The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DunuN, SEPT. 23.—The provincial papers received
this morning are destitute of any intelligence of inttrest.
It would appear that the districts lately alleged to be in
a state of insurrecdon in the South are now perfectly
trar gull. Several attempts have been made during the
week to create fresh disturbances in parts of Kilkenny
and Tipperary, but without effect. An investigation
has been had before the lord-lieutenant of the county
into the circumstances connected with the burning of the
Slate. quarry police-station, and three or four parties
identified as taking part in the outrage have been com-
mitted to gaol.
An official communication was received yesterday kern
the English Consul at Boulogne, to the effect that Mr.
Doheny was residing there.
The Coma Chronicle, received this morning, has the
following:—" Mrs. Smith O'Brien is in town, and spent
nearly the whole of yesterday with her husband in the
county prison. She breakfasted and dined with him.
" Two companies of the 83d were detained at Fethard,
in consequence of an apprehended disturbance, a few
days on their march to Fermoy.
" CARRICK, SEPT. 22, 1848.—General Macdonald ar-
rived here on Wednesday morning. The Castle hero is
fitting up for troops. lam told we are to have at least
three companies of troops, in addition to our present
force; there is a force of one hundred and fifty police
here at present. On Wednesday morning sixteen cars
arrived here from Kilkenny with another body of police
from the depot at Dublin. A finer body of men I have
never seen. They are under the command of S. J.
Gould, Esq , S.I. On Tuesday ten prisoners were ar-
rested in the neighbourhood of Glenbower, some of
whom, it appears, held places in the rebel army, and

were transmitted to Cluiatnel gaol, the others have been
disoharged. Some arrests have also taken place in the
neighbourhood of Glen, county Waterford, on yester-
day. From arrangements made here by Mr. Coulson,
It M., you may be assured all the disaffected in this dis-
trict will be well watched. While I write nine prisoners
are brought in and lodged in Bridewell, taken last night
at Curraheen, next to Newtown-hill; every one of those
taken had a pike or gun. An examination will take
place before their committal to gaol."
The fullowing will supply the latest intelligence from
Clonnlel :
the latest intelligence from Clonmel:—
THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.

CLONSIEL, SEPT. 22.—The Court was opened this
morning, at eleven o'clock, by Judge Moore, when the
names of the grand jurors were called over, after which
they-proceeded to examine witnesses in the case of Mr.
Meagher. Tho charge against him is precisely similar
to that preferred against Smith O'Brien, and he would
have been included in the same indictment but that some
circumstances exist which require a different class of
witnesses to depose to, and he is therefore indicted sepa-
rately. He was, we understand, at Boulagh Common, and
witnesses will be produced who saw him there, armed as
a rebel leafier; but the main fact of his being found at
the head of an armed force occurred in another part of
this county.
Among tit* witnesses examined to-day before the
grand jury was the celebrated Widow Cormack, whose
house is so celebrated es being the chief point of attack
by the so-called insurrectionary forces. She is a woman
of about 40 or 45 years of age, and of the better class of
the- pwimntry, as was evinced by the neatness and re-
gpctability of her mourning attire and conversation.
Shortly after three o'clock the grand jury appeared in
anurt, and returned true bills against T. F. Meagher and
Patrick O'Donohoe.
The prisoners were immediately direoted to be
brought into court, to receive the usual intimation that
copies of the indictment should be furnished, and coun-
sel assigned to each. Some curiesity was exhibited to
se) Mr. Meagher, but none whatever as regarded O'Do-
noho.,), who had been en attorney's clerk in Dublin, and
o.T.i individual possessing an indifferent private character.
Mr. Meagher's appearance in the first instance showed
that he felt some embarrassment in his novel position,
but he quickly recavered his self-possession. There
was a greater degree of boldness in his manner than in

that of Smith O'Brien. Tie retognised several of his
personal friend's who were in court, to whom he bowed
and smiled ; but even a careless observer could at once
perceive that there was hidden beneath the surface a
deep and corroding feeling of anxiety.
The CHIEF JUSTICH having intimated to him in pre-
cisely the same words as those addressed to Mr. O'Brien,
that true bills were found against him, asked if he
wished to have a copy of the indictment, to which he
replied in the affirmative ; and as to the assignment of
counsel he said he was not prepared at that moment to
say whom he should name as his senior counsel, but
Mr. E. Nfesgher ho should choose as his junior counsel.
Time was given him to make his selection.
Mr. F. Meagher then made an application to the
Curt for a copy of the panel returned by the High
Sheriff. He did so on the affidavit of Mr. Kirwan, an
attorney, who stated that ha was fifteen years engaged
in the defence of prisoners in that county—that he was
well a•xitiainted with the persons who generally served
on juries—and that he was informed and believed that.
on the present occasion a gxN.at number were placed on it
of an inferior grade in life, and the names of many who
alwAys served omitted altogether. The Learned Conn-
-2:1 sa.',d in continuation that the object of the applies-
tThn was to prevent tim necessity of challenging the
array when the trial commenced—and that all he re-
cla•rvd for his client was, that fair and impartial justice
ul.l be done.

The ATTX2NET• GENERAL resisted the application, on
the graord that the prop:x time to object to the panel
w.t3, when the narmas were called over in open court
after the prisoner was arraigned. lle denounced the
application as an attack on the honour and impartiality
of tb-r. IliJi Sheriff, to which he as an officer of the
wnuld n-ver be a party,.and an attempt to iriti-
zzahhste.jurors Prom d,,ing their duty.
Ihe CIIIEF JUSTICE took the sane view of the subject
e,3 the Attov,ney• General re>preting the imput!:tion on
the High Sheriff, ar.d refused the anplicati,n, on the
gr.,und that the slightest pretext did not exist for such

The pr loners were then removed, and the... Court ad-
journed to eleven o'clock to morrow.
r, ached this town that ailicsny and
have b..-en arrested, and these rumours have cb-
tained some credence by the fact that the Attorney-
Omen,' applied to the Court not to discharge the grand
jury to-morrow, as information had reached him of the
np;:lrehension of parties azninst whom he should be pre-
pared to send up bills for high treason on Monday.
DUBLIN, SUNDAY MORNING. - The consultation
amongst the counsel engaged for the defence of Mr.
timith O'Brien did not terminate until long after the de-
parture of the mail yesterday afternoon. The result is,
tliat the attendance of Lord John Russell at the special
commission will not be required. The counsel were
4tianimous on the point, that it is unnecessary to bring
over Lord John Russell. The result was communicated
to the Under-Secretary, at Dublin Castle, yesterday
evening, in order that Lord John Russell should not hays
the trouble of coming over to Ireland.

MORE ARRESTS OF INSURGENTS.
The Waterford Chronicle of yesterday contains the
following:—
" Yesterday twenty-five men were brought in from the
out-districts as prisoners, and lodged in gaol, charged
ith bein„ col.cerced in the late insurrectionary move-
ment. Mr. Marlow, commercial traveller, was taken
upon the streets on Thursday night, and placed in the
Tower. On being searched there was found, amongst
other documents, a card certifying his adhesion to one of
the clubs; he was, therefore, committed by the magis-
trates until March next."
Three respectable farmers, named Fogarty, of the class
of small ger.try, have been arrested near Thurles.
In 30:ritoleigh, Tipperary, come blacksmiths have
been arrested for pike making, and committed for
trial. The police are on the search for other parties
implicated.
The 11 aterford Chronicle mentions that a Mr. John
Savage, one of the writers in the Irish Tribune and
Felon, against whom a warrant has been in the hands of
the police, has escaped to France.
The Limerick Chronicle says—
" An insurance company declined this week to receive
the insurance premium on the life of Mr. Smith O'Brien,
which was effected here sixteen years ago for 4,0001.
We know not what rule of law or equity could warrant
such a proceeding as this, which presumes to make a
prima facie case of guilt against an accused person yet
untried and unconvicted."
THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.

The Cork Reporter says—
" A private letter, which we have received from Clon-
mei, from a gentleman who is not likely to be misin-
formed, gives the following rumour:—
" *I have just heard from Mr. that it is most
likely the Court will make an order prohibiting, on pain
of heavy fine for contempt, the publication of the evi-
dence, &c., until the trials are over. This, he sap, is
very likely to be the case; but it is, as yet, only rumour,
and as such I give it to you.'"

PROPELLING SHIPS. Captain Carpenter, R.N.
who for some years past has directed his attention to screw-
propelling machinery, has recently placed for inspection at
the Polytechnic a now model, showing the application of
what he terms " quarter propellers" as the motive power of
steam-vessels. In his description, Captain Carpenter says—
" The series of past experiments, and those which are in
daily progress in the application of steam machinery and
screw to vessels of war, have fully evolved the merits of this
novelov power of propulsion, and established its superiority
.._,P, .addle:wheels. What has thus been attempted step by
:7_145 elicited information forming d its for working out
another principle of motion, which, when perfected in its
application on large
of a yet morean scale will, we believe, lead to results
poson selected foisfact°rY and important character. The
model, is taken frormthepropellers, as they appear on this
of more, since
we thatitype offered by the unerring hand
see le of propalsion, there ap-
plied, in the aquatic tribebirds,plmuomefrorudiotnf
etnhteslauwkinsgpezi
boat-like form of body,
short and
remote legs, scale-like'
thorn for dwelling only on the age, all alike concurring to fit
move-
ment on the surface of the watoee'P. Their velocity of ig has surpassed it. Le
waters is well known, and hither-
head to tedfrail, 4 feet 84 inches •gttli. of model, from figure-
inches ; ditto forward, 3 inches ; 'draught of water aft, 314
board, 23 lb. ; diameter of propeller,g2
inches;
machinery on
fo a foot. Three shafts are placed, horizonets; scale % inch
with each other, and connected with the megiand parallel
to the motive power, so that a single propeller in the dead
wood, or the ' quarter propellers,' may be worked either
parately or together. A novel plan of raising the propellers
;
out of the water, and a new adjustment of the stem.hee •
nug
are practically shown.'
CONTINENTAL FETES.—The South-Eastern
Rail-
way
and Steam-packet Companies appear to be in luck's
War just at present, in consequence of the numerous fetes
which have been or are about to take place in those portions
of the Continent to which they form the most direct com-
munieatift. Latterly they have had the pes at Calais,
Dankereple, and Boulogne; and now a meeting of the Peace
,ottventiLon, with attendant fetes, is about to take place at
",, _,r u,3 'a e.l 24t h e shortest route to which is by the South-Eastern
AguiTsty toilloyer, stud frou; tlauco via Calais.

THE CHARTIST TRIALS.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
TRIAL OF WILLIAM DOWLING.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of Sa,urday.)
Upon the Court resuming, at a quarter past twu o'clock,
Mr. KENEALY, called several witnesses, am) g whom
was a person named
Inglis, who stated that he and tho prisoner had agreed
to correspond in short•hand, and the paper now pro-
duced was the copy of one that he gave the prisoner in
order to thrir correspondence in short-hand. Witness
had had his letters opened by the Post-office, and he
thought he would try if he could correspond in short-
hand.

Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Was a
lithographic printer. Was not a Chartist, but was an
Irish Confederate. had been in several parts
of Ireland. Did not go to Ireland to
make sketches for the Illustrated News. He
had used tho words in cipher, of pikes, rifles,
fire, poison, pistols, barricades, Smith O'Brien, &c., in
order that he might write to the prisoner about the state
of Ireland, and that those who broke open his letters
might not read them. Witness was now with a litho-
graphic printer in Holborn, and had been with him for
four years. Knew nothing of Mullins. Had seen him
onep.

. _
Re-examined—Had no disloyal design in giving the
document to the prisoner,
Mr. KENEALY then called several witnesses of great
respectability, all of whom stated their belief that the
prisoner was not a Chartist, and none of them had ever
heard anything disloyal tall from him.
This was the case for the prisoner. _ _

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then rose to reply. If
there were any persons in Court, and he believed there
were many, who were unacquainted with the counsel for
the defendant, they might reasonably expect that he
should commence his present remarks by adverting to
the strong personal observations which that Learned
Gentlemen had made at the commencement of his long
address. But he begged to say, before he undertook
what he assured the jury was an unpleasant duty—the
duty of prosecuting those who were guilty of violating
the public peace—he was prepared for attacks upon him-
self from some of those who were concerned for the de-
fence. He knew, however, he might safely trust the
defence of his condrct to those gentlemen of the bar who
surrounded him on that occasion, and to that portion of
the public who had marked his public life and could
appreciate it. He hoped to be forgiven, then, for de-
clining to notice the personal remarks and coarse ex-
pressions which had been addressed to him on this
occasion. If it was true that ho at all resembled those
who preceded him in the office to whom reference had
been made—if it was true that he really did entertain
any feelings of a vindictive or angry kind upon this
occasion either against the prisoner or his counsel—he
must be forgiven for saying—and he thought that those
who had the slightest experience of defences in courts of
law would agree with him—that he must have had ample
satisfaction in listening to the long defence which the
Learned Gentleman had that day submitted to the jury.
As the prisoner's counsel had, in the outset of his speech,
chosen to make some observations concerning the
facts of the case with reference to himself, he
begged to say a few words on those points
before applying himself to the evidence. The
Learned Gentleman grid charged him with inanfeeting
undue heat in proceeding with the trial of the prisoner
yesterday in place of postponing it with the others. Now,
he (the Attorney-General) had understood that, in so
proceeding with the trial, he was accommodating him-
self to the wishes of the Learned Gentleman. He was
sorry now that he had made that concession, since it had
been urged as a cause of complaint against him. The
Learned Gentleman had further said that he had been
guilty of indecency in speaking of the prisoner at the
bar as "a felon." Now, if he had• used that expression
he certainly had not intended it. What he had intended
to say was, that under the law as it formerly stood it was
believed that many weak and foolish persons were led
to: entertain a vainglorious desire to disturb the peace
of the country for the purpose of being considered mar-
tyrs, and that this supposed motive in the breasts of
some was removed by the passing of the new statute,—
that, in short, it was fur better to reduce the offence to
vulgar felony than to stimulate foolish persons to become
martyrs by the continuance of the offence as high treason.
If he had used the expression " felon" at all, he
was certain that the context must have shown
any unprejudiced person that that was the
sense in which he had used it. He felt that
ho was somewhat exceeding his duty in troubling
the jury even with theie few remarks in reply to the
rather strong language which had been used towards
him—for, indeed, he should be quite unfit for the office
he held, not because he was the tyrant he had been de-
scribed—not because he was greedy of victory, and was
anxious, as it were, to reckon the scalps he obtained as
a claim upon the Government for their support, for he
should never be the slave of any Government—but 1w
should be quite unfit for his office if he was not prepared
to inset the charges which were sure to be made upon
him on such an occasion—if he did not know that he
would he a mark for every one to shoot their shafts at
him. He oueht not, perhaps, to pass in :iilence the cb
nervations which hid bean made by the counsel for the
defendant with reference to the conduct of Government.
He had said that the Government had had a settled
purpose and design by increasing the military and naval
armament of the nation to enslave the people, of Eng
and deprive them of their liberties. lie had &c-
-cused there also of having, with the same view, driven
the people into secret meetings, where treason was sure
to be hatched. Nov he (the Attorney General) had
thought that in the measure taken by Government for
the preservation of the puhlic peace, they not only d,--
erved coil of the leddio, but that they had actually
obtained the oi, not only of the citiz •us of
London, but of the whole civilizA world, The Learned
Gentlemen had also axeris-d the Government of b Ise
and infamous conduct in accepting inform ition from
spit.i. Now, when numb( cf .persons combined
together for illegel objects they might rest assured them
would always be some one amongst them ready to betra
them; and it was a wise dispensation of Providence that
this should he the case, since it enabled the public au-
thorities to thwart their designs. Did the Learned Gen-
tleman mean to say that the Government ought to have
sc,utfd the information which was thus tendered to
them? Did he mean to say that the timely warning
o hich enabled them to take measures to defeat the secret
plots and to unite the well-disposed part of the people or.
the side of order should have been neglected by them?
If so, all he (the Attorney-General) should say was,
that it was a sad pity to see a gentleman who had ap-
plied his mind to the acquisition of knowledge so mise-
rably abuse it. It was really monstrous that the Go-
vernment, who had done no more than their duty, and
ho hid acted with the almost universal consent of men
of all parties in the maintenance of the public peace,
should be accused there of straining their rights for the
suppression of public liberty. The Learned Gentleman
had attempted an elaborate definition of the law regard-
ing the levying of war. It wool I have been better if,
instead of doing so, he had availed himself of the t.xe-
rienee of the her, and followed the ordinary course, viz.,
to have announce;] generally his own notion of the law, and
left the jury to hi governed by a more detailed state-
ment of the law from the judges. The judges were bound
by their oaths to make a statement of the law to the
jury, and the jury were equally bound by their oaths to
draw a proper conclusion from the facts of the case. Ile
trusted both the judges and the jury would forgive him
for saying in their presence that if either overstepped
their duty they would not discharge the solemn obliga-
tion they had taken upon themselves. If the Learned
Gentleman had taken the course ho had recommended
he would not only have saved some valuable time, but
avoided displaying his ignorance of the law. The At-
torney-General here repeated his description of the mi-
tigation of the law which hail been effected by the
Croon and Government Security Act, and to controvert
the assertion of the counsel for the prisoner that it had
taken away any privileges previously possessed by pri-
soners. The counsel for the defendant had altogether
mistaken the question which the jury had to determine.
There were two charges in the indictment, on either of
which being proved to their satisfaction, the jury could
convict the :prisoner. It was not necessary that they
should find him guilty of both. The first was, that the
prisoner had, with others, compassed, imagined,
invented, devised, and intended to levy war against the
Queen, in order to compel her, by force, to change
her measures, and four overt acts were alleged in
proof of this. The second charge was, that the prisoner
had combined with others in some way to deprive the
Queen of the style and honour of the imperial crown of
the United Kingdom. • The Learned Gentleman had ad-
mitted that the prisoner was highly culpable, and ought
to be punished, although. not for the crimes alleged
against him in this indictment ; and he seemed to throw
out the hint to the jury that if they acquitted him of
the present charges he might be afterwards tried and
punished for the minor offences. This was a mistake.
If the prisoner was acquitted of the charges of felony
the jury must not for a moment suppose that, although
his counsel had admitted he was highly criminal, he
would be punished for any other offence. The only
evidence he had to bring against the prisoner was the
evidence they had already heard ; and if they believed
that evidence it amounted to a proof of felony, and
nothing less ; and before the passing of the recent Act
it would have amounted to high treason, for which the
prisoner might have been hung. The counsel for the
defendant was altogether wrong in his definition of
levying war. Levying war was not what the term
"war' would imply. It did not necessarily mean mili-
tary array. It was not necessary that there should
be numbers. Three or four persons would do. To
constitute the crime, however, there must be a rising,
and, further, it must be directed to a public object. If '
it was directed to a private object, such as breaking an
inclosure, it was an offence against individuals, and not
against the Sovereign ; but if it was directed to a public
object, that constituted the crime of levying war against
the Queen. The Learned Gentleman denied that it was
levying war to kill a policeman or to burn down St.
Giles's or Clerkenwell. This was a mistake. The
Learned Gentleman was led astray by attaching an
erroneous meaning to the word " all." The Learned
Gentleman seemed to think that, unless all the policeman
were killed, and all the towns burnt down, it would not
amount to levying war. According to this theory, al-
though all the metropolitan police were killed, that
would not amount to levying war, because the rural
police would still remain ; and that, although Limerick,
or Cork, or Waterford were burnt down, it would not
amount to levying war so long as Dublin and other
towns were left. It was not pretended that the prisoner
intended
dlevied war. It was only said that he, with others,
to do so • and there could bo no reasonable
doubt in the mind of any one who had heard the evi-
dence that the prisoner and his accomplices were about
stotodpopeidt,.anTd would have done it if they had not been
LearnedharteGrentleman had declared his
detestation of the
, and his abhorrence of the '
purposes which the 'Ch •
artists had iu view; but he had

ridiculed the idea that Cuffey and others intend levying
war against the Queen. Was this intention so very
ridiculous? Some honest persons, perhaps most of them
foolish, a few vainglorious, and some undoubtedly dis-
honest—were those persons so contemptible, were they
so incapable of burning houses, rising in arms, and
attacking the police, creating a diversion, to the terror
of the well-disposed, in favour of insurgents elsewhere?
Why, those were the very persons who began such
things. Here it began with people of the lower orders.
Many of the insurgents in Ireland were persons in an
abject condition. It was because these poor wretches,
having nothing to lose, or regardless of consequences,
thought they must gain by insurrection,—because they
were the aptest tools in the hands of designing persons,
—because they were most susceptible of excitement to
sedition, that men of this sort were the first to com-
mence aggression, the first to make an outbreak. The
question was, whether the prisoner conspired with others
to compel the Queen to change her measures or govern-
ment, or whether he intended to rise, with others, to

deprive her of her Royal name and Imperial crown?
There were two bodies, the Chartists and the
Irish Confederates. He (the Attorney-General) had
never said one word about the prisoner being a
Chartist. His charge against him and the Irish
Confederates was this, that despising the Chartists, as
they said, they cunningly used those unfortunate men
for their own purposes. Wanting by force to carry the
Chsrter, and to deprive the Queen of one of the brightest
gems in her crown, they used the Chartists for their
own purposes. The Learned Counsel said he despised
the Chartists. The prisoner had the same feeling.
The prisoner—No.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—What had the prisoner
said? He was brought before a magistrate. Powell's
evidence was given in his presence. If Powell was tel-
ling what was untrue the prisoner could have said so.
His counsel said the prisoner spoke the language of his
heart. He had no attorney or counsel at his elbow
when he said—" I don't wish to stand here as an English
factionist," that is, he was no advocate for the Charter;
it was not worth fighting for. " I won't fight for that,"
he said, but he was prepared to fight. "I don't wish to
stand as an English factionist, but as an Irish nationalist.
My object was not to disturb English society, but to free
my own country." How? By calling on those men
whom his counsel despised, by exciting the Chartists to
rise in rebellion, so that the troops might be kept in
England instead of being sent to suppress insurrection
in Ireland. The object of the prisoner was the nation-
ality of his country, the repeal of the union, a republic,
it might be presumed. The counsel for the prisoners
thought Powell unworthy of belief, because he did not
give earlier information that violent measures were con-
templated; but he was himself present at a meeting
where moral force was, on the motion of the prisoner,
postponed to the Day of Judgment; yet he, a barrister,
d'd not give information to the Government.
Mr. KENEALY had said nothing as to the transac-
tions Of the Attorney-General at Horsham, nothing as
to his private practices, corrupt as they were alleged
to be.

Mr. Justice ERLE begged to press on the mind of the
coun,,Q.l for the prisoner the extreme impropriety of tra-
velling out of the question before the Court. The few
words which had now dropped from his lips were in the
nature of an insult.

Mr. KENEALT observed that the Attorney-General
was not stopped when he said he blushed for his conduct
in presiding at the meeting in question.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL thought it was surely not
wrong to say, when one made a severe attack on a wit-
ness for not doing what the person making the attack
ought to have done himself, that the counsel ought not to
lay great stress upon that. With respect to the expression
"plotting.' committee, it was in the depositions that the
witness used that expression in speaking of the commit-
tee otherwise called the " Ulterior Committee." It was
said, that evidence should be derived from purer sources
than from accomplices. People would be very insecure in
their properties and lives if they were to read the Govern-
ment a lesson that it was only from pure and unpolluted
sources that evidence must be drawn. Bat the evidence
of Powell was amply confirmed. When such prepara-
tions were made as the evidence disclosed, could it be
doubted that there was a design to have an outbreak on
the 16th? What were men doing with daggers and pikes
concealed about their persons, unless the object was a
general rising ? Then plans were made of the Seven-
dials and Clerkenwell ; -what did 'the secretary of the
Felon Club want with these plans ? The jury, in his
()pillion, could not hesitate to believe the testimony of
Powell, confirmed as it was on so many points by the
ether witnesses; and if they believed Powell, they must
convict the prisoner. But if the Learned Gentleman
really believed that Powell's evidence was false, why
had ho uot called evidence to contradict it ? Powell had
furnished the means of contradicting his evidence, if it
ceull be contradicted, for he had named persons who
might have been called to contradict him if it had been
deemed advisable to do so. But he had called several
witnesses, yet it could hardly be said they had helped
him mech. The explanation attempted by one of
(hem (English) of the symbols found upon the priso-
ner W1:1 an insult to the understandings of the jury.
I'he evidence of the witness Barry was at least open
to suspicion. 111 told them that in private ho had
never heard him say anything that was seditious or trea-
sonable, but he did not seem so sure of his public
speeches. The fact of the musket, too, which this wit-
eess had raffled, was also very suspicious. In conclusion,
the Attorney. General begged to say that the counsel for
the prisoner, judging from the tone and character of
ranch that ho had addressed to the jury, seemed to have
Forgotten the tribunal ho was addressing. He seemed
to imagine that he was addressing a class of persons in
mother country who were uufortunately susceptible of
other impressions than those by which he was sure the
i)resent jury were likely to be influenced. lie (the At-
en-ney• General) knew that not only this eve, but the
principles involved in it, were secure in their hands. It
wls their duty, on thu ono hand, to take care that the
public prosecutor did not entrench upon the liberty of
the subject by straining the high prerogatives of the
iaw which were entrusted to Government for the pre-
servation of the public peace; and, on the other hand,
it was their duty, as it was their interest, to take care
not only to preserve the rights of the prisoner, but their
own rights and the rights of their countrymen —to
preserve intact the noble institution of trial by jury,
under which they were then acting—by honestly, con-
scientiously-, and unprejalicedly discharging their duty
in this case.

Mr. Justice ERLE was proceeding to sum up, when
Several of the jurymen stated that they were physi-
cally and mentally incapable of going on with the case.
Mr. Justice ERLE thoughttit would be much better to
adjuurn to Monday morning.
The Court, at half-past five o'clock, adjourned accord-
ingly to Monday; the jury retiring to the London
Cotree•houee, in charge of an officer.

NEW COURT.
(Before the CoMMON SERGEANT
Montague Douglas Scott, aged 24, desnibed as an at-
torney, pleaded Geilty to an indictment, charging him
wiih haTinn stolen a quantity of plate and a valuable
bracelt, the property of Henry Holnies Dobson, John
William Thomas, Christopher Howland, and others.
It appeared from the statement of Mr. 13A.LLANTINE,
who was retained for Mr. Thomas, that the prisoner,
ho is of good family, and has been but recently married,
had hired the plate, and subsequently pawned it, but that
,ince the commission of the offence he had come over
from Boulogne, and done all in his power to return the
goods. His clients, however, feeling that a felony had
heen committed, refused to listen to any compromise,
and had instructed him to make a statement of the facts
upon public grounds, and to show that they would not
tolerate such proceedings.
After some remarks from Mr. CLARKSON, who de-
fended the prisoner,
The Common SERGEANT said the prisoner's subse-
qu-nt behaviour was a mitigation of his offence, and
he therefore sentenced him to nine months' imprison-
ment.

Isaac Harding Harris, aged 34, described as an agent,
was indicted for obtaining money by false pretences-.
The prisoner pleaded Guilty.
Mr. PAYNE, who appearA for the prosecution, stated
that the prisoner was a Dissenting clergyman from
%Vales, and had gone about representing that he
was
engaged to raise subscriptions to carry out the philan-
thropic views of some persons who had lately erected a
church and large school-room at Salem, in barnarvon-
shire, but could not complete their objects for want of
funds. In support of his assertion ho carried a book of
the list of subscribers' names, most of whom were per-
sons of high standing, and the amount of their subscrip-
dons. On inquiry it turned out that there was no such
place as Salem, or any church or school, and that the
signatures for the most part wore forgeries.
The COMMON SERGEANT said tbo case was a very bad
one, and but for his having pleaded guilty and the in-
formation they had received, that he had acted as agent
for more guilty parties, he should have transported him;
but, as it was, he should order him to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for twelve months.
William Jones, aged 42, a labourer, was indicted for
feloniously cutting and wounding Robert Sutton, with
intent, &c.
It appeared that the prosecutor, who is a labouring
man, had had some words with the prisoner, who works
on the road, when he took up one of the scrapers used
for cleaning the roads and struck him a most violent
blow, and did him very great injury.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he handed in
a written certificate from his employers, Messrs. M'Adans,
of his conduct for a period of eighteen years.
The COMMON SERGEANT, in passing sentence, said,
but for that he should have transported him for ten
years, having marked down that sentence in his book.
He had made up his mind to transport all who were con-
victed before him of cutting and wounding. Such of-
fences, and the use of the most deadly weapons, had be-
come alarmingly prevalent in this country, and were on
the increase, and he would do all in his power, by making
an example of persons so convicted to put a atop to it.
It was only in consequence of the extraordinary good
character the prisoner had received, and then with some
reluctance, that he should pass the sentence he did—
which was 12 months' imprisonment and hard labour.
James Crabb, aged 38, a sailor, was convicted of cut-
ting and wounding James Boots.
The parties in question had had a quarrel and fight,
which was over, when the prisoner rose from his seat,
and having taken a clasp knife from his pocket, made a
stab at the other's breast, but only wounded him in the
hand.
The CommoN SERGEANT, having again alluded to t 3
frequent recurrence of this class of offence, added, that
he thought the other judges had acted erroneously in not
visiting them with more severe punishment than they
had, and so by example endeavour to chock them. For
three years this crime had been upon the increase, and
unless some very extraordinary circumstance of good
character, as in the last c :se, operated in mitigation, he
should transport in all cases of cutting and wounding.
He then ordered the prisoner to be transported for seven
years.
James Piddick, aged 22, William Edwards, aged 22, '

both porters, and Thomas Norman, aged 20, a carman,
were indicted for a burglary; and Joshua Williams, a
hairdresser, aged 36, was indicted for aiding them in the
commission of the offence.

Mr. Ballantino and Mr. Parnell prosecuted.
The facts proved in evidence were those—Edwards
had been in the employ of the London and North-
Western Railway Company, and in conjunction with
Pidiick and Norman had planned the breaking into and
entering of the counting-house of the Camden-town
station, which they effected upon the 4th of August, and
stole two 51. notes and other moneys. Not being able to
change the notes, they took them to Williams, who
keeps a barber's shop in Drury-lane, and he gave them
71. 103. for them. _

They were found Guilty, and
Edwards was sentenced to ten years' transportation,
Norman and Piddick to seven years, and Williams to
two years' imprisonment and hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREE7'.
George Nichols was brought up before Mr. Hammill,
charged with the following brutal attack upon a poor
charwoman named Elizabeth Burton, living in Went-
worth-street, Whitechapel.
The complainant, whose temple was covered with ad-
hesive plaster, and who exhibited other marks of severe
ill-usage, stated that while going to her work at an early
hour that morning, she was stopped in the Whitechapel-
road by the prisoner, who made her a grossly insulting
offer, and upon her indignaroly repelling him, tried to
drag her down a dark passage. A violent struggle en-
sued between them. and the prisoner, on finding that his
efforts were ineffectual, thrust her back, and dashed her
head repeatedly against the wall. He then struck her a
terrible blow on the eye, which brought her to the
ground, and followed this up with several furious kicks
upon the head and body; she screamed for assistance, and
on hearing a policeman approaching, the prisoner dealt
her a final kick, and darted down an adjoining gateway.
He was shortly after, however, secured, and the witness
having been conveyed to the London Hospital, had
her injuries dressed by one of theeiurgeons, but she had
suffered so seriously from the brutal usage she had re-
ceived that she could still scarcely stand.
Armstrong, of the H division, stated that hearing the
screams of the complainant he hastened to the spot, and
found the woman lying upon the pavement, with her
face covered with blood, which was issuing in a stream
from a serious cut close to the right temple. She was so
stunned at the time that he could not ascertain from her
who her assailant was, but upon partially recovering she
told him the man had run down the next court, and as
witness knew it was not a thoroughfare he waited for his
emerging from it, and the next moment the prisoner re-
traced his steps, was instantly recognized by the woman,
and captured.
When called upon for his defence, the prisoner denied
that he had taken any part in the attack upon the com-
plainant, who was entirely mistaken in her identification
of him, and declared that he had never even seen her
until be was given into custody at her instance.
The woman, however, swore positively to him, and
pressed a summary adjudication, as it would be a serious
loss to her to attend elsewhere.
Mr. IsLasistru. said it:was with reluctance he acceded to
her request, as he felt that his powers were wholly inade-
quate to deal with such a scandalous outrage; he should
therefore mark his sense of the prisoner's conduct by in-
flicting upon him the highest amount of penalty be could
impose, namely, sl.,and in default of payment he must
stand committed to the. House of Correction for two
months.
The prisoner could not pay the penalty, and was there-
fore carried off in the van.
SOUTHWARK.
John Griggs, a well-known pugilist, was placed at the
bar before Mr. Seeker, charged with being concerned
with a woman not in custody, in assaulting Mr. Prosser,
a tradesman residing in the Borough, and robbing him
of a valuable silver snuff box.
The prosecutor said, that on the preceding night, a
little after twelve o'clock, he was walking along the Bo-
rough-road towards his home, after spending the even-
ing at the Surrey Theatre, and when near the wall
of the Queen's Kison ho was accosted by a woman, who
asked him to give her a shilling. On his refusal to com-
ply with her impudent demand, ,ho suddenly slapped
him on the face, and before he could recover himself he
lost his snuff-box, and on looking round saw the woman
running away. lie was about to pursue her when the
prisoner came up and asked him what he wanted with
the woman. lie replied, that she had robbed him of his
snuff box, and he wanted to get it back again. The pri-
soner said, " Never mind your snuff-box, it is of no
value," and let the woman go. He (witness) replied
that ho was determined to follow her and give her into
custody, when the prisoner struck him a severe blow on
the mouth and nearly stunned him, but he caught hold
of his collar, and a policeman coming up at the time, he
was secured and taken to the station- house. The woman
made her escape, and all search for her had been in
vain.

In answer t 3 the charge the prisoner said, he had no
knowledge of the woman, but as he was passing along
the Borough-road he saw the complainant ill:using some
one, upon which he ran to the spot, and on his interfe-
rence the complainant abused him, which compelled him
to strike him.
Police-constable, 183 M, said, that he saw the prisoner
strike complainant, and on his coming up the latter told
him he had been robbed of his snuff•box by a woman.
From the description given of the latter he was positive
that he had seen her in the prisoner's company about
Iva an hoar previously.
Mr. SESSER asked whether anything was known of the
prisoner?
Sergeant Charmer, 24 M, replied that he was a well-
known pugilist, and a constant companion of thieves,
both male and f:male. He followed the latter parties
about the streets, and assisted them in committing
robberies.
Mr. SECKER asked whether he had ever been convicted
for similar offences?
Tho sergeant replied, that ho was sentenced to two
months' imprisonment about a year ago for a violent
assault on a woman who refused to give him money
when he wanted it.
Mr. SECKEtt said, that it was a most desperate as-
sault, and committed under most aggravated circum-
stances; he should, therefore, commit him for trial for
the hi,hway robbery, as well as the assault.
LAMBETH.
DrstrnEssiNa CASE.—A case of a peculiarly distress-
ing description was last week brought under the notice
a middle-aged man of gentlemanly appearance,
the Hon. G. C. Norton. On Thursday, after the night
charges had been disposed of, Mr. Edward Franklin
ge of ig male a desperate attempt to
egilaintrfrom Lambeth workhouse, and placed at the
e
usuicide by jumping out cf a wherry into the
cbwoaamr,n a
onas b brought
to
Thames.

--
Samuel Granby, a watermen, said that on Wednesday
afternoon the gentleman in the dock engaged him at the
sEita°irrsse,feernrdY-swtfihien' Westminster, to take him' to Lambeth-
stairs, ate ut two-thirds over, and while he
(winless) was speaking to a man on board a barge, he
missed him from his boat. In a moment or two after-
wards he observed him to rise to the surface of the water,
and by a great effort succeeded in saving and taking him
to Lambeth-stairs.
The prisoner, who seemed overwhelmed with shame
at the position in which he was placed, declared he felt
truly sorry for his conduct, and should not again har-
bour the idea of repeating it.
Dickson, the constable, here handed to Mr. Norton
three documents found on the prisoner, all of which were
in his own handwriting„ and all proving the most delibe-
rate intention to destroy himself.
The first of these documents was headed, " A Synopsis
of the chequered Life of Mr. Ed ward Franklin Kerr, set-
ting forth a few of the most remarkable events that have
happened to me from my birth, intended to serve as an
antidote for the severe reflections which will be passed
on the impious and rash act I am about to commit, and
for which I hope and trust my blessed Redeemer will
make atonement," and went on, as it purported, to give a
brief' history of the prisoner from boyhood up to the mo-
ment of his attempting the rash act.
The second document was a letter to the Coroner of
the district in which the body of Mr. Edward F. Kerr
may be found, written from No. 49, Hide-place, Vincent-
square, Westminster.
From this and the former document, it appeared that
the prisoner had been compelled to quit Boulogne in
consequence of the events of the last French revolution,
He had held a public situation in that town for 25 years,
and being unable to obtain employment in England,
after many efforts for that purpose, had determined on
committing suicide.
Mr. Danny, the prisoner's landlord, was present, gave
him a high character, said he had used every moans
possible to obtain employment, and expressed it as his
perfect conviction that it was distress alone that drove
him to attempt the rash act.
Mr. NORTON on that occasion allowed the prisoner to
go home with his landlord, and desired him to appear
before him again on Saturday-
To-day Mr. Kerr attended, when there was present a
whaeswsoourrldy
number of gentlemen who knew him in prosperity, and
who spoke of his character in the highest terms.
Mr. NORTON thought that under all the circumstance
the poor man's ease was on© deserving of sympathy, and
if made public, as he thought it would be, he also hoped
that something would be done for him, particularly by
those in the literary world. The poor-box, he (Mr.
was s
sovereign
ilgonw
to
on
be fundshanadte
handed
rteo-
se Norton)ntbut
too sardeyr a
him for his present use.
The unfortunate gentleman attempted to express his
gratitude to the magistrate for his kindness, but his
feelings were so intense that he could not utter a syllable
Having been relieved by a copious shower of tears, he
implored Mr. Norton to recommend his deliverer to the
consideration of the Humane Society.
THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT WALWORTII.—After
the night ellare'es had beon disposed of, Richard Orpin,
Wm. LinfiddiSpencer Linfield, and Mary Ann Dryden,
who have been in custody for some days, were placed
at the bar before the Hon. G. C. Norton, on the more
serious charge of having caused the death of Eliza
Wilson.
Mr. Superintendent Robinson, addressing the magis-
trate, said that, from circumstances that came to his
knowledge, he did not think it expedient at present to
offer further evidence, but would request that the pri-
soners might be remanded to a future clay. The unfor-
tunate young woman was now dead, and the coroner
had been written to to hold an inquest. He also said
the premises belonging to both the female prisoners
were thoroughly searched, but nothing of a suspicious
character had been discovered. lie had, however,
caused an extract to be taken from the books at the
station of the number of bodies of infants found in the
neighbourhood, and the result of the coroners' inquests
upon each ; and that extract he begged to place
before his worship. p The list was as follows :—" Sept.
4, 1847, found in a ditch in Thurlow-place, Wal-
worth-common, the body of a female child, about a fort-
night old ; verdict, found dead. Oct. 27, found in Al-

bang-crescent, Albany-road, the body of a new-born
male child ; verdict, wilful murder against some person
or persons unknown. March 6, 1848, found in a privy,
4, East-lane, the body of a new-born male child ; verdict,
wilful murder against some person or persons unknown.
May 11, found in the Surrey Canal, the body of a new-
born male child ; verdict, found drowned. Aug. 29,
found in an area, 17, Lacey-terrace, Penton-place, the
body of a male infant; verdict, found dead. March 17,
found in the garden, 20, Apollo-buildings, the body of
a new-born male child ; verdict, wilful murder against
some person or persons unknown."
Mr. NORTON, on reading over the list remarked that
all these things were highly suspicious, and the pri-
soners were remanded, as requested.
Mr. Games, who appeared on behalf of Mrs. Lin.
field and William Linfield, applied to have the latter
admitted to bail, but,
_ _

Mr. NORTON refused the application, observing that
the case had, since the last examination, assumed a
more serious character, and he could not, therefore, ac-
cept bail.

Daring the examination of the prisoner, two copies of
a newspaper, dated October 2d and 10th, 1826, were
handed to the magistrate, in which there were reports
under the head " Union-hall Police Court," of a charge
made against Mrs. Mary Burrows, a respectable widow
lady, of starving her infant son (the present prisoner, W.
Linfield). It appeared that Mrs. Burrows, being a widow
at the time, became pregnant, and in order to conceal her
shame from her family and friends, had been privately
confined at the house of Mrs. Linfield. Soon after her
delivery of a son, the mother took it into her head that
her own infant had been changed for another, which she
alleged to be the offspring of Mrs. Linfield, and, in con-
sequence, so neglected the infant that it was found in a
frightful state of emaciation, from which it was very
doubtful whether it could recover. He did recover,
however, and Mrs. Linfield having taken charge of him,
has brought him up as her own son since.

THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT WAL
WO.FITH.-INQUEST ON ELIZA WILSON.

On Saturday evening Mr. Carter, the coroner for the
eastern division of Surrey, held an inquest at the King's
Head, Norwood, on the body of the above-named unfor-
tunate woman.

The jury having been sworn,
The CORONER said that in the first instance he should
have to request the jury to accompany him to view the
body of the deceased. It was true his attention, and pro-
bably that of some, if not all, of the jury, bad been drawn
to the reports in the public papers of the preceding day,
in reference to the case of the deceased, but he hoped the
jury would understand that it was their bounden duty to
dismiss from their minds all they had heard and read
touching the painful subject, and to attend and act
solely upon the evidence which would he adduced
before them. From what had already taken placs
elsewhere, he feared that they were about to enter
upon a prolix but still most important inquiry.
Ho (the Coroner) had already directed a post mortem
examination by Mr. Chapman, the medical gentleman
who had attended the deceased up to the period of her
death, and he had received a communication from Mr.
Chapman, stating that he had already commenced that
examination (which, indeed, was in progress at that
moment), but that he was desirous to have the aid of the
judgment of another medical man. On the receipt of
that communication he (the Coroner) had desired him to
stop the examination until the opinion of the jury should
be taken on the subject. It was, therefore, his (the
Coroner's) intention to propose that to-day the jury
should do no more than view the body of the deceased,
and hear evidence of the identification, in order that he
might be enabled to issue the orders for its interment.
After that he should support the propriety of adjourning
this inquiry for a few days, in order that the post mortem
examination might be satisfactorily completed, and the
whole of the evidence collected. This course would not
only lead to a saving of time to the jury, but of expense
to the county.

The jury immediately acquiesced in the suggestion of
the coroner, and with him at once proceeded to view
the body of the deceased. Attended by the summoning
officers, the coroner and jury proceeded to the residence
of the father of the deceased, situated in Woodcote-
place, and after a brief delay were admitted into the
chamber where the corpse lay. There they found in at-
tendance Mr. Chapman, the surgeon (whose conduct in
the mysterious, but painful affair, is above all praise),
and Mr. Ray, the surgeon, of Dulwich. The visit of the
jury interrupted the examination of those two profes-
sional gentlemen. The face of deceased, whose features
in life must have been prepossessing, exhibited all the
manifestations of intense protracted suffering, and the
characteristics of a painful death. The forehead ap-
peared contracted, the muscles of the face seemed rigid,
and the hands were clenched. A short time sufficed to
satisfy the jury, and they returned, leaving the medical
gentlemen to resume their inquiry. Oa their return to
the inquest, tho coroner said, it would be sufficient for
the present to call a witness to identify the body, and prove
the death of the deceased.

John Benson Wilson, the father of the deceased, was
then called. Ho is a venerable man, near eighty years
of age, and his distress of mind created a considerable
sympathy amongst all present. He stated that he was
not in business, but lived upon his property, consisting
of the house he lived in, and other premises in Nor-
wood. The deceased, whose body the jury had just
seen, was his daughter. Her name was Eliza Wilson.
She was thirty-one years of age, and was unmarried.
He saw her hat alive about eleven o'clock on Thursday,
and saw her dead about siix o'clock on Friday.
The CORONER said it would be useless to carry the
inquiry further, as all would depend on the medical
evidence, which was now ready to be adduced. On that
point, however, he had to ask the jury whether they
were of opinion that it would be desirable to have a
second medical witness? He put the question to them,
because under the law he had no authority to direct an
examination by more than one medical man, but the law
enabled him, on a requisition from the jury, to call in
further medical aid.

The jury, without hesitation, consented to a second
medical man being called in.
One of the jury inquired whether it vrou!d be neces-
sary to have the prisoner brought before thong on their
next meeting?
The CORONER replied in' the negative. The
inquiry of the jury involved two questions, first, the
cause of death; and, secondly, the means by which that
event had been originated. It was not necessary to
have the prisoner in custody before the jury to enable
them to form a judgment on these two questions.
Addressing the Inspector (Emmerson), the ConoNErt
said that all the witnesses wha had been examined else-
where, as well as Mr. Elyard, the magistrate, who had
taken the deposition of the deceased in articulo mortis,
must be in attendance at the next sitting of the Court.
The warrant for interment was then perfected, and
the jury having been bound in rceognizances to appear
again, the Court was adjourned to a future day.

INQUEST_ ON LORD GEORGE
BENTINCK, M.P.
The inquest on the body of Lord George Bentinck
was held at eleven o'clock on Saturday, at Welbeck,
before Mr. Falkner, the coroner, and a jury summoned
from the adjoining parishes.
The jury having been sworn,
The CORONER briefly detailed to them the melancholy
circumstance which had called them together, and they
then proceeded to view the body, which lay in the bed-
room usually occupied by his Lordship. The body pre-
sented no external marks of injury, excepting a slight
abrasion over the left eye and on the nose. On the chest
and hands there was some extravasation of blood, arising
from the position in which he had lain. The Coroner
directed a post mortem examination to be made, and
while that was being proceeded with by Mr. Ward and
Mr. Miles, his assistant, the evidence of the following
witnesses was taken:—
William Perks—l have been in the service of the
Duke of Portland about seven years as footman. I al-
ways waited at breakfast, and usually saw Lord George
Bentinek when he was at Welbeck. On Monday, the
11th, he arrived here from London. Every morning
during that week he breakfasted at Welbeck, and on
four days went to Doncaster races, returning each
night. I never saw him in better health and
spirits than he has been since he came from town. On
Thursday morning ho breakfasted with his father, the
Duke of Portland, Sir William Seymour, and Lady
Harriet Bentinek. He ate a very hearty breakfast—
more hearty, indeed, than usual, and was in exceedingly
good spirits. He was occupied in the morning in his
dressing-room writing letters. He remained at home
till about ten minutes past four in the afternoon, when he
set out to walk to Thoresby, the seat of Earl Manvers,
where he proposed to stay for two days.
Richard Lenthall—l am the helper in the stables at
Welbeck. On Thursday last, about five minutes past
four, I started with a gig from Welbeck to Thoresby,
with Mr. Gardner, valet to Lerd George Bentinck. On
the road Mr. Gardner drew my attention to his Lord-
ship, and on turning round I saw him walking past the
Reindeer Park corner, by the footpath, towards Tho-
resby. I never saw him afterwards alive. I went for-
ward to Thoresby. I left his Lordship's valet at Tho-
resby, and returned with the carriage to Welbeck. I
was called out of bed at night, and asked if I had seen
Lord George on my way some, as be had not reached
Thoresby. I got up, and along with Mr. Gardner
and George Wilson, went to search for his Lordship.
We took lanthorns with us, and followed on the foot-
road I had seen him taking. We found the body of his
Lordship lying close to the gate which separates Ken-
nel-water Meadow. He was quite dead, and laying on
his face. His hat was a yard or two before him, having
evidently been thrown off in falling. I left three men
with the body, and immediately started for Mr. Hase, of
Worksop, surgeon. A few minutes before we found
the body Mr. Hase had passed on horseback, and asked
what we were searching for. We declined telling him,
as we had no idea that any harm had come to his Lord-
ship, and did not wish to set any rumour afloat.
George Wilson confirmed this evidence, adding that
his Lordship's hands were under his body, and in one he
grasped his walking-stick. The stick was partly under-
neath him. I felt at his leg, and it was stiff and cold.
A break was sent for from Welbeck, and in that ho was
conveyed to the Abbey. There was a little blood upon
his face.
The CORONER remarked that, from the appearance of
the bruises over his Lordship's eye, and the blood upon
the ground, it was natural to infer that he had been
seized very suddenly, and fallen with violence on the
ground.
The witness continued—The blood appeared to have
flowed from his Lordship's nose. Besides that on his
face there was some on the grass. The body was not
moved till Mr. Hase came.
Richard Evans—l am a labourer, and reside at Nor-
ton. About half-past four, or about a quarter to five
o'clock on Thursday afternoon, I saw Lord George
llentinck standing still, against the gate, and about two
yards from the place where he was found dead. I was
about two hundred yards from his Lordship, and was
going on the old Worksop-road, which crones that on

which the gate is situate. I thought it was the Marquis
of Tichfield. No person was near him. I thought he
was reading something, but could not see at the distance
I was from him.

By a, juror—Did his Lordship see you ?
Witness—l csnnot say ;he might do, for there was
nothing to obstruct his view. lle did not make any sign
to us. John Mee and my son, Richard Evans, were
with me when I saw his Lordship. My son stood on the
road a minute or two to look at him. I remarked to my
son that I thought it was the Marquis of Tichfield.
Richard Evans, jun., and John Mee confirmed this
testimony.

The CORONER said it was singular that the body
should have laid on the footpath so many hours, and no
person have passed that way.
Mr. Smith, the constable of Welbeck, said few per-
sons passed along the footpath. The Duke of Portland
frequently walked by that path in the afternoon. It
happened that he did not go out on Thursday, or he
would probably have been the first to find the body of
Lord George Bentinek.

Mr. J. Shirley Mills deposed—l am assistant to Mr.
Ward, of Wellow, surgeon. I was sent for on Thurs•
day night, and was at We•lbeck When the body of
Lord Gorge Bentinck was brought there. It was
then about two o'clock. Life had been extinct some
hours. I was present when his Lordship's clothes
were removed. There were no external marks of
violence, except a considerable contusion about the
left eye. It was such a contusion as would be produced
by a fall. The bridge of the nose was also injured a
little, and the left side of the tongue appeared to be in-
jured by the teeth. There was also some extravasated
blood under the skin of the chest, and the right side.
His pockets were opened in my presence, and in them
was 12!. 10s. in gold, and 1/ Bs. 4d. in silver, and in
his pocket-book there was a cheque for 100/. and two 5/.
notes, besides other papers. I was told that there was
also a promissory note for 5,000/., but that I did not
see. His betting-book, his gold pencil, and gold watch
and chain were also found in his pockets. He had two
valuable rings on his fingers. I have, this mornings as-
sisted Mr. 'Ward in making a post-mortem examination
of the head and body. From that examination, I. are
of opinion that ho died from a violent spasm of the
heart. We found the organs of the body generally
healthy, with the exception of the right lung, of which
there here adhesions to the side.

Mr. W. S. Ward, of Wellow, surgeon—l have known
Lord George Bentinck many years, and when in the
country was his regular medical attendant, but I had not
seen him since he came from town last. I have this day
opened the body, and am of opinion that he died from
spasm of the heart. There was very little food in the
stomach, but there was no morbid appearance beyond
congestion; which_ prevailed over the whole system.
There was emphysema of the lungs and old adhesion
from former diseases. The heart was large and muscu-
lar, and covered with fat. It contained no blood, and
bore the appearance of irregular contraction.
A juryman inquired as to the state of the brain of the
deceased?

Mr. Ward—lt was perfectly healthy, with the exec,
tion of a little venous congestion in about the same rat
as the other organs.
The CORONER read over the depositions of the wi
nesses.

A juror asked if Mr. Ward supposed that the blood
which was found on his Lordship's face and on the grass
had been produced by the rupture of a blood-vessel in
the head?

Mr. Ward said he believed it had not. Ms opinion
was, that blood had flowed from the nose, in consequence
of the deceased having fallen upon his face.
The jury immediately returned a verdict " that his
Lordship had died by the visitation of God, to wit, of a
spasm of the heart."

THE LATE LORD GEORGE BENTINCIC The mortal
remains of this much-lamented Nobleman will, it is un-
derstood, be almost immediately removed to town, pre-
paratory to interment in the family vault at Alarylebone
Old Church, which is surrounded by the Portland estate.
The vault already contains the remains of the Duchess
of Portland, mother of the deceased, who, it may be
recollected, was found dead in bed early in 1844, of Lord
and Lady William Bentinck, and other members
of this distinguished house. Tho Marquis of
Tichfield left London by the mail train on Satur-
day evening for Welbeck Abbey. Lord George, it ap-
pears, hes died possessed of a considerable amount of
ready money, and other personal property, which, of
course, falls into the possession of the Duke of Port-
land. He owned an estate in Norfolk known as Orange
Farm, called so in respect to the memory of William the
Third (Prince of Orange), who raised the celebrated
Dutch General Bentinck to the peerage of Portland, for
services rendered at the battle of the Boyne, where
Schomburg, then the second in command, was shot. He
also possessed some property in Scotland. So great was
the benevolence of the deceased, that on several occasions
he has been known to re-establish tradesmen and others
overtaken by misfortune, on finding that their intentions
had been good, merely exacting a promise that if ever an
opportunity presented itself he should be repaid. During
the two years' famine he subscribed upwards of 1,000/.
for the relief of the ciie.tressed Irish.

TREATMENT OF THE POOR IN
SP. PANCRAS PARISH.
Mr. Wakley, M.P., resumed on Thursday the in-
quiry into the death of George Davis, who died from
exposure, want, and ill-treatment.
The father of deceased, who is in effluent circum-
stances, attended, and gave evidence to the effect that
deceased was his son, and was at his house about seven
weeks ago, when the deceased said he had been
turned out of the workhouse. The deceased was a
man of very vicious habits, and from his general con-
duct it was impossible to keep him.
There being no further evidence,
The CORONER proceeded to address the jury. lle
observed that the evidence which had been adduced
was of a very extraordinary character; so much so,
that had it not been taken on oath persons might be
led to believe that it was a tale of extravagant fiction,
and the authors be charged with having indulged in
a romance of a most extravagant character. If the
son was destitute, the law required that the father
should supply the means of his subsistence. That was
the law of England, and it was a most salutary law,
because it enjoined upon the parents that prudential
conduct in bringing up their children which would
make them good, useful, and industrious members of
society. The parish had acted properly in compelling
the father to pay for the support of his son, but in
making the agreement they had done he thought they
had gone beyond the law. The object of a workhouse
was that it should be made a receptacle for the really
destitute, and not for a person in this young man s
position. After recapitulating the evidence, the
Coroner said the course pursued towards the de-
ceased in placing a straitwaistcoat upon him was one
which would not have been adopted towards a brute.
It was a painful tale, and, although there was not
sufficient legal proof, his own decided conviction was
that this young man had died through being ex-
pelled from the workhouse. He was led to this
belief from the fact that no symptom of illness was
manifest until after that event took place. In
conclusion the Coroner denounced the conduct of the
authorities as ungenerous and cruel in the extreme,
and said it was calculated to make the poor of this
country believe that those who were in different cir-
cumstances were their oppressors, and to create a
revengeful feeling, which was likely to destroy all
existing institutions.
The jury retired, and after half-an-hour'dconsulta-
tion, returned into court with the following special
rerdict :—" We find that the death of the deceased
George Davis was produced by a natural cause,
namely, a disease of the brain, but the origin of the
disease is not known. We think the disease aggra-
vated by his removal from the house before his perfect
recovery. The jury take this opportunity of ex-
pressing their extreme disgust at the practice of
receiving into the house at a certain rate per week
individuals who are not paupers, thereby defeating
the purpose for which the ratepayers are so heavily
taxed, and so making that which was intended by
law for indigent poor a boarding-house for the com-
paratively well off. The jury cannot separate with-
out, in some degree, censuring the conduct of his
father."

HORRIBLE CHILD-MURDER IN

SUSSEX.
Great excitement prevails throughout Chailey and the
surrounding districts, in consequence of the discovery of
a shocking case of child-murder, which there is ground
for suspecting was perpetrated by the mother of the un-
fortunate deceased.
The particulars connected with this shocking case, as
sworn to before Mr. Gell, the Coroner, are, that a widow
named Hannah Sanders, about 40 years of age, had
since the death of her husband given birth to two illegi-
timate children, and, about five or six months since, she
went into Chailey Union workhouse, in a far advanced
state of pregnancy with the third child. Whilst therein.o
she gave birth to a male child, and after remaining in
the house till the 7th of September,
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the third, she was removed to Chailey; but upon the
coroner asking where the third child was, she I.( mained
perfectly silent. She was therefore sent to Lewes gaol,
there to remain until the body is identified.

ROYAL CONSIGNMENT.—Her Majesty's packet
Violet, Sherlock commander, larrivcd at the port of
Dover, from Ostend, has brought a packet addressed to
her Majesty the Queen, which was, on being landed,
immediately forwarded by the authorities at the port by
the railway to London, and duly delivered at Bucking-
Jana Palace,