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London, England, 1831-03-19 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1831.

REFORM MEETINGS IN SUPPORT OF

HIS MAJESTY'S MINISTERS.

WARWICK.

(Abridged from the Warwick Advertiser of this day.)
In compliance with a requisition, numerously and re-
spectably signed, a meeting of the burgesses and inhabi-
tants of this town was called bk:Thonias Jones, Esq., the
Mayor, which met accordingly on 'Tuesday last, in the
Court-house.

At twelve o'clock, in the absence of the Mayor, from
indisposition, at the unanimous request of the meeting, the
Chair was taken by Thomas Collins, Esq., Alderman.
WILLIAM COLLINS, Esq., jun., then rose—On the
question of Parliamentary Reform so much had been said,
that it was needless for him to enter far into the subject.
The proposed plan, which they were-then to consider, is
so clear and simple in itself, as to be easily understood, and
so comprehensive in the objects it embraces, as to promise
fair to accomplish the great end to which it is directed. It
his been approved by the King—recommended by the
Government, and accepted by the people.—(Cheers.)
Fervent was the gratitude due, therefore, from the people
to the Sovereign who patrOnized it, and to tie Ministry
who had the courage to bring it forward, As the Goirern•
ment have done their part in proposing and supporting it,
with all their heart and mind and strength, it remained for
the people to do their part, also by supporting them,
firmly and strenuously.—(Cheers.) The King and the
Government being happily united with the people in the
same cause, the battle is now to be fought by them, on
the one side, against a sordid and rapacious oligarchy on
the other. And who can doubt what will be the issue of
the contest ?—(Cheers.) " Gentlemen," said the speaker,
in closing his address, " we are fur the Bill, the whole
Bill, and nothing but the Bill." Mr. Collins then moved
the first resolution, and sat down amidst great cheering.
C. LAMB, Esq. agreed most cordially in the resolution
now proposed by his friend Mr. Collins ; and begged, there-
fore to second it.

The Rev. Mr. FIELD then rose to propose the address.
Gentlemen (said he), you will not wonder at the high
and bounding joy with which I meet you this day—
(Cheers.) No longer despairing of the cause of Parlia-
mentary Reform, I am come this day not to plead in its
favour—for even that is now become unnecessary—but to
rejoice with you, to exult with you, in its complete and
glorious triumph.—(Cheers.) He then expatiated on the
wonderful change in the aspect of the times—the whole
nation starting up as if from a long sleep, awakened to
the full sense of their wrongs and dangers, and flying as
if with one common irresistible impulse, to Parliamentary
Reform as their only rock of safety—the King and the
Government aiding their efforts—leading and urging them
on to the desired point of present security and of almost
boundle-s future hope.—(Cheers.) All this said the
speaker, was to him like the sudden rising of an enchanted
scene. He felt as if he could never be sufficiently thankful
that he had lived tosee so bright and glorious a day dawning
and shining upon his beloved country, and having seen it,
he Mt as if he had lived long enough, and looking up to
the supreme disposer of events, he was almost ready to
say—" now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace."
What a delightful spectacle, proceeded the speaker, does
our country, at this moment, present! On the one side,
the King and his Government willingly, even eagerly,
offering important benefits to the nation—(Applause)—
the nation, on the other hand, anxiously and thankfully
receiving them.—(Continued applause.)—And who are
they that dare rush in, so fiercely, so furiously, between
the benignant hand that would give, and the grateful hand
that would receive ?—(lmmense cheering.)--Alas ! you
all know them but too well.—(Laughter.)—Oh ! that 1
had a voice of thunder, exclaimed the speaker, then, in
their ears, and to their inmost souls, would I thunder an
awful warning ! I would tell them—Beware ! Be just !
Struggle no longer for what is not yours, or in the struggled
you will be lost !—(lmmense cheering.)—The Rev. Gen-
tleman then read the address, and eat down amidst loud
and general cheering.
The address having `been read, the resolution was pro..
posed (see Advertisement) that it be approveirand adopted
by the meeting, which was unanimously carried.
The other resolutions were then severally put and car-
ried, and the meeting broke up.

ably as you I, ve hitherto dons, I tender you my best
services in prc4.lting the all-important measure in thih
part of the cv..d.: •
I am, Sir, your's obediently,
March, 17, 1831. Z.

ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER.—Yesterday a nu-
merous meeting of the above populous parish, was held at
Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's-square, for the
purpose of voting a dutiful address to his Majesty, and to
petition both Houses of Parliament in support of the plan
~£ Reform brought forward by Lord John Rosiell, under
the auspices of his Majesty's Government. Sir Francis
Burdett, Bart., M.P., was called to the Chair. The
Hon. Baronet having briefly addressed the meeting; several
'entlemen, amongst whom were Mr. Byng, M.P., the
Hon. Mr. Ponsonby (son of the Earl of Besborough),
Mr. Barber Beaumcnt, and Mr. Buckingham, proceeded
to deliver their sentiments, and they all concurred in de-
scribing the Ministerial plan of Reform as a bold and com-
prehensive measure, admirably calculated to satisfy the
nation'; that they separated their love for Monarchy from
their detestation of an oligarchy of 250 families, in whom
the government of the people had hitherto essentially re-
.sided ; and that they rejoiced at the speedy emancipation
of the King -14h(Mlis subjects from the thraldom of the
horoughmongers. It was also resolved that the present
epoch was the fittest period for carrying that question
which had been the constant object of the people's solici-
tude for the last fifty years. A string of resolutions em-
bodying the sentiments of the meeting, and petitions to
both Houses of Parliament, were then read, and carried by
acclamation. It was also agreed that an address, expres-
sive of the gratitude of the parishioners to his Majesty for
having given his gracious sanction to the Reform Bill,
should be forthwith prepared, and that Lis Grace the Duke
of Norfolk should present the same to the Sovereign. It
was moved and carried that Sir F. Burdett should pre
sent the petition to the House of Commons, and Lord
Durham (who is as , well as the Hon. Baronet, a pari-
shioner) should be requested to present the petition to the
Ho useof Lords. Thanks having been voted to the Chairman,
the meeting separated.

ST. MARTIN'S-IN-THE-FlELDS.—Yesterday a
public vestry meeting of this parish was held in the new
vestry room, for the purpose of expressing the sentiments
of the parishioners in favour of the proposed Reform plan;
and it is not a little remarkable that this was the first oc-
casion within the memory of the oldest inhabitant of any
meeting, having a political object in view merely, being
convened by the parish authorities. Mr. Deville, the senior
Churchwarden, was called to the chair. The Hon. Dun-
can P. Bouverie, M.P. for New Sarum, first addressed
the meeting. He said he entrely coincided in the plan
brought forward by his Majesty's Ministers, which he de-
scribed as a wise and politic measure, calculated to produce
the most beneficial effects throughout the country, and to
bind society together in stronger and firmer bonds than at
any former period, and to add increased stability to the
Throne.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Member then moved the
first resolution, to the effect that the inhabitants of the
parish of St. Martin ought to raise their voice, in unison
with the general feeling of the country, to support and
thank his Majesty's Government for their manly and states-
man-like conduct in bringing forward a measure at once
extensive and salutary. Many other speakers addressed
the meeting, and an address to the King, and petitions to
both Houses, in support of the measure brought forward
by Ministers, were carried unanimously.
MILE;.END OLD TOWN.—Yesterday evening a
highly-respectable meeting of the hamlet of Mile-end
Old Town was held at the Town-house, in the Mile-end-
road, to take into consideration the propriety of petition-
ing the Legislature to pass the measure of Parliamentary
Reform, as proposed under the sanction of his Majesty,
into a law. An address of gratitude to his Majesty, and
petitions to both Houses of Parliament, founded upon the
resolutions, and imploring the Legislature to adopt the
Ministerial plan of Reform as a law, were agreed to with
loud " Huzzas !" and they Lord Chancellor was requested
to present the petition to the House of Lords, and Mr.
Hume to the Htuseisf Commons.

KENSINGTON AND BROMPTON.—Yesterday
one of the most numerous and respectable parish meetings
that have yet been holden on the Reform question, took
place at the Kensington Coffee-house, of the inhabitants of
St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington, and the district of the
Holy Trinity, Ilrornyton, fur the purpose of passing reso-
lutions in support of the Ministerial measures of Reform
now before Parliament. George Farlar, Joseph Hume,
Jerdan, Esqrs., and several other gentlemen, moved
the different resolutions, and petitions to the Lords and
Commons were agreed to ; and it was resolved that his
Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex he requested to pre-
sent the one to the House of Lords, and Mr. Hume that to
the Lower House, and that G. Byng, Esq., M.P., be
requested to support the prayer of the last-named peti-
tion. The chairman stated, that the Duke of Sussex had
consented, or, rather, indeed, he had solicited to be allowed
to present the address of the meeting to his Majesty.—
(Great applause, followed by nine distinct " Iluzzas
for his Royal Highness.)
FALMOUTH.—A requisition, signed by upwards of
twelve hundred freeholders, forty Magistrates, and many
Clergymen, was presented to John Hearle Trernayne,
Esq., High Sheriff of the county of Cornwall, to convene
a meeting for the support of Ministers in the Reform Bill,
with which he instantly complied. The meeting will be
held at Budmin on Wednesday next.

BUCKLAND.—Addresses of thanks to his most gra-
cious Majesty, and of congratulation to Ministers on their
Reform Bill, are getting tip at Buckland, near Dover.
These addresses are numerously and respectably signed.
C A MBR IDG E. —On Wednesday a numerous and highly
respect 'hie meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Clot-
idge was held in the Guildhall, convened by the Mayor,
pursuant to requisition, for the purpose ofpresenting a con-
gratulatory address to his Majesty, for taking to his Councils
his present Ministers, and also to petition both Houses of
Parliament, praying them to pass the present measure for
for Reform, now before the Commons. After some able
speeches, the address was put and unanimously carried, as
Cambridge and Hertford Inde-
pendent
loyal and congratulatory address to the
wer e alsoaptlri eespse.t itions.
King from the town and county of Poole was presented
at the levae on Wednesday by J. Taylor, Esq., M.D., and
most graciously received. The greatest enthusiasm pre-
vails in this and other towns, proving the general feeling
of the people ; and it is expected in the event of a disso-
lution of Parliament that the people will show their inde-
pendence in their return of popular representatives, un-
biassed by patronage, and uninfluenced by interest.
YORK.—On Thursday a meeting of the citizens of
York, convened by the Right Hon. Lord Dundas, Lord
Mayor; in compliance with a requisition signed by 64
gentlemen, was held in the Guildhall in that city, " for
the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of
expressing their approbation of the plan of Reform pro-
posed to the House of Commons, and their determination
to support his Majesty's Ministers in their present liberal
and constitutional course." An address to his Majesty was
agreed to, expressive of the satisfaction of the meeting
with the conduct of Ministers, and petitions to both
Houses of Parliament were adopted, praying that the Bill
may pass into a law.—Leeds Intelligencer.
. .

LUDLOW. —On Saturday last, pursuant to a requisi-
tion to the Bailiffs, a numerous and respectable meeting of
the inhabitant householders of the borough was held at the
Guildhall, for the purpose of expressing to his Majesty's
Ministers their entire satisfaction at the proposed Reform
of
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Parliament;. and to pray that
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a meeting of the burgh of
Airdrie was held, fur the purpose of expressing their ap-
probation of the Ministerial plan of Reform, and also for
petitioning that the same might be passed into a law. Pe-
titions on resolutions carried to the above effect were
formed, which it was determined should he presented by
the Lord Chancellor and Lord John Russell.

It is said that the names of no less than three
hundred Members have been taken down, who hive ex.
pressed themselves in favour of the Reform Bill, Sir
Thomas BARING stated, at the Hampshire meeting, that
four out of five of his family would vote for it. The Duke
of Gortooll has also declared in favour of the Bill.
Query—Do the hole-and-corner opposers of it really think
that three-fourths of the Aristocrats and me❑ of wealth in
the country have gone 111,Ad?wAlorning acraid.

DR. PARIS'S LIFE of Sir HUMPHRY DAVY,

A NEW EDITION.

We are glad to announce a second edition of
this work, in two volumes octavo. In these days
of economy and Reform, a three guinea quarto must
necessarily be limited in its circulation, and such a
work as that before us, which is calculated to en.
lighten as well as to entertain the public, should
not have its utility cramped by the expensive form
.)f its publication. To us, we confess it is a mat-
ter of some surprize that a large impression of so
large a book, at so large a price, should have been
disposed of in less than two months. Had it been,
what many anticipated, a mere record of scientific
discoveries, however ably it might have been writ-
ten, instead of in two months, the edition would
not have been sold in five years.
We have already presented our readers with some
extracts from this ialuable piece of biography ;. in
announcing its re-appearance in a more accessible
form, we shall not offer our own opinion of its me-
rits, but that •of an early and much-attached friend
of Sir Humpliry Davy, contained in a letter lately
transmitted to us with the name of the writer :

" There can he but one opinion concerning Dr. Paris's
Life of Sir H. Davy. I confess that lam delighted with
the whole work, from the dignified dedication and candid
preface, to the sublime apostrophe at the conclusion. The
early part of Davy's history is pleasingly depicted and en-
riched with a variety of simple and interesting anecdotes
which, though trifling in themselves, are highly charac-
teristic and indicative of the incipient philosopher.
There is nothing of the marvellous and wonderful with
which biographers often love to invest their infant heroes ;
but every circumstance bears the stamp of nature, of
truth, and (to use the author's own words) of ' literary
honesty,' upon the face of it. As Davy advances in life,
the work advances in interest. We trace the progress of
an extraordinary and powerful mind, gifted with original
talents of the first order, proceeding with giant strides from
an apothecary's shop in an obscure country town, to the
pneumatic establishment at Bristol—to the chemical lec-
tureship and professorship at the Royal Institution, till
be becomes secretary, and (as I predicted to him at
that time) finally the President of the Royal Society ! It
is the rapid march of intellect, the triumphant career
of genius, reflecting honour on the individual and on
the age which he adorned. In the analysis of his wonder-
ful discoveries, Dr. Paris embodies facts in words, illumi-
nates them with the rays of his own enlightened mind, and
explains them with such elegant simplicity and perspicuity,
that even the most unscientific may comprehend their ap-
plication, and appreciate their utility. The learned bio-
grapher, in my opinion, has by his clear and explicit de•
scriptions extended tke knowledge and enlarged the boun-
daries of chemical science ; and has done for it what
Blackstone did for law—divested it of all needless techni-
calities, and clothed it in a dress the most appropriate and
inviting. IA the midst of dry scientific disquisitions, the
unitiated reader is surprised and delighted by some play of
fancy, some beautiful imagery, or some luminous illustra-
tion, which like the Oasis of the desert enlivens and
irradiates all around it.

" I do net know whether it is my admiration and
esteem of Davy's abilities and character—the remembrance
of the friendship that subsisted between u', and the respect
which I feel for his memory—l know not whether this
partiality has bribed my heart and blinded my judgment,
but I really think this life is a master-piece of biography.
I recollect nothing of the kind at all comparable to it.—
Its general plan and arrrangewent cannot be too highly
praised. I admire the taste and tact with which the
author has interwoven Davy's familiar letters with the
thread of his own narrative and observations. They vary
the monotony of the scene, and, while they preserve the
interest, relieve and strengthen each other ; the genuine
and unsophisticated character of my friend is thus justly
and forcibly developed, without the studied formality and
laboured minuteness of similitude and contrast, 'of Point
and antithesis.

" The principal interests and occurrences of Davy's life
are judiciously introduced, and well narrated. They have
the fidelity and individuality ofa portrait, and at the same
time the interest and the associations of an historical pic-
ture—his diversified talents and acquirements are exhi-
bited with feeling and discrimination, while his few pecu-
liarities and the slight imperfections in his character are
touched with the gentle hand of a friendly artist. The pic-
ture would have been unfinished, if the light and shades
had not been harmoniously blended.

" With all my personal knowledge of Davy, and with
all my enthusiastic admiration of his genius and attain-
ments, this Life of Dr. Paris has enabled me to appreciate
his character more justly, and to esteem him more highly;
not that there is much new information added to what his
friends before actually knew or reasonably imagined, and
still less is there of fulsome flattery or nauseating pane-
gyric : but the separate features are so well defined and
harmoniously blended—there is so much keeping in the
whole picture—the man, the friend, the philosopher,
and the philanthropist, are so strikingly pourtrayed and
identified, that we seem to behold Davy standing before
us as a living being,' reaniniated, revivified, and en-
dowed, as it were, with a kind of earthly immortality.
" Notwithstanding ►the warm and sincere praise here
bestowed on Dr. Paris's book, I am fully aware that it is
not one of those faultless monsters which the world
ne'er saw,"—and that a splenetic or a malignant critic
might discover many plausible objections.
" in fine, I think this life of my late valuable friend must
be universally interesting. It may be studied by the phi-
losopher for its science—by the scholar for its learning and
literature—by the critic for its style and composition, and
by the general reader for the varied information and en-
tertainment with which it abounds."

We had intended to give some extracts, but press
of matter obliges us to postpone them to some fu-
ture opportunity.

ASSIZES.-(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)

LANCASTER, filißcH 17.

Mr. Justice JAMES PARKE, having yesterday disposed of
all the cases on the Civil Side, sat this morning in the
Court to try prisoners.
Roger Haslam, aged 45, and John Moore, aged 22,
both cotton-spinners, were indicted for having, at Black-
burn, on the 9th day of January last, sent to Mr. Wil-
liam Sharrock, of Samlesbury, a master cotton-spinner,
and the proprietor of the Roach-bridge mills, near Samles-
bury, a letter without, any name or signature subscribed
thereto, threatening to kill and murder the said William
Sharrock.

Before the trial was proceeded with, Mr. AnnrsoN
stated to his Lordship, that as the excitement which had
existed among the cotton-spinners had been allayed, the
prosecutor was willing to abandon the prosecution upon
the prisoners pleading guilty, and entering into recog-
nizances.

Mr. Justice PARKE—I don't think that I ought, in the
discharge of my public duty to allow the prosecution to be
compromised, but I shall consult my Brother Littledale
upan the subject.

11iS LORDSHIP, having left the Court to confer with
Mr. Justice Littledale, said, on his return, there can be
no compromise, tile case is a serious one, and the trial must
proceed.
Mr. ADDISON and Mr. ALEXANDER conducted the case
for the prosecution ; Dr. BROWN, Mr. BRANDT, at.d Mr.
DUNN, appeared for the prisoners.
Mr. ADDISON having stated the case for the prosecu-
tion, called

Sharrock—l am a master cotton-spinner, and the
owner of the Roach-bridge Mills, which are about four
miles from Preston, on the Blackburn road. On the 19th
of October last I received the letter marked 2, on the
21st of October I received the letter marked 4 ; I also
received the letter marked 3. I received the letter
marked 6 (the letter which was the subject of the indict-
ment) on the Ilth of January last, and it contained a list
of prices to be paid to operative cotton-spinners.
Cross-examined by Mr. BRANDT—It is regular for
master cotton-spinners to met and regulate the wages ;
but no meeting of the kind has taken place in my
neighbourhood for many years. My workmen turned out
in consequence of my preventing their having bo.er in the
mills. I believe that in other parts of the country the
prices stated in the list inclosed in letter Nu. 6, were paid
to the workmen. I did not pay those prices.
Thomas Dauber...l am a cotton-spinner, and a mem-

ber of the Bolton Union of cotton4Planers. lam the
treasurer of that Union. I know the 'prisoner. Moore,
who is the secretary of the Blackburn Onion,- which con-
sists of operative cotton-spinners. I have Seen .hitn write
for a few minutes. I once got a letter from -him; which I
carried to the Bolton Union. I believe the letters marked
2,3, 4, and 6, are in his band-writing. The letter which
he gave me to take to Bolton was written last August, at
the Brickmakers' Arms, in B'ackburn. I know the pri-
soner Haslam, who was a member of the Blackburn Union,
and who acted as president on the night that.thc other
prisoner gave me the letter. On the .16th of January
last I saw the prisoner Haslam, and five other men, named
Bruce, Bottomley, Nuttall, Fishwick, and Haslam, at the
Golden Lion in Bolton. The men spoke to Hash's], and he
asked what their grievance was. They said they had not been
paid what had been promised to them. Haslam asked
them what had been promised to them, and they said 2/.
each. They did not then say what the 2/. had been
promised for. Haslam said they ought to be satisfied with
less, as the canister had missed exploding, and he asked
them what they would take to enrage in another, job, and
they objected to going again. Mr. Sharrock's name was
mentioned at this time, but there was nothing said about
the letter. The " job" meant_ another thing.
The Counsel for the prisoner here objected to the pro-
posed evidence, as there was no evidence hitherto offered
relative to any thing but the letter.
His LORDSHIP said, that he did not think the Counsel
for the prosecution could at this stage of the proceedings
go into evidence relating to other matters.
Examination resumed—When Mr. Sham:e'er, name
was mentioned, the prisoner Haslam said, " We have sent
him one letter last Sunday, telling him to prepare .to
meet his God," and I think he got it on the Tuesday
following. I gave this information when I was appre-
hended upon this charge.
Cross-examined by Mr. BRANDY-I was in custody
upon this charge for four or five hours. I was tabea up
for knowing all about this matter of Sharrovk's, I .knew
nothing about sending the letter, but I thought it my
duty to tell what I heard Haslam say. Iliad mentioned
to a man named Monk what I heard Haslam say. I never
told John Brindle that I knew nothing about the letter;
I'll swear that I did not tell him so three times ; I sent
Brindle for a person named Bruce, in order to give warn-
ing to the prisoners to get out of the way. I did this after
I gave the information to the Magistrates; I base never
seen Moore write above twice, and the first of those. times
was the Saturday before last Lancaster Assizes, when he
was writing in the club-book at the Brickmakers' Arms ;
I did not read what he then wrote, but I read the letter
which he gave me to take to Bolton. When I saw him
write lie was not writing above two or three minutes,
T did not see a word of what be wrote. I had
at that time no object in ascertaining his style of writing.
The reason why I swear that the threatening letter is in
his hand-writing is, that the H and the S in that letter
are formed like the same letters in the letter which he sent
rue with to Bolton. I have heard about the 100/. re-
ward, but I don't expect any of it. I have never told
John Brindle that I expected a premium for giving infor-
mation. I have had, since I gave the information. about
10s. a-week from Mr. Catterall, the attorney for the pro-
secution ; but before I gave the information I was earning
a guinea a-week.
Peter Catterall, the attorney for the prosecution, swore
that from a comparison of the writing in the threatening
letter with the writing on the letters No. 2,3, and 4,
which the prisoner Moore had, before the Magistrates, ac-
knowledged to be in his hand-writing, he (witness) be-
lieved the threatening letter to be in the prisoner's writing,
but in a disguised hand.
Cross-examined by Mr. DUNN—I know it is difficult to.
form an opinion from a comparison of band-writing, and I
have heard -that great mistakes have been made in that
respect. I think the hand-writing feigned, became the
letters are witten apart, and it appears to me as if the per-
son writing it wished to imitate two sorts of writing.
Frances Dyson, of the Lancaster Post-office proved,
that the threatening letter bore the Blackburn post mark,
but on cross-examination she admitted that she had never
been in the Blackburn Post-office, and that she formed
her opinion from having seen the Blackburn post-mark
on other letters.

George Holt, a constable at Preston, swore, that whilst
he had the prisoners in custody, the prisoner Haslam said,
" The man who gave evidence against us is worse than
me," awl the prisoner Moore said, " Why could not Mr.
Sharrock know my hand-writing, I wrote him two letters
before."

Vim. Appleton, the coachman of the prosecutor, proved
that on the Bth of January he found on the steps of his
master's hall-door a tin canister, containing 21bs. 12or.
of gunpowder and a list of prices similar to the tine con-
tained in the threatening letter.
The witness 'limber was again put into the box, and
swore that the 21. each, which the men dtmanded of the
prisoner Ilastain, at Blackburn, was for their trouble in ,
placing: they canister of gunpowder near the pretsecistor'e
house, and that when the men demanded the money they
said that the fusee affixed to the canister had been tern
off by some honeysuckles which grew about the door of
Mr. Sharrock's house, and upon which the canister when
thrown had alighted.
Cross-examined by Mr. DuNN-I told this story for
the first time to it man named Monk, who was my lodger,
but be is not here to-day. I Aid not intend to tell the
Alagistnites untie I was 4preheuded upon the charge. My
honesty in telling this tale wis not caused by the reward
which lisd been offered. I swear that I was not in-
fluenced by the reward. I do not give iv dente fruin
any expectation of reward. lam influenced solely by a
pure love of justice.

The threatening letter, whkli was follows Pay by
this list, or prepare to meet thy God"—aud the other
letters admitted by the prisoner Moore to be in his hand-
writing, were then put in and read.
Dr. BROWN for the prisoners submitted, that this was
not a letter threatening to " kill and murder."
Ills Loansjnir• was of opinion, that it was a letter of
the description contemplated by the Statute.
Tie prisoners leaving been called on fur their defence,
denied all knowledge of the transaction, and said liamber
had sworn falsely.
For the prisoners two witnesses named Cross and
Moore (the brother of the prisoner) were called, and they
swore that they were well acquainted with the prisoner's
(Moore) hand-writing, and that they did not Lelieve the
letter to be his hand-writing.
John Brindle swore that he saw B,mber on the day
he was apprehended, and that Bam'or said distinctly three
times, that he knew nothing of the threatening letter,
or of the canister of gunpowder, cad that whoever gave •
information was to have a reward.

His LORDSHIP summed up, and the Jury having retired
for about half an hour found both the prisoners Guilty,
but recommended them to mercy, and in that recommen-
dation the prosecutor joined. His Lordship sentenced
them to two years' imprisonment and hard labour in
Lancaster Castle.
Christopher Wilcock, aged 32, a simple-looking farmer,
was convicted of having forged two promissory notes for
1501. each, with intent to defraud his landlord, Wilson
Patten, Esq.
Sentence of death was recorded, with an intimation
that it would be commuted into transportation.
John Riddeovh was indicted for having, in the year
1824, at Liverpool, married Mary Hunter, his first wife
being then alive.
From the evidence of Mary Hunter, who was conside-
rably younger than the prisoner, it appeared that the pri-
soner was a married man, residing at Ormskirk; that she
had had two children by him ; that it was the practice of
the Ormskirk Magistrates to commit to prison every
woman who had had two bastard children, and that she
being the third time pregnant by him, and apprehensive
that she should be sent to prison, prevailed upon him to
put up banns of marriage in Liverpool, where he married
her in the name of William Smith. When she returned
to Ormskirk she gave the parish officers a certificate of her
marriage with Wm. Smith, and the prisoner continued to
live with his wife at Ormskirk up to the time of her
death, which took place about three months ago.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he Lordship
sentenced him to two months' imprisonment in Lancaster
Castle.

Thomas Mulvay, aged 50, and John Mulvay, aged 34,
who were yesterday convicted of several highway-robbe-
ries were put to the bar to receive sentence of death. The
prisoners, on being placed at the bar, threw them,dves
on their knees and besought his Lordship to extend mercy
to them.

Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE said, sternly, " I can extend
Peter
no mercy to you," and then sentenced the prisoners to be
hanged, but did not name a day.
John llalliwell, aged 20, James Anderton, aged 18,
r Kenyon,RPotert Grayson, a
agedgedi92,3J, who were yesterday acquittedohn Greenhalglts aged 30, and
of a rape upon Alice and Rachel Leigh, at Adlimlton, on
the sth of January last, were indicted for a burglary in the
house of those women on the same night.
The evidence was the same as on the trial of yesterday,
with the exception of an alibi proved by the prisoner
Grayson,
The Jury found Grayson Not Guilty, and the other pri-
soners Guilty, and his Lordship sentenced there tcLaet the
law exe-
cuted, and told them be could hold out CO hopes 1
law would not take its course.
The Asian terminated at ten 9, ,ja. cluck . a evuung.