The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-23 00:00:00

RAILWAY IN

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST
CROYDON AXE) EPSOM. LINTS-

A very numerously attended ineeting of gentle-
mull residing within the district between London
end Epsom was held yesterday, at the North ;aid
:South American Cc flee House, Royal Exchange,
" in consequence," in the words of the advertiseirmut
conveniLg the meeting, " of the great inconvenience
and annoyance daily experienced by the passengers
on the above railway, to take into consideration
the best means to be adopted for obtaining redress.'
Mr. CHARLES DEVOSPORT having beeu called to
the chair, proceeded to detail to 'the meeting the
grievances which he considered they had to complain
of. The principal of these were the inconvenient
hours at which the trains started—the irregularity
of the time kept by the trains—the taking off, in
defiance of -in implied agreement with the holders
of annual tickets, the seven o'clock P.M. London
train, which was generally the most convenient for
parties employed in the City to return home by,
and, above all, as regarded the comfort of the work-
ing men—the discontinuance of the use at this
season of the year of the covered third-class car-
riages, and the substitution of open ones. He
felt that the interests of the shareholders
of the company were bound up with those
of the residents on the line, and if some: mea-
sures were not adopted to accommodate those
parties, they would be compelled to give up their re-
sidences on the line, to the great detriment of the
landlords, the parishes, and the railway company
itself. It had been hinted to him by some friends by
whom he was surrounded, that we show them the
disparity of the fares to the various classes of pas-
sengers. He would take the Croydon station as an
example. A first class passenger could obtain an
annual ticket for 201 ; each carriage contained
eighteen persons; so that it produced 3601. per
annum. The second-class passenger paid 2s. per day,
or 11/. 10s. more per annum than the first-class pas-
senger ; and as those carriages contained thirty-two
passengers, if they multiplied the sum by that num-
ber, it would be s'. en that they produced nearly 6001.
above the first class. Then, again, the third-class
passenger paid 31. 12s. 6d. more than the first class,
and, as the carriages contained forty passengers, there
was a return from that class of 9451. against 3601.
from the first class. Of course there was some dif-
ference in the cost of the carriages ; but, under all the
circumstances, he thought the passengers on the line
were very unjustly dealt with, and that it behoved
them to make a representation to the directors, with
a view of getting their grievances redressed, and the
interests of the company thus secured.
Several gentlemen entered into a detail of com-
plaints which they had to make against the company,
the most prominent of which are mentioned in the
Chairman's address as noticed above, with the addition
of its being objected that there is no train from Croy-
don or Sydenharn by which the families of parties re-
siding on the line can come to London between twenty
minutes past ten, A.M. and twenty minutes past two,
rig.; and that, although the charge of a first-class
annual ticket to Croydon is only 201„ if you go two
or three miles further, the full fare to Epsom, 301., is
charged.
It was ultimately resolved, on the-motion of Mr.
MAITLAND, seconded by Mr. MOORE, that a me-
morial, setting forth the various grievances complained
of, should be drawn up by the Chairman, assisted by
such friends who chc se to do so, and lie at the North
and South American Coffee-house for signature two
days next week; after which it shall be presented to
the directors of the London and Brighton Railway
Company; and the meeting adjourned to the 12th of
January to receive their reply, when, if it is not
deemed satisfactory, it is proposed to appeal to the
Railway Commissioners.
The meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to the
Chairman.

EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN. DUNFERMLINE
BRANCH.—The works on this branch line of the
Edinburgh and Northern, from the point where it
joins the main line near Thornton, and extending ten
miles to the westward, are now far advanced towards
completion. It is only twelve months since the con-
tractors broke ground, and had the weather not been
so very unfevourable for out-door work during the
past fortnight, this portion of the line would already
have been traversed with a locomotive ; and, should
the weather hold good for four or five days, by that
time it will he ready for public traffic. It is confi-
dently expected that an engine will be along the line,
from the junction to a little beyond Lochgelly, on the
16th or 17th inst.—Fife Herald.
PARIS AND LYONS.—The section from Dijon to
Chalon has been received by the company from the
Government's engineers,
r, and is expected to be opened
about June next. lhe foundations of the Paris
terminus are almost finished. The works have
advanced so much on the remainder of the line from
Paris to Tonnerre in September. All their efforts
may, therefore, be soon concentrated on the part that
separates Tonnerre from Dijon in order to connect,
as promptly as possible, the three sections dividing
the road between Paris and Chalon-sur-Saone. The
tunnel of Blaizy is wholly bored through ; the arch-
way is almost finished, and the ground is lowered
nearly to the level of the future road ; all the wells
are opened. The works, however, between Chalon
and Lyons are not yet commenced.

SERIOUS AFFRAY WITH
POACHERS AT BENDRIGG.

On Wednesday night last, about eleven o'clock, a,
Henry Croft, gamekeeper to Alderman Thompson, in
company with two assistants, named Henry and W.
Hoggarth, brothers, were passing through some pre-
serves at Bendrigg, they saw three poachers with a
dog at a short distance. On perceiving the keepers
the poachers made off, followed close by the keeper.,
and on finding that Croft and his assistants were
gaining ground upon them, one of the poachers
turned round and called out to the others, with an
oath, to " shoot the devils," meaning the keepers,
upon which two of the poachers took guns from their
pockets and commenced putting the barrels into the
stocks. Croft rushed in and attempted to seize one of
the men, upon which he dropped the gun stock, took
the barrel by the muzzle in both hands, and inflicted
a severe wound on Croft's forehead, which felled him
to the earth. Henry Iloggarth came up at the time
and seized another poacher, but received a violent
blow on the left arm from a gun barrel from the third
poacher which broke his arm, and of course ren-
dered him unable to defend himself ; but having
hold of his man with the right hand, they fell
together, and Hoggarth continued to hold him
down, although the poacher was lying upon him with
the barrel of the gun, until his brother, who had
succeeded,
and
in capturing
to g
hethirod man (who
camehohadp
usur-
rendered
However, on the brother coming up to where Croft
and Henry Hoggarth were struggling on the ground
with the other two, the man who had been engaged
with Henry Hoggarth got loose from him, and struck
William a severe blow on the head with the gun-
barrel, which knocked him down. The three
poachers then made off, after beating the keepers until
two of them were almost unable to leave the ground.
Croft, however, got the assistance of another man,
and proceeded to Kendal, where he arrived about
half past one o'csleaLopnchidkp
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keepers identified as
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covered with blood. Two othercl
men,kinson and Holme, were afterwards named
taken jnienti.
custody, and brought before T. Atkinson, Es on
Friday, and remanded for further examination" till
Saturday. The poachers left two gun-stocks, one
barrel, and three hare nets, on the scene of action.—
Westmoreland Gazette.

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—We understand that on
Friday last, the 17th current, an engine travelled from
Carlisle to Edinburgh upon the Caledonian Railway
Some time ago an engine went from Glasgow to La.
mington. Double rails are laid down along the whole ci.
the line with the exception of about fuur miles at th.
summit, where there -ts, as yet, only a single line
rails. There is, therefore, every probability of the who:,
line from Carlisle to Glasgow and Edinburgh being
opened for traffic in the end of the present month oi.
early in January, 1848.—Dumfries Courier.
• INFLUENZAIAT WINDSOR.—This disorder, now S,-,
prevalent throughout the country, has attacked, wi..
considerable violence, both the officers and men be
longing to the Royal Horse Guards, and the first bas-.
talion of the Grenadier Guards, stationed at Winds( ,
very few in either regiment having escaped its vi .
talion. Upwards of 40 of the privates in the B'
are now laid up, and between 50 and 60 of flit Gee:. ..
dier Guards are confined to the hospital. Only On(. c., ,
throughout the large Lumber who have been at ac;.,
Ihas proved fatal. The disease has been equally prc
lent in the towns of Windsor and Eton and the neigh.
bouring Tillages.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec. 22.
(Sittings at Guildhall, at Nisi Prius, before the LORD
CHIEF BARON and Special Juries.)
HERRING V. HUDSON AND OTHERS.

Cross-examined by Mr. IVIATTHERS-A reward P.
was offered by Government, and a pardon to all ex-
cept the man who committed the act.
Wraith Green—l am great-nephew of the de-
ceased Mr. Wraith. At Christmas last Reid was at
Mr. Wraith's house. He went away, and returned,
saying he bad lost a tea caddy, and accused Caroline
Ellis. She denied it. Mr. Wraith came out, and
said to Reid, " Patrick, you go away, and never come
here again." Reid turned away, saying, "I'll be re-
venged of you either at one time or another." I have
never seen him at my uncle's since.
Rose Ann Hallas—My husband is a farmer at
Mirfield. About Easter Monday last I saw Reid
coming from Mr. Wraith's. He overtook me, and
sail, " What do they call that girl at that house ?"
I said, " What house ?" He said, " That," pointing
to Wraith's house. He said, "That d—d b— has
taken something out of my basket, and I'll serve her
out for it." I considered it was a lark he had had.
Grace Shepley, wife of Marmaduke Shepley —I
was at Joseph Moffat's three weeks before the mur-
der. I heard M'Cabe ask Mrs. Moffat if she Would
buy any pots She said, `• No." He said " I have
been at Mr. Wraigth's, and Mr. Wraith has found
me a donkey load of rags ; I have done Mr. Wraith
by the pots I sold him for the rags ; Mr. Wraith
must be a man of money, or he could not live inde-
pendent; he is a good old chap. I ask him to take
a child of mine and make it an heir to his money ;
and Wraith said he had plenty of heirs for his money;
hut he has a good spirit, has the old gentleman ; for
I asked him whether he was not afraid of being
robbed, and he said, no, that he was not afraid of
any night opponent robbing him ; he was armed
against a host, should they attack him in the night."
Esther Lambert, mistress of the Gray-coat Girl's
School at York.—There are a good many girls. I am
well acquainted with the art of knitting. I teach it.
[Caroline Ellis's garter and the piece of garter found
in M'Cabe's house shown to witness.] One is knitted
of rather finer cotton than the other. I see no diffe-
rence in the appearance of the knitting. I should say
they were knitted by hand. I should say they had
been worn as pairs.
Cross-examined byllr.MArrEtzws.—The material
is not the same. The one has 17 stitches and the
other 18. I will swear they were not knitted by ma-
chinery. I should not allow my girls to send out
garters like these as pairs.
Thomas Kilty—ln the month of May I lived at
Daw•green. lam a hawker. I have occasion for
a soldering iron. I borrowed one from old Patrick
Reid. On the day before Mr. Wraith's murder the
prisoner Reid came to my house, and said his father
wanted the iron. My wife showed him where it
was, and he took it up. He then went away with
the iron. I continually used it. I described the iron
to the police. (Soldering-iron shown to witness.)
This is the iron I borrowed of Reid's father.

This was an action brought to recover compensa-
tion in damages for an assault, commit'ed by the
defendant and nine others upon the plaintiff.

Mr. Chambers appeared for the pfaintiff; Mr. Wat-
son for the defendants.

The case came before the court yesterday, and was
resumed this morning.

It appeared that the defendant (Captain Hudson)
was one of the keeper's of the Queen's Prison, the
other defendants were also officers of the prison, in
which the plaintiff was confined. The plaintiff's
presence being necessary at the Sessions-
house, Newington, and also at the Arches' Court,
on the Bth of December in the last year, writs of
habeas corpus were obtained ordering the keeper to
bring the prisoner to the above places ; both the writs
were returnable on the same day, and the defendant
refused to attend the Arches' Court, preferring to go
to the Sessions-house, Newington. The defendant,
upon. 'ills so refusing, sent for a cab, and with the as-
sistance of the other defendants, placed the plaintiff
in notwithstanding his resistance, and caused him
to be driven to the Arches' Court, one of the de-
Pendants riding on the box of the cab, some of the
other defendants accompanying the prisoner inside.
The plaintiff now brought his action to recover
compensation for the violence used towards him,
alleging that the defendant assaulted him, and used
unnecessary violence towards him.
Ttle Loan GRIEF BARON, in summing up, went
wit'a great minuteness through the whole of the
ev;ldence, which was very voluminous. He did not
think that the subordinate officers ought to
tie included in any verdict which might
'be returned, they were merely acting under
the orders of their superior officer. With re-
spect to Capt. Hudson, and Mr. Eveson, one of the
other defendants, it would be for the jury to consider
whether they had exceeded their proper duty, or used
any unnecessary violence, and whether the two
writs of habeas corpus were issued in a bona fide
manner, or whether they were issued in consequence
of any collusion on the part of the plaintiff with other
parties, for the purpose of placing embarrassments in
the way of the defendant.
The jury retired, and after a considerable absence
returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 40s.
against Capt. Hudson, acquitting the other defendant.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHE;L'A' CIRCUIT, York, Dec 21.

The trial of Patrick Reid and Michael AP Cabe was
resumed this morning, by the evidence of Mary Hallas
who was not a witness at the last trial.

Mary Hallas—l am 13 years old. My father's li
name is Benjamin Hellas. He lives at Lea-green,
and on the day Mr. Wraith was murdered he was
working at Littlemore. On that day I carried his
dinner to him. I left home at a quarter to 12 o'clock.
It will take me 10 minutes to go to Littlemore. I
stopped there three-quarters of an hour, and left to
return home at a quarter to 1. I returned home
through Knowle-lane, and before I got to Knowle-
cottage I went up through the fields. A flash of
lightning came as I was in the second field, just going
to the end of Tyas's field. I went behind this wall.
A cfack of thunder came, and then it rained. It
struck 1 by the church clock as it began to rain. The
shower lasted a quarter of an hour. When it was over
I got on the top of the wall, near the upper end. I
walked on the top of the wall a little way, and
then I turned me round to see two men in Mr. Wraith's
front garden. They were under the apple-tree which is
not many yards from Mr. Wraith's front door. The
men had their baskets. I got off the wall, and walked
towards Mr. Wraith's. He used to talk to me.
When I got to the other stile they were just going
on to the front door. When I saw them from the
wall they had their faces towards me. When passing
the front door they had their backs towards me. I
then saw them go out of the door at the end of Mr.
Wraith's house, going on towards the necessary. At
the time I was going on the other field. I went on
the footpath by the side of the garden wall on to the
kitchen door of Mr. Wraith's house. I did not go
into the yard till after these two men had got over
the wall. I was standing by the gate that went into
the field. When Isaw them there the gate was open.
The men then were in the middle of the oat-field. I
know those two men ; they were Patrick and
Michael. I knew Patrick before • he used to come
with accordions to Ann Wormald's, and he once
swapped her one. He hawked breast-pins, prints,
teacaddies and trays, and razors. His name
is Patrick Reid. I have known him a good
while. I have known Michael too; he used to
come with oranges; they called him Michael
M'Cabe. I called him Michael. I see him here.
In the oat-field they were each a land off one
another, about as far as the gallery. Patrick had
on a green coat, a pair of fustian trousers, and a hat ;
his basket was on his arm ; Michael's was the same.
I saw them get over the wall by the new school into
Duke Shepley's field. I saw them no more after
they got over the wall. I stopped their whilst [until]
Josh Green came. I stood by the old gate in the
oat-field. I then got atop of this wall, and Josh
Green was by the kitchen-door. This was about ten
minutes after the men got over the wall which WUF
in the oat-field. I saw Josh Green. He shouted
" Holloa," and " poised" the kitchen door. I saw
him run on to John M'Kinnell's. John M.Kinnel
and Thomas Green came, and they got in at the
kitchen window. Ivs ant further on, and got into
the fold almost by the kitchen window. I stopped
while my mother came, which was about half an hour
after John M'Kinnell had come down. I told some-
thing to my mother as soon as she came to the place.
Cross-examined by Mr. SEYMOUR—The wall is
sloped at the top like the roof of a house. When atop
of the wall I kept a bit standing, and then I looked.
and then I walked a bit. I had my face toward.
home when I was walking, and then I stood and
looked round. The apple-tree was in leaf. The mei.
were on the side of the apple-tree nearest the wall. I
thought the men were sheltered from the rain.
Cross-examined by Mr. MATTHEWS—The men had
baskets on their arms. Reid had a cap on in the
garden, and a hat on in the oat-field. I told me
mother as soon as she came. She scolded me fur not
coming home. I told Ann Wormald I was going to
tell Mr. Maude and Mr. Ingham, the magistrate, and
Mr. Haworth, when I saw them at the house, what I
had seen, but Betty Johnson said they would take no
notice of little girls' tales. Nobody since has told me
about the times and the hours.

Cross-examined by Mr. SEYMOUR—I have been in
York Castle six months for want of sureties to appear
here to give evidence. I was a soldier; I deserted,
and got punished.
Catherine Kilty—The day before the murder Reid
came to my house ; he said, " Have you got the
soldering-iron ?" He took it. I asked him to sit
down ; he said he could not sit down, his father
wanted the iron. I asked if he was preparing "for the
row that night. He said, "No." I said, any person
who gets a blow from that will want no more. He
said, " No, they'll never know what killed them."
I identify the iron.
George Wild—[ was convicted of horse-stealing at
the last assizes. Before the assizes I was kept in the
same ward with M'Cabe. I saw Reid in the mess-
room the morning after the last trial. I said to
Reid, " I understand that M'Cabe can do you no
harm ?" He replied, " No, he cannot." I said, " I
understand he is giving evidence against you ?"
Reid said, "If I thought he was, I'd confess, and
tell all about it." 'I said to him, " Then you mean
to say you're guilty of this murder ?" He
said, " Yes, we did the murder. About a month
before we made up our minds to rob the house ;
but you'll see he'll never give any evidence to do me
any harm." This was before the trial. When I
said it was after r made a mistake. About the as-
sizes I talked with Reid about the soldering-iron in
the mess-room. Ido not remember when it was. I
told Reid that N'Cabe said the soldering-iron was
his. He said that I might tell M'Cabe he was both
the man that helped to use it, and put it in the
well.

John Noble, GoVernor of York Castle.—Mr. Watts
was at one time the attorney for M'Cabe. Mr. Watts
came to see M'Cabe in June. After Mr. Watts had
gone, Reid sent to say he wished to see me, and when
I saw him he said, " Do you know what M'Cabe has
said to Mr. Watts ?" Witness said, " No, attorneys
see prisoners in private." Reid then said, " What
do you think of the case ?" Witness replied, " You
stand in a very awkward position, and whether you
are guilty or not guilty, if the jury find you guilty,
you will be executed, and you had better
prepare yourself for another world. It is
thought that one man could not murder three persons
in so short a time, and I understand that the police
are after two other men." Reid replied, " There's
no others in it." I then said, "It is reported that
you had a quarrel with the murdered girl; and that
you were heard to say you would i)e revenged on her
or serve her out." Reid then said with emphasis,
"It's all lies, I never had a quarrel with that girl."
I communicated this conversation to the visiting
magistrate.
This witness closed the case for the prosecution. .
Mr. SEYMOtIK addressed the jury for the prisoner
Reid, and contended that the evidence did not sub-
stantiate the case against him; that M'Cabe was
really the murderer; and that the fresh evidence
whi !h had been adduced did not alter the position of
Reid from that in which he was when tried and ac-
quitted at the last assizes. . _

Mr. MATTHEWS then commenced his address to the
jury for the prisoner M'Cabe, contending that
%lthough M'Cabe was; at the house at the time of the
,nurder, yet that that was consistent with innocence.
The Court adjourned at ten o'clock.
WEDNESDAY MORNING.

Re-examined by Mr. INGEIA.M—The wall is broad
on the top. I recollect Mr. Maude and Mr. Ingham,
Mr. Watkinson, Mr. Haworth, and another in the
kitchen. I did not tell them, because Betty Johnson
would not let me go to the window. I tried to get to
th© window. My mother and Ann Wormald were
there. I told them.

Mr. Clapham, surveyor, re-called—A girl could
walk on Tyas's wall. The apple-tree is in a hollow ;
the ground from Tyas's wall is a slope.
Ann Hallas—On the day of Mr. Wraith's murder
I sent my daughter to Littlemore with my husband's
dinner. She was absent so long that I went out after
her, and found her at the old gate, near Mr. Wraith's.
I heard of Mr. Wraith's murder as I went along.
My daughter made a statement to me.
Cross-examined by Mr. MarruEws—Neither my
daughter nor myself was here last assizes.
Ann Wormald—l know Patrick Reid. I went to
Mr. Wraith's at two o'clock on the day of the mur-
der. I saw Mary Hallos. I heard her tell some-
thing to her mother. I saw Betty Johnson push
Mary Hellas away from the kitchen window.
Maria Canning—l live at Lea-green. I remember
Mary Hallas coming into my house on the day of
the murder, after dinner. I had heard of the murder
Mary Hallas told me something.
Jane Oakes and several other witnesses were
called to show that from a quarter to two o'clock to
a little after three, on the day in question, Patrick
Reid was coming at a quick pace from the direction
of Mr: Wraith's, as if he were avciding the houses,
and was seen at different places until he got to his
residence at Dai,v,green.
William West—l am a Fellow of the Royal So-
ciety. On the 14th of May I received a green coat
and a brown coat, some blue stockings and some gray
Stockings. I also received a cap, trousers, key, soh
aenrg-iron, a basket, a sack, a piece of brown paper,
a
aITk There were five or six spots, or sets of
spots 2 blood on the coat, in different parts. The
spots
I cut out of the left skirt, two turned out to be
blood and two not ; the blood
was recent. I made
the examination T., the 14th of May. I noticed the
cap ; there were
a very
slight speck of 3.
t spots of blood on it. There was
blood on the basket. There
were spots on the brown coat ; the blood was recent.
I looked at
the soldering-iron,
when
o r
it I would rather not
say whether there was blood
not on it. If the sol-
dering-ironewrfaese throwni into the
was bloody
well, what I found on it was v
from the metallic part I could not he perfectly
the handle of the soldering-iron 1 distinctly From
obtain
fibrin. I have a key ; I have no doubt that animal
matter has been upon it.
cross-examined by Mr. SEYMOUR—Sweat in a
handle from usage wouhi he distinct from fibrin. I
have no confidence in chymical tests to distinguish
between animal and human blood. I have come to
the opinion from microscopic observations that the
blood N vas human.
Cros 3-examined by Mr. MArrnEws Only one
spot of blood on the brown coat. Blood is not the
only su'bstatice which contains fibrin, but I do not
know at )3r .fluid which contains it.
Richi txd Green—The green coat is Patrick Reid's,
also the .cap. The brown coat is Michael 11`Cabe's.
Some gaiters were produced at the last trial ; I have
'"WSPA.Tti them ever since.
f- N,--77. I! - rosr...examinecl by Mr. SEYMOUR—AII the articles
----1 sh awn to the jury at the last trial.
A.
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The trial was resumed this morning, at half-past
sight o'clock, when Mr. Justice Patteson proceeded
4-0 sum up the evidence with great minuteness, occu-
pying upwards of three hours.
The jury retired at half-past eleven o'clock, and
returned at one, with a verdict of Guilty against
both the prisoners. . . .

On the usual question being put to the prisoners,
M'Cabe exclaimed—" Only one thing I can say—l'm
innocent of the crime laid to my charge." Patrick
Reid remained silent.

Mr. Justice PATTESON then put on the black cap,
and proceeded to pronounce judgment. After a very
long and patient inquiry by the jury of the charge
against them, of the murder of Caroline Ellis, they
having retired and considered the matter fully, have
come to the conclusion that they were both guilty of
this murder. He thought no case could have
been conducted with more care, or received
more patient attention that this case had on the part
of those gentlemen who comprise the jury. They
had examined witnesses for two long days ; they had
heard the observations which were addressed to them

by the Learned Counsel—very strong and powerful
observations made by both of them—and he (the
Learned Judge) had endeavoured to point out any
discrepancies in the evidence ; and, after full con-
sideration of the case, the jury had come to the ma-
ture conclusion that both the prisoners were guilty.
The circumstances under which this murder was com-
mitted were of the most horrible description. He
did not recollect ever to have heard or read of such an
atrocious act having been committed in this country
it any period, as that in the middle of the day a
house should be entered, and three persons, the whole
inhabitants of that house, an old man, his wife,itnd
servant, cruelly murdered—beaten--their heads frac-
tured—and afterwards their throats cut in the most
atrocious manner. (Here the prisoner M'Cabe
fell in a state of insensibility in front of
the dock. The officers of the gaol having
ilaced him in a chair, he soon revived suf.
Rciently to enable the Court to proceed.) His
Lordship said, he could not under such circumstances
as these hold out to them any hopes that the sentence
of the law which it was his duty to pass upon them,
would not be carried into effect. One of them was
told some time ago by the gaoler—and very justly
told—that if the jury returned a verdict of guilty
they would assuredly be hung; and he advised Reid
at that time to prepare himself for another world.
He (the Learned Judge) had only to repeat that ad-
vice, and he begged and earnestly entreated them both
to lay aside all hors of this world altogether, and
endeavour, during the short time they would be per-
mitted to remain here, to make their peace, and ob-
tain that pardon from the Almighty which the law of
this land would not and could not grant. His Lord-
ship then passed sentence of death in the usual manner.
Reid remained firm throughout the awful proceed-
ings. _ _ _

This trial concluded the business of the winter gaol
delivery.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, and
a Bench of Magistrates.)
Yesterday William Buckley, a boy nine years of
age, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him
With having stolen a till, value 54., and certain
moneys, the property of William. Avery.
The Learned JUDGE, having ascertained that the
boy was not known by the officers, put a variety of
questions to him, as to how it was that he had
sta comm
tement: itted this crime, when he
elicited the following
The prisoner said that he had been in the habit
occasionally of attending a school weekly, and that
,j 1 his way homewards he had often been led or
carried away by bigger boys, whom he had not at
first known, who had then induced him to steal
things.

LONDON, THURSDAY ialrENlMer, DECEMSER 08, )114,

for asiatilting Mr. Thomas Andrews, the
instant, while walking to an office in the Temple.

Mr. Fooks, of the -Chancery bar, attended for the
defendant, and Mr. Charnock for the complainant.
Mr. Charnock begged to give an outline of the case
before he called evidence. On Tuesday night a ball
came off in Gower-street, which had been got up by
some young ladies. The defendant and complainant
were present, and the former danced with the sister
of the latter. All went pleasantly till a polka was
danced, when the defendant went through it in such
an indelicate manner, that complainant could not
refrain from going up to him and kicking him in
the presence of the whole company. After the
ferment had subsided, the dancing was renewed,
and after some time the complainant retired with the
lady he was dancing with. Next morning he found
the defendant and a friend, each armed with a heavy
oak stick, waiting for him in the Temple, and the
defendant asked him if be was prepared to mike him
a very humble apology for kicking him on the pre-
vious night. Complainant said " Yes, he would do so,
as soon as defendant had made a humble apology for
the indecent manner in which he had polkaed with
his sister." The defendant immediately raised his
large stick and aimed a blow at his head. Com-
plainant endeavoured to parry it with a thin stick, but
it broke, and complainant received several blows.
This scene occurred in Hare-court, and happily it
was stopped by the interference of Mr. Horne, the
barrister. He was sure the alderman would say Mr.
Mead was not justified, after sleeping upon the
matter, in going in cold blood and attacking his client
in this manner, with a thick stick, when he was un-
prepared.
Mr. Alderman Gimes said he thought, upon the
complainant's own showing,that he was the aggressor,
and he should therefore leave him to indict at at the
sessions, without going into the evidence, and with-
out requiring any bail from Mr. Mead, not even his
own recognizance.
Mr. Mead said he was very sorry for that. He
had some of the ladies present to prove that he had
not transgressed the bounds of decorum.
Some of the ladies rose to speak togethar, but the
Alderman declared he had done with the matter, and
we only caught their opinion that Mr. Mead was
quite in order, and that the dance was a respectable
affair--a mere breaking-up school ball.
The parties retired, accompanied by a number of
their friends.