The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-19 00:00:00

BANKING DEPARTMENT.

X.
Proprictors'capital 14,553,000
Rest . •••• •• • • 3,192,194
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
ings-banks, and D-
ividend acconnLs).. 4,319,318
Other deposits •• • • •• 10,440,830
Seven day and other

Government Beene-

ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity)•. 13,464,021
Other securities .... 12,339,725
Notes ••••.••• • • • • •. 7,259,180
Gold and silver coin.. 567,800

8i115.............. 1,175,054

£33,680,426

£33,680,426
'. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 17th day of July, 185

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD CIRCUIT, Oxford, July 17.
The courts were opened for business this morning at
half-past eleven o'clock. The calendar contains the
names of 33 prisoners for trial, of whom there were
charged with infanticide, 1; feloniously wounding, 1;
burglary, 7; housebreaking, 5; arson, 5; rape, 1; send-
ing a threatening letter, 1; larceny, 8; false pretences,
1; and receiving stolen goods, 2. One only was marked
as able to read and write well, 23 were marked as able
to read and write imperfectly, and 9 were marked as not
able to read or to write; only one had any money on
his person when arrested, and he had only 1/. 3s. °id.
The cause list was not heavy. It had only one cause,
which was disposed of very quickly.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron MARTIN.)
James Holford, aged 43, a labourer, was indicted for
feloniously wounding Jane Smith, at Witney, on the 14th
of May, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Cripp conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Wil-
liams the defence.

The prosecutrix was a widow of about 40, and it ap-
peared that the prisoner had paid his addresses to her
for about a twelvemonth, and lived with her as her hus-
band for about two months up to March last. Ho then
went to work to the Isle of Anglesea, and was working
there for some time, when she, finding herself in the
eighth month of pregnancy, wrote to him to come
back. He did so early in May. Iu a few days he quar-
relled with her on his return from a public-house,
saying that he had been jeered by some men there, and
that she had jeered him too. She said she had not. Some
words ensued, and he took up a poker and began to beat
her with it on various parts of her body, shoulders, arms,
and head, and knocked her down. Her cries brought
her children down stairs, and they interfered to protect
her and drove him off. She bled profusely from her
wounds and was in a dangerous condition for some days.
One of her daughters said that before he went away to
the Isle of Anglesea he said he would kill her (the pro-
scce trix) and saw her head off, and then go away.
There was a saw then in the house. When he threatened
to saw her head off, her daughter, a girl of thirteen, and
her sister, and a washerwoman were present. What he
said to her was, " Give me the saw, and I will saw your
head off." She gave him the saw and he did not cut her
head off. Another witness, Emma Clarke, her next
neighbour, also heard him threaten her. William Green,
a labourer, at Witney, was on the night of the 14th of
May in Emma Clarke's house about ten o'clock, when
the proseewrix ran in, and begged Emma Clarke to shut
the door and keep out Holford. The prisoner struck her
so violently that the poker was bent. She bled so pro-
fusely that there was a pool of blood in her house. The
surgeon said he went to see her on the night of the 10th,
and found her suffering from concussion of the brain.
There were contusions all over the body, and a lacerated
wound over the right temple. She was dangerously ill
for several days, and had not been able to do a day's
work since. The prisoner had always before been very
kind to her and treated her well.

Mr. WILLIAsss, in addressing the jury for the pri-
soner, admitted that he could not struggle against a con-
viction for a common assault, but submitted that they
could not find him guilty of wounding her with intent to
do her grievous bodily harm.
Verdict, Guilty.
His LORDSHIP said before ho passed sentence he would
inquire into the prisoner's former character, and if he
found that his atrocious cruelty in the present instance
was only in conformity with his past conduct, he would
most certainly sentence him to transportation; but should
he find his conduct in the present case a departure from
his usual demeanour, he would not remove him from the
country, but subject him to a long and severe imprison-
ment.

In the course of the afternoon the prisoner was again
called up, when
His LORDSHIP said he had inquired into his former
conduct, and the result satisfied him of the correctness
of his suspicion that this was only part of a brutal course
of conduct; and he trusted that the example which he
should make of him would teach men like him that they
must not exercise their power over defenceless women in
the brutal manlier which he had done. The sentence
would be that he should be transported beyond the seas
for the term of seven years.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT, Northampton, July 17.
(Before Mr. Justice MAULE.)
BASSETT V. HARRISON, CLERK.
Mr. Humfrey and Mr. Hayes appeared for the plain-
tiff ; Mr. Macaulay and Mr. Flood for the defendant.
This was au action brought to recover 3421. for the
work and labour of the plaintiff in repairing the gates
and fences of a farm. The defendant had paid 145/. into
ccurt, but disputed his liability for the remainder. It
appeared that the defendant, who was the rector of the
parish of Evenly, in this county, had let a farm, part of
the glebe, to one Mr. Proctor, and had engaged with
him to put the gates and fences in repair. For that
purpose he had employed the plaintiff, and Mr. Picker-
ing, who was his agent, had directed what was to be
done. The main item in dispute was questioned upon
the ground that no order for that portion of tho work
had been given ; but after a protracted investigation the
jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1421.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
George Ruches., aged 33, was indicted for stabbing,
cutting, and wounding Mary Mabbutt, with intent to
marder her, cud in another count with intent to do her
grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Field conducted the prosecution, Mr. Sergeant
Miller the defence.
This was a remarkable case. The prosecutrix lived
with her mother, who kept the Mitre Tavern in North-
ampton; she is about 30 years of age, and bad been
courted by the prisoner for about eight years. No quar-
rel had taken place between them; and the prosecutrix
had given the prisoner no ground for any feeling ofjea-
lousy or The prisoner lived at Kingsthorpe, a
short distance from Northampton, but he was in the
habit of putting up at the Mitre, and the intercourse be-
tween the prisoner and the prosecutrix had always ap.
peared to be of a Itriendly and affectionate character.
The first thing that was extraordinary in his conduct
occurred on the morning of the 29th of April last. Be-
tween five and six o'clock on that morning he went to
the bedside of the mother of the prosecutrix beforo she
was up, and said, " Where is she?" Mrs. Mabbutt
replied, " She is down stairs." He was excited, and
walked about the room; and came again to the bedside
and said, "If I don't do it now, I will do it; I'll do for
the pair." On the same morning the prosecutrix her-
self received from him the following remarkable
epistle:—
" My dear Mary,—With a sad hart I wright this.
Lord have Mercy on my sole, if any one had told me this
I Could not describe. Please Com this morning by eight
l'elock aad you shall see the Last of me For I can't die
happy without you. find me in Green Barn, Back of
my house. I never suffer my foot to move out alive. You
can have what I have got to put me in the ground.
Please Cora and see the Last of me, my dear Girl. Never
tell aney one wear You are Coming to, it will not take
you maney minutes, so Com.
" Signed this morning, G. Fawkes, 1851, April 29.
Bless you, I thought you never deseved, but Cum and
see the Last, please Com, my dear girl, as soon as you
reseved this. I can't hold a Joint still to wright."
In consequence of that letter the prosecutrix went with
a friend to see the prisoner; but upon that occasion she
observed nothing particular in his behaviour. She
thought that he was in rather low spirits, but he had
nothing unusual to communicate to her. On the follow-
ing day, however, a little after one, he came to the Mitre,
and followed the prosecutrix into the washhouse, which
wit; in a yard at the back of the house. When he got
there the prosecutrix inquired what was the matter with
him, and he answered, " I am almost mad, I don't know
what lam doing. If I don't have you, nobody else
shall." The prosecutrix observing that he had his hand
in his breeches pocket, asked him what he was going to
do, and whether sho had done anything to him. He re-
plied " No;" and then sho said to him " Pray don't let
the devil get the master of you." Almost instantly the
prisoner drew his hand from his pocket, and the prose-
cutrix felt herself stabbed two or three times in the neck.
Tht prisoner was soon apprehended; but the instrument
with which the wounds were inflicted was not found.
The wounds were of a dangerous character, but were
now nearly healed. The prosecutrix, however, appeared
weak, and was much distressed as she was giving her
evidence.
Mr. Sergeant MILLER addressed the jury on behalf
of the prisoner, and commented upon the impossibility
of reconciling the facts of this case with the supposition
that the prisoner was a sane man at the time of the com-
mission of the offence. From the language of the letter,
from the prisoner's extraordinary behaviour, and the
absence of any assignable motive of any kind for the
perpetration of the crime, he asked the jury to come to
the conclusion that when the prisoner inflicted the
wounds his mind was in so phrenzied a state that he
could not distinguish between right_ and wrong. At

all events, it was impossible that the jury should sup-
pose that he had any intention to kill the woman upon
whom his affections were fixed, or even to do her grievous
bodily harm.
The Learned JUDGE, in summing up the case, ob-
served that some jealous suspicions might have found
their way into the prisoner's head, although, in truth,
the prusecutrix had given no foundation for them.
Sometimes

" Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmation strong
As proofs of Holy Writ."
and the question for the jury was, whether on the part of
the prisoner it had been made out to their satistaction
that the prisoner was not conscious when he inflicted
the wounds that he was doing a wrong thing.
The jury, after some deliberation, found the prisoner
Guilty on the second count, which charged the intent
to do grievous bodily harm, and he was sentenced to be
transported for life.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 18.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woo
sack at Five o'clock.