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INTELLIGENCE.
XFORD ClRCUlT.—Stafford, July 26.
OWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT).
diam Harding Flint was indicted for the man-
,hter of Elizabeth Riley, the wife of Thcmas Riley,
figh Sheen, in this county, on the 28th of March

t.
Mr. Huddleston and Mr.. Woolrych conducted the
prosecution, and Mr. W. EL Cooke, and Mr. Scotland
defended the prisoner.
The prisoner, it appeared, had for ,many years practised
extensively as a surgeon and acconcheur at Longnor, a
place about two miles from Riley's :esidence. The de-
ceased on the day in question having all the symptoms
of an approaching confinement with her L'hird child, her
husband sent for the prisoner to attend he;. be having
attended her at the birth of her second ch ild. The
prisoner arrived at the house about two o'clock in the
morning.
Evidence at great length was then given to show Oat
the deceased had been improperly treated, and sunk un-,
der it.

A surgeon, who had made a post mortem examination,
stated that in his opinion midwifery instruments had
been improperly used, and that proper surgical skill had
not been applied to the case. It was then elicited from
the witness, on cross-examination, that even a very skil-
ful man might be mistaken as to the proper mode of
dealing with cases like the deceased's.
Mr. Baron PLATT here interposed, and said that, as it
had now appeared that the rupture of vital parts had
caused the death, and that such rupture might have been
the result of natural causes, the charge of manslaughter
could hardly be pressed under the present circumstances,
he would recommend the jury to say that there was
not sufficient evidence to show that the prisoner had
been the cause of the death; and ultimately, under his
Lordship's direction,
Tho jury found the prisoner Not Guilty, the foreman
stating their opinion to be that the death may have arisen
from natural causes.

the trial lasted some hours, and created considerable
interest in the neighbourhood.
NISI rRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE,
and Special and Common Juries.)
The two cases disposed of did not admit of any public
notice whatever.

ROME ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, July 26.
The commission for the county of Kent was opened on
Tuesday by the Lord Chief Baron. There are twenty-
eight causes for trial, and seventy-five prisoners, but
none or the charges against them appear to be of a very
serious character.

(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)
STEBBING V. COYLE.

This was an action to recover a sum of 7001., the ba-
lance due upon a promissory note for 1,2501., made by
the defendant, who pleaded that the whole amount had
really been paid.
Sergeant Shee and Mr. Bovill were for the plaintiff ;
Mr. M. Chambers and ➢lr. Wordsworth for the de-
fendant.

The parties in this action were well known upon the
turf, and it appeared that there had been a good many
money transactions between them. In 1845 the defen-
dant held three bills in promissory notes, amounting al-
together to more than 1,2001., and he placed them in the
bands of the plaintiff, who gave him consideration for
them to their full amoun•. When these bills became
due, the plaintiff was unable to get them paid, some of
the parties being out of the way, and others not being in
a condition to pay, and at]engtri the defendant consented
to give his owu promissory note, payable on demand, for
the full amount of the three bills, the understanding
being between the parties that the three original bills
should he retained by the plaintiff's solicitor as colla-
teral security, and that the defendant should pay off his
own promissory note by instalments to suit his conve-
nience. Accordingly, it appeared that about 5701. had
been paid off by different sums, at intervals, but at length
the defendant declined to pay any more money, and he
now set up as a defence to this action that he had paid
the whole amount of the bill.

The bill having been put in, together with the admis-
sion of the defendant that it was his handwriting.
Mr. CHAMBERS addressed the jury, and called a wit-
ness named Sibree, who swore positively that he was
present at a room i❑ an inn in Doncaster, where he saw
the plaintiff and the defendant, and the latter, in an-
swer to a question from Mr. Stebbing, said he had won
3001., and then the subject of the twelve hundred
pounds bill was introduced, and he was asked to calcu-
late amount of interest that was due upon it, and he
said that when he had done so a balance was struck,
and the whole amount that was due was paid by the
defendant in notes and gold, and he said also that the
plaintiff promised to give Coyle the 1,2001. bill the next
day.
Upon his being ' cross-examined, this witness said
that he had been in business as a wine-merchant, and
became a bankrupt, and was charged with concealing
his property, and was imprisoned for eighteen months
for defrauding his creditors.
In order to rebut the testimony of this witness, Ser-
geant Shee called Mr. Roberts, the attorney for the
plaintiff, and he stated that he was present when the
arrangement was made with regard to the delivery of
the promissory note in question for the three bills that
were in the plaintiff's possession, and he also proved
the payment of the different sums by the defendant to
reduce the amount down to the 25th of May, 1847.
He likewise stated that, after the time mentioned by
the witness Sibree, when the balance was alleged to have
been paid, he saw the defendant upon the subject of the
balance due upon the bill, and told him that if he did
not make some arrangement to pay the amount, that
the plaintiff would sue him and recover it, upon which
he said he did not care if he did, for if he were sued, he
owed eighteen hundred pounds more, and he should
wipe it all off in the Insolvent Court, and at that time
he said nothing about the bill having been paid.
Mr. Cualaux.R. then addressed the jury, upon this
additional evidence for the plaintiff, and he urged that
the defendant had made out his plea by the evidence of
the witness Sibree. He said it was not tecause a man
had been unfortunate that he was, therefore, disentitled
to being believed.

The bum, Banox—Oh, the eighteen months' im-
prisonment, you know, may be said to have completely
whitewashed him, and he came out of gaol quite pure
and above suspicion .—(A laugh.)
Sergeant SHEE was about to reply upon the whole
case, but was stopped by
Te LORD CHIEF BARON, who said it appeared to him
that it was quite unnecessary he should do so. The
witnesses swore directly in contradiction to each other,
but on one side they had the evidence of a man who
had been i.npri,oned for eighteen months for fraud, and
in the other there was the testimony of a respectable
person, whose evidence appeared to be above suspicion.
The jury immediately returned a verdict for plaintiff.

NORTHERN CIRC f.—York, July 20.
(Before Mr. Ju3tice CRESSWELL and a Special Jury.)
GuAvnuax a. EVERETT.
This action resembled the one tried yesterday, being
an action of debt for not setting out tithe, to which the
defendant pleaded that he was not indebted.
The plaintiff was proved to be entitled to the tithes of
the rectory of 0 wston, as the lessee of the Archbishop
of York.
The defendant's case was, that the lands in respect of
which tithes were sought to be recovered formed part
of a district called the South Ings, which, prior to
1793, had always paid a modus of 4d. an acre, as was
proved by old receipts. In 1793. a Mr. Morris became
lessee, and he was succeeded by his nephew, who became
bankrupt in 1812. His assignees sold them, in 1840,
to the plaintiff. Since 1793, the lessees had always re
fused to accept the modus. Tithes in kind were never
paid or rendered.
Verdict for the defendant.

His Lordship then proceeded to try prisoners.
Sarah Stubbs and Abigail Stubbs were charged with
having, at Harrogate, on the 15th of July, caused the
death of their father by throwing him down stairs.

The particulars of this case have recently appeared in
this paper, and will therefore be fresh in the recollection
of our readers.
After hearing the evidence, the jury instantly re-
turned a verdict of Acquittal.
Before rising last evening, Mr. Justice Erie passed the
following sentences :
Williams Burrows, aged 21, for a burglary in, and
beating the inmates of the house of Wm. Soave, at
Bishopside, West Riding, on the 4th of July, to be
transported for fourteen years.
Thomas Bailey, aged 28, was, for a felony not named,
sentenced to be transported for fourteen years.
Peter Afachan, aged 34, for three burglaries at
Scarborough, on the 23d of November, on the 25th
f May, and the 4th of June, to be transported for
ten years.

Edward Dickinson, aged 23, for stealing a maro on
the 4th of May, at Wakefield, to be transported for
seven years.
James Frith, aged 31, for stealing. a horse at Shef-
field, on the 6th of April last, to be transported for
sev'n years.

Matthew Thompson, aged 37, for stealing a mare
on the 24th of April, at Bilbrough, to be transported
fur seven years.
Thomas Will, aged 23, for a burglary on the 29th
of June, at Cliff, in the East Riding, to be imprisoned,
with hard labour, for twelve months.
Thomas Hall, aged ", for a burglary on the 15th
of May, at Middleton, in the East Riding, for six
months.
John Matthews, clerk to the Midland Railway Com-
pany, for embezzling 101. and upwards, of the Com-
pany's money, for six months.
Eliza
,Booth, aged 34, for bigamy on the 18th of Sep-
tember, at St. Pancras, Middlesex, to be imprisoned
three months.
The five girls who pleaded guilty to robbery and vio-
lence in a house of ill-fame at Leeds, were sentenced,
two of them to be transported for ten years, two for
even years, and the other to be imprisoned six months
with hard labour.
(Before Mr. Justice CaEssavxm..l
Sarah and Abigail ,Stublts, sisters, whose age was not
given, but who appeared about 24 or 26, and not hand-
some, were charged
with manslaughter, in having caused
father, by throwing him down
_
te
tine death of their own
stairs, on Saturday, the lat h July, at Ilarroga .
p
The case has recently
appeared
substanceearecl in the
of the papers,ev idaend
nce
Ann Stubbs, the it
, may be sufficient to state
mother,th said
he was 73. The pri-
soners
were unmarried, Sarah
the elder. They had

thej Harrogate visitors. Her husband had eaten no
solid food for three days. The quarrel began with her.
The prisoners had earned three shillings, and she only
gave them two, when the father came in and struck
Sarh on the side of the head, saying he would let her
know who was master there. He then went up stairs
to turn their boxes out of the house. They had gone
up. He was in a great passion, and she went to the
door, pretending for a policeman. On her return she
found Abigail holding up her father on the landing.
She said, " I want you, mother, my father has tumbled
down stairs and killed himself."
Mr. Parry, a surgeon, said he examined the body;
it was quite healthy. There was a slight bruise on
the head. The stomach was empty. He attributed
death to the shock of the nervous system, from struggle
and fall.
By the JuDGE---If he had been thrown down stairs
with any force, or had fallen down headlong, there must
have been greater bruises.'
Mr. J. POLLOCK addressed the jury for the prisoners.
The Learned Junes summed up, and the jury almost
immediately Acquitted the prisoners, and they were
discharged.

THE CHARTIST RIOTS.
F. Vicory, 30 ; Henry Walton, 35 ; Wm. Snith, 19 ;
Henry Whitcombe, 21; James Downs, 19; Isaiah Heaton,
22; Wm. Camer, 31; Wm. Winterburn, 20; Wm. Sugar,
and John Johnson were charged with riot and assaulting
a policeman in the execution of his duty on the 29th of
May last, at Hoxton, iii the West Riding.
Mr. KNow.nus (the Hon. Mr. Phipps and Mr. Overend
a7ith him) stated the case for til:e Crown.
A. brief outline of the case may :office on the present
ocel,:sion, as a full report was given at !he time, nor was
there ,Ntight to distinguish this from the goneral run of
Chartist meetings, of which the papers have been full
ad nauseant.
It will perhaps be recollected that a meeting was beld
on the 29th of gay, at Bradford, on the occasion of one
Jefferson, a blacksmith, who had obtained the cognomen
of Wat Tyler, being charged with drilling. There had
been a meeting also of be well disposed. The following
is Mr. Pollard's, a magisiTate's, account:—Bradford was
in a very excited state, and bad been for three months.
On tke afternoon of the 29th be went out with a large
body of police and specials, and soldiers. Before they
had proceeded far they met a large concourse of people;
stones were thrown, the specials were driven back, and
the military were brought forward. They bad three or
four troops of horse, and four or five companies of infan-
try in Bradford. The police had cutlasses; there were
about 60 of them, and 500 specials.
Other witnesses were called to prove the part each
took in the affray. Many stones were thrown, and
truncheons used, but no very serious results. ne of
the prisoners, Sugar, had a dagger, and on his way to
prison he said that he had intended stabbing it into the
guts of a policeman or a special.
Mr. J. POLLOCK addressed the jury for the defendants.
Mr. Justice ERLE summed up with great care and
minutenss.
After which the jury found all Guilty, except Walton,
whom they Acquitted.

SentenCe defrred.
The trial lasted half the day, but did not excite any
great interest.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

A young woman named Eliza Ashton, was again
brought up on the charge of obtaining money under false
pretences from Mr. Chubb, of St. Paul's church-yard.
Mr. Chubb stated that the prisoner called on him, and
said that she had been recommended to do so by a Mr.
Nicholson, residing in Upper-street, Islington, whom he
knew. She represented that her father was in great
distress, in consequence of an execution having been put
in by the landlord, and all that her parent wished was
half-a-crown to make up the amount necessary to have
the distress taken out of the house. Having some sus-
picion, he gave her half-a-crown, but sent one of his
clerks with her to the place where she said her father
resided, to ascertain the truth of her story, but on her
way she altered her plan, and told that individual that
she lived at another part of London, and having led him
a dance, he eventually gave her into custody. Mr. Ni-
cholson had been sent to, and he denied all knowledge
of her.
Mr. George Mackie, of the City-road, said that she
applied to him under another name, and with a similar
story. She said she lived with her father in Pleasant-
! row, 01d-street, but knowing there was no such place,
he told her he should make some inquiries before he gave
her anything upon trust. She left, and since then had
obtained money from the Rev. Mr. Brookhouse, of Bru-
denell-place, Horton; Mrs. Roche, Herbert-street; Mr.
Stanton, coal-merchant, at the Wenlock- basins and Mrs.
Wright, Brunswicb-place.
Mr. Nicholson said that the prisoner had obtained
money from various people in Hornsey-grove, and had
been imposing on the public for the last two years. She
was generally accompanied by a woman with sandy hair,
and they had obtained pounds in this way.
The constable said he had made every inquiry, but
could obtain no information respecting the prisoner. All
the addresses she had given were false.
Alderman Jomaisosr said he would take care of her for
some time, and sent her to prison for one month.
SOUTHWARK.
James Cooper, a keeper in a private lunatic asylum,
was brought before Mr. Seeker, charged with forcibly
attempting to convey Mr. William Henry Reynolds, a
licensed victualler, to Doddington Retreat Asylum, and
taking possession of his watch; and Roierl Bore was
charged with assisting in the illegal arrest of the same
individual.
William Henry Reynolds stated that he is landlord of
the Paviours' Arms, in Margaret's-court, Southwark,
and that on the preceding morning, while he was lying
in bed at his house, Cooper entered the room, and having
awoke him, told him that his mother was dying, and
that if he did not get up and make haste to accompany
him to Kennington, he would not see her before her dis-
solution. He (complainant) accordingly hurried on his
clothes, and went down stairs to the bar-parlour, where
Cooper asked to see his watch, and the moment he gave
it into his hands he placed it in his pocket, and then
desired complainant to put on his hat, that a cab was
waiting at the end of the court for them, and they would
go at once to see the dying woman before she expired..
By this time, however, complainant began to suspect
that there was no truth in the statement respecting his
mother, and that it was a trick to get possession of his
property; and this suspicion was confirmed when,
on his refusal to gait the house, the other prisoner
entered, and a as pet bag was then produced,
from which was taken a strait-jacket and leathern straps,
and he was Skis Wormed that if he did not submit
quietly, and go with them, he would be compelled. He,
however, peremptorily refused to quit his house, and on
finding the prisoners were making preparations to put the
strait-jacket on him, he called out for help, and his pot-
man, some of the customers, and the neighbours, came
forward and prevented it, and the prisoners then went
away, saying they had authority for what they were
doing, and exhibited a printed document, under which
they asserted they were acting. The complainant added,
that he subsequently found that it was the intention of
the prisoners to remove him to a lunatic asylum, if they
had not been prevented in the way described, and he de-
clared that there was no pretence for such a step being
taken against him, as he was in his perfect senses—that
Cooper still kept possession of his watch, and that the
same person also succeeded in obtaining 303. from his
wife for the expenses incurred in the attempt to place
him (complainant) in a lunatic asylum. He further said
that his mother was in the house during the time the
whole proceedings were taking place.
Patrick Mahony said that he was in the Paviours'
Arms when the prisoners came there, and heard Cooper
tell the complainant that his mother was dying, and that
he must go and see her before she expired. Witness
afterwards saw the carpet-bag containing the strait-
jacket and straps, and heard both prisoners assert that
they had authority to convey the landlord to a madhouse.
Witness, with others, interposed, knowing the com-
plainant was not insane, and having heard that Cooper
had previously taken possession of his watch, he desired
that person to restore it, but he refused, saying he was
acting under authority, and that he took the watch to
take care of for the owner. Witness saw the printed
document under which the prisoners asserted they were
acting in the business, but they both withdrew on finding
that the neighbours-were all up in arms, and that they
were likely to receive rough usage if they remained.
The witness added that he never perceived that the com-
plainant exhibited any symptoms of insanity, and that
was the reason he and others interposed to save him
from having a strait-jacket put on and taken to ala
natio asylum.

Thomas Only, potman in the complainant's service,
confirmed the above statement with respect to hearing
Cooper say that complainant's mother was dying, and
afterwards mention that he had authority for taking him
to a mad-house. Witness saw the • strait-jacket which
they were about to put on his master, until measures
were taken to prevent it. That he knew complainant
was not mad. He added that he heard Cooper refuse to
deliver up the possession of his master's watch, and saw
that person produce the authority for taking him to the
mad-house.

Mrs. Ann Reynolds said she was complainant's •
wlfe,
and that as he was very ill, and she had reason to
believe his illness was produced from drinking,
she
sent a message over to his mother, describing his
situation, and requesting her to procure such assistance
as a man in his condition required, as she was anxious
that he should have some person in attendance to
make him take his physic. That soon afterwards
the prisoners came to the house and informed her
that they came there by the direction of her husband's
relations, and told
.her who they were, and that their
duty was to prevent him from doing himself or any other
person injury, by conveying him to their employer's
asylum, at Doddiugton-grove. She was surprised at
finding what their business was, and had no idea that
her mother-in-law would have sent such persons there ;
and when the neighbours and others interfered, the
prisoner Cooper, before leaving the house demanded 30s.
for expenses, which she paid him, and they went away ;
that her husband's watch had not been since restored to
him.
In reply to Mr. SEetc.F.a, she said that Cooper gave
her a receipt for the money he received from her.
Cooper, a very powerful looking man, with a blouse,
said he belonged to a private lunatic asylum, and that
application was made at his employer's asylum to re- j
move the complainant, and the necessary documents
having been procured for his removal, he went to
his house for that purpose, accompanied by his fol-
low-prisoner, if he should require his assistance.
That he did take possession of the watch, and in
order to throw the patient off his guard, and get him
along quietly, he did pretend that his mother was dying,
but that, on finding he was resisted by several persons,
he quitted the house, after having made and received the
den And of the expenses incurred on the occasion . Lie
now produced the written authority for the complainant's
removal on the ground of temporary insanity, and added

Lad delivered to him.

The prisoner's employer said he was the proprietor of
the Doddington-grove asylum for lunatics, and that the
necessary application having been made for the com-
plainant's removal there, the prisoners were sent to his
house fur that purpose. They, however, came without
him, and Cooper gave the watch into withess's charge,
upon the supposition that he was to be sent back again
tor the patient, who was described by his friends as in-
sane. He, witness, had the watch, and was prepared to
deliver it np under the magistrate's authority. He added
that the 30s. received of the complainant's wife were the
expenses incurred for the proceedings adopted to place
him under proper restraint by his own relatives.
Mr. SEWER having perused the document, and heard
the statements pro and con., said there was no pretence
for charging the accused parties with stealing the com-
plainant's watch. That the facts were the complainant
had reduced himself to a condition which some of his re.

lations had reason to suppose brought on temporary in-
sanity, and that with a view to his own preservation, as
well as those about him, considered that he ought to be
placed under such constraint as would avert the conse-
quences. That for that purpose they applied for his ad-
mission into a place where he would be put under the
necessary constraint, and the prisoners were only em.
ployed to execute that intention, and, therefore, had only
acted under the instructions they had received. He
should, therefore, discharge the prisoners, and give
directions that the watch belonging to the complainant
should be delivered up to him, which was immediately
done, and the accused were liberated.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(YESTERDAY.)

GROUP No. 9.—PAISLEY, BARRHEAD, AND HURLET
RAILWAY.—Clauses further considered.

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY (Glasgow Station, and Branch
across the Clyde).—Case opened and evidence taken in
;:ts favour.
GROUP No. 10.— NEWPORT AND PONTYPOOL RAIL-
WAY AcT AMENDMENT.—PreambIe passed, clauses
agreed to, and Bill ordered to be reported.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(YESTERDAY.)
DUBLIN.

The scrutiny into the validity of Mr. Reynolds' ma-
jority was resumed, but the petitioners did not succeed
in striking off any additional votes to-day. A good
deal of time was taken up in proving the legality of the
supplemental building-rate for the parish of St. Mark's,
Dublin ; but eventually the Committee decided that the
evidence was not sufficient to establish the validity of
the rate.