The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-27 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, MA acrt 26.—The undermentioned
gentlemen have this day been elected Fellows of St.
John's College:—Pierson, Beresford, J. J., Hoare,
J. S., Vinted, Todhunter, —, Mayor, J. E. B. Class
Fellows: Bussell,—, Bower, —.
Notice is hereby given that there will he Congrega•
tions on the following days of the ensuing Easter term:
—Wednesday, April 25, at eleven; Wednesday, May 9,
at eleven; Wednesday, May 23, at eleven; Wednesday,
May 30, at eleven; Monday, June 11 (Stat. B.D. Core.)
at ten; Saturday, June 30, at eleven; Monday, July 2,
at eleven; Friday, July 6 (end of term), at ten.
B. A. EXAMINAHON 1851.—. Notice has been given
this day, that, in addttion to the fixed subjects of exami-
nation for the degree of 8.A., the following are selected
for the year 1851:—I. The last fourteen chapters of the
Acts of the Apostles. 2. St. Paul's Second Epistle to
the Corinthians. 3. Medea of Euripides. 4. Forty-
fourth Book of Livy. 5. The first and second hooks and
the first and second parts of the third book of Paley's
Moral Philosophy.

THE STANFIELD HALL MURDERS.—A letter from
Wymondham states that Mrs. Jermy has lost her reason
and will not be able to attend the trial. Eliza Cbestney
will, it is said, be taken to the court, on a kind of litter,
to giver her evidence. Rush has subpoenaed Mrs. Bryant,
the matron of Wymondham gaol, under whose charge
Emily Sandford, or " Widow James." has been since her
having been committed by the magistrates; and a private
room has been fitted up at Norwich Castle for Mrs.
Bryant, Emily Sandford, and her nurse.
CITY OF LONDON TRUSS SOCIETY.—The anniver-
sary dinner, in commemoration of the foundation of this
excellent institution, took place on Thursday, at the Al-
bion Tavern, Aldersgate-street, Lord Feversham in the
chair, when upwards of seventy gentlemen honoured the
charity with their presence. The usual loyal toasts
having been duly responded to. the chairman proposed,
" Prosperity to die City of London Truss Society," and
stated that since its foundation upwards of 147,000 per-
sons had been relieved by it. lie earnestly impressed
on the friends of the institution the necessity of contri-
buting means to carry on and complete the great na-
tional work so successfully begun—namely, the restor
ing the disabled branches, and enabling them to become
useful members of the community. The musical ar-
rangements, which were under the superintendence of
Mr. Broadhurst, contributed much to the conviviality of
the evening.
We find that in consequence of the death of his
Majesty the King of Holland, his present Majesty will
not, of necessity, honour Croxton Park Races with his
presence, where a cup, the gift of his Majesty, called the
Orange Cup, will be one of the prizes. It was likewise
the intention of his present Majesty to have honoured
Mr. and Mrs. Greene, with a visit at their seat, Hirixton,
near Chesterford, Cambridgeshire, on his road to New-
market Craven Meeting. The party to meet the Prince
would have consisted of the Duke of Leeds and most of
the members of the Royal Hawking Club of the Lou, in
Holland, of which club Mr. Greene :(our late lligh
Sheriff) has been for some years a member and a eon-
stunt attendant. Many of the members will now nut be
present
consequent upon the King's departure for his
,
own dominions. For the Craven meeting, in addition
to the party at Hinxton, will be, the Duke and Duchess
of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Poulett, Lord and
Lady William Poulett, Mr. Pigott, Lady Keene and
Captain G. Pigott, Mr. Sloane Stanley, Mr. and Mrs.
and Rev. William Nevvcorne. It will be recollected that
the news of his late Majesty's death reacht d the Prince
of Orange whilst urn a visit to the Duke of Cleveland,
at Raby Castle, the seat of Mrs. Greene's uncle.—Cant-
bridge News.
The Home and Colonial Schools in Gray's Inn-
road were yesterday honoured with a visit from the
Marchioness of Lansdowne, who was accompanied by
Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. They arrived at halt-past
two, and heard a series of lessons in the preparatory in-
fant and juvenile schools, and exercises of a class of the
teachers in trainirg. The Bishop of Cashel, Mr. Lewin,
and other visitors were also present.
It is rumoured that ex-President I'olk and his lady
A99l4tlAPl;t9;Yipitt9gtil9Pe

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P INSULAR MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING, 5 A.nr.—The
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's
ship Madrid, Captain John Bowen, has just arrived of
this port, with the usual Spanish and Portuguese mails.
in charge of Lieutenant Newenham, Admiralty
agent.
Her dates are—Gibraltar, March 15; Cadiz, March 16;
Lisbon, March 19; Oporto, March 20; Vigo, March 21.
She brings on freight-706 chests oranges, 15 chests
potatoes, 5 boxes tangerines, 15 boxes leeches, 2 ease'
saffron, 11 packages specie (value 2,700 L), and 22 pack-
ages sundries. Amongst the passengers are Colonel and
Mrs. Lock, R.A., M. Balsamon (Charg,6 d'Affairs from
Portugal to Vienna) and lady.
The Madrid had experienced strong easterly gales
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across the bay, which has prolonged her voyage.
This steamer brings letters of the 19th from our col'.
respondent in the city of Lisbon.
Portugal continued tranquil.
The long drought had been succeeded by genial
showers, which fell on the 18th, much to the joy of the
country. Beans had risen from 21s. to 325. per quarter
within the last month, and bread in proportion ; these
famine prices would not, however, be sustained.
The long promised ministerial and financial projects
had not been submitted to the Cortes, but were to be
laid on the table of the Lower House on the evening
after the Madrid's departure.
Some sensation had bon created in Lisbon by the
sudden suppression of the recently established league for
promoting the material inter, sts of the country. A
public meeting of the league, to have been held on the
S th, was prohibited, by an order signed by the Minister
of the Interior. As this association was formerly sup-
ported by the Government, and was composed of parties
and men of all shades of political opinion, the arbitrary
edict had produced a great deal of excitement, and the
Ministry were to be interrogated on the subject in the
Cortes.

Nothing of particular consequence had occurred in the
Chamber of Deputies.
The House of Peers had for some days been engaged
upon a matter of great importance to the Count of
Farrebo, inasmuch as it was likely to effect the final ex-
ecution of a sentence long pending against him for about
200,0001., indemnification for discount on paper money
upon the tobacco contract he some years ago trausferred
to Messrs. Pimenta and Co.

lI.M. brig Harlequin and the American frigate St.
Lawrence were in the Tagus.
The new steam-ship Vectis, Captain Bingham, sold
by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company to the
Sicilian Insurgent Government, put into Lisbon, from
Liverpool, on the 16th, to make good some trifling de-
tects in her machinery. She sailed again on the 19th
for Palermo, where she will be employed as a steamer
of war. The Vectis is to be called the Independenzia;
she is a beautiful vessel of 1,200 tons, and was built by
White of Cowes.

Few Exchange operations had taken place for this
packet. The quotations for bills at three months were
as follow:—On London, 53k; Paris, 527; Amsterdam,
43k; Hamburgh bills offered, but no money, at 48i to
49. In stocks and shares few transactions:—Five per
Cents., 51 to 52; Four per Cents., 404- to 41i; Bank of
Portugal Shares, 35 to 30 discount; Bank of Oporto
shares, 35 to 45 premium; Lisbon Bank notes, 43 per
cent. discount.

The Iberia, with outward mails from Southampton,
arrived at Vigo on the 21st instant.
There was some probability of the quarantine being
reduced at Lisbon.

Our advices from Gibraltar, of the 15th instant, state
that there had been a great hurricane on the night of
the 12th, which did considerable damage to the houses,
particularly in the southern part of the town. The old-
est inhabitant did not recollect so severe a storm of
wind. One American, five Spanish, and one Greek
vessel went on shore; the former would in all probability
be got off. The British schooners Clementine, and Rosa,
bound to Oran, were forced to put into the Bay of Gib-
raltar for shelter.
The Madrid was detained some little time at Gibral-
tar, in consequence of the quarantine regulations. The
Governor, Sir R. Gardiner, had proposed to the Spanish
authorities to reduce it to three days.
Her Majesty's ship St. Vincent, and the steamers Si-
don, Polyphemus, Reynard, and Plumper were at Gib-
raltar on the 15th, also the French steamer Dauphin.
The Sidon, St. Vincent, and Plumper were to leave on
the 16th for England. It was rumoured that the nego-
tiations with the piratical Moors on the Riff Coast bad
been brought to a close, by satisfaction having been given
to the Admiral.

Lieutenant-Colonel Norman, of her Majesty's sGth
Foot, died on tho 13th inst.

Exchanges at Gibraltar, at 90 days, were quoted on
London 49k; Paris, st. 28c.; Marseilles, sf. 30c.;
Genoa, .sf. 40c.; at eight days' sight on Madrid, If
discount; Cadiz, Valencia, and Barcelona, par; Ma-
laga, no paper; Seville, d discount; Alicante, discount;
Spanish pillared dollars, per cent. per annum.

MR. BEARD'S IMPROVEMENTS 1N

PHOTOGRAPHY.

Within the lastfewda}SWeWisvevisited Mr. Beard's
establishments in King William-street and Parliament-
street, and having inspected there some of his most
recant productions, we must confess that we were
perfectly astonished at the perfection to which he has
brought the photographic art. The early daguerreotype
portraits were unmistakeable likenesses, yet so deeply IA ero
they impressed with a pallid corpse-like hue, that they
were in fact uglier than the most ugly originals, and
besides the plate upon which the likenesses were im-
pressed had to be moved about in various ways before
the exact expression could be caught by the .ye. Mr.
Beard was the first to provide a remedy !or these glaring
detects, and his ordinary uncoloured portraits possess the
appearance, and indeed may easily be mistaken for, the
most carefully and expensively executed stet ] engravings.
They can be seen whichever way they are exhibited,
ithwr by natural or artificial light, and the smallest
details in lineaments or attire are caught by his process
with unerring and extraordinary distinctness. By a re-
cent improvement in the preparation of the plates the
natural expression of the features, and in fact the bear-
ing cf the whole figure, is delineated with wonderful ac-
curacy ants boldness. The minutest folds iof white
drapery, which have always been found difficult
to portray on the plate, in consequence of the close
approximation of white to light, and, indeed, of the
minutest and most intricate patterns of any Patric,
whether silk, cloth, or satin, and of any colour, variety,
or shade, are brought out and exhibited to perfection.
Then, again, the completeness to which the colouring of
the process has been brought by Mr. Beard and his son
is equally wonderful, since the utmost minutiae of ex-
pression, of dress, flowers, or other embellishments are
diplayed in their natural colours and intricacy. Indeed,
we inspected several coloured portraits of men high in
the Legislature, and of high-born dames renowned in
the world of fashion, which might be appropriately
termed, without au exception, "speaking likenesses."
Such is the pitch of perfection to which this branch of
photography has been brought by Mr. Beard, that these
coloured portraits (particularly the fleshy tints) have
all the appearance of the most beautifully executed mi-
natures on ivory.

OLYMPIC IIIEATEE.—Mr. H. J. Turner, one o
the most popular actors at this favourite resort of the
lovers of the drama, takes his benefit at this house to-
morrow (Wednesday) evening, when we hope a crowded
audience will attend to encourage a deserving and rising
actor. Air. Turner has issued a most attractive bill
of fare for the occasion, in which we find four excellent
courses, consisting of The Ray Pichers of Paris, The
Lost Diamonds, Cousin Cherry, and Potharnania.
YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAILWAY.—
The Lords of the Admiralty in giving their sanction to
the Bill of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway
Company to construct a branch line from Lesbury to
Alnmouth, have required that the soffits of the beams of
the bridge over the Aln shall be six feet instead of three
feet above the highest spring tides ; and that the com-
pany shall bind themselves to make a suitable opening
in the bridge, if the river should be deepened for vessels
to go up to Lesbury; and also requiring that the stone
ford, 950 yards below the proposed bridge, shall be le-
velled to the bed of the river.—Neweastle. Journal.
THE CONVICT HOWE.—This man, who now lies in
the condemned cell, at York, convicted of the murder
of his child, remains much in the same I rune of mind as
noticed in our last. No reprieve or respite has come to
hand, and should the Heine-office issue neither during
the ensuing week, Howe will undergo the extreme
penalty of the law cn Saturday next. We believe he has
so far made no avowal of his guilt.--Yorkshire Gazette.
We understand the amount of gold recently re-
ceived by various mercantile houses in London from Ca-
lifornia is, in the aggregate, rather more than 40,0004
FATAL QUARREL BETWEEN Two BEOTIIERS.—A
melancholy and fatal event, resulting
indul-
gence of uncontrolled passion, has just oc,cliriTeltato Leeds.bro
from the
On Saturday morning just' about
live
o'clock,
farm-
thers, William Proctor and Thomas
whilst were getting dressed in their
—quarrelled i they
labourers—the former 21 years of age and the latter, 18
et gootti.n g t o
ready their
as
a s labour.the
The younger
r thought he ought to do, the latter used some
father's house
and eventually struck his brother two
'braotthieruinsolettg'
• Being a great deal irritated, the younger
brother took his pocket-knife and made a severe attack
the elder one, inflicting a deep wound in his neck,
oae rlbduteshirvoceen language,t
i mes .
upon
and cutting the jugular vein. The sufferer, in a very
hopeless state, was immediately taken to the Leeds Ge-
neral Infirmary, where he expired on Sunday afternoon.
Thomas Proctor is in custody, and the inquest on the
body of the deceased was to be held yesterday (Monday)
evening.
IN RE BARTON, IRLAII, AND lIIGGINSON.—At the
Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy., on Saturday,
Mr. Commissioner Stevenson gave his decision upon an
important application which had been made by the
assignees in this case, to the effect that the joint estate
of the bankrupts should have a right of proof on the
private estate of one of the bankrupts, Mr. Jonathan
Higginson, fur the sum of 105,000/., said to have been
abstracted by him from the partnership concern, and
invested on his own private account in the purchase of
railway shares. His Honour delivered an elaborate
judgment, the effect of which was, that he considered
that the proposal could not be allowed.
During the night of Sunday last the office of the
Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, Queen-
street, Hull, was broken open; the clerk, who sleeps in
the office-, secured by cords—about 451. abstracted, and
the books and papers partially burnt. The clerk is in
custody, and has been remanded on suspicion.
PROPOSED STATUE OF OLIVER CEONIWELL AT
ST. IVES.—Measures are likely to bo taken by a com-
mittee at St. Ives to appeal to the country for funds to
erect a monument to the memory of the Protector. St.
Ives was the place at which Cromwell resided at the
commencement of his public career and his signature still
exists upon the church
books. Slepe Hall (the site of
his house) has just been pulled down,
and a portion of
the inhabitants think that upon the spot the monument
th9tiid be erected.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS, March 26.
This morning the House resumed its sittings on appeals.
The Lords present were—the Lord Chancellor, Lord
)3rougham, and the Earl Somers.
MALCOM V. MANSFIELD AND OTHERS.
The arguments in this appeal were resumed.
This was an appeal against two interlocutors of the
Court of Session in Scotland. The arguments were
altogether confined to matters of technicality in Scotch

law.
Mr. Turner and Mr. M'Neill having brought their
arguments to a termination,
The House, without hearing counsel for the respon-
dents, at once dismissed the appeal, and affirmed the in-
terlocutory of the Court below.
VARNARD GREGORY v. THE DUKE OF DRUNSwICIC AND
ANOTHER.
Mr. Manisty appeared for the plaintiff in error, and
Mr. Snow for the defendant.
It will be remembered that some years since the plain-
tiff in error, and the plaintiff in the Court below, at that
time being the proprietor or editor of the Satirist news-
paper, made his appearance on the stage of Drury-
lane Theatre, in the character of Hamlet, and that
on the occasion there was a great disturbance in the
house, which led to the utmost confusion. This dis-
urbance the appellant alleged the respondents to have
been the cause of, and to have led, with a view to his
injury. The appellant, therefore, brought an action for
the recovery of compensation in damages. The trial
came on in the Court of Common Pleas, at the sittings
after Trinity term, 1843, when a verdict was found for
Or respondents on all the issues. A rule nisi was
afterwards obtained, but in Hilary term, 1844, was dis-
charged, and judgment given for the defendants. A writ
of error was then brought in the Exchequer Chamber,
when the then plaintiff assigned errors, in which errors
the then defendants joined. The Court of Exchequer
Chamber affirmed the judgment of the Court of Common
Pleas, and the present writ of error was the result.
The question which was raised by the writ was as to
the form in which the judgment had been entered by the
Court below.
After the case had, on the present occasion, proceeded
acme way,
Lord Baorlomor suggested that the parties should
make an application to the Court of Exchequer Chamber
on the subject of that entry, and then, if so advised, that
they should again bring the matter under the considera-
tion of their Lordships' House.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME; ClRCUlT.—Kingston, March 26.
The Commission for the county of Surrey was opened
on Saturday, and this morning business commenced in
loth:Courts. There are 37 prisoners for trial on the
rown side, and the cause list contains 66 entries, 12 of
which are special jury cases.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice WIGHT:VAN.)
Richard Hunter, 16, a well known thief, was indicted
for stealing from the person of Mary Anne Burnes, a
purse, containing 125., her property.
Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, and Mr. Charnock defended
the prisoner.
The evidence of the robbery by the prisoner was most
conclusive. He was watched by Romayne, a very useful
officer, in the New-cut, Lambeth, on the 19th of Feb-
ruary, in company with two other boys, evidently prowl-
ing about for the purposes of plunder, and he was at
length seen to lift up the gown of the prosecutrix, and
put his hand into her pocket, and he withdrew it
clenched, and then made a motion, as if passing some-
thing to one of his companions, who immediately ran
off. The constable then seized the prisoner, and, after
a violent struggle, succeeded in securing him, and the
prosecutrix, on putting her hand into her pocket, found
that her purse and its contents had been stolen.
Mr. CHARNOCIE, in his address to the jury, com-
mented upon the fact that no money had been found
upon the prisoner, and that the policeman was unable to
swear that the prisoner actually passed the
,purse to his
companion.
The jury, after deliberating a short time, did not ap-
pear likely to agree, and his Lordship inquired if there
was any portion of the evidence which they wished to
have read over to them.
The Foreman of the jury. said that they felt a diffi-
culty on account of there being no proof that the pri-
soner actually passed away the purse, and that the pro-
perty was not produced.
His LORDSHIP told them that if juries were to decline
to convict in all cases where the stolen property was not
produced it might tend to occasion a great failure of
justice. In the present case, they were to say, as rea-
sonable men, whether the fair inference from the evi-
dence was not that the prisoner passed the purse to the
other lad, who ran away with it.
The jury then again deliberated for a short time, when
they returned a verdict of Guilty.
A previous conviction for a robbery from the person
was then proved against the prisoner, and he was sen-
tenced to be transported for seven years.
Henry Wilson, alias Durrant, 23, was indicted for
breaking into the parish church at Ewell, and stealing a
surplice and other articles, the property of the Rev.
James Arthur Dunnage.

The prisoner was also indicted for being feloniously
at large before the expiration of a period of transporta-
tion, to which he had been sentenced in 1847.
It will be remembered that at the spring assizes at
this place in 1847 the prisoner was tried for a robbery
at the residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, at
Addington, and upon his conviction he was sentenced to
be transported for ten years. After his sentence he was
taken back to the gaol at Kingston, and he contrived,
during the temporary absence of the turnkey to scale
the wall and make his escape, and nothing was heard of
him until he was re•committed to take his trial upon the
first-mentioned charge.
_ .

The prisoner pleaded guilty to both indictments.

Sent;mce defeired

William Stradwick, 22, was indicted for feloniously
attempting to discharge a loaded gun at William Paters,
with intent to prevent his lawful apprehension, and in a
second count his intent was laid to be to do the prose-
cutor grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Lilly prosecuted.
It appeared from the evidence that Peters is an assis-
tant gamekeeper to the Earl of Onslow, and on the night
of the 11th of January, he and two other men were
watching in a wood at Kepley. About eleven o'clock
they heard the report of a gun, and as they were pro-
ceeding in the direction whence it appeared to eome they
heard a second shot, and very soon afterwards raters
came up with the prisoner and another man. The latter
ran off, but the prisoner, who had a gun in his hand,
presented it at the keeper, and told him to keep off.
The prosecutor instantly knocked the gun out of his
band, and the prisoner was then taken into custody, and
on his being searched a hen pheasant, and a quantity of
powder and shot, were found upon him, and the gun
which had been in his possession was discovered, upon its
being examined, to be loaded with a large charge of
powder and shot.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he was aiming
the gun at a bird when the keeper came up, and he had
not time to take it from his shoulder before it was
knocked out of his hand.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Mr. Baron PARKE did not sit on the civil side until
one o'clock, and his Lordship disposed of a few common
jury cases, the details of which were perfectly unin-
teresting.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Hereford, March 24.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)
ThomasWhitford was indicted for the wilful murder of
leis wife, Elizabeth Whitford, at Brilley, on the 28th of
October last.
It appeared that the prisoner had for some time la-
boured under religious mania, which at times exhibited
itself in great violence of conduct. The unfortunate
deceased was some years older than the prisoner, and
it appeared that their household presented a scene of
great connubial misery. On the night in question he re-
turned home, and a quarrel commenced between them
which was heard by the neighbours, who fearing that
the dispute had been attended with more serious conse-
quences than usual, sent a constable to the house, who,
with some of the neighbours effected an entrance, when
they found the poor woman lying dead on the ground
with her brains literally beaten out, and her skull dread-
fully fractured, the prisoner standing near the body in a
complete state of nudity. On examining the body, the
key of the door was found in deceased's pocket, so that
it would appear she had locked the door from the inside.
The conduct of the prisoner left little doubt that his
mind was diseased, and the jury Acquitted him on the
ground of insanity.
Mr. Baron PLATT ordered him to be detained in cus-
tody during her Majesty's pleasure; and he was recom-
mitted to the county gaol, there to await the Royal will
respecting him.
Elijah Lewis, John Symonds, Henry Williams, and
Thomas Thomas, were indicted for violently assaulting
Thomas Ball, at Huntingdon, on the 17th of February,
and stealing a purse, three sovereigns, a eheque-book,
and other articles from his person.
The prisoners waylaid Mr. Ball, a farmer, as he was
returning from Hereford market, knocked him from his
horse, knelt on his chest, and violently rifled his pockets.
It appeared that they mistook him for Mr. Taylor, the
steward of Sir R. Price, Bart., M.P., who they supposed
would pass that way on his road to Foxley Court, and
who was known to have been receiving a large sum of
money in Hereford that day, on the Baronet's account.
• They were convicted.
The business of the assizes was brought to a close by
eleven to-night, until which hour both the Judges sat.
MONMOUTH, March 25.

Mr. Sergeant Talfourd opened the commission for this
county yesterday afternoon; and Mr. Baron Platt, with
Mr. Justice Coltman, arrived from Hereford this morn-
ing, when they attended Divine service at St. Mary's
Church.
The calendar contains the names of 48 prisoners, but
there is no charge of murder, although independent of
that, some of the crimes are of a very serious nature.
MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Coventry, March 26.
The Commission for this division of the county of
Warwick was opened by Mr. Justice Maule on Satur-
&l', but no business beyond the opening of the Commis-
sion was transacted until to-day.
There are
cas es 29 prisoners for trial, but with the excep-
tion of three arson and one for manslaughter,
the offences are light. Nye must not forget to mention'
the case of Robert Astill, charged with havinc, printed
published a libel concerning. Lord Leigh, of Stone-
laphr *I g This case has been removed to, and will, we
6:5149i.-71"" ele lehv'e be tried at 'Warwick; as also a similar indict-
-4'
-1,--2.,*,' merit against' an attorney, named Griffin. These
ease,
• ' ° excite great interest throughout the county; probably
a- ''t:::' their will not be tried before Friday.
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r.
Thervi was only one cause here, " Whitlock v. White.
',- • head:l,l,4U was an action upon the warranty of a horse,
'...-- and after the usual quantum of hard swearing a verdict
i--- passed for the defendant.
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opened the commission this morning having been es-
ccrted into the city by the High Sheriff, with the usual
formalities. _ _ _

The calendar is not heavy, and there aro but few cases
to be tried of any importance, with the exception of the
case of the Stanfield Hall murders, which engrosses pub-
lic attention exclusively.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT, Liverpool, March 26.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDEDSON,)
Roger Fogg, a respectable looking Quaker, was in-
dicted for manslaughter at Preston, on the 3d of March
last.
Mrs. Lambert worked at the mill. The prisoner was
the manager. Messrs. Cooper and Gannington were
the masters. The engine. tenter was Robert Wilkinson.
The reeling-room, in which witness worked, was over
the boiler. Mary Hart worked in the same room and
two others. An explosion, like the report of a cannon
took place, about half-past eleven o'clock in the morn-
ing, and immediately the room was filled with steam and
sulphur. Part of the floor was blown up. They were
all very much scalded, and were taken to the house of re-
covery, where Mary Hart died.
Joseph Clayton, engineer—He made the two boilers,
waggon shaped, for the Brunswick mill. They were
low pressure. To such boilers a gauge of never
more than 91b. is applied. The usual pressure was
not more than 41b. to 61b. In August, 1843, witness
and Mr. Stephenson examined the engine and boilers,
which had the safety valve in such a state
as to admit of a pressure of 201 b. to the inch, when
the steam ought to have blown off at 101 b. at most.
Witness was at Mr. Cooper's a few days afterwards,
and in consequence of what took place in September,
1843, witness put on the boil-over pipes, which would
boil over at a pressure of 121 b. On the 7th witness saw
the prisoner and the master together, and he told them
they were working the boiler at a pressure greater than
it could bear. The prisoner said they could not work
the machinery with the boil-over pipes on. Mr. Cooper
asked why. The prisoner said because:they were con-
tinually boiling over. Witness said yes, that was what
they were put 'there for, to prevent them giving it a
higher pressure than the boiler ought to be worked
with. He again asked the prisoner what had become of
the boil over pipes. He answered he had ordered them
to be taken off, as when they .were on they could not
drive the whole of the machinery, as they were con-
stantly boiling over.
His LORDSHIP told the' jury if a man did an act ne-
gligently, by which the life of a man was lost, he was
guilty of manslaughter at least, and he should be sorry
that there should be any doubt about it.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly re-
commended him to mercy, and his Lordship fined him
51., and to enter into recognizances in 1001. for two
years.
Mary Ann Smith, aged 20, was indicted for the mur-
der of Hugh Watson, at Liverpool, on the 3d of March.
Watson was a porter, and on that night he met a
woman named Collins, who now swore that he accosted
her in the street, asking where he could get a lodging,
and she took him to a house of ill-fame, on arriving at
which she knocked, and a servant opened the door, and
as he was going in he fell off the step. She lifted him up.
The surgeon said the deceased had an abrasion on the
cheek, and on a post mortem examination he found that
the skull was fractured, caused by a severe blow at the
base, and consequent effusion on the brain by a fall.

His LORDSHIP said it was a case of manslaughter
only, and the jury acquitted the prisoner of murder and
found her guilty of manslaughter, on which his Lord-
ship, telling her it was a bad case, sentenced her to be
transported for ten years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Ellen Smith, Mary West, and Eliza Jones, were
brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with having at-
tempted to pick the pockets of several ladies in Oxford-
street and Regent-street.
The police have recently received information of
numerous street robberies effected by women, who go
about in gangs, and commit their depredations on the
pockets of promenaders in quite a systematic manner.
Their most common practice is to look out for a lady
stopping before a shop window, and then by surrounding
her, to cover the light-fingered proceedings of the mast
dexterous of their gang.
On Saturday police-constables Hardwick and Bird,
two of the detectives, saw the three prisoners in Oxford-
street, busily plying their vocation. Hardwick saw the
three close round a lady, who was standing before a
linendraper• shop in Oxford-street, and press against her
in such a way as to give the action the appearance of an
accident. One of the prisoners then inserted her hand
between the lady's mantle and her dress, but apparently
found nothing in the pocket to answer her pur-
pose. The prisoners then went away, and attacked
two or three ladies in a similar manner. They were
joined by a fourth with a large basket, which nad evi-
dently been brought out to facilitate operations. The
four went into Regent-street, and picked out a lady
standing at a shop window. The woman with the basket
kept pushing the basket against the lady, and this having
served to take off the lady's attention from what was
going on at the other side of her, the other three were
enabled to sound her pockets without the likelihood of
being detected. Suddenly all four ran off, some one
having evidently given the office to them that they were
watched. The constables, however, in about an hour
afterwards met with the same parties engaged in the same
business, and this time they secured three of them.

The prisoners all declared their innocence of any-
thing like an attempt to pick pockets. They admitted
that they stopped before several shop windows, where
ladies had also stopped, but this they conceived to be
no offence.

Mr. BINGHAM sent them to prison for one month each.

WORSHIP.:STREE7'.

A young man, named George Gardner, was placed at
the bar before Mr. Hammill, charged with having stolen
a large number of fishing nets, of the ♦alue of 311., the
property of his father, a twinespinner at Yarmouth.
It appeared from the evidence of a brother of the pri-
soner, that his father had lately been reduced to such
embarrassed circumstances, that he had been compelled
to enter into an arrangement with his creditors, who
consented, in consideration of the well-known probity
of his character, and his advanced ago and infirmities, to
suspend proceedings against him until the setting in of
the deep sea fishing, which would give him an oppor-
tunity of disposing of a sufficient quantity of his goods
to satisfy their claims. In furtherance of this arrange-
ment the old man and his daughters had been for some
weeks incessantly occupied, night and day, in the manu-
facture of herring nets, for which he expected immediate
orders, and having completed a sufficient number to pro-
duce upwards of 301., he locked them up in his work-
room, in the early, part of last week, but discovered,
on the following morning, that the place had been
broken open, and that the entire produce of their anxious
labours had been carried off. On returning to his family
to communicate their misfortunes, it was found that
the prisoner had disappeared; and, having ascertained
from subsequent inquiries that ho had gone off to Lon.
don, his brother, the witness, instantly started in pursuit,
and succeeded in tracing him to the neighbourhood of
Finsbury, where he accidently met him in the street, and
charged him with the robbery. The prisoner, iu the first
instance positively denied all knowledge of the transac-
t tion' but ultimately confessed his guilt, and disclosed the
names of three fishermen at Yarmouth, to whom he had
disposed of the whole of the nets at less than one-fourth
of their value. The prisoner was then handed over to
the custody of Sergeant Cole, and having been urged to
restore as much of the proceeds of the plunder as he had
left, for the benefit of his impoverished father, the priso-
ner pulled out 4s. and a few half-pence, which he de-
clared was all that remained ; but hearing a jingling
sound against his teeth, the sergeant instantly seized
him by the throat, and after a violent struggle between
them, forced out two sovereigns which he had secreted
in his mouth, and he was then conveyed to the station-
house. •

The prisoner, who displayed the most callous indif-
ference, declined offering any defence, and
Mr. lI&MMILL. who characterised it as a most heart-
less case, ordered the depositions to be taken, and fully
committed the prisoner for trial, but directed both the
accused and the depositions to be transmitted to Yar-
mouth, to save the expense of the witnesses' attendance
in town.