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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

LANCASHIRE.
GILL V. AUSIttsY.—.GRIM CON.
This was an action at Lancaster Assizes, S iturday
setinight, to recover a compensabon in dam .eei for the
seduction of the plaintiff's wife by the deiendaot, a gen.
tleutan of Slirripsh.re. A similar action, bottle''t by
the same plaimitt, who resided at Bryngwyn, Montgo-
meryshire, was tried at the last Assizes, when the Jury
expressed themselves satisfied, atter hearing the plain-
tilrs ease, that there %vas no ground for the action, and
the plaintiff". Counsel chose to be nonsuited rati:er than
have the opium of the Jury pronounced aeainst his
client. It seem., lionever,. that the plaintiff was not
satisfied with this decision, and determined to take the
opinion of another Lancashire Jury. Great curiosity
.had b, en excited, and the Conn was t xeessively crowded.
Mr. Scarlett callad many witnesses, after which
Mr. Justice Lest " Gentlemen of the Jury, do
yon wish to hear Brother Bullock fur the defend oit
Jury.—" NO, Inv I .ord. it will not be necessary;
we are Toe sat.slieil with what'e have heard."
Mr. Justice Best.—" There never was a clearer case.
Nothing like adultery has been proved, except by one
witness, who has related one of the most improbable
stories that Was ever interned "

.NJ r. Sea►lett, after consulting hi, client, rinse to be
nonsitited, rather than have the verdict of the Jury on
behalf of the defenil.iitt. Th; 1)1,1'11,111 tv.l3 nonsulted.

SO.Nl:lil:sE'l:s i l lki

ASSAULT.—PADYIELD V. LUNE.
The defendant was a malt of property, retired from
business; -snd the plaititill a bie,Aer. The assault took
place oil the sth July fast, and was of a very tinkitt na.
(UN. According to WIC Of the witness. sit occupied an
hour and a halt. The life of the plaintiff was ex-
posed to imminent danger limit its ellects; and doubts
were expressed by a surgeon who save evidence that he
never would reenter. A linger was tracnired, and one
of the small bones of the shoulder briik Ai. In the de-
fence the Gionsel adduced the plea of violent irritation,
or 60111C111111g, as he termed it, approaening to insanity;
but the Judge, itt suaillling up, informed the Jur!, that
madness, supposing it to have existed, was no answer
to a charge nt a citil suit. Upon a criminal "Marge it
might be otherwise. NVith respect to damages, they
were the peculiar province of t;te Jury; but under such
circumstances, it was the stiff. rings of the plaintiff that
sv.is to give the isie.nitsre of dania6res; and if a defendant
who had so nits orducted himself was thin able to pay
111 purse, he 11111 St pay lit person. Tins was a case of
so aggravated a nature as to require a lull and adequate
compensation.
Verdict lor the plaintiff-I)aniages One Thousand
Pottihls.

A letter from Vienna dated the 16th, says—
We learn from Passau, under the date of the 3d.
that a secret association has been discovered there.
among the workmen of the dillerent trades, who
meet regularly among the tombs of the Old Capu-
chin Convent. About thirty of them have been
arrested ; and from their examination, it appears
that they had gone so far as to form a kind of secret
fraternity, by which they were pledged by mutual
defence to the last extremity, everywhere and under
all circumstances. They were bound by an oath,
in the taking of which they drank out of a skull.
Some of thent had da:7gers, and they called them-
selves the Black Brola.o es.

The Madrid papers of the 16th contain a report
from the Minister Ihr Forejgn Affairs to t:ie Cortes.
The ratification of the treaty with the United
States for the cession of the Floridas is announeed,
and Spain is stated to be at peace with the Barbary
States ; but the principal part of the report relates
to the affairs of Naples. Explanations are.stated to
hove taken place between the Cabinet of Madrid
and the Allied Powers, which, though not yet ter.
minuted, have already produced, on the part of
some of the Cabinets, the positive assurance that
they do not mean to disturb Spain, nor to interfere
in any way in her domestic affairs.
Extract of a letter from the Dominica Chronicle,
Feb. 11 :—" The ship Kale, of London, Captain
Itudge, on her return from 13erbice to Halifax, was
scuttled at sea by the crew, who had forced the
Captain, some time before, to leave the ship in a
boat, with very little provisions and no comp:ass, at
a great distance from land. They also put in the
boat his wife and two children. one two and the
other fhur years old, a passenger of the name of
Meredith, and a coloured boy, who acted as steward.
This happened about eight o'clock a.m. It is pro-
bable they must have perished that day or night
Eight of the crew are here on trial ; the landed
near the Mole, and had taken and divided among •
them two chests of money, which were put on board
at Bcrbicc, in return for the cargo of provisions she
had brought from and shipped there by the
house of &Ache and Co."
A sporting gentleman in the ne;glabourhood of-
Staines, who rides at 17 stone, has undertaken, for
a bet of ;V., to ride au English MSS trout :.staines to
the Crown Inn, at Reading, a distance of `2l! miles,
in three successive hours, within a month of the
present time. The rider is to give 12 hours' no-
tice previous to starting. Bets are two to one in
favour of time.

Porter, the Northamptonshire pedestrian, ha woa
his match for 50 guineas against time, of running
sixteen miles in two hours. He went ten times
round the race course, making 17 miles in one hour
and 56 minutes.

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BOX I NG.
The match between Edward Granger, the Farn-
ham, and George a West-countryman, took
place on Thursday morning, in a meadow belonging
to Mr. Stevens, at Shottcsbrook, on the confines of
the counties of Oxon and But ks. The men had
cleared their way to provincial celebrity in many
turns-up, and if not scientiac enough to figure in
London ring, bravery was not wanting in either of
the men. The match was for forty guineas, and
Granger was the favourite at 5 and 6 to 4.
In the first round both were too eager in making play and in
throwing away blows ; they got to a close and both went down
without injury.
The second round lasted twelve minutes. and tarsal the men?*
atdour. They hit out ut each other until the ring ens len in
slam4liter•houre, and neither would go down. They dint gaged
themselves from three difletent closes, not being awake le thr
weaving system. where the loan of one of liandall's hands weld
have been serviceable. Granger had rather the best of the munal,
but he was at length dropped by a hit on Adam's apple in tint
throat, which produced many pantomimial gestures.-6 to 4 ost
Gillan.
3. This was nothing but a fighting rotes. Soma sound bits
about the ears melted the wax and predated swam a dime
fioni both. Galan was hit down in one of those Grammar
olator castors.
s, aid 6, were comparatively tame rounds; but it was
evident that Granger's lighting was to a certain extent put on one
side by the hit in the throat in the second round, and in this he
was thrown a stunning cross buttock.
7. This was a game round, all in Gillan's favourond it finish,
ed by Grar,;,,er. beibg flowed again.
8. Gillan ',cecina a heavy chance hit on the left eye, which
stopped out daylight, and he staggered down with it.
9th. and last round, won Galan the fight in 39 minutes.—
After exchanging counter hits. Granger was thrpwn upon his
head, and laid several minutes sense /4. His friends challenged
the winner again for fifty guineas.

It is confidently reported in the well-informed
political circles, that a note has been sent to the
British Minister at the Court of Russia to be pre-
sented to the Emperor Alexander, not only remit,-
strating, but actually proteging against a Russian
fleet entering the M cditerranean by the Dardanelles,
for the purpose, as was alleged, of assisting in the
common cause against the recent revolutions which
have taken place in the South of Europe. A copy
of this note was also presented by Lord Castlereagh
to Count Lieven. The Ottoman Porte has also, it
is said, protested against a Russian fleet passing the.
Dardanelles. •

Floes.—A fire broke out on Monday night, at tile
house of Mr. B:iiitilioroug,h, profile painter, in Wyatt.
row, Hanipstead.road, which was occasioned by tht
boiling over of some varnish and other mixtures: The
cottage which contained five rooms, was destroyed, and
a youth who superintended the mixture was seriously
Mom hi making his escape It was fortunate that the
fire broke out lii a rOolit contiguous to the cottage, or the
lives of the initiates would have Leen in great danger.--
Another fire broke ant atom the same time, at Mr. Mea-
dows', in Cal% era's Terrace, Paddington., which was
occasioned by some clothes left to dry, being placed too
near the fire. Tne interior was destroyed, bet most of
the goods were saved." On Nlntirlay evening, as Miss C.
Russel, daughter of Mrs. Hassel, Meard's-row, Fulham-
road, was preparing to accompany a juvenile party to one
o. the the.ates, ber clothes caught fire, and she was ft/
tireaib'idly burnt that she lies in extreme agony, and is
not t•xi.;:t.teci to recover. She was adjusting her bonnet
at the chimney glass, when rite catearophe befel her,
by her-111l1S1111 dress taking fire. The maid servant was
in the next room, and hearing.her shrieks, she sitatchtg
a counterpane from the bed in an adjoining rooms ewe
extinguished the flames by wrapping it round her; only
the body part of the back was left; even tile front hats
of her head was burnt 0 f, and the lace :nuch disfigured.
=Co slay reining, about six. o'idock, the inhabitants
of the Hamlet of Mile End New Town were thrown
into the greatest alai ni and consternation, in consequence
of a 111USt dreadful conflagration which broke itut.at the
sugardinuses of :Messrs. Bartell and Grier, sugar whiners,
in Come:II-street. Mr. B. was attending a vestry meet-
inu, nu l his men who attended the pans, which are
fixed in safety on the ground, had scarcely time to exa-
mine what produced the smoke, when the flames burst
from the upper part id the premises in the rear of the
building with such vc Ir any, the they experienevd con-
siderable difficulty in escaping. :1 quaintly of sugar was.
brought in in the morning in order to be clarified, at.d
was placed in the front warehouses. The noels with
some dawn liy, succeeded in J portieu of it. The
engines helnlittillg to the different Mikes, with their usual
alacrity, were suou upon the spot, and the tine-cock had
been at his post; yet it n'a, rattier unfortunate that the
very high wind tendered their exertions I,ss effectual.
because as they played, the wind drove tile water in a
Colltialy direction. and tlicy could not gel into the pre.
raises till some of the men at cunsiderdble risk went
personally to guide the p.pes into lute windows. &c.—
The extensive warehouses of Messrs. Hanhury and Co.
the brewers, being adjoining, ;vein arprehetwinti WAS
entertained fur their saucy, altbougtt prots-cted by a
strong party wall. About eleven o'clock this wall deft Ha
opium Mein, and did consith.ratile damage, but tile fire-
men, it 1101.611 kept working the Cll4OllOl With the greatest
• ilacrity, tire,elll,4 the Settles trout coininutircating w:111
Ilaubtir%'s premises, and they also succeeded in se‘ mg
the clweiling-tiouse ur which Mr. Grice's fensin resided.
The fire was not completely gut under until Wednesday

Mrs. 6. Kiiight, of Firbeck, in Yorkshire, his crec.e.ll
at her ow expette:, a new [Jamb es.tareh, rots the site of
the old 1/I11.•••• 101.1 II I, 41 Ic'U lark.lolr t ireuthstalace
during the period 01 rebuilaing, neither weuoing, burl.
or c•lnsteffing occurred in the paris-1 11
The royal mercy Ihrt been extended to G. Enaland,
the sailor ill the preverruhee scrvice, against w 1 the
jury at Horsham found a verdict of wilful murder Oil
cdile*dairiA4t.