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MIDLAND CIRCUIT.

LINCOLN, WEDNESDAY, JULY-1:.!.
Before the Lour) CHIEF BARON.]
Chnpnati end Mar,vt; et Pearson were capitally indicte.!
for the wilful murtler of their illegitimate child, in the neighbour.
hood of Lincoln, in the month of April last.
It appeared from the evidence, that Chapman had illicit con.
nexion wi;11 the female prisorer, who was delivered of a still-bora
child. After the birth of the child the mother was not seen with tr.
Suspicions were excited. examination was set on foot, and it was
discovered that the child had been placed in an open held of Chap_
man's, merely covered with a award. It was immediately ealti:-
mated ; and upon the Coroner's Inquest, a verdict of " Guilty or
mitaler" was brought in against the prisoners.
On the trial to-day, the medical men who examined the child,
swore from the appearance that the child must have been will-
born ; hut as to whether it was a six, or seven, or an eighth montns
child they could rot say.
Chapman received a most excellent character, and both the pr;
soncra were acquitted.
Immediately after sentence had been pronounced on the prisoner 4
convicted of petty larcenies and other minor offences, the Lord
Chief Baran imiccetleti to Nottingham, where the Assizes com-
mence to-morrow.

NOTTINGHAM, THURSDAY, JOLT 11.
This mornin,,,., about ten 3'clock, the Lord Chief Justice ARM) l'
and the LORD CHIEF BARON arrived here, escorted by the Sticrid'
and the usual host of javelin men, &c. Their Lordships pro-
ceeded immediately to hear divine service at St. ;Mary s, and
then opened the several Commissions. Owing, however, to the
Court of Quarter Sessions sitting in the Town Hall, after the Judges
left church, it was nearly two o'clock before the business of the
Assizes commenced.

After the usual proclamation against vice and immorality wat
read, the LORD CHIEF BARON briefly charged the Grand Jury,
and said it was only necessary for him to advert to one case, in
which a man was charged capitally with having stolen two lambs.
Now, upon reading the &positions, he did not think the charge
amounted to felony ; and with respect t 3 the other cases in the
calendar, he bad only to request the Grand Jury would exercise
the great functions tonunkted to them with as much despatch as
possible. .
The LORD CHIEF J tiSTICE sat In the County Court, and heard
some undefended causes; after which he adjourned the Court to
nine o'clock to-morrow morning.
There are only seven prisoners for trial in the County Curt,
Mute of the least interst.

NORT;IERN CIRCUIT.

YORK, JULY 13.
CROWN SIDE.

(BeforeAfr.BaronillCLOCK.)
Thomas Fair/hr Carle, was put to the bar, charged wiih f,
niously killing and slaying Joseph Blackburn° on the `23J of April.
This case excited greet interest, on account of the peculiar cir.
CUITIFLOICCS under which the death of the deceased had taken place.
Mr. BLACKHU nNE and Mr. BAINES conducted the prosecution,
and Mr. HARDY the &fence.. . _ .

Alr. BLACKBURN E. In stating the MC, observed that the Jury
would find it attended with circumstances more than ordinarily
painful. The prisoner at the bar was a person of •great respem.
bilitv, residing at Pudsey, and one of his daughters had souse Ulm
ago been married to a brother of the deceased. On that occrkion
ar intimacy had commenced between the deceased and 3lisa Re.
hecca Cathie, another daughter or the prisoner, which had been
discountenanced by the prisoner. The deceased had, however, per-
severed in his attachment, and it was in the prosecution of it that •