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" Costly thy kabit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy—rich, not gaudy ;
For the aparel oft proclaims the man."
TIIE spirit, and meaning of the above quotation
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rich in quality, yet it retains a moderate cost, such varying from one
aid a halt to three and a half guineas. but can be had in London
only of the Patentees, 11. J. 9.11,1 D. NICOLL, 114, 11G, 120, RE-
GENT-STREET, and 22, CORNIIILL.

FOREIGN WOOLS.—" At the recent Wool
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Introduced by the firm from wkons it derives its came."—The Sun.

WOOLLEN BUYERS and CONSUMERS are reminded that
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in the United Kingdom that ever offered to the buyer and consumer,
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and themselves. As will be shown by the absve extract from one of the
public journals, the woo- used in the manufacture of the Nicollian Cloth
does not leave Messrs. N.'s po-session until it is produced in the piece
ready for sale, either by their Agents, or themselves at the Whole-
sale Warehouse, 120, REGENT-STREET, and afterwards wile'
made up into the fashionable and Patented garments known as the
NICOLL, the REGISTERED PALETOT, and NICOLL'S
MORNING COAT, all of which can be purchased singly of the
several recognised Agents, as also of the Patentees.
11. J. and D. NICOLL, at their Retail Ware-rooms, 114, 116, and
120, REGENT-STREET, aid 22, CORNIIILL. LONDON.

THE REGISTERED PALETOT
(6 and 7 Vict., Cap. 65)
of Nicolllan or Llama Cloth, as adapted for the approaching Spring
by Messrs. NICOLL, who ate tho ORIGINAL INVENTORS, and
continue to be honoured with the patronage of their Royal High-
neses PRINCE ALBERT, PRINCE GEORGE of CAMBRIDGE,
PRINCE EDWARD of SAXE WEIMAR, his Grace the DUKE of
WELLINGTON, and all others distinguished in rank and fashion,
the Court, the Pulpit and the Bar.
The above is now produced In the richest and best manner, con-
taining all the new and patented improvements for the extremely
moderate price of Two Guineas, to be had in London only of 11. J.
and D. NICOLL, 114, 11G, and 120, REGENT-STREET, or 22,
CORNAILL.

TINDER, the S ID OW of the GRASS -
O
HOPPER (22, Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange) may
be seen the City Depot for the NICOLL, the REGISTERED
I'ALETOT, NICOLL'S MORNING COAT, and other garments,
with some portion of each of the beautiful fabrics daily exhibited in
the spacious warerooms, 114, 116, and 120, Regent-street, as not
only these last-named premises, bat also those in Cornhill, are the
property of ease and the sane firs.
The following agents have a large variety of goods for inspection,
viz.:—Messrs. Warring an Son, New-street, Birmingham ; Messrs.
Dawbara and Son, Bold-street, Liverpool ; Messrs. Macdona, Moles-
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burgh.
y a des agents pour la vente do cos articles brevetes dans toutes
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sortiments prets a etre examines.

NOVELTY.—There has lately been registered
an article that cannot fail to find a place in every Gentle-
man's wardrobe, as it effectually provides for a long-acknowledged
want therein. The said novelty consists in a body garment some-
what in the form of a dress-coat that is t• say, it can be
worn without any distinct infringement •f flee laws of cos-
tume recognised in society upon ordinary dress occasions ;
but yet the garment is more especially intended for morning
wear, as a Riding or Walking Coat ; and as, f•r such exercises, each
will maintain his own idea as to the requisite ease necessary for its
fit, the inventors, in order to insure the full convenience of their
patrons, will keep ready an extensive graduation of sizes, re that a
selection can be made proportionate with the nature of exertion or
the wearer's own taste—thus at once obviating any annoyance
arising from the cutter not immediatelely comprehending what is
wanted. .

Although composed of the NICOLLIAN CLOTH, yet a most
moderate price is charged, viz., Two Guineas for _NICOLL'S
MORNI.,IG COAT, as that is the name given to the said novelty,
and vr:leh ran be had in London only of H. J. and I). NICOLL, 114,
116, and 120, REGENT-STREET, and 22, COHNIIILL.

rllO THE COUNTRY TRADE, &c.—Such re-
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in the event of there being an opening for an agency in the
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, March 9..

SHARP V. ARBUTHNOT.

This case, which was before the Court some time ago,
was again mentioned to-day. It will be remembered
that the cause came by appeal from the decision of the
Vice-Chancellor of England, who granted au injunction
restraining actions at law brought by the defendant
against the plaintiff on bills of exchange. The bills
were accepted in payment of cotton; but a dispute hav-
ing arisen about the quality of the cotton, the plaintiff
refused payment of the bills pending the settlement of
the dispute, which had been referred to arbitration. The
action at law having been raised in the meantime by the
holders of the bills, the injunction to restrain the actions
was granted by the Vice-Chancellor. Upon hearing the
appeal, the Lord Chancellor confirmed the order of the
Court below for the injunction, and permitted the case
to stand over, in order that the parties might have an
opportunity of coming to an arrangement.
It was now stated to his Lordship that the parties
could not arrange the dispute, and the Learned Counsel
(Mr. Holt) applied to his Lordship to give authority for
the sale of the cotton

His Lordship, however, refused the application.
IN RE DICE SOMBRE.
The unopposed lnnztio petitions having been disposed
of, the further hearing of the argument in the above
cause, on the petition for superseding the injunction, was
then proceeded with.
Mr. HOLT at great length replied to the arguments of
Mr. Bethel, Mr. Calvert, and the other Learned Coun-
sel, who had appeared against the application, and not
having concluded at the rising of the Court, at four
o'clock, the further hearing was postponed till to-mor-
row (this day), when Mr. Bolt will finish his reply.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CIIIC UlT.—Chelmsford, March 9.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
Hannah Southgate, 29, a married woman, was indicted
for the wilful murder of Thomas Ham, at the parish of
Wix, by feloniously administering to him a large quan-
tity of a certain deadly poison called white arsenic.
Mr. Ryland and Mr. I„ dwell conducted the prosecu-
tion; and Mr. Ballantine and Mr. T. Chambers defended
the prisoner.
The Counsi 1 for the prosecution having opened the
case, explained to the jury that the prisoner was charged
with the murder of her former husband, Thomas Liam.
The principal evidence was that of a woman named
Phcebe Reid, who had lived as servant with the de-
ceased and the prisoner, and who deposed (as well
as other witnesses) to frequent threats made use of
by the prisoner to take the life of her husband,
and at his death to gratify her preference for another.
This witness gave some vague and obscure accounts
of tea and sago, or arrowroot, having been prepared
by the prisoner for her husband, into which she
infused some powder, and added that after taking it the
deceased became very sick and complained of violent
pains in the throat. She also deposed to habits of in-
emperance and infidelity on the part of the prisoner,
during the lifetime of the deceased, and said that her
mistress had been on terms of intimacy with a woman
named Mary May, who had been convicted at the last
assizes of murder by poison, and executed, and that the
two women had mutually rejoiced over the death of the
deceased. In her cross-examination the woman Reid
made admissions which showed that her own habits
were far from pure, and that she bad been charged with
theft. She also acknowledged that poison was kept in
the house (and, as it appeared, in a very careless man-
ner, so that any one might have access to it), for the
destruction of rats, and that she did not believe, when
her mistress made use of the threats, that she really in-
tended to kill her husband.
Professor Taylor, lecturer of chemistry at Guy's
Hospital, deposed that on examination of the stomach
of the deceased he detected a large quantity of arsenic,
and that death was caused thereby.
Mr. BALLANTINE addressed the jury on behalf of the
prisoner, and in the course of his speech he urged upon
the jury that the evidence of the principal witness ought
to have very little weight upon them, and that her own
account of what occurred was highly improbable and
inconsistent. He then commented upon all the other
facts of the case, and submitted that it was very possible
the deceased might have taken the poison by accident,
and that at all events in such a serious charge as this,
and one which upon conviction would undoubtedly entail
such dreadful consequences, that the evidence was not so
conclusive of the prisoner's guilt as to compel them,
upon their consciences and the oath they had taken, to
return a verdict of guilty.
Mr. Baron PARKE then summed up, and the jury,
after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of—Not
Guilty.
7:h or whinli the ahoy., summary conva.ia'all the
important points, occupied more than twelve hours.

ORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Bedford, March 9.

The Learned Judges of assize arrived here yesterday,
at two o'clock, having travelled together with the bar by
a special train from Aylesbury, and the courts were
both opened this morning, ut 10 o'clock. The cause list
contains two causes; and the calendar 39 prisoners, most
of whom are charged with petty offences, the only ex-
ceptions being one case of child murder, one of man-
slaughter, one of house-breaking, three others in which
parties are respectively charged with maliciously stab-
bing and wounding a constable in the exercise of his
duty; ono in which the party is charged with cutting
and stubbing, with intent to do some grievous bodily
harm, and one with night poaching.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE.)
William Partridge, aged 38, was arraigned on the
coroner's inquisition, for the manslaughter of William
Skinner, at Eaton Sucon, the grand jury having thrown
out the bill.

Mr. WORLLEDGE appeared for the prosecution, and
called witnesses, from whose evidence it appeared that
the prisoner and the deceased, and other labourers,
having begun " harvesting" on the 29th July last, as
was usual in the parish, they celebrated the event with
potations pottle deep" in honour of John Barleycorn,
each man having consumed eight pints of beer. As
might be expected, a quarrel arose amongst them ; and
gthht a,
g man no am
home,"
me, ~
on
the deceased said to Partridge, who was engaged in a
gdoistphugt:Lwlii
Miles,
" Well, it you are
which Partridge told
him to " go to his master and say what a drunken fool
he was." Incensed at this, Skinner dared him to " make
him out a fool," and doubled his fist at the prisoner, who
thereupon struck him on the face with the back of his
reaping-hook. This was followed by a regular " stand-
up fight, in the course of which the deceased rushed
at Partridge's stomach with his head foremost, intend-
ing to knock him over. Partridge, however, contrived
to ,lip aside, and dealt his assailant two heavy blows
with his fist on the nape of his neck, which sent him
reeling into the standing corn, from which he
was picked up in an insensible state. On being taken
home a medical man was sent tor, but no efforts could
arouse the deceased, who languished till the 2d of August
when he died. After his death an examination of his
body showed that three of the vertebrre of the neck were
entirely broken through and driven into the spinal mar-
row—a state of things quite sufficient to cause death.
The medical man, however, said, that so severe and ex-
tensive an injury could scarcely have been produced by a
fall; while he thought it equally difficult
to attribute it
to a blow.
11t. TOZER, on 1 &All of the prisoner, addressed
i the
jury, contending that the prisoner was acting in
defence, and that as the surgeon had stated his inability
to assign the injuries which caused the death of the de-
ceased to a blow, he therefore submitted that the petty
jury ought to follow the example of the grand jury and
acquit the prisoner, especially as he should show him to
have borne a good character up to this unfortunate trans-
action.
Lormsuir, in summing up, said that there was no
ground for the idea that the prisoner could be justified
on the ground of his acting in self defence on this occa-
sion. It was illegal to fight, and this was nothing more
nor less than a fight. Then, as to the cause of death,
though the surgeon had stated his inability to assign it
to the fall or the blow, yet, if the evidence was to be be •
lieved, the deceased came by the injury which caused
his death from a fall or the blow administered to him by
the prisoner during the fight. It might be that there
were many mitigating circumstances, but they were for
the consideration of the Court and not of the jury, who,
if they believed the evidence, were bound to find the
prisoner guilty of manslaughter.
The jury, after deliberating a long time, asked his
Lordship to define to them the distinction between man-
slaughter and accident.
His LORDSHIP having again explained to them that
wherever death ensued from a fight, the survivor was
guilty in law of manslaughter,
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended
him for the very lightest possible punishment, as they
looked on the death of the deceased as a mere accident.
Mr. Baron noise agreed with the view taken of the
case by the jury, and sentenced the prisoner to be im •
prisoned for 14 days.

OXFORD CIRCO FL— Worce4er, March 8.
CROW N COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
i.obert Pulley, 49, was indicted for the wilful murder
of Mary Ann Staight, at Broughton, in the hamlet of
Walcot, in the parish of Holy Cross, Pershore, on the
sth of December last.

Mr. Whitmore and Mr. lluddleston conducted the
prosecution, and Mr. W. H. Cooke. defended the prisoner,
a man of singular appearance, with a peculiar expression
of countenance, halt idiotic, and half sinister. He ap-
peared at the bar at least sixty
.years old, and continually
sneered or smiled during the trial.
Elizabeth Richards, the first witness called, said the
deceased, who was fifteen years of age, was my niece,
and lived with me. About four o'clock on the afternoon
of the sth of December, I sent her to Mrs. Tyler's shop
for some goods, and did not see her again until she was
found murdered in a ditch, in the lane which lay in her
road. On oue occasion, some time before her death, the
prisoner told deceased she wanted her — head
knocked round, for she would be better dead than alive.
She was found dead next day.

A number of witnesses were called, who proved that
the prisoner bad frequently threatened to kill the de-
ceased, on account of light conduct, which he charged
her with being guilty of, he being in love with her,
although she had never given him the slightest encou-
ragement. Other witnesses proved that he had been
near the spot where the body was found, before and after
the period at which it is supposed the murder was per-
petrated.
Ann Cook—l live at the Coach and Horses Inn, at
Pershore. Ora Wednesday morning, Dec. 6, the pri-
soner came to the house about seven, and had a pint of
cider. He gave me twopence. I drew him another
pint, for which he gave me half-a-crown. lie was very
nervous, and dropped a portion of the change. I got a
candle, to light; he pushed the candle with hi 3 hand,
and said he could see to find it himself. I noticed blood
on the wristband and back of his hand, but whether of
the shirt or frock I could not say. I observed him tuck
it under with his other hand. Ho was in the house
about two hours. He said he had come from Broughton,
which is two miles from Pershoro. He went out of the
house several times towards the river, by the back of
the house. lam positive I saw blood on his hand.
William Harris—l am superintendent of police at
Pershore. I apprehended the prisoner on the morning
of Dec. 7, in a lone barn about a mile from Pershore.
He had two smock frocks on; one of them had blood on
from the wristband up to the collar. There were spots
on the gathers of the neck of the frock. There were
several marks of blood also on his waistcoat. He had
trousers on, and two clean shirts. I took him to the
station-house. He met a man, and said to him " Well,
Jack, I am going to be hanged."
Cross-examined—l had previously told him he was
charged with the murder of the girl. He said " I did
not do it." He was on the straw in the barn. He said
" Let me tie my shoes first. Ile put his hnnds in his
pockets, when I threw him on his back and searched
him. I found a knife, a bag, and is. 4d. in money.
Frederick Tyler went with his father, on the Satur-
day after the murder, and found the stick produced in
the ditch. It was covered with water and briers. There
were some light-coloured hairs on it, of a similar colour
to the hair of the deceased Mary Ann Staight.—(The
stick, a short clubbed one, resembled a mallet, a most
formidable looking weapon, was here produced in the
court, and caused a universal sensation, as being doubt-
less the instrument by which the unfortunate girl was
deprived of life.) On the Monday before the murder
prisoner said Mary Ann Staight had been scandalising
him. He had a billhook or hacker in his hand, and said
she (deceased) wanted it put through her b— head.
The deceased was a well-conducted young woman, about
15 years of age.
Thomas Panter—l know the stick produced. I had
it for nearly eight years. I used it for driving hedge
stakes, and afterwards cut a portion of it off, and used
it as a sort of hammer to drive in taps, or anything of
the kind. I missed it on the 16th of November. I saw
it the day before on the potato patch, at the back of our
house, whore the prisoner was digging potatoes, and
when he finished the patch I found it was gone.
John Clarage—l am a surgeon. On the Bth Decem-
ber I examined the body of deceased. I found a wound
on the top of the head, an inch and a half long and
threes inches wide, extending to, and exposing, the
bone. Beneath the wound was a depression of the
bone. There was also another wound. On re-
moving the scalp, I found an extensive frac-
ture, extending from the top of the head down to the right
eye, and a second depression in the forehead, with a
piece of bone forced on to the brain. There was a good
deal of blood between the scalps. I removed the upper
part of the skull and found a quantity of blood on the
brain, caused from a fracture; the brain was otherwise
healthy. Those injuries, in my opinion, were sufficient
to cause instant death. The body was otherwise healthy
in every organ. The stick produced is in everyway calcu-
lated to have caused those injuries, and inflicted the
wounds I saw. There would be an issue of blood from
those wounds, more particularly the larger one. I saw
blood on the prisoner's smock, which would probably be
so, or a similar splashing, supposing the person who in-
flicted the injury to have been behind the victim.
Cross-examined—l think the wounds must have been
inflicted by two blows. One wound was more superfi-
cial than the 'other, which had mashed the skull, and
must have been given with ferocious violence. The de-
ceased's bonnet was broken; instant death must have
been caused, and no great deal of blood would therefore
flow from the wound. The deceased was of full grown
stature for her age; the blood would splash downwards.
Re-examined—The girl's bonnet had been saturated
with water. I cannot swear whether the bonnet was
broken by the blow or not.
Ann Turvey—The deceased, when found, had the
strings of her bonnet in her hand; it was off her head,
and under her in the ditch; the pasteboard of it was
broken, and the back part of the silk was parted from
the fore part—that is, the crown was nearly torn away,
and there was a quantity of blood in the crown of it.
Some other witnesses, amounting altogether in number
to thirty, having been called for the prosecution,
Mr: LOOSE addressed the jury with the considornhle
force for the prisoner, contending that he was insane, and
that all his conduct, as deposed to on the trial, evidenced
the fact.

Mr. Justice COLTMAN summed up the voluminous evi-
dence very minutely, and intimated to the jury that the
expressions alleged to have been used by the prisoner
did not constitute a state of insanity which would render
him legally exempt from the punishment accruing to the
consequences of his acts.
The jury, atter a quarter of an hour's deliberation,
found the prisoner Guilty of wilful murder.
His LORDSHIP, having assumed the black cap, ad-
dressed the prisoner, telling him that he had been found
' guilty on the clearest evidence of one of the most inhu-
man and cold-blooded murders ever heard of, by which
a young and innocent girl had met an untimely death,
just as she was entering into life, as it were. He must
look for mercy elsewhere, and prepare for the state into
which he must shortly enter, as his time on earth would
now be short. The prisoner was then sentenced to death
in the usual terms.

The trial occupied nine hours.
Pulley was defended through the kindness of the
High Sheriff, John Dent, Esq.
At Nisi Prius a special jury cause before Mr. Baron
Platt occupied the greater part of the day, and had just
concluded when our report left.
At present there appears no probability of the business
of these assizes being concluded within the time allotted,
which is generally admitted to be too short.

[PRICE SD.

ton, in February, and setting fire to a stable, the pro-
perty of Thomas Moore.
Mr. Moore said he had a thatched stable at Minning-
ton, in the North Riding. On the 15th of February it
was buret down. It appeared from the evidence that the
prisoner was seen within half a mile of the place just be-
fore the fire.

Thejuri found him Guilty, and
His Lonnsnip directed him to be brought up to be
sentenced to-morrow.

Grenthcied, nged 40, and Thomas Johnson, 40,
were indicted for night poaching, at Aldborough, in the
North Riding, ou the lands of Richard Bassett Wilson,
Esq., being armed with guns and bludgeons on the night
of the 17th December last.

The three watchers of Mr. Wilson were out in a plan-
tation, when' they beard the reports of air•guns and
pheasants fly away, and men rushing among the trees
and branches breaking off the trees. Presently three
men came through the hedge, and one of the watchers
rushed upon them, on which the prisoner Johnson, who
had a gun, cried " Stand back." However, the watcher
rushed in, and they both came to the ground, and were
up and down several times. Johnson then struck the
watcher several times with the air-gun and cut his head.
Grenthend was fighting with another watcher, but even-
tually the prisoners were overpowered.
They were found Guilty, and the prisoner Johnson was
charged on another indictment for wounding one of the
watchers, but no evidence was offered on it, and so he
was acquitted on that indictment.
His LORDSHIP sentenced them to be imprisoned, with
hard labour, for a year.