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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CIRCUIT, Maidstone, March 16.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Befvr© the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and

a Special Jury.)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
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City of Boulogae eteam-vessel. The note produced for
101; numbered 30,964, dated April 10th, 1843, was Oiiit
of the notes.
Mr. Thomas Whitfield, eleshier in the lank of tit-
land, stated that the above-mentioned note was pre-
sented by a boy who wrote the name, "W. Storey, 62,
Fleet-street," upon its The note was detained, having
been previously hteropecl at the Bank.
Daniel rorrester, the lofEcer, stated that be went
the shop of Mr. Storey, who was a talloi, and Saw the
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prisoner and another person there% e asked the ottier
person whether the prisoner IN as the man wh:4 pre-
sentta the tank note, to which the answer 'Nu in the
affirmative. Witness then told the prisoner that he was
botaid to ask him some questions, 11:it the prisoner was
not bound to answer them. The prisoner stated that
he picked up the note at Notting-hill on the high road,
but ho refused to say where he lived.
Mr. Child, of the firm of Wire and Child, then called
as a witness for the prosecution,
Mr. William Storey, of No. 62, Fleet-street, who
stated that the prisoner tendered the note at the counter
in payment of an order. Not liking the appearance of
the note, witness sent a boy to the Bank to ascertain
whether all was right. The prisoner said he picked up
the note at Notting-hill, and witness told him that he
had no business to appropriate it.
Mr. Child said he could produce evidence to show that
the prisoner had endeavoured to pass another of the
stolen notes.
Robert Blews stated that on Saturday, the 10th of
February, the prisoner called at his shop and paid for a
pair of trousers with the 5/. note produced. (The note was
one of those which were stolen.) Witness took the note
without putting any mark upon it. He requested the
prisoner to put his name on the note. The prisoner said
he would put the name of his governor (his master) upon
it ; and he then wrote upon it " Mr. Green, Board-
road, Kensington."
The prisoner begged to know whether the Lord
Mayor would take bail for his appearance ?
His LORDSHIP said he could not.
The prisoner was then remanded,
William Read and William Simpson were brought up
in the custody of Daniel Forrester, charged with having
combined to defraud the Alliance Marine Assurance
Company of 1,2501., by sinking the brig Colina.
John Brady, master of a hshing smack, said that, in
June, 1841, he was with eight smacks off the coast of
Holland. He was called out of his berth, and he saw a
vessel, which he afterwards found to be the Colina,
about five or six miles off ; she was laying-to, making
no way to any port, though the weather was very fine.
He knew the vessel was in distress, but he saw no signal
of distress, and he thought she was a vessel which the
crew had left. Saw the crew in a boat go into a Dutch
galliot. Simpson told him that he had started a butt,
and that the vessel could not live much longer.
After some other evidence, tending to shoe, that the
vessel was wilfully sunk, the prisoners were remanded.
BOW-STREET.
William Frazer, who for many years was landlord of
the Seven Stars public-house, Brick lane, Spitalfields,
and at one time possessed of very considerable property,
was charged with stealing two lanthorns from the stair-
case of No. 22, Old-square, Lincoln's Inn.
The offence was clearly proved, and on the prisoner
being called upon for his defence, he stated that distress
had driven him to the commission of the offence with
which he was charged, and that he had been in a state
bordering on starvation for several days.
Mr. TWYPOIW said he well remetnered the person
having been in very respectable circumstances at the
time he (Mr. Twyford) was ene of the magistrates at
Worship-street Police-court.
The prisoner was remanded for further examination.
UNION-HALL.
William Weare, William Smith, and James Williams,
the youths charged with stealing a purse, containing
7201. in Bank of England notes, from the person of Mrs.
Ann Cutts, while riding in an Islington omnibus from
the Bank, were brought up for re-examination on the
charge.
The circumstances attending the alleged robbery
have already appeared in our journal. In the course
of the examination this day an attempt was made
to frustrate the ends of justice, which was severely anim-
adverted upon by Mr. Cottingham. The prisoners were
placed amongst the crowd in Court, with a view that the
witnesses might be enabled to identify them. Through
the interference of Thomas Stowell, the informer, the
boy Williams's brother was placed by his side, and the
witness pointed out the latter as the person she believed
to have been one of the persons concerned in the rob-
bery of Mrs. Kingimith, of a purse containing twelve
sovereigns, in Liquorpond-street.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that Stowell had acted with
great impropriety in placing the two brothers by the
side of each other, and that it was quite evident it was
done in order to mislead the witness, and prevent her
from identifying the guilty party.
Stowell said that he was not aware they were brothers,
an assertion which the Magistrate said he did not believe.
The only additional evidence adduced, on the present
occasion, was that of a man named Clarke, a tailor, in
Blackfriars-road, who proved that he made clothes for
Williams in February (after the robbery of 7201.),
amounting to 26/. Bills and receipts, to the amount of
upwards of 501., were found in the house where the pri-
soners lived, in Hanover-street. None of the Bank of
England notes stolen from Mrs. Cutts have, as yet, been
traced ; and the witness stated that he was paid the
amount in gold ; that he never saw either of the other
prisoner's in Hanover-street, to the best of his belief,
although he should not swear he did not see Weare in
the house when he went to get his bills for the clothes
paid. The boy Williams paid the bills himself, and ap-
peared to have control over his money.
Mr. COTTINGHAM remark on the fact of the boy Wil-
liams asserting, when he was first brought before him
for firing off a loaded pistol, that he (Williams) had no
mother, that he was the illegitimate son of a gentleman
who allowed him money to live upon; and this assertion
was attemped to be confirmed by a woman who came
forward, and who described herself as the boy's aunt.
There was no doubt Williams was connected with a
desperate gang of thieves, and his appearance was well
calculated to disarm suspicion, and threw persons riding
in omnibuses with him completely off their guard. As
there was every prospect of other evidence being pro-
duced against the prisoners, he should remand them
until next Saturday.
Mary Carroll, the woman against whom and her hus-
band a verdict of manslaughter was returned by a coro-
ner's jury, for causing the death of Elizabeth Hobbs,
in Birdcage-alley, Southwark, was brought up for re-
examination.
In reply to Mr. Cottingham, the policeman said that
the man Carroll was not yet in custody; that although
he had contrived to elude discovery since the commis-
sion of the act with which he is charged, yet it is
strongly believed he is concealed in the immediate
neighbourhood where the offence was committed.
The witnesses present were then questioned, and they
all agreed that they had seen no weapon used by the
prisoner, although she was observed to strike the de-
ceased with her fists.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that, under all the circum-
stances, he should again remand the prisoner until fur-
ther opportunity is given for the apprehension of her
husband, who appears, throughout, to have been the
chief aggressor, and, as already given in evidence, was
seen with a weapon in his hand at the time the deceased
received the injuries on the head, of which she died.
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Dempster, pawnbrokers,
attended for the purpose of making the following appli-
cation:—
From their statements it appeared that a few days ago
a person named Henry Gould offered in pledge a silver
watch at the shop of Mr. Attenborough, and the article
answering the description of a watch stolen a short time
previously, information of which had been sent round to
the trade. Gould was accordingly questioned on the
subject, and not giving satisfactory answers, he was
given into custody and brought up to this Court. When,
however, before the magistrates, the accused gave such a
satisfactory account of the manner in which the watch
came into his possession that he was immediately dis-
charged. The applicants said that since then Mr. Gould
had commenced an action for false imprisonment against
Mr. Attenborough, and that notice to that effect had been
served upon that gentleman.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said that he remembered the cir-
cumstance of Mr. Gould being brought before him and
discharged. That he (Mr. Cottingham) was of opinion,
under the 7th and Bth of George IV., the pawnbroker
was justified in acting in the manner he had done, and
that Mr. Gould had no grounds for an action. That it
was given in evidence before him, when Mr. Gould went
to pledge the watch he gave two different addresses, and
the article answeringexactly the description of the stolen
one, the shopman had therefore given him into custody.
The Magistrate added, that in the event of the action
been proceeded with, he had no objection to attend as a
witness, and he advised the applicant to apply to the
judge for security from Mr. Gould for payment of the
costs, in the event of his persevering in bringing on the
action.

This morning was specially appointed for disposing
of several indictments and other proceedings connectet
with the Watermen's and the Stone Pier Companies al
Greenwich, whu have for a long time been in litigation.
There were cross-indictments instituted by the several
parties, the object of the Stone Pier Company being to
show that the Watermen's, or Floating Pier, was a nui-
sance, and one of the principal proprietors of the Stone
Pier Company was, on the other hand, indicted for a
nuisance, in having caused an embankment to be built
on the river.

Mr. Platt, Mr. M. Chambers, Mr. C. Jones, and Mr.
W. Jones, wore for the Watermen's Company; and Mr.
Thesiger, Mr. Sergeant Channel!, and two other Learned
Gentlemen, were on the other side.
After one of the cases had been partly entered into,
some conversation took place between the learned
Counsel, which eventually terminated in nominal ver-
(nets being returned ; and it was understood, that the
whole matter was to be referred to a Learned Counsel,
ho was to have the power to make an amend as to the
respective rights of the parties.
These cases going off in this manner very materially
shortened the duration of the Assize, for if they had
been gone through with, they must have occupied a very
considerable time.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE proceeded to dispose of
two common jury causes, and the business on this side
terminated about two o'clock.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. riAttom ALDERSON.)
Mary Ann Billion, age 20, a good-looking young
person, and who was stated in the calendar to be a married
woman, was charged with stealing a silver watch, some
gold shirt studs, and other articles, the property of Wil-
liam D'Oyley Alpin.
Mr. Rodwell appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Home defended the prisoner.
The circumstances under which the charge was made
against the prisoner have been recently very fully de-
tailed in the report of tile examination which took place
before the magistrates at Chatham, and it will, there.
fore, not be necessary to repeat them on the present
occasion at any length. The prosecutor is a lieute-
nant in the army, and stationed with the depot of his
regiment at Chatham, and it would appear that he
had carried on a most disgusting career of profligacy.
On being cross-examined by Mr. Horne, he admitted
that the prisoner had cohabited with him aad was in his
quarters for several days, and it appeared that she had
taken the opportunity thus afforded her of removing the
property which she afterwards pledged. He also admit-
ted that he had seduced a young girl, named Angelina
Skey, and that he was charged before the magistrates at
Chatham with assaulting her aunt a hen she came to en-
deavour to induce her neice to leave his quarters. He like-
wise admitted that a number of other women had been
living with him in his quarters. It further appeared
that the young woman Skey was almost an orphan—one
of her parents being dead, and the other hopelessly mad
in a lunatic asylum, and while in this unprotected state,
she had fallen a victim to the prosecutor.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON, in the course of the case, ad-
dressed the prosecutor, and told him that his conduct was
most unmanly and disgraceful, and with considerable
warmth he ordered him to get out of his sight.
Mr. HORNE, on behalf of the prisoner, commented with
becoming severity upon the conduct of the prosecutor,
and urged that the prisoner had merely taken the pro-
perty under the mistaken impression that she was en
titled to do so by reason of the nature of her intimacy
with the prosecutor. The Learned Counsel, in the
course of his address, said he trusted that the Court
would admonish him, and endeavour to induce him to
refrain in future from continuing in such a disgraceful
course
require a higher power than that of the Court to
effect this. He thought he might as well endeavour to
mhis ake the Ethiopian change his colour, or the leopard
spots, as to expect that any observations he might
make would have any effect.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty
and she was sentenced to four months imprison*-
°f
the
robbery,

,nment.

_MAL OF THE _URDERER OF THE MARQUIS OF
NORMA.NBT'S GAMRKEEPER.—George Lowther and Mat-
thew Pearson yesterday took their trial at York, for
the murder of John Moffatt, the head gamekeeper to the
Marquis of Normanby—the first as principal, and the
second as aiding and abetting. The facts of this melan-
choly case, arising out of the operation of the Game-laws,
are too fresh in the minds of our readers to require
repetition. The jury found Lowther guilty and acquitted
Pearson. The Judge, in passing sentence of death upon the
wretched man, said that he had been convicted on the clearest
testimony of depriving a fellow-creature of life, and that
he could not hold out to him the slightest hope of a relaxa-
tion of the law in his case. Pearson was then called upon,
and admonished by the Learned Judge, who trusted that the
unhappy end to which his companion would soon come would
operate as a warning to him, and would be the means of in-
ducing hint to abstain from following the unlawful practice
which had led to this melancholy investigation.
CONVERSION OF SCOTT MURRAY, ESQ., M.P. TOR
BUCKS, TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH.--OXFORD, MARCH
I5.—A sensation has been produced in the University by let-
ters received among the Tractarians from Rome, with infor-
mation that Scott Murray, Esq., 8.A., of Christ Church, has
just conformed in that capital to the Romish faith. It is
anticipated that the Hon. Gentleman, who has sat in Par-
liament for Bucks since the commencement of the present
Parliament, will forthwith vacate hie seat for that county.
Mr. Murray belonged to the Young England party, but had
paired off till after the Easter recess. His vote is of course
suspended until he has taken the oaths prescribed for Roman
Catholic Members. This conversion is stated in the Univer-
sity to be the 18th from among Mr. Newman's disciples which
has taken place since the year 1841. Other conversions are
spoken of.—Evening Paper.
BOLTON AND LEIGH RAILWAY COMPANY.--On
Sa-
turday, a special general meeting of this Company was held
at the Clarendon-rooms, when it was resolved to amalga-
mate the railway with that of the Liverpool and Manchester
Compayrildtvoipool Nova.

The applicant, having thanked the Magistrate, then
withdrew.

Charlesl 2t
of
Lancers,Samu l sTawnßidnEbwEuhr :haa
deserter
theh Regiment
a great number of females, was brought up for
seduced frao and
deserted
final examination upon a charge of robbing one of his
victims, named Ann Keeley.
The prisoner, who is said to be of good family, had
deserted no less than four times from the Lancer Regi-
ment; the last time from Dundalk in February, 1843,
having been previously branded with the letter D burnt
into both of his sides. A communication was now re-
ceived from the War-office, desiring that in the event of
his acquittal of the charge of felony, he should be given
up to the military as a deserter.
The particulars of his heartless doings have been given
in the reports of former examinations, rendering unna-
cessary any but a brief enumeration of the offences he is
charged with.
With Ann Keeley, the prosecutrix, he first became
acquainted six years since at Hounslow, where she was
in the service of Captain Travers, and shortly before last
Christmas he met with her again at Brighton, and after-
wards induced her, under a promise of marriage, to leave
her service there and come to him in London. She had
then several boxes filled with the best of apparel, &c.,
and having occasion to visit her relatives in the country,
left the prisoner in charge of her property. lie had,

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wd6d, mfare that, seduced a girl named Elizabeth
vat ..;ock from her friends at tiirmingham, and after-
- „e-is abandoned her for somebody else, but having since
~.tund her again at a lodging in Playhouse-yard, and
tolling her that he would make a lady of her, he took to her
Ann Keeley's boxes of apparel, but made her and others
pawn most of the things. One day, however, when
Woodcock was unwell, he absconded with her fellow-
lodger, a 'younger girl, named Styles, with whom he
was living at Horselydown when apprehended. The
Alagistratts has received also several communications,
prom which it appeared that the prisoner's heartlessness
had caused the death of at least one female.
lie was now committed to Newgate for trial.
Mrs. Charlotte Sinclair, a handsomely dressed and
more thaii middle-aged woman, of independent property,
ivas placed at the bar for final e::amination upon a
thatge Of stealing a pair of black kid gloves from the shop
bt Mr. Clark, in Whitecros:-street.

Mr. Wakelin attended as soliciter for the prosecution,
and Mr. Heritage for the prisoner, who had hitherto
Veen detained in close custody, but the evidence being
now completed,
Mr. Bnouorrrow consented to take good bail for her
appearance to take her trial at the Criminal Court.
CLERKEN WELL.
Andrew Beattie, an Italian, charged his master, an.
other Italian, named Borinke, living in Saffron-hill,
with assaulting him.
From the statement of Counsel, and the evidence
given, it appeared that in April, 1843, the unfortunate
complainant was engaged in Italy by the defendant,
and induced to come to this country under a promise
that he should be well paid by him, and paid a monthly
salary of 13 francs and a half to play an organ in our
streets, which has subsequently been his employment,
subjecting him daily to the most brutal treatment and
abuse if he failed to bring home less than 2s. ; on one
occasion in particular he was so much injured by hint as
to render it necessary for him to be a patient of Saint
Bartholomew's Hospital for more than two months. On
the 6th of the present month he received elevenpence
only, and on handing it to his master he was struck on
the head violently by him, since which time the de-
fendant had held him in fear under a threat that "he
would spoil him for ever as a man."
Mr. GREENWOOD asked if the complainant had been
paid his wages ?—He answered that he had not received
a single franc.
Mr. GREENWOOD remarked that the system of entrap-
ping poor Italians into kingdom is a most abomi-
nable one, and no good could be effected unless the Pari-
sian Ambassador interfered to prevent it, we having in
England no alien laws now. He inquired how the com-
plainant made his way here ?—He said that he and eight
other men travelled over the Alps to France, and then
came by a steam-boat to London.
Mr. GREENWOOD held the defendant to bail to answer
the charge at the next Middlesex Sessions.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.
On Saturday Mr. Baker held an inquest in the parlour
of No. 19, William-street, Commercial-road East, the
residence of Mr. James Sawyer, aged 66, a retired
tradesman of fortune, and the subject of the inquiry.
Mrs. Jemima Sawyer, daughter-in-law of deceased,
said that for several years past he had been subject to
epileptic fits, and that on Wednesday evening last, about
five o'clock, she left him alone in the drawing-room,
taking his dinner, very close to the fire, as, having a re-
pugnance to dine with the family, he was in the habit of
doing. In an hour afterwards she was alarmed by the
screams of her daughter, who came running into the
parlour, exclaiming that her father was burned to death.
Witness had no doubt her father had fallen into the fire
in one of the fits he was subject to, though he seldom or
never experienced one, except whilst in bed.
Miss Sawyer said, that about six o'clock on the even-
ing in question she went into the drawing-room to ask
her grandfather if he desired tea? and, to her horror,
saw him recumbent before the fire, with his face and
head completely upon it, and the upper part of his dress
in flames. She shrieked alarm, and persons came to her
succour, lifted her grandfather from the fire, and extin-
guished the flames which were encircling the upper part
of his person. The flesh was entirely burned off his face,
his lips and ears were roasted away, and his hands, which
hung before the fire, were burned to the bone.
Mr. Corrie, a surgeon, was hastily summoned, who
pronounced deceased dead, and that he had been so for
some time. Verdict—" Accidental death."
On Saturday, an inquest was held before .11r. Carter,
the Coroner, at the King Henry, High-street, Lambeth,
as to the death of Mr. Joseph Richardson, aged 66, for-
merly an extensive woollendraper, whose body was
taken out of the river under most unaccountable cir-
cumstances :

Mr. Robert Binless, of 13, Union-street, Lambeth,
stated that the deceased was his brother-in-law, and was
formerly a woollendraper, but had lately been a travel-
ler on commission. He rosiied at 4.5, Chester-street.
On Wednesday morning, he heard the body had been
taken out of the river near the Archbishop's palace, and
saw it lying at the station-house. Witness saw him
on Tuesday evening at his residence, when he appeared
low in spirits, and said he was going to No. I, Vaux-
hall-street, to collect some money. hie" then put
on his hat, and went out. Witness had then not the
slightest suspicion he intended to destroy his life. Ile
was a man who was very regular in his habits, and was
always at home by seven o'clock. At ten o'clock on
Tuesday night his sister came to him, and said he had
not been home, and wished to know if he had been to
witness, but he had not. She stayed about half an
hour, and then he went home with her, where he stayed
all night, as she became very agitated about twelve
o'clock. Inquiries have since been made, and it was
ascertained that he had not been to Vauxhall-street, nor
could the slightest clue be obtained as to where he went
to, or how it was the body should be found in the river.
No suspicion could be entertained that any one had en-
ticed him to the river edge, where he had no business,
and then pushed him in.
By the Jury—He was very well off, and his accounts
were perfectly correct.
Several of the jury said they had known the deceased
for many years, and he was a most regular man.
The Coroner observed it was a most singular circum-
stance
hegot into the river.
returned a verdict that the deceased was
hound dead in the river, but there was no evidence to
The
jury h
show how the body came there.

The case excited great interest in Lambeth, where
the extraordinary circumstances are the general topic of
conversation. . .

Onvv
k Saturday was gone into before Mr.
Bar,
the Five Bells Tavern, Three
e,
Colt-street, Limehouse, respecting the death of a Mrs.
Ann Shadrake,aged47, the widow of one of thelate chief
the
Coroner, an inquiry iry
engineers of the West India Docks, and who also pos-
sessed a considerable share of property at that part of
the metropolis, who destroyed herself under the follow-
ing melancholy circumstances :
Miss Louisa Shadrake, who was deeply affected, on
being sworn, stated that she was a daughter of the de-
ceased, who lived with her at No. l, Ireland-row, Com-
mercial-road, being supported by her property. For the
last nine months she had been very low-spirited,
more particularly latterly, in consequence of being
obliged to sell two of her houses. She used to walk abou
the house talking incoherently, and would say she did
not know what would become of them. On Friday she
seemed bewildered, but at ten o'clock at night retired to
rest with witness, somewhat more composed. At about
six o'clock the following morning she (witness) missed
her from the bed, and on calling her received no answer.
She then proceeded down stairs, and on entering the
back kitchen she discovered her parent hanging by the
clothes line to a hook in the ceiling, having adjusted the
rope by standing on a chair, and then throwing herself
off, as one was found near her. She then gave the
alarm, and the
deceased was cut down, but was quite
dead.
In answer to a question put by a juror, the witnese
further stated that the deceased's family consisted of six
daughters and two sons.
Mrs. Mary Ann Gunston, of No. 4, Ireland-row, de-
posed that the deceased bad often threatened to destroy
herself by drowning, as she was very wretched, and
could not live. She also said that she had good chil-
dren, and that in selling the property she had done
wrong to them.
Mr. Cummins, surgeon, of Commercial-road East, said
that he was called to the deceased, whom he found to
be quite dead, and had been so several hours. Accord-
ing to appearances she must have committed the act in
the dead of the night.
The CORONER remarked in a very feeling manner
upon the melancholy facts of the case, and the jury,
after a brief deliberation, returned a verdict," That the
deceased had destroyed herself whilst in an unsound
state of mind."

G, MARCH 18, 1844,