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London, England, 1837-03-30 00:00:00

'.S.FIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The account of the entrance of Mr. Baines and Sir
Molesworth into Leeds, and of the dinner
given to them as intended candidates for the represen-
tation of that borough, is calculated to add to the sa-
ifaction which the triumph at Warwick has difused-
among Reformers. The two candidates were cheered
5n the Cloth Hall-yard by an assemblage of 15,000
Persons, when George Goodman, Esq., presented to
them two requisitions, signed by 1,705 electors--a
'manifestation of public favour which, be said, had
Never before been manifested in an equal degree in
that town. If the Tories w ere overjoyed at the symp-
toms of division which exhibited themselves in the
ranks of the Reformers lyzfore the meeting of Parlia-
ment, the proceedings at Leeds must be gall and
wormwood to them. .As an evidence of the excellent
-understanding which !now prevails, too much import-
ance cannot, indeed, be attached to the manifestation
at Leeds. It was justly observed by Mr. Baines,
when calling on the electors to give their support " to
the best Administration that ever governed this
country," that eney might search through the
history of this cousitry " from the earliest time to
the present day, 2u3d. they would not find an Ad-
ministration always considering Earl Grey's Adminis-
tration as a part of the present) which has done
so much to increase the happiness and augment
the prosperity of the people as the Administration
which at preset it exists." Mr. Baines added, that
though the Pr otestant Dissenters and the Catholics
were relieved Imm their disabilities before the present
Ministers cane into power, yet these measures were
really effect,ed by them ; " because, although the Duke
of Wellir.,gton and Sir Robert Peel may be said to
have ca tried those measures, yet in reality they were
carried by dint of that liberality and of that political
integrity which distinguish the men who are at present
at tb'e helm of political affairs." In fact, the Duke of
Wellington and Sir R. Peel conceded the removal of
these disabilities reluctantly, and against their convic-
tion. They would have rivettcd the chains of the
'Dissenters and the Catholics, but they were forced to
strike them off. Sir W. Molesworth said he cordially
concurred in the sentiments expressed by Mr. Babies
in reference to the present Ministry, and that " of the
many Administrations which have ruled over .this
country for a long series of years, not one has been
actuated by such popular principles--not one has had
so earnest and sincere a regard for the people—as the
Administration of Lord Melbourne." Mr. O'Con-
nell, in the speech reported in the Chronicle of yes-
terday, repeated to the Irish the well-known fable or
the Waggoner and Jupiter, and told them, in his own
forcible way, that they ought themselves to put their
shoulder to the wheel if they wished it to move. Since
the. time that the Irish began to trust to themselves,
awl ceased to hawk their grievances, they have eatried
iv.nateeer they set their hearts on. Mr. Baines, in like
!manner, impressed on his audience the necessity of
their doing their own work :
" Ministers (he said) had given them several Bills of
importance, and among them the most prominent, one for
the abolition of Church-rates.—(Cheers.) It depends
upon you whether or not that measure is 'carried, cor I
know that the feclin of the present Administration is
this. They say, • are ready to fight the battles of
lil'erty, and the people are ready to accompeny us we
will go with them and conquer fur them.'—( Cheers.) If.
on the contrary, I say, the people are not so diiposed—if
tl,e) choose to he bearded by the Bishops—if they choose
tit be outwitted by those least trust-worthy of all publie
trustees—(l-Tear, and laughter)--if they choose to submit
to the domination of men, who, impatient of their own
power and of their omen aggrandisement, are disposed to
is!urb the peace of the Church at an opportunity when
they night restore to it all the blessings of peace and
trathquiny—(hear, hear)--I say, if the people of En e.
land choose to submit to such donor n; let them submit
to it, and let them pay the penalty of their want of spirit
andtheir.want of energy."—( Lund atmel continued cheering.)
Both Mr. Baines and S:r W. Molesworth dwelt os'
the paramount importance of doing jtr,tice to Ire-
lend ; and Sir Wiliiten was particularly eloquent on
he absurd hopes of the Tories that they shall be ahk,
to succeed in oppressing Ireland by first deluding
Enfland.

Do tb,y think, he exclaimed, " that the people will
ever again consent to be ill-treated by a Tory domina-
tion ?—(No, no.) Why do the Tories think that such a
people will ever consent to become again the slaves of
a foul and accursed faction ?—( Loud cheers.) It is now
seta, Gentlemen, that all popular me3sures, all liberal
en7etments, are to he rejected by a majority of t!u.
House of Lords, and then, by means of that majority the
Tories arc going to seize the reins of office, and ae•ain
attempt to rule over this country. Then it is said that
the great military chief, the Duke of Wellington, is to
be sent as viceroy to Ireland, to treat that country as a:,
insurgent province, and rule over it according to his well
known maxim, that that which is gained by tl:c sword
roust he kept by the sword. I ask, will the people of
Lnglsnd permit this ?—(Loud cries of No.) I ask, will the
people of Ireland tamely submit themselves to be oppressed
in this way, and to be-put down by a few members of the
aristocracy ?—(No, no.) I tell the Tories. if they make
the attempt they must fail, and they must fail in blood, for
there is a people in that country, who, at all hazards, will
abide the consequences of a struggle against the Lords and
the Tories combined ; and there are thousands and tens of
thousands of intelligent men in England who will back them
in their noble attempts to obtain justice for Itcland."—
(Great cheering., which lasted for some time.)
It is gratify ing to perceive that no attempt was made,
e.' her in the-Cloth-hall-yard or at the dinner, twereatv.
divisions by the int:eduction of that stalking-horse of
the Tories, the new Poor-law. The people sec tic
drift of the Tories, and will no leilg r allow themselves
to he played off against sincere Reformers by the ene-
mies of all improvement. They have tan.zlit them by
the victory at Warwick that honesty is, after all, the
best policy. The disgrace of pandering to prejudices
has been productive of no profit.--/VErning Chronicle.
In nominating a fit and proper person to a Bishop-
ric, it was formerly the practice of Governmznts,
whether Whig or Tory, to select a clergyman whose
learning, piety, family rank, or dignified demeanour,
;right best maintain the respectability of the Church,
and extend the influence of religion. Of late we may
mention, without any invidious allusions, that this
salutary th,,age has, to some extent, been departed from.
How far the less remote appointments are deficient in
the peculiar recommendations that ought to entitle
them to public confidence, we will not permit ourselves
to say. But, considering that the distinctive glory
of the Church of England, in contrast with Dissent,
has heretofore consisted in tha renowned productions
whet Ay the evidences and doctrines of Christianity
have been elucidated and defended by -her Ushers,
Halls, Taylors, Warburtons, Watsons, Horsleys,
Butlers, and Magees ; and, considering further, that
there are at present certain great theological names
whose claims to prelatic preferment are systematically
postponed in favour of Clergymen whose profes-
sional reputation is yet to be earned ; we feel called
ou to declare, with equal delicacy and emphasis,
that unless Government will adopt a higher standard
than has latterly, with some exceptions, determined
their episcopal nominations, the existing mode of dis-
pensing such patronage cannot fail to impair the re-
spectability of the Right ReV. bench, to operate most
injuriously on the educational acquirements and cha-
racter of the clergy in general, and thus to inflict
serious injury on the established religion of the coun-
try. Connected with the Chapter of Durham, the Inns
of Law, and the Rectorships of the city of London,
there are at least three Clergymen (of what politics
we know not) whose published works entitle them
to a place among the highest names in the hierar-
chy. Formerly, the common presumption, that theo-
logical distinction would lead to ecclesiastical ad-
vancement, must have operated most beneficially for
the public, in stimulating and encouraging such men
in the prosecution of their literary labours. We
do not mean to say that, even at present, the rea-
lization of that presumption has become hopeless. We
cannot believe that mere political partisanship,
apart from higher concomitants, is the sole con-
sideration on which the existing Ministry are de-
termined to act in awarding their episcopal pre-
ferment ; nor, even supposing it were, can we doubt
that many of the clergy would be so far actuated by
purely conscientious motives as to persevere in prose-
cuting and publishing their professional researches ir-
respective altogether of any diminished chance of
promotion. But what we maintain is, that if profound
theologians and scholars are habitually to be passed by,
and mitres are to be placed upon undistinguished heads
.--or upon heads distinguished for something else than

episcopal qualificatione—then, taking human nature
at its average, the consequence will be, that in propor-
tion as merit and reward are disassociated, the learned
(being deprived of an important stimulus to exertion)
will relax their valuable labours, and the younger aspi-
rants will be deterred from cultivating accomplishments
which are no longer likely to secure their appropriate
recompense. To make no mention either of the disre-
spect into which religion may be brought by unsuitable
diocesan appointments, or of the mean standard of qua-
lification which an inferior prelacy mayset up in examin-
ing candidates for orders, the effect which such appoint-
ments are likely to produce upon a certain description of
clergy cannot be contemplated by any friend of the
Church without the 'most painful forebodings. In
every large body of men there will always be sundry
low mercenaries whose ruling passion is personal
aggrandizement. By such persons, when a sufficient
temptation is held out to them, the proprieties of their
station will be readily sacrificed to party obsequious-
ness, unscrupulous pliancy, and political intrigue.
Only let the shadow of a suspicion be entertained that
Government partisanship and clerical agitation are the
sure path to Church preferment—only let it be sup-
posed that the mitres of England are to be knocked
down to the highest bidders in support of Ministerial
measures—and you will call into active competitorship
a class of surpliced brokers, whose anxiety for a
bargain shall display itself in all the odious rivalry
and noisy vulgarities of so many Jews at an auc-
tion. Just show a symptom that the sees of the
Church are_ to be made political carrion of, and the
rapacious vultures to whom we have alluded will
wing their flight towards them immediately. Now,
though we arc very far from insinuating that
such a character can justly apply to any of the
respected clergymen who have been elevated to the
Bench by the present Cabinet ; vet, in as far as a re-
duced standard of episcopal qualification has undenia-
bly been acted on in cases which we decline to particu-
larize, there seems to be held out to mean and sordid
adventurers such a possible chance of reaching a prize
as may, from time to time, afflict society with their
desperate efforts to win one. Something of this kind
is, wo fear, discoverable already. A Rev. Dr. Johnes,
of the Estahliehed Church, has thought fit to mount the
platform of an anti-church-rate meeting at Rochester,
and to deliver himself of a wretched abortion in favour
of the Ministerialßill—openine his mouth and shutting
his eyes, to wait what God wilPsend him. The Rev.
Partisan has stripped himself before all England to
fight the battles of a faction. Actuated by the holy
ambition of carrying off the championship of liberalism,
• with it\usual stakes and honours, he has given us a dis-
play of political sinew and science worthy in all respects
of the creditable school he belongs to. Yet Dr. Johnes,
we are scandalized to say, is but an indifferent artist
after all. No doubt he has done his best. This we
do not dispute ; nay, it will even be a shame to Mr.
Rice's sense of gratitude, if, after such an expendi-
ture of agonistics, he does not reward the reverend
performer with a deanery or something less. But Dr.
Johnes must by no means adjust his expectations to
the efforts he has made ; and still less must he con-
ceive, that because be is tired of the quiet duties of
his station, his mere impatience of obscurity will he
mistaken for the professional merit, in the absence of
which he is courting the laudations of the backers and
bottleholders of Dissent. At first, we thought of
giving Dr. Jolmes's effort the benefit of a thorough
illustration ; but it is really too contemptible for our
further notice. We, therefore, leave Dr. Janes's
preteneions to be settled by his brethren of the Whig-
Radical fancy, and bid him Rood day.—Times.
There ate few things which will be hailed with more
real pleasure by every genuine Reformer than that por-
tion of Mr. O'Conneh's late speech at the Genera!
Association, which refers to the decided improvement
that has taken place in the political condition of the
Province of Ulster. The North of Ireland has long*
been the stronghold of Orange Toryism, w hick is
Toryism of the worst description, as it adds to the
rancour of political hate the gloomy fanaticism of re-
ligious bigotry, and it is deplorable to ref Let, that mat-
ters have remained up to the present hour very nearly
in the same state, chiefly through the inertness and
I apathy of a numerous and influential Liberal party.
,We were not sorry, some time ago, to find Mr. O'Con-
nell taunting the eformers of Ulster respecting the
inactivity and lukewarinness which, they displayed in
support of the good cause ; and we are now rejoiced
to knoe:, that the tauets have not failed to produce,
by arousing the dormant energies of Liberals of every
shade of ool;tics, the most beneficial results. A less
experienced leader, or a more superficial tactician,
would have passed over altogether, or, at all events,
barely glanced at a subject which was likely to wound
his self pride, and proclaim the weakness of his party ;
bat Mr. O'Connell wisels; avoided this course, and
boldly taxe,i the Liberals of tl:e North of Peiand, with
in:NKr-once, or want of ability to -serve the popular
cause. lie sneered at the Reformers who, hav'no the
I power to ~tistain a cause, could allow such persons as
the 7.7,mghs, Castlercaghsa Emerson Tenneats,
l'-!:sons, and Conollys, with a few excep-
tion r, t, .....rn;iele to misrepresent them in Parliament.
Tin to he sure much bluster at. fist at the de-
clare:et! O'Connell, and a number of the
Ulster .leforiners expressed their dissatisfaction at
thus neie: enceretnoniously arraigned at the bar of
public oe:iien as recreants to their principles, but soon
I alter a little reflection taught them that the charge was
Inot without foundation, and that there was alitoter
method of manifesting their patriotism than by vapour-
ing
in angry abuse against those who only treated
their apathy with severity, in the hope that by doing
so it might be productive in exciting exertions conso-
nail; with the professions of the persona against whom
the censure was directed. The Reformers are now
certain of being triumphant throughout the province
of Ulster, if the Liberals be but unanimous, and
exercise discreetly the power which they possess against
the common ensmy. Monaghan should return two
Liberals if it were not for the strange conduct of the
head of the house of \Vcstenra, who has, we believe,
entered into a compact with the Conservatives of that
county to convect it into a half Tory half Liberal
close borough, upon condition that one of his family
shall occupy his scat unmolested. Down, at least,
could be partially rescued from Tory domination ;
Armagh, we believe, is quite safe; Antrim, we fear,
must continue for a season to return the anile Co-
lonel O'Neill and the wavering eldest hope of the
House of Chichester. Carrickfergus is still open to
bribery and corruption, but we will be much disap-
pointed if Belfast do not give George Dunbar and
Emerson Tennent leave to stop at home—the former
to recruit his health, the latter his fortune : we say no-
thing about his political reputation. Londonderry
ought to be free of the London Companies, but ex-
hibited a little of that liberalism which preponderates
in the Common Council. By the way the neglect of
the London Companies as regards their Irish estates
may, at no distant day, justify the Crown in claiming
their restoration. The Lord Chancellor, in giving
his decision in the case of the Skinners' Company
versus the Irish Society, pointedly observed that he
declined " giving an opinion as to whether, upon
the settlement made in the North of Ireland by virtue
of the charter of James the First, under which the
towns of Londonderry and Coleraine were founded,
and a large tract of country granted by the Crown is
the city of London, or the Irish Society, or to the
Twelve Companies, the terms of the grant simply con-
stituted the Irish Society ordinary trustees for the be-
nefit of the Twelve Companies, or whether the grant
was not coupled with certain public purposes and pub-
lic trusts, independently of the private benefit of those
Twelve Companies." Donegal will nobly do its duty,
and send about their business Colonel Connolly and
Sir Edmund Haves. In this district the Whig Aris-
tocracy, for instance Lords Conyngham, Clements,
Arran, and Templemore, the Catholic Priesthood, and
the people, have acted in a way to redound to their
everlaatuaa honour. Tyrone and Fermanagh are yet
in Tory thraldom, but we can assert, without fear of
contradlaion, that the embers of discord exist among
the faction itself ; and these counties are, sooner than
might be expected, likely to be emancipated through
Conservative disunion. Upon the whole, Mr. O'Con-
nell is right when he declares that he is full of hope-
ful anticipations as regards the exertions of the North
of Ireland in support of the popular cause.—Morning
Advertiser.

The lamentable fate of Mr. Vance is of a character

to excite considerable alarm, not only in the minds of
professional men, but of all whom misfortune may bring
in the way of real or assumed insanity. While the
judgment of the law remains suspended as to this tra-
gical event, we are unwilling to state all that we have
heard upon the subject ; but this we may say, that as
cunning is known to constitute a marked feature of this
disease, it would be well if better safeguards were placed
around persons suspected of it than is too frequently
the case. Here it would seem that the medical prac-
titioner (it matters little now to say of high and almost
unrivalled eminence in some peculiar walks of his pro-
fession) has fallen a victim to the weak betrayal and
neglect of his own sound judgment and caution. How
the law will deal with such a murder in the first in-
stance, we suppose, there is but little doubt ; but we
may, perhaps, be permitted to say that cases of a simi-
lar character have in their subsequent stages of late
been treated with a lenity, not to say impunity, which is
exceedingly injurious and misplaced. When a man is
now acquitted of murder, on the ground of insanity, the
judgment runs that " he shall remain in custody till
his Majesty's pleasure shall be known," which means
that the King, being the lawful guardian of all lunatics,
shall, through his proper officer, make due provision
for the proper custody of such a person, not only for
his own security, but to guard against a recurrence of
similar disasters. By an ill-timed lenity, several of
such persons have of late, as we are credibly informed,
been handed over to the care of their friends—to the
very persons whose previous mistaken confidence or
neglect had led to the preceding catastrophe ; and there
is more than one instance of frightful calamities having
occurred, or narrowly escaped occurrence, owing to
such mistaken at least, if not criminal, disregard of
their duty, in those with whom the charge of such per-
sons rested. Facts are stubborn things ; and if any
Member of Parliament, viewing the subject in the im-
portant light that we do, will move for a return of the
number of such persons consigned to. the custody of
the Crown within a given period, and an account of
what has become of them, the result will, we have too
good reason to believe, fully bear out the statement
and the danger here suggested. If what has occurred
can only be made the subject of unavailing regret, at
any rate such fearful warnings ought, at least,*to act
as a protection for the future.—Morning Herald.
The Morning Chronicle of yesterday quotes from
the Morning Herald a statement frequently made by
ourselves, and by others of our Contemporaries, that
" at the commencement of the present Session Lord
John Russell intimated, in very intelligible terms, that
it was the intention of the Administration to which he
belongs to resign if they were unsuccessful in carrying
the Irish Municipal Bill." And the Mornincr
Chro-
nicle proceeds to assure us that "no such deticlaration
ever came from the Noble Lord ; no such intimation
was even hinted by him, or by any of his colleagues."
We turn to the Morning. Chronicle of the Bth of Feb-
ruary, and we find Lord John Russell represented as
having used these words on the pree_ding evening:—
" I consider this (the Irish Municipal Bill) a question
of vital importance to the present Administration.._
(Loud cries of Hear.') lam fully sensible of the
evil of bringing forward Bills year after year, and suf.
fering them to he defeated and lost, without taking any
further step upon the subject.—( Renewed cries of
Hear,' and loud cheers.) * * * * I do not
think that we could permanently go on, or that we could
be fairly entitled to ask for the confidence of this
House, if we, continuing an Adinin:stration,
suf-
fered principles to be applied, with regard to the Go.
vernment of Ireland, against which we have decidedly
protested." Now, in sober seriousness, what did
Lord John Russell mean ? As to what the House
understood him to mean, there is no question at all.
All the " Hear, hears," were given to the supposed
determination of the Government to be a lauehins-
stock no longer ; to submit to no further reverses ; to
transfer the places to those who exercised the poesers
of Administration. But it should seem, by the evi-
dently official announcement in yesterday's Chronicle,
that the cheerers were all mistaken. Lord John Rus-
sell meant nothing like this. Let us try to supp!v
Loid John Russell's meanings, by way of corollary
to Lord John Russell's sayings, in the passage we
have just been citing. Thus the Chronicle must have
understood its favourite :—His Lordship's saying—
" This question is vital to the pres-cnt Administration."
His Lordship's meaning The existence of the
present Administration will, therefore, in no way be
affected by this question." His Lordship's saying—
"..kam sensible ef the evil of bringing forward Bills
year after year, and suffering them to be defeated and
lost." His Lordship's meaning—" I shall still,
therefore, bring forward this Bill year after year, and
suffer it to be defeated and loft." His Lordship's
sasjing—" I do not think we can permenentiv go on,
or that we can be fairly entiiled to ask for the confi-
dence of this House." His LoieLlsin's meaning—" I
know that we are resolved permanently 'to go on, and
we do not care a straw for the confidence of this
House." Poor Lord John Russell is very apt to be
misunderstood. He has a prodigious talent for the
unintelligible. If language was given us to conceal
our thoughts, what au achnirable skill in the use of
it did he exhibit on the 7th of February !. He de-
ceived us—he deceived the House of Commons—he
deceived the country. Nay, he deceived our worthy
Contemporary, the newly-enlightened Morning, Chro-
nicle. For, on the 13th of February, how spoke that
patriotic joornal ? " Lord John Russell's manly de-
claration, that the Government consider their existence
bound up wi.h the Ir::,11 Municipal 13i1l, is ringing
through the country, and putting ail the electors on
the qui vice." If Lord John Russell's " manly de-
claration" meant only this; that his Lordship in-
tended the years of the Whig Government and the
failures of the Irish Municipal Bill to he both ex-
tended in stecula sceculoram, we do not see why it
should have been set " ringing through the country,"
and we cannot conceive how it should have " put
ail the electors on the qui vice." No, no. The little
Lord purposed to say a fine magnanimous thing, and
said it without sufficiently pondering the necessity
under which he would speedily be of eating his words
en gros. It was a silly and superfluous brag. It is
now time for his Lordship's retainers to disclaim for
him, or to retract for him, his ill-considered and unfor-
tunate pledge. Yet let them 'save themselves the
trouble. All understood his promise, but few antici-
pated his performance. Those who have watched
Lord John Russell's career know that he will often
threaten resignation before he resigns. For to Lord
John Russell and his associates—to borrow the words
of their friend Sir William Molesworth—" the emolu-
ments of office are of consequence."—Morning Post.

BLUNT WITNESSES.--" Mr. Hill, I beg you
rr on't tell us that," said Mr. Whitehurst to a bluff yeoman,
who, at the late assizes was about to detail a conversation
which was not legal evidence. " Won't I," exclaimed John
Bull, with a roar, " but I will !" The Court burst into
laughter ; and John, unawed by the wig of Mr. Whitehurst,
proceeded with the story, but was stopped by the Judge. Mr.
Mat tin, an Englishman of the same rough school, next entered
the witness box, and amused the Court with his gruff replies,
given on the economical principle of using as few words as
possible. Mr. Whitehurst, in cross-examining him as to a
dog left on some premises to keep possession, said, 44 well,
Mr. Martin, I believe you got the key of this house ?" Mr.
Martin, (without opening his mouth), " Ugh ! yes." Mr.
Whitehurst. " What did you do with the key ?"—Mr. Martin,
(as before), " Let dog out."—( Laughter.) " And why were
you told to let the doe- out ?"—Mr. Martin. " I'll be hanged
if I know."—( Roars of laughter.)—Leicester Chronicle.
The want of the usual amount of accommodation
from the Banks is compelling the manufacturers to cast off
their hands. A great many weavers are thrown out of work
in the towns and villages of the West of Scotland.—Glasgow
Chronicle.
Accounts crowd in from all sides of the severity of
the weather. The journals of Spain, Italy, and Germany, tell
the same story. On the 14th thirty-five workmen, engaged in
clearing the Simplon road, were carried away by an avalanche.
By great labour on the part of ten others, who were near, the
greater part of the victims were dug out and saved, but 13
perished. Many horses were also lost. Letters from Algiers,
from Bavaria, and from Brittanny, all represent the country as
covered with snow.'
Intemperance is a disease of the stomach '• This
its feverish heat naturally points out, and cold water is, of
course, the remedy; for cold counteracts (cures) heat.
the remedy of Nature herself. 'Tis a law of God, which is
superior, and goes before that of man. For the laws of man
arc not strong enough to save a fellow creature when given to
strong drink. No, they arc not ; there must be help, and that
help is water; therefore, whenever you feel an inclination to
drink spirituous liquor (grog) drink cool, fresh water. Fill
the stomach—yea, fail not to rill the stomach with cool, fresh
water, and in a very short time you'll make a temperate out of
a very intemperate person—New York Sun.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—KINGsrov, 211ARcir 29.

William Bayne, aged 21, was placed at the bar, charged
on the Coroner's Inquisition with the wilful murder of Isaac
Newton Slocombe, a medical student, on the evening of the
24th of February last. The case excited a very consider-
able degree of interest, and during the trial the Court was
crowded to excess, the greater portion being females, of
highly respectable appearance.
Mr. Chambers stated the case, which must be fresh in
the recollection of our readers, after which the following
witnesses were examined :—Mr. Peter Laylor, medical
student, of No. 61, Gainsford-street, Southwark, knew the
deceased intimately. Accompanied him and another friend,
named Ledden, to Woolwich, on Friday, the 24th of last
February. They partook of refreshments at several houses
in the town in the course of the afternoon. In the evening
they were passing through Church-street, when Ledden
broke a window of a house. The people came out, when
he (Ledden) paid the amount of the damage. Subse-
quently another window was broken, after which a number
of persons assembled. Witness and his friends attempted
to explain matters, and offered to pay for the glass, which
they did to a person who claimed it. They were then as-
saulted by the mob. Witness was struck several times.
He saw the deceased and Ledden attacked. The latter
defended himself with a stick which he had in his posses-
sion. In the confusion witness lost sight of the deceased.
He afterwards saw him in the Dockyard, when he (de-
ceased) complained of having been brutally ill-used. He
was conveyed home in a coach, and died early on the fol-
lowing morning.
Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—After the windows
were paid for, I recollect Ledden 'saying he would fight
anyone of equal match. Ido not remember that we gave
a challenge to fight any three of our weight. lam sure
we were not the first assailants. I saw the deceased and
Ledden attacked. I am positive I did not say that we
would thrash any three of the mob. We had no particu-
lar motive in going to Woolwich. We merely went for a
walk. I do not consider that myself or friends were in-
toxicated at the time of the unfortunate affray. I am not
aware where Ledden is. I have not seen him for some time.

Richard Hatton, a private in the Grenadier Guards saw
the deceased struck a violent blow on the head with a stick.
Witness did not identify the man who struck the blow at
the time, but he (prisoner) afterwards came up and ac-
knowledged to witness that he was the man who had
struck the deceased with a stick.

John Shott, a resident of Woolwich saw the three gen-
tlemen fighting indiscriminately among the mob. He saw
the prisoner in the affray, but did not sec him strike the
deceased with a stick.

Lieut. Thomas Pearce, of the Royal Navy, was present
soon aftcr the affray commenced, and saw the deceased
stagger towards the gun at the dock gates.
By Mr. CLARKSON-It appeared to be a general fight.
The Learned JUDGE here intimated that the capital
charge of murder could not be sustained. It was evident
that the deceased had lost his life in a general riot, in
which a number of persons were engaged.
Mr. William Gibson Gallant, a medical student, was
acquainted with the deceased, who was an American by
birth, and had been only a twelvemonth in this country at
the time of his melancholy death. He (deceased) lodged
in the same house as witness. On the night of the 24th
of February he was brought home in a coach. He had a
black eye, and complained greatly of a pain in his head.
Witness slept in the same room. During the night he
(deceased) was very restless. In the morning witness
observed that the pupils of his eyes were very much di-
lated. A surgeon was then sent for, but before he arrived
the deceased expired.
Mr. Pitcher, surgeon, of Union-street, Borough, had
known the deceased since his arrival in England. He
was a young man of most respectable connections, and of
very quiet studious habits.
'the Jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter, and the
Jadge sentenced the prisoner to one year's imprisonment in
the House of Correction.

James Johns, age,l 18, was indicted for having on the
1 lth of Dernber last, committed an assault upon Ann
Levitt, at CArshalton, and milieiouslt; inflicting divers
wounds and bra;-es upon her he with a bludgeon, with
intent to kia and murder her.

Mr. Justice VAUGHAN summ?.(l up the evidence, whic',.
way strong against the prisoner, and the Jury returned a
verdict of Acquittal.
The Learned JUIVW, expressed his aitonishnwnt, and
wished he could have concurred in the verdict. His
Lordship ordered the Jurors to leave the box, and another
panel was sworn. The verdict becaull a topic of conver-
sation throughout the day.

MIDL AND CIRCUIT.— WARIricK, Tufsmi Y.
HIGGINS V. BIJIINIAN AND OTHERS.

This was an action brought against the directors of the
StATord-upon-Avon Gas Works Company for a nuisance.
The plaintiff, who is a gentleman of property, residing
at Stratford, about nine years ago purchased a house, for
which he gave a large sum of money, and had subse-
quently laid out a good deal inure in beautifying and em-
bellishing the place. In 18:34 a company was formed at.
Stratford-upon-Avon for the purpose of Fghting the town
with gas, and gas works were erected at a distance of
about 150 yards from the premises belonging to Mr. Hig-
g4is. Accordin to the evidence adduced on the part of
the plaintiff, thenhouse belonging to him was situated in,
and was, as pleasant a place as could well be found up to
the time of the creation of the buildings in question, but.
from that time up to the pros;-it the family had been an-
noyed by noxious stenches and vapours, and by blacks fal-
ling from the chimney, so as to act as a complete hindrance
to any washing being carried en. besid.!'s the injury which
was done to the buildings and furniture. Verdict for the
p!aintiff—Damages ls., costs 40s.

NORFOLK CIR C T—Brny Sr. Elimuxp's,ilif nm 28.

LOPER, JUN. V..HARPER AND OTHERS.

I Mr. KELLY stated the circumstances which induced his
client to appeal to a Jury for protection. The father of
the plaintiff kiving filien into m'sfortunes in his business
as a oiiier, at Rayne, in this county, had retired from the
concern, which was thenceforward undertaken by the plain-
tiff, 111.3 eldest son, on his credit, assiA ell and supported
in Lis speculation by the money of some friends, who, bar-
tog confidence in his integrity and industry, advanced him
the necessary funds to supply him with stock in trade, &c.
By these means the young man had got together a prosper-
ous trade and connection, and everything promised well for
him until his father, having again tried his luck in trade, at
a place called Slum, hail again failed. On this latter
oc-
casion he became a bankrupt, and his assignees having sum-
moned both father and son before the commissioners, Oh-
-1 tained from the latter what lie (Mr. Kelly) supposed was
deemed information sufficient to warrant their taking pos-
session of the son's property at the mill at Moyne, under
the plea that it was, in fact, only a part of the father's new
concern at Sylum. This defence, however, the Learned
Ccuasel pledged himself to satisfy the Jury could not
be maintained. On it, though, the assignees had acted
notwithstanding ; and the defendants, in their several
Capacities of auctioneer, broker, &c., bad, under
the authority of the assignees, conducted them-
selves with the utmost harshness to the plaintiff, taking
away every atom he pos?essed on the face of the earth, and
ransacking his private papers and books in the most inqui-
sitorial manner. Such was the outline of the plaintiff's
case, which lasted the whole of yesterday. Mr. Andrews
opened this day with his address to the Jury, and called a
number of witnesses to prove that the father and son had
been acting in concert throughout the period mentioned
between the first and second embarrassments of the former.
The Learned Gentleman called upon the Jury to give
such moderate damages as would reinstate his client in his
former position.
The Jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, with 1001.
damages. The trial occupied two days.
CnowN Cot RT.—Ja»zes Read, aged '22, was charged
with haying been with six others, on the night of the
13th of October last, in a certain enclosed ground in this
county, the property of the Earl of Ashburnham, armed
with bludgeons, for the purpose of taking game.
The Jury returned a verdict of Acquittal.
Mary Ann Whiterod, who was out on bail, surrendered
to take her trial on a charge of setting fire to a wheat stack,
the property of John Balls, of Stansfield, in this county.
Mr. Justice PARK summed up the evidence, after which
the prisoner was acquitted, a decision with which the
Learned Judge was heard to intimate his full concurrence.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LrrwooL, MARcll 28.
Edward Simon Arnett, Elizabeth Arnett, his wife, and
Isabella Arnett, his sister, were indicted for coining. There
were several indictments against the prisoners, as well for
coining as for receiving stolen goods, knowing them to be
stolen. The prisoner Edward is a light-haired sickly-look-
ing person, much marked with the small-pox. His wife,
who bad an infant in her arms in the dock, seemed in very
bad health, and was accommodated with a chair. She wept
a good deal during the trial. Isabella, whose sang froid
on the apprehension of the parties was remarkable, is tall
and dark-haired. Her face is rather handsome, and wears
an expression of great determination. They were very re-
spectably dressed—lsabella Arnett in a green silk pelisse.
In August last, Mr. Powell, the Inspector of the Mint,
came down to Liverpool, to endeavour to trace a gang of
coiners, which it was supposed existed there. In conse •
quence of information which he had obtained, a constable
was sent in plain clothes to the door of a house in Virgil-
street, No. 6.2., to inquire if a Mr. Johnson lived there, for
the purpose of inducing the inmates to open the door.
Another officer passed through the house No. 63, and
mounted on the top of the garden wall at the moment the
former procured admission in at the front. Several more
were on the watch in the immediate neighbourhood. On

tl►e door being opened by Mrs. Arnett, loothby, the per-
son who rapped, rushed past, and was immediately followed
by James. Ainsworth, a police officer. Mrs. Arnett seized
them both, and called out, " Cut, cut !" " Bolt, bolt !"
and exclaimed to the officers, " I hope you may never
prosper !" They endeavoured to release themselves from
her grasp, and were proceeding in the direction of the cellar
stairs, still struggling with her, when Robert Parkinson,
another officer, entered the house, and, passing them, ran
down stairs. At the door of the kitchen he met Isabella
Arnett, and looking towards the yard, saw the prisoner
Edward in custody of Crosby and Flockhart, who had got
over the yard wall. Crosby was left on guard in the kitchen
over some coining implements, which were found there,
and the prisoners ►were taken into a back parlour until
Mr. Powell was sent for. While they were taking the pri-
soner Isabella from the kitchen, she said to the person in
whose custody she was, " What's the use, we know the
worst of it, and we shall all go together."
The Jury returned their verdict severally against the
prisoners. By mistake the foreman substituted the name
of Isabella for that of Elizabeth. The prisoner seemed
somewhat surprised, and half curtseyed to the Jury, while
the male prisoner addressed to her some words in a low
tone. The mistake, however, was soon rectified. The
wife, Elizabeth Arnett, was the one acquitted. The two
prisoners were perfectly collected while sentence of trans-
portation for life was passed, though the silence was dis-
turbed by the moanings of Mrs. Arnett. On its conclu-
sion, the female prisoner made a low courtesy, and walked
from the dock.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.---111o,vmouvr, illincm 28.

The Commission was opened yesterday, and business
began this morning. There are eight causes entered for
trial, though only one of any importance, being a present-
ment against Mr. Capel Hanbury Leigh, the Lord Lieu-
tenant of the county, for the non-repair of a sea-wall,which
was blown down during a late tempest, Mr. Leigh con-
tending that the liability is thrown by law upon the hun-
dred, and not the owner of the adjoining land.
The calendar contains the names of 37 prisoners, many
of whom are charged with very serious offences.
AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM.—A juryman applied to be
excused from serving at the Monmouth Assizes.
Mr. Baron BOLLAND—On what ground, Sir ?
Juryman—l am deaf, my Lord.
Mr. Baron BOLLAND--can you hear what I sa
Juryman—Yes, my Lord, but I can only hear with one
car.

Mr. Baron BOLLAND—Then you may go, Sir. A jury-
man ought to have two cars ; it is his duty to hear both
sides.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Yesterday Elizabeth Harris, the woman who was some
days ago brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with
having forged an authority for receiving the pension of an
out-pensioner of Greenwich Hospital, was finally examined.
After evidence bad been adduced the prisoner, who had
received the pension for the two quarters, was fully com-
mitted for trial.