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London, England, 1846-08-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1846.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, August 26
(Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD).
IN RE BI'LEAN.
In this case his Honour gave judgment on the applica-
tion made yesterday for an extension of the time for the
surrender of this bankrupt, on the ground of his absence
from England in consequence of ill health.
His HONOUR said, that on perusing the affidavit of Dr.
Thompson,Mr. M'Lean's medical adviser, it appeared quite
clear that he had advised the bankrupt to go to Italy for
the summer and to Madeira for tho winter, as he was la-
bouring under symptoms ofincipient consumption. Under
those circumstances, the Court was fully justified in extend-
ing the time for surrender, and he would grant an order for
forty-nine days, being the full extort of time. If, how-
ever, it was necessary to make an application, additional
affidavits must be put in, showing the state of the bank-
rupt's health at the time, and of his inability to come to
England.
The order was subseqrently drawn up, the Learned
Commissioner intimati•ag that any application for an
extension of time must be made six days before the ex-
piration of the present or,ler.
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in a situation to which it could not be thought to have
fallen. He showed them to the prisoners. Seddon said
the two accordion keys were his, and they both said they
knew nothing about the box.
John Holehouse, half-brother of deceased, examined--
The deceased wore a neckerchief like the one found
in the box in the stable. The accordion keys were
those he had. So was the little tin box. The hand-
kerchief found in the mackintosh was discoloured from
blacking.
Cross-examine)—lle first mentioned that one of the
accordion keys was imperfect and the other perfect,when
he bad been before the magistrate, to the attorney for
the prisoners.
Mrs. Wray said the neckerchief was like the one her
son had on. Another handkerchief found in Dean's
macintosh she was sure was one she gave her son when
he left home that morning to wipe his hands on.
Mr. W. Golland, surgeon, examined—He bad exa-
mined the body on the morning of the 20th. It bad a
cap on, slightly torn over the right temple. There was
a slight cut on the ear, two marks, as if nail marks, on
the neck, and a slight mark on the thigh. On removing
the scalp he found a great deal of clotted blood, on the
same side as the tear of the cap. On removing the skull
he found the brain had been much injured on the oppo-
site side. It was caused by the blow on the right tem-
ple, which had torn the cap. In his opinion death was
caused by a violent blow on the temple. The body was
in other respects quite healthy. A blow given by either
the poker or the bar of the chair produced would effect
such an injury.
The statements of the prisoners made before the ma-
gistrates were proved and read.
Seddon admitted that he had had some of the silver
found from the deceased, which he had given him, at his
request, for copper. He also said the deceased had
asked him if he had any hens to sell, and that on his
telling him that he had a dandy (bantam) hen and cock
for which he would take Is. 9d., he said he would come
and look at them. He did come; they borrowed a candle,
and he took him into the yard to see them, after which
they parted, and he had not seen the deceased since.
Dean said he had the handkerchief a month, which
he picked up by a river side, and had been left by some
boys who had been bathirg; that the marble was given
to him by Mr. Sykes's boy three weeks before; that he
had dirtied the handkerchief in the way it was dirtied
by having tied it and worn it on his foot one morning
when he was going after the cows, and when his feet
were so sore that he could not put his shoes on.
Mr. Sergeant Wrestrsis (Mr. Fry with him) addressed
the jury for the prisoners.
Mr. Justice WIGTITMAN then went through the evi-
dence of the several witnesses, and concluded at a quarter
to nine o'clock, telling the jury that if they came to the
conclusion that the deceased was murdered by those two
boys, he presumed they would be satisfied that the
younger boy had capacity to enable him to distinguish
right from wrong. _

URT OF 13ANKRUPTCY, August 23.
(Before Commissioner Ho',nom)
JOHN ED.411 SPALDING'S INSOLVENCY.
This insolvent, 'who is highly related, appeared before
the Court on h'‘.% adjourned interim order. The furmer
proceedings i'i this case have been fully reported.
Mr. PETFAISDORFF said he appeared on behalf of
Mrs. Eva;,; Gordon, who claimed part of the property
supposed. 'to belong to the insolvent, and also a sum of
money,
MX.. COOKE (for the insolvent) asked Mr. Petersdorff
lat ther he meant to say that Mrs. Gordon was a
creditor ?

Mr. LEWIS, for several creditors, objected to Mr.
Petersdorff being heard at all till he proved that his
client possessed a locus standi as a creditor.
Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD said he must hear part
of Mr. Petersdorff's statement before he could decide
whether he was in a right position or not.
Mr. PETERSDORFF then proceeded to state that
Mrs. Gordon did claim to be a creditor for a large
sum of money, as well as heiress to part of
the property supposed to belong to Mr. John
Spalding. The claim arose in this way : As long-
ago as the year 1794 a Mr. Alexander Spalding, who
held large estates in Scotland, unfortunately met his
death in w duel. Dr. Spalding, a physician, who was at
the titr.e in an extensive practice in London, being the
succeeding heir, did not choose to take possession, but
allowed a younger brother, Mr. Samuel Spalding, who
hn,•l returned from India with a large fortune, to do so
cinder certain arrangements. Now Mrs. Gordon claimed
as the heiress of Dr. Spalding, the rightful successor to
the property.
Mr. COOKE—That does not show you to be a creditor.
It may be a subject for a suit in Chancery.
Mr. LEWIS again objected to Mr. Petersdorff's pro-
ceedings. If he were suffered to make these statements,
they would be perhaps prejudicial in their effect not only
to the insolvent, but also to the creditors. The body of
creditors having agreed to a certain arrangement, it was
possible that it might be interfered with on a future oc-
casion by some new creditor, who, if he imagined Mr.
Spalding's account of his property incorrect, would per-
haps start up in opposition.
Mr. Commissioner HoLRoYD again said he must hear
Mr. Petersdorff-out.

The jury retired, and, after being out half an hour,
returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
Jane Gill, 28, described as a widower, and John Jones,
38, tailor, were indicted for feloniously stealing ten sove-
reigns, ten half-sovereigns, and other moneys, the pro-
perty of Elizabeth Berkley, in her dwelling-house, and
Thomas Webb, doll-maker, 29, was indicted for assisting
the other prisoners to commit the robbery.
Mr. Baldwin prosecuted, Mr. Payne defended Webb,
and Mr. O'Brien the other prisoners.
From the evidence adduced, it appeared that the
prosecutrix is the keeper of a brothel in Whitechapel,
and the prisoners Gill and Webb had cohabited together
and occupied a room in her house, but they had left
shortly before the robbery. On the day in question Gill
went to the house of the prosecutrix and told her that
she had met a friend who had just come from India,
and she wished the best bed-room to be kept for their
accommodation, and she at the same time particularly
requested that Webb should not be told of her pre-
tended infidelity. At night, accordingly, Gill and
Jones came to the house, and two shillings' worth of
brandy were immediately sent for, and the prisoners
mixed some brandy and water, of which the prosecutrix
and her servant partook, and there was strong ground
for supposing that the liquor was drugged, for imme•
diately after they had drunk it both the prosecutrix and
her servant became insensible, and were quite un•
conscious of what afterwards occurred. When, how-
ever, they came to themselves in the morning, it was
discovered that a cash-box, containing the money in
question, had been stolen from the bed-room of the
prosecutrix, and it also appeared that the bed-room en-
gaged by the prisoners had not been occupied, and the
candle•stick that had been given to them in the evening
was found in the bed-room from whence the cash-box
and money had been stolen. The evidence against the
prisoner Webb merely went to the extent of showing
the nature of his connexion with the female prisoner,
and also that they were all together on the night of the
robbery, and that he parted from the other two just
before they proceeded to the house of the prosecutor,
and that he was again seen in their company on the
following morning very shortly after the robbery must
have been committed. When the prisoner Jones was
subsequently taken into custody, a pair of spectacles,
which the prosecutrix identified as a portion of the
articles stolen on the night of the robbery, were found
in his pocket.

Mr. PErERSDORFF said he did not wish to prejudice the
insolvent either in the mind of the Court or of his cre-
ditors. Under the arrangements made between Dr.
Spalding and Mr. Samuel Spalding, Mrs. Gordon, ac-
cording to the Scottish law, was the heiress to the
property ; and, besides claiming it, she also made a
demand for any moneys that might have been received
by Mr. Spalding during the time it had been under his
control. All, however, that Mrs. Gordon now asked,
without desiring in the least to interrupt the proceedings
of the Court, was that her claim to this property, and
the funds received, might be registered, to show that she
had taken the proper steps to make known her preten-
sions in her future proceedings in the Scottish courts,
without being an acquiescing party for or against the
terms of arrangement between Mr. Spalding and his
creditors.
Mr. CUOKE—I have no remark to make, your Honour.
You'll see the case at once, I'm sure.
Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD—I don't tee that I can
grant the application. If you claim the estates, you
must proceed elsewhere.
No creditor opposing, a day was named for the final
order.

-- FENTON'S INSOLVENCY.
This insolvent came before the Court on his final
order. He was opposed by Mr. Sturgeon, Mr. Dowse,
and Mr. Parry for various creditors, and supported by
Mr. Cooke.

It appeared, in the course of a long:examination, that
he was originally a solicitor at Leeds. Me had married
three times, and with each wife he received considerable
property. Having lived in a style of great extravagance
in Brussels and Calais, as well as in England, he had
spent all the money acquired by his marriages, and was
now in debt to the extent of 19,0004 without assets to
pay them. He had been engaged in some bill transac-
tions with Peter Harris Abbott, but though he admitted
visiting races, he denied betting to any extent, or loss of
money by gambling. He was once victimised to the
extent of 3001. by a set of swindlers at a private house,
but be never frequented public gaming tables. It ap-
peared his only prospect of liquidating this heavy
amount of liabilities was a contingent interest in some
lawsuits.

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The COIIIIT having intimated an opinion that there
was not sufficient evidence to connect the prisoner Webb
with the transaction, the jury returned a verdict of Not
Guilty with respect to him.
Mr. O'BRIEN then addressed the jury on behalf of the
other prisoners, and called witnesses to prove that the
spectacles that were found upon him had been in his
possession a long time before the robbery. The evi-
dence upon this point was not, however, by any means
of a satisfactory character.
The RECORDER having summed up, the jury returned
a verdict of Guilty against Gill and Jones, and they
were sentenced to be transported for ten years.
Elizabeth Pink, 31, Eliza Lloyd, 23, and Hannah
Carroll, 20, were indicted for stealing six 101. notes, the
property of Thomas Jackson.

Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD said, it was very evident
the insolvent bad contracted a large amount of debt
without the reasonable means of discharging it, and had
Tired far beyond his means both at home and abroad.
Under these circumstances he should order an adjourn-
ment of two years, with liberty to the insolvent to come
up again when that period bad expired.
ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 24.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WiwiTataN.)
Joseph Dean, aged 12, and James Seddon, aged 17,
were indicted for the wilful murder of George Wray, at
Manchester, on the 19th of June last.
Mr. J. Pollock stated the case for the prosecution.
Thomas Wray examined—He was the father of the
deceased, who would have been thirteen years old in
September next. He last saw him at eleven o'clock, on
the 19th of June, when he was going out with a donkey
and boxes of black lead and blacking for sale. A boy
was with him, called Charles liolehouse, witness's step-
son, between eleven and twelve years old. He had a
little round tin box to put his silver in. He was accus-
tomed to go out selling those articles, and to return at
from eight to ten o'clock at night.
C. A. Holehouse examined—He was brother of the
deceased, and went out with him that day. They went
to several places to sell the things, and about eight
o'clock his brother counted the money. He had got
fourteen shillings, and witness gave him three which he
had got. It was in Greenhays-fields, and both the pri-
soners were present and saw him count it. They were
playing at cricket, and they continued to play after the
money was counted. Dean said he would pay for a
glass of rum if they would drink it. After a while his
brother sent witness away with the ass, and told him to
wait for him in Jenkinson-street. The prisoners heard
that. It was getting dark when witness went away and
left the prisoners with his brother. When he had
counted it, he put the silver money in the little tin box,
and that and the copper in a large tin box, which he car-
ried strapped on his back. He met him again in the
street, and after that he went to-Seddon's shop. No one
was with him then. He did not see the prisoners after
he left the fields.
Cross-examined—His brother was as tall, he thought,
as the prisoner Seddon, and was fatter. He went to
sleep on a shop steps while he was waiting for his brother
in Jenkinson-street.
A number of witnesses deposed to seeing deceased and
the prisoners in company, about ten o'clock.
Thomas Jackson, examined—He lived in Jenkinson-
street. Seddon had a coal-yard about twenty-six yards
from witness's house. He saw the prisoners and the
deceased unlocking the gate and go into the yard near
eleven o'clock. No one was with them. Wray had a
blacking-can on his arm and a stick in his hand. He
had to go to his own yard at the back of Seddon's, and
as he returned he stopped before the stable in Seddon's
yard. He thought he heard a struggle, and spoke to a
policeman, who went and kicked at the stable door, but
receiving no answer he went on his beat, and witness
went into bed. He had a cow which he expected calv-
ing, and at one o'clock he went out again. He heard
nothing then, but his wife told him something. He went
to the brook, and saw the body, and found a stick (pro-
duced) in the brook near the bridge. Seddon kept a
bantam cock and hen in the stable.
Mrs. Jackson, wife of the former witness, waked her
husband about one o'clock. Ho went out to look after a
cow. She got to the window, and looked in the direc-
tion of the coal-yard, and saw two persons standing near,
and afterwards go into the side door, and directly after
come out, and then go in again. Then they came out
and brought something out with them. They laid it
down on the flags, and then went in again, and then
dragged in what they had laid on the flags. She men-
tioned that circumstance to her husband.
James Hughes was at work in the stable of the Spread
Eagle, and from the window he saw the body in the
Amain of the brook on his back. The water was only
three inches deep. He went with the police to the place.
His head was on a stone, not in the water. The part of
his person not in the water was dry. His arms were
spread, his legs close. He appeared to have been placed
there. He had two marks on his throat.

Yin Baldwin prosecuted, and Messrs. Payne and
'lorry appeared for the prisoners.
The prosecutor, who described himself as a gentleman
living at Ramsgate upon his property, it appeared from
the evidence, had been enjoying himself on the night in
question, and at an early hour on the ensuing morning
he proceeded to a house of ill fame, kept by the prisoner
Carroll, where he went to bed with the prisoner Pink.
and when he awoke he found that all his money was
gone, and the three prisoners, being in the house, were
given into custody. The prosecutor admitted that he
had been very drunk, and had gone into several public-
houses and other places during the night, and no portion
of the stolen money was traced to the possession of
either of the prisoners.
The COURT expressed an opinion that the evidence
was not sufficient to make out the charge, and a verdict
of Not Guilty was therefore returned.
In the early part of the session a person, nairied
James Augustus Seymour, was indicted for a misde-
meanour, in having unlawfully caused a false entry of a
birth to be made in the register of St. Luke's. The
jury, under the direction of the Court, returned a spe-
cial verdict, finding the prisoner Guilty, but at the same
time expressing an opinion that he had not made any
actually false representation to the registrar. The Re-
corder has since, upon further consideration of the mat-
ter, given his opinion that the finding of the jury was
tantamount to a verdict of Not Guilty, and the prisoner
has since been discharged from custody.

1V E TV COURT.
(Before the RECORDER, Alderman FAREBROTHER, &c.)
A boy, named Augustus Phipps, was indicted for
stealing some clothes and 7s. 6d., and S. TVichelow with
receiving the same, the property of 11. Bligh.
From the statement of the prosecutor, it appeared that
on Saturday, the 25th ult., he was walking with the pri..
soners and some of their acquaintances, and being joined
by a boy and a girl they went towards Leicester-square,
where they went into a public-house. After leaving the
public-house he felt very giddy, and then discovered that
he had lost the clothes and money in question. From
information ho had received he had the two prisoners
arrested. Phipps was Srst taken and confessed to having
committed the robbery, and offered the prosecutor 18/.
if he would say nothing about the matter, which he (the
prosecutor) refused.

The parties who had joined the prosecutor and the
prisoners were examined, and stated that they were
aware of the prisoner's intention to commit the robbery
some weeks before, and that they had shared in the
plunder.

- The prisoners wero found Guilty, and sentenced to
six months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
Mary Coster was indicted for stealing some blankets
and sheets from the dwelling-house of Mr. Charles
Butcher, by whom she had been employed as char-
woman.

The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to three
months' imprisonment.

Cross-examined—They then thought he had been in a
fit and fallen from off the bridge. •
Joseph Bailey, policeman—He went to the brook with
the last witness, and took the body out, He searched
and found nothing on him. A tin can was lying about
a yard from the body. He had a cap on.
John Taylor, inspector of police at Manchester, ex-
amined—He sent for Dr. Golland to the deceased to ex-
amine him. His cap had a cut in it (produced). His
coat was much torn (produced). He directed the
prisoners to be apprehended at ten o'clock on the
morning of the 20th. He told them he was informed
they had been in company with the deceased the night
before, and he should detain them. They both said
they left the deceased at eleven o'clock, in Burn's-
street, and had not seen him since. He afterwards
went to the cabin, and found 2s. 41d. in copper, in a
stocking in an unlocked box, and a blue half-handker-
chief. He showed them to the prisoners, and Seddon
said they were his—that it was coal money. There was
no coal in the yard.
John Lee, policc,man—lle and another policeman ap •
prehended the prisoners at half-past nine at Seddon's
father's. He searched them, and found four keys, 2d.
in copper, and two accordion keys on Seddon. He went
to the coal-yard, and in the cabin he found a key which
unlocked the stable door, and behind a. step-ladder, be-
tween the board and the wall, he found a small tin box

have in the world, but if you will suffer me to go at
large, I will endeavour to get more, and I wilj all.
Mr. Jardine gave the prisoner a mont'X to pay the
remaining 55., and he left the Court promising to pay
within the time.
Michael Downey, who stands charged with stabbing
John Sullivan, at a public-house in Oxford-street, where
the latter was at work, on Tuesday week, having been
remanded from thid day week, was placed at the bar for
final examination this morning."
The evidence given on a former occasion was repeated,
and taken down in the form of depositions.
Sullivan himself was in attendance this morning, and
(pave the same account of the case as had been given by
the other witnesses. He appeared very weak and thin,
but seemed to be recovering.
Mr. Smith, the house surgeon of King's College
Hospital, gave evidence as to the nature of the wounds.
The witnesses were severally bound over to prosecute,
and the prisoner was committed for trial.
A bricklayer's labertrer, named George Knight, was
placed at the bar charged with committing a burglary
in the house of Mr. I'. Green, M.P., of 19, Duke-street,
Westminster.
The circumstances, as detailed in evidence, disclosed
an adventure, on the part of the prisoner, of the most
impudent character. A housemaid, named Sarah Herd-
man, having occasion to go to her bed-room at about
eight o'clock in the evening, discovered the prisoner
lying on her bed, apparently asleep. She ran down to
acquaint the butler of the fact, but on their joint return
they found that he had taken his departure from a
window leading to a balcony, facing, also, an adjoining
bed-room. Nicholls, the butler, suspecting the route
lie had taken, made his way on to the r )of through the
latter room, where he found the prisoner in the custody
of police-constable A 39, who, having had his attention
directed by a neighbour to the movements of the man
upon the roofs of the houses, ascended and took him into
custody, although not without considerable resistance
on the part of the prisoner, while on the top of the
house.
In the possession of the prisoner were found a shawl
and dress, some boots, &e., the property of inmates of
Mr. Green's house, by whom they were identified in
court.
The prisoner had been seen by a female servant in
another house making his way to the roof by a ladder,
but was not suspected.
Mr. HENRY committed the prisoner to Newgate for
trial.

It was intimated to the Court, in the latter part of
the day, that a similar burglary had been committed
in the same division, and that the prisoner was suspected
concerning it. Upon this representation Mr. Henry
ordered him to be brought up again on Wednesday
week.

It was also stated that the prisoner, while in custody
in the nigt•cell, had actually robbed another delinquent,
who had been placed with him, of 4s. 6d.
MAI?T'LEBONE.

RIOT AND OUTRAGE BY IRISH LABOURERS.—On
Tuesday, long before the period for the opening of the
court, an immense number of persons assembled in the
passage leading thereto to hear the examination of the
Irish labourers implicated in the outrage at Camden
Town, the leading particulars of which have appeared
in our paper. The case was called on early, but as the
solicitor for the prosecution was not quite ready, it was
ordered to stand over till one o'clock.
At the appointed hour the prisoners, 20 in number,
were brought in, and placed at and around the bar; they
gave their names Joseph Glory, John Crimming, John
_Duggan, John Donohue, John Tracey, Jeremiah Keluhar,
John Brohn, Patrick O'Donnell, Jeremiah Donohue,
Thomas Maloney, Patrick Ginnew, Timothy Kclahar,
Thomas O'Donnell, John Sheehan, James Kennedy,
Thomas Kinlove, John Cooper, Eugene Madden, Tobias
Hackett, and John Lyons.
Mr. Humphreys said he appeared in compliance with
the directions of the London and North-Western Rail-
way Company; and Mr. Robinson on behalf of five of
the accused parties.
Mr. Humphreys briefly addressed the Bench, setting
forth that the railway company, for whom he had the
honour: to attend, had works to a great extent now
going on at the Camden station, and that the prisoners,
with a vast number of other labourers. were employed
thereon • they were in the employ of the contractors for
the works alluded to, and that, owing to a contention
betweeno
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two parties,ostdesperate
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Irish andd. Some occu English,rrea riot
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assault of
the Englishmen, one or two of whom were in an
hospital, were so much injured as to be unable to give
evidexco at present. The Company, from all the facts
which had come to their knowledge regarding the riot,
had felt themselves bound to take up the matter, and he
(Mr. Humphreys) was of opinion that he should be able,
by the production of numerous witnesses, to prove the
guilt of the prisoners ; in the event of his doing so to a
certain extent, he should have to pray for a remand until
a future day, when the injured persons to whom he had
makeallud their ownedwoul statements.d,hehope
hoped, be sufficiently recovered to
Several surgeons' certificates were handed to Mr.
Rawlinson, and it appeared that some of the injured
parties (absent) were in a very precarious condition
from sundry cuts and blows which they had received on
the head and body.
Many of the witnesses in attendance bore evidence of
the sanguinary treatment which they had received, some
of them having their eyes shockingly swollen and dis-
coloured, and others with their arms io slings. One of
them was scarcely able to stand, ie consequence of the
kicks inflicted upon his head and the lower part of his
person.
The first witness called was
Carter, railway constable, 175, who said—Yesterday
afternoon, about half-past two o'clock, I saw a great
many of the Irish labourers coming towards Roundhouse-
gate, Camden Town, at which I was stationed, when
Duggan, who was one of them, crossed the ground, and
spoke to others at the gate. I told him I had orders not
to admit any one through the ground except those who
were at work inside, when he went back a little way, and
afterwards again attempted to come, at the same time
beckoning to one of his companions to do so too. I
caught hold of him and pushed him away, upon which
he said that if I didn't let him alone he would knock
my head in. I then tried to put up the bar of the
gate, but was prevented from doing so by three of the
prisoners and some others, who pulled me forward with
great force into the road, when the prisoner Glory, and
several more, struck me in a very violent manner.
I seized hold of him (Glory), and immediately I
was knocked down and kicked on the head and
body by him and about a dozen more. (Wit-
ness's face was much cut and bruised.) I cried aloud for
assistance, and on some of the English labourers at work
inside of the gate coming to see what was the matter,
they were felled to the ground by blows inflicted upon
them with shovels, bricks, &c. I again laid hold of
Glory, and while in the act of taking him away, Cum-
ming
and four others came up with brickbats and
threatened to knock my brains out if I didn't let him go,
and feeling convinced from their manner that they
would have no hesitation in putting their threat into
execution, I suffered him to escape. This morning
Madden came to the ground to take away some hods,
and he was then recognised as being "the man who had
broken four of the ribs of one of the navigators (now in
the hospital) at the time of the affray.
Thomas Moore deposed to having seen the violence
committed upon the first witness, whose cries of "mur-
der" attracted him to the spot. He (Moore) was knocked
down by a blow on the face, given by John Donohue,
and he lay upon the ground nearly smothered in blood,
when he beard Duggan and Jeremiah Donohue say,
" Kill the ; let's slip it into him—let's murder
him." He at length got up, and while making off he
was seriously hurt in the ribs and legs by bricks which
were hurled at him by several of the party. He at
length with great difficulty contrived to effect his escape
from the scene of the outrage.
Mary Randall, wife of one of the English labourers,
said that her husband was a workman at the Camden
station, where she heard an alarm of " murder!" She
went there, fearing that something might have happened
to him, and she then saw a man lying upon the ground,
while five other men—Timothy Kinlahan being one of
them—were kicking him most brutally, crying, " Kill
the -- Protestant!"
Charles Kean (the man who was assaulted in the way
described by the last witness) stood up. Ile was shock-
ingly bruised upon the face, and his eyes were much
swollen. lie had merely gone to see what was the ease
of ,the disturbance, when he was attacked in so savage
a way.
A great number of other witnesses %ere examined,
and from the statements made by them it appeared
that the outrage upon the Englishmen was shocking in
the extreme. Many of them were at one time lying
bleeding upon the ground, having been struck with pick-
axes, spades, sticks, kc., and it was wonderful that no
one was killed on the spot.
The witnesses were severally cross-examined by Mr.
Robinson. All of the prisoners were positively identi-
fied as having acted prominently in the outrage, with the
exception of Ginnew and Maloney ; the latter two were
discharged, and the rest stand remanded till Thursday
next.
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET. On they
English labourers leaving the court they were
friends of th other party with execra-
A man of gentlemanly appearance and manners was tions assailed ,
and one of theme narrowly escapedlou receiving a
charged by policeman F 116 with assaulting him. violent blow. Te olice were ed to draw their
The policeman said that he was on duty on Tuesday in truncheons, an eventually two of the ringleaders were
one of the lanes which lead from the Strand to the bank secured and charged before the magistrate, who ordered
of the river, and saw the prisoner, with a woman of bad one to find bail, and fined the other 10s. In order to
character, sitting at the top of the steps. Suspecting prevent eotifhsion, and any Attempt at rescue, the Go-
that they went there for an unlawful purpose, he ap- verfUnCht van, upon its arrival at five o'cloole, instead of
preached them, when the prisoner called out to him, being driven up to the entrance in Paradise-street) *as
" What do you want ? Go away, policeman." And on backed up against the private entrance ht his still advancing, rose and attacked him with a cane,
twhheTerhenientahnedcaoccnuryeldvd.wteore Withottt molestation placed
which the witness now produced.
The prisoner thought the policeman must have
to
,dwahSomhitahs,
ntahnodbtwtee.
exaggerated, though not wilfully, as he could not believe
Old Bailey
that under any circumstances he could make use of such MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
inquiry ucir3sceupewnieeisdie.niperaisrolyn.three hours.
language as was ascribed to him. But, however, he was volßenh
at the time so drunk that he could not remember what tried at the money
had occurred.
under false pretences, was charged before Mr. Maltby,
kvsenersoaswli
sessions,
times
ei caftoirm convictedi
obtaining
a ionfi g
Mr. JARDINE said that the assault on the policeman by Mr. Knevitt, the secretary of the Mendicity Society,
was not a very severe one, but still the police and the with attempting to obtain money from the Countess of
public must be protected. He would fine the prisoner Lincoln, 19, Whitehall-place, under the false pretence
51., or sentence him to one month's imprisonment. that she was a widow with five children, one of them a
The prisoner said that in that case he must go to pris son, who bad died in an infirmary to which he had been
son; for although he was a person of respectability, he recommended by L could prove that he had not the means of obtaining 5/., to raise funds to
buryady him. Lincoln, and that she wished
being in fact very poor. The sentence was very severe, llorsford, the officer of the Mendicity Society, stated
and ho hoped the Magistrate would commute it. that having occasion to call at No. 19, Whitehall-place,
Mr. JARDINE said he would consider the matter and on Tuesday, to make some inquiries repecting another
make some inquiries. In the meantime the prisoner begging letter impostor, he there founds the prisoner, of
was put back. In about an hour he was brought in, and whom he had been for some time in search. He told
Mr. JARDINE said—l have made some inquiries about her she was his prisoner, on a charge of obtaining four
you, and I learn that you are not able to pay the fine. pounds and some clothes from a Miss Blanchard, 19,
I thought at first that you were a person who could New Ormond-street. She acknowledged that her re-
afford it. If I were to inflict the full penalty, lam con- presentations to that lady were all false, but that she
vinced that you could only go to prison, and Ido not had only received 21. 16s
6d. and some clothes, and not
think you deserve that. Still I cannot let you go un- 4/. While he was ' with butler came into
talking her the
punished, and I must fine you 10s. the hall with a sovereign for her from Lady Lincoln, in
The prisoner—Sir, considering that this was only a answer to a letter,
addressed by the prisoner, to Lady
charge of drunkenness, and would be treated as such, I Lincoln,
which ha ( orsford) prevented her receiving,
bormed 51. this nion.aing &Qui 4 44011 d. 411 Iby gating shi her represenmeas were entirely fiase.

Elizabeth Hoddle, lady's maid to the Countess of Lin-
coln, stated that the prisoner brought a letter, which she
delivered to Lady Lincoln, and stated that she had seen.
Lady Lincoln a few days since, and that IL r Ladyship had
given her assistance to get her buy, who was afflicted
with a complaint on the hip, into an infirmary, where
an operation had been performed on him, of which he
died three hours afterwards, and that she was in want of
10s. to bury him, but requested her ladyship to lend her
a sovereign. Believing her tale to be true, her ladyship
gave witness a sovereign for her, which was about being
given to her when the officer interfered and said her
tale was all false.

In answer to Mr. MALTBY, Horsford further stated that
she had confessed that All her representations were false,
and begged both him and Mr. rinevitt not to give her
into custody.
The prisoner threw herself upon the mercy of the
Court.

Mr. AiArany sentenced her to three morgs' impri-
sonment in the House of Correction, and the conviction
to be returned.

Mary Ann flratwn was charged by Horsford with at-
tempting to obtain money from Lady Lincoln under the
representation that she was born at Retford, near the
Earl of Lincoln's seat, and married to a man named
Healing, a tenant of his Lordship.
These! representations Iloraford proved to he false, and
she was sentenced to two months' imprisonment.

THE 'SEASON AND THE CROPS.
During the last week the weather has been very un-
favourable in this part of the country for the drying of
the grain, and the greater part of it still remains in the
fields, cut, but not in a tit state to be housed. It
has several times been almost ready for stacking,
but in each case rain has come before it was
thoroughly dry, and has rendered a further delay
necessary. On several days the weather has been
warm and close, as well as wet, which rendered it
doubly dangerous to the grain. Saturday was the finest
day that we had last week, and the believers iu the in-
fluences of the moon predicted that we should have a
tine month, but present appearances are much against
the truth of their predictions. The grain most have sui.-
fered in some degree from this long continuance of damp
close weather, wherever it is not secured, that is, in the
north of England, in Scotland, and in the greater part of
Ireland. The accounts from the south and centre of Eng-
land state that it has there been secured in good order.
The fatal disease in the potatoes continues to spread in
every part of the country. Scarcely a field has es-
caped in South Lancashire and Cheshire. Ou the open
sandy lands, extending from Warrington to High Legh,
as well as in the district which we described last week,
the disease prevails everywhere. Its ravages
are much more general and fatal than they
were last year. Then it principally prevailed in
wet and heavy soils, whilst this year it exists in soils
of every kind ; then goodness of cultivation appeared to
check it, whilst now the best cultivated crops are the
first to be seized with the malady. Some of the worst
specimens of the disease are to be found in perfectly
dry soils, a here the potato has never Lea grown
before, and where the greatest care has been taken
in selecting healthy seed. Hopes were entertained by
many parties that new varieties of the potato might
be raised from foreign seed, which would be free from
this disease; but we learn from Mr. Skirving, that
of twenty-five foreign varieties grown by him in his
nursery grounds at Walton, nut one has escaped.
The sorts tried by Mr. Skirving were brought from
every part of Europe and America, and after so entire a
failure, in the hands of so skilful a cultivator as he is uni-
versally allowed to be, we fear that the prospect of re•
newing the crop from foreign seed is very slight. In this
neighbourhood, and in other parts of Lancashire and
Cheshire, some farmers speak of giving up the cultiva-
tion of the potato, except on a small scale, and of turning
their attention to milk and hay. In most instances they
will be compelled to do so by the want of seed, far none
Les. The
of the potatoes are likely to ripen properly this year,
and it is therefore very itn probable that they will keep
exemption of these
until n sEp r pug;
counties from this awful scourge, at which we so often
—alosi.lueDl.l);LiaTSEin.
congratulated ourselves, no longer exists. Within the
last ten days the dreadful reality has displayed
itself, and is readable by every eye in the black
pestiferous fields which were anon teeming with
luxuriant verdure, indicative of prolific crops.
Throughout the whole district the potato crop has
been blighted, the stems are black and withering, setting
forth, where decomposition has taken hold of the
roots, a disagreeable fmtid odour ; and to such an
extent does this prevail, that it is impossible to say
whether even a tithe of the crop will be available for
food. The characteristics of the disease need not be
enumerated, as they are the same here as elsewhere ;
and what is vexatious is, that no effectual remedy is
known for arresting its impetuous ravages. Cutting or
pulling off the shows has been recommended ; but where
the cause of the disease is not known, any prescription
must be very problematical. Some persons have com-
menced to plough up the fields not far from this : and if
the crops were nearly ripe this would be right ; but in
their present immature state, we doubt the -advantage of
so doing, particularly where, upon trial, the roots are
not all giving way. The disease is now pervading the
whole empire, and no locality is free of it ; but in no dis-
trict will it be more severely felt than in the Northern
Highlands, where the bulk of the population subsist on
potatoes as their daily food, -for which, we fear, no ade-
quate substitute can be provided. In these circumstances
the most gloomy prospects are only open to us, of which
we do not see the end, or the intensity of the distress that
impends. In the meantime we recommend to all classes
to look the danger fully in the face—to break up no
fields until the rottenness of all the roots is proved, and
in preparing tainted potatoes for food, to pare off all the
parts diseased before boiling. The establishment of starch
mills and flour mills has been suggested, and the suggestion
should not be lost sight of. Measures of relief will be ab-
solutely necessary in thesecounties, where the potato is the
chief subsistence of many, as in Ireland ; and we doubt
not that the Ministry, who have so timeously and hu-
manely made provision to meet this visitation of Providence
in the sister isle, will turn a ready and willing ear to any
representation which may be addressed to them from this
country. The approaching meeting of the Highland and
Agricultural Association of Scotland, in Inverness,
aftbrds a most fitting opportunity for deliberation
as to the measures which are necessary in the present
juncture; and viie sincerely hope, that as not only most of
our northers proprietors and farmers will be assembled
there, but many from other parts of the kingdom, as well
as the directors of this great Association, which truly re-
presents the agricultural interests of the whole of Scot-
land, the opportunity will not be lost of discussing
this very important question, and of adopting such a
course of action as may justify us in hoping that our
country will not be left without some substitute for the
important article of food, of which, it is now certain, the
poor among us will this year be utterly deprived.—Ross
shire Advertiser.

THE CROPS IN SCOTLAND.
(From the Rosa-shire Advertiser.)
DUMFRIESSHIRE.—The past week has not been so
favourable for the important operations of harvest as
was earnestly desired over a wide district of country.
Around Dumfries about two-thirds of the grain have
been cut, and where the farmers were enabled to get an
early start, the fields have been cleared of their stocks,
and these safely deposited in the barn-yard. This only
applies to our own immediate locality, however ; and
even on the sunny slopes of the Tinwald hills, nearly
all the grain remains standing, while much of it is
still decidedly green. A good many sales of growing
grain have taken place, and wherever the crop has
not suffered seriously from the weather, the de-
mand has been fair, and in some cases brisk. The
uncertainty which still hangs over the grain mar-
ket has not been without its effect, however ; and
as, several places, where beavy crops, which had suffered
from rain and floods, were exposed to competition, the
sales went on so languidly, that they were stopped
altogether. Prices for oates have ranged from 51. to 11/.
per acre, according to quality; and the only instance
we are aware of where this figure was exceeded is at
Mountainhall, where 111. 9s. were given for crop of un-
questionably a very superior description. Barley has
been sold at 71. per acre, the crop being short in the
straw, as is generally the case all over the country.
Oats are looking remarkably well this season through-
out the district of Cunningham. At the sales, a keen
competition, and good prices have realised. At
Dunlop, at a late sale, from 101. to 121. per old Scotch
acre was readily obtained, which is an advance of be-
tween 20s. to 30s. on the last year's rates,
FORFARSHIRE.—The heavy rains which fell towards
the end of last week were unfavourable to harvest ope-
rations, which are now generally commenced in this
neighbourhood. Several farmers express a dread leg
the alternately hot and rainy weather cause the grain to
sprout in the stook, or in the fields where it has been
lodged. Tho potatoes are now by all conjectured as
almost a lost crop. Fields which a few weeks ago ap-
peared in all the luxuriance of vegetation, and gave
every sign of promising an abundant crop, are now co-
vered by one mass of blackened "shaws." It is a pain-
ful sight to behold the ravages thus created. Some time
pgo it was announced that the grain crops were seined
with a disorder similar to that which had attacked the
potatoes; but we are given to understand that th•
damage will at most not exceed that of an average
blight. Though oats at one time had the appearance of
being more than an average crop, so many fields of them
hating been lodged and their whitening so rapidly have
given rise to a dread that the grain, though bulky, will
hot be of the average Weight.
We have still to lament the progress of the potato
disease, although some accounts seem to induce hopes
that a rew quariers may comparatively escape from it.
On this point, however, it is impossible to make any con-
tinent statement. In xarlous places where the crop has
manifestly failed, the ground has been cleared, and
planted with greens, cabbages, and other vegetables.
In other eases, the potatoes, hopeless as the appear-
ance of the stems is, have been allowed to remain in
the ground, lad the tildefaking up shall have ar-
rived, whithns e3ifiecieu to De a mon:::
,nrlier thau.
short,
withioirEt
KEITH,
ignorancesAc yi:
rtl e ,13 an do
Ifvt
eh
thee
regretsurfacereal t
epidemic,
eipdoemtaitco
usual. In some instances, the stems have been cut down
quick lime, and the earth raised around the plants. In
causes powderedt
people are glad to try anything in the way of
ateofthtahte
the
with
experi-
ments, in the hope of arresting ik—Aberdeen Journal
taint has, to some extent, appeared in "
this district for
the last week. It commences in the
low grounds or hol-
lows, but gradually reaches the high grounds also. E
field is more or less tainted, both stem and root ;
not-
withstanding,verY we think the calamity is much exaggerated,
and, so far as we can judge in the meanti •
me, we antici-
pate only partial damage, which the abundant and very
fine grain crop will amply make up.
Ro

,BBERY Or RAILWAY SCRIP.--Or I Tuesday the police
received information that a gentleman had had his pocket
picked of a letter containing ei,x.ty-fiye shared in the gall-
burgh au4 reebles BAilyray.