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SALES BY AUCTION.

UP LODERS, DORSET.
A singularly delightful VILLA RESIDENCE, with PLEASURE
GROUNDS extending to FOUR ACRES and a HALF, a
TROUT STREAM forming the boundary, and immediate pos.

session.
MR. GEORGE ROBINS is instructed to submit
to PUBLIC SALE, at the Auction Mart, opposite the
Bank, on THURSDAY, August 5, at Twelve,
A FREEHOLD VILLA RESIDENCE, possessing more of
attraction to those who delight in a country life than can easily
be imagined. It is replete with all the agremens so essential to
the comfort of a family, situate at and known as
UP LODERS, NEAR TO BRIDPORT AND BEAMINSTER,

IN A BEAUTIFUL PART OF DORSET.
The Villa is of modern erection, adorned by a verandah, and
covered approach, contains drawing, dining, and breakfast-rooms,
six best bed-chambers, and excellent offices, detached coach-
house and stable.
THE LAWN AND PLEASURE GROUNDS
are delightfully disposed around the house, decorated with a pro-
fusion of choice shrubs, ornamental parterres and alcoves, a capital
and very productive walled kitchen garden, with greenhouse and
a close of land planted as an orchard, form the domain, and extend
to four acres and a half of rich land,
BOUNDED ON'ONE SIDE BY A TROUT STREAM, _

with a cascade where constant amusement may be obtained, and
on the other by the road to Up Loders.

The Villa may be viewed by applying to Mr. Charles Salisbury,
at the premises, and Particulars, with a drawing, had of him;
also of Mr. Baruch Fox, solicitor, Beaminster, near Bridport ' • of
Mr. Danger, solicitor, Bristol; at the Auction Mart ; and at Mr.
George Robins's offices, Covent-garden.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION•
CAPTAIN WARNER'S EXPERIMENT.
In consequence of the DESTRUCTIVE EXPLOSION off BRIGH-
TON, the Directors of the ROYAL POLYTECHIC INSTITUTION
yield to the generally expressed wish that Dr. RYAN should adapt
one of his Lectures to the subject of EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS.
This Lecture, illustrated by interesting Experiments, so far as they
can be shown with perfect safety, will be delivered daily at Four
o'clock, except on Mondays and Saturdays, and in the Evenings of
Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays, at a Quarter to Nine o'clock. On
Mondays and Saturdays, at Four o'clock, Dr. POTT'S PNEUMA-
TIC MODE of forming SUBMARINE FOUNDATIONS in DEEP
WATER, with ♦arious interesting Experiments. Professor BACH-
IIOFFNER'S Lectures, and all the other subjects of interest in the
Institution.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

WHITEHALL, JuLY 26, 1844.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Hugh
Mackenzie to the church and parish of Tongue, in the presby-
tery of Tongue and County• of Sutherland, vacant by the
transportation of the Rev. Peter Mackenzie to the church and
p Irish of Urquhart, in the presbytery of Dingwall.
ADMIRALTY, JULY 17.
Corps of Royal Marines—Gentleman Cadet F. E. Budd to
be Second Lieutenant, July 23 ; Gentleman Cadet T. Q.
Meade to be Second Lieutenant.
WHITEHALL, JULY 6.
The Right Hon. Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Knt.,
Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas,
has appointed William Henry Newman, of the town of
Southampton, Gentleman, to be one of the Perpetual Com-
missioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be exe-
cuted by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition
of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple
modes of assurance, in and for the town and county of the town
of Southampton, also in and for the county of Hants.

BANKRUPTS.
ISAAC MUNRO, builder, Princes-street, Leicester-
square, to surrender, Aug. 2, at half-past twelve, and Sept. 6,
at half-past one, at the Court of 'Bankruptcy. Whitmore,
official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Ford, Bloomsbury-square.
HENRY DEACON, coal merchant, Waterloo-road, Surrey,
Aug. 3, at two, and Sept. 4, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basing-
hall-street ; Silvestre, Great Dover-street, Newington.
JOHN DAVIES and RICHARD DAVIES, linen
drapers, Chiswell-street, Aug. 9, at two, and Sept. 10, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee,
Coleman-street-buildings ; Goddard. Wood-street, Cheapside.
GEORGE MOORE, grocer, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire,
Aug. 8 and 29, at eleven, at the Leeds Mafia Court. Hope,
official assignee, Leeds; Dixon, New Boswell-court, London ;
Myers, Middlesbrough ; Bond, Leeds.
GEORGE CRAVEN, jun., and HENRY CRAVEN,
millers, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Aug. 8 and 29, at eleven, at the
Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee, Leeds; Fid-
dey, Temple; Markland, Leeds; and Dunning and Stawman,
Leeds.
REES WILLIAMS, cheesemonger, Bristol, Aug. 9, and
Sept. 6, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, offi-
cial assignee, Brieol ; Bevan, Bristol.
MICHAEL M'DIVITT, merchant, Liverpool, Aug. 6,
and Sept. 6, at half-past twelve, at the Liverpool District
Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Holme and Co.,
New-inn, London ' • Yates, jun., Liverpool.
THOMAS BENTLEY ANDREW, tea dealer, Ashton-
under-Lyne, Lancashire, Aug. 6 and 27, at twelve, at the
Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Man-
chester ; Gregory, Faulkner, Gregory, and Bourdillon, Bed-
ford-row, London ; Aseroft, Oldham.
ADAM WATSON, GEORGE MACKENZIE, and
MURDOCK MACKENZIE, ship brokers, Liverpool, Aug.
2, and 28, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Gregory and Co., Bedford-row,
London.
SAMUEL FISHER WILLIAMS, hosier, Liverpool, Aug.
6, and Sept. 6, at one, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird,
official assignee, Liverpool; Chester anti Co., Staple-inn, Lon-
don ; Tyrer, Liverpool.
NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY.
T. May, Tunbridge-wells, Kent.
W. Lee, clothier, Batley, Yorkshire.
J. Walker, clothier, Leeds.
D. Wilcock, cloth weaver, Batley, Yorkshire.
H. Spencer, blacksmith, Kilo wick, Yorkshire.
J. Dufton, porter, Birkenhead, Cheshire.
J. Tiffin, butcher, Peldon, Essex.
C. Whitlow, laceman, Salford, Lancashire.
J. Scarlett, labourer, Poplar.
G. Livesey, Chorley, Lancashire.
D. O'Bryan, joiner, Blackburn, Lancashire.
J. Gregory, law stationer, Cook's-court, Lincoln's Inn.
J. Griffin, miller, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
J. Battes, jun., upholsterer, Jamaica-terrace, Limehouse.
R. Rimmer, butcher, Liverpool.
M. W. Prichard, publican, Llanllechid, Carnarvonshire.
W. Haigh, plasterer, Halifax, Yorkshire.
R. Higgitt, hatter, Rugeley, Staffordshire.
T. Hall, butcher, Great Ashby, Leicestershire.
A. Hutchinson, St. George's-terrace, Walworth.
J. Pim, carpenter, White Hart-place, Kennington-cross.
G. Littler, servant, Euston-square, St. Pancras.
W. Golland, pork-butcher, Norton, Derbyshire.
J. Barton, publican, Sheffield.
J. Farnell, cotton-warp-dealer, Bradford, Yorkshire.
D. Taylor, stone-mason, Bradford, Yorkshire.
G. W. Ward, farmer, Melton, Suffolk.
G. Roalfe, carpenter, Bishopsbourne, Kent.
J. Jones, tailor, Bath.
W. Gray, farmer, Romford, Essex.
S. Sadler, cheesemonger, Frederic-street, Regent's-park.
J. Smith, butcher, Congleton, Cheshire.
W. Sier, clerk, St. John's-square, Clerkenwell.
E. J. Holden, plumber, Green-street, Stepney.
W. H. Wood, coach-builder, Margate.
J. H. Crow, barman, Margate.
E. Johnson, miner, Bilston, Staffordshire.
J. Robinson, clerk, Gloucester-place, Marylebone.
M. A. Cambridge, Oxford-street.
R. Elliott, cabinet-maker, Cheltenham.
T. J. Robotham, chymist, Burslem, Staffordshire.
T. J. Alger, coach-maker, George-street, Mile-end New-town.
J. Barraclough, wool-sorter, Rochdale.
W. Didcote, shoemaker, Cheltenham.
G. Butler, carpenter, Chipping-hill, Essex.
J. Morris, draper, Rawtenstall, Lancashire.

SECOND NOTICES.
E. Bathurst, Banbury, Oxfordshire. July 31, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee.
R. Spillett, farmer, Lexiham, Kent, Aug. 1, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee.
M. Neale, watch-guilder, Great Sutton-street, Clerkenwell,
Aug. 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore,
official assignee.
J. M. Walker, Bayham- terrace, Camden-town, Aug. 1, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official
assignee.
T. Playfair, heuse-agent, Portman-square, Marylebone,
Aug. 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore,
official assignee.
E. Stallard, fellmonger. Buriton, Hampshire, Aag. 1, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official
assignee.
H. Puddick, eating-house-keeper, West Smithfield, City,
Aug. 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager,
official assignee.
E. J. Tweed, traveller, Well-street, Cripplegate, City, Aug.
1, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official
assignee.
W. Lewin, black-lead-packer, Upper Thames-street, City,
Aug. 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager,
official assignee.
F. Layton, carpenter, Brackley, Northamptonshire, Aug. 1,
at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee.
J. W. Hutchins, stone-mason, Ipswich. Aug. 1, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager,
official assignee.
J. Devereux, frame-work-knitter, Adam-street, New Kent-
road, Aug: 1, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher,
official assignee.
R. Newbery, baker, Cambridge, Aug. 1, at half-past two,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee.
J. Hobson, cooper, Northampton, Aug. 1, at half-past two,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee.
D. Ross, clerk, King-street, Westminster, Aug. 1, at two,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee.
J. J. Sanders, jun., carpenter, Penny-fields, Poplar, Aug. 1,
at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee.
W. H. Coveney, teacher of music, Ely, Cambridgeshire.
Aug. 1, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official
assignee.
H. F. C. Finnis, carver, Hanway-street, Oxford-street,
July 30, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, offi.
cial assignee.
J. Abbott, potter, Vauxhall-walk, Lambeth, Aug. 7, at ele•
ven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee.
H. Reickers, green-grocer, Margaret-street, Wilmington-
square, Aug. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell,
official assignee.
C. Thomson, surgeon, Aldersgate-street, City, July 30, at
half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official
assignee.
J. Glover, accountant, Bucklersbury, City, July 30, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee.
S. Parbery, builder, Well-street, St. James's, July 31, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee.
H. B. Hall, engraver, College-street, Islington, July 31,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee.
L. Cohen, hawker, Rochester, Kent, Aug. 6, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee.
H. Niess, clerk, Stafford-place, Pimlico, July 30, at one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee.
R. Watson, trainer of horses, Northampton July 30, at
half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official
t
a o :ss
H. B
i eye eo
ial aisesnjamin, traveller, Little Alie_atreet, Whitechapel,
ia twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. liroom,
J u
gnee.
W. Shallcrass, coal-dealer, Union-street, Blackfriars-road,
July 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, offi-
cial assignee.
G. Ford, jeweller, Hollen-street, Oxford-street, July 30,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official
assignee.
Brunswick-street,
ven,lslington, July 30, at ele-
C. clerk,
tof Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee.
T. L. Rogers, farmer, Knockin, Shropshire, Aug. 3, at one,
at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, o
Striven, official assignee.
B. criven, • brewer, Brierley-hill, Staffordshire, July 31, at
half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston,
aCtol thee,
Court
official assignee.
J. Prince, licensed victualler, Bath, July 30, at eleven, at
the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee.
H. G. Basham, otherwise G. Basham, road repairer,
Stroud, Gloucestershire, Aug. 2, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis-
trict Court. Kynaston, official assignee.
J. Pearson, victualler, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire,
Aug. 2, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Valpy, official assignee.
H. Jones, shopkeeper, Bedvvelty, Monmouthshire, July 31,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acrarnan, official
assignee.
J. Walker, Little Bolton, Lancashire, July 31, at one, at the
Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee.
J. Turner, heel;
• sed victualler, Newton, Cheshire, Aug. 1, at
twelve, at the Alanchester District Court. Fraser, official
assignee.
R. Unsworth, licensed victualler, Wigan, Lancashire, July
31, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson,
official assignee.
T. Peel, collector. Liverpool, July 30, at twelve, at the Li-
verpoolrt Bird, official assignee.
R. District Cou •
R. R. Turner, attorney, Eccles, Lancashire, July 31, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee.
S. Haddock, joiner, Nottingham, Aug. 11, at half-past ten,
at the Birmingham DistriDctIVIDENDS . Court. Whitmore, official assignee.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
H. M. Godwin and C. Lee, ship owners, Bishopsgate-
street Within, Aug. 20, at two-J. Cooper, wheelwright,
Stoney-lane, Southwark, Aug. 20, at half-past eleven-C,
Gatehouse, brewer, Chichester, Aug. 20, at half-past one.
In the Country.
R. Phillips, chemist, Exeter, Aug. 14, at eleven, at the
Exeter District Court-J. Smith, wine merchant, Warwick,
Aug. 22, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.

CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the
contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
W. Gardiner, draper, Exeter, Aug. 16—W. Stewart, silk
manufacturer, Fort-street, Spitalfields, Aug. 19—D. Macfar-
lane, wine merchant, Berners-street, Oxford-street, Aug. 17
—J. Cundy, carpenter, Ranelagh-street, Pimlico, Aug 17—
D. Ross, warehouseman, Little Lop-lane, City, Aug. 17--J-
Balls, livery-stable keeper, Holloway-road, Islington, Aug. 17
—J. W. Martin, chemist, Newmarket, Aug. 19—J. Connie,
earthenware manufacturer, Burslem, Staffordshire, Aug. 20—
F. Davis, linen draper, Tipton, Staffordshire, Aug. 20—G.
Jenkinson, butcher, Wolverhampton, Aug. 17—R. D. New -
man, corn factor, Leeds, Aug. 23—S. Bromley, hat manufac-
turer, Manchester, Aug. 20—A. H. Wagstaff, apothecary,
Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, Aug. 16—G. Field, packer,
Bond-court, Walbrook, Aug. 16—J. Clark, colonial broker,
Mincing-lane, Fenehurch-street, Aug. I6—J. Peaten, iron-
monger, Paddington-street, Marylebone, Aug. 16-:-W. M.
Robertson, auctioneer, Fleet-street, Aug. 16—G. Morrey,
publican, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, Aug. 16—T. C.
Hodson, linen draper, Leominster, Herefordshire, Aug. 16—
J. Wiley, jun., upholsterer, Nottingham, Aug. 16—F. J. H.
Muller, furrier, Addle-street, Wood-street, Aug. 16—J. Gib-
bins, builder, High-street, Marylebone, Aug. 16—G. Sadler,
draper, Cheltenham, Aug. 16.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. _

W. Morgan and H. R. Brown, Bridgetql, I
Glamorganshire—J. West, J. Whittaker, T. Ainsworth, rar
T. Hargreaves, cotton manufacturers, Rawtenstall, Lanca-
shire—J. Cope and L. E. Reed, schoolmistresses, Liverpool—
H. J. and J. Dixon, carpet manufacturers, Aldermanbury—
A. D. Young and W. Thompson, wholesale tea dealers, How-
fori-buildings, Fenchurch-street—A. D. Young, W. Ridge,
jun., and W. Thompson, wholesale tea dealers, Howford-build-
ings, Fenchurch-street (so far as regards W. Thompson)—
G. de Laubenque and Co., Castries, St. Lucia—W. A. Mac-
farlane and Co., Castries, St. Lucia—John and Jonathan
Fearnley, corn millers, Dewsbury, Yorkshire—F. F. Gibbs
and W. H. Suter, ship brokers, Liverpool—T. M. Williams
and J. T. Stockall, naturalists, Great Titchfield-street, Mary-
lebone—R. and M. Warburton, bakers, Liverpool—G. Ken-
worthy and H. Gibson, Pernambuco, Brazil—T. Lewis and
W. A. Perry, tailors, Birmingham—W. Gray and J. Bass,
brick makers, Toddington, Bedfordshire—W. Sibsey and W.
Towel!, coal merchants, Boston, Lincolnshire—R. K. Mann
and W. Owston, wine merchants, Hull—M. Turner and B.
Firth, cotton-warp makers, Halifax, Yorkshire—T. Blacklock
and A. Chinn, tea dealers, Manchester—J. Leach and R.
Wardleworth, cigar dealers, Manchester—E. and J. H. Gar-
land, farmers, Great Canford, Dorsetshire.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
GEORGE STEPHEN, iron founder, Edinburgh, Aug. 1
and 22, at one, at the Chambers of A. James, Edinburgh.

more than almost any other man would for an un-
protected woman. If the jury should, however, think
that there was sufficient evidence to justify them in
finding a verdict for the plaintiff, he was quite sure that,
under the circumstances, they would consider the lowest
coin of the realm a sufficient compensation for the injury
he had received.

Mr. Baron PARKE having summed up,
Tho jury, after a short deliberation, found for the
plaintiff—Damages, One Shilling.
Friday.
The business of this assize is nearly concluded. The
special jury causes are nearly all tried, and there are
only a few petty jury cases remaining to be disposed of.
Mr. Baron Parke was occupied during nearly the whole
of the day in trying a right of way case, the details of
which were of no public interest.
CROWN SIDE.— (Be fore Mr. Baron GURNEY.)
George Plummer, aged 50, was indicted, on Thursday,
for the manslaughter of his wife, by having neglected to
provide for her support, and causing her to be exposed
to the inclemency of the weather without proper suste-
nance. There were several counts in the indictment,
varying the form of the charge.
It will be recollected that the prisoner was indicted at
the Winter Assizes, 1843, but, from some cause or other,
no one attended to prosecute, and the prisoner was, con-
sequently, discharged by proclamation. A bill was sub-
quently preferred against him, and he was now brought
up to take his trial.
Mr. Bodkin appeared for the prosecution. The pri-
soner had no counsel.
Mr. BODKIN, in stating the case to the jury, ex-
plained that by law a husband was bound to support and
maintain his wife, and the charge against the prisoner
was, that he had neglected to do so, and that, by means
of that neglect, and the refusal of the prisoner to receive
his wife at a time when she was in a destitute and almost

dying state, he had caused her death, and was thus amen-
able to the present charge. The Learned Counsel went
on to say that the prisoner had filled the situation of
gardener to a nobleman in the neighbourhood of Sidcup,
and had been separated from his wife for some time
before her death, and had made her an allowance of half-
a-crown a week. She became, however, in a most des-
titute and miserable condition, and was found by a po-
liceman late at night, to whom she stated that
she had no home to go to. He took her to the prisoner's
house, and asked him to admit her, but, with offensive
language, he refused to do so, and the deceased very
shortly afterwards died, and from the medical testimony
there could be no doubt that her death was occasioned
by her state of destitution and want of nourishment.
The Learned Counsel went on to state that it would ap-
pear that shortly before the death of the deceased, a me-
dical gentleman, who would be called before the jury,
had given her a letter to take to the relieving officer
of the district requiring him to give the deceased relief,
but it would appear no attention was paid to the request.
He (the Learned Counsel) had no hesitation in saying
that if this letter had been received by the relieving
officer, he had grossly neglected his duty in not attending
to it. Every destitute person was entitled to relief, and
if any relieving officer, under such circumstances, neg-
lected to perform the duty that devolved upon him,
there was very little doubt that he would be liable to have
a charge of a similar nature to the present preferred
against him. The Learned Counsel then called the fol-
lowing witnesses:—
Hannah Riley deposed that she lived at Foot's Cray,
and knew the prisoner and the deceased, his wife. The
deceased died on the 23d November, 1843, and on the
Sunday before her death she had asked witness to give
her a lodging for the night. She remained in witness's
house three or four days, and during that time she ap-
peared to be very ill.
Thomas Mumford, an illegitimate child of the de-
ceased, previous to her marriage with the prisoner, de-
posed that he saw his mother on the 19th of November,
when she appeared very ill, and complained of great
pain. Prisoner and his mother had not lived together
for some time before this, and he used to allow her
half-a-crown a-week, which she generally received on
Sunday, and he believed she did so on the week previous
to her death.
Cross- examined by the prisoner—Witness was not
aware of the reason of their being apart.
Mary Anna Mumford, wife of the last witness, spoke
to the miserable state of the deceased, a short time pre-
vious to her death. She also proved that the prisoner
and his wife had been separated for four years, and that
he used to allow her half-a-crown a week.
Mr. T. Pritchard, surgeon, of Sidcup, deposed that he
knew the deceased, and had noticed her particularly for
several days before her death. On the 21st of November,
two days before her death, she came to his surgery, and,
at that time she appeared to be in a dying state, and he
told her that she was not in a condition to be about,
and, indeed, he considered that she was hardly fit to go
away from his surgery. He gave her a letter to the re-
lieving officer of the district, in which he described ber
condition, and requested him to relieve her. Shortly
afterwards he heard she was dead, and, by direction of
the Coroner, he made a post tnortem examination of the
deceased. He found the stomach and bowels perfectly
empty, the liver was diseased, and there was also an ex-
tensive ulceration of the lower part of the body.
By the COURT—Witness had no doubt the death of
the' deceased was accelerated by the want of proper
nourishment and clothing.
William Earl, a police-constable stationed at Sidcup,
deposed that, on the Wednesday previous to the death
of' the deceased, he saw her, and had some conversation
with her, during which she complained of the conduct
of her husband. She appeared very ill at this time,
and he persuaded her to go to the relieving-officer.
lie saw her again at eleven o'clock at night, and she
was then very wet, and in a miserable state. She
went to wards the house where the prisoner
lodged, and witness heard her ask him to let
her in. Witness told the prisoner, who was at the win-
dow, that his wife was in a miserable state, and asked
him to let her in. The prisoner replied that he had no
lodging for her. Witness told him that he was her
husband, and ought to provide for her ; to which the
prisoner replied that she was a nasty —, and he should
not get up, or trouble himself about her, and he then
shut down the window. After this, witness took the
deceased to the house of the prisoner's father, who also
refused to receive her ; and he then offered to give her
a shelter in the station-house, but the deceased would
not accept it, and walked away. About three o'clock the
next morning he found her in an out-house, and she was
then wet through, and very ill. Witness got some beer
for her, which she drank, and he did not see her any
more alive.
Sarah Coomber deposed that at the time in question her
husband kept the Black Horse public house at Sidcup.
On the Thursday before the death of the deceased she
came to witness's house and wished for a lodging. She
appeared to be very ill, and in a most destitute condition.
The prisoner was in the house at the time, and witness
told him the state of his wife, when ho replied that she
was no wife of his, and had not been for many years.
She allowed the deceased to remain in the house during
the night, and she was put to bed. The next morning
she was insensible and died shortly afterwards.
A servant in the employ of Mrs. Coomber proved that
she accompanied the deceased to her bed-room, and she
appeared so weak as to be hardly able to stand.
Another witness deposed that a day or two before the
death of the deceased she came to her house, and, seeing
her miserable condition, she called to the prisoner, who
was passing at the time, and asked him to take her away,
when he replied, " Turn her out, I won't have her."
Mr. Pritchard was re-called, and in answer to ques-
tions put to him, he said, that the deceased would no
doubt have lived for some time if proper care had been
taken of her. Diarrhoea was the immediate cause of
death, and he was of opinion, that the death was hastened
by her exposure to the weather on the Wednesday
night.
The prisoner, in defence, said that he and the deceased
had mutually agreed to separate, and he allowed her half-
a-crown a week, which was all he could afford. She had
come to him several times in a most filthy condition, and
it was impossible he could live with her.
Mr. Baron GURNEY then addressed the jury, and said
there could be no doubt that in law a husband was bound
to provide for and support his wife, and if, by neglecting
to do so, he caused her death, he would subject him-
self to a charge of manslaughter. The present case,
however, presented some peculiar features. It appeared
that the parties had agreed to separate, and that the pri-
soner undertook to make his wife an allowance of half-a-
crown a week, and there did not appear to be any proof
that at the time the application was made to the pri•
soner to admit his wife into his house on te night when
the exposure to the weather was said to have caused her
death, that he was at all aware she was in a dying con-
dition. The Learned Judge then went through the evi-
dence, and left the case in the hands of the jury.
After a short deliberation they returned a verdict of—
Not Guilty.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Exeter, July 25.
(Before Mr. Justice WiGurnAN.)
Wilmot Manning, a girl between fourteen and fifteen years
of age, was indicted for setting fire to a dwelling-house, some
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It appeared that the prisoner was apprenticed by the
parish to the prosecutor, who was a small farmer, residing in
the county of Devon. On the morning of the 10th of illay
the prosecutor went out, leaving the prisoner and Frances
Conybeare in his house. The latter was sitting at work in
the kitchen, about eleven in the morning. She smelt fire, and
asked the prisoner, who was in and out about her work, what
it was. The prisoner replied that she did not know. She
went out and soon returned.; then said she had burnt her
apron, and that the pig-house was on fire. The witness ran
out and saw the pig-house in flames, which communicated to
the dwelling-house, and all the premises were burnt down.
The prisoner had afterwards told her master that she had set
a rag on fire and taken it out in her apron, and had then
blown it on and put it in a bundle of furze near the pig-
house. Tfie prisoner had told another person that she in-
tended to injure no one but her master.
Mr. ROWE having addressed the jury for the prisoner, .
The Learned JUDGE summed up, and the jury acquitted
the prisoner.
lier father begged to be allowed to take her home at once.