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MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Derby, March 15.
CRIMINAL COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice MAuLE.)
James Turner, aged 50, was charged with stealing
twelve pecks of potatoes.
Mr. Wildman prosecuted. This case was only notice-
able from the defence set up.
The potatoes were traced into the possession of the
prisoner, whose account of the way in which ho became
possessed of them was, that on the night of the 31st of
January he heard some noise down stairs, and, upon
going to ascertain what it was, he found the potatoes at
his door, whereupon he took them in to take care of
them.
While the jury were consulting, the prisoner handed
in a leaf of the Bible, stating his defence was contained
in the Ist and 2d verses of the 22d chapter of the Book
of Deuteronomy, as follows:
" 1. Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox nor his ass go
astray and hide thyself from them ; thou shalt in any
case brii.g them again unto thy brother.
" 2. And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if
thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it into thine
own house, and it shall be with the until thy brother
seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to hira again."
The reading of these verses was received by the
auditory with much laughing, and some clapping of
hands.
Mr. Justice Minix said that the Bible was a book
that contained some excellent rules for our conduct in
life, and, according to the way in which they were fol-
lowed, depended our own comfort here and happiness
hereafter, at least thatwas the generally received opinion.
The merry people in court did not seem to know much
about the matter. His Lordship then told the jury the
prisoner desired what he had handed in to be considered
as a portion of his defence. It was certainly pertinent
to the case, and they would consider it along with the
other facts.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
M AIV SIO N- 0 USE.
Mr. Coleman, of the office of the Registrar-General
of Seamen, appeared to prosecute Joseph James Lewis,
an able seaman, under the 7th and Bth Vie., cap. 112,
for having, by deserting the ship to which he belonged,
subjected the captain to considerable expense.
The present was, Mr. Coleman said, the first case in
which it had been thought necessary to proceed against
the defendant upon the clause in the Act which stated
that, "in case any seamen shall desert in parts beyond
the seas, and the master of the ship shall engage a sub-
stitute at a higher rate of wages than that stipulated in
the agreement to be paid to the seaman so deserting, the
owner or master of the ship shall be entitled to recover
from the deserter, by summary proceeding, in the same
manner as penalties are by this Act made recoverable,
any excess of wages or portion thereof which such
owner or master shall pay to such substitute beyond the
amount which would have beeen payable to the deserter,
in case he had duly performed his service pursuant to
his agreement." Of the expense and annoyance to
which masters and owners had been subjected by the
conduct of the seamen they hired, some notion might be
formed by the statement of the fact, that the complain-
ant in the present instance had been obliged to pay for
substitutes upwards of SOL more than his men had en-
gaged to work the vessel for in the voyage from London
to Calcutta and back.
The 61efendant pleaded guilty. Ile had no fault to
find with the ship or the captain, but he had gone ashore
with other sailors belonging to the vessel, and got drunk
and lost his register, and he had no money whatever.
Tho father of the defendant appealed strongly to the
Lord Mayor for a remission of the severity of the law.
Captain Scott admitted that the defendant had behaved
well, except in this particular instance.
The LORD MAYOR—I cannot possibly overlook this
case ; but in consideration of his youth. and the belief
that it is his first offence, I shall sentence him to no
more than imprisonment for one month, if he do not pay
the whole of the difference between the wages he was to
have rsceived and the wages the captain has been
obliged to pay the seaman who worked his vessel home.
MARY LEBO NE.
After the disposal of numerous cases of minor impor-
tance, a man named William Rig(len, about 28 years of
age, and who is a letter-carrier in the employ of the
General Post-office, was placed at the bar, charged under
the following circumstances.
The first witness called was Gilbert Batchelor, who
said—l reside at No. 3, Rock-row, Earl-street, Lisson •
grove. Oa the 24th of January last I and a friend were
shooting in some fields between Kilburn and the Harrow-
road, and at four in the afternoon the prisoner came
from Kilburn-lane across a footpath into a field next to
that in which we were; ho had under his arm something
which was covered over loosely with a handkerchief. He
went round a pond to the edge, where he remained fur
about a quarter of an hour, and I observed him scraping
up some mould with his hands from the top of the bank.
I and my friend continued to watch him, and he soon
afterwards came from the spot alluded to towards us,
carrying in his hand a handkerchief which I believe to
be the same that I, in the first instance, noticed, but ho
had no parcel at that time. lie said to me, " I have just
now seen four snipes" (pointing to the direction he had
come from); and after some further observations my
friend and I left him, and went to look after the snipes,
but could not see any. Witness then stated that he and
his friend repaired to the spot where they first saw the
prisoner, and discovered under some fresh mould a box,
which was found to contain the body of an infant, with
its legs doubled up. The box was produced.
Mr. LONG— W hen did you next see the prisoner?
Witness—Yesterday afternoon I saw him in Portman-
square; I followed him, and noticed that he went down
Eaton-place, South Audley-street. I went to the sta-
tion and obtained the assistrnce of a constable in private
clothes, who returned with me to the place alluded to,
and in au heur and a half from the period of my meeting
him in the square, he was taken into custody by the offi-
cer upon my pointing him out as he was leaving Eaton-
place. I spoke to him about the snipes to which he bad
directed nay attention when in the field, at which he
laughed, and said .1 was altogether mistaken.
Raymond, 89 D, said that the prisoner when being
told that he was charged with being concerned in the
murder of the child, alleged that he knew nothing about
it. Witness added, that from inquiries made by him,
he had ascertained that on the 24th (the day of the dis-
covery of the murder) lie (prisoner) was absent from his
duty as a postman. An inquest had been held upon the
body, and a verdict was returned of " Wilful murder
against sonic person or persons unknown."
Prisoner—t can prove by the inspectors at the office
that I was on duty that day, and they will be able to tell
the time by the book. I know nothing of the case, nor
of the man.
Mr. LONG remanded the prisoner till next Thursday,
at the same time addressing Inspector Wiggins, in whose
district (the Ddivision) the body was found, as to the
necessity of using every exertion with the view of bring-
ing forward other important evidence.
LAMB ETII.
Joseph Burden, a brush and broom-Lanka, and well

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LI/ARcY.
ir 17,
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
WAR-OFOFFICIE' 1848.
12th Light Dragoons—Frederick Arden, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Hollinshead, who retires,
March 17.
14th Light Dragoons —Assistant Surgeon Charles
Hamilton Fasson, from 53d Foot, to be Assistant Sur-
geon, Vico Stone, promoted on the Staff, March 17.
15th Light Dragoons—Cornet Thomas Conolly
Pakeuham, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jen-
nyns, who retires; Gentleman Cadet Thompson Dono-
van, from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Pakenham; March 17.
14th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant John Lawrie,
from half pay 63d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Spence,
appointed Adjutant of a Recruiting District, March 17.
34th Foot—Captain Richard D. Kelly to be Major,
by purchase, vice Mathews, who retires ; Lieutenant
Henry Hugh Oxley to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Kelly ; Ensign Henry Townley Parker to be Lieutenant,
by purelia: e, vice Oxley; David Stewart, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Parker, March 17.
44th Foot—Jenkin Humfray Llewelyn, Gent., to be
Assistant-Surgeon, March 17.
53d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Edward Baily Tuson,
from 2d West India Regiment, to be Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Fasson, appointed to the 14th Light Dragoons,
March 17.
62d Foot—Captain Edward Henry Poyntz, from
half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Donald George
Angus Darroch, who exchanges; Lieutenant John
Burton Forster to be Captain, by purchase, vice Poyntz,
who retires; Ensign Bliss J. Hume to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Forster ; Ussher William Alcock, Gent.,
to be Ensign by purchase, vice Hume, March 17.
63d Foot—John Jeken Cockburn, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Knight, promoted in the
Ceylon Rifle Regiment, March 17.
73d Foot—Assistant Staff Surgeon Thomas Wash-
ington Benjamin Buckler to be Assistant Surgeon, vice
Hodgson, who resigns, March 17.
99th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Mends, from the 98th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Mair, promoted, March 17.
Ist West India Regiment—Quartermaster-Sergeant
Charles Stokely to be Quartermaster, vice Smith, ap-
pointed Paymaster, March 17.
2d West India Regiment—Patrick Joseph Clarke,
Gent. to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Tuson, appointed to
53d Foot, March 17.
3d West India Regiment—Anthony Dickson Home,
Gent., to be Assistant Surgeon, viceConcannon, deceased,
March 17.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment Ensign Godfrey Lyon
Knight, from Gaa Foot, to be First Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Kelson, deceased, March 17.
UNATTAC llED.—LieuteDant William Mair, from 99th
Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, March 17.
BREVET. —Captain Charles Frederick Parkinson, on
half-pay Unattached, Aide-de-Camp to Colonel Love,
to be Major in the Army, Nov. 9, 1846.
HOSPITAL STAFF. —Staff Surgeon of Second Class
William Linton, M.D., to be Staff Surgeon of the First
Class, vice Grant, deceased ; Assistant Surgeon Edward
William Stone, from 14th Light Dragoons, to be Staff
Surgeon of Second Class, vicelLinton, promoted; James
Lewis Holloway, Gent., to be Assistant Surgeon, vice
Buckler, appointed to the 73d Foot, March 17.
MestonaNnuer.—The commission of Captain Eber-
hard de Brandis, upon half-pay of the sth Line
Battalion of the King's German Legion, has
been cancelled from 17th March, 1848, he having been
permitted to receive a commuted allowance in lieu of his
half-pay.
Commission by the Lord• Lieutenant of Worcestershire.
Osman Ricardo, Esq., 11.8., to be Deputy Lieutenant,
Feb. 29.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Durham.
Robert Duncombe Shafto, Esq., M.P., to be Deputy
Lieutenant, March 14.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Denbigh.
John Edward Madocks, Esq., to be Deputy Lieute-
nant; John Price, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Tho-
mas Hughes, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Feb. 1.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire.
2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia
—Thomas Lane, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Lennard,
deceased, March 14.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ilertfordshire.
South Herta Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Thomas
Kemble, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice William Stratton,
resigned, March 1.
ADMIRALTY, Mann 14.
Corps of Royal Marines—Osborne Frederic Charles
Fraser, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant; William
Henry Worthy Bennett, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant;
George Leslie, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant; Charles
Roberts, Gent., to bo Second Lieutenant.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 11.
The Right lion. Sir Thomas Wilde, Knt., Lord Chief
Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at West-
minster, has appointed Charles Thomas Woosnam, of
Newtown, in the county of Montgomery, Gent., to be one
of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknow-
ledgments of deeds to be executed by married women,
under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and re-
coveries and for the substitution of more simple modes
of assurarece, in and for the county of Montgomery,
also in and for the counties of Radnor and Salop.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 13.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Collis, of
Cannock, in the county of Stafford, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Aaron Woolf, furßAniture
KRbrUPTSoker, New-road, Brighton.
N.
Samuel Treacher; farmer, High Wycombe, to surren-
der March 24 and April 28, at two, at the Court,
Basinghall-street. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street; Lovell, South-square, Gray's Inn; Nash and
Son, High Wycombe.
Dalton Martindale, warehouseman, Star-court, Bread-
street, March 31, at one, and May 2, at eleven, at the
Court, Basitaghall-street. Edwards, official assignee,
Frederick's place, Old Jewry; Sharp, Veralam-build-
lags, Gray's Inn.
Henry Prockter, licensed victualler, New-street, Hors-
leydown, March 31, at two, and May 2, at twelve, at the
Court, Basinghall street. Groom, official assignee,
Abchurefelane ; Burn, Great Carter lane, Doctors'-
commons.
Joseph Philip Shaw, upholsterer, Mortimer-street,
Cavendish-square, M irch 27, at half-past one, and May
2, at twelve, at the Court, Basinghall-street. Graham,
official assignee, Coleman- street ; Ash urst and Son,
Cbeapside.
Edward Henry Browne, brickmakcr, Peckham rye,
and:Beaufort-buildings, Strand, March 30, at twelve, and
May 6, at half-past one, at the Court, Basinghali-street.
Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-
street; Hunter, Bloomsbury-street.
James Knights, licensed victualler, Ipswich, March 30,
at half past eleven, and May 6. at half-past twelve, at-
the Court, Besinghall-street. Green, official assignee,
Aldertnaubury ; Kirk, Symond's Inn ; Galsworthy,
Ipswich.
William Ker, cabinet maker, Now Inn-yard, Totten-
ham-court-road, March 30, at eleven, and May 6, at two,
at the Court, Besinghall-street. Follett, official assignee,
Sambrook- court, Basinghall-street; Stoddart, Cursitor-
street, Chancery-lane.
Lenox Nuthall Phillips, licensed victualler, Three
Colt. street, Limehouse, March 29, at one, and May 4, at
eleven, at the Court, Basinghall street. 8011, official
assignee; Symes and Co., Fenchurch-street.
Charles Walker, maltster and licensed victualler,
Birmingham, March 30 and April 29, at eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee,
Birmingham; Suckling, Birmingham.
Samuel Asbury, tile manufacturer, Handford, Staf-
fordshire, March 28 and April 25, at eleven, at the Bir-
mingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee,
Birmingham; Harding, Burslem; Spencer and Rollings,
Birmingham.
John Emery, tailor, Lichfield, March 30 and April
22, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy,
official assignee, Birmingham; Reece, Birmingham.
Joseph Henry Hurley, draper, West Bromwich, Staf-
fordshire, March 25 and April 22, at eleven, at the Bir-
mingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee,
Birmingham ; Marshall, Barnsley; Tarleton, Birmingham.
George Damsell, grocer, Lydbrook, Gloucestershire,
March 31, at eleven, and May 2, at twelve, at the Bristol
District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Bullock,
Newnham; Bevans, Bristol.
Thomas Lurway, licensed victualler, Clifton, Bristol,
March 31 and May 4, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Callender,
Bristol.
James Welch Braddick, brick and tile maker, Silver-
ton
, Devonshire, March 30, at twelve, and April 26, at
eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official
assignee, Exeter; Stogdon, Exeter; Keddell and Co.,
Lime.strcet, London.
James Taylor, clothier, King's-mills, Almondbury,
Yorkshire, March 30, and April 27, at eleven, at the
Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds;
Sudlow and Co., Bedford-row, London; Floyd, Hud-
dersfield.
George Alletson, jun., and John Wilkinson Tebbs,
Calder Dye-works, Wakefield, April 3 and 24, at eleven,
at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee,