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alibi, for which purpose Mr. Payne called two witnesses,
who swore that Donovan was in a public house on the
evening in question from six o'clock till twelve. This

prisoner throughout the trial frequently protested his in.
nocence. The other prisoner, as the Learned Judge was
summing up, said that he was guilty, but Donovan was not.
The Learned Judge having summed up,
The Jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty
against both prisoners.
There was a previous conviction against Radburn, and
an officer who was in Court stated that he knew the
other prisoner to be a confirmed thief, and he had
only been out of prison five days when this robbery was
committed. Radburn was sentenced to fourteen year.%
and Donovan to seven years' transportation.
Charles Macken, aged 26, described as a surgeon, was
indicted for stealing a violin, the property of Mary Ann
Mariner.

The prosecutor in this case keeps a small shop, and the
prisoner brought some waste paper to her to sell, which
she purchased, and as she was giving him the money she
observed him put something under his cloak, which on ex-
amination proved to Le the viplin named in the indictment.
The prisoner being called on for his defence said, that
some time back be was afflicted with a paralytic stroke,
since which he had been at times unsound in his mind.

Two witnesses were called who proved this, and who
stated that the prisoner was of respectable family, and was
sent to London to study at Guy's Hospital.
The Jury acquitted the prisoner.
John Porter, who was convicted on Wednesday last
cf having robbed his employer, Mr. Roberts, of Chester-
field, was brought up to receive his sentence, which the
Learned Judge in passing said would be lenient, in con-
sequence of the Jury so strongly recommending him to
mercy.
. .

He was sentenced to three months' imprisonmen,
These Sessions concluded this day.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL
INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, APRIL 10.—The annual election to fill the
vac int scholarships on the foundation of Oriel College
will take place on Friday next, the 16th inst.
The vacancy cf one of the curates of Lowtb, Lincoln-
shire, has been supplied by the appointment of the Rev.
W. Barmeld, of Lincoln College.
The Rev. Thomas Maude, of University :College, has
been presented to the rectory of Elvington, Yorkshire.
Patron, he Lord Chancellor.
____

The Rev. R. A. Taylor, of Magdalen Hall, has been
appointed Curate of St. Paul's, Bristol.
The Rev. F. C. Cook has been appointed Secretary to
the London Diocesan Board; and also Inspctor of Church
Schools in London and Middlesex.
The Earl of Buckinghamshire has presented the Rev.
F. Lloyd to the rectory of Great Hampden, with the
vicarage of Great Kimble, Bucks.
Candidates for Deacon's orders are required by the
Lord Bishop of Oxford to give at least six months'
notice to tho Archdeacon previous to presenting them-
selves for ordination.

4,-,OMMITTAL FOR WILFUL MURDER.--.The
ill-fated young woman, Frances Bostock, whose throat
was cut on the Bth of March last, at a beer-house in Liver-
pool-road, Manchester, died at the Infirmary on Monday.
The perpetrator of the foul deed, a man of the name of W.
Hampsou, with whom the deceased had lived since the
death of his wife, was apprehended, it will be recollected,
soon after he committed the act, and was kept in custody
until the fate of the young woman was known. Harnpson is by
trade a millwright, but latterly had partly got his living by
selling green-groceries in the public market. He is thirty-
three years of age, and has five young children, four of
them by his deceased wife, and the other by the deceased
Frances Bostock, who was about twenty-one years of
age. Hampson's wife, we understand, died of poison, but
by whom administered it could not be ascertained. On
Thursday last an inquest was held at the infirmary, before
Mr. Chapman, over the body of the murdered young
woman, when the evidence having been heard, the Jury,
after a short consultation, returned a verdict of " Wilful
murder against William Hampson," and the prisoner was
committed, on the coroner's warrant, for trial at the Liver-
pool Assizes.
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brought to this town in the short space of sixteen hours
and a half after leaving the Euston-square station. This
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On Friday fortnight, the 26th of March, a respect-
able old lady, named White, died at Easton, near
Winchester, after a protracted illness. On the Thurs-
day following her family, who are very respectable and
well-known in this neighbourhood, proceeded to the
churchyard of Easton, in which the family vault is si-
tuated, with the corpse, notice of the intended funeral
having been given, and no refusal of the clergyman to
perform the accustomed rites notified to the relatives of
the deceased. On the arrival of the body at the
church-yard gates, attended by a considerable number
of the relations of the deceased, among whom were
her daughters, it was met by the clergyman of the
parish—the Reverend Dudley Ryder, who com-
menced reading the usual prayers. On the proces-
sion, however, taking the path to the church, he com-
manded the bearers and undertaker to stop, and bear
the body direct to the grave, as he would not allow it
to enter the church. The procession accordingly
proceeded to the grave and the service was pro-
ceeded with, leaving out that portion of it appointed to
be read in the church. The undertaker, at the request
of some of the relatives, demanded the reason why this
cruel and uncalled-for insult was offered to the dead,
and the answer of this mild and charitable Christian
teacher was Do not interrupt me—don't brawl in
the churchyard." Finding no explanation of this out-
rage on humanity could be bad, they then said that as
their deceased parent could not be allowed Christian
burial they would not allow the interment to take place,
and the coffin was again lifted and borne back to the
house, attended by the weeping and horror-stricken
relatives and the deep though smothered resentment
of the villagers who witnessed this most intolerant
and cruel proceeding. We have heard the scene
was indeed a most painful one. Two of the daughters
were so affected by this implied awful clerical denun-
ciation of their dead parent that they fainted at
the grave, and one of them was with much difficulty re-
stored, and borne back to the late house of her dead mo-
ther not far from the church. As seen as the body
had again been placed in the house, the undertaker and
two sons-in-law of the deceased applied to the Rev.
Dudley Ryder to know the reason of his cruel and
intolerant conduct. The proud priest received them in
the presence of another divine—the Rev. R. J. Wil-
berforce, Archdeacon of York, and the reception of
the mourners by these intolerant and unfeeling bigots
was of the most supercilious kind. The only explana-
tion afforded them for the cruel and cowardly outrage,
was the Rev. Dudley Ryder opening the prayer-
book, and pointing to the formula of the rubric
which says " The priest meeting the corpse at the en-
trance of the church-yard, and going before it either
into the church or towards the grave, shall say," &c.
saying that was his authority and he should give no
further explanation. A subsequent interview took place,
when he admitted that his reason for refusing the de-
ceased Christian burial was " because she had let a por-
tion of her house to a body of Dissenters, and
that her son-in-law was a Dissenter, and had introduced
dissent into the parish !" Toe Rev. Dudley Ryder—
who swore before God at his ordination as a priest,
that " he would maintain, and set forward, as much as
in him laid, quietness, peace, and love among all Chris-
tian people, and especially among them that were com-
mitted to his charge—this intolerant persecutor—this
wolf in sheep's clothing assigned as h:s reason (hear it
ye martyrs of the Reformed Church of England, who
shed your blood in defence of the principle of the right
to private judgment in matters of religion, and learn
what your religion is degraded to by ono of its teachers
in the nineteenth century), he refused a Christian
and baptised woman Christian burial, " because she
had let part of her house to a body of Dissenters—
because her son-in-law, Mr. Forder, was a Dissenter,
and had introduced Dissent into the parish of Eas-
ton." Because she let her house to Dissenters, who
dare to assert the leading principle—the very
corner stone of Protestantism—the right of private
judgment—in preference to attending the communion
and accepting the religious opinion of this anti-Christian
divine, whose belief, if judged from his practice, no
pious or good man need entertain a wish to hold. It
seems the deceased had expressed a wish to be buried
with her son, who lies in a family vault in the church-
yard of Easton, and her daughters respecting the desire
of their parent, overruled the wish of some of the rela-
tives—that the body should be taken to the new ceme-
tery at Winchester ; and the mournful duty was,
consequently, again commenced on Friday morning, the
next day. On arriving at the church-yard, neither the
Christian teacher nor the clerk were present. No bell was
tolling, and the funeral procession consequently entered
the church, and deposited the body in the nave, hoping
a few hours' calm reflection, and holy meditation,
would have taught a minister of Christ to respect the
feelings of the relations and the memory of the dead,
and have induced him to do his duty. Not so—death
and the grave, which, levelling all distinctions and can-
celling all earthly debts, disposes most men to charity
and toleration ; which, by practically showing the vanity
and brevity of human life, humbles the proud and
softens the revengeful, prompting to forgive that we
may be forgiven—neither death nor the sacredness of
the spot dedicated to the God of mercy, could soften
the heart of this intolerant persecutor. He ordered
them from the church, threatening the undertaker with
an action at law for entering Christ's Church ! and
commanded them to take the body away or to
the grave. It was, consequently, borne to the
latter and buried—the portion of the service ap-
pointed to be read in the church being omitted. I
It is time for the friends of religious li-
berty to stir themselves. The conduct of the
Rev. Dudley Ryder, and his counsellor, Archdeacon
Wilberforce, coupled with the intolerant and persecut-
ing spirit displayed by another Wilberforce (Archdeacon
of Surrey) in his late charge on the subject of Church-
rates, leads to strong suspicions that the Puseyite party
in the Church are determined to pursue the " fire and
faggot" system, and attempt the extirpation of dissent
by persecution. The doctrine of these bastard Catho-
lics is the infallibility of the Church—that is of the
clergy—and hence the determination evinced of treat-
ing Dissenters as of old the Catholic priests treated
heretics. That a system of persecution is being carried
on in the parishes of Easton and Avington we well know,
and the public ought to know it also. The inhabitants of
these parishes were, for years, the object of the bounty of
the late estimable and benevolent Duchess of Buckingham.
Since the death of that truly noble lady, her wishes
have been partially carried out by her son, the present
Duke ; but the donations of food and clothing, an-
nually distributed, are carefully withheld from the Dis-
senters, not one of whom is allowed to receive the
smallest portion of the charitable donation of the Duke
of Buckingham. It is a lamentable perversion of prin-
ciple, and degrading to human nature ; but it is so.
Perhaps some of our readers may wish to know who
and what is the Reverend Dudley Ryder. He is, we
believe, the son of the late Bishop of Lichfield, and a
nephew of the Earl of Harrowby ; and his family have
been extensive sackers of Church property.—Hamp
shire Independent.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
JAMES SHAW, builder, Carlisle-street, Lambeth.
BENJAMIN WILLIAMS, merchant, Liverpool.
BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.
THOMAS TRIPP and JAMES BENN, distillers, Belfast,
from April 6, to May 2.5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
JOHN WILKINSON, ironmaster, Brymbo, Denbighshire,
from Feb. 5, to May 5, at eleven, at the Wynnstay Arms
Hotel, Wrexham, Denbighshire.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
HENRY LAFFER, merchant, Liverpool.
BANKRUPTS.
JOHN WARBURTON, tailor and draper, Liverpool, to
surrender, April 27, and May 25, at one, at the Clarendon-
, rooms, Liverpool. Crowder and Maynard, Mansion-house-
place, London ; Waring, Liverpool.
FRANCIS HUSKINS, wine merchant, Birmingham,
April 22, and May 25, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Belcher, official assignee; Pollock, Sambrook-court, Basing-
hall-street, London.
RICHARD JONES, block maker, Liverpool, April 27 and
May 25, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Norris,
Allen, and Simpson, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn, London ;
Lowe Liverpool.
WILLIAM BUTLER and RICHARD PARKES, wine-
merchants, Birmingham, April 27, and May 25, at eleven, at
the Offices of Mr. Augustus Yeates, Birmingham. Holmes,
Knight Rider-street, Doctors'-commons; Yeates, Birmingham.
EDWIN JEANES, bookseller, Exeter, April 27 and May
25, at twelve, at the New London Inn, Exeter. Laiclman,
Exeter; Clowes and Wedlake, King's Bench-walk, Temple,
London.
JOHN LATHAM, seed merchant, Baln, Yorkshire, April
30 and Slay 25, at eleven, at the Town-hall, Doncaster.
Baxter, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Sale and Worthington,
Manchester ; Mason and Collinson, Doncaster.
HENRY COX, grocer, Nottingham, April 20 and May 25,
at eleven, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham. John-
son, Son, and Weatherail, Temple, London; Bowley, Not-
tingham.
GEORGE KENDRICK GEILL, calico-printer, Whittle
le-Woods Lancaster, April 29 and May 25, at eleven, at the
Town-hall, Preston. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and
Follett, Bedford-row, London ; Winstanley, Catterell, and
Charnley, Preston.
BENJAMIN BROOKS, teazle dealer, Badgworth, Somer-
set, April 23, and May 25, at ten, at the Mitre Inn, Wells.
Pat erson, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, London ; Okey, Bristol.
NEWTON EMMERSON, draper, Bishop Auckland, Dur-
ham, April 26, and Slay 25, at eleven, at the Talbot Inn,
Bishop Auckland. Bowser, Bishop Auckland ; Meredith and
Reeve, Lincoln's Inn, London.
WILLIAM MURRAY, innkeeper, Manchester, April 27,
and May 25, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Man-
chester. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bed:ord-
row, London ; Law, Manchester.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
R. Brine, wine merchant, Hart-street, Crutched-friars, May
4, at one-M. Evans, J. Evans, and T. Evans, paper manu-
facturers, Pump-row, Old. street-road, May 4, at eleven-R.
Carruthers, wholesale cheesemonger, Lower Thames-street,
May 4, at one-R. Heyward, linen draper, Lamb's Conduit-
street, May 4, at twelve-J. Healey, victualler, Portugal-
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, May 5, at one.
In the Country.
M. May, earthenware dealer, Devonport, June 14, at twelve,
at Elliott's Royal Hotel, Devonport--C. Poulter, dealer, Long
Melford, May 12, at one, at the Blue Posts Inn, Colchester--
B. Jacques, J. Cotton, and T. B. Oliver, hosiers, Nottingham,
May 10, at twelve, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham
-J. Ulyatt, cattle dealer, Crowland, Lincolnshire, May 6, at
twelve, at Standwell's Hotel, Stamford-R. Morris, coach
maker Gloucester, May 13, at twelve, at the Office of H. and
R. Wilton, Gloucester-A. Fussell, ironmonger, Oxford, Slay
10, at half-past ten, at the Town-hall, Oxford-J. Dilworth,
R. M. Arthington, and R. Birkett, bankers, Lancaster, May 1,
at one, at the King's Arms Inn, Lancaster-J. Wilkinson,
ironmaster, Brymbo, Denbighshire, May 5, at eleven, at the
Wynnstay Arms Hotel, Wrexham-J. C. Knill, tailor, Glou-
cester, May 3, at two, at the Office cf J. Lovegrove, Glouces-
ter-R. J. Foster, painter, Gloucester, May 3, at three, at the
Office of J. Lovegrove, Gloucester-J. Wile, ironmonger;
Stafford, May 13, at twelve, at the Vine Inn, Stafford-J. V.
Storey, linen draper, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, May 7, at one, at
the Bankrupt Commission-room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
CERTIFICATES-MAY 4.
' T. Lee, draper, Cockfield, Durham-H. Scott, draper, Sun-
derland-S. Wilson and J. Knight, builders, Radford, Notting-
hamshire-G. Coles, jun., coachmaker, Portsmouth-H. Cun-
liffe, brewer, Southampton-J. Denew, auctioneer, Charles-
street, Berkeley-square -J. R. Duff, wharlinger, Lower
Thames-street-T. Wood, cloth manufacturer, Leeds-T. Proc-
ter, merchant, Fenehurch-street-R. Law, banker, Manchester
-'l'. Gill and W. Wheelwright, dyers, Leeds-E. H. Hart,
glass manufacturer, Gateshead, Durham-J. Caton, cotton
spinner, Preston, Lancashire-E. Young, scrivener, Newcas-
tle-upon-Tyne-M. Evans, J. Evans, and T. Evans, paper
manufacturers, Pump-row. Old-street-road.
PRTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. a
J. Perkins and M. Henry, North-place, Gray's Inn-road---
E. J. Coates, J. H. Bill, and J. Hilliard, London (so far as
regards J. Hilliard)-M. F. Spencer and M. Williams, milli-
ners, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury-W. and R. Michell,
silk mercers, London-J. and N. Robins, tailors, Bampton,
Oxfordshire-J. Sturmey and R. Pinney, coal merchants,
Poole-J. Wilkinson and P. Bell, joiners, Haslingden, Lanca-
shire-G. Pigott and J. Jones, corn merchants, Northop, Flint-
shire-J . Marston and H. B. C. Hillier, surgeons-D.
M'Allum, J. Wakinshaw, and E. B. Stamp, Naphtha
manufac-
turers, Jarrow, Durham (so far as regards D. M'Allum)-C.
Walsh and T. F. Charnley, wool dealers, Liverpool-J. Wills
and E. Melhuish, grocers, Plymouth-W. Wilshin and R.
Hyslop, jun., brewers, Gosport-G. Graves and E. Slunk,
grocers, Maidstone, Kent-U. B. Lambert and J. G. Jack-
sun, warehousekeepers, Kingston-upon-Hull-J. 'l'. Eddy and
R. Jennings, jun.,, chemists, Bishop's Stortferd, Hertfordshire
-E. Zuccani and M. Foletti, looking-glass manufacturers
Skinner-street, Bishopsgate-street -S. Long, W. A. Loss,, J.
Griffiths, S. Long, jun., W. A. Long, jun., and P. Long,
clothiers, Gloucester.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
JAMES MILL and CO., merchants, Kingston, May 3, at
twelve, at Seton's Hotel, Arbroath.
GEORGE GRIEVE, tacksman, Kilmorrk, Inverness-
shire, April 15 and May 6, at one, at the Sheriff Court Room,
Castle, Inverness.
JAMES WEIR, merchant, Arbroath, April 19 and May
10, at twelve, at Seton's Hotel, Arbroath.
FRANCIS GARDEN DENOVAN, merchant, Leith,
May 10 and April 16, at two, at the Writing Chambers of J.
Murdoch, Leith.
JOHN CAMPBELL, hosier, Dundee, April 20 and May
Is, at twelve, at the Denham's Inn, Dundee.
AW. DALZIEL and POWELL, merchants, Manchester,
April 16 and May 8, at one, at the Writing Chambers of A.
Gemmill, Glasgow.

THE TOWER.—At an early hour, on Monday
morning, the Armoury Ticket Office, at the entrance of
the Tower of London, was besieged by numbers of well-
essed persons waiting to obtain tickets of admission to
view the Armouries and Regalia. Nine warders were in
attendance to conduct the visitors over the Armouries and
the Jewel Office, and their civility and attention to the
people during the day is deserving of great praise. Each
warder took charge of twelve or fourteen visitors at one
time, and as soon as one party were conducted over the
Armouries or Jewel Office, and took their departure, an-
other was in readiness to view the curiosities. The total
number of visitors during the day was, to the Armouries,
1,045, and to the Jewel Office, 595 ; and the amount
received for tickets at the reduced admission of 6d. each,
was 401. 15s. The number of visitors to the Jewel Office
on Monday at 6d. each was larger than in any three
months under the whole system, when the keeper of the
Regalia was in the habit of exacting enormous fees from
individuals for admission.
LORD MAYOR'S DINNER.—The Lord Mayor's
Easter entertainment was given on Monday, with its accus-
tomed splendour, in the Egyptian• hall of the Mansion-
house, when this splendid room was completely filled by
the guests collected together to enjoy the hospitality of
the chief magistrate of London. It was near seven 9'eluck

when the dinner was served ; immediately after which the
cross table was occupied by the following distinguished
guests :—The Duke of Cambridge, the Earl and Countess
of Wicklow, Lady Harriet Howard, the Bishop of Ripon,
Viscount Fitzalan, Mr Justice Patteson, Sir Bethell Cod-
rington, Bart., J. Stephen, Esq., the Chairman and De-
puty Chairman of the East India Company, Sir H.
lock, Sir T. B. Leonard, General Shuldham and Lady,
C. Hodgson, Esq., J. Masterman, Ebq., W. H. Hughes,
Esq., the Baran Koller, Austrian Charge d'Affaires, M.
Montezuma, Brazilian Envoy, M. Fortique, Envoy frum
Venezuela, M. Murphy, Mexican Charge d'Affaires, Kur-
reem Khan of Delhi, and other distinguished
The other tables were occupied by the Aldermen, and
other civic functionaries and their friends. The cloth
having been removed, the usual toasts were given and re-
sponded to.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—A shocking accident
occurred yesterday morning, Letween eight and nine, to
Mr. James Mules, builder, of Cleat Titchfield-street,
Marylebone. Mr. limes was on horseback, passing
lmtahsartno mubogadhhis Jermyn-street, Sr. James's, when the animal
his
sud-
denly started at a butcher's dog which snapped at its legs,
and ran off at a furious speed, defying all attempts of
Mr. Elmes to rein it in. Mr. Elmes was thrown at the
corner of Duke-street, and fell upon his head against the
edge of the curb stone, by which the unfortunate gentle.
skullrefsriaecetnucre immediately,e d in a frightful
and,
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conveyed to
State, there are not the slightest hopes of his recovery.'
SG favourable has the weather been during the
nth that there is at the present moment more grass
standing than in the month of June last year. A good hay-
ing season is consequently expected.—Brighton Herald.