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HOME ClRCUlT.—Mmorroxs, Dic. 7.
(&d... Mr. Justice Williams.)
aterita Thomas 2b, a priests soldier belonging to
Ilea 711 rd Regiment, wee treirted for &Ma.
Id,. hesell conducted the prosecution.
It aappemrnd that the proavcutor is a farmer at Gillingham,
seem Clashes, sued on the teethe; of the 4th of October •
seek of wheat upon his fete, of the value of 110 i., waste
es Ire sad totelly °AMMO. Th. rte me, mee met *man,
be • direction from the tire by a young man whom he .topped
sod eked If he saw the tire, and paved it out to him, end
be then vie, I did it," and et the mine time showed him
aims lit. tier metre.. The prisoner was taken auto melody
shortly evreseda sit shims-.hop, and upon his being astrchal
stele corder matches wee bend be his pocket. He we
then taken to the polite-Wades et Cnatitam, and out the foi-
ble's,/ I:hornets, when Mr. Everest, the superintendent of
the meaty poke, wens to hie mil and isquired for the wan
we, set are to the rich, the prieseroallid oat' `. Here I ow,
end he rudely mated hive several gammons that he sae the
peen by whom the act had been committed.
The prisoner, who we evidently • veer shrewd man, and
who appeared to hare received . good education, when milled
epos for hit defence, ruede a loos eddreas tit. jury, in which
he retracted entirely his former aderisewe of pelt. He said
the feet was, that he we. divested writ the ocrapsuon of •
soldier, tied we determined Sot to do coy more duty with his
reertureet, &ad he bad on mimes ocesatom c,mfeerd to Ming
• deserter from other regiments, and dlferent mimed of
leech he was en.lrely Inaorent to ord.v to reset his objets,
bet he sad loth. rto been tuteureeeitul. Oa the night be
(petite, as he we reurnirr to the barrel., Me sew the
stark on ler, sad it etruck him that this wheel be • geed
oppromustry for him to het out of the military service, sad
he detenuterel to coshes Hurt ha was the man who
hod set the 'tack on tire to the fire peseta he
met, and he accordiogly de so to the wittiest.
who Lad been rearnined. its delercd, however, get
what ha had la his hand, and welch tbes wit-
less bad elated to be lutikr matches, was wiles, bets
pies. of string. He showed that vibes he west to the beer-
shop he 'squired of a ruse whether he thought that We ass-
feeros woad be etfllcimrt to cause hi. conmetioe of tee
crime, sad this man toll bite that be bed Oster buy some
Wife matches and have them found upon him wiles be was
tars WO sestedy, and ho ercordnittly di4 en, bat be declared
the he was entirety emcee of the slime, sad Lit only
shiest I. gayly/ ihst be had set be to the beck was eke hops
thee he shisild thereby serve from soy *unite military
swim.

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Tbej *mad the prisoner Gritty.
Gary 13, soother pnYW sallsr, was charged
wipi • .assibe

Mom ;041 Mr. &obeli prossestoiL
thN con oho is toot dr primer bad odroittod
lb gait,. wad as • rums kr the sm. •d. aro to
kelps from wry*, rot way.
Tie Jury lossil km Guilty.
Illsawass or ismer la book sass.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT,—Noawicu, Du. 7.
Caving Covin.—(B.l••• sp. Justice Cromptbn )

TUB ALLIS= 111 imams AT T,

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Mew the data* of Ger parcel yowiedey. Ow 4. fence of
Allamearde Ikea eleiged bah oralfulit murdering bee al*
Ii 1. timid by Osvortuag it a Yarmouth. woe Wowed
fills. lOW lobe appeared f r the prkeesr, pet it to the jary
whether they were welded ,h.% the eirld Owego/set to the
herd* sow ewe her tow. and whether th.y were cow-
Owed broad nossoe.t.io 4...0bt that the prutooor had tot•
wished lie ezieteeet. Lt,t.oapoutioa bed sot le to mach ea
West who. Ibto hotly of the told tr,te totted that it worn hu-
b, eeeteedod, to ootoolteb tt. ideauty tabefortotily.
t spier, either. that the primmer • breband woo
was et Ye tebetwoe et the child, sod thaw
lon she meld 4w bo motive for pang
It obi of the my, as the Iditewsse• mods boo out of her bee-
boors were would boo ambled her to zoorawis It without
Ii barn es yobbo, Noble' shoat it. It wee doubt-
!J,
aZ hero@ coshed urged, whether the body
wee is • soot wbl goo the court Jerleowles to
Norfolk.

Mr. Jos** Crampift having remosi
Tlepry wad, bulge he ball as Myr,

reerisi • was* b the ad ..t that they did not coneider the
Ide•tlkM{e• of the ones aatodeeturill eatabluted, and they
throats /puled th• prisoner.
Some appall's was attempts], but it wee immediately re-

T;:.7 the court disposed et seeleal cases of no vowel
intieses, and tha Wane' of tlia arnica doted to afternoon.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAk FORD, DEC. 7.
(BAN Yr. Justice Willa.)
£L1.10111) lICADIII,

Xilby. 46, tertuch Midler, wee earehtucd for the
wilful murder ut George E.dby, hia ma, ea the Stith of step-
timber Met, at Wolrertmotron.

Mr. kiih.(taking the 141 tu Mr. Scotland, who le fit) and
Mr. Matthews erre for t. prostrunoti ; and Mr. Motterant,
Irelated by Mr. Young, defended the prisoner.
Mr. Hid, to opeoto • the ca., said that this cm was not
duly oats of alleged ..order, bin murder by a father upon his
eon. Both the prior's' Gad the deceased heed In the fame
bout., Noaks'e-bealldings, in Wolverhampton, and e the
Soda the garden, twenty-wee yerds from the Lout., de-
emed had a shop, where, assisted D • boy &mid Crump,
he waked at stench making. lA. prisonees shop wee
a little farther ott. Although the dece.sel was
of an exemplary character, being a very religious yeaug
man, yet they did not Lye comfortably together, the tether
behaving with much violence to the son. On the day in
question, iu order to avoid meeting his father, deceased went
to hie dion.T at half-peat 12, half an hour before hi* let her
and rtturniog to his work, sent Cramp to hi. dinner. He
wee heard singing et his wore up to halt-past one, and be-
twain that lime and 20 minutes to two eoands were heard in
decoesers shop as of two pto?le quarrelling. The sounds
were net distinct, yet one of the roles' was much deeper than
the ether, and they both beessoe lower until about 20
autos to two, when ell was silent. It wee a cir,una-
' stenos So Lie remembered that, whenever the prisoner beat
the deceased the latter retail always pat his bawls
tam hie pocket", that ho might not be tempted to errata his
father in scorn. After the dying out of the arise st twenty
minutes to two, nothing wee heard till two, when Crump
returned to his work, and found hie young mutter !pug
deed with his bend beneath a bench, and his throat lying over
the new edge of a wooden box, In which there were tram
altar, kis face being In the box. Crump raised an alarm,
saying there wee something the matter with George. Pri-
sonar some towerds the shop and began to cry. here was
• mark over the ejs which would produce ineeetehtliry, and
a meek epee the throat which would produce, soft cows. It
was considered quite impossible for him to have fallen where
he wee found. It would beshown by evidence that toe father
wee tees is Isere the shop alwartly beforeCrueep returned ; and
he had .into andearanrid to Wines wits's.' whose testi-
mony bore ageinat him to altar that fastlremay. The theory
of tha prosecution ass that the prlectsse Limited his foe In-
sensible by the blow over the eye; mid that he afterwards
premed his throat over the aide of the box till suffocation
etheri.

• *umber of witnesses were called to prom the osso as
stated by the learned consist for the prostarlos—the medical
evidence going to show that it wee quite possible for the do-
omed to have socidestally fallen into the position in which
to was found, and thus to have been suffocated.
The trained Judge, o the ooncluden of the cam for the
prosecution, put it to the jury whither, alter hearuze the
evidence—one witness only sjeakien to the preset, of the
primmer mar the shop--and considrring the medical toeu•
nosy, it waa neoseeu7 to hear omit* Cr the defence.
Thsjury, after • brief deliberation, delust:,4 tau pneoper.
Belmont* three, 40, guffaw, wee then arraignod tor the
wilful murder of Jam Oyez, his wife, on the 18th of Oct.
keel at Wednesbury.
Rottman sad lir. Hill conducted the prosecution,
Ned Kr. Ketrealey mad Mr. Brown defended the Owner.
The Issetistp oriensel for the prosecution slated tout in this
tees the Rlsosw bed been committed by the coroner Os the
sharp tumelanghtor, but by the magistrates on the charge
el murder; and the grand jury having returned a bill fur
the color offence, the prisoner now stood before them on
that charge. The planner wee the keeper of the Cottage
Brim backrest at Wethenbery ; sad his wife haring hardy
beacons addicted to intact:emu, Imbue, had occasioned a
very 111 harm agaiost her by her husband. In adaitim, she
bad seine relatives whom company he had prohibited
her to keep. Returaiag home, on the day of the offence, he
booed ths deceased intoxicated, and learnt that the peot.tbtted
relatives had bons at his house. He then commenced an
attack upon her. He drove her to take refute in • neigh-
bour's house. whither be f dlowed her, and either by a blow
ore kick lefficted Injuries of which she died.
For the dim" ft we. contended that the prisoner wee
not is. guilty of manslaughter, and that death wee ace'.
lowed by apoplexy.
• leeg array of withers* were called foe the defence, the
tentnioey balm that the primmer we. a steady man and •
Med husband ; two written doenmenui, one signed by 400,
and the other by 30 persone, who similarly remitted ; but his
lordship would not allow the documents to be but in.
His lordship summed up the cos as one of rit az-Laughter;
sled

The jury, after a very brief ecteaultatioe, f mad the pri-
se/1m Gritty of that ollears, sod ho was sesunced to be kept
is pond servitude for starters.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—NZwcAsme., DEC. 7.
(Won Sim martin.)
NMI NORDIN NT AN LNIAIC.AN 11• TE.

AAR Mason Meaty (24), base-fag to Puetland , United
States, mare of the Ildsey, of Bath, United Sister, woo
Merged with the wilful warder of D inlet Withers, on Atoo-
rkea sailor, la the Nerthmsbarlead Ducks, on the Tyne, on
the 16th of August het.
Moody is • tall, powerful-looking young fellow, full-
eheeksd, and with • most powerful aria. Rectum into the
boa with. somewhat bold and defiant all, but u the case
1:11:be mimed to realise tile position, and meowed •
t more becoming his situation.
n. A. Liddell and Hr. Blackwell prosecuted; Mr.
Davison defended the prisoner.
The Hon. A. Liddell stated the case—He said the pri-
mes', who was an American, woe in August last mate of a
mewl called the Illsry, an Americas motel, and the deoemed
we. a Isamu oat board that ship. He had ousel for a
voyage from New Orleana to Bremen, theses to the Tyne to
take in male, and thence beck to America. The Mary
arrived in the Tyne la July last fibs was taken into the
Northumberland Docks to take in coals, end remained there
till the Ilth Auteuil last. Now, with regard to the c 'tweet
of this ran toward. deceased on the voyage from New Orlosne
to the Ty no, it would be shown that his conduct towards the
dscesad was, during that voyage, ol a toot bum and
severe character, that he was in the habit of using violent
language towards the men in general sad towards the
deceased In particulsr. Ujon one mosaion the pri-
soner struck the deceased with an instrument celled a
knuckle-duster," end knocked him down. This " knuckles
dame," wee an iron instrument—a @trim of inn tinge which
Stied on to the lingers and ere clasped inside the hand, so
that when a man is struck with them be reosivott • blow
from a eerie, of iron knucklas instead of • serifs of knuckles
of flesh and booe. In order to CMG the veseel from the
place where she was lj log in the docks to the berth where
she was to take in • cargo of coals, all hand. were called
somewhere about two o'clock in the morning of the llth of
August. The deceased with some others of the crew slept
in the forecastle, in a standing bed or " bank," the lowest
bank on the starboard side of the vessel, and somo of the
other seamen slept un the larlsoord aide. All bends were
called, but whether deceased beard the call or tot was
not known. Another man who slept in the mule berth
se the dammed did not hear it, and the first
thing that awoke him oa that fussier; was a noise that he
beard la the forecastle. He looked op and saw the primmer
at the bar, who wee the second mate, paving hold of the de-
emed sess by the hoc sad pulling him out of the bunk. It
were that the priesumr, who had hold of Witham, succeeded
is parkin. out of his bed-place, upon which this mina,
who same le Black, got oat of his berth sad said to the
prone; " Whet do you aims by doing that!' The pri-
mmer answered "It is not Iron I am epeeldag to." Black
✓eplied 1 know that; brat it te not props/of you to use that
✓oot ; he was complaining km night of not being well."
The prisoner, however, pulled the deceased out ot berth
and red same violist szprrelose towards the deceased,
who did soring at that Utne la the way of struggliag
or fersting dis prisoner beyond amiag " Hold an. Mr.
Mostly." The prisoner then left the Isrecestie, In which
tire was at this tiros a lamp boning. Birk had occasion
01, Um his beck to order to put as his and se soca
se be bad tursed away to go further tap the he
saw the decreed standing by the formals door. Having
Ids heck turned he did not see what took place; another
wirer, a boy named Howland belonging to Port Glasgow,
or was on board at this heard • noise in the foreesele,
and saw tie prisoner pall Witham out of hie berth, sad
beard Mr re some expression toward. the deceased; the
prisoner bed then a lamp is his Wed, and walked along the
deck man the wears chants which were lying upon the
dedt, Nod picked op an iron bolt or bar about two or three
et bag and an tech thick. He then pat dubs his limp
spina the rail of the ship, sod, taking this bar in both h Ind;
he went op to deemed and mid, " Keep back,
or I'll hurt you." So far as the evidence went
them was no abodow of pretence for 'eying that Witham had
say latention to attack the prisoner. Upon this, it would
be shown the deceased said to the prisoner. " Are you going
as take the steal knuckles to me again ?" The prisoner
replied, " I'll take the Snit thing that noose to my bend,"
or words to that effect. Witham then, instead of coming
forward, turned round for the purpose at going iota the (ove-
reat* nod when he turned round to go away the prisoner
struck him with the iron b at, which be held in both bands,
• blow on the back of the heed, uu the lab-Wad side, which
knocked him down on the deck massless, in which state he
remained until the 16th August, nn which elm he died from
the offsets of the blow. It world be proved that when that
blow was struck the deceased mast have had his back turned
to the prisoner. Pieces of the skull, where the W, ,w ft
W been taken out of the deceased man'. heed, and
weaY be prokor in court, sod would show that the
Um mud have bees give* with such eiotehe„ as
to split the skull into shivers like a broken eggshell.
The meta Black, who turned rotted in the furemsUe to put on
his &Shah beard the disoemed fall upon the deck. Hs tamed
round and saw the prieonar standing with the iron bolt in
hie head, about them feet from him. Black called fur am-
Solana, kat could not get any. Ho called the primasee at-
tangos to the state of the deceased, saying, "I expect
Witham le dead." The prisoner answered something to the
effect that if he was dead he dad not can vary mach for the
act that be lied just dom. Black reported the trmaaction to
the Mid tastes, sod he sad the pioneer west into the berth
and herd at Witham, and said that they did not think he
was dead; and so far as can be collected from the evidence
beheg utast the add mats, mat the primer, as, in fact,

any of the °liken on board, off:red the slighttst araistancie,
or took the all/bleat trouble, or did anytoiog for tie poor
Wan, who was lying in Chit state in their ship. Block then
went to the captain, and the cupiain Caine along deck, apple.
rattly with the intention of fro mg two One turf 1., but did nut,
foe he neat the tauten upon the deck end they ell tornsd
away. Bleck sent for a doctor, and got the deemed on
shore. The polio, baring received information from Black,
came co board, but the prisoner hal Crea gone away, and
was found et the house of a pilot in Sunderland, where he
was aka some resistnee, taken into outtody. Rhea he
won charged with tele offence he said, " it la e bad job; I
did it it &• hest of pu.ion."
os babtlt of the prisoner, called the chief
mate of the MITy, the pilot, and two why; wimeress, who
stror3 that Ine &named threatected to use the knife Wore
the prisoner kre eked him down with the 4ron bar.
At six o'clock the jury returned a verdict of minslaughter.
Tim prisoner wee sentenced to penal arrvitade for hie.
YORK, Dec. 6.
MARILAI:OIITRR.

Mamas Clarks, 45, was indicted for the manalartehter,
ou the 28th of Angus', at liortos, Bradford, of Patrick
Coley.
Before this met the prisoner, who la an Irishman, carried
on the bus's..., of s general dealer In Chapel-lane. The de.
ceas.l was also an Irishmen, and he and his wife were at
a clarietneine at the ptiloner's house on Sunday, the 28th of
August. They appesr to have drunk freely of ram and ale,
and ultimately to bare quarrelled. as the prisoner tamed
the direst: out of the house. Coley went down the street
and retorted, and there being erica of ~ionreler" the
hens°, he kicked at the door. It wee opened by the
prisoner, who was observed to strike Coley three those on
the body. The latter found himself stabbed, and on examine.
Hon it wee found that his bowel& protruded. fie only lived
the, e days afterwards. The prisoner bad been committed for
trial for murder, and although no in.trument was even in his
hood when he pave the blows, It was though. ho had used a
dagger•
The Jury Mad the Mama Guilty.
Ills 'wash* said the arises was little short of murder,
and he should sentates dee prisoner to Mess years' penal
atervitode.