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trimm pinkec lappet present Dejean to hay tained a Liver com plet( r ULERI east Thus XBO Per annum available income of the got the arish imme: iep I have been able to recover paid £lO to the widow of my predecessor, leaving a u.,..ace of £24 13. as my portion of my dues for a year and a half. Were it not for the timely aid I received in the early part of the last year from true Christian friends, I must have deserted my post, and left my congregation and schools neglected at a time when a great and effectual door was opened for the preaching of the Gospel. The great extent of the parish, 55,000 acres, and the numerous schools and congregations I have to attend to, oblige me to ride nearly one hundred miles every week, for which work I would require two horses." Dr. M'Neile has already transmitted to this suffering clergyman the sum of £5O, the contribution of some kind friends, and he hopes to be able to make up another £5O for him. diately of Rfteraturt. VARIETIES an eminent Ir The client w ad of ti John Wardle, was brc iagistrates at Windsor, to ansm breatening 'eters to her Majest3 een imprisoned and subsequently placed under sur The prisone'r'. I .en and t Her At th st, evident which s, he priso 'oc, little uni nd too much of it amoi e busy s( to be fast ,t of trac Every one complains, yet no one moves an amendment. Thus, while Belgium, Germany, and the United States, in which no such pernicious system prevails, are beating the English out of extensive markets, and even bearding the Sheffielder in his own den, or shaving him rather with his own weapon—by help of the same sure instrumentality the latter is deliberately cutting his own throat—smashing -1 machinery, in fact, in more ser than one would a n CUTION AT SALISBURY —The execution of John ars, for the wilful murder of Eleanor gbourne Duces, a whom he stone( 1 kicked to death on the 9th August took place at the county gaol, at Fisherton-Anger, y last. The wretched man ran up to the drop r the fatal beam. Not less than and p 1 7,000 1 yet excellent or uttered by the malefactor, an fled oc ,vely dr atique,lined rely reurti lace, w i ad vine 1 have a pert orr the Pope is ;e from the h ace the Ist in dinther. brain pm fiind f tched Mayo any, came down this bead m Dudley, al ian, to ha ;1 Guard ompelled to ( iugfi Pal of the atements in to disco: Of this sum £5O and exp, Not a word v tonally by (rough the shortness of the rope. r the lapse of an hour he was cut down and buried being, drawn, he str ulsions within the prison MURDERER —This culprit was hanged aol yesterday week. It was attempted to show that he was insane, but this signally failed, as he life, and Sir G. ( f a pet lany per THE BOROUGH ELECTORS OF GREAT BRITAIN.--It appears that the constituencies of the English and Welsh boroughs include 375,269 voters (of whom 11,599 to pop The constituency 388 freemen, , ; 6,321 scot and lot übdivlded .opers; 184 office-ho. mounted in 1847 the nt ) the relief of the poor being 164,17 b of the return shoe that it , n were are in Wales) to an as The total number of hou into 21 610 househol 1,174 pot-v vote orough E umber of borough electors on the registers - of G ted in 1847 to 417,517 to a to 6 per c .nit of many ...crs to peruse very constantly the Sporting In ..,nce published in cur columns. It might not, how , be amiss if even those who care nothing about ting should take an occasional glance at this portion 'he Times, and more than a glance whenever the are found in the Report. We We PLE CHASING —lt may not be the I _Limes, and more than a - glance whenev r _,s " Steeple Chase" are found in the Report h to uphold all the manly sports of the cow , ' " . ainstNewty .ket, A or D, caster. negav as, crieaeting, pedestrianism—nothing of the kind conies amiss to us. The system of steeple chasing, however, stands on a very different footing from all other sports now practised in England. It is bad enough at all times. Accidents to horse and rider are of constant occurrence. Still the folly and cruelty of these exhibitions are suffered to pass unnoticed until some thing more horrible than usual calls public attention to the subject. The system then receives a temporary check to be again worked out in its full barbarity when the occurrence is forgotten there have been two such accidents. At Lincoln, a jockey is said to have lost his life ; in Liverpool, three horses were killed in less than eleven minutes, the time the race lasted.. upon our humanity. There is a Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Animals. Their emissaries are des patched about in every direction through the metropolis, to take note if an omnibus horse or a donkey be overdriven or cruelly flogged. We have had a law to forbid the harnessing of dogs to carts within the precincts of the town. But the persons guilty of these acts of cruelty might have some faint shadow of—we are unwilling to call it an excuse, for their barbarity. In the case of these steeple-chases no such palliation can be urged. The horses belong to gentlemen. They are run not from ne cessity, but for sport. If it be impossible that this kind of racing should exist without such constant accidents— accidents, too, of so terrible a nature, it should be ex punged altogether from the catalogue of English sports. Prizefighting was bad enough, when two blockheads were induced to stand up and pommel each other to death's door for so much money. If they stepped into the ring, however, it was their own act, and by their own choice. This is not so in steeple chasing; the poor horses, which are spurred and whipped on over the artificial fences, when their strength is spent, have no option in the matter. Go they must ; they stumble, roll over, their backs are broken, and their throats cut. And this is sport ! Times. tection YQualif ten to destroy I any one else to interfere effectually as near (antral 11115rellanv. A man at Hull has been committed for trial on a charge of stealing a considerable sum of money, and setting fire to the offices of the Sheffield railway at that town. Dickens' . new , work is to . be called " The Copperfield urvey o eing the personal his , Iventures experience, and observation of David as it rolled, e perfield the younger, of Blunderstone Rectory." LONDON HIBERNIA:4 SOCIETY.—The collection in behalf of the above society after a sermon preached by the Rev. T. Nolan on she 21st inst., amounted to 2d.—Doncaster Chronicle. ight to have been found to trace the late Griffiths, of Brighton. A man has beet to dispose. of a elonged to the men enneavourn %id to have I - o prison by cing the death of at even yet hei lernoon of T e redm York assizes, a tailor that so eat ,no A clue is tho. murder of Mr. Watson, v y, was I to the tropical c lAL WIT court of tc tike pa .et deer T place during the b led iuvar 'voting )wever, dothes or of the pit, an( xlv 900 f death ! I ind caught hol fire also. Both childr 'ENING TO ASSASSINATE HER itiay 1 ilor by t ,werby Bridge. On on btisiness,lis two n event occurred on a Well, now OF FORTUNE plasterer, whom t lys." Baron Al do you r I'm a - Catholic, a Excellency Count d !d, on his re ranks of the for twen e county court I forty days, su iffs until Friday le to the river ( 1; but he was f D SOCIETY rs of this society went in pro, anted r ion of their first estat )ss. The Covent, liat Mr. Brig] . ) sir. Seholefield Herald say ti , ? parent s as a gentleman v found in a pool of w tumble, which had The property jetures. biiot nv of t he ligi able shrewdness for his pos. declined to comply with the nmutation of the sentence fate of the poor girl, the is occasion, cut off in the bloom of her days, insecurity of innocent life even in this count sons heard the culprit, moved I malice, th a wido ity of some n , e with the old system of THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. A further clearance of timber from the Stowe domain is about to be made. No less than one thousand oak trees are now offered for sale by private contract. Mr. Peto, M.P., has, it is stated, purchased Lord Suf feld's estate at Middleton, for £200,000. This gentleman is a considerable contractor on the Great Northern Rail way. A company has begun to sink a shaft for ironstone within a quarter of a mile of Ulverston, and samples of ore of a similar quality to that raised from the Egremont mines have already been obtained. Her Majesty has been pleased to confer upon Sir Geo. Grey the dignity of a G.C.8., and the official announce ment is likely to appear in the Gazette. Sir George will be the second civilian who has received this honour; the first being Lord Palmerston. The Chester and Holyhead Company's fine boat " Scotia," made her passage, on Thursday, from Holy head to Kingstown, without reckoning difference of time, in three:hours and twenty-four minutes. The Kish was made in three hours. At Lincoln Assizes, on Monday, John Parker was tried for shooting his father. There was'no doubt that he had killed the father, but he declared that it was by accident while handling a gun, and as there was no assignable motive for a murder, the Jury acquitted him. Humphrey and Ellis, youths of eighteen, were indicted at Bristol for setting fire to a barn at Breneely, which was consumed. with produce worth £5OO. The farmer had ordered Humphrey off his grounds. The chief witness was a convicted felon, who stated that he heard the pri soners propose to make the fire; they wanted him to assist. Both were convicted, and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. Mr. Grange, a farmer of Waddon Chase, in Bucking hamshire, has ploughed up a gold deposit. As he was breahing up soil that had been woodland for centuries, he turned up a number of cubes of gold, of the value of £3OO or more. They are claimed by the lord of the manor, and a coroner's jury is to hold an inquest of treasure-trove. MELANCHOLY CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Monday, Col. Woolridge, of Cleeveland House, left his residence about noon ; and in the evening his body was discovered in the pond at Marl-hill. The deceased had been unsettled in his mind for several months, owing to an injury of the head, occasioned by a railway accident.—Cheltenham Chronicle. GRATIFYING FACTS !—Since Monday, the 26th inst., 102 vessels have reported their cargoes from foreign parts at our Custom House, out of which only 12 are British vessels. English farmers may take comfort from the fol lowing additional fact :—" The quantity of grain upon hich . duty has been p 1 at this _ exceeds forty DISGRACEFUL SCENE ousand quar —A ays ago, a le wife and infant child, the former with a - halter round her neck, through the Merry Hill turnpike, and disposed of them to the woman's uncle for sixpence, amidst the cheers and ribald jests of a crowd of idlers. The woman went off with her new husband with much complacency, but the whole scene occasioned the utmost disgust.—Worces ter Journal. ALLEGED POlSONlNG.—Considerable alarm has been the report that a number of persons had been poisoned through using adulterated :flour. It is said that by the carelessness of a miller a quantity of bleaching salt wa , substituted for alum. A great number of person used this flour have been seized with pains in the bow& accomnanied with ---3 - the tongue MURDER, AND ATTEMPT TO BURN THE BODY.—On Thursday, Mr. Mills held an inquest at the Elephant and Castle, St. Pancras-road, London, on the body of a newly_ born child that was found in a half-burned state, floating o❑ the water of the Grand Junction Canal. Mr. Robin son, house surgeon to the workhouse, gave it as his opi nion the deceased had been murdered, and that the mur derers had attempted to destroy the body by fire, but that dreading that the smell would lead to the discovery of the murder, the parties who committed it threw the body into the canal. Verdict—" Murder against some person or persons unknown." THE FOLLOWING THE LEADER FREAK IN SHEEP.— On the last fortnight fair day in Kendal, as Mr. James Thompson, butcher, Stramongate, was driving a flock of had bought .t Spittal Farm, one of the sheep suddenly leaped over the parapet of the hrid beep followed, and then a t n fine sheep, over Stramongate Brid into the ri he whole fter their companions, if they had flock would hilve not been, with some difficulty, prevented from carrying ut the sequacious propensities common to the woolly it from the bridge to the river is at least er was deep enough )therwise must have twenty feet, and fortunat the animals' neck , been broken. One of them swam boldly to the north side of the river, and the other two to a bank of shilloch, which formed a sort of island in tie middle of the river whence they were got out with some trouble were of the mountain breed.— Westv. whic The sheep land Gazette. me- ATAL QUARREL BET holy and fatal event pntrolled passion, ha IWO BROTHERS resulting from the indulgence of just occurred at Leeds. On Sa five o'clock, two brothers, turday morning week, about Win. Proctor and Thomas Pi tor. farm labourers—ti: Drtner twent '-one years of age and the latter eigh quarrelled whilst they were - dressing in their'father's house, at Hunslet, to go to their daily labour. The younger brother not getting ready so soon as the elder one thought he ought to do, the latter used some abusive language, and eventually struck his brother two or three times. Being a great deal irritated, the younger brother with his pocket-knife made a severe attack upon the elder one, inflicting a deep wound irt his neck, and cutting the jugular vein. The sufferer, in a very hopeless state, was immediately taken to the Leeds General Infirmary, where he expired next da) RAGGED SCHOOL for 1848 shows that thes service to the state," " Ora mittals during Thcs. Proctor is in custody: —The report of the Aberdeen prison tutions have "done some rd of the decrease of com- year h taken place amongst juvenile prisoners not exceeding twelve years of age." The decrease of this class of criminals—namely, those aged twelve years and under—has been remarkable. There were committed in 1843, 53 ; 1844, 41 ; 1845, 49 ; 1846, 28 ; 1847, 27; 1848, 19. The Governor, in his last report, has expressed the hope, " that that class of pri soners will ere long cease to be found in a prison." In reference to the figures quoted, he now adds :—" Here, then, we have the number reduced, in the course of six years, from 53 to 19, being nearly two-thirds. And if any one deem it necessary to ask what has produced such a change, I would just say to him, Go to the Industrial Schools of the town, and you will get a satisfactory answer imprinted on the happy faces of hundreds of children, who are there receiving a moral, religious, and industrial education ; and who, but for these schools, would have been trained to be occupants of the prison cells and pests of society.' " NOVELTY IN STEAM NAVIGATION.—An iron steam vessel, of beautiful model and new construction, has just been built by Messrs. T. and W. Pim, of this town, upon a plan invented and supplied by Mr. Leetham, of York, the managing owner. She is designed for the Hull and York trade,—both for goods and passengers, and the ob jects sought to be obtained have been speed, large capa city both of cabin and hold, with the least agitation of the water when she is in motion. Her length over all is 83 feet, and breadth of beam, including the paddle-boxes, 21 feet. In the York trade, the paddles of the favourite boats have always been narrow, although the diameter of the paddle has always been great in proportion to the size of the vessel. The hull is divided into five water-tight compartments—the foremost of which is an extremely capacious cabin, the second contains the furnaces and boilers, the third is the hold, the fourth is the engine. room, and the fifth contains the after-cabin, &c. The paddles being placed in the " run" of the vessel, it is ex pected that this will to a very considerable degree, if not entirely, abolish the " back water," which has hitherto proved so detrimental to the banks of rivers and canals. The paddles and paddle-boxes being included in the gene ral breadth of the vessel, ber hold and foreparts are as wide as the engine -room and paddles put together.— Hull Advertiser. DESTRUCTION OF THE OLYMPIC THEATRE. — One of the most rapidly destructive conflagrations that has occur red in the metropolis since the burning of Astley's Thea tre, about ten years since, broke out on Thursday evening, demolition of the Royal Olympic Theatre. and the partial destruction of upwards of a dozen other buildings. Re specting the origin of the calamity, nothing can at present be accurately stated. One of the men employed in the theatre stater; that the gas was lighted, and that the green curtain came in contact with the flame, and before he had time to pull it down, the flames shot like lightning into the machinery of the stage, and extended with equal swiftness through the front of the house. The perform ances which were to have taken place were The Rent Day, Time Tries All, and other pieces. The theatre was to have opened on Easter Monday for the legitimate drama, by Mr. Farren, who was to appear in concert with Mrs. Nisbett. The theatre was insured in the County Fire Office, but nothing belonging to Mr. Davidson, the lessee, or any of the actors was insured for a single farthing, and not one " property," scene, or anything else which the theatre contained, was saved, except the dresses for the night. The houses burned in Craven Buildings were on the Craven Estate, which is insured in the Westminster Fire Office, but most of the occupants, who have been deprived of their furniture, &c., were uninsured. EXTRAORDINARY ELOPEMENT.—The ship Madawaska, of Liverpool, G. M`Kennel. master, a private ship bound for . Sydney, arrived at Plymouth on Friday week, having . „ embarked many of her passengers in London. On Sun day week, while heaving her anchors with a fair wind, and her sails set, a small shore boat reached her, in which were two men and one woman. One of the men had come from London in her, and had taken and paid the passage money for the other man and woman, but so near were they being left behind that they only reached as the anchor broke ground, and proceeded immediately to sea. On Monday morning, between 6 and 7 o'clock, two respectable men arrived at Plymouth by the early train, one of whom represented himself as the husband of the woman, with his friend, in pursuit of his wife, and the property of which he had been robbed, amounting to betwee❑ £1,500 and £l,BOO. The wife, it seems, had eloped with the clerk, a young man who had been in the husband's employ for four or five years, and of whom the husband had taken leave at Gravesend, having made him a small presentin — monCy,anci - many, things necessary for his. i voyage. Th e d ecep ti on on the part of both was car ped on with th e greatest secrecy , th e w if e , t seems, hav ing dined with her husband and four children on the Saturday; but she, on the same evening, went out, and never returned. From information and inquiries, the lady's drawers were searched, when it was found that all her clothes were taken. The distracted husband and his friend immediately left by the mail train for this place, where they arrived, to have their suspicions confirmed. The principals in this unhappy affair are of the Jewish persuasion. The distressed husband returned by the first train to London, to consult his professional and other friends on the best means of recovering his property, if not his wife, to whom he had been married nineteen years. THE TRIAL OF RUSH This trial commenced before Mr. Baron Rolfe, at Nor wich, on Thursday morning. It excited the most intense interest. On the seats to the right of the bench were the Bishop of Norwich, the Earl of Leicester,: Lord Cadogan, Lord Hastings, Lord Huntingfield, the Marquis of Douro, and in the body of the court were several other noblemen, a large gathering of the county magistrates, and a fair sprinkling of ladies. The seats assigned to the bar were completely filled ; and, under all circumstances, and con sidering the capabilities of the Court-house, the arrange ments were extremely good. Mr. Serjeant Byles, Mr. Prendergast, and Mr. Evans appeared for the prosecuticn. - The reporter of The Times thus describes the prisoner : —" He was brought into the dock in the custody of the governor of the gaol, and of a turnkey, and advanced with a firm but slouching step to the bar. where he depo sited a large bundle of papers. His features were resolute and set, but his hands trembled excessively, not only at first but during the day, so that it may be habitual. Without any attempt at minute description, it may be said that Rush is a powerfully-made man, with strong but rather coarsely-moulded limbs, and below rather than above the middle height. His shoulders, which are slightly inclined forwards, support a short• bull neck, on which a large and massive head, which a craniologist would declare indicative of the possession of strong ani mal passions and considerable intellectual power, is firtnl set in such a way as to render it rather difficult for it owner to look straight before him. His mouth, and th general formation of his jaw and of the lower part of hi face, betray great determination and an unflinc: a inv• will He was dressed with care and nea t ness i n a suit of'blac and a wlaite cravat; his gray hair was carefully-brushed and his appeaLitnee OtbOther was that of a resp ec t u bi yeoman." The indictment was in die usual form, and charged hir with the murder of Mr. Jermy by shooting with a pisto &c. On being called on to plead, he said in a firm an distinct tone, " Not guilty," and put in the same answe to an indictment on the coroner's inquisition. The pri , • soner having requested a few moments to arrange hi papers, the swearing in of the jury was suspended till h had done so. On one juror having been passed over h asked, " Why. has he been challenged ? " and the derl of the court informed him he was challenged by the crown The prisoner challenged one juror only, b u t a ft er th, first two or three had been sworn, said, turning to th jury -box,—" There is one observation I should like t, minds which might have any influen retire wit hers take their p opinion as to the trial, they ought to do so. I don' know how many of them there may be, but I hope those who may be influenced will retire." The jury having been sworn, after a pause the prisoner said,--" My lord I wish to make an observation before the counsel make: his address." Mr. Baron Rolfe.—This is not the time at which yo can make any observation. been got up in su . - an extraordinary way — Mr. Baron Rolfe.—That is matter for observation a terwards. I cannot hear it now. Mr. Serjeant Byles then proceeded to state the case fc the crown, and in the course of his doing so he was sev€ ral times interrupted by the prisoner, who expressed h r . wishes that certain letters, &c. might be read. The mai facts of the case must be familiar to our readers; and, i our present number, we have not room for a recapitult tion of them. In conclusion the learned counsel (AL Serjeant Byles) said that he might state that the unfortc nate Mrs. Jermy was in such a state that she could not b moved without danger to her life, and, as there wer doubts entertained whether her depositions could be ad mitted under a recent act of Parliament, it was thong!: best to withdraw them, and therefore no evidence wool be produced from, the lady. Such was an outline of th case—it consisted of two species of direct evidence, and c circumstantial—which was sometimes the only specie ..,—evidence, because when people meditated s. crimes as this, they took care to surround themselv all those circumstances of secrecy which made it impos. They would proceed to conside available ble to procure evidence the evidence calmly and dispassionately, having distill from their minds all they had heard of the case ' ` , Ted the box. The prisoner bad a right to require should sift the evidence well and thoroughly; after having done so, they had no doubt of his , their duty to society required that such outrages should be punished by the arm of the law. It was a case they ent that the• but if, of univ blaze. a sal publicity. The eyes of that well as those cf their countrymet great assem- • them ; but he was sure that fact would have no influence on them, further than to make them more anxious to ad here to that golden rule of human conduct, which was, 1 t believe . him, to do their duty, and eave the .quences to God As goon as the learned serjeant had finished his opening speech, the prisoner requested that the witnesses misfit not all be in court at once, and that SOME might be made by which what one said might not be known The Judge said that his request should be attended to, but declined to order some attorneys out who were en- gaged in the case The first witnesses were Mr. Robert Kerr and Mr. J Grey, of Norwich, surveyors. They gave evidence as to plans and models of the Potash farm, the residence of the prisoner. These witnesses were cross-examined by the prisoner, as to the distances Of the various spots men tioned in the opening speech of Mr. Sergeant Byles. Mr. John S. Cam, solicitor, said, I went on the 2nd of December to Potash farm, attended by several police officers. I entered a closet in the parlour, and a board in the floor having been moved I took a box from the aper ,_____ The prisoner said, " It is most infamous that the wit nesses, particularly the police, are permitted to be present in court before examination." Thereupon they were ordered to withdraw. The witness then gave an account of the finding of cer tain (fictitious) deeds, &c. He underwent a long cross examination by the prisoner. He denied that he had kept back any documents which might be useful for the defence of the prisoner, whose solicitor had seen all the originals. The next witness was James Watson, the footman and butler to the late Mr. Jenny. After describing the attack of the assassin at Stanfield-hall, and his (the witness's) escape to the pantry, he said—" When the man came in I saw him drop two papers in the passage with covers like those produced. He was low in stature, stout, and had his face covered—with what I can't say. There was light enough to see his appearance and gait, but I did not ob serve how he carried his head. Serjeant Byles.—Who was that man ? Witness.—l believe it was Mr. Rush. Prisoner.—That is a very wrong question to put. The Judge.—lt is the only way to put it, and the ques tion is a very proper one. Witness.--:-The man wore a black cloak, and he bad in his hand what struck me at the time to be two large pistols. This witness was cross-examined at great length by the prisoner. He said he did not see arty part of the man's legs. In answer to one question, witness said, I have seen a curly wig put on a man's head at the inquest to ascertain if that recalled to my recollection the figure of the person who fired at Mr. Jermy, and it did not at all ,resemble that man. (Sensation.) Eliza Chestney was borne in upon a litter, amidst the breathless silence of the court. Her face was very pale, and she appeared to have suffered much; but she gave her evidence with great decision of manner. She was examined by Mr. Prendergast, and said, I was house maid at Stanfield-hall at the time of the murder of the two Mr. Jermys. On the 28th of November, I was in the servants' ball about eight o'clock, and heard a gun fired. I then heard another, and a groan. I then went into the passage which leads to the butler's pantry, and there I met Mrs. Jermy. She said, " Watson !—Wat son !—Eliza !—go to Mr. Jermy." I threw my arm round her waist, and with the other took her hand, and said, " Good God !my dear mistress, what is the matter ? For God's sake, don't go." She did not speak, but looked wild, and we went down the passage to the staircase hall together. I got as far as the doorway, when I saw young Mr. Jermy dying on the floor. I then saw a man. alma- rently coming from the dining-room door, with what ap peared a short gun or pistol in the right hand, and up the right shoulder. He levelled it, and shot me. I did not fall ; and then another shot followed, and I saw my mis tress's arm whirling in the air. My mistress then ran up stairs. I twisted round several times and fell down, giv ing three violent shrieks, and said I was going to die and no one would come to help me. The butler then came to me and said, " Lord, have mercy on us; what is the mat ter ?" I remember no more till I awoke at the bottom of the staircase. I found Mr. Jermy had been removed, and that I had been seriously wounded in the leg, near the hip. Mr. Prendergast man was who shot you ? —Can you form any notion who the Witness.—Yes; I saw his head and shoulders. Mr. Prendergast.—Were they remarkable in shape ? Witness; the head was flat on the top, with the hair set out or bushy on the sides. The shoulders were very wide. Mr. Prendergast.—Have you any doubt as to who the man was ? Witne mind about it —I can't say I 'nave any doubt in my own Mr. Prendergast.—Who do you believe it to be ? Witness.—That man (pointing her finger to Rush.) Mr. Prendergast.—Did you know the appearance of the prisoner before ? Witness.—Yes, I had seen him several times at Stan field-hall. I could observe nothing about his dress. He was looking towards the porch door when I first saw him, but he turned, and when he saw me he levelled the gun at me. I saw the side of the head and the front part. I could not see the features, but I could the form. He has a way of carrying his shoulders which cannot be mistaken, and he keeps his head a little on one side. No person of the same appearance was in the habit of com ing to Stanfield-hall. _ The prisoner examined Miss Chestney at considerable length, but did not shake her evidence in chief. Margaret Reid was the next witness. She was one of the servants, and gave an account of the attack of the murderer : Mr. Serjeant Byles—Did you form any opinion who it was ? Witness.—The moment I saw him my im pression was that it was Rush. This is my belief still. Miss Jermy and I ran from the servant's hall to the stable, and so lost sight of the man. Two surgeons who had examined the bodies of the murdered parties, were then examined, bnt their evidence was not very material. Edward Harvey having been called as the next witness, The prisoner said he had applied a week ago for this witness's depositions, and had not been supplied with them till last night; he therefore begged that any other witnesses might not be called that evening. The Judge, on this application being made to him, im mediately adjourned the court. The appearance of the prisoner has undergone little change from his long confinement. His hand trembled very much occasionally, and his body now and then was slightly agitated, but his voice and bearing were perfectly firm, and tempered by an air of submissiveness very like what might be expected in an injured man. He looked very confidently around him, but not with any expression of bravado, for he seemed to feel perfectly the danger of his position, and it was a most remarkable spectacle to see the resolution with which he went through long cross examinations of the witnesses produced—asking the most minute questions, and yet never appearing to give way to any flippancy of manner. Little incidents during the trial appeared to affect him much. The judge complained of the noise in the court, as very injurious to the fair hearing of the prisoner's cause, and instantly his voice became broken and his frame agitated by the strength of his emo tions. The description of the murders by Serjeant Byles seemed to affect him ; and hi, voice lost its firmness, and his whole manner its resolute tone, at the most telling parts of Eliza Chestnev's evidence. Baron Rolfe tdok his seat oil Friday morning, at nine o'clock. The prisoner looked pale, arid appeared as if he had spent the night without sleep. The first witness was a young man named Edward Hervey, who was called in corroboration of proof adduced the day before, with re spect to the firing of shots by a man of peculiar figure. His was not specific upon this point. Tilt; prisoner cross-examined him at considerable length. The next witness was Emily Sandford, who passed under the name of Widow James. She was attired in deep mourning. When her evidence- commenced, the prisoner protested he e v vid,m was innocent of the crime laid to his charge. He was quite willing she should spe a k th e t ru th, b u t he must tell her she must consider the evidence she was about to give. —The judge said he could not permit these observa tions.—The piisoner interrupting said—he was not angry with the woman, but she ought to consider what she said. The judge here told the prisoner that he was entitled to be in court whilst the evidence was given, unless he mis conducted himself. After this hint perhaps he would be nmeJiately discontinued his re- quiet. marks —Emily Sandford 1114, for upwards of but he did not succeed in shaking any material points of her evidence, or eliciting any facts in his favour. On the -examination havi i at the point commencing itten by the witness, the court adjourned at ten minutes past ten o'clock. Emily Sandford behaved with great coolness and self- with t nd docum cross-examination (which was not even ;-examination lv irrele% the morn 'eye but a ever, were Zany of them, how- waste of space to report them It will be observed that, in his roily Sandford, he used alternately id remonstrance, with a view to obtain ad calculated to improve his case, but all in vain ; ind as the evening drew on we th oug ht we observed A. repor t, that it would only be a '-examir her more ling of despair in the manner of the inually _appealed to the Almighty in and once declared that his heart ly than ever man's did for woman. owever, to have little effect on the umed on Saturday morning Jolly bowed to one or two of his ac. recognised in the body of the court ,us papers and brief igain placed in the witness ated with a seat. She seemed was deadly pale, the result of the e had recently been subject, com- her recent confinement: She was tt, the matron of the Wymondham her during the whole'of the pro- as she took her - seat the prisoner fixed poor girl, who immediately burst into was resumed by Rush, who pro- y as on the preceding day. luestions which sorely taxed besought him not to wan _ ler away so perpetually from point to point. and from sub ect to subject. The answers to one part of his examina- pan en y him, the hat they h he witness had been promised marriage xpected him to fulfil that promise, and • ' -* on the subject. Afzer contenti the examinz became fain n had continued some time the witness Ind, by order of the Judge, was taken out I he had received two very improper let the trial: one is signed by a person learned judge handed the letter to bank, Dublin, and into any security or liabiliti c ol. the Governor of Norwich Castle, was then exist for the satisfaction of th e l osses th ere bY ° lined : I was present at the cross-ex am i na - Mr. NAPIER seconded the mo ti on . Mr. HERBERT moved as an amen d men t tll3t t , 5 1 jandford on the 3rd of December. I h ear d O° the prisoner say, "If she signs that, (h er d e p os iti on ,) I quiry be extended to the f a il ure o f th e sav , hope her hand may rot off; and if s he h as a c hild by me, Tralee, Killarney, and Au c ht erar d er . I hope it may be born with a b ran d on it." Aft er I h ear d A long debate ensued, a n d th e h ouse divideu.ie rfl e t those expressions I received this letter from him. I re - For the amendment, 49 ; aga i ns t it, 42; i( ceived one from him before. The House then divid e d on t h e ma i n Ol t ; motion, 3. f i Henry Holmes, who resided at the hall, whe re th e mur - which there were, 51 ; aga i ns t i t, 48; mo.i°rl ders were committed, testified to finding the f o ll ow i ng CF paper at the bottom of the staircase after the firing had The announcement was rece i ve d w i t h lou- A ro v p the result was ad verse t o t h e w i shes of the Vss' ceased: quire into the failure of the S "There are seven of us here, three of us inside, and four out side the hall, all armed as you see us two. If any of you ser- vants offer to leave tI Therefore all of you or follow, you'll be slot dead servants'•hall HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. Lord BROUGHAM laid a bill upon the table, t 'iC4 l which is to place insolvent members of the House I:01' in the same position as members who beco me bit , ;. e f tt was induced to bring forward the bill by the b eli e 0 0 , Moffat's bill in the House of Commons w o u ld cora,he 1 you, nor ny one e rm, for we 11 property e are only come to t (Signed) "THomAs Jvamy, the Owner." The document was written on the cover of an account book. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in r Italy, said he was happy to say that ai chided between Marshal Radetzky am tive time for the appointment of ple permanent peace. He believed Turin Jesse White, an accountant, formerly clerk to Rush. when be was an auctioneer or valuer, expressed his firms► belief that is The Earl . of ABERDEEN said i this instance given a new proof of the moderation 0 Baron Rolfe : What makes you think it is his hand writing ? Witness : There are many of the letters formed in a peculiar way, in which I have often seen Mr. Rush write, T" - • that 0- HOUSE OF COMMON'S.—FRID+Y• The adjourned debate on the second reading of t. Aid Bill was resumed by _ _ A to ae witness also proves (lie memorandums pur porting to be agreements, leases, &c., drawn out by Miss Sandford, and witnessed by her, and signed with the names of Jermy and Rush, were in the handwriting of the prisoner. Mr. NAPIER, who contended that it was uniu7 e t the area of contribution so as to m a k e one distr' o ll ll pay for the relief of another. If this were so, it o'd as a matter of course that it would be unjust tote s o o e of Ireland for the maintenance of the poor in west. The Poor Law of Elizabeth a n d th e Poor i1 i ,0 1 7 ment Act of 1838 were ground e d u p on li m it e d r e . s lil l o and local supervision —principles from which 0 , 1 ,it°,4 departure. The area of liability was greater Oa; to n Jarrold, stationer, of the town, proved that copy books were made by him in 1844, and that a set was sold to Rush. The rover left In rho --ha,;«-.1 —..,.. peculiarities. Mr. Big'mid, mayor, proved that the various signatures of Mr. Jermy were forgeries. Emily Sandford was recalled at four, and was under examination for a considerable length of time. be . already in Ireland, and it was now pr - pposeLl.,7ol commensurate with the country, which, in his 00_ or fatal error. The hon. and learned gentleman tile to argue that it would be unjust to levy money in. ° ,o l) ' the support of paupers in another, over the di! po . which the parties subscribing the funds could 11!iv`oeiTI,' She added nothing of the slightest consequence. " The distinct proofs of the above important facts caused• the prisoner to falter slightly and his hands t. The rating or taxation shook weal or 1. - , should be no medium. If they abandoned loci` r J I should at once resort to the Consolidated Fund opinion that Ireland, under the Act of Union, e either The court contir tion until nearly ten o'clock The evidence of some of istauta .11 GLIAGI ,GIS, a.o axsc ya c0c0..1.1./ vapc . u, ku, her relief should be not merely Irish but imperiali.,:. I,lnphltr the witnesses was very important, and of a decidedly criminatory nature. At the rising of the court Baron Rolfe intimated that the case for the prosecution (viz., examination of witnesses for the prosecution) would close on Monday, when the prisoner was expected to be in a condition to enter into his defence. air it. rEEL eurogisea sae speecn Of 11%, then proceeded to say, that in supporting this ": O C, do so with any idea whatever that it was at all ct lie with the evils in Ireland. He did not think £50,000, nor did he think that the rate in aid, v''''efort, urgency of the case. Ireland had made a g reat e j „ the calamity which weighed her down, and in,, D yle: 4 want and suffering she resisted the temptations nje , to rebellion, and remained true t o h er alleg i anc e. the House of this in order to propitiate this portioop,i Dire towards the people of Ireland, who were lair cop a calamity such as h a ppily never had afflicted ll , ,i s at o j i ,0 a similar extent. The right hon. baronet proceo:Le, The following letter was addressed by Rush to Mr. Leggatt, the landlord of the Bell Inn, near the Castle : Noricich, March 24, 1849. ,—You will oblige me by sendinemy breakfast this morning, and my dinner about the time your family have theirs. Send anything you like except beef, and I shall like cold meat as well as hot, and meal bread; and the tea in a pint mug, if with the cover on the better. I will trouble you to provide for me now, if you please, until after my trial ; and if you could get a small sucking-pig in the market to-day, and roast for me on Monday, 1 should like that cold as well as hot after Monday, and it would always be in readiness for me, as it will be so un certain what time 1 shall have for my meals after Monday. "Have the pig cooked as you usually have, and send plenty of plum sauce with it. By complying with the above you will very much oblige _ the condition of Ireland, — even in years oisrofecti e t u cic` tire, and stated that w h o l e es t ates were thrown etitso, tion, and that in one instance, a whole barony, coatoti than 80,000 acres, had become so much a wastew could be found to un d er t a k e the office of collee , 0 t, Every estate thrown out of cultivation added.,ifir and how, he asked was s uc h a b a d s t a t e of f'o, remedied? It could only be done by the Mt"' 'V o l substitute for the potato. That would, hovvev 6 ;ci of time, and in the interi m th e p eo pl e con' o'' a sufficient cereal crop t o su p por t th em . What olt' was to be pursued? How was the difficulty to b e ;,ip t i: by the substitution of one proprietary for anothe! jolt single measure could be sufficient. He was of olvf be well, by means of a commi ss i on to b e appo int` eis t vernment, to bring all the distr esse d un i ons I r pfd one supervision and control. Such a commissioTh ri veli dence on the spot, would be able to s ugges t prof in extricate the districts from the depths of poverty ' cer t were plunged. Such a commission acting in COn Colonial Office, and having a local knowledge „ f el! lo actual observation, might carry out the remedy most beneficially for the country, as well as for t ' e: 4 0 0 which they might be sent; and surely this was a° 011 , A it would be well, even at a pecuniary sacr ifi c e, to 1, coP v efforts, however, would be ineffectual, unless the , the monstrous evils attending estates ad m i n isteredor i t o of Chancery in Ireland, upon w hi c h esta tes . , l a 0 1 01 was impossible, and from whi c h no one den' 0,1,1 except the reciever of the Court of Chancery e totril yers. He thought such a comm i ss i on s h ou ld r v iseo' principle of 'the act of 1838, by making the Nvorit:wie°) of destitution ; but h e would have them to try exPf i ' would give encouragement to improvements. P r ilg might be empowered to promote the culture 'ot establish schools to train the children of the Pea's to culture, but above all things it should have poo:e . ,c 6411 the transfer of encumbered estates, though which should be exercised with great discretitT e s, commission should have got possession of estat e trol recommend that they should not merely trans',` E el!), one great proprietor to another, but rather s coviN, smaller proportions to men of real capital, wh o how to cultivate them to advantage. Rather . 4' t lie t o, present state of things to continue he would oil , ,o i t i ,, ,a t lion of the Court of Chancery altogether, by 8 1 31 ,iilly hunal which would give its decision at once, aee t e )e ' t rea fa ir i rules of law and equity, without being encuto r oes ! " peded by all the technicalities, delays, and exP e b t 1 1° proceedings in the Court of Chancery. The rig e r N,t man concluded the exposition of his plan for tb et of Ireland amidst general cheering from all parts The debate was adjourned. " Your obedient servant, "J. B. RUSH." A CONFI ,SSION The Manchester Guardian, after' promising us a little agitation in support of the repeal of the navigation laws, confesses, on Saturday, the failure of the attempt. He "It usually takes some time to saturate the public mind with information on any great political or commercial question; and, till this is done, no decisive or emphatic manifestation of public opinion can reasonably be expected. The repeal of the corn-laws is a recent and a striking case in point. The various evils resulting from restriction and monopoly in the case of the navigation laws, are by no means yet familiar to the bulk of the public." We fancy that the public are too busy in trying to find the various benefits which were to result from the repeal of the corn laws to have much time left to make themselves familiar with the evils resulting from the navigation laws. Perhaps, too, they think, with some show of reason, that the proposed measure is only a bait to draw their attention from the other interesting enquiry referred to. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. STABBlNG. — Catherine Burns, charged with stabbing Margaret Moor in the face, in a house in Lancelot's-hey, was fined five pounds, or, in default of payment, to be imprisoned two months, and to find bail in two sureties, of ten pounds each, or to be further imprisoned for three months. Hugh Quinn and David Machell were fined twenty shillings and costs, or seven days' imprisonment, at the Police-court, on Tuesday, for smuggling three pounds of tobacco from New Orleans. At the same time John Saunders was fined five pounds, or one month's imprison ment, for smuggling slbs of cigars from Calcutta. ROBBERY BY A DOMESTIC.—Mary A. Lowe was charged, by her master, Samuel Woodburn, of Great Oxford-street, with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel. It appeared that the girl had only left the Blue-coat Hos pital twelve months ago, and had, unfortunately, formed an acquaintance with anothe r g irl of loose character, which, it was supposed had led to the theft. Her master, and a lady with whom she had formerly lived, wished the magistrate to deal with the case in a corrective way, and Mr. Rushton ordered the girl to be remanded. ROBBERY OF £Bo.—James Jones charged, on Friday, three girls, named Harriet Seldon, Eliza Joice, and Lilly Kenlebuggy, with robbing him of £BO in a brothel in Poynton-street. It appeared from the evidence that Jones went into the house, and, while he was asleep, they stole his money. One of the prisoners tried to get one of the notes, a £5 one, changed at a public-house, but the proprietor thinking that the note was stolen, gave her 41to custody. Inspector Murphy visited the house where nes was, and on one ofthe girls, he found the money, on another a bunch of keys, and on the last a penknife, all belonging to the prosecutor. They were remanded. POLITICAL MISCELL,4SI - - - =2;i= —— -- to? il Mr. Ward, M.P. for Sheffield, and secrets filfl,' miralty, is about to receive the appointment op,/ Commissioner of the lonian Islands ; and oe i i M.P. for Davenport, one of the secretaries to ,/ ffligt is to succeed Mr. Ward at the admiralty. ~,, , e pi, THE NAVIGATION LAWS IN THE L0n 09 .:, de:4s d, Chester Guardian states that Lord Stanley ;op') to oppose the ministerial measure on the na po 4/ . r e 0 "and to hazard the consequence." He Is.P gO' is confidently stated) to form a protectioni st n t 0, 9 ,, to appeal to the country, and to arrest, if 11 " trio, the steps of the legislature in the road of fre e „.o r , A party of the Cobdenites got up a counso o , i Lewes on Tuesday last, with a view of . sq tti rl, d 'ell'A false notion of the real feelings of the agrie Ll i l ig v eoY, the trick failed : tenant farmers and labourdeAid` fering keenly from the fatal effects of free tr Or to the meeting, and amendments were c Z e r ll 4 shewed that they scouted all commudity of ' purpose with the " Manchester school." nded t The cross-examinat trivial q he alcvaY! Isted. it to wi at besi, April 3. 10 Vr"eflttn4s tit fat "'neat, HOUSE OF COMMONS. -31°N. Lord J. RUSS ELL announce d that if th e ''''bei ° Bill should be read a second time before Friclai",t j ri m on it t t h ee at edfaythme wholeovethathtohueshe, with ouserer v l i v e e w ile lf ro f he lY o l propriety of making an advance of £IOO,OW of Irish di s t ress , on th e cre di t o f t h e r ate-iit t e.r, The motion for th e s econ d reading of th e njol Bill led to anoth er l ong d e b ate , w hi c h was againa HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuE sP p 4 d The only busine s s o f i n t eres t was a resolution by Mr. FAG AN , with a view to abolish t he " ministers' money" in Ireland. Sir G. GREY moved, as an a mendment , th r e e P r question, which, after so me di scus sion, was c 3 1.1 to 44. HOUSE OF COMMONS. -- WED l4Bs x , ne i The Affirmation Bill, and the Indictable oe-.,„, land) Bill, respectively passed through comely some short discussion. nm il On the motion that the house go into CO the Landlord and T enan t s Bill , it was a greed , a f gestion of Mr. HERBERT, that the provisions should be extended to Ireland. In reply to a question from Mr. HENLEY , t he Mr. PUSHY said he intended so fir to alter,:o ;ive comp2nsation to t enan t s o bliged to sot farms by their landlords ; but not to those t " should leave of their own accord. an arose woog , to whether comPell be confined to those tenants who v which by notice from their landlords; donn a ort Sir R. PEEL said, if the proposed liiiutstioe ed, it would render the bill almost inoperativ e ',,iii best tenant might have good ground for lealke during and under such a p rov i s i on h e wou ld no t be -L I vest his capital i n th e l an d the lastc h t% his lease. What consequence was it who yel7 c a notice, when the out- go i ng t enan t wou ld rea l ''' . saiion only to the amount of his improvenien, n ts ' n i Mr. HENLEY s a id it wou ld b e un j us t to Petro' a life interest, suc h as c l ergymen, to com pel toe compensation. Mr. PUSEY said he had proposed t • . ,he uwu upirnon, and in deference to that m but in consequence of what had fallen frool he should withdraw it. - The amendment was consequently withdra ) -theme °: ti ....scussion ensued, in the cow Mr. AGLIONBY strongly recommended tlg" should be once more s en t t o a se l ect committee; el , Mr. H. DRUMMON D sa id t h e tenant farnier s tx ing to this bill with a grea t d ea l o f anxiety, i benefit they would derive from it, he prove to be to them the grossest delusion. a t e r Sir G. STRICKLAND said the bill would crease the difficulty of letting farms. After a most desultory comer , result, it was agreed that the progress. • ion, wh it tirman gb° E OF LORDS •TuunsP,o", Lord STANLEY p seated a petition froill.:1, purposes The Lord CHANCELLOR said that appointments with reference to the L__ %t the time. The first appointments we of the M ledge of the alleged partizanship After a few words from tl Earl of MALIgPilt the same subject The Pas Hop of CASHEL inquired whether tnn tion Committee of the Privy Council would g' to Church of England S c h oo l s , i n I re l an d , the ?,i ance as afforded in England to schools of all d` including Roman Catholics. The Marquis of L tee did not intend to extend these rules for Err , to Ireland. LANsnowNE replied that ti:e. r. /5 Mr. MUNDY, wh o was i n t ro d uce d by I‘-•f e Mr. Fuller, took th e oat h s an d h i s seat as ~, South Derbyshire. • ~, Mr. DISRAELI presented a petition from ? I° in reference to the case of Mr. Fairbank. ,• 0 Mr. WOOD HOUSE gave not i ce o f his intentit early day, to b r i ng un d er th e consideration iit the settlement charges under the Poor Law, to their bei ng p rov id e d f or o'st o f the cons oliaa t , The hon. gentleman alQo gave notice of his put a question to Mr. M. Gibson, on the sub) Brazilian Treat Mr. REYNOLDS moved for a select cor April 3 slob t TL 1) t 27th an Aire I 'I :ar from Wil 11 d,a t 41_ Y, Atkin,l 29uet, ( ctin, or krd, g u 'r nos p e m. Leii E si r ii ri l B 4 ir on , keii, ward D mo,unt ditto. Lord Stuart 11 b , a oatitey, 111 Zti tr gar Wi 4 4 4 rav e Erehae.ot ~ceo t, Palen / 41 . ' 1 71 Gr e „ ) r _LittilTrt 6ti —slio ni e red, in 15 u , Lu t i L eo 'Ralit. in,ta voi d and 22nd Riebar Eliz r . 4 nt. 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