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

a Special Jury.)

This morning was specially appointed for disposing
of several indictments and other proceedings connecter
with the Watermen's arvi the Stone Pier Companies al
Greenwich, wh9 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, were for the Watermen's Company; and Mr.
Thesiger, Mr. Sergeant Channell, 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-
dicts being returned ; and it was understood, that the
whole matter was to be referred to a Learned Counsel,
who was to have the power to make an amend as to the

respective rights of the parties.
These caws 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. BARON ALDERSON.)
Mary Ann Walton, 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 the 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 and 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 %then 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 of conduct as had now been proved against him.
Mr. Baron'ALDEnsox expressed his opinion that it
would require a higher power than that of the Court to
effect this. He thought he might as well endeavour to
make the Ethiopian change his colour, or the leopard
his spots, as to expect that any observations he might
make would have any effect.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty of the robbery,
and she was sentenced to four months' imprisonment.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Stafford, March 14.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
Caroline Harris was indicted for a felony in attempting,
by flagitious means, used towards one Jane Pountney, to pre-
vent the birth of a child.

The evidence is unfit for any detail. The child was born
dead.

His LORDSHIP directed the jury to acquit the prisoner, as
although there was no doubt she was a most wicked woman,
still the case was not one in which:it would be safe to con-
vict her of so serious an offence under the circumstances. The
Judge then consulted with Mr. Baron Parke, respecting two
other indictments against the prisoner for misdemeanour aris-
ing out of similar circumstances, and on his return to the
Crown Court he directed the jury to acquit the prisoner on
those charges also.
The case was one which has agitated the public mind very much,
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indicted for committing an assault upon Emma Brown,at
Brierly-hill, on the 24th of February, with intent, &c.
The facts of the case were most extraordinary, the surgeon.
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and delicate
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gentlemanly conduct. He had attended several
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of them in their confinements.

The JUDGE having summed up, the jury immediately re-
turned a verdict of not guilty.
NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
Mari Ann Meadows, 17, was indicted for unlawfully taking
Caroline Allen out of the possession, and against the will of
her father, on the sth February, at Wolverhampton.
The prisoner, on the day named in the indictment, met the
girl, who is about twelve years of age, on the road, with a
basket of bread, for which she had been sent by her parents.
The prisoner persuaded her to go to Birmingham, saying that
she would give her 51. and take her up to London with him.
The child consented.
Upon this admission being made, the JUDGE directed an
acquittal, the girl being above ten years of age, and a con-
senting party, putting the offence out of the jurisdiction of
the Court, under the statute on which the indictment was
framed.

The business of the Assizes terminated at five o'clock.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, March 14.
CROWN COURT.---(Before Mr. BARON ROLFE.)
Joseph Nobte waS indicted for the manslaughter of Elijah
Holroyd, at Halifax, by stabbing him with a knife. -- -
Mr. Hale and Mr. Denman conducted the prosecution.
The prisoner was not defended by counsel.

It appeared that on Christmas night the prisoner, with
some others, had been spending the evening at a public-
house, which he left about 12 o'clock. There was at that
time another person with him, an acquaintance, who had
asked permission to sleep in his bed for the night. On ar-
riving at the prisoner's house, the prisoner sat down by the
fire to smoke a pipe, and the other went to bed. Shortly after,
voices were heard outside the door, and Noble rose, as
if to fasten it. Before this was done, however, Holroyd
came in, and, apparently in a drunken frolic, began pulling
off the bed-clothes, which he threw about the room, and let
the bedstead down at the feet. While he was so engaged
three other persons, his companions, came in. The prisoner
expostulated with Holroyd on his conduct, and asked him
how he would like to be so treated himself. He would not,
however, desist, and the prisoner was seen to strike him
twice, once in the neck' and once in the belly. On receiving
the last blow, Holroyd cried out " D— it, he's sticked me !
See there, he's got a knife." It was then perceived that the
prisoner had a knife in his hand, and one of the parties pre-
sent, of the name of Robinson, took it from him. It was,
however, restored to him. The deceased then left the house
in the care of one of the party, named Singlestone, to seek for
medical aid, and the prisoner went to bed. The deceased, on
examination by the surgeon, was found to have received a
woind near the navel on the left side, and from which the
omentum protruded, and which the surgeon could not re-
place. He continued to suffer acute pain, but finally became
exhausted, and died about 24 hinirs after receiving the wound.
Verdict—Guilty. • _ _

His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, said the case was a very
aggravated one, and sentenced the prisoner to be transported
for 15 years.
Richard Render, aged 19, John JPDonald, aged 17, Joseph
Kaye, aged 17, and Win. Mayfield, aged 18, were indicted
for breaking into the dwelling-house of Frederick Turner, at
Leeds, and stealing therefrom cloth and other articles to the
value of upwards of 1201.
Verdict Guilty—to be transported for 10 years.

- KING'S COUNTY.—Tullaghmore, March 13.
MURDER OF MR. GATCHELL -CONVICTION OF THE. PRI-
SONER.—The trial of Thomas Dowling, for the murder of Mr.
Gatchell, was.resumed this morning. After the examination
of several witnesses for the Crown, Mr. M‘Donough ad
dressed the jury on the part of the prisoner.
NINE O'CLOCK.—The jury retired at a few minutes to
seven o'clock, and, after an absence of an hour and a quarter
they returned to their box, with the issue paper in their
hands. The unfortunate, prisoner regarded the whole. pro-
ceeding with uncommon firmness, and when the fatal an-
nouncement of Guilty was made by the forethan, he still
maintained his self-possession for some moments, then shed a
tear, without evincing any extraordinary emotion.
The Learned JUDGE then put on the black cap, and passed
the awful sentence of death upon the wretched culprit. When
he heard it pronounced, he declared in a strong and clear
voice, without evincing the slightest hesitation, that he was
wholly innocent of the murder of Mr. Gatchell. He knew he
was to die, and he was perfectly prepared to meet his fate.
And then, turning to the, jury-box, he said,—" Gentlemen,
if the same degree of mercy be shown to you in another
world that you have shown me in this, I can tell you that you
will have little to hope fir."
The wretched man was then removed to the gaol under a
strong escort of police, amidst the wailing and lamentations
of his friends, who surrounded the Court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

A young man named George Gumm was brought be-
fore the Lord Mayor, charged with having stolen a
parcel of Bank notes from a Boulogne steamer, to the
amount of about 2,0001. It will be recollected that the
captain of the vessel underwent an examination some
time since upon suspicion of having been concerned m
the robbery of the vessel, and was discharged. wholly
exonerated.
Mr. 'Joseph Robinson, of Water-lane, stated that in
September last several Bank notes and gold, the property
of Charles Bleaden and others, were stolen from the
City of Boulogne steam-Vessel. The note produced for
101., numbered 30,964, dated April 10th, 1843, was one
of the notes.
Mr. Thomas Whitfield, cashier in the Bank of Eng-
land, stated that the above-mentioned note was pre-
sented by a boy who wrote the name, "W. Storey, 62,
Fleet-street," upon it. The note 's detained, having
been previously stopped at the Bank.
Daniel Forrester, the officer, stated that he went to
the shop of Mr. Storey, who was a tailor, and saw"the
prisoner and another person there. He asked the other
person whether the prisoner nas the man who pre-
sented the Bank note, to which the answer was in the
affirmative. Witness then told the prisoner that he was
bowie' to ask him some questions, but 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 he 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 1,250 L, by sinking the brig Colina.
John Brady, master of a fishing 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 show 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. TWYFORD said he well remembered 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,
t7h2eol nyioußthasnk ochafrg
ed with stealing a purse, containing
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 crown 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. King-smith, of a purse containing twelve
sovereigns, in Liquorpond-street. •
Mr. COTTINGHA3I 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 261. 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 be (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 mho 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 lists.

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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.
Ur. Attenborough and Mr. Dempster, pawnbrokers,