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we were pardoned, to become a general service re-
giment, and go wherever we were ordered.
"Should our fault be pardoned through your
kindness, we hopo to le reimhodied and accounted
as faithful s rwants, because this is our first fault,
a.id the Government may be kind enough to par-
don it.

" We shall ever pray for your welfare.
"March 31, 1857."

(Translation of Major-General Hearsey's
answer to the above.)
"I have received the petition of the officers and
sepoys of the late 19th Native Infanty, and under-
stand all that you have written ; but until you can
give me full information of the rank and names of
those people who have misled you, either through
bribes or any o' her way, and can prove and con-
firm it by good testimony, I cannot intercede for
you. If you do so, as I say, I will intercede with
!li government as much as lies in my power. But
governmeut will do AS it seems best ; and in my
judgment, without doubt, some one has misled you.
You ought not to hide the names and rank of, or
be on friendly terms with, those who have ruined
your livelihool, because they have brought you and
your families to the dust. I give you tits advice
as I feel for you ; you oan do what you like ; I can
neither do or say anything more.
Various general ordors and minutes of the
Governor-Crtne7al in Council are printed with these
papers. Iu a minute dated the Ist of April warm
approbation is expressed of the mode in which the
disb indment of the 39th Regiment was effected by
Major-General Hearsey. . If offenders in other
regiments could be similarly punished, "much,"
said the Governor-General in that miqute, "will
have been done to arrest the spirit of mistrust and
insubordination which . undoubtedly has been
actively spread of late in some of the military
stations of Bengal, but which may, I believe, still be
kept within limits and eradicated by firm and tem-
perate treatment.

LA TV INTELLIGENCE.-July 28.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
THE SHREWSBURY PEERAGE.

This case was continued during the day. The
opponents of the claim of Earl Talbot produced
documentary evidence to show that certain other
persons than those named in the pedigree had
existed, and some of whose descendants might be
entitled before the claimant.

The Rev. Dr. Logan and the Rev. Dr. Rock,
two Catholic clergymen, were then called, and de-
posed to having frequent conversations with John,
the 16th earl, on the subject of the succession to
the title and estate of Shrewsbury, and they stated
that he uniformly declared that, although in the
event of the failure of issue of Bertram, the then
heir, he did not know who was entitled to succeed,
yet, that the Talbots of Ingestre, the present claim-
ants, had no title or claim whatever. These gen-
tlemen stated that they had been induced to give
this evidence in consequence of having seen that of
Mrs. Hibburl, in which she stated that Earl John
bad declared to her that Earl Talbot was heir to
the title failing Bertram, the last earl, and his
issue.

The case was further adjourned to Thursday.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, July 28.
S imuel Baker, 36, a respectable-looking man,
was indicted for the wilful murder of Edward
M'Carroll. The deceased was a lieutenant in the
44th Regiment, and it appeared in evidence that
he went to the public-house kept by the prisoner,
at Deal, on the 29th of Marcb, in a state of
drunkenness, and asked for drink "upon tick."
This was refused him by the prisoner's wife, and
ho assaulted her. On the husband being informed
of the circumstance he pursued him, and it was
alleged that from the injuries inflicted by the pri-
soner, deceased died.

Mr. Justice Willes having summed up, the jury
retired to consider their verdict, and after being
absent about 20 minutes, they returned into court,
and gave a verdict of guilty of manslaughter.
Sent:nce was deferred.

OXFORD. CIRCUIT.-SHREWSBURY, July 27.

CROWN COURT.
BRUTAL ASSAULT UPON A WOMAN.

Henry Humphreys, 28, labourer, was charged
with stabbing and wounding Emma Coyle, with
intent to do her some grievous bodily harm, on the
10th of January last, at Ludlow.
Mr. Corbett prosecuted ; Mr. Cooke Evans de-
fended the prisoner. _ _

Towards 11 or 12 o'clock on the night in ques-
tion. the prosecutrix,:an Iris 4 "unfortunate," of
anything but pleasing appearance, met with the
prisoner, awl they agreed to accompany each other.
They went up a passage in Corve-street, where a
dispute took place about a shilling. Because the
prosecutrix would not accede to his wishes,
prisoner catight hold of her throat and
tried to forcS- her. He did not succeed, when
he caught hold of her clothes, and taking them
up, stabbed her four times with a knife in the
abdomen and thigh. Before leaving her he gave
her two or three kicks on the back. She did not cry
out, but became almost senseless. She managed,
however, to get to her lodging, where her
landlady did not succeed in stopping the bleeding
for some hours. A surgeon was called in, and by
his advice the girl was taken to the workhouse,
when) her wounds—not of a dangerous character—
were dressed. She was about a month recovering.
She remained in the union upwards of two months.
Although she had given a description of the priso-
ner to the police, they did not discover him.
About three weeks after she had left the union she
met the prisoner on a Saturday night at a late hour,
and he spoke to her. She knew him again, and
told him en, when he threatened to kill her. How-
ever, she got away, but could not find out his
name. Subsequently she learned his name, and he
was apprehended.
The girl was cross-examined at some length by
Mr. Cooke Evans, but he failed to shake her tes-
timony, which was supported by other witnesses.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the
learned baron, after some severe remarks upon the
base conduct of the prisoner, sentenced him to 7
years' penal servitude.

WES FERN C IRCIIIT. -EXETER, JULY 27.

ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A DARTMOOR CONVICT.

Charles McCarthy, aged 24, was charged with
feloniously assaulting and wounding, with intent
to murder, Nicholas Edwards, a warder of the
Dartmclor Convict Prison.

It will be recollected that on the 27th of April
Edwards was in charge of a gang of convicts, who
were picking oakum in a shed at Dartmoor prison,
and the prisoner was one of them. Prosecutor was
patrolling up and down, inside the shed, in front
of the convicts, when the prisoner and another
man went to the door. Edwards called to them,
and asked what they did there. They came back
without making any answer, and the prisoner
struck Edwards a heavy blow on the right side of
the head, and then the whole of the convicts rushed
to the door. Edwards followed them, when he
was again knocked down by the prisoner and ano-
ther man, the former of whom had a weapon in his
hand. The convicts attempted to make their
escape, but were prevented.
The jury found the prisoner guilty of unlawfully
wounding. The prisoner at the time the offence
was committed wa4 under sentence to six years',
penal servitude, prior to a sentence of ten years'
transportation being carried into effect,, and the
judge now sentenced him to two years penal ser-
vitude, to commence after the expiration of the
two previous sentences.