. She was accustomed to take hot—water to his room. One morning, when she did this, he be haved very rudely to her. He did not, however, succeed in his wishes, but she got away from him, and went into her own room, where she sat crying. After a short time the defendant came in there, asked her to forgive him, and promised the offence should never be repeated. At first she said she would not forgive it, but would commu nicate the circumstance to her parents ; but the contri tion expressed by the defendant altered her purpose, and she relented. She then went down stairs and made him his breakfast, after which he left, as he was going out for the day. For some time after this his conduct was quite proper, and her confidence in him was revived. Things went on in this way for more than a month, when one night she was awakened, about one o'clock, by finding some one's arm round her neck. It was the de fendant. He took the bed. clothes in one hand and pressed upon her mouth, and, notwithstanding resist ance on her part, he succeeded in obtaining possession of her person. In the morning she was dreadfully dis tressed ; but defendant told her not to be so, for that he would not lose her for all the lands which he possessed. After this their intimacy continued, and she found her self in the family way. This she communicated to the defendant, who told her that it was not so. She repeated the same thing to him again, when be re quested her to go to a Mr. Moon, a surgeon, and say she had taken a bad cold, and request him to give her some medicine, This she did, and had some medicine, which did her neither harm nor good. After this defendant wanted her to take something to get rid of the child, as he said people would jeer them if she had a child before they were married. She re fused to do so. After some time a Mrs. Clements, the defendant's sister, came to the house. Before this de fendant had wished her (the plaintiff's daughter) to leave, saying that her sister had heard that she was in the family way, and that she wished to persuade her to the contrary. She refused to go. Mrs. Clements then came. By the direction of the defendant she told Mrs. Clements she was not in the family way, and offered to go to a surgeon and be examined. Mrs. Clements said she could not stay there, and she must leave, which she accordingly did that day. This was in May. On going home she told her parents what had happened. The same evening they and herself went to defendant's, and saw him and Mrs. Clements, his sister. He then denied that he had ever promised to marry her, and Mrs. Cle ments asked her if he (the defendant) had ever done so. She fearing, if she said he had, that it would set him against her, said that he had not. Her wages were then paid, and she and her parents returned to their house. She afterwards wrote a letter to the defendant, to which she received no answer. Two more were written with the like effect. On the 22d of May, 1843, she met him in a lane ridi ng on a h orse an d carrying a gun. She de sired him to stop, on which he flung up his arms and called out, "Be off ;" hearing this, she took hold of the bridle of his horse, on which he struck her arms with his gun and rode off. Subsequently, on the 17th of August, she was confined of a female child, the expense of which was borne by her father, with whom she now lived, and by whom she had been maintained ever since she quitted defendant's service. This witness was then cross-examined at great length by Mr. Cockburn, for the purpose of showing that she had kept co m p any w i t h ot h er me n. She, however , denied all this, and, with a very f ew slight variations , which rather told i n h er f avour, stuc k to the account she had given in her exam i nat i on i n c hief. In the course of this cross-examination, it came out that after the child had been born, she had met the defendant, and that she bad then supplicated him to make provision for her child. He was riding on horseback, and refusing to hear her, curvetted the horse about, the animal being a very vicious creature. She had her child in her right arm, and a small stick in her left hand, which she flung at the horse to keep him from her child. The defendant immediately summoned her before some magistrate in the neighbourhood, swore he was afraid she would do him some bodily harm, and she was thereupon com pelled to enter into her recognizance to keep the peace towards him. THE SUN, LONDON,_ VIOVDAY EVEN'IN'G. ATIGITST 5, IM4. In the sind a verdict was taken for the plaintiff, with damages 751. Mr. Justice Wightman after this tOet the several criminal cases that remained for trial, by which the busi ness was got through to-day. CROWN SIDE.—FRIDAY. MURDER.—EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—lllatthew TVeeks was iridicted foe the efilful murder of Charlotte Dimond, on the 14th of April last, by cutting her throats It is impossible to describe the excitement oecasioned by this trial. At an early hour the court-yard was crowded with persons who appeared to have come from all parts of the county, and during the day the Court was completely crammed. Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Oxenham, and Mr. Rowe con ducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. Slade de fended the prisoner. It appeared that the prisoner and Charlotte Dimond were fellow-servants in the house of a Mr. Peters, a small farmer, residing at Penhale. Charlotte Dimond was a young woman 18 years of age, an illegitimate child with " but few friends ;" but she and the prisoner had for some time kept company, as it is called in this county : the girl, however, it would seem, was pleased with ad miration, and was not insensible to the attentions of others, and a person of the name of Prout had been favoured by her. On the morning of Sunday, the 14th of April last, Prout called at the house of Mrs. Peters, and saw Charlotte, and appointed to meet her that even ing at chapel. The prisoner and the deceased came down stairs together that morning. Mrs. Peters asked her where she was going : she at first made no answer, but then said she should not be at home at milking time, but that Matty (the prisoner) would milk her share of the cows. She and the prisoner then went away toge ther. She was dressed in a dark green striped gown and red diamond shawl, and a dark brown silk bonnet, with light ribands, and had pattens ; and she had a black silk bag, trimmed with lace, on her arm, and wore cotton gloves. The prisoner had on a dark velvet frock coat, grey trousers, and his best boots. It was dirty, rainy weather. The prisoner came home alone, about half-past nine o'clock in the evening ; but the girl never came back again. Mrs. Peters asked him where Charlotte was ? He said he did not know. He then had his supper, pulled off his boots, and went to bed. The next morning Mrs. Peters again asked him where Charlotte was, and he again re plied he did not know. She went up into his room and found his best stockings dirty up to the garterings. She asked him how they got so dirty. He said the weather and roads were dirty. She said, " Where is Charlotte ? as you went away together, where did you go ?" He said he went no further with her than Higherdown-gate, and he believed she went on the moor, and he went to a village about two miles off, and called on two families of the name of 'Westlake ; but that they were not at home. On Tuesday Mrs. Peters said, " Matty, you must know where Charlotte is, and if you don't tell me, I'll go to a magistrate before I sleep." He then said, "To tell you the truth, she's gone- to Blissland, as Mrs. Langstone has got an easier place than yours." Mrs. Peters told him it was his fault, as she had never given her any offence, and she asked him how she could have got there after four o'clock. He said she was going to Mrs. Spiers the first night. Mrs. Peters said to him, "You jealous thing : it was your work to put away the maid ; and men be as plenty down there as they be at home with we." On the Wednesday morning she again spoke to him about Charlotte ; he said, she had a letter from Mrs. Langstone to go to Blissland. On the Friday the butcher came there to kill a pig. The prisoner asked to be allowed to kill it. He took a knife and put it to the throat of the pig ; but then he stopped, and said some thing had given him a turn. He then took another knife, and plunged it violently into the pig. During the week many persons had spoken to the prisoner about the girl ; but he said he had parted with her at Higher down-gate. He was then told that persons had seen him on the moor ; but he said they could not swear to him, as they had not spoken to him. On the Saturday evening Mrs. Peters said to him, " Matty, what's the talk about Charlotte—l hope it is not true ?" He did not speak, but went to another part of the kitchen. She then said, " Matty, I'm quite frightened; and, if you have hurt the girl, you ought to be hanged in chains." He did not answer. Her son and other servant then went to bed. She said to the prisoner, " Matty, you stop, I want to talk with you. I'm very much hurt about this talk." He made no answer, but went off to bed. The next morning (Sunday) he went out as usual to attend the cows in his everyday dress. He saw Mrs. Peters having a conversation with he; son and another person, and he saw them go from home. iii then went up stairs, dressed himself in his Sunday clothe:, and came down stairs, having his umbrella in his hand, althouge it was a very fine day. Mrs. Peters said to him, " I hope you'll be back to dinner." He said he would. He then went away, but did not return. He had been in the habit of keeping Charlotte's best clothes in his box; but a green gauze handkerchief was not with them, and therefore she must have had that with her when she went out on the Sunday, and this was found in the prisoner's velvet jacket pocket after he had left the house. Suspicion now had become very rife, and in quiries were made, and it was found that the girl had never been seen since she was in the company of the prisoner. A person of the name of Corry had. seen the prisoner and a young woman in a dark dress go into the moor on the Sunday afternoon. The prisoner limped very much in his walk. He watched them for about a quarter of an hour. Richard Pethick, a farmer, who was on the moor between five and six o'clock on the Sunday afternoon, saw a man and woman coming towards the Roughter-ford. They came within 300 yards of him, and then returned and went another way. He after wards returned and saw them again, they were thirty nine yards from him. He could distinguish tho man's features and he limped. They appeared to bo loitering. Sometimes they were close together, and sometimes she ' walked away from him. The woman had on a dark dress. He watched them for an hour, and was sure the prisoner was the man. They were about 100 yards from Boughter-ford. A person of the name of Garel, a local preacher, was coming across the moor, and saw a man and woman loitering near the ford; they had both dark clothes on. This information having been received, foul play was more than suspected, and it was deter mined that the moor should be searched. Accordingly parties went out in different directions, for that pur pose. They soon found some marks of pattens and the impression of a man's shoe. They traced these a con siderable way across the moor until they lost the patten marks. They, however, proceeded on their way until they came to Roughter-ford, where in a wild spot, on this desolate moor, along way from any human habita tion, in an old watercourse, they found the body of the poor girl lying on its back with the throat cut in the most frightful manner, the wound extending from the back of the neck under the left ear round to the right ear. The carotid artery and windpipe were com pletely divided. Indeed, the head was all but cut off. A portion of the clothes was gone. There was no bon net, shawl, pattens, or shoes. Further search was then made, and about half-a-mile off, in a turf-pit, covered over, the parties found her shawl, bonnet, pattens, and shoes. It was now evident that the poor girl had come to ber death by violent means ; and inquiries were made about the prisoner. He had not returned ; but it was found that he had called at a house many miles off, on the road to Plymouth, on the Sunday when he left Mrs. Peters, and he had there shown a black silk bag, which corresponded exactly with the one Charlotte Dimond had on the 14th of April. He was then traced to Plymouth, and was found walking with his brother and sister on the lloe there. He was taken into custody ; and in his pockets were found the gloves which Charlottee had worn on the last day she was seen alive. The prisoner's boots were compared with the tracks on the moor, and particularly with one adjoining the spot where the clothes were found, and they corresponded exactly. The girl's necklace was found on a bank close to the body. No blood was found on the prisoner's clothes. On the part of the prisoner it was urged that it was impossible but the person who committed the murder must have been covered with blood, whereas there was not any on the clothes of the prisoner. Mr. Justice Parresost summed up in the most careful manner and with the strictest impartiality, telling the jury that it was the duty of the Judge to lay down the law, and for the jury to decide upon the facts in ac cordance with that law, without any consideration as to the punishment or the consequences that would follow from the verdict they might give. That verdict in this case, he was sure, would be a conf;cientious one, and one that would do justice between the prisoner and the public. The jury retired for about half an hour, and the fore man then said, "We are of opinion that the prisoner is Guilty." The Learned JUDGE then put on the black cap and passed sentence of death upon the prisoner, assuring him that no mercy could be extended to him in this world. The prisoner throughout the trial, which lasted from nine o'clock in the morning till ten at night, never be trayed the slightest change in his demeanour until the Judge directed his body to be buried within the pre cincts of the prison, when he fell back,'apparently in a fainting state, and was carried from the dock. lie is only twenty-two years of age. OXFORD ClRCUfT.—Stafibrd, Aug 2. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY.) MURDER.— Win. Beard, 35, was indicted for the wil ful murder of Ann Griffiths,. at the parish of Wednes bury, on the 16th of March /last. The trial began at nine o'clock in the morning, and lasted till the adjournment ,of the Court at half-past seven o'clock in the evening, when the case for the pro secution had not closed. August 3. The trial of William Beard for the murder of Ann Griffiths, at Wednesbury, was resumed this morning at nine o'clock, and lasted till half-past six o'clock in the evening, when the jury retired to consider their verdict, which has not yet been returned. Mr. Yardley and Mr. Huddleston appeared as counsel for the prosecution, and the prisoner's defence was con ducted by Mr. Allen and Mr. Spooner. The deceased Ann Griffiths lived at Wednesbury in the capacity of housekeeper to a gentleman named Crowthez, reputed in the nei ghbourhood to be a person of considerable wealth, and, as he himself admitted, a man who is " above the frowns of the world." The pri soner had lived in Mr. Crowher's service from Decem ber, 1841, till September, 1842, and during the time that he was in his employ he used to go regularly on Wednes days and Saturdays with " slack" to some works belong ing to Mr. Crowther, whose habit it was on Saturdays to leave home about ten o'clock, f or th e purpose o f go i ng to the pits and paying his men. On the morning of Satur day, the 16th of March last, Mr. Crowther's servant left the house, about ten minutes past nine o'clock, for the purpose of drawing slack to his master's colliery, and in about 20 minutes afterwards Mr. Crowther himself went out, leaving Ann Griffiths alone in the house, and pro ceeded to his pits. About a quarter past 10 o'clock a master named Emery, whose malthouse is about 50 yards from the wall adjoining Mr. Crowther's brew- house, heard a scream come from Mr. Crowther's house and a second in about half a minute afterwards, but be seemed to have thought that there was nothing in the st,'rtestee which called for particular attention, and he took no further notice of the matter at the time. About the same time, but probably g, few minutes later, a person in the employ of Mr. Crowther's butcher took some meat to the house, and went, as usual, to the yard door, but found it fast. .He then went by the kitchen window to the kitchen door, but that was fast also ; and not able to gain admittance he rang the hall bell, and went into an outhouse to take shelter, as there was a heavy fall of rain and snow. While he was in the outheuie he heard a door slam within the house, and he went again and tried the door, and also rang the bell, but nobody answered. Accordingly he went away, but returned again about 12 o'clock, and tried as before to obtain ad mittance, but without success. At a quarter to two o'clock Mr. Crowther returned home, and finding that the bell at the front door was not answered, he went round the house through a wicket to a glass door which opens upon what was called a " lawn," but which would have been more correctly described as a broad gravel walk planted with shrubs. The glass door was half open, and Mr. Crowther entered the house by that way. Upon going into the dining-room he found the fire out, and proceeding to the kitchen he found the fire very low there, and remarked that the kitchen-door, the pantry-door, and the cellar-door were all wide open. Mr. Crowther then went up to the room occupied by the deceased, to see if she was there, and was surprised to find the bed unmade, and her boxes about the room. He then went down again into the kitchen, and thence into the brew-house, where the first object that met his eyes was the murdered hotly of his housekeeper. The unfortunate woman lay on the floor, which was covered with blood, and which appeared to have been trampled all about the brew-house. Her hair was very much dishevelled, and had blood upon it, and a bloody knife lay at a very short distance from the body. At least ten wounds had heen inflicted on her head with a hammer, which was usually kept in the brew-house, and there were other circumstances which led to the conclusion that she had offered some resist ance to the savage, whoever it was, who perpetrated this dreadful deed. The yard-door was locked, and there was blood upon the bolt ; blood was also sprinkled upon the brickwork adjoining the door-frame, and there were marks of a man's bloody hand upsn a shovel near the water-tub, and upon the handle of one of the pumps in the yard, as if the murderer had sought for means to efface the crimson evidences of his guilt. In Mr. Crow ther's bed-room up stairs some trunks had been removed and opened ; a small fruit pie, which had been left in the pantry, in the morning was eaten, and about three pounds of a neck of mutton, which was cooked, had been taken away. It was discovered, also, on the following day, that a pair of trousers and a waistcoat which Mr. Crowther usually wore on Sundays had been removed. The waistcoat and the trousers were found on the Fri day following the murder in a flue in a srhimsey, wrapped up in a plaid handkerchief ; and it was shown that the prisoner was seen on the day of the murder, about 11 o'clock, going in the direction of the whimsey, close to which was found, on the Friday, the print of a single footmark, made with the right foot, which resembled, according to the best of Mr. Hatton's (the chief con stable's) recollection, the footmark made by the pri soner's right boot, .which together with its fellow, had been taken from him when he was apprehended on the morning of Sunday, the 17th of March. The strongest part of the evidence against the prisoner consisted in the footmarks, which were tracked immediately after the discovery of the murder. From the glass door which opened upon the broad gravel path, or lawn, there were marks leading to the bottom of the lawn, as if a man had run down on his heels ; and in a ploughed field, which was separated from the lawn by a hedge, were upwards of 40 footmarks, very distinct, made by rights and lefts. The left footmark showed a large patch on the sole, some of the nails in the patch being smaller than those in the other part of the foot, the impression of which corresponded exactly with that produced by the prisoner's left boot, in respect of the number of nails, their size, the vacant places left where some had been worn out, and the mark of the patch. These footmarks led all down the field into a lane called Riding-lane, and foot-prints similar in character to those in the field, but not near so distinct, were traced along the road which the prisoner was supposed to have gone, as far as the canal. He was, moreover, seen between eleven and half past twelve o'clock on the morning of the Saturday at different points between the canal and the Board public house, when at half-past twelve o'clock he was found, by a person who knew him, smoking his pipe in the kitchen. The Board Inn is not a quarter of a mile from Mr. Crow th„:'s house; and the suggestion offered on the part of the pro;:cution to account for the prisoner's coming so near Mr. Creswther's house was, that, having committed the murder, h e made a long detour to avoid detec tion, in the first intela2cea and had then come near the scene of his crime again h.'? the express purpose of lulling suspicion. At that time, h os s,ever, he must have known that there was blood on his j ac k i ,: - . . on his trousers, his shirt, and his boots, because that wt.,:found to be the case when he was apprehended the next la:prning; and the Learned Judge left it to the jury to say, among other points, whether it was probable that a person ;7 1,0 knew that he had just been guilty of such a crime as murder, would have incurred the risk of exposing his clothes to the observation of the company in a public house. The prisoner accounted for the blood by calling witnesses to show that his nose was in the habit of bleeding, and that on the Monday preceding the Satur day in question he had assisted in hanging up a pig which had justlbeen slaughtered, and it certainly was not proved, on the part of the prosecution, that the blood stains upon his clothes and linen were fresh. There I were some minor circumstances in the case, which was made up of very minute details, which pointed at the prisoner as the party who might have committed the act, but, on the outer hand, it appeared that the prisoner was in the possessPn of very little money on the Satur day, and that he bore good character ; and it is a cir cumstance not to be overlored, that while he was in the employ of Mr. Crowther, an attempt was made to rob the house by three men, w hi c h a w:npt was frustrated by the resistance of the prisoner. The Learned JUDGE summed up the evLdence with great care, and told the jury that in order to co;:vict the prisoner it was not enough that his conduct was ;:able to be viewed with strong suspicion, but the facts mu,2t be such as to exclude from their minds all reasonable doubt of his guilt. It had always been said by judges, and he hoped always would be said, that it was better that nine guilty men should escape than that one inno cent man should suffer. The jury retired, and soon after ten o'clock came into Court and pronounced a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Sergeant ATcUERLEY then passed sentence of death on the prisoner, who heard it with perfect calm acss, and merely said, "My Lord, I am as innocent of the crime as you are." Thus ended these assizes. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. (SATURDAY.) _ _ A young man named Augustus _Halifax was brought before Sir John Key, in the custody of John Forrester, the officer, charged with having forged a cheque for 651. upon the banking house of Glyn and Co. Mr. Bush, the Solicitor to the Committee of Bankers for protection against forgeries and frauds, attended for the prosecution. Mr. Robert E. Griffith stated that he was cashier in the banking-house of Sir Richard Carr Glyn and Co., of Lombard-street. On the 25th of July he re ceived at the counter the cheque produced for 651., but he did not know from whom. The person who presented it was a young man, and witness paid it in four 101. Bank of England notes, numbered from 56,319 to 56,322, dated the 4th of June, and twenty five sovereigns, and entered it in the books. Mr. Edward Western, solicitor of No. 7, Great James-street, Bedford-row, stated that he banked at Sir R. C. Glyn and Co's. house. The account was kept in the name of James and Edward Western, but each of them signed his separate name only. The signature was not in the witness's handwriting. The prisoner had been known to him for some years, having been a clerk in his office, and he knew the prisoner's handwriting, and believed the date of the cheque and the figures to be his writing, as well as the words, but the latter were disguised. He produced his cheque-book, which formerly had the numbers B 1,198, 1,199, 1,200 in it, but they had been taken out without his knowledge. The prisoner (to Mr. Western)—ls the writing in the body of the cheque at all like my ordinary writing ? Mr. Western—Some of it is. The prisoner—Produce some of my ordinary writing that it may be compared with the cheque. Mr. Bush said the prisoner should have a full op portunity of showing his innocence if he had nothing to do with the forgery. The prisoner—The writing is not at all like mine. If my writing is produced the difference will at once he seen. John Forrester stated that he apprehended the pri soner at half-past ten o'clock that morning in Lon don-street, Cadogan-place. The prisoner said he had a lodging at No. 53, Southampton-street, Pentonville, and witness went thither and searched the prisoner's apartment, and found fifty sovereigns in a box. On the prisoner's person witness found 71.145. 4d. in gold and silver. Mr. Western said he could on a futzre day pro duce fuller evidence as to the prisoner's handwriting and other facts. The prisoner declared that there wt is no founda tion whatever for the charge of forgery. The writing in the cheque was totally different from_ his, and he knew nothing at all about it. He was th' !n remanded. GUILDHALL. Mr. John Bowden, a surgeon emph Ted in mid wifery cases in thii Aldersgate di , friet of the East London Union, was brought up in cult ody, charged with indecently assaulting a patient, a young Irish woman, far advanced in pregnancy w itb t her first child. Mr. Bayliss the clerk of the Board of Guardians, and Mr. Postan, the vestry clerk of Alde rsgate, at tended the examination. Eliza Driscoll, who appeared to be about 30 years of age, stated that, having obtained a letter from the parochial authority, she went to the pris4 mer's sur gery in Aldersgate-street, on the 20th salt ~ to com plain of indisposition. He gave her so' me medicine, and told her to come again, and she ace , arc tingly paid her second visit on the following Wed ale .sday. He then attempted to put his hand under iner clothes, but she would not allow it. She told .11 er husband, who said she ought to have submitted, th exEunina- tion would better enable him to prescribe for her and there was nothing to fear from a respectable me dical gentleman. At her next visit for medicine the prisoner attempted twice to kiss her, but she would not suffer it,and again told her her husband. Her husband said he did not think the gentleman meant any harm, he only wanted to seem kind and gain her confidence, that she might not be alarmed when he attended her 'by and by. On Wednesday last the prisoner came up to their lodgings at No. 1, Lauderdale -buildings , Aldersgate-street, and asked her husband to mend his coat. Her husband took it into the next room to re pair, and while he was absent the doctor asked an in decent question which she did not understand, till she repeated it to her husband. He told her to call atthe surgery next day. On that occasion he pushed against her several times, and expressed surprise that a little woman should have become so large. He pulled open her shawl and kissed her neck, and asked when she was alone. She said she generally worked in a room by herself. Mr. Alderman FAREBROTUER asked why she told him when she would be found alone ? She replied, he put the question and she answered it according to the truth, that she worked alone in the evening. He said he would come and see her in the evening. He came at seven o'clock on Friday evening. lie asked if she was better. She told him she h ad a pain in the back. He put his hand under her clothes. He told her to sit down on the edge of the chair, and he knelt down and partly undressed him self. When he exposed himself she called him s villian, and gave him three blows in the face. The noise brought in her husband and another man, who were at work in the adjoining room. They saw what state the doctor was in. The prisoner, who is a staid looking man, of 45 years of age, declined cross-examining the witness. Jeremiah Driscoll, the husband, stated that he heard his wife call out, and found Mr. Bowden endea vouring to button up his trousers. Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER asked, if he knocked the prisoner down or thrashed him well? The hus band said, no. The Alderman observed, it was a great pity he had not done so on the instant. The husband said he was afraid it might cause the death of his wife if he began to fight. Michael Murray, a tailor, confirmed the husband's statement, as to their finding the prisoner trying to button up his trousers. The policeman, George Russell, said the prisoner admitted to him that he had been talking foolishly to the woman. The prisoner said he did not suppose she would re peat to her husband any trifling expression he might let fall ; but much of the latter part of her statement was untrue. If a button had slipped out of a button hole, that was merely an accident. Mr. Alderman HUNTER, after conferring with Mr. Alderman Farebrother and Mr. Alderman Challis, said he had the power to impose a fine for the assaults but he thought the ends of justice would be better served, and the public would be better protected, by' requiring the defendant to find bail, himself in 801 e arid two sureties in 401. each, to answer the charge at the sessions. Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER said he concurred is this decision. The rich could protect themselves; but the poor must be fully protected by the law. , The prisoner not being prepared with the requ ire( ' bail, was committed to prison. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Messrs. Wessell and Stapleton, music publishers, of Frith-street, Soho, were summoned before Mr. Hard' wick, under the Co-}yright Act, at the instance of Sir Henry Ellis, principal librarian of the British Mr, seum, for having neglected to supply certain copies of their publications for the use of the British Musetun. In the Copyright Act there is a clause which obliges .publishers to supply, gratuitously, copies of works thel may publish to certain public institutions, amone which is the British Museum. Any party failing , serisl these publications regularly is liable to a fine of 51, to be recovered on application to a magistrate. Me. Pejne attended for the plaintiff. It was alleged that copies of certain musical p ub ; lications—the Turnarin Quadrilles," and other works—had not been sent to the British Museum. Mr. Stapleton, who attended for the firm, put end to the necessity for proof of the non -delivery °I, the publications, by at once adm i tt in g the fact, an declaring that the circumstance had occurred from I. desire to dispute the right of the trustees of the tish Museum to the gratuitous copies of works, all" from inadvertence. Mr. Payne said it was important to let publishers, know that it was the determination of the trustees es; the Museum to press for the highest penalty aga i % :hose publishers who neglected to comply with Pt provisions of the Copyright Act; but in the presell.,,,, case, as tie: defendants had pleaded that the orbssl'' was accidenta:, he should, on be half of the Waste', request the magisrate to mitigate the fine. Mr. HARDWICK infiete d the redu ced penalty 0f- 75 " which was immediately pall UNIO.N-HALL. William Edward Broton, a young man of very fashionable appearance, and whose connexions We '" stated to be highly respectable, 3 shopman in the sel: vice of Mr. Dobson, linendraper and haberdas? e ,t: High-street, Southwark, was bro! frog ight beforee o 1 _ Trail], charged with embezzling, mei stealing e ,. the till, various sums of money belonging to his rnes ter and employer. Mr. Woolf attended on behalf of the priseser. x 0 From the statement made to the MagistTateferl, appeared that the prisoner had only been in ti'sn s _ o vice of Mr. Dobson for about six weeks, and 'for place in Mr. Dobson's establishment by his fri ends if the purpose of learning his business ; and, as he ' O 4, entirely useless in the trade, no salary was 0 1101 t The habits in which the prisoner indulged w ere the . a b o ve his station in society ; he entered into 911 tete ga ieties and amusements of the metropolis, and seelo_a_ to have plenty of money at his command , as he indalGs in all kinds of extravagance. The prosecutor Julio every reason to imagine that he was robbed by LI prisoner, in order to support his e x travagance, e i as the prosecutor was continuall y missing tjet from the ti,l, he was deteemined to set a trap lbr, go e prisoner. Accordingly, on Friday last, Mr. Peni l e marked several half-crowns and shilling.s, °, d ,, of amount of 265. in silver, and gave them to a i tt i i' f or, his acquaintance, the wife of a respectable t rades requesting her to lay out the whole of the e nonefo, his shop, and to get served b y the prisone, r. 0 1 ` t he Bell, the lady in questi on, accordin g l y wee 4 , 1 0 the shop Of Mr. Dobson , a nd made purcheses to amount of 255., for which she got a bill froen ti bon' soner, which she afterwards handed to Mr. De After the lady ‘vas gone, Mr. Dobson went to s eo and finding a deficiency of silver, the prisonei taxed with dishonesty-, which he stoutly denied. i r g lice constable, M 60, was called in , and on searchje the prisoner he found one of the marked s hillings_ he his trousers pocket, besides two half-crowns• prisoner, in a state of great excitement, begged '- Dobson would riot p ros ecute. Mr. Woolf put a variety of questions to the Pr°se' cutor, but his testimony was not shaken. Mr. TRAILL said he should commit the for trial, but he would ise brought up again ea: 0 1 , day, when probably further evidence would Dv duced against him. 1 Mr. Woolf pressed the Maesistrate to take ba il ' said the amount was very tritleng• tion t° Mr. TRAILL said he could Wake no excel ).- t be the general rule, and the prisiever's case re co il' dealt with like that of any other yerson• "Id f 0 sidered the case was fully establish. and COu take bail. he f t 13 . r .e Mr. Woolf replied that the connexi , 4)- la e soner were highly respectable, and they ou bail r. TR ILL to any amount. i• t MILL said he must refuse the ai tde of t : d • THE WEATHER —Since our la st, a g Ta.,o rain has fallen in this district ,which has ,pr e ips 0, 4 ° good deal of hay from being got in, which r = ul o st si m ijr Its effect on the growing crops, howecer, is 11 ,e . r the o cl rent, and should fine dry weather se t inc ,ps• r gathering, we may anticipate most abundant oi the quality will, in all respects , be superio?%. to beans, and potatoes have been materially im.'e r°N the late rains.—Doncaster Gazette, Aug. 2. too % HS. ' ter' On the Ist inst., Mrs. BIRT Challis, Enfield, of a d ''r' frif o. still-bo n the Ist inst., at Avenue - road , Regent's - P — „." George Gilbert Scott MARRIED. ft? ' r 6 _ o f of ) q On the 30th ult., the Rev. Richard Keats, Vica r c i fleet, Kent, to Matilda Eliza Louisa, only daughter 0 ' r 4 Kelly, late of the 20th Light Dragoons. On the 30th ult., at St. John's Church, • 'fsk f Kevitt Rotherham, jun., Esq., to Helen, young'es t w- o . Ilv of the late John Ryley, Esq., of Hertford 110 5— , o , Coventry. fo g V ilr ' i fi l On the Ist inst., at Worth Church, Sussex, Pe .---, tli i Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law, to rar u '''' a . e o CovetarY,Liegbt° . daughter of H. Hulbert, Esq., of. Eaton-square. 4111.1,,,5, On the Ist inst., at Wath, Yorkshire, the Re y- •Id rOf Senior Salman, M.A., Vicar of Elmton, Derbyshire, 31 li ter petual Curate f Shire Oaks, Notts, to Charlotte, da v tl e r oah: James Simpson, Esq., of Wath. On the Ist inst., at St. George's, Camberwell, A-i d et •ort i i e , youngest son of Samuel Bevington, Esq., of W all y s t t°l. common, to Louisa, second daughter of Abraham et Esq., of Homerton. a ide' DIED. On the 11th of June, at Madr as, Lieutenant Thonsa tl' •• grave Watt, 10th Regiment Native Infantry. 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