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YORK ASSIZES, 3iAECIII 22.

Mr. Justice BAYLEY and Air. Justice BOLROYDTiVed here
at a late hour yesterday evening, the extreme preset of business
at Lancaster having preiented them from reaching this town on Sa-
tunlay last, the day on which they bad been expected to arrive.
After attending divine service in the Cathedral. Mr. Justice BAY.
LEA- proceeded to try causes in the City of York, and Mr. Justice
Honnoy n opened the Commission, and charged the Grand Jury
for the county, with the itsind firml4.
Mr. Justice 1101,101) tried one prisoner in the Crown Court,
charged, under Lord Ellenhorough's Act, with cutting and maim-
ing with intent to kill. The case was stopped by the Learned
Judge as soon as the evidence for the prosecution was gone
through, it being his opinion that the evidence did not sufficiently
support the indictment.
The calendar is exceedingly henry : there are 78 prisoners for
trial, a great proportion of whom have been committed on capital
charges.
Ihi the civil side, about 100 causes have been already set down
for trial ; and it is generally suppcsed that a much greater number
would have hen entered, it doubt had not existed as to the proba-
bility of Mr. Sea:fetes attendance. The Learned Gentleman was
much indisposed at Lancaster, and on the last (lay of the proceed-
ings there-was not able to appear In Court. Ile is now sufficiently
recovered to resume his professional duties at York.

POLICE.

GUI I.Dli ALL.

HINTS TO BAIMIS i/I—TTICiitTTT—Ift appears that a regu-
larly organimed system of informations under the Brent) Act has
commenced against the bakers resident in the City.
John .avUk, baker, Holborn-bridge, appeared yesterday before
Mr. Alderman /11AONAT, to answer two InISITIIatIOIIa previously
filed against him in the name of Daniel Askew, describing himself
as of the Westminster-road, yeoman.
The witness called to prove the facts was John Brown, describ-
ing himself as a messenger to Mr. Letwych, the Attorney who
conducted the case, residing in %oar-street, °ravel-lane, who
stated, that on the 18th inst. he went into the defendant's shop, and
asked fur a 21b. loaf of she previous day's baking; and upon Mr.
Saville's handing him one he paid 41d. for it. He then required
that it should be weighed, but the defendant refused to do so, and
told hint he might seek redress if he pleased. Witness afterwards
ascertained that the loaf wanted I/ ounces of its proper weight.
Mr. Saville said the deficiency of weight arose from It% being a
stale loaf, and he could have answered for the correctness of ever
new one in his shop. He might have refused to weigh through
hurry of business, but he did not at all remember the circuit).
stance. _ _ . . .

Alr. Alderman MAGNAV said It was imperative on the baker to
weigh before he sold bread, whether he was requested to do so or
not; he was therefore bound to inflict a penalty, but he would flu
it at Is. The costs would be 6a. the sum the informer had paid in
fees.
As the parties have as yet had but little practice in this sort of
business, It la net to be wondered at, that on proceeding to the se-
cond information, a flaw wee discovered therein, the offence not
being set out in the manner described in the Act of Parliament,
and upon this discovery the information was Quashed of course.
Though this first essay in the city has not turned out very pmfl.
table, the provisions of the Statute afford so strong a temptation to
informers, that it is not likely the disappointment in the present
instance will act se a discouragement to further exertions. The
City bakers mead therefore do well to be upon the look.ont for
this Mr. John Breen, who is a rather &molly-dressed man, about
HO years of ageor complexion, thin visage, and five test ten
loam highs '

EXECUTION OP JAS. CLOVER, AT MAIDSTONE,
VOl THE MURDER Or ELIZABETH MARSH,
AT stiout.nzw, IEI4I.

After his condemnation, Clover behaved himself in a very
becoming manner, said paid great attention to the Rev. 111 r. Win.
ter, the Chaplain of the gaol, who used every exertion to arouse in
his mind a proper sense el his situation. On Monday morning he
received the Sacrament in his cell, and shortly after eleven o'clock
he ascended the waggon that was to convey bun to the scene of Buf-
feting. On reaching the place of execution he joined the Chaplain
in prayer, end ascended the scaffold with an undaunted air. After
the rope had been platted round his neck, he addressed the spectators
in the following words Now, good people, I hope you will all
take warning by me. I brought myself into this dalamity that I
aro going to miller. I hope it will be a lesson to you not to trans.
grem any. wroagful bassoesa whatsomever. I hope you will all
take warning. It was my own neglect that brought me to this un-
timely end. I hope yea will mend your ways and turn to good. I
don't know where I am going—whether I am going to heaven or
hell, but I hope to heaven. Many who are now looking at me may
very soon be dead, and I hope you will all prepare yourselves. I
do acknowledge myself guilty of the crime for which I suffer. I
actually did the murder. 1 saw the blood flow. I hope you will
take warning not to do no such thing whatsomever. I hope it will
be a warning in great and small, to young and old. I have nothing
more to my, but God he with you all, now and for ever. Lord
have mercy upon my souL" The fatal drop shortly after descended
and terminated the wretched man's existence.
The following is the confession made by the prisoner on the
morning of execution to the Rev. Chaplain of the gaol:—
" The robbery was proposed on the preceding Thursday by Ste-
phen Shelves'. Myself and Joseph Shelvey agreed to undertake it ;
and accordingly on the night of the ensuing Sunday, about e:even
o'clock, we left Stephen Shelvey's house. 1 had then made up my
mind to murder the old woman, hut had not communicated my in.
tention to my companion. My motive for determining on the,
unirtler, was a belief that we should find a large property in bank
notes, and that some of these being marked, might lead to our de-
tection. To prevent this, I resolved on murder, as I thought then no
one could identity the property. ()n breaking open the house, I en-
tered first, and was followed by Joseph Shelvey with a candle. I im-
mediately proceeded towards the old woman's room, who I found sit-
ting up in her bed, and calling to know what was the matter. With-
uut speaking a word, I struek her a moat violent blow on the head
with the road-hot ; but she did not fall till atter I had again struck
hey, when she bell backwards, and the blood streamed out of her
month and nose. Joseph Shelvey, who was standing on the stair.
head, and must have seen the blows, then entered the room, which
we commenced searching. shortly after, I thought I heard the
.etaanan Onadbasallfilgrar, astglis hit her on the temple with
the rasa-bat ; after t a ent On the' Monday velarritng
I acquainted Stephen Mulvey with what I bad done • he wanted
me to go back and fetch away the coals, which I was deterred front
doing on account of the affair being !mown."
The prisoner also gave' list of seventy burglaries, robberies, and
other effenem in which he had been concerned since 1819, but prin-
cipally in the years 114.0 and 1824. Notwithstanding the untkvour-
ableness of the morning, a considerable number of persons, among
whom were many female., attended the execution. After the body
had hung the usual tune, it was cut down and delivered to Mr.
M'hatntau, surgeon to the county gaol, to be anatomised according
to law.

CSIMIWALS EXECUTF.D or TVEIDAY.—The family of I
Wrest were most respectable, and.he, k appears, was the entire
cause of breaking rip their fortunes. Baines -has left a wife and
two children. (In Monday evening he wrote a letter to Mr. Baker
is llentletnan who generally attends to pray with, and give real-
Onus advice to the pruioners in Newgate), as follows I tear Sir—
I am now a dying man, and shall soon leave a widow and two
fatherless children, one our years, and the other only six months
old, quite destitute. I hope through your kind interest she will
become an objtirt of pity to the charitable and humane; sire has
only 4s. a-week from the poor-house to support herstlfand family.
I hare a brother, a poor lad only fourteen years of age, whom I
mist some kind person will take molds service, and prevent his
associating with had company, which may
.prevent his coming to
an ignominious end. My father was some time ago in respectable
circumstances in Wood-street, and afterwards he ren.oved to Ile-
! gent.street • his Alin became embarrasses!, and lie was compelled
to give up his business, and during my imprisonment he became
deranged. 11ar pore mother, since my confinement, has died, I
!fear of a broken heart. I conclude by humbly entreating you to
have regard to my wife, and I earnestly implore your humane exer-
, don* in her behalf.—P.S. Monocled Sir—Since i wrote the above,
-I have been informed, through the medium, of triends, that in, poor
father is no more—he died this evening in a mad-house. I ours.
ifte. Samovi. Roisma.=Newgme, March 22, 1824."
HUNT THY. MURDEItsa.—A vessel, having the convict
Hunt on board, put into Torbay on Tuesday evening last, by eon-
trey wilds. It excited se greats sensation in Witham, that many
of the inhabitants went 4, on the hallowing day, to see the delin-
quent ,whose nano stands so likgh In the caleadar of ctiaze.—E.reter
Alfred.

HORRID MURDERS.

I. F L'ETHER PAITICULARS.I

Kit-KT:WWI% Alsacte 20.—Little did we imagine, when we
penned the article for our last in reprobation of the protection af-
torded to an armed ruffian and an avowed murderer in Gabuoy,
that • horrible assassination would be perpetrated in that ill-fated
barony before the paragraph was printed off at press. The gentle-
I man to whose melancholy fate we allude was a Roman Catholic,
and has murder aßiwds a singular illustration of the principles of
Whiteboyisin. lie dared to extend his possessions in despite of
!that system, of numcmits threatening., and of several attempts on
' his life, but the imn:etliate cause of his assassination is said to have
been his having lately taken some land formerly held. for more
than a century, by. a Protestant family, whose present representa-
tive, we are told, is an Orangeman! Will any. recreant Irishman
hereafter libel his country by saying that the misguided and infa-
tuated wretches who are bringing so much misery into families and
such odium on their native land, are actuated by a planned pro-
scription of Protestants ? No, no, the nstrderer regarda no reli-
ligion ; and the Rock system, illegal and atrocious as it is, is per-
fectly impartial in the distribution of its horrors. The following
is an extract of a letter from Oalmoy :
" Galtuny, March 18, 11121.
" About seven o'clock on the evening of Tuesday last, as John
Marum, of Mount Stopfurd, EN., accompanied by his son, Ed-
mond (whose marriage you an lately announced), was returning.
by the Eirke road, from a house lie had lately built at Rathpatrick,
to their dwelling at Whiteawall, in thin barony, he was, within
half a mile of the latter place, way-laid and fired on by a party of
ruffians, who were conceal-d behind a hedge, at a sand-pit. The
son, being nearest the ditch, received most of the charge (which
was snipe-shot) on the aide of his face and head. Ilia horse int.
mediaudy ran off, by which means, most probably, his life was
saved. He, however, lust his seat on the paddle, and hung by the
, stirrup-leather until he came to a cabin. where he extricated him-
self, and went into it fur resection. On the shot being fired, the
father's home, it is suprosed, plunged and threw him, or that he
was knocked off by the blow of a stone. on which the sanguinary
villains leapt the ditch and most barbarously murdered him. He re.
reived five desperate bayonet wounds in the region of the heart,
one cut at the back of the neck, and his skull was literally broken
to pieces. Two or three grains of the shot from the blunderbuss
were also lodged in his shoulder. Ile had not been abroad after
sunszt before for several years, nor, during the same period, until
that day, had he travelled without pistols.
'• On leavingy, the new house, Mr. Marum directed his servant-
boy to go to M'Ffitesivall before him, to announce that they were
coining home. The hov, having observed save persona suspici-
ously assembled near the road, doubled his speed towards home,
and, having arrived there, obtained his master's pistols, and re-
turned
with them, hoping to meet him; but, unfortunately, i
Mr. M. and his son had taken another road, although Mr. M. had
told his servant he would go home by that which the boy had
traced in the hope of meeting his I.•.aitter.
" On the night of the murder the police sear:led several bowies
in the immediate neighbourhood of the fatal spot, and in the cabin !
of a man named Delany they got a blunderbuss, which appeared to
have been very recently discharged, and which was broken across
the butt-end. just at the guard. It answers the description given by
young 'lr. 3larum, who distinctly saw the piece levelled by which
be was wounded. In another hoe-e they apprehended a man named
Keffe, with whom was found a threatening notice, which he at- ;
tempted to swallow, hut one of the police very opportunely gave'
him a punch in the back with the butt-end of his piece, which
knocked the paper out of the fellow's mouth. lle is at present in
custody

" few nights since, two other most inflammatory threatening
notices were posted on the doors of two house, in this barony.
"On Monday night, a house near this town, on the Spa 11111,
was maliciously burned to the ground, and the unfortunate inmates
only escaped destruction through the clemency of one of the in-
ctn.:Hach s. . . . .

" ntoriunately, we have no Magistrates in this turbulent
Barony ; and as for our Police Magiturate, we have very seldom the
benefit of his presence. An inquest was held yesterday ; it was ad-
journed to this day, so that I am not able to send you the result."
There were two resident Magistrates in (lalmoy until lately.
Garrett Neville, Esq. has, after a long and honourable life, been
removed by death, and John Fitzpatrick, Esq., to the astonish-
ment of the whole country, by the hoed Chancellor! Mr. Fitz-
patrick is a resident gmtleman, i. a just and impartial man, is
I highly respectable, and was exceedingly useful as a Justice of the
Peace, but he is—a Roman Catholic!
The inquest was adjourned to yesterday at Johnstown. Several
rather suspicious characters have been arrested by the police, but
we have not learned that the atrocious deed of blond has been
brought home to any of them. I.'nder the skilful attentions of
Dr. Purcell, of this city, who reached Whitewall at five o'clock
on the morning of the 17th, Mr. E. Marion is, we are happy to
say, in a fair way of recovery.
Since writing the above, we have obtained a copy of the verdict.
After a close investigation of two days, the Jury, which was
highly respectable, returned—" Wilful murder against persons
unknown."
We are deeply grieved to have to state, that another murder was
poTstrated to this amisty, on the same day, and in an adjoining
barony. Nis correspondent has furnished us with the partieukirs
of this melancholy case; but we learn that Edward Long. a pro-
cess-server, residing in Callan, went out on that day to distrain,
under a decree, for tithes, obtained nine months ago against a
fanner of the name of Delany, since deceased. He seized some
cattle belonging to the deceased's son, but was set upon by a mob,
who rescued the cattle, compelled him to swidithr his decrees, and
beat hint so unmercifully. that though he was able to crawl Into
kilmanagh, he expired the next (i. e. Thursday) morning.
Captain Barry, of the Iverk police, sent in to the county gaol,
yesterday afternoon, two prisoners, one of whom is committed as
an accomplice in the atrocious butchery of the Sheas, and the other
under eircuwatenesit which require silence lee tbepreseut.— Leis/ter
Joarrisai.