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make blacking for the harness, and one of those ingredients
was four ounces, of oil of vitriol. I used about half of the
vitriol, and gave the bottle c( ntaining the remainder to the
prisoner to put on the top shelf in the kitchen, becau:3o,
the children should not get at it. She knew that the liquid
contained in the bottle was dangerous, because Mr. Leach,
who had served her with it, had, according to her 01
statement, told her that he would not have let her have I
had he not knwn who it was for. The bottle produced by
the inspector, labelled " Vitriol, poison," is the same the
prisoner fetched me. The prisoner can read, not only print"
ing, but writing.
Mr. George Tatham, surgeon, said be was sent for at
seven o'clock the previous evening, but not being at home
when the message arrived he did not see the child until half'
past nine o'clock ; it was then sitting on the prisoner's IsP'
with its head lolling upon its right shoulder. On seeing tb,e,
child, he immediately exclaimed, "This child has bad
vitriol." There were then present the mother, the sister, the
servant., and Mr. Howell. He looked at the childl
mouth, and found portions of it excoriated. and the
gums, roof, and tongue were white, and showed marks is,
an acrid or corrosive poison. Witness at once knew that
vitriol had been administered, baying had a previous al
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of poisoning by vitriol. He aked Mrs. Barker if she 1,1,1"
any vitriol in the house, and she admitted she had.
cloth produced by the inspector (a child's napkin) be lw
not examined until that morning; the light green marks on
it were produced by the child's vomiting; the brown mar
were such as would be produced by vitriol. They might hail
been caused when wiping the child's mouth. It would be
difficult for him to say positively that the cloth was stained
by vitriol, but he believed it to be so.
Mrs. Barker said, there were se many napkins used when
the child vomited, and they were all put away together, that
she could not undertake to say that the one produced
that with which the prisoner wiped the infant's mouth.
Mr. Tatham said, the child was at present hi a very pre'
carious state. It was possible that she might live four or fill
days longer, and she might recover.
Mr. CLIVE asked the prisoner if she desired to say any'
thing P

Vie prisoner (in a firm voice) said, I never touched th°
vitriul. I never went nigh it. I never put my hand on al°
shelf; after mistress gave it to rae to put there.
Mr. CLIVE remanded the case for a week.

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.
EDINBURGH.
THE RIOTERS AT FUSHIE BRIDGE.
The Court met on Thursday, for the purpose of pass'
ing sentence on Matthew Clark, Patrick Burns, Feb;
Murray, and Patrick Savage, who on Monday pleaded
guilty to charges of mobbing and rioting, and assault to
the effusion of blood.
The judges present were the Lord Justice Clerk, Ldld
Mackenzie, and Lord Moncrieff.
The plea of the prisoners having been read,
The LORD JUSTICE CLERK said, the duty of the Court
in this case is in every respect a very painful one. Tri
unfortunate men at the bar appear to have been engag
in the exercise of their honest calling—in regular se"
full employment, and therefore in comfortable eircute;
stances—up to the time when the lawless and violet
proceedings took place which have placed them at till
bar, and which must lead to the infliction of very sever
punishment that may materially, if not entirely, alteo
the character and prospects of their future lives. Tl'
case is also extremely painful, because no circumstances
have been disclosed to enable us to draw any distinctic.a
between the case of any of the prisoners, or to make,
respect of any difference in their cases, any excepfle;
in favour of any of them from the sentence whiCh Fe
feel it our duty to award. The case has been most
anxiously considered by the whole court, and the see'
tence which I am about to pronounce is the result °,
the concurring opinion of the whole judges of this court'
Whether in the exercise of the royal preroget°,
of mercy it may appear that there are any circumstance'
in the case which enable those to whom it is erl;
trusted the duty of advising the Crown-4,„
any ground satisfactory to them—to draw any. ou''
tinction which may be favourable to any of the proof?
ers, or may lead to recommend any of them for Isj
vourable consideration in the exercise of the rot':
prerogative—is of course a matter for their considerall
alone. We must remember that in the administration e
the criminal law of the land we cannot proceed upo4
grounds which can only be taken into consideration A,
the exercise of that prerogative. Our duty is to I",
minister the criminal law of the land, and to say the:
according to that law, is the amount of punishment rilik
for the commission of this particular crime, and
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shall at the same time be adequate to prevent the oo_lw;
mission of such crimes in time to come. The MI
knowledge which the court has of the circumstances
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this case, is derived from .what appears on the face va
the indictment. But it is a case of a serious sP
alarming character, and it is quite plain that sag
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punishment that would not produce due effect 11P.00
others, might only tend to encourage the eepetio
of similar outrages, by misleading individuals who 111
be engaged in the perpetration of such crimes, as to t
light in which they are regarded by the law. In consider
ing the charges to which the prisoners have 000
guilty, we have laid aside entirely the charge of col;
witting a more heinous crime, and have taken care tbti
our minds should not for a moment be influenced eyed
by the mention in the indictment of the charge,,l
murder. His Lordship here read that part of the 11071
regarding the attack on the police constables, and
of
the temporary police station house, for the purpe,seel
liberating two of the labourers who had been cone,l3o,
in it on a charge of stealing two watches from a Pew of and to the assemblage of a mob for the very purpose
overpowering the police, and then his Lordship Pce
ceedei. It is no small aggravation of such an Aloe
as this, that it was committed by labourers, wbeLea
the purpose of liberating companions who had
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confined, not for some accidental breach of the.-Teak
or some casual disturbance, which might hale„beir
thought a trivial matter in the eyes of some of "who
comrades; but for the purpose of liberating
me° hid/
had been charged with the base crime of theft, wese
ought not to have excited the sympathy of the hops
and well-disposed portion of the labourers, knew, je
well that if innocent they would obtain their liberty
due time; if guilty that they would be dealt with aced
to law. His Lordship again referred to the libel, leb
read the part of it which related to the assault on Veit
the policeman after the mob had liberated their tri,
comrades. His Lordship then continued—That the PO%
soners have aeted under most judicious advice in putting in their plea of guilty to the extent which they die. -
one can doubt, because, whatever part the prisoners tlr in the violent proceedings of the mob, it is quite eleir
that full details of the evidence must have made tirtf
case of even a more serious character by disclosin
more fully the numbers, character, and proceeding
the mob, and the nature of the implements with whit
they were armed, and rendered the sentence more sever`'
0
than even that which the Court feels compelled .ve
award as the case now stands. It is not easy to conetio
a ease of a more aggravated and serious character tP
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the present. We see that proper measures had bees
taken by the authorities for the preservation of ".„
peace in consequence of the assemblage of a great 131,`—'
ber of railway labourers in this particular loce";4
Constables were stationed for the purpose of maintaill',y,
tranquillity, protecting property, and, when necerga
carrying the law into execution. These constables Ider,ce
assailed, overpowered, deforced, and the P. 1,00 station-house broken into, by a body of re?
whom these measures were intended to keep
in in order. By overcoming the police, they set a"
liberty those charged with theft. They attempted to set
themselves above the law, as if none was entitled tocherib:o
them with crime, or to be enabled to apprehend anY f„,t
when
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dmamn
heritte d
of asnucohffe
cases,nee wg7;
otthhfeothulaseandws of persons are employe within a few m the
all able-bodied and Powerful men, and who, from whe
kind of instruments employed in their work, have ti„
means speedily of arming themselves with most fort),
dable weapons, congregated in a part of the country, it`l,o
where no large detachment of police can be expectect,g
be provided, and where it would be monstrous to exPZ,
that troops must be patrolling in order to maintain
public peace. When we consider all these things. titi
how easily such a number of parties could be broug
together, and the mischief that might be done when the;
set themselves above the law, and determine to 010
power the officers of the law—when we consider t
feuds which may be produced among the men thel e
selves, and which the records of this Court show /leo
the results of this Right's proceedings ; and whel of
consider that it is impossible to say what the degieli
violence and outrage that may be committed by a is
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once set in motion for the purposes here stated.
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plain that a sentence must in this case be pronounce
which shall teach the large body of laboured,
now employed in different parts of the countflo
that the slightest disturbance on their part °I t,
lead to most summary and exemplary punishment,'
They must be taught that their numbers ago
i
mt theml
justice
t protectionne
n f
the against
ncountry.tThehehamndusat bofe the
restraint; they must be kept in awe y
of the law. 'Imo"(
object can only be attained by making an example 0, those who shall break and violate the law in a manner s
open, so violent, and so alarming, as has been disclosed
in this case, to the extent to which these prisoners WIo
pleaded guilty. His Lordship concluded by sentenogl
each of the prisoners to be transported for the period
seven years.

81R271,37—'.--
On the 2Gth tilt., wattm Mrs. F. S. Parkyn, of it son. vie
On the 29th ult. Bragborough House, Northamptonshire,
lady of Henry Arnold, Esq., of a son.
On the 30th ult., at the Rectory, Croft, Yofkshire, the lady of the
Rev. Charles Dodgson, of a son.

On the 30th ult., at Elthatn, Mary Ann, eldest daughter of •I''—
Vogan, Esq.
On the 30th ult., at Mile-end, Lucy Agnes, fourth daughter di'.
Head, Esq.
On the 30th ult., at Verulam-villa, St. Alban's, Harts, the 10/.
13. Watson, late vicar of Norton, Herts.
On the 27th of June, in Tavlstock-square, Frances Eliza, the erif.
of W. Harrison, Esq.

QUARTERLY NAVAL OBITUARY. A.,
Admirals—Hon. Henry Curzon, Sir r, 081
W. Otway, 13`*"
end G.C.B.
Vice-Admirals—Robert Lloyd, Henry Brown, Richard Peacocks' 0
Rear-Admirals—William Skipsey, Henry F. Edgell, Valenti
Collard, Richard T. Hancock.
Captains—Thomas F. Kennedy, Charles B. Strong, Thonl,-ge
Devon, K.C.11., William Jones, Sir Spencer H. L. Vassal, Gaor
Ilalated, John B. Woodthorpe.
Id' Commanders—John Seeger, John Cawley, Josias Bray, Richard
Ties Davies, William Garrick, Thomas M. Currie, Thomas Leigh,
T:rjcil B. Laurence, James Emerton, Wm. Hunt, William Knight, Co'
F. Doyle.
Lieutenants—Neilson Williamson, Robert Wemyss, Lan7co
0„-04
Charlesson, John Hardwick, Marcus T. Hare, Alexander 3i
,
(c), Thomas Smyth, William D. Carroll.
Masters—James Crawford, Robert Losby, James Kerr, Willisfa
Tanner, John Emerson, William Carr, Mathew Murray. Angelo
Vanzetti, Joseph W. Wilkins, Richard S. Rundle.
ROYAL First Lieutenants—John K. Bandon,MARINES . •
John Phillips, Frederic'fit
Maltby.
Second Master—Edward L. Buist.

FICES.
Surgeons—James WilkeM
s,EDICAL William OF
Fulleßr, William Chartres).
Assistant. Surgeons —Robert Gordon, Thomas Compton.
allei,
Paymasters and Pursers —William IL Whitchurst, Wnl• -ci '-'
Charles Whitcher, Thomas Dobbin.
Clerk—Henry G. Smith.

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1846.