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weer one o'clnek. and her mother was never out of
he hotter during that apace of time.
Seversl witisestwit (tett iu slumber) wive the Pri-
meter a good character for honesty and isoltistry.—
Some of them spoke of her from a knowledge of
16 nr 17 yrurs ; with many of them she hail been
'leftism: fa, • long period, and in NO INNI nitre had
any 1.1 them received a Bank note from i.e., her
peyinesite bring tolvsays confined to trifling sums
ttwdcr the ))))) nt of It.
Mr..lostice Balmer charged the Jury at ems-
sirl.rable tr:meill. Ile liret 'adverted to the 111111Ife
of the lirfriter 'wide nut tl.i. Divest 111 l . and sand that
all alibi was, as hadberet often mid, either the heat
,r the wils%t defence—it wss the best whets clearly
r„,t ,o,„firt„rily "thbli.t,e..l—and the worst, and
roost Isertiont aggravation of the offence with which
the patty stood charge., when it appeared on the
lace of the tratitmaiy adduced, that it was merely
• otweived mid arranged by a Prisoner for the put.-
Imes« of attempting to exculpate himself by the
mrce of an unposition solely founded oat perjury.
• case of prosecution like this, the Jory must
see grit the whole weight of the evidence to supoitin
in meat rest *oldie on proof of identity, that is. the
beli4 of the party ns to the person who committed
Cie crime—this is necessarily exposed to doubt front
the nature of the recollection of the party swearing
to the identity of the perms, and this doubt may
jostle he 'sustained by a Jury without at all im-
peaching the moral credit •f the Prosecutor, for
lie may justly arid conscientiously have a belief
ie elect' he may be yet mistaken and sewer,. In
this vise the Jerry had also particularly to consi,ter
lime ',tight of evidence as to the character eddured
in 1....0ur of the Prisoner, fur they here saw.
tionalter of apparently repntable permits, just
Stich as one in the Prisoner's sphere of life mien
he ouppowd to be connected with, coming forward
to sp-ait of her honesty, with • consciousness that
she ca tle guilty of the crime now laid to her
clever —end more particularly they smelt to her
Ituracter and habits to the very period of tier
apprelwititiou on this charge. The evidence for
the presecittion went clearly to speak of the iden-
dity .if the Nominee at the her; hint the Jury had
oleo to consider, au far as it operated in favour of
her. that no putt of the goods purchased at Far-
row's shop were found ill.oll or with her, nor had
any of the lumber of pawnbrokers' duplicates
found noon her, any reference to such articles as
were purchased for she forged notes.
The Learned Judge then proceeded to stint up
in detail the whole of the evidence to the Jutry.
lie concluded Isis charge at a few minutes past rpm
o'clock.
The Jury, after one minute's consideration, re-
turned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Before the trial commenced many efforts (hu-
manely intended) were mode to induce her to plead
guilty to the minor offence, to prevent the prmeco-
lion on the capital charge, but she persisted, and
with much apparent sincerity, to assert her inno-
creme, and declare that many persons could satis-
factorily slew, that she never quitted her house on
the day she was charged with committing this
fence.
Time was the last of the long list of trials for fer-
gerWs on the Batik. and (we believe) the first ac-
quittal.

Lancashire has, this year. • second crop of pota-
toes, which is not only more productive than the
first, hut also of superior quality.
Extract of • letter from Manchester, dated
September 15:—" Yesterday • perann named PIEK-
I NOTAN, •od one of the name of KAU, were sp.
prehendod at Bury. on a warrant, charging them
with sedition, Nod sent off to prison. Pi
Tett is a person of considerable talents, and• ►node
• conspicuous f►gore. as • speaker, at the various
meet►ngs for Reform, at the time of the blanket.
erring expedition. Ile was one of those who were
confine►l under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act,
and libera►ed without trial."

Extract of a letter from Carlow, dated Sep-
tember 10:—•• Committed to our county gaol, I,y
JOHN BENNETT 111111 JAMES HOVER, &NM two
of his Majesty's Jratices of the Peace, 1 hognas
Goweher and Henry Gaselier. charged on the oath
of ELINOR LANGAN with hewing. on the night or
the 4th iiistasit, broken into the house of JAMES
Coon, a farmer in the neighbourhood of thicket*.
town, with whom she resided, rod forcibly dragged
her from under a lied, played her on a car, anal
carried her several miles through the country, to
force her In marry the said Thomas Goucher.—
Captain NIXON. of Nuraity, and the Reverend
C. linoucn. mar townsmen. who is Curare of
the Part.h. having heard of this outrage. collect-
ed a •ptcy of their neighbour', and succeeded in
apprehending those fellow% and resuming ELINOR
LANGAN to her frit-rid., who Web yesterday married
hp the Rev. JAMES POE, in the parish church.- of
Hocketstown. to a defraying young man with a
cheap farm and a comfortable house in the comity
Of Weafand. What as happy change fur this young
girl. to he rescued from a set of ruffians, mud I.laced
milder the proiretion of the min of her heart? ‘Ve
understand that the above Alargistrates have bound
'her in the yam of too/. to priorcute at our neat
.I—ores.".--/Cartiro Ahroang Port.)
The slumber of sheep permed at Mahlon Fair.
on Nlassolay and Tuesday Nit, was quite espial
to that of former yeara. The sheep were in goof
emolitioo. and nearly the whole were sold at full
twenty per cent. higher thins last year ; one lot
of lambi belonging to Mr. WILLIAM Rum. of
• Latriaingdon, were *old ma high rot thirty-four shil-
lings each. The bullocks were not so numerous in
imposition to tile .lamp. the drovers being well in.
formed that the E.mx marshes were deficient of
Isola grass rind writer. Much business was flowerer
the -cow krue the first day, tat rather high
pliers Islaout the 1.4111 Y. as 146 t year), and what Cr-
-4,l4ititii for Ili.. per I day were slimily all driven
tllf for Woulvit, ‘Verlisesday rooming, little
lotsine,s being 111111..1.11 the l.rryrJiaß dal, the short
was roo.trleralr'e, 11101 illefe ',tong link
&mom' tor then.. 5554,5% of the ordn.ary kind were
Iq c. 0.,. quern*r watt at IralOcrii
There are now lasing in the wire looser, is.
Au v, 'vs the county Krrist
we,il it great grasalidither. Iwo gram,-
latlier.. gr, and 0:111 grim Voilitl-0111-
thell. 11016,1)!Ilig iti Meer pelvis.* iii ; II ; and 111/..1a
two )ryas .wo, the great gtowlf:ttlirr butted lin,
mother sad Itt. wile is, the dente cuthis.