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London, England, 1847-03-16 00:00:00

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(YEb.t tcDAY.)
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP I.
THE NORTH RENT LINE.
(Continmed trem our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Captain Dyke of Sittingbourne, gave very positive evi-
dence in favour of the South-Eastern scheme.
Mr. Hawes proved that the consent of the landlords from
Feversham to Chilham, to the South-Eastern North Kent
line, had been obtained.

Air. C. J. Hilton, mayor of Faversham, was called to prove
that the inhabitants of Faversham were decidedly in favour
of the line from Strood to Chilham.
Mr. Alston, of Sheerness, bore testimony to the great ad-
vantage the proposed railway would prove to the oyster trade
of Kent.
Mr. Baxenda!e, of Queenborough, near Sheerness, gave
similar testimony.

Mr. Talbot, storekeeper of Chatham Dockyard, proved
that the proposed line would be of the utmost importance to
the public service. In his opinion the line would be a national
benefit. The present stores had to be conveyed all the way
round by Sheerness, and up the Medway. The railway
would remove that circuitous route.
Colonel Simpson, Commandant of the Military Depot at
Chatham, gave corroborative testimony.
Mr. Hayward, Mayor of Rochester, proved that the inha-
bitants, corporation. and most of the public bodies were in
favour of the South-Eastern scheme.
Mr. Nicholson, banker of Rochester, and Mr. C. W. Martin,
M.P., gave corroborative testimony.
The Committee adjourned at four o'clock.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
IV 0ItI: 0 LK CMG Ul T.— BerVord, March 15.

The commission for this county was duly opened on
Saturday by Mr. Justice Coleridge, who presides on the
Crown side, where there are 34 prisoners, including
several heavy cases—one of murder, two of arson, and
the like number of offences against the person. The
entry of causes embraced the following :
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Chief Baron PoLeooz and a
Special Jury.)
H.F.ZiSIZAW V. MORTON.
Mr. Sergeant By lea and Mr. O'Malley appeared for
the plaintiff; Mr. %Vorledge and Mr. Wells for the de-
fendant.
This was an action of assumpsit on an alleged war-
ranty of certain seed tares, to which the defendant
pleaded non assumpsit. The parties to this cause are
respectively a farmer and a seed-dealer ; and the ques-
tion was whether the agent of the latter, on the occasion
of his selling forty loads of the article in question to the
plaimiff, had warranted that they were " seed tares, and
they would grow." It appeared that the seeds had
been offered for sale by the agent of the defendant to a
person named Newman, at St, Neot's market, in July,
1845, in the presence of the plaintiff, and had then
stated that they were " seed tares ;" that " he had sown
them himself in his own garden, and that they had come
up as thick as hail." After this the plaintiff bought forty
loads of them, relying,as he now contended, on this repro-
,,entation, and subsequently sold them with a warranty
to various parties in his neighbourhood, who
had all come upon the plaintiff for compen-
sation ; for, as the Learned Sergeant stated, " the
event proved that they might as well have sown their
lands a ith marbles." On this a negotiation was entered
into between the plaintiff and the defendants, and the
matter was referred by them to a common friend, who
" cut the Gordian knot" by according that they should
each bear one-half of the loss sustained by the plaintiff
in satisfying the demands made on him by his customers
fur compensation. This decision, however, was not
acted upon, it would seem, for the present action was
entered for trial at the last assizes, and tried before a
common jury, who gave a verdict for the plaintiff. That
decision was even more unpalateable to the defendant
than the previous one, for his case was that his agent
had no authority, in the first place, to warrant the tares;
and, in the second, that he had not, in fact, made any
such representation to the plaintiff as was set up as the
foundation of this demand. He accordingly moved the
Court above for a new trial, on the ground that that
verdict was not warranted by the evidence, and the
Court being of that opinion sent the cause down again
for trial, when the defendant struck a special jury. Oa
the former occasion the agent was not called on either
side, and the plaintiff being driven as it were to do so
❑ow, put that person into the box, who very soon put
the plaintiff out of court, for he distinctly swore that he
never had warranted the tares either to the plaintiff or
to any one else, and that he had no authority from the
:lelentlant to do anything of the sort. In this stage of
the case,
The Learned CHIEF BARON interposed, and directed
the plaintiff to be called, and so ended the great seed
tire case of St. Neot's.

There beingrootCer civil cause remaining, his Lord-
ship sat to try prisoners.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
Thomas Voc/cerell, aged 27, and Thomas Lancaster,
30, were charged with stealing a quantity of oats, the
property of Thomas Pratt, of Houghton Regis, on the
4th inst.

The jury found bath the prisoners Guilty, and they
were sentenced t.) tour months' imprisonment.
Isabella Brackett; aged 17, was charged with felo-
niously settiog fire to a barn of William Gery, Esq.
The pritoner.was a domestic servant of Mrs. Peck,
the tenant of the prosecutor, anti appears to have done
the act imputed to her without any uss;grtable motive.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.—Sentence
deferred.

OXFORD CIRCUIT —Worcester, March 13.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Sergeant GA.SELEE )
CHESHIRE V. HARE.

, This ease occupied the Court from eleven to half-past
five, and attracted considerable attention in consequence
of the contradictory evidence adduced. It was an action
by the endorser of a bill of guarantee for 30/., dated
the 27th Jul% , 1846, payable in three menths from date,
drawn by a Sirs. Hadley, upon and accepted by the de-
fendant. The only plea was a denial of the acceptance.
Mr. Whateley, and Mr. Gray appeared for the plain-
tiff; Mr. Sergeant Tall ourd and Mr. Godson for the
defendant.
The plaintiff is a wholesale grocer in Birmingham;
the defendant, an attorney at Kidderminster. On the
evidence for the plaintiff it appeared that about the
!piddle of July last, Mrs. Hadley called upon the
plaintiff and asked to be supplied with goods, and on
his expressing a wish to have some guarantee, referred
him to the defendant, to whom the plaintiff immediately
wrote a letter, inquiring if he were willing to give his
guarantee for goods to be supplied to Mrs. Hadley to
the extent of 301. To this letter it did not appear that
any answer was returned; but the bill in question was
g ven soon afterwards to the plaintiff, who new produced
it, together with a letter which bore no date, but was
acknowledged to be genuine, from the defendant to Mrs.
Hadley, stating that he enclosed her his acceptance for
301., and that if that would not do sho might write again.
On the bill becoming due, and being presented at the
defendant's banker's, he was sent for, and declared iCto be
n forgery; and, in answer to an application fro= the de-
f -ndant's attorney, sent a letter stating that the accept-
mince was a gross forgery, and that he had a letter from
the drawer admitting it to be so. To a written appli-
cation for a copy of this letter and information as to
where Mrs. Hadley was to be found, no answer was re-
turned. To another letter, written some weeks after-
terwards, again asking for a copy or the letter, and if he
denied having given Mrs. Halley his acceptance, he
answered by simply stating that any one on behalf o
the plaintiff might see the letter at his office at Kidder.
minter. Thereupon the action was brought.

For the defendant six witnesses were called, who
swore that to the best of their belief the signature to the
acceptance, though like the defendant's, was not gunuine.
One of these witnesses was a solicitor in whose office the
defendant had served part of his articles. The defendant
further procee,led to prove the actual forgery of the bills,
and fir this purpose called a man who deposed to having
purchased o bill stamp for Mrs. Hadley; and a young
woman, named Louisa Dobbs, a dress-maker, who stated
that, during the last summer, she was at Hrs. Hadley's
house in Birmingham, and saw Mrs. Hadley, in looking
over a number of letters, find a letter of Mr. Hare's,
corresponding with the one put in by the rlainliff, and
diat she read the letter to the witness, and said that it
was just what she wanted ; that about five weeks after-
w.srds, being again at Mrs. Hadley's house, she saw her
with a letter of Mr. Hare's before her, and that she was
practising on a sheet of paper the writing of his name ;
and that she then 'Jaw her sign his name to the acceptance
,o 1 a bill (which, h.)wever, she could only Llentity by its
having the stamp on it), and then tnclose the bill and
letter in another letter.

The plaintiff produced evil- rice in reply.
The verdict was for the plaintiff.
As 'Tuesday is fixed for opening the cnrnmission at
Stafford, and so much of the civil business remains un-
disposed of, it is said that Mr. Justice Maul° will
assist
at Ni.iPrius, and Mr. Sergeant Allen will preside in the
Crown Court.
C.II()WN courtr.—(Before Mr. Justice MACLE.)
rle of the cases tried in this court yesterday were
worth nPtionins,r.
James Campbell, a sailor, of ,
put to the bar, ehsrged ab out 17 years
with ha to a barn at
Pirwen. On tilt. 4th of Fcbroary last.
ving set fire
Mr. /I 14. s u(l,lt :ne conducted the pro3ecutit..n. The pri-
soner had nu counsel.

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guardian is chiefly carried on by pantomimic signs. Their
own language appears to be singularly barren, exceed
ingly harsh and unpleasant to the ear, and used with
much gesticulation. Its most remarkable feature is, that
mingled with the articulate tones, and the gutturals and
nasals, are some imartkulate-tlicks or clucks, produced by
the tongue being struck against different parts of the mouth,
so as to produce en audible sound not easily described on
paper, but varying in depth with the part of the mouth
from which the tongue is struck. The stature of these
people is another peculiarity; the two couples are considered
as of two quite different tribes, though both speak the same
language; but their is a striking difference in their stature.
The larger couple are about five feet three inches in height;
the smaller not more than four feet, and these suggest the
ideas of the " pigmies" of the ancients. The strange mix-
ture of the Mongolian, Malay, and Negro in their charac-
teristic form and features is very striking; and while they
seem but little elevated in the chain of being above the ba-
boon and the chimpanzee, we learn that the tall and athletic
Kafir flies from one of these diminutive creatures with the
greatest terror—for their want of physical strength is com-
pensated by their skill in the use of poisoned arrows, a wound
from one of which is almost always mortal. These creatures
are continually smoking the wild hemp of their country—a
plant from which they also obtain the poisonous juice in
which they dip their arrows. They go through a sort of
performance; all four dancing one of their nationadances,
which somewhat resembles those of the North American
Indians, especially in its being conducted and regulated by a
double stroke of the hand, as a substitute for a tom-tom or
drum. The two men display their mode of stealing on their
foes, and certainly it must be no pleasant thing to see a man
stealthily prowling in your neighbourhoood with a poisoned
arrow fitted to the string—waiting only till you give him an
opportunity of stealing upon you unperceived, to send the
death-shaft on its flight. As a variety of the race of man
never before seen in England, we recommend a visit to these
Bush people.