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defendant not upon the evidence but upon the issue t
he was a Chartist. If they gave a liberal construction
to the words of the defendant they must acquit him.
The Crown expected their verdict before they were em-
pannelled, they relied upon the disgust which
they naturally, as tradesmen, entertained towards
the proceedings of Socialists and others in France.
Why, Mr. Shaw was no more a Socialist than the At-
torney-General. The word had been introduced to
prejudice the defendant with the jury, because he depre-
cated those notions of division of property which others
entertained. It was not fair, therefore, to have lugged
it into the matter. However, this was an evi-
dence of weakness on the part of the Crown. If
kings were driven from their homes to exile, and if
rebellion existed in other countries, people must talk of
them. Never, since the world began, did the people
complain of grievances that had no existence. People must
talk of them; and were speeches made in our exciting
period to have their wards measured, or the same
rule applied to such addresses us was in use in
the House of Commons, where you must not say Sir
John Jervis, but Mr. Attorney-General, or the Hon. and
Learned Member for Chester.—(Laughter.)
The case had not concluded when we went to press.

NEW COURT.
(Before the CONMON• SERGEANT And Alderman Sir
JOEIN KEY.)
ROBBERY AT THE EARL OF AUCKLAND'S.—Anna
Smith, a very respectable young female in appearance,
se indicted with stealing, on the 30th of November
last, several articles of jewellery, a minature of the pre-
sent Earl of Auckland's father, a quantity of lace, and
Indian work, the property of Frances Harriet Eden, the
sister of the present Earl of Auckland.
It appeared from the evidence adduced that the
prisoner had been in the service of Miss Eden,
as her Lady's-maid, and that upon her leaving
her service, she went to reside with an old lady
named Neville, at Richmond, and took her boxes
there. Suspicion being excited against the pri-
soner, her boxes were searched, and the property laid.
in the indictment found in them. That property was
sworn by Mrs. Wright, the housekeeper of the Earl of
Auckland, to belong to Miss Eden.
Mr. CLARKSON defended the prisoner, and stated that
she had informed him that the property had been given
to her by Miss Eden. The Learned Counsel remarked
strongly on the course adopted by the prosecutor in not
bringing forward Miss Eden, and handed up a letter
from that lady to the prisoner, in which she stated that
she had no complaints to make against her when she left
her service. _ _ .

Several persons gave the prisoner an excellent cha-

ratter.
The COMMON SERGEANT summed up, observing that
if the prisoner intended to set up the defence that the
property was given to her by Miss Eden, she ought to
have produced that lady in Court to prove the fact.
The jury Acquitted the prisoner, stating that they
thought Miss Eden ought to have been in attendance.
The COMMON SERGEANT—She would have been a
great goose if she had.
The prisoner was again indicted with stealing 31
towels, the property of the Earl of Derby. This property
was found in the prisoner's boxes. The housekeeper of
the Earl of Derby proved the towels to be the Earl's
property, and stated that Miss Eden was in the habit of
visiting at Knowsley, the seat of the Earl of Derby, and
was upon one occasion attended by the prisoner. The
officer who took the prisoner into custody stated that
she told him that she had bought the towels eight years
ago from a person of the name of Fletcher.
Mr. PARRY addressed the jury for the prisoner, in the
course of which he remarked strongly upon the impro-
priety of a judge making the observations the Learned
Common Sergeant had done to the jury in the last
case when they had delivered their verdict, especially
when there was another indictment against the prisoner.
Such observations were most improper, and likely to
prejudice the case of any prisoner.
The COMMON SERGEANT summed up, in the course
of which he stated that he had made the observations
he had :done not for the purpose of disparaging the
verdict of the jury, but in order to justify the magistrate
who had committed the prisoner.
The jury, after a long consultation, found the prisoner
Guilty Land,

The COMMON SERGEANT sentenced ber to seven years'

transportation.
The mother of the prisoner, who was in court, upon
hearing the sentence, immediately fell into hysterics, and
was carried insensible from the court.

TURKEY.

Letters from Smyrna of the 2d of September state
that the cholera was making great ravages, but it was
hoped that it had passed its culminating point. The
deaths which for some days amounted to upwards
of 100 daily, came down to the 29th to between
thirty and forty, and the last accounts were satis-
factory. At Magnesia, Cassaba, Salonica, and other
places, the ravages of the epidemic were also ♦ery
great. A letter from Salonica of the 22d of August
says—
" The cholera is proceeding here in a frightful man-
ner. Yesterday between 100 and 110 bodies were car-
ried to the cemetery. For several days past the greatest
mortality reigns among the Jews and Greeks. The
deaths among them have beeh forty, fifty, and even
as high as sixty per day. Yesterday and the
(lag before it was the Turkish and Armenian
quarters which suffered the most. There are also
several Europeans dead, but there are no English among
them. The whole of the family of M. Toselli, the
lgian Consul, have been attacked. Two of the
daughters are dead, another has had a narrow escape,
but is recovering, and Madame Toselli is in great danger.
The panic is incredible. Fathers run away from their
children, and children from their parents, to escape the
dreadful contagion. Among the Jews and Greeks the
dead bodies have in many cases been left for 30 or
40 hours unburied. The English, French, Austrian,
Sardinian, Spanish, and Dutch Consuls have not quitted
their posts, thogh great numbers of the inhabitants
have fled. At Larissa, Serres, and Bitalia, the cholera
is al:o raging with great intensity, and great umbers
are dying."

Letters from Beyrouth, of the 25th of August,
state that the cholera is decimating the inhabitants of
Aleppo, Damascus, &c.

TIIE HOP-PICKING.—This county is just now suf-
fering its annual Irish invasion ; thousands of shoeless,
shirtless, almost clotheless poor creatures have been
swarming about during the past week, either seeking
employment, or besieging the doors of the union-houses
for casual relief. Placards, we understand, are posted
in some parts of London saying that hop-pickers are
wanted iu Kent ; the consequence is there are hundreds
more than can get work. At Farleigh alone we hear
that there are full 500 half-starved creatures whom it will

be impossible to employ. At Coxheath union, on Satur-
day night, there was a mob of from 500 to 800, of all
ages, clamorous for admission, and threatening an entry
by force if denied. The difficulty of providing any sort
of accommodation for such a host of vagrants may be
imagined, and the unavoidable delay enraged them to
such a degree that apprehensions were felt for the result.
A messes 4er was sent to the barracks at Maidstone, with
information of this state of things, and the troops were

kept in readiness to turn out at 'a
minute's notice: Hap-
pily they were not required. In consequence of the
alarm caused by these circumstances, and also by several
attacks on individuals and plunder of property, applica-
tion was made at a special meeting of the magistrates of
the district, at the Toven-hall, Maidstone, yesterday, to
adopt measures for the due protection of the public.
when a number of persons recommended by the parish
officers were sworn in as special constables for the neigh-
bouring parishes.—Maidstone Journal of yesterday.
STATE OF TRADE.—MANCHESTER.—The remark-
ably fine weather has as yet failed to produce any fa-
vourable reaction in our market. During the week trade
has been remarkably dull, and yesterday no disposition
to operate was manifested on the part of buyers. Fears
are entertained that the season will have passed away
for large shipments to the Continent before confidence is
restored. The feeling generally is more gloomy than
last week. Prices cannot be quoted as quite so firm;
for some goods lower prices have been taken. The ac-
counts of the forthcoming crop of cotton being so very
favourable, that article has given way in Liverpool. As
a consequence our buyers here were cautious. On the
w hole very little business has been done. Spinners are
talking of returning to short time when their present
engagements are completed. The home trade is more
satisfactory than the foreign, and during this month and
next a fair return is looked for. The return of the state
of employment is not so favourable as last week. There
are 513 tewer hands at present in work, a decrease of
510 working full time, and of those working short time
57. Last week the total number at work was 41,164;
this week it is only 40,631. Working full time last week
38,539; this week 37,989. Short time last week 2,605;
this week 2,682.
THE ROYAL GENERAL ANNUITY SOCIETY.—Yet..
terday evening a meeting of the board of directors of
this institution was held at their offices in Basinghall-
street, City, for general business. The report congratu-
lated the subscribers on the steady progress which was
being made, there being at present ten male and nine-
teen female annuitants; the former receiving 21. 55., and
the latter 1/. 10s. per month. These persons comprise
decayed merchants, bankers, professional men, trades-
men, master manufacturers, and their widows, and single
females, daughters of persons of such classes. The
directors also bad the pleasure to state that the former
rule, limiting the benefits of this important charity
within twenty miles, was altered, leaving it open to ap-
plicants from all parts of the kingdom. The receipts
for the past year were 1,396/. 3s. 2d.; the expenditure
left a balance of only SOL
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COACH ACCIDENT AT ROTIIERIIAM.—On Tuesday
an alarming accident happened on Rotherham bridge
by the upsetting of the old Pelham coach, which runs
between the Masbro' Railway station and Gainsbo-
rough. The coach, with a good many passengers, left
the station us usual, in the afternoon, on the waive( of
certain trains, and on reaching the declivity of Rother-
ham bridge one of the off wheels came off, in conse-
quence of which the coach capsized. The passengers
were of course much alarmed, and several were wore or
less hurt, but all were able to proceed with the coach as
soon as it had been righted, with the exception of a
woman with an infect, who had been violently thrown
from the top of the coach, and, nt'gh eting her own
safety fur the sake of that of her child, had suitained
considerable injury. The persons inside the coach
escaped entirely unhurt.—Sheuield Times,