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London, England, 1853-07-21 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females..

Total .

716
651

1,367

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

THE GREAT NORTHERN ITAILWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending July 10, 1853 (283 miles) £16,250 9 11
Corresponding week last year (2234 miles) 10,644 9 6
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—Traffic re-
turn or the week ending July 17, 1853 ....,£20,073 9 9
Corresponding week last year 18,264 7 0
CHESTER AND Ho r..THEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending July 17, 1853 £5,246 5 11
Corresponding week last year 4,579 12 10

Increase in 1853 £666 13 1
CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
weak ending July 16, 1853 £192 15 0
Corresponding week last year lBl 19 1
WATERFORD AND KILKENNY RAlLWAY.—Traffic return
for the week ending July 16 (29 miles) £l5l 5 1
Corresponding week last year (13 miles) 66 0 7

THE PACIFIC MAlLS.—According to the present ar-
rangements of the Australasian and Pacific Steam-packet
Company, which is about to run powerful steamers on
the Pacific, in connection with the Royal Mail Steam-
packet Company, those steamers will touch at Auckland,
in New Zealand, on their outward voyages, and pass
through Cook's Strait's, touching at Nelson or Welling-
ton on their homeward voyages.
FESTIVAL OF THE THREE CHOIRS.—The arrangements
for holding the 130th meeting of the Three Choirs of
Worcester, Hereford, and Glocester, are now completed.
The festival will be held at the last named city on the
13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th of September, for the benefit
of widows and orphans of the clergy of the dioceses
named. The oratorios selected for this festival are Men-
delssohn's "Elijah" and " Christus' " Hayden's "Crea-
tion," and Handel's "Messiah" and "Israel in Egypt."
The principal peformers engaged are Madame Clara No-
vello, Mrs. Weiss, Madame Castellon Miss Dolby, and
Mrs. Lockey ; Mr. Lockey, Mr. Weiss, Signor Gar-
doni, Signor Tagliafico, and Herr Formes. Mr. H. Bla-
grove leads the band, as usual, and among the chief in-
strumentalists are all the leading men of the opera and
London concerts. As usual, the organists of the three
cathedrals have places of honour assigned to them, Mr.
Amott, of Glocester, being conductor ; Mr. G. Town-
shend Smith, of Hereford, organist ; and Mr. Done, of
Worcester, pianist. The entire orchestra will comprise
300 performers. The festival will be held under the
especial patronage of the Queen, the Duke of Beaufort
being the President, and the following the vice-presi-
dents,
:--Earl Fitzhardinge, Earl Somers, Lord Lyttel-
ton, and the Bishops of Glocester and Bristol, Hereford,
and
Ai-w Icingseote, M.P. Worcester. The stewards of the festival are Lord
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N. on. Ashley Ponsonby, M.P. Sir W. Russell, Mr. R.
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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—LEWES, JULY 20.
(CROWN SIDE.— (Before the Lord Chief Baron.)
A MARRIED WOMAN CHARGED WITH INFANTICIDE.
Elizabeth Robinson, 28, was indicted for the wilfu:
murder of her female unbaptized child.
Mr. Johnson appeared for the prosecution ; Mr,
Woollett and Mr. Munster were counsel for the pri.
soner.

The circumstances of this case were rather peculiar.
It appeared that the prisoner was a married woman,
and living with her husband in a cottage at Burdham, a
few miles from Chichester. For some time before the
24th of March she appeared very ill, and the neighbours
supposed that she was in the family way, and to one or
two of them she admitted it was the fact. After the
day mentioned the appearance of the prisoner was ob-
served to be a good deal altered, and a suspicion pre-
vailed that she had been delivered, and it appeared that
on the 3d of April a woman named Saunders was in
the prisoner's cottage, and she asked the prisoner's hus-
band, in her presence, what the report was about his
wife, and he replied that they accused her of having a
child, and making off with it, but he said it was not
true, she had not had any child. It would appear that
after this time the rumours upon the subject continued,
and at length the parish authorities felt it to be their
duty to interfere, and at their request a medical gentle-
man named Jones was sent to the prisoner's cottage
to make the necessary inquiries, and after informing
the prisoner what was the object of his visit he in-
quired whether she had had a child, and told her
at the same time that there had been a report that
she had had one, and that it had been made away
with. The prisoner upon this said she was very glad
he had come, as it would be the means of clearing
her character, and she then declared that she had not
had a child. She told the doctor that she had been ill,
and intimated that she had miscarried, and said that her
husband had buried it in the garden. He made further
inquiries, and from other facts Mr. Jones came to the
conclusion that the prisoner had been delivered of a child,
and he pressed her upon the point, and she at length said,
" God forgive me ! I have had a child." And she then
said that if Mr. Jones would do what he could for her
she would tell him all about it. The prisoner then went
in the cellar and removed some bricks, and produced
from under them the dead body of a female child, which
Mr. Jones examined. He found the mark of a ligature
round the neck, which had been tied very tightly ; and
from this and other facts in the case, he came to the con-
clusion that the child had breathed, and that its death
was the result of strangulation. Upon being cross-
examined, however, Mr. Jones admitted that in some
cases, and especially in those where a woman was de-
livered without any assistance, it frequently happened
that strangulation took place accidentally. The story
told by the prisoner herself was, that in consequence of
her falling over a washing tub, labour had been suddenly
brought on. and that she became insensible, and when
she came to herself she found the child lying by her side
dead. She likewise said that her husband had behaved
very ill to her, and that he had declared the child was
not his, and therefore ho should not employ any one to
assist her in her delivery.
The Lord Chief Baron expressed an opinion at the
close of the case for the prosecution, that after the
medical evidence, the charge of murder could not be
maintained, and the only question for the jury would be
whether the prisoner was guilty of the offence of con-
cealing the birth of the child by secretly burying the
dead body.
Mr. Woollett said he should not attempt to struggle
against a conviction for concealing the birth, the jury con-
sequently returned a verdict by which they convicted the
prisoner of that offence.
Mr. Woollett urged on behalf of the prisoner that
there were good grounds for supposing that she had re-
ceived very bad usage at the hands of husband. It
was also clear that he must have been aware of the birth
of the child, and it was very possible that to a certain
extent what the prisoner had done was under his co-
ercion.

The Lord Chief Baron, in passing sentence, said he
believed this was the only case within his experience in
which a married woman had been convicted of an
offence of this description, and taking into consideration
that she had been already four months in prison, and
the conduct of the husband in the transaction, he felt
himself justified in passing a lenient sentence, which was
that she should he further imprisoned for one week.
CHARGE OF MURDER.

Sarah Smith, 43, was indicted for the wilful murder
of Stephen Smith.
Mr. Horne and Mr. Attree conducted the prosecu-
tion ; Mr. Hurst defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the deceased was a shoemaker, and
the prisoner was his wife, and they occupied a small
room in a place called Harrow's Mews, St. Leonard's.
The evidence went to show that they were both given
to drink, and that they frequently quarrelled. On the
evening of the 17th of May, which was Whit-Tuesday,
they were together at the Queen Adelaide public-house
at Hastings, and left about eleven o'clock at night, and
at this time they appeared to be on friendly terms,
but were both to some extent in liqueur. On the fol-
lowing morning about one o'clock, a lodger in the
house name Cook was awoke by the prisoner, who
begged her, for God's sake, to get up, as she said she had
stabbed " Steeve," meaning her husband. Mrs. Cook
immediately got up and went into the prisoner's room,
where she saw the deceased man sitting in a chair, with
a wound in his breast, from which the blood was flow-
ing. He was alive, but unable to speak, and he was
holding an apron to his breast, while the prisoner was
walking about the room crying. Mrs. Cook, seeing
the state of the deceased, went out to fetch Mr. Gardner,
a surgeon, and upon their returning together to the
room they found the prisoner still there crying ; and
upon her seeing Mr. Gardner she exclaimed that she
had stabbed the deceased with a knife used by him in
his trade, which she had thrown out of the window ;
and upon a search being made the knife was found in
the yard of the house covered with blood. The unfor-
tunate deceased was found to have been stabbed com-
pletely through the heart, and he died a minute or
two after the arrival of the surgeon. While Mr. Gard-
ner was examining the deceased the prisoner appeared
to be very excited, and said that she and her husband
had been out together, and that upon their leaving the
public-house to go home she gave her husband the slip,
and when she got home he abused her, and reproached
her for leaving him, and in the course of the altercation
that took place between them afterwards she threatened
him with some violence, upon which he opened his shirt
and said, "Do it," or words to that effect, and she im-
mediately snatched up the knife and plunged it into his
breast. It appeared that the prisoner had never at-
tempted to deny that she had caused the death of her
husband, and on her being taken to the police station,
she said to the constable, " I have often taken up a
knife to him, but this time I meant it."
Mr. Hurst addressed the jury for the prisoner, urging
that under the circumstances of excitement and liquor
in which the prisoner was at the time of the melancholy
occurrence, they would be justified in taking a merciful
view of her conduct, and acquitting her of the crime of
murder, and find her guilty of manslaughter only.
The Lord Chief Baron, having summed up, the jury,
after a short deliberation, found the prisoner guilty of
manslaughter.

She was sentenced to be transported for ten years.
THE BRIGHTON CARD-CHEATING.
John B•oome surrendered to take his trial upon an
indictment for misdemeanour, in having defrauded Wm.
Henry Hamp of a large sum of money, by cheating at
cards.

Mr. Johnson and Mr. Creasy were counsel for the
prosecution ; Mr. Parry and Mr. Sleigh appeared for
the defendant.

The facts of this case having been so repeatedly before
the public, under the head of " The Brighton Card-
cheating Case," that it will be utterly unnecessary to
repeat them on the present occasion.
The prosecutor Hamp was examined, but either from
want of memory, or some other cause, it was with very
great difficulty that any direct answer could be obtained
from him ; and in answer to a question put by Mr.
Parry, he said that at the time when he was alleged to
have been defrauded by Staden and James, who, it will
be remembered, were convicted upon an indictment
which charged them with being *concerned in the tran-
saction, the defendant was asleep on a sofa, and took no
part in the proceeding, and he declared that he had
always made the same statement with regard to him.
1- The Chief Baron, after hearing
.this statement, ex-
pressed his opinion that the jury dould,not be expected
to convict a man of an offence who, it was represented,
was fast asleep at the time it was supposed to have been
committed, and who took no part in it.
Mr. Johnson said that after this intimation from his
lordship he should not proceed further with the case.
The jury then, under his lordship's direction, returned
a verdict of not guilty, and the defendant was ordered
to be discharged.
This concluded the business of the assizes.

SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT.—CARDIFF, JULY 18.
William Price, surgeon, was arraigned upon a charge
of having committed wilful perjury in testimony which
he gave o n the trial of a cause Millward v. Millward and
another, in the County Court of Glamorganshire at
Cardiff.
Mr. Giffard and Mr. Rees conducted the prosecution ;
Mr. Pri oe defended himself, and was accommodated
with a st at at the table, where his extraordinary costume
and app •arance attracted much attention. His silvery
beard Ho wed over his breast a considerable length • he
was dress 3ed in a round jacket of light green, which,
together with his trowsers, was vandyked around the
edges, at id turned up with scarlet ; his waistcoat was
also scald. et ; and his cap was made of an entire otter
skin, which he generally wears with the tail and legs
hanging iclown his back. He challenged a great number
of the jur, y.
Mr. Gil lard stated the case to the jury, and called
witnesses, but
His for dship intimated his opinion that the alleged
perjury ws is not "material to the issue;" and, therefore,
an indietrz Lent could not be sustained ; but left it to the
defendant to decide whether he would address the jury
on the fact A or not.
Mr. Pri, ce then read a long and rambling address, in
which he a Lpplied most violent terms to the parties con-
nected wit h the prosecution, including even the witnesses,
and not sparing the judge of the County Court.
At half- past 12 o'clock at night the jury retired, and
in about t hree-quarters of an hour returned into court,
with a vex diet of not guilty.

HIIDIM ISFIELD, July 19.—The state of our market
is much. ti ie same as last week's ; we have no important
change to notice. Seasonable goods are inquired for ;
also the thicker makes of woollen goods, chiefly in blacks
and brow ns. We have had some few buyers in town'
who have: bought for home consumption, but not to Any
lArgAmAcrant. Shippern
Atpresent Aro quint.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Thomas Bentley, the con-
ductor (No. 59) of a Paddington omnibus, was charged
with having used insulting and abusive language to
Captain Joseph Burton, opposite to the Mansion-house.
The complainant, who is a captain in the army, and
resides at No. 7, Grove-terrace, St. John's Wood, said
—Between 11 and 12 o'clock to-day I went into the de-
fendant's omnibus near Upper Baker-street, for the pur-
pose of being put down opposite to the Mansion-house,
upon arriving at which place I offered him 4d. He said
he would not take that sum, as his fare was 6d. I said
I would pay what the police constable would say I ought
to pay, upon which he asked me if I was a gentleman or
not, and he declared that I was not one for not paying
the amount he demanded. He then said that I was an
old vagabond, and I gave him in charge. This was all
said in the hearing of the police constable.
George Payne (464) said—At half-past 11 o'clock this
day the defendant and the gentleman who makes the
complaint came over to me at the corner of the Bank.
The latter wanted to know what the fare was. The de-
fendant said, " You old vagabond why don't you pay
the fare ?" and the complainant gave him in charge.
The Lord Mayor said it was odd enough, that at the
very commencement of the operation of the new Carriage
Act an extraordinary number of instance of insolence and
attempts at extortion had occurred. The present was
rather a remarkable sample of the gross conduct of the
class which the law was meant to correct and improve
and he would, therefore, adjudge the defendant to impri-
sonment without giving the alternative of a penalty.
The sentence upon the omnibus conductor was imprison-
ment for seven days, but if any future case should be
proved against him the sentenee should be the most
severe the magistrate had it in his power to inflict.
The defendant departed in the custody of the gaoler,
in a very dejected condition.

DOW-STREET.—John Daley, a sergeant of the A
division of police, No. 48, was brought before Mr.
Henry, charged with a ruffianly assault upon In-
spector Reason, the intelligent officer employed by
the Commissioners of Police to enforce the regulations
of the act for the improvement of common lodging-
houses.

Mr. Richard Reason, who had been brought from.
Charing-cross Hospital, with his head bandaged, and ap-
parently exhausted from the injuries which he had
received, stated that the defendant was one of the
constables employed under Captain Hay to visit the
lodgings of the poor in one of the metropolitan dis-
tricts. In common with other officers, he was allowed
certain travelling expenses, an account of which it
was his duty to submit to witness for examination.
On a late occasion witness detected an overcharge
in defendant's account, and warned him not to repeat
a similar attempt to obtain more than he was en-
titled to. On Monday, however, witness found the de-
fendant's accounts inaccurate in several instances, and
consequently intimated his intention to report him to
the commissioners. He (Inspector Reason) accordingly
did so' yesterday morning (Wednesday), and Captain
Hay ordered the defendant to be suspended. Witness
saw the defendant shortly afterwards, and told him
what had taken place. He said nothing in reply, and
witness walked into the common-lodging-house office,
1, Palace-yard. He was waiting there when he saw the
defendant enter the room, and immediately afterwards
he (Inspector Reason) received a blow on the forehead,
which had the effect of stunning him.
Inspector Humphreys stated that he was standing in
the office at the time, with Inspector Reason, whose
back was towards the door. He saw the defendant
enter the room, and thought he was going to speak to
Mr. Reason, but instead of that the defendant drew a
truncheon from under his coat and struck the Inspector
a violent blow in the face, causing the blood to flow
copiously. Mr. Reason fell, insensible, and the de-
fendant renewed the attack in a cowardly manner, but
witness and another officer succeeded in wresting the
truncheon from his hand, during which he attempted to
strike them also. The defendant said, " I have had my
revenge, and shall have justice. Do what you like
with me."

Kirby 3 A division, deposed that a few minutes before
the occurrence the defendant came to him in Scotland-
yard and said, " Kirby, lend me your staff, for I have
left mine at home, and my coat does'nt hang well with-
out one." Witness lent him his truncheon, and the one
now produced (with which the assault was committed)
was the same.

Mr. C. S. Watkins, the house surgeon of Charing-
cross Hospital, deposed to having dressed a severe lace-
rated wound over Inspector Reason's left eye, caused
by a severe blow. It had deprived him of his sight,
and witness considered it probable that he might not
recover the use of that eye.
The defendant, who had elicited, in cross-examination,
that Inspector Reason had lately befriended him, by re-
commending him, with others, as deserving of an increase
of salary, stated that the reason he had assaulted the in-
spector was, that he was not likely to get justice in any
other way. He was the only Irishman among the lot
of them, and the fact was that they did not like him to
have a share of the public plunder.
Mr. Henry committed him for trial. '
During the day there were two or three applications
to Mr. Henry to settle cab disputes, but in each case the
hirer was found to be wrong in his estimate of the dis-
tance, or at least declined to undergo the ordeal of mea-
surement-; and consequently had to pay the additional
charges for time.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. John Porter, an
elderly man, who for 30 years has been a confidential
servant in the employ of Mr. Murray, the bookseller, of
Albemarle-street, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bing=
ham, charged with stealing several books, the property
of his employer.

Thomas Sedgewick stated that he resided at 17,
Holles-street, Clare-maiket, and in consequence of a
communication he had with the police, he asked the pri-
soner to get him two books, and gave him the names on
the paper produced. On Saturday, prisoner brought
him " Coleridge's Table Talk," and witness asked him
how much it was. The witness replied 2s. 6d. or 35.,
and witness gave him 2s. 6d. Yesterday morning he
went to Mr. Murray's, in Albemarle-street, and there
saw the prisoner, who gave him the " Quarterly Re-
view," receiving from witness 2s. in payment. Witness
asked prisoner if he was satisfied with that amount, and
he replied in the affirmative. Witness subsequently
handed the books to Taylor, the detective officer. The
books produced are the same he received from the pri-
soner.

Charles Payne, clerk to Mr. Murray, deposed that
the prisoner was a porter in Mr. Murray's service, and
from suspicion he had of the prisoner, he marked the
two books produced. On Friday he marked 13 copies
of " Coleridge's Table Talk," and loft them safe in the
shop, and on Monday morning he missed one copy from
the lot. On Monday he marked 38 copies of the " Quar-
terly Review," and when he went to business on Tues-
day morning he missed one of them. The price of Cole-
ridge is 65., and the Quarterly 6s. also. The trade price
of Coleridge is 4s. 6d., and the Quarterly 4s. 7d., which
amounts the prisoner ought to have charged and re-
ceived. The prisoner, who declined offering any defence,
was remanded for a, week.

LAMBETH.—Thomas Dalton, a well dressed young
man, was placed at the felon's bar, on a charge of obtain-
ing from Mr. Thomas B. Simpson, the proprietor of the
Cremorne Gardens, a cheque for twenty pounds and five
shillings in silver, by false pretences.
Mr. Simpson deposed that on Thursday, the 14th in-
stant, the prisoner called at Cremorne Gardens, and
presented a note which purported to have been written
by Mr. Brickhill, his printer, in Newington Butts, and
which appeared to be a request for five pounds or five
shillings—it was difficult to discover which, as the writ-
ing was very indifferent. He handed the note to his
clerk, and believing that it had come from Mr. Brickhill,
and having ascertained that there were two weeks'
printing due to him, he desired his clerk to draw a
cheque for 201., and this he signed and crossed. On re-
ceiving the cheque, the prisoner said he thought there
must have some mistake, as Mr. Brickhill told him that
he was to go to Walham Green to get some money, and
if he did not succeed he was to call on him (Mr. Simp-
son) and receive five shillings, which he was to pay for
two weeks ; and on this representation he gave the pri-
soner five shillings from his pocket, in addition to the
cheque.

Mr. Brickhill, printer, of Newington Butts, said the
prisoner had been employed by him for some short time
as a compositor, and denied having given him any au-
thority to call on Mr. Simpson for money. He also de-
nied having received either the cheque, the tickets for
the Licensed. Victuallers' fete, or the note enclosed by
Mr. Simpson.
Prisoner was remanded.

EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL.—The total number of
vessels now preparing for the various ports of Australia
is 26 ; the total amount of registered tonnage 16,300.
The sailings from this port from the 7th to the 13th
inst. have been—one vessel for Moreton Bay, 997 tons ;
one vessel for Sydney, 1,650 tons; three vessels for
Melbourne, aggregate tonnage 987 tons, or an aggre-
gate tonnage of 3,634 tons. In the half-year ending
the 30th of June, 138 ships sailed from Liverpool to
Avstralia, and their tonnage was 73,190 tons. The
shipments of manufactures and ordinary merchandise
have increased, and, since the arrival of the overland
mail the rates of freight have exhibited an advance.
Owing, however, to the greater demand for labour at
home, emigration has for some time received a check.
Liverpool Chronicle.
AN INTERESTING .ATLAS.—The Constitutionnel, in
alluding to the sale in London in which the Bouillon
Bible was lately disposed of, says :—An atlas of the
Emperor Napoleon, I m which are traced with his own
bands his principal plans of battle, and which was to
have been put up at 5 01., was withdrawn from the sale
by the owner. A visit; made to him by the French am-
bassador is said to hale induced him to do so. We
cannot but congratulat.3 our representative in London
on the result obtained. 'There are souvenirs whose origin
entitle them to respect, and this is one of them. The
relict has, it is said, be sa just sent to Paris to be placed
at the Invalides by the side of the imperial sword."
BURlALS.—Yesterla:r the Government bill for burials
beyond the metropolis was printed. By this measure
her Majesty, on the representation of the Home Secre-
tary, may restrain the opening of burial-grounds. There
are several provisions for burial grounds beyond the
metropolis.
THE FACTORY HAM. IS' STRIKE AT MANCHESTER.—
D uring the week arrang •em?nts have been come to by
several employers, either • with the whole or part of the
hands who had struck w ork, and some large establish-
ments are again in fuEl operation; but in other mills
piecers have either struck or given notice- to do so on
Monday next, if their to mauds be not complied with.—
'l4p/dater, avOrdiCfri.