The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-25 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LomnON, sliTtlitnAY EVENING, JULY 25, 184 G.

COURT CIRCULAR.
Lord Marcus Hill had au audience of the Queen yes-
. terjay, at Buckingham Palace, and had the honour to
kis: hands on being appointed Comptroller of her Ma-
jesty's Household. His Lordship received from her
Majesty his wand of office.
Her Majesty, attended by her Lady in Waiting and
her Equerry in Waiting, visited her Royal Highness
the Princess Sophia at her residence, at Kensington,
yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
at a meeting of the Commission for Promoting and En-
couraging the Fine Arts, in the rebuilding of the Palace
of Westminster. The Prince arrived at Gwydyr House,
Whitehall, at a quarter before three o'clock, attended
by Lieutenant- Colonel Seymour. The Commissioners
pr, sent were, the Marquis .of Lansdowne, the Right
lion. the Speaker, Sir James Graham, Mr. Hawes, and
Mr. George Vivian. The Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was
in attendance.
The meeting' 'anal) up at four o'clock. Prince Albert,
attended be Mr. Eastlake,. afterwards went to the ne‘v
palace, and inspected the new Houses of Parliament.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales ani the
Princess Royal took an airing yesterday in the royal
garden.
Their Royal Highnesses and Prince Alfred and the
Princess Alice took a carriage drive .yesterday,•in ,an
open carriage and four, accompanied by the Dowager
Lady Lvttelton.
The Royal dinner party yesterday, at Buckingham
Pahate, iticlu,kd her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kew, his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen,
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness do Speth, and Earl
Spencer.
Miss Goddard, a child only nine years old, performed
on the piano!orte by command of the Queen on Thurs-
day evening, at Buckingham Palace, before her Majesty
and Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent. and the royal circle. The pieces performed were
two Fantasias, the one
,by Halbrenner, and the °Our
by Thalberg, and their execution elicited the high ap-
probation of her Majesty and her Royal Consort.
Their Royal Highness( s the DuChess of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz honoured the Marchioness of
Westminster with a visit yesterday in Upper Grosvenor-
street.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the. Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz, attended by Baronets Ahlefeldt
and Mr. Edmond Mildmay, honoured the performance
of the French Plays with their presence yesterday
evening.
A deputation connected with Newfoundland had an
interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home-
office. The deputation consisted of Mr. Walter Baine,
M.P., Mr. Thomas H. Brooking, Mr. George R. Robin-
son, Mr. Ewen Stabb, Mr. Robert Gillespie, and Mr.
Robert Newman Hunt.
Lord Morley had an interview with the Earl of Cla-
rendon yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade.
Mr. C. Grenfell had also an interview with the Noble
Earl.

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

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWTON RACES.—THURSDAY (CONCLUDED).
The Borough Cup, of 100 sovs, added to a Handicap of 20
soya each, 10 ft, and 5 only it declared; the second to re..
ceive 25 sovs. out of the stakes. One mile and a half.
Lord Warwick's Yardley, 6 yrs 1
Mr. Ongley's Roderick, aged
Godfrey, Lightning, Lancashire Witch, Snob, and Gannet;
were not placed.

Betting-5 to 4 agst Godfrey, 3to 1 agst Yardley, sto 1
agst Lightning.
Won easy by a length-and-a-half. Godfrey losing second
place, and Lightning the third, by a neck.
Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, and 20 added. Golborne
Course. (4 Subs).
Mr. Clarke's fby Stockport, out of Caroline, 3 yrs, lOst 1
Sir J. Gerald's Quebec, 12st 21b ... 2
Won easy by a length.
The Haydock Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, Gents.... riders. -
One Mile and-a-half. Winner to be sold for 2001. (7 Subs).
Mr. Billington's Fair Rosamond, 5 yrs, Ilst 101 b
Sir J. Gerald's Quebec, 6 yrs, l2st 21b 2
Mr. T. Parker's Thalia and Mr. Hanson's Jane also ran.
Won easy.

Plate of 70/. ; for three yrs old, Est 81b; four, Bst 51b;
fillies allowed 31b; winners of a plate in 1846, 31b extra;
of two, a gold cup, or Queen's plate, 51b extra. Heats,
one mile and a half.
Count Bathyanny's Gannet, 4 yrs (Whitehouse) 1 1
Mr. W. Scott's Driffield, 3 yrs
Mr. Robinson's Josephine, 3 yrs
Mr. Barton's Princess Olga, 4 yrs 0 dr
Mr. Mangle's Comical Boy, 4 yrs
Each heat well contested, and won on the post by a head.

(RECEIVED THIS DAY).
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.
GOODWOOD STALES.-6 to 1 agst Jonathan Wild (t. freely),
7 to 1 agst the Hero (t. freely), Bto 1 agst Connaught
Ranger (t. freely), 10 to 1 agst Camera Obscura, 12 to 1 agst
Red Robin (t. freely), 13 to 1 agst Lapwing filly (t.).
Nothirg else backed.
Goonwoon Cur.-3 to 1 agst Grimston (t.), 6to 1 agst
Lothario (t.), 9 to 1 agst Weatherbit (t.).
Nothing done on Derby, &c.
NEWTON RACES.—FRIDAY.
The St. Helen's Purse of 504 added to a Sweepstakos of
15 soys. each, 10ft, for 2 yrs old 6st 71b, and 3 yrs Bst 101 b;
fillies allowed 3lbs. The G )lborne Course. (10 Subs.)
Mr. Worthington's Sharaton, 3 yrs (Whitehouse) 1
Lord Stanley's Meeanee, 2 yrs
Mr. Cranstoun's Comme-il-faut, 2 yrs

...
Mr. Price's Kismet, 3 yrs . - 0
Mr. E. Peel's Spithead, 3 yrs 0
The Garswood Cup of 1001., given by Sir John Gerard, added
to Sweepstakes; of 15 soya. each, 10 ft. One mile and a
half. Gentlemen riders.

Mr. Cretchi;;36ceuraeLion, 4 yrs (Mr. J. Moore) 1
Mr. Standish's Little Hampton, 5 yrs 2
Sir J. Gerard's Pantasa, 4 yrs 3
The Newton Stakes of ssoys. each, and 30 added; second to
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receive 10/. Heats, once round and a di's. --
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Mr. Meikhlam's Alliance, 3 yrs (Duncan) 1 1
Mr. Davies's Talleyrand, 5 yrs 2 2
Mr. Tempest's T' Ould Squire, 5 yrs
Sweepstakes of 15 sow. each, 10 ft, winner to be sold for

3001.

TWo miles.

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

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

CURIOUS WELSH CUSTOM.—One day last week a gal-
hot captain, who stands in a high position in the civil force
of the 'adjoining county of Carmarthen, took a walk into a
hayfield, where the haymakers were pursuing their avoca-
tions. No sooner had he entered the field, than, in accord-
ance with a custom which generally prevails in some dis-
tricts in Wales of giving every new visitor, of whatever class,
age, or sex, an initiatory tumble in the hay, two women of
Herculean strength seized the military man, and instantly
laid him prostrate in dried and well-seasoned herbage. Being
entirely ignorant of this custom of times, to which, as the
lawyers say, the memory of man runneth not to the con-
trary, our hero naturally imagined that he was about being
visited with summary and condign punishment for his former
active interference for the suppression of the Rebecca dis-
turbances. Having disengaged himself from the fangs of
his amazonian assailants, he lost no time in procuring an
authority for their apprehension. The case accordingly
came on for bearing before the magistrates at Carmarthen on
Saturday last. The complainant having detailed his
grievance amidst the merriment of the audtence, the magis-
trates at the conclusion become immoderately convulsed with
laughter, one of their worships observing, that he had been
himself served out in the same way fifty times.—Case
dis-
missed.—Cambrian.
EXPORTATION AND CONSUMPTION OF EGGS: --- A
curious account is given in one of the French papers of the
French export trade in eggs. In 1844, the•number exported
from France, as shown by the Customs' returns, was rather
more than 88 millions, on which the Government received an
export duty of 114,0001.. ; of these 88 millions of eggs, 82
millions are stated to have been exported to England. The
consumption of eggs in-Paris is about 128 eggs each person,
making a total of nearly 120 millions annually in that capital
alone. The consumption of eggs in France is reckoned at
9,500,000,000 %go &away.

ASSIZE INT4LLIGENCE.
VOM E ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, July 24.
ry CROWN COURT.
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Mr. Justice Coltman sat in.... this Court until late on
Thursday night, ii order to endeavour to finish the
criminal business, but finding it was inipessible to do
so, it was arranged trial Mr. 'Sergeant Dowling should
dispose of the retpainder of the cases iu the calander.
Thomas Cheest man, aged 20. was indicted for felo-
niously cutting and wounding Charlotte Frances Maria
Saunders, with intent to murder her; and in other counts
his intent was laid to do her grevious bodily harm.
Mr. Deedes prosecuted, and Mr. Mellor defended the
prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner and
the prosecutrix were fellow-servants at the Camden
Arms Inn, Tonbridge Wells ; and it would seem that
the prisoner had entertair.ed great attachment for the
. prosecutrix, which was not returned by her, but she
on the 'contrary, was keeping company with another
3 (mm 4, man, and that had given the prisoner great
offence. On Sunday, the 7th June, the prosecutor had a
holiday, and she went out with her • sweetheart, and it
appea, ed that the prisoner also asked for a holiday on
the same day, and he joined the prosecutrix and her com-
panion, who were at the time accompanied by two or
three young females of their acquaintance. The party
went to a place in the nfighbourhood of Tunbridge
Wells, where they alliirank senie.cyder, and it was ob-
served that the prisoner seemed to be very melancholy,
and appeared to be broo ling over something that was
in his mind. I'h.7 all ry.urned towards home
together, and the prisoner was seen to take a
knife out of his pocket and sharpen it, but it did
not appe it that at this time any suspicion
was entertained of the deadly intention of the prisoner.
The proseeuxix and her friends having rested for a
short time at a stile, proceeded on their way homeward,
her sweetheart being by her side, and the prisoner walk-
ing by the side of the man, when, suddenly, and without
saying a word, he jumped past the min, seize,' the young
women with one band, and, with a knife which he held
in the other, he wade a desperate attempt to cut her
throat; but fortunately, owing to the resistance made by
her cap string, and some other articles of dress, he did
not succeed in causing a mortal injury, although the
jugular vein was injured, and a very severe wound in-
flicted, from the effect of which the prosecutrix had not
yet recovered.
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- Mr. MELLoa, in behalf of the prisoner, urged that the
act had been committed by him while he was labouring
under a temporary aberration of intellect, occasioned by
the drink he had taken.

Mr. Justice COLTMAN having summed up, the jury
almost immediately found the prisoner guilty of wank-
ing the preseeutrix with intent to do her grievous bodily
harm.

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

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

WESTERN ClRCUlT—Devizes, July 23.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice ERLE.)
Frederick Sawkins was indicted for the manslaughter of
Job Gale, at New Sarum, on the fhl of June..

No learned gentleman was instructed on the part of the
prosecution ; but Mr. Ball defended the prisoner.
The first witness called was James Lacy, who said—l am
a bricklayer at Salisbury. I purchased a pony on the 3d of
June. The prisoner was there. About half-past nine in the
morning Sawkins asked Gale to bring him some mortar up,
but he refused, and said Sawkins was only there for a few
days, which I thought irritated him. Sawkins said, "If you
say that again, I'll break your neck." Sawkins then went to
Gale, and put his hands on his shoulder, and they both fell
together. Gale then said, " You've broken my thumb, and
I'll make you pay for it." They had been working together
for a long time. I never knew the prisoner quarrel.
Cross-examined—There was no blow struck.
Robert Vining—l am a blacksmith. On the 3d of June I
heard Sawkins and Gale swearing at each other very much.
Sawkins called for mortar, and Gale said he should not serve
him. Something was said, and then Sdwkins said he'd break
Gale's neck, and he jumped off the scaffold and pushed Gale
on the shoulders, and they both fell.
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George Senior—l was surgeon to the infirmary. Gale
came there on the 3.1 of June. The soft part of his thump
was much lacerated. I recommended a poultice. It went
on well till the 6th, when he was admitted an in-patient.
On the 9th. matter had formed, and it was opened. On the
11th he said he could not open his mouth, but I found he
could; but on the next day there was lock-jaw, and on the
16th he died. The lock-jaw was occasioned by the wounded
thumb.

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

John Webb and Alfred Webb were placed at the bar,
charged with having feloniously ravished Charlotte Barnell,
at Westbury.
Mr. Hodges conducted the prosecution; Mr. Ball defended
the prisoners.
It appeared by the evidence of the prosecutrix, who was
a modest-looking girl of seventeen, that she lived with her
grandmother at Westbury, but worked as a weaver at a
factory about two miles off. On the evening of the 16th of
March she was returning from her work, at about nine
o'clock, when she was met by the prisoners, who are both
married men. '1 hey spoke to her, and wished her good
night, and then Alfred took her round the neck, and got
her to go into the yard of the Anchor Inn, which was close
by. John then went in and got some beer, and they pressed
her to drink. She, however, would not, and they then let
her go on her way home. She went on some way until she
got into a lane, when she found that both the prisoners were
following her. John Webb got hold of her and pushed
her down the lane, while Alfred stayed at the top of
the lane and watched. John Webb" then got her down
and accomplished his purpose, after which Alfred came
down and also committed a felonious assault on ker,
assisted by his brother. She screamed and cried murder,
but no one came to her assistance, when both the prisoners,
hearing a noise, ran away. The prosecutrix Immediately
went home and told her grandmother what had taken place;
and witnesses were called, wha stated that they had seen the
men trying to make her drink at the Anchor Inn, and also
that they heard cries in the direction of the lane, at the time
the girl stated that the assault -had taken, place. A surgeon
was also called, who proved that a capital offence had been
committed.

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

James Franklin was indicted for maliciously stabbing Henry
Hobbit, with intent to murder him. There was a second
count, laying the offence to be, to do grievous bodily arm.
Mr. Swayne conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Stone de-
fended the prisoner.
It appeared by the Mt at oment of the witnesses for the
prosecution. that the prisoner was going along- the road
to Trowbridge on the night of the 16th of May, ac-
companied by a young womar, when he was overtaken
by four or five young men, of whf,na Hobbit was one. The
young woman struck one of the men on the shoulder, upon
which he said to her, " If you do that rvain I will knock you
down." Upon which the prisoner turned round and knocked
him down. Upon this a general fight took place. The pri-
soner
then
He
thencalled out,put h
•i's BandWlle r"'sinin hy knife? where's my
knife?" ispocket, took out a
clasp-knife, and struck Mobbit in the head near the left
temple, dividing the temporal artery, and inflicting a wound
nearly an inch in depth.
hadis beenreceiving
him u 8
byini the five men.ory from the
violent
Mr. STONE addl., seed the jury for the prisoner, and con-
tended that the stab was Riven by the prisoner in self-
defence,
attackto
prevent
which h
lie also called two witnesses in support of this view of the
case, who stated that the men were very a run. t_
-, and that at
the time of the stab being given by the prisoner they had
ptrhoispecrotyanty of George Wedge,
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got him against a wall, and were "pitching into him" and
belabouring him very severely.
Mr. Justice ERLE having summed up, the jury found the
prisoner Guilty. Lie was then sentenced to twelve months'
imprisonment. •
Ann White was indicted for having wilfully and feloniously
ssiettutai rtee
itno
tahceepr
atariinshcnofttEa
Mr. Hodges conducted the prosecution. 'i,
s.he prisoner was
not represented by counsel.
It appeared by the evidence of the prosecutor that a part
of the premises which were burnt down was rented by the
husband of the prisoner, and occupied by himself and his
wife, there being two cottages under one roof. On the 22d
of March last the cottages were burnt down.
ngfec; rdt,hien
A witness of the name of Martha Racket was called, who
stated that on the day in qaestion she had taken refuge in a
shed near the house from the rain- While there she saw the
smoke coming from the thatch of the cottage occupied by the
prisoner and her husband. At that time no one was near the
houselbut a policeman of the,name of Godwin.
William Godwin was then called, and staled that he was
a policeman, and on the day in question was on duty .near
the houses which were burnt. He heard an alarm of fire
given bytthe last witness, and saw the 'thatch on fire just
over the window of the cottage occupied by the prisoner and
her husband. On going to the house he found the door
locked,,upon which he broke open the window and got into
the house. On going up stairs he heard a voice say " I
havn't done nothing." When he got up stairs he went into
a bed-room, and found.the prisoner under a bed on the floor,
with the key of the front door in her hand. He then asked
her to oome out, but she would net, and he was obliged to
pull hcrout by force. Thera were only two rooms in the
house, and no other person was in the cottage. In the down-
room stairs there was a fire in the grate. The fire commenced
iu the, thatch jest over the bed-room- window in which the
pri oner was found. The 'roof was quite within the reach of
an person who might be on the outside to reach. to fbe
place were the tre actaeaced. Tiastplickmaa then toot;
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the prisoner into custody, and charged her with having set
the house on fire. She made no reply. Both the cottages
were burnt down.
Mr. Justice ERLE having summed up the case to the jury,
they found the prisoner Guilty, and she was sentenced to be
transported fur seven years.
It was stated in Court that the prisoner had three times
before attempted to fire the cottage, and that a bill had been
preferred against her at the last assizes for this county, but
was ignored.

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

. NORTHERN ialwui I.—York, July 23.
The business on the civil side was concluded last evening.
This is the commission day for Durham, but there still re-
maining some cases to try on the Crown side, for the county
of York, Mr. Justice Cresswell sat for the purpose of dis-
posing of them. One cause on the civil side has been made
a retnanet.

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

MIDLAND CIRGUIT.-IVotti!whani, July 23.

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CRIMINAL COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice PArrEsoN.)
Bloany.--Robert Thompson Hardie, aged 25, was charged
with having, at North Clifton, on the 30th of May, 1844,
married Mary Hammond, his former wife being then alive.
It was proved he had married his first wife in 1841, and had
lived with her some months, and that she is still alive.
The second wife stated she first became acquainted with
the prisoner in 1843, and they were married in the May of
1844. She had never heard whether he was married or
single, but took it for granted he was a single man.
The prisoner stated he did not consider his first marriage
lawful, because he never took an oath, or said anything after
the clergyman, or even put a ring on the woman's finger.
It appeared he was married to his first wife in Scotland, ac-
cording to the forms of the church there.

The—JuDGE overruled the objection the prisoner took, and
stated if a man married in a country where the form differed
from that practised here, he must be governed by the form
existing in the country where he married his wife.
„lie- was found Guilty, and sentenced to one year's impri-
sonment, with hard labour.

July 24.
CIVIL COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
THE QUEEN V. LORD HARBOROUGH AND OTHERS.

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

NORFOLK ClRCUl7l—Norwich, July 23.
The commissions for the county of Norfolk and this ancient
city were opened yesterday afternoon by Mr. Sergeant
Bytes, in the absence of the Learned Judges of Assize, who,
having attended Divine service this morning at ten o'clock in
the time-honoured cathedral, repaired to the County-hall at
twelve o'clock. The entry on the civil side falls below the
average, there being only thirteen causes, and on the criminal
side there are but forty prisoners, whose alleged offences
are of a lighter complexion than is usual in this county,
there being four cases of arson, four of rape, two of felonious
cutting and shooting, one of horse stealing, one of robbery,
one of burglary, three of housebreaking, one of uttering a
forged banker's receipt, sixteen of larceny. and one case in
which the prisoner, a woman, aged 33, is charged with ad-
ministering cantharides to a female with intent to murder
her, but in that case the grand jury threw out the bill.
CROWN COURT.—( Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
Sarah Kastings, aged 32, stood charged with uttering a
forged order for the payment of 951. at Great Yarmouth, on
the 2d of September, 1844, with intent to defraud Messrs.
Gurney.

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

It appeared that in June, 1844, the husband of the pri.
soner, an illiterate and frugal man of 51, deposited the suns
of 951. in Messrs. Gurney's bank at Great Yarmouth, and
received the usual "accountable receipt" from them in ac-
knowledgment of the paper. In the September following
the prisoner took this instrument to the bank, and stating
that she was the wife of the depositor, demanded the payment
of the principal and interest due thereon. The clerk told her
that the signature of her husband was required, and she took
away the paper, which she returned in a short time, bearing
for endorsement the words, " Mr. John Millar astings,"
which she said was her husband's signature, adding, by way
of explanation, that he was a "Mister," and as she conceived
had a right so to sign himself The clerk, however, struck
his pen throagh the word " Mr.," and then paid the suiis of
951. 6s. sd. to the prisoner,'whe was not seen after that day
in Yarmouth, or elsewhere, for twenty -two months, though
information was given to the police, and Mr. Hastings in-
sisted on the hank repaying the money to him, on the ground
that the «locument was a forgery. In the month of May last
Mr. Hastings died, and after that event the prisoner re-ap-
peared in Yarmouth, and she was taken into custody on the
charge.

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

Eliza Ward, aged 25, was charged with setting fire to an
outhouse at Sow Barth,lph, in this county.
tlr. Cooper conducted the case fir the prosecution, which
was of the clearest possible character, the prisoner having
repeatedly acknowledged her act, while she justified it as a
re.rihution on her master, the prosecutor, for having refused
to pay her journey home after he had discharged her from
his service without just cause.
The jury having found the prisoner Guilty, sentence was
deferred.

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

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

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

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both pri-
soners, recommending Ann Jones to mercy.
The Learned JUDGE sentenced Richard Farley to trans-
portation for fifteen years, and Ann Jones to one year's im-
prisonment and hard labour.

With this case the assize for the county and city of Wor-
cester ended.

CONSOLIDATED MINES OF CODRE ASSOCIATION.—
Yesterday the half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors
of this company was held at the offices in Austin-friars,
Russell Edir,e, Esq., in the chair. From the report it ap
peared that the .quantity of ore raised during the year
amounted to. 17,468 tons, which sold for 193,417/. 7s. 11d.,
leaving a profit to the company of 10,325/.1a.. 9d: This
amount, with the balance brought forward from last year,
made the sum- of 14,7311. 133. 2d., out of which sum a divi-
dend was paid to the proprietors in February last, leaving
only 2,7311. 13s. 2d. to the credit of the account. With iv-
spect to the workings of the mines for the present year, the
quantity of ore raised to the Ist of June was 7,254 tons, but
it having been found necessary to send out a large steam-en-
gine, this, with some other unavoidable expeases, had deprived
the directors of the mines of paying a dividend. It was stated
that an experiment was going on at Swansea for smelting the
dust ores, which would be, if successful, an immense saving
to the company. The report having been adopted, a vote of
thanks was passed to- the directors and the oMcers abroad,
when the iuoting adjourned.

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PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.

FRIDAY, JULY 24.
Messengers from the Lords brought up the following Bills,
to which their Lordships had agreed :
London and Blackwall Railway (Widening) Bill—Chorley
Waterworks Bill—Waterford Harbour (No. 2) Bill—Coal-
whippers (Port of London) Bill, without amendment—
London and Birmingham (Coventry to Nuneaton) Railway
Bill—Caledonian Railway (Glasgow Termini and Branches)
Bill—Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Bill—
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junc-
tion Railway (No. 1) Bill—Manchester and Leeds Railway
Extensions Bill—Trent Valley Midlands and Grand Junction
Railway Bill—Strathtay and Breadalbane Railway Bill—
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway Bill—
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Bill—Liverpool and
Bury Railway Bill—Midland Railways (Leicester and Swan-
nington Railway Alteration and Branches) Bill—Blackburn,
Darwen, and Bolton Railway Bill—London and Birmingham
Railway (Weedon and• Northampton Branch) Bill, with
amendments—Forth and Clyde Navigation and Bowling Bay
Improvement Bill—North Wales Railway Bill, with an
amendment.