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London, England, 1849-03-08 00:00:00

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Fork, March 6.

CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
Thomas Roberts and Robert Butterworth were indicted
for uttering counterfeit coin, at Quicktown, on the
same day; and Edward Coyne, John Brown, and Peter
Hall, for uttering counterfeit coin, and having other
counterfeit coin in their possession, at Kirkbarton, on the
30th of November last.

Roberts and Hall pleaded guilty, the others were found
guilty, and his Lordship sentenced them each to two
years' hard labour in the House of Correction.
Samuel Robinson, who was implicated with William
Braman, who was tried and convicted yesterday of utter-
ing forged Bank of England notes, was this day tried on
the same indictment.

After a long trial the jury retired for near threehours,
and then returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
RILNER P. RAWLINGS.

This was an action for a breach of promise of marriage.
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Hall appeared for the
plaintiff. The action was undefended.

It appeared that the plaintiff is about 50 years of age,
and filled the position of cook to Mr. G. Taylor, of
Halifax. The defendant is now a considerable farmer.
In the year 1823—a long time ago—when in poorer cir-
cumstances, he paid his addresses to the plaintiff, and
"Having won the cooky's love,
And banished other beaus,"

the plaintiff gave birth to two daughters consecutively,
of which he was said to be the father. The
defendant's love then cooled, the plaintiff's soft com-
pliance having hardened his heart, and he thence-
forth transferred his affections to another woman,
by whom subsequently he had two children.
After an absPnce of upwards of twenty years the de-
fendant's truant passion returned to his first love, and
in July, 1847, he wrote to her "to put up the banns, as
he would come over the Tuesday morning to be mar-
ried to her;" but again was faithful Betty doomed to be
deceived. The defendant suddenly changed bits mind,
and married the woman with whom he had last coha-
bited. Since then the plaintiff bad lived with her two
daughters, by whose industry she was supported. In
all other respects, except her unfortunate connexion
with the defendant, the plaintiff's character was irre-
proachable.
Two young women, of very respectable appearance,
were called to prove that the defendant had offered the
plaintiff 400 L to stop the present proceedings, and that
the defendant is a large and thriving farmer.
Ilia LORDSHIP having summed up,
The jury, after retiring for a short time, found a ver-
dict for the plaintiff—thmages 6001.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT'.—Northampton.
CRIMINAL COURT.
John Cooper, aged 27, was charged with having, on
the 24th of June last, at Warkworth, robbed one Henry
Whiteman of a quantity of silver.
Sir E. Wilmot prosecuted.
Henry Whiteman, the prosecutor, was at a beer-house
at Warkworth on the day in question, with the inten-
tion of paying the railway labourers, and he had with
him a large sum of money in silver, in a bag. The pri-
soner came up to him, and demanded payment of his
hack money; he was told he would be paid in his turn.
Many of the labourers present made an attack on White-
man, threw him down on the floor, and attempted to
strangle him. He succeeded, however, in getting away

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(Bafore the Assistant-Judge Mr. Sergeant ADAM, and
a Bench of Magistrates.)
These sessions commenced on Tuesday, on which day
the cases were of very trifling importance.
An application was made by the police in the case
of Thompson, convicted at the February adjourned ses-
sions, and sentenced yesterday to nine months' impri-
sonment for stealing a chest of tea from the door of a
shop in Bloomsbury. Thompson and an accomplice
threw the chest of tea in a cart and drove off with it, but
the former was apprehended before he had proceeded
many hundred yards. No owner had appeared for the
horse and cart, and the police now applied to know what
were to be done with them. The Assistant-Judge de-
clared them forfeited to the Crown.
James Green, 26, and William Robinson, 26, two
chimney-sweeps, were charged with stealing a piece of
copper-piping, value 10e., the property of George Charles
Marquis of Camden.

Cooke, the hall porter of the Marquis of Camdens
deposed that on the morning of the 20th ult. he missed a
part of the copper chimney-pipe, or chimney cowl, from
the premises, 19, Belgrave-square. He traced footmarks
on the roofs until he came to Lord Orford's house. On
going to Lord Orford's house he found the prisoners, and
gave them in charge. The copper cowl was found in
Robinson's bag, and on his person a knife with copper
marks upon it. _

Mr. PARRY, for Green, submitted whether there was
any case against him.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE thought not, and directed a
verdict of Acquittal.
Mr. O'BRIEN, for Robinson, objected to the wording
of the indictment. The copper was, in all probability,
the property of the freeholder, and not of the Marquis
of Camden.

Tho AssisTANT-JUDGE overruled the objection, and
the jury found the prisoner Guilty.—Sentence, three
months' imprisonment, with hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Caroline Evershed, and Arthur her son, were brought
before the Lord Mayor, under the following circum-
stances:—

Mr. Johnson, a broker, residing at No. 32, Skinner..
street, was applied to in January to levy a distress for
rent, and a certain parchment and some paper were left
with him, containing what he considered to be the au-
thority for him to carry the process into effect. Having
acted accordingly, he was subsequently informed that
the party in whose behalf the distress had been levied
had no claim, and that person was the husband of Caro-
line Evershed, who, together with her son, called at his
counting-house on Monday last, and demanded the
documents as the property of her husband. Mr. John-
son refused to give them up, as he had not only a
lien upon them for upwards of 81., the ex-
penses incurred by the distress, but he had
been requested by the solicitor employed by other
parties interested in the matter not to part with them,
as it might be necessary to produce them as evidence
in ulterior proceedings. The female defendant
then thrust her head through a hole at which
the complainant received parcels and letters, and
snatched the document and endeavoured to swallow the
parchment, which was the authority under which he
had made the ;seizure. He, however, prevented her
from accomplishing that object when it was half way'
down her throat, and he called the police to his assist-
ance. Meanwhile the boy took a clasp knife out of his
pocket, and made three thrusts with it at the com-
plainant, who, however, was protected from the intended
mischief by the railing near his desk.
. The female defendant and her son wore bound over to
answer the complaint at the sessions.
CLERKENWELL.
Yesterday Mr. Sidney applied to the Magistrate, on
behalf of an inhabitant of Tunbridge-street, St. Pancras,
under the following extraordinary circumstances :
The Learned Gentleman said that for some time past
the neighbourhood of Tunbridge-street had been in a
state of excitement in consequence of a nuisance being
discovered at the house of a Mrs. Parry, residing in
that street. It appeared that about a month ago a
middle-aged lady, a companion of Mrs. Parry, who
is a person of considerable property, and of most
eccentric habits, died suddenly, when a coroner's
inquest was held upon her body, before Mr. Wakley,
and the jury returned a verdict of " Died by the
visitation of God." Mrs. Parry and her companion,
with a servant, were the only persons usually in
the house, and seldom or never were any visitors seen
there. The house was kept in a very filthy state, and of
late a nauseous effluvium was emitted therefrom, which
annoyed the inhabitants, especially those adjoining the
premises, the cause of which was at length discovered to
have arisen from the following extraordinary cause:—
Mrs. Parry, it appears, who was very much attached to
the deceased, laboured under a delusion that she was not
dead, and subsequently to the inquest she washed the
corpse and bathed it with brandy; after which she
dressed it up in her best clothes and seated it on an easy
chair by the fireside, and, whilst occupying the opposite
seat, would talk to and treat the deceased as a living per-
son. The nuisance, however, became so great that some
interference was found necessary to compel the inter-
ment of the deceased to prevent contagion; and Mr.
Houghton gave information to the parish authorities,
and applied to him to seek magisterial aid. On obtain-
ing an interview with Mrs. Parry, she persisted in her
refusal to bury the deceased, saying she was not dead,
she being only in a trance, and she was certain of her
future resuscitation, and was surprised that anybody
should have the audacity to interfere with her and her
friend, or her private affairs.
Mr. COMBE said he could not interfere in the matter;
it was a subject for parochial interference, and he re-
ferred him to the parish authorities of St. Pancras.
Mr. Sidney thanked his worship and left the court.

ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS.—The Duke of Cambridge
visited this institution on Tuesday. At eleven o'clock
his Royal Highness arrived at Park House Highgate,
and was received by Dr. Andrew Reed, Dr. J. Conolly,
of Hanwell, Dr. Holloway, and several members of the
board of management. The capacious mansion stands
within its own grounds, extending over sixteen acres,
and is admirably suited for the purposes to which it is
now applied. It contains at the present time sixty
patients, principally children; many of these, on coming
to the institution, were unable to walk or articulate,
but now, the effect of physical and mental training is
very manifest. His Royal Highness was received by
them in their school-room, and on his entrance they sung
" God save the Queen." His Royal Highness then in.
spected the dormitories, the nursery, where some of the
infants were seen, and the gymnasium, were all the
patients went through their evolutions to the sound of
the drum. His Royal Highness entered into conversa-
tion with Dr. Reed, the :Secretary, and Dr. Foreman,
the resident medical officer, and spent an hour in the
house and grounds. He expressed his great gratifica-
tion in having visited so noble an institution, and ex-
pressed his conviction that it would be supported by the
British public as it deserved. Ilis Royal Highness inti-
mated his intention of presiding at the anniversary
dinner.

REPEAL Or THE MALT-TAX.—Yesterday a meet-
ing of tenant-farmers was held at the York Hotel,
Bridge-street, Blackfriars, Mr. William Shaw in the
chair. Resolutions were agreed to in favour of the
repeal of the duty on malt and hops, and the meeting,
which was numerously attended, " pledged itself to re-
newed efforts and redoubled exertions to effect an entire
removal of these most obnoxious taxes." One of the
speakers having touched upon the subject of Protection,
it was suggested to him that the question had better on
that occasion bo avoided; and, singularly enough, in
meeting of farmers, the suggestion was complied with.
THE INDIAN ARMY.—The 75th and 87th Regi-
ments of Foot have not been ordered to proceed at once
to India, as stated in a paragraph which appeared in litre
morning papers of yesterday. No orders whatever were
subject up to four o'clock
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the fact of their being on the ordinary roster for foreign
service. The Government, however, intend to send out
detachments of recruits and volunteers
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at Chilianwallah.—Post.
STORM AND ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon this
city was visited by a severe gale from the west, whiok
continued to blow with great violence during the greater
part of the evening. A severe accident, resulting from
the storm, occurred in Parkside-street. It appears that
while a young lad, whose name has not been ascertained,
was walking along that street, a wooden hutch, lined
with lead, was blown off the roof of a house, and fell
upon him with such force that he was knocked insensible
to the ground. He was immediately conveyed to the
Royal Infirmary, where he at present lies in a very pre•
carious condition.—Scotsman of Wednesday.
MADAME DE LozANo.—This admirable Spanish
vocalist has returned to town for the season, after hav-
ing been for some months past a leading contributor to
the musical enjoyments of the inhabitants of Manchester.
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