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London, England, 1846-07-25 00:00:00

Tit .14_i tniT LoNpoN) SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 2s, is 46.

COU'A.T CIRCULAR.

_
Lord Marcus :Mill had an audience of the Queen yes-
terday, at Buckii 'tg ham Palace, and had the honour to
kiss hands on beiii g appointed Comptroller of her Ma-
jesty's Household. His Lordship received from her
Majesty his wand 01 office.
Her Majesty, attf n ided by her Lady in Waiting and
her Equerry in Witi tine., visited her Royal Highness
the Princess Sophist. at her residence, at Kensington,
yesterday.
His R.'yal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
at a meeting of the Commission for Promoting and En-
couraging the Fine Arts, in the rebuilding of the Palace
of Westminster. The Prince arrived at G wydyr House,
Whitehall, at a quarter before three o'clock, attended
by Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour. The Commissioners
present were, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Right
Hon. the Speaker, Sir James Graham, Mr. Hawes, and
Mr. George Vivian. The Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was
in attendance.
The meeting broke up at four o'clock. Prince Albert,
attended by Mr. Eastlake, afterwards went to the new
palace, and inspected the new Houses of Parliament.
Their. Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
PrinCess Royal took an airing yesterday in the royal
garden.
Their Royal Highnesses and Prince Alfred and the
Princess Alice took a carriage drive yesterday, in an
open carriage and four, accompanied by the Dowager
Lady. Lvttel ton.
The Royal dinner party yesterday, at Buckingham
Palace, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, his Serene Highness the Prince of •Leiningen,
Lady „Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Speth, and Earl
Spencer.
Miss Goddard, a child only nine years old, performed
on the pianoforte by command of the Queen on Ttiurs-
darevening, at Buckingham Palace, before her Majesty
and Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, and the royal circle. The pieces performed were
two Fantasias, the one by Halkbrenner, and the othtr
by Thalberg, and their execution elicited the high ap-
probation of her Majesty and her Royal Consort.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz honoured the Marchioness of
Westminster with a visit yesterday in Upper Grosvenor-
street.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz, attended by Baronets Ahlefeldt
and Mr. Edmond Mildmay, honoured the performance
of the French Plays with their presence yesterday
evening.
A deputation connected with Newfoundland had an
interview with Sir George Grey yesterday.at the Home-
office. The deputation consisted of Mr., Walter Baine,
M.P., Mr. Thomas H. Brooking, Mr. George R. Robin-
son, Mr. Ewen Stabb, Mr. Robert Gillespie, and Mr.
Robert Newman Hunt.

Lord Morley had an interview with the Earl of Cla-
rendon yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade.
Mr. C. Greufell had also au interview with the Noble
Earl.

His Excellency the Danish Minister transacted busi-
ness yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Attorney-General had an interview with Sir G.
Grey yesterday at the Home-office.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an in-
terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday,
at his official residence in Downing-street.
Mr. Davis had an interview with the Right Hon. T.
Milner Gibson, yesterday, at the office of the Board of
Trade. Mr. Huuldsworth had also an interview with
the Right Hon. Gentleman.
The Marquis of Anglesey had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday. Lord Calthorpe had also an
interview with the Right Hon. Baronet.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWTON RACES.—Thußstav (CaNcLuDED).
The Borough Cup, of 100 sovs, added to a Handicap of 20
sovs each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared; the second to re-
ceive 25 sovs. out of the stakes. One mile and a half.

Lord Warwick's Yardley, 6 yrs 1
Mr. Ongley's Roderick, aged
Godfrey, Lightning, Lancashire Witch, Snob, and Gannet,
were not placed.
Betting-5 to 4 agst Godfrey, 3 to 1 agst Yardley, 5 to 1
agst Lightning.
Won easy by a length-and-a-half. Godfrey losing second
place, and Lightning the third, by a neck.
Sweepstakes of '2O sows. each, and 20 added. Golborne
Course. (4 Subs).
Mr. Clarke's fby Stockport, out of Caroline, 3 yrs, lOst 1
Sir J. Gerald's Quebec, 12st 21b 2
Won easy by a length.
The Haydock Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, Gents. riders.
One Mile and-a-half. Winner to be sold for 2001. (7 Subs).
Mr. Billington's Fair Rosamond, 5 yrs, list 101 b
Sir J. Gerald's Quebec, 6 yrs, 12st 21b... 2
Mr. T. Parker's Thalia and Mr. Hanson's Jane also ran.
Won easy. _

; for three yrs old, Est 81b; four, Bst Mb;
fillies allowed 31b; winners of a plate in 1846, 31b extra;
of two, a gold cup, or Queen's plate, 51b extra. Heats,

. .
one mile and a halt:
Count Bathyanny's Gannet, 4 yrs (Whitehouse) 1 1
Mr. W. Scott's Driffield, 3 yrs
Mr. Robinson's Josephine, 3 yrs
Mr. Barton's Princess Olga, 4 yrs 0 dr
Mr. Mangle's Comical Boy, 4 yrs
Each heat well contested, and won on the post by a head.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY).
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.

GooDwooD STA K ES.-6 to 1 agst Jonathan Wild (t. freely),
7 to 1 agst the Hero (t. freely), 8_ to 1 agst Connaught
Ranger (t. freely), 10 to 1 agst Camera Obscura, 12 to 1 agst
Red Robin (t. freely), 13 to 1 agst Lapwing-filly (t.).

Nothi:,g else backed.
GOODWOOD Cur.-3 to 1 agst Grimston (t.), 6to 1 agst
Lothario (t.), 9 to 1 agst Weatherbit (t.).
Nothing done on Derby, &e.
NEWTON RAC ES.—Fm D AY. _ _

The St. Helen's Purse of 501., added to a Sweepstakos of
.15 soya. each, 10 It, for 2 yrs old 6st 71b, and 3 yrs Bst 101 b ;
fillies allowed 31bs. The G }Worm Course. (10 Subs.)
Mr. Worthington's Sheraton, 3 yrs (Whitehouse) 1
'Lord- Stanley's Meeanee, 2 yrs
Mr. Cranstoun's Comme-il•faut, 2 yrs
Mr. Price's Kismet, 3 yrs

Mr. E. Peel's
_Spitlieaji,_3.yrs. . _

The Garswood Cup of 1001., given by Sir John Gerard, added
to Sweepstakes' of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft. One mile and a
half. Gentlemen riders.

Mr. Cretchley's Cccur de Lion, 4 yrs (Mr. J. Moore) 1
Mr. Standish's Little Hampton, 5 yrs 2
Sir J. Gerard's Pantasa, 4 yrs 3
The Newton Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 30 added; second to
receive 10/. Heats, once round and a dis. _ _ .

Air. Aleikblam's Alliance, 3 yrs (Duncan) 1 1
Ur. Davies's Talleyrand, 5 yrs 2 2
Mr. Tempest's T' Ould Squire, 5 yrs
Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, winner to be sold for

300/. Two miles. '
Sir J. Gerard's Parthian, 6 yrs walked over
Plate of 70/. for 3 yrs old, &c. Heats one mile and half.
Mr. Owen's Thalia, 3 yrs (Abdale) 2 1 1
Mr. J. Clarke's fby Stockport, out of Columbine . 1 0 2
Mr. Robinson's Josephine, 3 yrs ... 0 2 0
Mr. Hornby's ch gby Valentine, out of The Lady, 0 0 0
Mr. Dawson's Jane, 4yr _ ••

Won in a canter.

HARVEST. —Reaping is generally begun in this
county, and the crop is spoken of as unusually good. In
some parts of the southern division the labourers asked 15s.
an acre for cutting wheat ! but they have agreed to take 12s.
Last year the price was 9s. The crop being heavy, and por-
tions of it laid, is partly the cause of this advance; the de-
mand for labourers on the railways is another reason. Let
the causes, however, be what they may, here we have the
important fact that not only has no reduction in wages, which
the protectionists prophesied as an immediate consequence
of the repeal of the corn-laws, taken place, but a great ad-
vance has been made. Again, so far from the repeal of
the corn-laws causing land to be thrown out of cultiva-
tion, another pet prophecy of the protectionists, more fresh
land has been brought into cultivation this year, in the face
of the expected repeal of the corn-laws, than for many pre-
vious years ; another important fact which the labourers, as
well as the free traders, and protectionists, too, will do well
to note. Let the shackles (game-laws, yearly tenancies,
and absurd and restrictive covenants) be removed from agri-
culture as well as from commerce, and labour will be more
abundant than ever, and wages higher. If the farmers do not
'demand the abolition of these drawbacks to their prosperity,
they will deserve to continue, as they have been, the slaves of
their landlords.— Wiltshire Independent.
THE LATE ACCIDENT AT WHEAL ROSE.—We have
received the following from a gentleman who obtained hi',
information from undoubted authority :—ln great social cal-
'amities, such as the recent fearful one at Newlyn East, some-
time must elapse before the melancholy interest subsides;
tales of horror are continually occuring connected with the
event that tend to keep alive emotions of the most
paintul kind.—One of the most affecting of these
tales concerns two little boys working at the bottom
(d' the mine, and were the first to give the alarm
to some of the men in the levels, who iininediately
fled to the shafts; by this time the water had overtaken the
lads, and they begged piteously for life, but, poor fellows,
there was no arm to succour, and their wild shriek of
despair was heard amidst the stunning noises of that
awful hour.—Another poor fellow escaping from the levels
leaped at a venture to the ascending chain and was
saved by inserting one finger through a link and thus
was drawn in safety to the surface. Another, at-
tempting the Fame mode of escape, unfortunately leaped
into the descending, instead of the ascending kibble,
and was consequently plunged many feet under water, but
held on with that tenacity so often seen in those who, on
making their final effort to save life, and succeeded in reach-
ing his anxious friends at the mouth of the shaft. One man
succeeded in saving his life by placing his back against one
wall of a narrow shaft and his feet against the other, he con-
trived in this way to raise himself 10 fathoms, the rapidly
rising waters underneath goading him on ! Since our report
last week, four bodies, have been found—leaving ten in the
mine: Penzance Gazette. _ _ _

Ctrazous WELSH CUSTOM.—One day last week a gal-
lant captain, who stands in a high position in the civil force
of the adjoining county of Carmarthen, took a walk into a
hayfield, where the haymakers were pursuing their avoca-
tions. No sooner had he entered the field, than, in accord-
ance with a custom which generally prevails in some dis-
tricts in Wales of giving every new visitor, of whatever class,
age, or sex, an initiatory tumble in the hay, two women of
Herculean strength seized the military man, and instantly
laid him prostrate in dried and well-seasoned herbage. Being
entirely ignorant of this custom of times, to which, as the
lawyers say, the memory of man runneth not to the con-
trary, our hero naturally imagined that he was about being
visited with summary and condign punishment for his former
active interference for the suppression of the Rebecca dis-
turbances. Having disengaged himself from the fangs of
his amazonian assailants, he lost no time in procuring an
authority for their apprehension. The case accordingly
came on for hearing before the magistrates at Carmarthen on
Saturday last. The complainant having detailed his
grievance amidst the merriment of the audience, the magis-
trates at the conclusion become immoderately convulsed with
laughter, one of their worships observing, that he had been
himself served out in the same way fifty times.—Case dis-
missed.—Cambrian.

EXPORTATION AND CONSUMPTION OF EGGS. A
curious account is given in one of the French papers of the
French export trade in egE,s. In 1844, the number exported
from France, as shown by the Customs' returns, was rather
more than 88 millions, on which the Government received an
export duty of 114,000 E; of these 88 millions of eggs, 82
millions are stated to have been exported to England. The
consumption of eggs in Paris is about 128 eggs each prson,
making a total of nearly 120 millions annually in that capital
alone. The consumption of eggs in France is reckoned at
9,300,000,000 eggs annually.

ASSIZE IN TZLLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, July 24.
CROWN COURT.

Mr. Justice Coltman sat in this Court until late on
Thursday night, in order to endeavour to finish the
criminal business, but finding it was impossible to do
so, it was arranged that Mr. Sergeant Dowling should
dispose of the remainder of the cases in the calander.
Thomas Cheest man, aged 20. was indicted for f. lo-
niously cutting and wounding Charlotte Frances Maria
Saunders, with intent to murder her; and in other counts
his intent was laid to do her grevious bodily harm.
Mr. Deedes prosecuted, and Mr. Mellor defended the
prisoner.

It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner and
the prosecutrix were fellow-servants at the Camden
Arms Inn, Tonbridge Wells ; and it would seem that
the prisoner had entertained great attachment for the
prosecutrix, which .was not returned by her, but she
on the 'contrary, was keeping company with another
young man, and that had given the prisoner great
offence. On Sunday, the 7th June, the prosecutor had a
holiday, and she went out with her sweetheart, and it
appea, ed that the prisoner also asked for a holiday on
the same day, and he joined the prosecutrix and her com-
panion, who were at the• time accompanied by two or
three young females of their aequaintince. The party
went to a place in the neighbourhood of Tunbridge
Wells, where they ail drank some cyder, and it was ob-
served that the prisoner seemed to be very melancholy,
and appeared to be brooding over something that wag
in his mind. They all returned towards home
together, and the prisoner was seen to take
knife out of his pocket and sharpen it, but it did
not appear that at 'this time any suspicion
was entertained of the deadly intention of the prisoner.
The prosecutrix and her friends having rested for a
short time at a stile, proceeded on their way homeward,
her sweetheart being by her side, and the prisoner walk-
ing by the side of the man, when, suddenly, and without
saying a word, he jumped past the man, seized the young
women with one hand, and, with a knife which he held
in the other, he made a desperate attempt to cut her
throat; but fortunately, owing to the resistance made by
her cap string, and some other articles of dress, he did
not succeed in causing a mortal i;jury, although the
jugular vein was injured, and a very severe wound in-
flicted, from the effect of which the prosecutrix had not
yet recovered.
_ _

Mr. MELLOR, in behalf of the prisoner, urged that the
act had been committed by him while he was labouring
under a temporary aberration of intellect, occasioned by
the drink he had taken.

Mr. Justice COLTMAN having summed up, the jury
almost immediately found the prisoner guilty of asault-
ing the prosecutrix with intent to do her grievous bodily
harm.
Judgment was deferred. _

John Price, 26, surrendered to answer an indictment
charging him with the manslaughter of James Sutton.
Mr. Horne prosecuted ; Mr. Andrews defended the
prisoner.

This case was of rather a singular character. It ap-
peared that the prisoner and the accused, who reside in
the neighbourhood of Margate, were on friendly terms
up to the period of this transaction. The prisoner was
going home at night, having previously been in com-
pany with the accused at a public-house, when, accord
ing to his statement, a man sprung upon him from the
hedge by the road-side, and demanded his money and
his watch, or else he said he would have his life; and the
prisoner closed with him, and beat him severely, inflict.
ing such injuries that he died shortly afterwards. This
man turned out to be the accused, and it was supposed
that he had made the pretended attempt to rob the
prisoner out of joke-, which, however, ended in this
fatal manner. The prisoner all along to!d the same
story, and there did not appear to be the slightest grounds
for believing that it was otherwise than the truth.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN, after hearing the evidence of
the witnesses, said, it appeared to be quite clear that
the prisoner had acted under the impression that he was
protecting his own life from the attack of a robber, and,
under such c'tcutnstance, he could not be held to be
criminally respor.sible.
The jury accordingly returned a verdict of Not Guilty,
and the prisoner was at once discharged from custody.
The prisoner Cheeseman was this (Friday) morning
brought up to receive the judgment of the Court, and
Mr. Justice COLTMAN, after making some appropriate
remarks upon the very aggravated character of his
offence, sentenced him to be transported for 15 years.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Devizes, July 23.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice ISLE.)
Frederick Sawkins was indicted for the manslaughter of
Job Gale, at New Sarum, on the 3d of June.
No learned gentleman was instructed on the part of the
prosecution; but Mr. Ball defended the prisoner.
The first witness called was James Lacy, who said—l am
a bricklayer at Salisbury. I purchased a pony on the 3d of
June. The prisoner was there. About half-past nine in the
morning Sawkins asked Gale to bring him some mortar up,
but he refused, and said Sawkins was only there for a few
days, which I thought irritated him. Sawkins said, "If you
say that again, I'll break your neck." Sawkins then went to
Gale, and put his hands on his shoulder, and they both fell
together. Gale then said, " You've broken my thumb, and
I'll make you pay for it." They had been working together
for a long time. I never knew the prisoner quarrel.
Cross-examined—There was no blow struck.

Robert Vining—l am a blacksmith. On the 3d of June I
heard Sawkins and Gale swearing at each other very much.
Sawkins called for mortar, and Gale said he should not serve
him. Something was said, and then Sawkins said he'd break
Gale's neck, and he jumped off the scaffold and pushed Gale
on the shoulders, and they both fell.
George Senior—l was surgeon to the infirmary. Gale
came there on the 31 of June. The soft part of his thumb
was much lacerated. I recommended a poultice. It went
on well till the Gth, when he was admitted an in-patient.
On the 9th, matter had formed, and it was opened. On the
11th he said he could not open his mouth, but I found he
could; but on the next day there was lock-jaw, and on the
16th he died. The lock-jaw was occasioned by the wounded
thumb:

Cross-examined--He died of lock-jaw.
Mr. BA LL then addressed the jury for the defence, and
contended that the whole of the evidence showed that the
death of the unfortunate man was purely the result of acci-
dent, and that the intention of the prisoner was to make
Gale carry him nn his back.
Several persons gave the prisoner an excellent character.
Mr. Justice ERLE, in summing up, said if the jury were of
opinion that the prisoner, in the prosecution of an illegal
act, inflicted bodily injury, and that the man died in conse-
quence of that injury, the prisoner was guilty.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner
was sentenced to be imprisoned in the common gaol for one
week.

John Webb and Alfred Webb were placed at the bar,
charged with having feloniously ravished Charlotte Bernell,
at Westbury.
Mr. Hodges conducted the prosecution; Mr. Ball defended
the prisoners.
It appeared by the evidence of the prosecutrix, who was
a modest-looking girl of seventeen, that she lived with her
grandmother at Westbury, but worked as a weaver at a
factory about two miles off. On the evening of the 16th of
March she was returning from her work, at about nine
o'clock, when she was met by the prisoners, who are both
married men. They spoke to her, and wished her good
night, and then Alfred took her round the neck, and got
her to go into the yard of the Anchor Inn, which was close
by. John then went in and got some beer, and they pressed
her to drink. She, however, would not, and they then let
her go on her way home. She went on some way until she
got into a lane, when she found that both the prisoners were
following her. John Webb got hold of her and pushed
her down the lane, while Alfred stayed at the top of
the lane and watched. John Webb then got her down
and accomplished his purpose, after which Alfred came
down and also committed a felonious assault on her,
assisted by his brother. She screamed and cried murder,
but no one came to her assistance, when both the prisoners,
hearing a noise, ran away. The prosecutrix Immediately
went home and told her grandmother what had taken place;
and witnesses were called, who stated that they had seen the
men trying to make her drink at the Anchor Inn, and also
that they heard cries in the direction of the lane, at the time
the girl stated that the assault had taken place. A surgeon
was also called, who proved that a capital offence had been
committed.

Mr. BALL then addressed the jury for the prisoners, and
Mr. Justice ERLE having summed up, the jury, after a
short consuitation, returned a verdict of Not guilty.
The verdict caused the greatest astonishment and indigna-
tion in the court.

James Franklin was indicted for maliciously stabbing Henry
Afobbit, with intent to murder him. There waq a second
count, laying the offence to be, to do grievous bodily arm.
Mr. Swayne conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Stone de-
fended the prisoner.
_ _

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It appeared by the statement of the witnesses for the
prosecution, that the prisoner was going alon,,' the road
to Trowbridge on the night of the 16th of May, ac-
companied by a young womar:, when he was overtaken
by four or fire young men, of whom Mobbit was one. The
young woman struck one of the men on the shoulder, upon
which he said to her, " If you do that again I will knock you
down." Upon which the prisoner turned round and knocked
him down. Upon this a general fight took place. The pri,
soner then called out, 6, Where's my knife? where's my
knife?" He then put his hand in his pocket, took out a
clasp-knife, and struck Mobbit in the head near the left
temple, dividing the temporal artery, and inflicting a wound
nearly an inch in depth.
Mr. STONE addressed the jury for the prisoner, and con-
tended that the stab was given by the prisoner in self-
defence, to prevent Isis receiving a serious injury from the
violent attack which had been made on him by the five men.
He also called two witnesses in support of this view of the
case, who stated that the men were very drunk, and that at
the time of the stab being given
,b,yttleliin
elpgrisionntoerhtihnier, hadand
got him against a wall, and were pi
belabouring him very severely.
lie was then sentenced to twelve months'
Mr. Justice ERLE-having summed up, the jury found the
prisoner Guilty.
' imprisonment.
Ann White was indicted for having wilfully and feloniously
set fire to a certain cottage, the property of George Wedge,
situate in the parish of Enford, in this county.
Mr. Hodges conducted the prosecution, 'rho prisoner was
not represented by counsel.
It appeared by the evidence_ of the prosecutor that a part
of the premises which were burnt down was rented by the
husband of the prisoner, and occupied by himself and his
wife, there being two cottages under one roof. On the 22d
of March last the cottages were burnt down.
ale, t
tawkaesn craelfluegde, whoA witness of the namienoqf
atlsatir9tnhasillie
stated that on the dayin
shed near the house from the rain. While there she saw the
smoke coining from the thatch the cottage occupied by the
prisoner and her husban_d• At thatof
time no one was near the
house:but a policeman of thename of Godwin. •
William Godwin was then
.called, and stated that he was
a policeman, and on the day in question was on duty near
the houses which were burnt. He heard an alarm of fire
given by the last witness, and saw the thatch on fire just
over the window of the cottage occupied by the prisoner and
her husband. On going to the house he found the door
locked, upon which he broke open thehneheard
vvindoa No
w a,ndicegsoaty ~ into
l
the house. Oa going up ta
havn't done nothing." When he got up stairs he went into
a bed-room, and found the prisoner under a bed on the floor,
with the key of the front door in her hand. He then asked
her to come out, but she would not, and he was obliged to
pull her out by force. There were only two rooms in the
house, and no other person was in the cottage. In the down-
room stairs there was a fire in the grate. The fire commenced
in the thatch just over the bed-room win.low in which the
prisoner was found. The roof was quite within the reach of
any person who might
on the outside to reach to the
be
place were the fire commenced. The policeman thou- took

the prisoner into cnstocly, and charged her wits} fiafing set
the house on tire. She made no reply. Both the cottages
were burnt down.

➢lr. Justice ERLE having summed up the case to the jury,
they found the prisoner Guilty, and she was Sentenced to be
transported for seven years.
It was stated in Court that the prisoner had three times
before attempted to fire the cottage, and that had been
preferred against her at the last assizes for this county, but
was ignored.

(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)
John Eldridge was indicted for having threatened to shoot
Grace Rice, and thereby obtaining 2/. is. 6d.
Mr. Edwards conducted the prosecution.
It appeared that on the 2d of this month the prosecuti ix,
an old woman, was at home in her cottage, at Hampworth,
in this county, when the prisoner came there, and asked her
if her husband was at home. She said, " No," but asked
the prisoner to wait. He went into the house and sat down,
and then said to her, "Don't be frihtened." She said,
" What. should Ibe frightened at?" Lpon which he took a
pistol from his pocket, and said,-," If you don't give me all
your money, I'll blow your brains out." The prosecutor,
being very much frightened, was going to leave the
room, when the prisoner said, "I'll only give thee
two minutes to fetch it." Upon this the old woman
gave him 21. 7s. 6d. The prisoner then left the
_ .
cottage; but as be war going away said to the prosecutrix
• that if she tOld'any one bz•fore-the n`-xt hour her house should
be burnt down. She, however, -gave information to the po •
lice, and the prisoner was shortly afterwards apprehended
within a Mile and a half of the cottage, with the money in
his pocket. Oa being asked how he came by the money, he
S.tid he had borrowed it of Mrs. Rice, and that he was sorry
he had frightened her. Ou being further searched some bul-
lets and gunpowder were found in his pockets, and the next
morning aloaded pietal was found near the place where the
prisoner was apprehended, which Mrs. Rice identified as the
one which he had presented at her. It was also shown that
he had purchased it on the same day.
Mr. Baron PLATT having summed up, the jury found the
prisoner. Guilty, and he was sentenced to be transpOrted for
ten years,

NORTILVRA tit If .1 York, July 23.
The business on the civil side was concluded last evening.
This is the commission day for Durham, but there still re-

'paining some ma to try on the Crown side, fur the county
of York, Mr. Justice Creswell sat for the purpose of dis-
posing of them. One cause on the civil side has been made
a remanet.

The following prisoners have been called up and sen-
tenced :—George Thompson, manslaughter, seven years'
transportation; Matthew Harbron, feloniously wounding,
twelve months' imprisonment; John Falshaw, same offence,
nine months' imprisonment; John Langstaff, same offence,
nine months; John Greenwood, manslaughter, three days'
imprisonment; James Vance, pleaded guilty, burglary, nine
months' imprisonment; Richard Smith, burglary, eighteen
months ; James Melder, housebreaking, seven years' trans-
portation; W. Brown, same offence, six months' imprison-
ment; George Caw, robbery, seven years' transportation;
Jane Gregory, Sarah Stocks, and Hannah Grunwell,
robbery with violence, the former fifteen years'
transportation, and the two latter twelve months'
imprisonment ; John Gillet, street robbery, fifteen
months' imprisonment; Martha Duck, exposing her child
with intent to murder, eighteen months' imprisonment; Jane
Briggs, concealing the birth of her child, six months; Jona-
than Cordingly, assault on a female child, two years' impri-
sonment; William Atkinson and Edwin Hammill, larceny
from a shop, the former seven years' transportation, the
latter twelve months' imprisonment; James Aspinall, era:
bezzlement, six months' imprisonment; Charles Parker,
Mary Ann Lee, Thomas Curtis, and George Hargraves,
coining, each seven years' transportation.

MIDLAND CIRGUI-11—.A'ottinghant, July 23.
CRIMINAL COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice ParrEsoli.)
BIGAMY.—Robert Thompson Hardie, aged 25, was charged
with having, at North Clifton. on the 30th of May, 1844,
married Mary Hammond, his former wife being then alive.
It was proved he had married his first wife in 1841, and had
lived with her some months, and that she is still alive.
The second wife stated she first became acquainted with
the prisoner in 1843, and they were married in the May of
1844. She had never heard whether he was married or
single, but took it for granted he was a single man.
The prisoner stated he did not consider his first marriage
lawful, because he never took an oath, or said anything after
the clergyman, or even put a ring on the woman's finger.
It appeared he was married to his first wife in Scotland, ac-
cording to the forms of the church there.
The JUDGE overruled the objection the prisoner took, and
stated if a man married in a country where the form differed
from that practised here, he must be governed by the form
existing in the country where he married his wife.

He was found Guilt}•, and sentenced to one year's impri-
sonment, with hard labour._ •

July 24.
CIVIL COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Couturroism.)
TIIE QUEEN V. Lorin lIARBOROUGH AND OTIIERS.

This was an indictment for conspiracy.
Mr. Hutnfrey, Q.C., and Mr. Macauley were for the Crown.
Mr. Whitehurst, Q.C., and Mr. Hayes conducted the defence.
This indictment, which was found by the grand jury at the
Oldham Spring Assizes, was tried at Nottingham, by con-
sent- of both parties. The indictment arose out of
the following circumstances :—The Midland Counties Rail-
way Company had in the year 1845 projected a branch
from Syston to Peterborough, a portion of which
line would go through the lands and a small portion of the
park of Lord Harborough, at Stapleford. This Lord Har-
borough objected to, and was, if possible, determined to pre-
vent. Accordingly, on certain days mentioned by the wit-
nesses, between the 10th of October and the 30th of No-
vember, the noble defendant and the others joined with him,
to the number of twelve, who were all more or less his de-
pendants, did everything they could to prevent the surveyor
for the intended line from making the necessary surveys,
and this they did by causing men with two poles, with sheets
of calico affixed thereto, to go before the man with the theo-
dolite. Lord Harborough interfered with the surveying by
driving at one time a gig, and at others a break. up and
down the highway where the surveyor was at work. Carts
lalen with tree-tops were also brought on the road, and every
possible means were adopted to prevent proper levels, &c.,
from being taken. The hitch in the case was the absence of
any agreement or concert between the Noble Earl and his
co-defendants, much of what was done evidently arisint, out
of what was dictated on the spur of the moment. During
the time this contest was going on between the two parties,
and which was, more or less, from the 12th of October to the
28th of November inclusive, the village of Stapleford and
the different parts around were kept in a state of agitation.
The Learned JUDGE seemed to think that it would have
been better had the matter been allowed to drop ; and that
at all events the charge of conspiracy did not seem to be
made out.
The jury returned a verdict of—Not Guilty.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Norwich, July 23.
The commissions for the county of Norfolk and this ancient
city were opened yesterday afternoon by Mr. Sergeant
Byles, in the absence of the Learned Judges of Assize, who,
having attended Divine service this morning at ten o'clock in
the time-honoured cathedral, repaired to the County-hall at
twelve o'clock. The entry on the civil side falls below the
average, there being only thirteen causes, and on the criminal
side there are but forty prisoners, whose alleged offences
are of a lighter complexion than is watal in this county,
there being four cases of arson, four of rape, two of felonious
cutting and shooting, one of, horse stealing, one of robbery,
one of burglary, three of housebreaking, one of uttering a
forged banker's receipt, sixteen of larceny. and one case in
which the prisoner, a woman, aged 33, is charged with ad-
ministering cantharides to a female with intent to murder
her, but in that case the grand jury threw out the bill.
CROWN COURT.—( Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.
Sarah Kastings, aged 32, stood charged with uttering a
forged order for the payment of 951. at Great Yarmouth, on
the 2d of September, 1844, with intent to defraud Messrs.
Gurney.

Mr. Palmer and Mr. Drewry were counsel for the pro.
secution.

---liititeared that in June, 1844, the husband of the pri•
sonar, an illiterate and frugal man of 51, deposited the sum
of 951. in Messrs. Gurney's bank at Great Yarmouth, and
received the usual " accountable receipt" from them in ac-
knowledgment of the paper. In the September following
the prisoner took this instrument to the bank, and stating
that she was the wife of the depositor, demanded the payment
of the principal and interest due thereon. The clerk told her
that the signature of her husband was required, and she took
away the paper, which she returned in a short time, bearing
for endorsement the words, " Mr. John Miller Hastings,"
which she said was her husband's signature, adding, by way
of explanation, that he was a Mister," and as she conceived
had a right so to sign himself. The clerk, however, struck
his pen through the word " Mr.," and then paid the sum of
951. Gs. sd. to the prisoner, who was not seen after that day
in Yarmouth, or elsewhere, for twenty •two months, though
information was given to the police, and Mr. Hastings in-
sisted on the bank repaying the money to him, on the grour,d
that the document was a forgery. In the month of May last
Mr. Hastings died, and after that event the prisoner re-ap-
peared in Yarmouth, and she was taken into custody on the
charge.

Ttie jury having deliberated together for some time, re-
tired to consider their verdict, one of them, the brightest of
the lot, observing that " they didn't exactly know what to
say to it." After the lapse of half an hour, they returned
into Court with a verdict of Guilty, whereupon
His LORDSIIIP, having expressed his entire concurrence
with the verdict of the jury, sentenced her to be imprisoned
for twelve months.

Eliza 'Yard, aged 25, was charged with setting fire to an
outhouse at Stow Bardolph, in this county.
Mr. Cooper conducted the case for the prosecution, which
was of the dearest possible character, the prisoner having
repeatedly acknowledged her act, while she justified it as a
retribution on her master, the prosecutor, for having refused
to pay her journey home after he had discharged her from
his service without just cause.
The jury having found the prisoner Guilty, sentence was
deferred.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—. Worcester, July 23.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant GAZELEE.) •
Richard Farley and Ann Jones were indicted for forging a
will, purporting to be that of William Welch, of Llantillo-
pethlow, deceased. with intent to defraud the heir-at-law of
the said William Welch.

Mr. Keating and Mr..Huddlestone conducted the case for
the prosecution; Mr. Newton defended the prisoner.
This case, which had excited great interest in the county,
came on for trial this day, and occupied the Court for up-
wards of eleven hours.

It was clearly proved that the signature was not that of
William Welch, deceased. It was also clearly proved that
neither was the name " Charlotte Farley" in her writing,
nor was the last will put forth (on which the indictment was
founded) in the handwriting, as Ann Jones had alleged, of
Thomas Northen.

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both pri-
soners, recommending Ann Jones to mercy.
The Learned JUDGE sentenced Richard Farley to trans-
portation for fifteen years, and Ann Jones to one year's im-
pr►sonment and hard labour.
With this case the assize for the county and city of Wor-
cester ended.

CONSOLIDATED MINES OF COBRE AssocikrioN.—
Yesterday the half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors
of this company was held at the offices in Austin-friars,
Russell Ellice, Esq., in the chair. From the report it ap-
peared that the quantity of ore raised during the year
amounted to 17,468 tons, which sold for 193,4171. 7s. 11d.,
leaving a profit to the company of 10,325/. 3s. 9d. This
amount, with the balance brought forward from last year,
made the sum of 14,7311. 13s. 2d., out of which sum a divi-
dend was pLid to the proprietors in February last, leaving
only 2,7311. 13s. 2d. to the credit of the account. With re-
spect to the workings of the mines for the present year, the
quantity of ore raised to the Ist of June was 7,254 tons, but
it having been found necessary to send out a large steam-en-
gin • ' --"--rived
the directors of the mines of paying a dividend. It was stated
that an experiment was going on at Swansea for smelting the
dust ores, which would be, if successful, an immense saving
to the company. The report having been adopted, a vote of
thanks was passed to the directors and the officers abroad,
when the meeting adjourned.