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London, England, 1839-08-06 00:00:00

the prose lint he had totally disregarded it. He agreed in
the eulogium that had been pronounced upon the juries of tha
• county by his Learned Friend, and he believed that they would,
es they had hitherto done, discharge their duty •with firmness
t and with temper. He had no objects to serve in the present
iprosecution—he knew nothing of Mr. Collins, nor had he ever
esen him till lie came that Has. The only thing he had heard
of slim was in the discussions in the House of Commons, when,
as it appeared to him, a very unfounded charge had been
I brought against the Justices of that county. He complained of
the bad mete of the Learned Sergeant reading a private letter
'i which he (the .Attorney-Gereral) had written to a person
reamed Cooke. But, it should be remembered that there were
1 eeetaia rules and an etiquette in the profession, by which they
eonlet not refuse a brief, end by which they were bound to do
the best could they for their clients, whoever they might be. It
was only to explain th rules that he (the Attorney-General)
E hrd writ ten the letter which Sergeant Goulburn had demeaned
himself by reading. lie presumed Sergeant Goulburn was
"Itrela* failowitag the instructions lie had received, and
sbeeirees the Magietrates amid Corporation of Birmirgham. He
I:al been advised to have nothing to do with any prosecution
interfering with free discussion, and that advice he had always
:need upon. If, however, the Jury were of opinion that the
cosehtet pursued by the mob in the Bull-ring of Birminham,
or that publications like the present were merely in favour of
free discussion, then they would acquit the defendant at the
bar. But he doubted very much whether the Jury would come
to so absurd a conclusion, or whether they would think that it
was advantageous to free discussion that the peaceable inhabi-
tants shoeld be compelled to close their shops, and suspend.
bueigess. It was complained that he Lad not examined Mr.
Salt, but the case had been completely proved without bin, and
i he bad tendered Mr. Salt, Mr. Guest,- and all the other wit-
; tresses, for the Learned Sergeant. Extremes sometimes met ;
' and there was in his opinion but a shade of difference between
the opinions of Ms. Sergeant Goulburn and the Chartists.—
(Langhtev.) He thought it most• unfair and ungenerous of
I the Learned Sergeant to attack Mr. Hill, the Recorder of Bir-
mingham, when the Learned Gentleman had not the op-
t portanity of defending himself. Dr. Booth, however,
i who: was also a Conservative, would not imitate such
conduct, aid had repelled every attempt to censure the conduct
of those gentlemen who acted in a Magisterial capacity with
him.. Now, with respect to the depositions of Mr. Collins,
whether he had been cautioned or not he (the Attorney-Gene-
ral) had not made any use of them. He had always objected
1 to confessions when any other evidence could be procured, and
the jury would recollect that both Lovett and Collins had been
elution( d, one in the hearing of the other, that there depo-
sitions Would be made use of against them. He now came to
ask what was really the question they had to decide, and in the
long and fiery speech of Sergeant Geulburn no allusion what-
ever had been made to it. It was said that Collins was a poor
mechanic, and it was to be deplored that such a man should be
made the subject cf a prosecution. But who were they to
prosecute? they had no proof as to the menets a, of the Colleen-
ton nor had they any evidence that these persons concurred in
the resolutions. In .act they had no alternative but to prose-
cute the man Who had procured them to he printed and pub-
lished, unless they wished to pass the inflammatory placard by
altogether. He had shown them what the state of Birrning-
lam was when -that document was published, and he proved to
them the necessity that exiled for calling in the assistance of the
metropolitan police, elthottli the Learned Sergeant had thought
proper to make a jest of the police being packed up in omni-
buses, but he should not forget that what was sport and jest to
the Learned Sergeant might perhaps be death to the people of
Birmingham, whose property was destroyed and whose lives
.sere likely to be sacrificed. It was attempted ho be denied that
the people hail not had .sitificient warning of the calling in of
the police force, but he had already proved to the Jury satis-
-1 factoiily that ler. Booth had repeatedly called upon them to
disperse, and retire es their homes, and had ultimately read the
Riot Act. There never !tad been a more dangerous excite-
ment or breach of the public peace, and at that very moment
the Convention, fors(Aili, which waesit tingat Birmingham, had
issued the most inflammatory and violent document. It had
been urged gilt Collins on some former occasion had denounced
physical forte; and he (the Attorney-General) had no wish to
d-prive him of fi
the benet of but was thet document o
such. a tendency? Oa the contrathey,at, ted it directly inci to resist-
ance and a breach of the law. -The Convention assumed to
disterb, it would seem, the government of the town of Ilir-
minghain. He knew very little of it, but some of its pro-
cetelinee were highly culpable, and lie *as rejoiced to find
• that :Me. 3luntz awl other respectable gentlemen had with-
drawn from it. The police had been called in the document
" a blood-thirsty force," and would anybody deny that that is
a libel upon a body whose conduct had been approved by all
parties? Ile del not staid there to defend the Magistrates of
Birteinghain ; the libel was net upon them, but it was one '
seieling to bring the laws Tnto disrespect. They were told that
air, 1. 'ellius was net present in the Bull-ring, but he had en-
iesusage.l and imited others to go these and make seditious

I:reeCes, awl disturb the public peace. It. might be ic;;a:
i,,gly prudent anti convrment in Mr. Collins not go to the Bull-
ring, 6,1 t. hs was morally responsible for the consequences of
that wo,t yiolmt and seditious placard, by which the people
w.!re lvl to• set all law and constituted authority at defiance.
i have never witnessed so determined an attempt to fix a
t liTwpa life or property as was contemplated by those resolu-
tiims. I amsot doubt for a moment that it is to such resolu-

ens as these we have to ascribe the melancholy circumstances
which we sincerely deplore. Why has the law been set at de-
Why have houses been destroyed? Why has Bir-
,eliarn presented the appearance of a city pillaged ? Because
.1 ee resolutions taught the people to set the law at defiance.
fitr case is now in your hands; if you believe that this scanda-
leue mei libellous publication has been directed against
the London police if you believe that they in-
il the public mind and excited the people to
the acts of outrage perpetrated, it is your duty to
eeneiee the prisoner. If you are of opinion that those resolu-
tioweare harailese, aeld that they are not, or were not, ealcu-
I lied to excite sedition or inflame the angry passions of men,
then you will give him the benefit of your opinions. But if
you art satisfied that they were calculated to originate the evils
alluded to, I am satisfied. you will discharge your duty to the
public by returning a verdict of guilty.
31r. Justice LITTLEDALE summed up the evidence. His
Lordship, in conclusion, said if, gentlemen, you believe that
dose ieeolutien4 were calculated to mislead the people and ex-
a ;peeate their ea inds,yoar verdict *ill be according to that belief.
Only orb; resolution has reference to the police. The second reso-
l. on atErn s the rimhtof thepeople to meet and diScusstheir grim-
art,ee. The quesiion Its you ti decide is whether this resolution
means the right of petition or a declaration of the right of the
people to consider calmly and temperately their wrongs, or
whether it has an ailusiGn to physical force. You are also to
consider whether it was intended by it to incite the people to
to take power into their own hand, to create disturbance and
excite tumult. The third resolution has a reference to Doctor
Taylor: It might have been supposed that his arrest was arbi-
trary and illegal. The people undoubtedly had a right to dis-
cues that question calmly and temperately. Even under the
ere,amstances there might have been an allowance granted for
warmth .Pf expression. Still they might have exceeded the
bounds of moderation. With those and similar remarks, his
Lordship concluded his address.
The fury retired for fen minutes, and returned with a verdict
of Guilty, accompanied 17 a recommendation to mercy, in con-
eeqUence of the prisoner s excellent character. Sentence was
deterred. - The prisoner appeared greatly disappointed when
the terdiet was announced.

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PllO-.CORN-14 A SLA NDE R.—A Leicester
paper contains the following gratuitous and unwarrantable
a.tack on the Chartists, who, as is well known, have bees
more peaceful and moderate in this %ounty than in any
sither where they exist :—" Chartist Outrage.--On Wed-
cesday evening these freebooters' set tire to a stack on
Cie premises of Mr. Thomas Poyndcr, in their supposed
stronghold of Sheepsheail,-no doubts being entertained of
tae fact—the parties there being in the habit of levying
tontributlons from door to door. The only reason as-
signed for;the cause of so malevolent an action, being the
unwillingness of Mrs, Poynder to acquiesce in their de.
minds." Nothing appears more probable to us than that
the wretches who perpetrated this foolish and atrocious
.feed instead of being Chartists, were unprincipled
Tories."` When the lower and move ignorant members of
the faction see " their betters" keeping corn out of the
country, by means of the Bread Tax, and even throwing
it into rivers to make it scarce, and when they are told
that this horrid system is good for the country, can it be
ondered at that they should follow the example—with
(lily, a slight v Lriation—by burning their neighbour's ricks?
If the first be right, the second cannot be far wrong.
'ibex ace alike the °Spring of Vass
Abreary.

Our aced-tints from all parts of the country state
that ttpprehensions of any serious interruptions of the pub-
lie tranquillity are fast passing away. The beat feeling
prevai's among all classes of society, without respect to
p arty. Tha municipal institutions have been found of es-
sratiat advantage to the preservation of the peace. At
..,;;tockport 2,000 persons tendered themselves as sprcial
eon,,,:tabies, and the local police, appointed by the new
cevoofationst, have acted invariably with promptitude,
; .atrage, and discretion.

Tile south mail nit Thursday was fully an hour
behind its time, which naturally excited some anxiety.
and gave ri.,e to many surmises as to the cause. On its
:‘,.riv 11 it was ascertained that the delay arose from an
on the Western Railway. i-Lre, as elsewhere,
tile verd;er of the Jury in the case of Bohm, excited can-
s:datable surprise.—Berwick Advertiser.
rt.fterth.tv morning, between seven and ei"ht
‘.2,t,ick Staple' Stonehurst, Esq , a young. gentlemen 23 years
of a*e, residing at Putney, in c3mpany with a friend, went
ift a heat to bathe in the river, but when in the mid !le of
the ?dream ha suddenly sunk and disappeared.

CHILD AILUIDER AND SUICIDE.—On Satal•

day__ last a female named Harriet Heringshaw, residing in
New John-street, Birmingham, destroyed herself and her
infant child. She was found in the attic, suspended to a
pole by a cord round her neck and quite dead. The infant
was also found strangled by a crape neckerchief, with
• venial it was suspended to the same rope that had destroyed
' its wretched mother. The deceased had been cruelly and
most diskracefully treated by a person named Wm. Organ,
the father of her child, which prayed upon her spirits so
muchn as to impel her to the dreadful crime she committed.
A inquest was held on the bodies, when the jury returned
verdicts, " That the deceased (the mother) destroyed
herself in a fit of temporary insanity ; and that the deceased
infant was hanged by ii:s mother while labouring under a
temporary fit of insanity.',
SINGULAR OCCURR*,NCE—GALLANT CON..
Duel. OP A BOL—OarnaTnlau(rsclay, lietween twelve and one
o'clock, as a young
vegirrer's porter) was carry-
ing a chest of tea along inhgton-qc,ay ( Dublin) he
stopped at the Liffey wall for purpose of resting ;
the tea was fastened by a rope e
passed across the
young man's chest. As he was whichach:ut to proceed oi; his
ins ttadieswnei7llp
way he lost his balance, and in
Ruenee of the way
le was situated the chest was
rieci pitaed over
• the wall, carrying the young
little fellow, named Moore, thirteen year.t. At gallant
enffaged fishing at the spot, sprang forwar?ld, who was
.
s'ant, and was fortunate enough te lay hold 4,3 fat the in
me) by the legs; the rope at the instant goi the falling
1 e id, the chest of tea fell into the river. Zooorveerhhis
the man for a few seconds, when assistance was procureel:
and the man released from the perilous situation in which
he was placed. The chest of tea was taken up in a few
minutes by two young men near the spot with a boat.—_
Dublin Molitor. 1
The heavy fall of rain last week so flooded the
1 River Towy that its banks were covered with one deep
t sheetof water along a great part of its course from flan-
, doses", to Carmarthen. An immense quantity of hay and
several cattle were carried away by the force of the current.
The loss sustained in consequence is enormous, and in many
cases quite ruinous. On Saturday boats were plying be.
s tween this place and Pensard, and on the Swansea road,
.for the conveyance of persons to and from Atte market, and
:t is a matter of surprise that no accidents ofcurred. W.
have nct heard of any lives having lost, been but the de-
truction of property is immense. ian. Canthr i