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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

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HERTFORD.
MARCH 6.—The Lent Asuz .s for this county Milo
mowed here to-day before the lion. Mr. Ilium Graham,
on the Civil Side, and the lion. Mr. fi iron Wood, on
the Crown Side. In both Courts the business is very
light. The number of ch•il uituces entered is but five,
of which but one is to be tried.by a Special Jury. The
gaol cslendar contains but 28 commitineuw, few of
which are fur offences of any enormity.

CIVIL. SIDE.
RWISKEL V. FOWDER..
This was an acr.on ;or a hod, the nature of which
was not staled. When the cause was called oil,
Mr. C. Phillips, for the defendant, moved to postpone
the trial until the next assizes, on an affidavit, stating
the absence of a material witness, a friend of the de-
fendant, residing neat Kendal, in West ttttt taunt!, to
wi , after notice of trial had beets given, the defend-
ant's attorney reunited a sulsonia, enclosed in a letter,
requiring his attendance at Hertford to give evidence in
this cause, but as the witness had not arrived, and no
intelligence had been received of him, the defendant
could not safely proceed to trial its his absence.
Mr. Adolphus, (with wnom was Mr. Broderick) re-
sister! the application, on the ground of the looseness in
which the affidavit was swot n.
Mr. Phillips, to shew the sincerity of the application,
offered to pay all the exprnees to which the plaintiff had
been put, as between attorney and client, and withoat
taxation.
!Ur. Baron Graham thought this question unanswer-
able,
Nit'. Adolphus said, tinder such circumstances he
could could offer no farther resistance, and accordingly
the trial was postponed moil the ti-xt assizes.

CROWN SIDE.
Joseph 'Morgan and James Wilkes were indicted for
a burglary in the dwelling-house of James Cowman, a
fainter, in the parish of Standon, on the sth January,
and stealing a saucepan and other aeticles, his properly.
—lt appeared from the statement of Mr. Jessopp, and
from the evidence for the proseeution, That on the night
in question that the prosecutor was disturbed from his
sleep at a late hour, and on looking out of the window
he saw two men picking a hole in the will of the house
with some Mist' untent, He got up, loaded his gun, then
went down stairs, by winch tune the tnen had got the
articles in question OW of the house through the hole.—
He fired Its gun, the men ran off, one of them being
apparently wounded, his blood being tracked fur a con.
siderab:e distance. The prisoners were afterwards ap•
prehendeel in Essex. %Viten Wilkes was taken -his
head was wounded severely, and he admitted that be
was one of the men at the prosecutor's house.
There was no direct evidence against the other pri-
soner.
The case went to the Jury, who- acquitted Morgan,
arid luund ilkes guilty—Death.

DURHAM..
James Bell was indicted under Lord Ellenborough'a
Act,_ for cutting and maiming James Cairns.
Richard Stoners deposed as follows was at Alex.
Suffixes' s. near Wickham, at a harvest supper, on the
24th of September; the prisoner, and Cairns, and Pea-
cock were there. There was a young woman with phe
prisoner ; he had a quarrel with Peacock ; the young
woman desired me to take her from him; he did not
touch use at the time. After the dance I saw Peacock
going out of the room, and I saw Bell with a dagger in •
his hand, as I thought, going to run it into Peacock. 1
prevented him, and he then struck me in the breast; the
wound was not deep, but it brought blood through my
waistcoat. 1 struck Bell, and he fell. Bell, left the room
before use; I went out by myself. Cairns and Madison
came up to me, and I walked down a waggon-way with
them ; Cairns was walking before Madison and me.—
When we had gone about a quarter of a mile, Bell was
coining back again and met a 9. The first thing I heard
was, " Dick, I'm stabbed." I was then two or two or
three yards Irons Cairns. I went up to hies, and saw
him bleeding; I then went up to the prisoner; he had
a dagger in 'this hand, which Madison was taking from
hint. Footrup and I took hint to the public house
where we had been—(witness here produced the dagger,
which appeared highly finished.)-1 did not hear Bell
say any thing. Cairns run towards me public-house. and
fell down from weakness.
M. Madison and J. Foosrup corroborated the state-
ments of the last witness, as did Cairns.
Mr. Dixon, a surgeon, was called in to attend
He found a wound in the side, on the seventh rib, and
it seemed to have been inflicted by a stabbing ins•runterit.
Mary Tfrompsom—Tlie prisoner went down the
waggon-way to see me home. ‘Ve went past my fa-
ther's house, and then turned to seek Grey. Bell said,
that as he was a stranger, if 1 would go with him to
seek Grey, to shew him his road, they would see me
home. We met Cairns and his party; we passed them
on the data side, and Madison turned to Surtees and
said, " Thais Mary Thompson," and Suttees cried,
" That was the that was with her." lie then said,
" Here's at yon, you --;" and with that struck Dell
on the head or neck. Bell hit his foot on the waggon-
way and fell ; he got up, went to the other side, and was
struck by Catrus,wid then I ran away.
Verdict—Guilty, Death.
The prisoner was much affected, both when the ver-
dict was delivered, a.id at the passing of the seutence.—
The prosecutor cawe forward and begged to recouuneud
bun to mercy.
RAM—Henry Anderson was arraigned on a charge
of co. 1111 l ming a rape un Sarah Armstrong.
The prisoner was found Guilty, and Mr. Justice Bay-
ley paned sentence of death upon hun. The prosecu rix
was a very interesting young WOlll4ll, and conducted
herself Wilde in court with the greatest propriety. It is
said that Anderson is to be executed on the i4th inst.
incur of Apauseim—Luting this trial a bailiff