The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-07 00:00:00

TEA SUN, LONDoN, S.A__rti.RDAN
_EVEN LING, DECEM it 7 1844.

to the feeling of the people, who cannot help cons
nesting it with the Tractarian innovations.
firmness or obstinacy upon questions of high prin-
ciple cannot be too much comniended, obstinacy in
things trifling or insliderent to principle cannot be
too, much despised. There are, it is true, the
two cases in which a plausible apology may be
made for obstinacy upon questions of secondary
importance. An importunate claimant may be
refused a trifle, because he is importunat,s—
because in his case every new concession
leads to a new demand. This cannot apply
to men who ask only for the status quo—their de-
mand limits itself for ever. They only ask to be
left where they and their ancestors have been for
nearly two centuries. The remonstrant Churchmen,
indeed, give the hest possible proof of their tontent-
ment with, and deep affection for, the Church, in ear-
nestly praying that its practical order and ritual may
undergo no change. Arguments and answers fit
to be used towards importunate aggressors un-
doubtedly do not apply to them. The second case
where trifles may be obstinately maintained w ith
some colour of reason, is when the concession of the
trifle gives a party triumph ; but the Bishops will
scarcely treat the whole laity and forty-nine-
fiftieths of the clergy as a party to balance
against a few hundred Tractarians ; to put thorn
at all into opposite scales would be a triumph
to the Tractarians immeasurably disproportioned
to their real importance. No the Church can
have no triumph in being left to the peace-
ful enjoyment of her time-honoured usages ; but
the least concession of the least of these usages
would be indeed a triumph to the Tractarians
—a gross insult to the Church—an insult, we do
not hesitate to say, fatal to the Church as a temporal
establishment. This may 'be thought the language
of exaggeration, it is, however, the language of our
deliberate and sincere conviction. We confess
the utmost alarm for the Church as a temporal
establishment. A very few months have passed
since every hand and purse of the nation were
cheerfully opened for Church purposes. Money was
collected for building of churches, for endowments,
and for the erecting and support of church schools, by
hundreds of thousands of pounds. How is it now ?
The very men most active in promoting these noble
contributions, and most liberal in contributing them-
selves, are now the very men who oppose any grants
for Church use.

FROM THE MORNING PAPNRS OF THIS DAN.
TIMES.—This is the age of public meetings and pub
licSdinners. The latter are, in a great mcausurc, made
the feelers of general opinion, whenever a party purpose,
or an object of peculiar weight in the eyes of certain
individuals, is to be promoted. By the medium of toasts
and speTches the required stimulus is conveyed to the
guests, and they go away with the noblest impressions of
tine scheme to be adopted or the thing to be done. All,
of course, are on one side, for who would attend at the
dinner where he would be the sole opponent—the un-
supported dissentient from the voice of a whole company ?
Nothing, therefere,' is more delightful, and more capti-
vating, than the7nndivided unanimity, under favour of
which every sentence is applauded to the echo, and every
speaker cheered to his heart's content. Such assemblies
may be necessary, they may be useful, they may be called
for by the necessities-of the times, 6i the peculiar merits
of the topic to be ,diseussed. We neither ridicule nor
condemn them ; it would be quite unnatural to do so,
seeing that men are seldom, we may say never, so
good-humoured, arid so. ready to take everything
for grantee, as after a -festival of this • kind. How
ever, with all our readiness -stcs
„, do ,justice to the
value of such entertainments, ibere: may be, arid there
must be, certain occasions, and cevain remarks
to which those occasions give rise, Which do not &to-
gether win our approbation or goodwill: Our readers
will find in another part of our paper a report of a meet-
ing of sundry noblemen and gentlemen at Cirencester,
at the annual commemoratioa of the Cirencester Agri-
cultural Association. There was indeed the abounding
flow of sentiment, and the usual amount of speechifying.
There was, of course, much tender pathos; a due ad-
mixture of the grave and gay to interest as well as to
amuse the audience. The principal theme of the day,
however, was one which all of every class now feel
themselves imperatively obliged to consider ;—we mean
the depressed state of the labourer, and the best means
of ameliorating his condition. The Hon. W. Bathurst
seems to have been powerfully awakened to the subject.
" We must not forget," he said, " on an occasion like
this, the agricultural labourer ;" and truly the company
did not forget--to mention him at least, as how could
they at such a dinner, and amid the recurrence of such
questions ? This gentleman, however, unadvisedly as we
think, strayed into one or two diversified branches
of argument, which he might certainly have left
unnoticed with much better taste and feeling than
he showed by introducing and dwelling upon them.
He made, in truth, a somewhat angry attack upon
the manufacturer on behalf of the agriculturist
population, neither well-timed nor exactly applicable
to the whole state of the case. There was manifested
throughout a pointed desire to accuse and overwhelm
the millowners as the most selfish and heartless race of
men—the oppressors of the poor labourer whom they
had taken into their employment, and who, when his toil
had answered their purpose, and he was no longer use-
ful, or could no imager be maintained, turned him adrift
at once upon the parish ! No doubt there is, and re'
doubt can there be, that all the peasant wants is em
ployment ; he wants, and is ready to do, " a fair day's
work for a fair day's wages," than which no proposition
more equitable or more reasonable was ever offered to
the human understanding. He wants just what the lot
of man enjoins upon his station—to gain his bread by
the sweat of his brow. He asks this of his employers—
he has a right to ask it ; although it is a portion of toil
and privation, such as it is, it is his birthright, and can
be no more justly withheld than the rights of his land-
lord can be refused. No wonder, then, that several
of the speakers adopted this subject for their observa-
tions. It could not well escape their attention at
a meeting so obviously connected with the cause
of the poor man. But, we confess, how his
cause could be advanced, or his condition mended,
by flinging it with aggressive violence in the
face of the manufacturer, is an enigma that it puzzles
our ingenuity to solve. Whence this fiery emulation,
this undisguised jealousy of the millowner ? Could not
Mr. Bathurst, or any other speaker, find topics enough
to dilate upon, and remedies of some sort to offer upon
the bitter portion of the unemployed tillers of the soil,
without arraying all his chivalry against the manufac-
turers ? Besides, gentlemen, you will permit us, if
you please, to show you one very sufficient reason why,
if any charge of the kind were made at all, it should
have been aimed elsewhere in the first instance. Who,
we ask, was it that turned the agricultural labourer into
the plodder of the factory ? Who first exhorted and
urged the peasant to forget his original occupation, and
bend his energies to another employment ? We do not
underrate the earnestness of these speakers, but we really
must refresh theirmemories with acorrect representation
of the circumstances tinder which they themselves are
placed in this respect. How, then, came the manufacturers
to find labourers a low wages ready at their hand? Surely
it ought, in common justice, to be remembered that the
landowners themselves were the persons to encourage
this exchange of toil ; that they did all in their power
to free their parishes and estates from the superabundant
hands ; that they gave to the public highly-coloured re
presentations of prosperity, making their own poor be-
lieve they would discover the secret of transmutation in
this Eldorado—that they were to rise rapidly in wages.
and enjoy all the contingent comforts of ample pay. All
this may have been thought politic and judicious ; but,
after driving these men from field labour, to which they
were born, and bringing them into a totally different
sphere of life, the landlords should not, in common fair-
ness, turn round upon the manufacturer and revile hint
for doing in after times what their own example has but
too successfully taught him. And, again, though it may
sound very feasible to talk to the farmer about the neces-
sity of finding employment for the poor on his farm, it is
scarcely intelligible to ordinary minds how this can be done,
when, as Mr. Kearsey, a farmer present, very justly obe
served, so heavy was the taxation under which they suf-
fered, that they were driven to curtail their own expen-
diture, and this always operated upon the wages of the
labourer. Really, no one who advocates arty benevolent
scheme ever seems to feel that the first effort should
come from himself, and that if he wishes others to do
good where he should himself set the example, he must
prove his sincerity by so doing, and doing it quickly.
It never seems to strike the wealthy landowners at such
meetings to propose a real reduction of their own rents,
as a foundation for employing additional labourers or
paying them more adequately. Thus, it is to be feared
too many of the schemesof advantaging the lower orders
fail or fall to the ground, from the want of this great first
principle of showing the way where we would wish to
lead others. It is no great praise to set up for a humane
character at the expense of a neighbour's reputation ;
nor is it any credit to the possessors of large estates
where a numerous population is without employment,
that the master manufacturers treat their own drud,res
no better.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, DEC. 6.—We have had
a very flat week in sugar,. and the sales reported are
under 100 hhds; prices being with difficulty supported.
Nothing doing in other descriptions of sugar. Rum dull,
but the supply offering is small.—Bristol Mercury.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current of Dec. 6.)

FRUIT.—The trade are still inclined to get largely
stocked with Currants, and prices rule firm. Patras new
at 49s to 538, old 458 to 465. Zante and Cephalonia
old 44s and new 47s per cwt. Raisins, Valentin at sos,
Denim 40s, Lelia 38s, Smyrna black 38s, Red 45s to -f7s,
Eleme 48s to 508, Sultana 60s, Muscatels 55s to 100 s.
Figs Turkey pulled are 45s to 75s per cwt.
ItlCE.—There are several purchasers of Bengal, by
private contract low white has been selling at lOs 6d to
its, mid I Is 3d to I Is 9d, good 12s, and fine 12s 3d to
12s 6d per cwt ; there is at present not sufficient at mar-
ket to supply the demand. For Foreign East India Rice
prices are not so firm. Madras yellow is 8s to 8s 6d,
Java white lOs to 12s, and.yellow 9s to lOs per cwt.
INDIGO.—The accounts come to hand from Calcutta
fully confirm those previously received relative to the
abundant crop. The market has a flat appearance, and
the business transacted has been at a decline on the rates
of the late quarterly sales of 2d to 4d per lb. In Spanish
there has been little doing. • i •
OILS.—A further reduction has taken place in the
value of Linseed Oil, on the spot at 2`23 ed to 22s ud,
and for exportation . soina parcels hare been
taken at these rates. For forward delivery many con-
tracts are entered into at 23s per c-at. For Rape Oil,
the crushers with difficulty obtain 35s for pale, and 34s
per cwt for brown. Palm 25s 6d to 26s per cwt for good

and fine qualitAr. Cocoa Nut 24s 6d to 28s per cwt for
V3oM nion to fine quality. Ia Olive Oil the transac-
tions are upon a more extended scale, but not at
better prices; Gallipoli selling at 41/to 42/, Spanish and
Barbary 38./ to 40/ per torn Tho dart:arid h ihntased
1111 detcliptiOils of Common Fish Oils: Southern has been in
good request, and prices rule firm at 291 to 341 for ord to
fine quality. Seal—pale 34/ to 341 lOs, straw and yellow
30l to 334 and brown 291 to 29/ 10s. Cod Oil at 31/ 108
to 32l per tun. Sperm, 871 to 90/ per tun is the value of
first quality. American Lard Oil is 401 to 41/ per tun.
This afternoon at public sale 10 barrels of African
Ground Nut Oil were sold at 33/ lOs per tun.
TaLLow.—This afternoon the market was well sup-
plied with colonial Tallow ; at public sale 323 casks of
stranded St. Petersburgh yellow Candle went at 37s 6d
to 395; 347 packages of South American at 33s to 39 Gd,
21 casks of African 34s to 38s 6d, 92 casks New South
\Vales 37s 9d to 41s 6d; 181 packages of Cape of Good
Hope 38s 6d to 41s 6d; 134 packages of North American
37s 6d to 39s 9d per cwt.

' 2 -
James Mac Kay, mercuant, ~iverpco/;-,D6c antl,
Jan. 23, at twelve, at the Liverpool District C6:l;7.te;
Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Sharpe and Co.,
Bedford-row, London ; Miller and Peel, Liverpool.

.PIVIDENDS.
T. Todd, cotton dealer, Man't.fst•it:Ppe, 11, et eleven,
at the Manchester District Court—A. .laC6i),
Manchester, Dec. 31, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis:
trict Court—T. W. Butterworth, draper, Hulme, Lan-
cashire, Jan. 9, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court—J. Coupland and F. Duncan, merchants, Liver-
pool, Dec. 28, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court
—R. Benbow, timber merchant, Liverposl, Dec. 28, at
eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown
to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
J. and R. Davies, linendrapQrs, Chiswell-street, Jan. 8
—G. Ball, carpenter, Bath, Dwe. 31—B. W. Franklin,
merchant, Liverpool, Dec. 27—J. Grundy, woollen ma-
nufacturer, Ramsbottom, Lancashire, Dec. 30—T. B.
Andrew, tea dealer, Ashton-under-Lyne, Dec. 30—
T. W. Butterworth, draper, Hulme, Lancashire, Jan. 2
T. M. Monckman. tobacconist, Brad:oid, Dec. 27—W.
Trumble, licensed victualler, Liverpool, Dec. 27—A.
Patterson, livery-stable keeper, Liverpool, Dec. 27—W.
Schofield, machine maker, Oldham, Lancashire, Dec. 27
—.J. Peacock, grocer Stockton-upon-Tees, Durham, Dec.
27—H. Hitchen, ironmonger, Halifax, Dec. 27—J.
Walton, saddler, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Dec. 27—G.
Hiller, varnish manufacturer, Sun-street, Bishopsgate-
street, Dec. 27—T. Marsh, miller, Canterbury, Dec. 27
—J. Ramsey, cheesemonger, Chapel-street, Somers-
town, Dec. 27.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

T. F. May and A. West, eating-house keepers, New-
gate-street—R. Underwood, D. Underwood, and W. Un-
derwood, tobacconists, Nottingham G. Fisher, J.
Bramall, and G. Whittles, file manufacturers, Sheffield—
J. W. T. Vollans and R. C. Cross, attorneys, East Ret-
ford, Nottinghamshire—W. F. Bonsai! and H. Buxton,
auctioneers, Manchester—C. Lamy and S. Kendall,
grocers, Aylesbury• street, Clerkenwell—T. Stubbs and
J. Poole, fustian manufacturers, Manchester—Eli and
Elizabeth Berry, drapers, Ashton• under-Lyne—J. N.
Holbrook and J. Jackson, commission agents, Hull—W.
and J. W. Ellis, cloth merchants, Leeds—T. Kay, T.
Whitehead, D. Whitehead, and P. Whitehead, mer-
chants, Rawtenstall—Clarke, Maze, and Co., Bristol (so
far as regards H. G. Clarke)--J. Philpotts and J. H.
Browne, shawl dealers, Brighton—J. and J. A. Webber,
drapers, Taunton, Somersetsh ire—D. Jepson, W. Jepson,
J. Miner, and W. Ezart, glass bottle manufacturers,
Castleford, Yorkshire (so far as regards J. Kilner)—H.
Booth, J. Groom, and E. Marland, spindle makers,
Oldham, Lancashire.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

Robert Brown. ship builder, Dundee, Dec, 9 and 30,
at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Dundee.
John Wallace, grocer, Catrine, Ayrshire, Dec. 11 and
Jan. 8, at twelve, at G. Dunlop's, innkeeper, Catrine.
Robert Brown, lime merchant, Cadder, Dec. 12 and
Jan. 3, at eleven, at the chambers of M. Waddell,
Glasgow.

wetri yttit It will be a bad job for you if you do it
a` in; (pi we. watt you as men alive that if you do it
agtiin; shall have it light; and we will burn you
down. `fliertS' ys th'i'other thing against you, which is,
that you employ other parish men to do your har-
vesting, when there are men it 2 your own parish who
are out of work, and you will do YreU, to employ
Vital end if you employ a single stanger again,
you shall no's dv ea more than one day, for you shall
have a light. An we want is, to have the work done
by the flail. We do not care for the police, as we are
too strong.—Signed A: A, and Co. Take this as
you like," It would appear that upon the prose-
cutor receiving possession of the letter, he applied
to the police, and the prisoner Taylor was taken into
custody. He then declared that he was in company
with the Hurrells on the prosecutor's farm, and as
they were going through a gate he saw the letter in
question sticking on the gate-post, and he took it out
and asked W. Hurrell who it was addressed to, and
he replied that he could not tell him, but he ad-
vised him to ask another 'person employed
upon the farm, and on his telling him that it was ad-
dressed to Mr. Miles, he took the letter to him, and
he declared he knew nothing whatever of the con-
tents of it. Suspicion afterwards fell upon the
other prisoners, and they were taken into eustody,
when Lambert at first denied all knowledge of the
transaction, but while he was under remand he ex-
pressed a desire to make a communication to a magis-
trate, and he then wrote a statement in which he de-
clared that the letter, and also another of a similar
character, which was sent to a gentleman named
Weston, were written by the Hurrelle, and that he
had purchased the paper for them, but not at all
aware to what purpose it was to be employed until
the letters were shown to him by the policeman. He
also stated that he was present when William Hur-
rail's father charged hirri
th writing the threat-
ening letters, and he adm:ted it, and said
that it could not be helped then. In ad-
dition to these facts, it was shown. that
paper of a similar description to that upon vv:2lch the
threatening letter was written was found in the 12°8-,
session of one of the Harrell's ; and that the father us
the prisoner Lambert, who is a schoolmaster at
.Aldhein, and who, it appeared, had taught William
Harrell to write, was called as a witness, and he ex-
pressed his opinion that the writing of the threatening
letter was very similar to that of this prisoner,
although he would not take upon himself to swear
positively, to it.
The Learned Counsel on behalf of the prisoners
explained the precise form of the charge against
them, observing that Taylor was charged as the prin-
cipal, and that unless the jury believed it was clearly
made out that he had a guilty knowledge of the con-
tents of the letter, the other prisoners, who were only
charged accessorially with the commission of the
offence, could not be convicted, and they contended
that the story told by him was perfectly reasonable,
and that the very fact of his going openly to deliver
the letter to his master's wife was almost con-
clusive of his innocence. They also remarked
upon the fact that there was little or no evidence
against the other prisoners, and that the statement of
Lambert ought not to have any weight, as it was
legally no evidence at all against the other prisoners,
and, beside,, was clearly only made by him for the
purpose of getting himself out of trouble.
The prisoner Lambert, in his defence, said he had
told nothing but the truth, and it would have been no
interest to him to be concerned in writing such a
letter, for he did not belong to the parish of Aldham,
and had, besides, never been engaged in agricultural
pursuits.
Mr. Justice Wiemems having summed up, the
jury, after deliberating aconsiderable time, Acquitted
Elisha Hurrell and Lambert, and returned a verdict
of Guilty against the others.

soner then said, " ll—n thee, its been a good one, let's
try again, I can whirl thee next time." Hs became,
however, apparently tranquil once more, and talked ra-
tionally for some time, but took the opportunity of wit-
ness going out for a minutejo get possession of a carving
knife, with which he so terrified the inmates that they
rushed out of the house in a body. The witness hearing
the alarm came into the house, and seeing the prisoner with
the carving knife in his hand, cried out, " Jack, if thou
does'nt lay that down, I'll cleave tha' yead," on which
the prisoner laid the knife down, and was taken s,nto
custody.
This witness, on further examination, stated, that up
to six or eight weeks before, the prisoner had been well
behaved, and a quiet hardworking man. About that
time he began to neglect his work, refused to wash or
clean himself, and would lie in bed all day, saying that
he was clean beat, and had no strength in his limbs. On
one occasion he came to th' witness and asked him to
put him in a chair and keep him for a show. The wit-
ness added, " Soomtimes, when we had coompany, we'd
bring him down and knock him about, to see if 'ud dc' un
any good." He explained, however, that the knocking
about meant merely an endeavour to enliven him by their
society.
The prisoner was acquitted on the ground of insanity.

SOUTH WALES ClRCUlT—Chester, Dcc. 5.
(Before Mr. Baron GURNEY.)

THE CASE OF mn. WINTERBOTTOM-CHARGE OF For,

GERV AGAINST A SOLICITOR.

This case being fixed for this morning, the Court was
crowded to excess, the ease exciting a very great degree
of interest, in consequence of the accused having occu-
pied a most respectable station in the county, having
twice served the office of Mayor of Stockport, and held
the situation of clerk to the magistrates of tbat borough.
The prisoner was defended by Mr. Jervis, M.P., and
Mr. Welsby, who were brought down from London on
special retainers for the purpose, as was also Mr. Bond
Hughes, the celebrated short-hand writes, to take ver-
batim notes of the proceedings.
The Learned Judge, who is labouring under indispo •
sition, did not take his seat until ten o'clock. Shortly
afterwards the grand jury came into Court with upwards
of twenty bills, including four against. John Kenyon
Winterbottom for forgery. This concluding their busi-
ness, the Court discharged them.
The prioner, John Kenyon IVinterbottom, was then
p:eced at the bar, charged with having had in his pes-
se,seien a certain bill of exchange for 5,0001., and that he
ill the names of Elizabeth Isherwood,
had (meted to that i..
Anna Marie Isherwoeel. Miriam Isherwood, and Anna
e;ee executrixes of the late Mr.
Magdalene Isherwood,
John Isherwood, of Marpie :Tall, with intent to defraud
them. He was also ebarged ws.:h uttering the said bill,
with intent to defraud the trustee's of the Pelican Life-
office, with intent to defraud John .104..k50n, and also with
intent to defraud Messrs. Roberts,f.,;and Co.,
hankers, of London. Each indictment cluerged him se-
parately with forging the names of the reelee'ciive en-
dorsers. and also with uttering. The prisoner e7leadd
not guilty.
Tne Attorney-General, Mr. Davidson, and Mr. Yarde'Y
appeared for the prosecution.
The ATTORNEY-IiENEItAL, in stating the case to the
jury, entreated them to dismiss from their minds all
prejudices arising from the discussion of the case out of
doors, and to decide the case solely in accordance with
the evidence which would be laid before them. He was
placed in a most painful position, having known the
prisoner all his life, and could not have believed he would
be guilty of the offence with which he was charged, as
he had always thought him as honourable a man as any
in the country. The prisoner had been for many years,
previous to 1839, an attorney and banker in Stockport,
and the confidential adviser of the late Mr. John Isher-
wood, of Marple Hall. In the year 1814 Mr. Isher-
wood effected a policy of insurance on his life for
5,000 L, the prisoner transacting the business for him.
When the policy was effected, it Was placed by Mr.
Isherwood in a box at Marple Hall, where it was sup-
posed to be kept until his death, which took. place in
May, 1839. After his death the prisoner went to the
agent of the Pelican Life-office in Manchester, produced
the policy of assurance, having, it was supposed, taken it
from the deed-box of Mr. Isherwood, to which he had ac-
cess when attending the funeral. He informed the agent
of the death of Mr. Isherwood,and asked for the requisite
certificates to be filled up. There he subsequently pro-
duced the certificates, and on Dec. 20, 1839, called with
them and the probate of the will of the late Mr. Isherwood,
The agent proposed to pay the amount of the policy by
a bill at seven days' sight, and the prisoner obtained
a stamp for that purpose. The bill was then drawn by
the agent and handed to the prisoner, he at the same
time being told that it must not be endorsed by the par-
ties by procuration, or it would not be caid by the
office. On the 3d of January, 1840, the bill was paid
by the prisoner into the Stockport Bank, and soirtly
after that period he received considerable sums from she
bank, When paid into the bank it had the names of the
ladies mentioned in the indictments on it ; but as he
should only proceed on the one charging the prisoner with
forging the name of Anna Magdelene Isherwood, now
Mrs. Lloyd, he (the Attorney-General) would confine
himself to that case. The bill was subsequently trans-
mitted to Messrs. Jones Loyd and Co., in London, and
the acceptance of two of the trustees of the Pelican-office.
It was paid by Messrs. Roberts and Co. In May, 1840,
application was made by Mrs. Leyd to the prisoner, for
the amount of the policy, when he said it was necessary,
before the money would be paid by the office, that there
should be a Canterbury probate obtained to her father's
will as well as a Chester one. To other applications, he
said the money was safe in London, and the office would
pay interest for it. However, in August, 1840, it was
discovered that the prisoner had received the money,
and Mr. Bush was sent down to investigate the matter,
and he, finding that the prisoner had absconded, took
means to secure his apprehension, and got advertise-
ments issued, offering a reward of 2001. for him. He
could not be found, however, until the month of Septem-
ber last, when he was accidentally met with by a man of
the name of Paine, on the north shore at Liverpool, when
he was apprehended.
A number of witnesses were then called to prove these
facts, Lifter which,
Mr. Jsnvis took several objections to the indictment,
on the ground that the prisoner was indicted for forging
the names of each endorsee separately, whereas the
whole endorsement was only one transaction, and the
bill was not complete until all the names were signed ;
that there was a variance in the different counts, the
title of the Pelican-office not being correctly described,
and that the bill itself was not a negotiable instrument,
until accepted ; and, therefore, there could be no fraud
in uttering it.
Mr. WELSBY followed on the same side.

The JUDGE said the point was one of too great nicety
for him to decide, and he would, therefore, reserve it
for the consideration of the Judges.
Mr. JERVIS then addressed the jury on behalf of the
prisoner, in a most eloquent speech, contending that
there was so much doubt in the case that they could not
safely convict. It was manifest that the prisoner, being
the confidential adviser of the family, considered that he
had authority to receive the money, and to endorse the
bill, and therefore the utmost extent of his guilt was a
breach of trust. He implored them, therefore, under
these circumstances, not to consign the prisoner, by their
verdict, to slavery, and his wife and children to infamy.
The Learned JUDGE briefly summed up the case, and
The jury, after a few moments' consideration, pro-
nounced a verdict of Guilty.
His Lordship ordered judgment to be respited.
There were three other indictments, charging the
prisoner with forging the names of Anna Maria Isher-
wood, Miriam, Isherwood, and Elizabeth Isherwood; and
Mr. JERVIS said he apprenended the prisoner was en-
titled, in some way or other, to be discharged from those
indictments.

The JUDGE —Oh, no, certainly not.
Mr. JERVIS —W ill your Lordship take a note :that I
made the application ?

The JUDGE—Yes.
Mr. JERVIS then applied to the Judge to allow the
officer of the court to furnish a copy of the indictment.
The JUDGE—I have no objection.

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Leicester, Dec. 6.

Catherine Burrell, was arraigned upon a charge of
manslaughter, in causing the death of one Sophia Stanley.
The prisoner was arraigned upon the coroner's inqui-
sition, and also upon the common indictment proceeding
from the Court. The prisoner, who is about forty years
of age, has long practised the art and mystery of mid-
wifery, and the deceased having heard her highly spoken
of by those whom she had previously attended in cases
of labour, engaged her to attend upon her in her coming
confinement, and it was out of the alleged neglect she
was said to have been guilty of on that occasion, by
which her death was occasioned, the present charge
arose. _ _ _ _

The evidence necessarily adduced is not fit for publi-
cation, and we only notice the case in justice to the pri-
soner, as the Learned Judge (Mr. Justice Patteson) told
the jury in his opinion there was no evidence to support
either indictment, and that the coroner's jury had dealt
hardly with the prisoner in returning the verdict it bad.
The jury instantly acquitted her. The deceased was
said to have been the mother of thirteen children.

Thomas Newman, aged 25, was charged with having
intermarried with one Eliza Swingler, his former wife,
Sarah Newman, being then alive.
Mr. Burnaby conducted the case on the part of the
prosecution.
The prosecutrix, a very interesting woman of the age
of 28, deposed that in iVlarch of this year she was
working in Leicester at the straw bonnet business, when
she became acquainted with Newman, whom she under-
stood was a journeyman clock-maker. Newman paid
his addresses to her, representing himself to be a single
man, and the prosecutrix, entertaining an affection for
him, received those addresses favourably, and they were
married at Lubenham Church in September. The pro-
secutrix had heard as early as the month of June that
Newman was a married man, when she wrote to his
mother living at Kettering. Before she received
an answer the prisoner called upon her, and asked
whether she had not written to her mother ? The
prosecutrix asked him what she should have to
write about ? To which he replied, that he knew
she had ; but his mother was unwell, and denied
himself to be a married man. A few days afterwards :.he
received a letter purporting to come from the mother
(which no doubt it did nut), saying Newman was a single
man. This being satisfactory to her the acquaintance
continued, and on the 26th of September they were mar-
ried by banns at the church previously named. The poor
girl bad not been married more than three weeks when
a woman called at the house where they were living, and
asked for Newman. The prosecutrix replied that he
was not then at home. The woman then said that she
(the rroseeutri%) w.;:s not ,ife, whereupon ;
inquiries were set on foot. and it .wus founa ho hail
previously married on the 13th of SepteMber, 1841, at
nt,ar I!:l3uckin,ghamshire. The proof
u: boa, nierriag,s e 4), perieetly clear. The prisoner de-
clined saying anything }n his defence.
The jury found him Guilty.
The Learned JIIIXiE then sentenced him to be impri-