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HOME CIRCUIT, Chelmsford, March 6.
CROWN SlDE—(Before Lord Chief Justice WILDE.)
John Livings, 26, was indicted for feloniously cut-
ting and wounding his wife, Susan Livings, with in-
tent to murder her. In other counts his intent was
laid to be to do some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Ryland prosecuted, and Mr. Parnell defended
the prisoner.
Susan Wood deposed that in September last she
lived in the same house with the prisoner and his wife,
at High Ongar. On the day named in the indict-
ment, the 10th of September, the prisoner was in the
garden with the prosecutrix, and they were engaged
in digging up potatoes, when a quarrel took place
between them, and she saw the prisoner strike his
wife a violent blow on the eye with a spade, and she
fell to the ground, and while she was in that position
the prisoner kicked her several times in the stomach.
Shortly afterwards witness saw the prosecutrix at a
cottage close by, and she observed a good deal of
blood upon her clothes.
Upon being cross-examined by Mr. PARNELL, the
witness said she was not near enough to bear what
was said before the prisoner knocked his wife down.
They frequently quarrelled on account of the prose-
cutrix having an improper intimacy. with another
man. She had no doubt that a connexion of that sort
existed, because she had seen the wife of the prisoner
and the man of whom he was jealous in bed together.
The witness also said that the prisoner had always
acted as a good husband until this improper intimacy
was found out.

Emma Cone', a cottager living near the prisoner,
proved that while the prosecutrix was in her house
the prisoner came there, and after making use of very
violent language, he dragged her into the road and
kicked her several times.

Mr. W. R. Gill, a surgeon at High Ongar, stated
that he was called in to examine the prosecutrix, and
he found her clothes saturated with blood, and that
she had received a very severe blow on the right eye.
She was delivered of a dead child on the 6th of
November.

MC. PARNELL, in addressing the jury for )01t prib.
soner, complained that his wife had not been called to
inform the jury of the circumstance which had led to
the assault upon the day in question, t' he said that
in her absence they had no means of knowing what
provocation the prisoner had received at the time.
He urged upon the jury that it was perf_•ctly clear
the prisoner bad been deeply wronged by his wife,
and he called upon them to make allowance for the
provocation he had received, and only find him guilty
of an assault.

The Learned JUDGE having summed up, the jury,
after a very short deliberation, returned a verdict of
Guilty of a common assault, and the prisoner was
sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
for six months.

MIDLAND Cll?CUlP.—Northampton, March 6.
(Before Mr. Hustraar, Q.C.)
Thomas Band, aged 30, labourer, was indicted
for having, on the 20th of January last, at Aid-
winkle, All Saints, in this county, feloniously cut and
wounded one William Wills, with intent to , maim,
disable, or disfigure Lim, or to do him some grievous
bodily harm.
Mr. Miller conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Mellor the defence.

The prosecutor, William Will, was a keeper or
watcher, in the service of Lord LiWord, and the as-
sault was committed on him whilst in the execution of
his duty.

An attempt was made to prove an alibi, but
The Learned JUDGE told the jury very emphati-
cally, that the only question for them was, whether
or not they were satisfied as to the identity of the
prisoner as being the man spoken to by the two wit-
nesses for the prosecution; and he would entreat them
not to violate their consciences and the oaths they
had taken by finding any other verdict than that
which before God they believed to be the true one.
A verdict of Guilty, with intent to do grievous
bodily harm, was, after the lapse of some time, re-
turned ; and a previous conviction for felony (stealing
fowls) having been proved against the prisoner,
The Learned JUDGE remarked, that after a long
and patient investigation, the jury had at last come
to the only conclusion that, in his judgment, they
could have arrived at ; and observing upon the atro-
cious extent of the violence and recklessness of human
suffering and human life exhibited, passed upon the
prisoner the sentence of transportation for ten years.

WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT, March 6,
(Before FRANCIS BATLEY, Esq., Judge.)
GIBSON Z. LORD ROBERT GROSVENOR' M.P.
This was an action brought by William Gibson, of
Grantly-villas, Clapham, against Lord Robert Gros-
venor, M.P., to recover the sum of 201. as remunera-
tion for assistance rendered to the defendant imme-
diately previous to his election for Middlesex.
Several witnesses were examined in support of the
claim, but the Court held that no case had been esta-
blished, and nonsuited the plaintiff.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, March 6.
:Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS and a Bench of Ma-
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gistrates.)
The Court sat this morning for the disposal of cri-
minal cases.

THE LATE CASE OF CRUELTY TO A CHILD.
The grand jury came into court with a true bill
against Edward Kenealey, of 3-ray's Inn, barrister-at-
law, which set forth " That he did with force and
arms commit an assault upon Edward Hyde, a child
of tender years, to wit, six years, and that he did by
means of a cord and rope hang the said child by the
neck, by fastening the said cord to a certain peg, then
and there being, and then and there did pull and strip
from off the body of the said Edward Hyde certain
clothes with which the said child was covered, so that
he was uncovered and naked ; and whilst so uncovered
did cruelly, wantonly, and unmanly beat the said child
upon the back, shoulders, arms, wrists, legs, &c., with
other wrongs and injuries to the said Edward Hyde,
then and there, to the damage, and against the peace
of our Sovereign Lady the Queen."
Three other counts varied the offence.

This case has become familiar to the public from
the proceedings which have taken place at the
Guildhall Police-court, and which were reported at
the time.

Soon after the bill was returned, a report was ge-
neral that the defendant intended to remove the fur-
ther proceedings in the case by certiorari to a superior
court.

The prosecution will be continued by the guardians
of the West London Union.

Kober Paine, 23, was-found Guilty a stealing a
handkerchief, the property of Mr. Win. Rosenthal.
The Learned JUDGE inquired of the police-con-
stable who apprehended the prisoner whether any-
thing was known of him ?—The policeman said no-
thing was known of him except that he had been
several times summarily convicted.
The Learped JUDGE said that this was the most
amusing answer he had ever heard, with the exception
of one that he had once received, which was, that the
prisoner was summarily convicted for want of evi•
dance.-•-(Laughter.)