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President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.

This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on 1, oluntary contributions and t ,gactes
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a con,iderable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
co..taining several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite tunas to maintain them.

Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Ndwarci ?etas.
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STANFORD shiTTR. Secretary.

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TREASURERS.
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HOME CIRCUIT.—LEwEs, Dec. 14.
Mr. Justice Wales presided this morning, and charged
the grand jury upon a calendar which is very light. There
are 14 prisoners from the eastern and six from the western
division of the county, but only 13 cases. Two cases of
manslaughter have already been disposed of, and the Assizes
will terminate to-morrow.

Charles Edwards, a very young looking boy of 15, pleaded
guilty to committing a burglary in the house of one Fuller
a shopkeeper at Brighton, about 5 o'clock in the morning
of the 10th of August, and stealing Is. 81d.
Mr. Justice Willes, in passing sentence, said that if lie
consulted his feelings ho should be inclined to discharge the
prisoner, taking into consideration the number of months he
had already passed in prison ; but the crime he had com-
mitted deserved severer punishment, and it would be for the
prisoner's own advantage that he should undergo a term of
imprisonment where he would have the benefit of instruc-
tion, and would not be allowed to associate with older
offenders. The sentence of the Court was six calendar
months' imprisonment, with hard labour, in the House of
Correction.

Alfred Lord, aged 21, was charged with feloniously
wounding, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, a maa
named Stephen Lillywhite.
Mr. Roupell prosecuted, and Mr. E. C. Willoughby de-
fended.

It appeared that on the 3d of September the prisoner was
at a publichouse with a number of friends. Without any
provocation, and quite suddenly, he got up, rushed at one
Thomas Beattie, and tried to throw him down. Others in-
terfered, and held him down in the road, and during the
struggle, he rushed at and wounded with a knife the pro-
secutor, who was his most intimate friend.
All the witnesses called for the prosecution admitted the
prisoner to be a man of the most inoffensive, quiet, and
peaceable character ; bukit appeared that he had been sub-
ject to fits from the age of eight year; when he met with
some injury from a gun which was fired at him.
Mr. Roupell, at the suggestion of tho learned judge,
withdrew the charge of feloniously wounding, and' ad-
dressed the jury only in support of the minor charge of
unlawfully wounding.
Mr. Justice Willes directed the jury that if they believed
the account given by Lillywhito, upon which no suspicion
had been cast, they were bound to find the prisoner guilty
of the minor offence.
The jury accordingly returned a verdict of Guilty, and
the Court passed a sentence of three months' imprison-
ment with hard labour.
Thomas Lindfield Avory, aged 13, was charged with‘the
manslaughter of his brother, John William Avory, aged
23. The prisoner was a butcher, and assisted his brother
in the same trade at Wivelsfield, Sussex.
Mr. Grantham prosecuted ; Mr. Besley defended.

The deceased had on the morning of the 14h, before
leaving home, directed the prisoner to dress the carcase of
a sheep. On returning home in the evening he found his
order not complied with, and upon blaming his brother,

After evidence of the death of John William Avory, the
depositions of the deceased, taken on the 18th of August,
the day of his death, were put in, and were in effect as
follows :—" The prisoner is my brother. Last night, about
8 o'clock, we were both in the slaughter-house. I com-
plained of his not having dressed a sheep, and words took
place between us. I gave him a push across the slaughter-
house, and then he hit me with his fist. I hit him back, and
then he pulled out his pocket knife, and stabbed me in my
right side. I did not see him open the knife or see it until
after I felt I was stabbed. He stabbed me four times in
my side and cut me on my ear, but this was during the
wrestle. I believe I closed and wrestled with him 'as soon
as he had stabbed me first. My wife came into the slaugh-
ter-house and saw us wrestling, but we continued wrestling
until we got into the kitchen, when she separated us. My
brother had been drinking. We had been on good terms
before. When I hit him back, I hit him as hard as 1 could.
He got into a passion when I pushed him, and he was in
a passion when he stabbed me, and all the time of the
quarrel. If I had not pushed my brother I don't believe
he would have stabbed or struck me. I know the wounds
are serious, but I have no belief that I am dying."
Mr. Grantham then tendered the depositions of Mary
Avory, the widow of the deceased, and called
James Akhurst, police-constable, to show that she was
in an unfit state to travel. He proved that ho had seen
Mrs. Avory last night, that she had been recently confined,
and that he believed she was unable to travel.

Mr. Besley objected, and
The learned Judge ruled the police-constable's evidence
insufficient to let in the depositions.
Mr. Grantham then called the father of the deceased and
of the prisoner to prove his daughter-in-law's inability to
travel.. He said she had been recently confined, and he
believed she was unable to come.

Cross-examined by Mr. Besley—The prisoner told me
he inflicted the wounds in peril of his own life.

Mr. Justice Willes—lf you continue to object on behalf
of the prisoner to the admission of the depositions, which
clearly ought to be in, I shall be bound to apply the same
strict rules to your own cross-examination.
Mr. Besley—l withdraw all objections.
Cross-examination continued—l produce the shirt worn
by the prisoner. The neck and shoulders were saturated
with blood. The prisoner had several severe wounds, one
au inch long on the scalp. The prisoner said the deceased
knocked.him down and knelt upon his breast, and that he
inflicted the wounds because he was in peril of his life.
The depositions of Mary Avery, the widow of deceased,
were then read. She said that she went into the slaughter-
house and found her husband and the prisoner wrestling.
Her husband had thrown him down and was holding him
down. She saw the knife in Thomas's hand. They both
went into the kitchen. The deceased told her Thomas had
stabbed him. The deceased then turned round and threw
the prisoner down again.
Richard Gravely—l am a surgeon, practising at Newick.
I attended the deceased and made a post marten?, examina-
tion. The deceased had five wounds, all ou the right side,
which produced the inflammation of the bowels from which
he died.

Cross-examined—l saw a wound upon the prisoner's
hand, and a contusion on the scalp. The wounds on de-
ceased might have been inflicted involuntary in the course
of a struggle with a man who had an open knife in his
hand. The knife produced might be used for dressing
sheep.
Re-examined—lt is not a knife ordinarily used for such
purposes. I cannot say how the wounds were inflicted.
Mr. Justice Willes—l have heard a medical witness
answer that, as action and reaction are equal and opposite
a wound inflicted by a knife being pushed into a man might
arise from a man's pushing himself against a knife. That is
the true answer to all such questions.
James Akhurst produced the trousers worn by deceased,
and they were cut in five places.
Mr. Grantham having summed up,
_ _

Mr. Bosley addressed the jury for the defence, and urged
strongly that it was probable the prisoner had the knife in
his hand when the struggle commenced, and that the
wounds were unintentionally inflicted during the struggle.
The jury, after a short deliberation, found the prisoner
guilty.

The father of deceased's widow recommended the pri-
soner to mercy.

The 12arned Judge, addressing the prisoner, said hte,liad
been convicted upon evidence which it was impossible to
resist of the crime of having taken away his brother's life
by stabbing him with a knife. He agreed with his learned
counsel that ho could not have been convicted of murder,
but that was entirely due to the fact that his brother had
used some violence towards him before heresisted and used
a deadly weapon. Manslaughter committed with a knife
called for the most serious notice of the Court, and it was
incumbent on the Court to be very careful that anything
done in mercy should not be misunderstood. There could
be no palliation, but there might be circumstances to guide
the Court in inflicting punishment. There was his youth.
In the nest place there was the provocation which he had
received, and, further, the recommendation to mercy from
such a quarter. Those circumstances might justify him
in refraining from passing a &mitotic° of penal servitude,
but he must suffer a -substantial term of imprisonment.
The sentence of the Court would.be that he be imprisoned
and kept at hard labour for 18 calendar months.