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LONDON, THUR:sDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1851.

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losses at York, he begged to tell the meeting that it
was incorrect.—(Hear, hear.)
A PROPRIETOR stated that Mr. Brassey, the eminent
contractor, bad assured him that a line like the East
Anglian could not be worked for less than 121. per mile'
per week, and he hoped this contract would not be has-
tily adopted.
Mr. REYNOLDS said none but great trunk lines could
be worked at 50 per cent., and with the example of the
Eastern Counties and the Newmarket line before them
he thought it was their duty to pause before
they passed this contract. If there was one thing
more than another that was generally admitted
by railway shareholders, it was that the London and
North-Western, the Great Western, and the other great
companies of the kingdom would have escaped all the re-
cent difficulties had they kept to their respective trunk
lines and avoided guarantees.—(Hear, hear.) Now,
the East Anglian was a rotten concern, and he very
much feared the South Yorkshire was little better ; and
he for one would do his best to defeat these proposed
contracts, which were fraught with danger and objec-
tion.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. PRESTON created some confusion by forcing him-
self upon the meeting, but the meeting would nut hear
him; and the noise becoming greater than ever,
Mr. REYNOLDS rose and said it might be an amuse-
ment to Mr. Preston to cause this uproar, but it was a
nuisance to the meeting, and unless that gentleman sat
down, he should move that he be turned out.—(Cheers.)
A PROPRIETOR having seconded the motion,
The CHAIR➢IAN informed Mr. Preston that if he per-
sisted in his attempt to address the meeting out of order
he should put the motion which had just been made, and
if carried steps would be taken to put it in force.
After another scene of uproar and confusion, during
which Mr. Preston behaved in a very frantic manner,
that gentleman was induced to sit down, and the motion
that he be turned out was withdrawn.
The amendment that the East Anglian contract be not
confirmed was then put to the vote, and negatived by a
large majority.
Mr. WATERS then moved as an amendment, that a
resolution which was passed at a former meeting, to the
effect that the directors be authorised to take such steps
as they should consider necessary for protecting the in-
terest of the Great Northern, either by treating with
other companies, or applying to Parliament, be rescinded.
but no one seconded the resolution, and it therefore fell
to the ground. He then moved a third amendment, di-
recting the board to charge the interest on the mort-
gage and the costs of management in future to revenue
account.
Mr. GROVES had much pleasure in seconding the
amendment. It was high time they had a dividend, and
unless they got one now they never would have any. .„
The CHAIRMAN said Mr. Groves was evidently an in-
nocent, unsophisticated Yorkshireman, and misunder-
stood the object of the amendment.—(A laugh.) Mr.
Groves thought the amendment would give him a divi-
dend?—(A laugh.)
Mr. GROVES—Yes, surely.
The CHAIRMAN—Then you are very much mistaken.
—(A laugh.) The effect of the amendment would be
to delay all dividends.
Mr. GROVES—Oh, then I'll have nothing to do with
it. I won't second an amendment of that sort.
No other proprietor would second it, and the amend-
ment met with the same fate as its predecessor.
The resolution for the adoption of the report was
then put and carried, after which a resolution was passed
authorising the directors to forfeit 720 abases of all
classes. Resolutions, in accordance with other recom-
mendations in the report were also proposed from the
chair and agreed to, when the retiring auditors and di-
rectors were re-elected. A resolution was also
passed, fixing the remuneration of the two audi-
tors at one hundred pounds each. The meeting was
then made special, and resolutions passed authorising
the directors to proceed with certain Bills which the
company have now pending in Parliament.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting, which was very numerously attended and was
protracted to a late hour, broke up.

Miss M'Lean, sister to the petitioner, proved the
arrival of Mrs. M'Lean in this country, in company
with Captain Christal. During the whole-of her stay in
England, Captain Cristal visited her at various places
where she was staying, and when she again left England
to return to India, that gentleman sailed with her in the
same ship.
Catherine Hodgkieon, a domestic servant in the em-
ploy of Mr. Tomlinson, of 22, Maddox- street, stated
that on the 29th of December, 1846, Mrs. KLean came
to lodge at her master's. She was accompanied by a
little boy, her nephew, who remained for a few days, and
was then taken by his aunt to the station at Padding-
ton. On returning she brought back Capt. Cristal with
her, whom she stated to be an intimate friend of her hus-
band's, whom she had accidentally met, and who, she
proposed, should occupy the room which her nephew had
occupied, for a few days. A few nights after, after Mrs.
M'Lean had retired to rest, the witness heard Captain
Christal's bedroom door open, and on looking out
of her own door she saw that gentleman
come out of his own room and go into Mrs. M'Lean's
bedroom, where he remained for some time. The next
night after that witness saw Mrs. APLean go up stairs
into Captain Christal's room. She was in her night-
dress only, and in the morning witness saw
Mrs. M'Lean coming down stairs again in
a similar condition. This was repeated on the
next night, and on these three occasions the parties
were together more than a hour to the witness's own
knowledge. They stayed at the lodgings-only a week ;
but in the summer of the next year Mrs. Mac Lean re-
turned, and Captain Cristal often visited her there.
They lived there on the same terms of intimacy
as before. On one occasion in July witness
remembered Mrs. M'Lean coming hcme one day very
hot, and asking for some hot-water to bathe herself
with. Witness went down stairs to fetch it, and on re-
turning to Mrs. APLean'a bed-chamber she met her
coming out of the sitting-room, which opened
into it, half naked. Captain Christal was in the sitting-
room at the time, but Mrs. M'Lean said when she went
into the room that she was not aware that any person
was there. They left the lodgings in September, 1847,
to return to India, as Mrs. M'Lean told her.
Dr. Sheckleton deposed to the return of Mrs. M'Lean
toiliurrachee, where she joined her husband on"the 22d
December, 1847, and to the birth of a child on 6th
of July following. The child was a full-grown nine
months' child, that there was no doubt of.
By Lord BROUGHAM—It could not possibly have been
a six months' child, though children were occasionally
born within that period.
Mr. HARVEY produced the proceedings in the Con-
sistory Court, in which a judgment for a divorce a
mensi et thoro was pronounced.
Mr. Manvers, of the East India House, proved the
death of Captain Cristal.
This completed the evidence.
The Bill was then read a second time.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool.
sack at Five o'clock.

HEATHCOTE'S DIVORCE
HOUSE OF LORDS, March 4.
This afternoon their Lordships heard counsel and wit-
nesses in this divorce case.
The Peers present were—The Lord Chancellor, Lord
Brougham, the Earl of Lanesborough, the Duke of Wel-
lington, Lord Beaumont, and Lord Saye and Sele.
The lion. Mr. TALBOT, in stating the case for the pe-
titioner, said that ho bad the honour of appearing at
their Lordships' bar in support of the petition fur a Bill
for the divorce of Captain Edmund Heathcote from his
wife Elizabeth Lucy. Doubtless their Lordships had
read the previous proceedings of this unusually painful
case, and therefore he might be relieved from entering
into a detail of certain distressing portions of the circum-
stances, which ho should be glad, with their Lordship'
permission, to be spared. With their Lordships' sanc-
tion, then, he would at once enter upon an outline of the
case which he was prepared to prove by evidence.
The petitioner was a commander in her Majesty's
navy, and a member of a highly respectable, family in
Hampshire, and who in the year 1844, being on the New-
foundland station, had become acquainted with the
lady who had subsequently become his wife, Miss Eliza-
beth Lucy Law, the daughter of Colonel Law, a gentle-
man holding an official appointment in Newfoundland.
The ceremony of marriage was performed, with the ap-
probation of the members of the lady's family, by the
Bishop of Newfoundland. After the marriage the par-
ties resided at the house of the lady's family for some
time, and until the then Lieutenant Heathcote was or-
dered off to the West ladies. Lie went, leaving his wife
at her father's, where she remained till 1846. A son
was born in April, 1845, and in the year 1846, Mrs.
Heathcote quitted Newfoundland for England, in the
company of Mrs. Spearman, where she was to meet her
husband. Having reached Portsmouth, Captain Heath-
cote and his wife went to Fritham, where he had pur-
chased a house and grounds, that place being only
about two miles distant from the residence of his
father at Brombam. The stay of the captain, however,
was but short, in consequence of his having been ap-
pointed to the Constance, and he set sail again on the
Ist of August, 1846, bound for South America. Mrs.
Heathcote remained at Fritham surrounded by every
luxury and comfort that a lady could desire. She was liv-
ing in the vicinity of her husband's family, and was visited
by and visited all the neighbours. Up to that moment
there was no reason to doubt but that the warmest
affection was felt by Mrs. Heathcote towards her hus-
band. In the course of April, 1847, a second child was
burn. Affection and harmony of feeling still reigned,
but in the month of October, 1848, the lady's brother,
George Francis Law, returned home, after an absence
of six years' service in India, when he paid a visit to
Mrs. Heathcote, at Fritham, at which place it would he
proved thatthe most improper and criminal conduct had
taken place between the two; and, although this con-
duct would be proved to have taken place from day to
day, and from month to month, and although the suspi-
cions of what was going on amounted to positive know-
ledge, yet those suspicions had been entirely confined to
the servants, and had not come to the knowledge of Mr.
Heatbcote's family. The consequence had been, there-
fore, that during the whole of the time that this crimi-
nality of conduct was proceeding Mrs. Heathcote had
continued to visit the family of her husband, who, of
course, were in total ignorance of the acts of the lady.
Captain Heathcote returned to England on the 24th of
November, 1849, and having resumed his place
at home, continued, in the fullest reliance in
his wife's faithfulness, to live with her up to
the 15th of May in the last year. About that
time he had gone to pay a visit at Bath, leaving
his wife with the knowledge of her pregnancy, with the
firm conviction that he was himself the father of the in-
fant to which in due time she would give birth. On his
return home on the 18th of the same month, the Cap-
tain was informed by one of his servants that Mrs.
Heathcote was extremely ill, and had become so during
the preceding night. He went instantly to her room,
and in the most affectionate terms inquired how she
was, and was lying on the bed with her hand in his,
when he saw the nurse, and presently heard the cry of
an infant. He looked at his wife in a feeling of despair,
struck with the conviction of her faithlessness to him.
Utterly unable to speak, he turned upon his wife one
more look, and left her for ever. From that time to the
present Captain Heathcote bad never seen his wife; be
had not seen her since that fatal day. Subsequently he
had an interview with the nurse, from whom he ascer-
tained the lamentably criminal faithlessness of his wife.
Measures were subsequently taken, and Mrs. Heathcote
was eventually removed to Jersey, where some mem-
bers of her own family were then living. It would
be his duty to put in a letter from Mrs. Heath-
cote, addressed to her husband, in which, in terms of
the bitterest pain she confessed her guilt, and pointed out
the party who was the father of her child. That letter it
was not his intention to read, unless under the command
of their Lordships, before whom a copy had already been
laid. An action had been brought against Mr. George
Francis Law, and a verdict for 1,000/ damages re-
covered. Not one farthing of those damages had been
obtained, for the defendant had since been convicted of
fraudulently obtaining money under false pretences, and
was at the present moment undergoing his sentence of
seven years' transportation. The Learned Counsel then
called the following witnesses :
Mr. Charles Bush Lee—l am a solicitor, and conduct
this bill for Captain Heathcote, the petitioner. I know
Elizabeth Lucy Heathcote. I served her with a copy of
the bill and the order of the House.
Mrs. H. Spearman—l remember being resident iu
Newfoundland. I remember the marriage of Miss Lucy
Law. I was present at the marriage. I am a member
of the Church of England. It was solemnized by the
Bishop of Newfoundland. The father of the bride,
Colonel Law, was present. I was acquainted with her
family previously. The marriage took place with the
consent of the father of the lady. I knew them after the
marriage. It fell to my lot to accompany Mrs. Heath-
cote to England in 1846. While they were in Newfound-
land they lived at Colonel Law's. They lived upon
terms of affection and goodwill. We came to the port
of Bristol. I did not afterwards go to Portsmouth. I
remember the birth of a child a year after the marriage.
It was a son. He came with us to England.
William Arthur Heathcote—l am a magistrate for the
county of Wilts, and brother to the petitioner. I think
it was in July, 1846, when my brother and his wife
arrived from Newfoundland. He came home in the
Eurydice. I saw them at Fritham and Bromham.
Fritham is between two and three miles from Bromham.
My brother was appointed to the Constance on the Bth
of July, 1846, and he sailed on the Ist of August follow-
ing. He was in England some five or six weeks only.
During that time I met them frequently at my father's
at Bromham. I am the elder brother of the captain.
They were living, I consider, on the most amicable
terms. The Constance was bound for the South Ame-
rican station. When he (my brother) went away his
wife remained at Fritham at his own house. She had
servants there. Every comfort was provided her. I
have met her at my father's house frequently. I am my
father's executor. He died the 27tri of November,
1846. I corresponded with my brother in conse-
quence of his death. I heard from my brother from
South America very shortly before he came home.
He came home in November, 1849. The child
was born OR the 18th of May, 1850. I know George
Francis Law. I saw George Law in company with
Mrs. Heathcote the first time at Salisbury. Teat was in
November, 1848. I afterwards saw him in June, 1849,
at Fritham, while I was on a visit there. He was living
there for some months. After Captain Heathcote came
home I had opportunities of seeing him and his wife to-
gether. They were then upon the most affectionate
terms. I always treated her as a sister-in-law. I am
married, and my wife treated her as a sister. I remem-
ber being at Bath in the month of May, 1850. I was
living there. I remember leaving Bath on the 18th of
May. I parted with my brother on Salisbury-plain. I
was going to Bromham; my brother to Fritham. My
brother came to me the day after we parted on Salisbury-
plain. I remember going to Fritham subsequent to
that. Upon that occasion I saw Mrs. Heathcote. My
brother was in the stable, he did not see Mrs. Heath-
cote. Mrs. Heathcote told me she could not tell what
had possessed her—it was a sort of infatuation. Having
committed the first fault she could not withhold. She
confessed that her brother was the father of the child.
The children were taken away from Fritham and
brought to my house. I took Mrs. Heathcote to South-
ampton, thence she went to Jersey.
By Lord BROUGHAM—I saw my brother within a week
after his return in November, 1849. I received a letter
from him within a month of his coming home. That let-
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ments. I remember seeing Mrs. Heathcote on the 2d of
confine-
ment. I am not certain that I had a conversation on the
her size. I said to her, " Ma'am, lehink you are getting
very stout." She said, " Do you think so, Rolfe?" Cap-
tain Heathcote's name was mentioned. After I told Mrs.
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confounded. She said, "Rolfe, Do you understand
me?" I said " Ma'am, the captain has not been home
more than six months, and scarcely that." I then said,
"Have you informed the captain?" She said she had
not, and asked me if I could keep a secret. I then asked
her if she had named it to a medical ran. She said no,
and asked me to keep it secret, for if the captain knew
it it would be a deathblow to him. I do not recollect
any more of the conversation. I went home that even
ing. I recollect being sent for to go to Fritham about
the 15th of May. The captain left that morning to go
to Bath. I went to stay with Mrs. Heathcote and take
care of the children. I remember Mrs. Heathcote being
taken very ill, in consequence of which I sent for a me-
dical man. That was on the 17th. It was between
eleven and twelve at night when I sent the man off for
the medical man. The child was born about half-past
one in the morning. There was only myself present,
and I delivered her. I have had a great deal of expe-
rience, and according to my judgment the child was a
full-grown child. I think Mrs. Heathcote must have
gone her full time. I remember the captain came home
on the Saturday evening about seven o'clock. I remem-
ber seeing him in Mrs. Heathcote's room.
By the Loan CHANCELLOR—It was Saturday morn-
ing, between one and two, when the child was born, and
the captain came home in the evening.
By Mr. TALaeT—I was present when he came into
the bedroom. He went to the bedside and kissed his
wife, and said, "Dear Lucy, how are you now?" She
said she was better. I had the child at the far side or
the room. The captain walked to the other side of the
bed. The baby cried out; he looked round and saw it.
He had Mrs. Heathcote's hand in his, he dropped it, and

he never spoke to his wife, or to the baby, but walked
out of the room. I afterwards saw him go down stairs.
I did not follow him, but he sent for me the .next day
and I told him what 1 have told their Lordships. When
I told the captain he appeared very much hurt—very
much indeed. I do not know whether Captain Heath-
ccte had any suspicion that the child was to be born so
soon or nor. I remember the children being removed on
the Tuesday morning. The captain left the house on
Sunday. I saw him at the house, but never saw him in
Mrs. Heathcote's room again. I saw Mr. Arthur
Heathcote come with him about a fortnight afterwards.
I know Genre Francis Law. Ido not know whether he
was living in the house. In the conversation which took
place between myself and Mrs. Heathcote, and when I
told her that the captain had not been home more than
six months, she said, " Ob, Rolfe, I know no one but my
brother."
Mr. George Robert Tatam—l am a medical practi-
tioner, and remember being summoned to attend Mrs.
Heathcote. I saw the child. She was confined before I
arrived. The confinement seemed to me to be recent.
The child was a perfect child—full grown, and I should
say certainly a nine months' child.
Henrietta Prowett-1 am in service. lam twenty-
three years of age. I lived in Mrs. Heatbcote's family
at Fritham. I went to live there in 1848. I went there
in the capacity of nursemaid. I never saw the captain
until ho came home. He came home the 24th of No-
vember in the next year; that must be 1849. That was
the first time I saw him. • Mr. George Francis Law was
stoppirg with us. I can't remember when he came to
stop with us first, but it was, I think, in November or.
December in the same year. I have known him to stay
a month or six weeks et a time, then go away for a
month, and then return again. Mrs. Heathcote was in
the habit of going to parties with her brother. I was
in the habit of helping to make the beds. Ellen Del-
man used to help me make all the beds, except the
cook's.;,We often remarked that Mr. G. Law's bed had
not been slept in. We frequently noticed this. In the
evening, about ten o'clock, .1 have noticed Mrs. Heath-
cote going into Mr. Law's room, about the time we
went to bed.' We have known her to go in and come
out again. We have found in Mr. Law's room an ex-
tinguisher put on the candle, and the bed tumbled as if
it had been laid upon. This has happened more than
once. There was no one in the house besides the ser-
vants, except Mrs. Heathcote and George Law, on the
occasion I have spoken of. Mr. Law was in the draw-
ing-room. I did not see Mr. Law go upstairs on this
occasion. There were six steps to go up, and the cook's
bedroom was between Mrs. Heathcote's bedroom and Mr.
Law's. The cook's room was on a line with Mr. Law's.
I have observed that Mrs. Heathcote's bed had been
occupied by more than one person. I judge it from
there being marks of two having been in it. I Lave
noticed that more than once. There was nobody in the
house but Mr. Law who could have slept with Mrs.
Heathcote. After the captain came home I noticed
that be treated his wife very kindly. She did not ap-
pear so fond of him as he was of her.
Ellen Delman—l was housemaid in the service of Mr.
and Mrs. Heathcote at Fritham. I went into their ser-
vice in November, 1847, and stayed until 1850. I never
saw Captain Heathcote until November, 1849. That
was the first time I ever saw him in my life. He came
to live at Fritham with Mrs. Heathcote. I bad seen
Mr. Law on and off there for two or three months at a
time. He was not so constant in his visits at last as he
was at first. I saw him first in 1848. It was my duty
to take up the hot water to my mistress. I sometimes
put it down at the door instead of taking it in. There
was a night bolt on my mistress's door. This excited
my attention, and in consequeuce of it I used to go Mr.
Law's room. I went there to see where he was. I did
unt find him there. I used to take up the hot water
sometimes at eight, and sometimes at ten. I noticed
Mr. Law's bed; sometimes it was tossed and sometimes
it was not. I have seers Mr. Law outside Mrs. Heath-
cote's bed, sometimes with bis irowsers on and sometimes
with his trowsers and waistcoat. I have seen Mrs.
Heathcote go into Mr. Law's room. I have been into
Mr. Law's room to fill up the jugs, and have noticed
that the bed has been pulled to pieces as if somebody
had lain in it. This witness also corroborated the state-
ment of Henrietta Prowett.

Mr. W. Legge Harvey, from the Consistory Court,
Doctor's-commons, produced the proceedings in that
court in this case.

Mr. Lee, on being recalled, produced a copy of the
judgment in the action in the Court of Common Pleas
between the petitioner and George Francis Law,wherein
a verdict by default was taken for 1,000/. damages, the
defendant not having appeared either in person or by
counsel. He also produced the record of the conviction
of George Francis Law at the sessions at Southampton
in August last year, when he was sentenced to transpor-
tation for seven years for having fraudulently obtained
money under false pretences upon a draught.
The further proceedings were then adjourned to
Thursday next. Adjourned accordingly.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Chelmsford, Mareh 5.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before Lord Objet Justice
CAMPBELL.) _ _ .

Thomas Hammond, aged 21, was indicted for feloni-
ously setting fire to a haulmstack, the property of John
Bush, since deceased.

Mr. Hawkins prosecuted, and Mr. Charnock defended
the prisoner.
The circumstances under which this charge was pre-
ferred were of rather an unusual character. It appeared
that the fire in question occurred so far back as the
month of October, 1847, and it seemed that two brothers
named Wood wero taken into custody on suspicion of
having committed the offence, and were eventually com•
witted for trial, but the grand jury ignored the bill, and
they were
,discharged. Shortly afterwards the prisoner
was represented to have entertd into conversation with
Joseph Wood, one of the parties who had bean com-
mitted, and after observirg that " he had suffered inno-
cently for that there fire," he said that he would tell him
who was the guilty party; and he then went on to say
that it was himself who had fired the stack. The only
witness to speak to this conversation was the young man
Wood, and ho accounted fur not having said anything
about it at the time by stating that nobody applied to
him upon the subject until a policeman came to him a
short time back, and he then related the particulars of
the conversation he had had with the prisoner. The
witness admitted on cross-examination that the prisoner
appeared to have had some beer when he made the state-
ment, but he declared that he was quite sober. When
before the magistrate, however, it seemed that the pri-
soner asserted he was drunk at the time, and did not
know what he said.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE expressed an opinion that,
under these circumstances, and in the absence of any cor-
roborative evidence, it would not be safe to convict the
prisoner.
The jury therefore returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
(Before EDWIN JAMES, Esq., Q.c.)
John Burrells, 22, and Thomas Purhess, 20, were in-
dicted for a robbery with violence upon David Little-
child.

Mr. Maude conducted the prosecution, and Mr, Par
nell was for the defence.

It appeared that the prosecutor was a waggoner, and
on the night of the 15th of Novmher, he was going
with his waggon on the London-road, near Brentwooo.
A boy was driving, and he was asleep in the hinder part
of the waggon, when two men jumped from the hedge
by the road-side and got into the waggon and rifled the
pockets of the prosecutor, using considerable violence to
him in the course of the proceeding. The prosecutor
positively identified one of the prisoners, and the lad
who was driving spoke to the other, and there were other
circumstances deposed to which tended to establish the
guilt of the prisoners.
Mr. PARNELL addressed the jury for the defence, and
endeavoured to satisfy them that the witnesses were mis-
taken in speaking to the identity of the prisoners.
Mr. JAMES summed up the case very minutely to the
jury, and he particularly reminded them that before they
could return a verdict of guilty they ought to be satis-
fied that the identity .of the prisoners had been esta-
blished beyond any reasonable doubt.
The jury returned a ♦erdict of Guilty, and the prisoners
were sentenced to be transported for seven years.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Oxford, March 4.

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CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice PerrEsow.)
John Lantbourn, a labourer, aged 50, was charged
with having murdered his wife, Ann, at Watlington, on
the evening of Saturday, the 28th of September,
Mr. Carrington and Mr. Skinner conducted the pro-
secution; and Mr. Williams the defence.
It appeared that the prisoner and his wife had lived
very unhappily for several years. She was very ema-
ciated and weak in constitution, a few years older than
the prisoner, and partially deaf. They lived in a cottage
in Watlington, which was separated from the road lead-
ing to Cuxham by a small garden and hedge. They
lived quite alone, without lodgers or children. Their
cottage adjoined another inhabited by a family named
Coles. A little beyond that was another cottage, inha-
bited by a family named Jones. At five o'clock on the
above Saturday evening she came to her neighbour Mrs.
Coles for some firing, and got it. About half-past seven
Mrs. Coles and her husband left their house, no one re-
maining behind. They passed by again at half past
eight, when they heard the prisoner and his wife quar-
relling, and he complaining that she ought to have made
his tea before. They came home that night at eleven,
and went to bed. The door of the prisoner's house was
at that time ajar (ashore was the word used by the wit-
nesses), and there was no light in the house. They did
not mind that, as the deceased was in the habit of sitting
in the dark while she was waiting up for the prisoner.
Soon afte7 twelve o'clock they were roused by Robinson
and the other neighbours, and then they learned that she
had been murdered.
Mrs. Martha Wheeler said her husband sold beer, and
on the Saturday evening in question the prisoner came
to her house about half-past seven, and asked for a pint
of mild beer. She remarked his manner as being stiller
than usual. George Gould was there, and asked the
prisoner, "Well, John, how is little Nan; don't you
wish she was dead?" and he apse ered, " Oh, George,
that is going too far." Little Nan was Mrs. Lambourn.
He was generally a lively man, and would sing and joke.
When he first came in that evening he had some bread
and beer.
Moses Robinson proved that Lambourn came to his
door about eleven o'clock, and cried out, " Will some one
come along with me, fur I think my wife lies dead in the
gardee." Witness went with him. When they got to
the door it was open. There was no light in the house.
The body lay dead in the garden near the door. Lam-
bourn said, " My poor old wife." The body lay cold.
The hands were bloody, and grasped some grass, as if
she had clutched it in the agony of t'eath. She lay on
her back. She had no shoes on her feet. The prisoner
first pointed out where she lay. The neighbours soon
brought a light. Blood was on her cap and bonnet, and
a good deal on the ground where her head was lying.
She was not quite, dead. He could just discern a little
life. Ile found her heart boating. bhe was not a stout
woman; she was a poor little object. The next morning,
after church, he went to the place where she had lain,

and saw blood there, and also scattered arounded th ga
0
den in a good many places, as though spurt from
water. pot round it, but not so far as tt n yards from
where she had lain. When they had placed her
on the
bed the night before, Lambourn said, some one
must go
for a doctor; and witness answered, " You must gio
yourself;" and he (Lambourn) immediately went offline
brought back the doctor.
William Cole, the next-door neighbour, said that tbe
prisoner came into his house about one o'clock that
night, and said that if she lived twenty-four hours theY
could not demand a jury, and he hoped they would net
have one; to which witness answered prisonerif she liviid
three weeks there would be a jury. and bls
wife had quarrelled frequently, and be often said that
God Almighty must have forgotten her or
be wciss`
have taken her long ago.
Samuel Lewis, a baker, met the prisoner about trtel!f.
o'clock that night, who said he had found his "I:
curled up in the garden, und asked him (witness) t
fetch the doctor. He added that she was cold, end ~:
,did not know whethi r she was dead or alive. lie t
'lt you will fetch the doctor I will fetch my sisler'tbe
. Samuel Gould, a baker, said that when be bad ,
prisoner in custody h S he Orel:
to him that she was as 'enkuilled"(Yi.afet.eirL°rlnd) a IngbLe
be had seen. The prisoner asked him whether be ""0
seen her? He raid that he had that morning. Witilee
remarked that she must have been murdered Tae eri.
one. Prisoner replied, "I am innocent edit." i,,,P00
soner afterwards said to him that when he Was "-oft
the preceding evening, there was no light, and be OA
a gurgling noise outside the door, and went out
.01.1:0
found his wife lying near the door, and then Heat for
the neighbours. On the following day he took up ~
tongs which were in the chimney. corner of the prisyt:of
house, and found blood and hair 011 the flat Pol°
them. The blood eppeared to be very f esb
I' • 001
Moses Robinson was recalled, to prove that it srusoso
possible for the prisoner to have gone into the b
without seeing the body as it lay at the door,
sad ink
Mr. Di, kson, the sulgeon who attended her, enuybich
the post :Norton examination, said the woundP„f die
caused death were a lacerated wound on the banufisk,
bead, which went as f.Ar as the bone, but did not Toe
but merely bruised it; and a clot of blood at the
tio She
Lion of the brain with the spinal marrow, whicbus:oolo3
result of a concussion. She was a very 1310' „b ir
and quite emaciated, and it was not possible for ell! b 1
juries to result from a fall or a fit. She died to 71
o'clock on the Sunday morning- The its
have been inflicted upwards of an hour before ~
the body. There were slight di colorations on th: rat .
The prisoner told him that be would find bruise.
_0:1-i- ••
her, as she had thrown herself about. These nerep,
were so slight as not to call for all °b•sr elof
The wound on the seal indicated that 8 7einteou.--4
had been inflicted on hepr. The bonnet which -11
was crushed and quite saturated with blood. the Fri.
It was proved that on the Bth of September Id if be
soner was at a public-house at Cuxhatn, and said if
nito
could get rid of that old brute of his he could Co, oil
young woman. He bad had a good deal of l'fd off
there were several young girls in the houe, to 00
were laughing, and joking, and larking. It'ssie 10
proved that in the course of the last summer us befell
would cut her old head off, and on the Thursday
_d id
her death he quarrelled about 49. Whi
nachme°. she 11;0
bers
out, and called her offensive st
a month of her death he said God AlreightY Pl° 0 sad
forgotten her or he would have taken her long :go; etei
he would not stand it long. Last summer twc2:;.a. 00lerf
ho beat her. When they began to quarrel, sie order
the next neighbour, used to leave her own bensuaio ens
not to be in the way, as the deceased did ootowved tot
one to interfere in their quarrels. It was Ibe ih?
he repeatedly in the course of last year so her. bit
to see her dead and the daisies growing over sBO with
once said he would kill her, and when renlens 1 mpg la
for using such language, he said he should be m
00
her some time or other. „intending „ao
Mr. WILLIAMS addressed the jury, "'"-- aoaer "a
there was no satisfactory evidence that the Pwr'al, pro/
the person who committed the crirne. I: setioee pro/
that blood was scattered about in every d.ra:tb Woo"
that the poor woman's bonnet was WU ravd wri.sover, 0:
yet no blood whatever was found on °eke') tbli s°.(l
traced in any manner to him. It might „alders
ruffians who were bent on robbing Moulde.. 101 per
her, but were disturbed before they lo°
perry away.the esid:
His LORDSHIP went carefully through .k. 0,000
and left it to the jury to say whether or not ii'v r .
was the person who had committed the criine!_.d with '
The jury retired for an hour, and rettiry'
verdict of Acquittal.
Richard (,! d tor os
Bonner, ISboUrer, Was laolete t Duo,
Jobe Horemen on the Queen's bights*, a
before Mr. Justice TALrovia) „ robbia
a ts
the 27th of December,' 1847.
Oa
Mr. Philtimore conducted the prosecutielie sa
Williams the defence. t of °is 110
O_M, a Horst:nen, a termer, was comiog 0°
,srsey. on
~,o
f _Chime, ou the road bowe towards Tolrl, ova 1,11;
evening of the above day, about eiz o'clock tor Oti;
prisoner and another man'overtook ban, all saeriew,
ing about 100 y ards along the road with him. ok 00#
knocked him down and rifled his pockets' 6136 toad ill
lsisd. iltisss.ilveHreawnads some cloth, for WI" "r °llone
d
• b he e
theil two men. He had often seen hilrd, arreeutbis
Theme, buitliweapsrriseoscnueerdwiersomsotohne
CaoTirteorbkalele:°d jell;
, ce ef the.s'
spice till of thhee
returnedcout,trpaolnideittievAleuedtghe
u:st thet 5 eoloPisdgrsii '18:11i a flu: tie'er3se:lee a tefe di:
bourhood, when he was app„tess
goitre ittto
be el.
Another farmer proved that as he --a , bO3-- foe ;v,
soner andsix
about • o'clock on the above even road at'his°.
another man going out o°, mewl bard
off cif
a great is
Towersey, an
but the •
one of the men..as the prisoner rieseu hi, end uester svo
prisoner did not return the 100 ,as riser) 000
hurry.
Two men wereliTceha'
more than 500 yards from ebe spot ffbe"" OM
was robbed, Thas a it
mrell r bhg"
an al' 00111°Pati
ktoissbeedsiwt
to
oade a teint of kissing the book Y .._e was c'd 001
his nose, but the trick being discovereatt.s;
he 0
dm
properly; a° -
he had done so. He swore that the prisone
00
house that ..
five o'clock, and reword
._,
till nine evening at
...,_ for taar_sporina
se o'clock, helping t balingn with 0000
the same time. Great and Yerl
cond witness swore to been
~.1 000100
instep,.. iory If dale
sworn properly;
but
etc
odsuPos ,eotddtowb"atp. thimr te;srPnve:el 9f
ibbbbt ilyi e. 85800: 1 ly:ii:ce 'bit le
tli:siotneb:
were elicited from these witnesses, In tut;'' d NO
a moment's hesitation discredited Wino on.
a bets" ona
'son prisoner Guilty.
victed. The second conviction took Psw-d be Ir-
It was then proved that be bad beenittie- 1831'00
aet
he was oe'' I
then transported for 14 years, °II
out of the coma
His LORDSHIP
try. oat ofige °fl#oo%.,.rei;
said this was the ..-
_. peen A p.
of crime. The prisoner could not "7:oll3°llfgenuos
turned from transportation when b° d bis
ofeffeicett
ccrime, and he had greatly aggrayst% esclt ;OP
alling perjured witnesses to defeat the a wig tr
The lightest punishment he could impose
siltse
ration for life. ___-..--- 0
des lig ,Fefre;iii
PRACTICAL EXORCISM.---Abollt ten were
tck, 0
epode;
population of Brunn, in the Austrian .. do
into commotion by the appeerance of tlb drillted,usl
persond, surrounded by gensdarines Wi repreS, A , 011
covered with hair, hors 's legs, His Satanic Majesty was, as he is alWalasoges e':". IR se
fectly black. with two enormous born*
undergoingand cloveno tea
To I
seemed decidedly out of espirits, end it °P,sPed to dark 0:0P
the indignity of being c, .., fell 0 elst ''' ine
The old men and women of the Plr) 4%1 'lit'Aole
o:ofoire6sseio; roll)
and prayed to all the saints to protect them002 bado fe..do
rible. Prince of Darkness; but the You°g.squiry ti! pen?
ety to laugh and to scoff at him'
ovofevaehrimethoilhdinitha
sumd devil
of
ing facts were stated .—A few days
woman named Hint . i • • bed after dth 0411(1
eithere
liver d was lying in
or makegi ,e ev and i 0 or
window, cl ' anking a chain, and dam _do reg,_, le
the child to be carried re d forie woe
soucinede7 lede:liteb:C eilbtl:Pel::
teendre peer es
silver, • which he knew she had collecto" miey, in del
re tl
I%ctey terried, at once produced the 01"Tbe niT reel 0
wom ted it ;h after which he went 119.'t oe lis peotil 0
and an told the parish priest of the Vl5lOO orio° bet'
added that she had collected the 1 ~,, ece,2 aeed
penny to pay for religious services on _Pc,fie r:. 1,00
"Did you tell any one that you bad tee "'"'oWeli• that
~
priest. "Oafs the midwife," slid she. sing e lie'
ner-- or iti,
midwife that the devil was mistaken i°sso-orilis give
had only 100 florins, for that you have , aou ats„ Or
say that you are glad he did not comp ass„ told
up. The devil will perhaps pay Sot, wo.ullt teed's,
but I will be there to exorcise him., "not/I/et- tbet,l4l,o
midwife what the priest had said• ib..!;,-, lint ,I-0 one
of
reappeared and demanded the 50 fir"'„%iaibf;',ertielet
moment the priest rushed forth, seize,' devil, "pd in Ar
charged him with being a thief. Tbds,,efestti-Ig• eriskA
was the husband of the widwife. Ile 'l,O --- -s; 10", till
and the next morning was taken to Pr- °a Con 10/001,A41
MARISCHAL COLLEGE, ARESlellosjori,t/hie, IP"
last the Earl of Eglinton was elected, 01-Tee Ps-
"nations," Lord Rector of this College'
opponent was Sir Charles Lyell.

On the
Chewton, of2adn hineeitr.., • tiat6ii
BIRTHB Vlsc°
OF A SON. ,t the
01
On the 3d -
the Rev. Ralph R. Tatha, ~ S
at Wilton-crescet op
m.,..1.1i00)"'
inst., at the Vicarage, ..--a,
wiofenofthe 3d inst., inifTee'rryinAgtuoan-116,11.:1111' the
Wife
°I
et
S. Selfe, Esq.
josOenphthie,r2edemiannst.., de"'
iF tisharY
son at Artillery-place,
*4
eiTidaetsi
ltd
On the 4th inst., at Trinity Church, xfall, ,1 t•,,, id
do: fOirpoci
Kentish-town MARRIBD. .., gboD, tolf, 0(
of Edward Bright, Esq., 131„,"naudY5' il 0..,
third daughter Matilda, youngest daughter of the late 1.," tiofie';ooi
h-town • andatthe time 11011 loris Poio'
son of William
of the late T. Sandys, Esq, 4:4
Bodger, Esq., of Rornford,los.ooo.so

i°°'
the oi
Div ea "IN <A, of
lig
On the 2d inst., at Halkin-street West' Wort' ufri.So
Caroline Vansittart, relict of Arthurlood,Y
Shottesbrook, Berks, and sister of Lord Mc , Prot
Sodor and Man. ..,1 Do' toOr
u the 3(1 inst., in Bryanston t or-sr 110
Willett the relict of the late Rev. Charles I.' 0.4,
..stree , „. s ti r,
idge' J t'
East Dereham. v%br ,ge re,
On the 3d inst., at Park-cottage, near hire, 4$
•les .3.1
Admiral Colin Campbell, of Ardpatrick, °fM 1,10 f
On the 3d inst., George Tindall, ego ~tigl'tose
Pentonyille, aged 67. , , 0011'vecibil
On the 2d inst., at Dedham, Essex, Ja?"„'of tbo
of the Rev. Osborne Reynolds, Head Alas°.
Grammar School. t il, Sgt
„sijog,c, q
On the 21 inst., in Liverpool- terrace, 1 r, '
Langridge, aged 74. Artbli
On the 3d inst., in Upper Ilarley-str et,
ea 7, a4otif
youngest son of the late John Travers, E5c11,11.610011
On the 21 inst., W. H. Turner, Es( 14 v i., ei
Hyde-park.
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London: Printed and Published by lgtilli?Ace, ;4_,i417il .
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Ths So,`"—tile Ovw-
Strand, in the Precinct ul the Savoy, P. •
Middlesex, Thursday, March 6, 1851'