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PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
MONDAY, JULY 17.

RUM, &c., DUTIES.—(IN THE COMMITTEE.)

Motion made, and Question proposed. " That in lieu of
the Duties now chargeable, &c.:"—Whereupon Motion
made, and question put, " That the Chairman do leave the
Chair." The Committee divided :
MINORITY—AYES, 75.
Anstey, Thomas Fox, Richard M. 11PG regor, John:
Archdall, Captain Fuller, A. E. Manners, Lord G.
italdock, E. 11. Galway, Viscount Mastermait„rohn
Bateson, T. Gaskell, J. K.: 3f (nisei!, William
Bentinck, Lord G. Gordon, Admiral Morgan, O.
II Is ec iri
et istriocrkd, ,
)v Lordua 11. Gore,
Granby,Go r e,ll .
B.
MarquisO of Newdegate„ N.
Napier, Joseph
Bourke, R. S. Greene, John .1 Noel, G. J,
Bouverie, E. P. Grogan, Edward Norreys, Sir D.
Nugent, Lord Halsey, T. I'. O'Brien, Sir Lucius
iltlrroelandriied:,e, 11. Richard Gwyn, Bowel
Buller, Sir J. Y. Hastie, Alexander O'Connell, M. J.
Chichester, Lord J. Henley, J. W. Reynolds, John
Cole, Hon. 11. A. Herbert, H. A. Sadleir, John
Cowan, Charles Hildyard, T. H. Scott, F.
Crawford, W. S. Hodgson, W. N. Scully, Francis
Devcreux, John T. Hood, Sir A. Somerset, Captain
Dick, Quintin Hudson, 0. Spooner, Richard
Disraeli, B. Ingestre, Viscount Sturt, 11. G.
Duncan, George Jones, Captain Sullivan, Michael
Dunne, F. I'. Keogh, William Tyrrell, Sirl.T. T.
Emlyn, Viscount Knox, Colonel Wawn, J T.
Farnham, E. 11 Lascelles, E. Wodehouse,E.
Ferrer, James Lockhart, W. TELLERS.
Ferguson, Sir R. Lowther, lion. Col. Fagan, William
Floycr, John M'Cullagli, W. T. Forbes, William

MAJORITY-NOES, 168.
Abdy, T. N. Frewen, C. H. Mostyn, E.
Adana, Sir T. D. Gladstone, W. E. Ogle, S. C.
Adair, R. Shaft° Glyn,yi. C. Paget, Lord Clarence
Anson, Colonel Godson,'Oliehard Paget, Lord George
Anson, Viscount Goulharn, llenry Palmerston, Viscount
Armstrong, Sir A. Graham, Sir James Parker, John
Armstrong, It. B. Greene, Thomas Patten, J. W.
Baines, M. T. Grenfel , Charles W. Pechell, Captain
Barkly, Henry Grey, Sir George Pennant, Colonel
Baring, Sir F. 'f. G ty, R. W. Perfect, R.
Bellew, R. M. (loivenor, Lord R. Pigott, Francis
Itenbow4John hall, Sir B. Pilkington, James
Berkeley, Captain Hallyburton, Lord _ Pinney, W.
Berkeley, Craven Ilastie, Archibald Pugh, David
Birch, sir Thomas Hawes, Benjamin Pusey, I'.
Bowring, Dr. Hay, Lord J. Raphael, Alexander
Boyd, John Ilayter, W. G. Reid. Colonel
Boyle, Colonel Ileadlam, Thomas Repton, G. W.
Brocklehurst, John llenry, Alexander Ricardo, Osman
Brockman, E. D. Ilervey, Lord A. Rice, E. R.
Brotherton, J. Heywood, James Robartes, T. J.
Brown, W. Hohhouse, Sir John Romilly, Sir John
Browne, R. 1). llohhouse, T. B. Rumbold, C. E.
Buller, Charles Hodges, T. L. Russell, Lord John
Butler, P. S. Ilogg, Sir J. W. Russell, F. C.
Cardwell. Edward Howard, C. W. Rutherford, A.
Carew,,,W. P. Howard, J. K.
Sanders,
Cavendish, C. C. Howard, P. 11.
Cavendish, W. G. Howard, Sir R.
Childers,:J. W. Hutt, William
Clay, James Inglis, Sir It. Simeon, John
Clifford, Henry M. Jervis, Sir John Somerville, Sir W.
Colebrooke, Sir T. Johnstone, Sir J Spearman, 11. J.
Compton. 11. C.
Jolliffe, Sir W. H. Talbot, C. R.
Cowper, W. F. Kershaw, James Thicknesse, It. A.
Cr Craig, W. . Labouehere, Henry Thompson, Colonel
Dalrymple, Captain Lacy, Henry C. sSSehh3ee 'lb, eu
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Thornely, T.
'Millwood, G. 11. Langston, J. H.
Davie, Sir Henry Laseelles, W. S. ' TTONINI-ennelalecly,lejt r
,b: L
John
Deedes, W. Legh, G. C. Townley, R. G.
Denison, J. E. Lemon, Sir Charles Turner, Edmund
D'Eyncourt, T. Lewis, G. C. Turner, G. J.
Duckworth, Sir J. Lindsay, Colonel Trite, Colonel
Duncuft, John Littleton, E. R. Verney Sir 11.
Dundas, Admiral Lockhart, A. E. Vivian, J. 11.
Dundas, Sir D. Mackinnon, W. Ward, 11. G.
East, Sir J. B. M'Taggart, Sir J. Willcox, Brodie
Ebrington, Viscount 2ltarsM.ll, J. p. Williams, John
Egerton, Sir I'. .Matheson, A. Wilson, James
Elliot, John E. Matheson, Colonel Wilier', Matthew
Easton, Earl Maule, Fox Wood, Sir Charles
Evans, Sir De Lacy Miles, P. W. S. Wood, W. P.
Fitzgerald, W. It. Milner, W. M.
Fitzrwy, Henry Mitchell, A. T.
Foley, J. 11. Moody, C. A.
Fortescue, J. W.
Freestun, Colonel Morris, David Rich, Henry
Morpeth, Viscount TNNV7Yrnivdedli:s
James
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CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.—The following is an official
list of pensions granted between the 20:.h day of June,
1847, and the 20th day of June, 1848, and charged upon
the Civil List (pursuant to Act 1, Vict., cap. 2):—Chria-
tian M'Caskill and Jessie M'Caskill, 601. each, " Addi-
tional pension. In consideration of the gallant conduct
of their brother, the late John M'Caskill, and his death
on the field of battle. In trust to Lachlan Martin Mathe-
son, Esq , and Rev. Alex. Macgregor."--Ilev. Theobald
Mathew, 3001. In consideration of his meritorious exer-
tions to promote temperance in Ireland.—Leigh Hunt,
Erg., 2001. In consideration of his distinguished lite-
rary talents.—Grace Anne Sirnson, Eliza Grace Pratt,
Margaret Parker, Helen Jemims, and Francis Agnes
Chalmers, 501.; widow and daughter (each 251.) of the
late Rev. Dr. Chalmers. In consideration of his piety,
eloquence, and learning. In trust to the Rev. Dr. Win.
Hanna and Thomas Chalmers, Esq.—Frances Freeling
Hood and Thomas Hood, 501. each. Children of the
late Thomas Hood. In consideration of the literary
merits of their father. In trust to William Elliott,
M.D., David Salornons, Esq., and Thomas Reseigh._
Frances Christie and Mary Murray Christie, 25/. each.
Joseph Bell. In
late father in the
In consideration of the services of their father, the late
Sir Archibald Christie. In trust to Captain Fred. Gordon
Christie and Arthur Forbes, Esq.—George
Newport,
RMS., 1001. In consideration of his researches and dis-
coveries in comparative anatomy and physiology.—Mar-
garet Morrice Bell and Caroline Bell, 50/, each,
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and Thomas
501.,masGeorge Shaw, Esq.—
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of General
Frederick Maitland. In consideration of his distin.
guished military services. In trust to Captain Frederick
Thomas Maitland and Thomas Cotherton Garth, Esq.
BRIGHTON, SATURDAY.--'About three this morn-
ing a most terrific storm of thunder and lightning burst
over this town, awakening the:inhabitants almost univer-
sally from their slumbers. At the first outburst the
whole horizan was one light. In a few minutes, how-
ever, the whole of the sky became black, and flashes of
lightning and claps of thunder alternated with each other
in a manner fearfully awful. Although no damage was
done in the town, the neighbourhood was not so fortu-
nate. In the valley on the north side of the South
Downs the storm was of greater violence than ever be-
fore rernemnbered. At llama's Farm, near Stone Pound
Gate, in the parish of Hurstpierpont, a barn was struck
and wag soon reduced to ashes, with all its
C. THE
conteats, a horse I
Ham's Farm • • an( a
calf were burned to death. is in the occu
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an adjoining out-building
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DUKE OF ATIIOL.---:
rhe judgment in this case, which
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preliminary point of title,
merely involves the was given
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shall bo
judgmnent, made
the following order:—.. The Lord Ordinary having
heard counsel for the parties upon the preliminary de-
fenceotinieFprriidnacylpibeys Lo,n)rdwhlivcohryb.e
founded
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super-
the precise shape and extent of the pursuers' averments,
when the record comes to be adjusted, with a view to
closing the same; in the meanwhile appoints a record to
s des consideration sfiodrei rha ti ino nt he
thereof,aellduenr CI I
be prepared on the whole case in common form; and to
that effect appoints the pursuers to give in a condescen-
dence of the (acts which they aver and offer to prove in
support of their summons, by the first box-day in the
ensuing vacation; and the defender to give in answers
to the same by the third sederunt day of the winter
session."—Scotsman.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CIRCUIT.--Hertford, July 17.
(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)
CRAWLEY V. HICKSON.
This was an action for breach of promise of marriage.
Sergeant Shee and Mr. Hawkins were for the plaintiff;
and Mr. Montagu Chambers for the defendant.
Sergeant SHEE, on opening the case, said, the action
was brought to recover compensation for one of the most
grievous injuries that could be inflicted upon a woman—
the breach of a solemn promise of marriage, and it was
peculiarly aggravated when it was accompanied, as in
this instance, by the seduction of the injured party. He
then proceeded to state that the plaintiff was the daughter
of a respectable farmer at Cadwell, on the borders of
Hertfordshire, and the defendant was a cattle-dealer, liv-
ing at Gosmore, a village three or four miles from the plain-
tiff's father's farm. The defendant had been in the habit
of going to the farm occupied by the plaintiff's father
upon business during the commencement of the year
1846, and he very soon began to pay marked attention
to the plaintiff, and in :the month of June of that year
he became a frequent visitor, and was received as the
acknowledged suitor of the plaintiff. The visits were
continued constantly up to January, 1847, when, no doubt
in consequence of an intimation that was made to him by
the plaintiff as to her condition, the defendant all at once
discontinued coming to the farm. During the intimacy
that had existcd the defendant had frequently expressed
his intention to marry the plaintiff, both to her father
and her brother, and although the sudden discontinuance
of his visits occasioned some surprise, yet, as the whole
extent of his misconduct was not then known, no notice
was taken of it, but in the mouth of July following
the family of the plaintiff was thrown into consterna-
tion by the plaintiff being suddenly delivered of a
child, of which it turned out the defendant was the
father. Soon after this took place the defendant
renewed his visits, and frequently attempted to join the
society of the plaintiff, but he never renewed his ho-
nourable offer of marriage, and it appeared pretty clear
that his object at that time was to endeavour to renew
the dishonourable connexion that had subsisted between
them, and that he had no thought of making her his
wife. The family of the plaintiff, finding the position
of affairs, endeavoured to ascertain from the defendant
whether he had any intention of performing the solemn
obligation he had undertaken, and after making excuses
on the ground that his mother objected to the marriage,
he at length flatly refused to marry the plaintiff, and she
had in consequence been compelled to bring the present
action. The Learned Sergeant said that he could not
find in the case any circumstances to justify this pro-
ceeding on the part of the defendant. The young woman
was as respectable by her position in life as the de-
fendant himself'. Their ages, too, were not at all
incompatible with each other, the defendant being
forty-eight, and the plaintiff thirty-five ; and it ap-
peared that, without any real cause for so doing,
the defendant had wantonly cast shame and dis-
grace upon the plaintiff, and having effected her ruin,
he now refused to perform the promise of marriage
which, no doubt, alone had induced her to consent to his
wishes. He did not know what excuse would be offered
on behalf of the defendant on this occasion, but with
regard to the assertion made by him when he was first
appealed to by the family, that his mother would not
allow him to marry the plaintiff, it was perfectly ridi-
culous. The defendant was not a child; he was a man
of mature age, and quite competent to decide upon what
was proper to be done in such a matter, and having so-
lemnly promised to marry the plaintiff, it was absurd for
him to decline to perform it on the ground that his mo-
ther would not allow him to do so. The Learned Ser-
geant, in conclusion, said it would be unnecessary for
him to dilate upon the pain and misery that had been cast
upon the plaintiff by the conduct of the defendant; but
he said he was sure that when the jury had heard all the
facts, they would give such an amount of damages as
would to some extent, at all events, afford her a compen-
sation for the wrong she had suffered. The following
evidence was then adduced:—
occupied a small farm at Cadwell, in Bedfordshire. In
sister,G eorga en
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the year 1846, the family consisted of his sister Hannah,
the plaintiff, his father and mother, witness, and a fe-
male servant. He knew the defendant, who occupied
some land at Gosmore, about four miles from their farm,
and he was also a cattle dealer. A short time prior to
Whitsuntide, 1846, the defendant was in the habit of
coming to their farm on matters of business, and very
soon afterwards he began paying attentions to his sister.
At first ho used to come only once a week, in the even-
ing, to visit her, but he soon came oftener, and he was
frequently with her alone on Sunday mornings while
her father and mother were at chapel, and witness
was engaged about the farm. He was considered
to be courting the plaintiff all this time, and about
a week before Christmas, when all the family were
present, he said that he and Hannah were going
to bo married, and he asked witness what he in-
tended to make him a present of upon the occa-
sion. Witness told him that he could not afford
to give him anything, and the same question and answer
were repeated several times. Witness at length asked
the defendant if he meant what he said, and ho replied
that he did, and witness then said, if they got married,
and should want a cradle, he would make him a present
of one.—(A laugh.) The defendant replied that he
would have something better than that, and witness then
said that if he was determined to marry, what would he
like to have? The defendant replied that he should
like to have a very handsome sofa, and witness said he
would give him one when he was married. The court-
ship went on until Christmas, rind shortly after that
period the defendant discontinued corning to the farm
to visit his sister. On the Bth of Jauuary, 1847, he met
the defendant in Hitchin-market. Ile came up to him,
and complained of being very ill, and said that he and
Hannah were going to be married, but that his mother
and sister would not let him marrry Hannah, and that
they were quite distracted at the thought of his doing so.
Mr. HAwKiNs—Did he say anything else upon
that occasion ? Witness—Yes. Ho said ho knew
the disappointment would bo the death of him, but that
when he died be would b sure to leave all his property
to Ilannali.—(Laughter.)
Examination continued—Ho met the defendant again
on the following market day, and he told him ho was no
better.—(Renewed laughter.) He said his heart was
very bad—he wanted to marry Hannah, but his mother
would not let him.—(Laughter.)
Mr. HawKiNs—How old ,is defendant? Witness—
_

Nearly fifty.—(Renewed laughter.)
Mr. ElAwatNs —And so he said his mother would net
let him get n.arried? Perhaps she thought he was not
old enough.—(Laughter.) Witness—He only said that
she would not let him, and he told me his heart was .so
bad that he thought some day he should drop down
dead.—(Renewed laughter.)
Examination continutd—Witness's sister was deli-
vered of a child on the 30th of July, 1847, and in the
September the defendant came to the house and at-
tempted to renew his intimacy with the plaintiff, but as
he said nothing about marrying her, the family would
nut allow him to come to the house. Ho saw the de-
fendant a short time atter the child was born, at market,
and asked him if he intended to fulfil his promise of
marriage, when he replied that he should never marry,
because he was forty-eight years of age, and ho should
not live to see his family brought up. itness told him
he was a very false man for acting as he had done to his
sister, and he said it was a bad job, but it could not be
helped. In October the defendant came to his father's
and canted his sister to let him have the child, but wit-
ness refused to have any communication with him, and
ordered him out of the house. Upon another occasion
he heard the defendant say that his sister might go to
law with him if she pleased, but he did not care, for he
had gut more money than all of their family put toge-
ther. The defendant farmed some land, and he iad
often heard him talk of buying land, and also heard him
say that he had money in the Bank of England.
Cross .examined—The defendant lived with his mother
who is an aged woman, and a sister, who is older than
himself, and he believed they were both dependent upon
him. According to his account they were both dis-
tracted when they heard of his intended marriage. His
sister was still living with them. Did not know how
much land the defendant occupied.
William Crawley, the father of the plaintiff, spoke to
the circumstances of the courtship between his daughter
and the defendant, and said that in September, 1846, the
defendant asked him what ho intended to give his
daughter when they married, and witness replied,“ Times
goes so hard with us farmers that we must not think of
portioning our daughters."—(A laugh.)
Mary Abbess proved that after the birth of the child
the defendant made several presents of clothes for the
child to the mother, and also on some occasions gave her
money.

Some other evidence was adduced, which showed that
the defendant was possessed of two small copyhold es-
tates, comprising about ten acres, and that he was as-
sessed at 30/. to the poor rate of his parish.
Mr. CHAMBERS then addressed the jury for the de-
fendant, and said, that after the evidence which had been
adduced, he should not attempt to deny that the de-
fendant had made a promise of marriage and that he had
not performed it, and their verdict must consequently
be against him, the only question that remained being
the amount of damages to which the plaintiff was en-
titled. In order to arrive at the proper conclusion upon
this point it would be necessary for them to look at all
the circumstances of the case, and see what real injury
the plaintiff had sustained. He reminded them that the
circumstance of the plaintiff having had a child ought
not to have any weight upon their decision on the pre-
sent occasion. The defendant would still be amenable
for that under another form of action, and all they had
to do on the present occasion was to assess the damages
the plaintiff had sustained by reason of the defendant
not having kept his promise to marry her. What were
the facts of the case? Here was a poor man, with two
little copyhold estates, having a mother and a sister
entirely dependent upon him, and if the plaintiff had
been married to him, she and her children must
also have been dependent upon his small resources,
and therefore ho submitted the prospect was anything
but a flattering one, and, so far as the marriage was
concerned, it appeared to him that the plaintiff had sus-
tained very little loss by not contracting such a mar-
riage. It appeared pretty clear that the plaintiff herself
looked at the matter in this light, for she did not seem
to have made any complaint, and was living with her
s
family just the same as before and he expressed_
to..
la
opinion that if some attorney had not interfered and
the parties that there was a ground of action, the jury
would never have heard of this cause. The Learned
Counsel then called the attention of the jury to
difference
of the parties, and said there was a very great
between such a case as this, where complainingthea.of
young
party was a:woman of mature ag%
withtn- by a
prac-
girl whose unctions had been trifled
tised seducer, and he expressed his
think that a very
all the circumstances the jury would
the justice
moderate amount of damages would satisfy
of the case. • fly addressed the jury,
The CHIEF BARON having brae
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k they returned a verdict for the opinion that under

NORFOLK ClRCUlT—Bedford, July 17.
The business of the assizes for the courav of Bedford
commenced this morning before Mr. Baron Parke in the
Nisi Prius Court, and Mr. Justice Motile in the Crown
Court. The civil business consisted of two causes, one
of which was referred, while the other, after giving rise
to a question of some nicety touching the power of a
judge at Nisi Prius to amend the record, was disposed of
by the defendant submitting to a verdict. The calendar
contains the names of seven prisoners, of whom one is
charged with arson, ono with infanticide, one with rape,
and the rest with larceny.

CROWN COURT—(Before Mr. Justice MAtJLE.)
William Francis Gilbert was indicted for having stolen
two pieces of deal, two pieces of wood, forty pounds of
lead piping, and 200 tiles, the property of the Duke of
Bedford. _

Mr. O'Malley and Mr. Tozer appeared for the prose-
cution ; Mr. Wells and Mr. Fitzpatrick defended the
prisoner.
The prisoner has been for twenty-five years a tenant
of the Duke of Bedford, occupying two farms, one called
the Hormemoor Farm, and the other the Hundreds; the
former of which has been in the occupation of some
member of the prisoner's family for nearly forty years.
In the month of October last the buildings and stock on
the Horsemoor Farm, which was insured in the sum of
1,0001, were consumed by fire, and damage done to the
amount of nearly 1,200/. Immediately after the fire
measures were taken by the Duke of Bedford's agents
for restoring the buildings, and a large quantity of mate-
rials was removed from the stores at Woburn for that
purpose. It was a portion of these materials which the
prisoner was charged with taking.
For the defence it was urged that the taking had been
for the purpose of using the wood for the benefit of the
prosecutor, and under a well-grounded belief that neither
the prosecutor nor his agents would disapprove of it. A
great number of witnesses was called, end deposed to
the high character of the prisoner, and to his having
filled with credit, and for a long time, the chief parochial
offices.
The prisoner was acquitted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-ROUSE.

Jane Gavin was brought before the Lord Mayor, upon
the charge of having attempted to extort money from a
gentleman engaged in commercial pursuits, and resident
in the City.
The prisoner, it appeared, called with a child in her
arms, at the complainant's counting-house, on Saturday,
and asked for a gentleman who had formerly been there.
Upon being told that he had gone away, she said " Oh,
faith, then you will do as well," and handed to the come
plainant a paper, soliciting subscriptions for a person
afflicted with sore eyes. Believing that he had been
humbugged by a former visitor who carried the very
same same baby, he refused to take the peti-
tion into his " humane consideration," and told her
his candid opinion of her character and trade. When
the door was shut in her face she retired for a little
while, but it was only that she might prepare herself
for a more vigorous attempt upon his pocket. Finding
that there was more difficulty in gaining admittance
on her second application, she cried out, " Oh, upon
my soul, if you don't let me in, I'll leave your child
at the door, for you know as well as I do that it's your
own."—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—Did you ever see the woman be-
fore? Complainant—Never; and when I told her she
was an impudent impostor, she said " You -- it's
your own, and every one says its like you." I then
called a policeman, and gave her into custody. The
prisoner's husband, when she was deposited in the Stn-
non-house, called to beg for her liberation, and said she
had made the false charge when she was lushy (in-
toxicated).
The LonD MAYOR—Is her husband here? The pri-
soner—lle's no husband of mine. He's only a man that
lives with me.

The LURD MAYOR—She is a most gross and dan-
gerous impostor, and I shall put her out of the way of
doing much mischief for some time. Prisoner, you must
go to Bridewell for six weeks to hard labour.
BO W-STREET.
Three young men, named John Bidwell, John .IVold,
and William Follett Lynne, clerks employed in the Fo-
reign-office, Downing-street, were placed at the bar be-
fore Mr. Hail, the first being charged with assaulting a
constable of the B division, and the others with dis-
orderly conduct, and obstructing the officer in the exe-
cution of his duty.

Constable Golf, 50 B, stated that he was on duty
about one o'clock on Sunday morning in Cockspur-
street, where he saw the prisoners, in company with
several others, passing, and observing a young man
commit a nuisance at the hall-door of a silversmith in
Warwick-street, he remonstrated with him, and took
hold of him for the purpose of removing him, when the
prisoner Nold laid hold of him by the collar in such a
manner as to nearly choke him, and in colisrquence Of
the interference of the others, who kept shoving along,
and otherwise obstructing him, the prisoner effected his
escape. The prisoner Bidwell then struck him several
times on the hat with his stick; and constable 87 having
come up, he gave Bidwell into charge, while he obtained
the assistance of a third constable to take the others to
the station.

Mr. Snell, a solicitor, said he was instructed to admit
the assault upon the constable, contending that the ob-
struction was caused by the harsh conduct of the officer
towards the young man he had in custody.
Mr. HALL ordered each to pay a fine of Si., or a
month's imprisonment. The tines were immediately
paid and the prisoners discharged.
MARYLEBONE.
John _Newman, a labourer, aged 50, was charged bi -
fore Mr. Broughton with having caused the death of
Anne Fitzpatrick, a woman with whom he bud been cc-
habiting as his wife.
From the evidence adduced it appeared that between
twelve and one o'clock that morning policeman 132 I),
while on duty at Lower-place, Will, sden, was attracted
by the screams of the deceased. He immediately ran to
the bank of the canal and saw the woman Fitzpatrick in
the water. She struggled for some minutes to keep her-
self afloat, but soon sunk and was drowned. The &-
ceased was heard to say to the prisoner, who was stand-
ing upon the bank of the canal while she was struggling
in the water, " You rogue, Newman, you have done for
me!'' The man and woman had been noticed quarrelling
shortly before, adjacent to the canal.
In his defence, prisoner said deceased threw herself
into the water.—Remanded for a week.

SUlClDE.—Yesterday, an inquiry was gone into
before Mr. W. Carter, at the Swan Hotel, Stockwell,
touching the death of Mr. John Thomas Perkins, agt d
42 years, a gentleman well known in the scientific world,
who destroyed himself on Friday evening last at his pri-
vate residence, No. 20, Stockwell-place, South Lambeth.
Elizabeth Sunderland stated that the deceased was her
uncle. Ile was a widower, and for some time past wit-
ness had observed a marked change in his manner.
Witness acted as housekeeper to the deceased, who

carried on un extensive business at 39 I)udley•street,
Soho, as a fancy card manufacturer. Deceased was
likewise the inventor of a machine for cutting paper in

large quantities, for which he had obtained a patent, but
roin sera© cause this had proved a failure, ultimately

ending in a loss of 3,000.1. He had since invented
another machine for suddenly stopping railway trains,
which several gentlemen of celebrity had seen and ap-
proved of, but owing to his heavy losses he was unable
to carry it out. On Friday last the [deceased came
home from his place of business very low spirited.
About nine o'clock witness was called by deceased, whom
she found standing at the street door. He shook hands
with witness, and afterwards kissed his son. They re-
tired to the front parlour, and soon after witness went

into the room, and discovered the deceased lying on the
floor insensible. A bottle and a wineglass were on the
table and on examining the former it ►vas labelled" lau-

danum—poison." A surgeon was called in immediately,
but deceased expired the following morning at five
o'clock. Other witnesses having been examined, the
jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity."
APPREHENSION OF DR. 111`DOUALL. ASHTON-
UNDER-LINE. JULY 16.—0 n Sunday morning, at four
o'clock, Mr. R. Newton, the superintendent of police in
this town, together with Inspectors Maiden, Dalgleish,
and other constables, proceeded in a body to the Odd
Fellows' Arms, kept by Mr. G. Downes, in Old-street,
where they found Peter Murray M‘Dousll, the Chartist
lecturer, in bed. He was immediately taken into
custody on a charge of sedition, and attending an unlaw-
ful meeting on Monday, the 10th inst. Ile was con-
veyed to the Ashton police-office, where he at present
remains. During the whole of Sunday the Town-hall
was surrounded by Chartists, standing in groups in the
market-place. Large numbers of the police kept pos-
session of the Town-hall. IM`Douall had addressed a
public meeting the previous evening at Staleybridge,
which was attended by the Ashton " National Guards"
in military order. Both the reporters and police were
prohibited from going into the meeting. room. The
same course was adopted at the meeting held by M'Douall
at Ashton on the 10th inst. We have reason to believe
that many of those calling themselves members of the
" National Guards" went armed with pikes, pistols, &c.,
to both the meetings. Thoy are said to number upwards
of 1,000 in Ashton alone. Much excitement prevails
amongst the Chartist body, owing to M'Douall being
arrested.
THE UNFORTUNATE CIPHER.—A merchant at
Marseilles, having a business correspondent on thee Afr-
ican coast, bethought him, that as some members of
his family had shown a partiality for monkeys,eys,
he might
brs
gratify them by sending for one or two specimens of these
h
animals from Africa. Accordingly wrote
spondent to procure two or three of the fines.
harnseesilles. Chance
to his corre-
.A and most ad-
mired species, and transmit them to
so ordered it that the merchant, in putting down the ou (in
English or) between the figures 2 and 3, made the o
very prominent, while the u remained scarcely visible.
Some months afterwards a ship porter cams in all haste
to the old merchant, and announced. to him that his me-
nagerie had arrived. " Menagery ! cried tho merchant.
" Yes, a menagery, a whole, cargo of monkeys had
arrived to his consignment! "rhe merchant could
scarcely credit the announcement, until the letter of his
correspondent was put into his hands. In that epistle the
African negotiant, a man of the most uncompromising cx.
actitude, excused himself very earnestly for not havir.
been able, with all his exertions, to procure more than 1 64,)
monkeys, in place of the 203 ordered, but promised, as soon
as possible, to fulfil the entire demand. The feelings of the
honest merchant may b.! guessed when, on tr •"z
to the quay to satisfy himself on the riubjitic'tobly"--"oteiT‘la.';
inspection, he beheld his 160 monkeys,
and littered, and grinning at him withtae'mot)l'aued3agb(lde
pertinacity. It was the moment
when
reasonably doubt whether it would
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be besta ao
n laughmight o
cry. So touch for the value of el.i)ers
Viscountess Dowager Bollingbroke expired late
in the past week at Torquay, Devonshire. her Lady-
ship, who was the second wife of Richard, third and late
Viscount Bollingbroko, W 144 formerl
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