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Tula! 418-333 S

SHEEP STEALING.

Jolla Haney, aged 4J, John them aged 22, and Wm.
Bury. weed 24, were indicted fur killing and liking away
ose wether sheep, a garrulity of vtatoes, cad two rabbits,
the property of Mr. Edward Boards and Mr. Harding, on
Friday the 3lst March lam, he the parish of Edmonton.
Mr. Boards staled the luso of the property, and that he
had received his information from Joseph Day.
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Joseph Day acknowledged basin seen the robbery cam-
unities!, sod that he did slot for • fuo i night after, nor until •
reward was offered, give any information.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY then expressed his opinion, that on
such evidence, unsupported, a reliance could nut be placed
to bring home guilt to any of the Prisoners; and the Jury
found the Primmer' Not Gum,.
The same Prisoners, and Anne, the wife of William Hum
were again charged with steeling, in April last, two tons of
potatoes, the property of John Southgate.
The principal witness to support this indictment also
baying beru Day, mud there being a strung appearance, from
his evidence, that lie had been at least au accomplice in the
robbery,
Mr. Justice BAYLEY observed, that the same observation
applied a• on the last trial; and the Prisoners were there-
fore Acquitted.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
CLARILIZAWILL-GRAU, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17.

RESURRECTION MEN.
TUC KILO O. WILDE, WOOD, ♦ND MURPET.

This indictment was preferred at the 'issuance of dm pa
rish officers of St. Clement Daues. . .

Mr. ALUM stated the case to the Jnry, to prove which he
called a witness named Crouch, who said that on the 13th
Feb. last, being on • Suuday treeing, he was ise Puri eget-
street, in which is a burying-groused beloagiag to the parish
of St. Clement Dames. About six o'clock in the evening be
sew the Defendant Murphy going into the wicket gale, whe-
ther by means of a key be could nut tell. The witness wait-
ed a considerable time and watched, be then saw the De-
fendant Wilde come out with a sack upon kis kick, appa-
rently full of something, which be carried resod into Carey-
street, where a hackney-coach was ins waiting into which lee
put the sack. ile afterwards saw the Defendant Murphy
on the well of the burying-ground, baioldowu to one of the
other Defendants a sack, also epos/silly full, this was put
isle the coach, and two of the Defendants got in, the other
Defendant drove the coach uti, and the witness fulloserl it
to St. Thomas's Hospital (this transaction occupied about
two hours); the gates of the Hospital were open, sad the
coach drove in there. the the following stursiux the witness
got admission to the Hospital, and saw there the bodies of
three aged persons. Ou his cross.exeneination he said he
was a carprater, and denied beteg himself • resurrection
MOO.
The reeve-digger was called, who proved that on Monday,
the 14th Fels nary, he examined and found that three graves
had been opened, end the butlers which had been interred
as the Sunday preceding were missing.
Mr. ADOLPHUS submitted lm the Chairman that it was
unnecessary for him to call miy.witaesses, or make say ad-
dress to the Jury, as the case fur the prosecutor* bad nut
been proved.
The CHAIRS'S!. addreeerul the Jury and said, that we-
doebtedly it appeared some bodies had brew stolen, bet freesia
the conduct of the witness Crouch, in sufferiug the trans-
action, to which he swore to be completed, without modes.
mimeo( to take the parties into custody, there was not the
necessary proof to shew that what was taken away by the
Deiced:ems were the bodies so abstracted.
The Jury immediately found the Defendants Not Guilty.
Henry litnrley was Indicted for assault iug IViti. Farruw,
• musician employed at the Regency Theatre.
The Defeisdaut is the run of the seamier( of the Theatre,
and it appeared that the Prosecutor haul, in the interval be-
tween the performaacts, taken the opportunity of guirg to
the manager's room and demanding papered of certain
a is of salary. His demand had been b. fore made, moll
load out been immediately encoded to; ou the repel:owe of
It now he was again refund payment, upon which he told
Mr. Beverley, see. that "be acted like I rogue." On which
he HU desired to have the house or he would be kitked
out : be did have the house, and had proceeded some way
scrum the street when be was followed by the Dairedant
(who bad been preseut during the alleeratiou with the fa-
ther), who uvretuuk and struck hint a violent blow, which
knocked him down, anal so isjereel los arm that he was un-
able 10 • (intro& t to mimed to his profersiumat tint s.
Iliehmoce to the modish was examined.
.61r. ARAIIIN was lamed to Ike Dd. sedan. ; after which
Ile Jury brought is their vetelictmeGeri/iy.
The CUVRT todered boa to bitted un Saturday to receive

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setsteaee, awl la the mesa time to be disci' ageJ oa hie owe
'et-viol/sauce.

A 1111,41 Mtris Way,. a very diminutive young girl, woe in-
dicted by Capt. Ways., of the Royal Nary, Co. an ■•eaa4 t
committed on him ou the 9th March hot.

The t iseanstasices of lbe case, as proved by the evidence
for the prosecittion, were slimily these:.-\l.+ Wae.', .`
wife of the Promcwhir (a Post Captain of TS yes, .11...1
tug, living at Stepney), came home on the eveistiot of I
Alh Mardi last, very much agitated, having he. i
atreet by the Defendant, who lived se 1114.1,411 i at the ts. at
41040 oeighlosue., and bad, without peovtasu...•• .11.'4(
with what by the crash she conceived to hr a hi j set s
He► husband immedmtely Camille out Of his house•, ilit.llo.o
to accompany his lady to a lattice Magistrate, tor the
pose of lodging a complaint against the I). f. whin*, ale at.
tlwy saw corning scours the street. Caplan. Wag. r"cutt -
wards her, soil told her, that she moat go a ills him Is-fore a
Magistrate, to moaner for her ilifsmusts conduct. lasso.
otiosely u•, Laving this iisforinalionolie risme vii r. fo '111.11164
him with what lie at 6rst inr:,giued was some . oti.ug mat, o.
metre; but us, seizing her hands he (ovoid is sea.. atilt a loge.
key that he hail Beim struck. The !dor a., of
that his baud was rrrrrr ly cat, and be wan.lol 11111obk so
vise it as w• 11 as before the assault. This rtas.sursst ssu sbe
part of the proseeuts•su, war sustained by the evoleuse
Mrs. Wager, and a young lady, her datight.r, hy a foto. .
ku,,hartil. The :►efendant attempted to runts.sebsl 1b... v..
deuce, by the testimony of a young aroma... los ..
iu the ueighhatirlitiod, and who stalest that iii.. saw it., r hole
transaction from the biginoiog to the rust; hut *be awote
that Captain Wager had torumeueest by the I►e.
resistant, who then only atruck him, sitter she haul been
slopped by his laying his hands on his r shoo
Mr. Jeassie addressed the Jury for it.. Ds busters,. and
priuripally dwelt or the improbability tom runts a i.i e
creature IP hi■ Client could have vent livid use ,iliac L tog Ihr
Ceptaiu nod his wife, both of whom • sce th,•
twiddle size.

Mr. AD°Lingua replied al stone length, and r. nisi Iced oh
the utter improbability that the three t e mover.
for the prosecution could have Cunt. throe 1,. ~11TIIIIII per•
Jury;; yet, unless that was the case they u,u.l tiii4,l
of guilty against the Deft misfit
The CHAIRMAN summed up the evidence, and the Jurs,
lifter a few nauntents' consaitaisosi, 'brought to • v‘edki of
The Court sentenced her to fourteen lbw.' iroprisonmeat
in the House of Curreetiou, and afterward. to cuter tow Se'
cognictuce to keep the !mace.

NOTICE OF
THE " kI;Pv►KT"
TO THE AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE,

" The private rights of luilividuals are 'etermiued by
Judge aad Jury; the public claims of rims.a by the
general guveruaseut and represeutativa of the Awls COM-
auurity."
--'• if Ibis be true, let it be received, admitted, and
acted spun; if it be incorrect aid 'allusions, let it be J.
peeped and exposed."—(Addresa to the Agriculturalists at
Henderson 's.)

♦T kIENDERSOA'S HOTEL.

( Front a Correspondent.;

This request is proper, sad ibis proceeding highly nr s-
sary in all serious inquiries into the principles, practice, and
results of great courses or changes in the politic mammy Or
nations, domestic or foreign.
A prudent and a cautious conduct is important in the
questions of legal regulation, of protection, or restrictiou,
in the admission of fureigrogrown cora, and ulhe. produc.s,
fur the feud of the people of the British Island..
The wealth and power of a great State consist in its ter-
ritory and people, and the anuoa: products or the soil, and
of industry sud skill. On the product of the nom.
bees of the people mud their prop. ess in niatinsfachiree and
commerce, must rest, Cot any series of 30.4r5. Esrety de.
Serest, of harvest, or neglect or cultivation, SaU-rats der.
rogation from the wealth of the State or the eye of the
people.
The Manifesto just published by a sew association of the
cultivators of the country, amain prineciiwa for the
price of their prodirctirms, deserves a careful attentive.
Their proceeding is very formal, and their conclusions ve. y
peremptory.
The profit" of the whole process or agriculture w•ll he
found to he au Incorrect militia or espies . Of the
64160iir of its products mud of its extension, nun ..yummy
of process sad of human labour, there eau he no 40.-stlon.
It deserves every encouragement, and of cool se o quarr-s sil
due and necessary protection.
The growths of the soil, arid the creations of the 'shone
and capital of the British Isles arrourill), uti ihr scale of
values and prices of 1818, measured is. Kuhl at V. a■
ounce, and silver at about ss, may be thus stated ; it is
thought more nearly the facts than by Mr. Cvlquhouu, and
still under the real amount :
All the growths of the soil, &gloat,
cereal,aud vegetable, at n 75,000,4,00
Ores, minerals, coals, sad metals 14,000,000
Woods, waters, and salt ....
Fisheries of the coasts. 2,500,000
Increment of handicrafts beyond
wear and waste 8,500,000
/Rau ufactures of all kinds for home
use and export... 145,000,001)
Books mud Works of Art .. 1,500 lour
Shipping and freights 15,000,000—0r more
Colonies and India 30,000,000
Foreign commerce ls,oo44ooo—uncertain
Foreign investments in France,
America, Prima% Russia, and
•
Austria.. 750,000
Income of capital permanently ad
minced to Colonies, and America,
and in other foreign trade '1,000,000
Total... f523,250,cuu

If any eleamot of income be omitted to this table, or any
over or under ■talesteul, the " dale ur cusr.citou wall be
" thankfully received." The distributium of this nicosse, 1,,
mut, wages of labour, taxes, tithes, puua's rate, sad the
insist of Shoe* employed 111 its prodisetitiu, as farmers,
traders, Qc, Ake. is the Nicety of our economy, and the rei.il
puiat of ioquiry, difficulty, aad dispute.
lA. C. awl km copiers, uststake muds the nature of pro-
perty, sad of the exertion of motional income, ur animal
wealth, w►en they isclude is this suns, .• Inland Bade,
Cuasigag Trade,asattered and Private Lta 1.11,," at 37 millions,
or at any thing. These are sot part of the etralies 01 the
property, or Income of the year, bat part of its distribution
ugly, amour
might 35 mil
duals yearly,
and commeri
said propertt
ceptiou i
There

reel available
meted
at bid it
stated with .
The details
kilitted here
•ow stated
retire and
such minis
to he hiulig
mud ref(
erideace.
A labusrieg
rim la Vs
to 161.
as ea pease
reek.
Wits*,
public catc•
chtlikeis r
atilt us,
own of

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awoog those employed 'in its rircidurio*. As well
yS teilhoes of dividend sad interest, paid to indica.
yearly, out of the prudects cif soil, labour, faculty,
emieree, be reckoned a part of the national aleyailt
uperty. Aitil it is certain, that even this puss Mamma- • .
is carman with too malty.
at seems good reason to cmclwile the feel gross
mailable income of ibis Empire, taken with its can-
Colonists, at 20 millions, is more nearly estimated
trillions, out the scale of 1010, than 425 roiuloaat a
will, error sad untimiou, fur 1813, by Dr. C.
details of • viderce of ihis machismo commit be ea.
I here; sod It is much desired to see any of the results
seed corrected, if erreseuss Or Ilicouiplrte. Camps.
and sear appreediaativa is the peetensiosi and aim a
climates; • bets hey reach this point, limy are alaittli
i.hly umiak rod inductive to mach sound coechilitaili,
r. r.g.1.1,•• Is legislative eleSClSSeculll so Ctuls4,lllliital
re.
baeriag family of fear renege can, sad do row sob.
Wales, ea a cosimaiptitia sad rapesaw of &root Ibl.
Our roamers are maietaisied ici the workhouses, at
ease is maimed ceasemptians, uf bocci 121. to 141.
The brim*: asid the idle cannot ralmiet al all, WV
lawgiver agalrad, MN* less thee the pauper OS 1611
care. Niue millions of Welts, cud rletel& .11111/011
at sad )ineg primais seder 10, commit be estimatig
ies I. be maintained at less than an I circula-
f dial/arse and mirease of Ste milltors, allowing ta
lame than is strictly weessesey to a pour
the iales of wages, lamme, sad oEll.m:inset ot the

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