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gentlemen;" one of the party, but not the prisoner,
returned the compliment ; but the prisoner said, " Do
you want to tight ?" Roper said, "No ; he would
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on again. The prisoner
prisoner then struck
Roper's
then came towards him, and Roper thrust his hand out
at him to keep him back. The prisoner then turned
round ull at once, and stabbed Roper in the lett breast.
Roper caught him, and tried to take the handle of the
knife from his 'hand, for the blade was left sticking in
Roper's breast, Roper drew out the blade, and then he
dropped on the ground, but he still held the prisoner.
Roper called out " Murder!" and the prisoner tried to
get awuy, drugging him :30 or 40 yards. He then
caught Roper by the throat with one hand, and held the
other hand over his mouth. A man of the name of Car.
ter came up, and Roper gave the prisoner into his cue-
tody, telling Carter that the prisoner had stabbed him,
and he hoped justice would he done him, as he did not
expect he should live many minutes. A surgeon was
called up, who examined and dressed the wound, and
Roper was taken to his borne. He was confined to his
bed for a fortnight, and to his house for five weeks. The
prisoner was a perfect stranger to Roper. The surgeon
stated that the wound was dangerous. Upon undressing
Roper he found another wound in his side. The prose-
cutor's story was corroborated by the man and the
woman who were with him.
On behalf of the prisoner, his brother, who was one
of the party, was call* d, and he stated that ho was
standing with his brother at the door of his lodgings
that night. Roper and another man and a woman came
up. Roper asked the prisoner if he would run for e
quart of ale? The prisoner said he was not in running
order after his week's work. The prisoner then went
inside the door, and Roper cau.4ht- hold of him and
dragged him out and struck him, and then witness
struck Roper. The companion of Roper then attacked
witness sad knocked him down, which laid him sense-
less on the ground for two hours. At the commence-
ment of the affray the woman who was with Roper told
him to draw his knife and run the Irishman through4The
witness said he was so much injured that he had bees
confined to his bed for a fortnight, but he did not em-
ploy a medical man because he had no money. In his
cross-examination the witness admitted that he had
been at the magistrate's office the morning after the
affray.
The jury found the prisoner " Guilty of stabbing, witk
intent to do grievous bodily harm," and he was sentenced
to be transported for fourteen years.
William Green was indicted for uttering a forged note,
purporting to be that of the North Wilts Banking Com-
pany, on the 12th of November last, at Bath.
Mr. Phinn was counsel for the prosecution; and Mr.
Stone defended the prisoner.
The prisoner was a bookseller and newsagent at Bir-
mingham. It appeared that on the 12th of November
last, about ten o clock in the morning, the prisoner
went to the shop of a Mr. Butcher, a grocer at Bath,
and ordered a pound of 4s. 6d. tea; this being given
him he offered a 51. note of the North Wilts Banking
Company in payment. The change was given to him,
and he left the shop. In about an hour after
this the prisoner went to the shop of a Mr. Lewis,
and there he bought a railway wrapper, the
price of which was 145.; he offered a 5/. note, purport-
ing to be one of the North Wilts Banking Company, in
payment, and said he was anxious to have change as he
had two sovereigns to pay to a person who was outside.
From some cause or other Mr. Lewis suspected that all
was not right, and he asked the prisoner to wait while
he got change. Mr. Lewis then went to the bank, and
upon inspecting the note it was discovered to be a for-
gery. Mr. Lewis returned to his shop and found the
prisoner standing at the door. He engaged him in con-
versation till an officer came, and he then gave the pri-
soner into custody. He was searched, and a pareel
dropped from his flannel drawers, which was found to
contain nine notes exactly similar to those he had pro-
duced at the shops of Mr. Butcher and Mr. Lewis. He
had 221. in gold and some silver. The notes were
forged, but were certainly as good forgeries as were
ever seen.
The prisoner was found Guilty and sentenced to
twelie years' transportation.

CENTRAL--
CRIMINAL COURT.
OL I) CO UR T.
STABBING Yenry Parker a tailor, aged 26, was
found guilty of dangerously wounding Mary Ritchie, a
young woman with whom he had cohabited for some
time, and by whom she was in the f wa at the
time. The case must be fresh in
the recollection of oar
readers. The woman had left him, and gone to her
mother, and because she would not come to him Wkel4
he came for her to her mother's house, although boa
had previously told her he would see her no more, he
rushed into the room, when he stabbed her severest
times, and then similarly assaulted her mother.
The prisoner was found Guilty.—Sentence was de-
ferred.

THE CHARGE •GAINMT LORD KINCSTON.—At five
o'clock in the evanng the grand jury at the Central Cri-
minal Court ignored the bill charging the defendant
with indecemey assaulting:George Cull, on Friday last.

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
Andrew Green alias Henry Arnold Green, 52, de-
scribed as a surgeon, but who is better know as Dr.
Green, was arrainged upon several indictments for felony
and misdemeanour.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Ballantine prosecuted; Mr.
Prendergast appeared for the defendant.
The particulars of the various charges of swindling
and fraud against this person have been so fully detailed
in the police reports that it will be unnecessary to give
the evidence at any length on the present occasion.
The first case gone into was that of Mr. Dobbs, a
hosier, in Princes-street, from whom the defendant had
obtained a quantity of articles; but as it appeared that
they had been delivered at different times, and that to
some extent credit had been given, although there was
no 'doubt of the prisoner's fraudulent intention, the
Court ruled that the charge of larconcy could not be
sustained, and a verdict of Not Guilty was therefore re-
turned.
The prisoner was then charged with stealing some
silver money belonging to the servant of a coffee house
in Drury lane, where he was lodging.
The jury, after hearing the evidence, returned a ver-
dict of Guilty.
He was then charged, upon a third indictment, with
obtaining money by false pretences from M. Soyer, the
celebrated chef de cuisine of the Reform Club.
In this case it appeared that the defendant had intro-
duced himself to M. Soyer by a pretence that he wished
to have the advertisement of a work upon cookery,
which that gentleman had just published, for a paper of
which he was the manager, and in the course of con-
versation bearing that M. Soyer was about to send an
advertisement to the Times, he said that his own
printing-office was close to Printing-house square, and
he volunteered to take the advertisement, and M. Soyer
gave him a sovereign to pay for it. The prisoner
went to the Times office after business hours, and
took the advertisement into the printing-office, an said
he had brought it from M. Sayer, who was etto
have it inserted the next morning, but he capay
for it, as M. Soyer had given him a bad sove He
was told that the advertisement should be inserted, and
the next day the prisoner had the impudence to call
upon the prosecutor and tell him that the sovereign he
had given him was a bad one, but he had paid for the
advertisement out of his own pocket, and M. Soyer then
gave him another, and very sok n afterwards received a
satisfactory intimation of his having been victimized,
by having to pay another sovereign for the advertise-
ment that bad been inserted under the circumstances
mentioned.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty,
And the RECORDER sentenced the defendant to lit months' imprisonment.
There were several other charges of swindling against
the prisoner.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU!.
SIR,-With reference to a paragraph which appeared
in The Sun of Monday last, announcing the lamented
deceaie of Mr. Burke, ben., ono of the authors of
" The Peerage," permit me to state that, in consequence
of that gentleman's ill health, " The Peerage" and
" Landed Gentry" have been, for several years, con-
ducted by his son, Mr. John Bernard Burke, of the
Middle Temple, the present editor.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
HENRY COLUMN.
13, Great Marlborough-street, April 6, 1848.

DEATH or Sta THOMAS BARING, BART. Tbis
venerable and much respected Baronet, whoa* name has
been so well esteemed in commercial circles, expired on
the 3d inst., at his seat, Stratton-park, Manchester, after
a lengthened and severe illness. The deceased Baronet
was the eldest son of Francis Baring, Esq. (a Devonshire
gentleman, who founded the London branch of the
family), by the daughter of William Herring, Esq., a
Croydon, and co-heir of Thomas Herring, Archbishop
of Canterbury. He was bora in 1772, being the elder
brother of Lord .Ashburton, and married in 1794 the
eldest daughter of Charles Sealey, Esq., a barrister, in
practice at Calcutta. By this lady, who died in Jul
Thomas, M.P., now the headof 1..
1844, he had issue four sons and three daughters; via.,
Charles, in holy orders;
the Right Hon. Francis, late Chancellor of the E chi"
Charlotte, married J ohn, of Oak-
, the Lon-
wells; Emily, married to the Rev towy.the Rev. George
Frances, married to the Right II . illiana Dupre; and
on. Ilenry Lahonehere.
The deceased, some years since,
wtuoneo rdMSu. house;Pss. e; x ;
represented the borough
of Wycombe in Parliament;
little part in politics. He but latterly bad taken very
party. e was a member of the old Whig
ROYAL ARTILLERYI W '
OOLMCH, APRIL 5.--The
formation ' of
the two additional companies to each of
the ten battalions of the Royal
Artillery has been fixed
for Thursday next, the 13th
be instant; and the commis-
sions of the officers who willpromoted by the aug-
mentation are to be dated
Mitchell's the 10th instant. Captain
company, 10th battalion, left the garrison
here on Monday morning for Chester, T ynemouth, and
Carlisle, to relieve Major Robe's company, 2d battalion,
and the relieved detachment from Chester joined the
garrison yesterday evening; the others from Tvnemouth
and Carlisle, will arrive on Friday. It is reported, but
not officially, or with a certainty
that one of the two companies just arrived from the
West Indies, in the Apollo troop ship, is ordered to
land at Plymouth, to do duty there, and that the pre-
sent company at that station will proceed to Ireland.
The companies returned from the West Indies are Cap-
tain Savage's, Ist battalion, and Captain Fisher's, 6th
battalion, the former from Barbadoes, and the latter
from Jamaica, where they have been stationed sines
November, 1843. Captain Ormsby's company, 6th
battalion, and Captain Crofton's, 7th battalion, are to be
, elieved during the present }ear; the former from Mon-
treal, and the latter from Kingston, Canada, where they
have been stationed since the 10th of June, 1843.