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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Abingdon, July 15.
The commission for this county was opened here yes-
terday by Mr. Justice Erie. Business began to-day at
half- past ten. The calendar contained the names of 24
prisoners. Of these, 1 was charged with manslaughter,
1 with rape, 2 with shooting at with intent to do grievous
bodily harm, 1 with arson, 2 with highway robbery, 3
with burglary, 5 with housebreaking, 6 with larceny,
1, a relieving officer, with forging signatures with intent
to defraud the guardians of the Hungerford Union, and
1 with maliciously killing a pig, the property of the
guardians of the Bradfield Union. All but seven were
marked as able to read, or to read and write imperfectly,
and of the seven one was marked as able to read and
write well, and the rest as unable to read or write. The
amount of money found in their possession was very
small. The man charged with manslaughter had
21. 10s. 2d.; the man charged with killing the pig, 10s.
8i; the man charged with arson, 3d.; ono of those
charged with burglary, 3;1d.; and the rest nothing what-
ever.

The greater part of the Crown business was over this
evening. The grand jury were discharged. Se-
ver.A bills were thrown out. Many prisoners pleaded
guilty.
On the nisi prius side the business was not heavy.
There were only seven causes entered for trial, of which
two were indictments for perjury and twd for conspiracy
to defraud. The others were quickly disposed of, three
being undefended.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice ERLE.)
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Joseph Caudwell, 41, VitlB indicted for shooting at
Alexander Henry Ross, on the 25th June last, with in-
tent to maim, to disable, and to do grievous bodily
harm.
Mr. Keating, Q.C., and Mr. Cripps, appeared for the
prosocuti3n; and Mr. Pigott and Mr. kluddiestou for
the defence.
From the opening statement of the case for the pro-
secution it appeared that the prisoner had for several
years carried on business in Oxford as an accountant
and bill discounter. Some time ago he built a house
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odd and fantastic appearance—tall, standing by itself,
covered with figures, and altogether presenting a re-
markable appearance. There was an incloeure between
it and the road in which he had placed several cannon
of heavy calibre, and presenting to casual observers a
very formidable appearance. There were two guns
pointing on the Abingdon-road, over the Isis, and three
others were secured to the wall of his house by strong
chains passed through rivets. This house excited con-
siderable observation, and was likely to attract the at-
tention of the young students who flocked to the uni-
versity. There was a party on the evening of the 25th
of June at the chambers of Mr. Ross, and as they were
going home some of them thought, by way of a lark, to
displice the prisoner's cannon. They went towards his
house, and then arose the transaction which formed the
subject of this indictment.
Alexauder Henry Ross, who appeared with his arm
tied up in a sling, said—l am a commoner of Christ
Church. On the morning of the 26th of June was out
with Mr. Haggard, Mr. Arnold, and Mr. Burton, about
half past tvvetve. After some conversation, as we were
going home, some one said, " Let us go down to Mr.
Caudweli'a;" and we went. When we got there, one of
us opened the gate of the small enclosure in front of Mr.
Caudwell's house. The enclosure extends about fifteen
yards from the gate to the house. We immediately
tried to overturn three small cannon. We partially
overturned them. While that was going on we heard a
dog bark, and we went after the dog. We were away
about five minutes. On our return we all went into the
enclosure and tried to pull stone bones out of the mouths
of some figures of lions which were near the house. I
went to untie a piece of rope attached to one of the can-
nons, in order the better to pull out the bones. While I
was doing so I heard a shot fired. That was the first

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intimatioul had of anything. The shot hit me all over
the right part of the body, shoulder, head, face, neck,
side, and legs. I at once ran off to the bridge and
called to my friends. They came and walked home with
me, one of them going in advance for a doctor. I have
been since under medical attendance. T am quite un-
able to make use of my hand. Several shots still remain
in my hand, and one remains in my ear.
Cross-examined—l have been four years at the uni-
versity. Am twenty-two. Was residing out of college
at the time. My friends also were residing out of col-
lege. The college gates are shut at ten. Between
twelve and half-past twelve men cannot get into college.
I had two friends that evening with me at my rooms.
There was a supper party that evening at the Maiden-
head, arising out of a cricket match. I went there.
Did not drink there. Had a cigar there. Stopped there
about twenty minutes. Then I sallied ont. My friends
were with me. It was at Four-gate that some one
proposed to go to Caudwell's. I did not object. We
had no fixed plan. All that was said was, " Let us go
to Caudwell's." We did not overturn the cannon. We
partially piled them. We did not endeavour to throw
them i❑to the Isis. We could not do it. My hand was
on a cannon when I was_.hit. I was trying to loose a
rope in order to pull the stones out of the lion's mouth.
Toe whole of the lion sticks out of the wall. In the
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lions are fixed to the wall. While I was detaching the
ropp, the others were trying to pull the bones out of the
lion's mouth. It was a pretty dark night. There was no
lamp. It was so light that a person looking out of the
window with his head outside of it could see me. I should
not call it a very dark night. We do not calculate con-
sequences when we go out on a "lark." I was only two
yards trona the bottom window, and five yards from the
door. The lower window is so low that a person could
get into it without a ladder. We did not go to the
back of the house that night. There was a proposal
made to swim across, but it was too absurd. The shots
came in a slanting direction. If a person projected his
head out of the window, and I looked up, there was
light enough to see it. I was never on an excursion
before to Caudwell's house. It was my first exploit at
Oxford. At Bromley last year I took a sign off a house.
The next morning we gave the man two sovereigns as
compensation. We were not taken before a magis-
trate. There was no evidence against us. That was
the first occasion I was engaged on any mischievous
freak.

Re:examined—A large numbei• of the university men
reside in the town, and that is well known in the town.
Mr. C. Haggard said that it was he who opened the
gate. We upset the cannon. We had been at Caudwell's
ten minutes before we heard a dog bark. We then
crossed the road, loosed the dog, chased him up the
street. and then came back and began to pull the bones
out of the lions' mouths. We were there about five mi-
ntoes when we heard a shot fired. I heard nothit', be-
fore that. When I heard the shot I, saw a flash, but
could nos say from what part of the house the shot
came. After we had seen the surgeon dress the wounds
we went back to Mr. Caudwell's house and flung stones
at it, and heard a second shot fired.
Cross-examined—The stones we threw were about
the size of an ink bottle. They were a comfortable size
for throwing. Perhaps a comfortable size for breaking
a window or a person's head. One of them broke a
flower-pot. I have been three years at the University.
I.lave taken my degree. Do not knew what profession I
mean to follow. I should think it is the bar. I was one
of the party that was at Godstow on the Friday pre-
vious. We were ten in number. We landed at Caud-
well's house. When we reached his house I went

away, leaving the rest there. I heard of no plan to
attack his house that night. If any of the party had
stones, they picked them up without my knowledge. On
the Wednesday evening I dined at the Maidenhead, et
the cricketing dinner. I think I drank nothing but
wine. I was not in the least excited. This attack was

planned when I was quite sober. My friends also were
not excited. I do not remember what plan was suggested
for attacking Mr. Caudwell's house. The suggestion of

Csud well's, who told him that he fired twice, once at one
o'clock and again at three, and beliOed that some of
them were injured, as he saw a man't hand on the gun
when he fired, and no doubt they (the police) could find
them by inquiring at the doctor's. He said that on the
Friday night before he threatened some gentlemen, and
followed them to Christchurch. He did not say what
words he used when he threatened them.
T. B. Brown, the university marshal—Took Mr.
Catelwell into custody, and told him the charge. He was
not handcuffed while in my care. As I was explaining
to him how the shot hit the side of the head, neck, and
body, he said he saw the hand on the gun and aimed at
it, and that ho thought the bead must have projected a
little that the shot should have caught it. As I was
taking him to Abingdon I said ",It was a pity you were
so unguarded as to fire;" and he said it was a bad job,
and that he had been so of;ten anuoyed by them that he
put a blauk cartridge into the gun, and took some loose
shot and rammed it into the gun, making such a noise
that his wife said, " Don't make such a noise, or you
will wake the other people in the house."
Mr. R. J. Hansard, surgeon, described the wound.
The shots came down from the direction of the top and
back of the head and neck. One of the shots hit the
neck, and penetrated very near to the jugular vein.
Some of the shot struck him in the side, and one in the
foot. Those in the hand had not been extracted. By
the advice of Sir B. Brodie it has been determined not
to attempt to extract them. Some of the shot is now in
the muscular part of the palm of the hand. Could not
say at what distance the shot was fired. There were
thirty-five shot holes in the hand; twenty grains of shot
struck the hand. There were three shot holes so close
that they could not he put closer if he held the shot in
his hand. Was for some period apprehensive of lockjaw,
as it was likely to arise from wounds in that part.
Cross examined—The prosecutor was out for the first
time the day before yesterday.. He was confined to his
bed the greater portion of the time, by my and Sir B.
Brodie's directions. I have hopes that the hand will ul-
timately be quite well.
Thomas Lucas, the city marshal, said he had a con-
versation with the prisoner about eight o'clock on the
Thursday morning, and he said he thought he had pep-
pered them well, as he saw a hand on the gun.
Mr. PIGGOTT, in addressing the jury, commented with
severity on the conduct of the prosecutor and his friends,
who having themselves set the law at defiance, and at-
tacked the house of a person who never offended them,
and was a total stranger to them, now turned round and
claimed the vengeance of the law on the man whom they
had injured. He contended that there was no sufficient
ground for imputing to his client any of the motives for
firing the shot assigned in the indictment, and that he
ought to he acquitted.
ellyisw OrelispastylPe,
dint
hsummingprisoner
up, told h
li reda
tt e jury
the jury
steheautt
oirf
with intent to do him grievous bodily harm, they ought
to find him guilty, unless he satisfied them that he fired
the shot under circumstances which justified him in doing
so. If he fired at the prosecutor's hand with intent to
hit it, it must have been with an intention to do grievous

bodily harm. It could not be-said that could put
a quantity of large shot into another's hands without in-
tending to injure him. The next question was, whether
he was excused or justified in firing? If you are attacked
on the highway, and your life or person put in peril, you
may resort to firearms for your defence. So, if your
house is attacked in the night, in a manner to lead you to
suppose that the parties attacking mean to break in, and
you have no other reasonable means of defence, you may
use firearms for your protection. But he took it to be
perfectly well ascertained that no trespass to personal pro-
perty or to land will justify a man in using firearms against
the trespasser. There was a remarkable instance of this in
the case of Captain Moyat, who having been greatly an-
noyed by trespassers on his land, gave notice that he
would shoot any one whom he found trespassing, and
having in a few days met a man trespassing actually
carried his threat into execution, shot him, and was
hanged for it. So important was it considered that it
should be known that you could not justify the use of
firearms for an injury to land. He had watched the de-
meanour of the witnesses, and he must say, making every
allowance for young men just beginning life, that they
exhibited a most remarkable disregard of what was due
to their fellowmen—a most remarkable absence of any
perception of what was due to others, or of what was
likely to he the consequence of their own misconduct.
His Lordship, after dwelling ou the material portions of
the evidence, concluded by telling the jury that as the
prisoner could have no reason for supposing that the
young men were about to attack his house, as they were
merely displacing his cannon, not attacking his doors or
windows, he was not justified in firing at them, and that
it was their duty to find him guilty, and then it would
be for those who had to administer the criminal law of
the country to consider the punishment which ought to
be imposed.
The jury deliberated for about ten minutes, and re-
turned a verdict of Not Guilty, which was received with
some marks of applause that were instantly checked in
court, but were renewed outside when the prisoner ap-
peared there.

(Before Mr. Baron MARTIN.)
Thomas Ash, described is the calendar as a smith by
trade, twenty-six years of age, was charged with
having broken and entered a dwelling-house of William
Tucker, and with having wounded him, and one Anne
Whittaker, with intent to murder them.
Mr. Skinner and Mr. Lawrence conductel the prose-
cution; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Carrington.
The prosecutor (who is a very old man, ie the ninety-
second year of his age) is cue of the vergers of St.
George's Chapel, Windsor, and resides et Clarence-
crescent, in that town. On the night of Tuesday, the
18th of February, he had retired to rest, as usual, at
nine o'clock. • In the apartment in which he slept his
housekeeper (Mrs. Whittaker, an old woman of seventy-
' Cvo) occupied a bed, in order that she might be able
to render assistance to the old man in case of sudden in-
disposition. About half past one o'clock
Mrs. Whit-
taker was awakened by the entrance of a man, and on
jumping out of bed she perceived there was a light in
the passage leading to the room. Before she could
speak to the intruder, or call for assistance, she was
struck several times over the head with a blunt iron in-
strument; her eyes were aufrused with blood, and the
felt great pain in one of her arms, which afterwards
proved to be broken. The old men Tacker was awakened
by this dis urbance, and, hastening to the assistance of
his housekeeper, was attacked by the burglar, and struck
violently over the head. Notwithstanding the repeated
blows and ill-usage which he received, ho managed to
push the assailant out of the room. All this time a
man was standing at the door with a lighted candle.
Tn old man was positive that the prisseer, Thomas
Ada (who was well known to him from having been
repeatedly at his house, and on one occasion employed
in fitting up a grate there), was the man who struck
him, and denied that he had ever, PO far as he knew,
given a different account of the transaction. Whilst
Tucker was struggling with the robber, his housekeeper
made her way to the window, and shouted " Murder"
and " Police," upon which both the men made off.
In addition to the direct evidence of the old man, who
spoke positively to the identity of the prisoner, the fol-
lowing facts also appeared in evidence :—On the morn-
ing atter the robbery a bricklayers' chisel was found
about 100 yards from Mr. Tucker's house, in an adjoin-
ing garden. This chisel, which belonged to a brick-
layer named Poilbey, had been borrowed by the pri-
soner of a man named Prince, with whom he lodged, a
short time before the robbery. In Mr. Tucker's house
a wine-bin had been broken open, and the marks on the
wooden fastening of the door appeared to have been
made by this chisel, and on comparison corresponded
with it. On the night of the robbery the prisoner
came home about two o'clock, and was let in by his
landlord, Prince. In addition to these facts it was

found that the prisoner's shoes corresponded exactly
with footmarks in some fresh dug ground under the
window of Mr. Tucker's house, which had been entered

the old gentleman to bed, and, bidding him good night
locked Lis outer door, as was her habit, and took aWay,
the key. On the following morning, early, her husband
found that the door was ajar, and on going to the old
man's bedside, learned from him that in the middle of
the night three men entered his bad-room, one of whom
went through the idle precaution of lying down on the
invalid to keep him quiet after giving nun a black eye,
while the two others, who had cabbage nets over their
faces, took his watch from his pillow and ransacked his
drawers, which done, they all decamped, threatening the
frightened octogenarian with violence if he dared to got
up and follow them or alarm his neighbours.
The other witnesses in the case showed that the pri-
soners and another man since convicted for horse steal-
ing, had disposed of the shawls at a house at St. Ives, on
the day after the robbary, while they both, on the occa-
sion of their recent capture at Northampton fair, made
statements tending to implicate themselves in the affair.
Eventually the prisoners wore both found Guilty, where-
upon his Lordship sentenced them to be severally trans-
ported for ten years.

NORTHERN CIRC UIT.— York, July 15.
CROWN COURT'.—(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
Richard D'pledge, aged 40, was charged with having,
et Swinton, in the West Riding, on the 7th of October
last, feloniously embezzled a post letter containing 11.5.,,
the property of the Postmaster-Gcnerel.
Mr. Knowles, Q.C., and Mr. Adolphus prosecuted;
Mr. Overend defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner was in the employ of the
Post-office, as post-messenger between Swinton and Bol-
ton-upon-Dearne, in the West Riding, and it was his
duty to carry letters between Swinton and Bolton-upon-
Dearne, to receive letters at the villages between those
two places, and to deliver them at the post-office. at
Swinton. One of the villages was Bamborougb, Where
Lyell, a blacksmith, resided, whO on the 3d of
October in the last Year delivered to the prisoner a letter,
in which was enclosed 11. 55., and--which was addressed
to Messrs. Stead and Simpson, at Leeds. This letter the
prisoner was to deliver and get registered at Swinton
post-office; Lyell giving him sixpence for that purpose.
Some days having elapsed, Lyell not hearing anything
respecting the letter wrote to Stead and Simpson con-
cerning it. This letter he likewise delivered to the
prisoner to post at Swinton. No answer being sent to
this second letter, he wrote by another means to Leeds,
and then discovered that neither of the letters had
ever been delivered at their destination, upon which he
spoke to the prisoner, and asked him for the registry
from the Swinton office. The prisoner replied that he
had the reghtry, and that he would bring it the next
day ; but instead of bringing the registry, he paid Lyell
the 11. 55., and also the 611 for registration. Lyell then
took no further proceedings in the matter, but some
other irregularities having occurred, the Post-office
caused an inquiry to be instituted, the result of which
was that the prisoner was apprehended and the present
prosecution ordered.
At the close of the case for the prosecution, Mr.
OVEREND took an objection that the evidence did not
establish the charge against the prisoner, in-ssmuch as
it appeared that the prisoner received the letter from
Lyell in the character of a private agent, for the pur-
pose of getting it registered, and that it could not be-
come a Post-office letter until after it was registered and
put into the post-office at Swinton. He further con-
tended that the prisoner could not be convicted under the
count for simple larceny.
Mr. KereweEs, in reply, urged that under the Post-
office Acts letter was deemed to be a Post-office letter
directly it was placed in the hands of a letter-carrier.
The fact that some collateral directions had been given
to the carrier did not divest it of its character as a Post-
office letter.
His LORDSHIP said that he should leave it to the jury
to say (supposing they should find the prisoner guilty)
whether under the circumstances of the case the letter
became a Post-office letter when it was delivered to
the prisoner, or whether it was a simple larceny from
Lyell.

going to his house was made when we were-opposite
Christchurch. Somebody said, "Let us go and have a
lark with Mr. Caudwell's cannon." We all agreed at
once. There was not much dissension. Our intention
was to turn ihe cannon over. We did not mean to throw
them into the Isis. I did not know that Caudwell had

Mr.
OVEREND addressed the jury for the prisoner,
urging upon them the supposition that the prisoner
might have lost or forgotten the letter, and finding that
Lyell was the loser, he had reimbursed him the money
which had been lost through his negligence.
His LORDSHIP having summed up, the jury returned
a verdict of Guilty generally.
The prisoner was then charged with having embezzled
another letter and 2s. 9d., the property of the Postmas-
ter-General. In this case a Mrs. Elizabeth Seller, who
keeps the Station Hotel at Swinton, having written a
letter addressed to her grandson, Walter Greaves, of San
Francisco, California, gave it to the prisoner on the sth
of December last, with 25. 9d to pay for the postage. At
the same time the told him that she had written many
letters to her grandson, and that some had not arrived at
their destination, which had caused great uneasiness to
her grandson. The prisoner replied, " You should have
let me write upon it, and then it would have been sure to
have gone safely;" upon which she got him a pen, and
he wrote something upon the letter, which turned out
to be the words " and no one else," written after the
name Walter Greaves. This the poor woman thought
would secure its going safely, but the prisoner never
delivered the letter to th© Swinton post-office, and kept
the 2s. 9d.
Mr. OVEREND addressed the jury for the prisoner.
His LORDSHIP having summed up, the jury returned
a verdict of Guilty.
His LORDSHIP then sentenced him to be transported
for seven years.

on the night of the robbery.

Conversations were also

a wife and children and a sister-in-law in his house, or
that his wife's head had been cut open by one of the
stones. We four could not throw tne cannon into the

- NISI PRIUS COURT.
Mr. Baron Platt has been engaged in trying causes
which do not warrant a report. The second list of the
causes entered for trial has been published to-day, from
which it appears that there are only 37 causes, 9 from
the North and East Ridings, and 28 from the West,
being a very great falling off from the usual amount of
business; 7 of the causes are mazked as special juries.

Isis; we were pt.rEctly incompetent to do it. I tried to
pull the bone out of the lion's mouth, but soon gave

it up.
Re-examined—l have heard since that his wife was
cut by a stone.
Mr. Henry Bruce Arnold corroborated these state-
ments.
Cross-examined—l was one of the Godstow party on
the previous Friday evening. Wo threw no stones. We
merely tried to overturn the cannon, and nave it up
only because a voice was heard from inside threatening
to shout M. I went back with Mr. Haggard that
Thursday morning, and threw stones at the house.
Did not near that firs. Caud well's head was cut by one
of the stones. Was never at Caudwell's house before
the Fricl..y.
Mr. Reginald Burton was examined briefly in corro-
boration of the former witnesses.

Cross-examined—Am not a member of the university.
Was one of the Godstow party. lam nothing. lam 21.
Wiliam Hinton, one of the university policemen, was
on duty on the morning of the 26th of June. Saw Mr.
Caudwell near the Wheattheaf about a quarter to three
o'clock. He had a gun, or carbine, or something of
that kind, and asked me if I had met any one? I told
him I had met two men. He told me they had been
at his house and upset his guns, and he had fired at
them. I went in pursuit of them. I met Jenkins,
another policeman, and we both went to Caudwell's
house. None of the windows were broken; a flower-stand
was broken. There were five cannon before the house;
all had been removed, and one upset. There was a trace
of blood there. Caudwell told me he believed the par-
ties who had been to his house were gentlemen, and ho
asked me who were the proctors, and I told him the
one of St. John's, and the other of Merton. I Ei;.w the
shot on the gun that was upset, and said to him,
" They are rather large shot, Mr. Caudwell," and he
said, " They are No. 4,"
Cross-examined—The house is castellated; has a
balcony and several figures in niches over the water. Air.
Caud well had a wife and some children. I know only
his eldest a,,n, who is abou., 21.
Thomas Jenkins, another university policeman, went
with last witness on the Thursday morning to Air.

deposed to, which tended to fasten suspicion on the ill-

sonor.

Mr. Baron MARTIN having summed up the evidence
with great care,
The jury almost immediately returned a verdict of
Guilty.

The prisoner was sentenced to b© transported for tho
;erm of his natural life.

THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Yesterday was the third day of the meeting, and an
immense concourse of people, native and foreign, flocked
to the show. The yard was crowded with visitors, and
the animals collected in it were handled and examined
with an avidity and a zest which says much for the agri-
cultural spirit and tendencies of the country. On no
former occasion has anything like it been seen. All the
principal prizes were in a permanent state of siege, and
it was only after much pushing and squeezing that even
a glimpse of them could be obtained. Everybody
seemed delighted with the display, and the happy situa-
tion of the fete appeared to add to the regular attrac-
tions of the occasion. The day had been fixed upon P
that for the grand pavilion dinner, and at three o'clock
it was curious to observe how those who had provided
themselves with tickets emerged from the showyard,
and gradually took up their places at the entertain-
ment. In the short space of an hour about two thou-
sand guests had assembled, who waited anxiously
for the arrival of the more distinguished per-
sonages. At last they came, headed by his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, and all rose to receive them. The
vast banquetting saloon filled with people presented a
very animated and striking spectacle—one not very re-
concile/IWe with the idea of a declining agriculture, and
this impression was still further strengthened when
cheers arose from hundreds of powerful lungs, and
hands were clapped with a vehemence and force quite
astounding. At last the great assembly settled down to
the business of eating and drinking, and for a time no-
thing could be heard but the clatter of plates, the grind-
ing sound of knives and forks and the mastication of
jaws, carried on with the energy of rustic appetites.
Mr. Holt, of R'idley's Hotel, bad furnished the pro-
visions, which were in every respect excellent, and
gave general satisfaction. His Grace the Duke
.of
Richmond presided, and in the absence of Earl Dame,
who was kept away by indisposition, Lord Portman
acted as Vice-President. The following list will give
some idea of the distinguished company present on the
occasion:—

RF LK ClRCUlT.—Bedford, July 16.
Mr. Justice Cresswell opened the commission for the
county of Bedford yesterday afternoon, and this morn.
ing proceeded to try the prisoners. There being but
seven prisoners in the calendar, and no cause entcired
for trial, Sir F. Pollock did not take any part in the
business of the assize. Among the offences included in
the calendar were four of of arson, one of burglary, ono
of mtilicious shooting, and one of larceny.
John Enimerton plea& d guilty to two charges of arson;
Thomas Dumpleton pleaded guilty to one charge; Thomas
Gower, who pleaded not guilty to a similar charge, but
had confessed, was tried and found Guilty.
Mr. Justice CRESWELL, in sentencing these three pri-
soners, said that the offence of arson was so profitless to
the offender, and yet so ruinous to the farmer, as to call
fur severe punishment. Other offences against property
might possibly be prompted by the hope of some trifling
immediate gain to their perpetrators, but arson had a
contrary tendency, as those whose property was thus
wantonly destroyed wore thereby deprived of the very
means of employing and assisting the poor. It was
clear that the prisoners were persons to allow whom to
remain longer in this country would be most improper.
The sentence, therefore, on each of them must be that of
transportation for ten years. _

Samuel York, aged 36, and William Morris, aged 31,
were indicted for burglariously entering the dwelling-
house of Thomas Medlow, at Little Staughton, and steal-
ing therein two shawls, five guinea pieces, two sovereigns,
a watch, and some pork, on the 17th of Feb. last.
Mr. Worlledge conducted the case for the prosecution.
The prisoners were not defended by counsel.
The prosecutor is perhaps the «oldest inhabitant" cf
his p:ri,h, beitim 87 years of age. Till within three weeks
of the burglary he was up and about, but at that time he
took to his bed, where he has siz..ce remained. Being
alone in the world, and unprovided with either relative
or servant, a kind neighbour, by name Hannah Caress,
used to visit him and perform or, his behalf those offices,
which, " when pain and anguish wring the brow," eon-
stitute woman Luau's " ministering angel." It appeared
that on the night of the 17th February, Mrs. Caress put

His Excellency the Belgian Minister, the Marquis of
Abercorn, the Marquis of Breadalbane, his Excellency
M. Bayard, Viscount Clifden, the Earl of Stradbroke,
the Earl of Leicester, the Baron Mertens, the Count
Huckgmuet, the Earl of Harkwicke, the Count Ker-
golay, M. Jonas Wcern' the Baron Sporcken, the Rev.
Dr. Hawtrey, the Count de Gourey, Colonel Wood, M.P.
(of Littleton), Lieut. Pogge, the Right Hon. John Hat-
chell, M.P., Mr. John Pogge (Rovor), the Baron Gold-
amid, Lieut.-Colonel Seymour, Colonel the Hon. C.
Grey, the Hon. A. Leslie Melville, Captain Bulkeley,
Mr. Leslie Melville (of Windsor), Mr. Minton, Mr.
Darvill, the Earl of Powis, the Chevalier do Masslow,
Dr. Mall, the Count Hardenburg, M. Charles Martin (of
Geneva), Lord Vivian, Sir Pole Carew, Sir John Duck-
ortb, M.P., Colonel Hulse, Colonel Reid, M.P., Sir
James Clarke, the Rev. hate Gosset, the Rev. Thomas
Best, the Mayor of Windsor, his Excelleacy the American
Minister, the Turkish Minister, the Prince Demidoff,
Lord reversham, the Earl of March, his Excellency
N. S. Brown, M. Payen, M. Day, M. Dumas, Lord
Bridport, Lord Kinnaird, Lord Walsingham, Director
of the Prussian Agricultural Academy at Boun,
Dr. Lyon Playfair, Dr. Zeller, friend of Dr.
Zeller, Dr. Daubony, the Commissary of Zoll-
verein, Mr. Palmer, M.P., General Wemyss, the
late Mayor, son-in-law of his Excellency the American
Minister, M. Clasen Sukow, the Count Perponcher, M.
Hedengren, Chairman of Eastern Counties Railway,
Chairman of Eastern Union Railway, Chairman of
the London and South-Eastern, Chairman of the Lon-
don and South-Western, Chairman of the South Devon
Railway, the Baron de Bethman Holweg, Chairman of
the York and North Midland, Viscount Ranelagh, M.
Wittenberg Schlievenberg, Dr. Schaff heutel, M. Nath-
horat, M. Prevoraine, M. Pirondel de Labertouche, Mr.
Bore, Mr. Bedborough, Professor Johnston of Durham,
Mr. Parkes, E.E., Professor Simonds, Sir Richard P.
Joddrell, Lord C. Russell, the Earl of Pomfret, Lord
Hastings, the Hon. Mr. Duncombe, M.P., the Right
Hon. SirJ.Nicholl, Lord Vaux of Harrowden, Sir Piers
.74Iostyn, Sir E. Baker, Sir J. Manse!, Sir Willoughby
Jones, Mr. T. Bell, of New York, Mr. Wilhelm Mayer,
Viscount Lillord, Sir C. Tempest, lir. Sharp, Sir H.
Verney, M.P., Mr. Blackburne, M.P., the Hon. Mr.
Portman, Admiral Sir Raymond Jarvis, Sir T. Tancred,
Sir Montague Cholmeley, Mr. Pugh, M.P., Sir J.
Mills Riddell, Mr. Perfect, M.P., for Lewes, Mr. E. B
Roche, M.P. for Cori:, and three friends, Capt. Egerton.
After the appetites of the hungry mass of agricul-
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" Health of her Majesty the Queen"—es- toast which he
said had ever peen received by the members of the Royal
Agricultural Society of England—and, indeed, by every
other public meeting—with the euthusiatm which it se
well deserved.—(Cheers.) He trusted that she might
long rein over a greet, a free, an enlightened, a moral,
a religious, end, therefore, a happy and a constitutional
Pe3Plo--'(Cheers)—und that it might please the greet
Creator of the universe long to guard and protect a life
. testty dear to her subjects.—(Cheers.) They were
met th.ere that dray by the kind and gracious permissionof. their Severeign, under the walls of the ancient Castle
of
.Windsor, hallowed by its historical recollections.—
(Cneers.). They were also riot far distant from that
great seminary of learning, the Collage
had issued mhny of ge of Eton, wilt nee
the most eloquent statesman, the
most pious divines,. and also
say as an old sodier) many (he might be permitted d to
Grave and heroic war.riors.
heal by sea and laud. —(Cheers.) .1.10 .would mention
among these the name of one Of the greatest generals of
tide or any former age—his Grace the Duke of I-wiling_
ton.—(Clieerti.) He called otutheha to give three hearty
British cheers to the toast which he had proposed-L.
cheers which might be re-echoed from the turrets of
Windsor Castie—(Cheers)—that would prove to a„
Majesty that the egrieuhurists of this empire ever had
and ever wculd be loyal and strenuous supporters of the
institutions of cur fatherland, end devoted to the Peron
of her Most Gracious Majesty.—(Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with immense enthusiasm.
The Duke of RICHMOND then rose and said, that in
the presence of the illustrious Prince, who had for the
second time honoured the society with his pretence, it
would ill become him to say more then that they were
most obliged to his Royal Highness for eoraing among
them.—(Cheers.) They were most pthliged to !Aim for
the continued and anxious support which he had given
to the Royal Agricultural Society, and he was ady
speakieg the seatituents of the meeting, and that of the
great majority of the people of Eegland, when he said
that they felt most deeply grateful to his Royal Highness
for the example of domestic virtues which he had set,
and which bad made the home of their beloved Queen the
abode of comfort and of hapeiness.—(Cheers.) Ho
coupled with the toast the health of his Royal High-
nesa the .Prince of Wales and the other branches of the
Royal Family, who he trusted would act up to the prin-
ciples instilled into their youthful minds, and would
prove a bltssing to their fatherland, au ()moment to
their station, and a comfort to their illustrious parents,
whose steps he hoped they would follow.—(Cheers.)
He was sure that by the manner in which they received
the toast psoposed by bine, the company would show his
Royal Highness thet ho was surrounded by the farmers
of England, and that their cheers would be as their
actions, loud and straightforward.—(Cheers.)
His Royal Highness Prince ALBERT, who was re-
ceived with immense enthusiasm, said—" My Lord
Duke—my Lords andtGentlernen,-1 am very sensible
of the honour which-you have done me in proposing my
health, end I can assure you, gentlemen, that the kind
way in which you have responded to the toast will never
be forgotten by me.—(Cheers.) Some years have already
elapsed since I last (need with you in this migratory
pavilion; and I am glad that you should have pitched it
this day under the wails of Windsor Castle, and that I
should myself have an opportunity of bidding you a
hearty welcome is the Home-park.—(Cheers.) Your
encampment singularly contrasts with that which the
barons of England, the feudal lords of the land, with
their retainers, erected round Old Windsor Castle, on a
similar mead, though not exactly in the same locality.-e-
-(Cheers.) They came then clad in steel, with lance
and war-horse. You appear in a more peaceful attire,
and the animals you bring with you to the meeting are
the tokens of your successful cultivation of the arts of
peace. King John came trembling amongst his subjects,
unwillingly compelled to sign that great charter which
has ever since been your lairthright.—(Cheering.) Your
Sovereign came confiding among her loyal and loving
people; she came to admire the results of their industry
and to encourage them to persevere in their exertions;
and the gratification which the Queen has felt at the
sight of your splendid collection must, I am sure, be
participated in by all who examine it.—(Cheers.) I am
doubly pleased at this success, no: only because it is wit-
nessed by the many 'Lifters from foreign lands now
within our shores, whom every Englishman must wish to
inspire with respect for the state of British agriculture
—(Cheers)—bat also because I feel, to a certain degree,
personally responsible for having deprived you of one,
generally most interesting, feature of your show—l
mean the field fruits, and the agricultural machines and
implements. Though separated from your collection,
they are seen to great advantage in another royal park
—(Cheers)--and you will have been glad to hear, that
whatever the difficulty may have been in deciding upon
the superiority of the works of industry and art sent to
the Crystal Palace by the different nations of the earth,
the British agricultural implements are acknowledged
by common consent to stand there almost without a rival.
—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Lot me now use the privi-
lege which your President has allowed me to enjoy, in
proposing to you as a toast ' Prosperity to the Royal
Agricultural Socieryd—(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.)
To its exhibitions, the means of consparison which
they have afforded, and the emulation which they have
stimulated we owe to a great extent the progress which
British agriculture has made of late.—(Cheers.) To
this society belongs the honour to have been one of the
first to appreciate the value of such exhibitions, and to
have, from the beginning, liberally and fearlessly ad-
mitted all competitors without restriction. I drink,
' Prosperity to the Royal Agricultural Society.'" His
Royal Highness resumed his seat amidst loud applause.
The Duke of RICHMOND proposed the " Health of the
Foreign Ministers," coupling-with it that of his Excel-
lency the Belgian Ambassador.
M. VAN DE WEYER, the Belgian Minister, who was
received with loud cheers, said that it was with feelings
of deep gratitude ho rose on behalf of his colleagues
anti of himself, to return their most sincere thanks
for the manner in which their health had been re-
ceived by the present company. no could assure them
that among the various foreign visitors who had come
to their shores there was not one who had not by their
kind reception felt himself perfectly at home. He might
well be allowed to speak on the present occasion, as it
had been from Flemings that hail been taken the very
modes of their scientific and ordinary agriculture. The
day had, indeed, long passed away since a messenger
bad been sent over to Flanders to provide a salad
for the Royal table. The agricultural system of the
Flemings had, however, been the object of one of the
first publications of the society, in the communications
read by the Rev. Mr. Rham. Proud as Belgians were
to claim the title et being the oldest practical farmers in
Europe, and boasting as they did, with what justice the
meeting before him best knew, that they were
.still the
foremost in certain most important points of agriculture,
he acknowledged they all still looked up to England and
to the society whose successful labours in struggling for
pre-eminence they all admitted to have been the result
o' f their industry and perseverance. By the established
relations between the citizens of Belgium and of Eng-
land they were now iniimately allied, more particularly
by the connexion which existed between the two Royal
Families of the kingdoms of Belgium
and of England, and
which was in effect an union of habits, of tastes, of in-
dustry, and of similar institutions. Instead of contain-
ing diplomatic dispatches, the red boxes that now were
sent from the Minister hero to his Court abroad often
contained but remarks on agriculture and stock in Eng-
land. After an eloquent and very effective speech, which
was the more remarkable as coming from a foreign Mi-
nister, his Excellency concluded by proposing in the
most flattering and eulogistic terms the " health of the
Duke of Richmond."—(Cheers.)
The Duke of RICHMOND returned thanks. He was
proud of being the President, and though many more
able than himself should have occupied the post, there
was no ono who more deeply felt an interest in the agri-
cultural welfare of that great country. He was proud,
too, in being enabled to introduce to his Royal Highness
so many intelligent, honest, and straightforward tenant
farmers. He considered there never had been an occa-
sion on which there had been so many animals of the
first class congregated together. The judges had not
commended his stock, but still he would follow the
example of one of the most successful exhibitors, and if
beaten now he would try to be successful next year at
Lewes. His Grace, after a lenghthened address, which
was highly applauded, wished the agriculturists better
times, and called on

Lord PORTMAN, who MSC to propose "Agriculture,
Manufacture, and Commerce," which he did in a very
able, argumentative, and amusing speech, showing, with
much clearness and ability, the connexion between the
different subjects of the toast he proposed. He was in-
trusted with a toast that was in effect " the earth and all
that therein is." The glass they drank from, the knife
they used, the plate which held their food, were all made
by the manufacturer from material supplied by the mer-
chant, who had brought for their use the products of
different portions of the globe. To those who had come
there by rail he needed not to speak of the utility of iron,
nor to agriculturists was it necessary to speak of the
uses of glass; there was, however, in another royal park
a combination of iron and glass which was new not only
in its uses, but which had taught them all to live in unison,
in harmony, and peace. Our daily life testified to the
fact that commere was the link which bound the capi-
talist and artist to the raw material; that manufacture
was the work of civilized and intellectual man; that agri-.
culture was the perpetuity of the work assigned to man'
by the Almighty will. All in that unity they
as adhmirbede -
,
all in that unity they respected; but he felt, e
lieved they all did, as the child loved his mother best of
all, so they all loved the earth.—(Great cheering.) They
loved it as their first love; they loved it as the source
whence they sprang, and they regarded it, after the
cares and sorrows of the world were over, as their last
home.—(Cheers.) He gave them, "Agriculture, Com-
merce, and Manufactures, and long might they fl.urish
together."—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. LAWRENCE, the American Minister, whose health
was proposed by the Noble President, returned thanks,
and after some allusions to the ties of consanguinity be-
tween the people of Great Britain and the inhabitant of
the United States, which he said were felt by all Ame-
ricans with peculiar force on such an occasion—and after
expressing the great satisfaction he felt at being present
at an assemblage like that, held under the walls of the
Castle, which was hallowed to every American citizen
of English origin by no many recollections—concluded
with a high culogium on the Duke of Richmond, and
then gave " The health of the Mayor and Corporation of I
Windsor."