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they would take measures to prevent such wrongs
from being renewed. Let it be remembered that all
these outrages, except the last, had been perpetrated
under the French Protectorate ; therefore it was no
security to the Otaheitans or the English to restore
that Protectorate ; and what guarantee could M.
Guizot give against the renewal of these outrages?
He should protest then against the introduction of
French brandy, against French priests, against
French cannon, and against the debauchery of
French soldiers.—(Loud cheers.) True, Dupetit
Thouars would no longer insult Papeetee, but he
wished he could hear that M. Marenhout, the
origin of all these troubles, had also been expelled.
There was a gentleman on the platform who could
tell them if that desirable fact had transpired.
Mr. PRITCHARD-It has not transpired.
The Hon. and Rev. B. NOEL considered it was an
insult to Otaheite and to England to continue such a
man as Marenhout, who had been dismissed from the
office of American Consul for proved misconduct, in
the office of French Consul. There was one barrier
against this flood of iniquity—the British missionaries.
(Cheers.) They were the men whose independence
of thought, vigour of character, and connection with
this great Government, rendered them superior to
coward fear, and, therefore, they were charged with
all sorts of crimes, and never would they be free
from those charges until the French Protectorate
should cease.—(Cheers.) It was the duty of this
country to protect them against aspersions as well as
against violence ; but could the French Government
guarantee them against these charges ? They might
send Mr. Pritchard back, as he ought to be sent
back, as Consul to Otaheite.—(Loud cheers.) He
must go back with his character unstained,
with his colours flying; but when he did go
back, and the French Commander knew that he
could not again oppress him, yet who was to protect
him against any insults which a bullying French
commander might think it nationality to offer ?, -
(Cheers.) They must do what had been that day
suggested•--urge the abolition of the French Pro
tectorate.—(Cheers.) They should demand proper
guarantees, and if those could not be given, they
should demand that France alone should not be the
Protector of the island.—(Cheers.) If the French
were placed in difficulties in consequence, they should
have well considered before they accepted the Pro-
tectorate.—(Cheers.) They should consider they
ought to concede not to the fear of England, but to
the sense of right. Our own Government had brought
itself into these difficulties by not watching the Protec •
torate narrowly at first. He rejoiced that although these
difficulties had occurred, they were calculated to fix
an eternal hatred on the Roman Catholic religion.—
(Cheers.) Catholicity and Protestantism were now
face to face in Otaheite—Catholicity, supported by
French cannon, French brandy, and the debauchery
of French sailors ; Protestantism supported by the
Bible, by the civilization and happiness of the
Otaheitans.—(Cheers.) Give the Catholics every
liberty they might ask, only let them not gag the
defenders of the truth, and: he had no fear for the
resul t.—(Cheers.)
The resolution was then put and carried by accla-
mation.

jetted to tyranny and opression the most barbarous
and severe : the former has been dethroned, and is
now a fugitive on board a British vessel ; the latter
have been driven from their habitations, and com-
pelled to seek shelter upon the mountains, and in
dens and caves of the island, from the cruelty of their
persecutors ! The French, under the pretext of be-
coming the " protectors" of Otaheite, are, in reality,
the plunderers and destroyers of the inhabitants.
STANDARD.—The patriotic exertions of Lord
Minto, Lord Palmerston, and Lord John Russell, in
fanning into flame anew the embers of agitation in
France on the subject of Morocco and Otaheite, have
not been wholly unrewarded. But we are surprised,
considering the transparency of their motives, for
there is a common sympathy in their object,
that such journals as the Debats should permit
themselves to be irritated by their " inter-
pellations." Whenever a crisis has arisen which
has demanded an abstinence from irritating
topics, some self-elected Whig champion of the honour
of his country has invariably risen injhis place in Par-
liament to propound inquiries which, whether answered
or not, would, he well knew, add fuel to the fire.
The motives for such appeals are, however, not
always unmixed. In each of the instances above
referred to, indeed, the desire for self-exaltation
may probably have exceeded the disposition to be
mischievous. Lord Minto, whose Government em-
broiled us in three-fourths of the world, is surprise I
that the Admiralty do not keep afloat as large a naval
armament as he found indispensable for the pub-
lic service during his career of official ne-
potism. Lord Palmerston, whose diplomatic cox-
combry had well nigh involved us in a war
in the only quarter of the globe in which we
had not already some quarrel upon our hands, is
unable to understand the ill-feeling which has grown
up against us in a country whose amour propre he
had wounded, and whose confidence he had chilled.
Lord John Russell, on the other hand, rises as
an affectionate monitor of the Government, to offer
a host of suggestions which he never attempted
to put in practice himself; and the chief ob-
ject of which, like his " lament over the scanty
means and severe toil of the labouring popula-
tion," and his allusion to the " gross outrage com-
mitted on a British subject at Otaheite," has been to
create discontent and strife. Such, we repeat, how-
ever earnest their disclaimer of factious motives,
has been the aim and object of this patriotic
trio, and the arrow has not always fallen short of
the mark. Looking at the constitution of the
French press, and the fact that the same
farce is repeated by the opponents of the French
Government with no mean success on the other side
-of the water, it is surprising that the attempts of either
party should have the slightest influence beyond their
own particular cliques. So long, however, as their
speeches produce results so completely in accordance
with their intentions, the nuisance is little likely to be
abated. It is worth our while to remember that
those people who inveigh with so much bitterness
against the imputed forbearance of Lord Aberdeen
were part and parcel of a Ministry, whose aggressions
on other powers were invariably followed by the
meanest and most abject concessions.. In regard to
France it cannot be denied that the feeling which the
Governments of both countries find it so difficult to
allay, is the exclusive result of the foreign policy of
Lord Palmerston ; that policy for which he assumed
to himself in his late manifesto so extensive a credit.

The Rev. J. BURNET, who was received with loud
cheering, came forward to propose the last resolution,
which was to the effect that, as the friends of Christian
missions in Otaheite, this meeting records its
deliberate opinion that the cause of Christian missions
would be endangered, so long as the French Protec-
torate continued at Otaheite, and that there was no
safety for Protestant missionaries, nor safety for the
lives and liberties of the Otaheitans, but by the with-
drawal of French protection ; that a memorial be
presented to the Queen founded on these resolutions ;
and that the friends of evangelical Protestant Chris-
tianity throughout the world be invited to express their
sympathy with the missionaries and the Otaheitans.
The whole secret of the exertions of France to get
possession of Otaheite was to carry still further the
Roman Catholic religion.—(Hear, hear.) It could
not be on account of the number of their ships there
in the course of a year, because they were only
twenty, while the number of English ships was eighty,
and the American 110. It had been admitted in the
French Chamber that Otaheite would cost that
country 100,0001. a-year ; and he was sure the
French Government never would be induced to ex-
pend so large a sum for so small a territory, except it
was for the sake of extending the Church of Rome.—
(Cheers.) He trusted the meeting would agree to
the resolution with acclamation.

SIR WiLuAra FOLLETT.—Sir William Follett, the
Attorney-General, left England a day or two since, to
try what effect the more genial climate of southern Eu-
rope, as well as the total abstinence from all professional
and political duties, may have upon his shattered con-
stitution. It is a melancholy thing to contemplate this
ruined man, when we remember him in the opening dawn
of leis well-known fame some ten or twelve years since,
when he entered the House of Commons, the representa-
tive of his:native city of Exeter, and still more melan-
choly to find, that now, when the very highest honours
of his ambitious profession, with its futurity of influence,
fame, and wealth, are opening up to him, he has in the
seeking nearly destroyed that without which (namely,
health) all these great objects of honourdble pursuit
become valueless. But the lesson is a moral one.—
Cheltenham Examiner.

BRIDPORT.—CHURCH•RATES.-011 Monday last,
ten of the leading Quakers and Dissenters were sum-
moned to appear before the borough magistrates, to
answer the complaint of the churchwardens for their re-
fusal to pay the church-rates demanded of them. On
their continued refusal to pay, distress warrants were
ordered for their recovery.
THE -KEW COMET.—The comet discovered by M.
Mauvais may now be seen with the naked- eye in the
direction of the east. Its tail appears to be about one
foot long, and its light is rather dim. Round the comet
is a circle similar to that which surrounds the moon when
the weather is about to change.— Courrier Francais.
THE CHANNEL FISHERIES.—The Commissioners of
the Customs have issued directions to the collectors and
controllers of the several ports of the kingdom to prepare
and transmit, with the least possible delay, an account
of the costs which have been incurred at their respective
ports, in proceedings against French subjects for in-
fringements of the fishery regulations, under the Act of
the 6th and 7th Vie., cap. 79. _

Mr. Pritchard was loudly called for, when
Mr. FREEMAN, the Secretary of the Society, stated
that Mr. Pritchard felt the honour of being called
upon, and would willingly have addressed the
meeting in obedienee to their wish, but as a
servant of the Crown, in the, hands of the
Earl of Aberdeen, he was anxious not to give offence,
or to act in any way that might be construed into an
offence, and, perhaps, occasion excitement, which
might be referred to in other quarters, and become
the means of embarrassing other countries.—(Great
cheering.)
Mr. ELLis then proceeded to second the resolution,
which was declared to be carried unanimously.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting dispersed.

From 1,500 to 2,000 persons, receiving in the ag-
gregate about 200,0001 per annum, are in the employ o;
the London and Birmingham Railway Company.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)

DELIBERATE ASSASSINATION OF
A GAMEKEEPER'S SON.
(Abridged from the Staffordshire Mercury.)
It is our painful task to record the perpetration of
one of the most atrocious and cold-blooded murders
chronicled in the annals of crime. The scene of the
catastrophe is a sequestered spot, called Halinerend,
about two miles from Audley, on the estate of Sir
Thomas Fletcher F. Boughey, in this county, and
only about a mile and a half or two miles from the
place where Beech, the policeman, met his fate, while
attending a gamekeeper last year. It is also remark-
able that the murder was committed on the night of
the anniversary of Beech's funeral, being just twelve
months since the interment of that unfortunate officer.
The name of the deceased is William Cooper, a
labourer, and an unmarried man, about twenty-three
years of age, son of Thomas Cooper, gamekeeper to
Sir Thomas Boughey. Up to the time of his murder
he was still living with his father. The house at
which he resided is situated at the extremity of an
eminence which cammands a view of the sur-
rounding country and of the woods below, and,
as it is far 'removed from any public thorough-
fare, it is a very secluded spot. Another
house adjoins it, which is occupied by Thomas
Shooker, a labourer on the estate. The deceased was
in the habit of going out occasionally in the night with
his father, to assist him in watching the game—a
circumstance well known to the gangs of poachers which
infest the neighbourhood, for he had sometimes
been engaged in conflict with them, and assisted in
their capture. The last occasion on which he had
been out was on the night of Saturday, July 27,
when nothing unusual occurred. On Sunday even-
ing last the deceased left home between five and six
o'clock, stating that he was going to attend Audley
Chapel, where sermons on behalf of the Sabbath
school were that day delivered. On his way he
called on Daniel Colclough, a collier, who resided
about a quarter of a mile nearer Audley, with whom
he walked in company to the chapel, where they
arrived a little after the opening of the service, and
remained together until it was concluded, which was
about eight o'clock. On leaving the chapel they
went to the Boughey's Arms Inn, where they
met with William and Samuel Cooper, two of
Colclough's relatives, with whom deceased and
Colclough adjourned to the King's Head beer-
house, where they drank a pint of ale each, over
which they sat in conversation until about eleven
o'clock. Among the company present no persons of
known suspicious character were noticed. At eleven
o'clock the deceased and Colclough, and Samuel and
William Cooper, left the house, and George Dean, a
resident at Scot Hay, left at the same time. The two
Coopers, after a parting salutation, turned immedi-
ately in the direction of their own homes, and de-
ceased and Colclough, in company, took thedirection
of theirs. They were accompanied as far as Haliner-
end Chapel by Dean, who there parted with them to
go to Scot Hay. Colclough and the deceased con-
tinued in company without seeing any one, except a
known friend, until they arrived at Colclough's house,
at which time the clock announced the hour of mid-
night. Deceased, as he stood before the door, took a
draught of water, and after bidding his friend good
night, pursued his way home, which was about a
quarter of a mile across the fields. On his arrival at
home about a quarter-past twelve o'clock, the family
and neighbours were gone to bed, but his father was
awake. The back door, which is the usual and
readiest entrance, was left unlocked. 'When the de-
ceased had approached the door, and had put his
right hand upon the latch to open it, his body would
very naturally be turned half round towards the left
hand; at that precise moment, some vile miscreant,
who would appear to have been lurking behind a low
wall, about seven yards to the left of the deceased, or
else at the corner of the house, at the same distance,
fired a gun, and the unfortunate man received the
contents in his breast. The report of the gun, as
well as a dreadful shriek of the victim, was heard by
his father, and also by the neighbours, Sho'oker and
his wife, who all hastened to the spot. The father
found the door partly open, and his son lying partly
within and partly without the house, having his
head on the threshold and his body in the yard. It
was broad moonlight. The father lifted up the head
of his dying son, and asked what was the matter ?
Raising his eyes expressively to his father, indicating
that he was sensible of the question, the poor fellow
made an effort to reply, but " there was no voice,
nor none to answer," the power of speech was gone
for ever. One affectionate farewell look of recog-
nition concluded the tragical interview. 'With the
assistance of Shooker he was placed on the floor in-
si le the house, and his clothes were removed from his
breast, which was covered with wounds, which bled
slightly. Life was fast ebbing out, and in ten

The yarn market-continues in a very healthy- state,
and some descriptions, which are relatively scarce,
command rather higher prices. In goods there has not
been quite so much doing as during the two or three
previous weeks, and 40-inch shirtings have been, in
some cases, sold at a small reduction on previous
rates ; but other descriptions of cloth, though not in
such extensive demand as before, are perfectly firm
in price.
Roc HDALE FLANNEL MARKET, AUG. 12.—T0-day
has been what is called the Little Monday ; yet there
has been a brisk demand for goods, especially for those
of a middling quality. The manufacturers would
have no difficulty in selling at former prices but
they are now asking rather more to meet the advance
in price of the raw material. There is no change to
report in the wool market, either as to the demand or
price.

SPIRIT of. the "PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TIIE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—A more moderate tone is perceptible
throughout the discuSsions of the Otaheitian question
by the French journalists. Their voice is no longer
raised, in indignant tones, against what they have
been wont to designate the insolence of England;
nor do they demand an appeal to the arbitrement of
war, as the only means of vindicating the imaginary
wrongs of the great nation. This is so far satisfac-
tory. It shows that the war- notes which these party-
organs have recently sounded are not prompted
by, nor in unison with, the sentiments of the
French Ministry. The firm, but reasonable and
moderate demands of reparation which, there is reason
to believe, have beerf made by the British Cabinet
upon that of the French, have been entertained with
a desire to afford satisfaction. The disputes which
at one period seemed ripening into an appeal to the
sword, will, there is now reason to hope, be settled
by the more rational functions of the pen. The public
press of this country—speaking, as it does, the prevail-
ing opinions of the nation, and endeavouring, as is its
wish no less than is its interest, to promote the pros-
perity of the community—will respond to this im-
proved state of feeling in France. If the French Mi-
nisters repudiate the acts of their subordinate officers ;
remove from the scene of their unauthorised and it •
legal proceedings the perpetrators of the outrages
upon Queen Pomare and her subjects, and especially
upon the British Consul at Otaheite; if those subordi-
nate authorities be proceeded against as violaters of
the laws of nations, and offenders against the laws of
the country whose commission they have perverted to
purposes foreign to the objects for which it was con-
ferred ; if the French Government thus caution and
warn other of its officers who may be influenced by a
kindred spirit of hostility to the interest of both
countries—it will furnish a practical proof of its
sincerity in disavowing the acts of the French
authorities in the Pacific. The English Government
—faithful to its declared desire to preserve and
strengthen peaceful relations between England and
France—will, we are certain, accept these explana-
tions and reparation of the wrong ; and a mutual good
understanding between the two Cabinets will be restored.
But there must be no delay in the negotiations tend-
ing to bring about an amicable adjustment of existing
differences. While protocols are being framed; while
time is spent in obtaining evidence as to disputed facts,
incidental to, but not constituting the gravamen of the
cause of quarrel; the danger of widening the dispute is
daily becoming greater. The very last arrival from Ota •
heite brought intelligence of proceedings calculated to
increase the embarrassments of the two Governments in
endeavouring to avert war. The proclamations issued
by
M. D'Aubigny ; the acts of that officer, avowed in his
communications with his Government—these are suf-
ficient proofs of those acts, of which the British Go-
vernment complains, and demands apology and re-
dress. Unchecked by prohibitions from the French
Ministers, the French authorities in Otaheite will
proceed onward in their course of outrage and violence.
Fear of further wrongs may extort from the defence-
less Queen and her timid and oppressed people, con-
cessions and submissions on which new levies may be
made, new claims set up, and thus matter for new
disputes between the two countries be produced.
We have no disposition to pry into the secrets of
Cabinets, much less to embarrass their efforts to
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that the people of this country, anxious though
they be for the maintenance of peace, will be sorely
disappointed and dissatisfied if Otaheite continue
under a French "Protectorate." From that self-
imposed " Protectorate " the dispute between
the two countries was engendered. Under, it the
unoffending Queen and her people have been sub-

minutes from the time the gun was fired, the unfoctu-
nate man ceased to exist. The father, however, sent
for Mr. Warburton, surgeon, who arrivel in v.bout
three hours after. Some poachers are in custody on
suspicion of being concerned in the murder.

soners in his Court. The consequence is that the whole
of the business is disposed of to-day ; though, to effect
this, the Courts sat to a late hour.
In the course of a trial of tso men, before Mr. Justice
Patteson, for stealing so:ne potatoes, a sack, and a pot, a
girl, 14 years of age, was tendered as a witness in behalf
of the prisoners. She was objected to on the part of the
prosecution, as noeunderstanding the nature of an oath.
On this the Learned Judge proceeded to question her.
She stated in answer to these queries, that she lived at
Chenstock, which is a parish between this place and
Bristol. She had never been to school. Had not learned
to read or write. Had never been in chapel or church,
or received the least religious education beyond this,
that she had sometimes said her prayers to her mother.
But she did not know where those went who told lies and
perjured themsslves. knew nothing about heaven or
I hell, and had never heard there was a God.
Of course her evidence was rejected.
The Learned JUDGE, in summing up the case to the
jury, said it was truly awful to find that, in a country
like this, and in a part of it where there were, compara-
tively speaking, but few inhabitants, a girl of the wit-
ness's description should be so neglected as to be obliged
to confess that she had never heard of a God.
Thomas Hill and William Ash were indicted for having
been, with two others, found armed on the preserves of a
Mr. Popham, in this county, for the purpose of unlawfully
taking game.
Mr. Carrow conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Edwards
defended the prisoners.
Bef)rc the trial of the case Mr. EDWARDS took this
objection to the indictment:—The indictment staled, in
the language of the statute under which they were in-
dicted, that the prisoners were on the lands of Mr. Pop-
ham for the purpose of taking game, without sit) ing
that their purpose was to take game there. He con-
tended that the indictment was bad, as, if this was an
offence against the statute, then three gentlemen who
might be going to their own preserves for the purpose of
taking game, if it were by night, if to get there they
trespassed on any other person's land, would be amen-
able to the very rnal enactments of this statute.
Mr. CARROW contended that from the words of the
statute it was clear this would be so.
The Learned JUDGE, after consulting with Mr. Justice
Patteson, said that he*should decide against the objec-
tion, as the prisoners could then bring a writ of error
and try the point, which was a new one, in the Court
above. The trial, therefore, proceeded.
"It appeared by the evidence that the prisoners and two
others had been watched by Mr. Popham's gamekeeper
from a beer-house to one of his preserves, into a field
adjoining, which they were seen to enter, after having
tried several other fields. A gun was then heard, and
tha keepe'rs rushed forward to secure them, but they
managed to make their escape. The next morning, on
searching the spot near to which they were standing
when the gun was fired, pheasant's feathers were found
scattered about the ground, as if a bird hadbeen killed
there. The two other persons were taken up that day,
and had been. tried-last circuit, at Taunton, but the pri-
soners absconded, and wen, not met with till May.
Mr. EDWARDS addressed the jury for the prisoners.
The Learned JUDGE summed up, telling the jury that
there were two questions for them to determine—first,
the identity of the prisoners with the party who had
been seen in the preserve, and next, that they were
there for the purpose of taking game. The identity of
the party was clearly proved ; and what object could
men have in a preserve at eleven o'clock at night but to
take creme ?
The jury, after a few minutes' consultation, returned
their verdict, Not Guilty.
The Learned Judges will proceed to-morrow morning
to open the commission at Devizes.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Aug. 13.

IN RE THOMAS AUSTIN.

UNCERTAINTY OF TIIE NEW INSOLVENT ACT.—
This day being the first upon which the New Insol-
vent Amendment Act came into operation, a question
of much interest to the profession generally con-
nected with the administration of the insolvent law
was brought before the Court by Mr. Cooke, the
question raised being, whether by the 58th section
of the New Act a person in prison was not entitled to
his discharge on his application to a Judge, provided
the amount of any separate debt of his several de-
taining creditors did not amount to 201., exclusive of
costs ?

Mr. COOKE agreed that in the present case the
debts of no one of the detaining creditors amounted
to 201., and, consequently, the insolvent did not re-
quire the assistance of this Court to get his discharge,
because, by the New Act, he could get it by an ap-
plication to a judge in chambers.
Mr. Commiss►oner HARRIS thought that there was
some doubt upon this point, and he should go on with
the case. In the clause of the Act referred to by the
Learned Gentleman, the words " shall " and " may"
were used in a Tanner which admitted of very exten-
sive interpretation; he had, therefore, much doubt
with respect to the meaning of the clause. The case
was postponed.
The cases in which there was no point of general
interest were then proceeded with.

IN RE THOMAS HENRY lIORATIO CALTTY.

This insolvent's case, it may be remembered, was
adjourned from the 16th of July for the delivery to
the Court, for the benefit of the creditors, of certain
models and reports relating to the insolvent's mining
speculations in Wales, which were deposited in the
custody of Mr. Lewis, a solicitor in Grosvenor-square,
but to-day that gentleman appeared and claimed a
lien upon this property for law expenses to the amount
of between 5001. and 6001., which he had incurred in
a Chancery suit in which the insolvent was engaged.
Mr. Lewis was directed to make an affidavit of the
circumstances under which the property came into
his possession, which was then done.

Mr. CaEsswELL said that the insolvent since his
hearing had received two bills of 201. each, which
ought to be given up for the benefit of his creditors,
ands proceeding to examine him as to whether he
had not met a Mr. Hookam and a Mr. Cooke in the
Bench, and•whether he had not played with them at
hazard there, when
Mr. COOKE, who appeared for the insolvent, inter-
posed, and requested him to state whether he ob-
tained the bills in any way connected with play.
The insolvent replied in the affirmative.
Mr. Commissioner HARMS said, that then the in-
solvent could not be compelled to answer the inquiries
of the Learned Counsel. Ills impression was, if Mr.
Lewis's affidavit was satisfactory to Mr. Commissioner
Law, that the insolvent might be discharged.

SUMMER ASSIZES.
WESTERN CIRCUIT.— (Yells, Aug. 12.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.,
MURDER.—JoII Fisher was indicted for the willn,
murder of Mary Fisher, his wife.
Mr. Stone and Mr. Fitzgerald prosecuted ; Mr. Cock-
burn and Mr. Prideaux defended the prisoner.
The prisoner is a fine looking elderly man, who had
previously been in the Dragoons, and still maintains the
erect bearing of a soldier. At the time he committed
the offence for which he was now tried, he was living at
Weston-super-Mare.
Mr. Stone opened the case by a calm and temperate
statement of the facts of the case.
The first witness called was a servant girl by the name
of Evans. She stated that she had been a servant with
the prisoner and the deceased about a fortnight before
the deceased came by her death. The deceased lived at
Weston-super-Mare, and kept a public-house or beer-
shop there, known as the sign of the Devonshire Arms.
He and the deceased did not live on good terms ; but,
on the contrary, there were frequent disputes and bicker-
ings between them. There were two lodgers living, in
the house, and two children of the prisoner's by a former
wife. Another of the prisoner's children lived in the
place with an uncle. On the sth of June the pri-
soner had been out with a horse and cart that he kept,
and returned about five o'clock. Nothing particular oc-
curred for more than an hour after his return.
At that time prisoner and deceased commenced
a quarrel about a lodger who had given no-
tice to quit. It appeared that prisoner had informed
deceased of it, in a way to insinuate that she was the
cause of it ; and the replied, that. she was not going to
put up with his temper, and that she wished all of them
would leave. They continued quarrelling in the bar
until nine o'clock, the deceased using the most aggravat-
ing terms of reproach to the prisoner. At nine o'clock
witness took in a candle, and put it in the bar, as she was
accustomed to do. Evidently for the purpose of annoy-
ance the deceased immediately blew out the candle. The
prisoner said a candle should be brought there, and
ordered witness to relight it, which she did. There was
a slate kept in this room on which was put the account
of the beer sold and not paid for during the day. When
witness took back the candle the deceased, in continuation
of her annoyance to the prisoner, took up the slate, and
said if a candle was put there, it would serve her the
• purpose to rub out the accounts on the slate, and she
forthwith deliberately took the slate, and rubbed out all
the accounts. This of course but increased the angry
feeling between the parties, and they continue' to quarrel
until bed time, the deceased all this time saying every-
thing she could think of to exasperate and annoy the
prisoner. At about ten o'clock they went to bed, the
deceased going up before the prisoner. She went at
first into the prisoner's room where she always slept, but
came out of it before he came up, and went into witness's
room (where also the two children slept), saying, as she
did so, that she would never sleep with the old rascal
again ; when she came into the witness's room, witness
locked the door. After a short time, the deceased be-
came very violent, and wanted to jump out of the win-
with difficulty, prevented, and got
uhd win-
dow,
rw i ew
stairs,
ghei which
into bed. Shortly after the prisoner came
ahnwd,itanpepsasrently not finding her in the room,
he came to search for her in the room of witness.
He found the door fast, and demanded admittance, which
was refused. He then went away, and again returned
and tried the door. Deceased wanted to get out at him,
but was prevented by witness. Prisoner then said at
the door that lie wanted to get her to kill her, for that
ho was determined to kill her, and he might as well kill
her that night as in the morning. After this they still
continued to quarrel, using all sorts of angry and pro-
voking language towards each other. This continued
till one o'clock, when their recriminations and abuse
closed. - Witness and deceased continued awake until
three o'clock, when witness fell asleep. About fire
o'clock in the morning, she was suddenly awakened, and
saw the prisoner standing with a large iron crow-bar at
the bottom of the bed. The deceased was just raising
herself in the bed, having one of her arms on the pillow.
Before she could do so, the prisoner struck her three
violent blows with the crow-bar on her head, which ren-
dered her completely insensible, and she fell back. The
prisoner stood over her for a moment, and then left the
room. After the interval of a minute or two he re-
turned, and then jumped on her chest, standing on her.
He then.got off and left the room again; and in a minute
or two returned, holding a carving knife in his hand.
He addressed the witness, and said she need not be
afraid, as he did not want to hurt her. He then again
jumped on the chest of the deceased, standing on her
with his feet, and, stooping down, lifted her head from
the pillow, and deliberately cut her throat with the carv-
ing-knife. After having done this, he stood and looked
at her for a minute, and then left the room. Shortly
after he was gone, witness, Ward Upsall, upon whom
she had called before, came down stairs, and got out of
the house. She then dressed herself, and left the house
also, leaving the prisoner there. She afterwards returned
when the policeman came.
In cross-examination, this witness stated that she had
only lived for a fortnight with the prisoner. He was a
moody man, and upon one occasion she had seen and
heard him walking about the house muttering to himself.
After he had done the deed, and after Upsall went out
of the house, the witness, in her way to do the same,
met the prisoner. He said to her that he did not con-
sider
be-hail-done any wrong, but had removed a great
sinner out of the world. The deceased was a very
. OXFORD ClRCUlT—Monmouth, Aug. 12.
violent woman. The Learned Judges having arrived here from here
Corroborative evidence was given.•
Mr. Coexisuere addressed the jury, and made two ford, attended Divine service yesterday, and proceeded
to business this morning at nine ; the Lord Chief Justice
presiding in the Crown Court, and Mr. Sergeant Atcher-
that they would be justified, upon the evidence, in
Th
socn,Rlo;vvfaNlsecopruetietrnrc._es,o3l ;ef,b)riegathmeyi,
points in favour of the prisoner. First, he contefindetdd.
ley taking his seat in the Nisi Prius Court.
ing the prisoner guilty of manslaughter only.
de
The following is an analysis of the calendar :—Arson,
evidence showed what a violent woman the decease
Cstheiaelfin
Justice
could 2 ; rape, 6 ; housebreaking, 1 ; robbery from the per-
was. The first witness called stated that she hadhl,?ckfteldl
the door which continued so locked whena stledin
1 ; larcenies and minor offences, 20.—Total, 33.
asleep. 'When she awoke the prisoner w s s..
eol.rd.
because that would TINDAL.)
could not have broken open time door,Was .
by the bed. How had he got there? lt was evident he
CROWN
John James was indicted for attempting feloniouly to
have disturbed and awakened the witness. d
the
not
shoot at George Godwin, on the Ist of last November.
and, having no one to oppose her, had
dgone to attack the
followed Mr. Greaves conductedthe prosecution. Mr. Bd ea on
manifest that the deceased had got up, had opened door,
defended the prisoner.
had
md
committed her violence, ;continual disputes between the prosecutor (who is agent
It appeared that there had been for a length of time
prisoner had met her, and in all probability a personad
blows had been struck.
prisoner, as she wished to do the night before. Thil
,
the
to the Duke of Beaufort, and resides at Troy-house) and
rencontre had taken place, an
The deceased had then retreated to herf room,
, the prisoner, the latter having, at the last assizes,
recovered
da n
a verdictaction against
fer
the Godwin,amount on
claimed which occasion
by
y
by the prisoner, who, still smarting
done. The Learned Counsel This .
act,anl which he
htletebiardri,tnatoiodnotethf
th,er blows,
facts of the case showed
then went on to contend that the
the subsisting animosity. On the day in question the
that the prisoner was insane—all his conduct went to prosecutor called at the prisoner's house for the purpose
prove this fact.
the
Two witnesses were then called to confirm. latter of demanding possession of the premises, on which at
the time were some parties endeavouring to levy a dis-
view, but their evidence completely failed in this parti-
tress. James was at an upper window, and being much
cular. , exasperated at what had taken place, as well as at some
The Learned JUDGE having very carefully summed
demands made by Godwin, used some strong expressions
up the case, the jury, after a short consnltation, returned
towards him, and finally called to his daughter and his
a verdict of Guilty.
Upon the prisoner being asked by the officer of the . .
wife, who were both in the room with him, to bring
• t
Court why judgment should not be pronounced against him, his gun. His daughter, unfortunately, complied
with his request. He did not put it to his shoulder,
him, that be should die, said he had killed her, and that
but supporting it in one hand, the girl still retain-
provokinghe was justified in doing so, as she was such a. bad and
woman, and that he would rather be hanged but
her hold of the stock, he pulled the trigger and
than to have lived with her. snapped the lock, which missed fire. A man of the
MS LORDSHIP then, putting on the black ' s can pro- name of William Rose, a bystander, immediatly snatched
ceeded to pass on the unhappy man the awful
e the gun from James, sounded the barrel with
• seetenc •
of death, which he heard unmoved, and was led from the the rod, and found in it just four fingers' breadth of
there however,only smallquantity of
charge ; was, a
dock urging excuses for his crime. were ' powder in the pan, which was damp, and caked by the •
At the sitting of the Court this morning, there
pressure of the hammer, and therefore rendered difficult
about thirty prisoners for trial. Mr. Rogers lent his very
valuable aid in trying in the grand jury room all the of ignition. A person passing at the time with a gun
day ; and Mr. Justice Wightman, after disposing of the I
was requested by Rose to put a little fresh powder from
(Iris flask to the touchhole, and Godwin then, raising the
civil cases, some of which went off, proceeded to try pri-

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Lancaster, Aug. 12.
The assizes for the northern division of the county of
Lancaster commenced here this morning. Their Lord.
ships sat fur the dispatch of business at ten o'clock.
Mr. Justice Cresswell sat on the civil side, and the Chiei

Baron on the criminal. There are 15 causes entered for

trial. The calendar contains the names of 19 prisoners,
of whom 1 stands charged with murder, I with rape, 2
with manslaughter, 3 with burglary, 1 with feloniously
shooting, and 1 with bigamy.
(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON.)
George Leigh was indicted for having, at Standish, on
the evening of the 26th of March last, feloniously shot
at one Charles Darbyshire, with intent to do him some
grievous bodily harm.

Mr. Segar Condacted the prosecution ; the prisoner
was defended by Mr. James.

It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor, that
he was a farm labourer in the service of Charles Stan-
dish, Esq., and while returning from his work a little
after six o'clock on the evening in question, he saw, in a
plantation near Standish-park, a person with a gun, ap-
parcntly engaged in looking for rabbits. The prosecutor,
in company with a person of the name of Cooper, went
over towards the plantation, and found that the person
they had seen was accompanied by a little boy. The
boy, on seeing them approach, called out " Father," on
which the man turned round with his face towards them,
and they were able to identify him as the prisoner at the
bar. He, on seeing them, raised his gun and pointed it
towards them. They called out to him not to shoot. He
said he would shoot if they advanced any further, and
lowering the gun with what the witnesses described as a
wavering motion, as if his hand slim ik very much, the piece
went off, and the prosecutor received nine or ten of the
shots in the left leg. The prisoner immediately ran off.
The prosecutor and Cooper pursued him for about 100
yards, but on coming up to him he stood on the defensive,
threatening to knock out their brains with the butt-end of
his gun, and finally succeeded in making his escape.
The posecutor and Cooper then went in pursuit of the
boy, but he had by this time got too good a start to be
readily overtaken. They, however, saw the prisoner at
some distance in the wood, going in the' direction of a
house occupied by a person of the name of Parks. Both
the witnesses swore positively to the identity of the
prisoner, whom, however, they had not known before.
He was dressed in a rough blue coat, and had the ap-
pearance of a collier.

- It appeared, from the evidence of Mr. Parks, that
about the time in question the prisoner came into his
house, apparently out of breath, as if he had been run-
ning. He told Mr. Parks that he had been trying to
catch a rabbit, and that there were two men after him.
About two minutes after, the witness Cooper passed
through the farmstead, in view of the windows. Mr.
Parks said, " Why, there's one of the men," to which
the prisoner replied, " Hush ! don't tell." He remained
a short time, and then went away. He had not at that
time a gun with him.
The prisoner, it appeared, was not to be found for
about a month after. He has several children, but the
witnesses were not able to identify any of them as the
boy who was with the prisoner when the occurrence took
place. A gun was found at his house.
Mr. JAMES addressed the jury for the defence.
His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury, after a few
minutes' deliberation, acquitted the prisoner of the fe-
lony, but found him guilty of a common assault.—Sen-
tence was deferred.

Martha Harp, a wretched-looking young woman, was
indicted for bigamy.
Mr. Hutton conducted the prosecution.
It appeared that several years ago the prisoner was
married to Nathaniel Harp, and that subsequently, dur-
ing his lifetime, she married Levi Morris.
The case was proved 'in the usual way.
The prisoner, in her defence, handed in a written
paper, in which she stated that, very shortly after her
marriage to Harp, he left her, and was away for several
years. That, on his coining back, she was informed he
was living with another woman, and-that she herself hav-
ing in the meantime become acquainted with Levi
Morris, Levi asked Harp whether he had any objection
to their getting married. Harp said he had no objection
whatever, and they were married accordingly. " But,"
she concluded, " had Nathaniel not given his consent I
should not now be in this unfortunate conditi,ln."
His LORDSHIP, in summing up, said that it was very
lamentable such ignorance should exist among any per-
don of the population. As to the legal guilt of the ac-
cused there did not seem to be room for doubt.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.—Sentence deferred.

CIVIL SIM:.
The business on the civil side presented no case of in
terest. Two cases of replevin, an undefended ejectment,
and an action for not receiving goods bargained /tad sold,
were the subjects of discussion; and, as may be supposed
from their very nature, were neither important nor en-
tertaining.
Two causes, involving the exercise of some ancient
rights over certain commons and lands, were postponed
in consequence of the actions having been so recently
commenced as not to allow sufficient time to the de-
fendants to collect the necessary evidence for their
defence.

Judging from the nature of the cause list, it is probable
that the civil business will conclude to-morrow.