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iimperial parlianunt. Z'73' HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. „e t Corporation. Property (Ireland) Bill passed through Prnmiftee. litecheque4 . Bill s Funding Bill was read the second time. 1 / Lord MELBOURNE presented papers, by command of her Iglijesty, viz. the convention between England and France regarding the fisheries, &c. similar to those presented to the commonsby Lord Palmerston. Lord BRO GH AM presented a petition from Colonel Brad ley; complaining of the treatment he he had received. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that, though he was com mander-in-chief at the time, he had no unfriendly feeling whatever on the subject, and he could have no possible objec tion to the utmost indulgence being shown towards Colonel Bradley. He thought however, that a better course might have been adopted than petitioning parliament. Lord Beau emAist observed, that after what hadbeen stated by the noble duke, which he was sure would be attended to by the gOvernment, he would withdraw the petition, believing that to petition.parliament upon such a subject, was the last st. that ought to be tak en . Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Vincent, and ether chartists, confined in Monmouth gaol, complaining of treatment and felon's fare to which they were subjected. rnid to some curious conversation. [A similar petition was presented to the commons by Mr. Hume. Lord LYN DHURST inquired whether there was any objec tion to present the treaty with the Imaun of Aden. .n.dord MELBOURNE answered that he had no objection whatever. The Bolton Police Bill went through committee, after some anibuttnents. • The report was ordered to be received on Friday., The report o f th e M anc h ester Police Bill was presented and agreed to ; and the bill ordered to be read the third time on Friday,. , :s Lord LY*DIIURST gave notice that he should on Friday move fthavaiiinis returns " connected with the business of ParliarAtlTlW; The report of the County and Districts Constables' Bill was presented, agreed to, and the bill ordered to be read the third time on Friday. On the motion of Lord DUN CANNON (Lord Lyndhurst tatvinti expressed his concurrence), the Lords' amendments to the. Assaults (Ireland) Bill, which had been disagreed to bithn Commons, were not i ns i s t e d upon . 'Thr Ilankrupts' (Ireland) Bill, on the motion of the LORD Qiutircanaoit, was read the second time. ..,JprilLvNntion.sT explained that on Tuesday evening, %Ilea speaking of the Mayor of Bolton, he had represented, orotieitnt to say, that that gentleman was present at the chartist:meeting there, and seconded " a" resolution at that ifitietitigVat which was adopted the (inflammatory) resolution read by him to their lordships on that evening. Their lordships then adjourned. ROUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. Mr. WARLEY presented a petition respecting the extra. vidivary conviction of twu innocent men, one of whom had become 4 ' demented" i n consequence. Mr. Wakley added, that although conclusive evidence of innocence had been forwarded to Lord J. Russell, no redress could be obtained. Lord PALMERSTON presented papers by command of her Majesty ; among them the convention concluded between England and France, regarding the long-disputed points respecting the oyster and other fisheries. By the conven tion in question, it is determined that for three miles out wards, measuring from low-water mark, the coasts of Jersey and of France respectively, shall belong to the inhabitants of those countries. Commissioners have been appointed who shall, within two months, arrange regulations for the gUidance of the fishermen who may happen to meet beyond those boundaries. As the commissioners in commission will make those regulations before the re-assembling of parlia ment, Lon]. Palmerston asked the house to give the govern ment authority, by order in council, to carry the regulations into effect. On-the Exchequer Bills Funding Bill, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER made his promised communication as to the success of his funding project. The result is, that of the sum of £4,000,000, the amount of £3,722,000 has been subscribed. The balance is only £278,000 yet unprovided far. The amount funded since 1836 is £9,000,000. ,Mr. HUME asked a series of questions. First, what amount would be added to the debt of the country by this operation ? Secondly, what is the amount of bills and money now in circulation for public works ? and lastly, how many exchequer bills the hon. gentleman proposed to issue, to make up the deficiency of revenue ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER answered that if the questions were handed to him he should be able to sup. ply answers on Friday. The Exchequer Bills Funding Bill then went through Committee. The Bank of Ireland Act Continuance Bill went through committee. The lords' amendments, on motion of Lord MORPETH, to the Dublin Police Bill, were agreed to. On the motion that the Duke of Marlborough's Pension Bill be read a third time. Mr. Vv AKLEY moved that the house he counted, and it was " counted out." The SPEAKER gave notice that he should take the chair at two o'clock on Friday. aide - Joe. HOUSE OF LORDS.--FRIDAY. ' e• The Consolidated Fund Bill, th e E xc h equer- bill s Bill , t h e Bankrupts (Ireland) Bill, and the Administration of Justice (Parts of Counties) Bills, severally went through committee, and were reported. The London-bridge Approaches Bill was read a third time and passed, as were also the Manchester Police Bill, and the Corporate Property (Ireland) Bill. The report of the Bolton Police Bill was received, after a short discussion upon a clause added to the bill by Lord Duiecm.lesios, bringing the parts of Little Bolton which lie without the borough within the operation of the bill. Lord BROUGHAM begged to know if there was any truth in the statement which had been made in Paris, to the effect that Mehemet Ali had been guaranteed his possessions in Egypt as an independent power, and had been directed by the Porte to take upon himself the office of generalissimo of the Turkish force-le? ! eLord Mmenou RN IC was understood to say thitt4Ave was no foundation for the statement. • :;0`".5 • " OP THE SESSION. Lordaysnouasr then rose to take a review of the pro eeedingi of parliament during the present session. His speech was characterised by his usual ability and eloquence. Within our narrow limits, it is impossible for us to do any thing like justice to this splendid effort. After taking a general survey of the policy pursued by the present admi itistiation, and referring to the division on the Jamaica eneeetion, he thus proceeded e- What was the course pur sued by her Majesty's ministers upon hearing of that catas trophe ! They stated that, in their opinion, they no longer Vosetessed the confidence of the House of Commons. They serer had possessed the confidence of your lordships ; and aalte:the people, they then felt that they had no longer the confidence of the nation at large. They, therefore, tendered the:resignation of their offices to her Majesty—and that resignation was accepted. The history of the few days sub /re/pent to that event I plies over, for it forms no part of the ~awstter- which I have to offer to your lordships—besides, it Irrieseo fully laid before you by a noble duke, who himself areliedeecurisiderable part in it, and was analysed in so able alittaluti stedy a. manner, by my lord and learned friend on heizpposite benches (hear, hear), that the recollection of .takes:whole subject must he fresh in your memories, and I anipair the effect of it by any representations of my minute Altere is, however, one point connected with it to )ohicied, em anxious to call the attention of your lordships. .Hvs Majesty's ministers, I repeat, tendered their resigna tion:i.-that resignation was accepted, and it was understood -Usk they only held office until their successors were appointed. *Then coMmenced the communications for forming another meintitietratiou.. Before they had terminated, these minis xere,-who had only held office until their successors were xpointed,Afiterposed, advised her Majesty, dictated her *Tose and were themselves the negotiators with their politi -41 opponents.. The outgoing ministers, the negotiators exitintheir successors ! (Hear.) The result was this—that Ape .ministers, who only held office until their successors mere appointed, at last went the whole length of advising her ajesty to reinstate them in the government. (Hear, weer.) I say that minister - 3 gave her Majesty that advice ; lor: such was the result to which all their conduct evi- Mlently tended. Such a course of proceeding was never before known to occur in the history of England, and .1 trust in God that it never will occur again. (Hear, liear.)., What, my lords, was the first act of this new govern ment Their first act was to draw up a minute, historically lornaed,eargumentatively formed, legally formed ; and the unconstitutional character of it was only to be equalled by its folly, its extravagance, and its insolence. (Hear, hear.) Ministers, I have before said, were reinstated in their re spective offices. They declared, previously to their reinstate ment, that they had lost the confidence of Parliament and of the country. I now ask your lordships what they have done mince they have been reinstated in office to regain that for feited confidence ? (Hear, hear.) I say that every act which ,they have since done, every circumstance with which they .hare since been connected, has only lowered them still fur- Ither in the opinion of the public. So far from gaining in creased confidence in the House of Commons, all their pro ceedings have tended to weaken and degrade them more and more. (Hear, hear.) But it was necessary for them to make another experiment for the recovery of public confid ence, and therefore they brought in their second Jamaica bill. What, my lords, was the pretence for it? To continue ,certain laws which were about to expire in that colony. The bill was drawn up with thq view, and with that pretence ; but other clauses were grafted upon it, equally pernicious in principle with the bill which ministers had abandoned. That bill, on its second reading, was passed by a majority of ten. So that when ministers had only a majority of five, they con fessed that they had forfeited the confidence of the House of ,Commons ; and when they had got a majority of ten, they e n 4Hed to suppose that they had recovered the confidence which they before admitted that they had unwittingly for sfeited. They felt that their situation was uncomfortable and emeasy, and that it was necessary for them to do something Mere to retain the confidence of their party, and the question ;which occurred to them as most likely to accomplish that ob ject was the question of the ballot. It was impossible that there could be a subject of greater importance. After the Reform Bill, it was one of the most interesting questions that could be submitted to the consideration of Parliament. If ever there was a measure on which it was incumbent that the government should act as a government, it was on ithis. very measure of the ballot. The opinion of the govern ment as a government was well known respecting it ; but it was thought that it would be useful in recovering their lost influence in the House of Commons, and so the government made the ballot an open question. An open question ! Most shabby proceeding! (Hear, hear.) There was, however, a double advantage in it: it was to gain them votes in the House of Commons, and it was to afford some members of the Cabinet an opportunity of winning the regard of their constituents ; and therefore it was, that in spite of the reluc tance of the noble viscount, it was made an open question. But •'when it came under the consideration of the House of Com mons, and when a noble member of the Cabinet let out the secret that he had voted for making it an open question as the beet way of , defeating it, then its intense shabbiness was completely, beaten by its still more intense hypocrisy. (Hear; kparmot, my lords, congratulate the noble Vicount on any accession of strength that has accrued to his admi course he has pursued upon this question Lea the second Jamaica Bill was passed, I arrived. Up to that day not one bill of tence had passed. All wasa blank. We ;rue, the Mutiny Bill; we had passed the Bill ; we had passed nine money bills, of character ; we had passed 12 or 14 other amendment,,,some for the continuance, of hers for trifling and unimportant matters, ion could be, or indeed was, m a d e i n iament. Such, my lords, was the state of 'July. Still the table of the House of tred with bills, at once numerous and im ;therefore, necessary to inquire what the dto do with them. The session was on mg, and hon. m em b ers were naturally their homes. Were, then, the bills on troceeded with or not ? I find, my lords, by a laid upon your lordships' table, that as ion was given to her Majesty's ministers, breathless haste measure after measure. :d for the registration of voters in Eng ue of it? It was abandoned. The votes Bill (Scotland)—a bill of great importance to country ? Aband one d . T he Preparation of Writs Icotlind)? Abandoned. The Registration of Leases (Scot land)?.: Abandoned. The District Sessions Bill? Abs The District Prisons Bill? Abando ne d . The TOWII- la ••• S Bill? Abandoned. Th e Ecclesiastical Duti es an d pin? Abandoned. The Factories Regulation 511/015,,144 ,111i1Tritoil Bill—a bill frequently discussed in both houses of Parlia ment, and of vast importance to the interests of humanity ? Abandoned. The Collection of Rates Bill, and County Courts Bill, the Embankments in Ireland Bill, and many other bills of different descriptions ? All, all were aban doned (hear, hear), because ministers found it impossible, from not being possessed of either energy, vigour, character, capacity, or the confidence of the House of Comthons, to carry them through Parliament during the present session. (Hear.) Lord MELBOURNE feebly attempted to vindicate the policy of his administration. Lord BROUGHAM followed in a speech replete with the most cutting sarcasms on his former associates. : ; . We are sorry that want of space precludes us from giving even an outline of the noble and learned lord's admirable philippic. The Duke of WELLINGTON and several other speakers took part in the discussion, after which the house adjourned till Saturday. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. - - Mr. CRAIG took the oaths and his seat for Perth. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from the Bishop of Australia, praying that no measure may be taken respecting any grants of lands there, in opposition to the interest of the established church of England and Ireland. Mr. C. WOOD brought up returns of contracts for the conveyance of the mails to the West Indies and America. In answer to a question from Captain PECHELL, Mr. RICE said, that the whole subject of beer-shops and licensed victualling-houses was one that was very fit for Par liamentary inquiry . ; but the experience of the last session had fully shown, that questions of that nature, where there were conflicting Interests, could not be discussed in that house without hon. members being canvassed on both sides. He thought, therefore, that the subject was a very proper one for (as we understood the right hon. gentleman, who spoke in a low tone) a committee of that house to inquire into ; but he hoped that the government would be able to turn attention to it in the recess, with a view of giving the whole question a full and impartial consideration, and of adopting such steps as might lead to a satisfactory arrangement. Mr. RICE then moved the third reading of the Duke of Marlborough's Pension Bill. Mr. WARLEY objected to this as irregular, the third read ing not being one of the orders of the day. Sir R. H. INHtis said he cordially supported the bill. Mr. O ' CONNELL said he had no more doubt than he had of his existence that there never was a fairer demand than this of the Duke of Marlborpugh. Sir C. GREY supported the bill, and gave as his opinion that it might be a grave question whether the Duke of Marl borough was not, as the law now stands, entitled to this Is. 6d. in the pound. Mr. FINCH objected to the motion on the point of order. The house then divided, when the numbers were—for the motion, 49; against it, 5. The bill was then read a third time, and passed. The Bank of Ireland Act Continuance Bill was reported, and ordered to be read a third time on Saturday. The Bank of Ireland Act was committed pro forma', and ordered to be repOrted "that day three months." The Exchequer-bills Funding Bill was reported and ordered to be read a third time on Saturday. On the motion of LordMoHPETH, the Lords'amendments in the Sale of Spirits (Ireland) Bill were agreed to. Lord PALMERSTON obtained leave to bring in a bill for the purpose of enabling her Majesty to carry into effect a con vention entered into between her Majesty and the King of the French, respecting the fisheries on the coasts of the Bri tish islands and those of France. Lord PALMERSTON declared a confident hope that its effect would be to prevent disputes between the two countries ; it would at all events, put an end to border feuds, the sea occupying the space between the boundaries of both countries. The bill was then read a first and second time, went through a committee, was ordered to be printed, and to be read a third time on Saturday. The house was counted out at five o'clock, and stands ad journed till Saturday. HOUSE OF LORDS,—SATURDAY. The Duke of Marlborough's pension bill was read the se cond time, passed through committee, was reported, and or dered to be read the third time on Monday. The administration of justice (parts of counties) bill was read the third time and passed. After the Bolton police bill had been read the third time, Lord DUNCANNON, previously to the question of passing the bill, moved to leave out their lordships' amendment which provided that the act should include " the higher end of Little Bolton," on account of the difficulties that would re sult from its introduction. The clause was strnck out and the bill was passed. The bankrupts' (Ireland) bill was read the third time and passed. The royal assent was given by commission to several bills : —to the soap duties regulation" bill, the " slave trade sup , pression" bill, the " New South Wales" bill, the " Metro polis police courts" bill, the "Metropolis improvements" bill, the " courts for counties" bill, the " judges' lodgings" bill, the " highway rates" bill, the " stage carriages" bill, the " rogue money assessment (Scotland)' bill, &c. Some bills brought from the commons having been read the first time, their lordships adjourned till half after three o'clock on Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—SATURDAY. The Bank of Ireland Act Continuance Bill, the Exchequer Bills Funding Bill, and the Fisheries (England and France) Bill, were severally read the third time, passed, and ordered to be carried to the House of Lords, where they were read the first time. The lords' " amendments" to sundry bills—namely, the Bolton Police Bill, the Poor Law Commission Continuance Bill, the London Bridge Approaches Bill, the Administrstion of Justice (Parts of Counties) Bill, were agreed to. Mr. SPRING RICE moved (and caused some laughter in so doing) the issuing of a new writ for Portsmouth, Mr. Baring, one of the members for that borough, having been appointed chancellor of the exchequer. The writ was, of course, ordered. After having attended to the royal assent being given, by commission to sundry bills,. and the remaining bus iness be ing disposed of, the house adjourned. ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. (From the Oxford Herald.) The Rev. Thomas Lascelles Iremonger, B.A. of Balliol College, has been instituted to the Vicarage of Goodsworth Clatford, Hants, vacant by the resignatio n of the Rev. Wm. Evans ; patron William lremonger, E sq . The Rev. William Henry Pooke. M.A, of Worcester Col lege, has been presented to the Vicarage of Kevil, vacant by the death of the Rev. H. Zichards ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. On Thursday se'nnight, the Rev. Charles Richard Pettat, B.A. of University College, was instituted to the Rectory of Great .Witcomb, Gloucestershire, vacant by the cession of the Rev. T. M. Browne : patrons, J. Browne, Esq. the Rev. W. Hicks, and J. C. Stratford, Esq. The Rev. Edwd. Dickinson Scott, M.A. Fellowof Queen's College, has been appointed to the Perpetual Curacy of Poulton-by-the-Sands, Lancashire, vacant b 37 the death of the Rev. T. Butler ; patron, the Vicar of Lancaster. On Thursday se'nnight. the Rev. John Seton jiarr, B.A. of St. Mary Hall, was in s tit u t e d t o t h e Vi carage of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, void by the resignation of the Rev. Henry Prowse Jones ; patron, Lord Seagrave. PROMOTIONS. Rev. William Peete Musgrave, M.A. Chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Colwall, Hereford shire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Wynn ; patron, the Bishop of Hereford. R. G. Latham, M.A. Fellow of King's College, Cam bridge, to be the Professor of the English Language in Uni versity College, London. Rev. J. R. Connor, M.A. to be the Minister of St. Simon's, Liverpool. Rev. Charles Boys, to the Rectory of Wing, Rutland shire ; patron, the Lord Chancellor. Rev. J. Jones, B.A. of St. John's, College, Cambridge, to the Incumbency of Wrockwardine District Church, /glop. The Lord Bishop of Cork has been pleased to promote the Rev. Thomas O'Grady, nephew of Lord Guillamoro, and for a considerable time Curate of Skull, Cork, to a Living of £4OO per rnnum in that diocese. The Rev. Arthur R. Kenney, Incumbent of St. Chads, Lichfield, has been appointed to the Rectory of Bruston-on- Dunsinore, Warwickshire, Diocese of Worcester. The Curacy of Madehurst, near Arundel, vacant by the preferment of the Rev. W. Sergison, to the Rectory of Slaugham, is now appointed to the Rev. W. Weguelin, of Emanuel College, Cambridge, Rector of South Stoke. a re lative of the Rev. Cecil Greene, and who lately resigned this Curacy, on his appointment to the Mastership of Midhurst School. THE TONAMENT. The preparations for this dis lay of chivalry are progress ing at Eglinton Castle, with all rapidity. The tilting ground has been completely inclosed, the barriers erected, and the stands built, though the principal one requires yet to be covered in. The ground selected is a level space, within three minutes' walk of Eglinton Castle ; on the west side the stands are erected, and on the east is a rising ground, par tially wooded, from which many thousand spectators will be enabled to witness the inspiriting work below. The ground enclosed is about 234 yards in length, by 42 in breadth ; and the barrier, which is a most substantial erection, extends down the centre to the length of 110 yards. There are three stands ; the principal one in the centre is appropriated to the accommodation of the Queen of Beauty, and the nobility and gentry who have received special invitations from Lord Eg linton, and the two smaller ones will be occupied by those ladies and gentlemen who have been granted tickets on their own application. The pavilion of the Queen of Beauty in the grand stand, will be decorated in a manner most impos ing and magnificent ; it is fitted up in the Grecian style, and the gildings which lend such beauty to the erection were those used at the coronation of Queen Victoria in West minster Abbey. In front is the tilting ground, and the ele vation which will be crowded by anxious onlookers ; behind, the Lugton—one of the best trouting streams in Ayrshire,— meanders thrbugh the grounds, and altogether a more win some spot could not possibly have been selected. The pro cession leaves the Castle at one o'clock, but instead of pro ceeding directly to the lists, it makes a long detour, and by this means every member of the congregated multitude will be gratified by a fair view of the knights, their squires and pages, and goodly steeds. For 25 feet immediately around the barrier, the soil will be covered with saw-dust, five inches in depth, and as unhorsing there will be, this plan will enable the knights to fall as softly, and rise as scatheless, as pos sible. Immediately behind Eglinton Castle, a splendid banquet ing hall and ball-room, covered in under one roof, are in the course of erection. A stair-case will be led from the castle into a saloon in the hall, which separates the one apartment from the other, and altogether the preparations and fittings up are of a description eminently calculated to receive and do honour to the gayest throng that ever honoured Ayrshire with their presence. The whole arrangements have been under the charge of Mr. Pratt, of London, and when com pleted, they promise to do infinite credit to his architectural and ornate skill and taste. We are aware that Lord Eglinton is most anxious to make the forthcoming spectacle as agreeable as possible to the public, for whom every accommodatlon has been provided, consistent with due order and the nature of the grounds, but still many hundreds will be disappointed in obtaining a position in the stands, and this is not matter of surprise when each succeeding post brings to Mr. Blair shoals of applications from every quarter of the kingdom. It is not easy to describe the interest which the forthcom ing display excites in Glasgow and elsewhere. The windows of the clothiers are filled with appropriate trappings for Eglin ton, and the purchases are many. Various steam-boats have been engaged by private parties, and we have heard of one instance in which a party of 50 of our citizens propose to bedeck themselves in the garb of ancient mariners ; in other instances, olden family repositories are ransacked for antique helmets, breast-plates, doublets, with " good old swords and bucklers too, that have stood against old foes ;" and altogether the policy of Eglinton Castle on the 28th and 29th current, will present a many-coloured assemblage, such as the present age has never witnessed. Not the least remark able part of the tournament fervor is, that Ivanhoe is at a premium, which we cannot well calculate. In the circulating libraries the work is not to be had for love or money ; and in a recent trip on the river, we witnessed no less than six copies in the hands of the passengers, which were being perused with as much intenseness as the consented epistle of a beloved fair one,—Glasgow Mail of Saturday. Aistrition (corn the I . 0 the ballot. Whe 'the 9th of July had i , , ,ittfY: mat. conse9ue 144 passed, it was tr - Annual Indemnity 13 ordinary course and :414 some ror the ar 'ti. - r,ills, and oth t," • hno oppositi t' ..use of Parlif 'ffbn the 9th of . : o..iyi was coven .. 7 r - ft became, •.aik ~,otfintende, ir : I ~fo'rettierxifitroh • q to be procet .. . _t, .9 1 t has been 1 .10 gilt' • • t ..., f as intimatit ...,,' ' AkEihdoned with 11. . nrivAi introducet land. What became titious Votes Bill (S, SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES. CROWN COURT—FRIDAY. Mr. Justice COLTMAN took• his seat shortly after nine o'clock. CHARGE OF MURDER IN LIVERPOOL. Francis Toorens, a native of Ostend, aged 23,. was charged with having wilfully murdered Mary Milligan, at Liverpool, on the 3rd of August. Mr. ARMSTRONG and Mr. HULTON conducted the prose cution, and Mr. MURPHY defended the prisoner. One-half the panne], it was intended, in the first instance, should consist of foreigners. One of the gentlemen sum moned, refused to serve as a foreigner. He was born in Holland of English parents, his grandfather having been a subject of England. His Lordship said that in point of fact the gentleman was not a foreigner. Only three of the foreigners answered. Mr. Murphy said he was perfectly content. His Lordship said the jury was perfectly good to try, providing Mr. Murphy were content. Mr. ARMSTRONG detailed to the jury the circumstances of the case, The Belgian consul was sworn to act as interpreter to the prisoner, who, it was supposed, did not understand English sufficiently. The prisoner is a sailor, and the crime with which he was charged, arose out of a dispute which he had with a woman of ill fame, of the lowest class. Many of the circumstances are of a nature which we cannot publish. Rosa Ryley, a female of dissolute habits, stated, that on the 3rd of August last, she resided at a house in a court in New Brick-street. The witness stated that she got up and let the prisoner and Mary Milligan into the house, on the night in question. They went up stairs to a garret, when a dispute arose between them respecting the nature of a bargain which they had made with each other, and regarding which there was a mutual understanding. Witness was called up and informed by the deceased of the cause of dispute ; she saw the prisoner with a knife in his hand, which he put into the sheath, and threw on the bed. Soon after this, the prisoner requested the deceased to let him out. The deceased refused to refund a shilling which he had given to her. They went down stairs together, and witness heard the deceased call out, " I'm stabbed !" She went down stairs and found the deceased lying on the ground bleeding. About half an hour after she saw the prisoner in custody of a constable. Mary Milligan had been put to bed. The prisoner was taken to the bed side, and the deceased said, " That's the man that stabbed me for a shilling.". Mr. MURPHY cross-examined the witness, and elicited that the house was a very disorderly one, that Wilson, who kept it, was in prison in default of bail, for keeping a house of ill fame ; that she (witness) was before the magistrates on Monday last for disorderly conduct, mid was committed for one day ; and that she had been once charged with having robbed a sailor. One of the foreign jurors questioned the witness, and elicited that his knife was given to the prisoner from the bed by a girl named Bagley, and that he did not attempt to take it till it was given to him. Ann Gibson gave similar testimony to that of the last wit ness. She was cross-examined by Mr. Mintrny, and it was evi dent that she was a very dissolute character. She had on Monday last been charged with having robbed a person of £1.105., and was now brought from prison to give evidence. Mary Bagley further corroborated the testimony of the first witness. She stated that when she found the deceased, after she had called out she was stabbed, she (the deceased) was in a gore of blood, which flowed from her left side. A knife, belt, and sheath were produced by a police-officer named Jarvis. The witness said these were exactly like the knife and belt used by the prisoner. This witness, in cross-examination, admitted that she had been in custody ma n y ti mes f or drunkennness, and that she had once stolen a pair of shoes out of a man's pocket. John Findley, who was stated to be a labourer about the docks, but who, it appeared, was a " fancy man," as it is termed, of, one of the girls, stated that he was in the house at the time. He further corroborated the testimony of the females. William Bates, who was in the house in bed at the time, deposed to having heard cries and uproar in the middle of the night. He heard some one say " She was stabbed," and that was all that he heard distinctly. James Leonard, who resides in the same court as Wilson, the keeper of the house in question, proved that he heard cries of murder, and that he went out and found a knife, which was given to Mr. Superintendent Jones. Ann Schrooder stated that she resided at the mouth of the same entry, and that on the morning in question she saw the prisoner and deceased go to Wilson's house and knock at the door. Some time afterwards she heard him calling out " Offi cer, officer," and said some one was going to rob him. She went to her door, and she saw his hat fly off into the chan nel ; he did not wait to pick up his hat, but ran very violently away. He turned to the left hand out of Brick street. She was sure the prisoner was the man. She heard a cry of murder down the entry, and immediately closed her door. She went afterwards to Wilson's, and found Mary Milligan in the arms of t wo women bl ee di ng, She (witness) remained there till five o'clock. Was there when the pri soner was brought in by the officer. The prisoner was the man whom they brought in, and he was also the man whom she had before seen run away. Police-officer Jarvis deposed, that on the morning in ques tion he was on duty in Brick-street. He met a . sailor run ning. The man stopped of himself. He was a foreigner. Police-officer Halsall was with witness. They asked the man what he was running away for. He said a man and a woman had attempted to rob him in an entry. They proceeded to wards the spot, and the man accompanied them of his own accord. They found a hat in the entry, which the man claimed. Witness went forward to Wilson's house, thinking that Halsall and the man were following him, but Halsall came in without the prisoner. The man spoke broken English, and was clad in the garb of a sailor. They after wards went and took the prisoner into custody on board the Pauline, a vessel lying on the west side of the Brunswick Dock. He had a hat near him which was a remarkable one, and very like the one found in the entry. William Halsall corroborated the above. • Mr. Superintendent Jones, after detailing - a few corrobo rative facts, said in reply to a question by Mr. Murphy; that knives similar to that produced were frequently used by sail ors, native as well as foreign. The prisoner when taken ap peared to have been drinking. William Lowcock and another officer proved the finding of the knife, sheath, and belt in a box beneath the prisoner's berth in the round-house on board the Pauline. Peter Harwood, the Custom-house officer on duty at the Pauline on the night and morning in question, proved that the prisoner went on board some short time before the officers came. He drew some water which witness thought he might have drunk. Witness did not see him wash himself with it. one of the Burgeons to the o..th Dlspcobcoy tuttes -that he was called in to see the deceased, and he found that she was wounded in the left side. The wound had been bleeding, but had stopped. She was removed to the hospital, where she died. Mr. Arnault, another surgeon of the same hospital, de scribed the wound, which had penetrated the abdomen and wounded the gut. The wound was dangerous. She died on Sunday morning. The kidney was wounded. The de ceased died of inflammation, arising from the urine passing through a hole in the kidney. The wound was about three inches in depth, and much force must have been used to cut through the clothes and plunge to that depth. Mr. MURPHY addressed the jury for the defence. The learned counsel animadverted emphatically on the dissnlute character of the principal witness, and contended that the chief proofs were in favour of the prisoner, tending to show that the offence had not been committed by him, but by some other person. Hisloansuip said, if the witnesses were to be believed, a case of murder had been made out. There would be no middle course in this instance ; therefore, if the jury did not think the first witness entitled to credit, it would be their duty to acquit the prisoner. The learned judge went through the evidence very minutely, commenting largely thereupon in his progress. Captain Peter Terran, commander of the Eugene, just arrived from Ostend, appeared at the conclusion of the charge to give the prisoner a character. He had known the prisoner eight or nine years, and could say nothing but what was good of him, in point of temper and in every other respect. He stated that the Pauline had sailed on the preceding day, and that the captain had staid a week over his time to await the result of this trial. The Jury retired at twenty-five minutes to six o'clock. They returned at twenty minutes past seven, and returned a verdict of Not Guilty. POLYGAMY. Moses Foulkes was brought to th bar on a charge of poly• gamy. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to six months imprisonment, with hard labour, in Kirkdale Gaol. BURGLARY. William Jones, aged 20, and John Smith, aged 21, were indicted for having burglariously broken and entered the dwelling-house of Isaac Valentine, of Stretford, in July last, and stolen certain of his goods ; and further, with having burglariously entered the house of Thomas Wingfield, and stolen a quantity of apparel and other articles. Mr. Wilkins conducted the prosecution. The prisoners were undefended. The first indictment tried was that for breaking into the house of Mr. Wingfield, of Broomhouse-lane, on the old road From Manchester to Eccles. Mr. Wingfield stated, he went to bed on the night in ques tion, (Friday, the 19th July,) at nine o'clock, being very ill with rheumatism. He saw all about his house secure. He came down about one o'clock, and still all was safe. He rose, finally, about seven o'clock in the morning. The floors of the house were covered with lucifer matches burned at the ends. One of the iron► stauncheons of the back-window was found to have been broken, and entrance had thus been ef fected to the premises. Several pairs of boots and shoes, two coats, and many other articles of apparel, were found to have been stolen. Richard Rooney stated that he apprehended the prisoner Jones on Monday, the 22nd July, in a beer-house near Ec cles.- Witness found upon him a pawn-ticket for a coat, which ticket he gave to Benjamin Hartley, another police officer. He asked Jones to what property that ticket relat ed. He replied to his own coat. John Diggles, police-officer, of Salford, stated that the prisoners were taken to the New Bailey on Monday, the 22d July. He searched Smith, and found in a belt under his trousers four or five pawn-tickets, one of which he produced. -It was for some shoes. Witness had known the prisoners some months. They were companions, and he had seen them together on the evening of the robbery. Benjamin Hartley, another officer of Salford, proved that he had received the ticket mentioned, and had taken it to th e pawnbroker's shop, wh ere h e received a coat folded in a piece of print. He had also taken the pawn-ticket which Mr. Diggles produced, and procured some shoes which had been pledged, and for which this ticket had been given. The pawnbrokers were called, and they proved that the prisoners had, on the Saturday, the day after the robbery, pledged the articles which the tickets produced represented. The articles stolen were produced, and fully identified by Mr. Wingfield. The Jury acquitted the prisoners of burglary, but found them guilty of breaking and entering the dwelling-house, and stealing therein. Mr. WiLimrs mentioned a long and black catalogue of crimes in which the prisoners had been engaged. It was not deemed necessary to go into the case. The prisoners were sentenced to transportation for ten years. The court adjourned at half-past seven o'clock. NISI PRIUS COURT.—FRIDAY. SECOND BLOOMSBURY CASE.—RIDSDALE V. CRAVEN. In this case a verdict for the plaintiff, similar to that in the former case, was taken by consent of the parties, subject to the same points to be raised. POLICY OF INSURANCE.—STOCKDALE AND ANOTHER V. DUNLOP. In this action, Messrs. Thomas and John Stockdale, soap manufacturers, of Liverpool, were the plaintiffs, and Mr. James Dunlop, of the firm of Messrs. Borradale and Co., of London, underwriters, the defendant, and the action was brought to recover the amount of expected profits on a ship ment of palm oil purchased by the plaintiffs to arrive, and insured with the defendant. Mr. Wightman and Mr. Crompton for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Cresswell for the defendant. Mr. WIGHTMAN statedthe case. The plaintiffs carried on business in Liverpool, as soap manufacturers, and the de fendant was an underwriter in London. The action was brought to recover the subscription of the defendant to a policy of insurance, dated September IZ, 1838, which was made by the plaintiffs on the profits that they expected to de rive on 100 tons of palm oil, bought by them, to arrive, from Messrs. Harrison and Co., merchants, of Liverpool. The palm oil was to come in a vessel called the Maria, which was trading on the coast of Af r i ca . I n A pr il, 1837, s h e was in the Bss river, and in attempting to get out she struck on the bar. In consequence of that, and a continuance of bad weather, she remained there till Fabruary, 1838, when- she did get out. She had previously made two or three ineffec tual attempts, and again got on the bar. She proceeded to Fernando Po, and thence to the river Benin, where she was lost. Evidence having been called to prove these facts, Mr. CRESSWELL replied. His LORDSHIP then summed up, and in so doing pointed out the merits of the case. He said that the plaintiffs had effected an insurance on the profits of 100 tons of palm oil, expected to arrive, and many questions arose out of the ac ceptance of the risk, that would be settled elsewhere. The statement was, that the vessel had b een l ost b y t h e per il s o f the seas ; the loss was admitted to have taken place, but there was a dispute as to the time when the injuries causing the loss took place. In the plea which the jury would have to try—and the only one which could come under their con sideration--the defendant alleged that the ship Maria, in the month of July, 1837, was driven on certain shoals, which ul timately caused her loss, between that and May, 1838 ; that those injuries happened before the making of the insurance, and that there was sufficient time for the captain' to have made these facts known to the owners (and through them to the defendant) before the affecting of the policy. The ques tion for the jury to consider was, therefore, whether there was time to have communicated, not that she struck on the bar in Brass river, but that she had received such damages as to make her incapable of completing her voyage. Captaini Beattie said that he did not know that the vessel had sus tained any material injury until she got into the Benin river in May, 1838 ; that he wrote home as soon after as he could, namely, in July, 1838 ; and that that was too late to prevent the insurance. To that Mr. Cresswell had replied, that as the damage which caused the loss happened in the Brass river that fact might have been communicated. The question for the jury was whether that was the losing damage. Verdict for the plaintiffs for £l5O, subject to a Motion for the reduction of damage. INDICTMENT.—THE QUEEN V. BRUNTON AND ANOTHER. This was an indictment brought by the trustees of the Rochdale and Halifax road, against the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, and the complaint was that in throwing a bridge over the turnpike road, at Littleborough, that had ,interfered with the safety and convenience of the public. The case was tried by a special jury. Mr. Alexander, Mr. Sergeant Starkie, and Mr. John Addison for the plaintiffs; Mr. Cresswell, Mr. Brandt, and Mr. Tomlinson for the defendants. Mr. ALEXANDER stated the case. He pointed to the act of parliament which related to the bridge, and said it was therein specified that the bridge should be an elliptical one. As it had been erected, it was a skewed arch of only fifty-eight degrees, (the width being 24 feet,) and there was in conse quence an obstruction of the view, which was highly Mem venient and dangerous to persons in vehicles. The extent of vision was thirty yards only, so that persons approaching the bridge were not aware of a carriage coming in an opposite direction, until nearly upon it. A number of witnesses, consisting of architects, surveyors, engineers, and coachmen were called, who deposed that by making an arch of from 38 to 42 degrees obliquity, and re moving the northern abutments a little farther north, the whole inconvenience and danger might have been removed. A skewed arch of 38 or 40 degrees might have been built, sufficiently strong to answer all the purposes of the railway. The only difference would have been that the cost of the erection would have been greater, to the extent of about £5OO. There was nothing, either in the nature of the ground or anything else, to make the building of such a bridge im practicable. One of the witnesses (a driver of a stage coach) spoke to the great inconvenience of the bend of the road at the arch, and stated that he himself had met with accidents in passing through. Another coachman said, that on Wed nesday he had a narrow escape; in going through he came in contact with a cart. On their cross-exm.luation, the wit nesses said that there was danger of accidents of of this na ture occurring, even though drivers kept to the proper side of the road. They could not see far enough to prevent col lision. One driver said he could see before him thirty yards, and if necessary could pull up in five yards ; another said that he could see about sixty, and that it would require one hun dred yards for him to pull up—an assertion which excited much laughter. He afterwards explained himself by saying that the loss of time taken in pulling up was great enough to allow him to go 100 yards. A letter was also put in from the trustees to the directors of the railway, giving them notice that if they proceeded to erect the bridge after the intended plan, so as to decrease the convenience for passengers, either in waggons, carts, coaches, &c., or on foot, they would indict them for so doing. Mr. CRESSWELL replied, contending that his clients had acted within the limits of the powers granted to them by the act of parliament, and had made the road much more con venient to the public than it would have been if they had not gone to the full extent of their powers. As it was, there could not possibly be any danger of collision if drivers kept , to their own side of the road. Even if he admitted that a mail coach could not be driven under the arch at the rate of ten miles an hour, but was obliged to slacken the pace to five, so as to occasion the loss of 100 yards, was that a reason for pulling down a costly bridge belonging to a railway ? The trustees had first gone to the Vice-chancellor's Court, and told a cock-and-bull story, and when sent about their busi ness, they brought down a lot of engineers from London, Leeds, and other places, in order to uphold their case here. The expense of such a proceeding must have been enormous. Had the trustees expended one-half the money in purchasing any corner of a building which obstructed the line of board, or in-other ways improving it, it would have been much more to their credit as administrators of public funds. The Jury having stopped the examination of witnesses for the prosecution, considering the fact of inconvenience fully established, Mr. CRESSWELL declined to call witnesses on the opposite side, stating that, as most of the jury had seen the spot in question, he would leave the point to them. His LORDSHIP briefly summed up, observing that the question for the jury would be, whether there was any in convenience to the public, or whether that might have been obviated at a reasonable expense. The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. INJURY SUSTAINED ON THE RAILWAY. MULLIGAN 27. LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY Co —This was a special jury case. The action was brought by Francis Mulligan, a joiner, of Manchester, to recover com pensation in damages for an injury alleged to have been sus tained in consequence of the negligence of one of the servants of the company, named Griffiths. ,Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. CROMPTON, and Mr. MARTIN for the plaintiff; Mr. CRESSWELL and Mr. VENAOLES for the defendants. Mr. ALEXANDER, in stating the case, said, that Mulligan was a young man who was by-trade a joiner and carpeuter,,in a very good employ in Manchester—that of Messrs. Bellhouse a d,Sons. He left M anc h es t er on the evening of February 15, in the present-year, - oy tne - seconu-Rw iaarana wniewstarts 'at half-past five. It was one of the characteristics of the second class trains that they stopped more frequently than the first class trains ; and it appeareolthat there were several places at which they stopped —among others, at Newton;. and there the misfortune happened. Several individuals. got out for momentary purposes. The plaintiff . did so, and was about to return to take his place, wheidie found tlifo, door unexpectedly locked. The off-doors, he supposed, were locked for the purpose of hinriering persons getting .out,nt that side, so as to prevent accidents from the carriages ,that come down on that side. While the plaintiff stoodd, on the step, in a state of some embarrassment at finding the-door locked, Griffiths, the clerk of the station, went ups Whim, and seized hold of him, under the idea, .perhaps, that he was a person endeavouring to enter without .payment. Com plainant replied that he had come from Manchester, and had paid his fare. At that moment, without auy notice having been given the engine started, and whether it was that , Grif fiths pulled the plaintiff, or the plaintiff stumbled, he did not know ; but in consequence of that obstruction Mulligan fell, with both of his legs across the rails, and the train passed over them. After the occurre nce o f the accident, the parties were very kind to him (Mulligan.) They removed him into the Legh Arms, and immediately sent for a medical man, Mr. Barrow, who had been in the habit of attending persons in jured at the railway. Mr. Griffiths suggested that he should at once be taken to the Liverpool Dispensary, ; but to that Mr. Smith, the landlord of th e L eg h Arms, objected, until it should be acquiesced in by the surgeon. Mulligan re mained in the house of Mr. Smith four. days, and all the ex penses were paid by the company. He was then sent-to the Liverpool Dispensary, where he remained eighteen days, the expenses of his stay there being also paid by the company. Thinking, however, that he should be better attended to among his friends, he left the dispensary and want to St. Helen's. Mulligan was about to , have been married to a young woman there, and he went to the house of her father. The owners of a plate-glass company, at St. Helen's, heard of the case of the unfortunate young man, and kindly sup ported him with work which he could execute when sitting, because his accident rendered him incapable of standing. He believed that the young man was one who, in his best times, had been able to earn from 30s. to 355. a-week in Man chester ; and with respect to the expenses at St. Helen's, the defendants had had nothing to do with them. He hoped that the jury would consider him entitled to something for the pain and suffering he had undergone, as well as for the loss of time. He had been confined months and months, and though he had returned to his work, he was not his'Own man again. His recovery, however, had been attributed in a great measure to his excellent constitution. The medical men said that if he had not been a most healthy and vigorous man, the recovery of the plaintiff might have been a matter of doubt. He (Mr. Alexander) did not impute that Griffiths had taken hold of the plaintiff, as though he had been a thief, but that he had acted carelessly or neglectfully ; and if that were the case, he thought that the company should pay the costs. Evidence was called : the accident was proved to have occurred by Griffiths taking hold of Mulligan, —a short struggle took place, when both Mulligan and Griffiths fell. The latter, as the medical gentleman proved,'sustained a for midable injury. It was also proved that the carriage started without notice, by the ringing of a bell or otherwise. Mr. CRESSWELL replied. He said that the question for the jury would be, whether theplaintiff had not got out of his place in an improper manner and at an improper place. This, he contended, was the fact, and that by so doing, he had subjected himself to a suspicion of having attempted to gain a surreptitious entry into the carriage, which the officer of the company had a right to resist. The Learned JUDGE having summed up, The jury immediately rerurned a verdict for the plaintiff,— Damages, £6O. The CoUrt rose at six o'clock.' GROWN COURT.—SATURDAY. HAVING POSSESSION OF A MOULD. William Yates, a very old man, was charged with having had possession of a mould for coining, without lawful excuse. • The facts of the case were, simply, that the police of Man chester, having received information that the prisoner was in the habit of coining, paid him a visit. At his house they found a mould for coining sixpences, two counterfeit shillings. a qua - Itity of white metal, which had been melted, and many materials usually used by coiners. The prisoner was also proved to have passed a bad shilling , to a shopkeeper. The prisoner, in defence, alleged, that a man name d Thorn hill, who, he had ascertained, had been incarcerated in Kirkdale Gaol for coining., lodged with him. He (the pri soner) knew not that such things were in his house, till they were found by the constables. One of the turnkeys of Kirkdale Gaol proved. that a man, named Thornhill, had " served" twelve months there for coining. The jury acquitted the prisoner. MANSLAUGHTER. Thomas Brierly, aged 21, was charged with having, in July last, at Prestwich-cum-Oldham, killed John Buckley. John Hardy and James Cocker were charged with having been feloniously present. Mr. Cobbett conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Wilkins defended Brierly and Hardy. It appeared that the prisoner, Brierly, and the deceased were drinking i n a b eer - s h op, at Prestwich, when some dis pute arose, the result of which was, that an agreement was made to fight. It did not appear, that Brierley had any great wish for the contest, as his antagonist was much bigger than he. Hardy and Cocker acted as seconds, according to one of the witnesses, but, according to the testimony of others, they were only present looking on as spectators. The prisoner wished once or twice to give up fighting, but was not permitted. Buckley, at length, received a blow or kick upon his head, which compelled him to yield. He was car ried to a public-house, where he lay, in great pain, till the next morsing. Inflammation of the brain came on, which proved fatal. The jury found Brierly Guilty ; but, under the circum stances, recommended him to mercy. Hardy and Cocker were acquitted. The learned JUDGE sentenced Brierly to three months' imprisonment and hard labour, at Kirkdale. THE CHARTISTS. The learned JUDGE haVill& intimated, that he should take the pleas of the Chartists, the Attorney-General for the County Palatine was sent for. Samuel Bardsley, John Bardsley, Wm. Cox, and James Wardle, were called up. They were indicted for having, at Ashton-under-Line, been present at a riotous assembly, and illegally training to arms. The prisoners pleaded guilty. William Vicars Jackson, commonly called the Rev. Wm. Vicars Jackson, George Henry Smith, Christopher Doyle, and John Kaye were placed at• the bar. The indictment charged them with having committed a misdemeanour, in having spoken seditious speeches, at Hulme. The prisoners severally pleaded not guilty, and announced their intention of traversing to the next assizes. The Rev. Mr. Jackson asked the amount of bail that would be required. His LORDSHIP intimated, that the information would be given to all the prisoners when the pleas had been taken. WM. Butterworth was next placed at the bar with the Rev. Mr. Jackson. The prisoners were indicted for having uttered seditious speeches at Manchgster. They pleaded not guilty, and decided upon traversing. The Rev. Mr. Jackson was then placed at the bar solus. He was indicted for a seditious conspiracy, riotous assem bling, and seditious speeches, at Manchester. He again pleaded not guilty, and intimated his intention of traversing. William Tillman, Joseph Linney, and John Quin were indicted for a riotous assembly and seditious conspiracy at Hulme. They pleaded not guilty, and said they would traverse. Samuel Scott pleaded not guilty to a charge of sedition, at Hulme, and decided upon traversing. John Holmes pleaded not guilty to a charge of seditious conspiracy and unlawful possession of arms, at Manchester, and said he would be tried at these assizes. Timothy Booth, indicted for seditious conspiracy and un lawful possession of arms, at Manchester, pleaded not guilty, and declared his intention of traversing. James Leach, for a similar offence, pleaded not guilty, and declared his intention of traversing. John Smith, William Tillman, and William Butterworth were again placed at the bar. They were indicted for sedi tious conspiracy, unlawful possession of arms, and seditious speeches, at Manchester. They, pleaded not guilty, and said they would traverse. Edward Ryley was, indicted for riot and for being present at an 'unlawful assembly for military training, &c., at New ton. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and decided upon being tried at thes&as s i zes . It was su b sequen tly i n timated, that he had not the right to traverse. William Nailer, William Stanfield, John Wright, John Rouges, and William Darren were charged with having been present at and attended, at Newton, a meeting and assembly of persons for the purpose of being trained and drilled to the use of arms, &c., without any lawful authority. The prisoners pleaded not guilty. They will be tried during the present assizes. William Fairplay, alias James Coupe, charged with a similar offence, at the same place, pleaded not guilty. Joseph Booth, charged with riot and assault, at Manches ter, pleaded not guilty, and expressed his determination of being tried at these assizes: John Degnan, indicted for having used seditious words, at Castleton, pleaded not guilty, and intimated that he should traverse. 'William Barker and Frederick Davidson pleaded not guilty to a charge of conspiracy and riot, at Manchester, and ex pressed their determination to traverse. Charles M Milian and John Green was indicted for having demanded money from Ellen Seddon, wife of John Seddon, and for conspiracy. The prisoners pleaded not guilty, and would be tried during the present assizes. John Latchford and Adam Doodson were placed at the bar with the above, and the four were charged with seditious conspiracy and riot at Hindley. They pleaded not guilty, and will be tried at the present assizes. Thos Ratcli f fe pleaded not guilty to a charge of seditious conspiracy and riot, at Apsall : will be tried during the pre sent assizes. Robert and Daniel Ball, indicted for seditious conspiracy and unlawful possession of arms, at Bolton, pleaded not guilty, and intimated, that they would traverse. Daniel Ball was then charged with conspiracy and unlawful posses sion of arms, at Bolton. He pleaded not guilty, and would traverse. Win. Willoughby, John Warden, and John Lloyd, to a charge of seditious riot and conspiracy, at Bolton, pleaded not guilty, and would traverse. Jan Wightman pleaded not guilty to a charge of riot, at Bolton, and will be tried at the present assizes. James Sharpies, Andrew Morgan, Thomas Farrell, John Holt, James Pilling, Henry Parkinson, Jonathan Merle, Joseph Rostock, and John Gill, indicted for a riot, at Bolton, severally pleaded not guilty; and all expressed their determi nation to be tried during the present assizes, excepting Henry Parkinson, who said he would traverse. James Heywood, Joseph Wilde, John Holt, James Morris, Edward Glennon, Christopher Gillebrand, John Pearsall, Chas. Morris, Irene Crompton, William Openshatc, Riehd. Eastwood, Andrew Morgan, Solomon Greenhalgh, John Pilling, and Thomas Heywood, were charged with riot, at Bolton. They pleaded not guilty, and will all be tried dur ing the present assizes, except Charles Morris, who said he would traverse. William Baldershaw, William Harvey, and Joseph Fitton were placed at the bar. The indictments preferred against them had been cut by the Grand Jury. They were, there fore, discharged. The Rev. Wilson Pickers Jackson was again placed at the bar for the purpose of hearing what bail would be taken in his case. Mr. Sergeant ATCIIERLY said, he would merely mention, that there were three bills against him. He was described in them as a dissenting teacher. All that he (the learned ser geant) asked on behalf of the crown was, such security as wmdd- satisfy the ends of justice. Mr. AnoLPHy§, on behajf of the prisoner, said, it was not to be presumed that the latter was a rich man because he was a minister, and because .he made a respectable appea rance . He was instructed t o s a y, :. that the contrary was the fact, and that he would have difficulty in procuring hail. The JtipiK - Said„the prisoner must find security, himself in £1Q0,9 4119,',s1,ireties in :COS each, for his appeara nce a t w the next ass i ;- 'Pie tike sureties to be. given in each o f th e three indictrneAtf,,,,, It 'was 'arranged; that forty-eight hours' notice of the,lipl Should.he i 4iVen,but that such notice should be y‘;,ai;ved 4ejopment th'e t ,solicitorfor the prosecution were sattsVecl;;NT ,the'bail. ..- ,_,': A e.o;;qp . 4'4 Smith.; against whom were two bills, was told that, fispe bail *Mild be:required from him. 4h 1414 p, addressing Mr. Adolphus, said, it was t o be:imFM 499 that the. securities were to incl u d e th a t t h e -proTect i s i hoil pie of good behaviour and keep the peace in 111 e 11) i dap tim,,,- _H &ion . BulYerworth, against whom were two bills, was requireditagiVe similar sureties. The prisoner put it to his :1- , -,...1-1,...., !_. 1 ...•. jidoi• la b ouring man as from one who had moved in better society and could more easily procure it. His•LORDSTIIP said, if two - X5O sureties were difficult to procure, if it .voultl accommodtite the parties, they might bring forward four in ;£25 each. William Tillman, against whom were two indictments, was required to find the same bail in each. ThewbOle of the Chartists who had traversed, except the fair individuals last named, were placed at the bar. l 'AlSt.'*COluiE•rr said, he appeared for Lloyd and Warden. T4firvere in the situation of labourers, and it would be difflonitifor thern'to procure such bail. He thought it was Wot'lnsii'al or requisite for the prisoners to he bound to good behavidur, which would render it almost impossible for them to het out df prison. His Loiinstur said, it was formerly usual to require the sureties to be bound for good behaviour, but that had lately ben neglected. The state of the country required that it - Shot'ld'bb so in these instances. I‘J r. ecinnETT said, it was assuming, as it were, that the frisoners'hid already been found guilty. His Lounsint. said, they were indicted for that of which they had not cleared themselves. I Str. COBBETT asked if the amount of bail could not be reduded. On application from . Mr. WiGnTmAN, the recognisances in the case of Higgings convicted at Chester, and sentenced to eighteen 'months imprisoninent, were destroyed. Samuel' and :Tani Bardsley, William Cox, and James Wardle were brought up. His LORDSHIP said, he did not intend to pass sentence upon them HI the others were tried : but, as Mr. Wilkins, their counsel, had some doubts whether he should be present when they were next brought up, his lordship consented to hear what he had to say in their behalf. Mr. WILKINS informed his lordship, that the prisoners had erred unwittin4ly, without having any notion that they were breaking any law, and they were now f u ll o f sorrow and . contrition. The AT ; roßtitY-GENERAL, in reply, admitted,' that the character of the prisoners might be exemplary. They had, however, been present at a riotous and dangerous assembly, where the cap' of liberty was carried on a black flag. In the house of the Bardsleys were found two sharp ground pikes, two staves that fitted them, and instruments for rivetting them in. Witnesses were called who gave the prisoners good cha racters. His LORDSHIP repeated, that he should e lefer passing sentence till the others were tried. It was fixed, that the trials Queen v. Ryley, Queen v. Holmes, Queen v. Fairplay, alias Coupe, be tried on Mon day.. The Bolton cases will come on when the felonies are all disposed of. HIGHWAY ROBBERRY. Alexander Shee, 23, was charged with having assaulted Ralph Boyer, near Manchester, and stolen from his person the sum of £4OO. Mr. Brandt prosecuted, and Mr. Wilkins appeared for the defence. Ralph Boyer stated, that he was sixty-nine years old. On Saturday, the 20th April, he went to Manchester for money for his employers. He received the sum of £650: £4OO was in gold, and £250 in £5 notes. Ile had two waistcoats on, and he placed it between the upper and under waistcoat. It was half-past ten o'clock in the morning when he passed out of Manchester. He had got to the third mile-stone, when ' he saw a feW - watercresess, and, wishing to gather some, he went through a gap into the field. When he returned, the prisoner at the bar and another man, who stood at the end of a large building, off the turn-pike road, asked him what he had been getting. Ile- said, he had been getting a few cresses. The man, who was not in custody, said, " You may get as many as you have a-Mind, if you choose to go up that lane; there's such a quantity of them." Witness went one hundred and twenty yards up the lane, followed by them. He then told them, that there was nothing at all of the kind. Suddenly he received a very heavy blow on the head, with a stone. He (the witness) turned round, and saw the prisoner gathering his arm up for .second blow. Witness held up his arms to defend his head. The prisoner struck at him :repeatedly, till he had brought him to the ground. The pri soner struck him several times on the head. Was very much hurt. The other man was close to him all the time. When witness was on the ground, the prisoner at the bar got upon him, and tried to put a handkerchief into his mouth, as he had been crying out before that. They were both upon him, and, while the prisoner was gagging him, the o th er man was robbing him of the money. He was pulling out of his breast the sovereigns. When he had pulled them out he exclaimed, " I've got it !" immediately upon which they both sprung to their feet and ran away as fast as they could, together, down the lane, the road that they had co me . Wi tness followed them a little. When he got to a little distance, to some houses, at Gorton, he gave information of what had hap pened. A man named Backhouse, with others, went in pursuit. He (witness was not able to go in pursuit, being too much injured, and weak from loss of blood, w hi c h poured from his head profusely. Soon afterwards, the prisoner was brought back and recognised by the witness. William Backhouse, a hatter, of Gorton, testified, that the prosecutor came to Gorton on the morning in question, with his head bleeding. He complained that he had been robbed of £4OO, and - described the men who had robbed him. Witness and others set off in pursuit. They saw the prisoner cross the road and enter a field. They sought for him in the field and found him at the back of a hedge gathering nettles. The left side of his face was covered with blood. The pursuers caught hold of him, 'and told him that he and his partner had robbed a man of £400: He said he would go with them any where for what he • had deme. He had blood upon his hands and wrists. He was asked how the blood came there, and he said the nettles had stung him. He denied that he had ever been with any other man that morning. When he was taken into the presence of Boyer, th e l a tt er i mmediately recognised him, The prisoner was searched, and 4s 6d was found upon him. _ Joseph Taylor deposed to having seen the prisoner, with two other men, loitering near the lane end where the old man was robbed. He saw the prosecutor come up, and he was accosted by the prisoner and one ot h er man. he'third man had entered his field : he ordered him out and did not see him afterwards. The two men and the old man went along the lane, and, in a short time, he heard a sound like a voice ; be thought it was a bare, and said, " Yonder men have put up a hare." He stepped on the banking, and saw two men running, but he could not say who they were, but they had on the same coloured jockets as the men whom he saw go down the lane. About half an hour after he saw the prisoner in custody. Mr. Merrick, of the firm of John Howard and Co., the prosecutor's employers, p r o ve d th e d e li very o f 400 sovereigns to the latter to carry to the factory at Hyde, near Manches ter. Mr. WILKINS addressed the jury for the defence, dwelling principally on the mistakes that have been frequently made in respect to identity. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. As it was intimated that the prisoner had witnesses to speak to his character, who, however, did not answer when called upon, his lordship deferred passing sentence, saying that he would hear them on Monday. The Court adjourned at half-past five o'clock. NISI PRIUS COURT.—SATURDAY. LIBEL.—WALLWORK AND ANOTHER V. TAYLOR. This was an action arising out of a dispute as to a recently invented machine for the uniting of engine bands and leather strap, so as to leave no inequality of surface. The defendant, who is an attorney at Bolton, had (acting for other parties) drawn up and published in the Leeds Mercury, of the Ist June, 1839, an advertisement, charging the plaintiffs with manufacturing and selling engines, of this description, of a spurious character the idea of which had been surreptitiously obtained from one made by the defendant's client, a person of the name of Whittaker, an ingenious mechanic at Bolton, who was pretty clearly proved to be the inventor of this ma chine. After the case had occupied about three hours, the parties consented, that a verdict for the plaintiffs, for nomi nal damages, sh ou ld b e returned. Verdict for the plaintiffs, damages ls. ILLEGALLY PRACTISING AS AN APOTHECARY.—APOTHE CARIES' COMPANY V. GREENOUGH. This was a special jury case. The following gentlemen were empanelled :—Messrs. George Bealey, Henry John Steele, John Sutton, Joseph Fry, Thomas Murray Gladsto n e, John Abraham Tinne Thomas Phillips, Jonathan Smith, Thomas Robinson, William Currie, John Hamilton, and Henry James Nich o l son. T he action was brought by: the master and wardens of the Apothecaries' Company, of Lon don, against Henry John Greenough, a chemist and druggist at St. Helens, for having practised as an apothecary without having been been regularly educated and certified, under the provisions of an act passed in the 55th of the reign of George the third, amending and altering one of the reign of James the first. Mr. Cresswell and Mr. Robinson for the Plaintiffs, and Mr. Watson for the defendant. Mr. CRESSWELL stated the case. He said that the council of the Apothecaries' Company, who were the plaintiffs, had not brought the action for the purpose of gratifying any per sonal feeling or reflecting any injury on the defendant, but, simply, in the discharge of what they deemed a public duty, namely, to protect, as far as they could, her Majesty's sub jects from being practised on by ignorant empirics. The du trimposed on them was one of very considerable public jrn portance, and one which they could not exercise without, in some sort, acting what seemed an ungracious part, - and they had no great desire to put themselves forward on such occa sions. But, in instances where parties had violated the sta tute under which they where incorporated, they would be guilty of a great dereliction of duty, if they did not bring the offending party before the public, to deter him and others who might also be guilty, from continuing their malpractices. Un til the reign of George the third, although the Apothecaries' Company had been in existence for many years before, they had no authority to interfere with any persons, however ig norant or incompetent, who took on themselves to give ad vice and to administer medicines to patients. In the year 1815, however, a statute had passed to restrain persons, with out knowledge, or education, or acquaintance with the prin ciples or practice of medicine, from giving medical advice, sometimes to the injury of the constitution of the patients and sometimes to the loss of life. By that act a hoard of the Apothecaries' Company was constituted to examine all per sons intending to act as apothecaries, and, by one section, all persons were restrained from practising until they had pas sed an examination and obtained a certificate from that board. In order to enable the board to efficiently carry out that provision of the bill, and prevent unauthorised persons from practising, by a subsequent section (the 30th) a penalty of X2O was imposed on each infringement; and it was only by imposing that penalty that the company were enabled to be of benefit. From the time of the passing of that act, the Apothecaries Company had taken great pains to raise the standard of education amongst those practising as apothe caries. They had, by degrees, become more strict in exami nation, and he would now show to what extent the education of the medical practitioner was to be carried. In the first place, the aspirants were, according to the act of Parliament, to serve an apprenticeship of five years ' • and then the com pany required that th e y s h ou ld attend three winter and two summer sessions in some school of medicine ; they were to attend a vast number of lectures on chemistry, anatomy, physiology, botany, and the principles and practice of medi cine; and that was to be continued through five whole ses. sions in addition to the five years apprenticeship, before they were allowed to apply to be examined. It was of great im portance, that unauthorised persons should not be allowed to creep into the profession, to administer advice and pre scribe medicine, whereby, no doubt, much mischief and loss of life arose, more especially amongst the working classes ; for they always found a disposition to trust to quackery where the parties were the least instructed. It had been said, that, in all instances where persons were found running after quacks, whether in religion or medicine, they were wanting in intelligence. It was undoubtedly known how prone peo ple were, in medicine, to trust to one who professed to be the curer, by one remedy, of all diseases. Some people were wild enough to trust to Morison's Pills, which were said to cure every thing ; and he did not know how many thousand pounds were said to be paid yearly for the Government stamps. The Jury had heard, too, of St. John Long, who professed to cure persons by rubbing their backs with a certain blistering matter—a course of treatment which terminated in the death of many people ; and it was, therefore, necessary that the company should enforce the powers with which they were invested. There were besides quacks of that description, another class of unauthorised per sons who took on themselves to practice, and those were chemists and druggists. Their proper sphere was to mix up and sell, not to administer. With respect to those persons there was a very common error, which the company were desirous to be made known, namely, that they might pre scribe over the counter to persons who came into the shop, and that that was not practising as an apothecary. There was no doubt, however, that it was practising as an apo thecary. From that habit of giving advice over the coun ter, it was an easy step to go out and visit some patient, Vii c ke b Xr If c e r Me r s eg j; lai k-ii? ClkgedYl;gl l -, Wl T t i r s e e . l A s olt! cary. Then there were others who practised as' surgeons and apothecaries, and who, if attacked by the company's agents, said. "No ; we do not practise as apothe caries, but as surgeons, and only give medicines as auxiliary to some surgical cure." However, that was an affair between them and the College of Surgeons. In this case there was nothing of that kind. The defendant was a chemist and druggist, practising at St. Helens ; and he had not even con fined himself to selling over the counter, to prescribing in his own shop, but had gone out to attend patients, not gra tuitiously and out of charity, as had been represented, but had charged for his visits as well as his medicines. The cases which he had attended were not surgical cases, for one or two of them were typhus fever ; and in no instance was there any pretence that they could be called surgical cases, nor, indeed, had the defendant any right to practice as a surgeon. He (the learned counsel) should exhibit some of the bills of the defendant, and the jury would find that he had charged as a regularly educated and authorited apothecary would have done. It having come to the knowledge of the company that he was practising in this unauthorised manner, they sent him a letter, desiring an assurance from him that he would re linquish the practice, or they should be obliged, in discharge of their public duty, to take legal measures against him. To that letter no answer was returned. The board then sent to in form him, that, as he had not availed himself of the opportunity which the master of the wardens had given him of satisfying them on the subject, they had examined witnesses and were about to proceed against him. Then, after the writ had been issued, and the proceeding had advanced to a considerable length, and when he had an opportunity of availing himself of the offer beforehand to. take no proceedings if he would promise not to offend again, the defendant wrote to the com pany a letter, in which he insinuated, that it was his success that had induced his rivals in the town to complain of him, and stating, that he had only paid visits of charity and hu manity, and had not, in truth, exercised the art of an apothe cary, although -it ,would be shown, that he had regularly charged his poor dupes for attending them. The defendant, in that letter, also promised, if the action were stopped, to cease going out and giving advice. The company were quite willing to stay proceedings, keeping them suspended over his head, if he would promise not to practice either at home or - abroad. He had not chosen to avail himself of that offer, and the consequence was, that the case had been brought into court. The company, to protect the public against that which was a prevailing evil, had felt bound to bring the case before a public tribunal, in order that this man and others might be informed of the state of the law, and induce or compel them to conform to it in future. Mary Owens examined.— She is the wife of William Owens, who lives at St. Helens. John Gerard, the son of Joseph Gerard, became a lodger in her house in July, 1838. He died on the 12th of February, in this year. He was taken ill on the 31st January, and then sent for Mr. Greenough, who lives at St. Helens, and carried on a druggist's shop. She went for him, but he was not then at home. He, however, came in the course o f th e same evening. Mr. Greer was afterwards sent for, and.attended Gerard until the 11th Feb. Dr. Mac Leroy, of Farnworth, was also called in. Mr. Greenough attended Gerard, almost every day. She asked him what ailed Gerard ; and the answer was, that he had a pleurisy fever. Gerard was not then lying in bed, but he afterwards was confined to his bed, and, whilst there, Green ough went up to see him. The medicines which the patient took came from Mr. Greenough's shop. She sometimes fetched them herself. The defendant gave the medicines to her, and they were taken, by Gerard. Sometimes the shop boy of Mr. Greenough brought the medicines. Cross -examined.—The chemist and druggist's shop be longed to the defendant's sister. He attended in the shop regularly, and conducted the business. There is a sign over the door, having on it, " M. Greenough, chemist and drug gist." When Dr. Mac •Leroy was called in, he said thfit all had been done that could have been done. Dr. Mac Leroy came on the Thursday succeeding the Tuesday that Mr. Greenough came. Joseph Gerard, the father of the last witness, stated, that he had paid a bill for Mr. Greenough, for attending his de ceased son, of £3 9s. 6d. The defendant did not send in the bill. Witness called at the shop to pay it. The bill produced was the one Mr. Greenough gave to him. The bill was put in, and a portion of it read. There were charges for visits, (the rate being Is. 6d. a visit,) as well as for medicines furnished. On his cross-examination, the witness said, that a person had called upon him for the purpose of getting hold of the bill, stating, that a wager had been laid upon it. He, how ever, refused to deliver it DA, though he had shown it. A number of other persOns were called, principally poor persons, who proved that Mr. Greenough had attended either themselves, some member or members of their families, or some person with whom they were acquainted. In two or three cases the disease was typhus fever, one was inflamma tion of the lungs, another a violent cold, and in all these cases Mr. Greenough had been successful in his practice, as peered from the cross-examinations of Mr. Watson. Henry Marsh stated that the defendant had informed him that he had a great many patients, and had a number of bills to make out, upwards of three hundred ; but that he had great difficulty in getting paid, as his patients were principally poor people. The bill produced was admitted by Mr. Watson to be in the handwriting of the defendant. Mr. CRESSWELL intimated his intention of going for one penalty only. Mr. WATSON then addressed the Jury on behalf of his client. He said, that he gave full credit to the Company of Apothecaries for having instituted these proceedings out of a sense of public duty, and he felt called on to say so, inasmuch as they had not instructed his learned friend (Mr. Cresswell) to cast any aspersions on the skill, competence, or ability of Mr. Greenough, who would be an ornament to his profession if he had only passed his examination. Mr. Cresswell was not correct in saying that the company was first incorporated in the reign of James I. They were then a private company only, and it was not till 1815 that the present law was ob tained. Even now, if any person, or number of persons, sustained an accident, a chemist or druggist might attend them as a surgeon, and administer medicines, and he would not be liable to a penalty under the Apothecaries' Act, More over, any man, whether of education or information it mat tered not, might put doctor at the end of his name, take a gold-headed cane in his hand, get into a carriage, and practice, as a physician, in any to wn In the kingdom, There was no o at en, i4 law to prevent him d o i ng so . Mr. Watson then contend, that, with refe r e n ce to the chemists Par there was a particular exception in the Ac tha t the P e / In the 28th section it was expressly provided, , tpo te,t, a ° and other enactments were not to apply, in anY''prelo''',o chemists and druggists, or to affect their trade 'Z vi ,. to l'!„ vending, dispensing, and compounding drugs. w herell ; it appeared a most difficult matter, indeed, to tell e i t ernic"j business of a chemist and druggist began and wh e ,,, r er of ° at where the art and mystery of the apothecarYFcire— ted ,'can that of the chemist terminated. He was in st rt e of , '" o , nearly every chemist and druggist was in thee. a ti l lat is, ! ie . over the counter medicines for any ailm en; el ar inJ might go in to ask what v•a- good for l a cold , arid. o e i, and whether he could give you u s a g nything for i A t n ; dy et,a cc° ol tell you and mix what he considered best. m . a s ing to the argument of his learned friend, that f tbe on the business of an apothecary. The law 00 ,, ,oboti i to l they would hear from his lordship ; but What L' e e ' p pon tlai a to ss t i h st e a i n r e c e on re si n d d e e r r a e t d ion to w t as he , winhdietllidedrutahlse attendance p on,' who 0 11 i e , e tbet't were as a chemist and druggist or a surgeon ant' s l oe foll e oa He submitted, that the defendant had acted In ~,e ' eetl,A capacity, and that he was justified in so doing I)l4iesra'" of the 35th Geo. 111., to which he had referred. " us be e° ll i friend had been pleased to illustrate his case h y't s sidered, the most unfortunate instances — M orisen St. John Long's practice. With respect to W r- hekt ie y, they were a most efficient medicine, and he s polie. , . (tad,. in the presence of those who have used them niaceraclitiooe ter,)—and, as to St. Jong Long he was a ree l° faaa• es , Mr. CRESSWELL.—He was a gentleman s foo bas is„, Mr. WATSON.—Whatever he was, he carried, ° I I I ' , fe ai fc t i in one of the most fashionable streets in Lonn i 'L thea rt o consulted, too, .by the most fashionable people. P gas V a t the letter which had been addressed to t h e conli' d P defendant, in which he said that his employer li , a u ving,Prof to much trouble and loss in consequence of his. f e e bil, , ,, e tised, and that he had d one so entirely through s ey, for t w ig humanity. Now, he wished to'impress on the i n ora in 4 o sake of the chara c t er o f hi s c lient, that every /wens letter was fully borne out by the evidence. 5 t. ..-ting r i, if ol situated in a very populous neighbourhood, consi:htio di r cipally of poor people; and all who had been h r l r ing uil Sl as witnesses were poor persons, who had been su Greer ioal s o serious complaints ; and many found that Mr• h i s re °. ji practice had been extremely successful, and, G. )110 small,. one witness having stated, that be 0„, 1 1 r , e delea ra r hadgreat affirmed, number that f at billshe wasrem remaining actuated only n u l n y p ai d • 3- .• of h e by a feeln. i r g eet aslo nity, and that, he thought, was shown by 3 street mentioned by one of the witnesses. A you one ni f ol labouring under typhus fever : her friends sent ' e el oba b at cal man, and he refused to go, and the se ce i l i le cs-,1 applied to also refused personally to attend to the JO sent his assistant. Then having a knowle b tig and skill of Greenough, diey applied to him, and be o ire 4 t , any man of humanity would have done nil der c t ie feua",,o stances. It might be law to impose upon the .prew d 'i t h penalty for having so acted ; but the law wa s e ' t r o de t "be hard one, though, of course, the jury had nothl e d 00 4 1 the hardness of the case. The defendant action 3 id ""to v et . s had acted as a chemist and druggist, but to he was an apothecary, or induced a single Pel l e jall,"'i. e o' him bY having represented himself as such. 311,' teas' say, under the direction of his lordship, whetheer :dedtbaet ough bad acted as an apothecary. If it were d e' set ibiP had, then he must go to prison till the law relea ‘,• a t, submit to the mercy o f th e Ap o thecaries' Cola3lter iii,'ociag `' a lo t , The learned JUDGE then summed up. A 0 luded to that secti on of th e ac t which irriPn' es Navi u ltbs i any person who practises as apothecary withon4o/1000 tabled a certificate, he said, that it was not Pr` t i o n .a r , of the defendant had obtained one : then the V e t ,ecn' i ." o ,l whether he came within the meaning of the 2St - 00 to' cf , the act, which provided, that nothing the d r should be construed to affect the trade or chemist or druggist in buying, preparing, coinP ° J., " o st pensing, and vending medicines and comPow'i either wholesale or retail • but, that he shall 8 ," , e rh l a r and exercise, and follow his trade and business, in allure ner, and as fully, and as amply, and to all red e n, AO poses as the same trade and business was ca r f ac t, oa: ei jg the passing of the act? This was a question oi ' 3 v as ,: ing be the jury were more qualified to decide on than nes i t les , that they were twelve, and he was only one• singhedtl't a matter of fact, it was for the consideratienat"teof. alone. His own belief was, that, before the P rei t e :., ,t0 act, the chemist and druggist• had not, to any f es orib l 7llo acted as apothecaries—that was to say , in PbetiVet;so patients. The Jury would draw a distinction• bei be mere fact of prescribing, and the right to preserl7l,. npe sa`lje• the chemists and druggists might have ocsien3" a privilege which, by right, did not belong to tbe ili c i arl i tbe fendant's counsel had argued, that chetrdshtsurioeinee,,Ofer were not only in the habit of prescribing, - was I itgi of opinion, that, by the words of the act, there , oba , e i o, ci preserved to them of so doing. The words we re ' ree a r l a air preparing, compounding, dispensing, and we n " t he te le and drugs :" but the act' gave no definition of t. ee o f P o p n e m n s s t i ri n .m g e , leaving it to be construed by the Pi le° e CRESSWELL.—I apprehend, the re tba" 4: 31 m y lon. , Disr• ac rir nothing in the word which means prescribing' o f P re e, ° in the profession, means makino• up the orders ioto tions of another—" a dispensin ° chemist," f9 r ,„ , 0 0 P, s n 't is often seen put up at the doors of the cherrns' furA H ni i js s hi; L ßtl o o. l: gi D iAv S Ne ri .. lP apprahended that dispen sing oug b f f : describe e • icitly the difference between t he v, . — Would your lordship he k inci t e r s 4 ° l chemist and druggist and that of an a potheca,rY t • he BC ,nni!!': The JUDGE.—There i s no d e fi n ition of it 111 apothecary is entitled to prescribe, that is certain; tb ‘ d extent the powers of the druggists go depends:are prsloo il ing of the words I have quoted to you, ° d r t I°n d °' the trade before 1815. That is a question of o e i , o lst stances, e sd,e but t m f i r n o e m thamong"ewonytooufrtsheleve-s— trade.o t fro litr o' i . 7 ,! The Jury retired to consider their verdict, q uarost them a copy of the act of Parliament. LI tli r f e ;paP er %e an hour they returned, when the Forernan rea" ev 4e; l be ft ing, that, in consequence of the absence of a n Y c i for show the practice of the trade, they bad foal' 3lsi• fendant. , t hat ie. t hee The JUDGE.—You had better not give your verdict definitive, either for the one or th e d : ri t• „O il ; The FOREMAN.—Then we find for the def ee c o, r;; r elh e UPSETTING OF A STAGECOACH.—WEA II" , II Ve at!), b ", This was an action brought by Sannlo watchmaker, of this town, against Mr. Rieh aru tbate prietor of the stagecoaches running from E°` ter, to recover comp ensa ti on i n d a mages f °l. 3 .. tained by the up se tti ng o f a coac h in which the „, a nassen , er. ho enncr+nrrpnngs /NC gence ot the driver. Mr. Murphy appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Brandt, and Mr. Warren for the defendat i " t be r rd,' It appeared, that, o n th e Bth of May last,raees,oooo' th w e ith wa a s p r a e rt t y urnin offri h e o n n ci l s e , ihnatdhebeeveennitnog, io Che t s h te e r i, isi dY tti S ll p o ,,i , he coach was overturned, in consequence, a s t he dl l oic't tiff's witnesses a ffi rme d, o f a r i va l r y between ne 'd the!, ;t li oi t the Lady Stanley and an opposition co_a . c i li_fl o s lit c od l ,et delle, as to who should get first. e", , afr' o 4te P the swearing on both sides : one party as strong d r at;het' t' the others as stoutly denied. Ail the ler . 0 0 attributed the accident to the determination esfolnlVie:sd; driver of the Hirondelle, to pass the La d y t he s ide tempting to do which the latter was driven so i , e rt‘ t the wheels getting into the ditch, the coach ur:tieir i ptl" one witness said, laughing, all the passengers Thee hedge into the field, like a pack of crovrs., arm was dislocated by the fall. The Jury gave a ver di c t fo r th e defendan t. The Court rose at twenty minutts past sec s M T The. Sergeant court ei.g e a o n C p E c tl T E tu y T , l s sT ir cas. ol ,, a . t 1 , 0 00; tio te R nA I Td : He V aHEt N n C n e 0 e R I o T e k . -111 - O.) , "DA V• Mr. WILSON, appeared to prefer the pr os ec „O ' soner was without counsel. vire c7 ----Holme, was indicted for seditious et'x's. co~-r on the 12th instant. 'ol'. w ith tol alo T n h g e wi i t n h di o c t t h m er e s nt to ch e a re rg a e te d atrhieot parnidsotiniesrtnelsecje,,,Dit, j a e n e d ts e ; nd to an r g e e s r is t t he; h li e ve l s av, un s d o f p rtoheperrteyalthof ; b or er a iethb t e o e,ittlie: ::: :: , it o J workmen of certain mills to turn out i're n ' meat. Richard Beswick, head constable of tor' , it l ) that he went to the top of Alcock-lane , p T r r i a s v o e n r e s r e- w s a tr s ee in t meta t pjfoxesiroofda.bout lucv;001 them a banner, with the cap of liberty. o f scriptions on the flags were " The rigr There e et p, that won't - work, neither shall he eat.'" ty - be ` 1 ,0 13 of music with the crowd, which when they '3l. tole ocri ceased to play. Witness ordered ' the Prisl b e e 0701, 6 0 into custody. Subsequently he told him pon e ' l 4l which he was apprehended,—that he had a he bps mills to turn out the hands. He replied had 3/ 1 but to four or five mills. that Ile AO Cross-examined,--Prisoner told m e engaged that morning to carry the braille?. 04 , to have control of the mob. t e r t ,-• lot t David Lepit corroborated the above ePP',. ri 's ory Jeremiah Woodcock, overlooker, at Bar l t - glirioll e that on the morning of the 12th August, abou iv . ei he was at work at the mill. A crowd Caine .r•sol a banner, with the cap of liberty, with th e and ocsedlot crowd clambered over the wall, into the Ya r .`, l i c and h e e g f gate. Part of the mob rushed into the mu: w ed t, - „ , „1.! " turn out your hands." The engineer or _. t , 00 0 to be stopped, and the hands were turned .••• the ,0 0 persons who came into th e mill struck lllui o wa r 0 B s and another presented a pi s tol at him• , the e riot y 01 . A man named Norbe r y, deposed to seen'',. was out of the mill, and said that the prison e' d iet e ,t' rO l 01 flag and the cap of liberty. nten ce t ierl'ais The jury found the prisoner Guilty• se Ste" Edward Rhiley, was indicted for having e ing for the purpose of being trained to the_,:pietioP arms ; and with training others to military _ 4 lO • Mr. Wilkins appeared for the prisoner. t he AP The particulars of the case, as stated bY,detice%„,ikep GENERAL, will be found in the subjoined l o on 5e David Higg,inson„police-officer, of Ma" c _ on the 3d of May, in consequence of infor'' t iot 1 "0 1 ' to the Old-lane, at Newton. He we nt int,o saw about 25 men standing in the lane ; orP• the They were drawn up into a line, and the pi' Thr_4rs 0 0 front. They bad not any arms with thea-,,ei te d thr o k ordered them to stand back, with the right no'rdeeeir hi o ji left foot. They obeyed his command. 1-I %g tb b l e ir b i t/ " stand at ease." They did so, by cIaPP I nu t t t bA t tr, He called out " attention," and they thelkerdollef(oo, to their sides. He said, " Now boylinei me t " well." The prisoner brought in other , t hen rear—a great number. They formed al ° itig tbi'„o , ,r4 drilling continued for about an hour. DT ect' l s o, ness stood in front of them, amongst ti%bout numbers that were drilling increased to _ l li° not 4,3 • l e the 11 if 4' tY was another person commanding besic a e 0 00 I , orders. Witness did not know him. ";b o ut Rhiley before this occasion. There Nye r : l ;ot 1 1 e .,. 4 i1e ( ), tors present. Th e d r illi n g commenced , . t , ,0 1 evening, and continued till about ha lt-P h a r eastl he to n i le they were dispersing, they fell into four 070 01° calling out " quick march." Previous . the ot I"`" bag" t CP 5 1, they were in two lines. When they,g a sa b tes o , road, an order was given to " halt, .7 t hey' 01 4'011, 0 , " march forward." Witness accompanie.t. nto fo . quarters of a mile. At the time they fell I oviaßj, Act;, bY • 1 J- seer the prisoner had ordered them to do so, .. ison er o r ov e r four a-breast." At the drilling, the P i , wit ut ol itile,i,lolt boys, you've done that very well ; we Pi', ~/ the p o v ti bG and then we shall be ready for the pit w hell _nr" t- te information to Mr Beswick, and was Pres,_ e e Lock lo t s,,posli, was taken into custody. It uus at be bad di, gc,P , ' same evening. About ten minutes a fter t „ es to .st prisoner, Beswick took the prisoner ia ro of': the Lock-ups, at the time they were W ar io gg ie riL, - t examined. s7 A p t et t e h r e tary procession. I found Uross ai l ' a t r d and a v , Jiro Avu,o,, They are not here. At the time the otrle',:raits.,,,ere'et; prisoner called out to the spectators for rc P t, '„ " fell in." When we got over the Sal.:` is "oot t ' i t :a'a r 7o l se cry of " nicks—there's a policeman- the lidos dress. They said, if there was a poliicefell int o o der, o f kill him as go to Manchester. tithe eoa„"',4.arJs.oooll in front, with the adjutant7general• t t 100 't. ers serjeant. I marched with them abo" , w ese' l 2t ittpt marching with them when Buckenall t hre e i :; vi ta f oi at a place called Miles Platting, abt w rt he 0 0 , , 1)e mile from the lock-ups. After leaviiitou 0041e.600100Y otimrtew! got to itoliaell exoficeriii,lo; stood beside a public-house door• e that 4 100 engaged in any military exercise befor ~he not fall into tho ranks until after theYlt3P".