The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-14 00:00:00

GROUSE SHOOTING.

Shooters who boast of their acquaintance with
London gun-makers, and who talk of their feats in
the shooting galleries, and of haying slain pigeons at
Battersea, and pheasants in my Lord Battue's pre-
serves, are wofully disappointed on their arrival in
the north. It may not be out of place to enumerate
some of the causes of their disappointment,—
all of which cannot be provided against, but the
mention of them may put the stranger on his guard,
and he will do well to provide against such of them
as he may think will else inconvenience himself. He
is out of training and cannot walk. His equipment
is incomplete. His pivots are choked up. His caps
will not fit. His wadding and cartridges
are cut for a gun of very different gauge.
Ills dogs, never having seen any other
winged game than partridges and pheasants,
will not point grouse ; they are wild, not being any
longer under the eye of the keeper; one of them
scours the country half a mile in advance, and the
other will not suffer a bird that can be put up to
remain on the ground ; on being thrashed, one of
them turns sulky, and the other dashes away full
cry after sheep. Birds are wild, and the shooter
has no shot larger than No. 5. His
shoes are thin, and cling to his feet like so much
whit leather. It is excessively hot, he is overladen
with shot, and his India-rubber gaiters will not absorb
the perspiration nor suffer it to evaporate ; his
stockings are consequently soaked with wet. His
hat is heavy—it will neither resist wet nor is it ven-
tilated. He is, when the sun shines, half roasted,
and, when clouded, halt' starved; or he is lightly
clothed, and caught in a thunder-shower. He
wears thin stockings, and is footsore. He
is lost in the mist for want of a guide, a pocket.
compass, or a previous intimate knowledge of the
localities, and inadvertently becomes a trespasser,
when a glorious row ensues, ending, perhaps, in a
struggle for the encroacher's fowling- piece ! The
beau-ideal of a sportsman, as regards dress, is often-
times carefully studied—the new-comer is inevitably
marked by some absurdity in this way, but his
tout ensemble is soon metamorphosed amongst
bogs, berries, and peat-holes, and he is too late
made aware that he ought to have bestowed
a thought upon his comfort and convenience, rather
than on his dress. If he does not tire himself by
walking beyond his strength, probably over useless
tracts, in the early morning, he most effectually ac-
complishes that object in the hot sun at noon, and is
not only rendered incapable of following up the sport
in the afternoon, but he feels exhausted the next
morning.—From the Rod and the Gun; by Wilson
and Oaldeigh.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
MATRICULATION EXAMINATION FOR
HONOURS--1849.

The following candidates have obtained honours:—
IN CLASSICS.
Dicey, Edw. Jas. Stephen
(Exhibition)
Heath, Richard Child
Janson, John William University College
Franks, Henry James
MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
French, H. (Exhibition)
Gibsone, Burford Waring King's College
Gurney, William
Powell, Joseph
S Ambrose, William
Dandy, William Saffery AmershamGrammarSchool
Murgatroyd, George.
Bleby, Henry William
Langford, William... Private tuition
Parfitt, James Rossiter
Olive, Eustace Henry

CHEMISTRY.
Honey, Fred. John (Prize of
800k5)......
Wilkinson, Richard
Hadow, Edward Ash Bristol Medical School
Roberts, William
Roscoe, Henry Enfield University College
Lambert, Henry Stone 'Queen's Coll., Birmingham
Franks, Henry James

BOTANY.

Laurence, John Zacharias

(Prize of Books) University College
Wilkinson, Richard

ZOOLOGY.
Fry, Edw. (Prize of Books) University College
Flower, William Henry University College
Mooney, Frederick John
MoorerGeorge
The Examiners in the respective subjects were—
IN CLASSICS.—Rev. Dr. Jenard and T. B. Burcham,
Esq.
IN MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.—
Rev. Professor Heaviside and G. B. Jerrard, Esq.
IN CHEMISTRY.—Professor Graham.
IN BOTANY.—Rev. Professor Henslow.

Ix ZOOLOGY.—Dr. Carpenter.
The number of candidates for matriculation was 179,
and the number that pissed the examination was 167.

CHARGE OF FORGING A WILL.—The magistrates
of Croydon, on Saturday, were engaged for a consider-
able time in investigating a charge against the reputed
wite of Jacob King, a man who died at Addiscombe, on
the 25th of July last, of cholera. It seemed that Mr.
King, some hours before his death, asked for his cash
box; but the key could not be found, and the brother of
the deceased broke it open. One of Mr. King's labourers,
Amos Gower, was in the room at the time rubbing the
unfortunate gentleman with brandy. Deceased asked
him whether he could write, and being answered in the
affirmative, Mr. King directed him to sign the will,
which was taken out of the cash box, and he did so, the
other subscribing witness being " Dick," his brother.
This will could not be found, and it was suspected that
the reputed Mrs. King had concealed or destroyed it.
On applying at Doctors' Commons it was found that
another will, dated September, 1841, had been deposited
there, the witnesses to it being two persons named
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HOME CIRCUIT.—Croydon. Aug 13.

(Before the CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.)

RICHARDSON V. CHRISTIE.

This was an action to try the right to a footway at
Leatherhead, used by the inhabitants to get to a
common meadow, on which they were in the habit of
playing at cricket and other games.
Sergeant Shee and Mr. Bramwell were for the
plaintiff, and Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Bovill for
the defendant.

The cause was commenced on Saturday, and was
not concluded until this afternoon. It appeared that
the footpath in question ran between some land be-
longing to the plaintiff and the river Mole, and as by
the form of the pleadings it devolved upon the de-
fendant to show that the path was a public footway,
his case was first entered upon, and a great many
witnesses were examined to show that for a number
of years the path in question had been used by the
inhabitants without any obstruction ; and it was also
shown that the father of the plaintiff had tacitly ad-
mitted the right of the inhabitants to pass along it to
the meadow where they were in the habit of enjoying
themselves by different pastimes, by his not offering
any objection. Some witnesses were called on behalf
of the plaintiff, with a view to show that the foot-
path had only been used by sufferance, and that it
was not a public one; but the evidence upon that
pint was not by any means of a character to shake
the strong case that had been made out on behalf of
the inhabitants.
The CHIRP' BARON summed up the whole case, and
the jury, with very little deliberation, returned a ver-
dict for the defendant.
(Before Mr. Sergeant DoWLING.)

HUNT V. FLETCHER,
This was an action to recover a suns of 461., for goods
sold and delivered.
Mr. Edwin James and Mr. Hawkins were for the
plaintiff; Mr. Maud was for the defendant.
Mr. JAMES, in opening the case, said that although
this action was brought nominally to recover 461.,
still the real sum that was sought to be recovered was
only 41. 6s. 6d., and be thought it due to the Court
and jury to explain why such a trumpery claim was
brought before them, instead of being disposed of by
an inferior jurisdiction. The plaintiff was an exten-
sive soap manufacturer, awl he had supplied the de-
fendant, who was a grocer at Ryde, with soap to the
amount of 461., for which he had received a bill for
401, which, with other deductions that were to be
made, reduced the claim to 41. 6s. 6d. This sum the
defendant refused to pay, and when the plaintiff
expressed his readiness to have the question disposed
of at a small expense in the Sheriff's Court, the
defendant resisted the attempt to have the matter
so settled, and had compelled him to bring this
action, and had actually put nine special pleas upon
the record, the only question really at issue being
whether this 401. bill to which he had alluded was
given in full satisfaction of the debt, or merely on
account. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to
call witnesses to make out his case ; and the plain-
tiff's traveller, after having proved the circumstances
connected with the delivery of the goods, stated posi-
tively that the bill in question was only paid on
account, and that it was never intended to operate as
a settlement of the claim. It was also shown that,
upon a former occasion, the defendant had endeavoured
to male out that the balance was settled by a claim
for discount and other items, and it was only recently
that he had set up the present defence.
Mr. MAUD addressed the jury for the defendant,
and called some witnesses to endeavour to show that
the bill was given in entire satisfaction of the claim ;
but the evidence failed altogether in establishing this
fact.

Mr. Sergeant Dowwv.a having summed up, the
jury immediately returned a verdict for the plaintiff
for the amount claimed, with a small deduction for the
empty boxes which had been returned.
Mr JAMES applied for immediate execution, which
was granted.
Mr. MAUD here said he trusted his Lordship would
not certify that this was a case fit to be tried in a
superior Court.
Sergeant DOWLING said he certainly should do so,
unless, upon affidavits, he saw reason to entertain a
different opinion to hat n hich he had at present.
The defendant might have tried the case before the
sheriff if he had chosen to do so, but he had refused,
and had thereby brought all the additional expense
upon himself, and he must take the consequences.
DELFOSSE V. HOLLIS.

This was an action upon a promissory note for 351.,
to which the defendant pleaded that the note in
question was a forgery.
Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Parnell were for the plain-
tiff, and Mr. Lush for the defendant.
The note having been put in, and evidence adduced
that it was signed by the defendant,
Mr. Lusts addressed the jury for the defendant, and
gave the following account of the transaction. It
appeared that two persons, named Goodyear and
Lloyd, had become connected with a person who had
an interest in a mine in Devonshire, and they engaged
an office in the Adelphi, and endeavoured to get up a
company under the title of the Ilohne-park Mining
Company. The defendant, who, it appeared, was
possessed of considerable property at Islington,
was disposed to join the speculation, and he
took forty-five shares, and paid one pound de-
posit upon ten of them. He was unwilling, how-
ever, to advance any more money until the lease of
the mine should be obtained; and with regard to the
other 35 shares, it appeared t hat he had to give
Goodyear a promissory note payable only to himself,
and not to order, with a view that it should not be
negotiated, tor 351., with the understanding that no
use should be made of it until the business of the mine
should be properly arranged. It was represented that
the words " or order, value received," had been felo-
niously added to the promissory note, in order that it
might be negotiated, and by some means, which did
not appear, the note got into the possession of the
plaintiff; and on the day after it became due, it never
having, it appeared, been presented for payment, the
defendant was at once served with a writ for the
amount. Upon a discovery of these facts, it appeared
that a charge of forgery was preferred against the
party who was supposed to have made the alleged
fraudulent addition to the promissory note, and the
fact of the forgery was the point relied upon by the
defendant as an answer to the present action.
A witness named Thomas gave evidence with re-
glrd to the transactions respecting the mining specu-
lation, and he also proved that when the note was
given by the defendant it was merely made payable to
Goodyear, and that the words " or order, value re-
ceived," had been since added.

Mr. HAWKING-5, in reply to this evidence, called
Lloyd and Goodyear, the former of whom was in
the custody of an officer upon the charge of forgery,
and they both swore that the note was in the same
state as when it was received from the defendant.
Mr. Sergeant DOWLING summed up, and the jury
almost immediately returned a verdict for the de-
fendant.

The Learned Sergeant has expressed his readiness
to sit during the remainder of the week to try the
common jury causes. This will save an enormous
expense to the different parties, as but for the assist-
ance thus rendered the assizes would have lasted at
least a fortnight longer. In consequence of no offi-
cial announcement having been made of the course
that was intended to be pursued there was some diffi-
culty to- day in getting the cases ready to be disposed
of; but it is now understood that all the remaining
common jury cases will be taken in their turn, and
if the parties are not ready they will run the risk of
having their cases struck out.

WESTERN CI itCl.ll 11—Bristol, Aug. 13.
The commission fur the city aLid county of Bristol
was opened here on Saturday by Mr. Justice
Cresswell.

Yesterday the Learned Judge attended divine
service in the mayor's chapel.
The business of the assize commenced this morn-
ing, Mr. Justice Cresswell taking his seat in court at
nine o'clock.

The cause list contains an entry of thirty-two
causes, of which seven are marked for special juries.
Fifteen of the common juries have been got through
to-day. Nothing at all worthy of notice has occurred
up to this hour (five o'clock). The special juries
are expected to commence in the course of to-
morrow.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 13.
The Learned Judge arrived in this town on Sa-
turday, and opened the commission this day. Their
Lordships attended at the courts for the dispatch of
business at twelve o'clock. The criminal calendar is
unusually heavy, containing the names of 122 pri-
soners, of whom 3 are charged with murder, 6 with
manslaughter, 39 with burglary, 11 with cutting and
wounding, 2 with rape, 14 with forgery, 5 with
bigamy, 7
with uttering counterfeit coin, and 12 with
obstructing an air wine. The entries in the cause
list are not concluded, but it is understood that the
civil business will be comparatively light : 27 in the
first list and 75 in the second are already entered.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr.JusticePATTEsoN.)
John Hutchinson, aged 49, was charged with
having, at Kersley, on the 2d of July last, feloniously
cut and wounded George Greenha lgh, with intent to
kill and murder him ; likewise with intent to maim
and to do him grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Monk prosecuted; the prisoner was unde-
fended.

It appeared that the prisoner i 3 a tenant to Mrs.
Mary Greenwood, of Kersley, in this county, to
whom the prosecutor, who is an auctioneer at Bolton,
was agent. On the day mentioned the prosecutor went
to the prisoner's house, accompanied by a bailiff and
his son, for the purpose of making a distress for rent
due to Mrs. Greenwood. The prisoner was from
home when they called, on which account they
did not distrain then, but left word what they had
called for, and went away. Shortly after this

they met the prisoner, who asked the prose-
cutor whether he had a distress warrant ag onst
him ; and being informed that he hod, he said that
no man should take his goods. The prisoner then
went into his house, followed by the prosecutor ;
shortly after the prisoner came out of his house with
a poker in his hand, swearing and saying that the
first who came near to take his goods he'd kill him.
The prosecutor then sent for assistance, and mOan-
while the prisoner attacked the prosecutor, and struck
him violently over the head and body, so as to render
him insensible, and in a dAngerous state for several
days.

The prisoner, in his defence, said, that he was not
indebted to Mary Greenwood for rent, and that
knowing that he resisted the prosecutor, and struck
the blows as alleged.
His LORDSHIP summed up.
Verdict—Guilty of cutting, with intent to do
grievous bodily harm.
Sentence—Fifteen months' imprisonment.
NISI PRIUS COURT—(Before Mr. Justice
WIG HTMAN).
There was no case of any interest in the court
to-day.

OXFORD CIRC 01E—Gloucestershire, Aug. 11.
The crown business for the city commenced at
half-past eight this morning, and was brought to a
close at twelve.

There were in the calendar but' six prisoners, of
whom three were charged with housebreaking, one
with forgery, one with larceny from the person, and
one with simple larceny. There were two other
prisoners brought in since the calendar was printed,
charged with stealing lead, and a third, who was
acquitted yesterday, in the county, on a charge of
obtaining goods under false pretences, on account of
the insufficiency of the indictment, and the grand jury
being discharged, was transferred to the city juris-
diction, on a charge of larceny.
Mr. Baron Rolfe sat at half-past eight, and tried all
those charged with larceny, and rose at ten o'clock.
Mr. Justice Erle sat at nine, and did not rise till
twelve. None of the cases were of the slightest
general interest.

Thus terminated the business of the circuit. Per-
haps it is right to say that the present is the only
assize known on this circuit for many years in
which the Judges themselves had time to do all the
business in each town without invoking the aid of
Sergeants or Queen's Counsel to try prisoners, or of
the former to open the commissions, or in which
all the civil cases entered were really tried with.
out the parties being forced to a compromise, or a
reference, or having their cases made remanets. It
has very commonly happened on former occasions
that in addition to the Learned Judge sitting in the
Crown Court, trying prisoners, there has been a
Learned Sergeant assisting in the same duty in the
grand jury room, a Queen's Counsel in the office of
the Clerk of Indictments, and another in some un-
named apartment below stairs ; and notwithstanding
all this extra aid several of the civil cases have been
made remanets, and at the last moment a Learned
Sergeant has been dispatched post haste to open the
commission at the next assize town.

NORTH WALES ClRCUlT.—Chester, Aug. 10.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)
Joseph Swindells, a quiet-looking young man, was
charge with having, on the 3,1 of May last, at New-
ton, in this county, feloniously cut and stabbed one
Thomas Burdekin, with intent to do him some
grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Trafford conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
il'lntyre defended the prisoner.
Thomas Burdekin proved that on the day above
named he was at the door of Martin Swindells'
house. He saw the prisoner, Martin Swindells, and
William Crompton, in their workshop. They called
out, " Where is thy dog? We'll have a dog-fight."
Crompton afterwards said, "What about this child ?"
—an illegitimate child. " Martin says it's either
Brown's or thine." I said, "It is Martin's." Martin
tried to strike me with a piece of iron, but I warded
off the blow. The prisoner said, "D
—n thee, we'll
make thee so as a pound of salve will not cure thee."
The prisoner came out at the door, laid hold of me,
and stabbed me at the bottom of the belly. I felt I
was wounded, and I bled. But I did not wish to
hurt them, because I have been rough in scuffies,and
broils myself. I asked them to have it (the wound)
sown up. I did riot wish to make any complaint of
it. Afterwards I went to Mr. Beechcroft, the sur-
geon, to have the wound examined and looked to.
On cross-examination the witness admitted that he
had been fifteen times in prison, but only for the
offence of taking hares ; and that he had drunk some-
thing less than a quart of beer that day.
Samuel Beechcroft, surgeon, proved that Burdekin
came to his surgery on the 3,1 of May last, to have a
wound examined and dressed. He had an incised
wound over the pubis, one inch in length, and a third
of an inch deep. It reached to the bone. Was a recent
wound, and might have been made with such anin-
strument as a table knife. The shirt, trousers, and
lining were cut through over the wound.
Mr. M'INTYRE addressed the jury for the pri-
soner, contending that as the prisoner had in his hand
an iron instrument used in his work, as the scuffle
was sudden and unpremeditated, he might, in en.
deavouring to defend himself, unintentionelly with
that instrument have inflicted the injury upon the
prisoner. He called witnesses who gave the prisoner
an excellent character for quietness of disposition and
general good conduct.
The Learned JUDGE summed up, dwelling upon
the fact deposed to, namely, the threat of the prisoner
that he would make him so that a pound of salve
would not cure him.

The jury consulted, and almost immediately re-
turned a verdict of Not guilty.
William Thompson, aged 82, paper-ruler, and John
Morgan, 17, stationer, were indicted for having in
their possession, at Tranmere, Birkenhead, in this
county, a forged die, intended to resemble a certain
die used under the directions of the Commissioners
of Inland Revenue, for the purpose of expressing a
certain stamp-duty; also a quantity of paper having
the impression of a certain counterfeit die. The
indictment was under the Stamp Act, 55 Geo. 111.,
c. 154.

Mr. Welsby and Mr. Jervis were for the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. M'lntyre for the defence.

It was proved that some time before the prisoners
were apprehended a stamped document had been sent
to the Stamp-cffice, in London, and a claim made
upon it for the allowance in cases of stamps which
had been spoiled. This stamp was found to be a
forgery. It had been purchased at the shop of Mr.
Maudsley, a respectable stamp seller, at Liverpool.
At the instance of the Stamp-office authorities, a
search was made at Mr. Meadsley's establishment,
and more forged stamps were found. There was not,
however, the slightest ground for impeaching Mr.
Maudsley. Suspicion attached to the prisoner
Morgan, an out-door apprentice in Mr. Mendsley's
employ. In consequence of this the house of his
father-in-law, Thompson, the other prisoner, with
whom the former lodged, was searched, and in his
bedroom was found, in a secret closet, an engraver's
cushion, the top of a mahogany chest, a sand bag,
a quantity of engraver's tools, and an electrotyping
battery in operation, thirty seamen's advance notes,
printed by Maudsley, not stamped, and 25 forged
Bs. 6d. stamps; a die, not quite finished, for a. ss.
stamp, and a copying machine were also discovered.
In the bedroom of Morgan was found a box or die for
a 13. stamp completed. It was objected to the in-
dictment that it was bad, inasmuch as, in describing
the offence, it did not follow the words of the statute,
including the schedule, but the Learned Judge over-
ruled it, remarking that there was no necessity to go
into the minute details of the schedule. As laid in
the indictment the charge against the prisoner, in
one count, was for counterfeiting a ss. stamp die ;
but as that die was in this case incomplete, it was
ruled that the count must be abandoned, and the
charge limited to the offence of counterfeiting the
stamp die hearing value is.
Mr. APINTYRE addressed the jury in defence, and
contended that there was no evidence to fix Morgan
with the making or causing to be made either of the
stamp dies ; and, as regards the prisoner Thompson,
there was nothing to show that the die for the one-
shilling stamps had ever beeen in his actual posses-
sion, or had been used at his direction.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up, the jury
returned against both prisoners a verdict of Guilty,
upon which Thompson was sentenced to fifteen
years' transportation, and Morgan to one year's
imprisonment.

August 11.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)
William Edward Ferguson, surgeon, stood ar-
raigned on an indictment charging him with wilful
and corrupt perjury in having sworn, in an answer
which he made to a bill in Chancery, imputing to
him, amongst other things, adultery with the wife of
one Joseph Dendy Sainter, that he bad never on any
occasion whatever conducted himself with impropriety
towards her, and bad never committed adultery with
her, whereas in truth and in fact he had frequently
committed adultery with her.

Mr. Welsby and Mr. Bevan appeared for the pro-
secution, and Mr. Townsend and Mr. Egerton con-
ducted the case for the prisoner.
Mr. WELSBY opened the case for the prosecution.
It appeared that the prisoner had been engaged as an
assistant to Mr. Sainter, who is a surgeon at Maccles-
field, and was admitted as a resident in his house.
Some months after this Mr. Sainter discovered that
the prisoner had not only endeavoured to prejudice
him with his patients, and to supplant him in the
office of surgeon of a club, but had inflicted the
greatest
of all injuries possible upon Mr. Sainter, byseducing and debauching his wife. He had admitted
to a sheriff's officer who arrested him, in a civil action
at the suit of Sainter, that he had over and over again
committed with Mrs. Sainter the act of adultery.
A clerk from the Court of Chancery produced the
bill and answer from that Court, in the case " Sainter

v. Ferguson." It was in this answer that the alleged
perjury was committt (1.

Ilohurst, a commissioner for taking the an-
/ swer of the prisoner, proved his swearing to the
answer, and his suhscripticn to the answer.
Mr. Wilkinson, a solicitor, proved having gone to
the defendant and said to him, " I have come from
Mrs. Sainter, who within thi, half hour has confessed
all to me, and she has desired me to ask you imme-
diately to leave the,town." lie told the prisoner that
after what occurred it was not proper that he and
Mrs. Sainter should be in the same town. The prisoner
replied, " Sainter has treated me in an ungentlemanly
manner, and I am of sa revengeful a nature, that I
never forgive; I will therefore injure Sainter as much
as I can." The prisoner had supplanted Sainter as
surgeon to a sick club. An action for criminal con
versation was brought by Sainter, which was tried
here last spring.
Joseph Cookson—l am a gardener at Macclesfield.
I remember, about the middle of last August, seeing
Mrs. Sainter corning across the fields from Prestbury-
lane. The prisoner was with her. It was half-past
eight in the evening. They turned out of the road
to the left, towards the plantation. I followed them
to the side of the plantation ; by that time they were
in the plantation. The prisoner had his arm round
Mrs. Sainter's waist. They were twenty yards from
me. When they got to the turn in the pl4intadon they
sat down. I got close behind them. It was not so
dark but that I could see what was going on. [The
witness here spoke unequivocally to the act of adul-
tery.] I followed, and threatened it the prisoner did
not tell me who he was I would expose him in the
street. We have care of that land. The prisoner
collared me, and told me to go about my business. I
followed them. He threatened to give me in charge
to a policeman. He afterwards collared me, and put
me in charge of Wood, a watchman, whom he told to
keep me till he sent a policeman. Wood allowed me
to go.

Cross-examined—l lay on the grass within a yard
of them. They were on the ground three-quarters of
an hour. I asked the prisoner for money, or I would
expose him. He offered me a shilling, and I refused
it. I never followed Mr. Gee and charged him with
improper conduct, in the same plantation, before Mr.
woodward's watchman. I well know Mr. Gee, but
never saw him with a lady in my life. Gee never
gave in charge nor beat me.
To the JUDGE—I saw them in the plantation, and
it is my duty to keep out trespassers. I did not in-
terrupt them, because I thought the situation inte-
resting.
Mary Cookson—l am the mother of the last wit-
' ness. I have known Mrs. Sainter many years. In
the autumn of last year I saw her co ning up the drive.
It was about the middle of August. A gentleman
was with her, it was not Mr. Sainter. They turned
on the left, leading to the Brookside plantation. It
might be a little after eight o'clock. My husband,
the last witness, and another son were with me. I
showed my son (the last witness) the lady and gentle-
man. He went directly after them.
A witness names Copes corroborated Joseph Cook-
son's statement as to a conversation with the latter
about the prisoner and Mrs. Summer.
George Sidebottom—l am an artist, living in
Macclesfield. I was on terms of in'imate acquaint-
ance with the Sainters. Within a month atter the
prisoner became an inmate of Sainter's I observed
attentions paid by him to Mrs. Sainter which I
thought improper. I have heard him say to her that
he could make her a better hushanii than Sainter,
who was too old for her. On a Sunday, in the month
of April, 1848, I saw Mrs. &tinter enter the surgery
yard. She asked the prisoner if he was ready to go
to church. He made no reply, but attempted to em-
brace her. The witness spoke to other suspicious
and improper conduct between the parties. He pro-
ceeded—On Wednesday or Thursday, in the third
week in June, about three r.st., I saw Mrs. Sainter
leave the house. She went to Frestbury-road and
from thence down Boughey-lane. Adjoining the
lane there is a small plantation, into which a gap
leads from the lane. The prisoner approached her
from behind a hedge. She went into the plantation.
The prisoner looked up and down the lane, and then
folio wed through the gap. They could not see me for I
lay down behind a tree. (The witness here detailed
facts unfit for publication, which showed that a crimi-
nal intimacy took place between the prisoner and
Mrs. Sainter.) After this he resumed—Mrs. Sainter
repassed the gap, and went home alone. I remained
behind for some time to see whether Ferguson would
follow her. He did not, so I walked after, overtook,
and spoke to her. I told Mr. Sainter part of what I
had seen on the 23d of August last.

Isaac Lucas—l am a sheriff's officer. I arrested
the prisoner on the 21st of April, and brought him to
Chester. At Chalford we had some talk about the
action against him for criminal conversation tried at
the last assizes. Ferguson then said that the evidence
given at that trial by Sidebottom was false, and that
he had never had connexion with Mrs. Sainter out
doors in his life. He said to me, "Do you think I
was such a fool as to expose myself when there were
plenty of opportunities in the house, as Mr. Sainter
retired to bed early (about ten o'clock), leaving his
wife up, end I never closed the surgery till eleven
o'clock, and sometimes I stayed up till one o'clock."
A paper written in pencil by the prisoner, and ad-
dressed to Mrs. Saint,,r, was put in. It contained the
following passage:—" Would to God that I could be •
lieve all you say was true. I thought you confessed
all. I denied everything to Wilkinson. As to what
any one else can say, it will not affect us." Some
lines of verse addressed by the prisoner to Mrs. Sainter
were also produced.
Mr. TOWNSEND addressed the Court for the de-
fence, submitting that there was no evidence to go to
the jury in this case. He also objected—firstly, that
it ought to have been alleged on the face of the in
dictment that the oath was taken in the course of a
judicial proceeding ; and secondly, it ought to have
shown that the prisoner's denial of the supposed adul-
tery was material to the question before the Court of
Chancery. This was not shown. In order to enable
Sainter to obtain an injunction restraining the pri
soner from practising as a surgeon in Macclesfield, it
was not material to allege that the latter had miscon
ducted himself with Mrs. Sainter, and therefore if the
prisoner made a false answer to that part of the bill
in Chancery making that charge against him, he was
not liable for perjury.
Mr. WELSBY submitted that the above objections
ought to have been taken before plea pleaded
Mr. TOWNSEND resumed—The Court of Chancery
has no jurisdiction over crimes. He further objected
that the indictment was not sufficiently specific as to
allegations of time and place.
The Learned JUDGE reserved these points for fu-
ture consideration if it should be necessary.
Upon this Mr. TOWNSEND addressed the jury with
an ingenious speech, attributing as the motive of this
prosecution professional rivalry between the parties—
the prisoner being successful, and Sainter falling back
in business. He commented severely upon the wit-
nesses Cookson and Sidebottom, and upon Mr. Wil-
kinson in not putting the prisoner on his guard when
he called upon and questioned him re,pecting this
affair with Mrs. Sainter. He remarked upon the
discrepancies in the evidence, and upon the circum
stances that none of the inmates of Sainter's house,
who if there had been familiarities or improprieties
between the prisoner and Mrs. S ►inter could best have
spoken to the fact, had been called. He concluded by
stating that he should call witnesses of character and
credit, who would contradict the evidence for the pro -
secution.

Joseph Clarke contradicted the witness Sidebottom
as to the existence of a gap in the edge (as stated by
him) at the time in question. He added that, consi•
dering Sidebottotn's position, he did not think the
latter could have seen Mrs. &inter coming down the
lane.

John Norbury confirmed the last witness as to their
being no gap in the hedge, as had been stated in June,
1848.

John Sutton, called to contradict Cookson, con-
firmed him as to his statement regarding a demand
he had made of money from the prisoner, but contra•
dieted him as to the amount asked for, and in some
minor matters. This witness admitted he had been
convicted of stealing hay.

Isaac Gee, tea•dealer, of Macclf sfied—l was walk-
ing with a lady, ono evening in August, 1847,
through the grounds at Westbrook. A man came
up to me ; to the best of my knowledge and belief
Cookson was that man. He demanded money,
threatening that if I refused he would make a charge
against me. I refused to give money. The lady and
myself separated, and I turned upon the party who
were following me. They ran away, but I caught
one of them, whom I believe was Cookson, and
brought him to Charnock.

On cross-examination this witness said it was
nearly dusk, and he could not be sure about the man,
for he had never seen him before.
William Charnock—l am a watchman at Wood-
ward's factory, and know Cookson. Mr. Gee cohered
him and brought him to me in August, 1847. No
one was ever brought to me by the collar except on
that occasion. Mr. Ferguson never delivered Cook-
son into my custody.
This closed the case for the defence.
Mr. WELsny replied in a very temperate speech, in
which he said he concurred most fully with the
Learned Counsel for the defence, in the remarks t hat
gentleman had made upon the conduct of Cookson
and Sidebottom, who had sworn that they watched
the parties; such conduct he looked upon with de-
testation. If the jury had any doubt whatever of the
prisoner's guilt, for God's sake, in so serious a charge,
let them give the prisoner the full benefit of that
doubt.

Mr. Baron PLATT having summed up with great
care, the jury almost immediately returned a verdict
of Not Guilty.

With this case terminated the business of these
assizes.

THE C()IEJ`

The following is the off
corn, &c., received in tiF
Essex, from the 6th Au;
both inclusive:—

RY MARI
statement of ti
Irt of London fro
1849, to the 111

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Ilarwich .
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46 28
42 58
80 128

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its in
1849,

200
1130

CHELMSFORD, AUG. 10.—A very great dullness prevailed
throughont the day's business, and where sales were effected in
wheat an abatement of from 3s to 4s per quarter was neces•
sarily submitted to. The highest price for new white wheat
of average quality, and in good condition, was 525, and several
samples changed hands on those terms. New peas met
a reduction of 2s per quarter on last week's quota'
Lions, with a very slack sale. Old oats were full as dear.
Wheat, white, old 44s to 50s; new 46a to 525; red, °hi
40s to 42s ; new, 40s to 44, ; barley, —s to —s ; chevalier
—s to -s; grinding 22s to 28s; oats 17s to 23s ; malt 545
to 565; chevalier 54s to 58s; peas, partridge, new 295 to
31s; old, 303 to 32s ; white, new, 28. to 30s ; old, 29s to 31s;
dun, new, 27s to 3os ; beans, tick, old, 29s to 31s ; harm%
ticks, new 28s to 31s ; old 30s to 325; mazagan, new 2is 10
26s 9 • old 26s to '2Bs per qr.
1-IADDINGTON. AUG. 10.—The following are the prices of
grain at our market to-day :
%% heat. Barley. Oats. Beans.
... 51s Od 22s 61 1 333 0(1

First

second
Third

... 45s lid I 26s ad 121 s 21s Od 31; 4d
40s Od I 24s 6dl 191 Od 130 s Od

Total quantity of Wheat in market 284 qrs., 251 sO,ll
Do. Barley do. 71 qrs., 47 sow
Do. Oats do. 316 qrs., 295 sold
Do. Beans do. 51 qrs., 47 sold
KIRKALDY, Alin. 11.—The following are the quotations
up to this date :
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Peas,,
First 50s Od 27s Od 22s 63 —s Od —5 C
A econd 47s Od 53 Od 21a Od —s Od —s 9A
"
,1
Third ...—. 42s Od 22$ Od 193 Od —s Od —s "u
Oatmeal, tier ba,: of 28011.5. imp., 294 to 00s Od.
GLASGOW, A-tic. 9.—Provisions—Cheese, 40s to 416 Od
per cwt • retail, 51c1 to 6d per lb Skim milk, 18s to 20s pet
cwt. dountry fresh butter, 93 to 10d per lb ; Irish pow,
dered, in lumps, 9d to 10d; country powdered, wholesale, 7ici,
to Bd. Country eggs, 9d per dozen; carried hen ditto, 5s 0"
per hundred, or 7d per dozen. Hens, 2s Od per pair; ducks
2s Od.

KELSO, Auc, 10.—Wheat, old, 00s to 00s ; ditto, new, 365
to 41s d ; barley, new, 17s to 20s Od ; ditto old, Os Od to
Os ; potato oats, Os to Os Od ; ditto new, 14s to 15s Od ; coo-
mon oats, 13s to 14s Od ; ditto new, Os Od to Os Od ; peas, 24s
to '2ss Od ; beans, 24s to 25. per boll of six imperial bushels.
STIRLING, Auc. 10.—Wheat, foreign, 22s to 26s Od; ditto
home, Os od to OsOd; ditto ditto new, 20s Od to 235; barley, per
boll of 6 bushels, Os Od to OsOd; ditto new, 181 6d to 21s 6(1;
oats, common, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 13s Od to 15s 6d;
ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Cd ; ditto ditto new, Os Od; malt
distillers, 35s to 38s ; ditto brewers, 37s Od to 39s ; beans,
per boll, Os 6d to Os Od; ditto new, 15s Od to 17s 6d; Peas'
14s 6d to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 34s to 35s ; ditto commea.
ditto, 24s Od to 25s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to Os Od!
ditto new 26s Od to 28s ; ditto per peck of 71bs, 80 to Os 0(1t.
fresh butter, per lb. 8d to 10d ; eggs per dozen, 6d to 7d t
hay per ton, 45s to 50s.
PERTH, Auc. 9.—Wheat, 44s Od to 50s Od ; barley, 2,24
to 25s Od ; oats, 18s to :2s ; peas and beans, 25s Od to 28s Od
per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 26s to 283.
FALKIRK, Auc. 9. —The supply of grain in this day's
market was 142 bolls; wheat at 22s 6d to 23s 6d per boll .
barley, (10s Od to Os Od ; 'oats, 15s 6d to OOs Odi beans, 16036
to 17s Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load.
HAWICK, Auc. 9.—Wheat, new, 34s Od to 42s Od; ditto
old, 00s Od to OOs Od; barley, new, 18s to 225; pokato oats:
14s Od to Iss 6d ; common oats, lis to 14s Od ; peas, 233 94
to 25s Od ; beans, 23s Od to 25s Od per boll of six imperil
bushels.

BERWICK, Auc 9.--Wheat, 48s Oid ; barley, 2gs 41d
oats, 20s lid ; rye, 20s 8d ; beans, 28s Od ; peas, 00s Od Ave'
age per imperial quarter.

COAL MARK ET.— YESTERDAY.
Carr's Hartley ..
East Adairs Main..... 13s 00 Haswell 163 01
H )Iywell Main ... ..... 15s Oo Lambron
6ti
.!rd's Redheugh
Ravensworth'sW.llart 15s Oil Russell's Hetton
1
• nfield Moor
Townley l4s Ebb Whitwell 15s 94

•••
Walker's Primrose ... 13s Od;ileugh Hall
West Wylam
Wall's End, &e. IWhitworth l3s 9.,-
Brown's lss OthAdelaide Tees
Gibson - 135 9d

, ._ ._ ... ...... i, s ,-,L. s est
Hilda
23s
~,96A
~,1
Hedley ... ....... ...... 15s 6d Cowpen Hartley
16s '-'
Hotspur lss t d Garnant Stone
15y 3d
Wharneliffe
Eden Main -16s 9d' Ships at market, 89•
Lambton Primrose l6s 9(11