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Lord Ashley's interference with millowners, and
the other parts of society, defended by appealing to
their report, but the superiority of their know-
ledge is assumed to be so great, that it is described as a
new species of reason for other men to surrender their
own judgment to the conclusions of Messrs. Horner and
Saunders. Parliament, which deputed them to inquire, is
held to have given up its own senses and will to them, and
is held to be bound to see only with their eyes, and le-
gislate only with their understandings. By this kind of
deference they are elevated into the masters of the Minis-
ters and the Parliament. By Lord Ashley and some of our
Contemporaries they seem to be regarded as the concen-
trated essence of good sense, which alone is capable on this
subject of giving flavour to a general vapidness. Now,
it is precisely because their attention has been closely
and exclusively fixed on a single point that we are dis-
posed to resist their authority, and affirm that their sug-
gestions, as the basis of a law which is to affect the
whole community, are unworthy of notice. Let it be fur-
ther remembered that the inquiries of the Factory Com-
missioners have been as much limited in time as in space.
They have seen the factories in operation only, we be.
lieve, since 1833, the date of Lord Ashley's Bill; and
certainly the greatest and the worst complaints have
been made since that time. Through a -large portion of
the intervening period great distress has prevailed in
the manufacturing districts. The millowners have seen
their property, and even their subsistence, in peril ;
they have had difficulty in scraping together the
means of paying their workpeople, and of paying
the very large demands of the public tax-gather ; they
have been forced, therefore, to be thrifty—at times may
have seemed to lean hard upon the operatives, exacting out
of them the means of bearing the public charges, and of
sustaining their own fortunes—which we hold, when
honestly performed, to be laudable in the individual and
beneficent to the State ; they have been unable, also to
find adequate employment for men, and have been glad,
on account of the pressure on themselves, to use only the
cheapest labour." One must admire the new canon of rea-
soning asserted in this argument. The witnesses are be-
yond dispute originally impartial, and they happen
to be the only available witnesses who are impar-
tial ; if there are other impartial witnesses let them be
named. But to attend to the evidence of these, the only
impartial witnesses, is to elevate them to be masters of
the Ministers and the Parliament ; -just, we suppose,
as an impartial witness in the Court of Queen's
Bench becomes the master of Lord Denman and
a special jury. Our Contemporary, however, thinks
that notwithstanding their unimpeached intelligence and
impartiality, the Factory Commissioners are unworthy to
have their opinions seriously considered,. and this for
the strangest reason in the world—" precisely because
their attention has been closely and exclusively fixed
upon a single point"—which is the point in ques-
tion, neverthless. The witness is to be slighted
because he has minutely studied the subject of his evi-
dence; or, to come to the matter, the gentleman who, by
careful consideration of repeated experiments has satisfied
himself that more work, and better work, and cheaper
work, is done by a given number of hands working ten
hours in a cotton mill than by the same number of hands
working twelve hours (a conclusion of more than one Com-
missioner) is to be disregarded—because, we suppose,
he has not taken "a course of the lectures of the
League. But there is another reason why the report
of eye-witnesses is 'to be held of no account. They
have not merely been deprived of the peripatetic
lights of Messrs. Cobden, Maud, Bright, and
Smith, which our Contemporary designates as a
want of space. -" The inquiries. of the Factory
Commissioners have been as much limited in time as in'
space, they have seen the factories in operation only, we
believe, since 1833." Only during eleven years ! quite a
transient glance, says the Morning Chronicle, and these
11 years have been years during which the millowners
have had difficulty in scraping together the means of
paying their workpeople and of paying the very lame de-
mands:of the public tax-gatherer, " and have been glae'd, on
account of the pressure on themselves, to employ only
the cheapest labour." Poor fellows, nothing but neces-
sity could prevent their overpaying their labourers.
But .for these sad eleven years—we must notcall them
tedious—because they are but a twinkling of the eye, in
our Contemporary's opinion—for these sad eleven years,
we should like to know, to what extent thenumber of mills
has been diminished during the period of depression ?
Will the Morning Chronicle tell ? Well, if it 'cannot
speak of any diminution, perhaps it "mighty tell the extent
to vt hich the number of mills has increased, notwith-
standing the sufferings of the poor fellows "scraping"
to pay their way. Has the increase been 10 per
-cent. ?-20 per cent. ?-50 per cent. ?=-100 per cent. ?
We are very much disposed to rate the increase
even above the last ratio ; and if we should 'happen
to be right, what becomes of the peculiar circum-
stances that render the last eleven years an unfit period
to be taken as a sample of the manufacturing
,history of
the country ? Mark, we do not dispute -the existence of
great distress during the eleven years ; but we ascribe
it altogether to that system of over-building, over-pro-
duction, and over-working, of which long hours of la-
bour constitute the basis, and, if we may so speak, the
charter—for without long hours of labour there would
be no temptation to over-build, and little opportunity of
over-production.

' once of such an intimacy for so long a period, and he
considered that there was an entire absence of any proof
that he had ever made a promise to marry the plaintiff,
for if he had, when she was delivered of a child her
father must have insisted neon the promise being ful-
filled. He put it to the jury whether this was not
what would be expected from a father • under
such circumstances, and whether the absence
of such evidence was not a convincing proof that no
such promise had been given. The only evidence that
had been adduced to prove the promise, was the evidence
of the brother as to certain observations and statements
alleged to have been made by the defendant, and the
production of a Testament, in which there was an entry
of the child's name in the defendant's hand-writing. This,
however, he contended, was no proof that any promise
had been given, and if the jury were to find a verdict
against the defendant upon such slight grounds, it would
enable parties, no matter however abandoned
they might be, to get up cases of this
description, for the purpose of extorting money
from persons who might have an illicit connection with
any member of their family. The Learned Counsel
then proceeded to comment upon the evidence that had
been adduced, aid concluded by expressing his opinion
that the jury ought not to countenance a case of such a
description.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE then summed up, and the
jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for
the plaintiff—Damages, 2001.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)

Frederick Fox, 50, was charged with a felonious
assault upon John Hammond.
Mr. Clarkson, with Locke, conducted the prose-
cution.

The details of the case are quite unfit for publication.
The offence was committed in. the workhouse of the
Hambledon Union, in December last, at which
time it appeared the establishment was full
of inmates, and in one room there were fifteen
beds, all occupied by able-bodied paupers. A com-
plaint was made to the governor of the workhouse,
but he did not appear to' take any notice of it, and no in-
quiry took place until som time afterwards, when the
most disgusting proceedings were disclosed, and the
prisoner and three other paupers were eventually com-
mitted for trial.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON remarked that the conduct of
the governor, in not instituting. an immediate inquiry, when
the complaint was made to him, was most scandalous.
The jury found the defendant Guilty, and at the same
time said they thought the governor of the union-house
was very Much Co blamC _ _

Mr. Avon ALDERSON said he quite agreed with them.
Such proceedings as these ought to have been taken
notice of immediately, and it was impossible to say what
mischief might have been occasioned by neglecting to do so.
The defendant was then ordered to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for two years.
George Elderfield, 28, was indicted for feloniously
setting fire to a barn belonging to lames Peto Shrubb,
Esq., at Guildford.

Mr: Locke conducted the, prosecution, and Mr. Knapp
he defence. '

The case was not made out, and the jury returned a
verdict of Not Guilty.

IRISH ASSIZES.

NORTH TIPPERARY.—Nenagh, March 23.
WILFUL MURDER OF THOMAS TIERNEY.
Patrick. Gleeson, a powerfully-made young man, was placed
at the bar, charged with having, on the 12th of March, 1843,
been concerned in the wilful murder of Thomas Tierney.
Mr. 11nEwsrEn;Q.C., stated the case for the Crown, and
said—Gentlemen of the Jury, the prisoner at the bar stands
indicted for oue of the most barbarous murders that has dis-
graced even the annals of this county. It will appear in
evidence, that some time in the winter of 1842, or the begin
ning of 1843, Thomas Tierney, who had been a' prisoner.
swore informations against two persons for firing at him
That fact will be established beyond all doubt ; but whether
he himself was mistaken 'in reference to the person who fired
at him we have no means of judging, as he never lived to
proseeute the parties: A man named Thomas Gleeson, the
brother Of the prisoner at the bar; was one of those whom he
charged with the commission of that offence. The .place
where this occurred was between Toomavara and the Devil's-
bit—a wild district in this county ; and. Tierney having sworn
his informations in February, 1843, and being bound over
to prosecute at the following spring assizes, it was con-
sidered advisable to put an end to the prosecution
by 'putting out of the way of the author of it. ',Thomas
Gleeson„ one of the men accused, was a brother of "the pri-
soner at the bar; and it is impossible to shut one's 'eyes to
the fact, all distressing as it is, that in this country there are
two
,codes of law in full operation. One is the law of the
land, which we are now assembled here to administer—one
in which every man accused has thrown around him the best
safeguard and protection, while every care is taken to pro-
.test innocence from being unjusily condemned. It is a
righteous and beneficent rule that better should ninety-nine
guilty men escape than one innocent man suffer, and, such is
the code we are here to administer. By its agency the pri-
soner is put on his trial in the face of open day, with his ac
misers before him, and the Court vigilant to see that his
cause shall suffer no unjust prejudice. Thomas Tierney," the
deceased man, met with no such trial. He was tried behind
his back—he did not know what was his crime, or who were
his accusers—no forms of justice were gone through—he was
condemned in secret, and met his death: by the hands of as-
sassins, the willing instruments of that terrible code which
has made life and property, and everything' dear. to man,
insecure in this country. On the evening of the 12th of
March„, 1843, the deceased was sitting in. the hot* of
a woman
,named Sally Gleeson, or Sally Brien—in that
house where the owner of it, her two little children,
_,and
a. young girl, Bridget Grady. 'Bridget Grady
.was stand-
ing beside the lira-place facing the door, 'having 'a
view of every one coming to the door ; the deceased was at
the opposite side of the fire, fondling one of the little chil
dren between his knees, when a party of monsters rushed
into the house, just after nightfall, and found him in that
condition, which was one calculated to disarm the most sa-
vage heart. But those executioners had no compunction ;
they desired the mother to take her children into another
small room, and she did so, getting with them under a bed,
and being in such a position as to render it impossible for;
her to swear to the appearance of any of the men—or, at
least, she_could not identify any engaged in that, transaction,
She is an adult, and'prObably had'not the courage ,to brave
the mandates of a savage code. Lftnd here that complaints
have been made,• and. sometimes I myself have indulged in
the' expression of disapprobation, of the conduct of those
who refuse to come forward to bring the perpetrators`of a
crime after reading the details (I this case,;
myl to justiceurprseon ; but,thesuect has ceased. It is an awful consil
deration, and lam afraid you will find during the progress
of these sizes that murder is a crime committed here in
the :most daring manner, and that those concerned in it
proceed in the most business-like way to put their unfortul
nate victims to death. The child Bridget Grady, who was
is the house that night,. has not 'sense -enough to know the
danger of telling the truth. She witnessed the transaction:
' and she is the only witness you can have to assist you in
your investigation. Upon her testimony alone the case
ymeuasrts depend, She
anSdheshise,awvherYo is3rofuulnlyg sensible of the obligation
child-not. more than 11
you the, entire of this transaction. It
to a particular circumstance, she
dofoeans
hoaaptphe,awitlhl
atte,llowing
was well acquainted with the person of the prisoner. She
was accustomed to receive instruction in the house of a
schoolmaster of the name of Kennedy, living very, near to
the cottage of Sally Gleeson, and his place was on the road
side leading to a bog, to which the prisoner was in the habit
of going frequently to draw turf. I believe she did not know
his name, but she knew him by a soubriquet applied to him
of the " Omadhattn," and was intimately acquainted with hit
person. She will prove that he was one of the five men con-
cerned in the murder, although I believe he did not strike a
blow. Upon the whole of the case it will be for you to form
and are also certain that she
an opinion as to the veracity of this witness, and if you en-
why Then it will be your duty to find
the prisoner guilty.
could
dn naoto
bdeoumbitstoafkheear, veracity,
Sally Brien was examined, and corroborated the statement
of counsel as to the murder of Tierney in her house. On her
crosa-examination she stated 'that the place was dark.. She
never saw or keard who the men were that committed. the
murder.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.'
HOME CIRCUIT, Kingston, March 28.
CIVIL SIDE.
(Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Common Jury.)
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.--43ELSON V.
WILLIAMS.

This was was an action brought by the plaintiff, to re-
cover damages for a breach of promise of marriage by
the defendant.
Mr. Montagu Chambers and Mr. Knapp were for the
plaintiff, -and Mr. Thesiger and Dir. Platt for the de-
fendant.

Mr. CHAMBERS stated the case, and said the plaintiff
in the present action was a person in a very humble
station of life, and she sought from the defendant com-
pensation in damages for one of the greatest injuries
that could be inflicted upon a woman. The plaintiff and
the defendant were both about thirty-two years of age,
but the intimacy first commenced between them at a
much earlier period of life. They both resided at
Erimley, in this county, and they first became acquainted
in 1831. An intimate connection and affection sprung
up between them, the result of which was, that in 1835
the plaintiff gave birth to a female child. The defen-
dant was the son of a gentleman of some property in the
neighbourhood. He always expressed great affection to•
wards the plaintiff, avowed his intention to marry her, and
when the child was born he permitted it to be christened
in his name ; and to show what his intentions were at
this time, he should produce a Testament, in which the
defendant had entered the words " Maria Augusta Wil-
liams, born Friday, July 17, 1835, half-past six, P.M ;"
and, in fact, the defendant always recognised the infant
.as his.legitimate child, and on several occasions stated to
the brother of the plaintiff that he would rather the
breath should go out of his body than that his sister
should ,not become his wife. He admitted that an
illicit connection had continued for a consider-
able period between the parties, but it was
alone countenanced upon the representation of
the 'defendant that he could not marry without
disobliging his father, from whom he had considerable
expectations, and that he would embrace the first
opportunity of redeeming his pledges to the plaintiff.
The father of the defendant died in 1843, and he then
still adhered to his engagement, and expressed his satis-
faction that the period was at length come when he
could carry out the promise he had made and restore
to the plaintiff that position of honour and respecta-
bility of which he had deprived her. In spite,
however, of all these protestations the defendant
had deserted the unfortunate plaintiff, and had
put it out of his power to do her justice,
by marrying another woman. 'the defendant,
while in poor circumstances, had alwayi professed great
affection for the plaintiff, and had led her to believe that
she would be raised to a station of comfort and indepen-
dence, but when he became comparatively rich and in-
dependent, he forgot all those professions, and basely
desdrted the• woman. who had sacrificed everything to
him. Under these circumstances the plaintiff appealed
to the jury for damages for the injury she had 'sustained,
and he was satisfied they would give her such compensa-
tion as she might be considered fairly entitled to under
such circumstances-. The Learned Counsel then called
the following witnesses:—
John Belson—l am the brother of the plaintiff. She
is about 32 years old. I have knOwn the defendant for
twenty years, and I believe he was thirty-three last
August. The defendant used to come very often to our
house at Frimley. He used to come courting to my sis-
ter, and was received at any time. In 1835 my sister
was delivered of a child, and I had a conversation with
the defendant before her confinement, when he said " I
shall make your sister ray wife as soon as possible." He
constantly visited my sister while she prgnant,and he told
me his father had offered him 50/. to give my sister, and
break off the connexion, but he said, he would rather
lose all the breath out of his body than forsake her.
The defendant's father died in January, 1843, and he
then told me that he intended to make Kate, meaning
my sister, his wife, and he would take a little farm in
the country and live away from his brother and sister.
Soon after this we• ascertained that the defendant had
been married, and upon my sister hearing of it she be-
came very ill.
Cross-examined—l get my living by labour in an
honest way as well as I can, occasionally by holding
horses. My father never earned more than. forty shil-
lings a week. Our cottage had eight rooms. I did not
know before. March, 1835, that there had been any im-
proper intercourse between the defendant and my sister.
He used sometimes to whistle, and at others to throw
stones, and she went out to him, and they remained out
for some time. Defendant was not more than seventeen
when he first became acquainted with my sister. She
was not in the habit of dancing at beer-shops. She has
sometimes been with me to a beer-shop, but she never
drank at such places with strange men. The defendant
was of very dark complexion. The child was rather
fair,

Bridget. Grady, a very intelligent, child of about eleven
years of age, was also examined and gave strong evidence of,
the prisoner's guilt.
The prisoner's brother, sister, and mother, were examined
in support of an alibi.
Judge BALL charged the jury, remarking that the case de-
pended on the veracity and accuracy of the child. '
The jury retired• at ten o'clock, and after a time the fore-
man intimated that they had notagreed ; andaskedif these
was any reasonable doubt of the child's accuracy, should net
the prisoner get the benefit of the doubt ?
Judge BALL said that was the great principle of the law
criminal cases.
. The jury at half-past eleven. returned a verdict of Net
Guilty.
When they first went into their room the majority were,
we understand, for a conviction.

Amelia Gurney deposed, that she took lodgings in
Gravel-lane, Southwark, for the plaintiff and the defen-
dant who passed as man and wife ; and she said, that
defendant told her now there was no obstacle to his
marriage with the plaintiff, and that it should soon take
place.
The 'Testament, with the entry referred to by the
Learned Counsel, was then put in evidence.
Mr; THNSIGER them addressed the jury for the de
fendant, and commenced by entreating them not to
allow themselves to be prejudiced by anything they had
heard stated, but to be guided solely by the evidence,
and the real facts of the case which it disclosed. lie
,then went on say, that at the time the intimacy first
commenced between the . parties, the defendant
was a boy of seventeen just come 'from
boarding school ; and it was more likely that
•at such an age, he should liave Peen seduced by the
plaintiff, -than that she' ilhonlif:have fallen a victim to
him. He then proceddeirties'reiiiiii -upon. the 'Conduct
of the family of the plaintiff in permitting the confirm-

SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVEVING, MARCH 29,

of making the complaint ;' but he considered it to be his
duty to come forward on an occasion of so much importance
to prevent a practice calculated to increase most prodi-
giously the expense of the Government who had acted
with regard to the light sovereigns and half sovereigns
with great liberality to the public. lie had, he said,
been twenty years connected with the Mint, and had
weighed many millions of sovereigns and half sovereigns,
and he well knew the large expense incurred by the re-
cent calling in of the coinage.
Sir PETER LAURIE then sent a messenger to the
offices of Messrs. Freshfield, the solicitors to the Bank
of England, observing that the subject was
.too serious
a one to entertain without the attendance of some autho-
rised person upon the part of that establishment.
Mr. Charles Freshfield immediately attended, and
having been informed by Sir Peter Laurie of the nature
of the representation which had been made, said, that
he should make inquiry on the subject ; and that no
doubt a satisfactory explanation would be afforded as
soon as possible.
Two yoUng men named Edward Stone and William
Dunn were brought up charged with having used
threats againsfMr. Christopher Clark.
The prosecutor stated that he was the proprietor of
eight omnibuses, which plied to and from the Bank and
Pimlico,' and that some time ago he detected two thieves
belonging to what was called " the swell mob," who had
robbed a lady in an omnibus of which he was conductor.
In consequence of having caused the transportation of
the delinquents he had been exposed to the grossest
insults from their " pals," who still remained to prey
upon the public. On Wednesday, as , witness was ' with
his omnibus in Cornhilt, Dunn shook his fist at him,
and used some words in a menacing tone. Witness got
down off his foot board, and asked the man what he
meant? and' Stone said " Cut a button-hole in his b—
eye." Dunn then said to witness, " You lagged poor
Moore and another, and we'll put you away." He gave
them into the custody' of the police, as he considered his
life to be in danger from such men. He added that one
of the prisoners had threatened him as he was attend-
ing his omnibus in Regent-street.
Sir PETER LAURIE—Why did you not give him into
custody then ? VVitness—Because my omnibus was full,
and I had • nobody to take my place, otherwise I cer-
tainly should have done so.
Stone denied that. he had ever opened his lips to the
prosecutor. He was, he said, of no trade or profession,
but was allowed 1501. a-year by his uncle in Aberdeen.
Dunn said he knew nothing whatever of the prose-
cutor ; that he never in his life had been in trouble, that
he was a cab-owner in extensive business, and was
wholly unknown to people of bad character.
Sir PETER LAURIE said the very circumstance which
led to the annoyances to which Mr. Clark had been sub •
ject, proved how deeply the public were indebted to him
for the manly exertions he had made to catch and punish
the thieves who had robbed the female passenger.
The prisoners were then ordered to find bail in se-
curity to the amount of 40L each, and to be bOurid over
in the sum of 'BOl. each to keep the peace towards all
her Majesty's subjects, particularly towards Christopher
Clark.—The bail was procured.
CLERKE.IV WELL.
John Hill, a cheesemonger, residing at No. 16, Stock-
well-street, Greenwich, was charged with causing the
death of Ellen Cash, a child of seven years old, by driving
a cart over her.
From the evidence of police-constable Churchyard,
174 G, and that of other witnesses, it appeared that the
prisoner was driving a spring-cart along Portpool-lane.
That at the junction of this lane and Leather-lane a
number of children had gathered round a heap of the
sweepings of a grocer's shop, and were busily engaged
in picking raisins .out of it, when the prisoner drove up.
They all ran in different directions, but the unfortunate
deceased, running against the step of the tart, was
knocked down, and the wheel passed over her chest. A
yowl.g man, who witnessed the occurence, which took
place at eight o'clock on that morning, immediately took
up the-child, and ,carried it into a surgery hard by, but
when he reached the surgery life was extinct. All the
witnelies concurred in the belief that the prisoner was
driving at a moderate pace,,and that he could not haie
" pulled up " in safficient - time to enable the child to
escape.
The father of the deceased who seemed' greatly dis-
tressed, said the constable had told a different story out
of Court, imputing the blame of neglect to the carter,
but this the constable positiiely dewed.
The prisoner'," who seemed to treat the matter with un-
feeling indifference; was then discharged. •
Joseph Wright was charged with deserting his wife
and child, whereby they became chargeable to Islington
parish.'
The prisoner deserted his wife about three years ago,
and she became chargeable to Islington, in December,
1842, at which time, being largely pregnant, she was
admitted into the workhouse. The wife, however, ad-
mitted to the magistrate, that the child who was
fourteen months old, was not her husband's, but the
result of an adulterous intercourse with a man named
Briggs.
Mr. GREENWOOD decided, that in aecordance with the
opinion
,of the judges of the Queen's Bench,. in the
case of the Xing v'. Fiintan, that where an adulterous
intercourse was proved to have taken place; the husband
was no longer liable for the' maintenance of his wife.
The prisoner was'dischiirged;
WORSHIP STREET.

Wm. BrouM, who lately kept a beer-shop at Hackney,
was brought before Mr. Bingham, for final examination,
charged with
-having been,concerned in the perpetration
of numerous burglaries in Essex and Cambridgeshire, in
conjunction with two notorious " cracksmen," named
Cuttress and Bennett, who have since been sentenced to
transportation for life.
It maybe recollected that a vast quantity of multi-
farious property was discovered by the police at the pri-
soner's residence, the greater part of which was proved
to be theproduce of different burglaries that had been
committed in the`', above' counties within the • last few
months. Four distinct eases were established against
the 'prisoner at the former examination, and he was re-
manded, to give tune for the identification of numerous
valuable articles thati remained unclaimed in the hands
of the police,
Emma Dean, -a domestic in the service of the Ron,
Mr. Herbert, of Ickledon, in Cambridgeshire, now iden-
tified various articles consisting of two silver candlesticks,
a pair ,of antique brow. chimney ornaments; a writing-
desk, &c., as the property of her master, whose mansion
was broken into and plundered during the absence of
the family on the 19th January last.
Sergeant Brannan deposed to his having found the
several articles recognised by the last witness, at the
house occupied by the prisoner in Nelson-street,"Haek.
ney-road.,
The depositions in all the cases having been com-
pleted, the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate to
await his 'trial at the ensuing sessions of the Central
Criminal Court. . -

BrcA3tv.—Anne Connor, otherwise Layton, a person
of very respectable and 'prepossessing appearance, was
fully examined on the charge of having intermarried
with Thomas Hayward during the lifetime of t dtuund
Connor, her former husband.

• The case excited a good deal of interest in• conSeL
(pence of the prisoner having been given into custody
through the instrumentality of her sister,- who vain-
tarily presented herself as a material witness in support
of the charge against her.
BenjaMin Turner, the parish-clerk of St. Sepulchre's,
produced a register-book, containing the entry of a mar-
riage solemnised between Edmund Connor and Anne
Layton, on the of May, 1837. •
Mary Oiertind proved that the signature " Anne
Layton," in the book produced, was in the handwriting.
of the prisoner, who was her sister. _
Joseph Rouse; the parish-clerk of St... Mary's Hag-
gerstone,
,produced" the ris6y of the prisoner's second
marriage with Thomas Haywood, which took place on
May 28, 1839:' ' -
The priioner's sister stated that she acted as bride's-
Maid at the latter Marriage, and‘she knew that the pri-
soner's former husband was hviiag, hiving seen hini in
Court that mbrning.: -
A solicitor who attended' for the prisoner addiesied
the magistrate, and said that the unfortunate woman
was greatly to be pitied, as 'she contracted the second
Marriage in the pbsitive conviction that her first husband,
from. whom she was separated a few days after their
union, had been long dead ; and she received no assur-
ance to the-contrary until she was given into custody by
her sister, who was well aware that the prisoner was on
the eve of acquiring considerable property, of which she
would necessarily be dispossessed in the event ,of her
conviction as it felon.
Mr: •EtIIGITA* said that it was his duty tO.send the
case before a Jury, but, under the circumstances, he
should take very moderate bail for her. appearance.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.

TairLmEus,---In the district of rie)en's
little change has taken place in the, state of things described
in our last week's 'paper. A few additional hinds havebeen
taken on so, that the number of men now out does not pro-
bably awount 'tot more than 300. The soldiers . who were
brought into the town on the day of the riots would; prtiba
bly take their departure yesterday, the magistrates having
intimated to the commanding officer of the Manchester dis-
trict that their services were no longer required. It is said,
however, that the coal-masters do not coincide in opinion with
the magistrates that the presence' of a military force is no
longer necessary, and. that, having been unable to alter the
decision of the justices, they have appealed to the Secretary-
of State for the Home Department, in order to 'secure the
'continuance of the soldiers in the town. It is ;thought the
result. will be that a few will be ordered to .remain for a short
time .longer. The turn-outs are waiting with anxious ex.-
pectation forthe decision of the great delegate meeting which
was to be held: insterday, In Staffordshire the turn-out has
has sot been an, event of serious a character as was at first
feared. A portion of the masters have acceded to the de-
mands of the mem—Liverpool Times.
COAL TAR AS
.MANURE.—A communication was
. read at the Bath Agricultural Society on the subject of the
Value of coal tar as a manure. ' The writer stated that in
1840 he published his experience on the subjeCt. •He had
now used it as a manure for seven years, and had never found
it to fail when properly applied,' By means of a water-cart
ho distribUted over his wheat stubble 180 gallons to the acre,
allowing it to remain there two or three months in' the
autumn before being ploughed in. Its cost was a halfpenny
14; galloni it was economical, and valuable for carrots, .tur-
nips, potatoes, and all roots. He had tried it on seeds, but
not with Anal advantage' as on wheat. It was very-useful:
Oa a sandy loam, resting on a marl subsoil ;next to that a
deiP-Clay !and was best, but its least beneficial effects had
been upon. soil resting on An .00lite formation.
' Tim BANS, or FRANcE.--The National observes
that o' the obstinacy-of the Bank of France to cOutinue the
rate of discount at from four per cent. is producing its fruits.
,We have before us some returns which demonstrate that,
whilst-the value of all public securities have risen, the Bank
Shares have fallen in one year 220 francs per share, or 22 per
cent.-mi their original cost, and everything leads us to believe
that this fall will continue. Now, if we compare the value
of Bank shares with railroad shares, -we find a sensible dif-
ference, as the first have fallen 22 per _cent., whilst the latter
have risen froalo to 45. r.. cent. We shall.liaTa. Occasion-
to return to the subject of railroad