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LAW INTELLIGEN CE.
VICE-CHANCERY COURT, Jely 13.
BLAKE V. LORD wALLEseoent.
In this case two petitions have be presented, one
by the two daughters of Lord:Wallescourt, that they
may be removed from Vie custody of their father. and
allowed live with ther mother. and. the other by Lady
Wallescourt that she may have the enstody of her infant
son. The proceedings are instituted under Serjeant
Talfourd's Act, and the grounds stated by the affidavits
on the side of the petitioners are cruel and immortal
conduct on the part of Lord Wallescourt, and that he
is not a proper person to have the management of his
children. The statements mode relative to Lord Wel-
lescourt's conduct are denied by the affidavits on his
side, in which he is stated to be a very religious man,
and very careful in the education of his children. The
arguments in the ease are not yet concluded.
RAILWAY DEPOSITS.—The following suns of money
depost7s on behalf of the undermentiotled railway com-
panies, were ordered to be psid but of court ,—The
Huntingdon Branch of the Midls.Lnd Junction RailWity
(withdraqn) 36,2301. ; the Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate (passed) 57,860/, ; the Liverpool and Preston,
and. the Manchester and Southport (rejected) 120,0001.

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_SIZE INTELLIGENCE.
Hoilih ClRCUlT.—Chelmsford, July 17.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PARKZ.)
George Hyams, 25, was -indicted for burglariously break-
ing and entering the dwelling-house of William Farrer Ste-
yens, at t3ulphan, and stealing a gun and other articles, his
property.
Mr. T. Chambers conducted the prosecution.
The circumstances under which this offence was committed
appeared by the evidence to be of a very outrageous charac-
ter. The prosecutor is a farmer, residing near Romford. and
on the night of the 18th of December he was awoke by hear-
ing a noise in the lower part of his house, when he dressed
himself, took a pair of pistols, and jumped out of the window,
and he immediately saw a man, who presented a pistol at
him, and with an oath said, 1, You —, you are dead," at
the same instant diFcharging the pistol, and he was slightly
woundea in the head. He tried to discharge ene of his own
pistols, but it missed fire, and he then ran away to obtain as-
sistance, and as he was doing so, the man fired a second pis-
tol at him which fortunately missed him. On his return to
the house shortly afterwards he discovered that entrance had
been obtained by forcibly breaking down a door on the ground
floor, which had been bone apparently with a bricklayer's
hammer which was found on the premises, and a valuable
glut and some other articles had been stolen. The prose-
er.tor could not identify the man who tired at him as his
face was blackened, but the case was clearly made out by-
the evidence of an accomplice named George Freeman,
who was one of the party concerned in the outrage. This
man stated, that on the day in qaestion he started with the
prisoner and a man named Scovell from London, and they
arrived at the prosecutor's house about twelve at night, and
that Scovell then said he would not go any further without
getting some money, and he then produced a pair of pistols
and a bricklayer's hammer, and he (the witness) kept watch
while the other two men broke into the house, and he soon
afterwards heard the report.; of two pistols. He likewise
stated that Scovell and the prisoner blacked their faces and
took off their shoes before they went into the house, and that
after the pistols had been fired Scovell came out and said
they must be off, and they all three went away and slept
under a hedge, and next day Scovell and the prisoner went
back to London.
The prisoner, who appeared to be a hardened desperate
fellow, cross-examined the witness Freeman at considerable
length, and asked him whether he was not the ringleader,
and whether he did not take them down to commit the rob-
bery, and tell them he knew the house, as he had formerly
been in Mr. Stevens's employ.
The witness denied that this was the case, and said that he
should not have watched while the robbery was being com-
mitted if Scorell had not threatened to shoot him if he did
not do so, and he was frightened he would kill him.
The prisoner here exclaimed, '' Ah, that's very likely.
You are a pretty fellow to be frightened."
Baron PARKE asked the prisoner whether he wished to rut
any other questions to the witness?
Prisoner (in an impudent tone)---No, I shan't ask him any-
thing more; it's no use.
Some other evidence was then adduced. corroborating in
several important particulars the statement of the witness
Freeman.
The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence, merely
repeated his former ststernew, that the witness Freeman was
the man who planned the robbery.
The Learned JUDGE having summed uo,
The jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Baron PARKE then sentenced the prison t. h. be trans-
ported for 15 years, ard he ordered that a reward of 10/.
should be paid ti Smith, an inspector of the Essex constabu-
lary, and another officer of the same force, for their activity
and zeal in tracing out the case and apprehending the prisoner.
The other man. Scoyel, was convicted at a former assize, and
sentenced to be transported fiur fifteen years.
Patrick Connor, 30, was indicted for feloniously and
maliciously setting fire to the common gaol of Romford, the
said building being said to be the property of the High-
Steward of that place.
Mr. Marsh conducted the prosecution.
It appeared in evidence that the prisoner, who was in cus-
tody upon a charge of deserting from the 18th Regimers%
aas taken on the 4th of July from Ilford Gaol under -a mili-
tary escort, to be conveyed to the head-quarters ‘`,`.. the regi-
ment, and he was placed in Bamford Gael at night for secu-
rity, there being no other prisoner at the time in the
establishment. Very soon afterwards the place where the
prisoner was confined was discovered to be in flames, and on
the door being opened he was taken out nearly suffocated.
and it was ascertaiind that the straw in the prisoner's bed
bad been entirely cdnsumed, and the building was burnt in
several places. Mr. Anderson, the governor of Ilford Gaol,
also deposed that while the prisoner was in his custody he
admitted that he had wilfully tired the place, and also stated
that he hail been ill used in his regiment, and he would rather
be transported than go back to it.
The prisoner in his defence said, that on the way to Rom-
ford he had ptrrchased a box of lucifer matehes, and that
after he was locked up he lighted his pipe and fell asleep on
the bed and it accidentally took fire. He said he had serred
ten years abroad, and was engaged in the war in China and
other places, and it was not very likely he should wilfully
have set fire to the place when he might have lost his ovni.
life.
Mr. Baron PARKE having summed up. the jtsn\ after a
short delikration, returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
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IVOR THAR 217 CIRGUir —York, Jay 16.
CROWY COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CliEssw Eta. )
Marthct Duck, a woman aged 29. bite of Scarberoogh, was
indicted for having, on the llth of May last,
at Newby, un-
lawfully exposed to the cold her intent male bastard child,
with intent to kill and murder the said child.
Mr. Bliss and Mr. Travers Conducted the prosecution. The
prisoner was wit defended by counsel.
Wm. Wilson, assistant to air. Spink, butcher, at Scarbo-
rough, stated that on the llth of May he was in a field of his
master's, near the road leading from Scarborough to Whitby.
From that he could see into a tied belonging to a Mr. Watson,
and there he perceived the prisoner walking about. Watched
her for some time, and saw her go into a barn Which stapds
in the field. She shortly after left the barn again, End
went near to a hedge. Saw her there squat down close by
the hedge, and, on rising, leave something like a cloth,
which she put on a bush, Afterwards she walked about for
some time, looking around her, and after that she lay down
for a time in afield belonging to one Hopper. Watched her
further, the witness being under a cliff, but the prisoner,
getting on higher ground, pereeived him. He then went
up to her, and spoke to her. She appeared to be large
in the family way. This occurred at about 3 o'clock in
the afternoon,
Renr,y Rithniond, another witness, said that he was in
Aratacn's field at about six o'clock the same evening, and
there heard a noise as of the cry of a child, which proceeded
from the hedge bottom. A boy who was there and the wit-
ness went and found a male child under the hedge. It was
covered with leaves and grass, and there was seine blood
upon it. The boy picked it tip, and put it into the hand-
kerchief of witness, who took it to a Mrs. Ireland, living at a
short distance oft.
The witness stated to the Judge that there was no regu-
lar footpath by u here the child was found. It was found at
about 200 yards from the barn. Saw no people at work near
the spot.
Mrs. Ireland said that she received the child from the last
witness, awl Observed that it was newly born, and that the
navel-string was not tied. She gave it a little gin and
water, and then delivered the child to another woman, by
whom it was suckled, and it was subsequently taken to the
Scarborough union workhouse, Newby township, being
within that union.
Mr. Thomas Dunkerley, the master of the workhouse, said
that the child was brought there by Anne Pexton, Mrs. Ire-
land's niece, and Smallwood, the overseer of the township.
The infant had severe fits for some days after it came, but it
was still living.
Richard Robfrts, superintendent of the Scarborough police,
had taken the prisoner on the 14th of May. Told her what
for. She told hint that she had not had a child for 10 or
11 years.
Mr. William Henry Wilson, medical officer of the union,
examined th,-, prisoner after her apprehension. She had
then been delivered of a child about a week. Mr. Cross, the
surgeon, saw her, and told her he was grieved to see her in
that situatlai, and then she said that the child was hers.
Witness asked her where the after-birth was, and she an-
swered that it was in the field, and said that she had severed
the navel-string of the child by tearing it with her fingers.
Mr. Richard Cross, surgeon, deposed that the prisoner told
him she was on her.way to Stkeld, a village about six miles
from Scarborough, at, the time it occurred to her. Her
regular residence was at Suffield. The field in which she
was seen, and where the child wail found, was not the nearest
way from Scarborough to Suffield. It would be a great dis-
tance round to go that way. Witness bad before attended
prisoner, and in October last she was in a state of pregnancy.
The prisoner was convicted.—Sentence deterred.
Jane Briggs, a handsome and respectable-looking young
woman, was tried upon an indictment charging her with
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Anoth.-r bill of indictment had been preferred
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secretlytb'gthe disposing sbi body
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prisoner, charging her with the murder of the same child,
but that bill the grand jury ignored.
Mr. Temple, with Mr. Dearslev, appeared to conduct the
prosecution, and Mr. Bliss to defend the prisoner.
The prisoner, it appeared, was a daughter of a farmer at
Eastrington. She wee married about five years ago. but
about three years back her husband left her to go to America.
Oa the 12th of May, in the forenoon, &witness Ann Jack on,
was crossing the foot-path which leads through a field
called Samuel Hill's close, in Blacktoft, which field lies near
the prisoner's father's house, and had formerly been in his
occupation. The witness saw a bundle in the pond, which,
having taken it out, proved to be the body of a female infant,
wrapped and sewed up in a piece of cloth or blanket. At-
tached to the bundle there was a brick, fastened with a
piece of cord. There was also the piece of a bedgewn, and
an old silk apron, forming part of the wrapping round the
body. The body, with the clothes, were given to Mr. Raines,
surgeon, of Newport, and by him to Thomas Rennison. a
farmer, of Blacktoft, who placed them in a stable, where they
were locked up for safety.
Mr. Raines stated that the appearances of the child, though
the body had become decomposed, were healthy. It was a
fine child; the lungs floated, and the stomach was empty, hut.
healthy. He was it opinion that the child had not (hid a
natural death. There was extravasation of blood externally
ou the chest, and he coasidered that to have been caused
acme blunt
blunt instrument during life—by a blow, and not by