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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Stafford, July 26.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice VVILLums.)
Thomas Smith, aged 25, was indicted for wilfully and
maliciously throwing a stone upon a railway carriage of
the London and North-Western Company, at Darlaston,
on the 16th o► February last, with intent to endanger the
safety of the passengers,
Mr. GRACE conducted the prosecution.
A labourer, named Yates, stated that he saw the pri-
soner and another mau standing on a bridge over the
railway, about two miles from Birmingham, on the
evening of the day in question. The prisoner stooped
down and picked up something of the size of a hat, the
other knan did the same, and as strain passed underneath
they threw them over the bridge. The witness heard the
bump, and ran to the spot, shouting, "Halloo, what are
you doing there?" when the prisoner said, "I will tell
you," and knocked him down with a stick, and ran
away with his companion. The guard of the Liver-
pool and London express train stated that, on the ar-
rival in Birmingham of the train which passed Darlaston
at the time the prisoner was seen at the bridge, a com-
plaint was made to him of something having been
thrown on the roof of the carriage, and, on an examina-
tion in London, a stone, nearly 3001 b. weight was dis-
covered buried in the tarpaulin on die top of the second
carriage. The prisoner was taken into custody on the
17th of March, in a hovel, at a coal-pit near 'Wolver-
hampton. On being charged with throwing a stone on
a railway train, he replied, That is about a month
ago; I have been here three weeks."
The jury convicted him, and he was sentenced to one
year's imprisonment with hard labour.
It was stated by the counsel for the prosecution that
offences of this descriptio❑ had become very numerous.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.— Warwick, July 26.
. The cause list contains au entry of 18 causes, including
'hat
of ~ De al'oroda v. Dawson and others''—the
Dltr°ness von Beck's case—which is marked as a special
jury.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON and a Common Jury.)
YATEs V. SAMMONS.
This was an action on the case for maliciously poison-
ing the plaintiff's dog by placing pieces of poisoned meat
in a wood, where the plaintiff was accustomed to walk
with his dogs.
The defendant pleaded not guilty, and a special plea
alleging that the wood was the property of Lord Leigh,
that the plaintiff was trespassing there, and that the de-
fendant placed the poisoned meat in the wood by the
command of Lord Leigh.
Mr. Sergeant Miller and Mr. Bittleston appeared fur
the plaintiff ; Mr. Hayes and Mr. Brewer for the
defendant.
The plaintiff is a breeder and roarer of sporting dogs;
and the defendant gamekeeper to a Mr. Robins, who has
some preserves in the pariah of Allesley, near Coventry.
According to the plaintiffs evidence the defendant bad
warned him that if he went into the wood in question, as
be had long been in the habit of doing, the defendant
would punish him; but the plaintiff insisted that he had
as much right there as the defendant. However, it ap-
peared that on Saturday, the 28th of February, the
plaintiff was out with his dogs in the neighbourhood of
this wood. which is situate at Allesley, a few miles
from Coventry. He observed the defendant place
some-
thing in the wood, close to a lane which ran by the
side of it; and as he was passing, a setter bitch, worth
from 15/. to 201., ran to the spot and picked something
up. In half an hour the dog was seized with spasms
and died; and then, upon examining the place where
the dog had gone into the wood, three pieces of poisoned
sheep's paunch were found.
Upon cross-examination the plaintiff acknowledged
that he was partial to walking in Lord Craven's woods
as well as Lord Leigh's, and that he had been fined and
imprisoned for trespassing after game. He also ad-
mitted that the dog when it died was in a neighbouring
wheat field, into which he had sent it to see if he could
kill a hare.
Mr. HarEs addressed the jury, contending that no
reliance could be placed on the evidence of the plaintiff,
who was nothing but a poacher, and told a most im-
probable story. Was it likely that the defendant, who
was preserving the wood for Mr. Robins, would put down
Poison, which wee as likely to kill the dogs of Mr. Robins
as those of the plaintiff ?
The Learned JUDGE, in summing up, observed that
the difficulty was, that the defendant himself was not put
into the witness-box to deny that he had put the poison
in the wood.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 5/
KEMP v. FISHER AND ANOTEIDR.
Mr. Sergeant Miller and Mr. Spooner appeared for the
plaintiff ; Mr. Macauley, Q.C., and Mr. _Hayes for the
defendant.
This was an action on three bills of exchange which
had been accepted in the name of the firm Fisher and
Co.
the ease
and one defendant had suffered judgment by de.
Gat. The real question in dispute was whether the
defendant Fisher was in partnership with the other de-
fendant, a Mr. Green.
thhe r e s o . dread-
also 7
who
Witnesses were examined on both sides, and
Pilltshata nshea coulddrni
occupied a very considerable time.
Uitireately the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff,
murder h shooting
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damages 116/.
(Before Mr. Justice CoLEawranEur..
[ADVERTISEMaNT.
stomach, and h
rable Remedy for Indigestion Disordered Stomachs T
John Mitchell, aged 39, was indicted for shoot'
Sarah Mitchell, his wife, with intent to a t
hadwi d ow
lived of
foran oafefivee, errali n
yearsthe a rim. and,l
rriedsi iad, i nsgu
suffered
r Lout allipton
with intent to do her grievous bodily harm, fully and
fully from the liver complaint and indigestion
Sir E. Wilmot prosecuted, and Mr. lc.
18th of April, the
O'Brienl defended scarcely
became thereby so debilitated that she was reduced o
the prisoner.
and nervousness.
ever keep any food on her
to
system
It appeared tbat on Sunday, the plete skeleton, and suffered continually froni sick a cora-
prisoner, who lived at Wioson-green, near • O.n her return to Engiand she headaches
after dinieg at home, went out to a . Bieminghem, taking Holloway's Pills, and in the course of 's'e commenced
I hi. house, where he had oUle ale. ht
pub- unrivalled medicine removed all traces of thou' weeks this
afternoon he went home several -O the course of tne coppLints,and she now enjoys the best of health .—Sold
time be went, being then in liquor,times; and the last all Druggists. and at Professor Holloway's Et b . •—Sold by
he took a loaded . Strand, London. s a hshment, 244,
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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
DUBLIN AND DROGHEDA RAILWAY.—The works on
the extension line of this railway, from Navan to Dells,
are progressing, and it is expected that, in the course of
a few months, it will be ready for trafie.
ENNISKILLEN AND SLIGO RAILWAY.—It appears that
the grand jury at the last fISSIZ"S in Sligo passed a reso-
lution approving of a project for a railway to connect
the towns of Sligo and Enniskillen, and pledging
which the
them-
selves collectively and individually to promote itl3)
asbyregards the
every means in their power.
opened piesne
placedd on Thursdayin a poiit
iloans t(,
THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—The towns line
toofwinhiosfraTil
transit of heavy goods, coals, agricultural
which uw xa tyo r
it has never enjoyed before,havingproduce, &e.)
had , .
rail or water conveyance within six miles
opening of this line has long been of the town. The
anxiously
the inhabitants, but no particular demonstration looked for by
place on the occasion. A large ar demonstration took
contractors, inspectors, 84n ,of the"ty, consisting of sub-
the tradesmen of the town,. works, with several of
dinner at the Sun Inn; Xtr, sat
down to an excellent
occu-
pied the chair; numerous t beater, draper, Sze.,
and responded to, and several
oasts having been proposed
separated, aftereveral songs sung, the party
spending
evening. It is further a pleasant and convivial
of the line, as far k proposed to celebrate the open-
inglie dinner, at the s this town is concerned, by a pub-
lic dinner,
from which beginning of next month, at Mannell's
train at the of • inn an omnibus runs to meet each
RAIL•wAys IN 8
ltion.—Donc las er Gazette.
of the means
of PAlN.—Projf cts for the improvement
country and au Communication between one part of the
attention at th other appear to be I-, eviving incn.ased
Madrid G e hands of the Spanish Government. The
Gazette publishes the decree granting their con-
cession t
_,o the company formed in London for the ca-
TfiZ%tion of the Ebro. The same caper contains the
d nttive concession of the rail cvj from Madrid to Iron,
and a royal !tecree at the sarne time authorises the sale
Of public property to the proTinees of Burgos, Valladolid,
Avih, Lngrono, Valencia, Salamanca, Segovia, and Za-
mora, the proceeds of which are to be invested ire the j
shares of this line —Railway Record.
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