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N°. 18,264.] LONDON, MONDAY 4
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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AND
EQUITABLE FIRE INSURANCE COSIPANIES
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.

DIRECTORS.
t*T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
*W. A. B. Bennett, Esq. *John Rawson, Esq.
*Hugh Croft, Esq. *John Shaw, Esq.
tEillotsou, M.D„ F.R.S. t*Edmund S. Byrnes, Esq.
*Ralph Gough, Esq. t*Clement Tabor, Esq.
*M. C. Maher, Esq. t Joseph Thompson, Esq.
*John Moss, EA. t+Augastus Esq.'
AUDITOR.
fProfessor Wheatstone, F.R.S.
PUTSICIAN.
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SURCEON.
VIE. S. Symes, Esq., 77, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square.
ACTUARY.
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SECRETARY.
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SUPERINTENDENT.
*Vir. A. Hawkins, Esq.
BANKED.S.

t*Messrs. Glyn, Ilallifax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS, _ .

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street.
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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE OFFICE.
CAPITAL-500,0001.

The WITHDRAWAL TABLE of the Society affords to the As-
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can be conferred by Life Assurance. On this Table the Assured is
entitled, at any time, to receive at interest an immediate advance,
to the extent of one-half the amount of the paid annual Premiums,
without security, personal liability, or deposit of the Policy, but by
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returned by the Society.
Lapsed Policies may be renewed without fine, on proof of health
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The present nnual income of the Society from Premiums is
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1,781,5801.; and the reserved profit, applicable to future bonus to
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Perxna-
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Age. v, f.. 4. Pre- taken addition Bonus in Auction of
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,--./: Cash. Annual
I I Assured. Premium.
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! £ s. 4. £ s d. x s. d.
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1838 267 11 4 128 17 2
19 19 7
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17 8 8
X X s.d. 1840 193 12 6 93 16 8 14 010
60 1000 74 3 4 1841 189 12 6 89 5 10 13 6 11
1842 162 16 8 76 18 4 11 8 3
1843 115 10 10 55 10 10 8 110
1844 77 19 2
38 15 10 5 9 11
1845 66 15 0
44 10 0
4 10 1

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NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—Bury St. Edmunds, April 5.
THE LAWSHALL MURDER.—The trial of George
Came for the murder of Elizabeth Bainbridge, which
has created so much interest throughout the whole of
this part of the country, was brought to a close last
night in the Crown Court of this assize. The Lord
Chief Justice Jervis presided on the bench, and during
the day, from eight o'clock in the morning, the court was
most densely crowded, women, as usual, forming a large
portion of the auditory.
The prisoner, on being arraigned, pleaded not guilty,
in a firm voice. He is a good-looking young man, and
his features certainly do not indicate the ferocity of dis-
position requisite to commit the deed with which he was
charged. He is described as 23 years of age, and was
attired in a fustian coat and plaid trowsers.
Mr. Prendergast and Mr. Couch were counsel for the
prosecution, and Mr. Power defended the accused.
Many of the facts of this deliberate murder bore a
strong similarity to the crime for which Thomas Drory
recently suffered at Chelmsford. The unfortunate
woman, Elizabeth Bainbridge, was about 30 years of
age. Some nine or ten years ago she married the
butler of a clergyman in the neighbourhood of Sea-
wardstone. Her husband had since joined the corps
of Royal Sappers and Miners, and it appeared that
they had not been living together for the last seven
years. With her child, the result of wedlock, she
went and resided with her father, who is a hard-working
and respectable farmer at Lawshall, in this county.
Here she conducted herself with every propriety, and it
seemed she was much liked in the vicinity. The prisoner
was a young agricultural labourer in the same village,
and for his position might be called respectably off. It
may be at once necessary to explain that the murder
was committed late in the afternoon of the 20th of last
January. For ten or eleven days previously the deceased
had been staying with her sister, whose husband, Mr.
Payne, kept the Harrow public-house at Lawshall. The
prisoner had also been lodging there for about a week.
They had been seen conversing together in rather an
earnest strain, and it is thought, although there is no
direct evidence of the fact, that he being desirous of
pressing an intimacy which she indignantly rejected, led
to her untimely tate. However, on the afternoon of the
20th of last January, about half-past three o'clock, she
left the Harrow for the purpose of returning home to her
parent's farm, proceeding across the fields as the nearest
way. She had with her a bundle, and was attired in a
blue cloak, dark dress, a green silk bonnet, and a vie-
torine round her neck. The prisoner was in the kitchen
when she left, and upon her going out of the front door
the back one was heard to open, and Carnt was found
to have also left. The course he took was not par-
ticularly noticed, but as will be subsequently seen he
overtook the deceased. The evening having far ad-
vanced, and the parents finding she did not reach home,
became alarmed about her, and the father set out to Mr.
Payne's, who keeps the Harrow, to learn some tidings
about her. There he learned her departure, and her
absence became the more mysterious. Shortly after
seven o'clock Carnt returned to the Harrow, haying let
himself in by the back door. Ho seemed very much
agitated, and shook considerably. He had no hat on,
and his clothes were wet and dirty. He stood before the
kitchen fire several minutes without saying anything,
and he then suddenly remarked, " The halter is for my
neck." Mr. Payne said, " Nonsense; what had he been
doing?" He made no reply. Mr. Payne then pro-
ceeded to assist him in taking off his clothes, when he
begged that he might be let alone. " Let me alone,"
he observed; " it does not signify what becomes of me;
the gallows is my doom." He was then given a glass
of brandy, with a view of rousing, and preventing him
catching cold. He was asked where he had been, and
he prayed that he might nut be asked any questions, as
the gallows was his doom. He then expressed a wish
to go up stairs to bed, and his wet clothes being re-
moved, he was put to bed, and wrapped np in blankets
by Mr. Payne and a person named Farrow.
After he had retired a short time, Farrow
went up to ask him how he was. Carnt replied, "No
better; the halter will be my doom, for the devil has got
hold of me." He then wished Farrow to give him his
hand, Farrow did so, and the prisoner said, " This is the
last time I ever shall see you." By this period the state
of the prisoner, the admissions he had made, and the
continued absence of the deceased, increased the alarm
as to her fate. The village constable was consulted,
and the officer being shown the prisoner's clothes and
his boots, which were covered with mud, he went up to
him and asked him what was the matter. He made no
reply. The constable then inquired of him where Eliza-
beth Bainbridge was, and he continued silent. He was
then told that he must consider himself in custody on
suspicion of making away with deceased, and search was
then made in the fields between the Harrow and the
parent's farm. Being provided with lanterns, they traced
the marks or footsteps of two persons, a man and
woman, going as if from the Harrow, and the foot.
marks of one, a man, coming back. In the heels of the
latter could be plainly discerned the impression of the nails
and plates, which corresponded with Carnes boots, and
which were compared at the time of the search. Several
meadows were traversed, and on arriving at a pond in a
remote part of a pasture, some eight or nine rods from
a stile, the clothes of a woman were discovered. The
officer then went into the water and brought out the
body of a woman, which was at once identified to be the
deceased. She was quite dead and stiff. She had no
bonnet on, and her hair was quite dishevelled. The
gown was torn all round, nearly from the gathers.
There was blood flowing from her nostrils, and there
was an appearance of a severe blow on her right cheek,
just under her eye. The pond was partially surrounded
by thorns. About five yards from the pond was found
her cloak, which was much torn, and the strings were
cat. Other articles of her dress were also found in the
same disordered state. After the body had been
properly removed, the officer returned to the Harrow,
and again went to Carnt, who was in bed. He told
him that he should take him into custody for mur-
dering the deceased, Elizabeth Bainbridge. He made
no answer. On the following morning the soil near
the pond was searched, and there was distinctly
traced the appearance of two persons scuffling.
There was the print of a man's foot slipping
into the pond, and where he fell; and on the other side
of the pond were found the same marks of the man leav-
ing tho pond. The prisoner's shoes were compared with
these marks, and they corresponded in width, length,
and the toe-plates. The deceased's victorine was found,
and it seemed to have been pulled over her head, the
string not being untied. The pond was not more than
two or three feet deep. On the body being examined
by Mr. King, a surgeon, unmistakable appearances pre-
sented themselves that the deceased could not have de-
stroyed herself in the pond. This opinion was confirmed
by Mr. Savage, the eminent surgeon of the county hos-
pital, wko, at considerable length and with much abi-
lity, explained the grounds for his coming fo the conclu-
sion that she had not committed the act herself, but
that she had been forcibly detained in the water. There
were marks below her elbows as if she had been
pinched in being kept down. There were bruises on
the chest and arms. Death had resulted from suffoca-
tion and drowning. A vast amount of other circum-
stantial evidence was adduced, amongst which it may be
stated that on the afternoon of the murder the deceased
and the prisoner were seen together in a field near the
pond, and that in his pockets, after he returned to the
Harrow, were found some trifling articles which be-
longed to the deceased.
Mr. POWER then made a powerful appeal on behalf of
the accused, and urged that if he was convicted, it ought
to be upon the minor charge.
The Rev. Mr. Bailey, of Lawshall, was called to give
the prisoner a character. Ho said that he bore a batter
character than most men in the parish.

His LORDSHIP, having summed up at much length, the
jury, after a brief examination, returned a verdict of
Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE then put on the black cap and
proceeded to pass sentence of death on the prisoner in
the usual form, holding out not the slightest hope of
mercy.
The convict appeared not in the least affected at his
awful doom.
Today Maria Clarke was'arraigned for the murder of
her illegitimate child, six weeks old, by burying it alive.
The particulars of this horrid act of
of
have
already appeared. The evidence was of the most con-
vincing character.
The jury, after a short consultation, pronounced a ver-
dict of Guilty, and sentence of death was pronounced
upon the prisoner.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, April 3.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice TALFOURD.)
CuAlio& or lituAmt.—Andrew Daly and Jelin lilac-

farlane, soldiers of the 15th Regiment of Infantry, were
indicted for the wilful murder of John Pim, at the parish
of St. Thomas, in Bristol, on the 3d of May, 1849.
When the prisoners were arraigned, they sent up a
written communication to his Lordship, praying that as
they were not defended by counsel his Lordship would
be so good as to assign them counsel.
His LORDSLIIP, having read the paper, stated its effect,
and said he should be obliged if some gentleman of the
bar would defend them—if the senior in court would un-
dertake the duty.
The members of the bar having by their looks indi-
cated Mr. R. Thomas as the senior,
His LORDSUIP requested that gentleman to undertake
the duty, and Mr. Thomas at once compiled.
The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Skinner.
After a long investigation,
The jury found them Guilty of manslaughter.
The sentence was deferred till to-morrow.
(Before Mr. Sergeant ALLEN.)

John Townsend, aged 24, was indicted for stabbing
James Sheen, at Cheltenham, on the 9th October, with
intent to maim, disable, and do grievous bodily harm.
Mr. AlTrachen prosecuted; and Mr. Powell defended
the prisoner.

The prisoner was Acquitted.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before
Juries.)
eIS Mr.
.rJustice PATTESON and
THE QUEEN V. SHELDON.

Mr. Greaves and Mr. Pigott appeared for the prosecu,
tion ; and Mr. Alexander, Mr. Keating, and Mr. Fallon
for the defendant.
This was an indictment for an assault preferred against
a most respectable surgeon at Cheltenham, by a young
woman, named Lydia Stryde, the daughter of a tailor
in that town.
At the close of the case for the prosecution,
Mr. ALEXANDER addressed the jury, submitting that
the entire statement of the prosecutrix was totally un-
worthy of credit.
A great number of gentlemen of the highest respect-
ability from Cheltenham deposed to the defendant's most
irreproachable conduct in every relation of life.
When his Lordship was about to sum up,
The Foreman of the jury said—We wish to save your
Lordship the trouble of summing up. We have already
come to our conclusion, and wish to find a verdict far
the defendant, if we may in course do so, and we are
desirous of adding that we do not think there is the
slightest blemish on Mr. Sheldon's character.
His Lour's= said with great earnestness—l en-
tirely agree with you. I do not believe there is a word
of truth in that girl's statement, and the defendant
leaves the court without the slightest imputation on his
character.
Verdict—Not Guilty.
This termination of the case was hailed with loud ex-
pressions of satisfaction from all parts of the court.
The following case has engaged the Court since two
o'clock on Thursday :
GAISFORD V. KARR, CLERK.—CHARGE OF ADULTERY

Mr. Karr, anything particular towards Mrs. Gaisford.
I did not observe anything on the part of Mrs. Gaisford
except that she sometimes appeared very excited on the
occasions of her visits to my house.
Wm. Pope—Was a grocer residing at Berkeley. In
1847, during the contested election for the county, Mr.
Gaisford was frequently from home conducting the elec-
tion. During that time saw the defendant and Mrs,
Gaisford frequently tgether in the town and out of the
town, Mrs. Gaisford walking and defendant riding.
Alen saw the defendant during that time frequently,
very frequently, at Mrs. Gaisford's. Observed when he
came up the door was opened frequently without his
knocitiag. Remember one Sunday Mrs. Gaisford com-
ing from church (while Mr. Gaisford was from home),
and, going to the window, lift up the sash, throwing in
her book, and going back and meeting the defendant as
he came from church. They walked together to the
market-place. She had in her hand a letter; they were
reading it together. He was looking over the letter. In
1848 observed when plaintiff left the house defendant
called—that has happened frequently. On those occa-
sions the door was opened sometimes without being
knocked at; sometimes with being knocked at.
Cross-examined—l used to serve Mr. Karr with gro-
ceries formerly. About nine years since he ceased to
deal with me. My premises were once searched by the
Excise officers, and an article that could be used in the
adulteration of pepper was found there, and I paid 25/.
to the Excise. The warrant was not to my knowledge
signed by Mr. Karr.
James King—l am a grocer at Berkeley. In 1847
and 1848 I lived in Marybrook. It was about 200 yards
from the Vicarage. In those years I saw Mrs. Gaisford
and Mr. Karr often together at the gate of the Vicarage
close. That gate leads to Mr. Karr's stables by a pri-
vate way, not a public road. Saw them there many
times together, sometimes by themselves, sometimes
with others. There is a place called Lady Mead, about
three-quarters of a mile from the Vicarage. Saw her
there in March, 1848. She was alone first, walking to
and fro on the road. That is a retired place. Mr. Karr
came up and met her. He was on his horse.
Mr. Charles Bigs—Live in Herefordshire. In the
summer of 1848 met Mr. Gaisford at the Lea, about
four miles from Ross. He was waiting for me there. He
appeared then in the most distressed state of mind. He
made a communication to me. I went the next evening
to Berkeley, and went to the house of Mr. Croome. Mrs.
Gaisford and Mr. Karr were there, and as I went i❑
Mrs. Gaisford and Mr. Karr were sitting near together.'
I did not perceive any movement which Mr. Karr made
when I went. I did not observe whether he changed
his place. Heard that a water party was arranged. I
was consulted about it. I advised Mr. and Mrs. Gais•
ford first not to go, but was afterwards induced to con-
sent to the party being carried out, on the urgent solici-
tations of Mrs. Gaisford. The water party was to con-
tinue for three or four days, as circumstances miget arise.
It continned only one day, as far as Mr. Gaisford was
concerned, by my advice.
Anne Weatcoat, in 1848, was parlour-maid to Mrs.
Phelps, who is now dead. Mrs. Phelps lived in Somers-
place, Oxford-square, London. Mrs. Gaisford once
visited her, and Mr. Gaisford twice. Mrs. Gaisford's

visit was in Easter week, 1848. She came on the Tues

day. On the Friday following dressed her. She went
out at half-past ten or quarter to eleven, alone. She
frequently after that week was over took a walk every
morning after breakfast when it was fine. She went
out as I was going sip stairs. She said she was going to
Mr. Gaisford's friends at Hackney. She returned that
night at half-past nine or a quarter to ten. It was my
business to take in the letters generally. Before that
visit was concluded Mr. Gaisford came to town.
Re-examined—Was in the habit of undressing Mrs.
Gaisford. On the Friday evening I went into her room,
and offered to undress her. On that night I only un-
fastened her dress, as she said she would undress her-
self as it was late. The next morning she made a
change in her linen. On the Saturday morning saw a
shift in her trunk in her own bed-room. On the Mon-
day the other clothes were sent to the wash. The shift
was not sent.

By a juror —lt was put at the bottom of the box,
under the other things, and as I put other things in I
observed it.

Charles Bryant, waiter five or :six years at Fladong's
Hotel—Knew Mr. Seaton Karr. Did not know the day
the wedding took place. A lady called one day from
ten to twelve o'clock, and asked if Mr. Seaton Karr was
within. I said I would go and inquire. I went, and
faund he was in his bed-room, and told her
he was at home, and showed her into No. 32 sitting
room. I believed he had used it. He breakfasted gene-
rally. I asked the lady her name. She said, "My name
is of no consequence. Mr. Seaton Karr expects a lady
soon." He went soon after into the room, No. 32. No
one else was there then. She was a middle-aged lady.
To the best of my recollection her dress was a black or
dark dress. Do not know how long she stayed. The
lady came by the Oxford entrance. Several porters were
employed at that time.
Rate Goold, a chambermaid at Fladong'd Hotel in
April, 1848, remembered a lady calling for Mr. Karr.
He did not stay more than ten minutes in No. 32 with
her.

Hannah Crouch, a chambermaid, at Fladong's Hotel,
remembered a lady calling in April, 1848, between eleven
and twelve o'clock-, for Mr. Seaton Karr's room. After-
wards saw her at Boulogne. Heard her spoken to at
Boulogne as Mrs. Gaisfurd, and she answered to that
name.

Thomas Joyce, another waiter at Fladong's, corro-
borated the previous witnesses.
David Brooke—Was painting Fladong's Hotel in
April, 1848. Remembered the wedding. The next day
saw a lady in the passage, and was so struck with her
figure and appearance. She had very large fine teeth
in front. Had on a black velvet dress, a large Paisley
shawl, and a piece of red ribbon round her neck. She
picked up her clothes as she came out of the door and
crossed the road to the other side. She ran into a shop
next door to a public-house. She was very much agi-
tated at the time. She ran out again as if she was mis-
taken, and then went into a carver and gilder's shop.
That was Mr. Nurse's shop. Mr. Karr called out di-
rectly, before she hardly got into Nurse's. He went
round into Henrietta-street. She was on the right-hand
side, and he on the left-hand side. She was on the side
opposite to Nurse's shop. When he passed opposite
Nurse's he looked across. The lady came to the door,
and they recognised each other. She then went round
Henrietta-street. Saw him again in five minutes. He
came up. A cab followed him. The cab stopped at
the end of Old Cavendish-street with the head of the
horse towards Cavendish-square. The lady came
oat of the shop. Mr. S. Karr handed her into a cab,
and they drove off. He got in with her. On Sunday,
the 23d of December, 1849, was in Stanhope-street,
Bath, in a house opposite to No. 24. About church time
I saw the front door of No. 24 open, and three ladies
coming out, and I said at once to Miss Hall, who was in
the room, " That is the lady I saw at Fladong's Hotel."
She said, "That is Mrs. Gaisford." Have been since to
Berkeley, and saw Mr. Karr on horseback.
Henry Bishop, a painter and glazier, swore to having
seen a lady at Fladong's with a black dress and white
straw bonnet; age between thirty and forty. Noticed
her coming out. Corroborated Brooks as to what the
lady and gentleman did in Cavennish-street.
David Molland, a painter, also corroborated.
George Collins—l am a cab-driver. Live at No. 7,
Queen's-place, Westminster. In the spring of 1848,
drove an orange-coloured cab, and a brown horse.
Remember being on the Oxford-street stand on a
morning in April, about half-past ten, or a quarter
to eleven. A gentleman came up to me about five mi•
nutes past eleven and hailed me, and ordered me to
drive up to Old Cavendish-street. A lady and gentle-
man got into the cab. Did not see the lady before she
got in. Was directed to drive into the City. As I was
going through Holles-street the gentlemen desired me
to drive to the first best glove-shop. Drove to a shop
nearly opposite the Pantheon. There is a golden lamb
in each window. They went into the shop, and returned
in a few minutes and drove into the City to the end of the
Poultry. The lady brought white kid gloves out of the
shop, and I drove through new Oxford-street and down
Museum-street, New Oxford-street. It was not quite
finished. As I was going through New Oxford-street I
thought I heard something fall in the cab. I drove them into
the Poultry, and there let them out, and watched them
some distance beyond the European public-house, and
saw the gentleman call another cab—an old one. They
got in and drove away. It was about twenty minutes
to twelve o'clock when they got out of mycab. Was on
the Oxford-street stand the next day, and saw the same
gentleman again. He called me, and I was going to
pull up to him, and he said " No," but desired 13e.
me
to get off my box and come to him. He said, I
lieve you aro the young man who took me„into the
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City." I looked and said, " Oh, yes, I am, and
put his hand in his
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thing to anybody, but does my work.
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tleman in a garden at Berkeley.
did not ace his face, but I could swear
Boulogne,
him by his
walk and swing of the arms. I went to
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saw the lady there. I asked her was she Mrs. Gaisford?
She said "Yes." I said, I beg your pardon, madam."
Cross-examined—Did not notice whether the lady's
bonnet was crushed or crumpled. She was too sharp.
She went into the glove-shop too quick.
Witness—Oh, I hg
yes; when she got out in the City. The
tht
you saw this after the glove-shop?
lower part of her gown was crumpled. Could not see
whether she had drawers on. If she had long drawers
on I would have seen them. The gentleman was sitting
down on the front seat.
George Salmon, a cabman—Was about twelve o'clock
on Friday in Easter week, 1848, near the Mansion House,
opposite to the European Coffee-house, when a waterman
told me there was a fare for me. I looked and saw a
gentleman near the coffee-house door. The gentleman
banded the lady in. The lady's dress was, I thought,
very gay for that time of year. She had a black dress,
a white veil, white bonnet and white gloves. She had a
large Paisley shawl. Her neck-tie was fastened with a
brooch in front. She lead white and large teeth. Ob-
served nothing particular in her manner. Drove them
first into Bishopsgate-street, and when I got there the
gentleman got out at a brash shop, went into the shop,
and returned, and then ordered me to drive straight on.
Drove to very near Shoreditch Church, and asked
which way I was to go, and was told to go straight