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WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Winchester, July 13.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WILitAMs.)
George Newbury; was indicted for the manslaughter
of Henry Johnson (a lad aged fifteen 3 ears), at Canis-
brook, in the Isle of Wight.
Mr. Pouldec was couiasel for the prosecution; Mr. N.
M. Cooke defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that on the 7th of June
the deceased was at the Bugle Inn, at Catisbrook. At
about four o'clock in the afternoon the prisoner came
into the inn yard, And accused the deceased of having
thrown a stone .at his daughter, and also with having
worried his. dog. The deceased denied this, and an al-
tercation took place between them. The prisoner then
colimenced a viele4it assault on the deceased, and heat
him over the head and on the thighs with a stick. On
cross•examination it was elicited that subsequently the
quarrel was made up, and the patios drank togeth,r.
The deceased wet about his wozk as usual, and did not
complain of anything for three days, when he became
ill, and a'niedical wan attended him ; he lingered until
the 11th of June, and then died. The surgeon, Mr.
Waterworth, deposed to the cause of death being inflam-
mation of—the lungs, which he said might have been
caused by the heating whish he had received. On cross-
examination, however, he stated that the inflammation
might have arisen from severe cold.
Upon this evidence the Learned JUDGE expressed his
opinion that, the ,charge.of manslaughter could not be
supported, but directed the jury that they might find the
prisoner guilty of. a common assault.
This verdict was accordingly returned, and the pri-
soner was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.

NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESS

WELL.)
Thomas Holloway was indicted for the manslaughter of
his son, Wild= Holloway, a boy of ten years old.
Mr. Sewell conducted the prosecution. The prisoner
was undefended.

This was a very distressing case from the near rela-
tionship between the prisoner and the deceased
It appeared by the evidence that the prisoner was a
labourer, living at Southampton. On the 26th of May
last, went to work in the morning, and his wife also went
to work at a house in the neighb •urhood, leaving a little
girl and the boy who afterwards met with his death at
home. On leaving home the prisoner told the boy to
remember to fetch a pitcher or water by the time he
came home to dinner, as he should want some coffee.
At half past twelve the prisoner returned to his house to
dinner; tho water had not been, tetched, nor was the boy
there; and on inquiry, the father found that he was gone
to etch crabs in the river with some other boys.
In the evening, when the prisoner returned from his
work, the boy was playing in the road; but on seeing
his father he ran into the house; upon this the father
said to a man named White, that he was going to give
the buy a cut or two for not minding what he was told;
he had a strap in his hand. He then heard him beating
the boy with the strap. He then stopped, and was heard
to ask the boy if he remembered what he had told him
the day before, to which the child answered, " no father."
He was then heard to strike the child twice, when a
little sister of the boy cried out, " Oh don't father, don't;
Billy will die." Mrs. White went into the room and met
the prisoner coming out with the child in his arms, ap-
parently 'alarnied. He took the child into the air, and
bathed his head and face. The child, however, died in
a very few minutes. The strap was produced with which
the prisoner had struck the b.)y, but it was a small one,
not likely to inflict a serious injury, but had a buckle at
one end.

The medical man who examined the body of the child,
deposed that ha found several bruises on the child's

back and shoulders, such as might have been caused by
blows of the strap, and a braise 13-hind the left ear,whieh
he said was, in all probability, caused by a blow with
the fist, and not by the strap. On opening th. skull he
found that a vessel on the brain hsol been ruptured, a,
he believed, by this blow. An effusion of blood took
p, lace which caused pressure on the brain and instant
death.

Ur. Justice CRESSWELL having summed up and ex-
plained to the jury the law applicable to the case, the
jury found the prisoner guilty.
The prisoner was thou sentenced to fifteen months'
imprisonment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSIOIV-HOUSE.
William Speak, who was on Thursday last charged be-
fore Sir J. Pixie with having attempted to utter a forged
bill for 9SI. 103., purporting to be drawn upon Messrs.
Davis, the extensive shoemakers of Gracechurch-street,
was further examined.
Mr. Mullens, of the firm of Bush and Muliens, solici-
tors to the Committee of Bankers, who attended for the
prosecution, said, on the case being called, that the
London bankers had received, since the prisoner's first
examination, a telegraphic communication from a bank
at Halifax, by which the bill in question had been
discounted, to the of ct that the bill should be
sent back. That had been done, end Messrs. Barclay
lied received a letter from the Halifax bank, subse-
quently, requesting that the bill might be put down
in honour of the firm, so that there evidently was no in-
tion of Prosecuting for the offence.
Sir J. PIRIE —Here is a case of positive forgery, and
cannot with such evidence before me, permit the ends
of justice to be defeated so completely. I cannot con-
sent, although the instrument is no longer before me, to
allow the prisoner to be at large. There can be no doubt
as to the fact of the forgery.
Mr. Mullens said he had written to the person in
Staffordshire, who was alleged to be the drawer of the
bill, and had received an answer, stating that there was
a person of the name there, but that person knew no-
thing whatever of the bill, and would, if required, come
to London to satisfy those upon whom the delusion had
been attempted to be practised. The case was, however,
out of the bands of Messrs. Barclay and Co., the bill
being in the possession of the bankers at Halifax.
Sir J. PIRIE—I certainly shall not discharge the pri-
soner, and the le:niters at Halifax must. be immediately
written to to produce the forged instrument.
The prisoner was then remanded till Wednesday next.
GUILDHALL.
Alai Blake, of No. 4i, Great George-street, Ber-
mondsey, butcher, and James West, of Fenton-place,
East Greenwich, were placed at the bar before Mr.
Alderman Musgrove, charged with defrauding a Mrs.
Cox of 71, nnder the following circumstancee:—
Mrs. Lucy Cox, of Wheatsheat-yard, Farringdon-
street, said that on Friday, the 6th of June, she pur-
chased a mare in Smithfield market from the prisoner
West, the man Blake being present. The price agreed
upon was 101., but no; having that amount, nor wishing
to go beyond 71. or 81, she intimated to them her posit
tion, upon which West said they would give her time to
pay the balance, and eventually it was arranged that she
should pay down 71, and the other 3/.:.t the end of the
week. West signed the receipt for the money. On the
following morning (Saturday) she sent the horse and a
cart to Mr. Eyke, of Milton-street, Cripplegate, for two
quarters of oats, when it was instantly identified and de-
tained, as having been stolen from that person the pre-
vious day; in consequence of which the prisoners were
taken into custody.
Mr. John Ey ke, carman, of Milton-street, said that
on the 6th of July, a person brought a letter from a
Mr. Bartholomew, the brother of a person he well knew,
requesting that he might be accommodated with a horse,
at the same time representing that he was in the writer's
service. He wrote a note back, and shortly alter the
party returned with an answer in writing, in which it
was stated that there was no objection to the paying
21s. per week for the hire, and that he might depend
upon it the horse would be "kept well." On the fol-
lowing morning his people identified the horse, when
sent by Mrs. Cox for two quarters of' corn.
Alderman MUSGROVE —How long has Mrs. Cox dealt
with you ? Mr. Eyko—For some years.
Alderman MusneovE—At what time did you lend
the horse ? Mr. Eyke—About ore o'clock.
Alderman MUSGROVE—And when was it purchased ?
Mrs. Cox—Abont two o'clock the same afternoon.
Alderman Musonove—lt certainly is a remarkable
circumstance that it should so soon return to the owner's
hands.

Mr. Eyke said he had the horse about three or four
years, and its value was about 201. He had teen
Mr. Bartholomew, who denied sending the letters or
authorising any one to get him a horse. To provo
the mare was his property, she was taken out of the
cart and let loose, when she directly went to her own
stall.
William Woolmer, in the employ of Mr. Eyke, said
that the man when he called the second time said that
any horse would do, as he must take some goods down
to Stratford that afternoon ; upon which witness said
that he might have it for one night, but the mare must
be returned the same evening, and the following morning
he should have another horse in its stead. The man
promised to be back at seven o'clock, but he did not
make his appearance, nor was the horse seen until the
following flay, when Mrs. Cox sent for the corn.
Henry Webb, 258, said that on apprehending the pri-
soners he asked West where he got the horse from,when
he replied that he and his master Blake met a man in
St. John-street, leading the horse. They asked him if
it was for sale, and he said yes, it was ; upon which
they rent into Mr. Robinson's yard and concluded the
bargain. Witness inquired if they had a receipt, and
received a reply in the negative. He then aAked what
price was given, upon which \Vest said he was not dis•
posed to answer that question. All he knew was that the
man gave him a name, and also the name of his master
on a piece of paper.
Thomas Bradley, 269, corroborated his brother offi-
cer's statement.
A solicitor's clerk, who attended to defend the prisoners,
cross•examintd the witness, but did not in the slightest
degree alter the facts epoken to. He contended there
was no case, for his clients fairly and openly purchased
the horse.
Alderman MUSGROVE said there was sufficient to jus-,
tify a remand, for there might have been a conspiracy
between the prisoners and the man not in custody to
obtain the horse by means of forged letters. At any
rate it looked suspicious that no receipt was taken, 'nor
any inclination to tell what was given for the horse. He
should remand them until Wednesday.
Application was then made for Blake to be allowed out
on bail, but the worthy Alderman declined doing so.
CLERKEN WELL.
Samuel Honour, an elderly man, fur many years past
a respectable inhabitant of Ilighbury- vale, Islington.
where he has carried on business as an undertaker and
cabinet-maker, was charged with a robbery in the dwell •
ing house of Mr. Barnes, a draper, of the Upper•road,
in that parish, under very aggravated circumstances.
The case excited considerable interest, and occupied
the attention of the worthy Magistrate, Mr. Tyrwhitt,
a considerable time.
The followinc, are the short facts of the easet—On
Friday night, between ten and eleven o'clock, a fire
broke out on the premises occupied by the prosecutor,
and the prisoner was one of the first on the spot after an
alarm of the conflagration had been raised by the ser •
vants of Mr. Barnes, who was not at home at the time.
One of the shopmen, in a frantic manner, called for some
one to secure the eash•box, and some title-deeds then in
the counting house, and the prisoner helped himself to
the former, and endeavoured to escape. He was met by
Police-constables Woodrum and Harries, of the N divi-
sion, who had to take the box by force away from him;
after which it was discovered that the contents, amount-
ing to 141. 9s , had disappeared. The accused was im-
mediately sought after, and being discovered in a crowd
in front of the house, he was walked off to the police-
station, where the amount in question, for the possession
of which he could not give a satisfactory account, was
found upon him.
Mr.TYRWHITT, in a feeling address, asked the prisoner
if he wished to make any statement in reference to
the serious charge?—The unfortunate man, who was
most awfully dejected, faintly replied, "I have nothing
at all to say, sir."
He was remanded for the attendance of material wit-
nesses.

Mary Ann Edwards, an old woman, was charged with
decoying and enticing away James Laurence, a child
four years of age.
It appeared in evidence that on Friday evening, while
the child was playing in front of its parents' residence,
in Brick lane, St. Luke's, the prisoner, who had been
seen watching it for more than an hour, took it up in her
arms, promibing to buy it some cherries. She was fol.
lowed by the mother at least half a mile, and her inten-
tion to do some wrong then becoming too evident, she
was stopped and handed over to the charge of an officer,
to whom she first stated that the child was her own,
and afterwards that she bad only taken it up for an
airing.
The prisoner, in her defence, pleaded that she knew
not what she was about.
She was fully committed for trial.

DEATIr ruom Caw,Eitt.—Mr. George Sorel],
Royal Engineers, had only arrived from the continent a
few hours on Tuesday last, the 10th inst., when he was
seized by an attack of Asiatic cholera, pronounced to be
of the most malignant kind. The, first symptoms were
perceived between two and three o clock, up to which hour
Captain Sorel( appeared to be in perfect health and spirits,
but so rapid was the progress of the terrible disease,
that in spite of every effort made to save him by Drs.
Wilson and Latham, at ten o clock he had ceased to
breathe. The unfortunate young officer thus prema-
turely cut off was only in his 28th year, and from his
mild and gentlemanly manners and superior intelligence,
was held in high estimation in the gallant corps to which
he belonged. The deep distress into which a death so
awfully sudden has plunged his surviving relatives, in-
cluding two brothers in the 81st Regiment, can easily be
imagined.
A wire rope, 3,3- inches in diameter, 10 inches
in eircumterenc,, and 500 feet long, was di-putehed by
railway on Friday se'nnight, having been manufactured
by blesse=sß. S. Newell and Co. It is, we believe, the
largest wire rope that has ever been i
made. The weight
is 901 b. per fathom. Its destination s India, where, it
is supposed, it will be used in the e construction of a wire
rope bridge.—Newcastle Guardian.
PUBLIC PETITIONS.—The 61st report of the Se-
lect Committee enumerates 501 petitions for universal
suffrage. signed by 5.1,634 persons; 231 in favour of the
Clergy Relief Bill, signed by 3.8,538 persons; 45 petitions
for a reduction of the public expenditure, signed by
14,070 persons; 453 petitions for the protection of
women, aigne.d by 12,460 persons; 532 against the Mar-
riages Bill, signed by 14,661 persons, and 211 in its fa-
vour, signed by 39,967 persons.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The report of the Committee en Smithfield-
market has just been printed by order of the House of
Commons, and the subject of which it treats stands for
immediate discussion. We congratulate the public on
this report. It would, indeed, have been perfectly im-
possible for fiteen men of ,average honesty and intelli
gence—not being salesmen or Newgate-market butchers
—to have arrived at any other conclusion than that the
holding of a cattle market for the supply of a metropo-
litan population of two millions in the very heart of the
city they inhabit, must be an intolerable nuisance. It
needs no examination of witnesses, no Parliamentary
Committee, no huge blue books, no discussions of
municipal or Parliamentary bodies to convince any
reasonable man of so very obvious a truth. Goad
droves of cattle through the crowded streets of a
large town, and the:results must be terror, confusion,
and accident to the passers by, and suffering to the
animals themselves; crowd the wretched creatures on a
ridiculously insufficient space when they have been
driven into the market, and keep them standing there
in torture for a long period of time, and the meat must
needs be deteriorated in quality, and become less fitted
to serve for wholesome nutriment; pollute one locality in
the centre of a vast city with animal excrement and
effluvia.; set the kennels a running with gore, garbage,
and filth ; establish a system of knacker's yards,
tainted sausage makers, slaughter-houses, tripe-dres-
sers, cats'-meat-boilers, cafgut•spinners, bone-houses,
and other noxious trades in the very heart of Lon-
don, and you necessarily give encouragement to
typhus fever, diarrhoea, dysentery, and cholera. Our
quarrel is not only with Smithfield-market, but with
Saiithfield-market and all its attendant nuisances.
We now invite all who, living at a distance from
the actual pollution and annoyance, may have en-
tertained a doubt as to the justice and reason of
our constant remonstrances against their longer conti-
nuance to peruse for themselves the report of the Par-
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liamentary Committee which has just appeared. If any
justification be needed for the efforts so long made by
the Times to abate dhis most disgraceful and intolerable
nuisance, we would simply refer to this report, and by
this we will be content to stand or fall. The conclusion
arrived at by the Committee after a lengthened investi-
gation
was as follows:
" Resolved—That it is the opinion of this Committee
that the continuance of a market for the sale of live
stock in Smithfield is proved by experience to be at-
tended with very serious inconveniences and objections,
and that it ought to be removed."
The answer to this solemn decision of the Committee, on
the part of the advocates of Smithfield-market, will, no
doubt, be that the fifteen gentlemen of whom that body
was composed were interested in the Islington enterprise,
and availed themselves of their Parliamentary position
to further their own pecuniary interests. Such is always
the argument in list resort of the friends of the nui-
sance. Tile other resolutions—five in number—contain
nothing against which we feel called upon to remonstrate.
It is true enough that the Corporation of the city of
London have endeavoured for a years past, in a
little " pottering " way, to mitigate the annoyances
caused by the presence of the cattle-market in the heart
of the City; but, the Committee add, "so long as the
market continu-s to be held in its present situation the
inconveniences reerred to will not admit of prevention."
They tell us in their third resolution that in providing
market accommodation in substitution for Smithfield-
market we must not only provide for the present, but
look forward to the future wants of the growing popu-
lation. Tnis is of course a judicious course of policy.
In the opinion of the Cummitt,e the presence of a large
open specs such as Smithfield in the heart of a thickly
populated district muss he of great b..nefit to the ebb
of the surrounding neighbourhood; and in the event of
the removal of the market it is desirable that the
greater portion of it may be retained free from buildings.
No doubt such an arrangement would be very desirable.
The firth resolution is a very important one, as it pro-
nounces autheriiatively upon a subject on which much
difference of opinion existed. It is to the effect that
only one great metropolitan cattle market can
exist. "In the selection of its site, regard
should he had to the position of the railway termini,
the place of the disembarkation fur Scotch, Irish,
and foreign cattle; the bridges, especially Blackfriars;
and to the density of the population in the neighbour-
hood of such site." By their sixth and last resolution
the Committee recommend the Government to take into

their " early and serious consideration " the construction
of abbatoirs, the establishment of an inspection of
slaughter-houses, public as well as private; of an organ-
ization of a system of vigilant superintendence of the mar-
kets both of dead and live stock," to prevent the sale
of meat unfit for human food;" of a shifting of the
market day from Monday to Tuesday, and of erect•
ing lairs with a suitable supply of food and water for
the cattle that are brought to market. Such is the sub-
stance of the six important resolutions at which the
Committee of the House of Commons have arrived, after
hearing and digesting an immense mass of evidence.
We may look back with some pride to the steadiness
with which we have advocated the alterations and
opinions proposed and expressed by the Committee in
the teeth of much selfish and fatuous opposition. It
may be too much to ask of the general reader to wade
through four hundred pages of blue book, but if such an
one will but turn over with his fingers the index to the
report and its analysis, dipping from time to time into
the body of the work, we shall be satisfied. He would
there find ample proot of all the assertions we have
from time to time put forth as to the insufficient area
"of Smithfield-market—as to the cruelty practised by
the drovers—as to the annoyance and danger caused by
driving the cattle through the public streets—as to
the unwholesomeness WS the meat—as to the diseases
generated in cattle at Smithfield-market, and propagated
by their means throughout the country—as to the itju-
ties Lamed up,,n the public health in consequence of
the present position of Smithfield-market and its at.
tendant nuisances. It is unfortunately impossible to
crowd together in a single column a sufficiency of facts
from the report to support our previeue as,iertions under
all these heads; but there the blue book can be per-
chased by the curious for five shillings—read it who
will. Not only is the case for the removal made out
by competent witnesses, but in the report will be found

all that can be said on the other side, and the namls and
occupations of the men who say it. To us, the single
testimony of an intelligent naln, such us rrofessor
O. or Mr. Grainger, or Dr. Gavin, perfectly cis-
interesttd in the matter, and whose attention has
been expressly called to the subject, far outweighs
the interest, d evidence of a score of magnates
of Newgate•market trembling for the security of
their filthy and pestilential tens. While the cholera is
raging amongst us, it is appalling to reflect that such
prolific causes of the disease are allowed to remain a
single day unchecked. Dr. Gavin says that the sanitary
condition and sanitary regulations of a large town form
a study by themselves. Public health is now a branch
of medicine ; and we certainly prefer the dicta of those
who have given especial attention to the subject. We
dwell uput this considerati4 n just now rather than any
of the other reasims for the removal of Smithfield-
twirliet, as the pre,ette atoongst us of the prevadnig
epidemic gives it an unusual ferce. But even when the
cholera is not going its rounds among us, as hat a fearful
centre for the generation of pestilential diseases do we
not po,-sess in Smithfield market and its attendant nui-
sances! Surely it Lewis not the pres nee of tan actual
plague to tell us that an over-crowded cattle-market in
the centre of this huge town, surrounded by filthy
slaughterhouses and horrible dens, in which the pro-
cesses of the filthiest industry are cirried forward, must
be a public calamity of the most serious nature.