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Weterreeth. brig reek bee &ober, is Ilitrosdee
At* • cosaumakee, said, so Allesday essajig, the 11th
rehreary, the Primate, iiternord fat her fallow; is hobs' sae
•ewered he was am at home, he west sissy. as/ salted 'gals
Ag sem.neetine, wise, be was recommended by Capita
Dees, a Perelestir friend. Hs purchased six arils and ewe
fm a. woltbax, animator is IL 111 a. sad .Naiad cheap
'lA*it 1 Ba. .Me.
Carolioe 8e... waled, that the Pawner came to her
abode In Rack-lase, Herkory, en the 13th November, sta-
in that he was twasuread4 by a Maid to subscribe to
law Mstreseeti family; she 'strewed h•r thaskfulsees ; be
vela be should give two pomade, Ma hod atiabiag less thus
As les pseed mite, which she sent out to pi cheap, a*/
mlitele- an Pelineor called spat foe.
Mr. Time. Mover, the *.specter of =ask notes, pond
an Hs motes forgeries—.He —.He was rearmalad.
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• . ; Lluelttgix, Matte! I.
• The extessive hailasge of liallyealione hose* as/ oases
mire tacitly cesonsul lost eight by the ineargewes, who pee.
wieesly removal the bersose-rho beam was ieresestety mu
recopied. liallyrefease is the estate Of GPM* Leeke, elaq.
am/ is situated within sla miles of Ibis city. We an Is-
lithos/ ilsat the party who .smutted this emigre astrontod
to 488, and they placed cent inals es the bosses of Mr. Leake's
ossuary, to mamma them rewderlsg ma siseisMaeo la esp-
. arena, as the lies—embiag hat Sim walb Of the maples re-
. la tic
• Tesienley moist. at sews o'clock, Hoary Ibehms, sow
e the Mail frees Iltathimale to Illianagaidee sad the
Lam Its., and ors swore of shad light deepens, were Orel
ashy some rallies (rem behead a Mich, who killed the post.
maw and his horse, weasded she dropets, sad wok of the
, as& The occerreace took Metes se sear the taws of Rath-
krone, Is this sway, that the Mote were heard by the pollee
. pail 411, who Israel ly repined to the ores* and head Hs
:postapaa weltering is his blood; he was artvirmid to the sale
Atari hospital, where be hap/shed Is extreme agony sad
- 1 ./lepphod bii lam at 11 o'clock. The dopes (who fired fear
moo is badly marveled is the thigh. A vigilant pursuit
• s_ sp for the perpetrators, sad several tallow. ware
e ' up, who, if out comorrod is the ineedir, will be Idea
. the losarreellas Acire(Cleroakki)
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• The vide of the Howe of Commons to !inlay* two of that
" I,leds of the Admiralty will be a pester main to the
mairstry thou 10001. per amain, as mated by the Marquis of
• dr. lt is not oily the salary, bat coals, catidles,
Ails., wilt be saved ; oil one of their Lordship's homes ass
PAW be omitted by the Vader.Seeretary, imam/ of h(, re.
Wien at the oicial hews is Newestrett, Spring ardor,
,bleb may be let, and the real pmt to the credit of the p. Wl's
A gasometer is sow prepense at the General Post Oise,
Is tarsi* gas ha the see of that miablisbnient. 11 .If mid
. • Mat the charge for oil assoady, for the Mica, Is between
. Soot. of which ass Governmest expeete to save
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by the salmiteres of ps. The estimate far
stparstai was staled erigioa.ly at shoat 1,5001. bat
f that It will inmost le sear', 3•0001.
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VIII:: Ow as Bell ea f•Mrday last, he coasomemmo
a qiiimilaes the imessoetlis osemse.• Nome of
tamaMelagaisollall with the Madison, a party of them
. smalfiag it err Illlileildarirate. attacked amid se.
. samiplassel aelwithelesliag the Imerforeace of the
. asio paws,. TM Mt was read. sod sons of sturrise-
Masse weeseemesitied se pekes. A letter woe seat to the'
. aleilswales am Itaistiay. ilawaisilaw the liberatisa if Iles_
pristatters before ..e o'clock os the folloiriag day. The sir
stria were assemblieg I. peat numbers os the morning of
Tamil% mid it was feared, if their deseard were refused,
that they wool/ storm the prima.
• • family in the earth-west pert of the county of
• Durham lately renewed a lease of the Bishop, and
pat in a new life—a young man of 17 years of age.
'llFithirs a few days after this transaction the young
man was drowned along with his sister in the river
Tees. It became necessary to renew again, and a
cow Ina was paid accordingly, amounting to 3001.
or theresbours; 9.00/. of which were immediately
returned in the moot feeling ISSOUff to the relatives
a the unfortunate young man.
There was a fall market at Norwich on Satur-
day, but little,balitress was done. Old Wheat de-
I cloned iu price Ste. mud new Is. per coomb. Barley
wee @leans. low....".—Little variatioo task place in the
i , price of cattle; hut the few disposed of obtained
rather better terms than last week. The sheep
yeas were well filled.
The Hereford steer, belonging to Mr. T. A.
. Birresarew, of Amplify Cruets, Gloucestershire,
which obtained the premium at the lute Beth Cat.
tie Sheer. was last week killed et Cirencester, by
Mr. Vienne : it weighed 158 Mane and upwards.
. Latter* fr...:4 Manilla, of the 24th of February,
ehat,stat very fresh advice. had been teem retires
ibe riseipal pone WI the Levant, that traminillity
\ • bad %pa psefeetly re-established, and hopes were
. wOwtailaild Pia Wee/ arnwiesteut between Russia
sad dm Pons.

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DVI,II4M ASSIZES, FESIMIAT 2s.

CROWN SIDE.
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Before Mr. Justice BAT LI?.

A ftrr the antiunion formalities weregooe through,
hi. Lordship briefly addressed the Grand. Joey.
He observed, thrt•they had itinKniet for the fourth
trine st this season of the year, and the dote of the
calendar fully justified the measurer of holding the.
Assizes twice a year. The different came to come
before them were then shortly adverted to.. sad his
Lordship concluded by urging the propriety of
their visiting the gaol, al it was of the greatest im-
portance that it should be • place of reformation,
and that the prisoners should be employed, as the
only maws of enabling them to return as useful
members into society.
Peter 1-INiehiasale was indicted on • charge of
administering a certain liquid to Elizabeth Satarth.
visite to procure her miscarriage.
Mr. COLTMAN opened the case foe the prosecu-
tion. The evidence. he observed. would be of a
peculiar nature, from the circumstance of the un-
fortunate woman herself being dead to whom the
liquid had been administered. He would produce
her dying declaration, together with the confirms.
tory testimony of living witnesses.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY observed. that is a case
very lately in the Court of King's Bench it was
decided that dying declarations were only admiaei-
ble in caws or murder.
Mr. COLTMAN cited some instances in which a
contrary course appeared to have been adopted.
which his Lordship overruled. The Counsel then
called—
Jane Smurthwsite, mother of the deceased Elisa-
beth Sourthwaite, who deposed that her daaghter,
in July !get, lived iu the service of Mr. Hatchiaeou,
father of the Prisoner, She remembers the Pei.'
wooer coming to her house about three weeks before
Lammas, and desiring her to go to ere her daughter.
ate she was very ill, and they had sent for the Doctor.
Wits.ess went and remained at Hutchinson's from
the Saturday to the Wechiesdijr. The Primmer
told her he had given her some see* to drink;
that it was a good thing for sickness, and
that he had takes it himself sometimes. Her
daughter was very ill; she took her home this,
and she remained with her till the Bth of Oc•
tober, when she returned to Hutchinson's. She
only stayed ten dam end come home again on the
18th of October ; nothing appeared to ad her then,
but from the fatigue of her journey. She came
home ea the Thursday ; on the Sunday she was
very ill, and continued so till the Friday. when she
died. The Prisoner canoe to see her the first time.,
she went home. but not the second.
Mr. J. Greco, surgeon, examined the body of ~
the deceased. and found she was four mouths gam
in pregnancy ; her stomach appeared very•dark•
coloured, and itillamisation existed to a great ex-
tent, almost to mortification. It was impossible to
soy what could have predated this appearance.
On cross-examination he said, the infiemmation
man hale been recently produced; many causes
might piodace it. Saris is used is female com-
plaints: it cannot be taken more than from a scru-
ple to a dram with impunity.
The Prisoner had nothing to say in his defence.
James Cumesines said he was applied to for twin
by the deceased in August lost. She said it would
do her good for a pans in her stomach. Witness
hod no oasis, sod would set bay, given berit if he
had. He had hoard at that time she was with child.
She had • child before she went to Hutchinson's.
Barbara Turnbull vies called to slow that the
deceased had applied to her to procure seal's.
Ann Errington stated, that she was in the de-
ceased's mother's house in May last, and heard her
say she was almost poisoned with the bottles she
had taken. Witness asked what it was, and was
going to taste it, when she told keit was raven.
She said. "It can't be proper for you ;" hut Eliza-
beth Stnurthwaite made no answer. Witness turned
to her mother and said—" Jenny, I wonder you let
her take it; its not proper fur her." It was said
the doctor had given berm/gist; but witness said no
doctor would give her sorbs. She understood she
was then with child. .

Four witoessee were then called, who gave the
prisoper an excellent characters
His Lordship recapitulated the evidence, sod the
Jury returned a verdict of—Not Guilty.

RAPE.
Henry Andersen was arraigned no a charge of
committing a rape on the body of Sarah Anurtrong.
Mr. Lout detailed the circumstances stated in
the evidence.

Sarah Armstrong—l was servant to Mr. Thomas
Nesbitt, of Sunderland. in January last ; be kept
another servant named Elizabeth Hilary ; on Sun-
day the 13th of January, I went out to go to Phi-
ladelphia to see my mother; Anne Ramsay sod
Jane were to have gone at the same time, but set
off before me; l set offshoot half-past one o'clock;
I took the waggon way because it woe better walk.
ing; I continued on it about two miles, but it was
very windy, and I went on to the turnpike, as
being more sheltered ; I then overtook Henry An-
derson, the Prisoner; I had never seen him before;
he had a detk-coloured dog with hint like • mastiff:
I was afraid to pees it, but he said I had nothing to
fear, it would not hurt me, and he called it to him
by the name of Nose. I pawed him, and he walked
with me; I walked with him near three miles.
He asked roe where I was going, and I said to
Philadelphia : he asked to whose house, and when
I told him, he said he knew my two brothers.
He said he belonged to New Painshaw. I told the
Prisoner I saw I had got on the wrong road, for I
observed Hosting Hill, and that would carry me
where I had to go. I wished to make for the Hill.
He said be would go with me, it was not out of his
road. I said I knew the road, but he still followed
after me. I then turned into a field : there was a foot
pied in it. I was then about a mile from Philadel-
phia. He walked through one field with me; he said
nothing, but in the corner of the second field lie
threw me down : he took hold of me by the waist
and threw me back over. I struggled, made all the
resistance in my power, and celled as loud as I could.
I celled on the Lord to assist me.--t Here the wit-
ness wee so much affected that she was obliged to
be led out of Court. On her return she continued,
sod minutely described the circumstances of the
rape.]—During the whole time I made all the re-
I simian in my power. When be left ate he wished

to take the dirt foam my gown, hot I told hilt/ to be
gone, for I would prosecute hie' if I .could find
oat who bees. He said nothing, bet ran awes,.
I bad them gat up, and was very. weak end sick.
,My bonnet and cap were torn but nothing else. I
went to a house the second field Off, the nearest I
could see ;it was Mr. Baty's. I bad no acquaint.
anew there,. but wept because it was the overeat. -1
kriiicked it the door and inked for a drink of
water ; Edward Baty opened it, end desired me
to walk iu ended down. Mrs. Baty asked me if I
had been trot and feinted. I told her I had been
ill-used by a man, and gave a description of hint to
both Mr. and Mr.. Baty. He had on a dark snuff-
coloured coot and dark velvet breeches. I did not
notice his waistcoat. His shoes were strong end laced
op in the front; the soles were nearly coming off,
and the shoes seemed too big for his feet ; he bad
on dark worsted stockings. holed at both heel, ; he
was • light complexioned man, with light reddish
whiskers, and a stoutish man; I described to Mrs.
Baty every thing that bid happened; I stayed
there about half an boar; Mr. Baty went out to
look for the tarn, but having a dog with him, he
did not like to look alter him by himself; he had
returned before I left the house; from Baty's
went towards my mother's; I was afraid to go by
myself, and Mr. Baty went with me, till we came
to Herrington, When I- diet with Anne Ramsay
and Jane Grey. who were to have set out with
sue ; I told them What hod happened, and went
with them to Senderlend that aright ; I told
Elisabeth Hilary, my Fellow-wervaat, also, when
I got to my master's. Next day my mother came
autt took too house. I woesanwell near three weeks
after, bit not eindlood to bed. Steel. a constable,
was sent for; I gave him a description of the man's
person, sod on Moodsy niibt lie brought a man to
my mother's to see if it was hini....[The witness
being desired to look at the prisoner and say if it
was she man, was so roach affected as to be carried
out of Court. Ou her return she cootiatiedj-4
se quite sere the Prisoner is the man.
By the ille4lll—l am.twenty-two years of age.
The man took no liberties with me till I got into
the &id. He got hold of me two or three minutes
before he thee* use doom, but I could not get from
him. I cried out as hood as I could as soon as he
began to take liberties with me. My lips were very
sore after thi., sod bled a good deal at the time.
From first to last I gave turn no encouragement,
but resisted as much se I could. When he left me
it was not from any 'deprive, but of his own accord.
I had never intercourse with any man before. When
the man was brought to me 011 the Monday night I
knew him at once. and had not the least doubt.
Elisabeth Baty, Jane Grey. and • Elizabeth Hi-
lary, corroborated the statements of the last wit-
nest, as far as referred to them.. -
Gilbert Steel, the constable, congested the af-
firmation .of the Protecateis, that sit immediately
identified•the Prisoner when brought before her.
William Ferry proved his having seen the Pri-
soner ou the toad near (Merton, four miles from
Sunderland, and too from Paivahaw, on the Sun-
day afternoon in goaded, a little past three o'clock ;
he was dressed us. described by the Prosecutes.
Offerton is on the.tom bsturesu Bay's. house and
Pai °shad. .
Mr. Justice &VIM' veettpitelated the evidence,
and observed that the points to be considered were,
whether the primmer hud committed the outrage
charged, whether every resistance had been made
47 also INP•vcsemiss sad whether the sexual inter.
course was complete; for unless all these were de-
termined in the affiematiee, the prisoner could not
be convicted of the capital offence.
The Jury retired, and in ten minutes returned
a verdict of Grifty.

His Lordship Abets proceeded to pronounce the
awful sentence of the law in • most •ffectiog
in needy the following terms:—,
4' Henry Anderson, you have been found guilty,
after • very patient invesitigation of all the circnm.
stances of this important case, on a charge of corn•
mitting a crime of the greatest consequence to you
and to the public. the evidence was such that it
wee impossible any scrim's doubt should be enter-
tained by soy rational mind. The crime of which
you have beets convicted ithone of the deepest die
and of the most aggravated nsture, an offence of
the strong against the weak, and only to be repress.
ed by the severest punishment the law can inflict.
A young, innocent, said respectable woman, has
received at your hande, the greatest outrage that
could be committed. It is my-duty to inform you
that I cannot make say !epreseotation to Is Ma-
jesty in your behalf. The power of life and death
is not placed arbitrarily in my hands, nor can 1 sus.
peed the punishment of the lisw. utile, I see the
circumstances are such es to enable mt honestly
to make a (avowable represeotation to the Crown.
lu your case there are us such circumstances.
I ought to tell you that you can remain here
but a very short' time, when you must go before
that. Judge to whom every thiug is known said
from Ikons not •u eon be congealed, into
his presence from w aricy comes. Em-
ploy she. the short 'spice that is left to yen
to prepare yourself for the change yon are soon
to undergo. I shooki net discharge my duty if
I did not inform you that you must not entertain
any hopes on this aide site grave. The sentence of
the law is, that you be taken to the place from
whence you came, and from thence to the place of
execution, and them be hung by the neck till you
are dead ; and may God Almighty, whose mercy
is infinite, have mercy on your soul !"
The Prosecutria was • very interesting looking
young woman, and conducted herself, while in
Court, with the greatest propriety. We hear from
Durham that Anderton• is to be executed on the
lath instant.

During this trial a bailiff was heard vociferating
very loudly, " Come along, Sir !"
The JuDolt inquired what was the matter, end
the officer arid a man bed broken the door in en-
deavouring to get in. Hir Lordship inquired,
" Were rim trying to extort money from him 1"
Officer—" No, my Lord."
Juoaa—" Theo why did you not let him come
in?"

Ulcer—" I told ►im there was no room. my
Lord."
Junea—" Then yes told him wrong. for thene is
room. If I knew yea were endesvoenng to retort
money at the door. I would punish you. Every
man has a right to come into Court as loug es there

is room.—(Great applaose.)—lt is mry improper to
express either approbation or disapprobation in •
Conrt of Justice at any thing that may he said, apd
if 1 knew who did so, I would fine him." - •

STABBING. .. •
Janes Bell was indicted under Lord Eltenbo.
rough's Act, for cutting and maiming James Cai►4ls.
Mr. Coogins stated the circumstances, and.
called

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Richard Suttees, who deposed as follows;--I wet
at Alexander Surtees's. near Wickham, at a harvest
sapper, on the 24th September; the Prisoner. made
Cairns, and Peacock, were there. There was ••
young woman with the Prisoner; he had a quarrel
with Peacock; the young woman desired me to
take her from him ; he did nut touch me at that
time.. After the dance I saw Peacock going out of
the room, and I saw Bell with a dagger in his hood,
as I thought. going to run it into Peacock. I pre-
vented him, and then struck me in the breast : the
wound was not deep, but it brought blood through .
my waistcoat. I struck Bell, and he fell. This was
half an hour before the party broke up. Bell left
the room before me ; I went out by myself. Cairns
and Madison came up to me, and I walked down
a waggon way with them ; Cairns was walking be-
fore Madisou and me. When we had gune about
• quarter of a mile. Bell was coming back again,..
and met us ; a young woman was with him ; a man
mimed Footrup was standing near where we met.
The first thing I heard was, " Dick, stabbed."
I wa. then two or three yards from Cairns. I weut
up to him, and saw him bleeding ; he said be must
stop no longer or he would bleed to death. I then
went up the Prisoner, James Bell ; be had a dag-
ger in his hand. which Madison was taking from
him. Footrup cud I took him to the public-house
where we had been.—[Witness here produced the
dagger, which appeared highly finished.]-1 can
swear this is the same that Bell had. I did not
hear Bell say any thing. Cairns ran towards the
public-house. and fell down from weakness.
Michael ,Machison and John Footrup corroborated
the statements of the last witness.

James Cairns-1 was at the dance at Suttees's,
but don't remember seeing the Prisoner. there : he
might be there; I had no acquaintance of him. I
went out of the house by myself. I walked down
the waggon-way with Suttee. and Madison, and we
passed Footrup; I was a bile before the rest.
Bell met us, walked past us, and then came and
struck me in the side with a dagger. I had newer
spoke a word to him when he stabbed me.
Oa

he said, be told Ralph
Thompson if Bell would pay for the time he had
lain, and the doctor's bill, he would not prosecute
him, hut did not tell him he ought not to have
stopt the young man, and had no business to inter-
fere with him. There was a nearer road to my
home than the waggon wsy : the turnpike would
have been as near. My reason for going on the
waggon way was that Madison and Surtees were
there, and not to seek the Prisoner.
Mr. John Dixon, surgeon. of Newcastle, was
called in to attend the last witness. He found a
wound in the side on the 7th rib. and it seemed to
have been inflicted by a stabbing instrument. The
dagger was obey° to him, it was then bloody. The
wound, on examination, he found was not dan-
gerous. The ►ib probably changed the direction of
it. If the instrument had entered the chest. the
wound would probably hove been dangerous: it ex-
tended three or four inches up the side, but was not
more_then ballots inch deep.
By the An/OIL—He could sat judge from the
appearance what force was used, but should think
it was not very great. Ii would not be dangerous
unless it entered the chest.

This ended the case for the prosecotios.
Ralph Bates wee at the dance, and saw the Poi-
soner go from the house, but not what direction
he took; Mary Thompson went with him • the
waggou way leads to Mary Thompson's father's
house. I went out about rive minutes after Bell
was gone, and saw Surtees, without his hat, in •
great rage ; !leashed which way Bell went; Cairns
told him he had gone down the waggon-way. Sor-
ters. Footrup, and Cairns, appeared to me all
drunk.
On cross-examination, be said he had got some
drink himself, and had been at the public-house
from seven at night till four next morning.
George Sadler was also at the dance, and remem-
bered the Prisoner going away. Surtees ran down
stairs after him, and said, " If I get hold of him,
b--r him, drive his soul out." The land-
lord shut the door to prevent him going out to
make mischief; it was kept shut about ten mi-
nutes, and then Surtees went out without his hat.
He asked somebody to lend him a hat; nobody
avoid. He asked which way Bell had gone. and
wanted me to go and seek Inas, but I refused. I
went down the turnpike road to see if I could get
the young man out of the way.
Ralph Thompson saw Cninrs at five or six o'clock
on the morning this affair happened, and he said he
might tell the prisunir that if he would pay the ex-
pense of his lying up and the doctor's bill, it was
all he wanted. and that he had no business to inter-
fere with him. The prisoner wits at first unwilling
to go to any expense.
Mary Thompson.—The Prisoner went down the
waggon-way to see me home. We went past my
father's house, and thes turned to seek George
Grey. Bell said, that as lie was • stranger, if I
would go with him to seek Grey to chew him his
rood, they would set me home. We met Cairns
and hie party : we passed them on the right
side, and Madison turned to Suttees and said,
" That's Mary Thompson," and Surtees cried,
•' That was the b--r that was with her." He
then said, " here's at you, you b---r," and with
that struck Bell on the head or neck. Bell hit his
foot on the waggon way and till : he got up, weal
to the other side and wea struck by Cairns, and
then I ran sway.
His Lordship summed op the evidence, and ob-
served that the chief point to decide was. whether
Cairns or. any of his party had struck Bell first ;
for if they had, and death had ensued, the crime
would in that case he manslaughter only : if they
bad not it was a capital offence.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty—Death.
The Prisoner was much affected both when the
verdict was delivered, snd at the passing of the
sentence. The Prosecutor came forward and begged
to recommend hill to mercy.
the Court woe extremely crowded.