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esining•to the home, mei-sating irGenersl Edna
ass at home.. Witness answered in the Wreak.
live, and the Prisouer then said he wished.. to
see hits. Withers went into the parlour,• aud
informed the General, who desired hini,,tra tall lint
Prisoner to go about his berinets. The P.ristiner
laid he wanted an sneerer; and nitnem-talch him l
the asisiver was 'I No." Gen. Eden then entire
into the hall, and the Prisoner accused him of har-
king seduced his wife, The General denied harlot(
any knowledge of his wife. but the Prisoner Et Pest..
• ed he had, and the Geneva' again denied ib The
Prisoner said he bad proefo,And the Prosecutor de-
, sired him to procure theta~ ;- when the Prisoner in-
stantly attacked him, cud made several thrusts.
'Witness seised • tins,. Prisoner by the awe._ but he
.till contioued thrusting at, the General,, and they
fell together on..the Baer. Wetness did not
the Prisoner sue' any thing durilig.theattack,"4
he observed to wittier& afterwards, 41' les . come to
something st.test." The General übserved, lie had
beers-stabbed in three places; and be went fur a
surgeon. The Prisoner did not attempt to escape,
and was taken is the Police Office.
(,'roes-examined.,--The Prisoner often coned to
tree his wife, but an. denied. She was out of the
house at one time, and. did not. wish to see him.
He urea received say,orders from the General not
to let hint see hi* wit% She and her sister ordered
it. When pregnant she went to the Lying-in-
Hospital; The Prisoner never said to witness lie
came there to know• who had got his wile, iu the
condition she then was.
fte-eireatieed.—The General never gave witness'
any orders respecting the Prisoner's wife.. The
aderssiltoess received to deny the Prisoner were
(loin his wife and sister. He believed the General
was abroad when Mrs. Patinae. was pregnant.
The Prisoner, at times, saw his wife, and remained
wish her forao-hour or two, sonsetimes alone,. This.
wan bleier before she lay in. He saw his wife after
she was risibly parguaet.

Mr. [learn, tergenis, was thea called. Hr
that he attended Creutr.d Eden, who was bleeding
and agitated. The witness descsibed the wound..
to be an. inch. and,. a quintet, in tengili and three
inches in depth,, and appeared to have taken an.
oblique &iceboat towards the breast. The Utah
around the wound; had, swelled. Ft appeared tg
h•re barn inflicted by a knife, Nock with the lefh
head ; the rib obstructed the knife from euteringi
bpei:-.ollhAsf.,it would have proved fatal. fled at
hand•oti the left breast it
would have proven mat-, •
the wounds on the hands.
General. Eden was again eallerf;, and: denied, ever
having given. any, orders resptating. the Ertsouer'e
wife.

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The Prisoner,. on being called on for his defence„,
said lie would- leave it to his Commas
Charlotte Lewin sowed. she was. the If; isoner's
sister. whose wife woo cook in.the family. Wilms,
renumbers her going to the hospital. %Vitus,*
had once..denietittra Rrisoutr seeing his wife, lint
he was not refu.edofter her aceatteAntsamt.
Mr. Militates, the Counsel for the Prisoner,
here waked the witness if he had not reproached his
wife on account of her infidelity ?
An obj•ttiun was taken by Mr. AuoLosips, and
confirmed by the COU Wr•
. The witness, on being quesiionert, acknowledged
she was nut married, but that she hada child.
Three. witne.ses gave the Prisoner • good eh*.
Lecke' for harintwity, and observed, that the Priboiree
was often dejected.
Mr. Jusiice Bitumens' summed• up the evi-
dence, and the Jury immediately returned a veldict
of Gni/by—Death.
CHARGE Of RAPE,
Joha Shorter was put to the bar, charged on sit
indictment with an assault on unit violarion of the
•petson of Bliss tiodfr:iy, • clad spider eleven yews
of age, in the mouth February lord, in Ormond-,
yard, Great Ormond-street. The principal farts,
addpced iu support of the proarention were
of such a description es to prevent us entering into
the circumstances. Pt appesred in the course Of
the evidence given by the lather of the child, that
the Prisoner bad offered him first I. and dtervirds,
10/. to make the motor up, beet he refused t and
that he had also tendered mousy to his wife, who
likewise objected to. receive it.
Mr. Surgeon Blair who was called to examine
the child,. deposed, that he observed no particular
violence about the person, and that the oppearatice
nos such as might arise from a variety of causes.
Mr. Justice Bvanougn then summed np the
evidence, and noticed the various contradictions
that had taken place.
The Jury retired iior abut 20 minute., arta re-
turned a verdict—Not Guilty.
Mary Slather pleaded tatehy to the minor of
levee of honing in her romeaaion a tal, note,
purporting to be of the liauk of Buglund, kitowing
st to be a forgery,

The lirewooLs at Norwich cin the night or the
coronation were prepare 4 by a female artist, Mr..
Juste, by whom, in person, they were played off in
great style. They commenced Isiah a salute of
seven maroons, a. loud as callow).

At Bury St. Edmunds, on the night of the Co-
ronation. much ineonveu•ence as experienced
during the din iii i from a wanton practice of
pistols chase to passing females, and late at
night a dosiiii pasties of Kiras were broken at the
Angel Inn by toiler three turbulent amlividuals on
the Hill, which we believe mast be attributed to the
assoctation of the name " Yeomanry" with " Man-
chester," and a long train pf latneptable events ;
for the part'of the hone where Captain littw II ET'S
troop of yeomanry cavalry dined, seemed the ob-
ject of the violence committed. At three or four
other Images (which had been illuminated) stones
were thrown by stragglers late in the night, and
several µemirs were apprehended and Gibed fur the
offence on the following morning, tra the tenure
of the day parties met in several places iu the town
to drink the Quitill'a health. abuse risme also
was the prevailing subject of ths cries heard in the
overt/.
Portmaxtow OF Ltitraroot,.—The total num-
ber of males 5-4 340 ; fetualcs, 64,632. Total,
1 18.9711. Populismo its 1811. 9; 376. Ins:rinse,
114,596.—Kiakciale, 1 ,n 3 ; Zenon, it. ; West
1). f by. 4,304; Togieils-pon k, 14.849. Toil,
211,515. Grand total, 141.487, exclusive of Bootle,
Lithetland. anil Wsvrrtree, sod pf kiwi; beltior
itrg to the pert.