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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT —Newcastle on Tyne,
Aug 2
To-day is the C►mmissiun day at Carlisle ; but the
two Learned Judges, the Lord Chief Brun and Mr.
Justine Wighttnan sat at N. weastle te•day. there still
remaining some causes et Nisi Prim for trial.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)

DAVIDSON V. ASKEW ♦ND OTLIKRS.
An issue out of Chancery. directed fur the purpose of
trying the vslidily nt a will. purporting to be the last
will and te.satnent of Mr. John Davidson, late of Ridley-
hall, in this county.
Mr. Knowles, 11r. Hill, and Mr. Fen ;elf, sppeared
for the plaintiff; and Mr. Martin and Mr Robinson for
the defendants.

It appearod that the testiVor, who died in 1842, had
left property, consisting partly in real estates, to Mrs.
Oavtt!son, his wife, and tnat she, after proving the will,
took possession. In 1845, in consequence of en action
brought by her against a tenant.up .n one of the crates,
it became necessary to produee and establi,h the will be-
fore a jury. Ihe planciff, Mrs. Davi ison, did produce
the will in court, but failed to est%bish it, u subscrining
witne:.s saying that he had signed it before the testator
did so, and that the other witness, who was dead at the
time of the trial, had done th- same.
I'he evidence now adduced went to show that the
witness had been mistskeu in giving that testimony, and
the jury now establ:stied the will by finding a ver.iict
ior the plaintiff.
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. JDLAND CMG 411 I. UuAham. August 2.
Thi. day was app intvd for the opening or the com-
mission tor Rutland and the northern division of the
county of Norwich. Lord Denman proceeded to Odk-
MIER. and Mr. Baron Rolfe to Coventry. Not being im.
blued with the power of übicpity, we wended our way to
Witham, where we found (what is unusual tor this
county) a calendar of twelve prisoners. In justice to the
honest agriculturists of this small portion of the kingdom
of England, we must say it is to the vicinity of the rail-
way works alone, that this increase in the crime of the
county is to be attributed.

RAILWAY RIOTS.
John Morton was chard with a riot and assault on
the 15th of July last.
Mr. ..lacauky prosecuted. The defence of the pri-
soner was eon ducted by Mr. Flower.
The c numstatices giving rtse to this charge were ai
appeared that un the a mks betvieen. Systt a
•nri Peterbortsugh, ti•ere are as 133 mtly as between 600 and.
700 men empl..yed, anti a .:oat theta were a portion of
Irish labourers. The English labourers wished t., coerce
the contractors Into einplo)itig n9tie but Englishmen,
but finding they could not succeed, •tri at ack ass made
by about MO higlish in setentt en of the Irish piety,
who were driven from their works, to which they have
not since returned.
Lord DENMAN expressed himself as determined, ai
far as in him lay, to protect the contractors front such
coercion.

The jury having found the prisoner Guilty, he
was sentenced to two m,,nths' imprisonment and hard
labour, and to enter into sureties to keep the peace tor
five jeers. _

Aii"ther labourer, named Stevens, was al-o convicted
of bring ot.e conc.-toed in a similar attack tuaov the
same day, and upon whom a aitnilar sentence was parsed.

THE QUEEN U. HOLMES AND' HARRXS.
These two persons pleaded Guilty to u rior and assault
committed upon some " navvies" on the 27th of July.
There seemed to be no reason for the assault in ques-
tion, unless it wls done in order to procure th it own
happmess, as the prisoners hail ben heard to d-elare
they should never be happy until they had killed a
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L ,rd I tENMAN, in order to prevent persons indulging
in suck a mode of gaining happiness, sentenced the as-
pirants atter such bliss to two mouths' imprisonm-nt
with hard hbour, and to enter into ttvir own reeogni-
sances to keep the pi-ace for five years.
'l'l,e gran t jury ignored the bill against a young un-
married female f.,r the murder of her infant child, by
,ithliolding from i; proper towns of sustvtiaticr.

OXFORD C1Iti:111 I.—Monmouth, Augu,l 2.
The commission we,. opened here on Sit urifisy. Bu-
siness commenced io-dey. The cause list, to the surer'-e
of every one, pr..sentf d four special and tier-e common
jury can., a. The calend ir contained the names of 34
prisoners, of whom nine were charged with burglary,
two with forgery, two with hi:hway robb,ry, one with
feloniously cutting and wounding, one with stealirg
cattle, one with damaging machinery, one with a name-
less off n,e, and the remainder with larcenies.
Mr. Justice Coleridge ',resided in the Crown Court,
where no case worth mentioning 'lime during the day.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Betere Mr Justice ERLE )
JACKS..N V. PROBYN AND BD,PER.
Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Gray were for the
plaintiff ; Mr. Keating and Mr. Huddleston fir the de-
fendants.
This was an action fit maliciously, and without
probable cause, charging the plaintiff with having
committed a tel iny, and causing him to be tak-n
into custody thereupon. The plaintiff was a carrier
residing at Pontypool, in this county, and also meted
as a coa.mon carrier between tart town and New-
port. The defendants were curriers in a small way
of business in Pontypool. On the 6:h of May last the
plaintiff bought a half harness hide of the defendants
for about 28s. The precise terms of the contract did not
appear. On the following day one of the defendants
found it in the shop of a tradesman in the town. Some
dispute thereupon aro.e, the defendants contending that
it was given to the phintdrio carry to a person at Ping-
welly, and the plaintiff that he bought it absolutely to
take to whom he pleas.d, The plaintiff not paying the
(fete, dents the price of the hide, they began to circulate
statements to his disadv-ntage, aml some time towards
the end io Aiigie.t the plaintiff and Prohyn meeting in
the street, and the old stifle .t of difference being re-
vived, the plaintiff eff-red Probyn the full price agreed
upon with the exception of 91., which he claimed as
commission. This Probyn would not take, anil he went
to the police station and lodged informations against the
plaintiff, and bad him taken into custody and brought
before a maeistrate, who, on examining into the cir
cunistance_ discharged him. Stoper was present when
Probyn lodge d the informations, but took no further
part in the matter. The plaintiff was altogether in cus-
tody only about an hour.
The jury, without hesitation, found a verdict for the
detendaiits.

The third common jury calm was an action on a
covenant of indemnity, which presented no point worth
mentioning.

The first special jury cause wag
DOE DEN. THOMPSON AND PIRIE V DAVIES.
The plaitilitn, tne well known obtiermen of Louder,
sued in this case as the trustees of the Ithymney Iron
Compiny, to recover possession of some land held by
:he &tendon; of them, under a lease containing a cove-
nant against his using his house for the sate of beer or
ferinented liquors, shich covenant he had brulytn, The
demi.e to John Doe. the nominal plaintiff, was laid on
the 25th October, 1846, and, consequently, the torteiture
to be relied on for the plaintiffs must have been incurred
before that period. The action was commenced on the
30th October.

The case fur the plaintiffs was, that the defendant en-
ter,d into posse,sion of the pretnisrli in 1843 under the
and that he proceeded to obtain a license for his
hnuse. and to opt.n it as a beer shop about the 20. h Oc-
tober last.

Mr. WRATELKY (with whom was Mr. Alexander)
for the detenthut. cotnmented in strong language on the
cu ndact of the plaint tf, and said the defenilsot hed
built out of his own pocket nine houses on the laud cora-
pri.ed to I tu. lease; that he was iJnorant o, the covenews
"1 Vie lease as the piaint►ff's attorney would not
give it up to hi.n; and that af,er the 25th Oc-
t9ber• and also after the commencement of the so-
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