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sny bricks, as they were the property of Locke and
Nesham, the contractors. Coomber then said, " I
shall be able to show you that some other parties have
purchased of the same men." Witness now told him
he should charge him with receiving the bricks, well
knowing them to have been stolen, and took him into
custody.

Sergeant DAley, 33 V, corroborated the evidence
of the previous witness.
Several other witnesses were examined in support
of the charge ; the prisoners were ordered to be re-
manded for a week, and it is expected that by (to-
morrow (this day) several other parties will be in
custody upon the same charge.

LORD BROUGHAM'S LATE
PISCATORIAL QUARREL.

Tuesday being the day appointed for the investi-
gation of Lord Brougham's illegal netting dispute,
together with the counter assault cases, at Penrith, a
great gathering of people was the consequence.
The inquiry took place at
,the Assembly-rooms,
George and Dragon Hotel, and lasted upwards of
eight hours, during the whole of which time the spa-
cious apartment was crowded almost to suffocation.
As was fully expected, there was a numerous attend-
ance of magistrates, besides a large number of
country gentlemen. Mr. E. W. Haswell, Chairman
of the Bench, presided.
Messrs. W. and D. Blavmore appeared fur the
Angling Association cf Penrith, and Sir George
Musgrave, Bart., and Mr. Jameson for Lord
Brougham's party.
There were no fewer than eight fishing and ten
assault cases arising out of the same transaction.
The first case proceeded with was that of John
Robson, blacksmith, who appeared to answer the in-
formation of Thomas Hall, one of Sir George Mus-
grave's gamekeepers, under 7 and 8 George IV., c. 29,
charging him with illegally using a net device,
whereof the mesh was of a less size than one inch, at
least, from knot to knot, or five inches round, and
also did use a net which was double-armoured, in
the river Eamont, in the parish of Edenhall and
Brougham, in the counties of Cumberland and West-
moreland, on Monday, the 16th instant.
Thomas Hall stated, that in accordance with in-
structions received from Sir George Musgrave, be,
along with several other men from Penrith, went to
the river Eamont on Monday, the IGth inst., in crder
to prevent all netting upon the side of the river be.
longing to Sir George. They had information that
an attempt of this kind was to be made by Lord
Brougham. When he and the others were watching,
four or five men, of whom Robson was one, appeared
at the side of the river. Shortly afterwards two car-
riages came up full of ladies and gentlemen. John
Robson and Thomas Armstrong brought the net to
the river side. Robson then cbang©d part of his
clothing and came over from the Westmoreland side
with a rope in his hand, by which he drew the net
after him. Witness walked up to him and told him
he had no business on that (the Cumberland) side.
Robson said he had nothing to do with it; witness
might speak to Lord Brougham. Witness again told
him to be off, but he took no notice. Two or three
Penrith men came up then and got hold of the rope.
During the whole of the time he saw no one strike at
Robson, nor be at any one. He was sure that Rob-
son was walking down the river nearer to the Cum-
berland than the Westmoreland side. It was pos-
sible that fish could have been caught.
This was the case for the plaintiff.
Mr. W. Brougham, who was called for the defen-
dant, stated that on the 16th instant his brother and a
party of friends went down to the river Eamont with
the express purpose of trying the construction hereto-
fore put on the Act entitled the &Away Act. Their
object was to go down and draw the river with a net
of a peculiar description—of a smaller mesh than
usual, called a double-armoured net—to try whether
the act of dragging the liver with such a net was il-
legal or not. Their notion was that they had an un-
doubted right to go down the Cumberland side in
order to fish the Westmoreland side. He could
hardly believe it possible there could have been any
objection to that, because, if persisted in, the river
would be perfectly useless to both parties, as it was
impossible to fish with a net in one part of the river
without going over to the other; a draught could not
be made by taking half a river only. He added, that
if the attacking party had waited five minutes the fishing
would have been completed. As it was, however, he
had no hesitation in swearing most solemnly that the
net was never in a position to catch anything.
The CHAIRMAN said that the Bench were unani-
mously of opinion that the charge had been fully
made out, and they adjudged that Robson, the defen-
dant, should pay a penalty of 51, including costs,
otherwise to suffer six weeks' imprisonment in Car-
lisle gaol.—The fine was paid.
The case was decided under the general Act.
Thomas Armstrong, of Penrith, labourer, then ap-
peared to answer an information pressed by William
Watson, a member of the Eamont and Eden Angling
Association, under the Solway Act.
On the part of the defendant it was contended that
the Solway Act applied only to fish of the salmon
tribe, while the pursuer maintained that it applied to
all kinds of fish.

The Bench took time to adjudicate.
John Jackson, a member of the Penrith Angling
Association, then appeared to answer a charge of as-
sault with which he was charged by John Robson, of
Eamont- bridge, blacksmith, one of Lord Brougham's
netters.

After the examination of the Marquis of Douro,
Mr. W. Brougham, -and other witnesses, the Bench
gave it as their opinion that a good deal of violence
had been used; but as there were some cross charges
for assaults, all of which arose out of the fishing, they
would recommend those charges on both sides should
be withdrawn, and they should then refrain from
giving judgment on the case in question.

The assault cases on both sides were then with-
drawn by mutual consent.
A charge was then preferred, under the Wilful
Trespass Act, by old John Robson, his Lordship's
head netter, against George Goodburn, for cutting
the net on the 19th instant.

After two or three witness bad been heard, the case
was dismissed.

The Court rose about nine o'clock, and the most
intense interest prevailed during the whole hearing.

TILE POISONINGS AT LAUGHARNE.
A few days ago we gave a brief account of 'some
suspected poisonings which had taken place at Lau4-
harne, Carmarthenshire. The inquest on the body
of the deceased girl, Rebecca Uphill, who, it wi'.l be
remembered, was housemaid in the :family of Mr. T.
Severne, of Brixton, near Laugharne, and whose
death it was suspected was occasioned by arsenic
administered to her by the cook in the same family,
Elizabeth Gibbs, was resumed on Monday, at the
Globe Inn, Laugharne, before Mr. G. Thomas, coroner
for the lower division of the county ; and on the same
day au inquest was commenced on the body of Mary
Ann Severne, the lady of Mr. T. Saverne, whose
death we before stated occurred, after a brief illness,
on the 21st of July last, and was attended by all the
symptoms which usually follow on the administration
of arsenic.

The inquest on the body of Rebecca Uphill lasted
till nearly midnight, and a great number of witnesses
were examined. From their statements it appeared
that previous to the death of her mistress, Mrs.
Severne, the cook had asserted that some one in
the house would be carried off, for she had seen
" corpse candles." After that lady's death, and a
short time before Rebecca. Uphill died, she said,
Mrs. Severne would not be the only one that would
be carried out of the ho-use, but another would
follow, for she had seen °• corpse candles" again.
She also said to a man with whom she was walk-

ing in the fields, that another would go out of
the servants? room. On Sunday, the Ist ‘inst., the
deceased girl was taken ill after eating food which
the prisoner, Elizabeth Gibbs, had prepared. On the
following Tuesday none of the servants approved of
the dinner which had been got for them, and the conk
undertook to make them some broth. For this pur-
pose she cut up some chops of mutton into piece, and
having put them into a saucepan with some water
and other ingredients, she was observed to take the
saucepan out of the kitchen, and put into it some-
thing which was supposed at the time to be meal for
the purpose of thickening it. She made the broth,
and it was served up to the servants. After they had
partaken of it, they complained that it produced a
burning sensation in the throat, and with the excep-
tion of the deceased they all partook of it sparingly.
The deceased ate about two teacupsfull, and a fellow-
servant about two tablespoonfuls, and the third girl
merely tasted it. In about a quarter of an hour after
the maal all who bad partaken of the broth were seized
with sudden illness. The deceased was terribly sick and
purged, and suffered great pain in the throat, stomach,
and bce.vels ; the second, who had made use or a much
smaller quantity, was sick. but not relaxed ; whilst the
third, who bad only sipped about a teaspoonful of the
poisoned broth, suffered from burning pains in the
throat. The poor girls were first taken ill bet ween

two and three o'clock in the day, and the deceased
was a corpse batween ten and eleven o'clock at night.
Shortly before her death Mr. Hamilton, of Lang-
harnr, was called in to see her, but she was evidently
dying, and from her symptoms 'he considered
it to be a severe attack -of cholera. It was
shown that in the course of the afternoon
the cook directed one of the servants to take
the saucepan with the remains of the broth and throw
it into the hog trough. 'the girl did so, end on bring-
ing in the saucepan she observed about a table-spoon-
ful of some white substance sticking at the bottom cf
it. Upon her noticing it the cook said it was only
meal, took the saucepan from her, went out with it,
and in a little. while she returned with the saucepan
quite clean. A sow first partook of the broth which
was thrown into the the hog trough, and soon after-
wards was taken ill and died,. ev:dently in great
agony. Another fat pig was taken with severe ill-