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wounded a man's servant he might bring an action
for the loss of his services. The present form of action
had no doubt arisen out of that state of things, and
the law held that damages might be given commensurate
with the injury that had been indicted upon the feelings
of the party. The Learned Judge then alluded to the
circumstances of the case, and said that it did not appear
to be anything like a case of deliberate seduction. No
hospitality had been violated, and it appeared to be
merely an exhibition of profligate morals on both sides.
It appeared to him, that under those circumstances,
although the mother was certainly entitled to a verdict
in strictness of law, yet that she ought not to recover
more damages than would reimburse her for the expense
she had actually been put to; and as to the loss of ser-
vices, that must have been very trifling indeed, and would
not amount to more than a few shillings. The Learned
Judge concluded by stating that it was the duty of the
jury to look at all the circumstances of the case, and
having done so, to say by their verdict what amount of
injury they considered the plaintiff had sustained.
The jury, after a very short deliberation, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages 20/.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, Aug. 14.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mi. Baron PLATT.)
Thomas Hooper, 48, was indicted for shooting at Mary
Little.

The prisoner, it appeared, was much annoyed on the
day in question by boys and others making a disturbance
near his house, and at night they burnt an effigy of him,
in consequence of some slanderous report that bad been
raised in the neighbourhood implicating him. He was
very much irritated, and about nine o'clock came out of
his houso with a gun in his hand, which he discharged at
the crowd. It was loaded with shot, some grains of
which struck and wounded the prosecutrix, a girl about
fifteen years of age; some shots were extracted from her
face.

The prisoner was convicted of a common assault, and
sentenced to one week's imprisonment.
At Nisi Prius no cause has been tried justifying a
notice.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Lancaster, Aug. 14.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
Thomas Skinner, a sailor, was indicted for stabbing
James Garrard, on the 29th July.
The prosecutor said that he kept an inn at Glasson-
dock, near this place, and on the night of the above day
a number of men were in his house, and there was a
quarrel between the prisoner and another, which ended
in a fight. When it was over witness entered the room,
the prisoner then sitting o❑ the sofa, rose up, and gave
him a severe blow, on which they, had a scuffle, and on
getting up he found he was wounded. They had had no
quarrel.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of a common as-
sault. _ _

The prosecutor recommended him to mercy, on which
The JUDIE said he must consider.—Sentence de-
ferred.

Richard Catterall was indicted for manslaughter in
killing James Duckworth, at Preston, on the 25th of
April last.
Thomas Ellis said be lived at Preston, and on the 25th
of April the prisoner, the deceased, and others 'were at
his house. Duckworth wanted to fight one Townley,
and the prisoner offered to fight him instead of Townley.
The deceased at first refused, but afterwards said he
would not mind two or three rounds of a fair stand-up
fight, and they set to. After an ineffectual attempt to
striko the deceased a blow, the prisoner seized him by
the thigh, raised up his foot, and ran him on one foot
down a declining ground, and threw him against the
corner of a wall, the prisoner falling upon him. On
being raised, deceased said he was much hurt. He said
to a witness, " Oh, Thomas, I am killed; I shall not
live three hours," and he died, in fact, in a few hours.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and, after a se-
rious admonition to the prisoner, and some remarks on
the extenuating circumstances of the case,

His LORDSHIP sentenced him to be imprisoned, .with
hard labour, for one calendar month.

NORTH WALES ClRCUlT.—Chester, Aug. 14.
The business of Assize ror the county of Chester com-
menced this day at Chester, Mr. Justice %Vightman pre-
siding in the Crown Court, and the Lord Chief Justice
of the Common Pleas in the Nisi Prius Court.

Thomas Hall, aged 45, was indicted for shooting at
Charles Stubbs, at Minshuil Vernon.

It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor
went to the house of the prisoner during the night time,
with the intention of courting one of his female servants,
and being ordered away, refused to go, when the pri-
soner fired a pistol at him, loaded with dust shot, wound-
ing him slightly in the arm.
The jury acquitted him of the felony, but found him
guilty of a common assault.
His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, said it ought to
be generally known that nothing but the most pressing
necessity for personal safety would justify the use of
fire-arms. He then sentenced the prisoner to be im-
prisoned for a fortnight.
Joseph Deane pleaded guilty to an indictment charging
him with stealing two letters. containing half a sove-
reign each, from the Post office at Winslow, and was
sentenced to be transported for seven years. The
prisoner was a young man, and a letter-carrier.
Thomas Jones, a letter-carrier, in the employment of
the Postmaster at Birkenhead, was indicted for stealing
a half-sovereign from a letter belonging to Mr. Ramsey,
Inspector-General of the Post-office.
The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to
seven years' transportation.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Lord Chief Justice WILDE.)
There were fifteen causes entered for trial, only one
of which is to be tried by a special jury. His Lordship
disposed of five cases, none of which possessed any
public interest.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Devizes, August 14.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CoemuncE.)
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—Jonah Blanchard was in-
dicted for poisoning 198 sheep, the property of Mr.
Pinkney, at Berwick St. James's.
Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Slade were counsel for the pro..
secution; Mr. Edwards defended the prisoner.
The charge against the prisoner was that of having
maliciously destroyed, by means of poison, nearly 200
sheep belonging to the prosecutor, who farmed an estate
of about 1,600 acres. He and a Mr. Tabor were the only
holders of land in the parish, and the labourers had only
those two gentlemen from whom they could obtain work
in that parish. Upon the evening of the 24th January
last the prosecutor had 650 sheep in two yards. He had
had them brought into the yards in December, and on
that evening the shepherds left the sheep in the yards all
in good health. The next morning, upon coming to the
yards, the shepherds found that in one yard th sheep
were as they had been left the preceding evening, while
in the other yard the sheep were all affected with
some inexplicable disease; three were dead, and a vast
number more were groaning and showing symptoms of
the greatest possible distress and agony; and the
sheep continued to die for a period of 14 days; and
in the whole 198 died. It seemed quite clear that this
was not the result of any ordinary disease, for not only
the shepherds had not seen any such disease before, but
a veterinary surgeon declared that it was not any known
form of disease; a medical practitioner also saw them,
and he had no doubt the sheep died from poison. The
prosecutor sent the carcase of one of the sheep to Mr.
Herepath, the eminent chemist of Bristol, and he had no
difficulty in deteetin,, poison, which was sulphate of
copper, or blue vitriol. He discovered the poison not
only in the intestines, but also in various other parts of
the carcase, so that it had spread itself throughout the
) m
there could be no doubt that by some com-
pso'sutned' anofcdOpper the sheep were killed. The sheep from
the other fold were put among those that were dying,
but they took no harm. The question then came, whe-
ther the guilt of having administered the poison could
be brought home to the prisoner ? The facts by which
it was sought to convict the prisoner were these :
Behind the sheds and farm-buildings ran the street of
the village, and the prisoner's house was contiguous
to the yard, with a means of entrance from the
street into the yard. So far back as 1840, the pro-
secutor had refused to give the prisoner work, and
he had then used threats of personal violence and re-
venge towards the prosecutor, which induced that gentle-
man to take him before a magistrate, and he was bound
over to keep the peace. Some time after that the pro-
secutor interceded with Mr. Tabor to give the prisoner
work, and he employed him till 1845, when he dis-
charged him; and from that time until 1847 the prisoner
only got work from time to time precariously, and he
was obliged to go into the union workhouse. About that
period he met a person of the name of Hibbert, who was
under-bailiff to the prosecutor, and he asked Hibbert
whether he thought the prosecutor would give him work?
Hibbert said he did not think he would ; upon which
the prisoner used very strong language with regard to
the prosecutor, threatening to shoot him and to destroy
his sheep ; he said he would kill Mr. Pinkney if he did
not employ him ; and when the sheep came home he
would seek his revenge and poison his master's sheep;
he had got that within his house that would do it,
and he would bo if be did not. Ilibbert
said, " Certainly, you won't do that." The pri-
soner replied, "If I live and you live you will see ; and
there will be mutton enough for many." A few days
after this Hibbert communicated to Mr. Pinkney what
the prisoner bad said, and Mr. Pinkney had him taken
before a magistrate, and the man was put into prison ;
ho said to a person, " When the sheep come home I in-
tend to work by night, when other people are in bed,
and the sheep shall pine away and die, and the oldest
man living shall never find out what was the matter
with them." On another occasion he said it was a shame
that Mr. Pinkney and Mr. Tabor did not find him work;
it would serve them -- right if he poisoned their
flocks of sheep ; it could be done ; any one could put
some stuff in his pockets, and put it into the troughs,
and the sheep would pine away and die, and no one
would be the wiser. The prisoner was kept in gaol
from July until October. During that time he
wrote a letter to Mr. Pinkney, praying for
mercy, and Mr. Pinkney did not appear, against him
at the October sessions, and he was discharged. The
being sent to gaol appeared to have made a great im-
pression on the prisoner's mind, and he was continually
talking of having his revenge; and he said, " If ever he
got out of gaol he would kill Mr. Pinkney, and make
him a poorer man than himself; he would not do it as
soon as he got out of gaol, because it would throw sus-
picion upon him; but there should be a greater cry than
there ever had been yet; he would get some staff that
would poison 2,000 sheep by throwing it into a little
water, or in the young clover grass, or he world do it in
the sheepfold." The prisoner came out of gaol in Octo-
ber, the sheep were taken into the yards in December.
On the 22d of January, the prisoner endeavouredto ob-
tain some arsenic at a shop in Salisbury, but the drug-
gist refused to let him have any. He told him he *dated
it in order to kill rats.
Mr. EDWARDS having addressed the jury on beiialf of
the prisoner,

Mr. Justice COLERIDGE summed up, and
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HO USE.
Andrew Baskerville was brought before the Lord''''"
Mayor, charged with having committed a burglary and -
robbery in the house of his uncle, Mr. Russell, of No.
52, Fenchurch-street.
Mr. Russell stated that at about a quarter to six
o'clock on the morning of the 2d of August, he was
awoke by the ringing of the boll, and upon going down
stairs, a policeman told him that he had found the door
open. The window on the landing-place was also open,
and they discovered that robbers had entered the house,
and plundered it. The sitting-room was in great dis-
order, and the locks of the chiffonier, and a cupboard,
and other depositories were broken open. Plate, con-
sisting of a tea-pot, sugar-basin, cream-jug, &c., of the
value of about 251., was stolen, and amongst the plun-
dered property was the bowl of a meerschaum pipe,
which the prosecutor's son had given to him a short time
before, and which was produced in evidence against
the prisoner. The prisoner had not been seen by the
prosecutor for twelve months, and was not received at
the house. He was perfectly acquainted with the house,
and knew where the plate was deposited and where the
cash-box was kept in the day-time. Luckily, the latter
had been taken up to the prosecutor's bed-room, as was
the custom, on the previous night. The prosecutor went
to bed at a quarter past eleven o'clock, at which time
everything was i❑ a safe and undisturbed condition.
The window was found to have been broken, and the
bolt to have been pulled back. They stem of the bull of
the pipe was 4eft behind by the thieves, who must have
been in the house for some time. They had throw❑ the
bottles of the silver cruet-stand on the floor. A drawer
over the chiffonier was undistured ; but, no doubt, if the
thieves had not been alarmed, they would have done
more mischief.

The prisoner—The complainant says that I knew
where the cash-box was kept, and if I knew as I did
that he took it up to his bed-room every night, why
should I break open the cupboard, where it was kept in
the day-time ?
The prosecutor—lt was fortunate that I had removed
it that night at any rate.
' Mr. George T. Russell, son of the prosecutor, and re-
siding at No. 93, Cheapside, stated that he had given
the meerschaum bowl to his father, after having
coloured it.

W. Romaine, a policeman of the Metropolitan division,
stated that in consequence of information which he
had received he apprehended the prisoner on Saturday
last, at two o'clock, in Lambeth. He called the .pri-
sonar by name, and said there was a charge against
him in the City, and that he must go to the station-
house to know the particulars. In the prisoner's pocket
was found the bowl of the pipe which had been identi-
fied by the prosecutor and his son.
The prisoner said he had purchased the ticket of the
pipe-bowl, and released it before the Ist of August.
It was stated by the policeman that the prisoner had
been convicted as a rogue and vagabond, having been
discovered under suspibtons circumstances, and in pos.
session of several house-breaking implements.
Remanded till Friday.
A person of excellent character, who had held tho
situation of parochial schoolmaster, at a short distance
from town, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged
with having taken a quantity of laudanum, with intent
to destroy himself.

The unhappy man had been discharged from his oc-
cupation in consequence of the operation of the new
educational system in which the establishment he super-
intended was not included. The support of six of a
family of nine was thus thrown upon the poor abided
mother, whose " stitching " from morning till night her
partner could no longer endure, and was determined
never to witness more. lie purchased as much
laudanum as would have destroyed half-a-dozen
persons, and stepping into a public-house, emptied
the bottle in a pint pot in which there was
some beer, and drank off the potion. Ire was soon
affected by the dose, and having acknowledged that an
accumulation of miseries and horrors, arising from the
dismal prospects of his family, had provoked him to the
attempt upon his life, a medical man was immediately
employed, and the stomach-pump was applied with effect.
It was, however, necessary to send the poor patient to
the hospital, and to detain him there for sezeral days, the
condition of the body having become as unhealthy as that
of his mind.

A gentleman stepped forward and said that the de-
fendant was a man of unimpeachable character, and a
perfect example to the young persons who had been un-
der his care.

Alderman Finnis soon after entered the justice-room,
and recognised the defendant as a person deserving of the
high character which had been given of him.
The LORD MAYOR.—What could have induced such a
man as you to make this dreadful attempt?—The de-
fendant, after some hesitation, said I have been in the
habit of taking laudanum to correct the want of sleep,
which has, no doubt, been produced by the distracted
state of my mind, but I am not aware that I had any
intention to commit the crime of sell destruction. If I
had God forgive me.
The LORD MAYOR said he should not discharge the
defendant without receiving something like security that
there would be no repetition of the offence.
The gentleman who had spoken in such warm term's
of the defendant at once proposed to be bail for the good
behaviour of the defendant, whose case excited the
warmest sympathy, and Alderman Finnis said he ex-
pected to be able to render him permanent service.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
COW-SHEDS IN THE METROPOLIS.—A number of cow-
keepers were summoned before Mr. Bingham, at the in-
stance of the parish of St. James, on a certificate to the
commissioners for paving the parish, signed by J. Toyn-
bee and John French, two medical men, to the effect
that the parties in question occupied premises in the
various localities specified; that the said premises were
in an unwholesome state from the accumulation of offen-
sive matter, refuse, or dung, and from want of proper
space and ventilation; and that the same was likely to
be prejudicial to the health of the occupiers or persons
whose habitations were in the neighbourhood.
The first case called on was that of John Newcombe,
cowkeeper, who kept a cow-stable in Little Marlborough-
street.

Mr. Yorke, clerk to the paving board, attended on
behalf of the parish, and produced medical certificates,
in consequence of which, and the complaints of many
of the inhabitants of St. James's, ho went to various
cow-sheds in the parish to inspect their condition. He
found generally that these sheds gave out an offensive
odour, and that there was such an accumulation of filth
as to render it not unlikely that contagious disease
might be generated. As the parish was engaged in
carrying out sanitary regulations, and as sickness pre-
vailed, and the chulera was said to be approaching, the
parish had instructed him to lay informations against
the parties who kept these sheds. In the defendant's
case he found a number of cows crowded together, and,
in addition, a tank of dung, which smelt very offensively.
The defendant, a bluff, hale, old man, said tho smell
was wholesome, and he offered his own appearance its an
evidence of the fact.
Mr. BINCINAM considered that it was necessary to take
precautions against that which might become a dan-
gerous nuisance; and on the defendants undertaking to
have their sheds cleaned regularly, the summonses were
allowed to stand over.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, AuG. 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market continued dull,
with scarcely anything doing. Great Western Quarter
Shares closed at 2 dis.
LIVERPOOL, A liG. 15.
STOCK EXCFIANGE.—The market has been rather better
to-day, but prices are not any higher. The sales are— Cale-
donian, Preference, 7 per cent., % p.—Great .Northern,
91. Bs. 9d. dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, z 6 c.—London and North
Western, 114—Ditto, New Quarters, 6s. 3d. c. p•—•
London Brighton, and South Coast, New Si. Shares, 6s. 3d.
p.—Midland Stock, 931,‘—Ditto, New Halves, 6%.--
Shrewsbury and Chester (late N. W. M.), New 131. Third
Shares, 'y's dis.—Ditto (Shrewsbury, Oswestrv,y and Chester),
77;; dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 33. 9d.
c. dis.

MANCHESTER, Atra. 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Leeds, Preferencs,
11-16 p.—Sheffield, Preference, par—Grirosby, 201. Share'.
9 3-16 dis.—North Staffordshire, 3% dis.—South-Eastern
and Dover, No. 1, 6 13-16 dis.—Ditto, No. 4, 3 13-16 c-
dis. —Caledonian, Preference, 7-16 p.—Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 37.

BIRMINGHAM, Aus. 15.
STOCK EXCMANGE.—The sales are—Birmingham. Wol'
verhampton, and Dudley, 4 p.—Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Stour Valley, 414 dis.—North Staffordshire
3,/g dis. z. d.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 6
Ditto (B), 3'si dis.—South Staffordshire, 31/9 dis.
YORK, Auo. 14.
STOCK ExcHarrox.—The business transacted to-day wss
as follows : —Great Northern, 71. 14a.—Ditto, New, 66 ex dif•
North British, Thirds, 2/. ss. 6d.
GLASGOW, Aua. 14.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 21—Cale-
donian, Preference, 575. —Dunblane, Doune, and Callender,
13s.—Glasgow General Terminus, 6:!4—Glasgow,
nock, and Ayr, 67—Ditto, Halves, No 1, 71. 3..
Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 71.—Great Northern, 7N —North
British, Thirds, 455. 9d.

MATHS.
On the 12th inst., at Weymouth, the lady of Robert A.
Cochrane, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 12th inst., at Fitzroy-square, the wife of L. Gruner'
Esq., of a daughter.
On the 12th inst., at Odsall-house, Bradford, Yorkshir°'
the wife of C. Hardy, Esq., of a sox.
On the 12th inst., at Stanhope-lodge, Greenford, JIM C.
B. Bingley, of a daughter.
At the Rectory, Solihull, on the 13th inst., the wife the
Rev.
Rev. P. M. Smythe, of a daughter. •11 the
On the 13th inst., at Ladbroke-square, Notting-hill,
lady of G. H. Ullathorne, Esq., of a daughter. Ws-
On the 13th inst., at Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park,
Meyrick, of a daughter.

DIED.
On the 12th inst., at his residence, Tapton-house, De
frbr,,
shire, George Stephenson, Civil Engineer, Knight o
Order of Leopold, in the 68th year of his age.
On the 4th inst., at Greenwich, aged 2s, Cecilia, daughtsr
of the late John Buyers, Esq., R.N.
On the 10th inst., at Montrose, Scotland, aged 30, the Ref.
Leonard Morse, 8.A., incumbent of St. Mary's, Montrose.
On the 12th inst., at Ramsgate, T. Stooks, Esq.,
ford. place, Russell.square, aged 68.
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On the 12th inst., suddenly, at Whitton Rectory,
amptonshire, 11. F. Cubitt, Esq., of Catton, near Rectory,_
late of the Royal Artillery, aged 59.
At Greenhorn, Berks. on the 12th inst., Laura Elizabeth,
the eldest daughter of Mr. G. Barnes, of Newbury.
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On the 12th inst., at Kensington-gardens-terrace, Drc-"
Eliza, wife of Dr. Markham. oxen-
On the 13th inst., at Guildford, Surrey, Mr. Thomas
ham, aged b 3.
On the 14th inst., Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. W.Radc°ck.
of Friday-street, aged 33. et
On the 12th inst., Richard Fairies:a, Est,
and Suffolid T •
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