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SMALL TENEUENTS RATING BILL.

Order read for resuming adjourned Debate on Question
(June 12) " That the Clause (Aud be it Enacted, That where
the owner of any tenement shall be rated to the relief of the
poor by virtue of this Act, instead of the occupier thereof,
and such owner shall have paid all money due on account
of anY'rate or rates in respect Of such tenement, such occu-
pier shall be entitled to all privileges and franchises to which
he would have been entitled if h himself had been rated,
and had paid such rate or rates; and if such owner so rated
as aforesaid shall not have paid such rate or rates, it shall be
lawful for such occupier to tender to the overseers of the
poor, or other person authorised by law to receive the same,
the amount of any rate or rates then due from such owner in
respect of such tenement; and such overseer or other person
so authorised as aforesaid shall be bound to receive the
same; and such occupier shall, on the payment or tender of
such amount, be entitled to exercise all such privileges and
franchises as hereinbefore mentioned: Provided always, that
any occupier so paying any rate or rates in respect of any
tenement where the owner is rated to the same, shall be en-
titled to deduct and retain the amount so paid by him from
the next payment of rent to be made by him to such owner,
or to recover the same from such owner as money paid to and
for the use of such owner) be now read a second time
Question again proposed; Debate resumed :--Question put.
The House divided :
MAJORITY—AYES, 38.

Ansley, ThomaS Grey, Sir G. Sohoinfield, William
Baines, M. T. Halsey, T. 1. Stuart, Lord D.
Bass, M. T. Harris, Richard Thompson, Colonel
Bernal. Ralph Rolland, Robert Thor nein Thomas
Brotherton, J. Kershaw, James Trelawny, J. S.
Brown, W. Mahon, O'Gorman Wakley, T.
Carter, J. B. Matheson, Colonel Walmsley, Sir I.
Duncan, George ' Morris, David Willcox, Brodie
Dundas, Sir David Mostyn, E. M. • Wilson, Matthew
Ellis, John O'Connell, M. J. Wood, W. P.
Elliot, John E. . . Peahen, Sir G.
Ferguson, Sir R. l'llkington, James TELLERS.
Fortescue, J. W. Romilly, Colonel Romilly, Sir John
Grace, 0. D. Sadleir, John Bouverie, B. P.

MINORITY—NOES, 29.
•
Arkwright, George Herbert, Henry A. Spooner, F.
Booth, Sir R. G. Mundy, William Stafford, Augustus
Breniridge, Richard Naas, Lord Stanford, J. F.
Brockman, E. D. Nicholl, John Stuart, Henry
Cayley, Edward S. O'Brien, Sir Lucius Trollope, Sir J.
Dodd, G. Packe, C. W. Vesey, Thomas
Duticuft, John Palmer, Roundell Willoughby, Sir H.
East, Str:J. B. Patten, J. W.
Frewen, C. H. Plowden, W. H. TELLYIIB.
•Graham, Str .fames Scrope, G. P. ' Henley, J. W.
Gwyn, Howel ginyth, J. G. Jolliffe, Sir W. 11,

THE LATH ACCIDENT TO HIS GRACE THE DIMS
OF HAMILTON.—We are happy to say, upon authority upon
which we can rely, that his Grace the puke of Hamilton
continues to recover rapidly from the effects of his. late
accident, and that his medical attendants expect that he
will be able to walk out in the course of a few days. His
Grace has borne this painful accident, which has subjected
him to unusual restraints, with that courage, fortitude, and
eheorfulness that has always distinguished him.—Glasgow
Herald.

LORD ASHLEY.—We learn that this nobleman is
to occupy the mansion bf the Duke of Argyll, at Roseneatb,
nest month.—Glasgow Post.

Homß enzeurr.—Lewes, July Shi.
(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)
Elizabeth .Bacon, 15, was indicted for felouiously set-
ting fire to the dwelling-house of William Adams with
intent. o injure him.
-Mr. a Johnson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Cobbett defended the prisoner. The case was one of
rather an extraordinary character.
William Adams, the son of the prosecutor, depOsed
that be Jived in the same house with him at Pagham
near. Chichester. At the time the occurrence took place
which formed the subject of the inquiry the prisoner had
been-in their service about a fortnie.,llt. On the night of
the 9th of May he went to bed about eleven o'clock.
His bedroom adjoined that in which his sisters slept,
and before he went to sleep all the' lights in the house
were extinguished. He was awoke about half-past three
o'clock the following morning by a sensation of being
suffocated, and he then discovered that the curtains of
his bed were all in flames. He immediately got up and
went to his sisters' room, and he saw that the curtains of
their bed were also on fire, and a quilt also appeared to
have been ithrown over the banisters, and that was
on fire, and it had ignited the staircase. He saw the
prisoner shortly afterward; and she said that two men
had been into het bedroom,. and that they had taken
part of the clothes off her bed. In consequence of
something that was afterwards told him he subsequently
went into the'privy in the garden, and there found one .
of the home baked loaves which the family were in the
habit of eating. The fire was extinguished without any
serious mischief having been occasioned by it.
By Mr. ConneTT—Witness was net in the habit of
walking in his sleep. The first thing he saw of the pri-
soner was her coming spestaira with some water after
the alarm of fire had been given.
Mrs. Adams, the mother of the last witness, deposed
that upon the night in question she saw the house pro-
perly secured, and took the candle from her daughter's
bedroom, and everything was quite safe when she and
ber husband went to bed. Soon after they had got into
their bedroom she heard a door shut twice at the back
of the house, and she again looked over it and found
everything quite safe. In the course of the following
morning her son William gave the alarm of the house
being on fire, and upon her going to her son's and daugh-
ter'sbedroom, she saw the curtains iu fl imes. The
quilt, which was on the banisters, belonged tb the pri-
soners' bed, and it had been taken from her room since the
previous night. Upon looking over the house witness
found that the box of the prisoner which contained her
wearing apparel had bean taken from her room and
placed down stairs close to the back door. Having
heard what the prisoner bid said about two men going
into her bedroom and taking the clothes off her bed,
she remarked to her that it was very strange, if her
story was true, that there should he nothing missing,
and the prisoner at that time made no answer, but
shortly afterwards she said that a leaf hal been taken,
and this was the loaf that was afterwards found by her
son in the privy. The prisoner had only been a short
time in their service, and she bad had occasion to com-
plain of her not being clean in her work.
Mr. Adams, the prosecutor, deposed that immediately
after the alarm of fire had been given, ho went to the
prisoner's room, and found she was not there, and the
bed did not appear to be tumbled, or as though any one
bad lain upon it. When ho did see the prisoner she
was dressed.
Thomas Lucas, a labouring man in the prosecutor's
service, deposed that he asked the prisoner why she did
not give an alarm after the two men had left her bed-
room, and she replied that she was afraid to do so for
fear they should come back and kill her.
Mr COBBETT, on addressing the jury for the prisoner,
said that the care was one certainly or a very mysterious
character; but, although they might think the conduct
of the prisoner was suspicious, yet it appeared to him
they might charitably come to the opinion that the evi-
dence did not conclusively make out the charge, and
upon that ground would say that the prisoner was not
guilty. The Learned Counsel then urged upon the jury
the absence of any motive for the commission of such a
diabolical act, and said that the statements made by ber
were evidently given while she was in a s' ate of great
alarm and confusion, and therefore they ought not to be
pressed too hardly against her.
The Rev. Mr. Barker, the vicar of Pagham, was called
to speak to the prisoner's character. It. appeared that
her father acted as parish clerk, and that the prisoner
had bOrne an exceedingly good character for the period
he had known her.
The CHIEF BARON, in summing up, said this was
a very painful case, by reason of a girl of such tender
age being charged with so serious an offence. If she
had been much younger, it would have been his duty,
under the strange 'circumstances connected with the
charge, to have asked the jury whether they considered
the prisoner was aware of the nature of the act she had
committed; •but •as the• law held every one over
14 to be responsible for his acts unless
evidence were produced by the party accused .t.io show
that he was not, they must, in the absence of such
evidence, look at the matter in the ordinary way, and say
whether the evidence satisfied them that the prisoner
had actually committed the net with which she • was
charged. As to the fire being wilful, he apprehended
there could be no' doubt of that fact, from the evidence
showing that there had been three different places set on
fire, and the only question then remained was, whether
the prisoner was proved by the evidence, beyond any
reasonable doubt, to be the guilty party. It was 'cer-
tainly very strange for a young girl to get up bathe dead
of the night and set fire to her master's house in three
places without any apparent object or motive, but it was
his duty to tell them that the absence of such motive
ought not to influence their decision when the fact was
clearly established.
The jury, after every short deliberation, returned a
verdict of Guilty, but at the same time strongly recom-
mended the prisoner to mercy on account of her youth
and previous good character.
The CHIEF BARON said the recommendation should
certainly be attended to to the fulls st extent.
Thomas Huyhes 18, and Thomas Claridge, 15, were
indicted for a burglary in the dwelling-house of landah
Brogden, and stealing a workbox, a corkscrew, and
some plated articles; tlnd Sabina Stansbury, 17, was
charged with feloniously receiving a portion of the pro-
perty, knowing it to have been stolen. MS. Johnson
prosecuted.
The prosecutrix in this case, it appeared, is a widow
Brighton. The robbery in question lady residing at Friars'' Oak about
was committed cn
about 10 miles from
the night of the 4th of July, and on the following day
-the' three prisoners went to a beershop at Brighton, and
the woman was proved to have given a tablecloth—one
of the articles that bed been stolen—to a woman to
pledge, and underneath her bed there were also found
,other portions of the stolen property. The two male
abneidn go
other
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prisoners were apprehended afterwards by Berwick, a
superintehdent of the Worthing police; and, upon their
was notwithstandingn
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oubt they thewer
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other indictments against silthever
prisonersll and
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found upon them, as well as a centre bit, several files,
p .en s.
prisoners,receiving; t and,hereruatchtiosfedtht
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emv.aelse,
and that they ha 1 bee
Lo carrying on a most extensive
system of depredation in
different parts of the country.
The jury found them all Guilty, and Hughes was sen-
tenced to ba transported for 10 years, and Claridge and
Sainsbury
to be kept to hard labour; the former 12
and the latter for 9 months. K.-
As the ' prisoners were going down the stops leading
from the dock, Hughes struck the -girl Sainsbury a vio-
lent blow nn the head which appeared to fell.her to the
ground. It was stated by the police that the reason for
his c"allit:lng this brutal act was a belief that she had
given some information upon the subject of other offences
that he had committed.
John Proudley, 36, a savage looking fellow, was in-
dicted for the capital offence of felonionily stabbing
George Smart, with intent to murder him.
Mr. Johnson prosecuted and Mr. Cr: tay defended the
prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner was a labourer living at
Slindea, and, according to the evidence, he had enter-
tained a strong animosity against a person named,
Wellsher, who kept a beer-shop and who also filled the
office of,overseer, on account of some proceedings he had
taken to remove the prisoner's mother from a cottage
which she had occupied, and he had repeatedly
threatened to do some mischief to him. On the 15th of
May he went to the house of this person, and conducted
himself in such a violent manner that the prose-
cutor, who is the constable of the parish, was sent for to
take him into custody. The prisoner before this had
been brandishing a knife about, and threatening to stab
any one who interfered with him, and the moment the
prosecutor went to him and off, red to take him into cus-
tody, he, without
saying a word, thrust the knife into
his stomach and inflicted a most severe and dangerous
wound. A surgeon named Clark, who was called iu
1 upon the occasions described the injury, and also stated
that it was a very rare occurrence for any one to recover
from such a wound, and he attributed that result in the
present instance to the extraordinary good constitution
of the prosecutor.
c,un
with intent to do grtevou
d the prisoner " Guilty of wounding
The jury f
• s bodily harm."
His LORDSIIIp, in passing
sentence,
told the prisoner
that he might con'sid'er himself very fortunate that he
was not standing at the bar to answer
not see how a. I
died he did not
of mur-
der, and if the prosecutor had .
found guilty of that
he could have escaped from being li .
crime. The use of a knife was at a times cowardly
and nn-English, and in all cases of this description
ish,
where a conviction took place the safety of the public
example
required that a severe should be made of the.
offender. Ho then sentenced the prisoner to be trans-
ported for tenyears.
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IT—Cambridge, July 23.
(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
William Shaw, aged 24, was indicted for feloniously
CRNOWORIcOoLtifuniF7-HI_RC
stabbing Robert Wilson on tlfe 27th of June last.
'Mr. .N aylor prosecuted, and Mr. Metcalfe defended the
prisoner.
The prosecutor is a travelling peekman, and it ap-
peared, that having some months back sold a gown-
piece for 6s. to the wife of the prisoner, he, when gong
his rounds in June last, called on him for that debt, and
also 10s. 4d. which he owed to his brother-in-law. The
prisoner was then engaged in the act of eating some
bread and cheEse, and bad an open knife in his hand.

The demand for both debts somewhst nettled hiio, for
he indignantly disputed 'the debt, and threatened to turn
the proecntor out of his house if he did .--not- go. To
this Mr. Wilson said, " That is: a queer way of doing
business. If you do not pay I will county court you;
and if you do not pay then I will clip you into gaol.".
This threat So excited the prisoner, who wad of exceed-
ingly small stature, that he seized the poker, and com-
menced an attsck on his, creditor. who in a trice twisted
the poker out of his hand, and flinging it into the cor-
nbr of the room, again demanded his. money. Just at
that moment the prisoner's wife came to his rescue; and
picking up the poker replaced it in his hand. The
prosecutor then, who was a. stout Northumbrian, think-
ing things were getting- rathex Sr,rious, closed with hiN
pugnacious creditor, and lifting him, poker and all, off
the floor, placed him on a bench, when, :despite his ut-
moat:re.istanee and the outcries of his indignant spouse,
he proceeded to wrest the poker from'his grasp. When
thus engsmid, he received a deep and dangerous 'wound
in the body from the knife of the prisoner, who, when
he was disarmed, exulted in the wound, and added, with
an oath, his wish that ho had had the prosecutor's
"heart's blood."

On the part of the prisoner it was contended that he
bad a right to turn the .prosecutor out of his house by
force if ho would not leave quietly, aud, though the
use of the poker was not to be justified, yet it was to be
considered that the prisoner was fto match for his oppo-
nent, who would appear to have greatly aggravated him
by his threat of .legal proceedings. As to the wound
which was the subject of this trial, that evidently ap-
peared to have been inflicted during the struggle on the
bench, which'arose from the attempt of the prisoner to
eject the prosecutor, and there was nothing to show that
It did not arise from accident.

Mr. Justice PATTESON said, that though there was no
doubt that the prosecutor was not justified in remaining
in the house, even though he came to demand a just
debt, yet it was equally dear that the prisoner was not
justified in resorting to so dangerous a weapon as a
poker, in order to compel his creditor to quit. Still less
would he be justified in using -a knife, even though ho
happsned to hare it open in his hand, during the scuffle
for the possession of the poker. Under all the circum-
stances of the case, it would to for the jury to say whe-
ther the wound was the result of accident or design. If
of design, it could hardly be but that the knife must have
been used with the felonious intent charged in the indict-
ment, and the jury ought to find the prisoner guilty of
the whole charge. It had been urged to the jury that
they might find the prisoner guilty of a common assault;
but it was not because the statute allowed that course
that it should be always adopted by a jury, who ought
to give such a verdict only as was reasonably warranted
by the facts proved before them.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of the folony; and,
after a kind and warm admonition on the part of the
Learned Judge, he was sentenced to nine months' im-
prisonment, with hard labour.

POLICE !INTELLIGENCE.
BoW-STREET.

Yesterday a middle-aged man of respectable appear-
ance, named Edwin Bates, described as an artist, was
brought before Mr. Jardine, on a warrant which was
granted on the 18th inst., upon the information of the
Hon. Colonel Charles Grey,lEquerry, to the Queen,!and
others, charged with sending divers letters through him,
threatening his Royal Highness Prince Albert, that if he
declined to contribute something to alleviate his distress,
ho would do him some injury.
Colonel Grey stated that from the month of January
until the 4.h ins% he received four letters from the pri-
soner, directed to .his Royal Highness, which, in his
belief, conveyed threats that he would do Mm some bodily
harm.

Mr. JARDINE asked the prisoner if he had seen the
letters produced, and having; received an answer in the
negative, they were handed to him.
The prisoner then said, I am aware that I have writ-
ten strange things at times; but I entertalu no ill-feeling
towards his Royal Highness, who in no way has acted
nnkindly towards me. Perhaps Colonel Grey is not
aware that in the month of February a gentleman in-
duced me to think that Prince Albert was willing to con-
tribute to a fund for my relief, to which the Earl of Zet-
land, the Earl of. Carlisle, and other noblemen, have al-
ready subscribed; upon which I addressed a letter to the
Hon. Colonel Phipps, requesting he would recommend
my case to her Majesty, and received an answer
that it was not usual for the Queen to'allow her name to
be placed at the head of a list of subscribers for such a
purpose. I hope, therefore, you will make some allow-
ance for my state of mind, owing to the disappointment I
have met with, and that you will not be induced to con-
clude I ever intended to convey any throat to the Prince,
or that I entertained any vindictive feeling towards any
member of the Royal Family, well knowing that they had
no disposition to injure me:
Mr. JARDINE—You have examined each of the let-
' ter', ere you willing. to admit that they are in your hand-
.wriiing? Prisoner—l do not deny that they are mine;
at the same time I must deny that they contain, or that
I intended, any threats. I was persuaded that if the
`Prince would allow his name to appear at the head of the
list, other persons would readily contribute, and my ob-
ject in writing the letters before you was, that he would
grant-me such a favour. I have •for a considerable time
past met with great kindness from Mr. Masterman, the
banker, and other benevolent persons, and if you are in-
duced by the present proceedings to make a public
example of me, you will by that means do away with the
whole of the subscriptions that have been entered into
for me. ',was also told by Mr. Hope that if he saw Lord
Monteagle's name in the list he would subscribe, and I
em firmly convinced that if the signature of his Royal
Highness appeared it would in a great measure influence
others.

Mr. JAIWINE inquired if it was to be understood
that a prosecution would be instituted id the case, or
was the object of having the prisoner apprehended simply
to have him held to bail?

Mr. Raven, chief clerk in the office of Mr. Maule,
solicitor to the Treasury, replied that it was necessary
to compel the prisoner for the future to keep the
peace; and, after referring to certain passages in each
of the letters, said that such language could not be to-
lerated with impunity as "my life depends on Prince
Albert," and " it is a question of life or death with me,"
&e.; and as such expressions were very likely to cause
alarm in the mind of any one to whom they wore ad-
dressed, the Government considered it necessary to in-
terfere, and prevent a repetition of such conduct, not
only for the security of his Royal Highness, but of the
public, and that thb prisoner should be called upon to
enter into such sureties as the Court should them fit to
require.
_ _

The prisoner entreated the Court not to adopt such
harsh measures against him; and if there were any
doubts as to his mental debility, that Dr. Munro and
Dr. Sutherland, both' of whom had prescribed for hire,
should be examined upon the subject of his delusions,
which were caused by unfortunate railway speculations.
He also begged to say, that in 1837 he was tried at the
Central Criminal Court, and there it was proved by
competent witnesses that he was not in a Bound state of
mind.

Mr. JARDINE said he wad not competent to enter into
th© merits of the circumstances alluded to, his duty being
to put a construction upon the bearing of the letters be-
fore him, and he was bound to take care that the person
who was capable of writing such threats should be pre-
vented fromAoing any harm; in addition to which an
avowal to that effect hiving been made, the prisoner
could not consider it a hardship on being required to
find sureties, himself in the sum of 2001., aurit two others
in 1501. each, to be of good behaviour and keep the peace
towards all her Majesty's subjects, but particularly to
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, for twelve calendar
months.

The prisoner was removed from the bar, and a com-
munication was made to the Governor of Tothill-fields
prison that he should draw the attention of the medical
attendants of that establishment to the state of his mind.
WESTMINSTER.

VIOLENT ASSAULT UPON A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
—Mr. John Patrick Somers, M.P. for Sligo, attended at
this court to prefer a charge against Charles Bentley,
son cf the keeper-of the Westminster Schulars' Cricket
ground, Vincent.square, who had been summoned for
violently assaulting him.
Upon the case being called on, Mr. BRODERIP in-
quired what the defendant's calling was? Deendarit
replied-7 Cricketer and butcher.
Mr. BRODERIP observed that before going into this
case he felt it his duty, considering the rack and station
of the parties, to say this was a case that ought to go
to the sessions, for if upon a full hearing of the evidence
he ciinie to the conclusion that the assault alleged had
been committed, the utmost penalty he could impose
would be a fine of 5/.; and any pers,)n so 'charged, it the
matter were disposed of summarily, might consider they
had a right to amuse themselves jsy committing aisaults,
of this description by putting their hands in -their
apenalty
h hade
matter ment
to
o.ndte h.e.
He
pockets_ and paying that sum. He had no objection to
dispose of the matter summarily, but that he felt that in
these cases it became a mockery, as a persar p6ss.c,ssiriv,
the moans
might commit such offences with a degree of impunity.
He r efo r e ofpaying g
determined theup
upon
sending
sessions.

Mr. Somers thanked the niigistrate for his considera-
tion and expressed his willingness to leave the case en.
tirely in his hands. He had no vindictive feeling
against the defendant; but he felt that 'a most atrocious,
cowardly, and assassin-like assault had been committed
upon' him. He had been brought up in this country,
having been many years in the public ,school at Har-
roW; had seen may skirmishes in the course of his time,
but never so dastardly an assault as this, the atrocity of
which induced bim upon public grounds to come
forward.

Mr. Somers then proceeded to give his evidence upon
oath, and said—On Tuesday evening at six o'clock I
went to the House of Parliament, but it happened to be
the day of the Duke of Cambridge's interment, and as
there was no evening sitting I walked homewards with
a friend, and when I got within sight of my own rest-
denco, my favourite dog, which had been let out by my
people, advanced towards me and strayed into the in-
closure of Vincent-square, the gate of which
was wide open. I followed him in ft,r the
purpose of getting him out, and found him rolling
himself in the grass within four or five yards of
the gate, and within 150 or 200 yards of any of the
cricketers, whd were playing in the centre of the ground.

There were two men sitting oteehairs near the gat:,
I smoking pipes, tale of whom I believe to. be the de-
fend.mt. leld a cap ca, but PO coat. He accosted
me in a very insolent mactecr, a7.d said I had no bLil
nets thorn with my dog. I replied the dog was doing
no harm merely relling on the grass, when he said,
" Take your dog away, or I will bundle you both out of
the place." I replied, "My good fellow, do not be
angry; keep your temper; there is no harm done. I
came here for the purpose of taking him ou:," upcu
which he jumped up out of his chair and suddenly ad-
vanced towards me in a very menacing attitude, which
led me to expect he was going to strike me, and al-
though I was very uevrell, and had been so for some
days before, which I can distinctly prove, and had my
great coat en my arm, I was prepared to resist the
assault, and when he came within reach of me I
blow at him, which he avoided by keeping out of dis-
tance. My frind then interposed and said, " This gen-
tleman efferecl you no insult. What right have you to
attack him?" upon which he became very violent and
struggled very much to get at me.
Mr. BRODERIP Was anybody holding him ?
Mr. Somers—My .friend was holding him; at which
time the dog, which is a young one, being only eighteen
months or two years old, kept jumping up, not only at
my friend and the defendant, but at myself, and tore the
skirt completely off.my coat, after which we got out of
the enclosure, and the gate was locked. Some passers-
by, attracted by what had occurred, accosted me on the
outside of the iron railing, and I was explaining to them
what bad occurred, holding one of thn bars cf the iron
railing at the time, when this man advanced quite un-
expectedly, my face being partially turned towards the
.railing, and opened at me-through the rails, striking me
a violent blow on the eye and nose with such force as to
completely whip me off my legs, so completely unpre-
pared was I for it, and my fall was broken by a person
behind catching me.
Mr. BRODERIP—What was the effect of the blow—did
it close your eye? Mr. Somers—lt fortunately was a little
below. I bled profusely from the nose, but the mark
under My eye was so bad that 'I could not appear in
ptiblic for several days. I could not in consequence ap-
pear in my place in the House of Commons at a time
when particularly anxious to do so. I must also
observe that a few moments before he made this attack
upon me and inflicted the blow, he made use of
a most disgusting epithet. In conclusion, the
Hon. Member again complained of the atrocious, assas-
sin-like, and cowardly assault committed upon him at a
moment he was unprepared, the defendant striking him
through the railings when he had no opportunity of de-
fending himself, or of retaliating, and expressed himself
somewhat in favour of the principle that if men came in
collision they should tight it out.
John Abbot, pianoforte-maker, said that he was pass-
inr, on the evening in que•stion, and saw the defendant
in his shirt-sleeves pushing a gentleman, who was expos-
tulating with him against using violence, at the same
time a dog was frisking about and jumped up at de-
fendant, who threw a stone at it. Defendant's mother
and sister then came from the lodge, and pushed the
gentleman out and closed the gate. Complainant and
his friend • were outside, and were explaining to the
scholars how the matter had occurred, when at that
moment defendant rushed through the scholars, and
struck the complainant, whose face was close to the
railing.

Mr. BRODERIP —At the moment before be struck, as
described, did the complainant use any threatening ges-
ture towards him? Witness—He did not; he wes
spank-
ing to the scholars. If he had defendant could not hare
seen it, as he had fallen back and was behiud the scholars
zt the time.

Mr. I3ttonznie—What was the effect of the blow?
Witness—lle bled profusely, at it appeared to me, from
the nose and mouth; and I should sly his eye weculd be
black the next day from the effect of the blow.

Delendant—TlCnt %yes the Lo inning as far as you
saw ? Witness—As far as I saw.

Defendant—Did you hear me make use of any dis-
gustieg language ? Witness.—l

James LOltaci, a labouring man, who was passing, also
proved having seen defendant commit the assault in the
manner described.

In reply to the Magistrate's inquiry, witness said that
the gentif.man's face bled a great deal, and ho made sure
at the time that he was much injured.
Mr. Somers—Bc fore he struck the blow did he make
use of any olyiervation ? Witness—fie said he would
punch his head.
Mr. Somers—Any more ? Witness I don't know.
Cross examined by deten.lant—l did not see the com-
mencement of it.

Mr. Thomas Drennon, of Duke-street, Adelphi, gen •
tleman, who was in company with Mr. Somers on the
evening in question, also confirmed his statement
throughout. He interposed, and held the defendant, bs
has been described, to prevent anything unpleasant or-
curing, and endeavours i to persuade defendant before
the blow was struck, to be quiet. lie banded defendant
over, after having held him, to prevent any violence, to
soma females at the lodge, and thi.n went outside. Wit-
ness described defendant's rushing forward and striking
the blow like a flash of lightning—it was so quick; and
declared he never saw a more cowardly blow struck in
his 113. The effect of the blow was so severe that, had
it not been for hemorrhage, he thought that Mr::SoMers
would not have been able to attend to Parliamentary
duties for some time. Witness said that the scholars
were so excited that he wa afraid that if, the gate were
opened, they (he and Mr. Somers) would have been
attacked by them with their cricket-bats.
Mr. BR' DERIP having, in the words of the statute for
indictable offences, inquired whether defendant wished
to say anything, at the same time informing him, as
customary, that whatever he said would be taken down
and might be, used in evidence against him, observed
that he was not going to try this case, anal the accused
might therefore make his defence, or reserve it, as he
thought proper.
Defendant—May I call some witnesses?
Mr. 13RODERIP—Not here. If I were going to try
the case you might call as many as you chose to bring,
and it would be my duty to hear them. You are going
**ore a jury, where an ample opportunity will be
afforded you of producing evidence in your behalf, but if
you have any thing that you wish to say I am ready to
bear you.

Dd-fendant—Then I would rather decline saying any-
thifig at present.

Mr. BRODERIP—It is my duty to call upon you for
!sureties, youn.elf in GO/. and two in 301. each, for your
appearance to answer for this violent and cowardly as-
sault alleged ag4irm•you.
Mr. Somers and witnesses having been bound over to
prosecute, retired.

The defendant having put in the required bail, villa
liberated.

THE SHRIEVALTY OF THE CITY

OF LONDON.

Yesterday, at the Court cf Common-hall, at the con-
clusion of the proceedings for the day at throe o'clock,
the numbers for sheriff were declared as being—for Mr.
liodgkinson 314, for Mr. Butler 90. Mr. Secondary
James, with Mr. Millard, the tinder-sheriff, were upon
the hustings during the whole of the afternoon.
The proceedings with reference to the election having
closed, ,
Mr. Low said, that it would be in the recollection of
many of the,peraons present that he had, on the day
named for the opening of the proceedings, nominated
Mr. Charles Salisbury, Butler as a fit and proper person
to fill_the office of sheriff in conjunction with-Alderman
Carden. That morning, however, a letter had appeared'
in the Times purporting to have been signed by Mr. But-'
ler, which stated that he (Mr. Butler) had declined to
serve, on the ground that he had been proposed without
giving his sanction t 3 fill the office, and that, in conclu-
sion, ho begged any parties who might to friendly to him
to vote against him. The facts of the case were simply
theset—llp (Mr. Low) had entered the hall for the pur-
pose of attending to his general duties, when a letter was
„put into his hands signed by the clerk of the Hosiers' '
Company, which was to the effect that he (the clerk) had
DO reason to doubt that Mr. Better, of Upper Clapton,
would serve during the ensuing mayoralty if he was ap-
proved of. The letter was address2cl to Alderman Mus-
grow, and given to him (Mr. Low) on his entrance into
Ote hall. In consequence of thin, he (Mr. Low), having
same personal knowledge of. Mr. Butler, and knowing
him to be a respectable gentleman and a magistrate fez
the county of Middlesex, did not hesitate to propose that
gentleman for sheriff; but it appeared by Mr. Butler's
letter that he opposed any such proceeding. All he
(Mr. Low) would say was that he had done his duty;
and that he considered no blame in the matter was im-
putable to hitu.—(gar, bear, and cheers.) If tlivre
was any blame it rested upon the shoulders of other
Deputy ILinnrsorr said,
pu,rties.—(Hear, hear.)
that it had been with much
pleasure that he had proposed the name of his neigh-
bour, Mr. Hodgkinsou, to fill the office of sheriff:, He
must say, however, that he felt hurt at what bad taken
place, as Mr. Aldcrman Carden had failed in the pro=
mise ho bad deiberately made to support Mr. Hodg-
lzinson. He (Deputy Harrison) hoped, however, that
the Livery would see the advantage they had gained,
and that they would support the interests of Mr. Hodg-
kinson.
The proceedings then terminated.

EVELYN'S " TRUE RELIGION;"—In its notice of this
important work, now first published from the original ma-
nuscript, the John Bull observes —" Scarcely could a moment
have been chosen More seasonable than the present for-the
publication 'of this posthumous work of the Christian Philo-
sopher of Wotton, whose personal character, coupled with
his erudition and depth of thought, gives more than ordi-
nary weight to anything written by him 'upon the
portant subject of religion. To hear, in the midst of the din
and debwe of modern controversy, a voice from the grave
,pronouncing upon the-questions so much agitated in the pre-
sent day,irlgi4e a surprise to all, and to many, we doubt
not, a solute of much -comfort.; The composition of the
present -work originated hi the desire felt, ty the learned and
pious author, to satisfy his own mind concerning the founda-
tions. of his faith, at. a period which must have proved one cf
intense trial and distress to every tamest mind. Evelyn
took in hand to review the whole subject 'of religion, tracing
'it to its fountain-head, and scrutinizing at every step the
evidence on which it rests. The views and principles advo-
cated in these volumes are of a strict Church character; and
the work is one likely to contribute in no small degree, espe-
cially at the present day, to the healing of existing differ-
ences, anti to the vindication of the principles of our Church,
alike against Romish superstition and latitudinarian
un-
belief... . . .