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London, England, 1834-04-02 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YoRK, MARCH 31.
(Before Mr. Justice ALDERSON.)

George Taylor, gamekeeper to Lord Muncaster,
was indicted for shooting John Paxton, at Mur-
burnholme, on the 9th of October last, with intent
to murder him, or do him some grievous bodily harm.
Lord Muncaster, and other witnesses, were called
to the prisoner's character.
His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury, after
having been out for nearly three hours, returned
with a verdict of Acquittal. . .

The above is the second case tried at these as-
sizes against gamekeepers for wounding poachers,
under precisely similar circumstances—firing at the
dog and hitting the man.
William Hackney, Thomas Wilkinson, and Wil-
liam Thompson, were indicted for the manslaughter
of John Brown, on the 30th of October last, near
Hornsey.

The -deceased and the first prisoner Hackney, had
a pugilistic contest on the day named. They fought
sixty or seventy rounds, and the fight lasted nearly
an hour and half. The fight was " a fair stand-up
fight," and there seemed to be nothing unfair " in a
fighting sense" practised by either of the parties.
The brother of the deceased was the principal wit-
ness, and he said that the deceased seemed to have
the best of the fight. In a struggle in the last
round both fell together. The deceased fell on his
back and head, and on being lifted up his head fell
upon his shoulders, and he was taken off the ground
in a gig. He expired that evening. The parties
fought for a subscription purse of twenty pounds.
The other two prisoners acted as seconds.
The Jury found Hackney and Wilkinson Guilty,
and acquitted Thompson.
His Lordship sentenced the prisoners to four
months' imprisonment and hard labour.
John Gill: was indicted for a misdemeanor, for
obtaining money under false pretences, , from a per-
son of the name of John Asquith, at Merfield, in
December last. Verdict—Guilty.
His LORDSHIP said, as the prisoner was an attor-
ney, he conceived he was bound to inflict the se-
verest punishment ; and the sentence of the Court
was, that the prisoner should be transported for
seven years.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-WARWICK, MARCH 31.

The Commission for holding the Assizes for this
county was opened on Saturday evening, and the
business commenced at ten o'clock this morning be-
fore Chief Justice TINDAL on the Nisi Prius side.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE sits on the Crown side.

There are the names of 112 prisoners in the ca-
lendar, and about ten more have been brought in
since that was printed ; but the crimes with which
they are charged are less atrocious than at any
former Assizes that we recollect.

The cause list contains 38 cases, five of which
are to be tried before special juries, and Sir J. Scar-
lett is said to be retained in two of them.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOUCESTER, Miami 31
(Before Mr. Justice PARK.)
HIGGS V. BRICK.

Mr. C. PHILLIPS (with whom was Mr. ALEX-
ANDER) said that this was an action for criminal con-
versation.

The plaintiff was an innkeeper at Cheltenham,
the defendant being a corn-dealer in a large way of
business in that town. It would be shown that the
defendant used the house of the plaintiff as the
place at which he paid his trade debts. This, there-
fore, caused his visits not to be suspected. How-
ever, about six months ago, the plaintiff began to
suspect that something was wrong, as the manage-
ment of his house very much fell off, and the temper
of his wife became so much worse that she quarrelled
with her sister, and this led to some disclosures
which confirmed the suspicions of the plaintiff ; and
in the end evidence was discovered which left no
doubt of the fact imputed to the defendant.
Jesse Castle said—l live at Cheltenham. I pro-
duce the copy of the register of the plaintiff's mar-
riage. He was married on the 15th of March,
1826. I know the plaintiff. He keeps a public-
house, the sign of the Cock, at Cheltenham. Within
the last two years I have been frequently at the
house, and I live next door to it. The plaintiff and
his wife appeared to live comfortably together. I
never heard them quarrel. The plaintiff's wife ap-
peared to conduct herself well.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant LUDLOW—The
plaintiff kept a pork-shop before he went to the
Cock. I am a constable. I had occasion to go to
the plaintiff's house often. Both he and his wife
have let me know when suspicious characters came
to the house. The house was not frequented by
such characters more than any other public-house.
I never saw the plaintiff beat his wife. I have heard
that the plaintiff's wife took out a summons against
her husband. I never saw the defendant take li-
berties with the plaintiff's wife when her husband
was present. I never saw him put his arm round
her waist in her husband's presence. The defendant
is a corn-dealer in the High-street at Cheltenham.
I have seen the plaintiff's wife wearing a watch. She
used to carry it in her bosom. I don't know that
the defendant's name was upon it. There was no
house in Cheltenham more free from prostitutes
than the plaintiff's.—(A laugh.) I mean no public-
house. I have seen girls of the town go in there,
and call for a glass, but they were never harboured
there, and the plaintiff and his wife would never
allow them to sit down, and they stood at the bar
to drink what they called for. The defendant is 23
or 24. He is not married. The plaintiff's wife is
hard upon 30, and her husband is rather older.
Mr. William Fletcher—l was at the marriage of
the plaintiff and his wife. I gave her away.
Cross-examined—The wedding supper was at my
houge. At the supper a female came in and sat
down. I do not recollect that she was a woman
who walked the streets of Cheltenham at night.
The females of the wedding party turned her out.
This was at the wedding-night supper. My wife
said the female had no business there, and she was
turned out. The plaintiff's wife was a servant at
the Shakspeare public-house at Cheltenham, at which
I have seen trampers during the race time. I do

not know whether the plaintiff's wife
or chambermaid, as the landlord there keeps but
one servant. " but
Mr. Justice PARK—She was a servant girl,
that is no imputation on her moral character.
Cross-examination resumed—l never saw the
plaintiff kick or strike his wife. I have heard
their
grumble at her, as other married men do at their
wives. I
Thomas Rattenbury said—On the sth oy t
went with the plaintiff's wife to the countri• Wes ell
to a public-house, called the House in the Tfree,
which is four miles from Cheltenham. 'nine de e
I dant came there. We returned towards uhelten-
ham together at about seven o'clock in the evening:.
was barmaid
The defendant said he had to call at a fartu'llans`
which was a mile and a half further on, and he asked
a
the plaintiff's wife to go with him. I went on
0f
little way, and then turned back in consequence
sting
some suspicion, and I saw the defendant assi
the defendant's wife over a hedge, not on the same,
side of the road as the farm. I got within aboui
fifteen yards of where they got over the hedge's
saw them under an elm tree.—(The details of
this
• fon.)
witness's evidence were quite unfit for publica i
I went on to the Cross Hands, where the defenda.U!
fpdeliiaiintifft
plaintiff sath wife,
afterwards joined me. He said the plaintiff's wife
had gone by the field way. I overtook her, and
' went home with her.
Cross-examined—l was taking a walk with the
tpaiiiidin shetsiafrms
eshaoi
edu:snhwi
ne
with
h, wouldobtuh te rgo
Igoe
did
a sit
gentle
me far
o;
as the House in the Tree. I have seen the de"
ing after the time I have mentioned. I savit
therl
tell him what I had seen for three or I°,
a months.. I was not the first who told him. 171
tomarried man, and I have my happiness to atteui
as well as Mr. Higgs has his, and I thoughtiL;
told it it would make discord in the family. '''•i,„
younger sister of the plaintiff's wife told of it. P:',,"
made a communication to theplaintiff,• b ''..
which t
doted him to speak to me. The plaintiff did ne"
live with his ' • •
wife a single day after he knov of this.
I had frequently seen the defendant in the Plaintiff's
house after that occurred which I have mentioned.
He came to pay the people.
Re-examined—l never mentioned the matter t 0
any one before I told the plaintiff. The plaintfe
wife's sister is about 15. The plaintiff and his N 1
have a daughter about seven years old. the
James Peters said—l was at Gloucester at•
last Spring Assizes. I put up at the Black Degi
The defendant and the plaintiff's wife I
went
at
Gloucester. They were at Mrs. Taylor's.
there to look for lodgings, as I could not .be at the
the voices
inn. I slept there. In the night I Beard
of the defendant and the plaintiff's n the next
room to me! I knew their voices well. in
Mr. Daniel Boucher said—l have a house e d
St. George's-place, Cheltenham, which is mortgag
to the defendant for 500/. He is a corn-dealer.
his
Cross-examined—l have seen the Plaintiff'
wife, and the defendant at the Fountaini at Glo.11;
tester, altogether. I never saw Mrs. or
the defendant when her husband was Presen" °I
sitting on the defendant's knee when wereusba.u'
was present. I might have said they sittingr
on the same chair, but their faces were not neare.,
together than those of persons in conversation.
.51,
have never said that I had seen the defendant
.ki
..
the plaintiff's wife, but I have seen them more Ile
mate than I should have liked. I have seen ta 1
plaintiff's wife conducting herself as a modest wom ~,,
ought not to do when her husband was present
have seen this three or four times. I have seen their
chairs quite close together, and they were drink_lll
out of the same glass, with their hands upon F?__,
other, such as putting his hand upon her shoulC7.
her knee, or thigh, when her husband was presea.t,
Re-examined—This was when they were spe l'
ing jocularly. I saw nothing indecent.
the jurY
Mr. Sergeant LUDLOW began to address e
for the defendant, when it was arranged that a v__
~,ii:
diet should be returned for the plaintiff, with I:4°
damages. twit
Mr. Justice PARK—I think that is the
as ril r
as the lady 'deuce 0,
was worth, according to the evidence
rather tio _..
the last which the
witness,
plaintiff Was
wise in calling.

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AND ANOT c
This was an action brought to recover daniag 9
for a libel published in the Satirist newspaper.
..€
The libellous paragraph stated that the pislow I
be firs'
(who was a highly respectable solicitor, of had
of Williams and Bethel, of Lincoln's Inn-fields) gr.
had his nose pulled and been horsewhipped hY,„,;ef 1
GEECNITR.,CUV.ITc.uII:INNGsG•rnoNA,mIVI:acii 31.
Just Denman, who is the nephew ionhe-Lor Lifof ]
ce, in consequence of a suspici on the P:103 1
Mr. Denman, that the plaintiff had carried eu 1
illicit correspondence with his wife. # the
. Mr. Sergeant SPANKIE stated the case -°
jury.
After one witness had been examined, sred
Mr. THESSIGER (who, with Mr. Tindal, aPteid,,
for the defendants) said that as his learned 'l' the
on the part of Mr. Williams, had made ea
be
liberal offer of consenting to nominal dainage7heir
begged, on the part of his clients, to e%pressf this
great regret at being made the instruments ° diet.
slander ; they would therefore submit io the 'Ter
Verdict for the plaintiff, ls.
.
Captain Scott, the author of " Reecuie d his
of a Naval Life,"_ just published, was whenpreseete bis
ottLord Byron to the King at the last levee,
in g manner, to the gallant officer's book, which'dericed
from
mjesittys wstasrikgrinagciionucsidlyenptlse,ased to allude, in a verY indeed
independently of the great amusem national _„ort
ance, as placing in their t e possesseslighta
niany of the
_or,
cumstances that occurfed in the late morale
olher
which have been so much misrepresentespokenon
of by
side of the Atlantic. In all the affeir„ 9 lied.
concer
the Captain, he was himself persona
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Major Hitching, Deputy Adjutant-General, Madras, the jag
On the 30th ult., at Whitbourne, Herefordshire,
of the Rev. Robert Biscoe, of a daughter. Av Odin'
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Washington, Esq., of a son,
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On the 31st ult., by special license, at her house o° pill
3,
street, Grosvenor-square, Lady East (sister to Mito„vesteer.„l
Esq., M.P. for Petersfield) to the Hon. John Craven `t-cotoli'
third son of Lord Rosamore, Captain and Lietdena° At,
in the Scots Fusileer Guards. co. -o')'''o,
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of Bloomfield-street, Finsbury, and Peckhani, wio.tor;-mi,
Blake, niece of John Ringer, Esq., of Tottington-ba r,, chSr-st
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Captain Timings, Bengal Artillery, to Charlotte,
Sstl,
daughter of Robert Crump, Esq., of CheltenhaM•n .der, , of
On the 20th ult., at Papdale, Orkney, Beni!' '..d3;ogte-
of Ids, les, advocate, to Elizabeth Dorothy, en 'Y
Samuel Laing, Esq., of Papdale.
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Cruikshank, Gloucester-street, Portman-Were' C ~,,igti.,
daughterof
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Mr. IL R. Hill, of Sidmouth.street, Regent-squer,e'.l3,, JO'
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Peterborough, Northamptonshire. cester-P
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Newington, late of Middle-row, Holborn, aged 7 ion, 3010
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