Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-29 00:00:00

DEFENDANT. TELLS ~3..DII'PEREIVE•ETORY.

Walsb.in his affidavit says. That lie is the father of two
e...iildren, and that he became -aepa: hated with Mary Ann
(-the plaintiff) when she resided wit h her htzsbaud at New-
ark, at which time he (Walsh). WAS employed at the New
Jet-Se:7El°c works es an engineer, a nd he then boarded with
plaintiff: After leaving her-be we nt to board with a Mrs.
:Sneddenabout three montbs-after the husband of Mary Ana
died ; he then celled now and the n to see- Mary Ann as a
friend to offer her consolation, and he being also often
called: into the house by. her, or by messengers sent to
him b-3 Mary Ann. He says that nothing could have
occurred to lead Mary Ann. -to think.; that he desired
to marry her, and that if Were was. nothing else to
forbid at, the recent lass of a h usband was enough. Walsh
left the employ of the Zinc C 3 apany and went to South
America, and returned in June, 18.56. Shortly after his
return he went to Nowark, and made a Few friendly calls
on the plaintiff, but in no. .way indicated his intention to
marry her. He says. that the plaintiff is about 5(3, years
old, and has four chiliiren. 'the eldest being about twenty-
three years of age.. lie denies emphatically that, be ever
asked " Mary Anc-'! -to marry him,, and said that she once
asked him when lao.:was.go in.; to get married, but that he
made no reply, aud he solemnly &thee, the charge of
forcibly violatingAter, mail said, on the contrary, that ha
had retired to rest, on tt,e night o'f the christening, when
the widow came .into his room; and " one thieg led to
another" until he had connection with !ter, after whinh he
fell asleep ; that when.' he awokn, sues had gone, he not
knowing whenshe hadieft ; that on the following morning.
before he got oat of she come to 'his room, and went
to bed with tam. Ha further adds the t the widow-did not
stop keeping- company with other. 'we.r, and that she had
frequently spoken strongly is favouu of one Hunter, who
is now in Europe, arld had repoateat y said that she was to
marry him. He finishes his- affklall it by saying that this
suit is braught by plaintiff to ;gratify her malicious
feelings against
_him.

There !Were a 'great number oCf affidavits read sustain-
ing both sides of the foregoing,. v
ad were, pretty evenly
balanced. Judge Brady-dechle.3.ll chat the bail should be
reduced to 1,000 dole.

A Cittr&HlNG EXPOSWRE.-14 ,eechmaker, in the wes'era
part of the State of -Virgin' .a, during a Presidential
canvass, has given us the fet lowing aneelote. Ho was
holding forth on the merits of General Harrison, and
especially upon his eourage,i; tee and success as a military
commander. While in the. midst of his discourse, a tall,
gaunt man—who- was probe hay a schoolmaster in those
parts—arose from the orttf fd, and sail', in a voice which
penetrated the whole asseoa' oly, "Mister, Mister ! I want
to ax you a qaestion.” 1 ro this the orator assented, and
the man went on as t'4 dews :--e We are to'd, fellow-
citizens, tbat General net eison is a mighty greqt:general;
hit I say he's one of a ,e very meanest sort of generals.
We are told here to-nit•l tthlt ne defen led himself bravely
at Pea Aleigs ; but a_
1 you that on that occa'i in he was
ae
guilty of the Sniet// 7 ale Movement, and I challenge the
orator here present eei.i lent' it ! a The speaker declared his
utter ignorance of lea et the intruder meant by " Small
Tale movetneea" ''' I'd tell you,',' says the man ; " I've
got it here in blur' a and white. Here is Grimahaw's
History of the Uteitit ad States," hol ling up the book, " and
I'll read what it t says:—' At this critical moment Gen.
Harrison exeents4 a novel movement!' Does the gentle- '
man deny that .?" "No ; go. on." " Well, he executed
a novel movemen' c. Now here's Johnsca's D.ctionary,"
taking the book 'out of his pocket, and holding it up, "and
here it says :---` Novel—a steed/ , tare! And this was the
kind of' MVO= at General itarrison was guilty of. Nnw,
I'm no sojer, arid don't know. much of milentary tictaks—
but this I do say, a man who, in the face of an enemy,
;s guilty of a. Small Tale Atoveilloe, is net fit to be Presi-
dent of the Tin'itori States, and he shan't have my vote!"
The relator of tlre aneedeue sere that it was quite imaessi-
ble for him to. overcame The effect of this speech, and we
a,e left to conclude that the vote of that vicinity, was
given to Van. B.uren.,--Xecoleetlons of a. Lifetime. By S.
G. Goodrich- " I'der Parley.,")
HORSE CA,4l;.—ln The llifeeechester Court of Record, on
Friday and :Saterravy, before Mr. Monk, QC ' deputy
recorder, au aectian was tried, in which Mr. James William-
son, a carciflr and -horse dealer, of Manchester, sought to
recbver frc4.m. Mr.. William Myers, also a horse dealer in
Manchestra, 483,, the Talin of a brown mare, which the
plaintiff ,laeclepurchasect from the defendant for £43, and
which the 'plaintiff heel paid the defendant for, but
which the defendant refused to deliver. Me. Wheeler
and Ylr. Fernley, instructed by Me. Eiward Tayleur
Dickeonsoa, appeeredi for the plaintiff; and Mr. Ovens,
instr ucted by Messrs. Cobbett and Wheeler, appeared
for,' the defeadent. .It appeared from the evidence of
the+ plaintiff, that on the 6de of Novemberlast, be par-
clitase4 a /brown mare from the defendant, for £43, with
-.3 w4tt en warranty, which. he paid him for. In a few
days-aftio the mare was deavered, the plaintiff discovered
that het: neck was bad, in coneequeace of having been
bled. ° The plaintiff sent for the defendant, and he came
to- t... 9 plaintiff's stabloe and examined her neck, an'!
said, "It is. had ; send, her up at once. to Peter Taylor's,
my veterinary surgeon.:: he bled her, and I'll make him
cure het." The plaintiff, in presence of the defendant,
desired his man, Robert Hoggarth, to take her up,
which he did, with her clothing and knee-caps on, and
'left the mare at Peter Taylor's, and brought back the
clothing. Some abort time after the defendant met the
plaintiff, and told him that the mare bad lost a neck vein.
The plaintiff replied, " Then she is not wolth so much
by .E 10." The defendant said he teoulei write to the
person from, whom ho hel purchased- the mare, and
endeavour to get something return. I from him. The
plaintiff replied, " I-11 . have nothing to do with
her : you can do, as you like."' On the 16th
day of January last, a settlement took place
between the plaintiff and defendant, who had
previously had some dealings together. At that meeting
the plaintiff purchased the mare again for zn as she was,
and she was to be delivered in sefew days; the defendant'
did not deliver the mare accrsding to promise, and the
plaintiff made, several applications to him for her, bat
could neither get mare nor money. The plaintiff was cor-
roborated in, his statement by his SOD ; Mr John Bland,
grocer, Bridge-street ; Mr.. Wan. Thompson, horse dealer;
Mr. John Lawson, veterinary surgeon ; and his late ser-
vant, Robert iloggatla On behalf of the defendant it was
alleged_ that the mare was sound at the time of her
delivery • . that her neck became inflamed, and that she
ultimately lost one of her neck veins, in 'consequence of the
treatmen she had received while in the posseetioa of the
1314intiff ; that the plaintiff had cant her to Peter Taylor's
on• his own responsibility; that the defendant had agreed
to allow eRIO, and which the plaintiff' had agreed to
accept, in consequence of the loss of the neck vein ; that
the mare had never been delivered by the plaintiff to, and
accepted by, the defendant, consequently the defendant
could not have refused to deliver her, and that the plaintiff
was bound to pay for the keep and doctoring of the mare
while at Taylor's. The jury, after hear rag the defendant's
ease, which lasted a considerable time, without troubling
Mr. Wheeler to reply on the part of the plaintiff, or the
judge to sum up, said they had made up, their minds to
find a verdict for the plaintiff for- the whole amount
claimed, £33, stating, in reply to questions from the judge,
who said he concurred in the verdict, that they believed
the mare to have been unsound at the time of the delivery,
that the plaintiff had returned the mere to the defendant,
who had accepted her, and that she was purchased a second
time for £33, and that the 44IfsqdaLit had not paid that
sun; to the plaintiff.

TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF STEPHEN FOX
FOR SHOOTING HIS SWEETHEART.

At the Maidstone askizes, cu Monday, before Mr. Justice
Willes, Stephen Fox, 24, a good-looking young man, was
indicted for the wilful murder of Mary Anne Hadley, by
shooting her. Mr. Deedes and the Hon. G. Denman cm-
ducted the prosecution. The prisoner had no counsel, and
it was announced that it was his intention to plead guilty
to the charge. When he was a reigned, however, he
pleaded not guilty, both, to the indictment and the coroner's
inquisition, and at the request of the Court Mr. Ribton
watched the case on his behalf. Mr. Deedes, in opening
the case to the jury, described it as one of a very sad and
melancholy character. The deceased was a respectable
young woman residing with her parents at Canterbury,
and the prisoner appeared to hey° courted her for a con-
siderable time, and they were engaged to be married.
Circumstances, however, occurred, to which he s-ide it was
not necessary for him further to allude, which induced the
young woman to decline to ally herself to the prisoner,
and, actuated by a feeling cf revenge and passion, he
had in the most deliberate manner destroyed her
life. He then proceeded to give a short narrative
of the facts of the case, and the following evidence
was adduced —Harriet Hadley, examined by Mr. Den-
man : I am the wife of Edward Hadley, a brushmaker,
and reside at Celdharbonr-lane, Canterbury. In May
last I had a daughter, named Mary Anne Hadley. I know
the prisone-, Stephen Fox. He bad for a year and a half
been keeping company with my daughter, I remember
his coming to my house on the evening of the 12 h of
May, on a Tuesday. He asked if Ma,:y Anne was at
borne, and I told him I would go and see. My daughter
was in the habit of working at Mrs. Carter's, a laundrese,
in Starry-road, about half a mile from my house. The
prisoner went away, and came back is about half an hour,
and he wished to see if she had come home. My diugh-
ter returned home about five minutes past ten o'clock,
which was late for her. The prisoner, during the interval,
had been going in and on, of the house. He folio ved
my daughter into the parlour on The ground floor, and
stood outside the door to listen. My daughter said to the
prisoner, " It's no use for you to coma. I have told you
so a good many times, and you won't hear what I have
got to say. I have verieen you a letter, and you will
have it to-morrow morning." The prisoner seemed in a
vary g teat passion, and he said, " You will see ms one more
night, and that will do—do see me " I was afraid he
would have struck her. My daughter said she had made
inquiries about eons women, and she found it was quite
correct what she had heard. I saw the prisoner ag tin at
my house on the following mcrriing. When he came on
the Wednesday morning my daughter was not at home.
He said, "I am not going to work tc-say. lam a gentle.
man. I shall not go to work to-day, or to-morrow, per-
haps; I can go to work when I please " He went into
the orchard, and ieturned to the house, and then said he
should go home, and should see "Polly" at night, and
that would make it all right. I said it would not, and he
smiled, and said, " You don't know—it will make it all
right if I see her once more." I said to him, " Mind, I
have had nothing to do with this breaking off, but it will
not be all right." He replied, 'No ; I know you had not,
but it will be all right when I see her once more." I told
him that his conduct of late had been anything but what I
could approve of. He then went away. On the same
evening I was at the Cambridge Arms with a person
named Gurney, and the prisoner was also there. It was
about a quarter to nine o'clock. I saw Gurney go and
speak to the prisoner, and of er I had left the house,
the prisoner followed and overtook me, and said, " What
is up, Mrs Hadley ?" I told him I did not know, and
said, " What is all this about?" The prisoner said,
" I want to see Polly." I told him that he could not see
her, and he said he would—he wanted to have one more
word with her—yes or no. He adds that he would see
her ; he hsd ateed like a man ; be had loved as a man,
and he would die as a man. He also said, "Revenge
is sweet." I told hint he could not see her that nigat,
and if he did he must go to the other end of the town.
.My daughter was at home at the time. In consequence of
the prisoner's conduct I spike to Elvey. a policeman, and
afterwards went to the police steeion, where I saw another
policeman named Porker, and complained of the prise
nee's conduct Mr. James Mills, a gun-smith, at Canter-
bury, deposed to the prisoner having bought a brace of
pistols at his shop on the 13. h of May. Edward Gurney
said : I am a gardener at Canterbury, and live near Mrs.
Bailey. I have known the prisoner upwards of two years,
and also knew the deceased young woman. I remember
seeing the prisoner on Wednesday evening, the 13th of
May, standing near my house. He asked whether he could
trust me to keep a secret? I said "Yes." He replied,
" Will you, on your oath, keep a secret?" I told him I
would. He than drew from his pocket a pistol with a cap
cn it, and I saw a second one in his pocket. He said,
"That shall be her doom this night before I sleep." He
pulled four bullets out of his pocket, and said, " Oae of
these shall do it, if the other don't." I said, "Pooh, pooh,
Stephen, don't be so silly, you'll be hung for it." He said,
" I don't care a about shooting her. I woul.d as lief
be hung for her as not." The deemed slept at my house
that night, and I accompanied her on the following morn-
ing towards a place called Vauxhall. We had to pass the
arra Is, and near the last barrack gate I saw the prisoner
come out from a gateway with two pistols in his hand, one
in each, and they were both cocked and capped. Ile said
tome, "If you come one step further I will shoot you."
The deceaeei ran on one side when ha said this, and the
prisoner jumped towards her, gave her a push with the
two pistols, and discharged them both at her. There was
a very short interval between the two reports, and only just
sufficient to enable me to ascertain that there were two
repoas. I rushed at the prisoner, and we had a struggle,
and he got away from me; but I seized him a second time
and OA the pistols from him. He did not say a word
until I had conveyed him to the police-station, with the
assistance of another man. He then said he only wished
he had more of these (meeting the pistols), or a revolver
and I should not hare taken him. I saw the Prisoner
searched at the station, and saw a powder-flu ak, some caps,
and four bullets taken from him. He also had a port-
monaie and a shilling. I said to the prisoner, "This is a
very serious thing Stephen," and he replied, " There are
four bullets, and I hope the other two have gone through
her." I saw the deceesed afterwards at Mr Carter's.
Flte wee then dead. James Epp?, police-constable, of
Csnterbury, said : I was at the police-station on the morn-
ing of she 14th of May, and remember the prisoner being
brought there by the last wayless and another man, and
he was given into my custody for shooting Anne Halley.
she prisoner wee locked up, and soon afterwards Dr. An-
drews came, and in the prisoner's presence said, "The poor
girl is deed." The prisoner said, " I don't think she suffered
much." Before this I had asked the prisonerif he wanted any
water. He said, "No ; lam happy and comfortable, and
ready to meet my f-ae. She brought it all on herself. I
went with her to chapel twice on Sunday (the Wesleyan
Chapel). She promised to meet me on the Monday night,
and I went, but could not Fee her. On the Tuesday I did
see her, and it was a very hard case, as (leery tieing was
arranged, and I had never had a cross word wi h her alt
the time we kept company." Stephen Baker, a labouring
man, living in Nortbgate, proved that about a quarter
before six on the morning of the 14 h May he was standing
near the barracks, when he saw the prisoner standing
between the new barracks and the cavalry barracks, in an
alley. Witness observed the witness Gurney and the
deceesed coming towards him, and the deceased want up
to the prisoner, and he shoved her with the pistols, and at
the same moment he heard them both ge off The deceased
was standing in front of him when he fired After the
prisoner had fired the deceased said, " Oh dear—young
man, do hold me up," and asked me to hold my hand to
her person to stop the blood. She bled a great deal, and
my hands and clothes were covered with blood. Witness
assisted to carry the deceased' to Mrs. Carter's house, and
remained with her until she died, which was about three-
quarters oran hour afterwards Just before she died she
called out very inwardly, " Mother." Ann Scriveus p-o-
-duced the mantle worn by the deceased on the day of the
fatal occurrence, and pointed out the place where the
bullet hid passed through. The fallowing letter was put
in and read. It vas one addressed to the prisoner by the
deceased :

Sir,—Your conduct of late has been anything but what it
should be when a young man considers himself en:;::;;e0. You
have always along wrongly denied hiving any coance ion ,wiih
Mrs. B—, but I am sorry to say that I 'rye, during the
last week, been fully convinced that your statement is not a
correct one, and that you have to pay for its maintenance.;
and, therefore, I think as such is the case I hrl better a: once
break off the engigetnent.—Yours,&c.,

MARY As 17ADLEY.
cln Lave the c'o'Le3 and the things I have of
yews on F..aturtlay ntzt."
The et*t molt of the prisoner was also put in. It was
as follows :

Of course the revel!) why I did it was because she deceived
me. I had promised hrr rnaniage, Ora consented. I went
to her house o❑ Monday evfnirg. She was not at home.
left her house at nine ()clock, and I went again on Tuesday
at six o'clock. She was not a' hour. I asked her mo'!►or
where the VW. Site said 'he did not know. I stayed to half-
past nine, and wont to, her house again. I stayed there until
half. past ten, and then she returned hone'. We went ►nto
the front room, I asked her then what was the reason of th's
unpleasantness. She said it was my own fault. I said, "13,.
it so, then " I said, " Give me a decided answer ; yes or no."
'ilvn I said, "I will have you for ever " Then she said,
"No, Stephen, I will meet you to-morrow night, precisely at
e'ght o'clock," which was yesterday. Site did not meet me.
I went to her house at seven, and a,lred her mother if she had
been home. Her mother said, " Yes and gone out again."
I went to Mr 3. Carter's, at Vauxhall, and inquired for her.
They did not know where she was, therefore I returned to Mr.

Gurney's house. I did not are her list evening at all. She
would not see mc. I did not see her until seven o'clock this
mornii,g. She said, " St,Theri, forgive me;" and I said,
" No, 1 can't." I have nothing more to say.
STEPHEN Fox, hs (...1) mark.
This closed the case for the prosecution. Mr. Ribton
then proceeeed to address the fury for the prisoner, but he
evidently felt that the evidence for the prosecution
was of so overwhelming a character that it was hopeless
for him to attempt to vraggle against a conviction. He,
however, mada the best of the only point that could be
raised in the case, namely, that the prisoner had worked
himself up to a fit cf ungovernable frenzy, and that he was
on that account not responsible, criminally, foe the act he
had committed. The learned judge having summed up,
the jury, after a brief deliberation, returned a verdict cf
guilty, and his lordship having put on the black cap, sen-
tenced the prisoner to b 3 executed without holding out the
slightest hope that any mercy would be ex ended to him.

POLIC 3 INTELLIGENCE.-TztipiY.

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MR. DIXON.

VIO4,ENCE BY A Ent&Lu.—Jane Anderson, a marred
woman, residing in Mersey-street, charged Miry
Alexander, also a married woman, living in the same
street, with havirg cut and wounded her. The prisoner
and complainant had some " words" about the children,
when the prisoner took up a mug and struck her a violent
blow which cnt her severely on the head and forehead,
and Mr. Pope, the surgeon of the liowhern Hospital,
proved that the wounds ware of a serious decription, and
the prisoner was reminded, fn order to ascertain the
result of the wounds.

TI:P.NiNG TUE TAWMS.—LaViIIa ititChrflatl was charged
by her husband, a master plasterer, hying in Lord-street,
Edge-hill, with being, drank and annoying him. Our
readers will remembtr a strange case that toi:k place-at
the court on Friday last, when the prisoner had her husband
charged with an attempt to kill her. On that occasion the
husband was diacharged,and promised to give her 104. a week.
He left ..E1 for her, with 111-.Evin,i, the officer. The pri-
soner, however, on Monday, went to the house, and whilst
in a state of drunkenna,s sh-. 3 created great disturbance, so
she was given into custody. She was sent to gaol for one
month.

THE " HOP" v SUPPER Rooms. —Three fleshy-looking
young females ware charged with fighting in Lime-street.
Mr..Goodere was for one of them, and, on cross-examina-
tion by the office: who had the charge, he said the priso-
ners were flung out of the supper rooms in Lime-street,
and then they pitched into each other most awfully in the
street. Mr. Goodere addressed the cent+, and sa'd the
supper rooms were the greatest nuisance in Liverpool ;
they sold wine and other drink there, and that caused
more trouble than all the " hops" in town. The " hop"
was a place of innocent amusement compared to the
supper rooms, which were the cause of all tee disor-
derly conduct in Lime sVeet. When the Cor-
poration of Liverpool began to reform the
morals of the people, they should commence
by putting down supper rooms. In fact it was a shame
for the corporation to allow drink to be sold there, the
police should interfere in it to put it down. Inspector
Chew said :—The corporation or the police cannot inter-
fere—it is the duty of the excise to do it. Theprisonera
were then discharged.
THE WAY THEY HAVE IN THE Aram—Terence Brady, a
tall Hibernian, dressed in militsry uniform, was charged
for causing an obstruction in the streets. The allegation
was that " Ma.s'er" Brady was in the habit of collecting
large crowds about him in the streets, by offering a smell
pamphlet with a full, true, and particular account of "the
way they hare in th army ' —Thetis, the way they treated
him—very likely by giving him a few dozen for suspected
ill conduct. He was discharged, with a caution, not to
ole,truet the streets again.
A. MANIAC.—MN. Murass, of the Newmarket public.
heu.e, E Eott-street, charged a wretched meniae, named
David Smith, under the following circumstances. The
prisoner went to the hones and asked for a light for his
pipe, which being supplied he sat down ou a form for some
time, after which he jumped up, seized a pewter measure,
and commenced bresking every thing within his reach.
She went round the counter to prevent him, when he
caught her g chain and polled it in pieces. It was
stated, and indeed it was quite evident, that the unfaaunate
fellow was a maniac, and he was remanded in order that he
might be examined by a medical man.
A. Cir CAP JAUNT.—A yeorg man, named Joseph Gaskill,
who said he lived at Burnscough-bridge, was charged with
travelling in one of the East Lancashire railway carriages,
from Preston to Liverpool, without a ticket, and refusing
to pay on his arrival here. The prisoner said he was very
drunk, and did not know where he came from, how he got
into the carriage, or any thing abort himself until he was
taken to the station-house. His Worship said it was very
strange how a man in such a state could have got into the
carriage. The guard said it was the station-master's duty
to look after that He knew nothing of the prisoner being
in the carriage until he came to Liverpool. The prisoner
was fined 5s without costs.

Who's THE INSPECTJR.—PoIice officer 517 bra-nett up
three decent-looking persons, named Margaret Stephenson,
James Long, and Robert Williams, charged with stealing
a small bunch of flowers, which he held in his hand. The
officer said he arrested the prisoner., on Netherfield-road,
at half-past four in the mornieg, on suspicion of having
stolen the flowers. which were in the hands of the female
at the time. Mr. Dixon: Did you tee them eteal the
flowers? No, tir. Mr. Dixon : Did any one complain to
you that the flowers were stolen? No, sir. Did any one
tell you a garden had been robbed ? No, sir. Mr.
Dixon : Why did you arrest them then ? My inspector
told me to do so. Mr. Dixon : Who's your inspector,
pray? Mr. Mawdsley. Mr. Dixon: Did he know they
had stolen the flowers? No, sir. Mr. Dixon : Di:,charge
the prisoners.
Robert Stephenson, an oil offender, was sent for trial
for stealing 40Ibs. of wheat, belonging to Messrs. Maxwell.

BEFORE MR HAMILTON.

UNWtIOLIROMIC MEAT.—lnspector Read charged Parnuel
Hough, of John's Market, with having fir sale 122 lbs of
veal, unfit for human food. The case was clearly
proved, and a fine of £2, and 9s costs, was inflicted on
the defendant.

El as Porey, of Scotland-road, was charged by Inspector
Jones with exposing for sale in the market 18 lbs of un-
wholesome ham. Fined 5s and 4s Gd costs.

The law on the Snanis!t press, the e:ucution of which
the N Cabinet. demanded as a matter of urlency, has
been for some days past in full force. The Madrid jour-
nals have now the sigill.t tre of the writer at the battum of
each. article.

TOE Et CIIOOLNIASTER rN FRANCE. —The prefect of the
Allier s dismissed the scle olmaster of Lignerolles, a man
named Bough-t, for " maintaining intimats relations with
the most ardent demagogues of Montlucon," and for
"da; ly f,equenting cafes to which such persons
resort." The prefect adds that "a man with such con-
nections sad such habits is unworthy of being charged
with the education of youth." The same pr,f,ct has
ordered nine cafes or public houses in the arrrondiesiment.
of Montlucon to be closed, on the ground that they are the
"customary places of demagogical meetings."
THE MURDER OF MR. Lir-rec.—According to current
reports. it is not ye: certain whether Splle wall be put.
upon his trial at the next commission of over acid terminer,
which opens on the 4th proximo, or whether it will be
postponed until the commission followinet, which sits about
the middle of October. It is said that the case for the
crown has been entrusted to Mr. Fitz ;ibbon, the eminent
Qacen's counsel, and one of the ablest criminal lawyers
at the Irish bar. Spolleu's eldest son, who gave rather
reluctant and not very important eviden-e against his
father at the police investitation, has been dismissed from
his employment at the railway works at Broadstone.
Tun N►tw SPEAKER.—The tedious debate of Friday
night week, prolonged until half-past four in the morniag,
was principally due to the want of weight and authority
upon the part of the new Speaker. We have pointed out
upon a previous occasion the want of firmne-s and preci-
sion apparent in Mr. Speaker Denison's decisions upon
questions of order. The want of parliamentary knowledge
may now he added. When he interferes he interferes
weakly ; he has evidently but little confidence in hil own
judgment. He " suspects," but always on the wrong point,
and very little weight would appear to be attached by the
house to his opinion. This is much to be regl•etted, for
with a new house, and in such times as these, the chair
requires to be filled by a skilful and energetic speaaer, by
one thoroughly well acquainted with the rules of the house,
and too keen in parliamentary precedent to permit them to
be" skilfully evaded."—Press.

WOMSI Dcc'roas.—The Female Medical College of
Pennsylvania is heated in Philadelphia. Th 3 college is
prosperous And thriving, and the number of students ou
the increas3. Of these latter we find a list covering two
pages, and footing up two hundred names, or thereabouts.
It sounds odd to read of Doctors Anne, and Lydia, and
Hannah, and Mary, and so on ; but we dare say they
understand their business, and would make the scoffers
laugh on the wr..►ng side of their mouths if they had them
in a dissecting room. Among the facalty we notice an
M. D. and Professor of Physiology whose name is ArTn,
and a Professor of Anatomy with the deliciously romantic
name of Em-neline. Who wouldn't study physic to hear
lectures from a person wish such a beautiful name ? To
he serious, we are glad this icsitution, like the others of
the same kind, is prosperous. Th9re is pl ay of room for
usefulness for women skilled in medicine. We hope that
young women who don't want to marry will think well of
the subject.—. New York Herald.

COUNTY COURT.-YESTZELDAY.

BEFORE J W. HARDEV, Esq , JUDGE OF COUNTY COURT
mem NO. SZVEN.

MORGAN V. BARBOUR AND ELLIS —ID. thi action the
plaintiff sought to recover .£22 Is. 8 1. from the defendants
under the following circumstances : —Some time since the
defendants endeavoured to establish a line of steamers
between Liverpool and Cardiff, and contracted with the
plaintiff to be their agent at Cardiff, the terms being that
he should receive a certain convniasioa on the transactions
which were completed. A person named Alsopp went to
Cardiff along with the first steamer, and represented him •
self as a partner of the defendants. He was in their
employment, but, from his representation, the plaintiff
believed him to bs one of the partners. The defendants
de' ied that Alsopp wiz a partner, and they also denied the
receipt of the money which he had received for freight.
The plaintiff now sued them for the shave sup, being the
amount of his cemmietion, an I also of dishersemen.s on
aceeuut of the steamer. Mr. lime appeared for the de-
fendant:. The case was heard on Monday, and his Honour
save judgment yesterday. He regretted that Mr. Alsopp
had not been produced; but the mono: not having passed
threugh the plaintiff's hands, he could recover only the
amount which he had disbursed on account of the ship.
The Court could therefore give him a verdict only for
£l2 Is. I id., with costs on that amount. Verdict
accordingly.
ROBINSON v. PERCIVAL AND OTHERI.—The plaintiff is a
marine-store dealer, and the defendants aro Messrs.
Percival, Campbell, and Co , brokers to the Underwriters'
Aesociatien ; and the action was brought for the recovery
of 124. 7d. under these circumstances : —On the 11th of
last May the plaintiff satende t a sale of wrecked goode,
held by the defendants, and purehasad, among other things,
Lot 34, at Hid. per lb. A few days afterwards the invoice
was sent to him, stating the weight of copper to be I cwt.
3qre 7iles. He paid the money, bat on weighing the
copper he found that it was slbs. short of lcwt, instead of
being lcwt. 3qrs. 7lbs. He app'ied to the defendants to be
repaid the overcharge, and the application beirg refused,
he brought the present action. One of the conditions of
sale was, that the purchaser should take all risks, and the
defendants now based their defence on it, and also on the
fact that there were scales and weights at the place of
sale, at which the plaintiff might and ought to have satisfied
himself as to the quantity. Mr. Roby appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Clark Aspinall for the defendants. His
Honour hold that, under the circumstances. it was certainly
the duty of the purchaser to have satisfied himself of the
quantity at the time of ssle, sufficient opportunity having
been afforded to him to do so ; and the verdict should,
therefore, be for the defendants. Verdict accordingly.

CORONER'S COURT.

The following invests were held yesterday by the
Coroner.

Oa the body of William Slat)r, axed 5.5, a boot-maker,
who lived at A I Saints-place, Grosvanor-street. It
appeared that he was much addicted to drink, and for a
week before Monday, he was constantly drinking. His
wife said he was an expert swimmer, and had saved
several parsons in Dublin bay from drowning. Sarah
Johnston said she saw the deceased plunge into the river
at the Waterloo dock pier, and the tide carried him along,
and he was drowned. Trio jury found that he drowned
himself whilst labouring unt!er temporary insanity.
0 i the body of a man, named Charles Groves, aged 23,
who died in the Sl:lateen Hospital, on Monday, from the
effects of ecuiding. Ihe d"eeasel was a foreman at
Messrs. B tthgata and Wi'son's, New Bird-street, and it
appeirel diet he was seal led in consequence of his own
inattention to the bailer. Verdict, "accidental death."•

There has just been published "A General Abstract of
th.! Grants to be proposed for Civil Service in 1857, com-
pared with similar charges for 1856." From this paper
it appears that the total net increase of the present corn-
par d with last year is £741,000. The sum voted in 1856
being £6,724,000, and in 1357, 7,465,000, under one head
only is there a decrease, the item of salaries and expensos
of public departments being ..-C.,000 less than last year.
The following are the departments in which the increases
specified have taken place :—Publid works and buildings,
£21,000; law and jastiee, £380,000; education, science,
and art, £119,000 ; colonial, consular, and other foreign
services, £61,000; superannuation and retired allow.mce,
&c., £13,000; and miscellaneous, special, and temporary
objects £147,000. The civil contingencies amount to
£lOO,OOO in each year.

A YOUTHFUL Ai,3Assnr. —On Wednesday night, at about
twelve o'clock, a young man, named Oscar de Granville,
twenty-one years of age, was shot in the head by Frederick
Cueva, of Port-au-Prince, Cuba, and about seventeen
years of age. An animosity had existed between them for
some time. Cueva formerly attended a school kept by a
brother of De Granville, at No. 3, Hudson Terrace,
Hoboken, and now attends Bloomfield Academy, kept by
Mr. Feldner, in Ilbernaeld street. Oscar de Granville
spent -he evening at the residence of Edmund Cnaries, at
No. 15, Washington Terrace, and as he was leaving, at a
quarter to twelve o'clock, Cueva, who had been lying in
wait for him, assaulted him with a cowhide, but imme-
diately afterwards drew a pistol, and shot Dc Granville.
The bell entered his head just forward of his left ear, and
below the temple. It passed nearly through his head.
The wounded man died on Tnursday. Cava ran to the
ferry, be, the alarm being given, officer James Davis
pursued and arrested him at the ferry, and locked him up
in the police station for the night. On Thursday, Justice
Whitley held an inquest upon the hidy, and the accused
was committed to gaol to await his trial at the Oc!ober
term.—New York Tribune, JuTy 14.

THE QUEEN AND TILE LAT 4 SIR. ROBEItT PeEL.—Peel
feels he is gaining on the Queen ; her manner is more
gracious than could have been expected. He describes her
as endowed with considerable abilities, an not only in a
wonderful manner become conversant with sta'e affairs,
but also as taking an all-absorbing interest in them. When
a messenger's box is brought down to Windsor, her coun-
tenance, naturally serious, brightens up immediately. She
reads all the despatches, makes her comments, and is really
so much engrossed by this one idea, that she never enters
into the light g asiping conversation to which young
women are
.gettera!lf addicted. Peel, at first naturally
embarrasstd with his young mistress, is now inure at his
easP. He pined much ground with her by adr,dlly
offering Albert the presidency of a new S.,eiety of Arts.
He took care first, in a deferential manner, to consult her
Majesty's wishes, stating that the choice would be p 'pular
in the country, and she embraced the idea wits great
eagerness. She ordered the young princess to b 3 brought
down, and treated him with great affability. Later, when
he and Lady Peel were at 'Windsor, she asked the reason
of his great hostility to the late government, and he went
into detail as to the revolutionary tendency of their rnea-
euses; adding, that in an idler month she might give birth
to a can, to whom it must be her object to leave her crown
as a sure and peaceful inheritance ; and how could that
be by following the system of concession into which she
had been led. —.Raikes's Journal.

eItIME IN FILANCE.—The Court of A;sivs at Amiens
was this week for two days oc3upied with the triti of a man
named Dtsanlis, two young woman narnA Leger, sisters,
and their mother, named Nicholas, for murder. The, cir-
cumstances were curiotp. O❑ the 19th January last the
wife of the male prisoner, who lived separate from him,
was found dead in a chair in her house at Bresle, and
on examination of her body, medical men declared that she
had been put to death by xiolent pressure on her nose and
mouth. The woman's husband was suspected, not only
because he lived apart from her, and was known to
entertain great hatred of her, but because she had taken
measures to expel him from a house belonging to her,
hich he persisted in occupying in spite of her wishes,
and had notified the intention of making a will which
should deprive him of any portion of the property she
possessed. Oa inquiry, it appeared from the testimony of
several witnesses that on the previous evening the deceased
had gone to the house in which he lived, and had been
received by the three women, who resided there, the two
younger tieing her pieces; but it was notorious that the
man, though six►y-three years of age,' lived in adultery with
the youngest, named Florine, and whose age was twenty-
seven. The three women plied the deceased with brandy
until she was nearly intoxicated, and then her husband
coming in, murdered her by pressing on her nose and
mouth. As he did this one of the young woman held the
victim's feet, the other looked out of the windsw as if on
the watch, and the old woman sat on a chair, apparently
in great emotion, but not attempting to assist the deceased,
nor even to give an dam. When the woman was dead
the man took the body ua his shoulders, and, preceded by
the two young women, one of whom carried a lantern,
conveyed it to her own house. Fri m the cold it had be-
come stiff, but the young w imen ligh:cd a fire and warmed
the body at it until they and the man were able to place it
in a sitting posture in a chair, so as to make it appear that
the deceased had died either naturally or from excessive
drinking, to which she was addicted ; after doing that,
they placed a partly-emptied bottle of brandy by her
side and went away. Extraordinary as these acts were,
what was more extraordinary was the coolness with
which different persons wi'nessed them without attempt-
ing to prevent them ; and it appeared that these p!r-
EOCS would have said nothing it the judicial authorities
had not constrained them to make revelations. The
jury declared the men and the two younger females guilty
with extenuating cireumetanccs, and acquitted the old
woman. The court sentenced the man to hard labour for
life, and the two women to twenty years of the same
punishment.— Galignaui.

CONGRESS OF THE BRITISH ARCH2EOLOGICAL
INSTITUTE.

(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)

The business of the sections (adjourned from Friday
last) was resumed yesterday morning, in the Town Hall,
Chester ; but before detailing yesterday's proceedings, we
may state that on Monday the members of the Institute
and their friends, to the number of upwards of 130, pro-
ceeded by special train to Carnarvon and Conway Castles,
And also paid a visit to the Britannia Tube and the Meuai
Bridge. The party left Chester at nine in the morning,
and in the first instance went right through to Carnarvon,
and viewed the castle. The large and msgaifieent
mine were minutely surveyed. and on arriving at what has
always been called the Prince's-chamber,
The Bev. T. HARTSHORN', of Holdend, Northamptonshire,
gave an interesting description of the castle to the assem-
bled party. It was built in the reign of Edward I. and
Edward It., on the site of the former castle, and within a
very shorttime of the destruction of the first. This was shown
by the records, from which Mr. Hartshorn read extracts
The castle was completed in 1320. He next adverted to
the statement generally believed, that Edward was born in
the chamber in which they wore then assembled, and
which was always shown as the birth-place of the prince.
He proved satisfactorily that Edward was not born at the
castle, because the first writ issued for the building of the
present castle was not issued until three days after his
birth. This he had provei from an examination of the
writ.

On leaving Carnarvon, the party proceeded to view the
Britannia and Menai bridges, and afterwards they paid a
visit to Conway Castle, which was also described by the
Rev. Mr. Hartshorn. Llewyllen's dining ha 1 and the
chapel were the objects of spee:al attraction.
The Rev. Mr. HARTMAiN, in the course of his description
of Conway Castle, afforded considerable amusement by
stating that it was chiefly used for the incarceration of
Welsh prisoners, the rate of allowance to the common
class of inmates 13,ing one penny per day, whilst two
pence per day was the allowance to the more aristocratic
amongst them.
After viewing the church at Conway, which bears date
in the reign of Edward 1., and the old "parliament house,"
date 1686, the party returned to Chester about nine o'clock
in the evening.
The members mat this morning at ten o'clock, when Sir
STEPHEN GLYsNE presided over the