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MIDLAND CIRCUIT, NOltri 1 AMPTON, JUDY 13.
WYBORN AND WIFE V. GAMEAN, GENT., AND OTHERS.
This was an action to recover damages for an assaoL
committed on the plaintiff's wife. 'The plaintiff is a sur-
veyor and architect, living at Peterbotrough ;tine defex:tlant
is an attorney, residing at Stilton, about six miles distant.
from the above city.

The Jury found a verdict for the p 1 aintiff. Dianags, 40/,

WESTERN CIRCUIT, w
IN,7IIESTER, JULY 13.
CRIM. CON.—GARDNER Vq. NVA.P.D.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a'Major in
the Army, and a Magistrate of the County, against the
defendant, who drove the Exeter Telegraph, to recover
compensation in damages, in consequence of his having had
criminal conversation with his (the plaintiff's) wife. The
plaintiff, who is now forty-five years of age, married Miss
Plunkett, of Southampton, in 1826, the,lady being then 18
years of age, very beautiful and accouplished, and with a
fortune of eleven thousand pounds Consols, which, upon her
marriage, was settled as follows :—orbe hundred pounds a-
year on herself as pin-money ; the rmt on the husband for
life. After his death the whole of the dividends on the
wife during her life, and then to the_ children, equally to be
divided amongst them. Two daughters were the result of
the union. From some cause, which we must leave to
conjecture,. the plaintiff and his wife had slept apart for
several years. They were on visiting terms with most of
the respectable families in the neighbourhood of theirhouse,
which was at Cholderton Lodge, near Salisbury. About
December last, some of their female acquaintances discon-
tinued their visits to the plaintiff's wife, in a manner which
excited his attention ; and it was at length intimated to
him that she had been seen walking and riding with the
defendant, and that she had been seen in his company at
Southampton. On investigation, lie discovered that an
improper intercourse had been for some time carried on.
She forthwith returned to her friends, whom she soon after
quitted again, and now lived with the defendant at Basing-
stoke, in a good house, keeping two servants, two horses,
and a buggy.
Verdict for the plaintiff—damages, 1001.
CROWN COURT.—John Death?, an, aged 60, was in-
dicted for the wilful murder of John Hall, on Sunday, the
19th June last.

The deceased was, and had beet for twenty years, the.
letter chrrier between Bramdean, in this county, and Aires,-
ford. On Sunday, the 19th of June last, at half-past fivp
in the morning, he started on his journey, but did not reach
Alresford, nor did he return at the usual time. Search ;wits
made for him, and about six o'clock on the Sunday evening
his body ;vas discovered in Old Park -wood. It was lying
in a little hollow a few yards from the road. His head was
beaten to pieces ; and several stones, one of which was pro-
duced in Court, were lying about him, covered with blood
and hair. His bag was by his side, his pockets were empty,
and his purse was found empty several yards from his per-
son, in the direction of the village of Ropley, which was
about a mile distant.

The prisoner was a waggoner, but l►ad not been in any
regular employ for a considerable tim'. On the Saturday
previous to the murder, about twelve o'clock in the day, he
went into the shop of a man named :Scoley, in AlrestPrd,
whom be had known for some time previous, and said he
was very badly off, that he bad neither money nor victuals,
and thought he should go to his parish,, but did not know
exactly where it was. Scoley gave him threepence, upon
which he went away and immediately spent it. He was
proved to have been in the neighbourhood of Alresford by
the following incident. A man nameti Bile was employed
all the night between Saturday and Stuidav in making some
alterations in the road between Alr.L.sford and Petersfleld.
About twelve o'clock the prisoner cams• up to him, and re-
peated the story of his extreme distress. They were in
conversation a few minutes, when the prisoner left; and
proceeded towards the place where the road turns off to
to Bramdean. About half-past two a witness, who lived at
Bishop's Sutton, was getting up, and, hearing footsteps, looked
out of the window to see who was p,tisiug. He saw the
prisoner walking towards the old Park Wood, where the mug-
der was committed. At half-past four a witness who was
cutting some grass saw a man dressed es the preceding wit-
nesses described him walking towards the wood, but he
could not swear to his identity. This was the last time
the prisoner was seen before the mur.ier occurred. About
half-past six a woman, named Petts, who lived three-
quarters of a mile from the spot where ti►e body was found,
and in the direction of the village of Ropley, saw the pri-
soner at a pond near her house washing his hands. After
going to a beer house in the village be went to the Chequers
and spent lid. While sitting there a little girl who came
in observed on the sleeve of his round frock, which was
tucked up, same blood, about the size of a man's hand.
On that day he went to Southampton with a ►waggon,
accompanied by another witness. They went to a man
who kept . the Vine Tap, of the name of Cross►well.
Crosswell said, " 'lbis is a terrible thing, the murder
of the old postman." The other witness said. " Yes ;
do you know whom they suspect ?" Crosswell said, "Yes;
John Deadman there." Prisoner said, " How can they
judge me, when
.I wasn't in that part of the country at the
time ?" The other witness returned with him to AlresfOrd
on the next day. The prisoner paid for several things on
the way. On their return thep went to an inn at Aires-
ford. Shackell, a Bow street officer, came there, and-said
to the prisoner," I apprehend you for the ►wilful murder of
John Hall."
James Lawes was then examined--I was in custody in
Winchester gaol in June. I saw the prisoner in the
same yard. He called me aside, and said, " Now, I tell
you the truth ; - I was the man ►who knocked hint down
with a stick, and then knocked his brains out with a flint,
and threw him into a hedge row." (The prisoner here
changed colour very much.)
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The prisoner was sentenced to be executed on Friday
next.

COURT OF CONIMON COUNCIL.--Yesterday a
Court was held for the despatch of business. Mr. Hall
brought up the Report of the Committee to whom it was
referred to examine the allegation in the petition of the in-
habitants of the Borough, relative to the election of art
alderman of the Ward of Bridge-Without. Mr. Pritchard
wished that the consideration of so important a question should
be postponed until the report of the Committee of the whole
Court upon the Municipal Institutions of the City should he
discussed, and moved an amendment to that effect. Tho
amendment was negatived, and the report was agreed to.--
Adjcn

THE DIARY OP A DESENNUYEE.—The specu-
lations relative to the authorship of this piquant work are cu-
rious. One distinguished critic, " The Athenaeum," observes,
It is singular that with so much ability of her own, the
author should have imitated so closely the style, the manner-
ism, the modes of thought and of expression of a contempo-
rary writer. One is almost tempted to believe that the object
was to pass off the work as a production of Lady i'vlorTan's, so
closely does it copy even her acknowledged faults." 'We are
authorised to state, most distinctly, that it is not the production
of Lady Morgan.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 15.—A few days ago
another instalment was paid to Russia, and the speedy evacua-
tion of Silistria is expected. The steam-boat, which brought
last week 121 millions of piastres, partly in gold, partly in
bills, as tribute from Egypt, brought alio a very humble letter
from Mehemet Ali to the Porte. The money was very wel-
come, for the Porte is said to be in some pecuniary embarrass-
ments in consequence of the payments made to Russia during
the last 3 months, though the presents sent by the governors of
the provinces on the marriage of the Princess Alirimah
amounted to a large sum. Thirty millions of piastres arc said
to have flowed into the Sultan's treasury on that occasion.
Frankfurt, July 9. --Exchange on London, (Bills) 1504
Twa Months, 150.—Frankfort Paper, July 10.
An addition to our list of patrician Authors is
about to be made in the name of the Hon. Grantelev Ber-
keley, M. P., brother of Lord Segrave. The work.which
this gentleman is on the eve of producing, is an historical
romance, founded on the eventful annals of his own house, and
is to be entitled " Berkeley Castle." What grand and chi-
valrous associations throng around the name of this old baro-
nial i%!sidence ! And who can so ably illustrate them, as one
of that distinguished race, whose name has so long been eon_
spicuous in english history ?
Specimens of the Clupea alba, of the awe,
Sprattus, or common Sprat, and of the Gnbius, which is new
to Britain, have been taken from the Solway Firth, near
Whinnyrigg, by Dr. Parnell.