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131 T lON
ASSIZt
bEOIIIE, CIRCUIT.-11EnTroRD, MARCH 4.
Depalli Courts proceeded to business this day: Lord
snman sat on the Civil side ; and Mr. Baron Parke pre-
sided in the Crown Court.
d aeTnhe calendar is very heavy for thi. county. It contains
_tulles of twenty-eight prisoners, twenty-four meles
tutorboeur females ; not more than three out of the wholen
t
titi,re,ean real and write, and the great majority cannot e
The Grand Jury having been sworn, Mr. Baron PARKE
e s
h seeds, to address them. His Lordship observed, that
te gretted to see Viet the calendar contained a much
eeter number. of prisoners than usual, notwithstanding
ee'tittithe Quarter Sessions had only been held very re-
tt Y. Most of the cases were of the ordinary descrip-
est and it would not be necessary for him to make any
isitervations reseecting them t gentlemen of their expe-
es:uee• There were, however two or three serious cases that
Zel.t require some ex explanation as regarded the law affecting
`'. He regretted to Lee that there were two chargce against
fidunnog:.efeomfatlices of murdering their illegitimate offspring,
parties charged, it appeared, was not more
an 'ltem years of age. This was a charge which now
wePearel to be very common—but whether the offence
uas really itself on the increase, he would not pretend to
7. There were different opinions on this subject. By
eine it was thought that the natural love of a mother
for her child precluded the probability of her destroying
~..4nd that the cases which occurred were to be attributed
'istre to accident than design. Others considered that
cf shame and the dread of having to support
err
offspring, deprived them of their ordi-
.t.:rYd feelings of affection, and that this induced the mother
eses estr°Y her offspring. Wh:ch of these opine.)
e most probable they had nothing to do with— they
the mold only look to the evidence adduced before them and
Y would recollect that the whole burden of proof lay bPOn the
side prosecutor, and the main point for them to con-
eel! was whether the child was born alive, and unless that
e satisfactorily proved there was as end of the charge
°th tnarder, In one of the cases it would be found that
eseerewe'ema'lts of violence upon the infant, and they
ti„ iu consider whether this violence was to be attributed
If accident or to a wilful and malicious act of the mother.
Pill:MI bearing the evidence they entertained the
out" that the charge of murder was not made
but thLt a minor offence had been C3lllO-f
Anit`'."l, although the petty jury had the power
Al,
it prisoner, charged with. murder, guilty of the
trt-nor di nee of concealing the birth of the infant, yet he
eQueht it
would be better, if they believed that the charge
°nurder
pl,ee could not be supported, that they should not
for "e prisoner in the terrible situation of being tried
th,f!nirder under such circumstance., and he suggested
wool be better on such. a case to ignore the bill.
het. ~was another case in the calendar of a peculiar cha-
'r ier their county. A man was charged with felo-
°4lY da • • 'Lich offence was
tnade fpi nlaging a steam engiee,
Peared -LanY by a particular Act of Parliament. It :p-
-iste twit the prisoner had the care and management of
eat se:l-engine,
and that instructions vere given to him
Peetett° raise the power of the steam above seven
se,
and
.to the square inch. He had, however, done
bad
teen
A also appeared that the valves of the engine
belle cea stopped up, and the consequence was that the
ob ,11; bane. There was' no proof of any malicious feeling
eagle: Del" a the prisoner against the proprietor of the
The la out that was not requisite to sappor t the charge.
supposed malice if the injury was proved to be of
a
th'A
malicious character ; but this, however, would
the and
for them to consider. If they thought from
butt, deuce that the prisoner's conduct was to be attrid-
thet h:4IY to negligence and disobedience of orders,.
este Merely 'ought to get up the steam quicker fur
juitifitul:Pase of his own, the Grand Jury would not be
iiett.'" la fineG a true bill. They would, however, con-
k, the e and he had no doubt they would come
oeor conclusion.
dtere Delves, aged 24, Eliza Watkins, aged 25, and
hetet,- a,reY. aged 22, were indicted for feloniously as-
r?hhiilesj.snies Greenhill, upon the Queen's highway, and
chief 'inn of some money, a pair of gloves, a haridker.
PAN
sled ether articles, his property. And the indict-
the tine charged, in conformity with the statute, that at
the La of the robbery the prisoners beat and assaulted
Itesecutor.
e'teehn'Y found the prisoners Guilty, and the Court
foe
rst:" that Downs and Watkins should be transported
lkee 151,11 Years and that Percy, who appeared to have
ta, y.' hue the commission of the offence by the other
hosel",setald be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for
Opth e"lar months.
Posed „ea Civil Side several undefended cases were dig-
"*. Lad no matter of public interest occurred.
11()D.,
'CULTURAL NOTICE FOR

MARCH.
Th. ego -
of 4; ecn,dition of the existing crops, after a winter
ki.._ . orteuary duration,
eie inter . becomes an inquiier
let est. The whole of the autumn, inquiry of
*e rPteteber, was cool, and the circnmstance
was
Neal:red at the time. ; its temperature
made ?; and we found a similar observation had been
°;lier er° Scotland that
with the remark turnips and
ut Ps failed to enlarge and perfect their growth ;
Se° frost occurred till the middle o. f December.
of 410earer!tly there have been three fortnightly periods
tit, *rah two intervals, each of a few
. days' con of mild, open .we 'the.r'
t"Y litti with, however,
-this t„,' °t the usual winter rain. Two or three
01,1 --' greet severity occurred, the first on the night
4114„, , +
'ebr -I 7, and the second on the 3rd and 4th of
deehltiarY ; but during the former, vegetation was
NIT y protected by snow, a covering mantle which
i absent • slices west of London, duc-
at the In many fog
ytou
were
of February, when, in addition to
ia ' teere were three or four days of st pierc-
wind, which could not fai to effect mis-
. kit.
bi 1. We ourselves have lost nothing i
where the
ll
4ti r: "4 remained unwounded ; but in most in-
ter" Where borecole or other greens had been " cut
A friend
ktii ,ollt top, the plants have perished.
4e
oh latrie:hat the
1447. us.
in passing from Surrey through
occupied by the chief market gardens,
'IN gelled hundreds of brocoli plants that
. had been
1:1 thr°!,ed ; this is sad, for it enhances the evil oectasioenveid.
deet ;yang period of constrained torpor, since is
lab,. "tht
11.5 work of moment could have been' effected
Tehcitt,ent to the middle of December.
t°o t e 14nd is at length free, and every seed of the
4rlll- useful spring vegetables'ought to be sown. The
'
rAnl tae `es are Bishop's dwarf, Cormack's early Kent,
41 ti‘,e White Warwick ; any of these, crop after crop,
Itay‘,-, Plants of former sowing emerge, and this rule
01P,PlY throughout the growing season.
boree tine cabbage family sow earlysprouts,
Brusselsed of the
111.041°1', sPrinkling of savoy ; and, at the e
ti , York cabbage,
°r Nad b b thickly that the seeds
-av be
sown in a ox so
or •Th`OOch, covCred with loam, and placed in a vinery
triev",,i°4t sttve, will vegetate rapidly, and may be
Pleat: to the ground very soon. We have seenhs.
ttle ;equre eight de rees of frost in April, and ( meg
"E ri,lteqed by a boarded ridge), covered with bloom
, ter,,,7, middle of Ma
,4(14,1° weather towards the end of March, rich
%vie -4 be got ready to receive cauliflower plants that
l
44 been under lights during the winter. Sow celery
tad
; all the " spindle"-rooted vegetables, a it
1, The "ea
em, leeks, and onions.
4 sli„nY Potatoes for a second crop should be placed
taily'saw trenches about the third week ; the frame,
1, br41,441Y, and ash-leaved, are the best.
;ed.,e-li'd a_ed gently loosen the surface of asparagus
5414" suw aced for new ones. Regulate the Tows
Inlie, ids of 'artichoke ; and dig up all the remaining
tile : of the plant called Jerusalem artichoke, clearing
Nirrtoutlhnd entirely, and replanting it regularly with
14 th"er,,,, or' good cut set'.
il•t°ne ri.Zijruit Garden, prune and nail all the best
4141, ii ti speedily ; finish the training of espa-
T 4 and graft apple and pear trees.
110,. e Flow r. , be prepared by digging,
itn trier
Garden must r, t, rak,,
%ire,' g, or fresh earthing and manuring, if
4411
'1
i°every department.
teed . All foreign seeds,
1%1,4
in
or half-tender seeds, are to
heat,be
%lithe 'it Pans andsubjected to gentle.
Brant:N-t to of. time. Many herbaceous flowering
, (liVilt.,i be put in the ground, or transferred,
"t4tiall-e''''' a change of site and new soil itree.s-
fakir to all plants, Dahlia roots should be excited in
Iriettl°t to obtain young shoots for potting.
tree e Year 1838, at this time, half the best ever-
ts of nv.re Icon without a leaf, and the greater num-
°ll Pilitta and crimson roses were found killed to the
Itl'lnah-; NOW, we perceive no other injury than that
th;•I lau. its occasioned by the force of the wind ; leaves
05 '-'keia, Ste., have been scattered in every direc-
the:irbvkit the trees are safe ; hence, this winter,
ttille-r IverY protracted, has not been so severe
adduce
the
of
' 838 ; we hope that all cur readers can
if
4,11.9 n-lite evidence derived from observation ; but
ikvoL4r,tita losatehsehpalvaenthien7osfuesvtaeiroyed, the season will be
14 %rlle foe
wittetiat shrub ,care only
kind of evergreen
being taken that regular
ttatintig be given at every dry interval, and tha
'oil tot tilf eekes of moss be laid over the surface of the
t"e extent of the roots.
1.,
.k.
g., . ...lIMIM,IIIni......IIMINIMIIMIIt
IV'ter
PiL4CI( OF MINERAL WATERS.—Mineral
,„keN,I, re Medicines prepared in a laboratory, the constant
'441'400, °f whose results is so certain, that we ourselves
l
ekarripo,7 sure of success in any of our chemico-medical
'tete t-°,, exceptiasfar as we follow the laws which
!0111,3rregulat.: the laboratory in question, namely, that
Ore, These premises being granted, for they admit
i
'4tei "Pute, wheref, re shall we not consider mineral
e d sufficient to combat and remove
:tett;which Other compound medicines, imperfectly put
sPhe 41 eornpa-ed toP fluids naturally meditated, . ar.e
'Past-- te combat sfull and remove?— Granville 2
is open succes. y
:I.44,llEllNtee, MARCH I.—Her Majesty's ships
111111::: and Formidable have been brought down from
-h°4l 41.-T,„' au Formidable are now lying at their moorings ready for
le' Qia -4 An ord, ris daily expected. We have now
LAle4l4lll,erdown, Monarch, Vernon, London, and Form.
In L',Y.ing in ft range in our harbour; the three.cfeormeerr
"Naesi;::l°!on, the latter ready for immediateservl . Her
diva • laip Asia is expected here to be paid o‘tf., a
few
d4y4 ,/tlttbiG n
~, IhtiP os A CHILD AT GAMING.— A
11;.,v9d:enlia..2,k_ya
ale
.Journal de la Meuse, " an inhabitant
I,l,4l7,ll,ateprr),:deilurantiffdast,blubilliards, staked th. e hand of his only
against his adversary.
tull_ r'Payrne_. L . elost, and
.the. winner has since insis-
be: and tal "' °!tng made, claiming the young lady, for.
e'er ~ °T eise a sufficient indemnity. o Nib- ' "Peis
to the validity of the bargain; and
lc tiebt4 Cllll4ot be enforced by law."

SPIRIT vt the PUBLIC JOURI4ALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
( From the Globe.)
We say Lord Stanley is the leader of a revolutionary
party. He would make power change hands. This is
frankly declared by the organs of his party. The Stan-
dard avows it. If the Bill of the leader of the Tories
were to pass, the sixty Irish Members would become
twenty, and the forty Orange Members would be made
eighty. This is a revolution of power. By the Re-
form Bill power was taken from the aristocratic bo-
roughtnongers and given to the middle classes—this was
A revolution of power from a class to a class. Lord
Stanley tries a far more dangerous thing—he would effect
a revolution of power from one race and creed to a hostile
race and creed. Men who will quietly allow power to
be taken from themselves and given to another class of
themselves, will not submit to either the deprivation or
the transfer when they are in favour of men of a dif-
ferent race and religion. This it is which makes the
danger of Lord Stanhy's Bill greater than the danger of
the Reform 8.11. The Whigs fought for the people, the
Tories fight for power and place for themselves merely ;
and like the gentleman who to roast his own eggs set fire
to his neighbour's house, they inflame Ireland to make
their own berths warm. They will be hot enough. Lord
Stanley is determined to mow down the Catholic electors
of Ireland ; and that none may be left, he would subject
the whole ground to the perpetual gleaning of sharp and
greedy attorneys. His success would legalise the bribing
of electors with leases, or rather it would at once create a
new species of slaves heretofore unknown in Europe,
consisting of a constituency of electoral serfs ; the
Orange landlords would be everything, and the Irish
people would be nothing. This cannot be. They are
eight to one—they are a fiery northern race— the
spirit of liberty is high in them ; and if they are not
powerful in constituencies, whils human nature lasts
they will be terrible in conspiracies.
(From the Standard.)
That Sir Robert Peel committed a great error in
1829 we must be the last to deny ; but every day's
disclosures give proof that his conduct on that
occasion was the very reverse of selfish—it was, in
truth, a sacrifice of himself, made in the noblest
spirit, though in a bad cause, and upon fallacious
grounds. When Sir Robert brought in the Bid of
that year, he said that he knew he was proposing a
bad measure, but that ho did it to obviate worse evil.
What that imagined worse evil was we know in part,
but in part only ; for although the death of
the double-minded King whom his almost
worshipper, Sir Walter Scott, charges with
trying to usurp all power by balancing parties—
for although the death of George the Fourth bas
given some of the secret transactions of 1829 to the
province of history, still others remain unknown, and
must continue to remain unknown, until all the
principal agents have passed from the scene. When
Sir Robert Peel, therefore, boasts of his part in
what is called the Emancipation Act, as he some-
times does, to the dissatisfaction of unreflecting friends,
let it be remembered that he has never spoken of the
measure as an abstractedly good one—he did not so
speak of it when he introduced it : his boast, and it is a
just one, is, that he sacrificed his friend, and office, and
consistency, encountered misapprehension and obloquy,
and the task of doing what was hateful to him, under an
overwhelming sense of duty to the public safety.
Sir Robert Peel's error in the case was an ignorance of
the strength and spirit of the Protestant democracy
an ignorance that would now be without excuse, but
which was unavoidable to persons in his station in the
days of red tape politicians, and before the Reform
Bill had clearly marshalled men according to their po-
litical opinions.

(From the Courier.)

An American Grand Jury have found a true bill for
murder against Mr. M'Leod, who however will not
be tried till the fourth week of this month, unless the
American Government should think fit to issue a spe-
cial commission. The spirit with which the canaille
of America are actuated, and the chance which this
gentleman has of a fair trial, may be judged of from
the proceedings which took place antecedently to the
finding of the Bill. Although the Judges were willing
that the prisoner should be bailed, the impartial friends
of Lynch-law insisted upon his remaining in prison, and
the Judges were compelled to acquiesce. From all that
we can see in the American papers there does ap-
pear to be a desire among a portion, at least, of the
Americans (perhaps the less civilized and less enlight-
ened) to force a rupture with this country, either in
reference to the case of Mr. M'Leod or to the boundary
question. Should their malevolent efforts be success-
ful, all that we can say is, that they will deserve a
thorough and sound flagellation—and we guess that
they will get it. Our sailors will take care that they
shall be well tarred, if not feathered.

UNITED STATES.

UNITED STATES BANK SHARES.

The following details relative to the present supposed
holders of United States Bank Shares is from the New
York _Herald of the 13th :

" According to the last report of the Bank to the Legis-
lature, the number of stockholders at home and abroad was
put down as follows :
No. of stockholders in England and elsewhere 1,390
Ditto Pennsylvania
Ditto U. States elsewhere than Pa 1,658

Whole number 4,529
These held shares as follows :
Number of persons holding stock to the
amount of five shares and under 864
Ditto 10 do. do.
Ditto 20 do. do.
Ditto 50 do. do.
Ditto 100 do. do.
Ditto 100 do. do.
Ditto over 500 shares

" By which it appears that the number of persons holding
less than 50 shares was 3,251. These are p rincipally the
stockholder: in this country, the large holders mostly re-
siding abroad, of whom 42 belong to the nobility. The
value of the shares owned abroad is 27,000,000 dollars,
and of the remaining 8,000,000 dollar=, about 6,000,000
dollars are represented in this city, and the remainder in
Philadelphia. It is therefore evident that much the lar-
ger portion of the capital belongs to foreign resi
dents, who can exercise no influence in Philadelphia;
while, on the other hand, all the capital of the other banks
is owned at home, where the proprietors are on the spot to
look after their own interests, and, if necessary to do so,
even at the sacrifice of other interests.

" We mentioned yesterday that the bank is a creditor
of the State for 8,000,000 dollars, and as such she stands
in the character of an agent of the foreign capitalists, who
have loaned their money on the faith of the State. The
State itself is a defaulter, and has not been able to pay its
interests without the continuel aid of this inst'tution ; and
for the State now to turn round and sacrifice it to the in-
terests c,f the other banks, is matter of great injustice to
the stockholders, more especially as the errors of the bank
have been partly occasioned by the errors of the Legis-
lature."
The sales at the Stock Exchange on the 12th instant
ranged as follows
United States Bank 251 271
North American Trust
Phoenix Bank 7B
Illinois State Bank 45
Delaware and Hudson
Farmers Trust

Vicksburg Bank 6.1 71
Stonington Railway
Harlem Railway
The rates of exchange had undergone no material
alteration.

(From the Montreal Herald of Feb. 2.)
THE UNION..--THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.--AS We
mentioned before, the proclamation of the Union of Upper
and Lower Canada will be made public in this city on
Saturday, and the event will also be announced by a salute
of artillery at noon on that day. We are now at liberty
to state that the first session of the United Parliament
will be h..ld in the neighbourhood of Kingston, U. C. Mr
esident of the Board of Works, proceeded there
some days ago to make the necessary arrangements, and
we believe that a temporary building is .now in progress of
erection in the naval yard.

LORD RECTOR OF MARISCHAL COLLEGE
—The interest attached to the election of Lord Rector of
Marischal College for the current year, was rather greater
than usual, (wing to the determination of the wild students
to make it turn upon the Non-intrusion principle. At first,
it was proposed by the Moderate students to bring forward
the Marquis of Waterford in oppoetion to the Lord Ad-
vocate ; but, on consultation, the idea was given up, and
the Earl of Dalhousie arid Sir James Macgregor were
pitched upon as excellent candidates. For a time, it was
intended to bring all the three to the poll ; but, after care-
ful examination, the adherents of the Earl of Dalhostsie
resolved to coalesce with Sir James Macgregor's sup-
porters, rather than risk the election, the other party
having given up the Lord:Advocate, and concentrated their
influence on Mr. Fox .Maule. The election came off
yesterday, when Sir James Macgregor was elected by a
majority of 61. Sir James had a majority in all the
nations except one. The /Vans are sadly cast down at
the result ; and though we attach little or no weight to
the eection as an index to public opinion, we hope it will
have the effect of leading the lion. Member for the Elgin
district of burghs to count the cost well, before he makes
a stand on the Non-intrusion principle, either here or
elsewhere, when he again solicits the suffrages of a Scotch
constituency. —Aberdeen Herald of Tuesday.
At the Louth Assizes a respectable young man,
a farmer, named Patrick Began, was found guilty of the
abduction of Miss Sarah Anne Weir, with intent to marry
her. The young lady was entitled to some fortune, and
having been at a party at the house of the prisoner, on her
way benne with her sister and brother-in-law, a party of
men stopped the vehicle upon which they were driving,
and carried Miss Weir off forcibly. The police found her
out next day, and restored her to her friends. The
I Learned Judge Torrens, after dwelling upon the enormity
of the prisoner's crime, directed that " Judgment of
death" be recorded against him, subject to any commuta-
tion the Executive might think suitable.
THE PENNY POSTAGE.—At the last monthly
average made at the Post-office, Brighton, it appears that
the letters have increased rather more than double to what
they were under the old rate of postage. Thu number of
letters now is about 4,500 daily. The population of
Brighton is estimated at about 50,000 persons.