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London, England, 1834-03-13 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.--MAIDSTONE, MARCH 12.
(Before Lord LYNDHURST, and a Common Jury.)
HARMON V. CHEESEMAN-

This was an action brought to recover damages for set-
, Ling some dogs on two sows belonging to the plaintiff, in
consequence of which one died.
11r. THESSIGER stated the case and called witnesses,
who proved that the plaintiff was a small farmer at
illorden, whose property was parted from the defendant's
by a lane, in which the animals were feeding. The gate
of the defendant's field being open, they strayed in, upon
which the brother of the defendant, by his direction, set
six of his dogs upon them, and bit and worried them.
One of the sows littered, and with several of her young
ones died soon after. A cattle doctor w.s called, who
proved the state of the animals, and that be administered
medicine to those which had died.

Mr. Sergeant SPANKIE addressed the jury in a hu-
morous speech, which kept the judge and jury and whole
Court convulsed with laughter. The representative of the
poor animal which had died had certainly given her case
the benefit of the best advice, both legal and medical ; had
the been the learned pig, more pains could not have been
bestowed on her unhappy case. Dogs, they knew, like
others of a more civil zed nature had an antipathy to
swine, and it was not always easy to keep them from pur-
suing a pig, if one came in sight. Now here it fell out
upon a day that this chase began, and

" The sow will rue that is unborn
The hunting of that day,"
The principal witness, whose evidence at all gave this case
a serious complexion, was the doctor, the village accou-
cheur, who, it appeared, went about, as he said, with a
stallion, and carried about a purgative, or, as he called it,
a cordial ball, for the convenience of that animal. By
some inconceivably strange association of ideas, he thought
the ball might, with very just propriety, be administered
to the sow. " Here is a ball fir my stallion," said he,
"and there is a sow near her time; nothing can be more
suitable than the stallion's ball to a sow about to have a
litter of pigs." So, without more ado, he took the ball
from his medicine chest, and gave milk and linseed-oii
and cordial ball, and away they went helter-skelter toge-
ther. The devil a sow in the county of Kent could have
stood such a bolus. They were now sitting as a coroner's
inquest, and he had little doubt they would bring in a
verdict against this unskilful accoucheur, for administering
medicine of the effect of which lie was wholly ignorant.
The defendant's dogs were clearly in the back-ground, and
had no right to he mixed up with the tragic consequences
which had ensued from this very violent dose. The poor
animal had not been used to such treatment, and as to her
young, there had never been such an unlucky litter of pigs
since the world kgan.
Verdict for the plaintiff-51.

WESTERN CIRCUIT—SALIsavar, Mazur 10.
The assizes were opened here on Saturday. Mr. B iron
WILLIAMS took his seat in the .Nisi Prius Court, at 9
o'clock this morning, and Mr. Justice BOSANQUET pre-
sided in the Crown Court, at 10 o'clock.
In the course of his charge to the grand jury, Mr.
Justice BOSANQUET remarked strongly on the number of
prisonerS in the calendar for minor offences, and regretted
that most of those charges had not been brought before
the magistrates at the quarter sessions, and that if the
number had much increased since they were held, it would
have been easy to have held an adjourned sessions to try
them, for as it was, it would be almost impossible for the
judges to get home in time for the term. On the Civil
Side, although the cause-list was rather large, yet the
cases have not been at all interesting.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT-LANCASTER, MARCH 10.
The Judges, Mr. Justice TAUNTON and AIN Justice
ALDEasoN, arrived here on Saturday evening, and
opened the commission. The calendar for this county
is exceedingly heavy. There are snrenty-six prisoners
for trial, and of these no fewer than 11 stand charged
with murder, and 23 with manslaughter.

John Horrocks was indicted with having mali-
ciously cut and stabbed John Ashton, at Heap, with intent
to murder him.

The prisoner, in his defence, said that be had been ill
used by a number of men that night, and was beaten and
kicked—that he had been wounded in the head in his
Nlajesty's service, and when be was in liquor he did not
know what he was doing.

A witness for the defence gave the prisoner a good
character for humanity.—Verdict, Guilty.
The jury recommeodel the prisoner to mercy on ac-
count of the wounds in his head.

The Learned JUDGE addressed the prisoner, and said
that when he looked at the frightful calend ir before him
of murders, mans!aughters, and cuttings, he considered
th it he should not he doing his duty to the public it he
did not visit every case that was clearly proved with the

severest punishment the law would permit. The senten c
of the court was, that the prisoner should be tranwor ted
for life.

James Shepherd and James Saunderson were in-
dicted for uttering a forged 5/. note, on the Rochdale
Bank, with intent to defrand Messrs. Fenton and Co.

Shephard was acquitted. and Saunderson was fowl
guilty, and sentenced to he transported for life.

IRISH ASSIZES.

(From the Cork Evening Herald.)
LIMERICK CITY RECORD COURT.

SAM. DICKSON V. W. R. YEILDING.

In this case Samuel Dickson is plaintiff, and William
Richard Yeilding def-ndant. It was an action for libel,
and damages were laid at 5,000/.

The libels consisted of a series of wood-cuts and politi-
cal squibs, inserted previous to and at the Limerick elec-
tion for 1832, in the Limerick Herald, of which the
defendant was the proprietor. After a number of wit-
nesses were examined on both sides,

Mr. PIGOTT stated, on behalf of the defendant, that he
was now ready to submit to a verdict against him on all
the counts for the sum of 1001., of which 251. only should
be demanded, and these the plaintiff insisted should be
applied to charitable purposes.
In the course of the examination of the witnesses it
was proved that some of the electors voted three times
running, by merely changing this• apparel—and the
dextetity with which it was performed excited the risible
faculties of all present, as did many other circumstances
that came out.

SINGULAR CASE OF ABDUCTION.

James Ryan, John Ryan, Mary Ryan, Sally Ryan,
and Margaret Ryan, the father and his four children
were severally charged with the abduction of Catherine
Sheehan, on the 27th of last November.
Catherine Sheehan sworn—Witness is a widow; her
husband was killed by lightning about two years ago; he
left her some cows and a farm ; has four children, three
of them were in the house that night ; heard some noise
in the chimney ; two men came down the chimney ; they
were Robin Barry and Thomas Dawson ; one of them
asked, " Are you the woman of the house ?"--witness
answered, " No, she is gone down to Dennis Hayes's ;"
the other man pinched him, and said, " You are the
woman we want, come along, you have a journey before
you ;" witness then began to cry, and took up one of
her young children in her arms ; the men said, " Leave
your child after you, or we will murder it"—and when
they were tearing it, she, to save the child, complied,
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Sally Ryan); they all desired her not to be crying or la-
menting ; she should be for the road ; they dragged wit-
ness out through the haggard gate, when one of the
party pushed witness off the wall down to Daniel Ryan,
saying, " here Daniel is your wife—down with you, Mrs.
Ryan"—(A laugh) ; witness was then brought out on the
road, and was carried towards the county of Tipperary to
the house of a cousin of the Ryans', about nine miles from
where witness lived; it was night time all along; wit-
ness was placed on a horse behind Daniel Ryan ; pulled
Daniel Ryan down the last time by which he got a cut
in the head ; their whole song, going on, was, " when
you go home, you'll get it—you'll get it ; an' when you
go home, you'll get it for fun."—(Loud laughter.) They
swore her not to tell what happened, and to marry Ryan—
they then brought her home.

His lordship charged the jury. They retired for a
short time, and returned with a verdict of—Guilty.
His lordship should for the present record sentence of
death against James Ryan, but, if possible, have it modi-
fied to fourteen years' transportation. The four children,
who are adult, were sentenced to three months' im-
prisonment.