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OXF0111) ClltetTf.—CiLoccF.sna. Amu, 10.
Crown Cori, -lii.roar Ma. Aeries Twirovan.
Cit Anti,: 01 PZitiettr.
Mary Ann /knoitf wr. indirted (or perjury.
was 0111100 a for the prosecution, and lir. W.
11. Cooke for flu primmer.
On the _nth mber, 1419, the prisoner, who was •
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farm sersant, psi. rn d a charge of rape against two young
men, mulled shailrarh Lai. and ionic Hopkins. In her
deposition, before tin- mahistrate, the swore that as she was
returning hum Sin (Mow to her master's hums at Cold
larhour, sew ma t Lewis, who nicked her to a public-house,
and, after they hail had some liquor, accompanied her home-
wards, until they got to a small plantation, when he irked
her to enter it, and mid he *watt! show her a shorter way
home ; that she r. laws to du, and then Lewis dragged r
into the plantation, threw her down, and mums:lied the
capital eiltwis• ; ti.:d Hopkires the n came up and weasted
Lewis in holding her iron, and afterward, abused her iu
the same minter. she repeated more than once that
Hopkins Caine up utter Lewis had etfeeted hi, purpose.
the further swore that she afterwards went to her master
Lune MO tried the door, but tindihg that they were gone
to bed, went to a in ighlaiur's named Betty Wixid, where she
spat the bight. Iwo this deposition and that of a police-
man, to whom sh. gate iunirmation the nest morning, and
trio 'rut to the plantation and saw that Slade person, had
been trampling there, young min were committed fur
and were tried at the Spring Assizes, IthiO, before Mr.
Llano Platt. In Ie r cross.examii.tion up tal the trial she
swore that Meth Lew is and Ilupkin, a...aided in throwing
ler sewn in the tied instance, and also that she went by
her master's door, and did not go up to it. The following
trunk examination then took plat :
116.. Lid you litAtlr get a person namedlMilo Williams to
Witt' a letter for )oar—Yo.
tt Not this (a litter being shown to her) ?—No.
t' Did )uu vet r get thi. person (pal 11l ing out a person in
coin) to write a pellet fur you in Lewis's father's house 1—

- _ never.
not ! did you never get him to write a letter for you

11“11r
• Dili y.ta never %cc him in Lewil's father's house ?—No.
"Not tat January ?—No.
Did wu a ver st:e him in any house ?—Nerer.
)ou never set him before ?-1 uercr saw him but
owe, and that *a. at l'ltepstuw.
And you in %kr i.toit him to write • letter fur you ?—I

Wetter 110E'.
A person named Mil.. \Valiant!, who wan a wood hoop ma-
natieturi r and rented a want about three milts ham
Lewis's father'. house, wan then called fur the prisoners,
and be swore that shortly after the prioiners were committed
Lewis'. father (-ante to him iu the wood and begged him to
owe to his Ware and write a letter for him ; that accord-
ingly lie nsle there in the afternoon and found Mary Ana
Bennett and al Lewis and his daughter ; and that after
wise elinversatien with the witness she said she was sorry
she had sent the yoalig men to gaol ; that she should not
have don- it if she had not been Oreellentlialleti by Nancy
Voice awl Betty Wool; that she liked Skull:ail eery
well, and wished a lett:r written to him to comfort him
until Bit :Wale,. Mr. Williams swore that he thereupon
wrote the letter produced (which was in substance what the
Rol had said to :rod read it over to her, and that she
than put her mark to it, and gave him a penny to pay the
postage. Ile was Wo n eviss-examined at great length upon
that. rat points, and at length gut confused and gave very
indelluite answers, and upuii being pressed very much, at
length took refuge in "vying to almost every question, " I
tannut Ti member." At length Mr. Buren Platt became very
utrr:. a tilt him, and, having confronted the girl with him,
suit she Lasing persist. .1 in her fanner statement, the
learnt d haven i amuse in tile conclusiun that the girl was tell-
inn the truth and that Williams was not, and therethre he;
mon (odic I him to prison until the end of the assizes. Lewis
and llopLius wire this, Wand " fluilty," and were sentenced
to is• trio:sported for life. The verdict, however, did nut
at all gist Kitt:faction in the neighbourhood the parties
came Irons ; inquiries were made, and the result was that
an indictment tor Iseijory wan preferred against the pri-
amitr at the lust aeon's, amt she was committed to prison.
prose the rovigiom tits of perjury against her proof was
now gin. n of lures ideate at the trial ; her depositions, with
the contrary statements, were put in. Lewis and llopkins,
who were brought from the hulks at Woolwich, were then
examined. and both g tee their evidence iu a very straight-
forward amid simple manner. L's is said he had been court-
ing
the girl ha some mouths, and had frequently met her
by appeintincat, and at night; he did so on the night
iu que-tion. war the public-house, and after they left
it, walked it'i her tow ants Moue till they came to the
',lmitated. which they entered together, and that while
the. y were there, Ilopleins came up and said, Iloilo! I
has,. caeght you, have 1?" and said he would tell the
girl's mast. r. Sta. begged him not to do so, but she left
Lewis, to hi• great chagrin, and said she would return
home with and she walked part of the way with
him, tr) nig to persuade bum not to 4dl her master. Ile
further aaaltre that he did nothing to her without her con-
sent. and that Hopkins did nut touch her in his presence.
except in as sistiaig her to rise. llopkins also gave similar
'via. we. Mil.. Williams was then callesl, and repeated the
sun nu id h. bail mole un the fernier trial, and said further
that h. was not in the least degree conueete-d with either of
the prisoner., ezeint that one of them had been three days
in his employment, and that he went to the house and wrote
the letter out of charily to the old people, who were in great
trouble about their sou. 01.1 Lewis and his daughter con-
firmed his testimony. A decent-looking old woman named
Mary Young, ani ighbour of old Itelf ill, swore that she
ca11..1 Bier.. on the att. moon of the day the letter bore date,
and saw Milo Williams, Mary Ann Bennett, and old Lewis,
and his daughter in coueenation together, and that she
then fore kit. Mary Darby, a sister-in-law of Milo Wil-
liams, swore that the prisoner afterwards told her that she
had sent a litter to Ml:Wrath to revive him a bit, and that
Miln Williams had written it. Luke Voice swore that he
sit up all ti. night with her after the alleged offence was
committed. and she told him that •• Lewis and llopkins had
tried to get the upper hand of Ler, but had not done it.-
The daughter ot a Werner and innkeeper named l'ardoe
swore that Mary Ann U.-mutt came into her father's house
new time after Lewis and kirepkins were committed, in com-
y with a man of bud character named Ilewlin, and that
ine coarse of conservation with Newlin the prisoner
said she should like anu morandum drawn up, providing
that it Lewis'- father awl Boykin:a mother would give her
U. each she would elm-ale to swear differently before the
niagistrati • what she had soon before the grand jury.
In the iou,.. of the trial it appeared that the prisoner had
left It. r sers i. e a few days after the committal of the young
wen and that she had lived fur about a fortnight after-
mini. aflame the neighbours, and, strange to say, fur three'
fir lour day. w ith Lewis's family.
At the conclusion of the case,
The h-arne,l judge Set) Cara lolly wail over the whole of
midenee to the jury, and, atter a trial which lasted the ,
whole day.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty upon the assignments
of perjury rettjtartinn the letter.
A motion w 14 thin mink in arrest of judgment on account
of some alleged olnietions to the indictment. and the points,
which were 'briefly technical, being w-served by the learned
judge for the Court of Criminal Appeal, sentence was
deterred.
This was the last ewe of the assizes.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL CO URT.

OLD COURT.—YrmanAY.
B.eou ML WA= K&/0111.
CMAIOI OP AIIIXLT._

Lake Glynn, 24, and lA.oirl Leary, i 6, labourers, were
indis led fur ay.:suiting Robert James llurgan, with intent
to rob him.
The prosecutor, a singular-looking Irishman, said that
he had been out w ith the prisoner and three others drinking,
and having gone from one public house to another, the'.
prisoner seized hint in the street, and with the others threw
him down cad tried to rub him, but he managed to prevent
them.
The prosecutor having got partially through his evidence,
eopped, and then raid, 1 donT want to hurt the men. 1,
think it was a drunken spree. and it the gentleman up
there (pointing to his lordship) will forgive it, 1 don't want
to say any more about it.
Mr. Baron Martin (laughing) said he had no objection,
and thought that was the safest termination to the affair.
They were then Aquitt,gl.

NEW COURT.—YEnnunT.
&rot. vas RWORI.IS.
CRAIICIL OF RAILWAY ROBBLRY.
George Pearson Barrett, 40, tumor ; Enoch Pearson
Barrett, 37, labourer ; and John Erase, Mary Ann Bar-
rett, and Ati:abeth Barrett were indicted on separate counts
fur stealing and rertiving a quantity of goods, the property
of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Com-

pony.
3 he three latter-nettled prisoners had been out on bail.
The evidence, w hich has been very recently given at full
length in the police reports, occupied the time of the court
until a very late hour in the eveninsi
; and, although the I '
evidence was very It ngthy, the farts ay in an extremely !
narrow compass. The prisoner Enoch Barrett had been
for some time in the service of the company, and was
pnintsman at the Bricklayers' Arras Junction. George
Barrett bad been occasionally employed on the sass Ilse
with him. Fur above two years past this line, as well as
the South-Eastern, have been considerable keen of prorrty
that has been stolen, amounting in value to nearly 2,0001.,
and it was not until the latter end of February in this year
that any traces of the stolen property could be gained, and
'it was then under somewhat singular circumstances. In
the early part of that month the prisoner, George Barrett,
was taken in custody at Walworth for offering some
Looks for sale at so low a price as to excite
suspicion, and these turned out to he part of a
parcel stolen from the South-Eastern line of railway.
Ile at first refused to give his address, but it being found
out who he was, led Se meant Carpenter, of the It division,
to go, on the 14th of February, to the house of his brother,
Enoch Barrett, in Allis rt-street, Deptford, where he saw the
woman, Mary Ann Barrett, who is his wife. The sergeant
told her that the brother was in trouble about some bIIOICP, and
asked if abe had any. She said she had not. Not suspect-
ing anything then about the other property, he did not
search the place, but ern going to the residence of George
Barrett, at Newport Paging, Bucks, he found an immense
quantity of drapery goods, the produce of a series of cob-
barite on the Brighton and South Coast and South Eastern
lines of railway. Upon his return to town the sergeant
went to Enoch's house again, and saw the prisoner Enoch,
who told him he had nothing in the bowie. The wile
also said the same, and made a number of different state-
ments. Ile then began to search, and found quantities of
drupery and hosiery, consisting of gloves, braces, diapers,
cravats, grows of buttons, &c. Whilst the search was
going on, the female went into the adjoining house where
Mn,, Evans lived, and gave her some things which abe was
trying to secrete when the police went iu and took her, and
she also made se rend false statements to the officers. The
property taken from Enoch Barrett's house was found to be
part of the contents of two trusses or bundles that hail been
sent in 1819 by the Brighton and South Coast Company,
one to a person named Turner at Shoreham, and another to
a Mr. Taylor ut Steyning. Some peculiar hissed whistles
wire also timed in his house, which had evidently been
used fir the purrs, sof making signals to facilitate the
robberies of the trtius. It was also proved that Enoch was
on duty the night the goats were missed.
Against the male prisoner, Evans, there was nothing to
show that he had any anowledge the things had been
brought iuto his house, and he having r,ctived an excellent
character, the counsel fur the prosecution wiehdrew the case
against him.
The Recorder, in summing up, said that Sergeant Car-
penter was entitled to much credit fur the fairness and skill
with which he had got up the ease. 'that with regard to
Evans there was no ease, and had Mrs. Es ant told the
truth to the officers she would most probably have been
spared the present degrudation, still he thought she had
meted more foolishly than feloniously. 'With regerel to
Diary Anne Barrett, it was but charitable to suppose that
she acted under her husband'. cm reim.
'the jury haying retired for some time, returned into
court finding the two male prisoners Barrett guilty ut steal-
ing, ;mil acquitting the others.
Sentence wan deferred, and the several indictments will
be tried to-morrow.

SURREY QC-Mak:lt SESSIONS.

REICIATE, Aran. 11.

/boas M. J. W. Kalmar:au. AND S. ht.tmes.

JOHN W.ITHIvs r. REFUSAL OF THE MAkiIsTitATES
TOR THE. NEWINGTuN DIVISION TO (JUANE UM A
VII TV ALTER'S LICENst.—ArrEAL CASE.
. .

This was an appeal by Mr. Watkins, the landlord of the
Red Lion public-house, Pearl-row, Southwark, against the
decision of the licensing magistrates of that district, re-
fusing to renew his license at the last annual licensing
meeting. Mr. Knapp and Mr. turner appeared for the
magistrates, and Mr. Pitt Taylor and Mr. Rubinson for the
appellant.
rho circumstances connected with this appeal were of
rather a peculiar nature. It appeared that the house in
question was situated iu a very low, bad neighbourhood,
and the ground upon which the renewal of the license !
was refused was that the landlord had knowingly
harboured and permitted thieves and persons of
bud character to remain iu his house. The evi-
dence only went to show that persons of this de-
scription were in the house taking refreshment • but it ap-
peared that they were not even allowed to sit
down in the house, and that Mr. Watkins inva-
riably ordered them to leave the moment the
police requested him to do so. It appeared that three in-
j formations had been luid against hint for " harbouring" had
characters under these circumstances, one of which was dis-

missi7lVlien the merits, soother was' quamhed upon a tech-
nical objection, and in the third, where a fine of U. was
inflicted, the Quarter &•scions at Kingston quashed the
conviction upm the ground, that tinder ouch circumstances
the appellant was nut subject to a charge of harlsouring the
parties referred to, and that the mere act of pirmitting
them to have refreshment did not amount to that offence.
♦ number of witinsoes were now examined uu behalf of
the respondents, but they did nut in any way alter the
i former state of facts, and it was admitted that the house
was conducted in a most quiet manner, and that no dia-
lturhance ever had taken place in it.
Mr. Taylor addressed the court at some length, contend-
ing that the magistrate* were not justified in refusing the'
license, and he called several respectable witnesses, all of
whom described Mr. Watkins as bearing the character of a
respectable, well-conducted man.
The court, after a short deliberation, confirmed the deci-
sion of the licensing magistrates refusing the license.

THE POLICE COURTS.
MANSION-110UST.
IVilliam Charnik es, a tall man of military appearance,
was brought before the laird Mayor, charged with hating
endeavoured, by Elbe representations, to get au appoint-
ment iu the City Police.
Inspector Spary, of the City Police, said on Wednesday
the prisoner presented himself to the conamimioner for the
office of constable. The letters of recutnmendation had
been forwarded by hint to the secretary, and he raid that
be had seen them written by the persons who were the
supposed writers—one of the letters purported to be from
a magistrate of Lincolnshire, another front a clergyman who
n,illes near Nottingham, and a third from a Mr. William
Weill. The commissioner questioned hint as to
the genuineness of the communications, and he stated
them to be the true handwriting of the parties from
whom they piofsewil to come. It was ascertained
upon inquiry that the letters were forged. Yesterday morn.
ing the prisoner scut to me front the flow-lane station, in
which lit had been detained, and said, " Well, sir, there in
no use in sating any more about it—the fact is 1 wrote the
I. tiers mysalf.
The Lord Mayor—Prisoner, in what regiment have you
been 1
l'risoner—l have never been in any, my lord.
The Lord Mayor—Oh, yes, you have. It is quite impos-
sible that you could stand as you do without having been
drilled. We shall find out all about it.
The prisoner made an awkward attempt to alter his
(position, but the elftct confirmed the belief that be had
lately deserted.
The prisoner—My lord, I have been tired of looking for
a situation, and I wrote the letters to get myself into some-
thing that would keep me from starving.
The Commissioner said that eases of this kind were con-
stantly occurring, and it was necessary to prosecute upon
every occasion iu which evidence could he brough• forward.
The Lord Mayor—Certainly every case of the kind must
be prosecuted. If we hate not a pure police tone there
can be no chance of the security of property. We can
cosily imagine the consequences of having as our guardains
fellows of bad character, and fur the purpose of making
hill Inquiry, I shall remand him till Saturday, on which day
1 shall commit him for trial.

TUE JEWS IN I'AULIAMENT.—Mr. Anderton has
given notice of a motion for the consideration of tho next
Court of Common Council that the court do petition both
houses of parliament that persons of the Jewish persuasion
may be eligible to be admitted into parliament, and thereby
enjoy, with the rest of her Majesty's subjects, all the
rights of civil and religious liberty.
TUE REVISED BU MET.—MEETING OF FMIOEIII.II,
DZI.COATLIS.—Laxt evening a meeting of delegates from the
various metropolitan parishes took place at the Marylebone
Court-house, to take into consideration the revised budget
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Nieholay in
the chair.—Mr. Nelson, of St. Jllllll.lCs, moved a resolution
to the effect that the meeting welled as a valuable mea-
sure of relief the repeal of the window-tax, but, at the same
time, protested against the re-imposition of a house tax in
any shape whatever.—Mr. George, of St. Ann's, seconded
the resolution.—Mr. Savage, of St. George's, Bloomsbury,
concurred in the resolution, but he was of opinion that the
house tax would be a great advantage to the people as core- ,
!Vwith the window-tax.—Aftersomc further discussion,
V. Williams, M.P., reminded the meeting that the
window tax could not be compared with any other tax
whatever. It was allowed by the unanimous voice of the
people to be unjust and injurious in every respect; and the
only question now was, whether the house tax was neces-
sary-, and upon what ground it was sought to be imposed.
In his opinion, the tax had been levied as a punishment fur
their agitation respecting the window tax, and he thought
it would be quite impossible to prove that such an impost
was of a jest and equitable character. Several other gen-
tlemen successively addressed the meeting, and the resolu-
tion was carried unanimously. Mr. Mitchell, of St. Mary-
It•bone, moved a resolution, thanking Lord Duncan for his
successful exertions to obtain a repeal of the window tax,
Mr. Ocesin, of St. Lunen 's, seconded the resolution, which
was carried with acclamation. A resolution was them
paned, requesting the metropolitan and all liberal member;
to support Sir B. motion against the house tax, and
any motion that may be made upon the subject by other
members of parliament. The meeting then separated.