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WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 27, .1825.

ENG LISII and -BRISTOL CHANNELS
SHIP CANAL.—The Act of Parliament having
passed, constituting theSUBSCRI BE RS a CORPORATION,
Notice is hereby given, that application for Shares, in lieu of
those forfeited by the neglect of Holders thereof to execute
the. Deed, may be made to Messrs. King and Lakin, No. 5,
Gray's Inn-square; and to Mr. Clarke, Chard, Somerset, the
respective Solicitors to the Concern.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

STAFFORD, MONDAY, JULY 25.
(Before Mr. Baron GARROW.)
CIIARGE OF MURDER.

James Bartley,,a waggoner, residing at Newcastle-under-
Line, was indicted for the wilful murder of WTilliain Price, on
the 25th June last. _ _

It appeared from the evidence on the part of the prosecution,
that the prisoner had sent the deceased, on the above day, to a
distance cf twelve miles, with his waggon and team, for the
purpose of bringing home a load of wood. The deceased, if he
acted regularly, would have been at home at 10 o'clock at
night. However; he did not attend to his business, and was
not home till a late hour. The master of the prisoner at the
bar went to meet him on the road, and came up with him
about two miles from Newcastle. He found, on coming up to
the waggon, that the deceased was drunk, and 'sleeping across
the shafts of the waggon, and another man was on. the top of
the load. They had some words; but it was denied by the
man who was in the waggon that the prisoner struck Price at
all then; they arrived at the prisoner's house between two and
three o'clock -in the morning; the horses were put up; Price
was drunk, and did notaesist ; the master was very angry with
him ; ,they were alleged to have had a scuffle in the stable,
and from that morning Price was not heard of until the Thurs-
day following, when his body was found in the basin of an ad-
joining canal, apparently after having lain there for some
days; there were bruizes on the body, and a mark of a cord
,having been tied round the neck, and the spine and jaw-bone.
were very much injured. .The circumstances of saspicion
against the prisoner were, that he had been in a violent passion
with Price on the above morning; next, that on the same
morning, half an hour or so after the arrival of the waggon, the
great coat of the deceased was brought to his father's house,
.which is a short way from the prisoner's house, and a little &s-
-tance from the canal, and the parlour window shutter, which
was apparently fastened, but really was not so, was taken
down, the sash raised, and the coat thrown into the room ' • the
sash was then let down and. the shutter restored. The father
of the deceased was alarmed, got up, looked out of the win-
(low, but could see nothing. Another circumstance of sus-
picion was, that the prisoner never made inquiry about his ser-
vant as he used to do, if that person were absent. It was also
given in evidence, that the prisoner, on the day that the
body was found, was in a public house, when the landlady
asking him upon the subject, he begged she would not men-
tion it, as he was so greatly troubled about it the night before
that. he could not sleep. Upon that occasion he volUntarily.
acknowledged that he-had struck the boy in the back of the
head.

For the prisoner, his own son, his daughter-in-law, and his
daughter, distinctly proved that they were in his presence, ex-
cept for.very short intervals, during the time that elapsed from
his entering his own premises that morning and his going to
bed ;.and during all that time a single blow had not been given
to this boy by the prisoner; but that having taken his coat
soon after he came in, he left the yard, and was not heard of.
There was the additional circumstance in his • favour, that it
required the greatest exertion of strength, and it must have been
after..a violent struggle that the injuries were inflicted on the
deceased; whereas, by the account of the different witnesses,
the deceased was a powerful, well-formed young man, more
than a match for the prisoner.
The Jury, after an eloquent charge from Mr. Baron
Ganhaw,.returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and• the prisoner
was discharged. .
Before Mr. Justice Bunnouon.
TREASON.

The civil buslnns being concluiild at one o'clock to-day with
a Special jury cause, entirely destitute of interest. Mr. Justice
BuultOUGH sat in the Nisi Prius Court for the trial of pri-
soners, while the trial for murder proceeded before Mr. Baron
GAII.IIOW.

Theodore 'Moore was indicted for high treason on the Bth and
9th William 111., c. .6, sec. 1, which subjects any person to
the pains of that crime who shall, without lawful authority,
knowingly have in his possession any instrument used in coin-
ing the current money of the realm, not having been employed
in any other manufacture or trade. The indictment charged
him with so possessing certain edged and edging tools, for the
purpose of milling the edges of counterfeit shillings and half-
crowns, in the manner employed in finishing the coins of that
description bsuLd from the Mint. The prosecution was insti-
tuted by order of the Mint, and• conducted by Mr. ISRVIS,
Mr. TAUT4'IOI:, and Mr. SHEPHERD. Mr. CURWOOD and
Mr. PHILLIPS defended the prisoner.
It appeared in evidence, that on the 26th of May last, a cart
was observed by the constable of Stoke-upon-Trent standing in
a Reid near the Antelope.public-house; ih that parish, without any
one in sight to manage it. As the field in which it stood had no
path, and it seemed to be loaded, the constable suspected some-
thing wrong—probably smuggled spirits—and determined
to search it. About three o'clock in the afternoon, he, with two
others, went to the cart, and found there the prisoner and John
Lawly, who had been admitted to give evidence for the Crown.
The constable asked what they had got there; to which Moore
replied with an oath, "what is that to you ?" The constable
stated what office he held, and declared hit intention to search ;
and while he was beginning to examine the cart Moore slipped
away, but was. shortly taken. In the cart was found a cask
containing the implements which were the subjects of the prose-
cution, called collors, being round pieces of iron, open in the
centre, and formed to mill the edges of coin of the size of half-
crowns. Five of these were discovered'; and also a press taken
to pieces, and 14, 000 blank pieces or metal of the size of half-
crowns, but no edge. The collars, according to the evidence of
officers of the Mint, resembled those used for milling the edges
of : genuine coin ; but these instruments had only •been used
since the year 1825, as before that time the coin was milled by
a different process. ,
John Lawly, the accomplice, gaVe a history of his connexion
with the prisoner since. November last, when he entered into
his service on his marriage with his sister. According to his
testimony, they had gone from place to place, coining and dis-
posing of shillings and half-crowns to a great,extent, chiefly at
Burslem and Hull.' A hundred dozen shillings were made in one
day at Burslem, and 400 half-crown at' H ull,which were disposed
of to circulators in exchange for linen, stuff,, gold watches, and
other light articles. This evidence was confirmed by other tes-
timony, showing :that Moore had gone from place to place in
company with Lawly; that he had taken ;houses under suspi-
cioils circumstances ; and that he had received from Jews linen
an 4 watches, and given casks in return.
It was suggested, on behalf of the prisoner, that the case was
not within the statute' as the instrumenp feundln .-..his ;Imes,
Mori were not tired in the milling of 'coin till long after it had
begun to Operate. . , -,,, • • - .. : --:' ' • . --' -
r. Justice Htutitortau said.;'!'h.at •ip..caffe the
spirisone,
1
'sllo Icl be convicted, he, would reserve the objectiOn for the opi.
nio of the twelve Judges. i . ~. ...., . . , ,
•,s
,t,
An atteiiipt Waithen made to suggesnlat 'the collars' might
111:14 ah
C instruments et fan c
3';
.
'lie intended for the finishing of anyeimelaill;vd;
ifiettals were pzoduced,:obvinuld
and a'aister of ],awry I,is called to contradict him, but failed to
sha the Material. Parts of his story
,jaw Taegu ug 4sier, all th ft evidence./ .
lt
.Justi ati#PAAGP4 C.
Writhe Jury to say whether the collar was an batstnn-nent used
Fs minbtriet, ; „tether is was tralloynti is any °tint. won al..

facture ; and whether the prisoner had it ipowiugly in his poA-
session.

'rho Jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty. '
Air. Justice Bunuouoiz Tespited sentence, in order that the
opinion of the Judges might be taken on the point reserwd,
and oidered the prisoner to be detained till the next Assizes.
Nothing now remains for trial at these Assizes but traverses
indictments for not repairing roads.

NOTTINGHAM, MONDAY, JI!LY 25.
Beftre Mr. Justice PARK.
muliDElt.

Thomas Dervey,,aged 30, was indicted for the wilful murder
of Maria Austin, by stabbing her in the side, on the 2d of July
last.—lir. READER, for the prosecution, called . .
Mary Fallowel, who deposed, that she lodged in a mom op-
posite to that occupied by the deceased, and that she boarded
with her. On Saturday, the 2d of July, at about 10 o'clock at
night, witness went into the apartment of the deceased. • The
prisoner was then standing near the door. He also lodged op-
posite, on the same landing-place. The prisoner went with wit..
ness into the deceased's room, and then asked witness what he
had said on the preceding day to th4,daughter of the deceased.
Witneas replied th 4 he had Neatened to beat the child. He
acknowledged that he had done so: upon which the deceased said'
he should not order her children about. The prisoner turned away
without speaking, and went into his own tooth. He returned
immediately, and struck the deceased a very violent blow on
the left side, saying, at'the same moment, " There, then."—
This was done with great rapidity. Witness did not see whether
the blow was given with any weapon. The prisoner, as
soon as he had struck the deceased, went hack into his own
room, and witness heard him' lay something down upon the
table. The deceased put her hand to her side, and groaned
very loudly. 'Witness told her daughter to fetch her uncle
Heenan; but the deceased opposed this. Witness held her up.
She was sitting on the same stool where she hail been
when she received the blosi% Her head hung down on
her left side ; she could scarcely. speak, and seemed very
faint. The prisoner soon came again into the room, and said,
" Don't send for arty body; she is a murdered woman."—
There was no light in the room ; the curtain was drawn. Wit-
ness asked the prisoner to fetch a light: he said, " Its of no use,
she is a dead woman." He took the deceased's hand and
kissed her ; he afterwards went out of the room, when he met
Heenas, the deceased's brother, on the stairs, who' asked him
what he had been doing. He replied, " Nothing," and then
went away. Witness sent for the deceased's mother-in-law.
The deceased died in witness's arms within three-quarters of
an hour after she bad received the wound. When the deceased
was undressed; witness found that she had been stabbed through
all her clothes. On the following morning she saw a butcher's
knife on the table in the prisoner's room, which fitted the
wounds in the deceased's clothes.

On cross-examination, the witness said she had known the
prisoner half a year, who always appeared to be a quiet inoffen-
sive man. _ _ _

Sarriuel Spencer, a constable, produced the knife and the
clothes of the deceased. _

Maria Austin, the child of the deceased, who was present
at the murder, stated the same facts as had• previously been
deposed to by the first witness.
Joseph White, a surgeon, examined the body of the de.
ceased, and found a wound under the left breast, through
which the liver had been perforated. A great effusion of
blood had taken place in the cavity of the abdomen. The
wound had occasioned death ; in its size it perfectly corre-
sponded with the butcher's knife now produced. The de-
ceased was in the third month of pregnancy.
S. Moore, clerk in the NottinGliam police-office, produced
the prisoner's confession of having stabbed the deceased. The
prisoner said he had committed the murder under the in-
fluence of a Haden impulse, for which he could not account.
The witness said the prisoner appeared in a state of great agi-
tation when he made this confession. _ _ _

The prisoner's Counsel submitted, that in consequence of the
last statement, the confession ought not to be receiver).
The Judge said, the Jury would consider what weight should,
under the circumstances, be given to the confes> an.
The prisoner being called on for his defence, said that he was
subject to a disorder in his head, which deprived him of
reason. He had, under the influence of this disorder, several
times attempted to commit suicide, and had once nearly suc-
ceeded.
A witness was called, who proved that the prisoner had
attempted to destroy himself by taking laudanum. He thought
him subject to a melancholy, which interfered with his reason.
Ann Tapley saw the prisoner four or five hours before the
murder, in a state of great dejection.
The prisoner's father said he had once attempted to drown
himself in the Trent.
Several witnesses gave him a good character, and stated that
he was subject to occasional dejection.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty ; whereupon the
Judge passed sentence of death upon the prisoner, and ordered
him for execution on IVednesday morning.
The prisoner was a slight, sickly-looking man, whose appear-
ance and demeanour corroborated the account given of him by
the witnesses. . • _ _ _

YORK, MONDAY, JULY 25.
( Before Mr. Justice BATLEY.)
FALSE IMPRISONMENT.
HUTCHINSON v. HAWKSWORTH AND ()Tutus.

'Mr. D. F. JONES opened the pleadings. This was an'action
brought by the plaintiff, to recover a compensation in damages
for an assault and false imprisonment which he had wrongfully
suffered by means of the defendants. The defendants pleaded
they were not guilty, and upon that point issue was joined.
Mr. SCARLETT stated the case to the Jury. Hawksworth,
the principal defendant on this occasion, had been drinking,
with several others, at a place called Pennistone-bridge, in this
county, on the evening of the 6th of April last. lie was as-
saulted on his return from that place to Holyland Swaine,
where he lived, by a person of the .came of Dukes,. and, as he
afterwards declared, by some ethers. On mentioning the cir..
cumstance to his family, he stated that- HutchinSon, the pre-
sent plaintiff, had been a witness to the whole ofwhat occurred.
A constable was immediately sent for, who, on hearing of the
transaction, went immediately to the plaintiff's house, took hint
into custody, handcuffed him, and held him in distance 'luring
the whole of that night, and to the middle of the ensuing day,
under no other pretence than that of having hint ready to pro-
duce as a witness before the Magistrates. On the parties being
taken before them, a charge was preferred against Dukes,
on • which he was committed to prison, and subsequently
tried and convicted at Pontefract Sessions; but no complaint
was made • against the plaintiff, neither was he examined
by the defendant as a witness. It was to recover damages for
this assault and imprisonment that the plaintiff now appealed to
a Jury of his country; and when he tolddhem that in conse-
quence of the injury which the plaintiff bad Then received, he
bad ever since been afflicted with a spitting of blood, and had,
never been able to carry on his business as formerly, he trtisted
that they would give him such damages as would indemnify
hitn for the loss of health and comfort which he had sustained
from the cruel and wanton conduct of tire defendants.
Thomas Radford.---I am a nail-maker. I know the plaintiff.
On the Gth of April last-I saw at a publie.house. in Pennistone,
the plaintiff, Mr. Burley, Joseph Dukes, James Hawkesworth,
and Benjamin Cressley. Hutchinson, Burley, rukes, and I
went 'away together. The others came afterwards.' Burley and
Flawkesworth went home first, but 'the others followed soon
after Crossley and Hutchinson remained at Pennistone. Dukes
and awksworth had a fight, but the plaintiff was not present at
it. They went home after it. On the next
.day- George Senior
went with me to Hawkswortit's house. When I got there, I
heard a noise of tables and chairs rattling together. and also a
man screaming out " murder." I tried to get into the room, but
Hawksworth pulled me back. Some other persons forced thir way
into it, and when the door seas opened, I saw the plaintiff strug-
gling under several persons, and calling out murder !" On see-
ing the plaintiff thus. maltreated, I wanted to assist. him, but
James Hawksworth would not let me. The plaintiff received
a great many blows, and cried bitterly. He was handcuffed
by the constable, but for what reason I cannot tell. Shortly
afterwards he went to bed, and the constable
htatbleerew,ean:awlsiothshhiauwi.
I was also taken into custody. He was taken the next. day he-
-fore Mr. Wortley.- Leonard Crossley was
and 'the constable. They said that they had no complaint to
make against the plaintiff; but merely wanted him as an evi-
dence. Dakes was tried and convicted at Pontefract sessions,
idd
bhuearrhhei‘lily
but flutchiason was not called as a witness. • •
• cross-examined—l did not hear • the 'plaintiff gay at the
public-house that he would Ilawkswo"L'a ; but I
heard. say•Altat he would lick him. l
'that he would kill. him. They begged of bins to " harkl.his
for ye dinna ken wha may bear
Zee I" but they did not add.
' ye." I did not hear Dukes ssfy,
1411 sitestortls .isk,dit.4 .the amid I%o'am Dukes g7i

upon Hawksworth,,•and heat him severely. Witless saw no
stone either taken up or thrown at that time. • •
Mr. Justice BAY LEY wished to know whether the plaintiff
was present at this transaction. •
31r. IlnovouAm wished to know the contitqty-ol'all the
transactions. .
111 r- Justice BAY LEY—Supposing that you do that still
will you contend that.a.constable has a right to handeufa man
to insure his attendance as a-witness ? • . •
Mr..l3EouGHAlt—We did not handcuff hin3. on that ac-
ctinni, my Lord ; we apprehended him on a eliiirge of felony ;
and I contend that if a person so apprehended attempts to
escape, the constable is bound to take all reasonable precautions
to semre him.
The cross-examination of the witness was then continued.—
Hawksworth was cut about the eyes. Be desired the constable
to arrest the plaintiffon a charge of robbery.
Re-examined—l know Hutchinson was under the care of the
doctor some time.

Several witnesses were examined to corroborate this story, but
the details of their evidence, would be too great an infliction on
the patience of our readers.
141 r. Ellison,. a surgeon, who attended the plain' ifrduring
an
illness whichhe
had immediately after his apprelieuSicm, stated,:
that, he found hint labouring under an internal disoase, which'
might have been occasioned by external violence.
Mr. Ritout;.HAat _gave a very different version of this trans-
action to the Jury. He said, that the plaintiff, a man of the
name of Dukes, and the witness Radford, had been drinking
at a public-house, together With the defendants. The plaintiff'
and his party attacked the defendants, ,and they, naturally
enough, retaliated the assault. The defendant 1-la*kswortli
lost his money, amounting to 1001., in the Tort which took
place, .arid conceived that the plaintiff' had robbed him of it.
In consequence, he gave him in charge to a constable, who did
not handcuff him until he attempted to escape. Hawksworth
had intended to prosecute the plaintiff; but, owing to the soli
citations of his friends, gave up his intention. If he 'should
make these circumstances out in evidence, he trusted that they
would return a verdict for the defendants. . . .

A host of witnesses were.called to substantiate this story ;
and Mr. SCARLETT afterivards called several to. weaken thi
effect of their testimony.
In cross-examining one of them, Mr. BnouGmist asked
him, whether: he had not on one occasion been present at a pro.
cess which had occupied for some time the attention of a Court
and Jury.
The witness replied that lie had, but that he was not guilty.
Mr. 13nou GUAM-Guilty ! God bless you ! 1 never yet saw
a guilty man placed at a bar. It is slander and calumny to say
that you were guilty, I know ; but 'were you not tried upon one
occasion ? _

The witness—l repeat, Sir, that I was not guilty of the charge
made against um.
Mr. SCAIILETT—And I should like to ace the fellow that
would say that you were. If he makes such a charge against
you, he must at least do it legally.
. Mr. BROUGHAM.—But the man at least was tried for it.

ScArtLETT.:--So you say, Mr. Brougham ; so you say.
Mr. Bnou GIIAM, addressing the witness.—l ask you;Sir, and
I expect a direct answer to my. question, were you was not tried
on home charge that was Made against you ?—Yes, Sir, but I
was acquitted.. The person who prosecuted me on that occa-
sion was so convinced that he was mistaken, that he has since
befriended me upon several occasions.
My. SCARLETT observed, that as the witness had been ac-
quitted, it was not fair that he should be attacked as if he had
been guilty:
Mr. Justice BAYLEY summed up the evidence, which ex-
tended to an amazing length, with groat impartiality. The
Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 10/.
The case occupied the Court from nine o'clock in the morn-
ing till halt-past six o'clock in the evening.

HUNTINGDON, JULY 25.
CIVIL SIDE.—( Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)
LIBEL.—WELLS rens; MARGITTS._

This case, which came on for trial to-day before a Special.
Juey, excited very considerable interest throughout Hunting-
don and its vicinity, from the political notoriety of the plaintiff:
It was an action for a libellous paragraph, of which the de-
fendant was the reputed author, The paragraph was con-
tained in a Newspaper, recently established at Huntingdon,
opposed in its politics to a Journal said to be under the con-
troul of the plaintiff, if not edited by him. In the " Liberal
Journal," there appeared certain animadversions upon the
Police of lluntingdon, for suffering noisy and idle persons to
disturb the peace of the town on Sunday evenings. The im-
puted libel was inserted in " the Government Paper," as_it is
called, and professed to come under the very original title of
"An Old Inhabitant of H untingdon," The Oldln habitant"
expressed his indignation somewhat in " the Cambyirs' vein,"
upon the appearance of such observations in the " Liberal Jour-
nal," a paperunder the management of the plaintiff,.*ho, ac-
cording to the publication of "The Old Inhabitant," had stirred
up more of insubordination in the quiet town of Huntingdon
than any liberal since the days of Robin Hood. He had vio-
lated the Sabbath, and encouraged the little boys to throw
stones at the apple women, and to break the church windows
and " the Ten Commandments." He got drhnk in the even-
ing, and started as a popular candidate for Peterborough the
next morning. Though a disciple of Cobbett's, he was a lover
of wine, anti though, 'he held a sinecure, he was a notorious
fledford) " leveller." To these and various other allegations,
the defendant, who, like the plaintiff;
• " Is—can he help it ?—a special attorney,"
pleaded a justification. The damages were laid at 6001.
The publication having been proved, and its authorship by,
the Editor, and the libel put in and read, the defendant 'a
Counsel proceeded to cross-examine the Editor as to his recol-
lection of certain bills placarded about Huntingdon, signed by
Mr. Wells. They contained invitations to the people of Hunt-
ingdon.
The plaintiff's Counsel objected to their reception, but they
were received as proof of correspondent papers having been cir-
culated at Huntingdon.
Witness recollected the acquittal of the Queen. Mr. Wells's
house was illuminated, and beer was distributed ; and M.
Wells spoke from a waggon to the lower orders.
• What did he say ?
To this question it was ()fleeted,'" that the words spoken "
were not in any of the pleas set out. • . •
On the other side, it was contended that the words need not
be set out; but on a suggestion from the Court, it was agreed
that the witness should be called again at the close of the speech
for the defendant.

This was the plaintiff's case.
On the part of the defendant, it was very ingenuously admit.
ted that Mr. Margins " loved the Constitution because he,was
a member of an ancient Corporation," and was attached to 'the
thirty-nine articles and the Established Religion, a"tl therefore,
with !11r. 'Wells's character for notoriety; it was surprising ha
should against such a man-be in-an action for libel. His poli-
tical life was freely and fully animadverted upon, and• it was
contended that the libel was of a public nature, violating no.
thing that was was private, and touching not in the slightest
degree upon his home, but reflecting upon his known princi-
'plea, and the natural tendency of these principles. Various
passages from his " Conciones ad Populum" were read. His
addresses to the electors of various. boroughs, the independent
representative of which he was anxious to become. and his Sun.
day nights VaUxhall, it was contended, had the inevitable effect
of rendering lax the morals of the lower orders.
Weston Hatfield, the proprietor of a Huntingdon news.:
paper, said, ,1: r. Wells was a friend of his; he produced cer-
tain papers containing " the Petition of the Paupers," " In-
vitations to Vauxhall," &c., 'paragraphs eulogizing these gar-
dens. One of the ,paragraphs contained this passage—" The
entertainments At Mr. Wells's ,gardens form a striking con-
trast to the usual dulness of a summer's &ening at Hunt-
ingdon."
What tunes were played ? National melodies, such as I re-.
member to have heard when a boy in the market place of
Huntingdon before all the constituted authorities of that place.
(Some applxise was manifested at this answer, and the Chief
Baron declared. he would send any person guilty of such mis-
conduct out of Court.)
Cross-examined—Was not Mr. Margitt a captain of the vo-
lunteers when you heard these tunes ?
The question was objected to by the defendant's Counsel.
The CBIEF BARON thought this .question could not be
asked. • • .
. .
' Were the persons whoittended these pc.'imenade4 decent and
respectable females, and gentlemen of the town;?—yes t• I
think so. • •
The,. Petition of the Paupers" was then read, charging that
'the fruits-of their labour had been applled-to Support tax-eaters
• •
and sinecuri.sts. •
The .A4dresii to the Electors of Eye wr-s also rual• It ann..
latticed by &doling. that " NO place, nOt even the corrupt and

PRICE SEVENPENCt.

degraded, Borough of thin tihgd on, owed &larger atone! i;ent to
the public, than the:Borough of Eye." . •
Ttionias- Lovell produced the manuscript (in Mr. Wells's
hand-writing) 'Of a letterdated January, 1318,-.:1 letter to the
Freeholders orthe County of iluntingdon—" Of myself I may
truly say I live-in' the hot-bed of sedition and corruption" Nrati
its commencement. Seven hundred of these were printed.
The advertisement communicating the plaititifrs intention 'to'
illuminate- his house, and calling upon :" the ragamuffins of
Iluntingdon to join him in the expression of their triumph on the
Queen over Ministerial Persecution" was then read. The wit-
ness said about one-third of the houses in Hunting-doll was illu-
minated,- lie was sworn in as aspecial constable; he had heard
the plaintilf make 2pecches at various times, but .he could nit
mention particular Occasion. •
The master of " The National School" proved that n man
was employed to take care that no improper per Son was ad-
mitted. Mischievous boys assembled outside, attracted by
the music. •

•.A Special Constable proved that on the night-of the
nAtion a waggon came from towards Mr. Wells'a house. He
I;e:trd ,Mr. Wells speak of the Corporation collectively._ , •
.• What did he say?
This was objected to, unless• the particular occasion was

The witness was unable fo specify any particular occasion.—
1897- he heard Mr. Wells speak from a wheel-liarrow, but
what he said he don't recollect.

Mr. James was recalled, and stated, that at various periods
he had heard Mr. Wells declaiming in a powerful way abort
the Corporation. He remembered being present at a supper ivf
the Burgesses, where Mr. Wells spoke of a
,Corporation in a
degrading. manner, charging them with venality and corruption.
lie spoke violently of Lord John Russell' for having favoured
the doctrine of .I%lalthus. • •
This was the defendant's case. . .
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•
• The Learned 'Counsel for the plaintiff having. replied.
The LORD CIIIEF JUSTICE summed up the evidence, anti
the Jury having deliberated for half an hour, returned a venlig
for the plaintiff—Damages 40a.
The trial occupied the Court from nine o'clock until sir in
the evening. •
In the Criminal Court there was not a single prisoner for
trial

SCOTLAND.

POLICE COURT, EDINBURGH, JULY 20.

On Saturday a most singular case of assault
occupied the attention of the Magistrate. The complainer was
a Miss Balleny, and the defender a Miss Pirie residing, in, and
the proprietrix of certain goodly. tenements in Lady's Stair'S
close, and, so far as a dignified mien and appearance go, a re.
presentative of her Ladyship, Both' ladies were elegantly
dressed ; the green bonnet of Miss Pirie, in particular, was of
such dimensions, that it all but shut out of from the sight
of the audience, the 31agistrate and all the other func-
tionaries within the bar, and the rays of the sun reflected
mediately from it upon Mr. Al‘Conochie's face, gave.a pea.
green tinge •to that gentleman's conrplenion.. Miss B.'s left
arm was bound up in a string. Each of the ladies spoke with
wonderful . slowness and composure, every. word from either
dropping upon the ear like the ticking of a clock at midnight ;
but bitterer words never proceeded -from. the mouths of in:
furiated women. They continued for nearly two. hones: esti
fire away their minute guns,. the one at the other ; and Miss
Pirie begged leave to read to the Court, and .aettaidly did
read certain documents, and Miss. Balleny coniraenteci upon/
these docunients and witnesses were examined ; and in :short
the patience of the Court was exhausted. Miss Balleny, it op.
peered; being more. than usually devout, anti very ascetically
inclined, took lodgings in Miss Pirie's house, but. according to
her account, Miss Pirie having got her into her house, affected
theairs of a lady abbess, anti took it upon her occasionally
to lock her up in her own roomeseenrlng the door with a pafi.
lock; and when she became restive under confinement, Miss.
P. made her appearance with a drawn swordeand reduced her
to a state of quiescence. At length, according to the same ac.
count, they agreed to separate • and Miss ehaving sent for a
porter to remove her effects, Miss P. flourished • the sword at
her, and then beat her with a stick ; and, indeed, her arm
bore marks of extreme violence, which she had exhibited de
rreerni to the neighbours. Miss Pirie on the other hand, re-
flected upon the sincerity of Miss Balleny's devoutness, in. no
very measured terms, and complained of the extravagant noise-
which accompanied her pions exercises—she'read• the draft of a
letter she had written to her, giving her leave to remove when.
ever she pleased, and even discharging .ber of all -claim for.
bygone rent ; and she asserted, that on the occasion in
question, so far from assaulting Miss falleny, that lady had
assaulted her, and conducted herself like a perfect Tu-rv.—
Only one witness proved the assault upon Miss Balleny. The
porter's testimony only went this far, that when ha called for
Miss' Balleny, Miss Pine appeared at the door; and', insteittl of
giving her lodger • her proper tides, called her " that woman,"
and that 31iss Balleny, in. return, desired him not, to. heed Miss
Pirie, " as she, was not in her reason."—The maid servant of
Miss Pirie was called on behalf of her mistress ; and occasioned
enormous laughter by a trick ahe has got when speaking, 'of
.shaking her head like the hopper of a mill, delivering herself
of her words in the same way that the said hopper gives
.out its
contents. She proved, nothing. The Magistrate reconarnoteded
a private and amicable settlement to the Ladies.
A few days ago, three Highland milkmaids appeared iii
battle array against three masons, whom they accused of hat'.
ing most rudely handled them in Maitland-street, on their way
home with their pitchers full of milk. Being ignorant a .tlie•
English dialect, Shairley Stewart, a watchman, as a most skd-
ful linguist, was sworn in as their interpreter; and 'his 'transla-
tions afforded infinite amusement. " Which of thes& men •
seized hold of you ?" said the Superintendent to the fair cool,
plainers. Mr. Stewart communed with them, and gave the 4-Ols
lowing response: " She no be knows." • " Did they mai-
treat you ?' . replied, " she no be; English' fou
that." " What was dons to you ?" " 0," • replied this
interpreters, " she no likes to tell all; but they makes nse
of violence Net ! and would gar her drink good whisky
( ugh t I" Nothing being to be expected from the. complain.
era, recourse was tad to the witnesses, from whose testimony
it would appear that the girls had been dragged' into a house
by the masons, when two of them' escaped ; and stated what'
had happened to their masters,. who came to the house, and
found the third girl in convulsion fits upon the floor. A mob
was collected about the door but yet, though the outrage was
PO flagrant, there was pot sufficient evidence to convict the pri-
soners, and they were dismissed from the bar.

DESTRUCTION of TWO FLOCKS of SHEEP by napS.

in the night. of Wednesday last,- eight,y,fi.
ewes and lambs, part of the highly-esteemed Southdown flock
belonging to Mr. John Bawtree, of Sciutlimiaster, were de.:
stroyed by two dogs,. a pointer and a terrier: but for the
presence of the shepherd, a' more extensive destruction op-
pears to have been contemplated, by these caning
Fortunately the shepherd had that morning risen somewhat
earlier than usual, and when he had reached die spot where lie
had hoped to find the objects of his care in perfect safety, the
dead and dying presented' themselves in such nurribefs as to
cause the most poignant grief to his mind. Sixty of these in.
.ofrensive animals were lying dead, and presented a most shock-
ing spectacle; twenty-five others were so mutilattd. ns 'to be—
past recovery, which were very humanely relieved of their
sufferings, but which produced but little beyond the offal.—
Even. after all this damage the murderers had not fully sa.
dated their thirst for blood, but were pursuing !the remnant
of the flock, as it. would appear, with a determination to
its final destruetion. The Reverend 'Gentleman u whom the.
dogs belong was from home, and this truly lamentable occur-
rence is said to have arisen from the negligence of his Servants •
in not confining the dogs as ,directed. About forty sheep.wtre
destroyed in a similar manner a short time since at. Manifold
Wyck Farm, in Tolleshunt Knights, the' property of Mt.
Wood, of Langford. The shepherds of ancient days '• wateheti
their flocks by night," to protect thqn.frpEn raVeninia -wolves ,
it appears equally necessary in order to secure
this valuable property against the like ditsitiop,hich
• .4 s
most domestic animals appear to retain. •
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}:Gin by a hrickmaker, named wizaam rLtlatv, alias Tetlaw.
Verdict— Trilfirt Merrier against Tutlaw.