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BROWN'S PNEUMATIC RNGINE.

From the Net ,nuns Mogazir
Tic: powers with which the combination of chemisay
and mechanics have armed tllllllll, appear to be as ince-
fututible ais they ar r east and important. Not many years
siece we had no meats of writing tnachitier/
epos land but the f..eble strength of animals, the slugeis
water, anti the cam icious wind ; and no nitans of impelling le
s vessel acme, the ocean but the lid„ the oar, and the sail.
The first of' these was not on'y expensive, but also IlitSCUlt
to he combined into any great effort. If a pow r ot, toy t
tweets homes be required, you mast employ thirty. the
run not (x ing equal to all the individuals ; ant. it ill, action
is wbe constant, vim meat maintain at least sixty• So
thst the prvlits of this species of power diminish in propor-
tion 34 the power increased. Tim power of water aualn is
1431, you cannot have it where yon would wish ; and. the
place wa. re th • power is the best, is coma:011N the avast '
somenient for its use, water-falls bring most aliiindstit in
il mountainous di,triets. iVith regard to the wind
se
P137,41.il le So perfectly capricious, that you have no con-
nal ore: it. It conies when you need it nut, auti when you
du nee 1 it, it is not to be obtained.
Steam is Mlle!) more men■Ft able ; but still the expense
of steam is eonsitiersh'o. :ram the waste of heat in the
periodos) of it by the v.ty best constructed apparatus.
If used, too, soil* to leo lute its maximum of effect, it arts
viohntiy upon the coutaining vessels, and requires great
strength to giend against areidents. Still the power of
gram is one of the hest, if not the very hest. that has b.ren
hitherto used, and the application of it has, perhaps, been
.shicri.e of more beaent to the arts than any of the
'
enters.
Aunowlwric precrtre is the most simple anti eniversal
of dr natural powers; we have it in all countries, an' in
all situations : it is a ivilling servant too, for it nets where-
ever we can nuke ro on for it,—obtain but a vacuum little
more than a foot sinew, and you have a power which wi:l
lift a Wm
We wed not inform our readers that steam was first vas
wan auxiliary to atinomptieric pressure ; that before the
4.1141 J owl seientitie diseoveries by Watt, steam was
etrip'oyel chiefly to procure a vacuum, into which the
piton was fOrC.7d by the wei4lit of the atmosphere.
Sine: steam was made to act upon both sides of the p'stm,
t: e use of atmospheric pressure, as a moving power, Lisa
a gte.t measure fallen into disuse, tram the want of a
• ..trr and more convenient means of forming a vacuum
t n by steam, • substance now employed to better pure
Inn . Attempts lure, no doubt, been made by various
pitons, and with various substanoes : but, till this one by
Mr. Brawn. they have uniformly failed. in general, the
pm has been to explode hydrogen gas in close vessels;
but either the gas would not explode, or there was a blow-
ier up of the apparatus.
Mr. Brown has tried gas for the production of a vacuum;
and, by employing the extinction of a peaceable flame, in-
cl.' of a violent explosion, he has stieceetled—he,
fur-
nished his country and the world with a power wh:ch,
judging from the.fiest im.chine (and what would have be :n
the judgment from the
_Prat steam-engine ?) will be con
nient in its application, and cheap and safe in its uce be-
land all precedent.
Vie have examined the engine very minutely, in carn-
/~ssaavy with the ingenious inventor, whose politeness is not
kis than his mechanical skill ; anti we hesitate not to say,
thst to us—to any eile who chooses to look at it, there is
not the least doubt either of the soundness of the princi-
fl the universality of the application.
Such a machine will speak for itself in terms far more
a sperm and appropriate than any of which we could make
use. We can only repeat, that the engine an be adopted
in any ease, by sea or by land, where a power is required ;
er.ut iu its present infantine state, the expense,
either of the engine itself, or °Utile workinF of if, bears
no proportion to that of the stew n-engine. rho quantity:
of Fri which it requires isao small, that, by the model,
which, of course, has all the defects inseparable from a
first conctruetion, a single cubic foot raises Ono gallons of
water. Besides, no supply of etc, and very little of wa-
ter, is necessary, there being no waste but the spontaneous
evaporation at the common temperature of the atmosphere.
It ecaties much less more, is not so liable to wear nn the
waking parts, and there is not even the possibility of
dangir from its use. In short, we have never sem pro-
ducesl bv one effort sr one man so tine a combination of
mechanical and ehettileal skill, or one which promised to
Weed se much benetit to the puhile. Mr. Brown has
worl e' long and hard, but there ate none who would not
think thy labour well paid in the rtwarel—Khe thanks of a
benefited and admiring public, and that more solid re-
muneration which Britain secures for her ingenious sons.
The trt del has been inspected by many of te st mom
eminent engineers and machiniats in the ruetroptlis, who
have not only h^en uniform in acknowledging its merit ,
but expressed their astonishment, that an invention tie satis-
factory in principle, and so complete in its operation, should
have been at once brought to such a degree of perfection.
Nor does the leseaniary reward to Mr. Brown appear to be
at all behind the honourable testimony of men of science--
every day brings orders in great numbers, and from all
puts of the country.

TIIR LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.
From a new weekly publication, called The Me:hawks
Groin, k, we extract the following notice of the origin and
proireas of that excellent association—The Loudon Mec:ta-
nice Inst•tution

Al hough the formation of the society Is so recent, as not yet to
axson one revolving sun since it wee into existence, the inWoraans•
tics nature is vO obvious, as to rouse the laudable ambition of mole
tun me in claiming the me-it of the first suggestion.
Ths introduction to the rules and regulatioris of the 168
Mechanics' Institution informs us that, •• in the year 1800,57.
tieorg: Birkbeck, while Professor of Natural Philosophy to An.
dersid's limitation, funned a elms for the gratuitous instruction of
the Operative. of Glasgow in Slechanical and Chemical Milo's°.
tor. Thu cliss was continued by the somewhat of Dr. liirkbeek
ied 3 fee. in course of time, came to be paid by the students. In
sew year 1823, the members of this class, in respect of various int.
{aria reasons, ceased to be longer connected with .kridersoe's la.
stlntvnt, and funned fi.. themselves the present Institution, on
am independent and general principles."
On tbe Sth of November of the same year (I 82). the Glasgow
ilsd.snits* Institution was opened; and on the 11th of the mum
sesth dare was held at the Crown and Audio, Tavern, the nest
.le'c Ines tiog of the London Mee-hanks for the establishment of
tto L inden Instaution. At this meeting Dr. Birklicek was called
cie chair. We particularly notice the opening of the Glasgow
loadajon, bemuse it is universally aeknowledged t'ais ale.
Not tendurcii by the report of the spirit of the Wallow ineslisnim
sided considerably a
lb ducing the !Tisk whisk MI to the Ingribir ineinuoLd. Birkbeek. Mr. Ildst. Mr. Roberta's°,
'ad )1,. Place, were the lodividuals who took ea. most amiss past
Psienring 11,. meeting, and arranging' the pmesedists• To the
atone of the latter gentleman who is well town to Me London
meetwes is one of their most ;salmis asivarates, the Institution is
Plwara'aily indebted. He may be considered ft ham given them •
awl- habitation and a name." He framed fie Bali, with great
"reign(' l•Iiour • code of laws, eare.ally dipeisd and ananged.
4t.! salculatul to uteri ard provide fee way piploble woe which
tticht occur in the progress of the lingimslens Is die gab finally
*trend alterattins feed,* maissien• WHO Nide. 608 w". -ant of Mu* remains is undoubtedly Ma dtm
On tie lysboi December, meeting's. held tY Clown
410 • &Wire Tavorn, at which Dr. Birkbeth was diem P 1 4.
itilfloth of February, 18021, dim the inewswind WOW had
cap (M ht !afraid Millingten &limed the
cf a came of eleven I iceturte • do }pin spies d
,etaiwntal menet.. On the 18th Odle April . pans.
!a sonvneneel a course of banana on do easaban paper.
'l4 dada. and Inelastic fluids. On the lastsat the toms n* its
4
)41. opened a course on chemistry air Wait Moos/ by
whit, on the I Itb of June, comminel • MINN 00 • .roare sod geomet
ry.
the t • above lectures were
OW gratuitously &nig mai ms a mot at
11
i in which they were justly ote elasp:l bee buss
iii.:.l42,,ltairtiiiiile to the accouimodationeddlemasneroes audi.
L;,"
," "'rovers/re attendance has beet) halt liege UMW, Of •
nearly IbiS,. The auditors went abases wholly working
• r&ititv Multi : and since it is a weiLdessin fan, that but •
"ara ego. the journeymen of die metsegellis could not have
to such lectures if they bad ban Invited to attend
.•
se of espense, It ti a gratifying mat of the increase of
.48saolt numb 'etits. and h
avet nf scientificand mental improvement,
arctended the Institutia on ; and that so many
nee, oluntsnly timed themselves one pound Per,yeartret
L~tatP• to 'Joeunic numbers of this, to than, invaluable
• tilt 15th or J ily, the members vemilveil tle twelves into a
Matra meeting for thi purpose of treting into consideration
'lea of ' •
,gge a. menials., relative to suitable Muds.% After
',ttia,-rcu"lon, It nag determined to take those offered 10
ittAIZ"-oolitlings, Holborn; the intention being there to
uimin, repotit, liernwary ollisva. This work. under pro.
441ht'ics' "—thce' le rapidly proceeding: and thus the London
th las:auntie is not wily established, but promises to be
low „. 'most durable and most effective of then national instills-
- whieh them Ilritain has been accustomed to bow. A
I•t
7.,,t` till the let.t of September, for 11.aris and
D,:vatreit r fortraftk4 to 11...rtfortl
Meld. Gaol, from the

ROME CIRCUIT.
SURRIIY ASSIZES, GOILDIPOSO, FIIDAT. Aug. V.
Ilkirrlr Mr. Bsr.m a•rd a Special Jury.

'NZ RING V. rtioNTAtltt AND 0Tt1e.1.4.
Timis seas an indietmert against the defendants for a ntilsance.
The (shim of the inaliotinent wan to determine whether the ('or.
ponds; of the COI of loindon his, in vote:. of Ito conservancy of
the River Thames, a right to a clear *otter-way fromdie Thames
Ito the Medwoy. 'brooch a creek ailed tialtatlet Creek, which
l so-pirate* the Isle of Chain from the main Isod, in the county of
' Kent. The alleged nuisance was in wiileoing and deep:ionic the
creek in question, at a touit called /pain Midge, by the removal of
a considerable quantity of soil. and thereby des:toying a land coon-
nook:anon between the ieland and the adjacent country. The in.;
dietment had bons originally 'hood in the county of Ken: • but
with a view to a die turestede and impartial trial. it ass a:reed J
; that th • qt..44.64)11 Unaided to be raised should be determined by a
1 Jury of tilt. county. In order that the Jury might understand the !
question. moot of them had had a view of the foals hi quo.
The prosecution wait conducted by Mr. Mn . Mr. D.
Pot. ono IC. and Mt PLAT r • the defence be Alr. litotont, the
RIM:ORDER of LONDON. Air. Low, and Mr. altaououst.
.The oral of the ease co:mos-need yesterday afternoon. A great
!body of evidence was 4111.14C011 krll bath side*, but though the ques- j
tion involved Was one of considerable importanee. yet It would be
quite unnecessary to cater Into a minute detail of the evidence git en 1
!by each witness.
In support of the protootion, the tooe ton in substance this:_
The 141 e of Casio contains between 3.114111 and tom acres g lam!, ;
and on three sides is sutrowitled by the wafer of the Thames and I
Medway where they unite at the sore. and on the fourth side
is separated from the main land, with the exception of the spot
a here the alleged offio•re oas committal, by a narrow creek of
considerable dipth in Off:sent places. For several years put the
Corporation of the City of loottlon has claimed a right of convey.
at: 7ln this tar',' k, as being within its jurisdiction. On the part of •
the prosecotion, it was alleged that from the most re-note anti- 1
quity there had been a land coininunicaiion at the spot in I
gondol between :he Island aid the adjicelt farms, which had
never been i iterruptol. sod hid always b:en kept up at the
expense. of the occopiers and owner of land. On the other
'hind, it • was insisted by the defendants, that, from the ear;
liest times. thme had beets a navigable water-way throuolleut
tie whole of the creek ; but that, by the gradual accretion of:
Alluvial matter, the p.ssige a. the :Ores in pa.) Mid logo choked :
up, and thereby beatific u.eless until it was lately opened by i
them, which it sr is c intended they hail a right to Jr, under
the direcdoroof the ]'aria at on of I, nun a to ',horn the c weer.
yation of the River thanes belonged. All the witnessei
for the prosecution ilesaihal the spa in question by the
name of the •qtridgo" although none of them spoke of the I
existence of a bridge within their knowledge. in the sense in which
that word is and • • ••tul in architecture. A great many rem old '
witnesses were examined. fir the purple of proving that for the
lost sixty or eighty years efts; hail been a land rommuniestion be-
tween (train !shard and the mnin land. and that there a :vet hail
beat. during that period, a water-way the boats or craft of any de-
scription. It api:are.l, however, that at very bigli spr.ng.iidts the
water rose above the broke and flowed neer it, and, during their I
cootinuance, rendered it itnoassable. It also appeared that, on I
some 04C411.0r11, siouggithl, 'Mato coining tip the creek were unload. I
ed of thew cargoes at the bridge, and the boat,' then dragged over l
the bridge into the water nt the other side, and then re-laden. A
great portion of the evidence was confined to this latter eircum.
stance, and from Ws: to last there was no picot' whatever that the
water, at the spot in question, was ever deep enough for the pur-
pose of navigation. One a Irmo* 'pentium.; that some year,' ago,
during the Mayoralty of Alderman Wood, the worthy Alderman
attempted to exercise the right of conservancy in the creek, and
came up in a barge for that purpose; but when he arrival at the
bridge he was obliged to get out of his barge. and have it dragged
over into the water at the other side. ]'roof has given that the
road hail been repaired from time to time by the inhabl• tots of the
adjoining lands, and that on • or occasion the parish of Siock had
been indicted for not keeping it in repair. The act of nuisance
complained of, was in proving • communicatitm between the water
on each side of the creek, by removing she totil to the depth cf live
feet, and opening the passage to the width of 211 feet. It was found
that the Corporation of London had publicly exercised their right
of conservation, by sending a City barge, with flying. colpurs,
through the passage thus formed. It was alleged that, in conse-
quence of this proceeding, the defendants were guilty of • nuisance,
in depriving the public of that land communication with the island
which they had heretofore • juyed.
On the part of the defendants the ease opened was, that the Cot.
potation of London had the conservation of the creek in question
by virtue of the Statute of Henry VII., and that the passage. in
question had been lawfully. opened in virtue of its authority.
Upon the nitrite of the case at was insisted that, front the earliest
antiquity, there hail been an uninterrupted water-way of great
utility to the public throuo the creek, fomsing a navigable
communication between the Thum.' tool Medway ; but it had
been blocked up by the gradual increase of soil, and had been
productive of great Injury to the public, and even to the loss of
life in consequence of its obstruction. It had been long sup.
posed, althoud all memory of the fact wts lost, that a bridge
existed at the •pot In question, justifying the supposition that
there had been, at Moe 'Afar or other, a communication between
the waters of the Thames and Medway. in order to determine the
fact, the City Surveyor was employed to search foe the bridge, and
after excavating so • certain drpin an a ch was found, of nearly 18
feet In the span. On examining its structure, it 'vu found to be of
Saxon workmanship, leaving no doubt whatever, front the size,
that originally • water-way has been let for vessels of considerable
Dae. It Was very easy to account for the circumstanee of the pas-
sage being blocked up in progress of time. 'l'he great sicuositie. of
the :reek prevented the usual operations of the tide in clearing'
the passage, and consequently, by the gm lual deposition of
mud and filth, at length choked up the arch, and in
process of time, covered the bridge itself. Upon this strong'
fact It was proposed to rest the defendants ate. And
it was insisted that the Corporation of London had a right, in
the exercise of its conservation, to open the passage, and torm that
communication, for the protection tool advantage of the public,
which in ancient times existed. A great body of evidence was ad-
, timed to establish this defence. The principal point to wh ch the'
evidence was directed was, in shoiviog that the spot in ques ion
was navigable as a water-way; but ft was not pisood that, at
' any time within living memory, it w-s passable an the ordinary
course of navigation. At high spring tides small punts, without
soy lading on board, were sometimes limited, with great difficulty,
over the bridge, but for no useful purpose of trade or navi-
gation. No distimt evidence; was given of the origin of the
' bridge, but It appeared to have been of considerable antiquity. A
I great number of ancient charters were put in, for the purpose of
• *hewing that the Corporation of London bad the comervatioa of
this creek and the neighbouring waters.
In re, ly, it was insisted, first, that r.one of the charters produced
, In evidenrc gave to the Commotion of London any jurisdiction to
, do the 'set c implanted of ; second, that if the Curporatioa had •
right an to interpose their authority, it would bare been exercised
et • much earlier period ; and, third, that, aceoniang to the evi-
dence on both 'Wee, the spot in question hod never been a naviga-
ble water-way, and consequently that the deferolants were guilty
of an acs of trespass and nuisance, which the law would uot
sanction.

11r. Ptrmiflaanast summed tip the case to the Jury, and
dwelt upon the streunistsoces that, according to the charter. the
city of London had only aright of conservancy, as far us the rii.dit
of the clerk in question, and that only with respect to the preserve.
don of the fishery of the Thames ; and also, to this extraordinary
fact that the corporation had never, on any former occasion, at.
tempted to exercise an authority to the extent now insisted upon.
His Lordship also observed that there wee by no means any lads.
fatuity proof, within living memory, „hat the spot in question was
even a navigable water-way, and if not then, coupled with the
Mho, cureunistanees, the dc:endants had no right to do the set
chargrd salmi them as a nuisance.
The Jury immediately found the defenda:.-to Canty, thereby
negativing the jurisdiction of the Corporation of London over the
spot in question.
1 The trial ended to-day at one o'clock.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.
r.—
CORNWALL ASSIZCS, Roans'', Areavier 14

CROWN SIDE.

j Richard Johns was indicted Wit staling one watch. value Mb.
mg gam articles, the property of William Mom, in the parish of
Cliskcam the 7th of July. The prosecutor and prisoner were fellow
taboaraly wed slept is the IMMO meat, in a antage at Click. The
meow elm ohs poseigiftt awoke Jo the morningof the
/ki'isa Oasis pi lop. Ma Maud his watch, two costs, a
Aim, and seasul odor ertittlia, The prisoner was amunitted to
, Makin OW se the lith of July, M muse trifling offence, when
he ripsrp up the property to Chap*, the Governor of the prison.
The peoperty was produced in Coot, and the prosecutor identified
the whole ore as belonging le hint.
The Jury Weed the prism., Civilly, and the Corry JVIITICZ
11111211411e0d haw to els months hard labour in the /louse of Cases-
j ties
CI'TTINO AND MAIMING.
Thews 7•r6,ear was indicted for cutting and stabbing Joseph
La un the 47th May, at Penzance, with intent to kill and murder
him. Another count in the indictment, char ,d the fritterer wi.h
cutting and subbing the said Joseph Fox with intent to maim and
disable him 4 and a third count charged hint with cutting aril
stathing the prosecutor, with intent to do him 4041.7 grievous bodily
harm.
The r rasocutor did not appear.
Mr. COLIIIDGE stated the essefor theme:cation, and caned -
Richard Rose, who statel/41—i know the prmccutor and prisoncr.
I saw them together at Penzance, on Thursday, the 27th Ms", et
II o'clock at night, at a public house there, the sign of which I
bOO% know. There we.. woman with Tractor and lox, who went
by the name of Mary Fox. I left the public-louse for a minute or.
'two; and on my return, I found two persons falling on Fox. one
of them was Tregear. 1 endeavoured to get them „ bud fell in
the attempt ; when I got up, I hard Fox say, '• I am *tabbed."
I dkl not see Treater at the time Fox said •' lam stabbed." 1
never saw Tregoar after I was on the ground. That is all I know
about it.

Charles Radler-1 was at Penrinoe on the 27th May, and saw
Tager and Fez together. The neat word I heard pros was Fox
" Stand up to me hke • man, if you are • man." I Men
saw them in a lighting posture, and I afterward. hewed Pox say,
that he ,roe cut to picots with a knife. I then went up to Fr x, and
found him bkediny, and he then turnei round and said. " Tregear
is the man who has inc.. it." The primmer then rubbed his eye, and
ran away. I and three or four others pursued hnn, !;ut le mn test
fast t‘ n. 114.

Ifing3—l saw prosecutor mud Inisor.re st renzanee at the
27th May. Fox said to Tregesr, " Thee will lose thee Sweet-
heart, if the dpes'ilt look sharp." Tregeor said, " Never de thee
mind." Fax then said, •• if thee Set for it, le'ts to it, hands off
iinmediately." The next thin! I saw, was !diehard Bose on the
ground, with Feh and Tregear; and I then heard Fox sing out he
was murdered With a knife. Before I heard thin. I saw-Tregear
strike l'ox use the hind part of his head. Ile struck Foe with the,
sideofhls hand when hi. fist was clenched. fie did not strike with
his knuckles. Fox then cried, "I AM murdered," and I saw the
blood dotting front hint. Fox thou said to Tregesr, " thee art the .
man that has muruered me, I'll take Oath." a regear then set off'
without saying any ?hilt, and ran at a brave course.
Mr. l'errytnam— I ant a surgeon at Penes:tee. Fox was brought
to my house on Itt th 'lay, at night. I found one wound on his left
'side. between the third .Ithd fourth rib ; another on his ler. hip':
another on his left temple ; and three or four bruises on the hack
of his head. The brothel en hie left side evidently appeared to hate
been done hr sonic sharp internig.: t, and scented to have been a
stab. All the wound) were mere float wounds, likely to produce
no serious enns..luenres, with the exception of the wound et the
bad( of the head, which woe more serious ; that had more the ap-
pearance of a bruise than a cut.
This evidence closed the case for the prosecution.
I In th: part of the prlioner—
&lvan! Pirroe was called lie stated that at the time of the
quarrel between the prosecutor and the prisoner, hr ..w a man go
up to Fox with a knife in his hand ; but he tl• not know who that
man was.

The,n IC r J 17sT !Cr went through the whole of the evidence.
and the Jury, atter a few tnintites consultation, retunittl a venliet
of Not Guilty.
CIVIL SIDE.
Biyore Mr. Euro; GAn now. mid a Special J ark
I'EItJeRV.

TIT ICING v. TOEMEAUX!.
This was an indictment for perjury, alleged to have been tom_
milted in an Adavit sworn by the defendant in the Court of King's
Bench, when a motion was made for n new trial on the part of Mr.
oho had been convicted of perjury in a caul. that had hs
origin in the last election for the Borough of St. Ives.
Rehwe the Jur: were sworn--
Mr. Harm (lie now said as it wu his wish, as well as his duty,
to prevent any circumatance that tended unneceaurily to waste the
time of the Court, and as he had re4ololl to believe, that if this eaie
were proceeded a ith, the Court above could never give judgment,
he ahotdd be glad to lirar from the Learned Counsel for the
defenda4:, if any fatal objection to the indi:unent bad occurred
to hint.

....
Ur. Serreant PELL, who apposed in support of the prosecution.
said he believed the objection to alas., indictment was. that there was
no volitive averment in it that th.t fact on which the perjury
was Alleged to have taken place was material.
Mr. Baron (lAannre observed, that the Ifbjection that had been
pointe.l out to him hr the per.on who made an rhstract of the in-1
dietment was untlott6teilly fatal. tend it would therefore be a waste
of time to try a cause, in which, if R verdict should be given against
the defendant. judgment could not be had in the Court above. It
was alleged in the indictment that a certain person was tried and
convicted of a misdemeanour t but what that misdemeanour was
did not appear. Ile was ready to hear any argumer ts of his Itrother
Pell in support of the prosecution, giving him, however, fair notice
tint he diet not intend to try the cause. (A laugh.)
Mr. Sergeant Prit.t. referred to a ease in Starkie'sXiri Prism,,
where a lar of jection had been raised, and the Lord Chief Jute.
tice Abbott had suffered the case to proceed.
Ilia I.onnsrt ir said, that the case alluded to by his Broth.,Pell the cause hail commenced. Hui the objection been taken is
litnine he hail no doubt btu that the Lord Chief Justice %would haws
pursued the course he (Uaron (;arrow) meant to take. Indeed he
eclat, state, his Opinion was sanctioned by the high authority al.
leaded to.

gean't Ptit laid that it trould be useless for him 'onfrer
any arguments if his Lordilf.p had dere:mined not to try the cause.
The I arl etl J tunny: observed. thw it wirild be a useless waste
of thre to try it. and tided, that his Brother l'ell Would be at li-
berty to !nose the Court of King's I:csich, or bring another indict-
ment at the nett Assist+.
THE ICING P. tossrsAa.
This was an indictment of it +mita; nature to the lut. It charged
the defendant with perjury in a cause arising out of the election a•
Camelford.

Very few Special Jurors attended. and a person in the Court es.
claimed several times, as the names were called over? " He Is ill."
Mr. Damn Gem ROW—Vrae. Sir, who are you, woo appear to be
acting In the capecity of general voucher fur diseased Jurors?
' I know," replied the man, •• that Tregothnan Penhowithick is
, sick."
I Mr. Damn °ARNOW-101i is his disease?
"A decline, my Lord."
Mr. Baron Dean ow--1 fancy they decline giving their *ltem!.
once here. 131uch laughter.)
Mr. C. II ILI Lists opened the pleadings, and
Mr. Sergeant Peer. stated, that the defendant was a gentleman
living at Camelfonl. who had, up to the present time. enjoyed a
most respectable situation in life. The perjury with which the de-
I fendant are charged was alleged to have been committed in evidence
given by bins in a cause tried before 31r. Baron 'hillock at the
Spring Assizes, 11123. The cause was an action of ejectment
brought against Mr. Dent, by Mr. Cock, the lessor of the
who 'might to recover possession of an estate at Cull den, which
was situated within theprecincts of the borough of CamelfonL On
the part of the plaintiffit was proved that Mr. Cock bad the right
of pomession as against Dent. Ile would now only submit, that
enough was laid before the Jury to call en Dent to show that the
philnerfr had not that right. Mr. Rosevear, the defendant in this
indictment, was called on the part of Mr. Dent for that purpose,
and It became a material question whether a certain garden and
held, which formed part of the estate at Culloden, had been de- I
nosed to Cock by a person named Stabley. se tenant to Rosevear.
Cock at length obtained a venliet ; but Rosevear swore positively
in the cause that he hail not paned with the interest in the garden I,
and field to *Ailey. The question that the Jury had to try was,
whether the testimony so given by Rosevear was true or false; and
he should proceed to call wheelies to establish Its falsehood.
Mr. Ocorzethrice produced an examined copy of the Nisi Pries
Record, in the acticn Doe es. Di. a Cock v. Dent. Witness examined,
it at the house of Mr. Edge, in Essex-street. Ile slid not know
what office Mr. Edge held, or what office he was taken tn. He
examined the copy with What he understood was the Judgment

His Lownsnrr raid that there was no evidence to show that the
cony had been examined with the original Record at the proper
Mice where it should be lodged.
Mr. Wallis, an attorney, stared that he had received the /Wei
Prieto record is a parcel by the coach.
The Learned JUDGE said there was not sufficient evidence to
prove that the copy had been examined with the original record,
and the defer.dant was therefore entitled to a verdict.
The Jury accordingly, under his Lordship's Dirc:tions, ac.
quitted the defendant.
There were only tire actions at these Assam, not one of which
was defended.

OXFORD CMCUIT.
(MOIR:ESTER ASSIZES. AvoysT IS.
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BrArt Mr. Jortica PAM

INAIITIN v. Cit'MP. •
Mr. Mat',crow stated. that this was an action of trespass, for
driving a curt onto the plaintiff's orchard, for the purpose of getti.ig
a quantity of manure, to whichthe 'defendoult claimed a right.
.ti: defendant had been repeattally warned not to go inw the
orchard.

Thomas Wilenn stated the eircututtancel of the trespass, as
opened by Mr. Taunton, and added, that the manure might have
been got front the place where it lay, without going into the or.
chard at all ; but to get it in that way it must have been put into

Cross-examined by Mr. Lunt.osem—The plaintiff locked up the
horse and cart in the orchard 4 it was a very snowy day. The ma.
nure had belonged to a Mr. Stevens. The plaintiff had wished to
buy it and was angry that the defendant had bought it instead '
hint. The cart only went along a mad made through the orchard
to a gravel pit.
V. illiani Watkins proved that the plaintiff told the defendant'.
that he would go to law 'kb bini if be persisted in taking the cart
Into the orchard.
Mr. Justice Pane told theJitry that no damage had been sus-
tained, but it was in law a trespass.
As soon as the Learned Judge had made these observations. the
plaintiff's t aurae] thought it neccsaary to dignify their MSC by
calling another witness.
lUr. Justice Pana—The value of the paper I shall waste In
taking notes of this trumpery &les will be infinitely greater than
the value of damage done.
The added witness mooed nothing.
Verdict for the plaititiff--Damages One shU)ing.
Mr. Justice PARE—I shall not certify for costs. This action
onght never to have been bro./
This wretched case must have cost each patty near fifty pounds,
and it wasted neat two hours of the public ulna