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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.-MAIDSTONE, MARCH 19.
SCONES V. RADFORD AND OTHERS.

This was an issue directed by the Court of Chancery, to try
the validity of the will of the late Mr. Thomas Scott Radford,
of Elm-hill, in this county, the details of which are only inte-
resting to the parties concerned.—Verdict for the plaintiff.

SINGULAR ASSAULT.-REX U. BIONCKTON.
The defendant, Jonathan Monckton, was indicted for an as-
sault upon James Roberts, a pauper in Brenchley poor-house,
by performing an operation upon him against his will. The
Rev. N. Harper Arthy was also indicted, but he traversed.
The former was the surgeon, and the latter the Clergyman of
the parish.
James Roberts had been a pauper for some time, and had
been for the last five years troubled with the stone. The de-
fendant (Mr. Monckton) operated upon him about 12 months
since, but did not remove the substance. He was afterwards
taken to a Mr. Hargrave. a surgeon at Tunbridge Wells, who
appointed the following Friday to operate. On the Thursday
previous to the Friday, Mr. Monckton sent for him into a room
in the workhouse. He went, and saw the Rev. Mr. Arthy
and the defendant together. The table was covered with the
apparatus for operation. The defendant desired him to take
off his shoes, but he refused, and said he was not going to be
operated upon. Mr. Monckton, however, sent for four men
to assist, and they held his arms and legs while the operation
was performed. He cried very much, and lamented only a
small portion of the calculus was removed. Mr. Monckton
continued to attend upon him until the wound was cicatrized,
which was in about a fortnight.
The indictment was instituted by the parish authorities, as
the operation, it was alleged, had been performed against
the consent of the patient. The defendant received an un-
exceptionable character of skill and humanity.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
On the part of the parish it was stated, that they felt it
was proper to institute the present proceedings, but they did
not wish to press for punishment.
The defendant entered into his own recognizances to appear
when called upon for judgment, and was then discharged.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-DERRY, MARCH -14.

Joseph Stokes, Esq., aged 35, and John Williams, aged
22, his man-servant, were acquitted of a charge of having fe-
lonious assaulted Elizabeth Thomson.

The trial occupied from eight in the morning till eight at
night.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LaxcAsrpR, MARCH 18.

John Simm, aged 55, was indicted for having unlawfully,
maliciously, and feloniously set fire to the parochial chapel of
Rivingten, situate about four miles from Chorley, and double
that distance from Bolton-le-Moors.

The Jury acquitted the prisoner, on the ground of insanity,
and he will be detained in custody during his Majesty's plea.
sure.

William Worrall was convicted of killing and slaying his
brother, John Worrall, at Warrington, on the night of the
31st of October.

The prisoner being found guilty, was sentenced to six
months' imprisonment and hard labour.
A true bill was returned this afternoon by the Garnd Jury
against Norman Welch, who stands charged with the wilful
murder of Mr. William Southgate, inspector of Customs at
Liverpool. The trial is fixed for Friday. Insanity is the
plea to be urged in defence.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.-CAMBRIDGE.
ITENSLOW V. FAWCETT.

The action was brought under a statute of George 11.,
which inflicts a penalty of 5001. against any person who shall
be found guilty of bribery, either by himself or his agents.
The defendant is a clerk in the office of Mr. Twiss, a soli-
citor at Cambridge. It being necessary that some private
individual should sue, Professor Henslow agreed to become
the Plaintiff.

Mr. ANDREWS stated the case for the plaintiff. At the first
election of members for this borough after the passing of the
Reform Act, Mr. Spring Rice, Mr. Pryme, and Sir Edward
Sugden were candidates for the representation, and the two
former gentlemen were elected, Mr. Pryme being at the head
of the poll. Upon the appointment of Mr. Rice to the Co-
lonial Secretaryship, in June last, he and Sir Edward were
again candidates, and again Mr. Rice was returned. Sir
Edward having been selected to hold the seals of the Irish
Chancellorship, on the accession to office of the present Go-
vernment, Mr. Knight of the Chancery bar was the candidate
brought forward to stand on the Tory interest in opposition to
Mr. Rice and Mr. Pryme, but the latter gentlemen were again
successful ; Mr. Pryme being, however, only five a-head of
Mr. Knight. Shortly after the latter election the present
action and some others were brought, in order to see whether,
as was alleged by the Whig party, any bribery had taken
place. The plaintiff ( Professor Henslow) resides in the
town, and is one of the electors of the borough. The defend-
ant is a young man, and is in the employ of Mr. Twiss, an
attorney in this town, who was the agent, or one of the
agents, for Mr. Knight at the recent election ; and the charge
against him was, that he had given to John Garner the sum
of at, and had promised him the further sum of M., in order
to induce him to vote for Mr. Knight. Garner, in fact, voted
for Rice and Pryme.

John Garner, the person mentioned above, is a baker, living
in Sun-street, in this town ; he is a voter for the borough, and
gave his yote for Mr. Rice and Mr. Pryme at the late elec-
tion. The defendant went to his house about half-past seven
o'clock in the morning of the 7th of January, which was the
first day of polling. He was admitted by the servant of
Garner, and desired her to call her master, who was in his
bakehouse. Garner went immediately into his shop, and the
defendant bade him " Good morning " He asked Garner if
he could have a word with him, and being told that he could,
they went into the kitchen together. The servant was there,
but left upon their going in. The defendant then asked
Garner if he could accommodate Mr. Knight with a vote ? to
which Garner replied that he could, if he thought proper ; he
was not confined, and could vote which way he pleased. The
defendant then asked him if he would support Mr. Knight ?
and he answered, " That depends upon circumstances." Upon
this defendant said, " I see we can do business toge-
ther; have you any bilk to pay ?" Garner replied, he did
not know that he had just then, but the article was
very useful. The defendant then asked, Is five pounds
any use to you?" and the witness answered, " Hang you!
dont be worse to me than you are, to your neighbours."
The defendant then said, " I am going into Mr.
Brown's to pay him, and I'll give you 10/. if you like : I'll
give you 5/. now, and 51. when you have polled." He then
gave the witness five sovereigns, and said, " You'll go and
poll for Mr. Knight ;" and Garner answered " Now we are
level-handed ; you've got 5/. and I've got 5/." The defendant
then asked the witness " what time he would poll ;" and on
being told " at 8 o'clock," he said " Very well, I'll call for you
at 8." He then bade the witness good morning, and left him,
but in a minute or two returned and said, " I forgot, Mr.
Garner; we don't poll this morning till 9, and I'll call for you
at that hour." The defendant having quitted the shop, a Mr.
Ison came in, to whom witness showed the five sovereigns, and
one Bradbury came in shortly afterwards, and to him Garner
also showed the money, and made a communication to each of
them, which of coarse could not be legally received in
evidence.

The servant of Garner proved the defendant's going to his
house at the time mentioned by him, before she had unlocked
the door. The man named Bradbury, one of the messengers
employed by Mr. Rice's committee, also proved having seen
the defendant come in a fly, which stopped at the corner of
Sun-street, and his going to Garner's, his coming out, and
returning in a minute or two. Upon his quitting Garner's the
second time, he went into Brown's, who keeps a glover's shop
two doors off. He also spoke to his (witness's) having called
at Garner's, and seen five sovereigns, immediately after the
defendant had left, a fact which Mr. Ison also proved.
Mr. Sergeant STORKS addressed the Jury in an energetic
speech, which called forth repeated notes of disapproval from
the auditory, whom the learned Judge censured for the dis-
play of such violent feeling, in such a place.
Lord ABINGER summed up the evidence. The statute pro-
vided, that if any person shall, by any gift or reward, corrupt
or procure any person to give or forbear to give his vote in
any election of a member or members of Parliament, he shall
for every such offence forfeit the sum of 5001., and be subject
to certain civil disabilities. In this case the offence was com-
plete if the defendant gave Garner 51., and made him a promise
of the like sum to vote for Mr. Knight, although he voted in
point of fact for Mr. Rice and Mr. Pryme. • That the crime of
bribery was very frequently committed was a matter that could
hardly, he feared, admit of a doubt, because, w hen party spirit
ran high, and men's passions were excited, they were too often
found to sacrifice their own characters for the sake of the tem-
porary triumph of being on the winning side. On the other hand,
he believed that the accusation was one that vas very frequently
made without any just grounds, and from party or revengeful
motives.. At an early period of his professional life he had

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1835.

The Irish Tithe measure was last night brought
forward in the House of Commons by Sir H. HAR-
DINGE. Although we cannot compliment the Irish
Secretary on the ability he displayed in dealing with
this (to Ireland) most vital, and to the empire at large,
highly important question, we approve, in the
main, of the plan adopted for settling it, and we
do this the more readily, as the measure now proposed
is almost identical with that proposed by the late
Government, but rejected by the House of Lords after
it had passed the Commons. Whatever is good in
the plan of the present Ministers has been most bare-
facedly taken from their predecessors—the objection-
able parts are entirely their own.
There is one point, however, upon which we heartily
congratulate our readers—and this is the universal ac-
knowledgment of the propriety of abolishing tithes.
This we regard as a complete, though tardy victory of
reason and justice over prejudice and selfishness, and
we are quite sure that though Ireland may, and ought
to reap the first practical fruits of the victory, its be-
neficial effects will soon be extended to the rest of the
empire.
The tithe in Ireland is no longer to be paid by the
occupier of the land, but is to be made a rent-charge
payable by the proprietor. This rent-charge is to be
fixed at the rate of 751. in future for every 1001. now
paid. The rent charge is not to continue beyond
three years, at the end of which period it is to be
exposed to sale, and the proceeds are to form a
fund, out of which the incomes of the Protestant
Clergy are to be paid. It would have been, perhaps,
but fair to the landlord, if he had been allowed the op-
tion of redemption during the three years of rent-
charge, at a certain number of years' purchase, but
we do not find that stated as part of the measure.
The other part of the Ministerial plan by which it
is intended to grant a million of the public money
to indemnify the Irish clergy for the arrears of tithes,
deserves, and we trust will receive, the most unequivocal
condemnation of the country. Is it to be endured that
the taxes screwed out of the hard-won earnings of the
already overburdened people, are to be squandered
upon a Church possessing revenues a hundred-fold
more than sufficient for the purpose for which
it is professed they are intended—the spiritual benefit
of its members ? We have no hesitation in declaring
our opinion, that if this grant be allowed to pass, it
will be as shameful a misapplication of the public
money as ever was sanctioned by the most borough-
mongering seat-holders of former times. We should,
indeed, have been astonished that even the resolution
was allowed to pass, did we not know that the Op-
position were taken by surprise last night. It was
not expected that a division would take place, it being
always customary, we believe, to give notice when
any grant of money is te be submitted—a preliminary
which was omitted on this occasion: We confess

honestly that this excuse is not altogether satis- '
factory to our minds: The Opposition ought to know
the character of the men now in power and those asso-
ciated with them, better than to suppose that they will
feel themselves bound by any sense of honour, when
they think they can gain an advantage over their
opponents. Many Members had quitted the
House thinking that Mr. Hum E's motion to
report• progress would not be opposed, and many
of those whd remained voted in the majority, from
misunderstanding the object of Mr. S. RICE'S
Amendment, which went to substitute leave to bring
in a Bill, instead of passing a resolution pledging the
House to this obnoxious grant.
The mischief, however, is not irremediable.
The Report will be brought up on Monday,
and it will then be the duty of every Member
who wishes well to the cause of Reform to be at his
poit. This is an important occasion, and we trust
that every Hon. Member on leave of absence, who
is within reasonable distance of London, will sacrifice
his private convenience to the general interests of the
community.
By the way, we would put it to Sir R. PEEL, whether
it is consistent with the dignity of the situation he holds,
or conducive to the interests of religion and morality, to
put himself forward so frequently in the character of a
duellist ?

The Paris papers of Thursday have been received.
They intimate that the Government has some intention
of proceeding with the erection of detached forts, or
barricades, round Paris. This scheme, if attempted
to be carried into effect, may lead to another revolution ;
nor can the KING be ignorant of this, after the mani-
festation of public feeling which occurred in 1833.
None but an' enemy of the reigning Sovereign of
France would recommend his Majesty to offer such an
unmerited insult to the loyalty of his people. The
Crown which requires cannon to uphold it amidst its
own people must press a guilty or a disordered head.
Marshal MAISON has not yet reached Paris, but it
is presumed that he will accept the War Department
without a murmur. The secret of his ready acquiescence
is said to originate in the cunning of the KING, who
has contrived to leave no other employment vacant, and
the Marshal is not so opulent as to choose living idle.
The intelligence from Bayonne is to the 15th instant.
The Carlists retired from Elisondo on the approach of
MINA, who reached it on the 10th, at the head of
10,000 men. A further reinforcement of 3,500 was
marching to Pampeluna from Arragon, with the in-
tention of joining MINA at Elisondo. Other reinforce-
ments are being collected in various parts of the kingdom,
by the direct commands of the QUEEN'S Government.
Since writing the above, we have received the copy
of a letter from General MINA, dated Elisondo, 13th
of March, in which he states that a part of his troops,
under his own command, fell in with ZUMALA-
CAR REGUY on the 12th, when the Carlists were routed
after an obstinate resistance. The numbers killed and
wounded are not stated, but we have reason to believe
they were inconsiderable.

Madame ADELAIDE set out on the 18th for Brus-
sels, with the Princesses MARY and CLEMENTINA.

BOURSE, MARCH 19, 3 o'CLocK.—The Three per Cents. have
been higher to day ; they have been done at 80f. 55c., but are at
this moment at 80f. 47c. The deferred Spanish Stock has drop-
ped from 20i to 18, and has recovered a little afterwards. The
stock is, however, for this session undoubtedly abandoned by the
Cortes, and it will probably, therefore, return to its first price,
15% to 16 per -cent., and even lower; owing to the refusal of the
Procuradores and the Commissioners of Finance at Madrid to do
any thing for it. The other Spanish securities, in the absence of
news affecting them, are almost as yesterday.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Pests, MARCH 19.
Five per Cents., 107 f. 50c. 40c.
Four per Cents., 971. 10c.
Three per Cents., 801. 35:: 45c. 40c.
Bank Actions, 1,952 f. 50c.
Rente do Naples, 97f. 45c. 35c.
Roman Five per Cents., 99% 99.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 49 4914
Rente.d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 3130.% 31.
Royal Spanish Loan. 49
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cent., 49 487
Belgian Irian, Five per Cents., 103%.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 93%.
Portuguese Loan, Six per Cents. 100.
Haytian Loan, 347 f 50c.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 42!4c. ; money. 25f. 49c.
Three months, paper, 25r. 30c. ; money, 25f. 3
—(bars Authenlique,

BOURSE, QUARTER TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 107 f. 55. ;
3 per Cents., 801. 50e. ; 5 per Cent. Spanish, 49 ; 3 per Cent.
ditto, 31 ; Cortes, 49A ; Coupons, 28 ; Guebhard, 49 ; Dif-
feres, 20A ; New Loan, 684 ; Ducats, 97 56 ; Romans, 99i ;
Belgians, 1031 ; Pedros, 934 ; Haytians, 387 if.

German papers of various dates have been received.
Their contents are unimportant. The Managers of
the Public Debt at Berlin have announced that they
will be able to clear it all off on the Ist of July, 1835.

HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, MARCH 17.
Bills. Money.
Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 4 per cent. —
Ditto Bank Shares l3lB 1326
Anglo-Russian Loan —
Ditto, 5 per cent. —
Prussian Inscription. 6 per cent 9 78%
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Portuguese Regency Bonds. 5 per cent 87% 87!
Ditto ditto, me —
Ditto, 6 per cent. 954 1,5
Dutch 2y,, per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents 99
Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 74% 74 14
Norwegian Loan of 1834, 4 per cents.
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents .6 9.5%
Ditto 4 per Cent. 51% 51. s

Letters and Papers from Rio de Janeiro to ' the
20th of January have loen received. The Brazilian
Government has officially announced the deprivation of
the rights of a number of citizens, who entered into the
service of other States, without the permission of the
EMPEROR.

The Correio Official publishes a long correspon-
dence between the Governor of Rio de Janeiro, St.
AUGUSTINIIO MOREINA GUERRA, and the Presi-
dent of the Provinces, J. JOSE RODRIGUES TORRES,
on the subject of the late outrages connected with the
seizure of 400 slaves. The Governor declares, that
finding he cannot prevent the commission of such in-
human atrocities, he has felt himself in duty bound to
resign his office.

CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

WARREN V. BURTON.

Sir CHARLES WETHERELL immediately upon the LORD
CHANCELLOR taking his seat proceeded to reply in this case. The
Learned Gentleman concluded about half-past one o'clock, when
his Lordship postponed giving judgment till Wednesday next. We
shall give a full report of his Lordship's judgment.

COURT FOR THE RELIEF OF INSOL-

VENT DEBTORS.

The Matters of the Petitions and Schedules of the Prisoners
hereinafter named (the same having been filed in the Court)
are appointed to be heard at the Court-house, in Portugal-
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on Monday, the 23d day of
March, 1835, at Nine o'clock in the Forenoon.
Sadd, J., Union-street, Friar-street, Blackfriars Toad, painter.
Dakeyne, G., Racquet-court, Fleet-street, attorney's clerk.
Sutton, J., Joiner-street, Westminster-road, bricklayer.
Dann, L., Maidstone, fruiterer.
Graves, W., Southampton, biscuit-baker.
Jones, E., Lower Thames-street, ship-agent.
Stratford, C.,Newcastle-street, Farrmgdon-street, butcher.
James, R., ommercial-road, Pimlico, trunk-maker.
Symes, S., Upper Seymour-street, Euston-square, oilman.
Thompson, T. W., Essex-place, Mile-end-road, painter.
Taylor, J. J., Tooley-street, Southwark, cutler.
Owen, T., Sheffield, publican.

TORY REJOICINGS.—It having been determined
by the friends of the Blue cause in York, to commemorate the
return of J. H. Lowther, Esq., by a series of entertainments
to the female relatives of the voters in that gentleman's inte-
rest, the necessary arrangements were made, and upwards of
five hundred persons, partook of " the cups which cheer but
not inebriate." After the tea equipage had been removed,
country dances were the order for the remainder of the even-
ing, and until an early hour the following morning. At ten
o'clock refreshments in great abundance were supplied.—
York Courant.
ESTABLISHMENT OF A REGULAR POST FROM
DAMASCUS.—Some interest has been excited among the mer-
chants trading with Asia Minor by the arrival of letters by
post direct from Damascus. Mr. Farren, the resident Con-
sul-General in Syria, has succeeded in persuading the mer-
chants at Damascus to establish three posts one, every
twenty days, to Bagdad; a second, once a fortnight, to
Aleppo ; and the third, twice a week, to Beirout. The rate
of postage to Bagdad is two piastres (between 4:1-d. and 5d.)
per drachm, a weight much in use among the Arabs. That
to Beirout is twenty pares, of forty to the piaster. It is un-
derstood that the merchants of Damascus have agreed to make
good any additional funds that may be required to insure the
continuance of these arrangements. Great praise is given:to
the Consul, for the share he has had in them. Several letters
had, it seems, come from India in expectation of these posts
being established, so that they will open another medium of
communication with our possessions in that quarter.