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London, England, 1834-08-07 00:00:00

SUMMER ASSIZES.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—HEREFORD, AUG. 4.
The business of the assizes for this county began today
at 9 o'clock. The. entry of causes is heavy, there being as
many as 22, of which 4 are special juries. The Attorney-
General is expected to come special in one. In the calendar
there were 29 prisoners, 2 being charged with arson,
though the grand jury have thrown out the bill against one.
Twelve common jury cases have been tried, but only the
following had the slightest public interest :
CROWN COURT, AUG. 5.
THE KING V. THOMAS HAYWARD.

The prisoner was indicted for breaking and entering the
dwelling-house of Thomas Prickett, and stealing some shoes.
Mr. Q. Phillips conducted the prosecution.
The prosecutor and the prisoner were brothers-in-lacy,
and, according to the testimony of the former, on the 7th of
April last he went to bed4aving left the house fastened
up. He was disturbed by a loud noise during the night,
and having got up, he found that his house had been broken
into, and that some shoes and stockings bad been stolen.
These shoes were found the next day in the possession of
the prisoner.
The prisoner made a rambling defence, stating that his
brother-in-law had been induced to make this charge against.
him at the instigation of some person whom he had offended
by endeavouring to settle some accounts between him and
the prosecutor. He also made some claim of right to the
prosecutor's property.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS desired the Jury to determine
whether the prisoner really proceeded in the exercise of any
claim of right, under the circumstances of the case.

The Jury found the pr:-Jner guilty.
Mr. C. PHILLII s, on the part of the prosecutor, recom-
mended the prisoner to mercy. He had certainly some
erroneous notions as to some claim against the prosecutor,
and had been already tried at the sessions and then admo-
nished, but in vain. Besides the burglary for which the
prisoner had now been tried, on the very same night a valu-
able barn belonging to the prosecutor had been burnt, al-
though the grand jury had thrown out the bill against the
prisoner ; still the prosecutor only desired that the prisoner
should be restrained from conducting himself as he had
hitherto done.

Mr. Justice W.ILLIAms then addressed the prisoner,
telling him how wrong he had acted, and that he must not
offend again after this public warning, or he would not escape
with a lighter punishment than transportation. He then
sentenced him to six months' imprisonment.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-CARLISLE, AUG 4.

The Commission of Assize for the county of Cumberland
was opened at this place on Saturday, but the Learned
Judges did not arrive until yesterday, being detained on
Saturday at Newcastle till a late hour. This morning bu-
siness commenced. On the Civil Side, where Mr. Baron
GURNEY presided, there were five causes, four of which
were undefended : the other was of no interest, except to
the parties. The calendar contained eight causes, one for
murder, but the bill is not yet found. All the others are
disposed of.
(Before Lord Chief Baron JIYNDHURST.)
Thomas How was indicted for having feloniously killed
one John Watson, at the parish of Torpenhow, on the 10th
day of June last.
Mr. KNOWLES and Mr. RAWLINSON conducted the pro-
secution, and Mr. ARMSTRONG the defence.
The prisoner was represented as being a respectable
farmer of considerable property. The deceased was servant
to a Mr. Carruthers, farmer and innkeeper, of Torpenhow.
On the 9th of June he was at his master's in the evening
with a person named Barmby. The prisoner came in and
quarrelled with and struck Barmby, upon which Barmby
got up and ran out, but soon returned, when the prisoner
renewed the quarrel. In order to decoy him out of the
house, to get rid of him, Barmby said if the prisoner
would go out he would fight him. They went out, and
the door was shut and barred, and Barmby ran away,
leaving the prisoner in the yard. Shortly after, the de-
ceased was directed to go and let loose a dog which
was usually confined during the day, but unkennelled
at night. The deceased went to the stable for that
purpose, and the prisoner went up to him. The
deceased got hold of a garden tool called a clip, and threat-
ened to strike the prisoner if he did not go away, and tolet
the dog at him. The first he did not do, but he let the
dog go, which, however, did not touch the prisoner. The
deceased then proposed, that if prisoner would go away,he
would show him out of the yard. They accordingly went
away. A person in the house who had continued up, had
observed what had passed, followed them, and when he got
to the turnpike-road found the deceased lying on the ground,
and the prisoner, who was a very heavy man, kneeling upon
him, and with both his-hands dashing his head against the
ground. Assistance was procured, and the prisoner said he
would do it again if the deceased hounded the dog at him.
The deceased was taken up insensible. On examination,
there proved to be a wound on the right side of the head,
which bled much. He never spoke afterwards, but lingered
till two o'clock, and then died.
According to the testimony of the medical men he died
from the effect of the wound, which had produced effusion
of blood upon the brain.
His LORDSHIP summed up the case to the jury, who
found the prisoner Guilty.
He was immediately sentenced to twelve months impri-
sonment and hard harbour.

No other case occurred of any interest whatever.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT—WeRwicr, AUGUST 5.
The only case remaining for trial this morning
was that
of a person named Marsh, who was charged with cutting
and stabbing James Phipps with intent to murder him or
do him some grievous bodily harm.
The prosecutor stated, that he and a young man named
Pittaway overtook the prisoner walking with a woman along
a public thoroughfare ; that he made several beastly pro-
posals to him, and attempted to take gross liberties with
him, in the presence of the woman and Pittaway, and that
when the witness pushed him away he stabbed him with a
knife.

This witness and Pittaway were examined as to several
particulars of this story, and they not only stated the most
improbable circumstances, but they contradicted each other
in respect of almost every one of them. It was denied by
one, but admitted by the other, that the prisoner charged
them before the watchman with having knocked him down
and robbed him.

The Jury said they did not believe one word the wit-
nesses said, and therefore the Judge stopped the case, and
the prisoner was acquitted.

This terminated the Assizes.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARYLEI3OIVE.

Yesterday a ruffianly-looking fellow, named William Ren-
shaw, driver of the cab No. 1,795, was placed before the
sitting Magistrates, Messrs. RAWLINSON and HOSKINS,
charged with furiously driving, and breaking one of the pub-
lic gas-lamps in High-street, Marylebone.
Police constable William Ireland, 12 D, deposed that
about two o'clock on Sunday afternoon last he was on duty
in Little Barlow-street, and saw a cab proceeding along at a
most furious pace ; on turning the corner into High-street
the vehicle came in such violent contact with the lamp-post
that the glass was shattered to pieces by the shock, and the
cab nearly overturned ; he (witness) perceiving the mis-
chief which the defendant had done, called out to him to
stop, but instead of doing so he commenced lashing the
horse in the most brutal manner, and, driving off at full gal-
lop, was soon out of sight. Such was the velocity with
which the vehicle proceeded, that he had just time to take
the number, but could not swear that the defendant was
the man driving.

Another constable of the same division gave similar evi-
dence.

The defendant admitted that he was driving at the time,
and attempted to palliate his conduct by assuring the Ma-
gistrates that the horse had shied and run away.

Mr. RAwLINsoN—Why did you not stop when you
found that you had broken the lamp ? Defendant—l de-
clare to your Worship I did not know that I had broken it.
Mr. ItAwLnisox—lt is impossible that you could have
been ignorant of it, when the glass was flying about your
ears. The cab nuisance has arrived to such a frightful
pitch that it is quite impossible it can be much lobger to-
lerated in a place like London, and I am determined, when-
ever such cases as the present come before me, to put the
law in full force against the offenders ; you are therefore
fined in the full penalty of M. and costs.
Defendant—l hope you will mitigate it, for the sake of
my wife and family.
Mr. RAwLiNsoN—I shall do no such thing : you had no
consideration for the women and children whose lives you
placed in such imminent danger by the furious manner in
which you were driving.
The defendant was then locked up.
MARLBOROUGH- STREET.

Ann Vickers, the female who was some time ago prose-
cuted at the Old Bailey by her then mistress, Mrs. Colonel
Hampton, but acquitted, was yesterday brought up for
examination on a second charge of felony, she having, on a
former day, been fully committed on the first charge for
robbing her mistress, Mrs. Dove, Clifford-street, of a great
number of small articles of a miscellaneous description.
Previous to being placed at the bar, Mr. Flower, who
attended on behalf of the prisoner, asked the magistrate to
allow him to speak with her, without the presence of a
third person.
Mr. Dyxa objected to any communicatiSt with the pri-
soner unless an officer was present.

Mr. Flower objected to this course as being unusual, but
the magistrate adhered to his first determination.
The prisoner was shortly afterwards placed at the bar

before Mr. DYER, sen., and Mr. DYER, jun., charged with
having stolen a pair of shoes belonging to Francis Palmer,
Esq., a gentleman who occupied apartments in the house of
Mr. Dove.

Benjamin Schofield said, when he searched the pri-
soner's boxes he-found a pair of new shoes which corres-
ponded with the descriptitin of a pair which Mrs. Dove
previously informed him had been stolen from Mr. Palmer.
The prisoner accounted for the possession of these shoes
by saying that she picked up a duplicate of a pair of shoes
and went and redeemed them.
Mr. Francis Palmer said the shoes found in the pos-
session of Ann Vickers he had no doubt were his property.
They were of Paris manufacture, and he had but one pair
of the sort ; having missed them, he asked his valet what
had become of them, but his servant could give no account
of their disappearance.
The footman, Reeve, on being shown the shoes, with a
sort of remarkable hesitation declined swearing positively
that they were his master's. A pair similar to the pair
produced had been lost, but he should not like to swear to
the shoes, though he believed them to be his master's
property.
Mr. DYER, jun., inquired if there was any other charge.
Schofield said there were some kid gloves also found,
which were supposed to belong to another lodger of Mrs.
Dove ; but the gentleman was at present out of town, and
therefore no evidence that such was the fact could be
brought forward.

The prisoner declined saying anything, and was fully
committed on both charges.
Anne Hill, a fine young girl, just fifteen years of age,
was put to the bar under the following circumstances :
She had been found by the police in company with a num-
ber of low young prostitutes, running after and annoying
gentlemen in the Regent's-quadrant, under pretence of sel-
ling bunches of lavender. When brought before the ma-
gistrate and questioned, it came out that she was the daugh-
ter of a very respectable individual in possession of consi-
derable independent property, and that she had run away
from her friends about seven days since, in which time she
had contrived to metamorphose herself, both in dress and
manners, into an exact representative of one of the lowest
and most degraded class of prostitutes. Her father was
sent for, and yesterday made his appearance, evidently much
affected at the situation of his daughter. He told the magis-
trate that she had been well educated and genteelly
brought up by an uncle and aunt ; but having lost his wife
lately, he took her home far the purpose of superintending
the domestic concerns of his family. In a short time he
discovered that she had run-him into debt everywhere, and
had pawned and sold most of his other children's clothes.
Thinking it would reclaim her, he sent her to service, hav-
ing provided her with a handsome outfit. In a short time
she robbed her mistress and ran away, taking with her a
stock of good clothes, all of which she got rid of, and had
no other than the dirty rags in which she stood upright.
The girl had found her way into that sink of depravity and
of debauchery, St. Giles's, and there it appeared it was she
met with the companions in whose company she was found.
The father said he was willing to take her home and put
her in a way of getting a proper livelihood.
The Magistrate, under these circumstances, discharged
the girl with a proper lecture, which, however, appeared to
produce not the slightest symptom of contrition or shame.