The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-07 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CHICIIIT:—CiFtyrsoT, Ave. 6.

ashes arm Parke end a spedsl Jury.
11..tTLITAT COHTENIATION ire CLEM or FATAL Acct.
DENT.—AEXHIVORTItt EXECI:TRIX v. THE SorTie EASTERN
REILWAT COXPANT.—This was an action brought under
the recent statute by the widow of a labourer who had been
in the service of the defendants, and who was alleged to have
been killed in consequence of the negligence of their ser-
vants, to recover compensation from them for the injury she
had sustained by his death. The action ras brought in forme
pauperis. In January last, in the night, deceased and above
fifty other labourers were engaged in removing a quantity of
chalk which had fallen on the railway cutting at Mentheca ;
they had some ballast-trucks and two engines. The chalk
was conveyed to a place called Battle-bridge, near
Mentham, and it was here that the accident oc-
curred. According to the evidence of the plaintiff's
witnesses, the train of carriages bad arrived at the
place in question, and had nearly become stationary, and the
ganger had given the usual signal for the men to begin
emptying the trucks. The deceased was on the top of the
chalk in one cof the loaded waggons, and was about to obey
1 the signal, when the engines made a sudden plunge forward,
Gamin • violent jerk, which threw the deceased under the
wheels of the train, and he was crushed to death almost im-
mediately. Upon the cross-examination of the witnesses it
was admitted to be a violation of the orders of the company
fee any labourer, engaged es the deceased was, to ride upon
the loaded trucks, and it appeared that a luggage waggon
had been sent with the train purposely for them to ride in..
There also did not appear to be any clear evidence of the
signal for stopping the train having been given, and
one of the witnesses who was examined before the co-
roner expressed an opinion that the accident would
not have happened if the deceased had obeyed orders
and ridden in the truck provided for the labourers.—
Mr. Serjeant Channel', for the company, said that, what-
ever comae they might have taken in this matter, from a
feeling of sympathy for the unfortunate woman, who had
been deprived of the support of her husband, it was impos-
sible fur them to admit any legal liability, as they were
satisfied that the accident arose entirely from the set of the
deceased in wilfully disobeying the orders of his employers.
He submitted to the jury that it would be a great straining
of the statute to say that tge defendants were liable
so make compensation to the widow of the deceased
and he at the same time urgld that when the safety of
the public travelling by runways so much depended
upon the regulations being strictly attended to, it
would be establishing a most dangerous precedent
to give compensation in a case where the injury had
been occasioned entirely through disobedience and dis-
rept& of the regulations that had been male.--. Several wit-
MOM were then examined, from whose evidence it appeared
that special orders were given by the company that the
lawmen should not ride upon the loaded trucks, and that
the thereased had been particularly cauti•ued oa several oc-
casions not to do so. It was also positively denied that any
eigaal was given to the men to commenoe their work.—The
jury, after deliberating about twenty minutes, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff, Damages 100t.,-501. tor the widow,
and 251. fer each of her two children.

OVORD ClRCUlT.—Giorcasyza, Aro. 5.
The commission was opened here last evening by Mr.
Justice Etle ; this morning both courts proceeded to busi-
ness at 12 o'clock. The calendar for the county contains the
names of 61 prisoners, in all 52 cases; out of this number,
however, 23 lee charged with larceny. The city calenda;
contains 11 cants. In the cause list there are 20 notices ; of
these 3 are marked as special juries. During the day six
causes bate been disposed of by Mr. Justice Coleridge ; three,
however, were undefended ; and of the-remainder one was
an action by a wine merchant, for goods sold and delivered,
in the way of his trade ; the second was an action by a client
against his enemies, Messrs. Bird and Holland, to recover
201. 11s. balance due man account stated on a sale and pur-
chase of premises; the third was for goods sold and delivered,
the result of which was &verdict for the defendant. In the
details nothing arose either amusing or instructive.
can,. Oorar.-11crole Mr. Justice mrle.
STEALING GROWING Wittier POSSIBLY A FELONY.
John Cadman was charged with having, on the 4th of
August inst , stolen a quantity of wheat in the straw, the
property of John Gaunt. Mr. Skinner appeared for the pro-
secution. The prisoner was seen corning out of a field of
standing cora belonging to the prosecutor, with some bundles
of wheat under his arm, There was on road through the
field, and he had no right there. In mosequence the crop
was inspected, and in several places it was found that the
wheat had been cut. There was a sickle and several bundles
tied up in a manner similar to those carried by the prisoner,
found under a hedge in the field. His hones was searched,
and in it was discovered two other bundles of wheat of the
same sort Mr. Justice Erle, in summing up, said there
was a question to be decided, independent of the facts,
whether the offence charged amounted to a larceny, or only
lo a trespass. As a general rule of law, all crops growing in
the ground if cut and carried away by a person at one and
the same time would not render him liable to be Indicted
for a larceny ; but if in their judgment, and in accordance
with the facts proved in evidence, en interval of time must
have elapsed between the severance and the aiming away,
they would be justified in finding .hisg•guilty of the offence
charged. The jury, however, acquitted-the prisoner.—The
court has been occupied during theday in a case of burglary
and robbery, and several larcenies.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—CeatieLs, ATOEST 6.
The criminal court opened at half-past eight yesterday
mitering, by the Chief Baron passing antenatal the prisoners
win had been convicted.— W. Dostaghah, *holed previously
bun convicted of felony, having been found guilty at these
Waifstealing a silver watch the property of I. Kelly, of
yen, was sentenced to 7 years' traneportation. Ihe
Ale of the prisoners, against whom petty offenere had been,
proved, were sentenced to various tents of imprisonment.
Tan MCRDSIL OF A WIPE HT PolBolT—Tile adjourned
ease of John Thompson wee thee proceeded with.
John Fisher, shopman of Mr. Carlisle, druggist, and John
Bell, shop-boy, expressed their belief that the prisoner was
the man who, on two occasions, a week sport, and shortly
previous to Mrs. Thompson's death, bought arsenic in the
shop, alleging it was to be used fir poisoning rats;
but would not go so far as William GraWun, in swear-
ing positively as to his identity. Dr. R. Elliot was then
called, and was examined at great length as to the result of
the post reorient examination of Mrs. Thompson, which be
made in conjunction with ldr. Mortimer, anitalso the remit of
the chemical analyeis tif discontent& of her ',toroth and bowels.
The stomach and intestines, he said, exhibited all the effects
produced by an irritant metallic poison ; and the analysis of
their contents produced 04 grains of yellow orpiment, equal to
between 60 and 51 grains of white arsenic. Generally 10
grates, sometimes 5 grains, were sufficient to cause death, if
taken in one dose, but a much larger quantity miebt '
taken without an immediately fatal
different occasions, occasions, in 0°•,:".."-'"?'3"; if.
1.17
n. 7 gave' it Pi:stgrati
ails
opinion that Mary Thompiew_ wen from the effects of
arsenic, administered or taken at various times, in small
doses. This witness underwent a long cross-examination
from Mr. James (with whom was Mr. Wingfield), who tried
to throw doubts on the tests employed on the oconaion, and
to show that no scientific evidence on such a point could be
safely relied on.—The statement of the prisoner was then read,
after which, Mr. James addressed the jury for two lasers on
behalf of the prisoner, contending that he had notbeen identi-
fied with the purchase of arsenic ; that the traces of it on his
clothes might have been got innocently from iron and other
materials in the workshop ; that the medical evidence was
not to be relied on ; that the poison in the oatmeal might
have been put there by some one having ill-will against the
prisoner ; and that the prisoner, enjoying, as it had been
proved he had done, the person of Margaret Cain, from
within a week of their acquaintance, had no motive for put-
ting out of the way his wife, who did not believe the fact of
the criminal intercourse with the woman, or at least had
never interfered to prevent it —Tee learned jpdge summed
up strongly against the prisoner, exploring himself satisfied
with the/medical evidence, and witty *. identification of
Thomptain as the purchaser of ereenkiitellte jury, after retir-
ing 25 minutes, returnedjatm court enter a vardrct
The Lord Chief Barcea,tanng put on the Nock ate amidst
the solemn silence of the cowet, which was et this time very
much crowded, proceeded to pus sentence of demth upon the
prisoner. He said, John Thompson, ymehave been indicted
for the murder of Mary Thompson, you: wife. You have
had the benefit of a long and parent investigation, and the
jury hate found you guilty of the calms Impeded to you in
the indictment. In the propriety silks verdict I entirely
concur. I think it is impossible to bear the evidence that
has been given without entertaining the feller conviction of
your guilt; and it is my duty now to pronounce upon you
the sentence of the law. You appear to have been married
.
to the unfortunate .
Within nix months
pure connexion •
that fact was
was obliged t
fens/ he made t.
cross-examination
foe a longer period
secution. I allud
shall deport from
into what gulf of
plunged by . a d
gnarly criminal
had you not
you and of
receive the
your wild.

wtunete deceased from sixteen to twenty Jean.
; months of ber death you formed a criminal and int-
Won with *other wants', and Weans of
was so plain and --.4ater -.whet
isd to admit it in the * am' obto4e-
role kr yon, and it even the soWeetAst
ihtatios sad proof pa your d
had-MAW
I. pilot ties was NI r- • Paean" Pr.-
' alb& to sarami ' - • to sme
llvs"
rt terse tee stria wane or , No one Mk tell
gulf of [cunt, lad th ~.. , . a lasi be
ly . a deliberate and , A-. Yfitaille m-011111
inunal set. Had you • ,4 • terFesg, e—
of formed the connexi e,'
on
f the woman—you probe.. • .
m Judgment of death lot ' al
s. d'ou appear, some two or three 'Awe,'"
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befell her death, to have proildx.l, yourself with the woßsair.rt!EEr.-- itLiciT
_DISTILT.kTIO!'.--Geo: that rate in any C
means of getting rift of her. Whe it was for the pm- Thompson, a jobbing tailor ; Joseph Thompson, his son; discount
pose of disposing of a woman who bad become burdensome More and Eli'''. vn Pcnrce' and AM" Junes, were placed India Steck 24"
to you, or whether her presence interfered with your con- at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with twine con- Foreign 'ate
shilling the lawlea3 connexion you had formed, I know not. centred in the manufacture of illicit spirits upon en extensive
It certainly may be said thateit war not necessary that she scale, on premises in the occupation of the first-named few dealings
should be disposed of by death, for the purpose of your Peiwneve in Oulford-road, Kingtlend.—Dean and Morehead, Cents., 56 to
continuing the career of wickedness with which you hare two officer* of Customs, deposed that in consequence of in 6. spanish
been so long lirk.d, but it is quite clear from the evidence ferdeatiww they had received from a gentleman residing in" port sae
i that you purchased the p,ison—that Oil year clothes were Doweham-read, Kiageland, who complained of the annoy- ,
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i found mares of your miter it—that your wife con- once he experience! from the practice, they bad kept a yip- uargaing ('
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1. tinned to take it from time to Crate io such thrill dos" that
at the reriod of her dealt there was fueled within her some on the
Lust watch Upp Thompson's house fir some ease past, and quoted I
precedingovraing tree three female prisoners came Foreif
e
ten times the quantity which, adaliniatered at (race, would front the house adjamnite No. 20, each with somethirg bulky chief di.
have produced death, and that you saw her day after day, concealed beneath Wm ottani. They were stopped, and enter tins w
. and nieht be night, wasting away in • protracted disease nnd a severe struggle the ofitters succeeded in discovering four '''''"'
darn,
with linger tortuie—producing her deash by them ost latge bladders, each of which co:deified from or.c to two
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. cruel means that meld have been adopted to satisfy your n
depraved decimation. Down to the time of her death, while
she was even, as it were, in the eget:ace of death, you 'etre allous of raw spirit,. The elder woman Pearce endeavoured Ham'
w ith her teeth to tear open the side of the bladder she car- to!
tied, which she afterwards dashed upon the ground and 2t ;
seeking the society of the woman whom either you had se- tramped on, in the hope of bunting it; this the officers pre- Die
ducal or whose seeuctions you had listened to, but with vented her from doing ; and having conveyed the three ~'
whom you had undoubtedly formed for months that imrorr women to the station, returned back to the house is com-
p ea
connexion. And when death had closed the scene of er Puny of three Poliele officers, who placed themselves at
antferine, instead of remembering the years of domestic hap- the beck of the house, while the Custem-hnute officers i
• eats. you had enjoyed with the partner of your existence, stationed themselves in the front. Dean and Morehead
you sought to end solace in the arms of the woman whom were advancing to the prisoners' door, when two men I
either you had led astray or who had led you astray; or pos. suddenly darted out, and jumping into a cart wheel was
sibly you ware both ready to run the career of guilt is which waiting for them, attempted to drive off ; but the
you were as last arrested. You now protest that you are in. officers seized the reins, and the men leaped out into tb
noeent. I cannot conceive upon what ground say one can road, and ',biking the most determined of the officers
entertain • doubt of the guilt that belongs to your stunning blow in the lice, effected their escape. The n
• . conduct during the whole period of the three weeks cent made their way in at the beck of the house, and
i . " of your wife'. illness. In comnien with the jury, I enter- entering. the knells i discovered a large still at full a
; ' e - tabs no doubt that it was your hand that administered the with nitrite still ruining off, together with five
poison, that it was your will and intention that caused casks tilled with soutanes wash. The younger pre
your wife's death, that you betrayed her whom you had Thcmenon, who had his shirt-sleeves tucked in
sworn to protect, and that you forgot what was due to the west the only person in the room, was secured
laws of God and man, and the solemn piedge which you had upon searchieg the room the officers disease
given at the altar of Gad, which you daily desecrated. aperture bentath the sink, covered with a slider
. Under these circumstances, you now stand to receive the and communicating with the next house, throu
judgment of the court, and I can bold out to you no hope of one of the police officers made his way, sr
mercy in this world. I can only earnestly implore you, upper room of the second home discovered the eld
while yet there is time, to think of and bitterly repent the son, whom they secured. The prisoners all decli
''e.... sins you have committed, and the crime of which you have any defence, and the magistrate had just die
been guilty, and week, where at any time it may be found, three women, in consequence of the officers '
by repentance, the pardon which ia deeded von in this produce the spirits they had found in their poe
world. His lordship then passed sentence of death in the the act imperatively requires, and was ale
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equal form.-1 he court rose at half-past S, and this closed charge the younger Thompson, upon the gr
the assizes. ire under the control of his father, wh'
erisoner exclaimed that he bad not worked
I r WESTERN CIRCUIIe—BaIDOWATin, Aro. 5. lkther, but another man, who had engager
The business of the maize* for the county of Somerset pose; and Mr. Broughton, therefore, ear
eommenced here this mornieer, the commission having been clear to admit of any doubt, and sentence
opened yesterday evening. The Lord Chief Justice Wilde sons to pay • penalty to the Queen of Ss.
presides in the Crown Court, and Mr. Justice William.. on , stand committed foe three months to
the c:vil leJe. The cause list presents to the gentlemen of ' rcetion.—Neither of the penalties
the learned profession the unwelcome intelligence that lei• pri,uners were committed.
gallon is by no means on the ircrease in this county. Until eIARYLEBONE.—A m:exy F
the last few years. 50 causes was not an unusual number to
Ise entered for trial, and at the present melees there are only w charged '5 Mr. Barker, superin'
15, all if which, with the exception of 3, are to be tried by mil Nortb-Wt'e-;,terre Railway Comp'
common buries. In the Crown Courts the business is very defrauded the slid company of ells.
heavy. Tne calendar captains the names of 8.5 prisoner, to London without be trig pose
• - his fare
two of whe are accused of murder. Since the publication the After the pas hr
w.
W. of the calendar, perm& eases were added, and the number Euston-square Station, apu
carriages with a lantern, in ordr
I ' has now leached to nearly a hundri d. left. He found the prisoner ter
Rise ream—Before Mr.
—Mal and a comma, Jury.
le• • 0 antioav te COHNER.--Mal I:IOL'a PltuarCUTlON.—The of a first-class carriage. Ile s
plaintiff and defendent were both respectable farmers Birmingham, and was in gee
Il `'' and the action was brought to recover cempcnsatiea in custody at the station, en'', 7
damages for a malicious prosecution. It appeared that, to Mr. Barker, saying that
in the moteth of March last. the contending parties atteneed past been in very reduced
an enaction, and their horses were put into a stable with their his misconduct would oe 1.
I - asahlies on. The defendant left the sale at about 5 o'clock in was anxious to get to sea '
work on the line until
o, oon, and on his return to the stable he found that . to be liquidat
die, which was a new one, had bent taken from his 0 ... considered
e a back, and a comparatively old one plet-el there in its not desiroes of pressir
therefore discharged.
The defendant, being unable to obtain any informa-
1i . Ctinspecting his oaadle, was obliged to make use of that . WESTMINSTER
Ali bad been =Wither(' for it. On the following morn. Ceene.—Elesea Kei
*glee observed the malues name upon the saddle, and he was dually nidnli
"Iterwards discovered that it belonged to the plaintiff. The robberies in the ho.
plaintiff having been at the sale on the previous day, the de- had been emplo'
fondant came to the conclusion that he had stolen his saddle. originally apprehr
He therefore obtained a search warrant, and having containing amu
banded it to a constable, he went with hint to Mr. Copt. Scott, in
Gregory's house, where be found that the plaintiff ticulars of whi'
i had taken home a saddle which did not belong that examinee
, to him. On examining it, the defendant identified it having found
as his property, and he else observed that one of the girths box. he had'
. lad been removed, and the maker's mime rubbed off. It against him
. likewise a ppeareil that the saddle had received the appendage yesterday.
of a crupper, which was not attached to it previously. The stealing •
• plaintiff was accordingly taken before the Rev. Mr. Luttrell, the resit'
.- 'magistrate at Dumber, when Mr. Gregory made the fol- police-see
•' • lowing statement . He left the tale, he slice, at seven o'clock he fouls,
in the evening, and when be returned to his stable where ferred
1 • -
lend the bosses had been placed, he discovered that the saddle Sligo.
t' been taken off Ins horse', back, and he could not find stick a
- s , . It. He, however, saw a saddle hanging upon a peg, and it other
, e being dark at the time, he did not perceive that it was not duce'
# his own. Ile therefore placed it upon his horse's back, and beer
rode away, but he Dad not proceeded far, before he disco- em•
vereel thit he had taken a saddle which did not belong to Mr
• ltim, and he mentioned the fact to a person whom he called rye'
es
a witness. MrCroner also gave his version of the story, t"
and the magistrate ultimately committed the plaintiff for
trial, but allowed him to put in hail. The defendant ac-
cordingly preferred an indictment against the plaintiff at the
anizra but the grand jury ignored the bill. Hence the pre-
' sent action, and on the part of the defendant, Mr Cockburn
(with whom war Mr. H. T. Cole), contended that th
plaintiff ought to be nonsuited on the ground that the
• was reasonable and probable cause for the defendant to e
pect that lee had stolen kis saddle ,• and it was furthpr ue
that the defendant was not, as alleged in the dedlere
actuated by malicious motives in the course be had pun
The question was not whether the plaintiff had really
the saddle, but whether the defendant had sufficient
teseejay reerlhi.mu.—anM
ar.Juscetic:(Wiilianmseliadnhdepairbuale
hisl
have them to decide whether or not th'
oatactuated by malicious motes-es. I
hielmeser lie defeadsat's counsel leave to /
',
renew dis as* ebeedi.i be of opinion the
tenigneldioennee for suspecting the
... oillem•
poi the jury for she deteui
i • Iseeemeeesittp the case. Verdict fe
—Demsgaillt. -
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NORTH WALES CIRC U LT.—Cm:sr
Caowe Cocas.—Refute Mr. Ju tine Cr,
CIiA.ROE Or CHILD MURDIII3.—Tho en/
nmined for trial this morning was that o'
named Grace Denys, aged 22,wh0 was cher
retarder of her own illegitimate child.—T
conducted by Mr. Townsend and Mr. Ye!
was undefendeth—When placed at the
aura dreadfully excited, wept aloud, ar
before the proceediage could be gone
ability to pay attention to them. r
of the witnesses she several times f
beam for the kind attention of the It
lain to the gaol, and that o
hardly be supposed she would have
dreadful ordeal.—Mr. Townsend,
jury, was proceeding to obsere
opinion that the laudanum of w'
been administered with the inte
negligently and carelessly, of I'
her guilty of manslaughter,
pressed hh dissent. He was
regard to surgeons and gum,
to other parties, he rather'
but if Mr. Townsend c
on the subject, he a'
then proceeded, and
called from whose cv
31st of March last the
child ; that se the its
in the family of Mr. r
bead. having on the a
21st April de deter
the intention of ler
ever, did not seen
About 5 o'clock t
120 drops of laud
ill. At 10 it hai
in. and found t!
I the effects of In
in the weenie
re
being ti i 3ra iLe nof th'
child laudan
His lords
opinion the
purpose of
if it ware
%Musty,
ea Guilty.
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before her death, to have prodded yourself with the
morns of getting rift of her. Whether it was for the pur-
pose of disposing of a women who bad become burdensome
to you, or whether her penance interfered with your con-
tinuing the 'tales; connexion you had formed, I know not.
It certainly may be said thatch was not nectsoary that she
should be disposed of by death, for the purpose of your
continuing the carter of wickedness with which you have
been so long lirk.d, hut it is quite char from the evidence
that you purc!.ascd the pdson—that on loor clothes were
found mara of your poiseleiug it—that your wife con-
tinued to take it from time to titan, in such rm,tl doss" 'bet
at the reriod of her dotal there was found ...Wilts her some
ten times the quantity which, administered at mice, would
have produced death, and that you saw her day after day,
and nicht by nicht, wasting away to • protracted disease and
with linger.ng torture—producing her death by the most
anal means that weld have been adopted to aatialy your
depraved dilmaitioc. Down to the time of her death, while
she was even, as it were, in the tigoni-.1 of death, you .C[o
seeking the satiety of the woman whom either you had se-
duced or whose seductions p.m had listened to, but with
whom you had undoubtedly formed for months that improper
connexion. And when death had closed the scene of her
s#tferine, instead of remembering the yeses of domestic hap-
eats, you had enjoyed with the partner of your existence,
you sought to fled solace in the arms of the woman whom
either you had led astray or who had led you astray; or pos-
sibly you ware both ready to run the career of guilt in which
you were st last arrested. You now protest that you are in-
nocent. I cannot conceive upon what round ay one can
entertain • doubt of the guilt that belongs to your
conduct during the whole period of the three weeks
of your wife's illness. In commou with the jury, I enter- ,
twin no doubt that it wits your hand that administered the
poison, that it wal your will ad intciation that caused
your wife's death, that you betrn ayed her whom you had
sworn to protect, and that you forgot what was due to the
Jaws of God and man, and the solemn pledge which you had
(0,111 at the altar of God, which you daily desecrated.
Under these circumstances, you now stand to receive the
judgment of the court, and I can bold out to you no hope of
merry in this world. I can only earnestly implore you,
while yet there is time, to think of and bitterly repent the
sins you have committed, and the crime of which you have
been guilty, and seek, where at any time it may be found.
by repentance, the pardon which in devied you in this
world. His lordship then passed sentence of death in the
equal form.—the court rose at half-pant 11, and this closed
the assizes.

WESTERN CIRCC fie —lie resew ATilt, Avo. 5. -
The business of the easizes for the county of Somerset
eommesced here this morning, the corns:M.9km having been
opened yesterday evening. The lewd Chief Juetice Wilde
presides in the Crown Court, and Mr. Justice Williams on
the evil sole. The cause list presents to the gentlemen of
the learned profession the unwelcome intelligence that liti•
gatien is by no means on the iectease in this county. Until
the last few years, 50 causes was not an unusual number to
be entered fee trial, and at the present mains there are only
15, all cf which, with the exception of 3, are to be tried by
enennion juries. In the Crown Courts the business is very
heavy. Trio calendar captains the names of 8.5 prisoners,
two of whom are amused of murder. Since the publication
of the calendar, Fermi eases were added, and the number
Du now reached to nearly a hundred.
lens Nam—Before Mr. Justine Williams soda Common Jury.
0 antioae c. COHNER.—MaI 1:101:i PHU:WeI:MIN.—The
plaintiff and defendent were both respecnbte farmers
#' - and the action W• 4 brought to recover cempinpatioa in
damage, for a malicious prosecution. It appeared that,
in the mopth of March last, the contending parties attended
an suction, and their hones were put into a stable with their
• saddles on. The defendant left the sale at about 5 o'clock in
o. oon, and on his return to the stable he found that
w •s- rile, which was a new one, had bent taken from his
e, a back, and a comparatively old ono placed there in its
CtThe defers t, being unable to obtain any informs-
respecting his siddle, was obliged to make use of that
'u had been substituted for it. On the following mora-
le/the otaerved the maker's name upon the saddle, and he
sfeerwarde discovered that it belonged to the plaintiff. The
plaintiff having been at the sale on the previous day, the de-
fendant came to the conclusion that he had stolen his saddle.
He therefore obtained a search warrant, and having
banded it to a canetable, he went with him to Mr.
Gregory's home, where be found that the plaintiff
Lad taken home a saddle which did not belong
to him. On examining it, the defendant identified it
as his property, and he else observed that one of the girths
. lad been removed, and the maker's name rubbed off. It
. likewise appeared that the saddle bad received the appendage
of a crupper, which was not attached to it previously. The
• plaintiff uses accordingly taken before the Rev. Mr. Luttrel,
~- . magistrate at Donator, when Mr. Gregory made the fol-
• owing statement : Ile left the sale, he said, at seven o'clock
is the evening, and when he returned to his stable where
tar horses had been placed, he discovered that the saddle
la been taken off his horse's back, and he could not find
• . M. He, however. saw a saddle hanging upon a peg, and it
being dark at the time, he did not perceive that it was not
# his own. He therefore placed it upon his horse's back, and
rode away, but he Dad not proceeded far. before he disco-
vered thit he had taken a saddle which aid not belong to
Elm, and he mentioned the fact to a person whom he called
es
a witness. MeCroner also gave his version of the story,
and the magistrate ultimately committed the plaintiff for
trial, but allowed him to put in bail. The defendant ac-
cordingly preferred an indictment against the plaintiff at the
&wiz! S but the grand jury ignored the bill. Hence the pre-
vent action, and on the part of the defendant, Mr Cockburn
(with whom was Mr. If. T. Cole), contended that the
plaintiff ought to be nonauited on the ground that there
was reasonable and probable cause for the defendant to sus-
pect that he had stolen his saddle ; and it was further urged
that the defendant was not, as alleged in the delleratesen,
actuated by malicious motives in the course be had pursued.
The question was not whether the plaintiff had really owlets,
the saddle, but whether the defendant had sufficient reason
tieseerecrtehisa.—Mr. Justice Williams said he should tell the
was an abaance of reasonable and probable cause,
.1t" line them to decide whether or not the defend-
s's estuated by malicious motives. Ile would,
vtila
UMW! los defeadsat's counsel leave to move for a
', maw* AD omit abasii- be of opinion that there was
Limmagis mil youldie tram for suspecting the plaintiff.—
Ine=aillieteml the jury for she defendant, and the
eurimirup the case. Verdict fur the plaintiff
—Demist 40t. •

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WORSHIP.STREET.-11Lterr DISTILT.ATION.—Geo.
Thompson, a jobbing taller; Joseph Thompson, his eon
Mary and Eti,:beth Nara, and Mary Junes, were placed
at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with beam con-
cerned in the manufacture of illicit quits upon an extensive
wale, on premises in the occuprion of the first-aimed
reiscner, in Gulford-road, Kingsland.—Dean and Morehead,
two officers of Customs, deposed that in consequence of in
feriaation they had received from a gentleman residing in-
Downkameread, Kiel/eland, who complained of the m0n0)...
ones he ex.vrienali from the practice, they bail kept a vial.
Lust watch lipp Thempson's house f a some days past, and
on the preceding, vexing toe three female prisoners came
from the homes adaomleor No. 20, each with something bulky
concealed beneath lite shawl. They were stopped, and inter
a severe struggle the oilier' succeeded in discovering four
large bladders, each of which tout:Med from or.c to two
gallons if raw spirit", The elder woman Pearce endeavoured
with her teeth to tear open the side of the bladder she car-
ried, which she afterwards dashed upon the ground and
tramped on, in the hope of bursting.it ; this the officers pre-
vented her front doing ; and baring conveyed the three
women to the elation, returned back to the house ii com-
pany of three police officers, who placed themselves at
tie beck of the hou-e, while the Custom-house officers
stationed themselves on the front. Dew and Morehead
were advancing to the prisoners' door, when two men
soddenly darted out, and jumping into a cart which was
waiting for them, attempted to drive off ; but the
silleeta seized the reins, and the men leaped out into the
mad, and ',biking the most determiued of the officers a
stunning blow iu the face, effected their escape. The ai-
ms made their way in at the back of the house, and on
mitering the leather t discovered a large still at full work,
with spirits still rainier; off, together with five water
casks tilled with wellies wash. The younger prisoner,
Thempon, who had his shirt-sleeves tucked up, and
was the only person in the room, was secured; and
upon searching the room the officers discovered an
aperture banal' the sink, covered with a sliding panel,
and commuuicating with the next house, through which
one of the police officers made his way, and in an
upper room of the second house discovered the elder Thomp-
son, whom they secured. The prisoners all declined offering
any defence, and the magistrate had just discharged the
three women, in consequence of the officers neglecting to
produce the spirits they had four.d in their posecesi, n, which
the act imperatively requires, and was about also to dire
charge the younger Thompson, upon the ground of his act-
ing under the control of hie father, when the younger
prisoner exclaimed that he had not worked the still fur his
'nether, but another man, who had engaged him for the pun.
pose; and Mr. Broughton, therefore, said the case was too
Blear to admit of any doubt, and sentenced both the Thomp-
son. to pay • penalty to the Queen of 301., or in default to
stand committed foe three months to the House of Cer-
rection.—Neither of the penalties was paid, and the
prironers were committed.
eIARYLEBONE.—A LUCKY EscArE.—Jolin incite
was charged by Mr. Barker, superintendent of the London
and North-Western Railway Company's police, with having
defrauded the said company of ins., by riding from Birming-
ham to London without le tog possessed of means for paying
his fare. After the passengers bad given their tickets. at
the Euston-square Station, a peeler went into the various
carriages with a lantern, in order to see if any articles were
left. lie found the prisoner secreted under cue of the emits
of a first-class carriage. He raid that be had travelled from
Birmingham, and was in peat distress he was detained in
custody at the station, aria, while there, he addressed a note
to Mr. Barker, saying that he (prisoner) had for some time
past been in very reduced circumstances, and that he hoped
his misconduct would be forgiven. Ile was a mariner, and
was anxious to get to tea again ; he was willing to do any
work on the line until the amount of his tare might be
caasidered to be liquidated.—Mr. Barker said that he was
not desirous of pressing for a penalty, and the pria.ne: was
therefore discharged.
' WESTMINSTER.—Ronnentas BY A iiOVSE-AOENT'S
CLERN.—Ebsba Kemp, clerk to Mr*. Marsh, houreament,
was dually examined, charged with several extensive
robberies in the houses of the nobility and gentry. where he
had been employed by his mistress. The prisoner was
originally apprehended upon the charge of stealing • tax,
containing a muslin dress, from the residence of the lion.
Copt. Scott, in Chtshawstrect, Belgrave-square, the par-
ticulars of which appeared in our paper of July 2S. Oa
that examination Thornton, • police-sergeant, stated that
having found 60 pawnbrokers' duplicates in the prisoner's
box. he bad no doubt he could produce a number of charges
against him, upon which the latter was remanded until
yesterday. The first charge against him was that of
stealing • quantity of linen met -bther articles from
the residence of the Marchioness of Sligo. The
police-sergeant said that en searching prisoner's room
he found a number of duplicates, eight of which re-
ferred to property belonging to the hlarchioness of
Sligo. He also found in the spattment an ormolu candle-
stick and =Zen, port of a very valuable dinner service, and
other articles.—Several pawnbrokers' assistants here pro-
duced different articles, and deposed to their having
been pawned by the accused at the slums of their
employers. Mrs. Taylor, late housek• epee to the
Marchioness of Sligo, identified the whule of the pro-
perty produced by the pawnbrokers, and part of
that found by Thornton in the prisoner's room.—Mrs.
Marsh said that she was employed by the Marchioness of
Sligo as house agent. The prisoner, as her clerk, was at the
house of the marchioness In the latter part of last year and
this beginning of the presents She identified the china
and Nome other of the articles prcduced by Thornton.—
• servant at the house in lelansfield-street proved
having seen the prisoner there with the ormolu maid:e-
st:Eck in his hand. lie said he was g9ing to lock it up.
Various other charges were made owlet the prisoner of
laving robbed the houses of Viscount Jocelyn, Capt. BO-
ea. snit Lady Dawson, in • similar manner. In each close
dui=was produced by pawnbroker', and identified
;. but to detail them would be a mere repetition
/the first charge. Similar cues might bare been brought
forward against the prisoner of having robbed Lord Gordon,
Lady Waterpark, and others ; bat the prisoner made no
defence in either caw, and Mr. Burrell did not consider it
necessary to go further mite the charges. The prisoner was
then fully committed upon the charges above &tidied, and
upon 'hat heard on the previous occasion of stealing the box
and drag from the Hon. Capt. Scott's.
LAMBETH.—" FINDINGS" NOT KREPINGS."—John
Hudson was charged with appropriating a 401. Bank of
England note that bad been lost by Mr. Edward Church.
Oa Thursday fortnight Mr. Church lost • 401. Bank of
England note. He gave information of his bra at the Bank,
and on its being paid in he received intimation of the fact.
With the arsistance of a pollee-constable he ascertained that
on the very day he had mewed it the note had been offered
to Mr. Herring, a ceachmaker, in the Westminster-road, by
the prisoner, in payment for a chaise which he had pur-
chased, and bad been changed. The prisoner in the first
instance said he bad taken the note from a person on the
lintel Exchange, whose name he dal not know, iu payment
for a quantity of oak timber which he bad sold hint, but
subsequently declared that it had been given to him by a
person named (Edney, one of the witnesses who had been
called against his. He said that on the morning of that
day fortnight Gidney came to him, and said he had a 401,
note, which he had endeavoured to get charged, but was
unable, and requested he would prortne it for him. They
went together and purchased the desire, and Gidney
pocketed nearly the whole of the difference.—Mr. Norton
ordered Gidney to be placed at the bar, and remanded
both him end Hudson for further exantinatain.
STRANGE FREAK AND FACAPlE—Artltm4Berne, a young
fellow with a wooden leg, was charged with jumping over
Vauxhall-bridge. Between the hogs of three and four
o'clock on that morning • waterman on the Surrey hide of
Vaaxhall.bridge heard a splash in the water, and heard a
cry that some person had jumped off the bridge. He
got into his boat, and found the prisoner support-
ing himself by one of the abutments, On seeing
him the prisoner tel up a loud laugh, asked him
what bad become of his " tile" (in his hurry he had left his
hat on shore), and commenced some low jesting." The
waterman got him into his boat, rowed him on shore, and
gave him into the custody of an officer.—The prisoner, in
eeply to the charge, said that he had been drinking rather
hotly, and, while going over Vauxhall-bridge, said he had a
good mind to jump over. His friends dared him to do it,
and said he had not the pluck to attempt it, upon which he
jumped over and dropped into the water hcarciremoit.—Mr.
Norton ordered him to find good bail for ens month.
THAMES.,—BantraL ASSAULT.— William Bart was
charged with taisaulting Mr. John Saunders Raymond, a
builder.—Mr. Raymond, whose face was very much cut,
steed that when he commenced business he had been de-
frauded by some of his workman, among whom was the
prisoner, and bad refused to employ them again. Yester-
day morning, as he wagoing to overtook his men, he bad
several bricks thrown at him, but the patties assailing him
kept out of sight. •In the ernoon several of his discarded
men, amongst whom was the prisoner, met him, and com-
menced insulting and jeering him, and declared they would
find • way of serving him our, and the prisoner delibehtaly
flung a atone at his hos, striking him under the eye. They
then all ran away. He pursued them, and gave the prisoner
into custody.—Mr. Ballantine said, even if Mr. Raymond
had no complaint Whatever to make against any of them, ks
had a right to employ what men he pleased, and he should
punish acy such cam as the present that came before him.
lie should firm the prisoner U., or wed him to gaol for one
month to hard labcrim.-14cked up in default.

NORTH WALES CIRCUI.I.—CHESTXR, Avo. 5.
Caowm Cc...T.—More Mr. iu tire eesewril.
CHLROE Or CHILD MI3IDEU.—The only case which re-
mained for trial this morning was that of a young female
named Grace Thom aged 22,wh0 was charged with the wilful
retarder of her own illegitimste child.—The prosecution was
conducted by Mr. Townsend and Mr. Yardley.—The prisoner
was undefendead—When placed at the bar the prisoner be-
ccur.z... dreadfully excited, wept aloud, and it was some time
before the proceediags could be gone on with, from her in-
ability to pay attwation to them. During the examination
of the witnesses she several times fainted, and had it not
been for the kind attention of the Rev. H. S. Joseph, chap-
lain to the gaol, and that of the matron, it can
hardly be supposed she would have been able to sustain the
dreadful ordeal.—Mr. Townsend, in stating the case to the
jury, was proceeding to observe that if the jury were of
opinion that the laudanum of which the child died had not
been administered with the intention of destroying life, but
negligently and carelessly, of lul:ing it, then they might fled
ker guilty of manslaughter, when the learned judge ex-
pressed dissent. He was aware it had been In Id to with
regard to auri;eons and quack doctors ; but so far as related
to u•hor parties, he rather inclined to a different opinion;
but if Mr. Townsend could show him any authority
en the subject, he should fuel obliged. The case
then proceeded, and a number of witnesses were
called from whose evidence it appeared that on the
3lst of March last the primer had a female illegitimate
thild ; that on the 7th April she Apt engaged as wet nurse
in the family of Mr. Drinkwater,iretiimer terrace, Birken-
head. having on the same day placed her child out. Oa the
21st April de deceased was given up to the prisoner, with
the intention of both going to the workhouse. She, how-
ever, did not succeed in obtaining an order of admiralties.
About i; o'clock the same afternoon the primmer purchased
120 drops of laudanum, and at 7 the child was found to be
lit At 10 it had Income 'twice, when a surgeon was called
ia. and found the child dying from what he believed to be
the effects of laudanum. It lingered, however, until 4 o'clock
in the morning, and on a post martens examination the no-
tions of the surgeon
st were confirmed.—The prisoner, on
childen the
' Itaautnn ulmat6hticut said she Tlititendot tthri`ntischiethwaodufrkill it.
His lordship in summing up the case, said, if they were of
*pinion that the prisoner administered the laudanum for the
purpose of injuries; the child she was guilty of murder, but
if it was only for the purpose of quieting it, although Mesa.
timid!, it was no more than an accident.--Verdict, Not
Guilif. This ended the business.

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POLICE.—Y ESTERDAT.
IKANSION-HOUSE.—CONDUCT OF SU:An-BOAT CAP-
tiisse.—Tla Lard Mayer read a letter complaining of an
evil which he hoped the publicity thus gives might tend to
redress. The LAW related that, on the afternoon of Aug: 3,
the Wit'r paid for a ticket at the Hungertord.bridge pier,
fir the seven o'clock Kew boat. On the arrival of the boat,
the officer iu charge of the pier called ‘' Kew," and the
neighbouring places. Oa entering the boat, which was the
Twilight, th 3 writer asked the captain if he went to Kew,
and was answered in the affirmative. On reaching the Cado-
pan pier, at Chelsea, the passengers were requested to go on
shore, the captain saying that he should go no farther. Re-
monstrance was used, but in vain: all had to land.. Some
bad token tickets for Putney, others for Brentford, Ham-
mersmith, Kew, &e. There was no other conveipnce of any
kind from that point, and the writer sad several others
were compelled to return to Hungerford in order to find
some means of conveyance. At the Hungerford pier they
were offered, but refused, the price paid for their tickets.
The writer, Mr. \V. Brown, of Kew, anneted a list of pas.
Peppers, many of whom were ladies, who requested
him t) communicate with his lordship, thinking that he,
as conservator of the Thames, would have some
power of
_preventing a repetition of such imposition.—
The Lvrd Mayor regretted that it was not in his power, u
maser/atm. of the Thames, or as a magistrate, to interpose in
the matter. The course which he rccommeriled was to
apply to the mogistratee of the district in which the pas.
*engem cute rid the steam-boat. It was usual, when stage-
coaches were in vogue, for passengers, who suffered disap.
pointment in consequence of the misconduct of tho coach-
man, to hire chaises, and compel the offending peuuns or
their masters to pay all the expenses ar:sing from the annoy-
ance. If he had been one of the passengers to the occasion
complained of, he would, spoil returning to lie
market Pier, have engaged a cab to take him to Kew, and
seat in a list of the expenses next morning to the proprietors
of the steam-boat. If thirty or forty ladies and gentlemen
had eispled each a plan, they would never be liable to such
VAS illireatateat again.

MONEY MARKET.
FRIDAY Evzrenco.
Stock values were spin in decline this morning.
The first transactions in Consols were done at 87 and
871 for account; bat shortly afterwards sales were
effected at 861, which was the lowest point to which
they descended. Prices improved slightly after-
wards, and fluctuated between 86i and 7,} to the close
of business when they were marked 86,1, to 7 for
account, and 86; to! for money. The fall between
the last quotations of yesterday and those to-day was
therefore about # per cent. The rapidity with which
prices have declined within the last two days, and
their more steady settlement in the after part of to-
day, may be pertly wkributed to the selling oat
of two extensive boll accounts, which Having been
completed, as believed, this morning left the market
more quiet. Those speculations for the rise were
entered upon when Consols wilted at or over 89 b'
that the-differences betwixt puidliase prices then, al&
sale prices now, must amount to rather a heavy pe-
nalty. Reduced. Threes were-87; to` Three-and-
a-Quarter per Cents., 88t to 9. ',Ong Annuities, 9to
1-16. Exchequer Bills were aciial:y down to and,
done at 51. discount, and could scarcely find beyess 4

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